So what you're saying is that Apple, a character kinda like (Volkswagen) goes against character and gets bought out by (Porsche), a much smaller company. But it turns out IT'S ACTUALLY A FUCKIN' CYLON SYMPATHIZER(sic), YOU GUYS (because Volkswagen turn around and take over Porschs).
Is that what you're saying?
"We"? Either you're over-identifying or you have some serious psychological issues.
Either that or Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer have joined Slashdot although I struggle to see why they'd use 'foredecker' as their username.
And the funny thing is how many US worker bees, who are hurt by this, will stand up and argue about how evil 'socialist' europe is by giving its worker bees paid holiday and paid sick leave.
Do they really think this is some fight to the death? Why do these fanboys even care? It's a dispute between two businesses that will be resolved at some point. Both businesses will carry on both before and after it's resolved.
Actually in the only useful measure, worth, Apple is three times the size of Nokia and has more cash in the bank than Nokia is worth.
There will be some huffing and puffing and it probably won't get near to a court and then there will be agreement and Apple and Nokia wil be best friends for ever and ever.
This is business, not some silly fight to the death as the (so far only Nokia judging by the/. posting) fan boys seems to imagine.
Reading this thread the only people I see making any mention of Nokia being patent trolls are ones like the parent (mjwx) who put those words into the mouths of so-called 'Apple fan boys'. Bit desperate when you have to create a strawman isn't it?
Apple's complaint is that Nokia have *not* been offering them the same terms that they offer to other 'phone makers. Other 'phone makers pay Nokia cash (which Apple says they are willing to do) but Nokia wants Apple to hand-over some of their licenses (which Apple says violates the rules and they're being offered a different deal from everyone else).
It's because Apple claims the terms Nokia have been offering are different from those they offer to other phone makers. Other 'phone makers pay a fee, Nokia wants Apple to 'pay' by handing over some of their patents. This (if true) is illegal, and the basis of Apple's complaint, because it's not the same deal being offered to others.
I thought the analogy in my sig was a good one. But 'Apple has made their continent and are growing it' has to be a contender.
I think I'll file this one under 'possible future signatures'. Thanks!
So according to the parent we're on the 6th iteration of World of Warcraft? Even if you count the pre-decessor Warcraft RTS games then WoW is only number 4. If you take Diablo, WoW is really WoD, then we're only on the 3rd iteration.
But then the parent also ignored Diablo, Warcraft and even Starcraft so we probably shouldn't take him too seriously.
And it seems to have affected my language skills!
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OK so you might forgive very frequent disconnections, login server being up and down like a whore's drawers and lots of lag (let's hope they have European servers and don't expect us to connect to a server on the west coast of the US when it goes live). It is a beta: although a late beta.
But.
The big problem is the basic design of the game.
*Everything* is instanced and they are tiny instances.
So game play is: 30 seconds running around, 30 seconds load screen, 5 seconds to select the only possible option, 30 seconds load screen. And so on and so on.
It's worse than the original EverQuest: at least there you only had load screens when moving between quite large areas. In STO the Admiral's office is an instance!
And one more thing.
This is very much the JJ Abrams school of Star Trek: sod any consistency with the last 40 years of Star Trek we can just make this shit up as we go along. Star Fleet captains get to invent their own uniforms, design their own ships hell they can even invent new races if they want to (they could even invent a new race, let's say humans with facial tatoos, and call them Romulans if they want. Oh wait, they did that last year).
So in summary this is "generic space game with lots of lag, lots of time spent watching the load and frequent disconnections" online.
It would make a difference for me as I have certain domains (.cn, aol.com, hotmail.com) blacklisted in my spam filters so it all gets discarded. I'd simply never see any email from here.
...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"I bought some kit from some guys who were ripping off some other FOSS guys and now they've ripped me off".
Lie down with dogs and you'll get up with fleas.
There's gravity in space as well you know, which is why the Earth still circles the Sun and the Moon still orbits us. Which means the Earth isn't weightless.
Complying with a legitimate legal request (subpoena, court order, order in council whatever) is completely different from handing over *someone else's* personal information just because someone asks.
..then I look forward to Blizzard being sued for millions.
Privacy appears to be one of those things that separates generations: I value my privacy yet it appears that anyone under 30 sees no value in it. Just because you're happy or stupid enough to have pictures of you giving your "boyfriend" a blowjob posted on facebook or to send nude pictures of yourself to you everyone in your school in no way reduces the value of my privacy.
Free societies are not run for the convenience of the police.
Try complaining about how there admins act in World of Warcraft: you have to jump through all sorts of hoops, including providing a certified copy of a birth certificate or drivers license in order to dispute an email from one of their GMs.
Blizzard have proved over and over that they can't be trusted (see both this story and their recent weasley responses to the Slashdot questions for recent examples).
I've cancelled my WoW account and I dont see myself buying Starcraft 2 or Diablo 3.
Blizzard can't be trusted.
Except that he hasn't been convicted so your argument falls apart straight away. In addition, the police have a history of being, let's be generous and say, cavalier. Other ways of describing their behaviour might include untrustworthy and corrupt so i would be pretty upset at them handing over my personal data without a court order or similar.
Fortunately in the EU we actually have data privacy laws and whilst Blizzard EU could still hand over my data I could at least sue them for it and have the authorities investigate them with the possibility of them being banned from holding any personal data at all: i.e. the end of WoW in Europe.
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So what you're saying is that Apple, a character kinda like (Volkswagen) goes against character and gets bought out by (Porsche), a much smaller company. But it turns out IT'S ACTUALLY A FUCKIN' CYLON SYMPATHIZER(sic), YOU GUYS (because Volkswagen turn around and take over Porschs). Is that what you're saying?
You mean in the same way that the Zune "slowly ate away at" the iPod?
"We"? Either you're over-identifying or you have some serious psychological issues. Either that or Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer have joined Slashdot although I struggle to see why they'd use 'foredecker' as their username.
And the funny thing is how many US worker bees, who are hurt by this, will stand up and argue about how evil 'socialist' europe is by giving its worker bees paid holiday and paid sick leave.
Interesting use of the word 'only' in the phrase 'only gets 120 years of protection'. 120 years is a lot more than 'only'.
Do they really think this is some fight to the death? Why do these fanboys even care? It's a dispute between two businesses that will be resolved at some point. Both businesses will carry on both before and after it's resolved.
Actually in the only useful measure, worth, Apple is three times the size of Nokia and has more cash in the bank than Nokia is worth. There will be some huffing and puffing and it probably won't get near to a court and then there will be agreement and Apple and Nokia wil be best friends for ever and ever. This is business, not some silly fight to the death as the (so far only Nokia judging by the /. posting) fan boys seems to imagine.
Reading this thread the only people I see making any mention of Nokia being patent trolls are ones like the parent (mjwx) who put those words into the mouths of so-called 'Apple fan boys'. Bit desperate when you have to create a strawman isn't it?
Apple's complaint is that Nokia have *not* been offering them the same terms that they offer to other 'phone makers. Other 'phone makers pay Nokia cash (which Apple says they are willing to do) but Nokia wants Apple to hand-over some of their licenses (which Apple says violates the rules and they're being offered a different deal from everyone else).
It's because Apple claims the terms Nokia have been offering are different from those they offer to other phone makers. Other 'phone makers pay a fee, Nokia wants Apple to 'pay' by handing over some of their patents. This (if true) is illegal, and the basis of Apple's complaint, because it's not the same deal being offered to others.
I thought the analogy in my sig was a good one. But 'Apple has made their continent and are growing it' has to be a contender. I think I'll file this one under 'possible future signatures'. Thanks!
Could you perhaps re-phrase it in terms of cars?
So according to the parent we're on the 6th iteration of World of Warcraft? Even if you count the pre-decessor Warcraft RTS games then WoW is only number 4. If you take Diablo, WoW is really WoD, then we're only on the 3rd iteration. But then the parent also ignored Diablo, Warcraft and even Starcraft so we probably shouldn't take him too seriously.
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...not hugely impressed.
OK so you might forgive very frequent disconnections, login server being up and down like a whore's drawers and lots of lag (let's hope they have European servers and don't expect us to connect to a server on the west coast of the US when it goes live). It is a beta: although a late beta.
But.
The big problem is the basic design of the game.
*Everything* is instanced and they are tiny instances.
So game play is: 30 seconds running around, 30 seconds load screen, 5 seconds to select the only possible option, 30 seconds load screen. And so on and so on.
It's worse than the original EverQuest: at least there you only had load screens when moving between quite large areas. In STO the Admiral's office is an instance!
And one more thing.
This is very much the JJ Abrams school of Star Trek: sod any consistency with the last 40 years of Star Trek we can just make this shit up as we go along. Star Fleet captains get to invent their own uniforms, design their own ships hell they can even invent new races if they want to (they could even invent a new race, let's say humans with facial tatoos, and call them Romulans if they want. Oh wait, they did that last year).
So in summary this is "generic space game with lots of lag, lots of time spent watching the load and frequent disconnections" online.
It would make a difference for me as I have certain domains (.cn, aol.com, hotmail.com) blacklisted in my spam filters so it all gets discarded. I'd simply never see any email from here.
...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! "I bought some kit from some guys who were ripping off some other FOSS guys and now they've ripped me off". Lie down with dogs and you'll get up with fleas.
There's gravity in space as well you know, which is why the Earth still circles the Sun and the Moon still orbits us. Which means the Earth isn't weightless.
You're confusing accuracy and precision.
Complying with a legitimate legal request (subpoena, court order, order in council whatever) is completely different from handing over *someone else's* personal information just because someone asks.
..then I look forward to Blizzard being sued for millions. Privacy appears to be one of those things that separates generations: I value my privacy yet it appears that anyone under 30 sees no value in it. Just because you're happy or stupid enough to have pictures of you giving your "boyfriend" a blowjob posted on facebook or to send nude pictures of yourself to you everyone in your school in no way reduces the value of my privacy. Free societies are not run for the convenience of the police.
Try complaining about how there admins act in World of Warcraft: you have to jump through all sorts of hoops, including providing a certified copy of a birth certificate or drivers license in order to dispute an email from one of their GMs. Blizzard have proved over and over that they can't be trusted (see both this story and their recent weasley responses to the Slashdot questions for recent examples). I've cancelled my WoW account and I dont see myself buying Starcraft 2 or Diablo 3. Blizzard can't be trusted.
Except that he hasn't been convicted so your argument falls apart straight away. In addition, the police have a history of being, let's be generous and say, cavalier. Other ways of describing their behaviour might include untrustworthy and corrupt so i would be pretty upset at them handing over my personal data without a court order or similar. Fortunately in the EU we actually have data privacy laws and whilst Blizzard EU could still hand over my data I could at least sue them for it and have the authorities investigate them with the possibility of them being banned from holding any personal data at all: i.e. the end of WoW in Europe.
Iran and other extermists muslim governments are right: The US is a corrupting influence on the world ("The Great Satan")?