"...but I won't play this game and help the army's recruiting methods succeed. "...Why not? Do you also boycott any tv show/channel/network/cable company that runs GO ARMY ads? What about all of the magazines and even fliers depending on where you live?
"Unfortunately I don't understand wht you're trying to say here. My point was that you said they are overcharging and we are being forced to pay a levy on blank CDRs. " Yeah, I'm running on pure coffee right now while trying to get an ircd setup, my mind is slightly more than fried. I now remember it a little more clearly, some people from canada were tired of paying the levy AND getting DRM cds. The argument was something like you can't charge a levy to compensate for copying a disk, and then prevent copying (or some such). Not really the same, but again I'm running on coffee.
I'd recommend SoulSeek(slsk.org), It has a linux client and plenty of good unknown/indy/forign stuff (but a good amount of RIAA stuff to). Doesnt have that community feel, but you can atleast find that one rare track you heard on a shoutcast stream
But they are charing it. You can't get compensated for losses with a levy then go ahead and look for even more compensation elsewhere, I remember a lawsuit against them for this about a year back, anyone feel like hunting down the url?
Back to our original topic: I'd really love to see someone add those features and use them to block all comercial songs so people can have a free place to trade their indy/live/etc songs. It would be too much of a pain to force people to sort their collections and choose which to share, so sharing a blacklisted song shouldn't punish it(just not list it). Maybe do simple substring searches adn warn users, but not block them (Nothing was more pathetic than the last days of napster where you had to download m3ta11kuh mp3s).
The problem with indy tracks is the signal:noise ratio sucks, as is true with big names, but with big names there is publicity so its easier to tell whats worth downloading and whats not. if there wer an entire network of legal tracks, stuff might actually become popular,and you'd get a nice community feel for it. This is something mp3.com should of done if they didnt push their luck with that locker thing forcing them to get sued until selling themselfs.
The only downside is typing answers, maybe one shared keyboard would work, or you could go for the dreaded OnScreenKeyboardFromHell(tm), but that wouldn't work very well while drunk.
If I can get some grant money, I'll do a study to see if anyone would be with you or not. Our preliminary results say about 70% of the people would be, while 20% wouldnt, and 10% would like to thank you for all of the fish.
"but overpricing doesn't give you any legal or moral right to steal."
It does, depending on the overpricing. The levy on cd-rs enforced by the RIAA justifies music downloading ("If I have to pay for it anyways, I'm getting screwed if I don't do it" logic).
Personally, I'm not even for piracy on P2P, I'd love for P2P to either go away, or be filled with only rare/indy tracks that are hard to get elsewhere. When piracy was just a bunch of the smart people with exclusive access to FTPs and everyone else trading files with friends, everyone was better off. The record/movie companies wern't really losing profit (these are the REAL people that wouldnt of bought it anyways, not the ones that just say that) and the scale is so much smaller that it doesn't matter anyways (think the nerdy kid in your class, not your entire class), the end users wern't stuck with DRM and crazy laws, etc.
Charge $30/mo. Deduct $1.50 for every 'act' you partake in Add $1 for every 'act' you spectate in. With modifiers based on what was done, camera use, mic use, and general quality. Give me free spectator access, because that would just be entertaining. Then again, this all coming from a guy that modded eliza into a cyberslut and added logging + irc client + logging for the win.
I agree, I'd love to see an xbox version of YDKJwith a monthly(weekly?) new question file, then have questions picked based on last time they came up.
I imagine this game(the guy game) would get equally boring as not only would you have trivia becoming tired, you'd also have to sit through the same nudity over and over again. I like boobies as much as the next gamer, but its going to be just like any other FMV - Repetitive as hell. I also don't find the women in the screenshots that hot. If I wanted girl-next-door porn I'd be watching girls gone wild, If I'm paying $30+ for a game, I expect model-quality women that had to be payed more than $75 for doing the video clips.
They do if they wan't a paycheck. VB.NET really isn't that bad, and I've always seen VB as the shellscript for windows --Its a neat way to hack applications together with COM.
"In other words, make it as simple as possible for you to infringe on someone else's copyright."
Actually, no. This makes it even easier to prevent copyright infringement, its all about who controls the blacklists. Really though, these features are just useful, just like a gun is useful. Whether its used for 'good' or for 'bad' is all perspective, but either way its got use.
"Like I care about karma: if I did I wouldn't be writing this post, would I?" As someone who hit the karma cap with 'goatse.cx' in their name, I can tell you this is the typical counterculture troll that gets modded insightful by the same people that listen to Limp Bizkit. (this now being the counter-counter-culture troll that gets +3 informative, but then -4 for this amendment.)
I'm usually all for using Quake* over all other games, but wouldn't it be best to use something with a higher max player per server count and ingame voicecomm? You can always force all spectators into a Ventrilo/RogerWilco/etc server, but it would be much easier if done ingame.
" I couldn't see why he would not have quit long ago."
Because they're holding his baby(WinAmp) hostage. He leaves, then winamp is theirs to reassign to Joe Newbiecoder (or the indian name for 'joe'). If he stays he atleast gets to play with his baby and make sure it doesnt get too detestable.
"If you're a CS fanboi (aka, an Asian), you call that weapon the AWP."
or AW/M if you wan't to be accurate, the current model is still that of the magnum, ConditionZero(ritual) had a AW/P in it, but that doesn't count.
"Most hacks for it are just aimbots that work with AWP."
No. Most hacks are simple wallhacks (you can write a basic toggled wallhack in only a page and a half of code, mostly small asm). All aimbots compensate for different gun accuracy with vector files and anti recoil. The days of the awp only aimbots left with retail cs.
"I feel the game is ruined."
Tens of thousands feel otherwise.
"But then again, I don't drive a Civic."
Good call.
""oooh you got AWPd wtflol i am teh winz u are teh sux!!111""
Its only the newbies that complain. Once you get into skilled gameplay (think leauges), no one complains. The awp in counterstrike costs $4725, way too risky unless you have the money to back it up. You can take out an awp with ak or colt really easily to, or you could just keep the awper flashed/smoked and they won't be able to hit you.
Play the game, don't cry about the game. It's more fun once you learn how to play.
"Help help! The button-only controlled electronic central lock has short circuited and won't let me open the doors, and the electric windows don't work!"
Link is a redirect to irc://irc.goatse.cx/#goatsecx, since slashdot won't allow irc:// urls. Unfortunately thats now dead due to goatse.cx being suspended:'(
It would just be writing a simple text file(shellscript for unix, batch for windows) that then does the rest. Of course it needs to be executable, but that can be achieved other ways. Theres always loopholes and holes in implentation. For example, the.NET framework was supposed to disallow applications from interfering with eachother, yet the current best HalfLife cheat was written in C# (making detection really hard). I'm refering to Joolz's MetaCheat if anyones interested in looking up the details.
"If I install a text editor, I probably don't want it to be able to access the Internet. It should be possible to say, "for this app here, don't let it do anything network related". That way, no matter how badly the text editor is written, it can't do any harm beyond the data it is allowed to work with. If I then want to use the text editor to print to a network print, I should be able to tweak a few options to make that possible (without enabling anything else)."
It could still write a bat file to ftp off server.exe and then start it (or just move it to the startup dir). All of these 'security measures' are only good because its still niche, if that was default everything would be made to get around it. Thats good though, hackers love a good challenge, keeps things interesting.
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" ...but I won't play this game and help the army's recruiting methods succeed. " ...Why not? Do you also boycott any tv show/channel/network/cable company that runs GO ARMY ads? What about all of the magazines and even fliers depending on where you live?
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"Unfortunately I don't understand wht you're trying to say here. My point was that you said they are overcharging and we are being forced to pay a levy on blank CDRs. "
Yeah, I'm running on pure coffee right now while trying to get an ircd setup, my mind is slightly more than fried. I now remember it a little more clearly, some people from canada were tired of paying the levy AND getting DRM cds. The argument was something like you can't charge a levy to compensate for copying a disk, and then prevent copying (or some such). Not really the same, but again I'm running on coffee.
I'd recommend SoulSeek(slsk.org), It has a linux client and plenty of good unknown/indy/forign stuff (but a good amount of RIAA stuff to). Doesnt have that community feel, but you can atleast find that one rare track you heard on a shoutcast stream
But they are charing it. You can't get compensated for losses with a levy then go ahead and look for even more compensation elsewhere, I remember a lawsuit against them for this about a year back, anyone feel like hunting down the url?
Back to our original topic: I'd really love to see someone add those features and use them to block all comercial songs so people can have a free place to trade their indy/live/etc songs. It would be too much of a pain to force people to sort their collections and choose which to share, so sharing a blacklisted song shouldn't punish it(just not list it). Maybe do simple substring searches adn warn users, but not block them (Nothing was more pathetic than the last days of napster where you had to download m3ta11kuh mp3s).
The problem with indy tracks is the signal:noise ratio sucks, as is true with big names, but with big names there is publicity so its easier to tell whats worth downloading and whats not. if there wer an entire network of legal tracks, stuff might actually become popular,and you'd get a nice community feel for it. This is something mp3.com should of done if they didnt push their luck with that locker thing forcing them to get sued until selling themselfs.
The only downside is typing answers, maybe one shared keyboard would work, or you could go for the dreaded OnScreenKeyboardFromHell(tm), but that wouldn't work very well while drunk.
" Anybody with me?"
If I can get some grant money, I'll do a study to see if anyone would be with you or not. Our preliminary results say about 70% of the people would be, while 20% wouldnt, and 10% would like to thank you for all of the fish.
"but overpricing doesn't give you any legal or moral right to steal."
It does, depending on the overpricing. The levy on cd-rs enforced by the RIAA justifies music downloading ("If I have to pay for it anyways, I'm getting screwed if I don't do it" logic).
Personally, I'm not even for piracy on P2P, I'd love for P2P to either go away, or be filled with only rare/indy tracks that are hard to get elsewhere. When piracy was just a bunch of the smart people with exclusive access to FTPs and everyone else trading files with friends, everyone was better off. The record/movie companies wern't really losing profit (these are the REAL people that wouldnt of bought it anyways, not the ones that just say that) and the scale is so much smaller that it doesn't matter anyways (think the nerdy kid in your class, not your entire class), the end users wern't stuck with DRM and crazy laws, etc.
Charge $30/mo. Deduct $1.50 for every 'act' you partake in Add $1 for every 'act' you spectate in. With modifiers based on what was done, camera use, mic use, and general quality. Give me free spectator access, because that would just be entertaining. Then again, this all coming from a guy that modded eliza into a cyberslut and added logging + irc client + logging for the win.
I agree, I'd love to see an xbox version of YDKJwith a monthly(weekly?) new question file, then have questions picked based on last time they came up.
I imagine this game(the guy game) would get equally boring as not only would you have trivia becoming tired, you'd also have to sit through the same nudity over and over again. I like boobies as much as the next gamer, but its going to be just like any other FMV - Repetitive as hell. I also don't find the women in the screenshots that hot. If I wanted girl-next-door porn I'd be watching girls gone wild, If I'm paying $30+ for a game, I expect model-quality women that had to be payed more than $75 for doing the video clips.
They do if they wan't a paycheck. VB.NET really isn't that bad, and I've always seen VB as the shellscript for windows --Its a neat way to hack applications together with COM.
Even with date/time, all you need is a wireless router and your 'copyright infringement' becomes violating ISP eula.
"In other words, make it as simple as possible for you to infringe on someone else's copyright."
Actually, no. This makes it even easier to prevent copyright infringement, its all about who controls the blacklists. Really though, these features are just useful, just like a gun is useful. Whether its used for 'good' or for 'bad' is all perspective, but either way its got use.
"Like I care about karma: if I did I wouldn't be writing this post, would I?" As someone who hit the karma cap with 'goatse.cx' in their name, I can tell you this is the typical counterculture troll that gets modded insightful by the same people that listen to Limp Bizkit. (this now being the counter-counter-culture troll that gets +3 informative, but then -4 for this amendment.)
I'm usually all for using Quake* over all other games, but wouldn't it be best to use something with a higher max player per server count and ingame voicecomm? You can always force all spectators into a Ventrilo/RogerWilco/etc server, but it would be much easier if done ingame.
" I couldn't see why he would not have quit long ago."
Because they're holding his baby(WinAmp) hostage. He leaves, then winamp is theirs to reassign to Joe Newbiecoder (or the indian name for 'joe'). If he stays he atleast gets to play with his baby and make sure it doesnt get too detestable.
"If you're a CS fanboi (aka, an Asian), you call that weapon the AWP."
or AW/M if you wan't to be accurate, the current model is still that of the magnum, ConditionZero(ritual) had a AW/P in it, but that doesn't count.
"Most hacks for it are just aimbots that work with AWP."
No. Most hacks are simple wallhacks (you can write a basic toggled wallhack in only a page and a half of code, mostly small asm). All aimbots compensate for different gun accuracy with vector files and anti recoil. The days of the awp only aimbots left with retail cs.
"I feel the game is ruined."
Tens of thousands feel otherwise.
"But then again, I don't drive a Civic."
Good call.
""oooh you got AWPd wtflol i am teh winz u are teh sux!!111""
^_^ U GIEV SOJ ?!
Its only the newbies that complain. Once you get into skilled gameplay (think leauges), no one complains. The awp in counterstrike costs $4725, way too risky unless you have the money to back it up. You can take out an awp with ak or colt really easily to, or you could just keep the awper flashed/smoked and they won't be able to hit you.
Play the game, don't cry about the game. It's more fun once you learn how to play.
Because no one takes advertisements with money that looks like a low quality gif seriously?
Phase 1) get nude pictures of britney spears with currency logo imprinted over it
phase 2) ???
phase 3) mass annoyance!
Same as any game with items. New update, you have about 2 weeks where its legit, then they start duping again.
" Instead, we got Doom but with a better engine and the worlds worst bunny-hopping."
Nitpick: I assume you meant Quake, seeing as Doom didn't even have jumping.
"Help help! The button-only controlled electronic central lock has short circuited and won't let me open the doors, and the electric windows don't work!"
Feet, meet window.
Link is a redirect to irc://irc.goatse.cx/#goatsecx, since slashdot won't allow irc:// urls. Unfortunately thats now dead due to goatse.cx being suspended :'(
It would just be writing a simple text file(shellscript for unix, batch for windows) that then does the rest. Of course it needs to be executable, but that can be achieved other ways. Theres always loopholes and holes in implentation. For example, the .NET framework was supposed to disallow applications from interfering with eachother, yet the current best HalfLife cheat was written in C# (making detection really hard). I'm refering to Joolz's MetaCheat if anyones interested in looking up the details.
"If I install a text editor, I probably don't want it to be able to access the Internet. It should be possible to say, "for this app here, don't let it do anything network related". That way, no matter how badly the text editor is written, it can't do any harm beyond the data it is allowed to work with. If I then want to use the text editor to print to a network print, I should be able to tweak a few options to make that possible (without enabling anything else)."
It could still write a bat file to ftp off server.exe and then start it (or just move it to the startup dir). All of these 'security measures' are only good because its still niche, if that was default everything would be made to get around it. Thats good though, hackers love a good challenge, keeps things interesting.
" His point is that it means that women spent more money on tech, not that they bought more tech.
:)"
You do the math
The math.