Except it's not news. That's my point. People make romhacks all the time, usually doing a lot more than just swapping sprites (Asshole Mario, anyone?).
Slashdot doesn't waste its time with BS "human interest" stories. If Anita and the other Sirens of the Sex Wars didn't exist, this wouldn't have gotten a first look, much less a second.
The only ones who really wins in a class action lawsuit are the lawyers. The customers would end up with some lame EA credit or a few bucks back at best.
The point of a class action lawsuit is not to win. It's to make EA lose. It's the single meaningful punitive measure that consumers can take against their corporate overlords. Why do you think that that stupid court decision had them all falling all over themselves to mod their TOS to forbid them, in spite of all the solipsistic fanboys squawking "I don't care, I didn't want to sue them anyway!"
No. Shut up about your boycotts.They do not and will not ever work, particularly in the face of the brand-tribe mentality that infects most of gaming culture.
Much better at least to *try* to work with EA/Maxis on resolving the issues first - so far they are offering a free game to everyone registering by 3/18
EA (there is no Maxis. There is only EA) isn't interested in being "worked" with. Every game using this stupid "always online", "data on the server" scheme, including MMOs, has had a clusterfucked launch.
Every. Single. One.
They KNEW what they were setting themselves up for, and they made the conscious decision to go ahead with it anyway, even if it meant the dumbasses who gave them money didn't get to use what they "purchased" for a week or three. Well, fuck it, they already have the cash in hand, right?
Maybe in Europe or Fairyland or something, where there's actually a concept of "consumer protection."
Over here, widespread and blatant corruption on the part of the lawmakers, and Corporate Stockholm Syndrome in enough of the noisy little idiots are combining to do fine job yanking out the three cracked, rounded teeth that consumer protection law actually has.
I don't know, my biggest problem with Zaphod wasn't the stupid head-configuration (though I agree with you, it failed). It was more like he gave me the impression that DNA was taking a swipe at the low-hanging fruit of the popular American stereotype.
The thought was kind of amusing in a meta sort of way, since the whole thing was a Hollywood implementation of quintessential British humor.
The whole point of this story is to stir up the sexism shrieker shitstorm. You take that aspect out, and there's no reason for it to be posted.
It would just be a combination of headlines: "This dad loves his daughter" (Also not newsworthy to anyone other than the gender warriors) and "Guy does something only marginally more complicated than hex editing 'File Manager' title bar to display 'File Mangler'"
I honestly didn't have a problem with Ford, but that may well be because I had no idea there was a Mos Def before I saw the movie. Zaphod, on the other hand, had me grinding out my own fillings.
And the less said about the iMarvin, the better...
Sorry, Gordon. The truth hurts some time. If this idiotic suggestion didn't make it clear that you have no clue how things work, this post certainly does.
Stick to taking your kickbacks, Councilman. Leave the technical stuff to the professionals.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of email will not put up with it (X) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems (X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (X) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (X) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Why is it that whenever someone wants to piss on perl, they come up with examples like that. It's like saying C has bad syntax because the OCCC exists.
If you expect the same versions of the same software to behave identically on different OSes, then the shining glory days of your web development career are still ahead of you.
Incidentally, does IE still have a complete mental meltdown when talking to no-cache servers over SSL?
Even easier: Make the "indicator" they're adding into a toggle. Then it's a complete non-issue on "quiet" tabs, it's not buried in a context menu, and it works just like the one on phones, tablets, and the various other gadgets-for-the-ui-impaired that are so popular now.
I can't speak for those two, specifically, since I passed them up when I learned they were going the stupid route of "no sd cards." Compared to the tablets I *have* used, though, from the lowly Asus A200(work) to the Samsung Note 10.1(returned) to the Transformer Infinity(owned), on the other hand, the iPad(work) is superior in just one very important aspect:
"Keyboard" responsiveness. I don't know if Android's keyboard process needs to be niced a little lower or what, but when I'm out-typing the system on a goddamn virtual keyboard, something's wrong.
Thankfully, CyanogenMod 10 improved it a little bit on the Infinity, so it's at least usable, but damn if I wouldn't love the iPad's keyboard on Android (the rest of the whole sterilized iExperience can go hang).
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Except it's not news. That's my point. People make romhacks all the time, usually doing a lot more than just swapping sprites (Asshole Mario, anyone?).
Slashdot doesn't waste its time with BS "human interest" stories. If Anita and the other Sirens of the Sex Wars didn't exist, this wouldn't have gotten a first look, much less a second.
The only ones who really wins in a class action lawsuit are the lawyers. The customers would end up with some lame EA credit or a few bucks back at best.
The point of a class action lawsuit is not to win. It's to make EA lose. It's the single meaningful punitive measure that consumers can take against their corporate overlords. Why do you think that that stupid court decision had them all falling all over themselves to mod their TOS to forbid them, in spite of all the solipsistic fanboys squawking "I don't care, I didn't want to sue them anyway!"
No. Shut up about your boycotts.They do not and will not ever work, particularly in the face of the brand-tribe mentality that infects most of gaming culture.
Much better at least to *try* to work with EA/Maxis on resolving the issues first - so far they are offering a free game to everyone registering by 3/18
EA (there is no Maxis. There is only EA) isn't interested in being "worked" with. Every game using this stupid "always online", "data on the server" scheme, including MMOs, has had a clusterfucked launch.
Every. Single. One.
They KNEW what they were setting themselves up for, and they made the conscious decision to go ahead with it anyway, even if it meant the dumbasses who gave them money didn't get to use what they "purchased" for a week or three. Well, fuck it, they already have the cash in hand, right?
Maybe in Europe or Fairyland or something, where there's actually a concept of "consumer protection."
Over here, widespread and blatant corruption on the part of the lawmakers, and Corporate Stockholm Syndrome in enough of the noisy little idiots are combining to do fine job yanking out the three cracked, rounded teeth that consumer protection law actually has.
Out of curiosity, which GW2 update was it that screwed you over?
Obviously a trolling douchenozzle.
Duh.
I loved the Heart of Gold, too.
I don't know, my biggest problem with Zaphod wasn't the stupid head-configuration (though I agree with you, it failed). It was more like he gave me the impression that DNA was taking a swipe at the low-hanging fruit of the popular American stereotype.
The thought was kind of amusing in a meta sort of way, since the whole thing was a Hollywood implementation of quintessential British humor.
The whole point of this story is to stir up the sexism shrieker shitstorm. You take that aspect out, and there's no reason for it to be posted.
It would just be a combination of headlines: "This dad loves his daughter" (Also not newsworthy to anyone other than the gender warriors) and "Guy does something only marginally more complicated than hex editing 'File Manager' title bar to display 'File Mangler'"
I have it on good authority that the Queen carries a brick in hers.
I honestly didn't have a problem with Ford, but that may well be because I had no idea there was a Mos Def before I saw the movie. Zaphod, on the other hand, had me grinding out my own fillings.
And the less said about the iMarvin, the better...
You must be one of the lucky ones whose wisdom teeth erupted in the right direction.
When they come out the side of your gums, hoo boy. "Painful" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Sorry, Gordon. The truth hurts some time. If this idiotic suggestion didn't make it clear that you have no clue how things work, this post certainly does.
Stick to taking your kickbacks, Councilman. Leave the technical stuff to the professionals.
Dear nitwit,
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
(X) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
(X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(X) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Thanks for that post. What would we do without you?
That was just an example, evidently a bad one. I don't use DDG myself, it was just the only "little-guy" search engine I could think of behind Qrobe.
Looking around, I think about 85% of these assholes think the sun revolves around them.
So yeah, sounds about right...
Why is it that whenever someone wants to piss on perl, they come up with examples like that. It's like saying C has bad syntax because the OCCC exists.
Only if you come from Google (or spoof your referrer to come from Google). They did that to evade de-listing for "deceptive indexing" or whatever.
Go to Expert Sex Change from DuckDuckGo or Qrobe, e.g., and you'll still find the answers behind their crappy little paywall.
How the hell do they even still exist, in a world with StackOverflow, anyway?
"In my experience."
IME, "Agree to disagree" seems to be code for "drop it so I don't have to cop to being wrong."
Twitter.
Apple.
Facebook.
Those three have something in common.
You're not looking at the right demographics
Then obviously, neither is Nintendo.
Sad to say, but you probably still will.
If you expect the same versions of the same software to behave identically on different OSes, then the shining glory days of your web development career are still ahead of you.
Incidentally, does IE still have a complete mental meltdown when talking to no-cache servers over SSL?
Even easier: Make the "indicator" they're adding into a toggle. Then it's a complete non-issue on "quiet" tabs, it's not buried in a context menu, and it works just like the one on phones, tablets, and the various other gadgets-for-the-ui-impaired that are so popular now.
Not quite.
..or you make short term gains and run the company into the ground. no matter what, you lose.
That's hardly considered "losing" among executive management.
I can't speak for those two, specifically, since I passed them up when I learned they were going the stupid route of "no sd cards." Compared to the tablets I *have* used, though, from the lowly Asus A200(work) to the Samsung Note 10.1(returned) to the Transformer Infinity(owned), on the other hand, the iPad(work) is superior in just one very important aspect:
"Keyboard" responsiveness. I don't know if Android's keyboard process needs to be niced a little lower or what, but when I'm out-typing the system on a goddamn virtual keyboard, something's wrong.
Thankfully, CyanogenMod 10 improved it a little bit on the Infinity, so it's at least usable, but damn if I wouldn't love the iPad's keyboard on Android (the rest of the whole sterilized iExperience can go hang).