when I bought my laptop the sales guy actually told me the plan covered the screen if I dropped it and broke it. I almost laughed in his face. Looking back, I should have.
"Sometimes cracking copy protection is the only way to get it to run on Windows emulators on Linux"... er... just where did the publisher state that they support Linux? And how does this give you the right to steal their game?
Stealing? How is it stealing if I want to try to run the game I purchased on linux? I own a legit copy of Campaign Cartographer, I am trying to get it to run on linux, how is this stealing?
"Game companies run out of CDs, so if you break/lose yours, you can't get new ones. Plus, you have to pay for shipping!" Right, and if I lose my car or smash it around the tree, the car manufacturer owes me one for free. No, I get it through insurance, which usually costs me more over the lifetime of the car than the car did itself.
Ok, fine, where is my CD insurance?....waiting.....still waiting, that's right their isnt any. If I destroy my car I get money to buy a new one but wait - ooooooh yeah, here it is, here is my CD insurance, it is called my CD-RW drive. If you wont back me up, and external people won't/cannot then at least please allow me to do so.
"Game companies *GO OUT OF BUSINESS* sometimes. Try getting your original System Shock 2 CD's replaced." Right, this sucks. Part of the reason game companies go out of business is piracy. But moreover, I still fail to see how this entitles you to a new copy of System Shock 2 if YOU lost or broke your own. It's your property, be responsible for it. Your kid lost it or dog chewed it? I can't quite understand how this is the publisher's fault.
You are right, it is not thier fault. This is why my important documents (title to my house, will, etc) are safely in a bank vault. However were I to ever need to look at them...well lordy look at that - I have a copy right over there. See, copying can be used for good as well.
So to some up - using a copy of a disk has legit uses as well as bad uses. To shift a bit into my own experience I will tell you this. I played a cracked copy of Unreal Tournement for years, only bought a copy when I found in the bargain bin for $10. When UT2k4 came out I ran(not walked) out and grabbed it off the shelf for full price. So what does that tell you? It tells you that a warezed copy of a game got you a legit purchase down the road, a purchase that there is no way you would have gotten otherwise - I never buy at full price, 2 year old games are fine for me usually. Try to think in the long term, not the shorttry to NOT be like every other US industry).
And as far as game companies going under..well they tend to do that, and blaming piracy for 100% of that is just plain stupid. Blaming a 27% drop in sales on piracy is lunacy, if the drop is that bad there are other factors involved - after all, cd burners and cracking sw weren't invented this year. Perhaps game publishers need to take a lesson from Big Bill. Why is office so popular? why is Windows? Because everyone went out and copied it and took it home from work. Does it hurt thier bottom line? Yup, no question. In the long run has it helped them? Yup, no question, and it seems that MS has plenty of cash these days. Oh, and last I checked, Redhat et al who give away thier product are doing fine as well. Seems to me to not be too tough to figure out.
It is really time for a major self-evaluation amongst gamers. I'm extremely disappointed that even such an intelligent crowd as here simply repeats the same crybaby pro-piracy mantras after they shit their own beds and don't like the smell.
Perhaps you are right, but currently Starforce is the one taking a crap right now, but the weird part is that they are in both thier own and my bed, we will see what that smells like in the years to come.
There is a morphix derivative that is a pure kiosk style Firefox. Currently I am trying to remaster it a bit, not doing so well, but that is me and how little time I have put into it, and thae fact that I want it locked down hard. Oh - here look toward the bottom for the firefox iso.
And I love it for gaming, though I would think that typing on the think would be hard, unless you could get some lighter springs in it. And for all of those "calling for linux drivers" Yeesh Can't say as I have tried them but I am one of those sad sacks that still uses his windows box for gaming.
If so, I thinkWe are looking for pt computer science instructors. It beats driving a truck.:/ Drop me a line, one of our adjuncts is a software analyst by day, maybe he knows something you might be interested in, I would hate to see a fellow minnesotan and slashdotter go hungry;).
Right now in Minneapolis you can get 13 weeks of the StarTribune for $1.00 a week. $13 for ~3 months of the weekly paper. To buy it from the paper box or the store will run you 50 cents a copy. Now even at the higher rate I don't see 50 cents as actually paying for the content. I would hazard a guess that the.50 is for paper, printing, delivery and a small cut to the seller. The content, I would surmize, is paid by ads. There are ads on the paper site regardless of whether you reg or not. What they want is to sell higher priced targeted ads. What I think we are saying is "Hey, I will look at your background noise, but could we do this a little less personally - after all you can't do this in print, and it is the same information - why is it that online you get more out of me?"
Still, I wish people would quit focusing so exclusively on the evils of the current administration
Conversely, I wish people would stop being so myopic about the evils of the current adminstration.
Anybody who wants to is welcome to press their nose against my living room window to watch along with me.
Dude, If I knew where you lived I would come over at late tonight and leave about a thousand nose prints and wait for you to open the curtains in the morning, man that would be a priceless picture.:D
I got my PhD from the U of MN, and at least one of us has one. Read all the articles and books you want - you are still a layman. I can read the entire linux kernel, it wont make me informed, a kernel programmer or able to have a real opinion about what it is, or where it needs to go. My micro lab deals with this on a daily basis. As I said - you eat a downer cow. - or - better, eat a BSE cow, it wont hurt you right?? So I urge you to eat the next one, please, my boss needs more reasearch examples.
v=variant thus vCJD - it is not seperate, but a varient.
By your logic differentiating between Ebola and AIDS is pretentious and ill informed.
Wow, what a jump, proving you have no grasp of microbiology, or logic for that matter. We err on the side of caution, as real scientists do. But go ahead, eat all the beef you want, more research money is good for me.
As I said before, they day you believe this is the day you volunteer to eat downer cattle. No? I thought so. And if you think downers are not part of the current beef market, you have never been to a slaughter house.
You don't get CJD from eating beef or any other meat
You Sir have no idea how prions work do you? I spend every day in a lab, part of which involves brain tissue. They are like terminators, they dont die. Ingesting a single one may do you no harm, but a lifetime will. You may not die of the disease, but it trancends normal defs of disease. Forgetful in your old age? Might be this beast, even if it isn't full blown CJD. (oh, and describing the difference between vCJD and CJD is pretentious and ill informed - it's called vCJD for a reason)
It is 'ignorance with opinion' like yours that is helping everything from the Flat Eathers to the RIAA.
Come back when you have a PhD to back up your "opinion"
The award is not about privacy, it is about Big Brother, go read 1984. There is nothing colder (sorry) than watching another die and doing nothing about it though you have the means. They cut off thier heat, they died. They knew that if they cut off the gas some people would be harmed, to me it's damn near criminal. Then again, they are only proles, not Party members.
No one has ever conclusively demonstrated that you can take a prion from one species and use it to induce a prion state in another species.
OK, then you and I and the next downer cow that we find are going to have a lovely steak dinner. And in 40 years we will see which of us posts to slashdot the results of our dinner and which of us is drooling in pain on a keyboard. If you believe in your position, then a little brain pudding shouldn't phase you at all
Current research believes that 50% or more of Alzheimers patients are really a form of prion degredation of the brain. It has nothing to do with politics. It is not most common in cattle, it is most seen sheep. And the entire US herd has zero cases of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). Canada has had 1, and one is unconfirmed. This however is trival. BSE is already in the food supply, of this there is no doubt. Current testing ability cannot find BSE in low levels. The only question is - are you at risk? I dunno, but -
Eat all the beef you want to, I only hope that you don't get an infected cow. A Neurosurgeon I heard speak(who has treated CJD personally) said it is the worst way to die he has ever seen - this from a guy that sees brain damage every day.
All the Froogles down in Froogville liked shopping a lot.
But the Google Tradmark Lawyers, who lived just north of Froogville Did Not.
Those lawyers hated Froogles with fury not calm
Oh, yes they hated that name Froogles dot com
No one really knows why they hated them so.
They were a search engine, finding things for you to know.
Some said it was thier servers all linuxy and shiny
Some said it was that the Froogles had said to them "Kiss my heine"
Perhaps it was GMail, all serching and gig-ish
Perhaps it was thier own shopping site name, all slick and so piggish.
But whatever the reason, the heine or gig-ish
They sent off a lawsuit, all secret and quickish.
They would get that name whether the Froogs liked it or not.
Everyone knows that the Law likes big companies a lot
But then an amazing thing came from froogville to thier ear.
A sound of cheering, happiness, and slashdot melting server gears.
The lawyers cried, "It's imposible to rule against us so!"
"We are big, and strong with an outrageous IPO!"
But the Froogles down in Froogville kept on singing thier Joy,
From the Large to the small every girl and boy.
And what happened to those Laywers of great Googlish fame?
Why they were paid handsomely for thier lawuit , so lame.
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when I bought my laptop the sales guy actually told me the plan covered the screen if I dropped it and broke it. I almost laughed in his face. Looking back, I should have.
Sera
When the real thing is out there I own the original and the SJ versions ... Nerdvana here I come!!
Stealing? How is it stealing if I want to try to run the game I purchased on linux? I own a legit copy of Campaign Cartographer, I am trying to get it to run on linux, how is this stealing?
Ok, fine, where is my CD insurance?....waiting.....still waiting, that's right their isnt any. If I destroy my car I get money to buy a new one but wait - ooooooh yeah, here it is, here is my CD insurance, it is called my CD-RW drive. If you wont back me up, and external people won't/cannot then at least please allow me to do so.
You are right, it is not thier fault. This is why my important documents (title to my house, will, etc) are safely in a bank vault. However were I to ever need to look at them...well lordy look at that - I have a copy right over there. See, copying can be used for good as well.
So to some up - using a copy of a disk has legit uses as well as bad uses. To shift a bit into my own experience I will tell you this. I played a cracked copy of Unreal Tournement for years, only bought a copy when I found in the bargain bin for $10. When UT2k4 came out I ran(not walked) out and grabbed it off the shelf for full price. So what does that tell you? It tells you that a warezed copy of a game got you a legit purchase down the road, a purchase that there is no way you would have gotten otherwise - I never buy at full price, 2 year old games are fine for me usually. Try to think in the long term, not the shorttry to NOT be like every other US industry).
And as far as game companies going under..well they tend to do that, and blaming piracy for 100% of that is just plain stupid. Blaming a 27% drop in sales on piracy is lunacy, if the drop is that bad there are other factors involved - after all, cd burners and cracking sw weren't invented this year. Perhaps game publishers need to take a lesson from Big Bill. Why is office so popular? why is Windows? Because everyone went out and copied it and took it home from work. Does it hurt thier bottom line? Yup, no question. In the long run has it helped them? Yup, no question, and it seems that MS has plenty of cash these days. Oh, and last I checked, Redhat et al who give away thier product are doing fine as well. Seems to me to not be too tough to figure out.
Perhaps you are right, but currently Starforce is the one taking a crap right now, but the weird part is that they are in both thier own and my bed, we will see what that smells like in the years to come.Sera
I am sure you can get one - I have, very fun.
Sera
Sera
Half-Life: No really we mean it.
I believe that every NPR show is available tolisten to on the web - at least that is true from the MPR (not 'N') website...
There is a morphix derivative that is a pure kiosk style Firefox. Currently I am trying to remaster it a bit, not doing so well, but that is me and how little time I have put into it, and thae fact that I want it locked down hard. Oh - here look toward the bottom for the firefox iso.
Sera
And I love it for gaming, though I would think that typing on the think would be hard, unless you could get some lighter springs in it. And for all of those "calling for linux drivers" Yeesh Can't say as I have tried them but I am one of those sad sacks that still uses his windows box for gaming.
Sera
You have it upside down, the letters go on the bottom.
Have you considered teaching?
If so, I think We are looking for pt computer science instructors. It beats driving a truck.
ctown at inverhills dot edu
Right now in Minneapolis you can get 13 weeks of the StarTribune for $1.00 a week. $13 for ~3 months of the weekly paper. To buy it from the paper box or the store will run you 50 cents a copy. Now even at the higher rate I don't see 50 cents as actually paying for the content. I would hazard a guess that the
Sera
She had her baby 7 minutes later. I have been in traffic in Fairfax County that would make an LA person weep. I would have taken the chance.
Sera
Same with the Hunting Games. You mean I have to walk out into the woods, sit for 10 minutes 'til comes by, shoot it and then....?
Dude, If I knew where you lived I would come over at late tonight and leave about a thousand nose prints and wait for you to open the curtains in the morning, man that would be a priceless picture. :D
Read all the articles and books you want - you are still a layman. I can read the entire linux kernel, it wont make me informed, a kernel programmer or able to have a real opinion about what it is, or where it needs to go.
My micro lab deals with this on a daily basis. As I said - you eat a downer cow. - or - better, eat a BSE cow, it wont hurt you right?? So I urge you to eat the next one, please, my boss needs more reasearch examples.
v=variant thus vCJD - it is not seperate, but a varient. Wow, what a jump, proving you have no grasp of microbiology, or logic for that matter. We err on the side of caution, as real scientists do. But go ahead, eat all the beef you want, more research money is good for me.
Sera
It is 'ignorance with opinion' like yours that is helping everything from the Flat Eathers to the RIAA.
Come back when you have a PhD to back up your "opinion"
Sera
The award is not about privacy, it is about Big Brother, go read 1984. There is nothing colder (sorry) than watching another die and doing nothing about it though you have the means. They cut off thier heat, they died. They knew that if they cut off the gas some people would be harmed, to me it's damn near criminal. Then again, they are only proles, not Party members.
OK, then you and I and the next downer cow that we find are going to have a lovely steak dinner. And in 40 years we will see which of us posts to slashdot the results of our dinner and which of us is drooling in pain on a keyboard. If you believe in your position, then a little brain pudding shouldn't phase you at all
Sera
He He He Yeah, I remember them, though they went out of business a few years back.
...are an idiot.
Current research believes that 50% or more of Alzheimers patients are really a form of prion degredation of the brain. It has nothing to do with politics. It is not most common in cattle, it is most seen sheep. And the entire US herd has zero cases of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). Canada has had 1, and one is unconfirmed. This however is trival. BSE is already in the food supply, of this there is no doubt. Current testing ability cannot find BSE in low levels. The only question is - are you at risk? I dunno, but -
Eat all the beef you want to, I only hope that you don't get an infected cow. A Neurosurgeon I heard speak(who has treated CJD personally) said it is the worst way to die he has ever seen - this from a guy that sees brain damage every day.
Sera
"Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last." Amen Brother
When we all get RFID tags at birth then you can label them what they are - "Death"
When you buy your first pack you get "Death 40's" (Because they are smooth and oh so sexy!) Then after your birthday you walk into the store and -
"Gas, um, this Mt Dew, and a snickers and gimme that pack of Methol Death, what assholes, naming it that. My Mom said they used to have real names."
"Yeah, I kinda miss Joe and his coupons in the pack. Here ya go buddy, want that on your...?"
"Visa Uranium"
"Ok, it will bill you..."
"Yeah, I know when I hit the door."
....a few minutes pass...
"Hey um, when I was in here I asked for Death 40's - these are 39's."
"Yeah, your birthday was last year right?"
"Yeah, but..."
"No, you got the right pack, the paper display checks your Imclone RFID"
...
"Oh"
Sera
All the Froogles down in Froogville liked shopping a lot.
But the Google Tradmark Lawyers, who lived just north of Froogville Did Not.
Those lawyers hated Froogles with fury not calm
Oh, yes they hated that name Froogles dot com
No one really knows why they hated them so.
They were a search engine, finding things for you to know.
Some said it was thier servers all linuxy and shiny
Some said it was that the Froogles had said to them "Kiss my heine"
Perhaps it was GMail, all serching and gig-ish
Perhaps it was thier own shopping site name, all slick and so piggish.
But whatever the reason, the heine or gig-ish
They sent off a lawsuit, all secret and quickish.
They would get that name whether the Froogs liked it or not.
Everyone knows that the Law likes big companies a lot
But then an amazing thing came from froogville to thier ear.
A sound of cheering, happiness, and slashdot melting server gears.
The lawyers cried, "It's imposible to rule against us so!"
"We are big, and strong with an outrageous IPO!"
But the Froogles down in Froogville kept on singing thier Joy,
From the Large to the small every girl and boy.
And what happened to those Laywers of great Googlish fame?
Why they were paid handsomely for thier lawuit , so lame.
Apollogies to Dr Suess