No,
they have to respond to complaints from members of the public, even if it takes them a week or two. During investigations if they find out it was a joke, they can then choose not to get it.
Bingo... it made me listen to the Christmas chart show for the first time in years. It was a silly distraction from the endless slog of pre-Christmas bullshit, adverts and tat in the stores. Five minutes of pleasant diversion from the mill, everything else added to this story by the actors, media and public is irrelevant to the core argument, it made something boring become, briefly, interesting (for me at any rate).
Whole industry tarnished by one or two scandals shocker! In reality - in most cases editorial and advertising are kept very separate for exactly this reason.
And as Exhibit A, there are now less adverts in mags than ever, so how would your argument hold true? For online, this could well be different but its so much easier for readers to call BS and for word to spread.
They'll never win because MS lawyers will trawl the forums and track down every single bogus complainer who posted "can still play my pirated stuff" and id them, case closed! Look at the games forums, not one person (that I came across on the big four or five sites) was there with a legitimate complaint. I'm sure a/. er can find one or two but that isn't a class action
You are kidding right, If my kids want to watch Cbeebies, I can just pop them on the spare laptop and off they go! They don't care about DRM, they can use the interface. I think you're just too set in your old-fashioned ways
Having just read Bill Bryson's "Down Under." I'd agree with that. Its amazing how many different versions of the same 'fact' there are about various aspects of the country's history depending on which source you consult.
I suspect the same goes for most places, periods and cultures
First Snow Leopard, tomorrow Windows 7, new Ubuntu, now this... its like their cycles are all coming together.
Play the Windows 7 launch drinking game - here
But, back then every game came with a manual - the trouble was every game was a flight simulator or war game. Doom was the game that helped PC gamers forget about the need to read war and peace, learn the key map and study the requirements.
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So now meteorites are a girl's best friend? That's going to complicate some relationships
Has anyone mentioned Hitler yet, or should I trawl further into the morass of political, um, debate?
No, they have to respond to complaints from members of the public, even if it takes them a week or two. During investigations if they find out it was a joke, they can then choose not to get it.
Only British hacks come with that special "wrecking mode"??
But, my friend, the French what-will-we-tax-next office is always in motion, so I think they've beaten you to it.
Guessing "open" and "free" (as in speech) won't be part of the equation
Bingo... it made me listen to the Christmas chart show for the first time in years. It was a silly distraction from the endless slog of pre-Christmas bullshit, adverts and tat in the stores. Five minutes of pleasant diversion from the mill, everything else added to this story by the actors, media and public is irrelevant to the core argument, it made something boring become, briefly, interesting (for me at any rate).
...waiting for a skinny latte and no-meat salad?
And underwater planes
...
And Angelina Jolie (before she went weird)
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And Gwyneth Paltrow
Just wait there Sir/Madam, Agent Smith is on his way in the black helicopter.
Afghanistan is near to Iran, Pakistan and China, far more useful testing grounds.
Whole industry tarnished by one or two scandals shocker! In reality - in most cases editorial and advertising are kept very separate for exactly this reason. And as Exhibit A, there are now less adverts in mags than ever, so how would your argument hold true? For online, this could well be different but its so much easier for readers to call BS and for word to spread.
oh, big planes can glide a loooong way - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
They'll never win because MS lawyers will trawl the forums and track down every single bogus complainer who posted "can still play my pirated stuff" and id them, case closed! Look at the games forums, not one person (that I came across on the big four or five sites) was there with a legitimate complaint. I'm sure a /. er can find one or two but that isn't a class action
And won't be a patch on Channel 4's Red Triangle-badged 'mature themes' films season from the late 80s. That was progress
Yep, and that move was Die Hard 4.0
In other news, East Africa and West Africa rap battles set to get more intense and possibly end in violence!
Four words; all-over body condom. See our great heroes boinking about the red planet in complete safety
Ares-1 is really a time ship and has left its impact crater before it has even taken off. Never mind Back to the Future, Back to Latvia FTW
You are kidding right, If my kids want to watch Cbeebies, I can just pop them on the spare laptop and off they go! They don't care about DRM, they can use the interface. I think you're just too set in your old-fashioned ways
Having just read Bill Bryson's "Down Under." I'd agree with that. Its amazing how many different versions of the same 'fact' there are about various aspects of the country's history depending on which source you consult.
I suspect the same goes for most places, periods and cultures
Our defense is:
All our code has bugs
All our weapons don't work
All our technology is too expensive to be affordable
It'll take them a couple of decades, but they'll catch on.
First Snow Leopard, tomorrow Windows 7, new Ubuntu, now this... its like their cycles are all coming together.
Play the Windows 7 launch drinking game - here
The bobble-headed love that dare not speak its name?
But, back then every game came with a manual - the trouble was every game was a flight simulator or war game. Doom was the game that helped PC gamers forget about the need to read war and peace, learn the key map and study the requirements.
(well apart from the requirements bit)