Actually, pretty much everyone I know does it at least some of the time. Everyone did it back in college. Except for you. You just happen to have a total lack of cool. Or is it hip? Funk?... Never could figure this one out.
The point is, WHO is to be the arbiter of "truth"?
According to the blurb, it should be The Mob, and "truth" should be defined extensionally, as whatever The Mob votes to be the truth. My problem with that scheme is not the criterion for the truth, which is actually a pretty useful metric. Rather, I am inclined to think that the system will be immediately abused by robots, which will make the whole thing biased heavily towards people with resources to hire programmers who write the said robots, i.e. people with money. Not to rain on their parade, but if we wanted to know rich people's opinion, we could turn on TV, read a newspaper, or just have a chat with a neighborhood millionaire.
Although I have very little sympathy for copyright thievery — regardless of whether it is exactly or almost the same as thievery of tangible goods [...]
It is neither exactly nor almost the same. It is very different on many levels. And as for using language that is intentionally inflammatory, that really does not help to see the issue clearly. What the hell is the "copyright thievery"? The theft of copyright? Why won't we call you "murderer", since you are "killing us with your statements"? Or "whore", since you are "adulterating your terminology"?
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Yes, software piracy is not physical theft, but your attitude is a good mirror of the situation I just described.
How do you even function with reasoning like this? You explain why your analogy does not work and then insist that it is "good"?
Rather than simply saying "I won't buy it," threatening to pirate it is actually ENFORCING and ENCOURAGING the decision for further, stronger DRM.
Yes. This is a very coherent response to DRM, because (drum rolls) he is not hurt by DRM at all. Reloaded is looking out for him. He is nice enough to let EA know that THEY are being hurt by DRM. Not him. As far as showing that DRM is impractical from the business point of view, this is the most helpful approach for the gamer, because it (1) provides software (2) removes DRM (3) saves money (4) lets EA know that they are headed for a real shitstorm.
The capitalists add no value. They perform no labor.
What are you smoking? Whether a capitalist is an owner or an important board member, he does perform quite a bit of work. I would agree that the reward he gets is many times bigger that that of a hired worker, for the same amount of labor, but that is besides the point. Someone needs to run the factory. Show us a car factory that runs without the top management. No such thing exists.
in anticipation of others' diatribes, the USSR, China and Cuba are not and never were socialist.
They were never Communist. The difference is huge. From the Wikipedia:
In a Marxist or labor-movement definition of the term, socialism is a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done with the goal of creating a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community. This control may be exercised on behalf of the state, through a market, or through popular collectives such as workers' councils and cooperatives. As an economic system, socialism is often characterized by state, cooperative, or worker ownership of the means of production, goals which have been attributed to, and claimed by, a number of political parties and governments.
Russia and Cuba are a GREAT examples of Socialist countries which exemplify both strengths and weaknesses of the state-run economy. To say that Russia is not Socialist is wrong by definition of the term.
It's gonna happen, man. Just wait. It's gonna happen. And after that they will pick up sticks and stones and realize that they are strong. And they will come (and some roll) to our houses and take our women and children. And to think that built them with our own hands...
[...] or (and more likely to happen) you decide to multibox.
Give us a break, man. Multiboxing is not even a blip on the radar. I played WoW since open beta, and I've seen ONE 5-boxer so far. I see 2-boxers every now and then, at the average rate of once a month (just guessing though). To say that most people will use this promotion to x-box is to completely disregard the fact that x-boxing is difficult, expensive, time-consuming, and generally requires the kind of dedication to the cause a weekend gamer does not have. As others pointed out, many WoW players cannot even learn to utilize their class by the time they cap.
The reward is not that significant. Zebra mount and leveling help? Who cares. Leveling your main is actually done well in WoW. Props to folks at Blizzard for striking the iron while it is still hot.
I can't think of a better way to create a complete trainwreck of a game than to let a committee of fanboys design it.
Hmmm.... What about designing the game by two committees of fanboys, representing two different schools of thought, where every decision is an outcome of the eternal struggle for power?
WoW is cartoon-y. Its cute. Very soft fantasy.
Diablo is not, and never has been.
Blizzard's games have never been anything but cartoonish. If you got a cold-steel-gothic feel out of Diablo, its is because you were still wearing diapers irl. Now you are older and WoW, which youngsters probably think is ABSOLUTELY EPIC, looks childish to you.
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I did not realize that. If god is willing, I'll never have to use RSS for anything but demonstrating its weaknesses.
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That's three questions, not one.
Actually, pretty much everyone I know does it at least some of the time. Everyone did it back in college. Except for you. You just happen to have a total lack of cool. Or is it hip? Funk? ... Never could figure this one out.
Actually, we only need that the basic vectors are linearly independent.
Your 3-rd dimension is discrete. The push is for a continuous dimension.
The point is, WHO is to be the arbiter of "truth"?
According to the blurb, it should be The Mob, and "truth" should be defined extensionally, as whatever The Mob votes to be the truth. My problem with that scheme is not the criterion for the truth, which is actually a pretty useful metric. Rather, I am inclined to think that the system will be immediately abused by robots, which will make the whole thing biased heavily towards people with resources to hire programmers who write the said robots, i.e. people with money. Not to rain on their parade, but if we wanted to know rich people's opinion, we could turn on TV, read a newspaper, or just have a chat with a neighborhood millionaire.
Huh? Wow is too social-oriented. We are just playing it to pass the time until Diablo 3 comes out.
Although I have very little sympathy for copyright thievery — regardless of whether it is exactly or almost the same as thievery of tangible goods [...]
It is neither exactly nor almost the same. It is very different on many levels. And as for using language that is intentionally inflammatory, that really does not help to see the issue clearly. What the hell is the "copyright thievery"? The theft of copyright? Why won't we call you "murderer", since you are "killing us with your statements"? Or "whore", since you are "adulterating your terminology"?
Grammer. its pro-nounced grammer Man
Yes, software piracy is not physical theft, but your attitude is a good mirror of the situation I just described.
How do you even function with reasoning like this? You explain why your analogy does not work and then insist that it is "good"?
Rather than simply saying "I won't buy it," threatening to pirate it is actually ENFORCING and ENCOURAGING the decision for further, stronger DRM.
Yes. This is a very coherent response to DRM, because (drum rolls) he is not hurt by DRM at all. Reloaded is looking out for him. He is nice enough to let EA know that THEY are being hurt by DRM. Not him. As far as showing that DRM is impractical from the business point of view, this is the most helpful approach for the gamer, because it (1) provides software (2) removes DRM (3) saves money (4) lets EA know that they are headed for a real shitstorm.
They all exist, sans the adjectives. Well, until now, that is.
It may sound like I am making this up.
Sure it does. May be it's because you omitted the name of your school.
Yep, it works now.
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[...] runs to the sink, empties it, and returns it to the dresser. The problem has now been reduced to one that has been previously solved.
This is the software engineer way too.
The capitalists add no value. They perform no labor.
What are you smoking? Whether a capitalist is an owner or an important board member, he does perform quite a bit of work. I would agree that the reward he gets is many times bigger that that of a hired worker, for the same amount of labor, but that is besides the point. Someone needs to run the factory. Show us a car factory that runs without the top management. No such thing exists.
in anticipation of others' diatribes, the USSR, China and Cuba are not and never were socialist.
They were never Communist. The difference is huge. From the Wikipedia:
Russia and Cuba are a GREAT examples of Socialist countries which exemplify both strengths and weaknesses of the state-run economy. To say that Russia is not Socialist is wrong by definition of the term.
Ah, Mr. Johnson, I see you touched your wiener just now. Repeatedly.
It's gonna happen, man. Just wait. It's gonna happen. And after that they will pick up sticks and stones and realize that they are strong. And they will come (and some roll) to our houses and take our women and children. And to think that built them with our own hands...
[...] or (and more likely to happen) you decide to multibox.
Give us a break, man. Multiboxing is not even a blip on the radar. I played WoW since open beta, and I've seen ONE 5-boxer so far. I see 2-boxers every now and then, at the average rate of once a month (just guessing though). To say that most people will use this promotion to x-box is to completely disregard the fact that x-boxing is difficult, expensive, time-consuming, and generally requires the kind of dedication to the cause a weekend gamer does not have. As others pointed out, many WoW players cannot even learn to utilize their class by the time they cap.
The reward is not that significant. Zebra mount and leveling help? Who cares. Leveling your main is actually done well in WoW. Props to folks at Blizzard for striking the iron while it is still hot.
So? It is not PC, but still cartoonish. And I am not sure that the word "revisionist" means what you think it means.
I can't think of a better way to create a complete trainwreck of a game than to let a committee of fanboys design it.
Hmmm.... What about designing the game by two committees of fanboys, representing two different schools of thought, where every decision is an outcome of the eternal struggle for power?
WoW is cartoon-y. Its cute. Very soft fantasy. Diablo is not, and never has been.
Blizzard's games have never been anything but cartoonish. If you got a cold-steel-gothic feel out of Diablo, its is because you were still wearing diapers irl. Now you are older and WoW, which youngsters probably think is ABSOLUTELY EPIC, looks childish to you.