Just to be sure, make sure none of the posters know the difference between you're and your or loose and lose.
I was momentarily confused when someone correctly used lose earlier in the thread though so I am still suspicious.
That's not a bad idea. I plan on doing what GP has said and buying the game and then installing a cracked version using my real key.
The only issue with this is that properly cracked versions are LESS likely to have problems than securom'd installs.
As you were saying though, it would be an interesting option to have a retail channel on TPB where you could choose to download game X in non-DRM form by verifying your purchased key and receiving 99% of the D/L by BT and a custom pre-keyed exe directly.
This belief can obviously not come first in the behavior of a person, unless you want a new world war (which seems to be exactly what they want, despite the near-certainty that they'll lose big).
Ahh, but they don't care whether they lose. As long as they kill us doing it. Remember, they have their promise of 100 virgins to look forward to if they die.
You also call yourself bsDaemon so YMMV:) Then again, I know from personal experience that some geeks can get girlfriends that don't require a bike pump and do turn heads.
Maybe you could swing a deal with the insurance companies such that whenever you save the city and the insurance companies don't have to pay out billions, they pay you 10% instead.
On the other hand, the one time you didn't save that city block and they had to pay out, the insurance companies would probably sue you into oblivion.
Well, maybe they need to bump this thing up to 4GB and create a "reverse-shared-memory-mode" graphics option because the RAM on this card is a heck of a lot faster than the RAM my CPU has access to.
Hey, I could still leave 512MB for graphics.
I'm glad someone else remembers this stuff. I was despairing of anyone mentioning Moorcock and Lieber's Nehwon stuff was some of my favourite stuff as a kid. Vance too.
I've been collecting the old editions of Moorcock stuff again lately and I'm definitely going to re-read the Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser stuff.
I feel saddened that I had to search through 9/10 of the comments before finding anyone who remembered this stuff.
I second the recommendation of all the stuff you mentioned.
Parent isn't flamebait. Parent is insightful. Don't get all cut-up because someone says your favourite book has "dirty stuff" in it.
It's true. Kids read about an orgy and blink a couple of times and either get it or shrug and continue on to the "good bits" that make sense to them.
Seconded. I read Dune at 10 and enjoyed it.
That was as far as I got though. I hated the second book and never continued on.
I re-read Dune 20 years later and again, I enjoyed it though it seemed shorter and a lot simpler.
I wouldn't discount giving books like Dune to kids that age. There's nothing there a pre-teen who enjoys reading can't work through.
Give kids some credit. If you don't let them tackle some things that they may find hard, how will they grow ? I'm sure nobody on/. wants their kid to grow up to be a gamma !
To follow up my previous post's theme and to agree with you, I'd have to say nobody should be reading this stuff. Except of course I did, and any adult who wants to of course can. While I'm hardly a prude and laugh at the people who say they won't let their kids read anything that may allude to sex, some of the stuff in these books is really nasty, twisted and kinda sick.
To be honest though, my parents' library covered the walls of two rooms in our house and I picked up and read anything I wanted from there. If I didn't like it, I didn't read it.
I'm certain that as some people have commented, personally, as a kid, I didn't notice/understand or glossed over stuff that may have been beyond me.
One doesn't have to understand 100% of the content in a book to enjoy it. In fact, I can honestly say that there are so many things going on in Terry Pratchett books that even now on a second reading I'll recognize that there was stuff I missed on the first reading and yet I still loved it.
I went to a reading by GRRM. To put it bluntly, in person, he's a sick, twisted fuck. I did read his stories though. There is something to be said for some elements of his style and he is not afraid to do things that other writers shy away from. Saying much more would be a heck of a spoiler.
One thing I did find annoying was that he seems to be fond of having dozens of plot-lines running at once and only coming back to finish of half of them.
Not everyone's idea of a party comes from Animal House. I know you'll find it hard to believe but in some parts of the world there are even parties where the TV is off and nobody is wearing face paint or a jockstrap.
It's nice that someone doesn't automatically hate the dingoes. Luckily for them, the theory is that they were partially responsible for the loss of the Thylacine on the mainland because they out-competed it.
Unfortunately for the dingoes, there aren't many of them left in the wild. With inter-breeding with feral dogs and farmers killing them any way they can, they'll only exist in captivity soon unless something changes.
So here I sit with many dollars worth of eBooks in DRM'd PDFs, all useless. Adobe shrugs. Sorry to say it, but you know what they say about DRM around here... Nelson said it best: "HA HA".
Surely though you can get your hands on an old version of Reader 7.
That's why I pirated Bioshock to play and bought a boxed copy to have on my shelf. It's a great game and the team deserves that I buy a copy, but I also don't want to have to install even more DRM crap on my machine.
No problem. Open up the system to everyone and redirect all the resulting spam straight to the inboxes of the RNIB folks. If they say this is not acceptable then remind them that is what you said in the first place.
I understand the plight of 'blind' people. My mother-in-law has become legally blind from macular degeneration in the last couple of years.
Fact is, she can still call up the bank and do her banking by phone if the online version is inaccessible. On the other hand if there aren't enough protections and someone breaks into her account and steals all her money, I think that would be less convenient for her.
Some people object to DRM on ideological grounds, but not many
And I object to many of those objectors on ideological grounds.
...
* I'm an adult. I can look at the terms of, say, Amazon's DRM... The ideological DRM objectors seem to dismiss my adulthood, and want to treat me like a child who has to be protected from making the "wrong" decision...
But part of the problem for them is that for every person like you who chooses to accept DRM/Loss of control etc., the media cartels/whoever get one more person towards viability for their model. If enough people accept DRM, knowingly or unknowingly then the model is a success and the objectors become unimportant to profitability and thus everyone is forced to accept those terms.
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Just to be sure, make sure none of the posters know the difference between you're and your or loose and lose. I was momentarily confused when someone correctly used lose earlier in the thread though so I am still suspicious.
That's not a bad idea. I plan on doing what GP has said and buying the game and then installing a cracked version using my real key. The only issue with this is that properly cracked versions are LESS likely to have problems than securom'd installs. As you were saying though, it would be an interesting option to have a retail channel on TPB where you could choose to download game X in non-DRM form by verifying your purchased key and receiving 99% of the D/L by BT and a custom pre-keyed exe directly.
Well known fact. The Reg has been carefully tracking this phenomenon for quite a while now.
Only for Americans. English-depreciation: (see American English) also, English lite.
This belief can obviously not come first in the behavior of a person, unless you want a new world war (which seems to be exactly what they want, despite the near-certainty that they'll lose big).
Ahh, but they don't care whether they lose. As long as they kill us doing it. Remember, they have their promise of 100 virgins to look forward to if they die.
You also call yourself bsDaemon so YMMV :)
Then again, I know from personal experience that some geeks can get girlfriends that don't require a bike pump and do turn heads.
Maybe you could swing a deal with the insurance companies such that whenever you save the city and the insurance companies don't have to pay out billions, they pay you 10% instead. On the other hand, the one time you didn't save that city block and they had to pay out, the insurance companies would probably sue you into oblivion.
For all twenty buildings.
That's crap and you know it. All our igloos have those nice flat entrance tunnels and are 100% accessible.
It's about 45 football fields of napkins stacked vertically.
Well, maybe they need to bump this thing up to 4GB and create a "reverse-shared-memory-mode" graphics option because the RAM on this card is a heck of a lot faster than the RAM my CPU has access to. Hey, I could still leave 512MB for graphics.
I'm glad someone else remembers this stuff. I was despairing of anyone mentioning Moorcock and Lieber's Nehwon stuff was some of my favourite stuff as a kid. Vance too. I've been collecting the old editions of Moorcock stuff again lately and I'm definitely going to re-read the Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser stuff. I feel saddened that I had to search through 9/10 of the comments before finding anyone who remembered this stuff. I second the recommendation of all the stuff you mentioned.
Parent isn't flamebait. Parent is insightful. Don't get all cut-up because someone says your favourite book has "dirty stuff" in it. It's true. Kids read about an orgy and blink a couple of times and either get it or shrug and continue on to the "good bits" that make sense to them.
Seconded. I read Dune at 10 and enjoyed it. That was as far as I got though. I hated the second book and never continued on. I re-read Dune 20 years later and again, I enjoyed it though it seemed shorter and a lot simpler. I wouldn't discount giving books like Dune to kids that age. There's nothing there a pre-teen who enjoys reading can't work through. Give kids some credit. If you don't let them tackle some things that they may find hard, how will they grow ? I'm sure nobody on /. wants their kid to grow up to be a gamma !
To follow up my previous post's theme and to agree with you, I'd have to say nobody should be reading this stuff. Except of course I did, and any adult who wants to of course can. While I'm hardly a prude and laugh at the people who say they won't let their kids read anything that may allude to sex, some of the stuff in these books is really nasty, twisted and kinda sick. To be honest though, my parents' library covered the walls of two rooms in our house and I picked up and read anything I wanted from there. If I didn't like it, I didn't read it. I'm certain that as some people have commented, personally, as a kid, I didn't notice/understand or glossed over stuff that may have been beyond me. One doesn't have to understand 100% of the content in a book to enjoy it. In fact, I can honestly say that there are so many things going on in Terry Pratchett books that even now on a second reading I'll recognize that there was stuff I missed on the first reading and yet I still loved it.
I went to a reading by GRRM. To put it bluntly, in person, he's a sick, twisted fuck. I did read his stories though. There is something to be said for some elements of his style and he is not afraid to do things that other writers shy away from. Saying much more would be a heck of a spoiler. One thing I did find annoying was that he seems to be fond of having dozens of plot-lines running at once and only coming back to finish of half of them.
Not everyone's idea of a party comes from Animal House. I know you'll find it hard to believe but in some parts of the world there are even parties where the TV is off and nobody is wearing face paint or a jockstrap.
Poor Pluto. Dissed again.
I think you mean claim that they offend scientologists and they'll be gone in no time at all.
It's nice that someone doesn't automatically hate the dingoes. Luckily for them, the theory is that they were partially responsible for the loss of the Thylacine on the mainland because they out-competed it. Unfortunately for the dingoes, there aren't many of them left in the wild. With inter-breeding with feral dogs and farmers killing them any way they can, they'll only exist in captivity soon unless something changes.
I hope you don't mean the ones with knots tied in them. They're all throw-aways.
Surely though you can get your hands on an old version of Reader 7.
That's why I pirated Bioshock to play and bought a boxed copy to have on my shelf. It's a great game and the team deserves that I buy a copy, but I also don't want to have to install even more DRM crap on my machine.
No problem. Open up the system to everyone and redirect all the resulting spam straight to the inboxes of the RNIB folks. If they say this is not acceptable then remind them that is what you said in the first place. I understand the plight of 'blind' people. My mother-in-law has become legally blind from macular degeneration in the last couple of years. Fact is, she can still call up the bank and do her banking by phone if the online version is inaccessible. On the other hand if there aren't enough protections and someone breaks into her account and steals all her money, I think that would be less convenient for her.
I hope you got the governmental promotion you were looking for.
And I object to many of those objectors on ideological grounds.
* I'm an adult. I can look at the terms of, say, Amazon's DRM ... The ideological DRM objectors seem to dismiss my adulthood, and want to treat me like a child who has to be protected from making the "wrong" decision ...
But part of the problem for them is that for every person like you who chooses to accept DRM/Loss of control etc., the media cartels/whoever get one more person towards viability for their model. If enough people accept DRM, knowingly or unknowingly then the model is a success and the objectors become unimportant to profitability and thus everyone is forced to accept those terms.