Mod this guy up. Boy George has decided its ok to have your cake and eat it too. Everyone in the world is held to US laws, EXCEPT US Law Enforcement Officials.
Been food shopping lately ? I buy for a houshold of 4 and shop every 2 weeks easily spending 200-250 per trip. I think if you sat down and did some figuring you'd see. The cost of living has risen almost 20 times higher than the salary level. Just ask your dad what a loaf of bread used to cost and what he made per year and figure from there. I am sure part of the problem is the area I live in, Calif. Bay Area, which has a very high cost of living, rent here for a 1 bedroom apartment in a SLUM neighborhood is about $900, anything safe to live in is $1100.
"...Divx was a great concept that didn't get market support...."
err DUH how clueless can you get, no market support implies it was NOT a great product because NO ONE wanted it. The only people behind DIVX were the movie companies that stood to gain bazillions by controlling your every viewing choice. The so-called market, or the paying customers HATED the crap and refused to buy it. Must be nice to be the center of the universe...
Damn, the big time publishers have gamers, authors, and musicians on a key chain by their (gender specific sex organ):(
As much as I despise activision and sierra, I LOVE PC games, and the thought of companies going the way of LookingGlass really SUCKS. There has got to be a happy medium somewhere, but what the hell do I know, I'm just a ranting, irate 'consumer':(
was the last game I bought. I've DL'd ISO for several others but not found anything worth pursuing. "Compared to the festering piles of crap that were Pool of Radiance and Ultima IX, it seems NWN is OK, but don't let that slow you down. I'm sure that there will be a bug or two in Doom III that will let you justify pirating it as well."
So if it is better comparatively it is ok ? I don't folow that logic, it is not a grade on the curve setup here, either tha game runs reliably or it doesn't, and I am not upset over shiny water issue's. I am pissed over numerous reproducable crashes that have been provided to Bioware that have still not been corrected, nor are the online servers dependable enough to even get a single game seesion in before they ICB or memory fragment so much they are unplayable. I think one of the best things for end users is going to be the inclusion of software in some real life threatening situations. What happens when your new BMW blue screens and accelerates at max rate ? Gonna be hard to claim no responsibility when software results in a death....
A an avid gamer and the OWNER of a huge number of lame CD's that have more bugs than Africa does, I've rationalized it to myself. When software publishers take responsibility to ensure that the code they release RUNS at a bare minimum then I will start to assume some responsibility, until then I am a full scale game pirate these days. NWN is a prime example...BIOWARE did not fix the errors...the MOD community did. BIOWARE is not supporting the bloody game, it was released BETA and is community supported. Take a lesson from the Indy Music folks, drop the publisher, put out a quality game and let it advertise itself, word of mouth on the net is MUCH better than paid advertisments anyways.
I agree in so far as if your are out snooping that is in effect casing the joint and implies intent. As for the neighbor thing, my grnadparents live in a very rural area, in which the neighbors not only use the restroom but often make up a pot of coffee. No one locks their doors, and nothing has been reported stolen for a LONG time. Of course they still use a party line phone system and have no problems with it either. The times, they are a changin', and I am not sure if it is for the better..
come to think of it, if they left the seat uop and the GF found out it COULD be catastrophic:)
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if you bilk them WITHOUT lying or mis-representing yourself is it a crime ? Unless of course they are legally not capable of making desicions for themselves. I see your point and the analogy is not perfect, but...
"Trespass is the proper remedy for the several acts of breaking through an enclosure, and coming into contact with any corporeal hereditament, of which another is the owner and in possession,and by which a damage has ensued. There is an ideal fence, reaching in extent upwards, a superficie terrae usque ad caelum, which encircles every man's possessions, when he is owner of the surface, and downwards as far as his property descends; the entry, therefore, is breaking through this enclosure, and this generally constitutes, by itself, a right of action. The plaintiff must be the owner, and in possession. There must have been some injury, however, to entitle the plaintiff to recover, for a man in a balloon may legally be said to break the close of the plaintiff, when passing over it, as he is wafted by the wind, yet as the owner's possession is not by that act incommoded, trespass could not probably be maintained; yet, if any part of the machinery were to fall upon the land, the aeronaut could not justify an entry into it to remove it, which proves that the act is not justifiable."
Notice, there is the PRESUMPTION of DAMAGES, while it may in fact meet some of the points for trespassing I don't think that simple use would be upheld unless you lived in Texas:)
Like McDonalds is not all over England and Europe. Climb down off your wooden horse and deal with reality. American, Canadian, South American, from Iceland and of course Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia...where ever you hail from it is a world economy now and getting more so everyday. A pigeon shits on the NYSE, and it is felt in Japan. When the EU makes a policy or financial decision, the rest of the world surfs the wake. What the corporations can't get passed by law they are ensuring gets secured by treaty, the concept of national borders does not exist in a financial model, and unless WE figure it out soon, it will be too late, and those national identities will be subsumed in multi national corporate citizenship. I am not looking forward to my children being a citizen of TimeWarnerAolVivendi-Inc.
BTW the real europeans are all dead, they were bronze age fellows that built really cool stone monuments. Your ancestors killed them off when they migrated into the area. Just like my fathers' anscestors killed off the other side of my family. I guess it was a good thing my great great (etc) grandma was a native hottie....
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I think the original honey pot meaning (latrine, john, bedpan) fits much better for this topic.... If I drive by and my wireless card finds and gets accepted on your network..TOO F'N bad, you should try some security. Now if I then use that connect to try and hack into your systems then they should pursue me to the fullest extent of the law. What is the policy if I request a bootp/dhcp on the net and someone answers, my fault or theirs ? If you leave your front door wide open and a neighbor comes over and uses your bathroom, then leaves is it a crime ?
A house for my parents was about 2 years salary, a car was about 6 months and food was a MINOR part of their monthly bill. My house cost me almost 5 years salary, I live in Cal, bay area, my car runs almost 3/4ths a years salary, and food is a HUGE CHUNK of my budget not to mention the monthly bills eat up a FAR greater percentage than our parents payed, We are screwed and It WAS NOT BY the.com bubble bursting trust me, we have been systematically screwed by the federal government over the last 20 years. The only way to get ahead is to become a corporation and avoid paying your fair share of taxes, and USE the system to your benefit and everyone elses detriment.
tells you what it is they do or plan to do ? These are not the devolpers I believe, though I am confused enough now to not really know...anyone with a better grasp explain this to me...PLEASE...
the ATI card I've got now does an excellent job. I was less than happy with the nvidia card I had before, for video capture that is. Maybe I was less than clear but my point is the same, a dedicated device is a better approach than a catch all cripple-ware multi function device.
that POS anyways is beyond me...Youi can get a video card or a tivo that does the same thing for WAY WAY LESS, and you don't have to feed M$ to do it...
I don't want a one device does it all solution, I just want the ability to interconnect them all. I want the means to pipe the media to the inteface of my choice at the time of my choice, but I don't want a machine dedicated to controlling my multi-media hub. Hell I don't even want the internet to be required, which is why I just use my tivo and do not have a subscription. My ati 9700pro does similar functions but not as well as the dedicated device and it takes over the machine:(
there ? A REALLY simple HONEST answer would be for BOTH sites to place a nice visible link on each site with a little goodwill plug for each other. They are not in competition, and if the issue is not REALLY money but name recognition and family honor that should suffice. But of course we all realize common sense went the way of the dodo and the tazmanian tiger....
I don't even have a modem in a machine anymore. I've got an old external in the closet in case both of my broadband connects go belly up at the same time, hardly likely. My nephew has never used a computer with a modem in it period.
but I do not see any time difference over my stripped out IE 6. I still end up waiting on the proxy to resolve, and once I upped the number of objects IE handles, they seem to both scream. The only issue I see with IE is heavy drop down box usage scerws up screen writing. Next time I have mod points I will bring up Phoenix and see how it performs. Either way you look at it they BOTH blow away Mozilla performance wise...
From my experience Sun does excellent support. Not that they can touch IBM, but who can ? But both SUN and IBM are miles above HP/COMPAQ in terms of onsite technical expertise, and documentation. Rarely does IBM or SUN ever call in 2nd level, and I've never had them need a 3rd person, the 'NEW' HP guys need an assistant to call in help...It has been a LONG while since I dealt with an HP Unix system so I can't comment on support there.
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Mod this guy up. Boy George has decided its ok to have your cake and eat it too. Everyone in the world is held to US laws, EXCEPT US Law Enforcement Officials.
Been food shopping lately ? I buy for a houshold of 4 and shop every 2 weeks easily spending 200-250 per trip. I think if you sat down and did some figuring you'd see. The cost of living has risen almost 20 times higher than the salary level. Just ask your dad what a loaf of bread used to cost and what he made per year and figure from there. I am sure part of the problem is the area I live in, Calif. Bay Area, which has a very high cost of living, rent here for a 1 bedroom apartment in a SLUM neighborhood is about $900, anything safe to live in is $1100.
"...Divx was a great concept that didn't get market support...."
err DUH how clueless can you get, no market support implies it was NOT a great product because NO ONE wanted it. The only people behind DIVX were the movie companies that stood to gain bazillions by controlling your every viewing choice. The so-called market, or the paying customers HATED the crap and refused to buy it. Must be nice to be the center of the universe...
Damn, the big time publishers have gamers, authors, and musicians on a key chain by their (gender specific sex organ) :(
:(
As much as I despise activision and sierra, I LOVE PC games, and the thought of companies going the way of LookingGlass really SUCKS. There has got to be a happy medium somewhere, but what the hell do I know, I'm just a ranting, irate 'consumer'
was the last game I bought. I've DL'd ISO for several others but not found anything worth pursuing.
"Compared to the festering piles of crap that were Pool of Radiance and Ultima IX, it seems NWN is OK, but don't let that slow you down. I'm sure that there will be a bug or two in Doom III that will let you justify pirating it as well."
So if it is better comparatively it is ok ? I don't folow that logic, it is not a grade on the curve setup here, either tha game runs reliably or it doesn't, and I am not upset over shiny water issue's. I am pissed over numerous reproducable crashes that have been provided to Bioware that have still not been corrected, nor are the online servers dependable enough to even get a single game seesion in before they ICB or memory fragment so much they are unplayable. I think one of the best things for end users is going to be the inclusion of software in some real life threatening situations. What happens when your new BMW blue screens and accelerates at max rate ? Gonna be hard to claim no responsibility when software results in a death....
A an avid gamer and the OWNER of a huge number of lame CD's that have more bugs than Africa does, I've rationalized it to myself. When software publishers take responsibility to ensure that the code they release RUNS at a bare minimum then I will start to assume some responsibility, until then I am a full scale game pirate these days.
NWN is a prime example...BIOWARE did not fix the errors...the MOD community did. BIOWARE is not supporting the bloody game, it was released BETA and is community supported. Take a lesson from the Indy Music folks, drop the publisher, put out a quality game and let it advertise itself, word of mouth on the net is MUCH better than paid advertisments anyways.
Where is the damage ? You need asportation for buglary don't you ? or have I got theft crossed up..been too many years
I agree in so far as if your are out snooping that is in effect casing the joint and implies intent. As for the neighbor thing, my grnadparents live in a very rural area, in which the neighbors not only use the restroom but often make up a pot of coffee. No one locks their doors, and nothing has been reported stolen for a LONG time. Of course they still use a party line phone system and have no problems with it either. The times, they are a changin', and I am not sure if it is for the better..
Do you have information on this guy ? What state does he do business from ? Post the name of the business so the rest of us can avoid the guy...
come to think of it, if they left the seat uop and the GF found out it COULD be catastrophic :)
if you bilk them WITHOUT lying or mis-representing yourself is it a crime ? Unless of course they are legally not capable of making desicions for themselves. I see your point and the analogy is not perfect, but...
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"Trespass is the proper remedy for the several acts of breaking through an enclosure, and coming into contact with any corporeal hereditament, of which another is the owner and in possession,and by which a damage has ensued. There is an ideal fence, reaching in extent upwards, a superficie terrae usque ad caelum, which encircles every man's possessions, when he is owner of the surface, and downwards as far as his property descends; the entry, therefore, is breaking through this enclosure, and this generally constitutes, by itself, a right of action. The plaintiff must be the owner, and in possession. There must have been some injury, however, to entitle the plaintiff to recover, for a man in a balloon may legally be said to break the close of the plaintiff, when passing over it, as he is wafted by the wind, yet as the owner's possession is not by that act incommoded, trespass could not probably be maintained; yet, if any part of the machinery were to fall upon the land, the aeronaut could not justify an entry into it to remove it, which proves that the act is not justifiable."
Notice, there is the PRESUMPTION of DAMAGES, while it may in fact meet some of the points for trespassing I don't think that simple use would be upheld unless you lived in Texas
Like McDonalds is not all over England and Europe. Climb down off your wooden horse and deal with reality. American, Canadian, South American, from Iceland and of course Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia...where ever you hail from it is a world economy now and getting more so everyday. A pigeon shits on the NYSE, and it is felt in Japan. When the EU makes a policy or financial decision, the rest of the world surfs the wake. What the corporations can't get passed by law they are ensuring gets secured by treaty, the concept of national borders does not exist in a financial model, and unless WE figure it out soon, it will be too late, and those national identities will be subsumed in multi national corporate citizenship. I am not looking forward to my children being a citizen of TimeWarnerAolVivendi-Inc.
BTW the real europeans are all dead, they were bronze age fellows that built really cool stone monuments. Your ancestors killed them off when they migrated into the area. Just like my fathers' anscestors killed off the other side of my family. I guess it was a good thing my great great (etc) grandma was a native hottie....
I think the original honey pot meaning (latrine, john, bedpan) fits much better for this topic.... If I drive by and my wireless card finds and gets accepted on your network..TOO F'N bad, you should try some security. Now if I then use that connect to try and hack into your systems then they should pursue me to the fullest extent of the law. What is the policy if I request a bootp/dhcp on the net and someone answers, my fault or theirs ? If you leave your front door wide open and a neighbor comes over and uses your bathroom, then leaves is it a crime ?
A house for my parents was about 2 years salary, a car was about 6 months and food was a MINOR part of their monthly bill. My house cost me almost 5 years salary, I live in Cal, bay area, my car runs almost 3/4ths a years salary, and food is a HUGE CHUNK of my budget not to mention the monthly bills eat up a FAR greater percentage than our parents payed, We are screwed and It WAS NOT BY the .com bubble bursting trust me, we have been systematically screwed by the federal government over the last 20 years. The only way to get ahead is to become a corporation and avoid paying your fair share of taxes, and USE the system to your benefit and everyone elses detriment.
tells you what it is they do or plan to do ? These are not the devolpers I believe, though I am confused enough now to not really know...anyone with a better grasp explain this to me...PLEASE...
the ATI card I've got now does an excellent job. I was less than happy with the nvidia card I had before, for video capture that is. Maybe I was less than clear but my point is the same, a dedicated device is a better approach than a catch all cripple-ware multi function device.
that POS anyways is beyond me...Youi can get a video card or a tivo that does the same thing for WAY WAY LESS, and you don't have to feed M$ to do it...
I don't want a one device does it all solution, I just want the ability to interconnect them all. :(
I want the means to pipe the media to the inteface of my choice at the time of my choice, but I don't want a machine dedicated to controlling my multi-media hub. Hell I don't even want the internet to be required, which is why I just use my tivo and do not have a subscription.
My ati 9700pro does similar functions but not as well as the dedicated device and it takes over the machine
Kwin, was a good down to earth summary :)
Maybe AT&T and the companies pushing for a greater broadband adoption should get behind this scheme :) If you need a 'phat' pipe to send a 5mb file...
that is really putting your money where your mouth is :) If it gets broken it wasn't that good..if it stands up, can you BUY better advertisment ??
there ? A REALLY simple HONEST answer would be for BOTH sites to place a nice visible link on each site with a little goodwill plug for each other. They are not in competition, and if the issue is not REALLY money but name recognition and family honor that should suffice. But of course we all realize common sense went the way of the dodo and the tazmanian tiger....
I don't even have a modem in a machine anymore. I've got an old external in the closet in case both of my broadband connects go belly up at the same time, hardly likely. My nephew has never used a computer with a modem in it period.
but I do not see any time difference over my stripped out IE 6. I still end up waiting on the proxy to resolve, and once I upped the number of objects IE handles, they seem to both scream. The only issue I see with IE is heavy drop down box usage scerws up screen writing. Next time I have mod points I will bring up Phoenix and see how it performs. Either way you look at it they BOTH blow away Mozilla performance wise...
From my experience Sun does excellent support. Not that they can touch IBM, but who can ? But both SUN and IBM are miles above HP/COMPAQ in terms of onsite technical expertise, and documentation. Rarely does IBM or SUN ever call in 2nd level, and I've never had them need a 3rd person, the 'NEW' HP guys need an assistant to call in help...It has been a LONG while since I dealt with an HP Unix system so I can't comment on support there.