As an American it is apparently my duty to give up my freedom and privacy and conveniences to protect children from being molested, old ladies from being mugged and terrorists from... uh... doing whatever.
Remember, we must give up the freedoms we are fighting for so we can defeat the terrorists who want to take those freedoms away!
In other news, morse code telegraph service operators are having a hard time coping with the advent of the telephone. Let's make a bunch of government regulations to help them continue their out-moded services that nobody wants anymore!
Anyway, I'm not paying $1/song - much less $8 for a song. There is not a song on the planet I would pay $8 for. What you're talking about is subsidizing shit by charging an enormous amount for the gold.
Another way of thinking about it is this:
How much do you pay to see a movie in the theater? Do you pay more to see 300 or Zodiac than you pay for Wild Hogs? Nope.
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TextMate is a text editor. Do whatever you want with it. It's very robust and, unfortunately, OSX only. You would think the company that develops it would realize that there is an enormous lust for TextMate on other operating systems and expand to them to make a pretty buck.
I would actually *pay* for TextMate if I could get it on Windows and Linux. When I'm in KDE, I use Kate which is pretty similar in a lot of ways to TextMate. But on Windows, there's nothing I've found close enough to it. I just don't use my OSX powerbook for coding enough, so textmate on there doesn't really help a lot.
If you've followed any sort of Ruby, Perl, Python or other MVC development system (like Turbogears or Catalyst), you've seen TextMate in action.
A television (even HD) simply doesn't have high enough resolution for a text heavy, detail oriented game. And there is simply too much control and precision lost in an FPS game with a controller. Hence the whole reason they apply auto-aiming crap half the time.
Consoles are great for arcade-style games. But nothing beats a PC for the real stuff.
Not to mention, in six more years when the 360 is sputtering along with aging graphics, I'll be enjoying my Nvidia 555500 GTX with 10gb DDR8.:P
You don't want to be part of a country that leads the way. You need another country as an example?! You want to be a country that follows the lead of others? That's very sad. Yet I'm sure you're one of those people who so eagerly sends our resources to other countries and encourages them to revolt and rebel.
Do you actually play videogames? Can you fucking imagine playing Civilization IV, StarCraft, Supreme Commander, CounterStrike or any other number of FPS, RPG and especially RTS/Strategy games on a god damn console at lower resolution and with a fucking sloppy controller?! I would shoot myself.
I save my console for games like Saints Row that I play when I'm ready for an hour of braindead fun every six months.
I'm still confused as to when we started needing identification to cross into Canada in the first place. Last few times I crossed, nobody even checked my identification. And when I flew, all they cared for was seeing my license or state ID card.
Because we have more available, we should feel free to waste more?!
Memory usage is essentially constant. The fractional delay of the history button is... what... fifteen seconds combined out of a dozen hours of browsing?
Sorry, but we are too busy telling gay people to keep their wieners away from each other and contesting the teaching of scientific theory in science class to be bothered with dissent against real problems!
It's almost as if we're intentionally kept busy arguing about meaningless things like... hey... wait...!
No, that's an exception. After all - remember that if the president's advisers can be held accountable for the advice they give the president, then when they give the president advice to do illegal or immoral things, they will be held accountable for it. And - knowing that they would be held accountable for it - they would cease to be willing to advise the president do illegal things that they would otherwise have been willing to advise him to do had they not had the fear of being held publicly accountable via testimony for!
Not buying Vista at all, ever, will save you the most money in the long run. Not to mention aggravation. Getting most videogames - say Crysis - to run in linux is pretty fucking aggravating.
Between OEMs putting it on all new systems and people opting for it on their home-builds once games start making use of DirectX 10, Vista will rule the market just like XP, 2000, 98, 95, etc have.
It really sucks having to have a special OS just to play videogames.
At this point, I have no interest in paying for Windows. I do, however, require at least one Windows box (currently XP64) for gaming and testing deployment of some of our enterprise applications at home. I also don't really care to go through the trouble of finding a viable crack on bit torrent or anything. I will probably buy it once there are games which I must have that demand DirectX10 for the coolest gaming experience -- and I will do so when I am in the process of building a new machine so that I can get the OEM version.
Even at that, I will not spend $200. I might spend $140. And that's for the full version (4gb+, multi-core, 64bit, etc). Otherwise they can just eat it. The only reason I ever need to jump off my solaris, debian or OSX boxes is to play games. Period.
It is generally known that the reason you learn to defend yourself and carry a gun is that the police do not exist to save you from rape and murder. Presuming you can get to a phone in the middle of a life and death situation, there is no certainty they will arrive in time to help. Their job is to catch the person after the crime has been committed.
Likewise, it is not the job of the police to protect your individual freedoms and liberties and constitutional rights. In fact, police are always violating them from one end to the other. Sometimes by sheer will and other times by sheer ignorance. It is the job of the lawyers and judges to ensure that your rights are not being violated. That is why when a copy abuses you, treats you poorly, violates your fourth amendment right, threatens you, fabricates evidence or fabricates statements in his police report, you should never argue with them. Just shut your damn mouth and take it up with a lawyer afterward.
And that is where the problem comes in. The people who are supposed to directly fight for our rights as individual citizens and be sure that public servants serve without violating people's rights are not free. And the more money you have, the better lawyer you can get. The more money you have, the more you can afford to assert and protect your rights. Even better - the more money you have, the more you can afford to assert your desires by bullying other people and violating their rights.
And for the elderly men, there can be the game where you have to try to fight off erectile dysfunction by keeping your "wii" up on the screen with your wii-mote.
I'm still waiting for the videogame where you use the wii-mote to massage a prostate or perform an abortion. And grandma can play the "Wii Knitting" game where she crochets grandpa a cock-warmer with the wii-mote.
I'm not someone who expected mommy and daddy to care for me until I was in my mid twenties, like some sort of incapable invalid. Like a lot of people in the real world, I was out on my own earning a living and building a career by seventeen rather than spending my nights getting wasted on someone else's cash as an excuse to delay growing up.
Seriously, as much as I hate the RIAA I am really tired of the notion that going after college students is somehow unfair or mean. They're adults. A lot of them have been adults for some time now. It's the same crap I'm tired of when these nuts get all up in arms about college students and their large amount of drinking as has been in the news recently. They're fucking ADULTS. If you can't take care of your shit by 18 or 20 or 22 or 24, then they should go hang themselves.
So... sorry if I don't somehow feel sorry for a bunch of spoiled brats who have delayed life and responsibility into their mid-twenties and believe that they are somehow more pitiful and sympathetic victims simply because they're in college. If you are old enough to decide who to vote for, who to marry, who to fuck, what to drive, carry a gun, decide to join the military, pick a path in life, sign a contract and live on your own, then you can sure as fuck handle the consequences of your actions (if you're guilty) or seek proper defense (the whole unfair RIAA versus average guy's lawyers thing aside).
For those who are the exception, I'm obviously not talking about you because I'm generalizing and not addressing each god damn individual on the planet.
Running to mommy and daddy to figure out what to do, because they're only college students after all. You can't expect them to be held accountable in life at the age of 23! Next thing you're going to know, people will be expecting them to stop asking for mom and dad to pay for their food!
I'm no history major, but I'm pretty sure those were not Americans at the time of the revolution. They were colonists. To my knowledge, the closest thing to a revolution that actual Americans have participated in was the civil war and I don't think that really counts. Again, I don't know shit about history, so someone feel free to correct me.
Regardless, they were a different breed of people. Those were people who would stand up for their ideals and freedoms. They didn't have to risk losing sit-coms on television, lattes at starbucks and their 9mpg sedans for standing up for themselves. Look at the liberties we've already lost. Do we even have half of our Bill of Rights left? I don't think so. And where is the outrage? There isn't any. As long as we can still buy Pepsi from vending machines, drive whatever car we choose and wave little american flags made in China and have our Superbowl, we believe we have freedom and are better than the rest of the planet.
Yeah, I don't see why the RIAA is bragging about this. It seems more like a great example of their rampant abuse of the legal system and young people. If you have a team of lawyers that you spend tens of millions of dollars on each year sending me a threat that you will take me to court for millions of dollars unless I pay you $5,000 -- I'm going to pay you the $5,000. No matter how justified I may feel I am and no matter how completely innocent of any accusation I may be, the $5,000 is probably a tenth the cost I will end up spending on a lawyer and there is little chance that lawyer will be able to appropriately defend me against a team of lawyers who spend $5,000 on their combined lunches.
As I've said before, guilt and innocent have nothing to do with the law. It's all about who can afford the best lawyer. And, unfortunately, in most cases it's a matter of who can afford a lawyer *period*. That is the same reason that only famous and rich people can afford to go to court when someone slanders or libels them or violates their copyrights. Who wants to spend the thousands of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars to take someone to court who has a big, fat, malicious mouth but no money with which to compensate even when you win?
So, when it comes down to it, monetary status dictates that the RIAA is correct and the accused are - indeed - guilty.
Of course, the typical American response is going to be this:
For a couple days, half of people will get upset over the abuse of power and invasion of privacy and misuse of government while the other half excuse and justify it with comments like "if ya don't have nuthin' tuh hide" and "we're at war - you have to give up some freedoms to be safe during war!".
Some minor news organizations will make a huge deal out of it.
Most will largely ignore it and not make a story out of it.
Within 72 hours, Americans will have forgotten entirely about it and be back to fretting over the poor blond haired, blue-eyed, pretty, affluent girl that disappeared a couple years ago in Bermuda thanks to the non-stop cable news coverage (still, two years later - as of the broadcasts LASTNIGHT!).
Remember, this is America. We don't start revolutions. We don't fight for anything unless it's the last Tickle Me Elmo on store shelves at Christmas. The most effort we're willing to put into our civics and society and the most we're willing to risk of ourselves for them is a text vote or two on our cell phones.
People do that so in a worst case scenario, they can identify their child's remains. That isn't the reason the parents do it. These services are done in shopping malls and grade schools and they are promoted as ways to keep your child safe. Not identify your child after they've been raped, murdered and then chopped up. People just don't put any though into it and they honestly believe that by giving the government a record of their child's biometric information they will somehow receive increased safety out of it.
So if you are a legal citizen entering the country legally, this will track your movements and information.
If you are not a legal citizen and do not have legal documentation and you are entering the country, this won't affect you. (There are MANY points where entry into the united states is completely unhindered by any enforcement whatsoever - in fact one place has an HONOR system where you are supposed to stop at an unmanned shack and call the authorities and give them your information before continuing... and sometimes they don't even answer the phone!).
So again... exactly how does this help? This sounds a lot like those idiots who get their children fingerprinted and swabbed for DNA at the mall or their child's school, with some sort of warped idea that if their child is kidnapped, having their fingerprints on record will somehow magically return them.
Just an excuse to acquire more data on citizens. Period.
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As an American it is apparently my duty to give up my freedom and privacy and conveniences to protect children from being molested, old ladies from being mugged and terrorists from... uh... doing whatever.
Remember, we must give up the freedoms we are fighting for so we can defeat the terrorists who want to take those freedoms away!
Or just make better music.
In other news, morse code telegraph service operators are having a hard time coping with the advent of the telephone. Let's make a bunch of government regulations to help them continue their out-moded services that nobody wants anymore!
Anyway, I'm not paying $1/song - much less $8 for a song. There is not a song on the planet I would pay $8 for. What you're talking about is subsidizing shit by charging an enormous amount for the gold.
Another way of thinking about it is this:
How much do you pay to see a movie in the theater? Do you pay more to see 300 or Zodiac than you pay for Wild Hogs? Nope.
TextMate is a text editor. Do whatever you want with it. It's very robust and, unfortunately, OSX only. You would think the company that develops it would realize that there is an enormous lust for TextMate on other operating systems and expand to them to make a pretty buck.
I would actually *pay* for TextMate if I could get it on Windows and Linux. When I'm in KDE, I use Kate which is pretty similar in a lot of ways to TextMate. But on Windows, there's nothing I've found close enough to it. I just don't use my OSX powerbook for coding enough, so textmate on there doesn't really help a lot.
If you've followed any sort of Ruby, Perl, Python or other MVC development system (like Turbogears or Catalyst), you've seen TextMate in action.
A television (even HD) simply doesn't have high enough resolution for a text heavy, detail oriented game. And there is simply too much control and precision lost in an FPS game with a controller. Hence the whole reason they apply auto-aiming crap half the time.
:P
Consoles are great for arcade-style games. But nothing beats a PC for the real stuff.
Not to mention, in six more years when the 360 is sputtering along with aging graphics, I'll be enjoying my Nvidia 555500 GTX with 10gb DDR8.
So let me get this straight.
You don't want to be part of a country that leads the way. You need another country as an example?! You want to be a country that follows the lead of others? That's very sad. Yet I'm sure you're one of those people who so eagerly sends our resources to other countries and encourages them to revolt and rebel.
Do you actually play videogames? Can you fucking imagine playing Civilization IV, StarCraft, Supreme Commander, CounterStrike or any other number of FPS, RPG and especially RTS/Strategy games on a god damn console at lower resolution and with a fucking sloppy controller?! I would shoot myself.
I save my console for games like Saints Row that I play when I'm ready for an hour of braindead fun every six months.
I'm still confused as to when we started needing identification to cross into Canada in the first place. Last few times I crossed, nobody even checked my identification. And when I flew, all they cared for was seeing my license or state ID card.
That's pretty crappy programmer logic, though.
Because we have more available, we should feel free to waste more?!
Memory usage is essentially constant. The fractional delay of the history button is... what... fifteen seconds combined out of a dozen hours of browsing?
Sorry, but we are too busy telling gay people to keep their wieners away from each other and contesting the teaching of scientific theory in science class to be bothered with dissent against real problems!
... hey... wait...!
It's almost as if we're intentionally kept busy arguing about meaningless things like
No, that's an exception. After all - remember that if the president's advisers can be held accountable for the advice they give the president, then when they give the president advice to do illegal or immoral things, they will be held accountable for it. And - knowing that they would be held accountable for it - they would cease to be willing to advise the president do illegal things that they would otherwise have been willing to advise him to do had they not had the fear of being held publicly accountable via testimony for!
Yes, it would be called "any computer prior to Windows 98".
Between OEMs putting it on all new systems and people opting for it on their home-builds once games start making use of DirectX 10, Vista will rule the market just like XP, 2000, 98, 95, etc have.
It really sucks having to have a special OS just to play videogames.
Oh well.
Tom Peterson says "Free is a very good price!".
And I agree.
At this point, I have no interest in paying for Windows. I do, however, require at least one Windows box (currently XP64) for gaming and testing deployment of some of our enterprise applications at home. I also don't really care to go through the trouble of finding a viable crack on bit torrent or anything. I will probably buy it once there are games which I must have that demand DirectX10 for the coolest gaming experience -- and I will do so when I am in the process of building a new machine so that I can get the OEM version.
Even at that, I will not spend $200. I might spend $140. And that's for the full version (4gb+, multi-core, 64bit, etc). Otherwise they can just eat it. The only reason I ever need to jump off my solaris, debian or OSX boxes is to play games. Period.
This may be a poor analogy, but here goes:
It is generally known that the reason you learn to defend yourself and carry a gun is that the police do not exist to save you from rape and murder. Presuming you can get to a phone in the middle of a life and death situation, there is no certainty they will arrive in time to help. Their job is to catch the person after the crime has been committed.
Likewise, it is not the job of the police to protect your individual freedoms and liberties and constitutional rights. In fact, police are always violating them from one end to the other. Sometimes by sheer will and other times by sheer ignorance. It is the job of the lawyers and judges to ensure that your rights are not being violated. That is why when a copy abuses you, treats you poorly, violates your fourth amendment right, threatens you, fabricates evidence or fabricates statements in his police report, you should never argue with them. Just shut your damn mouth and take it up with a lawyer afterward.
And that is where the problem comes in. The people who are supposed to directly fight for our rights as individual citizens and be sure that public servants serve without violating people's rights are not free. And the more money you have, the better lawyer you can get. The more money you have, the more you can afford to assert and protect your rights. Even better - the more money you have, the more you can afford to assert your desires by bullying other people and violating their rights.
And for the elderly men, there can be the game where you have to try to fight off erectile dysfunction by keeping your "wii" up on the screen with your wii-mote.
I'm still waiting for the videogame where you use the wii-mote to massage a prostate or perform an abortion. And grandma can play the "Wii Knitting" game where she crochets grandpa a cock-warmer with the wii-mote.
I'm not someone who expected mommy and daddy to care for me until I was in my mid twenties, like some sort of incapable invalid. Like a lot of people in the real world, I was out on my own earning a living and building a career by seventeen rather than spending my nights getting wasted on someone else's cash as an excuse to delay growing up.
Seriously, as much as I hate the RIAA I am really tired of the notion that going after college students is somehow unfair or mean. They're adults. A lot of them have been adults for some time now. It's the same crap I'm tired of when these nuts get all up in arms about college students and their large amount of drinking as has been in the news recently. They're fucking ADULTS. If you can't take care of your shit by 18 or 20 or 22 or 24, then they should go hang themselves.
So... sorry if I don't somehow feel sorry for a bunch of spoiled brats who have delayed life and responsibility into their mid-twenties and believe that they are somehow more pitiful and sympathetic victims simply because they're in college. If you are old enough to decide who to vote for, who to marry, who to fuck, what to drive, carry a gun, decide to join the military, pick a path in life, sign a contract and live on your own, then you can sure as fuck handle the consequences of your actions (if you're guilty) or seek proper defense (the whole unfair RIAA versus average guy's lawyers thing aside).
For those who are the exception, I'm obviously not talking about you because I'm generalizing and not addressing each god damn individual on the planet.
Running to mommy and daddy to figure out what to do, because they're only college students after all. You can't expect them to be held accountable in life at the age of 23! Next thing you're going to know, people will be expecting them to stop asking for mom and dad to pay for their food!
I'm no history major, but I'm pretty sure those were not Americans at the time of the revolution. They were colonists. To my knowledge, the closest thing to a revolution that actual Americans have participated in was the civil war and I don't think that really counts. Again, I don't know shit about history, so someone feel free to correct me.
Regardless, they were a different breed of people. Those were people who would stand up for their ideals and freedoms. They didn't have to risk losing sit-coms on television, lattes at starbucks and their 9mpg sedans for standing up for themselves. Look at the liberties we've already lost. Do we even have half of our Bill of Rights left? I don't think so. And where is the outrage? There isn't any. As long as we can still buy Pepsi from vending machines, drive whatever car we choose and wave little american flags made in China and have our Superbowl, we believe we have freedom and are better than the rest of the planet.
Yeah, I don't see why the RIAA is bragging about this. It seems more like a great example of their rampant abuse of the legal system and young people. If you have a team of lawyers that you spend tens of millions of dollars on each year sending me a threat that you will take me to court for millions of dollars unless I pay you $5,000 -- I'm going to pay you the $5,000. No matter how justified I may feel I am and no matter how completely innocent of any accusation I may be, the $5,000 is probably a tenth the cost I will end up spending on a lawyer and there is little chance that lawyer will be able to appropriately defend me against a team of lawyers who spend $5,000 on their combined lunches.
As I've said before, guilt and innocent have nothing to do with the law. It's all about who can afford the best lawyer. And, unfortunately, in most cases it's a matter of who can afford a lawyer *period*. That is the same reason that only famous and rich people can afford to go to court when someone slanders or libels them or violates their copyrights. Who wants to spend the thousands of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars to take someone to court who has a big, fat, malicious mouth but no money with which to compensate even when you win?
So, when it comes down to it, monetary status dictates that the RIAA is correct and the accused are - indeed - guilty.
To be fair, how would they know who to stick in the Free Speech Zone if they didn't spy on them, first?
Of course, the typical American response is going to be this:
For a couple days, half of people will get upset over the abuse of power and invasion of privacy and misuse of government while the other half excuse and justify it with comments like "if ya don't have nuthin' tuh hide" and "we're at war - you have to give up some freedoms to be safe during war!".
Some minor news organizations will make a huge deal out of it.
Most will largely ignore it and not make a story out of it.
Within 72 hours, Americans will have forgotten entirely about it and be back to fretting over the poor blond haired, blue-eyed, pretty, affluent girl that disappeared a couple years ago in Bermuda thanks to the non-stop cable news coverage (still, two years later - as of the broadcasts LASTNIGHT!).
Remember, this is America. We don't start revolutions. We don't fight for anything unless it's the last Tickle Me Elmo on store shelves at Christmas. The most effort we're willing to put into our civics and society and the most we're willing to risk of ourselves for them is a text vote or two on our cell phones.
So if you are a legal citizen entering the country legally, this will track your movements and information.
If you are not a legal citizen and do not have legal documentation and you are entering the country, this won't affect you. (There are MANY points where entry into the united states is completely unhindered by any enforcement whatsoever - in fact one place has an HONOR system where you are supposed to stop at an unmanned shack and call the authorities and give them your information before continuing... and sometimes they don't even answer the phone!).
So again... exactly how does this help? This sounds a lot like those idiots who get their children fingerprinted and swabbed for DNA at the mall or their child's school, with some sort of warped idea that if their child is kidnapped, having their fingerprints on record will somehow magically return them.
Just an excuse to acquire more data on citizens. Period.
A browser consuming hundreds of megs of ram is hardly a reasonable trade-off for a slightly faster back button that people rarely use to begin with.
Don't blame Nintendo because you can't even out maneuver an elderly woman on the rush to the Wii aisle at Best Buy! :P