I suppose this is AP's way of showing they're not Reuters.:) Which is fine with me, but I think they should have been more clinical about it and not make it out to be an alteration on par with Reuters, or the "Han Shot First" controversy.:) I would like AP/Reuters and so forth to clarify what they mean by "doctored", because the logical conclusion for this sort of zero-tolerance is not to accept airbrushed photos, red-eye removed photos, etc. *shrug* It's just my opinion, but I think there needs to be a place to read the guidelines of what constitutes "doctored" and what does not. (if there is, good show. I'm too lazy to search for it right now.)
It's hard to judge photoshopped images if you're reading newsprint.
The key here is "guaranteed profit" Or "guaranteed revenue". Epic thinks that because they make a game, they should be able to tell you that you can't sell it, rent it, loan it to a friend, etc. Garth Brooks said the same thing about used CD's... and look where that got used CD sales... oh.. that's right it didn't affect them.:)
Rant all you want, Epic. You think you are "losing" sales to the used market now... wait until you cut it off...
I don't see GM bitching that the 1989 GMC I sold last year is cutting into their profits... or used car sales in general. (Granted, under the current climate, they might latch onto that. heh.) But the point stands... If game companies think retailers are making a killing off used sales, find a way to make new sales more enticing... restricting content is NOT the answer... swag... maps, incidentals.. keychains... whathaveyou. Vinegar isn't the answer.
Are there to Ruth Ginsbergs? Because she's obviously correct about the First amendment, yet she can't understand the basics of the 2nd Amendment.... Tell her to read a little further down the amendments so she can get a feel for all of them.:)
Since the government is imposing the fines I agree it is censorship, and the fines have a chilling effect on free speech. There's not any alternative besides cable television, so the "if you don't like it, start your own" won't work. (I think cable TV should take from this case the "opening of the floodgates" to air unedited and uncensored content like it was going out of style.)
I'd much rather be able to watch an unedited movie on broadcast basic cable (even networks if they so chose), rather than the pablum they force with the "naughty" words substituted with stupid soundalikes and nonsensical gibberish. Why is the on/off (or the V chip) not the solution to "think of the children!" Rather, I would sincerely wish people think FOR THEMSELVES....:)
If there wasn't a non-technical stigma attached to Linux, and people weren't bombarded with "windows this" or "XP that" without doing any research (which most people won't), you'd be hard pressed to figure out something the average person WOULD like to do with their computers that Linux couldn't provide seamlessly (and less crashy) than Windows (with the small exception of games, but consoles are solving that a bit more than ever before.)
It's not delusional to think that XP isn't a preference, just an old shoe. It'll take many moons and MANY price reductions to convince the masses that Linux _will_ do what 99.99% of the population use a computer for in the first place.
I'm not delusional enough to believe that because Windows is #1, that means it's preferred either. It's simply become the defacto standard through sheer force of Bill Gates' will (and quite a few legal tactics most people out of the geek world have any idea about.)
If a company set up a "App Update" server like Windows update that had the programs most needed and wanted by users, it wouldn't matter if the penguin was behind it all... John Q. Public will adopt it and not think twice about Monkey Boy Ballmer screaming nonsensical shit in their collective ears...
No, they don't "prefer"... they are "used to". Big difference.
The problem is one of familiarity. XP sells because it is what most people remember how to use and think that anything that _isn't_ XP is somehow going to take 300 years to figure out.
And trust me when I say.. your love of XP while working on Linux is not the rule... In spite of the "everyone I know loves XP" anecdote (which I'm sure is the response to the statement.)
I don't see the difference. It's all a matter of semantics. Everyone has a predisposed notion that the Apple killswitch will be used to screw with apps that Apple thinks compete with their own stuff, yet Apple runs the Appstore, so wouldn't it make sense that they would not allow an app into the appstore that duplicated functionality? The backdoor release of the podcaster violated the terms of service of the Appstore, and thus, was a special case.
Apple has removed the NDA clause and adjusted the agreement based on feedback, so it's not like Apple's been "anti-consumer" at all. (I have not seen any anti-consumer activities, unless you count non-user replaceable batteries as anti-consumer...)
I feel both killswitches are necessary due to the nature of the platform, and I am not about to put on rose-colored glasses and claim google's is better because you can install apps on Android from somewhere besides Google's store.
It's all in your perception, I suppose. Because Apple only allows apps (non-jailbreak phones only) from its own store is no more restrictive than a cellphone maker restricting what networks you can use their phone on (I find that far more asinine than anything else... looking at you, sprint). BUT... as things go... I'd never own an AT&T device, Apple or not. So, I guess my bias is showing anyway.;)
I think the people who use SecureROM and other fantastic DRM would disagree with you, and as for me, I'd rather have a hatchet to the eyeball than use a Windows OS again...
I remember when Battle.Net became a haven for morons... and that was YEARS ago... But it was free, people said.. Yeah... at least I didn't have to HEAR them.:) Most online services blow dead bears anyway... because there's a contingent of morons who spend their days attempting to be as obnoxious as possible because they think it's "funny"... It was "funny" when we all were 11... but then we grew up. Well, most of us.
yeah, that someone didn't shut him up sooner so his fiasco of a campaign wouldn't cement the 1 party system by labeling 3rd parties as fucking kooks or worshipers of Ralph Nader.
He ALMOST GOT kicked out of LAW SCHOOL. How can you dismiss that shit? Oh, I know... an Obama apologist.
Lemme tell you, hold on to your ass if your pal wins... I'd say that about McCain, but it looks like he's not gonna make it. Obama was the 2nd biggest recipient of Fannie Mae donations... fact. If you think the PAC associated with that donation stream did it out of love and aren't trying to buy influence, I've got some coastal property in Kansas to sell you. Guess who's gotten us into the Subprime mess? Check the NYT in 1999... oh, it's CLINTON's administration. Man, who'd a thunk it? See through the distortion field yet? If you're still an Obama supporter, I guess not. (That goes for McCain as well... in spite of your assumptions.)
Obama has "change" we don't need. People jumping on this bandwagon are as sheep-like as those who voted for Bush a 2nd time. Funny thing is, unless the end of the world comes between now and 2012, there'll be a litany of people like you excusing, passing the buck, and basically ignoring the failure of your vaunted messiah Obama. I've been on the sidelines watching this fiasco for far too long... I'm officially tired of hearing the cheer-fest for "liar #1" as I like to call him. It's the same shit, different suit. But people will still believe the bogus lines and soundbytes... and we'll be here 4 years from now wondering WTF? Or spending time like the Bushites blaming everyone else for Obama's giant clusterfuck. (Or if by some weird cosmic event, McCain's)
I would rather live in a world where the government works for the people, not the corporations. I also would like to live in a world where the government is not the monstrous and monolithic maternal figure it is today. I want the government to realize it is we the people who provide them with power and can take it away at any moment. I also want to live in a world where the government isn't the solution to any problem... WE are. I believe that Obama's "plans" (as much as you can discern "plan" from rhetoric in either campaign), just like McCain's are nothing more than a government power-grab to solidify its stranglehold on individual liberty.
The solution is to show them at the voting booth who is boss. Obama feels he "knows best"... and that is more frightening than 100 wars. I don't need a father/mother figure... I need the government to do its constitutionally provisioned job and leave the rest alone. We're never going to get that with the current one-party system. And that is frustrating...
Do you really think the majority of americans can see past the other side's sugar-coated lies either? Dare I say it, the lesser of two evils is NEITHER candidate. Biden's a plagiarist, a career liar, and the biggest moron from the tiniest state... Palin's a moron from Alaska... Obama's a huckster with ties to the very problem we're in now (google is your friend), and McCain is a dumbass.
If either candidate wins, WE ALL LOSE. It's that goddamned simple... but leave it to the apologists to somehow paint Obama as actually GOOD for something. The same holds true for the other side of the aisle.
If you believe that Obama's good for this country, you're as stupid as the people who believe McCain's good for this country.
You really don't get it, do you. If you want to move forward, you're going to have to leave SOMETHING behind... it's how things work... if you want to stay with your copy of ClarisWorks 1.0, be my guest... just don't be an idiot and demand that Snow Leopard run something that still fits on a floppy. It just doesn't make any sense WHY you would care? It appears that you, and most all windows developers are just to lazy and want Microsoft to keep piling on the features over a significantly flawed OS design like stacking a house of cards.
Guess what? That house of cards is falling down because no one understood multi-user networked computing at Microsoft until it was too late... now they're playing catchup to every other OS on the market and it's becoming a security and PR nightmare that no one in the windows fanboi community is willing to admit to. Simple as that.
Name me one app you use that is from 1982 that you use on Windows and I'll believe it matters. If you need OS9... get a PPC Mac. If you REALLY REALLY REALLY need 68000 support... seek help.
Honestly... you consider being able to run Reversi from Windows 2.0 a feature? And no, APIs are not fine... do much MFC programming in the not too recent past? The APIs are a mess. Sure, they are "fixing" them... but making a thinly veiled object layer with 47 different references for a file object is NOT helpful... but then again, since when has Windows development been helpful?
Unix (and practically EVERY OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM SINCE the dawn of the computer age) has a better solution. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RUN YOUR APPS AS ROOT! It's that SIMPLE. Windows and Microsoft don't get it, and they never will. It also appears you don't either (and probably never will...)
Oh please... quit with the fanboy rhetoric (it's distasteful even from an AC). Because of Market share Apple can switch processors and cut compatibility? No, they didn't cut compatibility... they have an engineering solution to ease the transition from PPC to x86. It is well known, it is well documented, and it is obvious that the PPC is EOL at Apple. Is their solution seamless? Yes. Is it functional? You don't even know it's running. And the developer tools make it easy to deliver universal binaries so that you don't have to think about it. Once the PPC is fully deprecated, turn off the switch and voila! x86 code! Is it magic? Microsoft must think so. And when UB support is dropped from the subsequent OS X releases, Leopard still runs on PPC just fine... I don't see the great mystery or 3-card-monty trick... it's simple engineering.
So why can't the giant company Microsoft do the same? Because they abandoned engineering a long time ago to pursue pure marketing... or they're staffed by morons (I think the former is true... judging by the tripe coming out of Ballmer's piehole...)
Deprecate the calls and inform developers they've got a timeframe to switch... if they don't... broken app. Then Microsoft can foist the blame on the app developer because he didn't listen. It's how it works in other Operating Systems and other architectures... why does Microsoft feel the need to ignore that simple answer to their problem? Or, if you prefer...legacy code could be handled in a VM or a sandbox until the developer got their app ready for the next OS (which, if you count the months for Vista, gave them PLENTY of time).
There are literally hundreds of viable ways to solve this problem... your advocating Microsoft stick its head in the sand and avoid taking a leadership role in THEIR OWN PRODUCT. That's intelligent.
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Just look at his other appointments and explain to me where the "change" comes in, besides the names on the fucking wallplates.
Dipshit.
Sucks when it's your guy, doesn't it? It remains to be seen what, if anything, happens with all of this...
But here in the cheap seats, it looks like more of the fucking same. Change indeed.
I suppose this is AP's way of showing they're not Reuters. :) Which is fine with me, but I think they should have been more clinical about it and not make it out to be an alteration on par with Reuters, or the "Han Shot First" controversy. :) I would like AP/Reuters and so forth to clarify what they mean by "doctored", because the logical conclusion for this sort of zero-tolerance is not to accept airbrushed photos, red-eye removed photos, etc. *shrug* It's just my opinion, but I think there needs to be a place to read the guidelines of what constitutes "doctored" and what does not. (if there is, good show. I'm too lazy to search for it right now.)
It's hard to judge photoshopped images if you're reading newsprint.
The key here is "guaranteed profit" Or "guaranteed revenue". Epic thinks that because they make a game, they should be able to tell you that you can't sell it, rent it, loan it to a friend, etc. Garth Brooks said the same thing about used CD's... and look where that got used CD sales... oh.. that's right it didn't affect them. :)
Rant all you want, Epic. You think you are "losing" sales to the used market now... wait until you cut it off...
I don't see GM bitching that the 1989 GMC I sold last year is cutting into their profits... or used car sales in general. (Granted, under the current climate, they might latch onto that. heh.) But the point stands... If game companies think retailers are making a killing off used sales, find a way to make new sales more enticing... restricting content is NOT the answer... swag... maps, incidentals.. keychains... whathaveyou. Vinegar isn't the answer.
Are there to Ruth Ginsbergs? Because she's obviously correct about the First amendment, yet she can't understand the basics of the 2nd Amendment.... Tell her to read a little further down the amendments so she can get a feel for all of them. :)
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Since the government is imposing the fines I agree it is censorship, and the fines have a chilling effect on free speech. There's not any alternative besides cable television, so the "if you don't like it, start your own" won't work. (I think cable TV should take from this case the "opening of the floodgates" to air unedited and uncensored content like it was going out of style.)
I'd much rather be able to watch an unedited movie on broadcast basic cable (even networks if they so chose), rather than the pablum they force with the "naughty" words substituted with stupid soundalikes and nonsensical gibberish. Why is the on/off (or the V chip) not the solution to "think of the children!" Rather, I would sincerely wish people think FOR THEMSELVES....
There's no such correlation. If you keep insisting that, I'm going to beat the snot out of you!
If there wasn't a non-technical stigma attached to Linux, and people weren't bombarded with "windows this" or "XP that" without doing any research (which most people won't), you'd be hard pressed to figure out something the average person WOULD like to do with their computers that Linux couldn't provide seamlessly (and less crashy) than Windows (with the small exception of games, but consoles are solving that a bit more than ever before.)
It's not delusional to think that XP isn't a preference, just an old shoe. It'll take many moons and MANY price reductions to convince the masses that Linux _will_ do what 99.99% of the population use a computer for in the first place.
I'm not delusional enough to believe that because Windows is #1, that means it's preferred either. It's simply become the defacto standard through sheer force of Bill Gates' will (and quite a few legal tactics most people out of the geek world have any idea about.)
If a company set up a "App Update" server like Windows update that had the programs most needed and wanted by users, it wouldn't matter if the penguin was behind it all... John Q. Public will adopt it and not think twice about Monkey Boy Ballmer screaming nonsensical shit in their collective ears...
Keep believing that, and the world will be a better place... and it'll rain gumdrops and fountains will produce nothing but chocolate milk.
Opinions are like assholes...
No, they don't "prefer"... they are "used to". Big difference.
The problem is one of familiarity. XP sells because it is what most people remember how to use and think that anything that _isn't_ XP is somehow going to take 300 years to figure out.
And trust me when I say.. your love of XP while working on Linux is not the rule... In spite of the "everyone I know loves XP" anecdote (which I'm sure is the response to the statement.)
Ballmer, is that you again? Stop it, or we'll cut off your coffee allowance again and lock you in the special place. I mean it this time...
I don't see the difference. It's all a matter of semantics. Everyone has a predisposed notion that the Apple killswitch will be used to screw with apps that Apple thinks compete with their own stuff, yet Apple runs the Appstore, so wouldn't it make sense that they would not allow an app into the appstore that duplicated functionality? The backdoor release of the podcaster violated the terms of service of the Appstore, and thus, was a special case.
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Apple has removed the NDA clause and adjusted the agreement based on feedback, so it's not like Apple's been "anti-consumer" at all. (I have not seen any anti-consumer activities, unless you count non-user replaceable batteries as anti-consumer...)
I feel both killswitches are necessary due to the nature of the platform, and I am not about to put on rose-colored glasses and claim google's is better because you can install apps on Android from somewhere besides Google's store.
It's all in your perception, I suppose. Because Apple only allows apps (non-jailbreak phones only) from its own store is no more restrictive than a cellphone maker restricting what networks you can use their phone on (I find that far more asinine than anything else... looking at you, sprint). BUT... as things go... I'd never own an AT&T device, Apple or not. So, I guess my bias is showing anyway.
I bet you really enjoy watching the news, don't you?
Next time tell that to Katie Couric.
I think the people who use SecureROM and other fantastic DRM would disagree with you, and as for me, I'd rather have a hatchet to the eyeball than use a Windows OS again...
:) Most online services blow dead bears anyway... because there's a contingent of morons who spend their days attempting to be as obnoxious as possible because they think it's "funny"... It was "funny" when we all were 11... but then we grew up. Well, most of us.
I remember when Battle.Net became a haven for morons... and that was YEARS ago... But it was free, people said.. Yeah... at least I didn't have to HEAR them.
Only if you sing it, apparently. :) And then only after it's been out for two years and nominated for awards to boot. So, I think you're safe. :)
Look it up yourself. I'm not your personal assistant. :-)
yeah, that someone didn't shut him up sooner so his fiasco of a campaign wouldn't cement the 1 party system by labeling 3rd parties as fucking kooks or worshipers of Ralph Nader.
He ALMOST GOT kicked out of LAW SCHOOL. How can you dismiss that shit? Oh, I know... an Obama apologist.
Lemme tell you, hold on to your ass if your pal wins... I'd say that about McCain, but it looks like he's not gonna make it. Obama was the 2nd biggest recipient of Fannie Mae donations... fact. If you think the PAC associated with that donation stream did it out of love and aren't trying to buy influence, I've got some coastal property in Kansas to sell you. Guess who's gotten us into the Subprime mess? Check the NYT in 1999... oh, it's CLINTON's administration. Man, who'd a thunk it? See through the distortion field yet? If you're still an Obama supporter, I guess not. (That goes for McCain as well... in spite of your assumptions.)
Obama has "change" we don't need. People jumping on this bandwagon are as sheep-like as those who voted for Bush a 2nd time. Funny thing is, unless the end of the world comes between now and 2012, there'll be a litany of people like you excusing, passing the buck, and basically ignoring the failure of your vaunted messiah Obama. I've been on the sidelines watching this fiasco for far too long... I'm officially tired of hearing the cheer-fest for "liar #1" as I like to call him. It's the same shit, different suit. But people will still believe the bogus lines and soundbytes... and we'll be here 4 years from now wondering WTF? Or spending time like the Bushites blaming everyone else for Obama's giant clusterfuck. (Or if by some weird cosmic event, McCain's)
I would rather live in a world where the government works for the people, not the corporations. I also would like to live in a world where the government is not the monstrous and monolithic maternal figure it is today. I want the government to realize it is we the people who provide them with power and can take it away at any moment. I also want to live in a world where the government isn't the solution to any problem... WE are. I believe that Obama's "plans" (as much as you can discern "plan" from rhetoric in either campaign), just like McCain's are nothing more than a government power-grab to solidify its stranglehold on individual liberty.
The solution is to show them at the voting booth who is boss. Obama feels he "knows best"... and that is more frightening than 100 wars. I don't need a father/mother figure... I need the government to do its constitutionally provisioned job and leave the rest alone. We're never going to get that with the current one-party system. And that is frustrating...
It WASN'T on TV. It was a RADIO speech. The famous "fear itself" speech. Don't apologize for stupidity!
Do you really think the majority of americans can see past the other side's sugar-coated lies either? Dare I say it, the lesser of two evils is NEITHER candidate. Biden's a plagiarist, a career liar, and the biggest moron from the tiniest state... Palin's a moron from Alaska... Obama's a huckster with ties to the very problem we're in now (google is your friend), and McCain is a dumbass.
If either candidate wins, WE ALL LOSE. It's that goddamned simple... but leave it to the apologists to somehow paint Obama as actually GOOD for something. The same holds true for the other side of the aisle.
If you believe that Obama's good for this country, you're as stupid as the people who believe McCain's good for this country.
Well, when Joe Biden said Roosevelt got on TV to reassure Americans... I suspect we are surrounded by morons...
it's all in what you choose to ignore....
Horseshit... flamebait and trolls are the same no matter what side you fall on.
And we clearly can see where YOU fall on, Mr. Anon.
You really don't get it, do you. If you want to move forward, you're going to have to leave SOMETHING behind... it's how things work... if you want to stay with your copy of ClarisWorks 1.0, be my guest... just don't be an idiot and demand that Snow Leopard run something that still fits on a floppy. It just doesn't make any sense WHY you would care? It appears that you, and most all windows developers are just to lazy and want Microsoft to keep piling on the features over a significantly flawed OS design like stacking a house of cards.
Guess what? That house of cards is falling down because no one understood multi-user networked computing at Microsoft until it was too late... now they're playing catchup to every other OS on the market and it's becoming a security and PR nightmare that no one in the windows fanboi community is willing to admit to. Simple as that.
Name me one app you use that is from 1982 that you use on Windows and I'll believe it matters. If you need OS9... get a PPC Mac. If you REALLY REALLY REALLY need 68000 support... seek help.
Honestly... you consider being able to run Reversi from Windows 2.0 a feature? And no, APIs are not fine... do much MFC programming in the not too recent past? The APIs are a mess. Sure, they are "fixing" them... but making a thinly veiled object layer with 47 different references for a file object is NOT helpful... but then again, since when has Windows development been helpful?
Unix (and practically EVERY OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM SINCE the dawn of the computer age) has a better solution. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RUN YOUR APPS AS ROOT! It's that SIMPLE. Windows and Microsoft don't get it, and they never will. It also appears you don't either (and probably never will...)
Oh please... quit with the fanboy rhetoric (it's distasteful even from an AC). Because of Market share Apple can switch processors and cut compatibility? No, they didn't cut compatibility... they have an engineering solution to ease the transition from PPC to x86. It is well known, it is well documented, and it is obvious that the PPC is EOL at Apple. Is their solution seamless? Yes. Is it functional? You don't even know it's running. And the developer tools make it easy to deliver universal binaries so that you don't have to think about it. Once the PPC is fully deprecated, turn off the switch and voila! x86 code! Is it magic? Microsoft must think so. And when UB support is dropped from the subsequent OS X releases, Leopard still runs on PPC just fine... I don't see the great mystery or 3-card-monty trick... it's simple engineering.
So why can't the giant company Microsoft do the same? Because they abandoned engineering a long time ago to pursue pure marketing... or they're staffed by morons (I think the former is true... judging by the tripe coming out of Ballmer's piehole...)
Deprecate the calls and inform developers they've got a timeframe to switch... if they don't... broken app. Then Microsoft can foist the blame on the app developer because he didn't listen. It's how it works in other Operating Systems and other architectures... why does Microsoft feel the need to ignore that simple answer to their problem? Or, if you prefer...legacy code could be handled in a VM or a sandbox until the developer got their app ready for the next OS (which, if you count the months for Vista, gave them PLENTY of time).
There are literally hundreds of viable ways to solve this problem... your advocating Microsoft stick its head in the sand and avoid taking a leadership role in THEIR OWN PRODUCT. That's intelligent.