I'm not entirely sure how the medical condition makes it impossible for her to do anything. She has to show up to the hospital once a week. In those six other days in any week time frame, she could have contacted the courts somehow to say, "I'm ill, I can't do this right away" could have been done. She waited... and waited... and waited... She has gallstones for her type 1 diabetes. I don't know how serious that is, but it doesn't sound like a case where she couldn't have responded to the court papers.
Yeah, after my latest purchase of one of their products, I have to say I am thoroughly disappointed. I haven't used it in about a month (which is quite unusual) and I think I just have to chalk this one up to a bad purchasing decision. I was pleased with my iAudio X5 from them, but finding one at a decent price is a bit difficult. I guess it's time to do a bit research for something new.
I'm not entirely sure their goal was to equate theft to copyright infringement in this matter, but instead to say that committing a crime and being let off the hook because you're sick is bullshit.
So where in the article does it clearly she isn't guilty? Her saying that she isn't? The Internet connection being in her dad's name? Those two things alone can very well be faulty. She could be lying, or she could have downloaded the music at her father's house. The articles in question do not give us much in the way of facts to make an accurate decision here.
There's no reason to call someone a fucking moron (yeah I caught your play on words) because they choose to question a lack of information and people's unfounded opinions on it.
And how do you know she's innocent. Just by reading all of the articles, it's not clearly stated. The closest thing to that is that the Internet connection was in her father's name, not hers, but that doesn't mean she isn't guilty. Her saying, "I didn't do it" doesn't mean she didn't do it either (although the RIAA clearly should prove that she did if they truly believe it).
I'm sure most of us appreciate the work you do, and I'll include myself in that, but you seriously need to lay off the sensationalism.
Don't get me wrong, the RIAA should do quit a bit fact checking before they start throwing out lawsuits to make sure the person they're suing is indeed the person who infringed on the copyright, but I really don't think they should have to do much fact checking beyond that. A persons medical condition should be irrelevant to them.
Then they said "Starcraft 2 will see 3 different games, but we're not milking you, honest!" Like they won't include multiplayer content exclusive to each one to leverage the additional releases. Anyone who thinks Blizz are doing gamers a favour by giving us a "trilogy" and won't make it damn near mandatory to buy all 3 is deluding themselves.
The size of each separate campaign is expected to be as big or bigger than SC1+broodwar. So what do you expect them to do? Give us three games for the price of one? Starcraft actually had a decent story going. If they'd rather not dilute the story by cutting out two thirds of it and cramming it into one disc, all the more power to them. I don't know about you, but I do enjoy my games having a solid story along with good gameplay.
You're probably sort of preaching to the choir here. I've expressed many of those same sentiments to people who use an iPod and aren't tech savvy. They just give me a funny look, tilt their head, and say, "but I love my iPod!". It's all image, and that's all Apple has been trying to sell.
The iPods aren't terrible, but what you get from them, you can get elsewhere, cheaper. No one really needs a 40GB mp3 player, but people believe they do. (And let's be honest, most people won't use the video capabilities.) I can't tell you how many iPods I've looked through where people may have had about 5 or 6 GB's worth of music at the most, all compressed at a bitrate of 128 in mp3 format.
I can attest to the Cowon products. Their really high priced PMP's aren't worth it, but from what I've used over the years from them, they've supported a lot of different audio formats through out all of their product ranges afaik.
Nudity does not mean pornography. I find nothing erotic about the pose. It's... just a pose. That's what people do when they're having their pictures taken. They pose. Would you consider Maxim magazine pornographic then? While those women are naked, they are scantily clad and pose and more erotic ways than this girl.
Even sub 1% of a few million people is a lot of people. A half percent of a million is 5,000 people. The game obviously sold more than that. Would you really want to take that risk? Let's just assume that it won't affect you, as the chances really are small. Are you comfortable installing an unremoveable root-kit on your machine? I know I'm not. Or let's assume you're ok with both. Are you ok with the low installation limit? For me, no game is worth that potential hassle.
You also have to keep in mind that the numbers are also going to be skewed by the fact that a large number of angry people will just automatically return a game if it doesn't work (which has become increasingly harder to do) and won't bother calling technical support. I can't say by how much those numbers are skewed, however. It's probably not significantly, but it's still something to consider.
What most people fail to realize that the legal definition of piracy is robbery at sea, not copyright infringement.
I do agree that the usage of "piracy" to mean "copyright infringement" is outright retarded. When I hear the word pirate, I automatically think of ships with guns attacking other ships for their wares and goods, and maybe even a few ruffians on the boat who might look a little unkempt from being out in sea for so long.
I've actually always found Rockstar's PC ports to be lacking and haven't bought one in a long time. I've been referring to them as "Cockstar" for years myself. When they can actually make a decent PC port or a non-shitty engine, I'll think about purchasing another one of their games.
If it took you 4 hours to go through HL2 for the first time, you clearly played the game way too fast. Story driven games are not meant to be played fast, but are meant to be played in a way where you can absorb the atmosphere as you play. Rushing through a game doesn't allow you to do that at all.
Now if you're talking about episode 1 or episode 2, yeah sure, those adventures are shorter and you can probably do what I described above with them in that amount of time...
It's not cheating, but at the same time it's not in the spirit of it either. Everyone should be on an even playing field here in that regard. If you want the $1 item, you need to work as hard as joe schmoe by out clicking them manually, not having a script do it for you.
So yeah, not cheating, but definitely cheap and lame.
Generally speaking, CC transactions tend to go through pretty fast online, unless it's the weekend. Then for whatever reason it's a little slower. So it virtually is like handing your money over upon the purchase.
You can't get away with that in the U.S. If you advertise something as one price, and some sort of agreement is already made, i.e. you paid for it, it has to be honored.
It happens all the time, especially at gas pumps. They make it 20 cents a gallon instead of $2.00 a gallon. They have to eat whatever losses they incurred during that time and fix their mistake so it doesn't happen in the future.
I completely agree. I've known people who have worked for that company.
Your second cousin's sister's best ex friend, no doubt.
Hey, dipshit, try to read. I sad "people", not "person", or, "someone". A little comprehension goes a very long way.
Now anyone dealing with their customer service or prescription filling has to sign an NDA saying that even after leaving, they can't disclose any information.
Just what drug are you taking? Patient data privacy is covered by HIPPA, you don't need an NDA to nail people for things that are blatantly illegal.
None, jackass. An AC already covered it for me.
Apparently a lot of famous people like to pop prescription drugs (no surprise there).
Uh, no. Lots of people use medications. Even famous people are subject to the travails and ills of us ordinary folk. And I would be astonished, yes truly astonished, if someone in the rich-and-famous category was using Express Scripts. And further, since I creating yet-another-run-on-sentence that starts with 'and' -- the fun drugs are hard to get from legit mail order pharmacies.
No to what exactly? That famous people aren't well known for abusing prescription drugs? All you need is a prescription from a doctor, durh, and apparently it's not hard to get one if you have the money, otherwise prescription drug abuse wouldn't be so damn easy.
Would you like to continue this conversation in your trollish attitude, or would you kindly fuck off? You are pathetic. If you want civility, try giving a little when you respond to someone. It's not hard
I completely agree. I've known people who have worked for that company. Now anyone dealing with their customer service or prescription filling has to sign an NDA saying that even after leaving, they can't disclose any information. Apparently a lot of famous people like to pop prescription drugs (no surprise there).
Their security at night is lax. The women don't work and instead just find the nearest security guard and closet and have some fun. Either way, it wouldn't be too hard to get a lot of information and dip your hands into the extortion bracket.
No what's fail is the fact that they believe they can somehow come up with any sort of accuracy here. The variability of dynamic IP's is so massive that there's no good way to accurately gauge piracy numbers based off of IP addresses. If you would like to believe that because they said they could, I have a bridge to sell you.
Keyboard and Mice support, modding support, better graphical capabilities, easier to customize a setup (i.e. more options to do so), certain types of games work better with keyboard and mice, I can still play my games from 10 years ago on a new PC if I want to do a small amount of work...
Oh, there's reasons if you choose to not ignore them.
Don't kid yourself here. Even with the same hardware configurations, developers for consoles are still making buggy games. Recent ones are Fable II and Fallout 3.
Fuck, at those prices, they should be given a good excuse (We have to give 20% to the developer, or they start killing our business.)
How about... no? They sell those games are those prices because that's what the market supports. It also helps create their profit margins. If developers want people to buy new, give less incentives for people to stop trading in their games... such a s fucking better product overall. No, it won't exactly stop the market, but a good game is something people will hold onto far longer.
It seems Epic refuses to realize this, but as of lately those goons have been full of epic fail in the whole "thinking department".
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Fixed that for ya.
I'm not entirely sure how the medical condition makes it impossible for her to do anything. She has to show up to the hospital once a week. In those six other days in any week time frame, she could have contacted the courts somehow to say, "I'm ill, I can't do this right away" could have been done. She waited... and waited... and waited... She has gallstones for her type 1 diabetes. I don't know how serious that is, but it doesn't sound like a case where she couldn't have responded to the court papers.
Yeah, after my latest purchase of one of their products, I have to say I am thoroughly disappointed. I haven't used it in about a month (which is quite unusual) and I think I just have to chalk this one up to a bad purchasing decision. I was pleased with my iAudio X5 from them, but finding one at a decent price is a bit difficult. I guess it's time to do a bit research for something new.
I'm not entirely sure their goal was to equate theft to copyright infringement in this matter, but instead to say that committing a crime and being let off the hook because you're sick is bullshit.
So where in the article does it clearly she isn't guilty? Her saying that she isn't? The Internet connection being in her dad's name? Those two things alone can very well be faulty. She could be lying, or she could have downloaded the music at her father's house. The articles in question do not give us much in the way of facts to make an accurate decision here.
There's no reason to call someone a fucking moron (yeah I caught your play on words) because they choose to question a lack of information and people's unfounded opinions on it.
And how do you know she's innocent. Just by reading all of the articles, it's not clearly stated. The closest thing to that is that the Internet connection was in her father's name, not hers, but that doesn't mean she isn't guilty. Her saying, "I didn't do it" doesn't mean she didn't do it either (although the RIAA clearly should prove that she did if they truly believe it).
I'm sure most of us appreciate the work you do, and I'll include myself in that, but you seriously need to lay off the sensationalism.
It's relevant for sensationalism.
Don't get me wrong, the RIAA should do quit a bit fact checking before they start throwing out lawsuits to make sure the person they're suing is indeed the person who infringed on the copyright, but I really don't think they should have to do much fact checking beyond that. A persons medical condition should be irrelevant to them.
Isn't it that game where you use real life money to buy virtual items, like a couch, house, or a virtual whore so you can ruin your marriage?
Then they said "Starcraft 2 will see 3 different games, but we're not milking you, honest!" Like they won't include multiplayer content exclusive to each one to leverage the additional releases. Anyone who thinks Blizz are doing gamers a favour by giving us a "trilogy" and won't make it damn near mandatory to buy all 3 is deluding themselves.
The size of each separate campaign is expected to be as big or bigger than SC1+broodwar. So what do you expect them to do? Give us three games for the price of one? Starcraft actually had a decent story going. If they'd rather not dilute the story by cutting out two thirds of it and cramming it into one disc, all the more power to them. I don't know about you, but I do enjoy my games having a solid story along with good gameplay.
I meant to say, "while those women aren't naked..."
You're probably sort of preaching to the choir here. I've expressed many of those same sentiments to people who use an iPod and aren't tech savvy. They just give me a funny look, tilt their head, and say, "but I love my iPod!". It's all image, and that's all Apple has been trying to sell.
The iPods aren't terrible, but what you get from them, you can get elsewhere, cheaper. No one really needs a 40GB mp3 player, but people believe they do. (And let's be honest, most people won't use the video capabilities.) I can't tell you how many iPods I've looked through where people may have had about 5 or 6 GB's worth of music at the most, all compressed at a bitrate of 128 in mp3 format.
I can attest to the Cowon products. Their really high priced PMP's aren't worth it, but from what I've used over the years from them, they've supported a lot of different audio formats through out all of their product ranges afaik.
Nudity does not mean pornography. I find nothing erotic about the pose. It's... just a pose. That's what people do when they're having their pictures taken. They pose. Would you consider Maxim magazine pornographic then? While those women are naked, they are scantily clad and pose and more erotic ways than this girl.
Even sub 1% of a few million people is a lot of people. A half percent of a million is 5,000 people. The game obviously sold more than that. Would you really want to take that risk? Let's just assume that it won't affect you, as the chances really are small. Are you comfortable installing an unremoveable root-kit on your machine? I know I'm not. Or let's assume you're ok with both. Are you ok with the low installation limit? For me, no game is worth that potential hassle.
You also have to keep in mind that the numbers are also going to be skewed by the fact that a large number of angry people will just automatically return a game if it doesn't work (which has become increasingly harder to do) and won't bother calling technical support. I can't say by how much those numbers are skewed, however. It's probably not significantly, but it's still something to consider.
What most people fail to realize that the legal definition of piracy is robbery at sea, not copyright infringement.
I do agree that the usage of "piracy" to mean "copyright infringement" is outright retarded. When I hear the word pirate, I automatically think of ships with guns attacking other ships for their wares and goods, and maybe even a few ruffians on the boat who might look a little unkempt from being out in sea for so long.
I've actually always found Rockstar's PC ports to be lacking and haven't bought one in a long time. I've been referring to them as "Cockstar" for years myself. When they can actually make a decent PC port or a non-shitty engine, I'll think about purchasing another one of their games.
If it took you 4 hours to go through HL2 for the first time, you clearly played the game way too fast. Story driven games are not meant to be played fast, but are meant to be played in a way where you can absorb the atmosphere as you play. Rushing through a game doesn't allow you to do that at all.
Now if you're talking about episode 1 or episode 2, yeah sure, those adventures are shorter and you can probably do what I described above with them in that amount of time...
It's not cheating, but at the same time it's not in the spirit of it either. Everyone should be on an even playing field here in that regard. If you want the $1 item, you need to work as hard as joe schmoe by out clicking them manually, not having a script do it for you.
So yeah, not cheating, but definitely cheap and lame.
Generally speaking, CC transactions tend to go through pretty fast online, unless it's the weekend. Then for whatever reason it's a little slower. So it virtually is like handing your money over upon the purchase.
You can't get away with that in the U.S. If you advertise something as one price, and some sort of agreement is already made, i.e. you paid for it, it has to be honored.
It happens all the time, especially at gas pumps. They make it 20 cents a gallon instead of $2.00 a gallon. They have to eat whatever losses they incurred during that time and fix their mistake so it doesn't happen in the future.
Your second cousin's sister's best ex friend, no doubt.
Hey, dipshit, try to read. I sad "people", not "person", or, "someone". A little comprehension goes a very long way.
Just what drug are you taking? Patient data privacy is covered by HIPPA, you don't need an NDA to nail people for things that are blatantly illegal.
None, jackass. An AC already covered it for me.
Uh, no. Lots of people use medications. Even famous people are subject to the travails and ills of us ordinary folk. And I would be astonished, yes truly astonished, if someone in the rich-and-famous category was using Express Scripts. And further, since I creating yet-another-run-on-sentence that starts with 'and' -- the fun drugs are hard to get from legit mail order pharmacies.
No to what exactly? That famous people aren't well known for abusing prescription drugs? All you need is a prescription from a doctor, durh, and apparently it's not hard to get one if you have the money, otherwise prescription drug abuse wouldn't be so damn easy.
Would you like to continue this conversation in your trollish attitude, or would you kindly fuck off? You are pathetic. If you want civility, try giving a little when you respond to someone. It's not hard
I completely agree. I've known people who have worked for that company. Now anyone dealing with their customer service or prescription filling has to sign an NDA saying that even after leaving, they can't disclose any information. Apparently a lot of famous people like to pop prescription drugs (no surprise there).
Their security at night is lax. The women don't work and instead just find the nearest security guard and closet and have some fun. Either way, it wouldn't be too hard to get a lot of information and dip your hands into the extortion bracket.
No what's fail is the fact that they believe they can somehow come up with any sort of accuracy here. The variability of dynamic IP's is so massive that there's no good way to accurately gauge piracy numbers based off of IP addresses. If you would like to believe that because they said they could, I have a bridge to sell you.
Keyboard and Mice support, modding support, better graphical capabilities, easier to customize a setup (i.e. more options to do so), certain types of games work better with keyboard and mice, I can still play my games from 10 years ago on a new PC if I want to do a small amount of work...
Oh, there's reasons if you choose to not ignore them.
Don't kid yourself here. Even with the same hardware configurations, developers for consoles are still making buggy games. Recent ones are Fable II and Fallout 3.
Fuck, at those prices, they should be given a good excuse (We have to give 20% to the developer, or they start killing our business.)
How about... no? They sell those games are those prices because that's what the market supports. It also helps create their profit margins. If developers want people to buy new, give less incentives for people to stop trading in their games... such a s fucking better product overall. No, it won't exactly stop the market, but a good game is something people will hold onto far longer.
It seems Epic refuses to realize this, but as of lately those goons have been full of epic fail in the whole "thinking department".