I'm thinking because of their focus and achievements they can hardly be the picture you paint, kindof inexperienced skript kiddies just doing it for lolz.
It seems to me its much more likely they are actually a well-educated group at least funded by, if not set up by a competitive government or terrorist organisation.
Interesting. Perhaps evolution wasn't present in the garden of Eden, but God created evolution as a part of creating the 'outside Eden' part of the world that Adam and Eve to live in after they ate the apple.
The problem with NOT buying something as a form of protest is that the company selling the product doesn't know that you didn't buy it for a reason.
We need some quantifiable and clear way to let Ubisoft know exactly how many sales their DRM has cost them, otherwise they will continue to blame everything but themselves for unexpectedly low sales.
>>> Now we have ourselves some relatively minor incidents of civil unrest and the very same (mostly european) countries are doing the very same shit they were previously so adamantly against.
Uh what? What human rights breaches are you incorrectly blaming on Eurpoeans? As a European myself the truth is that the Police/Army/government hasn't done enough.
If I was in charge I'd have jumped on the opportunity of all the scum of society being in one spot and instructed the army to permanently improve the gene pool.
Which would last for about for about 15 seconds... then the aircraft hard stalls, the nose goes straight down and every stewardess and trolley ends up in a mangled heap in the cockpit.
Why am I apparently the only one that is happy that that the TSA are finally starting to back off a little? I'm looking forward to the day when the TSA go away entirely and flying goes back to being as easy as pre 9/11 days. I mean how many actual terrorist attempts (even failed ones) on aircraft have there been since 9/11 compared to the number of flights that happen daily? If not actually 0, its so small as to be statistically insignificant risk per flight. Isn't the continued perceived threat of terror completely just our own paranoia now? The more we continue to live in fear the more the ghost of Osama still wins. I say F him and lets live in freedom again.
Yes of course its the governments fault for not legislating against banks and allowing them to get too powerful, and then for choosing to bale them out when they fail. It wasn't me or anyone I know that gave the banks billions or even agreed with the idea but it happened anyway.
Your whole argument presumes that an individual citizen might have any say at all let alone win a significant battle against corruption of a powerful megacorp or government. I don't believe that can ever happen. They already have all the guns, resources, power and laws of a whole country on their side.
You keep coming back to the voting thing... The US is and always was a capitalist society. The US isn't and never was a democracy, and has never even claimed it was a democracy. Voting is just a feelgood sham.
The existing US system ensures that only people that are fundamentally corruptable self-serving A-holes with connections even get a chance to run for any government positions,. The majority of people don't vote because they realize it clearly won't make any difference who wins, as they all act the same.
>>> it is not my fault you all fucked everything up; we are doing out jobs well...But then the lack of competence of the voters probably should be reflected in government services. Bad management afterall...
Wait... you work in government and blame the private sector workers for the mess the country is in ? wow that's some screwed up logic. Does it not occur to you that its actually the government who we fund with our taxes that is (supposed to be) in control of the country and economy?
Are you really so naive to think that because the majority voted the wrong way to your opinion, that the state the country is no longer the governments responsibility?
The very clear truth is that the sort of person that wants to be a politician is already the wrong person for the job. All politicians (i.e. all political parties) are as self-serving, corrupt and incompetent as each other, so voting is at best a sham that simply amounts to choosing who w'ed rather get fucked by.
>> Both the National Cancer Institute and several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research.
Its disgusting, but of course not.
The pharma companies only want to keep selling symptom suppressants instead of actual cures. They don't want to actually cure people of anything as that means diminishing their customer base.
The National Cancer Institute wont fund this because they, like any other government body, are full of bureaucratic leeches on fatcat salaries that put their own continued employment above anything else, even solving the problem they were tasked to address.
Through the church I attend, I take old donated laptops and clean/repair/reinstall them for re-use by people that cant afford their own laptop. Practically all laptops I get already have an OEM version of Windows on them which I always replace with Ubuntu. I also provide a 5 page letter with each laptop introducing Linux and explaining how to do some common tasks.
Ubuntu has been very well received. Nobody has ever come back asking for Windows.
Apart from my personal beliefs about Linux being both better and more secure than Windows, and the benefits of supporting the opensource community, Microsoft themselves are preventing me giving out laptops with Windows by making their OEM Windows licence non-transferable. Each new owner of the same laptop is apparently supposed to buy a new Windows licence.
Neither my little mission nor the laptop recipients can afford to do that (I'm not eve sure you can buy XP licences anymore anyway), so Windows is not even an option unless I want to give out illegal installations (which I don't).
You can't necessarily deduce AC2 sales > AC sales must be down to DRM. Maybe AC2 was simply a better game than AC? Maybe it took until AC2 came out before the AC series became a meme, or just for it to gain more popularity?
>> a Ubisoft representative said the company has seen "a clear reduction in piracy of our titles which required a persistent online connection,"
Notice how he was careful to avoid mentioning the corresponding reduction in actual sales.
Anyway I think his statement must be blowing smoke. I personally would never buy any product with such restrictive DRM, but say I had bought the game, I for one would have also immediately downloaded a hacked version just so I could play it offline, and so I could play after they turn off their DRM server when the product is no longer making them money. It seems to me, overly restrictive DRM would necessarily cause more piracy not less.
The mutation is just reflecting an external UV light. It would be much cooler if it could actually *generate* light. Imagine a dog that could glow like a glow worm.
seriously, why anyone does digital/online purchases when you can buy the same thing on physical media boggles my mind.
It wouldn't be so hard to understand if there weren't already plenty of examples where some weasely corporate policy change has left customers without use of something they already paid for.
There never seems to be any equitable compensation in return or any comebacks on the company involved either. One example was when Microsoft decided to close MSN Music so turned off its DRM server leaving millions of customers with unplayable music files.
>> The reason for dropping Synaptic is probably that Synaptic fucking blows.
Would you care to give some justification for that? Personally I find its graphical interface far more useable than Aptitude (unless I'm not running X, which is rare).
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I'm thinking because of their focus and achievements they can hardly be the picture you paint, kindof inexperienced skript kiddies just doing it for lolz.
It seems to me its much more likely they are actually a well-educated group at least funded by, if not set up by a competitive government or terrorist organisation.
Interesting. Perhaps evolution wasn't present in the garden of Eden, but God created evolution as a part of creating the 'outside Eden' part of the world that Adam and Eve to live in after they ate the apple.
As a Christian I believe God originally created life on earth. Its also obvious to me that he created and uses Evolution to maintain and improve it.
The problem with NOT buying something as a form of protest is that the company selling the product doesn't know that you didn't buy it for a reason.
We need some quantifiable and clear way to let Ubisoft know exactly how many sales their DRM has cost them, otherwise they will continue to blame everything but themselves for unexpectedly low sales.
So with the decrease in content of course we can expect a corresponding drop in the price of games then.
No? Thought not.
sadly, from now on it appears each wave number will be synonymous with the current ipad/iphone version number.
Hey if I bought a CPU that has the hardware to do some level of performance, I expect it to do it out of the box.
>>> Now we have ourselves some relatively minor incidents of civil unrest and the very same (mostly european) countries are doing the very same shit they were previously so adamantly against.
Uh what?
What human rights breaches are you incorrectly blaming on Eurpoeans? As a European myself the truth is that the Police/Army/government hasn't done enough.
If I was in charge I'd have jumped on the opportunity of all the scum of society being in one spot and instructed the army to permanently improve the gene pool.
>> just point to nos straight up.
Which would last for about for about 15 seconds... then the aircraft hard stalls, the nose goes straight down and every stewardess and trolley ends up in a mangled heap in the cockpit.
Why am I apparently the only one that is happy that that the TSA are finally starting to back off a little?
I'm looking forward to the day when the TSA go away entirely and flying goes back to being as easy as pre 9/11 days.
I mean how many actual terrorist attempts (even failed ones) on aircraft have there been since 9/11 compared to the number of flights that happen daily? If not actually 0, its so small as to be statistically insignificant risk per flight. Isn't the continued perceived threat of terror completely just our own paranoia now? The more we continue to live in fear the more the ghost of Osama still wins. I say F him and lets live in freedom again.
Yes of course its the governments fault for not legislating against banks and allowing them to get too powerful, and then for choosing to bale them out when they fail. It wasn't me or anyone I know that gave the banks billions or even agreed with the idea but it happened anyway.
Your whole argument presumes that an individual citizen might have any say at all let alone win a significant battle against corruption of a powerful megacorp or government. I don't believe that can ever happen. They already have all the guns, resources, power and laws of a whole country on their side.
You keep coming back to the voting thing... The US is and always was a capitalist society. The US isn't and never was a democracy, and has never even claimed it was a democracy. Voting is just a feelgood sham.
The existing US system ensures that only people that are fundamentally corruptable self-serving A-holes with connections even get a chance to run for any government positions,. The majority of people don't vote because they realize it clearly won't make any difference who wins, as they all act the same.
>>> it is not my fault you all fucked everything up; we are doing out jobs well...But then the lack of competence of the voters probably should be reflected in government services. Bad management afterall...
Wait... you work in government and blame the private sector workers for the mess the country is in ? wow that's some screwed up logic. Does it not occur to you that its actually the government who we fund with our taxes that is (supposed to be) in control of the country and economy?
Are you really so naive to think that because the majority voted the wrong way to your opinion, that the state the country is no longer the governments responsibility?
The very clear truth is that the sort of person that wants to be a politician is already the wrong person for the job. All politicians (i.e. all political parties) are as self-serving, corrupt and incompetent as each other, so voting is at best a sham that simply amounts to choosing who w'ed rather get fucked by.
>> Both the National Cancer Institute and several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research.
Its disgusting, but of course not.
The pharma companies only want to keep selling symptom suppressants instead of actual cures. They don't want to actually cure people of anything as that means diminishing their customer base.
The National Cancer Institute wont fund this because they, like any other government body, are full of bureaucratic leeches on fatcat salaries that put their own continued employment above anything else, even solving the problem they were tasked to address.
Through the church I attend, I take old donated laptops and clean/repair/reinstall them for re-use by people that cant afford their own laptop. Practically all laptops I get already have an OEM version of Windows on them which I always replace with Ubuntu. I also provide a 5 page letter with each laptop introducing Linux and explaining how to do some common tasks.
Ubuntu has been very well received. Nobody has ever come back asking for Windows.
Apart from my personal beliefs about Linux being both better and more secure than Windows, and the benefits of supporting the opensource community, Microsoft themselves are preventing me giving out laptops with Windows by making their OEM Windows licence non-transferable. Each new owner of the same laptop is apparently supposed to buy a new Windows licence.
Neither my little mission nor the laptop recipients can afford to do that (I'm not eve sure you can buy XP licences anymore anyway), so Windows is not even an option unless I want to give out illegal installations (which I don't).
I doubt either side want to loose their street cred, so I guess a highly public hacking tit-for-tat match is about to kick-off.
...which is probably one of the biggest reasons why they are outlawed.
The law of most countries is designed to keep you being a good consumer, as most countries governments are really owned by megacorps.
I too believe I recently read on some gaming websites thats how it works.
You can't necessarily deduce AC2 sales > AC sales must be down to DRM.
Maybe AC2 was simply a better game than AC?
Maybe it took until AC2 came out before the AC series became a meme, or just for it to gain more popularity?
>> a Ubisoft representative said the company has seen "a clear reduction in piracy of our titles which required a persistent online connection,"
Notice how he was careful to avoid mentioning the corresponding reduction in actual sales.
Anyway I think his statement must be blowing smoke. I personally would never buy any product with such restrictive DRM, but say I had bought the game, I for one would have also immediately downloaded a hacked version just so I could play it offline, and so I could play after they turn off their DRM server when the product is no longer making them money. It seems to me, overly restrictive DRM would necessarily cause more piracy not less.
The mutation is just reflecting an external UV light. It would be much cooler if it could actually *generate* light. Imagine a dog that could glow like a glow worm.
>> You really can't get your mind around the convenience that offers?
Yes I can. What I can't get my mind around is the lack of foresight a lot of people continue to have.
seriously, why anyone does digital/online purchases when you can buy the same thing on physical media boggles my mind.
It wouldn't be so hard to understand if there weren't already plenty of examples where some weasely corporate policy change has left customers without use of something they already paid for.
There never seems to be any equitable compensation in return or any comebacks on the company involved either. One example was when Microsoft decided to close MSN Music so turned off its DRM server leaving millions of customers with unplayable music files.
Your approach does not support people who don't have internet connectivity available at install time .
Several:
1) It can grow if it needs to.
2) Its more flexible as people don't have to keep a stock of specifically 80-minute CD-Rs around.
3) We could use rewriteable media.
>> The reason for dropping Synaptic is probably that Synaptic fucking blows.
Would you care to give some justification for that? Personally I find its graphical interface far more useable than Aptitude (unless I'm not running X, which is rare).