I just tried to order that free shirt from thinkgeek. aparently, i have to order another item more than 10 dollars as well. Ok i said, and i picked out a nice Network Security shirt. Then it came to select my shipping options and put in a credit card.
Thats all good too, but when i put in my address, it tells me that because im in Canada, it will be 18 USD to ship!!! (that btw is the CHEAPEST shipping method)
This is an order of two shirts with the first shirt costing 14.99. So basically, if im understanding this, I would have to pay more for shipping a light cloth shirt, than the actual shirt is worth. Obviously i would be a fool to do that as it just doesnt sit right in my head.
So in conclusion, to fix think geek and get people to buy from there, LOWER YOUR INTERNANTIONAL SHIPPING
I would not have been able to live with this machine. I could not look at anything else but that stuck pixel. No matter what was on screen, my eyes would gravitate towards this one bright blue pixel
do you also find the urge to stare into oncomming headlights?
"2.) Copyright infringement of other people's stuff, no matter how many people try to justify it, is ethically wrong."
If musicians are so greedy and egotistical, that they think they should decide who hears their music, they have lost the focus of why they became an entertainer in the first place.
on the other hand, if your in it to make money then fuck you. same as the pirates selling copies on the street.
"Seriously, you must have a license, to drive a car, fish, hunt, act as a business, and so on. No such requirement for being a parent. Not saying that we should license people to be parents, but does it not strike anyone else as odd that a certain level of competency must be demonstrated before you can get in an automobile and drive, but not to have a child."
well having a business, driving a car, hunting etc.. all have norms across society and morality. What if i want to show my child pornogrpahy to teach them about sex? would you be in favour of me loosing my license because i choose to educate my child differently?
The other licensed things you speak of, there is a right and a wrong thing to do. i cannot, for instance, run red lights all the time. I would submit that there is no "right" or "wrong" way to raise a child. What you or perhaps the govt thinks is the proper way to raise a child, might not be what i think.
I played violent video games from a very young age (pac man was basically a canibal) and yet i have respect for others and all that. So its really all about what you teach your kids - not how they choose to entertain themselves. Licenses are only good when there are very strict rules for conduct. Raising a child should not involve having incredibly strict static rules.
" why wouldn't you be using encrypted IM clients,"
I guess im sort of unskilled amature, but i have never heard of a high encryption version of any instant messenging client. im going to go google that now. hmm looks like a company does carry this magical product you speak of. oh wait? whats that from their FAQ
Send instant messages to any other X-IM user
oh so now ill just convince all my friends to use X-IM. Thanks jerry!!
hmm that actually looks pretty nice, works with ICQ and everything.
I guess ill just roll that ou.. OH WAIT me instant messenging some 45 year old man pretending to be a 18 year old co-ed doesnt really NEED any sort of encryption. MAYBE just MAYBE people should have some secuirty instead of NO security as you seem to advocate with your all or nothing approach.
This guy, albiet stupid a stupid newbie, knew about mac filtering and WEP on a wireless connection, wich, IMHO is more than yo mama knows about it. So in conclusion: stop ripping on ppl with that tired elitiest low user ID attitude and maybe tonight you will get laid.
wow. i would always say ability to pwn whorde and help your guildmembers thru instances would be high on my list. not being a condescending grumpity old man.
because theres nothing 'funner' than being a guild that feigns misunderstanding in the heat of battle./
the only thing that pisses me off about kids is the ones that
spam every line with a new word because you know we might lose interest
"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the use of pornography.
see that? thats the kind of critical thinking and in depth analysis that puts your company ahead! kudos m$! how would i ever make it on the information superhighway without you!
but I believe that supernational governments like *EDIT* The United States of America */EDIT*, disenfranchises citizens like me who are members of a democracy, who have established the federal laws and system by which we agreed to be ruled, and suddenly have found a new layer of government on top of us which is far far out of our reach.
Supplant EU for USA and you can see why the rest of the world is a bit pissed. Seriously, america has gone into countries and f*cked them up for many many years. Look at what the USA is trying to do to poor chavez RIGHT NOW. Or do you really think that the USA has no "world power" or "wolrd influence". I would rather an organization be thinking Globally - as in for the benifit of all mankind - then locally, as in the benifit of one country like we have now.
Who do you think a major interest in the WTO is? America. Do you seriously think those WTO protesters are right wing?? whats the name of this universe you live in...
>Truthfully, I find very, very little of rap music even remotely tolerable. Somehow I have a hard time seeing a string of obsenities and verbal abuse as "art", which >seems to be what most of the rappers are all about
I would quote you some lyrics here but aparently none of the 50 million lyrics sites has him on it. Look out for his sick paring with jemini on ghetto pop life with such crazy tracks as Bush Boys, Here we go again, and ghetto pop life.. It be ILL.
You think VCR's and tivo make you exsist in some little ethical loophole?
bwahahaha
tivo is exactly the same as downloading a file. unless of course you dont strip the comercials from shows...
if torrents of TV shows werent there, i wouldnt watch tv shows. I wouldnt suddenly go out and buy a TV/cable subscription. If I wanted to watch tv i would go to a friends house. Am i stealing from someone because i watch my friends tv?
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Well i can tell you from experience that we had about 8 machines try and connect over a wireless link and all run IP telephones. This was VoIP.
The router, an orinoco, crashed and burned after about 5 minutes. this is of course with users trying to do web traffic as well.
Seems to be whenever the wireless loses signal (happens ALOT) the voip call is dropped imidiately.
um the right to have an abortion is a fundamental freedom that would show alot of personal responsibility if it is exercised.
A women having an abortion is what a responsible women should do, if she cant raise the child. I definately dont want to be paying for some kid no one wanted...
Also please remove the dr who reference in your sig as you are clearly too stupid to appreciate dr who on the level that i apreicate dr who and are doing a dis service to dr who, and the entire dr who comunity, by having his words in the sig of such a crusty blood soaked pimple head such as yourself.
an activation key lets you open an account. One account one key.
The process of activation transforms the "activation key" into a named wow account. The activation key, the cd's, the box, the warantee cards.. ALL of that is worthless after an account has been created.
Every game that has an activation key works this way.
Doesn't halflife also tie its keys to a particular steam account?
A more interesting story would be that PNY does not redeme their "lifetime warrantee" on new non opened boxed cards that have been purchased thru ebay. If you try and RMA a card and list it as being baught on ebay or one of ebays many stores, you are NOT eligible for a warantee. This just happened to me, and IMHO is alot less fair.
"You're actually trying to claim that Winamp's design is good?"
Winamps simplicty makes it the best player on the market. Whereas with iTunes, the window takes up your entire screen, winamp can be compressed to a small line comfortably attaching to whever i want it. Then there are the wonderful function keys and with a ctrl + alt + pg down, i can switch the track. Itunes, microsoft etc, all try and take the entire screen to their control. I mean honestly, who sits there and watches there mp3s play!.. Your coding, or working or playing a game while having some nice mp3s as the background. Then you want the footprint of a program to be as small as possible.
I absolutely cant stand all the superfluous buttons that itunes and wmp stick all over the place... Do i want song information filled with popups? a gigantic play button? no thanks... im not old and blind!
Wow.. I always saw thottbot as a nice resource when im stuck on a quest. I use their census mod, again, because i want to know that kind of statistics.
Whats wrong with knowing where things drop?
I have never seen people farming in game.. Most high level items are bind on pickup anyways. Is this even a real problem you people are getting all upset about?
Its not immorral underhanded or sneaky. You install a plugin to gather statistics. It gathers the statistics to benifit the entire playerbase.
Hey man nice post. I agree 100% with you on this. I also cannot play as much as i would like and appreciate the opportunity to at least sell items if i decide to cash out.
I played uo for about 7 years. I had a tonne of money by the end of it. I managed to sell it all on ebay and made enough to buy a new video card and some other stuff i needed for WoW. I can understand when they get the chinese sweat shops in their doing farming, but honestly, playing on the most popular server, I notice very little farming. I hardly ever have to wait for drops because of other players and they usually end up helping me if they are there.
So in conclusion everyone needs to please go buy some cheese to go with their whine...
*note* i think ppl that buy online items are suckas but i did buy my share of UO gold to get one or two things.
"Intellectual property makes a person who has nothing but his mind equal to any other person who has property, be it money, land or resources. Its NOT AGAINST humanity to have intellectual property laws. Its a basic human right that my ideas are MINE, that my work is MINE. If we had no laws, the people with the money had EVERYTHING. With no money you can't compete with them."
yeah thats cool and all but the entities that own most copyrights aren't regular people - they are corporations. Corporate greed and near infinite life guarantees that inventions will not be used by society to benifit all of society at some future time. This is why it is a problem for humanity.
I hate living in a for profit world. especially if one day i can nanocreate anything i need by just having the plans for it. I dont think i should have to buy those plans. this would pretty much free us up to do whatever we wanted with our lives. that is what we are all working toward.
And i really support file sharing/copyright infringment. They arent going to stop it by arresting people though -- its just too easy. I would never go back to buying cds and dvds. damn the costs. if i were to ever get sued good luck - i have no money and very few assets. if they want my shitty car they can have it. There would also be alot of motiviation for me to finaly go on my inevitable killing spree..
" If I had a license fee's worth for every pirated installation of Windows XP I've refused to support."
maybe if you supported pirated version instead of refusing on moral grounds and secretly - or openly - being laughed at, you would have a license fees worth of pay from those people. instead you have pissed off customers who will not refer you to their friends.
we are in this business to fix problems - not to uphold the law. well, real techs are anyways (just noticed you said you were a consultant which kind of explains the "attitude")
"I guarantee you the Americans espousing freedom and human rights were NOT the same people as those ignorant assholes in Abu Ghraib."
Has the american media/govt convinced the american people that these were isolated incidents by "rogue soldiers" rather than a policy handed down by the govt to the soldiers?
Slashdot Mirror
what would life be like without torrents?
fankly i dont want to know
http://www.mininova.org/tor/18650
direct link
I just tried to order that free shirt from thinkgeek. aparently, i have to order another item more than 10 dollars as well. Ok i said, and i picked out a nice Network Security shirt. Then it came to select my shipping options and put in a credit card.
Thats all good too, but when i put in my address, it tells me that because im in Canada, it will be 18 USD to ship!!! (that btw is the CHEAPEST shipping method)
This is an order of two shirts with the first shirt costing 14.99. So basically, if im understanding this, I would have to pay more for shipping a light cloth shirt, than the actual shirt is worth. Obviously i would be a fool to do that as it just doesnt sit right in my head.
So in conclusion, to fix think geek and get people to buy from there, LOWER YOUR INTERNANTIONAL SHIPPING
I would not have been able to live with this machine. I could not look at anything else but that stuck pixel. No matter what was on screen, my eyes would gravitate towards this one bright blue pixel
do you also find the urge to stare into oncomming headlights?
"2.) Copyright infringement of other people's stuff, no matter how many people try to justify it, is ethically wrong."
If musicians are so greedy and egotistical, that they think they should decide who hears their music, they have lost the focus of why they became an entertainer in the first place.
on the other hand, if your in it to make money then fuck you. same as the pirates selling copies on the street.
"Seriously, you must have a license, to drive a car, fish, hunt, act as a business, and so on. No such requirement for being a parent. Not saying that we should license people to be parents, but does it not strike anyone else as odd that a certain level of competency must be demonstrated before you can get in an automobile and drive, but not to have a child."
well having a business, driving a car, hunting etc.. all have norms across society and morality. What if i want to show my child pornogrpahy to teach them about sex? would you be in favour of me loosing my license because i choose to educate my child differently?
The other licensed things you speak of, there is a right and a wrong thing to do. i cannot, for instance, run red lights all the time. I would submit that there is no "right" or "wrong" way to raise a child. What you or perhaps the govt thinks is the proper way to raise a child, might not be what i think.
I played violent video games from a very young age (pac man was basically a canibal) and yet i have respect for others and all that. So its really all about what you teach your kids - not how they choose to entertain themselves. Licenses are only good when there are very strict rules for conduct. Raising a child should not involve having incredibly strict static rules.
" why wouldn't you be using encrypted IM clients,"
I guess im sort of unskilled amature, but i have never heard of a high encryption version of any instant messenging client.
im going to go google that now.
hmm looks like a company does carry this magical product you speak of. oh wait? whats that from their FAQ
Send instant messages to any other X-IM user
oh so now ill just convince all my friends to use X-IM. Thanks jerry!!
or perhaps you meant pssst
hmm that actually looks pretty nice, works with ICQ and everything.
I guess ill just roll that ou.. OH WAIT me instant messenging some 45 year old man pretending to be a 18 year old co-ed doesnt really NEED any sort of encryption. MAYBE just MAYBE people should have some secuirty instead of NO security as you seem to advocate with your all or nothing approach.
This guy, albiet stupid a stupid newbie, knew about mac filtering and WEP on a wireless connection, wich, IMHO is more than yo mama knows about it. So in conclusion: stop ripping on ppl with that tired elitiest low user ID attitude and maybe tonight you will get laid.
wow. i would always say ability to pwn whorde and help your guildmembers thru instances would be high on my list. not being a condescending grumpity old man.
you
because theres nothing 'funner' than being a guild that feigns misunderstanding in the heat of battle./
the only thing that pisses me off about kids is the ones that
spam
every
line
with
a
new
word
because
know
we
might
lose
interest
"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the use of pornography.
see that? thats the kind of critical thinking and in depth analysis that puts your company ahead! kudos m$! how would i ever make it on the information superhighway without you!
Supplant EU for USA and you can see why the rest of the world is a bit pissed. Seriously, america has gone into countries and f*cked them up for many many years. Look at what the USA is trying to do to poor chavez RIGHT NOW. Or do you really think that the USA has no "world power" or "wolrd influence". I would rather an organization be thinking Globally - as in for the benifit of all mankind - then locally, as in the benifit of one country like we have now.
Who do you think a major interest in the WTO is? America. Do you seriously think those WTO protesters are right wing?? whats the name of this universe you live in...
wow narc'ing that guy out because he doesnt like macs.. to the riaa no less.
and now you see why everyone hates mac enthusists. they are dicks.
btw I have an ipod, but im not gay so no i would never buy an unupgradeable mac because its more "trendy"
>Truthfully, I find very, very little of rap music even remotely tolerable. Somehow I have a hard time seeing a string of obsenities and verbal abuse as "art", which >seems to be what most of the rappers are all about
Looks like someone never heard of danger mouse
I would quote you some lyrics here but aparently none of the 50 million lyrics sites has him on it. Look out for his sick paring with jemini on ghetto pop life with such crazy tracks as Bush Boys, Here we go again, and ghetto pop life.. It be ILL.
BIATCH!
You think VCR's and tivo make you exsist in some little ethical loophole?
bwahahaha
tivo is exactly the same as downloading a file. unless of course you dont strip the comercials from shows...
if torrents of TV shows werent there, i wouldnt watch tv shows. I wouldnt suddenly go out and buy a TV/cable subscription. If I wanted to watch tv i would go to a friends house. Am i stealing from someone because i watch my friends tv?
Well i can tell you from experience that we had about 8 machines try and connect over a wireless link and all run IP telephones. This was VoIP.
The router, an orinoco, crashed and burned after about 5 minutes. this is of course with users trying to do web traffic as well.
Seems to be whenever the wireless loses signal (happens ALOT) the voip call is dropped imidiately.
so yeah
wow
um the right to have an abortion is a fundamental freedom that would show alot of personal responsibility if it is exercised.
A women having an abortion is what a responsible women should do, if she cant raise the child. I definately dont want to be paying for some kid no one wanted...
Also please remove the dr who reference in your sig as you are clearly too stupid to appreciate dr who on the level that i apreicate dr who and are doing a dis service to dr who, and the entire dr who comunity, by having his words in the sig of such a crusty blood soaked pimple head such as yourself.
Exactly. How is this news?
an activation key lets you open an account. One account one key.
The process of activation transforms the "activation key" into a named wow account. The activation key, the cd's, the box, the warantee cards.. ALL of that is worthless after an account has been created.
Every game that has an activation key works this way.
Doesn't halflife also tie its keys to a particular steam account?
A more interesting story would be that PNY does not redeme their "lifetime warrantee" on new non opened boxed cards that have been purchased thru ebay. If you try and RMA a card and list it as being baught on ebay or one of ebays many stores, you are NOT eligible for a warantee. This just happened to me, and IMHO is alot less fair.
"You're actually trying to claim that Winamp's design is good?"
Winamps simplicty makes it the best player on the market. Whereas with iTunes, the window takes up your entire screen, winamp can be compressed to a small line comfortably attaching to whever i want it. Then there are the wonderful function keys and with a ctrl + alt + pg down, i can switch the track. Itunes, microsoft etc, all try and take the entire screen to their control. I mean honestly, who sits there and watches there mp3s play!.. Your coding, or working or playing a game while having some nice mp3s as the background. Then you want the footprint of a program to be as small as possible.
I absolutely cant stand all the superfluous buttons that itunes and wmp stick all over the place... Do i want song information filled with popups? a gigantic play button? no thanks... im not old and blind!
Wow.. I always saw thottbot as a nice resource when im stuck on a quest. I use their census mod, again, because i want to know that kind of statistics.
Whats wrong with knowing where things drop?
I have never seen people farming in game.. Most high level items are bind on pickup anyways. Is this even a real problem you people are getting all upset about?
Its not immorral underhanded or sneaky. You install a plugin to gather statistics. It gathers the statistics to benifit the entire playerbase.
OMG THEY ARE H4XX0RING ME!!!
please..
Hey man nice post. I agree 100% with you on this. I also cannot play as much as i would like and appreciate the opportunity to at least sell items if i decide to cash out.
I played uo for about 7 years. I had a tonne of money by the end of it. I managed to sell it all on ebay and made enough to buy a new video card and some other stuff i needed for WoW. I can understand when they get the chinese sweat shops in their doing farming, but honestly, playing on the most popular server, I notice very little farming. I hardly ever have to wait for drops because of other players and they usually end up helping me if they are there.
So in conclusion everyone needs to please go buy some cheese to go with their whine...
*note* i think ppl that buy online items are suckas but i did buy my share of UO gold to get one or two things.
"America doesn't run penal labor colonies"
:(
sounds like someone doesnt have my job
I totally agree. that theme song is why i could never get into the show.
Maybe it matters maybe it doesnt but thats definately why I didnt care about it at the beginning.
yeah thats cool and all but the entities that own most copyrights aren't regular people - they are corporations. Corporate greed and near infinite life guarantees that inventions will not be used by society to benifit all of society at some future time. This is why it is a problem for humanity.
I hate living in a for profit world. especially if one day i can nanocreate anything i need by just having the plans for it. I dont think i should have to buy those plans. this would pretty much free us up to do whatever we wanted with our lives. that is what we are all working toward.
that was a pretty nice post.
/copyright infringment. They arent going to stop it by arresting people though -- its just too easy. I would never go back to buying cds and dvds. damn the costs. if i were to ever get sued good luck - i have no money and very few assets. if they want my shitty car they can have it. There would also be alot of motiviation for me to finaly go on my inevitable killing spree..
And i really support file sharing
blaze of glory baby
" If I had a license fee's worth for every pirated installation of Windows XP I've refused to support."
maybe if you supported pirated version instead of refusing on moral grounds and secretly - or openly - being laughed at, you would have a license fees worth of pay from those people. instead you have pissed off customers who will not refer you to their friends.
we are in this business to fix problems - not to uphold the law. well, real techs are anyways (just noticed you said you were a consultant which kind of explains the "attitude")
Has the american media/govt convinced the american people that these were isolated incidents by "rogue soldiers" rather than a policy handed down by the govt to the soldiers?
that was fast.
agreed. 100%. these people have obviously not seen the hypothetical-documentary THREADS