And then they raise your taxes or step up police response and minor fines. Its anice thought, but the state can always hit you harder then you can hit them. The real solution is to get them removed - politically.
"This seems like a show-stopper to me for anyone wanting to exchange data with non-Vista users, especially if the default is to use the Vista-only format."
I have experienced this. I believe what he is talking about is an "open session" dvd/cd. YES it is the default choice when you burn a CD only they call it "Live File System". Actually you have to select a little "advanced" options dropdown or it will burn without telling you about that. If you click advanced, it shows a screen that says it will be incompatable with anything before windows xp.
I always click advanced options on things but your right, most people wouldn't.
"That same car commercial has the car making hairpin mountain pass turns at 65 miles an hour, probably with custom tires, a beefy engine, and a specially trained driver."
Yes how very perceptive of you. Of course if you ever had actually seen a car comerical, they clearly say something to the effect of "DRAMATIZATION DO NOT ATTEMPT". And PROFESSIONAL DRIVER ON CLOSED COURSE DO NOT ATTEMPT. Why exactly do you think they put those fineprints in there?
This is by far the stupidest post I've read all day.. jesus christ.
Most CS servers have some sort of corporate sponsoship and have even back in old beta CS. Someones gotta pay for the phat pipes and servers. It was usually ISPs and webhosting type services that did it for publicity. I guess this is different, maybe they buy you gold or something. I wonder what sponsorship entails. I guess if they baught you a new PC every 6 months and paid your internets bill I could see people doing that. Personally, I would think that being a slave to a corporation is something you would only voluntarily do for real life money. Even then I would think that you want to leave that as much behind as pôssible when your playing a game. This is of course wow players we are talking about though, and wow is pretty much like a full time job already. Some people just like being corporate or guild slaves. Same thing really.
"Discuss" is a word appended to an obvious, usually one line statements, that proves the poster has only basic insight into the topic and just wants to leech karma off of more insightful replies.
"The web-apps feature that the article spends three pages on is really a useful browsing feature whose time should have come ten years ago: offline browsing"
I guess she never heard the expression "don't feed the trolls". This is exactly the crazy overblown reaction that I am sure makes this particular troll giddy with attention happiness. He even made slashdot now.
By trolling standards, this is a complete and utter success. Trolls only want attention people, and shes played right into its hand.
"For "terminal" disasters, like a nuclear blast... at least you can plan to sell your business or its assets to another entity, so your customers have continuity."
Im gonna go out on a limb here and say if I have to deal with a nuclear blast, my customers are going to pretty low there on the list of things that im worried about the continuity of...
Oh yeah counterstrike is a great example of a skilled game. What with all its spray and pray weapons, infinite headshots and three or four choke points per map. I love counterstrike, but name me one regular or casual player that doesnt think hes the best counterstrike player of all time. That game is more luck than skill.
I would like mmogames to be more skill based, but I just can't picture it. Subspace/continium is as close as I can see to what you are looking for and that game gets boring after a few hours. Even counterstrike would be hard to enjoy for more than 3 or 4 hours straight, whereas you could spend the better part of a day playing wow or eve because there are many things you could be doing.
Its really sad. The grandparent was completely correct. You have an apologist viewpoint and you are getting offtopic. The issue here is would you comply with this unlawful letter that the government sends you. Thats the issue. Don't try and confuse it and compare your inaction in a theoretical situation with another posters REAL LIFE lack of action. I will bet that the grandparent has not actually recieved one of these letters, so you cant fault him for not being put in the situation. He stated what he would do in that situation and so have you so lets stick to that.
The hard thing for me to realize here is you say you care about your children. Does this not extend to the world they grow up in? If some child bearing tea thrower hadn't thrown that tea in the boston harbour, your childs future could have been alot different than it is today. Being selfish for yourself and your family is one way to do things. It may even keep your family safe in the short term. I am just trying to point out that you are a selfish apologist, which depending on your disposition could be forgiven.
When is the situation bad enough? When is the time for civil disobedience? I say, the time is granted with the opportunity and I commend the author of this article.
There is no such thing. Your ancestors fought and died for those rights. Attributing them to divinity disrespects your ancestors sacrifice, and the sacrifices of all who oppose tyranny and opression. "God" can lick a nut for all the good he ever did, all the help he ever was.
I love old people who are too scared and complacent to stand up for what they believe is right. Its one thing to be a coward, but please don't disuade or scare other people who are willing to risk their very lives, by fighting. Life is suffering. Might as well live it honourably and with principled purpose.
"which puts the average joe in a stinker of a position and leaves him making some difficult choices between doing what's right and doing what will preserve the safety of his family and himself."
Anyone who chose his family condems all families to live in tyranny. Its the same as when adama threatened to kill the chiefs wife because as he put it, *paraphrasing* when people pursue their own selfish goals, instead of the goal of the fleet then no ones children are safe.
Do you want your children to grow up in a world where you didnt fight the state back, when it is behaving contrary to the interests of the represented peoples and the supposed ideals of said state?
Mansons not metal, but yes his songs are quite smart. He even debated civily with bill o riely.
He really has some brilliant songs and videos. Antichrist superstar is one of the best put together albums I've ever owned. A personal favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_R40Zb--U
"This filename was written into the registry so it would be run again on startup:"
And thats the ticket. Everything has to load from somewhere, and a safemode scan with something like hijack this would show this up no problem. The only issue I can see is that unless there was significant system lag, you would have no idea to even scan your system.
Very pro deconstruction though. I usually just whipe the little buggers.
"and rather than deal with it and eat his $10 losses, decided that he would rather get his music for free."
Hes not a pirate, he certainly hasn't got anything for free. He paid ten dollars. When he realized he couldn't format shift with the tools he had, he had no other choice but to get someone to format shift them for him. He was exercising his fair use rights to format shift. This is not even piracy.
FUD or ignorance. It moves everything from my documents, program files and %systemroot% into windows.old. This includes "C:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.v4c" which is where your bookmarks are stored. I didnt even have to reinstall any plugins. You do have to copy the folder manually, but your post makes it sound like windows just deletes it which it assuredly does not.
"what the heck are you supposed to do with your system (as mine) when you depend on it, and a complex configuration you've spend a long time building?"
Um, don't upgrade it?
What a ridiculous thing to say. Blaming m$ is cool and all, but you cant blame them for your lack of upgrade planning/testing/FORESIGHT. M$ bashing is getting pretty sad if that's the best you can come up with.
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And then they raise your taxes or step up police response and minor fines. Its anice thought, but the state can always hit you harder then you can hit them. The real solution is to get them removed - politically.
I always click advanced options on things but your right, most people wouldn't.
Everyone does this. The grand parent who baught a $700 20 inch monitor aparently to view his desktop, has his priorities skewed a bit.
Yeah we all saw that episode. Was your friends name homer simpson?
If your job was playing wow, do you honestly think you'd still enjoy it?
Yes how very perceptive of you. Of course if you ever had actually seen a car comerical, they clearly say something to the effect of "DRAMATIZATION DO NOT ATTEMPT". And PROFESSIONAL DRIVER ON CLOSED COURSE DO NOT ATTEMPT. Why exactly do you think they put those fineprints in there?
This is by far the stupidest post I've read all day.. jesus christ.
And I'm so sick of insurance salesmen so there.
Most CS servers have some sort of corporate sponsoship and have even back in old beta CS. Someones gotta pay for the phat pipes and servers. It was usually ISPs and webhosting type services that did it for publicity. I guess this is different, maybe they buy you gold or something. I wonder what sponsorship entails. I guess if they baught you a new PC every 6 months and paid your internets bill I could see people doing that. Personally, I would think that being a slave to a corporation is something you would only voluntarily do for real life money. Even then I would think that you want to leave that as much behind as pôssible when your playing a game. This is of course wow players we are talking about though, and wow is pretty much like a full time job already. Some people just like being corporate or guild slaves. Same thing really.
"Discuss" is a word appended to an obvious, usually one line statements, that proves the poster has only basic insight into the topic and just wants to leech karma off of more insightful replies.
Why would you ever be offline?
I guess she never heard the expression "don't feed the trolls". This is exactly the crazy overblown reaction that I am sure makes this particular troll giddy with attention happiness. He even made slashdot now.
By trolling standards, this is a complete and utter success. Trolls only want attention people, and shes played right into its hand.
Oh yeah counterstrike is a great example of a skilled game. What with all its spray and pray weapons, infinite headshots and three or four choke points per map. I love counterstrike, but name me one regular or casual player that doesnt think hes the best counterstrike player of all time. That game is more luck than skill.
I would like mmogames to be more skill based, but I just can't picture it. Subspace/continium is as close as I can see to what you are looking for and that game gets boring after a few hours. Even counterstrike would be hard to enjoy for more than 3 or 4 hours straight, whereas you could spend the better part of a day playing wow or eve because there are many things you could be doing.
Its really sad. The grandparent was completely correct. You have an apologist viewpoint and you are getting offtopic. The issue here is would you comply with this unlawful letter that the government sends you. Thats the issue. Don't try and confuse it and compare your inaction in a theoretical situation with another posters REAL LIFE lack of action. I will bet that the grandparent has not actually recieved one of these letters, so you cant fault him for not being put in the situation. He stated what he would do in that situation and so have you so lets stick to that.
The hard thing for me to realize here is you say you care about your children. Does this not extend to the world they grow up in? If some child bearing tea thrower hadn't thrown that tea in the boston harbour, your childs future could have been alot different than it is today. Being selfish for yourself and your family is one way to do things. It may even keep your family safe in the short term. I am just trying to point out that you are a selfish apologist, which depending on your disposition could be forgiven.
When is the situation bad enough? When is the time for civil disobedience? I say, the time is granted with the opportunity and I commend the author of this article.
"God" can lick a nut for all the good he ever did, all the help he ever was.
I love old people who are too scared and complacent to stand up for what they believe is right. Its one thing to be a coward, but please don't disuade or scare other people who are willing to risk their very lives, by fighting. Life is suffering. Might as well live it honourably and with principled purpose.
Do you want your children to grow up in a world where you didnt fight the state back, when it is behaving contrary to the interests of the represented peoples and the supposed ideals of said state?
Mansons not metal, but yes his songs are quite smart. He even debated civily with bill o riely.
He really has some brilliant songs and videos. Antichrist superstar is one of the best put together albums I've ever owned. A personal favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_R40Zb--U
Very pro deconstruction though. I usually just whipe the little buggers.
FUD or ignorance. It moves everything from my documents, program files and %systemroot% into windows.old. This includes "C:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.v4c" which is where your bookmarks are stored. I didnt even have to reinstall any plugins. You do have to copy the folder manually, but your post makes it sound like windows just deletes it which it assuredly does not.
What a ridiculous thing to say. Blaming m$ is cool and all, but you cant blame them for your lack of upgrade planning/testing/FORESIGHT. M$ bashing is getting pretty sad if that's the best you can come up with.
And if he was talking about vista, it's even easier. This took me 4 minutes to find with the google.
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1371