All these DRM schemes are future-failures. More specifically, at some point in the future, you will be denied the game you purchased because of the DRM. Get a new console? Now you have to (somehow) reset your card so you can run it on the new console.
Want to take it to a friends house? Pack up your console!
Company goes out of business, or stops supporting it because it's obsolete? Say goodbye.
In the future, old games won't be worth more because of rarity. They'll be worth more if you still have some way to make them work after their DRM scheme fails.
Of course, it will be cracked. Quickly. Which is a GOOD thing.
I spent my first two years of calculus lectures sleeping in. I scored near perfect in both classes.
WHY do people have to be at lectures they don't need, again?
It's the university's stupid rules that don't allow me to just test out of the classes: they've got to have their money.
But why would they want me sitting in a lecture distracting other people while I surf youtube?
Of course, there's no problem with relying on third parties to provide access to games that you've purchased.
I mean, STEAM will be around forever to allow us to play all those games that phone home. Right?
It's a faulty assumption that lack of technology caused high dropout rates in during the correspondence craze of the 20's. The real issue is that a low entry cost coupled with a lack of requiring people to attend a physical room or building means that walking away doesn't involve any walking.
You simply don't watch anymore. It's as easy as changing the channel on the TV.
Essentially you're commoditizing education.
Without a requiring a large investment of cash, all but the most serious students students feel no remorse about walking away.
News for nerds? Stuff that matters? Taking a press release off a website that already copied it from another website is now 'news that matters'?
It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so obviously biased either. We're going to ignore the 100 mile all electric Ford Focus coming in late 2011, right? The Fiesta? Hell, how about mention of the Volt in there too, and the upcoming Tesla Sedan?
But don't worry. We already know that only the Japanese can build and make cars.
Really? That's interesting.
I must have missed the pictures where Americans grow their strawberrys on shelves like that, in climate controlled automatically ferilized and watered greenhouses, etc etc etc.
I think, perhaps, we might do well to understand what is driving them to that rather expensive farming method: lack of space. That forces them into a tiered shelving system indoor that is already significantly automated and is ideal for a delicate robot vision / automation system that could move along rails.
Then we can compare that to our system of doing it in nice, dirty fields with uneven ground, where the strawberries are not hanging from pretty shelves but must be located under and behind foilage and picked.
I applaud your optimism, but this is really not much of an innovation considering we've been using vision systems for the same sort of things in mass production for the last 20 years. We're not to the point of flying cars just yet.
Broadcasting information in the clear leaves it open to everyone. It's really no different than having a radio station and being surprised people tune in, or having a conversation on a crowded elevator and being upset that someone overheard you.
While a lock on a house is very easy to pick, it serves it's purpose. It keeps honest people honest. Frankly, people who want to get into your house are going to get in quite easily, regardless of your locks. Windows tend to do that.
Broadcasting in the clear is, effectively, leaving the door wide open. In fact, with firesheep, it's tantamount to posting a sign saying "door unlocked, no one home". Your anger would be far better directed at the websites who choose to doing NOTHING with regards to storing information in cookies.
Take that a step further. Frankly, people who allow web browsers to store information (history, cookies, and worse passwords and form information) shouldn't be surprised that people turn up with it. Stop leaving your doors unlocked.
Why would I switch to SSD? I've had 1 drive go bad in my lifetime. They've lasted in some cases 20+ years. Plus they are cheaper. Why would I bother buying SSD's when they have a known failure point at after given number of writes?
This is very much like the blue-ray issue. It's not surprising folks aren't interested in jumping on board because, frankly, there is no real reason to run out and BUY it.
CD's and DVD's had huge adoption because you saw a large improvement on your existing hardware. Bluerays required a new TV to see that improvement - and it was a very expensive TV at the time.
Once people have purchased new TV's (it will probably take another 5-10 years for the older TV's to all fail so that the mom and pops of the world HAVE to go buy a new one) blue-rays will have come way down in price and they'll finally replace the DVD.
Likewise the SSD. I'm sure many other folks are as tired as I am regarding these silly... strike that... STUPID press releases trying to push their sale.
They will be bought when there is a need. There is none at this point, except in very specific applications, like the high-vibration atmosphere at manufacturing plants.
Shame on Slashdot's editors for continuing to run this hokey marketing BS, and shame on the people who continue to send articles like this. It's quite silly, frankly.
People make a big deal about the community, but I think you need to ask yourself something.
What percentage of the sales go that "community"? I'd wager you see a couple thousand sales, or maybe a 10-20 thousand sales in a popular game that actually end up in the hands of someone who actively posts on-line and wants to mod or develop for a game.
How many millions are sold to the public?
So where would YOU, were you to run a company, put the emphasis? On programming another game to sell to the millions, or on developing additional tools and content for the thousands?
However, there's one hitch. They've already done this out on the salt flats with an actual person in the vehicle, and done it dozens of times in front of hundreds of people. No tricks, a very simple mechanism. It isn't perpetual motion any more than a DN Iceboat that can go insane speeds of 70+ mph in a breeze of 20 - downwind.
The engineers who put that machine together are there. I've talked with them dozens of times and they've explained literally every step of their process. You'll find no end of skeptics - right up until the point where they start posting videos of them actually doing it. There's nothing secret here, they'll explain it right down to the nuts and bolts so you can build your own scale model to prove it to yourself, on a treadmill or in the real world.
This isn't perpetual motion. It's elegant engineering. There have been boats in the water developing this same concept (though they can't go dead down wind yet) for a long long time.
Their main issue with going DDW is the losses incurred because of the friction with the water. The ground (or even ice) is far less lossy in transferring the power from the wind-driven motion back to the vehicle.
#1 Every network, and every webpage, from facebook to the smallest server and forum is owned by someone.
#2 Because every medium of expression on the internet is owned by someone, there isn't one of them that is truly free.
#3 Freedom of expression on the internet is a myth. If it offends someone, and that person can make a stink about it, your 'free speech' can and will be removed.
You have no freedom of speech on the internet. Unless you're comment on government forums. Which are also moderated heavily.
I sure hope you NEVER complain about the number of lawyers in this country, because you just highlighted exactly why so many of them have jobs.
Hogan and Warner knowingly broke quite a few laws, and you're suggesting they use every avenue to stonewall the police instead of doing the right thing and turning the evidence and themselves in. It was a very smart move on the father's part to let the police in. Why we he want to appear complicit in this idiots crime? I know if the police showed up at my house about my kid, I'd roll out the red carpet for them so they can do their job.
Son? You fucked up. Time to pay the piper. Here's the police.
It looks like at least some parents (and people) still know how to act in this world. I can't say you're one of them.
I've worked as an engineer for 20 years in an industry famous for it's unions: automotive. I get a smile on my face every time I read articles like this.
First I want to address the tech side of this post. Why is it "IT" this and "IT" that...... as if it's only happening to people who develop games or work on computers for a living? I understand this is an IT centric website (which I read because I write code on the side), but a good cold dose of reality might help IT and programming folks. "Crunch" time goes on it every job that involves bringing a product to market, and it's been going on for hundreds of years. From cars to the bottling industry to programmers, every one has it. A new program launch can take upwards of 4 years and if you're needed on it you're working on it. You really don't have a say short of leaving the company. 14 hours days 6 and 7 days a week are the norm for launches - if nothing goes wrong. Right now I'm on a launch that has been going on for 6 years. This is the reality of working in these industries. Blame the 'managers' all you like, but until someone smarter than everyone who has been in those positions finds a way to make it better, that's just the way it is.
I hesitate to call it whining, but all too often on this site I see just that. I see people who seem to think they are somehow unique in experiencing these problems. I have programmer friends who complain about their 10 and 12 hour days (paid), and yet I'm 8 with an expected 2-3 of casual overtime everyday. I have programmer friends who complain about outsourcing and foreign workers, yet happily drive Lexii' and BMW's.
The IT industry isn't particularly more special that any other engineering occupation - and the other engineering occupations have been doing these things and dealing with them for a far longer time than the fledgling computer-folks have. Mod it trollish if you feel like, but it's time folks realize this is a worldwide problem, and not just some issue the folks in silicon valley have to deal with on a daily basis. It's competition, and competition drives us to gain every edge we can - including pushing assets (people) much harder than we probably should.
With regards to unions, if you truly don't believe that they brainwash their people by telling them what they want to here, talk to administrative assistants who refuse to be called secretaries. Talk to people who literally turn a bolt all day but think they should be paid consummate with engineers who have to take risks and responsibility that could get people killed should something go wrong.
Unions in the automotive industry have served to vastly over-inflate the self-worth of many, many employees. They have also served to protect jobs that should have been eliminated, and to protect people that should have been let go.
Or you could just stop complaining about how expensive American products are in general....
Ahhhh, the smell of the egotistical literary elite.
If it's popular it must suck, and if it's downtrodden and non-read, it must be the best thing on earth.
Art? Intellectual freedom?
Wake up captain craptastic. It's the best selling book series ever. Perhaps you don't like how she dangles her participle, she is by every measure an incredible author, regardless of how many metaphors, semiphores, and pinafores she uses. Your intellectual elitism is no more unique or intelligent than mainstream stupidity. It's just a slightly less obvious form.
Really? That's interesting. I just drove all the way across the state of Michigan, from Port Huron to Grand Rapids, and was streaming video and downloading files using my Sprint USB mobile broadband.
All so we could get ready for a robotics presentation we needed to do. No black outs, no lost connections, I had 60-100% connection the whole time.
I would imagine 3g coverage in well-covered high-density cities would be even better.
This guy denied access to the owners of that network. Just because there isn't a law to fit the crime doesn't mean he is innocent of wrong doing. Hell, it's not a stretch to say that for a time, before they recovered it, he had stolen the entire network from them.
Take your word smithing and semantics and stick 'em where the sun don't shine. What he did was wrong for it, and he needs to be punished.
>>However, we no longer live in a world where the police only arrest dangerous people.
WHAT?
You are certainly NO student of history. Right now, at this very moment, we have probably the most effective LEAST dangerous police forces in this country EVER. Would you really like to argue that?
Go ahead and try. Tell me a decade when they were better than we have it right now. We have dozens of rights organizations ready to step up to the plate if an officer so muchs as farts when he's not supposed to. So, if you please, tell me when we DID only arrest dangerous people? In the 40's, people were arrested for being Japanese. In the 50's, people were arrested for being black. In the 60's, people were arrested for demonstrating. Segragation? Schools? I would bet you could go back decade by decade, all the way back to the wild west and before, and show millions of instances of arrests for anything BUT someone being dangerous.
I know that people who are young or people who don't have a good grasp of history don't get it. It's sad really. We are living in a time with free legal representation - many times you'll get pro-bono work from some of the best lawyers in the country if it's a high profile case. The ACLU, the EFF, and hundreds of others are willing to stand up against the police and fight for YOU.
On top of that, I've typed all this sounding a bit like the police are the bad guys. That isn't true either. They go through more training and take more psychology tests to weed out the dangerous power seeking ones that ever before. Because of economic times, many of the poor performers have been let go. No, they aren't perfect. But they're better right now than they've ever been before for a hundred different reasons. I get sick of people talking about how the past was always better. How on earth did they ever get deluded into believing that?
1. Sell 3G Iphone and advertise that it can browse the web, download songs, etc.
2. Tie in I-tunes, drm, and a lot of other nasty crap so that once the user starts using it, he loses everything he's purchased (music, apps, etc) if he stops.
3. Increase the price on those users because they doing something "wrong" by using it too much.
4. ?????
5. Profit
Screw that bullshit. I think I'll keep using my phone as just a phone, until these guys get their heads out of their asses. Do folks really have that much disposable income that they can drop hundreds a month on silliness like this? It's a rethorical question.
All piling on, screaming, yelling, rabid comments, without knowing why or how.
Have you watched the video? Did you see how PACKED it was?
Where were the orderly lines, set up with ropes, enforced with security? Where were any possible safety measures?
This record exec, if he arranged this, screwed up in a HUGE way. It was pretty clear that NO one was organizing or making this event orderly. I'm surprised people weren't getting pushed over the waist high walls into the second level, or falling and getting crushed under foot.
I'm sorry, but there is a whole lot of circumstances here beside what the oh-so-informative title says. The record label and the mall need to be held responsible for that total cluster fuck. Ordering him to tweet WAS compeltely reasonable when you see the danger involved that this man caused by a total lack of preparation.
Bing is still FILTERING their results.
Now I don't mind when a company sorts the results in some type of ranking to try to give me better search results. But Bing is still BLATENTLY trying to play big brother by literally not allowing you to do some searches - ie the search results that are returned are clearly highly filtered.
I did a number of test cases where this is repeated - compared them to google and it's quite clear they are removing some of the more morally "reprehensible" stuff. But here's the thing. I typed it in, I clicked enter. I expect an unfettered search and a set or results that reflect what's really out there - not Bing's "I want to play your parent" set of results.
And yes, I know about their seperate "porn" section, and that's not what I'm talking about.
Why should anyone who just forked out $xxx for a brand-new OS then be forced to download a new web-browser? Why not just include the web-browser with the OS?
Ummmm...... ok. Since when has a moving violation - a rolling stop - that's been around around since the stop light and stop sign were invented suddenly been classified as a "California stop". Talk about ego.
Why, exactly, would you run to the doctor just because you think you might have the swine flu?
If your temperature is within reason, and you don't have other symptoms or are at high risk, why would we want to inundate our medical system with a bunch of people who 'just want to make sure'?
I'm surprised one of the tagging words isn't 'ooohscaryscary'.
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All these DRM schemes are future-failures. More specifically, at some point in the future, you will be denied the game you purchased because of the DRM. Get a new console? Now you have to (somehow) reset your card so you can run it on the new console. Want to take it to a friends house? Pack up your console! Company goes out of business, or stops supporting it because it's obsolete? Say goodbye. In the future, old games won't be worth more because of rarity. They'll be worth more if you still have some way to make them work after their DRM scheme fails. Of course, it will be cracked. Quickly. Which is a GOOD thing.
I spent my first two years of calculus lectures sleeping in. I scored near perfect in both classes. WHY do people have to be at lectures they don't need, again? It's the university's stupid rules that don't allow me to just test out of the classes: they've got to have their money. But why would they want me sitting in a lecture distracting other people while I surf youtube?
Of course, there's no problem with relying on third parties to provide access to games that you've purchased. I mean, STEAM will be around forever to allow us to play all those games that phone home. Right?
It's a faulty assumption that lack of technology caused high dropout rates in during the correspondence craze of the 20's. The real issue is that a low entry cost coupled with a lack of requiring people to attend a physical room or building means that walking away doesn't involve any walking. You simply don't watch anymore. It's as easy as changing the channel on the TV. Essentially you're commoditizing education. Without a requiring a large investment of cash, all but the most serious students students feel no remorse about walking away.
News for nerds? Stuff that matters? Taking a press release off a website that already copied it from another website is now 'news that matters'? It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so obviously biased either. We're going to ignore the 100 mile all electric Ford Focus coming in late 2011, right? The Fiesta? Hell, how about mention of the Volt in there too, and the upcoming Tesla Sedan? But don't worry. We already know that only the Japanese can build and make cars.
Really? That's interesting. I must have missed the pictures where Americans grow their strawberrys on shelves like that, in climate controlled automatically ferilized and watered greenhouses, etc etc etc. I think, perhaps, we might do well to understand what is driving them to that rather expensive farming method: lack of space. That forces them into a tiered shelving system indoor that is already significantly automated and is ideal for a delicate robot vision / automation system that could move along rails. Then we can compare that to our system of doing it in nice, dirty fields with uneven ground, where the strawberries are not hanging from pretty shelves but must be located under and behind foilage and picked. I applaud your optimism, but this is really not much of an innovation considering we've been using vision systems for the same sort of things in mass production for the last 20 years. We're not to the point of flying cars just yet.
You don't seem to get it.
Broadcasting information in the clear leaves it open to everyone. It's really no different than having a radio station and being surprised people tune in, or having a conversation on a crowded elevator and being upset that someone overheard you.
While a lock on a house is very easy to pick, it serves it's purpose. It keeps honest people honest. Frankly, people who want to get into your house are going to get in quite easily, regardless of your locks. Windows tend to do that.
Broadcasting in the clear is, effectively, leaving the door wide open. In fact, with firesheep, it's tantamount to posting a sign saying "door unlocked, no one home". Your anger would be far better directed at the websites who choose to doing NOTHING with regards to storing information in cookies.
Take that a step further. Frankly, people who allow web browsers to store information (history, cookies, and worse passwords and form information) shouldn't be surprised that people turn up with it. Stop leaving your doors unlocked.
Why would I switch to SSD? I've had 1 drive go bad in my lifetime. They've lasted in some cases 20+ years. Plus they are cheaper. Why would I bother buying SSD's when they have a known failure point at after given number of writes?
This is very much like the blue-ray issue. It's not surprising folks aren't interested in jumping on board because, frankly, there is no real reason to run out and BUY it.
CD's and DVD's had huge adoption because you saw a large improvement on your existing hardware. Bluerays required a new TV to see that improvement - and it was a very expensive TV at the time.
Once people have purchased new TV's (it will probably take another 5-10 years for the older TV's to all fail so that the mom and pops of the world HAVE to go buy a new one) blue-rays will have come way down in price and they'll finally replace the DVD.
Likewise the SSD. I'm sure many other folks are as tired as I am regarding these silly... strike that... STUPID press releases trying to push their sale.
They will be bought when there is a need. There is none at this point, except in very specific applications, like the high-vibration atmosphere at manufacturing plants.
Shame on Slashdot's editors for continuing to run this hokey marketing BS, and shame on the people who continue to send articles like this. It's quite silly, frankly.
How DARE they tell you what to do with a car they own! What right do they have!
Other outrages include:
1. Posting speed limits that you must follow
2. Impounding cars for unpaid tickets
3. Stopping reckless drivers
Hey... once you discover spelling, capitalization and punctuation, why don't you see if you can find some common sense too?
People make a big deal about the community, but I think you need to ask yourself something. What percentage of the sales go that "community"? I'd wager you see a couple thousand sales, or maybe a 10-20 thousand sales in a popular game that actually end up in the hands of someone who actively posts on-line and wants to mod or develop for a game. How many millions are sold to the public? So where would YOU, were you to run a company, put the emphasis? On programming another game to sell to the millions, or on developing additional tools and content for the thousands?
Thanks for rehashing basically the entire debate.
However, there's one hitch. They've already done this out on the salt flats with an actual person in the vehicle, and done it dozens of times in front of hundreds of people. No tricks, a very simple mechanism. It isn't perpetual motion any more than a DN Iceboat that can go insane speeds of 70+ mph in a breeze of 20 - downwind.
In addition, you'll find hundreds of pages of discussion on sailing websites. Specifically here:
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=82175
The engineers who put that machine together are there. I've talked with them dozens of times and they've explained literally every step of their process. You'll find no end of skeptics - right up until the point where they start posting videos of them actually doing it. There's nothing secret here, they'll explain it right down to the nuts and bolts so you can build your own scale model to prove it to yourself, on a treadmill or in the real world.
This isn't perpetual motion. It's elegant engineering. There have been boats in the water developing this same concept (though they can't go dead down wind yet) for a long long time.
http://www.navagear.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/windowslivewriterwindturbinepoweredsailboat-1270awindmill-boat-thumb51.jpg
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/attachments/projects-proposals/13565d1180209267-windmill-wind-turbine-powered-boats-how-many-out-there-they-viable-vertical_windmill_catamaran.jpg
Their main issue with going DDW is the losses incurred because of the friction with the water. The ground (or even ice) is far less lossy in transferring the power from the wind-driven motion back to the vehicle.
#1 Every network, and every webpage, from facebook to the smallest server and forum is owned by someone. #2 Because every medium of expression on the internet is owned by someone, there isn't one of them that is truly free. #3 Freedom of expression on the internet is a myth. If it offends someone, and that person can make a stink about it, your 'free speech' can and will be removed. You have no freedom of speech on the internet. Unless you're comment on government forums. Which are also moderated heavily.
Wow.
I sure hope you NEVER complain about the number of lawyers in this country, because you just highlighted exactly why so many of them have jobs.
Hogan and Warner knowingly broke quite a few laws, and you're suggesting they use every avenue to stonewall the police instead of doing the right thing and turning the evidence and themselves in. It was a very smart move on the father's part to let the police in. Why we he want to appear complicit in this idiots crime? I know if the police showed up at my house about my kid, I'd roll out the red carpet for them so they can do their job.
Son? You fucked up. Time to pay the piper. Here's the police.
It looks like at least some parents (and people) still know how to act in this world. I can't say you're one of them.
Frankly, I'd love it if my co-workers weren't allowed to talk.
I've worked as an engineer for 20 years in an industry famous for it's unions: automotive. I get a smile on my face every time I read articles like this.
First I want to address the tech side of this post. Why is it "IT" this and "IT" that...... as if it's only happening to people who develop games or work on computers for a living? I understand this is an IT centric website (which I read because I write code on the side), but a good cold dose of reality might help IT and programming folks. "Crunch" time goes on it every job that involves bringing a product to market, and it's been going on for hundreds of years. From cars to the bottling industry to programmers, every one has it. A new program launch can take upwards of 4 years and if you're needed on it you're working on it. You really don't have a say short of leaving the company. 14 hours days 6 and 7 days a week are the norm for launches - if nothing goes wrong. Right now I'm on a launch that has been going on for 6 years. This is the reality of working in these industries. Blame the 'managers' all you like, but until someone smarter than everyone who has been in those positions finds a way to make it better, that's just the way it is.
I hesitate to call it whining, but all too often on this site I see just that. I see people who seem to think they are somehow unique in experiencing these problems. I have programmer friends who complain about their 10 and 12 hour days (paid), and yet I'm 8 with an expected 2-3 of casual overtime everyday. I have programmer friends who complain about outsourcing and foreign workers, yet happily drive Lexii' and BMW's.
The IT industry isn't particularly more special that any other engineering occupation - and the other engineering occupations have been doing these things and dealing with them for a far longer time than the fledgling computer-folks have. Mod it trollish if you feel like, but it's time folks realize this is a worldwide problem, and not just some issue the folks in silicon valley have to deal with on a daily basis. It's competition, and competition drives us to gain every edge we can - including pushing assets (people) much harder than we probably should.
With regards to unions, if you truly don't believe that they brainwash their people by telling them what they want to here, talk to administrative assistants who refuse to be called secretaries. Talk to people who literally turn a bolt all day but think they should be paid consummate with engineers who have to take risks and responsibility that could get people killed should something go wrong.
Unions in the automotive industry have served to vastly over-inflate the self-worth of many, many employees. They have also served to protect jobs that should have been eliminated, and to protect people that should have been let go.
Or you could just stop complaining about how expensive American products are in general....
Ahhhh, the smell of the egotistical literary elite.
If it's popular it must suck, and if it's downtrodden and non-read, it must be the best thing on earth.
Art? Intellectual freedom?
Wake up captain craptastic. It's the best selling book series ever. Perhaps you don't like how she dangles her participle, she is by every measure an incredible author, regardless of how many metaphors, semiphores, and pinafores she uses. Your intellectual elitism is no more unique or intelligent than mainstream stupidity. It's just a slightly less obvious form.
Really? That's interesting. I just drove all the way across the state of Michigan, from Port Huron to Grand Rapids, and was streaming video and downloading files using my Sprint USB mobile broadband. All so we could get ready for a robotics presentation we needed to do. No black outs, no lost connections, I had 60-100% connection the whole time. I would imagine 3g coverage in well-covered high-density cities would be even better.
This guy denied access to the owners of that network. Just because there isn't a law to fit the crime doesn't mean he is innocent of wrong doing. Hell, it's not a stretch to say that for a time, before they recovered it, he had stolen the entire network from them.
Take your word smithing and semantics and stick 'em where the sun don't shine. What he did was wrong for it, and he needs to be punished.
>>However, we no longer live in a world where the police only arrest dangerous people.
WHAT?
You are certainly NO student of history. Right now, at this very moment, we have probably the most effective LEAST dangerous police forces in this country EVER. Would you really like to argue that?
Go ahead and try. Tell me a decade when they were better than we have it right now. We have dozens of rights organizations ready to step up to the plate if an officer so muchs as farts when he's not supposed to. So, if you please, tell me when we DID only arrest dangerous people? In the 40's, people were arrested for being Japanese. In the 50's, people were arrested for being black. In the 60's, people were arrested for demonstrating. Segragation? Schools? I would bet you could go back decade by decade, all the way back to the wild west and before, and show millions of instances of arrests for anything BUT someone being dangerous.
I know that people who are young or people who don't have a good grasp of history don't get it. It's sad really. We are living in a time with free legal representation - many times you'll get pro-bono work from some of the best lawyers in the country if it's a high profile case. The ACLU, the EFF, and hundreds of others are willing to stand up against the police and fight for YOU.
On top of that, I've typed all this sounding a bit like the police are the bad guys. That isn't true either. They go through more training and take more psychology tests to weed out the dangerous power seeking ones that ever before. Because of economic times, many of the poor performers have been let go. No, they aren't perfect. But they're better right now than they've ever been before for a hundred different reasons. I get sick of people talking about how the past was always better. How on earth did they ever get deluded into believing that?
1. Sell 3G Iphone and advertise that it can browse the web, download songs, etc.
2. Tie in I-tunes, drm, and a lot of other nasty crap so that once the user starts using it, he loses everything he's purchased (music, apps, etc) if he stops.
3. Increase the price on those users because they doing something "wrong" by using it too much.
4. ?????
5. Profit
Screw that bullshit. I think I'll keep using my phone as just a phone, until these guys get their heads out of their asses. Do folks really have that much disposable income that they can drop hundreds a month on silliness like this? It's a rethorical question.
All piling on, screaming, yelling, rabid comments, without knowing why or how.
Have you watched the video? Did you see how PACKED it was?
Where were the orderly lines, set up with ropes, enforced with security? Where were any possible safety measures?
This record exec, if he arranged this, screwed up in a HUGE way. It was pretty clear that NO one was organizing or making this event orderly. I'm surprised people weren't getting pushed over the waist high walls into the second level, or falling and getting crushed under foot.
I'm sorry, but there is a whole lot of circumstances here beside what the oh-so-informative title says. The record label and the mall need to be held responsible for that total cluster fuck. Ordering him to tweet WAS compeltely reasonable when you see the danger involved that this man caused by a total lack of preparation.
Bing is still FILTERING their results. Now I don't mind when a company sorts the results in some type of ranking to try to give me better search results. But Bing is still BLATENTLY trying to play big brother by literally not allowing you to do some searches - ie the search results that are returned are clearly highly filtered. I did a number of test cases where this is repeated - compared them to google and it's quite clear they are removing some of the more morally "reprehensible" stuff. But here's the thing. I typed it in, I clicked enter. I expect an unfettered search and a set or results that reflect what's really out there - not Bing's "I want to play your parent" set of results. And yes, I know about their seperate "porn" section, and that's not what I'm talking about.
Why should anyone who just forked out $xxx for a brand-new OS then be forced to download a new web-browser? Why not just include the web-browser with the OS?
Oh. Wait. Riggggght.
Ummmm...... ok. Since when has a moving violation - a rolling stop - that's been around around since the stop light and stop sign were invented suddenly been classified as a "California stop". Talk about ego.
Why, exactly, would you run to the doctor just because you think you might have the swine flu?
If your temperature is within reason, and you don't have other symptoms or are at high risk, why would we want to inundate our medical system with a bunch of people who 'just want to make sure'?
I'm surprised one of the tagging words isn't 'ooohscaryscary'.