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Review: Spore
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· Score: 4, Insightful
No rootkits allowed on my machine, sorry. You can decorate a piece of shit to look like the Venus Di Milo, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a piece of shit at heart.
Excellent point. This is a very silly way to 'protest' about DRM. The best way to get companies to stop using DRM is to reason with them, contact them, and let them know how you feel. I can tell you 100% that no matter how many people would pirate my games, it wouldn't convince me to abandon DRM. What convinced me to do it was actually reading through what the people had to say when they emailed me on the topic.
All rating the game badly will do is make amazon's ratings look unusable, piss off everyone who worked on the game (many of which oppose DRM no doubt), and reinforce the mentality that those who oppose DRM are doing so for childish reasons. Well-thought out, considered and intelligent emails to the publishers and developers will achieve a hundred times more, as will boycotting the game (both legal and illegal copies) and only purchasing DRM-free games.
No it isn't. I'm pretty sure the way capitalism works is by speaking with your money. These are people who are vocally boycotting the game, and explaining why.
Also, if you look at the actual 1 star ratings, they all give said ratings for genuine, factual reasons. If they were accusing the game of killing puppies, or eating babies, then I would say its juvenile. However, they aren't. They're stating that it installs software similar to a rootkit. They're explaining that if the servers ever go online (as they did in the case of PlaysForSure and Yahoo Music) that you lose all ability to play your game. These aren't infantile gripes - they're very valid concerns from their consumer base.
They won't attack if they're neutered. Territoriality is usually based entirely on hormones if I remember correctly. I know most animals cease any territory marking upon being neutered, and you can't keep most animals together without having them neutered. However after the procedure they get along just fine.
I honestly don't mind it, but it kind of undercuts what would be a truly epic failure. Diplomacy during WWII? That was an epic fail. Creating a less-than-funny lolcat image? You 'fail' indeed, though the 'epic'ness of the failure is questionable at best.
That's a really good point - however, since most of the phones come from Korea, Taiwan, or China to begin with, I find it hard to believe they couldn't support unicode at the very least. Am I wrong? I know our software is written in unicode to support Korean, Chinese, and Japanese (Korean programming firm).
Just think of how bad text message spam would be if those tricksy Chineses were able to reach us? I imagine it's largely preventative given the amount of spam originating from that country.
May want to rethink that a little bit - I was home all the time from high school because my mother had to work, and my father was stuck home with cancer. I was miles ahead of the rest of my classmates, and I would have much rather spent the time with my dad than being couped up in a class room hearing what the difference between and adverb and an adjective was for the 900th time. I can pay to take classes any day, but I only had one father. Sadly, chemo and radiation therapies don't lend to people being the most awake and active so I spent a lot of the time alone, making sure he was still breathing.
Agreed, it depends on the day. When I used to skip all the time in highschool it was sometimes enjoyable to take a survey or just talk to someone. Gaming all day was fun, but it was nice to get some human contact - even if it was a marketer.
Maybe mentioned in the other comments. The thing i noticed was what when the eyes closed, the eyebrows stayed static. Thats unnatural. The skin tissue gets pulled when the eyelid shuts.
So did they remove all cans of spraypaint, RAID, aerosols, cheez-wiz, and other potentially flammable items? Did they remove all gauze bandages, clothing, and paper products? Did they disable the home heating oil valves, remove the lawnmower, and weedwacker? If applicable, did they turn off the natural gas main coming into the home? No. So, they saw things that scared them, and took them. Your assumption that they only took them because they're flammable is faulty my friend.
Actually I'm not underinformed. I read TFA. Having an incident in one half of a home does nothing to give officials warrant to search the rest of the home. Further without warrant personal property cannot be siezed unless there is a clear and present danger of a crime being committed. Hooray for civil liberties law. If nothing illegal or dangerous is found (as they state in the official story) then why is his equipment being disposed of? Why is he not being compensated?
Pam Wilderman's phone number according to the city's website is 1-(508)-460-3765. Give her some hell. She's a public servant. Call and let her know your opinion on the matter.
Given that the current machines are too big to work on a child, and this one is not, then I would say that it does indeed work differently - Different enough that it can be used to work on different patients. Define what requirements are needed for something to be considered "different"? Or would you prefer that these innovators get sued for duplicating existing technology which couldn't do the job it was supposed to?
The doctors deserve to receive some sort of notice from whatever professional association they belong to, and also a Patent for the smaller size machine that they created. Thats some pretty amazing work - and they already have a human test trial to back it.
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No rootkits allowed on my machine, sorry. You can decorate a piece of shit to look like the Venus Di Milo, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a piece of shit at heart.
I can't wait for horny hedgehog. And nubile nakedmolerat.
Without a reboot, no less.
Hopefully the point still got across though!
Oh snap! Party v& on the way!
Excellent point. This is a very silly way to 'protest' about DRM. The best way to get companies to stop using DRM is to reason with them, contact them, and let them know how you feel. I can tell you 100% that no matter how many people would pirate my games, it wouldn't convince me to abandon DRM. What convinced me to do it was actually reading through what the people had to say when they emailed me on the topic.
All rating the game badly will do is make amazon's ratings look unusable, piss off everyone who worked on the game (many of which oppose DRM no doubt), and reinforce the mentality that those who oppose DRM are doing so for childish reasons. Well-thought out, considered and intelligent emails to the publishers and developers will achieve a hundred times more, as will boycotting the game (both legal and illegal copies) and only purchasing DRM-free games.
No it isn't. I'm pretty sure the way capitalism works is by speaking with your money. These are people who are vocally boycotting the game, and explaining why. Also, if you look at the actual 1 star ratings, they all give said ratings for genuine, factual reasons. If they were accusing the game of killing puppies, or eating babies, then I would say its juvenile. However, they aren't. They're stating that it installs software similar to a rootkit. They're explaining that if the servers ever go online (as they did in the case of PlaysForSure and Yahoo Music) that you lose all ability to play your game. These aren't infantile gripes - they're very valid concerns from their consumer base.
They won't attack if they're neutered. Territoriality is usually based entirely on hormones if I remember correctly. I know most animals cease any territory marking upon being neutered, and you can't keep most animals together without having them neutered. However after the procedure they get along just fine.
+5 for luls!
I honestly don't mind it, but it kind of undercuts what would be a truly epic failure. Diplomacy during WWII? That was an epic fail. Creating a less-than-funny lolcat image? You 'fail' indeed, though the 'epic'ness of the failure is questionable at best.
That's a really good point - however, since most of the phones come from Korea, Taiwan, or China to begin with, I find it hard to believe they couldn't support unicode at the very least. Am I wrong? I know our software is written in unicode to support Korean, Chinese, and Japanese (Korean programming firm).
Just think of how bad text message spam would be if those tricksy Chineses were able to reach us? I imagine it's largely preventative given the amount of spam originating from that country.
Pot's only a performance enhancing drug at an eating contest.
They really need to come up with a way to visualize echoing sound in html5.
Well, she is pretty hot. I'd tap that solar energy if you know what I mean.
May want to rethink that a little bit - I was home all the time from high school because my mother had to work, and my father was stuck home with cancer. I was miles ahead of the rest of my classmates, and I would have much rather spent the time with my dad than being couped up in a class room hearing what the difference between and adverb and an adjective was for the 900th time. I can pay to take classes any day, but I only had one father. Sadly, chemo and radiation therapies don't lend to people being the most awake and active so I spent a lot of the time alone, making sure he was still breathing.
Agreed, it depends on the day. When I used to skip all the time in highschool it was sometimes enjoyable to take a survey or just talk to someone. Gaming all day was fun, but it was nice to get some human contact - even if it was a marketer.
Maybe mentioned in the other comments. The thing i noticed was what when the eyes closed, the eyebrows stayed static. Thats unnatural. The skin tissue gets pulled when the eyelid shuts.
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So, I guess this could be considered the ultimate rick roll.
So did they remove all cans of spraypaint, RAID, aerosols, cheez-wiz, and other potentially flammable items? Did they remove all gauze bandages, clothing, and paper products? Did they disable the home heating oil valves, remove the lawnmower, and weedwacker? If applicable, did they turn off the natural gas main coming into the home? No. So, they saw things that scared them, and took them. Your assumption that they only took them because they're flammable is faulty my friend.
Actually I'm not underinformed. I read TFA. Having an incident in one half of a home does nothing to give officials warrant to search the rest of the home. Further without warrant personal property cannot be siezed unless there is a clear and present danger of a crime being committed. Hooray for civil liberties law. If nothing illegal or dangerous is found (as they state in the official story) then why is his equipment being disposed of? Why is he not being compensated?
Agreed. America these days is a pussywhipped, nanny-stated, queer-plan-for-the-straight-man hollow shell of its former glory. :(
Pam Wilderman's phone number according to the city's website is 1-(508)-460-3765. Give her some hell. She's a public servant. Call and let her know your opinion on the matter.
Given that the current machines are too big to work on a child, and this one is not, then I would say that it does indeed work differently - Different enough that it can be used to work on different patients. Define what requirements are needed for something to be considered "different"? Or would you prefer that these innovators get sued for duplicating existing technology which couldn't do the job it was supposed to?
The doctors deserve to receive some sort of notice from whatever professional association they belong to, and also a Patent for the smaller size machine that they created. Thats some pretty amazing work - and they already have a human test trial to back it.