And suing game companies will do...what, exactly? Make less games? People are responsible for themselves. If they can't cope with game addiction, then they need help with their lack of self-control. Suing game companies is a ridiculous measure by greedy lawyers and whiny little bastards who can't accept that they're responsible for their own damned behavior.
This judge should be removed from his position for letting this laughable shit actually get into the courts. It's called SELF-CONTROL. If you can't exercise some, then you get what you deserve. We're not talking about a physically addictive substance. We're talking about a VIDEO GAME. Yes, whiny idiots and greedy lawyers are part of the problem, but maybe we need to start booting judges for allowing unbelievable crap like this into the system in the first place.
It depends on the nature of the conversation. Usually there's a clause where the other party must have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So while recording a phone conversation will get you busted, recording a conversation out in the middle of the street will not. Some states say that only one party needs to consent (the recorder, generally), some say that both parties must consent.
Uh huh. He makes a ludicrously stupid point about the iPod ("proprietary codecs" had nothing to do with it no matter how you cut it), and then says Apple ripped everyone else off, which is silly. By that standard, just about everyone ripped everyone else off at some point. I'm really not an Apple fanboy. I like some of their products and think others are lousy. I think Apple as a company are asshats.
Also, to call the GP's post "decent" regardless of anything I posted...now THAT is beyond astounding.
I'm not going to argue that iTunes for Windows isn't a pile of pigshit. Apple seriously needs some competent Windows developers. However, that wasn't the point that was being made. He said it was a crappy frontend for a web store and sucked at media management, which is far more subjective than saying that iTunes is atrociously coded. He didn't even specify the platform. iTunes for OS X works just fine.
Is it smart to make these comments without reading the article?
If you answered "no" to that question, then you probably don't realize that Scapegaming never even showed up in court, which means Blizzard got a default judgement. They could've argued those points in court and perhaps won, but if you don't even bother making the court appointment, then you can't really bitch that the judge is ignorant for following a pretty goddamned clear procedure.
I still have a hard time believing that a lot of the recent changes to WoW for the worse don't have Bobby Kotick's grimy little fingerprints all over them.
Um, "holds more stuff, is a usable size, and actually has an interface that easy to navigate" is game-changing. The only MP3 players that had anywhere near the iPod's capacity were 2.5" bricks with godawful interfaces. Sorry, but taking what is largely a niche product and making it usable for the masses is VERY much a game changer.
Maintained by hobbyists?? Newsflash: While it may have been built by hobbyists, but Apple is FAR, FAR from the first corporate entity to make a commercial product from BSD.
These examples are dumb: iPod, late to the game mp3 player, didn't take off until they stopped their fixation for proprietary codecs.
What the HELL are you smoking? The iPod took off LONG before Apple abandoned DRM in iTunes. It took off a fair bit after Apple adopted AAC, and the iPod has always supported MP3...JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER PLAYER OUT THERE. Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? What exactly is a "proprietary codec", as if that even makes a different in whatever point you're trying to make.
iTunes - appalling front end for a web-store and cruddy media management.
Subjective opinion is subjective.
iPhone, very late to smartphones, front end copied from N710 free media player.
Once again, pull the damned crack pipe out of your mouth, please. OMG, it has teh square icons! Ripoff!
App store a blatent ripoff of what linux users had a decade before and pay-apps in the infamous Lindows.
Uh huh. Steam did something similar. So have numerous others. It wasn't a huge innovation, but it was a damned good implementation on a mobile device. You're living proof of why willfully ignorant Linux fanboys are worse than the most ardent Apple yuppie fanboy.
Okay, so even if they don't "innovate", they still put out products that are different enough and have a big enough impact to alter the market significantly. As such, the argument made by TFA still stands: Who else impacts the market like Apple?
True. I enjoyed my time at a university and know I benefited greatly from a structured, set environment. Just sitting at home online? Way too many goddamned distractions.
Very, very true. Some degrees may fall out of favor for self-education, but I'd rather have structural engineers and neurosurgeons with degrees than ones who learned online. There are just too many damned distractions online, and you still don't get the same benefits of a physical classroom, like you said.
Then focus specifically on mortgages and address that issue. Don't cry endlessly about class warfare in general. Find a specific instance of clear wrongdoing and hammer away instead of crying that you're not getting your "fair share" because someone is "confiscating" it. There are some ugly things that happen, no doubt, but such a broad attack comes off like the whining of a self-entitled brat who thinks the world should just hand him a living.
Why is there so much poverty in a land so rich? Just 10% of the people own, control, and consume 70% of the nation’s wealth. The other 90% of the people producing most of that wealth survive on the remaining 30%. Who is confiscating your fair share?
Who is "confiscating" my "fair share"? I'm sorry, those guys can go fuck themselves raw with a hot curling iron. The breakdown of wealth isn't always ideal, but to cry that someone has more than you and that you want your "fair share" is fucking self-entitled bullshit. You want your "fair share"? EARN IT instead of crying that someone else is "confiscating" it. I've got no love for fat cats, but I've got even less love for class warfare crybabies.
Java is all over. You'd be surprised at how many backends are written in Java. It's almost guaranteed to suck when you slap a GUI on it, but put it in the background and it works pretty well. That and Java is a pretty good place to start learning Obj-C-style languages.
Exactly. I think that even most people opposed to the idea that man is heating up the globe will not deny that the globe is heating up. That much is virtually undeniable. Hell, man or not, the earth goes through natural cycles of hot and cold. The big question is whether or not we're exacerbating the current upswing in heat.
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And suing game companies will do...what, exactly? Make less games? People are responsible for themselves. If they can't cope with game addiction, then they need help with their lack of self-control. Suing game companies is a ridiculous measure by greedy lawyers and whiny little bastards who can't accept that they're responsible for their own damned behavior.
This judge should be removed from his position for letting this laughable shit actually get into the courts. It's called SELF-CONTROL. If you can't exercise some, then you get what you deserve. We're not talking about a physically addictive substance. We're talking about a VIDEO GAME. Yes, whiny idiots and greedy lawyers are part of the problem, but maybe we need to start booting judges for allowing unbelievable crap like this into the system in the first place.
It depends on the nature of the conversation. Usually there's a clause where the other party must have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So while recording a phone conversation will get you busted, recording a conversation out in the middle of the street will not. Some states say that only one party needs to consent (the recorder, generally), some say that both parties must consent.
Uh huh. He makes a ludicrously stupid point about the iPod ("proprietary codecs" had nothing to do with it no matter how you cut it), and then says Apple ripped everyone else off, which is silly. By that standard, just about everyone ripped everyone else off at some point. I'm really not an Apple fanboy. I like some of their products and think others are lousy. I think Apple as a company are asshats.
Also, to call the GP's post "decent" regardless of anything I posted...now THAT is beyond astounding.
Is it common knowledge that Judges are ignorant of the technology they are asked to provide judgment over?
I think GP did, actually.
I'm not going to argue that iTunes for Windows isn't a pile of pigshit. Apple seriously needs some competent Windows developers. However, that wasn't the point that was being made. He said it was a crappy frontend for a web store and sucked at media management, which is far more subjective than saying that iTunes is atrociously coded. He didn't even specify the platform. iTunes for OS X works just fine.
Is it smart to make these comments without reading the article?
If you answered "no" to that question, then you probably don't realize that Scapegaming never even showed up in court, which means Blizzard got a default judgement. They could've argued those points in court and perhaps won, but if you don't even bother making the court appointment, then you can't really bitch that the judge is ignorant for following a pretty goddamned clear procedure.
I still have a hard time believing that a lot of the recent changes to WoW for the worse don't have Bobby Kotick's grimy little fingerprints all over them.
Um, "holds more stuff, is a usable size, and actually has an interface that easy to navigate" is game-changing. The only MP3 players that had anywhere near the iPod's capacity were 2.5" bricks with godawful interfaces. Sorry, but taking what is largely a niche product and making it usable for the masses is VERY much a game changer.
Maintained by hobbyists?? Newsflash: While it may have been built by hobbyists, but Apple is FAR, FAR from the first corporate entity to make a commercial product from BSD.
These examples are dumb: iPod, late to the game mp3 player, didn't take off until they stopped their fixation for proprietary codecs.
What the HELL are you smoking? The iPod took off LONG before Apple abandoned DRM in iTunes. It took off a fair bit after Apple adopted AAC, and the iPod has always supported MP3...JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER PLAYER OUT THERE. Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? What exactly is a "proprietary codec", as if that even makes a different in whatever point you're trying to make.
iTunes - appalling front end for a web-store and cruddy media management.
Subjective opinion is subjective.
iPhone, very late to smartphones, front end copied from N710 free media player.
Once again, pull the damned crack pipe out of your mouth, please. OMG, it has teh square icons! Ripoff!
App store a blatent ripoff of what linux users had a decade before and pay-apps in the infamous Lindows.
Uh huh. Steam did something similar. So have numerous others. It wasn't a huge innovation, but it was a damned good implementation on a mobile device. You're living proof of why willfully ignorant Linux fanboys are worse than the most ardent Apple yuppie fanboy.
Okay, so even if they don't "innovate", they still put out products that are different enough and have a big enough impact to alter the market significantly. As such, the argument made by TFA still stands: Who else impacts the market like Apple?
Yeah, because those fields haven't advanced massively over the past few decades or anything.
True. I enjoyed my time at a university and know I benefited greatly from a structured, set environment. Just sitting at home online? Way too many goddamned distractions.
Um...what? University courses will have hands-on computer courses. Mine sure as hell did.
Very, very true. Some degrees may fall out of favor for self-education, but I'd rather have structural engineers and neurosurgeons with degrees than ones who learned online. There are just too many damned distractions online, and you still don't get the same benefits of a physical classroom, like you said.
Then focus specifically on mortgages and address that issue. Don't cry endlessly about class warfare in general. Find a specific instance of clear wrongdoing and hammer away instead of crying that you're not getting your "fair share" because someone is "confiscating" it. There are some ugly things that happen, no doubt, but such a broad attack comes off like the whining of a self-entitled brat who thinks the world should just hand him a living.
The description said "the nation's", meaning the US, not the world at large.
Why is there so much poverty in a land so rich? Just 10% of the people own, control, and consume 70% of the nation’s wealth. The other 90% of the people producing most of that wealth survive on the remaining 30%. Who is confiscating your fair share?
Who is "confiscating" my "fair share"? I'm sorry, those guys can go fuck themselves raw with a hot curling iron. The breakdown of wealth isn't always ideal, but to cry that someone has more than you and that you want your "fair share" is fucking self-entitled bullshit. You want your "fair share"? EARN IT instead of crying that someone else is "confiscating" it. I've got no love for fat cats, but I've got even less love for class warfare crybabies.
Will the seats all have built-in bedpans? "Oh no kids, almost out of gas! Quick, scarf down this Taco Bus slop!"
I need to get a red bumper sticker that says, "If this sticker looks blue then you're going too damned fast"
Or you can tell the cop next time, "Well, I was driving toward the red light fast enough that it looked green..."
Java is all over. You'd be surprised at how many backends are written in Java. It's almost guaranteed to suck when you slap a GUI on it, but put it in the background and it works pretty well. That and Java is a pretty good place to start learning Obj-C-style languages.
Because you certainly have to ban an "apple fanboi" to see that Ballmer is merely an orangutan that has been dipped in Nair and stuffed into a suit.
Chairs are flyin'.
Exactly. I think that even most people opposed to the idea that man is heating up the globe will not deny that the globe is heating up. That much is virtually undeniable. Hell, man or not, the earth goes through natural cycles of hot and cold. The big question is whether or not we're exacerbating the current upswing in heat.