I think that is one of the greatest articles that I have read in a very long time. Finally, somebody with common sense pointing out where an industry is really failing as opposed to pointing fingers at piracy. If only there was somebody high up in the music industry and the movie industry that had the same mentality of this developer. Of course, that would also mean that somebody high up in those industries would have a brain...
The problem with this is that most of those labels profit comes from people that don't know or care about quality of music, or that they've been screwed on CD pricing for the last decade or more. Most of the people buying the major label blockbusters like Britney, J-Lo, and Nsync don't give a damn about how many major labels are left. As long as there is one major label pushing major crap, they will buy it. They're the reason why clubs play the same crap over and over. They don't care if it's different or not. They just like it because it's played alot, and it's popular. They don't have to decide if they like it or not. MTV decides for them. Clearchannel decides for them. Their girlfriend/boyfriend decides for them. If they aren't making a choice in music then what does it matter if they do have a choice?
I wonder how long it will be before somebody gets pissed about being recorded all the time, and develops something that gives off a small radius of EMP to distribute underground to counter the always on camera effect?
I play Battlefield Vietnam and occasionally there will be people griefing on there. Mostly, you hear people who can't fly bitch about people who can. I was on a server last night, and some guy kept going on and on about how happy he will be when the helicopters are nerfed. Of course, I'm sure if this person could actually fly a helicopter then they would have a completely different view on it.
Ah, I know exactly how you feel. Everytime I see that damn thing. I'm like, "Hey, I just paid for the damn thing, and you're giving me shit for it." If he's not getting paid enough for his dangerous work, then maybe he should consider a career change. I'm sure the Navy could use a new stunt guy in their commercials.
And of course, it's more fun to trash talk the other players on Smash Brothers when they are right next to you. I mean you can't virtually push the other person out of the chair to add a competitive edge against an online opponent. Oh, and it goes good with having some friends with drinking involved too.
I really hope that their next system does well. I have a Gamecube, and I really like alot of the different interesting games they come up with. Animal Planet and Pikmin were both really fun.
You might also want to try emailing them through their help section and attempt to get them to comply to standards. I emailed my bank (Suntrust), quite a while back, when their website used to throw a nasty message at me when I tried using Mozilla that I could only use IE. I never got a reply email back, but by God, less than two weeks later I was checking my Suntrust balance with Mozilla.
My work also uses Outlook Web Access. I hate it so much. How nice of Microsoft to make their email web access only render correctly in IE. Although, oddly enough I checked it once with Lynx and was actually able to read/write/delete mail and navigate folders.
That's okay. If they can completely eliminate cheating from the multiplayer in Half-Life 2, I'll buy a second copy to make up for the lost sale on you. I don't know why people are defending this. If you plan on doing it on your own local LAN, then nobody is going to look for you. Of course, you will need to write your own hacks, but if you enjoy playing who can click the fastest using aimbot with your buddies on "your" LAN, then you can learn to write your own code. The majority of lamers on the internet download other peoples hack programs so they can ruin online gaming for people who do not need aimbots, wallhacks, and other scripts to have fun.
If they wanted to spend the money in bandwidth and hosting space, one possible solution would be to keep up an ftp server and have all the transactions take place thru that server. And then keep the files on the server for the amount of time it takes to contend not recieving property for payment in case they need to investigate it.
I'm currently in the process of backing up all my cd's because I have a head unit in my car that plays mp3 cd's. That way I can get my entire 600+ cd collection into a flipper with about 10-15 cd's, plus having them all on my computers hard drive for immediate access on my computer when I feel like it. The program I have been using and has worked pretty good so far for me is AudioGrabber. I haven't had a cd that's refused to rip yet, and it's freeware.
"Freedom of religion does not be freedom from religion."
Yes it does. People are not required to adhere by a religion. There are quite a few athiests in our country.
"Really? You seemed to care? Try doing that in society today! You'll be labeled an old fashioned religious zealot and a homophobe."
I mainly care about equal rights regardless of your sexual preference. This person was openly attacking gay marriage whereas I do not view a problem with it. And before you start, if marriage is so sacred and holy and blah blah. Then remove marriage completely from state and federal law. If the government doesn't recognize it from anybody then it's still equal.
This country was founded on people wanting to escape a country that persecuted them for having different beliefs. Yes, it may have been different religious beliefs, but they recognized that in the future there would be more people with more different beliefs, and so they separated the church from the state.
Yes, and so you can call me a hypocrite all day long. Anybody that's ever had the ability to communicate will at some point do something or say something and have it turned around on them and be labeled as a hypocrite. But at any point, if there was any group, whether it be christians, homosexuals, or a minority, being arrested, killed, or persecuted for believing something different. I would take up for them.
I believe that everybody can have an opinion. I also believe that everybody can make their own choices about sexuality without being verbally and physically attacked because they have a different type of relationship than another. You can not like gay people all day long for all I care. But you should at least not attack their right as an American to the pursuit of happiness. If your religion does not like the thought of gay marriage then fine. Don't marry gay people in your church and don't recognize them. But the state and the church are to remain separate and so then, the state should recognize marriage regardless of the gender combination.
"It has nothing to do with the wicked north, just the wicked democrats who support abortition, gay marraige, and a whole slew of immoral acts, most of which would make the ancient greeks cringe in disgust."
Yeah, because killing all the Trojans is very noble and gay marriage is bad. Obviously somebody is a homophobe. And aren't there still some Asian communist countries? As long as one country has a communist government, then it's not really dead is it? And to my knowledge, making threats on the President's life can get you thrown into federal prison.
Argh, stop making lower processors!!! Make new higher ones. I don't want to be able to afford a new cpu. I want to dream about new fast ones that cost more than I have.:P
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I think that is one of the greatest articles that I have read in a very long time. Finally, somebody with common sense pointing out where an industry is really failing as opposed to pointing fingers at piracy. If only there was somebody high up in the music industry and the movie industry that had the same mentality of this developer. Of course, that would also mean that somebody high up in those industries would have a brain...
The problem with this is that most of those labels profit comes from people that don't know or care about quality of music, or that they've been screwed on CD pricing for the last decade or more. Most of the people buying the major label blockbusters like Britney, J-Lo, and Nsync don't give a damn about how many major labels are left. As long as there is one major label pushing major crap, they will buy it. They're the reason why clubs play the same crap over and over. They don't care if it's different or not. They just like it because it's played alot, and it's popular. They don't have to decide if they like it or not. MTV decides for them. Clearchannel decides for them. Their girlfriend/boyfriend decides for them. If they aren't making a choice in music then what does it matter if they do have a choice?
I wonder how long it will be before somebody gets pissed about being recorded all the time, and develops something that gives off a small radius of EMP to distribute underground to counter the always on camera effect?
I play Battlefield Vietnam and occasionally there will be people griefing on there. Mostly, you hear people who can't fly bitch about people who can. I was on a server last night, and some guy kept going on and on about how happy he will be when the helicopters are nerfed. Of course, I'm sure if this person could actually fly a helicopter then they would have a completely different view on it.
This sounds like it might be fun to try. I wonder if it'll make port to Half Life 2... whenever that comes out.
So when the brawl broke out, was anybody using an aimbot or other cheat method?
Ah, I know exactly how you feel. Everytime I see that damn thing. I'm like, "Hey, I just paid for the damn thing, and you're giving me shit for it." If he's not getting paid enough for his dangerous work, then maybe he should consider a career change. I'm sure the Navy could use a new stunt guy in their commercials.
Damn those spoiled Linux users. They should be made to suffer ad-ware, popups, and virii just like Windows users!!! :P
Awesome, milkshakes kick ass!!!
And of course, it's more fun to trash talk the other players on Smash Brothers when they are right next to you. I mean you can't virtually push the other person out of the chair to add a competitive edge against an online opponent. Oh, and it goes good with having some friends with drinking involved too.
I really hope that their next system does well. I have a Gamecube, and I really like alot of the different interesting games they come up with. Animal Planet and Pikmin were both really fun.
So does this mean that the recount was tallied up on a Windows machine with a special version of Excel...
You might also want to try emailing them through their help section and attempt to get them to comply to standards. I emailed my bank (Suntrust), quite a while back, when their website used to throw a nasty message at me when I tried using Mozilla that I could only use IE. I never got a reply email back, but by God, less than two weeks later I was checking my Suntrust balance with Mozilla.
My work also uses Outlook Web Access. I hate it so much. How nice of Microsoft to make their email web access only render correctly in IE. Although, oddly enough I checked it once with Lynx and was actually able to read/write/delete mail and navigate folders.
So will the Metallicops be stopping by the local Best Buy to beat up fans in the near future?
Better yet, we can finally have the source to port Clippy to every application.
What are you talking about? Everybody knows, it's going to be MS GOLF!!! :P
Because of this video. I can never look at Altered Beast the same.
That's okay. If they can completely eliminate cheating from the multiplayer in Half-Life 2, I'll buy a second copy to make up for the lost sale on you. I don't know why people are defending this. If you plan on doing it on your own local LAN, then nobody is going to look for you. Of course, you will need to write your own hacks, but if you enjoy playing who can click the fastest using aimbot with your buddies on "your" LAN, then you can learn to write your own code. The majority of lamers on the internet download other peoples hack programs so they can ruin online gaming for people who do not need aimbots, wallhacks, and other scripts to have fun.
If they wanted to spend the money in bandwidth and hosting space, one possible solution would be to keep up an ftp server and have all the transactions take place thru that server. And then keep the files on the server for the amount of time it takes to contend not recieving property for payment in case they need to investigate it.
I'm currently in the process of backing up all my cd's because I have a head unit in my car that plays mp3 cd's. That way I can get my entire 600+ cd collection into a flipper with about 10-15 cd's, plus having them all on my computers hard drive for immediate access on my computer when I feel like it. The program I have been using and has worked pretty good so far for me is AudioGrabber. I haven't had a cd that's refused to rip yet, and it's freeware.
"Freedom of religion does not be freedom from religion."
Yes it does. People are not required to adhere by a religion. There are quite a few athiests in our country.
"Really? You seemed to care? Try doing that in society today! You'll be labeled an old fashioned religious zealot and a homophobe."
I mainly care about equal rights regardless of your sexual preference. This person was openly attacking gay marriage whereas I do not view a problem with it. And before you start, if marriage is so sacred and holy and blah blah. Then remove marriage completely from state and federal law. If the government doesn't recognize it from anybody then it's still equal.
This country was founded on people wanting to escape a country that persecuted them for having different beliefs. Yes, it may have been different religious beliefs, but they recognized that in the future there would be more people with more different beliefs, and so they separated the church from the state.
Yes, and so you can call me a hypocrite all day long. Anybody that's ever had the ability to communicate will at some point do something or say something and have it turned around on them and be labeled as a hypocrite. But at any point, if there was any group, whether it be christians, homosexuals, or a minority, being arrested, killed, or persecuted for believing something different. I would take up for them.
I believe that everybody can have an opinion. I also believe that everybody can make their own choices about sexuality without being verbally and physically attacked because they have a different type of relationship than another. You can not like gay people all day long for all I care. But you should at least not attack their right as an American to the pursuit of happiness. If your religion does not like the thought of gay marriage then fine. Don't marry gay people in your church and don't recognize them. But the state and the church are to remain separate and so then, the state should recognize marriage regardless of the gender combination.
"It has nothing to do with the wicked north, just the wicked democrats who support abortition, gay marraige, and a whole slew of immoral acts, most of which would make the ancient greeks cringe in disgust."
Yeah, because killing all the Trojans is very noble and gay marriage is bad. Obviously somebody is a homophobe. And aren't there still some Asian communist countries? As long as one country has a communist government, then it's not really dead is it? And to my knowledge, making threats on the President's life can get you thrown into federal prison.
Argh, stop making lower processors!!! Make new higher ones. I don't want to be able to afford a new cpu. I want to dream about new fast ones that cost more than I have. :P