How does blocking ads make me any more of a moocher than someone who just ignores them? I see no problem with blocking ads in Firefox because I don't click them anyway, so I don't help your click-through rate, so I don't help your ad revenue. So on my browser an ad is just an annoying picture that doesn't benefit anyone. Therefore I block it. Hell, I'm helping you (or your advertisers) because they don't have to waste the bandwidth sending an ad to someone who would just ignore it anyway.
"Despite the relatively low price of PC games, many gamers are still choosing to resort to piracy rather than pay for legitimate boxed copies," said Matt Pierce, publisher of the computer games magazine, PC Gamer.
Low relative to what? Movies? Nope, sorry, $20 for a movie beats $50 for a game. Music? Nope, $15 for a CD. Maybe low relative to MS Office ($300), but MS Office is not entertainment. For a legitimate comparison you must compare games to other forms of entertainment, music, movies, and books, and games are relatively highly priced when compared to those things. Sorry Matt, you're FOS.
Do you get some kind of gratification out of spoiling the movie for other people? I'd already seen it, so it didn't at first occur to me that that's what you were trying to do, I had to click back and forth several times trying to make sense of your post. What is the point of that? So you can say "AHA! Now people will not enjoy the movie as much as they might have otherwise. I am brilliant! All bow before me, for I am the great and wonderous Spoiler Of Movies."? You're like a bully from middle school, who has deep-seated insecurities and the only way to make yourself feel better is by ruining others' enjoyment.
The difference being that my every move isn't tracked by the government. They can't look at a handheld and say "Clean_stoner is currently at the corner of Twenty Seventh and Woodlawn." They may know where I live, work, and what I buy, but I still posses the ability to disappear, if only for a few hours.
So this will be big, heavy, can only play MS formats (with the exception of mp3) and can't run other software? Yes, it's obviously better than a laptop...
RTFA, just like the submitter didn't. This isn't supposed to replace BlueTooth or WiFi or IR or anything, it's just meant to be it's own thing, possibly using BlueTooth or WiFi to transfer data. How can it replace a system that it itself uses?
Why was that modded Informative? Wasn't it supposed to be a joke? I mean, seriously, it links to a picture of a wooden ship with a helicopter rotor on top.
I think it sounds too much like "magician." Other people might notice this too, and I don't think it's good to link computers to magic, then people might become even more technophobic.
That already happens. I had a friend who used to take his computer to a company (can't remember the name) whenever it needed to be repaired, until he discovered that every time they fixed one thing they broke something else.
That may be true, but that's not what the original poster said. He said that they compared the MD5s of her mp3s to those of her CDs, which would not work.
The military may use old technology now, but at the time those machines are designed for the military they are the highest of high-tech. The military starts design competitions years before products go into place, so of course by the time it's ready it's not high-tech anymore, but the innovations recquired to be the best at the time of the competition still cause changes in industries that then move to the civilian businesses.
I didn't want about half the crap I was forced to take when I had DISH too.
Let's look at an analogy: you are to Dish as Dish is to Viacom (I know it's not technically correct, but hear me out). You purchase your content from Dish. You don't care where Dish gets the stuff, so for all intents and purposes (from your perspective) they're providing the content. Dish decides that they want to bundle MTV, Comedy Central, SciFi, VH1, and Nickelodeon together. You only want the Comedy Central, but it's an all-or-nothing bundle. Let's say you buy the bundle. Some time later Dish says that they're going to add Nick GAS to the bundle, and raise the price of the bundle by 40%. You don't want Nick GAS. Now you have two choices: you can drop the bundle, or you can suck it up and pay the extra for a channel you don't want. Dish was presented with a similar scenario and decided to drop the bundle. I don't see how that has anything to do with the crap you were "forced to take" when you had Dish. You weren't forced to take any of it, you CHOSE to buy certain bundles because they had stuff you wanted. Dish chose not to.
You want sympathy?! Tell me they are trying to charge too much, tell me they are making other unreasonable demands, tell me anything but "I'm being forced to take channels I don't want" and I'll feel for him...
If Dish said Viacom was charging too much you would point out that the Dish rates are higher than the content justifies. If they said Viacom was making unreasonable demands you would find some way to say that Dish did too. You claim that you're upset with Dish's approach, but really you just want something to bitch about. So bitch away, but realize that you're only angry because Dish had the balls to do what you didn't: they dropped the package.
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Why was that modded insightful? Wasn't it supposed to be a joke?
You think that's uncommon on /.?
How does blocking ads make me any more of a moocher than someone who just ignores them? I see no problem with blocking ads in Firefox because I don't click them anyway, so I don't help your click-through rate, so I don't help your ad revenue. So on my browser an ad is just an annoying picture that doesn't benefit anyone. Therefore I block it. Hell, I'm helping you (or your advertisers) because they don't have to waste the bandwidth sending an ad to someone who would just ignore it anyway.
"Despite the relatively low price of PC games, many gamers are still choosing to resort to piracy rather than pay for legitimate boxed copies," said Matt Pierce, publisher of the computer games magazine, PC Gamer.
Low relative to what? Movies? Nope, sorry, $20 for a movie beats $50 for a game. Music? Nope, $15 for a CD. Maybe low relative to MS Office ($300), but MS Office is not entertainment. For a legitimate comparison you must compare games to other forms of entertainment, music, movies, and books, and games are relatively highly priced when compared to those things. Sorry Matt, you're FOS.
I beat you both, my brain over-processing it into straight-up "porn."
Proove it. Until you do, I'm going to choose to take the word of the BBC over you.
The difference being that my every move isn't tracked by the government. They can't look at a handheld and say "Clean_stoner is currently at the corner of Twenty Seventh and Woodlawn." They may know where I live, work, and what I buy, but I still posses the ability to disappear, if only for a few hours.
Yep, same class. Complete BS. Oh well, easy credit.
I thought the same thing, so I checked the copyright/publishing date... 2003
This reminds me of a quote I read in one of my textbooks that said "3 out of every 4 teens have been on-line" like it was a big deal
So this will be big, heavy, can only play MS formats (with the exception of mp3) and can't run other software? Yes, it's obviously better than a laptop...
RTFA, just like the submitter didn't. This isn't supposed to replace BlueTooth or WiFi or IR or anything, it's just meant to be it's own thing, possibly using BlueTooth or WiFi to transfer data. How can it replace a system that it itself uses?
Why was that modded Informative? Wasn't it supposed to be a joke? I mean, seriously, it links to a picture of a wooden ship with a helicopter rotor on top.
It's not a violation of IP to make something LOOK like something else, as long as you don't jack their logo, trademark, or code.
Slashdot is running a story about Firefox, so the use of the logo in conjunction with the story falls under fair use.
Ummm... What?
Please, no ebonics (especially bad early-90's ebonics), you'll confuse the nerds.
What exactly is this story supposed to be about? Why is this newsworthy?
I think it sounds too much like "magician." Other people might notice this too, and I don't think it's good to link computers to magic, then people might become even more technophobic.
That already happens. I had a friend who used to take his computer to a company (can't remember the name) whenever it needed to be repaired, until he discovered that every time they fixed one thing they broke something else.
That may be true, but that's not what the original poster said. He said that they compared the MD5s of her mp3s to those of her CDs, which would not work.
The military may use old technology now, but at the time those machines are designed for the military they are the highest of high-tech. The military starts design competitions years before products go into place, so of course by the time it's ready it's not high-tech anymore, but the innovations recquired to be the best at the time of the competition still cause changes in industries that then move to the civilian businesses.
Let's look at an analogy: you are to Dish as Dish is to Viacom (I know it's not technically correct, but hear me out). You purchase your content from Dish. You don't care where Dish gets the stuff, so for all intents and purposes (from your perspective) they're providing the content. Dish decides that they want to bundle MTV, Comedy Central, SciFi, VH1, and Nickelodeon together. You only want the Comedy Central, but it's an all-or-nothing bundle. Let's say you buy the bundle. Some time later Dish says that they're going to add Nick GAS to the bundle, and raise the price of the bundle by 40%. You don't want Nick GAS. Now you have two choices: you can drop the bundle, or you can suck it up and pay the extra for a channel you don't want. Dish was presented with a similar scenario and decided to drop the bundle. I don't see how that has anything to do with the crap you were "forced to take" when you had Dish. You weren't forced to take any of it, you CHOSE to buy certain bundles because they had stuff you wanted. Dish chose not to.
You want sympathy?! Tell me they are trying to charge too much, tell me they are making other unreasonable demands, tell me anything but "I'm being forced to take channels I don't want" and I'll feel for him...If Dish said Viacom was charging too much you would point out that the Dish rates are higher than the content justifies. If they said Viacom was making unreasonable demands you would find some way to say that Dish did too. You claim that you're upset with Dish's approach, but really you just want something to bitch about. So bitch away, but realize that you're only angry because Dish had the balls to do what you didn't: they dropped the package.