Your parents are your parents. As long as you are a minor, they have final say in everything you do, see, etc etc etc. If they decree you can't have a game, then that's the final say.
The smart child would improve their attitudes and show the parent how responsible they are, mature they are, how much of a non-fuckup they are, proving that getting San Andreas and playing it won't cause them to dress all in green and go shoot up the Mexicans down the block.
The rest of my comments have already been said. Boils down to Soccer Moms trying to run the rest of the world, because they are too busy having an open and exploratory sexual relationship with the mailman to parent their kids.
Of course, Cinematech (and Anime Unleashed) are the only two things I watch on G4/TechTV anymore. Everything else can burn.
And before someone decries me for liking Cinematech, the music is cool, and the videos they should (usually of like the opening cinematic or something) give me a taste of what an unknown game is like, when I don't have a demo.
I wasn't able to find actul numbers, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they've made that back a few times over since launch.
Also, they didn't necessary lose $1.5 million to piracy, because they can't sit there and say that those 30,000 people would have all bought the game at $50 a piece if it wasn't available on the internet.
I'm not advocating for the pirates here, but when companies cry out that they are losing billions of dollars, when they have not lost any actual manufactured product (I'm talking pressed CDs & such here) and cannot say with 100% clarity whether or not those people would have bought the product if it wasn't up on the Internet, they are lying, and it makes the Baby Jesus cry.
....the movie industry is engaged in a high-stakes game of chance where there are literally billions of dollars being used every year to produce movies. A lot of these movies fail to turn a profit.
They fail to turn a profit because they suck ass, and Hollywood shouldn't have spent those billions of dollars to fund production anyway. So it's Hollywood's own fault they are losing money, for producing substandard goods, but that's not their fault, and they should be allowed to strongarm the government into artificially supporting their failing industry.
If someone browsing Slashdot is dumb enough to click on a popup that is obviously a fake Windows message, they deserve whatever they have coming to them.
Like those new AOL commercials. "I want my harddrive to make a sound like a yeti, because I can't be bothered to protect myself!"
...when CowboyNeal posted this news story yesterday?
Microsoft buys up a company making mid-range spyware removal apps, then turns around and starts selling techniques to spyware writers (under the table, no less) so the next generation of spyware and popupware infecting our computers will be absolutely unremovable unless you use the Microsoft-branded MSSpywareRemover.
Then they turn around and charge an arm and a leg for the SpywareRemover software.
Because Microsoft wants as much money as possible.
I think what the grandparent poster was trying to say though is that Microsoft will put spyware out there that is is invunerable to anything but an Officially Licensed Microsoft Spyware Remover.
Hell, I'd do it. They have unfettered access to Windows, so they could ensure that the spyware is unremovable through any other means than their own program.
People will probably burn me in effigy for this one, but take a step back and think a moment.
Ever think he was more complaining about the ones who let themselves go. And I mean really let themselves go. Not just a little pudgy (after all, I like a girl with a bit of meat on her bones so I don't think I'm gonna break her), but there's nothing wrong with expecting girls to have a figure aside from *O
He's not washing his hands of the matter. If he was washing his hands of the whole project, his name would not be attached to it. He wouldn't be pulling a paycheck from the bastardization of the Doom franchise, and worse than that, his original script.
He's still attached to it, though, so he's just as responsible. By accepting that paycheck, he's basically going 'yeah, it's horrible they are doing this, but they are paying me a shitload of money. Oh well, how horrible of those evil hollywood.. oo, my check is here!'
But since it's wins at the end, it's not! Even though it's full of zombies and SWAT in a sekret facility. Christ, I wish I had some of what Hollywood execs were smoking.
IMHO, if you want to pay someone for the time they need to spend to go and find an in game item and bring it back to you, that's between the two of you. Blizzard has no standing to attempt to punish you for conduct outside of their game. Ban cheaters, that's fine, but real world business transactions are none of their business.
See, by paying IGE $50 for 500 million gold pieces harvested by a room-full of starved Chinese children, you are cheating. You, as a singular person playing the game, did not obtain those items within the confines of the game. You did not go out and skin dead animals for days on end to build up the leathers to sell to the traders. Therefore, you cheated, just as if you used a cheat code in GTA:San Andreas to get yourself $9999999999.
After giving it some thought, all Blizzard needs to do is set up a sting operation.
They can easily create as much gold as they want, at whim, right? So make a couple dozen dummy accounts with RL alias and such, go talk to IGE about selling them the gold, and get the account information of the guys that pick it up.
Blizzard can probably get IP address ranges too for these guys. Just start banning.
As far as I'm aware (and this may have changed) in order to set up your account and get playing, you have to key in your name, address, and a credit card for preauth.
True, Blizzard has no legal basis to keep people from advertising, but they do have the legal basis to find the person selling the "Blue 1H sword +20 Str +30 Sta", smack them, kick them off the game, and then find the guy that bought said sword, and delete the item.
It's called the 'Its My Sandbox' principle. If you don't like how Blizzard runs their game, there's a good half dozen others out there.
Currently going, at last check, for anywhere from $500 to $1300 dollars.
Makes me wish I lived in Japan. I would have camped out for a couple of nights and spent like $200 to $300 US for the chance to triple or quadruple my expenses.
The "leaked" memo was just HR placating the masses. I don't remember the exact wording of it (as I don't speak HRese) but it amount to "we will be reevaluating our policies and will be considering reclassifying some of our workers." Which probably translates to "some of you will be fired. And Probst gets a raise."
Also included in there was allusion that EA felt that the laws regarding overtime were 'outdated' and 'evil' and holding back their wonderful creative teams, but since they've been forced to do something, they'll make a bit of noise, blow up some smoke, and while no one is looking, run out the back.
It hasn't been about Jesus since Corporate America figured out that you sell things to people so they can give them to other people on December 25th. Now it's all about the $$$
I think I sum up the view of most of the people on Slashdot when I say:
You parent your children, I'll parent mind.
Get your nose out of my business, and stop trying to tell me what my kids can or cannot watch. You are not their parents. I am. But complaining to the FCC over what your personal beliefs deem 'offensive', you are in essence telling me what my children can watch. How would you like it if I came into your home and started telling you how to raise your children? Do you have any?
Actually, on retrospect, you'd probably love it, since you can't be bothered to parent them yourself.
Who put you in charge of telling me what I can let my child watch? Who put you in charge of telling the rest of America what their children, or what they, can watch?
You are absolutely right. There is a little thing called responsibility. As in each and every one of us is responsible for ourselves and our own families. Your responsibility ends with your family, plain and simple. If you do not want your children (do you even have any?) watching CSI, they don't let them watch CSI. I, on the other hand, feel that it is entirely appropriate for my 11 year old neice, who has an IQ well in the genius range, to watch CSI, since it has gotten her interested in forensic science, and that's where she is going with her life.
Open airwaves are just that; open. If you want to decree what can be shown on the airwaves, buy yourself a broadcast network and fill it with reruns of 7th Heaven, and then all of us who don't want to watch it, can change the channel.
I'm a proud member of this 'small activist group' And I'm convinced that there are millions of like-minded people out there.
Great. Let them write their own complaints to the FCC if they agree with you, and don't like what they are seeing. Until then, stop trying to parent the nation, get down off your soapbox, put down the bible, and go take care of your own family. Something on TV that you don't personally like? Change the channel. Go outside, read a book, etc etc etc.
Granted, I know that the AC will never respond to this, and will go back to their one-person crusade to clean up the airwaves, since God has given them the responsibility to parent the nation, but at least someone said it.
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Your parents are your parents. As long as you are a minor, they have final say in everything you do, see, etc etc etc. If they decree you can't have a game, then that's the final say.
The smart child would improve their attitudes and show the parent how responsible they are, mature they are, how much of a non-fuckup they are, proving that getting San Andreas and playing it won't cause them to dress all in green and go shoot up the Mexicans down the block.
The rest of my comments have already been said. Boils down to Soccer Moms trying to run the rest of the world, because they are too busy having an open and exploratory sexual relationship with the mailman to parent their kids.
And before someone decries me for liking Cinematech, the music is cool, and the videos they should (usually of like the opening cinematic or something) give me a taste of what an unknown game is like, when I don't have a demo.
What's his answer?
I wasn't able to find actul numbers, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they've made that back a few times over since launch.
Also, they didn't necessary lose $1.5 million to piracy, because they can't sit there and say that those 30,000 people would have all bought the game at $50 a piece if it wasn't available on the internet.
I'm not advocating for the pirates here, but when companies cry out that they are losing billions of dollars, when they have not lost any actual manufactured product (I'm talking pressed CDs & such here) and cannot say with 100% clarity whether or not those people would have bought the product if it wasn't up on the Internet, they are lying, and it makes the Baby Jesus cry.
They fail to turn a profit because they suck ass, and Hollywood shouldn't have spent those billions of dollars to fund production anyway. So it's Hollywood's own fault they are losing money, for producing substandard goods, but that's not their fault, and they should be allowed to strongarm the government into artificially supporting their failing industry.
Or something.
Like those new AOL commercials. "I want my harddrive to make a sound like a yeti, because I can't be bothered to protect myself!"
Damn, eBay is slipping.
Oh, for the want of mod points.
Microsoft buys up a company making mid-range spyware removal apps, then turns around and starts selling techniques to spyware writers (under the table, no less) so the next generation of spyware and popupware infecting our computers will be absolutely unremovable unless you use the Microsoft-branded MSSpywareRemover.
Then they turn around and charge an arm and a leg for the SpywareRemover software.
Wonder if it'll be able to remove Clippy, too.
I think what the grandparent poster was trying to say though is that Microsoft will put spyware out there that is is invunerable to anything but an Officially Licensed Microsoft Spyware Remover.
Hell, I'd do it. They have unfettered access to Windows, so they could ensure that the spyware is unremovable through any other means than their own program.
Ever think he was more complaining about the ones who let themselves go. And I mean really let themselves go. Not just a little pudgy (after all, I like a girl with a bit of meat on her bones so I don't think I'm gonna break her), but there's nothing wrong with expecting girls to have a figure aside from *O
For shame, hiding behind the AC post, when you have all that flimflam to hide behind!!
He's still attached to it, though, so he's just as responsible. By accepting that paycheck, he's basically going 'yeah, it's horrible they are doing this, but they are paying me a shitload of money. Oh well, how horrible of those evil hollywood.. oo, my check is here!'
1. Write Shitty Resident Evil Script
2. Change all 'Resident Evil' refs to 'Doom' refs.
3. Sell to Hollywood
4. Hide from pissed off fanbase
5. ???
6. Profit!!!
But since it's wins at the end, it's not! Even though it's full of zombies and SWAT in a sekret facility. Christ, I wish I had some of what Hollywood execs were smoking.
See, by paying IGE $50 for 500 million gold pieces harvested by a room-full of starved Chinese children, you are cheating. You, as a singular person playing the game, did not obtain those items within the confines of the game. You did not go out and skin dead animals for days on end to build up the leathers to sell to the traders. Therefore, you cheated, just as if you used a cheat code in GTA:San Andreas to get yourself $9999999999.
They can easily create as much gold as they want, at whim, right? So make a couple dozen dummy accounts with RL alias and such, go talk to IGE about selling them the gold, and get the account information of the guys that pick it up.
Blizzard can probably get IP address ranges too for these guys. Just start banning.
Could have changed, though.
It's called the 'Its My Sandbox' principle. If you don't like how Blizzard runs their game, there's a good half dozen others out there.
Makes me wish I lived in Japan. I would have camped out for a couple of nights and spent like $200 to $300 US for the chance to triple or quadruple my expenses.
Call me a complete frikkin' idiot, but don't suppose anyone has a handy webpage detailing how to set this up on a windows machine?
The "leaked" memo was just HR placating the masses. I don't remember the exact wording of it (as I don't speak HRese) but it amount to "we will be reevaluating our policies and will be considering reclassifying some of our workers." Which probably translates to "some of you will be fired. And Probst gets a raise."
Also included in there was allusion that EA felt that the laws regarding overtime were 'outdated' and 'evil' and holding back their wonderful creative teams, but since they've been forced to do something, they'll make a bit of noise, blow up some smoke, and while no one is looking, run out the back.
It hasn't been about Jesus since Corporate America figured out that you sell things to people so they can give them to other people on December 25th. Now it's all about the $$$
You parent your children, I'll parent mind.
Get your nose out of my business, and stop trying to tell me what my kids can or cannot watch. You are not their parents. I am. But complaining to the FCC over what your personal beliefs deem 'offensive', you are in essence telling me what my children can watch. How would you like it if I came into your home and started telling you how to raise your children? Do you have any?
Actually, on retrospect, you'd probably love it, since you can't be bothered to parent them yourself.
Who put you in charge of telling me what I can let my child watch? Who put you in charge of telling the rest of America what their children, or what they, can watch?
You are absolutely right. There is a little thing called responsibility. As in each and every one of us is responsible for ourselves and our own families. Your responsibility ends with your family, plain and simple. If you do not want your children (do you even have any?) watching CSI, they don't let them watch CSI. I, on the other hand, feel that it is entirely appropriate for my 11 year old neice, who has an IQ well in the genius range, to watch CSI, since it has gotten her interested in forensic science, and that's where she is going with her life.
Open airwaves are just that; open. If you want to decree what can be shown on the airwaves, buy yourself a broadcast network and fill it with reruns of 7th Heaven, and then all of us who don't want to watch it, can change the channel.
I'm a proud member of this 'small activist group' And I'm convinced that there are millions of like-minded people out there.
Great. Let them write their own complaints to the FCC if they agree with you, and don't like what they are seeing. Until then, stop trying to parent the nation, get down off your soapbox, put down the bible, and go take care of your own family. Something on TV that you don't personally like? Change the channel. Go outside, read a book, etc etc etc.
Granted, I know that the AC will never respond to this, and will go back to their one-person crusade to clean up the airwaves, since God has given them the responsibility to parent the nation, but at least someone said it.
Or a Merry Winter-een-mas