Sorry, but he was right on. The issue of Joe Arpaio, tea party rallies and general things involving areas near Phoenix result in that I would be unwilling to work or even consider relocating to that area - even for 10-50x my salary. I'm sorry, but with actual people being herpa-derp stupid enough to shoot actual politicians, who would want to associate with such an area? Then you have unfriendly weather climates (hello 120+ degrees).
Climate issues, politicial issues, general public issues.
Really? they declared patents hurtful? Was this before or after they declared that they will sue all their competitors and claimed that the competitors "stole" from them things that apple never even developed?
in a word, yes. Or as other sites say "Microsoft's hair is on fire". (as noted elsewhere)
Microsoft wants to keep their patent settlements high and the risk of DOJ investigations low. They have a lot of negative press awaiting if their shakedowns are mae public. Also on groklaw: "IBM's motion has been denied [PDF] by the magistrate judge. Reuters gets to publish" So it appears that an IBM agreement will be able to be published.
Pretty much the second big companies that have questionable settlements are made public, all of this patent shakedown stuff goes away in it's entirety as it no longer remains profitable. A little sunlight can go a long way.
What do you think android and ios are? hint: not windows Are they gaming platforms? Well, look at the gaming profits from them: astronomical. Meanwhile steam trying to invigorate linux means that people will recognize that a computer is a computer, and the OS doesn't matter. We already have enough issues with the million genres of games, now you want to double/triple/quadruple them by saying it's by OS? We don't do this with consoles. We define it by hardware. PS3/Sony/etc. We don't refer to it by SonyOS or whatever it's called. A computer is a computer.
What, have you never heard of the sony rootkit? they were pretty damn close to getting sued for similar issues.
Fine print won't do anything to get around this. Just like every fine print says you indemnify the company - if there's a real issue, the judges will ignore the EULAs which have been deemed legally unenforceable anyway.
The thing about BSD is any part of it can be turned proprietary. The thing about GPL is you can't prevent anything already released from remaining GPL and requiring it to be open.
Freedom to modify is not a downstream requirement for BSD.
excuse me sir, please allow me a correction. what makes you think there's anything separating them? They are essentially one big "Artists union" falsely proclaimed, because it's more of a "industry union". IFPI and MAFIA - every distribution around the planet that is a recording artist group aside from possibly GEMA (who decided to be worse on their own) are basically under the same hood - the local groups do not sue their artists, the MAFIAA under guise of "local" do it. As noted in australia.
For all we know this patent settlement could be $0 and nothing is paid for. In fact, it's pretty likely given the patents that B&N already showed that MS was trying to use for this purpose.
Don't talk to cops applies to individuals. When it comes to corporations in the US may also be one thing. When it comes to global corporations, that is entirely different.
heh, or maybe they don't to waste money on a proprietary vendor that we don't have any form of guarantee will still be around 5-10 years from now? It's incredibly poor business sense to actually think a lock-in deal with any vendor, proprietary or not, is a good idea.
You're abrasive as fuck and so are your comments on everything I've seen in your history. What the hell is wrong with you? Nobody started off by insulting you before you went into a lazy trollpost.
1: it becomes out of date 2: there is no discussion with other people 3: there's no guarantee the book you want is there 4: it's a hell of a lot harder to disseminate a physical book 5: the costs are substantially higher for production 6: you can't take a book everywhere 7: a book can eventually be lost forever - digital can be infinitely transferred and remixed 8: you can share your improvements to a video a lot easier than you can share your improvements to a book with the world - that includes translations
need I continue?
If you think it takes longer to prep a youtube video than writing a book, you might want to look at how Khan does his videos - they take maybe twice as long as the recording to prep, maximum. In addition to the purest of pure delusion of the fact that books takes months of not years to publish, let alone the same process to update them each year. Unless you wish to insult every writer that exists by telling them that writing is easy, to which I guarantee you authors would disagree. Way to shit on authors, though! At best I can compare the effort in a well though out social networking post with khan academy, because khan uses social networking.
I don't know what your bias is against Khan but it's clear and you're full of (sh)it.
I don't hear any bragging by Khan, I hear people recognizing his efforts are valid and significant - there is nothing wrong with acknowledging that. Where is the supposed bragging by Khan, of which you spread such FUD?
Wow and Aion? SWTOR which had the worst combat of any current MMO, hands down? Remind me how great of a game that is, with all the wonderful reviews of SWTOR that exist so far. (sarcasm) Polished turd references, etc. People aren't exactly happy with the game.
GW2 is indeed giving you the choice to pay for cosmetic shit. What does that have to do with some kind of purported similarity to Aion combat where you have 4-5 skill bars and consumables in addition? GW2 has nothing of the sort. You have a bar of 10 skills, 5 are static and 5 are change-able. GW2 - forgot the "better or worse" aspects of the opinion, but simply does not have a combat style that matches any other game. They intentionally made it different, and it is.
You might want to check someone other than your "friends" and/or I don't know, you could have maybe tried a beta and decided for yourself? Did you even watch a youtube video of some Spvp or WvWvW?
They told Wow's endgame concept to piss off, and made sure that being overleveled doesn't mean anything - areas retain their challenge. Instead of wow's "spend 10 minutes watching a gryphon fly around, go get a coffee" they have a "you can teleport anywhere at any time". cross server guilds. Being able to play with friends in instances even if they're across other servers. Instead of any game that exists with stupid revival mechanics, they added a "you're not dead yet just because you hit 0hp". Die after that and you can simply teleport back to the nearest waypoint. The only thing that's somewhat similar is the Warhammer concept of "public quests" which GW2 did their own spin on. Oh, and did I mention? you don't have quests, either. You simply have "areas to do things" and you go do whichever ones you want. there is no "order" which is required.
I don't mean this as "wow GW2 is awesome!" as somehow being better than other games but as to highlight that really, truly there aren't other games that are similar to GW2. 0123456 is correct. Also endgame in GW2 as noted is cosmetic.
If I recall correctly, I do believe it has been said that even wearing contacts due to development of new veins can change your iris over time. Unless that was specific to your retina?
Pirating as it were, is a very specific communication from the "pirate" to the producer. It says "you are not meeting our needs". Typically this is an access issue. DRM for example guarantees people won't purchase. Treating your customers like crap is also not meeting their needs. Regardless of whether the producer thinks their product is gold or a flaming turd, they simply are not listening to their own customers. If they did, they would know what the issue is.
It's a sign of the old way of thinking.
Pirating is not at all to do with a cheapskate. That is the old way of thinking and guess what? Leads to more piracy. If you want to stop it, you need to address the painful issues and swallow the ego and fix whatever shit wasn't fixed.
Actually, I would disagree with this. I know there's the stereotype of incompetent teachers and they do exist, but... People who tend to teach a topic learn a lot more than their students about it by virtue of *teaching it*. At least that's always been my experience with teaching. This is true even if you go into the topic knowing nothing about it but starting teaching it.
Being a bad teacher (which puts people off from a topic) is it's own disaster but has nothing to do with Khan academy.
both are coming out shortly. Both are free to play. PS2 is shaping up to be a great MMOFPS and GW2 has taken all that is bad with wow and thrown it out the window. No "5 skill tabs", no "you must follow this quest chain" stuff, rewards for doing jumping exploits to solve puzzles, etc. Also: genuinely challenging. You get 5 skills, and 5 that you can choose yourself. That's it.
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it's the "above 100 degrees" that easily is dangerous enough. Adding another 10 degrees there is simply even worse.
Sorry, but he was right on. The issue of Joe Arpaio, tea party rallies and general things involving areas near Phoenix result in that I would be unwilling to work or even consider relocating to that area - even for 10-50x my salary. I'm sorry, but with actual people being herpa-derp stupid enough to shoot actual politicians, who would want to associate with such an area? Then you have unfriendly weather climates (hello 120+ degrees).
Climate issues, politicial issues, general public issues.
Why would anyone want to be in the same state as Arpaio, let alone 30 miles away? Don't they know how that works? That area is full of crazies.
when was apple ever the patent whipping boy? They are the ones that pretty much kicked this mess into high gear.
Really? they declared patents hurtful? Was this before or after they declared that they will sue all their competitors and claimed that the competitors "stole" from them things that apple never even developed?
in a word, yes. Or as other sites say "Microsoft's hair is on fire". (as noted elsewhere)
Microsoft wants to keep their patent settlements high and the risk of DOJ investigations low. They have a lot of negative press awaiting if their shakedowns are mae public. Also on groklaw: "IBM's motion has been denied [PDF] by the magistrate judge. Reuters gets to publish" So it appears that an IBM agreement will be able to be published.
Pretty much the second big companies that have questionable settlements are made public, all of this patent shakedown stuff goes away in it's entirety as it no longer remains profitable. A little sunlight can go a long way.
What do you think android and ios are? hint: not windows Are they gaming platforms? Well, look at the gaming profits from them: astronomical.
Meanwhile steam trying to invigorate linux means that people will recognize that a computer is a computer, and the OS doesn't matter. We already have enough issues with the million genres of games, now you want to double/triple/quadruple them by saying it's by OS? We don't do this with consoles. We define it by hardware. PS3/Sony/etc. We don't refer to it by SonyOS or whatever it's called. A computer is a computer.
What, have you never heard of the sony rootkit? they were pretty damn close to getting sued for similar issues.
Fine print won't do anything to get around this. Just like every fine print says you indemnify the company - if there's a real issue, the judges will ignore the EULAs which have been deemed legally unenforceable anyway.
The original code, subject to changes people make - will mean next to nothing if there is continued development and things change.
Good luck with that original code from 1986 which doesn't even run on any current distro! etc.
At least GPL requires that the code is free which also results in it being free for the users - including newer versions.
courderoy was 100% right, actually.
The thing about BSD is any part of it can be turned proprietary. The thing about GPL is you can't prevent anything already released from remaining GPL and requiring it to be open.
Freedom to modify is not a downstream requirement for BSD.
IFPI and the MAFIAA?
excuse me sir, please allow me a correction. what makes you think there's anything separating them? They are essentially one big "Artists union" falsely proclaimed, because it's more of a "industry union". IFPI and MAFIA - every distribution around the planet that is a recording artist group aside from possibly GEMA (who decided to be worse on their own) are basically under the same hood - the local groups do not sue their artists, the MAFIAA under guise of "local" do it. As noted in australia.
Who says they did even do business with MS?
For all we know this patent settlement could be $0 and nothing is paid for. In fact, it's pretty likely given the patents that B&N already showed that MS was trying to use for this purpose.
Uh, what?
Don't talk to cops applies to individuals. When it comes to corporations in the US may also be one thing. When it comes to global corporations, that is entirely different.
heh, or maybe they don't to waste money on a proprietary vendor that we don't have any form of guarantee will still be around 5-10 years from now? It's incredibly poor business sense to actually think a lock-in deal with any vendor, proprietary or not, is a good idea.
I agree that mint is a pretty good choice, but I thought there were significant issues due to what they bundle, binary blobs etc?
You're abrasive as fuck and so are your comments on everything I've seen in your history. What the hell is wrong with you? Nobody started off by insulting you before you went into a lazy trollpost.
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No. I will not bow to your trolling. Show me a link that actually shows Khan quotes with the purported behavior. Put up or shut up.
100% incorrect.
You know why a book is not superior?
1: it becomes out of date
2: there is no discussion with other people
3: there's no guarantee the book you want is there
4: it's a hell of a lot harder to disseminate a physical book
5: the costs are substantially higher for production
6: you can't take a book everywhere
7: a book can eventually be lost forever - digital can be infinitely transferred and remixed
8: you can share your improvements to a video a lot easier than you can share your improvements to a book with the world - that includes translations
need I continue?
If you think it takes longer to prep a youtube video than writing a book, you might want to look at how Khan does his videos - they take maybe twice as long as the recording to prep, maximum. In addition to the purest of pure delusion of the fact that books takes months of not years to publish, let alone the same process to update them each year. Unless you wish to insult every writer that exists by telling them that writing is easy, to which I guarantee you authors would disagree. Way to shit on authors, though! At best I can compare the effort in a well though out social networking post with khan academy, because khan uses social networking.
I don't know what your bias is against Khan but it's clear and you're full of (sh)it.
I don't hear any bragging by Khan, I hear people recognizing his efforts are valid and significant - there is nothing wrong with acknowledging that. Where is the supposed bragging by Khan, of which you spread such FUD?
GW1's lack of jumping was indeed retarded.
"oh look, an inch tall hill that I must run all the way around to go down!"
Wow and Aion? SWTOR which had the worst combat of any current MMO, hands down? Remind me how great of a game that is, with all the wonderful reviews of SWTOR that exist so far. (sarcasm) Polished turd references, etc. People aren't exactly happy with the game.
GW2 is indeed giving you the choice to pay for cosmetic shit. What does that have to do with some kind of purported similarity to Aion combat where you have 4-5 skill bars and consumables in addition? GW2 has nothing of the sort. You have a bar of 10 skills, 5 are static and 5 are change-able. GW2 - forgot the "better or worse" aspects of the opinion, but simply does not have a combat style that matches any other game. They intentionally made it different, and it is.
You might want to check someone other than your "friends" and/or I don't know, you could have maybe tried a beta and decided for yourself? Did you even watch a youtube video of some Spvp or WvWvW?
They told Wow's endgame concept to piss off, and made sure that being overleveled doesn't mean anything - areas retain their challenge. Instead of wow's "spend 10 minutes watching a gryphon fly around, go get a coffee" they have a "you can teleport anywhere at any time". cross server guilds. Being able to play with friends in instances even if they're across other servers. Instead of any game that exists with stupid revival mechanics, they added a "you're not dead yet just because you hit 0hp". Die after that and you can simply teleport back to the nearest waypoint. The only thing that's somewhat similar is the Warhammer concept of "public quests" which GW2 did their own spin on. Oh, and did I mention? you don't have quests, either. You simply have "areas to do things" and you go do whichever ones you want. there is no "order" which is required.
I don't mean this as "wow GW2 is awesome!" as somehow being better than other games but as to highlight that really, truly there aren't other games that are similar to GW2. 0123456 is correct. Also endgame in GW2 as noted is cosmetic.
No way. Typically when you go to court to fight something you don't want to be doing what the plaintiff is complaining about at the same time.
Quit the speculation shit. In fact, doing what you're protesting at the same time is far more likely to be an admission of guilt.
If I recall correctly, I do believe it has been said that even wearing contacts due to development of new veins can change your iris over time. Unless that was specific to your retina?
Pirating as it were, is a very specific communication from the "pirate" to the producer. It says "you are not meeting our needs". Typically this is an access issue. DRM for example guarantees people won't purchase. Treating your customers like crap is also not meeting their needs. Regardless of whether the producer thinks their product is gold or a flaming turd, they simply are not listening to their own customers. If they did, they would know what the issue is.
It's a sign of the old way of thinking.
Pirating is not at all to do with a cheapskate. That is the old way of thinking and guess what? Leads to more piracy. If you want to stop it, you need to address the painful issues and swallow the ego and fix whatever shit wasn't fixed.
Actually, I would disagree with this. I know there's the stereotype of incompetent teachers and they do exist, but...
People who tend to teach a topic learn a lot more than their students about it by virtue of *teaching it*. At least that's always been my experience with teaching. This is true even if you go into the topic knowing nothing about it but starting teaching it.
Being a bad teacher (which puts people off from a topic) is it's own disaster but has nothing to do with Khan academy.
Guild wars 2?
Planetside 2?
both are coming out shortly. Both are free to play. PS2 is shaping up to be a great MMOFPS and GW2 has taken all that is bad with wow and thrown it out the window. No "5 skill tabs", no "you must follow this quest chain" stuff, rewards for doing jumping exploits to solve puzzles, etc. Also: genuinely challenging. You get 5 skills, and 5 that you can choose yourself. That's it.