Note: If you happen to speak swedish, the the last one is a very perverted joke.
You can easily find any other language that google offers simply by typing "google in $X" into any google search page.
I've never been redirected to another page by these links, but YMMV. However, the default searches build into the browsers tend to redirect constantly, no matter what you language is set to.
It was so bad I had to edit the search files on my system manually.
I don't own Crysis, farcry, or mirrors edge. But I can get Wow running on any of our systems in about 30 minutes (including install time from the dvds), Command and Conquer is a game we play regularly, and Wolfenstien? you do mean wolf3d, right?
If you want fast installs, dual boot. Use your relatively spotless windows install for games (your framerates will thank you), and work in something else.
As for wow, yes the initial setup is a bit of work, but it does work, and for a game not even remotely written for the os, a bit of configuration is expected.
I just made a few tweaks for wow to work. You pretty much have to use padsp to run it under wine or the sound is crap, and make sure you use the -opengl line when you run it.
First Set the winecfg for wow.exe to use the oss sound driver. Heres the command line I use.
Except that right now a very vocal section of my local population is basically brainwashed from birth into believing a rather extreme variation on Christianity.
Part of how they accomplish this is by home schooling the children.
Ever tried listening to a political debate between two democrats? Or a religious debate between 2 church members?
Preaching to the choir is silly, but social exclusion is a great way to prevent dissenting opinions and/or honest debate and/or independent thought.
If you can keep your children from ever hearing the other side of a debate, you can prevent them from ever questioning whether or not you are right. This is not a good thin in my opinion.
Except that managing to achieve above normal is not the same as meeting your potential.
Imagine a child who has a talent for pattern recognition. He can look at any data set and find the common factor almost instantly.
Now imagine that finding the cure for cancer is a matter of finding a pattern in a set of proteins.
Now, imagine that this child was the smart kid in our school system, never learned to study under pressure, bombs out of Med school and gets a good paying job as a reporter.
So, this child had the potential to cure cancer and become world famous. They would probably patent the process as well, so famous and rich as well.
Instead he's got a lifetime of hard work for $45,000/year.
That's the difference between potential and success.
And you my friend, are a perfect example of what he is referring to. If you are content then I am happy for you, but at the same time I feel sorry for you as well.
You admit yourself that you didn't live up to your potential, and at the same time you are not bothered by this. Happiness and success are defined by each individual separately, but my definition doesn't involve spending 40 hours a week in a box doing the same thing over and over again for someone else's profit.
I have not, and probably will never reach my full potential. Starting out poor as dirt and losing 2 scholarships because of a forced cross country move pretty much guaranteed that. But, I will never just settle for good enough. I know what I am capable of, and by god i'm going to do the best I can.
You say that
Our system works pretty damn well.
Our system works well at doing one thing, creating content, bored, consumers.
Our Current education system is strongly based on the principles of a man named John Dewey, feel free to look up information of the phonics vs whole word method online, but I'll try to summarize it for you.
Basically the whole word method is a method of teaching via rote memorization instead of with critical thinking.
Instead of giving a child the building blocks to sound out the parts of a word (via latin roots etc) the child is taught the entire word as a single chunk, and never shown the underlying methodology.
This method is consistently repeated throughout our educational system, with students being given subsets of data and told to memorize them. The same information is often repeated through multiple semesters and even years, but the student is never shown the actual underlying reason for why the data is what it is. (another good example is history classes, how many teachers proved a timeline or list of dates to memorize, but don't go into detail on the social motivations for the events?)
A big side effect of this method is that the student never learns the methods for independent thought/study and critical thinking is left out of the curriculum completely. Why?
Because teaching critical thinking skills creates people who can think for themselves and are less likely to follow the status quo.
Here's a good source that covers a few of the important points. Richmond Academy
According to an article by John Taylor Gatto
In 1896 John Dewey said that independent, self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future. He advocated that the phonics method of teaching reading be abandoned and replaced by the whole-word method, not because the latter was more efficient (he admitted it was less efficient), but because reading hard books produces independent thinkers, thinkers who cannot be socialized very easily. By socialized Dewey meant conditioned to a program of social objectives administered by the best social thinkers in government.
So, I say it again. Our education system works perfectly, but it's not designed to educate.
As for this comment:
Your friends were given the same opportunities that the rest of us were to learn those skills. They only have themselves to blame if they did not.
I have to respectfully disagree.
Note: what I am about to say seems anecdotal, but I employ and socialize with a large number of very smart people, and all of them (friends, employees, and acquaintances alike) have similar stories.
I live in South Louisiana. I have first hand experience when I say that our school system is almost worthless now.
I have an IQ >140. My mother taught me to read before I can actually remember, and I entered the school system able to do basic arithmetic (+-*/) and with a fairly good understanding of basic logic and the scientific method.
But how much of that are they paying the tech? There are plenty of opportunities to mirror a drive onto a backup before he brings it back to the main office.
Heck, a large number of Dell techs are just local work from home subcontractors. They mail your drive back to the main office.
Out of the last 7 months, I can say with absolute certainty that only 16% of our business clients chose to use office 2007. 47% chose to have us install an old copy of office 2003, 35% chose to use oppenoffice, and 2% were not recorded.
The majority of our demo units have 2007 installed, and we hear a LOT of complaints about the ribbon interface.
As for residential, 99% of our customer chose openoffice, most of the time for price. Some of these installed personal copies of office after they got home, but most of our return service calls are still using OpenOffice.
FYI: These metrics are from our tech teams install lists for new/wipe+reinstalled systems.
(I searched for the terms "installed open office"; "installed oo.o"; "office 2007"; and "office 2003"
I'll shut up now, but I think these number speak for themselves.
Let me guess: You never had a Nokia phone with Symbian.
He may not, but I have.
My iphone cost me $99, my old nokia cost me $300.
My iphone fully supports exchange services, so my calendars, contacts, and todo lists are all synced perfectly with my other techs, our sales team, and our dispatcher, over the air, in real time. (sales can schedule an onsite in real time, without having to call in or worry about causing a conflict!)
The iphone has a large, easy to use interface, so I don't have to train people on how to use it, i just have to show them which app to select.
Google maps is integrated with the contacts list, and the calendar. So I open a calendar item, select the address listed, and i'm instantly looking at a map of the site, and with 2 clicks I have directions from my current location.
My iphone has a wireless scanner (WiFiFofum), and a network port scanner (iNet), and because of this, I can use it and touches to replace 30 lbs worth of kit** in my onsite pack.
My phone is also jailbroken, so it includes nmap and several other tools which work perfectly with already written scripts, allowing me to quickly run scripted tests onsite without having to sit at a desk or hold a laptop while dealing with the client. (being able to chat easily while working is a big plus when dealing with non-tech customers)
On top of this I can use it to vnc/ssh/ftp/etc from anywhere i have cell service, allowing me the freedom to actually leave the office during the day without having to pack a full kit with me.
That's a hell of a fine job from a phone, don't you think?
**30lbs of kit = 2 laptops running kismet for wireless audits, several hundred feet of cable, and a netbook for display while on a ladder/roof adjusting antenna.
Not sure about other areas, but my mortgage on a 4 bedroom house is the same monthly as rent on my old 2 bedroom apartment in an "ok" area.
Since buying my house it's value has increased by about 8%. That's not including the improvements i'm doing either.
So, I can either throw money down the rental hole while putting up with crappy neighbors, or I can invest in a place that eventually can be sold for as much or more than I paid for it.
Easy question for me.
The nice thing about real estate is that it usually keeps up with inflation. As long as you buy the house for what it's actually worth you are pretty much guaranteed to get your money back if you wait long enough.
Seriously, I would PAY for an analysis like this. ($10 or so, but there would have to be a free example given. Perhaps of my home town, that way I can check accuracy.)
I live in area that fails on all of the points you mentioned, and want to get out of here in the next few years.
However, the last thing I want to do is move to an area that seems good, but isn't.
Also, does anyone else ever notice how when you want mod points, you don't have them?
I think the gp is a contractor or independent shop, not an employee.
However, as an employee, I have given time estimates that take into account the other work we didn't get done when we were given a "rush" job to do. Also, I make sure that all of our incoming work has a deadline on it, and an understanding that extra rush jobs mean overtime for my team.
Works great when it payroll comes out of hr budget. It keeps them from throwing as many emergencies at us.
And some of us just hate having to carry around a half a ton of game disks/cartridges any time we want to go to a lan party.
I modded my 360, I have a homebrew cart for my ds, I jailbroke my iphone, and I crack every single pc game I purchase for just this one reason.
If I've got 100x the space needed to run the game from internal storage, why am I not allowed to do so?
Cheapskates are going to make copies and download games no matter what the developers do, I just wish they'd quit making my life harder when it doesn't change a damned thing.
And this is just irritating>>>> You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later. It's not like I only wrote 2 lines.....
A Mac IS a PC too, its just one where the same vendor controls the hardware, software and outlets.
A NEW Mac is a PC. but PC != Mac, until very recently.
The term Personal Computer (PC) was/is? trademarked by Tandy Corp for their IBM clones.
PC has been used as shorthand for IBM compatible Personal Computer for the past 28 years.
Hence the terms IBM/PC, PC/DOS, etc.
Meanwhile Macintosh computers were not IBM compatible until a three years ago, when they switched to Intel processors. Meaning that you could not use PC accessories, software, or hardware on a mac.
As for the predictable "things change, keep up", old habits die hard, and some of us still support Powerpc networks.
Craigslist has in fact been participating in facilitating an illegal act. You simply can't pretend otherwise.
Except that it's not illegal everywhere.
Nevada and Rhode Island [wikipedia.org] both allow for legal registered brothels.
Your Local laws are not My laws.
Quit trying to enforce local laws on people not in your area. If craigslist is in a jurisdiction where solicitation is a crime, let their DA handle it.
I'm really tired of these trumped up local politicians trying to force their idea of what's "moral" onto the rest of the world.
People went to air cooling for a reason - to stop having to deal with the messes that could happen when there were leaks or downtimes when the water chilling device broke down
Except that having only one air conditioner or only one chiller is called a single point of failure. If you don't have redundancy, then you will have bigger issues than a little bit of downtime.
Also, If your system doesn't have flow/pressure sensors with automatic shutoffs, then you did something seriously wrong. Each server should have a small cutoff valve, each rack a larger one, and each main loop should have 2 routes and a nice, big cutoff. Also, each system should be configured to automatically cut off if the temp goes above a certain point, and the rack itself should have a local pump block with pressure monitoring on each blades coolant feed.
Worst case should be lowered capacity if you lose a chiller (or 2), or you lose one loop worth of coolant to the floor drain.
Also, if you do have a huge leak start, (for example: catastrophic failure of a main pump) there should be both automatic and manual shutoffs, and a tech on site monitoring the datacenter. JUST LIKE AIR COOLING!
You keep mentioning this product, what is it exactly? I'd be very interested in taking a look at it, out of curiosity. Heck, perhaps we might give you an idea of how to make the original software more marketable.
I've released a few programs myself over the years, and I've found a few things that help motivate people to pay for it when they can get it for free. Forums, extra services, early updates and patches, heck even first shot at bonus content works, and if your prices are reasonable, a lot of people who normally pirate will purchase your product.
I would love to change the law, but, in case you haven't noticed, the Golden Rule is in effect.
He who has the Gold, makes the Rules. - Lyndon Forman
I've been voting against these people, but it doesn't help. The guys with the money get the screen time, the adverts, and the votes. Hell, last election, I got ASKED TO LEAVE THE VOTING PRECINCT for requesting a paper ballot to write in my candidate.
So, Yeah. We're already screwed. Thanks for noticing.
Slashdot Mirror
Why not just use the localized language pages?
English http://www.google.com/intl/en/
Japanese http://www.google.co.jp/
Chinese http://www.google.cn/
Spanish http://www.google.es/
German http://www.google.de/
Swedish http://www.google.se/
Bork http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
Note: If you happen to speak swedish, the the last one is a very perverted joke.
You can easily find any other language that google offers simply by typing "google in $X" into any google search page.
I've never been redirected to another page by these links, but YMMV.
However, the default searches build into the browsers tend to redirect constantly, no matter what you language is set to.
It was so bad I had to edit the search files on my system manually.
I don't own Crysis, farcry, or mirrors edge. But I can get Wow running on any of our systems in about 30 minutes (including install time from the dvds), Command and Conquer is a game we play regularly, and Wolfenstien? you do mean wolf3d, right?
If you want fast installs, dual boot. Use your relatively spotless windows install for games (your framerates will thank you), and work in something else.
As for wow, yes the initial setup is a bit of work, but it does work, and for a game not even remotely written for the os, a bit of configuration is expected.
I just made a few tweaks for wow to work. You pretty much have to use padsp to run it under wine or the sound is crap, and make sure you use the -opengl line when you run it.
First Set the winecfg for wow.exe to use the oss sound driver.
Heres the command line I use.
env WINEPREFIX="/home/eldorel/.wine" padsp wine "C:\Program Files\Wow\Wow.exe" -opengl
I also have a customized config.wtf, but that's pretty much per system.
If it helps here's the most important part of mine.
SET ffxNetherWorld "0"
Other than this things work well. (and yes I know, It's a lot of crap, but still it does work.)
Wine's Appdb has fixes for most of the other problems you may run into, but If I can Help I will.
Ok, we can do eye candy also.
Try this site, it's listed by rating and by age.
Penguspy
There are quite a lot of fun games on linux, some are pay like defcon, others are not.
Better yet, go here> FREE LINUX GAMES THAT ARE ACTUALLY FUN!!!
Either way, unless your idea of "noteworthy" is Eyecandy 3.0+ dx11 crap, try actually playing a few games before you blow them all off.
Heck if you live anywhere near new orleans, we throw lan parties regularly with nothing but free games and people keep coming back.
There is a difference between a distribution license and a software license.
Gpl, Lgpl, and the like are the former. The right of first sale applies to the latter.
You can already resell linux distros with no issue anyway, and you do own the software when you get it (either via download or by purchasing a disk).
There's no Eula on linux....
Unfortunately, it's been my experience that this type of problem is not a fluke.
Just about ever psc printer I've encountered has failed fairly suddenly, and I deal with a LOT of printers at customer sites.
For networked laser printers hp is great, but the reliability of their small office and combination units leave much to be desired.
Except that right now a very vocal section of my local population is basically brainwashed from birth into believing a rather extreme variation on Christianity.
Part of how they accomplish this is by home schooling the children.
Ever tried listening to a political debate between two democrats? Or a religious debate between 2 church members?
Preaching to the choir is silly, but social exclusion is a great way to prevent dissenting opinions and/or honest debate and/or independent thought.
If you can keep your children from ever hearing the other side of a debate, you can prevent them from ever questioning whether or not you are right. This is not a good thin in my opinion.
And school is a great place to learn new things.
Except that managing to achieve above normal is not the same as meeting your potential.
Imagine a child who has a talent for pattern recognition. He can look at any data set and find the common factor almost instantly.
Now imagine that finding the cure for cancer is a matter of finding a pattern in a set of proteins.
Now, imagine that this child was the smart kid in our school system, never learned to study under pressure, bombs out of Med school and gets a good paying job as a reporter.
So, this child had the potential to cure cancer and become world famous. They would probably patent the process as well, so famous and rich as well.
Instead he's got a lifetime of hard work for $45,000/year.
That's the difference between potential and success.
And you my friend, are a perfect example of what he is referring to.
If you are content then I am happy for you, but at the same time I feel sorry for you as well.
You admit yourself that you didn't live up to your potential, and at the same time you are not bothered by this.
Happiness and success are defined by each individual separately, but my definition doesn't involve spending 40 hours a week in a box doing the same thing over and over again for someone else's profit.
I have not, and probably will never reach my full potential. Starting out poor as dirt and losing 2 scholarships because of a forced cross country move pretty much guaranteed that. But, I will never just settle for good enough. I know what I am capable of, and by god i'm going to do the best I can.
You say that
Our system works pretty damn well.
Our system works well at doing one thing, creating content, bored, consumers.
Our Current education system is strongly based on the principles of a man named John Dewey, feel free to look up information of the phonics vs whole word method online, but I'll try to summarize it for you.
Basically the whole word method is a method of teaching via rote memorization instead of with critical thinking.
Instead of giving a child the building blocks to sound out the parts of a word (via latin roots etc) the child is taught the entire word as a single chunk, and never shown the underlying methodology.
This method is consistently repeated throughout our educational system, with students being given subsets of data and told to memorize them. The same information is often repeated through multiple semesters and even years, but the student is never shown the actual underlying reason for why the data is what it is. (another good example is history classes, how many teachers proved a timeline or list of dates to memorize, but don't go into detail on the social motivations for the events?)
A big side effect of this method is that the student never learns the methods for independent thought/study and critical thinking is left out of the curriculum completely. Why?
Because teaching critical thinking skills creates people who can think for themselves and are less likely to follow the status quo.
Here's a good source that covers a few of the important points. Richmond Academy
According to an article by John Taylor Gatto
In 1896 John Dewey said that independent, self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future. He advocated that the phonics method of teaching reading be abandoned and replaced by the whole-word method, not because the latter was more efficient (he admitted it was less efficient), but because reading hard books produces independent thinkers, thinkers who cannot be socialized very easily. By socialized Dewey meant conditioned to a program of social objectives administered by the best social thinkers in government.
So, I say it again. Our education system works perfectly, but it's not designed to educate.
As for this comment:
Your friends were given the same opportunities that the rest of us were to learn those skills. They only have themselves to blame if they did not.
I have to respectfully disagree.
Note: what I am about to say seems anecdotal, but I employ and socialize with a large number of very smart people, and all of them (friends, employees, and acquaintances alike) have similar stories.
I live in South Louisiana. I have first hand experience when I say that our school system is almost worthless now.
I have an IQ >140.
My mother taught me to read before I can actually remember, and I entered the school system able to do basic arithmetic (+-*/) and with a fairly good understanding of basic logic and the scientific method.
I LOVED learning. You couldn't
But how much of that are they paying the tech?
There are plenty of opportunities to mirror a drive onto a backup before he brings it back to the main office.
Heck, a large number of Dell techs are just local work from home subcontractors. They mail your drive back to the main office.
Where did you get this key? Something like that would be useful for one of my clients. (a small data backup service)
I'll bite,
Out of the last 7 months, I can say with absolute certainty that only 16% of our business clients chose to use office 2007.
47% chose to have us install an old copy of office 2003, 35% chose to use oppenoffice, and 2% were not recorded.
The majority of our demo units have 2007 installed, and we hear a LOT of complaints about the ribbon interface.
As for residential, 99% of our customer chose openoffice, most of the time for price. Some of these installed personal copies of office after they got home, but most of our return service calls are still using OpenOffice.
FYI: These metrics are from our tech teams install lists for new/wipe+reinstalled systems.
(I searched for the terms "installed open office"; "installed oo.o"; "office 2007"; and "office 2003"
I'll shut up now, but I think these number speak for themselves.
Let me guess: You never had a Nokia phone with Symbian.
He may not, but I have.
My iphone cost me $99, my old nokia cost me $300.
My iphone fully supports exchange services, so my calendars, contacts, and todo lists are all synced perfectly with my other techs, our sales team, and our dispatcher, over the air, in real time. (sales can schedule an onsite in real time, without having to call in or worry about causing a conflict!)
The iphone has a large, easy to use interface, so I don't have to train people on how to use it, i just have to show them which app to select.
Google maps is integrated with the contacts list, and the calendar. So I open a calendar item, select the address listed, and i'm instantly looking at a map of the site, and with 2 clicks I have directions from my current location.
My iphone has a wireless scanner (WiFiFofum), and a network port scanner (iNet), and because of this, I can use it and touches to replace 30 lbs worth of kit** in my onsite pack.
My phone is also jailbroken, so it includes nmap and several other tools which work perfectly with already written scripts, allowing me to quickly run scripted tests onsite without having to sit at a desk or hold a laptop while dealing with the client. (being able to chat easily while working is a big plus when dealing with non-tech customers)
On top of this I can use it to vnc/ssh/ftp/etc from anywhere i have cell service, allowing me the freedom to actually leave the office during the day without having to pack a full kit with me.
That's a hell of a fine job from a phone, don't you think?
**30lbs of kit = 2 laptops running kismet for wireless audits, several hundred feet of cable, and a netbook for display while on a ladder/roof adjusting antenna.
Not sure about other areas, but my mortgage on a 4 bedroom house is the same monthly as rent on my old 2 bedroom apartment in an "ok" area.
Since buying my house it's value has increased by about 8%. That's not including the improvements i'm doing either.
So, I can either throw money down the rental hole while putting up with crappy neighbors, or I can invest in a place that eventually can be sold for as much or more than I paid for it.
Easy question for me.
The nice thing about real estate is that it usually keeps up with inflation. As long as you buy the house for what it's actually worth you are pretty much guaranteed to get your money back if you wait long enough.
Seriously, I would PAY for an analysis like this.
($10 or so, but there would have to be a free example given. Perhaps of my home town, that way I can check accuracy.)
I live in area that fails on all of the points you mentioned, and want to get out of here in the next few years.
However, the last thing I want to do is move to an area that seems good, but isn't.
Also, does anyone else ever notice how when you want mod points, you don't have them?
I think the gp is a contractor or independent shop, not an employee.
However, as an employee, I have given time estimates that take into account the other work we didn't get done when we were given a "rush" job to do. Also, I make sure that all of our incoming work has a deadline on it, and an understanding that extra rush jobs mean overtime for my team.
Works great when it payroll comes out of hr budget. It keeps them from throwing as many emergencies at us.
And some of us just hate having to carry around a half a ton of game disks/cartridges any time we want to go to a lan party. I modded my 360, I have a homebrew cart for my ds, I jailbroke my iphone, and I crack every single pc game I purchase for just this one reason.
If I've got 100x the space needed to run the game from internal storage, why am I not allowed to do so?
Cheapskates are going to make copies and download games no matter what the developers do, I just wish they'd quit making my life harder when it doesn't change a damned thing.
And this is just irritating>>>> You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later. It's not like I only wrote 2 lines.....
A Mac IS a PC too, its just one where the same vendor controls the hardware, software and outlets.
A NEW Mac is a PC. but PC != Mac, until very recently.
The term Personal Computer (PC) was/is? trademarked by Tandy Corp for their IBM clones.
PC has been used as shorthand for IBM compatible Personal Computer for the past 28 years.
Hence the terms IBM/PC, PC/DOS, etc.
Meanwhile Macintosh computers were not IBM compatible until a three years ago, when they switched to Intel processors. Meaning that you could not use PC accessories, software, or hardware on a mac.
As for the predictable "things change, keep up", old habits die hard, and some of us still support Powerpc networks.
Goat farmers at the bottom, maybe.
Princes at the top. Osama Bin laden
Be more careful with stereotypes, they're always inaccurate.
Son, you gotta play a good game. Fallout was fun from the moment I walked out of the vault.
There, fixed that for you.
Offtopic, but did they ever fix the issue with npcs getting eaten by everything after you hit level 10?
Craigslist has in fact been participating in facilitating an illegal act. You simply can't pretend otherwise. Except that it's not illegal everywhere. Nevada and Rhode Island [wikipedia.org] both allow for legal registered brothels. Your Local laws are not My laws. Quit trying to enforce local laws on people not in your area. If craigslist is in a jurisdiction where solicitation is a crime, let their DA handle it. I'm really tired of these trumped up local politicians trying to force their idea of what's "moral" onto the rest of the world.
People went to air cooling for a reason - to stop having to deal with the messes that could happen when there were leaks or downtimes when the water chilling device broke down
Except that having only one air conditioner or only one chiller is called a single point of failure. If you don't have redundancy, then you will have bigger issues than a little bit of downtime.
Also, If your system doesn't have flow/pressure sensors with automatic shutoffs, then you did something seriously wrong.
Each server should have a small cutoff valve, each rack a larger one, and each main loop should have 2 routes and a nice, big cutoff. Also, each system should be configured to automatically cut off if the temp goes above a certain point, and the rack itself should have a local pump block with pressure monitoring on each blades coolant feed.
Worst case should be lowered capacity if you lose a chiller (or 2), or you lose one loop worth of coolant to the floor drain.
Also, if you do have a huge leak start, (for example: catastrophic failure of a main pump) there should be both automatic and manual shutoffs, and a tech on site monitoring the datacenter. JUST LIKE AIR COOLING!
Ask, and ye shall receive...
US_realm_list_by_datacenter
You keep mentioning this product, what is it exactly? I'd be very interested in taking a look at it, out of curiosity. Heck, perhaps we might give you an idea of how to make the original software more marketable.
I've released a few programs myself over the years, and I've found a few things that help motivate people to pay for it when they can get it for free. Forums, extra services, early updates and patches, heck even first shot at bonus content works, and if your prices are reasonable, a lot of people who normally pirate will purchase your product.
He who has the Gold, makes the Rules. - Lyndon Forman
I've been voting against these people, but it doesn't help. The guys with the money get the screen time, the adverts, and the votes. Hell, last election, I got ASKED TO LEAVE THE VOTING PRECINCT for requesting a paper ballot to write in my candidate.
So, Yeah. We're already screwed. Thanks for noticing.