I wouldn't mind having this for movies. If you see a really, great, awesome movie that blew you away, you can erase your memory of it, watch it again and get blown away again!
HOLY SHIT! He's Kaiser Soze?!?!?!?!?
I would be more willing to watch trailers if I knew I could erase all memories of them before watching the actual movie. Right now I religiously avoid trailers for movies I want to see because they spoil plot points, ruin funny moments, etc, etc. But if it was "here's a good summary of the movie. Would you like to experience it? If so, make yourself a note and press FUDGE MY MIND to continue".
Ironically, I wouldn't want to erase bad movies. I wouldn't want to risk seeing them again.
All memory of Goatse could be erased! That has to count for SOMETHING.
In theory, yes. But not in practice. See it should have been a learning experience about protecting yourself from shock sites. Those who forget anuses are doomed to repeat them.
Why is any TSA employee allowed to leave the baggage area with a laptop under his arm?
He isn't leaving with a laptop. He's leaving with a laptop and a digital camera. He gives the digital camera to the "supervisor" doing the searches, and then leaves the Search Area with a laptop under his arm.
And if you put someone in charge of watching the watchers, the first employee will be leaving the baggage area with a laptop, a digital camera, and an mp3 player...
All they got to do is create a law/rule that says you must report your phone as stolen within X many hours of you noticing it. This will give plenty of manufactured evidence to pursue your connections with other people as well as make stolen phones only viable to a little less then a week.
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The CAA (and the AAA, and any other road-side assist programs) recommend you have a cell phone in your car for emergencies. They explicitly state that, even if you don't use a cell phone, get an old one. Put it in your glovebox along with a car charger. In an emergency, plug it in, dial 911, and it will connect with no plan, on any network. This is a good thing.
By your logic, everyone should be rooting through their glovebox, searching for their cell phone to make sure it is Being Used For Terror every single day. Because if they forget to check on this emergency device regularly, they'll have no excuse or defense against being a terrorist.
The same goes for any cell phone sitting in a pile of tech, in a pawn shop-- hell, anywhere one of these nigh-disposable devices is lying about being forgotten about.
Sure, Mrs. Smithson might be innocent of being part of a terror cell, but that's up to her to prove by being a vigilant citizen. Maybe if she had joined the neighborhood watch (y'know, to watch her neighbors), terrorists wouldn't have been able to get into her block and gain access to her car. But any PROPER citizen watches and is vigilant. So she must be working with them. Otherwise she would have reported her cell phone stolen right away. And would have reported that the new neighbor's skin color is uncomfortably on the wrong side of the barometer of TERROR!
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I understand what you mean with that. It's the whole "using other's bad behaviour to justify your own" thing. "They are bad people for putting DRM on the game, so I'll be a bad person by not paying for it".
The funny part here is Stardock does their best to put almost no DRM on their games. All you're doing is proving companies like EA right, that people will pirate games no matter what, and the only way to try to defend your property is to lock it down.
I should point out, the statement should have been: "you can't use other's bad behaviour to excuse your own".
Also, it doesn't really "prove" EA's point. It's all a matter of cause/effect. EA says "People pirate, so we DRM to protect". People say "EA DRM's to protect, so I pirate.". Both these cases have the same overlapping group of "people who pirate anyways". But with DRM, you get the group of people who wouldn't have pirated, and now do. So the big question they have to face is, Does DRM gain more sales from people not pirating than it causes lost sales from people pirating around it / not buying it altogether?
I have a problem with the people who didn't buy the game and give DRM as the reason and then act as if their justified in pirating it because the game company did or didn't do X.
I understand what you mean with that. It's the whole "using other's bad behaviour to justify your own" thing. "They are bad people for putting DRM on the game, so I'll be a bad person by not paying for it".
Of course, the counter-argument of "why not just not buy or play it" is met with "but I want/need/must play it". It is an interesting relationship that the game industry has fostered. They've done everything in their power to get their consumers "addicted" to gaming-- they want the gamers to not just want the next release, but need it. So when those addicts go to extremes to get it, I don't see how they can be surprised. It's a social problem.
Personally, I'd find it interesting to find out what the attitude of a group of gamers would be if they were "withdrawn" from the scene for a few months-- no reviews, no new games, no playing and of the "hyped" games-- maybe only allowed to play open source or free games. Would they still "need" the game after that?
Maybe we need a Video Game Makers Strike for a few months =)
Why is this such a popular response? If [Game Company] doesn't do [whatever it is I want] then I'm going to pirate the game.
Not that I'm condoning or condemning this response, but...
The rational behind that statement (in most cases on the Bell curve) is that the person making the statement has already purchased the game, and quite possibly several other games from the same company. When they say "whatever it is I want", they usually mean "install, work properly, and not mysteriously stop one day".
And by "pirate", they mean "go to a third party to get a working version of the game I've rightfully purchased".
Yes, it's true that on one extreme of the Bell curve are the people who wouldn't have bought it anyways-- and on the other half are the people who will buy it regardless-- but that every growing hump in the middle is changing and growing. People say this because there's only two ways of letting a company know about the status of their relationship with you, the consumer: 1) giving them feedback, and 2) speaking with your dollar.
And if I were a game company, and my primary consumers started to use #1 to threaten to use #2, I'd damn well be listening. Because once they're gone...
In my family, when a very young child (let's say 2 or less) has a birthday, we make two cakes. One for everyone to enjoy, and a smaller one specifically for the child. It's only there because the kid will want cake, but doesn't have the mental facilities yet to enjoy or appreciate the cake. So they get one of their own, so they can mess it up to their heart's desire. And if you've ever seen a young child given a cake, you'll know that within two minutes there will be no cake left-- just a mass of wet crumbs and drool scattered all about the highchair, floor, clothes, face, etc.
And that, my friend, is why you need product numbers as well as version numbers. Product numbers are what the mature, knowledgeable folk use to indicate the current revision of the software. Product numbers are what you give to the drooling simpletons in Marketing to play with. Nothing they do with it will muck up your version number. You're happy because you can accurately track your software version and honestly communicate that to knowledgeable clients. Marketing is happy because they get to feel like they're contributing something all by themselves. They'll play with it a bit, drool, probably poop themselves, then finally fall asleep from all the excitement.
Who knows, one day them might be all growed up, and will be allowed to touch the big people things.
Slashdot: Are there any plans implement some kind of a spectator mode?
Jeff: Yes. We would love to implement spectator mode...In a lot of ways, I feel like, for the arena, replay would serve people better than actual spectator mode.
I would think that Replay Mode would be the only way to go. First, you've already stated in another question that 300+ people on a server might bog it down. Spectators will count as people when they can move about the environment.
And then there's the overwhelmingly large chances for abuse by a spectator. You just need to have a guild-friendly spectator pop into the enemy team's base and watch what spells they cast-- or run about the field shouting "here he is"-- or even have a cadre of spectators on standby, and if your team is losing, have them all connect and lag/crash the game.
Replay, on the other hand, would be an amazing tool for guilds who are into strategy. They could run some big game, then afterwards walk through it (pause, rewind, replay) to analyze their tactics. Especially if you put in a "global control", or a "lecture mode": all X people to connect to 1 person's replay, so she can walk them through, point out particular things, paste magical notes for others to read, etc.
Send each customer a free sample of cyanide-- labeled "Viagra"
The market dries up
Less customers means less money flowing to scummy companies. Less money flowing to them means less money being given to spammers. No money in spamming means people stop spamming.
And for the inevitable and snarky "here's why your idea won't work list" post to follow: I know that it isn't legal. That's why your hire a plausible deniability, like a merc company, to do it for you. Geez.
Any work by a copyright holder who has knowingly filed a false DMCA takedown notice.
In other words: Abuse the bill, it stops protecting you. Sure, you'd need to prove the douche did their douchy act with full douchable knowledge, but it'll be pretty hard for someone to claim 'I didn't know better' after the first time they're caught doing it.
It'd be nice if that exemption could extend to the holder's entire library of IP...
You can control tags of you in your Facebook privacy settings.
Though I have to wonder just how much privacy that actually affords someone. If Bob puts his tag settings to "fuckoff", what happens:
To existing tags? Are they removed?
To new tag attempts? Are they rejected?
Or, as I suspect, are they accepted but just set to not show up whenever called up? (.visible = false)
Because in the last case, although you've bought yourself some privacy from outside eyes, you haven't gained any in the form of data mining. Those tags still exist, linking you to X,Y,Z-- and those links are what facebook really cares about. Marketing data.
Personally, I think this whole think stinks of bullcrap.
Real, which is, admit it, an evil, worthless company that pumps out defective, DRM ladden software, suddenly decides to be "the good guy" by releasing what could be a very useful piece of software. What prompted this? The goodness of their heart? Or...
... a nice big fat check from the MPAA?
They'd love to have DVD copying not only made Extremely Illegal, but also want it to be Very Publicly Known so that no one gets any funny ideas about actually owning that content. So they encourage a very, very visible company to make a product that is used for "backing up" DVDs. They get that product's name and purposed splashed all over the place.
Then, just before it comes out, they swoop in and fucking DESTROY the company making it with a swift, unquestioning and decisive lawsuit that is right in the public's eye. A stern warning to every Dave DVDCopy out there: We will fuck you up!
Think about it. Real announces this product right before its release. That was rather quick, don't you think? Then, just in case it gets "out there" by accident, they fill it full of DRM so that it can't actually do any harm.
Then to be extra sure, they collude with the MPAA by filing a "preemptive lawsuit" over the product. How blatant! They might just as well be mugging to the audience, going "wow, that sure was a coincidence we got sued over THIS ILLEGAL PRODUCT here!"
How quickly do you think the Real lawyers will flub the case, leading to an early and precedent-setting decision about ANY and ALL "dirty illegal theft"? There'll be a hefty $X million settlement (after which, the MPAA will make a "technology investment" in Real for, shall we say, 2*$X million?
Bullshit, bullshit, bull McCallingIt Shit de la Poo!
They have a 17" monitor up their asses? Well, good to know goatse guy is getting steady work these days, even if he isn't well-versed in the scientific method.
hey must be using a different version of XP than I am... When I 'Hibernate' my laptop, it dumps the RAM to a file on the hard drive and then powers off completely.
You must be using a different version of XP than I am... When I 'Hibernate' my laptop, it attempts to dump the RAM to a file, throws a hissy fit like a coddled freshman after their first exam, fails miserably, flickers the screen, disables the Hibernate option, and then just sits around until the battery drains.
And this is when everyone should dust off their copy of Expanded Universe, give A Bathroom of Her Own a read, and realize that not only has this crap has been going on since (at least) 1946, it's been used by both sides.
In response to Warhammer Online hitting the shelves, Blizzard re-aired their year-old commercials about b-list celebrities who "play" the game. Aside from that, what else is Blizzard doing to keep Warcarft in the minds of current players, and to get into the minds of prospective players?
There are about 300 million (thousand thousand) people in the States
According to All Knowledge Ever, 24.6% are minors, and 12.7% are of retired age. That means there are only 188 million "employable" citizens.
The same BLS says the unemployment rate is 6%. That means there are 11.3 million unemployed citizens
If every single one of those lost jobs resulted in a currently unemployed person, then 6.65% of all unemployed persons were from the entertainment industry.
Now, assuming that their number isn't complete and utter bullshatistics-- nah, I think I'll just call BS and be done with this one.
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I wouldn't mind having this for movies. If you see a really, great, awesome movie that blew you away, you can erase your memory of it, watch it again and get blown away again!
HOLY SHIT! He's Kaiser Soze?!?!?!?!?
I would be more willing to watch trailers if I knew I could erase all memories of them before watching the actual movie. Right now I religiously avoid trailers for movies I want to see because they spoil plot points, ruin funny moments, etc, etc. But if it was "here's a good summary of the movie. Would you like to experience it? If so, make yourself a note and press FUDGE MY MIND to continue".
Ironically, I wouldn't want to erase bad movies. I wouldn't want to risk seeing them again.
In theory, yes. But not in practice. See it should have been a learning experience about protecting yourself from shock sites. Those who forget anuses are doomed to repeat them.
Why is any TSA employee allowed to leave the baggage area with a laptop under his arm?
He isn't leaving with a laptop. He's leaving with a laptop and a digital camera. He gives the digital camera to the "supervisor" doing the searches, and then leaves the Search Area with a laptop under his arm.
And if you put someone in charge of watching the watchers, the first employee will be leaving the baggage area with a laptop, a digital camera, and an mp3 player...
And don't forget about the Boston Lite Brites. Goddamn, that incident scared the shit out of me.
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The CAA (and the AAA, and any other road-side assist programs) recommend you have a cell phone in your car for emergencies. They explicitly state that, even if you don't use a cell phone, get an old one. Put it in your glovebox along with a car charger. In an emergency, plug it in, dial 911, and it will connect with no plan, on any network. This is a good thing.
By your logic, everyone should be rooting through their glovebox, searching for their cell phone to make sure it is Being Used For Terror every single day. Because if they forget to check on this emergency device regularly, they'll have no excuse or defense against being a terrorist.
The same goes for any cell phone sitting in a pile of tech, in a pawn shop-- hell, anywhere one of these nigh-disposable devices is lying about being forgotten about.
Sure, Mrs. Smithson might be innocent of being part of a terror cell, but that's up to her to prove by being a vigilant citizen. Maybe if she had joined the neighborhood watch (y'know, to watch her neighbors), terrorists wouldn't have been able to get into her block and gain access to her car. But any PROPER citizen watches and is vigilant. So she must be working with them. Otherwise she would have reported her cell phone stolen right away. And would have reported that the new neighbor's skin color is uncomfortably on the wrong side of the barometer of TERROR!
Only because Jesus loved science fiction, and would totally whoop people in a method a thousand years beyond his time.
I don't get what you mean. There's a new Mac out.
Fixed it.
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I understand what you mean with that. It's the whole "using other's bad behaviour to justify your own" thing. "They are bad people for putting DRM on the game, so I'll be a bad person by not paying for it".
Of course, the counter-argument of "why not just not buy or play it" is met with "but I want/need/must play it". It is an interesting relationship that the game industry has fostered. They've done everything in their power to get their consumers "addicted" to gaming-- they want the gamers to not just want the next release, but need it. So when those addicts go to extremes to get it, I don't see how they can be surprised. It's a social problem.
Personally, I'd find it interesting to find out what the attitude of a group of gamers would be if they were "withdrawn" from the scene for a few months-- no reviews, no new games, no playing and of the "hyped" games-- maybe only allowed to play open source or free games. Would they still "need" the game after that?
Maybe we need a Video Game Makers Strike for a few months =)
Not that I'm condoning or condemning this response, but...
The rational behind that statement (in most cases on the Bell curve) is that the person making the statement has already purchased the game, and quite possibly several other games from the same company. When they say "whatever it is I want", they usually mean "install, work properly, and not mysteriously stop one day".
And by "pirate", they mean "go to a third party to get a working version of the game I've rightfully purchased".
Yes, it's true that on one extreme of the Bell curve are the people who wouldn't have bought it anyways-- and on the other half are the people who will buy it regardless-- but that every growing hump in the middle is changing and growing. People say this because there's only two ways of letting a company know about the status of their relationship with you, the consumer: 1) giving them feedback, and 2) speaking with your dollar.
And if I were a game company, and my primary consumers started to use #1 to threaten to use #2, I'd damn well be listening. Because once they're gone...
I think the real question is this:
How exactly does one pay online for a credit card number?
In my family, when a very young child (let's say 2 or less) has a birthday, we make two cakes. One for everyone to enjoy, and a smaller one specifically for the child. It's only there because the kid will want cake, but doesn't have the mental facilities yet to enjoy or appreciate the cake. So they get one of their own, so they can mess it up to their heart's desire. And if you've ever seen a young child given a cake, you'll know that within two minutes there will be no cake left-- just a mass of wet crumbs and drool scattered all about the highchair, floor, clothes, face, etc.
And that, my friend, is why you need product numbers as well as version numbers. Product numbers are what the mature, knowledgeable folk use to indicate the current revision of the software. Product numbers are what you give to the drooling simpletons in Marketing to play with. Nothing they do with it will muck up your version number. You're happy because you can accurately track your software version and honestly communicate that to knowledgeable clients. Marketing is happy because they get to feel like they're contributing something all by themselves. They'll play with it a bit, drool, probably poop themselves, then finally fall asleep from all the excitement.
Who knows, one day them might be all growed up, and will be allowed to touch the big people things.
I would think that Replay Mode would be the only way to go. First, you've already stated in another question that 300+ people on a server might bog it down. Spectators will count as people when they can move about the environment.
And then there's the overwhelmingly large chances for abuse by a spectator. You just need to have a guild-friendly spectator pop into the enemy team's base and watch what spells they cast-- or run about the field shouting "here he is"-- or even have a cadre of spectators on standby, and if your team is losing, have them all connect and lag/crash the game.
Replay, on the other hand, would be an amazing tool for guilds who are into strategy. They could run some big game, then afterwards walk through it (pause, rewind, replay) to analyze their tactics. Especially if you put in a "global control", or a "lecture mode": all X people to connect to 1 person's replay, so she can walk them through, point out particular things, paste magical notes for others to read, etc.
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
Less customers means less money flowing to scummy companies. Less money flowing to them means less money being given to spammers. No money in spamming means people stop spamming.
And for the inevitable and snarky "here's why your idea won't work list" post to follow: I know that it isn't legal. That's why your hire a plausible deniability, like a merc company, to do it for you. Geez.
How about an exemption along the lines of:
Any work by a copyright holder who has knowingly filed a false DMCA takedown notice.
In other words: Abuse the bill, it stops protecting you. Sure, you'd need to prove the douche did their douchy act with full douchable knowledge, but it'll be pretty hard for someone to claim 'I didn't know better' after the first time they're caught doing it.
It'd be nice if that exemption could extend to the holder's entire library of IP...
Hey, that sounds like a great idea for a bestseller. Might if I buy it off you?
Though I have to wonder just how much privacy that actually affords someone. If Bob puts his tag settings to "fuckoff", what happens:
Because in the last case, although you've bought yourself some privacy from outside eyes, you haven't gained any in the form of data mining. Those tags still exist, linking you to X,Y,Z-- and those links are what facebook really cares about. Marketing data.
Personally, I think this whole think stinks of bullcrap.
Real, which is, admit it, an evil, worthless company that pumps out defective, DRM ladden software, suddenly decides to be "the good guy" by releasing what could be a very useful piece of software. What prompted this? The goodness of their heart? Or...
... a nice big fat check from the MPAA?
They'd love to have DVD copying not only made Extremely Illegal, but also want it to be Very Publicly Known so that no one gets any funny ideas about actually owning that content. So they encourage a very, very visible company to make a product that is used for "backing up" DVDs. They get that product's name and purposed splashed all over the place.
Then, just before it comes out, they swoop in and fucking DESTROY the company making it with a swift, unquestioning and decisive lawsuit that is right in the public's eye. A stern warning to every Dave DVDCopy out there: We will fuck you up!
Think about it. Real announces this product right before its release. That was rather quick, don't you think? Then, just in case it gets "out there" by accident, they fill it full of DRM so that it can't actually do any harm.
Then to be extra sure, they collude with the MPAA by filing a "preemptive lawsuit" over the product. How blatant! They might just as well be mugging to the audience, going "wow, that sure was a coincidence we got sued over THIS ILLEGAL PRODUCT here!"
How quickly do you think the Real lawyers will flub the case, leading to an early and precedent-setting decision about ANY and ALL "dirty illegal theft"? There'll be a hefty $X million settlement (after which, the MPAA will make a "technology investment" in Real for, shall we say, 2*$X million?
Bullshit, bullshit, bull McCallingIt Shit de la Poo!
They have a 17" monitor up their asses? Well, good to know goatse guy is getting steady work these days, even if he isn't well-versed in the scientific method.
You must be using a different version of XP than I am... When I 'Hibernate' my laptop, it attempts to dump the RAM to a file, throws a hissy fit like a coddled freshman after their first exam, fails miserably, flickers the screen, disables the Hibernate option, and then just sits around until the battery drains.
And this is when everyone should dust off their copy of Expanded Universe, give A Bathroom of Her Own a read, and realize that not only has this crap has been going on since (at least) 1946, it's been used by both sides.
In response to Warhammer Online hitting the shelves, Blizzard re-aired their year-old commercials about b-list celebrities who "play" the game. Aside from that, what else is Blizzard doing to keep Warcarft in the minds of current players, and to get into the minds of prospective players?
Heck, think about it this way:
There are about 300 million (thousand thousand) people in the States
According to All Knowledge Ever, 24.6% are minors, and 12.7% are of retired age. That means there are only 188 million "employable" citizens.
The same BLS says the unemployment rate is 6%. That means there are 11.3 million unemployed citizens
If every single one of those lost jobs resulted in a currently unemployed person, then 6.65% of all unemployed persons were from the entertainment industry.
Now, assuming that their number isn't complete and utter bullshatistics-- nah, I think I'll just call BS and be done with this one.
Well then the system is a douchbag.