People with money to burn will continue to buy games, people without will continue to pirate. People with money to burn that pirate for anything other than a trial deserve a special place in hell
Are you suggesting that if you don't have money then you should be able to pirate without consequence? I really hope not. I am 100% against DRM (except for in rental situations), and I think the RIAA/MPAAs tactics have been really lame and stupid, but that's just stupid to say people who can't afford certain items shouldn't have to pay for them. Yes I realize that it's not stealing, yes I realize that if they do pirate it the companies have not lost anything. Nevertheless, these are not necessary items. This isn't food and shelter and clothing we are talking about here. This isn't medical care and the like. These are games, movies, music, books, etc. Luxuries. Things people can live without. There are many more avenues of entertainment than these. Radio is free, provided you have a radio. Broadcast TV is free, provided you have a TV. Plenty of stuff on the internet is free, provided you have a computer and internet connection. And if you don't have those things, you aren't pirating anyway. Books, DVDs, CDs, and even some games are now at libraries where they can be checked out for free without pirating. Here again is a way to be entertained, informed, or whatever without the need for advocating piracy among the poor.
So by the logic, if I didn't want AOL to release my search information I shouldn't be mad as it's my fault to have used them in the first place?
AOL's privacy policy was not such that your searches would be released to the world at the time people made those searches. That ended up not being the case, so you would have a legitimate concern. Also, AOL searches were not being made public a la a web page at the time people were making them. I am sure many people would not have used AOL, or at least changed their search habits, had they known all of their searches would be immediately posted on the web.
Or that if I want my copyrighted information to not be republished by someone else, I should just simply not publish at all?
If this were a copyright issue, it would have been brought up as such. HA is not saying that archive.org violated copyright, only that they ignored a voluntary robots.txt file. If your copyrighted material is being infringed upon, you are more than welcome to stop the perpetrators. However, this is more like time shifting on TV, which in the US and many other countries, is considered perfectly legal.
How about, if I don't want my GPL code resold by someone in a closed source product I should just know better and not put it out in the open to begin with.
No, you knew better and GPLd the code. Therefore it falls under a license that gives you the legal right to stop the offending party from reselling it in a closed-source project. But this isn't about licenses, it's about a voluntary robots.txt file.
And that if I post something stupid when I'm 9 we believe it should follow me around throughout my entire lifetime, because a 9 year old should know better.
It's unfortunate that sometimes we do some dumb things when we might not have known any better yet still have to live with people knowing it forever. But then, this is no different than how things have gone on forever, it's just that now we have a much larger audience. Lots of kids do dumb things before they fully understand the consequences of their actions, and lots of people remember those things. However, that is no basis for a legal challenge.
There is nothing two-faced about this. Even if all of/., except for you of course, were actually all of one mind on those issues, this issue doesn't concern any issue you have brought up, except for maybe the 9-year-old thing, but even then, that is just a reality we have to deal with.
You should look up Bill Cosby's Pound Cake speech. For these purposes, ignore the specifics and just walk away with the general idea of what he is saying. It's really good.
Why get a CDRW emulator? Why not just get a CDRW? Now if you had said CDR I could see...wait, no I couldn't. Why would you want a CDR emulator when you can get a CDRW?
How am I suppose to take someone opinion seriously when they aren't even a serious counsel gamer. No offense, but there is a very different world between that of a counsel and that of a PC
My wife is in counseling psychology. She plays games, so I would consider her a serious counsel gamer and she thinks the PS3 is not going to succeed. Also, you are very correct that there is a big difference between counsel and a PC. However, with the Internet, I get a lot of counsel from my PC, so I guess it really is a fine line.
But eventually it will rank higher. It's just that "eventually" is defined differently for different people. I have started to go green more when I didn't used to be and I tell people about it. I'm not a fanatic about it by any stretch, but I try to be a little less polluting and a little more earth-conserving.
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I don't think you understand the word 'abnormally'. If most work, then to get one that works is not being 'abnormally lucky'.
Did your friend try it on Linux. I have a Canon camera and it was simply because I plugged it into my computer and Linux downloaded all the pictures and then opened up gThumb for me that I was sold. I used to complain a lot about it before then, but since it has become my primary desktop. With Windows I had to install some drivers and a whole bunch of what I consider crap software from Canon before I could get it to do the same. There's also f-spot and picassa if you don't like gThumb. All do more than Canon's garbage and they have the plus that they actually look decent (let alone like they were written for the same OS).
Ants can carry relatively high weight loads, so I'm not saying their legs aren't strong. But according to the article, the summary even, it's their jaws that they are using to jump, not their legs.
What is it that causes people to think that the time to talk is during the movie? I've seen this lots of times. While I was watching Revenge of the Sith there was a guy behind me attempting to bring his girlfriend up to speed with the entire Star Wars universe and a kid next to me telling his little brother everything that happens in the movie 5 seconds before it actually happens. During The Goblet of Fire I sat behind a lady who answered her cell phone 3 times. Granted she walked out every time, but I still had to listen to it ring, see the bright blue LED lights as she opened it up, listen to the first 10 seconds of her conversation and be annoyed as she left and came back. If know there is something coming up so important that you must answer you phone then don't go to the theater! If you don't know something is coming up, then turn the thing off.
My wife's family is also notorious for things like this, but I've been able to show my wife the better way. They'll ask questions during the movie about something that just happened/was said only to miss the answer to their question while they were asking it, or to miss some important plot point that will cause them to ask more questions later.
And what is wrong with people that feel the need to interrupt everything you do? If I am reading a book/playing a game/watching a movie why do people feel those are good times to interrupt that experience. "Well obviously he's not doing anything important so he won't mind me breaking into his concentration." It bugs me.
OK, that was a bit of a rant, but your point is well taken. I used to get to theaters early to get good seats and then I would sit and watch all those slides of ads. But now that they have commercials I try to time getting to the theater such that I will be sitting down right at the end of the last commercial. So by showing more, they have shown less. Something must be done about theaters and I think the first thing they must change is to have an usher with enough cajones to kick people out when they are disruptive. There should be some kind of implied contract that says if you buy the ticket you must agree to be courteous or you may lose your seat and they will not refund your money. Then get rid of the commercials. I like the theater experience - that is, I like seeing a movie on the big screen with a bunch of people who will laugh/cry/scream/whatever appropriately. The day Dead Man's Chest came out my University showed Curse of the Black Pearl outdoors. They had give-aways, contests, trivia, even the sailing club. It was all pirate themed and it was a great time. And when the movie started people were quiet and watched. They laughed where it was funny and gasped where gasping was appropriate. I'm not saying movie theaters need to have themes but if that will bring back a good movie going experience then do it.
Thank you. That was one of the most informative posts on/. all day long. I hate it when people use Moore's law in totally unrelated ways. For some reason, it bothers me even more when people think Moore's law is all about CPU speeds.
You missed the important part. He said "parents that buy games for thier kids and complain about all of the ESRB labeled "mature" issues in said games...should just be brought up on child neglect charges." (emphasis mine).
If someone wants to buy their kid a game or a movie or a book, that is their own prerogative. But if you buy the kid a game, then complain about it then you are just dumb. And in that situation, you obviously did not want your kid playing such a game, yet you bought it anyway, even though it was clearly labelled, you weren't just negligent, you were a willful accomplice. The GP was being too kind. You should be charged as willfully contributing to the deliquency of a minor, using your own standards.
Now if you buy an M-rated game for your kid and never complain, then those charges aren't brought against you. But by complaining even though you bought the game, then you have shown you are a bad parent.
Pretend? Who's pretending? I'm having fun as we speak! Dude, this is awesome, pass me the chips and a napkin. I don't want to get grease on my new controller.
Their customer sevice stinks, so why should their tech be any different?
I have never had any dealings with HSBC, nor do I know anything about their customer service. But I can take a wild guess as to how their tech could be different than their customer service. Maybe, just maybe, those are two different departments. Perhaps those two different departments are not staffed by the same people. And perhaps, even if they are the same people, some people are really good at one thing (tech for instance) and not so good at another (people pleasing) perhaps.
I've heard of +=, -=, *=, and others, but I've never seen +-. Would that be undefined like divide by zero or do they just cancel each other out, making it a no-op?
Agreed. If they really wanted to succeed with the PSP, they should have focused on the games. Then when/if it became popular, the PSP2 could have added in mp3 and video play back and/or whatever else it offers. But they tried to do too much at once, and because of that lack of focus, got nothing.
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People with money to burn will continue to buy games, people without will continue to pirate. People with money to burn that pirate for anything other than a trial deserve a special place in hell
Are you suggesting that if you don't have money then you should be able to pirate without consequence? I really hope not. I am 100% against DRM (except for in rental situations), and I think the RIAA/MPAAs tactics have been really lame and stupid, but that's just stupid to say people who can't afford certain items shouldn't have to pay for them. Yes I realize that it's not stealing, yes I realize that if they do pirate it the companies have not lost anything. Nevertheless, these are not necessary items. This isn't food and shelter and clothing we are talking about here. This isn't medical care and the like. These are games, movies, music, books, etc. Luxuries. Things people can live without. There are many more avenues of entertainment than these. Radio is free, provided you have a radio. Broadcast TV is free, provided you have a TV. Plenty of stuff on the internet is free, provided you have a computer and internet connection. And if you don't have those things, you aren't pirating anyway. Books, DVDs, CDs, and even some games are now at libraries where they can be checked out for free without pirating. Here again is a way to be entertained, informed, or whatever without the need for advocating piracy among the poor.
Anyway, I hope I didn't misread what you said.
So by the logic, if I didn't want AOL to release my search information I shouldn't be mad as it's my fault to have used them in the first place?
/., except for you of course, were actually all of one mind on those issues, this issue doesn't concern any issue you have brought up, except for maybe the 9-year-old thing, but even then, that is just a reality we have to deal with.
AOL's privacy policy was not such that your searches would be released to the world at the time people made those searches. That ended up not being the case, so you would have a legitimate concern. Also, AOL searches were not being made public a la a web page at the time people were making them. I am sure many people would not have used AOL, or at least changed their search habits, had they known all of their searches would be immediately posted on the web.
Or that if I want my copyrighted information to not be republished by someone else, I should just simply not publish at all?
If this were a copyright issue, it would have been brought up as such. HA is not saying that archive.org violated copyright, only that they ignored a voluntary robots.txt file. If your copyrighted material is being infringed upon, you are more than welcome to stop the perpetrators. However, this is more like time shifting on TV, which in the US and many other countries, is considered perfectly legal.
How about, if I don't want my GPL code resold by someone in a closed source product I should just know better and not put it out in the open to begin with.
No, you knew better and GPLd the code. Therefore it falls under a license that gives you the legal right to stop the offending party from reselling it in a closed-source project. But this isn't about licenses, it's about a voluntary robots.txt file.
And that if I post something stupid when I'm 9 we believe it should follow me around throughout my entire lifetime, because a 9 year old should know better.
It's unfortunate that sometimes we do some dumb things when we might not have known any better yet still have to live with people knowing it forever. But then, this is no different than how things have gone on forever, it's just that now we have a much larger audience. Lots of kids do dumb things before they fully understand the consequences of their actions, and lots of people remember those things. However, that is no basis for a legal challenge.
There is nothing two-faced about this. Even if all of
You should look up Bill Cosby's Pound Cake speech. For these purposes, ignore the specifics and just walk away with the general idea of what he is saying. It's really good.
That was hilarious.
Actually, he's from the future and he's showing us what happened to his server once the slashdotting begun.
Why get a CDRW emulator? Why not just get a CDRW? Now if you had said CDR I could see...wait, no I couldn't. Why would you want a CDR emulator when you can get a CDRW?
How am I suppose to take someone opinion seriously when they aren't even a serious counsel gamer. No offense, but there is a very different world between that of a counsel and that of a PC
My wife is in counseling psychology. She plays games, so I would consider her a serious counsel gamer and she thinks the PS3 is not going to succeed. Also, you are very correct that there is a big difference between counsel and a PC. However, with the Internet, I get a lot of counsel from my PC, so I guess it really is a fine line.
But eventually it will rank higher. It's just that "eventually" is defined differently for different people. I have started to go green more when I didn't used to be and I tell people about it. I'm not a fanatic about it by any stretch, but I try to be a little less polluting and a little more earth-conserving.
Save the Universe: Just say no to irreversible processes!
I don't think you understand the word 'abnormally'. If most work, then to get one that works is not being 'abnormally lucky'.
Did your friend try it on Linux. I have a Canon camera and it was simply because I plugged it into my computer and Linux downloaded all the pictures and then opened up gThumb for me that I was sold. I used to complain a lot about it before then, but since it has become my primary desktop. With Windows I had to install some drivers and a whole bunch of what I consider crap software from Canon before I could get it to do the same. There's also f-spot and picassa if you don't like gThumb. All do more than Canon's garbage and they have the plus that they actually look decent (let alone like they were written for the same OS).
Maybe it was only for the purposes that were really intense which he cared about.
Ants can carry relatively high weight loads, so I'm not saying their legs aren't strong. But according to the article, the summary even, it's their jaws that they are using to jump, not their legs.
sheer rudeness of humanity
What is it that causes people to think that the time to talk is during the movie? I've seen this lots of times. While I was watching Revenge of the Sith there was a guy behind me attempting to bring his girlfriend up to speed with the entire Star Wars universe and a kid next to me telling his little brother everything that happens in the movie 5 seconds before it actually happens. During The Goblet of Fire I sat behind a lady who answered her cell phone 3 times. Granted she walked out every time, but I still had to listen to it ring, see the bright blue LED lights as she opened it up, listen to the first 10 seconds of her conversation and be annoyed as she left and came back. If know there is something coming up so important that you must answer you phone then don't go to the theater! If you don't know something is coming up, then turn the thing off.
My wife's family is also notorious for things like this, but I've been able to show my wife the better way. They'll ask questions during the movie about something that just happened/was said only to miss the answer to their question while they were asking it, or to miss some important plot point that will cause them to ask more questions later.
And what is wrong with people that feel the need to interrupt everything you do? If I am reading a book/playing a game/watching a movie why do people feel those are good times to interrupt that experience. "Well obviously he's not doing anything important so he won't mind me breaking into his concentration." It bugs me.
OK, that was a bit of a rant, but your point is well taken. I used to get to theaters early to get good seats and then I would sit and watch all those slides of ads. But now that they have commercials I try to time getting to the theater such that I will be sitting down right at the end of the last commercial. So by showing more, they have shown less. Something must be done about theaters and I think the first thing they must change is to have an usher with enough cajones to kick people out when they are disruptive. There should be some kind of implied contract that says if you buy the ticket you must agree to be courteous or you may lose your seat and they will not refund your money. Then get rid of the commercials. I like the theater experience - that is, I like seeing a movie on the big screen with a bunch of people who will laugh/cry/scream/whatever appropriately. The day Dead Man's Chest came out my University showed Curse of the Black Pearl outdoors. They had give-aways, contests, trivia, even the sailing club. It was all pirate themed and it was a great time. And when the movie started people were quiet and watched. They laughed where it was funny and gasped where gasping was appropriate. I'm not saying movie theaters need to have themes but if that will bring back a good movie going experience then do it.
can you name a movie in the public domain?
How about Night of the Living Dead? I downloaded that legally last year before Halloween. Try it out some time.
Thank you. That was one of the most informative posts on /. all day long. I hate it when people use Moore's law in totally unrelated ways. For some reason, it bothers me even more when people think Moore's law is all about CPU speeds.
Hey, I drive that car! Minus the flame stickers and airfoil and add 235,000 miles, but it's still a reliable car.
Even more accurately, Apple didn't rip off the Xerox Parc, but were certainly inspired by it.
User: "How do I get my iPod to run in Linux?"
Zealot: "Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin
Wait, I can access an iPod from inside Quake 3 on Linux? Sweet. Does it give you a boost? Like an extra few feet with the rocket jump?
Now all I need is an iPod.
Maybe they thought you were a member of the GNAA?
You missed the important part. He said "parents that buy games for thier kids and complain about all of the ESRB labeled "mature" issues in said games...should just be brought up on child neglect charges." (emphasis mine).
If someone wants to buy their kid a game or a movie or a book, that is their own prerogative. But if you buy the kid a game, then complain about it then you are just dumb. And in that situation, you obviously did not want your kid playing such a game, yet you bought it anyway, even though it was clearly labelled, you weren't just negligent, you were a willful accomplice. The GP was being too kind. You should be charged as willfully contributing to the deliquency of a minor, using your own standards.
Now if you buy an M-rated game for your kid and never complain, then those charges aren't brought against you. But by complaining even though you bought the game, then you have shown you are a bad parent.
Pretend? Who's pretending? I'm having fun as we speak! Dude, this is awesome, pass me the chips and a napkin. I don't want to get grease on my new controller.
Their customer sevice stinks, so why should their tech be any different?
I have never had any dealings with HSBC, nor do I know anything about their customer service. But I can take a wild guess as to how their tech could be different than their customer service. Maybe, just maybe, those are two different departments. Perhaps those two different departments are not staffed by the same people. And perhaps, even if they are the same people, some people are really good at one thing (tech for instance) and not so good at another (people pleasing) perhaps.
I've heard of +=, -=, *=, and others, but I've never seen +-. Would that be undefined like divide by zero or do they just cancel each other out, making it a no-op?
Agreed. If they really wanted to succeed with the PSP, they should have focused on the games. Then when/if it became popular, the PSP2 could have added in mp3 and video play back and/or whatever else it offers. But they tried to do too much at once, and because of that lack of focus, got nothing.
Because its very expensive to do that.
Yeah, it's not like the government didn't give them money to do it already.