I know farming is why most people are using Glider. But having run several characters up to 60 and working them up towards 70 is STILL extremely boring.
I'm not a lawyer, but to me it seems like a tacked on item "because they can".
As for the rest of their claims...I guess I can see the point, but if you look at the glider forums it would appear that Blizzard is being fairly strict on banning accounts. If Blizzard is able to utilize the ban-hammer effectivly enough, the problem will solve itself. And then people will move on to the next bot.
The ONLY way for blizzard to make the problem go away is to remove the requirement to grind every character up to lvl 60 or 70. My suggestion would be to give people the ability to create alternate characters starting at any level UP TO the level of their highest character. So if you've got a level 52 mage and you've decided mages suck and want to play a warrior, you could create a new warrior character at any level between 1 and 52.
You could just let wikipedia die. About.com mirrors all of wikipedia's content and clutters it up with ads anyway.
Of course, a generation of high school and college students would be up shit creek without a paddle since they have no idea how to do real research, but they'll either fail or adapt -- either way everyone wins.
No, I just don't define it exactly the same way that RMS does. The little bits of code I have made free in the past, I make FREE. As in its either using the BSD license or its flat out public domain. If someone else wants to make money off it, good for them. If some big evil corporation wants to take my work that I've made available add it to their stuff, put it in a box, market the hell out of it and make a billion dolllars, I'm OK with that.
I don't have the double standard of "I want this to be free so I'll restrict others peoples rights to use it in order to keep it free."
My comments about what I've contributed and paid were in regards to the comment saying I contributed exactly nothing, which is not true. In any case, think of me what you will, leech, whatever. Its clear that because I do not worship RMS, we will never see eye to eye on this issue.
When the GNU/FSF goes tits up, I won't shed any tears, and as I stated before, I'm sure Microsoft or Apple would be happy to take my business away from the linux/gnu/oss category. Hell, if RMS and his fanboys keep the rhetoric up, I just might switch anyway just to help make the point that grandstanding and rhetoric can do more to hurt your cause than help it. As much as socialists like RMS hate to hear it, my company is doing well enough we can pay Microsoft's fees AND still turn a profit.
The law isn't carte-blanche to download software and movies, nor is it legal to distribute copyrighted material.
I agree. But thats not the way the Canadian slashdotters present it when they gleefully point out that downloading is legal there because of their taxes on blank media.
Because right or not, canadians now get to deal with the **AA on a personal level.
And just to clarify -- the United States isn't sending out letters, a corporation's lawyers are. As much as the rest of the world doesn't like to make the distinction, US corporations != US Government. Yet.
Pounding into ground = look at the slashdot moderation. You dare to speak out against RMS, the FSF, or the GPL and you're moderated as troll and flamebait. There may not be many of them, but they always seem to have mod points.
As for my "business" -- I've personally donated about $4k over the last three years to various open source projects, and my company is currently using RHEL, which has a fairly sizeable pricetag attached for support. And to shoot down your next argument, I'm self employed, not a code monkey for a big corporation, and if I decide to dump linux, it will actualy happen, and the change would also be minimially disruptive. Maybe I don't personally donate code, but I'm no leech. So nice try, better luck next time.
Mod me troll, flamebait, whatever. You've proved my point about the free software group being hypocritical, with the added bonus of being fairly immature to boot. Enjoy life, enjoy your GPLv3. I'll enjoy mine without it.
Actually, most republicans don't like bush at this point either, but thats not the point.
My point, which you missed in favor of a bush bashing, was that a few vocal extremly-far-left democrats want to punish the states that caused bush's election.
I have no complaint with them wanting to remove bush from power, or failing that remove bush's power from him while he remains a neutered president, but why punish my state because we are a "red state" (though we're making progress and elected a democratic senator -- one down, one to go) even though not everyone here is a republican?
Here's a hint for the extreme left. States like mine are slowly leaning towards the democrats, but having democrats calling for punishment will VERY quickly drive this state back squarely into the republican's camp. Your calls for vengence on the "red states" HURTS our ability to convince people to vote for democrats.
Ah, but when we don't want to switch to GPLv3, the RMS-is-GOD-and-can-do-no-wrong crowd attempts to pound us into the ground because our idea of freedom is different, and we're exercising that freedom by refusing GPLv3.
Seems kind of self defeating and hypocritical by so-called supporters of "free" software.
IF refusing to use anything GPLv3 means no more linux for me, well, thats fine. I'm sure Apple or Microsoft would be happy to have my business back.
The Democratic party isn't REALLY in a position to bully Republican states... and you don't want them too. The last thing we want is to become like parliamentary countries, where parties in the opposition see their "perks" like education for schooling becoming part of coalition politics... look what happened in Israel in this year's budget re: national religious education... NRP is in the opposition, so their budget get walloped... that is NOT good government.
But that is exactly what some very vocal and very far left democrats want. They want to punish the "red states" for Bush being president. There aren't very many of them, but they're the ones screeching away over in the corner that even most democrats would like to make shut up.
I have no obligation to the "poor" in this country. In this country, the "poor" lived better than I did while putting myself through college. No car, no TV, no xbox/playstation/nintendo, no cell phone, no brand-name clothes, skipping meals on a regular basis to pay for rent and tuition since working two part time jobs barely made ends meet. Compared to the average "poor" person on welfare, they have food, multiple tvs, cable, and a car. OR they tend to have none of the above and a hundred-doller-a-day drug habit. Now, it may not be like that everywhere, but where I grew up, and where I live now, that is the situation. Either way, its their choice not to better themselves, or to find a job and put some effort into bettering their situation.
I have savings to cover expenses such as a broken foot, car accident, etc. Not a real worry for me.
As for my $1000/year average, I'm self employed, so no, my employer isn't kicking in a damned thing I haven't taken into account.
I'll grant that things would be drastically different if I was married, had kids, etc. But again, thats a choice, and with that choice comes responsibilities and consequences. If someone makes a choice and it screws them over, I don't have any pity for them.
Not FUD. Look at what they're currently doing. Do you want to trust your health to them? I sure as hell don't. It may work elsewhere, it may even work WELL elsewhere. But the places that its working well aren't as screwed up overall either.
As for life expectancy, I think a lot of that is due to the fact that most americans live very unhealthy lifestyles, and no amount or quality of healthcare is going to fix a steady diet of fast food and an exercise routine consisting of fetching beer and lifting the tv remote.
well, I'm just a dumb American with asthma, but my insurance and medical bills (including prescriptions) over the last 5 years have averaged about $1000 / year, which works out to less than 1.5% of my annual income.
So why would I be better off under socialized medicine? I'd pay more, and if managed the way the government manages everything else they touch I'd get less. You all in the rest of the world like to point out how incompetent the US government is (and often with good reason), why do you think they'd be any better at running health care than they are at other things?
It is a tool. You yourself admit that. It's a tool like calculus, or language It may be an important tool, yes, but saying using windows because its required for work hampers my ability to think is a load of bullshit. In my case, using linux would hamper my productivity, because I use the computer as a tool, not an all-powerful defines-who-I-am magical box.
As for passion, I'll save that for my art and other hobbies. You want to get passionate about a box, go right ahead, I'm not going to stop you. Just don't insult the rest of us who don't share your passion.
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But Tyson wouldn't OWN the Lamborghini, the bank would.
The Brits just finished paying for the lend-lease program. We didn't exactly write ALL debt off.
Rule number one about secrets: If more than one person knows it, its no longer secret.
Its completely plausable he's got Win 2k3 installed, depending on what he's developing.
They don't mind too much.
Except for Top Gear, which gets yanked quite often due to copyright issues.
I'd say the excitement is still there.
Ask again when you can walk into any Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc and find them sitting on the shelves at any given time.
I know farming is why most people are using Glider. But having run several characters up to 60 and working them up towards 70 is STILL extremely boring.
I'm not a lawyer, but to me it seems like a tacked on item "because they can".
As for the rest of their claims...I guess I can see the point, but if you look at the glider forums it would appear that Blizzard is being fairly strict on banning accounts. If Blizzard is able to utilize the ban-hammer effectivly enough, the problem will solve itself. And then people will move on to the next bot.
The ONLY way for blizzard to make the problem go away is to remove the requirement to grind every character up to lvl 60 or 70. My suggestion would be to give people the ability to create alternate characters starting at any level UP TO the level of their highest character. So if you've got a level 52 mage and you've decided mages suck and want to play a warrior, you could create a new warrior character at any level between 1 and 52.
You could just let wikipedia die. About.com mirrors all of wikipedia's content and clutters it up with ads anyway.
Of course, a generation of high school and college students would be up shit creek without a paddle since they have no idea how to do real research, but they'll either fail or adapt -- either way everyone wins.
No, I just don't define it exactly the same way that RMS does. The little bits of code I have made free in the past, I make FREE. As in its either using the BSD license or its flat out public domain. If someone else wants to make money off it, good for them. If some big evil corporation wants to take my work that I've made available add it to their stuff, put it in a box, market the hell out of it and make a billion dolllars, I'm OK with that.
I don't have the double standard of "I want this to be free so I'll restrict others peoples rights to use it in order to keep it free."
My comments about what I've contributed and paid were in regards to the comment saying I contributed exactly nothing, which is not true. In any case, think of me what you will, leech, whatever. Its clear that because I do not worship RMS, we will never see eye to eye on this issue.
When the GNU/FSF goes tits up, I won't shed any tears, and as I stated before, I'm sure Microsoft or Apple would be happy to take my business away from the linux/gnu/oss category. Hell, if RMS and his fanboys keep the rhetoric up, I just might switch anyway just to help make the point that grandstanding and rhetoric can do more to hurt your cause than help it. As much as socialists like RMS hate to hear it, my company is doing well enough we can pay Microsoft's fees AND still turn a profit.
You're debating with someone who likes their iBook, not a powerbook owner. If the iBook was good enough for them, then a macbook probably will be too.
The law isn't carte-blanche to download software and movies, nor is it legal to distribute copyrighted material.
I agree. But thats not the way the Canadian slashdotters present it when they gleefully point out that downloading is legal there because of their taxes on blank media.
Because right or not, canadians now get to deal with the **AA on a personal level.
And just to clarify -- the United States isn't sending out letters, a corporation's lawyers are. As much as the rest of the world doesn't like to make the distinction, US corporations != US Government. Yet.
Pounding into ground = look at the slashdot moderation. You dare to speak out against RMS, the FSF, or the GPL and you're moderated as troll and flamebait. There may not be many of them, but they always seem to have mod points.
As for my "business" -- I've personally donated about $4k over the last three years to various open source projects, and my company is currently using RHEL, which has a fairly sizeable pricetag attached for support. And to shoot down your next argument, I'm self employed, not a code monkey for a big corporation, and if I decide to dump linux, it will actualy happen, and the change would also be minimially disruptive. Maybe I don't personally donate code, but I'm no leech. So nice try, better luck next time.
Mod me troll, flamebait, whatever. You've proved my point about the free software group being hypocritical, with the added bonus of being fairly immature to boot. Enjoy life, enjoy your GPLv3. I'll enjoy mine without it.
Actually, most republicans don't like bush at this point either, but thats not the point.
My point, which you missed in favor of a bush bashing, was that a few vocal extremly-far-left democrats want to punish the states that caused bush's election.
I have no complaint with them wanting to remove bush from power, or failing that remove bush's power from him while he remains a neutered president, but why punish my state because we are a "red state" (though we're making progress and elected a democratic senator -- one down, one to go) even though not everyone here is a republican?
Here's a hint for the extreme left. States like mine are slowly leaning towards the democrats, but having democrats calling for punishment will VERY quickly drive this state back squarely into the republican's camp. Your calls for vengence on the "red states" HURTS our ability to convince people to vote for democrats.
Ah, but when we don't want to switch to GPLv3, the RMS-is-GOD-and-can-do-no-wrong crowd attempts to pound us into the ground because our idea of freedom is different, and we're exercising that freedom by refusing GPLv3.
Seems kind of self defeating and hypocritical by so-called supporters of "free" software.
IF refusing to use anything GPLv3 means no more linux for me, well, thats fine. I'm sure Apple or Microsoft would be happy to have my business back.
The Democratic party isn't REALLY in a position to bully Republican states... and you don't want them too. The last thing we want is to become like parliamentary countries, where parties in the opposition see their "perks" like education for schooling becoming part of coalition politics... look what happened in Israel in this year's budget re: national religious education... NRP is in the opposition, so their budget get walloped... that is NOT good government.
But that is exactly what some very vocal and very far left democrats want. They want to punish the "red states" for Bush being president. There aren't very many of them, but they're the ones screeching away over in the corner that even most democrats would like to make shut up.
Well, they need some way to keep their movie division afloat, since piracy is so bad that hollywood can't make any money on their own.
You know, the one where its legal to share files because they pay taxes.
Then again, I also can't think of any country's borders the **AA actually respects. So welcome to the club.
I have no obligation to the "poor" in this country. In this country, the "poor" lived better than I did while putting myself through college. No car, no TV, no xbox/playstation/nintendo, no cell phone, no brand-name clothes, skipping meals on a regular basis to pay for rent and tuition since working two part time jobs barely made ends meet. Compared to the average "poor" person on welfare, they have food, multiple tvs, cable, and a car. OR they tend to have none of the above and a hundred-doller-a-day drug habit. Now, it may not be like that everywhere, but where I grew up, and where I live now, that is the situation. Either way, its their choice not to better themselves, or to find a job and put some effort into bettering their situation.
I have savings to cover expenses such as a broken foot, car accident, etc. Not a real worry for me.
As for my $1000/year average, I'm self employed, so no, my employer isn't kicking in a damned thing I haven't taken into account.
I'll grant that things would be drastically different if I was married, had kids, etc. But again, thats a choice, and with that choice comes responsibilities and consequences. If someone makes a choice and it screws them over, I don't have any pity for them.
And I don't get a damned thing out of it, and like social security, the programs won't be around long enough for me to use them.
So no, those are not part of MY healthcare costs.
Not FUD. Look at what they're currently doing. Do you want to trust your health to them? I sure as hell don't. It may work elsewhere, it may even work WELL elsewhere. But the places that its working well aren't as screwed up overall either.
As for life expectancy, I think a lot of that is due to the fact that most americans live very unhealthy lifestyles, and no amount or quality of healthcare is going to fix a steady diet of fast food and an exercise routine consisting of fetching beer and lifting the tv remote.
I'm self employed.
well, I'm just a dumb American with asthma, but my insurance and medical bills (including prescriptions) over the last 5 years have averaged about $1000 / year, which works out to less than 1.5% of my annual income.
So why would I be better off under socialized medicine? I'd pay more, and if managed the way the government manages everything else they touch I'd get less. You all in the rest of the world like to point out how incompetent the US government is (and often with good reason), why do you think they'd be any better at running health care than they are at other things?
It is a tool. You yourself admit that. It's a tool like calculus, or language It may be an important tool, yes, but saying using windows because its required for work hampers my ability to think is a load of bullshit. In my case, using linux would hamper my productivity, because I use the computer as a tool, not an all-powerful defines-who-I-am magical box.
As for passion, I'll save that for my art and other hobbies. You want to get passionate about a box, go right ahead, I'm not going to stop you. Just don't insult the rest of us who don't share your passion.