If it wasn't for sports, I'd consider canceling cable/satelite and just watching content via the internet.
That's actually what I've done.
Anything on TV I want to watch is typically available on Hulu (or the network's site) for a few weeks after airing. For sports, I've resorted to either listening to/streaming radio or going to the bar with friends to watch. If you're concerned about sports coverage on non-local teams, You'd be surprised what Internet streams are available for radio stations... Usually, the teams' pages will have the link for the streaming audio.
So you had 6 months to upgrade and you didn't, and now are going to complain when shit doesn't work?
No, but they'll complain (rightfully so) when the developers issue a "killswitch" command causing the software to quit working. So it's not like the servers disappear and stuff broke from obsolescence, they issued a command to the servers and had the software shut itself down (documented here).
It was intentionally a low estimate. I was basing it on the 20% in the summary, not the GBP to USD conversion. I roughly estimated the average the PS3 price to be about $400USD (taking the price drops into account as new models were released). I also low-balled the number of system owners due to the Slim versions not being affected.
I wonder if you could argue that this sets precedent for how much Sony has to shell out to each owner. $80 x 20-30 million owners and I think we'll suddenly get our feature back instead of Sony shelling out the roughly 2 billion dollars.
After the one time it worked, I wish it would fail all of the time. Seriously, nothing beats pulling up an article and having a video of some jackass who is just screaming on my screen.
but if he actually wants to do real work and real research with these data, he's got to play by the rules of the real world...
The summary says the crawler simply indexed public information. Why is this relevant? Well, recently, I noticed that Facebook Apps, all of which I have all disabled and blocked via my privacy settings, have started accessing my information again. Naturally, I assumed something got reset and started hunting for the settings again. Until I found this new block of text in all of their privacy settings:
When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application or website, it may access any information you have made visible to Everyone Edit Profile Privacy as well as your publicly available information. This includes your Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages. The application will request your permission to access any additional information it needs.
So they claim they can't stop people from acquiring and using my 'publicly available' information, because it's open to the public. Then, they turn around and go after this guy for indexing and using the same 'publicly available' information.
So if I sell you a used car and you then find out that I had ripped out the stock stereo system and replaced it with a cardboard cutout, you are saying that Honda is responsible?
No, but if Honda issues a warranty with the car, the warranty moves with the car regardless of how many times it's sold. They don't make you pay for a new warranty for every owner.
But they aren't. They're demanding (FTFA) $15 for the 'free' add-on. It's not Gamestop's responsibility to look over every game's box art to ensure its advertising is legit. The publisher should've put the "Free Content" advertising on as a sticker that Gamestop removes before selling the game used.
I'm not a fan of Gamestop, and there's plenty of suspect practices they encourage, but this isn't one of them.
If anyone buys that same copy used, instead of "hell no", they should get a screen that says "This code has already been claimed. But for just $2.99, you too can have this exclusive content"
That is what happens already (EA even has a gimmicky name for it: "Project Ten Dollar"). And the basis for this lawsuit.
The lawsuit revolves around the box art advertising something like "2 Free Exclusive Maps for Download" and don't mention anything about it only working for the first buyer. So your used game advertises 2 free maps (due to the publisher's box art), but when you go to redeem, they demand payment. Cut and dry false advertising. I can't tell you 'buy this and you get this free!' but demand cash for the free part after you purchase the original item.
The misguided part of all this is going after Gamestop. The fault lies with the publisher advertising free dlc and requiring payment. Gamestop is just a store who sold you the used game.
DoD and NSA just violated a slew of laws [...] CIA seek prosecution
If there was ever a jury I'd never want to be on, that's it.
A government organization with a recent history of torture presses charges against another government organization with a recent history of abusing its power and another with a recent history of illegally spying on citizens...
However you rule, I don't think you're making it out of this unscathed.
I think it would actually reinforce credibility if a government officially tried to discredit a site dedicated to exposing what's going on behind closed doors in the government...
I dunno about that crap, I only drive the car, didn't know that there's this... what? "Firm ware"? Didn't even know there's a computer in my car...
Considering you don't install the firmware, that would be an interesting response to "why didn't you take your car to the dealership for the safety recall when you received the notice?"
if one-half of the States declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void.
And how will this be determined?
If it's the state government's decision, I highly doubt they'd overturn anything since they're likely as corrupt as Washington (note: I might have a skewed view of state politics since I'm from Illinois - here's hoping our next elected Governor isn't arrested).
If it's based on a public ballot, I don't have faith in the general populace to be skeptical enough of any laws passed, and will likely be pushed through as "the Government would do wrong."
Last time this came up, Sony wasn't thinking about charging for what's already there (and they explicitly stated that), but for additional features. From my link (dated Dec 18, 2009):
The subscription offering would provide new premium features you could choose to pay for and are in addition to the features currently available for free such as access to online multiplayer gaming (current features would remain free).
There's even a grid of their tier options and new features at that link.
Yea, but "Space Race 2.0" hasn't really started yet (at least in our eyes), and everyone knows "Green/Global Warming/Climate Change" science is where the money is at these days.
Actually, as I think about this, MS just might be trying to preempt Nintendo with this patent (being the only console on the market with peripherals to detect your weight at the moment). It's not a stretch to think Nintendo might come up with a 'game' that encourages exercise, measures your progress, and updates you Mii using the balance board.
Or maybe she wasn't quite as innocent in her comments in her two hour interview?
Yea, it's not like they irrationally shot the crap out of something of hers for no reason at all after grilling her for being in possession of Arabic literature, or for living in Egypt, or anything like that...</sarcasm>
After an experience like that, you might have a slightly different outlook as well.
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If it wasn't for sports, I'd consider canceling cable/satelite and just watching content via the internet.
That's actually what I've done.
Anything on TV I want to watch is typically available on Hulu (or the network's site) for a few weeks after airing. For sports, I've resorted to either listening to/streaming radio or going to the bar with friends to watch. If you're concerned about sports coverage on non-local teams, You'd be surprised what Internet streams are available for radio stations... Usually, the teams' pages will have the link for the streaming audio.
So you had 6 months to upgrade and you didn't, and now are going to complain when shit doesn't work?
No, but they'll complain (rightfully so) when the developers issue a "killswitch" command causing the software to quit working. So it's not like the servers disappear and stuff broke from obsolescence, they issued a command to the servers and had the software shut itself down (documented here).
I was going off the 20% in the summary, not the actual GBP amount.
It was intentionally a low estimate. I was basing it on the 20% in the summary, not the GBP to USD conversion. I roughly estimated the average the PS3 price to be about $400USD (taking the price drops into account as new models were released). I also low-balled the number of system owners due to the Slim versions not being affected.
I wonder if you could argue that this sets precedent for how much Sony has to shell out to each owner. $80 x 20-30 million owners and I think we'll suddenly get our feature back instead of Sony shelling out the roughly 2 billion dollars.
need to learn how to not click on April Fool's links
Or, they could stick them in Idle, the category specifically made for exactly these types of articles.
Sound seems broken on half of them though.
After the one time it worked, I wish it would fail all of the time. Seriously, nothing beats pulling up an article and having a video of some jackass who is just screaming on my screen.
but if he actually wants to do real work and real research with these data, he's got to play by the rules of the real world...
The summary says the crawler simply indexed public information. Why is this relevant? Well, recently, I noticed that Facebook Apps, all of which I have all disabled and blocked via my privacy settings, have started accessing my information again. Naturally, I assumed something got reset and started hunting for the settings again. Until I found this new block of text in all of their privacy settings:
When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application or website, it may access any information you have made visible to Everyone Edit Profile Privacy as well as your publicly available information. This includes your Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages. The application will request your permission to access any additional information it needs.
So they claim they can't stop people from acquiring and using my 'publicly available' information, because it's open to the public. Then, they turn around and go after this guy for indexing and using the same 'publicly available' information.
It all sounds a little two-faced to me.
So if I sell you a used car and you then find out that I had ripped out the stock stereo system and replaced it with a cardboard cutout, you are saying that Honda is responsible?
No, but if Honda issues a warranty with the car, the warranty moves with the car regardless of how many times it's sold. They don't make you pay for a new warranty for every owner.
The publisher does offer the content for free.
But they aren't. They're demanding (FTFA) $15 for the 'free' add-on. It's not Gamestop's responsibility to look over every game's box art to ensure its advertising is legit. The publisher should've put the "Free Content" advertising on as a sticker that Gamestop removes before selling the game used.
I'm not a fan of Gamestop, and there's plenty of suspect practices they encourage, but this isn't one of them.
If anyone buys that same copy used, instead of "hell no", they should get a screen that says "This code has already been claimed. But for just $2.99, you too can have this exclusive content"
That is what happens already (EA even has a gimmicky name for it: "Project Ten Dollar"). And the basis for this lawsuit.
The lawsuit revolves around the box art advertising something like "2 Free Exclusive Maps for Download" and don't mention anything about it only working for the first buyer. So your used game advertises 2 free maps (due to the publisher's box art), but when you go to redeem, they demand payment. Cut and dry false advertising. I can't tell you 'buy this and you get this free!' but demand cash for the free part after you purchase the original item.
The misguided part of all this is going after Gamestop. The fault lies with the publisher advertising free dlc and requiring payment. Gamestop is just a store who sold you the used game.
DoD and NSA just violated a slew of laws [...] CIA seek prosecution
If there was ever a jury I'd never want to be on, that's it.
A government organization with a recent history of torture presses charges against another government organization with a recent history of abusing its power and another with a recent history of illegally spying on citizens...
However you rule, I don't think you're making it out of this unscathed.
This might be a little more helpful. The blog was just regurgitating this page, but was out of date anyway.
Besides, why now? Why not 5 years ago? Why not last year?
The author's site needed a traffic boost now, not 5 years ago, not last year.
I think it would actually reinforce credibility if a government officially tried to discredit a site dedicated to exposing what's going on behind closed doors in the government...
I see you're familiar with IW's work...
I dunno about that crap, I only drive the car, didn't know that there's this ... what? "Firm ware"? Didn't even know there's a computer in my car...
Considering you don't install the firmware, that would be an interesting response to "why didn't you take your car to the dealership for the safety recall when you received the notice?"
if one-half of the States declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void.
And how will this be determined?
If it's the state government's decision, I highly doubt they'd overturn anything since they're likely as corrupt as Washington (note: I might have a skewed view of state politics since I'm from Illinois - here's hoping our next elected Governor isn't arrested).
If it's based on a public ballot, I don't have faith in the general populace to be skeptical enough of any laws passed, and will likely be pushed through as "the Government would do wrong."
I think he's referring to Plaxico Burris having a concealed weapon and accidentally shooting himself with it, resulting in gun charges against him.
The subscription offering would provide new premium features you could choose to pay for and are in addition to the features currently available for free such as access to online multiplayer gaming (current features would remain free).
There's even a grid of their tier options and new features at that link.
Yea, but "Space Race 2.0" hasn't really started yet (at least in our eyes), and everyone knows "Green/Global Warming/Climate Change" science is where the money is at these days.
At least they are doing DLC the right way...
Having Day 1 DLC and having in game characters doing sales pitches to you about it are NOT the right way to do DLC.
Here's PA's take on it.
Red, yellow, and right turn arrow (these do exists), the cross traffic would have left turn arrows.
Actually, as I think about this, MS just might be trying to preempt Nintendo with this patent (being the only console on the market with peripherals to detect your weight at the moment). It's not a stretch to think Nintendo might come up with a 'game' that encourages exercise, measures your progress, and updates you Mii using the balance board.
Or maybe she wasn't quite as innocent in her comments in her two hour interview?
Yea, it's not like they irrationally shot the crap out of something of hers for no reason at all after grilling her for being in possession of Arabic literature, or for living in Egypt, or anything like that...</sarcasm>
After an experience like that, you might have a slightly different outlook as well.