There aren't many part time jobs that are satisfying to work in. Who hires part time coders? Part time chemists? You could always freelance, but there's never a guarantee of even getting enough money. You don't need to be a wage slave to have a full time job, you know.
Part time at Burger King or Best Buy isn't going to pay my rent....hell, full time there isn't. Denver's not a cheap place to live. Forget even considering part time if you have a mortgage here.
Imagine going to your boss and saying "Hey, I don't need as much money to live since I stopped buting things, so I'm only coming in 2 days a week now. You can cut my salary if you like."
Tell me how that works out for you and what jobs you'll be applying for next.
You see, there's this thing called disposable income. When you have a job that pays X dollars per year as a salary, once you remove the cost of living (rent, food, clothes, etc) the rest is what gets spent on toys, vacations, and all that other fun stuff. Sure people get caught up in material things, but how will it be any better if they hoard their money?
It's actually the publishers, not the developers, that are hurt by piracy. So, unless a company is publishing their own game, piracy doesn't make a lick of difference to them, they still get paid.
Such a small percentage of console games even use mod chips that I doubt the percentage revenue loss by pirates has even hit a mark higher than a fraction of a percent.
Piracy may be wrong, but so is going after after someone who makes a product that is used just as often for legitimate reasons. (especially with no legal basis for doing so)
The thing that kills me about MS, Sony, and Nintendo flexing their corporate might here is that this isn't software we're talking about. This isn't a licensed product...when you buy a PS2, you OWN it, and whatever you choose to do to it once you own, wether that is playing with it, smashing it to bits, reselling it, or fucking around with the hardware, that's YOUR choice. They have no legal say into the matter, so they should have no sway over Lik-Sang for selling a chip that modifies said hardware.
It really chaps my ass that this should even need to GO to court.
For the record, Sony has been very anti-mod as well. I'm sure once their online PS2 service is launched, they'll have a similar method for checking for mods.
Yeah, but you're forgetting that it's hip to hate McDonalds. It makes people feel better about themselves to protest a virtual fast food restaurant, thus placating their instinct to look out for the welfare of others (or their guilty conscience) without actually having to get off their fat asses and protest something that matters. (like war, big oil, insurance and pharmaceutical company abuse of the poor and elderly, racial profiling, or excessing imprisonment of drug law violators)
In other words, welcome to middle class america, where people need to feel righteous without actually standing for something.
The internals are probably soldered at the component level...or just all part of the same board. Good luck separating that GPU from the processor from that sound board and putting them into a generic case.
One bill? Yeah, right. I have AT&T for my cell phone, local telephone, long distance, cable television, and cable internet. You'd think that they'd at the very least get everything on one bill. (or at the very best, offer a discount to subscribers to multiple services) No such luck.
Once the comcast merger is complete, I'll probably drop them anyway, since they don't provide a newsfeed and have download caps.
I agree that mega-corporations getting into the act is fucking everything up, though. They aren't people who think to themselves "would this be a really cool game?" They are rather thinking to themselves "Can we keep making money by releasing unoriginal, shallow, and buggy products?" It's all about the bottom line to them. Not that game companies shouldn't profit and profit well, but they need to do what the smaller companies have to do....innovate.
P.S., if you're a native english speaker, I weep for the public education system. Your grammar and spelling are the worst I've seen in ages. If you're not a native speaker, well, you're speaking better English that I am of YOUR language.
Perhaps you mean "time and money spent gaining the EDUCATION to be more than a burger flipper."
In a communist system, having a non-menial position is its own reward. Given equal pay for all cases, would you rather flip burgers, dig ditches, or sit in a nice comfy chair and write programs?
I don't think Mission Hill is canned, I think they're just writing new episodes. It's still listed on Adult Swim's website as current programming...I think it starts up again with new episodes in November. They're for sure putting out the new 15-minute block cartoon episodes. (sealab, brak show, harvey birdman, athf) Thank god, the old episodes were getting...well...old.
adult swim airs after 11:00pm. Most parents don't have their kids awake at that time. The only people watching cartoons on weekend nights from 11pm-2am are stoners and dorks. Hence the target demographic for the various cartoons, dorks on saturday night, stoners on sunday night. Apparently the dorks were just setting their Tivos to record the anime and skipping the commercials, so they lose out. Go stoners!
And while we're on the subject, no more fucking Scooby Doo reruns, please!
So what was invented 5-10 years ago for military purposes that has benefitted the rest of society?
Hell, what was invented 5-10 years ago that even benefits the military now? Not a whole lot. It's all a big waste of money...we should be putting a lot less money into military, and part of what DOES go in should be dedicated to defensive equipment, (missile defense, mine detection/removal, etc) rather than ways to spend an over-inflated budget.
It's called social infrastructure. There are programs that provide assistance without creating a societal leech out of a person. (Or at least there used to be, they're more scarce since Gee Dubya came into office)
Things like scholarships, job training, subsidized housing, domestic violence shelters, health care programs, even better unemployment coverage. I don't know about you, but I'd like to collect social security when I'm retired, too.
All that money wasted in the military isn't helping anyone. It would be much better served working on domestic issues....remember how great the economy was when Clinton was president? Part of the reason is because of all the money he took out of the military and put back into social programs. (yes, part of it was the upside of the dot bomb, but that was certainly not the extent of it)
But we wouldn't want to make the unemployed or the poor depend on the government, now would we? That might actually give the government a purpose to exist. And think of all the non-conformist foreign bastards we'd miss out on bombing for their evil ways of rejecting american culture.
You think that researchers and manufacturers will get anything more out of a war with Iraq? This isn't world war II, we don't need to steep up production of rubber or invent a new weapon to win a war anymore. The only domestic companies making anything from this are aerospace and weapons manufacturers.
You sound like a very uptight and frustrated middle manager.
Not everyone has loads of work to do while at work. It should be noted as well that computers are now able to multitask. It's true! One can actually download music at the SAME TIME as reading email, sending a memo, and printing!
As far as the legality of the whole thing goes, well, companies do their fair share of robbing their employees' pension funds blind while at the same time laying off thousands...so, they should expect their people to follow the example they set.
My online banking with Wells Fargo worked just fine in Mozilla...as does my new account with Commercial Federal Bank. (they might be local to Denver, not sure)
Right now Windows is (by far) the best OS for buisness and personal use there is
And by what basis do you make that statement? And what definition of "business use" do you want to use? Secretaries typing letters? Give em a Mac, they'll do less damage. OS for server iron? Most folks are pretty happy with Sun or IBM. Do you mean middle management that needs to be able to read documents, email memos, and play solitaire? Yeah, let's spend 100,000k+ on an exchange server and Win2k licenses for that. Good business practice there.
Linux isn't perfect, but at least its users can change anything they don't like about. Yes, it requires some degree of cluefulness to use it, but an easier-to-use Linux will be there eventually.
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I bet this guy owns that "Code Poet" shirt from Think Geek.
There aren't many part time jobs that are satisfying to work in. Who hires part time coders? Part time chemists? You could always freelance, but there's never a guarantee of even getting enough money. You don't need to be a wage slave to have a full time job, you know.
Part time at Burger King or Best Buy isn't going to pay my rent....hell, full time there isn't. Denver's not a cheap place to live. Forget even considering part time if you have a mortgage here.
Imagine going to your boss and saying "Hey, I don't need as much money to live since I stopped buting things, so I'm only coming in 2 days a week now. You can cut my salary if you like."
Tell me how that works out for you and what jobs you'll be applying for next.
You see, there's this thing called disposable income. When you have a job that pays X dollars per year as a salary, once you remove the cost of living (rent, food, clothes, etc) the rest is what gets spent on toys, vacations, and all that other fun stuff. Sure people get caught up in material things, but how will it be any better if they hoard their money?
It's actually the publishers, not the developers, that are hurt by piracy. So, unless a company is publishing their own game, piracy doesn't make a lick of difference to them, they still get paid.
Such a small percentage of console games even use mod chips that I doubt the percentage revenue loss by pirates has even hit a mark higher than a fraction of a percent.
Piracy may be wrong, but so is going after after someone who makes a product that is used just as often for legitimate reasons. (especially with no legal basis for doing so)
The thing that kills me about MS, Sony, and Nintendo flexing their corporate might here is that this isn't software we're talking about. This isn't a licensed product...when you buy a PS2, you OWN it, and whatever you choose to do to it once you own, wether that is playing with it, smashing it to bits, reselling it, or fucking around with the hardware, that's YOUR choice. They have no legal say into the matter, so they should have no sway over Lik-Sang for selling a chip that modifies said hardware.
It really chaps my ass that this should even need to GO to court.
For the record, Sony has been very anti-mod as well. I'm sure once their online PS2 service is launched, they'll have a similar method for checking for mods.
#include standard_not_that_Im_defending_Microsoft.h
Yeah, but you're forgetting that it's hip to hate McDonalds. It makes people feel better about themselves to protest a virtual fast food restaurant, thus placating their instinct to look out for the welfare of others (or their guilty conscience) without actually having to get off their fat asses and protest something that matters. (like war, big oil, insurance and pharmaceutical company abuse of the poor and elderly, racial profiling, or excessing imprisonment of drug law violators)
In other words, welcome to middle class america, where people need to feel righteous without actually standing for something.
The internals are probably soldered at the component level...or just all part of the same board. Good luck separating that GPU from the processor from that sound board and putting them into a generic case.
Then why does my telephone bill say AT&T Broadband on it?
One bill? Yeah, right. I have AT&T for my cell phone, local telephone, long distance, cable television, and cable internet. You'd think that they'd at the very least get everything on one bill. (or at the very best, offer a discount to subscribers to multiple services) No such luck.
Once the comcast merger is complete, I'll probably drop them anyway, since they don't provide a newsfeed and have download caps.
Bitter little geek, aren't we? Go upstairs and kiss your mom g'night for me, eh?
While normally I try not to be a spelling nazi, go back and read this guy's post, man. He's barely literate. You're not much better.
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these! Oh wait, nevermind.
with the only "rock star" development house left being ID
I think you're forgetting one other.
I agree that mega-corporations getting into the act is fucking everything up, though. They aren't people who think to themselves "would this be a really cool game?" They are rather thinking to themselves "Can we keep making money by releasing unoriginal, shallow, and buggy products?" It's all about the bottom line to them. Not that game companies shouldn't profit and profit well, but they need to do what the smaller companies have to do....innovate.
P.S., if you're a native english speaker, I weep for the public education system. Your grammar and spelling are the worst I've seen in ages. If you're not a native speaker, well, you're speaking better English that I am of YOUR language.
Perhaps you mean "time and money spent gaining the EDUCATION to be more than a burger flipper."
In a communist system, having a non-menial position is its own reward. Given equal pay for all cases, would you rather flip burgers, dig ditches, or sit in a nice comfy chair and write programs?
I don't think Mission Hill is canned, I think they're just writing new episodes. It's still listed on Adult Swim's website as current programming...I think it starts up again with new episodes in November. They're for sure putting out the new 15-minute block cartoon episodes. (sealab, brak show, harvey birdman, athf) Thank god, the old episodes were getting...well...old.
adult swim airs after 11:00pm. Most parents don't have their kids awake at that time. The only people watching cartoons on weekend nights from 11pm-2am are stoners and dorks. Hence the target demographic for the various cartoons, dorks on saturday night, stoners on sunday night. Apparently the dorks were just setting their Tivos to record the anime and skipping the commercials, so they lose out. Go stoners!
And while we're on the subject, no more fucking Scooby Doo reruns, please!
So what was invented 5-10 years ago for military purposes that has benefitted the rest of society?
Hell, what was invented 5-10 years ago that even benefits the military now? Not a whole lot. It's all a big waste of money...we should be putting a lot less money into military, and part of what DOES go in should be dedicated to defensive equipment, (missile defense, mine detection/removal, etc) rather than ways to spend an over-inflated budget.
At least in military R&D, enough research is done so that fundamental breakthroughs are accomplished
At least corporate R&D doesn't use my tax dollars.
It's called social infrastructure. There are programs that provide assistance without creating a societal leech out of a person. (Or at least there used to be, they're more scarce since Gee Dubya came into office)
Things like scholarships, job training, subsidized housing, domestic violence shelters, health care programs, even better unemployment coverage. I don't know about you, but I'd like to collect social security when I'm retired, too.
All that money wasted in the military isn't helping anyone. It would be much better served working on domestic issues....remember how great the economy was when Clinton was president? Part of the reason is because of all the money he took out of the military and put back into social programs. (yes, part of it was the upside of the dot bomb, but that was certainly not the extent of it)
But we wouldn't want to make the unemployed or the poor depend on the government, now would we? That might actually give the government a purpose to exist. And think of all the non-conformist foreign bastards we'd miss out on bombing for their evil ways of rejecting american culture.
You think that researchers and manufacturers will get anything more out of a war with Iraq? This isn't world war II, we don't need to steep up production of rubber or invent a new weapon to win a war anymore. The only domestic companies making anything from this are aerospace and weapons manufacturers.
Another toy for the military to spend millions of dollars on while people remain unemployed, homeless, or just plain poor here.
You sound like a very uptight and frustrated middle manager.
Not everyone has loads of work to do while at work. It should be noted as well that computers are now able to multitask. It's true! One can actually download music at the SAME TIME as reading email, sending a memo, and printing!
As far as the legality of the whole thing goes, well, companies do their fair share of robbing their employees' pension funds blind while at the same time laying off thousands...so, they should expect their people to follow the example they set.
My online banking with Wells Fargo worked just fine in Mozilla...as does my new account with Commercial Federal Bank. (they might be local to Denver, not sure)
Right now Windows is (by far) the best OS for buisness and personal use there is
And by what basis do you make that statement? And what definition of "business use" do you want to use? Secretaries typing letters? Give em a Mac, they'll do less damage. OS for server iron? Most folks are pretty happy with Sun or IBM. Do you mean middle management that needs to be able to read documents, email memos, and play solitaire? Yeah, let's spend 100,000k+ on an exchange server and Win2k licenses for that. Good business practice there.
Linux isn't perfect, but at least its users can change anything they don't like about. Yes, it requires some degree of cluefulness to use it, but an easier-to-use Linux will be there eventually.