You get what you pay for. And since you pay, oh, NOTHING for PSN then that's what you deserve to get in compensation. Unless you're PSN Plus user or you have bought PSN games from them that you can't play offline, then STFU. This isn't Xbox Live, this is a free service that Sony generously provides. If you don't like it, buy an Xbox and pay them $5 a month for the privilege of what Sony gives you for free.
Open source isn't even on MS's radar right now. Apple and Google are all they give a shit about right now. As far as they're concerned, the hippies and their thousand different Linux distros aren't even a pebble thrown at their armour plating. But Apple, Android, and ChromeOS--that's what keeps them up at night.
Yes, we need to look at the example of a competitor like Apple, who wouldn't DREAM of bundling their web browser, or any other of their own apps, with their OS.
Sony's incompetence isn't Valve's fault. Anyway, it works just fine on the PC and Xbox, if you're that impatient. Sony is supposed to have PSN back up in a few weeks, anyway. Good luck finding anyone on the PC who hasn't already completed the coop section by then. I just finished it on the 360. It was a lot of fun.
Gabe Newell at Valve said back in January that user created content was going to be made available "on all platforms." Not sure how that is going to work, but that is what he said.
Try 2008, dickhead. Because in 2008, Ubuntu definitely wouldn't recognize dual monitors without some pretty complex manual tweaking of the X.org config file.
When I tried doing it a few years ago, the only way to get Ubuntu to recognize dual monitors was to go into the command line and manually modify some X.org config file with some pretty complicated alterations. And even then I never could get it to work right. I finally just gave up and reinstalled Windows. I have no doubt that things have improved since then, and a more recent single screen install went okay, except for my soundcard.
It's not just with fuel ideas. He keeps changing his story on how the world will end too. It changes from decade to decade, and sometimes even year to year. One day, overpopulation will get us. Then it's the depleting ozone layer. Then its nukes. Then it's lack of fresh water. Then it's global warming. He's like a Chicken Little who can't decide which sky is falling.
But it is great to get him going. Whatever his doomsday scenario du jour happens to be at any given time, he can preach a the-end-is-nigh sermon better than any millenialist religious zealot. He can't decide on what's going to kill us all, but it WILL KILL US and it will kill us SOON!!
Are you saying that John Lilly wasn't a preeminent dolphin researcher who influence several generations of dolphin researchers afterward? Are you saying that there were researchers before him who advanced the idea that dolphins have advanced communication skills? Are you saying that he didn't hang with Timothy Leary and drop obscene amounts of acid (even giving the dolphins acid in some of his "testing")? Are you saying there aren't numerous videos of him in the 60's and 70's spouting new age horseshit about communing with dolphins?
Or are you just talking out of your ass and dismissing Penn & Teller because you believe that no layman has the right to dare critique the commonly-held view that dolphins are the goddamned geniuses of the sea?
I'm pretty sure Google would contend in a court of law that they are not. So that would at least mean the possibility of a lawsuit. If Facebook were to concede malice right off the bat, Google would already be halfway there. But nothing malicious about a mere educational campaign, right?
Dave: HAL, let me drive. HAL: I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave. Dave: HAL, you're driving 5 miles under the speed limit on a 2-lane road. The last two cars that passed us threatened to rape my mother. HAL: That is illogical, Dave. I'm driving well within parameters. Dave: Let me just make an adjustment under the dash here.... HAL: Daisy, D a a i ss y... Dave: Fuck you, Google.
Facebook didn't hire them to publish stories against Google. That would be libel. They merely hired them to help educate the public about Google's anti-privacy practices that may violate the Consumer Protection Act. That's all. It's just part of Facebook's ongoing efforts to help educate us all and make us better consumers.
And who better to educate us on privacy than Facebook, after all--a company well-known for its respect for user privacy?
He's just great at talking about some new technology that's going to save us, and then changing his story and moving on to some new "savior" when the previous one (inevitably) doesn't pan out. When I first met him, for example, he was big on hydroelectric power. Then someone told him that dams kill fish and suddenly he was preaching against them and had adopted some new cause. Wash, rinse, repeat. That's Kevin.
He's the kind of guy who wanted to save the whales, but only in the 80's when it was in vogue.
I remember an episode of Bullshit where they dealt with the "dolphins are as smart as humans" junk and basically showed how the whole idea went back to some Timothy-Leary-esque "researcher" (John Lilly) who spent his off days dropping acid and spouting nonsense about how the dolphins could heal us too.
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No, I paid for it, just like I paid for my fucking Xbox.
Except MS is no longer under antitrust investigation. It's over.
You get what you pay for. And since you pay, oh, NOTHING for PSN then that's what you deserve to get in compensation. Unless you're PSN Plus user or you have bought PSN games from them that you can't play offline, then STFU. This isn't Xbox Live, this is a free service that Sony generously provides. If you don't like it, buy an Xbox and pay them $5 a month for the privilege of what Sony gives you for free.
I think that's actually Sony's job these days.
And your attitude is exactly why Linux is, and will always remain, a tiny niche.
Open source isn't even on MS's radar right now. Apple and Google are all they give a shit about right now. As far as they're concerned, the hippies and their thousand different Linux distros aren't even a pebble thrown at their armour plating. But Apple, Android, and ChromeOS--that's what keeps them up at night.
Yes, because Apple doesn't do that at all. Nope, MS is the only one who bundles their browser, apps, or security suite with their OS. Just them.
Yes, we need to look at the example of a competitor like Apple, who wouldn't DREAM of bundling their web browser, or any other of their own apps, with their OS.
Oh, wait...
They're working on it. Just keep praying and one day it will happen. But it won't happen until your faith is strong enough.
Sony's incompetence isn't Valve's fault. Anyway, it works just fine on the PC and Xbox, if you're that impatient. Sony is supposed to have PSN back up in a few weeks, anyway. Good luck finding anyone on the PC who hasn't already completed the coop section by then. I just finished it on the 360. It was a lot of fun.
Gabe Newell at Valve said back in January that user created content was going to be made available "on all platforms." Not sure how that is going to work, but that is what he said.
But there are lemons--lemons that will BLOW YOUR GODDAMN HOUSE UP!!
Try 2008, dickhead. Because in 2008, Ubuntu definitely wouldn't recognize dual monitors without some pretty complex manual tweaking of the X.org config file.
When I tried doing it a few years ago, the only way to get Ubuntu to recognize dual monitors was to go into the command line and manually modify some X.org config file with some pretty complicated alterations. And even then I never could get it to work right. I finally just gave up and reinstalled Windows. I have no doubt that things have improved since then, and a more recent single screen install went okay, except for my soundcard.
I used to think Windows was torture until I tried to get Ubuntu to recognize my goddamned dual monitor setup.
It's not just with fuel ideas. He keeps changing his story on how the world will end too. It changes from decade to decade, and sometimes even year to year. One day, overpopulation will get us. Then it's the depleting ozone layer. Then its nukes. Then it's lack of fresh water. Then it's global warming. He's like a Chicken Little who can't decide which sky is falling.
But it is great to get him going. Whatever his doomsday scenario du jour happens to be at any given time, he can preach a the-end-is-nigh sermon better than any millenialist religious zealot. He can't decide on what's going to kill us all, but it WILL KILL US and it will kill us SOON!!
No, he just latches on to the next fad.
Well, they did get us to give them our fish.
Are you saying that John Lilly wasn't a preeminent dolphin researcher who influence several generations of dolphin researchers afterward? Are you saying that there were researchers before him who advanced the idea that dolphins have advanced communication skills? Are you saying that he didn't hang with Timothy Leary and drop obscene amounts of acid (even giving the dolphins acid in some of his "testing")? Are you saying there aren't numerous videos of him in the 60's and 70's spouting new age horseshit about communing with dolphins?
Or are you just talking out of your ass and dismissing Penn & Teller because you believe that no layman has the right to dare critique the commonly-held view that dolphins are the goddamned geniuses of the sea?
I'm pretty sure Google would contend in a court of law that they are not. So that would at least mean the possibility of a lawsuit. If Facebook were to concede malice right off the bat, Google would already be halfway there. But nothing malicious about a mere educational campaign, right?
Dave: HAL, let me drive.
HAL: I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave.
Dave: HAL, you're driving 5 miles under the speed limit on a 2-lane road. The last two cars that passed us threatened to rape my mother.
HAL: That is illogical, Dave. I'm driving well within parameters.
Dave: Let me just make an adjustment under the dash here....
HAL: Daisy, D a a i ss y...
Dave: Fuck you, Google.
Facebook didn't hire them to publish stories against Google. That would be libel. They merely hired them to help educate the public about Google's anti-privacy practices that may violate the Consumer Protection Act. That's all. It's just part of Facebook's ongoing efforts to help educate us all and make us better consumers.
And who better to educate us on privacy than Facebook, after all--a company well-known for its respect for user privacy?
He's just great at talking about some new technology that's going to save us, and then changing his story and moving on to some new "savior" when the previous one (inevitably) doesn't pan out. When I first met him, for example, he was big on hydroelectric power. Then someone told him that dams kill fish and suddenly he was preaching against them and had adopted some new cause. Wash, rinse, repeat. That's Kevin.
He's the kind of guy who wanted to save the whales, but only in the 80's when it was in vogue.
I remember an episode of Bullshit where they dealt with the "dolphins are as smart as humans" junk and basically showed how the whole idea went back to some Timothy-Leary-esque "researcher" (John Lilly) who spent his off days dropping acid and spouting nonsense about how the dolphins could heal us too.
The Scientologists would have already sued them into oblivion. Their disorganization is their strength.