Is it just me or is it ridiculous to jail people much less send them to the gulag for software piracy? Even agreeing that it's wrong, it shouldn't be something you do hard time for. Seriously folks...
Ummm that's the what you do in a video game. If I wanted to make happy fun fun that didn't involve violence and combat I'd just go outside and interact with real people. Video games allow you to run around and shoot things whereas doing that is looked down on outside video games.
I happen to like using my space limited desk, and am a fan of not getting hernias when I have to move my stuff. Honestly I haven't really noticed any problems running games at non-native resolutions on my LCDs, and if you're bumping down to 800x600 to play a game I doubt that graphics quality is gonna be a deal breaker anyway.
No I did fairly well in logic but this is/. so proper logic wouldn't get me anywhere. I guess I should have ended it with therefore Windoze sux0rs!!!111onone! That might be a little more appropriate.
Besides the parent being a troll there for the child... Has said parent thought that maybe, just maybe the grandparent poster cares for the dog and realizes that a few unpleasant, but harmless shocks are better than leaving the safety of the dog's yard, getting hit by a car, and dying half crushed along the road? Not that this is necessarily the case; he could just be a sick !@#$, but there exists the possibility that he is not.
In our risk adverse society, it is not unreasonable to expect for people to want something new to be proven to be safe vs. "well, we haven't seen any negative side effects yet, so it must be safe". "Proof" only coming with time and widespread use which introduces the chicken and the egg problem.
As a counter point to your argument, look at lead and uranium based paints. Some one correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that anyone thought there was anything wrong with lead based paint until its use was widespread enough that kids were eating it. As for uranium paints, science didn't understand radiation well, so it wasn't until later that people realized that maybe it wasn't the best thing to paint plates with.
Finally, science is not build on facts, but rather ton the idea that everything is suspect until it has been tested repeatedly. Then it, in an ideal universe, graduates to "our best understanding at the moment of what is going on". While we have a fair understanding of a lot of things, we do not know nor can we observe everything.
On the topic of cold pizza, why haven't I seen room temp pizza and a half empty can of stale beer? It's my breakfast of choice when I get up in the "morning".
That said when I actually have to be productive that day, it's coffee and a home made egg mcmuffin type thing. I will say that Coke is also a good starter, but most soda's are sweeter and don't work that early.
Well there are actually systems engineers, but I don't think that it is an IT thing.
Anyway, some places you can't legally have engineer in your job title unless you have a P.E. (professional engineer ie you can legally certify that stuff won't break etc). While that may be a little draconian, to call yourself an engineer you should at least be able to (or have once been able to) do advanced calculus and Newtonian mechanics. So yeah engineer tends to be overused. I mean office engineer? wtf?!
Your logic is flawed because cocaine/opion(did you mean opium?)/heroin would become HUGE problems in society and I don't need to explain this if you have any practical sense whatsoever.
Humor us. What pray tell would the huge problems become? While I won't argue that with a little thought I couldn't think of a few problems, but the whole "I don't need to explain this..." argument doesn't wash. It certainly has no place in an intelligent discussion, and while I will admit that this is/. imagine how much better the discussions would be if people at least pretended it was an intelligent discourse.
Have you ever tried to play bf2 on a computer where multiple user accounts have been set up? It hates it . The insane patch processes never works and ea just recommends you reinstall etc.
If by 'some recourse' you mean armed conflict with the federal government, then you're laughably deluded. If you took up arms, all the personal firearms in the world won't save you from a cruise missile, M1A1 tank, F-16, etc.
I heard somewhere that with a determined populous pee shooters seem to work well against those...Hack...cough...Afganistan...cough, cough...Iraq...cough...Palistine...
Granted they use AK-47's over there, but the assault rifle ban is up over here, I hear.
It's actually the car companies that don't allow their branded cars to have accurate damage modeling.
You play NFS and think that running into something at 100mph sorta dents your car, so you don't understand that crashing does all sorts of nasty things. Had these kids known that street racing and crashing were bad things, then they would have made the responsible choice and driven the speed limit; and the only way they could have learned that was through demnostration in NFS. Obviously then, the blame must rest on the car companies, and legislation must be past to make them put accurate damage modeling in racing games.
TV in "the real world" isn't free, with the exception of the five channels you get broadcast. Most people, I believe, pay a fair amount a month for cable or satellite in order to watch ads 20min out of every hour, and I suspect that if ads actually became a significant suplement to the purchase price as opposed basically free money for companies, we would probably start seeing alot of "watch 5 minutes of ads to get to the next level!" kinds of things.
It could be really fun to watch some one take one of these down the dirt jump run.
Doh. Now I'm gonna wanna figure out when the best time to set it off would be.
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Is it just me or is it ridiculous to jail people much less send them to the gulag for software piracy? Even agreeing that it's wrong, it shouldn't be something you do hard time for. Seriously folks...
Ummm that's the what you do in a video game. If I wanted to make happy fun fun that didn't involve violence and combat I'd just go outside and interact with real people. Video games allow you to run around and shoot things whereas doing that is looked down on outside video games.
I happen to like using my space limited desk, and am a fan of not getting hernias when I have to move my stuff. Honestly I haven't really noticed any problems running games at non-native resolutions on my LCDs, and if you're bumping down to 800x600 to play a game I doubt that graphics quality is gonna be a deal breaker anyway.
No I did fairly well in logic but this is /. so proper logic wouldn't get me anywhere. I guess I should have ended it with therefore Windoze sux0rs!!!111onone! That might be a little more appropriate.
Feeling a little trollish...
/. If you need more proof see "The Internet".
You posit that since a large portion of society likes it; it must be good, no?
But the largest portion of society is stupid. This can be agreed upon certainly by most of
Therefore, lots of stupid people like the book.
Stupid people like stupid things. See Survivor.
In conclusion, Harry Potter must be stupid.
Besides the parent being a troll there for the child... Has said parent thought that maybe, just maybe the grandparent poster cares for the dog and realizes that a few unpleasant, but harmless shocks are better than leaving the safety of the dog's yard, getting hit by a car, and dying half crushed along the road? Not that this is necessarily the case; he could just be a sick !@#$, but there exists the possibility that he is not.
In our risk adverse society, it is not unreasonable to expect for people to want something new to be proven to be safe vs. "well, we haven't seen any negative side effects yet, so it must be safe". "Proof" only coming with time and widespread use which introduces the chicken and the egg problem.
As a counter point to your argument, look at lead and uranium based paints. Some one correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that anyone thought there was anything wrong with lead based paint until its use was widespread enough that kids were eating it. As for uranium paints, science didn't understand radiation well, so it wasn't until later that people realized that maybe it wasn't the best thing to paint plates with.
Finally, science is not build on facts, but rather ton the idea that everything is suspect until it has been tested repeatedly. Then it, in an ideal universe, graduates to "our best understanding at the moment of what is going on". While we have a fair understanding of a lot of things, we do not know nor can we observe everything.
On the topic of cold pizza, why haven't I seen room temp pizza and a half empty can of stale beer? It's my breakfast of choice when I get up in the "morning". That said when I actually have to be productive that day, it's coffee and a home made egg mcmuffin type thing. I will say that Coke is also a good starter, but most soda's are sweeter and don't work that early.
but won't that get you arrested...at least that's what a recent /. article said.(couldn't find it...)
Well there are actually systems engineers, but I don't think that it is an IT thing.
Anyway, some places you can't legally have engineer in your job title unless you have a P.E. (professional engineer ie you can legally certify that stuff won't break etc). While that may be a little draconian, to call yourself an engineer you should at least be able to (or have once been able to) do advanced calculus and Newtonian mechanics. So yeah engineer tends to be overused. I mean office engineer? wtf?!
Have you ever tried to play bf2 on a computer where multiple user accounts have been set up? It hates it . The insane patch processes never works and ea just recommends you reinstall etc.
The Phantom console people announced plans for a "Top Secret" optional controler interface.
It's actually the car companies that don't allow their branded cars to have accurate damage modeling.
You play NFS and think that running into something at 100mph sorta dents your car, so you don't understand that crashing does all sorts of nasty things. Had these kids known that street racing and crashing were bad things, then they would have made the responsible choice and driven the speed limit; and the only way they could have learned that was through demnostration in NFS. Obviously then, the blame must rest on the car companies, and legislation must be past to make them put accurate damage modeling in racing games.
TV in "the real world" isn't free, with the exception of the five channels you get broadcast. Most people, I believe, pay a fair amount a month for cable or satellite in order to watch ads 20min out of every hour, and I suspect that if ads actually became a significant suplement to the purchase price as opposed basically free money for companies, we would probably start seeing alot of "watch 5 minutes of ads to get to the next level!" kinds of things.
It could be really fun to watch some one take one of these down the dirt jump run.
Doh. Now I'm gonna wanna figure out when the best time to set it off would be.