Underground communications between people who don't even know each other is harder than you would think. And when they do, that means there is more likely to be physical trails between point A and B, allowing you to follow your way to the anthill. So either they can't communicate, or they leave a better trail. This is win-win.
Nowadays, anyone who can install a windows application can dual-boot into Ubuntu Linux using Wubi. Of course, they would still need to learn how to add programs using apt-get and figure out how to install certain things like Flash that are slightly more confusing in a Linux environment, but a relatively inexperienced user can at least do the basics on a Linux machine now, including the install. No need to even burn an ISO anymore if it is already running Windows.
So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, ParanoidLinux is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms.
Awesome, this operating system will even pick up chicks for me. Forget the whole "paranoid" reasoning behind this feature, this feature makes my Linux machine into a love-machine.
I strongly disagree with the idea that Spore is bad game as far as gameplay goes. It wasn't what we were expecting from Wright as it is much more goal oriented than SimCity or The Sims, but the game is overall quite good. There are a few negative reports but the game overall got 8-9 from major game reviewers. The reviews on Amazon aren't a good sample of reviews.
And even if the gameplay was poor, the idea that it was a waste of $50M is still just wrong. EA Games is likely to recycle the game's code and use it for several applications in the future, R&D already done. Even if Spore isn't what we hoped it would be, the work on the engine is likely to make EA Games millions anyhow.
The developers and retailers of the sale they would have made off of you. No, it doesn't remove a copy physically from the store, but it doesn't have to in order to be petty theft, which is what piracy is. Their art still made it to your hard drive, and they were not compensated for it. I wasn't saying copying games is bad. If you own a copy, I don't care if you download a new copy for some reason, like a CD breaking or being lost. They already received compensation. I also don't care if a person downloads a game to genuinely try a game that the demo didn't do a good job of showing so long as they don't become "lazy" and "cheap". I personally will never call a company if I misplace my CD key as that's just stupid, I'll just grab a key gen.
Outright piracy is nothing more than theft and I am yet to see an actual good justification: because there is none.
This is an/excellent/ philosophy that I personally rely on a lot. Like that time I went to the car dealership and asked if I could take their most expensive car for trip around the block. Way too short and limited to really get the feel for the car, so I will just "try" the car for a little longer.
I may eventually buy it, though, I am lazy and cheap...
You are ripping people off: the paying customers who now are stuck with crappy rootkits because you wanted to steal a game and rebrand it as "being a good neighbor".
Ultimately, the 40 or so artists and programmers that spent well over 6-8 months, even up to 1-2 years for certain games, producing the game you want to steal will have to feed their family. You aren't helping that. You are being a bad neighbor. Yes, you cut into corporate profits. You also cut directly into the programmers and artists' paychecks. Corporations do at least one good thing: they employ people. They are unemployed if you rip the corporation off.
And I find it quite stupid that you justify your stealing with gnu principles which in no way advocates stealing non-free software. Also realize that there is a difference between freedom and free beer. Would you pirate an open source game if it happened to not be free as in beer? What about "helping your neighbor"?
Also, keep in mind that was written in 1992. A massive amount of changes have occurred even in proprietary software that allow common users to change almost any aspect of the software they are working with via mods of some kind. Specifically in the gaming industry, the one you are attacking where it is hard to think of a game that doesn't let you modify parts of the engine or UI. Civilization 4, Half-life 2, The Sims 1 & 2, Grand Theft Auto (as we all know), Elder Scrolls III and IV, and I could probably go on forever as almost all games have some management system for it, some not as well documented as others. Turns out it doesn't necessarily need to be entirely open source to allow users to modify almost anything they want in the game. It just sometimes needs to document what they can't see and allow users to over-ride them.
And before the gnu-squad arrests me for suggesting that non-free software can be more free than free ones: I'm not doing that. What I am saying though is that non-free software is different than it was when that was originally written, and non-free software, in the gaming industry in particular, actually allows users to modify the games quite seamlessly as is the case for games like in the Elder Scrolls series, where it still is closed source, but they give you all the tools you need to make entire overhaul modifications. Of course, this wouldn't help someone having a driver issue causing the game not to run, I realize that. They could however help low FPS computers if overhaul modifications lowered the resolutions of everything to an even lower state than the lowest settings, which is technically possible with non-free software such as Oblivion.
Well, to use your examples, yes if we converted to Muslim culture and religion, they would no longer hate Americans-- by definition.
Again, no. You are way off. Just because Bush says the terrorists hate us for our freedoms doesn't actually mean that is the root cause of the problems. If America was to become an Islamic state overnight that had the same policies we have (policies that are often enacted not for cultural reasons, rather, for economic reasons. We need the oil.) you would not see a significant change in their response towards us. They would just say that we are a different brand or find some other justification, and blow us up like the dozens of innocent Muslim citizens they kill in Bagdad every day. Anyone who can read the death tolls and look at who caused the deaths can understand that.
The idea that this is cultural is a fantasy used to protect years (not just Bush) of silly policies used throughout the Cold War. Some our fault, and some theirs. Nearly all for oil, money, fighting the Soviet Union, shits and giggles, wanting the United States to intervene in an issue, not wanting the United States to intervene in some other issue, and fixing before mentioned shits and giggles. Changing America to conform to their world-view would do little to change the terrorist's behaviors. Covering our women all the sudden wouldn't affect anything, which is exactly what I was saying before.
They see us as immoral and an affront to their beliefs. If we were to change, they would hate us less. Thus, it's not a military issue... it's a lifestyle issue.
I really hope you are joking about this. Of course, by reading your post its quite clear you aren't and indeed, you actually believe that if we were to toss blankets over all the women on the beaches of California they would somehow decide those Americans ain't such bad guys after all. Oh! Oh! Will honor killings be legal in America as well? Oh boy, I can't wait!
Is it confirmed that it will be a/real port/? I can't imagine the Wii version getting every single feature. Wii is a nice system and all, but in reality its hardware will likely not run Spore well and they will be forced to cut some things here and there. No hard drive suggests there will be less downloading of new creatures and things of that nature as well.
It's on the Dojo website. Can't find the link now, but it is certainly there.
That said, it is a very welcome feature. Anyone who as played online games before and had competitors disconnect because the battle wasn't in the favor will know why.
That said, the Internet use Wii has still annoys me, even when they do allow random battles (no rankings, no usernames, etc.). It's a nice system and the game will be good, but I don't think I will use the online features at all. Maybe they'll get it right with their next system.
Unfortunately, I sometimes find using the Bush Doctrine very effective in Civ 4. Pissed off a neighbor because your religion is a little different and you decided to not give them tribute? Suddenly you see several war units on your borders even though their country is several miles away?
A: Tactical Nuke them and invade their homeland
B: Let them destroy a city of yours, THEN, tactical nuke them and invade their homeland.
A seems best for me, indeed.
When I advance technologically above my neighbors, I usually attack them and take things like oil access and uranium, or in earlier ages iron, copper and horses to keep them from matching me. Usually just enough to create a nice meaty vassal state that can deter land invasions from further away countries. Often by mid-game I will control 1/3 of the map in vassals in moderate difficulty settings. I usually force them to be the same religion as I am so the relationship improves over time, just in case they do grow a little powerful (can't invade vassals) and it helps if I own the Apostolic Palace, which I usually rush to get control of.
You can currently use most USB keyboards with the Wii's Web Browser already.
And those ideas are hardly as innovative as what Johnny Lee has been working with. Had Nintendo thought of this, they probably would have delayed Wii's release to implement a IR camera into the sensor bar in the first place. That sort of feature is not something they would have just discarded as they had all the technology needed already made.
Keep in mind that they are not out in the open field grabbing the people by the shoulders to use physically as a shield. "Shield" isn't even really the best word for the tactic they are resorting to really. At least to the best of my knowledge. From what I understand, they get civilians to live in "safe houses" where they also happen to store weapons. That way, when the United States sees the traffic of weapons from the building into the city and decides to use an air, artillery or missile strike, there is collateral damage they didn't factor before.
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Underground communications between people who don't even know each other is harder than you would think. And when they do, that means there is more likely to be physical trails between point A and B, allowing you to follow your way to the anthill. So either they can't communicate, or they leave a better trail. This is win-win.
president@open-source-gov:~$ sudo rm -r /constitution/rights
Nowadays, anyone who can install a windows application can dual-boot into Ubuntu Linux using Wubi. Of course, they would still need to learn how to add programs using apt-get and figure out how to install certain things like Flash that are slightly more confusing in a Linux environment, but a relatively inexperienced user can at least do the basics on a Linux machine now, including the install. No need to even burn an ISO anymore if it is already running Windows.
Awesome, this operating system will even pick up chicks for me. Forget the whole "paranoid" reasoning behind this feature, this feature makes my Linux machine into a love-machine.
I strongly disagree with the idea that Spore is bad game as far as gameplay goes. It wasn't what we were expecting from Wright as it is much more goal oriented than SimCity or The Sims, but the game is overall quite good. There are a few negative reports but the game overall got 8-9 from major game reviewers. The reviews on Amazon aren't a good sample of reviews.
And even if the gameplay was poor, the idea that it was a waste of $50M is still just wrong. EA Games is likely to recycle the game's code and use it for several applications in the future, R&D already done. Even if Spore isn't what we hoped it would be, the work on the engine is likely to make EA Games millions anyhow.
I'm still not playing until they add the "Insult Comic Dog" class...
print 'My second language was Python ' + version + ', you insensitive clod!'
Well, perhaps not that exact version, but I didn't want it to just have a print statement. =(
The developers and retailers of the sale they would have made off of you. No, it doesn't remove a copy physically from the store, but it doesn't have to in order to be petty theft, which is what piracy is. Their art still made it to your hard drive, and they were not compensated for it. I wasn't saying copying games is bad. If you own a copy, I don't care if you download a new copy for some reason, like a CD breaking or being lost. They already received compensation. I also don't care if a person downloads a game to genuinely try a game that the demo didn't do a good job of showing so long as they don't become "lazy" and "cheap". I personally will never call a company if I misplace my CD key as that's just stupid, I'll just grab a key gen.
Outright piracy is nothing more than theft and I am yet to see an actual good justification: because there is none.
This is an /excellent/ philosophy that I personally rely on a lot. Like that time I went to the car dealership and asked if I could take their most expensive car for trip around the block. Way too short and limited to really get the feel for the car, so I will just "try" the car for a little longer.
I may eventually buy it, though, I am lazy and cheap...
You are ripping people off: the paying customers who now are stuck with crappy rootkits because you wanted to steal a game and rebrand it as "being a good neighbor".
Ultimately, the 40 or so artists and programmers that spent well over 6-8 months, even up to 1-2 years for certain games, producing the game you want to steal will have to feed their family. You aren't helping that. You are being a bad neighbor. Yes, you cut into corporate profits. You also cut directly into the programmers and artists' paychecks. Corporations do at least one good thing: they employ people. They are unemployed if you rip the corporation off.
And I find it quite stupid that you justify your stealing with gnu principles which in no way advocates stealing non-free software. Also realize that there is a difference between freedom and free beer. Would you pirate an open source game if it happened to not be free as in beer? What about "helping your neighbor"?
Also, keep in mind that was written in 1992. A massive amount of changes have occurred even in proprietary software that allow common users to change almost any aspect of the software they are working with via mods of some kind. Specifically in the gaming industry, the one you are attacking where it is hard to think of a game that doesn't let you modify parts of the engine or UI. Civilization 4, Half-life 2, The Sims 1 & 2, Grand Theft Auto (as we all know), Elder Scrolls III and IV, and I could probably go on forever as almost all games have some management system for it, some not as well documented as others. Turns out it doesn't necessarily need to be entirely open source to allow users to modify almost anything they want in the game. It just sometimes needs to document what they can't see and allow users to over-ride them.
And before the gnu-squad arrests me for suggesting that non-free software can be more free than free ones: I'm not doing that. What I am saying though is that non-free software is different than it was when that was originally written, and non-free software, in the gaming industry in particular, actually allows users to modify the games quite seamlessly as is the case for games like in the Elder Scrolls series, where it still is closed source, but they give you all the tools you need to make entire overhaul modifications. Of course, this wouldn't help someone having a driver issue causing the game not to run, I realize that. They could however help low FPS computers if overhaul modifications lowered the resolutions of everything to an even lower state than the lowest settings, which is technically possible with non-free software such as Oblivion.
Again, no. You are way off. Just because Bush says the terrorists hate us for our freedoms doesn't actually mean that is the root cause of the problems. If America was to become an Islamic state overnight that had the same policies we have (policies that are often enacted not for cultural reasons, rather, for economic reasons. We need the oil.) you would not see a significant change in their response towards us. They would just say that we are a different brand or find some other justification, and blow us up like the dozens of innocent Muslim citizens they kill in Bagdad every day. Anyone who can read the death tolls and look at who caused the deaths can understand that.
The idea that this is cultural is a fantasy used to protect years (not just Bush) of silly policies used throughout the Cold War. Some our fault, and some theirs. Nearly all for oil, money, fighting the Soviet Union, shits and giggles, wanting the United States to intervene in an issue, not wanting the United States to intervene in some other issue, and fixing before mentioned shits and giggles. Changing America to conform to their world-view would do little to change the terrorist's behaviors. Covering our women all the sudden wouldn't affect anything, which is exactly what I was saying before.
I really hope you are joking about this. Of course, by reading your post its quite clear you aren't and indeed, you actually believe that if we were to toss blankets over all the women on the beaches of California they would somehow decide those Americans ain't such bad guys after all. Oh! Oh! Will honor killings be legal in America as well? Oh boy, I can't wait!
I did this and I did feel something. It certainly didn't feel like a OMGPONY.
It spit on me too.
At least it will give some of us an excuse for looking at a female's breasts when talking to her. I'm all for this now.
I don't need to install Ubuntu on my turkey baster to know it's 'a really poor linux system'.
so long as your blood-alcohol level is well below the legal limit while you do it.
Is it confirmed that it will be a /real port/? I can't imagine the Wii version getting every single feature. Wii is a nice system and all, but in reality its hardware will likely not run Spore well and they will be forced to cut some things here and there. No hard drive suggests there will be less downloading of new creatures and things of that nature as well.
It's on the Dojo website. Can't find the link now, but it is certainly there.
That said, it is a very welcome feature. Anyone who as played online games before and had competitors disconnect because the battle wasn't in the favor will know why.
That said, the Internet use Wii has still annoys me, even when they do allow random battles (no rankings, no usernames, etc.). It's a nice system and the game will be good, but I don't think I will use the online features at all. Maybe they'll get it right with their next system.
Most people won't go anywhere without a laptop mouse, including myself. #1
No CD/DVD? I'll just stick a USB one on it right... oh.
Unfortunately, I sometimes find using the Bush Doctrine very effective in Civ 4. Pissed off a neighbor because your religion is a little different and you decided to not give them tribute? Suddenly you see several war units on your borders even though their country is several miles away?
A: Tactical Nuke them and invade their homeland
B: Let them destroy a city of yours, THEN, tactical nuke them and invade their homeland.
A seems best for me, indeed.
When I advance technologically above my neighbors, I usually attack them and take things like oil access and uranium, or in earlier ages iron, copper and horses to keep them from matching me. Usually just enough to create a nice meaty vassal state that can deter land invasions from further away countries. Often by mid-game I will control 1/3 of the map in vassals in moderate difficulty settings. I usually force them to be the same religion as I am so the relationship improves over time, just in case they do grow a little powerful (can't invade vassals) and it helps if I own the Apostolic Palace, which I usually rush to get control of.
Of course, this all seems a little off topic.
You can currently use most USB keyboards with the Wii's Web Browser already.
And those ideas are hardly as innovative as what Johnny Lee has been working with. Had Nintendo thought of this, they probably would have delayed Wii's release to implement a IR camera into the sensor bar in the first place. That sort of feature is not something they would have just discarded as they had all the technology needed already made.
Keep in mind that they are not out in the open field grabbing the people by the shoulders to use physically as a shield. "Shield" isn't even really the best word for the tactic they are resorting to really. At least to the best of my knowledge. From what I understand, they get civilians to live in "safe houses" where they also happen to store weapons. That way, when the United States sees the traffic of weapons from the building into the city and decides to use an air, artillery or missile strike, there is collateral damage they didn't factor before.
Then a soldier asks one of the pother soldiers more knowledgeable about the toolkit as he is creating a custom scenario:
"Ok, so how do I make it so all the terrorists realize they forgot to buy bullets?"
From Yo-Yo Ma after the cello playing edition was revealed:
"DEY TOOK OUR JEBS!!"
I wonder if anyone has ever tried using this argument as a way to illustrate prior works in patent law.
Company X can't patent algorithm Y! God created everything so he must have made it first!