The lazy bums who will not learn Linux... the resellers in Asian markets who cannot upsell the new OS which requires 8 times more RAM just so the home user can surf the web... the so-called sysadmins in Corporate settings who will not learn ipconfig, iptables and basic Unix commands... and prefers to get one more worthless certification on Vista instead..
The mindshare monopoly of the retarded lethargic users is critical to Microsoft.
Yeah, shame on us for wanting to use a computer to actually be productive!
I recommend abandoning the current internet to the corporate interests that have defiled it and making a brand new internet for the *people* of the world. No corporations or government interference allowed.
Yes, I know it's a "pipe dream" (or, should I say "tube dream"?) but it would be nice, wouldn't it?
One victim "was fresh out of college, where he'd just earned a degree in information security. (He was actively looking for a job in the field; I suggested he may want to go back to the classroom.)"
Because college creates people who are perfectly skilled at a certain field...
When common citizens can get arrested and prosecuted in spite of ignorance of the law, then so can the enforcers of the law, the ones SPECIFICALLY in charge of enforcing and utilizing the law to safeguard the lives of the citizens.
You haven't been in a Western democracy for very long, have you?
Yeah. I mean, if the internet was like some sort of truck you could just dump stuff on, then I could see something like this working. However, with the internet being the series of tubes that it is...
With the advance of digital video being shown at movie theaters, does that mean that piracy of said movies will be better and more frequent?
I don't mean to nitpick, but how can it be more frequent? Every movie that comes out is already immediately available on filesharing networks and the like.
Oh, sorry. I didn't read it that way, and now I guess my response doesn't make sense. I guess it might be less of a translation issue than an interpretation of archaic English issue.:-P
there are several less literal (to the original language) but more accurate translations
More accurate translations? In context, the "less accurate" translation, as you describe it, makes perfect sense. It was a one-time example used to shock people.
"Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread." Then the Lord said, "This is how Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I will banish them!"
Yet you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater by arguing that copyrights shouldn't exist. As a writer, I expect to get paid for my work, just like the baker down the street, the cop at the corner, and so on
Therein lies the problem. A writer is not like the baker down the street, nor like the cop at the corner.
There's this 200+ year old document that people like you accuse President Bush of trashing yet you seem toconveniently forget that intellectual property rights were included even before amendments were proposed.
There's a world of difference between what "intellectual property" means in that 200+ year old document and what "intellectual property" means today.
Has it really been a quarter century since my parents bought that game when we first got our Atari 2600? Oh, how I miss blasting Mist Ships, Harley Rockets, Grimeys, and the final boss: the Gond...
You're joking, right? The BC expansion seems tailor-made for casuals to enjoy. The level progression is set at a good pace for casual gaming, and there are many instances that can be played with casual, 5-man groups. Reputation gain is also a lot faster, so people who don't play 8 hours a day don't feel as though all the good rep rewards are out of their reach.
I'm not a hardcore raider, but I wouldn't quite call myself a casual player since I average about 4 hours of gaming a night. I can clearly see how Blizzard has balanced the new content between casual and hardcore playing styles. Blizzard has obviously learned some lessons here.
And there's a fact that a lot of people miss: the new level cap and the power escalation that these new levels provide give casuals more of a chance to try the old "end game" content that they previously could not see because of their lack of commitment to gaining the powerful weapons and armor needed to see them. Sure the rewards won't be great, but, in my experience, casuals are more geared toward "having fun" than "getting the best equipment.
And that leads me to a final opinion about the article submitter's gripe about the lower quality of hardcore gear. While games like WoW are certainly "item acquisition" games, if your only goal is getting the next best thing, then I think you're missing out on a lot of enjoyment that WoW has to offer. Ten or twenty years from now, when my friends and I think back about out time spent playing together on WoW, our recollections will not be "remember that mace I got with the +50 Str?" but, rather "Remember when we finally beat that boss you spawned clones of us while we were fighting?"
I sincerely hope that a lot of people with the mindset of "better gear" being the be-all-end-all of the game came to their senses with the wakeup call Blizzard put into the BC where the tier 2 armor sets they spend months trying to obtain were made almost immediately obsolete by the first new items available in the BC.
To sum up my feelings on the Burning Crusade expasion: "gg blizzard"
No more will you have directors screaming at actors "GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME!! Take 312! Action!", you'll get instead "That's good enough Tina. Digital will fix it up for us."
What a boon this technology will be for Ms. Yothers!
If you believe evolution, how can you reconcile those two things?
Are you serious? The question is easily answered. Humans became capable of sinning when they became capable of differentiating right from wrong. A dog can maul a child, but that's not since because it's just an anmimal and doesn't know better. The same act, for a human, is a sin because he should know better than to senselessly kill a child.
The creation story in Genesis gives a description of (among other things) man's evolution to something greater than the animals. When a suitable match for Adam is sought for among the animal kingdom, none is found. Man was above the animals at that point. The serpent can represent man's constant innate desire to return to eschew morality and descend into animal-like behavior, satisfying various lusts rather than being a self-controlled, reasoning being.
The inability for humans to truly live up to our potential of living selflessly and righteously ends up being our curse. Sin is inherent in the race and is something none of us can overcome on our own. Thus, our Creator provides us with a free way to achieve the next stage in our evolution if we will simply make the effort to overcome to overcome our sin. Those who reject this offer and who choose to simply live by their own desires are evolutionary dead-ends and will ultimately be destroyed.
Evolution is like God's little science experiment to make independant, reasoning beings with which he can commune.
(I've probably pissed off antitheists and Kansas by now. Wooo!)
Your logic goes as follows:
"tax money goes to womens relief shelters, I pay taxes, therefore I have the right to beat and rape women."
Umm, no. Your analogy would be more appropriate if it was more like this:
"The government put me in jail for a few years because I have a penis and therefor may have raped someone, therefore I have the right to rape someone."
Then again, that's assuming piracy hurts sales and that the money from the blank media levy actually went to compensate industries hurt by piracy, neither of which are true, according to the evidence we have.
Camcorder copies of Hollywood movies is not something the government has any business discussing. There are tons of real problems that they should be spending their time trying to solve. It's like complaining the contractors painted your house the wrong color while hundreds of nuclear warheads are on their way to obliterate your country.
To the people in government that are discussing copyright crap: shut the hell up about non-issues like camcorder copies of movies and get your asses back to work trying to fix real problems! WTF!
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Yeah, shame on us for wanting to use a computer to actually be productive!
I recommend abandoning the current internet to the corporate interests that have defiled it and making a brand new internet for the *people* of the world. No corporations or government interference allowed.
Yes, I know it's a "pipe dream" (or, should I say "tube dream"?) but it would be nice, wouldn't it?
Because college creates people who are perfectly skilled at a certain field...
You haven't been in a Western democracy for very long, have you?
What's wrong with that? Are people not allowed to talk about other people in public anymore?
If the rehashes are fun, then sure. That's why I play games, after all.
I don't play games to experience art. I go to the museum for that.
Yeah. I mean, if the internet was like some sort of truck you could just dump stuff on, then I could see something like this working. However, with the internet being the series of tubes that it is...
In what movie did this ever happen? People talking to each other without communications equipment in the vaccuum of space?
I don't mean to nitpick, but how can it be more frequent? Every movie that comes out is already immediately available on filesharing networks and the like.
Oh, sorry. I didn't read it that way, and now I guess my response doesn't make sense. I guess it might be less of a translation issue than an interpretation of archaic English issue. :-P
More accurate translations? In context, the "less accurate" translation, as you describe it, makes perfect sense. It was a one-time example used to shock people.
"Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread." Then the Lord said, "This is how Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I will banish them!"
The alternative to DRM is no DRM, not some stupid web spider sucking up untold CPU resources across the planet.
Therein lies the problem. A writer is not like the baker down the street, nor like the cop at the corner.
You can blame Sid Meier's Civilization for the typical /.er's lack of understanding of government types. :-P
(Democracy and Republic different forms of gov't? No corruption in a Democracy? etc., etc.)
There's a world of difference between what "intellectual property" means in that 200+ year old document and what "intellectual property" means today.
Who knew Webster's dad was such a great hacker?
I'd be willing to pay my share plus the shares of nine other people to fund a movie that sounds interesting.
Has it really been a quarter century since my parents bought that game when we first got our Atari 2600? Oh, how I miss blasting Mist Ships, Harley Rockets, Grimeys, and the final boss: the Gond...
You're joking, right? The BC expansion seems tailor-made for casuals to enjoy. The level progression is set at a good pace for casual gaming, and there are many instances that can be played with casual, 5-man groups. Reputation gain is also a lot faster, so people who don't play 8 hours a day don't feel as though all the good rep rewards are out of their reach.
I'm not a hardcore raider, but I wouldn't quite call myself a casual player since I average about 4 hours of gaming a night. I can clearly see how Blizzard has balanced the new content between casual and hardcore playing styles. Blizzard has obviously learned some lessons here.
And there's a fact that a lot of people miss: the new level cap and the power escalation that these new levels provide give casuals more of a chance to try the old "end game" content that they previously could not see because of their lack of commitment to gaining the powerful weapons and armor needed to see them. Sure the rewards won't be great, but, in my experience, casuals are more geared toward "having fun" than "getting the best equipment.
And that leads me to a final opinion about the article submitter's gripe about the lower quality of hardcore gear. While games like WoW are certainly "item acquisition" games, if your only goal is getting the next best thing, then I think you're missing out on a lot of enjoyment that WoW has to offer. Ten or twenty years from now, when my friends and I think back about out time spent playing together on WoW, our recollections will not be "remember that mace I got with the +50 Str?" but, rather "Remember when we finally beat that boss you spawned clones of us while we were fighting?"
I sincerely hope that a lot of people with the mindset of "better gear" being the be-all-end-all of the game came to their senses with the wakeup call Blizzard put into the BC where the tier 2 armor sets they spend months trying to obtain were made almost immediately obsolete by the first new items available in the BC.
To sum up my feelings on the Burning Crusade expasion: "gg blizzard"
What a boon this technology will be for Ms. Yothers!
Oh yeah, we'll be able to regrow a lost limb soon, but it'll probably cost an arm and a leg.
You're talking dog-years, right? Otherwise that's ludicrously long!
Are you serious? The question is easily answered. Humans became capable of sinning when they became capable of differentiating right from wrong. A dog can maul a child, but that's not since because it's just an anmimal and doesn't know better. The same act, for a human, is a sin because he should know better than to senselessly kill a child.
The creation story in Genesis gives a description of (among other things) man's evolution to something greater than the animals. When a suitable match for Adam is sought for among the animal kingdom, none is found. Man was above the animals at that point. The serpent can represent man's constant innate desire to return to eschew morality and descend into animal-like behavior, satisfying various lusts rather than being a self-controlled, reasoning being.
The inability for humans to truly live up to our potential of living selflessly and righteously ends up being our curse. Sin is inherent in the race and is something none of us can overcome on our own. Thus, our Creator provides us with a free way to achieve the next stage in our evolution if we will simply make the effort to overcome to overcome our sin. Those who reject this offer and who choose to simply live by their own desires are evolutionary dead-ends and will ultimately be destroyed.
Evolution is like God's little science experiment to make independant, reasoning beings with which he can commune.
(I've probably pissed off antitheists and Kansas by now. Wooo!)
Umm, no. Your analogy would be more appropriate if it was more like this:
Then again, that's assuming piracy hurts sales and that the money from the blank media levy actually went to compensate industries hurt by piracy, neither of which are true, according to the evidence we have.
Camcorder copies of Hollywood movies is not something the government has any business discussing. There are tons of real problems that they should be spending their time trying to solve. It's like complaining the contractors painted your house the wrong color while hundreds of nuclear warheads are on their way to obliterate your country.
To the people in government that are discussing copyright crap: shut the hell up about non-issues like camcorder copies of movies and get your asses back to work trying to fix real problems! WTF!