I agree... I picked it up after it had been out for a while and didn't experience all the nastiness the reviewers seem to have hounded it over. It's fun, addictive, but doesn't require the huge time commitment in a single sitting that so many RPGs do.
what if in those few hours (if you're not familiar with Windows at all and don't have a boot or rescue disk, etc. etc.) you needed access to those files? Do you file away every new e-mail to an external drive ready to be taken to the nearest computer cafe in case your machine goes wonky? I doubt it.
Do you expect to get paid by somebody every time your computer gets corrupted when you need to finish some vitally important work?
Also, the window was incredibly thin in which it took them to catch it... they have a couple hundred thousand players, and approximately 200 players got hit by it (I'm rounding, I know the number is larger) which indicates that the response time had to have been pretty quick, since the players were undoubtedly waiting with baited breath to download the patch as soon as the servers came back online.
OK, here is the deal... I just bought over $200 worth of music on CD and I absolutely guarantee that this will be the last music purchase I make from any RIAA backed artist unless they start recognizing fair use.
Please pardon my rudeness, but what the fuck took you so long? This has been a problem for years, and you're only just now considering a boycott? If everyone had started boycotting them years ago like some of us did, this problem would've gone away a hell of a lot sooner.
To everyone else out there whining about the RIAA but still buying music, put your money where your politics are, damnit!
You see me now, a veteran,
Of the old computer wars.
I've been waiting on this load so long,
But my sound chip's better than yours.
And my raster tricks are nifty,
But I sure could use more RAM
The demoscene will last forever...
I've got so much more that there's left to play!
They probably test installers on VM snapshots like every other sane developer these days.
In order to know that it worked, they'd have had to run the game... and VM programs aren't really known for strong DirectX support right now (though I've heard rumours that that is going to change). Otherwise, they wouldn't really know if it worked or not.
Yeah, that's where I go for most of my music too... although it can sometimes be difficult to sort through the non-scener music that's posted there just for the free hosting, but I guess having to sort through the crap for the good stuff musically is a universal constant.
Spears is not my talantless lazy slut. And in any case, that wouldn't be my problem.
Well, she's got to be somebody's talentless lazy slut, and we all got together while you were going to the bathroom and elected you. Like it or not, you're stuck with her.
(Oh, by the way... kinda tacky to have spelling mistakes in your grammar nitpick. heh)
Thankfully so... most of the occurrences of my real name are due to various software utilities that I've released over the years. On a positive note, at least things like that don't reveal much in the way of private information.
And hopefully that arbitrator tells them all to just STFU up and use python:). While I'm not normally a fan of Python, it would still be an improvement over freakin' Javascript.
I don't think file sharing is worse than it is, and I've never implied that anywhere, thank you very much. All I said was that Napster's really big mistake was trying to profit off of it, and I still stand by that statement. In the old days, pirate BBSs that tried to charge for access tended to be the ones that got caught. Smart warez monkeys know better.
heh. Nice use of a completely unrelated item. The decision to declare Pluto a non-planet was made by scientists who would know more about it than I. However, I don't think there was some group of top-geeks that decided as a group that Piracy is an incorrect term... or perhaps there was a huge vote that just didn't make the news on Slashdot?
Honestly, though, what you said read more like wanting to pretend that the term has never been used... I don't think the scientific community is trying to pretend that Pluto was NEVER considered a planet.
It's been called piracy for as long as I've owned a computer, and that's goin' on 30 years... Folks should be proud of their heritage, instead of trying to edit historical use of a term like you do.
Hell, I think modern piracy would've taken longer to come to their attention if the dumbshits at Napster hadn't tried to make a business model out of it.
If it's how you want to roll, come out and say "The update will break your phone if you modded it; you can do what you want with your phone, and we can do what we want with our software."
The problem with this is that it would open them up to a class action law suit because it's unfair business practices. Honestly, they're probably opening themselves up for it anyway, but being as blatant about it as you suggest would only make matters worse.
But then, I don't own an iPhone, so at the end of the day I don't suppose Apple really needs to give a damn what grates on me.
Yeah, same here... I'm quite thankful for that now, too... but even so, the prices were so high that I think I'd have rather buy another high end video card or two, or maybe a couple terrabyte of disk instead, if I had intended to blow that big a wad of money.
Viacom used his video as part of a report that included commentary on it. That's fair use.
He then used Viacom's derivative work, but, it seems, didn't provide any commentary on the clip you uploaded to YouTube. Instead, he just made a direct copy. That's copyright infringement.
It was my understanding that you using an entire property's content (even if commenting on it) is not fair use, and it is my understanding that they showed his entire video. I could be wrong of course, but I think they are stretching fair use a bit on this one.
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I agree... I picked it up after it had been out for a while and didn't experience all the nastiness the reviewers seem to have hounded it over. It's fun, addictive, but doesn't require the huge time commitment in a single sitting that so many RPGs do.
Do you expect to get paid by somebody every time your computer gets corrupted when you need to finish some vitally important work?
Also, the window was incredibly thin in which it took them to catch it... they have a couple hundred thousand players, and approximately 200 players got hit by it (I'm rounding, I know the number is larger) which indicates that the response time had to have been pretty quick, since the players were undoubtedly waiting with baited breath to download the patch as soon as the servers came back online.
Please pardon my rudeness, but what the fuck took you so long? This has been a problem for years, and you're only just now considering a boycott? If everyone had started boycotting them years ago like some of us did, this problem would've gone away a hell of a lot sooner.
To everyone else out there whining about the RIAA but still buying music, put your money where your politics are, damnit!
You see me now, a veteran,
Of the old computer wars.
I've been waiting on this load so long,
But my sound chip's better than yours.
And my raster tricks are nifty,
But I sure could use more RAM
The demoscene will last forever...
I've got so much more that there's left to play!
In order to know that it worked, they'd have had to run the game... and VM programs aren't really known for strong DirectX support right now (though I've heard rumours that that is going to change). Otherwise, they wouldn't really know if it worked or not.
Now this is a picture of Chewbacca.
...
Lookit the silly monkey.
Lots of good music there.
Yeah, that's where I go for most of my music too... although it can sometimes be difficult to sort through the non-scener music that's posted there just for the free hosting, but I guess having to sort through the crap for the good stuff musically is a universal constant.
Well, she's got to be somebody's talentless lazy slut, and we all got together while you were going to the bathroom and elected you. Like it or not, you're stuck with her.
(Oh, by the way... kinda tacky to have spelling mistakes in your grammar nitpick. heh)
Yeah, that's all this poor lady needs is millions of e-mails from /.ers. I wouldn't be surprised if it did more damage than good. heh.
That was the easy part... they were able to start with the assumption that he just kept repeating "kill me" over and over again.
Thankfully so... most of the occurrences of my real name are due to various software utilities that I've released over the years. On a positive note, at least things like that don't reveal much in the way of private information.
Interestingly enough (at least to me), ~30% of the results from Google for my name are actually about me.
I guess it's better'n pullin' some sword out of a lake.
Well how'd'you get to be king, then?
I hear they're going to have Johnny Dupe in that one...
I don't think file sharing is worse than it is, and I've never implied that anywhere, thank you very much. All I said was that Napster's really big mistake was trying to profit off of it, and I still stand by that statement. In the old days, pirate BBSs that tried to charge for access tended to be the ones that got caught. Smart warez monkeys know better.
heh. Nice use of a completely unrelated item. The decision to declare Pluto a non-planet was made by scientists who would know more about it than I. However, I don't think there was some group of top-geeks that decided as a group that Piracy is an incorrect term... or perhaps there was a huge vote that just didn't make the news on Slashdot?
Honestly, though, what you said read more like wanting to pretend that the term has never been used... I don't think the scientific community is trying to pretend that Pluto was NEVER considered a planet.
heh... yeah, 'cause everyone knows that a term can only have one use.
The average warez monkey from the early days wasn't ashamed of the moniker, it's sad to see that even the geek community is becoming overly PC.
It's been called piracy for as long as I've owned a computer, and that's goin' on 30 years... Folks should be proud of their heritage, instead of trying to edit historical use of a term like you do.
Hell, I think modern piracy would've taken longer to come to their attention if the dumbshits at Napster hadn't tried to make a business model out of it.
You must be new around here.
The problem with this is that it would open them up to a class action law suit because it's unfair business practices. Honestly, they're probably opening themselves up for it anyway, but being as blatant about it as you suggest would only make matters worse.
But then, I don't own an iPhone, so at the end of the day I don't suppose Apple really needs to give a damn what grates on me.Yeah, same here... I'm quite thankful for that now, too... but even so, the prices were so high that I think I'd have rather buy another high end video card or two, or maybe a couple terrabyte of disk instead, if I had intended to blow that big a wad of money.
He then used Viacom's derivative work, but, it seems, didn't provide any commentary on the clip you uploaded to YouTube. Instead, he just made a direct copy. That's copyright infringement.
It was my understanding that you using an entire property's content (even if commenting on it) is not fair use, and it is my understanding that they showed his entire video. I could be wrong of course, but I think they are stretching fair use a bit on this one.
heheheheh. S'truth!