It's best to avoid illegal acts. If you don't like a law, work to change it.
Wrong. WTF does Rapidshare have to do with Germany? Couldn't they just say "Get me a Swiss court order or shut the fuck up"? Case in point: The Pirate Bay. Yes, they were convicted, but under Swedish law, and a biased judge. Have a look at how they ridiculed all the threats with DMCA for years.
If shoplifting were easy and virtually impossible to catch, I would bet you lots of people would do it.
Ah, the good old fallacy. Tell me, if I "steal" a game I would never, ever buy, how much money did they lose? How much does it cost them to make another copy? I just did it for free.
Does it hurt you to know I'm playing an otherwise expensive game while eating the cheapest can of beans I could find while looking for work and avoiding my landlord? Maybe some people have priorities more important than "only have government approved software on my laptop".
Social networking is just a pointless way of giving people you don't know too much information about you.
Exactly. For example, I know for a fact that iwiw.hu (the largest such site in Hungary, with over 2M members in a 10M country) is used extensively by the National Security Office. They actually have a "shadow" version of it, where they connect your relevant contacts to you by hand. Of course, this being "national security", it does not officially exist, and there is absolutely no outside control over it. Pretty fucking scary.
I wouldn't be surprised for something like this to exist in other countries.
The fact that some people need/want to be registered on 120 social networking sites at once means that something's horribly wrong here.
I may only want one, but I might have friends scattered across, say, five of these. And I wouldn't want anyone to impersonate me on the 115 remaining sites.
There should be a single social network that is flexible and open enough so that there's no need for any other one. In fact, there already is such a network. It is called the Internet.
You don't want to be identified as yourself across the whole Internet. Trust me.
Most PS3s cannot play PS2 games, and of the ones that can there are inconsistancies that depend on exactly which model you got (software vs hardware emulation).
Also, most of the end-of-cycle (read "great") ps2 games won't play.
Trademark scope is narrowly defined and may not be recognised in a virtual world.
Duh. Has anyone ever got in jail for killing someone in WoW? Why should trademark work differently?
LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
Terms of Service would generally allow a company to do whatever they please. I imagine somewhere in there it says they reserve the right to terminate any customer account at any time for any reason.
Terms of Service does not overrule general contract law.
Ow! The headaches you must have had!!! (I can't stand CRT refreshes below 70hz)
Interlaced. The picture was a bit dimmer, but the actual refresh rate is 85 Hz. Much less annoying, than the 56 Hz on 800x600. Yes, it was a crappy monitor. And again, Windows thought it knows better than me.
Similar story. Gave up on the X-server setup. Come Ubuntu, and apt-get, the tables turned and Linux was just easier.
Eh? RedHat 7.3 worked beautifully for me every time. I just had to tell it what monitor I had because it the hardware did not know about DDC. Win98, on the other hand, failed miserably and I couldn't use 1024x768 on it.
I'd much prefer that to having Fuck-UROM or SafeDisc installed on my machine.
That's one thing definitely good about Vista: the UAC catches Securom when it tries to sneak by in the background. Also proving once again that it's malware.
Oh, and another thing: if they can integrate Linux like that as well, they could get people to migrate back. Hell, I'd give it a spin. Especially if they can enable 3D acceleration for Linux properly. And Total Commander. The possibilities are limitless.
Yet who is more likely to have old applications or hardware that will need XP? If you have the latest and greatest full bells and whistles OS, you probably have the latest version of your apps as well. Once again, MS misses the boat.
I, for one don't want to get rid of quality games like Baldur's Gate 2.
Also, if they build in a VM like that, they could use it to let that handle compatibility and turn the OS itself upside down, getting rid of all the cruft that's been accumulating since win95 in some cases. Just like Apple did with OSX. It worked beautifully. Of course, being MS, they fucked up again, introducing this when they're almost done. It should have been in the design.
My biggest problem at the time was trying to figure out how to turn the damned thing off from the command line. Seems pretty obvious in hindsight - "poweroff" - but it wasn't to me at the time.
I just did the tried and tested method I learned from all the win95 and win98 blue screens: the power button. None of that ATX crap either.
I tried to access the floppy drive. Eventually gave up, and re-installed Windows.
I hear ya. I was looking for drive C:, and when I found it, it wasn't working like I expected.
Oh, and kernel modules came in a single.c file and a README that said "just type gcc [...]". I was yelling "WHERE, YOU PIECE OF SHIT?!" for a week. What did keep me there was the fact that the installer was able to set my screen up for 1024x768@43i, and win98 couldn't do that.
Oh, ever seen KDE 3.0 on 16 Mb RAM? It was quite... educational.
Because they'd rather spend tons on R&D, marketing, support, etc. for something people don't want to buy (Vista, Windows 7) than to continue to press discs for something people do want to buy (XP).
Don't forget beating hardware manufacturers into submission.
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If I rape a prostitute that i wasnt ever, ever, ever planning on paying, how much money did she lose?
If you think rape is a crime because the lack of financial transaction, do the world a favor and don't go near women, ever.
God you people are fucked up.
It's best to avoid illegal acts. If you don't like a law, work to change it.
Wrong. WTF does Rapidshare have to do with Germany? Couldn't they just say "Get me a Swiss court order or shut the fuck up"? Case in point: The Pirate Bay. Yes, they were convicted, but under Swedish law, and a biased judge. Have a look at how they ridiculed all the threats with DMCA for years.
If shoplifting were easy and virtually impossible to catch, I would bet you lots of people would do it.
Ah, the good old fallacy. Tell me, if I "steal" a game I would never, ever buy, how much money did they lose? How much does it cost them to make another copy? I just did it for free.
Does it hurt you to know I'm playing an otherwise expensive game while eating the cheapest can of beans I could find while looking for work and avoiding my landlord? Maybe some people have priorities more important than "only have government approved software on my laptop".
Maybe once people are used to getting something for free, legitimately or not, you can't get them to pay anything for it.
Maybe you would be right if said games weren't so fucking expensive compared to the local income. See another reply to my post.
And given the replayability of most games out there, I wonder if they do represent value to anyone, much less a wide market.
In fact I thought someone had proven that they're all flawed, one way or another?
They all let idiots vote.
Maybe the "pirating" is just a symptom of a failing business model, don't you think?
The Irish have this habit of preserving their democracy. It's nice to know there's still someone to draw the line.
Social networking is just a pointless way of giving people you don't know too much information about you.
Exactly. For example, I know for a fact that iwiw.hu (the largest such site in Hungary, with over 2M members in a 10M country) is used extensively by the National Security Office. They actually have a "shadow" version of it, where they connect your relevant contacts to you by hand. Of course, this being "national security", it does not officially exist, and there is absolutely no outside control over it. Pretty fucking scary.
I wouldn't be surprised for something like this to exist in other countries.
The fact that some people need/want to be registered on 120 social networking sites at once means that something's horribly wrong here.
I may only want one, but I might have friends scattered across, say, five of these. And I wouldn't want anyone to impersonate me on the 115 remaining sites.
There should be a single social network that is flexible and open enough so that there's no need for any other one. In fact, there already is such a network. It is called the Internet.
You don't want to be identified as yourself across the whole Internet. Trust me.
Most PS3s cannot play PS2 games, and of the ones that can there are inconsistancies that depend on exactly which model you got (software vs hardware emulation).
Also, most of the end-of-cycle (read "great") ps2 games won't play.
It's Vista all over again.
Trademark scope is narrowly defined and may not be recognised in a virtual world.
Duh. Has anyone ever got in jail for killing someone in WoW? Why should trademark work differently?
LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
Terms of Service would generally allow a company to do whatever they please. I imagine somewhere in there it says they reserve the right to terminate any customer account at any time for any reason.
Terms of Service does not overrule general contract law.
Ow! The headaches you must have had!!! (I can't stand CRT refreshes below 70hz)
Interlaced. The picture was a bit dimmer, but the actual refresh rate is 85 Hz. Much less annoying, than the 56 Hz on 800x600. Yes, it was a crappy monitor. And again, Windows thought it knows better than me.
Your service represenatives seem to think that Streaming entertainment constitutes too much bandwidth for your little network to take.
This sentence is just too cool for words. Thank you.
Fuck them.
Similar story. Gave up on the X-server setup. Come Ubuntu, and apt-get, the tables turned and Linux was just easier.
Eh? RedHat 7.3 worked beautifully for me every time. I just had to tell it what monitor I had because it the hardware did not know about DDC. Win98, on the other hand, failed miserably and I couldn't use 1024x768 on it.
I'd much prefer that to having Fuck-UROM or SafeDisc installed on my machine.
That's one thing definitely good about Vista: the UAC catches Securom when it tries to sneak by in the background. Also proving once again that it's malware.
Oh, and another thing: if they can integrate Linux like that as well, they could get people to migrate back. Hell, I'd give it a spin. Especially if they can enable 3D acceleration for Linux properly. And Total Commander. The possibilities are limitless.
Yet who is more likely to have old applications or hardware that will need XP? If you have the latest and greatest full bells and whistles OS, you probably have the latest version of your apps as well. Once again, MS misses the boat.
I, for one don't want to get rid of quality games like Baldur's Gate 2.
Also, if they build in a VM like that, they could use it to let that handle compatibility and turn the OS itself upside down, getting rid of all the cruft that's been accumulating since win95 in some cases. Just like Apple did with OSX. It worked beautifully. Of course, being MS, they fucked up again, introducing this when they're almost done. It should have been in the design.
Long live The Penguin!!
You mean the devil.
My biggest problem at the time was trying to figure out how to turn the damned thing off from the command line. Seems pretty obvious in hindsight - "poweroff" - but it wasn't to me at the time.
I just did the tried and tested method I learned from all the win95 and win98 blue screens: the power button. None of that ATX crap either.
so, a bad stain is worse than a drug addiction?? if not, which OS would u describe as a drug addiction??
Linux, but more like Soma in Brave New World. Not harmful, just gives u a bit of a rush every now and then.
Gentoo install. "Just one more package before I go to sleep". Then you wake up three days later with your keyboard imprinted on your forehead.
I tried to access the floppy drive. Eventually gave up, and re-installed Windows.
I hear ya. I was looking for drive C:, and when I found it, it wasn't working like I expected.
Oh, and kernel modules came in a single .c file and a README that said "just type gcc [...]". I was yelling "WHERE, YOU PIECE OF SHIT?!" for a week. What did keep me there was the fact that the installer was able to set my screen up for 1024x768@43i, and win98 couldn't do that.
Oh, ever seen KDE 3.0 on 16 Mb RAM? It was quite... educational.
Because they'd rather spend tons on R&D, marketing, support, etc. for something people don't want to buy (Vista, Windows 7) than to continue to press discs for something people do want to buy (XP).
Don't forget beating hardware manufacturers into submission.
Well... Imagine a swat team entering a house, pointing gun on "pirate"'s head and handcuffing him for "stealing". Yup...
Now, imagine the people jailed for allowing this. Wouldn't that be a sight?