It would be blackmail if he demanded money from the exec to keep things quiet. This is just CYA; either the licensing gets brought into compliance or the dude avoids being associated with widespread and flagrant piracy. The fact that he gets financially remunerated for closing the door on his job while covering his ass does not automatically convert it into the crime of blackmail.
A sleaze? Did you force them into it? Then you would actually be a "rapist." Did they consent? Then you were "a dude having sex." Seriously, hating on yourself for getting laid in a thread about a guy who fucked people over for money is pretty emo.
Damn, I may have to go back to using AltaVista. I'm getting kind of tired of having to preface everything with a + symbol because Google thinks that it knows what I'm looking for better than I do with many of my searches.
Microsoft just isn't providing a service that is supported with that modified equipment, just as I can no longer get warranty service on my car because of the mods that I've made to the engine, even though they're happy to provide service for my wife's stock vehicle.
Did you bother to read the post that he was responding to, or is that just some knee-jerk reaction that you have as soon as you see anything that might be considered disparaging of Apple? Particularly seeing as how the poster didn't insult Apple in any way but rather simply posted links to factual data that indicates what Apple has done that is contrary to the statement of the person he was responding to. Put down the pike; your Nirvana is not under attack.
Socialized video games... You know what? Given how many times I've had buyer's remorse over a shitty title, I might be willing to risk some loss of quality for tax-subsidized gaming. If nothing else, at least my tax dollars would start going to something that I actually give a shit about.
Likely a troll, but on the off chance that you are legitimate, can you answer a question that has confused me for a long time: why are you here? I don't mean in the metaphysical sense, but rather why are you still breathing? Why aren't you working in explosive ordinance disposal in Iraq while wearing a t-shirt with a giant target on it? I just don't understand how you can be looking forward to eternal paradise basking in God's love and yet struggle so fucking hard to avoid it.
I know why I fight to survive; because this might just be all I got, and that's good enough for me. But if I believed for a single second that paradise awaited me upon death, you couldn't find a way to keep me alive. So why spend so much time and effort staying on this ball of mud, particularly while spending it trying to interfere with the heathens that you'll never have to suffer the company of once you move on to your eternal reward?
Ugh, and I finally got through entire weeks without dreaming about my Analytical Chemistry instructor from years ago repeatedly droning, "Do not forget to convert the units!" Thanks, Slashdot! Admittedly, this thread does illustrate that he may have had a point in doing so...
Yeah, on one hand I still want to support titles which provide fun single player gameplay, even if they rape the online experience (see Modern Warfare 2; at least; I'm presuming that the single player experience will be solid and that it didn't go to consoleville as well). On the other, I would almost like to try driving games that do this shit off of our platform, except that considering what a bastard child that PC SKUs are already treated as, I'm concerned that the majority of the publishers will just say, "fuck the PC," and we'll end up with a game catalog as pathetic as that for the Mac.
I figure there will always be a few companies that will go for quality over forcing extended revenue streams by parting out games like a chop shop, so maybe we reserve our PC dollars for those gold titles and skip the crumbs that bossman sees fit to sprinkle our way. If we really want to play those games, I suppose we can just pick up a console and play them the way that developers like these obviously intend them to be played.
I've been told by a couple of friends running Crossfire rigs that ATI has finally been pulling their head from their ass on driver flakiness in the past couple of years. That along with the issues that I've run into with a couple of the past few NVIDIA driver revisions and the whole PhysX clusterfuck, I'm willing to give ATI another chance after swearing off of them for the past few years. Well, except for the fact that I can't get a 5850 anywhere and the prices are sliding on up because of it.
I'm still willing to entertain running with an ATI in my new system, but I'll be holding off until production ramps up enough to bring the price back down to release levels. At which point I might be considering a new NVIDIA instead, although given their own production problems as of late, I'm not holding my breath. But the driver issue is no longer a major concern for me.
Very true. It was one of the key reasons why I took back an iPhone about a month ago and waited for the release of the Droid instead. Quite a few people have told me great things about Verizon's network while AT&T has been miserable on my company Blackjack. I figured it was just a crap phone only to find the same level of service on the iPhone, which is a pretty good hardware platform otherwise.
Yeah, sounds pretty hare-brained. But what if it had worked? What if they spent a couple million dollars on research to discover that a minute percentage of the population had the ability to remotely spy, or to kill with their minds? Never in the history of military spending would there ever have been a return on investment so good. Sometimes a idea just has way too much potential to simply dismiss it without at least giving it a reasonable once-over.
One of the many reasons why I love yon Intarwebs. My oil light came on a few weeks back. Given that the oil level was fine I suspected that it was the oil pressure sending unit, but the car is up in years so I figured I'd better let the pros take a look to make sure it wasn't the pump. A $15 inspection confirmed it was the sending unit and the additional cost for part and labor was quoted at ~$95. Five minutes of searching on the Internet gave me the exact procedure and a video on how to replace it so I bought the part for $13 and spent a half-hour doing it myself.
I still let the pros handle things that I either can't do due to the lack of equipment or space, or that I'd prefer not to take the time to do, but if it comes down to tapping a block with a mallet (which I actually did in order to fix my sputtering lawnmower about a year ago, oddly enough; needle valve was sticking. Thanks again, Internet!) then it's a damned shame if people have to pay an exorbitant amount of money just to figure out where to swing.
Undercover wasn't bad about it at all. If you pulled the lead and held it well, you would keep opening that lead further as the race went on instead of hitting some arbitrary distance that suddenly triggered the magical engine boost of the other cars. The distance increase was gradual enough that you would have to keep your lines really tight to keep building your lead, as the AI became much less sloppy as it fell behind, but it could readily be done. It was nice to get rewarded for doing well over time.
Anyone can create music that can be immediately used by fans on their iPods without subjecting each song to a lengthy and questionable approval process before having their songs solely available through Apple's storefront. Pick a better metaphor.
In all fairness, life before 1943 completely sucked. I'm not saying that there's a correlation between available address space and the general suckiness of life, but I'm not saying that there isn't a correlation, either.
While I don't proscribe to any particular preconception, there may be a point in the concern that you addressed since, in the end, majority/minority relations is a numbers game. Ironically, government often protects the minority from the majority, despite being representative of the people as a whole which is why government typically favors the majority. By giving a majority more capability to directly harass, repress, or otherwise harm a minority, whether it be along the lines of religion, sex, race, favorite sports team, or any other category that people like to divide themselves accordingly, a greater potential exists for these issues to arise.
Of course, this is all speculative; for all I or anyone else knows, pervasive surveillance coupled with open access could bring about the Age of Aquarius with Muslims and Jews hosting singalongs hosted Mexicans and Canadians while all of their dogs and cats cuddle together. And everyone else would get to watch.
Exactly. This squatting issue, in and of itself, isn't a deal breaker for iPhone development but it does reflect yet another pain in the ass in a long list of those that would-be developers have to deal with. Those limitations have me seriously considering the return of my iPhone before I would be subject to an early termination fee, although enough about the platform has convinced me to start looking into the potential of using it while jailbroken. I think that the device is solid and the OS is OK but almost every other aspect, particularly around how Apple is micromanaging how I can use it, has me asking WTF on a daily basis.
Wow, almost made it a page and a half before someone equated extra content that you would have never even noticed not being there while playing the actual full game if Bioware hadn't announced its availability to a full game that is sold in pieces. Why don't you just throw in a car analogy concerning how charging for options on new cars is going to lead to cars being sold without an engine or tires until you pay extra for them and round out this load of tripe nicely? Oh right, Bioware fucked up and gave away the fruits of their very expensive labors for free once, thereby setting up the infamous "level of expectation" that is now biting Valve in the ass, so they'd better start shitting free ponies or else they are now EEEEVIL.
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I think that the War Nerd would argue that Fresno IS a natural disaster. ;)
It would be blackmail if he demanded money from the exec to keep things quiet. This is just CYA; either the licensing gets brought into compliance or the dude avoids being associated with widespread and flagrant piracy. The fact that he gets financially remunerated for closing the door on his job while covering his ass does not automatically convert it into the crime of blackmail.
A sleaze? Did you force them into it? Then you would actually be a "rapist." Did they consent? Then you were "a dude having sex." Seriously, hating on yourself for getting laid in a thread about a guy who fucked people over for money is pretty emo.
Damn, I may have to go back to using AltaVista. I'm getting kind of tired of having to preface everything with a + symbol because Google thinks that it knows what I'm looking for better than I do with many of my searches.
Microsoft just isn't providing a service that is supported with that modified equipment, just as I can no longer get warranty service on my car because of the mods that I've made to the engine, even though they're happy to provide service for my wife's stock vehicle.
Final Fantasy, I don't know offhand. With, WoW, on the other hand, it is most certainly possible.
Did you bother to read the post that he was responding to, or is that just some knee-jerk reaction that you have as soon as you see anything that might be considered disparaging of Apple? Particularly seeing as how the poster didn't insult Apple in any way but rather simply posted links to factual data that indicates what Apple has done that is contrary to the statement of the person he was responding to. Put down the pike; your Nirvana is not under attack.
Video games are a basic human right! :)
Socialized video games... You know what? Given how many times I've had buyer's remorse over a shitty title, I might be willing to risk some loss of quality for tax-subsidized gaming. If nothing else, at least my tax dollars would start going to something that I actually give a shit about.
Likely a troll, but on the off chance that you are legitimate, can you answer a question that has confused me for a long time: why are you here? I don't mean in the metaphysical sense, but rather why are you still breathing? Why aren't you working in explosive ordinance disposal in Iraq while wearing a t-shirt with a giant target on it? I just don't understand how you can be looking forward to eternal paradise basking in God's love and yet struggle so fucking hard to avoid it.
I know why I fight to survive; because this might just be all I got, and that's good enough for me. But if I believed for a single second that paradise awaited me upon death, you couldn't find a way to keep me alive. So why spend so much time and effort staying on this ball of mud, particularly while spending it trying to interfere with the heathens that you'll never have to suffer the company of once you move on to your eternal reward?
Ugh, and I finally got through entire weeks without dreaming about my Analytical Chemistry instructor from years ago repeatedly droning, "Do not forget to convert the units!" Thanks, Slashdot! Admittedly, this thread does illustrate that he may have had a point in doing so...
Yeah, on one hand I still want to support titles which provide fun single player gameplay, even if they rape the online experience (see Modern Warfare 2; at least; I'm presuming that the single player experience will be solid and that it didn't go to consoleville as well). On the other, I would almost like to try driving games that do this shit off of our platform, except that considering what a bastard child that PC SKUs are already treated as, I'm concerned that the majority of the publishers will just say, "fuck the PC," and we'll end up with a game catalog as pathetic as that for the Mac.
I figure there will always be a few companies that will go for quality over forcing extended revenue streams by parting out games like a chop shop, so maybe we reserve our PC dollars for those gold titles and skip the crumbs that bossman sees fit to sprinkle our way. If we really want to play those games, I suppose we can just pick up a console and play them the way that developers like these obviously intend them to be played.
I've been told by a couple of friends running Crossfire rigs that ATI has finally been pulling their head from their ass on driver flakiness in the past couple of years. That along with the issues that I've run into with a couple of the past few NVIDIA driver revisions and the whole PhysX clusterfuck, I'm willing to give ATI another chance after swearing off of them for the past few years. Well, except for the fact that I can't get a 5850 anywhere and the prices are sliding on up because of it.
I'm still willing to entertain running with an ATI in my new system, but I'll be holding off until production ramps up enough to bring the price back down to release levels. At which point I might be considering a new NVIDIA instead, although given their own production problems as of late, I'm not holding my breath. But the driver issue is no longer a major concern for me.
Very true. It was one of the key reasons why I took back an iPhone about a month ago and waited for the release of the Droid instead. Quite a few people have told me great things about Verizon's network while AT&T has been miserable on my company Blackjack. I figured it was just a crap phone only to find the same level of service on the iPhone, which is a pretty good hardware platform otherwise.
Yeah, sounds pretty hare-brained. But what if it had worked? What if they spent a couple million dollars on research to discover that a minute percentage of the population had the ability to remotely spy, or to kill with their minds? Never in the history of military spending would there ever have been a return on investment so good. Sometimes a idea just has way too much potential to simply dismiss it without at least giving it a reasonable once-over.
One of the many reasons why I love yon Intarwebs. My oil light came on a few weeks back. Given that the oil level was fine I suspected that it was the oil pressure sending unit, but the car is up in years so I figured I'd better let the pros take a look to make sure it wasn't the pump. A $15 inspection confirmed it was the sending unit and the additional cost for part and labor was quoted at ~$95. Five minutes of searching on the Internet gave me the exact procedure and a video on how to replace it so I bought the part for $13 and spent a half-hour doing it myself.
I still let the pros handle things that I either can't do due to the lack of equipment or space, or that I'd prefer not to take the time to do, but if it comes down to tapping a block with a mallet (which I actually did in order to fix my sputtering lawnmower about a year ago, oddly enough; needle valve was sticking. Thanks again, Internet!) then it's a damned shame if people have to pay an exorbitant amount of money just to figure out where to swing.
He forgot to use part of his debt on bribes, so he didn't qualify for a bailout.
Er, dammit, excuse me: campaign contributions.
No, just necessary. It's for your own good, just relax and let go.
Undercover wasn't bad about it at all. If you pulled the lead and held it well, you would keep opening that lead further as the race went on instead of hitting some arbitrary distance that suddenly triggered the magical engine boost of the other cars. The distance increase was gradual enough that you would have to keep your lines really tight to keep building your lead, as the AI became much less sloppy as it fell behind, but it could readily be done. It was nice to get rewarded for doing well over time.
Oh no, they've disabled our ability to sell electricity from one grid to another!
Yes, I'll have one. Thank you.
Anyone can create music that can be immediately used by fans on their iPods without subjecting each song to a lengthy and questionable approval process before having their songs solely available through Apple's storefront. Pick a better metaphor.
In all fairness, life before 1943 completely sucked. I'm not saying that there's a correlation between available address space and the general suckiness of life, but I'm not saying that there isn't a correlation, either.
While I don't proscribe to any particular preconception, there may be a point in the concern that you addressed since, in the end, majority/minority relations is a numbers game. Ironically, government often protects the minority from the majority, despite being representative of the people as a whole which is why government typically favors the majority. By giving a majority more capability to directly harass, repress, or otherwise harm a minority, whether it be along the lines of religion, sex, race, favorite sports team, or any other category that people like to divide themselves accordingly, a greater potential exists for these issues to arise.
Of course, this is all speculative; for all I or anyone else knows, pervasive surveillance coupled with open access could bring about the Age of Aquarius with Muslims and Jews hosting singalongs hosted Mexicans and Canadians while all of their dogs and cats cuddle together. And everyone else would get to watch.
Exactly. This squatting issue, in and of itself, isn't a deal breaker for iPhone development but it does reflect yet another pain in the ass in a long list of those that would-be developers have to deal with. Those limitations have me seriously considering the return of my iPhone before I would be subject to an early termination fee, although enough about the platform has convinced me to start looking into the potential of using it while jailbroken. I think that the device is solid and the OS is OK but almost every other aspect, particularly around how Apple is micromanaging how I can use it, has me asking WTF on a daily basis.
Wow, almost made it a page and a half before someone equated extra content that you would have never even noticed not being there while playing the actual full game if Bioware hadn't announced its availability to a full game that is sold in pieces. Why don't you just throw in a car analogy concerning how charging for options on new cars is going to lead to cars being sold without an engine or tires until you pay extra for them and round out this load of tripe nicely? Oh right, Bioware fucked up and gave away the fruits of their very expensive labors for free once, thereby setting up the infamous "level of expectation" that is now biting Valve in the ass, so they'd better start shitting free ponies or else they are now EEEEVIL.