Physicians consider male gays specifically "at risk" because intercourse for these individuals essentially means anal sex (a behavior many physicians consider risky), not because of lack of commitment between partners. Lesbians, AFAIK, share no such designation.
As far as I know, there is no evidence to indicate that either straight or gay individuals are more or less committed in long term relationships. If there is, I'd like to see it, and you can chalk it up to my ignorance on two fronts: 1) I'm not gay and 2) I think marriage (well, at the very least modern marriage) is a hilarious load of bullshit.
Comparing gay "life partners" to legal marriages is about as blatantly unfair as you can get. A buddy of mine is "married", but has been separated from his wife for over two years and freely sees other women. I'm sure any study of "life partners" would have considered that relationship over two years ago.
He may be doing this to protect the poor, uneducated consumers. Honestly, he really might. Of course, I don't really buy this at all, since the class of consumer he talks about isn't going to buy a MAME machine anyway. I'm sure if he surveyed his customer base he'd see that instantly. I'd go so far as to say that the vast majority of people who understand emulation enough to even think about looking for an arcade emulator like the ones he sells both already know about MAME, and know about the legal issues surrounding game ROMs.
Even if we assume that he is being altruistic, and even if we assume that his potential customers don't know about the legal issues involved, this is the wrong way to go about dealing with it.
To Mr. Foley:
Educate people. Let the copyright holders for the games your competition is distributing illegally know about the infringement going on. Attempt to handle things constructively in a manner that actually makes things better rather than just attempting to find a way to sue your competition out of business, because that's all you're doing.
Ultimately, pirates aren't stealing your work, so getting rid of them isn't your job. I don't care if you worked on an emulation project in college or not. This is about making more money for David Foley, and that's it.
By the way, cost effective for the consumer or not, competitors do have the right (AFAIK) to sell MAME systems without games. If they're being misleading about it, notify the appropriate authorities. If they're providing the games, once again, notify the copyright holders so they can take action (at their discretion, maybe they just don't care anymore, which is their right, and sucks for you for licensing from them).
Just because you don't intend to attempt to slap the MAME folks with a lawsuit (for now, at least; whether you could actually do such a thing is for those more qualified than myself to say), doesn't make you a "good guy". I hate to see IBM ("good") use bullshit legal tactics against Microsoft ("bad") only slightly less than I hate to see the reverse. Both cases generally end up hurting the consumer -- and costing me some of my tax dollars -- anyway.
Look, I can't stand Bill Gates and like Linux just like a good little Slashbot, but this "Linux does so much more for the world because it's free" bullshit is ridiculous.
If I'm some starving kid in Africa with people dropping like flies all around me from diseases we haven't even heard of I want medicine, not a [Ff]ree OS.
Does anybody even watch this channel? After I saw that emo chick's tits watching the actual programming became pointless.
G4/(TechTV or not) has about as much to do with actual geeks or gamers as the Outdoor Life Network (you know, because we never go outside, uh huh huh).
Besides, if they were real gamers they'd be too busy playing WoW to make television shows.
Wrong. Any conversion you make to or between lossy formats lowers the quality of the music.
Lossless formats do not suffer this problem. You can go from FLAC to SHN an infinite number of times without losing anything at all. CD audio also falls into this category ("for absolutely all practical purposes," just to please you pedants).
Good job getting modded insightful for a load of horseshit, though.
Doubtful. Your box is fast enough that you'll be able to play most games at whatever resolution you want with all the visuals maxed out. Even if the A64 gives you 5% higher performance, as long as you're happy with the performance of the P4, who gives a fuck?
I've got a 3500+ and a 6800GT, though. If you really want to do the penis measuring thing run a few benchmarks and I'll do the same.
I bought AMD because the last 3 chips I've bought have been AMD. I knew the memory I had worked well with AMD processors, and I like the nForce chipsets. But I think most people know if you're willing to spend a decent bit of money on the chip you can get a good CPU from either manufacturer.
(OT: You wouldn't happen to be the same Saint [Stephen] that runs nachos.net, would you? Used to post there a long time ago.)
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*dances with pants down*
Old Gray Mare she ain't what she used to be...
You know, some people get off on eating shit.
I'm just sayin'.
Some of the idiots at this guy's hosting company must really be on the ball ;).
Physicians consider male gays specifically "at risk" because intercourse for these individuals essentially means anal sex (a behavior many physicians consider risky), not because of lack of commitment between partners. Lesbians, AFAIK, share no such designation.
As far as I know, there is no evidence to indicate that either straight or gay individuals are more or less committed in long term relationships. If there is, I'd like to see it, and you can chalk it up to my ignorance on two fronts: 1) I'm not gay and 2) I think marriage (well, at the very least modern marriage) is a hilarious load of bullshit.
Comparing gay "life partners" to legal marriages is about as blatantly unfair as you can get. A buddy of mine is "married", but has been separated from his wife for over two years and freely sees other women. I'm sure any study of "life partners" would have considered that relationship over two years ago.
Mars, bitches.
And no gays settlin' down.
Yeah, that was at least mildly funny. Even if you don't get the joke... "Troll?"
He may be doing this to protect the poor, uneducated consumers. Honestly, he really might. Of course, I don't really buy this at all, since the class of consumer he talks about isn't going to buy a MAME machine anyway. I'm sure if he surveyed his customer base he'd see that instantly. I'd go so far as to say that the vast majority of people who understand emulation enough to even think about looking for an arcade emulator like the ones he sells both already know about MAME, and know about the legal issues surrounding game ROMs.
Even if we assume that he is being altruistic, and even if we assume that his potential customers don't know about the legal issues involved, this is the wrong way to go about dealing with it.
To Mr. Foley:
Educate people. Let the copyright holders for the games your competition is distributing illegally know about the infringement going on. Attempt to handle things constructively in a manner that actually makes things better rather than just attempting to find a way to sue your competition out of business, because that's all you're doing.
Ultimately, pirates aren't stealing your work, so getting rid of them isn't your job. I don't care if you worked on an emulation project in college or not. This is about making more money for David Foley, and that's it.
By the way, cost effective for the consumer or not, competitors do have the right (AFAIK) to sell MAME systems without games. If they're being misleading about it, notify the appropriate authorities. If they're providing the games, once again, notify the copyright holders so they can take action (at their discretion, maybe they just don't care anymore, which is their right, and sucks for you for licensing from them).
Just because you don't intend to attempt to slap the MAME folks with a lawsuit (for now, at least; whether you could actually do such a thing is for those more qualified than myself to say), doesn't make you a "good guy". I hate to see IBM ("good") use bullshit legal tactics against Microsoft ("bad") only slightly less than I hate to see the reverse. Both cases generally end up hurting the consumer -- and costing me some of my tax dollars -- anyway.
It is I, Yokomoto Comp!
You're not old. You're classic :).
(Bet that didn't make you feel any better!)
Hell, in the United States only old people use Usenet :).
MCSE? ...
He's a witch! Burn him!
"Navigationalist." Yep, probably drunk.
Of course, anyone who isn't drunk shouldn't be boating in the first place.
I think a cheap color Mac... would have been cheap.
To use Gentoo? At least!
Look, I can't stand Bill Gates and like Linux just like a good little Slashbot, but this "Linux does so much more for the world because it's free" bullshit is ridiculous.
If I'm some starving kid in Africa with people dropping like flies all around me from diseases we haven't even heard of I want medicine, not a [Ff]ree OS.
Well, I thought it was funny.
That's a great idea. If the Enlightenment folks started right away I'm sure they'd have something to really "wow" us by 2030.
Dare to dream.
Does anybody even watch this channel? After I saw that emo chick's tits watching the actual programming became pointless.
G4/(TechTV or not) has about as much to do with actual geeks or gamers as the Outdoor Life Network (you know, because we never go outside, uh huh huh).
Besides, if they were real gamers they'd be too busy playing WoW to make television shows.
You just want sexy ladies in armored suits running around...
Seconded.
Wrong. Any conversion you make to or between lossy formats lowers the quality of the music.
Lossless formats do not suffer this problem. You can go from FLAC to SHN an infinite number of times without losing anything at all. CD audio also falls into this category ("for absolutely all practical purposes," just to please you pedants).
Good job getting modded insightful for a load of horseshit, though.
My brain does the egg thing anytime I'm forced to listen to Britney Spears, illegally or not.
Texas doesn't count. Especially for murder. Buncha crazy fuckers there.
Doubtful. Your box is fast enough that you'll be able to play most games at whatever resolution you want with all the visuals maxed out. Even if the A64 gives you 5% higher performance, as long as you're happy with the performance of the P4, who gives a fuck?
I've got a 3500+ and a 6800GT, though. If you really want to do the penis measuring thing run a few benchmarks and I'll do the same.
I bought AMD because the last 3 chips I've bought have been AMD. I knew the memory I had worked well with AMD processors, and I like the nForce chipsets. But I think most people know if you're willing to spend a decent bit of money on the chip you can get a good CPU from either manufacturer.
(OT: You wouldn't happen to be the same Saint [Stephen] that runs nachos.net, would you? Used to post there a long time ago.)
Thanks for the link to Slashdot. I'll check it out!