Why buy anything? I still don't get it. My PC works fine, and I game alot (just ask my wife! (she games too))
In short I stil odn't get why people gripe about DRM. I don't get why corps implement DRM. I don't get why people pay perfecty good money for software that cripples their systems with DRM.
BTW, Neither of us pirate either. It's all out there for free, legitimately, if you know where to look. Who lives by DRM, dies by DRM.
Anyone remember Chess? Go? Cribbage? Bridge? Risk? Tabletop D&D? Monopoly for chrissakes? How about Mancala? Reversi? Pente? Dominoes? Darts? How about a friggin game of billiards/pool? Gin-Rummy anyone?
Oh right, the lack of DRM is what killed those games:P
I do not buy games. Period. I don't pirate them either.
Plenty of free games out there! Sometimes free demos are enough for games like halo, half-life 2, (sorry if I'm talking about old demos, I don't even bother with most new games anymore because even the demos are DRM'd up the wazoo). Freeplay MMOs like Runes of Magic and Allods keep me pretty well entertained after serious pointless grinding on an MMO like Anarchy Online. However! The point being is they are not only free of DRM they are free of cash outlay! No way am I about to risk my system with some DRM'd game that I may or may not like and risk my whole system on it. And pay cash for it beforehand.
The whole commercial game industry (well most of it anyway) is snake oil sales. They have quickly reached a point just slightly better than used car salesmen or the riaa. Feck it, stick to (real) indy games and/or play only the free games. If they lower the DRM bar later have we won? No, the game is still full of DRM bullshyte.
Anyway, apologies for the ramble. I hope you get what I'm after here (and no I'm not new here, but damn I bet any replies will make me feel like it)...
Soooo many free games to explore out there, I don't get why people bother with DRM shyte. Keep up with the Joneses? Not if it means compromising my system:P
What about the user who carries the phone from home to work and back, and never carries it anywhere else? Can they predict that movement? How about those of us who don't use a cellphone to begin with? I'm a web designer and a landline serves my needs just fine, thankyou. Track me, I wish you luck;)
Sheesh what a useless study,
I can see this making the 3D printer *truly* revolutionary...!
So what if next year you can create your own 64mb stick (block?) of ram that is 6x6 inches... in 5 years it will be 10 times as much ram, and one-half the size! Cheaper than buying silicon? Who knows...
Technology only improves - as long as the world's economy doesn't collapse.... http://www.collapsemovie.com/
Cheers!;)
I nominate Myst - Riven - Exile. Humor? Depends on the player. Dark? Again, that depends on the player.
I love those games. My individual favorite will always be the original Zork, but then Adventureland ( on Apple ][+ ) is where I'll always be from!:)
Graphics? Get off my lan....
Well, if it's OK for the school to 'recommend' that the students (or rather, their parents) cough up the dough for software, why not 'recommend' that the students / parents be responsible for pencils & books as well? Remember, this is the case in places like Mexico, and as much as I love Mexico, their education system has crippled their economy, in addition to all the other problems such crippling causes.
How about if schools were to use primarily FOSS? It would be OK to include awareness of proprietary software packages in the curriculum. I seem to recall a recent Slashdot article on this topic....
PG2 blocks both incoming and outgoing connections to blacklisted IP addresses.
Granted, we don't know which particular software is requesting the connections, although from a quick glance at the screenshots, it appears that the connections are indeed incoming requests.
"I'd reckon they'd be better off not working a menial job that contributes nothing to themselves or society in general except to perpetuate a system of victimization. It's true they could starve but at least then they wouldn't be making the problem worse. One would hope instead that they'd do something productive and help change the system. "
You're right. Nobody should work at McDonalds, Walmart, etc. They should get a real life.
Please don't mod me down if this is redundant, but wouldn't Gateway have spent alot less money if they just replaced this guys computer, instead of paying lawyers for whatever it is they're doing?
They could be afraid of precedent, I suppose. This world is clearly already fucked, if that's the case.
Nevermind. This is the kind of case that makes me question my sanity. Or, if not my sanity, the state of society in general.
Best of luck to you all, or How I Learned To Love The Bomb.
It seems pretty clear that if there is a 'piggybacking' law, the law should also demand that the broadcasters of wifi secure their system or be held at least partially accountable.
This could be arguable in regards to private home wifi networks, but considering a commercial establishment *actively advertises free wifi*, as in this case, it's just bait that entraps ordinary citizens and gives them an undeserved criminal record.
Wow, what if this sympathy for injured bots, rather than making wars easier to fight (in a sense of disconnection from the destruction), actually had the effect of causing soldiers refusing to kill humans because they've had to witness the 'suffering' of something they care for in person?
(For the record: I do recognize it's the guys behind desks that make the decisions so don't see the suffering, and I do realize that soldiers do see the suffering when they kill humans.)
...I don't think I'm expressing this effectively. I'll shutup now. Does anyone else pick up on what I'm trying to say?
However, it is time we had one universal standard for messages. You can have different clients with different features, however, users should have a universal address so you can message anyone from any network from any client.
I use OOo for everything here at home. However, when I use it to create a.doc, it doesn't seem to be able to save anything more than the usual font formatting. I mean things like colors in headers, footers, that kind of thing just don't seem to save, even if I open it in OOo again. So if I write a report for school I can't use any of the fancy stuff.
Not major, but this semester I have been writing a report for my Systems Analysis class with all kinds of spreadsheets, diagrams, etc. I can print it out here at home for all the nice effects, but I just learned that for the final the instructor wants the whole report (all the files) on CDR. I know for a fact she doesn't even know about Open Office (or she didn't, but she has at least heard of it as of last week).:\
State University, but third-rate instructors. Diploma-mill mentality. MicroSoft products or nothing. But that's a rant for another time...
This is a thinly veiled protection racket. You're a sole proprietorship, general partnership or individual? You will be labeled as a possible phishing site, and lose potential customers. You are a small (or large) business? Pay up the $1300.00 per year, or you will be labeled a possible criminal and lose business too.
These certificates offer the business nothing of value. Pure racketeering, and potentially slanderous in nature.
This does little to actively protect the consumer, and once this gets hacked (my guess is sooner than later) it will do nothing to protect consumers. This only works in favor of large corporations by decreasing competition from the little guys. Sic 'em, Guido!
It has been claimed that the issue with small businesses & EV certification is moot, because Google checkout is getting more popular, paypal and ebay will surely be EV certified, and within a few years from now many online merchants will be providing paypal and Google checkout options.
Some small business prefer not to use third party 'shopping cart' services. This increases their overhead, and once again funnels money from the little guy into the pockets of corporations. Many small business owners are loathe to relinquish any control over their business. Also, some people find writing and maintaining their own (or FOSS) shopping cart to be just plain fun! Not to mention educational.
So, the solution for small business is to either PAY Entrust, or PAY Google et al? Not a solution, afaic. It's a scam.
I can't believe this doesn't violate anti-trust laws or racketeering laws. It's hostile to small businesses and completely excludes sole proprietorships, general partnerships and individuals, as they aren't even eligible for the green bar 'status.'
This causes far larger problems than it solves. This only marginally protects the stupid (who fall for phishing scams) and deals out serious punishment to the honest business owner. I expect we will see many small web-based business go under because of this. Another anti-entrepreneur blow from the capitalist elite.
To summarize: This punishes honest businesses for criminal activity they don't condone or participate in. This doesn't punish phishers. This doesn't protect consumers. In the long run we will see that this has done nothing to solve the problem. This stinks of greed, plain and simple.
Another way to look at this is 'Presumed guilty until innocence is bought.'
I love the idea of.xxx domain. I'm sure lots of sites would use is voluntarily! I mean, if someone's looking for pr0n, what better place to begin the search? And I'd rather find nasty vids on.xxx then.com, but then I've said too much...
I do however STRONGLY disagree with "forcing" any site to use it. That borders on "free speech" violation, and is too dependent on the views of whoever is in power to "regulate" the internet.
I think the.xxx domain is a great idea!
Regulation is not what the internet needs, what the internet needs is more options. It's already too close to becoming a closed community.
Slashdot Mirror
"Science and Superstition Can and Do Mix, Mostly"
or
"Fact and Fiction Can and Do Mix, Mostly"
That will fly. Like pigs.
Guns don't kill people, video games kill people!
Why buy anything? I still don't get it. My PC works fine, and I game alot (just ask my wife! (she games too))
In short I stil odn't get why people gripe about DRM. I don't get why corps implement DRM. I don't get why people pay perfecty good money for software that cripples their systems with DRM.
BTW, Neither of us pirate either. It's all out there for free, legitimately, if you know where to look. Who lives by DRM, dies by DRM.
Anyone remember Chess? Go? Cribbage? Bridge? Risk? Tabletop D&D? Monopoly for chrissakes? How about Mancala? Reversi? Pente? Dominoes? Darts? How about a friggin game of billiards/pool? Gin-Rummy anyone?
Oh right, the lack of DRM is what killed those games :P
I do not buy games. Period. I don't pirate them either.
Plenty of free games out there! Sometimes free demos are enough for games like halo, half-life 2, (sorry if I'm talking about old demos, I don't even bother with most new games anymore because even the demos are DRM'd up the wazoo). Freeplay MMOs like Runes of Magic and Allods keep me pretty well entertained after serious pointless grinding on an MMO like Anarchy Online. However! The point being is they are not only free of DRM they are free of cash outlay! No way am I about to risk my system with some DRM'd game that I may or may not like and risk my whole system on it. And pay cash for it beforehand.
The whole commercial game industry (well most of it anyway) is snake oil sales. They have quickly reached a point just slightly better than used car salesmen or the riaa. Feck it, stick to (real) indy games and/or play only the free games. If they lower the DRM bar later have we won? No, the game is still full of DRM bullshyte.
Anyway, apologies for the ramble. I hope you get what I'm after here (and no I'm not new here, but damn I bet any replies will make me feel like it)...
Soooo many free games to explore out there, I don't get why people bother with DRM shyte. Keep up with the Joneses? Not if it means compromising my system :P
What about the user who carries the phone from home to work and back, and never carries it anywhere else? Can they predict that movement? How about those of us who don't use a cellphone to begin with? I'm a web designer and a landline serves my needs just fine, thankyou. Track me, I wish you luck ;)
Sheesh what a useless study,
I can see this making the 3D printer *truly* revolutionary...! So what if next year you can create your own 64mb stick (block?) of ram that is 6x6 inches... in 5 years it will be 10 times as much ram, and one-half the size! Cheaper than buying silicon? Who knows... Technology only improves - as long as the world's economy doesn't collapse.... http://www.collapsemovie.com/ Cheers! ;)
I nominate Myst - Riven - Exile. Humor? Depends on the player. Dark? Again, that depends on the player. I love those games. My individual favorite will always be the original Zork, but then Adventureland ( on Apple ][+ ) is where I'll always be from! :)
Graphics? Get off my lan....
...or very few. I guess it depends on the value of n.
Well, if it's OK for the school to 'recommend' that the students (or rather, their parents) cough up the dough for software, why not 'recommend' that the students / parents be responsible for pencils & books as well? Remember, this is the case in places like Mexico, and as much as I love Mexico, their education system has crippled their economy, in addition to all the other problems such crippling causes.
How about if schools were to use primarily FOSS? It would be OK to include awareness of proprietary software packages in the curriculum. I seem to recall a recent Slashdot article on this topic....
PG2 blocks both incoming and outgoing connections to blacklisted IP addresses.
Granted, we don't know which particular software is requesting the connections, although from a quick glance at the screenshots, it appears that the connections are indeed incoming requests.
Color me skeptical.
"I'd reckon they'd be better off not working a menial job that contributes nothing to themselves or society in general except to perpetuate a system of victimization. It's true they could starve but at least then they wouldn't be making the problem worse. One would hope instead that they'd do something productive and help change the system. "
You're right. Nobody should work at McDonalds, Walmart, etc. They should get a real life.
Please don't mod me down if this is redundant, but wouldn't Gateway have spent alot less money if they just replaced this guys computer, instead of paying lawyers for whatever it is they're doing?
They could be afraid of precedent, I suppose. This world is clearly already fucked, if that's the case.
Nevermind. This is the kind of case that makes me question my sanity. Or, if not my sanity, the state of society in general.
Best of luck to you all, or How I Learned To Love The Bomb.
It seems pretty clear that if there is a 'piggybacking' law, the law should also demand that the broadcasters of wifi secure their system or be held at least partially accountable.
This could be arguable in regards to private home wifi networks, but considering a commercial establishment *actively advertises free wifi*, as in this case, it's just bait that entraps ordinary citizens and gives them an undeserved criminal record.
Bad, bad law.
Wow, what if this sympathy for injured bots, rather than making wars easier to fight (in a sense of disconnection from the destruction), actually had the effect of causing soldiers refusing to kill humans because they've had to witness the 'suffering' of something they care for in person?
...I don't think I'm expressing this effectively. I'll shutup now. Does anyone else pick up on what I'm trying to say?
(For the record: I do recognize it's the guys behind desks that make the decisions so don't see the suffering, and I do realize that soldiers do see the suffering when they kill humans.)
"people looking to throw up stuff on YouTube"
Yeah, most of the content on YouTube has that effect on me, too.
Despite all the criticism I'm reading here, it still beats .aspx for database implementation, HANDS DOWN.
"It would be so great if you could just assume that any random printer would totally work with Linux..."
It would be so great if you could just assume that any random printer would totally work with Windows...
"perfectly clean form of electricity which wouldn't pollute anything"
Right! And nuclear waste is NOT pollution! </snark>
IRC, anyone?
I use OOo for everything here at home. However, when I use it to create a .doc, it doesn't seem to be able to save anything more than the usual font formatting. I mean things like colors in headers, footers, that kind of thing just don't seem to save, even if I open it in OOo again. So if I write a report for school I can't use any of the fancy stuff.
:\
Not major, but this semester I have been writing a report for my Systems Analysis class with all kinds of spreadsheets, diagrams, etc. I can print it out here at home for all the nice effects, but I just learned that for the final the instructor wants the whole report (all the files) on CDR. I know for a fact she doesn't even know about Open Office (or she didn't, but she has at least heard of it as of last week).
State University, but third-rate instructors. Diploma-mill mentality. MicroSoft products or nothing. But that's a rant for another time...
This is a thinly veiled protection racket. You're a sole proprietorship, general partnership or individual? You will be labeled as a possible phishing site, and lose potential customers. You are a small (or large) business? Pay up the $1300.00 per year, or you will be labeled a possible criminal and lose business too. These certificates offer the business nothing of value. Pure racketeering, and potentially slanderous in nature. This does little to actively protect the consumer, and once this gets hacked (my guess is sooner than later) it will do nothing to protect consumers. This only works in favor of large corporations by decreasing competition from the little guys. Sic 'em, Guido! It has been claimed that the issue with small businesses & EV certification is moot, because Google checkout is getting more popular, paypal and ebay will surely be EV certified, and within a few years from now many online merchants will be providing paypal and Google checkout options. Some small business prefer not to use third party 'shopping cart' services. This increases their overhead, and once again funnels money from the little guy into the pockets of corporations. Many small business owners are loathe to relinquish any control over their business. Also, some people find writing and maintaining their own (or FOSS) shopping cart to be just plain fun! Not to mention educational. So, the solution for small business is to either PAY Entrust, or PAY Google et al? Not a solution, afaic. It's a scam. I can't believe this doesn't violate anti-trust laws or racketeering laws. It's hostile to small businesses and completely excludes sole proprietorships, general partnerships and individuals, as they aren't even eligible for the green bar 'status.' This causes far larger problems than it solves. This only marginally protects the stupid (who fall for phishing scams) and deals out serious punishment to the honest business owner. I expect we will see many small web-based business go under because of this. Another anti-entrepreneur blow from the capitalist elite. To summarize: This punishes honest businesses for criminal activity they don't condone or participate in. This doesn't punish phishers. This doesn't protect consumers. In the long run we will see that this has done nothing to solve the problem. This stinks of greed, plain and simple. Another way to look at this is 'Presumed guilty until innocence is bought.'
I love the idea of .xxx domain. I'm sure lots of sites would use is voluntarily! I mean, if someone's looking for pr0n, what better place to begin the search? And I'd rather find nasty vids on .xxx then .com, but then I've said too much...
I do however STRONGLY disagree with "forcing" any site to use it. That borders on "free speech" violation, and is too dependent on the views of whoever is in power to "regulate" the internet.
I think the .xxx domain is a great idea!
Regulation is not what the internet needs, what the internet needs is more options. It's already too close to becoming a closed community.