And that's because Apple is starting to do things MS did a while back. Can you honestly not see the signs? Apple fanboys conveniently look past the horrible shortcomings of their demi-god and continue to root for it solely because it is not Microsoft.
Until they stop supporting your current OS with security upgrades and activation.
...how is that a compelling reason to start using Windows 7 or Vista? You can just move to Linux or Mac OS, which, with enough tinkering, will do nearly everything XP does. Your logic, sir, is faulty.
To throw my hat in this ring, I've been using Vista for a long time and I have had very few problems with it. If you know what you're doing (if many of the critics are any indication, this is a huge problem), have a good antivirus program (which you should regardless of which OS you're running), and tailor it to meet your system's capabilities (my laptop can run everything just fine but I decided to turn off Aero and some other features because I value speed), then Vista is great. If, on the other hand, you dig in your heels and howl like a little bitch about Vista not being XP, you are not going to get very much done.
First of all, I'd recommend you check your spelling of the word you spelled as "mammel" before you go around saying inflammatory things like (I quote, ad pedem litterae) "Lets also pretend you know what the hell the word "Mammel" means." (Hint: the letter 'a' appears twice in that word.)
Secondly, the issue here isn't whether or not breastfeeding is allowed in public. It's whether or not Facebook has the right to censor photos of breastfeeding mothers. Aside from the fact that none of the young mothers *I* know would be caught dead posting breastfeeding pictures on Facebook (Seriously? What the HELL are you thinking? It's the Internet. Would you post a basic shot of just your tits on it? No? Then what convinces you that it's better to have a baby in the picture that just so happens to be hanging out near said tits?), the fact remains that Facebook has the right to remove content at its sole discretion. Like it or lump it, that fact remains.
As for your final point, I don't think there's a Christian church in the world who would disagree with you that Jesus did, in fact, suckle happily away at the Virgin Teat. Were you just flaming, or are you actually stupid enough to think that people believe otherwise?
P.S. As I mentioned before, please check your spelling of "mammal." Also for your consideration: "argument," "asinine," "let's," and "self-righteous."
God dammit, I quit FFXI cold turkey and now every time someone mentions it I want to go back and play with my BLM and level BLU.
I imagine this is what cocaine addicts feel like when they're cut off. Except worse.
Oh, yeah, mod me offtopic.
But he's referring to the OP calling it the death of a company. Their success, as it stands now, isn't even remotely dependent on the quality of their products (which is actually not as bad as people make it out to be). They ARE making BILLIONS, and therefore they're not going down anytime soon.
The bottom line is that Glider violates the Terms of Service and makes the game unfun for everyone else playing it. It's cheating, plain and simple. Blizzard wants to keep their game enjoyable, and to that end, they want to stop Glider in any way possible. But you can't get a cease and desist with "OMG CHEATER" written on it.
Al Capone was pulled in for income tax evasion...not for murdering hundreds of innocent people. Same deal.
Those are actually pretty terrible ideas. They sound like a silver bullet, but they do WAY more harm than good. I'm gonna go ahead and assume that WoW functions much like FFXI (which I used to play religiously a while back):
1) Don't let anyone mine/pick anything that there skill level makes gray to them.
Sure, that takes care of RMT (real money traders) getting ridiculously valuable items, but what about the little guys, say, a level 10 Shaman who wants a level 15 wand so he can use it as soon as he's able to? That forces him to have to grind until level 15, THEN go get what he wants, instead of taking some time to get it before he can use it. (Again, I've never played WoW specifically, so I don't even know if there's such a class as Shaman, let alone if they use wands, but you get the picture.)
2) put some random drift into movement.
TBH I don't know exactly what you mean by this, but if it means what I think it means, it's also bad. Sometimes you have to be able to move PRECISELY to avoid aggro/falling off something/etc. Random drift means that you have to control for a random variable, too, and that would piss a lot of people off very quickly.
3) limit the price you can sell something for on the AH to 10 times what a vendor would pay
People would stop buying/selling things on the AH. Period. They'd just broadcast items and prices and you'd have to trade them for it. It was common practice in FFXI with items you couldn't sell on the AH anyway. Plus, this takes away some of the fun of the AH, where you don't know the price of the object (I'm assuming that's true in WoW also) until you bid and you're successful. On top of that, vendors in RPGs are notorious for paying obscenely shitty prices for incredibly valuable items, without much variation in price (i.e. a Kickass Helm of Enchanted Glory only sells for a little bit more than a Copper Helm)
4) don't allow the transfer of more then 100GP a time. Maybe a one time unlimited amount per month.
This is at least a DECENT idea, I'll give you that. FFXI implemented a similar rule in the last few months of my stint, to foil people who bought horrendous amounts of gold from RMTs. There are still small problems with it but it seemed to be effective.
Stopping Glider is a bandage on a bigger issue they refuse to actually address, farming.
IMHO, I'm much happier to compete with farmers at the AH than I am to compete with people who cheat in the rest of the game. Just my two cents, though.
With their history of indifference to the corporate market, do you think that Apple is going to spend the necessary resources to make their server offerings any more palatable? TFA notes the trouble MS is having with companies switching to Vista from XP...it looks like this could be the foothold Apple needs to launch some newer and more powerful products for the corporate user base. Of course, many of the Vista-vs-XP complaints are echoes of the XP-vs-2000 complaints we heard when XP first came out, so Apple is going to have to act quickly before MS does to Vista what it did to XP and the opportunity is lost.
It sounds like the companies in question might be using the excuse that "we need to keep up a good company image." There's something to be said for that...but there's also something to be said for taking it way, way too far. People in the armed forces should have to worry about acting out in uniform, a FedEx employee shouldn't have the same fears.
I feel like a large majority of the people who hate Vista do it because they think they're supposed to. Similar to people who like Titanic because they think they're supposed to, even though it's horribly depressing and all in all not that great of a film, average at best; or MS fanboys who hate Mac because they think they're supposed to--while these feelings might have a legitimate basis somewhere (Vista does have problems, Titanic did receive good reviews, and Mac has only recently started to shine), when multiplied by a few hundred thousand misinformed people they cause mass confusion.
I bought a cheap laptop running XP a while back, recently upgraded to a better system that runs Vista. I had heard that I shouldn't like Vista. It was the devil. I've been using it for 6 months now and none of the "huge problems" have surfaced--the "Cancel or Allow?" took some getting used to (and you can disable it), and everything is a trifle different from XP, but all in all I like it. The whole scandal about DRM and Vista is petty at best, the average user really doesn't have to worry about it. And as far as security goes, I was surfing around the internet essentially unprotected by outside sources for quite a while before installing McAfee, and didn't get a single virus, trojan, or piece of malware installed on my system (checked with both McAfee and AVG).
I've also used the most recent Mac OS on friends' systems, and I like it, I just wouldn't use it myself. And my old machine still dual-boots Ubuntu--I'm a fan of it as well, but again, I like Vista better. In the end, I think people who hate on Vista need to give it an objective second look and think about whether or not it really is as bad as they've been led to believe. It hasn't been in my case.
...not so that my friends or I can find out something deep and personal about myself. The moment a game has too many ties to the real world is the moment it ceases to become a game and it becomes a nuisance. Video games were created for entertainment. If I'm marginally entertained by calmly slaughtering the entire city of Skingrad when I'm playing Oblivion, that's my business, and reflects nothing about my real life. And I hope I saved the game before I did it.
(9) Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.
No fucking way am I going to sit by and let my government take advice from sissy countries like Canada and Australia. Write your congressman and tell him that we need to ignore completely any and all progress made by other nations...the future of America depends on it.
...in contrast to Google's vow to protect its users' privacy early last year. Although this is a very different situation...criminal libel instead of general aggregate use data. Perhaps Google cares about its users as a whole but not as individuals.
FWIW, TFA doesn't mention it either, it just mentions the version of QuickTime that is affected. It would be safe to assume, then, that all versions of FF and IE should be considered. Better safe than hacked.
I go to a non-Ivy League school down south (with Ivy-comparable academics and admissions statistics), and the RIAA is poking around down here too. I got an email a few weeks back from the IT department entitled "Notice of Alleged Copyright Infringement," and it the RIAA's complaint against me. The complaint was that I was sharing a song (one single song, oddly enough) on LimeWire. It had the full body of the message the RIAA sent my school, duplicated below for your enjoyment. I changed LimeWire around so it no longer put songs up for sharing, didn't really want to get into an argument with anyone for something that was admittedly "illegal." I'm vaguely interested in how the RIAA found out it was me, and what else they're doing to LimeWire, but oh well. Not too worried. We don't have a lawsuit against us, so everything's good.
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.
We believe a user on your network is offering an infringing sound recording for download through a peer to peer application. We have attached below the details of the infringing activity.
We have a good faith belief that this activity is not authorized by copyright owners, their agent, or the law. We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove or disable access to the infringing sound recording.
We believe it is in everyone's interest for music consumers to be better educated about the subject of copyright law and music. In addition to taking steps to notify this network user about the illegal nature of this activity, we encourage you to refer him/her to the MUSIC Coalition's website at www.musicunited.org. The site contains valuable information about what's legal and what's not when it comes to copying music.
You should understand that this letter constitutes notice to you that this network user may be liable for the infringing activity occurring on your network. In addition, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you ignore this notice, your institution may also be liable for any resulting infringement. This letter does not constitute a waiver of any right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any such unauthorized activities, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are expressly retained. Moreover, this letter does not constitute a waiver of our members' right to sue the user at issue for copyright infringement.
Thank you in advance for your prompt assistance in this matter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at antipiracy2@riaa.com, via telephone at (202) 775-0101, or via mail at RIAA, 1025 F Street, NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20004. Please reference Case ID A384215717 in any response or communication regarding this infringement.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Landis
Online Copyright Protection
RIAA
Slashdot Mirror
Substinence farming or starving?
Well, subsistence farming, but yeah, you have about the right idea.
So far, only Apple seems to be remotely close.
And that's because Apple is starting to do things MS did a while back. Can you honestly not see the signs? Apple fanboys conveniently look past the horrible shortcomings of their demi-god and continue to root for it solely because it is not Microsoft.
Metamaterials are interesting enough _whithout_ that stupid invisibility shit everytime.
I mean, lenses without diffration limit are also interesting. And opposed to the inisibility stuff, they might really work.
Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?
Until they stop supporting your current OS with security upgrades and activation.
...how is that a compelling reason to start using Windows 7 or Vista? You can just move to Linux or Mac OS, which, with enough tinkering, will do nearly everything XP does. Your logic, sir, is faulty. To throw my hat in this ring, I've been using Vista for a long time and I have had very few problems with it. If you know what you're doing (if many of the critics are any indication, this is a huge problem), have a good antivirus program (which you should regardless of which OS you're running), and tailor it to meet your system's capabilities (my laptop can run everything just fine but I decided to turn off Aero and some other features because I value speed), then Vista is great. If, on the other hand, you dig in your heels and howl like a little bitch about Vista not being XP, you are not going to get very much done.
Secondly, the issue here isn't whether or not breastfeeding is allowed in public. It's whether or not Facebook has the right to censor photos of breastfeeding mothers. Aside from the fact that none of the young mothers *I* know would be caught dead posting breastfeeding pictures on Facebook (Seriously? What the HELL are you thinking? It's the Internet. Would you post a basic shot of just your tits on it? No? Then what convinces you that it's better to have a baby in the picture that just so happens to be hanging out near said tits?), the fact remains that Facebook has the right to remove content at its sole discretion. Like it or lump it, that fact remains.
As for your final point, I don't think there's a Christian church in the world who would disagree with you that Jesus did, in fact, suckle happily away at the Virgin Teat. Were you just flaming, or are you actually stupid enough to think that people believe otherwise?
P.S. As I mentioned before, please check your spelling of "mammal." Also for your consideration: "argument," "asinine," "let's," and "self-righteous."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exLa6saV9o That's part 1. I leave it up to you to find the rest.
God dammit, I quit FFXI cold turkey and now every time someone mentions it I want to go back and play with my BLM and level BLU. I imagine this is what cocaine addicts feel like when they're cut off. Except worse. Oh, yeah, mod me offtopic.
But he's referring to the OP calling it the death of a company. Their success, as it stands now, isn't even remotely dependent on the quality of their products (which is actually not as bad as people make it out to be). They ARE making BILLIONS, and therefore they're not going down anytime soon.
In the summary, I expect at least the pretense of some sort of journalistic integrity.
You must be new here.
Only if Natalie Portman is driving.
The bottom line is that Glider violates the Terms of Service and makes the game unfun for everyone else playing it. It's cheating, plain and simple. Blizzard wants to keep their game enjoyable, and to that end, they want to stop Glider in any way possible. But you can't get a cease and desist with "OMG CHEATER" written on it. Al Capone was pulled in for income tax evasion...not for murdering hundreds of innocent people. Same deal.
1) Don't let anyone mine/pick anything that there skill level makes gray to them.
Sure, that takes care of RMT (real money traders) getting ridiculously valuable items, but what about the little guys, say, a level 10 Shaman who wants a level 15 wand so he can use it as soon as he's able to? That forces him to have to grind until level 15, THEN go get what he wants, instead of taking some time to get it before he can use it. (Again, I've never played WoW specifically, so I don't even know if there's such a class as Shaman, let alone if they use wands, but you get the picture.)
2) put some random drift into movement.
TBH I don't know exactly what you mean by this, but if it means what I think it means, it's also bad. Sometimes you have to be able to move PRECISELY to avoid aggro/falling off something/etc. Random drift means that you have to control for a random variable, too, and that would piss a lot of people off very quickly.
3) limit the price you can sell something for on the AH to 10 times what a vendor would pay
People would stop buying/selling things on the AH. Period. They'd just broadcast items and prices and you'd have to trade them for it. It was common practice in FFXI with items you couldn't sell on the AH anyway. Plus, this takes away some of the fun of the AH, where you don't know the price of the object (I'm assuming that's true in WoW also) until you bid and you're successful. On top of that, vendors in RPGs are notorious for paying obscenely shitty prices for incredibly valuable items, without much variation in price (i.e. a Kickass Helm of Enchanted Glory only sells for a little bit more than a Copper Helm)
4) don't allow the transfer of more then 100GP a time. Maybe a one time unlimited amount per month.
This is at least a DECENT idea, I'll give you that. FFXI implemented a similar rule in the last few months of my stint, to foil people who bought horrendous amounts of gold from RMTs. There are still small problems with it but it seemed to be effective.
Stopping Glider is a bandage on a bigger issue they refuse to actually address, farming.
IMHO, I'm much happier to compete with farmers at the AH than I am to compete with people who cheat in the rest of the game. Just my two cents, though.
With their history of indifference to the corporate market, do you think that Apple is going to spend the necessary resources to make their server offerings any more palatable? TFA notes the trouble MS is having with companies switching to Vista from XP...it looks like this could be the foothold Apple needs to launch some newer and more powerful products for the corporate user base. Of course, many of the Vista-vs-XP complaints are echoes of the XP-vs-2000 complaints we heard when XP first came out, so Apple is going to have to act quickly before MS does to Vista what it did to XP and the opportunity is lost.
...include such terrible tech travesties as Hello Kitty, Guitar Hero, and the internal combustion engine. .../call shens
at an early age. Back when I was 7 I had a crush on a girl who was also 7. Does that make me a pedophile?
It sounds like the companies in question might be using the excuse that "we need to keep up a good company image." There's something to be said for that...but there's also something to be said for taking it way, way too far. People in the armed forces should have to worry about acting out in uniform, a FedEx employee shouldn't have the same fears.
I would seriously be considering full-time Linux if it weren't for gaming, too. That's one of the best things Windows still has going for it.
I feel like a large majority of the people who hate Vista do it because they think they're supposed to. Similar to people who like Titanic because they think they're supposed to, even though it's horribly depressing and all in all not that great of a film, average at best; or MS fanboys who hate Mac because they think they're supposed to--while these feelings might have a legitimate basis somewhere (Vista does have problems, Titanic did receive good reviews, and Mac has only recently started to shine), when multiplied by a few hundred thousand misinformed people they cause mass confusion. I bought a cheap laptop running XP a while back, recently upgraded to a better system that runs Vista. I had heard that I shouldn't like Vista. It was the devil. I've been using it for 6 months now and none of the "huge problems" have surfaced--the "Cancel or Allow?" took some getting used to (and you can disable it), and everything is a trifle different from XP, but all in all I like it. The whole scandal about DRM and Vista is petty at best, the average user really doesn't have to worry about it. And as far as security goes, I was surfing around the internet essentially unprotected by outside sources for quite a while before installing McAfee, and didn't get a single virus, trojan, or piece of malware installed on my system (checked with both McAfee and AVG). I've also used the most recent Mac OS on friends' systems, and I like it, I just wouldn't use it myself. And my old machine still dual-boots Ubuntu--I'm a fan of it as well, but again, I like Vista better. In the end, I think people who hate on Vista need to give it an objective second look and think about whether or not it really is as bad as they've been led to believe. It hasn't been in my case.
...not so that my friends or I can find out something deep and personal about myself. The moment a game has too many ties to the real world is the moment it ceases to become a game and it becomes a nuisance. Video games were created for entertainment. If I'm marginally entertained by calmly slaughtering the entire city of Skingrad when I'm playing Oblivion, that's my business, and reflects nothing about my real life. And I hope I saved the game before I did it.
AHHHH MICROSOFT rabble rabble rabble /rant
...in contrast to Google's vow to protect its users' privacy early last year. Although this is a very different situation...criminal libel instead of general aggregate use data. Perhaps Google cares about its users as a whole but not as individuals.
FWIW, TFA doesn't mention it either, it just mentions the version of QuickTime that is affected. It would be safe to assume, then, that all versions of FF and IE should be considered. Better safe than hacked.
Only if I were still in violation of policy...which I'm not :-)