I agree, we really need a 3. definition for the majority of people who describe themselves as religious without being nutty about it. The main part of it is community and shared values, not some woo-woo god.
I am an atheist but I do recognize that many people who outsource difficult moral questions etc to a priest benefit from this, if the priest is good and knows what the deal is. Those are not often featured in the news tho..
It was a good strategy when there was no strong alternative to windows, but it is much too late to squeeze now. MS gambled that pirated windows would keep any competition down until IP laws favoring US were adopted in china. Any pressure applied now would just shift chinese users to linux, which would have worldwide consequences for MS and their partners.
New years resolution was to stop caring about wrongs on the internet but what the hell:
How is this bullshit modded insightful?
The only reason anyone dares leak to wikileaks is Assange.
You think anyone is stupid enough to send sensitive material to some anonymous "me toos" that might crack after 2 seconds of government pressure? Well OP might be I guess.
The music industry has profited immensely from the basic human need to share with others. Targeting teenagers who have no defense at all is the basic business model, turning them into sales representatives for the label on a massive scale. It worked extremely well when copies were poor quality, basically acting as a teaser, produced at no cost to the label.
Now they have this terrible dilemma, how to exploit the same weakness when copies are bit perfect? Well you cant, not without perverting the internet itself. A free internet is not compatible with that business model.
So if you find yourself tearing up over the plight of the music "industry", you should support packet inspection, 3 strikes, censorship etc. You better have a copyright lawyer on standby, because there are countless ways you can infringe, without even knowing!
If on the other hand you think the internet is too important to twist to serve 1 slimy group of people (I guess it shines through where I stand), then you should not let the music lobby affect the internet or anything you do. Do not give them more money!
There have been music for quite a few centuries now, I doubt there will be silence, maybe a few less billionaire musicians.
If you want to shut down a somewhat controversial organization, the best way is actually to help it. Nudge it slowly in the controversial direction, in a while it crashes into the limit of public understanding and is gone.
Might be hard with wikileaks tho, Assange is smart and wary.
I agree mostly but one point is that lucas didnt make movies alone, he had some percentage of influence on the original movies. When you watch the latest triple crapulence you realize that original percentage was probably not very big.
So the lesson is credit where credit is due; scale your expectations according to the percentage of original team involved, instead of a single person or aspect.
I remember when entering the game first time, getting the "go forth and kill 10 sprites" thing, I thought it was a joke, a cheeky parody on earlier lesser games. Then after some more quests I got that sinking feeling...
To be fair tho, the rvr was pretty fun and I did spend quite alot of time in game.
It is obvious tho that the producer failed at many points; - massive pvp advertised and key part of design, but noone bothered to check if the system could actually handle that: it couldnt, not even close - decent if simple 3d engine, but with plastered on effects (by mythic?) that looked like example templates from some microsoft dev pack, and performed absolutely horribly, bringing top end rigs to knees - no music - oddly inconsistent art and animation quality, from good to complete crap - overall design seems to have changed during development, miniature terrain, buildings and class details suggest a "meta" design where each character represent an army, but quests and later patches seems to have forgotten that. Incoherent mess. - amateurs at every level, I dont think there was ANY feature that worked quite right, Ive never seen anything like it. Even bugfixes went out bugged!
So I think ealouse is quite right in blasting the producer, but I dont think any part of the team should be terribly proud here.
Id really hate if the industry concludes from WAR failure that theres no market for this kind of game, people had fun with it despite all the flaws, but the flaws were massive and many and as people started to realize there was no intention of fixing it, they left.
is any environment that lets you run eclipse or open office etc. also has firefox 1 click away and hence slashdot or facehook or whatever your particular weakness is.
Boot to a pure shell and theres atleast some temporal insulation from the howling winds of distraction.
I think Ive been patient enough, you are starting to bore me now. While I dont like to, I will put my foot down now;
The following commandments should be chiseled in stone, engraved by laser in a meteorite, embedded in the standard neck-chip or other method suitable for your preferred epoch:
NO TRADEMARKS No string of characters, numbers or symbols may be claimed as property. Products may be labeled with, in addition to name, manufacturers address, which it is a sin to falsify.
NO PATENTS If you are first with an idea, you may use that to your advantage or not.
NO COPYRIGHT No restraints may be put on sharing of information and ideas.
This would seem to be the first step in enforcing borders on the net; expect other countries (france) to follow soon. Blocking internet trade will be a powerful whip when a country refuses to sign ACTA.
disclaimer: im not an oracle tho I did win the 2019 crystal ball award.
intel seems to be at the forefront every time some new douchebaggery scheme emerges (hdcp, chip id, in bed with ms etc.), do they really think this is a good long term strategy?
I agree pulseaudio should not have been forced as default, they lost many many users over that. The bottom sound layer (alsa) is not very solid and putting another temperamental opaque layer on top was not a good idea.
It is alot better now, works out of box and I even use one of its features regularly (moving audio stream to another output while its playing).
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I agree, we really need a 3. definition for the majority of people who describe themselves as religious without being nutty about it.
The main part of it is community and shared values, not some woo-woo god.
I am an atheist but I do recognize that many people who outsource difficult moral questions etc to a priest benefit from this, if the priest is good and knows what the deal is.
Those are not often featured in the news tho..
..nm I got used to it.
It was a good strategy when there was no strong alternative to windows, but it is much too late to squeeze now.
MS gambled that pirated windows would keep any competition down until IP laws favoring US were adopted in china.
Any pressure applied now would just shift chinese users to linux, which would have worldwide consequences for MS and their partners.
I think its just being used as a bargaining chip.
..seriously, are you that dense? if it costs more to make something, the price goes up..
I keep seeing posts referring to Assange as a jerk or asshole, what exactly is this in response to?
He stands up for wikileaks as he should and doesnt take crap from shoddy journalists.
His lawyers issued a statement and it sounds like hes a real jerk? ok..
Import of mirrors and mirror related paraphernalia spiked sharply in Somalia, leaving traders baffled.
New years resolution was to stop caring about wrongs on the internet but what the hell:
How is this bullshit modded insightful?
The only reason anyone dares leak to wikileaks is Assange.
You think anyone is stupid enough to send sensitive material to some anonymous "me toos" that might crack after 2 seconds of government pressure?
Well OP might be I guess.
for what its worth, just canceled paypal account.
Maybe mass cancellations will make other companies think twice before bending over to usa.
if you put something on the net, you have given up control of it.
That is the practical situation right now, laws are just lagging (badly) behind.
you could fuck a chiropractor tho, just to be safe
The music industry has profited immensely from the basic human need to share with others.
Targeting teenagers who have no defense at all is the basic business model, turning them into sales representatives for the label on a massive scale.
It worked extremely well when copies were poor quality, basically acting as a teaser, produced at no cost to the label.
Now they have this terrible dilemma, how to exploit the same weakness when copies are bit perfect?
Well you cant, not without perverting the internet itself. A free internet is not compatible with that business model.
So if you find yourself tearing up over the plight of the music "industry", you should support packet inspection, 3 strikes, censorship etc.
You better have a copyright lawyer on standby, because there are countless ways you can infringe, without even knowing!
If on the other hand you think the internet is too important to twist to serve 1 slimy group of people (I guess it shines through where I stand), then you should not let the music lobby affect the internet or anything you do. Do not give them more money!
There have been music for quite a few centuries now, I doubt there will be silence, maybe a few less billionaire musicians.
If you want to shut down a somewhat controversial organization, the best way is actually to help it.
Nudge it slowly in the controversial direction, in a while it crashes into the limit of public understanding and is gone.
Might be hard with wikileaks tho, Assange is smart and wary.
I agree mostly but one point is that lucas didnt make movies alone, he had some percentage of influence on the original movies.
When you watch the latest triple crapulence you realize that original percentage was probably not very big.
So the lesson is credit where credit is due; scale your expectations according to the percentage of original team involved, instead of a single person or aspect.
sure, pqs are a good idea, but never had a chance because ALL the pve inherited the crapiness of the underlying, shallow crap-layer combat system.
I remember when entering the game first time, getting the "go forth and kill 10 sprites" thing, I thought it was a joke, a cheeky parody on earlier lesser games.
Then after some more quests I got that sinking feeling...
To be fair tho, the rvr was pretty fun and I did spend quite alot of time in game.
It is obvious tho that the producer failed at many points;
- massive pvp advertised and key part of design, but noone bothered to check if the system could actually handle that: it couldnt, not even close
- decent if simple 3d engine, but with plastered on effects (by mythic?) that looked like example templates from some microsoft dev pack, and performed absolutely horribly, bringing top end rigs to knees
- no music
- oddly inconsistent art and animation quality, from good to complete crap
- overall design seems to have changed during development, miniature terrain, buildings and class details suggest a "meta" design where each character represent an army, but quests and later patches seems to have forgotten that. Incoherent mess.
- amateurs at every level, I dont think there was ANY feature that worked quite right, Ive never seen anything like it. Even bugfixes went out bugged!
So I think ealouse is quite right in blasting the producer, but I dont think any part of the team should be terribly proud here.
Id really hate if the industry concludes from WAR failure that theres no market for this kind of game, people had fun with it despite all the flaws, but the flaws were massive and many and as people started to realize there was no intention of fixing it, they left.
is any environment that lets you run eclipse or open office etc. also has firefox 1 click away and hence slashdot or facehook or whatever your particular weakness is.
Boot to a pure shell and theres atleast some temporal insulation from the howling winds of distraction.
never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
He secured his place in history a long time ago and is STILL at it, and most impressive, still relevant.
..Jon Honeyball was hired to create buzz..
I think Ive been patient enough, you are starting to bore me now.
While I dont like to, I will put my foot down now;
The following commandments should be chiseled in stone, engraved by laser in a meteorite, embedded in the standard neck-chip or other method suitable for your preferred epoch:
NO TRADEMARKS
No string of characters, numbers or symbols may be claimed as property.
Products may be labeled with, in addition to name, manufacturers address, which it is a sin to falsify.
NO PATENTS
If you are first with an idea, you may use that to your advantage or not.
NO COPYRIGHT
No restraints may be put on sharing of information and ideas.
This would seem to be the first step in enforcing borders on the net; expect other countries (france) to follow soon.
Blocking internet trade will be a powerful whip when a country refuses to sign ACTA.
disclaimer: im not an oracle tho I did win the 2019 crystal ball award.
Im currently availing myself, since appropriate, of my middle digit facility.
intel seems to be at the forefront every time some new douchebaggery scheme emerges (hdcp, chip id, in bed with ms etc.), do they really think this is a good long term strategy?
maybe they use 64 bite linux
I agree pulseaudio should not have been forced as default, they lost many many users over that.
The bottom sound layer (alsa) is not very solid and putting another temperamental opaque layer on top was not a good idea.
It is alot better now, works out of box and I even use one of its features regularly (moving audio stream to another output while its playing).