Failed wind turbines can be extremely dangerous, destroying buildings and killing people. If wind power became as common as the environmentalists and you seem to want, this would start to be noticeable. Will you cry about the dangers of wind then? Yeah, didn't think so.
Funny how that's the same argument, almost word for word, used by the people they're leaking files of. I'm going to have to extend it from "ironic" to "hypocritical".
I don't agree that they have that right. The law might say so, currently - but laws come and go. They certainly do not have the moral right to deprive you of your purchase, especially when you might not have known the terms in the first place. A law which is neither moral nor in the public interest is tyranny.
Behavior like this from EA only hastens the inevitable abolition of copyright as a whole. DRM only leads to paying customers having an inferior product compared to the nonpaying customers. A law is worth nothing if everyone violates it, and we're more or less on the honor system already with copyright. On top of that, people are getting fed up with this behavior and the smart ones are figuring out what is wrong with the system.
If I were a fanboy like you, I'd stop complaining on slashdot and revel in the good old days of companies like EA ripping everyone off, because they're ending soon.
"Get off your high horse, douchebag. People like you piss me off because you don't want discourse, you want to be smarter than everybody else and just do what you want because your side is right."
Scientifically educated people should not have to have discourse with those who believe everything should be explained by a 2000+ year old work of fiction. That we do is a sign of how fucked up America is and why we're slowly declining to third world status. High horse? No, there is nothing wrong with feeling superior to self-inflicted imbeciles.
Especially when you can get the last edition or a used copy for 10-40% of the price of a new textbook. I spend less on textbooks than people who buy only electronic copies.
No, modding down posts that troll with phrases like "teenagers with strong, if ill-informed, political-affective poses." And I bet you wonder why mac users are disliked...
Apple isn't being singled out here, precious little macboi. This is just as wrong as universities using closed, Microsoft-owned "standards," something I am sure you have complained about at times. Funneling government/student money into Apple's pocket should be criticized, plain and simple. It has nothing to do with suggesting that Apple devices are useful or not: it has everything to do with corruption and control. A lot of people here are smart enough to realize that Apple is just Microsoft with a new paint job, and rightly complain when they start posturing themselves in the same way. The last thing the world needs is for can-do-no-evil Apple to have as much market power as Microsoft.
So you're saying, they should accept their dictatorial government, because a revolution could possibly lead to another dictatorial government? Your intellect is dazzling, truly.
Hey, everybody! Don't worry about this. The free market will take care of it. The companies that shaft their customers will lose business. No need to worry.
So you're saying we should have no control over our own bodies, because you know so well what is good for everyone? That we shouldn't be allowed to weigh the benefits and risks on our own, because your highness already has? That you support the government grabbing adults and children alike and injecting them with substances against their will?
Quite thankfully, that's why you aren't in a position to enforce your will upon the world. Unfortunately, some people will never learn that their opinions aren't gospel truth. You're one of them.
I am not against vaccines, but people like you are exactly why we're quickly losing our freedoms. Same fucking argument as "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," except dressed up differently. You make me sick.
Any Star Trek fan can tell you that reversing the polarity will fix any problem, and it is as simple as telling some guy in a yellow shirt to do it! Try it sometime.
Because the cost foist upon society by creating laws to enforce that musican getting paid is far too high. It leads to censorship and business control of media, exactly the things copyright was created to avoid. Yes, that's right, copyright had nothing to do with some vague concept of a right to profit. Learn your history.
It is time we do away with copyright, as it has obviously failed.
The sooner we get it over with and go full authoritarian, the sooner people might wake up and stop advocating more authoritarianism. I don't think a revolution will ever come in the western world with people as fat and lazy as they are, but it would be nice to know it won't get any worse.
Personally, I think the worst part of all this is that they still lie to us and tell us we're free. We aren't and weren't, and at this rate, never will be.
Ok, I'll sign away my constitutional protection against unlawful search and seizure (among other things) just because you invoked 9/11 on a totally unrelated issue.
You seem to think that because they do worse things, it is fine for them to do bad things. I hope you end up getting filled with holes by some police officer while walking down the street, just because you "looked suspicious." After all, we invaded a whole country, what's one shady smuck on a sidewalk?
"College isn't the ability to do something in a given field well. That is part of it, sure. But not the biggest part. What college teaches you is how to perform a long and difficult and often times utterly pointless task and be stubborn enough to see it through to the end. That's why lots of jobs have "college degree" as a requirement but they don't care which one you have. What they are looking for is someone who would move an entire bag of rice into a bucket and use chopsticks to do it and not complain. College will teach you this. This entry form is an example."
How do you explain the fact that companies turn down people with length of experience well beyond the length of a college education then? I think you're wrong: it is just laziness. Sorting by degree is a quick and dirty way to sort applicants. Want someone normal? Batchelor's. Someone to be a contact person on complex matters? Masters. Someone to clean the toilets? Highschool. Having a big name university then puts your name higher to the top of the list. Experience, references, and having a degree in a relevant subject only matters after those two factors are taken into account.
Of course, then the company goes and wonders why all their workers are clueless and always accomplish things brute-force, and their so-called experts are less capable than Yahoo answers responders... so maybe there is some truth in what you say.
"It is important that you learn this. The task, whatever it is, must be done. And it must be done, and done in the way asked - regardless of how bizarre it seems."
So you're saying that the purpose of "education" is actually to teach you to shut up, sit down, and not question if things could be done better? Exactly what I have been saying for years. Why do we still put any kind of faith in degrees?
"It is the perfect training ground for life in the job market into which you will be dropped into here in a few years."
And yet no one seems to have any serious issues with this. I guess that is because everyone who is "smart enough" to be taken seriously knows how to shut up, and anyone who doesn't bend over probably is "too dumb" to matter.
There are a lot fewer names than that which people are likely to want to use when starting a smear website. I'm not saying their plan would work (it won't), just what their reasoning likely is. They haven't accounted for the fact that most discussion of them is going to happen on sites like slashdot or (argh) twitter, but megacorps are notorious for poor risk management. If whoever is in charge of spindoctoring can make half a million dollars in domain name purchases look like a good idea, you bet they are going to do it- usefulness be damned.
Domain names cost about 10$ a pop. A single spindoctoring TV commercial costs half a billion if you want anyone to see it. They can easily afford to buy out every domain that could possibly be created, and it wouldn't touch what they will have to spend if some seriously nasty info gets out. My guess is that they figure preventing you from getting a relevant domain name will stop people from discussing them. I'd say that is where the stupidity comes in; nobody makes websites anymore.
"But they're not missing the point. Anything written for.NET won't need a recompile for the new architecture."
Yes, yes they will. As many others have stated, they will need a "recompile" at least, and most likely significant changes on top of that.
Windows has long been an x86 monoculture: it (the collection of programs that run on windows) still hasn't even taken the first baby steps to supporting 64 bit CPUs, and you're telling me you expect to plug and chug ARM?
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Failed wind turbines can be extremely dangerous, destroying buildings and killing people. If wind power became as common as the environmentalists and you seem to want, this would start to be noticeable. Will you cry about the dangers of wind then? Yeah, didn't think so.
Funny how that's the same argument, almost word for word, used by the people they're leaking files of. I'm going to have to extend it from "ironic" to "hypocritical".
You'd almost think they're the ones getting leaked...
I don't agree that they have that right. The law might say so, currently - but laws come and go. They certainly do not have the moral right to deprive you of your purchase, especially when you might not have known the terms in the first place. A law which is neither moral nor in the public interest is tyranny.
Behavior like this from EA only hastens the inevitable abolition of copyright as a whole. DRM only leads to paying customers having an inferior product compared to the nonpaying customers. A law is worth nothing if everyone violates it, and we're more or less on the honor system already with copyright. On top of that, people are getting fed up with this behavior and the smart ones are figuring out what is wrong with the system.
If I were a fanboy like you, I'd stop complaining on slashdot and revel in the good old days of companies like EA ripping everyone off, because they're ending soon.
Because nobody ever turned out at that Scientology stuff, right? Go back to cowering in your hole.
Macs are PCs. We won the war.
"Get off your high horse, douchebag. People like you piss me off because you don't want discourse, you want to be smarter than everybody else and just do what you want because your side is right."
Scientifically educated people should not have to have discourse with those who believe everything should be explained by a 2000+ year old work of fiction. That we do is a sign of how fucked up America is and why we're slowly declining to third world status. High horse? No, there is nothing wrong with feeling superior to self-inflicted imbeciles.
Especially when you can get the last edition or a used copy for 10-40% of the price of a new textbook. I spend less on textbooks than people who buy only electronic copies.
"Apple knows how to build things that work"
And yet their products still can't view Youtube. Cognitive dissonant... it comes with every Apple product.
No, modding down posts that troll with phrases like "teenagers with strong, if ill-informed, political-affective poses." And I bet you wonder why mac users are disliked...
Apple isn't being singled out here, precious little macboi. This is just as wrong as universities using closed, Microsoft-owned "standards," something I am sure you have complained about at times. Funneling government/student money into Apple's pocket should be criticized, plain and simple. It has nothing to do with suggesting that Apple devices are useful or not: it has everything to do with corruption and control. A lot of people here are smart enough to realize that Apple is just Microsoft with a new paint job, and rightly complain when they start posturing themselves in the same way. The last thing the world needs is for can-do-no-evil Apple to have as much market power as Microsoft.
So you're saying, they should accept their dictatorial government, because a revolution could possibly lead to another dictatorial government? Your intellect is dazzling, truly.
Where due process only exists for the highest bidder.
One might even suggest it wasn't a coincidence, but that would be absurd!
This post should be quoted whenever someone here claims there is no slippery slope.
I suspect you have citations for that from the print media! Otherwise, Citation Needed!
Hey, everybody! Don't worry about this. The free market will take care of it. The companies that shaft their customers will lose business. No need to worry.
...Right?
Right?
So you're saying we should have no control over our own bodies, because you know so well what is good for everyone? That we shouldn't be allowed to weigh the benefits and risks on our own, because your highness already has? That you support the government grabbing adults and children alike and injecting them with substances against their will?
Quite thankfully, that's why you aren't in a position to enforce your will upon the world. Unfortunately, some people will never learn that their opinions aren't gospel truth. You're one of them.
I am not against vaccines, but people like you are exactly why we're quickly losing our freedoms. Same fucking argument as "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," except dressed up differently. You make me sick.
Any Star Trek fan can tell you that reversing the polarity will fix any problem, and it is as simple as telling some guy in a yellow shirt to do it! Try it sometime.
Because the cost foist upon society by creating laws to enforce that musican getting paid is far too high. It leads to censorship and business control of media, exactly the things copyright was created to avoid. Yes, that's right, copyright had nothing to do with some vague concept of a right to profit. Learn your history.
It is time we do away with copyright, as it has obviously failed.
The sooner we get it over with and go full authoritarian, the sooner people might wake up and stop advocating more authoritarianism. I don't think a revolution will ever come in the western world with people as fat and lazy as they are, but it would be nice to know it won't get any worse.
Personally, I think the worst part of all this is that they still lie to us and tell us we're free. We aren't and weren't, and at this rate, never will be.
Ok, I'll sign away my constitutional protection against unlawful search and seizure (among other things) just because you invoked 9/11 on a totally unrelated issue.
You seem to think that because they do worse things, it is fine for them to do bad things. I hope you end up getting filled with holes by some police officer while walking down the street, just because you "looked suspicious." After all, we invaded a whole country, what's one shady smuck on a sidewalk?
"College isn't the ability to do something in a given field well. That is part of it, sure. But not the biggest part. What college teaches you is how to perform a long and difficult and often times utterly pointless task and be stubborn enough to see it through to the end. That's why lots of jobs have "college degree" as a requirement but they don't care which one you have. What they are looking for is someone who would move an entire bag of rice into a bucket and use chopsticks to do it and not complain. College will teach you this. This entry form is an example."
How do you explain the fact that companies turn down people with length of experience well beyond the length of a college education then? I think you're wrong: it is just laziness. Sorting by degree is a quick and dirty way to sort applicants. Want someone normal? Batchelor's. Someone to be a contact person on complex matters? Masters. Someone to clean the toilets? Highschool. Having a big name university then puts your name higher to the top of the list. Experience, references, and having a degree in a relevant subject only matters after those two factors are taken into account.
Of course, then the company goes and wonders why all their workers are clueless and always accomplish things brute-force, and their so-called experts are less capable than Yahoo answers responders... so maybe there is some truth in what you say.
"It is important that you learn this. The task, whatever it is, must be done. And it must be done, and done in the way asked - regardless of how bizarre it seems."
So you're saying that the purpose of "education" is actually to teach you to shut up, sit down, and not question if things could be done better? Exactly what I have been saying for years. Why do we still put any kind of faith in degrees?
"It is the perfect training ground for life in the job market into which you will be dropped into here in a few years."
And yet no one seems to have any serious issues with this. I guess that is because everyone who is "smart enough" to be taken seriously knows how to shut up, and anyone who doesn't bend over probably is "too dumb" to matter.
As a society, yeah, we're screwed.
There are a lot fewer names than that which people are likely to want to use when starting a smear website. I'm not saying their plan would work (it won't), just what their reasoning likely is. They haven't accounted for the fact that most discussion of them is going to happen on sites like slashdot or (argh) twitter, but megacorps are notorious for poor risk management. If whoever is in charge of spindoctoring can make half a million dollars in domain name purchases look like a good idea, you bet they are going to do it- usefulness be damned.
Domain names cost about 10$ a pop. A single spindoctoring TV commercial costs half a billion if you want anyone to see it. They can easily afford to buy out every domain that could possibly be created, and it wouldn't touch what they will have to spend if some seriously nasty info gets out. My guess is that they figure preventing you from getting a relevant domain name will stop people from discussing them. I'd say that is where the stupidity comes in; nobody makes websites anymore.
"But they're not missing the point. Anything written for .NET won't need a recompile for the new architecture."
Yes, yes they will. As many others have stated, they will need a "recompile" at least, and most likely significant changes on top of that.
Windows has long been an x86 monoculture: it (the collection of programs that run on windows) still hasn't even taken the first baby steps to supporting 64 bit CPUs, and you're telling me you expect to plug and chug ARM?