Please. It's just fucking disgraceful. You're not protesting crap, you're just throwing a hissy-fit.
This is like Ghandi going on a hunger strike, then ordering Domino's delivery (vegetarian, of course) three hours in.
People who want to change the world make *sacrifices* for it. If you're not making the sacrifice, you're not doing squat except deluding yourself into thinking stealing games is ok. (Whether or not you would have bought it anyway is *irrelevant* to the conversation.)
You can't get pissy about your own rights without respecting the rights of others-- in this case, the developers, artists, writers, network administrators, etc who created the game and who have the right to control its distribution.
All you're doing is weakening the message of people who really care. Because as long as you carry your current attitude, everybody's just going to assume that people who rant about DRM are only doing it to justify stealing. (As in your example.) Screw you.
I see lots of posts that seem to miss the point. The mere _finding_ of an ET would be _dramatic_ for our civilization. Think of all the things that would change (not all religious).
Yeah! Like... uh... I can't think of anything.
You know what? I think one of the most accurate alien contact movies is District 9, in which contact with aliens changed... well, basically nothing at all.
(Also: what religions are incompatible with alien life? Out of curiosity? Islam perhaps?)
If NVIDIA would put the effort into making an open codec (such as Dirac) directly in the GPU firmware, and keep their Linux driver updated properly (or just open source it... all the magic is in the GPU so the driver should just be a means to pass data between CPU and GPU), then an HTML5 based video would display well, too.
And... what would be in it for them? They're not going to spend all that money to get Slashdot bragging rights.
I don't want to debate the nuances, because I really don't care. I just hate it when people reply to a post without addressing it, and wanted to point out that you were guilty of that.
In each and every case, the introduction of 3D in those games series has felt, to me, like a "dumbing down" of the games...
Whenever anybody says a game is "dumbed down" I basically read that as, "I don't know why I don't like it, but I'm going to pull a reason out of my ass and as an added bonus, it makes me look like an elitist prick."
I have no clue if you're serious or not. There are about a billion games that meet your requirements, so I suppose by your logic they're all Wesnoth clones. Of course, since Wesnoth itself is a clone of the Warlords series of games, maybe you should just shut your trap, eh?
The question is, is the deterrence "son died" more than the deterrence "son died and then he got some jail time"?
The deterrence factor already exists, in the death.
If you read the details of the case, you can almost guarantee a sympathetic jury that's not going to throw the book at him, so he's likely not even going to get a lot of jail time.
He had the gun out because he thought he heard an intruder. That would be the point of owning a gun. The problem is that he left it unattended, and didn't put it away right away.
Honestly? I agree with the authorities that, in this case, the step-father should not be charged. Partially because there's no reason to believe he's less than genuinely devastated by the loss of his child, and partially because the taxpayer expense of a trial isn't going to produce any punishment that will overshadow that.
A better example might be people seeing the French Connection and complaining that the car chase is too much of a cliche in a cop movie. (When they aren't aware that the French Connection is the *reason* every cop movie made since has a car chase.)
Basically, Python can provide all the same benefits as BASIC without the stupid unnecessary crap (Explicit Line numbers? Really? Are we still using punch cards?) that always annoyed me.
When's the last time you used BASIC? It hasn't had line numbers in decades.
Man, you were doing such a good job, too, until I got to the part where you made it apparent that you have absolutely no clue what modern BASIC even looks like. Shame.
Goto is useful when you have an outer loop, an inner loop, and the inner loop needs to break out of *both* loops. Even Javascript contains a goto-like concept for that purpose (continue to a label).
By the way, if anyone has an unmodified copy of Win3.10 (not 3.11) USER.EXE, shoot me an email. I've lost some of my ancient archives and would like to snag some of the resources in that file.
A current MS employee could get it off ProductsWeb, if you still know any. Unfortunately, I lost my access to that a few months ago when Microsoft sold my company.
Just buy a Dell and swap out the video card. Seriously, it'll be fine... CPU is a non-issue, especially if your hardest requirement is Oblivion, and you'll save enough scratch to buy a better video card than you would otherwise.
I started with an Inspiron 530, and over the years I've added in a couple new video cards, put in 2 320-GB HDs, it runs like a champ and I've never felt the CPU was insufficient in any way, even when new-release gaming.
Could somebody explain to me *how* they screwed up Games for Windows?
Fuck, two people now have dropped this little gem on us without anything to back it up. What were you expecting out of it, exactly? How is it not meeting your expectations?
Repetition != truth, you gotta give us something here.
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Please. It's just fucking disgraceful. You're not protesting crap, you're just throwing a hissy-fit.
This is like Ghandi going on a hunger strike, then ordering Domino's delivery (vegetarian, of course) three hours in.
People who want to change the world make *sacrifices* for it. If you're not making the sacrifice, you're not doing squat except deluding yourself into thinking stealing games is ok. (Whether or not you would have bought it anyway is *irrelevant* to the conversation.)
You can't get pissy about your own rights without respecting the rights of others-- in this case, the developers, artists, writers, network administrators, etc who created the game and who have the right to control its distribution.
All you're doing is weakening the message of people who really care. Because as long as you carry your current attitude, everybody's just going to assume that people who rant about DRM are only doing it to justify stealing. (As in your example.) Screw you.
I see lots of posts that seem to miss the point. The mere _finding_ of an ET would be _dramatic_ for our civilization. Think of all the things that would change (not all religious).
Yeah! Like... uh... I can't think of anything.
You know what? I think one of the most accurate alien contact movies is District 9, in which contact with aliens changed... well, basically nothing at all.
(Also: what religions are incompatible with alien life? Out of curiosity? Islam perhaps?)
If NVIDIA would put the effort into making an open codec (such as Dirac) directly in the GPU firmware, and keep their Linux driver updated properly (or just open source it ... all the magic is in the GPU so the driver should just be a means to pass data between CPU and GPU), then an HTML5 based video would display well, too.
And... what would be in it for them? They're not going to spend all that money to get Slashdot bragging rights.
I don't want to debate the nuances, because I really don't care. I just hate it when people reply to a post without addressing it, and wanted to point out that you were guilty of that.
You didn't get around to disputing the grandparent's point.
Windows *doesn't* stop you from installing open source software. There are no rules against having an open source driver certified with WHQL.
Now you can complain that no open source groups have done that, if that's even true, but that's hardly Microsoft's fault, now is it?
It's worse than not doing it. It's not doing it, but then lying about making the decision to not do it.
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Zero+Wing&Search_Code=TALL&PID=T5I32hDmtQlC8vGJrqqzQ4M&SEQ=20100313121910&CNT=25&HIST=1
Wow, the Federal Government is actually pretty on-the-ball with this. I'm impressed.
You can even get a list of all the works copyrighted by that corporation in the US: http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Toaplan%20Company%2C%20Ltd.&PID=TMgAaxP2Z2dDvBeDvaZQzQYU&BROWSE=1&HC=19&SID=2
The difference is that, when a FOSS copies from something else, it does not have the chutzpah to claim originality.
I must have been delusional when I thought I read all those posts on Slashdot Games saying that Frozen Bubble and Battle for Wesnoth were original...
No, you were saying "what about the child"? As in, "what about the child's opinion?" I'm just pointing out that dead people have no opinion.
It's not a disturbing view, it's a realistic one: all it sums to is I don't believe in ghosts.
The kid's dead. Dead people don't care if the person who killed them goes to prison or not.
I'm not going to go into stupid hypothetical "what if X?" scenarios, I just wanted to comment on that first sentence.
In each and every case, the introduction of 3D in those games series has felt, to me, like a "dumbing down" of the games...
Whenever anybody says a game is "dumbed down" I basically read that as, "I don't know why I don't like it, but I'm going to pull a reason out of my ass and as an added bonus, it makes me look like an elitist prick."
Just FYI.
I have no clue if you're serious or not. There are about a billion games that meet your requirements, so I suppose by your logic they're all Wesnoth clones. Of course, since Wesnoth itself is a clone of the Warlords series of games, maybe you should just shut your trap, eh?
And if I got trolled-- sorry all.
Gee, TheKidWho! You think that might-a been a joke? You think? You think? You think?
Slashdot needs a -5 "Humorless Fuck" moderation.
The question is, is the deterrence "son died" more than the deterrence "son died and then he got some jail time"?
The deterrence factor already exists, in the death.
If you read the details of the case, you can almost guarantee a sympathetic jury that's not going to throw the book at him, so he's likely not even going to get a lot of jail time.
He had the gun out because he thought he heard an intruder. That would be the point of owning a gun. The problem is that he left it unattended, and didn't put it away right away.
Honestly? I agree with the authorities that, in this case, the step-father should not be charged. Partially because there's no reason to believe he's less than genuinely devastated by the loss of his child, and partially because the taxpayer expense of a trial isn't going to produce any punishment that will overshadow that.
Whatever, I was giving a fucking example not a scholarly thesis. Please reply to the forest, and ignore the trees.
It would be nice to see a more credible Bond movie with a space theme that doesn't devolve to a cheap version of Barbarella.
Moonraker had probably 4-5 times the budget of Barbarella, actually. :)
But I know what you meant. Just wanted to snark.
A better example might be people seeing the French Connection and complaining that the car chase is too much of a cliche in a cop movie. (When they aren't aware that the French Connection is the *reason* every cop movie made since has a car chase.)
Basically, Python can provide all the same benefits as BASIC without the stupid unnecessary crap (Explicit Line numbers? Really? Are we still using punch cards?) that always annoyed me.
When's the last time you used BASIC? It hasn't had line numbers in decades.
Man, you were doing such a good job, too, until I got to the part where you made it apparent that you have absolutely no clue what modern BASIC even looks like. Shame.
Goto is useful when you have an outer loop, an inner loop, and the inner loop needs to break out of *both* loops. Even Javascript contains a goto-like concept for that purpose (continue to a label).
Honest question:
If the EU decided to standardize power outlets, and picked one that your country doesn't currently use, would you support or oppose that?
I'm an American, so maybe I just don't get it, but I'd see standardization as a good thing in pretty much every way.
By the way, if anyone has an unmodified copy of Win3.10 (not 3.11) USER.EXE, shoot me an email. I've lost some of my ancient archives and would like to snag some of the resources in that file.
A current MS employee could get it off ProductsWeb, if you still know any. Unfortunately, I lost my access to that a few months ago when Microsoft sold my company.
Just buy a Dell and swap out the video card. Seriously, it'll be fine... CPU is a non-issue, especially if your hardest requirement is Oblivion, and you'll save enough scratch to buy a better video card than you would otherwise.
I started with an Inspiron 530, and over the years I've added in a couple new video cards, put in 2 320-GB HDs, it runs like a champ and I've never felt the CPU was insufficient in any way, even when new-release gaming.
Yes, MS screwed up Games for Windows.
Could somebody explain to me *how* they screwed up Games for Windows?
Fuck, two people now have dropped this little gem on us without anything to back it up. What were you expecting out of it, exactly? How is it not meeting your expectations?
Repetition != truth, you gotta give us something here.
Guess what? I don't agree with that either. If you're trying to make me look like a hypocrite, you just failed.