Steam not being douches? And what about when they say "accept our new licence agreement, the one where you we decide that you can't sue us no matter what, our we take back all the games you bought from us and all your games you bought elsewhere and which use our DRM" ?
Not allowing me to buy any new game from them if I don't accept their new licence is faire. Stealing the game I already bought because I don't like the idea of being assrape by a company is not. Steam are not only douches, they are crooks.
While I agree in principle that "holding one's games hostage" was a bad thing, you should listen to Gabe Newell's reasoning behind the TOS change here (fast forward to about 8:15). If you read the TOS, it doesn't talk about not being able to sue them, it's about not being able to start a class action suit against them. As Gabe Newell (briefly) explains in the video, the class action suits they face start out very one-sided in favor of the suing attorney. It costs them a ton of money just to go through the motions for the court, no matter if they're completely in the right or not. That's not exactly fair, regardless of how much money anyone thinks Valve has. As it was put in the video, "it's a shakedown."
You have to wonder if the US ever gets around to actually trying Kim Dotcom, and if he's convicted of any crimes based on the actions of MegaUpload, that there will finally be a precedent in the legal books to go after CEOs and other high-ranking officials of other companies based on the actions of the company and not the individual. I'm not going to hold my breath for that kind of accountability, but it seems like there's a greater-than-zero chance that it could happen.
The same excuse we always get. If Bush were still in charge, the/. readers would be cursing him. But since it's your guy, it's the lame "well they're ALL corrupt".
I don't remember where I first heard it, and I'm pretty sure I'm not saying it correctly, but "Politicians are like litter boxes - they need frequent changing, and for the same reasons." Similar sentiment.
One approach that might work is to focus instead on newcomers - all the people with a band practicing in the garage or writing music in their bedroom. The vast majority of it will be utter crap, of course - but there is potentially a great deal of it, so all you need is a good recormendation and social networking engine that can filter out the good stuff from the rest, and ensure only the former ever makes the front page.
That's almost exactly what the original www.mp3.com was (circa 1998), and it was awesome. It was a very sad day when they were purchased / taken over / whatever and turned into a crap site.
Don't forget the smartphone - that IP might geolocate to the other side of the country! One of my phones resolves to Detroit, MI (close), the other to Kansas, USA (not so close). But I think your idea would probably be sufficient to beat this "study".
Remember, you have a choice not to support private business intrusion, you don't have a choice not to support government intrusion.
Sure you have a choice whether you support government intrusion or not. The penalties might just be a bit harsher if you choose not to. But you always have a choice.
Thanks for saving me the effort of typing that. =) What you wrote, chthon, sounds like the sanest application of version control to the OP's environment. And if another dev gets added to the mix down the road, the version control system will already be in place.
I find it hard to believe that there is a situation where being able to run 100m in less than 10 seconds is a survival skill.
It seems to me that running 100m in less than 10 seconds could be a great survival skill - akin to climbing the nearest tree in under 10 seconds - as we haven't always been at the top of the food chain.
My first thought was that I missed the launch of some new "Linux Power" magazine (something akin to Nintendo Power). I didn't quite understand the "Nailing the Cause" part of the headline in that context though. =)
I never understood the side of the Net Neutrality argument that most commenters are taking here. Why shouldn't a company that has built out infrastructure (in some cases taking enormous risk) be free to charge what they want to access that infrastructure?
Because that infrastructure has turned into a required part of daily life for a good chunk of people in the modern world. Like electricity and water, communications networks should be converted to the public sector. They are now too important to leave to the whims of corporations.
How do you figure *that*? SAP selling unlicensed software to customers for a profit versus Google losing a patent grant because they're not using software in the way the developer intended are two very different scenarios.
I'd think these guys know better than anyone what's going on. It's up, it's down. Some countries have increased numbers of H1N1 influenza cases, some countries' numbers are on the decline. The *really* interesting part will come sometime between now and the beginning of next year ( http://www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm ) when the United States "flu season" typically peaks. So many people who are afraid to call in sick for fear of discipline or losing their jobs will go to work anyways, infecting others in the closed-in environments. Thank goodness so many of us IT people can telecommute.;)
Jupiter average density: 1.326 g/cm3
Water maximum density: 1.000 g/cm3 (or more commonly 1000 kg/m3)
So Jupiter is, on average, more dense than water on our planet. Though I understand that it's most likely not nearly that dense at the fringes of the atmosphere than it is on the interior, I honestly have no idea how they measure the volume of Jupiter when they make that calculation (like, are they measuring the visible parts of Jupiter that we're all familiar with, or are they measuring beyond that into some field that most of us *aren't* familiar with?)
I had a TI-99/4A, then moved to a Commodore 128, then an Amiga 500. It wasn't until I was probably 12 years old before I got my hands on my first IBM-compatible PC (a 4.77MHz machine with a turbo button that cranked it up to 10MHz), and it was a huge step back. HUGE step back. I went from (with the Amiga) a nice GUI interface, great sound and (for the time) great graphics, and moved to a machine that beeped and booped and gave me a text prompt in up to 4 colors. Come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure why I did that...
This strongly indicated they had spiritual beliefs and cared for their dead,' says Garcea.
"Cared for their dead" I get. This "spiritual beliefs" stuff doesn't make sense. What proves any kind of spirituality in this situation? Posing a corpse isn't proof of spirituality, it's just proof that they moved people around after they died.
If I were Blizzard and he claimed the code was leaked because he was hacked, I'd probably accuse him of negligence, at the least.
Except at that point, isn't negligence considered criminal? If so, wouldn't the burden of proof be on Blizzard? It would be just as likely for MDY to covertly hand out a login and password and say it was "hacked" as it would to say that users, desperate for the software to continue existing, cracked the server on which the code resides and took said code.
Yeah, but the sunburn you'd get on mercury would be awesome.
And the radiation burns you'd get from living in the upper atmosphere of Venus would be no less impressive! (at least, I assume you'd get a wicked dose of radiation as Venus lacks a planetary magnetic field)
Maybe you're confused about the definition of "or", but you can still have science without direct experimentation.
Anyway, there IS loads of experimentation going on around evolution. See the announcement the other month where a 20 year experiment saw E. Coli mutate into an entirely different species in a stressful environment for an example. It directly contradicts the idea that we've never seen a beneficial mutation be passed along.
Was it an "entirely different species" or was it just an adaptation? Could you cross breed this "new" version of citrate metabolizing E. Coli with the original strain? Is so, then it's not really a new species, just the same with a new ability.
Granted, over another million years or so of isolation, it may become a "entirely different species", but not in a mere 20 years.
Also, given 20+ years and 44,000 generations to develop the ability to metabolize citrate, how long does it take to evolve into a platypus?
(Note: I believe in evolution. I just don't see this as "proof". There is still much to be learned.)
In any case, at least attempts are being made to prove evolution. You cannot say the same for religion (at least, not by the "faithful").
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Steam not being douches? And what about when they say "accept our new licence agreement, the one where you we decide that you can't sue us no matter what, our we take back all the games you bought from us and all your games you bought elsewhere and which use our DRM" ?
Not allowing me to buy any new game from them if I don't accept their new licence is faire. Stealing the game I already bought because I don't like the idea of being assrape by a company is not. Steam are not only douches, they are crooks.
While I agree in principle that "holding one's games hostage" was a bad thing, you should listen to Gabe Newell's reasoning behind the TOS change here (fast forward to about 8:15). If you read the TOS, it doesn't talk about not being able to sue them, it's about not being able to start a class action suit against them. As Gabe Newell (briefly) explains in the video, the class action suits they face start out very one-sided in favor of the suing attorney. It costs them a ton of money just to go through the motions for the court, no matter if they're completely in the right or not. That's not exactly fair, regardless of how much money anyone thinks Valve has. As it was put in the video, "it's a shakedown."
You have to wonder if the US ever gets around to actually trying Kim Dotcom, and if he's convicted of any crimes based on the actions of MegaUpload, that there will finally be a precedent in the legal books to go after CEOs and other high-ranking officials of other companies based on the actions of the company and not the individual. I'm not going to hold my breath for that kind of accountability, but it seems like there's a greater-than-zero chance that it could happen.
The same excuse we always get. If Bush were still in charge, the /. readers would be cursing him. But since it's your guy, it's the lame "well they're ALL corrupt".
I don't remember where I first heard it, and I'm pretty sure I'm not saying it correctly, but "Politicians are like litter boxes - they need frequent changing, and for the same reasons." Similar sentiment.
One approach that might work is to focus instead on newcomers - all the people with a band practicing in the garage or writing music in their bedroom. The vast majority of it will be utter crap, of course - but there is potentially a great deal of it, so all you need is a good recormendation and social networking engine that can filter out the good stuff from the rest, and ensure only the former ever makes the front page.
That's almost exactly what the original www.mp3.com was (circa 1998), and it was awesome. It was a very sad day when they were purchased / taken over / whatever and turned into a crap site.
Don't forget the smartphone - that IP might geolocate to the other side of the country! One of my phones resolves to Detroit, MI (close), the other to Kansas, USA (not so close). But I think your idea would probably be sufficient to beat this "study".
Remember, you have a choice not to support private business intrusion, you don't have a choice not to support government intrusion.
Sure you have a choice whether you support government intrusion or not. The penalties might just be a bit harsher if you choose not to. But you always have a choice.
Thanks for saving me the effort of typing that. =) What you wrote, chthon, sounds like the sanest application of version control to the OP's environment. And if another dev gets added to the mix down the road, the version control system will already be in place.
No, but typically you're not in the car when it's stolen, either.
You forgot about that other class of people: "I voted and the retarded majority won again."
I find it hard to believe that there is a situation where being able to run 100m in less than 10 seconds is a survival skill.
It seems to me that running 100m in less than 10 seconds could be a great survival skill - akin to climbing the nearest tree in under 10 seconds - as we haven't always been at the top of the food chain.
My first thought was that I missed the launch of some new "Linux Power" magazine (something akin to Nintendo Power). I didn't quite understand the "Nailing the Cause" part of the headline in that context though. =)
I never understood the side of the Net Neutrality argument that most commenters are taking here. Why shouldn't a company that has built out infrastructure (in some cases taking enormous risk) be free to charge what they want to access that infrastructure?
Because that infrastructure has turned into a required part of daily life for a good chunk of people in the modern world. Like electricity and water, communications networks should be converted to the public sector. They are now too important to leave to the whims of corporations.
How do you figure *that*? SAP selling unlicensed software to customers for a profit versus Google losing a patent grant because they're not using software in the way the developer intended are two very different scenarios.
Alot of software...
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
;)
I'm not a grammar Nazi, but I think you (and everyone else) can appreciate the humor in the link. "Alot" is actually two words: "a" and "lot".
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_09_04/en/index.html (most recent as of right now)
;)
I'd think these guys know better than anyone what's going on. It's up, it's down. Some countries have increased numbers of H1N1 influenza cases, some countries' numbers are on the decline. The *really* interesting part will come sometime between now and the beginning of next year ( http://www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm ) when the United States "flu season" typically peaks. So many people who are afraid to call in sick for fear of discipline or losing their jobs will go to work anyways, infecting others in the closed-in environments. Thank goodness so many of us IT people can telecommute.
Are you sure it isn't the Caponians? I loved that game...
Jupiter average density: 1.326 g/cm3
Water maximum density: 1.000 g/cm3 (or more commonly 1000 kg/m3)
So Jupiter is, on average, more dense than water on our planet. Though I understand that it's most likely not nearly that dense at the fringes of the atmosphere than it is on the interior, I honestly have no idea how they measure the volume of Jupiter when they make that calculation (like, are they measuring the visible parts of Jupiter that we're all familiar with, or are they measuring beyond that into some field that most of us *aren't* familiar with?)
I had a TI-99/4A, then moved to a Commodore 128, then an Amiga 500. It wasn't until I was probably 12 years old before I got my hands on my first IBM-compatible PC (a 4.77MHz machine with a turbo button that cranked it up to 10MHz), and it was a huge step back. HUGE step back. I went from (with the Amiga) a nice GUI interface, great sound and (for the time) great graphics, and moved to a machine that beeped and booped and gave me a text prompt in up to 4 colors. Come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure why I did that...
This strongly indicated they had spiritual beliefs and cared for their dead,' says Garcea.
"Cared for their dead" I get. This "spiritual beliefs" stuff doesn't make sense. What proves any kind of spirituality in this situation? Posing a corpse isn't proof of spirituality, it's just proof that they moved people around after they died.
First thing I thought of was METAR.
If I were Blizzard and he claimed the code was leaked because he was hacked, I'd probably accuse him of negligence, at the least.
Except at that point, isn't negligence considered criminal? If so, wouldn't the burden of proof be on Blizzard? It would be just as likely for MDY to covertly hand out a login and password and say it was "hacked" as it would to say that users, desperate for the software to continue existing, cracked the server on which the code resides and took said code.
Yeah, but the sunburn you'd get on mercury would be awesome.
And the radiation burns you'd get from living in the upper atmosphere of Venus would be no less impressive! (at least, I assume you'd get a wicked dose of radiation as Venus lacks a planetary magnetic field)
Maybe you're confused about the definition of "or", but you can still have science without direct experimentation.
Anyway, there IS loads of experimentation going on around evolution. See the announcement the other month where a 20 year experiment saw E. Coli mutate into an entirely different species in a stressful environment for an example. It directly contradicts the idea that we've never seen a beneficial mutation be passed along.
Was it an "entirely different species" or was it just an adaptation? Could you cross breed this "new" version of citrate metabolizing E. Coli with the original strain? Is so, then it's not really a new species, just the same with a new ability.
Granted, over another million years or so of isolation, it may become a "entirely different species", but not in a mere 20 years.
Also, given 20+ years and 44,000 generations to develop the ability to metabolize citrate, how long does it take to evolve into a platypus?
(Note: I believe in evolution. I just don't see this as "proof". There is still much to be learned.)
In any case, at least attempts are being made to prove evolution. You cannot say the same for religion (at least, not by the "faithful").
Both of my state senators voted Nay! (hooray, Michigan!)
Well, these days, "kill 'em all and start over" doesn't seem to work. At least, not in the good ol' US of A.