Free lawyers are a perfect example of what I am saying. Have you ever SEEN one of them at work.
I was on a jury and have. They are the fastest ticket to loosing and/or going to jail.
He (the appointed defense attorney) had no idea what the defendants name was without looking at his notes. He had to look through a pile of notes to find this particular case. He seemed completely unprepared. Looked like he had barely slept and what sleep he had gotten was in the suit he was wearing.
He arguments were ridiculous to the point where not only where both members of the jury(including myself) and even the judge were covering their face in attempts not to laugh.
At one point I almost raised my hand to ask a question because the defense was doing such a poor job. (I didn't since jury members aren't allowed to do that.)
We sent the defendant to jail. (I'm not sure for how long since I didn't check back for the results of the sentencing.)
Moral of the story. He who represents himself with a free attorney has little too no hope of winning.
Now, do you want the equivalent level of ability in your doctor?
If by "terrorists", you mean "furries" and "furry sympathizers", then I would have to agree with you.
The sad part is someone, in some office might read that and say, "Furries, they sound dangerous and we don't have a file on em. Lets get Johnsen on their tale[s]."
And if furries were deported to Guantanamo, it's a fair bet that nobody would care what happened down there.
True, but how would they handle the mad rush of guard duty applicants?
I'm sure there will be no patched kernel distributed to avoid a class of licenses.
Instead this will be like patching a program. You download the patch you run it and it changes code in the copy of Linux you have already installed.
This actually, might be a sign of things to come as different flavors of Linux try to keep certain new feature proprietary. These features must be downloaded separately as a closed source patch. (Unless GPL covers this, can anyone answer this?)
That specific argument is flawed. Accounted Professors can get up and go be accountants, which do effect everyday life, so salaries to attract top Accountant Professors must be competitive.
Why does that sound like a twisted prologue of a more interesting Pokemon show.
"In the early 21st century man discovered how to summon lesser gods, 10 years later they learned how to chain them inside tiny obnoxiously colored spheroids, 5 months later the first successful beer was fetched."
I very much doubt it. The reverse is more likely true.
The people that didn't buy the game ONLY because of the DRM, I expect, are a minority. A very vocal minority. Add to that the people who wont buy the game no matter what and were just waiting for a crack. You get a lot of people complaining.
The people who would have downloaded it, if there had been a zero day crack, are most probably much larger in number than the anti-SecuROM crowd.
(I'm going AFK for the day so no more replies from me till tonight, at the earliest.)
However, this wouldn't work for Bioshock since it's single player only. CD key verification only works if you are going to actually play online, otherwise it is easily broken. There would have been probably have been a 0 day crack out if they only did that.
Sanctioned/ unsanctioned doesn't really matter. It will count in:
Website/browser based metrics
Mac OS sales vs Vista / XP sales
Mac OS software sales
And each license sold will help Apple's quarterly financial results
You are right that it will NOT count in the Mac hardware vs PC hardware count.
Considering that all other PC games only allow you to install the game on 1 PC while Bioshock allows you to install it on 5 I don't see what you are complaining about. You can free up a install buy uninstalling it.
Honestly, how many people would have downloaded Bioshock if there was a crack available for it in 48 hours of release like there was for STALKER. Instead it's taken over two weeks for a crack to come out.
More over this is a single player only game. I could just her how many people would be say "You don't honestly expect me to pay only for single player only?"
PC gaming is dieing. Most games out now are console ports. I can run most of the boards of Bioshock at 800x600 with almost all the eye candy turned on, on my 3 year old computer. Three years old. If games took advantage of new technology available now I ought to have to turn everything off and even then still might not be able to run it.
You mean cue the "Apple can ONLY do wrong, isn't important, and should be ignored" crowd. Which is much significantly louder and far more post happy then the people they enjoy complaining about.
People are even posting thinking that Apple employees would be allowed to use those spots. It's pretty sad.
This thread is practically a list of people who should be dumped into a/ignore list... damn and I just had to hit reply...
And before the anti-Apple zealots raise their war cry, I use windows XP.
Except it is. It ALWAYS is, if you like the service / product and all the alternatives use the same/similar model. Then, they will all go out of business. Every dollar that you or advertisers spend is what pays for bandwidth / salaries / the doors to stay open.
Just look at the big to-do when people thought they where no longer going to get channel information for their PVR PCs. All of a sudden people began crying "We'll pay! We'll pay!" This time they where lucky. Look at PC gaming, mainly full of ports from consoles, it's dieing.
Blocking annoying adds is perfectly understandable, but blocking adds in general? It hurts the web economy, at least the get information for free part of it.
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Free lawyers are a perfect example of what I am saying. Have you ever SEEN one of them at work.
I was on a jury and have. They are the fastest ticket to loosing and/or going to jail.
He (the appointed defense attorney) had no idea what the defendants name was without looking at his notes. He had to look through a pile of notes to find this particular case. He seemed completely unprepared. Looked like he had barely slept and what sleep he had gotten was in the suit he was wearing.
He arguments were ridiculous to the point where not only where both members of the jury(including myself) and even the judge were covering their face in attempts not to laugh.
At one point I almost raised my hand to ask a question because the defense was doing such a poor job. (I didn't since jury members aren't allowed to do that.)
We sent the defendant to jail. (I'm not sure for how long since I didn't check back for the results of the sentencing.)
Moral of the story. He who represents himself with a free attorney has little too no hope of winning.
Now, do you want the equivalent level of ability in your doctor?
If you look at universal health care it is usually universally BAD health care.
There do seem to be one of two exceptions in countries with small populations that are relatively easy to reach.
And if you want universal health care why not universal lawyers.
What could possibly make Americans revolt... perhaps a Federally mandated diet.
God knows we need it and so does our God fearing president.
See, our president is hiding in the Bush again!
If by "terrorists", you mean "furries" and "furry sympathizers", then I would have to agree with you.
The sad part is someone, in some office might read that and say, "Furries, they sound dangerous and we don't have a file on em. Lets get Johnsen on their tale[s]."
And if furries were deported to Guantanamo, it's a fair bet that nobody would care what happened down there.
True, but how would they handle the mad rush of guard duty applicants?
I was joking. And yes that is the exact reasoning behind my joke.
Well obviously because projectiles don't rebound properly if the display changes angel. Like, duh.
The missing question is...
;P
Why where you looking at Duke's pants?
Who ever would have thought that the latter days of M.A.D. would seem so sane.
I'm sure there will be no patched kernel distributed to avoid a class of licenses.
Instead this will be like patching a program. You download the patch you run it and it changes code in the copy of Linux you have already installed.
This actually, might be a sign of things to come as different flavors of Linux try to keep certain new feature proprietary. These features must be downloaded separately as a closed source patch. (Unless GPL covers this, can anyone answer this?)
That specific argument is flawed. Accounted Professors can get up and go be accountants, which do effect everyday life, so salaries to attract top Accountant Professors must be competitive.
Why does that sound like a twisted prologue of a more interesting Pokemon show.
"In the early 21st century man discovered how to summon lesser gods, 10 years later they learned how to chain them inside tiny obnoxiously colored spheroids, 5 months later the first successful beer was fetched."
And 0 day vs over a week is huge. (I'm pretty sure it was over a week if not almost 2 weeks.)
That's when games sell the most.
The DRM did it's job. Better then most I might add.
(crap I really got to go.)
I very much doubt it. The reverse is more likely true.
The people that didn't buy the game ONLY because of the DRM, I expect, are a minority. A very vocal minority. Add to that the people who wont buy the game no matter what and were just waiting for a crack. You get a lot of people complaining.
The people who would have downloaded it, if there had been a zero day crack, are most probably much larger in number than the anti-SecuROM crowd.
(I'm going AFK for the day so no more replies from me till tonight, at the earliest.)
However, this wouldn't work for Bioshock since it's single player only. CD key verification only works if you are going to actually play online, otherwise it is easily broken. There would have been probably have been a 0 day crack out if they only did that.
(OMFGtomatoes, I did it again, ignore my previous unformatted post.)
Sanctioned/ unsanctioned doesn't really matter. It will count in:
Website/browser based metrics
Mac OS sales vs Vista / XP sales
Mac OS software sales
And each license sold will count towards Apple's quarterly financial results
You are right that it will NOT count in the Mac hardware vs PC hardware count.
Sanctioned/ unsanctioned doesn't really matter. It will count in: Website/browser based metrics Mac OS sales vs Vista / XP sales Mac OS software sales And each license sold will help Apple's quarterly financial results You are right that it will NOT count in the Mac hardware vs PC hardware count.
(Ignore my previous post that's what I get for messing with my settings without my glasses on.)
There are lots of ways to install OS X on any hardware. So you can do it right now, if you're serious. Stability or features or not guaranteed.
Here is one place: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
and their forum: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=85
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/964/install_osx_tiger_on_intel_usb_drives_windows
http://www.uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-and-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/
http://asendure.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/osx86-how-to-install-mac-os-x-on-vmware-server-amd-64/
So, go install it already. It is what I will probably do with my next machine. OS X/Linux and XP for games/Vista for games with DX10.
There are lots of ways to install OS X on any hardware. So you can do it right now if you're serious. Stability or features or not guaranteed. Here is one place: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and their forum: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=85 http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/964/install_osx_tiger_on_intel_usb_drives_windows http://www.uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-and-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/ http://asendure.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/osx86-how-to-install-mac-os-x-on-vmware-server-amd-64/ So, go install it already. It is what I will probably do with my next machine. XP/ OS X/ maybe Linux /Vista for games with DX10.
There was wet patch, but he rolled off it when he made his first mistake.
If you have an illegal copy of windows. The patches will NOT protect/secure you from virus/attacks/etc, BUT will allow MS to kill your machine.
Considering that all other PC games only allow you to install the game on 1 PC while Bioshock allows you to install it on 5 I don't see what you are complaining about. You can free up a install buy uninstalling it.
Honestly, how many people would have downloaded Bioshock if there was a crack available for it in 48 hours of release like there was for STALKER. Instead it's taken over two weeks for a crack to come out.
More over this is a single player only game. I could just her how many people would be say "You don't honestly expect me to pay only for single player only?"
PC gaming is dieing. Most games out now are console ports. I can run most of the boards of Bioshock at 800x600 with almost all the eye candy turned on, on my 3 year old computer. Three years old. If games took advantage of new technology available now I ought to have to turn everything off and even then still might not be able to run it.
Athlon 64 3200+
1 GB (2x 512MB) DDR 400 (PC 3200)
Geforce 6800 Ultra AGP
Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
Bioshock
800x600
vsync Off, real time reflections off
Except for Fort Frolic where I had to turn off Advanced shaders too and to stop the random crashes I was just living with. (Thats where I am now)
Honestly with so much bitching/whining/problems/piracy and so little money in PC gaming vs console gaming it's little wonder things are stagnating.
I guess I really should have left out the whole ignore list comment. But I've been seeing so much whining around and I snapped a little.
To bad there is no Edit button.
You mean cue the "Apple can ONLY do wrong, isn't important, and should be ignored" crowd. Which is much significantly louder and far more post happy then the people they enjoy complaining about.
/ignore list... damn and I just had to hit reply...
People are even posting thinking that Apple employees would be allowed to use those spots. It's pretty sad.
This thread is practically a list of people who should be dumped into a
And before the anti-Apple zealots raise their war cry, I use windows XP.
Except it is. It ALWAYS is, if you like the service / product and all the alternatives use the same/similar model. Then, they will all go out of business. Every dollar that you or advertisers spend is what pays for bandwidth / salaries / the doors to stay open.
Just look at the big to-do when people thought they where no longer going to get channel information for their PVR PCs. All of a sudden people began crying "We'll pay! We'll pay!" This time they where lucky. Look at PC gaming, mainly full of ports from consoles, it's dieing.
Blocking annoying adds is perfectly understandable, but blocking adds in general? It hurts the web economy, at least the get information for free part of it.