Comment Re: Do users really care? (Score 1) 278
If you reject people with facebook and similar stuff and people don't share your principles, you've just rejected 99.9% of the human population.
You say this like it's a bad thing?
If you reject people with facebook and similar stuff and people don't share your principles, you've just rejected 99.9% of the human population.
You say this like it's a bad thing?
When you can download or watch it for free. I have never gotten the people around here who say piracy doesn't hurt sales, of course I am going to seek the cheapest method possible to get it. I don't give a shit about DRM/IP/etc.. I am cheap and not some evangelical mission.
Because you wouldn't have bought it anyway, duh.
Mod parent up. Piracy has always been a non-threat. Pirates don't buy. They're never a missed sale, they're simply a no-sale.
I haven't owned a console since 8-bit Nintendo, so I didn't know that. Interesting!
Couldn't disagree with this more. Steam has revolutionized PC gaming. It's opened up an easy avenue for indie devs to get on a level playing field with the big publishers. I really don't care if Valve never produces another game, I think they should keep making Steam better.
Steam gives the PC an edge over consoles too! No need to go out and buy a game, you can do it right from your desktop and the way it shares games between any PC you want to use, it really takes the pain out of DRM.
PC gaming has needed Steam for so very long, and no one else is gunna come near Steam's library. Even EA is putting up titles on Steam, the other players are throwing in the towel. And if they're not, they're not very smart.
As far as the social functions, what more do you want? It has chat, friends, groups, reviews, forums, facebook like profiles, a workshop for modders to publish onto. And now broadcasting. What more do you want?
Isn't the point of the Stock Market to game it for fun and profit? I applaud these guys for their wise investment research!
Don't bother. The website was horrifically obnoxious even after it took 15 minutes to load. The presentation was just so annoying difficult to navigate I gave up after a few clicks. Whatever happened to simple web page layouts that present information in an easy to consume manner? Text and pictures... don't need all this flash and crap.
Why fool with building robots and junk to fight each other? Let's just take the next step and follow the original Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon" and let computer software decide who gets killed in simulated wars. Would save tons of money!
Or you know, we could just try being peaceful with each other. The relative world peace we've enjoyed since WW2 has been nice. Sure there's been small wars here and there, but overall we've been pretty well behaved and civil with each other. Let's work improving that?
So in your mind, the relationship between the Secret Service and the general public should be modeled on how the US military responds to an invading army?
Sounds good to me. Why continue with the illusion that American government is "of the people, by the people, for the people." It's not. Why continue the illusion it is?
For that matter, people still use Yahoo for searches?
How did this make it out of the Firehose? This has nothing to do with computers or computer related tech, or even space, or even anything nerdy.
There is no downside to lower gas prices. lower prices on anything is always a positive.
Heartily disagree with this. To me, the OP points it out perfectly:
Consumers are already starting to buy the sort of gas-guzzling vehicles, including Hummers, that had been going out of style as gas prices rose; that's bad for both the environment and consumers, because gas prices are inevitably going to increase again.
Problem. On so many levels. We as a collective need to stick to the fuel efficient vehicles to conserve the supply. It's not limitless. I agree also with the OP, if people are going to be morons with the memory of a stoner, then yeah, crank up the taxes to discourage a return to the gas guzzlers.
The price makes the item suspect. One must oneself, why is this so much cheaper?
While being malicious is possible, it's probably much more likely its substandard and either won't work very well straight out of the box, or will fail fairly quickly compared to a 'normal' priced one.
This company has a history of releasing draconian DRM and broken games. I wouldn't do business with them, personally. They're not a good company.
OK, I had a very similar setup with AT&T ADSL some years ago, and basically I had the same problem, most other SMTP hosts were bouncing my emails and/or flat refusing to even communicate with my server.
In my case, the solution was to relay all my email through my internet provider's SMTP, authenticating with my ADSL login. Once I handed off all my email to the upstream SMTP, things worked perfectly.
Most customer assigned IP's are pretty much blocked out from relaying any email these days. If I were in your position, I'd try to setup to relay to your upstream SMTP so you can relay mail effectively. Having your own SMTP talk to everyone else's SMTP for outbound just doesn't really work very well anymore. Contact Comcast and find out the details on setting up to relay to their SMTP.
Aren't we already showing people breaking laws and on their worst days with all the various Cop Reality shows? What's the problem here? Such footage has already been commercialized!
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
