Coopers may be the largest Australian owned brewery
Which kinda proves my point. It is the same here in the US between AMBEV and SABMiller, with both trying to fight each other over "King of Beers" and "Champagne of Beers" (neither of which is true or even makes sense,) or trying to trademark "Lite". Or AMBEV and SABMiller going after smaller brewers who dare call their beer Pumpkin Ale or whatever they have called them.
They can't win by taste (although they have a huge marketshare of free and cold/cheap beer drinkers, they are still (h/t Eric Idle) like having sex in a canoe,) and they can't attract people who have chosen to drink better beer from microbrews, so they use their marketshare and the crappy legal system (the higher courts) to make things difficult for the microbrews and each other.
Never tasted Coopers (probably would pass if it was offered,) and can't stand Fosters (which I equate to the same word that I use for the American majors, piss.) Pretty much think the same of Asahi and Kirin (though they do make an awesome chocolate porter, but I consider that to be a fluke, since the only place I can seem to find it is in Tokyo at one of the many 7 & I-Holdings convenience stores and nowhere else.)
A better question is whether anyone learned anything from Caldera.
The SCO Group?
Unfortunately, no. I don't think anyone even involved in the SCO fiasco even learned anything. I believe Darl McBride left on a golden parachute and the principles of the company went through bankruptcy and the company was bought at pennies by another company (UnXis, I believe.)
I seem to recall somewhere that British Brewers made such a beverage in the age of empire to survive the long shipping journeys to their far flung thirsty consumers.
India Pale Ale (IPA) was made with strong bittering hops, mainly because of the antiseptic qualities of those hops, so that it would last the long journey over sea. Hops themselves were not a standard in beer until someone realized that adding them to beer kept the nasty critters that made beer bad out of beer. The original beers were just bread, water and yeast, but somewhere along the line someone put hops in the beer and people started seeing beer (for its alcohol and hops) as a much safer alternative than drinking water from polluted rivers.
Pale Ale itself is just a class of beer, with many subclasses. The macro-brews are just trying their hardest to maintain the monopoly they once had due to prohibition and corruption in a world where they aren't able to maintain their monopoly through prohibition and corruption (though in many cases the games they play with trademarks are corruption at its finest.)
Re: Re: “Westcott had a gun (a legally-owned one) which he raised...”
Or should people just wait and see if the thugs breaking into their home in the dead of night are state sanctioned thugs or run of the mill criminal thugs intent on murder and burglary.
More than one attempted home invasion caught on tape and submitted to youtube has run-of-the-mill criminal thugs approaching the house wearing jackets emboldened with "POLICE" on the back (as it is not very difficult to purchase these things online or at the cop shop.) I remember seeing one with a bunch of gang-bangers showing up in a stolen black sedan jumping out and approaching the house, then attempting to break a window to gain entry before being shot at by the homeowner and running back to the car, and another one in the dead of night where they approached the house and got shot at before they even reached the doorstep.
Maybe I should take another look at Mint or Cinnamon. Last year, I played with Mint for a bit, but went back to Kubuntu.
It is really a personal preference...I love KDE, but Cinnamon grew on me quickly.
I get sick of people repeating the antiquated trope of Windows having an advantage when it comes to hardware drivers.
I tended to throw away the driver CDs, or they got mixed up and I often didn't know what driver went with what machine. Finding drivers online is great for some companies, but terrible for most (unless you trust windriver or some of the other websites that have drivers available.) And finding a driver for the current OS you are running may be hit or miss, especially if you are using older hardware (since the company would rather you buy new hardware than install old hardware in a new operating system (ahem...Intel...ahem.) Haven't had that issue with Linux at all.
Why isn't Techdirt rejoicing and crowing now that Microsoft proves the value of "free" by giving away Windows 10?
Because Microsoft isn't giving Windows 10 away for free. Microsoft has allowed those who already have Windows 7 or Windows 8 to upgrade* for free** to Windows 10***.
* Fresh installs of Windows 10 are "supported", but usually don't work to well unless you first upgrade to Windows 10, and then install a fresh version of Windows 10 over the top of the upgraded version (or use the Microsoft provided Windows 10 reset option that essentially does this for you.) Without doing this, the old Windows 7/Windows 8 key may not get "upgraded" and you'll find that your installation is not-activated and you have 3 days to buy Windows 10 before it gets kicked offline or will have to involve Microsoft in remotely upgrading your key for you. ** Only for retail versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1. Users with valid licensed copies of Windows XP, those with enterprise licenses (without software assurance,) or the many other caveats Microsoft has provided will need to pay to upgrade. *** Most other operating systems provide free upgrades now, Microsoft is arriving at the end of the fad and claiming that they are all innovative and stuff.
For the non-tech-literate, I'd consider recoomending something more like Mint or Cinnamon.
I am very tech-literate and prefer Mint and Cinnamon. But I came from kubuntu, so I can relate.
That was the best day ever, when my best friend told me he was tired of Windows and went out and bought a Mac. Up until that point, I was constantly over at his house helping him or someone in his family with some issue that needed to be fixed. After buying the Mac, and an initial "here is how you move your files over to the new computer," I never got a since tech support call. Wish he didn't have to spend so much money on a decent machine, but at least he isn't calling me any more about problems with his system.
The more people I move off of Windows, the number of service calls for family and friends have dropped drastically (and it isn't that they aren't using the system, I visit their house for other reasons and they usually are using it and show me all the stuff they are now proud they can do on their own without calling.) Far less "please come over and help me remove this virus" and far, far less "please help me fix this corrupted Word document." Apple made it easy, but my dad asked me a while back for help installing Mint Linux on his laptop, so it is getting some love too.
Re: Re: Re: Like Taylor Swift, copyright / DRM is not about the already successful. Witcher 3 implies two prior successes.
The first Witcher game was saddled with DRM so horrible that most purchasers couldn't play it at all without cracking it ( I was one of them )
Witcher was released on GoG DRM free, but was released by Atari with SecureROM protection. If you bought the game on GoG, you got it without DRM. If you bought it on CD, you got screwed because Atari.
I bought mine on GoG, installed it on the machines I played games on, and never had an issue.
If we blast the kid towards the nearest black hole he'll be fine as all the nasty harmful 'rays' will be sucked into the hole and away from his delicate noggin.
We really don't know what happens at the center of a black hole. However, he would be subjected to far more powerful and deadly fields heading into the black hole that the magnetic sensitivity wouldn't be his biggest issue.
I don't think that word means what they think it means.
Will they pull a T-Mobile and say unlimited data until you go over 1200GB, then we cut you off because you apparently don't agree with our definition of unlimited?
And that's why 3 UK can never be accused of false advertising; they don't offer unlimited data, they offer all-you-can-eat data with the 'you' in this case being the SIM card. :)
I kinda figure that they are going to have more problems lying in marketing than we do in the US. In the EU they tend to enforce the "you can't lie to your customers" aspect that in the US we tend to just call "marketing". Annoying as hell, you have to be really blatant (or not be big enough to hire lawyers) to run afoul of the "you can't lie to your customers" rules.
So instead it is the phone that throttles the connection after a certain amount, not the carrier.
Except that this isn't even close to true. The one time my phone did go above 5GB (on the 5GB plan,) the phone dropped to 2G (40 kb/s) even though I was using a rooted phone running an open-source version of Android.
The phone did not throttle the connection, T-Mobile did.
Taking the word "unlimited" out of the context of the terms in which it's presented is disingenuous and a complete reading comprehension fail.
But you are still failing. Unlimited means unlimited, period. You cannot have limits on "unlimited". Change the word, don't get upset when others read the word in the way that everyone else reads it (because it is the way it is defined in the dictionary.)
There is no context to the word "unlimited", otherwise it is the opposite of what it means.
Oh, yeah, everyone understands that "unlimited" applies only to the person who ordered the buffet.
Ah, yes, but that is not what the word unlimited means. Unlimited means without limits, and when you put limits on something that is unlimited, you shouldn't legally be able to call it unlimited. I know of no buffet that calls it unlimited any more...they call it all-you-can-eat, which implies that "you" is one person.
Kind of like everyone with any reading comprehension understands "unlimited" data applies to the device for which it was purchased.
Anyone with reading comprehension but no basis on reality or the English language. While I agree with you that they are quite clear on what they mean when they say that data only applies to the phone, Karl is quite right in pointing out that "unlimited" does not mean 21 GB limit, and only on the device for which it was purchased (since unlimited means without limits.)
T-Mobile should instead change their offering to "all-you-can-use-on-the-phone" data plan, but even then it isn't correct since if I was to use my phone to stream Netflix for 8 hours a day for 3 days (@ 1GB per hour,) I'd be well into their limits.
Is it really that difficult to track how much data is associated with a particular SIM? The OS should be irrelevant.
It shouldn't be. I am not sure what type of app they are using to hide their traffic usage, but it seems like the SIM is pretty unique and not easy to change, so if you are talking to the cell tower and they are recording your SIM Card Number, it should be pretty easy for them to determine how much you are using.
I am more than a little concerned about this. I don't tether my phone...I have a separate data device for connecting to my computer (which I am usually far under the maximum allotted bandwidth each month for,) but I have a non-carrier branded, rooted, and open-source ROM'd phone, partly because I don't like the nanny-monitoring software nor the "you bought your phone but we won't allow you to actually use it the way you want," aspect of this release. According to my phone, I use about 2-4 GB a month, so I am not one of those 2TB a month users, but I am very concerned when they start lumping non-official ROMs and unbranded phones into the "bad-guy" list.
Of course, wasting money on DRM can only last so long before competitors take their lunch by using every available resource to serve the customer instead of punishing them for buying their games!
I agree, but I think what CD Projekt Red is showing is the clothes-less and naked emperor...it is kinda hard for the Pro-DRM Game CEO to maintain that they would have more sales when they are outpacing quite a few of the DRM-released games (though there are still people buying a lot of AAA games, but not nearly as many as who would buy them if they didn't have DRM.) I suspect CD Projekt Red is actually selling more games without DRM, just cause people are tired of spending $50 for a game that they may not be able to install and play because of DRM (I know I've stopped buying any DRM games, solely because they might not like virtualization or running under wine or on a particular version of Windows they don't like.)
My last EA game purchased (from EA,) was about 13 years ago (Command & Conquer Generals,) which didn't work after I purchased it because of some issue with the DRM on the disk not liking my CD-ROM drive and after spending the money on a non-functioning game, I vowed never to buy any game with DRM on it ever again. Now, if it doesn't come DRM-less, I avoid it like the plague (though I still do buy some Steam games, a lot less now that I realize 6 months after they appear on Steam, they'll likely appear DRM-less on one of the DRM-Free game sites, like GoG.) And I know I am not the only one.
Amusingly I skipped the chance of acquiring every single Heroes of Might and Magic ever released for $10 (I'm a fan of the earlier games, specially Heroes III and the awesome mods out there) because most of them required uplay. No, thanks.
Heroes of Might and Magic are available on GoG, sans uplay/DRM of any type, and occasionally they have sales where you can pick them all up for around $10. Watch around June and December.
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Re: Re: Re: Wikipedia is a fount of knowledge
Which kinda proves my point. It is the same here in the US between AMBEV and SABMiller, with both trying to fight each other over "King of Beers" and "Champagne of Beers" (neither of which is true or even makes sense,) or trying to trademark "Lite". Or AMBEV and SABMiller going after smaller brewers who dare call their beer Pumpkin Ale or whatever they have called them.
They can't win by taste (although they have a huge marketshare of free and cold/cheap beer drinkers, they are still (h/t Eric Idle) like having sex in a canoe,) and they can't attract people who have chosen to drink better beer from microbrews, so they use their marketshare and the crappy legal system (the higher courts) to make things difficult for the microbrews and each other.
Never tasted Coopers (probably would pass if it was offered,) and can't stand Fosters (which I equate to the same word that I use for the American majors, piss.) Pretty much think the same of Asahi and Kirin (though they do make an awesome chocolate porter, but I consider that to be a fluke, since the only place I can seem to find it is in Tokyo at one of the many 7 & I-Holdings convenience stores and nowhere else.)
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Re: Re: Wisdom
The SCO Group?
Unfortunately, no. I don't think anyone even involved in the SCO fiasco even learned anything. I believe Darl McBride left on a golden parachute and the principles of the company went through bankruptcy and the company was bought at pennies by another company (UnXis, I believe.)
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Re: Wikipedia is a fount of knowledge
India Pale Ale (IPA) was made with strong bittering hops, mainly because of the antiseptic qualities of those hops, so that it would last the long journey over sea. Hops themselves were not a standard in beer until someone realized that adding them to beer kept the nasty critters that made beer bad out of beer. The original beers were just bread, water and yeast, but somewhere along the line someone put hops in the beer and people started seeing beer (for its alcohol and hops) as a much safer alternative than drinking water from polluted rivers.
Pale Ale itself is just a class of beer, with many subclasses. The macro-brews are just trying their hardest to maintain the monopoly they once had due to prohibition and corruption in a world where they aren't able to maintain their monopoly through prohibition and corruption (though in many cases the games they play with trademarks are corruption at its finest.)
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Re: Re: “Westcott had a gun (a legally-owned one) which he raised...”
More than one attempted home invasion caught on tape and submitted to youtube has run-of-the-mill criminal thugs approaching the house wearing jackets emboldened with "POLICE" on the back (as it is not very difficult to purchase these things online or at the cop shop.) I remember seeing one with a bunch of gang-bangers showing up in a stolen black sedan jumping out and approaching the house, then attempting to break a window to gain entry before being shot at by the homeowner and running back to the car, and another one in the dead of night where they approached the house and got shot at before they even reached the doorstep.
And I seem to remember, but can't find, a newspaper article where two men and a women attempted a home invasion where one of the men was shot and killed, and the police arrived to find him wearing a makeshift police jacket. And there was the VA invasion where two men wore police jackets and the one in NC that involved shocking a baby with a stun gun.
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Re: I almost forgot!
It is really a personal preference...I love KDE, but Cinnamon grew on me quickly.
I get sick of people repeating the antiquated trope of Windows having an advantage when it comes to hardware drivers.
I tended to throw away the driver CDs, or they got mixed up and I often didn't know what driver went with what machine. Finding drivers online is great for some companies, but terrible for most (unless you trust windriver or some of the other websites that have drivers available.) And finding a driver for the current OS you are running may be hit or miss, especially if you are using older hardware (since the company would rather you buy new hardware than install old hardware in a new operating system (ahem...Intel...ahem.) Haven't had that issue with Linux at all.
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Because Microsoft isn't giving Windows 10 away for free. Microsoft has allowed those who already have Windows 7 or Windows 8 to upgrade* for free** to Windows 10***.
* Fresh installs of Windows 10 are "supported", but usually don't work to well unless you first upgrade to Windows 10, and then install a fresh version of Windows 10 over the top of the upgraded version (or use the Microsoft provided Windows 10 reset option that essentially does this for you.) Without doing this, the old Windows 7/Windows 8 key may not get "upgraded" and you'll find that your installation is not-activated and you have 3 days to buy Windows 10 before it gets kicked offline or will have to involve Microsoft in remotely upgrading your key for you.
** Only for retail versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1. Users with valid licensed copies of Windows XP, those with enterprise licenses (without software assurance,) or the many other caveats Microsoft has provided will need to pay to upgrade.
*** Most other operating systems provide free upgrades now, Microsoft is arriving at the end of the fad and claiming that they are all innovative and stuff.
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Re: Re: 'good reviews'?!?!? Really!?!?!
I am very tech-literate and prefer Mint and Cinnamon. But I came from kubuntu, so I can relate.
That was the best day ever, when my best friend told me he was tired of Windows and went out and bought a Mac. Up until that point, I was constantly over at his house helping him or someone in his family with some issue that needed to be fixed. After buying the Mac, and an initial "here is how you move your files over to the new computer," I never got a since tech support call. Wish he didn't have to spend so much money on a decent machine, but at least he isn't calling me any more about problems with his system.
The more people I move off of Windows, the number of service calls for family and friends have dropped drastically (and it isn't that they aren't using the system, I visit their house for other reasons and they usually are using it and show me all the stuff they are now proud they can do on their own without calling.) Far less "please come over and help me remove this virus" and far, far less "please help me fix this corrupted Word document." Apple made it easy, but my dad asked me a while back for help installing Mint Linux on his laptop, so it is getting some love too.
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Re: Re: Re: Like Taylor Swift, copyright / DRM is not about the already successful. Witcher 3 implies two prior successes.
Witcher was released on GoG DRM free, but was released by Atari with SecureROM protection. If you bought the game on GoG, you got it without DRM. If you bought it on CD, you got screwed because Atari.
I bought mine on GoG, installed it on the machines I played games on, and never had an issue.
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Re: Re: There's that unlimited word again...
Hah! I thought my snark detector blew up, but here it is, working perfectly fine.
However, unlike uncarrier T-Mobile I am sure Comcast would just cut you off and tell you it was to protect your 1st Amendment rights.
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Re: Re: Well...
IEEE_802.1X
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Re: Re: Re: The Plecebo effect works both ways.
We really don't know what happens at the center of a black hole. However, he would be subjected to far more powerful and deadly fields heading into the black hole that the magnetic sensitivity wouldn't be his biggest issue.
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There's that unlimited word again...
Will they pull a T-Mobile and say unlimited data until you go over 1200GB, then we cut you off because you apparently don't agree with our definition of unlimited?
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I kinda figure that they are going to have more problems lying in marketing than we do in the US. In the EU they tend to enforce the "you can't lie to your customers" aspect that in the US we tend to just call "marketing". Annoying as hell, you have to be really blatant (or not be big enough to hire lawyers) to run afoul of the "you can't lie to your customers" rules.
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Except that this isn't even close to true. The one time my phone did go above 5GB (on the 5GB plan,) the phone dropped to 2G (40 kb/s) even though I was using a rooted phone running an open-source version of Android.
The phone did not throttle the connection, T-Mobile did.
Try again?
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But you are still failing. Unlimited means unlimited, period. You cannot have limits on "unlimited". Change the word, don't get upset when others read the word in the way that everyone else reads it (because it is the way it is defined in the dictionary.)
There is no context to the word "unlimited", otherwise it is the opposite of what it means.
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Re: Re: buffet
Ah, yes, but that is not what the word unlimited means. Unlimited means without limits, and when you put limits on something that is unlimited, you shouldn't legally be able to call it unlimited. I know of no buffet that calls it unlimited any more...they call it all-you-can-eat, which implies that "you" is one person.
Kind of like everyone with any reading comprehension understands "unlimited" data applies to the device for which it was purchased.
Anyone with reading comprehension but no basis on reality or the English language. While I agree with you that they are quite clear on what they mean when they say that data only applies to the phone, Karl is quite right in pointing out that "unlimited" does not mean 21 GB limit, and only on the device for which it was purchased (since unlimited means without limits.)
T-Mobile should instead change their offering to "all-you-can-use-on-the-phone" data plan, but even then it isn't correct since if I was to use my phone to stream Netflix for 8 hours a day for 3 days (@ 1GB per hour,) I'd be well into their limits.
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It shouldn't be. I am not sure what type of app they are using to hide their traffic usage, but it seems like the SIM is pretty unique and not easy to change, so if you are talking to the cell tower and they are recording your SIM Card Number, it should be pretty easy for them to determine how much you are using.
I am more than a little concerned about this. I don't tether my phone...I have a separate data device for connecting to my computer (which I am usually far under the maximum allotted bandwidth each month for,) but I have a non-carrier branded, rooted, and open-source ROM'd phone, partly because I don't like the nanny-monitoring software nor the "you bought your phone but we won't allow you to actually use it the way you want," aspect of this release. According to my phone, I use about 2-4 GB a month, so I am not one of those 2TB a month users, but I am very concerned when they start lumping non-official ROMs and unbranded phones into the "bad-guy" list.
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I agree, but I think what CD Projekt Red is showing is the clothes-less and naked emperor...it is kinda hard for the Pro-DRM Game CEO to maintain that they would have more sales when they are outpacing quite a few of the DRM-released games (though there are still people buying a lot of AAA games, but not nearly as many as who would buy them if they didn't have DRM.) I suspect CD Projekt Red is actually selling more games without DRM, just cause people are tired of spending $50 for a game that they may not be able to install and play because of DRM (I know I've stopped buying any DRM games, solely because they might not like virtualization or running under wine or on a particular version of Windows they don't like.)
My last EA game purchased (from EA,) was about 13 years ago (Command & Conquer Generals,) which didn't work after I purchased it because of some issue with the DRM on the disk not liking my CD-ROM drive and after spending the money on a non-functioning game, I vowed never to buy any game with DRM on it ever again. Now, if it doesn't come DRM-less, I avoid it like the plague (though I still do buy some Steam games, a lot less now that I realize 6 months after they appear on Steam, they'll likely appear DRM-less on one of the DRM-Free game sites, like GoG.) And I know I am not the only one.
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Heroes of Might and Magic are available on GoG, sans uplay/DRM of any type, and occasionally they have sales where you can pick them all up for around $10. Watch around June and December.
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Cool.
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