You know what Stephen Heaslip does at Bluesnews.com when users complain about overbearing ads that destroy bandwidth? He takes care of the problem ad. He doesn't turn around and treat his readers like fucking wayward children for wanting it gone.
My own issue is the elitism displayed by so-called seasoned veterans. They show their insecurity by denigrating anyone who chooses to comment on issues that was once the sole domain of professional, salaried writers.
Yes, many bloggers ARE "idiots" but folks should be looking at the new medium as a Chinese Buffet.....take what you like and leave the rest. If you're a so-called "professional", take the high road and show us all how it's done. Don't run off at the mouth like a butthurt little girl.
I read about this yesterday. I think this is a bit different in that these kids mentally tortured this girl almost every waking moment. The school and the parents were told about the situation repeatedly but failed to take action.
I don't wholly disagree but given that we don't know the specific details of what Hula showed NBC back then I'd say you might be overgeneralizing and jumping the gun a bit Mike.
I mailed in the EA forum thread where one of EA's PR guys tried to convince folks that there was going to be "No DRM". Following that half the forum posted a link to Wikipedia's definition of DRM showing that requiring a constant connection is indeed DRM no matter what way you want to spin it.
PC gamers tend to be a lot more informed than their console counterparts when it comes to this kind of corporate fuckery so its a bit odd that someone at EA would even try to sell this "no DRM" line to the community.
so does this mean if the state of Georgia imprisons a minor for an offense and it turns out that the minor in question is innocent, does the state attorney general get listed as a sex-offender under this law?
This is truly unfortunate for NewEgg. There are very very few companies that I can say I'm loyal to and NewEgg is one of them.
I had bought a video card that had a bad GPU and sent it back for a replacement. Not only did they replace it but they wanted to reward me for being such a loyal customer (I had been a regular at the time). They called 6 times before they finally got me on the phone just to make sure I knew about my "reward" (some rather expensive RAM at the time) and whether I was happy or not. If half the businesses in the US were run like NewEgg we'd be in pretty damn good shape.
The irony in all this is that when sales drop off due to this stupid scheme, management will simply end developing games for the PC rather than attempt to address the issue with something resembling intelligence.
It also boggles my mind that the shareholders in this company don't call out management on this whole situation seeing its been making news for several weeks now.
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Yes, many bloggers ARE "idiots" but folks should be looking at the new medium as a Chinese Buffet.....take what you like and leave the rest. If you're a so-called "professional", take the high road and show us all how it's done. Don't run off at the mouth like a butthurt little girl.
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Its time for Jerry to take the big bus to the dog track.
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PC gamers tend to be a lot more informed than their console counterparts when it comes to this kind of corporate fuckery so its a bit odd that someone at EA would even try to sell this "no DRM" line to the community.
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I had bought a video card that had a bad GPU and sent it back for a replacement. Not only did they replace it but they wanted to reward me for being such a loyal customer (I had been a regular at the time). They called 6 times before they finally got me on the phone just to make sure I knew about my "reward" (some rather expensive RAM at the time) and whether I was happy or not. If half the businesses in the US were run like NewEgg we'd be in pretty damn good shape.
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It also boggles my mind that the shareholders in this company don't call out management on this whole situation seeing its been making news for several weeks now.
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