Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 16 Sep 2014 @ 4:15am
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and, of course, wave away blame. It's not the poor studios with their outdated business models based on realities that no longer exist. it's the fault of all those countries making our lives difficult!
Also note the glossing over of the fact that any "regional" laws that do restrict these things are a direct result of industry bri... uh, lobbying
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Jun 2014 @ 10:07am
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Time and time again, I hear outside observers believe that the startup world is very insular and only focused on their own goals.
I have to wonder if this is because people don't see startups, they see large corporations that have grown out of or fed off startups and selfishness at some point becomes a defining feature of almost every corporation.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 16 Jun 2014 @ 4:20am
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The real, and I'd say only important question then is, how many of those (rightly) objecting will refuse to buy the game(s) because of it?
Meh.. haven't bought an Ubisoft title (shelf full of previous ones) since they started the "always on internet" crap. Don't really care whether they've stopped that now, they've already lost me as a customer. Stuff like this just confirms it.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 12 May 2014 @ 12:08pm
Re: How do you prove knowledge?
How could you prove that someone knows, or should have known
You're making the mistake of assuming "Innocent until proven guilty". This is the new US "justice", based on "If You can't prove you didn't you're guilty"
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 1 May 2014 @ 4:18pm
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I don't see a problem with advertising a service like that as "up to 100 Mbps", with the details in the fine print.
Hmmm dunno how it is the the US, but in the UK "up to..." is usually code for "this is the theoretical maximum speed for the type of line that might be achievable in practice if you live next door to the exchange"
I always figured that honest BB speed advertising would quote the minimum average expected speed along with perhaps the 90% rate you suggest. I.e. "Over 1 billing period (month) your average line speed will not fall below the quoted rate"
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 4 Apr 2014 @ 2:25am
There you go
But the amazing thing about a rapidly changing world where people are doing things in a decentralized and open way is that each of those failures only contributes to the knowledge for future projects, in which more and more people are testing more and more things
And here we see why big legacy players like patent and copyright so much... If you lock everything down it slows innovation and they don't have to change how they do things.
The wonders are that Governments swallow the bullshit and that the legacy players think their stranglehold will last forever.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 30 Jan 2014 @ 12:55pm
Hang on a mo...
Much of the ridiculous TheStreet article focuses on the fact that they're shocked (shocked!) that Twitter hasn't magically found all of the prostitutes using Twitter and killed their accounts. Hang on a mo... on the one hand he's talking about prostitution, on the other human trafficking as if they are the same thing. And you seem to be doing the same... There's no doubt a Venn diagram of the 2 would have an obvious overlap, but neither completely contains the other.
Among other things, isn't prostitution legal in many places? Nevada for example? The Netherlands? (Sort of) the UK? How could twitter ever be expected to block access to legal things based on local geo-targetting?
So... yet another know-nothing anti-freedom piece of crap from the "moral majority" of politics.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 29 Jan 2014 @ 8:37am
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If they implement these changes they may have to consider removing the word foot from the sport/i>
Bit late.... American "Football" doesn't involve a ball and barely involves feet as it is. Calling it football is like calling "soccer" frisbee because a bit of it involves catching something.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 29 Jan 2014 @ 7:57am
How long?
It makes you wonder how much longer the UK government can pretend that everything is perfectly fine with the GCHQ's activities.
Sadly, history suggests the answer as: Until the story appears on the front page of The Sun under a headline something like "Gov spooks killing British life"
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I should be fine...
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Re: To put it mildly
Guess which manufacturer will not be in the upgrade list?
Looks like they are making the most of that tiny marketing budget, huh?
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Um
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Fraud, where are our, ahem, protectors?
I always figured that honest BB speed advertising would quote the minimum average expected speed along with perhaps the 90% rate you suggest. I.e. "Over 1 billing period (month) your average line speed will not fall below the quoted rate"
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There you go
The wonders are that Governments swallow the bullshit and that the legacy players think their stranglehold will last forever.
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Chock-full of dumb
We don't care how useful you are, unless we get paid for EVERYTHING you can go take a running jump. All your culture are belong us.
Sincerely
The Legacy Entertainment Industries.
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Re: Scroogled?
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Sigh
"More free" is increasingly easy though... I'm thinking China might make the cut soon...
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Hang on a mo...
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How long?
Until the story appears on the front page of The Sun under a headline something like "Gov spooks killing British life"
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Re: Trademark?
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