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Why bother to couple GeForce GPUs with the Macs, if you aren't going to bother to utilize that power for games? It makes no sense. That's like buying a Ferrari just to drive to church every sunday.

I see a lot of comments already about how the Macs cost a lot..

Let me pose this question to those people then - with the recent changes in the industry, who is really paying more? The Mac users or the Windows users? Any high end card nowadays comes in PCI Express, which almost certainly requires you to buy a new motherboard, and possibly a new processor, on top of that $200-$400 card. Gaming definitely knows how to suck that money out of your wallet quicker than any Mac will.

Windows users are allowed to play more , but we pay the price for it. I suppose it's a necessary evil in order to enjoy gaming at its finest..

Linux users are not being barred from playing DVD movies on their systems. The professor obviously is not aware that all Linux users have available to them a licensed application to do precisely that.

I have not seen anything about any aplication that allows DVD's to be played under Linux. I know someone was working on a LinDVD, but I thought that was still under devlopment.

U.S. TV networks, among others, sued iCraveTV in federal court in Pittsburgh (where its domain name was registered), and Canadian producers and TV stations filed suit in Canada. The court's swift response was a temporary restraining order, which commanded the Web site to close pending a trial. Chief Judge Ziegler of the western district of Pennsylvania made it clear the site was violating copyright law.

I did a whois and found that yes the domain is registered to someone in PA, but the Administrative contact is listed in Toronto.

The Internet ranks alongside Gutenberg's movable type and the invention of television as one of the three great inventions of human society. But it cannot reach its potential if partisans insist on following Lessig's tattered counsel. Or if closed minded people like you try to tear it down claiming IP and copyright laws. You've been lucky this far... but I'd be willing to bet if this went on long enough you're going to find a court that doesn't agree with you.

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References taken from http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151, 10885,00.html

No doubt "thieves" should be punished and content should not be "stolen." But "theft" is defined relative to the law and the First Amendment, not to an ideal of perfect control. And when the law grants a right to speech, that right is ordinarily defended even if control over that speech is not perfect. But according to the MPAA, until iCraveTV can "guarantee" that no hacker can crack its security system, iCraveTV should be enjoined from giving Canadians access to desktop TV. The principle is extraordinary. Does a movie theater lose the right to show R-rated movies if local moralists can produce a ticket sold to a 15-year-old? Should Amazon.com (AMZN) be barred from selling Mein Kampf anywhere if a German court finds that some Germans succeeded in buying the illegal (in Germany) book? Can Congress ban porn on the Net if it is shown that kids might be exposed?

A very frightening thought indeed. Ask yourself is this the type of world you want to live in??

Actually there are some lawyers that are going after the porno right now. There is a lawyer that wants Valve to patch half-life so that color spraypaint can't be used anymore. Aparently people are using the spraypaint to traffic porn to minors. I don't remember the link offhand... it may be at halflife.net

Linux users are not being barred from playing DVD movies on their systems. The professor obviously is not aware that all Linux users have available to them a licensed application to do precisely that.

I have not seen anything about any aplication that allows DVD's to be played under Linux. I know someone was working on a LinDVD, but I thought that was still under devlopment.

U.S. TV networks, among others, sued iCraveTV in federal court in Pittsburgh (where its domain name was registered), and Canadian producers and TV stations filed suit in Canada. The court's swift response was a temporary restraining order, which commanded the Web site to close pending a trial. Chief Judge Ziegler of the western district of Pennsylvania made it clear the site was violating copyright law.

I did a whois and found that yes the domain is registered to someone in PA, but the Administrative contact is listed in Toronto.

The Internet ranks alongside Gutenberg's movable type and the invention of television as one of the three great inventions of human society. But it cannot reach its potential if partisans insist on following Lessig's tattered counsel. Or if closed minded people like you try to tear it down claiming IP and copyright laws. You've been lucky this far... but I'd be willing to bet if this went on long enough you're going to find a court that doesn't agree with you.

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References taken from http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151, 10885,00.html

No doubt "thieves" should be punished and content should not be "stolen." But "theft" is defined relative to the law and the First Amendment, not to an ideal of perfect control. And when the law grants a right to speech, that right is ordinarily defended even if control over that speech is not perfect. But according to the MPAA, until iCraveTV can "guarantee" that no hacker can crack its security system, iCraveTV should be enjoined from giving Canadians access to desktop TV. The principle is extraordinary. Does a movie theater lose the right to show R-rated movies if local moralists can produce a ticket sold to a 15-year-old? Should Amazon.com (AMZN) be barred from selling Mein Kampf anywhere if a German court finds that some Germans succeeded in buying the illegal (in Germany) book? Can Congress ban porn on the Net if it is shown that kids might be exposed?

A very frightening thought indeed. Ask yourself is this the type of world you want to live in??

Actually there are some lawyers that are going after the porno right now. There is a lawyer that wants Valve to patch half-life so that color spraypaint can't be used anymore. Aparently people are using the spraypaint to traffic porn to minors. I don't remember the link offhand... it may be at halflife.net

I stand corrected, abashed, and amazed . (2.1.10)

-lw

I agree with bs, Halo looks incredible, and should be ported to linux. Also Tribes 2 is going to rock, and I'd love to play it on my linux box. Finally HalfLife is huge, w/ like 10,000 people playing it online at peak afternoon/evening times (CS ROCKS!), this should DEFINITELY be ported.