That's the point. They are kinda pulling numbers out of their ass.
The way they're measuring piracy rates is way to inaccurate to give a reasonable figure.
Take me. I bought the game, have it installed on Linux via Wine, and also under WinXP. When they release the Linux version, I'll use that.
The anicircumvention things should go, certainly, and the illegal search-and-seziure stuff should be purged, but the article makes a good point. Without the explicit "fair use" bits, the Web wouldn't look like it does today.
Certainly, that's a course lineup anybody could respect.
But whenever I peek in my school's "open gaming lab", all I see are college students staring openmouthed at Guitar Hero.
Good game design courses, sure. Advertising tool to lure slackers and people with unrealistic expectations, no.
The inverse is also true, simplicity can get boring very quickly. Game makers are now fully on the casual games bandwagon, for better or for worse. Tic Tac Toe is still fun, sure, but that doesn't mean chess and bridge should be ignored.
The thing is, Guitar Hero could uses about what, 10% of the Xbox360's capabilites? People pay over $500 bucks for a game that could have been implemented on a decade old system.
I go back even farther. Genesis games can be had for peanuts. And they are far more complex than this Guitar Hero business that my roommates spend large quantities of money on.
I, too dislike the fact that the new design uses more screen space than the old one. The new look is a bit sleeker, but the space tradeoff isn't really worth it.
Oh come on. This George W./Spawn of Satan strawman crap is getting old. The man's not popular, I don't agree with a thing he's done. But he's not worthy of this frenzied "anti-Bush" religious movement. FDR was way more dictatorial than Bush ever could hope to be, and there will be others.
I never could stand earbuds, for some reason. Possibly because I never bothered to find a good pair, and just went with on-ear or circumnaural.
Plus, walking down the street with cans on your head is a great way to get attention.
Unfortunately, I suspect that the vast majority of Americans on the internet are indeed this naive, Palin is just a highly visible example.
Sad, but true.
"I am so disgusted right now. I'm here in Georgia, with he gas cutoff, and I'm just aghast."
I don't get it....why did you cut the gas off to your house?
Asuuming that you don't already know this and you're not just being sarcastic, what the OP means is that here in Georgia (USA), we have a major gas shortage, as in 98% of all gas stations around the metro area have been out for days.
What that has to do with the energy bill, I don't know. Government spending didn't get us into this, lack of refineries did.
I thought that the point of the article is that they aren't?
Anyway, I'm 21, and I really wish I could just get a plain old phone with cheap service.
If I want to listen to MP3's I'd rather use something with without mediocre sound quality that's not tied irrevocably to some dubious music service.
If I want to take a picture, I'd rather use a real camera than those useless toys they put on cellphones.
Come now. On Gentoo I have to install 1 or 2 packages to get full, perfect DVD support from then on. It's not at all hard, and takes less time than installing DVD software on Windows. Same for the rest of these codecs.
People don't realize that Windows has no native support for most of these either, they're third-party apps installed by your hardware vendor.
The obstacle here is not Linux, it's goofy American legislation.
I think it's much better than the Apple ones as well, in that it doesn't have that obnoxious Apple smugness.
Besides, the Apple commercials were always missing a third character - Richard Stallman in a toga riding a GNU.
You may be on to something there. I too wondered why Gates was in these commercials, since I thought he was removing himself from the company limelight.
Really, they shoulda put Ballmer in there. And have him hit Seinfeld over the head with a chair. That would probably resonate with the public better.
I could argue that it's because all the legally questionable cracker types are Democrats, but I wont:).
Anyway. My policy is that both Democrats and Republicans are corrupt. Anybody who thinks otherwise is extraordinarily naive.
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..Only an Apple user could possibly believe that.
Vista is getting support instead of XP for the same reason XP got support instead of Windows 2000.
It's next in line. What did you expect?
Microsoft can and will make you move forward. Forward being a relative term when we're talking Microsoft.
And I'm perfectly aware of the reasons not to use Vista. Which is why I removed it from my computer.
OH NO!! NO STEREO 3D SUPPORT! I MUST USE 3D GLASSES! VISTA IS A DISASTER!
That's the point. They are kinda pulling numbers out of their ass. The way they're measuring piracy rates is way to inaccurate to give a reasonable figure. Take me. I bought the game, have it installed on Linux via Wine, and also under WinXP. When they release the Linux version, I'll use that.
Roms, yes, but not original packaging, manuals, extras, and media.
The anicircumvention things should go, certainly, and the illegal search-and-seziure stuff should be purged, but the article makes a good point. Without the explicit "fair use" bits, the Web wouldn't look like it does today.
Certainly, that's a course lineup anybody could respect. But whenever I peek in my school's "open gaming lab", all I see are college students staring openmouthed at Guitar Hero. Good game design courses, sure. Advertising tool to lure slackers and people with unrealistic expectations, no.
Not counting, of course, that you are blaming Linux as a whole for Ubuntu-specific bugs.
The inverse is also true, simplicity can get boring very quickly. Game makers are now fully on the casual games bandwagon, for better or for worse. Tic Tac Toe is still fun, sure, but that doesn't mean chess and bridge should be ignored. The thing is, Guitar Hero could uses about what, 10% of the Xbox360's capabilites? People pay over $500 bucks for a game that could have been implemented on a decade old system.
I go back even farther. Genesis games can be had for peanuts. And they are far more complex than this Guitar Hero business that my roommates spend large quantities of money on.
No Half-Life mods? No Quake mods? No DOOM mods? The legends of modding go back much, much farther than Crysis and Oblivion, geez.
I, too dislike the fact that the new design uses more screen space than the old one. The new look is a bit sleeker, but the space tradeoff isn't really worth it.
Oh come on. This George W./Spawn of Satan strawman crap is getting old. The man's not popular, I don't agree with a thing he's done. But he's not worthy of this frenzied "anti-Bush" religious movement. FDR was way more dictatorial than Bush ever could hope to be, and there will be others.
I never could stand earbuds, for some reason. Possibly because I never bothered to find a good pair, and just went with on-ear or circumnaural. Plus, walking down the street with cans on your head is a great way to get attention.
Unfortunately, I suspect that the vast majority of Americans on the internet are indeed this naive, Palin is just a highly visible example. Sad, but true.
This will enable them to fry the brain of any would be pirates, thereby freeing the world of this evil money-sapping criminal scourge!
"I am so disgusted right now. I'm here in Georgia, with he gas cutoff, and I'm just aghast."
I don't get it....why did you cut the gas off to your house?
Asuuming that you don't already know this and you're not just being sarcastic, what the OP means is that here in Georgia (USA), we have a major gas shortage, as in 98% of all gas stations around the metro area have been out for days. What that has to do with the energy bill, I don't know. Government spending didn't get us into this, lack of refineries did.
I thought that the point of the article is that they aren't? Anyway, I'm 21, and I really wish I could just get a plain old phone with cheap service. If I want to listen to MP3's I'd rather use something with without mediocre sound quality that's not tied irrevocably to some dubious music service. If I want to take a picture, I'd rather use a real camera than those useless toys they put on cellphones.
Come now. On Gentoo I have to install 1 or 2 packages to get full, perfect DVD support from then on. It's not at all hard, and takes less time than installing DVD software on Windows. Same for the rest of these codecs. People don't realize that Windows has no native support for most of these either, they're third-party apps installed by your hardware vendor. The obstacle here is not Linux, it's goofy American legislation.
I had rather envisioned it as both the Mac and PC looking at the third person and being alternately scared, confused, and uncomprehending.
I think it's much better than the Apple ones as well, in that it doesn't have that obnoxious Apple smugness. Besides, the Apple commercials were always missing a third character - Richard Stallman in a toga riding a GNU.
You may be on to something there. I too wondered why Gates was in these commercials, since I thought he was removing himself from the company limelight. Really, they shoulda put Ballmer in there. And have him hit Seinfeld over the head with a chair. That would probably resonate with the public better.
I could argue that it's because all the legally questionable cracker types are Democrats, but I wont :).
Anyway. My policy is that both Democrats and Republicans are corrupt. Anybody who thinks otherwise is extraordinarily naive.
Of course not. But the OP's tone indicated he considered this a vice particular to Republicans, which is facile, of course.
And I'll wager Democrats have been doing it for just as long.