It makes perfect sense if you realize that the PS3 is the only really future-proof Blu-ray player on the market right now. That, and the fact that it's almost the same price as a stand-alone player, plus you can play games, media, and install Linux on it.
Simply naming something Open Office XML is enough to pass muster with most people who have a vague notion that "open standard" is somehow vaguely associated with "good." It's actually Office Open XML. The fact that you confused the name just goes to prove your point about exactly why they named it "open", and even so close to the name "OpenOffice".
I don't mind cashing in on established characters if they do it right. Batman Begins stands as quite possibly the finest comic book movie I've ever seen, even surpassing the original Superman in my opinion (Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor was always a little too campy for my tastes, but Margot Kidder was a way better Lois Lane than Kate Bosworth). I have very high expectations for The Dark Knight.
I've always been a huge fan of 2D sprites. A well animated and detailed 2D sprite uses up much less resources and can do things you could never do with a 3D model, even an insanely detailed high-res textured one. Seeing well detailed 2D graphics makes me smile.
How could it not be necessary? In order to be considered as legal evidence in a court of law, the method of gathering said evidence must be validated. This isn't law, it's just common sense! How can they possibly say "We have evidence you wronged us, but we can't show you" and that's that?
...is that the schools would be required to promote "legal alternatives" for music to students, i.e. iTunes, Napster and the like. Most universities already monitor their network to curb file sharing. But the university being forced to push commercial services on students is way over the line. These are supposed to be institutions of learning, not free advertising. Now you've got student tuitions and tax dollars being spent on the recording industries PR campaigns. The whole thing makes me sick.
Rogers combined with Yahoo! to launch "Rogers Yahoo! Hi-speed Internet" in 2004 up here in Canada. My @rogers.com email address is now checked through Yahoo's web mail interface. If MS buys Yahoo, what happens to this relationship?
Call me old fashioned, but if your webpage relies on IE hacks to display properly and it will break when viewed in a browser/mode that actually follows standards, you deserve to have your page broken. If everyone (MS included) could just follow the goddamn standards, we wouldn't have this issue.
I have to agree with this full well. We used primarily Java in my university CS program (though also C, Scheme and some assembly and Python in other courses) and though we had access to Hashtable, LinkedList, et all, before we were allowed to use them in our more complicated programs, the first thing we had to do was actually implement them ourselves to understand exactly how they worked. The key is understanding what's going on before you jump into using all these data structures and APIs.
Old cartridges effectively had no load times. Look at the N64. Levels are a useful gameplay design construct. Perfect example: Super Mario Galaxy. Level structure, but absolutely zero load times (very cleverly masked).
I could be wrong, but it sounds more like they're looking for technical documentation and solutions to the issues rather than lobbying politicians for new laws. Also, do you really think that we even have "open market operations"? ISPs in North America have government regulated monopolies and it's killing our ability to keep pace with the rest of the world in connection speed and penetration to the majority of the population. I agree the solution is not more government regulation, but to kill these geographical monopolies.
If you'd rather use dual analog sticks than the remote for Prime 3, you're insane. Turn the sensitivity up to expert and try to tell me that's not the closet anyone has ever come to a mouse and keyboard on a console FPS.
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but my Windows XP box (I need it for games...bear with me) installs the driver again whenever I plug a USB device into a different port then it was on before. I always thought that was odd, not to mention really stupid. After using Ubuntu (Kubuntu specifically) on my machine at work, I was hooked and decided to dual boot my home box.
No, they really are idiots. I'm not talking about people who can't compile source code or fix registry problems by themselves. I'm talking about people who really do think IE (or Google for that matter) is "the Internet"; people who can barely check their email; people who don't understand that turning off the monitor doesn't turn off "the computer". These are the same people who somehow manage to stumble through life and reproduce only because our society is built upon catering to the lowest common denominator all the time.
Yes, that's quite brilliant. Complain about the graphics on a game that is universally ridiculed as having terrible graphics on every single platform it was released on, not to mention being all around terrible. Obviously, this MUST be because of the Wii's inferior graphical capabilities.
I wish I had mod points left for the parent. This is exactly what I told my brother when he asked about the crack. Just because the key is useless on new discs doesn't mean the crack was useless as a whole. People yell "You idiots! Now they'll switch to a new one!" but that's exactly what we want them to do. Force them to use this ridiculous key revoking model, because it will only slow down hackers and (more importantly) piss off and alienate consumers when their new $600 HD player suddenly doesn't work without an update.
Wow...I didn't even know that happened. I can't even find the words to describe that. How in the name of high holy F*** is this legal? I can't even begin to understand. Does this apply to ANY web music broadcast or only those based in the US? I can't see how they could possibly collect from anyone outside the US, as they don't have jurisdiction...or so I think.:P
Can't Internet radio stations just simply refuse to play RIAA music then? This would be great. We'd get stations full of independent artists and labels. I want to see billboard music disappear with what they're doing. They're trying to cripple and control the Internet instead of working with it. They need to learn that this will only lead to their downfall.
What about all those ads about how piracy is wrong and "you wouldn't steal a car"? I love being made to feel guilty after plunking down $10 for a movie.
Actually, it's a dish consisting of french fried topped with cheese curds and gravy, and quite tasty. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
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It makes perfect sense if you realize that the PS3 is the only really future-proof Blu-ray player on the market right now. That, and the fact that it's almost the same price as a stand-alone player, plus you can play games, media, and install Linux on it.
I don't mind cashing in on established characters if they do it right. Batman Begins stands as quite possibly the finest comic book movie I've ever seen, even surpassing the original Superman in my opinion (Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor was always a little too campy for my tastes, but Margot Kidder was a way better Lois Lane than Kate Bosworth). I have very high expectations for The Dark Knight.
I've always been a huge fan of 2D sprites. A well animated and detailed 2D sprite uses up much less resources and can do things you could never do with a 3D model, even an insanely detailed high-res textured one. Seeing well detailed 2D graphics makes me smile.
How could it not be necessary? In order to be considered as legal evidence in a court of law, the method of gathering said evidence must be validated. This isn't law, it's just common sense! How can they possibly say "We have evidence you wronged us, but we can't show you" and that's that?
The Jaguar was much better than the original PlayStation, CPU-wise. Which would you rather have?
...is that the schools would be required to promote "legal alternatives" for music to students, i.e. iTunes, Napster and the like. Most universities already monitor their network to curb file sharing. But the university being forced to push commercial services on students is way over the line. These are supposed to be institutions of learning, not free advertising. Now you've got student tuitions and tax dollars being spent on the recording industries PR campaigns. The whole thing makes me sick.
We also use PostgreSQL in our system at my current workplace. I've found it to be very robust and solid, moreso than MySQL.
Rogers combined with Yahoo! to launch "Rogers Yahoo! Hi-speed Internet" in 2004 up here in Canada. My @rogers.com email address is now checked through Yahoo's web mail interface. If MS buys Yahoo, what happens to this relationship?
Call me old fashioned, but if your webpage relies on IE hacks to display properly and it will break when viewed in a browser/mode that actually follows standards, you deserve to have your page broken. If everyone (MS included) could just follow the goddamn standards, we wouldn't have this issue.
I have to agree with this full well. We used primarily Java in my university CS program (though also C, Scheme and some assembly and Python in other courses) and though we had access to Hashtable, LinkedList, et all, before we were allowed to use them in our more complicated programs, the first thing we had to do was actually implement them ourselves to understand exactly how they worked. The key is understanding what's going on before you jump into using all these data structures and APIs.
Old cartridges effectively had no load times. Look at the N64. Levels are a useful gameplay design construct. Perfect example: Super Mario Galaxy. Level structure, but absolutely zero load times (very cleverly masked).
I could be wrong, but it sounds more like they're looking for technical documentation and solutions to the issues rather than lobbying politicians for new laws. Also, do you really think that we even have "open market operations"? ISPs in North America have government regulated monopolies and it's killing our ability to keep pace with the rest of the world in connection speed and penetration to the majority of the population. I agree the solution is not more government regulation, but to kill these geographical monopolies.
If you'd rather use dual analog sticks than the remote for Prime 3, you're insane. Turn the sensitivity up to expert and try to tell me that's not the closet anyone has ever come to a mouse and keyboard on a console FPS.
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but my Windows XP box (I need it for games...bear with me) installs the driver again whenever I plug a USB device into a different port then it was on before. I always thought that was odd, not to mention really stupid. After using Ubuntu (Kubuntu specifically) on my machine at work, I was hooked and decided to dual boot my home box.
So they might possibly not be stupid, but just lazy instead. Because that's so much better.
No, they really are idiots. I'm not talking about people who can't compile source code or fix registry problems by themselves. I'm talking about people who really do think IE (or Google for that matter) is "the Internet"; people who can barely check their email; people who don't understand that turning off the monitor doesn't turn off "the computer". These are the same people who somehow manage to stumble through life and reproduce only because our society is built upon catering to the lowest common denominator all the time.
Yes, that's quite brilliant. Complain about the graphics on a game that is universally ridiculed as having terrible graphics on every single platform it was released on, not to mention being all around terrible. Obviously, this MUST be because of the Wii's inferior graphical capabilities.
I wish I had mod points left for the parent. This is exactly what I told my brother when he asked about the crack. Just because the key is useless on new discs doesn't mean the crack was useless as a whole. People yell "You idiots! Now they'll switch to a new one!" but that's exactly what we want them to do. Force them to use this ridiculous key revoking model, because it will only slow down hackers and (more importantly) piss off and alienate consumers when their new $600 HD player suddenly doesn't work without an update.
Wow...I didn't even know that happened. I can't even find the words to describe that. How in the name of high holy F*** is this legal? I can't even begin to understand. Does this apply to ANY web music broadcast or only those based in the US? I can't see how they could possibly collect from anyone outside the US, as they don't have jurisdiction...or so I think. :P
Can't Internet radio stations just simply refuse to play RIAA music then? This would be great. We'd get stations full of independent artists and labels. I want to see billboard music disappear with what they're doing. They're trying to cripple and control the Internet instead of working with it. They need to learn that this will only lead to their downfall.
Could that have anything to do with the fact that we just caved to US lobbyist pressure to buy some goodwill?
I see shipped. I'd like to know how many were sold. On an interesting sidenote, how many of those sold were to be played on PS3s?
What about all those ads about how piracy is wrong and "you wouldn't steal a car"? I love being made to feel guilty after plunking down $10 for a movie.
Actually, it's a dish consisting of french fried topped with cheese curds and gravy, and quite tasty. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine