I used to think it was a gimmick, etc etc. One day a friend lent me a PSP, had it for a week, didn't like it much. I was kinda big, low battery life.. dunno.. something didn't quite feel right..
Then a few months ago, I met some guys that organized nintendo-themed meetings. They lent me a DS, and I tried a few games for a few minutes.. and I was in love.
Now I got my own DS Lite, and man, those are the best 200 bucks I've spent (yes it's that expensive here, sadly).
At least it shows that people shouldnt rush to discard hypothesis of assassinations and plots of the sort as paranoid conspiracy theories (i.e.: a fantasy). This stuff does happen, and the CIA is one agency that is well known for this kind of thing.
Of course many will, seeing they cant dismiss this as loony stories anymore, justify them like its something completely normal and everyone does just the same so its ok to do it (like Puls4r, a couple of posts above).
Well, there's a reason for that. It IS a matter of privacy. Not that a that guy's privacy is more important than yours, but the guy at amazon doesn't know who the fuck you are, and if they gave that information to anyone who just calls up and says 'hey, someone theatened me! give me his address!', they might just as well post it online for everyone to see. I'm actually surprised they even gave you the info without you even at least reporting the incident to the police.
I guess from Jacko's POV, accepting the invitation would be accepting to go talk to a huge bunch of murderers higly trained in various killing, torturing, driving, flying, jumping and mushroom-eating tactics with sophisticated simulators!! Just try to picture that.. a room filled with potential mass murderers, all having expressed their profound hatred towards him..
Besides, they're not being forced to air the show with the offending speech. if they don't feel it should be aired, then don't put it on the air or change the schedule, but DON'T CENSOR IT. I hate TNT and its stupid bits of silence in movies when someone swears.
Not only read directly from memory, but instead of adding a 'hard drive' why not just add support for USB mass storage devices?? then you can choose what to use: USB keys, card adapters (maybe you got some memorysticks/CF/whatever cards lying around.. I have a 1G MMC that's not compatible with the Wii's sd card driver., and of course you can attach a hard drive with a USB enclosure to it, so it's obviously better than limiting yourself to just a hard drive attachment.
From there, it'd be quite simple to add usb keyboard support for use with opera, or usb/mouse for FPSs (if you feel so inclined, and the developers see it worth supporting as an alternative.. I wouldn't mind:)).
I can't remember now, but I think there was a law or something, I just can't remember if it was regarding copyright or patents or trademarks, which basically said that if you have knowledge of infringement, you HAVE to sue, or risk losing the right to the infringed material/tm/whatever..
Can any lawyer in the crowd correct this and explain if it may apply?
The sad thing is that they're not trying to extort money from anyone, all they tried to do is scare away potential customers (think CEOs, CIOs, CTOs) from adopting linux/FOSS. Anything that they associate with 'risk' they run away from as if it was the plague.
And they succeeded. It may help a little to debunk the claims as vocally as possible, but the damage is already done:(
Right. How many companies marketed different games which use the GH guitar-controller? If you want to make a game that uses the GH controller, you must know that you'll only sell it to people that play (have) GH at best, brobably not to all of them, so you're limiting your universe of potential customers.
There's a big difference however, between offering an *alternative* innovative controller to an existing console, and launching a new generation of consoles with such controller as a default.
Alternative controllers often end up having only a few games for them, as game companies know they'll be addressing a fraction of the customer base if they do games for that controller. If the controller is the default on the system, all users of that system have it, so it's not risky to produce games for it.
It's their choice, and I'm ok with it. Other distros also add or remove support for certain packages based on ideological positions (non free software, no binaries, stuff like that), so ubuntu and Dell can very well agree to do this to promote that way of considering GNU/Linux.
And besides, it's still ubuntu, so nothing prevents those who MUST have wine to add a rep to their sources.list and get it somewhere else.
yes, that's a problem. But it doesn't allow one to assume that they're lying. it's the responsibility of the person doing the accusation to prove that the other one is actually doing something illegal.
Wake me up when they're ready to actually SELL me a record or a movie. I don't want no 'license' to listen/watch something or any shit of the sort. I want to OWN a COPY. Copyright says I can't redistribute copies. Fine. But I want MINE to be MY OWN, and do with it whatever the fuck I want.
They can't have their cake and eat it too... and if they can.. well, they shouldn't.
Just the other day I was reading some other news on the subject and thought, what'll happen when things like second life becomes super photorealistic.. or if a porn producer cooks up some kiddie porn pics... but all raytraced, 100% artificial 3dstudio made shit (no real kids involved)?
I guess it boils down to the intent of the law: was it made to ban kiddie porn because it's atrocious, disgusting, etc (ie it's being banned on morality grounds, like we could ban, say, violent video games.. whatever we call it it's censorship), or to protect kids, because (for now) they're being used for the pics, and they're being molested for real?
If it's the first one, how is that any different from banning bondage pics, for example? or s/m or zoophilic pics that one might consider 'extremely perverted'? where is the line drawn and why?
If it's the second one.. then one should agree that 100% artificial 3d-rendered kiddie porn pics should be legal...
There's NO way in hell it's gonna lower prices. It's actually going to raise prices. These things cost money. Maybe each one isn't all that expensive, but global deployment, adapt current processes to include this, prepare stores to handle it, it might really end up costing up almost as much as they claim to be losing, and even if it doesn't, it's a perfect excuse to raise prices (you think they would mind a little extra pocket change?).
Other thing that may happen is that they offer this as an option to stores (and they cost the same or just a little bit more, but then they sell/rent the de-activation equipment to the store to be able to use them and make the money there... who do you think will end up paying for the costs anyway?)
Same thing used to happen here in Argentina (in some parts it still does), and that is IMO a even more of a reason to foster technological development in the country. The more you depend on imports for hi-tech tools which are more and more important each day, the harder it'd be for the local economy and general welfare to improve in a global capitalist society. Electronics produced in India (or in Argentina) may currently suck, but unless we push to help the local industry develop in that area, it will keep sucking.
Having kids get cheap PCs is great, but not nearly as much as having them produced in your own country, where many kids will benefit from the laptops, and many many other will benefit from their parent's jobs required to build them , etc.
Now, about the confidence in government.. well, that's a constant in 3rd world countries.. don't think for a second that I doubt my country's government is any different. However, one can't just say "they're all thieves and that's that". Sometimes (maybe in cases like this one) their interests run parallel to those of the people (win-win), and that can be encouraged, aside from obviously trying to actually do something, anything you can, no matter how little it is, to improve the situation.
Some of my friends ran off to europe or the us during the 2001 crisis to get better jobs, or to 'save' themselves. I've been offered jobs in europe and the us, but I didn't want to take them, because I didn't want to live better in another country, I want to be able to live better in THIS one.
Yeah, god forbid they actually try and go around building their own tools, or *gasp* even maybe gain some experience in the field!! ZOMG! what are they thinking?? I mean, after all its INDIA, right? like they live in huts and are just now discovering 'electricity'!
"Made in Japan" didn't mean much for quality right after WW2 either, you know. Look at them now. That doesn't mean India is going to pull it off, but sure as hell they should try, and that would be FAR more helpful for poor indian kids and their families than the laptops themselves.
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I used to think it was a gimmick, etc etc. One day a friend lent me a PSP, had it for a week, didn't like it much. I was kinda big, low battery life.. dunno.. something didn't quite feel right..
Then a few months ago, I met some guys that organized nintendo-themed meetings. They lent me a DS, and I tried a few games for a few minutes.. and I was in love.
Now I got my own DS Lite, and man, those are the best 200 bucks I've spent (yes it's that expensive here, sadly).
Heh, Booze-Jabbar
At least it shows that people shouldnt rush to discard hypothesis of assassinations and plots of the sort as paranoid conspiracy theories (i.e.: a fantasy). This stuff does happen, and the CIA is one agency that is well known for this kind of thing.
Of course many will, seeing they cant dismiss this as loony stories anymore, justify them like its something completely normal and everyone does just the same so its ok to do it (like Puls4r, a couple of posts above).
At least Im glad theyre coming clean about it..
Well, there's a reason for that. It IS a matter of privacy. Not that a that guy's privacy is more important than yours, but the guy at amazon doesn't know who the fuck you are, and if they gave that information to anyone who just calls up and says 'hey, someone theatened me! give me his address!', they might just as well post it online for everyone to see. I'm actually surprised they even gave you the info without you even at least reporting the incident to the police.
I wouldn't touch a MI game with a laser pointer if Ron Gilbert isn't designing it.
:)
Also, there's no such thing as MI3 or 4 (especially 4), I've removed them from my memory, and I'll deny them until Ron does a *real* MI3
It's a trap allright!
I guess from Jacko's POV, accepting the invitation would be accepting to go talk to a huge bunch of murderers higly trained in various killing, torturing, driving, flying, jumping and mushroom-eating tactics with sophisticated simulators!! Just try to picture that.. a room filled with potential mass murderers, all having expressed their profound hatred towards him..
geez.. get this guy locked up already.
Besides, they're not being forced to air the show with the offending speech. if they don't feel it should be aired, then don't put it on the air or change the schedule, but DON'T CENSOR IT. I hate TNT and its stupid bits of silence in movies when someone swears.
Not only read directly from memory, but instead of adding a 'hard drive' why not just add support for USB mass storage devices?? then you can choose what to use: USB keys, card adapters (maybe you got some memorysticks/CF/whatever cards lying around.. I have a 1G MMC that's not compatible with the Wii's sd card driver., and of course you can attach a hard drive with a USB enclosure to it, so it's obviously better than limiting yourself to just a hard drive attachment.
:)).
From there, it'd be quite simple to add usb keyboard support for use with opera, or usb/mouse for FPSs (if you feel so inclined, and the developers see it worth supporting as an alternative.. I wouldn't mind
I can't remember now, but I think there was a law or something, I just can't remember if it was regarding copyright or patents or trademarks, which basically said that if you have knowledge of infringement, you HAVE to sue, or risk losing the right to the infringed material/tm/whatever..
Can any lawyer in the crowd correct this and explain if it may apply?
Exactly.
And that's why it sucks so much.
Please someone mod parent up
The sad thing is that they're not trying to extort money from anyone, all they tried to do is scare away potential customers (think CEOs, CIOs, CTOs) from adopting linux/FOSS. Anything that they associate with 'risk' they run away from as if it was the plague.
:(
And they succeeded. It may help a little to debunk the claims as vocally as possible, but the damage is already done
Right. How many companies marketed different games which use the GH guitar-controller? If you want to make a game that uses the GH controller, you must know that you'll only sell it to people that play (have) GH at best, brobably not to all of them, so you're limiting your universe of potential customers.
Quick!!!! Call Tang!!!
How about this one? I know it's not photorealistic, but it might be better than wii sports golf.. did he try it out?
Gee.. that's one I won't be buying then.. wasn't there another golf game?
Tell him he can get tiger woods's pga tour 07
There's a big difference however, between offering an *alternative* innovative controller to an existing console, and launching a new generation of consoles with such controller as a default.
Alternative controllers often end up having only a few games for them, as game companies know they'll be addressing a fraction of the customer base if they do games for that controller.
If the controller is the default on the system, all users of that system have it, so it's not risky to produce games for it.
It's their choice, and I'm ok with it. Other distros also add or remove support for certain packages based on ideological positions (non free software, no binaries, stuff like that), so ubuntu and Dell can very well agree to do this to promote that way of considering GNU/Linux.
And besides, it's still ubuntu, so nothing prevents those who MUST have wine to add a rep to their sources.list and get it somewhere else.
yes, that's a problem. But it doesn't allow one to assume that they're lying. it's the responsibility of the person doing the accusation to prove that the other one is actually doing something illegal.
I'm tired of this SHIT.
Wake me up when they're ready to actually SELL me a record or a movie. I don't want no 'license' to listen/watch something or any shit of the sort. I want to OWN a COPY. Copyright says I can't redistribute copies. Fine. But I want MINE to be MY OWN, and do with it whatever the fuck I want.
They can't have their cake and eat it too... and if they can.. well, they shouldn't.
Just the other day I was reading some other news on the subject and thought, what'll happen when things like second life becomes super photorealistic.. or if a porn producer cooks up some kiddie porn pics... but all raytraced, 100% artificial 3dstudio made shit (no real kids involved)?
I guess it boils down to the intent of the law: was it made to ban kiddie porn because it's atrocious, disgusting, etc (ie it's being banned on morality grounds, like we could ban, say, violent video games.. whatever we call it it's censorship), or to protect kids, because (for now) they're being used for the pics, and they're being molested for real?
If it's the first one, how is that any different from banning bondage pics, for example? or s/m or zoophilic pics that one might consider 'extremely perverted'? where is the line drawn and why?
If it's the second one.. then one should agree that 100% artificial 3d-rendered kiddie porn pics should be legal...
I'm not sure what to think of all this...
There's NO way in hell it's gonna lower prices. It's actually going to raise prices. These things cost money. Maybe each one isn't all that expensive, but global deployment, adapt current processes to include this, prepare stores to handle it, it might really end up costing up almost as much as they claim to be losing, and even if it doesn't, it's a perfect excuse to raise prices (you think they would mind a little extra pocket change?).
Other thing that may happen is that they offer this as an option to stores (and they cost the same or just a little bit more, but then they sell/rent the de-activation equipment to the store to be able to use them and make the money there... who do you think will end up paying for the costs anyway?)
Okay.. how much did they pay you for this?
Same thing used to happen here in Argentina (in some parts it still does), and that is IMO a even more of a reason to foster technological development in the country. The more you depend on imports for hi-tech tools which are more and more important each day, the harder it'd be for the local economy and general welfare to improve in a global capitalist society. Electronics produced in India (or in Argentina) may currently suck, but unless we push to help the local industry develop in that area, it will keep sucking.
Having kids get cheap PCs is great, but not nearly as much as having them produced in your own country, where many kids will benefit from the laptops, and many many other will benefit from their parent's jobs required to build them , etc.
Now, about the confidence in government.. well, that's a constant in 3rd world countries.. don't think for a second that I doubt my country's government is any different. However, one can't just say "they're all thieves and that's that". Sometimes (maybe in cases like this one) their interests run parallel to those of the people (win-win), and that can be encouraged, aside from obviously trying to actually do something, anything you can, no matter how little it is, to improve the situation.
Some of my friends ran off to europe or the us during the 2001 crisis to get better jobs, or to 'save' themselves. I've been offered jobs in europe and the us, but I didn't want to take them, because I didn't want to live better in another country, I want to be able to live better in THIS one.
Yeah, god forbid they actually try and go around building their own tools, or *gasp* even maybe gain some experience in the field!! ZOMG! what are they thinking?? I mean, after all its INDIA, right? like they live in huts and are just now discovering 'electricity'!
"Made in Japan" didn't mean much for quality right after WW2 either, you know. Look at them now. That doesn't mean India is going to pull it off, but sure as hell they should try, and that would be FAR more helpful for poor indian kids and their families than the laptops themselves.