When people see product they can make an actual informed purchase (or non-purchase).
What about when the only way to use the product is to view it? Maybe this could work if people were just posting ten minutes of a three-hour film, but it's plainly obvious what's going on when people distribute and download verbatim copies of full movies. It has nothing to do with how good the film is. It's hurting the industry because we won't buy the movie after watching it if we can just keep the file and watch it as much as we want.
How about just leaving things as they are? I don't want to have to walk all the way to the bank when my license gets taken away and there's no way in hell I'd let a bank out of all places be able to revoke my driving privileges. Let's all just get bigger wallets with more card slots instead of looking to assimilate one into another.
Since you are presumably not a lawyer, you don't have the background necessary to begin to know the ways in which lawyers do things, the tools at their disposal, and so on.
Pfft. Maybe he played Phoenix Wright. What do you have to say to that?
I'm pretty sure you could do that with current technology, as none of that requires anything to actually bend during use. Come to think of it, you can also bend OLED displays.
[T]hey won't give us a map editor that we can break to near the degree the SC one is.
I belive that happened with the SC, and WC2/3. Map editors aren't a problem as long as there are tons of fans lined up to contribute their own modifications after the release. And, in my opinion, expandability is the best thing about Blizzard RTS'es (and most other RTS'es). Even if the story is too bland, modders have a new base to work with. If the game mechanics kill the old game, some determined fans will work to make it more like SC1. And barring that, maybe it would be fun to come up with new strategies for a new game.
Also, who says they're continuing SC? Maybe they're making a new WC RTS. (Just because they have the MMO now, it doesn't mean that all story progression has to take place there. WoW is nothing like the RTS'es anyway. Though this seems unlikely.) Maybe it has nothing to do with WC or SC. It could be based off of Diablo, or something entirely new. Hell, they may actually resume working on SC: Ghost (doubtful). There's a lot they could be working on other than a sequel to SC.
Although, I must admit, I really want to see another StarCraft.
At least according to a Wikipedia entry, IBM kinda' designed the chip for supercomputing. Sony just got a scaled-down version of it (7/8 SPE's actually functioning). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_processor
As the parent said, the Cell CPU was by no means designed specifically for the PS3.
You look at a progress bar for entertainment? On a more serious note, you'd still get in one chunk, so the initial byte wouldn't matter.
What we need to look at is Gigabits per dollar. Assuming that you were somehow blessed with an ISP that would let you download over a TB/month, and had a 5Mb/s connection (and assuming constant speed), it would take roughly 19.4 days to download. Assuming a 30-day month and that your ISP charged $40/month, it would come to $25.86 for that one transfer, which would be $0.000003/Mb. Shipping a 700g package to (anywhere in) Canada via USPS airmail (The Internet is international, after all.) would be $14.50. That comes to $0.000001/MB.
But I'll be sure to forgive any hitman who kills my family. After all, they gotta make a living, right? Why, I'll bet the hitman didn't even get to choose who to kill, so it's not their fault.
Banning free access points because of the possibility of children looking at porn... Does this mean he's going to try to get all use of the Internet banned in the US? After all, you can look at porn with most any connection.
Exactly! Wanting to get paid for your work so you can afford to eat and live in a decent home is wrong. Evil, twisted bastards, the lot of them!
Think before you speak. Just because someone works for a monopolistic corporation doesn't mean they control its direction or even support its tactics. It all comes down to working environment and money. Also, who says corporations have to be likable? All they have to do is make a product sell and avoid being split up or going bankrupt.
Even so, lifespan really shouldn't be a problem if they're going to be slaughtered, packaged, and cooked a few months to a several years after birth. Disease resistance doesn't really mean much unless you're in charge of taking care of the animals. After all, that's really why we cook meat.
Still, I can't see how it would be cheaper to clone animals than just selectively breeding healthy animals.
Lets compare this with a cd which is much much smaller than a record and can hold 700 MB per side (a two-sided one would hold ~1.4GB). Not quite up to the theoretical maximum that you claim your record could get, however consider the size, or the fact that a DVD, which is the same dimensions as the CD, and uses similar technology as it can hold up to 4.7GB on a single layer disc. This is far more data than the record can hold, and requires less sensitive electronics, and much less processing power to decode.
Obviously, this means the LaserDisc is going to make a comeback soon.
Since message boards, which are the major users of CAPTCHAs, are practically by design little fiefdoms, I don't think they're nearly as hard to patrol as a common-carrier network like email. The solution to message-board spam is to either institute a moderator-delay (for small blogs and boards), or simply make enough admins with IP-ban powers so that the second someone starts spamming, they get banned and the spam gets deleted.
And for those boards/blogs getting bombarded with tens to hundreds of spambots a week? Spambots go after enything on the list that they can. That includes personal blogs and small community boards with only two or three administrators. As for the idea of IP-banning, a lot are behind proxies, so it only ends up as list bloat.
Lameness filters working on the same principles as email spam-filters are probably helpful, too.
"Lameness"? You mean like auto-deleting posts beginning with "hello, friend" (when posted by an unvalidated user) and adding the poster to a list of suspected spambots? I probably got the wrong idea from the word "lameness", but it does sound like a good idea.
Someone else has probably already posted this idea by now, but I think validation should be done with questions that can't be solved by a machine (...Well, currently.) such as "What object is in the picture to the right?" or maybe a simple riddle.
If something like that were done, it would only make driving more dangerous than if we left people with their cellphones. Such a 'feature' would frustrate people to the point that they'd either buy a used car when they had to buy a new one, or modify the vehicle in order to use one hand.
Cellphones or not, people will usually have some distraction (I.E. food, beverages, children, or one of a plethora of other things).
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What about when the only way to use the product is to view it? Maybe this could work if people were just posting ten minutes of a three-hour film, but it's plainly obvious what's going on when people distribute and download verbatim copies of full movies.
It has nothing to do with how good the film is. It's hurting the industry because we won't buy the movie after watching it if we can just keep the file and watch it as much as we want.
How about just leaving things as they are? I don't want to have to walk all the way to the bank when my license gets taken away and there's no way in hell I'd let a bank out of all places be able to revoke my driving privileges. Let's all just get bigger wallets with more card slots instead of looking to assimilate one into another.
Forget that for a moment. If they succeeded by some miracle (relative term), wouldn't they kill CD sales entirely?
It doesn't run on an alarm clock, either. Cross-platform means that it can run on more than one platform, not everything known to man.
I liked the ship better.
What's wrong with ad-supported content? We see it all the time on television.
The summary was posted on May 06, 2007 at 08:20.
Pfft. Maybe he played Phoenix Wright. What do you have to say to that?
I'm pretty sure you could do that with current technology, as none of that requires anything to actually bend during use. Come to think of it, you can also bend OLED displays.
How the first post can be modded redundant is beyond me.
What's next? A series of haiku poems? It's DeCSS all over again, isn't it?
Just correcting myself on my first point. The SC map editor was actually good.
I belive that happened with the SC, and WC2/3. Map editors aren't a problem as long as there are tons of fans lined up to contribute their own modifications after the release. And, in my opinion, expandability is the best thing about Blizzard RTS'es (and most other RTS'es). Even if the story is too bland, modders have a new base to work with. If the game mechanics kill the old game, some determined fans will work to make it more like SC1. And barring that, maybe it would be fun to come up with new strategies for a new game.
Also, who says they're continuing SC? Maybe they're making a new WC RTS. (Just because they have the MMO now, it doesn't mean that all story progression has to take place there. WoW is nothing like the RTS'es anyway. Though this seems unlikely.) Maybe it has nothing to do with WC or SC. It could be based off of Diablo, or something entirely new. Hell, they may actually resume working on SC: Ghost (doubtful). There's a lot they could be working on other than a sequel to SC.
Although, I must admit, I really want to see another StarCraft.
At least according to a Wikipedia entry, IBM kinda' designed the chip for supercomputing. Sony just got a scaled-down version of it (7/8 SPE's actually functioning).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_processor
As the parent said, the Cell CPU was by no means designed specifically for the PS3.
You look at a progress bar for entertainment?
On a more serious note, you'd still get in one chunk, so the initial byte wouldn't matter.
What we need to look at is Gigabits per dollar.
Assuming that you were somehow blessed with an ISP that would let you download over a TB/month, and had a 5Mb/s connection (and assuming constant speed), it would take roughly 19.4 days to download.
Assuming a 30-day month and that your ISP charged $40/month, it would come to $25.86 for that one transfer, which would be $0.000003/Mb.
Shipping a 700g package to (anywhere in) Canada via USPS airmail (The Internet is international, after all.) would be $14.50. That comes to $0.000001/MB.
Just my 0.0002 cents.
Wait... Did you just link Goatse in reverse?
Wait... Microsoft has hitmen?
Well, shit.
Banning free access points because of the possibility of children looking at porn... Does this mean he's going to try to get all use of the Internet banned in the US? After all, you can look at porn with most any connection.
Why not just ban children next?
Exactly! Wanting to get paid for your work so you can afford to eat and live in a decent home is wrong.
Evil, twisted bastards, the lot of them!
Think before you speak. Just because someone works for a monopolistic corporation doesn't mean they control its direction or even support its tactics. It all comes down to working environment and money.
Also, who says corporations have to be likable? All they have to do is make a product sell and avoid being split up or going bankrupt.
Even so, lifespan really shouldn't be a problem if they're going to be slaughtered, packaged, and cooked a few months to a several years after birth.
Disease resistance doesn't really mean much unless you're in charge of taking care of the animals. After all, that's really why we cook meat.
Still, I can't see how it would be cheaper to clone animals than just selectively breeding healthy animals.
...why aren't people complaining about the originals? After all, a clone is (literally) exactly the same.
Obviously, this means the LaserDisc is going to make a comeback soon.
And for those boards/blogs getting bombarded with tens to hundreds of spambots a week? Spambots go after enything on the list that they can. That includes personal blogs and small community boards with only two or three administrators. As for the idea of IP-banning, a lot are behind proxies, so it only ends up as list bloat.
"Lameness"? You mean like auto-deleting posts beginning with "hello, friend" (when posted by an unvalidated user) and adding the poster to a list of suspected spambots? I probably got the wrong idea from the word "lameness", but it does sound like a good idea.
Someone else has probably already posted this idea by now, but I think validation should be done with questions that can't be solved by a machine (...Well, currently.) such as "What object is in the picture to the right?" or maybe a simple riddle.
If something like that were done, it would only make driving more dangerous than if we left people with their cellphones. Such a 'feature' would frustrate people to the point that they'd either buy a used car when they had to buy a new one, or modify the vehicle in order to use one hand.
Cellphones or not, people will usually have some distraction (I.E. food, beverages, children, or one of a plethora of other things).