Tolkien pretty much gave away the movie rights because he (and whom else ever in his camp) never thought you could even make a movie out the LOTR Would you have wanted to see a film adaptation using early 1970's film technology?.
You are buying into the marketing, that technology has "finally caught up with Tolkien".
Tolkien clearly, obviously, lifted a lot of his LOTR trilogy from Wagner's opera Ring of the Nibelungs. Wagner wasn't bothered in the slightest that there was no "technology" to seamlessly transform a humanoid character into a giant lizard in a 19th century theater (or 21st century theater for that matter), but he put that in the opera anyway.
Maybe they didn't expect someone to make a movie, but technology wasn't the reason.
Also, King Kong was made with 1930's technology and people seemed to have a lot of fun watching it at the time.
It is unlikely that demand in the West for recreational drugs will be reduced completely (the recession helps aparently) so it crop eradication is a better bet in winning the drug war.
Yeah, why solve our domestic problems when we can raise hell in a third world country instead?
The thing I like about Steam is that it gives me a great sense of ownership. I'm sure this is not strictly speaking true, but I have the feeling that the games are mine, that I can download the client to another machine and play them just fine without harassment. Yes, there is DRM, but it is invisible.
(Now, I know there are some corner cases here. Bioshock. And Valve _can_ pull the plug on me after all.)
Compare that to the game Syberia, a great point-and-click adventure game developed by non-mainstream developer Microids. They sell the game by online download, which is provided by some shitty company called Metaboli. Look at the issues I faced with their DRM junk:
1) They won't let your game run under a VM or emulation. This is by design, and intentional. (I run Steam under VMware, Crossover and natively on my Mac, depending on what works better for that particular game) 2) Their support is shit. It took them a week to answer "No it won't work under a VM, yes, it is undocumented and it is remaining that way and you already tried to run it so it activated and you are screwed, no money back 4u!". Sheeple that I am, I move to a native Windows installation. 3) If I ever need to install the game on another machine I would have to beg the fine folks who sent me the answer above, because I already wasted my allowance of three activations trying to run it under Crossover and VMware.
They are sleazy enough to promise that you can "burn your own CD" as a backup. Yeah, like it will work if the activation server goes down. Congratulations for making me feel pissed off after buying an excellent game that I liked, Microids. Though the rest of your catalogue seems to be my thing, and I loved Syberia, you managed to successfully lose this customer.
why would you want to learn something specific that would be out-of-date in short measure? Seems rather myopic to me.
Why is it worse to learn something that may be obsolete compared to something that never existed, and never will?
You know, it's not like there aren't long-standing standards in computing. I bet that some form of Unix and C will still be around in 30 years - a bit like they were around for the past 30 years. C is a simple language, Unix is a simple operating system, the both have niches that will always exist. They were not created as much as they were discovered.
You know that some professors would rather hide in the comfort of their make-believe world rather than expose their lack of understanding of the real world.
How the hell did they get a.gov domain considering that they aren't even in power yet? And even if they were, is this the kind of stuff.gov was created for?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe under the GPL they only need to show the GhostScript source to the people who bought the machines (that is, whoever takes care of elections in the US, assuming someone does).
Unless Diebold really used a non-GPL version of Ghostscript, I don't think the lawsuit is reasonable. And if it is about a the AFPL version of Ghostscript, it's not a GPL issue, obviously.
For Linux to compete, it should aim at producing distributions that support as much hardware as XP, have similar friendly installations, and possibly -- dear god did I say it -- run XP software, because win32 is the biggest software base in the world and it's what users want.
Back when Win16 was the biggest software base in the world, OS/2 was a "better Windows than Windows". Look where they are now. If all you can promise is more of the same, you will die.
"Electronic systems: good enough to control the movement of trillions of dollars in the international monetary system, perfect as a way to make sure the bombs that we drop in the third world 'won't miss' their targets, but absolutely unable to display a form on the screen and get user input in an election - go back to paper!"
Not relying on security through obscurity means that if your practices were exposed, your system would still be safe. That doesn't mean you should post your practices on the Internet.
Well, I'm an atheist and I will agree. Jesus does get dogmatic in weird ways here and there (and I will assume that's mostly the writers of the gospel's voice rather than Jesus), but he sounds very reasonable.
What doesn't sound reasonable in the Bible is that "God" guy. Too many times he is an asshole and he isn't fair. I can't find a bridge between that thug and his son, so I am assuming the whole thing is bullshit because that's what sounds more reasonable.
(And this considering that, on a purely abstract sense, I find the idea of "a god" far more reasonable than the extremely elaborate justification for the story of how Jesus came to exist.)
Please, stop designing crap and pretending it's ok that it is crap because you are throwing it at the Third World.
Also, any comment about computers in the "Third World" that includes a remark about the lack of running water is stupid. The Third World is not an homogeneous mass of starved differently-colored people living in huts in villages ruled by tribal warlords. Rural village, meet industrial city. Starving poor, meet rich entrepreneur. Civil war zone, meet stable nation. Military dictatorship, meet modern democracy. Every one of these elements is a part of the "Third World", which is a far less homogeneous place than the "First World" (not to mention geographically much larger) and thus, a lot more complicated.
Also, the country that has been the most successful so far in designing stuff for the "Third World" has been China. DUH I WONDER WHY MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE THEY NEED THIS STUFF TOO AND THUS HAVE SOME KIND OF INSIDER'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROBLEM. People in the US should be proud of their ability as a country to be technological leaders - and for that the whole world is glad, and I think even most Americans don't realize how incredibly important this technological leadership actually is, really, please keep doing what you do best and feel free not to bother trying to make the headlines with your Jesus-y, condescending, limited, crappy computer of the week designed for people living in huts by alienated college students who never had a real-world job in their lives. The technological revolution in the Third World is coming from cheap, one-generation-behind, highly integrated Chinese motherboards, running Windows Starter Edition (yes Microsoft did something right and useful!), along with governments getting a clue and removing import duties and creating lines of credit for the acquisition of these things. All of which has been happening for a while, and I assure you, nobody from MIT was not involved.
There are computers that cost little more than TVs. 99% of the population in Brazil has a TV. If they don't have a computer, it's not because they can't afford them, but because they don't see it as a priority.
Here's the Cliff's Notes version of your argument: "Blizzard made the game intentionally boring so that people would give them more money".
This is false. People would just leave. In fact, a program like Glider would likely increase their revenue, as it would reduce customer frustration.
Actually, there is at least one person who was banned from WoW because he used a programmable keyboard - those produce extremely regular input, in a way a human can't, so that's how they got him.
Why would the Firefox people do anything about it when they charge good money to include root certificates in Firefox? In fact, the way Firefox has been pushing these stupid "extended" certificates and pretending self-signed means "OMG guaranteed scammer, run!" only shows how much they are in the CA's pockets.
If you check WowJutsu you can see how many zillion trillion guilds haven't reached the endgame raid of Sunwell Plateau. It's not like you can just die yourself to victory either.
And yes, repairs are expensive at 70 with decent gear. That's why nobody ever ever raids with unknown people.
There are tables for XP needed to level in the link below. Also, quests give more XP, and "elite" areas that required a group (outside instances) were turned into solo-friendly non-elite areas, so it's more than just easier/less XP.
Yeah, but Vista got it worse. The most incredibly stupid part of is start menu is the fact that you turn your computer off by pressing a button called ">". A god-damn greater-than sign. And after you click on it you have a bunch of options like "Sleep", "Hibernate", "Snooze", "Take a nap", "Go to bed" and other quasi-synonyms. "Shutdown" is somewhere among these options.
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You are buying into the marketing, that technology has "finally caught up with Tolkien".
Tolkien clearly, obviously, lifted a lot of his LOTR trilogy from Wagner's opera Ring of the Nibelungs. Wagner wasn't bothered in the slightest that there was no "technology" to seamlessly transform a humanoid character into a giant lizard in a 19th century theater (or 21st century theater for that matter), but he put that in the opera anyway.
Maybe they didn't expect someone to make a movie, but technology wasn't the reason.
Also, King Kong was made with 1930's technology and people seemed to have a lot of fun watching it at the time.
Yeah, why solve our domestic problems when we can raise hell in a third world country instead?
The thing I like about Steam is that it gives me a great sense of ownership. I'm sure this is not strictly speaking true, but I have the feeling that the games are mine, that I can download the client to another machine and play them just fine without harassment. Yes, there is DRM, but it is invisible.
(Now, I know there are some corner cases here. Bioshock. And Valve _can_ pull the plug on me after all.)
Compare that to the game Syberia, a great point-and-click adventure game developed by non-mainstream developer Microids. They sell the game by online download, which is provided by some shitty company called Metaboli. Look at the issues I faced with their DRM junk:
1) They won't let your game run under a VM or emulation. This is by design, and intentional. (I run Steam under VMware, Crossover and natively on my Mac, depending on what works better for that particular game)
2) Their support is shit. It took them a week to answer "No it won't work under a VM, yes, it is undocumented and it is remaining that way and you already tried to run it so it activated and you are screwed, no money back 4u!". Sheeple that I am, I move to a native Windows installation.
3) If I ever need to install the game on another machine I would have to beg the fine folks who sent me the answer above, because I already wasted my allowance of three activations trying to run it under Crossover and VMware.
They are sleazy enough to promise that you can "burn your own CD" as a backup. Yeah, like it will work if the activation server goes down. Congratulations for making me feel pissed off after buying an excellent game that I liked, Microids. Though the rest of your catalogue seems to be my thing, and I loved Syberia, you managed to successfully lose this customer.
Steam gets how the experience should be.
Why is it worse to learn something that may be obsolete compared to something that never existed, and never will?
You know, it's not like there aren't long-standing standards in computing. I bet that some form of Unix and C will still be around in 30 years - a bit like they were around for the past 30 years. C is a simple language, Unix is a simple operating system, the both have niches that will always exist. They were not created as much as they were discovered.
You know that some professors would rather hide in the comfort of their make-believe world rather than expose their lack of understanding of the real world.
How the hell did they get a .gov domain considering that they aren't even in power yet? And even if they were, is this the kind of stuff .gov was created for?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe under the GPL they only need to show the GhostScript source to the people who bought the machines (that is, whoever takes care of elections in the US, assuming someone does). Unless Diebold really used a non-GPL version of Ghostscript, I don't think the lawsuit is reasonable. And if it is about a the AFPL version of Ghostscript, it's not a GPL issue, obviously.
Back when Win16 was the biggest software base in the world, OS/2 was a "better Windows than Windows". Look where they are now. If all you can promise is more of the same, you will die.
Do you really think that Nazis weren't fanatics? They killed 6 million Jews because the Jews didn't have blue eyes!
"Electronic systems: good enough to control the movement of trillions of dollars in the international monetary system, perfect as a way to make sure the bombs that we drop in the third world 'won't miss' their targets, but absolutely unable to display a form on the screen and get user input in an election - go back to paper!"
The nice old lady should learn how to be a ninja and vow to take revenge upon those who have wrong her.
How many countries of a different religion are currently under military occupation from your country? Just asking.
Not relying on security through obscurity means that if your practices were exposed, your system would still be safe. That doesn't mean you should post your practices on the Internet.
Well, I'm an atheist and I will agree. Jesus does get dogmatic in weird ways here and there (and I will assume that's mostly the writers of the gospel's voice rather than Jesus), but he sounds very reasonable. What doesn't sound reasonable in the Bible is that "God" guy. Too many times he is an asshole and he isn't fair. I can't find a bridge between that thug and his son, so I am assuming the whole thing is bullshit because that's what sounds more reasonable. (And this considering that, on a purely abstract sense, I find the idea of "a god" far more reasonable than the extremely elaborate justification for the story of how Jesus came to exist.)
Please, stop designing crap and pretending it's ok that it is crap because you are throwing it at the Third World. Also, any comment about computers in the "Third World" that includes a remark about the lack of running water is stupid. The Third World is not an homogeneous mass of starved differently-colored people living in huts in villages ruled by tribal warlords. Rural village, meet industrial city. Starving poor, meet rich entrepreneur. Civil war zone, meet stable nation. Military dictatorship, meet modern democracy. Every one of these elements is a part of the "Third World", which is a far less homogeneous place than the "First World" (not to mention geographically much larger) and thus, a lot more complicated. Also, the country that has been the most successful so far in designing stuff for the "Third World" has been China. DUH I WONDER WHY MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE THEY NEED THIS STUFF TOO AND THUS HAVE SOME KIND OF INSIDER'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROBLEM. People in the US should be proud of their ability as a country to be technological leaders - and for that the whole world is glad, and I think even most Americans don't realize how incredibly important this technological leadership actually is, really, please keep doing what you do best and feel free not to bother trying to make the headlines with your Jesus-y, condescending, limited, crappy computer of the week designed for people living in huts by alienated college students who never had a real-world job in their lives. The technological revolution in the Third World is coming from cheap, one-generation-behind, highly integrated Chinese motherboards, running Windows Starter Edition (yes Microsoft did something right and useful!), along with governments getting a clue and removing import duties and creating lines of credit for the acquisition of these things. All of which has been happening for a while, and I assure you, nobody from MIT was not involved.
There are computers that cost little more than TVs. 99% of the population in Brazil has a TV. If they don't have a computer, it's not because they can't afford them, but because they don't see it as a priority.
Here's the Cliff's Notes version of your argument: "Blizzard made the game intentionally boring so that people would give them more money". This is false. People would just leave. In fact, a program like Glider would likely increase their revenue, as it would reduce customer frustration.
Actually, there is at least one person who was banned from WoW because he used a programmable keyboard - those produce extremely regular input, in a way a human can't, so that's how they got him.
Why would the Firefox people do anything about it when they charge good money to include root certificates in Firefox? In fact, the way Firefox has been pushing these stupid "extended" certificates and pretending self-signed means "OMG guaranteed scammer, run!" only shows how much they are in the CA's pockets.
MPEG-2 will always be around. Like JPEG and MP3 decoders.
Probably US congressmen don't care as much about that kind of information as the Chinese government and the people who can be persecuted.
If you check WowJutsu you can see how many zillion trillion guilds haven't reached the endgame raid of Sunwell Plateau. It's not like you can just die yourself to victory either. And yes, repairs are expensive at 70 with decent gear. That's why nobody ever ever raids with unknown people.
He seems to be happy. Beat that.
What religion do most of the fundie abortion-clinic bombers belong to? Statistically speaking, it doesn't look good for Christianity.
What religion do Americans belong to? Statistically speaking, it doesn't look good for Christianity.
http://wowwiki.com/Formulas:XP_To_Level
Yeah, but Vista got it worse. The most incredibly stupid part of is start menu is the fact that you turn your computer off by pressing a button called ">". A god-damn greater-than sign. And after you click on it you have a bunch of options like "Sleep", "Hibernate", "Snooze", "Take a nap", "Go to bed" and other quasi-synonyms. "Shutdown" is somewhere among these options.