Instead of tip-toeing around like a bunch of fairys trying on temporary hippy schemes like solar and wind, we could get off our asses, burn a few billion tonnes of coal to get something truely sustainable like fusion in a hurry.
Then when we've fixed our energy needs we can patch up the damn environment (if its not sorting itself out).
Much as everyone loves Carmack a straight video stream to the client is impractical with current connections / server resources. ISPs can't afford a renderfarm for their game servers, and I can't afford a pipe capable of streaming 1920x1200 @ 30fps from them:P
> Being forced to get level eliminates a major strategy of aimbot cheaters: camp in a distant high spot that's difficult to get to and provides you cover.
No, aimbot cheaters use the advantage their aimbot gives them to turn what would usually be a strategic disadvantage into a comical sequence of headshots. An aimbot is at its best when storming into a room, not trying to make finicky long distance shots while exposing yourself to fire.
Aimbotters tend to get lazy and complacant. Taking them by surprise, where you can be on the trigger before them is the way to do it. Of course you have to aim as well...
If they are surprising you then you have no hope:P
I might not agree with the law or it's interpretation, and I certainly defend your right to impotently whine about it on slashdot. The courts tend towards "Why the hell would you bother [with linux on xbox]?" and "Holy crap Mr Gates! Are these pirates really stealing eighty quadrillion dollars from orphans every hour?". Don't shoot the messenger.
The courts realise that the vast majority of modchippers were after pirated games - sure xbmc is great and all, but everyone I know with a modchip has a huge spindle of backups.;) Theres always some exceptionally moral individual that will whine long and loud about their rights, but really this is what happens when they ban fast cars/powerful weapons/transmitters - the overwhelming majority of humans are complete and utter fucktards and ruin it for the few that are capable of using something cool responsibly.
A console repair store selling blank chips designed to fit over or replace an xbox bios is going to be found as being sold for the purpose of infringement.
Similarily a Linux (you really think a small embedded distro for a modchip is likely to have enough of the GNU toolchain for anyone to care about?) binary which is only capable of running on xbox hardware and allows play of *cough* backups is also going to be found as a device soley for infringement.
I'm as capable as the next guy of pulling some marginal non-infringing use of tech out of my arse - that doesnt mean the courts are going to have any of it.
If it doesn't have substantial non-infringing uses, then it is still a circumvention device. Theres no loopholes here (like selling the modkit in parts).
Basically you assholes have let your government bring this law in, and now theyre trying to ram it down every other countries thoats.
Well it may be physically impossible but also essential for our survival. Thus int he end we're really screwed.
Getting screwed in the end? What a bummer.
I don't want us to get behind. It might be a pain in the arse, but we need to come together and pull in the same direction. With enough elbow grease we can take on anything, in the end.
Fusion? Something involving quantum or String, once that mess gets sorted out? Fission has a rough energy conversion of about one thousandth the available energy. Fusion has a current rough energy conversion of about 3 thousandths. That leaves 99.9% of the available energy on the table, if we can figure out how to unlock it.
Your own personal black hole. Crap in, hawking radiation out. 100% efficient.
Fixing the fucking system is the answer. Its not like the guy is going out of his way to avoid the road tax - I'm sure if there was a way to pay he would pay up.
I have a fingerworks touchstream LP. Its bloody brilliant as long as your fingers arent too dry, too wet, or too static'd up. Also if theres no crap on the surface or moisture or semen.
Basically unless apple have really improved the fingerworks tech its going to be an utter disaster in the real world.
Its a simple formula. You take the cost per day of developing and pimping DRM (DEV), the fat wads of cash you make per a day (FATCASH), the daily % of sales lost to piracy when a high def release is out (OHNOES), the number of days that your shitty DRM delays a release (PWNTIME) the amount of money lost because geeks are angry at your DRM (RMS), the incidental benefits of making money selling people the same shit twice (JSIXPK) and the amount of extra daily profit needed to get your annual executive bonus (GOAL).
(JSIXPK + (FATCASH / OHNOES) * PWNTIME) - DEV - RMS. If this is more than GOAL then you win!
I submit to you that FATCASH is extremely large, and OHNOES is very small. PWNTIME is probably in the order of a week. JSIXPACK is a fairly substantial bonus. DEV is tiny compared to (FATCASH / OHNOES) * PWNTIME. RMS is insignificant compared to JSIXPK.
Sounds like hitting GOAL would be a trivial task which would imply you win FERRARI and HOOKERS.
Yeah I mean for christs sake, who gives a rats if it comes with DRM _support_?
The support is meaningless, and is not going to delay the eventual death of DRM. Customers are going to be seen as accepting DRM iff they show a preference for DRM encumbered media.
In the meantime im going to enjoy watching DVDs without breaking some (total bullshit) copyright laws.
I am aware of the widespread shitty camera phones with a crap camera I never use adding cost.
Also I regularily contract to sites where cameras aren't allowed, so its a massive PITA trying to find a decent phone without a camera. Doubly so trying to get a decent smartphone...:(
> Now imagine that you had to do all that restoration work in a garage owned by the car show and you cannot take it with you if you want to leave.
Well, that would make you an idiot! In that case you should be pretty angry at yourself for agreeing to those terms;)
It is a fucking game after all. To use a car analogy:
Imagine you went to a go-kart track with your mates. I am one of your mates, and being smarter than you I chat about some bullshit with the hot girl running the place. She winks at me and says "Get kart #4, its been going well, oh and go wide in the second corner". Unsurprisingly I kick all your asses with my slightly better inside knowledge and pick of kart. Also I sex her up a bit in the bathroom and mop up with your towel.
Of course IRL we all head down to the pub and laugh about how Stevo rammed Bruce-o and ended up driving the wrong way and hit Roger - and your now infamous "My towel got some sticky shit on my face" comment.
However these MMO geeks would be like the griefing nerd in the group who went and measured all the tyre pressures and wing angles. Also he assumed if he won he wouldve got with the hot blonde (with massive tits) instead of me. So hes sitting in the corner nursing his beer and complaining about the great consipiricy.
Everyone else that was just treating it as a game had fun.
If you want to play with some sucky rules that makes losing hurt more, well.... cry on! Don't forget your towel;)
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And now for something completely different:
Instead of tip-toeing around like a bunch of fairys trying on temporary hippy schemes like solar and wind, we could get off our asses, burn a few billion tonnes of coal to get something truely sustainable like fusion in a hurry.
Then when we've fixed our energy needs we can patch up the damn environment (if its not sorting itself out).
Much as everyone loves Carmack a straight video stream to the client is impractical with current connections / server resources. ISPs can't afford a renderfarm for their game servers, and I can't afford a pipe capable of streaming 1920x1200 @ 30fps from them :P
:P
> Being forced to get level eliminates a major strategy of aimbot cheaters: camp in a distant high spot that's difficult to get to and provides you cover.
No, aimbot cheaters use the advantage their aimbot gives them to turn what would usually be a strategic disadvantage into a comical sequence of headshots. An aimbot is at its best when storming into a room, not trying to make finicky long distance shots while exposing yourself to fire.
Aimbotters tend to get lazy and complacant. Taking them by surprise, where you can be on the trigger before them is the way to do it. Of course you have to aim as well...
If they are surprising you then you have no hope
> Prince Rogers Nelson is the name on his birth certificate
And how does Nelson feel about this?
Several CS aimbots require fullbright coloured models and actually do screenscrape.
Lets see how the courts deal with this shall we?
;) Theres always some exceptionally moral individual that will whine long and loud about their rights, but really this is what happens when they ban fast cars/powerful weapons/transmitters - the overwhelming majority of humans are complete and utter fucktards and ruin it for the few that are capable of using something cool responsibly.
I might not agree with the law or it's interpretation, and I certainly defend your right to impotently whine about it on slashdot. The courts tend towards "Why the hell would you bother [with linux on xbox]?" and "Holy crap Mr Gates! Are these pirates really stealing eighty quadrillion dollars from orphans every hour?". Don't shoot the messenger.
The courts realise that the vast majority of modchippers were after pirated games - sure xbmc is great and all, but everyone I know with a modchip has a huge spindle of backups.
A console repair store selling blank chips designed to fit over or replace an xbox bios is going to be found as being sold for the purpose of infringement.
Similarily a Linux (you really think a small embedded distro for a modchip is likely to have enough of the GNU toolchain for anyone to care about?) binary which is only capable of running on xbox hardware and allows play of *cough* backups is also going to be found as a device soley for infringement.
I'm as capable as the next guy of pulling some marginal non-infringing use of tech out of my arse - that doesnt mean the courts are going to have any of it.
If it doesn't have substantial non-infringing uses, then it is still a circumvention device. Theres no loopholes here (like selling the modkit in parts).
Basically you assholes have let your government bring this law in, and now theyre trying to ram it down every other countries thoats.
At the moment its valued more than the combined might of all of Sony. That includes Sony-BMG etc.
;)
I find that amazing. I'm honestly surprised that the word Sony isnt worth more than all of Ninty
I like the Wii and all, but Sony is a great big bloody monolith (like the ps3, heh)
Child porn? This is about FREEDOM!
Look at societys important uses (above 14pt in the tag cloud):
furry, child, hot, bonton, humour, candid, lolita, yuko
Umm.... well im sure bonton is something about democracy and not something involving 12 year olds, right.... guys???
As you accelerate you get more massive, and so does the fuel you are fusing (and hence the rate).
At ~1c your 50kg lead shield on the front would have so much mass you could punch straight thru a sun without thinking twice about it.
You'd be fusing such a huge amount of mass that everyone else in the universe would see an incredibly bright line streaking across the cosmos.
Yes, I remember Darwin equating fitness to lack of superstition.
Assclown. If we can get there, we're fit to get there.
Last thing we need is hippies whinging about how we're wiping some rare bat on Sirus 7.
I don't want us to get behind. It might be a pain in the arse, but we need to come together and pull in the same direction. With enough elbow grease we can take on anything, in the end.
Your own personal black hole. Crap in, hawking radiation out. 100% efficient.
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Correct.
However fining people is not the answer.
Fixing the fucking system is the answer. Its not like the guy is going out of his way to avoid the road tax - I'm sure if there was a way to pay he would pay up.
Bundling shit with other products is tried, tested, common and it pisses me off.
Google bundling their shit in with DAMN JAVA AUTOUPDATES pisses me right the hell off. Its stupid and evil and I hate it.
I have a fingerworks touchstream LP. Its bloody brilliant as long as your fingers arent too dry, too wet, or too static'd up. Also if theres no crap on the surface or moisture or semen.
Basically unless apple have really improved the fingerworks tech its going to be an utter disaster in the real world.
Its a simple formula. You take the cost per day of developing and pimping DRM (DEV), the fat wads of cash you make per a day (FATCASH), the daily % of sales lost to piracy when a high def release is out (OHNOES), the number of days that your shitty DRM delays a release (PWNTIME) the amount of money lost because geeks are angry at your DRM (RMS), the incidental benefits of making money selling people the same shit twice (JSIXPK) and the amount of extra daily profit needed to get your annual executive bonus (GOAL).
(JSIXPK + (FATCASH / OHNOES) * PWNTIME) - DEV - RMS. If this is more than GOAL then you win!
I submit to you that FATCASH is extremely large, and OHNOES is very small. PWNTIME is probably in the order of a week. JSIXPACK is a fairly substantial bonus. DEV is tiny compared to (FATCASH / OHNOES) * PWNTIME. RMS is insignificant compared to JSIXPK.
Sounds like hitting GOAL would be a trivial task which would imply you win FERRARI and HOOKERS.
> If TestDriven.NET isn't an interoperable non-competing program, I don't know what is.
The more expensive MS SKUs provide unit test support. MS doesn't like that, obviously.
Yeah I mean for christs sake, who gives a rats if it comes with DRM _support_?
The support is meaningless, and is not going to delay the eventual death of DRM. Customers are going to be seen as accepting DRM iff they show a preference for DRM encumbered media.
In the meantime im going to enjoy watching DVDs without breaking some (total bullshit) copyright laws.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. (Which MS appears to be winning, at several billion points ahead of you).
I am aware of the widespread shitty camera phones with a crap camera I never use adding cost.
:(
Also I regularily contract to sites where cameras aren't allowed, so its a massive PITA trying to find a decent phone without a camera. Doubly so trying to get a decent smartphone...
Incorrect.
FingerWorks' patents covered IIRC capaciative multitouch input.
The Lemur is another multitouch company that uses a different method (needing slightly more force).
MS's tech uses a series of IR cameras for the higher res imaging.
Obviously theres a metric assload of prior art on "poking your computer display with multiple fingers".
Theres the preboot mod for vista that emulates a brandname laptop BIOS so you can skip activation.
Something tells me that these dell laptops are coming with a brandname laptop BIOS - so all you need is a key...
> Now imagine that you had to do all that restoration work in a garage owned by the car show and you cannot take it with you if you want to leave.
;)
;)
Well, that would make you an idiot! In that case you should be pretty angry at yourself for agreeing to those terms
It is a fucking game after all. To use a car analogy:
Imagine you went to a go-kart track with your mates. I am one of your mates, and being smarter than you I chat about some bullshit with the hot girl running the place. She winks at me and says "Get kart #4, its been going well, oh and go wide in the second corner". Unsurprisingly I kick all your asses with my slightly better inside knowledge and pick of kart. Also I sex her up a bit in the bathroom and mop up with your towel.
Of course IRL we all head down to the pub and laugh about how Stevo rammed Bruce-o and ended up driving the wrong way and hit Roger - and your now infamous "My towel got some sticky shit on my face" comment.
However these MMO geeks would be like the griefing nerd in the group who went and measured all the tyre pressures and wing angles. Also he assumed if he won he wouldve got with the hot blonde (with massive tits) instead of me. So hes sitting in the corner nursing his beer and complaining about the great consipiricy.
Everyone else that was just treating it as a game had fun.
If you want to play with some sucky rules that makes losing hurt more, well.... cry on! Don't forget your towel