IANAL-- It's stronger copyright law - but for 'our' side I guess.
It's not stronger copyright law, the way copyright works has not changed at all, it's just an already existing copyright being honoured by the federal court, after for some reason a lesser court refused to honour it. I could probably explain better if I RTFA but we all know that's not going to happen
IIRC, the original ruling that the lower court made in order to claim that the artistic license was powerless, was that no money changed hands therefore there were wookies on endor or something equally inane.
I'd prefer if this was upheld, bad news for FOSS but everyone who gets sued by the RIAA for file-sharing could just state that no money was transferred therefore the copyright license was meaningless
MPC: So, you said Rage is a 60Hz game. Is it an OpenGL or DirectX game?
JC: Itâ(TM)s still OpenGL, although we obviously use a D3D-ish API [on the Xbox 360], and CG on the PS3. Itâ(TM)s interesting how little of the technology cares what API youâ(TM)re using and what generation of the technology youâ(TM)re on. Youâ(TM)ve got a small handful of files that care about what API theyâ(TM)re on, and millions of lines of code that are agnostic to the platform that theyâ(TM)re on.
MPC: Are you using DirectX 9 equivalent? For Doom 4 as well?
JC: Yes to both. Itâ(TM)s one of those things I get asked a lot. Whatâ(TM)s big and exciting for DirectX 10 or DirectX 11? Thereâ(TM)s not a whole lot of⦠really not a whole lot. The big touted geometry shaders were in many ways, a mistaken belief that people desperately wanted to create stencil shadow volume.
So less than a month ago John said that he's still developing with OpenGL and that DX10 isn't really a worthwhile improvement.
And congratulations on referring me to something he said ages ago, when you find something more recent feel free to reply
DX10 is the future platform for games, unless you live in some fantasy land in which vista isn't going to eventually over take XP.
Microsoft are pushing forward both Windows 7 and DX11 now (Not sure why DX11, but Windows 7 probably in response to how terrible Vista's reviews were), Windows 7 is set to be released in 2009 or early 2010, I honestly can't see Vista overtaking XP between now and then, and for that reason I can't see games developers cutting off XP users.
The way I see it, XP will be overtaken by Windows 7, not Vista, as long as Windows 7 doesn't get any significant delays, and DX9 will be overtaken by DX11
I've seen many, many studies showing that OpenGL2 beats DX9 in performance, (but only if you DON'T use Microsoft's implementation of OpenGL, which for some reason sucks ass.)
Obviously OpenGL2 vs. DX9 is very different to OpenGL3 vs. DX10, but to 90% of the market it's irrelevant since they don't run Vista and therefore don't have DX10, OpenGL is competing with DX9, not 10, and winning.
How about the creation of a fully operational open source, cross platform, DX10 or DX11 implementation, not created by Microsoft but by the community,
Wine will do this, eventually.
Wine uses OpenGL to do the actual rendering AFAIK, it reads the DirectX function calls, but it doesn't interface with the hardware itself, it basically just implements the functions with OpenGL calls.
So while the OpenGL dependency may be less obvious for the user or casual developer, it's still there, and a bad OpenGL release means a bad DirectX implementation in Wine
I'm no expert though, correct me if I'm wrong about this
That's why I think setting up labaia.org as well as changing IP was a very good move, Italian users (for now) don't have to know how to use tor or OpenDNS, or even what an IP address is to get access again.
They just need to hear from someone that labaia.org leads to the same place but isn't blocked.
They've already changed their IP address and bought the domain name labaia.org for Italians to access the site. Seems very different from "absolutely nothing"
That could be a good way to demo a game though, especially multiplayer games which generally get played for a long time, a couple of dollars a week or a one-time fee of whatever the game costs?
Well now games are starting to require to be connected to the internet on startup to verify that they're registered, so if you aren't on the internet you can't play a game, pirated copies never have this hassle.
I'm sure there's a lot of cases where people without constant internet access want to play a game, and for these people it's best to just download the game when you do have internet and then never have to worry about it again.
I don't pirate games, but I only buy cheap games (usually from the discount section at Gamestop) because games these days are just really fucking expensive. A new game nowadays is going for about â60 if it's in any way good, and never less than â50, for you Americans that's $90 for any new game, and it's usually no more enjoyable than the stuff I get for â7-15 other than better graphics
tl;dr: Games nowadays are expensive and not necessarily any better than old, cheap ones.
they're in the business of flying airplanes. Where I get the rest of my services is up to me.
Believe me, trusting Ryanair to successfully fly an airplane is about as stupid as expecting to be allowed bring a suitcase without paying hidden charges.
You'd think they'd need all the help they could get. Still, they are Irish... (dons his flameproof underwear ready for the inevitable politically correct flamers).
That's probably true, but it won't be us (the Irish) modding you down, we'll all be drunkenly laughing at your comments, blame the racist mods who think the Irish can't take a joke.
Most of the time in cases like this it makes them feel much better knowing that they have some kind of power over the victim. He could have of course found regular porn, but maybe in his mind regular porn is too boring?
Not sure about the actual laws applicable but I can imagine that this could amount to cases of hacking (Most places define it as "unauthorised access" and being allowed to repair it doesn't make him allowed to install spy software) and/or stalking.
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I don't think you got my point.
You call China a communist country, I call it a country with "a Starbucks and an American company exploiting the workers on every corner."
It has been communist in name only for a long time. (Not that I'm saying it was better back then)
Hey that's not fair.
Communist countries generally don't have a Starbucks and an American company exploiting the workers on every corner.
They have government run cafés and companies exploiting workers on every corner
I was joking.
IANAL-- It's stronger copyright law - but for 'our' side I guess.
It's not stronger copyright law, the way copyright works has not changed at all, it's just an already existing copyright being honoured by the federal court, after for some reason a lesser court refused to honour it. I could probably explain better if I RTFA but we all know that's not going to happen
is a legal distinction
IIRC, the original ruling that the lower court made in order to claim that the artistic license was powerless, was that no money changed hands therefore there were wookies on endor or something equally inane.
I'd prefer if this was upheld, bad news for FOSS but everyone who gets sued by the RIAA for file-sharing could just state that no money was transferred therefore the copyright license was meaningless
Don't make jokes about DHMO, I know a guy who died after inhaling it at the beach. It may not be nice to hear about it, but DHMO really does kill
And assuming a schedule is kept, in less than 1-3 years Windows 7 and DX11 will be out.
MPC: So, you said Rage is a 60Hz game. Is it an OpenGL or DirectX game?
JC: Itâ(TM)s still OpenGL, although we obviously use a D3D-ish API [on the Xbox 360], and CG on the PS3. Itâ(TM)s interesting how little of the technology cares what API youâ(TM)re using and what generation of the technology youâ(TM)re on. Youâ(TM)ve got a small handful of files that care about what API theyâ(TM)re on, and millions of lines of code that are agnostic to the platform that theyâ(TM)re on.
MPC: Are you using DirectX 9 equivalent? For Doom 4 as well?
JC: Yes to both. Itâ(TM)s one of those things I get asked a lot. Whatâ(TM)s big and exciting for DirectX 10 or DirectX 11? Thereâ(TM)s not a whole lot of⦠really not a whole lot. The big touted geometry shaders were in many ways, a mistaken belief that people desperately wanted to create stencil shadow volume.
So less than a month ago John said that he's still developing with OpenGL and that DX10 isn't really a worthwhile improvement.
And congratulations on referring me to something he said ages ago, when you find something more recent feel free to reply
Oh and source of interview: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/e3_2008_the_john_carmack_interview_rage_id_tech_6_doom_4_details_and_more?page=0%2C0
DX10 is the future platform for games, unless you live in some fantasy land in which vista isn't going to eventually over take XP.
Microsoft are pushing forward both Windows 7 and DX11 now (Not sure why DX11, but Windows 7 probably in response to how terrible Vista's reviews were), Windows 7 is set to be released in 2009 or early 2010, I honestly can't see Vista overtaking XP between now and then, and for that reason I can't see games developers cutting off XP users.
The way I see it, XP will be overtaken by Windows 7, not Vista, as long as Windows 7 doesn't get any significant delays, and DX9 will be overtaken by DX11
I've seen many, many studies showing that OpenGL2 beats DX9 in performance, (but only if you DON'T use Microsoft's implementation of OpenGL, which for some reason sucks ass.)
Obviously OpenGL2 vs. DX9 is very different to OpenGL3 vs. DX10, but to 90% of the market it's irrelevant since they don't run Vista and therefore don't have DX10, OpenGL is competing with DX9, not 10, and winning.
How about the creation of a fully operational open source, cross platform, DX10 or DX11 implementation, not created by Microsoft but by the community,
Wine will do this, eventually.
Wine uses OpenGL to do the actual rendering AFAIK, it reads the DirectX function calls, but it doesn't interface with the hardware itself, it basically just implements the functions with OpenGL calls.
So while the OpenGL dependency may be less obvious for the user or casual developer, it's still there, and a bad OpenGL release means a bad DirectX implementation in Wine
I'm no expert though, correct me if I'm wrong about this
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That's why I think setting up labaia.org as well as changing IP was a very good move, Italian users (for now) don't have to know how to use tor or OpenDNS, or even what an IP address is to get access again.
They just need to hear from someone that labaia.org leads to the same place but isn't blocked.
They've already changed their IP address and bought the domain name labaia.org for Italians to access the site. Seems very different from "absolutely nothing"
That could be a good way to demo a game though, especially multiplayer games which generally get played for a long time, a couple of dollars a week or a one-time fee of whatever the game costs?
Well now games are starting to require to be connected to the internet on startup to verify that they're registered, so if you aren't on the internet you can't play a game, pirated copies never have this hassle.
I'm sure there's a lot of cases where people without constant internet access want to play a game, and for these people it's best to just download the game when you do have internet and then never have to worry about it again.
I don't pirate games, but I only buy cheap games (usually from the discount section at Gamestop) because games these days are just really fucking expensive. A new game nowadays is going for about â60 if it's in any way good, and never less than â50, for you Americans that's $90 for any new game, and it's usually no more enjoyable than the stuff I get for â7-15 other than better graphics
tl;dr: Games nowadays are expensive and not necessarily any better than old, cheap ones.
Ryanair employees are used to customers screaming at them over unfair business practises, I don't think they'd mind
they're in the business of flying airplanes. Where I get the rest of my services is up to me.
Believe me, trusting Ryanair to successfully fly an airplane is about as stupid as expecting to be allowed bring a suitcase without paying hidden charges.
You'd think they'd need all the help they could get. Still, they are Irish ... (dons his flameproof underwear ready for the inevitable politically correct flamers).
That's probably true, but it won't be us (the Irish) modding you down, we'll all be drunkenly laughing at your comments, blame the racist mods who think the Irish can't take a joke.
Trust me, no airline wants to be like Ryanair in any way.
And does that mean that assembly programmers are evil?
Yes
Because of this it's pretty common for Java Go programs to run 100x faster than even the very best hand crafted assembler.
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Most of the time in cases like this it makes them feel much better knowing that they have some kind of power over the victim. He could have of course found regular porn, but maybe in his mind regular porn is too boring?
Not sure about the actual laws applicable but I can imagine that this could amount to cases of hacking (Most places define it as "unauthorised access" and being allowed to repair it doesn't make him allowed to install spy software) and/or stalking.