Although it is true that RIAA is using an age old tactic to hold onto rights, the real issue is that as everything moves to the digital age the physical limitations associated with such rights start to melt away. I think most of us here actually approve of copyright and patents (this is not an invitation to flame me), but simply find the RIAA to be approaching the problem in useless way. File sharing is impossible to stop. Digital media has no limits on duplication. We complain about the RIAA because we know that all the legal trouble they are causing will net them nothing, seeing as they aren't adapting to the landscape.
Reminds me a customer I had at a book store I used to work at. This guy had a Bill O'Rielley "no spin" jacket and was buying one of the Bill O'Rielley books. I wanted to say something until I saw his name on the credit card he was using:
John Stewart
I just tried to contain my laughter at that point. No it was not THE John Stewart.
I haven't heard of most of the music in GH, but when you consider the totality of all music it's not hard to understand. I don't know half the music any of my friends listen to, and I don't think they know half the music I listen to. There is a lot of music out there, especially if you avoid the radio.
Interesting points. It explains why the games seems seem to have such a high level of polish and yet seem rushed. Make sure you post the video on YouTube if you have to eat your shirt though.
Brain age sold well because it claimed to make you smarter and your brain younger. Their market was literally dumb people who wanted a game to fix that. That is like printing your own money. Games shouldn't get more mundane, they just need to make more outrageous claims. I'm thinking an immune system boost version of Mario Paint would sell nicely.
Then it is just about advertising. And it's ok with me if they tell me what kind of sunglasses to wear. Other than that advertising does bother me much.
It depends what they are trying to do. These data points won't have any context, it would be tricking to get it accurate over half the time. But it sounds like they want to make money by offering the most context sensitive advertising possible. Advertising to one exact person. And for that they only need to be 1% better than a placebo. So although they can do it, it's not a tin foil hat alarm. They are only going to be effective in telling you what kind of sunglasses to buy. They won't turn you into the RIAA, unless you are, you know, a ringleader for that kind of thing.
Note: I don't think you have a tin foil hat, but the story is really only interesting if they plan to track us down with this info.
How can they plan to do this though without any sort of verification? Even Google asks you to login so they can do this, and every time I let my sister use the computer my search results get swayed. They can come up with the perfect algorithm but they won't know when they are right or not, and I don't see how they can get around that.
If I share a computer with my family, won't their data get watered down? And when my friend comes over and checks his favorite web sites, the data will just get worse. I know MS could still find me 99%, I'm the guy who goes to/. and nytimes web site a dozen times a day, no chance there's another person with habits like that, but their database will be compromised by every user variable you can imagine. You have no privacy on the internet but you do have anonymity because your computer doesn't care who you are, just what kind of access you have.
One day, one days soon, I will wake up and there will be news for the PS3, good news. I fully expect it to be full wiimote support. Or maybe some games. Honestly, all the news we get is "Sony is not doing well, and there really isn't any reason for them to do well in the near future, yadda yadda yadda, blu-ray"
Municipal wifi should be free, otherwise there isn't much of a point in having the government doing it. And as far as who could use it, everyone, if it were standard. If everyone in the country had wifi around every paved street, how long before almost every aspect of the society took advantage of this? Especially public transportation, imagine you could log on to the city's web site and select your location and destination, and get an ETA, and then start playing poker with your buddies online while you wait.
I have to say it. Supreme commander looks worse than TA on low, (medium looks fine), because you can rotate the camera. TA faked it's 3d terrain. All things considered, it's worth it. 3 years from now when I have a machine that runs it flawlessly, it will be one of the best game to own, just like TA. And yes, it is sad that I have to wait 3 years for hardware to come out and my wallet to afford it, but think of it this way, by then the mods for it will be awesome. It is the complete opposite of StarCraft, but I like how different they are.
You are going to get a lot of replies, so I thought I would start by saying, good for you. You know what you want and play to enjoy. I don't dig console FPS, but I like they are there. To the inevitable fanboys who will flame you: he doesn't like the game. He doesn't think that the game makes you stupid or that the people who make them are evil, he just doesn't like it. To Ryan, what games do you like?
Everything you said was right on the money... right until the end. I think in 2 years you will really start to feel the limited space of DVD. To support my claim look at the features in Splinter Cell Double Agent across all consoles. Sure, there may be a million reasons why the 360 version isn't the most feature packed one, but it seems to me that a good candidate was the space, as when you take a game HD you need the space for graphics. Lets all wait for GTA IV and see what happens. If the PS3 version has more features... think what will happen in 2 years.
It is a deal breaker, what makes youtube great is that you can almost watch it as easy as zapping through TV. Otherwise it is no better than Ebaulmsworld, which hosted videos way before Google existed. You know, the yahoo age.
I agree. If they post the list then they lose a lot of power. On the other hand never attribute to malice what can be accounted for by simple incompetence. Maybe they just can't get a decent list of what patents may be infringed on. MS probably isn't ready to handle the (negative) publicity such a list would generate.
I have to suggest you give some credit where it is due. They make a Console FPS that was perfectly tuned to the controls. If you ever played the game on the PC you can tell how they made certain it possible for a console gamer get the most out of an FPS without a mouse. Getting the controls right is usually 95% of what makes me love a game, and although I prefer using a mouse for FPS, any company who can get the controls as polished as Bungie can deserves a good amount of success.
AMD was doing great, and for years they had the cost/performance ratio to justify their success. But now Intel has a better chip cost/performance wise (in the 200-300$ range), and they are on top. I've used AMD for years but when my buddy asked me how he should go last weeks I told him Intel. Nothing is better for the market than to have two teams who are almost equal - it's fun to watch and their hard work is our benefit.
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Although it is true that RIAA is using an age old tactic to hold onto rights, the real issue is that as everything moves to the digital age the physical limitations associated with such rights start to melt away. I think most of us here actually approve of copyright and patents (this is not an invitation to flame me), but simply find the RIAA to be approaching the problem in useless way. File sharing is impossible to stop. Digital media has no limits on duplication. We complain about the RIAA because we know that all the legal trouble they are causing will net them nothing, seeing as they aren't adapting to the landscape.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Reminds me a customer I had at a book store I used to work at. This guy had a Bill O'Rielley "no spin" jacket and was buying one of the Bill O'Rielley books. I wanted to say something until I saw his name on the credit card he was using: John Stewart I just tried to contain my laughter at that point. No it was not THE John Stewart.
I haven't heard of most of the music in GH, but when you consider the totality of all music it's not hard to understand. I don't know half the music any of my friends listen to, and I don't think they know half the music I listen to. There is a lot of music out there, especially if you avoid the radio.
I can tell by the comments that the community is in an uproar.
Why do I have to choose? I take offense that God is a particle and that he exists anywhere outside of my own head. Call me a nut wack job.
Interesting points. It explains why the games seems seem to have such a high level of polish and yet seem rushed. Make sure you post the video on YouTube if you have to eat your shirt though.
Why weren't there jobs like this when I was a kid? I would have loved to waste someone's time for cash.
Brain age sold well because it claimed to make you smarter and your brain younger. Their market was literally dumb people who wanted a game to fix that. That is like printing your own money. Games shouldn't get more mundane, they just need to make more outrageous claims. I'm thinking an immune system boost version of Mario Paint would sell nicely.
Then it is just about advertising. And it's ok with me if they tell me what kind of sunglasses to wear. Other than that advertising does bother me much.
Why do they have to? Are they actually obligated to do no evil?
It depends what they are trying to do. These data points won't have any context, it would be tricking to get it accurate over half the time. But it sounds like they want to make money by offering the most context sensitive advertising possible. Advertising to one exact person. And for that they only need to be 1% better than a placebo. So although they can do it, it's not a tin foil hat alarm. They are only going to be effective in telling you what kind of sunglasses to buy. They won't turn you into the RIAA, unless you are, you know, a ringleader for that kind of thing. Note: I don't think you have a tin foil hat, but the story is really only interesting if they plan to track us down with this info.
How can they plan to do this though without any sort of verification? Even Google asks you to login so they can do this, and every time I let my sister use the computer my search results get swayed. They can come up with the perfect algorithm but they won't know when they are right or not, and I don't see how they can get around that.
If I share a computer with my family, won't their data get watered down? And when my friend comes over and checks his favorite web sites, the data will just get worse. I know MS could still find me 99%, I'm the guy who goes to /. and nytimes web site a dozen times a day, no chance there's another person with habits like that, but their database will be compromised by every user variable you can imagine. You have no privacy on the internet but you do have anonymity because your computer doesn't care who you are, just what kind of access you have.
One day, one days soon, I will wake up and there will be news for the PS3, good news. I fully expect it to be full wiimote support. Or maybe some games. Honestly, all the news we get is "Sony is not doing well, and there really isn't any reason for them to do well in the near future, yadda yadda yadda, blu-ray"
Municipal wifi should be free, otherwise there isn't much of a point in having the government doing it. And as far as who could use it, everyone, if it were standard. If everyone in the country had wifi around every paved street, how long before almost every aspect of the society took advantage of this? Especially public transportation, imagine you could log on to the city's web site and select your location and destination, and get an ETA, and then start playing poker with your buddies online while you wait.
I have to say it. Supreme commander looks worse than TA on low, (medium looks fine), because you can rotate the camera. TA faked it's 3d terrain. All things considered, it's worth it. 3 years from now when I have a machine that runs it flawlessly, it will be one of the best game to own, just like TA. And yes, it is sad that I have to wait 3 years for hardware to come out and my wallet to afford it, but think of it this way, by then the mods for it will be awesome. It is the complete opposite of StarCraft, but I like how different they are.
You are going to get a lot of replies, so I thought I would start by saying, good for you. You know what you want and play to enjoy. I don't dig console FPS, but I like they are there. To the inevitable fanboys who will flame you: he doesn't like the game. He doesn't think that the game makes you stupid or that the people who make them are evil, he just doesn't like it. To Ryan, what games do you like?
Everything you said was right on the money... right until the end. I think in 2 years you will really start to feel the limited space of DVD. To support my claim look at the features in Splinter Cell Double Agent across all consoles. Sure, there may be a million reasons why the 360 version isn't the most feature packed one, but it seems to me that a good candidate was the space, as when you take a game HD you need the space for graphics. Lets all wait for GTA IV and see what happens. If the PS3 version has more features... think what will happen in 2 years.
It is a deal breaker, what makes youtube great is that you can almost watch it as easy as zapping through TV. Otherwise it is no better than Ebaulmsworld, which hosted videos way before Google existed. You know, the yahoo age.
I agree. If they post the list then they lose a lot of power. On the other hand never attribute to malice what can be accounted for by simple incompetence. Maybe they just can't get a decent list of what patents may be infringed on. MS probably isn't ready to handle the (negative) publicity such a list would generate.
I have to suggest you give some credit where it is due. They make a Console FPS that was perfectly tuned to the controls. If you ever played the game on the PC you can tell how they made certain it possible for a console gamer get the most out of an FPS without a mouse. Getting the controls right is usually 95% of what makes me love a game, and although I prefer using a mouse for FPS, any company who can get the controls as polished as Bungie can deserves a good amount of success.
Thank you for some common sense. I didn't think he said he could make THE Halo, but the article was abiguous.
AMD was doing great, and for years they had the cost/performance ratio to justify their success. But now Intel has a better chip cost/performance wise (in the 200-300$ range), and they are on top. I've used AMD for years but when my buddy asked me how he should go last weeks I told him Intel. Nothing is better for the market than to have two teams who are almost equal - it's fun to watch and their hard work is our benefit.
Except when they need to check /. Or Wikipedia.