People who watch a lot of TV over the internet are no doubt going to experience a fairly annoying problem fairly quickly.
TV over the internet will push anyone far over the so-called standard deviation from mean internet usage; HD over the internet, especially high quality HD, will bring the utter wrath of cable modem ISPs... especially if you decide to forego cable TV service as a result.
Also watch out for a huge upsurge in packet prioritizing - as in all but blocking TV-over-internet sources outside your ISP's network.
This is where secret ISP "bandwidth hog" limits and non network neutrality are guaranteed to hobble the next big thing.
You'll be able to have an unlimited number of units (if you have the supplies for them) like you can in Command and Conquer?
Of course then again I love StarCraft for how FAST it plays and how quickly it loads, but I also love CnC for the epic magnitude of some of those "10 minutes no rush" games, which are much bigger in CnC than in StarCraft.
If you run into a place where MMoRPG-level un-civil behavior is rampant in a population as big as WoW and the like, you better believe the lack of civility is factored in when someone gets punched out.
Attitudes like yours routinely cause employers crippling lawsuits that get decided against them, because society is now highly intolerant of that crap.
Wal Mart is a major Linux customer. That would put big hitters like Wal Mart in a war with MicroSoft.
Oh, happy day!
But then that would also either end with a) the end of all software patents (if the USSC invalidates them)
or
b) the collapse of the tech industry from all the businesses going under due to the iron clad resolution that individual software procedures can be patented and not just whole programs. In essence, MicroSoft might be aware that in this case, it would be the absolute ruler of a dead industry with corporate few players left to buy its software, and throngs of home users simply abandoning computers because Windows is too friggin expensive and it's (in that scenario) the only way to use a computer.
I live the lifestyle he's talking about, and after reading you, I ran the numbers given my wife's sister's household income. Yup, that extra $40K woulda splattered us, given her loan rates (not mine).
Which is why I'm fairly reluctant to preach about this, at least until Aaaahnuld gets his act right.
Games are often made nowadays for the 360 when they are made multi platform.
The 360 tops out at ~7 gigs of content on a single disc, which means it's the weakest link.
Games for the PC can have a 1 zillion DVD game if they need it, and the PS3 has Blu-Ray, which is what... 25 GB per disc?
Let's put this in real world terms. The Sims 2 and all its games take up about 7 gigs. If The Sims 2 comes out with a few more expansion packs it'll be well over 7 gigs. EA can release, in the future, the entire Sims 2 Uber Collection for the PC on a few dual layer DVDs or one Blu-Ray DVD for BR-owners. EA could release it on the PS3 on 25gb Blu-Ray because the PS3 has Blu-Ray built in. The 360? Tough cookies for them.
So yeah, the 360 is the weakest link. Making this RPG for the 360 will limit the amount of content that it can provide, unless the developers intend on releasing a truncated version for the 360. On topic fact, not flamebait or troll.
My theory is that with China's pollution levels, the population would be poisoned to death. There wouldn't be anyone left alive to stop an invader. Their pollution is that serious over there.
China can't stop an orbital nuclear attack, or even ICBMs or sub-launched nukes.
China has no Navy - not one that can survive a handful of US subs. Our cruisers can take them out from beyond visual range.
** That's why they haven't even invaded little baby Taiwan. **
We know where all their major production factories are and can be done with them with a handful of strike bombers that they can't even see, much less shoot down. Failing that we can hit them from orbit.
What is more likely is that China, if sufficiently provoked, will fsck us up economically. But they'll play that card ONCE. That will bring the offshoring universe crashing down as Americans learn how vulnerable it makes us. We'll not make that mistake twice and China will lose its biggest customer. We'll produce our own stuff from then on and China will choke and asphyxiate and get sick and die in its own industrial filth.
We could move in and take over, although the pollution clean-up and dead body disposal might make that unfeasible for decades.:)
And revolutions have also been bred into the gene pool as a survival mechanism.
There's an order of escalation when it comes to that: soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box. Use in that order.
Right now we're somewhere between ballot box and jury box, as far as urgency is concerned. I implore people to act en masse now before we get to ammo box.
It's about the police state that Jack Valenti helped sire upon this country - "trusted" computing where your computer isn't yours to control; copy protections that prevent you from backing up your DVDs which leaves you vulnerable to your kid turning your precious movie into a PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! coaster; higher punishments for copying a DVD than stealing a car; ill fated legislation to let the MPAA crash your hard drive if they think you're pirating stuff... and so on.
Yes, historically, people have been hung... hanged... guillotined... shot... made to walk the plank... for waging this kind of police state war on our freedoms.
It's a shame this man grew old and fell into his grave and left behind a legacy of nothing short of pure corporate statist tyranny for the rest of us to get out from under.
Oh please, McDonald's isn't going to pay to relocate a kindergarten dropout like you when the only job skill you have is wanking off on pics of John Wayne's hairy ass while meticulously counting the pimples and butt hairs.
Spare me any more of your big bad rugged cowboy talk, the closest thing you ever got to manhood was pulling a train on Castro street.
Now grab your ankles, I see they're coming back for more.
He should have been hung as an enemy of our rights as Americans.
I know some people that were sued by the MPAA under his regime, who didn't have any pirated movies, and who were nearly ruined by legal expenses.
I don't care about angry MPAA fans and their mod points, he deserves a long line of people waiting to piss on his grave for the laws he and the RIAA have inflicted upon an unwilling majority of citizens in this country.
It's been ages since I've been to a movie because of him.
It's all anime for me now.
Not a dime to the MPAA-affiliated studios until the DMCA is shot down and buried for good.
So use your My-Needs-Uber-Alles Brain, and don't arbitrarily decide to sell into a down market, asshole. Bottom line: Quit blaming others.
You're such an idiot. What if you need to relocate for a job? Moron. And this also affects anyone who refinanced years ago and the entire region's property values drop. Ever heard of being upside-down on a house? Take your "quit blaming others" and shove it. No person is an island, no matter what your brain dead rantings say to the contrary. No, really, they aren't. You're making a giant fool of yourself screeching about it.
And Choicepoint makes money off you without you doing business with anyone? How? By getting money for info sold to others? So what. What do want, a cut? What are you putting in, as far as value, to get a cut? Your existence in the market eco-system? Big fucking deal.
You must be one of those 'tards who doesn't see your personal information as your personal property. Why not get a cut of the business when someone sells your driver's license info to someone you never even voluntarily did business with? You're putting in something of value every time you make money for someone, and Choicepoint selling your drivers license info to marketers is absolutely positively an example of that. They make money off your existence in the market ecosystem, so why can't you? What gives them that right and not you? Oh wait, they're a corporation and you're not. You're just a corporate ass sucking toady. Do you get paid to write that crap? No? Not even a reach around? Come on, man. Hookers should at least get paid!
By the way, what's with all the uber generalizations? Are you paying any attention at all to the dosages on those little bottles?
*sigh* You're so God damned dense you must have your own gravitational field. Of course, your brand of ignorance, cluelessness and blindly flailing hostility is quite understandable considering that your skull is routinely employed as a septic tank. Judging by all the bullshit you just spewed, it appears you managed to get run over by a parked bus. Again.
Didn't think so, sure doesn't sound like it. Relax, and again, quit blaming your fucking shortcomings, real or imagined, on the neighbors. People like you (paranoid, over-generalizing blamer/conspiracy-addicts) should, I don't know, be watched, maybe... [nervous laughter]
You know, it's quite unfortunate that when God was handing out brains, you had your head shoved so far up your aircraft hangar of a corporate whored ass that your parents named you "Cheshire Cat".
I am so looking forward to what will come of your next episode of "as the forehead rolls around on the keyboard"...
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People who watch a lot of TV over the internet are no doubt going to experience a fairly annoying problem fairly quickly.
TV over the internet will push anyone far over the so-called standard deviation from mean internet usage; HD over the internet, especially high quality HD, will bring the utter wrath of cable modem ISPs... especially if you decide to forego cable TV service as a result.
Also watch out for a huge upsurge in packet prioritizing - as in all but blocking TV-over-internet sources outside your ISP's network.
This is where secret ISP "bandwidth hog" limits and non network neutrality are guaranteed to hobble the next big thing.
You'll be able to have an unlimited number of units (if you have the supplies for them) like you can in Command and Conquer?
Of course then again I love StarCraft for how FAST it plays and how quickly it loads, but I also love CnC for the epic magnitude of some of those "10 minutes no rush" games, which are much bigger in CnC than in StarCraft.
If you run into a place where MMoRPG-level un-civil behavior is rampant in a population as big as WoW and the like, you better believe the lack of civility is factored in when someone gets punched out.
Look up provocation sometime.
Try that at my workplace.
I'll see you out the door, with cause.
Attitudes like yours routinely cause employers crippling lawsuits that get decided against them, because society is now highly intolerant of that crap.
Just ask Don Imus.
Mod parent up. Underrated and insightful.
Greetings from a former white box tester turned data center manager.
We need more software QA testers. The sheer amount of show stopper bugs making it into released products today says that much.
Testers need more respect and they need to be held to higher standards.
Also note that the importance of the US economy is why gold is still traded on the US dollar rather than the Euro.
Wal Mart is a major Linux customer. That would put big hitters like Wal Mart in a war with MicroSoft.
Oh, happy day!
But then that would also either end with
a) the end of all software patents (if the USSC invalidates them)
or
b) the collapse of the tech industry from all the businesses going under due to the iron clad resolution that individual software procedures can be patented and not just whole programs. In essence, MicroSoft might be aware that in this case, it would be the absolute ruler of a dead industry with corporate few players left to buy its software, and throngs of home users simply abandoning computers because Windows is too friggin expensive and it's (in that scenario) the only way to use a computer.
The workload this'll put on their computers will bring MySpace to its knees.
You must be one of those mentally fscked 28% of America that still believes in Bush... or you're making fun of those raging insane blockheads.
I live the lifestyle he's talking about, and after reading you, I ran the numbers given my wife's sister's household income. Yup, that extra $40K woulda splattered us, given her loan rates (not mine).
Which is why I'm fairly reluctant to preach about this, at least until Aaaahnuld gets his act right.
Ummm what was that again?
of tres uber cool posters. :D
Yeah and how many console titles out there have the "insert disc 2" prompt? Many of those games are already compressed content to begin with.
Console gamers aren't so friendly with the whole insert disc 2 crap. Like I said, how many games do you see that have that? Not many, eh?
Games are often made nowadays for the 360 when they are made multi platform.
The 360 tops out at ~7 gigs of content on a single disc, which means it's the weakest link.
Games for the PC can have a 1 zillion DVD game if they need it, and the PS3 has Blu-Ray, which is what... 25 GB per disc?
Let's put this in real world terms. The Sims 2 and all its games take up about 7 gigs. If The Sims 2 comes out with a few more expansion packs it'll be well over 7 gigs. EA can release, in the future, the entire Sims 2 Uber Collection for the PC on a few dual layer DVDs or one Blu-Ray DVD for BR-owners. EA could release it on the PS3 on 25gb Blu-Ray because the PS3 has Blu-Ray built in. The 360? Tough cookies for them.
So yeah, the 360 is the weakest link. Making this RPG for the 360 will limit the amount of content that it can provide, unless the developers intend on releasing a truncated version for the 360. On topic fact, not flamebait or troll.
Exactly. The costs are hidden in the infrastructure. Bandwidth isn't free.
My theory is that with China's pollution levels, the population would be poisoned to death. There wouldn't be anyone left alive to stop an invader. Their pollution is that serious over there.
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As for who's the most polluted nation in the world? Well..........
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/china-is-worlds-most-
LOL, which part of what I said was factually wrong? I backed it up with several pieces of documentation.
And if you're talking about the orbital bombardment thing, please, don't tell me you believe the US completely observed the SALT treaties...
China can't stop an orbital nuclear attack, or even ICBMs or sub-launched nukes.
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China has no Navy - not one that can survive a handful of US subs. Our cruisers can take them out from beyond visual range.
** That's why they haven't even invaded little baby Taiwan. **
We know where all their major production factories are and can be done with them with a handful of strike bombers that they can't even see, much less shoot down. Failing that we can hit them from orbit.
What is more likely is that China, if sufficiently provoked, will fsck us up economically. But they'll play that card ONCE. That will bring the offshoring universe crashing down as Americans learn how vulnerable it makes us. We'll not make that mistake twice and China will lose its biggest customer. We'll produce our own stuff from then on and China will choke and asphyxiate and get sick and die in its own industrial filth.
We could move in and take over, although the pollution clean-up and dead body disposal might make that unfeasible for decades.
Oh and for those stupid enough to argue with me:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/20
http://www.forbes.com/logistics/2006/03/21/americ
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/
http://www.dbc.uci.edu/~sustain/suscoasts/krismin
And revolutions have also been bred into the gene pool as a survival mechanism.
There's an order of escalation when it comes to that: soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box. Use in that order.
Right now we're somewhere between ballot box and jury box, as far as urgency is concerned. I implore people to act en masse now before we get to ammo box.
It isn't about Britney Spears.
It's about the police state that Jack Valenti helped sire upon this country - "trusted" computing where your computer isn't yours to control; copy protections that prevent you from backing up your DVDs which leaves you vulnerable to your kid turning your precious movie into a PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! coaster; higher punishments for copying a DVD than stealing a car; ill fated legislation to let the MPAA crash your hard drive if they think you're pirating stuff... and so on.
Yes, historically, people have been hung... hanged... guillotined... shot... made to walk the plank... for waging this kind of police state war on our freedoms.
It's a shame this man grew old and fell into his grave and left behind a legacy of nothing short of pure corporate statist tyranny for the rest of us to get out from under.
May your chains set lightly.
The French, back in the day, had a better way of handling people like that.
It was called the Guillotine.
America's problem is we hate the French and did not learn to emulate them in this case.
cost me a leg?
:)
*wonk wonk wonk*
*eyes rolling all around the world*
Oh please, McDonald's isn't going to pay to relocate a kindergarten dropout like you when the only job skill you have is wanking off on pics of John Wayne's hairy ass while meticulously counting the pimples and butt hairs.
Spare me any more of your big bad rugged cowboy talk, the closest thing you ever got to manhood was pulling a train on Castro street.
Now grab your ankles, I see they're coming back for more.
He should have been hung as an enemy of our rights as Americans.
I know some people that were sued by the MPAA under his regime, who didn't have any pirated movies, and who were nearly ruined by legal expenses.
I don't care about angry MPAA fans and their mod points, he deserves a long line of people waiting to piss on his grave for the laws he and the RIAA have inflicted upon an unwilling majority of citizens in this country.
It's been ages since I've been to a movie because of him.
It's all anime for me now.
Not a dime to the MPAA-affiliated studios until the DMCA is shot down and buried for good.
You're such an idiot. What if you need to relocate for a job? Moron. And this also affects anyone who refinanced years ago and the entire region's property values drop. Ever heard of being upside-down on a house? Take your "quit blaming others" and shove it. No person is an island, no matter what your brain dead rantings say to the contrary. No, really, they aren't. You're making a giant fool of yourself screeching about it.
You must be one of those 'tards who doesn't see your personal information as your personal property. Why not get a cut of the business when someone sells your driver's license info to someone you never even voluntarily did business with? You're putting in something of value every time you make money for someone, and Choicepoint selling your drivers license info to marketers is absolutely positively an example of that. They make money off your existence in the market ecosystem, so why can't you? What gives them that right and not you? Oh wait, they're a corporation and you're not. You're just a corporate ass sucking toady. Do you get paid to write that crap? No? Not even a reach around? Come on, man. Hookers should at least get paid!
*sigh* You're so God damned dense you must have your own gravitational field. Of course, your brand of ignorance, cluelessness and blindly flailing hostility is quite understandable considering that your skull is routinely employed as a septic tank. Judging by all the bullshit you just spewed, it appears you managed to get run over by a parked bus. Again.
You know, it's quite unfortunate that when God was handing out brains, you had your head shoved so far up your aircraft hangar of a corporate whored ass that your parents named you "Cheshire Cat".
I am so looking forward to what will come of your next episode of "as the forehead rolls around on the keyboard"...