You're conflating the moral definition of harm (did my pirating the game hurt the game company in the real world?) with the legal definition of harm (did I commit a crime).
Obviously, if pirating leads to a purchase not otherwise intended, harm was not caused except from the rather ridiculous "natural right" view of copyright. Legally, the harm exists no matter whether anyone was injured in reality.. but taht's not what you're talking about, is it?
No, it's not. Everyone has the ability to protect what's in their head: trade secrets, don't say it don't write it and don't type it.
When you distribute it to someone else of your own free will you're losing any "rights" you may have to it in return for a few mostly unenforceable ones from the government (copyright). Like it or not, that's the way of things.
Devil's advocate here:
You mean the "American rebellion against the divine right of their ruler to properly manage his kingdom"?
Or do you mean the "right to freely transfer information"?
It's all in the words you use. Nobody is disputing the vast difference in popularity between the "ideals" in question, but it may turn out that some people who don't think like you are motivated by more than personal gain. Who would have thought?
Patry > Lessig, imho. Lessig follows his heart too much and may ignore little things like established law. Patry takes the law and does the best he can with it.
I'm pretty sure your card is far more than the game needs. It's probably CPU or RAM. Try messing with the resolution to see how much it impacts performance - resolution is almost entirely GPU-limited.
Yes. Crysis is an outlier in terms of required performance, so you won't get 40 FPS minimum on it 1900x1200 all settings maxxed (average is always going to be unrealistically high). However, you can play almost any other game 1080p all settings maxxed and Crysis will still look great.
Yep. When I was a little kid I had a neighbor with a giant-ass TV. I didn't know anything about "display resolution" but I always wondered why images on the TV looked like crap.
You're correct about gaming requirements.. to a degree, because prices have been moving steadily down.
Buying an expensive GPU and expecting not to upgrade will cost you BIG vs a cheap one you replace 2.5 years later. An 8800 GTS is gonna depreciate pretty fast.
Yep. You save megabucks while improving experience. It's also great to have cards sitting around to give away to friends. Suddenly their old family computers can play WoW at more than 5 FPS!
They're not "Fast enough" - they're still double in speed a couple times between computer purchases. Smooth 1080p with 16x antialiasing and anisotrophic filtering on a new game is going to require a nice bit of cash for some time yet.
It's just that most people can get beautiful graphics at their native resolution on all the games even hardcore gamers might want to play for about $100.
My 9600 GT cost $100 when I bought it about a year ago. It plays Bioshock fine @ 1900x1200 all settings maxxed. Crysis looked incredible at 1440x900 with some settings lowered. That said, I had to hold onto my 6600 GT for longer than I'd have liked before that: the only cards available were $200+ 8800s.
the NIN concert footage is ~400 gigs. if bandwidth was regularly available at decent pricing (20 cents a gig instead of a buck), consumers could buy/stream decent quality video. 720/1080 video will look like crap unless it's given a decent bitrate. That uses LOTS of bandwidth.
I hereby note that any Thai have full right in my mind to criticize U.S. marijuana laws and say whatever they might wish about the morons who enforce them.
When an author is jailed in horrible conditions for a vague negative reference to a crown prince, your country is screwed the fuck up. This is a globalized world, and randomly imprisoning people for worthless crap is no longer going to cut it.
Most of us don't WANT the parts that come with the Macbook! We want other things, which Apple doesn't offer. The only problem is that Mac users tend to brag (loudly) Apple is better quality OVERALL and not simply geared toward a specific subsection of the population.
Uh. No? The Macbook has a crap video card for its price. Any tests reliant on hardware rendering are going to show differences (including CPU use while decoding bluray, which I'd hope the Macbook Pro offers at that price?)
You can get quadcores in laptops now, so wtf?
No, it's "This woman wants a decent size screen on a laptop. She's willing to pay a nice premium for this (up to $600 over a crappy $400 laptop). What can she get?
The Dell has wifi. Most people don't want or use firewire/bluetooth. Are you sure the Dell doesn't have a webcam?
Have you seen benchmarks on RAM performance? Without overclocking it's useless. 260 mhz on the CPU is meaningless compared to the hard drive space OR the faster GPU, both of which are major upgrades.
That's the real joke.. I do occasionally (rarely) use torrents, and it's always for legal crap. I don't think I've ever actually used the piratebay, since most legal stuff isn't using them as a tracker.
Someone I know got an unfortunately timed letter from their ISP just last night. That's not something I want happening to me at the moment.
There is? When you can just send a letter to an ISP threatening a lawsuit and they'll cough up info, or start the lawsuit and then cancel it?
(A favored practice by the RIAA)
His point is that he should not have to justify his personal reasons for use of a legal product or products to you, just the same as you should not have to do so to him.
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You're conflating the moral definition of harm (did my pirating the game hurt the game company in the real world?) with the legal definition of harm (did I commit a crime). Obviously, if pirating leads to a purchase not otherwise intended, harm was not caused except from the rather ridiculous "natural right" view of copyright. Legally, the harm exists no matter whether anyone was injured in reality.. but taht's not what you're talking about, is it?
No, it's not. Everyone has the ability to protect what's in their head: trade secrets, don't say it don't write it and don't type it. When you distribute it to someone else of your own free will you're losing any "rights" you may have to it in return for a few mostly unenforceable ones from the government (copyright). Like it or not, that's the way of things.
Devil's advocate here: You mean the "American rebellion against the divine right of their ruler to properly manage his kingdom"? Or do you mean the "right to freely transfer information"? It's all in the words you use. Nobody is disputing the vast difference in popularity between the "ideals" in question, but it may turn out that some people who don't think like you are motivated by more than personal gain. Who would have thought?
Patry > Lessig, imho. Lessig follows his heart too much and may ignore little things like established law. Patry takes the law and does the best he can with it.
Shadows.. sounds like graphics card. Dying graphics cards don't usually get slow, though, they crash! What temperatures are you getting? If it's hitting up around 90 celsius it could be underclocking itself? A 7800 GTX is vastly more powerful than needed to play WoW at just about any res. Think: 70, maybe 100 FPS or more. http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/world%20of%20warcraft%20performance_032305120358/6552.png http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2381&p=5 Ditto for CPU. Do other games show the same problem?
I'm pretty sure your card is far more than the game needs. It's probably CPU or RAM. Try messing with the resolution to see how much it impacts performance - resolution is almost entirely GPU-limited.
Yes. Crysis is an outlier in terms of required performance, so you won't get 40 FPS minimum on it 1900x1200 all settings maxxed (average is always going to be unrealistically high). However, you can play almost any other game 1080p all settings maxxed and Crysis will still look great.
Yep. When I was a little kid I had a neighbor with a giant-ass TV. I didn't know anything about "display resolution" but I always wondered why images on the TV looked like crap.
You're correct about gaming requirements.. to a degree, because prices have been moving steadily down. Buying an expensive GPU and expecting not to upgrade will cost you BIG vs a cheap one you replace 2.5 years later. An 8800 GTS is gonna depreciate pretty fast.
Yep. You save megabucks while improving experience. It's also great to have cards sitting around to give away to friends. Suddenly their old family computers can play WoW at more than 5 FPS!
They're not "Fast enough" - they're still double in speed a couple times between computer purchases. Smooth 1080p with 16x antialiasing and anisotrophic filtering on a new game is going to require a nice bit of cash for some time yet. It's just that most people can get beautiful graphics at their native resolution on all the games even hardcore gamers might want to play for about $100.
My 9600 GT cost $100 when I bought it about a year ago. It plays Bioshock fine @ 1900x1200 all settings maxxed. Crysis looked incredible at 1440x900 with some settings lowered. That said, I had to hold onto my 6600 GT for longer than I'd have liked before that: the only cards available were $200+ 8800s.
the NIN concert footage is ~400 gigs. if bandwidth was regularly available at decent pricing (20 cents a gig instead of a buck), consumers could buy/stream decent quality video. 720/1080 video will look like crap unless it's given a decent bitrate. That uses LOTS of bandwidth.
I hereby note that any Thai have full right in my mind to criticize U.S. marijuana laws and say whatever they might wish about the morons who enforce them. When an author is jailed in horrible conditions for a vague negative reference to a crown prince, your country is screwed the fuck up. This is a globalized world, and randomly imprisoning people for worthless crap is no longer going to cut it.
Translation: Thai King awesome, Thai People dumb.
Most of us don't WANT the parts that come with the Macbook! We want other things, which Apple doesn't offer. The only problem is that Mac users tend to brag (loudly) Apple is better quality OVERALL and not simply geared toward a specific subsection of the population.
Uh. No? The Macbook has a crap video card for its price. Any tests reliant on hardware rendering are going to show differences (including CPU use while decoding bluray, which I'd hope the Macbook Pro offers at that price?) You can get quadcores in laptops now, so wtf?
"Lauren" = the fantasy individual who is represented by an actress. We all have something we "want" based on our needs.
No, it's "This woman wants a decent size screen on a laptop. She's willing to pay a nice premium for this (up to $600 over a crappy $400 laptop). What can she get?
The Dell has wifi. Most people don't want or use firewire/bluetooth. Are you sure the Dell doesn't have a webcam? Have you seen benchmarks on RAM performance? Without overclocking it's useless. 260 mhz on the CPU is meaningless compared to the hard drive space OR the faster GPU, both of which are major upgrades.
People who buy Macs are usually financing features I don't care about.
That's the real joke.. I do occasionally (rarely) use torrents, and it's always for legal crap. I don't think I've ever actually used the piratebay, since most legal stuff isn't using them as a tracker. Someone I know got an unfortunately timed letter from their ISP just last night. That's not something I want happening to me at the moment.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4747468/Nine_Inch_Nails_-_Another_Version_of_the_Truth_%5B320kb_MP3%5D http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4059158/Nine_Inch_Nails_-_Ghosts_I_(2008) http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4476718/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4803271/Windows-7-Transformation-Pack-For-Vista I neither smoke tobacco or marijuana, so I may be wrong - however, to my understanding there is a significant amount of drug paraphernalia sold almost certainly intended for marijuana consumption. Am I wrong in this?
There is? When you can just send a letter to an ISP threatening a lawsuit and they'll cough up info, or start the lawsuit and then cancel it? (A favored practice by the RIAA)
His point is that he should not have to justify his personal reasons for use of a legal product or products to you, just the same as you should not have to do so to him.