No, probably not good enough. Most people don't want to have their computers hooked up to their TVs. I actually think MS has the right idea with their MCE Windows and the XBox 360, but I'm sure they'll botch it somehow.
Part of the reason copy protection wasn't needed again until the mid to late 90's was that games were starting to come on CDs, hard drives were too small to hold the data, and CD burners were still far too expensive.
but that decline was expected as a cyclical moment, paralleling a transition in the industry to a new generation of advanced game consoles.
This is the real news here. Instead of going crazy and blaming everything in sight for the decrease in sales, they recognize that sometimes sales just slow down.
Electric cars that have been put out have ranges of about 100 miles, which is plenty for most people's weekly commutes. Part of the problem, though, was that it was just relocating the pollution - instead of it coming out of your tailpipe, it was coming out of a coal power plant. Nuclear power makes that go away completely.
Nuclear power + electric commuter cars = far less carbon emissions. I'm sure many people would buy a reasonably-priced electric car as a daily driver nowadays if it were marketed well enough (and have a second gas-powered car for longer trips).
Having suffered only ~60,000 war dead, America effectively became war adverse until after the first Gulf War, and probably till this day to some extent.
To be fair, it's one thing when you abandon a war when fighting in another country, but a completely different thing when you're fighting for your own. If there were a country attempting to take the US over, I'm sure we wouldn't just roll over and let them have it after a few thousand dead.
Note that I'm not trying to defend the anti-french sentiment, I just think your statement is misleading.
My biggest fear though is the music industry gets "caught" and settles in similar fashion to their previous settlement, à la "giving away" free downloads (by the truckload) to local libraries, but restricting the downloads to non-selling tracks. Sigh.
Aren't plenty of good songs non-selling ones anyway? I'd take one New Amsterdams download before ten Britney ones. Maybe that would open people up to some new things. Now, I'm not saying that all popular music is bad, because it isn't, but there's a lot of good music out there that nobody hears, people just need a kick in the pants to be motivated to find it.
That's not what the article is about at all, really. He even comes out and specifically SAYS For the purpose of this essay, let's forget about whether Apple failed to live up to its own PR.
The problem is that if you want to back up some data on a CD, you pay a royalty. If you're a musician and you want to give out copies of your own music, you pay a royalty. If you want to use them all as coasters, you pay a royalty.
Why should you have to pay a royalty for a potential use of the CDs when there are so many other legitimate ones?
Your post nails it exactly. Having more people on the internet for more time is extremely beneficial to Google, and they want to make sure that they're at the center of it as it develops, so they can't be pushed out.
See, now we have to pan wireless keyboards and mice... oh, and cordless phones, too - those operate on the same bandwidth as wireless networks, so obviously they're a HUGE problem. Seriously, this is just being afraid of new technology. I guarantee you this guy never thought about all the wireless stuff being used CONSTANTLY by people on campus.
They don't make money directly off image search - there aren't any adwords displayed on it.
If you're talking about adwords on the sites that stole P10's images, then Google isn't the one infringing on the copyright, so they shouldn't be held liable.
I have a navigational system in my car that won't let you input most things while the car is in motion. It will allow some things, like "quick stop" which will route to nearby gas stations/restaurants/hospitals, but it'll only show a total of 5 - if you want to scroll to search further, you have to stop. You can also program in any of the previous 5 destinations. The processes are easy enough that it's not a distraction, although maybe I'm just better at multitasking than most people.
What irritates me, though, is if I have a passenger in the car, they can't do anything to the nav while I'm driving. If we suddenly realize we have the wrong address while we're on the freeway? Sorry, can't change it, even though the passenger could just as well do it. I wish they had some kind of weight sensor in the seat to allow that.
Now, that depends - are these users of the "I judge programs by their worth, not by their maker." variety, or are they the "I will never use a product made by Micro$loth!" variety?
The facts taken out of context are that they didn't leave the content in the game. They left it on the disc, but it was completely inaccessible without hacking the game. Are you going to blame Maxis for people putting out an "unblur" hack for The Sims, too?
Anyone old enough to deal with the violence in GTA is also old enough to deal with sex. Being that it has an "M" rating, children shouldn't be playing it period, SO THERE SHOULD BE NO ISSUE HERE.
Don't even get me started on how American culture has an absurd hatred for anything sexual, but violence is A-OK!
"Vague suggestions that inadvertent release of exempted documents might occur are insufficient to outweigh the very tangible benefits that FOIA seeks to further--government openness and accountability," he wrote.
This judge is my new personal hero (temporarily displacing Alton Brown), and exactly the type of person who SHOULD be a judge. He actually seems like he cares about people and knows what kind of stuff gets pulled behind the scenes.
He may as well have come out and said "Sorry, guys, you're full of shit. Give us ALL the records, and soon."
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No, probably not good enough. Most people don't want to have their computers hooked up to their TVs. I actually think MS has the right idea with their MCE Windows and the XBox 360, but I'm sure they'll botch it somehow.
Part of the reason copy protection wasn't needed again until the mid to late 90's was that games were starting to come on CDs, hard drives were too small to hold the data, and CD burners were still far too expensive.
While FF8 gets a bad rap in America, IIRC it was one of the favorites of the Japanese.
Then we just need to engineer some alchemist bacteria and we'll all be rich. RICH!
but that decline was expected as a cyclical moment, paralleling a transition in the industry to a new generation of advanced game consoles.
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This is the real news here. Instead of going crazy and blaming everything in sight for the decrease in sales, they recognize that sometimes sales just slow down.
It's sad that this is surprising to see.
Electric cars that have been put out have ranges of about 100 miles, which is plenty for most people's weekly commutes. Part of the problem, though, was that it was just relocating the pollution - instead of it coming out of your tailpipe, it was coming out of a coal power plant. Nuclear power makes that go away completely.
Nuclear power + electric commuter cars = far less carbon emissions. I'm sure many people would buy a reasonably-priced electric car as a daily driver nowadays if it were marketed well enough (and have a second gas-powered car for longer trips).
Having suffered only ~60,000 war dead, America effectively became war adverse until after the first Gulf War, and probably till this day to some extent.
To be fair, it's one thing when you abandon a war when fighting in another country, but a completely different thing when you're fighting for your own. If there were a country attempting to take the US over, I'm sure we wouldn't just roll over and let them have it after a few thousand dead.
Note that I'm not trying to defend the anti-french sentiment, I just think your statement is misleading.
My biggest fear though is the music industry gets "caught" and settles in similar fashion to their previous settlement, à la "giving away" free downloads (by the truckload) to local libraries, but restricting the downloads to non-selling tracks. Sigh.
Aren't plenty of good songs non-selling ones anyway? I'd take one New Amsterdams download before ten Britney ones. Maybe that would open people up to some new things. Now, I'm not saying that all popular music is bad, because it isn't, but there's a lot of good music out there that nobody hears, people just need a kick in the pants to be motivated to find it.
I hope Pandora becomes popular for this reason.
That's not what the article is about at all, really. He even comes out and specifically SAYS For the purpose of this essay, let's forget about whether Apple failed to live up to its own PR.
The article is praise about its remote.
I do not see why we are even trying to trade with them.
Press shift+4 on your keyboard a few times. It'll come to you.
Yea people will die - but would you rather be just one rung up from a slave?
Than die? I think most people would say yes.
The problem is that if you want to back up some data on a CD, you pay a royalty. If you're a musician and you want to give out copies of your own music, you pay a royalty. If you want to use them all as coasters, you pay a royalty.
Why should you have to pay a royalty for a potential use of the CDs when there are so many other legitimate ones?
If this is all shaping up to be a Google / Amazon / eBay superfight, there's going to be a LOT of fun in the future.
Your post nails it exactly. Having more people on the internet for more time is extremely beneficial to Google, and they want to make sure that they're at the center of it as it develops, so they can't be pushed out.
Plus, it helps people, and Google likes that.
Google may be able to do it cheaper (possibly free to the government?)
Hello, tax cut!
See, now we have to pan wireless keyboards and mice... oh, and cordless phones, too - those operate on the same bandwidth as wireless networks, so obviously they're a HUGE problem. Seriously, this is just being afraid of new technology. I guarantee you this guy never thought about all the wireless stuff being used CONSTANTLY by people on campus.
They don't make money directly off image search - there aren't any adwords displayed on it.
If you're talking about adwords on the sites that stole P10's images, then Google isn't the one infringing on the copyright, so they shouldn't be held liable.
I have a navigational system in my car that won't let you input most things while the car is in motion. It will allow some things, like "quick stop" which will route to nearby gas stations/restaurants/hospitals, but it'll only show a total of 5 - if you want to scroll to search further, you have to stop. You can also program in any of the previous 5 destinations. The processes are easy enough that it's not a distraction, although maybe I'm just better at multitasking than most people.
What irritates me, though, is if I have a passenger in the car, they can't do anything to the nav while I'm driving. If we suddenly realize we have the wrong address while we're on the freeway? Sorry, can't change it, even though the passenger could just as well do it. I wish they had some kind of weight sensor in the seat to allow that.
Now, that depends - are these users of the "I judge programs by their worth, not by their maker." variety, or are they the "I will never use a product made by Micro$loth!" variety?
I think it was Dane Cook.
The facts taken out of context are that they didn't leave the content in the game. They left it on the disc, but it was completely inaccessible without hacking the game. Are you going to blame Maxis for people putting out an "unblur" hack for The Sims, too?
Anyone old enough to deal with the violence in GTA is also old enough to deal with sex. Being that it has an "M" rating, children shouldn't be playing it period, SO THERE SHOULD BE NO ISSUE HERE.
Don't even get me started on how American culture has an absurd hatred for anything sexual, but violence is A-OK!
Yeah, and the current groupthink is also "MPAA bad", but that didn't stop everyone from seeing Episode 3...
This, my dear lad, is called not sticking to one's convictions. Or, more concisely, hypocrisy.
"Vague suggestions that inadvertent release of exempted documents might occur are insufficient to outweigh the very tangible benefits that FOIA seeks to further--government openness and accountability," he wrote.
This judge is my new personal hero (temporarily displacing Alton Brown), and exactly the type of person who SHOULD be a judge. He actually seems like he cares about people and knows what kind of stuff gets pulled behind the scenes.
He may as well have come out and said "Sorry, guys, you're full of shit. Give us ALL the records, and soon."
They're also planning on releasing "kringle", a search engine for presents, but they're currently in litigation with a "Dr. Claus".
And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns.'"
Apparently he's not too concerned about giving them clean air, though.
Yeah, but now you can actually play games on the mac!
Oh, wait... never mind.