To say that hardware manufacturers love piracy is a misstatement. Hollenshead's point is moot. Hardware folks just want to sell hardware, just like ISPs just want to sell bandwidth: they don't care what you do with it once you purchase it because they don't need to.
I believe you totally missed his point.
He's mostly pointing out that by having the ability to get the latest, shiniest games at a reduced (or in this case, zero) cost, consumers will tend to prefer the PC as a gaming platform, thus being more susceptible to blow fat wads of cash on the latest, most powerful hardware.
I actually agree, you know... remember Crysis? Some people went nuts and got the latest hardware just to RUN the game smoothly enough, and I have good reasons to believe most of those guys didn't buy the game.
I live in Portugal, Europe, and as far as I know, I haven't heard a single hint about this other than through US media. Namely, I first heard it through the Daily Show.
So yeah, I think the "scandal" is all over in the US since they have to find an excuse for their athletes to fail to win every single competition they participate in.
Nevermind the fact that most of the athletes found to use drugs in recent years are from the US.
*sigh*
Well, actually they did. I have been recently offered a MS headset that plugs in an USB port.
In Linux the volume controls work just fine, but no sound comes through them. It's amazing they actually have a CD with *drivers* for a *headset with microphone*. This is just ridiculous.
And no, I didn't hassle to check my ALSA configs or whatever.
So, uh, enjoy your 400 posts of anecdotal evidence and personal opinion.
Can it even be scientifically measured? All you can get is someone's subjective response to all color and contrast combinations, which varies from person to person.
Sure, you can always build something statistically over the data you collect, but it's always going to have different results over different subjects, IMHO.
Although I couldn't find any links atm (a little busy, sorry), I believe there are a few studies that point out contrast as an important factor on the usability of text-based applications.
I for one, don't have any trouble with the default colors on vi, but, you could probably try black text on a yellow (not too bright, of course) background.
It's a smooth contrast and it may actually help you focus better on the text you're reading.
Also, make sure your vision is ok, you may be forcing your eyes to focus too much and may be in need of lenses.
1) Place a nuke over the painting
2) Start the countdown for detonation
3) Watch the face of the owner and/or several art majors while the countdown goes on
4) ?????
5) PROFIT!
As millions of Warhammer gamers found a cheap way of making their own quality miniatures.
Or not. I'm really not into miniature gaming, so I have no idea of the cost/benefit relation using this machine to make the miniatures instead of buying them.
I don't know where you live, but here in Portugal I find bandwidth caps pretty reasonable.
Most ISPs have a +40 GB cap for both upstream and downstream traffic (my own ISP has a 60 GB cap on the 24 Mbps ADSL plan), and some even differentiate from "national" and "international" traffic, giving unmetered access to what they consider "national" traffic on top of the rest of the offer.
I must say that I've never blown the 60GB cap, even if I can download stuff at over 1 MB/s. It's just a matter of self-control really, and it (sort of) prevents ISPs from using draconian measures in the name of an equal share of bandwidth for everyone.
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...but were they six men when they got in?
Just offer her the One Ring then.
Psh. For that you needed to include bash.org as well.
To say that hardware manufacturers love piracy is a misstatement. Hollenshead's point is moot. Hardware folks just want to sell hardware, just like ISPs just want to sell bandwidth: they don't care what you do with it once you purchase it because they don't need to.
I believe you totally missed his point.
He's mostly pointing out that by having the ability to get the latest, shiniest games at a reduced (or in this case, zero) cost, consumers will tend to prefer the PC as a gaming platform, thus being more susceptible to blow fat wads of cash on the latest, most powerful hardware.
I actually agree, you know... remember Crysis? Some people went nuts and got the latest hardware just to RUN the game smoothly enough, and I have good reasons to believe most of those guys didn't buy the game.
I live in Portugal, Europe, and as far as I know, I haven't heard a single hint about this other than through US media. Namely, I first heard it through the Daily Show. So yeah, I think the "scandal" is all over in the US since they have to find an excuse for their athletes to fail to win every single competition they participate in. Nevermind the fact that most of the athletes found to use drugs in recent years are from the US. *sigh*
... is that TPM can be read as (in Portuguese) PMS. :P
Well, actually they did. I have been recently offered a MS headset that plugs in an USB port.
In Linux the volume controls work just fine, but no sound comes through them. It's amazing they actually have a CD with *drivers* for a *headset with microphone*. This is just ridiculous.
And no, I didn't hassle to check my ALSA configs or whatever.
Also, Psystar's web site is not down. It's just slow.
Great job posting the link on /. once again though. Real nice.
So, uh, enjoy your 400 posts of anecdotal evidence and personal opinion.
Can it even be scientifically measured? All you can get is someone's subjective response to all color and contrast combinations, which varies from person to person.
Sure, you can always build something statistically over the data you collect, but it's always going to have different results over different subjects, IMHO.
Although I couldn't find any links atm (a little busy, sorry), I believe there are a few studies that point out contrast as an important factor on the usability of text-based applications.
I for one, don't have any trouble with the default colors on vi, but, you could probably try black text on a yellow (not too bright, of course) background.
It's a smooth contrast and it may actually help you focus better on the text you're reading. Also, make sure your vision is ok, you may be forcing your eyes to focus too much and may be in need of lenses.
1) Place a nuke over the painting
2) Start the countdown for detonation
3) Watch the face of the owner and/or several art majors while the countdown goes on
4) ?????
5) PROFIT!
As millions of Warhammer gamers found a cheap way of making their own quality miniatures.
Or not. I'm really not into miniature gaming, so I have no idea of the cost/benefit relation using this machine to make the miniatures instead of buying them.
Anyone care to elucidate?
I don't know where you live, but here in Portugal I find bandwidth caps pretty reasonable. Most ISPs have a +40 GB cap for both upstream and downstream traffic (my own ISP has a 60 GB cap on the 24 Mbps ADSL plan), and some even differentiate from "national" and "international" traffic, giving unmetered access to what they consider "national" traffic on top of the rest of the offer. I must say that I've never blown the 60GB cap, even if I can download stuff at over 1 MB/s. It's just a matter of self-control really, and it (sort of) prevents ISPs from using draconian measures in the name of an equal share of bandwidth for everyone.
It's pretty obvious no one wants to go THAT close to Uranus.
So I suppose the source code isn't available... As usual.
Psssh yeah, like THAT is going to happen! Oh wait...