Indeed, but so would any game thats fast paced, requires acute visual discrepancies, and something is at risk, or is rewarded for the ability.
But, in classic KDawson style... "Violent" games... may as well say "Stabbing people to death improves hand-eye coordination", when the articles starts with "Video games with lots of action, such as the shoot-'em-up variety, can improve your vision, a new study finds.
True, but the URL to an image doesn't point directly to the file either, simply the server that (may) contain the file, or know which server does, and a way of checking to see its the right file (name).
The actual image would be something like C:\MySites\OMGPonies\Content\Images\Ponies_n_kittens.jpg
Yes, but that depends on your definition... legal definition, its someone who partakes in piracy.
But, metaphorically it's just someone who takes shit for themselves, you could be a sand pirate, and travel the world scooping up sand on every beach you landed on, yeah, might be illegal on some of the beaches, at least in large quantities, but for the most part it's not.
I generally think of it as that, just piling a bunch of coins (files) into your little private chest (hard drive)... "The Pirate Bay" is simply a docking point where you start from... others may only consider it by the legal/dictionary definition, but it's capable of both legal and illegal methods, and shouldn't be banned strictly by name alone. Should "Death Valley" be banned, stuff dies there all the time, but stuff is also born too, maybe the name will inspire someone to kill people there, omg think of the children. what about places named "Happy Valley" (quite a few of those here in Canada)... banned for false advertising because it didn't make you happy?
The pirate bay exists simply to share stuff, illegal or not. Show me something where the developers/maintainers of TPB have said they designed it with the main intent being to distribute illegal content. Just because 'illegal' content is prevalent doesn't imply it's initial intent.
Slashdot, has hordes of trolls, but it wasn't designed for trolling.
On another note, it doesn't mean that's what it will be used for on Facebook. Facebook currently doesn't have any way for people to share files directly, you can share links to images, links to video's, etc... you can even upload videos and images, but they get re-encoded/downgraded to low resolutions and high compression, so using TPB people could create a torrent of the stuff they want to share, and share it with all of their friends at the same time, or say an artist who has created a group, can share links to the torrents of their stuff.
Obviously sharing torrents URLS was already possible, but having a quick glance at the way it now does it, it allows for Icons/Images, and notes to be attached to the link as well, plus it's "easy", as easy as 2 button clicks, [Share on Facebook], and then [Submit]...
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it.
No, downloading Metallica_St_Anger.torrent is the same as downloading Ponies_n_kittens_playing.jpg from a website.
If you send the downloaded torrent file to a torrent application and allow it to connect and download files, then you are downloading the (possibly) illegal content, and usually, but not always, uploading the same content to someone else. There are quite a few torrents that I've downloaded where the Upload is 0kb.
Same reason why all of our spoken/written languages aren't just sequences of "Yes" and "No". The same reasons why we no longer live in caves, is the same reason why programming languages will continue to evolve, and become more abstract. There are numerous variables, but the main one being that the original version is never all-encompassing and generally flawed, wood rollers are quicker to make than rubber on metal rims, but the latter is far more adaptable.
Binary = Wood Rollers Stone Wheel = Assembly Wood Wheel = Fortran Steel Wheel = C Steel + Solid Rubber = C++ Magnesium + Air Filled Rubber C# Aluminum + Air Filled = Scripting or something Magnetic Levitation = ????
Knock the last 4 words off of that, and you are right, keep the last 4, and you are a troll.
Windows is generally ill equipped by default, and because of its population density is a larger target, but a huge part of the blame is the ignorance of it's users.
The last virus I had that did any damage to my personal files, or necessitated a reformat, was 7 years ago, the last one that did any sort of "hostile" act was Blaster, which took about 3 minutes to fix.
Pay attention to where you are going, and you wont fall off the road... If You Walk Without Rhythm, You Won't Attract the Worm...(lol had to)
No one really, but most countries have some sort of arbitrary rule before it's official, like 200 or more members, and a written or definable doctrine of some sort. Very similar to a political party really.
It doesn't have to replace the keyboard and mouse, in most cases it just has to add to it, the mouse didn't replace the keyboard.
There are some things that would be quicker with touch, some with mouse, some with keyboard, for instance touch, would probably be better at the (Reply To This) than having to grab the mouse, align it, click, the keyboard is better for this and the mouse is better for selecting/editing text.
Plus, because of the difference with accuracies, things like Virtual 3D spaces, you could use touch as a main anchor to hold/move an object, the mouse to operate on the object, simultaneously.
Or in 2D spaces, like Photoshop, you could use the mouse for painting/drawing, but touch to control rate of flow, or pressure, in a far more natural/instinctual way.
Also, touch would be better for public access stuff, because keyboard and mouse are the same, no edges, breakable/grabbable/tied down inputs (ie: pens on chains) etc, and potentially they can be self-cleaning too...
Neither do I, but technically it's still DRM, especially since why have a serial if its basically the same as clicking the icon to run the game, if the serial isn't registered somewhere externally, then why not just have "Enter Your Username", thats why offline-only games almost never come with a serial/DRM (although usually an "Insert Proper CD") because it's pointless, and others that have separate executables for Online/Offline, only ask you for the serial when you run the Online one...
If it's still registering to their main servers, and disallowing play on failure, then you are still renting it, at least the online portions of the game, they could block your serial, or shut their servers down, and you won't be able to legally play online, or you'll be screwed after a re-install.
The only time where there is a serial and it's fully yours, is like a forced registration, "go to our site and register to get your hash key" then you can enter the same key whenever/wherever after, because they just wanted your digital signature of sorts, either for market analysis or to send you junk in your inbox.
(semi)Oldschool games like Soldier of Fortune, with PunkBuster etc, is sort of a self-serializing system, where you can toss in any key you want (thats legit) for offline play, but online play may not work if there are multiples of the same serial found.
Expanding on that, you could have it sort of like DHT or the Kad networks etc, where the serials get checked against found game servers online (player connects, serial is registered, and propagated to other users on the server, through them to a "known list" of servers, etc). It's not perfect since it uses resources/bandwidth in the background, but basically as long as there is at least one server online, it can continue after the "Official" servers disappear.
On the plus side, you can have subnets with cloned/illegal serials running in a tournament, because to that network they are all legitimate serials.
On the downside, resource usage, and also sort of (anti)idealistically, it makes the DRM viral, sort of feeding off the user-bases computers like a fungus or something. And also, someone can connect with a stolen serial while you are offline, and you wont be able to play online, which leads back into tying it to hardware, or an offshoot of Kad, a sort of GPS location based on ping times, neither really works unless no one abuses it, ie: almost impossible.
Although somewhere in the middle-ground, if it only applied to the servers you were currently playing on, not all known servers, it might be enough of a pain for the devs/dists to consider it viable DRM, and still be quite usable from the users perspective because the servers can take care of their own sort of CAPTCHA to see if it's the user they are familiar with, if not, then boot the cloner etc... and at the same time, really popular servers might make more people buy the game so they can play on those servers.
I'm not really trying to promote the idea, but it is possible, but i've already babbled on too long... all in all DRM sucks, but "simple serials" including it's problems, is far preferable to shit like SecuROM, serials can (usually) be bypassed just as easily as SecuROM nonsense, except it iliminates the the (direct) fascist shit that SecuROM and the likes do to your hardware and software.
Yet, at the same time there is just as much, and probably more effort going into image analysis. How many universities are currently working on automated vehicles that have some sort of system for analyzing and identifying objects in it's path, or even simple worker-bots that can tell between a coffee cup and a stapler.
Once that's established, all it would take is a couple manual hours to put the images into a 'like' groups, that could be done with the porn-hack.
I still think a story-based system would work better, 3 second animation, then you can ask for one of many things:
What happens next? (open door, drive away, falls asleep, etc) What color/size is _____? (building, clothing, objects) What object is missing? (kitchen table from kitchen, etc) What story is this from? (books, movies, TV, etc) Where did it take place? Did it happen in the past/future? Was it non-fiction/fiction?
Etc etc etc... still doesn't solve the porn-hack work around, but consider there could be hundreds of right answers to the same animation, it would take much longer before it was totally broken, plus if it's in a 3D system, or even Flash, you can randomize things, colors, sizes, objects, settings, making thousands of answers for the same basic animation, while still being relatively simple for a human to understand, even if they don't speak the language or are very familiar with the culture, ships travel in water, but a computer probably wouldn't be able to tell water, from a blue baby blanket, or if the ship was a toy, or real, or if the baby is real, or human godzilla attacking ships at sea.
I don't really have a problem with this concept, naturally there will be some who will abuse it by charging extra, or dual license and such, but what if it became sort of like ODF, where you could have various formats in the same container, MP3, OGG, RM, etc, so that basically anything you toss it into will play it, provided they support the basic container.
It might play the MP3 in your portable device, but the FLAC in your home stereo, or the MP4 in your laptop which has the video too, or sort of like a DVD concept (as an ISO or something), where you could have the music in FLAC, but a commentary in MP3, or maybe 3 different MP3's in the same container, one for the the 'Original' track, the 'Radio Edit' and the 'Remix', or the vocal track, the drums, the guitar, etc...
Kinda saves having to piss around with 15 different files when anything related to it could be in one file, if you want to save space, then just strip the extras from it when you put it on your MP3 player, especially since no one can seem to agree on a single format as it is.
Claims "20-30", so about 1.2 million cars per volcano. Give or take a fair bit because the "lava flow" ones would be putting out a fare bit as well.
52 Million cars are projected to be made this year, and going by 3600kg per car, means they will be putting out about 187 billion kg ontop of the millions of cars already out there.
Provided all of the 4 sites are correct, the emissions from cars a year is probably about 5 to 8 times more than volcanoes a year.
This got -1 Flamebait, but should probably +1 Funny, or if this was Fox News, +1 Informative.
This is likely how many so-called News reporters will cover it, they'll take something like "there have been reports of birds fleeing the area", and "an estimated 30 animals were killed in the first explosion" something that's pretty much expected, but not bother noting that, then they'll bring on some pseudo-scientist proclaiming the global impact of this, possible rises is mosquito breeding, then transitioning into "here's Dr. Doom, on the recent status of bird flu..." without making note of the fact it's an unrelated report, making it seems as though there is a correlation between this eruption and something else.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed, but so would any game thats fast paced, requires acute visual discrepancies, and something is at risk, or is rewarded for the ability.
But, in classic KDawson style... "Violent" games... may as well say "Stabbing people to death improves hand-eye coordination", when the articles starts with "Video games with lots of action, such as the shoot-'em-up variety, can improve your vision, a new study finds.
True, but the URL to an image doesn't point directly to the file either, simply the server that (may) contain the file, or know which server does, and a way of checking to see its the right file (name).
The actual image would be something like C:\MySites\OMGPonies\Content\Images\Ponies_n_kittens.jpg
http://yirmumah.com/webcomic/draw-anything-292.gif
Maybe that will satisfy you... it's kinda close to what my mental image of it was...
lol, yeah i tried too, and in the text search it just shows my comment. Yahoo, ExaLead, MSN is 0/0
"The Pirate Bay"
Yes, but that depends on your definition... legal definition, its someone who partakes in piracy.
But, metaphorically it's just someone who takes shit for themselves, you could be a sand pirate, and travel the world scooping up sand on every beach you landed on, yeah, might be illegal on some of the beaches, at least in large quantities, but for the most part it's not.
I generally think of it as that, just piling a bunch of coins (files) into your little private chest (hard drive)... "The Pirate Bay" is simply a docking point where you start from... others may only consider it by the legal/dictionary definition, but it's capable of both legal and illegal methods, and shouldn't be banned strictly by name alone. Should "Death Valley" be banned, stuff dies there all the time, but stuff is also born too, maybe the name will inspire someone to kill people there, omg think of the children. what about places named "Happy Valley" (quite a few of those here in Canada)... banned for false advertising because it didn't make you happy?
The pirate bay exists simply to share stuff, illegal or not. Show me something where the developers/maintainers of TPB have said they designed it with the main intent being to distribute illegal content. Just because 'illegal' content is prevalent doesn't imply it's initial intent.
Slashdot, has hordes of trolls, but it wasn't designed for trolling.
On another note, it doesn't mean that's what it will be used for on Facebook. Facebook currently doesn't have any way for people to share files directly, you can share links to images, links to video's, etc... you can even upload videos and images, but they get re-encoded/downgraded to low resolutions and high compression, so using TPB people could create a torrent of the stuff they want to share, and share it with all of their friends at the same time, or say an artist who has created a group, can share links to the torrents of their stuff.
Obviously sharing torrents URLS was already possible, but having a quick glance at the way it now does it, it allows for Icons/Images, and notes to be attached to the link as well, plus it's "easy", as easy as 2 button clicks, [Share on Facebook], and then [Submit]...
(Correction) Well actually it would be more like, copying the URL to the ponies & kittens image, and saving it to a text file.
I know your just trolling, but...
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it.
No, downloading Metallica_St_Anger.torrent is the same as downloading Ponies_n_kittens_playing.jpg from a website.
If you send the downloaded torrent file to a torrent application and allow it to connect and download files, then you are downloading the (possibly) illegal content, and usually, but not always, uploading the same content to someone else. There are quite a few torrents that I've downloaded where the Upload is 0kb.
Because binary is incredibly boring and tedious.
Same reason why all of our spoken/written languages aren't just sequences of "Yes" and "No". The same reasons why we no longer live in caves, is the same reason why programming languages will continue to evolve, and become more abstract. There are numerous variables, but the main one being that the original version is never all-encompassing and generally flawed, wood rollers are quicker to make than rubber on metal rims, but the latter is far more adaptable.
Binary = Wood Rollers
Stone Wheel = Assembly
Wood Wheel = Fortran
Steel Wheel = C
Steel + Solid Rubber = C++
Magnesium + Air Filled Rubber C#
Aluminum + Air Filled = Scripting or something
Magnetic Levitation = ????
Or something like that...
Considering that it seems to have slipped right over your head, I can only assume that you don't know about Monsanto
I suggest you at least watch The World According To Monsanto (best one I could find on short notice)
I'll take that into consideration... In the meantime...
http://www.onion.demon.co.uk/theonion/other/babies/stupidbabies.htm
Knock the last 4 words off of that, and you are right, keep the last 4, and you are a troll.
Windows is generally ill equipped by default, and because of its population density is a larger target, but a huge part of the blame is the ignorance of it's users.
The last virus I had that did any damage to my personal files, or necessitated a reformat, was 7 years ago, the last one that did any sort of "hostile" act was Blaster, which took about 3 minutes to fix.
Pay attention to where you are going, and you wont fall off the road... If You Walk Without Rhythm, You Won't Attract the Worm...(lol had to)
lol... if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to worship it, was it still part of gods plan?
No one really, but most countries have some sort of arbitrary rule before it's official, like 200 or more members, and a written or definable doctrine of some sort. Very similar to a political party really.
It doesn't have to replace the keyboard and mouse, in most cases it just has to add to it, the mouse didn't replace the keyboard.
There are some things that would be quicker with touch, some with mouse, some with keyboard, for instance touch, would probably be better at the (Reply To This) than having to grab the mouse, align it, click, the keyboard is better for this and the mouse is better for selecting/editing text.
Plus, because of the difference with accuracies, things like Virtual 3D spaces, you could use touch as a main anchor to hold/move an object, the mouse to operate on the object, simultaneously.
Or in 2D spaces, like Photoshop, you could use the mouse for painting/drawing, but touch to control rate of flow, or pressure, in a far more natural/instinctual way.
Also, touch would be better for public access stuff, because keyboard and mouse are the same, no edges, breakable/grabbable/tied down inputs (ie: pens on chains) etc, and potentially they can be self-cleaning too...
Neither do I, but technically it's still DRM, especially since why have a serial if its basically the same as clicking the icon to run the game, if the serial isn't registered somewhere externally, then why not just have "Enter Your Username", thats why offline-only games almost never come with a serial/DRM (although usually an "Insert Proper CD") because it's pointless, and others that have separate executables for Online/Offline, only ask you for the serial when you run the Online one...
If it's still registering to their main servers, and disallowing play on failure, then you are still renting it, at least the online portions of the game, they could block your serial, or shut their servers down, and you won't be able to legally play online, or you'll be screwed after a re-install.
The only time where there is a serial and it's fully yours, is like a forced registration, "go to our site and register to get your hash key" then you can enter the same key whenever/wherever after, because they just wanted your digital signature of sorts, either for market analysis or to send you junk in your inbox.
Depends on the system.
(semi)Oldschool games like Soldier of Fortune, with PunkBuster etc, is sort of a self-serializing system, where you can toss in any key you want (thats legit) for offline play, but online play may not work if there are multiples of the same serial found.
Expanding on that, you could have it sort of like DHT or the Kad networks etc, where the serials get checked against found game servers online (player connects, serial is registered, and propagated to other users on the server, through them to a "known list" of servers, etc). It's not perfect since it uses resources/bandwidth in the background, but basically as long as there is at least one server online, it can continue after the "Official" servers disappear.
On the plus side, you can have subnets with cloned/illegal serials running in a tournament, because to that network they are all legitimate serials.
On the downside, resource usage, and also sort of (anti)idealistically, it makes the DRM viral, sort of feeding off the user-bases computers like a fungus or something. And also, someone can connect with a stolen serial while you are offline, and you wont be able to play online, which leads back into tying it to hardware, or an offshoot of Kad, a sort of GPS location based on ping times, neither really works unless no one abuses it, ie: almost impossible.
Although somewhere in the middle-ground, if it only applied to the servers you were currently playing on, not all known servers, it might be enough of a pain for the devs/dists to consider it viable DRM, and still be quite usable from the users perspective because the servers can take care of their own sort of CAPTCHA to see if it's the user they are familiar with, if not, then boot the cloner etc... and at the same time, really popular servers might make more people buy the game so they can play on those servers.
I'm not really trying to promote the idea, but it is possible, but i've already babbled on too long... all in all DRM sucks, but "simple serials" including it's problems, is far preferable to shit like SecuROM, serials can (usually) be bypassed just as easily as SecuROM nonsense, except it iliminates the the (direct) fascist shit that SecuROM and the likes do to your hardware and software.
It's not necessarily 'whining' about it like it shouldn't exist at all, but rather clarification.
The Title:
EA Won't Use DRM For The Sims 3
The Summary:
EA has made the decision to go back to simple serial code authentication for The Sims 3
Title != Summary
Yet, at the same time there is just as much, and probably more effort going into image analysis. How many universities are currently working on automated vehicles that have some sort of system for analyzing and identifying objects in it's path, or even simple worker-bots that can tell between a coffee cup and a stapler.
Once that's established, all it would take is a couple manual hours to put the images into a 'like' groups, that could be done with the porn-hack.
I still think a story-based system would work better, 3 second animation, then you can ask for one of many things:
What happens next? (open door, drive away, falls asleep, etc)
What color/size is _____? (building, clothing, objects)
What object is missing? (kitchen table from kitchen, etc)
What story is this from? (books, movies, TV, etc)
Where did it take place?
Did it happen in the past/future?
Was it non-fiction/fiction?
Etc etc etc... still doesn't solve the porn-hack work around, but consider there could be hundreds of right answers to the same animation, it would take much longer before it was totally broken, plus if it's in a 3D system, or even Flash, you can randomize things, colors, sizes, objects, settings, making thousands of answers for the same basic animation, while still being relatively simple for a human to understand, even if they don't speak the language or are very familiar with the culture, ships travel in water, but a computer probably wouldn't be able to tell water, from a blue baby blanket, or if the ship was a toy, or real, or if the baby is real, or human godzilla attacking ships at sea.
Leisure Suit Larry
Sadly, it still seems to be in development.
Too late for the trolls? I was really expecting a goatse comment somewhere...
"Amateur Astronomer Grabs Amazing ASS Picture"
Come on, "amateur", "astronomer", "grabs", "amazing", "ass", and "picture"... fine, just mod me down and resume as normal.
Yes, when those plug-ins/abilities come...
I don't really have a problem with this concept, naturally there will be some who will abuse it by charging extra, or dual license and such, but what if it became sort of like ODF, where you could have various formats in the same container, MP3, OGG, RM, etc, so that basically anything you toss it into will play it, provided they support the basic container.
It might play the MP3 in your portable device, but the FLAC in your home stereo, or the MP4 in your laptop which has the video too, or sort of like a DVD concept (as an ISO or something), where you could have the music in FLAC, but a commentary in MP3, or maybe 3 different MP3's in the same container, one for the the 'Original' track, the 'Radio Edit' and the 'Remix', or the vocal track, the drums, the guitar, etc...
Kinda saves having to piss around with 15 different files when anything related to it could be in one file, if you want to save space, then just strip the extras from it when you put it on your MP3 player, especially since no one can seem to agree on a single format as it is.
Also not including all other vehicles and machines:
4-wheelers ...and on, and on...
motorbikes
racing cars
fire trucks
ambulances
tow-trucks
tractors (farms)
tractors (roads)
graders/plows
dumptrucks
forklifts
cranes
miltiary tanks
military trucks
boats
ships
generators
chainsaws
weedwackers
model airplanes
RC cars
http://www.volcanolive.com/vei.html
Claims "20-30", so about 1.2 million cars per volcano. Give or take a fair bit because the "lava flow" ones would be putting out a fare bit as well.
52 Million cars are projected to be made this year, and going by 3600kg per car, means they will be putting out about 187 billion kg ontop of the millions of cars already out there.
Provided all of the 4 sites are correct, the emissions from cars a year is probably about 5 to 8 times more than volcanoes a year.
This got -1 Flamebait, but should probably +1 Funny, or if this was Fox News, +1 Informative.
This is likely how many so-called News reporters will cover it, they'll take something like "there have been reports of birds fleeing the area", and "an estimated 30 animals were killed in the first explosion" something that's pretty much expected, but not bother noting that, then they'll bring on some pseudo-scientist proclaiming the global impact of this, possible rises is mosquito breeding, then transitioning into "here's Dr. Doom, on the recent status of bird flu..." without making note of the fact it's an unrelated report, making it seems as though there is a correlation between this eruption and something else.