Just like the French. First you give us fried potatoes to clog our arteries, then you dump your "huddled masses" from your country to the U.S., and now you invent the 3-strike law to ban us from ISPs without due process of law (a jury trial).
>>>The RIAA is going to try to working with the ISPs to limit file-sharing services and cut off repeated users.
I've often thought that, over the ~15 year span that I've been surfing the web, I opened-up way too many accounts. I've forgotten most of them, and yet my name and address still sits there in the databases just waiting to be hacked (or sold).
Well being an AVERAGE, I imagine some people in Sweden have fat 50 Mbps lines, some have slow 750k lines, and others just have 50k phonelines.
Therefore when the people who did the study averaged all of these people together, they arrived at 10.8 Megabit/s which I rounded up to 11 because my signature space is limited.
I think he meant megabits, like those old Nintendo and Sega carts ("27 megabits of power!!!").
So that would be equivalent to 3.3 megabytes of space. Not bad at all. That would fit inside my old 68000 Commodore, 68000 Macintosh, or an old 286 PC.
>>>Imagine if you could sell any other product after you have gotten the maximum usage out of it.
I can. I can sell my car after I tire of it (say 30000 miles). I can sell my TV (and have on ebay) or my stereo (ditto) or my old VCR..... so since I can sell other stuff, why shouldn't I be able to sell my video games and recoup some of my money?
Because they've taken away my ownership. All they've done is rent the item until they decide to stop supporting it (i.e. pull the authorization server). I don't want to pay $50 for a rental of a game. I want ownership so I can keep it until I die, or until I sell it to someone else. Same as a car or tv or stereo.
But I do know that 2 of my eMachines had bad power supplies - they died after just 1.5 years. The first time was no big deal, but the second time damaged my hard drive causing me to lose all my nudist beach pho..... er, data.
The $100 replacement supply has lasted 4 years so far with no sign of quitting.
Majel and I were discussing Earth: Final Conflict. I said that I and the fans love the show, but the decision to kill-off Boone and move from a serialized story (like babylon 5) and to an episodic show was a mistake. She insisted that "Gene always preferred episodic stories" and "How do you know the quality will go down?"
So I patiently watched the second and third seasons, and then I contacted her again: "I just finished watching the S3 finale. I was right. This show is now crap. I wish you had listened to the fans and left the show the way it was, with Boone, and with a strong serialized story."
I wish I had not done that, but I was angry that she had stubbornly refused to listen to faithful viewers. EFC was a good show but ruined by a "change in direction" that was not needed.
Which expires after a certain amount of time - the company bankrupts, the company stop service (Googlemusic), the server still exists but no longer supports games download to Original Xboxes, the company decides to to revoke the license, et cetera.
With a cartridge, CD, or DVD there's no license to be revoked. Nintendo can't come to me and say "Stop playing Zelda 1 on your NES" because I own the cartridge. But they could do that with a Zelda 1 download on my Wii circa five years from now.
Unfortunately I cannot sell Licenses on the used market.
I can only sell a physical object, which is why I prefer carts, cds, and dvds. I can collect them, play them, and sell them at almost the same price I originally paid.
I usually ask on forums, "What's worthy of buying?" and then if I see a lot of good reviews from gamers both on the forums and on gamefaqs.com, I will buy that game.
The problem is that many people are easily amused, whereas I often get bored fast. For example: Resident Evil 4 - many people like it but I grew bored after a few hours so off it went to Ebay. I keep maybe 1 out of 20 games I buy.
What makes it worthwhile are those few rarities like the Call of Duty series or FF series.
Well that's true, but neither do people. The Mario 64 ROM only has to last until around 2050 which I'm sure it will. Ditto the Final Fantasy 7 CD. They'll likely both outlive me.
A downloaded version of these games - well their lifespan is only 4-to-5 years. That's the point where the server either ceases to exist, or Nintendo/Sony decides to force you to download another copy, or whatever.
The point is your ability to play is dependent upon the corporation, and corporations have shown themselves unfaithful. Just ask anyone who "bought" music at Google or Walmart but can no longer play that music because the companies scrapped their authorization servers.
Did you even bother to READ WHAT I WROTE? I was specifically discussing Disney between the time of Walt's death, and the mid-1980s. I then specified that AFTER the mid-80s, they got a new CEO with vision who restored the company to what it is today.
Read the fucking article...er, posts.
>>>If Apple does that, they WILL become bigger than microsoft.
Yes but if it follows the pattern of the Disney Company, it won't happen until 20 years after Steve Jobs' death...sometime around the year 2030. So don't hold your breath; you'll be holding it a very long time.
i.e. Not well at all. They company floundered from 1967 to around 1987 until a new CEO with vision arrived on the scene.
I suspect Apple would do the same, gradually returning to a state akin to how it was in the early 90s. Ultimately it might end-up in the same state as Commodore (which also lost its visionary CEO and slowly but surely died-out).
On the other hand I shouldn't need to keep rebuying & redownloading a non-internet-based game like Super Mario 64 every few years, just because the old servers no longer exist to say "yes it's approved". When the old servers go down, the game stops working.
With the cartridge I buy it once and play it forever.
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"Banning repeat offenders will reduce your congestion issues and your costs." - RIAA
"That sounds good to us! We already impose limits on high-bandwidth users; if you back us up we can ban them completely!" - Comcast
"Excellent." - RIAA
Yeah but phone books don't include my credit card numbers as some of the Web accounts do.
>>>some of them might even be ours rather than something American made with an actual budget.
LOL.
What ye need is a pan-European broadcaster that produces dramas with mega-budgets. Something like NBC Europe.
Just like the French. First you give us fried potatoes to clog our arteries, then you dump your "huddled masses" from your country to the U.S., and now you invent the 3-strike law to ban us from ISPs without due process of law (a jury trial).
>>>The RIAA is going to try to working with the ISPs to limit file-sharing services and cut off repeated users.
Thanks. ;-)
I've often thought that, over the ~15 year span that I've been surfing the web, I opened-up way too many accounts. I've forgotten most of them, and yet my name and address still sits there in the databases just waiting to be hacked (or sold).
Well being an AVERAGE, I imagine some people in Sweden have fat 50 Mbps lines, some have slow 750k lines, and others just have 50k phonelines.
Therefore when the people who did the study averaged all of these people together, they arrived at 10.8 Megabit/s which I rounded up to 11 because my signature space is limited.
I think he meant megabits, like those old Nintendo and Sega carts ("27 megabits of power!!!").
So that would be equivalent to 3.3 megabytes of space. Not bad at all. That would fit inside my old 68000 Commodore, 68000 Macintosh, or an old 286 PC.
It makes my post and everybody else's post below my posts (like yours) invisible to the readers.
>>>The problem is that you ultimately get what you pay for, and the used game market means people are paying virtually nothing.
Yep. Just like the used car market or the used TV/stereo market.
I'm not crying for these corporations.
>>>Imagine if you could sell any other product after you have gotten the maximum usage out of it.
I can. I can sell my car after I tire of it (say 30000 miles). I can sell my TV (and have on ebay) or my stereo (ditto) or my old VCR..... so since I can sell other stuff, why shouldn't I be able to sell my video games and recoup some of my money?
Because they've taken away my ownership. All they've done is rent the item until they decide to stop supporting it (i.e. pull the authorization server). I don't want to pay $50 for a rental of a game. I want ownership so I can keep it until I die, or until I sell it to someone else. Same as a car or tv or stereo.
Isn't that a bad thing? Copyrights should expire after the original creator's (or his wife's) death.
I don't know.
But I do know that 2 of my eMachines had bad power supplies - they died after just 1.5 years. The first time was no big deal, but the second time damaged my hard drive causing me to lose all my nudist beach pho..... er, data.
The $100 replacement supply has lasted 4 years so far with no sign of quitting.
Majel and I were discussing Earth: Final Conflict. I said that I and the fans love the show, but the decision to kill-off Boone and move from a serialized story (like babylon 5) and to an episodic show was a mistake. She insisted that "Gene always preferred episodic stories" and "How do you know the quality will go down?"
So I patiently watched the second and third seasons, and then I contacted her again: "I just finished watching the S3 finale. I was right. This show is now crap. I wish you had listened to the fans and left the show the way it was, with Boone, and with a strong serialized story."
I wish I had not done that, but I was angry that she had stubbornly refused to listen to faithful viewers. EFC was a good show but ruined by a "change in direction" that was not needed.
And the second rule (borrowing from Shakespeare):
"Kill all the moderators" because the internet is met to be uncensored. (like Usenet is.)
Why was my post labeled "redundant"? Redundant of what? As far as I know I did not repeat anything; I posted an original message.
$1200?
If so I'm not going to go run and buy one. I can buy a USB disk drive that has twice as much for 1/10th the price.
P.S.
>>>a non-transferable license
Which expires after a certain amount of time - the company bankrupts, the company stop service (Googlemusic), the server still exists but no longer supports games download to Original Xboxes, the company decides to to revoke the license, et cetera.
With a cartridge, CD, or DVD there's no license to be revoked. Nintendo can't come to me and say "Stop playing Zelda 1 on your NES" because I own the cartridge. But they could do that with a Zelda 1 download on my Wii circa five years from now.
Unfortunately I cannot sell Licenses on the used market.
I can only sell a physical object, which is why I prefer carts, cds, and dvds. I can collect them, play them, and sell them at almost the same price I originally paid.
I usually ask on forums, "What's worthy of buying?" and then if I see a lot of good reviews from gamers both on the forums and on gamefaqs.com, I will buy that game.
The problem is that many people are easily amused, whereas I often get bored fast. For example: Resident Evil 4 - many people like it but I grew bored after a few hours so off it went to Ebay. I keep maybe 1 out of 20 games I buy.
What makes it worthwhile are those few rarities like the Call of Duty series or FF series.
First I said "around" as in "around 2009 or 2010 or 2011 or 2012 or 2013".
Second if Jobs really does have cancer, he could be dead in as little as six months. Death can come fast.
>>>ROM chips don't last forever.
Well that's true, but neither do people. The Mario 64 ROM only has to last until around 2050 which I'm sure it will. Ditto the Final Fantasy 7 CD. They'll likely both outlive me.
A downloaded version of these games - well their lifespan is only 4-to-5 years. That's the point where the server either ceases to exist, or Nintendo/Sony decides to force you to download another copy, or whatever.
The point is your ability to play is dependent upon the corporation, and corporations have shown themselves unfaithful. Just ask anyone who "bought" music at Google or Walmart but can no longer play that music because the companies scrapped their authorization servers.
>>>Disney without walt has exploded.
Did you even bother to READ WHAT I WROTE? I was specifically discussing Disney between the time of Walt's death, and the mid-1980s. I then specified that AFTER the mid-80s, they got a new CEO with vision who restored the company to what it is today.
Read the fucking article...er, posts.
>>>If Apple does that, they WILL become bigger than microsoft.
Yes but if it follows the pattern of the Disney Company, it won't happen until 20 years after Steve Jobs' death...sometime around the year 2030. So don't hold your breath; you'll be holding it a very long time.
i.e. Not well at all. They company floundered from 1967 to around 1987 until a new CEO with vision arrived on the scene.
I suspect Apple would do the same, gradually returning to a state akin to how it was in the early 90s. Ultimately it might end-up in the same state as Commodore (which also lost its visionary CEO and slowly but surely died-out).
In this case it's just simple age. There's no one out there to support old 1980s-era Commodore games for online play.
That's fine. Enjoy PSO.
On the other hand I shouldn't need to keep rebuying & redownloading a non-internet-based game like Super Mario 64 every few years, just because the old servers no longer exist to say "yes it's approved". When the old servers go down, the game stops working.
With the cartridge I buy it once and play it forever.