Music industry as a whole can go screw themselves, I'm not giving them any more money and not paying attention to them until some measure of sanity is restored and I can listen to music without a legal Damocles sword dangling above our collective heads.
Will if Mythbusters can't do it then I guess no-one can. I am sure the guys in compliance labs would love to be replaced by a fat guy who likes diving and a skinny one who does what exactly?
It was actually the build team who did that experiment - a redhead with a taste for car destruction, an italian who can't ride a bicycle without injuring himself and an electronics obssessed asian robosexual.
A few seasons back, Mythbusters did some tests and found that none of their phones were able to affect even remotely the instruments of a plane. It makes sense after all - we're not exactly seeing terrorists trying to sneak twelve cell phones on board and try to text each other into crashing the plane.
It's a simple concept to grasp. DRM makes your legally bought games harder to play, more prone to fail and can potentially cripple your whole system. Pirated games have none of this. The industry needs to reverse this trend, and by reversing it I don't mean increasing it with harsher DRM schemes that only punish legitimate customers.
With all the advertising on canadian television and all the local promo about the "awesome pro mode! Learn for real!!!" we had over here you'd think SOME thought would have been made to actually make the product available at launch - or at all for that matter.
It's pretty much impossible these days to get a radio broadcast copy which hasn't been either trunkated for time (like Sugar Ray's Hey Leonardo which infamously gets amputated a full 45 seconds verse) or doesn't have an annoying radio host talking over the lead-in or through the tail end of the song. Any song that seems like CD quality is exactly that - not a radio broadcast by any stretch of the imagination.
It's one thing to generate demand by creating fevered anticipation, but people will only wait so long before the fever dies down and the excitement turns to some new shiny that can be obtained right now. I used to be REALLY excited about Rockband 3's pro mode back in november, I was going to get the new pro guitar and learn for real. Unfortunately, Mad Catz has a bad history of underproducing their most in-demand hardware (SF4 pro-sticks, anyone?) and as a result there has been zero PS3 or Xbox360 pro instruments in any canadian stores as of yet. We've been promised it would be here in march or april, but considering the previous Mad Catz fiasco I'd be stunned if we saw any before December 2011 or even early spring 2012. I'm not waiting until the mayan apocalypse for those, so I'm moving on.
Glad to see at least some people in the music industry aren't asleep at the switch.
Your profile built and created without your knowledge, posted without your consent and used to hook you up with people you wouldn't want to know you exist - just the thing for the busy creepy stalker who's constantly on the go!
It's all too easy to find your mother's maiden name or your city of birth... unless you sign them up as some impossible answer like "Kim Plausible" and "The Kingdom of Nor-Kadrel". Good luck data mining my profiles for THOSE!
... on ways to tell us to go outside more. When did science stop doing cool stuff like shooting rockets in space or write words with atoms and start sounding like my mom?
Asking for everyone to work 3-4 hours a day extra for no extra pay is basically asking for back-breaking slave labor that will only profit the pharaoh. Make a break for it as soon as you figure which of your coders knows how to turn sticks into snakes.
How many children will die or suffer lifelong complications from preventable diseases because their parents got scared of vaccines by his unethical greed?
Software patents confuse the hell out of me. I mean, reading the patent abstract, it sounds like it could apply to any of thousands of database driven multiplayer tournament systems (games).
That's the whole point of patent trolling. Patent a vague and ill-defined concept, wait for a company to make millions in profits, sue them for "infringing" on your vague ideas. It's the legal equivalent of saying "these guys stole my idea before I had it!"
My communication skills have been... insufficient, shall we say, for a good part of my life, though I kept bringing consistent technical know-how that made my social misgivings marginally tolerable, to a point. Just make sure you never become more trouble than you're worth, however, and work on your social skills. The minute they improve, you'll become far more valuable to your company!!!
Could you imagine a universe, where successive Pacman clones are more expensive, so the last one will cost 150 million dollars?
Thats the MMORPG business for you. Cloning a formula that seems to work, in a very expensive way, for a public that is progressively more bored of the formula.
And just like the real cloning business, for every one successful Dolly there are dozens of genetic failures that die of internal organ failure within a few weeks.
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Music industry as a whole can go screw themselves, I'm not giving them any more money and not paying attention to them until some measure of sanity is restored and I can listen to music without a legal Damocles sword dangling above our collective heads.
Just as long as your system is DirectX 3.0 compatible, you'll be just fine.
Will if Mythbusters can't do it then I guess no-one can. I am sure the guys in compliance labs would love to be replaced by a fat guy who likes diving and a skinny one who does what exactly?
It was actually the build team who did that experiment - a redhead with a taste for car destruction, an italian who can't ride a bicycle without injuring himself and an electronics obssessed asian robosexual.
A few seasons back, Mythbusters did some tests and found that none of their phones were able to affect even remotely the instruments of a plane. It makes sense after all - we're not exactly seeing terrorists trying to sneak twelve cell phones on board and try to text each other into crashing the plane.
It's a simple concept to grasp. DRM makes your legally bought games harder to play, more prone to fail and can potentially cripple your whole system. Pirated games have none of this. The industry needs to reverse this trend, and by reversing it I don't mean increasing it with harsher DRM schemes that only punish legitimate customers.
With all the advertising on canadian television and all the local promo about the "awesome pro mode! Learn for real!!!" we had over here you'd think SOME thought would have been made to actually make the product available at launch - or at all for that matter.
It's pretty much impossible these days to get a radio broadcast copy which hasn't been either trunkated for time (like Sugar Ray's Hey Leonardo which infamously gets amputated a full 45 seconds verse) or doesn't have an annoying radio host talking over the lead-in or through the tail end of the song. Any song that seems like CD quality is exactly that - not a radio broadcast by any stretch of the imagination.
It's one thing to generate demand by creating fevered anticipation, but people will only wait so long before the fever dies down and the excitement turns to some new shiny that can be obtained right now. I used to be REALLY excited about Rockband 3's pro mode back in november, I was going to get the new pro guitar and learn for real. Unfortunately, Mad Catz has a bad history of underproducing their most in-demand hardware (SF4 pro-sticks, anyone?) and as a result there has been zero PS3 or Xbox360 pro instruments in any canadian stores as of yet. We've been promised it would be here in march or april, but considering the previous Mad Catz fiasco I'd be stunned if we saw any before December 2011 or even early spring 2012. I'm not waiting until the mayan apocalypse for those, so I'm moving on.
Glad to see at least some people in the music industry aren't asleep at the switch.
Your profile built and created without your knowledge, posted without your consent and used to hook you up with people you wouldn't want to know you exist - just the thing for the busy creepy stalker who's constantly on the go!
It's all too easy to find your mother's maiden name or your city of birth... unless you sign them up as some impossible answer like "Kim Plausible" and "The Kingdom of Nor-Kadrel". Good luck data mining my profiles for THOSE!
The facility is in bad need of repairs and isn't responding anymore.
The real question is "When are you going to stop and think?"
I'll take "People who take jokes at face value" for 100, Alex.
... on ways to tell us to go outside more. When did science stop doing cool stuff like shooting rockets in space or write words with atoms and start sounding like my mom?
Asking for everyone to work 3-4 hours a day extra for no extra pay is basically asking for back-breaking slave labor that will only profit the pharaoh. Make a break for it as soon as you figure which of your coders knows how to turn sticks into snakes.
Greedy loser.
Not all apps are as stable as you'd like. You need something to press to exit to your home screen if your app decides it just wants to freeze...
How many children will die or suffer lifelong complications from preventable diseases because their parents got scared of vaccines by his unethical greed?
MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft require the kind of precision and sensory feedback that only standard keyboards can provide.
Software patents confuse the hell out of me. I mean, reading the patent abstract, it sounds like it could apply to any of thousands of database driven multiplayer tournament systems (games).
That's the whole point of patent trolling. Patent a vague and ill-defined concept, wait for a company to make millions in profits, sue them for "infringing" on your vague ideas. It's the legal equivalent of saying "these guys stole my idea before I had it!"
... the minister knowing exactly what he's trying to sell and hoping nobody will notice?
What is a possible new leap in interactive interfaces that would make a Bat-computer type UI possible?
My communication skills have been... insufficient, shall we say, for a good part of my life, though I kept bringing consistent technical know-how that made my social misgivings marginally tolerable, to a point. Just make sure you never become more trouble than you're worth, however, and work on your social skills. The minute they improve, you'll become far more valuable to your company!!!
The all-contingency plan B: move the entire city 5 miles down the road!
Could you imagine a universe, where successive Pacman clones are more expensive, so the last one will cost 150 million dollars? Thats the MMORPG business for you. Cloning a formula that seems to work, in a very expensive way, for a public that is progressively more bored of the formula.
And just like the real cloning business, for every one successful Dolly there are dozens of genetic failures that die of internal organ failure within a few weeks.
As long as you don't say anything bad about the government, mmmmmkay?