It's always interesting to see how the companies automatically assume that someone who wasn't taking it for free from a download site would certainly be buying it otherwise. A large contingent of pirates fit in the "I'm getting it for free or not at all" category, which makes their figures take a huge dive.
Keeping in mind that the person who click the "I agree" button and installed the game is not the one playing but rather a collection of scripts and programs, will anyone ever try and sort if a bot can be considered a person for the purpose of upholding legally binding agreements between game publishers and gamers? Skynet would be scary in PvP, is all I'm saying.
If a newspaper in Denmark, a prominently non-muslim country, can't do the same without being subjected with worldwide cannon fire from muslim authorities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy), what are the chances that a website in a muslim country would fare any better?
Just look at the near fanatical destruction of the blueprints and prototypes of the canadian supersonic Avro Arrow combat jet back in the 50's. This car design getting buried is clearly another case of someone not wanting anyone to manufacture a competing model that could shake the current makers out of their lowest common denominator complacency.
"This is anautomated message for Mr Smith. Hello Mr Smith, we've noticed that you've been spending your friday mornings at hotel 6 a lot, and while you commit adultery with Ms. Doolan who also spends a lot of time there with you, you may want to consider taking a short detour to Delco Brand Drugstore for some condoms to avoid your wednesday trips to the free VD clinic!"
When the hired thugs come by your dark alley where you conduct your stolen credential business and complain about the quality of your premium stolen information, would you prefer they break your arms or your legs?
Dear Warner Brothers
Your computer was scanned to contain illegal copyrighted material. Please pay an immediate fine of 2,000,000$ or legal action to the fullest extent of the law shall be engaged against you.
We're still far off from GITS's brain hacking. His biological functions remain entirely unaffected, as he is merely carrying the infected chip with him. Effectively, he might as well just be keeping a passcard with an infected smartchip in his wallet, the result would be the same.
It's been a long standing fact that crime does not require a physical presence. If harassing someone over the phone with incessant calls can be a criminal offense, shouldn't the same hold true for email, another form of communication?
Consider that a console is a single model built on an assembly line with the same hardware, the same firmware, the same OS. Now compare PCs... literally thousands of possible combinations of hardware , software and operating system. PC is Legion, for it is many.
How can you be so sure that nobody WANTS to own a console just because there are none to sell? There was "no market" after the great video game crash of Atari in 1983, but that did not stop Nintendo from making a smash commercial success with the NES a few years later.
Many people have predicted the move toward either One Single Console To Rule Them All, or in this case none at all. The problem with this sort of prediction is that it does not account for the profitability of such systems. As long as money CAN be made by putting out a console, someone will. And as long as someone does, others will want a share of that pie, thus competition. It's the reason why Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo could fold eventually and still we'd end up with a multiple console market competition.
There's a video on youtube of a guy who tested real vs virtual drunk driving by playing GTA 4 sober while Nico was virtually drunk, then driving with Nico sober while himself being totally smashed. Unsurprisingly, the drunk Nico-sober player combo was much more accurate, while the opposite resulted in much more destruction and mayhem.
Is it any wonder that I uninstalled adobe reader entirely? Reading a lone pdf once in a while isn't worth having a massive security flaw exploitable with a no-click hacking trick.
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Expect the chinese government to spin this into a positive light for their work camp by "teaching teamwork and on-the-fly improvisational skills".
It's always interesting to see how the companies automatically assume that someone who wasn't taking it for free from a download site would certainly be buying it otherwise. A large contingent of pirates fit in the "I'm getting it for free or not at all" category, which makes their figures take a huge dive.
Now you can look goofy AND charge your phone all at once!
Don't do it.
Keeping in mind that the person who click the "I agree" button and installed the game is not the one playing but rather a collection of scripts and programs, will anyone ever try and sort if a bot can be considered a person for the purpose of upholding legally binding agreements between game publishers and gamers? Skynet would be scary in PvP, is all I'm saying.
A living womb, human or animal, was never involved. It was created in a dish and grown in an artificial incubator.
They should add Pauly Shore to the crew. This way, they recoup their budget expenses as a direct to DVD comedy release.
If a newspaper in Denmark, a prominently non-muslim country, can't do the same without being subjected with worldwide cannon fire from muslim authorities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy), what are the chances that a website in a muslim country would fare any better?
Just look at the near fanatical destruction of the blueprints and prototypes of the canadian supersonic Avro Arrow combat jet back in the 50's. This car design getting buried is clearly another case of someone not wanting anyone to manufacture a competing model that could shake the current makers out of their lowest common denominator complacency.
"This is anautomated message for Mr Smith. Hello Mr Smith, we've noticed that you've been spending your friday mornings at hotel 6 a lot, and while you commit adultery with Ms. Doolan who also spends a lot of time there with you, you may want to consider taking a short detour to Delco Brand Drugstore for some condoms to avoid your wednesday trips to the free VD clinic!"
When the hired thugs come by your dark alley where you conduct your stolen credential business and complain about the quality of your premium stolen information, would you prefer they break your arms or your legs?
Dear Warner Brothers Your computer was scanned to contain illegal copyrighted material. Please pay an immediate fine of 2,000,000$ or legal action to the fullest extent of the law shall be engaged against you.
He wins the whole internet if he uses THIS instead of a floppy drive:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/24/1gb-then-and-now/
We're still far off from GITS's brain hacking. His biological functions remain entirely unaffected, as he is merely carrying the infected chip with him. Effectively, he might as well just be keeping a passcard with an infected smartchip in his wallet, the result would be the same.
It's been a long standing fact that crime does not require a physical presence. If harassing someone over the phone with incessant calls can be a criminal offense, shouldn't the same hold true for email, another form of communication?
Consider that a console is a single model built on an assembly line with the same hardware, the same firmware, the same OS. Now compare PCs... literally thousands of possible combinations of hardware , software and operating system. PC is Legion, for it is many.
How can you be so sure that nobody WANTS to own a console just because there are none to sell? There was "no market" after the great video game crash of Atari in 1983, but that did not stop Nintendo from making a smash commercial success with the NES a few years later.
Many people have predicted the move toward either One Single Console To Rule Them All, or in this case none at all. The problem with this sort of prediction is that it does not account for the profitability of such systems. As long as money CAN be made by putting out a console, someone will. And as long as someone does, others will want a share of that pie, thus competition. It's the reason why Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo could fold eventually and still we'd end up with a multiple console market competition.
Someone already TRIED: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2008/0270152.html
Sounds like something the Mythbusters might want to test. Definitely could be made more interesting by strapping 100 pounds of C4 to their xbox!
There's a video on youtube of a guy who tested real vs virtual drunk driving by playing GTA 4 sober while Nico was virtually drunk, then driving with Nico sober while himself being totally smashed. Unsurprisingly, the drunk Nico-sober player combo was much more accurate, while the opposite resulted in much more destruction and mayhem.
... but will it power an iPhone more than 2 hours?
I'd watch that. Especially if the concept and scripts are left up to him!
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Is it any wonder that I uninstalled adobe reader entirely? Reading a lone pdf once in a while isn't worth having a massive security flaw exploitable with a no-click hacking trick.