I am well paid and I have lots of disposable income. Guess who lost a nice chunk of that revenue stream? They haven't had me as a customer since steam. I have the first version of Half-Life that doesn't require steam. That was where they lost me. Treat me like an equal in the transaction, we can talk. Treat me like a thief at every turn, I walk away. And they won't know how many of my friends and relatives I have convinced that way as well. Word of mouth is wonderful advertising, or a horrible fire you can't stop.
Buying something for cheaper than you can sell, isn't that called a business? Isn't that why people vacation in other countries? This occurs in especially poor countries. What you buy there is cheap for what the first world would pay, but great for the locals. This is called being an Entrepreneur. This is how locals make money, they make it off of the first world. Why is this any different? This is the Global Market Economy working. I bet steam is more than tickled pink to buy all of their cheap servers from a low income nation like China. They get to take advantage of it, but the individual can't? How hypocritical.
Remember all of the Xbox Live players out there who love digital distribution? Well, here it is. You do not OWN ANYTHING. You can try to pry my CDs/DVDs/BlueRay Discs out of my cold dead hands, but that would be theft. Delete a bit on my game to not make it play, that is protecting your revenue stream. Why is the digital download so damned attractive? You don't get box art, you don't get a manual. You don't get the right to play your game on a non-networked machine. Now, you know why volunteering your computer to be part of a corporation's distribution network is a bad idea. Hmm, let's give away my bandwidth, HDD space and processing power to Company A when what do I get in return, disabled products. Ohh, and this is just the beginning. It will only get worse. This just proves, I am not a tinfoil hat theorist, it is true, today, not someday, it is here. Welcome to not owning anything.
This is why I play games on the consoles, you buy the game, you play the game. I want imported games, buy imported console, hook up to TV, play games. No one can come into my house and take my games away from me. The reason I stopped playing PC games was I was always treated like a darned criminal, especially when I paid for the game. The cracked games don't have the nagging that the retail versions do. Now, they are playing this game. This is just lovely. When did I stop being the person who put food on your table and became just another game citizen to keep on taxing with no accountability to? I stopped playing Valve games after steam came out. You could see the writing on the wall, this was going to end badly, just a matter of time.
You should not run your corporate networks over people's private computers. You are giving them the door and the location, it is a matter of time before they have the key. There is a reason that the telephone polls are on the public right of way. It makes it a crime to tamper with it. Once you put something on my land without a legal easement, it is mine to do with as I please. Even with a legal easement, I can still cause damage, I may just have to pay for it. You still lost service. Note to load "sharing" companies, stay off computers you don't have control over, you are just asking for trouble.
They are not the same game. They do not run on the same game engine. You can mostly see the differences in two ways, one, the arcade life bar and the console life bar are different. Two, Akuma had a corner combo that was unbeatable with the tornado kick. I know, I used to own people with that. Get him in a corner, and it is an unlimited combo. The kick back from blows, the move timing and other things show the differences between the two engines. I purchased the home version because I happened to like the arcade version for it's combo system, which felt more like SF Alpha. When I got the game home, I was sorely disappointed. They are NOT the same game, or even use the same game engine. All of my combos did NOT work on the home console that worked in the arcade. I miss hussling guys in the arcade.
I do have to find the ROM and try it on MAME. I may be able to play it the way I remember it.
In a few places, Air waves, RCA connectors on TV, etc... It is the government's job to regulate standards, not to regulate competition. Two completely different things. Anyone here remember Ethyl stations? How about the CBS format for broadcasting TV? Just because a standard is mandated doesn't mean that the government is interfering in the free market. Just because the government regulated the size and features of a gas pump doesn't mean that there is no competition in the Gas Station market. Requiring a standard is very different from regulating business models. Just because we use 110V in our house doesn't mean that there isn't competition in power companies. The local monopolies take care of that. But in return for that monopoly is close regulation. The only one who is skirting by this is the Cable companies. I really don't know why that is. They are a common carrier now just like Verizon, why not be regulated as such?
One thing I do not understand is why Friend Codes are so hated. They do exactly what Nintendo wants. Keep their kid safe image. With friends codes, you only play with the yahoos who you KNOW PHYSICALLY. There isn't much chance of getting caught with a predator when he doesn't know your friend code or name. There is no chat, no way to get heavy breathing over the DS. It allows friends to play and parents to feel safe that little Jill can be playing with her friends over the internet and they don't have to worry about looking to censor it. It works PERFECTLY for kids. Friends can play friends and the wierdos don't know who you are. And yes, I know there are web sites that allow you to put friends codes out there. But, you have to do that yourself and if you are doing that, you can use a computer and a chat room too. At that point, a DS game is the least of the parents' worries.
Depends on what you mean by anything. If you mean has there been a large takeup of drivers or features, no. But that does not have to do with the license. It has more to do with the snail's pace that Sun's development process follows. The whole CAB thing is interesting, but you cannot get a feature into OpenSolaris without it being sponsored by a Sun employee. It is still and if Sun has anything to do with it, continue to be, a very cathedral approach to things. Now, it does slow down development which allows for more testing, better architecting and there is a ton of discussion, re: ksh93, that brings out ALL of the nitty gritty details of the ripple effect through the product. But it also shows one of the chinks in the OpenSolaris armor, fear of change. Fear of change is not a bad thing when betting tons of money, however, attempting to produce a more useful operating system, or "Operating Environment" as Sun likes to put it. In this day and age the need to be nimble and allow new features to be merged in a time frame that does not discourage contributors. The snails pace which features are argued back and forth is fine when you have 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year to work on a single feature. When you only have the off time that the programmer is working on this project, it becomes unmanageable. This is very similar to the way OpenDarwin worked. It seems to be running into similar problems, however, I will say that Sun employees are very willing to talk with anyone who has an idea. They are also very good, sometimes, at letting those on the outside know what is going on on the inside. There still is though very much a feeling of "We out here are only get to see part of the development process". This is manifested by defects not having all of the information necessary for reproducing the issue, or investigation notes. There are fields that are not visible to the outside world in the database. This limits the transparency with which the process can run. There are two types of developers, those inside Sun and those outside. These two classes have very different means available to them. It hampers some investigation and correction, especially when a defect refers to the information contained in a field that only Sun employees can see. The only thing that I could see fixing this is GPL'ing the code which would allow a completely non-Sun controlled version of Solaris to be built. This would remove the have/have-not barrier for developers and would allow cross-polination of good ideas. Driver support would also be a bonus. As it stands right now, only pure BSD drivers can be pulled over. But overall, it still very much seems as if the OS community is on a factory tour of an Operating System factory. We get to look through the glass, but we really can't touch the machinery.
Hmm, Companies when they are doing well usually are the object of praise by the media, customers, etc... Seems Sony is doing a lot of defending these days.
Why are these in the glove compartment? In the dashboard, as a slot, or instead of the ash tray, etc... Why do I have to reach into the glove box each time I want to put my iPod in there? Does anyone do any usability studies anymore?
For the 360, yes, but PS3 does not appear to allow for removing the HDD. This is just with the current generation of the hardware/platform. Remember, like Gilette, once you have them buying the blades and they are used to it, there is an inertia that is hard to overcome.
I still don't understand why this downloadable content is viewed as a good idea. There is too much room for abuse on the providers' end. Plus, now all of the games are tied to a physical machine. my family has a beach house with a second PS2. I take my games and memory card and that is it. This is one reason I don't play Live, it is tied to a physical machine. This means lugging the whole darned unit with me, if I want to play a game. Plus, you never really "OWN" the game. With a Disc, they can never take it away from me. With a download, they can just delete it. It also lends itself to subscription usage. What happened to the days when online content was a means to ADD to a game experience or entice a consumer away from another similar game? It used to be the deciding factor in buying a game. "Well, game A has a good single player and no online content. Game B has a good single player game AND online content, NO BRAINER" Now, it just appears to be a way to control how many times they will charge a consumer. With downloadable maps, you can still play the game without a network connection, it was a bonus to download the extra maps, etc... Now, it appears that they are getting us used to not really "OWNING" anything. Once the publishers get us used to that, that is it, there is no going back. Then we have no rights to what we play.
...for 10 bucks at Toys R Us? Then you get to keep it, take it to your friend's house and not have to worry if your DRM'ed file will be deleted after your "Rights" have expired. Remember, they update the Live firmware, so what works today may not work tomorrow.::Cough WGA Cough::
I haven't followed it for a while, but I have a wrt54gs with custom firmware on it. Can the current GS still be flashed, or have they removed that except for the GL line? Considering the bump the GS has in processor and memory, it would be a shame to lose that platform. Just wondering because I haven't done it in a long time.
>>MS spends millions of dollars to develop IE and "give" it away
So, along the same lines, GM spends millions of dollars on engines and "gives" them away when you buy the body of the car.
>>learn what their options are instead of just accepting the defaults, but other than that, too bad
What would you say if Ford decided that it would tell consumers that only Mobil gas will work in their car? This is collusion. There are many legal instances where this is illegal. Remember, the phone company used to rent you the phone because they told people that other non-Bell phones would burn down your house. What I don't understand is why if we have so much precedent elsewhere is it not just applied to the computer industry.
I bet it will be a classic like environment, but for windows. Once the data is on the HDD, it is trivial to start up a virtual machine and fool the win partition into thinking that it is booting natively. That is much more likely. That would be the final "Integrated" solution for running windows apps. They proved it could be done workably with OS 9. Now, they just have a separate partition to boot. But this again, is from another whack job on the innerwebinator thingie.
Sorry, your comment about Christian being a requirement is definitely off the mark. In my Troop, there are many guys who are Jewish. When we have services, they are non-denominational. We have religious medals for every religion, even getting down into sects. Each one has requirements that are created by the clergy in that denomination. Sorry, but you are wrong. I bet you haven't even seen the handbook, because if you looked in the back, after the requirements, you would see a picture of every single religious award that can be give, and the faith underneath it.
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I am well paid and I have lots of disposable income. Guess who lost a nice chunk of that revenue stream? They haven't had me as a customer since steam. I have the first version of Half-Life that doesn't require steam. That was where they lost me. Treat me like an equal in the transaction, we can talk. Treat me like a thief at every turn, I walk away. And they won't know how many of my friends and relatives I have convinced that way as well. Word of mouth is wonderful advertising, or a horrible fire you can't stop.
Buying something for cheaper than you can sell, isn't that called a business? Isn't that why people vacation in other countries? This occurs in especially poor countries. What you buy there is cheap for what the first world would pay, but great for the locals. This is called being an Entrepreneur. This is how locals make money, they make it off of the first world. Why is this any different? This is the Global Market Economy working. I bet steam is more than tickled pink to buy all of their cheap servers from a low income nation like China. They get to take advantage of it, but the individual can't? How hypocritical.
Remember all of the Xbox Live players out there who love digital distribution? Well, here it is. You do not OWN ANYTHING. You can try to pry my CDs/DVDs/BlueRay Discs out of my cold dead hands, but that would be theft. Delete a bit on my game to not make it play, that is protecting your revenue stream. Why is the digital download so damned attractive? You don't get box art, you don't get a manual. You don't get the right to play your game on a non-networked machine. Now, you know why volunteering your computer to be part of a corporation's distribution network is a bad idea. Hmm, let's give away my bandwidth, HDD space and processing power to Company A when what do I get in return, disabled products. Ohh, and this is just the beginning. It will only get worse. This just proves, I am not a tinfoil hat theorist, it is true, today, not someday, it is here. Welcome to not owning anything.
This is why I play games on the consoles, you buy the game, you play the game. I want imported games, buy imported console, hook up to TV, play games. No one can come into my house and take my games away from me. The reason I stopped playing PC games was I was always treated like a darned criminal, especially when I paid for the game. The cracked games don't have the nagging that the retail versions do. Now, they are playing this game. This is just lovely. When did I stop being the person who put food on your table and became just another game citizen to keep on taxing with no accountability to? I stopped playing Valve games after steam came out. You could see the writing on the wall, this was going to end badly, just a matter of time.
You should not run your corporate networks over people's private computers. You are giving them the door and the location, it is a matter of time before they have the key. There is a reason that the telephone polls are on the public right of way. It makes it a crime to tamper with it. Once you put something on my land without a legal easement, it is mine to do with as I please. Even with a legal easement, I can still cause damage, I may just have to pay for it. You still lost service. Note to load "sharing" companies, stay off computers you don't have control over, you are just asking for trouble.
Here's what I don't get. Leader of the free world, couldn't he have bagged a Spice Girl?
Sacks of money? I hear that works well to get people to work for you. But I must admit, that is just a hearsay.
They are not the same game. They do not run on the same game engine. You can mostly see the differences in two ways, one, the arcade life bar and the console life bar are different. Two, Akuma had a corner combo that was unbeatable with the tornado kick. I know, I used to own people with that. Get him in a corner, and it is an unlimited combo. The kick back from blows, the move timing and other things show the differences between the two engines. I purchased the home version because I happened to like the arcade version for it's combo system, which felt more like SF Alpha. When I got the game home, I was sorely disappointed. They are NOT the same game, or even use the same game engine. All of my combos did NOT work on the home console that worked in the arcade. I miss hussling guys in the arcade.
I do have to find the ROM and try it on MAME. I may be able to play it the way I remember it.
In a few places, Air waves, RCA connectors on TV, etc... It is the government's job to regulate standards, not to regulate competition. Two completely different things. Anyone here remember Ethyl stations? How about the CBS format for broadcasting TV? Just because a standard is mandated doesn't mean that the government is interfering in the free market. Just because the government regulated the size and features of a gas pump doesn't mean that there is no competition in the Gas Station market. Requiring a standard is very different from regulating business models. Just because we use 110V in our house doesn't mean that there isn't competition in power companies. The local monopolies take care of that. But in return for that monopoly is close regulation. The only one who is skirting by this is the Cable companies. I really don't know why that is. They are a common carrier now just like Verizon, why not be regulated as such?
http://novia.net/~ereitan/Color_Sys_CBS.html
One thing I do not understand is why Friend Codes are so hated. They do exactly what Nintendo wants. Keep their kid safe image. With friends codes, you only play with the yahoos who you KNOW PHYSICALLY. There isn't much chance of getting caught with a predator when he doesn't know your friend code or name. There is no chat, no way to get heavy breathing over the DS. It allows friends to play and parents to feel safe that little Jill can be playing with her friends over the internet and they don't have to worry about looking to censor it. It works PERFECTLY for kids. Friends can play friends and the wierdos don't know who you are. And yes, I know there are web sites that allow you to put friends codes out there. But, you have to do that yourself and if you are doing that, you can use a computer and a chat room too. At that point, a DS game is the least of the parents' worries.
Depends on what you mean by anything. If you mean has there been a large takeup of drivers or features, no. But that does not have to do with the license. It has more to do with the snail's pace that Sun's development process follows. The whole CAB thing is interesting, but you cannot get a feature into OpenSolaris without it being sponsored by a Sun employee. It is still and if Sun has anything to do with it, continue to be, a very cathedral approach to things. Now, it does slow down development which allows for more testing, better architecting and there is a ton of discussion, re: ksh93, that brings out ALL of the nitty gritty details of the ripple effect through the product. But it also shows one of the chinks in the OpenSolaris armor, fear of change. Fear of change is not a bad thing when betting tons of money, however, attempting to produce a more useful operating system, or "Operating Environment" as Sun likes to put it. In this day and age the need to be nimble and allow new features to be merged in a time frame that does not discourage contributors. The snails pace which features are argued back and forth is fine when you have 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year to work on a single feature. When you only have the off time that the programmer is working on this project, it becomes unmanageable. This is very similar to the way OpenDarwin worked. It seems to be running into similar problems, however, I will say that Sun employees are very willing to talk with anyone who has an idea. They are also very good, sometimes, at letting those on the outside know what is going on on the inside. There still is though very much a feeling of "We out here are only get to see part of the development process". This is manifested by defects not having all of the information necessary for reproducing the issue, or investigation notes. There are fields that are not visible to the outside world in the database. This limits the transparency with which the process can run. There are two types of developers, those inside Sun and those outside. These two classes have very different means available to them. It hampers some investigation and correction, especially when a defect refers to the information contained in a field that only Sun employees can see. The only thing that I could see fixing this is GPL'ing the code which would allow a completely non-Sun controlled version of Solaris to be built. This would remove the have/have-not barrier for developers and would allow cross-polination of good ideas. Driver support would also be a bonus. As it stands right now, only pure BSD drivers can be pulled over. But overall, it still very much seems as if the OS community is on a factory tour of an Operating System factory. We get to look through the glass, but we really can't touch the machinery.
Hmm, Companies when they are doing well usually are the object of praise by the media, customers, etc... Seems Sony is doing a lot of defending these days.
"Why would BSD the various BSDs switch to using the mostly inferior GNU tools??? The BSD userland is more standard and time-tested."
Unless you define more standard by number of installations, then the GNU toolchain is definately more standard.
Standard according to M-W.com
2 a : regularly and widely used, available, or supplied
"but these are mostly just fluff and could easily be added to the BSD userland if anyone actually cared much about the feature."
Apparently the GNU community actually cares and/or uses it. And by numbers, I think the Linux community is definately classifiable as "anyone."
Why are these in the glove compartment? In the dashboard, as a slot, or instead of the ash tray, etc... Why do I have to reach into the glove box each time I want to put my iPod in there? Does anyone do any usability studies anymore?
For the 360, yes, but PS3 does not appear to allow for removing the HDD. This is just with the current generation of the hardware/platform. Remember, like Gilette, once you have them buying the blades and they are used to it, there is an inertia that is hard to overcome.
I still don't understand why this downloadable content is viewed as a good idea. There is too much room for abuse on the providers' end. Plus, now all of the games are tied to a physical machine. my family has a beach house with a second PS2. I take my games and memory card and that is it. This is one reason I don't play Live, it is tied to a physical machine. This means lugging the whole darned unit with me, if I want to play a game. Plus, you never really "OWN" the game. With a Disc, they can never take it away from me. With a download, they can just delete it. It also lends itself to subscription usage. What happened to the days when online content was a means to ADD to a game experience or entice a consumer away from another similar game? It used to be the deciding factor in buying a game. "Well, game A has a good single player and no online content. Game B has a good single player game AND online content, NO BRAINER" Now, it just appears to be a way to control how many times they will charge a consumer. With downloadable maps, you can still play the game without a network connection, it was a bonus to download the extra maps, etc... Now, it appears that they are getting us used to not really "OWNING" anything. Once the publishers get us used to that, that is it, there is no going back. Then we have no rights to what we play.
...for 10 bucks at Toys R Us? Then you get to keep it, take it to your friend's house and not have to worry if your DRM'ed file will be deleted after your "Rights" have expired. Remember, they update the Live firmware, so what works today may not work tomorrow. ::Cough WGA Cough::
I haven't followed it for a while, but I have a wrt54gs with custom firmware on it. Can the current GS still be flashed, or have they removed that except for the GL line? Considering the bump the GS has in processor and memory, it would be a shame to lose that platform. Just wondering because I haven't done it in a long time.
>>MS spends millions of dollars to develop IE and "give" it away
So, along the same lines, GM spends millions of dollars on engines and "gives" them away when you buy the body of the car.
>>learn what their options are instead of just accepting the defaults, but other than that, too bad
What would you say if Ford decided that it would tell consumers that only Mobil gas will work in their car? This is collusion. There are many legal instances where this is illegal. Remember, the phone company used to rent you the phone because they told people that other non-Bell phones would burn down your house. What I don't understand is why if we have so much precedent elsewhere is it not just applied to the computer industry.
I bet it will be a classic like environment, but for windows. Once the data is on the HDD, it is trivial to start up a virtual machine and fool the win partition into thinking that it is booting natively. That is much more likely. That would be the final "Integrated" solution for running windows apps. They proved it could be done workably with OS 9. Now, they just have a separate partition to boot. But this again, is from another whack job on the innerwebinator thingie.
You are giving us too much credit, we don't give you everything, you have to kill the hooker yourself.
How do they have broadcasting taxes? If they are Internet Only, last I checked, they were not technically broadcasting. Any one have any idea?
http://www.scouting.org/awards/religious/index.htm l
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http://www.scouting.org/awards/religious/awards/i
Note the Islam, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Zoroastrian
Now, please tell me that you still think we don't have a program for other faiths.
Darned Frames.
http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=by
Have a read of that, if you would actually like to be informed on the subject.
Ohh, and just to note, there are awards for Islam as well.
Sorry, your comment about Christian being a requirement is definitely off the mark. In my Troop, there are many guys who are Jewish. When we have services, they are non-denominational. We have religious medals for every religion, even getting down into sects. Each one has requirements that are created by the clergy in that denomination. Sorry, but you are wrong. I bet you haven't even seen the handbook, because if you looked in the back, after the requirements, you would see a picture of every single religious award that can be give, and the faith underneath it.