You're going out of your way to alienate a portion of Slashdot's readership. Seems kind of pointless, personally. It's not like every liberal out there is going to think that this suit is okay.
They blocked hardware - in this case, the Atom processor. That's not the same as "stop the support" of the hardware. They went out of their way to make sure it didn't work. That's different from dropping drivers or support.
These are not inherent problems, they're teething periods that Digital Distribution is running into. It will sort itself out.
For example, look at eMusic. They let you download your music whenever you want, granted you still have a subscription. And with no DRM, the activation server is a thing of the past. As services like these grow, so will the mindshare of the platform.
Teen speaking here: My parents' music is trash, I read several music blogs on a regular basis, and with the help of Amazon MP3's wonderful service and the occasional brief listen on YouTube or Lala I'm set to go. I certainly pay for all of my music; I don't usually mull and sample and think about it. If it's good, I buy it.
We'd better keep Lady Gaga, Nickelback, and Kings of Leon alive as long as possible, if that's the case. We don't want that nonsense to be free any sooner than it needs to be.
The game thus has more than "nothing" to do with real life.
You misunderstand what I'm saying (and purposely, it sounds like). It's not that games doesn't interact with real people. They do. Games are about the emotions they create by abstraction situations that have not occurred in real life (or in some rare cares, situations that have, like World War II games). In either case, highly abstracted. A World War II game is a very abstracted version of what occurred nearly a decade ago, and to say that's it's even mildly close to the real history behind the horror is to be dishonest.
There are a whole lot of teenagers that I see as I drive through downtown that look like they're trying to look like something they aren't based on books, movies, or video games.
You mean, the outliers?
Getting so far into virtual reality that you wish it was reality, and thus fail to integrate/interact with reality is not a good thing.
Of course not. Now stop pretending that this represents the group as a whole. I know people like this - they're the modern version of what used to be derogatorily known as the nerd. They feel as if they fit it more with fake worlds that real ones. Again, the outliers.
Incidentally, if teenagers know the difference between reality and virtual reality so well and know that the game has nothing to do with reality, why in the world do they waste so much time of their lives doing something that has no affect on their life and is just a game?
Because it's entertainment? And not the violence part, but the conflict that must be solved behind the violence. It's certainly fun to solve the conflict or puzzle. Modern Warfare 2 seems to be the first game I've ever seen that attempts to go beyond the conflict and portray something morally repelling on a scale like this, which is a fascinating statement of the medium and an emotionally complex piece that is sure to be discussed for a long time.
Games allow us to take mindsets of people in places that we've never been in and probably never will be in. In this case, Modern Warfare 2 allows us to be in the eyes of (reportedly) a CIA operative that has to go along with the terrorists to continue his facade. That's something that, while morally disturbing, is a fascinating look into the way a person would feel about doing that. You must choose between two evils. Fun? No. That's like saying you had fun reading Slaughterhouse Five. But it's certainly meaningful and emotionally complex, something that few games attempt to do.
Additionally, you see a connection between the violence on a TV screen and the violence that occurs in real life. I have to struggle to pretend it is real (speaking as a college student here). Very abstracted, very removed from real life. If there's anything this generation of teenagers has a grasp on, it's the difference between reality and virtual reality. You pretend it's real for a very small period of time, just like a book or a movie, so that you can engage your brain (or the very opposite, depending on the quality of the media), but you know full damn well that the game has nothing to do with real life. At all. Full stop.
+1. It really has been a good release; everything works out of the box on my laptop (the sound, webcam, microphone, and wi-fi). If they can keep the quality high for the upcoming LTS release, there will be nothing but good news for the project and its growing popularity.
Nope, I've got my 9.04 and 8.10 discs sitting next to the rest of the family. I'm not crying about missing those discs, though. It's not that big of a deal.
Debian, while fun and probably worth the struggle, does need some minor tweaking compared to Ubuntu. I mean, the whole point of Ubuntu is to give the user a desktop-oriented, stabilized Debian Unstable.
I've been using Ubuntu 9.10's prerelease for about a month or so and it's been so stable I have no desire to go distro hunting again.
Those who would give up essential property rights to purchase a little temporary convenience deserve neither property nor convenience.
Your butchering of that Franklin quote does nothing to help your point. Considering that capitalism is based around the idea of allowing the market to drive the way things move, it depends on what the market wants. Who are you, or anyone else, to tell a consumer that what they value is foolish? Obviously the parent values things in a different way than you.
I'd like to have the option of DD, personally. I hate having physical discs lying around. I'm in the minority, though, and anti-DD gamers seem to be rather loud and annoying about it all, as if giving gamers the option of downloading takes away their property rights or something.
Why is it that everyone talks about issues in the games industry as if the economics of the issue are the only things that matter? If the money grabbing and popularity contest nature of the industry was the only thing that mattered, we would only talk and play on the Wii.
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You're going out of your way to alienate a portion of Slashdot's readership. Seems kind of pointless, personally. It's not like every liberal out there is going to think that this suit is okay.
We can use it to tag stories to replace slownewsday.
That fix is kind of a pain because you have to use Windows. I've found a much more logical fix here.
They blocked hardware - in this case, the Atom processor. That's not the same as "stop the support" of the hardware. They went out of their way to make sure it didn't work. That's different from dropping drivers or support.
These are not inherent problems, they're teething periods that Digital Distribution is running into. It will sort itself out.
For example, look at eMusic. They let you download your music whenever you want, granted you still have a subscription. And with no DRM, the activation server is a thing of the past. As services like these grow, so will the mindshare of the platform.
Teen speaking here: My parents' music is trash, I read several music blogs on a regular basis, and with the help of Amazon MP3's wonderful service and the occasional brief listen on YouTube or Lala I'm set to go. I certainly pay for all of my music; I don't usually mull and sample and think about it. If it's good, I buy it.
We'd better keep Lady Gaga, Nickelback, and Kings of Leon alive as long as possible, if that's the case. We don't want that nonsense to be free any sooner than it needs to be.
Independence Day was actually our invasion of another planet and thanks to Microsoft we won't get hacked by Jeff Goldblum.
But it no longer receives updates for its applications or internals, if that matters to the user. The project fell apart a few months ago.
Okay, mods, that was pretty funny, come on.
The game thus has more than "nothing" to do with real life.
You misunderstand what I'm saying (and purposely, it sounds like). It's not that games doesn't interact with real people. They do. Games are about the emotions they create by abstraction situations that have not occurred in real life (or in some rare cares, situations that have, like World War II games). In either case, highly abstracted. A World War II game is a very abstracted version of what occurred nearly a decade ago, and to say that's it's even mildly close to the real history behind the horror is to be dishonest.
There are a whole lot of teenagers that I see as I drive through downtown that look like they're trying to look like something they aren't based on books, movies, or video games.
You mean, the outliers?
Getting so far into virtual reality that you wish it was reality, and thus fail to integrate/interact with reality is not a good thing.
Of course not. Now stop pretending that this represents the group as a whole. I know people like this - they're the modern version of what used to be derogatorily known as the nerd. They feel as if they fit it more with fake worlds that real ones. Again, the outliers.
Incidentally, if teenagers know the difference between reality and virtual reality so well and know that the game has nothing to do with reality, why in the world do they waste so much time of their lives doing something that has no affect on their life and is just a game?
Because it's entertainment? And not the violence part, but the conflict that must be solved behind the violence. It's certainly fun to solve the conflict or puzzle. Modern Warfare 2 seems to be the first game I've ever seen that attempts to go beyond the conflict and portray something morally repelling on a scale like this, which is a fascinating statement of the medium and an emotionally complex piece that is sure to be discussed for a long time.
Woosh. Like, huge woosh. Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
Games allow us to take mindsets of people in places that we've never been in and probably never will be in. In this case, Modern Warfare 2 allows us to be in the eyes of (reportedly) a CIA operative that has to go along with the terrorists to continue his facade. That's something that, while morally disturbing, is a fascinating look into the way a person would feel about doing that. You must choose between two evils. Fun? No. That's like saying you had fun reading Slaughterhouse Five. But it's certainly meaningful and emotionally complex, something that few games attempt to do.
Additionally, you see a connection between the violence on a TV screen and the violence that occurs in real life. I have to struggle to pretend it is real (speaking as a college student here). Very abstracted, very removed from real life. If there's anything this generation of teenagers has a grasp on, it's the difference between reality and virtual reality. You pretend it's real for a very small period of time, just like a book or a movie, so that you can engage your brain (or the very opposite, depending on the quality of the media), but you know full damn well that the game has nothing to do with real life. At all. Full stop.
Oh, I see. I never tried to get more than one. I know there was a button for requesting them en masse, but that's all I can recall.
+1. It really has been a good release; everything works out of the box on my laptop (the sound, webcam, microphone, and wi-fi). If they can keep the quality high for the upcoming LTS release, there will be nothing but good news for the project and its growing popularity.
Nope, I've got my 9.04 and 8.10 discs sitting next to the rest of the family. I'm not crying about missing those discs, though. It's not that big of a deal.
Debian, while fun and probably worth the struggle, does need some minor tweaking compared to Ubuntu. I mean, the whole point of Ubuntu is to give the user a desktop-oriented, stabilized Debian Unstable.
I've been using Ubuntu 9.10's prerelease for about a month or so and it's been so stable I have no desire to go distro hunting again.
Those who would give up essential property rights to purchase a little temporary convenience deserve neither property nor convenience.
Your butchering of that Franklin quote does nothing to help your point. Considering that capitalism is based around the idea of allowing the market to drive the way things move, it depends on what the market wants. Who are you, or anyone else, to tell a consumer that what they value is foolish? Obviously the parent values things in a different way than you.
I'd like to have the option of DD, personally. I hate having physical discs lying around. I'm in the minority, though, and anti-DD gamers seem to be rather loud and annoying about it all, as if giving gamers the option of downloading takes away their property rights or something.
Kingdom Hearts 2, a PS2 game, came out in 2006. The games for the system were still sold and developed up until 2007.
Why don't you just rent through Gamefly or something if you're going to sell it?
While we're talking about random OS bugs, Windows Vista thinks every music disc I own is a blank disc. How will a normal user deal with this?
Groucho Marx is a fine man; Slashdot should leave him alone.
2018: The year of Linux on the desktop.
Why is it that everyone talks about issues in the games industry as if the economics of the issue are the only things that matter? If the money grabbing and popularity contest nature of the industry was the only thing that mattered, we would only talk and play on the Wii.
He'll be back.