Agreed. The author seems to be implying that he was promised P2P would solve all his marketing needs. As a distribution system there is only one thing it reliably does: distribution.
No matter what happens, you still have to tell people your music is on bittorrent. Even Trent Reznor has to do this and he favours exactly the kind of simple marketing that anyone can do.
Since marketing is always going to be an uphill battle, you'd better STFU and get on with it.
I find it hard to believe that they haven't found a myriad ways to improve upon the Apollo capsule since the 60s. On the plus side, this is only the re-entry vehicle. Hopefully they won't be landing an archaic metal treehouse on the moon like last time.
That seems like a vast assumption. You're claiming 9 out of 10 game development companies don't have basic business and developmnent abilities. While things like crunch time and the occasional noteworthy fuckup do exist, it's the exception rather than the norm.
The single answer as to why large budget games are such a huge risk is that people are spending less money on games than what is needed to sustain a booming (as opposed to steadily growing) market. Then again, all markets reach production and supply saturation eventually. The game industry is being hit by a recession and saturation all at once. A high mortality rate in gaming companies is only to be expected. The people that made up those companies will bounce back when the proles have more money.
I've often had it pick up bad ram, usually within the first five minutes. One time, the memory in question had been through a number of unprotected power surges. The motherboard and power supply were dead too.
You can reliably replicate my results by removing the ram, snapping it in half and putting it back in. No need to wait for a power surge to see memtest86 shine.
I haven't, but I'm not sure the local police make a big deal out of catching this stuff coming in to the country. The situations I do remember all relate to the sale of obscene material. It's going to vary from country to country.
I actually meant that child pornography is obscene and not all obscenity is child porn. It was poorly worded.
There's several things to consider if for instance cartoon child porn is tried in the same way as actual child porn. I've heard pedos argue that child porn hurts nobody, when obviously the child involved is being harmed. This doesn't negate the fact that the viewer can be harming themselves by seeing it. In the case of virtual child porn, someone is still being hurt in the sense they are satisfying their urge to see children in a sexual manner. This probably wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't lead in many cases to child abuse, or at least the risk thereof.
Considering that, dealing with "virtual child porn" in this manner doesn't seem unreasonable. Certainly a lesser crime than actual child porn, but still a situation that needs attention.
Like Gamma said, obscenity laws relate to the distribution of obscene material. There's no crime if they find your personal stash of baby-tied-to-a-cockrocket porn.
That might be true if you had an unlimited tolerance for obscenity. What you're referring to however is the ever-moving definition of obscenity held by society, which will simply be whoever can sqwauk the loudest.
Exactly. The idea behind outlawing obscenity is fairly understandable: we don't want to see things that can hurt us. People are acclimatised to different levels of violence, sexuality and Dane Cook. I for one would suffer tremendously in the presence of the latter item.
There isn't a lot of common ground on the issue either, but the things that jump to mind for me when we talk about obscenity are beastiality, scat, child porn and torture. It'll be similar for most people, give or take a few things. Still, there's a lot left to disagree on.
I think you answered your own question. If someone drew a picture of a baby suffocating under a giant cock, who's going to catch them if it stays locked in their drawer? If they post it to 4Chan for peer review, it's now public and they're far more likely to be caught.
Phallus-crushing-baby communities do stand out as a bullseye for this sort of law in my view.
That would true for a very personal definition of obscene. Then it would be wrong since I'm not telling anyone what they can draw, I'm leading the debate towards the correct category this law falls under. Don't get angry.
I meant it in the sense that child pornography is obscene rather than all obscenity being child pornography. I could have explained that more clearly but I don't see how you got confused. Did you misinterpret that deliberately?
Are you saying that you're the go-to guy on what's obscene?
I doubt it matters how moral or enlightened society becomes, nobody will ever agree completely on what is appropriate in which situations. Perhaps it's time for us to go find out how judges decide if something is obscene in court, since that's where it counts.
I don't think obscenity is the diametric opposite of moral. The concepts don't exclude each other. It's fairly safe to assume that the side claiming to base its choices on moral arguments is the one most likely to describe something as obscene.
I think we all agree that obscene things can be made illegal to produce, but nobody agrees on the definition of obscenity.
That depends where you go. I'm fairly certain that it wouldn't pass customs in my country. I don't see anyone running out of their way to ban the internet as a medium for filth here either though.
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Why would you reverse-engineer WoW when you can simply write your own?
All these arguments intimate that WoW has something worth stealing other than look and feel. It doesn't.
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Agreed. The author seems to be implying that he was promised P2P would solve all his marketing needs. As a distribution system there is only one thing it reliably does: distribution.
No matter what happens, you still have to tell people your music is on bittorrent. Even Trent Reznor has to do this and he favours exactly the kind of simple marketing that anyone can do.
Since marketing is always going to be an uphill battle, you'd better STFU and get on with it.
I can understand your hostility towards Apple users, brought to you by Carl's Jr.
Modern hardware can easily handle the features you described, not including the ridiculous comment about photon mapping.
It's just poorly written. No slight to the author, but it needs some more professional input.
Is melangé food? Because now I'm hungry for meringue.
Jesus. And just thing of the number of babies that buy new cars each year. This is big. This is huge. This could go all the way to the White House.
I find it hard to believe that they haven't found a myriad ways to improve upon the Apollo capsule since the 60s. On the plus side, this is only the re-entry vehicle. Hopefully they won't be landing an archaic metal treehouse on the moon like last time.
That seems like a vast assumption. You're claiming 9 out of 10 game development companies don't have basic business and developmnent abilities. While things like crunch time and the occasional noteworthy fuckup do exist, it's the exception rather than the norm.
The single answer as to why large budget games are such a huge risk is that people are spending less money on games than what is needed to sustain a booming (as opposed to steadily growing) market. Then again, all markets reach production and supply saturation eventually. The game industry is being hit by a recession and saturation all at once. A high mortality rate in gaming companies is only to be expected. The people that made up those companies will bounce back when the proles have more money.
I've often had it pick up bad ram, usually within the first five minutes. One time, the memory in question had been through a number of unprotected power surges. The motherboard and power supply were dead too.
You can reliably replicate my results by removing the ram, snapping it in half and putting it back in. No need to wait for a power surge to see memtest86 shine.
I haven't, but I'm not sure the local police make a big deal out of catching this stuff coming in to the country. The situations I do remember all relate to the sale of obscene material. It's going to vary from country to country.
And if Marge gets a job, SHE could pay YOU.
I actually meant that child pornography is obscene and not all obscenity is child porn. It was poorly worded.
There's several things to consider if for instance cartoon child porn is tried in the same way as actual child porn. I've heard pedos argue that child porn hurts nobody, when obviously the child involved is being harmed. This doesn't negate the fact that the viewer can be harming themselves by seeing it. In the case of virtual child porn, someone is still being hurt in the sense they are satisfying their urge to see children in a sexual manner. This probably wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't lead in many cases to child abuse, or at least the risk thereof.
Considering that, dealing with "virtual child porn" in this manner doesn't seem unreasonable. Certainly a lesser crime than actual child porn, but still a situation that needs attention.
Like Gamma said, obscenity laws relate to the distribution of obscene material. There's no crime if they find your personal stash of baby-tied-to-a-cockrocket porn.
You missed some words from your quoted text.
The debate does appear to be about obscenity now.
That might be true if you had an unlimited tolerance for obscenity. What you're referring to however is the ever-moving definition of obscenity held by society, which will simply be whoever can sqwauk the loudest.
Exactly. The idea behind outlawing obscenity is fairly understandable: we don't want to see things that can hurt us. People are acclimatised to different levels of violence, sexuality and Dane Cook. I for one would suffer tremendously in the presence of the latter item.
There isn't a lot of common ground on the issue either, but the things that jump to mind for me when we talk about obscenity are beastiality, scat, child porn and torture. It'll be similar for most people, give or take a few things. Still, there's a lot left to disagree on.
He's probably referring to the idea that the presence of obscenity breeds obscene behaviour. Case in point: police blaming violent behaviour on GTA.
I think you answered your own question. If someone drew a picture of a baby suffocating under a giant cock, who's going to catch them if it stays locked in their drawer? If they post it to 4Chan for peer review, it's now public and they're far more likely to be caught.
Phallus-crushing-baby communities do stand out as a bullseye for this sort of law in my view.
That would true for a very personal definition of obscene. Then it would be wrong since I'm not telling anyone what they can draw, I'm leading the debate towards the correct category this law falls under. Don't get angry.
I meant it in the sense that child pornography is obscene rather than all obscenity being child pornography. I could have explained that more clearly but I don't see how you got confused. Did you misinterpret that deliberately?
Are you saying that you're the go-to guy on what's obscene?
I doubt it matters how moral or enlightened society becomes, nobody will ever agree completely on what is appropriate in which situations. Perhaps it's time for us to go find out how judges decide if something is obscene in court, since that's where it counts.
I don't think obscenity is the diametric opposite of moral. The concepts don't exclude each other. It's fairly safe to assume that the side claiming to base its choices on moral arguments is the one most likely to describe something as obscene.
I think we all agree that obscene things can be made illegal to produce, but nobody agrees on the definition of obscenity.
That depends where you go. I'm fairly certain that it wouldn't pass customs in my country. I don't see anyone running out of their way to ban the internet as a medium for filth here either though.
Do you think it should be illegal? Everyone considers themselves to be middle-of-the-road, what's your take on your post?