No, the PSP sucking balls and Sony's constant firmware revisions geared to take out PSPs that people hacked to do what they *want* to do (non-piracy-wise), thus ensuring continued ball-suckage is why the PSP platform is nearly dead.
I don't think it's an attempt to imply guilt, but more show the cracks in the formerly unified stance of the board et al. Fifth Amendment invocation is different than "no comment," and it shows that some members are starting to think of themselves, rather than the message.
I find yours a most disingenuous metric to measure by. Data plans were hideously expensive prior to the iPhone's release. Hell, in Canada, in the year the iPhone was first released in the US, it was $45/month for a 5MB data plan. The reason there was so much data usage for the iPhone is because it was sold with a good data plan for regular consumers.
Nice to meet you, tired. Is "yawn" the traditional greeting where you're from? If so, I greet you with the salutation of my people: "How's it goin', eh?"
The "average user" visits things like YouTube or blip regularly, or sites with embedded video, so having that missing is significant. Yes, YouTube's now moving to html5, but again, these are average users, who won't understand the need to upgrade their browser AND go find the appropriate codec. And they don't understand whitelisting either.
Then try posting with *relevant* examples. You might not get first post, but you'd also not look like an ignorant moron. Your cover of "global community" and "metaphors" doesn't hold weight.
Why don't you get THOSE people and hold THEM to account, you self-righteous prig!
Because he's a Canadian judge, and those people are American? It's one thing to not read the summary, but it's the FIRST WORD of the title. Or are you one of those people who think Canada is the 51st state?
Or maybe I'm just getting in the way of your self-righteous tirade, where facts are irrelevant.
I'm constantly amazed at how many people aren't familiar with the term "Vertical monopoly." It's not commonly enforced, but that's exactly what Apple aspires to, and it's one of the many reasons they should be smacked down.
Except in an "Ask Slashdot," not only should good answers be promoted, but bad answers *should* be modded down, so that someone checking for advice knows that it IS bad. In every other section, though, I agree.
26 minute update? If you mean the update to let you use USB-connected storage, that's not a 26 minute update. It took my 360 less than 5 minutes. I won't accuse you of shilling for Sony, since that's retarded, I'll just accuse you of being an exaggerating twit.:p
Personally, when I went to buy a console, I decided to buy the console that actually had games I was interested in purchasing. To date, I own about a dozen 360 games, and have rented even more. However, I own about TWO dozen Wii games, and rented more. I don't own a PS3, since the majority of games are cross-platform, and those that aren't have simply failed to pique my interest in any significant way. The first game to come close was Heavy Rain, but reviews cooled me towards it.
However, my decision was based on actual personal preferences for available software. No pedagogical concerns, no proselytizing, nothing like that.
In my decision-making process, I've noted that about the only system owners that aren't rabid fanboy assholes are Wii owners, or multi-system owners. PS3 people are capable of being just as fucktarded as 360 people. It's just there's fewer of them overall, so there's fewer assholes, even though proportionally, they're the same.
Except that Microsoft doesn't get any boost from hardware sales. They actually make MORE if they sell the OS separate from the hardware. It's in their best interests to keep Windows working on any POS computer people have.
no, it isn't, but isn't part of the point of graphene being able to jack higher voltages through it, thus achieving higher speeds before the wall's hit there? If we can continue to make something smaller, even if only a tiny bit (heh), but can jack up clock speeds and such, then it's still a good improvement, though less useful for SSD-type use.
the only way to successfully get rid of DRM is to get more people to pay for their software, not less.
Unfortunately, that time's long passed. If people started purchasing in large numbers now, companies like Ubisoft would declare victory, and keep using DRM, and even try to come up with even *more* uncrackable DRM, so they could switch up schemes to snag any more pirates out there.
Churn house games and intrusive DRM do not make me want to pay the developers.
Why are you punishing everyone else who worked hard on the game just to get back at the tiny minority who had any say in the DRM policy?
Except that
As someone who does download/copy stuff. I don't buy stuff I can't get for free, I buy stuff that I feel the developers deserve my money.
He's not "getting back" at anyone. He has criteria he uses to judge who is deserving of his limited financial resources. If one of those criteria is "doesn't use DRM," then it's not punishing those who do use it, it's rewarding those who don't. The ones who use DRM weren't getting his money either way.
I think even 1 out of 10 is optimistic. I think one in twenty would be a more realistic estimate. I firmly believe that the majority of pirates do it either for lack of funds, to circumvent DRM issues, or to simply give a game a quick try (they know they won't like the game, and don't intend to put a lot of time in, but need/want to check it out for some reason). None of those groups are going to be converted. People won't magically gain more cash to spend on games, DRM issues won't magically be solved, and people who know they won't like a game won't spend money on it. The only people you're going to get are the ones for whom pirating is easier. And even then, you won't get all of them. Hell, you'd probably be optimistic even with my one in twenty.
Personally, I pirated X-Blades when it came out because I *knew* it was going to suck balls, to the point where there was the train wreck factor. Like Hell I'm rewarding a company for making a shitty game though. So I downloaded it and played for 20 minutes. Then I couldn't take any more, and purged it from my machine. If I couldn't have pirated it, I wouldn't have touched it. You know why piracy is so high, and "lost sales" are so low? Because few games release honest demos any more. If they give any kind of demo at all, they pick the most polished part of the game, and give you *maybe* 15, 20 minutes of gameplay. You cannot get an honest representation of the game that way. The rest of the gameplay could be absolute crap.
So instead people pirate the game, and use that as a demo. And discover the game SUCKS. Or, if it doesn't, then hell, they've already got it. If they did proper demos, piracy would probably fall, but game sales would more accurately reflect game quality meaning sales would probably still suck for a lot of games. They definitely would not see a huge conversion.
I don't think it's a case of politicians being evil in things like this. It's a case of being more emotional than logical. Logically, if you solve the privacy angle, you solve the rest of it, but emotionally, the "children must be protected" clouds their thinking. It's more important than privacy, to their thinking.
The 4th dimension in this game isn't time, it's a 4th spacial dimension.
Okay, explain the functional difference between the travelling through time in OoT, and the travelling through the extra spacial dimension in this. Apart from being more difficult in OoT, it seems the same. You need to manipulate an object in one frame of reference, or move to the other to find an open path, etc. Getting prissy, saying "It's not time, it's a 4th spacial dimension" is irrelevant. It's the same mechanic with a different name. It is, however, different than Braid's time manipulation, yes.
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No, the PSP sucking balls and Sony's constant firmware revisions geared to take out PSPs that people hacked to do what they *want* to do (non-piracy-wise), thus ensuring continued ball-suckage is why the PSP platform is nearly dead.
And since everyone's moving to HD content, that makes it a WONDERFUL choice! Wait, no, that's not right...
I don't think it's an attempt to imply guilt, but more show the cracks in the formerly unified stance of the board et al. Fifth Amendment invocation is different than "no comment," and it shows that some members are starting to think of themselves, rather than the message.
driven by consumption.
There's pills for that now, you know.
Mockups are more than we had with the iPad when that started getting hyped. "Rumours abound" stories galore, remember?
I find yours a most disingenuous metric to measure by. Data plans were hideously expensive prior to the iPhone's release. Hell, in Canada, in the year the iPhone was first released in the US, it was $45/month for a 5MB data plan. The reason there was so much data usage for the iPhone is because it was sold with a good data plan for regular consumers.
Nice to meet you, tired. Is "yawn" the traditional greeting where you're from? If so, I greet you with the salutation of my people: "How's it goin', eh?"
The "average user" visits things like YouTube or blip regularly, or sites with embedded video, so having that missing is significant. Yes, YouTube's now moving to html5, but again, these are average users, who won't understand the need to upgrade their browser AND go find the appropriate codec. And they don't understand whitelisting either.
Then try posting with *relevant* examples. You might not get first post, but you'd also not look like an ignorant moron. Your cover of "global community" and "metaphors" doesn't hold weight.
Why don't you get THOSE people and hold THEM to account, you self-righteous prig!
Because he's a Canadian judge, and those people are American? It's one thing to not read the summary, but it's the FIRST WORD of the title. Or are you one of those people who think Canada is the 51st state?
Or maybe I'm just getting in the way of your self-righteous tirade, where facts are irrelevant.
I'm constantly amazed at how many people aren't familiar with the term "Vertical monopoly." It's not commonly enforced, but that's exactly what Apple aspires to, and it's one of the many reasons they should be smacked down.
You're kidding, right? You do know there's some things even the Lord of Darkness won't do.
Like separate lights from darks in the laundry.
Except in an "Ask Slashdot," not only should good answers be promoted, but bad answers *should* be modded down, so that someone checking for advice knows that it IS bad. In every other section, though, I agree.
my boss told me "the IT department would probably junk punch him" if I did.
I suppose you must like your boss then, because for most people, that'd just be further incentive to jailbreak it.
26 minute update? If you mean the update to let you use USB-connected storage, that's not a 26 minute update. It took my 360 less than 5 minutes. I won't accuse you of shilling for Sony, since that's retarded, I'll just accuse you of being an exaggerating twit. :p
Personally, when I went to buy a console, I decided to buy the console that actually had games I was interested in purchasing. To date, I own about a dozen 360 games, and have rented even more. However, I own about TWO dozen Wii games, and rented more. I don't own a PS3, since the majority of games are cross-platform, and those that aren't have simply failed to pique my interest in any significant way. The first game to come close was Heavy Rain, but reviews cooled me towards it.
However, my decision was based on actual personal preferences for available software. No pedagogical concerns, no proselytizing, nothing like that.
In my decision-making process, I've noted that about the only system owners that aren't rabid fanboy assholes are Wii owners, or multi-system owners. PS3 people are capable of being just as fucktarded as 360 people. It's just there's fewer of them overall, so there's fewer assholes, even though proportionally, they're the same.
Except that Microsoft doesn't get any boost from hardware sales. They actually make MORE if they sell the OS separate from the hardware. It's in their best interests to keep Windows working on any POS computer people have.
Scientists and engineers love them some sig figs. Since precision would be nine sig figs, anything less is an about, to them. ;)
no, it isn't, but isn't part of the point of graphene being able to jack higher voltages through it, thus achieving higher speeds before the wall's hit there? If we can continue to make something smaller, even if only a tiny bit (heh), but can jack up clock speeds and such, then it's still a good improvement, though less useful for SSD-type use.
electronics, positronics, quantumtronics... Or maybe it's like "Trekkies," but for fans of Tron?
the only way to successfully get rid of DRM is to get more people to pay for their software, not less.
Unfortunately, that time's long passed. If people started purchasing in large numbers now, companies like Ubisoft would declare victory, and keep using DRM, and even try to come up with even *more* uncrackable DRM, so they could switch up schemes to snag any more pirates out there.
Churn house games and intrusive DRM do not make me want to pay the developers.
Why are you punishing everyone else who worked hard on the game just to get back at the tiny minority who had any say in the DRM policy?
Except that
As someone who does download/copy stuff. I don't buy stuff I can't get for free, I buy stuff that I feel the developers deserve my money.
He's not "getting back" at anyone. He has criteria he uses to judge who is deserving of his limited financial resources. If one of those criteria is "doesn't use DRM," then it's not punishing those who do use it, it's rewarding those who don't. The ones who use DRM weren't getting his money either way.
I think even 1 out of 10 is optimistic. I think one in twenty would be a more realistic estimate. I firmly believe that the majority of pirates do it either for lack of funds, to circumvent DRM issues, or to simply give a game a quick try (they know they won't like the game, and don't intend to put a lot of time in, but need/want to check it out for some reason). None of those groups are going to be converted. People won't magically gain more cash to spend on games, DRM issues won't magically be solved, and people who know they won't like a game won't spend money on it. The only people you're going to get are the ones for whom pirating is easier. And even then, you won't get all of them. Hell, you'd probably be optimistic even with my one in twenty.
Personally, I pirated X-Blades when it came out because I *knew* it was going to suck balls, to the point where there was the train wreck factor. Like Hell I'm rewarding a company for making a shitty game though. So I downloaded it and played for 20 minutes. Then I couldn't take any more, and purged it from my machine. If I couldn't have pirated it, I wouldn't have touched it. You know why piracy is so high, and "lost sales" are so low? Because few games release honest demos any more. If they give any kind of demo at all, they pick the most polished part of the game, and give you *maybe* 15, 20 minutes of gameplay. You cannot get an honest representation of the game that way. The rest of the gameplay could be absolute crap.
So instead people pirate the game, and use that as a demo. And discover the game SUCKS. Or, if it doesn't, then hell, they've already got it. If they did proper demos, piracy would probably fall, but game sales would more accurately reflect game quality meaning sales would probably still suck for a lot of games. They definitely would not see a huge conversion.
I don't think it's a case of politicians being evil in things like this. It's a case of being more emotional than logical. Logically, if you solve the privacy angle, you solve the rest of it, but emotionally, the "children must be protected" clouds their thinking. It's more important than privacy, to their thinking.
The 4th dimension in this game isn't time, it's a 4th spacial dimension.
Okay, explain the functional difference between the travelling through time in OoT, and the travelling through the extra spacial dimension in this. Apart from being more difficult in OoT, it seems the same. You need to manipulate an object in one frame of reference, or move to the other to find an open path, etc. Getting prissy, saying "It's not time, it's a 4th spacial dimension" is irrelevant. It's the same mechanic with a different name. It is, however, different than Braid's time manipulation, yes.