- for stuff that doesn't need to run all the time (and checking for updates most definitely belongs in this category), perform the task(s) when the associated program itself starts.
Doesn't Windows have something like/etc/cron.daily? Seems like that would be a good compromise between an always running updater, and one that updates when you start the game and delays your entry into the game.
I don't care about cost per hour. I care about revisiting classics. A good game is not a disposable experience, it's timeless. If I love a game, I'm going to want to return to it again and again. If don't expect to love a game, I'm not going to buy it. So every game I buy, I have to have the expectation that it will be playable in the indefinite future. Long story short, I don't buy any platform or game that hasn't been well cracked.
If you're talking to someone and it's a little noisy, you lean in and speak directly into their ear. If you're talking on a cell phone and it's a little noisy, you speak loudly to compensate. Big difference.
If I can hear what you're saying from the next seat, next table, or whatever, you're talking too loud. Cellphone or not.
I'm an EFF member and support their request for attorney's fees, but let's play devil's advocate. Suppose you were an indie musician who sold your songs online, and you found a number of YouTube videos that used your song without permission, so you sent a long list of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube. Included in that list was one video that used only a brief portion of your song, short enough to count as fair use. Is $400,000 a fair punishment for accidentally including one video in your list that wasn't a bona fide copyright infringement?
If you're an indie musician, you're probably not all that knowledgeable about what constitutes fair use. If you're Universal, with a battery of high paid copyright lawyers, you are much more knowledgeable. The standard is different.
$400,000 is pretty insane though for just drafting a letter. Where is that number coming from? I didn't see it in the linked article. How many lawyers worked on one DMCA counter-notice for how many hours?
The BBC can in fact deliver the broadest range of HD content this way.
Nonsense. Any player that can play DRMd content can play unDRMd content. Adding DRM to their video streams does not increase their audience one bit. Not by one single person, anywhere on Earth.
Why can't Mozilla just implement a plugin framework, and leave it up to the user to decide whether he wants to install the h264 plugin, which may or may not be illegal in his area. Some Linux distros ship without MP3 support because it requires licensing, and it's usually just one command to enable MP3 support. It seems like the same thing should work with h264.
What's a very bad idea is the notion that PTSD can be stopped, or at least mitigated with chemical or mechanical tools. Once you already have PTSD, or indeed any disorder on the dissociative scale (Howell, Chu), then there is some good evidence that pharmaceuticals can help mitigate some, but not all of the symptoms. Currently those pharmaceuticals fall into two major classes: sedative-hypnotics and atypical antipsychotics. Sedative-hypnotics, particularly benzodiazepines, cause massive problems with the creation of short term memories. Atypical antipsychotics have a host of horrible side effects, from flattened affect to tardive dyskenisia-- which is the permanent, uncontrolled flexing of small muscles, like facial tics, thumb-wiggles and circles, and shuffling gait. In short, they should not be used for any condition which is not treatable by any other means.
Propranolol is neither a sedative-hypnotic nor antipsychotic. It's a standard beta-blocker with very few side effects. Given that PTSD is at least in part a disfunction of memory, which has a neurochemical basis, why not try fixing it with chemical means?
Too fucking bad. The publishers won't sell you that game.
Someone will realize there's a market for those who want local games, just like some developers have realized that there's a market for those who want DRM free games.
How many of the people that were to join the class action suit would have had legitimate copies of XP flagged as illegitimate? I know very few people that had this happen.
My girlfriend had this happen to her. Installed her retail copy of XP on a new computer, it would not activate. She called Microsoft and after getting bounced around for almost an hour, she was told that there's nothing they can do. She used Ubuntu for quite a while, until she decided that she couldn't live without Freehand MX, so we pirated XP.
People like to cast piracy as theft. Microsoft didn't lose anything when we pirated Windows. My GF lost ~$150 because of WGA. That is theft.
1. All game publishers will be paid for every hour of game played. This increases their income,
This will decrease their income. One of the great things about gaming is the entertainment hours/dollar value. I can spend $50 on a game, and get hundreds of hours of entertainment out of it. Unless we're looking at less than $.25/hr it's simply not price competitive with local gaming.
2. Instead of there being 3 console platforms + PC, there will be just one platform : the PCs in the cloud gaming data centers.
And what incentive do the console makers have to just go away?
3. The overall costs of gaming will be lower.
Gaming is cheap as shit anyway. And when has renting ever been cheaper than owning?
I'll stop here. It's not going to happen. There's always going to be a market for local games.
Which, when you think about, it is a terrible idea. If shareholders were responsible for the actions of the companies they invest in, they'd be a lot more careful about what they invest in, and corporations would get away with less evil.
Wait until the maintainers put a package in the repository, then update like usual. It's generally not worth installing unofficial packages if an official one is forthcoming.
I dunno. There's something classic about the NES look. Maybe it's just nostalgia. I was never a big fan of the VGA re-releases Sierra did either, but that's just because I like the parser. But there's something to be said about inspiration coming from limitations. Would Mario look the same if Miyamoto had a full 640x480 to work with? I don't think so. In this case here, I think the original FF1 characters have a lot more, um, character than the rather generic art of the remake.
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- for stuff that doesn't need to run all the time (and checking for updates most definitely belongs in this category), perform the task(s) when the associated program itself starts.
Doesn't Windows have something like /etc/cron.daily? Seems like that would be a good compromise between an always running updater, and one that updates when you start the game and delays your entry into the game.
I don't care about cost per hour. I care about revisiting classics. A good game is not a disposable experience, it's timeless. If I love a game, I'm going to want to return to it again and again. If don't expect to love a game, I'm not going to buy it. So every game I buy, I have to have the expectation that it will be playable in the indefinite future. Long story short, I don't buy any platform or game that hasn't been well cracked.
And what happens when Valve gets bought?
They should make a Mario game that requires you to throw the controller across the room. I'd be great at that one.
If you're talking to someone and it's a little noisy, you lean in and speak directly into their ear. If you're talking on a cell phone and it's a little noisy, you speak loudly to compensate. Big difference.
If I can hear what you're saying from the next seat, next table, or whatever, you're talking too loud. Cellphone or not.
Prince is a total dick, and hired investigators for the sole purpose of sending DMCA notices to people he felt were infringing his copyright.
If you're an indie musician, you're probably not all that knowledgeable about what constitutes fair use. If you're Universal, with a battery of high paid copyright lawyers, you are much more knowledgeable. The standard is different.
$400,000 is pretty insane though for just drafting a letter. Where is that number coming from? I didn't see it in the linked article. How many lawyers worked on one DMCA counter-notice for how many hours?
The BBC can in fact deliver the broadest range of HD content this way.
Nonsense. Any player that can play DRMd content can play unDRMd content. Adding DRM to their video streams does not increase their audience one bit. Not by one single person, anywhere on Earth.
Why can't Mozilla just implement a plugin framework, and leave it up to the user to decide whether he wants to install the h264 plugin, which may or may not be illegal in his area. Some Linux distros ship without MP3 support because it requires licensing, and it's usually just one command to enable MP3 support. It seems like the same thing should work with h264.
That's why word of mouth is better than reviews. After you get to know someone, you know how well their tastes correlate with yours.
Propranolol is neither a sedative-hypnotic nor antipsychotic. It's a standard beta-blocker with very few side effects. Given that PTSD is at least in part a disfunction of memory, which has a neurochemical basis, why not try fixing it with chemical means?
That's not PTSD, that's schizophrenia.
To be fair, this study does come from England. Do they get 10 minutes of sunshine a day there?
Too fucking bad. The publishers won't sell you that game.
Someone will realize there's a market for those who want local games, just like some developers have realized that there's a market for those who want DRM free games.
How many of the people that were to join the class action suit would have had legitimate copies of XP flagged as illegitimate? I know very few people that had this happen.
My girlfriend had this happen to her. Installed her retail copy of XP on a new computer, it would not activate. She called Microsoft and after getting bounced around for almost an hour, she was told that there's nothing they can do. She used Ubuntu for quite a while, until she decided that she couldn't live without Freehand MX, so we pirated XP.
People like to cast piracy as theft. Microsoft didn't lose anything when we pirated Windows. My GF lost ~$150 because of WGA. That is theft.
Fighting oppression has always gotten people killed. If Tor allows people to speak out with less risk, it's done it's job.
1. All game publishers will be paid for every hour of game played. This increases their income,
This will decrease their income. One of the great things about gaming is the entertainment hours/dollar value. I can spend $50 on a game, and get hundreds of hours of entertainment out of it. Unless we're looking at less than $.25/hr it's simply not price competitive with local gaming.
2. Instead of there being 3 console platforms + PC, there will be just one platform : the PCs in the cloud gaming data centers.
And what incentive do the console makers have to just go away?
3. The overall costs of gaming will be lower.
Gaming is cheap as shit anyway. And when has renting ever been cheaper than owning?
I'll stop here. It's not going to happen. There's always going to be a market for local games.
Pretty, but ultimately not useful.
Which, when you think about, it is a terrible idea. If shareholders were responsible for the actions of the companies they invest in, they'd be a lot more careful about what they invest in, and corporations would get away with less evil.
Safer than living next to a coal plant, that's for sure.
They already have the only vote that matters. If you can choose who the candidates are, you never have to worry about which one wins.
Wait until the maintainers put a package in the repository, then update like usual. It's generally not worth installing unofficial packages if an official one is forthcoming.
We in the US have access to government information by default?
I dunno. There's something classic about the NES look. Maybe it's just nostalgia. I was never a big fan of the VGA re-releases Sierra did either, but that's just because I like the parser. But there's something to be said about inspiration coming from limitations. Would Mario look the same if Miyamoto had a full 640x480 to work with? I don't think so. In this case here, I think the original FF1 characters have a lot more, um, character than the rather generic art of the remake.
Higher res and more colors doesn't always mean better. I'd still rather play the NES original on an emulator.