I was concerned for my personal safety (and the safety of the public at large) when I found out that people were hearing songs and seeing movies without a proper license to do so.
Who knows what could have happened had these sites not been taken down. A dirty nuclear bomb? Another 9/11? There's no telling what these "music and film watchers" might have unleashed. Thank you, The Government!
If viewing a picture of someone in their natural state, committing violent murders, and raping babies are equal in your mind, there is something very, very wrong with your sense of morality.
This is going to be great for people who need mouth sticks. I have a friend with cerebral palsy. She plays Nintendo DS games just fine with the resistive touch screen, but using a phone or any other capacitive screen device is nearly impossible.
Republicans do something bad; partisans say "But Clinton did it too".
Democrats do something bad; partisans say "But Bush did it too".
Party loyalists are the problem. Both major parties are willing to allow the stripping of people's rights so long as the other party did it first.
A lot of people keep talk about limiting the length of copy rights. What is a good limit? 10-15 years?
That would be a good amount of time. In fact, it was originally considered an adequate amount of time to exploit your works, even before our super-speedy digital distribution that we have today.
Even if the court decided to assess punitive damages, what would be the likelihood of punitive damages reaching 62,500 times the value of what I stole?
I have a feeling that SCOTUS will strike this as unconstitutional, and it may resound with the pornography industry as well.
When you think about it, why should a government tell the populace when their child is old enough to hear, see, or read certain music, films, games, or books?
If a parent wants to shelter their children, that's their choice. No government should force them to be sheltered.
I think you hit the nail on the head. They keep tossing this "free" word around as if it provided some kind of freedom. The only people getting anything for "free" or getting any "freedom" out of this are megacorps and the people who run them.
Freedom to write laws and have them rubberstamped by congress.
Freedom to destroy the livelihood of any citizen caught listening to music they weren't allowed to hear.
Freedom to never, ever change their business model and continue selling their products at ever-higher prices and have those prices protected by the government.
As far as I'm considered, when I buy something (phone, game console, computer, whatever) it's mine to do with as I please.
Whether I want to modify it, or throw it off a cliff, is no longer any of the company's business. That's not to say it excuses piracy (which is an entirely separate matter altogether), but put simply, they have my money, and I have their product. Our relationship should there be at an end.
I really don't care what the lobbyist-bought-and-paid-for law says on the matter.
Exactly. If they didn't want you to own it, they shouldn't have sold it to you.
And it is simply horrifying that a person can go to a very real prison for tinkering with some zeroes and ones a perfectly legal piece of electronics without harming anyone.
Pirates may not buy, but they WILL talk. Everyone has an advertising budget...consider piracy to be part of that budget. There's no way to tell if they would have bought it anyway.
1. This is a midrange; high end parts come next month
2. $239 for the 6870, $180 for the 6850
3. 5870 > 6870 > GTX 470 > 6850 > 5850 > GTX 460
4. Crossfire scaling (for those who are dual-GPU inclined) is around 90%+ in most games
5. Brand-new Anti-Aliasing filter: ATI has invented some edge-smoothing shader that looks incredible in most games and even works where in games that don't have AA or where AA would give a huge performance hit. This "morphological AA" costs almost nothing in framerate.
"We own the light you collected which was reflected from this object that predates our country by millennia "? I am hoping deep down that they're just kidding and it's just a practical joke on the world. There are so many adjectives applicable to this idiocy, but I am getting sleepy and don't have time to list them.
Getting more than 0 FPS at any resolution with those features enabled already puts it ahead of any integrated graphics solution on the marke--and they're doing it at super low wattage. If it can run AVP that well, it could run anything from 2008 and earlier (save for Crysis) extremely well.
That's at least 90% of all the games in history released for PC on an integrated graphics processor. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Wow HTML fail on my part...what I mean to say is "It's not like AMD is putting the same chip with the same everything into four generations of parts or anything"
I have a feeling that people who buy expensive pieces of hardware have tendency to do at least one web search or pop at least one question off at an internet forum about products before they buy. It's not like AMD is putting the or anything...
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I was concerned for my personal safety (and the safety of the public at large) when I found out that people were hearing songs and seeing movies without a proper license to do so.
Who knows what could have happened had these sites not been taken down. A dirty nuclear bomb? Another 9/11? There's no telling what these "music and film watchers" might have unleashed. Thank you, The Government!
If viewing a picture of someone in their natural state, committing violent murders, and raping babies are equal in your mind, there is something very, very wrong with your sense of morality.
I wish people wouldn't try to use the government and corporations to force their morality on me and my family.
This is ludicrous. Nobody should be able to trademark common words.
I can't think of a single thing that could be carried on any laptop that warrants the harrassment of millions a year.
Even if a 9/11 scale event happened every single year, it would take more than four years to match a single year of alcohol-related deaths in the U.S.
This is going to be great for people who need mouth sticks. I have a friend with cerebral palsy. She plays Nintendo DS games just fine with the resistive touch screen, but using a phone or any other capacitive screen device is nearly impossible.
Republicans do something bad; partisans say "But Clinton did it too".
Democrats do something bad; partisans say "But Bush did it too".
Party loyalists are the problem. Both major parties are willing to allow the stripping of people's rights so long as the other party did it first.
Islamic morality says that porn is evil.
American morality says that sharing the ideas of others is evil.
A lot of people keep talk about limiting the length of copy rights. What is a good limit? 10-15 years?
That would be a good amount of time. In fact, it was originally considered an adequate amount of time to exploit your works, even before our super-speedy digital distribution that we have today.
Even if the court decided to assess punitive damages, what would be the likelihood of punitive damages reaching 62,500 times the value of what I stole?
So many phone makers seem to think the worst thing in the world is to provide users an official update. Maybe this will get them in gear.
As an aside, does anyone know what phone makers are good about keeping updates coming?
I have a feeling that SCOTUS will strike this as unconstitutional, and it may resound with the pornography industry as well.
When you think about it, why should a government tell the populace when their child is old enough to hear, see, or read certain music, films, games, or books?
If a parent wants to shelter their children, that's their choice. No government should force them to be sheltered.
Kids' ingenuity is always at its best when fighting the man. Maybe they'll be smart and Orwellian. You know, like the Chinese.
Cut costs in half and the kid learns something on the way.
I think you hit the nail on the head. They keep tossing this "free" word around as if it provided some kind of freedom. The only people getting anything for "free" or getting any "freedom" out of this are megacorps and the people who run them.
Freedom to write laws and have them rubberstamped by congress.
Freedom to destroy the livelihood of any citizen caught listening to music they weren't allowed to hear.
Freedom to never, ever change their business model and continue selling their products at ever-higher prices and have those prices protected by the government.
As far as I'm considered, when I buy something (phone, game console, computer, whatever) it's mine to do with as I please. Whether I want to modify it, or throw it off a cliff, is no longer any of the company's business. That's not to say it excuses piracy (which is an entirely separate matter altogether), but put simply, they have my money, and I have their product. Our relationship should there be at an end. I really don't care what the lobbyist-bought-and-paid-for law says on the matter.
Exactly. If they didn't want you to own it, they shouldn't have sold it to you.
And it is simply horrifying that a person can go to a very real prison for tinkering with some zeroes and ones a perfectly legal piece of electronics without harming anyone.
Pirates may not buy, but they WILL talk. Everyone has an advertising budget...consider piracy to be part of that budget. There's no way to tell if they would have bought it anyway.
1. This is a midrange; high end parts come next month
2. $239 for the 6870, $180 for the 6850
3. 5870 > 6870 > GTX 470 > 6850 > 5850 > GTX 460
4. Crossfire scaling (for those who are dual-GPU inclined) is around 90%+ in most games
5. Brand-new Anti-Aliasing filter: ATI has invented some edge-smoothing shader that looks incredible in most games and even works where in games that don't have AA or where AA would give a huge performance hit. This "morphological AA" costs almost nothing in framerate.
"We own the light you collected which was reflected from this object that predates our country by millennia "? I am hoping deep down that they're just kidding and it's just a practical joke on the world. There are so many adjectives applicable to this idiocy, but I am getting sleepy and don't have time to list them.
Human rights take a back seat to copyrights.
Back in my day, it just meant that you wouldn't get any support for your unorthodox use of the game. Now they can sue you for millions!
Also, here's a video to help answer your question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed3InAJhh2k
Getting more than 0 FPS at any resolution with those features enabled already puts it ahead of any integrated graphics solution on the marke--and they're doing it at super low wattage. If it can run AVP that well, it could run anything from 2008 and earlier (save for Crysis) extremely well.
That's at least 90% of all the games in history released for PC on an integrated graphics processor. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Wow HTML fail on my part...what I mean to say is "It's not like AMD is putting the same chip with the same everything into four generations of parts or anything"
I have a feeling that people who buy expensive pieces of hardware have tendency to do at least one web search or pop at least one question off at an internet forum about products before they buy. It's not like AMD is putting the or anything...