Yeah, they did have a correction at the bottom of page 2. It's still important to note though:
As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.
Or the French, German, Japanese, UK, Canadian nuclear industries (among many more that could be listed). But because there happened to be one accident at a single nuclear power plant that clearly means all nuclear plants are unsafe!
It took them like 5 years before they even gave us the HD 720i resolution, 3 more years before the 1080i resolution and another 3 more years before HD 1080p became available !
720i isn't an HD standard. The HD standard 1280x720 resolution always has been at 60p.
No they aren't. Blu-rays are still far more expensive to produce than a DVD. DVDs that retail for 10-15 dollars less than the respective Blu-Ray title have a far higher profit margin.
It doesn't matter what they used to do the research. If you didn't ask consent to do it, you don't get consent to do it. What's so hard with such a concept?
Oh and on your claims about The Saboteur I see nothing for either the PS3 game or the 360 version that state an internet connection is required to play the game. Do you have actual evidence to the contrary?
Um, yes. The DRM system used on games like Assassin's Creed II which the GP was talking about was only on the PC versions of the game. You can play them on the PS3 and Xbox 360 without needing an internet connection.
Gaming DRM extends across more than the PC platform.
That's great but not the subject of what I was responding to.
Final Fight, for example for Ubisoft on PS3.
Final Fight is a Capcom game you fucking moron.
The Saboteur from EA would be another example on the PS3.
Great, but my comments were directly related to the GP's comments that incorrectly stated that Ubisoft required a internet connection to play their single-player games on the PS3. This is wrong. That DRM scheme was only used on the PC. That you can name completely different companies using such DRM doesn't disprove my point.
That makes it pretty hard to play the single-player games which require an online connection for their DRM (Ubisoft).
You mean except for the little fact that none of Ubisoft's games on the PS3 require such a thing? What you're talking about only refers to the PC versions of the titles.
Many companies who try the "we may change this without permission and without notice" have been slapped down by the courts before.
Except that your link only specifies 2 cases where a EULA was held to be unenforceable and the scopes of their ruling were only to the EULAs at question in the lawsuit and were not applied to all EULAs in general. I doubt you could even list 30 companies who have had their EULAs slapped down by a court.
Well of course. It still doesn't mean he can make any sort of unilateral decisions or that he has the "keys to the disney vault" anymore than any other shareholder does.
What's weird about it? Driving drunk has the potential of the drunk person maiming and/or killing other drivers. Implanting a microchip in someone is a non-violent crime with no potential for the maiming or killing of others. It seems pretty clear to me that the former should be punished harsher than the latter.
However, with the Muslims...c'mon, it seems the crazies are almost in the majority over there. I doubt you've seen that much news footage with radical christians out in the the street burning someone in effigy, changing death to _______.
Sure it may seem that way if the only exposure you have ever had with Muslims is from news clips.
there is no technical reason that you cannot install a different OS,
Sure there are. Many of the alternate OSes don't run on ARM devices.
My point was that Apple is dictating what the device should be used for.
Great. This has only been beaten to death thousands of times over. You're adding nothing new to the topic. Just don't buy it and let everyone else who wants one enjoy their device.
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Yeah, they did have a correction at the bottom of page 2. It's still important to note though:
As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.
Or the French, German, Japanese, UK, Canadian nuclear industries (among many more that could be listed). But because there happened to be one accident at a single nuclear power plant that clearly means all nuclear plants are unsafe!
mdsolar is a well-known troll. Basically about 90% of all the submissions from this tool is basically FUD against nuclear power.
The funny thing about this whining about nuclear plants is that coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste.
It took them like 5 years before they even gave us the HD 720i resolution, 3 more years before the 1080i resolution and another 3 more years before HD 1080p became available !
720i isn't an HD standard. The HD standard 1280x720 resolution always has been at 60p.
because the profit margins on Blu-Ray are higher
No they aren't. Blu-rays are still far more expensive to produce than a DVD. DVDs that retail for 10-15 dollars less than the respective Blu-Ray title have a far higher profit margin.
It doesn't matter what they used to do the research. If you didn't ask consent to do it, you don't get consent to do it. What's so hard with such a concept?
Oh and on your claims about The Saboteur I see nothing for either the PS3 game or the 360 version that state an internet connection is required to play the game. Do you have actual evidence to the contrary?
Umm, no
Um, yes. The DRM system used on games like Assassin's Creed II which the GP was talking about was only on the PC versions of the game. You can play them on the PS3 and Xbox 360 without needing an internet connection.
Gaming DRM extends across more than the PC platform.
That's great but not the subject of what I was responding to.
Final Fight, for example for Ubisoft on PS3.
Final Fight is a Capcom game you fucking moron.
The Saboteur from EA would be another example on the PS3.
Great, but my comments were directly related to the GP's comments that incorrectly stated that Ubisoft required a internet connection to play their single-player games on the PS3. This is wrong. That DRM scheme was only used on the PC. That you can name completely different companies using such DRM doesn't disprove my point.
Next time learn to read.
That makes it pretty hard to play the single-player games which require an online connection for their DRM (Ubisoft).
You mean except for the little fact that none of Ubisoft's games on the PS3 require such a thing? What you're talking about only refers to the PC versions of the titles.
Many companies who try the "we may change this without permission and without notice" have been slapped down by the courts before.
Except that your link only specifies 2 cases where a EULA was held to be unenforceable and the scopes of their ruling were only to the EULAs at question in the lawsuit and were not applied to all EULAs in general. I doubt you could even list 30 companies who have had their EULAs slapped down by a court.
Has this argument against a EULA really ever held up in a court of law?
Well of course. It still doesn't mean he can make any sort of unilateral decisions or that he has the "keys to the disney vault" anymore than any other shareholder does.
Having a target release date doesn't mean you continue with the plans to ship the product when it has a serious bug.
What's weird about it? Driving drunk has the potential of the drunk person maiming and/or killing other drivers. Implanting a microchip in someone is a non-violent crime with no potential for the maiming or killing of others. It seems pretty clear to me that the former should be punished harsher than the latter.
However, with the Muslims...c'mon, it seems the crazies are almost in the majority over there. I doubt you've seen that much news footage with radical christians out in the the street burning someone in effigy, changing death to _______.
Sure it may seem that way if the only exposure you have ever had with Muslims is from news clips.
Except that having only a 7% voting stake hardly amounts Steve Jobs to be able to boss around the Disney Board of Directors.
Because a couple of assholes on a website represent the entirety of the Muslim world?
So basically AMD's failures are always Intel's fault and not their own, right?
In fact, x86 is a terribly die-area-inefficient architecture; we'd be a lot better off with a modern RISC, opening up space for more cache.
Is this ignoring the fact that most of Intel's chips for many years have basically been RISC processors with an x86 translation unit?
I really hope they do, Intel has had too long at the top of the market and they're getting all monopolistic again.
How dare Intel make better products than AMD and thusly gain market share back! How evil of them!
there is no technical reason that you cannot install a different OS,
Sure there are. Many of the alternate OSes don't run on ARM devices.
My point was that Apple is dictating what the device should be used for.
Great. This has only been beaten to death thousands of times over. You're adding nothing new to the topic. Just don't buy it and let everyone else who wants one enjoy their device.
Why is it bad that Apple removed a bunch of worthless shit from their store? If anything that's Apple making great progress.
Also monopolies aren't necessarily bad. If the monopoly causes the prices to remain low (think Wal-mart) then the consumer benefits.
How does the consumer benefit from Wal-Mart selling them cheap, shoddy shit from China with lead paint and all sorts of other toxic chemicals in them?
Actually that is a completely horrible suggestion and is the reason why you see some much convoluted code written.