Does the limits/benifits of a cartridge make a better system?
My personal answers are no and no (wasn't Sega desperate to be purchased and doesn't lack of textures, voice and music make for less of a gameplay expierience)
How does it explain AIDS being prodominently African American in America at first? What about the deaths before treaqtment? Where those all people using poppers?
Perhaps AZT is more deadly then HIV. That does not mean the HIV does not cause problems, just that it is less toxic then AZT. AIDS isn't just any number of diseases it is a state where your immube system stops functioning properly. It is being susceptible to deseases that should be easily faught off. It is not every day deseases, it is rare forms of everyday deseases.
If there is truly no correlation between HIV and AIDS besides medicine I have full faith in the academic community to say so with more then just one of its members. And I certainly don't want to read about it in one of his books, but in peer reviewed journals.
I am not trying to say the social security is workable right now. But it is not yet bankrupt yet. And it was never setup put in the oney you take out.
From the start people were able to collect. There was no, anyone now under twenty gets to take out there money in 40 years. When it was established people got to collect even though they put nothing in.
Social security is unworkable in its present state and my generation is royaly fucked, but it was setup so that each generation pays for the previous at a time when birthrates were high.
The only way to save it in its current state is to increase the age of retirement to 2 years past life expectancy like it was when social security began. Of course people can;t be expected to be productive to that age.
I havn't read the Dr Duesburg site. But I remember being young and reading text files about legel drugs. I distinctly remember there being therories that it was caused by Amyl-Nitrate and that the government keeping it legel was a plot to kill gays. Their evidence was that anti-biotics treated it well (duh, the problems with AIDS are the illnesses you get) and that it was prodominently in gays (this was a while ago) . So the AIDS not caused by a virus camp is nothing new.
Completly random and un-connected events are bound to coincide sometimes.
Much like the Cancer Hot Spots in the US. Statistically if cancer is totally random you will have hotspots of cancer. And the quantity of so called hotspots matches what is to be expected.
Have you ever rolled doubles twice in a row in Monopoly? Were you like, How can this not be related?
If we crack a large asteroid into smaller chunks that all rain down on Earth it is still better then one big one. The total surface area of the smaller chunks is more. That allows more to vaporize which means less mass hitting the planet.
If your computer kills/hurts you, there may be a case. But if your car breaks down inconvieniencing you, there is penalty to the car maker.
If you are saving money using a computer on a daily basis, and then it costs you a lot of money. You still proffit from using a computer. The same way that when my car breaks down I am still saving money using a car.
Actually I think one is gross profit (price - cost of goods sold) and the other is net profit (theincludes all overhead).
I am probably wrong though, because I had to check the spelling of profit in your post so I could spell it correctly. And Gross may include employee time.
Does that mean Nintendo has to up it's price to half again as much to stay alive?
I own and prefer the GC, but 150.00 was the most I was going to pay for any system, so I didn't really have a choice. at 50% more then the Xbox (would that be 240?) I would not do it.
how could I sink many hours of work into a game system. in my area that is half a months rent If you are paying half of a 3 bedroom).
If you only have a few million though, can you afford to pay people the time to rip those CDs to MP3's. can you afford them to buy every single CD so that you can get any song you want in an instant. Who is it that knows you so well as to pick the exact songs you want. Unless you are profanly rich file sharing is the easy way to get what it offers. The original poster was talking about somebody with with a billion dollors, that is probably unlikly. But somebody whos parents have a few million may be willing to fight it, and I could not imagine going through all the work to be legitimate about it even if I was rich.
PS, I don't like enough music to use file sharing. If I were to start sharing on a service that encourages communication or seeing what other people like at least that might change, but currently my exposure to new music is so slight that I have no need to steal (obtain for free anyway) the music.
when I played FF1 I misread the G for gold after the price of nuke as another 0, I was something like level 45 when I baught nuke and my money didn't drop to near zero. I killed him in 3 rounds, there was no healing for him.
I found the packs of 5 wind elementals in the sky palace the most difficult part of the game though.
or perhaps magic or spell points would be the key?
if they had unlimited full heal, that would be impossible, but if they played by the same rules as you then it would mean nothing. Also enemies in the earlier FF games had 10x the HP, that covers a lot of healing.
I found Skies of Arcadia to be difficuslt at the beginning. then way to easy, slowly working it's way to a good, maybe slightly to easy point.
When you steal the big ass ship it is rediculously easy and a big nuisance for quite a while.
Ganes like that also need some kind of a fast auto fight option, exploring around for things when you can thwomp any enemies but still gotta wait your turn is my biggest gaming sin.
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Maybe they didn't have any serious competition in the consumer market. So they figured they could do what they wanted, consumers would have to follow and they would have a credible server chip.
Now x86 is credible for low end servers and AMD is a very credible competitor. As time goes on x86 is (at least in the short to middle run) proving the nay sayers to be wrong and continuing to improve. AMD starting their techknowledgy more recently saw this. And said hay, if intel is not releasing high end x86 chips we can give it a whirl and snatch up some market.
I have not played the demo (Linux) but have been obsessing over the game for a while (yay game cube)
it definatly is a sneakyish type game. just read the description of the crossbow, that is not a weapon in a live a long time getting shot type of game. Also the comic book TAP TAP TAP of people walking is supposed ot act like seeing through walls. more sneakyness.
Linux will have DRM if Linus has anything to do with it. DRM will allow you the user the right to say what has the right to run. DRM will increase the security of systems. This is a good thing on a server.
It will also allows content creators make sure no programs can steal their unencrypted stream of data, this is a bad thing in many peoples eyes (Copyright used to be lose, if it is strict and someoen stops publishing you can lose art forever when all sold copies expire, this is bad).
Lastly with the help of the OS it can be used to say that only people with a certificate from such and such a place can be allowed to run code, this is very bad for independent coders ect. But that is unlikley to happen because people like computers and not counsils.
DRM adds a level to the security model, and nothing else. It makes things harder to crack, buit the is not all bad. Applications producers that gain market share through piracy will need to be lax anyway (anybody notice how trivial adobe and macromedia applications are to get full working free versions?) Those that don't use this tactic (like that guy who asked about selling shareware) will use it and benifit greatly. Content will still be bootlegged with high quality analog streams and everybody will win, except for the people who like to pirate shareware litterly stealing food out of an independant developers mouth.
Also Open Source and DRM will go hand and hand, how can you trust that somebody securly uses DRM to protect you without seeing their code, kind of like encryption.
Also, Sony seems in no better a position now then Nintendo was when they fell from grace. Nintendo was on top of the world, untouchable with their 256 or so simulteaneous colors, and ready to sweep the world with a crazy powered 64 bit machine when Sony came in and cleaned their clock.
We can only hope for Sony that they have good developer relations, or somebody could do some serious damage.
I would also say that Nintendo is doing better this generation then last, I don't know about the numbers, but I see a lot more Game Cubes then N64's, and it is able to play games without them being scaled down, which means that any non-exclusives are available this time around.
Interesting, last I heard the Wine folk decided to change the liscense basically forcing WineX to go its seterape way. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with going from Open Source to Free software, just that it seems the wrong way to handle that situation.
WineX has a fairly complete version available from CVS. I'm sure there are plenty of stuff they did in that. Intaller and some of their more impressive feats are still proprietary I think, but I would imagine as DX9 becomes the focus, DX8 stuff to be released (at least I would of before the liscense change stunt.
I would personally recommend something that validates against a database of sold keys over the network but is still fairly trivial to crack. Also make sure it kills itself after a month or so (no unlimited nagging like old school winamp or Winzip).
I find that if a serial number is all that is needed and it is something I don't care too juch for, I will Warez it. If it becomes any harder to find then that I will buy it or stop using it.
An example of good shareware practice was the older Opera, 30 days use, and then you had to activate it with a key. A key from your standard list of sierialz would return a message that you are using a key that is no good, and that abuse@yourdomain.com etc. were being notified (I may have made that part up though, it was a while ago, I remember being scared that we were going to losing internet access and I would be in trouble).
Anythign more invasive then a one time registration is too much, but if your program is crackable from a serial list it will lose a lot of sales, or at least be used by a lot of people who did not pay.
If I can save whenever I want I tend to save after accomplishing big things, or when I am done for the day. Unless things are real obvious I don't save in anticipation. When there are save spots I save at every save spot which always is used to portent a boss fight.
So I end up knowing exactly when to get at full strength and exactly when to save for best cheatlike effects.
My favorite save system was Diablo II though, with it continually saving so that there was no escaping your stupidity.
It may be not be a good thing, but there is a precident set for accidental infringement (the Beatles). And there exposure to the song they infringed was far less then the exporsure you would get reverse compiling the whole thing.
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2 questions...
Is Sega doing "very well"?
Does the limits/benifits of a cartridge make a better system?
My personal answers are no and no (wasn't Sega desperate to be purchased and doesn't lack of textures, voice and music make for less of a gameplay expierience)
How does it explain AIDS being prodominently African American in America at first?
What about the deaths before treaqtment? Where those all people using poppers?
Perhaps AZT is more deadly then HIV. That does not mean the HIV does not cause problems, just that it is less toxic then AZT.
AIDS isn't just any number of diseases it is a state where your immube system stops functioning properly. It is being susceptible to deseases that should be easily faught off. It is not every day deseases, it is rare forms of everyday deseases.
If there is truly no correlation between HIV and AIDS besides medicine I have full faith in the academic community to say so with more then just one of its members. And I certainly don't want to read about it in one of his books, but in peer reviewed journals.
I am not trying to say the social security is workable right now. But it is not yet bankrupt yet. And it was never setup put in the oney you take out.
From the start people were able to collect. There was no, anyone now under twenty gets to take out there money in 40 years. When it was established people got to collect even though they put nothing in.
Social security is unworkable in its present state and my generation is royaly fucked, but it was setup so that each generation pays for the previous at a time when birthrates were high.
The only way to save it in its current state is to increase the age of retirement to 2 years past life expectancy like it was when social security began. Of course people can;t be expected to be productive to that age.
I havn't read the Dr Duesburg site. But I remember being young and reading text files about legel drugs. I distinctly remember there being therories that it was caused by Amyl-Nitrate and that the government keeping it legel was a plot to kill gays. Their evidence was that anti-biotics treated it well (duh, the problems with AIDS are the illnesses you get) and that it was prodominently in gays (this was a while ago) . So the AIDS not caused by a virus camp is nothing new.
Actually people payed social security expecting to die before they collected.
Average lifespan was lower then the social security.
And the government is not propping it up either. Social security is propping up government spending.
Don't spread missinformation. Unless you want karma.
no, he devided it out and rounded.
10baseT is 10Mb/s ~= 1MB/s
I don't want to be anal, but I don't want anyone to get it wrong either.
Completly random and un-connected events are bound to coincide sometimes.
Much like the Cancer Hot Spots in the US.
Statistically if cancer is totally random you will have hotspots of cancer. And the quantity of so called hotspots matches what is to be expected.
Have you ever rolled doubles twice in a row in Monopoly?
Were you like, How can this not be related?
If we crack a large asteroid into smaller chunks that all rain down on Earth it is still better then one big one. The total surface area of the smaller chunks is more. That allows more to vaporize which means less mass hitting the planet.
If your computer kills/hurts you, there may be a case. But if your car breaks down inconvieniencing you, there is penalty to the car maker.
If you are saving money using a computer on a daily basis, and then it costs you a lot of money. You still proffit from using a computer. The same way that when my car breaks down I am still saving money using a car.
Actually I think one is gross profit (price - cost of goods sold) and the other is net profit (theincludes all overhead).
I am probably wrong though, because I had to check the spelling of profit in your post so I could spell it correctly. And Gross may include employee time.
I accidently modded this redundant. oops.
The RIAA was Bitch Slapped for price fixing. They were not only charging too much,.
Using an umbrella orginization to act as a monopoly is not fair or part of doing business.
You are of course correct on all other topics.
Does that mean Nintendo has to up it's price to half again as much to stay alive?
I own and prefer the GC, but 150.00 was the most I was going to pay for any system, so I didn't really have a choice. at 50% more then the Xbox (would that be 240?) I would not do it.
how could I sink many hours of work into a game system. in my area that is half a months rent If you are paying half of a 3 bedroom).
If you only have a few million though, can you afford to pay people the time to rip those CDs to MP3's. can you afford them to buy every single CD so that you can get any song you want in an instant. Who is it that knows you so well as to pick the exact songs you want. Unless you are profanly rich file sharing is the easy way to get what it offers. The original poster was talking about somebody with with a billion dollors, that is probably unlikly. But somebody whos parents have a few million may be willing to fight it, and I could not imagine going through all the work to be legitimate about it even if I was rich.
PS, I don't like enough music to use file sharing. If I were to start sharing on a service that encourages communication or seeing what other people like at least that might change, but currently my exposure to new music is so slight that I have no need to steal (obtain for free anyway) the music.
when I played FF1 I misread the G for gold after the price of nuke as another 0, I was something like level 45 when I baught nuke and my money didn't drop to near zero. I killed him in 3 rounds, there was no healing for him.
I found the packs of 5 wind elementals in the sky palace the most difficult part of the game though.
or perhaps magic or spell points would be the key?
if they had unlimited full heal, that would be impossible, but if they played by the same rules as you then it would mean nothing. Also enemies in the earlier FF games had 10x the HP, that covers a lot of healing.
I found Skies of Arcadia to be difficuslt at the beginning. then way to easy, slowly working it's way to a good, maybe slightly to easy point.
When you steal the big ass ship it is rediculously easy and a big nuisance for quite a while.
Ganes like that also need some kind of a fast auto fight option, exploring around for things when you can thwomp any enemies but still gotta wait your turn is my biggest gaming sin.
Maybe they didn't have any serious competition in the consumer market. So they figured they could do what they wanted, consumers would have to follow and they would have a credible server chip.
Now x86 is credible for low end servers and AMD is a very credible competitor. As time goes on x86 is (at least in the short to middle run) proving the nay sayers to be wrong and continuing to improve. AMD starting their techknowledgy more recently saw this. And said hay, if intel is not releasing high end x86 chips we can give it a whirl and snatch up some market.
I have not played the demo (Linux) but have been obsessing over the game for a while (yay game cube)
it definatly is a sneakyish type game. just read the description of the crossbow, that is not a weapon in a live a long time getting shot type of game. Also the comic book TAP TAP TAP of people walking is supposed ot act like seeing through walls. more sneakyness.
Linux will have DRM if Linus has anything to do with it. DRM will allow you the user the right to say what has the right to run. DRM will increase the security of systems. This is a good thing on a server.
It will also allows content creators make sure no programs can steal their unencrypted stream of data, this is a bad thing in many peoples eyes (Copyright used to be lose, if it is strict and someoen stops publishing you can lose art forever when all sold copies expire, this is bad).
Lastly with the help of the OS it can be used to say that only people with a certificate from such and such a place can be allowed to run code, this is very bad for independent coders ect. But that is unlikley to happen because people like computers and not counsils.
DRM adds a level to the security model, and nothing else. It makes things harder to crack, buit the is not all bad. Applications producers that gain market share through piracy will need to be lax anyway (anybody notice how trivial adobe and macromedia applications are to get full working free versions?) Those that don't use this tactic (like that guy who asked about selling shareware) will use it and benifit greatly. Content will still be bootlegged with high quality analog streams and everybody will win, except for the people who like to pirate shareware litterly stealing food out of an independant developers mouth.
Also Open Source and DRM will go hand and hand, how can you trust that somebody securly uses DRM to protect you without seeing their code, kind of like encryption.
Also, Sony seems in no better a position now then Nintendo was when they fell from grace. Nintendo was on top of the world, untouchable with their 256 or so simulteaneous colors, and ready to sweep the world with a crazy powered 64 bit machine when Sony came in and cleaned their clock.
We can only hope for Sony that they have good developer relations, or somebody could do some serious damage.
I would also say that Nintendo is doing better this generation then last, I don't know about the numbers, but I see a lot more Game Cubes then N64's, and it is able to play games without them being scaled down, which means that any non-exclusives are available this time around.
Interesting, last I heard the Wine folk decided to change the liscense basically forcing WineX to go its seterape way. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with going from Open Source to Free software, just that it seems the wrong way to handle that situation.
WineX has a fairly complete version available from CVS. I'm sure there are plenty of stuff they did in that. Intaller and some of their more impressive feats are still proprietary I think, but I would imagine as DX9 becomes the focus, DX8 stuff to be released (at least I would of before the liscense change stunt.
Did you look into getting it bundled with scanners, probably only get a buck or so a sale, but that would be with no piracy.
When you said at stores I don't know what scale you meant, but a scanner vendor is probably no harder then a big store.
I would personally recommend something that validates against a database of sold keys over the network but is still fairly trivial to crack. Also make sure it kills itself after a month or so (no unlimited nagging like old school winamp or Winzip).
I find that if a serial number is all that is needed and it is something I don't care too juch for, I will Warez it. If it becomes any harder to find then that I will buy it or stop using it.
An example of good shareware practice was the older Opera, 30 days use, and then you had to activate it with a key. A key from your standard list of sierialz would return a message that you are using a key that is no good, and that abuse@yourdomain.com etc. were being notified (I may have made that part up though, it was a while ago, I remember being scared that we were going to losing internet access and I would be in trouble).
Anythign more invasive then a one time registration is too much, but if your program is crackable from a serial list it will lose a lot of sales, or at least be used by a lot of people who did not pay.
I find the opposite.
If I can save whenever I want I tend to save after accomplishing big things, or when I am done for the day. Unless things are real obvious I don't save in anticipation. When there are save spots I save at every save spot which always is used to portent a boss fight.
So I end up knowing exactly when to get at full strength and exactly when to save for best cheatlike effects.
My favorite save system was Diablo II though, with it continually saving so that there was no escaping your stupidity.
It may be not be a good thing, but there is a precident set for accidental infringement (the Beatles). And there exposure to the song they infringed was far less then the exporsure you would get reverse compiling the whole thing.