Mirmax funded the production of hero, instead of later purchasing the rights. So i would assume that the are already made some money on it. Unless their contract only allows them to make money off the US release.
I for one already got my copy of both Hero and Shoalin Soccer. Both of them are avaialable at sensasian.com.
What freedom of speech protections apply to this? Does Take2 have to censor thier creative work becuase certain groups take offense to that work?
Im definetly not advocating discrimination, but it is a part of human nature. Do we have to ignore it to remain politcally correct? The same goes for certain words that are now considered taboo. But what if someone was writing a book with a character who might use those words? Do they have to censor themselves?
IMHO politcal correctness has sheilded the real issues that are part of our socity. There are people who discrimate, sterotype or hate one type of group or another. Vice city show some of that, both for humor and realism. But is covering that up going to solve the problem? I really doubt it.
I see 2L as a very interesting expirment with IP and the economics of a total digital world. All items are digital and have only its creation time and no manufacturing cost. Items could be duplicated instantly.
Im not sure exactly what happens when you sell an item you create. Do you sell the item you create? Who keeps the copyright? Or do you sell a copy? Just licencing the item. What happens to the economic system if an item can be instantly duplicated?
Some of that applies to the sale of music and movies in the real world.
I can understand the plague of piracy but that affects all creative fields.
Using technological solutions to block piracy will just inconvenience legal users of the software. Those who want to pirate it, will reguardless of what protection is used. There is no copy protection that cannot be broken. Its just that some schemes take longer than others to break.
Although the DMCA outlaws reverse engineering. But like any law its only effective if one chooses to follow it. Those who want to pirate the product, certainly wont.
I would say the best solution is make games cost less then $50-60. Dont adjust prices for piracy. All your doing is making the legit users pay and encouraging more piracy due to high costs. Electrontic diribution can cut costs, but the price should reflect that.
This one is a bit more grey than something like versign's site finder. IMHO i think that adds should only part of a product or service if the terms of that service explictly states that there will be ads. At this point we have a choice of using that service or not. So we have a choice of seeing those advertisments.
This goes wrong when advertisments are part of a public space. Like sitefinder or billboards. If we are in that public space, we have no control over wether or not we will see the ads.
As for the belkin routers. In this issue they are not breaking any rules unless they do not inform the consumer that this "feature" is in thier products. A consumer does not have to purchase belkin routers.
Yup, cnn is own by time warner. They also own all of these music labels.
Warner Music Group - Recording Labels The Atlantic Group Atlantic Classics Atlantic Jazz Atlantic Nashville Atlantic Theater Big Beat Blackground Breaking Igloo Lava Mesa/Blu emoon Modern 1 43 Rhino Records Elektra Entertainment Group Elektra EastWest Asylum Elektra/Sire Wa rner Brothers Records Warner Brothers Warner Nashville Warner Alliance Warner Resound Warner Sunset Reprise Reprise Nashville American Recordings Giant Maverick Revolution Qwest Wa rner Music International WEA Telegram East West ZTT Coalition CGD East West China Continential DRO East West Erato Fazer Finlandia Magneoton MCM Non esuch Teldec Other Recording Interests Warner/Chappell Music (publishing company) WEA Inc. (sales, distribution and manufacturing) Ivy Hill Corporation (printing and packaging) Warner Special Products
I think someone did this with the dawn demo and hacked it to work on ATI cards. Is anyone hacking bridge it?
As far as the whole ati vs. nvida thing. Im not suprised that nvidia did this, but if thats the case, bridge it should be reguarded as only an ad and nothing else.
Even more, i've owned cards from both companies. I have found that ati cards although faster, tend to be less stable and more buggy than nvida cards. Other people may have other opinions, thats my experience.
Software avtivation schemes have been out for years in many diffrent forms. All they manage to do is inconvience the legal users of the product.
The people who pirate will still pirate it anyway. These are not studios who have alot to loose if they get caught, but just students and independent users who want to learn the software.
No copy protection sheme is unbreakable, its just a matter of time. It will be cracked.
Cell numbers dont have thier own area codes. If there is cell number portability, you esentially never have to get rid of your cell number. But what if you move?
You keep your number, but anyone in the new area will find your cell number is long distance.
We should have area codes specifically for cellular phones. That way they would be trully mobile. You could always have that number.
games have gotten to a point where its not about how cool the graphics look anymore. HL2 is implementing many of the things that were restricted to non real time 3d graphics. Technically, there are no limits.
I try to look at games less from a technical standpoint and more at how well it was directed. Does it have a solid story? Is there good art direction? Does the game try to be original and uniquie or just another game?
There are some technical aspects that still matter. If its to hard, or too clunky to play your not going to play it.
We will see what happens, but i think games need more credit than they do get.
As said before, its probably ARP packets. I used ethereal and found that i was reciving over 100 ARP packets per second. Granted, the packets are small, but over time it adds up.
At what point is all this background traffic too much? I think its already passed that point.
I can second that, although i dont dowload as much as i used to. Some movies i have downlaoded have inflenced my purchases.
In some ways, its like the theater model, you show a movie in theaters and hope they will buy the dvd 6-12 months later. Just in this case, they loose out on the theater money.
Maybe consumers dont want to pay $8-10 to see a movie in theaters. And then pay $15-$25 for the DVD later. Who can blame them.
I would kind of take an opposite angle, If im on a metered connection, i wouldnt want to have to pay for crap i dont want. With my cable modem i get a constant stream of packets trying to exploit vounerabilites. That equals around 7KBps It can easily add up over a month.
Lets Look at the logic here. Child porography is being distributed via P2P. Since P2P is the method of delivery we must kill P2P.
Child pornography has been disributed by perverts by many diffrent ways before the advent P2P. Shall we make the US postal system illeagal for the same reason?
One could argue that it is much easier to get Child pornagraphy on P2P. There is a hole in that logic, you actully have to be looking for it to find it. The person looking for it in the first place is the root of the problem, not P2P.
Windows already has the ability to download and install patches automaticly. But not many people allow windows to be set to that setting or dont know about it.
But id rather know when its about to install a patch. Thats the setting i have mine set Too
The national do not call list has an exemption for political orginizations. Allowing them to make calls without fallowing the do not call list. I wonder if the dean campain is trying to kinda of claim the same exemption with this.
As far as esubscritions goes i dont think they harvest address by scouring the web. They just collected address through sweepstakes or agreements with other sites. I might be wrong though.
would the prime directive overrule this? "No matter what, don't let your society interfere with the evolution of another society unless the two can possibly be federated as members of a larger society."
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Mirmax funded the production of hero, instead of later purchasing the rights. So i would assume that the are already made some money on it. Unless their contract only allows them to make money off the US release.
I for one already got my copy of both Hero and Shoalin Soccer. Both of them are avaialable at sensasian.com.
What freedom of speech protections apply to this? Does Take2 have to censor thier creative work becuase certain groups take offense to that work?
Im definetly not advocating discrimination, but it is a part of human nature. Do we have to ignore it to remain politcally correct? The same goes for certain words that are now considered taboo. But what if someone was writing a book with a character who might use those words? Do they have to censor themselves?
IMHO politcal correctness has sheilded the real issues that are part of our socity. There are people who discrimate, sterotype or hate one type of group or another. Vice city show some of that, both for humor and realism. But is covering that up going to solve the problem? I really doubt it.
I see 2L as a very interesting expirment with IP and the economics of a total digital world. All items are digital and have only its creation time and no manufacturing cost. Items could be duplicated instantly.
Im not sure exactly what happens when you sell an item you create. Do you sell the item you create? Who keeps the copyright? Or do you sell a copy? Just licencing the item. What happens to the economic system if an item can be instantly duplicated?
Some of that applies to the sale of music and movies in the real world.
I can understand the plague of piracy but that affects all creative fields.
Using technological solutions to block piracy will just inconvenience legal users of the software. Those who want to pirate it, will reguardless of what protection is used. There is no copy protection that cannot be broken. Its just that some schemes take longer than others to break.
Although the DMCA outlaws reverse engineering. But like any law its only effective if one chooses to follow it. Those who want to pirate the product, certainly wont.
I would say the best solution is make games cost less then $50-60. Dont adjust prices for piracy. All your doing is making the legit users pay and encouraging more piracy due to high costs. Electrontic diribution can cut costs, but the price should reflect that.
Thats enough for now.
If anyone is wondering what this sounds like, there are some sample here: http://www.vocaloid.com/en/sample.html
Although pretty convincing, i think it has a way to go before it would be perfect.
Natural method for inhaling and exhaling air...
Though i think prior art might be an issue
This one is a bit more grey than something like versign's site finder. IMHO i think that adds should only part of a product or service if the terms of that service explictly states that there will be ads. At this point we have a choice of using that service or not. So we have a choice of seeing those advertisments.
This goes wrong when advertisments are part of a public space. Like sitefinder or billboards. If we are in that public space, we have no control over wether or not we will see the ads.
As for the belkin routers. In this issue they are not breaking any rules unless they do not inform the consumer that this "feature" is in thier products. A consumer does not have to purchase belkin routers.
Yup, cnn is own by time warner. They also own all of these music labels.
u emoona rner Brothers Recordsa rner Music Internationaln esuch
Warner Music Group - Recording Labels
The Atlantic Group
Atlantic Classics
Atlantic Jazz
Atlantic Nashville
Atlantic Theater
Big Beat
Blackground
Breaking
Igloo
Lava
Mesa/Bl
Modern
1 43
Rhino Records
Elektra Entertainment Group
Elektra
EastWest
Asylum
Elektra/Sire
W
Warner Brothers
Warner Nashville
Warner Alliance
Warner Resound
Warner Sunset
Reprise
Reprise Nashville
American Recordings
Giant
Maverick
Revolution
Qwest
W
WEA Telegram
East West ZTT
Coalition
CGD East West
China
Continential
DRO East West
Erato
Fazer
Finlandia
Magneoton
MCM
No
Teldec
Other Recording Interests
Warner/Chappell Music (publishing company)
WEA Inc. (sales, distribution and manufacturing)
Ivy Hill Corporation (printing and packaging)
Warner Special Products
Source: http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/timewarner.asp
I think someone did this with the dawn demo and hacked it to work on ATI cards. Is anyone hacking bridge it?
As far as the whole ati vs. nvida thing. Im not suprised that nvidia did this, but if thats the case, bridge it should be reguarded as only an ad and nothing else.
Even more, i've owned cards from both companies. I have found that ati cards although faster, tend to be less stable and more buggy than nvida cards. Other people may have other opinions, thats my experience.
I dont think its just motherboards, i had a video card that went out on me. When i inspected the board, several capacitors were leaking or bulging.
Im inspired by the US miltarys actions in iraq to go and drive through this person house.
And the good thing is that the goverment would be reponsible for inspiring such a behavior in me.
That should be eough to power a several thousand node beowulf cluster. Heheh
But on the other hand, what about security? I dont think we want some extremeists to walk away with the "battery" in the middle of the night
Software avtivation schemes have been out for years in many diffrent forms. All they manage to do is inconvience the legal users of the product.
The people who pirate will still pirate it anyway. These are not studios who have alot to loose if they get caught, but just students and independent users who want to learn the software.
No copy protection sheme is unbreakable, its just a matter of time. It will be cracked.
This should be clairfied. Its the personal learning edtion, which has always been free.
But, it uses its own file format, and watermarks the images and viewports.
Cell numbers dont have thier own area codes. If there is cell number portability, you esentially never have to get rid of your cell number. But what if you move?
You keep your number, but anyone in the new area will find your cell number is long distance.
We should have area codes specifically for cellular phones. That way they would be trully mobile. You could always have that number.
games have gotten to a point where its not about how cool the graphics look anymore. HL2 is implementing many of the things that were restricted to non real time 3d graphics. Technically, there are no limits.
I try to look at games less from a technical standpoint and more at how well it was directed. Does it have a solid story? Is there good art direction? Does the game try to be original and uniquie or just another game?
There are some technical aspects that still matter. If its to hard, or too clunky to play your not going to play it.
We will see what happens, but i think games need more credit than they do get.
As said before, its probably ARP packets. I used ethereal and found that i was reciving over 100 ARP packets per second. Granted, the packets are small, but over time it adds up.
At what point is all this background traffic too much? I think its already passed that point.
I can second that, although i dont dowload as much as i used to. Some movies i have downlaoded have inflenced my purchases.
In some ways, its like the theater model, you show a movie in theaters and hope they will buy the dvd 6-12 months later. Just in this case, they loose out on the theater money.
Maybe consumers dont want to pay $8-10 to see a movie in theaters. And then pay $15-$25 for the DVD later. Who can blame them.
I would kind of take an opposite angle, If im on a metered connection, i wouldnt want to have to pay for crap i dont want. With my cable modem i get a constant stream of packets trying to exploit vounerabilites. That equals around 7KBps It can easily add up over a month.
This is another example of people not being responsible for thier own actions.
The game did it.
What happened?
Lets Look at the logic here. Child porography is being distributed via P2P. Since P2P is the method of delivery we must kill P2P.
Child pornography has been disributed by perverts by many diffrent ways before the advent P2P. Shall we make the US postal system illeagal for the same reason?
One could argue that it is much easier to get Child pornagraphy on P2P. There is a hole in that logic, you actully have to be looking for it to find it. The person looking for it in the first place is the root of the problem, not P2P.
Windows already has the ability to download and install patches automaticly. But not many people allow windows to be set to that setting or dont know about it.
But id rather know when its about to install a patch. Thats the setting i have mine set Too
The national do not call list has an exemption for political orginizations. Allowing them to make calls without fallowing the do not call list. I wonder if the dean campain is trying to kinda of claim the same exemption with this.
As far as esubscritions goes i dont think they harvest address by scouring the web. They just collected address through sweepstakes or agreements with other sites. I might be wrong though.
This is a interesting thing i noticed once, and it works on probably any monitor.
Basicaly by putting your face close to your monitor and focusing past the monitor surface, you can make any real image appear to have depth.
Dont do it for a long time as it will no doubt hurt your eyes.
Im not sure exactly why it works, but i have my guesses. your eyes split the image when you focus on a point past the surface.
would the prime directive overrule this? "No matter what, don't let your society interfere with the evolution of another society unless the two can possibly be federated as members of a larger society."
Oh wait... never mind *goes back to star trek*