Other than the last responce the rest of his interview was quite surprisingly well spoken and reasonable. One can only assume that recent disbarment hearings have had an effect on his brashness. I can definatly agree to him that Take-Two should not be marketing towards minors, but in all honestly I can't recall them doing so and would love to see examples of such.
Of course the next step in DRM will be special booths that you have to be strip searched to enter, then and only then will you be allowed to listen to content on DRM protected devices. You will be searched again while leaving the booths.:) Then and only then will DRM work, and damnit someone will find a way around it.
Or how bout this model all music will be free to copy and do with how you please for individuals. Commercial use will still cost, IE you put the music on a TV show or use it to sell something you're going to pay. Concerts will be the major form of income though but all in all you won't see many mega millionare musicians. Musicians will make about as much money as writers, good ones will live well not so good ones will have to find another job.
I tried and stopped at the point that it required me entering a zip code and declaring that I really live there. Lying on government forms = jail time.
What about the schools email addresses, do you think the state should have the ability to stop people from sending marketing to students at public schools?
Well we all know how well the DVD based audio crushed the CD. People simply care about highdef content and the average consumer will pay a premium for it.
sarcasm off
HD-DVD won't kill DVD till its same price or cheaper than DVDs today and then it will still hang around.
Whats more, due to my intense investgation.. I have determined that I can't find any cookies on mccains website, after visiting there is no mccain.senate.gov or sentate.gov domain listed in my cookie manager on firefix...
Whats worse is the fact that a POP3 Client Buffer Overflow on Windows would not be included at all as one doesn't ship with Windows. Linux distros generally ship with thousands of clients and servers while Windows ships with the bare minimum. To do a true security comparion you would have to compare either just kernel exploits with OS exploits, then compare all popular software for windows with all popular software for Linux side by side in a catagory basis (POP3 clients being a catagory)
Agreed, this is why I have the DirecTivo which is only 5 dollars a month. Sadly DirecTV is now offering their own box and rumors are that in 2 years the TiVo boxes won't work anymore, at that time I may go with the new series 3 if I can afford it.
Your kidding yourself right? Have you ever had a TiVo? They are wonderful and their userbase is extremly loyal. With the addition of easy storage expansion and digital cable these are going to sell like hotcakes.
Unfortunatly for TiVo this doesn't nessesarily mean more money as they sell their boxes fo little profit and make the money on subscription fees, meaning existing loyalties won't make them much money. On the other hand existing tivo users might be inclinded to give their tivos to friends and family and possibly pay for a few months of service long enough to get them hooked.
i'm giving 2:1 odds* that the next microsoft console has upgradable RAM.
Sadly you may be right, though constant ram is generally a selling point to console developers. Either way I do remember N64's graphic chip upgrade that was actually used, though it was included in some games and cheap by itself.
Darnit, I never read the subject line first, and had to backup to figure out WTF you were talking about. Bravo Hypotoad you have stolen my life from my once again!
Well yea, it still cost that if you want to own land or be able to build outside of a specific free sandbox (ie you can't sell your creations but materials are cheap or maybe free.. I havn't tried yet)
Would be interesting to see what happends to land value when real teleportation or atleast very fast very cheap travel is invented. California prices will drop for sure.
Seized is a strong word, most can do repairs on your property if you break the bylaws (such as repainting your pokadots without your permission) then can legally put a lean on your property for the cost of the repairs. Theoretically if your house was worth less than the cost of the repairs they would be seizing your house. This is still better than the lady whos city stole over 1 million for not cutting her grass.
Traitors is a bit of a strong word. If your talking about the current system of paper ballots its simply a matter of what was avaiable at the time of creation and the unmobility of the average election council to go with unproven new systems. If your refering to things such as diebold I again point to the untechness of the election coucils. Now diebold themselves, is most likly a combination of lazy employees just trying to earn a buck.... and TRAITORS!
They said available in the equatorial zone. Actually these could be benificial in reducing hurricanes. You could also take this in the same manor as wind power, if you covered the earth in wind power generation facilities it would seriously screw up our weather, but a small single facility will do little.
Actually I decided to look up more info on Second Life, first of all it cost nothing for a single account. You even get a small allowance of virtual money weekly with that account. You can turn real money into virtual money and virtual money into real money easily. (with a transaction fee of course). The way SL works it you can buy land from the game maker and you can create your own items and program them as you wish, then sell infinate copies of this item. Its kinda like a MUSH with a real economy if you ever played one.
True, somewhere in my quick research I stumbed onto a carbon emissions that shows that the carbon emissions are about equal to your average car, on a per passenger basis, this would indicate.. atleast to me that assuming carbon emissions appoximates energy used, this gas is 3 times as dense if 100 mpg = less than 30 mpg of regualar gas.
No because I'm rating milage PER passenger. Meaning in actuallity its getting 1/3 mile per gallon, but its also carrying 300 passengers. if each person drove themselves the same milage they would have to get 100 miles to the gallon to use as much gasoline.
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Oh yes and watch the amount of small time drug users who get rediculus sentences go way up.
Other than the last responce the rest of his interview was quite surprisingly well spoken and reasonable. One can only assume that recent disbarment hearings have had an effect on his brashness. I can definatly agree to him that Take-Two should not be marketing towards minors, but in all honestly I can't recall them doing so and would love to see examples of such.
Of course the next step in DRM will be special booths that you have to be strip searched to enter, then and only then will you be allowed to listen to content on DRM protected devices. You will be searched again while leaving the booths. :) Then and only then will DRM work, and damnit someone will find a way around it.
Or how bout this model all music will be free to copy and do with how you please for individuals. Commercial use will still cost, IE you put the music on a TV show or use it to sell something you're going to pay. Concerts will be the major form of income though but all in all you won't see many mega millionare musicians. Musicians will make about as much money as writers, good ones will live well not so good ones will have to find another job.
I tried and stopped at the point that it required me entering a zip code and declaring that I really live there. Lying on government forms = jail time.
What about the schools email addresses, do you think the state should have the ability to stop people from sending marketing to students at public schools?
Well we all know how well the DVD based audio crushed the CD. People simply care about highdef content and the average consumer will pay a premium for it.
sarcasm off
HD-DVD won't kill DVD till its same price or cheaper than DVDs today and then it will still hang around.
Whats more, due to my intense investgation.. I have determined that I can't find any cookies on mccains website, after visiting there is no mccain.senate.gov or sentate.gov domain listed in my cookie manager on firefix...
Whats worse is the fact that a POP3 Client Buffer Overflow on Windows would not be included at all as one doesn't ship with Windows. Linux distros generally ship with thousands of clients and servers while Windows ships with the bare minimum. To do a true security comparion you would have to compare either just kernel exploits with OS exploits, then compare all popular software for windows with all popular software for Linux side by side in a catagory basis (POP3 clients being a catagory)
And yes I did just search the internet for a 1U or 2U cray for you to throw. Can't find any yet... I'll let you know when I do.
Agreed, this is why I have the DirecTivo which is only 5 dollars a month. Sadly DirecTV is now offering their own box and rumors are that in 2 years the TiVo boxes won't work anymore, at that time I may go with the new series 3 if I can afford it.
Your kidding yourself right? Have you ever had a TiVo? They are wonderful and their userbase is extremly loyal. With the addition of easy storage expansion and digital cable these are going to sell like hotcakes.
Unfortunatly for TiVo this doesn't nessesarily mean more money as they sell their boxes fo little profit and make the money on subscription fees, meaning existing loyalties won't make them much money. On the other hand existing tivo users might be inclinded to give their tivos to friends and family and possibly pay for a few months of service long enough to get them hooked.
i'm giving 2:1 odds* that the next microsoft console has upgradable RAM.
Sadly you may be right, though constant ram is generally a selling point to console developers. Either way I do remember N64's graphic chip upgrade that was actually used, though it was included in some games and cheap by itself.
Darnit, I never read the subject line first, and had to backup to figure out WTF you were talking about. Bravo Hypotoad you have stolen my life from my once again!
I believe nobody uses it should have said no PS2 games use it (or atleast very very few, FFX is the one exception that I know of)
Well yea, it still cost that if you want to own land or be able to build outside of a specific free sandbox (ie you can't sell your creations but materials are cheap or maybe free.. I havn't tried yet)
Would be interesting to see what happends to land value when real teleportation or atleast very fast very cheap travel is invented. California prices will drop for sure.
Seized is a strong word, most can do repairs on your property if you break the bylaws (such as repainting your pokadots without your permission) then can legally put a lean on your property for the cost of the repairs. Theoretically if your house was worth less than the cost of the repairs they would be seizing your house. This is still better than the lady whos city stole over 1 million for not cutting her grass.
Traitors is a bit of a strong word.
If your talking about the current system of paper ballots its simply a matter of what was avaiable at the time of creation and the unmobility of the average election council to go with unproven new systems. If your refering to things such as diebold I again point to the untechness of the election coucils. Now diebold themselves, is most likly a combination of lazy employees just trying to earn a buck.... and TRAITORS!
They said available in the equatorial zone. Actually these could be benificial in reducing hurricanes. You could also take this in the same manor as wind power, if you covered the earth in wind power generation facilities it would seriously screw up our weather, but a small single facility will do little.
Actually I decided to look up more info on Second Life, first of all it cost nothing for a single account. You even get a small allowance of virtual money weekly with that account. You can turn real money into virtual money and virtual money into real money easily. (with a transaction fee of course). The way SL works it you can buy land from the game maker and you can create your own items and program them as you wish, then sell infinate copies of this item. Its kinda like a MUSH with a real economy if you ever played one.
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I've never tried second life, and really don't get why people spend so much money on it. Is something wrong with me?
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Yes, but we were talking environment impact originally.
True, somewhere in my quick research I stumbed onto a carbon emissions that shows that the carbon emissions are about equal to your average car, on a per passenger basis, this would indicate.. atleast to me that assuming carbon emissions appoximates energy used, this gas is 3 times as dense if 100 mpg = less than 30 mpg of regualar gas.
No because I'm rating milage PER passenger. Meaning in actuallity its getting 1/3 mile per gallon, but its also carrying 300 passengers. if each person drove themselves the same milage they would have to get 100 miles to the gallon to use as much gasoline.