That's because you become part of the piracy statistic, as they don't consider the fact that people just aren't buying their music. Every unsold album, in their eyes, was an album that was downloaded, and is thus used by them as further justification for their heavy-handed tactics.
The difference is, one is an right explicitly recognized by the Constitution. The other is not (although some schools of thought would argue it to be an implicit right, but that's not what I'm getting at here). Thus, the hurdle to limiting gun rights is far steeper in current legislative practice (although not as steep as it should be, IMO - when you can nullify parts of the Constitution without an amendment to the same, there is a problem).
If the Constitution (either originally or via amendment) recognized an explicit right to own and drive a car, then a drivers license would be far more tenuous (however, since we do recognize that there can still be limits, a speed limit would not).
Just remember, when you (individual or government) can take from the rich simply because their rich, then you can also take from the poor.
Why is there a large anti-freedom and anti-private movement in the US and world nowadays? First it's communal ownership of business, then it's communal ownership of private property, and pretty soon we are living in a communist country.
That's the only reason I can come up with that we in the US still allow software patents that are non-obvious. I can't wait until these assholes see the error of their ways and use some common sense in such matters. Unfortunately, I feel that, by the time that occurs, it'll be too late for reasonable reform. Much like the rest of the political sphere, unfortunately.
For someone who care as much as I do about what technology can offer, it's hard not to get depressed. Thank God for cannabis.
Windows 7 x64. I do like the DirectWrite rendering better than the GDI rendering, but both of them suck in comparison to unhinted fonts.
Yes, I have full acceleration enabled in Firefox. I even dug in and disabled the option for rendering certain fonts and sizes with GDI regardless of whether acceleration is being used, with the exception of a very few fonts like Segoe UI (which are designed to be hinted, admittedly). All I really want is the option, so that despite the differences in letter spacing, people can choose whichever they find easier to read. GDI and DirectWrite just look too sharp-edged to me.
I know Linux has much more configuration in that regard, but I actually prefer Windows 7 as MS has made great strides in security and stability since XP, and I actually really like the whole Aero style of things. Plus the Windows 7 taskbar and Start menu kicks major ass IMO:)
Why? Because it's the only browser that doesn't use Microsoft's screwy font rendering. I know I could run gdi++ to get that system wide, but I prefer hooking OS calls as little as necessary. DirectWrite rendering is better due to subpixel glyph positioning, but it's still too aggressive in hammering the glyphs to the pixel grid for my taste.
Yes, I put up with the other Safari annoyances because the me, the most important function of a web browser is displaying comfortably-readable text, and for me Apple's algorithm wins out big over Microsoft's. Even on a 109dpi screen, Safari is easier on my eyes. Looking forward to high-DPI screens, when I hope that hinted rendering will eventually die out as screen resolution approaches that of the printed page.
Firefox has gotten a lot better over the years, however. Been running Nightly since right around the time when they changed their development schedule, and I'm happy with how the performance and memory usage has improved over that time. If they'd offer options to disable hinted fonts (even if it caused a slight performance hit due to not using accelerated font rendering), I'd switch back completely.
Oh, hey, I also got word from a quality source that the post I'm replying to was written by a goat-fucking man suffering from micropenis and gynecomastia. How do you like that goatass?
You're leaving out the actual systems, and the fact that many of the games are sealed (which is a huge price boost). I'd say that $164 per game on average is a steal, considering the rarity of some of the stuff the guy had.
The correct answer is somewhere in the middle. For years, emulation was barely accurate enough to run the most popular games. Even on somewhat newer systems like the SNES, there have been games that have only recently been properly and accurately emulated. Until an emulator for a given system reaches, and surpasses, that sort of "uncanny valley" to appropriate terminology, then the real hardware will always be superior no matter how many addon features the emulator has.
Plus, for tile-based systems prior to the introduction of hardware 3D, rendering to "nearly any resolution" is a useless feature as there is no increase in quality, just bigger pixels. The systems output 240 lines of discrete rasters, which will always be limited to those 240 lines (unless you go the EmuDX route which will most likely result in shitty quality as it takes much more skill to redraw existing 8-bit assets in 4x resolution and 32bpp).
This isn't so cut and dry as with the whole "high-end audio cable" bullshit. Sometimes, the authentic hardware is superior. Other times, the emulator is superior. It depends on the quality of the emulator.
And in the case of the PS2 when it becomes "classic" instead of merely "last-gen", there's always softmods requiring no hardware hacking. Also in existence for the original Xbox and not sure about any other systems as those two are the main ones I'd care about going forward that aren't truly "classic" or even "vintage" at this point, of which those are pretty much already covered with accurate emulators and hardware solutions that also require no hardware hacking.
Windows PCs are used by pirates to play single-player and some multiplayer games without paying. Should Blizzard attempt to halt the distribution of Windows?
Sometimes freedom is not cheap. Would you rather buy a cheap router with this onerous shit, or roll your own, paying a bit more in the process, to end up with a device that you fully control?
That means bupkus, because one day they will no longer be around and history will be all that's left. I'm not talking in 10 or 20 years, I'm talking in 50 to 100.
It sure seems like it with the incessant push to take physical, tangible games out of people's hands and replace them with ephemeral bits that are either downloaded (through a gate that others control, and thus revokable) or streamed (where you never see the actual game code at all, and thus once again revokable). When there aren't physical games for people to own and resell onto others, then one day future generations will see video games like current ones do the majority of the DuMont network's TV programming - not at all, as it won't exist in any form.
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That's because you become part of the piracy statistic, as they don't consider the fact that people just aren't buying their music. Every unsold album, in their eyes, was an album that was downloaded, and is thus used by them as further justification for their heavy-handed tactics.
It tells me that there are too few moderation options on /.
The difference is, one is an right explicitly recognized by the Constitution. The other is not (although some schools of thought would argue it to be an implicit right, but that's not what I'm getting at here). Thus, the hurdle to limiting gun rights is far steeper in current legislative practice (although not as steep as it should be, IMO - when you can nullify parts of the Constitution without an amendment to the same, there is a problem).
If the Constitution (either originally or via amendment) recognized an explicit right to own and drive a car, then a drivers license would be far more tenuous (however, since we do recognize that there can still be limits, a speed limit would not).
So in other words, the GP was correct :P
Simple. They'll wait for your device to break and offer you a replacement phone with the update applied.
"wealth inequality"
So nobody should ever have more money than anyone else?
Just remember, when you (individual or government) can take from the rich simply because their rich, then you can also take from the poor.
Why is there a large anti-freedom and anti-private movement in the US and world nowadays? First it's communal ownership of business, then it's communal ownership of private property, and pretty soon we are living in a communist country.
Why do you hate freedom?
That's the only reason I can come up with that we in the US still allow software patents that are non-obvious. I can't wait until these assholes see the error of their ways and use some common sense in such matters. Unfortunately, I feel that, by the time that occurs, it'll be too late for reasonable reform. Much like the rest of the political sphere, unfortunately.
For someone who care as much as I do about what technology can offer, it's hard not to get depressed. Thank God for cannabis.
Not sure about France, but for the US you should look up "shopkeeper's privilege".
Windows 7 x64. I do like the DirectWrite rendering better than the GDI rendering, but both of them suck in comparison to unhinted fonts.
Yes, I have full acceleration enabled in Firefox. I even dug in and disabled the option for rendering certain fonts and sizes with GDI regardless of whether acceleration is being used, with the exception of a very few fonts like Segoe UI (which are designed to be hinted, admittedly). All I really want is the option, so that despite the differences in letter spacing, people can choose whichever they find easier to read. GDI and DirectWrite just look too sharp-edged to me.
I know Linux has much more configuration in that regard, but I actually prefer Windows 7 as MS has made great strides in security and stability since XP, and I actually really like the whole Aero style of things. Plus the Windows 7 taskbar and Start menu kicks major ass IMO :)
Why? Because it's the only browser that doesn't use Microsoft's screwy font rendering. I know I could run gdi++ to get that system wide, but I prefer hooking OS calls as little as necessary. DirectWrite rendering is better due to subpixel glyph positioning, but it's still too aggressive in hammering the glyphs to the pixel grid for my taste.
Yes, I put up with the other Safari annoyances because the me, the most important function of a web browser is displaying comfortably-readable text, and for me Apple's algorithm wins out big over Microsoft's. Even on a 109dpi screen, Safari is easier on my eyes. Looking forward to high-DPI screens, when I hope that hinted rendering will eventually die out as screen resolution approaches that of the printed page.
Firefox has gotten a lot better over the years, however. Been running Nightly since right around the time when they changed their development schedule, and I'm happy with how the performance and memory usage has improved over that time. If they'd offer options to disable hinted fonts (even if it caused a slight performance hit due to not using accelerated font rendering), I'd switch back completely.
Obama judges people by how their face looks?
Foul! Unnecessary verbal roughness with the phrase "Pee Tardier"
Automatic touchdown for opposing team.
No, forcing ALL lookups to resolve to a server that gives cleaning instructions and tools would have been better.
[citation needed]
Oh, hey, I also got word from a quality source that the post I'm replying to was written by a goat-fucking man suffering from micropenis and gynecomastia. How do you like that goatass?
You're leaving out the actual systems, and the fact that many of the games are sealed (which is a huge price boost). I'd say that $164 per game on average is a steal, considering the rarity of some of the stuff the guy had.
The correct answer is somewhere in the middle. For years, emulation was barely accurate enough to run the most popular games. Even on somewhat newer systems like the SNES, there have been games that have only recently been properly and accurately emulated. Until an emulator for a given system reaches, and surpasses, that sort of "uncanny valley" to appropriate terminology, then the real hardware will always be superior no matter how many addon features the emulator has.
Plus, for tile-based systems prior to the introduction of hardware 3D, rendering to "nearly any resolution" is a useless feature as there is no increase in quality, just bigger pixels. The systems output 240 lines of discrete rasters, which will always be limited to those 240 lines (unless you go the EmuDX route which will most likely result in shitty quality as it takes much more skill to redraw existing 8-bit assets in 4x resolution and 32bpp).
This isn't so cut and dry as with the whole "high-end audio cable" bullshit. Sometimes, the authentic hardware is superior. Other times, the emulator is superior. It depends on the quality of the emulator.
And in the case of the PS2 when it becomes "classic" instead of merely "last-gen", there's always softmods requiring no hardware hacking. Also in existence for the original Xbox and not sure about any other systems as those two are the main ones I'd care about going forward that aren't truly "classic" or even "vintage" at this point, of which those are pretty much already covered with accurate emulators and hardware solutions that also require no hardware hacking.
Windows PCs are used by pirates to play single-player and some multiplayer games without paying. Should Blizzard attempt to halt the distribution of Windows?
Sometimes freedom is not cheap. Would you rather buy a cheap router with this onerous shit, or roll your own, paying a bit more in the process, to end up with a device that you fully control?
I wasn't nitpicking language. I was making a joke about Ballmer throwing chairs. STFU and go on.
That means bupkus, because one day they will no longer be around and history will be all that's left. I'm not talking in 10 or 20 years, I'm talking in 50 to 100.
It sure seems like it with the incessant push to take physical, tangible games out of people's hands and replace them with ephemeral bits that are either downloaded (through a gate that others control, and thus revokable) or streamed (where you never see the actual game code at all, and thus once again revokable). When there aren't physical games for people to own and resell onto others, then one day future generations will see video games like current ones do the majority of the DuMont network's TV programming - not at all, as it won't exist in any form.
I refute your argument by identifying it as the "one true Scotsman" fallacy.
Ok. Now you learn that the wording was slightly wrong and instead, Steve Ballmer will throw a chair AT your purchase.