I love the assumption that the whole world has a DMCA just because you do...
The DMCA was just the U.S. enactment of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which was also enacted in Australia in 2007. So, yes, the world DOES, in fact, have a DMCA (or at least a good portion of the world).
The new "third gen" dashboard UI is a big step back from the previous one. It's not just the sheer quantity of advertising, but also the irritation and number of navigations involved in trying to get to actual game content
I would like to second that, and add that the Netflix app on the 360 has went from one of the best out there to one of the most annoying. It's now a lot harder to move to specific episodes of the TV show and that new autoplay shit is the spawn of Satan.
I imagine that a well-trained million man army armed with AK-47's would fare pretty damned well against 35,000 U.S. troops armed with M-16's, even factoring in air support.
When 35 nuclear cruise missiles fired from off-shore strike without North Korea receiving any warning, North Korea won't be able to do *ANYTHING* - they'll be gone.
So would a good swath of South Korea and China. Or do you think fallout respects national borders?
If you're really pro-immigrant, then you would want them coming here as free men and women, not as indentured servants. These immigrants aren't being offered a leg up, they're being used and exploited.
The great thing about it is that once you artificially drive down wages with H1B's, then you get to advertise more fake jobs for those low wages. And when you don't get enough applicants, you complain that you need even *MORE* H1B visas, driving down wages even more. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that one of the the reasons MS pushed the Xbox announcement back to May instead of April was because of this controversy, or to learn that there is a serious internal debate going on right now there over whether they should really go forward with the always-on requirement (their original plan) or to abandon it in light of this controversy and Sony's distancing themselves from the requirement on the PS4.
Only after they get in line behind the FBI, NSA, DHS, any bored state cop, any bored local cop, any corporation that feels like it, your ISP, etc.
But dare to be a private non-corporation-affiliated citizen and we'll thrown your ass in jail forever for even accessing information public information, you terrorist motherfucker!!
NK is the subject of a lot of Western propaganda. As such, you usually only hear the bad stuff about them. Any tech progress they've made would never be reported in the Western press, of course. So I suspect they're a lot more technologically advanced than most of us realize. It was the same way with the USSR in the 50's. One of the reasons a lot of Americans were so shocked by Sputnik was that they had been hearing for years that the USSR was all gulags and poverty, and had no idea that they were so technologically advanced in astronautics.
While life in NK is no-doubt pretty shitty for the average citizen, they have engineers and programmers just like everyone else (many of whom have probably studied in China and the West).
While google do this and I'm sure are very good at it, it's not Google's invention and it's certainly not new.
To me Google sounds like a nightmarish place to work. It's my understanding that most of those perks they provide aren't designed to make you happier, they're designed to keep you at work 24/7. They want to make the campus a "home away from home" precisely so you'll never go home. Combine that with the idea of working out in the open, with no personal space to call your own, and it all sounds very Orwellian to me.
I used to work at a place like that. Every morning, everyone had to get together and recite the company's mission statement. Groupthink and the echo chamber reigned supreme, and everyone was expected to be a glassy eyed member of the cult, with no disagreement or debate tolerated. Got out of there as fast as I could (lucky for me, because they folded not long after that). Life in an isolated bubble is no way to live, and no way to develop good product either (since the bubble can become a real reality distortion field too).
It probably makes perfect sense if your entire life is lived on the Facebook campus and all you hear all day is the echo chamber of cheerleading about how vital Facebook is. It also makes perfect sense when you've had an IPO and now have to throw anything and everything at the wall to show your shareholders that you're doing SOMETHING to make their overinflated stock purchases worthwhile.
If it will keep me up to date on the latest urban legends, Barak Obama conspiracy theories, and uneducated ramblings of all my dumbass high school buddies, how could I *not* buy one?!?
No only that, but it seems like everyone is either selling their company to them or working for them. I realize that companies go under and people need work, but if they end up owning all the decent IP, there is going to be nowhere else to turn BUT to buy from EA.
His most notorious crush was on Ingrid Bergman. He was constantly comparing other actresses to her. And a lot of people (me included) think that the reason he savaged "Blue Velvet" was because he thought Lynch mistreated Isabella Rossellini (Bergman's daughter) by -gasp- portraying her as a mess instead of an idol.
No, *Current gen* consoles are dying--because they're showing their age and because this console generation lasted way longer than it should have. I suspect when the next gen comes along, we'll see a resurgence, followed by the inevitable predictions that PC gaming is dieing again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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I love the assumption that the whole world has a DMCA just because you do...
The DMCA was just the U.S. enactment of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which was also enacted in Australia in 2007. So, yes, the world DOES, in fact, have a DMCA (or at least a good portion of the world).
The new "third gen" dashboard UI is a big step back from the previous one. It's not just the sheer quantity of advertising, but also the irritation and number of navigations involved in trying to get to actual game content
I would like to second that, and add that the Netflix app on the 360 has went from one of the best out there to one of the most annoying. It's now a lot harder to move to specific episodes of the TV show and that new autoplay shit is the spawn of Satan.
Oh, and GameFly has an all you can eat PC game rental included with their subscriptions too.
Just out of curiosity I went over there to call your bluff. First game I searched for:
Rent Bioshock Infinite for Xbox 360
Rent Bioshock Infinite for PS3
Buy Bioshock Infinite for PC
Looks like the good folks at 2K games didn't get your memo.
Bet he still regrets missing all those dental appointments.
I imagine that a well-trained million man army armed with AK-47's would fare pretty damned well against 35,000 U.S. troops armed with M-16's, even factoring in air support.
When 35 nuclear cruise missiles fired from off-shore strike without North Korea receiving any warning, North Korea won't be able to do *ANYTHING* - they'll be gone.
So would a good swath of South Korea and China. Or do you think fallout respects national borders?
May 21st should be an interesting day for console gamers.
If you're really pro-immigrant, then you would want them coming here as free men and women, not as indentured servants. These immigrants aren't being offered a leg up, they're being used and exploited.
The great thing about it is that once you artificially drive down wages with H1B's, then you get to advertise more fake jobs for those low wages. And when you don't get enough applicants, you complain that you need even *MORE* H1B visas, driving down wages even more. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
The slavery comparison is unfair. Slaves couldn't be threatened with deportation.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that one of the the reasons MS pushed the Xbox announcement back to May instead of April was because of this controversy, or to learn that there is a serious internal debate going on right now there over whether they should really go forward with the always-on requirement (their original plan) or to abandon it in light of this controversy and Sony's distancing themselves from the requirement on the PS4.
The IRS gonna read yo' mail!!!
Only after they get in line behind the FBI, NSA, DHS, any bored state cop, any bored local cop, any corporation that feels like it, your ISP, etc.
But dare to be a private non-corporation-affiliated citizen and we'll thrown your ass in jail forever for even accessing information public information, you terrorist motherfucker!!
Nobody in NK could even imagine how something like this works
A lot of South Korean banks would beg to differ.
NK is the subject of a lot of Western propaganda. As such, you usually only hear the bad stuff about them. Any tech progress they've made would never be reported in the Western press, of course. So I suspect they're a lot more technologically advanced than most of us realize. It was the same way with the USSR in the 50's. One of the reasons a lot of Americans were so shocked by Sputnik was that they had been hearing for years that the USSR was all gulags and poverty, and had no idea that they were so technologically advanced in astronautics.
While life in NK is no-doubt pretty shitty for the average citizen, they have engineers and programmers just like everyone else (many of whom have probably studied in China and the West).
While google do this and I'm sure are very good at it, it's not Google's invention and it's certainly not new.
To me Google sounds like a nightmarish place to work. It's my understanding that most of those perks they provide aren't designed to make you happier, they're designed to keep you at work 24/7. They want to make the campus a "home away from home" precisely so you'll never go home. Combine that with the idea of working out in the open, with no personal space to call your own, and it all sounds very Orwellian to me. I used to work at a place like that. Every morning, everyone had to get together and recite the company's mission statement. Groupthink and the echo chamber reigned supreme, and everyone was expected to be a glassy eyed member of the cult, with no disagreement or debate tolerated. Got out of there as fast as I could (lucky for me, because they folded not long after that). Life in an isolated bubble is no way to live, and no way to develop good product either (since the bubble can become a real reality distortion field too).
Tell me more of this "outside" you speak of.
It probably makes perfect sense if your entire life is lived on the Facebook campus and all you hear all day is the echo chamber of cheerleading about how vital Facebook is. It also makes perfect sense when you've had an IPO and now have to throw anything and everything at the wall to show your shareholders that you're doing SOMETHING to make their overinflated stock purchases worthwhile.
If it will keep me up to date on the latest urban legends, Barak Obama conspiracy theories, and uneducated ramblings of all my dumbass high school buddies, how could I *not* buy one?!?
Problem solved!
Don't knock ScFy. This means that the crew can do battle with Gatorpiranhasaurus!
No only that, but it seems like everyone is either selling their company to them or working for them. I realize that companies go under and people need work, but if they end up owning all the decent IP, there is going to be nowhere else to turn BUT to buy from EA.
Hey, if we're just speculating, why stop at microbes?
His most notorious crush was on Ingrid Bergman. He was constantly comparing other actresses to her. And a lot of people (me included) think that the reason he savaged "Blue Velvet" was because he thought Lynch mistreated Isabella Rossellini (Bergman's daughter) by -gasp- portraying her as a mess instead of an idol.
Consoles are dying.
No, *Current gen* consoles are dying--because they're showing their age and because this console generation lasted way longer than it should have. I suspect when the next gen comes along, we'll see a resurgence, followed by the inevitable predictions that PC gaming is dieing again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I hear the voice of the video store clerk from Family Guy. To each his own, I guess.