No doubt. Since when has porn been sexuality? Since when has sexuality had anything to do with Deaus Ex?
E3 is an excuse for a bunch of little boys to get together and missapriopriate money that should be spent on advertising and game development on stroking their, well, egos. As the Salon article said hiring strippers sure doesn't sell games or build brands.
As if people haven't hacked their own drivers or made proxies to do this already. If Asus had stuck it out so that everyone could have this then developers would have been forced to write decent code that doesn't send redundant information to the clients and stopped all cheating. As it is, it just means that the people that want to cheat will be able to and the developers get to sit on their hands and do nothing. Good for developers, bad for players.
Maybe some people don't find humour in death threats. When did life become so black that murder is supposed to be funny and death threats a joke? You watch too much TV and play too many violent video games.
And what is most funny is you railing aganist taking things out of context and how the jury came up with bad conclusions on snippets of conversation when that is exactly what you're basing your judgement on. Snippets taken out of context of the courtcase. Guess you think you're smarter than the judge, the defendant's lawyer, the defendant, and the jury put together.
1/4th the memory (1/8th of the new version) of the iPaq for the same price, and I see Sony isn't brave enough to say how underpowered their CPU is. Memory sticks also cost a lot more than cf memory.:( It's basically a $300 machine with a $200 brand name. Hey, it's a Playstation 2! Oh wait, the Playstation 2 doesn't take memory sticks. Never mind.
I find the mouse is excellent for this sort of thing. However, I have a Logitech Mouseman which fits my hand perfectly and I have very high sensitivity set and acceleration turned on. A gesture for me means moving my mouse within an area no bigger than about 1/4" x 1/4". Most people have their mouse sensitivity set way too low.
The only better device would be a 3D glove since you could do 3D motions, which gives a much larger domain for your gestures to be in, probably making it both easier to remember them and less likely you'll mess them up. But don't sneeze or you may delete you root directory.
BTW, Black and White sucks. A whole 5 levels, and WAY too much wood required to do anything. If I wanted to do the same task over and over and over again for hours on end I'd get a job in a factory and get paid for it. And how do you become evil? I taught my creature to eat people, I destroy entire villages, I set people on fire, fling them into mountains, sacrifice 'em all over the place, starve them to death and I'm a GOOD God? They got some good weed down at Lionhead, uh-huh.
And it's not piracy if you (o).
Woohoo! Now we can call musicians who use (c) evil bastards just like we call programers who don't GNU away their work!
So, does this mean it's okay for, say someone else to release:
Billy Bob - Spoon Clapping(o).mp3
Then I can release:
Billy Bob - Some Song I Wrote Instead of BB.mp3
And pretend to be Billy Bob, or will Billy Bob have to...
Billy Bob(tm) - Spoon Clapping(o).mp3
And when is someone going to figure out that to protect people from Windoze XP hosing mp3 they have to...
Billy Bob(tm) - Spoon Clapping(o).mp3+(c):P Y'all sux0r.
I've seen tin box Quake 3 Arena (limited edition) Linux version on the shelf still at a discount. The demand for Linux games just isn't there. Sure there may be lots of servers running linux ports, but the clients are all Windoze.
Hmm. I thought banner ads an astounding success. 0.3% clickthrough is AMAZING! It's the old fashion ads that are the abysmal failure, the fact is the advertisers don't know it because they can't count clickthrough. Of the maybe 50 magazines I read a year, with (being generous) 100 ads in them (Wired has that many before you get to the table of contents!) thats 5000 ads a year I utterly and totally ignore. If they were convient banner ads, I'd have clicked on a few of them!
TV? LOL! Hit the fastforward button, surf the net, talk, flip back to the videogame, stare off into space, clean a dish, anything but watch the moronic drivel they call commercials. I've counted, it takes me seeing a commercial at LEAST 10 times before I even know what the product is, and forget about brand name recognition. And you think a Coke commercial will make me drink more? Forget it. I mean, theres this commercial with "Who Let The Dogs Out." I'm not sure if they're selling CD's, Frisbees, Dogs or what, but I know I've 'seen' it dozens of times. The only time I pay any attention to a commercial is if it's on http://www.adcritic.com
Radio? Okay, captive audience, it's not really fair, like what else am I supposed to do? Pay attention to the ROAD? Bah! I have to pay attention to them because we don't have enough radio stations to switch to around here, but I honestly forget anything I hear in an ad in under 0.5 seconds, and it's never sold me anything or diverted my course.
Unlike outdated media, I've actually clicked on banner ads, and once or twice I even downloaded something. Thats a smashing success for an industry so stupid that it regularly portrays the users of the products they're pimping as idiots and expects you to buy the product. Lets endorse this product with someone that makes Jerry Lewis look normal!
Something *IS* taken from the creator when information is copied without permission. The right to give something to only those people who the creator wants to have it. If I hold a conversation with someone on the phone I don't want the government listening in (no one is hurt, it's a copy, right?)
Maybe you don't want this sort of freedom or right. But *I* do.
Ask yourself how hard it would be to replace the rock had it been stolen instead of replicated. There are probably rocks within a few yards that would be perfect replacements. The issue is not removing something. The issue is doing something you know you shouldn't with something that is only available because you won't.
You are a child. The cookies in the cookie jar have such a small replacement value as to be negligable should you take them. They are there, but your parent says you are not to take them.
If you take a rock and place it in your house, and someone takes it, that isn't okay.
If you take a rock and place it on a hill, and someone takes it, that is okay.
If you take a rock and place it on a hill, with a rope around it saying that people may look but not take the rock, and someone takes it, is that okay? This law says it isn't. If someone takes your sign and rope down so that others don't know they may not take the rock, this law says that isn't okay either.
If the law seems draconian, it's only because it needs to be. Apparently the effort of breaking into someone's home and stealing their possessions is enough to stop a lot of evil, criminally minded people from actually commiting crime. However the ease of copying media, which the people who made it have only given out on the condition that it not be copied, has shown that a huge percentage of people are actually quite willing to lie cheat and steal. With such a huge number of criminals it takes drastic measure to deal with.
The fact is that companies and people can release something without the condition you don't distribute it. If you don't release it like that and you don't like the conditions attached on the media, DON'T BUY IT and DON'T STEAL IT. Very simple. There is plenty of free software and music out there, lots of free movies and the like. Why you have to go out of your way to steal works which people DON'T want out in the public is beyond me.
Geez people, this is a good thing, but the way you complain. What it means is that if you make something and you give or sell it to someone on the condition they don't copy and distribute it, there is law to enforce this implicit contract. If you buy a CD or game you are agreeing not to copy and distribute it. If you do, you are not only a thieving bastard, but a liar. What these kinds of laws are effectivly enforcing is people telling the truth. This is a good thing. A very good thing. You don't want a society based on lying.
The simple fact is that if you don't like it, don't frigging buy the thing. What people are mostly complaining about here is entertainment. No one is holding a gun to your head to make you buy Jar-Jar Binks. And just because George Lucas who spent hundereds of millions of dollars to make the thing doesn't want to give it away doesn't make him or the law a bad thing. It makes you a bad person for lying to him saying you won't copy and distribute it, and then doing just that. If someone wants to give away something they've spent their time and money on, good for them, but if someone won't give you something they made unless you agree not to copy and give it away and you don't like that condition, don't buy it, and don't distribute it, and don't steal it.
On the other side of the coin, this law may also be giving people a lot of freedom of speech and privacy protection. But go on, bitch more about how big nasty corporations and their government flunkys that give you all this great media and try to stop people from lying and stealing are actually hurting you.
So, a lot of stuff here that can be picked apart, but to hit the highlights. In order to go along with this you have to ignore the fact that corporations are directed by humans and think of them as inhuman entities bent on their own ends. This might work when the robots take over, but it doesn't work with the megacorps. You also have to accept the fact that all corporations work together and that if Corp A makes poison babyfood, CNN and whoever else will cover it up. This assumes journalists have been subverted by their corps and aren't humans either.
The blade of the jaunt is P2P, and that copying something someone doesn't want you to and only gave to you under the condition that you don't (again, another human and not an evil entity) is okay. In other words it's okay to lie that you won't copy something (it's implicit in buying music.) This is particularly funny after the author perscribes townhall meetings to get to the truth since (according to the author) journo corps will lie to you.
Sure the megacorps might do some nasty stuff, but don't overestimate human decencany and think of corps as non-humans. It's still a human doing the nastieness. And the journos might be lieing and blathering, but they're not doing it from some conspiracy or corp kickback (generally) but simply from inability to do their job well. And just because the corps lie to you doesn't make it okay for you to lie to them.:P
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No doubt. Since when has porn been sexuality? Since when has sexuality had anything to do with Deaus Ex?
E3 is an excuse for a bunch of little boys to get together and missapriopriate money that should be spent on advertising and game development on stroking their, well, egos. As the Salon article said hiring strippers sure doesn't sell games or build brands.
As if people haven't hacked their own drivers or made proxies to do this already. If Asus had stuck it out so that everyone could have this then developers would have been forced to write decent code that doesn't send redundant information to the clients and stopped all cheating. As it is, it just means that the people that want to cheat will be able to and the developers get to sit on their hands and do nothing. Good for developers, bad for players.
Maybe some people don't find humour in death threats. When did life become so black that murder is supposed to be funny and death threats a joke? You watch too much TV and play too many violent video games. And what is most funny is you railing aganist taking things out of context and how the jury came up with bad conclusions on snippets of conversation when that is exactly what you're basing your judgement on. Snippets taken out of context of the courtcase. Guess you think you're smarter than the judge, the defendant's lawyer, the defendant, and the jury put together.
1/4th the memory (1/8th of the new version) of the iPaq for the same price, and I see Sony isn't brave enough to say how underpowered their CPU is. Memory sticks also cost a lot more than cf memory. :( It's basically a $300 machine with a $200 brand name. Hey, it's a Playstation 2! Oh wait, the Playstation 2 doesn't take memory sticks. Never mind.
I find the mouse is excellent for this sort of thing. However, I have a Logitech Mouseman which fits my hand perfectly and I have very high sensitivity set and acceleration turned on. A gesture for me means moving my mouse within an area no bigger than about 1/4" x 1/4". Most people have their mouse sensitivity set way too low.
The only better device would be a 3D glove since you could do 3D motions, which gives a much larger domain for your gestures to be in, probably making it both easier to remember them and less likely you'll mess them up. But don't sneeze or you may delete you root directory.
BTW, Black and White sucks. A whole 5 levels, and WAY too much wood required to do anything. If I wanted to do the same task over and over and over again for hours on end I'd get a job in a factory and get paid for it. And how do you become evil? I taught my creature to eat people, I destroy entire villages, I set people on fire, fling them into mountains, sacrifice 'em all over the place, starve them to death and I'm a GOOD God? They got some good weed down at Lionhead, uh-huh.
And it's not piracy if you (o). Woohoo! Now we can call musicians who use (c) evil bastards just like we call programers who don't GNU away their work! So, does this mean it's okay for, say someone else to release: Billy Bob - Spoon Clapping(o).mp3 Then I can release: Billy Bob - Some Song I Wrote Instead of BB.mp3 And pretend to be Billy Bob, or will Billy Bob have to... Billy Bob(tm) - Spoon Clapping(o).mp3 And when is someone going to figure out that to protect people from Windoze XP hosing mp3 they have to... Billy Bob(tm) - Spoon Clapping(o).mp3+(c) :P Y'all sux0r.
I've seen tin box Quake 3 Arena (limited edition) Linux version on the shelf still at a discount. The demand for Linux games just isn't there. Sure there may be lots of servers running linux ports, but the clients are all Windoze.
Hmm. I thought banner ads an astounding success. 0.3% clickthrough is AMAZING! It's the old fashion ads that are the abysmal failure, the fact is the advertisers don't know it because they can't count clickthrough. Of the maybe 50 magazines I read a year, with (being generous) 100 ads in them (Wired has that many before you get to the table of contents!) thats 5000 ads a year I utterly and totally ignore. If they were convient banner ads, I'd have clicked on a few of them!
TV? LOL! Hit the fastforward button, surf the net, talk, flip back to the videogame, stare off into space, clean a dish, anything but watch the moronic drivel they call commercials. I've counted, it takes me seeing a commercial at LEAST 10 times before I even know what the product is, and forget about brand name recognition. And you think a Coke commercial will make me drink more? Forget it. I mean, theres this commercial with "Who Let The Dogs Out." I'm not sure if they're selling CD's, Frisbees, Dogs or what, but I know I've 'seen' it dozens of times. The only time I pay any attention to a commercial is if it's on http://www.adcritic.com
Radio? Okay, captive audience, it's not really fair, like what else am I supposed to do? Pay attention to the ROAD? Bah! I have to pay attention to them because we don't have enough radio stations to switch to around here, but I honestly forget anything I hear in an ad in under 0.5 seconds, and it's never sold me anything or diverted my course.
Unlike outdated media, I've actually clicked on banner ads, and once or twice I even downloaded something. Thats a smashing success for an industry so stupid that it regularly portrays the users of the products they're pimping as idiots and expects you to buy the product. Lets endorse this product with someone that makes Jerry Lewis look normal!
Something *IS* taken from the creator when information is copied without permission. The right to give something to only those people who the creator wants to have it. If I hold a conversation with someone on the phone I don't want the government listening in (no one is hurt, it's a copy, right?)
Maybe you don't want this sort of freedom or right. But *I* do.
You don't get it.
Ask yourself how hard it would be to replace the rock had it been stolen instead of replicated. There are probably rocks within a few yards that would be perfect replacements. The issue is not removing something. The issue is doing something you know you shouldn't with something that is only available because you won't.
You are a child. The cookies in the cookie jar have such a small replacement value as to be negligable should you take them. They are there, but your parent says you are not to take them.
Are you a child?
There are laws against lying in advertisments. They're about as well enforced as I imagine this will law will be.
If you take a rock and place it in your house, and someone takes it, that isn't okay.
If you take a rock and place it on a hill, and someone takes it, that is okay.
If you take a rock and place it on a hill, with a rope around it saying that people may look but not take the rock, and someone takes it, is that okay? This law says it isn't. If someone takes your sign and rope down so that others don't know they may not take the rock, this law says that isn't okay either.
m'Okay?
If the law seems draconian, it's only because it needs to be. Apparently the effort of breaking into someone's home and stealing their possessions is enough to stop a lot of evil, criminally minded people from actually commiting crime. However the ease of copying media, which the people who made it have only given out on the condition that it not be copied, has shown that a huge percentage of people are actually quite willing to lie cheat and steal. With such a huge number of criminals it takes drastic measure to deal with. The fact is that companies and people can release something without the condition you don't distribute it. If you don't release it like that and you don't like the conditions attached on the media, DON'T BUY IT and DON'T STEAL IT. Very simple. There is plenty of free software and music out there, lots of free movies and the like. Why you have to go out of your way to steal works which people DON'T want out in the public is beyond me.
Geez people, this is a good thing, but the way you complain. What it means is that if you make something and you give or sell it to someone on the condition they don't copy and distribute it, there is law to enforce this implicit contract. If you buy a CD or game you are agreeing not to copy and distribute it. If you do, you are not only a thieving bastard, but a liar. What these kinds of laws are effectivly enforcing is people telling the truth. This is a good thing. A very good thing. You don't want a society based on lying.
The simple fact is that if you don't like it, don't frigging buy the thing. What people are mostly complaining about here is entertainment. No one is holding a gun to your head to make you buy Jar-Jar Binks. And just because George Lucas who spent hundereds of millions of dollars to make the thing doesn't want to give it away doesn't make him or the law a bad thing. It makes you a bad person for lying to him saying you won't copy and distribute it, and then doing just that. If someone wants to give away something they've spent their time and money on, good for them, but if someone won't give you something they made unless you agree not to copy and give it away and you don't like that condition, don't buy it, and don't distribute it, and don't steal it.
On the other side of the coin, this law may also be giving people a lot of freedom of speech and privacy protection. But go on, bitch more about how big nasty corporations and their government flunkys that give you all this great media and try to stop people from lying and stealing are actually hurting you.
So, a lot of stuff here that can be picked apart, but to hit the highlights. In order to go along with this you have to ignore the fact that corporations are directed by humans and think of them as inhuman entities bent on their own ends. This might work when the robots take over, but it doesn't work with the megacorps. You also have to accept the fact that all corporations work together and that if Corp A makes poison babyfood, CNN and whoever else will cover it up. This assumes journalists have been subverted by their corps and aren't humans either.
:P
The blade of the jaunt is P2P, and that copying something someone doesn't want you to and only gave to you under the condition that you don't (again, another human and not an evil entity) is okay. In other words it's okay to lie that you won't copy something (it's implicit in buying music.) This is particularly funny after the author perscribes townhall meetings to get to the truth since (according to the author) journo corps will lie to you.
Sure the megacorps might do some nasty stuff, but don't overestimate human decencany and think of corps as non-humans. It's still a human doing the nastieness. And the journos might be lieing and blathering, but they're not doing it from some conspiracy or corp kickback (generally) but simply from inability to do their job well. And just because the corps lie to you doesn't make it okay for you to lie to them.