Well, boo fucking hoo. Welcome to the global marketplace.
It shouldn't matter either. Since the game is already finished (sans translation and localization), for the new publisher there's next to no developement costs to think about. Just add a little marketing into the mix and pump out the DVDs. It's so cheap to do that it should only take a few thousand copies to break even.
The only reason to ban beastiality is health reasons, both yours and the animal's.
I agree with everything else in your post, but not this. The reason to ban beastiality is because the animal is not a consensual partner. You can argue that this isn't the case all you want, but unless your somehow get an animal to read and sign a contract saying that it's OK for you to be intimate with/marry it, it should be illegal.
If gay people go back into their closets, act straight and marries somebody of the opposite sex, they still get those very same benefits. In fact, any marriage, whether it's straight or gay, have consequences for you. So what does the sexual orientation of couples have to do with anything?
And the waiting lists for adoption will increase, but by how much? One percent, maybe? It's not like children-wanting gay couples are a majority in any way. And half of them don't need to adopt anyway, since they are perfectly capable of creating little ones with a tiny artificial insemination.
If you claim this is the reason for your aversion to gay marriages, I won't believe you. There has to be more behind it.
It's more to do with that had we not changed the law back in 1976, Mickey Mouse would have entered the public domain in the mid-80's. That's it.
This one really bothers me. Mickey Mouse would NOT enter public domain, because he is a trademark, NOT copyrighted. The first films would enter public domain, yes, but Disney would still be the only ones allowed to create new Mickey cartoons.
When everyone starts doing it, it becomes a problem. Already the RIAA is acknowledging that the EP is a dying format (due partially to the high relative cost per song of EPs, but largely due to filesharing. Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free?).
EPs should die. Really. They are little more than a commercial for the band you have to pay for, and pay way too much at that. You said it best yourself - why buy a cow? Nobody buys cows, we buy milk bottles.
Easy: illegal parking. Hey everyone does it, why should it be a crime? Why should YOU have to walk an extra block, just because some fireman might need to get to a hydrant to put out a fire to save someone else's life? Laws are there to prevent harm. If 30 million people are using P2P rather than file sharing, at 1 CD per person (conservatively) that makes $600 million in lost sales. That isn't a trivial amount of money.
First, there's one rather big difference between parking spaces and copyrighted works. Parking spaces are a limited resource. That is, if you park somewhere, nobody else can park in that spot. In contrast, if you copy an mp3, you don't take that song away from somebody else. Also, if P2P hadn't existed, do you really believe that each and every one of the 30 million users would buy one or more addidional CDs? I know I wouldn't. Then again, that's because I feel I get much more value for my money through DVDs, and even then I try to buy them at discount prices.
Ah, yes, the will'o'the people; which people precisely? The people who stand to benefit from exploiting the efforts of others through P2P, or those being exploited (by this, I refer to the actual artists, not the RIAA)? If laws were always framed according to the majority's wishes, there would still be seperate seating areas on buses for negros.
The people who stand to benefit from exploiting the efforts of others ARE the RIAA. Why don't we see senators pushing laws that guarantee poor, starving artists a minimum percentage of CD sale incomes? That would do much more for the artists that any p2p fine would ever do. (Because seriously, exactly how much of those fines do you think would go to the artist that has been infringed?)
Put whatever political spin on it you like, this is about your ability to get something for nothing. Making this into a political issue is just a smoke screen to cover the inherent greed of copying over P2P (it isn't sharing, its copying, plain and simple). You are just as greedy as the RIAA.
Why can't it both be about a political issue AND about our greed?
For example, most people would be happy if they could pay no taxes. So what should the government do to please people? If they employed RIAA tactics, they would first increase taxes, to make up for the loss from tax evaders, then they would also make tax evasion, no matter how small, a $100 000 offense, and throw due process in the gutter while they're at it. The alternative, however, would be for the government to reduce taxes, even just a slight bit, in order to please people.
This would be helpful for the RIAA too - reduce the cost of CDs by as little as two to four dollars. I think a move like that would increase record sales way more than any p2p warfare ever could.
Speeding is not a victimless crime. Often it increases the risk of accidents for everybody on the road. So don't try to compare those two, a MP3 never killed anyone.
Practically, it skyrockets. There's no machine in existence that can do this, and the fabled $100000USD machine is still theoretical. Not to mention that finding a specific, forgery-usable collision is quite a bit harder than just finding any old collision. As far as I have seen there are no known collisions in the MD5 keyspace. Feel free to prove me wrong.
You ARE aware that the default settings of that procedure considers 16 equal MSB bits (out of 128!) to be a 'successful' attack? Now, increase that value to 128 to get a REAL collision search, and suddenly the calculation time skyrockets.
(www.cryptool.org is down, but you can download the software from this link.)
If you're cheap, duplicate with checksums are better. If one bit flips in one of the backups, you will easily be able to see which one is the correct one.
You mean, Max Payne? There hasn't really been anything closer to a Future Crew game than that. You can read the FAQ here to learn where their members are now.
You were possibly thinking about Triton, which went on to form Starbreeze Studios. They have released a few games already.
The staggering number leads me to believe they counted downloads of the PC version too (And maybe even the Xbox?), and then suddenly a hundred thousand doesn't seem like that much anymore.
Also, could one of the reasons that people download this game instead of buying it be that people simply can't buy it? I haven't really gone looking, but I think you'd have to visit atleast a few dozen stores before you'd find one that had Mac Halo.
Actually, Kazaa has this retarded way of just hashing a few 300 kbyte blocks of any file, to speed up the hashing process. So it's perfectly possible to have two different files that Kazaa sees as the same file.
Well, if you're first going to carve something into a CD, the underside is the best place to do it. Sure, it might make the CD unreadable, but that can easily be fixed with any CD repair kit out there. Carving on the label side, on the other hand, will give you a nice-looking coaster.
Soo...let me see if I get this right. You attempted to download an operating system kernel from an untrusted p2p source? You should just be glad you didn't get another kind of backdoor action...
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If you could copy a Ferrari without taking it away from the original owner, you should go right ahead.
Your analogy is flawed.
That's why he wants the manufactures to take some responsibility and deliver pre-patched machines, since they already deliver pre-installed ones.
You could always buy an import console to put alongside your domestic model, and use THAT to play import games.
You won't so that? Why not?
Because I already have a console, and a modchip costs a fraction of the sum it would cost to import a new one.
EC is unhappy.
Well, boo fucking hoo. Welcome to the global marketplace.
It shouldn't matter either. Since the game is already finished (sans translation and localization), for the new publisher there's next to no developement costs to think about. Just add a little marketing into the mix and pump out the DVDs. It's so cheap to do that it should only take a few thousand copies to break even.
The only reason to ban beastiality is health reasons, both yours and the animal's.
I agree with everything else in your post, but not this. The reason to ban beastiality is because the animal is not a consensual partner. You can argue that this isn't the case all you want, but unless your somehow get an animal to read and sign a contract saying that it's OK for you to be intimate with/marry it, it should be illegal.
If gay people go back into their closets, act straight and marries somebody of the opposite sex, they still get those very same benefits. In fact, any marriage, whether it's straight or gay, have consequences for you. So what does the sexual orientation of couples have to do with anything?
And the waiting lists for adoption will increase, but by how much? One percent, maybe? It's not like children-wanting gay couples are a majority in any way. And half of them don't need to adopt anyway, since they are perfectly capable of creating little ones with a tiny artificial insemination.
If you claim this is the reason for your aversion to gay marriages, I won't believe you. There has to be more behind it.
It's more to do with that had we not changed the law back in 1976, Mickey Mouse would have entered the public domain in the mid-80's. That's it.
This one really bothers me. Mickey Mouse would NOT enter public domain, because he is a trademark, NOT copyrighted. The first films would enter public domain, yes, but Disney would still be the only ones allowed to create new Mickey cartoons.
When everyone starts doing it, it becomes a problem. Already the RIAA is acknowledging that the EP is a dying format (due partially to the high relative cost per song of EPs, but largely due to filesharing. Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free?).
EPs should die. Really. They are little more than a commercial for the band you have to pay for, and pay way too much at that. You said it best yourself - why buy a cow? Nobody buys cows, we buy milk bottles.
Easy: illegal parking. Hey everyone does it, why should it be a crime? Why should YOU have to walk an extra block, just because some fireman might need to get to a hydrant to put out a fire to save someone else's life? Laws are there to prevent harm. If 30 million people are using P2P rather than file sharing, at 1 CD per person (conservatively) that makes $600 million in lost sales. That isn't a trivial amount of money.
First, there's one rather big difference between parking spaces and copyrighted works. Parking spaces are a limited resource. That is, if you park somewhere, nobody else can park in that spot. In contrast, if you copy an mp3, you don't take that song away from somebody else. Also, if P2P hadn't existed, do you really believe that each and every one of the 30 million users would buy one or more addidional CDs? I know I wouldn't. Then again, that's because I feel I get much more value for my money through DVDs, and even then I try to buy them at discount prices.
Ah, yes, the will'o'the people; which people precisely? The people who stand to benefit from exploiting the efforts of others through P2P, or those being exploited (by this, I refer to the actual artists, not the RIAA)? If laws were always framed according to the majority's wishes, there would still be seperate seating areas on buses for negros.
The people who stand to benefit from exploiting the efforts of others ARE the RIAA. Why don't we see senators pushing laws that guarantee poor, starving artists a minimum percentage of CD sale incomes? That would do much more for the artists that any p2p fine would ever do. (Because seriously, exactly how much of those fines do you think would go to the artist that has been infringed?)
Put whatever political spin on it you like, this is about your ability to get something for nothing. Making this into a political issue is just a smoke screen to cover the inherent greed of copying over P2P (it isn't sharing, its copying, plain and simple). You are just as greedy as the RIAA.
Why can't it both be about a political issue AND about our greed?
For example, most people would be happy if they could pay no taxes. So what should the government do to please people? If they employed RIAA tactics, they would first increase taxes, to make up for the loss from tax evaders, then they would also make tax evasion, no matter how small, a $100 000 offense, and throw due process in the gutter while they're at it.
The alternative, however, would be for the government to reduce taxes, even just a slight bit, in order to please people.
This would be helpful for the RIAA too - reduce the cost of CDs by as little as two to four dollars. I think a move like that would increase record sales way more than any p2p warfare ever could.
Speeding is not a victimless crime. Often it increases the risk of accidents for everybody on the road. So don't try to compare those two, a MP3 never killed anyone.
Practically, it skyrockets. There's no machine in existence that can do this, and the fabled $100000USD machine is still theoretical. Not to mention that finding a specific, forgery-usable collision is quite a bit harder than just finding any old collision. As far as I have seen there are no known collisions in the MD5 keyspace. Feel free to prove me wrong.
You ARE aware that the default settings of that procedure considers 16 equal MSB bits (out of 128!) to be a 'successful' attack? Now, increase that value to 128 to get a REAL collision search, and suddenly the calculation time skyrockets.
(www.cryptool.org is down, but you can download the software from this link.)
24 BITS, not bytes. Your 2880x1200x24 screen takes 10 megabytes, 14 MB if you're using 32bit. That's a bit less than 79MB.
If you're cheap, duplicate with checksums are better. If one bit flips in one of the backups, you will easily be able to see which one is the correct one.
You mean, Max Payne? There hasn't really been anything closer to a Future Crew game than that. You can read the FAQ here to learn where their members are now.
You were possibly thinking about Triton, which went on to form Starbreeze Studios. They have released a few games already.
Right, I am hiding my email because other people will abuse that information.
I am not afraid of the government abusing that information. A big difference.
The government is made of people.
Who verifies that these IPs are really the pawns of RIAA/MPAA? The IP in your logs seem to be just a random dynamic IP.
He was right. Reading a bitmap has NOTHING to do with networking code.
The staggering number leads me to believe they counted downloads of the PC version too (And maybe even the Xbox?), and then suddenly a hundred thousand doesn't seem like that much anymore.
Also, could one of the reasons that people download this game instead of buying it be that people simply can't buy it? I haven't really gone looking, but I think you'd have to visit atleast a few dozen stores before you'd find one that had Mac Halo.
And with DX9 compatible, I mean supporting DX9-like effects like pixel shaders 2.0 and such.
Of course any modern or not-so-modern 3D card will run under DX9, with more or less features.
No wonder - the 9000/9200 cards are NOT meant for serious game playing. They are budget cards that aren't even DX9 compatible.
Damn, beaten by two posts. Congratulations :)
...350 licenses to Linux.
Actually, Kazaa has this retarded way of just hashing a few 300 kbyte blocks of any file, to speed up the hashing process. So it's perfectly possible to have two different files that Kazaa sees as the same file.
Read more here.
Well, if you're first going to carve something into a CD, the underside is the best place to do it. Sure, it might make the CD unreadable, but that can easily be fixed with any CD repair kit out there. Carving on the label side, on the other hand, will give you a nice-looking coaster.
Soo...let me see if I get this right. You attempted to download an operating system kernel from an untrusted p2p source? You should just be glad you didn't get another kind of backdoor action...