Arguing about WMDs or Liberation or whatever they're telling you is the reason to invade someone this week is as stupid as arguing about microsofts latest OS being marketed as "Faster and more stable than ever before". Those are all marketing. Pure fabrications and lies, nothing else. It doesn't matter which fictional 'side' they came from, because there's no truth in either.
I'm not so sure. I just bought Battlefield 2142 over EAs system, and I ended up with so much less hassle, I couldn't imagine wanting to buy a game at a store instead of on-line. The thing is, if what you want is available on-line, then you don't have to deal with ridiculous vendor markups, you don't have to deal with "Oh, we've only got one copy and we sold it a week ago", you don't have to worry about whether your podunk game store even stocks the game, and if they didn't, rather than wait 2-4 weeks for your game to arrive from a vendor who may or may not fuck up, you've got the game in a couple hours after it downloads.
Of course, I don't usually intend to play a game for more than a couple years, so the increased security is also alright, and if it isn't, I can simply download a cracked version to supplement my legal version.
Consensus building is for politicians. When scientists do it, we end up with places with no science.
The proper answer would be:
"The world is flat!" "The world is roundish." "Let's check by heading into space." "Ok, it's roundish."
Barring that, the proper answer is: "There are at least two schools of thought regarding the shape of the planet; Some people believe that the earth is an oblate spheroid, others believe that the earth is flat."
1) Money spent on drugs isn't spent suing grandmothers who couldn't possibly want to listen to the Eminem they're accused of downloading.
2) The band is the one who actually sang/played the music, giving the appearance, at least, of being the ones responsible for the music.
3) It's more justifyable to continue downloading music while paying *someone* for the work that went on.
That said, I'd rather listen to music by people who don't associate with unfortunate groups like the RIAA. I'd much rather give such people my money as well.
Mono recordings worked just fine for a hundred years, but once stereo became readily available, there was no turning back.
Actually, there aren't a lot of stereo stations, even today. From what I recall, there are a few big networks, but many channels still broadcast mono. Not that it matters, since television sets are effectively mono as well.
So the market should be pushed into arbitrary and expensive upgrades that the customers don't want, by the government?
Couldn't the government be doing something useful, like paying back the federal debt?
Oh yeah, that's what they're doing. Good for them. I reducing tax overhead on outstanding debts so I don't have to give the government as much money for the sheer priviledge of owing someone money. In fact, I much prefer the government spending their time and effort, not to mention my money, on that than on trying to make sure companies are forced by law into implementing expensive shineys.
Don't kid yourself. If the benefit gained by a legal infraction is greater than the potential fines due to being caught, then there is a business case for any crime. Hell, the fact that the RIAA suing random people from evidence which has proven unreliable is legally questionable. They've made a business case for it.
The first step in any discussion about laws with respect to corporations is learning to play by the same rules they do.
I've always gotten the feeling that people who disparaged x86 would have us leapfrogging from one platform to the next every few years, chasing the "Next really cool thing".
That's really nice in theory, but in practice, switching processor architectures every few years is a pain in the ass, as shown by the Apple folks.
Correction: This is what is known as a shitty joke.
For future reference, a good joke would subtly poke fun at the situation or some fundamental truism or commonality among people, not just point out that the word does, in fact, have two different meanings.
If it was "rather clearly" a case of copyright infringement, then every single computer shop and manufacturer on the planet is going to jail for installing Windows XP onto their clients computers.
Drop that 'surgeon' game programmer into a situation designing areodynamics software, or the control software for an aircraft or industrial PLC that absolutely positively must never fail or people could die (and if it does fail it needs to fail in a certain way or more people could die), and see if his 'surgeon' skills are of any use.
My point being, that saying such things is all just ego stroking. It doesn't matter hwere you're programming, there's going to be a pretty substantial learning curve. Every programmer working on something substantial has to learn a lot about what he's working on before he can get started. Gaming is no different than aerospace or industrial process control in this regard.
On the other hand, your post TOTALLY sounds like an ad.:P
"Gee....Do I want to have a well-rounded, versatile education that will help me work in my chosen field, or do I want to learn how to use DirectX 9.0c to draw pixel shaders 3.0 using my Radeon X1600? I want the latter. Look at all those version numbers! Those will surely impress a prospective employer more than the skills neccessary to quickly pick up any API!"
There's money in manufacturers because presumably they want to continue marketing their products, but wouldn't the only thing a manufacturer could possibly do to a person by suing them is force people to stop using said products?
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La I present to you, the Power Destructitron X.
Not terribly impressive to look at, but it uses three different power sources, and I built the thing with my own two hands.
Arguing about WMDs or Liberation or whatever they're telling you is the reason to invade someone this week is as stupid as arguing about microsofts latest OS being marketed as "Faster and more stable than ever before". Those are all marketing. Pure fabrications and lies, nothing else. It doesn't matter which fictional 'side' they came from, because there's no truth in either.
Yeah, TCP/IP never did anything to change how people use their computers.
I'm not so sure. I just bought Battlefield 2142 over EAs system, and I ended up with so much less hassle, I couldn't imagine wanting to buy a game at a store instead of on-line. The thing is, if what you want is available on-line, then you don't have to deal with ridiculous vendor markups, you don't have to deal with "Oh, we've only got one copy and we sold it a week ago", you don't have to worry about whether your podunk game store even stocks the game, and if they didn't, rather than wait 2-4 weeks for your game to arrive from a vendor who may or may not fuck up, you've got the game in a couple hours after it downloads.
Of course, I don't usually intend to play a game for more than a couple years, so the increased security is also alright, and if it isn't, I can simply download a cracked version to supplement my legal version.
CODE OR GTFO!
Why did his monitor breaking kill the rest of his PC?
I sense bullshit.
Making up words is also very innovatorious. You, sir, are a true innovatoriat.
I'd rather vote for the Red Baron, Manfred Frhr von Richthofen.
Consensus building is for politicians. When scientists do it, we end up with places with no science.
The proper answer would be:
"The world is flat!" "The world is roundish." "Let's check by heading into space." "Ok, it's roundish."
Barring that, the proper answer is: "There are at least two schools of thought regarding the shape of the planet; Some people believe that the earth is an oblate spheroid, others believe that the earth is flat."
3 reasons:
1) Money spent on drugs isn't spent suing grandmothers who couldn't possibly want to listen to the Eminem they're accused of downloading.
2) The band is the one who actually sang/played the music, giving the appearance, at least, of being the ones responsible for the music.
3) It's more justifyable to continue downloading music while paying *someone* for the work that went on.
That said, I'd rather listen to music by people who don't associate with unfortunate groups like the RIAA. I'd much rather give such people my money as well.
The CBC is neither "Big Business" nor at all related to the US government.
And the CRTC is the single most oppressive media regulator in the free world.
Rants are fun though, aren't they?
This commercial has 22 seconds?
Mono recordings worked just fine for a hundred years, but once stereo became readily available, there was no turning back.
Actually, there aren't a lot of stereo stations, even today. From what I recall, there are a few big networks, but many channels still broadcast mono. Not that it matters, since television sets are effectively mono as well.
So the market should be pushed into arbitrary and expensive upgrades that the customers don't want, by the government?
Couldn't the government be doing something useful, like paying back the federal debt?
Oh yeah, that's what they're doing. Good for them. I reducing tax overhead on outstanding debts so I don't have to give the government as much money for the sheer priviledge of owing someone money. In fact, I much prefer the government spending their time and effort, not to mention my money, on that than on trying to make sure companies are forced by law into implementing expensive shineys.
Does M/M mean male to male? Am I going to have to point and laugh?
Don't kid yourself. If the benefit gained by a legal infraction is greater than the potential fines due to being caught, then there is a business case for any crime. Hell, the fact that the RIAA suing random people from evidence which has proven unreliable is legally questionable. They've made a business case for it.
The first step in any discussion about laws with respect to corporations is learning to play by the same rules they do.
I've always gotten the feeling that people who disparaged x86 would have us leapfrogging from one platform to the next every few years, chasing the "Next really cool thing".
That's really nice in theory, but in practice, switching processor architectures every few years is a pain in the ass, as shown by the Apple folks.
That decrepit arcitecture is the fasteest consumer hardware platform in existance.
Correction: This is what is known as a shitty joke.
For future reference, a good joke would subtly poke fun at the situation or some fundamental truism or commonality among people, not just point out that the word does, in fact, have two different meanings.
Control systems in particular I'd have to disagree with you on. There's just too much there.
So that being the case, my question is, Why are you in a "Microsoft did X" thread?
I think you just like complaining. It'd be like me running into a church and going "Why are there so many BIBLE THUMPERS in here?"
Except *THAT* would be funny.
If it was "rather clearly" a case of copyright infringement, then every single computer shop and manufacturer on the planet is going to jail for installing Windows XP onto their clients computers.
Drop that 'surgeon' game programmer into a situation designing areodynamics software, or the control software for an aircraft or industrial PLC that absolutely positively must never fail or people could die (and if it does fail it needs to fail in a certain way or more people could die), and see if his 'surgeon' skills are of any use.
:P
My point being, that saying such things is all just ego stroking. It doesn't matter hwere you're programming, there's going to be a pretty substantial learning curve. Every programmer working on something substantial has to learn a lot about what he's working on before he can get started. Gaming is no different than aerospace or industrial process control in this regard.
On the other hand, your post TOTALLY sounds like an ad.
"Gee....Do I want to have a well-rounded, versatile education that will help me work in my chosen field, or do I want to learn how to use DirectX 9.0c to draw pixel shaders 3.0 using my Radeon X1600? I want the latter. Look at all those version numbers! Those will surely impress a prospective employer more than the skills neccessary to quickly pick up any API!"
There's money in manufacturers because presumably they want to continue marketing their products, but wouldn't the only thing a manufacturer could possibly do to a person by suing them is force people to stop using said products?