On average an American will spend 75 hours this year playing videogames.. eclipsing that of DVD or tape rentals today.
You really can make statistics say anything you want. Nevermind that a movie lasts 2 hours (maybe 4 if you're an Oliver Stone fan), whereas a game is required to supply 50+ hours of gameplay or it's considered a waste of money.
Cool, let's bet the farm on technology that hasn't even been developed yet! Maybe we can use cold fusion to power it. Seriously, we should be using the technology we have now, and funding the development of new technology.
and if I rewind too far, I want to be able to fast forward back up to where I was.. I want to be able to pause and examine what went wrong and then try again.
A recent game I've finished: Hitman 2. This is a game where you get punished for walking too loud. There comes a point in time where this is no longer fun (for many people this is never fun). So many times I've cursed under my breath and mumbled "how did he see me?" Sometimes I'll complete a section just fine only to say "I could have done that better " and reloaded. Of course, the game designers try to discourage this sort of behaviour.. that's why you only get a limited number of saves. Yes, you read that right, you only get (say) 5 saves for a level. It actually goes even further than punishment. Should you perform some action in the game that shows you are thinking (like going to get the missle guidance system before you try to go kill the boss) you are award with, you guessed it, a bonus save.
This has gotten a bit absurd hasn't it? If you don't want me spending 90% of my time playing the game hitting the "reload" button, then give me a better option. That's why I suggest the familar metaphor of a fast forward and rewind buttons.
Oh that's right RFIDs! That's all an RFID can do, in fact, it can't even do what you just said. You put two RFIDs close together and they interfere with one another. So, for example, the FUD that has been going around about all the RFIDs in my socks, shirt, pants, jocks and hat being all "they" need to track me.. well putting them all together on my body will make them interfere, causing none of them to be readable. Oh I hear ya. Why not just put a timing circuit in them that waits an arbitary amount of time until it responds. On that's right, because it's an unpowered device and it can't store current for any amount of time, let alone an arbitary amount of time.
dont blame DivX for your lame warezing skills
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Go get a good DVD ripper, encode the movie at the "high quality" rate using the OpenDivX4 codec, wait 4 hours, play.. now look at the size of the movie.
What Windows Media Player aint good enough for ya? Or are you actually one of the few here that actually *use* Linux.. In which case, get Xine, it's a great piece of software, and the source code is actually readable! (if you care).
he's not just a racist. He's a nazi, and, no, I don't mean that is the euphamistic way that people use it today, I mean it in the true Nazi party ramblings way.
all the psuedo-files like..user and..access are hidden, so you're not going to see them in an ls -la, even if you wanted to. To get a list of all the psuedo-files for a particular object (directory or file) you just cat objectX/..psuedo
ArgoUML is a slow broken piece of crap. How is Java ever supposed to improve with people like you advocating shit like this. Here's a really really really simple test you can do with any GUI application.
Grab your mouse
Grab a stopwatch
Select a menu option, and press start on your stopwatch
Wait for the menu option to complete
Press stop on your stopwatch
Did it take more than 0.1 seconds? That's too long! To be fair, my copy of Mozilla takes significantly more than 0.1 seconds to do something trivial like bring up the File->Open Web Location dialog box, but that just indicates that overall we're all too willing to accept slow slow software. So maybe it's fairer to say that anything under 1 second is "acceptable", but it's not great! ArgoUML does very few operations in under 1 second, even on my SPARC box where Java apps are supposed to fly!
But EA got their crew in there and made that game multiplayer. Why? Because subscriptions make you a shitload of money. Single player games are the biggest waste of development time possible. Unless you get a super hit (which GTA3 is, I'll admit) you're going broke. Even with a superhit, you can turn it into a rediculous amount of money (see UO), and even with a sucky game you can do that (see Everquest).
If EA owned Rockstar the PC release of GTA3 would have been a massively multiplayer game like no other. But no, Take2 owns Rockstar, so we're stuck with zero multiplayer. Shame.
Have you read the act? It clearly says that there is a 5 year maximum penalty for "trading in unauthorised reproductions". i.e., selling unauthorized copies is illegal, but copying and distributing "not for trade" is a civil matter. Not that I condone this, in fact I think it makes more sense for copyright infringement to remain solely a civil matter when "for trade" because there an apparent monetary loss has occured.
It is unlawful for you to violate copyright. It is not illegal. The two are very different things. However, in Australia it is illegal for you to sell unauthorised reproductions. The difference between unlawful and illegal is easy: unlawful is where someone can sue you, illegal is where the police can arrest you and you can be fined or go to jail.
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You really can make statistics say anything you want. Nevermind that a movie lasts 2 hours (maybe 4 if you're an Oliver Stone fan), whereas a game is required to supply 50+ hours of gameplay or it's considered a waste of money.
why do reputable companies like Symantec, Amazon and others spam me?
Cool, let's bet the farm on technology that hasn't even been developed yet! Maybe we can use cold fusion to power it. Seriously, we should be using the technology we have now, and funding the development of new technology.
Is that human resources people who demand 3+ years experience. Those guys are great.
so he can use the $$$$ from the sales of Longhorn on a trip into space.
and if I rewind too far, I want to be able to fast forward back up to where I was.. I want to be able to pause and examine what went wrong and then try again.
This has gotten a bit absurd hasn't it? If you don't want me spending 90% of my time playing the game hitting the "reload" button, then give me a better option. That's why I suggest the familar metaphor of a fast forward and rewind buttons.
It's always nice with Australia/US FTA's mention me personally.
We fought so damn hard for those decompilation laws. Now they're going to take em away for the god damn lamb market?
Oh that's right RFIDs! That's all an RFID can do, in fact, it can't even do what you just said. You put two RFIDs close together and they interfere with one another. So, for example, the FUD that has been going around about all the RFIDs in my socks, shirt, pants, jocks and hat being all "they" need to track me.. well putting them all together on my body will make them interfere, causing none of them to be readable. Oh I hear ya. Why not just put a timing circuit in them that waits an arbitary amount of time until it responds. On that's right, because it's an unpowered device and it can't store current for any amount of time, let alone an arbitary amount of time.
RFID's are so demonized it's comical.
if it lasts that long
That's the most rational thing I've heard in weeks.
This is one of those features that would have NEVER made it into the kernel if we were still using ipf.
it was on Quantum around 1988.
Go get a good DVD ripper, encode the movie at the "high quality" rate using the OpenDivX4 codec, wait 4 hours, play.. now look at the size of the movie.
What Windows Media Player aint good enough for ya? Or are you actually one of the few here that actually *use* Linux.. In which case, get Xine, it's a great piece of software, and the source code is actually readable! (if you care).
To use anything is unexcusable.
he's not just a racist. He's a nazi, and, no, I don't mean that is the euphamistic way that people use it today, I mean it in the true Nazi party ramblings way.
all the psuedo-files like ..user and ..access are hidden, so you're not going to see them in an ls -la, even if you wanted to. To get a list of all the psuedo-files for a particular object (directory or file) you just cat objectX/..psuedo
Have a look at the docs.
Did it take more than 0.1 seconds? That's too long! To be fair, my copy of Mozilla takes significantly more than 0.1 seconds to do something trivial like bring up the File->Open Web Location dialog box, but that just indicates that overall we're all too willing to accept slow slow software. So maybe it's fairer to say that anything under 1 second is "acceptable", but it's not great! ArgoUML does very few operations in under 1 second, even on my SPARC box where Java apps are supposed to fly!
But EA got their crew in there and made that game multiplayer. Why? Because subscriptions make you a shitload of money. Single player games are the biggest waste of development time possible. Unless you get a super hit (which GTA3 is, I'll admit) you're going broke. Even with a superhit, you can turn it into a rediculous amount of money (see UO), and even with a sucky game you can do that (see Everquest).
If EA owned Rockstar the PC release of GTA3 would have been a massively multiplayer game like no other. But no, Take2 owns Rockstar, so we're stuck with zero multiplayer. Shame.
There are proteins that have the function of causing similar proteins to refold into a configuration similar to themselves.
Have you read the act? It clearly says that there is a 5 year maximum penalty for "trading in unauthorised reproductions". i.e., selling unauthorized copies is illegal, but copying and distributing "not for trade" is a civil matter. Not that I condone this, in fact I think it makes more sense for copyright infringement to remain solely a civil matter when "for trade" because there an apparent monetary loss has occured.
It is unlawful for you to violate copyright. It is not illegal. The two are very different things. However, in Australia it is illegal for you to sell unauthorised reproductions. The difference between unlawful and illegal is easy: unlawful is where someone can sue you, illegal is where the police can arrest you and you can be fined or go to jail.