You mean, like programmable function keys? My keyboard has 10 of 'em on the left-hand side like this Optimus, and lets you program each one with up to 15 characters. Get one.
Something like this has almost limitless potential. Looking past the obvious animated rotating rockets over the '5' key when playing DooM, these things have the very real possibility of making Blender, well, usable.
Imagine all your keycaps changing when you hit the 'CTRL' or 'SHIFT' key in your favourite editor.
If it wasn't for the unfortunate price tag I'd have mine pre-ordered now.
Everyone else in the industry has put a LOT more effort into protection.
Except in the area of Region-locking, where the Wii reigns supreme. The PS3 doesn't have it at all (except for old PS2 games that are already regionalized), and the XBox has it as an option to publishers.
Much of the current population of the US are descendants of people who came here to get AWAY from all that - and figure out how to live together in peace without tyrannical rulers and enforced, draconian, social homogenization.
That's interesting. I guess different markets have different pricing structures:
Here in NZ, a CD in 1991 in pretty much store would cost you $NZ33.95, about US$20. Today the normal price for top-20 CDs is $24.95, the rest are still $33.95.
Granted I don't buy many CDs first-hand these days but I do get gift vouchers for Echo or The CD Store from time to time.
I don't know, maybe the 99% of the local population that aren't blowing themselves up.
Do you really think the insurgents in Iraq consider US soldiers their main target? So far other locals have been the biggest casualties, and with good reason, in the insurgent's minds at least - with Saddam out of the way they want to establish a muslim state, and they can't agree which denomination is going to rule. Neither will be democratic though you can count on.
Funny, every commercial DVD player I've ever seen still obeys stupid User Operation Prohibitions, forcing you to watch animated corporate logos, copyright warnings and previews. Disney so far haven't been too bad in abusing these. The worst I've found so far is Paramount. LucasFilm/Fox have been the best (of a bad bunch, of course).
You omitted a rather important point: Cars aren't built to assist the killing of people; that is a side-effect. Cars are being actively worked on to reduce the number of deaths caused by cars (airbags, ABS, ultrasonic sensors, etc) since killing people isn't what cars are supposed to do.
Guns are. It's the/only/ reason they were made in the first place. That you may use them for shooting inanimate objects is once again a side-effect. That's not what they're made for.
Sure, let's say that guns don't kill people but by that logic they don't protect or entertain people either.
"Your destruction is the will of the Gods, and we are their instrument!"
I still remember the red alien speaking those words in the teaser trailer. Of course that was before the game got bastardized into an X-Box (*spits*) title.
Additionally I hope there's no one here who thinks Bungie invented the ringworld.
Whether you agree or disagree with the policies of the intellectual property holders and consortiums, in order for Digg to survive, it must abide by the law.
So who's going to tell him that they were already abiding by the law? A randomly-generated number is not protected under any known intellectual property law.
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...or, to actually have an effect, your wallet.
Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets
Supply and demand, my friend. If they won't supply it at the right price, stop demanding it.
You mean, like programmable function keys? My keyboard has 10 of 'em on the left-hand side like this Optimus, and lets you program each one with up to 15 characters. Get one.
Something like this has almost limitless potential. Looking past the obvious animated rotating rockets over the '5' key when playing DooM, these things have the very real possibility of making Blender, well, usable.
Imagine all your keycaps changing when you hit the 'CTRL' or 'SHIFT' key in your favourite editor.
If it wasn't for the unfortunate price tag I'd have mine pre-ordered now.
Excuse me but did you just use 'Yahoo' as a verb synonym for 'search'? Are we allowed to do that now?
So is anyone here going out to buy an XBox 360 any time soon?
Anyone?
A slight correction
BLUE - Refrigeration system operating correctly
WHITE - Just showing off
I thought prior art had been done away with after this whole "first-to-file" business?
Everyone else in the industry has put a LOT more effort into protection.
Except in the area of Region-locking, where the Wii reigns supreme. The PS3 doesn't have it at all (except for old PS2 games that are already regionalized), and the XBox has it as an option to publishers.
Much of the current population of the US are descendants of people who came here to get AWAY from all that - and figure out how to live together in peace without tyrannical rulers and enforced, draconian, social homogenization.
And just look at you now!
(I kid, I kid)
any. Pretty much any store, I meant to say.
That's interesting. I guess different markets have different pricing structures:
Here in NZ, a CD in 1991 in pretty much store would cost you $NZ33.95, about US$20.
Today the normal price for top-20 CDs is $24.95, the rest are still $33.95.
Granted I don't buy many CDs first-hand these days but I do get gift vouchers for Echo or The CD Store from time to time.
You'd have to make damn sure they left orbit completely, or there's going to be some pretty messed up space trips in future decades.
You know, space junk and all that.
I don't know, maybe the 99% of the local population that aren't blowing themselves up.
Do you really think the insurgents in Iraq consider US soldiers their main target? So far other locals have been the biggest casualties, and with good reason, in the insurgent's minds at least - with Saddam out of the way they want to establish a muslim state, and they can't agree which denomination is going to rule. Neither will be democratic though you can count on.
Funny, every commercial DVD player I've ever seen still obeys stupid User Operation Prohibitions, forcing you to watch animated corporate logos, copyright warnings and previews. Disney so far haven't been too bad in abusing these. The worst I've found so far is Paramount. LucasFilm/Fox have been the best (of a bad bunch, of course).
But we all know that Disney is inthe business of killing people to protect their "IP".
Do we? I must have missed that scoop. I'd love to see some evidence to back that up.
I don't know, but I do remember some guy around here with "Un©onstitional" as his sig.
Of course the GP was flamebait, but not because he fell into a logical fallacy - which Godwins law does not provide.
Saying he lost the argument merely by mentioning you-know-who and the you-know-what party is rather, naive.
Don't tell the muslim immigrants that. They want to see a certain black flag flying over parliament eventually.
No, I don't mean the Jolly Rodger.
except that in a world without copyright, who needs the GPL?
You omitted a rather important point: Cars aren't built to assist the killing of people; that is a side-effect. Cars are being actively worked on to reduce the number of deaths caused by cars (airbags, ABS, ultrasonic sensors, etc) since killing people isn't what cars are supposed to do.
/only/ reason they were made in the first place. That you may use them for shooting inanimate objects is once again a side-effect. That's not what they're made for.
Guns are. It's the
Sure, let's say that guns don't kill people but by that logic they don't protect or entertain people either.
So it's won this award 3 times now?
Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate headline fonts.
"Your destruction is the will of the Gods, and we are their instrument!"
I still remember the red alien speaking those words in the teaser trailer. Of course that was before the game got bastardized into an X-Box (*spits*) title.
Additionally I hope there's no one here who thinks Bungie invented the ringworld.
Maybe not, but the DMCA is just a US ratification of the international 1996 WIPO treaty.
Whether you agree or disagree with the policies of the intellectual property holders and consortiums, in order for Digg to survive, it must abide by the law.
So who's going to tell him that they were already abiding by the law? A randomly-generated number is not protected under any known intellectual property law.
Wuss.