Seriously, what possible financial/business gain is there to have creative hide these things? Are they really worried about other companies stealing their driver ideas for their hardware? I know graphics drivers can potentially (or used to anyways) have a large amount of optimized code that could _maybe_ be beneficial to competitors, but sound cards?
Give him a break. He wrote that message 8 years ago, it just took a while to transmit. He's probably changed his mind by now, and we'll find out about that in 2016.
Whatever dude, they totally explained in that episode where they found out some other race seeded their DNA on each planet to make apes, lizards, and whatever klingons came from into humanoids.
You're right - we should ban this type of research. After all, any avenues of research into machine learning algorithms or computer imagery that caused this abortion of a program to be created should be abandoned for all time and sealed up in that place where they put the Ark of the Covenant.
Or maybe this was just an example application to demonstrate their research. Your call!
Considering the games are free to play in the first place and require a computer and internet connection, that's all the equality you need provide. Traditional boxed games cost $50 just to get started, so I'm not seeing what the big deal is here.
Except bandwidth isn't free. How many 4GB downloads should I allocate per customer? Should I factor that into the cost of the item? When you purchase something, should I factor in a lifetime of bandwidth usage by the customer?
Of course, you hit the nail on the head - you must be able to backup. Not having a backup (and this is probably the case given that the PS3 is encrypted) is stupid. Although, I think given "online activation" DRM seems to be the rage these days I don't think they have a problem with the user burning the content to a DVD for later. I think the fair thing to do is be very up front with the customer as to what the download policy is.
Dude, the meme is "graphics not gameplay" or if you're talking about EA then "its workers are slaves!" Get it straight when you go to your slashbot posting toolkit!
The power transfer lines should be a public utility because like roads or telephone lines its a monopoly and needs to be tightly regulated. Where you power comes from, what your car is, or who does your long distance should be up to the consumer. Cable lines and telephone lines should be like water and power - you can choose your provider, but the infrastructure should be government controlled because the consumer doesn't have a choice but "take it or leave it".
Not requiring the CD is nothing new - Spore doesn't need it nor does anything downloaded from the digital store - hasn't for years. The 5 activation thing is more, but 3,5, what's the right number? 100? I think people's issue is with the SecurRom stuff that is resident while you play the game right? Anyways, unless people protest every single game that comes out (including Steam!) from the game industry, this is a small isolated, and quickly forgotten event. The industry is moving past CD checks, and for most people 5 installations, no CD check and a one time activation is not a hassle. They're probably still running bonzai buddy, do you really think they give a rat's ass about securom?
I'm not really sure what's the way to go on it, but I know posting some BS FUD on Amazon like "SONY ROOTKITTED ME OMG!" and claiming victory when they raise the install limit to 5 is not the way to go.
So where's the cutoff? Rifles? Sawedoffs? Bazookas? Anything that can fit in an overhead? How about a minimum amount of explosive? Can I carry a bomb on board?
I think airline security is pretty ridiculous as is, but I at least expect them to recognize a gun shape on an xray - the odds are pretty good. And I wouldn't expect any one to be able to take down an airliner after 9/11 with anything less than something that can blow it up. The pilots aren't opening the door no matter how many people you shoot in the back, and the passengers aren't sitting there because unlike the people on those flights they know they've got no chance otherwise.
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Dear sir,
You forgot to mention DRM in your post. Can you please elaborate on how this feature relates to DRM?
Ah, but you're not thinking long term like the guys at the cable company. Suddenly the product they're offering is threatening to canabalize their bread and butter - selling you 100 channels you don't need to get the 5-10 shows you actually watch every week, plus Pay-Per-View. If Amazon sold an "access pass" that gave me subscriptions to the shows I like and I payed a set fee, and they sent it to me in HD, I'd cancel my cable right away. The wall between content producers and content consumers is dropping - the middle men (RIAA, Cable companies, even TV Networks in some respect, etc) are shitting themselves. Where are they without the cut?
Of course, this method doesn't allow for channel surfing, but "try one free" for series and "if you liked this you'll love this" features on Amazon could take care of that. Live services for sports like NFL season pass or boxing PPV could come directly through their own web services.
So now do you see where that cap comes in? Yeah, if you're one off downloading movies its hard to hit it. If every single piece of HD entertainment you watch comes in packets that originate from someplace other than your cable provider, 250 is already way too low.
You mentioned half a dozen features from three different browsers. If they're all good ideas, whats wrong with the evolutionary step of putting them in the same browser? You brush over the sandboxing as if its all been done before, when in fact the model they're using is different from what's been tried before. The fact is most of the improvements are "under-the-hood" so it will be interesting to see if it catches on. Firefox had tabbed browsing as a killer feature people switched to because they wanted. Building a user base on "runs better" means not only do you have to have something that's way way better than the competition, but that your competition has to really suck in stability/speed/etc. I don't think either IE8 or Firefox run so badly that most users will look around for something just for the sake of stability.
So things have to be completely revolutionary in order to count as new? There's no such thing as evolutionary development? Your link is appreciated, and helps further the discussion, but why bookend it in such a "haughty" tone implying that the work is a dupe or nothing worth noting? Lots of papers in the same field will seem similar but each can often provide a new valuable insight building on the last one. To imply that nothing is new because someone did something in the 1940's is assinine and arrogant, and discounts the work the current researchers are doing.
Jesus you people are rediculous! These guys are going above and beyond the call of a/. editor to bring us this stuff. Do you really think they have time to go over thousands of emails and put it all up so you'll be happy? How much time do you think they have? Being a/. editor means spending literally minutes a day meticulously researching submitted posts for dupes, checking spelling, revising incomplete submissions, looking up rules of grammar, fact checking, source checking, etc. etc. And now that they take a few minutes out of their 23 hours of free time to bring you a little laughter from retarded people and misdirected emails, all your can do is complain? Sheesh, the nerve of some people!
tell me the game is better than anything for the SNES.
Yes, GTA IV is exactly the same as any SNES game, only worse! There is absolutely nothing new there, nothing that's more fun. Its worse than EVERY OTHER game ever made for the SNES. That's just how it is, you've proven it!
Get off yourself. SNES is great, but I would have hung it up a long time ago if we didn't get better games. Play CoD 4 and tell me that doesn't be the shit out of Ikari Warriors.
Heh, and it was mislabeled in the caption. Would anyone have caught the error if only the caption specified the size in centimeters, and it was accidentally doubled?
Size is an instantly relatable thing though. "About the size of a house" vs. "about the size of a cat" gives you instant context. You could also give me cubic meters, but would that translate as well? Also, by placing something that's of referenced size (like a quarter!) in a photo, you can assure viewers have a sense of scale no matter if the photo's resolution changes (and thus making rulers with markings not visible, etc). A quarter will be recognizable if the photo is compressed, loses its caption, etc. This is actually more efficient than handing along specs, as far as size estimation goes.
I agree with the critisism of expressing information or "count" (you can stack X number of quarters to the moon and back) in terms of contextual things because the analogy just sucks, but for phsyical references I don't see a problem with it.
Oh and if you want to know how big a quarter is, according to google a a quarter is 0.160792385 Euros. I'll leave the rest to you!:)
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Seriously, what possible financial/business gain is there to have creative hide these things? Are they really worried about other companies stealing their driver ideas for their hardware? I know graphics drivers can potentially (or used to anyways) have a large amount of optimized code that could _maybe_ be beneficial to competitors, but sound cards?
Calm down Al. Shouldn't you be out looking for manbearpig right about now?
Give him a break. He wrote that message 8 years ago, it just took a while to transmit. He's probably changed his mind by now, and we'll find out about that in 2016.
My God, the future has already been altered! He's using a modem!
Whatever dude, they totally explained in that episode where they found out some other race seeded their DNA on each planet to make apes, lizards, and whatever klingons came from into humanoids.
Plus that and a wizard did it.
You're right - we should ban this type of research. After all, any avenues of research into machine learning algorithms or computer imagery that caused this abortion of a program to be created should be abandoned for all time and sealed up in that place where they put the Ark of the Covenant.
Or maybe this was just an example application to demonstrate their research. Your call!
Considering the games are free to play in the first place and require a computer and internet connection, that's all the equality you need provide. Traditional boxed games cost $50 just to get started, so I'm not seeing what the big deal is here.
You'll probably want a machine readable code for your statement. I suggest "???".
Except bandwidth isn't free. How many 4GB downloads should I allocate per customer? Should I factor that into the cost of the item? When you purchase something, should I factor in a lifetime of bandwidth usage by the customer?
Of course, you hit the nail on the head - you must be able to backup. Not having a backup (and this is probably the case given that the PS3 is encrypted) is stupid. Although, I think given "online activation" DRM seems to be the rage these days I don't think they have a problem with the user burning the content to a DVD for later. I think the fair thing to do is be very up front with the customer as to what the download policy is.
Dude, the meme is "graphics not gameplay" or if you're talking about EA then "its workers are slaves!" Get it straight when you go to your slashbot posting toolkit!
The power transfer lines should be a public utility because like roads or telephone lines its a monopoly and needs to be tightly regulated. Where you power comes from, what your car is, or who does your long distance should be up to the consumer. Cable lines and telephone lines should be like water and power - you can choose your provider, but the infrastructure should be government controlled because the consumer doesn't have a choice but "take it or leave it".
See, that's why Sienfeld was never funny - they should have followed the patented slashdot humor method:
1. State joke
2. Repeat joke 4 million times
3. ???
4. Funny!
Not requiring the CD is nothing new - Spore doesn't need it nor does anything downloaded from the digital store - hasn't for years. The 5 activation thing is more, but 3,5, what's the right number? 100? I think people's issue is with the SecurRom stuff that is resident while you play the game right? Anyways, unless people protest every single game that comes out (including Steam!) from the game industry, this is a small isolated, and quickly forgotten event. The industry is moving past CD checks, and for most people 5 installations, no CD check and a one time activation is not a hassle. They're probably still running bonzai buddy, do you really think they give a rat's ass about securom?
I'm not really sure what's the way to go on it, but I know posting some BS FUD on Amazon like "SONY ROOTKITTED ME OMG!" and claiming victory when they raise the install limit to 5 is not the way to go.
So where's the cutoff? Rifles? Sawedoffs? Bazookas? Anything that can fit in an overhead? How about a minimum amount of explosive? Can I carry a bomb on board?
I think airline security is pretty ridiculous as is, but I at least expect them to recognize a gun shape on an xray - the odds are pretty good. And I wouldn't expect any one to be able to take down an airliner after 9/11 with anything less than something that can blow it up. The pilots aren't opening the door no matter how many people you shoot in the back, and the passengers aren't sitting there because unlike the people on those flights they know they've got no chance otherwise.
Dear sir,
You forgot to mention DRM in your post. Can you please elaborate on how this feature relates to DRM?
Thanks!
Ah, but you're not thinking long term like the guys at the cable company. Suddenly the product they're offering is threatening to canabalize their bread and butter - selling you 100 channels you don't need to get the 5-10 shows you actually watch every week, plus Pay-Per-View. If Amazon sold an "access pass" that gave me subscriptions to the shows I like and I payed a set fee, and they sent it to me in HD, I'd cancel my cable right away. The wall between content producers and content consumers is dropping - the middle men (RIAA, Cable companies, even TV Networks in some respect, etc) are shitting themselves. Where are they without the cut?
Of course, this method doesn't allow for channel surfing, but "try one free" for series and "if you liked this you'll love this" features on Amazon could take care of that. Live services for sports like NFL season pass or boxing PPV could come directly through their own web services.
So now do you see where that cap comes in? Yeah, if you're one off downloading movies its hard to hit it. If every single piece of HD entertainment you watch comes in packets that originate from someplace other than your cable provider, 250 is already way too low.
You mentioned half a dozen features from three different browsers. If they're all good ideas, whats wrong with the evolutionary step of putting them in the same browser? You brush over the sandboxing as if its all been done before, when in fact the model they're using is different from what's been tried before. The fact is most of the improvements are "under-the-hood" so it will be interesting to see if it catches on. Firefox had tabbed browsing as a killer feature people switched to because they wanted. Building a user base on "runs better" means not only do you have to have something that's way way better than the competition, but that your competition has to really suck in stability/speed/etc. I don't think either IE8 or Firefox run so badly that most users will look around for something just for the sake of stability.
No, that's what Free Software is about. Public domain is most definately "open source" but depending on who you ask is not Free.
So things have to be completely revolutionary in order to count as new? There's no such thing as evolutionary development? Your link is appreciated, and helps further the discussion, but why bookend it in such a "haughty" tone implying that the work is a dupe or nothing worth noting? Lots of papers in the same field will seem similar but each can often provide a new valuable insight building on the last one. To imply that nothing is new because someone did something in the 1940's is assinine and arrogant, and discounts the work the current researchers are doing.
That question remains in the air, but the answer to "Who would I rather smell?" has a clear cut winner. ;)
Jesus you people are rediculous! These guys are going above and beyond the call of a /. editor to bring us this stuff. Do you really think they have time to go over thousands of emails and put it all up so you'll be happy? How much time do you think they have? Being a /. editor means spending literally minutes a day meticulously researching submitted posts for dupes, checking spelling, revising incomplete submissions, looking up rules of grammar, fact checking, source checking, etc. etc. And now that they take a few minutes out of their 23 hours of free time to bring you a little laughter from retarded people and misdirected emails, all your can do is complain? Sheesh, the nerve of some people!
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tell me the game is better than anything for the SNES.
Yes, GTA IV is exactly the same as any SNES game, only worse! There is absolutely nothing new there, nothing that's more fun. Its worse than EVERY OTHER game ever made for the SNES. That's just how it is, you've proven it!
Get off yourself. SNES is great, but I would have hung it up a long time ago if we didn't get better games. Play CoD 4 and tell me that doesn't be the shit out of Ikari Warriors.
Heh, and it was mislabeled in the caption. Would anyone have caught the error if only the caption specified the size in centimeters, and it was accidentally doubled?
Size is an instantly relatable thing though. "About the size of a house" vs. "about the size of a cat" gives you instant context. You could also give me cubic meters, but would that translate as well? Also, by placing something that's of referenced size (like a quarter!) in a photo, you can assure viewers have a sense of scale no matter if the photo's resolution changes (and thus making rulers with markings not visible, etc). A quarter will be recognizable if the photo is compressed, loses its caption, etc. This is actually more efficient than handing along specs, as far as size estimation goes.
I agree with the critisism of expressing information or "count" (you can stack X number of quarters to the moon and back) in terms of contextual things because the analogy just sucks, but for phsyical references I don't see a problem with it.
Oh and if you want to know how big a quarter is, according to google a a quarter is 0.160792385 Euros. I'll leave the rest to you! :)