Can a company patent a person's right to choose their own adventure in the consumption of entertainment?
At what point does a "choose your own adventure" become a role playing game? Why don't they own the rights to those?
I thought based on the description of the article that an actual civil war had broken out somewhere, but after reading so far you realize the author was just sensationalizing something far more trivial.
A far more accurate title would be "Large company manipulates its media to try and conform to some ideological model created by a focus group and revised by stuffy corporate executives out of fear of hurting the company's reputation and profits".
Well maybe that's a bit long, and likely not as many people would read it.
Dear general population, we are moving into a society where your entire life will be monitored and profiled. Here is another reason we've come up with for you to just accept it.
A radio announcer promoting products and reading advertising is far from anything new. Unless you were born in the last decade and wasn't aware of radio(A type of podcast broadcasted wirelessly to radios(old school iPodlike devices which didn't hold music internally, but rather "streamed" it wirelessly)).
I agree. Automotive manufactures, by the same token, should be held liable for drunk driving, drive by shootings and other crimes facilitated by the road paved by the auto industry. And what about gun manufactures? What actions have they taken to mitigate the crimes committed with their products?
Clearly, manufactures and distributers should be at fault for what individual consumers do. [/End sarcasm].
When I was younger I was told we'd all be driving flying cars by now.
I wonder how many people buy and play console/PC games vs how many people will have a good enough broadband connection to stream that service. And with net neutrality gone how much extra you'd have to pay for a lag free experience.
In the last 16 years my internet connection has gone from 33.6kbps to 7mbps. With the last 10 years being stagnant at 7.
Given the release schedule of consoles I think UBI's ambition is slightly higher in expectation than reality.
I expect there will be demand for localized gaming systems well into the future.
I'm lazy and didn't RTFA. What provisions did they say they implemented to prevent the US military from using the technologies in unfavourable ways (even indirectly)?
Whenever I hear of MS acquiring a company I'm reminded of that Simpsons episode where Gates buys out Homer.
It doesnt appear like that reputation has changed, even after all these years and changes in the company's management.
I was an avid Minecraft player and enjoyed frequent additions to the game which kept me engaged. I was skeptically optimistic when MS acquired Mojang, hoping MS would positively influence development, but that didn't seem to come to fruition and updates are less frequent than ever.
When I read that MS is increasing contributions/influence in open source I can't help to wonder what their actual motivation is.
Then I'm reminded again of that Simpsons episode.
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Can a company patent a person's right to choose their own adventure in the consumption of entertainment? At what point does a "choose your own adventure" become a role playing game? Why don't they own the rights to those?
I'm putting my money on Toilets as a Service, TaaS.
I thought based on the description of the article that an actual civil war had broken out somewhere, but after reading so far you realize the author was just sensationalizing something far more trivial. A far more accurate title would be "Large company manipulates its media to try and conform to some ideological model created by a focus group and revised by stuffy corporate executives out of fear of hurting the company's reputation and profits". Well maybe that's a bit long, and likely not as many people would read it.
Dear general population, we are moving into a society where your entire life will be monitored and profiled. Here is another reason we've come up with for you to just accept it.
I wonder if this was the motivating factor for Apple creating the Xs and Xr?
Caloric abundance now leading contributor to global warming.
Would be awesome to help out those workers in Oshawa.
I didn't realize Hollywood still made content people are interested in copying? Its appropriate not to want the internet littered with trash.
A radio announcer promoting products and reading advertising is far from anything new. Unless you were born in the last decade and wasn't aware of radio(A type of podcast broadcasted wirelessly to radios(old school iPodlike devices which didn't hold music internally, but rather "streamed" it wirelessly)).
I agree. Automotive manufactures, by the same token, should be held liable for drunk driving, drive by shootings and other crimes facilitated by the road paved by the auto industry. And what about gun manufactures? What actions have they taken to mitigate the crimes committed with their products? Clearly, manufactures and distributers should be at fault for what individual consumers do. [/End sarcasm].
When I was younger I was told we'd all be driving flying cars by now. I wonder how many people buy and play console/PC games vs how many people will have a good enough broadband connection to stream that service. And with net neutrality gone how much extra you'd have to pay for a lag free experience. In the last 16 years my internet connection has gone from 33.6kbps to 7mbps. With the last 10 years being stagnant at 7. Given the release schedule of consoles I think UBI's ambition is slightly higher in expectation than reality. I expect there will be demand for localized gaming systems well into the future.
I'm lazy and didn't RTFA. What provisions did they say they implemented to prevent the US military from using the technologies in unfavourable ways (even indirectly)?
Whenever I hear of MS acquiring a company I'm reminded of that Simpsons episode where Gates buys out Homer. It doesnt appear like that reputation has changed, even after all these years and changes in the company's management. I was an avid Minecraft player and enjoyed frequent additions to the game which kept me engaged. I was skeptically optimistic when MS acquired Mojang, hoping MS would positively influence development, but that didn't seem to come to fruition and updates are less frequent than ever. When I read that MS is increasing contributions/influence in open source I can't help to wonder what their actual motivation is. Then I'm reminded again of that Simpsons episode.