I just don't understand all the hype around the Kinect. I guess it's cool from a strictly technological point of view, and I understand the novelty of it for casual gaming, but I can't imagine a scenario in which a serious gamer would want to use it. Then again, I hate the Wii and yet it is doing the best of the current consoles.
There is no authority who decides what is and what is not art; art is whatever people say it is. Obviously this is objective and differs from person to person, but art doesn't need consensus to be art. If you think video game are not art, that's fine. But if you try to tell me that I can't think of video games as art, fuck you right in your jawbone hole.
First of all, the championship game isn't even played until two months after the regular season; it's more like an exhibition game than a continuation of the season.
Secondly, and more importantly, the system doesn't actually accomplish its objective. The sole reason for the existence of the BCS is to crown a national champion. Due to the lack of a playoff system, however, this degenerates into choosing the two teams with the least losses from the strongest conferences. One team can lose a close game on the road against a tough conference opponent while another team runs up the score on a non-conference bottom feeder at home, and the team playing the cupcake gets unjustly rewarded for it.
Meanwhile, teams from the lesser conferences have a built-in disadvantage before the season even begins. They have to hope to win all their games and pray for ALL of the big boys to lose one or two; even then there are no guarantees. Of course the power conferences complain about the TCUs and Boise States of the world who semi-regularly go undefeated in lesser conferences. Funny how the power conference teams never end up scheduling non-conference games against TCU or Boise State.
Ultimately the problem that the BCS is tasked with solving is impossible. Choosing 2 teams out of 119 is a tough job; choosing 12 or 16 would be easier.
And please, don't even bring up non-conference games; it makes your argument seem disingenuous. Ohio State - Texas is BY FAR the exception rather than the rule. I think we've all had our fill of the North-East States and South-West Techs of the world.
It's not the low risk itself; it's the disproportionate amount of money spent on the low risk. Nobody is saying we shouldn't try to implement some kind of security measures; what we are saying is that we shouldn't spend billions of dollars on security measures for a relatively infinitesimal risk.
How do you regulate birth, though? If some woman comes in who is over the limit are the doctors going to turn her away? I think this would end up like gun control. Honest people will follow the law for the most part, but crack whores will keep popping out babies like there's no tomorrow. We've already seen the possible ramifications of this in the documentary Idiocracy.
I think people get too caught up in the economic aspect of it. The whole point of copyright is control; most people use that control to try to make a buck, but that is secondary.
The problem I have with piracy is not economic, but social; sharing between a few friends is one thing, but by "sharing" with your closest million friends you have effectively become a distributor and broken your side of the bargain (the creator has exclusive rights to reproduce the work).
On the flip side, the problem I have with copyright is the extreme to which is has been corrupted. The original terms were 14 years, with a one-time renewal of an additional 14 years. Even that seems a bit excessive in today's fast-paced world, but corporations have extended that so far (and continue to do so) that nothing of consequence is ever going to enter the public domain.
I think both situations are wrong, but obviously the corruption is significantly worse than piracy. Copyright is supposed to be a compromise, but it has become so one-sided (including recent developments such as prosecution, DRM, etc) that I understand everyone's frustrations with it; however, I don't think you throw the baby out with the bath water.
My personal convictions are that I will not pirate anything "recent" (relative term depending on a number of factors), but anything else I consider fair game. Of course that's just me; people will have to come to their own conclusions for what they consider to be right and wrong.
This is why people don't take global warming seriously. Please, just stop it. If you really wanted to help, you could just fucking kill yourself and cut your carbon footprint to 0.
If you remove the Win32 API, EVERY WINDOWS APPLICATION EVER WRITTEN breaks. Assuming we don't want to do that, the only other option would be to remove the NT API. Unfortunately, this is the API that allows user-mode applications to communicate with the kernel. I don't think you could write a very useful application that has no ability to access the registry, files, network, hardware, etc, all of which require calls to the kernel. You were right, that *was* easy!
Obviously you don't know the first thing about the architecture of Windows NT (and judging by many other comments I've read you are not alone). If anybody cares to educate themselves, I highly recommend Windows Internals.
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Long answer: Hell no.
[Philosoraptor] If you are in competition with yourself and win, do you also lose?
I just don't understand all the hype around the Kinect. I guess it's cool from a strictly technological point of view, and I understand the novelty of it for casual gaming, but I can't imagine a scenario in which a serious gamer would want to use it. Then again, I hate the Wii and yet it is doing the best of the current consoles.
There is no authority who decides what is and what is not art; art is whatever people say it is. Obviously this is objective and differs from person to person, but art doesn't need consensus to be art. If you think video game are not art, that's fine. But if you try to tell me that I can't think of video games as art, fuck you right in your jawbone hole.
Jesus Christ, people. We're talking about a fucking recycle bin, not giving users admin privileges or something.
I have two problems with the current system.
First of all, the championship game isn't even played until two months after the regular season; it's more like an exhibition game than a continuation of the season.
Secondly, and more importantly, the system doesn't actually accomplish its objective. The sole reason for the existence of the BCS is to crown a national champion. Due to the lack of a playoff system, however, this degenerates into choosing the two teams with the least losses from the strongest conferences. One team can lose a close game on the road against a tough conference opponent while another team runs up the score on a non-conference bottom feeder at home, and the team playing the cupcake gets unjustly rewarded for it.
Meanwhile, teams from the lesser conferences have a built-in disadvantage before the season even begins. They have to hope to win all their games and pray for ALL of the big boys to lose one or two; even then there are no guarantees. Of course the power conferences complain about the TCUs and Boise States of the world who semi-regularly go undefeated in lesser conferences. Funny how the power conference teams never end up scheduling non-conference games against TCU or Boise State.
Ultimately the problem that the BCS is tasked with solving is impossible. Choosing 2 teams out of 119 is a tough job; choosing 12 or 16 would be easier.
And please, don't even bring up non-conference games; it makes your argument seem disingenuous. Ohio State - Texas is BY FAR the exception rather than the rule. I think we've all had our fill of the North-East States and South-West Techs of the world.
It's not the low risk itself; it's the disproportionate amount of money spent on the low risk. Nobody is saying we shouldn't try to implement some kind of security measures; what we are saying is that we shouldn't spend billions of dollars on security measures for a relatively infinitesimal risk.
Motion gaming sucks. Mod up if you agree, down if you disagree.
I think Linux is for faggots. Mod me down if you agree.
How do you regulate birth, though? If some woman comes in who is over the limit are the doctors going to turn her away? I think this would end up like gun control. Honest people will follow the law for the most part, but crack whores will keep popping out babies like there's no tomorrow. We've already seen the possible ramifications of this in the documentary Idiocracy.
I think people get too caught up in the economic aspect of it. The whole point of copyright is control; most people use that control to try to make a buck, but that is secondary.
The problem I have with piracy is not economic, but social; sharing between a few friends is one thing, but by "sharing" with your closest million friends you have effectively become a distributor and broken your side of the bargain (the creator has exclusive rights to reproduce the work).
On the flip side, the problem I have with copyright is the extreme to which is has been corrupted. The original terms were 14 years, with a one-time renewal of an additional 14 years. Even that seems a bit excessive in today's fast-paced world, but corporations have extended that so far (and continue to do so) that nothing of consequence is ever going to enter the public domain.
I think both situations are wrong, but obviously the corruption is significantly worse than piracy. Copyright is supposed to be a compromise, but it has become so one-sided (including recent developments such as prosecution, DRM, etc) that I understand everyone's frustrations with it; however, I don't think you throw the baby out with the bath water.
My personal convictions are that I will not pirate anything "recent" (relative term depending on a number of factors), but anything else I consider fair game. Of course that's just me; people will have to come to their own conclusions for what they consider to be right and wrong.
...a nigger dies.
...most fags love the cock.
Well, I thought it was funny. Not quite as funny as getting raped by a pack of niggers, though.
Get over it.
Today you're wasting my motherfucking time.
*pushes detonator*
You spent so much time going over the "what" and the "how" that you forgot to mention the "why".
BURIED!
This is why people don't take global warming seriously. Please, just stop it. If you really wanted to help, you could just fucking kill yourself and cut your carbon footprint to 0.
cool story, bro
If you remove the Win32 API, EVERY WINDOWS APPLICATION EVER WRITTEN breaks. Assuming we don't want to do that, the only other option would be to remove the NT API. Unfortunately, this is the API that allows user-mode applications to communicate with the kernel. I don't think you could write a very useful application that has no ability to access the registry, files, network, hardware, etc, all of which require calls to the kernel. You were right, that *was* easy!
Obviously you don't know the first thing about the architecture of Windows NT (and judging by many other comments I've read you are not alone). If anybody cares to educate themselves, I highly recommend Windows Internals.
Most criminals are young black men who all look the same.
Just pay me $20 and I'll fuck your girlfriend instead.
Sometimes I let the neighborhood kids play with my joystick.