Just because you are not fat, doesn't mean that crap is good for you. I go to the gym as well. I eat healthy. The last time I had KFC (years ago), I literally got ill from the amount of grease in it.
Lets correct your analogy. If a mob of people started cloning existing clones of your possessions, without ever entering your house or depriving you of the original possessions, would you even care?
Actually, that pippin idea sounds cool, but was clearly poorly executed and completely at the wrong time. Something like that done NOW, would be quite cool, so long as they could actually get games developed for it. Games are certainly not one of apples strong points!
Actually, there IS a big difference starting to emerge. In the old shooters, you were exclusively by yourself in the story. The lone hero if you were.
Now, technology has improved to the point where you have competent AI allies who fight along side you. This is quite an important shift, and affects the type of stories you can tell. Don't get me wrong, so far you are still the 'hero', just not as alone.
Playing Quake 4, the biggest difference I found was that I really felt that I was part of a team of marines. I had allies, not just enemies. This is the same trait that made Halo good.
But yeah, most new games are similar to old games. What I find funny is that everyone complains "same old same old, why nothing new?" but no one actually has any suggestions for something "new". Really, there is only so much you can do with technology and apart from games like Katmari, it is genuinely hard to think of "super novel" ideas. Most improvements in life are iterative, not revolutionary. Games are no different.
As far as I am concerned, a stable API is simply good software engineer practise. It would make it easier for other groups to maintian and build drivers, regardless of their development model. The API is not stable for *political* reasons, not technical ones. The kernel team does not want binary drivers, despite the fact that the availability of such drivers does *nothing* to "take control away from the developers".
The GPL is not about keeping source open. It is about forcing OTHERS to keep their addtions open. The same is true of the kernel binary API. They want to discourage others from making closed source software. So it is very much about pushing idiologies on others.
Additionally, you "Free" people really need to get a reality check. The purpose of computers is to provide functionality for *users*. Developers are really a small fraction of computer users. I'm not saying open source is bad. I've created open source software myself, and contributed patches to open source projects. But the open source has become so mired in the false sense of holy rightousness that is "Free" software that they seem to have forgotten that purpose of software in the first place!
Finally, DRM has nothing to do with open source. You can easily have DRM-free closed source software. Besides, DRM is not the issue really. It is just reflecting current copyright and IP law, which of course is the source of the problem. DRM is just enforcing current laws.
But if you want to be more concerned with some silly idiology than with real issues, that's fine. Open source will continue to lose out to closed source.
What you seem to forget, is that for the majority of users, Linux is a 'free' unix like system, and they could give a rats ass about "Free". If "Free" starts making things difficult to use, or preventing companies from supplying drivers for hardware users buy, then not only do users not care about "Free", but they will actively dislike "Free".
The bottom line is that having code be open is only important to a fraction of *developers*, and an extremely small small fraction of the general populance. Ultimately, "Free" software people want to push their ideoligy on others, they don't care about makeing functional easy to use systems.
It's unlikely that MS will go making major changes before a mod chip exists. Simply wait for a mod-chip, and then buy as soon as it's released. With Live though, you always run the risk of future troubles anyways.
Besides, one should NEVER buy into corporate whoring that is release day. People forget that us consumers are the ones with power, if only we could act more intelligently than horny apes.
I find their interview questions to be fairly good actually, definately the best part of the show. As for their personal opinions, I don't mind at all. But then, I'm very liberal, and so are they. The tendency to ramble instead of report news is a bit poor I admit. As for news, they tend to be accurate in biology and related fields, but very poor in physics and technology news.
I know I shouldn't respond to an AC, but the ignorance and ego in this post is astounding. We are talking about veto power on the DNS system here. Not in the UN!
I won't even approach your ignorance about WW2. Nice troll.
As a person, I'm not that comfortable with the USA having veto power. Why? Because of.XXX. It frightens me that a small group of religous right in the USA could cause something the rest of the globe agrees upon to be almost halted.
I see many bad trends in your government, and hardly regard them as the beacon of truth and justice many americans seem to think they are. Additionally, I don't see why the USA deserves such veto power. The internet would not be an international network without the cooperation of all parties involved. Therefore, there is no reason for any one of those countries to have sole veto power over TLDs.
Oh YES! I really agree. I didn't even *remember* that part of FF7, let alone find it scary. But System Shock 2, now THAT game was scary. The most vivid memories of that game were being scared. Either because of creepy shit, or because of powerfull opponents. Wow.
System Shock 2 + the Doom 3 engine would be total crack.
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The overall "game logic" code is probably a very small fraction of the overall code base. All games need certain functions, game time/event code, graphics rendering code, animation code, etc etc. Reusing code does not have anything to do with game play being original or not, unless they are also reusing game logic ideas (and code).
Sorry, regardless of how who invented the internet, there is absolutely no reason why the US should control other countries TLDs. None. This is not a matter of "reap the benefits". It's a matter of "we want to control our own country TLDs". The.com,.net,.org issue is sort of separate, and I don't think anyone should be able to censor those domains, that includes the US.
I think setting up their own root servers is what they will end up doing. As I see it, that's the way it should be. Just as.gov = USA,.ca != USA and the USA should not have any control over names under.ca or.uk etc.
As for.com,.net,.org, etc. I'm not sure what to do there. ICANN hasn't been great, but it's been fairly unbiased. I don't like how the US tried to exert it's power to kill.xxx though. So perhaps any registration should be allowed, and countries only have a say if something is going to NOT be allowed.
They do not care about bad publicity, because there is little to no alternative for people.
P.S. Please do not go on about independant artists. They are great and all, but people like their silly tv shows, and music, and whatnot that the RIAA provides. Asking the entire population to "go underground" in search of media is just not going to work.
The US government does not exert direct control over ICANN,
Oh, and I guess after Bush said.xxx was to be no more, everyone else who had already signed up for it, debated it, agreed upon it, suddenly changed their minds? Oh right, maybe the US forced ICANN to kill it.
I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced. If need be, I highly recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support.
You want to start a war over this? I think you will be sadly surprised that your country is not all powerfull, especially when the rest of the world is against you. You can take your high and mighty ego and shove it where the light don't shine.
In truth, if the rest of us decide to create our own root DNS servers, you are going to simply sit there, all by your self on USnet.
As for the UN, it will survive without the US. Since the US is quickly becomming a dangerous rogue state, it may be good to have it out of the UN anyways.
The simple fact of the matter is that the United States could destroy most of the economies in the World simply by telling our citizens not to buy or sell things from/to them.
What, like Cuba? They may be suffering, but last I check there were still there, doing business, living their lives free of US control. Sometimes freedom is more important than money..
I have a whole lot of problems with them and since it was my tax dollars and not the EU's that paid for the Internet in the first place (from the R&D to the initial deployments) I'll be damned if my Government turns it over to the World.
Then be damned, because you will lose control one way or another. You did NOT pay for the cables in countries outside the US. You did not pay for the routers, the power usage, the servers that are outside the US. You payed for a small part of the internet that connects your military servers and some academic institutions. Last I checked, no one was demanding that you give the World control over these segments.
I 100% agree ID belongs in philosophy class. In fact I took such a class in university that dealt with ideas of god and what not. It was fun.
But it is not science. There is no VS evolution. It's very very distict. Evolution is a scientific theory with an enormous body of evidice (really, there is), and ID is philosophy. To try and teach it in science class as science is wrong on so many levels.
ID vs evolution is very black and white. To think otherwise means you are not thinking at all. Really. There is a definition of science, and ID does not come close to meeting it. Evolution has an enormous amount of evidence backing it up.
I know many americans who have left your country who think completely opposite to you. But overshadowing all your comments are your comments on evolution and ID. They show that you do not think logically nor critically. As such, I see no point in continuing this conversation as evidence and reason obviously do not mean anything to you anyways.
I'm glad you have faith in your government, because eventually that is all you will have left.
(Still in absolute awe at your ID comments. Just wow. Fuck, better hold on to the ground lest gravity inverts!)
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Haha. No. Sorry. I've heard of enough ebay scams and crap deals that I don't buy this at all.
Just because you are not fat, doesn't mean that crap is good for you. I go to the gym as well. I eat healthy. The last time I had KFC (years ago), I literally got ill from the amount of grease in it.
But hey, if you want an early death... enjoy!
Lets correct your analogy. If a mob of people started cloning existing clones of your possessions, without ever entering your house or depriving you of the original possessions, would you even care?
I don't buy that anymore. Most of the parts in it are so old, they are nearly worthless.
Actually, that pippin idea sounds cool, but was clearly poorly executed and completely at the wrong time. Something like that done NOW, would be quite cool, so long as they could actually get games developed for it. Games are certainly not one of apples strong points!
Everything I've seen stated that keyboards and mice would ONLY work in the dash. :(
Actually, there IS a big difference starting to emerge. In the old shooters, you were exclusively by yourself in the story. The lone hero if you were.
Now, technology has improved to the point where you have competent AI allies who fight along side you. This is quite an important shift, and affects the type of stories you can tell. Don't get me wrong, so far you are still the 'hero', just not as alone.
Playing Quake 4, the biggest difference I found was that I really felt that I was part of a team of marines. I had allies, not just enemies. This is the same trait that made Halo good.
But yeah, most new games are similar to old games. What I find funny is that everyone complains "same old same old, why nothing new?" but no one actually has any suggestions for something "new". Really, there is only so much you can do with technology and apart from games like Katmari, it is genuinely hard to think of "super novel" ideas. Most improvements in life are iterative, not revolutionary. Games are no different.
As far as I am concerned, a stable API is simply good software engineer practise. It would make it easier for other groups to maintian and build drivers, regardless of their development model. The API is not stable for *political* reasons, not technical ones. The kernel team does not want binary drivers, despite the fact that the availability of such drivers does *nothing* to "take control away from the developers".
The GPL is not about keeping source open. It is about forcing OTHERS to keep their addtions open. The same is true of the kernel binary API. They want to discourage others from making closed source software. So it is very much about pushing idiologies on others.
Additionally, you "Free" people really need to get a reality check. The purpose of computers is to provide functionality for *users*. Developers are really a small fraction of computer users. I'm not saying open source is bad. I've created open source software myself, and contributed patches to open source projects. But the open source has become so mired in the false sense of holy rightousness that is "Free" software that they seem to have forgotten that purpose of software in the first place!
Finally, DRM has nothing to do with open source. You can easily have DRM-free closed source software. Besides, DRM is not the issue really. It is just reflecting current copyright and IP law, which of course is the source of the problem. DRM is just enforcing current laws.
But if you want to be more concerned with some silly idiology than with real issues, that's fine. Open source will continue to lose out to closed source.
What you seem to forget, is that for the majority of users, Linux is a 'free' unix like system, and they could give a rats ass about "Free". If "Free" starts making things difficult to use, or preventing companies from supplying drivers for hardware users buy, then not only do users not care about "Free", but they will actively dislike "Free".
The bottom line is that having code be open is only important to a fraction of *developers*, and an extremely small small fraction of the general populance. Ultimately, "Free" software people want to push their ideoligy on others, they don't care about makeing functional easy to use systems.
So preach all you want. Very few people care.
What? If the guy made 60k, then make him pay 90k to the gov. (you know, interest and all that). Why sieze anything?
If the guy does not pay, then start siezeing property.
It's unlikely that MS will go making major changes before a mod chip exists. Simply wait for a mod-chip, and then buy as soon as it's released. With Live though, you always run the risk of future troubles anyways.
Besides, one should NEVER buy into corporate whoring that is release day. People forget that us consumers are the ones with power, if only we could act more intelligently than horny apes.
I find their interview questions to be fairly good actually, definately the best part of the show. As for their personal opinions, I don't mind at all. But then, I'm very liberal, and so are they. The tendency to ramble instead of report news is a bit poor I admit. As for news, they tend to be accurate in biology and related fields, but very poor in physics and technology news.
I know I shouldn't respond to an AC, but the ignorance and ego in this post is astounding. We are talking about veto power on the DNS system here. Not in the UN!
I won't even approach your ignorance about WW2. Nice troll.
As a person, I'm not that comfortable with the USA having veto power. Why? Because of .XXX. It frightens me that a small group of religous right in the USA could cause something the rest of the globe agrees upon to be almost halted.
I see many bad trends in your government, and hardly regard them as the beacon of truth and justice many americans seem to think they are. Additionally, I don't see why the USA deserves such veto power. The internet would not be an international network without the cooperation of all parties involved. Therefore, there is no reason for any one of those countries to have sole veto power over TLDs.
Oh YES! I really agree. I didn't even *remember* that part of FF7, let alone find it scary. But System Shock 2, now THAT game was scary. The most vivid memories of that game were being scared. Either because of creepy shit, or because of powerfull opponents. Wow.
System Shock 2 + the Doom 3 engine would be total crack.
The overall "game logic" code is probably a very small fraction of the overall code base. All games need certain functions, game time/event code, graphics rendering code, animation code, etc etc. Reusing code does not have anything to do with game play being original or not, unless they are also reusing game logic ideas (and code).
Sorry, regardless of how who invented the internet, there is absolutely no reason why the US should control other countries TLDs. None. This is not a matter of "reap the benefits". It's a matter of "we want to control our own country TLDs". The .com, .net, .org issue is sort of separate, and I don't think anyone should be able to censor those domains, that includes the US.
I think setting up their own root servers is what they will end up doing. As I see it, that's the way it should be. Just as .gov = USA, .ca != USA and the USA should not have any control over names under .ca or .uk etc.
.com, .net, .org, etc. I'm not sure what to do there. ICANN hasn't been great, but it's been fairly unbiased. I don't like how the US tried to exert it's power to kill .xxx though. So perhaps any registration should be allowed, and countries only have a say if something is going to NOT be allowed.
As for
One word: Monopoly.
They do not care about bad publicity, because there is little to no alternative for people.
P.S. Please do not go on about independant artists. They are great and all, but people like their silly tv shows, and music, and whatnot that the RIAA provides. Asking the entire population to "go underground" in search of media is just not going to work.
The US government does not exert direct control over ICANN,
.xxx was to be no more, everyone else who had already signed up for it, debated it, agreed upon it, suddenly changed their minds? Oh right, maybe the US forced ICANN to kill it.
Oh, and I guess after Bush said
I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced. If need be, I highly recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support.
You want to start a war over this? I think you will be sadly surprised that your country is not all powerfull, especially when the rest of the world is against you. You can take your high and mighty ego and shove it where the light don't shine.
In truth, if the rest of us decide to create our own root DNS servers, you are going to simply sit there, all by your self on USnet.
As for the UN, it will survive without the US. Since the US is quickly becomming a dangerous rogue state, it may be good to have it out of the UN anyways.
The simple fact of the matter is that the United States could destroy most of the economies in the World simply by telling our citizens not to buy or sell things from/to them.
What, like Cuba? They may be suffering, but last I check there were still there, doing business, living their lives free of US control. Sometimes freedom is more important than money..
I have a whole lot of problems with them and since it was my tax dollars and not the EU's that paid for the Internet in the first place (from the R&D to the initial deployments) I'll be damned if my Government turns it over to the World.
Then be damned, because you will lose control one way or another. You did NOT pay for the cables in countries outside the US. You did not pay for the routers, the power usage, the servers that are outside the US. You payed for a small part of the internet that connects your military servers and some academic institutions. Last I checked, no one was demanding that you give the World control over these segments.
Perhaps if people were more concerned with helping each other and less time worrying about pleasing God, the world would be a better place.
I 100% agree ID belongs in philosophy class. In fact I took such a class in university that dealt with ideas of god and what not. It was fun.
But it is not science. There is no VS evolution. It's very very distict. Evolution is a scientific theory with an enormous body of evidice (really, there is), and ID is philosophy. To try and teach it in science class as science is wrong on so many levels.
ID vs evolution is very black and white. To think otherwise means you are not thinking at all. Really. There is a definition of science, and ID does not come close to meeting it. Evolution has an enormous amount of evidence backing it up.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512
The above is meant as a joke. But the frightening part is that there is absolutely no difference between that and ID vs. Evolution.
I know many americans who have left your country who think completely opposite to you. But overshadowing all your comments are your comments on evolution and ID. They show that you do not think logically nor critically. As such, I see no point in continuing this conversation as evidence and reason obviously do not mean anything to you anyways.
I'm glad you have faith in your government, because eventually that is all you will have left.
(Still in absolute awe at your ID comments. Just wow. Fuck, better hold on to the ground lest gravity inverts!)