and I'm not trolling. DRM has changed the way publishing works. Copyright as it is written in the US constitution has been fundamentally broken by new technology. This is why I hate conservatives. I can't get them to understand that a legal document written 200 years ago might, just might, not be 100% relevant any more. Principles are great when everyone subscribes to them, but when they other guy (the publishers) runs roughshod over them it's time to do the same.
There's a ton of unpatched vulnerabilities in IE. There's even some in Firefox (and if you start adding plug ins, which you have to do to use the web, there's lots). I've gotten viruses from embedded PDFs in youtube comments.
You assume people understand what their wishes are. There was a news story of a guy marching against socialized medicine in his Medicare provided scooter.
In Europe, sure. In the US, where Auto companies have done everything in their power to kill public transportation and regulate people with out cars to the status of second or third class citizens, not so much.
you're only thinking of the hardcore that knows to hit forums. All it takes is 1 phone call or email and they've lost all the profit on the sale, even if the call consists of "Servers down, try again later!".
I can't believe nobody mentioned Final Fantasy 8. It was running on an emulator, it even had some of the same graphics bugs that EPSXE had at the time (square hit boxes were visible on the maps). To be fair all they had to go on for FF7 was gold masters, Square deleted the original code/graphics (200 gigs was a lot back then, lol). But then What's FF8's excuse? To this day the best way to play them is running in EPSXE.
I notice when a business owner makes off with half a mil in a assets (unpaid wages) it's tough titties but if one of the employees had done the same thing to him the frickin' justice dept extradites his ass and throws him in jail.
it's 5 years old, so it's no surprise to me that a high end P4 is all you need. Heck, I just bought a $80 GT 240 to go with my 2 year old Athlon and I can play anything on the shelf on high.
What's the point of anything above 1200x720 when most people game on 22" or 24" monitors? Studies show on that size display anything above 720p is pointless. A bigger concern, you just don't need much to play what's comming out. I just got a 4760 and it'll play anything on the market at 720p full details. I can turn on FSAA without a big hit to frame rate, but honestly on my 22" Acer I can't tell when it on anyway.
PC gaming is kinda dead right now. Practically everything's an Xbox port. The last big title that needed major hardware was Crysis, and that came out 2 years ago. Makes me wonder why AMD/Nvidia don't go the Rockstar games route and commission a game that requires their hardware.
I can point to PETA's web site, which has tons of figures about how much land is used to grow meat. You can question the veracity of the figures, but at least they're there. Do you have anything to support your claims?
That's kinda the point of society. We get together and agree on common ground. So far, the common ground (that isn't making billions peddling smokes) is pretty dead set against the things. Personally I can't wait for smoking to be stamped out. It infuriates me that there are people w/o enough food to eat in this country while my tax dollars are going to tobacco subsidies. Because your 'legal pleasure' sure needs free money from the feds...
it completely ignores smoking's enormous cost to society. Right now a genius doctor is studying how to cure a completely avoidable form of lung cancer instead of researching a naturally occurring one. Right now food costs more because land is being used to grow tobacco. Right now gas costs more because trucks are burning fuel transporting smokes.
"But smokers pay taxes" you'll whine. There's a deference between money and resources. Money is an abstract and unlimited concept. Fuel, Land and Doctor's time are not.
You're transmitting your song over public airwaves. These airwaves are a limited resource that we give a monopoly over (e.g. each channel). You make plenty of money off the exposure you get on the radio. If you don't like it, don't broadcast you're fsckin' music over public airwaives
if you don't have a wife and kids. In this world it's not so easy to get a job. India & China treat their people like disposable commodities, and the rest of the world is starting to follow suite.
Or the Genesis 3? Or later Intellivisions fer cris'sake? I've noticed these 'History of' articles and retrogames sites kinda suck now. I was listening to a retrogames pod cast about peripherals and they spent the bulk of the cast talking about the Wii & Rock Band. Is it just me, or does game journalism kinda suck now?
None of which matters if you're down south living like an 18th century serf. The study doesn't suggest we lack the capacity to improve American lives, it suggests we won't.
If my opinion of the woman is that she is, in fact, a skanky ho, don't I have the right to express that opinion? If 'skanky ho' wasn't something inherently your opinion, I could see your argument. If I say RobotRunAmok is a Furry, and you're not, then yes, you have a case for defamation. If I say you're as weird as a Furry, well, now that's just opinion.
If it's the same rate of return, and the XP netbooks are being returned for technical issues (which means software, since it's the same hardware), doesn't that make Linux a whole lot more reliable? I guess you could say the Linux buyers are more technical and solve the software problems, but you could also say there's less room to break the damn thing in Linux. You can't install viruses (it's much harder in a true multi user OS) and you also can't try to use the laptop for crap it's not meant for (like loading up Office 2008).
more or less. As a tech, I can tell you that the only thing end users hate more than computers is backing them up. End users don't understand what goes on inside a computer, but they do understand that every aspect of their lives depends on them. So they're constantly stressed and worried about it crashing and it being their fault. It's all in marketing. Make the end users feel blameless for dataloss and NetOSes will sell like hotcakes.
Have you seen their current release list? Their core franchises are failing to get traction (Sonic, Phantasy Star, Golden Axe, Virtua Fighter). As a Sega fan since the Master System era I'm sad. What started their death? Bad decisions from the Saturn era and relentless competition from Sony? Yeah, but also they lost their President. When he died, they lost direction and focus.
Well, Bill Gates has more or less retired, and he's not gonna live forever...
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and I'm not trolling. DRM has changed the way publishing works. Copyright as it is written in the US constitution has been fundamentally broken by new technology. This is why I hate conservatives. I can't get them to understand that a legal document written 200 years ago might, just might, not be 100% relevant any more. Principles are great when everyone subscribes to them, but when they other guy (the publishers) runs roughshod over them it's time to do the same.
google for inelastic demand.
almost none of them can afford to bring it to court. When they know who they're suing their drop any cases against people who can fight.
There's a ton of unpatched vulnerabilities in IE. There's even some in Firefox (and if you start adding plug ins, which you have to do to use the web, there's lots). I've gotten viruses from embedded PDFs in youtube comments.
You assume people understand what their wishes are. There was a news story of a guy marching against socialized medicine in his Medicare provided scooter.
my boss can't read all my stickies and see how much work I'm shirking. At least, not with my handwriting he can't.
In Europe, sure. In the US, where Auto companies have done everything in their power to kill public transportation and regulate people with out cars to the status of second or third class citizens, not so much.
you're only thinking of the hardcore that knows to hit forums. All it takes is 1 phone call or email and they've lost all the profit on the sale, even if the call consists of "Servers down, try again later!".
I can't believe nobody mentioned Final Fantasy 8. It was running on an emulator, it even had some of the same graphics bugs that EPSXE had at the time (square hit boxes were visible on the maps). To be fair all they had to go on for FF7 was gold masters, Square deleted the original code/graphics (200 gigs was a lot back then, lol). But then What's FF8's excuse? To this day the best way to play them is running in EPSXE.
I notice when a business owner makes off with half a mil in a assets (unpaid wages) it's tough titties but if one of the employees had done the same thing to him the frickin' justice dept extradites his ass and throws him in jail.
it's 5 years old, so it's no surprise to me that a high end P4 is all you need. Heck, I just bought a $80 GT 240 to go with my 2 year old Athlon and I can play anything on the shelf on high.
What's the point of anything above 1200x720 when most people game on 22" or 24" monitors? Studies show on that size display anything above 720p is pointless. A bigger concern, you just don't need much to play what's comming out. I just got a 4760 and it'll play anything on the market at 720p full details. I can turn on FSAA without a big hit to frame rate, but honestly on my 22" Acer I can't tell when it on anyway.
PC gaming is kinda dead right now. Practically everything's an Xbox port. The last big title that needed major hardware was Crysis, and that came out 2 years ago. Makes me wonder why AMD/Nvidia don't go the Rockstar games route and commission a game that requires their hardware.
Fax machines and Stand Alone Credit Card terminals require them too. You can sometimes jury rig it to work, but it's a crap shoot....
I can point to PETA's web site, which has tons of figures about how much land is used to grow meat. You can question the veracity of the figures, but at least they're there. Do you have anything to support your claims?
That's kinda the point of society. We get together and agree on common ground. So far, the common ground (that isn't making billions peddling smokes) is pretty dead set against the things. Personally I can't wait for smoking to be stamped out. It infuriates me that there are people w/o enough food to eat in this country while my tax dollars are going to tobacco subsidies. Because your 'legal pleasure' sure needs free money from the feds...
it completely ignores smoking's enormous cost to society. Right now a genius doctor is studying how to cure a completely avoidable form of lung cancer instead of researching a naturally occurring one. Right now food costs more because land is being used to grow tobacco. Right now gas costs more because trucks are burning fuel transporting smokes.
"But smokers pay taxes" you'll whine. There's a deference between money and resources. Money is an abstract and unlimited concept. Fuel, Land and Doctor's time are not.
if you're selling the stuff online, you use the cloud as your web hosting.
You're transmitting your song over public airwaves. These airwaves are a limited resource that we give a monopoly over (e.g. each channel). You make plenty of money off the exposure you get on the radio. If you don't like it, don't broadcast you're fsckin' music over public airwaives
if you don't have a wife and kids. In this world it's not so easy to get a job. India & China treat their people like disposable commodities, and the rest of the world is starting to follow suite.
Or the Genesis 3? Or later Intellivisions fer cris'sake? I've noticed these 'History of' articles and retrogames sites kinda suck now. I was listening to a retrogames pod cast about peripherals and they spent the bulk of the cast talking about the Wii & Rock Band. Is it just me, or does game journalism kinda suck now?
None of which matters if you're down south living like an 18th century serf. The study doesn't suggest we lack the capacity to improve American lives, it suggests we won't.
If my opinion of the woman is that she is, in fact, a skanky ho, don't I have the right to express that opinion? If 'skanky ho' wasn't something inherently your opinion, I could see your argument. If I say RobotRunAmok is a Furry, and you're not, then yes, you have a case for defamation. If I say you're as weird as a Furry, well, now that's just opinion.
If it's the same rate of return, and the XP netbooks are being returned for technical issues (which means software, since it's the same hardware), doesn't that make Linux a whole lot more reliable? I guess you could say the Linux buyers are more technical and solve the software problems, but you could also say there's less room to break the damn thing in Linux. You can't install viruses (it's much harder in a true multi user OS) and you also can't try to use the laptop for crap it's not meant for (like loading up Office 2008).
more or less. As a tech, I can tell you that the only thing end users hate more than computers is backing them up. End users don't understand what goes on inside a computer, but they do understand that every aspect of their lives depends on them. So they're constantly stressed and worried about it crashing and it being their fault. It's all in marketing. Make the end users feel blameless for dataloss and NetOSes will sell like hotcakes.
Have you seen their current release list? Their core franchises are failing to get traction (Sonic, Phantasy Star, Golden Axe, Virtua Fighter). As a Sega fan since the Master System era I'm sad. What started their death? Bad decisions from the Saturn era and relentless competition from Sony? Yeah, but also they lost their President. When he died, they lost direction and focus. Well, Bill Gates has more or less retired, and he's not gonna live forever...