the last few third party developers. Half-Life was a done deal, and never release, and not just because Sega and EA didn't see eye to eye (EA didn't like competing with Sega's better sports titles). The only other console in history that you could pirate games that effortlessly for was the Famicom Disk System, which was officially killed by piracy.
these guys saleries and buyout packages mean they'll never have to work again. They're not taking any real risks. When it comes right down to it, they're the ruling class. Succeed or fail, it doesn't matter to them, they'll aways be ok.
When I was a kid videogames ruled my play
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since I was pretty poor, and getting 1 videogame, with all the characters, features and do-dads was like getting a whole box of toys.
or the architects, not the grunts. By themselves they're relatively harmless nutcases. Besides, it's not the Osamas or Jackels of the world that inspire true terror, it's the innocent looking guy that pulls up in a car and blows up.
is poor, desparate men and women with nothing to lose. Take someone, give them a job, a family and a future and see how eager they are to plant bombs on trains. That said, in 20 years when America's job market is flooded with 30 million+ (now legal) immigrants working for $5.15/hr, india and china's industrialization has drivin gas up to $10/gallon and a loaf of bread is $5-$10 dollars, expect to see random bombings and shootings here too.
did ati fix em? There where a bunch last I tried to really use the drive, but that was over a year ago. How about install? Last time I used ATI's driver on a non-stock kernel, it was a bitch to get working. I've got a Radeon 9200 right now (much as I love nvidia software, their tv out kinda sucks), and I've been stuck in WinXP.
as I recall, the problem with the kernel driver is it's not considered safe for writing. There's plenty of antecdotal evidence that it's ok to write, and I've done it, but has the been run through it's paces?
for launch. I don't know why people are surprised. The last 3 console releases (ps2, Xbox and Xbox360) where all scalped on ebay for way more than that. Sony's just responding to that. Expect the price to come down pretty quick as sales drop.
will be in well paying, first world countries? All of them? Probably. I remember a qoute from the CEO of Intel in an article on the shrinking tech market; only the market wasn't shrinking for him, he was busy expanding into 2nd and 3rd world countries.
where you can live, what jobs you can hold, and whether you can reproduce. You don't get to live in patently dangerous places, because then we have to go save you when the flood/fire/tornado we know is comming and we know we can protect against comes. I get to tell you what job you can hold, because self taught enginneers like William Mulholland don't get to build dams. And after your 5th or 6th welfare kid, if you want to stay on the gov't teet it's time to stop having kids (heck, I'd argue you shouldn't have been having kids in the first place).
Your actions don't happen in a vacume. Your freedoms are weighted against the benefits and risks to society. The classic example: shouting fire in a theatre. That's the whole point of society, a bunch of people getting together for the sake of stability and order.
I've been using vlc, but it's plugin crashes firefox pretty consistently. So what else can you use (that isn't just a front end to the same codecs wmplayer uses)?
OS's keep getting larger too. Vista's going to be 8 gig with a pretty barebones software library pre installed, and my last linux install hit about 6 or 7 gigs. For this to work, you'd have to get OS vendors to cut down their software, or at least segment it across drives. Both are pains to support and you'll have a hard time getting them to do it. Maybe for laptops (non-mechanical storage would be nice).
what worried me about the format war wasn't the pissing match between geeks over what's the best, it was the prospect of buying the 'wrong' format and having to shell out for a new player and buy all my movies again (or shell out big bucks for what's now a specialty item to play what I've already bought, anyone try to buy a betamax lately?). With tape at least you had to rebuy your favs everynow and then since the tapes wear out, disks don't really do that.
if we can do a/. story about a/. story, then next thing we'll have a/. story about the/. story about the/. story. From there it's just one small step to perpertual motion, clean energy and breaking the lightspeed barrier! Excelsior!
People pirate obscure artists all the time, or they used to until sites like Audiogalaxy got shut down. There are tons of obscure musicians who's catalogs are owned by big record companies thanks to buyouts. It's not just not worth the trouble to put them on iTunes, it'll never happen. Record Execs don't want to, it fragments the market. Selling/Promoting one no-talent pop diva is far more profitable then a thousand real artists. Plus, if the pop diva gets uppity she's easy to replace. An actual musician with his/her own sound and style is going to take his fans with him when he jumps ship.
The middle ground? It was lost when the big companies bought out mp3.com under threat of suing it into oblivion. The middle ground is some way for artists to reach their audience without being screwed over by a record company. Record Companies are actively pushing away from that.
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10 years ago a grocer's cashier had a career, now he's a 'Courtesy Clerk' earning $6 bucks/hr.
Segata Sanshiro will break the necks of all those wasting energy by not playing enough Sega Games.
it's an occupation. There's a difference.
the last few third party developers. Half-Life was a done deal, and never release, and not just because Sega and EA didn't see eye to eye (EA didn't like competing with Sega's better sports titles). The only other console in history that you could pirate games that effortlessly for was the Famicom Disk System, which was officially killed by piracy.
it's about lowering insurance premiums.
these guys saleries and buyout packages mean they'll never have to work again. They're not taking any real risks. When it comes right down to it, they're the ruling class. Succeed or fail, it doesn't matter to them, they'll aways be ok.
since I was pretty poor, and getting 1 videogame, with all the characters, features and do-dads was like getting a whole box of toys.
or the architects, not the grunts. By themselves they're relatively harmless nutcases. Besides, it's not the Osamas or Jackels of the world that inspire true terror, it's the innocent looking guy that pulls up in a car and blows up.
is poor, desparate men and women with nothing to lose. Take someone, give them a job, a family and a future and see how eager they are to plant bombs on trains. That said, in 20 years when America's job market is flooded with 30 million+ (now legal) immigrants working for $5.15/hr, india and china's industrialization has drivin gas up to $10/gallon and a loaf of bread is $5-$10 dollars, expect to see random bombings and shootings here too.
did ati fix em? There where a bunch last I tried to really use the drive, but that was over a year ago. How about install? Last time I used ATI's driver on a non-stock kernel, it was a bitch to get working. I've got a Radeon 9200 right now (much as I love nvidia software, their tv out kinda sucks), and I've been stuck in WinXP.
as I recall, the problem with the kernel driver is it's not considered safe for writing. There's plenty of antecdotal evidence that it's ok to write, and I've done it, but has the been run through it's paces?
for launch. I don't know why people are surprised. The last 3 console releases (ps2, Xbox and Xbox360) where all scalped on ebay for way more than that. Sony's just responding to that. Expect the price to come down pretty quick as sales drop.
what actually happens is a big, nasty war where all the poor people shoot/drop bombs on each other until there's enough resources to go around.
Coach: I see you are trying to kill a Ninja, would you like help?
* Get Help Killing The Ninja.
* Just kill the Ninja without help.
[]Don't show this messege again.
will be in well paying, first world countries? All of them? Probably. I remember a qoute from the CEO of Intel in an article on the shrinking tech market; only the market wasn't shrinking for him, he was busy expanding into 2nd and 3rd world countries.
it's a computer!
where you can live, what jobs you can hold, and whether you can reproduce. You don't get to live in patently dangerous places, because then we have to go save you when the flood/fire/tornado we know is comming and we know we can protect against comes. I get to tell you what job you can hold, because self taught enginneers like William Mulholland don't get to build dams. And after your 5th or 6th welfare kid, if you want to stay on the gov't teet it's time to stop having kids (heck, I'd argue you shouldn't have been having kids in the first place).
Your actions don't happen in a vacume. Your freedoms are weighted against the benefits and risks to society. The classic example: shouting fire in a theatre. That's the whole point of society, a bunch of people getting together for the sake of stability and order.
I've been using vlc, but it's plugin crashes firefox pretty consistently. So what else can you use (that isn't just a front end to the same codecs wmplayer uses)?
OS's keep getting larger too. Vista's going to be 8 gig with a pretty barebones software library pre installed, and my last linux install hit about 6 or 7 gigs. For this to work, you'd have to get OS vendors to cut down their software, or at least segment it across drives. Both are pains to support and you'll have a hard time getting them to do it. Maybe for laptops (non-mechanical storage would be nice).
than a launch day PS3 off ebay.
what worried me about the format war wasn't the pissing match between geeks over what's the best, it was the prospect of buying the 'wrong' format and having to shell out for a new player and buy all my movies again (or shell out big bucks for what's now a specialty item to play what I've already bought, anyone try to buy a betamax lately?). With tape at least you had to rebuy your favs everynow and then since the tapes wear out, disks don't really do that.
they're pulling in enough money that the execs will just get replaced.
if we can do a /. story about a /. story, then next thing we'll have a /. story about the /. story about the /. story. From there it's just one small step to perpertual motion, clean energy and breaking the lightspeed barrier! Excelsior!
If you're the kind of person who'll drop $1 for 5 to 10 mintues of play, you probably have a 52" tv...
People pirate obscure artists all the time, or they used to until sites like Audiogalaxy got shut down. There are tons of obscure musicians who's catalogs are owned by big record companies thanks to buyouts. It's not just not worth the trouble to put them on iTunes, it'll never happen. Record Execs don't want to, it fragments the market. Selling/Promoting one no-talent pop diva is far more profitable then a thousand real artists. Plus, if the pop diva gets uppity she's easy to replace. An actual musician with his/her own sound and style is going to take his fans with him when he jumps ship.
The middle ground? It was lost when the big companies bought out mp3.com under threat of suing it into oblivion. The middle ground is some way for artists to reach their audience without being screwed over by a record company. Record Companies are actively pushing away from that.