In my experience, a torrent with a good amount of seeds (several hundred) and a good seed:peer ratio tends to max out my downstream connection constantly. Because it is downloading from many different sources, it greatly decreases the problem of bottlenecks in some random place out of your ISP's control.
Nintendo has a history of suggesting that their next console will have backwards compatibility and then pulling out later. (Talking about home consoles here, the GameBoy/DS line is a different matter.) It looks like the Wii will definitely have backwards compatibility. The SNES processor (a modified 65c816) had a compatibility mode for the NES processor (a (modified?) 6502) because they originally planned for the SNES to accept NES but then decided not to.
Uh, last I checked, XP had no problem with that. Obviously, other than printers, the rest of your examples would not be items included in the OS. Network shared printers and folders/drives do show up. You can use iTunes for the music sharing. You can use any Bonjour/Rendevous client you want. I do not know of any collaborative editing applications, but I would be surprised if none that run on XP supported what you descibe.
Music and video production is certainly expensive to do well. That does not mean it will not happen, but you are right that the artists do need some way to afford these materials. On the other hand, painting seems to be an out of place example. The canvas may be expensive, but the original of a painting is a physical item, which carries its own value outside of the realm of IP and copyright.
It seems like a different situation to me. BNET does not host games. BNET simply provides chat and an interface through which players can find and advertise games. On the other hand, making a MMOG server would be a rather large task. In theory, a MMOG server is the part actually running the game and the client is just a thin-client rendering what the server tells it to. Sure an open source WoW client would aid the development of a similar online game, but it is only a small piece of the whole game.
It sounds like DQ is a lot older than the Wii and it does not sound like the wand is anything like the Wiimote. I would think that a wand would be an obvious interface to game in which in the player is a mage of some sort.
I believe that is in Nintendo's plan. I hear the dev kit is $2000 (although it may be difficult to get one right now). Obviously, that is more than it costs to get started on PC ($0; assuming you already have the hardware in both cases), but it is cheaper than most consoles. Nintendo is offering easy XBox Live Arcade-style distribution of games via their Virtual Console feature. Actually, on that topic, how has XBLA been for indie developers?
You misunderstand. The government may or may not notice, but they do not care. The department collecting taxes with the fake SS numbers is, of course, the IRS. The mandate of the IRS is to collect taxes, not enforce immigration laws. They could not care less about enforcing any laws except those related to tax evasion/fraud. They are quite happy to take in money from people who are not offically paying, cannot request a refund, and are not using government services.
In regards to what seems to be the real privacy issue here, how much medical information can be gleaned from those markers? If your medical insurance company had the DNA information from the database, could they determined if you were predisposed to certain types of cancer, heart disease, etc.?
You must be young, an idealist, or both. The state isn't comprised of Good people. In all probability government attracts far more bad, power-hungry people than it attracts good people.
Your point is true. That is why we have checks and balances and why an educated populus which can make informed voting choices is necessary.
The military never overthrows a government, even if the commands given it might be illegal or immoral (the rule usually is: obey or be shot). Just go read a history book on that one.
The military overthrowing the government is not unheard of; it is called a Coup d'état (technically not always done by the military, just usually). On the other hand, illegal or immoral commands will not lead to a coup, but an order to open fire on a mob of unarmed protesters storming the capital building or white house would probably make most soliders think twice.
I guess is depends. Unforunately, your last point could be quite true, but if enough people are worried about what the government is doing, the assult on civil liberties will be forced to stop or maybe even reverse after the next election.
Your comment applies to telcols, cable companies, and other utilities, but it does not explain other large companies like Microsoft and Walmart, which use their size to keep competitors out (although government anti-trust legistlation supposedly makes that behavior illegal). Another problem with a 100% free market is transparency. In our current system, publicly traded companies have to tell the truth about their accounting (in theory). Also, they cannot lie in advertising (once again, in theory).
If he is going through all of that trouble to make the MySpace, I think he can be bothered to insure he is untraceable. He could use open wireless networks around the area (change the MAC if you are really paranoid), and he could use public library computers. He could be traced to the area that the high school covers, but that would be pretty obvious given the content anyway.
I don't think the solutions to the many API pages problem is simply not listing the copies. I think it would be more like the current limitation on how many hits from the same site Google will normally display. Just have a link "Show more sites with the same content." Not similiar content, identical content. Although, determining that is difficult becuase formatting is different and sites may have their own navbars or headers/footers.
Just a minor note: At E3, Nintendo announced that Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess would be released in two separate SKUs: one for the GameCube and one for the Wii with Wiimote pointing for the bow and arrow and hookshot and widescreen display. It is assumed they will release on the same day, and the ability of the Wii version to play in GameCube mode is unknown but unlikely.
I have in fact played through both SMB3 and SMW, although I admit that I have never actually completed a Final Fantasy game. The differences between CRPGs are the different ways to level up your characters and control their stats and abilities. Saying that all the FF games are the same because they all involve fighting the same enemies over and over is like saying SMB3 and SMW are the same game because you jump on Koopas in both of them.
Every FF game is a different variation on a CRPG. The first few are turn based and the rest are active battle system except 12 is real time. That does not mean they all had the same battle system. They are no more similar in gameplay than SMB3 and SMW, actually much less so.
Okay, I guess that point is gone, then. Thank you for correcting me.
You mean, when Windows formats a drive as NTFS, it sets the ACL at the root of the drive to have execute allowed. The limitation is in Windows' defaults, not in Windows or in NTFS.
I can't really argue with you on that. Windows and/or Windows programs need to be changed so their defaults make running IM viruses more difficult.
I have never seen an IM virus that uses file transfers to spread. I have recieved a few via AIM with links to web sites where you can download the virus, though. (The link, of course, claims to be something else.) Also, they look really fake because the wording/spelling is completely different from that of the person who is infected with the virus, and most people use some sort of custom fonts/colors which are different from the virus' message. Basically, you would have to be pretty stupid to actually click the link, anymore run the virus afterwards.
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In my experience, a torrent with a good amount of seeds (several hundred) and a good seed:peer ratio tends to max out my downstream connection constantly. Because it is downloading from many different sources, it greatly decreases the problem of bottlenecks in some random place out of your ISP's control.
Five number/letter blocks are pretty much the traditional way to break up enciphered messages. That does not mean they must be from the same source.
Nintendo has a history of suggesting that their next console will have backwards compatibility and then pulling out later. (Talking about home consoles here, the GameBoy/DS line is a different matter.) It looks like the Wii will definitely have backwards compatibility. The SNES processor (a modified 65c816) had a compatibility mode for the NES processor (a (modified?) 6502) because they originally planned for the SNES to accept NES but then decided not to.
Uh, last I checked, XP had no problem with that. Obviously, other than printers, the rest of your examples would not be items included in the OS. Network shared printers and folders/drives do show up. You can use iTunes for the music sharing. You can use any Bonjour/Rendevous client you want. I do not know of any collaborative editing applications, but I would be surprised if none that run on XP supported what you descibe.
A lot of stuff gets filtered out of comments. I have never seen anyone use colored text, so I assume there is no way to do it.
Music and video production is certainly expensive to do well. That does not mean it will not happen, but you are right that the artists do need some way to afford these materials. On the other hand, painting seems to be an out of place example. The canvas may be expensive, but the original of a painting is a physical item, which carries its own value outside of the realm of IP and copyright.
The QBasic games definitely came with DOS 5.21/5.22. Gorilla.bas and nibbles.bas were great games. :)
That is what everyone online has been calling it, but officially Nintendo calls it the "Wii Remote".
It seems like a different situation to me. BNET does not host games. BNET simply provides chat and an interface through which players can find and advertise games. On the other hand, making a MMOG server would be a rather large task. In theory, a MMOG server is the part actually running the game and the client is just a thin-client rendering what the server tells it to. Sure an open source WoW client would aid the development of a similar online game, but it is only a small piece of the whole game.
It sounds like DQ is a lot older than the Wii and it does not sound like the wand is anything like the Wiimote. I would think that a wand would be an obvious interface to game in which in the player is a mage of some sort.
Don't worry, it will, just not from MS.
You misunderstand. The government may or may not notice, but they do not care. The department collecting taxes with the fake SS numbers is, of course, the IRS. The mandate of the IRS is to collect taxes, not enforce immigration laws. They could not care less about enforcing any laws except those related to tax evasion/fraud. They are quite happy to take in money from people who are not offically paying, cannot request a refund, and are not using government services.
In regards to what seems to be the real privacy issue here, how much medical information can be gleaned from those markers? If your medical insurance company had the DNA information from the database, could they determined if you were predisposed to certain types of cancer, heart disease, etc.?
Your point is true. That is why we have checks and balances and why an educated populus which can make informed voting choices is necessary.
The military overthrowing the government is not unheard of; it is called a Coup d'état (technically not always done by the military, just usually). On the other hand, illegal or immoral commands will not lead to a coup, but an order to open fire on a mob of unarmed protesters storming the capital building or white house would probably make most soliders think twice.
I guess is depends. Unforunately, your last point could be quite true, but if enough people are worried about what the government is doing, the assult on civil liberties will be forced to stop or maybe even reverse after the next election.
Your comment applies to telcols, cable companies, and other utilities, but it does not explain other large companies like Microsoft and Walmart, which use their size to keep competitors out (although government anti-trust legistlation supposedly makes that behavior illegal). Another problem with a 100% free market is transparency. In our current system, publicly traded companies have to tell the truth about their accounting (in theory). Also, they cannot lie in advertising (once again, in theory).
If he is going through all of that trouble to make the MySpace, I think he can be bothered to insure he is untraceable. He could use open wireless networks around the area (change the MAC if you are really paranoid), and he could use public library computers. He could be traced to the area that the high school covers, but that would be pretty obvious given the content anyway.
Isn't there off-season time to catch up on shows when the broadcasts are re-runs?
I don't think the solutions to the many API pages problem is simply not listing the copies. I think it would be more like the current limitation on how many hits from the same site Google will normally display. Just have a link "Show more sites with the same content." Not similiar content, identical content. Although, determining that is difficult becuase formatting is different and sites may have their own navbars or headers/footers.
Just a minor note: At E3, Nintendo announced that Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess would be released in two separate SKUs: one for the GameCube and one for the Wii with Wiimote pointing for the bow and arrow and hookshot and widescreen display. It is assumed they will release on the same day, and the ability of the Wii version to play in GameCube mode is unknown but unlikely.
I have in fact played through both SMB3 and SMW, although I admit that I have never actually completed a Final Fantasy game. The differences between CRPGs are the different ways to level up your characters and control their stats and abilities. Saying that all the FF games are the same because they all involve fighting the same enemies over and over is like saying SMB3 and SMW are the same game because you jump on Koopas in both of them.
Every FF game is a different variation on a CRPG. The first few are turn based and the rest are active battle system except 12 is real time. That does not mean they all had the same battle system. They are no more similar in gameplay than SMB3 and SMW, actually much less so.
Sorry, but doesn't the GBA SP play GB/GBC games and the GBA Micro does not?
Okay, I guess that point is gone, then. Thank you for correcting me.
You mean, when Windows formats a drive as NTFS, it sets the ACL at the root of the drive to have execute allowed. The limitation is in Windows' defaults, not in Windows or in NTFS.
I can't really argue with you on that. Windows and/or Windows programs need to be changed so their defaults make running IM viruses more difficult.
I have never seen an IM virus that uses file transfers to spread. I have recieved a few via AIM with links to web sites where you can download the virus, though. (The link, of course, claims to be something else.) Also, they look really fake because the wording/spelling is completely different from that of the person who is infected with the virus, and most people use some sort of custom fonts/colors which are different from the virus' message. Basically, you would have to be pretty stupid to actually click the link, anymore run the virus afterwards.