I agree in a way, but the problem with MMORPGs is that the storyline barely exists. You can play days, months, or years knowing absolutely nothing of the backstory. They are all carbon copy advancement engines.
That's what I miss about adventure games, they had a story to follow. More like an interactive book than a chore.
It's not enough that they're screwing us with album prices. Now they're going to make ISPs hire more people so they can support one-offs on people moving pirated music over the internet, which means my ISP bill will probably raise to compensate for it.
I know they just wanted that one guy who downloaded 600 songs in a day, but c'mon, once they sue and jail all the big downloaders, they'll go after the little girls downloading singles off of Kazaa. (or whatever crap-ass P2P app is popular at the time)
Personally the only reason I have a 'Linux bias' is because Windows has so much overhead. If I build a PVR(DVR?) machine, I'd like as much of the hardware to be dedicated to capturing and encoding the movie as possible.
I try to find an operating system that has enough features to run the software, but minimalist enough that it doesn't take anything away from the main purpose of the machine.
I'm not so sure price will be all that different. Nintendo has been using RAMBUS technology on their consoles for a while (way before Intel adopted it).
On the other hand, I hope music publishers don't get a hold of this data. Next year there will be a new band that sounds like someone banging on shit with a rubber mallot and it will instantly sell millions.
Secondly, XBoxLive is not a broadband carrier, it's just a gaming service (much like mPlayer and Zone.com). You're just paying for the community and the ability to match up with people. You have to have a broadband connection already through one of the providers you've listed (or others).
Yes, this was likely part of the plan. Many new ventures are not immediately profitable, they take time to develop a userbase. In the meantime, the company will take losses so that their products get out to market and have the opportunity to compete. I willing to bet that they have losses written into their books for the first few years until they can get a hold on the market.
Uh, no... If you made a chair exactly like a Lay-Z-Boy, and put the logo on it, it would be copyright infringement. You're infringing on their chair technology and on their copyrighted logo. Same with the Simpsons, if you rebroadcast it with your name on it, you're violating copyright.
According to the Article, Palladium is managed by a Nexus or Trusted Operating Root. The Nexus can be written by any publisher (so in essence, someone could just create a Nexus that has no security checks and 'disable' it)
Couldn't Tivo keep track of which commercials were skipped and which ones weren't? With this information couldn't they determine what kind of commercials Joe Consumer doesn't mind watching and put those up between shows?
Wouldn't require too much re-working of the system, and could improve the effectiveness of television advertising rather than relying on the whole "shotgun method".
From the advertising sales standpoint, nothing would change, it would just be a different method of delivery which more accurately targets the product's core demographic.
Slashdot frustrates the hell out of me. It's just the same argument over and over again, why doesn't *anyone* read the post/comments before making one of their own? It's been said over and over, copyright and patent is completely different. If you're caught using someone's patented idea you can just stop using it and nobody gets sued, voila. Stop making this into something it's not.
I hope you're not implying that ATi's driver problems are a figment of our collective imaginations. Ever since ATi has joined the 3d gaming market they've had piss poor driver support. I've heard good things about the new Radeons, but my Radeon 64m DDR had issues from the start. I forget exactly which version it was (I could go back and look if need be), but after installing it Win2k would boot up to a solid black screen, they didn't fix it either, until the next revision some 5 months later.
As far as I'm concerned, this kind of violence has probably been happening since the dawn of time. But now as a society we're so news-happy that every time something goes wrong it's thrown in our face and forced into our collective mouths.
Some people just don't want to take responsibility for their own actions, it's the same people who want something for nothing, suing McDonalds because they poured hot coffee on themselves.
Parent's, and our Government for that matter, need to stop blaming everyone else for their problems and do their job (ie - making this country a better place for us, the people they're supposed to be representing).
Am I the only one who noticed this? I wonder how long it'll take for some ambitious hacker to make a portable webserver, a firewall that barks, or in a more malicious context, an adorable little password cracker that does tricks for the sysadmin while it's downloading sensitive data?
Slashdot Mirror
Let's hope it succeeds and they give us another game like The Dig. :)
I agree in a way, but the problem with MMORPGs is that the storyline barely exists. You can play days, months, or years knowing absolutely nothing of the backstory. They are all carbon copy advancement engines.
That's what I miss about adventure games, they had a story to follow. More like an interactive book than a chore.
Nope, he said he didn't have any SCUDs, and that's what was fired (according to what Hans Blix said last night at least).
"Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
I doubt the RIAA knows what IRC is.
I think the only reason they know about P2P apps is because it was on 60 minutes.
It's not enough that they're screwing us with album prices. Now they're going to make ISPs hire more people so they can support one-offs on people moving pirated music over the internet, which means my ISP bill will probably raise to compensate for it.
I know they just wanted that one guy who downloaded 600 songs in a day, but c'mon, once they sue and jail all the big downloaders, they'll go after the little girls downloading singles off of Kazaa. (or whatever crap-ass P2P app is popular at the time)
Personally the only reason I have a 'Linux bias' is because Windows has so much overhead. If I build a PVR(DVR?) machine, I'd like as much of the hardware to be dedicated to capturing and encoding the movie as possible.
I try to find an operating system that has enough features to run the software, but minimalist enough that it doesn't take anything away from the main purpose of the machine.
There are a couple of Lian-Li cases that look almost the same as a AV component.
(look under the desktop cases)
www.lian-li.com
I'm not so sure price will be all that different. Nintendo has been using RAMBUS technology on their consoles for a while (way before Intel adopted it).
On the other hand, I hope music publishers don't get a hold of this data.
Next year there will be a new band that sounds like someone banging on shit with a rubber mallot and it will instantly sell millions.
It's a LucasArts game, SOE/Verant is just developing the game engine.
Lugash: ... cats for everybody.
LittleGirl: But I had a dog.
Lugash: It cat now.
Secondly,
XBoxLive is not a broadband carrier, it's just a gaming service (much like mPlayer and Zone.com). You're just paying for the community and the ability to match up with people. You have to have a broadband connection already through one of the providers you've listed (or others).
Yes, this was likely part of the plan.
Many new ventures are not immediately profitable, they take time to develop a userbase. In the meantime, the company will take losses so that their products get out to market and have the opportunity to compete.
I willing to bet that they have losses written into their books for the first few years until they can get a hold on the market.
Uh, no...
If you made a chair exactly like a Lay-Z-Boy, and put the logo on it, it would be copyright infringement. You're infringing on their chair technology and on their copyrighted logo.
Same with the Simpsons, if you rebroadcast it with your name on it, you're violating copyright.
According to the Article, Palladium is managed by a Nexus or Trusted Operating Root. The Nexus can be written by any publisher (so in essence, someone could just create a Nexus that has no security checks and 'disable' it)
Couldn't Tivo keep track of which commercials were skipped and which ones weren't? With this information couldn't they determine what kind of commercials Joe Consumer doesn't mind watching and put those up between shows?
Wouldn't require too much re-working of the system, and could improve the effectiveness of television advertising rather than relying on the whole "shotgun method".
From the advertising sales standpoint, nothing would change, it would just be a different method of delivery which more accurately targets the product's core demographic.
Just a thought.
Slashdot frustrates the hell out of me.
It's just the same argument over and over again, why doesn't *anyone* read the post/comments before making one of their own?
It's been said over and over, copyright and patent is completely different. If you're caught using someone's patented idea you can just stop using it and nobody gets sued, voila. Stop making this into something it's not.
I hope you're not implying that ATi's driver problems are a figment of our collective imaginations.
Ever since ATi has joined the 3d gaming market they've had piss poor driver support. I've heard good things about the new Radeons, but my Radeon 64m DDR had issues from the start. I forget exactly which version it was (I could go back and look if need be), but after installing it Win2k would boot up to a solid black screen, they didn't fix it either, until the next revision some 5 months later.
Preach On! :-P
Video Games don't kill people, People kill people
Video Games just make them more efficient.
Some people just don't want to take responsibility for their own actions, it's the same people who want something for nothing, suing McDonalds because they poured hot coffee on themselves.
Parent's, and our Government for that matter, need to stop blaming everyone else for their problems and do their job (ie - making this country a better place for us, the people they're supposed to be representing).
Okay that made some sense, I think I'm done now.
#11 - Averting your eyes from roadside billboards long enough to watch where you're going.
#12 - Being Blind or Deaf...
14. Send and get data using Wireless LAN (TCP/IP)
Am I the only one who noticed this? I wonder how long it'll take for some ambitious hacker to make a portable webserver, a firewall that barks, or in a more malicious context, an adorable little password cracker that does tricks for the sysadmin while it's downloading sensitive data?