If it was MP3, it may not play on iPod due to some intentionally corrupted sequences. But it sure would be burnable to CD by some of hundreds of available tools. I say it's WMA and "MP3 player" in the article is a misnomer.
Why do you care about install and patch time of Windows if you are not buying a new computer? It's not THAT unstable to have to reinstall every month, full drive backups to CD-R or external hard drive is also an option. Someday soon you dilemma will become moot because none of the new games will run on your computer. You can then consider a Dell (I assume you want to save money) with Linux pre-installed. The processor will then be powerful enough to run Parallels with Direct X emulation.
As a "player of these games", is it any business of yours how I play my copy of the game and weather I see stuff without going through a particular level? Online games are a different matter and it would be Ok if online savegames were signed by the server.
slashdot prevents users from applying a CSS filter to their personal copy of their discussion pages to block annoying comments from anonymous coward. Just another case of slashdot treating its visitors like criminals.
Nintendo does none of this. They encrypt savefiles. So what? This does not impede on your right to do anything. You can play any given game on as many Wiis as you wish. Nintendo is also not suing people to force hackers to halt breaking their savefile encryption. Game developers generally don't want players artificially advancing within games.
You are from a generation that forgot about actual property rights, despite extensive brainwashing about intellectual property. The game console, the game disk and the memory stick are MINE. Personally, I find at least one area in each game that I don't enjoy playing through due to repetitive tasks, boring scenario or requirement for teenager reflexes. There is nothing wrong with using a device like GameShark to "teleport" me beyond the area or give me a BFG to get through it efficiently. Most PC games have an engine console that allows as much and is appropriately blocked in online mode. I don't care what developers want to do with my personal property. If they actually purposely interfere with my full use of it, they should be arrested for trespassing.
Now, if I connect to an online server, I am using other people's property. I guess it would be Ok if games were signed and not encrypted and the signature would be verified for any use in online mode, including transmitting the statistics or using bonus characters.
Is the question why your personal device keeps secrets from you. It's your savegames. You should be able to modify them as you wish. Yet another case of a company treating customers like criminals.
Well, from evolutionary point of view, if given a choice between food and sex, a young male should fuck most of the time. It may be different for older man who need to support existing children or have established partner(s) and are assured of abundant sex later. Certainly, many man choose to directly risk life for sex in real world. Think of performing a dangerous stunt to impress a girl, risking AIDS by having unprotected sex on the spot, sneaking into a hareem of a king (in which case you are additional assuring good support/further propogation for your children) or blowing yourself up for the promise of 40 virgins.
However, what we are talking about here is not sex but trust. Suppose you are socially conservative and tell your son not to watch porn. Even if he ends up sneaking a pick at boobies once in a while, do you really trust him so little that you think he will actually go and take part in a gang rape?Certainly just because some acts are undesirable doesn't mean that one is immediately harmed by seeing a depiction of the same act or fantasizing. If that's the case, we should surely ban any violence such as hitting in cartoons and take shows like Law and Order off the air immediately.
Boss discussing porn with a subordinate and penalizing him for "performance" on an off-work personal errand? There are so many lawsuits lurking there I don't even know where to start.
I would hope to trust my teenager to recognize the difference between fantasy and reality and not to reenact scenes from porn without considering safety, legal and consent aspects of sex in the real world as well as importance of asking a woman if she is into, say, urination during sex before performing a particular act. Because if I don't, I also have to worry about him killing street prostitutes after playing GTA or joining army after watching the TV recruitment ads.
In this case though, I suspect that the porn offends/harms the mother rather than the teenager and she is installing a blocker for her own comfort.
Why waste time looking for a more sophisticated solution to a problem that is misunderstood by your boss anyway? Just get one of off-the-shelf filtering solutions and let the teenager bypass it if he is smart and determined enough to install Firefox.
I shudder at the lack of trust between this young man and his mother though. If it is justified, he will probably end up in jail once he turns 18 and can no longer be legally restrained.
I don't know about more fundamental, but it doesn't appear more precise. As I understand, every hydrogen atom's mass is exactly the same as another ones.
However, as technology progresses, we can obtain more and more precise measurements. This is the opposite of the current situation with a chunk of metal that changes it's mass at measurable rate.
I am surprised that they are not using more fundamental standards, like the mass of a hydrogen atom. After all, too many things can happen to a chunk of metal - evaporation, oxidation, radioactive decay.
Sure Apple, will not be able to maintain complete control of online store pricing or terms of use. Still, five bucks per episode is insane for a product of lesser quality than full movies and that is also available for free with ads. It's better for Apple to drop NBC altogether than offer something that will be ridiculed by customers.
"Flexible pricing" would be more appropriate as offering some combination of episodes and movies as a bundle, at a discount compared to everything bought separately.
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Dude, you have serious mental independence issues. If you want to find something funny, laugh. Don't whine if other people don't. Me, I laugh at people who buy a brand new computer with IT headaches just to play a game. Are water guns that expensive or something?
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I bought Doom 3, Quake 4, Tron 2, Elite Force 1 and 2, whole Myst series and a few vintage titles like Hexen. I would pay a fair price (say $10/game) for abandon-ware titles that I actually play if I had a chance to preview them first and they were actually sold. I didn't buy a single Windows title all this time
Which other Mac users do you think will motivate the game company more than me?
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I am willing to pay for rich graphics and I spend lots of money on technology. What I am not willing to do is repartition my hard drive, buy, install, configure and patch Vista, and then reboot twice every time I want to play their game. I am sure it will also make me find and insert the original CD every time, something not practical when I am traveling with my MacBook Pro. A game is just a game, if the vendor is not willing to make it a good citizen on my computer, I will just play something else.
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Sure, if it would help the vendor understand how they can capture more market.
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Until they release a Mac version. In the meantime I have a 10GB abandonware archive that mostly runs fine under DosBox to amuse myself.
Socialism is both self-evidently false and a uniform failure where ever and to what ever it's been applied.
Did capitalism result in prosperity, strong middle class and trickle down effect the first few times it was applied? As I recall, it resulted in violent uprisings of pissed off workers?
Was democracy successful the first few times it was applied? The first democratic republics eventually elected dictators, and so did Germans in not so distant history.
Here are some things that are self evident
Capitalism needs to be tightly regulated to actually maintain free market. Otherwise one corporation eventually controls all industries and by extension people's lives without any accountability.
Once society becomes affluent enough, it becomes ridiculous to charge for (basic) food, water, shelter, health care.
Nobody likes homeless harassing them on the street and we would rather have cities with nice parks, public art, metro and other public works. It seems unlikely that capitalism by itself will tackle these issues.
How are we going to defend our country against say, a Chinese invasion, if we can not build airplanes, write software or make cloth without their help? I still remember the episode when French-made Iraq planes wouldn't fly during the original gulf war because they were disabled by a remote radio transmission. No wonder that lately we are reduced to picking on small potatoes like Afghanistan and Iraq and have no spine to stand up against the real bullies.
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If it was MP3, it may not play on iPod due to some intentionally corrupted sequences. But it sure would be burnable to CD by some of hundreds of available tools. I say it's WMA and "MP3 player" in the article is a misnomer.
Why do you care about install and patch time of Windows if you are not buying a new computer? It's not THAT unstable to have to reinstall every month, full drive backups to CD-R or external hard drive is also an option. Someday soon you dilemma will become moot because none of the new games will run on your computer. You can then consider a Dell (I assume you want to save money) with Linux pre-installed. The processor will then be powerful enough to run Parallels with Direct X emulation.
As a "player of these games", is it any business of yours how I play my copy of the game and weather I see stuff without going through a particular level? Online games are a different matter and it would be Ok if online savegames were signed by the server.
slashdot prevents users from applying a CSS filter to their personal copy of their discussion pages to block annoying comments from anonymous coward. Just another case of slashdot treating its visitors like criminals.
Nintendo does none of this. They encrypt savefiles. So what? This does not impede on your right to do anything. You can play any given game on as many Wiis as you wish. Nintendo is also not suing people to force hackers to halt breaking their savefile encryption. Game developers generally don't want players artificially advancing within games.
You are from a generation that forgot about actual property rights, despite extensive brainwashing about intellectual property. The game console, the game disk and the memory stick are MINE. Personally, I find at least one area in each game that I don't enjoy playing through due to repetitive tasks, boring scenario or requirement for teenager reflexes. There is nothing wrong with using a device like GameShark to "teleport" me beyond the area or give me a BFG to get through it efficiently. Most PC games have an engine console that allows as much and is appropriately blocked in online mode. I don't care what developers want to do with my personal property. If they actually purposely interfere with my full use of it, they should be arrested for trespassing.
Now, if I connect to an online server, I am using other people's property. I guess it would be Ok if games were signed and not encrypted and the signature would be verified for any use in online mode, including transmitting the statistics or using bonus characters.
Is the question why your personal device keeps secrets from you. It's your savegames. You should be able to modify them as you wish. Yet another case of a company treating customers like criminals.
Well, from evolutionary point of view, if given a choice between food and sex, a young male should fuck most of the time. It may be different for older man who need to support existing children or have established partner(s) and are assured of abundant sex later. Certainly, many man choose to directly risk life for sex in real world. Think of performing a dangerous stunt to impress a girl, risking AIDS by having unprotected sex on the spot, sneaking into a hareem of a king (in which case you are additional assuring good support/further propogation for your children) or blowing yourself up for the promise of 40 virgins.
However, what we are talking about here is not sex but trust. Suppose you are socially conservative and tell your son not to watch porn. Even if he ends up sneaking a pick at boobies once in a while, do you really trust him so little that you think he will actually go and take part in a gang rape?Certainly just because some acts are undesirable doesn't mean that one is immediately harmed by seeing a depiction of the same act or fantasizing. If that's the case, we should surely ban any violence such as hitting in cartoons and take shows like Law and Order off the air immediately.
Boss discussing porn with a subordinate and penalizing him for "performance" on an off-work personal errand? There are so many lawsuits lurking there I don't even know where to start.
The ones that try to reenact porn in real life without any regard for the consequences generally do get in trouble.
I would hope to trust my teenager to recognize the difference between fantasy and reality and not to reenact scenes from porn without considering safety, legal and consent aspects of sex in the real world as well as importance of asking a woman if she is into, say, urination during sex before performing a particular act. Because if I don't, I also have to worry about him killing street prostitutes after playing GTA or joining army after watching the TV recruitment ads.
In this case though, I suspect that the porn offends/harms the mother rather than the teenager and she is installing a blocker for her own comfort.
Why waste time looking for a more sophisticated solution to a problem that is misunderstood by your boss anyway? Just get one of off-the-shelf filtering solutions and let the teenager bypass it if he is smart and determined enough to install Firefox.
I shudder at the lack of trust between this young man and his mother though. If it is justified, he will probably end up in jail once he turns 18 and can no longer be legally restrained.
The motorcyclist was using Sony cells and also suffered a bad burn to the groin.
You misunderstood the background. Napoleon was not a tall fellow, but he was a great lover.
I don't know about more fundamental, but it doesn't appear more precise. As I understand, every hydrogen atom's mass is exactly the same as another ones.
However, as technology progresses, we can obtain more and more precise measurements. This is the opposite of the current situation with a chunk of metal that changes it's mass at measurable rate.
I am surprised that they are not using more fundamental standards, like the mass of a hydrogen atom. After all, too many things can happen to a chunk of metal - evaporation, oxidation, radioactive decay.
He can not possibly claim that his privacy has been violated in any way which is meaningful in China.
Sure Apple, will not be able to maintain complete control of online store pricing or terms of use. Still, five bucks per episode is insane for a product of lesser quality than full movies and that is also available for free with ads. It's better for Apple to drop NBC altogether than offer something that will be ridiculed by customers.
"Flexible pricing" would be more appropriate as offering some combination of episodes and movies as a bundle, at a discount compared to everything bought separately.
Dude, you have serious mental independence issues. If you want to find something funny, laugh. Don't whine if other people don't. Me, I laugh at people who buy a brand new computer with IT headaches just to play a game. Are water guns that expensive or something?
I bought Doom 3, Quake 4, Tron 2, Elite Force 1 and 2, whole Myst series and a few vintage titles like Hexen. I would pay a fair price (say $10/game) for abandon-ware titles that I actually play if I had a chance to preview them first and they were actually sold. I didn't buy a single Windows title all this time
Which other Mac users do you think will motivate the game company more than me?
I am willing to pay for rich graphics and I spend lots of money on technology. What I am not willing to do is repartition my hard drive, buy, install, configure and patch Vista, and then reboot twice every time I want to play their game. I am sure it will also make me find and insert the original CD every time, something not practical when I am traveling with my MacBook Pro. A game is just a game, if the vendor is not willing to make it a good citizen on my computer, I will just play something else.
Sure, if it would help the vendor understand how they can capture more market.
Until they release a Mac version. In the meantime I have a 10GB abandonware archive that mostly runs fine under DosBox to amuse myself.
Did capitalism result in prosperity, strong middle class and trickle down effect the first few times it was applied? As I recall, it resulted in violent uprisings of pissed off workers?
Was democracy successful the first few times it was applied? The first democratic republics eventually elected dictators, and so did Germans in not so distant history.
Here are some things that are self evident
How are we going to defend our country against say, a Chinese invasion, if we can not build airplanes, write software or make cloth without their help? I still remember the episode when French-made Iraq planes wouldn't fly during the original gulf war because they were disabled by a remote radio transmission. No wonder that lately we are reduced to picking on small potatoes like Afghanistan and Iraq and have no spine to stand up against the real bullies.