The media industries should be no different. If they want others to be looking out for their interests, they should be paying those people for their troubles.
The owner of a copyrighted video is not and should not be obligated to make deals with every damn video sharing site just for the priviledge of having that copyright honored. It's quite obvious that as long as it is illegal to host those videos without permission from the owner, the sharing sites are alone responsible for their "troubles".
My main problem with Halo was however the story, it was just so very damn pointless, run around in circles for a few hours till everybody of your comrades is killed just to then return to where you started and blow your own ship up, well great, so why again did I play this game?
The Covenant has nearly wiped the human kind to extinction, with only the presumably hidden Earth still untouched by the war. Our heroes are on a mission to find out what interest the Covenant has with that Halo thing. One crash landing later you find out it's a weapon. And it's out of control. Your only chance of stopping it is by blowing up that ship.
That's the easy part, then you've got to reach that escape shuttle...
Making overly complicated and basically unusable level editors.
If they're good enough to make the original game, which was so good you paid money for it, how are they unusable? Most of the level editors available are evolved versions of years old editors.
All games using the Unreal-engine have been done with UnrealEd. For engines related to Quakes and Doom3 you've got the QERadiant-family of editors, as well as the Worldcraft/Hammer-editors for early Quakes and Half-Lifes.
So there you have 3 sets of editors, not very different from their early versions. Hardly ad-hoc. They cover most of the FPS market. If a teenage geek can figure out how to follow a tutorial on a web page about how to make 2 rooms and a player spawn, why can't you?
Welcome to modern society, where education is not just for the elite and those looking forward to chanting Latin. Think of those taxes as paying retroactively for your own school years.
Why are your friends in Congress spending their working hours editing Wikipedia? If they want to give their personal contribution to it, they might as well do it from home.
Maybe the Wiki admins are just worried that they're distracting these very important people;-)
Your video skipping must be related to specific encodings, and future updates will hopefully fix that. I agree about the Nintendo emulators being problematic, but the Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator DrMD runs very smoothly.
GP2X doesn't have a special graphics processor so you'll be waiting for that hardware acceleration for a while. The second CPU has so far AFAIK been just hogging battery power, but it should bring help in time.
Gamepark Holdings doesn't supply these emulators, they only work on what's available in the main menu (video & music players, text reader). All the emulators are from from 3rd parties for obvious reasons. Everyone here complaining about less than perfect game software are talking about free stuff made by hobbyists.
You might also want to ask why the retail stores won't price them higher. They are the middle man between MS and the consumer, they should know the price game better.
According to the article, the identity of the person that last booted the PC. Unless someone else knows the password. Or can fool the fingerprint reader.
Except that passengers don't focus on the traffic outside very much, and during a conversation not at all. And only one passenger has an opportunity to look forward anyway.
Talking to a phone might be less natural, but it's also engages only your hearing. An actual person sitting next to you will give more stimulus than a distorted voice.
And no, I don't base these opinions on any research at all.
So you can bypass the filters with a little network know-how, like that is new.
I haven't heard of these content describing metatags before reading your post. Slashdot doesn't appear to have them, so please give us a link where this content tag standard is given. Are you saying that every page on the net should have tags inserted or be blocked?
And no website is being forced to move to.xxx. SaudiBikiniGals.com isn't forced. AnalYanks.com isn't forced. Who cares about complaints about their choise of TLD? If your government of choice happens to force you, then that sucks but they could do much worse.
Cashcow or not,.xxx hurts only those who buy them. Maybe we should get rid of.net,.org and every other TLD, they are only cashcows,.com should be enough for everybody!
(1).xxx is not useless for blocking. Anyone who registers under that domain is fully aware that his web site can be easily blocked. No one is going to complain that they didn't put metatag XYZ on their pages.
(2) As far as I know, there won't be special laws regarding this domain. Registering is entirely voluntary. You either register and acknowledge that you are blocked in a bunch of places that probably didn't want to see your business anyway, or don't and live happily ever after. It's not the content viewer who decides if the site should be a.xxx, but the content creator.
Most porn sites will have their.com as well as.xxx, but as time goes on they might just drop the.com.
If this domain helps block a couple of hardcore porn sites (and that really is the target market) that weren't blocked before on the kindergarten computer, it has served its purpose.
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The owner of a copyrighted video is not and should not be obligated to make deals with every damn video sharing site just for the priviledge of having that copyright honored. It's quite obvious that as long as it is illegal to host those videos without permission from the owner, the sharing sites are alone responsible for their "troubles".
Well that sounded a little discriminating =P
The Covenant has nearly wiped the human kind to extinction, with only the presumably hidden Earth still untouched by the war. Our heroes are on a mission to find out what interest the Covenant has with that Halo thing. One crash landing later you find out it's a weapon. And it's out of control. Your only chance of stopping it is by blowing up that ship.
That's the easy part, then you've got to reach that escape shuttle...
If they're good enough to make the original game, which was so good you paid money for it, how are they unusable? Most of the level editors available are evolved versions of years old editors.
All games using the Unreal-engine have been done with UnrealEd. For engines related to Quakes and Doom3 you've got the QERadiant-family of editors, as well as the Worldcraft/Hammer-editors for early Quakes and Half-Lifes.
So there you have 3 sets of editors, not very different from their early versions. Hardly ad-hoc. They cover most of the FPS market. If a teenage geek can figure out how to follow a tutorial on a web page about how to make 2 rooms and a player spawn, why can't you?
Good job catching the fraud. There was already buzz on the streets about him receiving movie offers on his Slashdot story submission.
I couldn't agree more. If every world government censored unpatriotic web traffic, world would be one happy joyland on isolationist city states.
So don't watch the players, watch the screens. All these things need is untalented directors, just like real sports.
If you think giving software away for free is bad, wait till you hear what the open source community has been doing!
Welcome to modern society, where education is not just for the elite and those looking forward to chanting Latin. Think of those taxes as paying retroactively for your own school years.
It's not like there's a major visual difference between Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 or XP (with the classic theme and Start menu, as I prefer).
I'm pretty sure this site got it even before this "Digg" did. This isn't a contest.
Linear? (FirstHDCapacity * 2^x) where x is number of years, looks a lot like exponential growth.
Why are your friends in Congress spending their working hours editing Wikipedia? If they want to give their personal contribution to it, they might as well do it from home.
;-)
Maybe the Wiki admins are just worried that they're distracting these very important people
Rats with legions cut into their brains tended to be more impulsive.
Rat 1: I'm gonna kill ya!
Rat 2: Oh yeah? You and what army?
Rat 1: The one cut into my brain.
Time to throw some national pride around, here are some Finnish game developers:
Remedy (Max Payne, Alan Wake)
Bugbear (Rally Trophy, Flatout)
Housemarque (Supreme Snowboarding, Transworld Snowboarding)
Frozenbyte (Shadowgrounds)
A logo by itself is not a "system for selecting a displayable icon to indicate the mood or emotion of the user." So not really.
Wow, you pasted something from the summary without even reading it. He's talking about designing a different kind of RTS that fits a joypad.
Your video skipping must be related to specific encodings, and future updates will hopefully fix that. I agree about the Nintendo emulators being problematic, but the Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator DrMD runs very smoothly.
GP2X doesn't have a special graphics processor so you'll be waiting for that hardware acceleration for a while. The second CPU has so far AFAIK been just hogging battery power, but it should bring help in time.
Gamepark Holdings doesn't supply these emulators, they only work on what's available in the main menu (video & music players, text reader). All the emulators are from from 3rd parties for obvious reasons. Everyone here complaining about less than perfect game software are talking about free stuff made by hobbyists.
3-4% volume is the max for your headphones? Does your portable player also work as a rock concert amplifier?
You might also want to ask why the retail stores won't price them higher. They are the middle man between MS and the consumer, they should know the price game better.
According to the article, the identity of the person that last booted the PC. Unless someone else knows the password. Or can fool the fingerprint reader.
Except that passengers don't focus on the traffic outside very much, and during a conversation not at all. And only one passenger has an opportunity to look forward anyway.
Talking to a phone might be less natural, but it's also engages only your hearing. An actual person sitting next to you will give more stimulus than a distorted voice.
And no, I don't base these opinions on any research at all.
So you can bypass the filters with a little network know-how, like that is new.
.xxx. SaudiBikiniGals.com isn't forced. AnalYanks.com isn't forced. Who cares about complaints about their choise of TLD? If your government of choice happens to force you, then that sucks but they could do much worse.
.xxx hurts only those who buy them. Maybe we should get rid of .net, .org and every other TLD, they are only cashcows, .com should be enough for everybody!
I haven't heard of these content describing metatags before reading your post. Slashdot doesn't appear to have them, so please give us a link where this content tag standard is given. Are you saying that every page on the net should have tags inserted or be blocked?
And no website is being forced to move to
Cashcow or not,
Your favorite reasons suck.
.xxx is not useless for blocking. Anyone who registers under that domain is fully aware that his web site can be easily blocked. No one is going to complain that they didn't put metatag XYZ on their pages.
.xxx, but the content creator.
.com as well as .xxx, but as time goes on they might just drop the .com.
(1)
(2) As far as I know, there won't be special laws regarding this domain. Registering is entirely voluntary. You either register and acknowledge that you are blocked in a bunch of places that probably didn't want to see your business anyway, or don't and live happily ever after. It's not the content viewer who decides if the site should be a
Most porn sites will have their
If this domain helps block a couple of hardcore porn sites (and that really is the target market) that weren't blocked before on the kindergarten computer, it has served its purpose.