Even BEFORE MP3's were big, I rarely bought any CD's, or even tapes. They just don't appeal to me. Sure, I have some MP3's, but they're things not available on CD's, or at least available without an inordinate amount of importing trouble.
People will still get songs over closed networks, particularly school LANs via network neighborhood, regardless of how much they try and do.
Another interesting point is, will the law require special government action in order for the RIAA to be permitted to "infiltrate" a particular filesharing service? Beauracracy at its best would see to it that the filesharing program they're seeking permission to "hit" would be out of fashion by the time they get around to doing it.
I built my machine from scratch, however I find it far easier to steal parts from the older machine and only upgrade a little. CD-Roms are perfectly good for years, and my 8x/4x/32x CD-RW is going to last me at least another machine because, frankly, if you can't wait ten minutes for a CD to burn, you shouldn't be burning CD's.
That said, buying mobo's and CPU's in bundles or separate and sticking them in the box to replace the old ones costs about as much as a new version of windows, including new RAM for it. I find it more sensical for me to upgrade one part at a time. Of course, I know what I'm doing and am not afraid to get under the hood and tinker with things.
You're thinking in the PC world. Consoles, at least in my experience, get turned off when people are done playing games on them. There's really no reason to leave them on, as you would effectively have to reboot to change games anyhow. As such, hacking a box would only be effective when the console is on.
On the broadband issue, I'm not sure if someone else already posted, but the Xbox will basically require a broadband connection in order to be playable. When I first got my 'Box, I tried playing Halo over the web using Gamespy's little Xbox plugin thing (which works pretty well), and had a less than optimal playing experience, perhaps due to my outbound traffic limitations, but regardless, inbound and outbound traffic are going to have to be better than dialup to even have a chance of being playable.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
No matter how hard programmers try, programs are always a smidge too complex for the increasingly apathetic world. Agreed, there are still those who care, but apathy, and having everything done for you, are a growing phenomenon, one that's really the root cause (or so the Corps claim) of why programs (Win* programs specifically) are becoming more and more bloatware with features few people know about, let alone use.
Exactly. Being aware of these restrictions because we happen to be involved in a discussion about them is in no way the same as if, say, there's a blip on the local news about some obscure requirement added after you've purchased a car. It doesn't mean jack unless they put it in writing and you agree to it at the time of purchase.
Well, a few weeks ago I figured I would download Opera (6.03) to test it out and see just how much better it was than Internet Explorer (6). The day after I downloaded it, I started experiencing all sorts of weird hangups on standard things like opening MyComputer, etc. Problems went away when I uninstalled Opera. Either M$ did something to mess with Opera or it's got a couple flaws in it that weren't completely tested with XP Pro.
You better believe I'd be willing to do it if it was offered to the general public. Heck, I'd probably even be willing to sign up as a test subject in order to compare the functionality of the artificial to what a normally functioning limb/organ/etc performed like.
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Even BEFORE MP3's were big, I rarely bought any CD's, or even tapes. They just don't appeal to me. Sure, I have some MP3's, but they're things not available on CD's, or at least available without an inordinate amount of importing trouble.
X-BOXES The plural of box is boxes, not boxen.
People will still get songs over closed networks, particularly school LANs via network neighborhood, regardless of how much they try and do.
Another interesting point is, will the law require special government action in order for the RIAA to be permitted to "infiltrate" a particular filesharing service? Beauracracy at its best would see to it that the filesharing program they're seeking permission to "hit" would be out of fashion by the time they get around to doing it.
I built my machine from scratch, however I find it far easier to steal parts from the older machine and only upgrade a little. CD-Roms are perfectly good for years, and my 8x/4x/32x CD-RW is going to last me at least another machine because, frankly, if you can't wait ten minutes for a CD to burn, you shouldn't be burning CD's.
That said, buying mobo's and CPU's in bundles or separate and sticking them in the box to replace the old ones costs about as much as a new version of windows, including new RAM for it. I find it more sensical for me to upgrade one part at a time. Of course, I know what I'm doing and am not afraid to get under the hood and tinker with things.
You're thinking in the PC world. Consoles, at least in my experience, get turned off when people are done playing games on them. There's really no reason to leave them on, as you would effectively have to reboot to change games anyhow. As such, hacking a box would only be effective when the console is on.
On the broadband issue, I'm not sure if someone else already posted, but the Xbox will basically require a broadband connection in order to be playable. When I first got my 'Box, I tried playing Halo over the web using Gamespy's little Xbox plugin thing (which works pretty well), and had a less than optimal playing experience, perhaps due to my outbound traffic limitations, but regardless, inbound and outbound traffic are going to have to be better than dialup to even have a chance of being playable.
Exactly. Being aware of these restrictions because we happen to be involved in a discussion about them is in no way the same as if, say, there's a blip on the local news about some obscure requirement added after you've purchased a car. It doesn't mean jack unless they put it in writing and you agree to it at the time of purchase.
And you have to understand that everyone else's complaint is that *WE* have a right to be aware of these restrictions before money exchanges hands.
Well, a few weeks ago I figured I would download Opera (6.03) to test it out and see just how much better it was than Internet Explorer (6). The day after I downloaded it, I started experiencing all sorts of weird hangups on standard things like opening MyComputer, etc. Problems went away when I uninstalled Opera. Either M$ did something to mess with Opera or it's got a couple flaws in it that weren't completely tested with XP Pro.
You better believe I'd be willing to do it if it was offered to the general public. Heck, I'd probably even be willing to sign up as a test subject in order to compare the functionality of the artificial to what a normally functioning limb/organ/etc performed like.
It'll never happen. Most people don't even sit through the credits, let alone the extra half hour it would take to read an EULA attacked to a movie.