I understand the concerns of other nations about their having a say in the way the Internet as we know today is going to shape into.
Why? If China and other repressive countries want a locked-down internet, they can build their own. It's not like America threatened to go to war if they didn't hook up.
I'd be more interested in knowing why some corporate SUS (Software Update Services, like an in-house Windows Update) subscribers were reporting to NTBugTraq today that they got about a DOZEN updated patches last night!
I wouldn't be surprised if this was because the monthly schedule for SUS is out of sync with the main release schedule.
I run a SUS via SMS system, and last month's definition file for it didn't include MS03-051 (which I think is the Frontpage extensions patch). I believe this was because the definition file was released a few days before the monthly patch release. If that was the case, it would make sense for MS03-051 (and other patches) to be available in the December definition file.
This would also allow us to shoot down friendlies that go rouge. (e.g. 9/11 plane attacks)
We already have that capability thanks to the Air Force.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories regarding September 11th because in the past, the Air Force hasn't really had trouble scrambling fighters in time to intercept planes that had been hijacked or were suspected of being so. Being unable to do so for four seperate flights is at the least a huge slipup compared to their previous performance.
The gaming community of today cannot be compared with the gaming community of maybe 5 years ago, when good games were actually being made.
I don't know about that. I heard the same thing five years ago about what were the olden days then.
There have always been a ton of games that really aren't very good, and they've always been about US$50 (adjusted for inflation) as long as I've been playing, which is about fifteen years now.
It's always easier to remember the good parts of the past without the bad ones, and there are a lot of great games being made just like there have always been.
Nothing is safe. If it doesn't allow for multiplayer or MMO, it's not marketable.
I guess KOTOR, the Legacy of Kain series, Eternal Darkness, every Metroid game, Whiplash, and BloodRayne 2 don't count, eh? And those are just the ones I've actually played or am looking forward to.
While the multiplayer/MMO market is sizeable, I think that companies who bet on it to the detriment of all single-player games are going to lose in a big way.
There are too many types of game that don't lend themselves to anything other than single-player. The online experience so far also seems to be incredibly shallow, even if it is time consuming (e.g. Everquest).
A lot of people (including myself) are interested in playing through a story-based scenario at our own pace, not hunting up loot and levelling for 8 hours a day or playing FPS/RTS games on the same maps over and over.
You can still get Thief 1+2 and System Shock 2 on budget label but whether any of that gets back to the original developers depends on what terms of contract they signed.
Also, as much as I dislike Ziff-Davis, if you buy this month's Computer Gaming World ($8.99), you get the full version of Thief 2 (and Deus Ex) on the cover DVD.
The RIAA aren't really supporting 'artists' though.
I didn't say anything about the RIAA. However, as much as people like to slam them, their labels do have a lot of good musicians: Evanescence the only currently popular band I actually like, and they're on an RIAA label. So were Nirvana, who I was a huge fan of back in the day.
In any case, this is a diversion from the post I was responding to, which was a load of the usual "I'm not a musician, but I know that REAL musicians don't care about getting paid" horseshit.
Judging by current amateur PS2 emulators, which barely scrape 5 FPS in the BIOS on the latest hardware, I consider it unlikely that even Sony managed to produce a software emulator for the PS2 which ran at anything approaching a usable speed on the hardware which was available back when the thing was released.
That's true, but my interest isn't really playing PS2 or PSP games at full speed on my PC. It would be really cool to have one that ran at all and let you use debugging functions though. I like to make cheat device codes when I have time, and being able to watch the program as it runs would let me do a lot more.
The only thing the Geneva convention bans is a laser designed and used specifically to blind enemy forces. Incidental blinding caused by a reflection from a death-laser is allowable.
And that makes me wrong how? I didn't even mention the Geneva Convention.
Where what you eat/software you run, determines your worth as a human being.
Are you saying that the way you live your life doesn't determine your worth?
Individual choices may be relatively inconsequential some of the time, but what better way is there to determine the value of a person than by summing up the ones they've made over their entire life?
Programming in the United States was never a career. Get over it and find something else to do now that it's being outsourced to other countries where people work for less.
People need to *WORK* for their money... if you're a musician, that means concerts, or selling out into advertising.
Yes, because doing composition in a studio for hundreds of hours isn't work, or anything.
Did ford get sued by the horse and cart companies?
That is an incredibly poor analogy. Ford produced a replacement for an old type of transportation. P2P apps don't make music on their own.
If you don't mind listening to 100% machine-generated music, then don't worry about supporting artists. If you want to hear original music, they need to get paid.
It'd be interesting to see if Nintendo can port that technology to their current systems sold here in the US. Being able to download a video game onto a blank cartridge for playing might just get me back into gaming. The pricing for the games are outstanding, I'd definately pay $6.00 for a game. These current prices of $40.00+ for just one game though is a definate turn off.
If you want to play 5-10 year old games, why not just buy them used on eBay for the same price?
A modern console game isn't going to fit on a reasonably-priced flash card. Neither will games for Sony's new Handheld. The GBA and cellphone games are about it.
As for the price, the reason they can sell them so cheaply in China is that they turned their profit on those games when they were originally released. Western and Japanese buyers from 5-10 years ago were effectively subsidizing their low price release in China now.
It's supposed to shoot down artillery shells (i.e. big lumps of metal with no guidance, fuel, or other fragile bits), although nobody's sure entirely how.
You are thinking of a different laser system. There is a ground-based system designed to do what you're talking about, but there is also one mounted in an aircraft for shooting down missiles.
That's just not true. Either way you are not responsible for losses from fraud unless you are negligent (or in cahoots with the fraudster). The people who had their pins stolen this way didn't lose a penny out of their own pockets. It's the banks that are taking the hit.
My understanding is that unless you take legal action, you don't get your money back in a case like this. It's not like the automatic protection you get when you use a credit card. If you can't track down the person that stole your money, how can you take action against them?
And then the fucking ad campaign. Give me a break. Never in the histroy of film has a set dresser, gaffer, or best boy electric ever recieved back end points for their contribution to the film making process.
I think you are taking that concept a little too literally.
Every time a media product is pirated takes away some of the incentive for the production company to make more. If they *do* make more, they will likely employ the same people who did a good job the last time around. If they don't, those people have to find something else to pay their bills.
It is most certainly *not* illegal to build any car from parts, or even to make one car look like another.
Actually, it is illegal to copy the design of a car.
Ferarri, for example, has used their legal department against people selling replicas of their cars.
The kit car industry seems to be like the replica prop industry - the IP owners don't go out of their way to bust people who make unlicensed products, but if they do take notice they will shut them down.
Lucasarts' position is that the markets for both EU and gaming material are already relatively small, and mixing them together would result in an even smaller one.
I tend to agree with them. I read four of the EU books years ago, and they were - IMO of course - terrible. It was like some sort of bad fanfiction Star Wars/generic sci-fi crossover story.
KOTOR is the *only* thing I've seen outside the films that adds something cool to the mythology. Every other book and game I've seen either rehashes the original trilogy or adds in completely lame new material.
In california they do the same thing except they use guns.
This doesn't surprise me, since California is almost as bad as Canada in terms of gun ownership laws. It's one of the very few things I dislike about that state.
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I understand the concerns of other nations about their having a say in the way the Internet as we know today is going to shape into.
Why? If China and other repressive countries want a locked-down internet, they can build their own. It's not like America threatened to go to war if they didn't hook up.
I'd be more interested in knowing why some corporate SUS (Software Update Services, like an in-house Windows Update) subscribers were reporting to NTBugTraq today that they got about a DOZEN updated patches last night!
I wouldn't be surprised if this was because the monthly schedule for SUS is out of sync with the main release schedule.
I run a SUS via SMS system, and last month's definition file for it didn't include MS03-051 (which I think is the Frontpage extensions patch). I believe this was because the definition file was released a few days before the monthly patch release. If that was the case, it would make sense for MS03-051 (and other patches) to be available in the December definition file.
I am curious as to how they will launch something so long.
Especially given the amount of bits and bobs attached in the concept picture, I assume the plan is to launch it in pieces for assembly in orbit.
This would also allow us to shoot down friendlies that go rouge. (e.g. 9/11 plane attacks)
We already have that capability thanks to the Air Force.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories regarding September 11th because in the past, the Air Force hasn't really had trouble scrambling fighters in time to intercept planes that had been hijacked or were suspected of being so. Being unable to do so for four seperate flights is at the least a huge slipup compared to their previous performance.
The gaming community of today cannot be compared with the gaming community of maybe 5 years ago, when good games were actually being made.
I don't know about that. I heard the same thing five years ago about what were the olden days then.
There have always been a ton of games that really aren't very good, and they've always been about US$50 (adjusted for inflation) as long as I've been playing, which is about fifteen years now.
It's always easier to remember the good parts of the past without the bad ones, and there are a lot of great games being made just like there have always been.
Nothing is safe. If it doesn't allow for multiplayer or MMO, it's not marketable.
I guess KOTOR, the Legacy of Kain series, Eternal Darkness, every Metroid game, Whiplash, and BloodRayne 2 don't count, eh? And those are just the ones I've actually played or am looking forward to.
While the multiplayer/MMO market is sizeable, I think that companies who bet on it to the detriment of all single-player games are going to lose in a big way.
There are too many types of game that don't lend themselves to anything other than single-player. The online experience so far also seems to be incredibly shallow, even if it is time consuming (e.g. Everquest).
A lot of people (including myself) are interested in playing through a story-based scenario at our own pace, not hunting up loot and levelling for 8 hours a day or playing FPS/RTS games on the same maps over and over.
You can still get Thief 1+2 and System Shock 2 on budget label but whether any of that gets back to the original developers depends on what terms of contract they signed.
Also, as much as I dislike Ziff-Davis, if you buy this month's Computer Gaming World ($8.99), you get the full version of Thief 2 (and Deus Ex) on the cover DVD.
The RIAA aren't really supporting 'artists' though.
I didn't say anything about the RIAA. However, as much as people like to slam them, their labels do have a lot of good musicians: Evanescence the only currently popular band I actually like, and they're on an RIAA label. So were Nirvana, who I was a huge fan of back in the day.
In any case, this is a diversion from the post I was responding to, which was a load of the usual "I'm not a musician, but I know that REAL musicians don't care about getting paid" horseshit.
Judging by current amateur PS2 emulators, which barely scrape 5 FPS in the BIOS on the latest hardware, I consider it unlikely that even Sony managed to produce a software emulator for the PS2 which ran at anything approaching a usable speed on the hardware which was available back when the thing was released.
That's true, but my interest isn't really playing PS2 or PSP games at full speed on my PC. It would be really cool to have one that ran at all and let you use debugging functions though. I like to make cheat device codes when I have time, and being able to watch the program as it runs would let me do a lot more.
Did I misread that PDF, or does the development kit include an emulator for running PSP games on the developer's PC workstation?
If so, was something similar included with the PS1 and PS2 dev kits? That would have been fun to play with.
You are also wrong
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The only thing the Geneva convention bans is a laser designed and used specifically to blind enemy forces. Incidental blinding caused by a reflection from a death-laser is allowable.
And that makes me wrong how? I didn't even mention the Geneva Convention.
Where what you eat/software you run, determines your worth as a human being.
Are you saying that the way you live your life doesn't determine your worth?
Individual choices may be relatively inconsequential some of the time, but what better way is there to determine the value of a person than by summing up the ones they've made over their entire life?
Art was never a career. Get over it.
.. if you're a musician, that means concerts, or selling out into advertising.
Programming in the United States was never a career. Get over it and find something else to do now that it's being outsourced to other countries where people work for less.
People need to *WORK* for their money.
Yes, because doing composition in a studio for hundreds of hours isn't work, or anything.
Did ford get sued by the horse and cart companies?
That is an incredibly poor analogy. Ford produced a replacement for an old type of transportation. P2P apps don't make music on their own.
If you don't mind listening to 100% machine-generated music, then don't worry about supporting artists. If you want to hear original music, they need to get paid.
It'd be interesting to see if Nintendo can port that technology to their current systems sold here in the US. Being able to download a video game onto a blank cartridge for playing might just get me back into gaming. The pricing for the games are outstanding, I'd definately pay $6.00 for a game. These current prices of $40.00+ for just one game though is a definate turn off.
If you want to play 5-10 year old games, why not just buy them used on eBay for the same price?
A modern console game isn't going to fit on a reasonably-priced flash card. Neither will games for Sony's new Handheld. The GBA and cellphone games are about it.
As for the price, the reason they can sell them so cheaply in China is that they turned their profit on those games when they were originally released. Western and Japanese buyers from 5-10 years ago were effectively subsidizing their low price release in China now.
It's supposed to shoot down artillery shells (i.e. big lumps of metal with no guidance, fuel, or other fragile bits), although nobody's sure entirely how.
You are thinking of a different laser system. There is a ground-based system designed to do what you're talking about, but there is also one mounted in an aircraft for shooting down missiles.
That's just not true. Either way you are not responsible for losses from fraud unless you are negligent (or in cahoots with the fraudster). The people who had their pins stolen this way didn't lose a penny out of their own pockets. It's the banks that are taking the hit.
My understanding is that unless you take legal action, you don't get your money back in a case like this. It's not like the automatic protection you get when you use a credit card. If you can't track down the person that stole your money, how can you take action against them?
And then the fucking ad campaign. Give me a break. Never in the histroy of film has a set dresser, gaffer, or best boy electric ever recieved back end points for their contribution to the film making process.
I think you are taking that concept a little too literally.
Every time a media product is pirated takes away some of the incentive for the production company to make more. If they *do* make more, they will likely employ the same people who did a good job the last time around. If they don't, those people have to find something else to pay their bills.
I believe you can kind of see the bottles with hoses on the far left side of this picture.
It is most certainly *not* illegal to build any car from parts, or even to make one car look like another.
Actually, it is illegal to copy the design of a car.
Ferarri, for example, has used their legal department against people selling replicas of their cars.
The kit car industry seems to be like the replica prop industry - the IP owners don't go out of their way to bust people who make unlicensed products, but if they do take notice they will shut them down.
Lucasarts' position is that the markets for both EU and gaming material are already relatively small, and mixing them together would result in an even smaller one.
I tend to agree with them. I read four of the EU books years ago, and they were - IMO of course - terrible. It was like some sort of bad fanfiction Star Wars/generic sci-fi crossover story.
KOTOR is the *only* thing I've seen outside the films that adds something cool to the mythology. Every other book and game I've seen either rehashes the original trilogy or adds in completely lame new material.
If you don't like it make an effort to change it next November but please give this crap a rest.
Yeah, as if the right wing set a noble example to follow while Clinton was president.
Coincidentally... (link courtesy of POE News.
I would be *more* surprised if there was no one resistant or immune to this disease.
In california they do the same thing except they use guns.
This doesn't surprise me, since California is almost as bad as Canada in terms of gun ownership laws. It's one of the very few things I dislike about that state.
I think I remember 3 or 4 such incidents over a several year period. It was usually an elderly person or couple that was involved.
I lost count of the number I saw reported, and it happened to a girl in one of my classes at SFU - hardly in the elderly category.
People in Vancouver seem to expect a high property crime rate, but to someone from Seattle, for example, it is really unnaturally high.
Exactly. And the placebo effect, of course.