Depends on your counry's copyright laws and international treaties.
If the RIAA has established itself as a business in your country, and your country has copyright laws (it will), then the RIAA can go after you very easily.
Some treaties will allow them to come after you through borders and without much trouble, so you have to be careful no matter where you live. Very few countries don't have treaties, less than what you can count on your hands, so assume that you can get busted.
What we need are pictures of non-geek rooms so we can get some inspiration on how to decorate our place in the hopes that the next time a female comes over, they don't run in terror from the sheer volume of Star Wars memorabilia.
How does it handle erasing? Can you digitally white-out your mistakes before it is uploaded?
It's a neat idea, but I don't see many people using it. The only thing worse than a paper trail is a digital trail.
They would say what we want them to say. They are finite state machines programmed by us, to work how we want them to work and have a knowledge base consisting of what we have "taught" them.
Would you really care as to what they have to say if we have heard it all before? They don't have feelings or emotions towards anything. Whatever they tell us is just regurgitated knowledge from a database. Therefore we know what a computer would say if it could speak: "Here is a finite answer to your bounded question."
Until we fully understand how our brain works, particularly the part(s) relating to imagination, and we can transfer that knowledge into machine code, then maybe computers would give us something worth listening to. Until then, I don't want to hear how it is doing today, just load up UT thanks.
If they would charge $0.25 per download and guarantee a fast connection and a good quality song, then I can see a pay service working. Most people can fork over 25 cents without thinking twice, it's a low enough amount of money. Any more than that though, and you start to think "is it worth this or do I just log onto kazaa?" With this new service, $10/month is about 40 downloads at 25 cents each. I never download that much music in a month, I don't think many people do. They need to rethink their business plan here.
The record companies need to realize that they have to charge near FREE prices in order for people to go for it. Because the other alternative is free. They also need suck it up and accept the fact that they probably won't make the billions they used to make. If they don't go with the times they are going to suffer.
Now I'm not talking about Audiogalaxy directly, I'm talking about the recording companies who set the high royalty fees. They are the ones that need to seriously look at what they are doing.
Don't fight technology, use it to your advantage. And use it wisely.
It could be a good idea for tracking down all those little script kiddies and real hackers that are out there to do harm, intentional or unintentional. But I know most of us don't want the RCMP being able to look and see what we have been doing on the web, especially if it relates to porn. Cause that is the only thing that is embarrassing.
If they had a filter, of some magical sort, that would filter out all the porn transfers and keep everything else in the log, most of us would be ok with them keeping records of our internet use.
Porn consumption is something everyone does and doesn't want anyone else to find out about. I know I have nothing else to hide but porn.
I'm not saying he isn't a successful business man, he is. But all credit shouldn't go to him and id. Others came up with much of the technology driving the games before id did.
How the BSP tree being great technology is beyond me. It is over a decade old and is just horrid! It is preventing games from having dynamic environments because of its slow insert time. It's time that someone in the CS field trys to figure out a different method, if one exists, because our current method or ordering polygons is downright bad.
Now as for Carmack, not to sound like a troll, but he is just a C hacker who is using previously used ideas and techniques. Why people worship him, especially now, is beyond me. If he comes up with a way to render polygons fast and provide a quick way of adding new polygons to a scene in real time without just increasing the minimum requirements to $3000, then I will be impressed.
Other companies have provided new techniques and methods that have had a far greater impact than any ID game, but they don't get any credit. I'm not sure why.
I could make a game that renders with Final Fantasy, the Spirits Within, level of graphics but the minimum requirements will be tremendous. Would people think I was a genius for "bringing games to the next level"? Sure they would. but for what? The same thing but with more muscle thrown at it? bah
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I have seen this guy perform One Man Lord of the Rings. It was an amazing show and I definitely recommend seeing his performances.
Depends on your counry's copyright laws and international treaties. If the RIAA has established itself as a business in your country, and your country has copyright laws (it will), then the RIAA can go after you very easily. Some treaties will allow them to come after you through borders and without much trouble, so you have to be careful no matter where you live. Very few countries don't have treaties, less than what you can count on your hands, so assume that you can get busted.
What we need are pictures of non-geek rooms so we can get some inspiration on how to decorate our place in the hopes that the next time a female comes over, they don't run in terror from the sheer volume of Star Wars memorabilia.
How does it handle erasing? Can you digitally white-out your mistakes before it is uploaded? It's a neat idea, but I don't see many people using it. The only thing worse than a paper trail is a digital trail.
They would say what we want them to say. They are finite state machines programmed by us, to work how we want them to work and have a knowledge base consisting of what we have "taught" them.
Would you really care as to what they have to say if we have heard it all before? They don't have feelings or emotions towards anything. Whatever they tell us is just regurgitated knowledge from a database. Therefore we know what a computer would say if it could speak: "Here is a finite answer to your bounded question."
Until we fully understand how our brain works, particularly the part(s) relating to imagination, and we can transfer that knowledge into machine code, then maybe computers would give us something worth listening to. Until then, I don't want to hear how it is doing today, just load up UT thanks.
If they would charge $0.25 per download and guarantee a fast connection and a good quality song, then I can see a pay service working. Most people can fork over 25 cents without thinking twice, it's a low enough amount of money. Any more than that though, and you start to think "is it worth this or do I just log onto kazaa?" With this new service, $10/month is about 40 downloads at 25 cents each. I never download that much music in a month, I don't think many people do. They need to rethink their business plan here.
The record companies need to realize that they have to charge near FREE prices in order for people to go for it. Because the other alternative is free. They also need suck it up and accept the fact that they probably won't make the billions they used to make. If they don't go with the times they are going to suffer.
Now I'm not talking about Audiogalaxy directly, I'm talking about the recording companies who set the high royalty fees. They are the ones that need to seriously look at what they are doing.
Don't fight technology, use it to your advantage. And use it wisely.
It could be a good idea for tracking down all those little script kiddies and real hackers that are out there to do harm, intentional or unintentional. But I know most of us don't want the RCMP being able to look and see what we have been doing on the web, especially if it relates to porn. Cause that is the only thing that is embarrassing. If they had a filter, of some magical sort, that would filter out all the porn transfers and keep everything else in the log, most of us would be ok with them keeping records of our internet use. Porn consumption is something everyone does and doesn't want anyone else to find out about. I know I have nothing else to hide but porn.
I'm not saying he isn't a successful business man, he is. But all credit shouldn't go to him and id. Others came up with much of the technology driving the games before id did.
How the BSP tree being great technology is beyond me. It is over a decade old and is just horrid! It is preventing games from having dynamic environments because of its slow insert time. It's time that someone in the CS field trys to figure out a different method, if one exists, because our current method or ordering polygons is downright bad. Now as for Carmack, not to sound like a troll, but he is just a C hacker who is using previously used ideas and techniques. Why people worship him, especially now, is beyond me. If he comes up with a way to render polygons fast and provide a quick way of adding new polygons to a scene in real time without just increasing the minimum requirements to $3000, then I will be impressed. Other companies have provided new techniques and methods that have had a far greater impact than any ID game, but they don't get any credit. I'm not sure why. I could make a game that renders with Final Fantasy, the Spirits Within, level of graphics but the minimum requirements will be tremendous. Would people think I was a genius for "bringing games to the next level"? Sure they would. but for what? The same thing but with more muscle thrown at it? bah
they improve it, I won't get it for linux. Doesn't matter what system you run it on, the AI will still be horrible.