if the **AA was anywhere near powerful enough to push around the tech industry, there would simply be no such consumer device as an "mp3 player" or "divx player", and routers wouldn't pass p2p traffic.
The entertainment content industry is peanuts. Sonys entertainment division is like the pinky toe of the whole operation.
I bet you can't wait to be stuck in a state run home, either.
You're probably young, so the ageism can be explained.
I know people in their 80s, perfectly capable of driving, and renewing their license.
We don't need dorks mandating new technologies to use. We just need the DMV to do it's job, which is to make sure only qualified drivers are qualified to drive.
I've had it up to *HERE* (trust me im pointing really high up) with "IT EXPERTS" who don't have the foggiest fucking clue how a computer works.
It's worth it, just for understanding in a general sense. It's worth it to understand the function of a microprocessor works right down to the latches and nand gates. It's worth it to know how the various IO buses operate, what their limitations are, etc.
It's worth it just to know what a computer CAN do. It's worth it to know how much overhead there is every time that recursive subroutine calls itself.
It's like asking if it's important for a car mechanic to know how an internal combustion engine works. He could probably change oil at jiffy lube without it. And break my fucking PCV valve and tape it back on with electrical tape. It just goes in like a cork I mean what the fuck, like I wouldnt notice, or think Ford installed it that way? Then they get lippy when you demand they replace a 2 dollar plastic doongle because they think its a major overhaul.
What was the topic? Yeah, it's a good idea to have a fucking clue how what you work with functions.
Final Fantasy is like a genre unto itself, and like the FPS genre, has gotten so pigeonholed that it's marginalized a lot of its original fan base right out of playing it.
It gets to the point that they can't innovate - the hardcore fanbase that's left expects certain things (common keyboard layout in FPS's, common spells based on "elements" in an RPG).
I mean, the plot of any final fantasy game is, and has to be, exactly the same. The settings and characters change. But its still the same start in small town, meet party members, ride chocobo, get airship, collect 8 things, fight end boss.
The spells, as I mentioned, are the same. The "summons" (might have a different name), are the same.
It just gets a little less interesting each time around.
I point to the fact that I haven't played, let alone bought, FFXII yet, and I was once a big fan of the series.
make more sugar and palm oil plantations, which would just go into making more Twinkies or other junk food.
There's little sugar in junk food, the industry has been taken over by high fructose corn syrup.
The sugar and palm oil is for ethanol and bio-diesel, respectively. Ethanol is the future of the sugar industry, it's less and less relevant as a foodstuff every day.
You thought the razing of forests was bad when we were just trying to feed ourselves? Just wait until the knee-jerk reaction to climate change mandates that we start growing all our fuel.
If they'd stock SNACKS I LIKE, maybe i wouldn't shoplift so much.
Why should I have to pay for a whole fruit pie when I ONLY LIKE THE FILLING! I'd rather support small local indie pie makers than just give my money to THE HOSTESS CORPORATION.
Fuck those guys man! The 7-11 mafiaa is going down.
It'a tool for programmers, researchers and the CAD industry now.
There's just too many bells and whistles in DX.
The lack of DX10 support for XP will certainly slow the uptake of DX10, however. I bet most development over the next year or two will be in DX9, with a DX10 "bag" hanging off the side.
In maryland, an employee has no right to any sort of break, sick time, vacation. Not even a lunch break - unless it's agreed to in the employment contract.
Most everyone is employed "at will", meaning you can be fired for no reason at all (except for federal statutes prohibiting firing based on race, sex, refusal to commit crime, etc).
The only exception here is employees under 18 are entitled to a 15 minute break (unpaid) for every 5 hours of work.
The only right an employee has is the right to quit.
It was never "Pray on Sundays", it was "rest on sundays" - ie; the ancients legislated a day off, millions of years before Unions.
Many of the so called "goofy" religious rules have some real-world basis. Like the kosher food laws - not eating cloven hooved animals (pigs). Makes plenty of sense - improperly prepared pork can fuck you up. Not partaking of blood? It's very nutritious, but coagulates and spoils too fast. The Kosher food laws were the ancient equivelant of the FDA - all those rules are health based.
Just a tangent. I'm not religious at all, but there's plenty of wisdom to be found in the old rules if you look for it.
We all decided that religion is all stupid, and with it concepts of good and evil. We, as a society, do what we want and can rationalize just about anything.
i have felt the same problem, it's worse for video.. Apple TV and iPod Video vs XBox 360 vs Tivo.. I really wanted to start setting up a digital library, but need 3 or 4 copies of each to play back on various devices.
The blame isnt the RIAA/MPAA or industries, the blame is on Apple, MSFT and Tivo.
Nobody forced DRM on any of those devices but the makers of those devices. If a 20 dollar dvd player can play DivX with no problems, there's no reason the others can't - other than companies wanting to set up their own private distribution mechanisms.
Jobs showboating about "I really wish we could ditch DRM" was pure bullcrap. It was his choice to use it. Plenty of content owners would do away with it today if it meant reaching a wider audience.
Slashdot Mirror
hee hee
I bought some stuff there at a decent price once.
No different than any other store.
if the **AA was anywhere near powerful enough to push around the tech industry, there would simply be no such consumer device as an "mp3 player" or "divx player", and routers wouldn't pass p2p traffic.
The entertainment content industry is peanuts. Sonys entertainment division is like the pinky toe of the whole operation.
I bet you can't wait to be stuck in a state run home, either.
You're probably young, so the ageism can be explained.
I know people in their 80s, perfectly capable of driving, and renewing their license.
We don't need dorks mandating new technologies to use. We just need the DMV to do it's job, which is to make sure only qualified drivers are qualified to drive.
I've had it up to *HERE* (trust me im pointing really high up) with "IT EXPERTS" who don't have the foggiest fucking clue how a computer works.
It's worth it, just for understanding in a general sense. It's worth it to understand the function of a microprocessor works right down to the latches and nand gates. It's worth it to know how the various IO buses operate, what their limitations are, etc.
It's worth it just to know what a computer CAN do. It's worth it to know how much overhead there is every time that recursive subroutine calls itself.
It's like asking if it's important for a car mechanic to know how an internal combustion engine works. He could probably change oil at jiffy lube without it. And break my fucking PCV valve and tape it back on with electrical tape. It just goes in like a cork I mean what the fuck, like I wouldnt notice, or think Ford installed it that way? Then they get lippy when you demand they replace a 2 dollar plastic doongle because they think its a major overhaul.
What was the topic? Yeah, it's a good idea to have a fucking clue how what you work with functions.
huh?
Final Fantasy is like a genre unto itself, and like the FPS genre, has gotten so pigeonholed that it's marginalized a lot of its original fan base right out of playing it.
It gets to the point that they can't innovate - the hardcore fanbase that's left expects certain things (common keyboard layout in FPS's, common spells based on "elements" in an RPG).
I mean, the plot of any final fantasy game is, and has to be, exactly the same. The settings and characters change. But its still the same start in small town, meet party members, ride chocobo, get airship, collect 8 things, fight end boss.
The spells, as I mentioned, are the same. The "summons" (might have a different name), are the same.
It just gets a little less interesting each time around.
I point to the fact that I haven't played, let alone bought, FFXII yet, and I was once a big fan of the series.
I guess X was a big hit, but I don't think "final fantasy" resonates the way it did. I don't know if the franchise still guarantees a hit.
I haven't played the latest (XII), but there's been a lot of crap games (X-2), media/merch crap (advent children, spirits within).
I'd think another player would have toppled FF off the tip of the RPG mountain by now.
I just don't see how a exclusive lock on final fantasy is as lucrative as it once was (like it was with VII).
make more sugar and palm oil plantations, which would just go into making more Twinkies or other junk food.
There's little sugar in junk food, the industry has been taken over by high fructose corn syrup.
The sugar and palm oil is for ethanol and bio-diesel, respectively. Ethanol is the future of the sugar industry, it's less and less relevant as a foodstuff every day.
You thought the razing of forests was bad when we were just trying to feed ourselves? Just wait until the knee-jerk reaction to climate change mandates that we start growing all our fuel.
Who's with me?
Seriously, it's just plain stupid.
Sounds made up.
I don't buy it.
Is any video sharing site to be labelled a youtube clone?
Just like newbies to the intarweb would think that Yahoo is a "google clone"?
Is this a "Apple invented the computer, mp3 player, and are currently inventing the phone right now and we cant wait" type of a deal?
I just remember seeing video on the internet pre-youtube.
Repeat after me..
Sucking the filling out of hostess fruit pies at seven eleven and then putting them back is not theft.
It'd vandalism.
Semantics are fun.
If they'd stock SNACKS I LIKE, maybe i wouldn't shoplift so much.
Why should I have to pay for a whole fruit pie when I ONLY LIKE THE FILLING! I'd rather support small local indie pie makers than just give my money to THE HOSTESS CORPORATION.
Fuck those guys man! The 7-11 mafiaa is going down.
IM JUST LIKE GAHNDI.
Here's a picture of the location your bloviating piracy-justification rant is filed.
OpenGL has outlived it's usefulness for gaming.
It'a tool for programmers, researchers and the CAD industry now.
There's just too many bells and whistles in DX.
The lack of DX10 support for XP will certainly slow the uptake of DX10, however. I bet most development over the next year or two will be in DX9, with a DX10 "bag" hanging off the side.
Is about as exciting as watching Bobby Fischer put away his chess sets at the end of the day.
And just how many families are going to give up that unnecessary second income? *crickets chirping* I thought so.
Unnessesary?
You think that in most dual income households, both parents work because they LIKE TO?
State law, varies on the state.
In maryland, an employee has no right to any sort of break, sick time, vacation. Not even a lunch break - unless it's agreed to in the employment contract.
Most everyone is employed "at will", meaning you can be fired for no reason at all (except for federal statutes prohibiting firing based on race, sex, refusal to commit crime, etc).
The only exception here is employees under 18 are entitled to a 15 minute break (unpaid) for every 5 hours of work.
The only right an employee has is the right to quit.
However, multi-threaded development has been notoriously hard to do
Only at first, once you wrap your head around it it becomes second nature.
To a newbie, recursion is hard to do. To somebody who's been writing functional FORTRAN for 25 years, object oriented is hard to do.
It's just another way of thinking about problems. The real bitch is having the toolkits and thread safe libraries at your disposal.
No, just social engineering. Calling support, saying "I'm so and so and I forgot my password. I don't have the credit card my mom paid.. blah blah"
It was never "Pray on Sundays", it was "rest on sundays" - ie; the ancients legislated a day off, millions of years before Unions.
Many of the so called "goofy" religious rules have some real-world basis. Like the kosher food laws - not eating cloven hooved animals (pigs). Makes plenty of sense - improperly prepared pork can fuck you up. Not partaking of blood? It's very nutritious, but coagulates and spoils too fast. The Kosher food laws were the ancient equivelant of the FDA - all those rules are health based.
Just a tangent. I'm not religious at all, but there's plenty of wisdom to be found in the old rules if you look for it.
Hot Coffee wasn't even pornographic by their standards. It would be unlikely to have had a harsher rating if it did (it was already M).
We all decided that religion is all stupid, and with it concepts of good and evil. We, as a society, do what we want and can rationalize just about anything.
i have felt the same problem, it's worse for video.. Apple TV and iPod Video vs XBox 360 vs Tivo.. I really wanted to start setting up a digital library, but need 3 or 4 copies of each to play back on various devices.
The blame isnt the RIAA/MPAA or industries, the blame is on Apple, MSFT and Tivo.
Nobody forced DRM on any of those devices but the makers of those devices. If a 20 dollar dvd player can play DivX with no problems, there's no reason the others can't - other than companies wanting to set up their own private distribution mechanisms.
Jobs showboating about "I really wish we could ditch DRM" was pure bullcrap. It was his choice to use it. Plenty of content owners would do away with it today if it meant reaching a wider audience.