No. It's not all right. I hate the fact that some faceless official can dig up my private information at his whim, and I wish more people felt that way - but they don't, apparently, and so these laws get passed. There's no point in becoming outraged about the *consequences* of the very laws that we have approved in the past.
It's really like starting a fire in your house and then becoming enraged when it damages your property - it's just a consequence of your actions.
Meh. I'm sure this is going to cause a lot of turmoil here, but why?
The government already has the ability to access most of your records with little or no plausible cause. We aren't giving consent to the government to access our curriculum vitae's - that's already been done a long time ago. At this point, we are just making it more convenient for them.
"...but is expected to explode from a $100 million sideshow into a $2.5 billion behemoth by 2005..."
Even taking these predictions with a rather large grain of salt, this is still fairly impressive. Might be a good time to look into putting your money into (gasp!) the stock market?
I don't know. It's highly dubious that Kazaa will be able to actually pull it off, but it might tie up the litigation long enough for them to keep making money. And, of course, while the RIAA is busy suing Kazaa and its current ilk, other developers will continue to create new P2P software. Is it just me, or is this going to be one of those things when one side is constantly one step ahead of the other? It just seems that it's a lot faster to write a program and get it out on the net than go through the long, expensive, and tedious legal process in order to make said company shut down.
"The truth be told, most users are rather ignorant of the politics involved in these areas; Slashdotters are on the oppostite end of the spectrum."
Despite the fact that Slashdotters are usually indeed aware of the politics relating to today's technology, I think it's safe to say that only under 1% of us* does anything about it. What good is knowledge if you are not putting it to use?
*Nope, I'm not part of that 1%. Hrmph. I suppose this makes my message rather hypocritical:)
I'm just curious...how are the planning on justifying this? The article has already been/.'ed, so if anyone read it, please do explain. I, for one, can't imagine any benefit that would justify Michelin implanting essentially a tracking device in my car tires.
Yeah, it's a pain. But they host a plethora of games and, at any given moment, there are 300+ people downloading something from their site (at least according to them), considering that this is a hobby project that grew into something big - lucky for those of us who like older games - I'm willing to submit to the popups as necessary evil.
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Well...it might have something to do with game realism. Making a game indistinguishable from reality is the Holy Grail of game developers and a large portion of gamers. Granted, there's those (myself included, as a matter of fact) that are content playing strategy games like Civilization 3, Alpha Centauri, or MOO.
Point is, it's difficult to improve on something that's already good. Civilization 3 can only look so good, there's not much else that can be improved about it. FPS games, on the other hand, attempt to mimic the real world - and, in most cases, fail miserably. That's why there's such an overwhelming desire among the designers to make them look more realistic.
Does the fact that it was sponsored by Intel make its points any less valid? Did Intel pay Peter Molyneux, Tim Sweeney, Chris Taylor, and Stuart Moulder to say "All of you, run out and buy bigger and faster processors, or suffer the consequences!"? Probably not. Every interview has some inherent bias, but this one was pretty decent.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/ is a great web site that hosts hundreds of the games of yester-year. So go ahead and get the timeless classics like the original Civilization, Pizza Tycoon, Defender of the Crown, Populous, Lords of the Realm, Ultima, System Shock, Eye of the Beholder, Master of Magic, X-Com...to name just a few:)
Hrm...so now, instead of being able to wear any one of my, say, 10 fairly-expensive jackets, I'll have to either wear the same one every day if I want all the technological doodads (I assume it'll be fairly expensive) or bite the bullet and replace my wardrobe?
The wardrobes! Oh, won't somebody please think of the wardrobes!
Hrm. It seems like we still don't know what the long-terms results of laser eye surgery are. Shouldn't we at least find *that* out before jumping on the next bandwagon?...that is, assuming this technology can be used for eye surgey. Ahem.
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No. It's not all right. I hate the fact that some faceless official can dig up my private information at his whim, and I wish more people felt that way - but they don't, apparently, and so these laws get passed. There's no point in becoming outraged about the *consequences* of the very laws that we have approved in the past.
It's really like starting a fire in your house and then becoming enraged when it damages your property - it's just a consequence of your actions.
Meh. I'm sure this is going to cause a lot of turmoil here, but why?
The government already has the ability to access most of your records with little or no plausible cause. We aren't giving consent to the government to access our curriculum vitae's - that's already been done a long time ago. At this point, we are just making it more convenient for them.
"...but is expected to explode from a $100 million sideshow into a $2.5 billion behemoth by 2005..."
Even taking these predictions with a rather large grain of salt, this is still fairly impressive. Might be a good time to look into putting your money into (gasp!) the stock market?
I don't know. It's highly dubious that Kazaa will be able to actually pull it off, but it might tie up the litigation long enough for them to keep making money. And, of course, while the RIAA is busy suing Kazaa and its current ilk, other developers will continue to create new P2P software. Is it just me, or is this going to be one of those things when one side is constantly one step ahead of the other? It just seems that it's a lot faster to write a program and get it out on the net than go through the long, expensive, and tedious legal process in order to make said company shut down.
"The truth be told, most users are rather ignorant of the politics involved in these areas; Slashdotters are on the oppostite end of the spectrum."
:)
Despite the fact that Slashdotters are usually indeed aware of the politics relating to today's technology, I think it's safe to say that only under 1% of us* does anything about it. What good is knowledge if you are not putting it to use?
*Nope, I'm not part of that 1%. Hrmph. I suppose this makes my message rather hypocritical
I'm just curious...how are the planning on justifying this? The article has already been /.'ed, so if anyone read it, please do explain. I, for one, can't imagine any benefit that would justify Michelin implanting essentially a tracking device in my car tires.
Yeah, it's a pain. But they host a plethora of games and, at any given moment, there are 300+ people downloading something from their site (at least according to them), considering that this is a hobby project that grew into something big - lucky for those of us who like older games - I'm willing to submit to the popups as necessary evil.
Well...it might have something to do with game realism. Making a game indistinguishable from reality is the Holy Grail of game developers and a large portion of gamers. Granted, there's those (myself included, as a matter of fact) that are content playing strategy games like Civilization 3, Alpha Centauri, or MOO. Point is, it's difficult to improve on something that's already good. Civilization 3 can only look so good, there's not much else that can be improved about it. FPS games, on the other hand, attempt to mimic the real world - and, in most cases, fail miserably. That's why there's such an overwhelming desire among the designers to make them look more realistic.
Does the fact that it was sponsored by Intel make its points any less valid? Did Intel pay Peter Molyneux, Tim Sweeney, Chris Taylor, and Stuart Moulder to say "All of you, run out and buy bigger and faster processors, or suffer the consequences!"? Probably not. Every interview has some inherent bias, but this one was pretty decent.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/ is a great web site that hosts hundreds of the games of yester-year. So go ahead and get the timeless classics like the original Civilization, Pizza Tycoon, Defender of the Crown, Populous, Lords of the Realm, Ultima, System Shock, Eye of the Beholder, Master of Magic, X-Com...to name just a few :)
Hrm...so now, instead of being able to wear any one of my, say, 10 fairly-expensive jackets, I'll have to either wear the same one every day if I want all the technological doodads (I assume it'll be fairly expensive) or bite the bullet and replace my wardrobe? The wardrobes! Oh, won't somebody please think of the wardrobes!
Hrm. It seems like we still don't know what the long-terms results of laser eye surgery are. Shouldn't we at least find *that* out before jumping on the next bandwagon? ...that is, assuming this technology can be used for eye surgey. Ahem.