1. These aren't cops, or law enforcement of any kind
Which means they won't be held to the same standards as a cop when aomeone claims entrapment.
2. If you put your own car out by the road with a "free car" sign on it, you can't accuse someone who takes it of GTA.
The sign doesn't say "Free Car." The sign says "Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows." It appears on the Net before the film's theatrical release.
3. If the cops actually plant a "fake car" like you describe, the perpetrator is not guilty of Grand Theft Auto, as no car has been taken.
You made the attempt. You believed the screener was real. Your every move is being tracked. But you were dumb enough and greedy enough to come back to BT for more.
In my opinion there's a huge difference here. Even if the MPAA put up real files they still should not be able to do anything about you downloading them because they are the copyright holders.
You won't be sued for downloading the fake file. The bait. You will be tracked when you come back to BT for a real file.
If we have 100 GB discs, what encouragement do we have to make movies in 2160p that fit in 15 GB? Making the box bigger makes it harder to think outside the box. Being unable to think outside the box kills creativity
Don't underestimate the "bandwidth" of FedEx. Cheaper delivery to the home than fiber.
The audience doesn't go shopping for the programmer's bleeding-edge tech. The audience goes shopping for a movie.
Ibet Microsoft will do the same for Vista in schools everywhere but this time, instead kids won't say "aww that's cool!" they'd probably say things more like "why the hell is this taking 10 minutes to boot"
In two or three years, the kids will be running Vista at home.
The schools will migrate to Vista as the families they serve migrate to Vista.
The schools will migrate to the new Office as the businesses they serve migrate to the new Office. You'll see the move begin with the night classes, adult education.
The Geek sees the world from a top-down view. The schools from the bottom-up.
It was the pressure from below that drove the Mac from our own suburban schools and public libraries.
However, hearing that Sony itself has been pressuring the porn industry away from the Blu-Ray format, it seems they've shot themselves in the foot and mooted their brand from competition.
You have a wife and three kids.
You are not buying porn for your $3000 LCD.
You are buying Pirates of the Carribean, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars.
___
The idea that porn is a driving force in tech is amusing and provocative. But the geek in his basement is perhaps not the best judge of its truth.
I think this is a perfect opportunity for the likes of Dell and HP to sell their own, less expensive HomeNAS. They take a NAS device, that they already make for the enterprise, throw on a lightweight Linux. Throw on some Samba, Apache, etc.
Microsoft bears the expense of adapting a mature server OS for the home.
A server the user can access remotely without ever thinking about the difference between a static and dynamic IP address. With data protection perhaps more robust and certainly easier to understand than RAID. No need to power down to add or replace a drive.
Hot Swap at mass market prices.
HP puts it in a box styled to match your Home Theater components. HP sells the product with a Microsoft logo in a market that has a Windows PC in the den, an XBox 360 in the game room, and Sync in the car.
Now make the business case for rolling out your own Linux solution.
I haven't RTFA, but knowing what prices MS charges for their products, why would anyone buy into it
WHS will be priced for OEM sales to HP and Dell.
Same as always. The home buyer is not a system builder and doesn't give a damn about retail list.
I can't see how a home server from MS would be any less complicated than setting up a Redhat Linux server.
Let me suggest one reason why Red Hat abandoned the home market:
When Microsoft sought beta testers for Windows Vista, it wasn't looking for just anybody. The company wanted to find a wide variety of testers ranging from novice users to respected experts. Microsoft's search was not limited to individuals, either. 50 families also participated in the testing of Windows Vista.
The program that the families were involved in was called "Life with Windows Vista", and it started around the time of Vista's first beta release. Using videotapes of the families interacting with the operating system, personal interviews, and background reporting, Microsoft was able to create gigs of data reports that the development teams used to uncover bugs and tweak the OS. According to eWeek, the families discovered over 800 bugs.Testing Vista as a family function
Quake3, Quake4, RTCW and Doom3 all had/have native Linux clients
True enough. But the better tool set does influence your choice of platform and technology - and even a developer in Carmack's league has to make these choices.
There's not a whole lot of unique content or mythology in the movies>
It may have been blind chance. But introducing supernatural elements into the traditional swashbuckler works very well in the films. It should work in a game. It did work for "Monkey Island" when that franchise was in its prime.
DOOM was cool in the 90's, but these days you gotta be a bit more creative.
He admits as much in the interview. The sting is in what he has to say about Windows and the XBox 360. With not so much as bone tossed the way of the OSX and Linux PC gamer.
When a document that was originally supposed to shackle the federal government is re-interpreted as desired or necessary then the function isn't being fulfilled.
The Constitution established a strong federal government. It exists because of a visceral reaction to the failures of the Articles of Confederation.
The debate within the Constitutional Convention was secret. It is a document rooted in compromise between minds as flexible as Franklin, as conflicted as Jefferson, as modern as Hamilton.
The language is general. The language is eighteenth century. It cannot be read without "translation."
The search for "original meaning and intent" is an exercise in futility. That debate was in full swing from the moment the text became public and will never be resolved.
If Ubuntu have their wits about them, a home server edition of Ubuntu would be their next plan: a single CD which you can drop into an old, spare PC to turn it into a home server without paying the Windows Tax all over again.
No but a Geek gives a damn about the "Microsoft Tax" in the OEM dominated home market---$50 for a product that is upgraded or replaced once every four or five years.
No one but Geek will find a suitable media server among the half-forgotten discards in his basement.
I don't know anyone who is using Microsoft based home entertainment, and I don't know anyone who is using Vista for any serious purpose
What the Geek doesn't know...about the home PC market would fill volumes.
The Vista Premium upgrade at $155 USD has made the top ten in software sales at Amazon, and it hasn't even been released yet. Damn near every PC sold over the holidays sold with a coupon for free upgrade to OEM Vista Premium.
I think many Linux users were caught off guard to hear the home server was coming. Mainly because many people using Linux already turned some tired, old box into a home server years ago.
Windows Home Server is mass market.
No assembly required.
Configured "automagically" or through wizard-driven Q&A. Styled to compliment your HDTV and A/V Receiver.
The PC used to be Geek Heaven.
The Internet used to be Geek Heaven. Now the Server is coming down to Earth as well and it bears the Microsoft Windows logo.
It's clear that Microsoft is winning the war for the home market. Microsoft has Windows Media Center which, in..Vista..will provide support for HDTV recording, CableCard support, and downloadable content. Then add in Xbox 360.., extend Windows Media Center, and also play games. The online part (Xbox Live) is a great addition...
* Easy setup - users are given a CD to install software on each networked Windows XP/Vista PC that provides auto detection of the server and helps users create profiles
* It's always on and administered from any PC in the home
* Expandable storage - WHS will allow users to add hard drives to their towers as needed [no need to power down] or they can connect external USB storage drives
* Automatic backups of media stored on networked PCs
* Central point for accessing and playing back shared media and DRM protected content
* Remote access of stored content with private and public sharing capabilities - includes upload features
* Remote access of desktop settings and applications when away from home
* Desktop snapshots of all configured network PCs to help bring users back to any point in time if something should go wrong
* Works as a central print server
The software is based on Windows Server 2003. The server console requires XP or Vista. File sharing appears to be bog standard SMB. No problems there for OSX or Linux systems on your home network.
No sales to consumers.
Ten user accounts, one guest account, four bays for SATA 2 drives, terabytes of storage, if you can afford it, four USB ports on HP's home server product. No information on RAID support. Gigabyte ethernet standard, wireless extra.
Images of {a Window's PCs] hard drive can also be saved on the HP MediaSmart, which can be restored without the "need to locate your original operating system disc." HP Reveals MediaSmart Home Server Details
Our elected officials in all three of the branches of the government have been disregarding the original intent and meaning of the constitution for decades.
The intent was to anchor the foundations of a government the Founders hoped would endure.
There were differences from the beginning about how that government should evolve and grow. But plain common sense said that you cannot govern from the grave.
The Founders deepest faith was in Checks and Balances. The world changes. Structure endures.
Interstate Commerce took on the meaning it had to a commercial and industrial civilization that stretched across a continent, that drew on the resources of every race and kind. It could not be otherwise.
the lazy legislature unconstitionally delegates lawmaking to various departments (EPA, FCC, etc).
There is a useful distinction to be made between general legislation and rule-making under statutory authority and the leadership of the executive. It is a necessary distinction.
The Congressman can not and ought not to be a narrow technical specialist.
So, in any disaster scenario I can just ship a few hundred bushels of feedstock grade corn (for livestock, or refuse), to a site and power electrical equipment.
A few hundred bushels? The roads are blocked, bridges are down.
But why the hell would you truck in a moonshiner's still and the grain and the fuel to power the damn thing when you can truck in alcohol and other fuels from secure stockpiles and refineries outside the disaster zone?
The commercial grade product, safe and predictable.
You'll need someone who knows what he's doing to keep watch on that still. You fire up the diesel gen-set and more or less forget about it.
But a movie about it...now that's completely different.
It is different. You are an observer, not a participant in the action. You cannot change anything.
The essence of a role-playing game is choice. That can be very revealing but it is not without danger. You might want to read Gene Wolfe's "When I Was Ming The Merciless."
In the Columbine game, your only choice is to choose the next to die. The only measure of achievement the body count.
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Which means they won't be held to the same standards as a cop when aomeone claims entrapment.
2. If you put your own car out by the road with a "free car" sign on it, you can't accuse someone who takes it of GTA.
The sign doesn't say "Free Car." The sign says "Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows." It appears on the Net before the film's theatrical release.
3. If the cops actually plant a "fake car" like you describe, the perpetrator is not guilty of Grand Theft Auto, as no car has been taken.
You made the attempt. You believed the screener was real. Your every move is being tracked. But you were dumb enough and greedy enough to come back to BT for more.
You won't be sued for downloading the fake file. The bait. You will be tracked when you come back to BT for a real file.
Don't underestimate the "bandwidth" of FedEx. Cheaper delivery to the home than fiber.
The audience doesn't go shopping for the programmer's bleeding-edge tech. The audience goes shopping for a movie.
In two or three years, the kids will be running Vista at home.
The schools will migrate to Vista as the families they serve migrate to Vista.
The schools will migrate to the new Office as the businesses they serve migrate to the new Office. You'll see the move begin with the night classes, adult education.
The Geek sees the world from a top-down view. The schools from the bottom-up.
It was the pressure from below that drove the Mac from our own suburban schools and public libraries.
You have a wife and three kids.
You are not buying porn for your $3000 LCD.
You are buying Pirates of the Carribean, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars.
___
The idea that porn is a driving force in tech is amusing and provocative. But the geek in his basement is perhaps not the best judge of its truth.
Microsoft bears the expense of adapting a mature server OS for the home.
A server the user can access remotely without ever thinking about the difference between a static and dynamic IP address. With data protection perhaps more robust and certainly easier to understand than RAID. No need to power down to add or replace a drive.
Hot Swap at mass market prices.
HP puts it in a box styled to match your Home Theater components. HP sells the product with a Microsoft logo in a market that has a Windows PC in the den, an XBox 360 in the game room, and Sync in the car.
Now make the business case for rolling out your own Linux solution.
WHS will be priced for OEM sales to HP and Dell.
Same as always. The home buyer is not a system builder and doesn't give a damn about retail list.
I can't see how a home server from MS would be any less complicated than setting up a Redhat Linux server.
Let me suggest one reason why Red Hat abandoned the home market:
When Microsoft sought beta testers for Windows Vista, it wasn't looking for just anybody. The company wanted to find a wide variety of testers ranging from novice users to respected experts. Microsoft's search was not limited to individuals, either. 50 families also participated in the testing of Windows Vista.
The program that the families were involved in was called "Life with Windows Vista", and it started around the time of Vista's first beta release. Using videotapes of the families interacting with the operating system, personal interviews, and background reporting, Microsoft was able to create gigs of data reports that the development teams used to uncover bugs and tweak the OS. According to eWeek, the families discovered over 800 bugs. Testing Vista as a family function
True enough. But the better tool set does influence your choice of platform and technology - and even a developer in Carmack's league has to make these choices.
my guess is that you are wrong.
if only because the geek is almost always wrong about the home PC market
Demoing with what? The early betas, the release candidates, or the RTM?
And that is what customers want... Purdy shiney flashey! they do not give a rats ass about anything they cant see and feel.
No one cares about how well it works for you, they only care about how well it works for them.
The same Firefox that leaks like a sieve and consumes system resources like there was no tomorrow?
You say it's the add-ons that case trouble? Then why does Firefox direct you to the presumably trustworthy Moz page for downloads?
---a solution which in the general consumer market died with Heathkit in 1992.
Quick on the trigger, aren't you?
There will be no home installs of Vista until the end of the month.
It may have been blind chance. But introducing supernatural elements into the traditional swashbuckler works very well in the films. It should work in a game. It did work for "Monkey Island" when that franchise was in its prime.
But is OGL still his first choice?
He isn't convinced that it is time to make the jump to DX10, but DX9 seems be delivering pretty much everything he wants.
He admits as much in the interview. The sting is in what he has to say about Windows and the XBox 360. With not so much as bone tossed the way of the OSX and Linux PC gamer.
The Constitution established a strong federal government. It exists because of a visceral reaction to the failures of the Articles of Confederation.
The debate within the Constitutional Convention was secret. It is a document rooted in compromise between minds as flexible as Franklin, as conflicted as Jefferson, as modern as Hamilton.
The language is general. The language is eighteenth century. It cannot be read without "translation."
The search for "original meaning and intent" is an exercise in futility. That debate was in full swing from the moment the text became public and will never be resolved.
No but a Geek gives a damn about the "Microsoft Tax" in the OEM dominated home market---$50 for a product that is upgraded or replaced once every four or five years.
No one but Geek will find a suitable media server among the half-forgotten discards in his basement.
What the Geek doesn't know...about the home PC market would fill volumes.
The Vista Premium upgrade at $155 USD has made the top ten in software sales at Amazon, and it hasn't even been released yet. Damn near every PC sold over the holidays sold with a coupon for free upgrade to OEM Vista Premium.
Windows Home Server is mass market.
No assembly required.
Configured "automagically" or through wizard-driven Q&A. Styled to compliment your HDTV and A/V Receiver.
The PC used to be Geek Heaven.
The Internet used to be Geek Heaven. Now the Server is coming down to Earth as well and it bears the Microsoft Windows logo.
You can add Windows Home Server to the list:
* Easy setup - users are given a CD to install software on each networked Windows XP/Vista PC that provides auto detection of the server and helps users create profiles
* It's always on and administered from any PC in the home
* Expandable storage - WHS will allow users to add hard drives to their towers as needed [no need to power down] or they can connect external USB storage drives
* Automatic backups of media stored on networked PCs
* Central point for accessing and playing back shared media and DRM protected content
* Remote access of stored content with private and public sharing capabilities - includes upload features
* Remote access of desktop settings and applications when away from home
* Desktop snapshots of all configured network PCs to help bring users back to any point in time if something should go wrong
* Works as a central print server
The software is based on Windows Server 2003. The server console requires XP or Vista. File sharing appears to be bog standard SMB. No problems there for OSX or Linux systems on your home network.
No sales to consumers.
Ten user accounts, one guest account, four bays for SATA 2 drives, terabytes of storage, if you can afford it, four USB ports on HP's home server product. No information on RAID support. Gigabyte ethernet standard, wireless extra.
Images of {a Window's PCs] hard drive can also be saved on the HP MediaSmart, which can be restored without the "need to locate your original operating system disc." HP Reveals MediaSmart Home Server Details
it depends if by "developers" you mean "companies willing to invest serious money in the production and marketing of a game"
The intent was to anchor the foundations of a government the Founders hoped would endure.
There were differences from the beginning about how that government should evolve and grow. But plain common sense said that you cannot govern from the grave.
The Founders deepest faith was in Checks and Balances. The world changes. Structure endures.
Interstate Commerce took on the meaning it had to a commercial and industrial civilization that stretched across a continent, that drew on the resources of every race and kind. It could not be otherwise.
the lazy legislature unconstitionally delegates lawmaking to various departments (EPA, FCC, etc).
There is a useful distinction to be made between general legislation and rule-making under statutory authority and the leadership of the executive. It is a necessary distinction.
The Congressman can not and ought not to be a narrow technical specialist.
A few hundred bushels? The roads are blocked, bridges are down.
But why the hell would you truck in a moonshiner's still and the grain and the fuel to power the damn thing when you can truck in alcohol and other fuels from secure stockpiles and refineries outside the disaster zone?
The commercial grade product, safe and predictable. You'll need someone who knows what he's doing to keep watch on that still. You fire up the diesel gen-set and more or less forget about it.
It is different. You are an observer, not a participant in the action. You cannot change anything.
The essence of a role-playing game is choice. That can be very revealing but it is not without danger. You might want to read Gene Wolfe's "When I Was Ming The Merciless."
In the Columbine game, your only choice is to choose the next to die. The only measure of achievement the body count.