By the time you saw the "real" Halo at Macworld, it had already undergone massive changes from its original concept (it used to be an RTS, for one thing), and after MS bought Bungie it was virtually rebuilt from scratch for the Xbox.
If the movie blows, WHY DO YOU WANT TO SEE IT AT ALL? By downloading it, you admit the desire to see it, and that you are too cheap to pay the price the creator is asking and too weak to put up with not seeing it at all.
I know what you mean- After getting Burnout 3, it's hard to look at a traffic jam or busy intersection without thinking "Man, I could earn so much here..."
You are filtering the spam after the cost has already been incurred by at least two ISPs (sender and receiver), and they will pass that cost on to you regardless of whether you use SpamAssassin. Your argument could be rephrased as "Vandalism is not a problem as long as those broken windows get replaced before I see them."
It's downloadable content and online rankings. There is no mode involving more than one player at a time. Which is understandable, considering the things the game does with time.
The jog wheel hasn't shown up on anything else because Apple patented it.
The secret to the iPod's success isn't the ITMS, or the sexy design, or any other single feature. It was the way Apple managed to provide all those features at once and link them together in well-thought-out ways.
The DVD drive can spin down after a game is inserted; whether it is given enough time to depends on how the game uses it. I know this because when my first Xbox died, the manner of its death was that the DVD drive became incapable of spinning back up after it had spun down. Games which used the drive for periodic random access tended to freeze, games which used the HD as a cache could play an entire level and freeze between them (when it tried to cache the next one).
Also, the drive will spin down if you leave a DVD movie paused. My Xbox couldn't recover from that either.
Not all lasers have to be strong enough to cause damage to the retina. This laser only has to travel a few inches, and the human eye is very sensitive, so it can be far weaker than even a CD player laser. Plus, the laser's output is being spread across the entire retina, not focusing on a single spot.
And, obviously there would be further investigation by whatever regulatory agency applies before these are allowed to be sold.
Halo is already pretty close to that "happy medium"- there are a series of tie-in novels, developed with Bungie's close supervision, that provide a backstory for the game.
Of course, if any other company tried that (give away their product for free to get people hooked on it, then tell everyone to buy a subscription), Slashdot would be screaming bloody murder.
It is most definitely a huge exaggeration. Annoying people over the Internet and wasting network resources is about as far from abusing children as you can get. You might as well claim that that jerk at the bar who made a pass at you earlier is "one step above" a serial rapist.
You just mentioned part of the reason this doesn't happen in your own argument: "SPF, Sender ID et al". If there was ONE plan with the backing of the entire Internet community and every service provider on it, the migration could get under way.
The iTunes interface is limited to "select the photos you want to move to the iPod. OK, done". Apple probably feels this is less confusing than having different programs manage different aspects of the iPod.
Halo 1 didn't support XBL. I'm sure the network component has been pretty much rewritten.
However, Serious Sam also has far simpler AI and physics than Halo 2 does- it has less state to send and the Xbox can handle it. Also, Serious Sam's graphics don't come anywhere close to pushing the limits of the Xbox, as the original PC game came out when Geforce 1s were just appearing. There's power to spare, so they can easily add some more players running around without any problems. Halo 2's campaign levels will use most of the xbox's capacity just for one player; there's nowhere to squeeze in network communications and I expect that split-screen co-op mode will perform noticably worse than single-player, as was the case with Halo 1.
Even if the context does get recorded, do you trust the recorder to provide it? Perhaps (going on the example in the article) he has a vested interest in making the police look bad or keeping his friend out of jail when he was clearly (on the unedited tape) in the wrong.
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By the time you saw the "real" Halo at Macworld, it had already undergone massive changes from its original concept (it used to be an RTS, for one thing), and after MS bought Bungie it was virtually rebuilt from scratch for the Xbox.
The correct analogy here would be shoplifting a Pepsi.
(Cue 20 "WRONG, IT'S COPYRIGHT VIOLATION" posts...)
If the movie blows, WHY DO YOU WANT TO SEE IT AT ALL? By downloading it, you admit the desire to see it, and that you are too cheap to pay the price the creator is asking and too weak to put up with not seeing it at all.
Of course, it has to be mentioned that all the arguments for Windows here apply even more strongly to consoles.
Don't forget that a lot of the trade surplus is simple protectionism and, as another poster pointed out, ignoring intellectual property issues.
I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve" -Admiral Yamamoto, after Pearl Harbor.
There are probably quotes like this for every country in the world.
I know what you mean- After getting Burnout 3, it's hard to look at a traffic jam or busy intersection without thinking "Man, I could earn so much here..."
You are filtering the spam after the cost has already been incurred by at least two ISPs (sender and receiver), and they will pass that cost on to you regardless of whether you use SpamAssassin. Your argument could be rephrased as "Vandalism is not a problem as long as those broken windows get replaced before I see them."
It's downloadable content and online rankings. There is no mode involving more than one player at a time. Which is understandable, considering the things the game does with time.
ANY company would do that if they attained a 90% market share- Apple, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, ATI, nVidia, everyone. Who do you buy your hardware from?
The jog wheel hasn't shown up on anything else because Apple patented it.
The secret to the iPod's success isn't the ITMS, or the sexy design, or any other single feature. It was the way Apple managed to provide all those features at once and link them together in well-thought-out ways.
I never realized my mouldering bookmark collection would be karma gold! Expect lots of Funny submissions in the future!
Music CDs aren't subsidized by movie ticket sales. Slashdot has been over this a million times.
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The DVD drive can spin down after a game is inserted; whether it is given enough time to depends on how the game uses it. I know this because when my first Xbox died, the manner of its death was that the DVD drive became incapable of spinning back up after it had spun down. Games which used the drive for periodic random access tended to freeze, games which used the HD as a cache could play an entire level and freeze between them (when it tried to cache the next one).
Also, the drive will spin down if you leave a DVD movie paused. My Xbox couldn't recover from that either.
Not all lasers have to be strong enough to cause damage to the retina. This laser only has to travel a few inches, and the human eye is very sensitive, so it can be far weaker than even a CD player laser. Plus, the laser's output is being spread across the entire retina, not focusing on a single spot.
And, obviously there would be further investigation by whatever regulatory agency applies before these are allowed to be sold.
Halo is already pretty close to that "happy medium"- there are a series of tie-in novels, developed with Bungie's close supervision, that provide a backstory for the game.
Obviously they had to go "to" the Grey Havens at least once- they lived in the Shire, and the port was pretty far away.
So, does Ludicrously Literal Rationalization beat Tolkien Minutia? Let's ask whoever issues the geek cards...
Of course, if any other company tried that (give away their product for free to get people hooked on it, then tell everyone to buy a subscription), Slashdot would be screaming bloody murder.
It is most definitely a huge exaggeration. Annoying people over the Internet and wasting network resources is about as far from abusing children as you can get. You might as well claim that that jerk at the bar who made a pass at you earlier is "one step above" a serial rapist.
You just mentioned part of the reason this doesn't happen in your own argument: "SPF, Sender ID et al". If there was ONE plan with the backing of the entire Internet community and every service provider on it, the migration could get under way.
The iTunes interface is limited to "select the photos you want to move to the iPod. OK, done". Apple probably feels this is less confusing than having different programs manage different aspects of the iPod.
Halo 1 didn't support XBL. I'm sure the network component has been pretty much rewritten.
However, Serious Sam also has far simpler AI and physics than Halo 2 does- it has less state to send and the Xbox can handle it. Also, Serious Sam's graphics don't come anywhere close to pushing the limits of the Xbox, as the original PC game came out when Geforce 1s were just appearing. There's power to spare, so they can easily add some more players running around without any problems. Halo 2's campaign levels will use most of the xbox's capacity just for one player; there's nowhere to squeeze in network communications and I expect that split-screen co-op mode will perform noticably worse than single-player, as was the case with Halo 1.
No, there should be clearer judgement of when it is necessary. Of course, there is no easy solution or procedure there.
Even if the context does get recorded, do you trust the recorder to provide it? Perhaps (going on the example in the article) he has a vested interest in making the police look bad or keeping his friend out of jail when he was clearly (on the unedited tape) in the wrong.