"THIS VESSEL IS A SATELITE CONTROLLED DRONE... PROVIDE 64 bank account access codes or it will OPEN FIRE! Your airwaves are being monitored!"
If this tech spreads into the world of piracy an isolated problem for the super rich may start striking all boaters... My sailing dingy is NOT bulletproof.
I agree, what the hell is happening to the escapist? I would have bought a print subscription to the old look in a heartbeat... now it looks like every other crap filled site out there.
Have great articles from the most passionate and respected game journalists, throw in a couple reviews... you don't need perfect polish you need emotion and perspective and the escapist had those! Now it's just another over-edited crapshoot. I miss the themed editions, if they'd managed to tie that into game releases instead of seasons it would have been fantastic... Halo 3 drops issue comes out talking about the history of fps on consoles and pcs... Katamari Ships talk about innovative mechanics... etc. Fantastic concept could have been great but going downhill fast:(
Unfortunately, this card actually sells for somewhere around $300 U.S. ($280 CND) which is more expensive than the GTS 320, which has been out for almost a year.
THE GPU INDUSTRY NEEDS AN UPGRADE and this thing is a piece at the price its actually arrived at...
Since the 9700 Pro there hasn't been a great upgrade... the market segmentation between Nvidia and ATI seems to be keeping them both happy.
We could all create competition if we bought cards at EXACTLY $150 (or $200 for the high end) then only one company would get 100% of the market share...
However they are somewhat shooting themselves in the foot, if this card cost $120 instead of $199 then dell or Apple would be rediculous not to include it, now PC gaming is a specialist realm and that $500 bump to a decent graphics card is killer.
I grew from the $300 monster through a bunch of cards and know I should seriously examine performance when I buy a pc but for most people who see a PC game and are told that their computer can't run it the only option is a whole new rig, and an expensive one at that!
Obviously growing the market (the opposite of what MS is doing with DX10) is only a step on the road to major profits but having the only viable graphics cards (GTS 320+) being more expensive than consoles at the beginning of a console cycle has really hurt this industry.
I was enthusiastic about this part because I knew the graphics curve was being lowered while prices were rising despite the massive performance of the current gen of CPUs and GPUs.
They priced themselves into Xeon and Quadro territory and now they need to price themselves out again.
It's really hard to tell what's going on with those interested in buying a new PC these days who AREN'T buying them, they're quiet while the GTX people scream about how happy they are to be out $1200 for a motherboard, Vista and a couple of graphics cards which will be out of date when DX10.1 takes off.
It's nice to see hardware makers and game designers pushing boundaries but they need to spend some time consolidating the market... its shrinking.
Agreed, and the solution they've chosen to use (I.E. sending end packets) doesn't even allow them to keep track of how much traffic users WANT to send.
End result they won't know if their network can handle 15% of user demand or 5% and eventually they won't care!
Their IT guys go home thinking that the network is only using 40% of bandwidth because they killed everything that might use more bandwidth, also they're attacking upload... which doesn't make any sense since they buy syncronous links to the net... WHY DO ISPS NEED ALL THIS SURPLUS UPSTREAM?!
Agreed, the biggest people hurt are the ones with games that most people just wouldn't buy.
Katamari Damancy is an excellent game... I love showing it to non-gamers and getting them excited about gaming through it... but no one I know who owns a ps2 owns the game, it's just too short!
Enter mod-chips where you can access games like Katamari or Dragon Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (a glorified Bejewelled clone) that there is NO WAY you'd buy.
I bought my DS some accessories and 6 games before I bought my mod chip (and, as someone mentioned earlier, I mostly got it so I could play my games without lugging a lot of tiny expensive carts everywhere).
I'm bought more games than 90% of DS owners and more than paid for continued development on the DS
I think what so many people are complaining about is that they know that mod chip owners will be able to play the games in 15-30 years... my mod chip will still be around and I can find all the old games. If I had to keep the carts they'd be lost, broken, or sold by the time I wanted to show them to my kids (gone the way of my GB and games, Sega Genesis, Old PC library)... I don't want to lug around a media library in a bunch of diffrent formats forever.
I COULD have bought a 360 and modded it with the money I spent on DS games but I think you need to support the developers and I don't feel the right to every single game just because I can... on the other hand the homebrew community shows we don't REALLY need the big name developers and publishers. Games will get made on donations and be really good! Don't sell your console at a loss and you won't need to fear the modders.
Well since no one seems to have come close a reasoned response to his arguments and there really isn't anyone (Except perhaps Balmer, Gates, Jobs and a few content industry execs with equal clout) to stand against him he's repeating himself and we'd be better served by reading his book than by reading a debate he has with the clueless.
If he wants to add an element of his idology that he thinks will attract people to his real goal then that's fine.
Has a nasty habit of taxing vices and hobbies, movies, cigarettes, alcohol etc.
These things are expensive here earning us a reputation as rather more reserved then our American neighbors...
People buying music have money to spend on the "trivial" arts... I suppose this is a product of the fall of communism and rise in conservatism but it still rubs me the wrong way. It seems fair and like a good tax base but big picture attacking the arts is a bad thing tm.
From my point of view though, gamers may overestimate their own importance to the adoption of Linux at this time. Because gaming will fall to the biggest (desktop) installbase, how is it going to help an OS that is currently running third? All it can really do is solidify the lead of whoever is in first. Right?
Actually gamers are some of the most demanding users out there, they run lots of apps that other users don't and spur adoption of technologies, they go for the fastest and best platform and they have enormous influence in terms of buying power of others. Linux has not underestimated their value, many gamers WOULD be developers if they gamed in linux... the popularity of modding means that they'd be contributing to graphics drivers, schedulers, packet Qos Scheduling, the existing modding community, not to mention that A LOT of people learn to code hoping to make games.
These people will never be satisfied with the technology in their systems, and they are finding new and innovative ways to push the envelope all the time... If Linux could harness the energy spent on case mods and overclocking it would be a huge gain in terms of developer power.
While people who haven't read any of the REAL news sources on this bill are saying yay! Free no taxation! There is a new element in the works that's pretty evil.
The Teleco lobbyists have pushed (with the backing of the FBI) for VOIP to be taxable, so they'll still have to examine your packets and have funding/access to your conversations over the net.
I wish some politicians or news agencies in the U.S. would put up stronger resistence to this kind of backdoor shenanigans... but what do I know.
Reminds me a bit of Katamari, great game arguably too short. Some people became bored with the mechanic quicly while most enjoyed it.
That there were two sequels and people are calling for sequels to portal is a problematic aspect of the length of the games. Clearly neither game needs a sequel, people don't really need a sequel they need more content from very creative developers and one wonders whether their next games will be as successful.
It's a product of the franchise mentality and really bothers me when I have so many exceedingly lengthy games to complete.
Um, senators do other things beside vote on legislation. They have some control over the administrative branch of government, so these senators would be following up on the votes of their constituency.
It has been tested Booyah!?... and the Russians seem to have found a much simpler and more efficient solution.
Like their diamond production technology this one just never hit the market... How cool would it be if Putin had a permanent spotlight!
Anyway set it up over the pacific or perpendicular to the sun and beam the light to where it's needed... Possible future use... blocking out the sun to keep those hot summer days at 30-40kelvin.
My goodness you're right, I'm not rich enough and consumers aren't getting screwed enough.
I'll make a business plan where people buy into me and I get subsidies from the government to provide a service... I'll get paid at both ends!
I'll use clever buy in prices and lies to get people to get my service! But who will I get to help me keep people buying this inferior service when they find out? My competition! And they can buy me out and get even bigger!
Thanks Free market! You gave me EXACTLY what I was looking for!
When you look at a group of bees in a hive you can find the queen based on the patterns of the other bees.
In a protest there are similar focal points, from a ground view they may not be obvious even to protesters.
By knowing more about the makeup of a protest group than the protesters themselves there are any number of ways to manipulate, control/ learn from the group... identifying the more commited/informed/passionate members seems to be the traditional method... see the "Watchmen" from the 60s 70s.
You don't abide by it, like the Weapons in Space, all of it's agreements with the U.N. including financial, it's agreements with individual powers such as Tibet.
You're wrong and that's why you think people who are right are meaningless, as far as the rest of the world is concerned the U.S. has no honour (how many undeclared wars does that make?)... They're just a thorn in the side, and their upcomming economic colapse can't come soon enough.
Slashdot Mirror
Second only to a modded Xbox...
That people can close their eyes and catch a ball suggests that we can do at least basic algeobra/calculus.
estimates of the volumes of diffrent containers suggests something similar.
How long until these things ARE THE PIRATES!
"THIS VESSEL IS A SATELITE CONTROLLED DRONE... PROVIDE 64 bank account access codes or it will OPEN FIRE! Your airwaves are being monitored!"
If this tech spreads into the world of piracy an isolated problem for the super rich may start striking all boaters... My sailing dingy is NOT bulletproof.
But the dick comparing ended with both agreeing their dicks "were really very large" and so "it might be a good idea to put them away."
While some war nymphos were disapointed everyone else was pretty happy about that.
So, go dick contests!
I agree, what the hell is happening to the escapist? I would have bought a print subscription to the old look in a heartbeat... now it looks like every other crap filled site out there.
:(
Have great articles from the most passionate and respected game journalists, throw in a couple reviews... you don't need perfect polish you need emotion and perspective and the escapist had those! Now it's just another over-edited crapshoot. I miss the themed editions, if they'd managed to tie that into game releases instead of seasons it would have been fantastic... Halo 3 drops issue comes out talking about the history of fps on consoles and pcs... Katamari Ships talk about innovative mechanics... etc. Fantastic concept could have been great but going downhill fast
Unfortunately, this card actually sells for somewhere around $300 U.S. ($280 CND) which is more expensive than the GTS 320, which has been out for almost a year.
THE GPU INDUSTRY NEEDS AN UPGRADE and this thing is a piece at the price its actually arrived at...
Since the 9700 Pro there hasn't been a great upgrade... the market segmentation between Nvidia and ATI seems to be keeping them both happy.
We could all create competition if we bought cards at EXACTLY $150 (or $200 for the high end) then only one company would get 100% of the market share...
However they are somewhat shooting themselves in the foot, if this card cost $120 instead of $199 then dell or Apple would be rediculous not to include it, now PC gaming is a specialist realm and that $500 bump to a decent graphics card is killer.
I grew from the $300 monster through a bunch of cards and know I should seriously examine performance when I buy a pc but for most people who see a PC game and are told that their computer can't run it the only option is a whole new rig, and an expensive one at that!
Obviously growing the market (the opposite of what MS is doing with DX10) is only a step on the road to major profits but having the only viable graphics cards (GTS 320+) being more expensive than consoles at the beginning of a console cycle has really hurt this industry.
I was enthusiastic about this part because I knew the graphics curve was being lowered while prices were rising despite the massive performance of the current gen of CPUs and GPUs.
They priced themselves into Xeon and Quadro territory and now they need to price themselves out again.
It's really hard to tell what's going on with those interested in buying a new PC these days who AREN'T buying them, they're quiet while the GTX people scream about how happy they are to be out $1200 for a motherboard, Vista and a couple of graphics cards which will be out of date when DX10.1 takes off.
It's nice to see hardware makers and game designers pushing boundaries but they need to spend some time consolidating the market... its shrinking.
USB wifi support forced me to buy a new laptop.
I hope they get this working, it's a fantastic kind of hardware...
Agreed, and the solution they've chosen to use (I.E. sending end packets) doesn't even allow them to keep track of how much traffic users WANT to send.
End result they won't know if their network can handle 15% of user demand or 5% and eventually they won't care!
Their IT guys go home thinking that the network is only using 40% of bandwidth because they killed everything that might use more bandwidth, also they're attacking upload... which doesn't make any sense since they buy syncronous links to the net... WHY DO ISPS NEED ALL THIS SURPLUS UPSTREAM?!
"AAA homebrew"...
I wonder if CS can claim to be that triple A homebrew? They are using another dev's engine but it's also a total conversion?
Did they find this by checking some kind of watermarking or by tracing the initial seed of a file transfer?
Is there any decent anonymizing service designed for this problem? Might be something the pirate bay should look into.
Um, just about anything is easier then getting G.W.B. to not fuck up.
Agreed, the biggest people hurt are the ones with games that most people just wouldn't buy.
Katamari Damancy is an excellent game... I love showing it to non-gamers and getting them excited about gaming through it... but no one I know who owns a ps2 owns the game, it's just too short!
Enter mod-chips where you can access games like Katamari or Dragon Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (a glorified Bejewelled clone) that there is NO WAY you'd buy.
I bought my DS some accessories and 6 games before I bought my mod chip (and, as someone mentioned earlier, I mostly got it so I could play my games without lugging a lot of tiny expensive carts everywhere).
I'm bought more games than 90% of DS owners and more than paid for continued development on the DS
I think what so many people are complaining about is that they know that mod chip owners will be able to play the games in 15-30 years... my mod chip will still be around and I can find all the old games. If I had to keep the carts they'd be lost, broken, or sold by the time I wanted to show them to my kids (gone the way of my GB and games, Sega Genesis, Old PC library)... I don't want to lug around a media library in a bunch of diffrent formats forever.
I COULD have bought a 360 and modded it with the money I spent on DS games but I think you need to support the developers and I don't feel the right to every single game just because I can... on the other hand the homebrew community shows we don't REALLY need the big name developers and publishers. Games will get made on donations and be really good! Don't sell your console at a loss and you won't need to fear the modders.
voip telephony. Looks like the $400 a year cell phone bill is here to stay... DAMN IT I DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE U.S.!
Well since no one seems to have come close a reasoned response to his arguments and there really isn't anyone (Except perhaps Balmer, Gates, Jobs and a few content industry execs with equal clout) to stand against him he's repeating himself and we'd be better served by reading his book than by reading a debate he has with the clueless.
If he wants to add an element of his idology that he thinks will attract people to his real goal then that's fine.
Blah blah blah GPL3vs2...
Blah blah blah FSF's newest suit against software theives.
Blah blah blah hardware DRM...
Now let's talk about the NINJA!
Has a nasty habit of taxing vices and hobbies, movies, cigarettes, alcohol etc.
These things are expensive here earning us a reputation as rather more reserved then our American neighbors...
People buying music have money to spend on the "trivial" arts... I suppose this is a product of the fall of communism and rise in conservatism but it still rubs me the wrong way. It seems fair and like a good tax base but big picture attacking the arts is a bad thing tm.
From my point of view though, gamers may overestimate their own importance to the adoption of Linux at this time. Because gaming will fall to the biggest (desktop) installbase, how is it going to help an OS that is currently running third? All it can really do is solidify the lead of whoever is in first. Right?
Actually gamers are some of the most demanding users out there, they run lots of apps that other users don't and spur adoption of technologies, they go for the fastest and best platform and they have enormous influence in terms of buying power of others. Linux has not underestimated their value, many gamers WOULD be developers if they gamed in linux... the popularity of modding means that they'd be contributing to graphics drivers, schedulers, packet Qos Scheduling, the existing modding community, not to mention that A LOT of people learn to code hoping to make games.
These people will never be satisfied with the technology in their systems, and they are finding new and innovative ways to push the envelope all the time... If Linux could harness the energy spent on case mods and overclocking it would be a huge gain in terms of developer power.
While people who haven't read any of the REAL news sources on this bill are saying yay! Free no taxation! There is a new element in the works that's pretty evil.
The Teleco lobbyists have pushed (with the backing of the FBI) for VOIP to be taxable, so they'll still have to examine your packets and have funding/access to your conversations over the net.
I wish some politicians or news agencies in the U.S. would put up stronger resistence to this kind of backdoor shenanigans... but what do I know.
Reminds me a bit of Katamari, great game arguably too short. Some people became bored with the mechanic quicly while most enjoyed it.
That there were two sequels and people are calling for sequels to portal is a problematic aspect of the length of the games. Clearly neither game needs a sequel, people don't really need a sequel they need more content from very creative developers and one wonders whether their next games will be as successful.
It's a product of the franchise mentality and really bothers me when I have so many exceedingly lengthy games to complete.
Um, senators do other things beside vote on legislation. They have some control over the administrative branch of government, so these senators would be following up on the votes of their constituency.
Marijuana growers don't subsidize themselves!
It has been tested Booyah!?... and the Russians seem to have found a much simpler and more efficient solution.
Like their diamond production technology this one just never hit the market... How cool would it be if Putin had a permanent spotlight!
Anyway set it up over the pacific or perpendicular to the sun and beam the light to where it's needed... Possible future use... blocking out the sun to keep those hot summer days at 30-40kelvin.
Probably won't save the day but might...
"Bush is a douche"tm...
Hey Google, I'm coming for you!
My goodness you're right, I'm not rich enough and consumers aren't getting screwed enough.
I'll make a business plan where people buy into me and I get subsidies from the government to provide a service... I'll get paid at both ends!
I'll use clever buy in prices and lies to get people to get my service! But who will I get to help me keep people buying this inferior service when they find out? My competition! And they can buy me out and get even bigger!
Thanks Free market! You gave me EXACTLY what I was looking for!
When you look at a group of bees in a hive you can find the queen based on the patterns of the other bees.
In a protest there are similar focal points, from a ground view they may not be obvious even to protesters.
By knowing more about the makeup of a protest group than the protesters themselves there are any number of ways to manipulate, control/ learn from the group... identifying the more commited/informed/passionate members seems to be the traditional method... see the "Watchmen" from the 60s 70s.
You don't abide by it, like the Weapons in Space, all of it's agreements with the U.N. including financial, it's agreements with individual powers such as Tibet.
You're wrong and that's why you think people who are right are meaningless, as far as the rest of the world is concerned the U.S. has no honour (how many undeclared wars does that make?)... They're just a thorn in the side, and their upcomming economic colapse can't come soon enough.