Back in the day the movie and music industry basically made a deal with the U.S. government that they would supress anti-american sentiment and promote pro-american sentiment.
Look at the U.S. film industry during the cold war, Americas media is a powerful public relations and propaganda tool and one they won't like to see challenged especially by a consortium of actual citizens who will more likely use the mediums to voice their concerns rather than downplay them.
Poor countries still think Americans live in Melrose Place/90210/the O.C. it's sad:(
But in our disposable society: researching the rootbeer.5c Making the rootbear 1.5c Can 5c Transporting 4c Marketing 30c Can $1.25.
So you're still stealing an idea, people haven't really sold a product for about 50 years in the U.S. ever since planned obsolesence took over in the 60s and 70s thats where your car is designed to break in 5 years your fridge as well and products aren't released until they've already planned what will supplant them.
When companies spend 3 times as much on marketing as on design and production you KNOW they don't care about their consumers...
The MPAA and RIAA are some of the worst offenders of this and that's why they're being called to account... not just the idea that people should have access to beauty and ideas regardless of their income.
What if someone in Germany was sharing a popular MP3. I download it in the USA. Does that make it less of a crime than if I downloaded it from someone sharing in the USA.
Since they are busting people for sharing not downloading yes...
Also now it's a good idea to start buying drugs from Mexicans get them to throw them across the border to you...
Can any American really be considered a "civilian" or claim to abhore their government's actions when they don't do anything to stop them, take any responsability or act ashamed for their countries actions?
I'm not trolling. I'm seriously curious how U.S. citizens will answer these questions.
Subtext, perhaps we shouldn't be complaining about those ps2 demo's rendered on the slightly diffrent hardware of SGI workstations:P
Small is hard... That's why PDA's aren't crazy fast...
Crazy heat issues etc... one of the hottest components is wireless (radio waves)...
If the Wii has several seperate wireless connections (8 it sounds like) that thing is going to be REALLY REALLY REALLY hot, depite the mediocre graphics and cpu the wireless alone provides a massive technical challenge.
Reading through 20 Nintendo apology posts made me sad... they're scamming, it sucks, they admitted it... gamers are NOT picking on Nintendo about this, it blows that anyone would do this and it's especially problematic because some 3rd parties DO get their info from E3 while Nintendo seems to be using it to mislead(however minorly) the consumer.
Whoever said that games will probably look better later could be right but what kind of attitude is that to take when someone lies to you.
If you really want to make games it makes sense, also without IP you don't get series-itis.
They don't want to spend massive time negotiating and dealing with legal squables so they can be working full time at a constant rate.
I bet another aspect of their business is not trying to have everyone put in their ideas all the time, if people just do what they're told the management can realize their vision really fast.
Windowspops up a little thing asking you to install drivers and telling you which hardware isn't working.
If linux could even figure out what the hardware WAS it could go online and get drivers for you... if linux wasn't a bunch of junk that is.
Linux users do think their OS is brilliant because it does a few things quite well but it doesn't implement so many seemingly simple and important elements that users can't trust it.
The iPod isn't really easier than other mp3 players but people thinking it is means they take the time to learn about it, linux needs to fix the desktop problems so people can start to trust it.
Example: If I learn windows I learn windows, if I learn FC5 will that help with ubuntu, or enlightenment, or fluxbox or gentoo? Nope... way to go now I've learned something that's less than.5% market share, and when I do support what are the chances the box I sit down at will be exactly the same, Linux really isn't that great yet...
And the slash technocrats will say EXACTLY why the isps don't want anyone to know exactly how much they are actully connecting to the net.
Because this is EXACTLY the sort of content they'll end up buffering.
And they want to hit up the websites to buffer their content and only offer buffering to a few, which will turn ugly really really fast. In fact I'd go so far as to say if they implement it in the U.S. it will fragment the internet overnight. And they could probably get the U.S. Gov to allow it but the **AA's would go berzerk. This whole thing is a big crock. ISPs think they can get away with this becuse they were allowed to f*** us up when we made the transition to broadband, remember dialup? Syncronous up and down, a whole lot less rules and no EULA now you can't run a server and you get 1/4 up down ratio... why because they are selling that upstream to companies and websites which need upspeed not down, so they're selling this bandwidth twice...
Now granted people are morons and I'm sure tech support is probably expensive to provide but they aren't laying faster cables and they really don't have a lot of costs, quite likely they have increadibly crappy efficiency levels, and a lot of that is just the ISPs trying to control their users.
A company could of course do this more cheaply and pass the profits on to the consumers.
But this way they make more money!
Sucks to be anyone with privatized Electricity and Water, it's not really diffrent from the diffrent companies and they get to spend money advertising and competing instead of having high salaries.
Well good with that super electricity, and those brownouts, and those soaring electrity costs....
Most system builders knew what they were getting with the 754...
Socket A had dual channel memory and the biggest problem with 754 was no support for Dual Channel, people knew what they were getting into.
Aside from memory bandwidth 754 is still a great platform with both AGP and Pci-E boards available and EXTREMElY affordable, the 3700+ for s754 has very very good performance for it's price, s754 would eventually have been able to encorperate dual channel memory if AMD had gotten the support from the chipset manufacturers.
Actually AM2 is probably the most abortive socket so far, unless the DDR manufacturers REALLY improve DDR2 it could be another example of Intels RDRam fiasco...
939 will be the base for AMD's budget processors of the future and is probably going to be the best deal for a while.
Maybe 1/200 of you Slashdot readers would be able to see one of the Three Tenors if their tickets were actually priced to make the most possible money (People would gladly pay several thousand dollars) and yet you seem so happy to let the market make all it's decisions for you.
Someone could buy the Mona Lisa and Michaelangelo's David stick them in a cupbord and charge some absurd price to view them and you'd say fine that's what the market decided.
This blind faith in the market is totally utterly absurd.
I'm sure many artists do price their tickets so that their fans rich and poor have the ability to come see them, maybe American's can't understand this philosophy but the rest of us can.
There was a time when some artists were far richer than they are now, imperial Europe when they had "benefactors" perhaps only a few hundred people were able to see thos musicians perform.
You can decide for yourself how important it is that now EVERYONE can hear them from the richest to the poorest because their work is in the public domain but it's pretty clear that "market forces" didn't solve the problem of their restricted performances.
No matter how efficiently the capitalist system works in assigning value it shouldn't be relied on to calculate the value to society of art.
Having people, especially future artists unable to go see a concert because it costs $250 a ticket is a shame, I doubt a young Madonna would have been able to experience many of her influences at such a price.
We're assuming this has nothing to do with the game, but trying to kill someone while leaving their lover in bed unharmed and unnaware is tough and exactly the kind of thing that the hitman series is known for.
Why do people assume he needs to scale back all the way.
The truth is his hardware will all be IDENTICAL
Now think about that, Linux puts every single driver you could need INTO it's DISTROs.
That has to go, the graphics will always be (vga? Whatever low colour) 800x600 so no scaling or fancy fonts etc.
It might be faster to run a rendered jpg as the desktop:P
I think they'll probably end up with something like enlightenment, good performance and pretty (once you get it working).
Just think of all the stuff they won't need, filesystem support, printer drivers, touchpad support, 3D driver support, DVD support the list just goes on and on.
I imagine he's probably more concerned the linux people will either bloatware it ( Poverty Stricken countries really need IRC I mean heck, and Mplayer!) or they'll just strip it down at the last minute without customizing it.
The law is now... people who are within 3 feet of me holding the opinion of the parent will be punished physically.
MFIAL (My father is a lawyer) spends most of his time in the supreme court thought of becoming a politician or a judge there, the politics involved in these offices really puts them into a place where we have to be critical of their decisions.
Laws are not absolute, they are a contract within society to try and replace religion.
Physically punching you won't help society so I won't do it, pirating and breaking the RIAA in two and burning their studios and mercedes on the other hand. That's good for everyone, like my above example.
I know the people who listen then buy are ashamed of people like me but I want the RIAA gone, 6c on a $ is garbage.
Kickbacks to radio stations. BS.
Spending 10x more on a video than on developing an artist and only signing young artists willing to do 3-4 albumn contracts. You broke the camel now suckers... we're coming.
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Back in the day the movie and music industry basically made a deal with the U.S. government that they would supress anti-american sentiment and promote pro-american sentiment.
:(
Look at the U.S. film industry during the cold war, Americas media is a powerful public relations and propaganda tool and one they won't like to see challenged especially by a consortium of actual citizens who will more likely use the mediums to voice their concerns rather than downplay them.
Poor countries still think Americans live in Melrose Place/90210/the O.C. it's sad
But in our disposable society: .5c
researching the rootbeer
Making the rootbear 1.5c
Can 5c
Transporting 4c
Marketing 30c
Can $1.25.
So you're still stealing an idea, people haven't really sold a product for about 50 years in the U.S. ever since planned obsolesence took over in the 60s and 70s thats where your car is designed to break in 5 years your fridge as well and products aren't released until they've already planned what will supplant them.
When companies spend 3 times as much on marketing as on design and production you KNOW they don't care about their consumers...
The MPAA and RIAA are some of the worst offenders of this and that's why they're being called to account... not just the idea that people should have access to beauty and ideas regardless of their income.
Well in video games and movies, they have subtitles and their games don't require a cd in the drive.
And that's discounting the distribution advantages.
Plus pirates really care about providing the best quality to their consumer... they do it for pride.
And when HD comes out, guess where most of us will start watching it...
What if someone in Germany was sharing a popular MP3. I download it in the USA. Does that make it less of a crime than if I downloaded it from someone sharing in the USA.
Since they are busting people for sharing not downloading yes...
Also now it's a good idea to start buying drugs from Mexicans get them to throw them across the border to you...
We welcome your business!
Diffrent value systems vs Hypocracy.
At least one is honest.
Can any American really be considered a "civilian" or claim to abhore their government's actions when they don't do anything to stop them, take any responsability or act ashamed for their countries actions?
I'm not trolling. I'm seriously curious how U.S. citizens will answer these questions.
Karma Kablooiieee!
Microsoft put off Vista for this...
Wait wait I know I'm insane... But so is the music industry, and it's the site of a MASSIVE IP battle.
The kind of battle in which monopolies are formed, legislators lose their minds and the music industry is crapping itself.
The OS market is saturated and the money involved is a drop in the bucket compared to digital media.
No one needs Vista... Microsoft knows that, they don't care if they cut features... But this feature... key... just like IE was back in the day.
Subtext, perhaps we shouldn't be complaining about those ps2 demo's rendered on the slightly diffrent hardware of SGI workstations :P
Small is hard... That's why PDA's aren't crazy fast...
Crazy heat issues etc... one of the hottest components is wireless (radio waves)...
If the Wii has several seperate wireless connections (8 it sounds like) that thing is going to be REALLY REALLY REALLY hot, depite the mediocre graphics and cpu the wireless alone provides a massive technical challenge.
Reading through 20 Nintendo apology posts made me sad... they're scamming, it sucks, they admitted it... gamers are NOT picking on Nintendo about this, it blows that anyone would do this and it's especially problematic because some 3rd parties DO get their info from E3 while Nintendo seems to be using it to mislead(however minorly) the consumer.
Whoever said that games will probably look better later could be right but what kind of attitude is that to take when someone lies to you.
And of course the instant that the middle east can start selling oil for Euro's or Yen they will.
Then people start wondering how the U.S. will ever pay back their debt and realizes they won't... U.S. dollar collapses... game over for this war.
Even if the U.S. keeps going on the path of stupidity and war their economy will collapse before the insurgency.
If you really want to make games it makes sense, also without IP you don't get series-itis.
They don't want to spend massive time negotiating and dealing with legal squables so they can be working full time at a constant rate.
I bet another aspect of their business is not trying to have everyone put in their ideas all the time, if people just do what they're told the management can realize their vision really fast.
An interesting concept of development.
Running Microsoft software... which is a security risk?
Windowspops up a little thing asking you to install drivers and telling you which hardware isn't working.
.5% market share, and when I do support what are the chances the box I sit down at will be exactly the same, Linux really isn't that great yet...
If linux could even figure out what the hardware WAS it could go online and get drivers for you... if linux wasn't a bunch of junk that is.
Linux users do think their OS is brilliant because it does a few things quite well but it doesn't implement so many seemingly simple and important elements that users can't trust it.
The iPod isn't really easier than other mp3 players but people thinking it is means they take the time to learn about it, linux needs to fix the desktop problems so people can start to trust it.
Example: If I learn windows I learn windows, if I learn FC5 will that help with ubuntu, or enlightenment, or fluxbox or gentoo? Nope... way to go now I've learned something that's less than
And the slash technocrats will say EXACTLY why the isps don't want anyone to know exactly how much they are actully connecting to the net.
Because this is EXACTLY the sort of content they'll end up buffering.
And they want to hit up the websites to buffer their content and only offer buffering to a few, which will turn ugly really really fast.
In fact I'd go so far as to say if they implement it in the U.S. it will fragment the internet overnight.
And they could probably get the U.S. Gov to allow it but the **AA's would go berzerk.
This whole thing is a big crock.
ISPs think they can get away with this becuse they were allowed to f*** us up when we made the transition to broadband, remember dialup? Syncronous up and down, a whole lot less rules and no EULA now you can't run a server and you get 1/4 up down ratio... why because they are selling that upstream to companies and websites which need upspeed not down, so they're selling this bandwidth twice...
Now granted people are morons and I'm sure tech support is probably expensive to provide but they aren't laying faster cables and they really don't have a lot of costs, quite likely they have increadibly crappy efficiency levels, and a lot of that is just the ISPs trying to control their users.
Someday your house will burn down, you'll go to the insurance company and they won't accept your claim.
You'll go to the judge and he'll say "I'm using the same insurance I don't feel like subsidizing you, live on the street."
And the circle of capitalist apathy will be complete.
A company could of course do this more cheaply and pass the profits on to the consumers.
But this way they make more money!
Sucks to be anyone with privatized Electricity and Water, it's not really diffrent from the diffrent companies and they get to spend money advertising and competing instead of having high salaries.
Well good with that super electricity, and those brownouts, and those soaring electrity costs....
Gee I hope we privatize here too!
Cough Fahrenheit.
:(
Fahrenheit would have been EVEN MORE AMAZING on the revolution, held back that the mini games needed to use the old style of controllers
Most system builders knew what they were getting with the 754...
Socket A had dual channel memory and the biggest problem with 754 was no support for Dual Channel, people knew what they were getting into.
Aside from memory bandwidth 754 is still a great platform with both AGP and Pci-E boards available and EXTREMElY affordable, the 3700+ for s754 has very very good performance for it's price, s754 would eventually have been able to encorperate dual channel memory if AMD had gotten the support from the chipset manufacturers.
Actually AM2 is probably the most abortive socket so far, unless the DDR manufacturers REALLY improve DDR2 it could be another example of Intels RDRam fiasco...
939 will be the base for AMD's budget processors of the future and is probably going to be the best deal for a while.
Fortunately scalping is illegal.
Maybe 1/200 of you Slashdot readers would be able to see one of the Three Tenors if their tickets were actually priced to make the most possible money (People would gladly pay several thousand dollars) and yet you seem so happy to let the market make all it's decisions for you.
Someone could buy the Mona Lisa and Michaelangelo's David stick them in a cupbord and charge some absurd price to view them and you'd say fine that's what the market decided.
This blind faith in the market is totally utterly absurd.
I'm sure many artists do price their tickets so that their fans rich and poor have the ability to come see them, maybe American's can't understand this philosophy but the rest of us can.
There was a time when some artists were far richer than they are now, imperial Europe when they had "benefactors" perhaps only a few hundred people were able to see thos musicians perform.
You can decide for yourself how important it is that now EVERYONE can hear them from the richest to the poorest because their work is in the public domain but it's pretty clear that "market forces" didn't solve the problem of their restricted performances.
No matter how efficiently the capitalist system works in assigning value it shouldn't be relied on to calculate the value to society of art.
Having people, especially future artists unable to go see a concert because it costs $250 a ticket is a shame, I doubt a young Madonna would have been able to experience many of her influences at such a price.
We're assuming this has nothing to do with the game, but trying to kill someone while leaving their lover in bed unharmed and unnaware is tough and exactly the kind of thing that the hitman series is known for.
Opera, I've seen Safari you'll be disapointed with iExplore or Firefox...
Ah yes and when they smuggle one into the States put it inside a foundation of a NY skyscraper and detonate it, we're going to know who did it right?
People like to think that there is a defense but there's not, they don't nuke you because they don't want to.
Let's all just be useful to each other, it's so much more... pleasant.
No shoving children.
Why do people assume he needs to scale back all the way.
:P
The truth is his hardware will all be IDENTICAL
Now think about that, Linux puts every single driver you could need INTO it's DISTROs.
That has to go, the graphics will always be (vga? Whatever low colour) 800x600 so no scaling or fancy fonts etc.
It might be faster to run a rendered jpg as the desktop
I think they'll probably end up with something like enlightenment, good performance and pretty (once you get it working).
Just think of all the stuff they won't need, filesystem support, printer drivers, touchpad support, 3D driver support, DVD support the list just goes on and on.
I imagine he's probably more concerned the linux people will either bloatware it ( Poverty Stricken countries really need IRC I mean heck, and Mplayer!) or they'll just strip it down at the last minute without customizing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer-Moore_algorithm
Not a bad algorithm.
The law is now... people who are within 3 feet of me holding the opinion of the parent will be punished physically.
MFIAL (My father is a lawyer) spends most of his time in the supreme court thought of becoming a politician or a judge there, the politics involved in these offices really puts them into a place where we have to be critical of their decisions.
Laws are not absolute, they are a contract within society to try and replace religion.
Physically punching you won't help society so I won't do it, pirating and breaking the RIAA in two and burning their studios and mercedes on the other hand. That's good for everyone, like my above example.
I know the people who listen then buy are ashamed of people like me but I want the RIAA gone, 6c on a $ is garbage.
Kickbacks to radio stations. BS.
Spending 10x more on a video than on developing an artist and only signing young artists willing to do 3-4 albumn contracts. You broke the camel now suckers... we're coming.
360 low price point? MADNESS!
With games and controllers you could buy a CAR A FRIKKIN CAR!