Wake me up when they break the maximum music transfered by a single p2p network.
Isn't the fact that people have access to music more important than that it is produced? The RIAA has moved away from the idea that people should get what they want or that they care that people should have access to the most possible music.
But further they seem to be moving away from any possible reason for existance... People would have more music, more freedom, and more variety without them and just about everyone knows it.
Basically who decided what would be made available? If they used something like bittorrent the amount of content wouldn't matter compared to the bandwith the BBC uses.
Not if you're releasing a must have game... If you have the best game then your game will sell systems...
You can print an unlimited quantity and you want every person who NEEDS your game to be able to play it, if they have to buy a console to do so so much the better.
People are talking about inordinate amounts of leechers.
Guess what there is precisely the same amount of info going up and coming down.
Yes people with awsome connections are doing more of the sharing and people on their mommies DSL are doing a lot of leeching but that's been the same since dialup speeds became uneven.
Bittorrent has built in protections against people leeching without uploading as well as ratio aspects so this really isn't that big of a problem.
There are a couple aspects of this which are problematic, firstly with information being more peer driven people are increasingly needing more upstream, ISPs aren't listening and they're basically dumping all that upstream into their web hosting services.
Which is a bummer, and there hasn't been an outcry for more speed because so much of that upstream is used for Warez.
Also a "friend of mine" is a member of a gated bittorrent community and he has a hard time keeping his ratio anywhere near even, when you try and download you go straight to your isp cap in "his" case 450k and "he" can rarely upload because all the torrents are saturated with leechers.
As far as I can tell this situation is similar on all the gated networks, these things simply aren't making the web a better place to download stuff, the truth is you probably can't consume more than 100KBps (daily including while you sleep), be it video, text, music, games or anything else. Considering most upstream connections are only 15 or 40 KBps there is a bit of an overlap but not really much of one.
The ISPs knew what they were doing when they set these limits and the P2P community is a bit strung out.
If web TV shows start releasing at 1080i or whatever this ratio might switch enough that we'll see an increase in upstream but I wouldn't count on it, plan ahead, download early and leave your box uploading all the time and it'll even out.
I also went to China and I enjoyed negotiating very much when it wasn't over something simple like sunflower seeds or toilet paper. But I have one question for you, did you ever develop brand loyalty there? Did you ever trust a store?
I didn't and I think that the truth is that this level of competition which shows the retail channels for what they are, middle men, will eventually lead to their downfall because it destroys the one aspect they might have had in their favour customer satisfaction.
The Chinese have been a consumer economy for thousands of years and have been able to evolve past us in business practices, their large urban centres decreased the need for consumer satisfaction as you couldn't talk to all your fellow consumers and because there are always more (Like being in a big city I can hit on a girl move to another bar and hit on another for years before hitting someone who even knows the original girl)...
But individuals consumers stopped being upset with best-buy or Circut city and started being upset with all the retailers (In some cases just retailers who participate in this competition) and hopefully we'll be able to do something about it, don't forget these companies are incorperated by the government to offer us a service when we think that service isn't valuable we can dissolve them.
The article points out that the chip they are using has been sitting on their testing desk for about 4 months... So hopefully Intel will hit with some better silicon.
I think that was a very powerful aspect of the film. Virus writting is increadibly anti-social you are WASTING YOUR TIME TO HURT OTHERS and in almost no way can it benefit you.
Code is slower because of security no matter how much no one wants to admit it.
In a benevolent society a computer virus is unstoppable.
Nintendo could mess things up pretty well with even slight flaws in their controller, if performance isn't up to snuff the lag will destroy them, if wireless conflicts are a problem that will kill them.
Most critical is how accurate this controller can be, if it has poor quality tracking people will have to lower the sensitivity (Totally destroying the fun) or simply will hate the thing.
But it's damn good to see that the biggest problems they're likely to have are technical which is how it should be, there will be killer games for this system the fps control scheme alone practically guarantees huge interest.
And the DS is really a feather in their cap, it's not totally dominating (yet) but it's technical acheivements are increadible in how seamlessly it handles things that would be considered a problem in another system,two systems (GBA and DS in one), two screens, two cpus, and two control schemes. Brilliant, I love mine.
I wish I could link it but slashdot's stupid URL system and their shoddy HTML make it impossible. ToysRus in Canada has buckets of 1000 lego peices for $9.99 to $29.99 there are about 5-6 diffrent buckets there. NOT SETS.
Admittedly they have about 100 rigid sets but it seems people aren't snapping up the cheap lego....
Perhaps because iTunes for all it's prettiness, Shineyness and Apple lovablility is an evil very similar to the original record labels?
Maybe some bands don't want to go through this again in 10-15 years.
The prices are similar, it has DRM low quality.
It involves marketting artists through the front page instead of allowing users to listen to the music, and perhaps most importantly it supports paying for artists who are already successfully produced.
Dave Mathews is allowing people to download their music from their own self produced website without DRM so that might go some way to explaining why they don't want to support the corperate iTunes.
Very few players play 1 vs 1. It has the steepest learning curve, when you try for the first time you will be rocked again and again and again.
I played a tournament with my friends 1 vs 1 on Quake 1.
Scores were 16 to -5 26 to -6 etc. And they were experienced players, really a tiny diffrence in skill translates into a huge diffrence in score.
There aren't a lot of noobs as a consequence, people think they want to play tough thinking games and learn from losing but there are less people who can consistently do it and call if fun than you'd think, there are too many excellent players wasting their time pwning noobs.
If you're good find a good server where people are BETTER than you and play there till they aren't, find people who play consistently on one server.
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platform specific controllers
The DS will eventually see ports from PocketPC and Palm...
Games like tetris have always lent themselves to cross platform ports.
Considering the increasing power of hand held computing hand held gaming will undoubtedly continue to grow.
Nintendo has positioned it's developers perfectly to dominate that market.
Don't tell the Americans about our cheap electronics.
They'll start foaming.
Yay a banner year for online music purchasing!
Wake me up when they break the maximum music transfered by a single p2p network.
Isn't the fact that people have access to music more important than that it is produced? The RIAA has moved away from the idea that people should get what they want or that they care that people should have access to the most possible music.
But further they seem to be moving away from any possible reason for existance... People would have more music, more freedom, and more variety without them and just about everyone knows it.
What this technology really does.
This spells the end for revolutions, for insurgents, freedom fighters whatever you want to call them.
This is the final nail in the coffin of home made firearms against your government.
Oppressive governments rejoice!
This content seems quite political...
Fighting communism etc.
Where are all the TV shows?
Basically who decided what would be made available? If they used something like bittorrent the amount of content wouldn't matter compared to the bandwith the BBC uses.
Dude this isn't either of them, this is a bond project.
This thing is Frikkin Goldeneye.
Not if you're releasing a must have game... If you have the best game then your game will sell systems...
You can print an unlimited quantity and you want every person who NEEDS your game to be able to play it, if they have to buy a console to do so so much the better.
People are talking about inordinate amounts of leechers.
Guess what there is precisely the same amount of info going up and coming down.
Yes people with awsome connections are doing more of the sharing and people on their mommies DSL are doing a lot of leeching but that's been the same since dialup speeds became uneven.
Bittorrent has built in protections against people leeching without uploading as well as ratio aspects so this really isn't that big of a problem.
There are a couple aspects of this which are problematic, firstly with information being more peer driven people are increasingly needing more upstream, ISPs aren't listening and they're basically dumping all that upstream into their web hosting services.
Which is a bummer, and there hasn't been an outcry for more speed because so much of that upstream is used for Warez.
Also a "friend of mine" is a member of a gated bittorrent community and he has a hard time keeping his ratio anywhere near even, when you try and download you go straight to your isp cap in "his" case 450k and "he" can rarely upload because all the torrents are saturated with leechers.
As far as I can tell this situation is similar on all the gated networks, these things simply aren't making the web a better place to download stuff, the truth is you probably can't consume more than 100KBps (daily including while you sleep), be it video, text, music, games or anything else. Considering most upstream connections are only 15 or 40 KBps there is a bit of an overlap but not really much of one.
The ISPs knew what they were doing when they set these limits and the P2P community is a bit strung out.
If web TV shows start releasing at 1080i or whatever this ratio might switch enough that we'll see an increase in upstream but I wouldn't count on it, plan ahead, download early and leave your box uploading all the time and it'll even out.
http://www.warprecords.com/
Apparently some of the only ones that matter.
Richard D. James has been doing his own thing for a while now, he's not corperate but he is sucessful.
These kinds of labels are what the music industry needs.
Um did you play MORROWIND?
Daggerfall (it's predecessor) had approximately 100,000 dungeons in it.
If these have to be generated BEFORE they ship out then yea it's gonna be a problem
Oy crackfiend look at AMD's heat envelope they could put like 6 cores on there and still have less heat then most Intel chips.
Not that you care or that it would be a good idea.
The 360's cores are in a HUGE ass package compared to most desktop CPUs and the heat comes from their bizarro power supply.
Another company owns my childhood culture.
I've seen risk boards at least 30-40 years old.
How long will THIS copywrite hold up.
I also went to China and I enjoyed negotiating very much when it wasn't over something simple like sunflower seeds or toilet paper. But I have one question for you, did you ever develop brand loyalty there? Did you ever trust a store?
I didn't and I think that the truth is that this level of competition which shows the retail channels for what they are, middle men, will eventually lead to their downfall because it destroys the one aspect they might have had in their favour customer satisfaction.
The Chinese have been a consumer economy for thousands of years and have been able to evolve past us in business practices, their large urban centres decreased the need for consumer satisfaction as you couldn't talk to all your fellow consumers and because there are always more (Like being in a big city I can hit on a girl move to another bar and hit on another for years before hitting someone who even knows the original girl)...
But individuals consumers stopped being upset with best-buy or Circut city and started being upset with all the retailers (In some cases just retailers who participate in this competition) and hopefully we'll be able to do something about it, don't forget these companies are incorperated by the government to offer us a service when we think that service isn't valuable we can dissolve them.
Oh noes figuring out what is teh virus!
It it runs from e-mail or pokes it's head in through a port and edits code on my machine to start itself IT'S A VIRUS
If you are worried it might catch spyware then you are too right wing (You can make money from it and it's not illegal!) to live, proceed accordingly.
The article points out that the chip they are using has been sitting on their testing desk for about 4 months... So hopefully Intel will hit with some better silicon.
I think that was a very powerful aspect of the film. Virus writting is increadibly anti-social you are WASTING YOUR TIME TO HURT OTHERS and in almost no way can it benefit you.
Code is slower because of security no matter how much no one wants to admit it.
In a benevolent society a computer virus is unstoppable.
What about the DS Flash carts that are coming out? Will this have security abilities?
Has anyone tried using the MK2 or MK3 for homebrew? Any luck with the browser?
Nintendo could mess things up pretty well with even slight flaws in their controller, if performance isn't up to snuff the lag will destroy them, if wireless conflicts are a problem that will kill them.
Most critical is how accurate this controller can be, if it has poor quality tracking people will have to lower the sensitivity (Totally destroying the fun) or simply will hate the thing.
But it's damn good to see that the biggest problems they're likely to have are technical which is how it should be, there will be killer games for this system the fps control scheme alone practically guarantees huge interest.
And the DS is really a feather in their cap, it's not totally dominating (yet) but it's technical acheivements are increadible in how seamlessly it handles things that would be considered a problem in another system,two systems (GBA and DS in one), two screens, two cpus, and two control schemes. Brilliant, I love mine.
I wish I could link it but slashdot's stupid URL system and their shoddy HTML make it impossible.
ToysRus in Canada has buckets of 1000 lego peices for $9.99 to $29.99 there are about 5-6 diffrent buckets there. NOT SETS.
Admittedly they have about 100 rigid sets but it seems people aren't snapping up the cheap lego....
We demand buggy software!
Dave Matthews Band
Perhaps because iTunes for all it's prettiness, Shineyness and Apple lovablility is an evil very similar to the original record labels?
Maybe some bands don't want to go through this again in 10-15 years.
The prices are similar, it has DRM low quality.
It involves marketting artists through the front page instead of allowing users to listen to the music, and perhaps most importantly it supports paying for artists who are already successfully produced.
Dave Mathews is allowing people to download their music from their own self produced website without DRM so that might go some way to explaining why they don't want to support the corperate iTunes.
Very few players play 1 vs 1. It has the steepest learning curve, when you try for the first time you will be rocked again and again and again.
I played a tournament with my friends 1 vs 1 on Quake 1.
Scores were 16 to -5 26 to -6 etc. And they were experienced players, really a tiny diffrence in skill translates into a huge diffrence in score.
There aren't a lot of noobs as a consequence, people think they want to play tough thinking games and learn from losing but there are less people who can consistently do it and call if fun than you'd think, there are too many excellent players wasting their time pwning noobs.
If you're good find a good server where people are BETTER than you and play there till they aren't, find people who play consistently on one server.
Don't you think it's interesting that this guy and those who moderated him interesting all think western government is corrupt?
It is and so is the chinese government, we'll see who falls first I suppose.
Governments don't have to be corrupt, it's very 1984 that both the Chinese and the west think the other's government is corrupt and evil.
They'll never let the other person hang up!
They'll all die!
I say it's cruel but fair!
You want a working system that allows you to customize a good starting point and you want it to be built around the latest tech?
y sPackID=1032 Been drueling over it, they'll build and test it for you. Remember it's in $CND so it's basically about $830 U.S and the X2 3800 would be 340 on it's own.
Check this out http://filtechcomputer.com/Product/syspack.asp?nS
I might consider upgrading to a DVD burner and swapping out the Vid card but they'll let you do that.