I am glad to see some sort of forward thinking on the possible risks on this new technology. Though it surprises me to see the source isnt government regulation, but instead insurance hesitation.
I had to pull something similar with the cable company a while back.
I was moving out of a shared student house, and needed to change the bill into someone elses name. So I dutifully phoned the company to make the change a full billing cycle before I moved out. Sales: Hi, thank you for calling cogeco...yada yada yada... can i have your account number Me: 12380918232 Sales: Sure, now what can I help you with Me: I need to change the name on my account, I am moving out Sales: Okay, sure I can help you with that, just to let you know there will be a $19.95 service charge for the name change Me: Ummm Are you still running the free install promotion Sales: Yes Me: Is there a disconnection fee associated with ending my account Sales: No, as long as you call at least a week in advance Me: Can you see where I am going with this? Sales: Okay, I can do that name change for you free of charge..
Building an engine around being able to do x,y & z doesnt nesesarily mean needing to have the equipment to do it all in front of you. Build your engine to be able to do it all, use a high end machine, and downsample your textures and such untill you get a machine that can handle the high rez copies.
Given the choice its always nicer to have the platform be available to you, but you can do a lot before you get to that point (assuming the specs are set in clay).
The big thing with GMail apart from its space, is google's name behind the search feature. A proper search function really appears to be lacking in pretty much every major email client out there, once you get into large volumes of mail (which if you are reading this, you probably are) searching the mail takes serious amounts of time.
One existing, non-web, alternative is Bloomba which has a *great* search function, even on high volumes. My email client is already indexing well in excess of 10K messages (folders cap out at displaying >5K, I have two of those) so I dont have a real count), and searches all take less than a second.
I wonder sometimes where within the rules and regulations of programming it is written that one must justify their own projects that they work on in their own time to the world at large.
I have always wondered why there isnt some sort of a dual format, Cart & Mini CD.
Most of the system cartridges we have seen are more than large enough to house a minidisc. Why take the best of both worlds, critical game data could be held on the cartridge (or even like, the first bit of every level), with the remainder on the disc.
Sounds like a lot of fun, too bad its scheduled so close to finals.
48hrs for a game isn't much, but I really think it would be a fun contest to enter with friends.
"Yeah, well in my game you get to run around the house trying to find the clock radio before it goes off"... "Yeah well, in my game you are the clock radio, and you have to find the kid before school starts"
(the theme for that imaginary contest being timing, clocks and running:)
The article is of obvious interest to a large subset of the Slashdot community, and the editors made the choice to post it here. If he/she hadn't posted it, someone else would have, so I don't see how who made the initial post is relevent.
I think stating that while it may be said that it is legal to download music you have not paid for, that is reading the letter of the law rather than the word of the law.
And more importantly I see no ethical standing for stating that downloading someone elses work for free is fine.
To be honest, I would love to see a case where someone downloaded MP3s for CDs they owned end up in a non-american court (and hense free from the majority of direct RIAA lobying). Once you own the CD, fair use should give you the right to listening to it on your PC, discman, or other portable electronics, and as such you should be able to legally use whatever means are at your disposal.
Hopefully the precedent setting case would come down on the side of the consumet.
I have the same issue living in Canada, Puretracks has a small selection, but I haven't found anything I want there yet, and my discman only plays MP3s not WMV.
I gave up and resorted to buying CDs, ripping them, then burning them. Most CD ripping software seems to be capable of working around the 'copy protection' on the CDs I have had experiance with. Its horrible because I live in tiny student housing and generally end up leaving the jewel cases and discs at my parents to save space and clutter.
The music industry's grim determination to stop me from listening to music I have paid for has yet to cease amazing me.
I guess they must be planning on shipping a special controller with the game. I simply dont see how its possible for them to make the standard x-box controller impossible to handle with the vibrations. They simply are not severe enough to make them a considerable issue. Its annoying, thats it
The basis of a perpetual motion machine is that it moves on forever, without any input. The machine will start with either batteries or ground based power to create the vacuum that will allow it to lift off. The initial input.
During flight it will probably regain a percentage of that power from decents, and use that energy to try and create the vacuum again to rise again. This won't be a perfect process, energy will be lost/wasted, so without external input it would eventually need to land. However, It will be receiving external input, mainly solar power. Not directly mind you, but the air currents created by the sun that will work to raise the plane (same way birds can glide for an extended period without flapping their wings). This external input disqualifies it from being a perpetual motion machine, but could allow it to fly for unseemly amounts of time.
I really enjoyed the Gauntlet series, played it a bunch in the arcade, and even picked it up for the X-Box.
I do however beleive that it could do well with some fresh blood in a high up place. While the game can be challenging in the arcade with the slowly diminishing life, it got overly easy and repetitive on the home console. Rather like Diablo without the story line or the challenge.
I know Doom wasn't really known for it's story line, but I think it is quite possible that he could pull the game in a new direction, or add some spin to the mix.
Perhapps admit was the wrong word. I still feel that it would have made sense for the letter to have pushed the fact that wrong doing had indeed been done.
We have seen a lot of trials go by where the accused settles out of court to pay up only on the condition that they do not have to admit guilt, in this instance the RIAA was indeed in the wrong, and the world should know it.
Its just the 'challenged' pricing policies, rather than any of the stronger language that could have been used like 'illegal price fixing pricing policies'.
Quotes from site "Kosmos I is scheduled to occur in mid-April 2004..." "A more precise launch date will be specified not less than two months prior to the opening of the launch window on March 31, 2004"
I would have expected a company offering such a service to have a very clear, concise website with clean cut deisgn and style.
The page looks like 15 minutes of an intern's time and the GeoCities EZ-Website-Creator.
I begin to wonder if they could even make it to outer space, down the street seems like a better goal.
On another note, I don't really like the idea of launching biological material around the stars. Wont this kind of thing make it harder to verify discovering 'life' in other places in the decades to come?
I completely agree with you, I was very annoyed that I needed to spend a significant amount of time trying to connect the damn thing, and reading pages and pages of text on a TV made in 1985 (so the resolution wasnt the best), I had picked up a few friends on the way home from Zellers to play some MechAssault, they wern't there to wait for me to grab a dictionary and study case law, they were there to play.
When I called the first time for my refund, I asked if they had a method that would allow me to continue to purchase cards at the store if I wanted to keep playing, a lot like the 'Pay as you go' phone cards (I didn't want to get burned again, and my interest in the system might come back once I get a TV, and Halo 2 comes out). They replied that I could purchase another yearly subscription at the store, however it would also require me to enter a CC, and would also charge me once it was up...
I picked up one of the 12 month packs back when they were first released in Canada, after getting it home I spent about 25 minutes getting it set up (running a cable - 1 minute, entering informtation - 24minutes). I have a longish last name (10 letters), and kept messing up something in my address (also long) so I had to re-enter all the information from scratch. I only remember a welcome screen after that, and options for MotoGP and Whacked!.
When I later spoke to people at X-Box Technical Support (i had to get mine repaired) they explained to me that they took my CC# down during the set up process to ensure I would have a method to continue the service in the future. I very much felt that I would be involved in any sort of re-billing option.
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I am glad to see some sort of forward thinking on the possible risks on this new technology. Though it surprises me to see the source isnt government regulation, but instead insurance hesitation.
Capitolism Works?
I had to pull something similar with the cable company a while back.
I was moving out of a shared student house, and needed to change the bill into someone elses name. So I dutifully phoned the company to make the change a full billing cycle before I moved out.
Sales: Hi, thank you for calling cogeco...yada yada yada... can i have your account number
Me: 12380918232
Sales: Sure, now what can I help you with
Me: I need to change the name on my account, I am moving out
Sales: Okay, sure I can help you with that, just to let you know there will be a $19.95 service charge for the name change
Me: Ummm Are you still running the free install promotion
Sales: Yes
Me: Is there a disconnection fee associated with ending my account
Sales: No, as long as you call at least a week in advance
Me: Can you see where I am going with this?
Sales: Okay, I can do that name change for you free of charge..
Building an engine around being able to do x,y & z doesnt nesesarily mean needing to have the equipment to do it all in front of you. Build your engine to be able to do it all, use a high end machine, and downsample your textures and such untill you get a machine that can handle the high rez copies.
Given the choice its always nicer to have the platform be available to you, but you can do a lot before you get to that point (assuming the specs are set in clay).
The big thing with GMail apart from its space, is google's name behind the search feature. A proper search function really appears to be lacking in pretty much every major email client out there, once you get into large volumes of mail (which if you are reading this, you probably are) searching the mail takes serious amounts of time.
One existing, non-web, alternative is Bloomba which has a *great* search function, even on high volumes. My email client is already indexing well in excess of 10K messages (folders cap out at displaying >5K, I have two of those) so I dont have a real count), and searches all take less than a second.
I don't think it will directly effect the case at all.
Though since court papers become public record, the filings presented in the case may contian information that HardOCP can use to back up their story.
I wonder sometimes where within the rules and regulations of programming it is written that one must justify their own projects that they work on in their own time to the world at large.
I have always wondered why there isnt some sort of a dual format, Cart & Mini CD.
Most of the system cartridges we have seen are more than large enough to house a minidisc. Why take the best of both worlds, critical game data could be held on the cartridge (or even like, the first bit of every level), with the remainder on the disc.
Sounds like a lot of fun, too bad its scheduled so close to finals.
:)
48hrs for a game isn't much, but I really think it would be a fun contest to enter with friends.
"Yeah, well in my game you get to run around the house trying to find the clock radio before it goes off"... "Yeah well, in my game you are the clock radio, and you have to find the kid before school starts"
(the theme for that imaginary contest being timing, clocks and running
The link to Gamespot in the article goes to gamepot, which is some sort of an ad site. Can someone fix the link?
We are robbing them of its purpose, to generate revenue via ads, day passes or subscriptions.
The article is of obvious interest to a large subset of the Slashdot community, and the editors made the choice to post it here. If he/she hadn't posted it, someone else would have, so I don't see how who made the initial post is relevent.
Lets respect copyright this time and not steal the entire article to repost here.
Unfortunatly mon francais c'est horrible
I think stating that while it may be said that it is legal to download music you have not paid for, that is reading the letter of the law rather than the word of the law.
And more importantly I see no ethical standing for stating that downloading someone elses work for free is fine.
To be honest, I would love to see a case where someone downloaded MP3s for CDs they owned end up in a non-american court (and hense free from the majority of direct RIAA lobying). Once you own the CD, fair use should give you the right to listening to it on your PC, discman, or other portable electronics, and as such you should be able to legally use whatever means are at your disposal.
Hopefully the precedent setting case would come down on the side of the consumet.
I have the same issue living in Canada, Puretracks has a small selection, but I haven't found anything I want there yet, and my discman only plays MP3s not WMV.
I gave up and resorted to buying CDs, ripping them, then burning them. Most CD ripping software seems to be capable of working around the 'copy protection' on the CDs I have had experiance with. Its horrible because I live in tiny student housing and generally end up leaving the jewel cases and discs at my parents to save space and clutter.
The music industry's grim determination to stop me from listening to music I have paid for has yet to cease amazing me.
I guess they must be planning on shipping a special controller with the game. I simply dont see how its possible for them to make the standard x-box controller impossible to handle with the vibrations. They simply are not severe enough to make them a considerable issue. Its annoying, thats it
The basis of a perpetual motion machine is that it moves on forever, without any input. The machine will start with either batteries or ground based power to create the vacuum that will allow it to lift off. The initial input.
During flight it will probably regain a percentage of that power from decents, and use that energy to try and create the vacuum again to rise again. This won't be a perfect process, energy will be lost/wasted, so without external input it would eventually need to land. However, It will be receiving external input, mainly solar power. Not directly mind you, but the air currents created by the sun that will work to raise the plane (same way birds can glide for an extended period without flapping their wings). This external input disqualifies it from being a perpetual motion machine, but could allow it to fly for unseemly amounts of time.
I really enjoyed the Gauntlet series, played it a bunch in the arcade, and even picked it up for the X-Box.
I do however beleive that it could do well with some fresh blood in a high up place. While the game can be challenging in the arcade with the slowly diminishing life, it got overly easy and repetitive on the home console. Rather like Diablo without the story line or the challenge.
I know Doom wasn't really known for it's story line, but I think it is quite possible that he could pull the game in a new direction, or add some spin to the mix.
Perhapps admit was the wrong word. I still feel that it would have made sense for the letter to have pushed the fact that wrong doing had indeed been done.
We have seen a lot of trials go by where the accused settles out of court to pay up only on the condition that they do not have to admit guilt, in this instance the RIAA was indeed in the wrong, and the world should know it.
I like how the letter doesn't admit fault.
Its just the 'challenged' pricing policies, rather than any of the stronger language that could have been used like 'illegal price fixing pricing policies'.
Quotes from site "Kosmos I is scheduled to occur in mid-April 2004..." "A more precise launch date will be specified not less than two months prior to the opening of the launch window on March 31, 2004"
March 31 is less than two months away.
This really just exudes profesionalism.
I would have expected a company offering such a service to have a very clear, concise website with clean cut deisgn and style.
The page looks like 15 minutes of an intern's time and the GeoCities EZ-Website-Creator.
I begin to wonder if they could even make it to outer space, down the street seems like a better goal.
On another note, I don't really like the idea of launching biological material around the stars. Wont this kind of thing make it harder to verify discovering 'life' in other places in the decades to come?
I completely agree with you, I was very annoyed that I needed to spend a significant amount of time trying to connect the damn thing, and reading pages and pages of text on a TV made in 1985 (so the resolution wasnt the best), I had picked up a few friends on the way home from Zellers to play some MechAssault, they wern't there to wait for me to grab a dictionary and study case law, they were there to play.
When I called the first time for my refund, I asked if they had a method that would allow me to continue to purchase cards at the store if I wanted to keep playing, a lot like the 'Pay as you go' phone cards (I didn't want to get burned again, and my interest in the system might come back once I get a TV, and Halo 2 comes out). They replied that I could purchase another yearly subscription at the store, however it would also require me to enter a CC, and would also charge me once it was up...
I picked up one of the 12 month packs back when they were first released in Canada, after getting it home I spent about 25 minutes getting it set up (running a cable - 1 minute, entering informtation - 24minutes). I have a longish last name (10 letters), and kept messing up something in my address (also long) so I had to re-enter all the information from scratch.
I only remember a welcome screen after that, and options for MotoGP and Whacked!.
When I later spoke to people at X-Box Technical Support (i had to get mine repaired) they explained to me that they took my CC# down during the set up process to ensure I would have a method to continue the service in the future. I very much felt that I would be involved in any sort of re-billing option.