Maybe I don't understand the issue thoroughly, but I think that fragmentation would actually be good.
Yes, because Intranets are so fucking useful on a global scale, right? Hey, China would be thrilled! They wouldn't have to worry about the Great Firewall! Bush, his Family First supporters, and Mrs. Clinton would love that they could just block all porn from the United States' intranet. Switzerland would make a shitload of money proxying connections between all the different intranets and would unveil the Swiss Internet Bank where you could have an anonymous account access (for steep fees of course) to actually be able to use the Internet like it has been for year.
To have them resell the games, with developers having no participation, that's just wrong. That's just fleecing us.
You already made money on the sale the first time. Regardless of your personal feelings about the issue you have absolutely no rights to money made on subsequent sales. I'm sure your opinion would change drastically if you were charged extra, on top of the sale price, for a used car.
Granted, you probably aren't buying used cars but you get the idea.
The co-op is so much fun my wife and I played through the whole thing in just a couple of days.
I have heard that it is difficult to control -- my wife is very interested in playing some parts of the game and I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to pick up a second controller to play co-op.
This game is MUCH longer, remember first off you're paying 30 bucks, so don't expect a 50 buck game. But you have at least 6-10 areas for you to roll in, tons of new missions and most of them are quite lengthy Plus there's easily much more to find and do. I'd have to say it's a decent length.
Actually, the "missions" might be longer but they aren't nearly as difficult and I have only not made the goal twice (both times smashed on Sparksbombs). I blew through to the ending w/o much difficulty (yes there's more after you roll up the sun) but I can't say it's "much longer" than the original.
I do like this one more than the original because they repaired the issues I had while keeping the same game play -- read my comments posted earlier this week here.
Exchanging messages over the Internet seems precisely analogous to exchanging bits of paper (catalogs and order forms) via the postal service.
Or any transmission medium! Just because we get out of paying sales tax on more and more items (although sometimes it seems like less and less as retailers open physical stores all over the fucking place) doesn't mean that more and more legislation should be created to fill the coffers.
Not only does music file-swapping harm artists, but it also points to an erosion of respect for intellectual property that threatens Canada's economy and values at the core of our society," said Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which commissioned the polls.
Not only does the RIAA/CRIA harm artists they also have little respect for their own customers which threatens new and interesting music which is at the core of music value!
I use an external HD for backups, not my DVD burner.
It's easier to replicate DVDs and store them in multiple locations than it is to have multiple external HDs. For my weekly backups everything goes to three distinct geographical locations via the Internet. I also have an external HD that gets stuff daily. If necessary (no network connections) I would burn DVDs and mail or hand deliver them. Much easier than mailing HDs. YMMV.
And I don't care how many discs my movies/tv shows come on. So I have to change it once an hour, I need to get up once in a while anyway.
I can't sit through an entire season (or usually even an entire disc) w/o moving but that's not why I'd like to see more shows on less discs. I don't like how much room my DVD sets take up in my rack. If I could get an entire season on one or two discs instead of six or more that would make me a happier camper.
Not only that but retraining for Office 12 will likely be minimal compared to retraining for an entirely new product. If the users were already trained for Office the amount of training required to move to Office X++ isn't going to be that much.
But, if you are moving to an entirely new software suite then it's going to be a whole new ball game. Especially with interoperability issues.
Here's what happens now. RIAA makes the request to Congress that ISPs open up, on request, records indicating upload (the main problem) transfers citing the obvious rampant criminal sharing going on on the network. Congress, in response, seeing both an opportunity to pad the coffers of its reelection campaigns as well as a chance to strengthen the rights of IP holders, decides to strike a blow to the 4th Amendment and force upload data to be opened upon subpoena.
And here's what happens to defeat that. You have your traffic monitor run, use the information for what you need, and then you remove the logs immediately.
If it's going to cause undue problems for the ISPs I see no reason to travel any other route.
I'm often unpleasantly surprised with some of my supposedly technical colleagues' ignorance as to how computers work.
You only need to know about your own little world. "Jack of all trades" are irrelevant in just about every other community these days what makes computers different?
Yeah, I like to know a little bit about everything but I'm not a guru in anything. I can putter along in whatever I'm faced with (PHP, perl, Linux, BSD/OS X, Windows, networking, DNS, SMTP, whatever) but I'm not a guru in any. That's not a good thing. I'd be better paid (and possibly less happy) if I was.
I know plenty of geniuses in multiple fields that don't know shit about other stuff and you know what? It doesn't matter in the long run.
What I'm more bothered by is that the average tech person still desires to be above everyone else in some way or another.
Sure they can get the major providers to comply, but good luck tracking down every chat room operator.
Yes sir! We will comply with your "family first" and "anti-terrorism" chat room rools even though they violate our First Amendment rights! Tb shpx lbhefrys lbh snfpvfg cvtf! Oh sorry, my fingers were on the wrong keys. Yes, "USA! USA! USA! Down with terrorists and porno!"
Jura gur shpx ner jr tbvat gb fgnaq hc gb gur snfpvfg shpxref naq svanyyl gryy gurz gb trg shpxrq? Sorry, the keys are slippery.
According to the financial daily, Carmack--who is not related to id technical director John Carmack--is claiming that he was forced to resign his position as a director of and artist at the studio earlier this year.
Well, being that I typically hate video game (and movie) sequels, I was worried when I decided I *had* to buy this one. I ordered it on Amazon and after noticing that the delivery date (from 9/25) was in late November I had a friend buy it for me at Gamespot.
The gameplay is nearly the same (look and feel wise) but they have added new and different challenges and removed most of the annoyances that the first version had (getting stuck under objects or moving to slow when you were huge during eternal levels).
I enjoy the new soundtrack immensely and love the crisper and clear graphics they've added. It's basically the same damn game but 100x better.
Thank you for releasing a worthwhile sequel that was still true to the original! If you haven't played We Love Katamari yet, I suggest you do.
The only thing I can see them allowing is sports events and news.
Oh, the NFL and MLB will find a way to block those too I'm sure. "No NFL broadcast may be reproduced without the express written permission of the NFL" If they could, they would make that extend to Tivo and other DVR units as well.
I'm already at the point where I'm beginning to fully support DRM-cracking tools and software. They're becoming the only tools consumers have to defend their legitimate rights.
That's because people ignored the eroison of rights all along. It won't be until it's too late that the public will come to their senses and realize the Constitutional attrocities that have been committed under their noses all these years.
Just wait, when TVs no longer work because the media conglomorates can't determine if you are using a computer or an old TV to watch the content then people will finally get pissed off enough to care.
Until then, everyone will just stare at their TVs and laugh and cry when told to.
Congress should reserve the power to grant rights for intellectual property creators for themselves, instead of giving a blank law-making check to content industries.
What Congress *should* do and what the conglomorates pay them to do are two different things.
Carl Bialik investigates the intricacies of counting blogs, and shows how blog indexing sites like BlogPulse and Technorati are bursting at the seams with thousands of new blog entries everyday.
Technorati has always been slow for me and somewhat outdated. Google's Blogsearch, OTOH, seems fairly current and loads much faster.
I have only seen a few hits from Technorati (ending up at my site) but quite a few more coming from Google, starting only in the last 10 days or so.
Good riddance with both, I suppose, as games will be either less expensive or better produced without the middlemen of publishers and retailers both taking a cut.
Less expensive than what? Than they are currently? LOL. If anything they will keep the prices the same and claim it's "ease" that you are gaining by this method. To them, it's ease of DRM and piracy containment that they are getting.
Plus Sony has clout with the media distributers, whereas MS and Intel bite them in the ass because most "pirates" use MS and Intel products.
Pirates are going to use whatever they can crack. If Sony can successfully obtain superior distribution over the other format then there will be more crackable media available to the pirates. They aren't fickle. They will use whatever they can.
So even if the complete 100 million online Chinese had everything they could want, a much larger chunk of the population is really unhappy with the state of their existence.
We're not talking about the majority. We're talking about people that currently have easier access to outside information. Those people would be the 100 million Chinese that have access to the Internet.
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Did I miss something? Do they expect people to just plug in to someone else's monitor whenever they want to use it?
Well, without a screen it certainly can't be called a "stripped down laptop/inflated PDA). More like a headless box.
Don't know about you, but all my intranets connect to the Internet.
They do now, but in this scenerio COUNTRIES would be Intranets. That puts a huge limitation on the freedom of information (ala China).
Actually, thats all the 'Great Firewall' is, an attempt to make China on big intranet.
Thank you for proving my point.
Maybe I don't understand the issue thoroughly, but I think that fragmentation would actually be good.
Yes, because Intranets are so fucking useful on a global scale, right? Hey, China would be thrilled! They wouldn't have to worry about the Great Firewall! Bush, his Family First supporters, and Mrs. Clinton would love that they could just block all porn from the United States' intranet. Switzerland would make a shitload of money proxying connections between all the different intranets and would unveil the Swiss Internet Bank where you could have an anonymous account access (for steep fees of course) to actually be able to use the Internet like it has been for year.
Yeah, fragmentation is bad.
To have them resell the games, with developers having no participation, that's just wrong. That's just fleecing us.
You already made money on the sale the first time. Regardless of your personal feelings about the issue you have absolutely no rights to money made on subsequent sales. I'm sure your opinion would change drastically if you were charged extra, on top of the sale price, for a used car.
Granted, you probably aren't buying used cars but you get the idea.
The co-op is so much fun my wife and I played through the whole thing in just a couple of days.
I have heard that it is difficult to control -- my wife is very interested in playing some parts of the game and I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to pick up a second controller to play co-op.
How difficult is it?
This game is MUCH longer, remember first off you're paying 30 bucks, so don't expect a 50 buck game. But you have at least 6-10 areas for you to roll in, tons of new missions and most of them are quite lengthy Plus there's easily much more to find and do. I'd have to say it's a decent length.
Actually, the "missions" might be longer but they aren't nearly as difficult and I have only not made the goal twice (both times smashed on Sparksbombs). I blew through to the ending w/o much difficulty (yes there's more after you roll up the sun) but I can't say it's "much longer" than the original.
I do like this one more than the original because they repaired the issues I had while keeping the same game play -- read my comments posted earlier this week here.
Exchanging messages over the Internet seems precisely analogous to exchanging bits of paper (catalogs and order forms) via the postal service.
Or any transmission medium! Just because we get out of paying sales tax on more and more items (although sometimes it seems like less and less as retailers open physical stores all over the fucking place) doesn't mean that more and more legislation should be created to fill the coffers.
Not only does music file-swapping harm artists, but it also points to an erosion of respect for intellectual property that threatens Canada's economy and values at the core of our society," said Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which commissioned the polls.
Not only does the RIAA/CRIA harm artists they also have little respect for their own customers which threatens new and interesting music which is at the core of music value!
I use an external HD for backups, not my DVD burner.
It's easier to replicate DVDs and store them in multiple locations than it is to have multiple external HDs. For my weekly backups everything goes to three distinct geographical locations via the Internet. I also have an external HD that gets stuff daily. If necessary (no network connections) I would burn DVDs and mail or hand deliver them. Much easier than mailing HDs. YMMV.
And I don't care how many discs my movies/tv shows come on. So I have to change it once an hour, I need to get up once in a while anyway.
I can't sit through an entire season (or usually even an entire disc) w/o moving but that's not why I'd like to see more shows on less discs. I don't like how much room my DVD sets take up in my rack. If I could get an entire season on one or two discs instead of six or more that would make me a happier camper.
Not only that but retraining for Office 12 will likely be minimal compared to retraining for an entirely new product. If the users were already trained for Office the amount of training required to move to Office X++ isn't going to be that much.
But, if you are moving to an entirely new software suite then it's going to be a whole new ball game. Especially with interoperability issues.
Here's what happens now. RIAA makes the request to Congress that ISPs open up, on request, records indicating upload (the main problem) transfers citing the obvious rampant criminal sharing going on on the network. Congress, in response, seeing both an opportunity to pad the coffers of its reelection campaigns as well as a chance to strengthen the rights of IP holders, decides to strike a blow to the 4th Amendment and force upload data to be opened upon subpoena.
And here's what happens to defeat that. You have your traffic monitor run, use the information for what you need, and then you remove the logs immediately.
If it's going to cause undue problems for the ISPs I see no reason to travel any other route.
I'm often unpleasantly surprised with some of my supposedly technical colleagues' ignorance as to how computers work.
You only need to know about your own little world. "Jack of all trades" are irrelevant in just about every other community these days what makes computers different?
Yeah, I like to know a little bit about everything but I'm not a guru in anything. I can putter along in whatever I'm faced with (PHP, perl, Linux, BSD/OS X, Windows, networking, DNS, SMTP, whatever) but I'm not a guru in any. That's not a good thing. I'd be better paid (and possibly less happy) if I was.
I know plenty of geniuses in multiple fields that don't know shit about other stuff and you know what? It doesn't matter in the long run.
What I'm more bothered by is that the average tech person still desires to be above everyone else in some way or another.
They play too much Katamari Damacy. They're trying to roll up the universe!
Sure they can get the major providers to comply, but good luck tracking down every chat room operator.
Yes sir! We will comply with your "family first" and "anti-terrorism" chat room rools even though they violate our First Amendment rights! Tb shpx lbhefrys lbh snfpvfg cvtf! Oh sorry, my fingers were on the wrong keys. Yes, "USA! USA! USA! Down with terrorists and porno!"
Jura gur shpx ner jr tbvat gb fgnaq hc gb gur snfpvfg shpxref naq svanyyl gryy gurz gb trg shpxrq? Sorry, the keys are slippery.
You guessed wrong:
According to the financial daily, Carmack--who is not related to id technical director John Carmack--is claiming that he was forced to resign his position as a director of and artist at the studio earlier this year.
Well, being that I typically hate video game (and movie) sequels, I was worried when I decided I *had* to buy this one. I ordered it on Amazon and after noticing that the delivery date (from 9/25) was in late November I had a friend buy it for me at Gamespot.
The gameplay is nearly the same (look and feel wise) but they have added new and different challenges and removed most of the annoyances that the first version had (getting stuck under objects or moving to slow when you were huge during eternal levels).
I enjoy the new soundtrack immensely and love the crisper and clear graphics they've added. It's basically the same damn game but 100x better.
Thank you for releasing a worthwhile sequel that was still true to the original! If you haven't played We Love Katamari yet, I suggest you do.
The only thing I can see them allowing is sports events and news.
Oh, the NFL and MLB will find a way to block those too I'm sure. "No NFL broadcast may be reproduced without the express written permission of the NFL" If they could, they would make that extend to Tivo and other DVR units as well.
I'm already at the point where I'm beginning to fully support DRM-cracking tools and software. They're becoming the only tools consumers have to defend their legitimate rights.
That's because people ignored the eroison of rights all along. It won't be until it's too late that the public will come to their senses and realize the Constitutional attrocities that have been committed under their noses all these years.
Just wait, when TVs no longer work because the media conglomorates can't determine if you are using a computer or an old TV to watch the content then people will finally get pissed off enough to care.
Until then, everyone will just stare at their TVs and laugh and cry when told to.
Congress should reserve the power to grant rights for intellectual property creators for themselves, instead of giving a blank law-making check to content industries.
What Congress *should* do and what the conglomorates pay them to do are two different things.
I find that both Technorati and Blogpulse produce fewer, but more relevant results
Luckily I have never run into that problem myself but I will keep an eye out for it.
Carl Bialik investigates the intricacies of counting blogs, and shows how blog indexing sites like BlogPulse and Technorati are bursting at the seams with thousands of new blog entries everyday.
Technorati has always been slow for me and somewhat outdated. Google's Blogsearch, OTOH, seems fairly current and loads much faster.
I have only seen a few hits from Technorati (ending up at my site) but quite a few more coming from Google, starting only in the last 10 days or so.
Good riddance with both, I suppose, as games will be either less expensive or better produced without the middlemen of publishers and retailers both taking a cut.
Less expensive than what? Than they are currently? LOL. If anything they will keep the prices the same and claim it's "ease" that you are gaining by this method. To them, it's ease of DRM and piracy containment that they are getting.
Plus Sony has clout with the media distributers, whereas MS and Intel bite them in the ass because most "pirates" use MS and Intel products.
Pirates are going to use whatever they can crack. If Sony can successfully obtain superior distribution over the other format then there will be more crackable media available to the pirates. They aren't fickle. They will use whatever they can.
Better compatibility with existing DVD technology as well as lower cost were cited as reasons to back HD DVD.
Or to help their XBox sales against the PS3.
So even if the complete 100 million online Chinese had everything they could want, a much larger chunk of the population is really unhappy with the state of their existence.
We're not talking about the majority. We're talking about people that currently have easier access to outside information. Those people would be the 100 million Chinese that have access to the Internet.