The discussion on that forum is exactly the sad state of affairs I am arguing against.
If more people would actually stand up and say "no, this is wrong, I have rights, respect them" then maybe we wouldn't have this silent acceptance of the police state that is slowly encroaching our western societies.
I grew up being proud to NOT live in a communist or totalitarian police state and now that I see those policies becoming commonplace in once-free countries, I wonder if everyone else is just blind.
It may not "pay" to stand up to authority for yourself, but lots of people standing up to authority on a regular and public basis can make a difference.
I will continue to point out my rights, and those of others, and will not simply roll over to make my own life easier. You can thank me later.
I like Twitter precisely for bloggish status updates like Facebook's "status" option (and have my Facebook status auto-updated from Twitter).
I can easily text message Twitter that I'm heading over to a different town for work and wouldn't mind getting together for coffee with friends and leave it open for people to give me a call.
Its a useful service, but some people have hacked it into a large never-ending chat room which it isn't.
As the original poster, please let me feed a troll? Okay.
More fun with your facts:
72% of Israel's population is Jewish in contrast to only 1.8% of the population of the United States.
Even more fun:
The land area of Israel is 20,330 sq km. Resulting population per square kilometer: 261.
Land area of the United States: 9,161,923 sq km. Resulting population per square kilometer: 0.58.
But feel free, like other people who neither understand history nor math to go on your tirades against the Jewish people as though there was some interesting conspiracy at hand.
You think there's some relationship between people at Microsoft knowing about or being able to identify this issue and the management listening and doing something about it?
You do realize that most open source emulators and such compile on non-Intel platforms just fine, right? Many of us free software types aren't glued to a single architecture and cross-compiling isn't totally strange.
Television is also a less new media than it was when Dr. Who started resulting in a larger and younger pool of talent to choose from. 'Back in the day', quality actors of a younger age would be harder to find than they are today where an actor of 21 may already have 10+ credits under their belt.
Uneducated police officers do harm not just to those they arrest illegally but to the image of law enforcement in general.
Allowing the police to get away with these situations, no matter how small, just because you have the 'smarts' to get out of it is the wrong tack.
I would suggest confronting the situation legally but head-on as an intelligent person who should be able to defend themselves in these situations. The police forces of the world's democracies need to be kept in check, and we must keep our countries away from the slippery slope of random arrests, threats and other totalitarian scare tactics some police forces have a tendency toward.
Keep your country free -- fight improper police procedure openly and in public until it changes.
I saw the PS2 + Singstar listed locally for $100 combined (in Canada). Sony was brilliant to keep the PS2 hardware on the market. Easy profits competing at the low end.
The original PS2 had an IEEE1394 firewire port on it. The next units did not.
For the majority of the PS2's life-cycle, it had a removable network adapter with hard drive support. The slim PS2s have a built-in network adapter and no hard drive support.
Cutting features that turn out to be less useful is better than trying to retrofit them in if you realize you wanted them after all.
I love how people with no experience post their opinions. Why doesn't the poster play their PS3 online? Its free. It costs nothing to set up or use. It FREE. So go ahead and use it.
Pop an copy of Resistance 1 in for like $20 and enjoy the fast matchmaking.
Its a myth that selling consoles at a profit is an excellent business model too.
The N64 made money for Nintendo, as did the Gamecube and both were nearly catastrophic failures in the marketplace.
They've made up a lot of ground with the Wii, for sure, but they still haven't attracted high-quality third party game licenses like the other two big players.
Sony on the other hand sold the PS2 at a loss and its now the single most ubiquitous piece of gaming hardware in the world, aside from PCs.
Wow. You have an insight into why those games were cancelled that nobody else does? You know for a fact that they weren't over budget or memory limited?
If the PS3 has a fault, its that Sony should've designed it with 1GB or more of RAM instead of 256MB.
No offense, but your teacher probably isn't an expert at SPU utilization yet since very few people are, and most of them are busy at IBM or game development.
Call in some of the programmers from Insomniac or something if you want insights.
I still have no idea what fantasy land you're living in.
Sony doesn't make you use Home for ANYTHING. Home isn't required for anything. And even within Home, wandering through Home isn't even necessary (there's a pause menu option to jump to any other area from any area).
So what's this pressure to do something you don't have to do at all? Just set your PS3 to auto-run discs and drop a copy of R2 in and you're playing, no Home, no pressure.
I have a 10Mbit/s feed to the Internet at home and disk space hasn't been at a premium for home users in the last five years so I don't really see it as much of an issue to start downloading critical updates automatically whether the user approved it or not.
Applying them should still require either confirmation or warranty.
I don't believe the GP was complaining about how DRM doesn't work on the PC but rather that it is invasive and alienates users in a way that console DRM does not.
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The discussion on that forum is exactly the sad state of affairs I am arguing against.
If more people would actually stand up and say "no, this is wrong, I have rights, respect them" then maybe we wouldn't have this silent acceptance of the police state that is slowly encroaching our western societies.
I grew up being proud to NOT live in a communist or totalitarian police state and now that I see those policies becoming commonplace in once-free countries, I wonder if everyone else is just blind.
It may not "pay" to stand up to authority for yourself, but lots of people standing up to authority on a regular and public basis can make a difference.
I will continue to point out my rights, and those of others, and will not simply roll over to make my own life easier. You can thank me later.
I like Twitter precisely for bloggish status updates like Facebook's "status" option (and have my Facebook status auto-updated from Twitter).
I can easily text message Twitter that I'm heading over to a different town for work and wouldn't mind getting together for coffee with friends and leave it open for people to give me a call.
Its a useful service, but some people have hacked it into a large never-ending chat room which it isn't.
The post he replied to was a red herring, no warrant exists in the Amtrak case.
The TSA people are wrong as there is no law anywhere in the United States outside military grounds preventing you from taking photos.
As the original poster, please let me feed a troll? Okay.
More fun with your facts:
72% of Israel's population is Jewish in contrast to only 1.8% of the population of the United States.
Even more fun:
The land area of Israel is 20,330 sq km. Resulting population per square kilometer: 261.
Land area of the United States: 9,161,923 sq km. Resulting population per square kilometer: 0.58.
But feel free, like other people who neither understand history nor math to go on your tirades against the Jewish people as though there was some interesting conspiracy at hand.
You think there's some relationship between people at Microsoft knowing about or being able to identify this issue and the management listening and doing something about it?
sssshhhhhhhhhhhh!
Have you checked for escaping microwave radiation lately? Just curious :)
You do realize that most open source emulators and such compile on non-Intel platforms just fine, right? Many of us free software types aren't glued to a single architecture and cross-compiling isn't totally strange.
Yeah, sorry, Americans have allowed themselves to be completely Hollywoodized in their personal appearance expectations.
Super white teeth, all perfectly straight, with trimmed eyebrows and manicured nails, shaved chests, etc.
It makes me a little sick personally, and hopefully society grows out of it soon as I have no intention of changing.
Television is also a less new media than it was when Dr. Who started resulting in a larger and younger pool of talent to choose from. 'Back in the day', quality actors of a younger age would be harder to find than they are today where an actor of 21 may already have 10+ credits under their belt.
Uneducated police officers do harm not just to those they arrest illegally but to the image of law enforcement in general.
Allowing the police to get away with these situations, no matter how small, just because you have the 'smarts' to get out of it is the wrong tack.
I would suggest confronting the situation legally but head-on as an intelligent person who should be able to defend themselves in these situations. The police forces of the world's democracies need to be kept in check, and we must keep our countries away from the slippery slope of random arrests, threats and other totalitarian scare tactics some police forces have a tendency toward.
Keep your country free -- fight improper police procedure openly and in public until it changes.
I saw the PS2 + Singstar listed locally for $100 combined (in Canada). Sony was brilliant to keep the PS2 hardware on the market. Easy profits competing at the low end.
The original PS2 had an IEEE1394 firewire port on it. The next units did not.
For the majority of the PS2's life-cycle, it had a removable network adapter with hard drive support. The slim PS2s have a built-in network adapter and no hard drive support.
Cutting features that turn out to be less useful is better than trying to retrofit them in if you realize you wanted them after all.
I love how people with no experience post their opinions. Why doesn't the poster play their PS3 online? Its free. It costs nothing to set up or use. It FREE. So go ahead and use it.
Pop an copy of Resistance 1 in for like $20 and enjoy the fast matchmaking.
Assassin's Creed was very cool actually, although I held out on buying it until it was under $30 as a 'Greatest Hit' on the PS3.
Heavenly Sword was a great game -- not God of War perhaps, but a well-executed game with some really fun combos. What it needed was a 'hard' mode.
Also worth noting is that his math is wrong.
If in November I sold 5 apples to your 10 oranges, you'd have a higher market share than I do.
If in December you still outsold me with 11 oranges to my 9 apples, my market share would have gone up, not down. (5+9)/(10+11) > 5/10.
Its mathematically incorrect to assume that Sony's market share isn't going up without checking actual total sales.
Its a myth that selling consoles at a profit is an excellent business model too.
The N64 made money for Nintendo, as did the Gamecube and both were nearly catastrophic failures in the marketplace.
They've made up a lot of ground with the Wii, for sure, but they still haven't attracted high-quality third party game licenses like the other two big players.
Sony on the other hand sold the PS2 at a loss and its now the single most ubiquitous piece of gaming hardware in the world, aside from PCs.
Wow. You have an insight into why those games were cancelled that nobody else does? You know for a fact that they weren't over budget or memory limited?
If the PS3 has a fault, its that Sony should've designed it with 1GB or more of RAM instead of 256MB.
No offense, but your teacher probably isn't an expert at SPU utilization yet since very few people are, and most of them are busy at IBM or game development.
Call in some of the programmers from Insomniac or something if you want insights.
Spoken like a lawyer :-)
I still have no idea what fantasy land you're living in.
Sony doesn't make you use Home for ANYTHING. Home isn't required for anything. And even within Home, wandering through Home isn't even necessary (there's a pause menu option to jump to any other area from any area).
So what's this pressure to do something you don't have to do at all? Just set your PS3 to auto-run discs and drop a copy of R2 in and you're playing, no Home, no pressure.
Thanks, I found the other faster on Google ;-)
I have a 10Mbit/s feed to the Internet at home and disk space hasn't been at a premium for home users in the last five years so I don't really see it as much of an issue to start downloading critical updates automatically whether the user approved it or not.
Applying them should still require either confirmation or warranty.
I don't believe the GP was complaining about how DRM doesn't work on the PC but rather that it is invasive and alienates users in a way that console DRM does not.