Industrial sabotage often is terrorism to those working at the locations involved, and to their families and friends. These are real people like you and I you realize.
Secondly, your final statement could be subject to libel. Retract it.
Canada has had a similar private-copy exemption for a long time (since the early 80's) to what the UK is basically saying now.
I can borrow a CD off you and rip it for my own enjoyment then give you back the CD, but you may not dupe the CD and give me the dupe (basically, IANAL).
He had a point though; if you constantly do video editing with your PC, your personal measurements of performance will be different from someone who uses only Word and Firefox all the time.
There's a reason I ask people what they intend to do with their PC before selling them one -- do they need more ram, or more drive space or more drives or a bigger video card... etc.
Very rarely does CPU speed come into the equation; the slowest CPU available at retail is quite fast enough for most people, most of the time, but if they say "Play 3D video games", it might not be.
How many times have you gone to the museum to view art you'd never buy or worse, taken a photo of art you couldn't afford?
Not a direct comparison, but still -- intelligent artists know that not everyone can afford to buy their artwork, written, musical or otherwise. However, they'd really appreciate it if you did buy it if you can afford it. In many cases, the artists really don't mind if you copy the stuff you like if you can't afford it, so long as you try to support the band if you do like the music.
I've got no problem with the college guys who have hundreds of thousands of MP3s they didn't pay for -- do you honestly think they could ever afford that music collection anyway? Of course not... they're not ripping off all those artists; they're ripping off the few they could have afforded to pay for.
You've been misguided by unenlightened Copyright afficionados; Copyright was designed to allow authors to profit temporarily from their works so as to encourage the creation of more works to enter the public domain. The point was not to make a profit, period. The point was to give authors incentive to make the works which would eventually end up in the public domain for all to enjoy freely (thus benefiting all society).
Copyright isn't an 'right'... its a benefit that was bestowed on authors by various governments and it can be taken away just as easily. In a democratic country, its quite arguable that if the majority of citizens believe something to be wrong, it very simply is, no matter what the big corporations think.
The rivets also need readjusting with every flight as I understand it.
We're talking about a plane that dumps fuel on the tarmac while taking off because of the necessary massive gaps in its hull and fuel tanks at low speeds.
This is an excellent example of how hard Titanium is to work with, despite being obviously useful.
PS, I love my Titanium-ceramic coated alumninum frying pans. Non-stick to the max:-)
I noticed my digital camera getting warm one time and thought to check the batteries. I removed them and almost burned my hand off. They were way too hot to touch. I tossed them out into the gravel driveway for safety, knowing full well that if they felt like it, they'd make a fun light show out of my forearm.
I beg to differ -- I think the console market has mature significantly since the silliness of the memory upgrade on the N64 and such. Also, I'd like to point out that most games do in fact have many settings that are designed to make the game work well on lower or higher end hardware to extend their market penetration as much as possible.
You could easily write a game for the PS3 that works really well on a base model then sell an upgrade to that game in the Sony online store (which I presume will exist or Sony is a bunch of morons) to take advantage of the new hardware that is available.
That said, I think this is all a little overblown; upgradeable components in this case probably refers to memory sticks, the hard drive and possibly networking upgrades in the future. At the most, the possibility of a DVR capability exists using a highspeed interconnect of some form.
They bundled a working version of Linux on a hard drive for the PS2 although it was short-lived (probably more due to low sales). I would think they'd probably do such a thing again once the hardware is profitable. In the short run of course, the PS3 makes money for Sony from the game licenses they sell, not from the console itself. However, if and when the PS3 is making a net profit at retail, it would be well worth their while to allow full use as a normal PC (therefore not necessarily buying games for it).
At the very least, it would make an excellent media center and web browsing/E-mail appliance. Not to mention it'll play video games quite well:-)
Don't forget that the Windows firewall software (which will supposedly protect outbound traffic as well as inbound in Vista) allows software to change the rules dynamically and without asking you.
I looked for a very long time on McAfee's site to figure out how the ASAP intranet updating software worked so I could set appropriate firewall rules. Then I noticed that with a fully locked-down PC, it was already receiving said updates and connecting to other locked-down PCs for them.
Great, I thought, the Windows firewall really is useless.
Personally I think hybrid HDDs are a bad idea. I plan on keeping a new 300GB hard drive for quite a while, even after upgrading my RAM, motherboard and CPU. That said, if I can get a huge performance increase by boosting the flash space on the hard drive, why not just add CompactFlash drives to the system instead? Use semi-permanently attached USB keys for swap space instead of the hard drive for all it matters; you can get a gig for about $25 these days. That's a much better deal than buying a new hard drive to take advantage of this hybrid technology.
You and the other responder can fight it out between you between the post being a joke or in units that were mistakening not marked as Canadian dollars.
For the record, I was cracking a joke and being accurate about canadian pricing. I can go buy a PS2 right now for about $150 so I figure the actual hardware costs are probably well under $100 for Sony. So why not release a third PS3? For an extra $100, they actually do include a full PS2 on-board:-).
(also a joke).
I'm quite positive the PS3 will have a great launch and will have lots of fun games to play and that I'll want one desperately to enjoy on my HDTV... and that I won't be able to afford one for at least a year or two after launch (much like the PS2 anyway).
Unlockables are exactly the opposite for me. I often go through a game once just playing the basics (like FFX-2) and then go back and start over trying to get "everything" in the game, because its got replayability and there's a secondary challenge now. Then, having failed to do that the second time through, I'll try it a third.
FFX gave me 100 hours of gameplay, FFX-2 gave me 75 so far... Aidyn Chronicles on the N64 gave me 200 (I played it through three times).
The original poster is correct -- text should be in a reasonable size, proportional to the user's settings, preferably measured in 'em's or 'x's.
If you don't know how to set up typographically correct layouts, don't even try.
Its not up to users to make your content readable, its up to your layout people. You don't see newspapers telling people to buy magnifying glasses, or change the font. They work with the best layout they can and fit as much text at a readable size as possible on a page to both be profitable and keep the reader happy.
Its just moronic to design a site with a font that tiny and at a fixed point size.
If you read my message history you'll find I'm a pretty big PS2 fan. I don't care about Sony one way or the other, but I do defend the SCEA for making good decisions that benefit gamers in general.
The PS2 is the first console gaming system that convinced me to buy something other than a PC for gaming.
Also, the PS3 is $600 here, but I'm not in the USA, I'm in Canada and that's canadian dollars.
God of War was great like this "You are Dead!" followed by standing on the bridge you just fell off of -- it would auto-restore you to the most recent point before the current "challenge". Save points are for shutting off the console, and each only about 5/10 minutes apart.
I've overheard several parent->clerk conversations at my local video game store as the clerk begins describing the gameplay in God of War or GTA or somesuch game. The parent often looks befuddled, "well, it can't be all that realistic violence right?" I feel like plugging in the game and showing how it looks when Kratos bashes a woman's head off the ground a few times, or burns a soldier alive as he screams for mercy...
(Watch the "making of" featurette on the disc... "We were trying to make a game anyone could enjoy, and I think we succeeded").
I was reading an interview recently with a Sony employee discussing that they need to include some of the PS2's hardware in the PS3 to handle strange timing issues for things that really shouldn't be done with a PS2 but are done by programmers nonetheless. That said, the majority of the PS2's work can be emulated with a cell processor, he claimed.
This is not equivalent to including an entire PS2 on a chip (but at $700, they could almost afford to).
My NVidia 5200FX is feeling old now, although it still plays most of my games very well. I'll probably buy NVidia's top AGP video card in the near future instead of upgrading my entire machine to PCI-e. Gotta love the upgrade grind.
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There's a difference between taking on a character and creating one.
... well, whatever the hell you wanna be.
In Quake you are a specific marine with specific skills assigned to you by the game.
In Neverwinter Nights, you are
Industrial sabotage often is terrorism to those working at the locations involved, and to their families and friends. These are real people like you and I you realize.
Secondly, your final statement could be subject to libel. Retract it.
An awful lot of environmentalists are against the use of coal for power, so I'd assume just about any militant environmentalist would qualify.
Oh, you mean you don't believe there are militant environmentalists? Just like there aren't militant pro-lifers, right?
Thanks for that :-)
I know touching the connectors on a UPS battery will make you regret it, from experience.
I've also watched a co-worker get tossed across a room by a 230V 20A line because he stuck a screwdriver in the live socket (I guess he deserved it).
Canada has had a similar private-copy exemption for a long time (since the early 80's) to what the UK is basically saying now.
I can borrow a CD off you and rip it for my own enjoyment then give you back the CD, but you may not dupe the CD and give me the dupe (basically, IANAL).
What I've been listening to
He had a point though; if you constantly do video editing with your PC, your personal measurements of performance will be different from someone who uses only Word and Firefox all the time.
... etc.
There's a reason I ask people what they intend to do with their PC before selling them one -- do they need more ram, or more drive space or more drives or a bigger video card
Very rarely does CPU speed come into the equation; the slowest CPU available at retail is quite fast enough for most people, most of the time, but if they say "Play 3D video games", it might not be.
Completely irrelevant.
... they're not ripping off all those artists; they're ripping off the few they could have afforded to pay for.
... its a benefit that was bestowed on authors by various governments and it can be taken away just as easily. In a democratic country, its quite arguable that if the majority of citizens believe something to be wrong, it very simply is, no matter what the big corporations think.
How many times have you gone to the museum to view art you'd never buy or worse, taken a photo of art you couldn't afford?
Not a direct comparison, but still -- intelligent artists know that not everyone can afford to buy their artwork, written, musical or otherwise. However, they'd really appreciate it if you did buy it if you can afford it. In many cases, the artists really don't mind if you copy the stuff you like if you can't afford it, so long as you try to support the band if you do like the music.
I've got no problem with the college guys who have hundreds of thousands of MP3s they didn't pay for -- do you honestly think they could ever afford that music collection anyway? Of course not
You've been misguided by unenlightened Copyright afficionados; Copyright was designed to allow authors to profit temporarily from their works so as to encourage the creation of more works to enter the public domain. The point was not to make a profit, period. The point was to give authors incentive to make the works which would eventually end up in the public domain for all to enjoy freely (thus benefiting all society).
Copyright isn't an 'right'
You misunderstand basic physics.
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http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb98/887061
There was a version supporting WebDAV as a test too.
Secure WebDAV would be a nice way to handle this; using rsync would be even nicer.
SR-71 uses rivets, Titanium rivets (avoids corrosion).
:-)
The rivets also need readjusting with every flight as I understand it.
We're talking about a plane that dumps fuel on the tarmac while taking off because of the necessary massive gaps in its hull and fuel tanks at low speeds.
This is an excellent example of how hard Titanium is to work with, despite being obviously useful.
PS, I love my Titanium-ceramic coated alumninum frying pans. Non-stick to the max
I noticed my digital camera getting warm one time and thought to check the batteries. I removed them and almost burned my hand off. They were way too hot to touch. I tossed them out into the gravel driveway for safety, knowing full well that if they felt like it, they'd make a fun light show out of my forearm.
Another $15 pair of NiMH's bites the dust.
Go find yourself a 12V high-amperage battery. I recommend a deep-cycle marine battery.
Grab the electrodes.
Write back.
I beg to differ -- I think the console market has mature significantly since the silliness of the memory upgrade on the N64 and such. Also, I'd like to point out that most games do in fact have many settings that are designed to make the game work well on lower or higher end hardware to extend their market penetration as much as possible.
You could easily write a game for the PS3 that works really well on a base model then sell an upgrade to that game in the Sony online store (which I presume will exist or Sony is a bunch of morons) to take advantage of the new hardware that is available.
That said, I think this is all a little overblown; upgradeable components in this case probably refers to memory sticks, the hard drive and possibly networking upgrades in the future. At the most, the possibility of a DVR capability exists using a highspeed interconnect of some form.
They bundled a working version of Linux on a hard drive for the PS2 although it was short-lived (probably more due to low sales). I would think they'd probably do such a thing again once the hardware is profitable. In the short run of course, the PS3 makes money for Sony from the game licenses they sell, not from the console itself. However, if and when the PS3 is making a net profit at retail, it would be well worth their while to allow full use as a normal PC (therefore not necessarily buying games for it).
:-)
At the very least, it would make an excellent media center and web browsing/E-mail appliance. Not to mention it'll play video games quite well
There's a bookmark sync extension already; I've been using it for months in fact.
Bookmark sync
Don't forget that the Windows firewall software (which will supposedly protect outbound traffic as well as inbound in Vista) allows software to change the rules dynamically and without asking you.
I looked for a very long time on McAfee's site to figure out how the ASAP intranet updating software worked so I could set appropriate firewall rules. Then I noticed that with a fully locked-down PC, it was already receiving said updates and connecting to other locked-down PCs for them.
Great, I thought, the Windows firewall really is useless.
Personally I think hybrid HDDs are a bad idea. I plan on keeping a new 300GB hard drive for quite a while, even after upgrading my RAM, motherboard and CPU. That said, if I can get a huge performance increase by boosting the flash space on the hard drive, why not just add CompactFlash drives to the system instead? Use semi-permanently attached USB keys for swap space instead of the hard drive for all it matters; you can get a gig for about $25 these days. That's a much better deal than buying a new hard drive to take advantage of this hybrid technology.
For the record, I was cracking a joke and being accurate about canadian pricing. I can go buy a PS2 right now for about $150 so I figure the actual hardware costs are probably well under $100 for Sony. So why not release a third PS3? For an extra $100, they actually do include a full PS2 on-board
(also a joke).
I'm quite positive the PS3 will have a great launch and will have lots of fun games to play and that I'll want one desperately to enjoy on my HDTV
For the sake of the pricing nazis though, here's IGN's PS3 announcement:
Unlockables are exactly the opposite for me. I often go through a game once just playing the basics (like FFX-2) and then go back and start over trying to get "everything" in the game, because its got replayability and there's a secondary challenge now. Then, having failed to do that the second time through, I'll try it a third.
... Aidyn Chronicles on the N64 gave me 200 (I played it through three times).
FFX gave me 100 hours of gameplay, FFX-2 gave me 75 so far
The original poster is correct -- text should be in a reasonable size, proportional to the user's settings, preferably measured in 'em's or 'x's.
If you don't know how to set up typographically correct layouts, don't even try.
Its not up to users to make your content readable, its up to your layout people. You don't see newspapers telling people to buy magnifying glasses, or change the font. They work with the best layout they can and fit as much text at a readable size as possible on a page to both be profitable and keep the reader happy.
Its just moronic to design a site with a font that tiny and at a fixed point size.
If you read my message history you'll find I'm a pretty big PS2 fan. I don't care about Sony one way or the other, but I do defend the SCEA for making good decisions that benefit gamers in general.
The PS2 is the first console gaming system that convinced me to buy something other than a PC for gaming.
Also, the PS3 is $600 here, but I'm not in the USA, I'm in Canada and that's canadian dollars.
God of War was great like this "You are Dead!" followed by standing on the bridge you just fell off of -- it would auto-restore you to the most recent point before the current "challenge". Save points are for shutting off the console, and each only about 5/10 minutes apart.
I've overheard several parent->clerk conversations at my local video game store as the clerk begins describing the gameplay in God of War or GTA or somesuch game. The parent often looks befuddled, "well, it can't be all that realistic violence right?" I feel like plugging in the game and showing how it looks when Kratos bashes a woman's head off the ground a few times, or burns a soldier alive as he screams for mercy ...
... "We were trying to make a game anyone could enjoy, and I think we succeeded").
(Watch the "making of" featurette on the disc
I was reading an interview recently with a Sony employee discussing that they need to include some of the PS2's hardware in the PS3 to handle strange timing issues for things that really shouldn't be done with a PS2 but are done by programmers nonetheless. That said, the majority of the PS2's work can be emulated with a cell processor, he claimed.
This is not equivalent to including an entire PS2 on a chip (but at $700, they could almost afford to).
My NVidia 5200FX is feeling old now, although it still plays most of my games very well. I'll probably buy NVidia's top AGP video card in the near future instead of upgrading my entire machine to PCI-e. Gotta love the upgrade grind.
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