You're a a pregnant wife on a fixed low-wage income living in an apartment.
Go to the hospital for your birth.
Have fun without money to pay for good medical care.
We believe people should be treated well for the essentials first. More money is needed, more money is coming, accountability is key too. How many people in the US who can't afford to pay for their health care have none? You ignore those.
For many people in the US the waiting list is infinitely long, because they can't afford the procedure. Pretty awsome curve to picture.
Freedom to have fair access to efficient medicare precludes unregulated out-of-system private practices.
There are several such (very obvious) limits when you go about having a fair system of freedoms.
I shouldn't be free to shoot you. You shouldn't be free to move into my house.
Make a good case for your freedom to open whatever business you want, despite the effects on the society, don't just claim its a violation of your freedom.
Another poster already explained why Sony Music != SCEA. They are not the same, they just have the same branding (unfortunately).
I don't like Sony Music. I have some respect for SCEA (not a lot, but some).
That said, Sony Music's DRM tactics were based on a non-trusted platform. The PS3 is a trusted platform -- they can already control (they hope) the operation of it, what can run on it, etc.
As such, DRM is not nearly the problem it would normally be, simply use keying that's tied to the hardware and be done with it.
I have a 4 yr old. She loves watching me play racing games, she even tries them herself. But I don't play God of War in front of her, or Resident Evil. Is there not room for those games in my home? Of course there is.
I also read Marcinko books and wouldn't read a Tom Clancy novel to a child either.
Video games, like books, are entertainment. Like books, some appeal to children and shouldn't be accessible to them without parental supervision. Like books, they are often a solo activity.
So, murder mystery novels with gruesome details shouldn't be at Chapters? They're on the bottom shelf too... with cool looking covers. Oh no, kids will grab them.
I'm a parent -- I say 'no'. Its uncool, I know, but I do it anyway.
Playing Doom 3 through my home theatre system with the lights out kept my heart going for a while.
My wife came in the house after work and turned the lights on and she said I looked stricken with horror when I looked at her.
Resident Evil 4 however takes the cake so far for me. With my PLII system bringing evilness from all-around and the sheer *lack* of sound when most of the bad guys approach... not to mention how you can travel chunks of territory in which there seem to be no baddies at all, then be surrounded.
There's nothing like feeling your body being thrown to one side or the other of your harness.
Sure, a great driving game with force-feedback steering wheel "feels" the same as driving... but your body doesn't feel it at all. Rumble just isn't enough. Its like trying to tell a pilot that pulling Gs in a flight simulator is the same as real jet flying.
Network Neighbourhood and Microsoft's vision of domains and workgroups actually appeals to me on paper. In practice, its administrative hell, but it looks great.
I've implemented successful workgroups & domains since switching to Samba for all the heavy lifting and been much happier than on Windows.
You made a great comment that reminds me of something I've always been annoyed by as a canadian -- socialism is not contrary to freedom. Socialism is in fact designed to be freedom, freedom from poverty and medical expenses as well as personal freedom.
Socialism is simply contrary to pure capitalism, which obviously doesn't work (see neighbour, USA). Plenty of imprisonned people with no access to lawyers, lots of people living in complete poverty in major centers, no easy access to medical services for those without insurance, no easy access to pharmeceuticals to those not in the middle and high income brackets.
It helps if you read the review instead of just looking at the scores.
Scores in reviews are like those in figure skating. Enough said.
At any rate, I was reading Playstation magazine and looking at their Black review on the weekend. I'd already rented and played it for an evening, so I had a good feel of how it played (having beat mission 3 on normal difficulty). The review talks about the guns in the game, the fact that its trying to be a shooter for everybody (my wife has no desire to blow someone away with a shotgun, believe it or not), movie basis for the levels, etc. Then it mentions that its short. 8 levels short. I thought about it; if I beat 3 levels in one evening, just rent it for a week for $8 and be done with it. No need to buy it at all.
Thank-you, AC, for the very obvious thought-problem solution.
Does it have any bearing on the GPL to use WinZIP to compress your GPL'd program? No.
Does it have any bearing on the GPL to use WinZIP to compress the output from your GPL'd program? Even less so.
Does it have any bearing on the GPL to use GPG on that ZIPped file so only one person can read it? No.
So why can't you take the XVid AVI output from the XVid codec and split it into nice chunks, then use a streaming keyed encryption system to "protect" it with DRM? No reason whatsoever.
The question to me is whether their QoS filtering is done based on consumer-specified TOS fields. If so, I'd be willing to pay extra to get lower latency gaming, since I already mark my gaming packets to be low-latency for routers that care.
That's why you (and many other) people buy stocks.
Some people buy them for philisophical reasons (think ethical funds). They hope their money goes up, but if it turns out they just invested in 'good' companies, they're happy (think charity with potential profits).
Some people buy the shares simply to own a piece of history (many did, I'm sure, in Google's case). This is why Tim Horton's in Canada went partly public (to make money, but because people would want to own shares, whether it earned them money or not).
Some people buy shares to get the dividends on a long-term basis, whether the share price goes up or down.
Don't assume everyone buys shares for the same reaons.
Larry was very clear -- buy Google shares because you want to give us cash to keep doing what we've always done.
Many people only donate money to registered charities. Why? Because there are legal restrictions on how the charity operates. I could donate money to some idiot at my door claiming to run a charity, but without a registration number, he can go sit on the curb for all I care.
This isn't Google being evil, its you not willing to file paperwork.
I'm not actually aware of how iChat works, but I was presuming P2P chat.
Alice sends her voice to Bob and Joe. Joe sends his to Bob and Alice. Bob sends his to Alice and Joe.
Alice, Joe and Bob each receive two audio streams and mix them on receipt, so they hear the others, not themselves.
In a server-based system, each would send only one stream each to the server, which would mix and re-send to each recipient. This would reduce bandwidth use immensely of course, if there were many users, at the expense of latency.
There are of course multiple tree algorithms that can reduce the bandwidth requirements by not sending your voice to all users, but just to some, who repeat it to others, but requires good routing algorithms to be done in a low-latency way.
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Right, because it takes the brain more effort to put together a 3D image from two eye image sources than a 3D image from two eye image sources.
IE, reality or special glasses.
Lets do this one.
You're a a pregnant wife on a fixed low-wage income living in an apartment.
Go to the hospital for your birth.
Have fun without money to pay for good medical care.
We believe people should be treated well for the essentials first. More money is needed, more money is coming, accountability is key too. How many people in the US who can't afford to pay for their health care have none? You ignore those.
For many people in the US the waiting list is infinitely long, because they can't afford the procedure. Pretty awsome curve to picture.
That's a fallacy.
Freedom is implicitly limiting.
Freedom to life precludes freedom to kill.
Freedom to have fair access to efficient medicare precludes unregulated out-of-system private practices.
There are several such (very obvious) limits when you go about having a fair system of freedoms.
I shouldn't be free to shoot you.
You shouldn't be free to move into my house.
Make a good case for your freedom to open whatever business you want, despite the effects on the society, don't just claim its a violation of your freedom.
You're under 30 right?
Bullets are worth more than gold.
You can't buy me for gold if I can kill you without repercussions.
Is it worth it to you to pay your henchmen gold to protect you, or to be part of a society with social norms?
Very quickly, people group into societies with leaders and taxes so as to avoid the burden of personal protection, etc.
Its a natural (and rapid) progression.
I haven't been able to play all the PS1 and PS2 games I've wanted to play yet, I'm not that rich.
That said, my wife just sold off my N64 and games on Ebay and I have every intention of buying a Revolution just to replay some of my favorites.
Another poster already explained why Sony Music != SCEA. They are not the same, they just have the same branding (unfortunately).
I don't like Sony Music. I have some respect for SCEA (not a lot, but some).
That said, Sony Music's DRM tactics were based on a non-trusted platform. The PS3 is a trusted platform -- they can already control (they hope) the operation of it, what can run on it, etc.
As such, DRM is not nearly the problem it would normally be, simply use keying that's tied to the hardware and be done with it.
I have a 4 yr old. She loves watching me play racing games, she even tries them herself. But I don't play God of War in front of her, or Resident Evil. Is there not room for those games in my home? Of course there is.
... with cool looking covers. Oh no, kids will grab them.
I also read Marcinko books and wouldn't read a Tom Clancy novel to a child either.
Video games, like books, are entertainment. Like books, some appeal to children and shouldn't be accessible to them without parental supervision. Like books, they are often a solo activity.
So, murder mystery novels with gruesome details shouldn't be at Chapters? They're on the bottom shelf too
I'm a parent -- I say 'no'. Its uncool, I know, but I do it anyway.
If the video game market were as young as you believe, the Gamecube would've sold better.
Much has been made recently of the fact that the average age of gamers is increasing as the 80's era gamers are hitting hitting their 30's.
These people can vote.
Playing Doom 3 through my home theatre system with the lights out kept my heart going for a while.
... not to mention how you can travel chunks of territory in which there seem to be no baddies at all, then be surrounded.
My wife came in the house after work and turned the lights on and she said I looked stricken with horror when I looked at her.
Resident Evil 4 however takes the cake so far for me. With my PLII system bringing evilness from all-around and the sheer *lack* of sound when most of the bad guys approach
Fun.
Gotta feel the torque.
... but your body doesn't feel it at all. Rumble just isn't enough. Its like trying to tell a pilot that pulling Gs in a flight simulator is the same as real jet flying.
There's nothing like feeling your body being thrown to one side or the other of your harness.
Sure, a great driving game with force-feedback steering wheel "feels" the same as driving
They wrote their own in the 80's, actually. Of course, its not like they ever invented it.
Network Neighbourhood and Microsoft's vision of domains and workgroups actually appeals to me on paper. In practice, its administrative hell, but it looks great.
I've implemented successful workgroups & domains since switching to Samba for all the heavy lifting and been much happier than on Windows.
Thanks for the work.
That's the best thing I've read all day.
Thanks.
You made a great comment that reminds me of something I've always been annoyed by as a canadian -- socialism is not contrary to freedom. Socialism is in fact designed to be freedom, freedom from poverty and medical expenses as well as personal freedom.
Socialism is simply contrary to pure capitalism, which obviously doesn't work (see neighbour, USA). Plenty of imprisonned people with no access to lawyers, lots of people living in complete poverty in major centers, no easy access to medical services for those without insurance, no easy access to pharmeceuticals to those not in the middle and high income brackets.
It helps if you read the review instead of just looking at the scores.
Scores in reviews are like those in figure skating. Enough said.
At any rate, I was reading Playstation magazine and looking at their Black review on the weekend. I'd already rented and played it for an evening, so I had a good feel of how it played (having beat mission 3 on normal difficulty). The review talks about the guns in the game, the fact that its trying to be a shooter for everybody (my wife has no desire to blow someone away with a shotgun, believe it or not), movie basis for the levels, etc. Then it mentions that its short. 8 levels short. I thought about it; if I beat 3 levels in one evening, just rent it for a week for $8 and be done with it. No need to buy it at all.
Thanks for a good review.
I don't even remember what they scored it.
PS, the best review is a rental. That's why I love my local Game Power store.
Thank-you, AC, for the very obvious thought-problem solution.
Does it have any bearing on the GPL to use WinZIP to compress your GPL'd program? No.
Does it have any bearing on the GPL to use WinZIP to compress the output from your GPL'd program? Even less so.
Does it have any bearing on the GPL to use GPG on that ZIPped file so only one person can read it? No.
So why can't you take the XVid AVI output from the XVid codec and split it into nice chunks, then use a streaming keyed encryption system to "protect" it with DRM? No reason whatsoever.
The question to me is whether their QoS filtering is done based on consumer-specified TOS fields. If so, I'd be willing to pay extra to get lower latency gaming, since I already mark my gaming packets to be low-latency for routers that care.
That's great.
The idea of day-trading with no thought to the consequence for the publically traded companies in question blows my mind.
Oh well.
Oops, so much for that cup I had on top of my fridge in college.
... " can get you into a lot of hot water though.
Honestly though, its a court-decided type issue.
If you don't claim to be a charity, you probably won't have a problem.
"We are a charitable organization
I wish people would start producing HD-output capable DVD players that could do HD-WMV and HD-DivX or HD-Xvid.
Then I could watch recorded HD shows on my DVD player.
That's completely stupid.
You can put a DRM wrapper on any type of file you want.
End of story.
*beep*, wrong.
That's why you (and many other) people buy stocks.
Some people buy them for philisophical reasons (think ethical funds). They hope their money goes up, but if it turns out they just invested in 'good' companies, they're happy (think charity with potential profits).
Some people buy the shares simply to own a piece of history (many did, I'm sure, in Google's case). This is why Tim Horton's in Canada went partly public (to make money, but because people would want to own shares, whether it earned them money or not).
Some people buy shares to get the dividends on a long-term basis, whether the share price goes up or down.
Don't assume everyone buys shares for the same reaons.
Larry was very clear -- buy Google shares because you want to give us cash to keep doing what we've always done.
Many people only donate money to registered charities. Why? Because there are legal restrictions on how the charity operates. I could donate money to some idiot at my door claiming to run a charity, but without a registration number, he can go sit on the curb for all I care.
This isn't Google being evil, its you not willing to file paperwork.
I'm not actually aware of how iChat works, but I was presuming P2P chat.
Alice sends her voice to Bob and Joe. Joe sends his to Bob and Alice. Bob sends his to Alice and Joe.
Alice, Joe and Bob each receive two audio streams and mix them on receipt, so they hear the others, not themselves.
In a server-based system, each would send only one stream each to the server, which would mix and re-send to each recipient. This would reduce bandwidth use immensely of course, if there were many users, at the expense of latency.
There are of course multiple tree algorithms that can reduce the bandwidth requirements by not sending your voice to all users, but just to some, who repeat it to others, but requires good routing algorithms to be done in a low-latency way.
I remember typing about 90% of a basic program out of a book into my TI99/4A and running out of RAM (all 12k of it).
I was almost depressed.
It took me hours to type that much code, and I couldn't even run it.