What you said was true until you used the word 'piracy' which is loaded and invalid.
"Copyright Infringement" is all it is, piracy is something else entirely that implies theft of a physical item that cannot be duplicated for free (and often death of the original owner).
Considering the amount of estrogen in drinking water in the western world (due mostly to women peeing out excesses from taking the pill), most young women are much more mature looking physically than they were a couple generations ago. Being physically attracted to young perfect skin and hair on a girl with the body of a woman is not something I can rationally hold against anyone.
Of course, the above is androphilia not paedophilia but the media doesn't distinguish (and I suspect you were talking about adolescents as well).
Something doesn't have to be good to not be illegal. You do believe in a free country right? What you do on your computer in the privacy of your bedroom shouldn't have a damn thing to do with anyone but you... unless you cause harm.
So if you're not causing harm, what's the problem, no matter how disgusting it is?
The fact that the USA is willing to put people in jail for viewing comics from other countries containing minors is beyond my comprehension. There was a case in Australia too, involving a Simpsons character or two... its crazy. I'm against killing people, and think eating brains is disgusting, but I love a good zombie movie. Why is artistic depiction with no harm wrong exactly? For some logical reason that isn't a puritanical rant that is...
Don't confuse the people who are pro sexual freedom but not sexual freedom. Christians had a line in the sand and got in trouble for it, now the liberals have their own line in the sand... what makes prefering same sex pairings more 'normal' than someone who prefers children? Nothing. The 'normalcy' defense has been used over and over to defend gay rights but its irrelevant to discussing pedos for some reason.
For the record, I defend neither group; I'm a straight married white dude who doesn't deserve an opinion, but I do find the whole situation ironic.
There's no reason for a disk check program to allocate 11GB of RAM, period. The disk cache in Linux is dynamic and based on unallocated memory so its not a real comparison at all.
Gnome3's shell likes to sneak up over 1GB of RAM usage on me all the time too... "alt+f2, r" works, but its annoying.
Gravity isn't an energy dissipation at all. Other forms of radiation are from energy consumption (xrays, gamma radiation, even light) but gravity is closer to being a dynamic property of how mass interacts with space-time.
I'd be much more interested in knowing how the antimatter+matter collision energy gets held back within a black hole absorbing both.
I forgot to reply to your value point -- the PS3 was never $1000. Spending *more* for more is not news. Its when you get more for less that value kicks in.
A PS3 at the time was $650 and they're now $250. Can you beat the performance of a PS3 today with a $250 PC? Could you beat it at launch with a $650 PC? The answer to both from my own research is a resounding no. Don't forget audio quality too -- I played launch titles with 7.1 uncompressed PCM audio in my livingroom and expect as much from a competing PC.
Well if you consider 720p to be HD, you'd find everything by Naughty Dog and Insomniac. Gran Turismo 5 runs at 1080p and 60fps in-game (and 30fps in replay mode), and also supports full 3D. There are plenty of websites listing resolution output of PS3 games, and you'll find that unlike cross-platform and 360 exclusives, PS3 exclusives do in fact run at 720p or higher (not upscaled).
Unfortunately, cross-platform gaming creates really terrible engines that have to work everywhere and do nothing well. I avoid them when possible because they look terrible (CoD comes to mind).
As someone else below comments, the reviews showed the PATRIOT didn't work. It was yet another example of military bluffing. I'm sure someone may have believed it worked at the top levels, but its quite certain they didn't work at all in practice.
You do realize I said nothing about my rationale for the refresh rates and that you assumed a lot of things that weren't stated. That aside, your point "A [screen] designed for the refresh rate you run it" makes no sense. That's precisely what I've always done, and I said so.
For the record, people who play games the way you described shouldn't get a say in how AAA titles are made. Shooting random stuff for no reason is called space invaders. Its fun, go play it a while.
The only reason I play most video games is for the story and progress through an actual plot. When the game becomes a fragfest, its just silly and no different from going back to Quake 2.
If you reduced any modern RPG to "kill those things, stand here. Now stand there. Now shoot those things, now stand here" (eliminating the rationale and story), it would be dull and suck pretty bad. Sure, there are bad cut scenes, and there are terrible plot elements in some games, and in a lot of books too, but eliminating them is not a good answer for most games.
At ten hours of gaming for $50 or $60, even a short video game is a much better deal than a movie ticket or worse, a blu-ray purchase.
For bigger games with 20 hours like the poster said, that's $3/hr for a $60 game, making Oblivion about $0.25/hr of entertainment value for me. Games are not terribly expensive in relation to other entertainment, and considering inflation, they're cheaper now than when I was a child.
Have you ever met a professional musician? Not a band member, I mean the type who get called to play a piece on a saxophone with a group of strangers to sheet music they've never seen before while recording a session for a movie or even video game? They're not poor. Starving artists are often starving due to either a lack of quality output, a lack of consistent output, or a lack of marketing of one's skills to people willing to pay them.
That's like claiming the vast majority of athletes are under-paid (they are, because they aren't applying themselves to a sport with good salaries).
An AC below just totally pwnd your list, but more importantly, you have terrible taste in games, aside maybe from Portal 2. Most of those aren't even in my top 50.
*snicker*... I just pictured the last guy I shot in the knee in Soldier of Fortune. Not the best game but fantastically fun to see the reactions of enemies when injured.
I love both Nethack and Dwarf Fortress. I play Dwarf Fortress a lot more than Nethack and my current colony is enjoying themselves with just over 230 residents. I've yet to ascend in Nethack, but I usually get distracted in the Gnome mines.
Strange, Insomniac and Naughty Dog producing in-house engines do a damn fine job of it in all their games. Maybe the problem is that the big houses only care about the bottom line, not the art.
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What you said was true until you used the word 'piracy' which is loaded and invalid.
"Copyright Infringement" is all it is, piracy is something else entirely that implies theft of a physical item that cannot be duplicated for free (and often death of the original owner).
Considering the amount of estrogen in drinking water in the western world (due mostly to women peeing out excesses from taking the pill), most young women are much more mature looking physically than they were a couple generations ago. Being physically attracted to young perfect skin and hair on a girl with the body of a woman is not something I can rationally hold against anyone.
Of course, the above is androphilia not paedophilia but the media doesn't distinguish (and I suspect you were talking about adolescents as well).
Something doesn't have to be good to not be illegal. You do believe in a free country right? What you do on your computer in the privacy of your bedroom shouldn't have a damn thing to do with anyone but you ... unless you cause harm.
So if you're not causing harm, what's the problem, no matter how disgusting it is?
The fact that the USA is willing to put people in jail for viewing comics from other countries containing minors is beyond my comprehension. There was a case in Australia too, involving a Simpsons character or two ... its crazy. I'm against killing people, and think eating brains is disgusting, but I love a good zombie movie. Why is artistic depiction with no harm wrong exactly? For some logical reason that isn't a puritanical rant that is ...
Don't confuse the people who are pro sexual freedom but not sexual freedom. Christians had a line in the sand and got in trouble for it, now the liberals have their own line in the sand ... what makes prefering same sex pairings more 'normal' than someone who prefers children? Nothing. The 'normalcy' defense has been used over and over to defend gay rights but its irrelevant to discussing pedos for some reason.
For the record, I defend neither group; I'm a straight married white dude who doesn't deserve an opinion, but I do find the whole situation ironic.
Learn to cook Indian food ... except butter chicken. Mmm, butter chicken.
Makes me miss the E file manager ...
There's no reason for a disk check program to allocate 11GB of RAM, period. The disk cache in Linux is dynamic and based on unallocated memory so its not a real comparison at all.
Gnome3's shell likes to sneak up over 1GB of RAM usage on me all the time too ... "alt+f2, r" works, but its annoying.
Gravity isn't an energy dissipation at all. Other forms of radiation are from energy consumption (xrays, gamma radiation, even light) but gravity is closer to being a dynamic property of how mass interacts with space-time.
I'd be much more interested in knowing how the antimatter+matter collision energy gets held back within a black hole absorbing both.
Its limited scope is precisely why its relevant.
Ferraris have a more limited scope than OpenBSD but nobody counts them out. OpenBSD is very good at what it does and very useful to those who use it.
I forgot to reply to your value point -- the PS3 was never $1000. Spending *more* for more is not news. Its when you get more for less that value kicks in.
A PS3 at the time was $650 and they're now $250. Can you beat the performance of a PS3 today with a $250 PC? Could you beat it at launch with a $650 PC? The answer to both from my own research is a resounding no. Don't forget audio quality too -- I played launch titles with 7.1 uncompressed PCM audio in my livingroom and expect as much from a competing PC.
Well if you consider 720p to be HD, you'd find everything by Naughty Dog and Insomniac. Gran Turismo 5 runs at 1080p and 60fps in-game (and 30fps in replay mode), and also supports full 3D. There are plenty of websites listing resolution output of PS3 games, and you'll find that unlike cross-platform and 360 exclusives, PS3 exclusives do in fact run at 720p or higher (not upscaled).
Unfortunately, cross-platform gaming creates really terrible engines that have to work everywhere and do nothing well. I avoid them when possible because they look terrible (CoD comes to mind).
You missed asphalt ... which absorbs heat during the day and slowly radiates it at night, completely altering local weather in and near large cities.
As someone else below comments, the reviews showed the PATRIOT didn't work. It was yet another example of military bluffing. I'm sure someone may have believed it worked at the top levels, but its quite certain they didn't work at all in practice.
For the record, the screens I always loved the most were my ADI Microscans. Sigh.
You do realize I said nothing about my rationale for the refresh rates and that you assumed a lot of things that weren't stated. That aside, your point "A [screen] designed for the refresh rate you run it" makes no sense. That's precisely what I've always done, and I said so.
For the record, people who play games the way you described shouldn't get a say in how AAA titles are made. Shooting random stuff for no reason is called space invaders. Its fun, go play it a while.
The only reason I play most video games is for the story and progress through an actual plot. When the game becomes a fragfest, its just silly and no different from going back to Quake 2.
If you reduced any modern RPG to "kill those things, stand here. Now stand there. Now shoot those things, now stand here" (eliminating the rationale and story), it would be dull and suck pretty bad. Sure, there are bad cut scenes, and there are terrible plot elements in some games, and in a lot of books too, but eliminating them is not a good answer for most games.
At ten hours of gaming for $50 or $60, even a short video game is a much better deal than a movie ticket or worse, a blu-ray purchase.
For bigger games with 20 hours like the poster said, that's $3/hr for a $60 game, making Oblivion about $0.25/hr of entertainment value for me. Games are not terribly expensive in relation to other entertainment, and considering inflation, they're cheaper now than when I was a child.
Have you ever met a professional musician? Not a band member, I mean the type who get called to play a piece on a saxophone with a group of strangers to sheet music they've never seen before while recording a session for a movie or even video game? They're not poor. Starving artists are often starving due to either a lack of quality output, a lack of consistent output, or a lack of marketing of one's skills to people willing to pay them.
That's like claiming the vast majority of athletes are under-paid (they are, because they aren't applying themselves to a sport with good salaries).
If you even began to understand how inflation works, you'd realize games are actually cheaper now per unit than they were ten years ago.
An AC below just totally pwnd your list, but more importantly, you have terrible taste in games, aside maybe from Portal 2. Most of those aren't even in my top 50.
*snicker* ... I just pictured the last guy I shot in the knee in Soldier of Fortune. Not the best game but fantastically fun to see the reactions of enemies when injured.
Gotta push you to try out the Uncharted series if you haven't already. Great acting, story line and fun gameplay too.
I love both Nethack and Dwarf Fortress. I play Dwarf Fortress a lot more than Nethack and my current colony is enjoying themselves with just over 230 residents. I've yet to ascend in Nethack, but I usually get distracted in the Gnome mines.
Strange, Insomniac and Naughty Dog producing in-house engines do a damn fine job of it in all their games. Maybe the problem is that the big houses only care about the bottom line, not the art.