Your professor then is confused, as companies like MS dump R&D into project they know might not go anywhere, or might not make them any money, but understand the thread must be investigated.
Holding it back? Not sure what planet you live on, but I've seen nothing but leaps and bounds year after year since the 80s. Ever few months there is some new improvement that gets us more frames per second in crysis, rips a dvd faster, lets us store more for our dollar and with a smaller foot print, etc... hardware innovation is keeping up with moore's law just fine.
Mobile devices... lets take a bunch of tech that is laying around already, that we dont have to develop, and create new devices around them. Sure, there are new faster low powered chips laying around... the ground work for that was laided out by the desktops/laptops for them. The 'raw ability' of these mobile devices is laughable in comparison to desktops. When crysis or the like play in 1080i on your phone I'll be impressed. Right now? Its neat, but very predictable technology.
Saw it on the boingboing and installed it pronto. I use no script, adblocker, and vadalia (tor), along with some conviences addons that I am sure have their own set of security and privacy issues. Not sure why this addon wasnt just a standard feature all this time on all browsers.
The why is simple. Some 'ports' may be hacks. Hard to tell what will happen. A lot of old stuff is going to be wedged/shoe horned, and not really ported.
I've used restore points with no issues. Tested it pretty thoroughly the first time I installed. Abused the system. Installed ATI drivers without removing the old one. Misc system changes. Etc... Right now I have my 20 gigs dedicated to restore and it works fine to roll back changes. I partition my drive tho. C is only for drivers, small programs, and the OS. I've mklined my most of my user directory to D:. Never keep data on a system drive, and if you care about it back it up, more than once, over multiple drives or a remote site. You can schedule basic backups easily in windows 7.
I've still backed up the system using clonezilla, but only out of force of habit.
Someone stated 'doesnt play well with anti virus software'. Um, if you are using anything other than microsoft security essentials for this on windows 7 you are wasting your time.
As for 'one more reason to install linux', um, no. You still need do a lot of work to get windows programs to run in linux, and in some cases they run like ass. The answer of 'find a linux alternative' isnt an answer for users locked into pieces of software for the variety of real world reasons, or because it's just the software you want to use. Ever notice how a lot linux (or mac) users have windows partitions, or at least one machine with windows on? It's a must if you do any amount of gaming. Not knocking linux. It's great on many levels. Plus, switch to linux due to a bug that might never effect you? Does not seem to add value.
Sticking with XP? Sure, if you want to be part of the bot net and have no desire to use modern hardware. SSD, hard drives using the new 4096 byte sector standard, etc. I loved XP too, but its 10ish years old. Lacks features like the resource monitor, better multi monitor support, etc. Or just the over all stability 7 offers over XP.
real scientists because he gives his findings away for free? at some point one has to figure out how to fund the work they wish to do. Nothing at all wrong with having people pay you for your discoveries if one balances it out with the ascension of society. If these people dont have money for travel, tools, materials, and personal needs they arent going to be able to dedicate their sevles to their particular sphere of interest.
I would rather these people be paid via public funds, private donations, trinket/widget sales, paywalls, etc instead of the them selling off fossils and artifacts that the public should have access too.
Besides, all of this information eventually gets disseminated to the world.
Dont watch a lot of discovery channel I take it.
Insects have their roots in the sea. Scary giant sea scorpion! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071121-giant-scorpion.html
Here is something that blows some ppls minds and causes arguments... DOGS AND BEARS ARE RELATED! Amphicyonida!
I know dumb crap like that and only have a passing interest.
Requiring a special program and requiring you to authenticate is worse than installing intrusive software that breaks the functionality and security of your computer, disables hardware, requires a cd/dongle/book that you have to maintain, etc? Doesnt seem to add up to one of the worse scheme out there to me.
I still remember Gun Ship on the c64... If you copied it it would slam your drive head on purpose in order to misaligned your drive. Easy Script used the same methods in its protection schemes.
I randomly discovered Death Track Resurrection via Vuze. I loved the original 1989 game. Leeched it. And was impressed. I went to buy it... It wasnt available anywhere I could trust. Enough people said "Take it to steam and I will buy it" that they did... and I bought it. I've also picked up a lot of my favorite titles that I had pirated... Dark Corners of The Earth, Ghost Master, Psychonaughts, and some others. Steam breaths life into old games. I wish team 17 would release worms via steam.
I've read some steam horror stories about refunds, threats of disabling games, etc... These can all be resolved in small claims court, and they will give in rather than spend the money to defend themselves.
The GoG model is ok, but steam has already established itself in my life, I already own a bunch of games via steam... So its a day late and a dollar short. It's also missing left for dead so...
Reasonable to me is $20 for games I am going to offline. $40 for online fps games.
There was a nice article someplace about how when DRM was removed from e-books sales went up. We're tired of being locked down and inconvenienced when we take the legal option. We're even more tired of DRM scheme breaking the functionality of our systems. The guy you are calling a leech buys games. He's more prone to buying them when the price is right and they are void of DRM.
And it is those people who are willing to pay whom you must please. Price, quality, and it's potential to hurt your machine are all logical things to look at when making a purchase.
There are some DRM scheme that offer the end user some advantages. Steam is a good example. No need to have a physical copy cluttering up your space. Great deliver mechanism. Game stats saved on the server. The draw backs (having to be connected to the webz, no server side saves, 3rd party DRM can ruin the experience, etc..) are acceptable to many. Even die hard "I never pay for anything" pirates purchase games on steam. The WII store is another example of DRM done well. The ability to browse titles conveniently and buy them right then is what the consume wants.
The industry has to embrace the idea that they need to make it as convenient as possible for consumers to pay for their products, treat them with respect, and not cripple their systems. Music and movies are readily available illegally on the internet, yet Itunes, Rhapsody, Netflicks, and the like are making a tone of dough by making it easier to buy it than to pirate it.
The guy is basically right. kids are bullied because dicks are left unchecked. The only proven method to deal with a bully/dick is to smash his fucken face in until he is a bleeding and worthless pulp of human shit. Schools are a lot like prisons... a bunch of fucktards you would avoid in real life but you are forced to interact with. If someone fucks with you the authorities that are supposed to protect you ignore it.
In jr high there was a guy who just loved to pick on the special needs girls. He made her cry one day. I kicked him down the stair well, jumped on him, and beat his face in with my combination lock. I was suspended, but the kid never picked on her again. If more people would just hit bullies with baseball bats, or bet yet, just knife them, the world would be a much better place.
Charlie Murphy and Howard Stern were recently talking about growing up in Roosevelt. Their stories were grim and brutal. Get beat up? The teachers and principle blame the victem and not the guy who doesnt know better than to shake someone down for their lunch money.
Hitler and the nazi party are good examples of bullies that went unchecked. Had someone smashed in their skulls early on we'd been able to avoid a complete waste of life.
Kids are bullied because they are easy marks for people who find pleasure in abusing people. Dont fit into some normal one of these fucktards understands and they will fuck you for fun, profit, social status, and ego. These people often grow up to feel guilty about their past... But the damage has been done.
As much as I would love to see anyone bullied smash the bullies head in with a baseball bat... Kids and parents need to step up and not be afraid to press charges and seek damages; or at least seek a restraining order. Dont be afraid to sue schools that fail to protect your children either.
I'm not sure if there are similar minded postings in this thread. Many of the user comments I read make me wish I was smoking crack. Yours, on the other hand, rings true to me. As per the neurotics notebook; Things are not as good or as bad as you think they are.
Heh... So, instead of playing D&D they will just shank other inmates in their free time. I'm betting this isnt about security, or gangs, or any of that shit in reality. It's about the warden being a poostabbing griefer. Well, I hope they knife him to death when the riots come.
I just picked up a 55 inch tv... I've not picked up the hdmi cable because 480 wont look much different from composite. I have doubts I am going to by many more wii games because of this. Seems like it would be a wasted investment.
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I'm certain that the ppl at slashdot understand that is complete bullshit and have just posted it to see what kinda responses they would get.
PC gaming has not been in trouble. The sky is not falling... Set for a come back? Come back from what? Get off the fucken drugs.
Your professor then is confused, as companies like MS dump R&D into project they know might not go anywhere, or might not make them any money, but understand the thread must be investigated.
Actually, yes, it is true. Dont you recall when Lindows was the first linux distro that legally supported CD playback on a preloaded machine?
Holding it back? Not sure what planet you live on, but I've seen nothing but leaps and bounds year after year since the 80s. Ever few months there is some new improvement that gets us more frames per second in crysis, rips a dvd faster, lets us store more for our dollar and with a smaller foot print, etc... hardware innovation is keeping up with moore's law just fine.
Mobile devices... lets take a bunch of tech that is laying around already, that we dont have to develop, and create new devices around them. Sure, there are new faster low powered chips laying around... the ground work for that was laided out by the desktops/laptops for them. The 'raw ability' of these mobile devices is laughable in comparison to desktops. When crysis or the like play in 1080i on your phone I'll be impressed. Right now? Its neat, but very predictable technology.
Pretty much. I read this crap and was thinking... gee... really guys? Yer that fucken stupid and dont get it.
Ever notice how a lot of these mobile devices are using parts that have been around for a while?
Because no one has noticed/cares that xbmc uses it, or they know/care and have not yet taken action.
You are aware that patents on software methods are the law of the land atm, yes? Without buy a license one does not legally play a DVD for example.
As far as I am aware, you are correct.
Saw it on the boingboing and installed it pronto. I use no script, adblocker, and vadalia (tor), along with some conviences addons that I am sure have their own set of security and privacy issues. Not sure why this addon wasnt just a standard feature all this time on all browsers.
You will be able to spot the mac users a month from know as they all scream the cake is a lie randomly.
The why is simple. Some 'ports' may be hacks. Hard to tell what will happen. A lot of old stuff is going to be wedged/shoe horned, and not really ported.
:P
I've used restore points with no issues. Tested it pretty thoroughly the first time I installed. Abused the system. Installed ATI drivers without removing the old one. Misc system changes. Etc... Right now I have my 20 gigs dedicated to restore and it works fine to roll back changes. I partition my drive tho. C is only for drivers, small programs, and the OS. I've mklined my most of my user directory to D:. Never keep data on a system drive, and if you care about it back it up, more than once, over multiple drives or a remote site. You can schedule basic backups easily in windows 7.
I've still backed up the system using clonezilla, but only out of force of habit.
Someone stated 'doesnt play well with anti virus software'. Um, if you are using anything other than microsoft security essentials for this on windows 7 you are wasting your time.
As for 'one more reason to install linux', um, no. You still need do a lot of work to get windows programs to run in linux, and in some cases they run like ass. The answer of 'find a linux alternative' isnt an answer for users locked into pieces of software for the variety of real world reasons, or because it's just the software you want to use. Ever notice how a lot linux (or mac) users have windows partitions, or at least one machine with windows on? It's a must if you do any amount of gaming. Not knocking linux. It's great on many levels. Plus, switch to linux due to a bug that might never effect you? Does not seem to add value.
Sticking with XP? Sure, if you want to be part of the bot net and have no desire to use modern hardware. SSD, hard drives using the new 4096 byte sector standard, etc. I loved XP too, but its 10ish years old. Lacks features like the resource monitor, better multi monitor support, etc. Or just the over all stability 7 offers over XP.
ATTN SWITCHEURS: Your koolaid is only available in pink lemonaid for the obvious reasons.
real scientists because he gives his findings away for free? at some point one has to figure out how to fund the work they wish to do. Nothing at all wrong with having people pay you for your discoveries if one balances it out with the ascension of society. If these people dont have money for travel, tools, materials, and personal needs they arent going to be able to dedicate their sevles to their particular sphere of interest.
I would rather these people be paid via public funds, private donations, trinket/widget sales, paywalls, etc instead of the them selling off fossils and artifacts that the public should have access too.
Besides, all of this information eventually gets disseminated to the world.
No new taxes?
Dont watch a lot of discovery channel I take it. Insects have their roots in the sea. Scary giant sea scorpion! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071121-giant-scorpion.html Here is something that blows some ppls minds and causes arguments... DOGS AND BEARS ARE RELATED! Amphicyonida! I know dumb crap like that and only have a passing interest.
Requiring a special program and requiring you to authenticate is worse than installing intrusive software that breaks the functionality and security of your computer, disables hardware, requires a cd/dongle/book that you have to maintain, etc? Doesnt seem to add up to one of the worse scheme out there to me.
I still remember Gun Ship on the c64... If you copied it it would slam your drive head on purpose in order to misaligned your drive. Easy Script used the same methods in its protection schemes.
I randomly discovered Death Track Resurrection via Vuze. I loved the original 1989 game. Leeched it. And was impressed. I went to buy it... It wasnt available anywhere I could trust. Enough people said "Take it to steam and I will buy it" that they did... and I bought it. I've also picked up a lot of my favorite titles that I had pirated... Dark Corners of The Earth, Ghost Master, Psychonaughts, and some others. Steam breaths life into old games. I wish team 17 would release worms via steam.
I've read some steam horror stories about refunds, threats of disabling games, etc... These can all be resolved in small claims court, and they will give in rather than spend the money to defend themselves.
The GoG model is ok, but steam has already established itself in my life, I already own a bunch of games via steam... So its a day late and a dollar short. It's also missing left for dead so...
Reasonable to me is $20 for games I am going to offline. $40 for online fps games.
I think you are confused.
There was a nice article someplace about how when DRM was removed from e-books sales went up. We're tired of being locked down and inconvenienced when we take the legal option. We're even more tired of DRM scheme breaking the functionality of our systems. The guy you are calling a leech buys games. He's more prone to buying them when the price is right and they are void of DRM.
And it is those people who are willing to pay whom you must please. Price, quality, and it's potential to hurt your machine are all logical things to look at when making a purchase.
There are some DRM scheme that offer the end user some advantages. Steam is a good example. No need to have a physical copy cluttering up your space. Great deliver mechanism. Game stats saved on the server. The draw backs (having to be connected to the webz, no server side saves, 3rd party DRM can ruin the experience, etc..) are acceptable to many. Even die hard "I never pay for anything" pirates purchase games on steam. The WII store is another example of DRM done well. The ability to browse titles conveniently and buy them right then is what the consume wants.
The industry has to embrace the idea that they need to make it as convenient as possible for consumers to pay for their products, treat them with respect, and not cripple their systems. Music and movies are readily available illegally on the internet, yet Itunes, Rhapsody, Netflicks, and the like are making a tone of dough by making it easier to buy it than to pirate it.
The guy is basically right. kids are bullied because dicks are left unchecked. The only proven method to deal with a bully/dick is to smash his fucken face in until he is a bleeding and worthless pulp of human shit. Schools are a lot like prisons... a bunch of fucktards you would avoid in real life but you are forced to interact with. If someone fucks with you the authorities that are supposed to protect you ignore it.
In jr high there was a guy who just loved to pick on the special needs girls. He made her cry one day. I kicked him down the stair well, jumped on him, and beat his face in with my combination lock. I was suspended, but the kid never picked on her again. If more people would just hit bullies with baseball bats, or bet yet, just knife them, the world would be a much better place.
Charlie Murphy and Howard Stern were recently talking about growing up in Roosevelt. Their stories were grim and brutal. Get beat up? The teachers and principle blame the victem and not the guy who doesnt know better than to shake someone down for their lunch money.
Hitler and the nazi party are good examples of bullies that went unchecked. Had someone smashed in their skulls early on we'd been able to avoid a complete waste of life.
Kids are bullied because they are easy marks for people who find pleasure in abusing people. Dont fit into some normal one of these fucktards understands and they will fuck you for fun, profit, social status, and ego. These people often grow up to feel guilty about their past... But the damage has been done.
As much as I would love to see anyone bullied smash the bullies head in with a baseball bat... Kids and parents need to step up and not be afraid to press charges and seek damages; or at least seek a restraining order. Dont be afraid to sue schools that fail to protect your children either.
I'm not sure if there are similar minded postings in this thread. Many of the user comments I read make me wish I was smoking crack. Yours, on the other hand, rings true to me. As per the neurotics notebook; Things are not as good or as bad as you think they are.
Heh... So, instead of playing D&D they will just shank other inmates in their free time. I'm betting this isnt about security, or gangs, or any of that shit in reality. It's about the warden being a poostabbing griefer. Well, I hope they knife him to death when the riots come.
I use firefox... I switched to bing.
I just picked up a 55 inch tv... I've not picked up the hdmi cable because 480 wont look much different from composite. I have doubts I am going to by many more wii games because of this. Seems like it would be a wasted investment.