The only reason our CO emissions are a problem is that we are digging up carbon that has been buried for years, and releasing it into the air.
Any form of renewable gas (ethonal, weird bacteria, etc) have to get the carbon from SOMEWHERE. In the case of plant based sources it gets it from the air the plants breath and store in the sugar. I would assume that the bacteria are getting it from the same place. Either from the sugar they are fed so they can produce this stuff, or from the air.
The real question is what are they feeding the bacteria. The energy has to come from somewhere, nothing is free.
Unless they waited to port to the PS3 until the 360 code is done, and they are having lots of trouble finishing the 360 code on time putting the whole thing behind schedule. The cool thing about speculation is that you can speculate any way you want.
You are correct. You only need to supply the source if someone asks for it. But it needs to be easy for them to get to, and in a format they prefer (IE you can't mail them a print out, or run an obfuscator over it first). However, once you have given them the source they are free to do anything they want with it, including posting it unmodified anywhere they want. As a result people generally host the source the same place as the binary, ecause it gets fewer complaints and you don't have to have someone shipping CD's or emailing or whatever.
Thats actually just fine under the GPL, but when you hand that executable to someone else, thats when the GPL is invoked. If you grab some code change it and just use it for yourself you do not need to do anything, but when you distibute it, by putting it on phones you sell, or putting the binary up for download somewhere you must also include the source.
Wow you really think highly of yourself. There is a LOT more to a video game console than how it will look on your TV no matter what the price. The Wii is simply FUN. Its about the games. If all you care about is how it looks than enjoy your PS3, I prefer a system that I can actually sit down at with my wife and play games on.
I am not sure why Sony gets all this bad publicity in the MMO area. Face it SWG sucked before NGE, NGE made it actually FUN for some people. Vanguard is a mess, but it would not exist without Sony, you have Brad to lay that failure at. In fact to me it seems like going with Sony is a great idea. The people in Sony Online Entertainment are not the same people who put root kits on CD's they probably have never even met; nor are they the people who made the PS3, in fact I bet they have not talked a whole heck of a lot either. Sony is a REALLY HUGE company, you shouldn't blanket all of them under one roof.
As the FA says there is a lot of nasty things involved in setting up a MMOG; billing, bandwidth, and backed hosting. Say what you will about SOE but there servers are MUCH better than anyones (yes they had problems in the early years of EQ, but I have _NEVER_ had to wait in a queue with them; and unscheduled crashes have been very very rare for years). Why should content creators have to spend time worrying about if they have a redundant enough T3? I would rather they spend time making a good game.
Did you actually PLAY Star Wars Galaxies? It was massively unfun to start with. I agree that NGE did not improve things but lets face it, the game NEVER had the mass appeal something with a Star Wars license should have had.
The game as released did not feel like a Star Wars game, but instead like Ultima Online, only with 3D graphics.
Some people like this kind of game, but obviously not enough of them, or SOE would not have tried NGE.
The problem is that people seem to equate playing a game with "work" I enjoyed getting the xp I lost the first time, I will enjoy getting it the second time. Its not a race to max level.
If the file has no DRM can't you transcode it any which way you like? Also, don't AAC files sound better for a given bitrate than the MUCH older MP3 format? Also, can't ITunes transcode a file by simply right clicking on it and choosing "Convert to MP3" ? Its is not very hard to convert an AAC file to whatever you want.
But the point is that the PS3 competing with the 360 / Wii / PS2 of today is doing just as well as the 360 did competing with the PS2 / Gamcube / Xbox of last year. Doesn't seem to bad to me the PS3 certainly has much stiffer competition.
Patenting y=mx+b as a method of drawing a line is wrong. Patenting a device that uses this to draw a line, that is different. Algorithms that describe basic ways of doing things are not novel. The biggest difference though is that with a device, if someone discovers some neat effect they can patent a certain way of doing it, but others can come an innovate on that device, inventing something that has the same effect but does it differently and is therefore not covered under the original patent. In software they are patenting the effect, here we have a mutli-way linked linked list, something that CS students have to do in freshman level classes. But now, we can't use it in any way without having to worry about defending ourselves. As someone who writes software for a living I would rather give up on ever getting a patent than having to worry for the rest of my life about implementing something someone else came up with and patented.
The there is the issue that computer science moves along at such a clip that one company having a monopoly on an idea for the standard patent term could seriously stifle innovation in the field, which is directly against what the entire point of patents are.
The point is that if the money I save by going green over the life of the green product is less that the amount of money I spent to become green + the interest that money could have earned, it is a bad economic choice to become green. Now if you have enough money that you can afford to give some of it away to make the world a better place good for you. Those of us living paycheck to paycheck cannot afford it until the initial investment comes down.
Nice try fell free to go re-read yourself. (How in the world did I get into 2 threads arguing with an obvious troll?)
I have no clue where you got the mistaken notiont that 380,000,000,000 is a trillion that has NEVER been stated in this thread. 380,000,000,000 a number you brought to the table is 380 billion dollars. This has been the point of the argument from the beginning. I have provided links proving the orginal budget number is correct, and additional links proving I know how to count. As you said "Retraction accepted but not expected."
Originally I said: $380B = $380,000,000,000 so not much of a difference.
To which you responded: Bloody fucking hell. That's 380 TRILLION, not 380 BILLION. So yeah, a factor of 1000, is a big difference. Which was and is my farking point. I mean, if you want to complain about something, go ahead, but don't farking exaggerate by, what, 100,000 percent?
At which point I pointed out: 380,000,000,000,000 is 380 trillion. See my other post.
Notice the trillion has a whole new set of zeros over the billion. You can count them if you want. I guess I now understand how math and science is messed up in the US, you can't even tell the diference between 10^9 and 10^12.
And before you simply disregard this a liberal propaganda check here http://costofwar.com/numbers.html for the logic they used to find it. Basically they took all of the emergency congregational war spending bills and added them up. So these numbers do not include normal military spending just war costs.
Trauma Center is a simply great game, better than Zelda I would say.
Raving Rabbids is a great multiplayer game.
Super Monkey ball... sucks
Red Steel REALLY REALLY sucks.
Wii sports is quite fun.
Rampage is fun but you really need nunchucks for each player
Excite Truck is also quite enjoyable if you like smash em up racing.
So I would say if yo have a Wii pick up Trauma Center for yourself, Raving Rabbids for yourself and your firends, Rampage if you like that sort of thing, and Excite trck if you like that sort of thing. I actually thought Zelda was kinda blah.
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Did AT&T's prices go up as you have assumed it should have?
Sure! I need someone to look after the place when I am gone. First week of October good for you?
Actually it kind of has to.
The only reason our CO emissions are a problem is that we are digging up carbon that has been buried for years, and releasing it into the air.
Any form of renewable gas (ethonal, weird bacteria, etc) have to get the carbon from SOMEWHERE. In the case of plant based sources it gets it from the air the plants breath and store in the sugar. I would assume that the bacteria are getting it from the same place. Either from the sugar they are fed so they can produce this stuff, or from the air.
The real question is what are they feeding the bacteria. The energy has to come from somewhere, nothing is free.
Unless they waited to port to the PS3 until the 360 code is done, and they are having lots of trouble finishing the 360 code on time putting the whole thing behind schedule. The cool thing about speculation is that you can speculate any way you want.
You are correct. You only need to supply the source if someone asks for it. But it needs to be easy for them to get to, and in a format they prefer (IE you can't mail them a print out, or run an obfuscator over it first). However, once you have given them the source they are free to do anything they want with it, including posting it unmodified anywhere they want. As a result people generally host the source the same place as the binary, ecause it gets fewer complaints and you don't have to have someone shipping CD's or emailing or whatever.
Thats actually just fine under the GPL, but when you hand that executable to someone else, thats when the GPL is invoked. If you grab some code change it and just use it for yourself you do not need to do anything, but when you distibute it, by putting it on phones you sell, or putting the binary up for download somewhere you must also include the source.
Wow you really think highly of yourself. There is a LOT more to a video game console than how it will look on your TV no matter what the price. The Wii is simply FUN. Its about the games. If all you care about is how it looks than enjoy your PS3, I prefer a system that I can actually sit down at with my wife and play games on.
I am not sure why Sony gets all this bad publicity in the MMO area. Face it SWG sucked before NGE, NGE made it actually FUN for some people. Vanguard is a mess, but it would not exist without Sony, you have Brad to lay that failure at. In fact to me it seems like going with Sony is a great idea. The people in Sony Online Entertainment are not the same people who put root kits on CD's they probably have never even met; nor are they the people who made the PS3, in fact I bet they have not talked a whole heck of a lot either. Sony is a REALLY HUGE company, you shouldn't blanket all of them under one roof.
As the FA says there is a lot of nasty things involved in setting up a MMOG; billing, bandwidth, and backed hosting. Say what you will about SOE but there servers are MUCH better than anyones (yes they had problems in the early years of EQ, but I have _NEVER_ had to wait in a queue with them; and unscheduled crashes have been very very rare for years). Why should content creators have to spend time worrying about if they have a redundant enough T3? I would rather they spend time making a good game.
Did you actually PLAY Star Wars Galaxies? It was massively unfun to start with. I agree that NGE did not improve things but lets face it, the game NEVER had the mass appeal something with a Star Wars license should have had.
The game as released did not feel like a Star Wars game, but instead like Ultima Online, only with 3D graphics.
Some people like this kind of game, but obviously not enough of them, or SOE would not have tried NGE.
Actually you are mistaken. Wizards filed the patent before Pirates was invented.
The problem is that people seem to equate playing a game with "work" I enjoyed getting the xp I lost the first time, I will enjoy getting it the second time. Its not a race to max level.
Where did he say he was going to pirate them? He merely stated he did not like other people controlling his computer.
But DJCacophony,
If the file has no DRM can't you transcode it any which way you like? Also, don't AAC files sound better for a given bitrate than the MUCH older MP3 format? Also, can't ITunes transcode a file by simply right clicking on it and choosing "Convert to MP3" ? Its is not very hard to convert an AAC file to whatever you want.
But the point is that the PS3 competing with the 360 / Wii / PS2 of today is doing just as well as the 360 did competing with the PS2 / Gamcube / Xbox of last year. Doesn't seem to bad to me the PS3 certainly has much stiffer competition.
Patenting y=mx+b as a method of drawing a line is wrong. Patenting a device that uses this to draw a line, that is different. Algorithms that describe basic ways of doing things are not novel. The biggest difference though is that with a device, if someone discovers some neat effect they can patent a certain way of doing it, but others can come an innovate on that device, inventing something that has the same effect but does it differently and is therefore not covered under the original patent. In software they are patenting the effect, here we have a mutli-way linked linked list, something that CS students have to do in freshman level classes. But now, we can't use it in any way without having to worry about defending ourselves. As someone who writes software for a living I would rather give up on ever getting a patent than having to worry for the rest of my life about implementing something someone else came up with and patented.
The there is the issue that computer science moves along at such a clip that one company having a monopoly on an idea for the standard patent term could seriously stifle innovation in the field, which is directly against what the entire point of patents are.
Actually that is part of the spec. They can kill your hardware player, and then blame it on a poorly made hardware and you the end user are SOL.
The point is that if the money I save by going green over the life of the green product is less that the amount of money I spent to become green + the interest that money could have earned, it is a bad economic choice to become green. Now if you have enough money that you can afford to give some of it away to make the world a better place good for you. Those of us living paycheck to paycheck cannot afford it until the initial investment comes down.
Nice try fell free to go re-read yourself. (How in the world did I get into 2 threads arguing with an obvious troll?)
I have no clue where you got the mistaken notiont that 380,000,000,000 is a trillion that has NEVER been stated in this thread. 380,000,000,000 a number you brought to the table is 380 billion dollars. This has been the point of the argument from the beginning. I have provided links proving the orginal budget number is correct, and additional links proving I know how to count. As you said "Retraction accepted but not expected."
Watch very very carefully...
Originally I said:
$380B = $380,000,000,000 so not much of a difference.
To which you responded:
Bloody fucking hell. That's 380 TRILLION, not 380 BILLION. So yeah, a factor of 1000, is a big difference. Which was and is my farking point. I mean, if you want to complain about something, go ahead, but don't farking exaggerate by, what, 100,000 percent?
At which point I pointed out:
380,000,000,000,000 is 380 trillion. See my other post.
Notice the trillion has a whole new set of zeros over the billion. You can count them if you want. I guess I now understand how math and science is messed up in the US, you can't even tell the diference between 10^9 and 10^12.
380,000,000,000,000 is 380 trillion. See my other post.
Wow...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
How about this for proof.
or this if you don't believe wikipedia:
http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm
9 billion 1000 million (1 milliard)
9 zero's... 1,000,000,000
Or if you still don't believe me:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LargeNumber.html
Now, your turn find me just 1 site that says 1,000,000 is a billion.
Or are you just a troll?
$380B = $380,000,000,000 so not much of a difference.
I'm guessing it might.
1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion
1,000,000 = 1 Million
1,000 = 1 Thousand
I am guessing you are using the British definition of a Billion (1,000,000).
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=co
And before you simply disregard this a liberal propaganda check here http://costofwar.com/numbers.html for the logic they used to find it. Basically they took all of the emergency congregational war spending bills and added them up. So these numbers do not include normal military spending just war costs.
Trauma Center is a simply great game, better than Zelda I would say.
Raving Rabbids is a great multiplayer game.
Super Monkey ball... sucks
Red Steel REALLY REALLY sucks.
Wii sports is quite fun.
Rampage is fun but you really need nunchucks for each player
Excite Truck is also quite enjoyable if you like smash em up racing.
So I would say if yo have a Wii pick up Trauma Center for yourself, Raving Rabbids for yourself and your firends, Rampage if you like that sort of thing, and Excite trck if you like that sort of thing. I actually thought Zelda was kinda blah.