They're trying to keep it a level playing field. For example, I play Unreal Tournament 3 on a PC. Its available for consoles too but the PC network at least is kept separate. If you had a console and they mixed console and PC on the same network, PC players would keep taking you to the cleaners because they have a natural advantage of faster hardware and better controllers (mouse gives massively better instantaneous aim than thumbstick controllers) it would be unfair and no fun to all console players. PC players would have a blast though:-)
>> newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising.
I'm pleased Google don't publish their strategy for ordering search hits. If they did, the newspapers would just sacrifice everything to get a high Google ranking so there would be an immediate and massive drop of content quality and readability.
I completely disagree. It seems most people, especailly teens are insultingly bad at grammar and spelling. For example, the usage of "they're", "there" and "their" is more often wrong than right and are commonly used interchangeably.
Just because one dept. of the governmnent ordered it does'nt make it legal. The police should enforce the law, even if its a part of the government that broke it.
This is entirely a problem for the music and movie industry. Why are the government acting as their bitches against the will an freedom of the people who elected them?
Why haven't the police already busted down the door of ERA IT Solutions and taken all their servers away? Why aren't there tons of class action lawsuits against ERA IT from people that got infected and spied on?
Why is it that pretty much everyone in the world is in complete accord about this, except a bunch of Americans? Evidently you're all so sold into a totally hedonistic selfish lifestyle that you will rubbish any pro-environment argument at all, just to avoid having to take responsibility and change your lifestyle yourselves. Heres a thought for you selfish retards: Even if all the science we have is wrong and global warming is not caused by humans, whats the harm in reducing our emissions anyway? Jeez we might get cleaner air for our kids or something. The alternative is we do nothing and seriusly risk of screwing our planet up just so you all can continue to pretend you really do need an oversized Hummvee to get to the mall.
I wonder how successful a net neutraility lawsuit would be on the basis that having one or more specific ports completely blocked is effectively just the absolutely maximum possible bandwidth shaping of a particular kind of traffic.
Or alternatively, a lawsuit for for false advertising, given all the cable companies generally do just sell their service as internet access, with no mention of limitations.
Assuming you still have the original media or at least copies of rips at home, you could just delete all media off your laptop before you land, then copy it all right back when you get home.
Given the HD would spin down when idle I cant see why playing a DVD would use any more power than watching a divx from HD. Either way you have a motor spinning somewhere. No actual figures to back this up but also I'm guessing divx decoding might be more CPU intensivethan decoding mpeg2 (DVD) too (so the CPU consumes more power).
>> Why does one person have the right to tell another how much the fruits of their labor should cost in a free market?
I agree with your points except we don't actually have a free market. The FDA (Which is entirely funded by the big drug companies) and US Health Insurance industry (which are either owned by or very much in bed with the big drug companies) collectively ensure the big drug companies have a cartel, if not an outright monopoly in the US.
Also your point about Europeans getting a free ride is ridiculous. Do you seriously believe the US is the only place where research gets done? The drug companies are free to not sell their product in the EU if they didnt want to. The fact they do clearly shows there is profit in it even at EU prices. They're not going to do anything at a loss.
Furthermore your view of drug resarch isn't realistic. Hardly an new drugs released in the US provide new cures. They're just alternatives to already existing drugs, the reason being that it provides the drug companies with more marketing opportunities each time one of their existing brands reaches the end of its copyright period, when the competing generics force the price down to more fair levels. Actually the drug companies actively avoid making drugs that really cure diseases, they just make products that alleviate symptoms, so they don't destroy their own market.
>> Mexicans use our Emergency Rooms for free and then go back to their country so they don't have to pay,
Same thing happens in UK, its just different races. At least your illegals go back home. Ours stay around for all the other free handouts our stupid government gives them, but they don't integrate or contribute anything back to our society. Then they try and force islam on us too.
>> Incidentally, the rate of organ transplants in the US is much higher than in Europe. That doesn't necessarily sound like a good thing. I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the US obesity rate, and also the fact that your hospitals are almost completely profit-based. They can charge a fortune every time they do a transplant so of course they're going to push patients into costly surgery whenever they can.
A few years ago my UK doctor perscribed some muscle relaxant for a recurring back problem. The prescription cost me about 10 pounds ($16 USD). When I visited the US I got exactly the same prescription. It cost over $500 for 24 pills. If that isn't criminal exploitation by the US drug cartels then I don't know what is.
only 77 wow!! Its much higher (82) in UK. I guess our health must be generally better than the US's. Funny how the US health care system is the most expensive (read: corrupt) in the world too. Maybe you yanks will get a health system as good/affordable as our NHS someday.
I understand virusses are not a living organism, but essentially just a chunk of DNA that happens to contain some element of self-replicating code, and that they effectively came into existence and propagate more or less by a mix of random mutation, natural selection and accident. The fact that this would work at all sounds unlikely but after millenia has in fact been successful enough that virusses are now everywhere in millions of differnet variants.
Consequently with the above research and others creating new and complex DNA structures that may become as ubiquitous as included in products in every home, aren't there serious risks around uncontrolled human exposure to this stuff? I mean would it be possible for someone to become infected with some new man-made virus-like structure that actually originated/escaped from (say) their PC hardware? If so, is there anything that necessarily limits the potential for how bad the infection could be? I mean could this man-made DNA get accidentally integrated into humans own DNA and so modify the DNA of future generations? Could this technology ever potentially lead to a pandemic disease or even extinction scenario?
yes I do get that to be robust, Blu-ray DRM probably needs OS-level implementation, but why the hell should Microsoft be Sony/Blu-Ray Consortium's bitch at the cost of the usability of their OS and more importantly, the freedom of their own customers to use the product they bought with their own hard-earned money? I think its a reasonable expectation that I should be able to use a product I legally bought in any way I like. Who the hell are Microsoft to tell me how to behave? Especially when the DRM is actually stopping legal/legitimate use of my media too.
I agree the Blu-Ray association is misguided, but what the hell are Microsoft doing implementing someone else's DRM in an operating system? At most it should be implemented by player apps.
Unreal Tournament already had a Linux client on the original CD which worked fine as far as I recall.
I wish Epic would fulfill their original promise to eventually provide a Linux client for UT3. 2+ years and still waiting, (well I've given up hope really).
Yeah except it seems they dont ever seem to address (read: fix) explorer behaviour in Service Packs. If anything, they just bork it even more with extra bloat that the developers have come up with since the release.
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Yeah and the 280 is in the 120fps range. Whats your point?
that will be minimum spec for Windows 2026, even though Windows 2026 won't have any more useful functionality than XP has.
They're trying to keep it a level playing field. :-)
For example, I play Unreal Tournament 3 on a PC. Its available for consoles too but the PC network at least is kept separate.
If you had a console and they mixed console and PC on the same network, PC players would keep taking you to the cleaners because they have a natural advantage of faster hardware and better controllers (mouse gives massively better instantaneous aim than thumbstick controllers) it would be unfair and no fun to all console players.
PC players would have a blast though
>> newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising.
I'm pleased Google don't publish their strategy for ordering search hits. If they did, the newspapers would just sacrifice everything to get a high Google ranking so there would be an immediate and massive drop of content quality and readability.
I completely disagree. It seems most people, especailly teens are insultingly bad at grammar and spelling.
For example, the usage of "they're", "there" and "their" is more often wrong than right and are commonly used interchangeably.
Just because one dept. of the governmnent ordered it does'nt make it legal.
The police should enforce the law, even if its a part of the government that broke it.
eeeww omg you mean you don't use Evian?
This is entirely a problem for the music and movie industry. Why are the government acting as their bitches against the will an freedom of the people who elected them?
Why haven't the police already busted down the door of ERA IT Solutions and taken all their servers away? Why aren't there tons of class action lawsuits against ERA IT from people that got infected and spied on?
Why is it that pretty much everyone in the world is in complete accord about this, except a bunch of Americans?
Evidently you're all so sold into a totally hedonistic selfish lifestyle that you will rubbish any pro-environment argument at all, just to avoid having to take responsibility and change your lifestyle yourselves.
Heres a thought for you selfish retards: Even if all the science we have is wrong and global warming is not caused by humans, whats the harm in reducing our emissions anyway? Jeez we might get cleaner air for our kids or something.
The alternative is we do nothing and seriusly risk of screwing our planet up just so you all can continue to pretend you really do need an oversized Hummvee to get to the mall.
I completely agree.
I wonder how successful a net neutraility lawsuit would be on the basis that having one or more specific ports completely blocked is effectively just the absolutely maximum possible bandwidth shaping of a particular kind of traffic.
Or alternatively, a lawsuit for for false advertising, given all the cable companies generally do just sell their service as internet access, with no mention of limitations.
Assuming you still have the original media or at least copies of rips at home, you could just delete all media off your laptop before you land, then copy it all right back when you get home.
Given the HD would spin down when idle I cant see why playing a DVD would use any more power than watching a divx from HD. Either way you have a motor spinning somewhere. No actual figures to back this up but also I'm guessing divx decoding might be more CPU intensivethan decoding mpeg2 (DVD) too (so the CPU consumes more power).
Simple. Check his/her phone usage, shopping habits and car parking abilites.
>> Why does one person have the right to tell another how much the fruits of their labor should cost in a free market?
I agree with your points except we don't actually have a free market. The FDA (Which is entirely funded by the big drug companies) and US Health Insurance industry (which are either owned by or very much in bed with the big drug companies) collectively ensure the big drug companies have a cartel, if not an outright monopoly in the US.
Also your point about Europeans getting a free ride is ridiculous. Do you seriously believe the US is the only place where research gets done? The drug companies are free to not sell their product in the EU if they didnt want to. The fact they do clearly shows there is profit in it even at EU prices. They're not going to do anything at a loss.
Furthermore your view of drug resarch isn't realistic. Hardly an new drugs released in the US provide new cures. They're just alternatives to already existing drugs, the reason being that it provides the drug companies with more marketing opportunities each time one of their existing brands reaches the end of its copyright period, when the competing generics force the price down to more fair levels. Actually the drug companies actively avoid making drugs that really cure diseases, they just make products that alleviate symptoms, so they don't destroy their own market.
Interesting feedback.
>> Mexicans use our Emergency Rooms for free and then go back to their country so they don't have to pay,
Same thing happens in UK, its just different races. At least your illegals go back home. Ours stay around for all the other free handouts our stupid government gives them, but they don't integrate or contribute anything back to our society. Then they try and force islam on us too.
>> Incidentally, the rate of organ transplants in the US is much higher than in Europe.
That doesn't necessarily sound like a good thing. I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the US obesity rate, and also the fact that your hospitals are almost completely profit-based. They can charge a fortune every time they do a transplant so of course they're going to push patients into costly surgery whenever they can.
A few years ago my UK doctor perscribed some muscle relaxant for a recurring back problem. The prescription cost me about 10 pounds ($16 USD). When I visited the US I got exactly the same prescription. It cost over $500 for 24 pills. If that isn't criminal exploitation by the US drug cartels then I don't know what is.
only 77 wow!! Its much higher (82) in UK. I guess our health must be generally better than the US's.
Funny how the US health care system is the most expensive (read: corrupt) in the world too.
Maybe you yanks will get a health system as good/affordable as our NHS someday.
I understand virusses are not a living organism, but essentially just a chunk of DNA that happens to contain some element of self-replicating code, and that they effectively came into existence and propagate more or less by a mix of random mutation, natural selection and accident. The fact that this would work at all sounds unlikely but after millenia has in fact been successful enough that virusses are now everywhere in millions of differnet variants.
Consequently with the above research and others creating new and complex DNA structures that may become as ubiquitous as included in products in every home, aren't there serious risks around uncontrolled human exposure to this stuff?
I mean would it be possible for someone to become infected with some new man-made virus-like structure that actually originated/escaped from (say) their PC hardware? If so, is there anything that necessarily limits the potential for how bad the infection could be? I mean could this man-made DNA get accidentally integrated into humans own DNA and so modify the DNA of future generations? Could this technology ever potentially lead to a pandemic disease or even extinction scenario?
yes I do get that to be robust, Blu-ray DRM probably needs OS-level implementation, but why the hell should Microsoft be Sony/Blu-Ray Consortium's bitch at the cost of the usability of their OS and more importantly, the freedom of their own customers to use the product they bought with their own hard-earned money?
I think its a reasonable expectation that I should be able to use a product I legally bought in any way I like. Who the hell are Microsoft to tell me how to behave? Especially when the DRM is actually stopping legal/legitimate use of my media too.
I beleive you mean "they couldn't care less".
Cool, will do thanks.
I didnt realise the 64 bit version doesnt work under a VM. Seems an odd limitation.
I agree the Blu-Ray association is misguided, but what the hell are Microsoft doing implementing someone else's DRM in an operating system? At most it should be implemented by player apps.
Please read my original post. I'm not looking for workarounds, I already realise you can get 3rd party file browsers.
Why should I spend about $300 on Windows 7 already knowing I have to install a 3rd party program to get it to work sensibly?
My original post was a request for confirmation that Windows 7 is better (or not) than Vista in that it works more sensibly in the first place.
Unreal Tournament already had a Linux client on the original CD which worked fine as far as I recall.
I wish Epic would fulfill their original promise to eventually provide a Linux client for UT3. 2+ years and still waiting, (well I've given up hope really).
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzQzMw
>> I'm a "wait until SP1" kinda guy)
Yeah except it seems they dont ever seem to address (read: fix) explorer behaviour in Service Packs. If anything, they just bork it even more with extra bloat that the developers have come up with since the release.