I'm not complaining about free content. If the producers didn't get everything done and they deliver the missing content via patch that's suboptimal but okay. If they didn't get everything done and sell me the missing content that's less okay unless they lowered the price of the game at launch time accordingly. Otherwise it seems that I'm asked pay for them being unable to deliver the full experience at launch time. Why should I?
I see a difference between releasing few large packages of content (mission packs) and releasing a stream of small bits (DLC). Mission packs are arguably large updates to the game while DLC covers everything between new missions ans "for just five dollars we will make the start of the game a bit easier for you". And even mission packs are usually later sold along with the main game in a value edition.
As for movies: Often the director's cut is either announced before the regular DVD launch, giving those who want it ample information to wait for that release, or it comes much later (cf. the Blade Runner Final Cut). Imagine someone coming up with a recut version of a 25 year old game. You'd expect them to re-release the game for modern systems instead of selling you a patch for the old one, right?
Plus, the director's cut (or similar new versions of a movie) isn't always an upgrade to the movie. There are examples where the original is better in many or all regards.
As for games vs. TV: I use DVB-S. That gives me two dozen unencrypted stations I want to see and several hundred encrypted ones I couldn't care less about, all for nothing past the up-front cost of the equipment. I just don't invest in subscription-based entertainment.
But the question remains why the case was awarded against them - as post #29686903 points out, the patent the Prius supposedly infringes against is based on a patent that has recognized the Prius. Plus, the first patent was filed after the Prius entered mass production. That doesn't quite support the idea of Toyota stealing the tech unless Paice took extremely long to get that patent filed after disclosing its contents to Toyota.
True. I went through the trouble of obtaining a WRT54G v4 for my family's home network as the load (two users who like HTTP and email and two who like BitTorrent and games) caused most cheap routers to crap out on a daily basis.
The thing is rock solid. I only need to reboot it very occasionally, maybe three or four times a year, and never because it hangs. On the other hand I have a Samsung router extending the network to the upper floor and the damn thing hangs once a month.
When the next router becomes neccessary I'll look very closely if I can find something like the 54G again.
What do you need the old desktop and the ethernet NICs for? Just install OpenWRT, DD-WRT or Tomato on the router. It's not like "open firmware for a router" is something Netgear came up with.
Yes, Netgear is to blame as that very same third-party firmware supports WPA and WPA2 on all other supported routers but not on Netgear's. But of course the GP is a moron because he expected Netgear to be able to ship a firmware with the functionality it normally comes with.
Well, she looks perfectly normal for an Ethereal. I think that X-COM sould pay that advertisement company a visit and investigate a possible infiltration.
B-sides, remixes and new formats for music work on their own, without any other product required (granted, B-sides didn't come without any other product). In fact, apart from the now-obsolete B-sides they're usually distributed independently of albums and often made available for free. As for movies where you can pay to download estra scenes and behind-the-scenes footage: Any examples? I've never heard of that. I only know the cases where you get it for free with the movie.
I do it differently: I see the release date of hte game as the start of a very expensive closed beta program. If they ever release a value edition already containing all the DLC, that will be considered the proper launch of the game by me.
Granted, there have been mission packs before but in those cases they made the game and then worked for a few months to create new content etc. They could conceivably pass off the main game as a finished game. With DLC I get the feeling that they deliberately leave out content that I have to buy separately (and things like launch-day DLC explicitly confirm it). Which would be acceptable if they lowered the price of the game itself correspondingly, which they don't do.
I don't see the point of paying for an unfinished game. I wait until the proper version is released to buy it.
Apparently you've never been to a food factory. No, the people there don't rinse with industrial bleach but they do wear sterile bonnets. Unfortunately those come in limited size and the usual set of dreadlocks would simply not fit in them.
They are unsanitary in the context of working in a food processing factory. Likewise, they would be unsanitary in an operating room. Some definitions of things change depending on where you are, "unsanitary" is among them.
Yes. That's the point I dried to make - you can't expect the western world proclaiming their displeasure to somehow be relevant to Chinese policy (especially when proclaiming the displeasure is all the western world does). You can tell your peers how to live and when enough people do it but that limits peer pressure's reach to, at most, the people in one country and maybe those neighboring it. Any further and the societies are disjunct enough that their members aren't peers. The only kind of peer pressure that could reach China is national-level peer pressure, which of course doesn't work either.
In short, there's not much we can do to tell the Chinese how to run their country.
Except that peer pressure doesn't work well on a national level. The United States are an example; lately they often do things the rest of the world doesn't condone. They know that they can get away with it so peer pressure is irrelevant.
Likewise China: They could operate even with heavy trade sanctions by virtue of sheer size, they have twice the population of Europe (and 2.5 that of north america) and their economy is booming. Even if we imposed sanctions on them, within twenty years they will simply be able to ignore them as nobody can afford not doing business with them anymore. Peer pressure is only a minor concern for someone their size.
As for simple force by the ruling group: That would require a ruling group. Nuclear weapons ensure that no single country will ever get to that point.
That's just if you emerge the memory package. That package is old and you should really emerge ram. But beware; without the proper USE flags it defaults to SRAM. You should really use USE="dynamic synchronous ddr ddr-level-3 ecc -kde -gnome" emerge -av ram. Although you could also just read the README that explains how to make your entire system run on 10 GHz octuple data rate PCRAM. You just need to edit a few dozen config files and recompile everything. It's really easy.
2400 pages is barely enough for introducing the basic premise. A 2400 page volume is nice and everything but where are the volumes 2 through 13? And, of course, the diminutive (at just 300ish pages) volume 0?
Seriously, it's no wonder this was leaked. 2400 pages would barely be enough to describe the proper procedures for the handling of braids, much less information security.
Optically they seem to be taking baby steps towards the right direction (WinMo 6.5 looks kinda like the new Zune interface with its scrolling lists of huge text), API-wise I have no idea - however it's true that Apple had the right idea with Cocoa touch.
Of course Nintendo has an entirely different attitude to selling consoles. While Sony and Microsoft treat the console as a loos leader, making their money mainly through game licenses, Nintendo sells their consoles at a profit, thus not being hurt quite as much by piracy (more pirates mean more console sales, after all).
I simply got rid of the notion that applications have to run fullscreen. Granted, you end up with the browser taking up 75% of the screen but at least those 25% can be used for background apps you want to monitor.
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I'm not complaining about free content. If the producers didn't get everything done and they deliver the missing content via patch that's suboptimal but okay. If they didn't get everything done and sell me the missing content that's less okay unless they lowered the price of the game at launch time accordingly. Otherwise it seems that I'm asked pay for them being unable to deliver the full experience at launch time. Why should I?
I see a difference between releasing few large packages of content (mission packs) and releasing a stream of small bits (DLC). Mission packs are arguably large updates to the game while DLC covers everything between new missions ans "for just five dollars we will make the start of the game a bit easier for you". And even mission packs are usually later sold along with the main game in a value edition.
As for movies: Often the director's cut is either announced before the regular DVD launch, giving those who want it ample information to wait for that release, or it comes much later (cf. the Blade Runner Final Cut). Imagine someone coming up with a recut version of a 25 year old game. You'd expect them to re-release the game for modern systems instead of selling you a patch for the old one, right?
Plus, the director's cut (or similar new versions of a movie) isn't always an upgrade to the movie. There are examples where the original is better in many or all regards.
As for games vs. TV: I use DVB-S. That gives me two dozen unencrypted stations I want to see and several hundred encrypted ones I couldn't care less about, all for nothing past the up-front cost of the equipment. I just don't invest in subscription-based entertainment.
But the question remains why the case was awarded against them - as post #29686903 points out, the patent the Prius supposedly infringes against is based on a patent that has recognized the Prius. Plus, the first patent was filed after the Prius entered mass production. That doesn't quite support the idea of Toyota stealing the tech unless Paice took extremely long to get that patent filed after disclosing its contents to Toyota.
True. I went through the trouble of obtaining a WRT54G v4 for my family's home network as the load (two users who like HTTP and email and two who like BitTorrent and games) caused most cheap routers to crap out on a daily basis.
The thing is rock solid. I only need to reboot it very occasionally, maybe three or four times a year, and never because it hangs. On the other hand I have a Samsung router extending the network to the upper floor and the damn thing hangs once a month.
When the next router becomes neccessary I'll look very closely if I can find something like the 54G again.
What do you need the old desktop and the ethernet NICs for? Just install OpenWRT, DD-WRT or Tomato on the router. It's not like "open firmware for a router" is something Netgear came up with.
Yes, Netgear is to blame as that very same third-party firmware supports WPA and WPA2 on all other supported routers but not on Netgear's. But of course the GP is a moron because he expected Netgear to be able to ship a firmware with the functionality it normally comes with.
No, it'll come in four different 32 bit editions, which Microsoft's marketing division just sums up to 128 bits.
No, we didn't. You passed by value.
Well, she looks perfectly normal for an Ethereal. I think that X-COM sould pay that advertisement company a visit and investigate a possible infiltration.
Ah, right. It's been some time since I worked in that cookie factory. Damn good student holiday job.
B-sides, remixes and new formats for music work on their own, without any other product required (granted, B-sides didn't come without any other product). In fact, apart from the now-obsolete B-sides they're usually distributed independently of albums and often made available for free. As for movies where you can pay to download estra scenes and behind-the-scenes footage: Any examples? I've never heard of that. I only know the cases where you get it for free with the movie.
I do it differently: I see the release date of hte game as the start of a very expensive closed beta program. If they ever release a value edition already containing all the DLC, that will be considered the proper launch of the game by me.
Granted, there have been mission packs before but in those cases they made the game and then worked for a few months to create new content etc. They could conceivably pass off the main game as a finished game. With DLC I get the feeling that they deliberately leave out content that I have to buy separately (and things like launch-day DLC explicitly confirm it). Which would be acceptable if they lowered the price of the game itself correspondingly, which they don't do.
I don't see the point of paying for an unfinished game. I wait until the proper version is released to buy it.
Apparently you've never been to a food factory. No, the people there don't rinse with industrial bleach but they do wear sterile bonnets. Unfortunately those come in limited size and the usual set of dreadlocks would simply not fit in them.
They are unsanitary in the context of working in a food processing factory. Likewise, they would be unsanitary in an operating room. Some definitions of things change depending on where you are, "unsanitary" is among them.
Hmm. Would you feel cold, though? In other words: What would the perceived temperature of space be?
Yes. That's the point I dried to make - you can't expect the western world proclaiming their displeasure to somehow be relevant to Chinese policy (especially when proclaiming the displeasure is all the western world does). You can tell your peers how to live and when enough people do it but that limits peer pressure's reach to, at most, the people in one country and maybe those neighboring it. Any further and the societies are disjunct enough that their members aren't peers. The only kind of peer pressure that could reach China is national-level peer pressure, which of course doesn't work either.
In short, there's not much we can do to tell the Chinese how to run their country.
Except that peer pressure doesn't work well on a national level. The United States are an example; lately they often do things the rest of the world doesn't condone. They know that they can get away with it so peer pressure is irrelevant.
Likewise China: They could operate even with heavy trade sanctions by virtue of sheer size, they have twice the population of Europe (and 2.5 that of north america) and their economy is booming. Even if we imposed sanctions on them, within twenty years they will simply be able to ignore them as nobody can afford not doing business with them anymore. Peer pressure is only a minor concern for someone their size.
As for simple force by the ruling group: That would require a ruling group. Nuclear weapons ensure that no single country will ever get to that point.
That's just if you emerge the memory package. That package is old and you should really emerge ram. But beware; without the proper USE flags it defaults to SRAM. You should really use USE="dynamic synchronous ddr ddr-level-3 ecc -kde -gnome" emerge -av ram. Although you could also just read the README that explains how to make your entire system run on 10 GHz octuple data rate PCRAM. You just need to edit a few dozen config files and recompile everything. It's really easy.
ZFS has its own, superior implementation of RAM. Duh.
Granted, Evolution isn't the nicest PIM software on the market but impossible? I think that's a bit harsh a verdict.
Isn't that how most people categorize the world?
2400 pages is barely enough for introducing the basic premise. A 2400 page volume is nice and everything but where are the volumes 2 through 13? And, of course, the diminutive (at just 300ish pages) volume 0?
Seriously, it's no wonder this was leaked. 2400 pages would barely be enough to describe the proper procedures for the handling of braids, much less information security.
Optically they seem to be taking baby steps towards the right direction (WinMo 6.5 looks kinda like the new Zune interface with its scrolling lists of huge text), API-wise I have no idea - however it's true that Apple had the right idea with Cocoa touch.
Of course Nintendo has an entirely different attitude to selling consoles. While Sony and Microsoft treat the console as a loos leader, making their money mainly through game licenses, Nintendo sells their consoles at a profit, thus not being hurt quite as much by piracy (more pirates mean more console sales, after all).
I simply got rid of the notion that applications have to run fullscreen. Granted, you end up with the browser taking up 75% of the screen but at least those 25% can be used for background apps you want to monitor.