I'd like to think GTA3 is the top seller because it is a superior game. It truly is a well designed, and fun game. Crediting it se;;omg well to publicity over its controversial nature is a bit short sighted, I think.
Sounds like... some of the German politicians are forgetting their own history. That war was the only way to resolve the conflict they started in WW2.
Diplomacy is what caused it to be such a large conflict in the first place. If we hadn't conceded the annexation of Austria, would there have been WW2? Who knows.. Hypocritical liberal view of history is bunk. And besides THAT even, black listing games because they depict war is even more retarded. C'mon free speech, fascist pigs.
This story was poorly worded, in my opinion. Everyone get off your self righteous horse and take a look at the same story on bbc:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2803451.stm
I think it's important to realize that in the commercial world, patents are needed to protect a discovery like this.
In the medical world, if this was not patented, all of the big drug co's would find a way to manufacture this and kick it out the door at $100 a pill.
If that were to happen, the staph bacteria that it does fight would become resistant, just like our current problems with penicillin becoming ineffective.
Our medication breeds better germs through natural selection. It's important to protect the drug from being mass administered because it is so useful in fighting a non-resistant strain.
taking out patents keeps the big drug companies from manufacturing them en masse. This would be an important drug to keep under control because if its unusual properties, I think.
we can't afford to make the same mistakes we do with other antibiotics if there is a "super" antibiotic discovery.
"The only way we are going to get broadband across the board is if the government mandates it, and takes it upon themselves to install and run it."
How did Canada do it? I don't think their system is government mandated, but I don't know enough to say for sure either way.
Maybe we should look at how Canada operates their telecomms to help us decide how to run ours? Broadband has been readily available there for a very long time. We should consider looking into the hows and why's of canada.
How do they plan on sticking an entire concert on a single CD?
either the quality is total crap, encoded at a horrid bitrate, or its encoded in some format like mp3 or wma. But that's unlikely, in my opinion, because I don't think the majority of consumers would like that.
Well, to be honest, you're kind of blowing my statements out of porportion. Nice way to get shock value though.
I wrote from my perspective. I, personally, don't use email nearly as much as I use other real time communication services. You should be less reactionary:)
Addtionally, are you saying that postal services and telephone services aren't outdated? If E-mail hadn't been invented at all, surely they would be being used much more than they are. Just as if IM services weren't around, email would be used alot more than it is now.
I said in my original post that E-mail will always have a purpose, just like the postal service and telephones do now. But IM's are, for me, increasingly becoming more important than email.
And to address the spam issue, there is none with IM clients. All you have to do is set the client to only receive messages from people on your contact list. Poof, no more IM spam.
Email dying isn't failure of the internet, or of it falling apart. The article is just talking about the degredation of one of the plethora of services which use the internet.. E-mail.
Right now, my email box gets about 30 spams a day. I almost never receive legitimate email anymore.
Additionally, I find that email communication is too slow, which is ironic since its so much more efficient than the old way everyone used to communicate by post.
Instant messaging clients have more than replaced email for me. They can do everything email clients can do, without spam.
Email will always have a place of course, like websites will need email addresses for contacts, and other such things. But for person to person communication, instant messaging clients are much easier to use.. Email is just becoming outdated as a method of communication, funny how fast that happened. Spam didn't help though, that's for sure.
at 100 miles you're going to have major issues with curvature of the earth and terrain. enhanced imaging is not very practical for battlefield use, unless it comes in the form of top down tactical information.
Well... your cost analysis is correct, but the power would be generated from stuff that would normally be sent to the trash and lost totally.
so any power generated is gravy. the whole idea is to eliminate the need for refind fuel, and utilize the waste. I made another post outlining some problems I saw with this concept though; its not perfect.
But localizing the energy production is a bit silly.
With this method, you run into the same problems that we have with automobiles and other gas powered devices. They are less efficient than large scale counterparts, which leads to waste energy, lost in poor engines, and exhaust.
It seems to make more sense to be to centralize the "compost" and generate electricity that way. This would keep bacteria in one place, and minimize the lost energy. It really wouldn't be any different than a power plant.
infact i'm pretty sure that's already been done. What are the benefits to localizing the energy generation? I can't see any. People will have to clean the devices, organic matter doesn't rot away into nothing. There are components to the waste generated by the bacteria organisms. you cant really stick in food and have it *all* gone..
i see problems that are going to be difficult to fix. We already have a huge waste management system. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch for waste management to begin compost of organic waste and become power stations with the tech available. then the generated energy can just be stored in traditional batteries. it doesnt seem that these organic batteries offer any improved life over chemical batteries at all.
I'm curious. Does this anonymous Kazaa user on Verizon's network know he is the catalyst of a legal battle of major signifigance? or is he blissfully unaware?
I did read it. It's no different then our system of charging a rate for phone access. If the phone company wanted to do this with internet access, they could, but they wouldn't.
You know why? Because $0.25 an hour only takes 80 hours (2.5 hrs a day) to get to $20 a month, and that's roughly what internet service providers charge for unlimited service.
so, no, i don't see what's so revolutionary about this. It is possible in our system, it's probably already been evaluated as a possible business and discarded due to its lack of feasability.
As mentioned already, there is "A Brief History of Time" But there is also another book he recently did, which is updated and has lots of really Cool PICTURES!:) it's called "The Universe in a Nutshell" its fairly enjoyable for a novice such as myself.
Wow, what a horrible post. I wish I had moderator so I could mod this down to troll.
1) AudioGalaxy didn't screw you over. They were shut down by the RIAA.
2) Audiogalaxy was among the simplest of simple programs to use. You installed it, the application was less then half a meg, and then you are online searching and downloading music from others. I don't understand how you conceive this as difficult.
3) Audiogalaxies service required a central database to function, much like napster. Audiogalaxy was better then napster, because they did more then just have a database of mp3s. They linked the mp3s together, so that each song was represented within a category, and then linked to places where you could buy the album, and forums about the artist, etc etc. This is not possible (IMO) with a distributed p2p client. That's why it's not been done yet. (I guess it's *possible* but it would be very very difficult to get any reliability out of such a network)
4) Any service that utilizes a centralized server, is going to have legal problems in the current climate, period. Not even your buzzword usage of 'open source' can get around this.
Bottom line, audiogalaxy was unique, and it's a shame it was lost. Probably the reason why it lasted so long, is because it obfuscated its usage statistics and didn't try to gain attention like Napster did.
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I'd like to think GTA3 is the top seller because it is a superior game. It truly is a well designed, and fun game. Crediting it se;;omg well to publicity over its controversial nature is a bit short sighted, I think.
Sounds like... some of the German politicians are forgetting their own history. That war was the only way to resolve the conflict they started in WW2.
Diplomacy is what caused it to be such a large conflict in the first place. If we hadn't conceded the annexation of Austria, would there have been WW2? Who knows.. Hypocritical liberal view of history is bunk. And besides THAT even, black listing games because they depict war is even more retarded. C'mon free speech, fascist pigs.
-Jeff
This story was poorly worded, in my opinion. Everyone get off your self righteous horse and take a look at the same story on bbc:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2803451.stm
I think it's important to realize that in the commercial world, patents are needed to protect a discovery like this.
In the medical world, if this was not patented, all of the big drug co's would find a way to manufacture this and kick it out the door at $100 a pill.
If that were to happen, the staph bacteria that it does fight would become resistant, just like our current problems with penicillin becoming ineffective.
Our medication breeds better germs through natural selection. It's important to protect the drug from being mass administered because it is so useful in fighting a non-resistant strain.
taking out patents keeps the big drug companies from manufacturing them en masse. This would be an important drug to keep under control because if its unusual properties, I think.
we can't afford to make the same mistakes we do with other antibiotics if there is a "super" antibiotic discovery.
Yeah, because the only place in the entire world this game is sold is in the United States.
Turd.
"The only way we are going to get broadband across the board is if the government mandates
it, and takes it upon themselves to install and run it."
How did Canada do it? I don't think their system is government mandated, but I don't know enough to say for sure either way.
Maybe we should look at how Canada operates their telecomms to help us decide how to run ours? Broadband has been readily available there for a very long time. We should consider looking into the hows and why's of canada.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Michiganiacs!
:)
but Ted is a somewhat eccentric native
How do they plan on sticking an entire concert on a single CD?
either the quality is total crap, encoded at a horrid bitrate, or its encoded in some format like mp3 or wma. But that's unlikely, in my opinion, because I don't think the majority of consumers would like that.
With the track record lately, I'd wager hoax.
The game was demo'd at E3 in 1999, and won those awards...
it still never got released though. dunno what's up with it.
Valve must be comfortable living off the spoils of halflife
Did anyone else groan when they saw the domain name? rome.ro .... wonder if its related to the goatse
Well, to be honest, you're kind of blowing my statements out of porportion. Nice way to get shock value though.
:)
I wrote from my perspective. I, personally, don't use email nearly as much as I use other real time communication services. You should be less reactionary
Addtionally, are you saying that postal services and telephone services aren't outdated? If E-mail hadn't been invented at all, surely they would be being used much more than they are. Just as if IM services weren't around, email would be used alot more than it is now.
I said in my original post that E-mail will always have a purpose, just like the postal service and telephones do now. But IM's are, for me, increasingly becoming more important than email.
And to address the spam issue, there is none with IM clients. All you have to do is set the client to only receive messages from people on your contact list. Poof, no more IM spam.
Email dying isn't failure of the internet, or of it falling apart. The article is just talking about the degredation of one of the plethora of services which use the internet.. E-mail.
Right now, my email box gets about 30 spams a day. I almost never receive legitimate email anymore.
.. Email is just becoming outdated as a method of communication, funny how fast that happened. Spam didn't help though, that's for sure.
Additionally, I find that email communication is too slow, which is ironic since its so much more efficient than the old way everyone used to communicate by post.
Instant messaging clients have more than replaced email for me. They can do everything email clients can do, without spam.
Email will always have a place of course, like websites will need email addresses for contacts, and other such things. But for person to person communication, instant messaging clients are much easier to use
at 100 miles you're going to have major issues with curvature of the earth and terrain. enhanced imaging is not very practical for battlefield use, unless it comes in the form of top down tactical information.
Yeah, but Emulators and roms can't be linked from slashdot :)
:)
Not that a Flash game of it is different by the law, but it SEEMS different and doesn't have the ominous nature of roms attached to it
Well... your cost analysis is correct, but the power would be generated from stuff that would normally be sent to the trash and lost totally.
so any power generated is gravy. the whole idea is to eliminate the need for refind fuel, and utilize the waste. I made another post outlining some problems I saw with this concept though; its not perfect.
But localizing the energy production is a bit silly.
..
With this method, you run into the same problems that we have with automobiles and other gas powered devices. They are less efficient than large scale counterparts, which leads to waste energy, lost in poor engines, and exhaust.
It seems to make more sense to be to centralize the "compost" and generate electricity that way. This would keep bacteria in one place, and minimize the lost energy. It really wouldn't be any different than a power plant.
infact i'm pretty sure that's already been done. What are the benefits to localizing the energy generation? I can't see any. People will have to clean the devices, organic matter doesn't rot away into nothing. There are components to the waste generated by the bacteria organisms. you cant really stick in food and have it *all* gone
i see problems that are going to be difficult to fix. We already have a huge waste management system. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch for waste management to begin compost of organic waste and become power stations with the tech available. then the generated energy can just be stored in traditional batteries. it doesnt seem that these organic batteries offer any improved life over chemical batteries at all.
Ack crap, I'm retarded. the real story is 1/2 way down the page. I was kind of expecting it to be the first headline.
/me hides
nevermind, mod me down, flame, blah blah.
The link goes to a story about the porn business buying the Napster trademark.
:)
Wired must have swapped referrers for this article I guess...
I'm curious. Does this anonymous Kazaa user on Verizon's network know he is the catalyst of a legal battle of major signifigance? or is he blissfully unaware?
:)
the things i think about
I did read it. It's no different then our system of charging a rate for phone access. If the phone company wanted to do this with internet access, they could, but they wouldn't.
You know why? Because $0.25 an hour only takes 80 hours (2.5 hrs a day) to get to $20 a month, and that's roughly what internet service providers charge for unlimited service.
so, no, i don't see what's so revolutionary about this. It is possible in our system, it's probably already been evaluated as a possible business and discarded due to its lack of feasability.
Associated Press quotes the phone line charges being 25 cents per hour
Need I say more?
As mentioned already, there is "A Brief History of Time" But there is also another book he recently did, which is updated and has lots of really Cool PICTURES! :) it's called "The Universe in a Nutshell" its fairly enjoyable for a novice such as myself.
Wow, what a horrible post. I wish I had moderator so I could mod this down to troll.
1) AudioGalaxy didn't screw you over. They were shut down by the RIAA.
2) Audiogalaxy was among the simplest of simple programs to use. You installed it, the application was less then half a meg, and then you are online searching and downloading music from others. I don't understand how you conceive this as difficult.
3) Audiogalaxies service required a central database to function, much like napster. Audiogalaxy was better then napster, because they did more then just have a database of mp3s. They linked the mp3s together, so that each song was represented within a category, and then linked to places where you could buy the album, and forums about the artist, etc etc. This is not possible (IMO) with a distributed p2p client. That's why it's not been done yet. (I guess it's *possible* but it would be very very difficult to get any reliability out of such a network)
4) Any service that utilizes a centralized server, is going to have legal problems in the current climate, period. Not even your buzzword usage of 'open source' can get around this.
Bottom line, audiogalaxy was unique, and it's a shame it was lost. Probably the reason why it lasted so long, is because it obfuscated its usage statistics and didn't try to gain attention like Napster did.