I think that would finish off the industry. There was another article about an interview w/the President of Nintendo; i think he's just about pegged the gaming industry, and is right in most respects.
Wow...you are crazy. You are telling him to move possibly hundreds of miles JUST for a cable modem? I supsected it in your original post, but now you proved it; you're retarded.
Well it would be a big deal to you if game companies just forgot about modem users. Thats the point of the article. Maybe i'll give modem gaming a try...i always assumed it world be horible over a modem, but i've never really tried it.:)
Switch to roadrunner?? Are you crazy? Dude, he CAN'T switch to roadrunner! Only people that have TimeWarner cable can get roadrunner. You must as well just tell him to switch his water supplier...
Modems served their purpose, but the gaming industry needs to do its part to encourage even wider availibility of broadband.
Um, game companies that focused on broadband would do jack shit to help people get DSL/cable. Unfortunatly, some people can't afford it, or, more likely, the phone/cable company hasn't noticed that people want broadband.
As long as people don't feel that they need a broadband connection, there will be areas serviced only by dialup. There is no practical reason that the entire country can't have cheap broadband - the providers just need a little encouragement
Ya, i can call all i want, that doesn't mean the phone/cable companies will listen. Some places (rural areas, and even some small suburbs) won't get broadband b/c the phone/cable companies don't think its cost effective to roll it out to these customers. I live in SE PA, but i still can't get cable/DSL...they just won't put it in, and i live in a pretty densly populated area.
The most responsible thing for developers to do is to completely ignore modems. Once we all do that, they'll go away like a bad dream
Ya right, what dream world do you live in. The cable/phone companies don't give a shit if the gaming industry ignores them, why would they?
I know, i will hate when i move back home and have to go back to dialup. But the article does have put forth some nice points.
Besides, if games are optimized to be fast on modems, wouldn't they be even faster for the people that don't use modems?
I never get lagged out on my cable modem b/c the game was optimized for modems..
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I do have a right however to refuse to be part of any medical research. Taking my tissue sample after they have done what I wanted with it and using it for reseach violates that right.
Besides, the potential privacy violations are frightening. If insurance pepole get ahold of this data, only healthy people will have insurance, and they are the ones that need it least!
Certainly, you have a vital interest in the substances that make up your body while they're busy maintaining your existence, but what about after they've been removed?
I have rights to the stereo that was removed from my house wihtout my permission, and that doesn't even help maintain my existance...
We have property rights for lots of things that don't maintain our existance.
That sounds like just what India needs right now. You'd probably be interested in the link i posted in which Shiva discusses the problems of her home land (and how by defining things a certain way we are making the old style of doing things seem much less productive).
Defensive much? I wasn't trying to poke fun at you. I was poking fun at American attitudes toward foreigners. I didn't at any point assume that you were or were not American. Relax, hombre...nobody's out to get you.
Well the fact taht you said 'you foreigners' (with the odd spelling) did lead me to believe that you thought i was a foreigner and that you were aiming the comment at me. Reread the comment; i think you'll agree its pretty easy to take it that way.
Your reactionary debating style and broad brush painting the American people as selfish and greedy makes you part of the problem. Assumptions like that don't do anybody any good.
Well thats kinda what debating is; i react to what you say, you react to what i say etc. I will admit that i do get carried away sometimes, and i know thats not always appropriate. But somethings i just feel strongly about:) At any rate, i don't think i'm assuming anything. Its what i see day in day out. At the grocery store, on the roads, on campus, the mall. There seems to be little if no reguard for others anymore. The guy in the big SUV tailgating you doesn't care about the danger he is forcing upon you, smokers don't seem to care that others may not want breathe in that crap when they enter/leave a building. No one seems to give the slightest consideration to anyone anymore. So i suppose that people don't do that b/c they simply don't care, and are only worrying about themselves and what they want. So having that view may not do any good, but denying that would seem to be even less of a help.
I don't shout and call people names when they disagree with me.
Good point, you're right. As i said before, i felt i was under attack, and i feel strongly about the issue...so i reacted by attacking you back. If i misunderstood your attempt a humor, i applogize.
I never said we shouldn't be helping to feed them. I was mearly pointing out that the reason they are starving to begin with is a direct result of our actions. To me, we are even more obligated to helping them then if they were just in a bad spot of thier own design.
As far as India goes, here's how we've been 'helping' India's economy:
I don't think anyone said that. I was simplying saying the reason they are in the position they are now is a result of us. We should have let them alone years ago...
But we didn't, so yes i feel we are obligated to help. However, we must give careful consideration how, since our 'help' in the first place is what messed things up...
I wouldn't rule out the Celts as far as their influance goes. Isn't that why we have a Christmas tree (those of us that do)? Besides, they are one of the Western cultures. The Germanic tribes were part of that as well. That leaves the Mongols. As far as i know, they never held Western Europe (Eastern maybe..). Then again i could just not know. Care to share more info on that?
Don't be stupid. Was America a colony 300 years ago?
Fine, you're measuring from a time they were colonies, i was measuring from the end of that period. I posted that before thinking, and i appologize.
As far as pure luck goes, we won't go into the differences between African and European cultures that made the Europeans more apt to develop technology.
I'm not entirely conviced that non-Western societies would bother pursuing technology. You're assuming all socieities would do that. I'd like to propose that some only did b/c they had no other choice if they wanted to survive. Japan would be a good example of what i'm talking about. They saw how the Imperialist West was carving up (and destorying) China, and they decided the best way to survive would be to become Western and Imperialist.
They were warlike, territorial, and absolutely ferocious to their enemies. Kinda like just about every other culture on the planet.
And you know this how? Your examples, are they more modern in nature? I seem to recall Zulu vs. non-Zulu...but i can't place exactly when.
It was a joke, Mr. Ad Hominem Attack. I guarantee I can spell better than any four people you can name.
A joke? Sounds to me like you were trying to poke fun at me with that..
As far as you being an American, it sounds like you're part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
A) How am i part of the problem? B) Why do you assume that?
Oh well...just makes my job a bit harder.
What job would that be? In case you're wonder I myself do donate when i can, and even sometimes when i can't. $1.47 everytime i go to the grocery store might not seem like much, but it is if you only have $30 to get food and gas for the next 2 weeks...(i won't have this problem as soon as i get my degree in may..).
Our method of farming doesn't work in every enviroment/climate in the world. It also doesn't work if the culture isn't prepared for it.
Ethiopia needs more food. America suggests how they can get more food. Ethiopia is, for whatever reason, unable to implement suggestions, and happens to also continue the long-standing tradition of having as many (or more) children as humanly possible.
Ethiopia was not in the position to need more food before the US came along. And i also don't believe there was a 'long standing tradition' to have as many kids as possible. Just look at what the WTO is doing to India as far as food production goes; basically the same thing is happening.
So obviously, it's America's fault that Ethiopia is starving.
Yes, it was b/c of us that they are in their current state...
Look, the American people are the most generous people on the planet.
What the hell planet do you live on? I doubt many americans give anything, they're so busy just trying to get out of debt. People in the US seem to be the most greedy around. You can even tell it in the way people drive now, they don't give a fuck who they run off the road, as long as THEY get where they are going 5mins faster...
No, I'm not talking about our government, we don't like them any more than you furriners do).
Is that supposed to be foreigner? Nice try dipshit, i'm an American...
We should probably outlaw people that put together their own sports cars, or build thier own house. Open source just means you can get to the blueprints of the software; no one in their right mind would outlaw blueprints...
Americans = people in the USA
Mexicans = People in Mexico
Canadians = People in canada
When people say in Italy that they hate americans, do you really think they mean everyone on the continent? people in the USA are called Americans b/c America is in the name of the country. And i don't think we could call ourselves Unitians (what?) or Statians (huh?), do you? Those words are not proper names and so you can't make proper names out of them..
Are you implying that hunger in Ehtiopia is directly related to me being able to afford 5 kg of meat every day?
Actually, it is. America tried forcing its way of food production down the Ehiopians throats, and the best way to run a farm is to have alot of help...hence people had kids to help them on the farm...and now the way of farming failed and there are alot of hungry people there. Its a direct result of American intervention.
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I think that would finish off the industry. There was another article about an interview w/the President of Nintendo; i think he's just about pegged the gaming industry, and is right in most respects.
Wow...you are crazy. You are telling him to move possibly hundreds of miles JUST for a cable modem? I supsected it in your original post, but now you proved it; you're retarded.
Well it would be a big deal to you if game companies just forgot about modem users. Thats the point of the article. Maybe i'll give modem gaming a try...i always assumed it world be horible over a modem, but i've never really tried it. :)
Switch to roadrunner?? Are you crazy? Dude, he CAN'T switch to roadrunner! Only people that have TimeWarner cable can get roadrunner. You must as well just tell him to switch his water supplier...
Modems served their purpose, but the gaming industry needs to do its part to encourage even wider availibility of broadband.
Um, game companies that focused on broadband would do jack shit to help people get DSL/cable. Unfortunatly, some people can't afford it, or, more likely, the phone/cable company hasn't noticed that people want broadband.
As long as people don't feel that they need a broadband connection, there will be areas serviced only by dialup. There is no practical reason that the entire country can't have cheap broadband - the providers just need a little encouragement
Ya, i can call all i want, that doesn't mean the phone/cable companies will listen. Some places (rural areas, and even some small suburbs) won't get broadband b/c the phone/cable companies don't think its cost effective to roll it out to these customers. I live in SE PA, but i still can't get cable/DSL...they just won't put it in, and i live in a pretty densly populated area.
The most responsible thing for developers to do is to completely ignore modems. Once we all do that, they'll go away like a bad dream
Ya right, what dream world do you live in. The cable/phone companies don't give a shit if the gaming industry ignores them, why would they?
I know, i will hate when i move back home and have to go back to dialup. But the article does have put forth some nice points.
Besides, if games are optimized to be fast on modems, wouldn't they be even faster for the people that don't use modems?
I never get lagged out on my cable modem b/c the game was optimized for modems..
I do have a right however to refuse to be part of any medical research. Taking my tissue sample after they have done what I wanted with it and using it for reseach violates that right.
Besides, the potential privacy violations are frightening. If insurance pepole get ahold of this data, only healthy people will have insurance, and they are the ones that need it least!
Certainly, you have a vital interest in the substances that make up your body while they're busy maintaining your existence, but what about after they've been removed?
I have rights to the stereo that was removed from my house wihtout my permission, and that doesn't even help maintain my existance...
We have property rights for lots of things that don't maintain our existance.
That sounds like just what India needs right now. You'd probably be interested in the link i posted in which Shiva discusses the problems of her home land (and how by defining things a certain way we are making the old style of doing things seem much less productive).
Defensive much? I wasn't trying to poke fun at you. I was poking fun at American attitudes toward foreigners. I didn't at any point assume that you were or were not American. Relax, hombre...nobody's out to get you.
:) At any rate, i don't think i'm assuming anything. Its what i see day in day out. At the grocery store, on the roads, on campus, the mall. There seems to be little if no reguard for others anymore. The guy in the big SUV tailgating you doesn't care about the danger he is forcing upon you, smokers don't seem to care that others may not want breathe in that crap when they enter/leave a building. No one seems to give the slightest consideration to anyone anymore. So i suppose that people don't do that b/c they simply don't care, and are only worrying about themselves and what they want. So having that view may not do any good, but denying that would seem to be even less of a help.
Well the fact taht you said 'you foreigners' (with the odd spelling) did lead me to believe that you thought i was a foreigner and that you were aiming the comment at me. Reread the comment; i think you'll agree its pretty easy to take it that way.
Your reactionary debating style and broad brush painting the American people as selfish and greedy makes you part of the problem. Assumptions like that don't do anybody any good.
Well thats kinda what debating is; i react to what you say, you react to what i say etc. I will admit that i do get carried away sometimes, and i know thats not always appropriate. But somethings i just feel strongly about
I don't shout and call people names when they disagree with me.
Good point, you're right. As i said before, i felt i was under attack, and i feel strongly about the issue...so i reacted by attacking you back. If i misunderstood your attempt a humor, i applogize.
I never said we shouldn't be helping to feed them. I was mearly pointing out that the reason they are starving to begin with is a direct result of our actions. To me, we are even more obligated to helping them then if they were just in a bad spot of thier own design.
As far as India goes, here's how we've been 'helping' India's economy:
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/apvshiv.htm
I don't think anyone said that. I was simplying saying the reason they are in the position they are now is a result of us. We should have let them alone years ago...
But we didn't, so yes i feel we are obligated to help. However, we must give careful consideration how, since our 'help' in the first place is what messed things up...
I wouldn't rule out the Celts as far as their influance goes. Isn't that why we have a Christmas tree (those of us that do)? Besides, they are one of the Western cultures. The Germanic tribes were part of that as well. That leaves the Mongols. As far as i know, they never held Western Europe (Eastern maybe..). Then again i could just not know. Care to share more info on that?
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Oh, and i agree w/you on the AD/CE bullshit
Don't be stupid. Was America a colony 300 years ago?
Fine, you're measuring from a time they were colonies, i was measuring from the end of that period. I posted that before thinking, and i appologize.
As far as pure luck goes, we won't go into the differences between African and European cultures that made the Europeans more apt to develop technology.
I'm not entirely conviced that non-Western societies would bother pursuing technology. You're assuming all socieities would do that. I'd like to propose that some only did b/c they had no other choice if they wanted to survive. Japan would be a good example of what i'm talking about. They saw how the Imperialist West was carving up (and destorying) China, and they decided the best way to survive would be to become Western and Imperialist.
They were warlike, territorial, and absolutely ferocious to their enemies. Kinda like just about every other culture on the planet.
And you know this how? Your examples, are they more modern in nature? I seem to recall Zulu vs. non-Zulu...but i can't place exactly when.
It was a joke, Mr. Ad Hominem Attack. I guarantee I can spell better than any four people you can name.
A joke? Sounds to me like you were trying to poke fun at me with that..
As far as you being an American, it sounds like you're part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
A) How am i part of the problem? B) Why do you assume that?
Oh well...just makes my job a bit harder.
What job would that be? In case you're wonder I myself do donate when i can, and even sometimes when i can't. $1.47 everytime i go to the grocery store might not seem like much, but it is if you only have $30 to get food and gas for the next 2 weeks...(i won't have this problem as soon as i get my degree in may..).
Well, Europe was ravaged many more times and somehow they managed to "catch-up" every time.
Hmm...i don't recall them ever being conquered by another culture (ie, non-Western).
How ironic that three hundred years ago, America itself was a colony.
Its actually closer to 200...glad you know your history well.
Or are you intimating that the African people are somehow less able to protect their own interests from foreign powers?
No, i think he meant it was pure luck that the western powers were further technologically.
I'm not at all sure I follow your logic.
Our method of farming doesn't work in every enviroment/climate in the world. It also doesn't work if the culture isn't prepared for it.
Ethiopia needs more food. America suggests how they can get more food. Ethiopia is, for whatever reason, unable to implement suggestions, and happens to also continue the long-standing tradition of having as many (or more) children as humanly possible.
Ethiopia was not in the position to need more food before the US came along. And i also don't believe there was a 'long standing tradition' to have as many kids as possible. Just look at what the WTO is doing to India as far as food production goes; basically the same thing is happening.
So obviously, it's America's fault that Ethiopia is starving.
Yes, it was b/c of us that they are in their current state...
Look, the American people are the most generous people on the planet.
What the hell planet do you live on? I doubt many americans give anything, they're so busy just trying to get out of debt. People in the US seem to be the most greedy around. You can even tell it in the way people drive now, they don't give a fuck who they run off the road, as long as THEY get where they are going 5mins faster...
No, I'm not talking about our government, we don't like them any more than you furriners do).
Is that supposed to be foreigner? Nice try dipshit, i'm an American...
yes...especially when you're more used to typing remove then remote.
We should probably outlaw people that put together their own sports cars, or build thier own house. Open source just means you can get to the blueprints of the software; no one in their right mind would outlaw blueprints...
Americans = people in the USA
Mexicans = People in Mexico
Canadians = People in canada
When people say in Italy that they hate americans, do you really think they mean everyone on the continent? people in the USA are called Americans b/c America is in the name of the country. And i don't think we could call ourselves Unitians (what?) or Statians (huh?), do you? Those words are not proper names and so you can't make proper names out of them..
Are you implying that hunger in Ehtiopia is directly related to me being able to afford 5 kg of meat every day?
Actually, it is. America tried forcing its way of food production down the Ehiopians throats, and the best way to run a farm is to have alot of help...hence people had kids to help them on the farm...and now the way of farming failed and there are alot of hungry people there. Its a direct result of American intervention.
Ya, too bad we didn't completely miss the 70s either! :-)
I know thats the point of trademark law; i was saying we should attack the problem not the symtom (sp?).
Somehow i doubt they can stop you from naming your files whatever you want, trademark or not...