Yup... you guessed it... They will be directing the hit block buster action adventure thriller version of Q-bert based on the classic 80's arcade game!
My aunt has MS and she is basically wheelchair bound and you have no idea how hard it is. She can barely function physically, requiring the aid of other people to help her do every day living things such as getting out of bed, going to the bathroom and transportation to and from work.
Great idea... I love seeing projects that help the folks that most people neglect and leave behind.
When they're apart of your family you really get to see the struggle of people who are wheel chair bound. Its a hard life and anything to improve their life experience is to be praised highly.
And just like Hollywood, The artists and coders who do the hard work, never see ANY of those millions.
What was once an industry created by self made talent, who could profit admirably off their hard earned work... as turned into a slave machine controlled by slick suit wearing slave drivers, who under budget, under pay, and demand insane production cycles.
Yup... its a lot like hollywood these days. The people who do all the work, see none of the pay.
I definatly agree with this. Our country America has become the land of the free for the wealthy, and the land of exploitation for the poor.
Then again when has this not been the case? Its simply become worse over the years. There are no single wager earner families anymore that make less than $150,000 a year. Education is complete shit by design. Only the wealthy can afford an education that will take them anywhere... and oddly enough they really dont need it, because "daddy" will get them in to yale, and then he can become president after being a drunken crack addict fuck up until the age of 40, until he discovers god, and imposes it on the rest of us in the name of freedom and patriotism.
Hail Europe. They take so much shit in this country from our selfish politicians who are blinded by the dollars of corperations that cover their eyes.
People need a quality life experience. We only get 70 years if we're lucky. Why the fuck cant we make this world betteer??
ITS NOT FUCKING PROFITABLE.
How utterly disgusting.
I agree completely with this. You may think it extreme, but the situation of government turning dictatorship is also extreme. So yes... the two extremes are designed to prevent each other.
Government for the people by the people. Rule #1 dont talk about fight club. Rule #2 dont fuck with the people:)
But now the government has deals with the people who employ the people, and they've been dictacting our wages, and our lives for a while now.
My car was stolen. I didnt discover it was stolen until hours later. How would this tech help in my situation? I Would perhaps know that my car passed through intersections but the cops would have still found it stripped to shit in the parking lot of a trainstation in the ghetto (hours later)
I understand your point and to some extent i agree with it. But it is a bit scary that our government wants to plant cameras on every city corner with facial recognition, liscense plate tracking etc.
And i'm not saying there will be some government conspiracy to frame someone (though they could because most people beleive cameras are the ultimate in evidence) Lets just photoshop my liscense plate or entire car into a scene of a crime... Yeah its silly but i'm not running for president or anything important.
What i'm really worried about is being watched by people who judge others on levels they simply dont judge themselves by.
Its easy to tell someone not to speed through a red light. Its easy to photograph my car flying through the red light. Its easy to prosecute me using that photographic evidence. Whats not easy is for me to gather witnesses to explain WHY i did it. Perhaps i couldnt actually see the light beause of the sun (it has happened to me)
Perhaps i did it avoid something and i didnt know that there was a camera there..... so i didnt talk to any witnesses and ask them to testify on my behalf... So all i have is me driving through a red light in some photo... and a hell bent overly self righteous prosecuter trying to make DA trying to fuck me over because they know i'm guilty.
THOSE are the fears i have of psuedo "absoluteness"
ICO on PS2 is a work of art. Experience it!
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ICO on the PS2 was the most enjoyable gaming experience i've ever had. It was so incredible. Imagine a finely tuned peice of poetry transformed into an interactive experience.
Its a dreamy game, that says only what it needs to, and lets your emotions figure out the rest. The ending is simply breathtaking.
There are very few games that are truely a artfull experience and even those do not come close to ICO.
ICO is perhaps one of the finest peices of art the gaming industry has ever seen.
The music... THE BEST EVER in a videogame.
I could write endlessly about ICO because it such an experience. Games are something you do to pass time, but ICO isnt a GAME... it really is fine art because you connect with the characters and truely feel the exeperience. At the end of the game you feel the emotion and the loss.... It can not be described litterally because the game is very subtle yet highly effective if you embrace the awkardness of the story telling methods used in the game. The game is subtle. It tells you only what you need to know, to get you to an emotional state. Somepeople get bored and usually those people come back and say "well i finally beat ICO and i'm so fucking happy i did..."
PLAY ICO. If you can find a copy. Its hard to find, and HOLD ON TO IT. Its the best game ever made.
Those now very public figures, represent the faceless/nameless figureheads/board members that run the corperations of the world.
They are examples of the worst, but they are hardly unique. There are many more like them. We the working public are being asked to trust them and obey laws that are designed to benefit their profit and not us as individuals who deserve respect and quality lives at a fair price.
66% of all corperations do not pay taxes here in America according to Lou Dobbs.
If these multi national, multi million dollar corperations arent expected to pay up... why should those individuals making pennies be locked up for essentially doing the same thing?
They avoid paying taxes, yet use our tax dollars to lock up those who do not pay for their overpriced software.
If everyone at the table cared about the quality of life... the right things would be done.
Just look how insane all of this has become. The sentences for downloading mp3's are insane! How about software? movies? etc. We're talking about 0k-40k a year individuals here. People who simply can not afford the prices.
software/etc piracy "syndicates" that actually profit off warez/movies/watever were generally over seas. But now here in America... That same extreme level of wide acceptence of piracy has become the norm. The only cause i can see is that AMERICA has finally become apart of the 3rd world community in that our working class can not afford the products being sold.
Boston tea party folks... This stuff is NOTHING NEW to civilization. The RESULT is piracy, the problem comes from the top, not the bottom.
At the local shopping mall over here.. for a good 10 or more years they have been selling BOOTLEG Imported HK/ASIAN cinema on DVD and VHS. They sell out of a LEGIT rented booth at a MAJOR MALL.
At first the films had cheap ass vhs cases with photocopied covers. Now they have progressed to legitimate looking dvd's shrinkwrapped etc. They still look "off" but they're getting convincing.
These guys have operated for years and no one cares. I mean right in a MALL!!! They rent their store space!!! They're in a mall were sam goodie, radioshack,jc penny, sears, EB, kaybee, mcdonalds etc all are... BUT NO ONE seems to care about the copyright holders of those asian films.... that or no one has ratted these guys out yet.
America is starting to look like the china shops in china town, or the stores in china the country.
Why?
I can only assume that people are finding it harder and harder to make a living that maintains the standard of yesterday. We're quickly becoming a like the rest of the world that CANT AFFORD OUR AMERICAN PRODUCTS
It those same rich ceo's that keey software prices so high and use excuses like "piracy" being the key factor behind the high prices. When truth is.. if they whiped the planet clean of piracy.. windows XP pro would still cost $300 and each year it would increase in price. Of course the whole "pro" vs "home" thing is bullshit too. Its used by most of the software companies as a marketing tool to force people to pay for more for little difference.
These companies have no interest in making software affordable. If they did.. Piracy would be non existant.
Make Windows XP PRO $39.99 in America then see how many people still pirate it.
Make Photoshop $39.99 and see who still pirates it.
Their sales numbers would inrease so much... but they are so greedy and continue their high priced software.
Look at sony Vegas. A Non Linear editing software that rivals and even suprasses competitive software that costs $1000 and up.... And sony sells it for $200. I think thats a nice deal considering. Perhaps it could be even cheaper...
The problem is not the pirates... they're finding ways to use apps they cant afford. Wether thats to dink around with and just demo.... or to actually learn something they could never afford in a life time due the software prices.
And then the software companies point fingers at piracy then raise their prices.
MS is the worlds richest software company and has perhaps the most pirated OS ever.
HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT?! Dont even begin to tell me that Microsoft is hurting any.
There was an article in some magazine about how MS was working with the chinese government to get rid of piracy because they found that the same stores that sold their $300 XP pro, also sold $5 pirated versions of XP pro on cd. In the VERY SAME STORE!...
Turns out $300 works out to roughly 5 months of salary in china. So who's really blaiming the folks who are buying the pirated version over the $300 legal version? Microsoft.
Frankly its a free market issue. Microsoft charges too much. The key thing here is.. PEOPLE ARE BUYING THE PIRATED VERSIONS ON CD IN CHINA.
BUYING!!! Thats a free market. And they can either assinate, lock up and hunt the pirates down... (It wont make a dent in china when XP costs half of your annual salary) Or they could lower the price of their software to FAIR values.
These companies are going out of their way to send our jobs over seas, maintain high Americanized prices, while charging slave wages in foreign countries to manufacture the goods they sell.
Well this is simply the response to the abuse. The industry is saying "pay our high prices or we'll lock you up" And they have the law to back them up... so they are right.
But in the big picture... they're holding a gun to the head of the public in many ways and simply abusing rather than respecting peoples rights to have a quality life.
The people are responding to that mistreatment and doing whatever they have to survive, and experience life in a quality manner.
We're abused by these multi-national corperations, and people have no real recourse. Our current administration is hell bent on tort reform... so you cant even sue them now.
Look the problem is NOT the prirates. They are a RESULT of a PROBLEM.
Killing the RESULT, does not KILL THE PROBLEM.
As long as the problem exists... the result of piracy exists. Free market. People deserve a quality life experience and deserve respect.
Its not right to pirate software by law, and its not right to do it morally. But how in the hell do these companies expect to sell their software at such high prices?
Software is not like cars. You generally need a multitude of applications on your computer. That adds up quickly and if you took XP, Photoshop, Anti Virus, Anti Trojan, Firewall, Computer hardware, quicken, turbotax, games, flash, whatever.... it adds up to thousands and thousands.
It those same rich ceo's that keey software prices so high and use excuses like "piracy" being the key factor behind the high prices. When truth is.. if they whiped the planet clean of piracy.. windows XP pro would still cost $300 and each year it would increase in price. Of course the whole "pro" vs "home" thing is bullshit too. Its used by most of the software companies as a marketing tool to force people to pay for more for little difference.
These companies have no interest in making software affordable. If they did.. Piracy would be non existant.
Make Windows XP PRO $39.99 in America then see how many people still pirate it.
Make Photoshop $39.99 and see who still pirates it.
Their sales numbers would inrease so much... but they are so greedy and continue their high priced software.
Look at sony Vegas. A Non Linear editing software that rivals and even suprasses competitive software that costs $1000 and up.... And sony sells it for $200. I think thats a nice deal considering. Perhaps it could be even cheaper...
The problem is not the pirates... they're finding ways to use apps they cant afford. Wether thats to dink around with and just demo.... or to actually learn something they could never afford in a life time due the software prices.
And then the software companies point fingers at piracy then raise their prices.
MS is the worlds richest software company and has perhaps the most pirated OS ever.
HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT?! Dont even begin to tell me that Microsoft is hurting any.
There was an article in some magazine about how MS was working with the chinese government to get rid of piracy because they found that the same stores that sold their $300 XP pro, also sold $5 pirated versions of XP pro on cd. In the VERY SAME STORE!...
Turns out $300 works out to roughly 5 months of salary in china. So who's really blaiming the folks who are buying the pirated version over the $300 legal version? Microsoft.
Frankly its a free market issue. Microsoft charges too much. The key thing here is.. PEOPLE ARE BUYING THE PIRATED VERSIONS ON CD IN CHINA.
BUYING!!! Thats a free market. And they can either assinate, lock up and hunt the pirates down... (It wont make a dent in china when XP costs half of your annual salary) Or they could lower the price of their software to FAIR values.
These companies are going out of their way to send our jobs over seas, maintain high Americanized prices, while charging slave wages in foreign countries to manufacture the goods they sell.
Well this is simply the response to the abuse. The industry is saying "pay our high prices or we'll lock you up" And they have the law to back them up... so they are right.
But in the big picture... they're holding a gun to the head of the public in many ways and simply abusing rather than respecting peoples rights to have a quality life.
The people are responding to that mistreatment and doing whatever they have to survive, and experience life in a quality manner.
We're abused by these multi-national corperations, and people have no real recourse. Our current administration is hell bent on tort reform... so you cant even sue them now.
Look the problem is NOT the prirates. They are a RESULT of a PROBLEM.
Killing the RESULT, does not KILL THE PROBLEM.
As long as the problem exists... the result of piracy exists. Free market. People deserve a quality life experience and deserve respect.
Its not right to pirate software by law, and its not right to do it morally. But how in the hell do these companies expect to sell their software at such high prices?
Software is not like cars. You generally need a multitude of applications on your computer. That adds up quickly and if you took XP, Photoshop, Anti Virus, Anti Trojan, Firewall, Computer hardware, quicken, turbotax, games, flash, whatever.... it adds up to thousands and thousands.
Factor in your house, your car, food, the rising costs of health care, the lack of jobs in this country....
The problem becomes obvious.
Atleast there is the open source movement but it shouldnt be equated with th
and just to drive the point home... When the UK's beagle mars lander failed, and our 2 landers succesfully landed... Cspan's washington journal call in show was full of people saying "What is the point?" and "What has Nasa and the space industry every done for man kind?" I couldnt beleive the number of people who asked this question. The common answer they sold themselves was "tang..." and they all failed to realize that they were speaking over telephones that are transmited through satalites to a different state and then broadcast over a cable channel through another satalite to their cable provider or satalive tv provider.
It just blows me away how our culture, and by OUR.. i mean American culture, fails to find all of this fascinating enough to atleast recognize it.
If things like the anual international robotic soccer games were televised on TV in America... I WOULD WATCH... And perhaps others would too.. Battlebots was a huge show. It lacked inovation though... and my friend the robot soccer games have so dramatically changed over the years from tiny slow moving robots who can barely do anything, to fully walking robots that are capable of doing handstands!
come on... This is fascinating and brilliant and our culture just doesnt give a dam unless its blowing something up.
Perhaps thast why the robot soccer games are in Japan. Where they actually appreciate such things. I guess getting two of your cities nuked will do that to you.
Things like that would never happen with truely small scale aircraft simply because the government would not allow that technology to be used in the public arena.
Just like GPS has its limits compared to actual military GPS.
I simply do not see such military being sold openly for anyone, including our enemies to buy.
Thats just not how our government operates. Military technology companies have restraints on who, what, and when they can sell their stuff to other countries.
We have plenty of rc helicopter scale vehicles that could be used for all of those purposes. Theres no need for micro sized aircraft for the examples you presented.
I do agree though. Something positive will come out of it eventually perhaps. But do we really need these things in the general public?
The government will ask themselves that eventually and decide for us.
hehehe
Perhaps you're right. But I dont suggest that the world is evil because it creates tiny spy planes.
Its surely an acheivement, and is an impressive goal (tiny airplanes) but i think we could devote our money and genious ideas to somehow enrich our lives a little more rather than create yet another technology to spy with. Whats next? Will they figure out a way to fire a projectile weapon from it?
Why not figure out how to make an autonomous machine that automatically detects potholes in roads and fixes them automatically?
Why does everything have to be about spying and war?
There are other ways to use technology to enrich our lives.
The autonomous soccer robots was an example. Its an exercise in inovation that inspires the best parts of us rather than that element that inspires us to continually build tanks and so forth.
I dont know.. Maybe i just like smiling when i see something nice and innocent and fun while others just love to smile because they found a new way to blow shit up.
And hey... i like to blow shit up too:) But our culture needs to be inspired by other things as well.
As a geek, i love it. Its a great challenge, a new thing... push on.
As a citizen of this world and then of America, one can only make one observation about our world...
There never were civil rights. Its a myth because those who followed, never really beleived it applied to anyone other than themselves. Freedom is a radical experience where those with the most capital get as they please while others get monitored through mini airplanes:)
So get to work guys! Stop being so moral and ethical. Get rich and you too can have your civil rights... and imunity from the law.
Frankly i'm far more impressed with that recent soccer autonomous robot. As a big fan of robotics and the robotic soccer games.... I was just impressed to see what a civilization in love with technology and progress where intrigue and curiousity for the good of man kind dominates, build such a unique thing.
Sony and Honda have also done similar things. Its amazing how Japan has created so many wonderful things and how its embraced by their culture compaired to ours. We seem so quick to build new missles, spy planes etc...
Lets get started on a nice friendly game of autonomous soccer. We have our competitors in this country but... its a shame such a great and wonderfull acomplishment goes so unnoticed by our civilization.
Perhaps we just dont appreciate science and technology for the sake of creation enough. Perhaps we diserve to destroy our own culture and economy.
As a geek, i love it. Its a great challenge, a new thing... push on.
As a citizen of this world and then of America, one can only make one observation about our world...
There never were civil rights. Its a myth because those who followed, never really beleived it applied to anyone other than themselves. Freedom is a radical experience where those with the most capital get as they please while others get monitored through mini airplanes:)
So get to work guys! Stop being so moral and ethical. Get rich and you too can have your civil rights... and imunity from the law.
Frankly i far more impressed with that recent soccer autonomous robot. As a big fan of robotics and the robotic soccer games.... I was just impressed to see what a civilization in love with technology and progress where intrigue and curiousity for the good of man kind dominates, build such a unique thing.
Sony and Honda have also done similar things. Its amazing how Japan has created so many wonderful things and how its embraced by their culture compaired to ours. We seem so quick to build new missles, spy planes etc...
Lets get started on a nice friendly game of autonomous soccer. We have our competitors in this country but... its a shame such a great and wonderfull acomplishment goes so unnoticed by our civilization.
Perhaps we just dont appreciate science and technology for the sake of creation enough. Perhaps we diserve to destroy our own culture.
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This is exactly what i was thinking while reading all of this.
I'm a 3d Character Animator, and TD myself and found it interesting that no one really had brought any insight to this. I'm glad you did. Its all PR bullshit. The truth is... Pixar, or any other film quality 3d rendered artwork requires a lot more processing than any current gen realtime shading language can supply.
Not only things like fur, which you had mentioned... General image quality issues, complex shaders, raytracing, etc.
Whats MORE true.. and quite a posibility is that realtime cards may aid in rendering things like ambient occlusion passes and so forth. Nvidia seems to be demo'ing a bit of this right now. Hell if i could generate an ambient occlusion render pass off a quadro based card, or even better an FX card... excellent.
But its simply not reasonable to expect film quality renders anytime soon. Renderers like Mental Ray can use your Open GL supported accelerator to generate shadow maps and such... but really the complex shaders, and extremely accurate quality that is required just cant be done realtime. But we may get to the point soon where somethings can be handed off to the accelerator card.
But it wont be real time. That you can bet your donkey on. The polycount and texture map data require far more ram than any hardware accelerator has.
The sheer size of scenes (ram required), shader complexity/diversity, image quality issues, and of course your general advancements in techniques and new ideas... simply make depending on a 3d accelerator not realistic.
But like i said.. It may be possible to render a nice Ambient occlusion pass on these 3d cards... and that in itself is very welcomed.
Well whats even funnier, is that our current administration lists burger flipper as a manufacturing job and clearly its obvious that software engineering and computer science is menial...
yeah... menial.
I hear Mcdonalds is hiring...
Greed causes workers to unionize?
So i guess all of those black slaves were greedy. DAM.. they should have just enjoyed all of that whipping, rape, exploitation and shit standard living arrangements... It was GOOD FOR THEM!
If they ONLY KNEW HOW SELFISH THEY WERE!
jesus fucking christ folks. How did we go from a country that cared about each other, to a country that doesnt give a fuck about the well being of each other.
You're a fucking moron.
First off, many hard working folks who arent well off, PLAY BY THE FUCKING RULES. They have ETHICS.
Those things usually limit peoples success.
Yeah.. i'm not willing to suck dick, cheat lie and steal my way to the top.
So i stay in the middle class. Where i'm sure its my fault for being ethical.
How many corperations are ethical these days. They bribe our politicians, hire slave labor, sell out our country, yet live here.
Fuck off.
Dont give me this fucking elitest "well you're just a slacker" bullshit. NOTHING is so cut and dry. Fuck you for thinking it is.
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Yup... you guessed it... They will be directing the hit block buster action adventure thriller version of Q-bert based on the classic 80's arcade game!
Fucking Sweet!
Word is, Ben Affleck will play Coily!
This is a great idea with a good heart behind it.
My aunt has MS and she is basically wheelchair bound and you have no idea how hard it is. She can barely function physically, requiring the aid of other people to help her do every day living things such as getting out of bed, going to the bathroom and transportation to and from work.
Great idea... I love seeing projects that help the folks that most people neglect and leave behind.
When they're apart of your family you really get to see the struggle of people who are wheel chair bound. Its a hard life and anything to improve their life experience is to be praised highly.
Bravo.
And just like Hollywood, The artists and coders who do the hard work, never see ANY of those millions.
What was once an industry created by self made talent, who could profit admirably off their hard earned work... as turned into a slave machine controlled by slick suit wearing slave drivers, who under budget, under pay, and demand insane production cycles.
Yup... its a lot like hollywood these days. The people who do all the work, see none of the pay.
But thats a growing trend here in America.
I definatly agree with this. Our country America has become the land of the free for the wealthy, and the land of exploitation for the poor. Then again when has this not been the case? Its simply become worse over the years. There are no single wager earner families anymore that make less than $150,000 a year. Education is complete shit by design. Only the wealthy can afford an education that will take them anywhere... and oddly enough they really dont need it, because "daddy" will get them in to yale, and then he can become president after being a drunken crack addict fuck up until the age of 40, until he discovers god, and imposes it on the rest of us in the name of freedom and patriotism. Hail Europe. They take so much shit in this country from our selfish politicians who are blinded by the dollars of corperations that cover their eyes. People need a quality life experience. We only get 70 years if we're lucky. Why the fuck cant we make this world betteer?? ITS NOT FUCKING PROFITABLE. How utterly disgusting.
The guy who wrote about being a pirate knows his shit. How can you tell. The man listed ICO has a work of art.
BINGO. ICO, REZ and Prince of Persia: Sands of time were all incredible games.
The sad thing is that most folks never got to experience ICO.
I agree completely with this. You may think it extreme, but the situation of government turning dictatorship is also extreme. So yes... the two extremes are designed to prevent each other.
:)
Government for the people by the people. Rule #1 dont talk about fight club. Rule #2 dont fuck with the people
But now the government has deals with the people who employ the people, and they've been dictacting our wages, and our lives for a while now.
My car was stolen. I didnt discover it was stolen until hours later. How would this tech help in my situation? I Would perhaps know that my car passed through intersections but the cops would have still found it stripped to shit in the parking lot of a trainstation in the ghetto (hours later)
I understand your point and to some extent i agree with it. But it is a bit scary that our government wants to plant cameras on every city corner with facial recognition, liscense plate tracking etc.
And i'm not saying there will be some government conspiracy to frame someone (though they could because most people beleive cameras are the ultimate in evidence) Lets just photoshop my liscense plate or entire car into a scene of a crime... Yeah its silly but i'm not running for president or anything important.
What i'm really worried about is being watched by people who judge others on levels they simply dont judge themselves by.
Its easy to tell someone not to speed through a red light. Its easy to photograph my car flying through the red light. Its easy to prosecute me using that photographic evidence. Whats not easy is for me to gather witnesses to explain WHY i did it. Perhaps i couldnt actually see the light beause of the sun (it has happened to me)
Perhaps i did it avoid something and i didnt know that there was a camera there..... so i didnt talk to any witnesses and ask them to testify on my behalf... So all i have is me driving through a red light in some photo... and a hell bent overly self righteous prosecuter trying to make DA trying to fuck me over because they know i'm guilty.
THOSE are the fears i have of psuedo "absoluteness"
ICO on the PS2 was the most enjoyable gaming experience i've ever had. It was so incredible. Imagine a finely tuned peice of poetry transformed into an interactive experience.
Its a dreamy game, that says only what it needs to, and lets your emotions figure out the rest. The ending is simply breathtaking.
There are very few games that are truely a artfull experience and even those do not come close to ICO.
ICO is perhaps one of the finest peices of art the gaming industry has ever seen.
The music... THE BEST EVER in a videogame.
I could write endlessly about ICO because it such an experience. Games are something you do to pass time, but ICO isnt a GAME... it really is fine art because you connect with the characters and truely feel the exeperience. At the end of the game you feel the emotion and the loss.... It can not be described litterally because the game is very subtle yet highly effective if you embrace the awkardness of the story telling methods used in the game. The game is subtle. It tells you only what you need to know, to get you to an emotional state. Somepeople get bored and usually those people come back and say "well i finally beat ICO and i'm so fucking happy i did..."
PLAY ICO. If you can find a copy. Its hard to find, and HOLD ON TO IT. Its the best game ever made.
You've clearly missed the point.
Those now very public figures, represent the faceless/nameless figureheads/board members that run the corperations of the world.
They are examples of the worst, but they are hardly unique. There are many more like them. We the working public are being asked to trust them and obey laws that are designed to benefit their profit and not us as individuals who deserve respect and quality lives at a fair price.
66% of all corperations do not pay taxes here in America according to Lou Dobbs.
If these multi national, multi million dollar corperations arent expected to pay up... why should those individuals making pennies be locked up for essentially doing the same thing?
They avoid paying taxes, yet use our tax dollars to lock up those who do not pay for their overpriced software.
If everyone at the table cared about the quality of life... the right things would be done.
Just look how insane all of this has become. The sentences for downloading mp3's are insane! How about software? movies? etc. We're talking about 0k-40k a year individuals here. People who simply can not afford the prices.
software/etc piracy "syndicates" that actually profit off warez/movies/watever were generally over seas. But now here in America... That same extreme level of wide acceptence of piracy has become the norm. The only cause i can see is that AMERICA has finally become apart of the 3rd world community in that our working class can not afford the products being sold.
Boston tea party folks... This stuff is NOTHING NEW to civilization. The RESULT is piracy, the problem comes from the top, not the bottom.
At the local shopping mall over here.. for a good 10 or more years they have been selling BOOTLEG Imported HK/ASIAN cinema on DVD and VHS. They sell out of a LEGIT rented booth at a MAJOR MALL.
At first the films had cheap ass vhs cases with photocopied covers. Now they have progressed to legitimate looking dvd's shrinkwrapped etc. They still look "off" but they're getting convincing.
These guys have operated for years and no one cares. I mean right in a MALL!!! They rent their store space!!! They're in a mall were sam goodie, radioshack,jc penny, sears, EB, kaybee, mcdonalds etc all are... BUT NO ONE seems to care about the copyright holders of those asian films.... that or no one has ratted these guys out yet.
America is starting to look like the china shops in china town, or the stores in china the country.
Why?
I can only assume that people are finding it harder and harder to make a living that maintains the standard of yesterday. We're quickly becoming a like the rest of the world that CANT AFFORD OUR AMERICAN PRODUCTS
Yes they may be violating the law... But LAWS have been known to be unfair, and down right inhumain.
Slavery?
Womens rights?
taxation without representation...
Oh how we forget.
The king has the right to screw any of the pretty pesent women he wants, including your newly wed wife... because he is the king by law.
LAW does not mean RIGHT. Its just a governing rule that we've chosen... it doesnt make it right in the sense of human rights. It just makes it law.
Mankind creates laws, and sometimes we need to re-evaluate them
You're right we need to fix this world some how. But i dont think voting does much these days... though i still vote. I'm a dreamer.
It those same rich ceo's that keey software prices so high and use excuses like "piracy" being the key factor behind the high prices. When truth is.. if they whiped the planet clean of piracy.. windows XP pro would still cost $300 and each year it would increase in price. Of course the whole "pro" vs "home" thing is bullshit too. Its used by most of the software companies as a marketing tool to force people to pay for more for little difference.
These companies have no interest in making software affordable. If they did.. Piracy would be non existant.
Make Windows XP PRO $39.99 in America then see how many people still pirate it.
Make Photoshop $39.99 and see who still pirates it.
Their sales numbers would inrease so much... but they are so greedy and continue their high priced software.
Look at sony Vegas. A Non Linear editing software that rivals and even suprasses competitive software that costs $1000 and up.... And sony sells it for $200. I think thats a nice deal considering. Perhaps it could be even cheaper...
The problem is not the pirates... they're finding ways to use apps they cant afford. Wether thats to dink around with and just demo.... or to actually learn something they could never afford in a life time due the software prices.
And then the software companies point fingers at piracy then raise their prices.
MS is the worlds richest software company and has perhaps the most pirated OS ever.
HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT?! Dont even begin to tell me that Microsoft is hurting any.
There was an article in some magazine about how MS was working with the chinese government to get rid of piracy because they found that the same stores that sold their $300 XP pro, also sold $5 pirated versions of XP pro on cd. In the VERY SAME STORE!...
Turns out $300 works out to roughly 5 months of salary in china. So who's really blaiming the folks who are buying the pirated version over the $300 legal version? Microsoft.
Frankly its a free market issue. Microsoft charges too much. The key thing here is.. PEOPLE ARE BUYING THE PIRATED VERSIONS ON CD IN CHINA.
BUYING!!! Thats a free market. And they can either assinate, lock up and hunt the pirates down... (It wont make a dent in china when XP costs half of your annual salary) Or they could lower the price of their software to FAIR values.
These companies are going out of their way to send our jobs over seas, maintain high Americanized prices, while charging slave wages in foreign countries to manufacture the goods they sell.
Well this is simply the response to the abuse. The industry is saying "pay our high prices or we'll lock you up" And they have the law to back them up... so they are right.
But in the big picture... they're holding a gun to the head of the public in many ways and simply abusing rather than respecting peoples rights to have a quality life.
The people are responding to that mistreatment and doing whatever they have to survive, and experience life in a quality manner.
We're abused by these multi-national corperations, and people have no real recourse. Our current administration is hell bent on tort reform... so you cant even sue them now.
Look the problem is NOT the prirates. They are a RESULT of a PROBLEM.
Killing the RESULT, does not KILL THE PROBLEM.
As long as the problem exists... the result of piracy exists. Free market. People deserve a quality life experience and deserve respect.
Its not right to pirate software by law, and its not right to do it morally. But how in the hell do these companies expect to sell their software at such high prices?
Software is not like cars. You generally need a multitude of applications on your computer. That adds up quickly and if you took XP, Photoshop, Anti Virus, Anti Trojan, Firewall, Computer hardware, quicken, turbotax, games, flash, whatever.... it adds up to thousands and thousands.
Factor in your house, yo
It those same rich ceo's that keey software prices so high and use excuses like "piracy" being the key factor behind the high prices. When truth is.. if they whiped the planet clean of piracy.. windows XP pro would still cost $300 and each year it would increase in price. Of course the whole "pro" vs "home" thing is bullshit too. Its used by most of the software companies as a marketing tool to force people to pay for more for little difference. These companies have no interest in making software affordable. If they did.. Piracy would be non existant. Make Windows XP PRO $39.99 in America then see how many people still pirate it. Make Photoshop $39.99 and see who still pirates it. Their sales numbers would inrease so much... but they are so greedy and continue their high priced software. Look at sony Vegas. A Non Linear editing software that rivals and even suprasses competitive software that costs $1000 and up.... And sony sells it for $200. I think thats a nice deal considering. Perhaps it could be even cheaper... The problem is not the pirates... they're finding ways to use apps they cant afford. Wether thats to dink around with and just demo.... or to actually learn something they could never afford in a life time due the software prices. And then the software companies point fingers at piracy then raise their prices. MS is the worlds richest software company and has perhaps the most pirated OS ever. HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT?! Dont even begin to tell me that Microsoft is hurting any. There was an article in some magazine about how MS was working with the chinese government to get rid of piracy because they found that the same stores that sold their $300 XP pro, also sold $5 pirated versions of XP pro on cd. In the VERY SAME STORE!... Turns out $300 works out to roughly 5 months of salary in china. So who's really blaiming the folks who are buying the pirated version over the $300 legal version? Microsoft. Frankly its a free market issue. Microsoft charges too much. The key thing here is.. PEOPLE ARE BUYING THE PIRATED VERSIONS ON CD IN CHINA. BUYING!!! Thats a free market. And they can either assinate, lock up and hunt the pirates down... (It wont make a dent in china when XP costs half of your annual salary) Or they could lower the price of their software to FAIR values. These companies are going out of their way to send our jobs over seas, maintain high Americanized prices, while charging slave wages in foreign countries to manufacture the goods they sell. Well this is simply the response to the abuse. The industry is saying "pay our high prices or we'll lock you up" And they have the law to back them up... so they are right. But in the big picture... they're holding a gun to the head of the public in many ways and simply abusing rather than respecting peoples rights to have a quality life. The people are responding to that mistreatment and doing whatever they have to survive, and experience life in a quality manner. We're abused by these multi-national corperations, and people have no real recourse. Our current administration is hell bent on tort reform... so you cant even sue them now. Look the problem is NOT the prirates. They are a RESULT of a PROBLEM. Killing the RESULT, does not KILL THE PROBLEM. As long as the problem exists... the result of piracy exists. Free market. People deserve a quality life experience and deserve respect. Its not right to pirate software by law, and its not right to do it morally. But how in the hell do these companies expect to sell their software at such high prices? Software is not like cars. You generally need a multitude of applications on your computer. That adds up quickly and if you took XP, Photoshop, Anti Virus, Anti Trojan, Firewall, Computer hardware, quicken, turbotax, games, flash, whatever.... it adds up to thousands and thousands. Factor in your house, your car, food, the rising costs of health care, the lack of jobs in this country.... The problem becomes obvious. Atleast there is the open source movement but it shouldnt be equated with th
These guys are fucking scum! They are virii!
All Anti Virus and Anti Trojan companies including MICROSOFT's new AV need to treat these things like virii/trojans and BLOCK THEM
Put these guys out of buisness already. The fact that they make money is insulting.
I hope they all get cancer and puke aids on their children.
and just to drive the point home... When the UK's beagle mars lander failed, and our 2 landers succesfully landed... Cspan's washington journal call in show was full of people saying "What is the point?" and "What has Nasa and the space industry every done for man kind?" I couldnt beleive the number of people who asked this question. The common answer they sold themselves was "tang..." and they all failed to realize that they were speaking over telephones that are transmited through satalites to a different state and then broadcast over a cable channel through another satalite to their cable provider or satalive tv provider.
It just blows me away how our culture, and by OUR.. i mean American culture, fails to find all of this fascinating enough to atleast recognize it.
If things like the anual international robotic soccer games were televised on TV in America... I WOULD WATCH... And perhaps others would too.. Battlebots was a huge show. It lacked inovation though... and my friend the robot soccer games have so dramatically changed over the years from tiny slow moving robots who can barely do anything, to fully walking robots that are capable of doing handstands!
come on... This is fascinating and brilliant and our culture just doesnt give a dam unless its blowing something up.
Perhaps thast why the robot soccer games are in Japan. Where they actually appreciate such things. I guess getting two of your cities nuked will do that to you.
Things like that would never happen with truely small scale aircraft simply because the government would not allow that technology to be used in the public arena.
Just like GPS has its limits compared to actual military GPS.
I simply do not see such military being sold openly for anyone, including our enemies to buy.
Thats just not how our government operates. Military technology companies have restraints on who, what, and when they can sell their stuff to other countries.
We have plenty of rc helicopter scale vehicles that could be used for all of those purposes. Theres no need for micro sized aircraft for the examples you presented.
I do agree though. Something positive will come out of it eventually perhaps. But do we really need these things in the general public?
The government will ask themselves that eventually and decide for us.
hehehe Perhaps you're right. But I dont suggest that the world is evil because it creates tiny spy planes. Its surely an acheivement, and is an impressive goal (tiny airplanes) but i think we could devote our money and genious ideas to somehow enrich our lives a little more rather than create yet another technology to spy with. Whats next? Will they figure out a way to fire a projectile weapon from it? Why not figure out how to make an autonomous machine that automatically detects potholes in roads and fixes them automatically? Why does everything have to be about spying and war? There are other ways to use technology to enrich our lives. The autonomous soccer robots was an example. Its an exercise in inovation that inspires the best parts of us rather than that element that inspires us to continually build tanks and so forth. I dont know.. Maybe i just like smiling when i see something nice and innocent and fun while others just love to smile because they found a new way to blow shit up. And hey... i like to blow shit up too :) But our culture needs to be inspired by other things as well.
As a geek, i love it. Its a great challenge, a new thing... push on.
:)
As a citizen of this world and then of America, one can only make one observation about our world...
There never were civil rights. Its a myth because those who followed, never really beleived it applied to anyone other than themselves. Freedom is a radical experience where those with the most capital get as they please while others get monitored through mini airplanes
So get to work guys! Stop being so moral and ethical. Get rich and you too can have your civil rights... and imunity from the law.
Frankly i'm far more impressed with that recent soccer autonomous robot. As a big fan of robotics and the robotic soccer games.... I was just impressed to see what a civilization in love with technology and progress where intrigue and curiousity for the good of man kind dominates, build such a unique thing.
Sony and Honda have also done similar things. Its amazing how Japan has created so many wonderful things and how its embraced by their culture compaired to ours. We seem so quick to build new missles, spy planes etc...
Lets get started on a nice friendly game of autonomous soccer. We have our competitors in this country but... its a shame such a great and wonderfull acomplishment goes so unnoticed by our civilization.
Perhaps we just dont appreciate science and technology for the sake of creation enough. Perhaps we diserve to destroy our own culture and economy.
As a geek, i love it. Its a great challenge, a new thing... push on.
:)
As a citizen of this world and then of America, one can only make one observation about our world...
There never were civil rights. Its a myth because those who followed, never really beleived it applied to anyone other than themselves. Freedom is a radical experience where those with the most capital get as they please while others get monitored through mini airplanes
So get to work guys! Stop being so moral and ethical. Get rich and you too can have your civil rights... and imunity from the law.
Frankly i far more impressed with that recent soccer autonomous robot. As a big fan of robotics and the robotic soccer games.... I was just impressed to see what a civilization in love with technology and progress where intrigue and curiousity for the good of man kind dominates, build such a unique thing.
Sony and Honda have also done similar things. Its amazing how Japan has created so many wonderful things and how its embraced by their culture compaired to ours. We seem so quick to build new missles, spy planes etc...
Lets get started on a nice friendly game of autonomous soccer. We have our competitors in this country but... its a shame such a great and wonderfull acomplishment goes so unnoticed by our civilization.
Perhaps we just dont appreciate science and technology for the sake of creation enough. Perhaps we diserve to destroy our own culture.
This is exactly what i was thinking while reading all of this.
I'm a 3d Character Animator, and TD myself and found it interesting that no one really had brought any insight to this. I'm glad you did. Its all PR bullshit. The truth is... Pixar, or any other film quality 3d rendered artwork requires a lot more processing than any current gen realtime shading language can supply.
Not only things like fur, which you had mentioned... General image quality issues, complex shaders, raytracing, etc.
Whats MORE true.. and quite a posibility is that realtime cards may aid in rendering things like ambient occlusion passes and so forth. Nvidia seems to be demo'ing a bit of this right now. Hell if i could generate an ambient occlusion render pass off a quadro based card, or even better an FX card... excellent.
But its simply not reasonable to expect film quality renders anytime soon. Renderers like Mental Ray can use your Open GL supported accelerator to generate shadow maps and such... but really the complex shaders, and extremely accurate quality that is required just cant be done realtime. But we may get to the point soon where somethings can be handed off to the accelerator card.
But it wont be real time. That you can bet your donkey on. The polycount and texture map data require far more ram than any hardware accelerator has.
The sheer size of scenes (ram required), shader complexity/diversity, image quality issues, and of course your general advancements in techniques and new ideas... simply make depending on a 3d accelerator not realistic.
But like i said.. It may be possible to render a nice Ambient occlusion pass on these 3d cards... and that in itself is very welcomed.
The schools may own the lockers, but when i was in highschool 80-90s.. We had to buy the locks for the lockers.
And while the schools may own the lockers, that simply means the tax payers own the lockers. And they happen to be the parents of the children.
Well whats even funnier, is that our current administration lists burger flipper as a manufacturing job and clearly its obvious that software engineering and computer science is menial... yeah... menial. I hear Mcdonalds is hiring...
Greed causes workers to unionize? So i guess all of those black slaves were greedy. DAM.. they should have just enjoyed all of that whipping, rape, exploitation and shit standard living arrangements... It was GOOD FOR THEM! If they ONLY KNEW HOW SELFISH THEY WERE! jesus fucking christ folks. How did we go from a country that cared about each other, to a country that doesnt give a fuck about the well being of each other.
People just dont have it in them to this unfortunately. Those cheap ass products at walmart are too tempting. It wont happen.
You're a fucking moron. First off, many hard working folks who arent well off, PLAY BY THE FUCKING RULES. They have ETHICS. Those things usually limit peoples success. Yeah.. i'm not willing to suck dick, cheat lie and steal my way to the top. So i stay in the middle class. Where i'm sure its my fault for being ethical. How many corperations are ethical these days. They bribe our politicians, hire slave labor, sell out our country, yet live here. Fuck off. Dont give me this fucking elitest "well you're just a slacker" bullshit. NOTHING is so cut and dry. Fuck you for thinking it is.