He was trying to be a smartass and act like he thought that the lowercase m before bit meant millibit instead of just being lazy shorthand for M like he knew.
It might be morally correct, in a sense, but it feels an awful lot like the rich kid who goes around manipulating his classmates with money, only the classmates need the money to survive, so he abuses them, knowing they can't stand up to him, and that he's stronger. I'm not expressing it quite right, but it feels like an evil, manipulative way of acting.
I fail to see how the games or OS being copyrighted in any way affects what you are allowed to do with the hardware, intrinsically. Mod chips that contain copyrighted code should be illegal, yes. That fails, however, to make it such that Microsoft or Gillette has the right to legally guaranteed profits with the loss leader business model, which is what is at question here. Do you think either of them should have mandated profit?
I'd have to say his argument is valid, and trying to reject it cutely doesn't absolve you of the need to prove it. Either back your statement up or retract it.
OK, you did note the or. However, his statement is not an oxymoron because the or is there, and that was the point I was trying to refute, I can see where you're coming from for the rest of it, but not the oxymoron part.
"Damn cool" is a matter of option. And looking "damn cool" while drawing as little attention to its self is kind of an oxymoron. Plus it's also just your opinion that it should be one way or another.
He said damn cool OR draw little attention, not both.
Actually, the high end car makers tend to be low enough in gross that they get bought out by a much larger manufacturer and marginalized, look at Aston Martin for example. They may not suffer, exactly, but they have little clout in the mainstream.
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Sure, UT works fine on his desktop. UT is three years old. And yes, you could run UT without hardware acceleration, but it hardly looked "good" and was noticably slow.
As for your other point, developers get more money from making their games look good on new hardware and pretty good on hardware a year old than they would from making their games run well on hardware five years old. If you want to keep your old system, that's fine, no reason to needlessy upgrade, but anything older than one or two years is irrelevant in terms of modern games, and you have to deal with that.
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Playing a modern game requires less than $1000 in new hardware if you still have monitor, keyboard, and mouse. While not exactly pocket change, it's nto horrible. A game that was designed to run well on your desktop would look worse than all its competitors and bomb. If you want a game that requires little or no acceleration, look online for freeware games. The commercial game market, for better or worse, requires hardware pretty much no more than 2 years old.
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You remember incorrectly. The Voodoo3 came out shortly before the TNT2 Ultra. The Voodoo5 came out somewhat in time with the GeForce2. Note, however, that the TNT2U was pretty much superior to the Voodoo3, and the Voodoo5 was pretty much dead in the water from the beginning with very few games requiring Glide, and the GF2 had superior OpenGL and at least equal Direct3D.
Your analogy may be easier, but it's less correct. CleanFlicks is not "loaning" the movies in the sense that you loan your book to a friend. They are selling their edited copy along with a sealed copy of the original. This is like a company buying copies of a book, OCRing it, editing the text, reprinting it, and selling their edition with a glued-shut copy of the original, at a profit. This is much more questionable than you make it out to be.
Although in general I would agree that proper English is important in formal writing, I have no sympathy for any of these teachers who forced Huckleberry Finn on their students.
Are you sure about that? After all, it was Ferdinand Porsche who founded VW, not to mention built the Tiger and Elephant tanks for Hitler during WW2. A quick search on Google returns a LOT of joint VW-Porsche dealerships. Anyway, if you have details of these two companies not being in the same group, I'd be interested.
You totally missed the point: the issue brought up was a student making his own MP3s from scratch, such that HE owns the copyright, and sharing those MP3s over the campus connection. That would not be illegal.
The Pentium architecture is capable of running machines with up to 64GB. However, it still has an adressable limit of 4GB, that is the maximum amount any one process can use.
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He was trying to be a smartass and act like he thought that the lowercase m before bit meant millibit instead of just being lazy shorthand for M like he knew.
Yeah, all the unimportant stuff can be swapped around. Fry the motherboard, then come back and talk...
That's great, now give me their address on Earth at the time that post was written.
It might be morally correct, in a sense, but it feels an awful lot like the rich kid who goes around manipulating his classmates with money, only the classmates need the money to survive, so he abuses them, knowing they can't stand up to him, and that he's stronger. I'm not expressing it quite right, but it feels like an evil, manipulative way of acting.
I fail to see how the games or OS being copyrighted in any way affects what you are allowed to do with the hardware, intrinsically. Mod chips that contain copyrighted code should be illegal, yes. That fails, however, to make it such that Microsoft or Gillette has the right to legally guaranteed profits with the loss leader business model, which is what is at question here. Do you think either of them should have mandated profit?
I'd have to say his argument is valid, and trying to reject it cutely doesn't absolve you of the need to prove it. Either back your statement up or retract it.
Actually, that's from Dilbert, and the line was "He looks hungry. Do we have any bourbon?"
Um, what happens if someone takes up running, or starts overeating, or starts lifting weights a lot?
OK, you did note the or. However, his statement is not an oxymoron because the or is there, and that was the point I was trying to refute, I can see where you're coming from for the rest of it, but not the oxymoron part.
He said damn cool OR draw little attention, not both.
Caterham is owned by Ford now, it has ZX3 internals...
Actually, the high end car makers tend to be low enough in gross that they get bought out by a much larger manufacturer and marginalized, look at Aston Martin for example. They may not suffer, exactly, but they have little clout in the mainstream.
As for your other point, developers get more money from making their games look good on new hardware and pretty good on hardware a year old than they would from making their games run well on hardware five years old. If you want to keep your old system, that's fine, no reason to needlessy upgrade, but anything older than one or two years is irrelevant in terms of modern games, and you have to deal with that.
Playing a modern game requires less than $1000 in new hardware if you still have monitor, keyboard, and mouse. While not exactly pocket change, it's nto horrible. A game that was designed to run well on your desktop would look worse than all its competitors and bomb. If you want a game that requires little or no acceleration, look online for freeware games. The commercial game market, for better or worse, requires hardware pretty much no more than 2 years old.
You remember incorrectly. The Voodoo3 came out shortly before the TNT2 Ultra. The Voodoo5 came out somewhat in time with the GeForce2. Note, however, that the TNT2U was pretty much superior to the Voodoo3, and the Voodoo5 was pretty much dead in the water from the beginning with very few games requiring Glide, and the GF2 had superior OpenGL and at least equal Direct3D.
Your analogy may be easier, but it's less correct. CleanFlicks is not "loaning" the movies in the sense that you loan your book to a friend. They are selling their edited copy along with a sealed copy of the original. This is like a company buying copies of a book, OCRing it, editing the text, reprinting it, and selling their edition with a glued-shut copy of the original, at a profit. This is much more questionable than you make it out to be.
Although in general I would agree that proper English is important in formal writing, I have no sympathy for any of these teachers who forced Huckleberry Finn on their students.
Are you sure about that? After all, it was Ferdinand Porsche who founded VW, not to mention built the Tiger and Elephant tanks for Hitler during WW2. A quick search on Google returns a LOT of joint VW-Porsche dealerships. Anyway, if you have details of these two companies not being in the same group, I'd be interested.
Volkswagen also owns Audi, Porsche, and Lamborghini.
You totally missed the point: the issue brought up was a student making his own MP3s from scratch, such that HE owns the copyright, and sharing those MP3s over the campus connection. That would not be illegal.
The X-Box is a shamified PC, not the other way around...
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How sickeningly cute.
Um, that's 14 months, don't know where you got 32 from...
The Pentium architecture is capable of running machines with up to 64GB. However, it still has an adressable limit of 4GB, that is the maximum amount any one process can use.
Evidence, please?