'PS3 will provide graphics indistinguishable from movies.' Was the quote in the article. The 'Spider-Man 2 or Toy Story 2' part was from the submitter, wondering if the "movie-quality grapics" will be realistic like Spider-Man or cartoony like Toy Story.
Hardware is expensive though, so the way to maximize innovation, profit, and entertainment value all at the same time is to improve storytelling, as the article says.
I would argue that this is similar to the ruling that unusual clauses in EULA's are null and void. Do you read every liscence agreement for every piece of software you install? No, you make reasonable assumptions about what's in it, and know that you will not violate any of the reasonable provisions. I personally don't think it's reasonable for it to be illegal to use a characteristic of the plant you purchased. The plant reporduces ON IT'S OWN with no interaction from a human.
To compare it to other forms of piracy, this could be likened to the RIAA putting out a music file that automatically copies itself virus-wise to other people's computers, then sueing you for distributing the file. If they're so concerned about it, they should engineer the plants not to create seeds. IANAGE (Genetic Engineer), and I don't know how complicated that would be, but they make seedless watermelons and the like, so I would think it would at least be possible.
Yes, but when you feel that a law is not morally justified, civil disobedience is and has been in the past a legitimately recognized way of protesting it. Sure you run the risk of getting in trouble with the proper authorities if caught, but private citizens have no right attacking you. If I park my car in the middle of the road the police can arrest me or tow my car, but random guy X who's inconvenienced by being late to work doesn't have the right to get out of his car and start defacing mine. This is what Overpeer is doing with their malware bundled with the music files (I don't have a problem with bad music files, it's the malware that bothers me).
I do actually strafe around corners, but I'm always looking one way or the other while going through doors or around corners, though still actually walking forward. Does that count?
I used to get bored and play Minesweeper... my record score for the smallest mine field was six seconds, and I'm pretty sure that at that point I'm more limited by the speed of my hand than anything else.
Never played the original Descent, but Descent: Freespace rocks hard too. Like the OP said about Descent, Freespace is the game that convinced me to buy a joystick (not only the first, but only game I've played that would have convinced me). If you can't find the original Descent I would really recommend checking out Freespace. Freespace had an expansion pack that was a lot of fun too, although I can't remember offhand what the name of it was.
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What if you set up the levels/worlds/areas/whatever bittorrent-style, so players in a given world would host those maps or the creatures in them or whatever, and distributed it that way, also eliminating the need for a central server. I don't know if this implementation would actually work, I'm not a programmer or IT guy or anything, it's just a thought.
As a 19 year old college student I run into a similar problem, although my natural schedule isn't as clean as 36 hours either. I need about 10 hours of sleep, and about 16-18 hours awake... so I need a 26-28 hour day.
In the submitter's defense, my sister's computer was pretty spywared up, and I could no clear it. So I broke down and used MS spyware. Even *after* scanning with both Spybot and Adaware, MS found 4000+ infected files. So at least in my experience it works fairly well.
I'm not saying that Michael Crichton is the best source for information of this kind, but in the grandparent's defense, in State Of Fear he does distinguish which facts he got from real sources (most of the statements in the book), and sites those sources so the reader can look into them if he or she chooses.
Wait until the full release! This isn't even a Release Candidate!
Um, the system was scheduled to go online in two weeks. If they don't have a Release Candidate two weeks before the final version comes out, we're in more trouble than I thought.
Starting with a reporter investigating the disappearances of top scientists, the story quickly becomes a nearly constant barrage of giant robots, aeroships, submarine planes, ray guns and retro technology on a grand scale. The plot, which hurtles across maps of the world Indiana Jones style, definitely take a back seat to the effects.
Alright, so how do you figure this is good again? It sounds like another crappy big-budget *cough*Matrix Reloaded*cough* sci-fi *cough Episodes I & II*cough* that won't be even slightly entertaining beyond the initial awe of the special effects.
That's all well and good, but consider that in America the cost of living is significantly higher as well. So what qualifies as a subsitence wage elsewhere may not be enough for someone here. Just because it's "logical" doesn't mean it's right. If outsourcing continues there are going to be very few unskilled jobs left in America, which will create huge problems with poverty. Some will say "Americans will simply become more educated and perform more skilled labor." But there are two problems with that: one is that a society can only have so many doctors, lawyers, and engineers, two is that not everyone can afford to go to college and become educated, especially when they're losing their jobs to foreign workers who are willing to work below American minimum wages.
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You make some good points. Removing IP completely would remove incentive to create, and likely creativity would decline. However, current IP laws are ridiculous. How does copyright lasting life of the authoer + 75 years encourage creativity? It doesn't. IP should not be abolished, but it should be limited to a more reasonable time scale, say 10 or 20 years of exclusive rights before it becomes public domain (the actual time-period is debateable, and unimportant to my point). In that model you have incentive to create because you have time to benefit from your work, and it blocks corporations holding copyrights for things someone created four million years ago.
Okay, so now they're not even allowing us to see laws, but we are still expected to follow them. Worse, the plaintiff and his lawyers won't get to hear the government's arguements in favor of the law. Does this scream "police state" to anyone else?
What I see happening: Bush will "win" the upcoming election, and promptly (or possibly towards the end of his second term) declare himself Emperor. Viva la resistance.
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'PS3 will provide graphics indistinguishable from movies.' Was the quote in the article. The 'Spider-Man 2 or Toy Story 2' part was from the submitter, wondering if the "movie-quality grapics" will be realistic like Spider-Man or cartoony like Toy Story.
Hardware is expensive though, so the way to maximize innovation, profit, and entertainment value all at the same time is to improve storytelling, as the article says.
To compare it to other forms of piracy, this could be likened to the RIAA putting out a music file that automatically copies itself virus-wise to other people's computers, then sueing you for distributing the file. If they're so concerned about it, they should engineer the plants not to create seeds. IANAGE (Genetic Engineer), and I don't know how complicated that would be, but they make seedless watermelons and the like, so I would think it would at least be possible.
Yes, but when you feel that a law is not morally justified, civil disobedience is and has been in the past a legitimately recognized way of protesting it. Sure you run the risk of getting in trouble with the proper authorities if caught, but private citizens have no right attacking you. If I park my car in the middle of the road the police can arrest me or tow my car, but random guy X who's inconvenienced by being late to work doesn't have the right to get out of his car and start defacing mine. This is what Overpeer is doing with their malware bundled with the music files (I don't have a problem with bad music files, it's the malware that bothers me).
I do actually strafe around corners, but I'm always looking one way or the other while going through doors or around corners, though still actually walking forward. Does that count?
I used to get bored and play Minesweeper... my record score for the smallest mine field was six seconds, and I'm pretty sure that at that point I'm more limited by the speed of my hand than anything else.
Never played the original Descent, but Descent: Freespace rocks hard too. Like the OP said about Descent, Freespace is the game that convinced me to buy a joystick (not only the first, but only game I've played that would have convinced me). If you can't find the original Descent I would really recommend checking out Freespace. Freespace had an expansion pack that was a lot of fun too, although I can't remember offhand what the name of it was.
What if you set up the levels/worlds/areas/whatever bittorrent-style, so players in a given world would host those maps or the creatures in them or whatever, and distributed it that way, also eliminating the need for a central server. I don't know if this implementation would actually work, I'm not a programmer or IT guy or anything, it's just a thought.
As a 19 year old college student I run into a similar problem, although my natural schedule isn't as clean as 36 hours either. I need about 10 hours of sleep, and about 16-18 hours awake... so I need a 26-28 hour day.
How does someone statistically walk down a street?
By the way, tetrahedrons are pyramids. Triangular pyramids, but pyramids none the less.
No, I always delete the quarantines. However, as someone else said, they could have been cookies, I didn't look that closely (I was in shock).
In the submitter's defense, my sister's computer was pretty spywared up, and I could no clear it. So I broke down and used MS spyware. Even *after* scanning with both Spybot and Adaware, MS found 4000+ infected files. So at least in my experience it works fairly well.
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Russian envoy: Leave this territory at once. Our words are backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
I'm not saying that Michael Crichton is the best source for information of this kind, but in the grandparent's defense, in State Of Fear he does distinguish which facts he got from real sources (most of the statements in the book), and sites those sources so the reader can look into them if he or she chooses.
Amen. I'd share my theories on God, but they'd definitely get modded Flamebait if anyone ever bothered to read them.
Um, the system was scheduled to go online in two weeks. If they don't have a Release Candidate two weeks before the final version comes out, we're in more trouble than I thought.
I don't think they go around trying. But again, any scheme can be brute-forced, it just requires time (albeit ridiculous amounts in some cases).
It seems to me that encryption schemes are always broken, it's just a matter of time.
Holy crap, that rocks. Mod the parent up. I can hear the Protoss commander saying those words.
Alright, so how do you figure this is good again? It sounds like another crappy big-budget *cough*Matrix Reloaded*cough* sci-fi *cough Episodes I & II*cough* that won't be even slightly entertaining beyond the initial awe of the special effects.
That's all well and good, but consider that in America the cost of living is significantly higher as well. So what qualifies as a subsitence wage elsewhere may not be enough for someone here. Just because it's "logical" doesn't mean it's right. If outsourcing continues there are going to be very few unskilled jobs left in America, which will create huge problems with poverty. Some will say "Americans will simply become more educated and perform more skilled labor." But there are two problems with that: one is that a society can only have so many doctors, lawyers, and engineers, two is that not everyone can afford to go to college and become educated, especially when they're losing their jobs to foreign workers who are willing to work below American minimum wages.
You make some good points. Removing IP completely would remove incentive to create, and likely creativity would decline. However, current IP laws are ridiculous. How does copyright lasting life of the authoer + 75 years encourage creativity? It doesn't. IP should not be abolished, but it should be limited to a more reasonable time scale, say 10 or 20 years of exclusive rights before it becomes public domain (the actual time-period is debateable, and unimportant to my point). In that model you have incentive to create because you have time to benefit from your work, and it blocks corporations holding copyrights for things someone created four million years ago.
What I see happening: Bush will "win" the upcoming election, and promptly (or possibly towards the end of his second term) declare himself Emperor. Viva la resistance.