Besides, haven't these morons figured out yet that CSS is borderline useless?
Of course they have, why do you think they are willing to let us use it. They look less evil, and they are only "letting" us do something we already could.
I also remember that in the 90's era of pc gaming, you could go online and download playable demos of games before buying them, a rarety now. Now you have to shell out 50+ bucks ahead of time, and once you open the shrink wrap you can't bring it back to the store, even if it sucks. I don't think its so wrong to pirate a game to see if it's any good before buying it.
Also, alot of the anti piracy software used in the gaming industry has been a real pain in the butt. Preventing piracy is one thing, but inconviencing all your paying costumers to do it is a problem.
So what your saying is that it's a classic "tragedy of the commons" because someone can't access their favorite website from school/library computers? I think that's little strong, as is comparison to totalitarian governments like china. No one is telling you not to access that site, they are just telling you that you cant do it from publicaly funded computers.
Also, stating that if you have to wait for a computer at the library, you can just go home and use your owne is somewhat contrary to the entire argument as we have been discussing the fact that not everyone has a computer at their house. Not to mention the fact that many library computers have access to academic jurnals, library card decks and specific software which is not avalable outside the library.
It doesn't matter weather you have the air jordans or not, if a kid wants to make fun of you he will find a something about you to tease. Kids pick on each other, especially in middle school, and I doubt very much that any law congress passes will have an effect on that, positive or negetive.
While I can sympathise that this is a problem for kids who's parents can't afford a computer, I also think that terminals in schools and libraries are placed there for academic purposes, and that mySpace really doesn't qualify.
I can remember many times waiting to do legitimate work behind some kid who was using IM or looking at some dumb website.
I hate the expansion of copyright law as much as the next guy, but this is a pritty clear violation. There is no fair use here, someone is modifying the film and selling it for profit. This is a case of an unlicenced party distributing the copyrighted work for profit, which is just the kind of thing copyright was intended to prevent. You still have the right to modify your owne personal copy any way you like, which would be fair use.
Many iPod owners admitted they traded functionality/reliability for "status symbol"/fashion.
I think that statement hits the nail on the head. Most people buy the iPod because it is cool. This is also the reason competeators have had a hard time defeating it, most have tried to beat the iPod based on price/features, which doesn't work aginst a product with fashion appeal.
First off, there have been mac/unix viruses in the past, however none were ever more than a small issue. The viruses never had explosive exponential growth, and there were patches and fixes released very quickley.
In order for a virus to spread, it must find new computers to infect. With a windows virus, there are thousands of avalable computers to go after, but for a mac/unix virus, the avalable targets are more limited. Without a large number of potential targets, the virus's growth is very slow, and a fix is released before the virus has speread beyone a small number of people.
1) The idea would be that though causual gamers spend less money each, their numbers make up for it, resulting in lots of sails.
2) Casual gamers may be more likely to buy into something like XBox live arcade etc... simple games for small amounts of money. Abnoxious micro payments may hinder this tho...
According to the Associated Press, even though several members of the House questioned whether the bill would be in violation of the First Amendment, none felt they should vote against the measure.
It seems like this artical is predicting a good run for Nintendo. Their console lacks all the problems that this artical is talking about, no HDTV, resonable pricetag (at least thats what we hear so far). Maby the Wii does have a chace...
Bashing Windows is not a defense, friend. I know it feels righteous and it makes you proud to be so very technically correct, but it's a false economy. You've won nothing.
What if we don't want it to configure our hardware automagicly? What about all the people who use Linux because they like the way it works. There is this attitude amongst many people that Linux needs to have every feature that windows has. If we do that then we will end up with a system as bloated, buggy and insecure as windows.
Lets keep Linux what it is, and not make it into a "windows killer" if it's too much for grandma, then she can keep using windows.
I thing this is just a convienent excuse for people who are afraid to change because it is outside their comfort zone. People will spend hours fixing their windows computer (and rebooting it 14 times!) but when they have to spend time to fix their Linux box, they throw their hands in the air and say it's too complicated.
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I also remember that in the 90's era of pc gaming, you could go online and download playable demos of games before buying them, a rarety now. Now you have to shell out 50+ bucks ahead of time, and once you open the shrink wrap you can't bring it back to the store, even if it sucks. I don't think its so wrong to pirate a game to see if it's any good before buying it. Also, alot of the anti piracy software used in the gaming industry has been a real pain in the butt. Preventing piracy is one thing, but inconviencing all your paying costumers to do it is a problem.
So what your saying is that it's a classic "tragedy of the commons" because someone can't access their favorite website from school/library computers? I think that's little strong, as is comparison to totalitarian governments like china. No one is telling you not to access that site, they are just telling you that you cant do it from publicaly funded computers.
Also, stating that if you have to wait for a computer at the library, you can just go home and use your owne is somewhat contrary to the entire argument as we have been discussing the fact that not everyone has a computer at their house. Not to mention the fact that many library computers have access to academic jurnals, library card decks and specific software which is not avalable outside the library.
Guess what, kids are mean
It doesn't matter weather you have the air jordans or not, if a kid wants to make fun of you he will find a something about you to tease. Kids pick on each other, especially in middle school, and I doubt very much that any law congress passes will have an effect on that, positive or negetive.
While I can sympathise that this is a problem for kids who's parents can't afford a computer, I also think that terminals in schools and libraries are placed there for academic purposes, and that mySpace really doesn't qualify.
I can remember many times waiting to do legitimate work behind some kid who was using IM or looking at some dumb website.
When Paul Hogan goes into court he should play Hull Hogan's theam song "I am a real American." That would be sweet.
... To get parents in a tizzy and ensure votes for your next election.
Now it is the beginning of a fantastic story! Let us make a journey to the cave of monsters!
Interactive in game spamming, trolling and carma whoring are also comming soon...
1) emerge -U world 2) level up 3) ...
4) profit
No this is the forum for abuse...
I hate the expansion of copyright law as much as the next guy, but this is a pritty clear violation. There is no fair use here, someone is modifying the film and selling it for profit. This is a case of an unlicenced party distributing the copyrighted work for profit, which is just the kind of thing copyright was intended to prevent. You still have the right to modify your owne personal copy any way you like, which would be fair use.
First off, there have been mac/unix viruses in the past, however none were ever more than a small issue. The viruses never had explosive exponential growth, and there were patches and fixes released very quickley.
In order for a virus to spread, it must find new computers to infect. With a windows virus, there are thousands of avalable computers to go after, but for a mac/unix virus, the avalable targets are more limited. Without a large number of potential targets, the virus's growth is very slow, and a fix is released before the virus has speread beyone a small number of people.
1) The idea would be that though causual gamers spend less money each, their numbers make up for it, resulting in lots of sails. 2) Casual gamers may be more likely to buy into something like XBox live arcade etc... simple games for small amounts of money. Abnoxious micro payments may hinder this tho...
Cube and it's sequal are two great open source fps games... http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
Wasn't there a Shoe Phone in Get Smart?
Among the wii's features are 4 gamecube controller ports... Don't fully know what they are for yet but...
It seems like this artical is predicting a good run for Nintendo. Their console lacks all the problems that this artical is talking about, no HDTV, resonable pricetag (at least thats what we hear so far). Maby the Wii does have a chace...
That seems doubtful, I think they will use more powerful and inconvienent protection means instead.
I thing this is just a convienent excuse for people who are afraid to change because it is outside their comfort zone. People will spend hours fixing their windows computer (and rebooting it 14 times!) but when they have to spend time to fix their Linux box, they throw their hands in the air and say it's too complicated.
Why would this post possibly be offtopic? Looks like an offended apple fanboy got mod points to me.
Corolation does not imply causality. Works in this case too.