Maybe I'm missing something, but you can already type 'map cleveland street london' or 'amazon-search the great gatsby' in the address bar and get the exact results you need. Is this inventing a solution to a problem that does not exist?
Mr Molyneux reads like a Microsoft press release: full of much hype and innovation, but by the time release comes around everything is hacked to pieces.
For example, he bragged about letting players directly factor in growing a town from a small collection of buildings to a giant metropolis. In the finished product? You are given a binary yes/no question and when you come back later the town is bigger.
How do you maintain that you're not expressly in the business of circumventing copyright law (as they did in the recent trial) when you offer a paid service that really has no other function?
Your statement is akin to saying that you must be guilty of something, since you refuse to let law enforcement search through your house whenever they feel like it.
It associates your account with the game the first time you run it? How does this combat piracy? Almost all software that is available for piracy is the pre-installation package.
What problem is this bulky, resource eater solving?
It seems as if something like this would attract vagrants, significant vandalism and just plain disgustingness. Would be pretty cool though if major cities were only filled with people like the scientists and engineers would designed it.
I'm glad to see even low UIDs do their share of trolling. The point of my post is that you can't build a decentralized file sharing protocol. It's like lossless random data compression or a perpetual motion machine. You can't just run a program and have it "know" where all the clients are. You have to hit up a server in one manner or another for it to work. Those servers are what will be taken down, just like TorrentSpy and ThePirateBay.
There is no such thing as true peer to peer, and it is impossible to make a "decentralized" P2P client. At some point you need to contact servers to get data, and those are the points that will face legal pressure.
Look at the accident and fatality rates with the masses and regular cars. I can't imagine how many deaths this would cause worldwide. A flying car is great in cheesy novels and movies, but horrible in reality.
What I find interesting about the increasingly restrictive and inconvenient DRM is the fact that you still can't return those products to any store at which you purchased it. They are basically admitting that people will continue to pirate undeterred, and the "copy protection" servers no real purpose other than to alienate and annoy their customers.
But when you get to that point, it loses all meaning.
R on Lincoln
L on 1st St
L on R Ave
R on Prescott
How is that any harder than saying:
Orange
Burnt Amber
Sanguine Desire
Ghost Egg White
Not to mention the more complicated the street system the more colors you would need and that would cause extreme confusion as people try and tell shades apart.
From the description and picture listed on Wikipedia it seems to me that this method is only possible if every single road is a one-way street. This is hardly a realistic situation except in downtown parts of the largest cities.
Farnsworth: As a man it has become too much of a chore for me to clean out my wrinkles each day. Is it true that stem cells may fight the aging process?
Geneworks Woman: Well yes, in the same way an infant may fight Muhammed Ali! But -
Think of this from the store's point of view for a moment. Should they just go on good faith? What's to stop tens of thousands of people from buying anything they want and coming back with am empty box demanding their money back? Once word of Best Buy's honor system policy gets out they would be bankrupted by scams.
Good call. Nerds definitely aren't interested in video games. All we do is play chess, do calculus in our heads, and argue the merits of Kirk as the original captain.
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You would think someone like that would have a firewall.
The Obama administration argues that that continuation of the case will lead to the disclosure of important 'state secrets.'
Never mind the, "Obama is just as bad as Bush," rant. What's the secret? Any guesses?
They've been doing this and much more long before the 9/11 attacks.
Now, when you have a brokerage account and are trading stocks, you should know what you are doing and be responsible for your actions.
I think you would have a much stronger point if the root of this entire problem was caused by the customers and not the company.
CLEARLY IT IS NOT
The one on the left has complained so much about this that it is a little horse.
Maybe I'm missing something, but you can already type 'map cleveland street london' or 'amazon-search the great gatsby' in the address bar and get the exact results you need. Is this inventing a solution to a problem that does not exist?
Mr Molyneux reads like a Microsoft press release: full of much hype and innovation, but by the time release comes around everything is hacked to pieces.
For example, he bragged about letting players directly factor in growing a town from a small collection of buildings to a giant metropolis. In the finished product? You are given a binary yes/no question and when you come back later the town is bigger.
This makes me immediately question what kind of "campaign funding" this senator has received.
How do you maintain that you're not expressly in the business of circumventing copyright law (as they did in the recent trial) when you offer a paid service that really has no other function?
Your statement is akin to saying that you must be guilty of something, since you refuse to let law enforcement search through your house whenever they feel like it.
It associates your account with the game the first time you run it? How does this combat piracy? Almost all software that is available for piracy is the pre-installation package.
What problem is this bulky, resource eater solving?
It seems as if something like this would attract vagrants, significant vandalism and just plain disgustingness. Would be pretty cool though if major cities were only filled with people like the scientists and engineers would designed it.
Now Google can sync their deletions with your portable device too.
Somewhere in here is a Barry Manilow joke.
We still can't mod the editors.
And yes, IAAAL.
Just a quick question... If IAAL stands for I Am A Lawyer, what is the extra "A" for?
Homer: Come to Homer's BBBQ, the extra 'B' is for BYOBB
Bart: What's that extra B for?
Homer: That's a typo.
I'm glad to see even low UIDs do their share of trolling. The point of my post is that you can't build a decentralized file sharing protocol. It's like lossless random data compression or a perpetual motion machine. You can't just run a program and have it "know" where all the clients are. You have to hit up a server in one manner or another for it to work. Those servers are what will be taken down, just like TorrentSpy and ThePirateBay.
There is no such thing as true peer to peer, and it is impossible to make a "decentralized" P2P client. At some point you need to contact servers to get data, and those are the points that will face legal pressure.
Look at the accident and fatality rates with the masses and regular cars. I can't imagine how many deaths this would cause worldwide. A flying car is great in cheesy novels and movies, but horrible in reality.
What I find interesting about the increasingly restrictive and inconvenient DRM is the fact that you still can't return those products to any store at which you purchased it. They are basically admitting that people will continue to pirate undeterred, and the "copy protection" servers no real purpose other than to alienate and annoy their customers.
The ultimate reality show: watching yourself watch yourself.
But when you get to that point, it loses all meaning. R on Lincoln L on 1st St L on R Ave R on Prescott How is that any harder than saying: Orange Burnt Amber Sanguine Desire Ghost Egg White Not to mention the more complicated the street system the more colors you would need and that would cause extreme confusion as people try and tell shades apart.
From the description and picture listed on Wikipedia it seems to me that this method is only possible if every single road is a one-way street. This is hardly a realistic situation except in downtown parts of the largest cities.
Farnsworth: As a man it has become too much of a chore for me to clean out my wrinkles each day. Is it true that stem cells may fight the aging process?
Geneworks Woman: Well yes, in the same way an infant may fight Muhammed Ali! But -
Farnsworth: One pound of stem cells please.
Think of this from the store's point of view for a moment. Should they just go on good faith? What's to stop tens of thousands of people from buying anything they want and coming back with am empty box demanding their money back? Once word of Best Buy's honor system policy gets out they would be bankrupted by scams.
Good call. Nerds definitely aren't interested in video games. All we do is play chess, do calculus in our heads, and argue the merits of Kirk as the original captain.