But which does it need to take? Censorship like this isn't there because the govt wants more control, the govt really doesn't care how violent your videogames are (they might care about things that oppose them politically but they haven't banned the Sun yet so that's not happening). This censorship came because the PEOPLE wanted it to be. In a democracy the only real way to determine what laws should exist is to look at what the people want and in this case the people want censorship. YOU may not want censorship but apparently you're in the minority.
The difference is that the BBFC would be working against a commercial entity. The govt may end up saying Steam isn't permitted to do business in the UK if it carries banned games. Peer to peer can't be stopped because noone is responsible but a commercial system has people who are responsible and can be held accountable.
I think he also managed to characterize the fear of the unknown (whether desired or not). After all the censorship in F451 was created because the people WANTED it. I also think that's a very crucial piece there, people WANT some things to be banned because they are afraid of it. Only in that case it was something they were too dumb to use anymore rather than something they were too old-fashined to understand. Perhaps Bradbury criticised himself a bit with that, where the people in his book fear the old unknown he fears the new unknown... Though bashing MTV is always a worthy cause.
Perhaps their ability to induce religious experiences is the reason the "puritans" oppose them because it suggests that all the religious texts basing themselves on such revelations (no pun intended) have more mundane reasons, not divine inspiration and that witnesses of divine acts are more likely just abusing drugs and hallucinating?
Sony needs better names for these things. By 80 gig I meant the non EE having, but still Back Compat model, which is what the 60 gig is in Europe.
Yeah and that 60GB model is going out of production, once the current stock is gone only the 40GB will remain (unless Sony introduces yet another model by then).
Lack of BC sucks but then you can always buy the 60Gb model if you want.
Not always, only during the next few months.
As for the features, those aren't what I buy a console for. I bought a PS2 after all (and still use it) and it's probably one of the worst pieces of hardware I had the misfortune to encounter.
I say it'll be Gearbox. Simply because those guys seem to be jumping in a lot for developers that don't want to continue work on one of their game series.
The tesselation will not include every detail of the shape simply because there aren't enough polies for that. Some details of the shape will never show up in the game. The developer has no reason to add these parts of the shape because they won't be seen. When the hardware advances enough to show it the detail still isn't there because it was never made.
For a simple example, take terrain. Let's say a game has terrain that can, on current hardware, be rendered at a resolution of 1m*1m. The developer decides to give the terrain a resolution of.5m*.5m internally and downsample so it looks better on the next generation of graphics cards that can do.5m*.5m. 5 years later a sequel of the game is made and the same place gets revisited. Now terrain can be 1cm*1cm. The old terrain is useless for this. The old terrain could have been made at 1cm*1cm but since there was no need it wasn't.
Freedom of speech is about sharing your ideas, not works and especially not other people's works. Free speech is about communication, about the ability to communicate things. What do you communicate by distributing Metallica CDs over P2P? What's the idea that expresses? P2P is not an act of speech and is not protected like it.
This is why most lists move a leading "the" or other particle to the end of the name. If you want that taken to the extreme try military indexing, they move all adjectives behind the noun (except in France because in France everything's backwards from the start).
Still not a reason to fine an individual 220000$. If ignoring a settlement and demanding a fair trial is a reason to up your punishment then the fascists have won.
That or it runs through the way the big cartels try to form the world instead (through bribery): Everything new gets crippled until it's worse than what came before.
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But which does it need to take? Censorship like this isn't there because the govt wants more control, the govt really doesn't care how violent your videogames are (they might care about things that oppose them politically but they haven't banned the Sun yet so that's not happening). This censorship came because the PEOPLE wanted it to be. In a democracy the only real way to determine what laws should exist is to look at what the people want and in this case the people want censorship. YOU may not want censorship but apparently you're in the minority.
GTA sells for being a good game but most of their other "successes" were only out of controversy. I guess that's why GTA is their bestselling series.
The difference is that the BBFC would be working against a commercial entity. The govt may end up saying Steam isn't permitted to do business in the UK if it carries banned games. Peer to peer can't be stopped because noone is responsible but a commercial system has people who are responsible and can be held accountable.
I think he also managed to characterize the fear of the unknown (whether desired or not). After all the censorship in F451 was created because the people WANTED it. I also think that's a very crucial piece there, people WANT some things to be banned because they are afraid of it. Only in that case it was something they were too dumb to use anymore rather than something they were too old-fashined to understand. Perhaps Bradbury criticised himself a bit with that, where the people in his book fear the old unknown he fears the new unknown... Though bashing MTV is always a worthy cause.
Perhaps their ability to induce religious experiences is the reason the "puritans" oppose them because it suggests that all the religious texts basing themselves on such revelations (no pun intended) have more mundane reasons, not divine inspiration and that witnesses of divine acts are more likely just abusing drugs and hallucinating?
Sony needs better names for these things. By 80 gig I meant the non EE having, but still Back Compat model, which is what the 60 gig is in Europe.
Yeah and that 60GB model is going out of production, once the current stock is gone only the 40GB will remain (unless Sony introduces yet another model by then).
Once they run out of 60 gig models, you can buy an 80 gig if you want backwards compatibility.
No because the 80GB was never released in Europe.
And they will be piloted by highschool girls and carry swords for some unfathomable reason.
Japan would probably have nukes to deter China if they weren't a former Axis country.
The newspaper I read this morning said Leicester, UK. It also said the things would be made of tungsten.
Depends. What's gold-pressed latinum good for except using the gold in electronics manufacturing?
That's the imperial QUID. A metric QUID will be exactly 10 quid.
I think they even said people don't want a complex service like Live.
Lack of BC sucks but then you can always buy the 60Gb model if you want.
Not always, only during the next few months.
As for the features, those aren't what I buy a console for. I bought a PS2 after all (and still use it) and it's probably one of the worst pieces of hardware I had the misfortune to encounter.
No, Europe didn't get the PS3 pricecut or 80GB model. This pretty much evens the count.
So, um, no creative works could be made if you couldn't download music for free off P2P?
I say it'll be Gearbox. Simply because those guys seem to be jumping in a lot for developers that don't want to continue work on one of their game series.
I would love to see them do something like that again. Imagine something as much better than Halo as Halo was better than Marathon.
Many here would extrapolate that as Marathon -> Halo -> Daikatana.
The tesselation will not include every detail of the shape simply because there aren't enough polies for that. Some details of the shape will never show up in the game. The developer has no reason to add these parts of the shape because they won't be seen. When the hardware advances enough to show it the detail still isn't there because it was never made.
.5m*.5m internally and downsample so it looks better on the next generation of graphics cards that can do .5m*.5m. 5 years later a sequel of the game is made and the same place gets revisited. Now terrain can be 1cm*1cm. The old terrain is useless for this. The old terrain could have been made at 1cm*1cm but since there was no need it wasn't.
For a simple example, take terrain. Let's say a game has terrain that can, on current hardware, be rendered at a resolution of 1m*1m. The developer decides to give the terrain a resolution of
Freedom of speech is about sharing your ideas, not works and especially not other people's works. Free speech is about communication, about the ability to communicate things. What do you communicate by distributing Metallica CDs over P2P? What's the idea that expresses? P2P is not an act of speech and is not protected like it.
This is why most lists move a leading "the" or other particle to the end of the name. If you want that taken to the extreme try military indexing, they move all adjectives behind the noun (except in France because in France everything's backwards from the start).
Still not a reason to fine an individual 220000$. If ignoring a settlement and demanding a fair trial is a reason to up your punishment then the fascists have won.
Because we all know that downloading other people's music against their will is a fundamental right.
That or it runs through the way the big cartels try to form the world instead (through bribery): Everything new gets crippled until it's worse than what came before.
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