I don't think it's as easy as that, the liquid inside would have much lower pressure than the liquid outside so it'd be not much different from using air. The liquid inside would have to be compressed to several bar (not sure if you need to match outide pressure or if you can keep it at much lower pressure if compression at that level isn't big enough to destroy the hull anymore) and that would make the cam go pop when outside of water. You need a strong hull first and foremost.
No. On the market you trade money for the ownership of certain goods. In an MMO you cannot acquire ownership of the goods, all goods remain sole property of the service provider. Selling items ingame is usually considered "rendering services" by the seller, i.e. they sell the time they needed to get the item, not the item itself. As long as no real world money is involved there is no transaction of goods, just like you don't own the monopoly money when playing with someone else's game you don't own the items your character acquires in an MMO. If real money gets involved the "seller" will have to file that as income for providing services. If you start selling services you are working.
In most MMOs there is no transaction. The service contract clearly states that all items remain property of the service provider. Because the items cannot be traded for real money they have no value.
You could also say that MS bundled Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and Media Player with Windows because they believed that is the best solution. However MS is not in a position where they are allowed to make such decisions. MS could have included every search engine but Google and let the user choose a default on the first search (their freaking search dog doesn't use a default either) or they could have required third party plugins for searches. But they can NOT "strongly encourage" the use of their own services. They've been convicted, now they've got to face the consequences.
Pretty much, yes. With their proprietary DRM they are leveraging iTunes to make people buy iPods (I don't think the reverse is true, you can fill an iPod with MP3s but you can't fill many other MP3 players with iTunes songs). I don't know if iTunes or the iPod hold de-facto monopolies, though. Other MP3 players seem to do very well and the other music download services don't seem to complain much, either.
Hm, makes me think of the console market... Would integrating Bluray into the PS3 constitute leveraging a monopoly?
Yet, Microsoft is NOT forcing anyone to adopt it. If you want to change it, you can. If someone is so unlikely to switch that's a laziness/ignorance issue on the part of the end user, not Microsoft.
The situation is the same with IE or Media Player yet the courts have pronounced MS guilty of anticompetitive practices. The de facto situation is that MS is making people use MSN because it's bundled with the browser, not because it's better. As I understand it MS is pretty much on probation regarding these practices.
Google could be considered a de-facto monopoly but Firefox is still made by an independent entity. Google can pay them what they wanrt, it's still legal. If Google were to pay FF to sabotage Microsoft (e.g. prevent inclusion of MSN search, break MS pages, etc) that WOULD be an antitrust issue. Microsoft could just pay Firefox and Opera enough to make MSN search the default.
It's not a movie, it's an additional ending cutscene for the game because it makes zero sense if you haven't played that. It was a total waste of time for me. I'd rather watch Mario Brothers, at least that had a plot you could understand. AC was like taking an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick, adding even more CG and removing any plot coherence.
Oh and I've heard the Pokemon movies are supposedly good for what they are trying to be.
On the other hand, most story-heavy titles have a story that wouldn't even fit within the length of a movie because a game has roughly 20 hours to tell it. With hundreds of subplots and stuff. I think that if you were to take the story from all DoA titles together you'd have enough story to fit into a movie with a few action scenes included. Of course that'd still be character overload and nobody would want to see that.
They may just want to live out their Tron fantasies, or see such a world realized in a video game, even if they have no idea how such a game would play.
The terrorists didn't kill many people even before secret subpoenas were introduced. Other nations manage to catch terrorists wihout SS. I'm really not convinced that seret subpoenas are the only way to prevent terrorism.
If they have a way of verifying whether a CPU is affected they could indeed give the money back and tell the customer that his warranty now only applies to the lower frequency. Since these are server CPUs they probably have maintenance contracts attached and those require that the CPU is clocked at manufacturer spec. Warranty means a lot more to companies than home users.
I mean, they could exchange the CPU (maybe just changing the clock multiplier and sending it back) but nothing would stop you from operating it at the higher frequency except for the warranty.
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I don't think it's as easy as that, the liquid inside would have much lower pressure than the liquid outside so it'd be not much different from using air. The liquid inside would have to be compressed to several bar (not sure if you need to match outide pressure or if you can keep it at much lower pressure if compression at that level isn't big enough to destroy the hull anymore) and that would make the cam go pop when outside of water. You need a strong hull first and foremost.
No. On the market you trade money for the ownership of certain goods. In an MMO you cannot acquire ownership of the goods, all goods remain sole property of the service provider. Selling items ingame is usually considered "rendering services" by the seller, i.e. they sell the time they needed to get the item, not the item itself. As long as no real world money is involved there is no transaction of goods, just like you don't own the monopoly money when playing with someone else's game you don't own the items your character acquires in an MMO. If real money gets involved the "seller" will have to file that as income for providing services. If you start selling services you are working.
In most MMOs there is no transaction. The service contract clearly states that all items remain property of the service provider. Because the items cannot be traded for real money they have no value.
So you're fighting for the RAF but your character is American? WTF? Why? Wouldn't it have made more sense to have the character be of UK origin?
You could also say that MS bundled Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and Media Player with Windows because they believed that is the best solution. However MS is not in a position where they are allowed to make such decisions. MS could have included every search engine but Google and let the user choose a default on the first search (their freaking search dog doesn't use a default either) or they could have required third party plugins for searches. But they can NOT "strongly encourage" the use of their own services. They've been convicted, now they've got to face the consequences.
Pretty much, yes. With their proprietary DRM they are leveraging iTunes to make people buy iPods (I don't think the reverse is true, you can fill an iPod with MP3s but you can't fill many other MP3 players with iTunes songs). I don't know if iTunes or the iPod hold de-facto monopolies, though. Other MP3 players seem to do very well and the other music download services don't seem to complain much, either.
Hm, makes me think of the console market... Would integrating Bluray into the PS3 constitute leveraging a monopoly?
Yet, Microsoft is NOT forcing anyone to adopt it. If you want to change it, you can. If someone is so unlikely to switch that's a laziness/ignorance issue on the part of the end user, not Microsoft.
The situation is the same with IE or Media Player yet the courts have pronounced MS guilty of anticompetitive practices. The de facto situation is that MS is making people use MSN because it's bundled with the browser, not because it's better. As I understand it MS is pretty much on probation regarding these practices.
Google could be considered a de-facto monopoly but Firefox is still made by an independent entity. Google can pay them what they wanrt, it's still legal. If Google were to pay FF to sabotage Microsoft (e.g. prevent inclusion of MSN search, break MS pages, etc) that WOULD be an antitrust issue. Microsoft could just pay Firefox and Opera enough to make MSN search the default.
Of course they are saying that it will last ten years,
If you define "lasting" as "some units are shipped to stores and the occassional token game gets released"...
It's not a movie, it's an additional ending cutscene for the game because it makes zero sense if you haven't played that. It was a total waste of time for me. I'd rather watch Mario Brothers, at least that had a plot you could understand. AC was like taking an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick, adding even more CG and removing any plot coherence.
Oh and I've heard the Pokemon movies are supposedly good for what they are trying to be.
On the other hand, most story-heavy titles have a story that wouldn't even fit within the length of a movie because a game has roughly 20 hours to tell it. With hundreds of subplots and stuff. I think that if you were to take the story from all DoA titles together you'd have enough story to fit into a movie with a few action scenes included. Of course that'd still be character overload and nobody would want to see that.
WHAT? Man, at least I still have my pencil shavings. That little yellow man told me they're legal tender.
such as the boy's name "Raito" (Light)
Anyone with that name is required to get a PhD in robotics.
If the name was any good this question wouldn't even arise.
Being able to get through the game by mashing X? I call it the "Street Fighter effect"
Try that on a recent iteration of SF.
They may just want to live out their Tron fantasies, or see such a world realized in a video game, even if they have no idea how such a game would play.
Well, Tron 2.0 played pretty well.
The terrorists didn't kill many people even before secret subpoenas were introduced. Other nations manage to catch terrorists wihout SS. I'm really not convinced that seret subpoenas are the only way to prevent terrorism.
The GDR called, they want their practices back.
For a comparison, numbers for 2002 according to the CDC:
Total deaths: 2,443,387
Heart Disease: 696,947
Accidents: 106,742
Suicide: 31,655
Homicide: 17,638
Do you really think terrorism is going to hit you?
How would the judge issue a warrant to get their past websurfing habits?
The ISP is required to keep the URL history for x months and the judge issues a warrant so the NSA may officially use it?
Of course it won't stop spam but that doesn't mean we should let the criminals get away with it.
Naah, too painless. I'd say wheel him.
Well, there HAS to be a reason why there's a law against harrasment.
If they have a way of verifying whether a CPU is affected they could indeed give the money back and tell the customer that his warranty now only applies to the lower frequency. Since these are server CPUs they probably have maintenance contracts attached and those require that the CPU is clocked at manufacturer spec. Warranty means a lot more to companies than home users.
I mean, they could exchange the CPU (maybe just changing the clock multiplier and sending it back) but nothing would stop you from operating it at the higher frequency except for the warranty.
Try here.