A friend of mine bought a multi-thousand dollar PC not too long ago and was wondering why my home-built budget box was running UT2k4 faster at a LAN party we were at. A little bit of optimizing and its performance was up 20-30%. I can't remember how many processes he had running at startup but it was something like 50-60. It was completely sapping his resources.
It seems to be the people with the most money to spend who are the most clueless.
PS2 emulation (on the PC) has been is progress since 2001 and we can't even boot games yet. So it's not surprising that emulators ON the Dreamcast aren't that far along yet.
Hell, N64 and PS1 emulation has only recently reached fullspeed and near 100% accuracy, and there are still a few games that don't work right, or at all.
Probably not. If they ship the new faster chips now, the price of the mid-high range P4s out now will drop, and they wont make as much money. So they wait and keep selling their existing stock of P4s at the same high prices until most are gone, just in time for the new chips to start arriving.
...lack of compatibility with different fileformats...
It plays MP3's and that's all that most people use anyway. No large amount of people are going to be turned off to the iPod because it can't play Napster2.0 DRM'd.WMA files, or Real's shitty DRM'd garbage. Most people will just shrug it off and say, "Well, I get my un-drm'd music from kazaa/emule/ftp for free anyway, so why should I care?"
It doesn't matter. When you buy a game, you can use it in whatever way you want, regardless of how unorthodox it is. Their "just-strong-enough-to-be-annoying" copy protection is infringing on our fair use rights.
From your definition <br> <i>taking of the property or services of another</i> <br> Theft requires that someone lost something. And you can't claim that bullshit about loss of a "potential sale". <br> If theft and copyright infringment are the same thing, then why bother and have two seperate laws? Try brining someone to court who's been selling copyrighted CD's and accuse them of "theft" you'll be laughed out of the courtroom.
You fail it, for bringing up a car/software analogy.
A car requires effort, money, and raw materials to produce 1 copy. Software, after the initial cost of production, cost nearly nothing to reproduce, and the impact is zero if I use MY bandwidth, and MY electricity to run the computer to download the software.
Taking software from a store without paying for it IS stealing, downloading a game is NOT. It IS copyright infringement, I'm not denying that, but it is not stealing, for stealing requires that someone has lost something, and besides a "potential sale" (and even that is debatable), the software manufacturer has lost nothing, and gained nothing.
It sucks, but the Video Game Industry IS a business. It's like rock music finally selling out to MTV. All facets of the product are being changed to maximize profit, and to hell with anything else.
Game play, doesn't matter. Replayability, doesn't matter. Graphics and buzzwords are the new game play, that's what's eye catching in the store, and replay ability is dangerous to them, if they want to release another game shortly after.
Expansion packs, something that we never used to see so soon after a game was released are now common, and often companies start work on expansion packs as soon as the main game is done (road to rome), knowing they can get another 20-30 dollars from suckers who don't realize a few maps, some new guns, and skins aren't worth the price.
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Or, just right click My Computer ---> Advanced Tab ---> Performance ---> Adjust For Best Performance.
A friend of mine bought a multi-thousand dollar PC not too long ago and was wondering why my home-built budget box was running UT2k4 faster at a LAN party we were at. A little bit of optimizing and its performance was up 20-30%. I can't remember how many processes he had running at startup but it was something like 50-60. It was completely sapping his resources.
It seems to be the people with the most money to spend who are the most clueless.
PS2 emulation (on the PC) has been is progress since 2001 and we can't even boot games yet. So it's not surprising that emulators ON the Dreamcast aren't that far along yet.
Hell, N64 and PS1 emulation has only recently reached fullspeed and near 100% accuracy, and there are still a few games that don't work right, or at all.
3000+ = 3.0Ghz P4 3200+ = 3.2GHz P4
Stop being so mean.
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Probably not. If they ship the new faster chips now, the price of the mid-high range P4s out now will drop, and they wont make as much money. So they wait and keep selling their existing stock of P4s at the same high prices until most are gone, just in time for the new chips to start arriving.
Remember the article about the projected system averages for a Longhorn PC? That takes care of the lag at least...
This comes to mind.
...their political system is based on populism...
Oh, you mean like the Popular Vote?
...lack of compatibility with different fileformats...
.WMA files, or Real's shitty DRM'd garbage. Most people will just shrug it off and say, "Well, I get my un-drm'd music from kazaa/emule/ftp for free anyway, so why should I care?"
It plays MP3's and that's all that most people use anyway. No large amount of people are going to be turned off to the iPod because it can't play Napster2.0 DRM'd
Do us all a favor and pick up one of these, and make sure you wash your hands.
I don't have a SP. Still using my ol' Regular GBA. I just can't justify spending 100$ for a backlight and fliptop.
We already have SNES emulation on the GBA
WOW! 193%!? How do they do it?
After reading that, this picture comes to mind.
Yeah, I had always thought that it was a joke, but was never sure.
It's almost as fucked up, pro-Christian, pro-Nazi as this website
I keep telling myself, that CAN'T be real. It has to be a joke.
It doesn't matter. When you buy a game, you can use it in whatever way you want, regardless of how unorthodox it is. Their "just-strong-enough-to-be-annoying" copy protection is infringing on our fair use rights.
oh, fuckshit. I posted as Extrans. Fuck, that was supposed to be HTML formatted.
From your definition
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<i>taking of the property or services of another</i>
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Theft requires that someone lost something. And you can't claim that bullshit about loss of a "potential sale".
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If theft and copyright infringment are the same thing, then why bother and have two seperate laws? Try brining someone to court who's been selling copyrighted CD's and accuse them of "theft" you'll be laughed out of the courtroom.
And you're so confident with your opinion that you posted AC?
My next ejaculation will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Sure enough, the page has been wiped clean, except for that black box with that erorr message in it.
You fail it, for bringing up a car/software analogy.
A car requires effort, money, and raw materials to produce 1 copy. Software, after the initial cost of production, cost nearly nothing to reproduce, and the impact is zero if I use MY bandwidth, and MY electricity to run the computer to download the software.
Taking software from a store without paying for it IS stealing, downloading a game is NOT. It IS copyright infringement, I'm not denying that, but it is not stealing, for stealing requires that someone has lost something, and besides a "potential sale" (and even that is debatable), the software manufacturer has lost nothing, and gained nothing.
It sucks, but the Video Game Industry IS a business. It's like rock music finally selling out to MTV. All facets of the product are being changed to maximize profit, and to hell with anything else.
Game play, doesn't matter. Replayability, doesn't matter. Graphics and buzzwords are the new game play, that's what's eye catching in the store, and replay ability is dangerous to them, if they want to release another game shortly after.
Expansion packs, something that we never used to see so soon after a game was released are now common, and often companies start work on expansion packs as soon as the main game is done (road to rome), knowing they can get another 20-30 dollars from suckers who don't realize a few maps, some new guns, and skins aren't worth the price.
The game industry sold out.