The %s here are referring to # of computers sold in a given year. Often, these statistics are discussed as if the % referred to the number of computers actually in use.
If Apple users buy a new computer every 4 years and Wintel users buy a new computer every 3 years, the % of Apples sold will be lower than the % of Apple computers in use.
"if you think too hard you'll never guess what it is. It's nothing 'new', technically speaking. It's just something that hasn't really been applied to videogames yet."
I'll wager that it's a bicycle.
America's enormously obese youth are about to get a tad healthier.
There was a slashdot story about how you couldn't find any of the Abu Ghraib abuse photos on google image search, and people cried censorship only to realize that google simply hadn't updated its image database?
Anyone have an idea about the current update schedule of google image search?
Over the past ten years, we've observed an overwhelming trend toward completely free exchange of everything digital. This revolution threatens all creators of digital media.
I believe that Valve has taken reasonable steps to ensure its survival in the climate of free information.
I, too, found the ad humorous. I like how the guy is using the middle mouse button to execute the illegal download. The button appears to be labeled with Apple's AirPort logo. The ad is hanging on my dorm room door, along with the following cliché manifesto: MPAA: The Lawsuits Will Not Stop Us.
The media industries are pathetically clinging to an obsolete system of copyright. The internet has triggered an unstoppable chain of events that will culminate in the total free-flowing information/media.
A handful of week-minded kids and ignorant adults might be frightened into deleting their pirated movies and songs as a result of the lawsuits, but the revolution will continue. Enforcing the current archaic intellectual property laws is literally impossible. The media giants need to embrace the emerging technology instead of fighting it.
Mark my words: 12 years from now, our conceptions of intellectual property will be radically different.
But Ethan, if everyone gets their movies and songs for free, then moviemakers won't get paid and we'll stop having movies!
You ignorant, short-sighted fool. I don't see the publishing industry collapsing, even though their books are freely available at libraries! Anyone who claims that file-sharing will destroy musicians and movie-makers has no concept of the true nature of artists.
The revolution will not be stopped.
I'll be in court for the next few weeks. Keep it real while I'm gone.
Ashcroft said the government will add five specialist units dedicated to identifying and prosecuting intellectual property suspects to the 13 already operating across the country.
And with the coming of the specialist units, the balance was tipped in the favor of the powers that be and copyright infringement ground to a halt.
Voice of Darth Vader: You can't win, John. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Slashdot Mirror
a much higher chance of success
A higher chance of success than, say, a rag-tag bunch of all-american guys from an oil rig?
My thought when we're first introduced to crying baby-Luke:
"He was even whiney back then!"
The %s here are referring to # of computers sold in a given year. Often, these statistics are discussed as if the % referred to the number of computers actually in use.
If Apple users buy a new computer every 4 years and Wintel users buy a new computer every 3 years, the % of Apples sold will be lower than the % of Apple computers in use.
even went so far as to question Microsoft's motivation as profit.
A corporation? Motivated by profit? All this time I thought companies were supposed to act solely for the greater good of humanity!
The only way not to get caught is to stop.
if (stop)
then (!caught)
Therefore,
if (!stop)
then (caught)
Well, that settles it! I'm stopping.
Please excuse the languageless code.
For those of you who have no excuse to wear a ring,
I choose not to wear a ring, you insensitive clod!
"if you think too hard you'll never guess what it is. It's nothing 'new', technically speaking. It's just something that hasn't really been applied to videogames yet."
I'll wager that it's a bicycle.
America's enormously obese youth are about to get a tad healthier.
Remember when . . .
There was a slashdot story about how you couldn't find any of the Abu Ghraib abuse photos on google image search, and people cried censorship only to realize that google simply hadn't updated its image database?
Anyone have an idea about the current update schedule of google image search?
So now we're working towards transmitting internet through our power lines, and power through our internet lines.
Over the past ten years, we've observed an overwhelming trend toward completely free exchange of everything digital. This revolution threatens all creators of digital media.
I believe that Valve has taken reasonable steps to ensure its survival in the climate of free information.
Check out the ad at http://www.mpaa.org/CurrentReleases/IsThisYou_Ad.p df
I, too, found the ad humorous. I like how the guy is using the middle mouse button to execute the illegal download. The button appears to be labeled with Apple's AirPort logo.
The ad is hanging on my dorm room door, along with the following cliché manifesto:
MPAA: The Lawsuits Will Not Stop Us.
The media industries are pathetically clinging to an obsolete system of copyright. The internet has triggered an unstoppable chain of events that will culminate in the total free-flowing information/media.
A handful of week-minded kids and ignorant adults might be frightened into deleting their pirated movies and songs as a result of the lawsuits, but the revolution will continue. Enforcing the current archaic intellectual property laws is literally impossible. The media giants need to embrace the emerging technology instead of fighting it.
Mark my words: 12 years from now, our conceptions of intellectual property will be radically different.
But Ethan, if everyone gets their movies and songs for free, then moviemakers won't get paid and we'll stop having movies!
You ignorant, short-sighted fool. I don't see the publishing industry collapsing, even though their books are freely available at libraries! Anyone who claims that file-sharing will destroy musicians and movie-makers has no concept of the true nature of artists.
The revolution will not be stopped.
I'll be in court for the next few weeks. Keep it real while I'm gone.
All the best,
Ethan
I'm curious what content in the game is so offensive--the previews I've seen are no gorier than your average FPS.
Anyone have an idea what the specific "inappropriate" content might be?
Downloading warez from a
- website
? What a quaint, antiquated idea!(That's so 1995.
I'm sure a few communities still do it that way, but I think systems like IRC are the norm; harder to shut them down.
Ashcroft said the government will add five specialist units dedicated to identifying and prosecuting intellectual property suspects to the 13 already operating across the country.
And with the coming of the specialist units, the balance was tipped in the favor of the powers that be and copyright infringement ground to a halt.
Voice of Darth Vader: You can't win, John. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.