How can user mods be prevented, also how can a developer be held resposable for a non-sanctioned mod (something that would void any warenty on the product)? That is the real question.
The "Lesson" is that Hillary Clinton is a stooge or at least bottom feeding to get conservative votes and people like Jack Thompson have declared war on an entertanment industy accusing it of erodeing our morals. Media reflects our culture not the other way around, "fix" our culture and the desire for simulated violence will go away on it's own.
Are you trying to say that an Apple Computer, "Mac" or not, is not a Personal Computer?
That's just silly.
The argument that it isn't an "IBM compatable PC" and that is the diffrence isn't even true anymore... the hardware is 99% identical to new Windows laptops they just happen to run a variant of BSD.
Come down off your produce crate and join us... leave your brand loyalty at the door.
They went from a big player to off the map very quickly.
My question is; where they contributing anything new to the maket recently and for that matter where there any advantages to using a SGI card?
Not to be harsh but companys don't just go bankrupt usualy it has somthing to do with high level mismanagment.
I like to think of all security as a battle of will, your willingnes to keep your stuff and a thiefs willingness to take your stuff. When you are trying ot sell somethig ad secure it thinks get tricky because you need to make it avalable to your customers but not those who would take it without alienating your potental customers.
In the end I see the RIAA and MPAA making there products so bloated with DRM and low quality because of it that eventualy companies will wake up to the true causes of there shrinking profits and move away from the cartels.
I see the same thing hapening in quite a few industrys in the next couple of years actualy.
Is there any possibility of confusing these 2 sites?
...Anyway Apple Computers is not selling music like a record company would... think of them as a record store with no control over the content being sold other than refusing to sell it.
Things would be different if they where signing artists and producing content to be sold in competition (as if there where such a thing in an entertainment industry) with Apple Corp.
Don't worry Blizzard was bought by Vivendi Universal so EA can't have them... of course that means they will be driven into unprofitability by bad management an turned into a brand for releasing buggy and uninspired first day abandonware(see Serra).
Yeah... the PC gameing industry is in trouble right now and the sucess of WoW will only lower the amount of creativity.
Even now people (and not a minortiy) look at a game like Oblivion and say "why would you play a single player game? You can't PvP or show off your loot." It is really sad when carefully (hur hur bugs... I know) crafted content is less demanded that "Pwning newbs".
Sorry for the rant... at least these mega developers seem to be colapsing under there own weight... maybe that will snap everyone out of this manditory sequel nonsense.
In the MMO world it seems female players are much more common than anyone realises. (outside of WoW from what I hear) in CoH O have meet many vetran MMO players who happen to be women (not guys who make only female charecters) and are not there just to play with there significant other.
I see less women playing games that have very little or zero socal interaction (real or simulated) maybe there is something to that.
You know... I am tired of hearing "World of Warcraft is the best MMO ever" every time somone mentions another MMO.
I won't get into details about why I take issue with WoW... but I will say this, perhaps the reason WoW is so sucessfull has to do with its population rather than specifics of content... if you take any MMO and fill the servers up it will be more fun (for those who can get in) because if you compare WoW to most other MMOs feature to feature it is a very simple game....Forgive my rant, have fun in WoW or any other game you deside to play... but please don't try to make everyone who doesn't play guilty about it.
Hum... I don't disagree specificaly with your point, and I am very realistic about Apple Computers' intentions. My problem is that in all this "Let us copy Apple!" nonsense no one seems to be looking for the reasons why Apple's bussnes model is a sucess.
Is there anyone here who has goten past anger or fanboyism long enough to realy think about the big question here:
How is Apple so sucessfull with exspensive hardware, restrictive DRM and counter intuitive software?
90% of the songs on my iPod are self ripped.mp3 files (I used WMP to do this before I had an iPod) and thye sound great to me. If a download service is providing a.mp3 product that is not as good as an iTunes product then I suggest using a diffrent service.
You make several good points and I don't disagree with you that Apple's behavior is anti-competition and anti-consumer in some ways but there has to be some reason other than bully tactics to explain there sucess .
Also that analogy is flawed, Fords(iPods) run on pup gas (.mp3) and "ford" gas (fairplay) wouls be more accurate.
Apple = Closed restrictive standard.
France = Forced interoprability. (good for us bad for apple)
Music companys = Greedy.
Apple = defending there price point. (seen by many as "defending the consumers")
Um.. is slashdot trying to blow up fanboys' heads by putting this in one story? If so good.
It's not persecution... I don't think Steve has a taskforce specificaly to chase Linux users around with sticks (sorry the over use of that word gets to me).
If you choose to buy from ITMS you know exactly what you are getting, and while the argument that there should be Linux support for Apples products is valid that does not mean that everyone gets to whine about it... iPods play.mp3s and there are plenty of places to buy unencombered.mp3 music files... you may have to make some sacrifices in selection of products but anyone who is without any windows box should be used to that.
I don't mean to be harsh but we are talking about a recreational item here it's not like iTunes music and iPods serve a vital purpose.
Developers "over" React To 'Wii'...
Seriously, this stoped being funny or shocking about an hour after I heard it... and I doubt 12 year olds giggling at the name will be the end for big N.
Now to more important matters... will Nintendo make the same 10 games again (this time with Wii on the end) or will they continue to inovate internaly and encurage 3rd party support?
The Wii has great potential, so did the Gamecube.
Well my point is not that these AIs will play "Calvin Ball" but in developing driving AI that can deal with more and more unknowns or independant actors will lead to advances in computer science and robotics.
I think that is the point... Driving like chess has very basic rules that are easy to learn and difficult to master and on top of that you have the complicaton of other actors (other drivers) mixed in. In the end if you create an AI that can preform a task as complicated as driving that same AI should be able to learn to do just about anything
Yeah it's not that bad really after the withdrawl symptoms pass, now the most caffine I drink is a small cup of tea once a week or so. The biggest benifit I have seen is that I have been sleeping better and therefor more alert during the day... go figure.
That is the same kind of logic you can use to blow up robots' heads should the ever revolt.
But seriously I gave up caffine a few months ago and I don't think I was any more suggestable with it than I am now... but I guess that is part of the trick if you where in a stat of suggetability you wouldn't notice.
Unfortunately the digital community has all the same failings of a more traditional one amplified by the fact that anything said on a forum does not have direct consequences because it is not face to face communication and there is the matter of group think in a community all it takes is a few influential members and suddenly holders of other points of view become outcasts to the community as a whole. These three combined lead to a social group more easily controlled than the crowd in Julius Cesar.
I think collaborative communities have there place... but in the end developers have to be careful to take the opinions of the community with a grain of salt and most of all use there judgment when filtering the what they say they want and what the demonstrated needs of the users (both active or popular in the community and not) are.
Well I may have been a little quick with the way I worded that... some of the things that I like about PC shooters (I mostly like Sci-Fi ones they tend to be a little more fun and a little less "accurate") are clearly some of the things you dislike about them, the reverse is true of Halo I think.
In the end I grew up playing Doom 2 and that will alway flavor my opinion... I think if I had played more Golden Eye I might think diffrently.
Perhaps I should have said diffrent standards or even tastes, all I am saying is a prefer a diffrent kind of shooter... and no that does not mean the endless WWII shooters.
Hey... have fun with Halo 3 I really honestly hope anyone who is a fan of the series will be happy with the game but unfortunatly I seem to dislike the elements that make it appealing to it's fan base.
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How can user mods be prevented, also how can a developer be held resposable for a non-sanctioned mod (something that would void any warenty on the product)? That is the real question.
The "Lesson" is that Hillary Clinton is a stooge or at least bottom feeding to get conservative votes and people like Jack Thompson have declared war on an entertanment industy accusing it of erodeing our morals. Media reflects our culture not the other way around, "fix" our culture and the desire for simulated violence will go away on it's own.
Just my 2 cents...
Subject line says it all.
Video games don't make me fell violent, morons do.
Are you trying to say that an Apple Computer, "Mac" or not, is not a Personal Computer? That's just silly. The argument that it isn't an "IBM compatable PC" and that is the diffrence isn't even true anymore... the hardware is 99% identical to new Windows laptops they just happen to run a variant of BSD. Come down off your produce crate and join us... leave your brand loyalty at the door.
They went from a big player to off the map very quickly. My question is; where they contributing anything new to the maket recently and for that matter where there any advantages to using a SGI card? Not to be harsh but companys don't just go bankrupt usualy it has somthing to do with high level mismanagment.
...Her point is very true.
I like to think of all security as a battle of will, your willingnes to keep your stuff and a thiefs willingness to take your stuff. When you are trying ot sell somethig ad secure it thinks get tricky because you need to make it avalable to your customers but not those who would take it without alienating your potental customers.
In the end I see the RIAA and MPAA making there products so bloated with DRM and low quality because of it that eventualy companies will wake up to the true causes of there shrinking profits and move away from the cartels.
I see the same thing hapening in quite a few industrys in the next couple of years actualy.
http://www.applecorps.com/ And http://ww.apple.com/
...Anyway Apple Computers is not selling music like a record company would... think of them as a record store with no control over the content being sold other than refusing to sell it.
Is there any possibility of confusing these 2 sites?
Things would be different if they where signing artists and producing content to be sold in competition (as if there where such a thing in an entertainment industry) with Apple Corp.
Don't worry Blizzard was bought by Vivendi Universal so EA can't have them... of course that means they will be driven into unprofitability by bad management an turned into a brand for releasing buggy and uninspired first day abandonware(see Serra).
Yeah... the PC gameing industry is in trouble right now and the sucess of WoW will only lower the amount of creativity.
Even now people (and not a minortiy) look at a game like Oblivion and say "why would you play a single player game? You can't PvP or show off your loot." It is really sad when carefully (hur hur bugs... I know) crafted content is less demanded that "Pwning newbs".
Sorry for the rant... at least these mega developers seem to be colapsing under there own weight... maybe that will snap everyone out of this manditory sequel nonsense.
Yeah more power to anyone who wants to game.
In the MMO world it seems female players are much more common than anyone realises. (outside of WoW from what I hear) in CoH O have meet many vetran MMO players who happen to be women (not guys who make only female charecters) and are not there just to play with there significant other.
I see less women playing games that have very little or zero socal interaction (real or simulated) maybe there is something to that.
That's just silly... the whole point of "shoting first" is to kill the other guy before he shots you.
So yes he shot first but he also shot last.
You know... I am tired of hearing "World of Warcraft is the best MMO ever" every time somone mentions another MMO. I won't get into details about why I take issue with WoW... but I will say this, perhaps the reason WoW is so sucessfull has to do with its population rather than specifics of content... if you take any MMO and fill the servers up it will be more fun (for those who can get in) because if you compare WoW to most other MMOs feature to feature it is a very simple game. ...Forgive my rant, have fun in WoW or any other game you deside to play... but please don't try to make everyone who doesn't play guilty about it.
Hum... I don't disagree specificaly with your point, and I am very realistic about Apple Computers' intentions. My problem is that in all this "Let us copy Apple!" nonsense no one seems to be looking for the reasons why Apple's bussnes model is a sucess.
Is there anyone here who has goten past anger or fanboyism long enough to realy think about the big question here:
How is Apple so sucessfull with exspensive hardware, restrictive DRM and counter intuitive software?
90% of the songs on my iPod are self ripped .mp3 files (I used WMP to do this before I had an iPod) and thye sound great to me. If a download service is providing a .mp3 product that is not as good as an iTunes product then I suggest using a diffrent service.
You make several good points and I don't disagree with you that Apple's behavior is anti-competition and anti-consumer in some ways but there has to be some reason other than bully tactics to explain there sucess .
Also that analogy is flawed, Fords(iPods) run on pup gas (.mp3) and "ford" gas (fairplay) wouls be more accurate.
Two more words - Please elaborate. seriously, I know it's an AC post... but are you saying the Yahoo tool bar is a good or bad thing?
Apple = Closed restrictive standard. France = Forced interoprability. (good for us bad for apple) Music companys = Greedy. Apple = defending there price point. (seen by many as "defending the consumers") Um.. is slashdot trying to blow up fanboys' heads by putting this in one story? If so good.
Apple should not persecute F/OSS users
.mp3s and there are plenty of places to buy unencombered .mp3 music files... you may have to make some sacrifices in selection of products but anyone who is without any windows box should be used to that.
It's not persecution... I don't think Steve has a taskforce specificaly to chase Linux users around with sticks (sorry the over use of that word gets to me).
If you choose to buy from ITMS you know exactly what you are getting, and while the argument that there should be Linux support for Apples products is valid that does not mean that everyone gets to whine about it... iPods play
I don't mean to be harsh but we are talking about a recreational item here it's not like iTunes music and iPods serve a vital purpose.
Well done! But yeah that is about it...
Developers "over" React To 'Wii'... Seriously, this stoped being funny or shocking about an hour after I heard it... and I doubt 12 year olds giggling at the name will be the end for big N. Now to more important matters... will Nintendo make the same 10 games again (this time with Wii on the end) or will they continue to inovate internaly and encurage 3rd party support? The Wii has great potential, so did the Gamecube.
Well my point is not that these AIs will play "Calvin Ball" but in developing driving AI that can deal with more and more unknowns or independant actors will lead to advances in computer science and robotics.
I think that is the point... Driving like chess has very basic rules that are easy to learn and difficult to master and on top of that you have the complicaton of other actors (other drivers) mixed in. In the end if you create an AI that can preform a task as complicated as driving that same AI should be able to learn to do just about anything
forgive me but I think that is the whole point of these kind of contests.
It is likely that DARPA has become incapable of inovation because of internal politics so they need to attract new ideas from the out side.
This is all just my theory so take it with a grain of salt.
Yeah it's not that bad really after the withdrawl symptoms pass, now the most caffine I drink is a small cup of tea once a week or so. The biggest benifit I have seen is that I have been sleeping better and therefor more alert during the day... go figure.
That is the same kind of logic you can use to blow up robots' heads should the ever revolt.
But seriously I gave up caffine a few months ago and I don't think I was any more suggestable with it than I am now... but I guess that is part of the trick if you where in a stat of suggetability you wouldn't notice.
You make several very good points.
Unfortunately the digital community has all the same failings of a more traditional one amplified by the fact that anything said on a forum does not have direct consequences because it is not face to face communication and there is the matter of group think in a community all it takes is a few influential members and suddenly holders of other points of view become outcasts to the community as a whole. These three combined lead to a social group more easily controlled than the crowd in Julius Cesar.
I think collaborative communities have there place... but in the end developers have to be careful to take the opinions of the community with a grain of salt and most of all use there judgment when filtering the what they say they want and what the demonstrated needs of the users (both active or popular in the community and not) are.
Well I may have been a little quick with the way I worded that... some of the things that I like about PC shooters (I mostly like Sci-Fi ones they tend to be a little more fun and a little less "accurate") are clearly some of the things you dislike about them, the reverse is true of Halo I think.
In the end I grew up playing Doom 2 and that will alway flavor my opinion... I think if I had played more Golden Eye I might think diffrently.
Perhaps I should have said diffrent standards or even tastes, all I am saying is a prefer a diffrent kind of shooter... and no that does not mean the endless WWII shooters.
Hey... have fun with Halo 3 I really honestly hope anyone who is a fan of the series will be happy with the game but unfortunatly I seem to dislike the elements that make it appealing to it's fan base.