By this I do not mean you need a rewinder with DVDs, I mean that there will be no reason to move to another format for movies-- because BluRay has as good as quality as anybody needs. Yes it's had a rough start and there are some issues, but I can positively say there is no reason we'd ever need to go on from BluRay-- 1080P, as many audio channels at lossless quality as you want, etc. The studios won't risk it, just like they won't risk supplanting the CD-audio format now.
And what economy do you expect to have when there's no incentive to become the next Microsoft? I agree, our PTO is far too lenient with the idea of "nonobvious" when applied to software patents, but they're that way because we are not a post-industrial economy. We have better things to do than create more widgits, especially when so many have a college education (even though many can't make use of it (libarts degree), it still stretches the mind in a way public high school only did 50 years ago).
This is why I don't care anymore when people complain about not being able to use Hulu and such outside the US-- tough, you don't have a). buying power or b). the products we have, so the advertisers dollars are going to waste. You want our IP? Buy it.
This is awesome. Most game demos have to give you enough to wet your appetite for more. Most of the time you can realize the game would suck, but the demo usually has a few redeeming qualities making the 30 minutes that you play the demo rewarding and entertaining.
Who cares if we can't drive to work? Most workers can telecommute now. Gas cost is only a small fraction of the price you pay for your food at the store. The world will continue to turn, so please don't use your scare tactics to push more government on us. We've got enough as it is.
You mean the polluted land with oil pipes transporting oil across Alaska that caused caribou population to increase because they all huddled up next to the oil pipes for warmth and fewer died from the cold?
Yeah, but we aren't allowed to exploit domestic energy supplies. The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that, aided by the current political overlords in Washington. Apparently it's better that we keep sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas than it would be to exploit our own resources and keep some of that money within our borders.
Don't worry though, I'm sure our overlords in the Federal Government will come up with a solution. All we need is more energy conservation and investment in key primary states^W^W^Wethanol to save the day.
The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that....
People complain about the NIMBYs until someone wants to put something in their neighborhood.
"enviro-nazi's"?? Where did you get that name from??
Every environmentalist group that I know of has a goal of basically improving human environments. Clean air, clean water, balanced ecosystem, etc....
Whatever we do to the environment always comes back to us one way or another. It's real easy to be Laissez-Faire when you live in a rich country but it'll only insulate us for so long - that' s assuming we stay rich.
Few people have the goal of destroying human environments. Many extremists have ideas which will, however.
You don't _really_ want a dev kit to make games on it, you want a dev kit so you can pirate games.
Say I start by making a PC-based demo of the game in question. "I made this game, but Nintendo and Sony won't let me port it to their hardware." Would such a whine sound more credible?
There are other open portable gaming devices
Which of them have a distributor in the United States? Best Buy has never heard of a "GP2X" or a "Dingoo", and Pandora isn't out yet.
Ebay, Amazon, etc.
As for porting it to their system, last I looked at the shelves in Walmart there were already enough crapware titles on the GBA and Nintendo DS. They want to avoid another Atari collapse from too many crap games.
If the game and workers are talented enough to create a fun game, they probably won't have trouble getting investment from a VC to fund their work.
Sorry, my first line I got my logic confused-- we tried fixed money supply in the late 70's.
The problem is how demand ebbs and flows with the seasons, or when a radical new technology is introduced that everybody wants to adopt. The challenge is to choose a rate that allows for maximum output from the economy, while avoiding inflation. It's a hard job to have, and I sure don't give a solution.
And yet the most saavy investors in the country still pay the money to read it. They wouldn't read it if it lost them money.
Sure they would. And do. Or have you forgotten 2008 already?
You may argue that reading the Wall Street Journal didn't cause them to lose trillions, and you'd be right insofar as it wasn't the sole cause, but clearly the myth that less regulation is better, that a Republican-controlled congress and Republican brow-beaten president (Clinton) repealing Glass-Stiegl was a good idea, and that the spoiled children running our banks could do no wrong (and should therefor have no oversight) created the conditions that allowed for such a crisis to arise in the first place. As an often informative publication, but one laced through and through with this poisonous and obviously false idealogy, the Wall Street Journal and similar publications have indeed influenced people and policy, and as a result "cost them money."
Yet still they read it, which just goes to show that the wealthy are as susceptable to putting idealogy ahead of their own good as the poor and middle class fools who still fight national healthcare tooth and nail while facing bankrupcy as a direct result of that lack of healthcare. The WSJ can say government bad/regulation bad/business good despite mounting losses and blatent evidence to the contrary, and wealthy idealogues will stick by it and lose millions more, just as working poor conservatives can say no to national health and tell themselves America's system is "the best in the world", despite the fact that it is 37th in the world by every objective measure of results (longevity, child mortality, per capita health statistics, you name it), and in distant last place when you consider only the developed world. Sure, it's better than sub-Saharan Africa, but only Americans find that impressive (and I say this with emberressment, as an American).
But will these facts change people's minds, even those who need the reforms most? Not likely, just as the fools who tanked the financial system won't change their minds or stop reading the WSJ, no matter how obviously misguided their idealogy is, or how many billions it costs them (and the rest of us, who suffer first, and more).
Your logic baffles me. They still read it because it's still the most right publication. None of that nonsense drivel you get from Paul Krugman (yes, he is a joke), which doesn't even check out by MacroEcon101's standards.
Yawn, getting tired of this excuse. You don't _really_ want a dev kit to make games on it, you want a dev kit so you can pirate games. There are other open portable gaming devices you could use for your supposed home-brew-game-programming desires.
If there were more than the 250 people other than you that actually cared about a dev kit, they would do something about it. Quit deluding yourself into thinking your desires are an important market segment worth catering to.
The WSJ article is highly un-balanced. While it talks repeatedly about the "sins" of too much government, it barely mentioned the role that deregulation played in the current mess.
Here's an exmaple:
This week the New York Post carried a report that 1.5 million people had left high-tax New York state between 2000 and 2008, more than a million of them from even higher-tax New York City.
The implication made is that they left mostly because of taxes. However, they never justify that with a reason-for-leaving survey, etc. They simply run with that assumption. The WSJ does this often, as do most Murdock-own publications.
And yet the most saavy investors in the country still pay the money to read it. They wouldn't read it if it lost them money.
Indeed Thomas Jefferson would roll over in his grave if he new we had public mail service. Oh wait...
And of course our socialist fire department.
So because we allow for mail and a fire department, we should therefor be in favor of government here? Not like any politician would be interested in "protecting" the people by deciding certain websites (CNN or any non-right-wing media outlet for example) shouldn't be accessible. We could form a ministry of truth while we're at it.
1). Scramjet using the liquid hydrogen propellant to cool the air at the intake 2). because air is cool at all speeds/altitudes, composite alloys and other lightweight materials can be used 3). ??? 4). Profit!!!
I'm referring to, say, audio from a CD, vs audio from a video on youtube, which may be extra quiet because the guy didn't master correctly. VLC lets you boost to 200%, which can be invaluable if the source isn't very loud. Just doubling the amplitude...am I missing something?
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However, they did this same strategy with domainNames to get IIS up in rankings in late 2007 through early 2008. How are they doing now?
Netcraft confirms it!
You think that's bad, just wait till you get a job in government.
By this I do not mean you need a rewinder with DVDs, I mean that there will be no reason to move to another format for movies-- because BluRay has as good as quality as anybody needs. Yes it's had a rough start and there are some issues, but I can positively say there is no reason we'd ever need to go on from BluRay-- 1080P, as many audio channels at lossless quality as you want, etc. The studios won't risk it, just like they won't risk supplanting the CD-audio format now.
And what economy do you expect to have when there's no incentive to become the next Microsoft? I agree, our PTO is far too lenient with the idea of "nonobvious" when applied to software patents, but they're that way because we are not a post-industrial economy. We have better things to do than create more widgits, especially when so many have a college education (even though many can't make use of it (libarts degree), it still stretches the mind in a way public high school only did 50 years ago).
This is why I don't care anymore when people complain about not being able to use Hulu and such outside the US-- tough, you don't have a). buying power or b). the products we have, so the advertisers dollars are going to waste. You want our IP? Buy it.
Tougher IP laws == lower US trade deficit! :)
This is awesome. Most game demos have to give you enough to wet your appetite for more. Most of the time you can realize the game would suck, but the demo usually has a few redeeming qualities making the 30 minutes that you play the demo rewarding and entertaining.
So: I'm all for it.
Hey why not??? it's the same logic "they" use.
Who cares if we can't drive to work? Most workers can telecommute now.
Gas cost is only a small fraction of the price you pay for your food at the store.
The world will continue to turn, so please don't use your scare tactics to push more government on us. We've got enough as it is.
Oh that's right, oil ROSE in price and we almost hit $5 a gallon!
You mean the polluted land with oil pipes transporting oil across Alaska that caused caribou population to increase because they all huddled up next to the oil pipes for warmth and fewer died from the cold?
That's because we know better what tech to invest in.
Yeah, but we aren't allowed to exploit domestic energy supplies. The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that, aided by the current political overlords in Washington. Apparently it's better that we keep sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas than it would be to exploit our own resources and keep some of that money within our borders.
Don't worry though, I'm sure our overlords in the Federal Government will come up with a solution. All we need is more energy conservation and investment in key primary states^W^W^Wethanol to save the day.
The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that....
People complain about the NIMBYs until someone wants to put something in their neighborhood.
"enviro-nazi's"?? Where did you get that name from??
Every environmentalist group that I know of has a goal of basically improving human environments. Clean air, clean water, balanced ecosystem, etc....
Whatever we do to the environment always comes back to us one way or another. It's real easy to be Laissez-Faire when you live in a rich country but it'll only insulate us for so long - that' s assuming we stay rich.
Few people have the goal of destroying human environments.
Many extremists have ideas which will, however.
you evaluate it by how many cups for frosty piss it can...
wait...
in soviet russia, data centers evaluate you!!!!
Yeah there we go.
You don't _really_ want a dev kit to make games on it, you want a dev kit so you can pirate games.
Say I start by making a PC-based demo of the game in question. "I made this game, but Nintendo and Sony won't let me port it to their hardware." Would such a whine sound more credible?
There are other open portable gaming devices
Which of them have a distributor in the United States? Best Buy has never heard of a "GP2X" or a "Dingoo", and Pandora isn't out yet.
Ebay, Amazon, etc.
As for porting it to their system, last I looked at the shelves in Walmart there were already enough crapware titles on the GBA and Nintendo DS. They want to avoid another Atari collapse from too many crap games.
If the game and workers are talented enough to create a fun game, they probably won't have trouble getting investment from a VC to fund their work.
*sure can't give -or- sure don't have
a solution.
Sorry, my first line I got my logic confused-- we tried fixed money supply in the late 70's.
The problem is how demand ebbs and flows with the seasons, or when a radical new technology is introduced that everybody wants to adopt. The challenge is to choose a rate that allows for maximum output from the economy, while avoiding inflation. It's a hard job to have, and I sure don't give a solution.
Yessir, that woosh was very appropriate :)
And yet the most saavy investors in the country still pay the money to read it. They wouldn't read it if it lost them money.
Sure they would. And do. Or have you forgotten 2008 already?
You may argue that reading the Wall Street Journal didn't cause them to lose trillions, and you'd be right insofar as it wasn't the sole cause, but clearly the myth that less regulation is better, that a Republican-controlled congress and Republican brow-beaten president (Clinton) repealing Glass-Stiegl was a good idea, and that the spoiled children running our banks could do no wrong (and should therefor have no oversight) created the conditions that allowed for such a crisis to arise in the first place. As an often informative publication, but one laced through and through with this poisonous and obviously false idealogy, the Wall Street Journal and similar publications have indeed influenced people and policy, and as a result "cost them money."
Yet still they read it, which just goes to show that the wealthy are as susceptable to putting idealogy ahead of their own good as the poor and middle class fools who still fight national healthcare tooth and nail while facing bankrupcy as a direct result of that lack of healthcare. The WSJ can say government bad/regulation bad/business good despite mounting losses and blatent evidence to the contrary, and wealthy idealogues will stick by it and lose millions more, just as working poor conservatives can say no to national health and tell themselves America's system is "the best in the world", despite the fact that it is 37th in the world by every objective measure of results (longevity, child mortality, per capita health statistics, you name it), and in distant last place when you consider only the developed world. Sure, it's better than sub-Saharan Africa, but only Americans find that impressive (and I say this with emberressment, as an American).
But will these facts change people's minds, even those who need the reforms most? Not likely, just as the fools who tanked the financial system won't change their minds or stop reading the WSJ, no matter how obviously misguided their idealogy is, or how many billions it costs them (and the rest of us, who suffer first, and more).
Your logic baffles me. They still read it because it's still the most right publication. None of that nonsense drivel you get from Paul Krugman (yes, he is a joke), which doesn't even check out by MacroEcon101's standards.
Yawn, getting tired of this excuse. You don't _really_ want a dev kit to make games on it, you want a dev kit so you can pirate games.
There are other open portable gaming devices you could use for your supposed home-brew-game-programming desires.
If there were more than the 250 people other than you that actually cared about a dev kit, they would do something about it.
Quit deluding yourself into thinking your desires are an important market segment worth catering to.
It's hardly even worth actively participating in discussion anymore...
The oil deposits as we know them couldn't last for more than ~10,000 years.
The WSJ article is highly un-balanced. While it talks repeatedly about the "sins" of too much government, it barely mentioned the role that deregulation played in the current mess.
Here's an exmaple:
The implication made is that they left mostly because of taxes. However, they never justify that with a reason-for-leaving survey, etc. They simply run with that assumption. The WSJ does this often, as do most Murdock-own publications.
And yet the most saavy investors in the country still pay the money to read it. They wouldn't read it if it lost them money.
Indeed Thomas Jefferson would roll over in his grave if he new we had public mail service. Oh wait...
And of course our socialist fire department.
So because we allow for mail and a fire department, we should therefor be in favor of government here? Not like any politician would be interested in "protecting" the people by deciding certain websites (CNN or any non-right-wing media outlet for example) shouldn't be accessible. We could form a ministry of truth while we're at it.
False dichotomy dude, cut it out.
More to it than running on small amounts of RAM.
I bought a 2GB stick of RAM on newegg for $20.
Who cares if it can hit 256MB?
1). Scramjet using the liquid hydrogen propellant to cool the air at the intake
2). because air is cool at all speeds/altitudes, composite alloys and other lightweight materials can be used
3). ???
4). Profit!!!
I'm referring to, say, audio from a CD, vs audio from a video on youtube, which may be extra quiet because the guy didn't master correctly. VLC lets you boost to 200%, which can be invaluable if the source isn't very loud. Just doubling the amplitude...am I missing something?