Absolutely correct. What many people forget, but is the most important purchasing decision is "what do I need?". The majority of PC users use their systems almost exclusively for browsing or other low-performance applications. Others may have specific needs that can be met with certain hardware, but where more doesn't make it any better, like for playing HD Movies or another specific application/game.
One fundamental problem is that laymen won'r know how to adress their specific needs, so a lot of people buy whole new systems just because their hard drive's fragmented or full up, or their DVD drive is broken.
About the younger Chinese citizens: What difference does it make? Isn't that kind of the point about history, that it happened before your time? If I only knew about the wars and events that happened after I was old enough to be aware of media coverage, I would consider myself to be inexcusably ignorant of the world.
It can work the other way as well. I have seen many people who are compulsive minimalistic and are obsessive about tidyness. They will often want things that they once threw away, sometimes having to buy a new one. Or they spend hours every week, almost like a schedule, just to minimize perceived "junk". While clearing a house can be a daunting task, it's pretty easy to underestimate the amount of posessions a household collects throughout their life. It's unreasonable to expect people to constantly sift through their posessions to exclude anything that they probably won't be needing.
That sure is a bad example. Most star missions were basically new experiences, and were most often quite fun. There were some exceptions, like the blue coins in Sunshine.
The again by that logic, completing a game just to have beaten it is on the same level. If the experience becomes repetetive and boring, which many games do after a few hours, then there should be no reason or motivation to finish. But many people do just that so they haven't got "gaps" in their "collection".
The moral of this story is basically don't sink time into things you don't enjoy. Always consider if something is worth your time before you invest too much into it.
I have a book open right now, and it's a matter of fact that the first word in the first chapter is "Simply". It's also a fact that the second word is "stated". Here are some more facts about that book: the third word is "animation", the fourth word is "is", the fifth word is "a".These are all matters of fact about a book that I own,
This reasoning is just absurd. It's not words that are copyrighted, it's the book, the work as a whole. You're arguing that this all comes under the definition of "information". This is formally true, but the second law of thernodynamics would disagree with your conclusion. It's not a very convincing defense. "Sorry your honour. I didn't mean to kill the guy, I was just creating entropy. And the freedom of information act says that's okay."
The difference is that cybersquatters use trademarks that essentially don't belong to them and that which they have no intention of using. While real estate costs real money, registering domain names is usually a negligable fee.
It may seem that way to an outside observer, after all, the iPhone e.g. is probably better than the DS in all technical aspects. But for people who really understand the traditional gaming market, there's so many blindingly obvious faults with all devices that we've seen so far, that it's not worth going in to.
One key thing to understand is that what makes consoles successful is a concentrated and standardized market. As long as Apple or other Phone makers show off their technology on contract-exclusive or $600 devices they will fail.
The same way as PCs being good enough didn't make consoles obsolete.
Actually CRTs just blast the beam to the screen segment, which will often reach a few holes in the shadow mask. This will often limit the "resolution" as it will become more blurry the smaller you go, but there isn't a fixed size. And they only need the shadow mask to seperate the colors, black and white CRTs don't have them. And aperture grill CRTs are completely free regarding vertical scanning resolution.
It's a false citation. The interior minister just said (his opinion) that he considered the organisation "Verfassungsfeindlich", which basically means they don't respect things like personal freedom etc. which are declared in the constitution.
I just don't see the point on having a DRM on software, can anyone make a good argument towards DRM on software.
To enable a business model. The modern games industry as we know it was created when Nintendo released the heavily "DRMed" NES, making games became much more profitable. This allowed for bigger budgets and more progress.
some of the best software more so games are DRM free, lets look at the classics, Commander Keen, Chips Challenge, even Quake. Where does DRM actual help that's my question.
The quality of the software is completely unrelated. What you show is that (some) very old games didn't have any protection. This was also a time when development was cheap. But developers started switching to consoles, mainly because of their strong DRM, and enjoyed many more sales.
Unlike pirated music or films, a pirated ebook is a very clumsy and frustrating thing to have to use. For a textbook that I'd have to use for a semester, I'd rather spend a reasonable amount on a hard copy than struggle with an ebook. If people still pirate the book, it's probably a good indication that it's too expensive and people don't consider it worth the money. $50 does seem a little pricey for a ten-year old paperback book with just over 200 pages.
DRM on software is inherently very different from DRM on media files. An audio file follows specification standards and can be encoded in a variety of formats, from any source. Computer code OTOH is unique and specifically designed for certain systems. If you can't completely crack the DRM, you won't be able to run the program. Example: Everyone knows how to copy a ripped MP3 from a P2P network to their iPod, but actually breaking the DRM on iTunes was only possible for brief periods before Apple stamped them down.
I have had first hand experience with one of these TV transmitters, and it really does screw the WiFi connection. It doesn't take a scientific study to figure that one out. Worse, the picture quality is quite atrocious. You'd think such a powerful signal should at least get a reasonable image on the screen.
He said PS2 so he was talking about the PS2 games - ehich were later released for the XBOX and the. He mentions this, so it really narrows it down to one platform.
I don't think it will encourage piracy more than normal, as most potential customers won't go to the trouble, especially not a PC version. And the people who do play games on their PC would probably pirate the game anyway.
The price for the hardware as new depreciates rapidly. And sellers generally price their systems relative to what they payed, rather than the value. Basically most used systems older than a year or two will not likely be worth more than entry-level machines today.
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Absolutely correct. What many people forget, but is the most important purchasing decision is "what do I need?". The majority of PC users use their systems almost exclusively for browsing or other low-performance applications.
Others may have specific needs that can be met with certain hardware, but where more doesn't make it any better, like for playing HD Movies or another specific application/game.
One fundamental problem is that laymen won'r know how to adress their specific needs, so a lot of people buy whole new systems just because their hard drive's fragmented or full up, or their DVD drive is broken.
About the younger Chinese citizens: What difference does it make? Isn't that kind of the point about history, that it happened before your time? If I only knew about the wars and events that happened after I was old enough to be aware of media coverage, I would consider myself to be inexcusably ignorant of the world.
It can work the other way as well. I have seen many people who are compulsive minimalistic and are obsessive about tidyness. They will often want things that they once threw away, sometimes having to buy a new one. Or they spend hours every week, almost like a schedule, just to minimize perceived "junk".
While clearing a house can be a daunting task, it's pretty easy to underestimate the amount of posessions a household collects throughout their life. It's unreasonable to expect people to constantly sift through their posessions to exclude anything that they probably won't be needing.
That sure is a bad example. Most star missions were basically new experiences, and were most often quite fun. There were some exceptions, like the blue coins in Sunshine.
The again by that logic, completing a game just to have beaten it is on the same level. If the experience becomes repetetive and boring, which many games do after a few hours, then there should be no reason or motivation to finish. But many people do just that so they haven't got "gaps" in their "collection".
The moral of this story is basically don't sink time into things you don't enjoy. Always consider if something is worth your time before you invest too much into it.
That's one way to go, but the most economically sound way to do it has always been (slightly) more frequent upgrade cycles and lower range hardware.
Do you want a subscription to go with that?
I have a book open right now, and it's a matter of fact that the first word in the first chapter is "Simply". It's also a fact that the second word is "stated". Here are some more facts about that book: the third word is "animation", the fourth word is "is", the fifth word is "a".These are all matters of fact about a book that I own,
This reasoning is just absurd. It's not words that are copyrighted, it's the book, the work as a whole.
You're arguing that this all comes under the definition of "information". This is formally true, but the second law of thernodynamics would disagree with your conclusion.
It's not a very convincing defense. "Sorry your honour. I didn't mean to kill the guy, I was just creating entropy. And the freedom of information act says that's okay."
The it isn't cybersquatting.
but they are just trying to make some money.
Wow. Just Wow. If that were a justification in real life, I'd sure be scared.
The way to go is to register your trademark before trading under it - as a lot of people have painfully found out.
The difference is that cybersquatters use trademarks that essentially don't belong to them and that which they have no intention of using. While real estate costs real money, registering domain names is usually a negligable fee.
It may seem that way to an outside observer, after all, the iPhone e.g. is probably better than the DS in all technical aspects.
But for people who really understand the traditional gaming market, there's so many blindingly obvious faults with all devices that we've seen so far, that it's not worth going in to.
One key thing to understand is that what makes consoles successful is a concentrated and standardized market. As long as Apple or other Phone makers show off their technology on contract-exclusive or $600 devices they will fail.
The same way as PCs being good enough didn't make consoles obsolete.
As Wikipedia puts it: Constitutionality is the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution.
An "anti-constitutional" organisation need not be unconstitutional.
Actually CRTs just blast the beam to the screen segment, which will often reach a few holes in the shadow mask. This will often limit the "resolution" as it will become more blurry the smaller you go, but there isn't a fixed size. And they only need the shadow mask to seperate the colors, black and white CRTs don't have them.
And aperture grill CRTs are completely free regarding vertical scanning resolution.
It's a false citation. The interior minister just said (his opinion) that he considered the organisation "Verfassungsfeindlich", which basically means they don't respect things like personal freedom etc. which are declared in the constitution.
I just don't see the point on having a DRM on software, can anyone make a good argument towards DRM on software.
To enable a business model. The modern games industry as we know it was created when Nintendo released the heavily "DRMed" NES, making games became much more profitable. This allowed for bigger budgets and more progress.
some of the best software more so games are DRM free, lets look at the classics, Commander Keen, Chips Challenge, even Quake. Where does DRM actual help that's my question.
The quality of the software is completely unrelated. What you show is that (some) very old games didn't have any protection. This was also a time when development was cheap. But developers started switching to consoles, mainly because of their strong DRM, and enjoyed many more sales.
Unlike pirated music or films, a pirated ebook is a very clumsy and frustrating thing to have to use. For a textbook that I'd have to use for a semester, I'd rather spend a reasonable amount on a hard copy than struggle with an ebook.
If people still pirate the book, it's probably a good indication that it's too expensive and people don't consider it worth the money.
$50 does seem a little pricey for a ten-year old paperback book with just over 200 pages.
DRM on software is inherently very different from DRM on media files. An audio file follows specification standards and can be encoded in a variety of formats, from any source.
Computer code OTOH is unique and specifically designed for certain systems. If you can't completely crack the DRM, you won't be able to run the program.
Example: Everyone knows how to copy a ripped MP3 from a P2P network to their iPod, but actually breaking the DRM on iTunes was only possible for brief periods before Apple stamped them down.
It's the actual fabs which make up for a huge investment in chip production. That's why it's important to maximize production on a given capacity.
I have had first hand experience with one of these TV transmitters, and it really does screw the WiFi connection. It doesn't take a scientific study to figure that one out.
Worse, the picture quality is quite atrocious. You'd think such a powerful signal should at least get a reasonable image on the screen.
He said PS2 so he was talking about the PS2 games - ehich were later released for the XBOX and the. He mentions this, so it really narrows it down to one platform.
I don't think it will encourage piracy more than normal, as most potential customers won't go to the trouble, especially not a PC version. And the people who do play games on their PC would probably pirate the game anyway.
The price for the hardware as new depreciates rapidly. And sellers generally price their systems relative to what they payed, rather than the value.
Basically most used systems older than a year or two will not likely be worth more than entry-level machines today.
He's talking about the PS2 games, not the first GTA.