or; You spend $10 million on developing a game and its not even that good!
i expect a big chunk of that 10m was developing the game engine, which they will make big money back from, especially if its used in games for the new consoles.. games for which are way less pirated.
"It is important to distinguish between the frame rate, and the flicker rate, which are not necessarily the same. In physical film systems, it is necessary to pull down the film frame, and this pull down needs to be obscured by a shutter to avoid the appearance of blurring, there needs to be at least one flicker per frame in film. To reduce the appearance of flicker, virtually all modern projector shutters are designed to add additional flicker periods, typically doubling the flicker rate to 48 Hz, which is less visible. (Some newer projector shutters even triple it to 72 Hz.)
In digital film systems, the raster scan rate may be decoupled from the image update rate. In some systems, such as the DLP system, there is no flying spot or raster scan at all, so there is no flicker other than that generated by the temporal aliasing of the film image capture."
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Persisten ce-of-vision
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if they arent already
imagine the whining if a uk site posted something like "boots camera hacked" on a World Wide Web site.
why go to the time and trouble of adding some more bytes to your hosts file? just dont go there again!
different fonts? spellcheck? logos? some of us print out documents
but im sure there are plenty of new customers
that must mean you havent been lectured to by enough 'consultants' and pointy-haired bosses yet. lets synergize.
or; You spend $10 million on developing a game and its not even that good! i expect a big chunk of that 10m was developing the game engine, which they will make big money back from, especially if its used in games for the new consoles.. games for which are way less pirated.
"It is important to distinguish between the frame rate, and the flicker rate, which are not necessarily the same. In physical film systems, it is necessary to pull down the film frame, and this pull down needs to be obscured by a shutter to avoid the appearance of blurring, there needs to be at least one flicker per frame in film. To reduce the appearance of flicker, virtually all modern projector shutters are designed to add additional flicker periods, typically doubling the flicker rate to 48 Hz, which is less visible. (Some newer projector shutters even triple it to 72 Hz.) In digital film systems, the raster scan rate may be decoupled from the image update rate. In some systems, such as the DLP system, there is no flying spot or raster scan at all, so there is no flicker other than that generated by the temporal aliasing of the film image capture." http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Persisten ce-of-vision
it certainly doesnt mean a rich minority can impose draconian protection methods