I agree completely. Based on a 20 year copyright window most piracy is still punishible, but it's also terribly important to consider the medium that the content was distributed on.
If you are talking spiderman DVD's, odds are quite high they'll be perfectly recoverable in 20 years.
If you are talking quadraphonic 8-track recordings, odds (with useable fidelity) are fairly low.
If you are talking floppy disk or tape based software, odds are effectively nonexistant.
I realize this is a moral argument and not a legal one, but I for one am all in support of archivalists violating copyright to preserve art. Just like I'm in support of Tony the Pirate distributing copyrighted works that the owner has chosen not to distribute any longer.
The problem is that the deal has become lop-sided. There's no way that an author's great grandchildren holding the rights to his writings up to 70 years after he died promotes the progress of science or the useful arts.....
While I agree with you, this is pretty irrelevant when you consider that the bulk of pirated copyrighted material -- and by pirated, I include the "pro" pirates as well as file-sharers doing for reasons other than profit -- is stuff the has been around for less than 20 years, so unless you are considering a very short copyright term, changing the term isn't going to change the state of infringement.
I think someone at SEGA understands Schadenfreude. If it wasn't for Sony they'd still be in the hardware business.
Of course this comment parallels both the Xbox and 3DO though in both cases some of their best exclusives were also ported to the PC (Gex,Halo,etc).
I have a PS3, and as a game system, I think it sucks. Over 50% of the games currently out for the system are made by SEGA, and each and every one of them I hate.
In fact, I find it funny that the only highly rated games for the system are ports from successful PC games. The reviews are high, but they all say the same thing - "If you played this on PC, there's nothing new here." So why shell out $60 more for something I played 1-2 years ago?
This is IMO due to Coleco's influence. Their Adam computer crashed and burned in the US, but the MSX (essentially a clone) was extremely popular in Asia. The Master system was a MSX sans keyboard. This made ports of Colecovision and MSX titles extremely easy to produce.
Interestingly though (and a bit OT) a variation on the Z80 processor was used for Nintendo Gameboy.
Same is true for every Sega 8-bit machine from the SG-1000 through the Master System and Game Gear
f they were to try this in the US with slogans like "We watch over you for your security" painted on the sides, I'd guess they would last, maybe, a few hours.
Good for you man, right now my pc is piping out music to my HK730 and a pair of Fortes. If you spend smart on used gear you can get some very good sounding stereo sound for not too much dough, and great sounding audio if you have a little more to spend.
Klipsch got stolen...deal with insurance allowed me to spend $1800 and get Klipsch K-Horns (the same speakers I'd been drooling over since 12 yrs old). I've since gone to using the Decware tube amplifier...etc.
I run this system off a media box I've built, with my tunes ripped to FLAC...and I love the sound. But, while the system I have now (other equipment omitted), is in the multi-thousands of dollars, I didn't buy it all at once.
Regardless of whether you agree with the article, the basic point is sound enough. There is more to emissions than what comes out of the tailpipe, the processes involved in building cars involves a fair amount of pollution and hybrids are worse than most. How does that = environmentally conscious?
I'm sure the US will be forthcoming with it's 3rd? apology once Japan adknowledges it's conscripted 'Comfort Women'. And after that we can all ice skate to hell.
FDR put Japanese-Americans into camps because there was fairly substantial evidence of espionage and treason by Japanese-American citizens preceeding the Pearl Harbor attack. I won't lie and say conditions were wonderful in these camps, but very few people actually died in them. You're probably thinking of the camps with Zyclon-B and the pits full of dead bodies.
Don't forget FDR who put Japanese-Americans into concentration camps without a trial and without habeaus corpus and had such poor conditions at those camps that many died as a result.
Writing code that's massively parallel isn't easy, and it's never going to be easy. The right languages/tools may make it less insane, but it's asking a lot for most dev teams to put out a single-core product that doesn't need multiple patch releases. Requiring them to design and test parallel systems with N cores will be hilarious.
Many common programs don't even make full use of multi-core, extended instruction sets and 64-bit. If they are relying on something exotic to put them ahead... it just isn't going to work out, unless they think up a method to run un-edited code optimized for their exotic architectures.
Yes it's indeed astonishing that operating a ~10,000 square foot mansion in the middle of Georgia uses quite a bit of electricity. Someone should write him a memo or something (on recycled paper of course). Equally ironic is his championing of hybrid-electrics, which are far more damaging to the environment than other alternatives, chief among those would be not buying a goddamn new car every 4 years.
So... if I recycle, I can afford to throw more shit into the neighborhood stream? You realize that argument is bullshit, right? Just because he pays more doesn't mean he is doing a better job. He's still using more energy per square foot of space than most American homes, with absolutely no reason to do so other than "I've got the money!"
Considering there are still no good emulators for the PC, my guess is no. If you'd like to try one, the best of the bunch are Satourne and SSF, both of which will need a fairly beefy system to run well. I love my Wii as much as the next guy, but processing power isn't it's strong suit.
If you want to play Saturn games, by all means buy one. There were a ton of great Japanese exclusives that never made it anywhere else, but certainly should have...
Here's to hoping the original hits Virtual Console (if they can ever wrap their brains around Saturn emulation).
Which is IMO why a lot of people end up needing stronger and stronger prescriptions. The Ciliari muscles atrophy because they are no longer required to do as much work.
Visual ability = muscle control, fed by muscle strength. The interesting thing is that by using muscles, and nerves to control muscles, you increase the strength of the muscles, and reinforce the nerve pathways for that control. Yes, it doesn't change the lens like a laser shattering/reshaping of the lens would do, but it is an improvement in eyesight.
How about I find it completely insulting and immoral that content owners (such as Viacom) are allowed hold content hostage for durations that far exceed our lifetimes? If it weren't for youtube I'll wager I would never have seen another cheesy Ronny James Dio video again. I sure as hell can't see them on MTV, and I don't think they ever get a video release. Heaven forbid that someone watch a 20+ year old video not blessed with the Viacom seal of approval.
Of course morality has no bearing on the legality of the case, so game on.
Took less than five minutes for justification #1. Any more takers?
True, assuming that the engine has low enough compression to run on pump gas. A pressure sensor would be needed but even then a bad solenoid, bad sensor, bad pump, or a plugged injector could cause the same failure mode. The bottom line is you're adding more points of maintenance and failure to the car. If I'm 30% more likely to lose an engine, is it worth 15% more hp/mpg?
People keep acting like the knock sensor is the only possible way to prevent a shortage of ethanol from causing problems. Think about it; there's got a tank of ethanol that's feeding this system. If my car can signal me when my windshield washer fluid is low, I think it can detect when this tank goes empty, too. All this takes is a level sensor (or pressure sensor) hooked up to the control unit. The knock sensor should be a final backup for detecting a problem, not the first line of defense...
I think the key problem is that if you set up the engine system to assume ethanol is on tap, you are dialing up cylinder pressures (higher compression and/or forced injection) to get some benefit out of it, no different than if you were building an engine to work with race gas.
This works out great until ethanol doesn't get injected for some reason, at which point your engine has to withstand the pre-ignition (knock) before the knock sensor can detect it and the ecu can dial back your A:F, timing and/or wastegate settings.
...and yes, cylinder injection + turboed cars (some with aftermarket methanol injection) have existed for years. In many cases people lose their engines when the injection system fails.
Most if not all of today's forced induction (and some naturaly aspirated) cars have knock sensors which will automatically retard the ignition timing when knock shows up, either from too much heat, bad air/fuel mixture, too much combustion chamber pressure, etc.. So yes, you could run out of any sort of "additive" and still have somewhat of an assurance that your engine won't blow up on the way to the store.
Wait, I'm confused now. Are you saying that all our undocumented programmers should be standing in front of the Home Depot looking for unscrupulous general contractors?
Because programmers are the construction workers of IT, not the architects.
Huh? They serve two completely different purposes. TIFF is a lossless display format, RAW is a camera specific capture format that lets you (among other things) change image brightness/color saturation without washing everything out. The only real downside besides mandated post-processing is image size. Well, that and the grand+ you'll be blowing on a shiny SLR that supports it.
BTW, the TIFF file works far better than the RAW random standard file format. TIFF is at least a standard, RAW is whatever the camera maker thinks it should be at that moment. TIFF is uncompressed and holds a full 64BPP of color.
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"The story begins with Dr. Zarkov's invention of a rocket ship, in which the three of them make a journey to the planet Mongo, where they are stranded. Mongo is inhabited by a number of different cultures, some quite technologically advanced, that have been falling one by one under the domination of the vicious tyrant Ming the Merciless."
Just like many leading nations/empires of the past, the US will fall at some point and then you can be pissed at China for having to much control.....if you are allowed to be pissed.
Greater thickness==less transparency, just like for window glass, or air for that matter. Another important factor is what part of the spectrum gets reflected. A good example is plexiglass, it does an outstanding job of filtering UV, which is great if that was what you wanted, but very bad if you were planning on using these things for say, solar cells.
ow strong is this stuff at greater thicknesses? Could it be used for better windows (less breakable, more transparent)?
Nothing new for Ellison, before the Peoplesoft deal he bought out Webgain(Toplink ORM) and now the licenses are up to $5k/cpu unless you're running the Oracle AS in which case it's free..
Damn, Ballmer and Jobs have got *nothing* on Ellison when it comes to sheer brutality. He's cutting out SAP's legs from under them by buying up and shutting down (or converting or Oracle optimized... same thing) the main tools that are used for getting into the real data analysis.
That is largely true (caveat: dreamcast GD-ROMS aren't), unfortunately newer consoles are much harder to emulate. I'm sure we'll see really good emulators for DC and PS2 at some point but until that happens you'll still need the physical machine. Saturn emulation is still pretty spotty and that's now a 12+ year old console, ditto for the 3DO and Jaguar.
Possibly, but we're lucky the newer consoles use media we can read with normal PC components, so roms become unnecessary (unless you like the ease of use, with virtual drives or something).
Emulators are generally legal, you don't need to own the console. The only legal issue is copyright on the system roms (if applicable). Roms are not legal even if you own the title, though I'm sure they'll be out of copyright (and therefore legal) in another 120 years or so. Cartridge based systems are generally very resiliant, so if you'd like to stay legal there's no real reason you can't break out your NES 20 years from now...well, other than their crappy 72 pin cartridge port. If you'd like to do the same with your PS2 I suggest stocking up on parts for the PS2 slim, the drive unit is much improved over the original at the expense of some overheating issues.
The same way every other console survives, like NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, etc. There may not be any emulators out, but PS2s haven't phased out yet either. I believe emulators are legal if you own the console, and the roms are legal if you own the game.
Better tools will help, but they cannot remove the increase in essential complexity inherent in modern hardware/game environments. To my mind this is much in the same vein as the multi-core development issues mentioned earlier this year. Both of these are problems without easy solutions, and both are completely relevant to modern game development.
People on slashdot may care about original/fun gameplay, but eye candy sells games and that means working around both hd content and multiple-cores...to make Madden 2017.
This is what, the 4th paradigm shift of game development?
1) The move from 8-bit to 16-bit and to 32-bit
2) The move from 2D to 3D was pretty big (i.e. we can now blend any animations at run-time.)
3) Streamed data
4) Coming up with better ways to create large content creation is probably the next big shift.
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If you are talking spiderman DVD's, odds are quite high they'll be perfectly recoverable in 20 years.
If you are talking quadraphonic 8-track recordings, odds (with useable fidelity) are fairly low.
If you are talking floppy disk or tape based software, odds are effectively nonexistant.
I realize this is a moral argument and not a legal one, but I for one am all in support of archivalists violating copyright to preserve art. Just like I'm in support of Tony the Pirate distributing copyrighted works that the owner has chosen not to distribute any longer.
Of course this comment parallels both the Xbox and 3DO though in both cases some of their best exclusives were also ported to the PC (Gex,Halo,etc).
Regardless of whether you agree with the article, the basic point is sound enough. There is more to emissions than what comes out of the tailpipe, the processes involved in building cars involves a fair amount of pollution and hybrids are worse than most. How does that = environmentally conscious?
FDR put Japanese-Americans into camps because there was fairly substantial evidence of espionage and treason by Japanese-American citizens preceeding the Pearl Harbor attack. I won't lie and say conditions were wonderful in these camps, but very few people actually died in them. You're probably thinking of the camps with Zyclon-B and the pits full of dead bodies.
Writing code that's massively parallel isn't easy, and it's never going to be easy. The right languages/tools may make it less insane, but it's asking a lot for most dev teams to put out a single-core product that doesn't need multiple patch releases. Requiring them to design and test parallel systems with N cores will be hilarious.
If you want to play Saturn games, by all means buy one. There were a ton of great Japanese exclusives that never made it anywhere else, but certainly should have...
Of course morality has no bearing on the legality of the case, so game on.
This works out great until ethanol doesn't get injected for some reason, at which point your engine has to withstand the pre-ignition (knock) before the knock sensor can detect it and the ecu can dial back your A:F, timing and/or wastegate settings.
People on slashdot may care about original/fun gameplay, but eye candy sells games and that means working around both hd content and multiple-cores...to make Madden 2017.