What qualifies as a product is fuzzy. Let's say a country wants to increase its tourism. If you see a positive article aboot Canada, is it a puff piece?
I see no reason not to wait about a year after a game's released to buy it. The price has dropped, the patches are out, and the reviews have leveled enough for me to determine if it's worth buying.
Music Brainz might be a good way of doing this. By comparing features of the song, duplicates can be matched up. Song length, general volume/pitch patterns, etc.
A company plans to do something, huh? Big surprise. Wake me up when they're actually on Mars. No point in getting ourselves all worked up whenever someone plans something.
Still, his response could have been "I don't know why I like music, but I can tell you what music I like." That would have conveyed some understanding of the question.
[I] was driven nuts by the people who would choose totally illegible color combinations on their computers.
Hate to break it to you, but this problem still exists. On a daily basis, I see people using yellow on red, blue on magenta. Makes me wish I couldn't see colours at all.
So what I'm hearing here is that the increasing popularity of OpenOffice will indirectly lower the price of Microsoft Office? Sounds about right to me.
Pricing argument aside (that war has been waged many, many times), Tiger is currently available. Windows Vista is not. So really, your post should read like this:
New System running Windows Vista: Unavailable
New System running Tiger: Mac Mini at $499 (2.5 inch slow hard drive, one stick of RAM, no monitor), or eMac at $799 (can't change monitor).
I don't believe that content production would cease. It's more likely that alternate methods of revenue would be adopted (Street performer protocol is one example, yes I know it has its issues). Given the option of no money or some money, which one do you think content producers would prefer?
I think that's what personal use comes down to. Imagine the following scenario in the fantastic world of 2029! People have the ability to record any stimuli that they experience, record it and play it back at a later date. If we have that ability, what right does anyone have to my experiences? I can relive that moment in the movie theatre, listening to that song, etc.
Now take that as an analogy to today's content-providing world. Do content distributors have the right to tell me not to reminisce on the movie I saw last week? 'Course not. If I had perfect memory, I could relive it too.
I know not many people have access to a forwarding account, but it's a must-have for me. I have one email address that forwards to whatever back-end I'm using (at the moment its Gmail).
What's that, a better email service is out there? I'll switch without having to inform my contact list. Seamless.
I didn't say only, just that there aren't many that put such heavy focus on story and atmosphere. Fallout may well be one of those games, but truthfully I never played it.
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What qualifies as a product is fuzzy. Let's say a country wants to increase its tourism. If you see a positive article aboot Canada, is it a puff piece?
I smell a new slashdotism: "Georgeg Bush doesn't care about $minority"
What's that you say? Blizzard is releasing $Minor_Feature? Forget all those questions I had; I can see WoW is in good hands.
I see no reason not to wait about a year after a game's released to buy it. The price has dropped, the patches are out, and the reviews have leveled enough for me to determine if it's worth buying.
Music Brainz might be a good way of doing this. By comparing features of the song, duplicates can be matched up. Song length, general volume/pitch patterns, etc.
It's been about 3 weeks since slashdot asked the developers of WoW some questions. Any word on that yet?
A company plans to do something, huh? Big surprise. Wake me up when they're actually on Mars. No point in getting ourselves all worked up whenever someone plans something.
Still, his response could have been "I don't know why I like music, but I can tell you what music I like." That would have conveyed some understanding of the question.
As far as I can tell, the first post was over on Fark.
Too true. Until Slashdot does its own research, we'll be looking at stories harvested from other sources.
So what I'm hearing here is that the increasing popularity of OpenOffice will indirectly lower the price of Microsoft Office? Sounds about right to me.
That's odd... I'm running Tiger on my new G4 iBook (512mb ram) and spotlight takes a second, maybe 2 tops. Certainly fast enough for me to use it.
Hell, sometimes I don't even bother going to the applications folder. I just hit the shortcut, type a bit of the name and select the program.
Availability.
Tiger released? Yes
Vista released? No
I don't believe that content production would cease. It's more likely that alternate methods of revenue would be adopted (Street performer protocol is one example, yes I know it has its issues). Given the option of no money or some money, which one do you think content producers would prefer?
Sorry, which question?
I guess an option would be to remove the dupe after it's detected.
Shouldn't this just be a post in the other PAX article? Doesn't make sense for it to be a story of its own.
Where's the response to the questions we asked the developers a week or two ago?
- Find some kind of alternate method of digital rights management (Street_Performer_Protocol is an example)
- Infringe upon people's rights to memory and expression (unjust, I'm willing to argue, but it's the route we're currently walking down)
- Some other option?
Either way, information that can be expressed as bits can be copied. We're going to have to address this somehow.I think that's what personal use comes down to. Imagine the following scenario in the fantastic world of 2029! People have the ability to record any stimuli that they experience, record it and play it back at a later date. If we have that ability, what right does anyone have to my experiences? I can relive that moment in the movie theatre, listening to that song, etc. Now take that as an analogy to today's content-providing world. Do content distributors have the right to tell me not to reminisce on the movie I saw last week? 'Course not. If I had perfect memory, I could relive it too.
I take it you didn't like Batman Begins?
I know not many people have access to a forwarding account, but it's a must-have for me. I have one email address that forwards to whatever back-end I'm using (at the moment its Gmail). What's that, a better email service is out there? I'll switch without having to inform my contact list. Seamless.
I didn't say only, just that there aren't many that put such heavy focus on story and atmosphere. Fallout may well be one of those games, but truthfully I never played it.