Oh, sorry, 1 more... Probably the most important, too.
"C. For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. "
"A. You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the Website, including but not limited to User Submissions (defined below), without YouTube's prior written authorization."
Do you think they got that before they played the clip on live TV?
"A. The content on the YouTube Website, except all User Submissions (as defined below), including without limitation, the text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive features and the like ("Content") and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein ("Marks"), are owned by or licensed to YouTube, subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under the law. Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. YouTube reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Website and the Content."
No, YouTube doesn't own the content that users upload.
Yes, but they'd be 'aware' that they were screwed.;)
I work at a small company with 2 other techs and they recently went to a conference for a few days... That was fun, I can tell you. If that happened for 2 weeks they'd probably come back as the only 2 techs left.;)
Sounds like you got a bright one there. I'm impressed that those were her first questions.
You are, of course, teaching her to repair PCs, put ends on Cat5, and program in multiple languages... Right?
My niece would say 'nuh uh' first (because my father's 'teasing' includes a lot of outright lying) and then... I have no idea. I don't think she'd ask anything. She would probably run to tell her mother about it. (She's 6.)
I feel the same way. As far as number of games, and comfort of the controller, the 360 wins hands-down. When it comes to reliability and 'will I get to finish playing this game?' the PS3 wins.
Almost everyone I've talked to that has a 360 has said they've been been through multiple boxes. I haven't, but I don't play long hours at a time and I have a fan blowing air across it all the time. I no longer wonder IF my 360 will die, but when. And the replacement box will have the same problem.
The PS3... I recently saw where put it through 108 hours gaming, in a freezer, and in a sauna... and it survived each cycle. I am still in awe that it could do that, even if it were the best-built PS3 ever!
I wish someone would make a Phoenix Revolution controller for the PS3, though... It was the right size and weight, and the configurability was great.
I should be picking up DW Gundam tomorrow, and I plan to ask if I can switch the PS3 one instead. I suspect the answer will be 'no', but I'm going to try.
How do you manage to get on a 'file sharing' network without understanding that if you put something in the 'shared' folder, it'll be shared? Simply making it available has a tacit assumption that it WILL be shared. It's like putting down a landmine and not realizing the entire purpose of it is to blow someone up.
Using a file sharing program will SHARE FILES. Don't let the fact that it never got shared distract you from the fact that they intended to share it.
Because it was never about HIS children. It was about controlling everyone else's children. He's perfectly capable of teaching his own to stay away from violence, but he has no control over everyone else's unless he gets laws passed.
The 1 year difference between M and AO means absolutely nothing. They don't magically mature enough during that year to handle 'graphic sexual content' or 'prolonged scenes of intense violence' unless they are already being exposed to them. (That's actually problem with the whole system... They can't learn to handle them if they aren't exposed to them. That's another discussion, though.)
What do they REALLY expect when they give a single entity complete control over something? I'm sure the ESRB says 'we won't tell you why' because they don't want to get into arguments about specific content and they don't want the constant 'well, is this okay then?' that they'll get if they start that.
But I've always felt that was a bit uppity of them. They decide what is right and moral for all of America and nobody has any say-so, or any idea what they are even saying.
At the very least, I think the system should be overhauled to rate each thing seperately. Violence, nudity, language... Everyone feels differently about each of these. While I would put nudity down at Pre-Teen level, I would keep outright sex at Adult level. Shooting a weapon would be Adult, for any reason and any enemy. 'Bad' language would be Teen. And I'd add a concept, though I don't know what I'd call it: Concepts, Politics, Ideas... The overall concept of the game, and the message it brings, should be rated. Games about raising a horse for fun would be for Everyone. Games about raising a horse to be a war-steed would be Teen.
I can already hear people screaming about how I'd rate things. Don't bother to respond, that's exactly my point. Nobody agrees with me exactly! The rating system should explain WHAT is bad about that aspect of the game, instead of just giving it an overall rating.
I'm making this up, because I have no idea what Manhunt 2 entails, but I imagine the ratings should read like:
Violence: Firearms, killing humans. Nudity: Full nudity, deviant sex Language: Full range of taboo words, constant usage Concept: Killing for pleasure, little consequence for actions
And then a parent that thinks killing people is fine, but showing skin is absolutely taboo can properly understand what they are handing to their child.
"In addition, Newell bemoaned the increasing lack of input device diversity in PC gaming culture. He would like to see controllers like the Wiimote or the Guitar Hero guitar, but since DirectX support for devices like these had increasingly been reduced over the last few years, developers didn't dare implement these expensive innovations."
His complaint was the DirectX did NOT support them! That's even more reason to go with OpenGL and another input library.
Turn that around: How do YOU sleep at night knowing that 'making available' a song that you don't own could wipe out your own savings? It's such a little thing, and SO easy to avoid... And yet, you do it anyhow.
(I'm obviously not pointing fingers at you in particular, as I have no way to know if you've done this or not.)
Anyone who is surprised that the RIAA is suing has NOT been on the internet, and thus they don't have to worry about it. Everyone else has been warned for quite some time now, and it's not like they had no clue it was illegal before the lawsuits even began.
Actually, they -did- pay the money to the Russian government agency that was responsible for paying the RIAA/etc. That agency was the one unable to finish the payment. The money didn't end up in AllofMP3's hands.
So while they may not have had to pay the 'ultimate supplier', they still had to pay.
On the other hand, I believe the amounts they were paying were less than if they'd been in the US. So in that sense you are correct... They had lower costs and competition would be ineffective. (I believe this was also the reason the payments were refused.)
Wow, it does. I heard about this site the other day, but I somehow missed the fact that they were streaming ALL music to you. I saw the 'upload your mp3' button and thought it was just stuff you'd uploaded, but they'd stream it to you anywhere. It's working quite well for me here on Linux w/ Flash 9.
About the uploads, though... Are they saying if you upload an album they don't have, they'll share it with others? I really have to question the legality of that... And if -I- upload an album that I've bought, and they break the law... How liable am I? I've got a few albums that I'd like to listen to at work, but dragging around my MP3 player all the time and recharging, etc is getting old. I -suppose- I could burn a DVD of MP3s, but it'd be nice to just stream it in and then it's wherever I go.
It's been done several times already with protections that were taking too long to crack. They managed to compare the demo and retail executables and come up with a cracked executable with no protection.
I have no idea how they did it, and don't really want to. I just keep my nose far enough into that scene to hear what's going on.
You may not see how it's useful, but it obviously was as some 'uncrackable' games suddenly became crackable, and it was done quite quickly on the next few after that.
I'm about sick of all these 'new movies suck!' people. I like old movies. I like new movies. When I compare the 2, I definitely do NOT find that new movies have less plot than old ones, but rather the opposite. I find the acting, directly, special effects, and script to all be generally better.
This is usually the point that someone says 'Look at Movie X! It was horrid!' The very same thing can be said about tons of movies from every single year. With time, the bad ones are forgotten. The new ones are receiving hype and haven't had time to be forgotten.
The guy above called you a troll, but what you said has merit.
I bought a desktop with Intel graphics for my Linux-only box. As it had the best Intel graphics on it, I thought I'd be able to play Guild Wars, which is not terribly demanding. -sigh- Didn't happen.
The Intel graphics chips are great for desktop use, and I even use it for Beryl... But games are still a no-go for anything in the last few years.
If I was still trying to make my Linux box play games, I'd have slapped a good nVidia card in it.
So you're saying AMD/ATI have a worthwhile open source video driver, eh? Oh, they don't? Gee, maybe THAT is why he said that. He may very well be an Intel lover, but that statement you quoted holds no proof of it.
I did exactly the same thing! I went to a store and compared a normal tv to an hdtv of the same size, and I came up with the same answer: "Meh." (This was back when CRTs were cheaper than LCDs, so the difference was even less noticeable.)
The stores are idiotic. They use a 'high def' signal, but from a crappy source, like satellite (lots of artifacts unless you've got a perfect signal). And then use component cables and so many splitters that the signal quality is absolute shit by the time it gets to the TV. No wonder it's unimpressive. I ended up buying my first HDTV for gaming, and when I got HD cable, I was amazed!
Sony finally realized that the stores are doing this, and they provide a player (using HDMI, not component cables) JUST for their high-end TV. The quality is absolutely amazing. When I asked a Circuit City rep if I could see the same signal on the Samsung next to it, I got a curt 'No.'
Because there's a bajillion ways to use that information against you, and people are paranoid. (Probably rightly so, most of the time.)
So, you voted against (candidate that won), huh? Well, you must be evil.
So, you voted independent, eh? You must be a communist, trying to subvert our system.
So, you voted for a known communist, eh? You must be a spy.
Yes, there's not a whole lot of logic there. There doesn't NEED to be, because the people that would put those lists together to see who voted what aren't USING a lot of logic.
Anonymous voted should mean that, not 'temporarily anonymous' or 'anonymous unless we want it not to be'.
Very good points, but 'simple solutions' are generally part of larger ones. Trying to change 6 things at once without breaking it into smaller projects would be nearly impossible. Think of this as 1 step towards the goal.
Encouraging education is another step. How do you make students WANT to excel? I don't know, but I think it's happening already. 10 years ago, a geek (or nerd) was an outcast. Now they are still made fun of a little, but are widely regarded to be skilled and wanted. Have a computer problem of any sort? Find a geek. Now students are realizing that knowledge truly IS power and desire it more.
So now that society is embracing knowledge, we need a plan to give it to them. This plan seems to aim for that, even if it's biased towards science.
I have serious doubts as to how well it will work, though... If they only get reimbursed 4 years after they graduate, that means they have to have the money (or a large portion of it) to cover themselves for 8 years. If they let it just sit in loans, the interest would be horrifying, and if they failed to get reimbursed for any reason, could ruin them.
You know, I bet they said the same thing when DVDs started to replace VHS.
Have you seen the difference in quality of a HD movie vs a DVD movie when played on a screen that can handle it? It's an amazing difference. Most consumers have -not- seen this, and probably won't until there's good market penetration.
The difference is good enough that I have purchased NEW movies at full retail price for the first time in over 10 years. Crank and Kung Fu Hustle are amazing, and I've heard the third one I bought this weekend, Memento, is amazing as well.
So while the consumer may have chosen not to spend their money, that doesn't mean they have any actual information to base that decision on. Players -are- still too expensive, and I wouldn't have one if I hadn't snagged a used PS3 for dirt cheap, but I expect that will change soon, just like always happens. TVs have some way down already. For instance, 5 years ago a 50" Plasma was $50,000 at Office Depot. I bought a 46" LCD with 10,000:1 contrast ratio (making it pretty much as good as plasma) for $2300, and I could have bought a Plasma with the same size and features for under $3000. That's quite a drop in price for only 5 years.
Well that's an easy one. We'd format them and install Linux instead, so it can't happen to our friends again.
Of course, we'd put Windows right back on for our customers, since 2 hours sitting on your ass and getting paid for it is always good, and Windows virtually assures you'll get to do it again in the future, too.
Okay, I'll admit it's annoying at the time... But c'mon, can't you say you have a LOT of great memories because of it? I wasn't even THERE and I just laughed about the Mines decoys. That's great stuff!:D
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You are dangerously close to saying that Walmart is good. Be careful. ;)
I really think Walmart would already have twisted their arm if they could. They've done it to everyone else.
Oh, sorry, 1 more... Probably the most important, too.
"C. For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. "
"A. You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the Website, including but not limited to User Submissions (defined below), without YouTube's prior written authorization."
Do you think they got that before they played the clip on live TV?
"A. The content on the YouTube Website, except all User Submissions (as defined below), including without limitation, the text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive features and the like ("Content") and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein ("Marks"), are owned by or licensed to YouTube, subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under the law. Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. YouTube reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Website and the Content."
No, YouTube doesn't own the content that users upload.
Yes, but they'd be 'aware' that they were screwed. ;)
;)
I work at a small company with 2 other techs and they recently went to a conference for a few days... That was fun, I can tell you. If that happened for 2 weeks they'd probably come back as the only 2 techs left.
Sounds like you got a bright one there. I'm impressed that those were her first questions.
... I have no idea. I don't think she'd ask anything. She would probably run to tell her mother about it. (She's 6.)
You are, of course, teaching her to repair PCs, put ends on Cat5, and program in multiple languages... Right?
My niece would say 'nuh uh' first (because my father's 'teasing' includes a lot of outright lying) and then
Nobody was creating new input devices for the old DirectX either, so the distinction about DX10 is pointless.
I feel the same way. As far as number of games, and comfort of the controller, the 360 wins hands-down. When it comes to reliability and 'will I get to finish playing this game?' the PS3 wins.
Almost everyone I've talked to that has a 360 has said they've been been through multiple boxes. I haven't, but I don't play long hours at a time and I have a fan blowing air across it all the time. I no longer wonder IF my 360 will die, but when. And the replacement box will have the same problem.
The PS3... I recently saw where put it through 108 hours gaming, in a freezer, and in a sauna... and it survived each cycle. I am still in awe that it could do that, even if it were the best-built PS3 ever!
I wish someone would make a Phoenix Revolution controller for the PS3, though... It was the right size and weight, and the configurability was great.
I should be picking up DW Gundam tomorrow, and I plan to ask if I can switch the PS3 one instead. I suspect the answer will be 'no', but I'm going to try.
How do you manage to get on a 'file sharing' network without understanding that if you put something in the 'shared' folder, it'll be shared? Simply making it available has a tacit assumption that it WILL be shared. It's like putting down a landmine and not realizing the entire purpose of it is to blow someone up.
Using a file sharing program will SHARE FILES. Don't let the fact that it never got shared distract you from the fact that they intended to share it.
Because it was never about HIS children. It was about controlling everyone else's children. He's perfectly capable of teaching his own to stay away from violence, but he has no control over everyone else's unless he gets laws passed.
The 1 year difference between M and AO means absolutely nothing. They don't magically mature enough during that year to handle 'graphic sexual content' or 'prolonged scenes of intense violence' unless they are already being exposed to them. (That's actually problem with the whole system... They can't learn to handle them if they aren't exposed to them. That's another discussion, though.)
What do they REALLY expect when they give a single entity complete control over something? I'm sure the ESRB says 'we won't tell you why' because they don't want to get into arguments about specific content and they don't want the constant 'well, is this okay then?' that they'll get if they start that.
But I've always felt that was a bit uppity of them. They decide what is right and moral for all of America and nobody has any say-so, or any idea what they are even saying.
At the very least, I think the system should be overhauled to rate each thing seperately. Violence, nudity, language... Everyone feels differently about each of these. While I would put nudity down at Pre-Teen level, I would keep outright sex at Adult level. Shooting a weapon would be Adult, for any reason and any enemy. 'Bad' language would be Teen. And I'd add a concept, though I don't know what I'd call it: Concepts, Politics, Ideas... The overall concept of the game, and the message it brings, should be rated. Games about raising a horse for fun would be for Everyone. Games about raising a horse to be a war-steed would be Teen.
I can already hear people screaming about how I'd rate things. Don't bother to respond, that's exactly my point. Nobody agrees with me exactly! The rating system should explain WHAT is bad about that aspect of the game, instead of just giving it an overall rating.
I'm making this up, because I have no idea what Manhunt 2 entails, but I imagine the ratings should read like:
Violence: Firearms, killing humans.
Nudity: Full nudity, deviant sex
Language: Full range of taboo words, constant usage
Concept: Killing for pleasure, little consequence for actions
And then a parent that thinks killing people is fine, but showing skin is absolutely taboo can properly understand what they are handing to their child.
Who was complaining, Newell?
"In addition, Newell bemoaned the increasing lack of input device diversity in PC gaming culture. He would like to see controllers like the Wiimote or the Guitar Hero guitar, but since DirectX support for devices like these had increasingly been reduced over the last few years, developers didn't dare implement these expensive innovations."
His complaint was the DirectX did NOT support them! That's even more reason to go with OpenGL and another input library.
Turn that around: How do YOU sleep at night knowing that 'making available' a song that you don't own could wipe out your own savings? It's such a little thing, and SO easy to avoid... And yet, you do it anyhow.
(I'm obviously not pointing fingers at you in particular, as I have no way to know if you've done this or not.)
Anyone who is surprised that the RIAA is suing has NOT been on the internet, and thus they don't have to worry about it. Everyone else has been warned for quite some time now, and it's not like they had no clue it was illegal before the lawsuits even began.
Actually, they -did- pay the money to the Russian government agency that was responsible for paying the RIAA/etc. That agency was the one unable to finish the payment. The money didn't end up in AllofMP3's hands.
So while they may not have had to pay the 'ultimate supplier', they still had to pay.
On the other hand, I believe the amounts they were paying were less than if they'd been in the US. So in that sense you are correct... They had lower costs and competition would be ineffective. (I believe this was also the reason the payments were refused.)
Wow, it does. I heard about this site the other day, but I somehow missed the fact that they were streaming ALL music to you. I saw the 'upload your mp3' button and thought it was just stuff you'd uploaded, but they'd stream it to you anywhere. It's working quite well for me here on Linux w/ Flash 9.
About the uploads, though... Are they saying if you upload an album they don't have, they'll share it with others? I really have to question the legality of that... And if -I- upload an album that I've bought, and they break the law... How liable am I? I've got a few albums that I'd like to listen to at work, but dragging around my MP3 player all the time and recharging, etc is getting old. I -suppose- I could burn a DVD of MP3s, but it'd be nice to just stream it in and then it's wherever I go.
It's been done several times already with protections that were taking too long to crack. They managed to compare the demo and retail executables and come up with a cracked executable with no protection.
I have no idea how they did it, and don't really want to. I just keep my nose far enough into that scene to hear what's going on.
You may not see how it's useful, but it obviously was as some 'uncrackable' games suddenly became crackable, and it was done quite quickly on the next few after that.
Agreed.
I'm about sick of all these 'new movies suck!' people. I like old movies. I like new movies. When I compare the 2, I definitely do NOT find that new movies have less plot than old ones, but rather the opposite. I find the acting, directly, special effects, and script to all be generally better.
This is usually the point that someone says 'Look at Movie X! It was horrid!' The very same thing can be said about tons of movies from every single year. With time, the bad ones are forgotten. The new ones are receiving hype and haven't had time to be forgotten.
The guy above called you a troll, but what you said has merit.
I bought a desktop with Intel graphics for my Linux-only box. As it had the best Intel graphics on it, I thought I'd be able to play Guild Wars, which is not terribly demanding. -sigh- Didn't happen.
The Intel graphics chips are great for desktop use, and I even use it for Beryl... But games are still a no-go for anything in the last few years.
If I was still trying to make my Linux box play games, I'd have slapped a good nVidia card in it.
So you're saying AMD/ATI have a worthwhile open source video driver, eh? Oh, they don't? Gee, maybe THAT is why he said that. He may very well be an Intel lover, but that statement you quoted holds no proof of it.
I did exactly the same thing! I went to a store and compared a normal tv to an hdtv of the same size, and I came up with the same answer: "Meh." (This was back when CRTs were cheaper than LCDs, so the difference was even less noticeable.)
The stores are idiotic. They use a 'high def' signal, but from a crappy source, like satellite (lots of artifacts unless you've got a perfect signal). And then use component cables and so many splitters that the signal quality is absolute shit by the time it gets to the TV. No wonder it's unimpressive. I ended up buying my first HDTV for gaming, and when I got HD cable, I was amazed!
Sony finally realized that the stores are doing this, and they provide a player (using HDMI, not component cables) JUST for their high-end TV. The quality is absolutely amazing. When I asked a Circuit City rep if I could see the same signal on the Samsung next to it, I got a curt 'No.'
Because there's a bajillion ways to use that information against you, and people are paranoid. (Probably rightly so, most of the time.)
So, you voted against (candidate that won), huh? Well, you must be evil.
So, you voted independent, eh? You must be a communist, trying to subvert our system.
So, you voted for a known communist, eh? You must be a spy.
Yes, there's not a whole lot of logic there. There doesn't NEED to be, because the people that would put those lists together to see who voted what aren't USING a lot of logic.
Anonymous voted should mean that, not 'temporarily anonymous' or 'anonymous unless we want it not to be'.
Very good points, but 'simple solutions' are generally part of larger ones. Trying to change 6 things at once without breaking it into smaller projects would be nearly impossible. Think of this as 1 step towards the goal.
Encouraging education is another step. How do you make students WANT to excel? I don't know, but I think it's happening already. 10 years ago, a geek (or nerd) was an outcast. Now they are still made fun of a little, but are widely regarded to be skilled and wanted. Have a computer problem of any sort? Find a geek. Now students are realizing that knowledge truly IS power and desire it more.
So now that society is embracing knowledge, we need a plan to give it to them. This plan seems to aim for that, even if it's biased towards science.
I have serious doubts as to how well it will work, though... If they only get reimbursed 4 years after they graduate, that means they have to have the money (or a large portion of it) to cover themselves for 8 years. If they let it just sit in loans, the interest would be horrifying, and if they failed to get reimbursed for any reason, could ruin them.
You know, I bet they said the same thing when DVDs started to replace VHS.
Have you seen the difference in quality of a HD movie vs a DVD movie when played on a screen that can handle it? It's an amazing difference. Most consumers have -not- seen this, and probably won't until there's good market penetration.
The difference is good enough that I have purchased NEW movies at full retail price for the first time in over 10 years. Crank and Kung Fu Hustle are amazing, and I've heard the third one I bought this weekend, Memento, is amazing as well.
So while the consumer may have chosen not to spend their money, that doesn't mean they have any actual information to base that decision on. Players -are- still too expensive, and I wouldn't have one if I hadn't snagged a used PS3 for dirt cheap, but I expect that will change soon, just like always happens. TVs have some way down already. For instance, 5 years ago a 50" Plasma was $50,000 at Office Depot. I bought a 46" LCD with 10,000:1 contrast ratio (making it pretty much as good as plasma) for $2300, and I could have bought a Plasma with the same size and features for under $3000. That's quite a drop in price for only 5 years.
"What if, one day, they didn't come back up?"
Well that's an easy one. We'd format them and install Linux instead, so it can't happen to our friends again.
Of course, we'd put Windows right back on for our customers, since 2 hours sitting on your ass and getting paid for it is always good, and Windows virtually assures you'll get to do it again in the future, too.
Okay, I'll admit it's annoying at the time... But c'mon, can't you say you have a LOT of great memories because of it? I wasn't even THERE and I just laughed about the Mines decoys. That's great stuff! :D
Yes, but they didn't do it right, so all is normal. Don't panic.