I think the primary difference is you are talking about something fundamental to a functioning modern society (the use and maintenence of cars), whereas I am talking about playing video games. No elected official will give a rats crap what a bunch of game nerds think.
Tell me where and what advantage is gained by having hardware you want installed into it?
Well, there are many. Firstly, it's all but impossible to support a console when you have no idea what hardware is on it. With unchecked 3rd party hardware, the support model simply breakdown. Secondly, people on XBLA play against each other. If someone can just load their hacked 3rd party memory card as a pseudo-'game shark' and always win, that lessens the value to all the other players online. I know this happens as I have played against people like this in the past ('hey man, how did you win that match...the round was only open for 2 seconds?'...'Dude! it's this cool mod that let's me win every time...sucker').
That doesn't mean they get to treat customer's badly with zero consequence.
Sure it does. They can do whatever the crap they want within the limits of the law.
...decided to strip search us and throw us out if they find a non-MS-branded USB key.
Now your just being hysterical. I would hardly compare disallowing 3rd party hardware (with ample warning I might add) with forced body-cavity searches. It's not as if playing video games is some Constitutionally protect right.
I cannot think not a single store-bought XBox360 game that requires you to play online. Unless you calling the XBLA casual games as 'the best games'. The XBox360 is at its' best when online I agree. But it still will play 1000's of games with zero WAN connectivity. XBOX Live is not a public utility. They are not required to make it open or even available to everyone. If we don't like we can leave; it's their house and we just get to play in the yard.
Nothing is being 'locked out' without the customer consent. While you may own the box, they own the online service. If you don't want to be updated, don't connect to the online service. That's certainly not required if all you want to do is play with friends on the same console.
Maybe the games are so rife with typos that players don't care how fun it is. I have seen more than one game out that showing my 'High Scoe' or that I am on 'Level Too'.
I was going to sat the same thing. Of course it entirely possible the anonymous coward was really a Microsoft developer trying to astroturf some hate for Apple. In the absence of anything to motivate me otherwise, I always assume the role of jaded cynic.
I agree that the SSA is a system built for 1930's America. But I guess the principle you state of "It's benefiting the current generation at the expense of the next..." I disagree with. I don't know about you but for the first nearly two decades of my life I was wholly dependent on the then current generation to feed, house, and clothe me. And then for the next decade or so after that, they continued to provide me with employment, and subsidize my car insurance and higher education. I guess I feel I feel it's more like repaying the current generation at the expense of the next.
The difference is those projects usually cost less than a dollar year after year, forever. This one would cost less than a dollar once. Then it would be funded privately.
I will gladly give you $0.21 if I (and the many generations after me) get something useful in return. Like the Internet infrastructure we are all using right now.
Right because just a few decades ago people didn't even have airbags in their cars. So what's the big deal if a couple of hundred people have their jaws broken when they bump a planter box at 6 MPH? It's not like they died or anything. Get some perspective!
Don't be such a dolt. The machine is the product of evolution. Millions of years ago a bolt of lightning hit some random alloys and a simple logic circuit was born. Fast-forward to now, and *poof* CT scanner! It just make sense.
...why exactly? How is ST any different from any other sci-fi series like BSG or Firefly? It's not as if those show have any less technobabble or are any less characters-first-technology-second.
Oh come on. It was posted on superconductors.org. They just don't hand those domains out to anybody you know. I am pretty sure there are some pretty extensive checking before someone can buy a domain like that. I bet the science guys all have like hella degrees from STFU so you know they're all the awesome and crap.
A similar thing happened to my Mom a while ago. She was injured on the job and taking L&I pay. With all her spare time I helped her set up a blog. Eventually she put Google ads on it and started raking in the big bucks (to the tune of about $3/month). After a few months of this, L&I got wind of it and claimed that this proved she was no longer injured and therefore entitled to no benefits.
She fought this decision and (eventually) won by pointing out that, even though her ads were 'making' money, she had never been paid since her ads never equaled $100 or more (as required by Google). If she had ever reached the $100 mark (even if it had taken years) she probably would have been out of luck.
But in her case, it all worked out well in the end. Her injury was due to and incident of workplace violence where her employer had been warned of the danger multiple times in the past (but did nothing to protect their people). She settled just a few days ago for $500K.
As long as it only take 1 sucker/buyer out of every million spam emails sent, I doubt it will ever stop. Now start charging $0.001 for every external email sent...them maybe it slow it down. Make the 1 buyer cost the spammer $1000 and they might at least focus their effort somewhat.
I would recommend looking up the concept called 'burden of proof'. It typically falls on the party making the assertions, not on the detractors. In other words, semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit.
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"Who knows what [products] they'll [promote] between now and the time the [ebook concept] becomes unprofitable? -- Troy McClure
They tried that with MagicGate on PS2. With 6 months the algorithm was hacked and dupes were on the market (with god know what loaded on them).
I think the primary difference is you are talking about something fundamental to a functioning modern society (the use and maintenence of cars), whereas I am talking about playing video games. No elected official will give a rats crap what a bunch of game nerds think.
Well, there are many. Firstly, it's all but impossible to support a console when you have no idea what hardware is on it. With unchecked 3rd party hardware, the support model simply breakdown.
Secondly, people on XBLA play against each other. If someone can just load their hacked 3rd party memory card as a pseudo-'game shark' and always win, that lessens the value to all the other players online. I know this happens as I have played against people like this in the past ('hey man, how did you win that match...the round was only open for 2 seconds?'...'Dude! it's this cool mod that let's me win every time...sucker').
Sure it does. They can do whatever the crap they want within the limits of the law.
Now your just being hysterical. I would hardly compare disallowing 3rd party hardware (with ample warning I might add) with forced body-cavity searches. It's not as if playing video games is some Constitutionally protect right.
I cannot think not a single store-bought XBox360 game that requires you to play online. Unless you calling the XBLA casual games as 'the best games'. The XBox360 is at its' best when online I agree. But it still will play 1000's of games with zero WAN connectivity. XBOX Live is not a public utility. They are not required to make it open or even available to everyone. If we don't like we can leave; it's their house and we just get to play in the yard.
Nothing is being 'locked out' without the customer consent. While you may own the box, they own the online service. If you don't want to be updated, don't connect to the online service. That's certainly not required if all you want to do is play with friends on the same console.
Well, some folks use the word 'monopoly' when they mean 'market share'.
Me also think that very much long time.
Maybe the games are so rife with typos that players don't care how fun it is. I have seen more than one game out that showing my 'High Scoe' or that I am on 'Level Too'.
I was going to sat the same thing. Of course it entirely possible the anonymous coward was really a Microsoft developer trying to astroturf some hate for Apple. In the absence of anything to motivate me otherwise, I always assume the role of jaded cynic.
I agree that the SSA is a system built for 1930's America. But I guess the principle you state of "It's benefiting the current generation at the expense of the next..." I disagree with. I don't know about you but for the first nearly two decades of my life I was wholly dependent on the then current generation to feed, house, and clothe me. And then for the next decade or so after that, they continued to provide me with employment, and subsidize my car insurance and higher education. I guess I feel I feel it's more like repaying the current generation at the expense of the next.
The difference is those projects usually cost less than a dollar year after year, forever. This one would cost less than a dollar once. Then it would be funded privately.
I will gladly give you $0.21 if I (and the many generations after me) get something useful in return. Like the Internet infrastructure we are all using right now.
Or about $0.21 from every tax paying citizen. Once. My God....what a socialist hellscape!
Right because just a few decades ago people didn't even have airbags in their cars. So what's the big deal if a couple of hundred people have their jaws broken when they bump a planter box at 6 MPH? It's not like they died or anything. Get some perspective!
Don't be such a dolt. The machine is the product of evolution. Millions of years ago a bolt of lightning hit some random alloys and a simple logic circuit was born. Fast-forward to now, and *poof* CT scanner! It just make sense.
...why exactly? How is ST any different from any other sci-fi series like BSG or Firefly? It's not as if those show have any less technobabble or are any less characters-first-technology-second.
Well if you are going to go all anal on this, at least freak out using correct information.
There is Canada. There is the United States of America. There is the United Mexican States.
Oh come on. It was posted on superconductors.org. They just don't hand those domains out to anybody you know. I am pretty sure there are some pretty extensive checking before someone can buy a domain like that. I bet the science guys all have like hella degrees from STFU so you know they're all the awesome and crap.
A similar thing happened to my Mom a while ago. She was injured on the job and taking L&I pay. With all her spare time I helped her set up a blog. Eventually she put Google ads on it and started raking in the big bucks (to the tune of about $3/month). After a few months of this, L&I got wind of it and claimed that this proved she was no longer injured and therefore entitled to no benefits.
She fought this decision and (eventually) won by pointing out that, even though her ads were 'making' money, she had never been paid since her ads never equaled $100 or more (as required by Google). If she had ever reached the $100 mark (even if it had taken years) she probably would have been out of luck.
But in her case, it all worked out well in the end. Her injury was due to and incident of workplace violence where her employer had been warned of the danger multiple times in the past (but did nothing to protect their people). She settled just a few days ago for $500K.
I didn't know there was a toilet pole in the Constitution.
Never said is was a car.
As long as it only take 1 sucker/buyer out of every million spam emails sent, I doubt it will ever stop. Now start charging $0.001 for every external email sent...them maybe it slow it down. Make the 1 buyer cost the spammer $1000 and they might at least focus their effort somewhat.
I would recommend looking up the concept called 'burden of proof'. It typically falls on the party making the assertions, not on the detractors. In other words, semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit.