It didn't? I thought then, as I do now that its just shitty third rate hardware dressed up with a "revolutionary" controller that isn't.
Heh. "I declared this thing non-revolutionary, and even though it was highly successful and caused the other major players to dance to their tune, I still say it's non-revolutionary".
I also expect that the quality of the main (TV) screen will have to be severely downgraded when the other one is enabled. Considering the HW architecture of the ATI GPU, I think that a not negligible amount of GPU cores are used to trans-code the aux screen output to some kind of compressed video feed.
Heh, yeah, because shrinking a rasterized image is something that would really tax a modern GPU.
A purchase of condoms I buy 5 years ago may haunt me when a patent troll decides that he can sue all of Trojan's customers, so goes through logs of people's purchases bought and starts a wide legal fishing expedition
Fair point, although I'd be surprised if local buying was cheapest for that. I find piracy by far the more likely possibility, although there are legal non-infringing uses.
Part of his statement was that this was a few years ago, I'm assuming this is around 2005. Back then we had plenty of storage space, but no means other than DVD-Rs to back it up, and it took lots of them. USB drives became cheaper and more reliable, DVD-R sales have gone down. I'm sure most people who have purchased a DVD burner have tried out burning a movie, but a hundred? I have plenty of disposable income and I think a hundred is higher than my total collection of DVDs. In 2005, though, I did have more than 400 gigs of data to keep backed up.
... and we also accept that selling someone things we know they will use to commit a crime is wrong...
This is the sticky part. It's like saying "exploring the galaxy will be easy, first we invent the warp drive...." If the guy flat out says to "I am going to download a movie I have no intention of paying for and burn it to this disc", he's still not in the wrong to sell him blank DVDs.
One reason is that he is not the police, it is not his job to enforce the law. You don't want customer service people making decisions about who they think are criminals.
The second reason is that that is not actually evidence that he's about to commit a crime. Saying he will do it is not a confession, he hasn't done it, yet. He could be making shit up and it's not like the guy behind the register can see he's got a bunch of torrents going on that dude's computer.
Gun sales are a completely different animal and... guess what, they're handled in a very different way. Background checks, statements the customer makes, laws about how the purchase can only go down, etc. We don't do that with DVD-rs, so the clerk isn't even armed with the knowledge he'd need to actually deny a sale.
The third reason is that he's not even stopping a crime. A spindle of DVD-Rs does not open the door to actually infringing on copyright. It's not like you have to have a DVD-R in the drive for a torrent client to start.
I know it's fun to pretend there's an imaginary paragraph break between two sentences and try to nail someone on that, but I wasn't commenting on his grammar. It was a statement about how idiotic his response was.
I'm sure they were coming into his store every few days for a spindle of cheap DVDs in order to take more video of their family dog.
Aspiring 3D artists will go through spindles of DVDs either for making demo reels to find work and/or to back up gigs of data they generated to make those reels. These days hard disc space is generous enough to not really rely on removable media, but it wasn't that long ago where you needed DVD-Rs to maintain the output.
Although if they're parasites, what is he who makes money on the parasites?
They could be telling him to his face that they're downloading movie rips of stuff they've never seen or paid for before and he still wouldn't be in the wrong for selling him those spindles. The only real thing he did wrong was he made assumptions about what they were up to.
well if it was his store, wouldn't he know what the parasitic bastards were buying? maybe he rang them up.
I saw you leave a store once with a tub of vaseline and a box of rubber gloves. Now you claim you bought this stuff to dye your hair, but we all know what you really do in your spare time.
Actually this isn't a bad metaphor to explain why "you have nothing to hide" isn't actually a compelling argument about losing our privacy.
I consider this a Firefox problem not a version problem. I have always found that Firefox uses allot of memory.
You're right. And the way they're going to fix that problem is they'll recruit a team of people to find out exactly where this memory usage is coming from, then they'll come to Slashdot and write posts describing how it's the user's fault.
The point wasn't that it was used improperly, the point was that he was confused by my statement and, instead of asking for more information, resorted to using sarcasm. If he were inquisitive in nature, he would have learned that the old vector based games, for example, can be displayed again in a method flattering to their original appearance.
What's funny about your statement of why being a grammar nazi is bad.... well just imagine if you had simply asked what I meant by that. Afterall, you are defending a guy who completely ignored the amazingly important detail that we're talking about portable systems. Don't you look so smart now.
No. He's saying the evidence of stagnation is when you walk past the PC games at E3 and you cannot tell them apart because they're all soldiers running around with guns.
It doesn't even have to be profitable, there just needs to be somebody with a message they want sent. Spammers aren't paid to push products, they are paid to deliver n-thousand messages. That's why we hear stories about it taking millions of messages to earn $100.
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It didn't? I thought then, as I do now that its just shitty third rate hardware dressed up with a "revolutionary" controller that isn't.
Heh. "I declared this thing non-revolutionary, and even though it was highly successful and caused the other major players to dance to their tune, I still say it's non-revolutionary".
Not goin down without a faight, aintcha?
And why should I clutter up my living room with additional devices just because some bean counter wanted to save five bucks?
...because you want additional game playing capability? You do realize that Nintendo didn't invent this .. 'problem', right?
I also expect that the quality of the main (TV) screen will have to be severely downgraded when the other one is enabled. Considering the HW architecture of the ATI GPU, I think that a not negligible amount of GPU cores are used to trans-code the aux screen output to some kind of compressed video feed.
Heh, yeah, because shrinking a rasterized image is something that would really tax a modern GPU.
We want our own so we can try and be filthy rich but it'll probably die on it's arse just like UMD.
Yeah because if it's one market that Nintendo's been trying to break into, it's movies.
11: Your PC game MUST be from the PoV of a character waving a gun in front of his face.
Mario and Zelda are not shovelware. Franchise != sequel.
On a side note: the email notification I got was "My hands hurt... by hairyfeet. Heh.
Ok... so... what, you want the word Insightful next to your post or something?
Yes because kids have so much disposable income.
He swings... and it's a miss!
A purchase of condoms I buy 5 years ago may haunt me when a patent troll decides that he can sue all of Trojan's customers, so goes through logs of people's purchases bought and starts a wide legal fishing expedition
What?
You'd rather have fewer payment options? I've helped friends out a couple of times via Paypal and their debit card.
That's because the story isn't just the number of people dead.
Talk to him. I am pointing out that he isn't moving the goalposts.
Another Slashvertisement! Ready pitchforks!!!!
I think I am only two hops from him.
He was clear in that he was talking about the computing devices HP was selling, printers not included.
Re-read his original post and take your own advice.
Blah blah blah Chuck Norris! Ha ha ha.
Blah blah blah bacon! Ha ha ha.
Blah blah blah I can has? Ha ha ha.
Blah blah blah Weiner! Ha ha ha.
Blah blah blah Zombies. Ha ha ha.
Fair point, although I'd be surprised if local buying was cheapest for that. I find piracy by far the more likely possibility, although there are legal non-infringing uses.
Part of his statement was that this was a few years ago, I'm assuming this is around 2005. Back then we had plenty of storage space, but no means other than DVD-Rs to back it up, and it took lots of them. USB drives became cheaper and more reliable, DVD-R sales have gone down. I'm sure most people who have purchased a DVD burner have tried out burning a movie, but a hundred? I have plenty of disposable income and I think a hundred is higher than my total collection of DVDs. In 2005, though, I did have more than 400 gigs of data to keep backed up.
... and we also accept that selling someone things we know they will use to commit a crime is wrong...
This is the sticky part. It's like saying "exploring the galaxy will be easy, first we invent the warp drive...." If the guy flat out says to "I am going to download a movie I have no intention of paying for and burn it to this disc", he's still not in the wrong to sell him blank DVDs.
One reason is that he is not the police, it is not his job to enforce the law. You don't want customer service people making decisions about who they think are criminals.
The second reason is that that is not actually evidence that he's about to commit a crime. Saying he will do it is not a confession, he hasn't done it, yet. He could be making shit up and it's not like the guy behind the register can see he's got a bunch of torrents going on that dude's computer.
Gun sales are a completely different animal and... guess what, they're handled in a very different way. Background checks, statements the customer makes, laws about how the purchase can only go down, etc. We don't do that with DVD-rs, so the clerk isn't even armed with the knowledge he'd need to actually deny a sale.
The third reason is that he's not even stopping a crime. A spindle of DVD-Rs does not open the door to actually infringing on copyright. It's not like you have to have a DVD-R in the drive for a torrent client to start.
I know it's fun to pretend there's an imaginary paragraph break between two sentences and try to nail someone on that, but I wasn't commenting on his grammar. It was a statement about how idiotic his response was.
I'm sure they were coming into his store every few days for a spindle of cheap DVDs in order to take more video of their family dog.
Aspiring 3D artists will go through spindles of DVDs either for making demo reels to find work and/or to back up gigs of data they generated to make those reels. These days hard disc space is generous enough to not really rely on removable media, but it wasn't that long ago where you needed DVD-Rs to maintain the output.
Although if they're parasites, what is he who makes money on the parasites?
They could be telling him to his face that they're downloading movie rips of stuff they've never seen or paid for before and he still wouldn't be in the wrong for selling him those spindles. The only real thing he did wrong was he made assumptions about what they were up to.
well if it was his store, wouldn't he know what the parasitic bastards were buying? maybe he rang them up.
I saw you leave a store once with a tub of vaseline and a box of rubber gloves. Now you claim you bought this stuff to dye your hair, but we all know what you really do in your spare time.
Actually this isn't a bad metaphor to explain why "you have nothing to hide" isn't actually a compelling argument about losing our privacy.
I consider this a Firefox problem not a version problem. I have always found that Firefox uses allot of memory.
You're right. And the way they're going to fix that problem is they'll recruit a team of people to find out exactly where this memory usage is coming from, then they'll come to Slashdot and write posts describing how it's the user's fault.
You should have used it to ask a question?????
The point wasn't that it was used improperly, the point was that he was confused by my statement and, instead of asking for more information, resorted to using sarcasm. If he were inquisitive in nature, he would have learned that the old vector based games, for example, can be displayed again in a method flattering to their original appearance.
What's funny about your statement of why being a grammar nazi is bad.... well just imagine if you had simply asked what I meant by that. Afterall, you are defending a guy who completely ignored the amazingly important detail that we're talking about portable systems. Don't you look so smart now.
No. He's saying the evidence of stagnation is when you walk past the PC games at E3 and you cannot tell them apart because they're all soldiers running around with guns.
It doesn't even have to be profitable, there just needs to be somebody with a message they want sent. Spammers aren't paid to push products, they are paid to deliver n-thousand messages. That's why we hear stories about it taking millions of messages to earn $100.