I guess you do it in roughly the way we do here in the UK, with an independent body (the BBFC) tasked with rating these things. Yeah, it has draw backs. I'm not weighing in heavily for or against here, just wondering why it pushes peoples buttons so much...
Why is restriction on sales to minors such a terrible thing to Americans? I just don't get it... Why is this such a big deal? I know every time a rights issue comes up everyone likes to bash the situation on the opposing side of the Atlantic, but we've had similar ratings for films here for years, and I don't really see a problem. Surely 'freedom of speech' means 'from political censorship by the government' far more than it applies to 'from nannying / meddling'.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's really necessary or works very well, and agree with the bajillion comments which probably follow saying parents should take responsibility, but I never quite understand the outcry - is it from a bunch of 14 yr olds worried they'll be missing out on GTA7?
Lame maybe, but I'd argue that historically it's very rarely the ones taking the risks that get the big payoff, and generally those who stand back and see what works and then create a successful business model around it.
I know you're joking, but the problem with your point is that it's actually all about Patent cross licensing. If this agreement really were an admission that each contained I.P. owned by the other, Microsoft would now have indemnification against Novell (and vice versa), but all other Linux distro's would be shafted. Whether Microsoft used to be infringing Novell's patents or not would be irrelevant. Whether Microsoft is using I.P. in some way 'owned' by the OS community as a whole would be the interesting thing (which is the idea behind the various OS Patent 'war chest' movements by IBM et. al.).
As I'm from the UK, I can't claim to understand the ins and outs of your voting in the US, but from what I just read you're saying "I would never have aligned my vote with a politician who I wanted to win to help stabilize our political system, because he from that other party. Sounds like utterly stupid tribalist, partisan politics, which is responsible for most intelligent people in Western democracies being so utterly bored with politics as a whole...
I'm assuming you're going for comedy here, but it's really hard to tell... As far as a full on troll goes, you certainly succeeded in baiting enough replies:)
If you're serious of course... hahahahahahhahahhahaharoflmao111!!!one
As far as I know they do absolutely no such thing. Do you live in the UK (I do) and/or have any source for that statement whatsoever?
The BBC license fee has absolutely no relevance to this discussion. Don't drag up tired and pointless arguments to muddy the waters.
Disclaimer - I've never seen one of these IRL, and I've no idea if they're any good...
But everyone seems to be missing the point that these aren't remotely *intended* as replacements for full scale desktop keyboards. They are replacements for the nasty little pads you have on your phone or PDA - and from the look of them, I can imagine for some purposes they'd be pretty handy. The problem of course is the price.... as much as your phone again by the look of it...
I'm never convinced by that sentiment. When one player dominates a field, surely you get the underdogs / fresh talent absolutely striving to innovate, just to get a foothold in the market by blowing the current tech away...
Just my 2 Gil
I'm sure everyone would agree that Half Life was a terrible game. I seem to remember several examples in there of what you describe - if anything, despite the silliness, it enhanced the cinematic feel and the coolness factor of the title.
how do you convince 'average' people that the new limitations will no longer be convenient for them
You get down off of your damned high horse and trust them to notice when something isn't convenient. Or at least show them a viable alternative. If this genuinely gets in people's way, chances are alternatives will benefit. To be honest though, MS are smart enough that it almost certainly will be invisible to 99% of Joe Public. (Either because they just don't care about HD, or they'll have upgraded anyway by the time they think about an HD collection, or whatever).
If it's REALLY so inconvenient, 'average' people will 'convince' themselves. (Yes, you can help them maybe, like by making Linux something you can actually use?)
And this is a form of motion capture. And if you believe the slashvertisment, a quicker, cheaper one, with better results. So that would be why.
And to deal with your second question, textures will still be added after capturing structure and movement information, so you could make people blue, tweak the models or whatever after the fact still. (Like in the example, the teeth, skin, hair etc are all being slotted back in from photo's)
Did you go near the article? Yes yes, I know, I must be new here...
Surely there's a point where it does - anything we do in our lives has a downside which you could consider 'evil' if you take it to the extreme (Easy examples, Drive to work? Destroying the environment! Eat a burger - Animal Murderer! Blow your nose - Bactericide!)
There has to be a point where the good you're doing outweighs the bad, and you're actions are no longer 'evil' - maybe like running a succesful, pro libertarian company and providing access to a lot information by making some concessions to a government you wouldn't by choice be on best terms with. I'm not saying that they got the balance right to avoid the 'evil' tag, just that there has to be a tipping point on any decison.
Absolutely. I can't believe we're so behind the rest of the world on this. VCRs have been available for essentially entirely illegal purposes in this country for how long now?
In place of Cliffs Law could we also get with the program on making my ITrip legal too though...?
By similar annoyance with firefox has been ' (apostrophe) causing almost the same behaviour. Only worse, because it doesn't get into the actual form at all. That said, I'm typing this in FF, and it's working fine, so maybe it's been fixed (was only ever intermittent anyway). Saw it mostly in gmail.
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I guess you do it in roughly the way we do here in the UK, with an independent body (the BBFC) tasked with rating these things. Yeah, it has draw backs. I'm not weighing in heavily for or against here, just wondering why it pushes peoples buttons so much...
Why is restriction on sales to minors such a terrible thing to Americans? I just don't get it... Why is this such a big deal? I know every time a rights issue comes up everyone likes to bash the situation on the opposing side of the Atlantic, but we've had similar ratings for films here for years, and I don't really see a problem. Surely 'freedom of speech' means 'from political censorship by the government' far more than it applies to 'from nannying / meddling'.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's really necessary or works very well, and agree with the bajillion comments which probably follow saying parents should take responsibility, but I never quite understand the outcry - is it from a bunch of 14 yr olds worried they'll be missing out on GTA7?
I think we all know where 'analists' are pulling their numbers from though...
Lame maybe, but I'd argue that historically it's very rarely the ones taking the risks that get the big payoff, and generally those who stand back and see what works and then create a successful business model around it.
I know you're joking, but the problem with your point is that it's actually all about Patent cross licensing. If this agreement really were an admission that each contained I.P. owned by the other, Microsoft would now have indemnification against Novell (and vice versa), but all other Linux distro's would be shafted. Whether Microsoft used to be infringing Novell's patents or not would be irrelevant. Whether Microsoft is using I.P. in some way 'owned' by the OS community as a whole would be the interesting thing (which is the idea behind the various OS Patent 'war chest' movements by IBM et. al.).
As I'm from the UK, I can't claim to understand the ins and outs of your voting in the US, but from what I just read you're saying "I would never have aligned my vote with a politician who I wanted to win to help stabilize our political system, because he from that other party. Sounds like utterly stupid tribalist, partisan politics, which is responsible for most intelligent people in Western democracies being so utterly bored with politics as a whole...
If you're serious of course... hahahahahahhahahhahaharoflmao111!!!one
I is next to U on the qwerty. People make typos. That's, er, kind of the whole point.
As far as I know they do absolutely no such thing. Do you live in the UK (I do) and/or have any source for that statement whatsoever?
The BBC license fee has absolutely no relevance to this discussion. Don't drag up tired and pointless arguments to muddy the waters.
Er - What?
The cost of a plane ticket to Japan.
You missed 0.5) Get slashvertisment in desperate attempt to raise funds to put any of your plans into action.
But everyone seems to be missing the point that these aren't remotely *intended* as replacements for full scale desktop keyboards. They are replacements for the nasty little pads you have on your phone or PDA - and from the look of them, I can imagine for some purposes they'd be pretty handy. The problem of course is the price.... as much as your phone again by the look of it...
I'm never convinced by that sentiment. When one player dominates a field, surely you get the underdogs / fresh talent absolutely striving to innovate, just to get a foothold in the market by blowing the current tech away... Just my 2 Gil
I'm sure everyone would agree that Half Life was a terrible game. I seem to remember several examples in there of what you describe - if anything, despite the silliness, it enhanced the cinematic feel and the coolness factor of the title.
how do you convince 'average' people that the new limitations will no longer be convenient for them
You get down off of your damned high horse and trust them to notice when something isn't convenient. Or at least show them a viable alternative. If this genuinely gets in people's way, chances are alternatives will benefit. To be honest though, MS are smart enough that it almost certainly will be invisible to 99% of Joe Public. (Either because they just don't care about HD, or they'll have upgraded anyway by the time they think about an HD collection, or whatever).
If it's REALLY so inconvenient, 'average' people will 'convince' themselves. (Yes, you can help them maybe, like by making Linux something you can actually use?)
Go out and get some sunshine (let alone the jokes about going blind...)
No guns? It said North America support didn't it?
And to deal with your second question, textures will still be added after capturing structure and movement information, so you could make people blue, tweak the models or whatever after the fact still. (Like in the example, the teeth, skin, hair etc are all being slotted back in from photo's)
Did you go near the article? Yes yes, I know, I must be new here...
If we all liked the exact same things then there would be only one tv channel and simpsons and futurama would be on 24/7
You've visited us here in the UK then?
There has to be a point where the good you're doing outweighs the bad, and you're actions are no longer 'evil' - maybe like running a succesful, pro libertarian company and providing access to a lot information by making some concessions to a government you wouldn't by choice be on best terms with. I'm not saying that they got the balance right to avoid the 'evil' tag, just that there has to be a tipping point on any decison.
Nobody hits the nail on the head... Unless they're a Carpenter or a Videogamer.
In place of Cliffs Law could we also get with the program on making my ITrip legal too though...?
And are people pronouncing it direct double-x yet? Hmmmm... specially optimised for the next Lara Croft outing perhaps.
By similar annoyance with firefox has been ' (apostrophe) causing almost the same behaviour. Only worse, because it doesn't get into the actual form at all. That said, I'm typing this in FF, and it's working fine, so maybe it's been fixed (was only ever intermittent anyway). Saw it mostly in gmail.