I agree, the Wii is a great platform for sports games. I was just commenting that EA seems reluctant to try anything new, while Nintendo is generally associated with that sort of risk-taking. Nintendo likes its franchises, but they know they can only go so far just selling more Mario platformers, so they expanded Mario beyond platformers.
You know, I have for a long time agreed with you completely on that. But I have started to question myself on that belief as well.. these days, in most cases both parents have to work. Perhaps they have more of a reason to feel helpless regarding their own children than previous generations have?
This two-earner household phenomenon is nothing new. Both my parents had to work, so I spent most of the day in school (just like anybody else) and part of it at day care. There's the help you suggest they need.
The compete because it's easy to stop buying one and move to the other.
1. When you buy an Intel chip, you're not stuck buying only Intel chips for your next few computers.
2. They use essentially the same architecture, so you don't need to buy/build all new software when you switch.
Competition is meaningless if customers get locked in.
We also can't ban encrypted content outright; that'd be the end of eCommerce as we know it, and Big Biz would never let the legislators they own take that action.
They'd likely just mandate licenses to use encryption, and have the government perform some sort of "key storage service."
It would be interesting to see steganography take off, though.
That woman was a crackpot. She carried round a sodding speaker that 'converted the radiation to sound' and demonstrated how it sounded like loud static which was "clearly not good". What did she expect, the conversion to sound to sound like Beethoven or something? Idiot.
Isn't static what you hear when there's pretty much nothing being broadcast?
Actually, this study strongly suggests a lack of correlation:
... when tests were carried out in which neither the experimenter or participant knew if the mast was on or off, the number of symptoms reported was not related to whether a signal was being emitted or not.
1. What kind of moron would never look at their own web site as they develop it and not notice this?
The same kind who doesn't want to travel around the country testing it with all the ISPs the visitors might use.
Or maybe just the kind of moron who won't even RTFS.
Of course, after the patents run out, it will be legal to keep the seeds of the former year for the next one - no wait, it won't, because the end of the patent protection doesn't mean that the license ends
I wonder if it would be possible for someone to obtain seeds after the patent expires. They might buy them from a farmer, or perhaps a few mysteriously disappear from the farmer's store and the farmer doesn't feel up to pressing charges (or at least not making a strong enough case).
i have 2 years to turn more then $20,000 profit from my idea, or it's out in the public domain for someone else to have a crack out.
So if a couple guys in a garage invent something, the companies with the capital needed to mass-produce this new product can either license it now or wait a couple years and not owe the inventor anything. Or the inventors can try to set up their own manufacturing, but why should the reward for inventing something be the opportunity to risk a lot for a chance to profit from it?
Well, it would require rather extensive modification of the chat client so that text could not be selected and thereby not copied/pasted, but even then it would probably be hacked within days.
More likely, people would just use a different client -- one without this DRM.
I am not aware of any client that will notify or even prevent a chat from taking place if one of the participants is logging. This seems like an obvious feature to add, but I'm unclear why the chatting public hasn't asked or been heard if they have asked.
Because it's essentially impossible. You can't send me a message in a way that keeps me from saving it. You also cannot tell whether I'm saving the message without looking at every piece of storage I've got.
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That's what I'd bet on. I'm filing this with all the "I got downmodded for being conservative" whining.
I agree, the Wii is a great platform for sports games. I was just commenting that EA seems reluctant to try anything new, while Nintendo is generally associated with that sort of risk-taking. Nintendo likes its franchises, but they know they can only go so far just selling more Mario platformers, so they expanded Mario beyond platformers.
EA -- releases the same games year after year, with some updates
Wii -- completely new control system, so something of a new way to game
Yeah, sounds like EA is a bit of a mismatch, eh?
Wouldn't that be rather hard to hold up in court? An open source project wouldn't include code without a license to do so.
The compete because it's easy to stop buying one and move to the other.
1. When you buy an Intel chip, you're not stuck buying only Intel chips for your next few computers.
2. They use essentially the same architecture, so you don't need to buy/build all new software when you switch.
Competition is meaningless if customers get locked in.
Skin is skin. Censor all, or censor none.
It would be interesting to see steganography take off, though.
I don't know about you, but there's more decompression overhead here than I'd like to deal with.
More copyleft and less restrictive... uh... ok...
Ok. Guess we'll just have to wait for post-expiration cross-pollination.
Or maybe just the kind of moron who won't even RTFS.
Eve can perform key exchange with Alice and with Bob, making them think they have performed key exchange with each other.
This isn't quite a precedent, but it's certainly close enough to be relevant.
Imagine DRM that spreads to the rest of the music on your computer/LAN.
I must agree. This notion of "equal coverage for both viewpoints" has gotten out of hand. The universe exists independent of Gallup's latest poll.