YES! That's by far the greatest idea I've ever heard regarding the whole issue.
I don't trust, even in the SLIGHTEST, when Sony or *insert corporation* says something is safe to use. It's a rather safe assumption that if they're not outright lying, they're at least bending the truth to only work under very specific circumstances.
Now... if they were forced to put a WARNING on the box instead of "HAY TRUST US, THIS IS GOOD!!!!" type symbols, I'd tend to trust that a lot more.
Then again, they'd just lie about how bad, or how bad the DRM is in the warning... but at least you'd have a vague idea. Just take any warning on a box, and multiply it by anywhere between 10 to 50 to get an accurate reading:P
Perhaps a bit more advanced version of that took place in the University of Manitoba once. The Mechanical Engineering department literally took a prof's car apart and reassembled it in his office when it was left in the lot. Good luck getting THAT out anytime soon:P
Well, I'm not entirely sure to what extent things will be affected, but it'll affect GPS-related units (http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/04/05/tec h-gps.html). Everything from military applications to hobbies such as geocaching will have less accuracy.
I'm sure the military likely has fallbacks or safeguards in effect, but when I'm geocaching, at least I can fall back on just looking around harder. But I'm sure this will affect far more systems than I can guess at.
Not to mention that they're supposed to be backward-compatable for DVD's anyway. I'll just... y'know... keep my DVD's regardless, and watch everything in the same player.
And then there's the players that play both Blu-ray and HD-DVD (and assumingly DVD, but I haven't checked). Just get one player to fit all your needs.
Well, there's the + and - buttons, but those don't really count. 1 and 2 quite possibly do, though. Twilight Princess has shown us that.
The nunchuk as well contains several buttons. And then there's always the possibility that a game will come with it's own 'version' of the nunchuck, specifically designed for the game.
Don't forget Zelda - Twilight Princess, that was another game that people TOTALLY aren't playing in the slightest. Yup, virtually no sales of THAT game either:P
The idea in ITSELF has potential... however the proposed method of execution is horrible at best.
Give kids digital music players. And then what happens? Kids go home, fill it's drive with their band of choice, and listen to music while in class. Or failing that, just listen to music in general. Or go on EBay and sell it. Or just throw it out. They didn't pay for it, what do they care?
NOW... if you actually want this plan to WORK, it'll require a little bit more planning and effort. They'd have to find someone to manufacture an entirely new audio player (or just get new software on some random cheap one), in which it can ONLY play a certain file format. Something like.LEC for lecture or something. Then... however they plan to have the teachers record these, have them record it in this.lec format.
BAM, most problems solved. Won't sell worth a damn on EBay due to it only playing.lec files, can't cram other music on there, and if the schools require it to be turned in at the end of the year, or on graduation, otherwise they don't pass/graduate... that should stop them from being thrown out. And odds are the kids will keep a close eye on them to hinder them from being stolen by kids being jackasses.
Until of course someone writes a program to convert mp3s into.lec files, but it'd just be way too much effort when the kid can just get a regular cheap mp3 player for like... 40 bucks.
That wouldn't really work though. It's way too easily exploited by the students, in this case. Student sees this 'insurance', and what do they see?
"Hmm... I pay 10 bucks a year, then I can download as much as the network will allow, of any music I could ever possibly want... and I'll never have to worry about being sued? Score!"
Oh, I saw that it was a joke site, and in no way serious.
Just a really, really pathetic attempt at humour, and fails miserably. It's below medeocre no matter what level you look at it. Either for humour, or serious... this article fails horribly. I have no clue why someone slashdotted it.
Traffic itself does not doesn't help directly, but numbers do.
If a site is able to boast "5 million hits a day" or whatever, they sound important, even if it's more accurately "5 million hits a day, 4,999,985 hits generated by popup ads".
This reminds me quite thoroughly of how movies depict video games as well. No matter what game, what system... most of the time, it's nothing but beeps and blips... usually not coinciding in the least with button-pushes on the controller.
Hell, half the time I recognize what game they're playing from a quick glimpse of it, and I'm thinking to myself "Oh come ON! I know that part, and there's nothing even CLOSE to those sounds there."
According to Hollywood... video games as well are stuck in the 80's.
HEY HOLLYWOOD! Move up another 20 someodd years, and you might stop parents from buying horrible crap games for kids, because then they might have a vague idea of what's good or current!
MAN, I really hope this becomes the new 'standard' format. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray can go to hell. There's already like... a million manufacturers of standard DVD's... so it should be brutally cheaper than HD-dvd's or Blu-rays.
Well... I guess it'd make sense for the standard dvd's to cost y'know... the price of standard dvd's... but see what I'm getting at. HD-dvd and Blu-ray machinery not needed if this is used.
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Trauma center:P
But of the two you specifically listed, I'd probably go monkey ball... but that's mainly because I'm a big fan of the previous monkey ball games. Never played either though, so I can't give you any kind of review.
Wow. Spam gets blocked, so spammers find way around it.
OH MY GOD! THIS WAS SO COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED! Next you'll be telling me that virus-writers are going to start looking for other security holes after the one they exploited before was fixed!
Even if a tiny black hole were to be created, it would likely disappear almost instanteously via Hawking Radiation. See Wikipedia for details.
The concerns regarding it however are: Creation of a stable black hole Creation of strange matter that is more stable than ordinary matter Creation of magnetic monopoles that could catalyze proton decay Triggering a transition into a different quantum mechanical vacuum
Wikipedia mentions the black hole would likely disappear, but it didn't mention anything regarding the others.
"These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it,. So it's time to get paid for it."
Riiiight. So umm... despite the fact that there's absolutely zero proof, a general assumption is being made... which spreads to ALL digital-music listeners... and say that they want money.
So... going by this theory, cable companies should charge everyone who watches TV because they all steal satellite signals?
YES! Everyone on earth is a digital thief, so let's make a profit off of it!
Just in case someone has some program that will recognize characters in an image (hence why some sites have the mangled-looking image that you have to try to read the letters off of), I went with a slightly different approach.
I just took a.gif image of my email address in the font I was using on my site, and then split it into 5 different images. Then in the html, I just have all of the images running one after another without spaces, and it looks correct on the website.
As well, I threw a BR tag or two before that particular line, and put the email address towards the start of the sentence, to avoid the problem of half of it appearing on a second line. Well... unless they have their monitor set to like... 320x240 resolution or have their IE window really friggin' small:P
Surprise, apples and oranges are both fruit that you eat. Both are acidic, and both grow on trees.
So if you wanted to get a reveiw of cars, would you completely ignore any review by a site that only did a review of one of the cars you wanted? Sometimes, you don't have the option of having a single source review everything on earth.
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YES! That's by far the greatest idea I've ever heard regarding the whole issue.
:P
I don't trust, even in the SLIGHTEST, when Sony or *insert corporation* says something is safe to use. It's a rather safe assumption that if they're not outright lying, they're at least bending the truth to only work under very specific circumstances.
Now... if they were forced to put a WARNING on the box instead of "HAY TRUST US, THIS IS GOOD!!!!" type symbols, I'd tend to trust that a lot more.
Then again, they'd just lie about how bad, or how bad the DRM is in the warning... but at least you'd have a vague idea. Just take any warning on a box, and multiply it by anywhere between 10 to 50 to get an accurate reading
Perhaps a bit more advanced version of that took place in the University of Manitoba once. The Mechanical Engineering department literally took a prof's car apart and reassembled it in his office when it was left in the lot. Good luck getting THAT out anytime soon :P
Well, I'm not entirely sure to what extent things will be affected, but it'll affect GPS-related units (http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/04/05/tec h-gps.html). Everything from military applications to hobbies such as geocaching will have less accuracy.
I'm sure the military likely has fallbacks or safeguards in effect, but when I'm geocaching, at least I can fall back on just looking around harder. But I'm sure this will affect far more systems than I can guess at.
Not to mention that they're supposed to be backward-compatable for DVD's anyway. I'll just... y'know... keep my DVD's regardless, and watch everything in the same player.
And then there's the players that play both Blu-ray and HD-DVD (and assumingly DVD, but I haven't checked). Just get one player to fit all your needs.
YES! Eat the antisandwich, lose weight! THAT'S what the LHC is all about! It's going to make it's money selling weight-loss products!
Well, there's the + and - buttons, but those don't really count. 1 and 2 quite possibly do, though. Twilight Princess has shown us that.
The nunchuk as well contains several buttons. And then there's always the possibility that a game will come with it's own 'version' of the nunchuck, specifically designed for the game.
Don't forget Zelda - Twilight Princess, that was another game that people TOTALLY aren't playing in the slightest. Yup, virtually no sales of THAT game either :P
The idea in ITSELF has potential... however the proposed method of execution is horrible at best.
.LEC for lecture or something. Then... however they plan to have the teachers record these, have them record it in this .lec format.
.lec files, can't cram other music on there, and if the schools require it to be turned in at the end of the year, or on graduation, otherwise they don't pass/graduate... that should stop them from being thrown out. And odds are the kids will keep a close eye on them to hinder them from being stolen by kids being jackasses.
.lec files, but it'd just be way too much effort when the kid can just get a regular cheap mp3 player for like... 40 bucks.
Give kids digital music players. And then what happens? Kids go home, fill it's drive with their band of choice, and listen to music while in class. Or failing that, just listen to music in general. Or go on EBay and sell it. Or just throw it out. They didn't pay for it, what do they care?
NOW... if you actually want this plan to WORK, it'll require a little bit more planning and effort. They'd have to find someone to manufacture an entirely new audio player (or just get new software on some random cheap one), in which it can ONLY play a certain file format. Something like
BAM, most problems solved. Won't sell worth a damn on EBay due to it only playing
Until of course someone writes a program to convert mp3s into
Being from Canada... if others think like I do, the USA couldn't pay Canada enough to TAKE Detroit. We like our ozone layer, thanks :P
That wouldn't really work though. It's way too easily exploited by the students, in this case. Student sees this 'insurance', and what do they see?
"Hmm... I pay 10 bucks a year, then I can download as much as the network will allow, of any music I could ever possibly want... and I'll never have to worry about being sued? Score!"
Yeah... way too easy to exploit.
This is what I see upon looking at the article:
"I'm right and everyone else is wrong! I'm going to believe it MY way, and that's that."
I mean cripes... I wonder how many of them still believe the world is flat? Just because you say that it's true doesn't mean that it is.
Oh, I saw that it was a joke site, and in no way serious.
Just a really, really pathetic attempt at humour, and fails miserably. It's below medeocre no matter what level you look at it. Either for humour, or serious... this article fails horribly. I have no clue why someone slashdotted it.
Ok, albeit not quite what I was thinking, but at least I wasn't the only one who was thinking something else after reading the title.
:P
I was picturing children somehow jamming oatmeal cookies in their eye or something
Traffic itself does not doesn't help directly, but numbers do.
If a site is able to boast "5 million hits a day" or whatever, they sound important, even if it's more accurately "5 million hits a day, 4,999,985 hits generated by popup ads".
This reminds me quite thoroughly of how movies depict video games as well. No matter what game, what system... most of the time, it's nothing but beeps and blips... usually not coinciding in the least with button-pushes on the controller.
Hell, half the time I recognize what game they're playing from a quick glimpse of it, and I'm thinking to myself "Oh come ON! I know that part, and there's nothing even CLOSE to those sounds there."
According to Hollywood... video games as well are stuck in the 80's.
HEY HOLLYWOOD! Move up another 20 someodd years, and you might stop parents from buying horrible crap games for kids, because then they might have a vague idea of what's good or current!
MAN, I really hope this becomes the new 'standard' format. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray can go to hell. There's already like... a million manufacturers of standard DVD's... so it should be brutally cheaper than HD-dvd's or Blu-rays.
Well... I guess it'd make sense for the standard dvd's to cost y'know... the price of standard dvd's... but see what I'm getting at. HD-dvd and Blu-ray machinery not needed if this is used.
Trauma center :P
But of the two you specifically listed, I'd probably go monkey ball... but that's mainly because I'm a big fan of the previous monkey ball games. Never played either though, so I can't give you any kind of review.
Wow. Spam gets blocked, so spammers find way around it.
OH MY GOD! THIS WAS SO COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED! Next you'll be telling me that virus-writers are going to start looking for other security holes after the one they exploited before was fixed!
Even if a tiny black hole were to be created, it would likely disappear almost instanteously via Hawking Radiation. See Wikipedia for details.
The concerns regarding it however are:
Creation of a stable black hole
Creation of strange matter that is more stable than ordinary matter
Creation of magnetic monopoles that could catalyze proton decay
Triggering a transition into a different quantum mechanical vacuum
Wikipedia mentions the black hole would likely disappear, but it didn't mention anything regarding the others.
Ok, is it just me, or did anyone else first mis-read the title as saying "Stephen Hawking Receives Cosplay Medal"?
I must be tired...
"These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it,. So it's time to get paid for it."
Riiiight. So umm... despite the fact that there's absolutely zero proof, a general assumption is being made... which spreads to ALL digital-music listeners... and say that they want money.
So... going by this theory, cable companies should charge everyone who watches TV because they all steal satellite signals?
YES! Everyone on earth is a digital thief, so let's make a profit off of it!
Just in case someone has some program that will recognize characters in an image (hence why some sites have the mangled-looking image that you have to try to read the letters off of), I went with a slightly different approach.
.gif image of my email address in the font I was using on my site, and then split it into 5 different images. Then in the html, I just have all of the images running one after another without spaces, and it looks correct on the website.
:P
I just took a
As well, I threw a BR tag or two before that particular line, and put the email address towards the start of the sentence, to avoid the problem of half of it appearing on a second line. Well... unless they have their monitor set to like... 320x240 resolution or have their IE window really friggin' small
How in the world did that get modded as informative and not 'funny'?!?
Surprise, apples and oranges are both fruit that you eat. Both are acidic, and both grow on trees.
So if you wanted to get a reveiw of cars, would you completely ignore any review by a site that only did a review of one of the cars you wanted? Sometimes, you don't have the option of having a single source review everything on earth.
Well, it's better than "Farmers can now throw bails onto even larger trucks to make less trips" :P