By the way I'm not opposed to an intelligent conversation about the artistic similarities and differences between music and games.
But I think you'll agree
"You might get sick of the gameplay, or hit a wall that you can't surpass, or you'll have other games that you'd rather play instead." therefore music wins
All right that's enough. Games and music are nothing alike and it's ridiuclous to spit out specific examples of why one medium is superior to the other. Seriously, you laugh you lose. Nightmare mode: read your post to yourself out loud. Good luck brave warrior.
you can use a CD in a lot more places than you can use a videogame
Why are we even using the words "CD"? What is this the 90s?
It is online sales of CDs and DVDs that have grown rapidly, rather than digital downloads, which still only account for around 4% of music and video sales.
Huh? I can see audiophiles wanting the original CDs just so they can rip losslessly, but I see no other use for that dead media. I don't think anyone in my entire family owns a CD player and we all have at least one mp3 player. Maybe it's just a matter of amazon structuring their site weirdly but it blows my mind that people would rather wait a week for a disk that you're just going to rip to mp3 and throw away than just download the album right there!
Yeah but aside from the gamers who think 12 caffeine -fueled hours of TF2 is relaxing (I was there beleive me) people want to be able to just kick back and enjoy a movie for a few hours on a sunday afternoon. Making it interactive is fun but not relaxing at all.
A pain to pirate video games? Pirated video games have no DRM, no disk needed in the slot (honestly do they even do that anymore?), and come to your house at a few mbps while you watch TV or sleep. Oohhh you meant console "gaming".
Walk by quickly and don't stare kids- he made the choice to live that way, don't feel sorry for him.
The risk of collision with the International Space Station or another satellite
How about the risk of collision with a city? It's too dangerous to take it down on the space shuttle so we'll just toss half a metric ton of steel and ammonia at random at the earth's surface and cross our fingers. Right. Can you imagine the PR disaster if somebody gets killed? Let alone somebody in China or Iran..
Garbage isn't the problem.. the problem is that we have millions of copies of the same data. Think of the 50gb of video games you may have installed.. 10 million people have the same games as you. Music? Unless you performed it yourself or it's sub-underground, chances are millions of people each have multiple copies of it. The anime you've torrented has 10,000 downloads.
As for images on the internet.. well, every repost is a repost repost.
hah there's no way the propeller pushes the car on the ground.. that would be horrifying to drive. It would take MINUTES to get up to highway speed and forget it if you want to freeze it in a pinch
How did it take 31 laptops for this guy to get caught? I know if my (one) laptop was stolen by security, I would NOT stop until I got it back. It's my only computer; how could I possibly let it go? I'm not just going to take a glossed over "we'll get back to you".. I'm going to the top
At trial, defendant suggested unrealistic, unlikely explanations as to how his computer was linked to the post.
How unrealistic is "someone sent me a link"? It's entirely plausible that the link text he clicked was completely unrelated; even if it's unlikely and unrealistic, you have to have AIRTIGHT evidence if you're locking someone in a cage for a decade.
I think that social networking sites would actually implement such a feature, just so they can list it on their "how we protect your privacy" page. But man that sounds SO ridiculous.. your email address is blacklisted. Is there ANY identifying information in life more transient than an email address?!
And don't forget- DON'T TEACH IN JAVA. It's a very powerful platform that is perfect for education, but it's slow, bloated, and unusable in the Real World. Teach your students something they can actually use and they'll be thankful, even if it's a little harder to learn pointer arithmetic, etc. Also Java doesn't do brutally elegant algorithms like C does, and when students get to an algorithms class they're going to be weirded out
Full adders are really simple to implement.. this really isn't so awesome. But you can do amazing things with wire mod in Garry's Mod.. I've seen autonomous pets, auto-targeting turrets, and chess engines constructed out of physics objects. Also it's extremely powerful because you can write lua scripts that are represented as black-box "chip" objects in the game with inputs and outputs.
I seriously doubt that it will be able to skip commercials on hulu. What, are you going to hit play, walk away for an hour while it records, and come back and replay it? And how does it capture the video stream and convert it on-the-fly to something other than flv? It would be easier just to watch the 15 second ads..
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Huh? I can see audiophiles wanting the original CDs just so they can rip losslessly, but I see no other use for that dead media. I don't think anyone in my entire family owns a CD player and we all have at least one mp3 player. Maybe it's just a matter of amazon structuring their site weirdly but it blows my mind that people would rather wait a week for a disk that you're just going to rip to mp3 and throw away than just download the album right there!
Yeah but aside from the gamers who think 12 caffeine -fueled hours of TF2 is relaxing (I was there beleive me) people want to be able to just kick back and enjoy a movie for a few hours on a sunday afternoon. Making it interactive is fun but not relaxing at all.
A pain to pirate video games? Pirated video games have no DRM, no disk needed in the slot (honestly do they even do that anymore?), and come to your house at a few mbps while you watch TV or sleep. Oohhh you meant console "gaming". Walk by quickly and don't stare kids- he made the choice to live that way, don't feel sorry for him.
in before scarlet letter, salem witch trials, etc
How about the risk of collision with a city? It's too dangerous to take it down on the space shuttle so we'll just toss half a metric ton of steel and ammonia at random at the earth's surface and cross our fingers. Right. Can you imagine the PR disaster if somebody gets killed? Let alone somebody in China or Iran..
I'm sure gmail already does that on the back end.. keeping track of (big, secret) hashes of files and not storing duplicates
!nothingofvaluewaslost means that they disagree with the tag nothingofvaluewaslost. The '!' is a negation. gb2/digg
Garbage isn't the problem.. the problem is that we have millions of copies of the same data. Think of the 50gb of video games you may have installed.. 10 million people have the same games as you. Music? Unless you performed it yourself or it's sub-underground, chances are millions of people each have multiple copies of it. The anime you've torrented has 10,000 downloads. As for images on the internet.. well, every repost is a repost repost.
they're ALL like that
Really. A list of history's greatest mods, and no Counter-Strike? No Team Fortress? No Ricochet?.....
Because students obviously want these services and they're paying customers who need to be kept happy.
You try living at college for 4 years without using the internet for anything personal.
Are those words?
hah there's no way the propeller pushes the car on the ground.. that would be horrifying to drive. It would take MINUTES to get up to highway speed and forget it if you want to freeze it in a pinch
How did it take 31 laptops for this guy to get caught? I know if my (one) laptop was stolen by security, I would NOT stop until I got it back. It's my only computer; how could I possibly let it go? I'm not just going to take a glossed over "we'll get back to you".. I'm going to the top
How is enhancing photos the business of a video card? That can be done in software at a perfectly acceptable speed without hardware acceleration.
How unrealistic is "someone sent me a link"? It's entirely plausible that the link text he clicked was completely unrelated; even if it's unlikely and unrealistic, you have to have AIRTIGHT evidence if you're locking someone in a cage for a decade.
ugh who uses msn? superior
I think that social networking sites would actually implement such a feature, just so they can list it on their "how we protect your privacy" page. But man that sounds SO ridiculous.. your email address is blacklisted. Is there ANY identifying information in life more transient than an email address?!
They can't even make a 32 bit version without bugs and security vulnerabilities. Honestly, who would install a new version of Flash on its zero-day?
And don't forget- DON'T TEACH IN JAVA. It's a very powerful platform that is perfect for education, but it's slow, bloated, and unusable in the Real World. Teach your students something they can actually use and they'll be thankful, even if it's a little harder to learn pointer arithmetic, etc. Also Java doesn't do brutally elegant algorithms like C does, and when students get to an algorithms class they're going to be weirded out
Full adders are really simple to implement.. this really isn't so awesome. But you can do amazing things with wire mod in Garry's Mod.. I've seen autonomous pets, auto-targeting turrets, and chess engines constructed out of physics objects. Also it's extremely powerful because you can write lua scripts that are represented as black-box "chip" objects in the game with inputs and outputs.
I seriously doubt that it will be able to skip commercials on hulu. What, are you going to hit play, walk away for an hour while it records, and come back and replay it? And how does it capture the video stream and convert it on-the-fly to something other than flv? It would be easier just to watch the 15 second ads..