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Comment Re:Firefox 3.6 on linux works like a dream with de (Score 1) 601

Their flying images demo just kept on rolling when I tried it with firefox 3.6 on my slackware linux box. I jacked the number of images up as high as it would go and it was still doing something like 50fps. So looks like firefox got their first.

I'm getting about 20-30fps in firefox 3.6 on a su2300 netbook. IE 8 gets about 1fps.

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The Grown-Up Video Game 152

Phaethon360 writes "Now, more than ever, we're seeing many Mature ratings (M+, 17+, 18) being distributed by various national media regulators. But that isn't the only indicator for a game's intended audience. It doesn't take a thousand swear words, scantily clad women or gratuitous violence to differentiate a ten-year-old's game from a twenty-year-old's. The spectrum of human emotions encompasses a wider palette than just revenge, fear, and loss, but the games that shy away from these are frequently mistaken as being for a younger audience. From the article: 'The human experience is one that is made up of great hardship, pain, loss, death, and a multitude of experiences seemingly designed to destroy a person. However, that same experience is also filled with joy, love, laughter, family and friends. ... These so-called “grown-up” games need not be relegated to the category of niche gaming. In fact, at times we find that these video games are capable of reaching mass popularity among the gaming community. It is here that we find one of our generation’s outlets for the expression of conflict.'"

Comment Re:Xfinity equals... (Score 1) 356

It's been a few years since I used T-Mobile. Had cell/text package. Called them up told them I didn't want text anymore and to shut it off. So what do they do, they start charging me for every text message sent TO me. Called them up again and asked why I was being charged for wrong # text messages that kept getting sent to me and they said they couldn't turn off the text messages and that I'd have to keep paying for them. Fuck T-Mobile

Comment Re:Like that's going to work this time... (Score 1) 178

I wonder how much they'll be gouging for these movies. I notice the price of normal Blu-ray disks still hasn't come down.

They have. I've been seeing a lot of blu-ray/DVD/Digital copy sets being sold for $20.00. Just got the new Harry Potter and Pixar's UP like that. If they keep offering deals like this or even just the Blu Ray for $20 I might cancel my Netflix and start buying movies again.

Comment Re:More (Not in Canada) (Score 1) 145

I wonder if this is one way the RIAA/MPAA are trying to force their copyright laws onto Canada? Not allowing online streaming services like this until they adopt the US DMCA type law.
Isn't Canada on the US list of countries that doesn't have good enough copyright laws? It works both ways though. Defying Gravity is not airing in the US but is in Canada. I can't access any of the Canadian sites that are streaming the remaining episodes from the US.

Comment Re:Performance != Observance (Score 1) 145

At the absolute minimum at least in the music industry, piracy with Napster woke the industry up to the large demand for digital music. And since the digital stores like Itunes and Amazon are competing with free, I believe that has actually lowered the price. Would we still have digital options to purchase music if it weren't for the pirates? Sure but something tells me we sure as hell wouldn't be seeing songs for .50 or full new albums for $5.00. Pricing would be the same as it is now or would more closely resemble traditional CD pricing.
Do you honestly think that if CD's were still not able to be copied and the music industry had complete control over how/when/where and how much it cost to do so that digital music or CD's in general would be any cheaper? There'd probably be HD-Audio CD's that cost $30 like movies.
I'm not trying to say piracy is good and do see that in a way it is stealing. But there are many times that I feel it's completely moral/justified to pirate something. Any music I've bought before whether on CD, tape or 8 track I would have no problems downloading. Actually anything I have payed for I have no problem downloading.
Now I'm a pretty hardcore gamer and have bought in just the last 2 weeks, Uncharted 2, Brutal Legend, & Borderlands. All new release $60 games. On Nov 3'rd I'll be buying another one Dragon Age. I will be buying for the PS3 but I will be downloading it for the PC. I've also bought both of the prequel books at $15 each. Now am I a filthy thief for "stealing" the PC version? I've already payed $90 for the game and story. There are plenty of moral reasons to pirate. I've had to download games that I've purchased but ruined the disc for.
I've also downloaded software that I haven't purchased but never would of. Photoshop is a great program and fun to learn but I sure wouldn't spend $600 on it to play around on some family photos. Why photoshop? Cause I was given the Total Training instruction videos for it and like learning new things. I don't think they would've worked for GIMP all that well. I've downloaded Visual Studio to learn to program because I sure didn't have the $1200 to buy it from Microsoft and that knowledge has helped me progress in my job. Visual Basic mostly for Excel Macros in work but I only know that because I pirated the software I couldn't afford and taught myself. If I was a business making money off of either of them I would have payed. As it is I'm entirely self taught. I don't have a great high paying programmers job, but I have a decent salary and don't have overwhelming student loans to deal with.
So basically I've pirated a lot of software. But I buy a lot as well. I have over 200 CD,s over 200 DVD's. at least a dozen blu-rays. I've pirated Windows but use Ubuntu. So just how is that I'm making you pay more? Cause I have absolutely no guilt when I download something. I pay more than my fair share.

Comment Re:Performance != Observance (Score 1) 145

"Well, that's exactly what's happening. Everyone who pays for works end up paying for the people who don't. The problem is that some people aren't happy paying such high prices for the sake of pirates." Except you're wrong. If anything the prices have gone down because of pirates. You think we'd have Itunes and .99 songs on Amazon if the labels could still get away with only selling CD's for $20? The only reason we now have these cheaper digital purchase option is because of the pirates.

Comment Re:A simple comparison (Score 1) 107

Actually, at least in the US the minimum purchase on PSN is $5.00. So you buy that 4.99 game and only have a penny left over. The minimum charge is a per credit card charge, so even if you have $4 on your account and you want to buy a $5 game, you still have to add $5. Still better than XBox Live, though I do wish PSN required demos for all their games. I'll download a demo at times on XBox Live and buy the game if I like it for the PS3.

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