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Let’s be honest, iTunes Music store is a behemoth that no sane artist would leave over something so trivial.

“Oh god, how dare Apple be so careless to allow such an exploit to exist! I know what I’ll do.. I’ll show them… I’ll take all my music off their store! That’ll show them! I don’t care if it will be fixed in a day or week, I’ll show them who’s boss!” — Soon to be starving artist.

3 days ago on iTunes security hole lets users download any pre-release album stream for free 2 recommends

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Oh my… all those pirates have finally found a way to get music for free… oh wait. Apple will fix it, no need to be melodramatic about it.

3 days ago on iTunes security hole lets users download any pre-release album stream for free

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Which is why you always disarm them first…

4 days ago on Biggest Bitcoin exchange accused of violating US financial regulations, CEO faces fine or jail 1 reply

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The Dreamcast was hardly the downfall of Sega, it was just their last stand. The SegaCD was the first sign of faltering (developers barely adopting the CD format), the terrible 32X, and then the overpriced Sega Saturn with no games at launch.

Sega would have been fine if they would have waited to finish the Dreamcast instead of releasing the Saturn.

I know it’s kind of fun to throw around witty remarks like yours, but the facts go far deeper than that. Look at the top 25 games on Sega consoles during the Genesis/SegaCD era, how many are EA?

4 days ago on Electronic Arts is no longer developing games for Nintendo's Wii U 4 replies 7 recommends

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The problem is that EA takes great games and ruins them with their stupid plans. I love the new Sim City and all, but I’m not going to deny the fact that EA tainted it. I like Dead Space, but look at DS3, I really dislike the idea of in-app purchases in a $50 single-player game.

The first few Battlefield games were good (1942, Vietnam, etc). Then they pretty much ‘Halo-ed out’ and became like the rest of the FPS series. Might as well titled them by year just like the Madden games.

When EA bought Mythic it also ruined DAoC, which is a black mark I will hold against them forever.

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Power consumption may be higher, but AnandTech’s Review shows the Acer W510 using the Z2760 still getting less battery life than the iPad 3. From what I know, the iPad’s generations have had the same (if not more) battery life each time. The W510 still pales in other tests in the same review.

Don’t get me wrong, Intel has done some impressive things with x86 over the last few years. However, they are not making the progress that they were at the turn of the millennium. Compare the iPhone 2G’s ARM chip to the current A6 in the iPhone 5 (2007-2012). Now compare the early Atoms to the current ones, it’s not nearly leaps and bounds.

Numbers may be one thing, but actual performance is another. The Unreal engine is quite impressive on iOS and looks console-quality. I can about promise you the Intel HD4000 series can’t even run the Unreal Engine like that with similar performance, and those are desktop/laptop iGPUs.

4 days ago on Intel could have been inside the original iPhone, says outgoing CEO 1 recommend

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I think the word “content” needs to be defined. Copying files such as images or code and using it, yes I can see that being illegal. Recording you playing it as your own performance, I really doubt that is “their content” which you are making money off of.

A LP has to be a derivative work, I don’t see how it couldn’t be.

4 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo?

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I still don’t buy that argument.

Let’s say a hypothetical Player X is very good at a lot of games. He doesn’t speak in his games, he simply does LP very skillfully, perhaps speed runs, whatever it is. I like watching his videos in particular because of his skill and “pushing the limits” of the game rules.

Just because he is silent when he plays doesn’t make his performance any less worthy. It’s still his performance. People will want to watch his videos in particular because of that. I think Nintendo is just trying to split legal hairs to make this seem “innocent.”

4 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo? 1 reply 1 recommend

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Thank you! It’s not that I want to watch someone play in some of these videos, it’s that I want to watch a particular someone play a certain game. “How would he play X game…” In my opinion, you become a personality and its your performance people come to see, just like a cover band.

4 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo? 1 reply 3 recommends

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I don’t see how his argument isn’t valid about the creator of the item not owning performances made with the item by others.

If I tried to copy a Nike shoe design, I’m sure I’d get in legal trouble. Now if I made a video of me running in the shoes, I doubt Nike would own that video, nor should they get the monetary proceedings from it. Why is this any less different?

People watch “Let’s Play…” videos for the performance. Millions of people watch tournament level SC2 matches between world-renown players. Why don’t millions of people want to watch me play SC2? Because I’m sure it’s not nearly as entertaining. Does Blizzard own the rights to every SC2 match just because they made the game? I doubt it.

I can’t see how any court would rule in support of Nintendo here.

4 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo? 1 reply 6 recommends

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It’s far from senseless, it’s a slap in the face to the video creators and I wouldn’t blame their anger.

This is analogous to someone writing a song and then demanding all the money made from someone else‘s cover of said song. Yeah, it’s your song (work) but their performance of it. How are video games any less of a performance? You tell me, which is more fun to watch.. a bunch of newbies barely touch each other in a Smash Bros. match, or two skilled opponents going at it? Performance matters and is part of the experience, not solely the game.

Point being, Nintendo has no right to take all of the money made off these videos. Sure, they’re not taking them down, but they’re pretty much saying, “play our games, show the world how cool they are, do our marketing for us on your own time, but give us all the money you might make from doing so.” Give me a break.

4 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo? 2 replies 3 recommends

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I think Intel is still dreaming. The iPhone would have been hamstrung for a long while if they went with x86. Intel did not have a good solution to the smartphone/tablet market in mid 2007. The earliest Intel Atom chips were available almost a whole year later (and they still weren’t much to write home about). Passively cooled Atoms were slow, and actively cooled ones defeated the purpose.

To this day x86 has yet to catch up to ARM in devices in terms of balancing heat and battery life with performance. I’m willing to bet the latest Atom (Z2760) will still pale in comparison to the A6X, and that’s LAST year’s chip from Apple.

So Intel is really just trying to make themselves sound like they had a chance when they really didn’t. Even if Apple did take the deal, I think they would have found out real quick that x86 wasn’t going to be really a good idea going forward when the competition could have used ARM (Samsung is a prime example).

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Note: Not mutually exclusive.

4 days ago on Google adds button-free voice search in Chrome: just say 'OK Google' 3 recommends

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Honestly, they should have done this the moment iMessage landed, or even once it was introduced. They’re a bit late to this game, but I suppose better late than never.

Make no mistake, this is definitely a last ditch effort to stay relevant rather than smart pivoting, otherwise they would have done it sooner.

5 days ago on Message received: is BBM for Android and iPhone a sign of strength... or desperation?

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Oh yes, god forbid you pay a couple dollars extra for an album that’s amazing and still cheaper than physical CDs were in the days of Napster. Give me a fucking break, this album is worth $12, thats $1 a song and they’re ALL good.

How about you get off your high horse about pricing and pay for good music instead of on some stupid principle that is completely stupid. Buy good music for reasonable prices, don’t buy shit music. This is both of the former and none of the latter.

7 days ago on Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' available now to stream in its entirety from iTunes (update) 1 reply 2 recommends

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Ballmer takes it too far.

7 days ago on An emotional Bill Gates details his last visit with Steve Jobs 1 reply 5 recommends

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This type of arrogance is why we are in these situations to begin with. Yeah, we were plenty powerful in both Korean and Vietnam wars, but I didn’t see a victory there. Similar with the Middle East.

7 days ago on US drone strikes condemned as illegal by Pakistan's highest court 12 recommends

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While we might be the pioneers of drones (armed and not), we’d be foolish to assume other countries will not follow. Once they do, how much you want to bet all this indiscriminate murder will come back to haunt us.

7 days ago on US drone strikes condemned as illegal by Pakistan's highest court

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You don’t think religion should be up on that list?

12 days ago on EA will no longer pay gun makers for the right to depict weapons in games

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If the game was judged solely on its content and not tainted by the DRM, it would have 4 stars or more. It’s a good game itself, just a bad DRM scheme and rocky launch.

12 days ago on Original 'SimCity' creator Will Wright calls EA's botched game launch 'inexcusable'

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After a certain amount of idle time you will be disconnected. One time I went to do something and came back and it was paused (I don’t know what happened in-game to trigger that).

12 days ago on Original 'SimCity' creator Will Wright calls EA's botched game launch 'inexcusable'

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You can easily make a region full of your own cities, no one else.

12 days ago on Original 'SimCity' creator Will Wright calls EA's botched game launch 'inexcusable' 1 reply