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Anne,
I don't think anyone is arguing that companies don't own the copyright to older games. EA (I believe) owns the rights to Bards Tale just as Origin has the Ultima series.
However, I think what the article was asking was why don't the owners of these games make them freely available. If id can release the code to Doom and Quake under the GPL, one would think that Origin could make Ultima IV available at no cost, even if they don't release the source code.
Since most people who want to play these games will find them and play them anyways, the fact they're not released isn't preventing them from being played. I would hope that software companies would recognize this, and change their views. I know it would certainly score a lot of points in the gaming community for those companies that did this.
Wisely, SmartFilter realized that Chumbawamba were the biggest fucking sellouts to ever come from punk. Their horrible rationalization for why they should be on a major label was merely a cover to go for the money.
I hope Crass re-unites as a skinhead Oi! band with the sole goal of stomping the shit out of Chumbawamba.
I see that HeUnique is a new person on the Slashdot staff. You'd think CmdrTaco would offer an introduction of some kind. *hint*hint*
On a similar note, how does one go about getting onto the staff, anyways? I'm envisioning some sorta drunk frat prank. I can see CmdrTaco with the paddle, Hemos with the goldfish-filled condom, and RobLimo conducting the elephant walk!
I know this won't get moderated up or anything, so thanks for reading my +1 post.
Anyways, I love the MacOS. I think it is much more beautiful and elegant than any other OS I've used. However, I sold my Mac a few years ago and bought a PC for a couple reasons. Most were small except for one: Until OSX, the Mac has no true multi-tasking.
Ah, the thrill of waiting for Netscape to load so I could switch back to my IRC window. To me this was my biggest frustration with the MacOS. Now that OSX is out, I might purchase another one.
Yeah...and then I can enjoy seething over Apple's numerous poor marketing decisions. Heh.
Unfortunately your logic is incorrect. Just because a person is using PGP doesn't give the FBI the right to tap their keyboard. However, when they have reasonable evidence that someone is doing illegal acts, and they are attempting to hide those acts with encryption, then the FBI was granted the ability to monitor his keystrokes.
While I have sympathy for tech support people, I have *none* whatsoever for the people at PacBell. This is the worst phone monoply I've ever dealt with. After being dicked over by them repeatedly, all I hope is that all the people who work for PacBell get rounded up and shot in the stomach.
Yeah, having the words "FUCK OFF AND DIE" in your signiture really convinced me that the Libertarian Party isn't filled with more nuts than a acorn orchard. I'll stick to being a Democrat.
Sure, today a blank DVD is more expensive than one with content. But for how long? The reason blank DVDs are so expensive is that there isn't much of a market for them yet. Nor will there be for several years.
However, as devices like this one come out and get more popular, it will cause the demand for blank DVDs to increase. This will naturally lead to a drop in price.
Consider this: A a few years ago, blank CDs were going for about $5/pop. Now you can get them in bulk for about fifty cents each. Given enough time the same thing will happen with blank DVDs.
This is why the MPAA was so incensed over the DeCSS. They were looking ahead to when blank DVDs would be much less expensive than those with content put out by the studios. Whether or not this is good/bad/or otherwise, I'll leave to the reader.
I'm absolutely aghast to see that some readers liked this movie. This movie blew like a five dollar crackwhore. I haven't seen so much shit since I was 11 and our septic tank backed up.
Not for a second did I care about any of these characters. I didn't care whether they lived or died. I take that back. I wanted them to die. Quickly. Watching them on screen was more painful than #40 sandpaper briskly rubbing my nipples (hey, it happens more often than you might think.)
At the start of the movie the narrator says, "This is so and so. He's a hothead. Next to him is so and so. He's the soul of the crew." I can remember being in the fourth grade and having my teacher say, "Don't tell us your character is wise. Show us." Apparently the screenwriters who vomited up this bit of pablum should go speak with Mrs Ritchie, my fourth grade teacher.
Now if there's one thing I loathe in a sci-fi movie, its a robot. If a robot is going to be a central character, its going to suck my ass. And this one rimmed me long and deep. The moment they wheeled that stupid thing out I knew it was going to be awful. And the instant they showed it had a "military mode" you could pretty much tell the thing was going to go apeshit.
Of course, the biggest insult to the moviegoers intelligence was that inspid deux ex machina of oxygen being present on Mars. When Val Kilmer was choking and dying, I though, "Ah! I hope he dies so I can go home," I knew that he was gonna pop off his helmet and breathe. What an insult.
Val Kilmer made me chuckle once or twice. The name of his character was Gallagher. Christ on a bun, why couldn't they have gotten the comedian of the same name to smash up some watermelons. That would have improved this flick more than I can describe.
Anyways, this movie made Mission to Mars look like 2001. It really did. Do yourself a favor and avoid this movie. As for myself, I'm going to hunt down the director and smash a lamp in his face for the two hours of my life I'll never get back.
You know, I certainly don't want to stereotype your average WalMart shopper...but come on. I used to work at an Office Depot near a WalMart and lemme tell you, the people who would shuffle out of the WalMart and mosey on into our store were not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Almost all of them thought AOL
was
the internet. The handfull that didn't were those who'd never logged on at all, and thus had yet to form the impression that AOL == Internet. For christsakes, the crap that my poolskimmer collects had a higher IQ than the average WalMart shopper.
Does Mandrake honestly think that someone in Tater Tot, New Mexico is going to wander into a WalMart, see the Linux distro and purchase it? Heh. All I can say is that I'm thankful I'm not working in Mandrake's technical support department.
Maybe Mandrake can also start giving out their CDs at pro wrestling events and monster truck rallies, too!
The Chinese will not be insipid enough to actually use nuclear detonations to create this tunnel. Instead this is just a bargaining chip. Obviously, I'm not privy to the discussions regarding what China will get in in return for not using these nukes.
However, while IANAD (I am not a diplomat) I would guess that it would be something along the lines of: "If we don't use nukes you agree to stop hassling us about our occupation of Tibet/This ecologically irresponsible dam/the MSG put into your General Tsao's Chicken last week at Panda Express." or something like that.
Furthermore, I think this is also China's way of thumping its chest like an angry gorilla, reminding India and Taiwan of just how easily it can use their nuclear devices.
Thats just my opinion, of course. Its always possible the Chinese leadership has gone completely batshit and will use them.:)
Thus, more people are gainfully employed, rather than recipients of the largesse of a charitable foundation.
I wholeheartedly concur. We need to let the wealthy spend their money as they see fit, not give it to wasteful charities. The money the wealthy spend will filter down to those who need it. I propose we call this "filtering" process a "trickle-down" theory.
Furthermore, since this "trickle-down" process will be very successful, we can cut back on those wasteful government programs that provide services for the poor. Since money from the wealthy is filtering down, they won't be needed anymore. And those damn welfare cheats need to be put in their place.
Oh wait...it appears that this whole "trickle down" thing has already been done, and it didn't work. Damn, and I thought I was onto something there.
Why is this being posted to Slashdot? Its not even vaguely related to the rest of the posts. I'm getting the impression that Hemos was incredibly bored today and wanted to start up a good old fashioned flame-war for his own amusement.
While the stories posted to Slashdot are at the discretion of CmdrTaco, Hemos, et al, I would hope they'd use more discretion in the future. I don't go to the Republican or Democrats for Linux news, and so I don't wanna come to Slashdot for a politcal opinion...especially one not even closely related to Linux or Opensource.
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I don't think anyone is arguing that companies don't own the copyright to older games. EA (I believe) owns the rights to Bards Tale just as Origin has the Ultima series.
However, I think what the article was asking was why don't the owners of these games make them freely available. If id can release the code to Doom and Quake under the GPL, one would think that Origin could make Ultima IV available at no cost, even if they don't release the source code.
Since most people who want to play these games will find them and play them anyways, the fact they're not released isn't preventing them from being played. I would hope that software companies would recognize this, and change their views. I know it would certainly score a lot of points in the gaming community for those companies that did this.
Just my thoughts.
..."This movie should be contemplated on the Tree of Woe."
Wisely, SmartFilter realized that Chumbawamba were the biggest fucking sellouts to ever come from punk. Their horrible rationalization for why they should be on a major label was merely a cover to go for the money.
I hope Crass re-unites as a skinhead Oi! band with the sole goal of stomping the shit out of Chumbawamba.
On a similar note, how does one go about getting onto the staff, anyways? I'm envisioning some sorta drunk frat prank. I can see CmdrTaco with the paddle, Hemos with the goldfish-filled condom, and RobLimo conducting the elephant walk!
Anyways, I love the MacOS. I think it is much more beautiful and elegant than any other OS I've used. However, I sold my Mac a few years ago and bought a PC for a couple reasons. Most were small except for one: Until OSX, the Mac has no true multi-tasking.
Ah, the thrill of waiting for Netscape to load so I could switch back to my IRC window. To me this was my biggest frustration with the MacOS. Now that OSX is out, I might purchase another one.
Yeah...and then I can enjoy seething over Apple's numerous poor marketing decisions. Heh.
Unfortunately your logic is incorrect. Just because a person is using PGP doesn't give the FBI the right to tap their keyboard. However, when they have reasonable evidence that someone is doing illegal acts, and they are attempting to hide those acts with encryption, then the FBI was granted the ability to monitor his keystrokes.
While I have sympathy for tech support people, I have *none* whatsoever for the people at PacBell. This is the worst phone monoply I've ever dealt with. After being dicked over by them repeatedly, all I hope is that all the people who work for PacBell get rounded up and shot in the stomach.
Yeah, having the words "FUCK OFF AND DIE" in your signiture really convinced me that the Libertarian Party isn't filled with more nuts than a acorn orchard. I'll stick to being a Democrat.
I've always known that women were mutants! :)
An old man and a crying baby were the only survivors of a town, where everyone else mysteriously died off.... :)
Woah there! Back up off the LSD and shrooms before you compose your post.
However, as devices like this one come out and get more popular, it will cause the demand for blank DVDs to increase. This will naturally lead to a drop in price.
Consider this: A a few years ago, blank CDs were going for about $5/pop. Now you can get them in bulk for about fifty cents each. Given enough time the same thing will happen with blank DVDs.
This is why the MPAA was so incensed over the DeCSS. They were looking ahead to when blank DVDs would be much less expensive than those with content put out by the studios. Whether or not this is good/bad/or otherwise, I'll leave to the reader.
Not for a second did I care about any of these characters. I didn't care whether they lived or died. I take that back. I wanted them to die. Quickly. Watching them on screen was more painful than #40 sandpaper briskly rubbing my nipples (hey, it happens more often than you might think.)
At the start of the movie the narrator says, "This is so and so. He's a hothead. Next to him is so and so. He's the soul of the crew." I can remember being in the fourth grade and having my teacher say, "Don't tell us your character is wise. Show us." Apparently the screenwriters who vomited up this bit of pablum should go speak with Mrs Ritchie, my fourth grade teacher.
Now if there's one thing I loathe in a sci-fi movie, its a robot. If a robot is going to be a central character, its going to suck my ass. And this one rimmed me long and deep. The moment they wheeled that stupid thing out I knew it was going to be awful. And the instant they showed it had a "military mode" you could pretty much tell the thing was going to go apeshit.
Of course, the biggest insult to the moviegoers intelligence was that inspid deux ex machina of oxygen being present on Mars. When Val Kilmer was choking and dying, I though, "Ah! I hope he dies so I can go home," I knew that he was gonna pop off his helmet and breathe. What an insult.
Val Kilmer made me chuckle once or twice. The name of his character was Gallagher. Christ on a bun, why couldn't they have gotten the comedian of the same name to smash up some watermelons. That would have improved this flick more than I can describe.
Anyways, this movie made Mission to Mars look like 2001. It really did. Do yourself a favor and avoid this movie. As for myself, I'm going to hunt down the director and smash a lamp in his face for the two hours of my life I'll never get back.
Almost all of them thought AOL
- was
the internet. The handfull that didn't were those who'd never logged on at all, and thus had yet to form the impression that AOL == Internet. For christsakes, the crap that my poolskimmer collects had a higher IQ than the average WalMart shopper.Does Mandrake honestly think that someone in Tater Tot, New Mexico is going to wander into a WalMart, see the Linux distro and purchase it? Heh. All I can say is that I'm thankful I'm not working in Mandrake's technical support department.
Maybe Mandrake can also start giving out their CDs at pro wrestling events and monster truck rallies, too!
Go ahead and moderate me down for this, but why is Slashdot posting press releases as though they were fact?!
I wouldn't really call this a low end system. How about doing this test with some 350 - 500 mHZ systems at a maximum.
However, while IANAD (I am not a diplomat) I would guess that it would be something along the lines of: "If we don't use nukes you agree to stop hassling us about our occupation of Tibet/This ecologically irresponsible dam/the MSG put into your General Tsao's Chicken last week at Panda Express." or something like that.
Furthermore, I think this is also China's way of thumping its chest like an angry gorilla, reminding India and Taiwan of just how easily it can use their nuclear devices.
Thats just my opinion, of course. Its always possible the Chinese leadership has gone completely batshit and will use them. :)
This is pretty cool actually. I have to agree about the part with the hagfish. I wish I could do that. Keep my boss away from me!
"Hey its one a.m! Go out to a bar, or see whats new on Slashdot.org."
I wholeheartedly concur. We need to let the wealthy spend their money as they see fit, not give it to wasteful charities. The money the wealthy spend will filter down to those who need it. I propose we call this "filtering" process a "trickle-down" theory.
Furthermore, since this "trickle-down" process will be very successful, we can cut back on those wasteful government programs that provide services for the poor. Since money from the wealthy is filtering down, they won't be needed anymore. And those damn welfare cheats need to be put in their place.
Oh wait...it appears that this whole "trickle down" thing has already been done, and it didn't work. Damn, and I thought I was onto something there.
While the stories posted to Slashdot are at the discretion of CmdrTaco, Hemos, et al, I would hope they'd use more discretion in the future. I don't go to the Republican or Democrats for Linux news, and so I don't wanna come to Slashdot for a politcal opinion...especially one not even closely related to Linux or Opensource.
End Rant.
Now this is the fight I would like to see! Calculon vs Bender. I bet Bender would win.
Thats cause women can't write code! :)
Oh I'm going to hell for saying that....
And I think saying Sony's Latest VAIO Looks Like Barf isn't very professional, either. :)
It gave me a chuckle and I wanted to share. :)