Books written in game settings? Ok, not exactly video games, but Infocom had novels set in Planetfall/Stationfall, Wishbringer/Enchanter, and Zork between 1988 and 1991. Adding graphics (though, perhaps still not exactly a video game, to purists), I've always heard a lot of good things about the Myst novels (1995-1997).
Indeed. KTRU is the campus station for Rice University. 50,000 watts, and their mission statement reads
The mission of KTRU as a student organization and a 50,000 watt radio station is to educate the station membership, the greater Houston community, and the students of Rice University through its progressive and eclectic programming in the spirit of the station's non-commercial, educational license. Musically, KTRU programming will endeavor to solely feature genres and/or artists who are unexposed, or unavailable on, the Houston commercial radio dial. Non-musical programming will focus on content with clear merit and of practical value to a significant segment of the communities served by KTRU.
Likewise, KPFT is the local Radio Pacifica affiliate whose mission statement includes
In radio broadcasting operations to promote the full distribution of public information; to obtain access to sources of news not commonly brought together in the same medium; and to employ such varied sources in the public presentation of accurate, objective, comprehensive news on all matters vitally affecting the community.
I would think KPFT or KTRU would be all over this idea. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already... get the 10,000 radios distributed inside the dome by any means necessary, then use existing radio towers with good wattage and valid licenses whose charters are expressly about serving the community.
Haven't you kept up? The patent on Jif expired a while back. No reason for them to put any money into that. Though there's been another rumor of Peanut Goodness, aka PNG, that tried to compete with Jif but didn't really succeed.
I guess my thought was that since almost all print documents now days are generated on the computer, you could cut out the middle-man. I know we haven't reached "paperless office" by a longshot, but still...
Agreed. I still put the original Wizardry as my favorite computer game of all time. I tried to get it running on an Apple ][ emulator under OS X not long ago, but ran into problems... the boot disk needed to be write protected. It was their form of copy-protection, that, at the time, could be overcome with a piece of tape. Now, though, write-protecting a disk image isn't as easy as that...
10 or 15 years ago I wouldn't have pictured the cell phone almost completely replacing the pager. On the other hand, I would have expected fax to go the way of telex, to be replaced entirely by email by now. Yet fax still persists.
Agreed. For that matter, through CD Baby, they can sell on iTMS, Rhapsody, Napster, MSN Music, MP3tunes, AOL's MusicNet, Yahoo MusicMatch, etc. There's never been a better time for distribution for independent artists.
Apple started with a 6502, moved to a 68000 then PPC... none of these have been "commodity" chips, IIRC. Apple's been doing this since 1977. Sure, they might get out of the hardware business eventually. It could be another 30 years. But when they do, you'll be saying "I told you so... commodity hardware puts niche makers out of business." You and Dvorak must get along great...
Actor Dean Cameron ("Chainsaw" in Summer School) did similar and turned it into a play that's currently running at the Edinburgh Festival. He hopes to get some backing for a New York run soon.
Well, Howard was a contemporary of Lovecraft and likely had permission, if not encouragement from the man himself. It appears that much of Campbell's work is published by Arkham House, and if they're the copyright holders, it makes sense that they'd grant him permission as well. I don't have a copy of any of Chaosium's game books, but it seems to me that a look at the language on their copyright page might be a good indicator of current status on things like this. (ie, if it's a battle that needed to be fought, they've already made the fight themselves, testing the waters for those that follow, as it were...) I don't know if Batman's use of Arkham Asylum predates Frank Miller at all, or how far back that reference actually goes. But beyond the name, it might be easy to argue there's no real tie between Lovecraft's property and that of D.C. Comics.
Since there seems to be some dispute as to how much of Lovecraft's work has lapsed into public domain, should there be any concern over potential accusations of derivative work? How well would a CC hold up allowing for further expansion if the source CC work is on shaky legal ground?
If anything, CC has the capability to extend fair use beyond what is in traditional copyright law. There are CC licenses that allow for the creation of derivative works, which under normal copyright would have to be explicitly granted on a case by case basis.
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Books written in game settings? Ok, not exactly video games, but Infocom had novels set in Planetfall/Stationfall, Wishbringer/Enchanter, and Zork between 1988 and 1991. Adding graphics (though, perhaps still not exactly a video game, to purists), I've always heard a lot of good things about the Myst novels (1995-1997).
Likewise, KPFT is the local Radio Pacifica affiliate whose mission statement includesEither way seems like a good fit.
I would think KPFT or KTRU would be all over this idea. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already... get the 10,000 radios distributed inside the dome by any means necessary, then use existing radio towers with good wattage and valid licenses whose charters are expressly about serving the community.
Haven't you kept up? The patent on Jif expired a while back. No reason for them to put any money into that. Though there's been another rumor of Peanut Goodness, aka PNG, that tried to compete with Jif but didn't really succeed.
Maybe they haven't found distribution for their Windows version... but I got the Max OS X version of Darwinia two months ago from Ambrosia Software.
I guess my thought was that since almost all print documents now days are generated on the computer, you could cut out the middle-man. I know we haven't reached "paperless office" by a longshot, but still...
Agreed. I still put the original Wizardry as my favorite computer game of all time. I tried to get it running on an Apple ][ emulator under OS X not long ago, but ran into problems... the boot disk needed to be write protected. It was their form of copy-protection, that, at the time, could be overcome with a piece of tape. Now, though, write-protecting a disk image isn't as easy as that...
Don't know about the Curtis chips, but PAiA still has kit analog beasties.
Yeah, I sometimes regret selling my Moog Liberation and my Oberheim OB-8, but really, they were a pain to keep in tune...
10 or 15 years ago I wouldn't have pictured the cell phone almost completely replacing the pager. On the other hand, I would have expected fax to go the way of telex, to be replaced entirely by email by now. Yet fax still persists.
So can you give us a 2005 version of the list?
Agreed. For that matter, through CD Baby, they can sell on iTMS, Rhapsody, Napster, MSN Music, MP3tunes, AOL's MusicNet, Yahoo MusicMatch, etc. There's never been a better time for distribution for independent artists.
Dark is faster than light... when you open a drawer, you see the light going in, but you don't see the dark escaping.
Dark is more dense than light. It settles to the bottom of large bodies of water, while light seems more boyant.
There are no light bulbs, just dark suckers. You notice how a burned out lightbulb can be a dark grey? It's full.
Candles were primative dark suckers.
Depending on the time of day and what you are doing with your computer, power consumption varies a lot.
Thank Bush that we'll have longer Daylight Saving Time next year so that our Powerbook batteries will last longer.
oh, come on...someone had to say it. B^]
Apple started with a 6502, moved to a 68000 then PPC... none of these have been "commodity" chips, IIRC. Apple's been doing this since 1977. Sure, they might get out of the hardware business eventually. It could be another 30 years. But when they do, you'll be saying "I told you so... commodity hardware puts niche makers out of business." You and Dvorak must get along great...
But they have...
Yeah, I was just thinking, does slashdot have the equivalent of ratings sweeps to try to impress the advertisers?
Actor Dean Cameron ("Chainsaw" in Summer School) did similar and turned it into a play that's currently running at the Edinburgh Festival. He hopes to get some backing for a New York run soon.
they can also be removed from their fixtures and carried around
Great!!! My "Christopher Lambert in Subway" Halloween costume is complete!!!
Well, Howard was a contemporary of Lovecraft and likely had permission, if not encouragement from the man himself. It appears that much of Campbell's work is published by Arkham House, and if they're the copyright holders, it makes sense that they'd grant him permission as well. I don't have a copy of any of Chaosium's game books, but it seems to me that a look at the language on their copyright page might be a good indicator of current status on things like this. (ie, if it's a battle that needed to be fought, they've already made the fight themselves, testing the waters for those that follow, as it were...) I don't know if Batman's use of Arkham Asylum predates Frank Miller at all, or how far back that reference actually goes. But beyond the name, it might be easy to argue there's no real tie between Lovecraft's property and that of D.C. Comics.
Since there seems to be some dispute as to how much of Lovecraft's work has lapsed into public domain, should there be any concern over potential accusations of derivative work? How well would a CC hold up allowing for further expansion if the source CC work is on shaky legal ground?
Of course, one of the Mac clone makers managed to make a quad processor box, IIRC -- something that Apple has never released...
The question going around the Mac forum at Ars is, what are they using to encode 5.1 channel AAC audio in these new H.265 trailers?
Cheating. yeah. Using a Beagle Bros. hex editor, IIRC, to modify my Ultima IV save files...
If anything, CC has the capability to extend fair use beyond what is in traditional copyright law. There are CC licenses that allow for the creation of derivative works, which under normal copyright would have to be explicitly granted on a case by case basis.
So you're still using MacWrite?