Actually, that's about what each infringement is worth. If you use filesharing, and if for each song you download, you upload a song, your infringement for downloading/uploading and album on that fileshare would be about the cost of that same album; about $15. I still don't understand how any competent mind can come up with any more than that per infraction.
Since filesharing is on average 1:1, It's not that each person uploading ten songs is causing thousands of dollars worth of damages, its that thousands of different people are causing ten's of dollars of damage each. But if that were how it was stated in court, legal fees would outweigh damages, and lawsuits would no longer become lucrative sources of income.
Robots from each country fighting each other instead of sending soldiers to war? Wasn't that the premise of G Gundam? Will my dream of finally being able to pilot Mexico's Tequila Gundam finally come true?
I'm going to point out that this package is a Godsend for those of us that have Vista because we've bought a new computer in the past few months. If I had a choice, I would have just carried over my XP license from my old laptop, but... M$'s (and their PC making buainess partner's) business model trumps their customer service model, so my old laptop didn't come with the XP install disks to allow that. So... 3 cheers for the de-bloater!
I had all the Lego space sets when I was a kid. They had more than one iteration of Space Police, the ice planet one, the one with the magnets... I remember saving up to get the base set, the bases were always the coolest. My little sister always wanted to play with her Littlest Pet Shop, but when I showed her that her pet toy hamsters and mice fit in the cockpit of the space ships, we found a common plaything.
And yeah, I had a log of red bricks. The magnet space set was red themed, for one...
Paper airplane? When I read the article, I read that the Japanese students wanted to recreate the finale from Final Fantasy VII where Sephiroth summons a meteor to destroy the planet! I've been taking Japanese class for almost 3 semesters, I should know what I'm talking about!:P
I think that the TV's are a bad idea, not from the customer perspective, but from a business perspective. Anything that keeps people staring at the screen instead of moving out of the way for the next customer and increasing the throughput is actually hurting business. Is Shell making advertising $$ on those TV's? No, its just playing news & weather. Is it making them buy more or go faster? No, instead of going in to look at impulse items, customers are staring at the boob tube. Basically, Shell payed a lot for TV's in the name of making customers happy, and just decreased it's throughput speed.
Ahh, thank you! Looking at all the data at once like that, it's easier to see patterns. Like, every one company on the list seems to be pirating MS products (Office, Windows) and Adobe products (probably Photoshop and Dreamweaver). I would be more interested in seeing aggregate numbers for all companies (instead of a top 10 list) with it broken down by software title instead of by software company. Are those published anywhere?
If I had more free time, and was just slightly more sociopathic, I would walk around city blocks and look for people who don't pick up after their dogs ...
After that setup, I seriously expected that sentence to end with shotgun fire. Am I the only person that annoyed walking through dog poop all over the place?
Well, if you consider that AOL/Netscape dropped out of the race when the Mozilla Foundation picked up the reigns to take its place (i.e., when AOL dumped it), I'd consider the Netscape->Mozilla bloodline is still a front runner.
But if you're talking about in name only, then yeah, IE beat "Netscape" a long time ago.
It's been out in the US since the 18th, and is coming to Japan at the end of the month, and Europe the end of next month. Kinda slipped under the radar, didn't it? Here's a link to more information, including a more detailed review.
Technically, it's only a disappointment if you expect it to be better than it turned out. In Sega's case, rarely are there high expectations anymore.
However, one would be safe to call NiGHTs for Wii a disappointing title because a lot of people has high hopes for the game based on the fact that the first NiGHTs game was spectacular. Previews for the new one even looked pretty good. However, as good as the game could have been, deadlines (namely meeting the Christmas season) prevented Sega from tweaking the control and load times. It honestly is an okayish game once you get past some of the annoying flaws, but having played the original and followed the hype, I would have been much happier if Sega had just made the original game a Virtual Console download instead of putting out this... half-finished unpolished game.
Oh come on, the pyramids on the dollar bill is obviously fair use: parody! I mean, look at the giant floating eyeball on top of it! I roll over with laughter every time I see that thing...
Then how do people get away with writing "unauthorized biographies"? It uses people's trademarks without their permission, and most people aren't sued for writing one. The big differentiating factor is that these 'facts' are satire, and that the publisher didn't write them. And Chuck himself can't sue about the latter.
Also from the article (after he talks to his lawyer), he finds out that basically he's publishing his own personal predictions that came true 3 times, and they think he has an inside source. It's not just a parody, the Apple lawyers think they're plugging a leak. Sure, it's bullshit, but a lawyer's world is bullshit.
Where I work, our company uses something called "Webwasher" to filter for work-related (no pr0n) content and to scan everything coming in for viruses. The catch is, it only works when you use IE; using Firefox or any other browser bypasses it. The assumption here (and the tagging) seems to be that the teacher was an idiot, but they might be in a similar situation where using a browser other than IE might circumvent their content blocker/proxy/virus scanner/whatever and would be against school rules.
Hikaru Utada is not only a pretty great J-Pop star, you have to give her credit for singing both the Japanese and English versions of the song (she was born in New York, actually). I personally liked the non-techno-dance version of the song better, and I liked the theme to Kingdom Hearts 2 ("Passion") a lot better. http://youtube.com/watch?v=kVeT92iKppA
If you're looking for more good music from Hikki, search YouTube for "Sakura Drops" and "Traveling," but run from anything on her all-english album "Exodus" (When she tried to go from J-Pop to US Pop star... didn't work).
Yes, but remember, its the goal of a company (in most cases) to sell as many copies of a game as possible. If that means dumbing it down but selling 2-3x as many copies, a game company will do it. Niche titles like Flight Simulator are great for their niche, but on a relative scale sales are rather niche as well. In the end, it's a business decision, and the question is "will it sell more copies as a focused game that a few will love, or a mass market accessible game?"
Hmm... if this counts animated fully clothed underage children in suggestive poses, it would make owning a lot of non-hentai anime criminal as well, mostly of the "moe" genre. "Criminal" shows in this genre include everything from Kanon to Kodomo no Jikan.
Yeah, the point of my post in the first place. It's a classic catch-22. You can legally back up your media, but doing so breaks encryption and breaks the law anyway. I guess that didn't come through in my original post.
What the/. post seems to miss is that most if not all DVD ripping programs use some form of deCSS, thus violating the DMCA. So if you can do the same to DVD as CD's without breaking the DMCA, you don't need Steve Job's premium DVD's.
When we put a man on the moon, we were spurred to catch up & beat the USSR's Sputnik, which frankly shocked the crap out of the US. By 1965, Kennedy had ballooned NASA's budget from $500 million to $5.2 billion (or 5.3% of GDP), which meant that about 1 in 19ish US jobs were geared to the moon landing. Our budget as a % of GDP is back down to 0.58% of GDP. If we want to do something fast again, we'll need to pump in more money from somewhere.
Another problem with "going back" is that so many people worked on it that are now old or dead that we have no real working knowledge of how we did it or how to do it again (not to mention the vast tech changes), so we'd be starting over basically from scratch.
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Actually, that's about what each infringement is worth. If you use filesharing, and if for each song you download, you upload a song, your infringement for downloading/uploading and album on that fileshare would be about the cost of that same album; about $15. I still don't understand how any competent mind can come up with any more than that per infraction.
Since filesharing is on average 1:1, It's not that each person uploading ten songs is causing thousands of dollars worth of damages, its that thousands of different people are causing ten's of dollars of damage each. But if that were how it was stated in court, legal fees would outweigh damages, and lawsuits would no longer become lucrative sources of income.
Robots from each country fighting each other instead of sending soldiers to war? Wasn't that the premise of G Gundam? Will my dream of finally being able to pilot Mexico's Tequila Gundam finally come true?
I'm going to point out that this package is a Godsend for those of us that have Vista because we've bought a new computer in the past few months. If I had a choice, I would have just carried over my XP license from my old laptop, but... M$'s (and their PC making buainess partner's) business model trumps their customer service model, so my old laptop didn't come with the XP install disks to allow that. So... 3 cheers for the de-bloater!
I had all the Lego space sets when I was a kid. They had more than one iteration of Space Police, the ice planet one, the one with the magnets... I remember saving up to get the base set, the bases were always the coolest. My little sister always wanted to play with her Littlest Pet Shop, but when I showed her that her pet toy hamsters and mice fit in the cockpit of the space ships, we found a common plaything.
And yeah, I had a log of red bricks. The magnet space set was red themed, for one...
...If we don't need to buy it from OPEC, ~$3/gallon is fine. Great even.
Paper airplane? When I read the article, I read that the Japanese students wanted to recreate the finale from Final Fantasy VII where Sephiroth summons a meteor to destroy the planet! I've been taking Japanese class for almost 3 semesters, I should know what I'm talking about! :P
I think that the TV's are a bad idea, not from the customer perspective, but from a business perspective. Anything that keeps people staring at the screen instead of moving out of the way for the next customer and increasing the throughput is actually hurting business. Is Shell making advertising $$ on those TV's? No, its just playing news & weather. Is it making them buy more or go faster? No, instead of going in to look at impulse items, customers are staring at the boob tube. Basically, Shell payed a lot for TV's in the name of making customers happy, and just decreased it's throughput speed.
Comcast to FCC: "What do you mean we can't pay you off to look the other way?"
Congress to FCC: "Hello there FCC, we need to talk. Oh, ignore the bulges in my pockets, that's just bribe cash from Comcast."
Ahh, thank you! Looking at all the data at once like that, it's easier to see patterns. Like, every one company on the list seems to be pirating MS products (Office, Windows) and Adobe products (probably Photoshop and Dreamweaver). I would be more interested in seeing aggregate numbers for all companies (instead of a top 10 list) with it broken down by software title instead of by software company. Are those published anywhere?
After that setup, I seriously expected that sentence to end with shotgun fire. Am I the only person that annoyed walking through dog poop all over the place?
Well, if you consider that AOL/Netscape dropped out of the race when the Mozilla Foundation picked up the reigns to take its place (i.e., when AOL dumped it), I'd consider the Netscape->Mozilla bloodline is still a front runner.
But if you're talking about in name only, then yeah, IE beat "Netscape" a long time ago.
It's been out in the US since the 18th, and is coming to Japan at the end of the month, and Europe the end of next month. Kinda slipped under the radar, didn't it? Here's a link to more information, including a more detailed review.
Technically, it's only a disappointment if you expect it to be better than it turned out. In Sega's case, rarely are there high expectations anymore.
However, one would be safe to call NiGHTs for Wii a disappointing title because a lot of people has high hopes for the game based on the fact that the first NiGHTs game was spectacular. Previews for the new one even looked pretty good. However, as good as the game could have been, deadlines (namely meeting the Christmas season) prevented Sega from tweaking the control and load times. It honestly is an okayish game once you get past some of the annoying flaws, but having played the original and followed the hype, I would have been much happier if Sega had just made the original game a Virtual Console download instead of putting out this... half-finished unpolished game.
Oh come on, the pyramids on the dollar bill is obviously fair use: parody! I mean, look at the giant floating eyeball on top of it! I roll over with laughter every time I see that thing...
Then how do people get away with writing "unauthorized biographies"? It uses people's trademarks without their permission, and most people aren't sued for writing one. The big differentiating factor is that these 'facts' are satire, and that the publisher didn't write them. And Chuck himself can't sue about the latter.
Also from the article (after he talks to his lawyer), he finds out that basically he's publishing his own personal predictions that came true 3 times, and they think he has an inside source. It's not just a parody, the Apple lawyers think they're plugging a leak. Sure, it's bullshit, but a lawyer's world is bullshit.
Where I work, our company uses something called "Webwasher" to filter for work-related (no pr0n) content and to scan everything coming in for viruses. The catch is, it only works when you use IE; using Firefox or any other browser bypasses it. The assumption here (and the tagging) seems to be that the teacher was an idiot, but they might be in a similar situation where using a browser other than IE might circumvent their content blocker/proxy/virus scanner/whatever and would be against school rules.
Hikaru Utada is not only a pretty great J-Pop star, you have to give her credit for singing both the Japanese and English versions of the song (she was born in New York, actually). I personally liked the non-techno-dance version of the song better, and I liked the theme to Kingdom Hearts 2 ("Passion") a lot better. http://youtube.com/watch?v=kVeT92iKppA
If you're looking for more good music from Hikki, search YouTube for "Sakura Drops" and "Traveling," but run from anything on her all-english album "Exodus" (When she tried to go from J-Pop to US Pop star... didn't work).
Yes, but remember, its the goal of a company (in most cases) to sell as many copies of a game as possible. If that means dumbing it down but selling 2-3x as many copies, a game company will do it. Niche titles like Flight Simulator are great for their niche, but on a relative scale sales are rather niche as well. In the end, it's a business decision, and the question is "will it sell more copies as a focused game that a few will love, or a mass market accessible game?"
Hmm... if this counts animated fully clothed underage children in suggestive poses, it would make owning a lot of non-hentai anime criminal as well, mostly of the "moe" genre. "Criminal" shows in this genre include everything from Kanon to Kodomo no Jikan.
Yeah, the point of my post in the first place. It's a classic catch-22. You can legally back up your media, but doing so breaks encryption and breaks the law anyway. I guess that didn't come through in my original post.
What the /. post seems to miss is that most if not all DVD ripping programs use some form of deCSS, thus violating the DMCA. So if you can do the same to DVD as CD's without breaking the DMCA, you don't need Steve Job's premium DVD's.
The chimp results don't surprise me. I'm more interested in the Japanese College Students vs. Fifth Graders competition.
You mean I can get internet porn even faster with these plastic rope thingys? Sign me up!
When we put a man on the moon, we were spurred to catch up & beat the USSR's Sputnik, which frankly shocked the crap out of the US. By 1965, Kennedy had ballooned NASA's budget from $500 million to $5.2 billion (or 5.3% of GDP), which meant that about 1 in 19ish US jobs were geared to the moon landing. Our budget as a % of GDP is back down to 0.58% of GDP. If we want to do something fast again, we'll need to pump in more money from somewhere.
Another problem with "going back" is that so many people worked on it that are now old or dead that we have no real working knowledge of how we did it or how to do it again (not to mention the vast tech changes), so we'd be starting over basically from scratch.