IPv6 won't get around until it is profitable to do so...and that also means that v6 has to be better for the powers that be that currently are set to enjoy a monopoly grip on v4 addressing.
If I were ARIN, I would start making v4 addresses and v6 addresses cheap.
Ask Slashdot is better than Google in many ways, and worse than others.
By appealing to a technical crowd you can really cut down on the noise you'd have to slog through on a google search. In exchange you have to make sure not to waste our time with stuff that google would have helped with.
Inactivity fees are IMO a valid way to make up for the costs of keeping the card's serial number active. Obviously they have to keep track of every single card that has value or you won't be able to use any of its value, and the maintenance of that data costs money.
You do have a point. Nintendo may have done the right thing in the end, but they surely could have done a fat lot better job being nicer about it.
The characters were the rightful property of nintendo, as was the game plot of OOT that the movie was derived from, so Nintendo is probably on solid ground *legally*.
However, Nintendo had an opportunity here to work with them on it. Serve as a corporate consultant and possibly work out a royalty deal for the usage of Nintendo's characters.
Instead, they shot themselves in the foot with a knee-jerk reaction against perceived infringement and completely killed the potential for movie royalties, not to mention generating bad PR by their heavyhandedness against their own fans.
With some TLC from Nintendo this movie would have made a very nice joint venture, and probably wouldn't have sucked so bad.
Sadly, this means that "Chivalry of a King" is probably never going to see the light of day either.
I'm not usually one to buck the mob, but today is an exception.
Yes, I actually rushed to download and watch the movie before the legal warriors started trying to get it stamped out, expecting to see a great work of art saved from suppression by corporate greed.
But after watching the mp4, I think I have a pretty good idea why Nintendo would want to suppress this.
The movie...freaking...SUCKED!
Way too many deviations from the canon plot of the game, cheesy scripts, and "Darunia" was a complete ditz for a rock-solid "prince of the gorons". He reminded me of a cross between Spock and Jar Jar Binks, in fact, and coming from a trekkie like myself that's saying something. Where's the Zora King? Hell, Epona wasn't even white maned, or even named IIRC. Link? Um...when did he get ADD?
I could go on...
In their shoes I wouldn't want my precious mascotts trotted out by amateurs either.
I am an avid fan of the series and I could barely bring myself to finish watching it. It was sad.
If Nintendo had had the foresight to make the movie themselves...with a professional cast and a corporate backed budget, you can bet your iron boots they'd have made a fortune on it. They'd have done it right, if they'd have bothered to do it at all.
If the geeks at Nintendo were even half way awake they'd have noticed this thing brewing a long time ago.
Wait until the fans sink all their investments into the movie, then blow it out of the water with a lawsuit after they're too low on the budget to fight back.
And that's one of the reasons TSA gets away with murder...er, theft.
They know that you've probably invested a grand or two in your ticket...which usually is flat out non-refundable, and that you can't get on the plane until they're damn well good and ready to.
Result: people with the power to abuse you as they see fit because there's not a damn thing you can do about it without forfeiting a honking huge investment. If you don't agree to surrender your goodies, you get yanked out of the line and escorted from the premesis, kissing your precious airfare goodbye. And that's if you're lucky enough not to get flagged as a terrorist and outright detained.
The fact that you're about to be miles away from the problem to boot only enhances your helplessness.
Perhaps in court but they'll likely be out of a job in a hurry.
A boss, armed with at-will employment and in particular staring down the barrel of a lawsuit as a co-defendant for "maintaining a hostile work environment" will likely shitcan any suspects.
Sadly your boss won't even care whether it was genuine belief of harassment or if your "victim" was just pissed at you and looking for an excuse to tank your career.
You'll be ZOMGFIRED before you can plead your case, because your boss is going to be afraid of the ZOMGLAWSUIT your victim will dump on the company for "maintaining a hostile work environment".
There are plenty of things that everyone wants that nobody wants to pay for.
Actually that's pretty much everything.
Some of those however, also known as public goods, do not go away for one person just because he doesn't pay for them, which is why they are funded with taxes and not donations.
Mind you though, I wish the supposed efficiency of private capitalistic competition were to make its way into the public sector.
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IPv6 won't get around until it is profitable to do so...and that also means that v6 has to be better for the powers that be that currently are set to enjoy a monopoly grip on v4 addressing.
If I were ARIN, I would start making v4 addresses and v6 addresses cheap.
My college is set up like this.
Why are power-users proud of the fact that they are defying corporate policy and abusing company resources? While getting paid?
Until someone decides to take you down with them by pointing out you were an accessory for concealing it.
Hell, getting caught red handed with blackmail material might make you a victim yourself.
My position is that it's far better to keep one's nose clean and make sure that anything that gets thrown at you doesn't stick.
The easiest sins to wash your hands of are the ones that never dirty your palms in the first place.
Ask Slashdot is better than Google in many ways, and worse than others.
By appealing to a technical crowd you can really cut down on the noise you'd have to slog through on a google search. In exchange you have to make sure not to waste our time with stuff that google would have helped with.
EVERYONE with power will abuse it.
That's why america is based on a system of checks and balances.
Part of protecting a trademark is making sure its value is preserved.
The movie was crap and any sort of official backing from Nintendo would have damaged their value.
Inactivity fees are IMO a valid way to make up for the costs of keeping the card's serial number active. Obviously they have to keep track of every single card that has value or you won't be able to use any of its value, and the maintenance of that data costs money.
More like an attempt to capitalize on Y2K's notoriety by partially mimicking it.
Or...just be glad nobody's trademarked Y2K.
China is being greedy. Not only are they happy to exploit their monopoly positions on badly needed metals, but they ruthlessly pirate and counterfeit.
I can't bring myself to feel sorry for anyone they rip off though, knowing that if the roles were reversed the status quo would still be the same.
Especially when how they probably do things in China makes the american blizzard division look like a saint.
You do have a point. Nintendo may have done the right thing in the end, but they surely could have done a fat lot better job being nicer about it.
The characters were the rightful property of nintendo, as was the game plot of OOT that the movie was derived from, so Nintendo is probably on solid ground *legally*.
However, Nintendo had an opportunity here to work with them on it. Serve as a corporate consultant and possibly work out a royalty deal for the usage of Nintendo's characters.
Instead, they shot themselves in the foot with a knee-jerk reaction against perceived infringement and completely killed the potential for movie royalties, not to mention generating bad PR by their heavyhandedness against their own fans.
With some TLC from Nintendo this movie would have made a very nice joint venture, and probably wouldn't have sucked so bad.
Sadly, this means that "Chivalry of a King" is probably never going to see the light of day either.
Considering the piss-poor quality of the movie itself I don't blame nintendo either.
I'm not usually one to buck the mob, but today is an exception.
Yes, I actually rushed to download and watch the movie before the legal warriors started trying to get it stamped out, expecting to see a great work of art saved from suppression by corporate greed.
But after watching the mp4, I think I have a pretty good idea why Nintendo would want to suppress this.
The movie...freaking...SUCKED!
Way too many deviations from the canon plot of the game, cheesy scripts, and "Darunia" was a complete ditz for a rock-solid "prince of the gorons". He reminded me of a cross between Spock and Jar Jar Binks, in fact, and coming from a trekkie like myself that's saying something. Where's the Zora King? Hell, Epona wasn't even white maned, or even named IIRC. Link? Um...when did he get ADD?
I could go on...
In their shoes I wouldn't want my precious mascotts trotted out by amateurs either.
I am an avid fan of the series and I could barely bring myself to finish watching it. It was sad.
If Nintendo had had the foresight to make the movie themselves...with a professional cast and a corporate backed budget, you can bet your iron boots they'd have made a fortune on it. They'd have done it right, if they'd have bothered to do it at all.
If the geeks at Nintendo were even half way awake they'd have noticed this thing brewing a long time ago.
Wait until the fans sink all their investments into the movie, then blow it out of the water with a lawsuit after they're too low on the budget to fight back.
I'm more worried about the terrorist who might try to do it on purpose.
The government never should have issued the letter in the first place.
Wussy provider or not, issuing a bogus takedown notice is a dick move by itself.
And that's one of the reasons TSA gets away with murder...er, theft.
They know that you've probably invested a grand or two in your ticket...which usually is flat out non-refundable, and that you can't get on the plane until they're damn well good and ready to.
Result: people with the power to abuse you as they see fit because there's not a damn thing you can do about it without forfeiting a honking huge investment. If you don't agree to surrender your goodies, you get yanked out of the line and escorted from the premesis, kissing your precious airfare goodbye. And that's if you're lucky enough not to get flagged as a terrorist and outright detained.
The fact that you're about to be miles away from the problem to boot only enhances your helplessness.
Perhaps in court but they'll likely be out of a job in a hurry.
A boss, armed with at-will employment and in particular staring down the barrel of a lawsuit as a co-defendant for "maintaining a hostile work environment" will likely shitcan any suspects.
Sadly your boss won't even care whether it was genuine belief of harassment or if your "victim" was just pissed at you and looking for an excuse to tank your career.
You'll be ZOMGFIRED before you can plead your case, because your boss is going to be afraid of the ZOMGLAWSUIT your victim will dump on the company for "maintaining a hostile work environment".
There are plenty of things that everyone wants that nobody wants to pay for.
Actually that's pretty much everything.
Some of those however, also known as public goods, do not go away for one person just because he doesn't pay for them, which is why they are funded with taxes and not donations.
Mind you though, I wish the supposed efficiency of private capitalistic competition were to make its way into the public sector.
Politicians are also usually lawyers that have spent their careers profiting off of the convolutions of the system.
It would not surprise me one bit if they keep things twisted out of loyalty to their profession.
Don't be so smug.
Hell hath no fury like a scorned politician.
And no tactic, not even stuffing the judiciary, is above them.
The 386SX was still designed with 286 compatibility in mind. 24-bit address bus and 16-bit data bus.
Even if I didn't nail it I was still not far off.
It's already been broken.
All this does is scare people into not putting stuff on so-called secure airwaves that really are anything but.
And if you're sending patient records over a GSM network then you deserve to get stomped by the HIPAApottamus anyway.
Seriously, at least encrypt the fuckers.