Please read question number one again. Especially where it says 2600's lawyers are entirely familiar with Touretzky's Gallery,
so forget about those.
That means your link to his gallery shouldn't get modded up to 5, like it is now. It'd be one thing if you actually had a useful comment to accompany your link, but you don't. This is just a karma-whore post, and the moderators went for it.
Hey mods, please mod this guy back down to where he should be. I'd do it myself but I gave up the priviledge to post this comment.
(Yeah, this is similar to another post on this story. The other one is a reply in a thread, so probably no one will see it, so I posted it again as this new thread. Sue me.)
Hey, neat map!
If you choose the Infected Files, Past 30 Days option, Texas is bright as a tomato.
Not that I'm drawing any conclusions about Texans (whose former governor is, coincidentally, bright as a tomato!).
On the other hand, California is also a bright red state, and that went to Gore...
Darn. I was hoping I could draw a conclusion. Hey -- I can! There aren't any infected files in Nader states!
-Grant aka JimTheta ---
You're referring to "Venture". I know it. I own it.
You're this little dude with a bow, represented with a smiley circle with a bow attached to it. There are multiple screens, with each having four rooms. Outside of these rooms, you are just a dot on a big map, but when you enter a room, the view zooms in on the rooms interior and you can see your full smiley head. In each room is a treasure and either 3 monsters or 4 moving trap walls. When you get all four treasures from the four rooms, you advance to the next screen.
Or else you could get the cartridge and make your emulator
legal!
Please state the facts properly. Emulators are and always have been legal. What you meant were ROMs, which are potentially copyright infringing.
IANAL, but I think that technically, it is illegal to distribute ROMs in any case. It is legal to dump them for yourself, but not distribute. Likewise, it isn't quite kosher to get the ROMs from someone else, even if you do own the cart. You have to dump them yourself. This isn't really a distinction to worry about; if you own the cart to a commercial game, you're probably okay. (Someone correct me if I'm not quite right)
But the emulator is ALWAYS legal. And there are many freeware ROMs that you can play on them, strengthening the position that they will remail legal.
The main infringement here is the artwork. I'm guessing that the guide is dripping with art images that Imagine has taken directly from the games instruction book or trading cards. It's not the screenshots.
The brief says that there are other strategy guides that Nintendo has licensed, therefore giving their publishers rights to use the copyrighted images. Imagine doesn't have this.
If I understand this right, if Imagine's strategy guide contained a bunch of screenshots and words, but not one cartoon-drawing of Ash or Pikachu or any other Pokemon, then Imagine would be within their rights. Or at least closer to being within their rights. Of course, all the page background images and filler images would have to abstract and pretty much un-Pokemon-related. Like/that/ would sell, compared to the pretty-artwork-having licensed one sitting next to it on the shelf.
If someone sold a unofficial guide to a Disney game, you would expect them to pay Disney for the use of images of Mickey Mouse that appear on the cover, right?
I'm pretty much on Nintendo's side with this one. Daily Radar puts a pretty good spin on it, though.
On the Unix network at Michigan State University's computer science department, you can't rid the preformatted bookmarks from Netscape. Every time you delete them, the folder gets tagged back onto the end of your bookmarks next time you start the program.
Not that I'm not sure if all Unix versions have this 'feature' or even if there are multiple Unix versions.:)
However, the windows version I'm using right now does not have that problem whatsoever.
What I can't figure out here, while listening to people on CNN talk about Nader voters throwing their votes away, is why they keep talking about Nader voters like they're doing something wrong!
If Nader is causing the Dems to lose votes, then why the hell aren't the Dems thinking about taking on some Green platforms? Nader isn't getting votes just to piss Gore off; he's getting votes because he has issues that are really appealing to a segment of the population that feels neglected. Why aren't the pundits talking about how the Dems should react? Instead they are just complaining about him being a spoiler.
The problem here is that many Gore voters aren't voting for Gore; they're voting against Bush. "I'm not him" is a really weak platform, and I think it's amazing that Gore's doing as well as he is. If the Repub candidate wasn't as distasteful as he is, I bet at least a third of the today's voters would have stayed home. Nader probably would be stronger, though, since his supporters are really supporting him (and not trying to deny someone else).
In fact, I think Gore is more guilty of stealing Nader's supporters. I really like Nader's anti-corporate stance, but I'm not exited about Gore at all. If I didn't live in Michigan (key swing state, for those not paying attention), I would definitely have voted for Nader, but I voted for Gore. I waffled over that until I voted, and I'm still wondering if I wished I'd voted otherwise.
It's an article about this. It's very helpful for those of us who don't know what many of these events are - for instance, the Mercedes is the Princess Diana crash, and the cabin is the Unabomber's cabin.
Are you aware of how much real office furniture costs? I'm not talking special redwood mahogany whatever-the-heck desks; I'm talking about the standard desks you'd find in any well-set tech office. Hell, the furniture in my research labs at my University's CSE department is all ergonomicly designed, which is to say expensive. I'm not sure if the price comparison is as disparate as it could be.
After reading your post, I realized that I should have actually read the article before posting. Someone should nail my post with an off-topic mod.
The article makes a valid point (though the article is so short that that's the only point it makes). There really are no characters that reflect that lifestyle. I originally skipped it because the concept of people relating to anime characters made me roll my eyes as images of sex goddesses and ninja cyborg warriors filled my imagination. I regret that initial reaction now, because the article was right on the money.
<Way-off topic>Since I'm on the topic of anime, I feel the need to say that DragonBallZ is complete garbage. I'm insulted that fellow humans are intrigued by a 15-episode-long fight scene. WWF has a more engaging plot.</Way-off topic>
I don't quite see the appeal of Anime. Lots of anime fans seem to like stuff just _because_ it is anime, which doesn't make much sense at all!
Honestly, there's just as much anime crap as there is anime non-crap, just like all other kinds of entertainment. I don't understand the concept of being an "anime fan".
I do not like the concept of the "anime fan". I am a fan of thought-provoking storylines and well-developed characters (at least in narrative medias). I don't care if it comes from anime, American TV, British TV or whatnot.
We have no problem with people who "put their freedom, and sometimes lives, on the line for their beliefs" when it is done in an intelligent and not-self-publicizing manner.
We do have problems with people who do what they do in a juvenile and ignorant manner and possibly contribute through this behavior to making the job harder for those who do it intelligently. It doesn't help our opinion that this imbecile is getting his name in print and promoting behavior that many of us feel is stupid and will set the movement back.
I would like to express that I don't think the writer quite realizes that he is a representative of the movement that he is a part of.
"What's in your vest?"
"Left my 'nades at home, officer."
"Let's see what's in your backpack."
"Fuck no. You need an arrest warrant for that."
Honestly, does it help to be a hostile, swearing smartass? The cops will be taking flack all day from everyone, and having a hostile attitude won't make them any more predisposed to being nice to you. Furthermore, if all protesters respond like this, the cop will be prejudiced in his treatment of all protesters in the future.
And appearance: Who do you think will look better to the media? A bunch of unshaven people in combat fatigues, bandannas and combat boots, or people moderately well-dressed? At the least, being well-dressed might give the illusion of potential civil legal trouble (i.e. people who look like they have more money will look like they have legal resources). For that matter, I'd also like to see a coordinated effort to have videocameras cover maximum area, to make sure that cops can make no move without being on tape.
If I was organizing a protest, I'd put everyone in their Sunday best and completely ban all profanities and name-calling. I'd want all the protesters to treat officers with sympathy and respect, since the officers are nothing more than people who are stuck doing a shitty job (I'm sure most everyone can relate to that). Honestly, how would it look on TV to see tear gas being shot at men and women in sportcoats and dresses?
I'm sick of seeing people dressed for combat bitch and moan when they actually find it. And it doesn't help their image when participants can't articulate their beliefs without resorting to profanity.
These protests will only get worse unless participants start playing the other side intelligently.
That would be all good and great, if the price of a CD was reflective of the record company's effort for that particular artist, but I bet it's not.
Way more promo effort (i.e. money) has gone into Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys than say, Pitchshifter or Fear Factory. But their disc prices are just about the same, even when each was first released.
Now, that kinda tells me that the money I spent on my latest Pitchshifter disc didn't all necessarily go to efforts solely directed at selling Pitchshifter and their disc to the public. Am I helping fund the latest boy band's promotion?
If my $18 (after compensation, manufacturing, etc.) were going totally into efforts (or reimbursement of efforts) to promote the band I just bought, I wouldn't necessarily have a problem.
But I don't think that it is. It's going into promotion of a small handful of record-company-constructed "musicians", who, as a result of this promo machine, will make back exponentially more for the record company than they put into it. Honestly, the strategy makes sense to suits who don't care about the art. But what about a band who, if promoted properly and paid fairly, would make a decent profit that, though not on a Christina Aguilera-scale, would be decent enough to satisfy and support that band? Well, the RIAA companies don't really care, for the most part. Sure, the smaller RIAA labels do, but they're usually not rolling in cash, either. They're just owned by the big RIAA companies so that when the small labels find the 'right' band, the parent RIAA company can be ready to exploit.
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Please read question number one again. Especially where it says 2600's lawyers are entirely familiar with Touretzky's Gallery, so forget about those.
That means your link to his gallery shouldn't get modded up to 5, like it is now. It'd be one thing if you actually had a useful comment to accompany your link, but you don't. This is just a karma-whore post, and the moderators went for it.
Hey mods, please mod this guy back down to where he should be. I'd do it myself but I gave up the priviledge to post this comment.
-Grant
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Check out the great Star Wars: Episode 2 Information Center at Pointless Waste of Time.
Be sure to check out the leaked script pages... they're off-the-hook. And while you're at it, ckeck out the rest of the site too.
(Didn't I make nearly the same post a couple days ago under a Matrix story?)
-Grant
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There's a really great Matrix 2 rumor site here. The leaked script pages are off-the-hook.
By the way, if you have time you should check out the rest of PointlessWasteOfTime.com
-Grant
(Yeah, this is similar to another post on this story. The other one is a reply in a thread, so probably no one will see it, so I posted it again as this new thread. Sue me.)
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There's a really great Matrix 2 rumor site here. The leaked script pages are off-the-hook.
By the way, if you have time you should check out the rest of PointlessWasteOfTime.com
-Grant
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Well, first of all, the game in question is for the NES, not the SNES.
Second, you can get pretty much any emulator available from Zophar's Domain.
-Grant/JimTheta
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Yup, as long as they keep them in a standardized size, then we can come up with apps that can easily identify and block them.
If only the porn-opponents had it so easy.
-Grant aka JimTheta
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Hey, neat map! If you choose the Infected Files, Past 30 Days option, Texas is bright as a tomato. Not that I'm drawing any conclusions about Texans (whose former governor is, coincidentally, bright as a tomato!). On the other hand, California is also a bright red state, and that went to Gore... Darn. I was hoping I could draw a conclusion. Hey -- I can! There aren't any infected files in Nader states! -Grant aka JimTheta
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1) The Pokemon anime was not inspired by Nintendo's videogame. I think it was the other way around.
You're wrong. Pokemon was inspired by the video game. Granted, the cartoon was what really exploded in popularity, but the game still came first.
-Grant aka JimTheta---
You're referring to "Venture". I know it. I own it.
You're this little dude with a bow, represented with a smiley circle with a bow attached to it. There are multiple screens, with each having four rooms. Outside of these rooms, you are just a dot on a big map, but when you enter a room, the view zooms in on the rooms interior and you can see your full smiley head. In each room is a treasure and either 3 monsters or 4 moving trap walls. When you get all four treasures from the four rooms, you advance to the next screen.
Does that sound like the game you're looking for?
And you're in luck! It's available from the guy!
-Grant aka JimTheta
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Please state the facts properly. Emulators are and always have been legal. What you meant were ROMs, which are potentially copyright infringing.
IANAL, but I think that technically, it is illegal to distribute ROMs in any case. It is legal to dump them for yourself, but not distribute. Likewise, it isn't quite kosher to get the ROMs from someone else, even if you do own the cart. You have to dump them yourself. This isn't really a distinction to worry about; if you own the cart to a commercial game, you're probably okay. (Someone correct me if I'm not quite right)
But the emulator is ALWAYS legal. And there are many freeware ROMs that you can play on them, strengthening the position that they will remail legal.
-Grant aka JimTheta---
The main infringement here is the artwork. I'm guessing that the guide is dripping with art images that Imagine has taken directly from the games instruction book or trading cards. It's not the screenshots.
/that/ would sell, compared to the pretty-artwork-having licensed one sitting next to it on the shelf.
The brief says that there are other strategy guides that Nintendo has licensed, therefore giving their publishers rights to use the copyrighted images. Imagine doesn't have this.
If I understand this right, if Imagine's strategy guide contained a bunch of screenshots and words, but not one cartoon-drawing of Ash or Pikachu or any other Pokemon, then Imagine would be within their rights. Or at least closer to being within their rights. Of course, all the page background images and filler images would have to abstract and pretty much un-Pokemon-related. Like
If someone sold a unofficial guide to a Disney game, you would expect them to pay Disney for the use of images of Mickey Mouse that appear on the cover, right?
I'm pretty much on Nintendo's side with this one. Daily Radar puts a pretty good spin on it, though.
-Grant aka JimTheta
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On the Unix network at Michigan State University's computer science department, you can't rid the preformatted bookmarks from Netscape. Every time you delete them, the folder gets tagged back onto the end of your bookmarks next time you start the program.
Not that I'm not sure if all Unix versions have this 'feature' or even if there are multiple Unix versions. :)
However, the windows version I'm using right now does not have that problem whatsoever.
-JimTheta---
What I can't figure out here, while listening to people on CNN talk about Nader voters throwing their votes away, is why they keep talking about Nader voters like they're doing something wrong!
If Nader is causing the Dems to lose votes, then why the hell aren't the Dems thinking about taking on some Green platforms? Nader isn't getting votes just to piss Gore off; he's getting votes because he has issues that are really appealing to a segment of the population that feels neglected. Why aren't the pundits talking about how the Dems should react? Instead they are just complaining about him being a spoiler.
The problem here is that many Gore voters aren't voting for Gore; they're voting against Bush. "I'm not him" is a really weak platform, and I think it's amazing that Gore's doing as well as he is. If the Repub candidate wasn't as distasteful as he is, I bet at least a third of the today's voters would have stayed home. Nader probably would be stronger, though, since his supporters are really supporting him (and not trying to deny someone else).
In fact, I think Gore is more guilty of stealing Nader's supporters. I really like Nader's anti-corporate stance, but I'm not exited about Gore at all. If I didn't live in Michigan (key swing state, for those not paying attention), I would definitely have voted for Nader, but I voted for Gore. I waffled over that until I voted, and I'm still wondering if I wished I'd voted otherwise.
-JimTheta
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Well, in Michigan the Detroit results aren't in yet (long lines still at close). Detroit -> heavy minority Democrat precincts.
They might be just expecting these results to give Gore the win.
I don't really agree with these premature calls, but I understand why they're doing it.
-JimTheta
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Slashdot doesn't want to post my link right, darnit. Ah well. The link still works right for me, though.
-JimTheta
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I previewed my damn post and it was good, but now it's messed up! What the heck?
That link still works for me, though. If it doesn't for you, try .
-JimTheta
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Check out.
It's an article about this. It's very helpful for those of us who don't know what many of these events are - for instance, the Mercedes is the Princess Diana crash, and the cabin is the Unabomber's cabin.
-JimTheta
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Jack Valenti's head on a stick.
-JimTheta
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Are you aware of how much real office furniture costs? I'm not talking special redwood mahogany whatever-the-heck desks; I'm talking about the standard desks you'd find in any well-set tech office. Hell, the furniture in my research labs at my University's CSE department is all ergonomicly designed, which is to say expensive. I'm not sure if the price comparison is as disparate as it could be.
-JimTheta
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After reading your post, I realized that I should have actually read the article before posting. Someone should nail my post with an off-topic mod.
The article makes a valid point (though the article is so short that that's the only point it makes). There really are no characters that reflect that lifestyle. I originally skipped it because the concept of people relating to anime characters made me roll my eyes as images of sex goddesses and ninja cyborg warriors filled my imagination. I regret that initial reaction now, because the article was right on the money.
<Way-off topic>Since I'm on the topic of anime, I feel the need to say that DragonBallZ is complete garbage. I'm insulted that fellow humans are intrigued by a 15-episode-long fight scene. WWF has a more engaging plot.</Way-off topic>
-JimTheta
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I don't quite see the appeal of Anime. Lots of anime fans seem to like stuff just _because_ it is anime, which doesn't make much sense at all!
Honestly, there's just as much anime crap as there is anime non-crap, just like all other kinds of entertainment. I don't understand the concept of being an "anime fan".
I do not like the concept of the "anime fan". I am a fan of thought-provoking storylines and well-developed characters (at least in narrative medias). I don't care if it comes from anime, American TV, British TV or whatnot.
-JimTheta
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Well, it's got lots of comments, so I guess the readers don't mind... Maybe it's just you. -JimTheta
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We have no problem with people who "put their freedom, and sometimes lives, on the line for their beliefs" when it is done in an intelligent and not-self-publicizing manner.
We do have problems with people who do what they do in a juvenile and ignorant manner and possibly contribute through this behavior to making the job harder for those who do it intelligently. It doesn't help our opinion that this imbecile is getting his name in print and promoting behavior that many of us feel is stupid and will set the movement back.
-JimTheta
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I would like to express that I don't think the writer quite realizes that he is a representative of the movement that he is a part of.
"What's in your vest?"
"Left my 'nades at home, officer."
"Let's see what's in your backpack."
"Fuck no. You need an arrest warrant for that."
Honestly, does it help to be a hostile, swearing smartass? The cops will be taking flack all day from everyone, and having a hostile attitude won't make them any more predisposed to being nice to you. Furthermore, if all protesters respond like this, the cop will be prejudiced in his treatment of all protesters in the future.
And appearance: Who do you think will look better to the media? A bunch of unshaven people in combat fatigues, bandannas and combat boots, or people moderately well-dressed? At the least, being well-dressed might give the illusion of potential civil legal trouble (i.e. people who look like they have more money will look like they have legal resources). For that matter, I'd also like to see a coordinated effort to have videocameras cover maximum area, to make sure that cops can make no move without being on tape.
If I was organizing a protest, I'd put everyone in their Sunday best and completely ban all profanities and name-calling. I'd want all the protesters to treat officers with sympathy and respect, since the officers are nothing more than people who are stuck doing a shitty job (I'm sure most everyone can relate to that). Honestly, how would it look on TV to see tear gas being shot at men and women in sportcoats and dresses?
I'm sick of seeing people dressed for combat bitch and moan when they actually find it. And it doesn't help their image when participants can't articulate their beliefs without resorting to profanity.
These protests will only get worse unless participants start playing the other side intelligently.
-JimTheta---
That would be all good and great, if the price of a CD was reflective of the record company's effort for that particular artist, but I bet it's not.
Way more promo effort (i.e. money) has gone into Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys than say, Pitchshifter or Fear Factory. But their disc prices are just about the same, even when each was first released.
Now, that kinda tells me that the money I spent on my latest Pitchshifter disc didn't all necessarily go to efforts solely directed at selling Pitchshifter and their disc to the public. Am I helping fund the latest boy band's promotion?
If my $18 (after compensation, manufacturing, etc.) were going totally into efforts (or reimbursement of efforts) to promote the band I just bought, I wouldn't necessarily have a problem.
But I don't think that it is. It's going into promotion of a small handful of record-company-constructed "musicians", who, as a result of this promo machine, will make back exponentially more for the record company than they put into it. Honestly, the strategy makes sense to suits who don't care about the art. But what about a band who, if promoted properly and paid fairly, would make a decent profit that, though not on a Christina Aguilera-scale, would be decent enough to satisfy and support that band? Well, the RIAA companies don't really care, for the most part. Sure, the smaller RIAA labels do, but they're usually not rolling in cash, either. They're just owned by the big RIAA companies so that when the small labels find the 'right' band, the parent RIAA company can be ready to exploit.
And that's why I hate the RIAA.
-JimTheta
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