Though the author of a work that's derivative of a pre-1923 work does not have to list the original work in advertising, he still has to list the original work on the U.S. copyright registration.
Disney, wanting new material, decides they like it too. They ask for film rights. I say, OK, but insist on preserving character of the book. They hum and haw, then decide they don't like me.
Then make sure not to sign away exclusive film rights before Disney demands the privilege to change the basic theme of the film. Tell Lord Farquaad's minion that if Disney doesn't want to preserve the spirit of your novel, you'll take it to Warner/New Line or Fox or Universal.
You sure you want mains power drectly sharing the same wires that go to your head?
Power and signal can easily be carried on the same cable, just on different wires within the cable. Look at bus-powered USB or bus-powered FireWire if you don't believe me.
I'd want control over it long enough for a perception of it to soak into collective consciousness before it got Disney-raped or something.
Keeping Disney's paws off your work can be done with "first mover" marketing, including official merchandising and licensing to a movie studio within a few years after publication. For example, J. K. Rowling is doing this with her Harry Potter series of novels about a young wizard in training. Such a "first mover" strategy doesn't need life plus 70 to be effective.
I cant wait for someone to come out for an emulator!
Download GBA freeware (or dump your GBA cartridges with a "Flash Linker" sold at gbax.com or gamegizmo.com), and then play the games with VisualBoyAdvance.
I've bought almost every Gameboy released in the U.S. since its inception: The original Gameboy in 1989, the colored Gameboy (NOT the GB Color!) in 1995
Ahh, the "Play It Loud" series of brick-form-factor Game Boy systems with different color cases. It's a good thing you qualified it with "almost" because you can't claim to have one every GB system unless you have all colors, including the limited editions that were only available as prizes in a Nintendo Power sweepstakes. Collectors have driven up the eBay prices for those.
I have a brick GB, a Super Game Boy (GB->SNES adapter), a GBC, and a GBA, that is, one of each platform. But I also have a Virtual Boy, and you don't. Nyeh!
Nintendo cares. With a monopoly on under-18 personal gaming (Palm and Pocket PC are decidedly not priced for under-18), Nintendo most certainly cares how many under-18 customers can buy its products.
but it's truly bizarre that they didn't include it built in
For the same reason that tablet PCs and smaller laptop PCs don't have all the ports built in and need a "port replicator". There's just not enough space on the case.
after all it has a speaker anyway
Unlike the headphone connector, the internal speaker is monaural. Monaural audio is ill suited for first-person shooters such as Doom (now available for GBA) or 007 (coming soon for GBA).
The biggest problem that I have found so far with the description of the headphone/charger jack is that I haven't seen pictures of a headphone dongle with a passthru for AC, so I can't play with stereo sound and mains power at the same time; I would have to wait for the thing to recharge.
But does it play short games... Like that 20 second-wait before you click game?
20 seconds? Slooow. The GBA's faster than that. Try discerning the object of the game and beating a level within four seconds. Wario Ware is available now in Japan and coming soon to North America.
And some of those constructs are pretty weak -- "everyone's woman" for prostitute.
Is Latin any better?
prostitute - 1530, from L. prostituere "to expose to prostitution, expose publicly" from pro- "before" + statuere "cause to stand, establish."
First, you need a basic grabbag of short expletives that are easily shot off in the heat of passion.
Eventually, semantic change will derive the shorter Esperanto words for private parts into such a function, just as it drove "cunt" from a semi-polite word for vagina to the most offensive word in English.
the Romansch language used in southern Switzerland (one of the four official languages of Switzerland) is a dialect of Latin that was originally spoken around Rome.
Actually, all of Italian came originally from dialects of Latin. Until the unification of Italy, the speakers didn't consider their language "Italian" according to a book by Mario Pei that I once read.
1/10^7 of the distance from Paris to the North Pole,
Actually, the meter was defined as roughly 1e-7 of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along Paris's meridian, making the earth roughly 4e7 m (40,000 km) around.
I was trying to bring to mind the typical endian flamewars.
And I was just curious as to which of head-initial vs. head-final corresponded to which of little- vs. big-endian. (Head-initial means noun-adjective and preposition-noun as in Spanish; head-final means adjective-noun and noun-postposition as in Japanese.)
Under the Sapir-Worf hypothesis, wouldn't the strongest language be Klingon?
It's a synthetic language
So is English after the early-19th-century reforms that tweaked its structure to match classical Latin forms. The most obvious changes at that time were the deprecation of double negatives and the deprecation of clause-final prepositions.
It's little endian.
How do you define "little endian" with respect to human languages? Didn't the people of Lilliput and Blefuscu of Gulliver's Travels speak roughly the same language? Or are you referring to head-initial vs. head-final typology?
The good news is that those who bought a Linksys access point now have a Cisco access point for 1/2 of the price
That is, until Cisco raises the price on all the devices sold under its Linksys brand by oh, about 50 percent so that it doesn't compete with Cisco brand devices.
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Though the author of a work that's derivative of a pre-1923 work does not have to list the original work in advertising, he still has to list the original work on the U.S. copyright registration.
Disney, wanting new material, decides they like it too. They ask for film rights. I say, OK, but insist on preserving character of the book. They hum and haw, then decide they don't like me.
Then make sure not to sign away exclusive film rights before Disney demands the privilege to change the basic theme of the film. Tell Lord Farquaad's minion that if Disney doesn't want to preserve the spirit of your novel, you'll take it to Warner/New Line or Fox or Universal.
You sure you want mains power drectly sharing the same wires that go to your head?
Power and signal can easily be carried on the same cable, just on different wires within the cable. Look at bus-powered USB or bus-powered FireWire if you don't believe me.
I'd want control over it long enough for a perception of it to soak into collective consciousness before it got Disney-raped or something.
Keeping Disney's paws off your work can be done with "first mover" marketing, including official merchandising and licensing to a movie studio within a few years after publication. For example, J. K. Rowling is doing this with her Harry Potter series of novels about a young wizard in training. Such a "first mover" strategy doesn't need life plus 70 to be effective.
you can't play multiplayer with the GameCube unit, even if you have a GBA-to-GameCube connection
According to this review, the GCN Game Boy Player apparently does allow for connection to another system.
why have [Sony Electronics and Sony Computer Entertainment] basically left nintendo free to dominate the hand-held market?
Sony makes Clie brand Palm handhelds. Why don't those count?
I cant wait for someone to come out for an emulator!
Download GBA freeware (or dump your GBA cartridges with a "Flash Linker" sold at gbax.com or gamegizmo.com), and then play the games with VisualBoyAdvance.
I've bought almost every Gameboy released in the U.S. since its inception: The original Gameboy in 1989, the colored Gameboy (NOT the GB Color!) in 1995
Ahh, the "Play It Loud" series of brick-form-factor Game Boy systems with different color cases. It's a good thing you qualified it with "almost" because you can't claim to have one every GB system unless you have all colors, including the limited editions that were only available as prizes in a Nintendo Power sweepstakes. Collectors have driven up the eBay prices for those.
I have a brick GB, a Super Game Boy (GB->SNES adapter), a GBC, and a GBA, that is, one of each platform. But I also have a Virtual Boy, and you don't. Nyeh!
Do you program?
who cares
Nintendo cares. With a monopoly on under-18 personal gaming (Palm and Pocket PC are decidedly not priced for under-18), Nintendo most certainly cares how many under-18 customers can buy its products.
Yes, but what if you live in northern Wisconsin at a credit-cardless age where you can't find a ride to the nearest Best Buy an hour away?
At a credit-cardless age, you can still ask your parents to give you a Visa Buxx debit card and then buy games online with that.
but it's truly bizarre that they didn't include it built in
For the same reason that tablet PCs and smaller laptop PCs don't have all the ports built in and need a "port replicator". There's just not enough space on the case.
after all it has a speaker anyway
Unlike the headphone connector, the internal speaker is monaural. Monaural audio is ill suited for first-person shooters such as Doom (now available for GBA) or 007 (coming soon for GBA).
The biggest problem that I have found so far with the description of the headphone/charger jack is that I haven't seen pictures of a headphone dongle with a passthru for AC, so I can't play with stereo sound and mains power at the same time; I would have to wait for the thing to recharge.
But does it play short games... Like that 20 second-wait before you click game?
20 seconds? Slooow. The GBA's faster than that. Try discerning the object of the game and beating a level within four seconds. Wario Ware is available now in Japan and coming soon to North America.
And some of those constructs are pretty weak -- "everyone's woman" for prostitute.
Is Latin any better?
First, you need a basic grabbag of short expletives that are easily shot off in the heat of passion.
Eventually, semantic change will derive the shorter Esperanto words for private parts into such a function, just as it drove "cunt" from a semi-polite word for vagina to the most offensive word in English.
the Romansch language used in southern Switzerland (one of the four official languages of Switzerland) is a dialect of Latin that was originally spoken around Rome.
Actually, all of Italian came originally from dialects of Latin. Until the unification of Italy, the speakers didn't consider their language "Italian" according to a book by Mario Pei that I once read.
how're you going to work with slugs in cgs or mks?
To go from inch-pound to mks, convert slugs to kg (1 slug = 14.594 kg), and pounds to newtons (1 lb = 4.448 N).
1/10^7 of the distance from Paris to the North Pole,
Actually, the meter was defined as roughly 1e-7 of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along Paris's meridian, making the earth roughly 4e7 m (40,000 km) around.
My point being that the awkwardness of cursing in esperanto limits it's expressiveness.
You were saying?
I was trying to bring to mind the typical endian flamewars.
And I was just curious as to which of head-initial vs. head-final corresponded to which of little- vs. big-endian. (Head-initial means noun-adjective and preposition-noun as in Spanish; head-final means adjective-noun and noun-postposition as in Japanese.)
Only if they're Freedom fries. Let the French language die.
</sarcasm>
There's no decent online translation
Say what?
(The revenge of Sapir-Worf!)
Under the Sapir-Worf hypothesis, wouldn't the strongest language be Klingon?
It's a synthetic language
So is English after the early-19th-century reforms that tweaked its structure to match classical Latin forms. The most obvious changes at that time were the deprecation of double negatives and the deprecation of clause-final prepositions.
It's little endian.
How do you define "little endian" with respect to human languages? Didn't the people of Lilliput and Blefuscu of Gulliver's Travels speak roughly the same language? Or are you referring to head-initial vs. head-final typology?
Linksys is mainly (it seems to me) to be a home-use brand. Do you really think that Linksys competes in any way w/Cisco?
Home equipment and business equipment seem to compete in small businesses.
The good news is that those who bought a Linksys access point now have a Cisco access point for 1/2 of the price
That is, until Cisco raises the price on all the devices sold under its Linksys brand by oh, about 50 percent so that it doesn't compete with Cisco brand devices.
Why do you believe that the browser's JVM itself is not subject to buffer overflow exploits?
I have read somewhere that in the absence of faults due to heat, the JVM has been proven correct.
it's written in C and C++.
It's straightforward to write a C++ array class that bounds-checks array indices.
Worms don't have legs anyway, do they?
No. And neither do Weebles.
(no bonus.)
But child porn isn't the only thing you can transfer illegally over the internet.
Criminal copyright infringement requires "willfully" as well.