Not in America. You see, the United States of America is a republic on paper but not in practice. Voters in the USA will typically vote for whatever candidate the TV tells them to, modulo a "choice" of two parties whose political positions move ever closer to the center. and Disney (ABC), Microsoft (MSNBC), Viacom (CBS, UPN), News Corporation (Fox, Fox News), and Time Warner (WB, CNN) control what the TV says.
No, Xbox is not beating the Cube everywhere. Outside the United States, the GameCube has a substantial edge over the EggsBox. Heck, in Japan, even the PSone has outsold Microsoft's console.
Well at least GCN has some good exclusive games. Xbox has what? Halo and Munch's Oddysee? Could that be why Xbox isn't doing too well outside the States (globally, it's #4 behind #3 GCN, #2 PS2, and #1 GBA, and even the PS1 has been beating it in Japan)?
Sega didn't market the Dreamcast well. Look what happened to the system.
Pirating music CDs is easy. Look what happened to sales per title: they went up slightly. The drop in total sales after Kazaa took off may be due to Kazaa, but I think it's more due to fewer new titles.
Just wait until the OIAA (Oil Industry Association of America) takes you to court for stealing their profits!
Worse yet: The oil industry will often perform hostile takeovers of companies with promising alternative energy technologies. Then they sit on the takeover victim's patents until they expire. That's part of why alternative energy always seems 20 years behind.
Likewise, media consolidation. EA, Universal, and Microsoft buy up various publishers of games.
it's alright if I download Photoshop 7.0 because I can't afford it
If you can't afford Adobe Photoshop Elements (100 USD or so), which includes everything in Adobe Photoshop except for high-end pre-press function, you're probably unemployed.
My fiance and I regularly sit around playing our GBA SPs together, and DDR is one of my favorite ways to work out.
One question about DDR:
Do you think downloading a song off MP3.com, making a stepfile, and playing it in DWI or StepMania constitutes taking of money that should otherwise belong to Konami?
Humming a tune in front of any person other than your family and social acquaintances is a public performance of a musical work as defined in 17 USC 101. Unauthorized public performance is possibly an infringement of copyright by 17 USC 106.
Theft of service typically involves a breach of contract, right?
You go to the doctor.
And sign a contract.
You go to your lawyer.
And sign a contract.
You go to your lawyer.
And sign a contract.
You go to work.
And sign a contract.
You lift a game off IRC.
This is different. A contract between myself and the publisher is not involved here. Only copyright law is, and it makes several exceptions which (I admit) don't allow mass piracy of games on the scale typically observed on IRC. I don't pirate games of which the publisher is still selling copies.
On the other hand, I sometimes copy works which the copyright owner has indicated no desire to exploit in the present or foreseeable future. If we take the copyright owner's refusal to sell copies as an admission that the work's value is within epsilon of zero, my copying may be fair because 1. I'm not making further commercial use of the work, and 4. it does not diminish the value of that work because nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
You justify this because it does not deprive the retailer, wholesaler, publisher, and shareholders of any property.
I buy a copy of a game directly from the publisher. Does this deprive the retailer and its wholesaler of potential profit? I buy a copy of a game at Best Buy. Does this deprive the Wal-Mart store next door of potential profit?
Experiment to verify CDs burned from inside out
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Start your CD digital audio recording software and set it to "track at once".
Place a blank CDDA-R disc in your recorder. Record three audio tracks. Remove the CD from the recorder and look at the underside of the disc. Notice a boundary between two differently colored washer-shaped regions of the disc's data area.
Place the disc in your recorder again. Record three more audio tracks. Look again at the disc's underside. Notice that the darker color has expanded into the area that was once lighter colored.
Record three more tracks. By now you should notice a pattern: adding new tracks to a disc expands the dark area outward. Therefore, guess that the darker area is the recorded area, and that the disc is recorded from inside to outside.
Compact Disc and DVD media are mastered in a spiral track that runs from inside to outside when the disc is spun counter-clockwise (viewed from the data side) or clockwise (viewed from the label side). The second layer of a dual-layer disc runs from outside to inside. It appears that Xbox and GameCube disc formats may place their boot sectors on the second layer, which means that the discs are read from outside in. Uncareful reporters may confuse this with a disc that spins backwards; no popular open-disc optical medium does this.
Maybe but has any company other than Disney released Pixar (run by Steve Jobs) flix?
From the article I linked to: "as soon as February 2003, when Pixar delivers Finding Nemo and is contractually free to start negotiations on a new partnership, he'll likely be looking at a distribution deal elsewhere."
Are Linux terrorists and hippies worse than Windows terrorists and hippies? I don't get it.
Microsoft co-owns a cable TV news channel. Linux.org doesn't. Microsoft reserves the right to misrepresent anything related to Linux on MSNBC so far as it doesn't cross the line of slander.
I thought Windows 98 Second Edition was just Windows 98 with service pack 1 pre-applied and maybe a couple more features, not different enough for any underlying differences in Windows to apply. From what I've used of Win98 and Win98se, I gather that Win98se is much less different from Win98 than from WinME.
Besides, this page claims that Windows Update still works for everything newer than Windows 95.
Java should been designed from the start to enforce getter/setter access to instance variables.
Even for thin wrapper classes such as java.lang.Integer and javax.vecmath.Vector3d? It seems like in such a case, the syntactic vinegar of not allowing public fields would not provide any actual benefit.
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the people control their government
Not in America. You see, the United States of America is a republic on paper but not in practice. Voters in the USA will typically vote for whatever candidate the TV tells them to, modulo a "choice" of two parties whose political positions move ever closer to the center. and Disney (ABC), Microsoft (MSNBC), Viacom (CBS, UPN), News Corporation (Fox, Fox News), and Time Warner (WB, CNN) control what the TV says.
See:solar panels, wind(mills?), wave, hydro(micro)electric turbines, woodstoves(cooking/heating alternative),etc,etc
How do you buy those if you don't have a job in the city? I don't think they'll take your commune's currency.
And how would you counter the fact that the government has big guns and tanks and bombers and you don't?
yeah, yeah, don't feed the copyright monster
Have you signed the Eldred Act petition?
but wives and kids do their own thing
I don't give Disney more money than an occasional rental. Why don't you introduce them to Don Bluth movies, DreamWorks movies, and the like?
[Installing a DWI mix put together MP3.com bands] would require a lot more work and not be as user-friendly
And the data in the .iso image is supposed to be iso (equal) to the data on the disc.
If someone goes through the trouble of modchipping their console, then they're going to want a return on their investment in the form of free games.
"Free games"? I'd be happy with free as in speech, as has happened on the PS2 and on the Xbox. I play a lot of freely redistributable games on my GBA, and I've written a couple GPL'd GBA games of my own.
My point was that if the lowly xbox is beating it
No, Xbox is not beating the Cube everywhere. Outside the United States, the GameCube has a substantial edge over the EggsBox. Heck, in Japan, even the PSone has outsold Microsoft's console.
Well at least GCN has some good exclusive games. Xbox has what? Halo and Munch's Oddysee? Could that be why Xbox isn't doing too well outside the States (globally, it's #4 behind #3 GCN, #2 PS2, and #1 GBA, and even the PS1 has been beating it in Japan)?
If you like a game, buy it.
What should I do if I like a game but the copyright owner is no longer having copies printed?
Sega didn't market the Dreamcast well. Look what happened to the system.
Pirating music CDs is easy. Look what happened to sales per title: they went up slightly. The drop in total sales after Kazaa took off may be due to Kazaa, but I think it's more due to fewer new titles.
Just wait until the OIAA (Oil Industry Association of America) takes you to court for stealing their profits!
Worse yet: The oil industry will often perform hostile takeovers of companies with promising alternative energy technologies. Then they sit on the takeover victim's patents until they expire. That's part of why alternative energy always seems 20 years behind.
Likewise, media consolidation. EA, Universal, and Microsoft buy up various publishers of games.
it's alright if I download Photoshop 7.0 because I can't afford it
If you can't afford Adobe Photoshop Elements (100 USD or so), which includes everything in Adobe Photoshop except for high-end pre-press function, you're probably unemployed.
My fiance and I regularly sit around playing our GBA SPs together, and DDR is one of my favorite ways to work out.
One question about DDR:
Do you think downloading a song off MP3.com, making a stepfile, and playing it in DWI or StepMania constitutes taking of money that should otherwise belong to Konami?
Humming a tune instead of buying a CD?
Humming a tune in front of any person other than your family and social acquaintances is a public performance of a musical work as defined in 17 USC 101. Unauthorized public performance is possibly an infringement of copyright by 17 USC 106.
Theft of service typically involves a breach of contract, right?
You go to the doctor.
And sign a contract.
You go to your lawyer.
And sign a contract.
You go to your lawyer.
And sign a contract.
You go to work.
And sign a contract.
You lift a game off IRC.
This is different. A contract between myself and the publisher is not involved here. Only copyright law is, and it makes several exceptions which (I admit) don't allow mass piracy of games on the scale typically observed on IRC. I don't pirate games of which the publisher is still selling copies.
On the other hand, I sometimes copy works which the copyright owner has indicated no desire to exploit in the present or foreseeable future. If we take the copyright owner's refusal to sell copies as an admission that the work's value is within epsilon of zero, my copying may be fair because 1. I'm not making further commercial use of the work, and 4. it does not diminish the value of that work because nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
You justify this because it does not deprive the retailer, wholesaler, publisher, and shareholders of any property.
I buy a copy of a game directly from the publisher. Does this deprive the retailer and its wholesaler of potential profit? I buy a copy of a game at Best Buy. Does this deprive the Wal-Mart store next door of potential profit?
Start your CD digital audio recording software and set it to "track at once".
Place a blank CDDA-R disc in your recorder. Record three audio tracks. Remove the CD from the recorder and look at the underside of the disc. Notice a boundary between two differently colored washer-shaped regions of the disc's data area.
Place the disc in your recorder again. Record three more audio tracks. Look again at the disc's underside. Notice that the darker color has expanded into the area that was once lighter colored.
Record three more tracks. By now you should notice a pattern: adding new tracks to a disc expands the dark area outward. Therefore, guess that the darker area is the recorded area, and that the disc is recorded from inside to outside.
Compact Disc and DVD media are mastered in a spiral track that runs from inside to outside when the disc is spun counter-clockwise (viewed from the data side) or clockwise (viewed from the label side). The second layer of a dual-layer disc runs from outside to inside. It appears that Xbox and GameCube disc formats may place their boot sectors on the second layer, which means that the discs are read from outside in. Uncareful reporters may confuse this with a disc that spins backwards; no popular open-disc optical medium does this.
Maybe but has any company other than Disney released Pixar (run by Steve Jobs) flix?
From the article I linked to: "as soon as February 2003, when Pixar delivers Finding Nemo and is contractually free to start negotiations on a new partnership, he'll likely be looking at a distribution deal elsewhere."
I'm holding off until it comes out on DVD.
I thought Steve Jobs hated the CEO of the company that currently controls the Pooh franchise.
A SCOap opera?
(cue sound of fat lady singing the praises of Irish Spring)
Are Linux terrorists and hippies worse than Windows terrorists and hippies? I don't get it.
Microsoft co-owns a cable TV news channel. Linux.org doesn't. Microsoft reserves the right to misrepresent anything related to Linux on MSNBC so far as it doesn't cross the line of slander.
I thought Windows 98 Second Edition was just Windows 98 with service pack 1 pre-applied and maybe a couple more features, not different enough for any underlying differences in Windows to apply. From what I've used of Win98 and Win98se, I gather that Win98se is much less different from Win98 than from WinME.
Besides, this page claims that Windows Update still works for everything newer than Windows 95.
Nintendo's "Power Pad" dance pad may have been built poorly.
But that doesn't mean other companies can't make a good dance pad.
haley knew about warp whistles, even how to obtain it having never played the game
Considering that the warp whistles made the same noise as the whistle from The Legend of Zelda...
The plot point that ticks me off is that in retail SMB3, warping in and of itself doesn't give you points.
Java should been designed from the start to enforce getter/setter access to instance variables.
Even for thin wrapper classes such as java.lang.Integer and javax.vecmath.Vector3d? It seems like in such a case, the syntactic vinegar of not allowing public fields would not provide any actual benefit.
Or when Disney stole the name "Nemo" from a comic strip.
Lose Michael Eisner. Lose the greed.