Not really, Lucas's patent specifically covers the concept of tricking people into thinking that each release will be the "last and greatest" one, only to tweak the film and make Greedo shoot first, and release it again.
Peter Jackson was always up front about what is being released and when. Everyone know there would be two, a theatrical DVD and an extended DVD shortly after. They have also already claimed there would be a big honkin' box set when it is all finished.
IBM probably has more technology patents than any other company on Earth (and possibly other planets, too early to tell). I'm willing to bet they can find hundreds of violations in SCO's product lines and bury them.
Either way though, you just know this is going to become a bullet point on Microsoft's next Linux FUD page ("see, use linux and you can get sued).
You DO realize that by boycotting Hollywood, you are going to cause their revenue to drop (albiet very slightly). If enough people boycott them, it will have an real effect on their bottom line, which will then be attributed to filesharing. The end result will be you giving them ammo to support new content and technology restriction laws.
I'm not saying you shouldn't boycott, just that that they will likely benefit either way. Quite an interesting situation they got themselves in.
A more effective ploy would be to just inform as many people as possible about what they are doing and why we all should care. Only when Joe Average catches on and turns against Hollywood will anything change.
As for ICQ, AIM and the other IM clients, there is a simple solution for it Jabber, you don't need a million and one different apps running on your computer when you need just one.
I prefer gaim simply because I do not like relying on a jabber server for my connectivity to other im networks. Also, having multiple identities on each network is a plus (ie my work aolim, my personal aolim, etc)
Try it, I have found it to be the best IM client in no matter if you are in KDE or GNOME
My statement indicated that Americans enjoyed being able to carry out the actions of criminals. They like living a lifestyle of crime and being able to have sex whenever they want with any hooker they want, and then getting the chance to beat them up afterwards.
As others said, the sales figures were worldwide. But let's pretend they were not. What you are saying is still false. I play Gran Turismo, yet I do not enjoy driving fast. I play NCAA Football 2003, but I don't like playing football in real life (or perhaps I just suck at it). I loved Max Payne, but I have no desire to be a cop pushed too far with nothing to lose.
That, and the 2001 census estimate on the US is 284,796,887 people. If 8,500,000 bought this game, that is only 3%. Not a good sample to base such a statement off of.
It's rude, crude, and downright degrading to women and policemen alike.
No arguement here, it certainly can be that. However I personally know some women and policemen alike who thought it was very entertaining. Either they are very masochistic people, or they are capable of seperating entertainment from real life.
I stand by my original statement. Anyone who has a sick fetish for being a crime boss should be tossed into jail.
I'm relieved you personally do not direct public policy in such matter. Any other thought crimes that should be punishable by jail term?
Like I said earlier, it's no wonder you are all such privacy nuts -- you're busy at home raping and killing on your videogame systems.
I don't use gpg and ssl to protect my credit card numbers, or keep marketers from getting personal information on me with which to market to me. Nope, I only want to conceal my unmentionable video game fetish.
Seriously, I get your point and belive it or not, I kinda agree. It is a pretty rude, crude, and sometimes degrading game. Certainly not something for kids.
However, if I can legally listen to gansta rap, watch 'shoot em up' movies, and read mystery novels where people get horribly murdered, how is the more of a crime? I'm certainly not emulating the game in real life. Feel free to look down on me, curse me, or experiment with voodoo while thinking of me, but don't equate playing a game with something that warrants jail time.
I have both, and let me say that while I am a huge Metroid fan (ok, I'm only 190lbs, but that is still a pretty big fan), AND while metroid prime is very very well done....I have to recommend GTA:VC. ONLY because there is just so much to do. If you get bored with the game's plot, you can just try to do cool stunts, or play one of the many sidegames. Just exploring around the city is very entertaining.
If you get bored in Metroid Prime (or if you cannot beat the damn giant plant thing with the mirrors pointing sunlight at it), there is not much else to do.
If you can only buy one, go with GTA:VC. Then do what I did, wait until Circuit City has a deal where you get metroid prime free with the purchase of a gamecube, then buy a $130 open box gamecube:)
I know that there are no financial programs for GNU/Hurd. You either have mastered a financialless lifestyle, or prefer to leave your finances to fate. Which is it?
If only we knew how pre-historic man was able to handle his finances, before the advent of QuickBooks.
Frankly, I find leaving everything up to Intuit to be much more irresponsible and "leaving it up to fate" than maintaining your own ledger with a spreadsheet. Is finance that much of a lost art these days?
Google wanted TradeMark association with that entry on WordSpy's site, and it looks like they go it: http://www.wordspy.com/words/google.asp
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Re:Conservative/Liberal take on it
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Conservatives tend to think you are where you are because you deserved it. Dumb and lazy people are poor, smart and hard working people are rich. Dumb people get hit by trains, smart people comment on how dumb they are. Your situation is a result of your disposition.
Liberals go the other way. Luck, circumstance, and opportunity play huge roles in where you are. Poor people are poor because of luck and circumstance. People get hit by trains because they might have just plain been unlucky. Your situation is a result of your environment, including dumb luck.
Personally, this is the single biggest reason I can't stand conservatives. It bothers me to no end how capable they are of assuming that anybody in a bad situation is there because they deserve it.
This is why both hard line views annoy me. I imagine the truth is right smack in the middle of these two outlooks. It is just as much folly to assume everything is based on luck, and that hard work, skill, intelligence, whatever, have nothing to do with it.
Quite a few of the Unix geeks I know (and I work at a university so I know plenty) have purchased powerbooks, ibooks, flat panel imacs, and powermacs since OSX came out. Few of them used windows on their desktop/laptop to begin with though.
Now I cannot go to a conference without seeing a ton of powerbooks where there used to be only windows/linux PCs.
The problem is (if you read further on opera's page about this) that when you change opera's browser string to read anything other than opera it works. Even if it is a browser name you just make up. This targets specifically Opera
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Re:No wonder Apple can't make any money.
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yes, they should find componants that melt at much lower temperatures, that should make soldering the componants together lots of fun.
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You know, Hitler and the Nazis instituted a VAT tax on printing presses....
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If that setup was not intentional, you have serious comedy problems :)
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Not really, Lucas's patent specifically covers the concept of tricking people into thinking that each release will be the "last and greatest" one, only to tweak the film and make Greedo shoot first, and release it again.
Peter Jackson was always up front about what is being released and when. Everyone know there would be two, a theatrical DVD and an extended DVD shortly after. They have also already claimed there would be a big honkin' box set when it is all finished.
Finkployd
IBM probably has more technology patents than any other company on Earth (and possibly other planets, too early to tell). I'm willing to bet they can find hundreds of violations in SCO's product lines and bury them.
Either way though, you just know this is going to become a bullet point on Microsoft's next Linux FUD page ("see, use linux and you can get sued).
Finkployd
You DO realize that by boycotting Hollywood, you are going to cause their revenue to drop (albiet very slightly). If enough people boycott them, it will have an real effect on their bottom line, which will then be attributed to filesharing. The end result will be you giving them ammo to support new content and technology restriction laws.
I'm not saying you shouldn't boycott, just that that they will likely benefit either way. Quite an interesting situation they got themselves in.
A more effective ploy would be to just inform as many people as possible about what they are doing and why we all should care. Only when Joe Average catches on and turns against Hollywood will anything change.
Finkployd
As for ICQ, AIM and the other IM clients, there is a simple solution for it Jabber, you don't need a million and one different apps running on your computer when you need just one.
I prefer gaim simply because I do not like relying on a jabber server for my connectivity to other im networks. Also, having multiple identities on each network is a plus (ie my work aolim, my personal aolim, etc)
Try it, I have found it to be the best IM client in no matter if you are in KDE or GNOME
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Agreed, that law no longer has any limits.
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That is a real stretch, but I suppose I have seen stranger interpretations of the DMCA in recent months.
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Waiiiiiiit a second.
:P
I know you, you are the guy I just gave advice to on whether to buy GTA:VC or Metroid here
You sneaky bastard. You've been playing me like two bit violin
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You're taking what I said out of context.
There was no context. It was three sentences
My statement indicated that Americans enjoyed being able to carry out the actions of criminals. They like living a lifestyle of crime and being able to have sex whenever they want with any hooker they want, and then getting the chance to beat them up afterwards.
As others said, the sales figures were worldwide. But let's pretend they were not. What you are saying is still false. I play Gran Turismo, yet I do not enjoy driving fast. I play NCAA Football 2003, but I don't like playing football in real life (or perhaps I just suck at it). I loved Max Payne, but I have no desire to be a cop pushed too far with nothing to lose.
That, and the 2001 census estimate on the US is 284,796,887 people. If 8,500,000 bought this game, that is only 3%. Not a good sample to base such a statement off of.
It's rude, crude, and downright degrading to women and policemen alike.
No arguement here, it certainly can be that. However I personally know some women and policemen alike who thought it was very entertaining. Either they are very masochistic people, or they are capable of seperating entertainment from real life.
I stand by my original statement. Anyone who has a sick fetish for being a crime boss should be tossed into jail.
I'm relieved you personally do not direct public policy in such matter. Any other thought crimes that should be punishable by jail term?
Like I said earlier, it's no wonder you are all such privacy nuts -- you're busy at home raping and killing on your videogame systems.
I don't use gpg and ssl to protect my credit card numbers, or keep marketers from getting personal information on me with which to market to me. Nope, I only want to conceal my unmentionable video game fetish.
Seriously, I get your point and belive it or not, I kinda agree. It is a pretty rude, crude, and sometimes degrading game. Certainly not something for kids.
However, if I can legally listen to gansta rap, watch 'shoot em up' movies, and read mystery novels where people get horribly murdered, how is the more of a crime? I'm certainly not emulating the game in real life. Feel free to look down on me, curse me, or experiment with voodoo while thinking of me, but don't equate playing a game with something that warrants jail time.
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playing with boobies every night is a hell of a lot better than looking at ones with 16 million colors
.sig :)
I think I just found my new
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I have both, and let me say that while I am a huge Metroid fan (ok, I'm only 190lbs, but that is still a pretty big fan), AND while metroid prime is very very well done....I have to recommend GTA:VC. ONLY because there is just so much to do. If you get bored with the game's plot, you can just try to do cool stunts, or play one of the many sidegames. Just exploring around the city is very entertaining.
:)
If you get bored in Metroid Prime (or if you cannot beat the damn giant plant thing with the mirrors pointing sunlight at it), there is not much else to do.
If you can only buy one, go with GTA:VC. Then do what I did, wait until Circuit City has a deal where you get metroid prime free with the purchase of a gamecube, then buy a $130 open box gamecube
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Remember back when Super Mario Brothers was popular? You know, when all Amercians aspired to be overweight, Italian plumbers with a 'shroom problem?
Or perhaps they are just video games after all.
Yeah, thought so.
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Everyone seems to forget the word "copyright" in that acronym. And what copyright are they violating by bypassing the callerID box and call blockers?
I know you mean well with comment, but the DMCA does not apply to circumvension of everything, just copyright stuff.
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I think Maryland still might
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troll? I was being serious. They do provide third party driver updates and that is convienent.
Sheesh, some moderators.
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Not only is it not that big a deal, privacy-wise, but it is nice that they provide third party driver updates for this hardware over windowsupdate.
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I know that there are no financial programs for GNU/Hurd. You either have mastered a financialless lifestyle, or prefer to leave your finances to fate. Which is it?
If only we knew how pre-historic man was able to handle his finances, before the advent of QuickBooks.
Frankly, I find leaving everything up to Intuit to be much more irresponsible and "leaving it up to fate" than maintaining your own ledger with a spreadsheet. Is finance that much of a lost art these days?
Finkployd
Google wanted TradeMark association with that entry on WordSpy's site, and it looks like they go it:
http://www.wordspy.com/words/google.asp
Finkployd
Conservatives tend to think you are where you are because you deserved it. Dumb and lazy people are poor, smart and hard working people are rich. Dumb people get hit by trains, smart people comment on how dumb they are. Your situation is a result of your disposition.
Liberals go the other way. Luck, circumstance, and opportunity play huge roles in where you are. Poor people are poor because of luck and circumstance. People get hit by trains because they might have just plain been unlucky. Your situation is a result of your environment, including dumb luck.
Personally, this is the single biggest reason I can't stand conservatives. It bothers me to no end how capable they are of assuming that anybody in a bad situation is there because they deserve it.
This is why both hard line views annoy me. I imagine the truth is right smack in the middle of these two outlooks. It is just as much folly to assume everything is based on luck, and that hard work, skill, intelligence, whatever, have nothing to do with it.
Finkployd
Quite a few of the Unix geeks I know (and I work at a university so I know plenty) have purchased powerbooks, ibooks, flat panel imacs, and powermacs since OSX came out. Few of them used windows on their desktop/laptop to begin with though.
Now I cannot go to a conference without seeing a ton of powerbooks where there used to be only windows/linux PCs.
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I can assure you that in a college town, it works :)
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I took up the pole vault in high school primarily because of how cool it looked in that game :)
Alas, my days of launching myself 13' into the air are long gone, but it was a fun sport.
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The problem is (if you read further on opera's page about this) that when you change opera's browser string to read anything other than opera it works. Even if it is a browser name you just make up.
This targets specifically Opera
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yes, they should find componants that melt at much lower temperatures, that should make soldering the componants together lots of fun.
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