There's got to be an independent music producers association that would be willing to fight for this. Especially since 90% of your (hypothetical) fans will pirate because of lack of availability. What need to happen is for a small band to try to gather some support.
Which would result in the removal of precisely 1 article which is blatently infringing copyright. The rest were links.
All of the "circumvention" instructions simply said unzip it. This is hardly circumvention. You might as well say "View it using acrobat" is a means to circumvent it.
Cream of the crop is this one which is apparently breaching confidential information.
Why not create your own network? Its not too hard. Just find a large number of other people who agree with your philosophy, and connect your computers together. The clever thing is that you could even route packets across the internet. Packets can encapsulate other packets.
I feel that points 1 and 2 are invalid. In all likelyhood, There will be good games, and there will be games that push the hardware. I also think that Parappa the Rapper had the benefit of being an origional idea.
Sony and various associations its a member of e.g. MPAA, and RIAA - Ooops, I seem to be karma whoring here - strike me as a worse company than Microsoft. For one thing, MS are much less litigious (Look at their court cases. They are defending an awful lot). MS has even managed to produce some quite clever ideas.
Something I've noticed is that games are a hell of a lot easier than they used to be. There were a lot of c64 and Amiga games that I never finished, whereas a lot of PS games seem to be completed in about a week. Crash Bandicoot took a couple of days. PS games seem to be written to provide a quick ride rather than a game. I don't know anyone who took more than a couple of weeks to finish any game.
I don't think the hardware is to blame for this though. Its the software companies. Producing a game doesn't require a lot in terms of resources (considering the potential for profits), so it isn't difficult for a reasonably large company to set up a games division. The people who run these are only interested in making a game that seems good for as long as the reveiwers play it for. Originality isn't important. Only the buzz you get for a short time. Games that don't give an instant reward are slammed for being dull.
Its typical for a £1 to $1 exchange rate for consumer electronics pricing.
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Any post at -1 gets cut off at 15 lines with the "Read the rest of this comment link...
I think that it should be based on number of lines taken up for all posts. ((A line > 80 characters or BR) = line) rather than number of bytes.
Any comment with a word longer than 20 (30? 40?) I think 80 should be safe. maybe 40 just to acomodate those people running lynx through a C64. 20 is too limiting becauase I might find a need to use the word antidisestablishmentarianism, and maybe someone knows how to spell flockynockyneehipilification.
Most of the more irritating spam (good point about spam v. troll in your other post btw) could be detected using a simple algorithm to spot redundancy.
This still allows attacks by cutting and pasting large irelevent articles though.
I think its a reaction to the anti-Troll measures. Unfortunately removing these measures will not have the result of removing these trolls. Its just an arms race.
Unless, of course, you live in a certain northern member country in which the directives are taken as the word of God by the administration.
Yeah, those damn Dutch! Oh! you mean the English.
Yes, Prime Minister put it something like this:
"The Germans love it, the French ignore it, the Spanish and Italians are too chaotic to enforce it" (This isn't an exact quote. They managed to include all the European countries)
Can I get the extra money that the CD-R cost back from GEMA if I can demonstrate that I use it only for producing my own data? (Hypothetically, since I'm not German and I didn't buy one)
I heard somewhere that uk wasn't an ISO two letter code though. Great Britain should have.gb This apparently makes gb/uk the only country to break IANA rules (until now).
They called their currency the Euro. Then they named the an expensive fighter plane the Eurofighter. I suggest that the US name their next plane the DollarKiller or the CashBuster.
In the short story "A Logic named Joe" by Murray Leinster in 1946? A Logic is described like this "It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it's got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get.....an' it's hooked in with all the other tanks all over the country",
Which sounds like an internet connected PC. Although ont the whole, you're right. Not many authors could imagine small computers.
Few other stories have captivated me as much as Neuromancer
I think thats the problem. Neuromancer seemd to use upp all his remaining ideas. Anything before that was short stories (many of which were very good, but naturaly a novel will use up a lot more ideas)
There have been cases where the use og Marijuana as a pian killer was used as a defence in a possesion case. Assualt rifles can do considerably more harm than Napster, and they're not illegal everywhere.
If we start with the A's, then we'll have all the Douglas Adams ideas first. The infinite improbability drive is considerably more useful than anything invented by HG Wells. (Apart from gravity opaque paint, and time machines)
Come to think of it, have Mattel ever actually won a lawsuit, or do they just rely on people backing down after receiving the Cease and Desist demands?
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I think you're right.
You gotta hate those script kiddies.
There's got to be an independent music producers association that would be willing to fight for this. Especially since 90% of your (hypothetical) fans will pirate because of lack of availability. What need to happen is for a small band to try to gather some support.
Yeah. Its not like slashdot ever comaplains about Microsoft.
Which would result in the removal of precisely 1 article which is blatently infringing copyright. The rest were links.
All of the "circumvention" instructions simply said unzip it. This is hardly circumvention. You might as well say "View it using acrobat" is a means to circumvent it.
Cream of the crop is this one which is apparently breaching confidential information.
To increase sales you need to set your price at a more competitive level. mp3's are free. Therefore CD prices should cost less than an MP3
Why not create your own network? Its not too hard. Just find a large number of other people who agree with your philosophy, and connect your computers together. The clever thing is that you could even route packets across the internet. Packets can encapsulate other packets.
CD prices are set at the price that the record companies think people will pay. Cost of production doesn't make a difference.
If you ask me, its no good buying a CD and then complaining about the price. Obviously you could afford it.
I feel that points 1 and 2 are invalid. In all likelyhood, There will be good games, and there will be games that push the hardware. I also think that Parappa the Rapper had the benefit of being an origional idea.
Sony and various associations its a member of e.g. MPAA, and RIAA - Ooops, I seem to be karma whoring here - strike me as a worse company than Microsoft. For one thing, MS are much less litigious (Look at their court cases. They are defending an awful lot). MS has even managed to produce some quite clever ideas.
Something I've noticed is that games are a hell of a lot easier than they used to be. There were a lot of c64 and Amiga games that I never finished, whereas a lot of PS games seem to be completed in about a week. Crash Bandicoot took a couple of days. PS games seem to be written to provide a quick ride rather than a game. I don't know anyone who took more than a couple of weeks to finish any game.
I don't think the hardware is to blame for this though. Its the software companies. Producing a game doesn't require a lot in terms of resources (considering the potential for profits), so it isn't difficult for a reasonably large company to set up a games division. The people who run these are only interested in making a game that seems good for as long as the reveiwers play it for. Originality isn't important. Only the buzz you get for a short time. Games that don't give an instant reward are slammed for being dull.
Its typical for a £1 to $1 exchange rate for consumer electronics pricing.
Any post at -1 gets cut off at 15 lines with the "Read the rest of this comment link...
I think that it should be based on number of lines taken up for all posts. ((A line > 80 characters or BR) = line) rather than number of bytes.
Any comment with a word longer than 20 (30? 40?) I think 80 should be safe. maybe 40 just to acomodate those people running lynx through a C64. 20 is too limiting becauase I might find a need to use the word antidisestablishmentarianism, and maybe someone knows how to spell flockynockyneehipilification.
Most of the more irritating spam (good point about spam v. troll in your other post btw) could be detected using a simple algorithm to spot redundancy.
This still allows attacks by cutting and pasting large irelevent articles though.
I think its a reaction to the anti-Troll measures. Unfortunately removing these measures will not have the result of removing these trolls. Its just an arms race.
Thats probably more why they want Europe to have some control over the .com/.net/.org names. A .eu name still isn't going to be as sexy as a .com
.eu means European Union, not Europe. It would not cover those countries in Europe that aren't in the Union, so it can't be considered geographic.
.eu.com? .eu.org? It just looks messy. .gov.eu makes a lot more sense.
What ccTLD would you suggest for the EU parliament?
Unless, of course, you live in a certain northern member country in which the directives are taken as the word of God by the administration.
Yeah, those damn Dutch! Oh! you mean the English.
Yes, Prime Minister put it something like this:
"The Germans love it, the French ignore it, the Spanish and Italians are too chaotic to enforce it" (This isn't an exact quote. They managed to include all the European countries)
It doesn't say, although the chances are the camera will be a standard video capture card which willprobably have Linux and BeOS drivers.
Can I get the extra money that the CD-R cost back from GEMA if I can demonstrate that I use it only for producing my own data? (Hypothetically, since I'm not German and I didn't buy one)
I heard somewhere that uk wasn't an ISO two letter code though. Great Britain should have .gb This apparently makes gb/uk the only country to break IANA rules (until now).
They called their currency the Euro. Then they named the an expensive fighter plane the Eurofighter. I suggest that the US name their next plane the DollarKiller or the CashBuster.
This has been mentioned by many others before...
In the short story "A Logic named Joe" by Murray Leinster in 1946? A Logic is described like this "It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it's got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get.....an' it's hooked in with all the other tanks all over the country",
Which sounds like an internet connected PC. Although ont the whole, you're right. Not many authors could imagine small computers.
Few other stories have captivated me as much as Neuromancer
I think thats the problem. Neuromancer seemd to use upp all his remaining ideas. Anything before that was short stories (many of which were very good, but naturaly a novel will use up a lot more ideas)
There have been cases where the use og Marijuana as a pian killer was used as a defence in a possesion case. Assualt rifles can do considerably more harm than Napster, and they're not illegal everywhere.
If we start with the A's, then we'll have all the Douglas Adams ideas first. The infinite improbability drive is considerably more useful than anything invented by HG Wells. (Apart from gravity opaque paint, and time machines)
It might be in Canada though. It depends on the interpretation of "rebroadcast". Legal definitions of things can get quite general.
Lego mindstorms is expensive, but very versatile. Officially its only supported by Windows, but there's also LegOS
Come to think of it, have Mattel ever actually won a lawsuit, or do they just rely on people backing down after receiving the Cease and Desist demands?