Try creating such a mod. You will soon find out that whilst the engine remains largely the same, you can change enough to create a completely new game and that's not just about aesthetics.
In Dutch (I am starting to prefer to call it Netherlands to avoid mixing with Deutsch and since we call it Nederlands locally), plural is made with an 's. So we speak of Nazi's, in English one speaks of Nazis. Just so you know where it might come from.
I buy an mp3 player, pax an additional tax/levy for the device and its storage. I then *sync* my bought audio CD to this audio carrier because I do not have a portable CD player, or if I had I prefer the size of the mp3 player over the CD player. All of this is legal, so what on earth is the tax for?
There's too many of these legal things that get penalised to counter the illegality.
Not a bizarre term. Downloading is legal in the Netherlands. Uploading on the other hand, is not.
The whole issue with intellectual property is one of major sucking quantities. It is one of those things that will limit the human species in its development in the long run.
I cannot help but keep this image from Farscape in my mind where 99% of the populace was versed in law and were lawyers of occupation.
Translation of the nu.nl article for the English speaking crowd.
WOERDEN (city in NL) - Big IT companies such as Apple, Sony and Philips took action in the Netherlands against the plans to add a copying levy for mp3 players. Within two months such a levy is to be expected, so said B. Taselaar of ICT Office, the industry organisation that represents the companies.
At the moment there is a proposal for a levy of EUR 3,28 per Gigabyte of data storage. This proposal has been made by 'Stichting Thuiskopie' according to ICT Office, which is responsible for the collecting and distributing of payments to copyright holders for the copying of blank audio carriers.
An iPod music player from Apple with 40 Gigabyte of data storage would increase in price with EUR 131. This is unacceptable, according to ICT Office, also because introduction into multiple European countries looms on the horizon. The industry organisation thinks that IT companies will in the future choose to introduce new products first in the United States and Asia. New developments will pass by Europe, with all consequences for the Netherlands electronics sector.
Point is, it might set a lobbying precedent for the rest of the EU to follow. Do not underestimate the power of the corporations. (See the current constitution drafts for the EU.)
ICT Office, industry organisation of ICT, along with Apple, Dell, and some other big names, already send a letter to the prime minister about this idiot proposal.
It will mean that IT in the Netherlands as well as consumer electronics will start to stagnate and NL, Europe will be one of the last to be targetted for releases.
I am seriously considering a career move towards Asia or Latin America.
You are right, the Dutch article/news mentioned iPod in particular because it is the predominant player in the market.
But the news mentioned further that it goes for all players, and then it might also get applied to:
USB keys, hard disk drives, cellular phones.
But it is plain idiocy. I *CAN* use an USB key for storing illegal content, yes. But what about my recovery tools for systems I do administering for?
I swear, where the photo industry has seen new opportunities now that digital photography is a hard reality the music industry is still a bunch of clueless morons living in the early 1920's.
The country is definitely going down the drain. Too many of the people around me want to bail out of the country which they feel is slipping from their fingers.
I am not sure how much of the supposed pressure from the US on the Netherlands is present, but it is no secret prime minister Balkenende and minister of Justice Donner have their arms up the Bush' administrations rectum (or vice versa).
The Turkish populace isn't much of a problem. Right now there's a lot of problems with the Maroccans/Berbers.
And yes, the iPod tax caused wide consternation. This 'Stichting de Thuiskopie' has a bunch of powergreedy idiots at the head. The guy in charge was actually quoted as saying that regardless of what happens it will get to be law.
The insanity arises from the fact that it will/might start to go for hard disk drives and cellular phones as well, since they *CAN* be used to store illegal content.
Hey, my car can be used as a getaway car for a bank robbery, shall we add more pricing/tax to that too so that when a bank gets robbed some of the costs are covered?
Oh, wait, books! So many students making photocopies. (If I recall correctly there's already a levy on it.)
DragonFly BSD is a amalgamation of FreeBSD 4.x, OpenBSD code, NetBSD code depending on where it makes sense.
Add to this the slow move towards microkernelish ideas as well as a totally different way of doing SMP than FreeBSD 5.x does plus the fact the IP stack has been totally rewritten and is (almost) completely multithreading and the fact that clustering is at the center of development, I'd say your comment doesn't even hit close to the mark.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
His individual sacrifice gained you a lot in the greater good I think.
Although I can greatly sympathise with the problems you face. I truly wish I could help, but my area of affect and influence is not so big to accomplish such as thing. For what it is worth I hope you can take some positivity out of the fact I appreciate what your country has done.
A funny comment coming from someone living in a country that sought its own independence from the Dutch, English, French and Spanish many years ago.
China may not be exploiting the riches, but people have been driven out of their homes, murdered, and tortured. So they should be glad to be part of China? Your vision of what consitutes happiness seems to be very shallow given these people lived in probably more happiness than most of us might ever realise.
Please feel free to correct me if I misunderstood anything of what you said.
People give food to hungry people. People give medicine to sick people. People build housing for people with none. People teach other people. People already have everything they need to provide happiness in our lives and those of others. Money does nothing by itself.
That you need money in this day to apparently have to accomplish these items is a failure of our own human kind to strive towards working for the common good of the entire race.
Not sure if you aware that China invaded and occupied Tibet many years ago.
People keep saying how bad the nazis were, but they forget how China easily killed of about a sixth of what Hitler accomplished with the Jews in the second world war.
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See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1391842, 00.html about a Spanish piece of software that already did this.
Not revolutionary.
The same Sony of the Playstation 3 patent for making a game work on only ONE console.
The same Sony of the current issue of the audio CD protections.
Yeah, I feel REAL happy now...
Try creating such a mod. You will soon find out that whilst the engine remains largely the same, you can change enough to create a completely new game and that's not just about aesthetics.
Like losing their superiority in the world to the United States?
So please specify and quantify where their "righteous anger" comes from?
In Dutch (I am starting to prefer to call it Netherlands to avoid mixing with Deutsch and since we call it Nederlands locally), plural is made with an 's. So we speak of Nazi's, in English one speaks of Nazis. Just so you know where it might come from.
Erhm,
you are wrong on the account of what they mean, Senjutsu is actually accurate there.
The artists? Or the record labels. Typically an artists derives way less revenue from sales than the record label.
No, it is even worse than that.
Suppose this scenario.
I buy an mp3 player, pax an additional tax/levy for the device and its storage.
I then *sync* my bought audio CD to this audio carrier because I do not have a portable CD player, or if I had I prefer the size of the mp3 player over the CD player.
All of this is legal, so what on earth is the tax for?
There's too many of these legal things that get penalised to counter the illegality.
Not a bizarre term. Downloading is legal in the Netherlands. Uploading on the other hand, is not.
The whole issue with intellectual property is one of major sucking quantities. It is one of those things that will limit the human species in its development in the long run.
I cannot help but keep this image from Farscape in my mind where 99% of the populace was versed in law and were lawyers of occupation.
Mmm, Dutch levy is perhaps different than Swedish then.
Thuiskopie gets the money, distributes parts of it to copyright holders.
The remains are put in a cultural fund which funds cultural projects (since 1993).
The fun part is that their website says: a modest tax. Nothing in the current proposal looks modest though.
Translation of the nu.nl article for the English speaking crowd.
WOERDEN (city in NL) - Big IT companies such as Apple, Sony and Philips took action in the Netherlands against the plans to add a copying levy for mp3 players. Within two months such a levy is to be expected, so said B. Taselaar of ICT Office, the industry organisation that represents the companies.
At the moment there is a proposal for a levy of EUR 3,28 per Gigabyte of data storage. This proposal has been made by 'Stichting Thuiskopie' according to ICT Office, which is responsible for the collecting and distributing of payments to copyright holders for the copying of blank audio carriers.
An iPod music player from Apple with 40 Gigabyte of data storage would increase in price with EUR 131. This is unacceptable, according to ICT Office, also because introduction into multiple European countries looms on the horizon. The industry organisation thinks that IT companies will in the future choose to introduce new products first in the United States and Asia. New developments will pass by Europe, with all consequences for the Netherlands electronics sector.
(c) ANP
Point is, it might set a lobbying precedent for the rest of the EU to follow. Do not underestimate the power of the corporations. (See the current constitution drafts for the EU.)
That's step 1.
Step 2 clearly mentioned other 'memory' types, including hard disk drives.
ICT Office, industry organisation of ICT, along with Apple, Dell, and some other big names, already send a letter to the prime minister about this idiot proposal.
It will mean that IT in the Netherlands as well as consumer electronics will start to stagnate and NL, Europe will be one of the last to be targetted for releases.
I am seriously considering a career move towards Asia or Latin America.
You are right, the Dutch article/news mentioned iPod in particular because it is the predominant player in the market.
But the news mentioned further that it goes for all players, and then it might also get applied to:
USB keys, hard disk drives, cellular phones.
But it is plain idiocy. I *CAN* use an USB key for storing illegal content, yes. But what about my recovery tools for systems I do administering for?
I swear, where the photo industry has seen new opportunities now that digital photography is a hard reality the music industry is still a bunch of clueless morons living in the early 1920's.
The country is definitely going down the drain. Too many of the people around me want to bail out of the country which they feel is slipping from their fingers.
I am not sure how much of the supposed pressure from the US on the Netherlands is present, but it is no secret prime minister Balkenende and minister of Justice Donner have their arms up the Bush' administrations rectum (or vice versa).
The Turkish populace isn't much of a problem. Right now there's a lot of problems with the Maroccans/Berbers.
And yes, the iPod tax caused wide consternation. This 'Stichting de Thuiskopie' has a bunch of powergreedy idiots at the head. The guy in charge was actually quoted as saying that regardless of what happens it will get to be law.
The insanity arises from the fact that it will/might start to go for hard disk drives and cellular phones as well, since they *CAN* be used to store illegal content.
Hey, my car can be used as a getaway car for a bank robbery, shall we add more pricing/tax to that too so that when a bank gets robbed some of the costs are covered?
Oh, wait, books! So many students making photocopies. (If I recall correctly there's already a levy on it.)
No, this country is fast going backwards.
That's a very shallow comment.
DragonFly BSD is a amalgamation of FreeBSD 4.x, OpenBSD code, NetBSD code depending on where it makes sense.
Add to this the slow move towards microkernelish ideas as well as a totally different way of doing SMP than FreeBSD 5.x does plus the fact the IP stack has been totally rewritten and is (almost) completely multithreading and the fact that clustering is at the center of development, I'd say your comment doesn't even hit close to the mark.
One of your countryman said it best:
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
His individual sacrifice gained you a lot in the greater good I think.
Although I can greatly sympathise with the problems you face. I truly wish I could help, but my area of affect and influence is not so big to accomplish such as thing. For what it is worth I hope you can take some positivity out of the fact I appreciate what your country has done.
Namaste-ji Anil,
;)
fair enough, that would be asking too much yes. And India has been quite forthcoming in accomodating the guests.
Mohabbat kii laDiyaan hasiin chand ghaDiyaan...
Just struck me as a bit too pleasing towards the Chinese, was not intended to be such a blanket comment as it turned out to be, my apologies.
A funny comment coming from someone living in a country that sought its own independence from the Dutch, English, French and Spanish many years ago.
China may not be exploiting the riches, but people have been driven out of their homes, murdered, and tortured. So they should be glad to be part of China? Your vision of what consitutes happiness seems to be very shallow given these people lived in probably more happiness than most of us might ever realise.
Please feel free to correct me if I misunderstood anything of what you said.
People give food to hungry people.
People give medicine to sick people.
People build housing for people with none.
People teach other people.
People already have everything they need to provide happiness in our lives and those of others.
Money does nothing by itself.
That you need money in this day to apparently have to accomplish these items is a failure of our own human kind to strive towards working for the common good of the entire race.
Not sure if you aware that China invaded and occupied Tibet many years ago.
People keep saying how bad the nazis were, but they forget how China easily killed of about a sixth of what Hitler accomplished with the Jews in the second world war.
See http://www.in-nomine.org/node/19
Am I the only one bothered by the fact India is keeping the pro-Tibetan protestors out of the picture?
Seems money is all that matters in the world. So much for the hindus living up to the Srimad-Bhagavad Ghita. =\
Simple:
;)
be glad it is not the other way around.
Of course, kyu is the rating from Japan. If using Korean rules you use gup.