Hm, by that logic initial copyright should be initially short, and extensions should give it most of its lifetime. Definitely multiple times so they still expire fast even when extended.
What's the point of extension at all? Shouldnt you just get the full length upon creation/registration of a work? Extension just seems to make things more confusing for me.
I can say that there are, at least, some job applications that you MUST fill out online (I went in irl and they told me to go to the website), so there are some important things that require the internet. Sure, you don't NEED it, but such things are mad much more difficult without it.
I agree that you might not die, but nowadays it is extremely difficult to do much of anything without access to the internet. It may not be a right, but neither are a lot of things we depend on almost as if they were.
We often forget this until we are deprived of such things. Maybe you have been without internet for a long period, I can't say for sure, but I can say that you're passing off lack of internet as a much smaller issue than it really is anymore.
Ah. Well i'm not big on the private tracker scene, but at least *some* aren't so picky. Some certainly are, but that's the same for all kinds of communities i think.
No, i understand what you mean, but i more meant that it's irrelevant since, at least currently, no game you would spend that much time on is of the particularly violent variety that the law seeks to control, so they're still idiots.
Given the subject matter, weasel words, and shoddy methodology, I'm about as worried about this as I am about the zombie communist terrorist invasion predicted for 2012.
I believe you mean zombie communist alien vampire terrorist invasion
Eh, you'd just have to have clients smart enough autoban peers with hashfails over a significant threshold, and I wouldn't be surprised if that already do something like that. I'm pretty sure the poisoning relies on the distributed nature of the network, so having a.torrent file with all the hashes kind of makes it moot.
I've got a similar situation, though a couple games didn't quite work out of the box. Namely oni, though i was able to find a 'vista' patch online that made it work flawlessly. Made it run at 1920x1200 too:D
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I tend to personify my computers a little bit, and I at least try to give the hardware some moral respect. Software is harder to give moral value since it always seems to break, but that might just mean It's dumb software. But I always resist throwing away of good working hardware, no matter how outdated and lacking of use it is.
You say it like it's simple. The ability to do that would certainly help our ability to understand (and copy) it, but I think that could take a very long time yet.
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In my experience, it's the mall ones that really suck. We have one near here that's just in a strip, and it still sells some useful things.
'The Shack' sells PSUs? I don't remember that.
....what. Weird. Everyone here calls bathrooms bathrooms, and this is smackdab in the middle of America. I guess different areas use different terms.
Hm, by that logic initial copyright should be initially short, and extensions should give it most of its lifetime. Definitely multiple times so they still expire fast even when extended.
What's the point of extension at all? Shouldnt you just get the full length upon creation/registration of a work? Extension just seems to make things more confusing for me.
I dunno, i feel like they're more just trying to challenge apple than piggyback off them. Either way, it's fun to watch.
I can say that there are, at least, some job applications that you MUST fill out online (I went in irl and they told me to go to the website), so there are some important things that require the internet. Sure, you don't NEED it, but such things are mad much more difficult without it.
I agree that you might not die, but nowadays it is extremely difficult to do much of anything without access to the internet. It may not be a right, but neither are a lot of things we depend on almost as if they were.
We often forget this until we are deprived of such things. Maybe you have been without internet for a long period, I can't say for sure, but I can say that you're passing off lack of internet as a much smaller issue than it really is anymore.
Ah. Well i'm not big on the private tracker scene, but at least *some* aren't so picky. Some certainly are, but that's the same for all kinds of communities i think.
Spoken by someone who likely hasn't been without internet for any long period of time.
No, i understand what you mean, but i more meant that it's irrelevant since, at least currently, no game you would spend that much time on is of the particularly violent variety that the law seeks to control, so they're still idiots.
I wanna know what mmo you're playing, all I've seen aren't all that gratuitous in their violence.... Unless someone made a l4d mmo and didn't tell me.
Eh, rules restricting sales of porn are lame at best anyway. The issue is the general mentality of censorship and doing people's parenting for them.
Given the subject matter, weasel words, and shoddy methodology, I'm about as worried about this as I am about the zombie communist terrorist invasion predicted for 2012.
I believe you mean zombie communist alien vampire terrorist invasion
I think he might have been suggesting that you upload your own torrents.
Eh, you'd just have to have clients smart enough autoban peers with hashfails over a significant threshold, and I wouldn't be surprised if that already do something like that. I'm pretty sure the poisoning relies on the distributed nature of the network, so having a .torrent file with all the hashes kind of makes it moot.
I've got a similar situation, though a couple games didn't quite work out of the box. Namely oni, though i was able to find a 'vista' patch online that made it work flawlessly. Made it run at 1920x1200 too :D
I volunteer for this project if the powersuit is free.
You get a cookie (I don't have any mod points). That story was awesome. But what else to expect of Asimov? =)
Why did i laugh at your unfunny joke.
Wait, people use myspace? I thought it was some hive of autonomous emo-bots or something.
The imaging sounds maybe plausible.. the understanding is somewhat more human end.. so I'll believe it when i see it =P
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I tend to personify my computers a little bit, and I at least try to give the hardware some moral respect. Software is harder to give moral value since it always seems to break, but that might just mean It's dumb software. But I always resist throwing away of good working hardware, no matter how outdated and lacking of use it is.
You say it like it's simple. The ability to do that would certainly help our ability to understand (and copy) it, but I think that could take a very long time yet.
XP. still breaks in win7 for me.