No,he's the kind that turns out normal like the rest of us. If he did turn out as you describe, most of us would be dead precisely because there are so many like him.
Yes, so long as society at large likes the idea that creating intellectual property should have something to do with ownership and getting a paycheck, copyright infringement SHOULD be a criminal offense.
Guy should be happy that the punishment is having to stay home and use Windows. Cope.
Yep, I'm one of those. The volume at concerts is getting SO LOUD that my ears are "clipping", and the distortion is so bad that I can't really hear the music. Stuff in some earplugs, drop the level a few dB, and now I can hear everything clearly. Yeah it can't be good for audio quality, but it's better than the auditory overload.
there may not be another CD store for quite some distance.
Ever hear of Amazon.com? They'll sell you pretty much anything in print and ship it to your door in days, usually cheaper than just about anywhere else. If you've got a mailbox, the "there isn't one around here" argument doesn't fly.
Rather than regulating there offerings, we should split up the company to promote competition.
Rather than imposing your whiny will on others, go open a competing store. The whole point of this argument thread is that Wal-Mart doesn't carry that stuff; apparently there is a market for a store-next-door featuring Parental Advisory material.
Censorship is when some party actively tries to inhibit you from buying or selling certain intellectual property anywhere based on content.
Wal-Mart may choose to not sell you CDs with certain lyrics, but they're sure not trying to prevent the distribution thereof elsewhere. If they were suing anyone who sold Parental Advisory materials, or lobbying for legislation outlawing it, or kneecapping anyone who bought it elsewhere, yes - but they're not; if Wal-Mart isn't selling what you want, you're free to buy it somewhere that does, and nobody is trying to shut down those places for doing so.
Freedom of the press does not mean you get to control someone else's press.
Oh PLEASE do share! As a kid I spent inordinate hours on dialup to a DEC-10 running that on my then-in-college brother's account. Would dearly love to run thru it again...
While Boll has received a lot of negative publicity regarding this funding method, he was actually one of the few directors to use the tax shelter as intended. His films were financed, produced, and directed by a German company, which was the initial intention behind the tax shelter: to provide incentive for investment in German entertainment properties.... in January 2006, as had been expected for several months, the German legislature changed the country's tax laws to eliminate the tax shelter. It is not known if this will have any effect on Boll's funding as the new laws only seek to punish investors who are abusing the law for tax purposes; Boll's activities appear to be well within the legitimate usage of the tax shelter.
Whine about his works as you like; he is actually DOING SOMETHING, and doing it legitimately (albeit badly), and making a bunch of money at it. All this nattering hype IS providing publicity - and there is no such thing as bad publicity, as shown by the number of copies that will be sold/rented just from "it's horrible, we gotta see it" hype from this thread alone.
I'm reminded of the old Bo Jackson commercials, where the narrator runs thru a long list of what Bo knows & does - then stares at the camera and shouts "and what are you doing? WATCHING COMMERCIALS!" Uwe is making movies and rolling in $XXXM in revenue; you're on Slashdot whining about it.
An old copy of Creative Computing magazine had a spoof edition which, among other amusements, (IIRC) listed the entire source code for Adventure. I have it in storage somewhere; will dig it out this week and see if it matches TFA's discovery.
What if I just walk from room to room with an iPod?
The US Supreme Court is currently evaluating a case (DC vs. Heller, nee Parker) where, for the last 30+ years, Washington DC has actively prohibited anyone owning a LEGAL firearm from moving it from room to room without explicit federal permission to do so.
It's been done for decades with other rights, so what makes anyone think your iPod will continue to be exempt from comparable oppression?
Libertarianism would certainly not tolerate this guy, as he was running a scam, committed what any sane person would consider real crimes, and solicited murder - exactly the kind of thing Libertarians DO want a government around to deal with, and deal with harshly & efficiently.
The word you're looking for is Anarchism - where everything he did would be legal precisely because absolutely nothing would be illegal, and that because there would be no government to declare anything illegal.
Given a convergence of choices, I ended up in a HOA-run community. First chance I got I joined the board, and am trying to make things as lenient as possible. Rules can be changed, and (easier) waved entirely. I suggest you do the same. Rules don't change (or get waived) unless someone motivated enough to change them changes them.
What they ARE worried about, are the sophisticated rings of people who record a movie with state of the art miniaturized cameras
...when they SHOULD be worried about theater insiders who make a distributed print disappear for 2 hours and make an HD copy via a TeleCine machine (if they can burn & distribute that many DVDs, they can afford a TeleCine) before the first showing. ...or, worse, when they SHOULD be worried about studio insiders who copy the pre-film-master digital original file onto a USB hard drive and walk out the door with it in his pants before the prints are made.
It's not the gray-hat outsiders in the theater with a cheap camcorder that's the problem. It's the black-hat insiders with keys to the crown-jewel vault that's the problem.
The Blackhawk Gladius is designed to do that, and has been available for a few years. Built like a normal medium-sized flashlight, VERY bright, features a strobe tuned and intended to disorient people.
Premium prices on premium products, film at 11...
on
$60 Games Are Here To Stay
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
I pay $5 or less for my games. No hurry to get the latest, so wait until the price drops to what I'm willing to pay. "XIII", "Max Payne", "Oni", etc. are suitably entertaining, engaging, and cost less than lunch at McDonald's.
You want the latest? You are willing to pay $60 for the latest? Then, supply-and-demand, retailers will charge you what you're willing to pay for what you want - and that, for the collective "you", is working out to about $60.
What actually MIGHT put an end to Moore's law is the actual quantum limits to computation.
At which point, as things are looking, should kick in right about the time quantum computing becomes feasable, and a whole new 50-year cycle of Moore's Law kicks in.
25 years ago I had a $100 desktop computer: a Sinclair ZX80. That did not pose a roadblock for Moore's Law re: desktops, so why would it be the same for something comparable a quarter-century later? All the price does is establish a bare useful^D^D^Dable minimum; Moore's Law just means that 25 years from now you'll be able to do on a $100 laptop then what you really want to do on it today - which still won't be useful then.
"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. The fact of the matter is, since the beginning of time, you could buy a Picasso and change the colors. That's trivial. But you don't because you're buying a piece of Picasso's $&#**^% soul. That's the definition of art: Art is one person's ego trip." - Penn Jillette
Slashdot Mirror
No,he's the kind that turns out normal like the rest of us.
If he did turn out as you describe, most of us would be dead precisely because there are so many like him.
You can't stop picking on that kid, can you?
Yes, so long as society at large likes the idea that creating intellectual property should have something to do with ownership and getting a paycheck, copyright infringement SHOULD be a criminal offense.
Guy should be happy that the punishment is having to stay home and use Windows. Cope.
You think _either_ Presidential candidate (whoever viably ends up on the ballot) will have _any_ interest in making government more transparent?
Of 103 pages, there's only a little over a page of actual content that was not redacted.
/. test to see who would actually read the referenced document?
Was this a
Yep, I'm one of those. The volume at concerts is getting SO LOUD that my ears are "clipping", and the distortion is so bad that I can't really hear the music. Stuff in some earplugs, drop the level a few dB, and now I can hear everything clearly. Yeah it can't be good for audio quality, but it's better than the auditory overload.
there may not be another CD store for quite some distance.
Ever hear of Amazon.com? They'll sell you pretty much anything in print and ship it to your door in days, usually cheaper than just about anywhere else. If you've got a mailbox, the "there isn't one around here" argument doesn't fly.
Rather than regulating there offerings, we should split up the company to promote competition.
Rather than imposing your whiny will on others, go open a competing store. The whole point of this argument thread is that Wal-Mart doesn't carry that stuff; apparently there is a market for a store-next-door featuring Parental Advisory material.
Censorship is when some party actively tries to inhibit you from buying or selling certain intellectual property anywhere based on content.
Wal-Mart may choose to not sell you CDs with certain lyrics, but they're sure not trying to prevent the distribution thereof elsewhere. If they were suing anyone who sold Parental Advisory materials, or lobbying for legislation outlawing it, or kneecapping anyone who bought it elsewhere, yes - but they're not; if Wal-Mart isn't selling what you want, you're free to buy it somewhere that does, and nobody is trying to shut down those places for doing so.
Freedom of the press does not mean you get to control someone else's press.
Ok, so 1998 was still the warmest - but not by more than a tiny fraction of a degree over 1934, and separated by a decrease to 1800s-era temps.
The bigger story I see in TFA's graphs is: we're looking at an increase of less than 1 degree C per century.
What's the fuss?
I've got sources to Dungeon
Oh PLEASE do share! As a kid I spent inordinate hours on dialup to a DEC-10 running that on my then-in-college brother's account. Would dearly love to run thru it again...
Could Wikipedia be deemed an experiment in Anarchism?
Has it succeeded or failed?
Discuss.
Worth quoting the Wikipedia entry on Boll:
Whine about his works as you like; he is actually DOING SOMETHING, and doing it legitimately (albeit badly), and making a bunch of money at it. All this nattering hype IS providing publicity - and there is no such thing as bad publicity, as shown by the number of copies that will be sold/rented just from "it's horrible, we gotta see it" hype from this thread alone.
I'm reminded of the old Bo Jackson commercials, where the narrator runs thru a long list of what Bo knows & does - then stares at the camera and shouts "and what are you doing? WATCHING COMMERCIALS!" Uwe is making movies and rolling in $XXXM in revenue; you're on Slashdot whining about it.
An old copy of Creative Computing magazine had a spoof edition which, among other amusements, (IIRC) listed the entire source code for Adventure. I have it in storage somewhere; will dig it out this week and see if it matches TFA's discovery.
Those interactive books came about because of Adventure.
Site has been /.ed; in the video, does he alleviate viewer boredom by occasionally pulling a string to make a model bird flap its wings?
What if I just walk from room to room with an iPod?
The US Supreme Court is currently evaluating a case (DC vs. Heller, nee Parker) where, for the last 30+ years, Washington DC has actively prohibited anyone owning a LEGAL firearm from moving it from room to room without explicit federal permission to do so.
It's been done for decades with other rights, so what makes anyone think your iPod will continue to be exempt from comparable oppression?
Get your "ism"s straight.
Libertarianism would certainly not tolerate this guy, as he was running a scam, committed what any sane person would consider real crimes, and solicited murder - exactly the kind of thing Libertarians DO want a government around to deal with, and deal with harshly & efficiently.
The word you're looking for is Anarchism - where everything he did would be legal precisely because absolutely nothing would be illegal, and that because there would be no government to declare anything illegal.
The "interstate commerce" clause applies, to wit: stopping fraud across state lines, perpetrated in the guise of business.
Was this guy ACTUALLY selling medicine, and that in good faith? or was he running a scam?
because my HOA does not permit them
Then get on the board and change it.
Given a convergence of choices, I ended up in a HOA-run community. First chance I got I joined the board, and am trying to make things as lenient as possible. Rules can be changed, and (easier) waved entirely. I suggest you do the same. Rules don't change (or get waived) unless someone motivated enough to change them changes them.
It's not the gray-hat outsiders in the theater with a cheap camcorder that's the problem.
It's the black-hat insiders with keys to the crown-jewel vault that's the problem.
Would you pay money for a downloadable demo?
Yes. I rarely have time to take on an entire 40/80/hundreds hours game, and am not inclined to spend upwards of $60 on it.
I do have a few hours to fiddle with a demo and be amused by that.
I recall playing "Kingpin" - a demo long enough to be a fun, short session.
There is a category of more sophisticated (than Tetris etc.) players who want the game equivalent of a short story.
The Blackhawk Gladius is designed to do that, and has been available for a few years. Built like a normal medium-sized flashlight, VERY bright, features a strobe tuned and intended to disorient people.
I pay $5 or less for my games. No hurry to get the latest, so wait until the price drops to what I'm willing to pay. "XIII", "Max Payne", "Oni", etc. are suitably entertaining, engaging, and cost less than lunch at McDonald's.
You want the latest? You are willing to pay $60 for the latest? Then, supply-and-demand, retailers will charge you what you're willing to pay for what you want - and that, for the collective "you", is working out to about $60.
Go figure.
What actually MIGHT put an end to Moore's law is the actual quantum limits to computation.
At which point, as things are looking, should kick in right about the time quantum computing becomes feasable, and a whole new 50-year cycle of Moore's Law kicks in.
25 years ago I had a $100 desktop computer: a Sinclair ZX80.
That did not pose a roadblock for Moore's Law re: desktops, so why would it be the same for something comparable a quarter-century later?
All the price does is establish a bare useful^D^D^Dable minimum; Moore's Law just means that 25 years from now you'll be able to do on a $100 laptop then what you really want to do on it today - which still won't be useful then.
"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. The fact of the matter is, since the beginning of time, you could buy a Picasso and change the colors. That's trivial. But you don't because you're buying a piece of Picasso's $&#**^% soul. That's the definition of art: Art is one person's ego trip."
- Penn Jillette