I thought apple sued Microsoft (i.e., Apple vs. Microsoft), not the other way around. Microsoft stole the look and feel of the Apple's Mac OS and used it in Windows. If I recall, the trial dragged on for 10 years, ending with Microsoft paying a $100 million settlement to Apple and agreeing to make Mac versions of Office and IE.
This wasn't a civil suit, it was a criminal case. Charges of criminal action were brought against the defendant by the attorney general's office. Interested corporations, namely Microsoft, probably called up the attorney general and asked him or her to look into the case of this individual, but it was definately the A.G. bringing the case, not Microsoft.
In the United States, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime. If you are acquitted, the government does not get an appeal. If you are found guilty, you may appeal to a higher court, up until you reach the Supreme Court, which as the name suggests is the ultimate court of the United States.
So it actually should have been better for him that it was a criminal case. But he was dumb and didn't get a lawyer and just plead guilty, probably after he confessed to the FBI without a lawyer present.
In most cases they win and the little guy is now totally fucked for the rest of his life because of legal costs - I guess he decided it wasn't worth the risk of fighting.
What is 5 months of your life worth? Is it worth $50,000? You can borrow $50,000 to hire a good lawyer your defense. $50,000 is not that much money when you think about it. Many young students borrow twice that to go to college for a few years. It takes them 10 years to pay it off. It's no big deal. Isn't defending your freedom worth $50,000?
As a college student who drank Guinness through a plastic tube attached to a cheap ($20) plastic tap on keg (yes, directly from the tube without using a cup), I can say that no other equipment is necessary.
That having been said, now that I am no longer a college student, I absolutely prefer Guinness served in a glass. Actually, I think I would have preferred it in a glass back then, but all we had was that plastic tube.
All men are created equal. All men have an equal right to the basic liberties we take for granted in the free world. All men are therefore deserving of a basic amount of respect.
However, there are certain actions and decisions that a man may take in his life which make him less deserving of those rights. To a man who commits crimes, we take away his freedom to move around as he pleases.
Similarly, there are rewards which are sometimes given to those who make different choices in their lives. To a man who selflessly risks his life to save others, we award certain heroic status.
So anyway, criminals and heroes are not of equal value as far as I am concerned, even if they were created equal.
That statement is completely ridiculous. Some people are just better than others and therefore worth more.
I'm all in favor of armies not killing each other, but to think that each and every life is of equal value is as silly as the idea that all ideas or opinions are of equal importance or that all cultures are deserving of equal respect.
Actually, the altering of the photo had more to do with the Iraqi man holding the child in his arms and the position of the arm and weapon held by the British soldier.
Uh... cinematography is usually setting up lighting on a set and choosing cameras and lenses and film and how to use those tools to render a scene with actors onto a photographic negative. In an animated film like Spirited Away, none of that needs to be done. The "camera angles" are chosen by the director when they do the storyboards. Individual frames are drawn by hand and scanned and sometimes composited with CG or edited on a computer. The ultimate output is made to print film that gets run through a projector at your theater. So there is film involved... but only at the final step.
Obviously, the intent of Bioware is not only to release their game, but to make available the game engine to other development studios. Just as id software has made a pile of money letting other companies make first person shooters that use the Quake series of game engines, Bioware will attempt to do the same for RPG games. The Linux and Mac ports of the game engine will actually make the engine more attractive to potential licensees. So even if they have no new NWN sales because of the Linux port, it is still valuable to them.
It probably costs close to a billion dollars a day to have them sit around at home. There's a trillion dollar defense budget each year. Divide by 365. That's several billion dollars per day no matter what they do.
Interested persons should note that this release is going to be a Japanese domestic release and will be Region 2 only. No mention is made of English subtitles, so it is safe to assume that they will not be included. ADV is the licensee of the Evangelion TV series in the United States and currently publishes the only Region 1 set of the series. Manga Entertainment publishes the series of two movies that complete the series.
Anyway, this ultra-complete box set will not be published in the U.S., will not be Region 1, and will not have English dialogue or English subtitles. Hard core fans only need apply. Hard core fans will order from Animaxis, CDJapan, or Amazon.co.jp.
Run by North Koreans. (note: not a Troll! It is well known that most Pachinko parlors in Japan are run by North Korean families (think: mafia), for the purpose of exporting cash to North Korea.
That sounds like an urban legend intended to get Japanese to stop playing Pachinko.
That's $300 plus processor plus memory plus hard drive plus dvd-rom drive plus some kind of gamepad for use when playing MAME games on your TV plus a graphics card that is roughly equivalent to the graphics on the Xbox (maybe a GeForce2 MX with TV-out). I still contend that you can't put together a system with all the Xbox features for less than the cost of an Xbox.
Try building a PC with TV out, audio out, dvd-rom drive, ethernet, and a game controller for $200. Oh yeah, see if you can make it look sort of cool too. And I want it to look cool next to my TV. And I don't want to spend more than 2 hours on it (the time it would take to mod and set up a hacked Xbox).
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They would probably simulate the latancies on the internet to find out if it contributed to stress.
So your round trip times for web page requests would start out at 1 second, but by the end of the 500 days, they would be easily several hours.
I thought apple sued Microsoft (i.e., Apple vs. Microsoft), not the other way around. Microsoft stole the look and feel of the Apple's Mac OS and used it in Windows. If I recall, the trial dragged on for 10 years, ending with Microsoft paying a $100 million settlement to Apple and agreeing to make Mac versions of Office and IE.
This wasn't a civil suit, it was a criminal case. Charges of criminal action were brought against the defendant by the attorney general's office. Interested corporations, namely Microsoft, probably called up the attorney general and asked him or her to look into the case of this individual, but it was definately the A.G. bringing the case, not Microsoft.
In the United States, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime. If you are acquitted, the government does not get an appeal. If you are found guilty, you may appeal to a higher court, up until you reach the Supreme Court, which as the name suggests is the ultimate court of the United States.
So it actually should have been better for him that it was a criminal case. But he was dumb and didn't get a lawyer and just plead guilty, probably after he confessed to the FBI without a lawyer present.
In most cases they win and the little guy is now totally fucked for the rest of his life because of legal costs - I guess he decided it wasn't worth the risk of fighting.
What is 5 months of your life worth? Is it worth $50,000? You can borrow $50,000 to hire a good lawyer your defense. $50,000 is not that much money when you think about it. Many young students borrow twice that to go to college for a few years. It takes them 10 years to pay it off. It's no big deal. Isn't defending your freedom worth $50,000?
...So there was no trial, only sentencing.
The lesson to others here should be: If you get accused of a crime, hire the best lawyer you can afford.
...and it is more expensive, but at least fruit juice has some vitamins.
Milk has a lot of sugar also. But it too has some redeeming vitaminic properties.
My suggestion: Take a multivitamin and drink water.
As a college student who drank Guinness through a plastic tube attached to a cheap ($20) plastic tap on keg (yes, directly from the tube without using a cup), I can say that no other equipment is necessary.
That having been said, now that I am no longer a college student, I absolutely prefer Guinness served in a glass. Actually, I think I would have preferred it in a glass back then, but all we had was that plastic tube.
All men are created equal. All men have an equal right to the basic liberties we take for granted in the free world. All men are therefore deserving of a basic amount of respect.
However, there are certain actions and decisions that a man may take in his life which make him less deserving of those rights. To a man who commits crimes, we take away his freedom to move around as he pleases.
Similarly, there are rewards which are sometimes given to those who make different choices in their lives. To a man who selflessly risks his life to save others, we award certain heroic status.
So anyway, criminals and heroes are not of equal value as far as I am concerned, even if they were created equal.
It's going to be a fun game to dust off the ole CD and play.
CD? Are you sure it didn't come on 3.5" floppies?
Each human life has the same worth.
That statement is completely ridiculous. Some people are just better than others and therefore worth more.
I'm all in favor of armies not killing each other, but to think that each and every life is of equal value is as silly as the idea that all ideas or opinions are of equal importance or that all cultures are deserving of equal respect.
Actually, the altering of the photo had more to do with the Iraqi man holding the child in his arms and the position of the arm and weapon held by the British soldier.
But every time a $20 bill changes hands, the mint doesn't take a 1-2% cut, unlike PayPal.
Your use of partner instead of a gender specific term makes you sound gay.
Just assume it was intentional.
Uh... cinematography is usually setting up lighting on a set and choosing cameras and lenses and film and how to use those tools to render a scene with actors onto a photographic negative. In an animated film like Spirited Away, none of that needs to be done. The "camera angles" are chosen by the director when they do the storyboards. Individual frames are drawn by hand and scanned and sometimes composited with CG or edited on a computer. The ultimate output is made to print film that gets run through a projector at your theater. So there is film involved... but only at the final step.
Buy the R1 DVD. It has a Japanese dialogue track with English subtitles.
Obviously, the intent of Bioware is not only to release their game, but to make available the game engine to other development studios. Just as id software has made a pile of money letting other companies make first person shooters that use the Quake series of game engines, Bioware will attempt to do the same for RPG games. The Linux and Mac ports of the game engine will actually make the engine more attractive to potential licensees. So even if they have no new NWN sales because of the Linux port, it is still valuable to them.
It probably costs close to a billion dollars a day to have them sit around at home. There's a trillion dollar defense budget each year. Divide by 365. That's several billion dollars per day no matter what they do.
Interested persons should note that this release is going to be a Japanese domestic release and will be Region 2 only. No mention is made of English subtitles, so it is safe to assume that they will not be included. ADV is the licensee of the Evangelion TV series in the United States and currently publishes the only Region 1 set of the series. Manga Entertainment publishes the series of two movies that complete the series.
Anyway, this ultra-complete box set will not be published in the U.S., will not be Region 1, and will not have English dialogue or English subtitles. Hard core fans only need apply. Hard core fans will order from Animaxis, CDJapan, or Amazon.co.jp.
Bah. It still sounds like an urban legend, even if it's not.
That sounds like an urban legend intended to get Japanese to stop playing Pachinko.
It was never released in the United States. They released it with a handful of unfun games in Japan though.
They made a Jaguar CD system? I didn't know that.
Btw, Tempest 2000 was an awesome game, but not worth the price of a Jaguar.
As long as you keep a copyrighted work (book, CD, DVD, image, whatever) behind the locked door, then the DMCA probably applies.
That's $300 plus processor plus memory plus hard drive plus dvd-rom drive plus some kind of gamepad for use when playing MAME games on your TV plus a graphics card that is roughly equivalent to the graphics on the Xbox (maybe a GeForce2 MX with TV-out). I still contend that you can't put together a system with all the Xbox features for less than the cost of an Xbox.
Try building a PC with TV out, audio out, dvd-rom drive, ethernet, and a game controller for $200. Oh yeah, see if you can make it look sort of cool too. And I want it to look cool next to my TV. And I don't want to spend more than 2 hours on it (the time it would take to mod and set up a hacked Xbox).