In a new report issued this week, eight-track and Atari 2600 game sales are down. Industry leaders blame rampant piracy and MAME.
You mean Stella, Z26 and PCAE. MAME's an arcade emulator.
And while sales of actual carts are virtually nonexistant (new 2600 games typically have production runs in the dozens), companies still sell PC/PS2/GBA versions of these classics through the magic of emulation - just as music companies sell music through iTunes (but of course iTunes sales do not factor into the 7.6 percent figure - they want to show how much their business is declining).
In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet..."
Huh?
I don't know about you, but porn doesn't send me mail, call me, pop in my VCR (even if I had one), or switch my (can't-purchase-individual-channels-yet) cable tv channels to make me watch it. If he wants to pick a fight with malware that pushes porn into the machines of people whose only crime was to be stupid enough to use ms-outlook that's fine, but somebody needs to explain to him the difference between push and pull technologies (insert sexual pun here).
Ringworld Engineers was almost as good as the original, maybe, but Ringworld Throne was a huge disappointment. I'm not the only one who gave up on it halfway through. It's almost like Niven let somebody else write some of it, or decided to fuse unrelated plots into one book, or something equally horrid. Just stay away.
After reading (half of it), I'll probably never read another Niven again.
I'd ask for other book recommendations - but somehow the Slashdot structure isn't very suitable for recommending stuff (books, MP3 players, whatever) and rating it on a regular basis, so we have to make do with a roundup story once or twice a year.
Yet the Arse of Lindon continues to distribute (unsupported) Apache as well as other F/OSS products which adhere to the GPL.
I don't get it. Why aren't they being sued by hundreds of GPL developers? SCO's obviously SELLING their software (how many software packages?) without a license.
Do you want slashdot to post ANY april fool stories next year?
Yes / No / Only a digest of other AFs, a day later
Mod me up, not because I need the Karma, but to send a message. Enough is enough!
And if it's not annoying enough now, remember somebody may come across these stories in a few months. Public web content is forever (/robots.txt notwithstanding).
TiVo's already proven that people will watch ads even with the 30 second skip enabled, you just have to get the viewer's attention during the 2 seconds they see the ad before hitting the skip.
2 seconds? Never mind the reaction time, but are you actually waiting for the start of the commercial?
Here's a recurring pattern in a(t least one) legal drama I watch regularly:
* Shocking information is revealed * 4 seconds closeup shot on lawyer looking shocked * Commercial break.
I know that as soon as a lawyer looks shocked after shocking information is revealed, I can fast forward - 3 seconds before the commercial actually begins.
The most likely-not-to-be-skipped time is the last 4 (on average) seconds of the last commercial - chances are you'll see some of that.
Of course, an even better time is during the actual show, when we get to see how fulfilling those lawyers' lives are, just because they use very specific brands.
SCO are not the law. On the contrary - it seems their business is extortion. They're certainly guilty of massive copyright infringement - distributing hundreds (thousands?) of software packages to thousands (hundreds?) of customers without a license (since they rejected the GPL).
There should really be a section for "Corporate crime" or something along these lines. Posting this as a YRO makes it appear like the law is on SCO's side.
P.S. Another SCO Linux licensee? We should really start referring to any companies that fall for this scam as SCOXsuckers.
Why not explain what the subject of the article actually is?
Not everybody is familiar with every software project.
And consider that this site may occasionally be visited by non-nerds. If they can skip the stories they don't care about, they may read the others (and make informed decisions about software, stop supporting the RIAA, etc). But if they'll be unable to even understand what the stories mean, they're much more likely to leave, never to return.
Just adding "Plone, the content management system for the Zope application server" will at least make enough sense to let people know if they'd be interested in reading any further, instead of making them think "I didn't even know he was arrested".
NZ law already makes it clear that gifting or reselling items includes a transfer all of rights, including copyright, warantee, and licencing agreements, so providing your original is the genuine article you're not a criminal.
What if an actual criminal steals the genuine article? If my rights disappear because no longer own it, does it mean they get transferred to the criminal?
What if the original article is destroyed? Does it matter how it happened?
It just looks that way because of a bad, bad, bad UI.
Record 60 seconds of silence. Now save them as a file, and import it into the current sample. Voila! a 2-minute sample, which you can record over. Repeat as necessary.
I play Ragnarok Online. You know how much thought has to go into being a merchant. It's like the stock market or something.
Excuse my presumption, but have you ever thought of playing the actual stock market?
If age or income are an issue, you could still 'play' it - as a game that will teach you more than most other games, and that many people can relate to - and who knows, maybe some day your knowledge will prove useful.
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Obviously all affected products must be taken offline ASAP and replaced with hardware from trustworthy vendors. Who's going to pay for all of this?
the commercial and personal domain spaces should be completely separate.
Companies get to do whatever companies do in the commercial space, and have no rights in the personal space, and vice versa.
Don't mod me down - insult my intelligence instead! Come on, you know you want to.
In a new report issued this week, eight-track and Atari 2600 game sales are down. Industry leaders blame rampant piracy and MAME.
You mean Stella, Z26 and PCAE. MAME's an arcade emulator.
And while sales of actual carts are virtually nonexistant (new 2600 games typically have production runs in the dozens), companies still sell PC/PS2/GBA versions of these classics through the magic of emulation - just as music companies sell music through iTunes (but of course iTunes sales do not factor into the 7.6 percent figure - they want to show how much their business is declining).
In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet..."
Huh?
I don't know about you, but porn doesn't send me mail, call me, pop in my VCR (even if I had one), or switch my (can't-purchase-individual-channels-yet) cable tv channels to make me watch it. If he wants to pick a fight with malware that pushes porn into the machines of people whose only crime was to be stupid enough to use ms-outlook that's fine, but somebody needs to explain to him the difference between push and pull technologies (insert sexual pun here).
Well, it sounds like the internet is going to be depornified any day now. Better download everything while you still can.
P.S. Did any censorware companies make a campaign contribution lately?
You may not want to bother with the sequels.
Ringworld Engineers was almost as good as the original, maybe, but Ringworld Throne was a huge disappointment. I'm not the only one who gave up on it halfway through. It's almost like Niven let somebody else write some of it, or decided to fuse unrelated plots into one book, or something equally horrid. Just stay away.
After reading (half of it), I'll probably never read another Niven again.
I'd ask for other book recommendations - but somehow the Slashdot structure isn't very suitable for recommending stuff (books, MP3 players, whatever) and rating it on a regular basis, so we have to make do with a roundup story once or twice a year.
Yet the Arse of Lindon continues to distribute (unsupported) Apache as well as other F/OSS products which adhere to the GPL.
I don't get it. Why aren't they being sued by hundreds of GPL developers? SCO's obviously SELLING their software (how many software packages?) without a license.
Am I the only one that doesn't want to see another Paper Mario?
Just don't look, then.
Most of the first-party sequels Nintendo has made for the GC have been sadly lacking, mostly appearing as incremental updates instead of real sequels.
Is there really that much that was missing from the previous versions and can now be added?
Do you want slashdot to post ANY april fool stories next year?
Yes / No / Only a digest of other AFs, a day later
Mod me up, not because I need the Karma, but to send a message. Enough is enough!
And if it's not annoying enough now, remember somebody may come across these stories in a few months. Public web content is forever (/robots.txt notwithstanding).
he search on "Jennifer 8. Lee" brought back an interesting blog comment: If it's simply the number eight, why does it have a period after it?
It's not a period - it's a decimal point. It probably stands for 8.4 or something.
but I can't even begin to make sense of this.
I'll try reading it again at lunch.
It's a gift you don't need a place to store!
Quick, what's the combined volume of stuff people you care about got you that you don't actually need?
TiVo's already proven that people will watch ads even with the 30 second skip enabled, you just have to get the viewer's attention during the 2 seconds they see the ad before hitting the skip.
2 seconds? Never mind the reaction time, but are you actually waiting for the start of the commercial?
Here's a recurring pattern in a(t least one) legal drama I watch regularly:
* Shocking information is revealed
* 4 seconds closeup shot on lawyer looking shocked
* Commercial break.
I know that as soon as a lawyer looks shocked after shocking information is revealed, I can fast forward - 3 seconds before the commercial actually begins.
The most likely-not-to-be-skipped time is the last 4 (on average) seconds of the last commercial - chances are you'll see some of that.
Of course, an even better time is during the actual show, when we get to see how fulfilling those lawyers' lives are, just because they use very specific brands.
Of course an even
DanTE Advance.
But how many of them can really get into a game to fully critique it? (As opposed to, "Duuuhhh... gamez ar fun, doodz!")
These people are testers. They can't really critique the games. Not that SEGA's got anybody else to do that...
With Internet Explorer no longer supporting Gopher, what use is this?
Don't you see? It's cool because it's like a secret.
microsoft IS announcing, not ARE. Get over yourself.
That's where it all began, you know. Treating companies like people.
Aren't companies treated as plurals in the queen's English?
Nice one, American. Corrupt a language, then correct the people who still speak it properly.
SCO are not the law. On the contrary - it seems their business is extortion. They're certainly guilty of massive copyright infringement - distributing hundreds (thousands?) of software packages to thousands (hundreds?) of customers without a license (since they rejected the GPL).
There should really be a section for "Corporate crime" or something along these lines. Posting this as a YRO makes it appear like the law is on SCO's side.
P.S. Another SCO Linux licensee? We should really start referring to any companies that fall for this scam as SCOXsuckers.
Why not explain what the subject of the article actually is?
Not everybody is familiar with every software project.
And consider that this site may occasionally be visited by non-nerds. If they can skip the stories they don't care about, they may read the others (and make informed decisions about software, stop supporting the RIAA, etc). But if they'll be unable to even understand what the stories mean, they're much more likely to leave, never to return.
Just adding "Plone, the content management system for the Zope application server" will at least make enough sense to let people know if they'd be interested in reading any further, instead of making them think "I didn't even know he was arrested".
Remember, scientology makes you sign a billion-year contract.
NZ law already makes it clear that gifting or reselling items includes a transfer all of rights, including copyright, warantee, and licencing agreements, so providing your original is the genuine article you're not a criminal.
What if an actual criminal steals the genuine article? If my rights disappear because no longer own it, does it mean they get transferred to the criminal?
What if the original article is destroyed? Does it matter how it happened?
A random.org clone!
Yes, I know the numbers are generated in a different way, but they're still random. Is the quantum angle the reason for the wow factor here?
It just looks that way because of a bad, bad, bad UI.
Record 60 seconds of silence. Now save them as a file, and import it into the current sample. Voila! a 2-minute sample, which you can record over. Repeat as necessary.
I play Ragnarok Online. You know how much thought has to go into being a merchant. It's like the stock market or something.
Excuse my presumption, but have you ever thought of playing the actual stock market?
If age or income are an issue, you could still 'play' it - as a game that will teach you more than most other games, and that many people can relate to - and who knows, maybe some day your knowledge will prove useful.
Is there any chance it will offer a decent treatment of the issues Open Source advocates worry about today?
No.
Glad I could help.
Seriously. Somehow, these issues seem less captivating to the public at large than legal issues based on criminal, medical or moral issues. Go figure.