There's one problem I see with your idea. Where would a normal site go? Let's say I'm a NON CERTIFIED anything (for example, fan site). Should I be excluded from having a domain?
And God took the USENET and said "Let there be rigidly enforced categories." And it too, was good. On the fifth day, God created all the categories of the Earth, such as the comp.*, and the rec.*, and the alt.*. And naught a newsgroup was created which fell where it belonged not, for the categories were moderated.
Perhaps in some ideal Usenet. Unfortionately, there are around 5 Pokemon newsgroups, 3 video game groups for each console (and 3 "general"), 4 emulation groups....
For very small electorates--nine people, say--he found that the gap between candidates must be very large, at least 66.6 to 33.3 percent, before districting will help. That's why raw voting works well at town meetings, where electorates are so small. As the number of voters gets larger, the crossover point moves closer to 50-50. For a nation of 135, voters are better off with districting in any race more lopsided than 55- 45. For a nation with millions of voters, the gap between candidates must be razor-thin for districting not to help. In the real world of large nations and uneven contests, voters get more bang for their ballot when they set up a districted, Madisonian electoral system--usually a lot more.
So they are districted into states. But why stop there? Many states have an overwhemling majority, so they should be districted too, by the same logic. Eventually, you'll get down to districts of ten people because of packing and cracking. And in those situations, direct elections are supposed to work fine!
Based on your own Services Agreement, Register.com does not allow member pages/websites/domain name holders with
copyright violations in the form of pirated software.
This is one of the reasons I find the most important thing when considering a registrar is what gives them the right to take it away. So far, Gandi still seems to be on top with that. (We give the domain, you do what you want)
Both proofs are not rigerous enough for the mathmatitions who have idle computers. They both SEEM to demonstrate that pi is MOST LIKELY irrational, but there is a SLIGHT CHANCE that it rationalizes itself. Personally, I think they passed the point where you just say "okay, you're right" a long time ago...
If you've followed the news, you would have noticed that each software division from AM2 to Sonic Team are now officially seperate companies. They are under no obligation to create games exclusively for Sega; in theory Sonic could be appearing on the X-Box. But he won't.
The real question is if the hardware company, the Sega behind the Smile Bit and the Hit Maker and the Sonic Team will stay or if CSK will decide to destroy it. Either way, the Sega software divisions will live on and so will the arcade machines. The only thing that will go is the home console. Sega will become like Capcom and Konami.
The purpose of this is that they are hoping that some time, some where, pi will start to repeat. So all those ideas that pi is irrational would be wrong. And we could finally write an exact value of pi.
The real problem is that these people, who most likely should not have got their domains taken away from them, do not respond to the WIPO domain disputes.
I feel that just buying a shirt that says "MS sucks" and never wearing it has the same effect and is just as legal as buying microsoftsucks.com and not putting up a page and not using it for an email address. But obviously, none of these people decide they need to defend themselves in any way, which I think is completely stupid. Doing that is a sure fire way to not only set terrible precidents, but to also get your case lost.
I've heard numerous things about this, from Sega going out of buisness (most likely an exageration from Sega's loss) to Sega becoming an "Internet company" (actually true, the head of Sega of Japan is an idiot). What's most likely to happen? Sega will become a third party developer.
The actual Sega compay is losing money from the Dreamcast, but with every software division being split into a seperate company, it's much easier to see if Sega is actually worthwhile as a hardware company.
I personally think that if Sega can survive the Dreamcast, they will be worthwhile again as a hardware company; Sega's name will be cleared of the SegaCD/32x/Saturn era. However, if they can't survive, Smile Bit, Sonic Team, Hit Maker, and all the other renamed and now independant AM divisions will keep on making "Sega" titles as third party developers.
Oh, and on a side note, I think X-Box is most likely to succeed next in the US.
What you're saing here just scares me in a way because of how similar it is to the DMCA. If you have a "sense of privacy" then it is illegal to break that. Isn't that exactly what the DMCA says? If the company has a sense of privacy over CSS then breaking it is illegal. It's still a form of communication. Or are there different laws for buisnesses in this situation then for individuals?
Oh well, you can't have your cake and eat it too...
And next year will be Sonic's 10th birthday...
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When you think of all the video games that just go right by its amazing. Sure, the NES was great, but there were some pieces of crap too. I honestly can't say that I've played more than 500 games in the past ten years. And how many were released, 10000?
Think of all the consoles, NES, SMS, TurboGraphix16 (awwwwwwwwwww yeah!), Genesis (+ SegaCD + 32X), SNES, NeoGeo (Metal Slug!), Saturn, PSX, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, and soon to come out PS2.
There have been many series, from Mega Man to Mario to Sonic to Zelda to Phantasy Star to Street Fighter to Double Dragon to Battle Toads to... But when was the last time you saw a Double Dragon game or a Battle Toads game? I'm just amazed at the amount of games I've never played, and the amount that will keep on coming.
You too? I thought I was the only one getting foreign spam. I have no idea how I got it; I only go to legit foriegn sites (sega.co.jp, yahoo.co.jp) and now I'm spammed in Japanese. I don't speak Japanese. I just like the pretty pictures.
Okay, unlike most people, I do feel in a public place a filter needs to be put in. The main problem with these filters is that you are given a set of sites that are marked evil, and no one has any idea what it is. So why not create a filter with all the sites that are blocked easy to edit (by an admin)?
I feel the government should fund this; when they needed a stable version of Windows, they paid MS for one. So pay one of the filtering software companies to do this. It really doesn't matter because they all do the same damn thing. The important thing is that you can easily edit the list and easily override the list temporarily (as an admin, of course). And this blacklist should be in plaintext, not in some special encoded scheme.
First things first. I'm a Sega fan, not that I dislike Nintendo, but if I have to choose between the two I go to Sega. So a lot of my comments are going to be on Sega games.
When you look at video games, their purpose is entertainment. Be it the old school Donkey Kong or new Ecco the Dolphin, they're trying to be fun.
Now, when you play a game like Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future, it's hard not to belive that you aren't controlling a real dolphin, except for all the game related stuff. It just looks SO real. However, the downside to this is that you get lost real easily. You are using your echolocation probably about every 5 seconds so you don't get lost. Now, a real dolphin doesn't do this, I bet, but I'm not a real dolphin.
Donkey Kong, on the other hand, is very unreal. You could magically see through walls. You could jump your hight as many times as you wanted without getting tired, and swinging a big 100lb hammer at who knows how fast didn't tire you out for 30 seconds! Pretty good for an overweight carpenter (little known fact, Mario wasn't named Mario back then, he was called "Jumpman" and he was a carpenter).
For current games, this works just as well. Two of my favorite games (both on Dreamcast) are Samba de Amigo and ChuChu Rocket. While both use polygons, they don't need to. Many people have looked at ChuChu Rocket and thought that it was using sprites! Samba de Amigo doesn't really need any graphics other than lights and colors; it might actually be better that way!
As a counter example, sort of, is Jet Set/Grind Radio also on Dreamcast. It is 3D, but it stands out because they purposely made it have... kinda crappy looking 3D. And that makes it look good. However, I really wouldn't have minded if wasn't in that graphical style.
The thing that's always important to remeber is that games are just supposed to be games. That's why true simulators aren't really that popular; particularly sims of planes, helicopters, and other things that are that foriegn. At least with a racing car sim, it's just a fast car.
The nation bans gambling for Muslims, who constitute more than half the population, and restricts gaming outlets for others.
I'm confused. Does that mean Muslims aren't allowed to play games by law? From this one sentance, I'm guessing that the law is religously based. But this brings up a question to me. How would the Muslims who want to play games do it? Just say "I'm not muslim"?
Big movies typically get released in the U.S. first. After a few months, they move to Europe... a few months after that, they trickle down to the rest of the world. By the time a movie has its theatrical premiere in Europe or Asia, it has often been released in America on video or DVD. If Europeans can chose between renting a new movie for $4 and seeing it in theaters for perhaps $70 (for a whole family,) a whole lot of them are going to skip the theaters. That kind of defeats the purpose of a theatrical release... hence region codes.
But how many people have 40+ inch TV screens w/ 6 speaker 3D sound support? When they sell the movie in a movie theater, what should be sold is not the actual show, but the atmosphere. Watching a movie in a movie theater is completely different then watching it at home on your 18 inch TV.
If the buisness model was changed to accomadate this, it would work better. The real problem is the overcharged candy in theaters.;)
Linux security is all-or-nothing. Administrators cannot delegate administrative privileges: a user who needs any administrative capability must be made a full administrator, which compromises best security practices. In contrast, Windows NT allows an administrator to delegate privileges at an exceptionally fine-grained level.
I never particularly liked the idea of one super-uber user. It doesn't make sense. This has to be the biggest annoyance of Linux.
Many people don't know which site this was because of the SITENAME. The site had one thing illegal, scans of the manuals. Other than that, the site was fine. Sega is not pursing sites like boob.co.uk or any site that is not doing anthing illegal.
If the site would just remove the scans, Sega would have no more argument and it would be back to a normal news site. I am surprised that they haven't just done this. It would be the easiest and sanest things to do.
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But he did eat mushrooms to get big... and had a flute that took him to a far away land...
After they provide compatibility, AOL-Time-Warner will just buy out whoever they are compatible with. Problem solved.
Because they are facing backwards, 180 degrees in the wrong direction.
When he says "by the fan's, for the fan's", it's quite obvious what he means. "By the [owner]'s [money], for the [owner]'s [profit]".
There's one problem I see with your idea. Where would a normal site go? Let's say I'm a NON CERTIFIED anything (for example, fan site). Should I be excluded from having a domain?
And God took the USENET and said "Let there be rigidly enforced categories." And it too, was good. On the fifth day, God created all the categories of the Earth, such as the comp.*, and the rec.*, and the alt.*. And naught a newsgroup was created which fell where it belonged not, for the categories were moderated.
Perhaps in some ideal Usenet. Unfortionately, there are around 5 Pokemon newsgroups, 3 video game groups for each console (and 3 "general"), 4 emulation groups....
For very small electorates--nine people, say--he found that the gap between candidates must be very large, at least 66.6 to 33.3 percent, before districting will help. That's why raw voting works well at town meetings, where electorates are so small. As the number of voters gets larger, the crossover point moves closer to 50-50. For a nation of 135, voters are better off with districting in any race more lopsided than 55- 45. For a nation with millions of voters, the gap between candidates must be razor-thin for districting not to help. In the real world of large nations and uneven contests, voters get more bang for their ballot when they set up a districted, Madisonian electoral system--usually a lot more.
So they are districted into states. But why stop there? Many states have an overwhemling majority, so they should be districted too, by the same logic. Eventually, you'll get down to districts of ten people because of packing and cracking. And in those situations, direct elections are supposed to work fine!
This is one of the reasons I find the most important thing when considering a registrar is what gives them the right to take it away. So far, Gandi still seems to be on top with that. (We give the domain, you do what you want)
Both proofs are not rigerous enough for the mathmatitions who have idle computers. They both SEEM to demonstrate that pi is MOST LIKELY irrational, but there is a SLIGHT CHANCE that it rationalizes itself. Personally, I think they passed the point where you just say "okay, you're right" a long time ago...
If you've followed the news, you would have noticed that each software division from AM2 to Sonic Team are now officially seperate companies. They are under no obligation to create games exclusively for Sega; in theory Sonic could be appearing on the X-Box. But he won't.
The real question is if the hardware company, the Sega behind the Smile Bit and the Hit Maker and the Sonic Team will stay or if CSK will decide to destroy it. Either way, the Sega software divisions will live on and so will the arcade machines. The only thing that will go is the home console. Sega will become like Capcom and Konami.
Nope, it's just assumed since it just goes on and on and on...
This is trying to disprove the assumtion.
The purpose of this is that they are hoping that some time, some where, pi will start to repeat. So all those ideas that pi is irrational would be wrong. And we could finally write an exact value of pi.
The real problem is that these people, who most likely should not have got their domains taken away from them, do not respond to the WIPO domain disputes.
I feel that just buying a shirt that says "MS sucks" and never wearing it has the same effect and is just as legal as buying microsoftsucks.com and not putting up a page and not using it for an email address. But obviously, none of these people decide they need to defend themselves in any way, which I think is completely stupid. Doing that is a sure fire way to not only set terrible precidents, but to also get your case lost.
I've heard numerous things about this, from Sega going out of buisness (most likely an exageration from Sega's loss) to Sega becoming an "Internet company" (actually true, the head of Sega of Japan is an idiot). What's most likely to happen? Sega will become a third party developer.
The actual Sega compay is losing money from the Dreamcast, but with every software division being split into a seperate company, it's much easier to see if Sega is actually worthwhile as a hardware company.
I personally think that if Sega can survive the Dreamcast, they will be worthwhile again as a hardware company; Sega's name will be cleared of the SegaCD/32x/Saturn era. However, if they can't survive, Smile Bit, Sonic Team, Hit Maker, and all the other renamed and now independant AM divisions will keep on making "Sega" titles as third party developers.
Oh, and on a side note, I think X-Box is most likely to succeed next in the US.
query is null.
Sounds like Deja also pulled the posts.
What you're saing here just scares me in a way because of how similar it is to the DMCA. If you have a "sense of privacy" then it is illegal to break that. Isn't that exactly what the DMCA says? If the company has a sense of privacy over CSS then breaking it is illegal. It's still a form of communication. Or are there different laws for buisnesses in this situation then for individuals?
Oh well, you can't have your cake and eat it too...
When you think of all the video games that just go right by its amazing. Sure, the NES was great, but there were some pieces of crap too. I honestly can't say that I've played more than 500 games in the past ten years. And how many were released, 10000?
Think of all the consoles, NES, SMS, TurboGraphix16 (awwwwwwwwwww yeah!), Genesis (+ SegaCD + 32X), SNES, NeoGeo (Metal Slug!), Saturn, PSX, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, and soon to come out PS2. There have been many series, from Mega Man to Mario to Sonic to Zelda to Phantasy Star to Street Fighter to Double Dragon to Battle Toads to ... But when was the last time you saw a Double Dragon game or a Battle Toads game? I'm just amazed at the amount of games I've never played, and the amount that will keep on coming.
You too? I thought I was the only one getting foreign spam. I have no idea how I got it; I only go to legit foriegn sites (sega.co.jp, yahoo.co.jp) and now I'm spammed in Japanese. I don't speak Japanese. I just like the pretty pictures.
Sure they can: printf("The sound files are not close enough");
Okay, unlike most people, I do feel in a public place a filter needs to be put in. The main problem with these filters is that you are given a set of sites that are marked evil, and no one has any idea what it is. So why not create a filter with all the sites that are blocked easy to edit (by an admin)?
I feel the government should fund this; when they needed a stable version of Windows, they paid MS for one. So pay one of the filtering software companies to do this. It really doesn't matter because they all do the same damn thing. The important thing is that you can easily edit the list and easily override the list temporarily (as an admin, of course). And this blacklist should be in plaintext, not in some special encoded scheme.
First things first. I'm a Sega fan, not that I dislike Nintendo, but if I have to choose between the two I go to Sega. So a lot of my comments are going to be on Sega games.
When you look at video games, their purpose is entertainment. Be it the old school Donkey Kong or new Ecco the Dolphin, they're trying to be fun.
Now, when you play a game like Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future, it's hard not to belive that you aren't controlling a real dolphin, except for all the game related stuff. It just looks SO real. However, the downside to this is that you get lost real easily. You are using your echolocation probably about every 5 seconds so you don't get lost. Now, a real dolphin doesn't do this, I bet, but I'm not a real dolphin.
Donkey Kong, on the other hand, is very unreal. You could magically see through walls. You could jump your hight as many times as you wanted without getting tired, and swinging a big 100lb hammer at who knows how fast didn't tire you out for 30 seconds! Pretty good for an overweight carpenter (little known fact, Mario wasn't named Mario back then, he was called "Jumpman" and he was a carpenter).
For current games, this works just as well. Two of my favorite games (both on Dreamcast) are Samba de Amigo and ChuChu Rocket. While both use polygons, they don't need to. Many people have looked at ChuChu Rocket and thought that it was using sprites! Samba de Amigo doesn't really need any graphics other than lights and colors; it might actually be better that way!
As a counter example, sort of, is Jet Set/Grind Radio also on Dreamcast. It is 3D, but it stands out because they purposely made it have... kinda crappy looking 3D. And that makes it look good. However, I really wouldn't have minded if wasn't in that graphical style.
The thing that's always important to remeber is that games are just supposed to be games. That's why true simulators aren't really that popular; particularly sims of planes, helicopters, and other things that are that foriegn. At least with a racing car sim, it's just a fast car.
I'm confused. Does that mean Muslims aren't allowed to play games by law? From this one sentance, I'm guessing that the law is religously based. But this brings up a question to me. How would the Muslims who want to play games do it? Just say "I'm not muslim"?
Big movies typically get released in the U.S. first. After a few months, they move to Europe... a few months after that, they trickle down to the rest of the world. By the time a movie has its theatrical premiere in Europe or Asia, it has often been released in America on video or DVD. If Europeans can chose between renting a new movie for $4 and seeing it in theaters for perhaps $70 (for a whole family,) a whole lot of them are going to skip the theaters. That kind of defeats the purpose of a theatrical release... hence region codes. But how many people have 40+ inch TV screens w/ 6 speaker 3D sound support? When they sell the movie in a movie theater, what should be sold is not the actual show, but the atmosphere. Watching a movie in a movie theater is completely different then watching it at home on your 18 inch TV. ;)
If the buisness model was changed to accomadate this, it would work better. The real problem is the overcharged candy in theaters.
Linux security is all-or-nothing. Administrators cannot delegate administrative privileges: a user who needs any administrative capability must be made a full administrator, which compromises best security practices. In contrast, Windows NT allows an administrator to delegate privileges at an exceptionally fine-grained level.
I never particularly liked the idea of one super-uber user. It doesn't make sense. This has to be the biggest annoyance of Linux.
If the site would just remove the scans, Sega would have no more argument and it would be back to a normal news site. I am surprised that they haven't just done this. It would be the easiest and sanest things to do.