Sure, the record companies are evil, staffed with hordes of demons straight from the pits of hell, so let's make em all suffer!
Believe it or not, this makes me think of war... The old generals sit in the plush chairs and send the little people off to die. In this case, it's the record company execs and the lawyers (the mercenaries of the modern world) who make all the money at the expense of the others. What about the record company employees? I'm sure very few are actually getting rich off of this, just as only a handfull of bands actually "make it" into self-sufficiency.
Things like these lawsuits flying back and forth aren't doing much to solve the actual problem. Modern day capitalism at work....
Well, once again us poor college students are being stereotyped by everyone ner the sun. Is it any wonder that we're always protesting something?
I was one of those typical "poor college students" who spent about $200 a month on alcohol and $20 on food; I sure would have liked to get that kind of free ride from Mommy and Daddy. (And I'm not stupid enough for credit card debt, another rarity apparently.) By the time I graduated just last may I had managed to download about 3 songs off of napster, all of which I owned.
But I digress... my point is that college students are just as diverse, if not more so, than pretty much every other group out there.
At least where I went to college, I'm sure yours is/was/will be different
Well, on the off cahance that the government can
actually get something done on a reasonable
timeline, it looks like we can't get away with
e-mail crime anymore. Maybe this will finally
put an end to all those happy spammers. I know
I for one would give up just about every personal
freedom to be rid of unwanted email.
Who knows, maybe they might even accomplish something even more usefull.... Sure, it could happen
Seriously, though, there are always tradeoffs to
government involvement in personal affairs, but
I'd definately be a lot happier if I knew what
exactly they'd be doing.
(Next thing you know they'll be running all of our
snail-mail through an xray machine as well... )
Actually, there are programs available that will allow you to play these older games on a new processor at a reasonable speed. One, MoSlo, I got packaged with the Ultima Collection CD (now that was a classic series, until they started focusing more on graphics than story. Ultima VI is still one of the best games of all times, and the only one I know of with an interesting plot twist:-) It sets you up in a shell running slow, and it's always interesting checking out the mulitpier... Running Ultima4 on a PII333 slowed it to about 7% of it's normal speed...heh....
Not a very happy development for mp3's. Under the laws, mp3's are pretty much illegal in all cases. But, then again, so is speeding. I don't feel like a criminal, go figure... I can't argue that, but that doesn't mean that it's a good law. mp3.com wasn't doing anything that would break the spirit of the law, it's just a bunch of people with nothing better to do who want to piss off as many people as possible. (Or so it seems... I mean, I still don't see what harm mp3.com was doing to anyone. If you own the cd, there's nothing wrong with having access to it without carrying it with you 24/7.) (napster, on the other hand.... I hardly use it, since my computer at home is so old it can't play mp3's, but that's just like the banks opening their vaults and expecting people to only take what's thiers.... that'd work....right)
That is definately quite a bit for one day, especially when (at least around here) you can rent then at the video store for about that much and keep them for up to a week. Of course, this is japan, which has a much higher standard of living. Is this 1.50 a simple conversion from yen to dollars, or are they taking this into account? BTW, I do have over a half-dozen consoles near my tv, from the know stuff like NES and a pair of SNES's to the obscure stuff like turbo-grafix and 3do, and it's quite a pain keeping it organized:-) The notslgia is definately great, but a day is about all I could tolerate of about 95% of those games... Of course, given the extreme numbers of them, there are some really exceptional games for "obsolete" systems, which except for the graphics are better than games today!
Well, this sure sounds like a good idea, but even assuming that we can get it to work I really doubt I'd like something like this. I don't really want an interface based around somthing that I don't have complete control over. Imagine how much concentration you'd need to get just about anything done. Every time my mind wandered (which it does very frequently), my computer would wander right along with me. It sure train people not to have dirty thoughts in front of a computer... potentially quite an embarassing situation;-)
(For the record, if something like this is ever implemented, it just seems like something M$ would do. Windows has always been the operating system that went off and did what it thought you might want to do anyway, and this would just make it that much more user-independant. "Just strap yourself infront of the box, and we'll do the rest," doesn't sound like fun to me...)
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Sure, the record companies are evil, staffed with hordes of demons straight from the pits of hell, so let's make em all suffer!
Believe it or not, this makes me think of war... The old generals sit in the plush chairs and send the little people off to die. In this case, it's the record company execs and the lawyers (the mercenaries of the modern world) who make all the money at the expense of the others. What about the record company employees? I'm sure very few are actually getting rich off of this, just as only a handfull of bands actually "make it" into self-sufficiency.
Things like these lawsuits flying back and forth aren't doing much to solve the actual problem. Modern day capitalism at work....
Well, once again us poor college students are being stereotyped by everyone ner the sun. Is it any wonder that we're always protesting something?
I was one of those typical "poor college students" who spent about $200 a month on alcohol and $20 on food; I sure would have liked to get that kind of free ride from Mommy and Daddy. (And I'm not stupid enough for credit card debt, another rarity apparently.) By the time I graduated just last may I had managed to download about 3 songs off of napster, all of which I owned.
But I digress... my point is that college students are just as diverse, if not more so, than pretty much every other group out there.
At least where I went to college, I'm sure yours is/was/will be different
Well, on the off cahance that the government can actually get something done on a reasonable timeline, it looks like we can't get away with e-mail crime anymore. Maybe this will finally put an end to all those happy spammers. I know I for one would give up just about every personal freedom to be rid of unwanted email.
Who knows, maybe they might even accomplish something even more usefull.... Sure, it could happen
Seriously, though, there are always tradeoffs to government involvement in personal affairs, but I'd definately be a lot happier if I knew what exactly they'd be doing.
(Next thing you know they'll be running all of our snail-mail through an xray machine as well... )
Actually, there are programs available that will allow you to play these older games on a new processor at a reasonable speed. One, MoSlo, I got packaged with the Ultima Collection CD (now that was a classic series, until they started focusing more on graphics than story. Ultima VI is still one of the best games of all times, and the only one I know of with an interesting plot twist :-) It sets you up in a shell running slow, and it's always interesting checking out the mulitpier... Running Ultima4 on a PII333 slowed it to about 7% of it's normal speed...heh....
I'll take it!
Not a very happy development for mp3's.
Under the laws, mp3's are pretty much illegal in all cases. But, then again, so is speeding. I don't feel like a criminal, go figure...
I can't argue that, but that doesn't mean that it's a good law. mp3.com wasn't doing anything that would break the spirit of the law, it's just a bunch of people with nothing better to do who want to piss off as many people as possible. (Or so it seems... I mean, I still don't see what harm mp3.com was doing to anyone. If you own the cd, there's nothing wrong with having access to it without carrying it with you 24/7.)
(napster, on the other hand.... I hardly use it, since my computer at home is so old it can't play mp3's, but that's just like the banks opening their vaults and expecting people to only take what's thiers.... that'd work....right)
That is definately quite a bit for one day, especially when (at least around here) you can rent then at the video store for about that much and keep them for up to a week. :-) The notslgia is definately great, but a day is about all I could tolerate of about 95% of those games...
Of course, this is japan, which has a much higher standard of living. Is this 1.50 a simple conversion from yen to dollars, or are they taking this into account?
BTW, I do have over a half-dozen consoles near my tv, from the know stuff like NES and a pair of SNES's to the obscure stuff like turbo-grafix and 3do, and it's quite a pain keeping it organized
Of course, given the extreme numbers of them, there are some really exceptional games for "obsolete" systems, which except for the graphics are better than games today!
Well, this sure sounds like a good idea, but even assuming that we can get it to work I really doubt I'd like something like this. ;-)
I don't really want an interface based around somthing that I don't have complete control over. Imagine how much concentration you'd need to get just about anything done. Every time my mind wandered (which it does very frequently), my computer would wander right along with me. It sure train people not to have dirty thoughts in front of a computer... potentially quite an embarassing situation
(For the record, if something like this is ever implemented, it just seems like something M$ would do. Windows has always been the operating system that went off and did what it thought you might want to do anyway, and this would just make it that much more user-independant. "Just strap yourself infront of the box, and we'll do the rest," doesn't sound like fun to me...)