Aussie classifications for film and literature HAVE SUCCEEDED. We can watch and read pretty much what we want, with commonsense restrictions that limit the availability of this material based on age.
How old do you have to be to get "Grand Theft Auto 3"?
If stupid legistations like this can be passed, and can never be struck down, wouldn't any political activism be a lost cause, then?
He said "as a whole". Laws are so big these days that it would be quite unlikely for every clause to be unconstitutional. Now, in the infinite future, it is likely that all of the parts will eventually become obsolete, and be overridden by new ones, but they won't all be "struck down".
In practise, though, publishers claim books are in print; perhaps they even fulfill one or two orders per year, but they are not actually printing those books - they may have a small stockpile somewhere. Unfortunately, it's virtually impossible for the author to prove this is just a ploy, and it's also impossible for fans of the author to get the damn books.
In this digital age, that shouldn't be a problem - a product (book, movie, software) should be considered out of print if an individual customer can't order it from the publisher or a distributor in some format at or below the original price, adjusted for inflation. When a company decides they no longer wants to print paper books/box art/manuals, they then should be required to provide downloads or bare-bones CD/DVDs, or allow copyright to lapse.
Is it at all possible to make money talking about playing games?
What do you think NFL pre- and post-game shows, ESPN news, and the sports segments in news programs are? Playing sports is arguably better than computer/console games, due to the exercise, but that doesn't really extend to sports coverage. The only additional standing that sports coverage has is solely due to its age.
Not that I'm likely to watch either sports or electronic game coverage.
I'll find out tonight if I get to go to a preview showing of LotR on Tuesday at 7pm in the biggest commercial theater in DC (the Uptown). I'm now possibly gloating at all of you.
You disagree? I should never consider that the probability of something that has never been observed should be considered astronomically low? Then I better start wearing a helmet to be ready for when the sky falls.
If you're talking about the so-called firmament falling, that has been shown to be impossible. If you're talking about meteors, those have been observed. Extraterrestrial life has never been observed, but has not been proved impossible. And the amount of data we have is not enough to calculate the likelyhood of life elsewhere.
There's a program called "Mirror" that's out on usenet these days that will reconstruct missing parts of a posted file using the parts you do have and a small number of extra files. I'm not sure how many of each are required, but the number of extra files is very small compared to the number of actual files, and it can reconstruct quite a few missing files.I can't get more specific, but it's pretty cool.
There are m unique packets, but any group of n of them will decode to the file where m is less than n. So if a packet is dropped, it's OK, as long as less than m-n are dropped. Essentially, there is redundant data, and the only response that needs to be sent is the "Ive got it" response.
At least it had no stupid skit, and it had film clips and the film's music. I watched FOX's LOTR special, so I guess I'm good at blocking out stupid narration...
Yeah, what a useless page. It looks like they just went to the 'boys' aisle, and copied down the writing on the box for the first 12 toys they saw. Where's the added value? Would a violence-sensetive parent be likely to miss this stuff, and accidentially get a violent toy?
Obviously, T2 was the good terminator's second mission. His first one took place later in John Connor's life. Time travel fixes all story problems except quality.
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Aussie classifications for film and literature HAVE SUCCEEDED. We can watch and read pretty much what we want, with commonsense restrictions that limit the availability of this material based on age.
How old do you have to be to get "Grand Theft Auto 3"?
You could probably just find the chip, and hit it with a hammer.
If you want a photo that looks like mine to incorporate in your own work, GO TAKE ONE YOURSELF.
Couldn't that also be considered a derivitive work, the way things are interpreted now?
If stupid legistations like this can be passed, and can never be struck down, wouldn't any political activism be a lost cause, then?
He said "as a whole". Laws are so big these days that it would be quite unlikely for every clause to be unconstitutional. Now, in the infinite future, it is likely that all of the parts will eventually become obsolete, and be overridden by new ones, but they won't all be "struck down".
In practise, though, publishers claim books are in print; perhaps they even fulfill one or two orders per year, but they are not actually printing those books - they may have a small stockpile somewhere. Unfortunately, it's virtually impossible for the author to prove this is just a ploy, and it's also impossible for fans of the author to get the damn books.
In this digital age, that shouldn't be a problem - a product (book, movie, software) should be considered out of print if an individual customer can't order it from the publisher or a distributor in some format at or below the original price, adjusted for inflation. When a company decides they no longer wants to print paper books/box art/manuals, they then should be required to provide downloads or bare-bones CD/DVDs, or allow copyright to lapse.
Aieee! Opposing council's tentacles have become entangled on me, and he seems to be having trouble releasing me!
Does this make it ok for warez kiddies to steal software just because they weren't going to buy it?
No, but you also can't count them when calculating how much money piracy "costs" the industry.
How do you know dog isn't good? Maybe Poodle tastes like streudel!
Is it at all possible to make money talking about playing games?
What do you think NFL pre- and post-game shows, ESPN news, and the sports segments in news programs are? Playing sports is arguably better than computer/console games, due to the exercise, but that doesn't really extend to sports coverage. The only additional standing that sports coverage has is solely due to its age.
Not that I'm likely to watch either sports or electronic game coverage.
There are several people who browse submissions, and they all have totally separate brains. This also explains duplicate posts.
Maybe John Carmack should just focus on building 3D engines which game developers could than use to produce brilliant games.
Isn't this what he does? He also has a quick&dirty design team to make a bare-bones engine demo (The Quake series) which is also fun.
Look at the image of the washington monument - I could wasily make a highly accurate map and use it for Very Evil Purposes (tm).
Homeless people sell maps that are just as accurate at the exit to the Smithsonian Metro stop.
Dropping the war on drugs is only slightly less absurd than dropping laws against murder.
That statement is only slightly less absurd than saying that drug use is only slightly worse than murder.
Drugs destroy families, friendships, and lives
So does alcohol. At one point, it was prohibited as well.
why should our government encourage their use?
What, if it's not forbidden it is by definition encouraged? Everything not prohibited is compulsory?
Disclaimer: I don't use alcohol or drugs.
Hee hee. Gloating is on. But only aimed at people in countries that haven't seen it yet.
I'll find out tonight if I get to go to a preview showing of LotR on Tuesday at 7pm in the biggest commercial theater in DC (the Uptown). I'm now possibly gloating at all of you.
You disagree? I should never consider that the probability of something that has never been observed should be considered astronomically low? Then I better start wearing a helmet to be ready for when the sky falls.
If you're talking about the so-called firmament falling, that has been shown to be impossible. If you're talking about meteors, those have been observed. Extraterrestrial life has never been observed, but has not been proved impossible. And the amount of data we have is not enough to calculate the likelyhood of life elsewhere.
There's a program called "Mirror" that's out on usenet these days that will reconstruct missing parts of a posted file using the parts you do have and a small number of extra files. I'm not sure how many of each are required, but the number of extra files is very small compared to the number of actual files, and it can reconstruct quite a few missing files.I can't get more specific, but it's pretty cool.
There are m unique packets, but any group of n of them will decode to the file where m is less than n. So if a packet is dropped, it's OK, as long as less than m-n are dropped. Essentially, there is redundant data, and the only response that needs to be sent is the "Ive got it" response.
Well, here's some "prior art" from 1992. It's so obvious that many people inadvertently misspell "Token Ring" to be more similar to Tolkien.
At least it had no stupid skit, and it had film clips and the film's music. I watched FOX's LOTR special, so I guess I'm good at blocking out stupid narration...
Except for that stupid "Fighting over the Cups" commercial. Blech. The first cup commercial was OK, but the new one is annoying.
The Tolkien/Token ring pun is so old and so obvious that it's pretty silly to point at a post from less than two weeks ago as the source.
Yeah, what a useless page. It looks like they just went to the 'boys' aisle, and copied down the writing on the box for the first 12 toys they saw. Where's the added value? Would a violence-sensetive parent be likely to miss this stuff, and accidentially get a violent toy?
Or, more accurately, after his ribs heal.
Obviously, T2 was the good terminator's second mission. His first one took place later in John Connor's life. Time travel fixes all story problems except quality.