I'm confused. Are they releasing the video *with* the subtitles, or just the subtitles? If it's just the subtitles, I don't see what the diference between that and babelfish of a transcript....
In Australia (NSW at least) there is a permit system for disabled spaces. [snip] That overcomes the problem to a large degree.
In America, there is a permit system for disabled spaces. This causes the problem to a large degree.
No, really. See, people "borrow" handicap hangers from aunties, mommas, and oh, what the heck, *complete and total* strangers who have foolishly decided to own cars which have breakable glass and/or jimmyable locks.
And that's why, even *with* the disabled placard/hangy thing/tag, I often find myself shooting "why are *you* parking there spaces?"
Don't even get me started on people who wind up "needing" a disabled spot through fault of their own (e.g., morbidly obese).
As in, it was blogged to heck and back over the weekend and *still* you chose not to reference *any* of the *many* sites that posted it prior to/. "found"?
I *should* be able to spend mod points on articles themselves... but I haven't received any mod points since posting negative things about/. Go figure.
You're right; I'm wrong. http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html very clearly states that game mechanics are not copyrightable (although exact wording of rules may be).
And... it seems foobar that you can't copyright games. I mean, why would Microsoft even bother negotiating for rights? Why not make a brand new game, which just happens to have the *exact* same game mechanics, but is known as "Pioneers"?
Does that mean that I'm free to make a "compatible" expansion to Munchkin?
You can't copyright the general rules - Milton Bradley can't own Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess for example. Mod parent down, this is just FUD:)
Not true. Parker Brothers lost the monopoly on Monopoly because the game wasn't original. The only thing they were allowed to walk away with was the original artwork.
Settlers, although perhaps evolutionary rather than revolutionary, *is* an original work. As such, copying it will get one thrown in court as soon as that blip appears on the IP radar.
I'll do you one better. In the fourth grade I did a diorama of "Nine Princes of Amber". I chose the scene from the cover. Corwin, blood-drenched, sword in hand, holding high the severed head of a shadow cat.
Cool points with the guys in the class, strange looks from the teacher, and a (sealed) note from the school counselor. (Only 20 years ago)
I didn't get the impression that race was a huge issue in the novels
I can understand someone not seeing that. The more subtle the message, the more powerful the art, I guess.
LeGuin is not happy about the whitey cast because of two things.
1) Race is a big deal in her work because it wasn't a big deal. 2) Race is (sometimes) a big deal in her work because it's really (or also) referring to gender. (or visa versa)
The thing that (at least in the sixties and even seventies) that was important was that her portrayl of race wasn't a big smelly trout moral issue; LeGuin just presented the characters as people.
Sometimes, though, in her work she talks about gender issues (Left Hand of Darkness of course springs to mind) and the subtext is clearly "i'm also talking about race here, white sci-fi reading America!". And versa visa.
Although her stories are fun stories, she is above all a *social* science fiction author, so there *is* also a subtext present, whether or not one chooses to pay attention to commentary on social discourse.
I read an online interview with Klaus (cough-ahem) and when asked about the hour-plus length of his games, he laughed and stated that they're *really* only supposed to take as long as it says they are on the box. He added that if the player is taking too long to move, the other players in Germany begin to chant "Move or we shall hit you!"
How long *should* a turn in SoC take to complete? Maybe I'm just spoiled by the amount of time turn-based computer strategy games give me to think.
It almost seems intentional during the day, but at night, you know the lights were designed to turn red when cars approach.
Yes. They do this (at least in my area) to decrease traffic fatalities. The theory is that making lights turn red on vehicle approach decreases the liklihood that people will blow through the intersection. If the light is red well before you actually get there, you won't run it. If it's *just turning yellow/red* then certain types tend to speed up to make the light.
When the "but it *just* turned red" light runners blow through an intersection at 2am they have a tendancy to run into cars trying to cross the thoroughfare.
Although annoying to responsible drivers, red on approach is easy to implement and has some marginal increase in safety.
Not to mention the degree will get you past the HR department.
If you're going through the HR department, then you're doing something wrong. HR is for companies to hire and manage food service people or janitors or laundry people. And HR stuff like insurance and benefits.
HR is a barrier to entry. If you're going through HR, then you're (usually needlessly) subjecting yourself to a filter that weeds out job candidates.
Networking is the key to getting good jobs. Somebody you did a favor for a year ago will be looking for a new employee a year from now. Someone you were friends with in college will think of you when their manager asks if they know a good person for that position that needs to be filled.
My advice for getting a better job: Be nice. Wait. Ask.
Until you require people pass a test to have a PC, then you can not expect the user to have any knowledge about it.
Would you expect a TV watcher to understand how their TV works?
Bad analogy. I'm sure that what you meant to say was "Would you expect a car driver to understand how their car works?" And my answer would be qualified "yes".
I'm not saying people should understand how DLLs work or what TCP/IP is, but I am saying that should have a basic understanding of "this is not normal computer behavior, I need to have it fixed or I will harm myself/others" or "this is what I can do to avoid computer problems."
Drivers have to know what to do in the event of a blow-out, when to have their lights turned on, how to drive safely over ice/standing water; why shouldn't computer users be expected to know how to not get trojans/viruses and what to do when their computer acts slow and has porn pop-ups?
The catch is that you still have to decrypt the content at the client end for viewing. Unless you include unique serial numbers in the packaging that the user has to input each time (yeah right), or require the DVD player to be internet connected and download keys
Now you've done it. We were trying to keep this a secret from *AA, but now that the cat's out of the bag, you can expect to see CEA (copyright enforcement agency) officers stopping by to ask you a few questions about your lack of Compliance and Patriotism.
At the bottom of this post is an excerpt from the book that was the keypoint of Scopes. Pay attention to the last sentence. If you don't read anything else from this post, read the last sentence.
I say that, yes, the racism of the early 20th century was worse than that of the late 19th century. Before evolution, slaves were just animals, savages. Elitist, yes, but not racist. There were attempts to tie "science" to the white man's *obvious* superiority (phrenology comes to mind), but it was mainly grounded in a tautological begging the question "of all the ways of life and civilizations of the world, ours is the best, therefore we are the best".
Post Darwin, there was *"real" science* that showed that even if you dressed the noble savage and taught him table manners, there was something fundamentally *inferior* in him that could not be removed, a taint that was tied to race.
So, yes, racism got worse because of teaching evolution. It's not that evolution was or is racist, it's just that as a tool for hate-mongering and promoting racist agenda, it was so much more effective than what existed before.
http://www. thezephyr.com/scopes.htm The Races of Man. -- At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, in structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.
The fact that China has this status is only remarkable because they are a nominally Communist country.
No. They were removed from the list due to humans rights violations. One could argue that communist countries are more likely to engage in such abuses, but that's not necessarily the case. They're Most Favored now because we favor receiving dollars from them. In exchange for them buying our crap (and selling cheap crap to us), we gladly turn a blind eye to on-going human rights violations like, say, using political prisoners as slave labor.
Although I'll admit that SCSI caught me off gaurd. Apple originally was pushing for it to be pronounced "se.xy". "scuzzy" won, another example of the cool losing out to the clunky.
Neither myself nor my wife (we weren't married at the time, if that would have made any difference) have received our checks. I also signed up her grandmother. None of us has received a check yet. What recourse is there?
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I'm confused. Are they releasing the video *with* the subtitles, or just the subtitles? If it's just the subtitles, I don't see what the diference between that and babelfish of a transcript....
Uhm.... so, I couldn't help but notice that *some* of these movies are *so* horrible that they're in the the super-duper cheap bin at WalMart.
I got Frogs for a laugh this past October... for right at $5.
Hmm. So... I can buy a whole bunch of copies of, say, Frogs or Amos and Andrew for $5.24 at Walmart and turn around and receive $7.10 for them?
Or am I reading this way wrong?
In Australia (NSW at least) there is a permit system for disabled spaces. [snip] That overcomes the problem to a large degree.
In America, there is a permit system for disabled spaces. This causes the problem to a large degree.
No, really. See, people "borrow" handicap hangers from aunties, mommas, and oh, what the heck, *complete and total* strangers who have foolishly decided to own cars which have breakable glass and/or jimmyable locks.
And that's why, even *with* the disabled placard/hangy thing/tag, I often find myself shooting "why are *you* parking there spaces?"
Don't even get me started on people who wind up "needing" a disabled spot through fault of their own (e.g., morbidly obese).
As in, it was blogged to heck and back over the weekend and *still* you chose not to reference *any* of the *many* sites that posted it prior to /. "found"?
/. Go figure.
I *should* be able to spend mod points on articles themselves... but I haven't received any mod points since posting negative things about
You're right; I'm wrong.
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html very clearly states that game mechanics are not copyrightable (although exact wording of rules may be).
And... it seems foobar that you can't copyright games. I mean, why would Microsoft even bother negotiating for rights? Why not make a brand new game, which just happens to have the *exact* same game mechanics, but is known as "Pioneers"?
Does that mean that I'm free to make a "compatible" expansion to Munchkin?
Unfortunately it's a wimpy server...
It's called "The First Colonists". Try downloading it from the underdogs.
You can't copyright the general rules - Milton Bradley can't own Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess for example. Mod parent down, this is just FUD :)
Not true. Parker Brothers lost the monopoly on Monopoly because the game wasn't original. The only thing they were allowed to walk away with was the original artwork.
Settlers, although perhaps evolutionary rather than revolutionary, *is* an original work. As such, copying it will get one thrown in court as soon as that blip appears on the IP radar.
who would think. . . that you can read today's Email in 60 years?
I have personal email from 10 years ago. I can easily see today's email hanging around for another sixty years.
I'll do you one better. In the fourth grade I did a diorama of "Nine Princes of Amber". I chose the scene from the cover. Corwin, blood-drenched, sword in hand, holding high the severed head of a shadow cat.
Cool points with the guys in the class, strange looks from the teacher, and a (sealed) note from the school counselor. (Only 20 years ago)
I didn't get the impression that race was a huge issue in the novels
I can understand someone not seeing that. The more subtle the message, the more powerful the art, I guess.
LeGuin is not happy about the whitey cast because of two things.
1) Race is a big deal in her work because it wasn't a big deal.
2) Race is (sometimes) a big deal in her work because it's really (or also) referring to gender. (or visa versa)
The thing that (at least in the sixties and even seventies) that was important was that her portrayl of race wasn't a big smelly trout moral issue; LeGuin just presented the characters as people.
Sometimes, though, in her work she talks about gender issues (Left Hand of Darkness of course springs to mind) and the subtext is clearly "i'm also talking about race here, white sci-fi reading America!". And versa visa.
Although her stories are fun stories, she is above all a *social* science fiction author, so there *is* also a subtext present, whether or not one chooses to pay attention to commentary on social discourse.
I guess I'm a dither-er. I'm going to try to play this Christmas break using sub-30 second turns. Thanks for the advice!
Any experience with Citadels?
I read an online interview with Klaus (cough-ahem) and when asked about the hour-plus length of his games, he laughed and stated that they're *really* only supposed to take as long as it says they are on the box. He added that if the player is taking too long to move, the other players in Germany begin to chant "Move or we shall hit you!"
How long *should* a turn in SoC take to complete? Maybe I'm just spoiled by the amount of time turn-based computer strategy games give me to think.
Settlers of Catan! Quick to pick up, 30-45 minutes for a 4 player game...
How in the name of Sid Jackson do you manage a 30-45 minute game? I haven't been able to get a (human) 4 player game completed in under 80 minutes.
It almost seems intentional during the day, but at night, you know the lights were designed to turn red when cars approach.
Yes. They do this (at least in my area) to decrease traffic fatalities. The theory is that making lights turn red on vehicle approach decreases the liklihood that people will blow through the intersection. If the light is red well before you actually get there, you won't run it. If it's *just turning yellow/red* then certain types tend to speed up to make the light.
When the "but it *just* turned red" light runners blow through an intersection at 2am they have a tendancy to run into cars trying to cross the thoroughfare.
Although annoying to responsible drivers, red on approach is easy to implement and has some marginal increase in safety.
Not to mention the degree will get you past the HR department.
If you're going through the HR department, then you're doing something wrong. HR is for companies to hire and manage food service people or janitors or laundry people. And HR stuff like insurance and benefits.
HR is a barrier to entry. If you're going through HR, then you're (usually needlessly) subjecting yourself to a filter that weeds out job candidates.
Networking is the key to getting good jobs. Somebody you did a favor for a year ago will be looking for a new employee a year from now. Someone you were friends with in college will think of you when their manager asks if they know a good person for that position that needs to be filled.
My advice for getting a better job:
Be nice.
Wait.
Ask.
Until you require people pass a test to have a PC, then you can not expect the user to have any knowledge about it.
Would you expect a TV watcher to understand how their TV works?
Bad analogy. I'm sure that what you meant to say was "Would you expect a car driver to understand how their car works?" And my answer would be qualified "yes".
I'm not saying people should understand how DLLs work or what TCP/IP is, but I am saying that should have a basic understanding of "this is not normal computer behavior, I need to have it fixed or I will harm myself/others" or "this is what I can do to avoid computer problems."
Drivers have to know what to do in the event of a blow-out, when to have their lights turned on, how to drive safely over ice/standing water; why shouldn't computer users be expected to know how to not get trojans/viruses and what to do when their computer acts slow and has porn pop-ups?
The catch is that you still have to decrypt the content at the client end for viewing. Unless you include unique serial numbers in the packaging that the user has to input each time (yeah right), or require the DVD player to be internet connected and download keys
Now you've done it. We were trying to keep this a secret from *AA, but now that the cat's out of the bag, you can expect to see CEA (copyright enforcement agency) officers stopping by to ask you a few questions about your lack of Compliance and Patriotism.
At the bottom of this post is an excerpt from the book that was the keypoint of Scopes. Pay attention to the last sentence. If you don't read anything else from this post, read the last sentence.
I say that, yes, the racism of the early 20th century was worse than that of the late 19th century. Before evolution, slaves were just animals, savages. Elitist, yes, but not racist. There were attempts to tie "science" to the white man's *obvious* superiority (phrenology comes to mind), but it was mainly grounded in a tautological begging the question "of all the ways of life and civilizations of the world, ours is the best, therefore we are the best".
Post Darwin, there was *"real" science* that showed that even if you dressed the noble savage and taught him table manners, there was something fundamentally *inferior* in him that could not be removed, a taint that was tied to race.
So, yes, racism got worse because of teaching evolution. It's not that evolution was or is racist, it's just that as a tool for hate-mongering and promoting racist agenda, it was so much more effective than what existed before.
http://www.
thezephyr.com/scopes.htm
The Races of Man. -- At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, in structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.
The fact that China has this status is only remarkable because they are a nominally Communist country.
No. They were removed from the list due to humans rights violations. One could argue that communist countries are more likely to engage in such abuses, but that's not necessarily the case. They're Most Favored now because we favor receiving dollars from them. In exchange for them buying our crap (and selling cheap crap to us), we gladly turn a blind eye to on-going human rights violations like, say, using political prisoners as slave labor.
All hail the mighty dollar, long live King Bush.
I loved Snow Crash when I was 21. I like it now that I'm 31, but my respect for Stephenson as an author comes from his past four novels, not SC.
Yes! You've hit it exactly! I tell people that Snow Crash is fun whereas Cryptonomicon is good.
I'm currently re-reading his canon and the writing gets better and better. More verbose, yes, but also much more tight.
Anyhoo, "loved it at 21, like it at 31" is how I can describe a lot of SF. Thanks for the comment (which I'll be using liberally now).
Ever want to slap someone for saying fack, rather than fax?
No. fax would, presumably, be the pluralization of FAQ, or FAQs. One is a fack. Two or more are fax.
Or is it Eff Ay Queue Ess?
Although I'll admit that SCSI caught me off gaurd.
Apple originally was pushing for it to be pronounced "se.xy". "scuzzy" won, another example of the cool losing out to the clunky.
"Is that fast S.exy or ultra-wide S.exy?"
Just because a name is born of ignorance doen't prevent it from becoming the common name for something.
And then there's mountain oysters. Sometimes, ignorance *is* bliss.
Neither myself nor my wife (we weren't married at the time, if that would have made any difference) have received our checks. I also signed up her grandmother. None of us has received a check yet. What recourse is there?
jwz? Is that you?