I think it's one thing to "sample" another artist's work or to "quote" it in the context of another body of work. It's another thing entirely to completely subvert the intent of the author and re-tell a story they came up with the way you'd like it to be told.
I mean, OK, you've got me with The Phantom Edit. I guess these powers *can* be used for good and not just evil.
But how would you like to see a "re-edit" of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle paid for by the meat industry, in which a completely unregulated meat industry leads to magnificient quality, safe and well-paid workers, and low, low prices for everyone?
Even if they were to take another author's characters and write a completely new story, such as with Nora Zeal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, at least this is a derivative work and not trying to reproduce or supplant or replace the original. It's a respone to the original, not a remake or re-edit.
How about this for an idea: You want to tell a clean story? Fine. Make one up yourself. Create an original work. It's not that hard.
I'd definitely buy it if it were released. I'm all about having choices in the market, and OS X running natively on x86 hardware would be a step in the right direction. Both from the standpoint that I'd have more choices of what OS to run on my PC-compatible box, and in terms of what hardware I can choose to run Mac OS X on.
Come on, Steve -- give me a 2-button trackpad on a Titanium powerbook, that's all I ask for. I'm paying three grand for the thing, the least it could have is the number of mouse buttons *I* want on it.
I say we trade the language gene for their AIDS immunity gene.
It would be beneficial to both species. Well, the language gene is arguably more trouble than it's worth, but these monkeys are dumb and will probably fall for it if we throw in a few extra bananas to sweeten the deal.
Why not offer any and all office suites (MS, WP, OO, Star) and let the consumer decide what he really wants/needs?
Granted, the average consumer is still uninformed, but it'd sure be nice to be able to choose what software I get bundled with my computer, instead of having it rammed down my throat whether I want it or not.
Don't they keep harping on the fact that a chimpanzee is something very close to 100% human, with only a tiny percentage of difference in the genome? How close to authentic can you get with 88% of the genome intact?
If this is true, and you're really leaving HP on your principles, I greatly admire your conviction. If you run for something, I'll vote for you. Best of luck.
Files *I* create are IP too. They're MY IP. And I have a right to copy them. I'd like to be able to make a living, too. The RI|MPAA don't want you to have access to anything but crippled playback devices. If they got together with book publishers, they'd want to take everyone's Office suite away and replace it with Acrobat Reader and Word Viewer.
I also maintain that I have a right to copy other people's IP that I've legitimately purchased. I have the right to do this for purposes of making backup copies, to excerpt quotes for criticism or review, time and space shifting, etc. I have a right to go to a friend's house and watch a pay-per-view program that I didn't pay for. I have a right to borrow someone else's music CD or video game. If I bought it, I have the right to sell it.
Go read the UCITA, the DMCA, the SSSCA bill, a few EULAs, and some speeches made by Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti going back over the past few years. Then try and tell me I'm a chicken little.
When is the Catholic church going to sue Toho for using "God-" as a previx? That's some age-old copyright there. Old enough that soon it'll get reclaimed by the next amendment to the copyright expiration laws. Toho better start quaking in their boots. Well, not quaking. Wouldn't want iD software to sue, after all.
Hey, I'd love to code, but I'm not a programmer. I'm a geek just the same.
If I was a programmer, I'd probably be saying that I'd love to code, but I'm deeply afraid of being sent to prison for coding!
You can't code if the politicians make it illegal to code so many of the basic tools we take for granted. You need to secure and safeguard your right to do that now.
Actually, yesterday would have been better. There was a time of innocense when that wasn't necessary, but that time is sadly past us now.
Coding and being politically active aren't mutually exclusive, so choosing one OR the other is a false dichotomy. Both are important, and both need to be done right. Declan's point might make sense if we understand it as "ineffective lobbying is a waste" but the lesson to take from that is "don't bother lobbying", it's "Grok lobbying and do it right."
Looks like they're not the only ones who can't add
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From the article at news.com.com:
The bankrupt telecommunications giant says an audit reveals another $3.3 billion in accounting errors, bringing the total to more than $7 billion.
Who else are you going to go to if you can't get your Mac working?
Seriously, it shouldn't be too hard for them to provide damn good support considering that they have complete control over the specifications of the hardware *and* the operating system.
You can't run into the sort of situation where Compaq blames Microsoft, Microsoft says it's Mitsumi's fault, and Mitsumi blames Compaq, and you're a ping pong ball going back and forth between everyone. With Apple, the buck stops in exactly one place (unless you're dealing with a 3rd party application).
Someone hacked my Atari 2600 once...
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I was right in the middle of playing Pitfall, when suddenly I noticed the game start to slow down.
I scratched my head in wonderment until I notice Pitfall Harry stop in his tracks, give me the finger, and a crudely-drawn voice bubble appeared above his head with the words "1 0wnz0r j00R VCS, fagit!!!"
Right away I knew I had been hacked, so I immediately lifted the phone cradle off my modem. Fortunately, it was only a 300 baud connection, so the culprit only made of with a K or so of the Pitfall! ROM that was inserted into the cartridge slot at the time. And simply cycling the power on the console wiped any malicious code he might have entered directly into the 2k of onboard RAM...
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Bullshit. There've been other attempts, none of them particularly successful:
In the 50's or 60's, there was some children's tv show that had you overlay a transparent plastic sheet on top of the tv screen. At certain points of the show, you were asked to draw an object into the program to "help" the heroes get out of some kind of jam. Granted, this is not really interactive, but if you're a 5 or 6 year old with a lot of imagination, it is. I never saw it, and I don't remember the show's title, but there was a spot on the shows on NPR a few months ago.
In the 70's, the early video game consoles were often described as "interactive television"... Granted, video games are only television in the sense that they're literally being viewed on a television... it's not broadcast tv with actors and stuff, but it's truly interactive.
In the late 80's, there was yet another stab at the interactive children's show. Called "Captain Power", you used special light gun toys to shoot at computer-animated bad guys to help out Captain Power. The show sucked, and I don't think your scores were shared or posted anywhere, so there wasn't a community aspect to the show, but it was *kindof* interactive.
This new show might be something newer/better, but it's not the first. Maybe it'll be the first successful, truly interactive show. But why is it that I get the feeling that by "interactive" they really mean "you can buy product-placement props in realtime?"
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Get a laptop and a USB mouse for aiming, and frag away.
This is interesting, but will be of rather limited usefulness if the viewable angle is not very wide.
I think it's one thing to "sample" another artist's work or to "quote" it in the context of another body of work. It's another thing entirely to completely subvert the intent of the author and re-tell a story they came up with the way you'd like it to be told.
I mean, OK, you've got me with The Phantom Edit. I guess these powers *can* be used for good and not just evil.
But how would you like to see a "re-edit" of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle paid for by the meat industry, in which a completely unregulated meat industry leads to magnificient quality, safe and well-paid workers, and low, low prices for everyone?
Even if they were to take another author's characters and write a completely new story, such as with Nora Zeal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, at least this is a derivative work and not trying to reproduce or supplant or replace the original. It's a respone to the original, not a remake or re-edit.
How about this for an idea: You want to tell a clean story? Fine. Make one up yourself. Create an original work. It's not that hard.
I'd definitely buy it if it were released. I'm all about having choices in the market, and OS X running natively on x86 hardware would be a step in the right direction. Both from the standpoint that I'd have more choices of what OS to run on my PC-compatible box, and in terms of what hardware I can choose to run Mac OS X on.
Come on, Steve -- give me a 2-button trackpad on a Titanium powerbook, that's all I ask for. I'm paying three grand for the thing, the least it could have is the number of mouse buttons *I* want on it.
Hey, now, that may be true, but I don't think ICANN would appreciate you categorizing them thusly.
I say we trade the language gene for their AIDS immunity gene.
It would be beneficial to both species. Well, the language gene is arguably more trouble than it's worth, but these monkeys are dumb and will probably fall for it if we throw in a few extra bananas to sweeten the deal.
Why not offer any and all office suites (MS, WP, OO, Star) and let the consumer decide what he really wants/needs?
Granted, the average consumer is still uninformed, but it'd sure be nice to be able to choose what software I get bundled with my computer, instead of having it rammed down my throat whether I want it or not.
is run on any kind of hardware you care to name. If Apple would port OS X to x86 hardware, you'd see a hell of a lot more people switching.
I'm not even to the point yet where I can compile my own kernel, and now you want me to build a clean room so I can build my own hardware?
It'd be nice if I could do this, but what's the point in OSH if you can't build your own?
Don't they keep harping on the fact that a chimpanzee is something very close to 100% human, with only a tiny percentage of difference in the genome? How close to authentic can you get with 88% of the genome intact?
Time to invest in companies developing encryption.
If this is true, and you're really leaving HP on your principles, I greatly admire your conviction. If you run for something, I'll vote for you. Best of luck.
Probably because, technically speaking, Linux is just a kernel and not a full-fledged OS.
I'd imagine that most Linux users will want to pick their favorite distro, too. A few might want to custom compile their own kernel.
FreeDOS gives the user just enough power to connect to a site where they can download the most recent ISO of their choice.
Files *I* create are IP too. They're MY IP. And I have a right to copy them. I'd like to be able to make a living, too. The RI|MPAA don't want you to have access to anything but crippled playback devices. If they got together with book publishers, they'd want to take everyone's Office suite away and replace it with Acrobat Reader and Word Viewer.
I also maintain that I have a right to copy other people's IP that I've legitimately purchased. I have the right to do this for purposes of making backup copies, to excerpt quotes for criticism or review, time and space shifting, etc. I have a right to go to a friend's house and watch a pay-per-view program that I didn't pay for. I have a right to borrow someone else's music CD or video game. If I bought it, I have the right to sell it.
Go read the UCITA, the DMCA, the SSSCA bill, a few EULAs, and some speeches made by Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti going back over the past few years. Then try and tell me I'm a chicken little.
It is and will be illegal to program apps that do things like copy files unless we do something about it.
When is the Catholic church going to sue Toho for using "God-" as a previx? That's some age-old copyright there. Old enough that soon it'll get reclaimed by the next amendment to the copyright expiration laws. Toho better start quaking in their boots. Well, not quaking. Wouldn't want iD software to sue, after all.
What about Mojira?
Scientists need to act swiftly to develop a super robot version of Mozilla called Mecha Mozilla. It will be invincible!
Hey, I'd love to code, but I'm not a programmer. I'm a geek just the same.
If I was a programmer, I'd probably be saying that I'd love to code, but I'm deeply afraid of being sent to prison for coding!
You can't code if the politicians make it illegal to code so many of the basic tools we take for granted. You need to secure and safeguard your right to do that now.
Actually, yesterday would have been better. There was a time of innocense when that wasn't necessary, but that time is sadly past us now.
Coding and being politically active aren't mutually exclusive, so choosing one OR the other is a false dichotomy. Both are important, and both need to be done right. Declan's point might make sense if we understand it as "ineffective lobbying is a waste" but the lesson to take from that is "don't bother lobbying", it's "Grok lobbying and do it right."
From the article at news.com.com:
So... $3.3x10^9 + $3.3x10^9 > $7x10^9 ??
WTF kind of math are these auditors using???
Who else are you going to go to if you can't get your Mac working?
Seriously, it shouldn't be too hard for them to provide damn good support considering that they have complete control over the specifications of the hardware *and* the operating system.
You can't run into the sort of situation where Compaq blames Microsoft, Microsoft says it's Mitsumi's fault, and Mitsumi blames Compaq, and you're a ping pong ball going back and forth between everyone. With Apple, the buck stops in exactly one place (unless you're dealing with a 3rd party application).
Surely, you mean "ninjii", don't you?
I was right in the middle of playing Pitfall, when suddenly I noticed the game start to slow down.
I scratched my head in wonderment until I notice Pitfall Harry stop in his tracks, give me the finger, and a crudely-drawn voice bubble appeared above his head with the words "1 0wnz0r j00R VCS, fagit!!!"
Right away I knew I had been hacked, so I immediately lifted the phone cradle off my modem. Fortunately, it was only a 300 baud connection, so the culprit only made of with a K or so of the Pitfall! ROM that was inserted into the cartridge slot at the time. And simply cycling the power on the console wiped any malicious code he might have entered directly into the 2k of onboard RAM...
Phew! Close calls...
If you had anything to do with the reconsideration, we appreciate it.
Bullshit. There've been other attempts, none of them particularly successful:
This new show might be something newer/better, but it's not the first. Maybe it'll be the first successful, truly interactive show. But why is it that I get the feeling that by "interactive" they really mean "you can buy product-placement props in realtime?"
Saddam Hussein has reportedly spent $3.4 million dollars outfitting Irqq's elite Republican Guard with mirrored sunglasses.
Upon hearing the news, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer issued the following press release on behalf of the Bush Administration:
"D'oh!"