how am i going to know what CDs to buy?? i usually buy CDs based off of what songs I hear off the radio and like - if I hear x song and like it i may go buy the album.
however, if everything on radio sucks (which in my opinion it does) then how am i going to know what to buy? what am i going to listen to?
i'm certainly not going to go to the record store and randomly buy CDs at $17/pop.
again, i rather like the idea of songs being popular because they're good, not because some record company executive has an agenda.
i also did not say giving copyrighted things away for free wasn't illegal - i said i did not think it was as bad as making a profit off of them. additionally, non-profit radio stations give copyrighted material away "for free."
what if we compared file-sharing to the radio... because it's perfectly legal for anybody to turn on the radio and listen to music, right? file-sharing services are like a radio station. but wait a minute, radio stations make money - they have commercial breaks and they get money for those, and as a result of profitting from playing the music that they air they have to pay royalty fees to the record companies or whatever, right?
but what about non-profit radio stations? i used to hang out at my college's non-profit radio station (it was a while ago so please correct me if i'm wrong) - non-profits can play whatever music they like without royalty fees. perfectly legal. we were told we could bring in our own personal CDs as well as use the station's CD library to play songs on air.
well, file-sharing services are most certainly non-profit - there are no commercials or ads or anything on them (well, most of them, right?). so couldn't you liken the file-sharing services to a non-profit radio station?
what i'm getting at here is that nobody is profitting from filesharing. yes, the riaa and the artists aren't profitting, but neither are the filesharers. you could even argue that the artists are profitting, because people are finding out about their music and buying their merchandise and concert tickets. i would think that a crime against copyright law would involve profiting from a copyright that you don't own. when you're not profitting - i don't see that being as bad.
what really upsets me is that the selection of music available on file-sharing services i think is really more representative of what people want to hear. you cannot turn on the radio and get that kind of mix - what is pushed on the radio stations is what clear channel / the riaa / etc want you to hear. it's artifical. file-sharing services have a more natural selection of music and you'll hear music you never would have been able to, otherwise, and it really does help those artists that these companies have maybe decided not to push. i mean, OMG artists will get popular based on how GOOD they are, not just how much money the record companies want to spend on publicizing them.
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something about this guy's language and grammar reminds me of gene ray, of timecube.com fame...
i kid you not; i learned how to read playing the old school sierra games - king's quest and space quest. you had to be able to read and write (albeit pretty broken sentences, lol) to play them, and i got so jealous of watching my older brother playing them that i learned to read by watching over his shoulder and then playing by myself.
i even got skipped ahead a grade in reading when i entered elementary.
I'm studying Japanese at college and I came across this at one point - it's an excellent educational site about Japan aimed towards kids - it has very basic tutorials in Japanese language and it has tons of information on Japan's culture, like an interactive shockwave thing to try ikebana (the art of flower arrangement) and kimonos. It also has information about some elementary schools in Japans and messages and drawings from the students. A really great site.
I'm a female senior at RPI now, majoring in computer science.
I have never received any discouragement from my advisor or any professor or anything like that. Quite to the contrary, a lot of them seemed excited that a girl was so interested in CS. The only discouragement I've received is from my male classmates. However, that's pretty understandable given their (well most of them) pretty pathetic lack of social skills.
>I also give credit to these kinds of games for >getting me into programming. Sitting for hours in >front of a computer figuring out the exact syntax >to type is what I do for a living now, but then >maybe I'm just a sad git;0)
as sad as it may sound... the main reason i am studying computer science and electronic art (dual major) is because of those games. they're my whole childhood. boy i wish sierra was the way it used to be, being an old skool sierra programmer was my childhood career ambition.
on a similar note has anyone seen Al Lowe's website, http://www.allowe.com ? he was involved in a few of the space quest games and is the creator of the leisure suit larry games. poor guy, they really screwed him over. anyway, he's got a really cool site... he has some of the old skool games he worked on for download (i.e. the black cauldron) and he has leisure suit larry mp3s and hints and how to break the copy protection tricks and stuff.
Have you ever seen king's quest 8? the last king's quest i played was a FPA style game. it was horrible!! anyway, if they do that to space quest i will be PISSED.
space quest had the funniest death messages though. the narrator would just totally rip on you. i would try to kill roger at every point just to see the messages. like in space quest 3 if you jump in the grinder at the top of the garbage barge you turn into usda approved packaged meat.... (ok so i was like 8 years old, i guess it was funnier then.) you could actually get sonny bonds in pq1 ega to take off his clothes, but he died immediately. that's just stupid. space quest deaths were far more entertaining.
anybody ever notice that if you look in the hollow of a tree by the bridge to the vampires place in ega king's quest 2 that you get a demo for space quest i? hehe
I do a lot of random chalk drawings around my college campus... it usually takes them a week and maybe one or two rainfalls for them to wash away, and this is if i fix them too... I use standard Crayola sidewalk chalk that costs $4 a box.
shameless plug:
my chalk - http://chalk.rpi.dhs.org/
and more coming soon:-D
~mo
I have found odigo to be a really good aim alternative; you can talk to odigo, aim, yahoo, and icq people. You just set up your screennames/passwords for each service and everytime you open the software it automatically logs you in to everything (and if you dont want to be on a particular service you can turn it off.) You can get it at (gee i wonder where) http://www.odigo.com/
AOL has been giving me this message on Odigo:
AOL Instant Messenger: You have been disconnected from the AOL Instant Message Service (SM) for accessing the AOL network using unauthorized software. You can download a FREE, fully featured, and authorized client, here http://www.aol.com/aim/download2.html .
but I still remain connected.:-)
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(i played a couple games at the booth wednesday 3)
that's a simplistic way of looking at it....
how am i going to know what CDs to buy?? i usually buy CDs based off of what songs I hear off the radio and like - if I hear x song and like it i may go buy the album.
however, if everything on radio sucks (which in my opinion it does) then how am i going to know what to buy? what am i going to listen to?
i'm certainly not going to go to the record store and randomly buy CDs at $17/pop.
again, i rather like the idea of songs being popular because they're good, not because some record company executive has an agenda.
i also did not say giving copyrighted things away for free wasn't illegal - i said i did not think it was as bad as making a profit off of them. additionally, non-profit radio stations give copyrighted material away "for free."
what if we compared file-sharing to the radio... because it's perfectly legal for anybody to turn on the radio and listen to music, right? file-sharing services are like a radio station. but wait a minute, radio stations make money - they have commercial breaks and they get money for those, and as a result of profitting from playing the music that they air they have to pay royalty fees to the record companies or whatever, right?
but what about non-profit radio stations? i used to hang out at my college's non-profit radio station (it was a while ago so please correct me if i'm wrong) - non-profits can play whatever music they like without royalty fees. perfectly legal. we were told we could bring in our own personal CDs as well as use the station's CD library to play songs on air.
well, file-sharing services are most certainly non-profit - there are no commercials or ads or anything on them (well, most of them, right?). so couldn't you liken the file-sharing services to a non-profit radio station?
what i'm getting at here is that nobody is profitting from filesharing. yes, the riaa and the artists aren't profitting, but neither are the filesharers. you could even argue that the artists are profitting, because people are finding out about their music and buying their merchandise and concert tickets. i would think that a crime against copyright law would involve profiting from a copyright that you don't own. when you're not profitting - i don't see that being as bad.
what really upsets me is that the selection of music available on file-sharing services i think is really more representative of what people want to hear. you cannot turn on the radio and get that kind of mix - what is pushed on the radio stations is what clear channel / the riaa / etc want you to hear. it's artifical. file-sharing services have a more natural selection of music and you'll hear music you never would have been able to, otherwise, and it really does help those artists that these companies have maybe decided not to push. i mean, OMG artists will get popular based on how GOOD they are, not just how much money the record companies want to spend on publicizing them.
http://www.techtv.com/unscrewed/episodeguides/stor y/0,24682,3489655,00.html
he wasn't a phd, he was bill o'neill, the ugy that runs toynbee.net
something about this guy's language and grammar reminds me of gene ray, of timecube.com fame...
i kid you not; i learned how to read playing the old school sierra games - king's quest and space quest. you had to be able to read and write (albeit pretty broken sentences, lol) to play them, and i got so jealous of watching my older brother playing them that i learned to read by watching over his shoulder and then playing by myself.
i even got skipped ahead a grade in reading when i entered elementary.
this guy's got a great point.
http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/
I'm studying Japanese at college and I came across this at one point - it's an excellent educational site about Japan aimed towards kids - it has very basic tutorials in Japanese language and it has tons of information on Japan's culture, like an interactive shockwave thing to try ikebana (the art of flower arrangement) and kimonos. It also has information about some elementary schools in Japans and messages and drawings from the students. A really great site.
Come to RPI. You'll see what I mean. ::rolls eyes:: And I did qualify my statement with a "well most of them."
When did this happen?
I'm a female senior at RPI now, majoring in computer science.
I have never received any discouragement from my advisor or any professor or anything like that. Quite to the contrary, a lot of them seemed excited that a girl was so interested in CS. The only discouragement I've received is from my male classmates. However, that's pretty understandable given their (well most of them) pretty pathetic lack of social skills.
Linux AGI studio http://samhain.cc.huji.ac.il/agi/studio.html
Sarien AGI Interpreter
http://sarien.sourceforge.ne/
Tierra Games (they remade kq1, etc)
http://tierragames.cjb.net/
David's AgiPhile Page (He made Dave Quest)
http://www.eds.org/~david/agi/
The Hidden Secrets Of Sierra (by Lance Ewing)
(probably the best place to start)
http://www.123.co.nz/lance/sierra.htm
The Ultimate AGI & SCI Site
tons of info
http://agisci.cjb.net/
Adventure Game Studio (software for making sierra games)
http://saturn.spaceports.com/~dosuser/ac.shtml
>I also give credit to these kinds of games for >getting me into programming. Sitting for hours in >front of a computer figuring out the exact syntax >to type is what I do for a living now, but then >maybe I'm just a sad git ;0)
as sad as it may sound... the main reason i am studying computer science and electronic art (dual major) is because of those games. they're my whole childhood. boy i wish sierra was the way it used to be, being an old skool sierra programmer was my childhood career ambition.
on a similar note has anyone seen Al Lowe's website, http://www.allowe.com ? he was involved in a few of the space quest games and is the creator of the leisure suit larry games. poor guy, they really screwed him over. anyway, he's got a really cool site... he has some of the old skool games he worked on for download (i.e. the black cauldron) and he has leisure suit larry mp3s and hints and how to break the copy protection tricks and stuff.
Have you ever seen king's quest 8? the last king's quest i played was a FPA style game. it was horrible!! anyway, if they do that to space quest i will be PISSED.
space quest had the funniest death messages though. the narrator would just totally rip on you. i would try to kill roger at every point just to see the messages. like in space quest 3 if you jump in the grinder at the top of the garbage barge you turn into usda approved packaged meat.... (ok so i was like 8 years old, i guess it was funnier then.) you could actually get sonny bonds in pq1 ega to take off his clothes, but he died immediately. that's just stupid. space quest deaths were far more entertaining.
anybody ever notice that if you look in the hollow of a tree by the bridge to the vampires place in ega king's quest 2 that you get a demo for space quest i? hehe
I do a lot of random chalk drawings around my college campus... it usually takes them a week and maybe one or two rainfalls for them to wash away, and this is if i fix them too... I use standard Crayola sidewalk chalk that costs $4 a box. shameless plug: my chalk - http://chalk.rpi.dhs.org/ and more coming soon :-D
~mo
I have found odigo to be a really good aim alternative; you can talk to odigo, aim, yahoo, and icq people. You just set up your screennames/passwords for each service and everytime you open the software it automatically logs you in to everything (and if you dont want to be on a particular service you can turn it off.) You can get it at (gee i wonder where) http://www.odigo.com/ AOL has been giving me this message on Odigo: AOL Instant Messenger: You have been disconnected from the AOL Instant Message Service (SM) for accessing the AOL network using unauthorized software. You can download a FREE, fully featured, and authorized client, here http://www.aol.com/aim/download2.html . but I still remain connected. :-)
RPI rules! :-D
as long as its a lesbian penguin, i have no issues...