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I don't think the graphics in VC are worse then in GTA3. In fact, I've read that the looks are just different because of the setting. Since Vice City is based on Miami, they tried to give it the touch of humidity and heat, that makes your vision blur. And I think they succeeded in creating an atmosphere.
Okay, let me get this straight. After you break the seal (probably) the DVD wil work for about 8 hours and then it is rendered useless. So, I prepare myself for a quiet evening of watching the DVD, install myself on the couch, rip open the seal and...*RING* hold on, there's someone at the door..
Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against FastTrack, MusicCity, and Grockster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with FastTrack about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against MusicCity, and if possible obtain FastTrack's cooperation in shutting down or converting MusicCity and Grokster, and (4) continue forward with litigation against MusicCity, Grokster, and potentially Timberline Venture Partners.
Gee, these guys manage to find out so much about the structure of the FT network, and yet they don't know how to count to three?
Hey, we're talking Micro$oft here. If it looks like they're not gonna make it they'll just release a calendar update for Windows marking Xmas 2001 somewhere in the summer of 2003 and within weeks everyone will have accepted it.
Consider the fact that MP3s have been available on FTP sites for years, and yet there wasn't any real outcry over that. It's because most people couldn't find such material.
Agreed, but the question that raises is wether that was the result of the fact that those FTP sites were really hard to find or the fact that the amount of people on the internet was relatively limeited back then. I think I can safely state that over here the MP3/Napster hype came into existence at the same time the general internet hype came into existence. I'm not sure how that is in other countries though.
My point is that if those two things are linked everywhere then the fact that people weren't visiting those FTP sites was because no one used the internet or had ever heard of MP3 and not because MP3 files weren't as easy to find as they are now.
My prediction is that over the next few years we'll see all of the for-profit digital content services get absorbed into the mainstream, being taken over by RIAA and MPAA member companies just to survive.
I think that it is way too late for that. If the music industry had taken over Napster or created their own version right at the start, they might have been able to regulate the whole concept of downloadable media. They could've drawn a lot of users to their service - users that now, with the demise of Napster, are going to spread over a number of free services, diminishing the chance of finding the content you want on 'your' service. They could've used profiling techniques to keep you up to date with the news on your favourite artists, linked directly to the appropriate items in online stores and made a lot of money with banners.
As it is now, the general public is too used to the idea of free music to go back to a regulated market like you predict. Only drastic legal measures might force the public back to living with the monopoly the music industry has on music (*); but I guess that with the unstoppable development a lot of people will even then simply switch to new underground scenes.
I think the trick lies in getting the people who download the music to actually go and buy the music, but as far as I can see it that won't be possible.
*) If you live in a country like Holland, you have to live with the fact that movies are released months after they're released in the U.S. You have to live with the fact that the only big music store chain (yes, I'm talking about the Free Record Shop) only offers what they decide the public wants to hear since, quote, "the general public is too stupid to decide what music they like" and for the non-mainstream music you have to go through a lot of trouble obtaining it. At least, you had to before you could order the stuff online.
Well, I wouldn't mind registering for programs like these as long as they'd only use the info I provide them with to give me unbiased hints about music I might like. After all, that's what I use these programs for; if I really enjoy the new things I find I go order the album (providing it's not just one song).
But, also considering I got an endless looping popup window with advertisement when I visited the site, I doubt this will be the case.
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Windows on Mars? Will that result in a Red Screen of Death (RSOD) or do we have to refer to it as the Blue Planet in the future?
Append 'init=/bin/sh' to the kernel command line at boot, then resume the boot. You will be dropped to a root shell.
/etc/lilo.conf to prevent that ;)
Strange, I've always been told that one should put something in
password=foobar
I don't think the graphics in VC are worse then in GTA3. In fact, I've read that the looks are just different because of the setting. Since Vice City is based on Miami, they tried to give it the touch of humidity and heat, that makes your vision blur. And I think they succeeded in creating an atmosphere.
Okay, let me get this straight. After you break the seal (probably) the DVD wil work for about 8 hours and then it is rendered useless. So, I prepare myself for a quiet evening of watching the DVD, install myself on the couch, rip open the seal and...*RING* hold on, there's someone at the door..
then what?
Get a pen.
;-)
Get some paper.
Get an envelope.
I bet they'll be even more cooperative if you put a stamp on it too
Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against FastTrack, MusicCity, and Grockster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with FastTrack about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against MusicCity, and if possible obtain FastTrack's cooperation in shutting down or converting MusicCity and Grokster, and (4) continue forward with litigation against MusicCity, Grokster, and potentially Timberline Venture Partners.
Gee, these guys manage to find out so much about the structure of the FT network, and yet they don't know how to count to three?
Hey, we're talking Micro$oft here. If it looks like they're not gonna make it they'll just release a calendar update for Windows marking Xmas 2001 somewhere in the summer of 2003 and within weeks everyone will have accepted it.
Search for 'alien' on freshmeat, or go to the homepage or simply:
;-)
#apt-get install alien
-Helmet
but everybody will be able to read it, because it is on her screen even when she's not in the room.
Just use the next available security hole in Outlook to set the screensaver activation time to five seconds?
Sounds like a pretty expensive battery ;-)
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This is a book you literally will not be able to put down.
Darn storyteller.. it must be cursed then. Is there a priest with the 'remove curse' spell around?
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Consider the fact that MP3s have been available on FTP sites for years, and yet there wasn't any real outcry over that. It's because most people couldn't find such material.
Agreed, but the question that raises is wether that was the result of the fact that those FTP sites were really hard to find or the fact that the amount of people on the internet was relatively limeited back then. I think I can safely state that over here the MP3/Napster hype came into existence at the same time the general internet hype came into existence. I'm not sure how that is in other countries though.
My point is that if those two things are linked everywhere then the fact that people weren't visiting those FTP sites was because no one used the internet or had ever heard of MP3 and not because MP3 files weren't as easy to find as they are now.
-Helmet
My prediction is that over the next few years we'll see all of the for-profit digital content services get absorbed into the mainstream, being taken over by RIAA and MPAA member companies just to survive.
I think that it is way too late for that. If the music industry had taken over Napster or created their own version right at the start, they might have been able to regulate the whole concept of downloadable media. They could've drawn a lot of users to their service - users that now, with the demise of Napster, are going to spread over a number of free services, diminishing the chance of finding the content you want on 'your' service. They could've used profiling techniques to keep you up to date with the news on your favourite artists, linked directly to the appropriate items in online stores and made a lot of money with banners.
As it is now, the general public is too used to the idea of free music to go back to a regulated market like you predict. Only drastic legal measures might force the public back to living with the monopoly the music industry has on music (*); but I guess that with the unstoppable development a lot of people will even then simply switch to new underground scenes.
I think the trick lies in getting the people who download the music to actually go and buy the music, but as far as I can see it that won't be possible.
*) If you live in a country like Holland, you have to live with the fact that movies are released months after they're released in the U.S. You have to live with the fact that the only big music store chain (yes, I'm talking about the Free Record Shop) only offers what they decide the public wants to hear since, quote, "the general public is too stupid to decide what music they like" and for the non-mainstream music you have to go through a lot of trouble obtaining it. At least, you had to before you could order the stuff online.
-Helmet
But, also considering I got an endless looping popup window with advertisement when I visited the site, I doubt this will be the case.
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