> There should be an exemption for non-commercial use in copyright.
I totally agree. Assuming you bought a work as a consumer (you most certainly didn't steal it in the first place) you should be free to use it for non-commercial purposes.
> We're not in favour of abolishing copyright, or artists getting nothing.
Great!
> When things are copied and somebody makes a profit, that profit should go to the artist.
Hell yeah, woo! Kinda hard to police at times, but at least the artist has the law on their side.
> When something's copied and there isn't a profit... well, that's a situation our law doesn't really have any way of dealing with at the moment...
Er, no. The law does deal with that - you can't copy stuff even if there is no profit. You might not think that this is the best way to do things, but you are wrong to say that the law does not handle this context.
>...which is why people who copy a movie are lumped in with people who steal cars.
You seem a bit confused. People who steal stuff are theives and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. End of conversation. This is a totally separate issue to the non-commercial use of consumer-purchased media.
> Our copyright law is horribly outdated and its skewed one way because all the lobbying is on the side of big businesses.
Welcome to the real world, hippy! Big business has money to lobby with, people with no money (that's msot people on the planet) just get to vote. I guess that's why your move to form a political party makes some sense.
> This ties into our thoughts on patents. They've moved away from a way of encouraging invention to being a way for companies to lay claim to large areas of innovation. The Toyota Prius is an example of this. There's 2,000 patents covering the Prius, which isn't encouraging other companies to create environmentally cars, it's blocking them.
Bloody good point. Apart from the "environmentally cars" bit - that doesn't make any sense.
> We want to see laws in place before it happens, rather than after, so everybody knows where they stand.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. So you've got a crystal ball somewhere handy, have you Mr?
> We need to point out that we're saying very sensible things
I think you'll find it's more powerful to actually say sensible things, rather than have a mixture of great ideas and contradictory, ill-thought-out nonsense.
> when people actually listen to what we've got to say they'll realise we're being serious
Stupid people will flock to your defence on the internet. That means jack at the polls. If only your arguments weren't full of holes your enthusiasm might have been put to better use.
It's a pity they can't use all that processing power to make the commentary decent. If I have to hear "It's like there's a bee in his helmet!" one more time, I'm going to kill someone.
Processing power won't make the commentary any less repetitive. Recording lots more dialogue will. In this regard, it is a budget and storage issue.
I remember that if you completed it, but lost the last mission, Hamill (Blair?!) got killed by the Kilrathi chap sticking his claw in to his guts and lifting him off the ground - at the bottom of the screen you could see someone's hands around Hamill's ankles to help lift him up!!:)
They didn't start out as mascots, they started out as characters in a game which became so popular that they became synonymous with the hardware vendor they were created by.
Sony's original IP is tied to their methodology of creating new markets which requires innovation in technology and is not character based.
You could argue that Halo is synonymous with the Microsoft XBOX, but the faceless dude in a space suit wouldn't be recognised by many people outside of gaming circles.
Pokemon is synonymous with the Gameboy for many kids. All their parents would know this too - they buy the shit.
If you heard it twice within two minutes (and you aren't mistaken) then it is in there at least three times.
The first time I heard it is when one of Faramir's Gondorian soldiers, retreating from Osgiliath, is thrown by one of the Nazgul's fell beasts (just before Gandalf rides out and scares them off), the second happened much later when one of the Haradrim is thrown off the Oliphaunt by Leg-of-lamb.
With regards to the violin emphasising even harmonics - it depends where the bow is playing on the string. If a string is bowed or plucked at an antinodal position, for a particular mode of vibration, then this mode will be accenuated e.g. bowing at the centre tends to accenuate the odd numbered modes (which relate to harmonics).
...there are numerous examples of, ahem, "interesting" uses of stereophonic sound at the dawn of its mainstream introduction. For example, the extreme panning heard in the early stereo Beatles recordings.
Just think of all the horrible, cheesey, cringe worthy "yes, this sound has just moved to a 4TH speaker" nonsense that we'll get with early surround-pop.
...it is quite clear that this gentleman is talking about feedback and not room acoustics.
In my experience such hardware or software solutions do more harm than good because they cannot distinguish between wanted and unwanted sound (unlike one's auditory system).
Taking the time to set levels and proper mic/speaker placement should be sufficient. But to totally remove the problem then headphones really are the simplest option - just don't forget to turn the speakers off too!;) In this case then the use of high quality mics/headphones is totally unnecessary. This also offers the users individual monitoring control.
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...and then I read what he had to say:
> There should be an exemption for non-commercial use in copyright.
I totally agree. Assuming you bought a work as a consumer (you most certainly didn't steal it in the first place) you should be free to use it for non-commercial purposes.
> We're not in favour of abolishing copyright, or artists getting nothing.
Great!
> When things are copied and somebody makes a profit, that profit should go to the artist.
Hell yeah, woo! Kinda hard to police at times, but at least the artist has the law on their side.
> When something's copied and there isn't a profit... well, that's a situation our law doesn't really have any way of dealing with at the moment...
Er, no. The law does deal with that - you can't copy stuff even if there is no profit. You might not think that this is the best way to do things, but you are wrong to say that the law does not handle this context.
> ...which is why people who copy a movie are lumped in with people who steal cars.
You seem a bit confused. People who steal stuff are theives and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. End of conversation. This is a totally separate issue to the non-commercial use of consumer-purchased media.
> Our copyright law is horribly outdated and its skewed one way because all the lobbying is on the side of big businesses.
Welcome to the real world, hippy! Big business has money to lobby with, people with no money (that's msot people on the planet) just get to vote. I guess that's why your move to form a political party makes some sense.
> This ties into our thoughts on patents. They've moved away from a way of encouraging invention to being a way for companies to lay claim to large areas of innovation. The Toyota Prius is an example of this. There's 2,000 patents covering the Prius, which isn't encouraging other companies to create environmentally cars, it's blocking them.
Bloody good point. Apart from the "environmentally cars" bit - that doesn't make any sense.
> We want to see laws in place before it happens, rather than after, so everybody knows where they stand.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. So you've got a crystal ball somewhere handy, have you Mr?
> We need to point out that we're saying very sensible things
I think you'll find it's more powerful to actually say sensible things, rather than have a mixture of great ideas and contradictory, ill-thought-out nonsense.
> when people actually listen to what we've got to say they'll realise we're being serious
Stupid people will flock to your defence on the internet. That means jack at the polls. If only your arguments weren't full of holes your enthusiasm might have been put to better use.
A photographer that doesn't carry a spare camera body to a wedding is not a professional.
Processing power won't make the commentary any less repetitive. Recording lots more dialogue will. In this regard, it is a budget and storage issue.
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/567/567209p1.html
Typical, a British website with only English accents.
...this was one of the first games I ever bought.
:)
I remember that if you completed it, but lost the last mission, Hamill (Blair?!) got killed by the Kilrathi chap sticking his claw in to his guts and lifting him off the ground - at the bottom of the screen you could see someone's hands around Hamill's ankles to help lift him up!!
They didn't start out as mascots, they started out as characters in a game which became so popular that they became synonymous with the hardware vendor they were created by.
Sony's original IP is tied to their methodology of creating new markets which requires innovation in technology and is not character based.
You could argue that Halo is synonymous with the Microsoft XBOX, but the faceless dude in a space suit wouldn't be recognised by many people outside of gaming circles.
Pokemon is synonymous with the Gameboy for many kids. All their parents would know this too - they buy the shit.
Nobody is going to be putting anything on UMD in the near future, but what about the memory stick?
What about granny money?
Seriously...
F.Y.I. spinning the disc isn't what uses up the battery - it's moving the read-head.
Developers are being encouraged to access the discs as little as possible, i.e. do all their loading at the start of a level.
Indeed - the biggest international arts festival on the planet, and we get a couple of Mike Myers quotes.
You folks sure are cultured.
On Doom 3:
"I think maybe the sales will be disappointing."
Yeah, no-one is going to buy it; they'll just give it to their mates on 4 floppy disks.
Small point, GTA4 is not vice city and San Andreas is not GTA5.
GTA4 will be out on PS3.
It also removes the kick drum and anything else placed right in the centre. Good job...
It just hit 2 million:
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?s
There are now 5 million PS2s in the UK:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?s
Over 150 million PS2 games have been sold in Europe:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?s
If you heard it twice within two minutes (and you aren't mistaken) then it is in there at least three times.
The first time I heard it is when one of Faramir's Gondorian soldiers, retreating from Osgiliath, is thrown by one of the Nazgul's fell beasts (just before Gandalf rides out and scares them off), the second happened much later when one of the Haradrim is thrown off the Oliphaunt by Leg-of-lamb.
Go Orlando - it's your birthday...
Nah, Secret Squirrel looks a lot sharper than the other scribles. It must have been done by someone else.
"my body-mind duality" - the mind is not seperate from the body, it is part of it. You have a body monality.
...he's been missing from Eastenders for ages.
This rivals the LotR 4 disc set ;)
With regards to the violin emphasising even harmonics - it depends where the bow is playing on the string. If a string is bowed or plucked at an antinodal position, for a particular mode of vibration, then this mode will be accenuated e.g. bowing at the centre tends to accenuate the odd numbered modes (which relate to harmonics).
...there are numerous examples of, ahem, "interesting" uses of stereophonic sound at the dawn of its mainstream introduction. For example, the extreme panning heard in the early stereo Beatles recordings.
Just think of all the horrible, cheesey, cringe worthy "yes, this sound has just moved to a 4TH speaker" nonsense that we'll get with early surround-pop.
6 channel Brittney; urgh, pass me a bucket...
(for vomit).
...that Islay is pronounced eye-la, not eye-lay.
Did you know that Sir John is a self confessed technophobe and doesn't even own a computer?
...it is quite clear that this gentleman is talking about feedback and not room acoustics.
;) In this case then the use of high quality mics/headphones is totally unnecessary. This also offers the users individual monitoring control.
In my experience such hardware or software solutions do more harm than good because they cannot distinguish between wanted and unwanted sound (unlike one's auditory system).
Taking the time to set levels and proper mic/speaker placement should be sufficient. But to totally remove the problem then headphones really are the simplest option - just don't forget to turn the speakers off too!