Usually I'm not a fan of fighters, because they end up revolving around who can learn the "secret moves" first. But Smash Bros. takes the idiom and pillages it, rather than conform to it. But graphically, I'd say that Smash bros is peer, if not superiour than, FFX. Which is definately acceptable and understandable; Square has to model in 3d a TON of dungeons and maps, etc, in addition to the characters and enemies. On the other hand Smash Bros. Relies on a relatively small amount of work modelling things, so they can afford a ton of attention to detail. Just have a look at the ingame pause. I can't see the polys.
I think the problem is that 3d doesn't scale well. You can't take a 2d concept like Super Metroid and achieve the same amount of polish visually with the same amount of work. Building an environment to explore is not an easy task, and the more environment to explore the better in such games. I'm guessing thats why Nintendo has been pushing back titles like Star Fox Adventures and Eternal Darkness (aside from the general lack of games sales across the board)-- when you can push millions of polygons a second, those millions need to come from somewhere.
'cuz I don't even have a credit card, and Steam runs just fine without me entering one.
At any rate, I'm guessing that the credit card number is there because they'll be offering "subscriptions" to other 'software content' at a price. Give away counterstrike to get people looking, and then make a half-assed attempt at selling people on other games.
With all this talk about greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and cheap energy, a certain question comes to my mind: What do we do if we find a source of unlimited free energy?
Nevermind the physics or politics of the question. The important part is that even if we had all the energy we wanted without any greenhouse gas pollution or nuclear radiation, we'd still be polluting one very large thing: heat. Given that a certain amount of greenhouse gas is in our atmosphere at any time, there will be a point in which using energy will cause a change in overall temperature.
If I remember right, the only breeder reactors we have are for weapon grade material making. I think there's one in the northwest, I forget where, somewhere in Washington I think. Theres a few more in Europe, but the "green" people hate 'em more than regular reactors; keep in mind no new nuclear reactors have been commissioned since like 1977 or something.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me . . . .
Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody."
Emphasis mine.
Its quote clear that Jefferson thought ideas were not thought to be "property." Whats not so clear is the last bit: "without claim or complaint from anybody." Is he saying society doesn't care?
However, releasing "derived works" means a new copyright. Sure the initial release will fall into public domain in five years, but if you can manage to update more often than once every five years, then everything from now to 5 years ago is copyrigthted, and protected behind the GPL.
Its a little bit harder to visualize this. The chain of GPL shared ownership is difficult enough to fully grasp, let alone parts falling out of the GPL. I am not a laywer, I have not passed the Bar Exam in the state in which I reside, this does not constitute legal advice, and finnaly, I'm no expert in the field of copyright and GPL. blah blah blah.
UPN had Saturday morning cartoons. I can't vouch for them anymore however. But they used to show stuff like "MIB" and Jumangi and actually they aired DragonBall Z (maybe that was only the station I recieved) and Technoman (Tekkaman Blade). Let me tell you, tekkaman blade is FUCKED UP. I think they got away with it though because it was on way too early for the adults to notice what their kids were watching. Or maybe people noticed and complained and they decided it was crap and dumped it. Got me.
You're right that 14-16 year olds don't buy stickers and "shit like that." By that age, they buy style. All it takes is a little effort to put together something more tasteful than an ugly orange shirt with gotenks on the front.
A good example of good old fashing effort would be the gundam models and their marketing. Sure, I doubt they sell a lot, but the presentation isn't "HOLY SHIT LOOK! AWESOME DBZ SHIT! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT NOW!" It takes a bit higher thought process to really comprehend.
I admit, it would be harder to market stuff for something like Cowboy Bebop with very little familiar images. However, it wouldn't be too hard to sell the CDs, since its really part of what makes Cowboy Bebop complete.
I suppose the biggest hurdle is having a united marketing front. Its a hell of a lot harder to market things when company A makes the cartoon, company B translates and distributes the cartoon, and company C gets the rights to the figures, and company D gets TShirt sales. I'm sure there's a term for it, but I'm no marketing major. It works best when company A makes the cartoon, and pays to manufacture and promote the "accessories." Of course we're dealing with US-localized anime, so company B brings it to the US, but can't afford the down payment to get the extra shit as well, or perhaps is denied it by the maker for their own use.
I know why theres less piracy among collegiate students. Its because the new consoles are far harder to pirate games for! You have to get ahold of one of those ps2 mod chips somehow, if you have a ps2; otherwise you're screwed. I suspect it will jump back up as ps2 mod chips become easier to acquire, and become available for other consoles.
Nonsensical. If you stopped and thought about your suggestion for a moment, you might discover that IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. "Turnitin.com - Cure for everything or worse?"
The submission is making a case against turnitin.com suggeseting that at best it does nothing(placebo), and quite possibly could be harming people(or worse).
Thanks for playing the anal retentive game, but there aren't any consolation prizes. Just a sore ass.
Ya know, at the moment you're probably riding on a good 15 gallons of highly flammable liquid known as gasoline. I would hope that compressed air is about as safe as the current combustion propelled cars.
Can't we promote things we like while chastening things we dislike? Its not like if Disney makes 100% of its revenue from imported anime they'd dump it into senator's pockets. They'd procure MORE.
It seems to me that these abandonware sites are performing a service akin to the Library of Congress. From their mission:
"
The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations."
I can see the fiscal reasons for not archiving software, but perhaps its time for the library to address these issues. If a case were made for the benefit of Congressmen and Congresswomen, then I think it would be hard for big business to lobby against it.
I always thought it was called a Verticle Monopoly. As in oil tychoon Rockefeller owned several oil wells, owned some rail to transport it, and some processing plants to turn crude oil into a useful form. This kind of monopoly is not illegal, but rockefeller ended up with too many oil fields, and used the profits to expand "horizontally" along the rest of the chain.
Unfortunatly, Berkley has two pipes, one for the Residence halls and one for the rest of campus. It seems odd that they can't figure out where all the data is coming from, but I don't think its students in the dorms. Its possible that someone is running a public proxy or an ftp on their dept. network, but you'd think a renowned computer school like Berkley could afford staff and software that could figure the simple stuff out.
Mr Jackson's business is doing well. Just recently they shipped an "anime" version of In Nomine. In addition, you're completely fucking wrong. Taken from the website.
"The judge's official decision was announced on March 12, 1993. District Judge Sam Sparks awarded more than $50,000 in damages to Steve Jackson Games, citing lost profits and violations of the PPA. In addition, the judge awarded each BBS- user plaintiff $1,000 under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act for the USSS seizure of their stored electronic mail. The judge also ruled that plaintiffs would be reimbursed for their attorneys' fees."
Its a pretty ironic post. Just so you know, I haven't had any prescriptions in a long time. And im pretty sure they're useless now. As for the legal fees: typically they're covered in the suit. Damages plus legal fees. Now you see why the lawyers always win.
And for the record, I'm no business man. Just a simple college student. But if you want to bring up conspiratical investigations of computers, just look at how the Steve Jackson Games incident turned out.
As for point A, theres this thing called "countersuit for frivilous lawsuits." It allows you to sue the plantiff when the suit is obviously wrong, and a waste of everyone's time involved.
And for B, I guarantee, you Mr. Conspiracy Theorist, that I have not broken 50-100 laws this morning, unless Congress has passed a law against skipping breakfast. We (at least I presume you do as well) live in the United States of America, not Communist Russia, where anything worth doing was illegal.
Nobody said that honor was an easy task. But if the DA wants you proscecuted so bad that he is going to stoop to interpretations and gray area misrepresentation, there's nothing that will stop him from proscecuting you. Your best hope is compliance, unless you happened to have actually broken some laws.
My apologies for using an overblunt quote. I mean that if you desire to hide something, the first step in hiding it is not publishing it. In all these things you have mentioned, the thing one desires to 'cover up' are actions, not thoughts. As for patents, some will argue that they're a bad thing nowadays; I will simply mention that 'patent pending' is an important phrase to inventors. How honest are these people that desire to hide their actions? Is there something wrong with them? It appears so. You can be honest without being "bland," it just takes more courage than these hypothetical examples apparently exhibit(Although I ponder the kind of man that thanks the woman the day after, in an email, no less).
Perhaps a better phrasing would be "Men of honor are not afraid of the truth." But then, they say that men of honor are horribly out of fashion these days.
have nothing to hide. I don't think shareholders would see an email shredder as good news. Sure, you've reduced "liability," but you could further reduce it by having a higher set of moral codes. If I was a shareholder, I'd probably dump the company if news that the company needed to protect itself from itself.
Its too bad that company execs won't see things that way. I guess the most valuable thing then to have as an investor is the list of Dissapearing, Inc's clients.
I suspect that from a sample group of 1.1 million, its quite possible to have a few diagnosed depressives in the sample. If thats the case, then sleeping more than 8 hours is a symptom of a disease, not a health risk. Depressed people are more likely to commit suicide.
The abstract even comes with a disclaimer:
"Causality is unproven."
This is perhaps a distortion of the truth. Common stock (voting stock) typically has no dividend. Preferred stock has no vote, and thus no say in who's on the board that controls the company, must be paid its dividends.
The roots of the common stock not getting a dividend probably goes back to Ford reinvesting the profits in his company and workers. I guess he got sued over it or something. At any rate, nowadays, having cash on hand is typical. So is not paying dividends. The cookie cutter reason is that its all for future expansion. It kinda falls flat when you have enough cash on hand to purchase a majority share of your biggest competitor in three months...
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Usually I'm not a fan of fighters, because they end up revolving around who can learn the "secret moves" first. But Smash Bros. takes the idiom and pillages it, rather than conform to it. But graphically, I'd say that Smash bros is peer, if not superiour than, FFX. Which is definately acceptable and understandable; Square has to model in 3d a TON of dungeons and maps, etc, in addition to the characters and enemies. On the other hand Smash Bros. Relies on a relatively small amount of work modelling things, so they can afford a ton of attention to detail. Just have a look at the ingame pause. I can't see the polys.
I think the problem is that 3d doesn't scale well. You can't take a 2d concept like Super Metroid and achieve the same amount of polish visually with the same amount of work. Building an environment to explore is not an easy task, and the more environment to explore the better in such games. I'm guessing thats why Nintendo has been pushing back titles like Star Fox Adventures and Eternal Darkness (aside from the general lack of games sales across the board)-- when you can push millions of polygons a second, those millions need to come from somewhere.
You've been had and that was a lame April's Fools joke.
'cuz I don't even have a credit card, and Steam runs just fine without me entering one.
At any rate, I'm guessing that the credit card number is there because they'll be offering "subscriptions" to other 'software content' at a price. Give away counterstrike to get people looking, and then make a half-assed attempt at selling people on other games.
Is there even a way to generate an invalid IP?
With all this talk about greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and cheap energy, a certain question comes to my mind: What do we do if we find a source of unlimited free energy?
Nevermind the physics or politics of the question. The important part is that even if we had all the energy we wanted without any greenhouse gas pollution or nuclear radiation, we'd still be polluting one very large thing: heat. Given that a certain amount of greenhouse gas is in our atmosphere at any time, there will be a point in which using energy will cause a change in overall temperature.
If I remember right, the only breeder reactors we have are for weapon grade material making. I think there's one in the northwest, I forget where, somewhere in Washington I think. Theres a few more in Europe, but the "green" people hate 'em more than regular reactors; keep in mind no new nuclear reactors have been commissioned since like 1977 or something.
Its quote clear that Jefferson thought ideas were not thought to be "property." Whats not so clear is the last bit: "without claim or complaint from anybody." Is he saying society doesn't care?
However, releasing "derived works" means a new copyright. Sure the initial release will fall into public domain in five years, but if you can manage to update more often than once every five years, then everything from now to 5 years ago is copyrigthted, and protected behind the GPL.
Its a little bit harder to visualize this. The chain of GPL shared ownership is difficult enough to fully grasp, let alone parts falling out of the GPL. I am not a laywer, I have not passed the Bar Exam in the state in which I reside, this does not constitute legal advice, and finnaly, I'm no expert in the field of copyright and GPL. blah blah blah.
UPN had Saturday morning cartoons. I can't vouch for them anymore however. But they used to show stuff like "MIB" and Jumangi and actually they aired DragonBall Z (maybe that was only the station I recieved) and Technoman (Tekkaman Blade). Let me tell you, tekkaman blade is FUCKED UP. I think they got away with it though because it was on way too early for the adults to notice what their kids were watching. Or maybe people noticed and complained and they decided it was crap and dumped it. Got me.
A good example of good old fashing effort would be the gundam models and their marketing. Sure, I doubt they sell a lot, but the presentation isn't "HOLY SHIT LOOK! AWESOME DBZ SHIT! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT NOW!" It takes a bit higher thought process to really comprehend.
I admit, it would be harder to market stuff for something like Cowboy Bebop with very little familiar images. However, it wouldn't be too hard to sell the CDs, since its really part of what makes Cowboy Bebop complete.
I suppose the biggest hurdle is having a united marketing front. Its a hell of a lot harder to market things when company A makes the cartoon, company B translates and distributes the cartoon, and company C gets the rights to the figures, and company D gets TShirt sales. I'm sure there's a term for it, but I'm no marketing major. It works best when company A makes the cartoon, and pays to manufacture and promote the "accessories." Of course we're dealing with US-localized anime, so company B brings it to the US, but can't afford the down payment to get the extra shit as well, or perhaps is denied it by the maker for their own use.
I know why theres less piracy among collegiate students. Its because the new consoles are far harder to pirate games for! You have to get ahold of one of those ps2 mod chips somehow, if you have a ps2; otherwise you're screwed. I suspect it will jump back up as ps2 mod chips become easier to acquire, and become available for other consoles.
The submission is making a case against turnitin.com suggeseting that at best it does nothing(placebo), and quite possibly could be harming people(or worse).
Thanks for playing the anal retentive game, but there aren't any consolation prizes. Just a sore ass.
Ya know, at the moment you're probably riding on a good 15 gallons of highly flammable liquid known as gasoline. I would hope that compressed air is about as safe as the current combustion propelled cars.
Can't we promote things we like while chastening things we dislike? Its not like if Disney makes 100% of its revenue from imported anime they'd dump it into senator's pockets. They'd procure MORE.
I can see the fiscal reasons for not archiving software, but perhaps its time for the library to address these issues. If a case were made for the benefit of Congressmen and Congresswomen, then I think it would be hard for big business to lobby against it.
I always thought it was called a Verticle Monopoly. As in oil tychoon Rockefeller owned several oil wells, owned some rail to transport it, and some processing plants to turn crude oil into a useful form. This kind of monopoly is not illegal, but rockefeller ended up with too many oil fields, and used the profits to expand "horizontally" along the rest of the chain.
Unfortunatly, Berkley has two pipes, one for the Residence halls and one for the rest of campus. It seems odd that they can't figure out where all the data is coming from, but I don't think its students in the dorms. Its possible that someone is running a public proxy or an ftp on their dept. network, but you'd think a renowned computer school like Berkley could afford staff and software that could figure the simple stuff out.
Its a pretty ironic post. Just so you know, I haven't had any prescriptions in a long time. And im pretty sure they're useless now. As for the legal fees: typically they're covered in the suit. Damages plus legal fees. Now you see why the lawyers always win.
And for the record, I'm no business man. Just a simple college student. But if you want to bring up conspiratical investigations of computers, just look at how the Steve Jackson Games incident turned out.
As for point A, theres this thing called "countersuit for frivilous lawsuits." It allows you to sue the plantiff when the suit is obviously wrong, and a waste of everyone's time involved.
And for B, I guarantee, you Mr. Conspiracy Theorist, that I have not broken 50-100 laws this morning, unless Congress has passed a law against skipping breakfast. We (at least I presume you do as well) live in the United States of America, not Communist Russia, where anything worth doing was illegal.
Nobody said that honor was an easy task. But if the DA wants you proscecuted so bad that he is going to stoop to interpretations and gray area misrepresentation, there's nothing that will stop him from proscecuting you. Your best hope is compliance, unless you happened to have actually broken some laws.
So your solution is to hide the evidence rather than not send it?
Perhaps a better phrasing would be "Men of honor are not afraid of the truth." But then, they say that men of honor are horribly out of fashion these days.
have nothing to hide. I don't think shareholders would see an email shredder as good news. Sure, you've reduced "liability," but you could further reduce it by having a higher set of moral codes. If I was a shareholder, I'd probably dump the company if news that the company needed to protect itself from itself.
Its too bad that company execs won't see things that way. I guess the most valuable thing then to have as an investor is the list of Dissapearing, Inc's clients.
I suspect that from a sample group of 1.1 million, its quite possible to have a few diagnosed depressives in the sample. If thats the case, then sleeping more than 8 hours is a symptom of a disease, not a health risk. Depressed people are more likely to commit suicide.
The abstract even comes with a disclaimer:
"Causality is unproven."
This is perhaps a distortion of the truth. Common stock (voting stock) typically has no dividend. Preferred stock has no vote, and thus no say in who's on the board that controls the company, must be paid its dividends.
The roots of the common stock not getting a dividend probably goes back to Ford reinvesting the profits in his company and workers. I guess he got sued over it or something. At any rate, nowadays, having cash on hand is typical. So is not paying dividends. The cookie cutter reason is that its all for future expansion. It kinda falls flat when you have enough cash on hand to purchase a majority share of your biggest competitor in three months...