With the exception of one side plot point (information about the odd ammunition the lead protagonist uses), that missing Outlaw Star episode was pretty much just an excuse to fit in nudity. It really isn't something that could have been shown properly during any time slot without signigicant editing. Trust me, I've seen it, and you're not missing all that much.
At one school I attended, this is precisely what we did.
My student organization got so annoyed at the bookstore's pricing policies (buy back used at 30% of full price, resell at 70%), that we decided to act as a book broker at the start of each quarter. Students named their own price, and when the book sold, we deducted $5 as a "brokerage fee" and pocketed the rest.
With the right bit of CYA, no reason why they couldn't go back and apply that to software.
Works for me. Although storyboarding may be done here, on Disney's more pedestrian projects, a lot of their animation is done overseas. So, maybe if we did this hardway, I'd never have to babysit while watching Peter Pan II
For the heck of it, I ran a Google Search for "Corey Dyer" "New Jersey" and it brought up one white pages entry. Maybe it's him, maybe it's not. Might as well try.
We need something that courts are loathe to enforce: the corporate death penalty. Yes, it endangers jobs, but we need a system to make the bigwigs responsible. And if it's possible for a corporation to be shut down for the equivalent of capital offenses, then the stockholders of that company should then be able to go after the offcers who allowed it to happen on their watch.
In other words, they make the same whether or not their stuff sucks? If I were a recording artists looking to cash in, I'd just go ahead and tank and get it over with.
umm... should Michael Jordan get paid more than the rookie minimum... let's think about this...
Part of what those extra 20 years of development gets you is the extra experience to do more with less. Just as you think you're dad was a real dumbass til you get to be his age.
To bring this back on topic, should copyrights be eternal? Yes and no. My thoughts on copyrights run along the same lines as my thoughts on patents.
As long as a company or person continues to demonstrate that they're actually making industrial or economic use of something under copyright, they should be able to renew it in perpetuity. However, there should be a seperate timetable for derivative works. After some point in time, if someone can build a better mousetrap, they should get that chance.
"I am not responsible for these crimes. I was following the orders of my leader."
Boy, you're really on top of this Holocaust stuff, aren't ya
You know what this really reminds me of?
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One of the fads of past decades was pedal power. As a nod to couch potatoes, devices were created that took the power energy by your exercise on a stationary bicycle and concerted that into electricity to power your television.
Maybe we could see something similar for computers. If you want to play Track and Field on MAME, you have to get on the treadmill for half an hour and run for real.
What I'd like to know from something like this is whether any tradecraft originally developed for movies, TV, etc. were later imported into industrial use. Like, maybe comrade Boris thought to make a real version when he saw Maxwell Smart's shoe.
I spent my "formidable years" in small religious private schools of varying quality. The one consistency amongst them was the shunning-upon of calculators and other such aides. The forced development of street math and the fast thinking that comes with it carried over very well to other parts of my life.
This is why you turn to the Golden Globes for your best fix on awards. Seriously. They cover all of the major stuff that the Emmys and Oscars dish out, but they're given out by the foreign press, so they don't, um, suck.
My conversion was when Jim Carrey won two Best Actor in a row in the Globes (including for The Truman Show but wasn't even nominated either time for the Oscars. Said everything I needed to know about them.
Course, I guess I'm gonna have to be a hypocrite this year.
100% on the TomatoMeter, and a big f-u from the oscars. Sigh...
Yes, it's great for rental, yes, it's bad for waste. But, would it be possible to combine this with some form of read-write system?
Instead of Blockbuster charging X for these, how bout charging X+50 cents, or whatever, with the rest being a deposit akin to glass Coke bottles? When the DVD is degraded, the consumer has two choices: make a coaster, or return it for credit in the amount of the deposit. The Disc goes back then to be re-encoded. I know that kinda kills the fire-and-forget portion of this, but inventory of returns and such still isn't required here. They just need a big box and someplace to stamp a little credit sheet.
When reader's digest uses your material, they pay you. America's Funniest is a contest by which you may win six figures. So, no you don't own it, but you are being compensated for your surrendering your ownership.
Here, you're paying for the right to use the game, and being compensated with 30 days of play. But when you are contributing to a setting in such a way, that your disapperance would be an appreciable loss to the world as a whole, then you are a co-creator, therefore, you should be allowed to sell this commodity.
Ummm... no. He didn't raid the Mom&Pop's rinky-dink website. He latched onto government property, which is inherently a federal offense. A better anaolgy: what would have happened if he had vandalized the Post Office?
I recevied a pair of joystick bases for my 7800(with those grippy pads in the corners) along with 2 knobs to go on top. The bases I never ever used, but those knobs... my God, with Robotron was never the same.
From the newsbytes article:
On three of the sites, Austin left behind a hacking program named troop.cgi that was designed to attempt to log in to a computer operated by the U.S. Army, the FBI affidavit stated.
In the interview, Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his message out.
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"If I go to jail, then I will go to jail not based on my actions, but based on what I think," he said.
No, you incredibly idiotic dipshit. You are going to be Bubba's bitch because you hacked government websites, and in fact admitted it.
Please, don't try to defend him -- it's guys like this that give us a bad name and deserved to be ostracized from the community at large.
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With the exception of one side plot point (information about the odd ammunition the lead protagonist uses), that missing Outlaw Star episode was pretty much just an excuse to fit in nudity. It really isn't something that could have been shown properly during any time slot without signigicant editing. Trust me, I've seen it, and you're not missing all that much.
At one school I attended, this is precisely what we did.
My student organization got so annoyed at the bookstore's pricing policies (buy back used at 30% of full price, resell at 70%), that we decided to act as a book broker at the start of each quarter. Students named their own price, and when the book sold, we deducted $5 as a "brokerage fee" and pocketed the rest.
With the right bit of CYA, no reason why they couldn't go back and apply that to software.
Damn, that was offtopic.
Works for me. Although storyboarding may be done here, on Disney's more pedestrian projects, a lot of their animation is done overseas. So, maybe if we did this hardway, I'd never have to babysit while watching Peter Pan II
For the heck of it, I ran a Google Search for "Corey Dyer" "New Jersey" and it brought up one white pages entry. Maybe it's him, maybe it's not. Might as well try.
Errr... no. A cubit is about 18 inches. Still, in the spirit of two months ago, 9 inches would leave the maids a'milking.
Alright by me, really. Let them burn as many crosses as they want, as long as I get to snap pictures of their face with my Digicam to ship to the FBI.
We need something that courts are loathe to enforce: the corporate death penalty. Yes, it endangers jobs, but we need a system to make the bigwigs responsible. And if it's possible for a corporation to be shut down for the equivalent of capital offenses, then the stockholders of that company should then be able to go after the offcers who allowed it to happen on their watch.
Oh, look, I found a quarter! I can finance my entire Weird Al collection!
In other words, they make the same whether or not their stuff sucks? If I were a recording artists looking to cash in, I'd just go ahead and tank and get it over with.
Part of what those extra 20 years of development gets you is the extra experience to do more with less. Just as you think you're dad was a real dumbass til you get to be his age.
To bring this back on topic, should copyrights be eternal? Yes and no. My thoughts on copyrights run along the same lines as my thoughts on patents.
As long as a company or person continues to demonstrate that they're actually making industrial or economic use of something under copyright, they should be able to renew it in perpetuity. However, there should be a seperate timetable for derivative works. After some point in time, if someone can build a better mousetrap, they should get that chance.
Boy, you're really on top of this Holocaust stuff, aren't ya
Maybe we could see something similar for computers. If you want to play Track and Field on MAME, you have to get on the treadmill for half an hour and run for real.
What I'd like to know from something like this is whether any tradecraft originally developed for movies, TV, etc. were later imported into industrial use. Like, maybe comrade Boris thought to make a real version when he saw Maxwell Smart's shoe.
no, formidable. I was a completely overagressive asshole. That's why I kept winding up in private schools.
I spent my "formidable years" in small religious private schools of varying quality. The one consistency amongst them was the shunning-upon of calculators and other such aides. The forced development of street math and the fast thinking that comes with it carried over very well to other parts of my life.
My conversion was when Jim Carrey won two Best Actor in a row in the Globes (including for The Truman Show but wasn't even nominated either time for the Oscars. Said everything I needed to know about them.
Course, I guess I'm gonna have to be a hypocrite this year.
100% on the TomatoMeter, and a big f-u from the oscars. Sigh...
Yes, it's great for rental, yes, it's bad for waste. But, would it be possible to combine this with some form of read-write system?
Instead of Blockbuster charging X for these, how bout charging X+50 cents, or whatever, with the rest being a deposit akin to glass Coke bottles? When the DVD is degraded, the consumer has two choices: make a coaster, or return it for credit in the amount of the deposit. The Disc goes back then to be re-encoded. I know that kinda kills the fire-and-forget portion of this, but inventory of returns and such still isn't required here. They just need a big box and someplace to stamp a little credit sheet.
I get 150KB/s on DSL, my neighbors get 40 on cable. The price difference is $5 per month. I can live with losing the... excess
Interesting...
Microsoft has what, nearly 30,000 employees, and they couldn't even motivate them the write a letter apiece? ummm....
When reader's digest uses your material, they pay you. America's Funniest is a contest by which you may win six figures. So, no you don't own it, but you are being compensated for your surrendering your ownership. Here, you're paying for the right to use the game, and being compensated with 30 days of play. But when you are contributing to a setting in such a way, that your disapperance would be an appreciable loss to the world as a whole, then you are a co-creator, therefore, you should be allowed to sell this commodity.
But part of the understood appeal of such a game is that the users contribute to the universe. In a sense, they are co-creators, not just consumers.
Ummm... no. He didn't raid the Mom&Pop's rinky-dink website. He latched onto government property, which is inherently a federal offense. A better anaolgy: what would have happened if he had vandalized the Post Office?
I recevied a pair of joystick bases for my 7800(with those grippy pads in the corners) along with 2 knobs to go on top. The bases I never ever used, but those knobs... my God, with Robotron was never the same.
a) over half of those products were Activision products, and
b) Atari Pac-Man? Oh, you poor poor dear...
In the interview, Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his message out.
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"If I go to jail, then I will go to jail not based on my actions, but based on what I think," he said.
No, you incredibly idiotic dipshit. You are going to be Bubba's bitch because you hacked government websites, and in fact admitted it. Please, don't try to defend him -- it's guys like this that give us a bad name and deserved to be ostracized from the community at large.