unless the submissions are peer-reviewed by the board before being published. We can't just have any Tom, Dick or Mary slapping bricks together and calling themselves lego engineers!
Good points. (Just to be clear, I was half joking, half trying to get people to look at the issues from another perspective.)
But.... AFAICT, 1) these games were for all purposes abandoned by their creators, 2) the retrogaming community resurrected them (there's your right of salvage being exercised there) 3) the companies saw this and realized there was a market so they : 4) released versions of these old games (in a new format).
If we're going to stretch the "law of the sea" metaphor until it breaks here, these companies gave up any rights to these titles when they abandoned them. (Of course, you have the question of what is the "vessel" in these cases -- a particular set of bits of an implementation or the copyright itself.) If we were talking real ships, the original owner's only recourse is to buy the salvaged vessel back.
The point I want to stress is that there would be no market except for the actions of the retrogamer community. These companies should respect that fact.
Now, putting retroroms on iTunes would be something I'd be interested in. But it'd be a licensing nightmare.
This is just like Microsoft's plans for Avalanche. The stupid greedheads think YOU should pay to defer their bandwith costs. Without requiring any of the community involvement that self-organizing ("(f|F)ree", "natural", FOSS, whatever..) networks engender. These corporate types just don't get the whole concept of file SHARING. They want to do to Bittorrent what they did to Napster and I say the lot of them can go stuff their heads in a goat.
Something's not really free if carries a advertising payload.
There are like a gazillion bamillion kajillion websites out there that are created by people who just want to share for love of whatever they're doing. I guess they're all just inconsequental stupid SUCKERS.
I really don't give a flying fuck if you can't turn the web into another avenue to shove advermatizing down our throats. Too bad Congress wants to give support to companies like the weather channel rather than public services like NOAA. Silly Asses.
1. "Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer' "
Isn't that fraud?
2. "when configured to send an Opera user agent, some sites send malformed pages"
erm, ditto?
Plus, the whole point of the www is that it is browser independent. So this is unstandard behavior, and should be shunned(2).
Once again, this is a consequence of the majority of web users being ignorant and aptathetic about the issues underlying the very philosophical foundations that the web (& Internet) was built on.
Why hasn't some joker cobbled together a quake map where you're shooting black monsters with black weapons in black rooms on a black planet and flogged it as DOOM 3 1/2?!!!
Isn't that one of the signs of the end in Revelations? I mean, sure, we could blithely count on the fact that two such camps of fanatic idiots would mutually repel each other, but just think of the horrible repercussions if there was even one crossover!!!
Sorry, but wire-wrap won't support modern bus speeds. (It might be possible to underclock things slow enough to get away with WW, I don't know. This'll get you started... Recently discussed here.
It's been years since I've seen a cigarette lighter in a car. Can you even special order them any more? Oh, you were talking about "convience power points".
I haven't read it since the old man died. I keep hearing stories like this that make me think that old Malcom must be rolling in his grave seeing what jr has done with his Capitalist Tool.
Microsoft should take some responsibility when the bugginess of the software they let escape from their developers causes problems for the world in general. So they should be eating the cost of remediating any faults in their code.
I will grant them a pecayune point in that some sort of Bittorrent-like scheme would allow their customers to get their downloads more quickly. So there is actually some benefit for their customers. But that is a community effect, and has no relation to Microsoft with the exception of them "officially" "allowing" the seeds to be set up. (Didn't some Windows users set up a torrent for XP SP2 only to have Microsoft's lawyers tell them to take it down?)
Would I want to use the bandwith I paid for so other Windoze lusers can leech off the copy of Longhorn Service Pack 3 that I downloaded? Microsoft wants me to take part in some damn hippy-dippy bandwith commune? While they're world renowned for not playing nice with others?!!! Get the fuck out!!!! You can't have it both ways Microsoft!!!!
// // // SPACE PARANOIDS v 0.9.3 // Kevin J Flynn // June 5, 1982 // //Watch, I bet that weasel Ed Dillinger will like totally rip-off this program. // //
It would be one thing for Apple to lock the OS to the platform.
It would be a totally different thing for Apple to lock the platform to the OS. Particularly if DRM makes any sort of inroads.
mmmm..... brings back fond memories of Alex's fantasy about frolicking in the snow with Katya Wyeth at the end of "A Clockwork Orange". She was wearing more than just the fur hat, but looking quite fetching. (Sorry, couldn't track down a screencap online;-( ).
Cellphones make me wish the little interdimensional dude from James Blish's(?) story "Babel II" would come by for a visit. I particularly approve of the protagonist's comprimise at the end.
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unless the submissions are peer-reviewed by the board before being published. We can't just have any Tom, Dick or Mary slapping bricks together and calling themselves lego engineers!
I've heard tell that each of us will have seventy virgins when we reach Longhorn!
(Just to be clear, I was half joking, half trying to get people to look at the issues from another perspective.)
But.... AFAICT, 1) these games were for all purposes abandoned by their creators, 2) the retrogaming community resurrected them (there's your right of salvage being exercised there) 3) the companies saw this and realized there was a market so they : 4) released versions of these old games (in a new format).
If we're going to stretch the "law of the sea" metaphor until it breaks here, these companies gave up any rights to these titles when they abandoned them. (Of course, you have the question of what is the "vessel" in these cases -- a particular set of bits of an implementation or the copyright itself.) If we were talking real ships, the original owner's only recourse is to buy the salvaged vessel back.
The point I want to stress is that there would be no market except for the actions of the retrogamer community. These companies should respect that fact.
Now, putting retroroms on iTunes would be something I'd be interested in. But it'd be a licensing nightmare.
This is just like Microsoft's plans for Avalanche. The stupid greedheads think YOU should pay to defer their bandwith costs. Without requiring any of the community involvement that self-organizing ("(f|F)ree", "natural", FOSS, whatever..) networks engender. These corporate types just don't get the whole concept of file SHARING . They want to do to Bittorrent what they did to Napster and I say the lot of them can go stuff their heads in a goat.
Law of salvage. Any abandoned vessel belongs to whoever recovers it.
There are like a gazillion bamillion kajillion websites out there that are created by people who just want to share for love of whatever they're doing. I guess they're all just inconsequental stupid SUCKERS .
I really don't give a flying fuck if you can't turn the web into another avenue to shove advermatizing down our throats. Too bad Congress wants to give support to companies like the weather channel rather than public services like NOAA. Silly Asses.
1. "Opera is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer' "
Isn't that fraud?
2. "when configured to send an Opera user agent, some sites send malformed pages"
erm, ditto?
Plus, the whole point of the www is that it is browser independent. So this is unstandard behavior, and should be shunned(2).
Once again, this is a consequence of the majority of web users being ignorant and aptathetic about the issues underlying the very philosophical foundations that the web (& Internet) was built on.
"Computers are useless, they only give you answers"
-- Pablo Picasso, speaking from beyond the grave in the fortune file
"JEFFREY VERNON MERKEY VERIFIED COMPLAINT Plaintiff,
vs
MATT MERKEY a.k.a MERKEY.NET
BRANDON SUIT a.k.a. MERKEY.NET"
Looks like somebody with poor social skills got told to go stuff it and decided to sue -- his own brother, among others!!!
Why hasn't some joker cobbled together a quake map where you're shooting black monsters with black weapons in black rooms on a black planet and flogged it as DOOM 3 1/2?!!!
Or a car. Guess which one will get you farther with the ladies...
(I don't know either...)
Isn't that one of the signs of the end in Revelations? I mean, sure, we could blithely count on the fact that two such camps of fanatic idiots would mutually repel each other, but just think of the horrible repercussions if there was even one crossover!!!
Sorry, but wire-wrap won't support modern bus speeds. (It might be possible to underclock things slow enough to get away with WW, I don't know. This'll get you started... Recently discussed here.
It's been years since I've seen a cigarette lighter in a car. Can you even special order them any more? Oh, you were talking about "convience power points".
I haven't read it since the old man died. I keep hearing stories like this that make me think that old Malcom must be rolling in his grave seeing what jr has done with his Capitalist Tool.
I will grant them a pecayune point in that some sort of Bittorrent-like scheme would allow their customers to get their downloads more quickly. So there is actually some benefit for their customers. But that is a community effect, and has no relation to Microsoft with the exception of them "officially" "allowing" the seeds to be set up. (Didn't some Windows users set up a torrent for XP SP2 only to have Microsoft's lawyers tell them to take it down?)
"Now with 20-30% more vapor!!!!"
Would I want to use the bandwith I paid for so other Windoze lusers can leech off the copy of Longhorn Service Pack 3 that I downloaded? Microsoft wants me to take part in some damn hippy-dippy bandwith commune? While they're world renowned for not playing nice with others?!!! Get the fuck out!!!! You can't have it both ways Microsoft!!!!
//
//
// SPACE PARANOIDS v 0.9.3
// Kevin J Flynn
// June 5, 1982
//
//Watch, I bet that weasel Ed Dillinger will like totally rip-off this program.
//
//
Overhyped? Google?!!!
Or *BSD or any FOSS OS for that matter?
It would be one thing for Apple to lock the OS to the platform.
It would be a totally different thing for Apple to lock the platform to the OS. Particularly if DRM makes any sort of inroads.
mmmm..... brings back fond memories of Alex's fantasy about frolicking in the snow with Katya Wyeth at the end of "A Clockwork Orange". She was wearing more than just the fur hat, but looking quite fetching. (Sorry, couldn't track down a screencap online ;-( ).
Cellphones make me wish the little interdimensional dude from James Blish's(?) story "Babel II" would come by for a visit. I particularly approve of the protagonist's comprimise at the end.
According to googlesightseeing,Mr AC nailed it!
WTF kind of animal do they have in their zoo up there, Cthulhu?!!!!