For the *unwashed masses* tabs is the only positive feature of FF. Now IE7 has it.
What's truly sad is that since by default FF hides the tab bar but IE shows it, I was actually told by someone they prefer IE to FF "because IE has tabs".
Also, I believe there will be raids of good superbases via evil players and vice versa, though from the beta evidently base features that took months for the supergroups to save up for and craft could be destroyed in 30 seconds.
Actually, I'm pretty sure one of the devs stated that bases get fully "healed" between raids, except of course for any "Items of Power" that were taken (those being the point of raids).
As an aside, that's another thing I love about CoH/CoV - the devs are very active on the forums, and not just to make announcements. They frequently respond to questions and take suggestions from players.
ANY deivce that turns analog video into a digital signal. That includes the Pinacle and Hauppage video input deives, as in the ones poeple use to take THEIR home movies and make them into files on their computer.
Yes, that's exactly why they want laws like this passed. People are making movies themselves. Current prosumer cameras, sound equipment and editing software means people can make their own movies, shows, music, etc without the *AA taking most of the profits. This frightens them a hell of a lot more than casual copying.
What, no wave motion gun or reflex cannon? What about that "don't point that thing at my side of the galaxy" canon they used in the first Tenchi Muyo movie (the name escapes me at the moment)? This list needs to be longer.
I don't have either of those DVD sets, but are you sure that was done with branching? That seems like something that would be better handled using multiple angles (I believe, for example, the Yu Yu Hakusho DVDs use alternate angles for the opening and title cards depending on your language selection).
So, if these plants are property of Monsanto, and they happen to start growing on my land with no help from me... I can charge them with tresspassing... or maybe illegal dumping???
Probably wouldn't work - didn't this already happen, and they successfully sued the person whose land it was growing on for IP violation?
And for the lazy (or those behind an abusive proxy server):
What concerns me about the PC game market is that I'm seeing publishers
blaming everything but the real causes for PC game sales decline. It's not
piracy. And it's not that everyone just prefers to play games in front of a
TV. It's the games. It's the way people who buy PC games get treated.
It's not like piracy on consoles doesn't exist either. Yet their sales are
doing great.
For a PC game I'm expected to keep track of a serial number -forever-, keep
the CD in the drive despite it using gigs of hard drive space, AND I'm
expected to have to download patches all too often just to make the game
work correctly. That's assuming your computer works with the CD ROM
protection in the first place.
If your competitor (console games in this case) doesn't put you through that
hassle, then some people are going to choose that. And others will simply
not purchase games.
People WILL buy stuff if you give them a reason. If you make it more
rewarding to purchase it rather than pirating it then you'll get the sale.
I'm sure, for example, that Object Desktop gets pirated. The whole thing is
probably only 50 megs in size as a file. But it doesn't get pirated that
much and we sell millions of dollars worth -one copy at a time- over the
Internet. Each year. For years. Why? Because we give users a reason to
purchase it. We keep updating it on a regular basis which adds value to it.
We provide a way to seamlessly get those updates for verified customers
which gives an convenience incentive to be a customer.
As some of you know, we expanded the Drengin.net gaming network to
TotalGaming.net. Basically, we moved the gaming network beyond being just
Stardock games and into putting third party games on there. You can imagine
the effort convincing some of the publishers of putting games on here that
don't have any digital rights management, no time outs, no "renting", etc.
It's not, however, that we want to do that because we're "nice guys". It's
business. Just business. People just want to get the product/service and
not be hassled about it. I buy WizBang IV and I expect to be able to
install it to my regular machine and if necessary, put it on my laptop. And
you know what? If I have it on my laptop I want that drive bay used for an
extra battery, not used for a battery sucking CD drive that's in there just
because the game checks to see if I have the CD in.
At the end of the day, I'm just wondering why the industry is so afraid of
some 15 year old kid downloading PC games off of Bit Torrent or whatever
instead of looking at the demographics of PC gamers (which are older and
tend to have more money) and start catering more to them -- people who have
money and don't have time to be jerked around with nonsense.
When I see "piracy" being blamed for sales decline (and I really think that
other factors such as lack of mega releases this year and the migration to
MMORPGs need to be considered heavily) it worries me. It worries me that
publishers aren't really taking these other issues seriously and as a result
are making development plans based on faulty data. After all, one can only
imagine the justification for the PC port of Spider-Man II (as one example).
Plus, with the various anti-freedom acts they've passed, you'd probably be prohibited from telling yourself if they've asked you to provide them with any information. Er...
The artist was deprived of the money Bob would have otherwise spent. It does matter how you look at it.
Unless Bob wasn't going to buy it in the first place, but listening to the copy he decides he likes the artist, and buys their other CDs. This happens all the time, and used to happen even more before smart people started boycotting the RIAA.
for christ's sakes, this thing hasn't even been out a week and everyone's bitching about what it doesn't do.
Get it straight - the bitching about features started as soon as it was announced. More specific bitching started the moment the first/. reader finished running the installer. ^_^
Personally, I thought the most glaring example was when he's going through the storm, just before he gets to Laputa. They added music and sound effects. The original had silence (actually it's been a bit since I watched it - maybe they had some sound, but certainly not music), and the feeling of the scene is very different.
You don't get much more glaring than "silence" versus "full soundtrack and effects".
I'm unaware of any laws that LEGALLY REQUIRE a given student to recite the Pledge. I agree with laws that require schools to have students recite the Pledge, just as I did. But if there are any laws that require the STUDENT to participate I would be in favor of having THAT law overturned.
OK... so you're saying it's OK to have laws that require schools to require students to recite the pledge, but not to have the laws directly require the students recite the pledge. Oh yeah, that makes LOADS of sense...
Hmm, I'm pretty sure it was always Command-Z, no mousing required, but it was before it was called the Command key. It was just that key with the weird symbol on it (personally I called it "funnykey" back in the mid-80s). The Jargon file lists it under "feature key".
I know on the IIgs and some Mac keyboards it was the same as the open-Apple key (I forget what the closed-Apple key was used for). On the original mac, though, I think it just had the symbol. A google search on Apple's site turns up a number of images of keyboards among other things, though not one of the original Mac.
So the question left is, was there a documented implementation of Undo on a computer before the original Mac? Perhaps in some old word processing programs? I know there were some I used on the Apple II, but I certainly can't remember what functions they had after 20-some-odd years.
IANAL (duh) but I believe this change (executing people with low IQ) was due to it being considered under the "cruel or unusual punishment" part of the constitution, and the standards for what society considers "cruel or unusual" change over time.
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Well, the whole stated premise of the bill is basically "people won't get broadband net access unless they can legally get Hollywood movies online." This statement is made by the bill's sponsors without any apparent research or references. Should such a statement really be blindly accepted as fact when it will significantly limit, among other things, fair use?And do we really need to try to limit freedoms to get people to switch to broadband net access?
I can see it now... "See, even our most advanced content protection, and people are still stealing it! We need laws to make this impossible, not just illegal, or we will be driven out of business, and then the world will be completely devoid of music/movies/etc since we won't be able to provide our invaluable services any more! Boo hoo!"
I can see a reason why hardware companies might like this. Generally, laws go into effect some time after they are passed, and as I understand this would be no exception. After the law is passed but before it takes effect, the hardware companies know there will probably be a rush to buy up "non-content-controlled" hardware, thus giving them a boost. Of course, afterwards, they can charge more for the content-controlled hardware as well, since if it's required by law there won't be competition that's cheaper because it lacks that hardware.
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For the *unwashed masses* tabs is the only positive feature of FF. Now IE7 has it.
What's truly sad is that since by default FF hides the tab bar but IE shows it, I was actually told by someone they prefer IE to FF "because IE has tabs".
Indeed, my first thought was "can it pop enough popcorn to fill a house?"
Also, I believe there will be raids of good superbases via evil players and vice versa, though from the beta evidently base features that took months for the supergroups to save up for and craft could be destroyed in 30 seconds.
Actually, I'm pretty sure one of the devs stated that bases get fully "healed" between raids, except of course for any "Items of Power" that were taken (those being the point of raids).
As an aside, that's another thing I love about CoH/CoV - the devs are very active on the forums, and not just to make announcements. They frequently respond to questions and take suggestions from players.
ANY deivce that turns analog video into a digital signal. That includes the Pinacle and Hauppage video input deives, as in the ones poeple use to take THEIR home movies and make them into files on their computer.
Yes, that's exactly why they want laws like this passed. People are making movies themselves. Current prosumer cameras, sound equipment and editing software means people can make their own movies, shows, music, etc without the *AA taking most of the profits. This frightens them a hell of a lot more than casual copying.
What, no wave motion gun or reflex cannon? What about that "don't point that thing at my side of the galaxy" canon they used in the first Tenchi Muyo movie (the name escapes me at the moment)? This list needs to be longer.
I swear, there's got to be a web comic for every situation: http://www.galactanet.com/comic/284.htm
I don't have either of those DVD sets, but are you sure that was done with branching? That seems like something that would be better handled using multiple angles (I believe, for example, the Yu Yu Hakusho DVDs use alternate angles for the opening and title cards depending on your language selection).
So, if these plants are property of Monsanto, and they happen to start growing on my land with no help from me...
I can charge them with tresspassing...
or maybe illegal dumping???
Probably wouldn't work - didn't this already happen, and they successfully sued the person whose land it was growing on for IP violation?
And for the lazy (or those behind an abusive proxy server):
Brad Wardell (Galactic Civilizations, etc) has some thoughts on piracy and the problems with PC games:
google groups link here
Plus, with the various anti-freedom acts they've passed, you'd probably be prohibited from telling yourself if they've asked you to provide them with any information. Er...
The artist was deprived of the money Bob would have otherwise spent. It does matter how you look at it.
Unless Bob wasn't going to buy it in the first place, but listening to the copy he decides he likes the artist, and buys their other CDs. This happens all the time, and used to happen even more before smart people started boycotting the RIAA.
Furthermore, with a lot of our copiers, we have to go through the name-brand dealers or it voids the warranties and service contracts on our machines
IANAL but isn't that illegal?
Doing a quick search: Magnuson-Moss Warranty Improvement Act - United States Code Annotated - Title 15 Commerce And Trade - Chapter 50 - 2302
That was a typo? I thought you were comparing the possibility of ET life to reading slashdot... ^_^
for christ's sakes, this thing hasn't even been out a week and everyone's bitching about what it doesn't do.
Get it straight - the bitching about features started as soon as it was announced. More specific bitching started the moment the first /. reader finished running the installer. ^_^
Personally, I thought the most glaring example was when he's going through the storm, just before he gets to Laputa. They added music and sound effects. The original had silence (actually it's been a bit since I watched it - maybe they had some sound, but certainly not music), and the feeling of the scene is very different.
You don't get much more glaring than "silence" versus "full soundtrack and effects".
Nah, you should have kept them wondering and said "Hint: See the picture of Sasami?..."
After all, if they don't know Ghibli... ^_^
I'm unaware of any laws that LEGALLY REQUIRE a given student to recite the Pledge. I agree with laws that require schools to have students recite the Pledge, just as I did. But if there are any laws that require the STUDENT to participate I would be in favor of having THAT law overturned.
OK... so you're saying it's OK to have laws that require schools to require students to recite the pledge, but not to have the laws directly require the students recite the pledge. Oh yeah, that makes LOADS of sense...
Theft is theft.
True enough. Of course, copyright violation is not theft. Please try to stay on-topic. ^_-
Hmm, I'm pretty sure it was always Command-Z, no mousing required, but it was before it was called the Command key. It was just that key with the weird symbol on it (personally I called it "funnykey" back in the mid-80s). The Jargon file lists it under "feature key".
I know on the IIgs and some Mac keyboards it was the same as the open-Apple key (I forget what the closed-Apple key was used for). On the original mac, though, I think it just had the symbol. A google search on Apple's site turns up a number of images of keyboards among other things, though not one of the original Mac.
So the question left is, was there a documented implementation of Undo on a computer before the original Mac? Perhaps in some old word processing programs? I know there were some I used on the Apple II, but I certainly can't remember what functions they had after 20-some-odd years.
Imagine if TV ads started messing around with your contrast and volume controls.
Well, I don't know about contrast, but many stations do have ads set at a significantly higher volume than the actual program.
IANAL (duh) but I believe this change (executing people with low IQ) was due to it being considered under the "cruel or unusual punishment" part of the constitution, and the standards for what society considers "cruel or unusual" change over time.
Well, the whole stated premise of the bill is basically "people won't get broadband net access unless they can legally get Hollywood movies online." This statement is made by the bill's sponsors without any apparent research or references. Should such a statement really be blindly accepted as fact when it will significantly limit, among other things, fair use?And do we really need to try to limit freedoms to get people to switch to broadband net access?
Of course, they will use this to their advantage.
I can see it now... "See, even our most advanced content protection, and people are still stealing it! We need laws to make this impossible, not just illegal, or we will be driven out of business, and then the world will be completely devoid of music/movies/etc since we won't be able to provide our invaluable services any more! Boo hoo!"
I can see a reason why hardware companies might like this. Generally, laws go into effect some time after they are passed, and as I understand this would be no exception. After the law is passed but before it takes effect, the hardware companies know there will probably be a rush to buy up "non-content-controlled" hardware, thus giving them a boost. Of course, afterwards, they can charge more for the content-controlled hardware as well, since if it's required by law there won't be competition that's cheaper because it lacks that hardware.