Sure you can go after the guy who leaked it. He either works for the theatre, in which case I'm pretty sure this case will be covered in his contract, or he stole the tapes from the theatre, which is also a clear-cut case.
It's true that after it's out they can't stop further distribution, but they sure can sue the one who leaked it for all he's worth...
What, you think contract law isn't valid any more when copyright ceases to exist? Contract law was made for cases like this, and breach of contract can be brought to court for the damage resulting from that breach.
Do musicians need to reach out the same number of people at the same time with their live performances? I think not.
One music performance involves a lot less crew than the production of a movie, so a lot less people need to share in the profits. Besides that, people are willing to pay a lot more for a live performance than for a movie.
Most movies make a profit from the theatre viewings alone. That profit won't change at all, since the movie maker can easily negotiate a contract with the theatres to forbid re-distribution.
Since most internet connections are not really capable of handling blueray-disk sized downloads, or even DVD-sized in some regions, even the DVD market won't be affected that much by downloads.
They will probably still make a profit on the disks themselves as well, since those need factories and a distribution network.
So no, the movie industry should have no problem adopting to a copyright free world.
Copying has happened for as long as there is life on this planet. Even animals do it! Birds are copying songs all the time, and sing 'em in public, but for some reason I am not allowed to just sing certain songs in public??
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In that case those duplicate rows are useless anyway and should be removed directly. That will also save on the amount of data that needs to be transferred.
In many cases they can just use the same means as now. A movie distributor can simply state in the contract with the cinema that the cinema is not allowed to distribute the movie. Most movies make a profit from running in the cinema, so nothing needs to change from the current situation. Contract law is sufficient in this case, no copyright law needed.
That's part of why AI's are often no fun to play against, their strategy sucks, but their reaction time, and "clicks per second" are perfect. An AI in a FPS with hitscan weapons is impossible to beat, because it'll never, ever miss. An AI in a RTS can issue commands to hundreds of units at the same time.
Until now this was not really a problem for RTS games, because the AI had no real strategy and could thus be outsmarted.
A possible solution would be to limit the number of "clicks per second" that the AI can do, just like a real player.
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I can imagine the null bit, but duplicates? Duplicates make a mess of things and complicate the language more than they solve.
The problems never show when you look at your own code. The problems show when you are forced to look at someone else's code. Code barfed out by people that are not talented programmers. Once that happens you'll wish the language they used was more "limiting".
But IBM would likely push developers to use SWT instead. It's being used in a surprisingly large number of applications. That most people don't realize it's being used is a testament to both it's performance and it's ability to appear native (because most of the widgets are native with a Java API).
I'm using Netbeans right now, and that looks exactly native in my Gnome desktop. AFAIK that's swing... So I'm guessing that native look isn't an SWT-only domain any more.
Plants would only help reduce CO2 levels in the air if we where to harvest them and bury them deep underground.
Besides that, most plants have no problems with cloudy days, as there is still coming more light through the clouds then the plant can actually use. If there is a little less light on average, plants will simply react by making more chlorophyll.
A big difference is that when in Java you assign the result of your operation to an int, and the operation results in a string, you get a clear compile error telling you exactly what went wrong. In php you don't get a compile error, and thus errors of this type are very hard to find.
Not really. First, part of GGP's argument was that graphics are a problem. Using an available engine (Tremulous) or an available game idea does not help in the graphics department.
Second, basing your game on something else doesn't help with the fixed scope/feature set either, unless you're building an exact clone. Nether Wesnoth nor Tremulous are exact clones of anything.
And if enough of us get together, he will start caring, because if he doesn't, he will get voted out in favor of someone who at least acts like they care.
They all act like they care. You'll never get more then that, because the person that actually cares will never be a candidate. Big money picks the candidates. You can vote, but you don't have a real choice.
Maybe it's too late for me anyway to get used to multiple desktops because now I'm just using 2 lcd panels which provides real multiple desktops and I don't see the point in multiple virtual desktops anymore.
I use two screens AND multiple desktops... More screens and more desktops serve different purposes. You use more screens so you have more pixels for the same task. You use more desktops so you can separate tasks by putting all the windows you need for 1 task on 1 desktop.
Sounds good, except again for the bar-code. If the names are printed there will be no spelling or writing errors anyway so you can just ocr the human readable text.
A ballot should not contain any non-human readable data. If the ballot is printed there does not need to be.
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Sure you can go after the guy who leaked it. He either works for the theatre, in which case I'm pretty sure this case will be covered in his contract, or he stole the tapes from the theatre, which is also a clear-cut case.
It's true that after it's out they can't stop further distribution, but they sure can sue the one who leaked it for all he's worth...
What, you think contract law isn't valid any more when copyright ceases to exist? Contract law was made for cases like this, and breach of contract can be brought to court for the damage resulting from that breach.
I guess that question should be answered by any soldier that has been send to a conflict zone...
And I doubt all those soldiers get paid just as much as those big-name actors, even though they do put their lives on the line, unlike those actors.
Or ask any sailor... Nowadays they even run the risk of being hijacked by real pirates...
Do musicians need to reach out the same number of people at the same time with their live performances? I think not.
One music performance involves a lot less crew than the production of a movie, so a lot less people need to share in the profits. Besides that, people are willing to pay a lot more for a live performance than for a movie.
Most movies make a profit from the theatre viewings alone. That profit won't change at all, since the movie maker can easily negotiate a contract with the theatres to forbid re-distribution.
Since most internet connections are not really capable of handling blueray-disk sized downloads, or even DVD-sized in some regions, even the DVD market won't be affected that much by downloads.
They will probably still make a profit on the disks themselves as well, since those need factories and a distribution network.
So no, the movie industry should have no problem adopting to a copyright free world.
Rabarberbarberabarbarbarenbaardenbarbier...
This tree would really start to be interesting if the designers found a way to turn the CO2 back into coal :)
Copying has happened for as long as there is life on this planet. Even animals do it! Birds are copying songs all the time, and sing 'em in public, but for some reason I am not allowed to just sing certain songs in public??
In that case those duplicate rows are useless anyway and should be removed directly. That will also save on the amount of data that needs to be transferred.
In many cases they can just use the same means as now. A movie distributor can simply state in the contract with the cinema that the cinema is not allowed to distribute the movie. Most movies make a profit from running in the cinema, so nothing needs to change from the current situation. Contract law is sufficient in this case, no copyright law needed.
That's part of why AI's are often no fun to play against, their strategy sucks, but their reaction time, and "clicks per second" are perfect. An AI in a FPS with hitscan weapons is impossible to beat, because it'll never, ever miss. An AI in a RTS can issue commands to hundreds of units at the same time.
Until now this was not really a problem for RTS games, because the AI had no real strategy and could thus be outsmarted.
A possible solution would be to limit the number of "clicks per second" that the AI can do, just like a real player.
I can imagine the null bit, but duplicates? Duplicates make a mess of things and complicate the language more than they solve.
The problems never show when you look at your own code. The problems show when you are forced to look at someone else's code. Code barfed out by people that are not talented programmers. Once that happens you'll wish the language they used was more "limiting".
I don't know this project, but I guess:
The fusion reactor burns hydrogen to produce energy.
The energy is used to create hydrogen (from water?).
How do you feel about being put in a freezer until you're to numb to object against being put into boiling water?
If boiling water hurts 'em, then cooling down that much hurts as well.
But IBM would likely push developers to use SWT instead. It's being used in a surprisingly large number of applications. That most people don't realize it's being used is a testament to both it's performance and it's ability to appear native (because most of the widgets are native with a Java API).
I'm using Netbeans right now, and that looks exactly native in my Gnome desktop. AFAIK that's swing... So I'm guessing that native look isn't an SWT-only domain any more.
Plants would only help reduce CO2 levels in the air if we where to harvest them and bury them deep underground.
Besides that, most plants have no problems with cloudy days, as there is still coming more light through the clouds then the plant can actually use. If there is a little less light on average, plants will simply react by making more chlorophyll.
A big difference is that when in Java you assign the result of your operation to an int, and the operation results in a string, you get a clear compile error telling you exactly what went wrong.
In php you don't get a compile error, and thus errors of this type are very hard to find.
Bottom line: voting is about TRUST in the procedure first, the actual results second.
Almost. voting is about verifiability of the procedure. When verifiability is replaced by trust you know something is wrong.
Not really.
First, part of GGP's argument was that graphics are a problem. Using an available engine (Tremulous) or an available game idea does not help in the graphics department.
Second, basing your game on something else doesn't help with the fixed scope/feature set either, unless you're building an exact clone. Nether Wesnoth nor Tremulous are exact clones of anything.
Just a few that I know of:
The Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/
FreeCiv http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Tremulous http://tremulous.net/
And if enough of us get together, he will start caring, because if he doesn't, he will get voted out in favor of someone who at least acts like they care.
They all act like they care. You'll never get more then that, because the person that actually cares will never be a candidate. Big money picks the candidates. You can vote, but you don't have a real choice.
Maybe it's too late for me anyway to get used to multiple desktops because now I'm just using 2 lcd panels which provides real multiple desktops and I don't see the point in multiple virtual desktops anymore.
I use two screens AND multiple desktops... More screens and more desktops serve different purposes. You use more screens so you have more pixels for the same task. You use more desktops so you can separate tasks by putting all the windows you need for 1 task on 1 desktop.
Sounds good, except again for the bar-code. If the names are printed there will be no spelling or writing errors anyway so you can just ocr the human readable text.
A ballot should not contain any non-human readable data. If the ballot is printed there does not need to be.
As long as human beings can not read barcodes, barcodes on ballots are a big no.
Just print the names on the ballot and ocr that. Should be easy enough.