The economics are alot like real life, except in Everquest, one day you wake up realizing your virtual assets are worthless and you've just wasted years of your life.
Man, am I glad I quit playing EQ and got two jobs so I could buy up all that Nortel stock. Now I... aww dammit.
Worse yet, how about making a trilogy that dips into three other movies filmed before it for content, only to have remakes of *those* first three movies made to reinforce assertions made in the second trilogy?
Will the same thing happen to Intel products in China?
With any luck, no. Chinese IP legislations works very differently from similar laws on this side of the pond. They would think nothing of disassembling an existing product, rebuilding it on the cheap and selling it as their own. If they were to do this with a DRM-enabled CPU to allow it to run Linux, imagine how many stuckists like us would be climbing all over ourselves to grab one!
They have the means to develop and produce these chips by the millions. Now all they need is a good reason.... and it looks like that reason is drawing ever-closer. I can't wait;)
Notice the diabetic in the picture has a large, red tattoo across her forehead. If it takes one of THOSE bloody things to let people know when I'm having a sugar fit then forget it.
Works for me! That'd be the first Darwinesque selective pressure the human race has seen in almost a century (unless you count the ever-present tendency for people to want to do horribly unpleasant things to other people because of a perceived argument between their imaginary friends or possession of a clump of wet dirt with little green things growing out of it).
With reproductive technology allowing people who by all rights shouldn't be breeding to create offspring to pass on the infertility gene (huh?), modern medicine curing diseases that 100 years ago - or in nature - would have been fatal and the proliferation of Allergies of Instant Death (TM) perhaps what we need right about now is some... um...
...extinction-lmrrmrr mmble to cull the herd a bit. The amount of coloured paper someone owns should not come into play when trying to fight against selective pressure... unless of course that pressure is a colour-blind cougar of some sort that hates the sweaty stench of cash.
Moreover, what's so intuitive about these impossible newfangled CD-RWs
Yup, not having to deal with eight year-old technology is as good a reason as any to shy away from computer manufacturer . Hard drives in the gigabyte range? Ten... one HUNDRED network cards? Eep! A nineteen inch screen!!
I'm all for making the browser more standards-compliant, but 'fastest browser on earth' is a completely useless claim.
I would disagree.... it shows the programmers are actually paying attention to their craft instead of working under the assumption that cycles and memory are free. (No, they're not. Are not. Are not!)
Remember the first Battle Chess for the PC? The liner notes written by the programmers said the game would've been a lot easier to release if they could've included a meg of RAM and a few megabytes of storage space in the box... but instead, they took their time and wrote a solid, stable and efficient program, instead of one that just did its job as advertised.
Perhaps if other programmers took a hint and wrote software that was better instead of just bigger we wouldn't need to upgrade as often.
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So recently a sort of law passed that says that manufacturers have to pay 6 Euro for every CD writer they sell because there is the possibility that this device is used for illegal actions.
Practically that means, that I as the customer have to pay a penalty for not doing anything illegal.
er.... but if you're paying 6 Euro to compensate the recording artists for the losses they incur due to stolen music, that means you can now use the media to steal music with impunity now can't you?
I still like the idea of sending a letter to a group you like that basically says "Dear $n, I pulled your last album off napster the other day and it rules! Great job! Here's five bucks for making such amazing music - it's nowhere near what your label would've given you if I had bought the CD."
Do you really want to see the broadcasting industry go into the shitter
Hmm... Friends, Big Brother, celebrity boxing, "when someting normal does something dangerous to someone stupid" (FOX only), the Anna Nicole Smith show and the last six years of Saturday Night Live... and you're worried about broadcasting getting worse?
I wonder how it was programmed.... did they ask the robot to teach itself how to mow the lawn? Does it look beneath itself to see if the grass beneath it is too long before cutting? If so, would it just wander onto the driveway and claim success:>?
Hey! What's this thing? This... let's call it a wing --- yeah, wing. Hey! I can can really twitch it about pretty good can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on.
Some directors, like the guy who made "Amilie", carefully story-board and prep before filming, and end up getting a film that is almost exactly the length that they want.
Compare this against most Hong Kong action cinema, where films usually take longer to watch than they did to shoot.
Or, at least they will do this until some 14 year-old kid jumps off the Empire State Building, at which point all youth suicides to that point will be blamed on the game. Entertainers will react by obliterating any trace of the Empire State Building from games and movies; the best way to deal with a tragedy is obviously to erase it and pretend that it was never really there.
Did the Church of Scientology not use the DMCA to clobber Google a while back? If the clams (q.v.) think that using the DMCA as a club is a lot easier than suing posters of their sacred texts the hard way, then they might just choose to step up and protect it. This would be a Bad Thing (TM).
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The economics are alot like real life, except in Everquest, one day you wake up realizing your virtual assets are worthless and you've just wasted years of your life.
Man, am I glad I quit playing EQ and got two jobs so I could buy up all that Nortel stock. Now I... aww dammit.
Worse yet, how about making a trilogy that dips into three other movies filmed before it for content, only to have remakes of *those* first three movies made to reinforce assertions made in the second trilogy?
Funny, I see it as more of a pokemon match. "Let's see, IBM is a blue type, so that means Kasparov should use a yellow offence. Wait, what's this?"
Amd what, exactly, is a phenomenom? If peogle can't be brothered to spell-check their posts, I cam't be botnered to read thek.
Laugh all you want, I enhanced the display on my GBA using the undocumented brightness knob and now I can see *erverything*.
Um... what's that fizzing noise?
...IP legislations works very...
Eek. Chretien-speak. The guy's like a virus or something.
Will the same thing happen to Intel products in China?
;)
With any luck, no. Chinese IP legislations works very differently from similar laws on this side of the pond. They would think nothing of disassembling an existing product, rebuilding it on the cheap and selling it as their own. If they were to do this with a DRM-enabled CPU to allow it to run Linux, imagine how many stuckists like us would be climbing all over ourselves to grab one!
They have the means to develop and produce these chips by the millions. Now all they need is a good reason.... and it looks like that reason is drawing ever-closer. I can't wait
Feh. DMCA's an American law. I'm Canadian. Come get me.
Okay lapse, now go back and read my comment. Pay extra-special attention to the tag at the very end of it.
Thanks for the lesson though; I never really did know what the proper name for that marking was (though for the record I do know what it's for).
Notice the diabetic in the picture has a large, red tattoo across her forehead. If it takes one of THOSE bloody things to let people know when I'm having a sugar fit then forget it.
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Works for me! That'd be the first Darwinesque selective pressure the human race has seen in almost a century (unless you count the ever-present tendency for people to want to do horribly unpleasant things to other people because of a perceived argument between their imaginary friends or possession of a clump of wet dirt with little green things growing out of it).
...extinction-lmrrmrr mmble to cull the herd a bit. The amount of coloured paper someone owns should not come into play when trying to fight against selective pressure... unless of course that pressure is a colour-blind cougar of some sort that hates the sweaty stench of cash.
With reproductive technology allowing people who by all rights shouldn't be breeding to create offspring to pass on the infertility gene (huh?), modern medicine curing diseases that 100 years ago - or in nature - would have been fatal and the proliferation of Allergies of Instant Death (TM) perhaps what we need right about now is some... um...
Bob Barker and Rod Roddy eteched 90036 into my brain. I'm now Ernest Borgnine of 226 West 13th Street, Hollywood CA ;)
Moreover, what's so intuitive about these impossible newfangled CD-RWs
Yup, not having to deal with eight year-old technology is as good a reason as any to shy away from computer manufacturer . Hard drives in the gigabyte range? Ten... one HUNDRED network cards? Eep! A nineteen inch screen!!
I'm all for making the browser more standards-compliant, but 'fastest browser on earth' is a completely useless claim.
I would disagree.... it shows the programmers are actually paying attention to their craft instead of working under the assumption that cycles and memory are free. (No, they're not. Are not. Are not!)
Remember the first Battle Chess for the PC? The liner notes written by the programmers said the game would've been a lot easier to release if they could've included a meg of RAM and a few megabytes of storage space in the box... but instead, they took their time and wrote a solid, stable and efficient program, instead of one that just did its job as advertised.
Perhaps if other programmers took a hint and wrote software that was better instead of just bigger we wouldn't need to upgrade as often.
George Carlin says we
can joke about rape if one
carefully constructs
Problem is not spam
virus says my server has
been hacked by Chinese
So recently a sort of law passed that says that manufacturers have to pay 6 Euro for every CD writer they sell because there is the possibility that this device is used for illegal actions.
Practically that means, that I as the customer have to pay a penalty for not doing anything illegal.
er.... but if you're paying 6 Euro to compensate the recording artists for the losses they incur due to stolen music, that means you can now use the media to steal music with impunity now can't you?
I still like the idea of sending a letter to a group you like that basically says "Dear $n, I pulled your last album off napster the other day and it rules! Great job! Here's five bucks for making such amazing music - it's nowhere near what your label would've given you if I had bought the CD."
Do you really want to see the broadcasting industry go into the shitter
Hmm... Friends, Big Brother, celebrity boxing, "when someting normal does something dangerous to someone stupid" (FOX only), the Anna Nicole Smith show and the last six years of Saturday Night Live... and you're worried about broadcasting getting worse?
I wonder how it was programmed.... did they ask the robot to teach itself how to mow the lawn? Does it look beneath itself to see if the grass beneath it is too long before cutting? If so, would it just wander onto the driveway and claim success :>?
Hey! What's this thing? This ... let's call it a wing --- yeah, wing. Hey! I can can really twitch it about pretty good can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on.
Some directors, like the guy who made "Amilie", carefully story-board and prep before filming, and end up getting a film that is almost exactly the length that they want.
Compare this against most Hong Kong action cinema, where films usually take longer to watch than they did to shoot.
Or, at least they will do this until some 14 year-old kid jumps off the Empire State Building, at which point all youth suicides to that point will be blamed on the game. Entertainers will react by obliterating any trace of the Empire State Building from games and movies; the best way to deal with a tragedy is obviously to erase it and pretend that it was never really there.
Did the Church of Scientology not use the DMCA to clobber Google a while back? If the clams (q.v.) think that using the DMCA as a club is a lot easier than suing posters of their sacred texts the hard way, then they might just choose to step up and protect it. This would be a Bad Thing (TM).
What does Michael Jackson have to do with this?
Nuh-uh. Bryce Lynch invented it first on Max Headroom. Worked great until someone swatted it ;)
Besides, we've already discussed this before. If I wanted reruns, I'd go to the source.