is go to a 'brand name' college with no grade inflation.
I can't vouch for other types of grad schools, but law school admissions is almost entirely about the LSAT, with a secondary emphasis on GPA. Borderline candidates will then have their extracurriculars looked at, and the college is in there somewhere, but at the top law schools it's almost as good that you went to a state school in Wyoming- they like geographic diversity, too.
Your degree from Harvard, which generally puts you a hundred thousand or so in the hole before you ever take a law school class, and a 3.5 will get you into the exact same place as someone who graduated from any state school with a 3.6 and the same LSAT. Moreover, they'll have gotten there for free.
Good luck to the high school seniors applying. Just remember, it's not the end of the world if you get turned down:D
At one point, I was extremely active in the various communities for those games. I played Everquest since the beta; I was personally invited into the beta for DAoC; I was an active poster on Lum's (a site anyone who follows these games will at least have heard about), on the appropriate newsgroups, and I had emails from Brad McQuaid in my inbox a time or two.
I was also a depressed teenager that was using these things as an escape from reality, just like most of the other people who play them.
I got off easier than most of the hardcore addicts; even though I was addicted, I knew it to be more to the community based around the game than to the games themselves. For most of those three years, it was more fun to talk about, critique or explain certain parts of the games than to actually play them- after all, although the games were, more often than not, buggy, unfinished, incredibly frustrating timesinks, they also had a large number of incredibly smart, creative, and imaginative people that congregated around them at all times. It takes a certain mindset to want to escape into a fantasy world like this in lieu of anything else- and, more often than not, the people you'll meet in such a game are much funnier, more able conversationists and more brilliant than anyone around you in real life.
Of course, they're also addicts that'll do anything up to and including pissing in a bottle, shitting on the floor and going without food for two or three days at a time to get the next item in a chain of a dozen that'll increase their character's power by 5%. These aren't just stories; I've seen them all firsthand and know for sure that there are still thousands (yeah, thousands) of people like that out there.
Because of the properties of my addiction, in the end, once I snapped out of my depression it became far easier for me to quit. I'll never touch an MMOG again; I remember what it was like, and even though Star Wars Galaxies or EQ2 might be tempting, I'll never buy a copy. Like I said, I got off easy; all it really cost me was about eighteen months of my life (which I'd have wasted anyway, because the depression was from outside sources) and I even made an equivalent of fifty cents an hour selling my stuff afterwards.
Most of the people I knew, though, probably haven't. In fact, I'd put money on half of them still being there a year after I stopped playing, probably worse off than when I last talked to them. (Don't kid yourselves; I made some good friends in that time, but most of them dropped off the face of the Earth the minute I quit. What do you have to talk about when one of you is in the game at least 12 hours a day and the other is desperately trying to put it behind him?)
It's not the games' fault; there are people I once knew that dropped out of high school due to playing MUD's. Stephen King wrote a story about twenty people failing out of college for playing Hearts, a card game, back in the sixties- something most people probably find harder to believe than I do. But there's no question that advanced technology makes it easier for people to lose themselves like this.
Today, I'm fine. A lot of people that were there when I was...aren't.
Yours truly's two year old custom-built machine includes:
A Voodoo 2
A TNT, which I bought the day it came out- made by STB, of course...
An LS-120 drive
An Aureal Vortex 1 soundcard
A Phillips CDD2600 CD-R- the model that was the cause of a successful class action lawsuit due to massive mechanical errors
A DTC SCSI card (company out of business 3 times over)
I'm building a new machine in the near future. It will have the newest and greatest parts from Nvidia, Creative Labs, and AMD- the best processors, video cards and soundcards money can currently buy.
I'm looking forward to seeing how many of them go down:)
I live in New York City, AKA The Free Market Capital Of The World. Certain stores here have 50 copies of games in stock three days before the official release, never mind after.
Today, I spent two or three hours going through 9 or 10 of them (Hey, I could use an extra 700 bucks...) starting at 10 AM.
Every store that had a preorder list has it filled up through January.
The one place that has no list hasn't gotten delivery (and probably never will, because if it doesn't get there today, somebody hijacked the truck.) That didn't stop the five people ahead of me (and the 800 that were there a half hour before that when the store opened) from grabbing business cards ready to call back.
On my way out of the store the second time I checked it, a guy half a block away stopped me to ask if I came out of there. I didn't even ask; I just said 'they don't have it' and he nodded and kept talking on his cell phone, no doubt with a buddy doing the same thing in the other borough.
The Circuit City I went to immediately afterwards had a neat, pre-printed sign saying 'PS:2: We're sold out (Yes, we're as disappointed about it as you are.)'
My final stop, the Electronics Boutique twenty blocks away, had not only sold out of PS:2's months before, they were actually down to 8 copies of Legend of Zelda.
Not that I've given up or anything. There's two months left in the Ebay season, and if I can't get it here, online awaits:)
The brief the White House has filed is not a 'shut down Napster' argument. It simply states that Napster should not be allowed to use the Home Recording Act as a legal defense (which is one of the many defenses Napster has put forth.)
This is a VERY good thing.
If the court was to eventually rule for Napster on those particular grounds, the decision could eventually be used as a precedent to, among other things, collect royalties from PC makers for every PC sold to benefit the RIAA- and that's just for starters. In the long run, such a result would be a disaster for everyone involved *except* Napster, Napster users included.
If the appeals court, or, eventually, the Supreme Court, does eventually find in favor of Napster, it will hopefully do so on other, unrelated grounds.
It's great that Iowa's trying, but...
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From the article:
The bomb-shelter law says that a transaction between an Iowa party and a party that tries to invoke the law of a UCITA state will instead be subject to the laws of Iowa -- a fine example of Midwestern common sense, if you ask me.
IANAL, but that sounds suspiciously like an infringement of states' rights. Much as I hate this law, I do not believe a state has a right to automatically assume jurisdiction of a case simply because the laws of the other state involved seem unfair.
Or does it? Someone comment, one way or the other...
It's not that Linux being adopted by new markets isn't nice, but why is it a good thing that a potentially hostile foreign government recognizes the value of open source easier than our own? (see US Navy...) To add to that, 'Red Caps adopt Red Hat' is the most sensationalist headline I've seen in a while, not to mention the 'sentencing hackers to death' part. Who's Nathan, anyway?
Can't be done, for one reason: you can't put yourself in check.
Nice try, though.
Bleah. This thing took three hours of my life in which I could have been doing something productive, like playing Everquest...time to let someone else have a go.
1. It can't be done with castling (this is fairly obvious- no way to mate with knight at the end.)
2. The mate is to the king side (the side with no queen- think of the way a knight would have to move...)
3. It's not a discover mate. That's because b1/b8 to a1/a8 takes at least four moves- which doesn't leave enough time for a relevant queen or bishop move by either side (black must move a pawn.)
4. The mate does not involve moving any rooks. There are only four positions from which a knight can mate a king on e1/e8; there isn't enough time to move a rook somewhere relevant and make sure it's not protected by any other pieces.
5. The mate is apparently by black. I say this because, if it's by white, black only has four moves- but a black mate gives black five moves, which should be the least amount you need (assuming e2-e4 is irrelevant- it's a red herring.)
That's what I was able to figure out...good luck:)
I usually dislike Guliani, but he's right. Under any normal circumstances, a bunch of elephant dung wouldn't even make it through U.S. Customs; but because some blockhead puts a bad painting on top of it and calls the whole thing the Virgin Mary, it's somehow transformed into an exhibit piece.
I'm Jewish, so I couldn't care less about it's offensive value or lack thereof, but it's pretty clear it's derogatory to Catholics. That doesn't mean it has no right to exist, but it does mean public funding shouldn't be used to display it, just like a thousand other things offensive to a thousand other religions. Use some common sense for once. (This doesn't mean Guliani's not a tyrannical blockhead for blowing the whole thing up- but tyrannical blockheads have points, too.)
I do agree with the second part of the article...although, FYI, the NY Daily News (the city's major tabloid) ran an editorial by Singer in it's Op-Ed section. It's extremely hard to agree with him, but he gave an example from when he was a surgeon (a baby needing a heart transplant died when a brain-dead infant with a healthy heart was in the same hospital for days) that did make me at least consider what he was talking about.
he's right. Under any normal circumstances, a bunch of elephant dung wouldn't even make it through U.S. Customs; but because some blockhead puts a bad painting on top of it and calls the whole thing the Virgin Mary, it's somehow transformed into an exhibit piece. I'm Jewish, so I couldn't care less about it's offensive value or lack thereof, but it's pretty clear it's derogatory to Catholics. That doesn't mean it has no right to exist, but it does mean public funding shouldn't be used to display it, just like a thousand other things offensive to a thousand other religions. Use some common sense for once. (This doesn't mean Guliani's not a tyrannical blockhead for blowing the whole thing up- but tyrannical blockheads have points, too.) I do agree with the second part of the article...although, FYI, the NY Daily News (the city's major tabloid) ran an editorial by Singer in it's Op-Ed section. It's extremely hard to agree with him, but he gave an example from when he was a surgeon (a baby needing a heart transplant died when a brain-dead infant with a healthy heart was in the same hospital for days) that did make me at least consider what he was talking about.
As the article being linked to says, how exactly is this law going to be passed given the other law, passed last year, that specifically says that neither Congress nor the states cannot pass an Internet taxation law until after the year 2001?
BTW- Assuming something like this eventually passes (it will), how IS anyone going to stop Amazon.com from hiring a couple of thousand phone operators instead of an ordering page, then shipping the books/CD's/etc. from Papua New Guinea?
Oh well. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sooner or later, someone's going to come up with a viable third party. If a crackpot billionaire could do it in '92, some other crackpot billionaire can do it, too. After that, maybe people will be able to do their own taxes without a tax attorney who charges half as much as the taxes were...
I know this is pretty old, sciencewise, but does anyone else find it a bit scary that NASA has a realistic chance of detecting a crash landing into the moon that displaces a grand total of 40 pounds of ice?
First off, it's pretty obvious it isn't going to happen. Leo is 12-13 years older than the role, Lucas hasn't even begun to cast yet (the script would probably need to be finished before that happened, wouldn't it?), and all he actually did was see a movie at a ranch. No big deal.
Where I *would* want to see him, though, is Episode III. The age difference wouldn't be as important, the guy can definitely play evil (Man in the Iron Mask), and he does have an imposing presence when the role asks for it (again, Iron Mask.) Besides, he'd get minimum screen time anyway (most of the time he'd presumably be behind a mask.)
BTW, for those obsessing over future plot lines, they will almost certainly, IMO, be summed up by Anakin's feelings:
Episode 1: Fear Episode 2: Anger, Hate (I think I can guess why. Guess we'll have to wait and see...) Episode 3: Suffering (I think this should be more than just the lava, but again, I guess we'll have to wait and see)
Everything the detractors and critics have been saying about SW is true. Jar Jar Binks has his moments, but mostly, he's just annoying. Jake Lloyd acts as well as any 10-year old can- he gets a little better towards the end of the film, but mostly, he's a proud graduate of the Keanu Reeves School of Acting. Senator Palpatine looks like a warped Bill Murray, and the special effects sometimes overwhelm the story.
I loved every minute of it.
There were parts that were good; the pod race may not have had much to do with the story, but it WAS cool. There were parts that were great; the Naboo/droid battle was spectacular, the battle scenes inside the palace were a lot like the stormtrooper/Alliance battle inside the corvette at the beginning of A New Hope, and the T-Wing vs. the giant ship thing was a lot better than you would think in the trailers. Darth Maul was also much better than the trailers would make you believe; when he stared through the force field, you could FEEL the aura.
And then there was The Duel.
The.mp3 was OK, but not that great. The battle by itself was magnificently choreographed, but wouldn't go well with the old Empire theme. With that music as a backdrop, it was 10 minutes of the best lightsaber fight anyone could possibly have hoped for.
If and when the movie's out on the 'Net, what I want most of all is that someone strips the rest of the movie and just releases the duel as a standalone.
The court's ruling on the meta tag question was not absolute, however. In a broadly worded section of the opinion, the panel declared that not all uses of another's trademarks in a meta tag were taboo. For example, if a Web site in its visual textual portion compared its goods or services to a competitor's, the Web site operator could include in its meta tag the competitor's trademark as a "fair use," the court said.
Seems like a good ruling to me. You can still have a fan site/comparison article/whatever with the tag, you just can't blatantly lift it from someone else. Darn.
The reason there's no crack for Divx is because no one in the major cracking groups has a Divx player. For that matter, no one has a Divx player =)
As to the topic at hand, this is a good idea far ahead of it's time. People have been buying 8 dollar gaming mags because of the demo CD's for years now- paying $6 for a real game is actually not that bad. However, if everything is on the CD, it WILL get cracked. (Not that this will be bad for Blockbuster- they'll still make money on the initial rental. Hell, if this goes through, I'll get a membership there instead of the local video store:P)
I was really psyched when I heard "May 21'st", because all of my finals are on the 19'th and 20'th. And then Lucas moved the damn thing back two days =( Hmm...GPA or movie? GPA or movie? Can't...decide...
(Yeah, yeah, I'll go see it on the 21'st, but dammit, missing opening night pisses me off:P)
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First post...FUCK, I'm an hour late. Goddamn clock.
is go to a 'brand name' college with no grade inflation.
:D
I can't vouch for other types of grad schools, but law school admissions is almost entirely about the LSAT, with a secondary emphasis on GPA. Borderline candidates will then have their extracurriculars looked at, and the college is in there somewhere, but at the top law schools it's almost as good that you went to a state school in Wyoming- they like geographic diversity, too.
Your degree from Harvard, which generally puts you a hundred thousand or so in the hole before you ever take a law school class, and a 3.5 will get you into the exact same place as someone who graduated from any state school with a 3.6 and the same LSAT. Moreover, they'll have gotten there for free.
Good luck to the high school seniors applying. Just remember, it's not the end of the world if you get turned down
U of M Law '05
You'd think some of that twenty years of research would be dedicated to getting the name right.
...all in all, thank God I quit.
At one point, I was extremely active in the various communities for those games. I played Everquest since the beta; I was personally invited into the beta for DAoC; I was an active poster on Lum's (a site anyone who follows these games will at least have heard about), on the appropriate newsgroups, and I had emails from Brad McQuaid in my inbox a time or two.
I was also a depressed teenager that was using these things as an escape from reality, just like most of the other people who play them.
I got off easier than most of the hardcore addicts; even though I was addicted, I knew it to be more to the community based around the game than to the games themselves. For most of those three years, it was more fun to talk about, critique or explain certain parts of the games than to actually play them- after all, although the games were, more often than not, buggy, unfinished, incredibly frustrating timesinks, they also had a large number of incredibly smart, creative, and imaginative people that congregated around them at all times. It takes a certain mindset to want to escape into a fantasy world like this in lieu of anything else- and, more often than not, the people you'll meet in such a game are much funnier, more able conversationists and more brilliant than anyone around you in real life.
Of course, they're also addicts that'll do anything up to and including pissing in a bottle, shitting on the floor and going without food for two or three days at a time to get the next item in a chain of a dozen that'll increase their character's power by 5%. These aren't just stories; I've seen them all firsthand and know for sure that there are still thousands (yeah, thousands) of people like that out there.
Because of the properties of my addiction, in the end, once I snapped out of my depression it became far easier for me to quit. I'll never touch an MMOG again; I remember what it was like, and even though Star Wars Galaxies or EQ2 might be tempting, I'll never buy a copy. Like I said, I got off easy; all it really cost me was about eighteen months of my life (which I'd have wasted anyway, because the depression was from outside sources) and I even made an equivalent of fifty cents an hour selling my stuff afterwards.
Most of the people I knew, though, probably haven't. In fact, I'd put money on half of them still being there a year after I stopped playing, probably worse off than when I last talked to them. (Don't kid yourselves; I made some good friends in that time, but most of them dropped off the face of the Earth the minute I quit. What do you have to talk about when one of you is in the game at least 12 hours a day and the other is desperately trying to put it behind him?)
It's not the games' fault; there are people I once knew that dropped out of high school due to playing MUD's. Stephen King wrote a story about twenty people failing out of college for playing Hearts, a card game, back in the sixties- something most people probably find harder to believe than I do. But there's no question that advanced technology makes it easier for people to lose themselves like this.
Today, I'm fine. A lot of people that were there when I was...aren't.
Yours truly's two year old custom-built machine includes:
:)
A Voodoo 2
A TNT, which I bought the day it came out- made by STB, of course...
An LS-120 drive
An Aureal Vortex 1 soundcard
A Phillips CDD2600 CD-R- the model that was the cause of a successful class action lawsuit due to massive mechanical errors
A DTC SCSI card (company out of business 3 times over)
I'm building a new machine in the near future. It will have the newest and greatest parts from Nvidia, Creative Labs, and AMD- the best processors, video cards and soundcards money can currently buy.
I'm looking forward to seeing how many of them go down
I live in New York City, AKA The Free Market Capital Of The World. Certain stores here have 50 copies of games in stock three days before the official release, never mind after.
:)
Today, I spent two or three hours going through 9 or 10 of them (Hey, I could use an extra 700 bucks...) starting at 10 AM.
Every store that had a preorder list has it filled up through January.
The one place that has no list hasn't gotten delivery (and probably never will, because if it doesn't get there today, somebody hijacked the truck.) That didn't stop the five people ahead of me (and the 800 that were there a half hour before that when the store opened) from grabbing business cards ready to call back.
On my way out of the store the second time I checked it, a guy half a block away stopped me to ask if I came out of there. I didn't even ask; I just said 'they don't have it' and he nodded and kept talking on his cell phone, no doubt with a buddy doing the same thing in the other borough.
The Circuit City I went to immediately afterwards had a neat, pre-printed sign saying 'PS:2: We're sold out (Yes, we're as disappointed about it as you are.)'
My final stop, the Electronics Boutique twenty blocks away, had not only sold out of PS:2's months before, they were actually down to 8 copies of Legend of Zelda.
Not that I've given up or anything. There's two months left in the Ebay season, and if I can't get it here, online awaits
The brief the White House has filed is not a 'shut down Napster' argument. It simply states that Napster should not be allowed to use the Home Recording Act as a legal defense (which is one of the many defenses Napster has put forth.)
This is a VERY good thing.
If the court was to eventually rule for Napster on those particular grounds, the decision could eventually be used as a precedent to, among other things, collect royalties from PC makers for every PC sold to benefit the RIAA- and that's just for starters. In the long run, such a result would be a disaster for everyone involved *except* Napster, Napster users included.
If the appeals court, or, eventually, the Supreme Court, does eventually find in favor of Napster, it will hopefully do so on other, unrelated grounds.
IANAL, but that sounds suspiciously like an infringement of states' rights. Much as I hate this law, I do not believe a state has a right to automatically assume jurisdiction of a case simply because the laws of the other state involved seem unfair.
Or does it? Someone comment, one way or the other...
It's not that Linux being adopted by new markets isn't nice, but why is it a good thing that a potentially hostile foreign government recognizes the value of open source easier than our own? (see US Navy...)
To add to that, 'Red Caps adopt Red Hat' is the most sensationalist headline I've seen in a while, not to mention the 'sentencing hackers to death' part. Who's Nathan, anyway?
Can't be done, for one reason: you can't put yourself in check.
:)
Nice try, though.
Bleah. This thing took three hours of my life in which I could have been doing something productive, like playing Everquest...time to let someone else have a go.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night
2. The mate is to the king side (the side with no queen- think of the way a knight would have to move...)
3. It's not a discover mate. That's because b1/b8 to a1/a8 takes at least four moves- which doesn't leave enough time for a relevant queen or bishop move by either side (black must move a pawn.)
4. The mate does not involve moving any rooks. There are only four positions from which a knight can mate a king on e1/e8; there isn't enough time to move a rook somewhere relevant and make sure it's not protected by any other pieces.
5. The mate is apparently by black. I say this because, if it's by white, black only has four moves- but a black mate gives black five moves, which should be the least amount you need (assuming e2-e4 is irrelevant- it's a red herring.)
That's what I was able to figure out...good luck
I usually dislike Guliani, but he's right. Under any normal circumstances, a bunch of elephant dung wouldn't even make it through U.S. Customs; but because some blockhead puts a bad painting on top of it and calls the whole thing the Virgin Mary, it's somehow transformed into an exhibit piece.
I'm Jewish, so I couldn't care less about it's offensive value or lack thereof, but it's pretty clear it's derogatory to Catholics. That doesn't mean it has no right to exist, but it does mean public funding shouldn't be used to display it, just like a thousand other things offensive to a thousand other religions. Use some common sense for once. (This doesn't mean Guliani's not a tyrannical blockhead for blowing the whole thing up- but tyrannical blockheads have points, too.)
I do agree with the second part of the article...although, FYI, the NY Daily News (the city's major tabloid) ran an editorial by Singer in it's Op-Ed section. It's extremely hard to agree with him, but he gave an example from when he was a surgeon (a baby needing a heart transplant died when a brain-dead infant with a healthy heart was in the same hospital for days) that did make me at least consider what he was talking about.
he's right. Under any normal circumstances, a bunch of elephant dung wouldn't even make it through U.S. Customs; but because some blockhead puts a bad painting on top of it and calls the whole thing the Virgin Mary, it's somehow transformed into an exhibit piece. I'm Jewish, so I couldn't care less about it's offensive value or lack thereof, but it's pretty clear it's derogatory to Catholics. That doesn't mean it has no right to exist, but it does mean public funding shouldn't be used to display it, just like a thousand other things offensive to a thousand other religions. Use some common sense for once. (This doesn't mean Guliani's not a tyrannical blockhead for blowing the whole thing up- but tyrannical blockheads have points, too.) I do agree with the second part of the article...although, FYI, the NY Daily News (the city's major tabloid) ran an editorial by Singer in it's Op-Ed section. It's extremely hard to agree with him, but he gave an example from when he was a surgeon (a baby needing a heart transplant died when a brain-dead infant with a healthy heart was in the same hospital for days) that did make me at least consider what he was talking about.
As the article being linked to says, how exactly is this law going to be passed given the other law, passed last year, that specifically says that neither Congress nor the states cannot pass an Internet taxation law until after the year 2001?
BTW- Assuming something like this eventually passes (it will), how IS anyone going to stop Amazon.com from hiring a couple of thousand phone operators instead of an ordering page, then shipping the books/CD's/etc. from Papua New Guinea?
Oh well. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sooner or later, someone's going to come up with a viable third party. If a crackpot billionaire could do it in '92, some other crackpot billionaire can do it, too. After that, maybe people will be able to do their own taxes without a tax attorney who charges half as much as the taxes were...
I know this is pretty old, sciencewise, but does anyone else find it a bit scary that NASA has a realistic chance of detecting a crash landing into the moon that displaces a grand total of 40 pounds of ice?
First off, it's pretty obvious it isn't going to happen. Leo is 12-13 years older than the role, Lucas hasn't even begun to cast yet (the script would probably need to be finished before that happened, wouldn't it?), and all he actually did was see a movie at a ranch. No big deal.
Where I *would* want to see him, though, is Episode III. The age difference wouldn't be as important, the guy can definitely play evil (Man in the Iron Mask), and he does have an imposing presence when the role asks for it (again, Iron Mask.) Besides, he'd get minimum screen time anyway (most of the time he'd presumably be behind a mask.)
BTW, for those obsessing over future plot lines, they will almost certainly, IMO, be summed up by Anakin's feelings:
Episode 1: Fear
Episode 2: Anger, Hate (I think I can guess why. Guess we'll have to wait and see...)
Episode 3: Suffering (I think this should be more than just the lava, but again, I guess we'll have to wait and see)
Everything the detractors and critics have been saying about SW is true. Jar Jar Binks has his moments, but mostly, he's just annoying. Jake Lloyd acts as well as any 10-year old can- he gets a little better towards the end of the film, but mostly, he's a proud graduate of the Keanu Reeves School of Acting. Senator Palpatine looks like a warped Bill Murray, and the special effects sometimes overwhelm the story.
.mp3 was OK, but not that great. The battle by itself was magnificently choreographed, but wouldn't go well with the old Empire theme. With that music as a backdrop, it was 10 minutes of the best lightsaber fight anyone could possibly have hoped for.
I loved every minute of it.
There were parts that were good; the pod race may not have had much to do with the story, but it WAS cool. There were parts that were great; the Naboo/droid battle was spectacular, the battle scenes inside the palace were a lot like the stormtrooper/Alliance battle inside the corvette at the beginning of A New Hope, and the T-Wing vs. the giant ship thing was a lot better than you would think in the trailers. Darth Maul was also much better than the trailers would make you believe; when he stared through the force field, you could FEEL the aura.
And then there was The Duel.
The
If and when the movie's out on the 'Net, what I want most of all is that someone strips the rest of the movie and just releases the duel as a standalone.
I think I'll go see it again on Friday...
Quoted from the New York Times article:
The court's ruling on the meta tag question was not absolute, however. In a broadly worded section of the opinion, the panel declared that not all uses of another's trademarks in a meta tag were taboo. For example, if a Web site in its visual textual portion compared its goods or services to a competitor's, the Web site operator could include in its meta tag the competitor's trademark as a "fair use," the court said.
Seems like a good ruling to me. You can still have a fan site/comparison article/whatever with the tag, you just can't blatantly lift it from someone else. Darn.
The reason there's no crack for Divx is because no one in the major cracking groups has a Divx player. For that matter, no one has a Divx player =)
:P)
As to the topic at hand, this is a good idea far ahead of it's time. People have been buying 8 dollar gaming mags because of the demo CD's for years now- paying $6 for a real game is actually not that bad. However, if everything is on the CD, it WILL get cracked. (Not that this will be bad for Blockbuster- they'll still make money on the initial rental. Hell, if this goes through, I'll get a membership there instead of the local video store
I was really psyched when I heard "May 21'st", because all of my finals are on the 19'th and 20'th. And then Lucas moved the damn thing back two days =(
:P)
Hmm...GPA or movie? GPA or movie? Can't...decide...
(Yeah, yeah, I'll go see it on the 21'st, but dammit, missing opening night pisses me off