So, wait, you're complaining that people are overreacting to legislation you haven't even read? WTF? Why are you posting and not reading the damn Patriot Act itself?
What I'm suggesting is far from propaganda, just as movies that have a political message or warning behind them are not propaganda, in the sense that they are fun to watch and reveal something we may not have thought of or known previously rather than spread fearful, hatemongering lies. There are, in fact, many games with political messages, whether overt or not, such as Deus Ex (remember that whole game being based on a terrorist attack on the US that turned the whole nation into one based on fear or terrorism and national security, losing all their rights to a military-industrial complex and corrupt politicians usurping the white house? And that the twin towers were missing from the NY skyline in a game released in June 2000 because they were assumed destroyed by terrorists? Creeped out yet?).
Anyway, to summarize, what I'm proposing is like an educational game, only not in mathematics, but political science. Unless you're one of those folk that run around screaming that liberals are ruining america by, say, doing some real fucking research, or that the left made us lose the Vietnam war by protesting against it and decrying its stupidity (in which case, you're just an idiot), then maybe a few games with peer-reviewed sources as game elements could be worthwhile, fun, and profitable.
You know, more games should (no, not kidding) have political leaning and teach people about the political situation of today, and the history of American meddlins in the middle east. Maybe, just maybe, people will become aware of what their tax dollars have done to their fellow man in impoverished countries, and just maybe, with enough people, a few small but key changes could come about.
I always give a great deal of respect and support and love to people who try to keep an eye on the government, and even more when they have a sense of humour about it. The reality of the situation, for all citizens, is kinda like a parent trying to keep an eye on a really mischevious kid who likes to steal your stuff and money and beat up other kids, but instead of an unruly pubescent child, you have an army of secret agents and powermongers to try and keep from running amok.
Speaking just for myself here, I can't wait until media is completely consumer driven (such as on iTunes), and people can just drop a few bucks or subscribe to their favorite shows only. I swear, the more I have to deal with shows being monitored and censored by the advertising dollars backing it and the more I have to deal with poorly made products because of all the money thrown away on ads... just makes me sick.
I don't need some executive in an office trying to tell me what I want to watch and his cronies telling me what I want to buy. Actually, this would be a great chance for the creators of Arrested Developement to keep their show on the air; offer it over iTunes as a subscription, or some other service. Fuck Fox and News Corps and their ad firm henchmen.
Good question... but quite frankly, the days of Frontpage being useful, or this Google page editor, are more or less over. If you have a real use for your site, such as a business, then chances are you'll hire someone for the design and maintenance. The days of amateur looking webpages being of any use to a legitimate company have come to an end; similarly, the days of everyone wanting his or her own webpage just to rant out a bunch of poorly stucture meme-junk are over as well. That's what blogs are for.
Exactly. One of the most mind-boggling things about all this bullshit patents going through is, well, one would believe that like any profession (engineers, programmers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, everyone), particularly one in such an important field as intellectual property, people would be required to keep up with modern standards via tests/training. If a patent officer cannot keep a grip on the evolution of technology and the world in general, they need to find a different job.
Yes, it does. This is why photographers don't get in trouble for taking picture with monuments/corporate art/etc in the background; or even if the photos are of the work themselves. Once you release something for free, particularly on the internet, it is in the public domain. The only difference is with television and radio, and that is the only place where public domain does not apply; mostly due to the efforts of lawyers and greedy folk.
So what you are trying to say is because they are givng it away the cached copy for free it is alright? Would it be alright to copy a book if you gave it away for free? Don't be so foolish and try thinking beofre you speak.
You have no concept of what is going on here. Google only caches pages that are freely available to the public. As the original work was freely available, there is absolutely nothing wrong with searching/indexing it.
If you had read the article, you would know that the company is trying to blame Google for showing pages that pirated/stole the company's images, the ones that you have to pay to look at, not for what is available on their page for free. In essence, the company simply wants Google to do all its legislation and copyright infringement hunting for them, which is absurd.
I pray for whatever it is you produce or whoever works for you, for you must be a blithering moron. What part of public domain do you greedbags not understand? This case has absolutely nothing to do with your metaphor of buying a magazine and making illegal copies; why? Because Google is neither selling anything they cache, nor did they pay for it in the first place. Everything on Google is in the public domain, as in, you can see it for free, all Google does is search. It is not Google's job to prosecute or hunt down people that do make illegal copies of intellectual property.
While I'm sure there are a few, as in, one out of a hundred, companies that believe this rhetoric, it comes across more like the idea that children and teenagers should be happy to be paid 13 cents an hour. As in, I'm not buying it, in the least.
Haven't we been over this already, oh, I don't know.... 18 billion times? What new is there to say about the 360 that wasn't said, oh... when it was released?
True, I'm just judging based on his one invention that I am familiar with. I have been told he's a genius, so hopefully he does what he sets out to do.
Probably something like biodiesel or just keep using mass-transit, like always. I haven't bought a gallon of gas for myself yet, and I don't really intend to.
A lot of OS/2 geeks got their first woody, viewing interleaved GIF 87 files, via Compuserve Information Manager on OS/2 in 1024x768. ( GO OS2PR0N )
*sniff* You speak of things I know all too well... It's a good thing you didn't talk about hacking your parent's cserve password to get into the Adults Only forum. Then I'd cry.
But people have been trying this for a looong time, and somehow I don't believe that the inventor of the "segway" has the intellectual chutzpah to do it.
Aw, you think you're hardcore conservative coming from San Fran? That's hilarious. Tucker is just a few miles outside of Atlanta, a city which is 60% black and is run by blacks; Tucker is about 50% black. Liberals down here are true dyed in the wool liberals, who marched and rallied alongside King and his wife during the civil rights movement and who fought to keep the black muslim movement from becoming completely homicidal. My best friend's mother was almost killed at a black nightclub back in the day when the extremist part of the black muslim movement came through just started shooting people of the colour white.
Sorry, it's just hard for me to take someone seriously who claims the purity of the republican party coming from a place where republican means confederate flag stickers, guns, and getting into fights at a bar over chicken wings (not even joking). But, fuck it. Can't blame you for being close minded; that's what 99% of the planet is. But America's supposed to be better, and this fighting we do is what makes it so. That's how we make bloody fucking sure what we do is as on the level as it can be.
So this liberal hypocrisy, is it something like falling in love with a woman from the other side of the ethnic line? I didn't think so. Hush now, you sound really silly. Now, I'm not saying there's a bunch of fake liberals out there that are racist when no one with a moral conscience is looking; I'm just saying real liberals do what they fuckin say.
When you spend more time writing out the gameplay mechanics and storyboarding a great plot with as many choices given to the gamer as possible, all while giving them a beautiful engine and ultra-realistic physics. An equally or more important part is making sure the controls are accessible. Almost every game out there that's worth playing has 15 buttons to memorize, a less than fun experience for people new to gaming. Nintendo is, of course, on the right path with an intuitive interface with the Revolution. The more intuitive and naturally fun, the better and much more profitable.
It wouldn't hurt for the graphics and physics engines to be made beforehand and sold to the company making the new game; the time has come when every game developer cannot afford to spend half its time writing out ultra-intricate physics and rendering engines for each game before making textures and models and THEN writing in the gameplay.
Oh, man, there are few things as good for a laugh as the make-believe world you inner-city right-wingers dream up for yourselves. You get to hop through all these bullshit illogical hoops to actually continue to believe in your views. The majority of the right wing isn't racist? That's a good one! Have you even ventured into the countryside before, maybe, spoken with the majority of the republicans in the US? Either you're sheltered or flat out lying your ass off. Getting married is a "special privilege"? Oh, you crazy conservatives crack me up. Just because Lincoln was part of the Republican party (before the political spectrum completely switched in America), you think that makes him "conservative"? Let's just put slavery and civil rights on the same page before you do another triple lutz of logic on me. I'm not even going to get into the Vietnam issue, as I know a few too many people who lost family in that gigantic fuckup. And yes, 30+ years of legal precedent makes abortion an "I fucking told you so" point, just like civil rights!
Anyway, as you haven't learned yet, just thought I'd share what a good laugh I get from you guys. Keep wandering around the planet like those homeless folks spouting illogical gibberish about your fantasy political landscape. Ta-ta!
Seriously, this kind of ultra-sensationalized bullshit borders on liable and slander (as there is an article version online as well); it wouldn't be a bad idea for Nintento to consider drawing up a lawsuit.
What was that warning Snake had about being heavily trained in virtual simulations? Something about an army of numbed machines just itching for a high score?:)
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So, wait, you're complaining that people are overreacting to legislation you haven't even read? WTF? Why are you posting and not reading the damn Patriot Act itself?
What I'm suggesting is far from propaganda, just as movies that have a political message or warning behind them are not propaganda, in the sense that they are fun to watch and reveal something we may not have thought of or known previously rather than spread fearful, hatemongering lies. There are, in fact, many games with political messages, whether overt or not, such as Deus Ex (remember that whole game being based on a terrorist attack on the US that turned the whole nation into one based on fear or terrorism and national security, losing all their rights to a military-industrial complex and corrupt politicians usurping the white house? And that the twin towers were missing from the NY skyline in a game released in June 2000 because they were assumed destroyed by terrorists? Creeped out yet?).
Anyway, to summarize, what I'm proposing is like an educational game, only not in mathematics, but political science. Unless you're one of those folk that run around screaming that liberals are ruining america by, say, doing some real fucking research, or that the left made us lose the Vietnam war by protesting against it and decrying its stupidity (in which case, you're just an idiot), then maybe a few games with peer-reviewed sources as game elements could be worthwhile, fun, and profitable.
You know, more games should (no, not kidding) have political leaning and teach people about the political situation of today, and the history of American meddlins in the middle east. Maybe, just maybe, people will become aware of what their tax dollars have done to their fellow man in impoverished countries, and just maybe, with enough people, a few small but key changes could come about.
I always give a great deal of respect and support and love to people who try to keep an eye on the government, and even more when they have a sense of humour about it. The reality of the situation, for all citizens, is kinda like a parent trying to keep an eye on a really mischevious kid who likes to steal your stuff and money and beat up other kids, but instead of an unruly pubescent child, you have an army of secret agents and powermongers to try and keep from running amok.
Speaking just for myself here, I can't wait until media is completely consumer driven (such as on iTunes), and people can just drop a few bucks or subscribe to their favorite shows only. I swear, the more I have to deal with shows being monitored and censored by the advertising dollars backing it and the more I have to deal with poorly made products because of all the money thrown away on ads... just makes me sick.
I don't need some executive in an office trying to tell me what I want to watch and his cronies telling me what I want to buy. Actually, this would be a great chance for the creators of Arrested Developement to keep their show on the air; offer it over iTunes as a subscription, or some other service. Fuck Fox and News Corps and their ad firm henchmen.
Good question... but quite frankly, the days of Frontpage being useful, or this Google page editor, are more or less over. If you have a real use for your site, such as a business, then chances are you'll hire someone for the design and maintenance. The days of amateur looking webpages being of any use to a legitimate company have come to an end; similarly, the days of everyone wanting his or her own webpage just to rant out a bunch of poorly stucture meme-junk are over as well. That's what blogs are for.
Exactly. One of the most mind-boggling things about all this bullshit patents going through is, well, one would believe that like any profession (engineers, programmers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, everyone), particularly one in such an important field as intellectual property, people would be required to keep up with modern standards via tests/training. If a patent officer cannot keep a grip on the evolution of technology and the world in general, they need to find a different job.
Yes, it does. This is why photographers don't get in trouble for taking picture with monuments/corporate art/etc in the background; or even if the photos are of the work themselves. Once you release something for free, particularly on the internet, it is in the public domain. The only difference is with television and radio, and that is the only place where public domain does not apply; mostly due to the efforts of lawyers and greedy folk.
So what you are trying to say is because they are givng it away the cached copy for free it is alright? Would it be alright to copy a book if you gave it away for free? Don't be so foolish and try thinking beofre you speak.
You have no concept of what is going on here. Google only caches pages that are freely available to the public. As the original work was freely available, there is absolutely nothing wrong with searching/indexing it.
If you had read the article, you would know that the company is trying to blame Google for showing pages that pirated/stole the company's images, the ones that you have to pay to look at, not for what is available on their page for free. In essence, the company simply wants Google to do all its legislation and copyright infringement hunting for them, which is absurd.
I pray for whatever it is you produce or whoever works for you, for you must be a blithering moron. What part of public domain do you greedbags not understand? This case has absolutely nothing to do with your metaphor of buying a magazine and making illegal copies; why? Because Google is neither selling anything they cache, nor did they pay for it in the first place. Everything on Google is in the public domain, as in, you can see it for free, all Google does is search. It is not Google's job to prosecute or hunt down people that do make illegal copies of intellectual property.
/. card at the door.
Please turn in your
They already have....
Merrill Lynch is about as trustworthy as Shadow from FF3: They'd slight their own mama's throat for a dime!
While I'm sure there are a few, as in, one out of a hundred, companies that believe this rhetoric, it comes across more like the idea that children and teenagers should be happy to be paid 13 cents an hour. As in, I'm not buying it, in the least.
Flame on.
Haven't we been over this already, oh, I don't know.... 18 billion times? What new is there to say about the 360 that wasn't said, oh... when it was released?
True, I'm just judging based on his one invention that I am familiar with. I have been told he's a genius, so hopefully he does what he sets out to do.
Probably something like biodiesel or just keep using mass-transit, like always. I haven't bought a gallon of gas for myself yet, and I don't really intend to.
A lot of OS/2 geeks got their first woody, viewing interleaved GIF 87 files, via Compuserve Information Manager on OS/2 in 1024x768. ( GO OS2PR0N )
*sniff* You speak of things I know all too well... It's a good thing you didn't talk about hacking your parent's cserve password to get into the Adults Only forum. Then I'd cry.
But people have been trying this for a looong time, and somehow I don't believe that the inventor of the "segway" has the intellectual chutzpah to do it.
Aw, you think you're hardcore conservative coming from San Fran? That's hilarious. Tucker is just a few miles outside of Atlanta, a city which is 60% black and is run by blacks; Tucker is about 50% black. Liberals down here are true dyed in the wool liberals, who marched and rallied alongside King and his wife during the civil rights movement and who fought to keep the black muslim movement from becoming completely homicidal. My best friend's mother was almost killed at a black nightclub back in the day when the extremist part of the black muslim movement came through just started shooting people of the colour white.
Sorry, it's just hard for me to take someone seriously who claims the purity of the republican party coming from a place where republican means confederate flag stickers, guns, and getting into fights at a bar over chicken wings (not even joking). But, fuck it. Can't blame you for being close minded; that's what 99% of the planet is. But America's supposed to be better, and this fighting we do is what makes it so. That's how we make bloody fucking sure what we do is as on the level as it can be.
So this liberal hypocrisy, is it something like falling in love with a woman from the other side of the ethnic line? I didn't think so. Hush now, you sound really silly. Now, I'm not saying there's a bunch of fake liberals out there that are racist when no one with a moral conscience is looking; I'm just saying real liberals do what they fuckin say.
NYC apartment? I live in the south, dumbass: Tucker, Georgia. That's where my experience comes from.
Pervasive racism in Blue States? That's cute. Come to a Red State before you open your inexperienced, inner city republican mouth.
When you spend more time writing out the gameplay mechanics and storyboarding a great plot with as many choices given to the gamer as possible, all while giving them a beautiful engine and ultra-realistic physics. An equally or more important part is making sure the controls are accessible. Almost every game out there that's worth playing has 15 buttons to memorize, a less than fun experience for people new to gaming. Nintendo is, of course, on the right path with an intuitive interface with the Revolution. The more intuitive and naturally fun, the better and much more profitable.
It wouldn't hurt for the graphics and physics engines to be made beforehand and sold to the company making the new game; the time has come when every game developer cannot afford to spend half its time writing out ultra-intricate physics and rendering engines for each game before making textures and models and THEN writing in the gameplay.
Oh, man, there are few things as good for a laugh as the make-believe world you inner-city right-wingers dream up for yourselves. You get to hop through all these bullshit illogical hoops to actually continue to believe in your views. The majority of the right wing isn't racist? That's a good one! Have you even ventured into the countryside before, maybe, spoken with the majority of the republicans in the US? Either you're sheltered or flat out lying your ass off. Getting married is a "special privilege"? Oh, you crazy conservatives crack me up. Just because Lincoln was part of the Republican party (before the political spectrum completely switched in America), you think that makes him "conservative"? Let's just put slavery and civil rights on the same page before you do another triple lutz of logic on me. I'm not even going to get into the Vietnam issue, as I know a few too many people who lost family in that gigantic fuckup. And yes, 30+ years of legal precedent makes abortion an "I fucking told you so" point, just like civil rights!
Anyway, as you haven't learned yet, just thought I'd share what a good laugh I get from you guys. Keep wandering around the planet like those homeless folks spouting illogical gibberish about your fantasy political landscape. Ta-ta!
You get to say "I fucking told you so" over, and over, and over, and over....
Now we can add peak oil to: slavery, racism, abortion, gay rights, war in iraq, vietnam, global warming, etc.
Long day, slight dyslexia. :)
Seriously, this kind of ultra-sensationalized bullshit borders on liable and slander (as there is an article version online as well); it wouldn't be a bad idea for Nintento to consider drawing up a lawsuit.
What was that warning Snake had about being heavily trained in virtual simulations? Something about an army of numbed machines just itching for a high score? :)
Even if that is the worst graphic accompanying a well-written, intelligent article I've seen in my lifetime.