So, who gets what with classical music? Messiaens Turangalila requires a huge orchestra, plus a conductor. Then there are recording engineers, mixing, pre/post production etc.
Seriously, the st was an amiga without the blitter,copper,nice keyboard,resolution,sound,games,support...in fact, the only thing the ST had was a 3% faster cpu, and a midi port (which you could get for the amiga for about £20 in 197!).
So, how would you tell people about stuff, if you dont think email is good enough? If you dont read email from your email provider, thats your problem - no-one elses. `Oh - my summons to court? I through it in the bin because it looked like any other piece of rubbish mail...wait..where are you taking me....?`
What are you talking about? Hes been getting credit since about 1992! if anything he`s got too much credit, seeing that the last decent album he released (imho) was `i care because you do` in 1995!
The books been out in the UK for at least a couple of weeks. i`d have got it already, except for the fact its out in Hardback only, and his last few books werent all that good!
"The publication will reportedly be edited but remain unfinished following its recovery from files on the novelist's computer.... We have pored over Douglas's hard drive. There were so many different versions of the novel. " "
If you flick through the book, you`ll see its not really a novel - more a collection of chapters and odds and ends.
All you`re saying is that the radio series is different to the tape/cd releases of the show. Not too suprising to us hard-core fans of the radio series - especially cosidering that its 6 hours long, and the other versions are about 2/3 hours long. You can get the whole 12 half hour shows off the net:
Pity the whole site isnt done that way. HTML is good enough for delivering the sort of content i like, although i admit there are apparantly millions of people who like those pointless `shoot bin laden` type flash games, judging by the number of links i get sent to them. Shame the quality is up there with PD amiga software of the early 90`s!
Is the AI in Halo good? People said that about the AI in Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake 1,2 etc etc... the AI in ALL of those is just shit. I want bad guys that can go `oh - hes shooting at me, or has pulled his gun out and is pointing at me - now would be a good time to take evasive action, such as ducking`. So...where?
"As Microsoft rarely publish their file specifications, no-one can answer that question"
It would be easy for MS to encrypt the file format, even with a simple, Micky-mouse method, which would make reverse engineering it a crime (in the States, and possibly the EU soon too). Any reason why they dont?
Is their arguement that they dont make it hard for other people to use their files, or have they just not got around to it yet? It seems like the obvious thing to do - especially if these free Office-like suite things take off/hurt MS sales.
>*sigh* I bet you bitch about the difference >between hacker/cracker too.
Its not something i spend much time thinking about, but as someone who was aware of cracking as part of the Amiga/St/etc cracked game/demo scene of the `80s, and also knew a few hackers (as in `computer security breakers`), i think i`m justified in using the UK definitions. Especially seeing as i live there! You godda problem widdat?
>The theft is in the copying
You mean `what i`m calling theft is copying`. When i tape the simpsons off the tv, i dont think of it as `theft` of the equivalent episode on video - do you?
>You have made/taken a copy which you were not >allowed to do so
This is correct in most cases, yes.
>Therefore you have taken the data without their >permission. Given that you have something which >belongs to someone else which you didn't have >before, and you have it without their >permission, that is theft.
No, lost me again - see, its that little leap. You could have changed that last word to `kidnapping` or `assault` or `shopping` or any other word, but if it already has a meaning at odds with your new definition, i`m afraid its simply another form of domain-squatting.
Yeah, thats all very well, but where is the `theft` and where is the `piracy`. Both these words already have meanings in dictionaries which have nothing in common with the definitions as implied in the article - indeed in almost every discussion about software `piracy`.
You might just as well compare murder with breaking someones windows cd. "ooh, look at him - hes guilty of software murder! Murderer!!"
I read it...ooh, years ago now. I`m not sure what else i can remember about it. I remember liking it, though. The title is from Orwells classic, but the point of the book (and the reason its called 1984:Spring) is because he wanted to show that it doesnt *have* to be a bad future - technology/society can develop stuff for good, rather than just ever more efficient ways of killing each other/ruining the environment. I however am not so optimistic.
If the open source code is being used by someone other than the creator for a profit, then it is illegal under the DMCA - UNLESS you provide the source code.
"The entire spectrum can thus be collected, coverted to a narrow band frequency that has relatively low levels of absorption by the atmosphere, and beam it to Earth"
if you have to kill people somewhere, you just point the beam at them. I`m sure there are treaties to stop this sort of thing though, right? Right?
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So, who gets what with classical music? Messiaens Turangalila requires a huge orchestra, plus a conductor. Then there are recording engineers, mixing, pre/post production etc.
plus eBay is full of the games/carts. Many people have caught on and are buying stuff from Game and selling on eBay for 3times+ the price!
Seriously, the st was an amiga without the blitter,copper,nice keyboard,resolution,sound,games,support...in fact, the only thing the ST had was a 3% faster cpu, and a midi port (which you could get for the amiga for about £20 in 197!).
;)
Over to you, TOSsers
Though you can get a NES clone in the UK - built into a N64 controller - for £15-30!
So, how would you tell people about stuff, if you dont think email is good enough? If you dont read email from your email provider, thats your problem - no-one elses. `Oh - my summons to court? I through it in the bin because it looked like any other piece of rubbish mail...wait..where are you taking me....?`
"it's about time this guy got some credit"
What are you talking about? Hes been getting credit since about 1992! if anything he`s got too much credit, seeing that the last decent album he released (imho) was `i care because you do` in 1995!
Yeah, but you can get the source and disable the disability, apparantly.
"Granted, if MS4 never hits the arcade, then perhaps MAME will never emulate it (since it's an arcade emulator)."
I imagine if this is the case, it`ll get emulated BEFORE the 2 years are up, as it wont affect anyones profits and get them sued.
though its sometimes amusing to compare the first and final editions of a paper.
Yep, and coupled with a game of the quality of a Public Domain Amiga `title` of ten years ago, you can see that its definately a slow news day!
>Command Line or GUI
There are command line web browers now? Cool.
The books been out in the UK for at least a couple of weeks. i`d have got it already, except for the fact its out in Hardback only, and his last few books werent all that good!
... We have pored over Douglas's hard drive. There were so many different versions of the novel. " "
"The publication will reportedly be edited but remain unfinished following its recovery from files on the novelist's computer.
If you flick through the book, you`ll see its not really a novel - more a collection of chapters and odds and ends.
All you`re saying is that the radio series is different to the tape/cd releases of the show. Not too suprising to us hard-core fans of the radio series - especially cosidering that its 6 hours long, and the other versions are about 2/3 hours long. You can get the whole 12 half hour shows off the net:
r s+ guide+mp3
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hitch+hike
Pity the whole site isnt done that way. HTML is good enough for delivering the sort of content i like, although i admit there are apparantly millions of people who like those pointless `shoot bin laden` type flash games, judging by the number of links i get sent to them. Shame the quality is up there with PD amiga software of the early 90`s!
I`ll check it out then - cheers :)
Is the AI in Halo good? People said that about the AI in Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake 1,2 etc etc... the AI in ALL of those is just shit. I want bad guys that can go `oh - hes shooting at me, or has pulled his gun out and is pointing at me - now would be a good time to take evasive action, such as ducking`. So...where?
"As Microsoft rarely publish their file specifications, no-one can answer that question"
It would be easy for MS to encrypt the file format, even with a simple, Micky-mouse method, which would make reverse engineering it a crime (in the States, and possibly the EU soon too). Any reason why they dont?
Is their arguement that they dont make it hard for other people to use their files, or have they just not got around to it yet? It seems like the obvious thing to do - especially if these free Office-like suite things take off/hurt MS sales.
>*sigh* I bet you bitch about the difference
>between hacker/cracker too.
Its not something i spend much time thinking about, but as someone who was aware of cracking as part of the Amiga/St/etc cracked game/demo scene of the `80s, and also knew a few hackers (as in `computer security breakers`), i think i`m justified in using the UK definitions. Especially seeing as i live there! You godda problem widdat?
>The theft is in the copying
You mean `what i`m calling theft is copying`. When i tape the simpsons off the tv, i dont think of it as `theft` of the equivalent episode on video - do you?
>You have made/taken a copy which you were not
>allowed to do so
This is correct in most cases, yes.
>Therefore you have taken the data without their
>permission. Given that you have something which
>belongs to someone else which you didn't have
>before, and you have it without their
>permission, that is theft.
No, lost me again - see, its that little leap. You could have changed that last word to `kidnapping` or `assault` or `shopping` or any other word, but if it already has a meaning at odds with your new definition, i`m afraid its simply another form of domain-squatting.
Yeah, thats all very well, but where is the `theft` and where is the `piracy`. Both these words already have meanings in dictionaries which have nothing in common with the definitions as implied in the article - indeed in almost every discussion about software `piracy`.
You might just as well compare murder with breaking someones windows cd.
"ooh, look at him - hes guilty of software murder! Murderer!!"
"I've just had a quick look round their website and found nothing."
He didnt give a source - not even a website address. Its probably pure BS.
Easily the ugliest console since the Amiga-Cd32!
I read it...ooh, years ago now. I`m not sure what else i can remember about it. I remember liking it, though. The title is from Orwells classic, but the point of the book (and the reason its called 1984:Spring) is because he wanted to show that it doesnt *have* to be a bad future - technology/society can develop stuff for good, rather than just ever more efficient ways of killing each other/ruining the environment.
I however am not so optimistic.
"the camera is seized, but there's no tape inside. It's too late to stop the news from getting out"
So, you`ve read `1984:Spring` by Arthur C Clarke too, eh?
If the open source code is being used by someone other than the creator for a profit, then it is illegal under the DMCA - UNLESS you provide the source code.
;)
Deal?
"If the open source code is being used by someone other than the creator for a profit, then it is illegal under the DMCA"
Doesnt sound too different from the GPL...
"The entire spectrum can thus be collected, coverted to a narrow band frequency that has relatively low levels of absorption by the atmosphere, and beam it to Earth"
if you have to kill people somewhere, you just point the beam at them. I`m sure there are treaties to stop this sort of thing though, right? Right?