Re:Not all video game movies are flops
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Also, the original Mortal Kombat (which Paul Anderson..not to be confused with Paul Thomas Anderson, who directs REAL movies), was a modest hit.
Re:Milla Jovavich
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They did stick Milla is a short dress, and showed a few semi-nude scenes in a shower, etc. And lucky for them... If they hadn't, I'd have burned down the theater I saw this in... Because otherwise this is a VERY VERY BAD MOVIE, even for a video game to movie conversion. This movie is "Street Fighter: The Movie" bad.
I think you missed the whole point of the article, which is that not all software NEEDS support. If your end-user desktop application client software requires support to the extent that many users would pay for it, something's wrong..Why is your software so hard to use that it needs that level of support? Don't you see the paradox here? Should companies intentionally make all free software hard to use to get in on the 'support' money? While some software (Linux, Apache, databases, etc) is inherently complex and a good candidate for money-through-support, some software (end-user apps) is NOT! That's the whole point of the article.
Nobody is ever going to make a living selling support for your typical END-USER type software. If you don't believe this then the burden of proof is on you to provide a real-world example proving me wrong.
Sometimes its fun to watch someone make an ass of himself. I used to watch Rush Limbaugh once in a while even though I never agreed with anything he said and thought he was a huge fat jackass.
If you don't like their registration policy, don't view the content. This is no different than buying anything else..You're paying for the content with your registration. To repost the content so others may view it without paying is clearly a copyright violation, just as is posting copyrighted software.
They basically are telling the whole story in these new trailers. In general, I really don't like the way trailers nowadays just reveal every good bit of the movie.
Yeah these trailers have shown so much of the second movie that I can already guess that at the end of Episode 3, Anakin will turn to the darkside...Obi Wan will become a hermit living on a desert planet watching over Anakin's son from afar, Palpatine will become the evil Emperor... They shouldn't give away so much of the plot!!
The trailer tonight is actually the 4th trailer, overall. Its the final trailer before the movie opens. Its also the longest and gives the most accurate picture of what the main contents of the movie are going to be (read: Lots of Jedi fighting & dying, lots of Jango Fett kicking ass, Yoda kicking some ass, etc).
Not true, Jar Jar's been in the trailers. Not up front, but in background shots where Sam Jackson is up front.
He's in the movie. He plays the Gungan ambassador who becomes the ambassador for all of Naboo when Amidala cuts out and leaves with Anakin.
He's not in the movie nearly as much as he was in the first, though. And when he's introduced for the first time in this one...the audience is going to have a laugh, even (especially?) if they are Jar Jar haters.
Its going to be posted up at starwars.com at the same time its shown on Fox (at 9PM). One has to assume they are going to put it online at 9PM eastern, so westcoasters (and those in the middle) can get an early peek (relative to their time zone) online.
I'm expecting the net in general won't be working so well for a few minutes there..
Re:It all depends on your reason ...
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The point is..when did bundling things with the OS become a crime? Microsoft should be free to bundle whatever they want with their OS, if they believe it adds value for the customer (and a browser certainly does). Why should their ability to do this be cut off just because they have been very successful at selling their OS?
Sure, this bundling may have a negative impact on certain companies or potential companies, but hey that's life in a capitalist society, take it or leave it.
Nobody is likely to make any real money selling web servers for Linux, since most distros bundle Apache...Should web server makers sue based on that? Get a grip!
As it stands under current law, fair use is a defense, not a right. Saying "Fair use!" might get you off the hook when someone accuses you of violating a copyright, but a copyright holder isn't required to provide you with the tools you need to exercise fair use. That's an important distinction.
This is true -- but neither should they be able to make it illegal to exercise fair use, which is what the DMCA and various other laws are all about.
I personally think that so-called copy-proof CDs should be perfectly legal, so long as they are clearly labelled so the consumer knows what he/she is getting at the point of purchase. However, finding ways to rip such CDs to use in non-copyright-infringing manners such as time-shifting and moving it to alternate media should not be illegal..Which it would currently be considering the DMCA.
It's his decision to run an open relay. There is no reason for anyone, anywhere to have one.
He knows that people are using it "illegally", and yet he allows it to continue, therefore, it IS his fault.
All of the arguments you make apply equally to Napster and other P2P sharing networks. That's the original poster's point. The general population of Slashdot has very different views of P2P (go after the user!) vs open relays (shut it down!) even though at its heart they are the same issue. The reason is obvious -- everyone likes free warez and porn, but nobody likes spam, but that doesn't change the fact that there's a double standard at play.
Huh? The post you responded to was saying that if the teacher/school owns student's submissions (which is the usual policy), then they are free to transfer rights over to this website.
He wasn't saying that the copyright issue should be a deciding factor when it comes to determining plagerism.
Resources like BMP files aren't source code, so they don't fall under the GPL. Thus you're not entitled to them (though it would be nice if they included them in the source archives).
It depends on the witness. There's a ton of different ideas floating around about what constitutes linking (IPC? network calls? static libraries? dynamic libraries? what about programs that rely on a GPLed kernel's system calls?) with no clearly right answer that everyone can agree on.
I'm going to show my cynical side here, but how do you know the ruling was based on common sense? Maybe someone at State Street Bank or another mutual fund company that would be negatively impacted by an SFG win had some influence over her?
I'm not saying that is the case -- perhaps she is a righteous and noble judge, just looking out for the rights of the common man; but this ruling by itself proves nothing.
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Also, the original Mortal Kombat (which Paul Anderson..not to be confused with Paul Thomas Anderson, who directs REAL movies), was a modest hit.
They did stick Milla is a short dress, and showed a few semi-nude scenes in a shower, etc. And lucky for them... If they hadn't, I'd have burned down the theater I saw this in... Because otherwise this is a VERY VERY BAD MOVIE, even for a video game to movie conversion. This movie is "Street Fighter: The Movie" bad.
Nobody is ever going to make a living selling support for your typical END-USER type software. If you don't believe this then the burden of proof is on you to provide a real-world example proving me wrong.
Sometimes its fun to watch someone make an ass of himself. I used to watch Rush Limbaugh once in a while even though I never agreed with anything he said and thought he was a huge fat jackass.
Well I want to include GPL code in my project, but I don't want to GPL my project.
Sorry, but we're both out of luck. We'd both be commiting copyright violations and we both should be subject to lawsuits.
If you don't like their registration policy, don't view the content. This is no different than buying anything else..You're paying for the content with your registration. To repost the content so others may view it without paying is clearly a copyright violation, just as is posting copyrighted software.
RMS isn't even that fat compared to most of these other tubby OSS hippies. He is, however, clearly nuts.
Yeah these trailers have shown so much of the second movie that I can already guess that at the end of Episode 3, Anakin will turn to the darkside...Obi Wan will become a hermit living on a desert planet watching over Anakin's son from afar, Palpatine will become the evil Emperor... They shouldn't give away so much of the plot!!
Be sure to check it out.
He's in the movie. He plays the Gungan ambassador who becomes the ambassador for all of Naboo when Amidala cuts out and leaves with Anakin.
He's not in the movie nearly as much as he was in the first, though. And when he's introduced for the first time in this one...the audience is going to have a laugh, even (especially?) if they are Jar Jar haters.
I'm expecting the net in general won't be working so well for a few minutes there..
Did I forget to mention that Linux sucks?
I think your *customers* would have more of a problem with what you described than Microsoft would.
Sure, this bundling may have a negative impact on certain companies or potential companies, but hey that's life in a capitalist society, take it or leave it.
Nobody is likely to make any real money selling web servers for Linux, since most distros bundle Apache...Should web server makers sue based on that? Get a grip!
This is true -- but neither should they be able to make it illegal to exercise fair use, which is what the DMCA and various other laws are all about.
I personally think that so-called copy-proof CDs should be perfectly legal, so long as they are clearly labelled so the consumer knows what he/she is getting at the point of purchase. However, finding ways to rip such CDs to use in non-copyright-infringing manners such as time-shifting and moving it to alternate media should not be illegal..Which it would currently be considering the DMCA.
It's his decision to run an open relay. There is no reason for anyone, anywhere to have one.
He knows that people are using it "illegally", and yet he allows it to continue, therefore, it IS his fault.
All of the arguments you make apply equally to Napster and other P2P sharing networks. That's the original poster's point. The general population of Slashdot has very different views of P2P (go after the user!) vs open relays (shut it down!) even though at its heart they are the same issue. The reason is obvious -- everyone likes free warez and porn, but nobody likes spam, but that doesn't change the fact that there's a double standard at play.
Computer's aren't for poor people!
He wasn't saying that the copyright issue should be a deciding factor when it comes to determining plagerism.
Subtle troll?
Pixar didn't make Shrek. PDI (now a division of Dreamworks) did.
Its called Windows.
Just the one.
me too.
So its not a GPL violation.
It will be interested to see how it all unfolds.
I'm not saying that is the case -- perhaps she is a righteous and noble judge, just looking out for the rights of the common man; but this ruling by itself proves nothing.