I call bullshit. Some of the biggest names on the Mickey Mouse legislation were democrats, from the "democratic" Nazi state of Kalifornia. Trying to say that only one party is responsible for the copyright chokehold is asinine.
This is exactly my arguement against eternal copyright. (Note that at present rates, copyrights will be extended indefinitely until the end of time.)
I like to point out how different the world would be if copyright on a lot of the "historic" texts had never expired. We would be lacking a lot of great ideas that were built on top of these old works.
Congress, protect the future of our children: abolish long copyrights, before it is too late!
For every superstar, there are 1000 equally talented people who you have never heard of.
I must have read that wrong. I could have sworn that you meant "For every superstar, there are 1000 actually talented people who you have never heard of" or "For every superstar, there are 1000 other talentless hacks who you have never heard of."
That's a resounding YES! It's a huge win for Disney. Lengthening copyright laws mean that no other company can get its start the same way Disney did. If Disney had these laws to contend with at its inception, it would not be here today. This legislation will reduce the number of Disney competitors entering the marketplace.
In effect, Disney went through the copyright door and then closed, locked, and deadbolted it behind them.
So lengthening copyright laws is GREAT for the Disneyopoly, but not so good for everyone else.;-)
The Pentium M is NOT Centrino. It's a processor, and a part of the Centrino package, but the advances it made could still be supported by 3rd party chipset and wireless components... Barring Intels marketing-speak about the Centrino "brand", of course. Again, Intel is claiming that Centrino is not the sum of its parts.
Prior in the same thread, or prior in general? That might have been the first post in this thread, but it's unlikely that sentiment has never been voiced on Slashdot before. It's like labelling any first post "Redundant" that contains the same old same old, be it M$ bashing, SCO bashing, RIAA bashing, etc....
The issue is that Intel is not marketing "Centrino" as a label, they are marketing it as a technology. There is nothing technologically remarkable about Centrino, it is just a marketing name Intel came up with to try to exclude other vendors of wireless chips and low power processors.
In effect, it is INTEL that is pushing the idea that a GT is different than a Mustang, even though the GT is just nomenclature for an added feature set.
Unions (and minimum wage rates) are two BIG factors in the movement of jobs overseas. Why would a company pay $25 an hour to an American when the same job could be done of foriegn soil at 1/5 the price (or less)? The UAW has helped set some pretty high labor rates in the industry, and if it wasn't for government intervention (read:tariffs) the American auto industry couldn't even compete. The government can't protect all our industry though, and eventually the US is going to export all our manufacturing jobs. Once that happens and the ever tightening IP laws kill any form of innovation in this country, the US will be one big service industry.
Yeah, the N64 was what really got me into gaming in the first place, courtesy of Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64. Maybe the graphics weren't the best, but at least Nintendo 64 owners could actually have 3 friends. Most Playstation owners only had one friend, or even worse they had to play with themselves! Err... Wait, that came out wrong...
Anyway, IMHO, as a console device, the N64 was better. Consoles are for playing socially. If I want a single player experience with better graphics, I'll go sit in front of my PC, not my PS1 (or PS2 for that matter).
Damn you and your infernal logic, anyway. Why do you have to go distorting the truth with these fact thingies, anyhow?;-)
OTOH, I was at Purdue in '98, and I had a SCSI CD-R (Sony 8x4, $250)... And the modding community was really widespread. I watched a mod chip being installed in the PS1, it took 10 minutes and some basic soldering skills. Nothing a semi-technical 14 year old couldn't do.
As far as the porn games, that's not unlikely either. Thrill Kill is risque and never released here, plus I'm sure there are a lot more and worse games overseas that our censor society won't let in. IIRC, even the SEGA had a game that was borderline porn, based on FMV. I personally had a porn game for my Commodore 128 as a kid. It was lame, but it was still hardcore porn.
The difference is that the Africans were selling their own into slavery, the Tibetan population were simply victims- first of their elite rulers, then of Communist China. Ironically, the Commnunist state really did improve their lot in life.
Sir, I think you mistook my jest. My comment was not at what you said, but instead at the phrasing you chose. Saying criminals going free is a good thing is not the same as saying an innocent until proven guilty system is a good thing.
The exploding pick up trucks was simply a matter of finances. The problem occured in a small percentage of those accidents, though it was still a big enough problem to cost many lives. Rather than buying 100 trucks and repeating the accident 100 times looking for the lucky explosion (not very fiscally or environmentally responsible), they used pyrotechnics to make sure they only had to wreck one truck. It was still a dangerous problem, and they needed eye-grabbing footage to get people's attention.
They could have avoided the whole mess by flashing "reenactment" on the video, however. Either way, it didn't warrant the huge outcry that resulted.
The problem with a SW MMORPG is that everyone wants to be a Jedi. Obviously, that would ruin the "mood" of the game so they decided that almost nobody gets to be a Jedi. That served to take away the part of the game that made people want to play it.
A good SW MMORPG will be nearly impossible just because of this dilemma.
I think the borders will be closing at some point in my life anyway, and I have no doubt it will happen before the scenario I discussed.
Social Security has already failed, the corpse just hasn't been removed yet. I know any money I put into it is long gone, it's literally just another tax to me. That 60% is where food comes from. We can pack people in like sardines, but if we cannot feed them it's irrelevant. When the average person can no longer get a steak because cattle take up too much room, when food is rationed, when "treat" foods are eliminated to support basic nutrition for an overabundance of people, when those things happen you'll certainly see an outcry. Stomachs and wallets are big motivators here.
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Once people got videos, how the artist looked became more important that things like "talent" or "creativity"....
I call bullshit. Some of the biggest names on the Mickey Mouse legislation were democrats, from the "democratic" Nazi state of Kalifornia. Trying to say that only one party is responsible for the copyright chokehold is asinine.
1st point - You don't get rich working, but you can make a comfortable living if you're good. All without a signing bonus from your employer.
2nd point - Spend all of your money surviving before you croak, and wish your son or daughter a nice life.
I like to point out how different the world would be if copyright on a lot of the "historic" texts had never expired. We would be lacking a lot of great ideas that were built on top of these old works.
Congress, protect the future of our children: abolish long copyrights, before it is too late!
I must have read that wrong. I could have sworn that you meant "For every superstar, there are 1000 actually talented people who you have never heard of" or "For every superstar, there are 1000 other talentless hacks who you have never heard of."
In effect, Disney went through the copyright door and then closed, locked, and deadbolted it behind them.
So lengthening copyright laws is GREAT for the Disneyopoly, but not so good for everyone else. ;-)
True, that one will be rooted right off the install disc. Good point! ;-)
Sometimes I wish /. would let me edit my posts... :-(
The Pentium M is NOT Centrino. It's a processor, and a part of the Centrino package, but the advances it made could still be supported by 3rd party chipset and wireless components... Barring Intels marketing-speak about the Centrino "brand", of course. Again, Intel is claiming that Centrino is not the sum of its parts.
So in another year, it will take ~50 seconds I guess...
Prior in the same thread, or prior in general? That might have been the first post in this thread, but it's unlikely that sentiment has never been voiced on Slashdot before. It's like labelling any first post "Redundant" that contains the same old same old, be it M$ bashing, SCO bashing, RIAA bashing, etc....
In effect, it is INTEL that is pushing the idea that a GT is different than a Mustang, even though the GT is just nomenclature for an added feature set.
Unions (and minimum wage rates) are two BIG factors in the movement of jobs overseas. Why would a company pay $25 an hour to an American when the same job could be done of foriegn soil at 1/5 the price (or less)? The UAW has helped set some pretty high labor rates in the industry, and if it wasn't for government intervention (read:tariffs) the American auto industry couldn't even compete. The government can't protect all our industry though, and eventually the US is going to export all our manufacturing jobs. Once that happens and the ever tightening IP laws kill any form of innovation in this country, the US will be one big service industry.
Would you like fries with that?
Anyway, IMHO, as a console device, the N64 was better. Consoles are for playing socially. If I want a single player experience with better graphics, I'll go sit in front of my PC, not my PS1 (or PS2 for that matter).
OTOH, I was at Purdue in '98, and I had a SCSI CD-R (Sony 8x4, $250)... And the modding community was really widespread. I watched a mod chip being installed in the PS1, it took 10 minutes and some basic soldering skills. Nothing a semi-technical 14 year old couldn't do.
As far as the porn games, that's not unlikely either. Thrill Kill is risque and never released here, plus I'm sure there are a lot more and worse games overseas that our censor society won't let in. IIRC, even the SEGA had a game that was borderline porn, based on FMV. I personally had a porn game for my Commodore 128 as a kid. It was lame, but it was still hardcore porn.
The difference is that the Africans were selling their own into slavery, the Tibetan population were simply victims- first of their elite rulers, then of Communist China. Ironically, the Commnunist state really did improve their lot in life.
Sir, I think you mistook my jest. My comment was not at what you said, but instead at the phrasing you chose. Saying criminals going free is a good thing is not the same as saying an innocent until proven guilty system is a good thing.
Not if you're their next victim, it isn't.
Score +5, Brilliant Tie-In to TFA,
Kudos, well done.
That's because Kerry's "policies" flip-flopped too fast for them to make a relevant skit about them. ;-)
They could have avoided the whole mess by flashing "reenactment" on the video, however. Either way, it didn't warrant the huge outcry that resulted.
A good SW MMORPG will be nearly impossible just because of this dilemma.
It's just a version of battle chess. The tricky bit would be getting the holograms to work right. ;-)
there will be a Star Wars RTS in the next year or two
There already was a Star Wars RTS game, and it felt very clunky and unfinished.
Maybe the game they mentioned will actually be the finished version of the game released years ago?
Social Security has already failed, the corpse just hasn't been removed yet. I know any money I put into it is long gone, it's literally just another tax to me. That 60% is where food comes from. We can pack people in like sardines, but if we cannot feed them it's irrelevant. When the average person can no longer get a steak because cattle take up too much room, when food is rationed, when "treat" foods are eliminated to support basic nutrition for an overabundance of people, when those things happen you'll certainly see an outcry. Stomachs and wallets are big motivators here.