The fact that such an explanation is necessary is quite saddening. Knowlege of something so basic as what it means to square a number should be commonplace.
It shows the willingness of people to remain ignorant of so many things, and concern themselves utterly with the trivial.
Where are you supposed to download from if noone is allowed to upload?
You're supposed to upload your own works, not others. Suprise suprise, copyright still stands. Canada has -not- been given a free pass to violate copyrights by their courts.
How badly they get scratched depends on how well you take care of it.
If they're ending up terribly, horribly scratched, then you aren't taking care of it. My 3G is roughed up, but isn't horribly scratched cause I keep it in the case it came with whenever I use it.
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The decent products get pirated anyway, along with the junk.
The piracy is indiscriminate, which makes most arguments about quality moot since warezers will trade ANYTHING.
And people will enjoy anything, so long as they get it free. If people didn't trade shit online, and simply made sure that bad movies -bombed-, then maybe they'd have no case.
Authors will always find an audience if they work hard enough.
Sure, finding an audience is easy. Many movies and songs find their audience too.
But without copyright, the audience by and large won't pay. Which of course means that the Author can't be an author. He must be something else, and hope that he finds time in his daily life to stop and write a few lines. After all, an author can't eat his audience (unless he's a cannibal...)
Without copyright or a shitload of money, an author cannot be an author. The general public will not let them.
Buggy whips have ZERO use on a car and as a result are functionally obsolete. Thus they aren't made anymore.
Books are not obsolete. While there is a new publishing method, it seems that most slashdotters see it more as "Well since it can be copied for free, it should be free. As in $0."
It's always easy to justify the argument for making something free if you ignore all the costs that go into it, because after all they should write it for free and be a starving artist, and those who write using money as an incentive can, of course, go to hell simply cause they aren't always doing it for the LOVE of it and those who DO, obviously always write great books.
The catch with all of the various PS2 revisions is that the underlying hardware is essentially the same.
The only differences between the current slim PS2 and the old ones is:
1) No Firewire - though I have a SCPH-55000 unit that is full-size yet lacks firewire. 2) Built-in network adaptor
So there is effectively no new functionality. The hard drive is a moot issue because it was optional and games were made to be played without it. I have a few Japanese games (Xenosaga, Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon) that have hard drive usage capabilities, but they run perfectly fine without it.
Same deal for the GBA and the SP. They're both essentially the same hardware and will play the same games. The only potential problem is the link port being flipped on the SP, so games like Boktai with the UV sensor gimmick might not work as well. Not that Boktai did very well, regardless.
The sad bone here is that the Xbox platform will effectively be throwing the stability provided by a console out the window. Optional HD video, optional hard drive, optional HD-DVD. You can't count on them being there, so you can't make your game dependent on them (can't use them.) This isn't so much a problem with HD video, but it is for $highdensitymedium and the hard drive.
All in all, I'm not touching them (XBOX360 or PS3) until after at least the first couple hardware revisions. Only exception to this is likely to be the Revolution, since Nintendo tends to get the hardware right the first time.
Why bother when you can just ask your friend to clean out your spyware each month or so?
Well if you're like me, eventually you give your friend (or family) an ultimatum:
I will not maintain your PC if you continue to use Internet Explorer.
Which basically means to them that their computer will get slower and stay slow, since you won't fix it. And usually they're pretty amicable, my sister has no spyware problems on her laptop as a result:)
Nintendo returns a handy profit on both the console units and game sales.
They're not going anywhere.
If they do, every one of their brands goes with them. Believe me, they'll do it. Japanese companies are not like American companies, they won't sell the family jewels just to stay afloat.
I think that VMWare is finding itself in potential trouble because it is not going to be easy to sustain their financial success with the Open Source projects such as QEMU and Xen gaining ground. So long as QEMU and Xen are only available on Linux, VMWare's not in any trouble at all.
It's available on Windows and Linux, and could very well be available on Apple machines once x86 PowerMacs and the like start showing up.
What's funny is that CD isn't even an official Cowboy Bebop album, just a collection of remixes.
(Bebop, incidentally, has 4 core OSTs, a 4 CD collection featuring random unreleased bits, and at least three mini-albums, none of which have had a US release yet.)
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Indeed, which was why AVEX Trax was so quick to adopt a blanket CCCD policy back in 2002-2004.
They've stepped back from it as of late, and have suprised everyone by being on board iTMS for the Japan launch.
The irony, inverse to the US of course, is that while they have rental CDs in Japan, rental of video games is prohibited.
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Much less than 200 yen?
Maybe if it's 8 years old.
And used.
And in less than great condition (damaged slipcovers.)
Make no mistake, Japan has a killer used market. But used copies of recent albums still fetch 2000yen, especially if they're in good condition.
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The fact that such an explanation is necessary is quite saddening. Knowlege of something so basic as what it means to square a number should be commonplace.
It shows the willingness of people to remain ignorant of so many things, and concern themselves utterly with the trivial.
People will take Linux home and render their PCs unusable.
Look at what they do to Windows. The situation will not be any better.
Where are you supposed to download from if noone is allowed to upload?
You're supposed to upload your own works, not others. Suprise suprise, copyright still stands. Canada has -not- been given a free pass to violate copyrights by their courts.
All iPods are equally scratchable.
How badly they get scratched depends on how well you take care of it.
If they're ending up terribly, horribly scratched, then you aren't taking care of it. My 3G is roughed up, but isn't horribly scratched cause I keep it in the case it came with whenever I use it.
That's nice.
Get back to me when Konqueror runs on Windows.
Oh they do make decent products.
The decent products get pirated anyway, along with the junk.
The piracy is indiscriminate, which makes most arguments about quality moot since warezers will trade ANYTHING.
And people will enjoy anything, so long as they get it free. If people didn't trade shit online, and simply made sure that bad movies -bombed-, then maybe they'd have no case.
Authors will always find an audience if they work hard enough.
Sure, finding an audience is easy. Many movies and songs find their audience too.
But without copyright, the audience by and large won't pay. Which of course means that the Author can't be an author. He must be something else, and hope that he finds time in his daily life to stop and write a few lines. After all, an author can't eat his audience (unless he's a cannibal...)
Without copyright or a shitload of money, an author cannot be an author. The general public will not let them.
Well not for slashdot.
After all, they criticize music companies for charging a lot for CDs but only cite the physical reproduction costs.
They never take into account the costs accrued in producing the work, as that might hinder their argument.
Woohoo.
;p
+1 troll
2 year old 3G 20GB ipod... and not one DRM'd AAC on it!
that and the huge amounts of pirated software thats available for it
Being easily pirated might make a console popular, but it doesn't HELP it any.
It only hurts it. If a consoles games were pirated more often than sold, the console would be dead in a short while.
So it'd enjoy short term popularity until all the developers gave up cause they couldn't make any money on it, since everyone just warezed the games.
It's no wonder that so many people don't give a damn about sharing copyrighted works.
*cough*
You mistake the freeloader attitude for an understanding and rejection of the issue.
Most people don't give a damn cause they get it for free, not because of some political opinion.
Because it's a civil matter and they're dealing with people who are violating their copyright.
They may not be making money from it, but that doesn't give them a free pass to ignore copyright.
Buggy whips have ZERO use on a car and as a result are functionally obsolete. Thus they aren't made anymore.
Books are not obsolete. While there is a new publishing method, it seems that most slashdotters see it more as "Well since it can be copied for free, it should be free. As in $0."
It's always easy to justify the argument for making something free if you ignore all the costs that go into it, because after all they should write it for free and be a starving artist, and those who write using money as an incentive can, of course, go to hell simply cause they aren't always doing it for the LOVE of it and those who DO, obviously always write great books.
Because WinRAR is really easy to use maybe?
I don't know about you, but the Windows version of 7zip is really, really bad.
We control the names, folks, not them.
:)
Err... as you so eloquently pointed out, we don't
The catch with all of the various PS2 revisions is that the underlying hardware is essentially the same.
The only differences between the current slim PS2 and the old ones is:
1) No Firewire - though I have a SCPH-55000 unit that is full-size yet lacks firewire.
2) Built-in network adaptor
So there is effectively no new functionality. The hard drive is a moot issue because it was optional and games were made to be played without it. I have a few Japanese games (Xenosaga, Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon) that have hard drive usage capabilities, but they run perfectly fine without it.
Same deal for the GBA and the SP. They're both essentially the same hardware and will play the same games. The only potential problem is the link port being flipped on the SP, so games like Boktai with the UV sensor gimmick might not work as well. Not that Boktai did very well, regardless.
The sad bone here is that the Xbox platform will effectively be throwing the stability provided by a console out the window. Optional HD video, optional hard drive, optional HD-DVD. You can't count on them being there, so you can't make your game dependent on them (can't use them.) This isn't so much a problem with HD video, but it is for $highdensitymedium and the hard drive.
All in all, I'm not touching them (XBOX360 or PS3) until after at least the first couple hardware revisions. Only exception to this is likely to be the Revolution, since Nintendo tends to get the hardware right the first time.
Why bother when you can just ask your friend to clean out your spyware each month or so?
:)
Well if you're like me, eventually you give your friend (or family) an ultimatum:
I will not maintain your PC if you continue to use Internet Explorer.
Which basically means to them that their computer will get slower and stay slow, since you won't fix it. And usually they're pretty amicable, my sister has no spyware problems on her laptop as a result
Nintendo returns a handy profit on both the console units and game sales.
They're not going anywhere.
If they do, every one of their brands goes with them. Believe me, they'll do it. Japanese companies are not like American companies, they won't sell the family jewels just to stay afloat.
I think that VMWare is finding itself in potential trouble because it is not going to be easy to sustain their financial success with the Open Source projects such as QEMU and Xen gaining ground.
So long as QEMU and Xen are only available on Linux, VMWare's not in any trouble at all.
It's available on Windows and Linux, and could very well be available on Apple machines once x86 PowerMacs and the like start showing up.
They're not asking for SYMPATHY you dick.
They're saying "let this never happen again. anywhere."
Go read the fucking article. Oh wait, then you wouldn't be a slashbot.
Yet another feature stripped from the next release of Windows.
I guess microsoft figures that only people who spend several thousand for a computer deserve even moderately capable tools.
Oh well. More and more reason to not bother upgrading, and gear towards an eventual switch to Linux someday.
What's funny is that CD isn't even an official Cowboy Bebop album, just a collection of remixes.
(Bebop, incidentally, has 4 core OSTs, a 4 CD collection featuring random unreleased bits, and at least three mini-albums, none of which have had a US release yet.)
Indeed, which was why AVEX Trax was so quick to adopt a blanket CCCD policy back in 2002-2004.
They've stepped back from it as of late, and have suprised everyone by being on board iTMS for the Japan launch.
The irony, inverse to the US of course, is that while they have rental CDs in Japan, rental of video games is prohibited.
Much less than 200 yen?
Maybe if it's 8 years old.
And used.
And in less than great condition (damaged slipcovers.)
Make no mistake, Japan has a killer used market. But used copies of recent albums still fetch 2000yen, especially if they're in good condition.
No kidding.
I opened up iTunes to look at the Japan store, and what's one of the big things they have available?
"The Complete B'z"
And I love B'z. They kick ass six ways to next tuesday. I'd so be out $170 and several hundred MB of space.