The game had some fun elements, but it wasn't really a very good game. I think it did hurt my opinion of The Matrix. Come on, 70% isn't that much to ask for.
Actually watch the film part about the NRA meeting in Denver 10 days after Columbine, and then actually read the transcript of the speech that Moore points to. See which one makes Heston look 'more evil'.
The Truth: Heston took his NRA show to Denver and did and said exactly what we recounted. From the end of my narration setting up Heston's speech in Denver, with my words, "a big pro-gun rally," every word out of Charlton Heston's mouth was uttered right there in Denver, just 10 days after the Columbine tragedy. But don't take my word - read the transcript of his whole speech. Heston devotes the entire speech to challenging the Denver mayor and mocking the mayor's pleas that the NRA "don't come here." Far from deliberately editing the film to make Heston look worse, I chose to leave most of this out and not make Heston look as evil as he actually was.
Moore starts off with an inflammitory comment from Heston with the volume turned way up that happened at a different time and place and had nothing to do with the Annual meeting. Note how Moore is specific above about "From the end of my narration setting up Heston's speech in Denver", since that comment that appears to be from the speech is before the end of his narration. Then Moore cuts up the speech, at one point even splicing the beginning of one sentence with another to make it look like a different sentence.
Now, read Heston's speech again with the realization that it was an unlucky occurance that the speech was scheduled for 11 days after Columbine and Heston didn't 'stage a big pro-dun rally' in response to the shootings, but because it had to be done to avoid breaking the law. Under NY State Law and the NRA's by-laws, the NRA MUST hold an annual meeting. If the date or location of the meeting is to be changed, all 4 million members would have to be notified 10 days in advance. Impossible since the shooting in Littleton happened only 10 days before the meeting was to be held. Out of respect, they cancelled all their normal events except the welcoming and the annual meeting that was REQUIRED by law and couldn't be rescheduled in time:
"But the tragedy in Littleton last Tuesday calls upon us to take steps, along with dozens of other planned public events, to modify our schedule to show our profound sympathy and respect for the families and communities in the Denver area in their time of great loss," Heston and LaPierre wrote.
You've put a huge light on this and many people want
the truth and many want to put it in the closet, just walk away. [emphasis added]
He also categorizes his film as a documentary.
documentary - Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
I have not seen "Farenheit 9/11", but if it is anything like "Bowling for Columbine" and Moore's other films, it is all about editorializing and there is insertion of some fictional matter. For instance an ad that Moore portrays as being run by George Bush Sr. when facing Dukakis wasn't run by the campaign, is enterspliced with another ad, and has an inflammitory subtitle added. This is not presenting facts, but distorting the truth in the worst way.
I don't even know if he believes what he is expressing in his films, after all he is a multi-millionaire with a million dollar apartment in NYC, he is not "one of us".
Because you coin the term for something doesn't give you rights to the use for it. Individual words can't be copyrighted, and there's no trademark issues since he wasn't using it as a trademark, but as an expression for a certain number. Exactly what do they think entitles them to anything?
The fact that one party doesn't "agree" to anything. There doesn't have to be communication between the two parties to download source code and use it. A contract requires two parties to agree to the contract. You could not make your own license that requires anyone using your code to give you their cars for instance and hide that in a license file that comes with the code, then show up on someone's doorstep and demand the title to their car.
GPL code is protected by copyright law, and if someone is using another's code against their wishes, they are violating the author's copyright. They are breaking the law and it is punishable by heavy fines and jail time.
The GPL is not a contract as the author tries to show. It is a license. It is not signed by either party and one doesn't even have to read it in order to rip off source code from a GPL program. I can download the source code for thousands of programs from sourceforge and not even read the license file. Even after I read it, I can understand it. By using the source code, you are not agreeing to the license as if you signed a contract, but the only thing that gives you the right to use a GPL program is that license. People that steal GPL code are software "pirates", pure and simple. They are using the copyrighted works of another without their permission.
I believe it's 87k, not 68k, but not much difference. when they make more than that for each episode.
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Meteor showers usually originate from one point in the sky. For example, the Leonids originate from the Leo constellation. The Lyrids originate from the constellation lyra, which should be in a good position in the sky from 2:00 am to 5:00 am no matter where on earth you live, just like the sun will be in a good position in the sky from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm no matter where on earth you live.
Most meteor showers have a "peak" though where the earth passes through the densest part of the comet's trail. For this meteor shower, they don't appear to know when the peak will fall. For the Leonids the last couple of years they tried to predict, and that was a certain time that would be different in different time zones.
All of these are CVS for Windows tools. CVS is a great revision control system.
If you don't have much command line experience they aren't that great. I had trouble getting WinCVS to run and the Tortoise shell integration wasn't great. I had trouble getting it working with my CVS server too, although the command line tools would work after I learned how to use them.
We use SourceGear vault at work and it works great. It integrates well with Visual Studio and the provided client is easy to use as well. It does cost money, but it was pretty reasonable compared to the alternatives we looked at ($200 per user), including CVS since it took so long to get setup, there would be a learning curve for everyone, and the extra time it takes for everyone to use it would more than offset the cost.
We tried perforce as well, but it didn't even compare to SourceGear, and we had a lot of problems getting it to work well with Visual Studio.NET, for web-based projects especially.
The best source control system I ever used was in VisualAge for Java from IBM. I used it on a big Java project at one of my clients. It was integrated with the IDE and tracked changes to individual methods in the classes you were working on. Every time you saved, it would store that version in your local repository. I liked being able to version and name each class, package, and project. You can call them anything you want, but if you put numbers at the end, it will automatically increment them the next time (i.e. naming something "SSTP 1.4.1" will let you automatically version it to be "SSTP 1.4.2" without having to type anything. The local repository was in one big file that held all your changes until you version something to the server. You could even copy that file and take it somewhere else and keep all your changes. I was thinking of writing something similar in C#, anyone else interested?
I have Mandrake 9.2 and it took me several hours and trying out two different sound cards before finding something on-line about KMixer. There were NO options in the "Start" menu about configuring sound except for picking and configuring I/O for the sound card driver. I had to use the command line to start KMixer and turn on the right channels and turn off the wrong channels to get the sound to work. That's with on-board sound and finally an SB Live. It works great now, but what a hassle.
Slashdot is moderated, we're deciding which posts we wish to view based on how our peers have rated them, we are not editing the posts for content. This would be like someone editing your post to make it how they would want it to be. Maybe "hippocrits" is considered by the machine to be an offensive word so your first sentence would be deleted and no one would be able to even know you made that comment (or the spelling checker would deny it since it should be "hypocrites". Maybe there's a grammar checker that caught you using "that" in your second sentence instead of "than" so it is deleted. We'd be looking at a blank post wondering "What was Rotting trying to say?"
Authors have a right to have their creations displayed the way they created them. The problem is that it's a machine doing it and doing it automatically.
There could be a problem with copyright here. Authors of original works have the right to maintain the artistic integrity of their work. These machines are in essence creating a derivative work of the original, minus the profanity. Movies are rated by the MPAA, if you don't want profane language or nudity, don't see an "R" rated movie. The creators of the movie created it a certain way and have the right to it being displayed that way. Monty Python won a lawsuit against ABC because they cut certain parts of scenes and rearranged them for broadcast in the US. ABC had a valid license to show the episodes in the US, but not to make any changes to their content. Authors use their own expression and make a statement with what they create. They have a right not to have their expression questioned and mutilated by a machine.
If you use a black magic marker on the books you own, that is fair use. If you create and sell a machine to do that to books, that is not. The copyright holder may want to market a "clean" version of their movie someday, but that is up to them.
In general, in most jurisdictions individuals must show only that the defendant was negligent, that he failed to act with due care in the situation.
The way that SCO is going about it is negligent. They are not trying to cure the supposed violations, they are just interested in seeing how much money they can make and in trying to disrupt the use of a competing product. If they actually had a case, don't you think they'd be selling licenses to use Linux? The problem is that they can't, even if their code was in Linux it would violate the GPL and Linux couldn't be used anyway.
Look at the licenses they are offering, they are offering a license for one of their products with the added bonus that they say they won't sue you. That would be like me telling companies that Microsoft Word contains code from my proprietary product and that they need to purchase a license for my product to use Microsoft Word even if they don't intend to use my product. Then I would sue a major Microsoft consulting firm that installs Mircosoft Office for other companies and provides add-ons for it for billions of dollars, but I wouldn't target Microsoft itself. Then after a year of threats I would sue a couple of companies that use Microsoft Office saying they had to buy a $1200 (but discounted to $700 for now) license for my crappy word processor).
Now back to Red Hats Case. RH is suing SCO basically over the suite against IBM. I seriously doubt that RH will win this case because the grounds of suing someone because you sued someone. RH is must prove malice in the context of SCO public statements. This is very hard to prove.
It's not really that difficult. SCO has been publicly saying that RedHat shouldn't be selling Linux, and also going to RedHat customers and demanding money to use what they purchased from RedHat. They have been taking a product that RedHat sells and supports and claiming ownership of part of it. Combine that with the lack of good-faith in not showing any proof and not using the proper channels to sue the contributors instead of the customers and I think it's a pretty good case. If there is any code in Linux that infringes on SCO's copyrights then whoever copied that code from SCO's code and distributed it under a different license should be the one being sued, not the customers (and potential customers) of another company. Failing that, they should have sued the major distributors of Linux (RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake, etc.). This could be a textbook case on unfair competitive practices.
You have got to be kidding... Back when X-Play was Extended Play and before Morgan started annoying me with her voice it was a much better show. The comments were much more funny and you didn't have to put up with Morgan and Adam's annoying forced banter. Sure she has great honkers, but they could just review more games like DOA Volleyball to make up for it.
I think the law needs to be updated on archival copies. Currently the law allows you to make a backup copy in case your software/cd/DVD or whatever gets broken and cannot be used. That sucks for cartridges because there is no way to play your archival copy if the original breaks except in an emulator, which Nintendo is now saying is illegal. I think there should be a law where if your legally purchased copyrighted product breaks, you can send it back to the manufacturer and have them send you a new copy for free (not even pay any shipping), unless they give you another valid option such as playing the game in an emulator and making a backup copy.
Well, when those channels make up the bulk of a subscriber's viewing day and they've paid Dish Network in advance for a year of service with those channels, it seems like something to complain about to me. A $1 a month credit (what they're offering) doesn't make up for the lost content that has already been paid for. That's too bad, but I don't really care what the hell is going on between them as long as I get the channels I paid for.
Yes, that does suck, but Comedy Central is 50% of why I have satellite. It certainly should be more than $1 per month that customers get back. It would have been nice to get a little notice too so I wouldn't be without South Park this wednesday...
Each of the three films in the STAR WARS TRILOGY has been digitally restored and re-mastered by THX for superior sound and picture quality.
Does this mean they're actually remastering the ORIGINALS and not the "special" editions! Bestill my heart! I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I see Greedo shoot first or when I see Jabba in Episode IV.
I had a friend that had one of these installed after his second DUI. It did keep him from driving drunk, or after even a couple of beers. Compressed air doesn't work, you have to hum as you blow in, supposedly it has some way to tell if it's actually a person doing it. Other things they could develop if they haven't are temperature and moisture checks for the air. It's a hand-held device about the size of a cell phone attached to the dash with a cable. While driving, the light will come on occasionally and you pick it up and blow into it for a few seconds until it beeps at you. If you continued to drive the car and didn't blow into the machine to prove your sobriety, it would be recorded and the police would be notified when you took your car in the next time to have it checked out or replaced.
True, ending the war on drugs would leave a LOT of space in our prisons. Don't compare the rates in the USA to other countries though, compare them to rates before passing the "three strikes" laws, and how the rates have changed in states without those laws.
So you are comparing violent criminals that have been convicted three times with 12 year old kids that download music once on the internet (thus violating the copyright holder's monopoly) because they can't afford to buy the CDs. Nice...
I have heard some stupid stories about three strikes, like the guy that had his third strike because he was a felon in possession of a dangerous weapon (a.22 bullet that was in his old house that he didn't even have the weapon for). However, I doubt his first two "serious" or "violent" felonies were both as ridiculous.
The stiffest penalties for copyright infringement (note, that is not theft, just violating the limited monopoly established by congress given to creators of original works) should be reserved for violators that do it willingly with a profit motive, such as people and businesses that create bootleg CDs and videos and sell them.
People don't get outraged by the three strikes law for a couple of reasons. One, they aren't affected by it. Most people do not commit serious or violent felonies at all, let alone get caught and convicted three times. Two, it has actually helped reduce violent crime. Even then there is a backlash, do a search for "three strikes law" and you get websites opposing it, usually setup by people that know people affected by the law, i.e. violent criminals.
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The game had some fun elements, but it wasn't really a very good game. I think it did hurt my opinion of The Matrix. Come on, 70% isn't that much to ask for.
Now, read Heston's speech again with the realization that it was an unlucky occurance that the speech was scheduled for 11 days after Columbine and Heston didn't 'stage a big pro-dun rally' in response to the shootings, but because it had to be done to avoid breaking the law. Under NY State Law and the NRA's by-laws, the NRA MUST hold an annual meeting. If the date or location of the meeting is to be changed, all 4 million members would have to be notified 10 days in advance. Impossible since the shooting in Littleton happened only 10 days before the meeting was to be held. Out of respect, they cancelled all their normal events except the welcoming and the annual meeting that was REQUIRED by law and couldn't be rescheduled in time:
documentary - Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
I have not seen "Farenheit 9/11", but if it is anything like "Bowling for Columbine" and Moore's other films, it is all about editorializing and there is insertion of some fictional matter. For instance an ad that Moore portrays as being run by George Bush Sr. when facing Dukakis wasn't run by the campaign, is enterspliced with another ad, and has an inflammitory subtitle added. This is not presenting facts, but distorting the truth in the worst way.
I don't even know if he believes what he is expressing in his films, after all he is a multi-millionaire with a million dollar apartment in NYC, he is not "one of us".
Googol googol googol googol googol googol googol googol.
Sue me retards...
GPL code is protected by copyright law, and if someone is using another's code against their wishes, they are violating the author's copyright. They are breaking the law and it is punishable by heavy fines and jail time.
And Yahoo! stock forumns are the place to go for financial advice.
The GPL is not a contract as the author tries to show. It is a license. It is not signed by either party and one doesn't even have to read it in order to rip off source code from a GPL program. I can download the source code for thousands of programs from sourceforge and not even read the license file. Even after I read it, I can understand it. By using the source code, you are not agreeing to the license as if you signed a contract, but the only thing that gives you the right to use a GPL program is that license. People that steal GPL code are software "pirates", pure and simple. They are using the copyrighted works of another without their permission.
I believe it's 87k, not 68k, but not much difference. when they make more than that for each episode.
Most meteor showers have a "peak" though where the earth passes through the densest part of the comet's trail. For this meteor shower, they don't appear to know when the peak will fall. For the Leonids the last couple of years they tried to predict, and that was a certain time that would be different in different time zones.
Happy skywatching!
We use SourceGear vault at work and it works great. It integrates well with Visual Studio and the provided client is easy to use as well. It does cost money, but it was pretty reasonable compared to the alternatives we looked at ($200 per user), including CVS since it took so long to get setup, there would be a learning curve for everyone, and the extra time it takes for everyone to use it would more than offset the cost.
We tried perforce as well, but it didn't even compare to SourceGear, and we had a lot of problems getting it to work well with Visual Studio .NET, for web-based projects especially.
The best source control system I ever used was in VisualAge for Java from IBM. I used it on a big Java project at one of my clients. It was integrated with the IDE and tracked changes to individual methods in the classes you were working on. Every time you saved, it would store that version in your local repository. I liked being able to version and name each class, package, and project. You can call them anything you want, but if you put numbers at the end, it will automatically increment them the next time (i.e. naming something "SSTP 1.4.1" will let you automatically version it to be "SSTP 1.4.2" without having to type anything. The local repository was in one big file that held all your changes until you version something to the server. You could even copy that file and take it somewhere else and keep all your changes. I was thinking of writing something similar in C#, anyone else interested?
I have Mandrake 9.2 and it took me several hours and trying out two different sound cards before finding something on-line about KMixer. There were NO options in the "Start" menu about configuring sound except for picking and configuring I/O for the sound card driver. I had to use the command line to start KMixer and turn on the right channels and turn off the wrong channels to get the sound to work. That's with on-board sound and finally an SB Live. It works great now, but what a hassle.
Yes, but there is a person at the controls pushing a button to skip the commercial, the machine isn't being fed instructions on what to skip.
Authors have a right to have their creations displayed the way they created them. The problem is that it's a machine doing it and doing it automatically.
If you use a black magic marker on the books you own, that is fair use. If you create and sell a machine to do that to books, that is not. The copyright holder may want to market a "clean" version of their movie someday, but that is up to them.
The way that SCO is going about it is negligent. They are not trying to cure the supposed violations, they are just interested in seeing how much money they can make and in trying to disrupt the use of a competing product. If they actually had a case, don't you think they'd be selling licenses to use Linux? The problem is that they can't, even if their code was in Linux it would violate the GPL and Linux couldn't be used anyway.
Look at the licenses they are offering, they are offering a license for one of their products with the added bonus that they say they won't sue you. That would be like me telling companies that Microsoft Word contains code from my proprietary product and that they need to purchase a license for my product to use Microsoft Word even if they don't intend to use my product. Then I would sue a major Microsoft consulting firm that installs Mircosoft Office for other companies and provides add-ons for it for billions of dollars, but I wouldn't target Microsoft itself. Then after a year of threats I would sue a couple of companies that use Microsoft Office saying they had to buy a $1200 (but discounted to $700 for now) license for my crappy word processor).
It's not really that difficult. SCO has been publicly saying that RedHat shouldn't be selling Linux, and also going to RedHat customers and demanding money to use what they purchased from RedHat. They have been taking a product that RedHat sells and supports and claiming ownership of part of it. Combine that with the lack of good-faith in not showing any proof and not using the proper channels to sue the contributors instead of the customers and I think it's a pretty good case. If there is any code in Linux that infringes on SCO's copyrights then whoever copied that code from SCO's code and distributed it under a different license should be the one being sued, not the customers (and potential customers) of another company. Failing that, they should have sued the major distributors of Linux (RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake, etc.). This could be a textbook case on unfair competitive practices.
You have got to be kidding... Back when X-Play was Extended Play and before Morgan started annoying me with her voice it was a much better show. The comments were much more funny and you didn't have to put up with Morgan and Adam's annoying forced banter. Sure she has great honkers, but they could just review more games like DOA Volleyball to make up for it.
I think the law needs to be updated on archival copies. Currently the law allows you to make a backup copy in case your software/cd/DVD or whatever gets broken and cannot be used. That sucks for cartridges because there is no way to play your archival copy if the original breaks except in an emulator, which Nintendo is now saying is illegal. I think there should be a law where if your legally purchased copyrighted product breaks, you can send it back to the manufacturer and have them send you a new copy for free (not even pay any shipping), unless they give you another valid option such as playing the game in an emulator and making a backup copy.
Well, when those channels make up the bulk of a subscriber's viewing day and they've paid Dish Network in advance for a year of service with those channels, it seems like something to complain about to me. A $1 a month credit (what they're offering) doesn't make up for the lost content that has already been paid for. That's too bad, but I don't really care what the hell is going on between them as long as I get the channels I paid for.
Yes, that does suck, but Comedy Central is 50% of why I have satellite. It certainly should be more than $1 per month that customers get back. It would have been nice to get a little notice too so I wouldn't be without South Park this wednesday...
Does this mean they're actually remastering the ORIGINALS and not the "special" editions! Bestill my heart! I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I see Greedo shoot first or when I see Jabba in Episode IV.
I had a friend that had one of these installed after his second DUI. It did keep him from driving drunk, or after even a couple of beers. Compressed air doesn't work, you have to hum as you blow in, supposedly it has some way to tell if it's actually a person doing it. Other things they could develop if they haven't are temperature and moisture checks for the air. It's a hand-held device about the size of a cell phone attached to the dash with a cable. While driving, the light will come on occasionally and you pick it up and blow into it for a few seconds until it beeps at you. If you continued to drive the car and didn't blow into the machine to prove your sobriety, it would be recorded and the police would be notified when you took your car in the next time to have it checked out or replaced.
True, ending the war on drugs would leave a LOT of space in our prisons. Don't compare the rates in the USA to other countries though, compare them to rates before passing the "three strikes" laws, and how the rates have changed in states without those laws.
I have heard some stupid stories about three strikes, like the guy that had his third strike because he was a felon in possession of a dangerous weapon (a .22 bullet that was in his old house that he didn't even have the weapon for). However, I doubt his first two "serious" or "violent" felonies were both as ridiculous.
The stiffest penalties for copyright infringement (note, that is not theft, just violating the limited monopoly established by congress given to creators of original works) should be reserved for violators that do it willingly with a profit motive, such as people and businesses that create bootleg CDs and videos and sell them.
People don't get outraged by the three strikes law for a couple of reasons. One, they aren't affected by it. Most people do not commit serious or violent felonies at all, let alone get caught and convicted three times. Two, it has actually helped reduce violent crime. Even then there is a backlash, do a search for "three strikes law" and you get websites opposing it, usually setup by people that know people affected by the law, i.e. violent criminals.