All of those nationwide supporters aren't going to help unless they all have close friends and relatives in the district of contention, now are they? Combine that with the widespread voter apathy in this country and... feh.
Well, I agree with you on the first point. But the second point: well, because of the widespread voter apathy in this country, you only have to get a small populatin of the people to actually give enough of a shit about an issue to get a victory. It makes it easier. So if you give a damn, vote!
Feynman once made a cute quote about his Feynman Lectures on Physics, and some other publications. All the proceeds of which went to CalTech, and nothing to him. He commented how this was the same for some fello Nobel Laureates he knew.
He said something to the effect of "I guess we giants of physics are midgets of finance". It was kind of cute.
I can just imagine it now. They only let one person have spiderman, another hulk, etc. So it's first come first serve. Schrewd investors grab characters up early, and a few weeks later auction them off on ebay.
Some variants:
1) Marvel auctions off the popular characters. Everyone else gets no name characters. Long standing characters in the game who reach past a cerain level or accomplish a certain quest get to have their character appear in a comic book Imagine how much money Marvel would make if they auction off the popular characters?.
2) The big name characters are NPC's who move the plot. You play a created, unknown character that interacts with them. If you get to be famous (achieve a certain level/prestige, accomplish a certain task) you get to team up with Spider Man, or join the Avengers...
3)Big name characters are awarded people via a lottery process. You enter the lottery via a) accompilshing a big task with your created character or b) paying for lottery tickets online. If you win spiderman, you keep him until you die, or you fail to maintain the character properly (like a tamagotchi, or that fish video game)
Just some possiblities that I like better than 50 000 different peter parkers living in New York And what do I have to do to get to play Galactus? I'll send the ultimate nullifier to the end of the universe, and then chow down on earth... bwa ha ha!
which is what their doing, the DMCA is the law of the land whether we like it or not
The whether we like it or not part bothers me. Since we don't like and shouldn't like it, what are we doing about it? Me, I've written my congressman and given bucks to EFF. But if anyone has further suggestions, lets get it moving.
Just cuz a law has been pasesd doesn't mean it can't be recalled.
Aren't you reading the article before you moderate the responses?
All of these comments arguing free speech (to and fro) are all off topic
danheskett (do a ctl f you'll find him here) posted the main point, which is that the issue here is whether or not the isp be treated as a common carrier. There is not word one mention of free speech in the article.
One of the comments here was a guy getting emails from his managing director saying things like "r u sure...".
People are using short hand like this because when you are hunting and pecking, u is way faster than you. Not so if you touch type. Typing the you doesn't bother you. I think kids should be learning touch typing circa 6'th grade (I'd say earlier, but I guess you're hands should be at least a certain size). Until the keyboard gets replaced as primary user interface anyway.
1. How do you feel about your conviction? Did you "know you were doing something wrong" and understand the risks, or did you think of it as a little harmless anarchy that no one would bother with, or some other opetion? Now that you are convicted and facing 33 months in jail, do you feel that justice was served or miscarried?
2. Do you know what kind of prison you are going to? Are you going to a "cushy" white collar place, or are you being locked up with harder criminals? Are you afraid of the abuses we hear about all the time via the media and amnesty international.
3. Will you have access to the internet in prison?
When someone first told me Keaton would be playing Batman, I said "oh they're making it a comedy" thinking it would be played camp like the old tv show. They replied "no man, it looked really serious".
I was delighted with the first Batman, and although Keaton didn't have the face for Bruce Wayne, he did a marvelous job of acting
I remember reading an interview with him at the time, and he was kind of fed up with all the critisizm that he didn't look the part. He said something to effect that if they wanted a square jaw for the cowl they could have gotten Lenno.
That being said this was the first time I'd seen Keaton departing from comedy roles, so it's understandable that he could pull of a surprisingly good performance. Keanu, on the other hands has shown himself to be a wooden actor... On the other hand, for comic characters, Supes is a bit wooden, so maybe it'll work out. I'll keep an open mind. But you know, the kid who plays Clark on Smallvill doesn't do a bad job (considering the lame, overly propagandistic, poorly thought out scripts they give him). I think he'd be a better choice.
Yeah, I think we all have fond memories of Christopher Reeve as Superman. Oddly enough, what I remember as good about his portrayal, was how well he did Clark and the bumbling doofus act. It was just so sweet and charming. And then the shift when he pulled his glasses down a couple inches... If I was gay, that would definately get me going...
Back to the point: He did Okay in matrix, because it wasn't a very demanding role. It may be that Superman can be crafted to fit him okay. But I think I'll miss the bungling clark (he was lost in the last revision of superman I read through. Has he come back, does anyone know? My casual perusal of superman says no but maybe I'm wrong.
Oh and a question: Didn't I read somewhere that the copyrights went back to the Siegel family? Are there any non Warner implementations of Superman in the pipes, or what's the story?
and will Jerry Siegels curse still apply? Is that what happened to Christopher Reeves? If you don't know about jerry's curse it's in the article, here's the quote:
Jerry Siegel, himself, in response to news that a big budget Hollywood picture starring his creation was underway in 1974, wrote, "The publishers of SUPERMAN comic books, National Periodical Publications (now DC Comics), killed my days, murdered my nights, choked my happiness, strangled my career. I consider National's executives money-mad monsters. I, Jerry Siegel, the co-originator of SUPERMAN, put a curse on the SUPERMAN movie!"
Perhaps it's the curse coming to play in the selection of Keanu Reeves! Perhaps that's what happened with Superman IV!
This is something I've wanted to find out more about. My concern is this: the trend at the moment seems to be increased IP protectionism to favor holders of patents and copyrights. Mono is an independant implementation of the.net standards, but as mentioned elsewhere in the replies, how big is the threat that, due to changing law, or a shift in Microsoft's stances this rises up to bit all users of Mono in but?
I've been hoping this.net thing would just die, and and technology would shift more and more to open standards. This is a far more important issue that free software imho.
Can anybody point me to a good discussion of this issue? It must have been discussed a lot when Mono was first announced.
I've listed all the effects to my family in the states before. What they really wind up doing is killing my freedom of speech. I don't feel comfortable being politically vocal and living in America at the same time. The two big things that terrify me are: I can be held without a trial indefinately if I'm suspected of being a terrorist, and the complacent, bloodthirsty, jingoistic, my country right or wrong (well more to the point, my country can't be wrong) attitude the American public seems to have (based on what I see on the TV, which I hope is hopelessly biased).
Why? Well back when I was 20 I was in the Marines, and I was against the gulf war. I was pretty vocal about it (freedom of speech) and that got me a lot of flack from the military (that's clear). I got in a discussion with some other guys during lunch and they were telling me "we gotta kill S.H. because he violated this and this international law, yadda yadda". I told them if we were going to kill violaters of international law, we would have to start with Bush for Panama. Clearly a rhetorical argument.
Still, the Secret service was called, and I spent the night in a holding cell until my lawer came. I had to be photographed, psychoanalyzed, get a handwriting analyses, and had my background and family checked. But they had to let me go, becuase I was able to talk to a lawyer and he said "c'mon guys, it's obvious these charges are a bunch of shit". That happened a lot in those days, me getting arrested for a day and released without trial because the charges were just meaningless. They did this to hassle me and to keep me from expressing my opinion to people who might listen and change theirs. Noboddy, and I emphasize, Nobody, really thought I had threatened the presidents life. It was just a charade.
What's changed? Now they don't have to let me speak with my lawyer, and they can keep me indefinately. That has terrorized me!
Now why don't they offer the films for 5 or 8 bucks, with no time lock option? A dvd is circa 25 bucks retail right? No manufacturing costs or retail markup, reduced marketing costs, no inventorying... Their profit margin should be assured. And I'd gladly pay 5 bucks for flick I can burn to cd and keep rather than get something of unknown quality over the newsgroups.
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Regarding Dennis Leary's song. Coincidentally this is my song of the week. You can download it here:
The FUD part (not that I knew what it stood for when I first posted...) could refer to the idea that people would stop putting content on the net without a reward structure.
In a way, this is like enforced capitalism. The net shows that Communism and capitalism can coexist, but the capitalist (those that have the capital) want to stamp the communist tendencies out, as it hurts their profit margin (which is aready far too high)
This argument makes no sense to me. Isn't angular momentum conserved?
It seems to me what you are suggesting is similar in terms of physical validity, to the cartoons where a character standing on a sailboat blows on his/her/it's sail to get it to propel. Or to makeing yourself fly by picking youself up by the belt
The only way I can see that your argument has validity is if there is a net rotational difference between the earths rotation and the atmosphere's. Even then, the mass difference between the heavens and firmament should be large enough to make the effects negligible, even assuming the country of denmark could possible make enough windmills to affect a measurable change in average wind velocity.
If my argument is wrong, please, by means, show me the numbers...
Way OT so I shouldn't be responding to this, but...
Ironic yes, but I think it's more funny than sad. I mean, there's more anti ms info here than pro... I don't think MS will win any developers away from Linux here, so I consider it a bad business move for MS, glad they can help support the site...
We need to institute enough punitive measures and technological impediments to stop those individuals who are putting content on the net without the appropriate cost structure. Then my corporate masters (MPAA, RIAA, Disney) can extend their parastic bloodsucking little fangs into this distribution medium as deeply as they have into the more traditional ones.
First these bastards TCPA, not farber spec. say they are addressing the overabundance of content on the net (it's piracy!) and then they let slip this kind of FUD.
The problem is the userbase: 4% apple, 1% linux, and you can guess where the other 95% is. So you compete for the mac game market, you're already competing for 1/20'th the user base you are competing for on the Windows platform
Some games still get made for the mac. A reason for this is you also have fewer games available for the mac. So the mac gaming public snaps up anything that's any good. But I don't have any good figures what percentage of the mac user base are serious gamers. I suspect it's not so large....
Another problem is the dominanc of the direct X API's which are proprietary microsft. If more developers used OpenGL for example, it would be easier and more cost effective to do ports to the mac. It is a pity though, because I would guess with good graphics cards the G4's could really rock out on a properly compiled/optimized game.
Just needs a bigger user base. It's a bit of a catch 22: because there isn't enough of a gamer user base, not enough games are made. Becaues so few games are available for the Mac, few gamers will fork out the heavy dough to get one.
I had a mac a few years ago just before Jobs came back. I remember I had Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3d, and Myth, all of which were awesome. But always much later than the windows guys did. Sigh. It seemed to be getting better there for a while, but now it seems to be stagnating again. Kind of sad that Microsoft bought Bungie. That hurt apple gaming quite a bit. Anyone else remember how Halo was supposed to be a showcase for the G4's powers?
Besides, blender the product, is ok, but the interface is so darn goofy it takes a hell of a lot of time to get used to it, especially when you compare it to the big boys in 3D world: 3DSMax, lightwave and Maya
Well, thank goodness the source is open now. Now everyone can muck around with the UI.
and I hate visual studio... bleargh.
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I'm a big anime fan. I consider the dubbing on DVD's a kind of bonus. I usally watch the first run in japanese with subtitles. Then the second time I watch in english dub with subtitles. It's often a blast to see how differnent the two versions are.
If that argument worked, do you think that marajuana, heroin, meth, e, etc. etc. etc. would be illegal?
The government's job is to attempt to preserve the lives of those who are willing to risk them.
Nowhere in the constitution have I seen anything to indicate that this is even remotely within the jurisdiciton of the government. Whether or not it should be is something I vehemently disagree to.
The government's job is to: regulate trade between other nations, provide for a national defense, and enforce a social contract, as decided democratically.
Now, within the social contract, I do not acknowledge the right of you as an individual, or a collective majority of you, to decide how I can live, or end my life. I do however acknowledge and agree with the need to protect individuals from other individuals (but not from themselves).
Does this mean that I think heroin should be legal? Yes, but in the case of heavily addictive substances, the social contract argument becomes complicated, and I'm willing to entertain compromise on the issue, so I will defer discussion here in an effort to remain on topic.
Specific to this case, the goverment's job is to ensure that Roller Coaster providers are providing sufficient information to their clientelle for their clientelle to make informed decisions... and not making false business claims.
I went to great effort to leave the United States (of which I was born a citizen) to live in a country with a better standard of living (YES, it's true) more freedom (this is true of many countries nowadays... the phrase "land of the free" has become just an empty marketing slogan at best, orwellian doublespeak at worst), and far fewer ignorant, egotistical, nationalistic dopes like you.
Try traveling, and reading a little bit before you speak nonsense. You're just spouting propoganda. In fact, the troubles with america start with people like you.
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He said something to the effect of "I guess we giants of physics are midgets of finance". It was kind of cute.
But what senator? Pick one from say, Alaska, who may not get bribd that much, or I dunno Kansas?
Can we buy a senator, and have him tell everyone that senators can be bought? that would be great.
Some variants:
1) Marvel auctions off the popular characters. Everyone else gets no name characters. Long standing characters in the game who reach past a cerain level or accomplish a certain quest get to have their character appear in a comic book Imagine how much money Marvel would make if they auction off the popular characters?.
2) The big name characters are NPC's who move the plot. You play a created, unknown character that interacts with them. If you get to be famous (achieve a certain level/prestige, accomplish a certain task) you get to team up with Spider Man, or join the Avengers...
3)Big name characters are awarded people via a lottery process. You enter the lottery via a) accompilshing a big task with your created character or b) paying for lottery tickets online. If you win spiderman, you keep him until you die, or you fail to maintain the character properly (like a tamagotchi, or that fish video game)
Just some possiblities that I like better than 50 000 different peter parkers living in New York And what do I have to do to get to play Galactus? I'll send the ultimate nullifier to the end of the universe, and then chow down on earth... bwa ha ha!
Just cuz a law has been pasesd doesn't mean it can't be recalled.
All of these comments arguing free speech (to and fro) are all off topic
danheskett (do a ctl f you'll find him here) posted the main point, which is that the issue here is whether or not the isp be treated as a common carrier. There is not word one mention of free speech in the article.
People are using short hand like this because when you are hunting and pecking, u is way faster than you. Not so if you touch type. Typing the you doesn't bother you. I think kids should be learning touch typing circa 6'th grade (I'd say earlier, but I guess you're hands should be at least a certain size). Until the keyboard gets replaced as primary user interface anyway.
I agree with this, but the business about exporting some of the processes to the cpu bothers me.
2. Do you know what kind of prison you are going to? Are you going to a "cushy" white collar place, or are you being locked up with harder criminals? Are you afraid of the abuses we hear about all the time via the media and amnesty international.
3. Will you have access to the internet in prison?
I was delighted with the first Batman, and although Keaton didn't have the face for Bruce Wayne, he did a marvelous job of acting
I remember reading an interview with him at the time, and he was kind of fed up with all the critisizm that he didn't look the part. He said something to effect that if they wanted a square jaw for the cowl they could have gotten Lenno.
That being said this was the first time I'd seen Keaton departing from comedy roles, so it's understandable that he could pull of a surprisingly good performance. Keanu, on the other hands has shown himself to be a wooden actor... On the other hand, for comic characters, Supes is a bit wooden, so maybe it'll work out. I'll keep an open mind. But you know, the kid who plays Clark on Smallvill doesn't do a bad job (considering the lame, overly propagandistic, poorly thought out scripts they give him). I think he'd be a better choice.
Yeah, I think we all have fond memories of Christopher Reeve as Superman. Oddly enough, what I remember as good about his portrayal, was how well he did Clark and the bumbling doofus act. It was just so sweet and charming. And then the shift when he pulled his glasses down a couple inches... If I was gay, that would definately get me going...
Back to the point: He did Okay in matrix, because it wasn't a very demanding role. It may be that Superman can be crafted to fit him okay. But I think I'll miss the bungling clark (he was lost in the last revision of superman I read through. Has he come back, does anyone know? My casual perusal of superman says no but maybe I'm wrong.
Oh and a question: Didn't I read somewhere that the copyrights went back to the Siegel family? Are there any non Warner implementations of Superman in the pipes, or what's the story?
and will Jerry Siegels curse still apply? Is that what happened to Christopher Reeves? If you don't know about jerry's curse it's in the article, here's the quote:
Perhaps it's the curse coming to play in the selection of Keanu Reeves! Perhaps that's what happened with Superman IV!I've been hoping this .net thing would just die, and and technology would shift more and more to open standards. This is a far more important issue that free software imho.
Can anybody point me to a good discussion of this issue? It must have been discussed a lot when Mono was first announced.
Why? Well back when I was 20 I was in the Marines, and I was against the gulf war. I was pretty vocal about it (freedom of speech) and that got me a lot of flack from the military (that's clear). I got in a discussion with some other guys during lunch and they were telling me "we gotta kill S.H. because he violated this and this international law, yadda yadda". I told them if we were going to kill violaters of international law, we would have to start with Bush for Panama. Clearly a rhetorical argument.
Still, the Secret service was called, and I spent the night in a holding cell until my lawer came. I had to be photographed, psychoanalyzed, get a handwriting analyses, and had my background and family checked. But they had to let me go, becuase I was able to talk to a lawyer and he said "c'mon guys, it's obvious these charges are a bunch of shit". That happened a lot in those days, me getting arrested for a day and released without trial because the charges were just meaningless. They did this to hassle me and to keep me from expressing my opinion to people who might listen and change theirs. Noboddy, and I emphasize, Nobody, really thought I had threatened the presidents life. It was just a charade.
What's changed? Now they don't have to let me speak with my lawyer, and they can keep me indefinately. That has terrorized me!
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Let's see if I'm screwing myself over by posting this...
The FUD part (not that I knew what it stood for when I first posted...) could refer to the idea that people would stop putting content on the net without a reward structure.
In a way, this is like enforced capitalism. The net shows that Communism and capitalism can coexist, but the capitalist (those that have the capital) want to stamp the communist tendencies out, as it hurts their profit margin (which is aready far too high)
It seems to me what you are suggesting is similar in terms of physical validity, to the cartoons where a character standing on a sailboat blows on his/her/it's sail to get it to propel. Or to makeing yourself fly by picking youself up by the belt
The only way I can see that your argument has validity is if there is a net rotational difference between the earths rotation and the atmosphere's. Even then, the mass difference between the heavens and firmament should be large enough to make the effects negligible, even assuming the country of denmark could possible make enough windmills to affect a measurable change in average wind velocity.
If my argument is wrong, please, by means, show me the numbers...
The solution is simple: Big honking capacitors...
Ironic yes, but I think it's more funny than sad. I mean, there's more anti ms info here than pro... I don't think MS will win any developers away from Linux here, so I consider it a bad business move for MS, glad they can help support the site...
just my 5 rappen.
We need to institute enough punitive measures and technological impediments to stop those individuals who are putting content on the net without the appropriate cost structure. Then my corporate masters (MPAA, RIAA, Disney) can extend their parastic bloodsucking little fangs into this distribution medium as deeply as they have into the more traditional ones.
First these bastards TCPA, not farber spec. say they are addressing the overabundance of content on the net (it's piracy!) and then they let slip this kind of FUD.
what does FUD stand for anyway?
Some games still get made for the mac. A reason for this is you also have fewer games available for the mac. So the mac gaming public snaps up anything that's any good. But I don't have any good figures what percentage of the mac user base are serious gamers. I suspect it's not so large....
Another problem is the dominanc of the direct X API's which are proprietary microsft. If more developers used OpenGL for example, it would be easier and more cost effective to do ports to the mac. It is a pity though, because I would guess with good graphics cards the G4's could really rock out on a properly compiled/optimized game.
Just needs a bigger user base. It's a bit of a catch 22: because there isn't enough of a gamer user base, not enough games are made. Becaues so few games are available for the Mac, few gamers will fork out the heavy dough to get one.
I had a mac a few years ago just before Jobs came back. I remember I had Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3d, and Myth, all of which were awesome. But always much later than the windows guys did. Sigh. It seemed to be getting better there for a while, but now it seems to be stagnating again. Kind of sad that Microsoft bought Bungie. That hurt apple gaming quite a bit. Anyone else remember how Halo was supposed to be a showcase for the G4's powers?
sigh.
and I hate visual studio... bleargh.
Sorry, I'm just kind of obsessed that a country would outlaw electronic gaming of any kind. Wow.
I'm a big anime fan. I consider the dubbing on DVD's a kind of bonus. I usally watch the first run in japanese with subtitles. Then the second time I watch in english dub with subtitles. It's often a blast to see how differnent the two versions are.
Nowhere in the constitution have I seen anything to indicate that this is even remotely within the jurisdiciton of the government. Whether or not it should be is something I vehemently disagree to.
The government's job is to: regulate trade between other nations, provide for a national defense, and enforce a social contract, as decided democratically.
Now, within the social contract, I do not acknowledge the right of you as an individual, or a collective majority of you, to decide how I can live, or end my life. I do however acknowledge and agree with the need to protect individuals from other individuals (but not from themselves).
Does this mean that I think heroin should be legal? Yes, but in the case of heavily addictive substances, the social contract argument becomes complicated, and I'm willing to entertain compromise on the issue, so I will defer discussion here in an effort to remain on topic.
Specific to this case, the goverment's job is to ensure that Roller Coaster providers are providing sufficient information to their clientelle for their clientelle to make informed decisions... and not making false business claims.
Try traveling, and reading a little bit before you speak nonsense. You're just spouting propoganda. In fact, the troubles with america start with people like you.