PHB obviously has not visited Germany, Belgium or the Netherlands often! Every toilet there (even in many McDonalds!) has a wizened old lady sitting by the cubicles collecting money.
Although it's more likely that by viewing my food purchases, instead of being regarded as a terrorist, big brother will see me as a health risk and want to put up my health insurance premiums!
The mahabarat has been reinterpreted for thousands of years, from books to comics to television, and you say stage versions also. Star wars has nice background stories, but it does not come close.
generally the audience of consoles is younger and more attracted to fantasy instead of hardcore realism
That would explain the relative popularities of FIFA soccer (fantasy obviously - a decent keeper would never act as stupid as that!) versus Doom (I often find myself shooting demons with rail-guns in real life).
Spiderman hasn't even been released yet!
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But already I've seen attack of the clones... Temuera Morrison, wahey! An army of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders, conquering the galaxy:-)
Oh, i guess it will get released outside the US one day, if the MPAA feels like it.
I would guess AOTC has been released in more theatres, just maybe not in the US. Maybe they need to update the accounting system to take into account global revenues.
My mistake in using the word property, which includes the ability to transfer (sell) as well as control usage. However, the lesser point still stands, that by your logic Microsoft should be able to dictate who can and can't write programs for Windows.
My memory is vague, but Tenco made their own cartridges for the NES, which Nintendo didn't like. One of the points the Judge made was that Sony didn't have a veto on Nintendo being connected to their televisions, so why should Nintendo have a veto on cartidges being connected to their console.
Of course the current state of play with the console manufacturers may show that your argument won the day.
Ah, children these days, they don't remember the computer magazines of the 1980s that had computer games on free flexidiscs. This was a bit before CDs became popular.
Everything you link this against has to GPLed. (Ignore that stupid person who thought that by creating a library you avoid it, you cannot it's still a derived work).
by your logic, everything that runs on Windows is the property of Microsoft, since it (dynamically) links against kernel32.dll and user32.dll
I think there are several software companies that would disagree.
And the original arcade game has wonderful gameplay. If you're going to rip off a simple game, it's a great one to learn on (other examples being Bomberman or Pang).
at my work there's a coder who gets laid at least three times a weekend by interested parties. He also washes regularly and wears clothes he bought in this century.
Of course, everyone just assumes he's an artist...
We had actual fireworks thrown into a cinema I was at (filling the room with smoke) and after ducking everyone went back to their seats. Lots of people complained when the cinema stopped showing the film and told people to leave!
The last time I went to new zealand they had all three television channels broadcasting US infomercials simultenously through the morning.
I looked at the positive side of this though - since NZ TV is so rubbish, the population is forced to go outside and be good at sport etc.
In the UK, we have good TV and so everyone (myself included) is rubbish at sport. Except for darts and snooker of course, since you can play those in a pub.
What annoyed me in NZ though was that these informercials were blaring out at me when I was trying to get a bite to eat in the airport so I had no choice in the matter. This is what the evil ones (xxAA, spam marketers, infomercial vendors) all want, for us to be forced to listen to stuff we don't want to.
It costs money to write good games. I have several restauranteurs and many drunk (but cute) friends to support. I don't come cheap.
So it actually costs a lot of money to write a game these days. Let's say a round million dollars for a medium sized title. It costs twice that amount to market it properly. This adds up to quite a lot of front-loaded money.
This money comes from the publishers cut of the game - I'd guess about 20% of the retail price. The rest goes to the government, the retailer, the format holder (MS, Sony, Nintendo) and a small amount goes on manufacturing and distribution. That small amount is the amount you are focussing on.
Of course with PC games you don't have to pay the format holder, but this also means that the game doesn't get tested properly and probably won't work. Apparently some PC games even issue patches to bugs after they have been released instead of fixing them first!
You may well say that after the game has made back its development costs, they could reduce the price to closer to its unit cost. Guess what, they do. Garry Williams (www.sold-out.co.uk) has done nicely by selling good but old software at ludicrously low prices.
We are no longer an economy where commodity goods completely dominate - much of the economy is based on things that have a one-off component to their costs. You can't just ignore these costs.
Almost any mathematical theory works if you 'ignore' certain variables.
Physicists have been doing this for a long time.
I especially like the one where they put in a bodge factor for the cosmological constant of 10^100. Yup, out by a factor of a googol. That puts my -1 bodge at the end of a loop into perspective!
Admittedly one descendant of the famous Hapsburg dynasty is in the European parliament, but that is because more people voted for him than for the other person (unlike the situation the US).
Now that Bush 2nd is telling Castro he should reform his voting system, I am sure castro won't mind - he'll just borrow the US version (e.g. disqualify blocks of people who might vote the wrong way) and not have any problem getting elected!
Parents should give their kids an education and the chance of good health; a trust fund should only be needed if they are unable to support themselves (e.g. are young or disabled).
Some kids have carried on their parent's work though - such as Chris(?) Tolkien and Chris(?) Browne (Hagar the Horrible). I don't know exactly how I should feel about that (but better them for a limited time than that some publisher should own the rights for eternity).
P.S. I have a recording of Thomas Edison from 1918. I wonder how EMI would feel if I made a record from that:-)
so many people in the US a year ago thought "The economy is doing great. I really miss when Bush was in charge and we had a recession. Let's get him in again!"
Bush the first was the one who said he wanted the US to be "less like the simpson" (well-off, in work with nice material possessions) "and more like the waltons" (in the middle of the great depression with no wealth to speak of).
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PHB obviously has not visited Germany, Belgium or the Netherlands often! Every toilet there (even in many McDonalds!) has a wizened old lady sitting by the cubicles collecting money.
Although it's more likely that by viewing my food purchases, instead of being regarded as a terrorist, big brother will see me as a health risk and want to put up my health insurance premiums!
You mean most people think property has "move" semantics (like std::auto_ptr) instead of "copy" semantics (like boost::shared_ptr)!
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The Vodka is good but the meat is off.
The mahabarat has been reinterpreted for thousands of years, from books to comics to television, and you say stage versions also. Star wars has nice background stories, but it does not come close.
all the profitable business models, and US industry got left with the other ones!
That would explain the relative popularities of FIFA soccer (fantasy obviously - a decent keeper would never act as stupid as that!) versus Doom (I often find myself shooting demons with rail-guns in real life).
But already I've seen attack of the clones... Temuera Morrison, wahey! An army of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders, conquering the galaxy :-)
Oh, i guess it will get released outside the US one day, if the MPAA feels like it.
I would guess AOTC has been released in more theatres, just maybe not in the US. Maybe they need to update the accounting system to take into account global revenues.
My mistake in using the word property, which includes the ability to transfer (sell) as well as control usage. However, the lesser point still stands, that by your logic Microsoft should be able to dictate who can and can't write programs for Windows.
Perhaps better than the temco/tenco (sp?) case is the game genie one: http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/cases/Galoo b_v_Nintendo.html
which perhaps should mean that a program dynamically linking to a library does not make it a derived work.
Of course the current state of play with the console manufacturers may show that your argument won the day.
Ah, children these days, they don't remember the computer magazines of the 1980s that had computer games on free flexidiscs. This was a bit before CDs became popular.
by your logic, everything that runs on Windows is the property of Microsoft, since it (dynamically) links against kernel32.dll and user32.dll
I think there are several software companies that would disagree.
And the original arcade game has wonderful gameplay. If you're going to rip off a simple game, it's a great one to learn on (other examples being Bomberman or Pang).
at my work there's a coder who gets laid at least three times a weekend by interested parties. He also washes regularly and wears clothes he bought in this century.
Of course, everyone just assumes he's an artist...
We had actual fireworks thrown into a cinema I was at (filling the room with smoke) and after ducking everyone went back to their seats. Lots of people complained when the cinema stopped showing the film and told people to leave!
500 channels on TV and ALL running infomercials.
The last time I went to new zealand they had all three television channels broadcasting US infomercials simultenously through the morning.
I looked at the positive side of this though - since NZ TV is so rubbish, the population is forced to go outside and be good at sport etc.
In the UK, we have good TV and so everyone (myself included) is rubbish at sport. Except for darts and snooker of course, since you can play those in a pub.
What annoyed me in NZ though was that these informercials were blaring out at me when I was trying to get a bite to eat in the airport so I had no choice in the matter. This is what the evil ones (xxAA, spam marketers, infomercial vendors) all want, for us to be forced to listen to stuff we don't want to.
perhaps you shouldn't be putting talculm powder in the letter...
It costs money to write good games. I have several restauranteurs and many drunk (but cute) friends to support. I don't come cheap.
So it actually costs a lot of money to write a game these days. Let's say a round million dollars for a medium sized title. It costs twice that amount to market it properly. This adds up to quite a lot of front-loaded money.
This money comes from the publishers cut of the game - I'd guess about 20% of the retail price. The rest goes to the government, the retailer, the format holder (MS, Sony, Nintendo) and a small amount goes on manufacturing and distribution. That small amount is the amount you are focussing on.
Of course with PC games you don't have to pay the format holder, but this also means that the game doesn't get tested properly and probably won't work. Apparently some PC games even issue patches to bugs after they have been released instead of fixing them first!
You may well say that after the game has made back its development costs, they could reduce the price to closer to its unit cost. Guess what, they do. Garry Williams (www.sold-out.co.uk) has done nicely by selling good but old software at ludicrously low prices.
We are no longer an economy where commodity goods completely dominate - much of the economy is based on things that have a one-off component to their costs. You can't just ignore these costs.
Almost any mathematical theory works if you 'ignore' certain variables.
Physicists have been doing this for a long time.
I especially like the one where they put in a bodge factor for the cosmological constant of 10^100. Yup, out by a factor of a googol. That puts my -1 bodge at the end of a loop into perspective!
Admittedly one descendant of the famous Hapsburg dynasty is in the European parliament, but that is because more people voted for him than for the other person (unlike the situation the US).
Now that Bush 2nd is telling Castro he should reform his voting system, I am sure castro won't mind - he'll just borrow the US version (e.g. disqualify blocks of people who might vote the wrong way) and not have any problem getting elected!
Parents should give their kids an education and the chance of good health; a trust fund should only be needed if they are unable to support themselves (e.g. are young or disabled).
Some kids have carried on their parent's work though - such as Chris(?) Tolkien and Chris(?) Browne (Hagar the Horrible). I don't know exactly how I should feel about that (but better them for a limited time than that some publisher should own the rights for eternity).
P.S. I have a recording of Thomas Edison from 1918. I wonder how EMI would feel if I made a record from that :-)
Bush the first was the one who said he wanted the US to be "less like the simpson" (well-off, in work with nice material possessions) "and more like the waltons" (in the middle of the great depression with no wealth to speak of).
Why???
from (UK based) IT recruitment agencies nearly every day, offering £££ for developers?
Even the company I left 6 months ago is recruiting for senior developers again.
Is this squeeze just a US thing?
if you don't make the change the trader needs NOW, he has been known to physically punch programmers in the face, cos he just lost X million dollars.
would surely be Puerto Rico, but the US won't grant it statehood because that would mess up the flag - where would they put the extra star?
Any game you want, as long as it's Command and Conquer or Doom.
As opposed to arcades where you have a choice between Pitstop and Karate Champ.