... truth is that a large part of any console's cost is recovered by content, and without that cash innovation will die and/or consoles will become more expensive. Nintendo always owns a part of the Wii - they paid for it...
Not true, not in this case. Unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo has never sold Wii consoles at a loss, not at launch and not now.
The GP is talking about actual piracy of GBA games, i.e. bootleg cartridges manufactured by unauthorized/unlicensed agencies, sold at rates lower than retail, of which the copyright owners get nothing. This is the real piracy which anyone would support laws against. Unlicensed distribution that involves no gains to the distributor i.e. most p2p and 'warez', are copyright infringement, not piracy.
Both are illegal but they are not the same thing. It may be said that actual piracy could have a direct correlation to lost sales without the logical fallacies of equating illegal uploads/downloads with lost sales.
Have you read the page you just quoted? Below the table appears:
The Uniform Vehicle Code states:
Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic...
Note that this law refers to the "normal" speed of traffic, not the "legal" speed of traffic. The 60 MPH driver in a 55 MPH zone where everybody else is going 65 MPH must move right. Contrast Alaska's rule, 13 AAC 002.50, allowing vehicles driving at the speed limit to use the left lane, and Colorado rev. stat. 42-4-1103, prohibiting blocking the "normal and reasonable" movement of traffic.
Emphasis is mine. It's almost as if the author of that page is responding directly to your GP post...
I agree with you, and furthermore would like to point out that soldiers are well aware of their chances of survivals, while terrorism victims are exactly that - victims.
I find it quite logical... sending 200000 soldiers to war, and if 5000 die, that is indeed a "minimal" casualty rate. Deaths resulting from terrorism, are all unacceptable, where 10 people dying is a large number and anything more than 100 can be termed a huge number of deaths, simply because the lowest "acceptable" level of casualty in terrorist attacks is zero.
I don't agree that this will solve anything. People who are likely to double click on cute_cat.jpg.exe are just as likely to not know the difference between song.mp3.exe and songmp3.exe.
While a lay person such as the reporter may claim ignorance of the difference between "carbon-based matter" and "carbon-based matter that supports or has come from live organisms", I am truly surprised at just how many non-humorous posts we have here on/. about life in space/on the moon/new intelligences etc.
As stated by the GP, the "desire" for association is an auditing requirement and not really a personal request of the voter.
If you had access to the vote db such that you could take my unique identifier and associate it with my vote, would any kind of system be able to stop you from doing that? Your point has merit, but it is far from the current discussion.
Voting machine shows UI requesting the user's (voter's) vote. User chooses candidate. Voting machine registers an additional vote for user's candidate into the votes table. This vote is assigned a unique identifier. This identifier is printed onto a paper receipt which is provided to the voter. This can be later used to confirm that user's vote for candidate A was indeed registered for candidate A.
It's OK to pull a gun on someone who is robbing your store only if local and state laws specifically say so.
Downloading and using software without a valid license is not covered by laws that allow the licensed distributor to do anything to other people's data.
Being other people's data, which the distributor or developer do not and cannot have any rights over, it is unlikely that any such law will be passed.
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... truth is that a large part of any console's cost is recovered by content, and without that cash innovation will die and/or consoles will become more expensive. Nintendo always owns a part of the Wii - they paid for it...
Not true, not in this case. Unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo has never sold Wii consoles at a loss, not at launch and not now.
e.g. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6157690.html
The GP is talking about actual piracy of GBA games, i.e. bootleg cartridges manufactured by unauthorized/unlicensed agencies, sold at rates lower than retail, of which the copyright owners get nothing. This is the real piracy which anyone would support laws against. Unlicensed distribution that involves no gains to the distributor i.e. most p2p and 'warez', are copyright infringement, not piracy.
Both are illegal but they are not the same thing. It may be said that actual piracy could have a direct correlation to lost sales without the logical fallacies of equating illegal uploads/downloads with lost sales.
but who knows how many more folks these assholes intimidated that night, or how much more damage they did?
Not you, for sure.
Or a blue-tooth enabled testicular clamp.
Because only men use their cell phones while driving! And all women are good at multi-tasking!
Have you read the page you just quoted? Below the table appears:
The Uniform Vehicle Code states:
Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic ...
Note that this law refers to the "normal" speed of traffic, not the "legal" speed of traffic. The 60 MPH driver in a 55 MPH zone where everybody else is going 65 MPH must move right. Contrast Alaska's rule, 13 AAC 002.50, allowing vehicles driving at the speed limit to use the left lane, and Colorado rev. stat. 42-4-1103, prohibiting blocking the "normal and reasonable" movement of traffic.
Emphasis is mine. It's almost as if the author of that page is responding directly to your GP post...
I agree with you, and furthermore would like to point out that soldiers are well aware of their chances of survivals, while terrorism victims are exactly that - victims.
I find it quite logical... sending 200000 soldiers to war, and if 5000 die, that is indeed a "minimal" casualty rate.
Deaths resulting from terrorism, are all unacceptable, where 10 people dying is a large number and anything more than 100 can be termed a huge number of deaths, simply because the lowest "acceptable" level of casualty in terrorist attacks is zero.
I don't agree that this will solve anything. People who are likely to double click on cute_cat.jpg.exe are just as likely to not know the difference between song.mp3.exe and songmp3.exe.
"it says mp3 right there in the file name"
The logic jump from there being possible organic matter on the moon, to the near-assumption that this organic matter is life-based or life-supporting was apparently made by the writer of the original article http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_indian-scientists-detect-signs-of-life-on-moon_1322785
While a lay person such as the reporter may claim ignorance of the difference between "carbon-based matter" and "carbon-based matter that supports or has come from live organisms", I am truly surprised at just how many non-humorous posts we have here on /. about life in space/on the moon/new intelligences etc.
I'm sure the germans have *some* humour, but I guess they wont have many puns.
Yes, but does that preclude him from filing tax returns? I think not.
We will never really know if his going nuts was an effect of joining the CoS or the cause of it.
.... without wasting their money on District 9.
I disagree, IMO District 9 is well worth the money
India will always be referred to as being a Third world nation. This is because Third world does not mean what you think it means.
As stated by the GP, the "desire" for association is an auditing requirement and not really a personal request of the voter.
If you had access to the vote db such that you could take my unique identifier and associate it with my vote, would any kind of system be able to stop you from doing that? Your point has merit, but it is far from the current discussion.
It's quite simple really.
Voting machine shows UI requesting the user's (voter's) vote. User chooses candidate. Voting machine registers an additional vote for user's candidate into the votes table. This vote is assigned a unique identifier. This identifier is printed onto a paper receipt which is provided to the voter. This can be later used to confirm that user's vote for candidate A was indeed registered for candidate A.
Just how hard is that?
The GP was probably quoting the American version.
whoosh
You trust steam more than you trust your own kid?
India didn't win 8 oscars. A. R. Rahman won 2 oscars. Resul Pookutty won 1 oscar with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp.
The other awards did not come to India.
It's OK to pull a gun on someone who is robbing your store only if local and state laws specifically say so.
Downloading and using software without a valid license is not covered by laws that allow the licensed distributor to do anything to other people's data.
Being other people's data, which the distributor or developer do not and cannot have any rights over, it is unlikely that any such law will be passed.
...sideways?
It's from the movie Get Smart
by spottedkangaroo (451692) * on Thursday June 26, @03:22PM (#23954547) Homepage Journal
wtf is a home page?
Age of Conan is going live soon...