"Yeah, and why is it that you Euro types are such fucking sheep when it comes to trusting the government? You would think that after having three of the worst ideas in government tried out in your neighborhood in the last century, I refer to nazism, fascism and communism, that you guys might be a little more skeptical. Instead you're hellbent on building an infrastructure that would have made the German SS or the East German Stasi spooge a huge load in their tight leather trousers."
And why don't we have things like the DMCA or TIA?
Because we have courts which WORK, and ain't restricted by a written constitution. Next.
I don't care if I am filmed walking dow the street. Why SHOULD I care? Inside my house, the law STONGLY protects my rights against observation. Yours dosn't. Owned.
For one thing, I DO NOT trust Verisign. Never have, never will.
And set up a parallel network. Only new E-mail could be recieved in new progams - which could also have a module for recieving POP3. Sooner or later, everyone who dislikes spam will activate the new protocol and get a spam-free addy.
I have a Fujitsu Stylistic 1200. They cost ~$250 second hand.
They're P120's with 24-80MB RAM and a 2+ GB HDD in them, and they run a full Windows 95 (upgradeable to 98, although there are a few issues, or to Linux).
The pen is easy to use, uses a tiny and long-lasting battery and is active, with a simple control for right click. Handwriting software is good but not brilliant.
The TFT model I have is bright and easy to use, the wireless network card I put it one of it's two PC card slots in works with no issues and you can plug a keyboard into the base unit if need be.
(if you want to plug a mouse in as well, admitedly you need the ~$40 port replicator, and the ~$30 wire stand is also helpful)
But I'll keep it. It has a ~3 hour battery life even with ye old battery in it (new batties cost almost as much as the base unit!), and it's a full and independent PC.
"Choice! I criticize religion for basically doing what they all do best... damn anyone who doesn't follow them. You did exactly that. "you're gonna be fucked without God."
Sorry but I would rather think on my own than be told what to believe and forced to follow it."
That's Christianity. Don't confuse it with all religions.
Fex Judaism has a specific block on preaching to non-Jews to make em convert...
"This stupidity won't stop under they kill the Goose that lays Golden Eggs (tm). Seriously, if I can't run a VPN, do P2P, ssh-tunneling, or run a server, why then spend the money for high-speed internet? If all I can (legally) do is browse the web and get e-mail, 56K dial-up is fine."
Because the record companies might lose the fat $$$ they're making. And we can't have that now.
Blah. But yes, I'd love to be able to do this. I invoke the Baen Defence as well - several times, despite an E-book being freely avaliable I've gone ahead and bought it anyway.
There have been huge PR and credibility problems with it, their boxed version is struggling to find a publisher and progress overall has been extremely slow.
>The problem is not finding a publisher, the >problem is *money*. Publishers provide that >money. If you want to get rid of publishers, you >need some other way of covering financial needs:
>Find another source of money. A bank, maybe, or >a sponsor. Obviously a sponsor will want control >over content, and a bank will want your soul (or >at least a decent business plan).
>If you can solve the money puzzle, you will have >a workable business model for selling games >without a publisher.
Okay. I'm a game student over at Salford Uni, UK.
From talking with our (recently ex-industry) tutors:
Increasingly, some venture capital firms ARE putting up the cash to fund SOME of games.
However, the tactic being used is NOT to take it all the way to the end without a publisher. The publishers services for localisation, PR and distorbution are amazingly difficult for a developer to replicate.
What you do is is with the game say 2/3 or 3/4 done, go to the publisher THEN. You have a solid bargaining position because of the state of the game, and because they have to invest a lot less in the game, you'll get MUCH better royalty rates.
Several companies have used - or are using - this model with at least some success.
>"Nurgle" - ? No wonder nobody takes Linux >seriously. How many people in the real world >software community go by stupid childish >nicknames? I know of none..
In the MMO arena? LOTS.
Heard of "Designer Dragon"? I think he's calling himself "Holocron" these days over at the SW:G boards. (I mean Raph Koster, of course)
Generally in games, less common but most devs in general I know use..umm..interesting nic's on forums, IRC and such.
Just because someone is called something you consider silly in the games communitys dosn't mean they're not professionals.
There *isn't* much hard scifi of the type the "KillerB's" (Brin, Bear and Benforth) write these days. Partly because of the wish of many to appeal to the mass market.
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"The evil of Digital Rights Management, like the evils of guns, depends on who has the gun and who has not.
"If only certain privileged people have guns, and the rest of us are disarmed, then guns are evil indeed. "
have you read Brin's _Kil'n People_, his handling of tech and privercy in that is interesting.
The problem with fanfic is the nature of the copyright laws - if you're made aware of it, you have to take action against it or you may very well lose most of the rights to your work.
Some authors ask you to sign something stating that you have no rights to the universe before they'll not take action on fanfic published by you, but recent court cases throw that line into doubt as well.
Of course, Niven's no stranger to fanfic problems... (the Kzin in SFB, fex...)
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They're very easy to destroy yes
About 25cm with the better current readers. Less for the cheap ones.
And yes, frying RFID tags is easy as hell. They're simply too small to withstand even tiny amounts of EMP.
"Yeah, and why is it that you Euro types are such fucking sheep when it comes to trusting the government? You would think that after having three of the worst ideas in government tried out in your neighborhood in the last century, I refer to nazism, fascism and communism, that you guys might be a little more skeptical. Instead you're hellbent on building an infrastructure that would have made the German SS or the East German Stasi spooge a huge load in their tight leather trousers."
And why don't we have things like the DMCA or TIA?
Because we have courts which WORK, and ain't restricted by a written constitution. Next.
I don't care if I am filmed walking dow the street. Why SHOULD I care? Inside my house, the law STONGLY protects my rights against observation. Yours dosn't. Owned.
Hell yes...but NOT as suggested.
For one thing, I DO NOT trust Verisign. Never have, never will.
And set up a parallel network. Only new E-mail could be recieved in new progams - which could also have a module for recieving POP3. Sooner or later, everyone who dislikes spam will activate the new protocol and get a spam-free addy.
Bring on Mail4
I have a Fujitsu Stylistic 1200. They cost ~$250 second hand.
They're P120's with 24-80MB RAM and a 2+ GB HDD in them, and they run a full Windows 95 (upgradeable to 98, although there are a few issues, or to Linux).
The pen is easy to use, uses a tiny and long-lasting battery and is active, with a simple control for right click. Handwriting software is good but not brilliant.
The TFT model I have is bright and easy to use, the wireless network card I put it one of it's two PC card slots in works with no issues and you can plug a keyboard into the base unit if need be.
(if you want to plug a mouse in as well, admitedly you need the ~$40 port replicator, and the ~$30 wire stand is also helpful)
But I'll keep it. It has a ~3 hour battery life even with ye old battery in it (new batties cost almost as much as the base unit!), and it's a full and independent PC.
Right.
Mind you, I just set up a small (4 PC) office network using OOo. The OS is 98SE. Basically real, real small budget.
Free is good. And after a week, they've got the hang of OOo anyway.
Yeah, I boot into Linux to play old DOS games these days. Several ways of getting em working better than under 2k heh
The SBLive! has brilliant support for audio that way - entirely in hardware.
Very similar "flaws" exist in a lot of games. From talking to a friend apparently many of the flaws are in EA games, but not all.
i.e. This isn't a genie which can be put back in the bottle.
The bug is in quite a few games out there! :)
"Choice! I criticize religion for basically doing what they all do best... damn anyone who doesn't follow them. You did exactly that. "you're gonna be fucked without God."
Sorry but I would rather think on my own than be told what to believe and forced to follow it."
That's Christianity. Don't confuse it with all religions.
Fex Judaism has a specific block on preaching to non-Jews to make em convert...
"This stupidity won't stop under they kill the Goose that lays Golden Eggs (tm). Seriously, if I can't run a VPN, do P2P, ssh-tunneling, or run a server, why then spend the money for high-speed internet? If all I can (legally) do is browse the web and get e-mail, 56K dial-up is fine."
Broadband uptake is the US *is* slowing, no?
The weakness of your system, I'm afraid. A codified constitution protects, but it also limits what it was not explicitly designed for.
Sure. Yellow Pages are handy tho.
Fex when I want to find all the second handstores in an area. Although hopefully in the future multimap and such will have that info.
Umm?
The TeamBG utils are oretty darn good, and you don't have to spend 95% of your time coding arround engine bugs and limits which change every patch.
Because the record companies might lose the fat $$$ they're making. And we can't have that now.
Blah. But yes, I'd love to be able to do this.
I invoke the Baen Defence as well - several times, despite an E-book being freely avaliable I've gone ahead and bought it anyway.
Actually Loki went out of business because of bad management (who wasted LOADS of cash, etc.)
Facts > You
LSN has less than 2k subs.
There have been huge PR and credibility problems with it, their boxed version is struggling to find a publisher and progress overall has been extremely slow.
I....would NOT pick CoDo as a good example.
What about the Blair Witch Project. oops. Guess you're dead wrong...
Except there is are middleware engines in the movie industry.
Things...are getting interesting.
>The problem is not finding a publisher, the >problem is *money*. Publishers provide that >money. If you want to get rid of publishers, you >need some other way of covering financial needs:
>Find another source of money. A bank, maybe, or >a sponsor. Obviously a sponsor will want control >over content, and a bank will want your soul (or >at least a decent business plan).
>If you can solve the money puzzle, you will have >a workable business model for selling games >without a publisher.
Okay. I'm a game student over at Salford Uni, UK.
From talking with our (recently ex-industry) tutors:
Increasingly, some venture capital firms ARE putting up the cash to fund SOME of games.
However, the tactic being used is NOT to take it all the way to the end without a publisher. The publishers services for localisation, PR and distorbution are amazingly difficult for a developer to replicate.
What you do is is with the game say 2/3 or 3/4 done, go to the publisher THEN. You have a solid bargaining position because of the state of the game, and because they have to invest a lot less in the game, you'll get MUCH better royalty rates.
Several companies have used - or are using - this model with at least some success.
>"Nurgle" - ? No wonder nobody takes Linux >seriously. How many people in the real world >software community go by stupid childish >nicknames? I know of none..
In the MMO arena? LOTS.
Heard of "Designer Dragon"? I think he's calling himself "Holocron" these days over at the SW:G boards. (I mean Raph Koster, of course)
Generally in games, less common but most devs in general I know use..umm..interesting nic's on forums, IRC and such.
Just because someone is called something you consider silly in the games communitys dosn't mean they're not professionals.
There *isn't* much hard scifi of the type the "KillerB's" (Brin, Bear and Benforth) write these days. Partly because of the wish of many to appeal to the mass market.
"The evil of Digital Rights Management, like the evils of guns, depends on who has the gun and who has not.
"If only certain privileged people have guns, and the rest of us are disarmed, then guns are evil indeed. "
have you read Brin's _Kil'n People_, his handling of tech and privercy in that is interesting.
The problem with fanfic is the nature of the copyright laws - if you're made aware of it, you have to take action against it or you may very well lose most of the rights to your work.
Some authors ask you to sign something stating that you have no rights to the universe before they'll not take action on fanfic published by you, but recent court cases throw that line into doubt as well.
Of course, Niven's no stranger to fanfic problems... (the Kzin in SFB, fex...)