I think what you should say is that, if you own a 1980 Zephyr station wagon and you can't get parts to fix it, that you should be allowed to steal another 1980 Zephyr station wagon, or the parts from it. There's a big difference.
The way you put it, if I, say, bought Super Mario Brothers for my NES way back in the day, I would be going out and stealing Super Mario Sunshine for my Gamecube to replace it. Instead, I'm getting a ROM of Super Mario Brothers. There's a big difference.
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Or, as a better idea, include emulation software on a CD/DVD to ship with a newer system.. I'm sure a mini-disc could hold at least 200 games, and would be some (albeit minor) incentive to purchase a gamecube. After all, playing the games on a TV w/ a controller is so much better than a computer keyboard. Especially when more than one person is involved in the playing.
I'm sure it's been said many times, and I'll say it again. The people at fault are not the ones sharing the music. Admittedly, their files may be illegally obtained, but if they actually own a version of the file being shared in some form (CD, Tape, whatever), and it has just been format-shifted, it falls on the shoulders of person downloading the file to be aware that they are breaking Copyright law by taking an unauthorized copy.
It won't even get voted on anytime soon. Congress is going into recess (god, what went wrong where children can't have recess past age 12, but filthy rich, corrupt, grown men can have recess at 50) very soon, and as we all know how long it takes them to bicker, this could take quite a while. Assuming it ever passes committee, that is.
According to subsection b) 1) A) they cannot do this if a file is shared on the same machine which is not copyrighted. Soo.... simply share some stupid text document or.mp3 of beeps you made from your old dx2 machine, and they can't do jack to you.
If by long term they mean waiting over a year to seriously begin bringing game genres other than sports, fighting, and racing to the Xbox, then okay. Their selection is seriously lacking right now, and until it picks up in the styles it's lacking, I think it will continue to do poorly.
Argument:You've got servers and rooms and commands that go before your text. Oh my! How will I ever figure this out? What? I can just type in my name and a password and then see a list of all my friends and I just click their names and start typing? Horray, I think I'll use that.
That's what most people think. IRC is probably the best way to do things, if you know what you're doing. Sadly, most people don't, and don't want to.
Just a note, I can already transfer files via AIM, and have done so at over 1Mbps on a number of occasions. It's just a matter of the speed of the two parties doing the transferring. On a side note, it's funny to see the estimates for remaining time go haywire once the speed breaks 999Kbps
In the US you must have insurance providing for damages done to another car by your car. That is, if you rearend someone, you have to have an insurance policy that covers their damage. Whether that policy covers your damages doesn't matter.
Also, if you can show that you have enough liquid assets (ridiculously wealthy) to cover any damages you may cause as the result of a collision, you're not required to have insurance.
Maybe the reason less people use Speakeasy is because a lot more people can get Cable but do not have DSL available in their area. My area is a perfect example. From what I've managed to find out, DSL equipment has been installed, but due to a conflict with telephone wiring and a lack of a "qualified DSL network manager" they have yet to begin offering service. Cable on the other hand, has been available for some time.
I have a NEC MultiSync LCD 1530V - 15" diagonal, 1024x768 @ 75hz native.
It works beautifully for everything I've played thus far. As long as it stays at the native resolution. Try and run it at anything outside that (nevermind the fact that you can't go higher), and it begins to look horrible. Another thing you might want to try is playing CS in 1024x768 cloned onto a TV screen. You can't read the chat text for shit, but most of that is just insults anyhow. The game itself looks pretty good, in my opinion. Worth doing just for humor's sake, at the least.
It's cool. All my phone record is going to show is that I call Earthlink every day and "talk" to them for about twelve hours. Best way yet to keep the telemarketers away. Now if I could just get VoIP to be not crappy on dialup, I'll be all set.
I would tend to think the reason Arwen was introduced when she was is so that there was at least one female present. Watching a bunch of guys traipse around in the woods may be fun to those of us who understand the story, but doesn't really help bring out those who need see some hot actress flesh (however little it may be) in order to ever think of seeing a movie.
As far as I was aware, speeding is illegal. People are just whining because they got caught. Same thing as those cameras at stoplights taking pictures of plates of cars who run redlights.
Actually, most people don't want to know. That's why they're Joe-average consumer. Give them an OS that's easy to install, easy to update, and does everything they want it to, and you've got a winner. Gee, who's that sound like? Wonder why Microsoft's on top... They catered to the mass market.
If they do that to avoid the antitrust legislation, the US government would simply put a trade embargo on them, if they even recognize them as a nation, and that'd be the end of Microsoft.
Re:Uhmm, sorry! Lot's of prior art here ;-)
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Or they could just hire a bouncer to come along with every Windows computer, and order them to bash you into the wall every time you try to load disapproved content.
They'll legislate deep linking as illegal, Google, Yahoo!, Northernlight, and whatever else is still around will shut down, information will be hard to find, the internet will go belly up and all these companies will question why nobody visits their websites anymore. Sure, we'll still have an array of points, the regular sites we visit, but those silly people who just go to Yahoo! and search every time they get on the web, (the "Where'd my Yahoo! go?" syndrome) will completely lose interest. If the companies have two brain cells, they'll wise up, pay to get the laws repealed, and set the web back 10 years, not entirely a bad thing.
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I'm not quite sure who said it, but when the vast majority of people disobey specific laws, those laws become unenforceable due to the sheer amount of effort needed to curtail offenders.
Look at prohibition as an example. The government tried to make alcohol illegal, but due to the overwhelming amount of people who simply ignored those laws and continued to consume it anyhow, it was eventually repealed when they discovered just how much effort would have to be put into stopping offenders. Similarly, music trading will never be stopped, simply because people will move between media as necessary, even going so far as to design an anonymous program which does not allow the tracking of IPs or other identifying sources.
Oh, and don't forget the good old days of searching through websites for mp3's.
When movies on demand become a new offering available through blockbuster.com (or whatever), I'd assume you'd want to be able to download the movie in high definition rather than drive to the store. It's things like that, which become feasible as a business once a quorum of people have broadband access that creates a need for further increases. Sure, that 768 Kbps SDSL connection may be enough to watch that streaming video of Men In Black part 5, but will it be enough for her to watch that move AND let you play UT 2007 at the same time?
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I think what you should say is that, if you own a 1980 Zephyr station wagon and you can't get parts to fix it, that you should be allowed to steal another 1980 Zephyr station wagon, or the parts from it. There's a big difference.
The way you put it, if I, say, bought Super Mario Brothers for my NES way back in the day, I would be going out and stealing Super Mario Sunshine for my Gamecube to replace it. Instead, I'm getting a ROM of Super Mario Brothers. There's a big difference.
Or, as a better idea, include emulation software on a CD/DVD to ship with a newer system.. I'm sure a mini-disc could hold at least 200 games, and would be some (albeit minor) incentive to purchase a gamecube. After all, playing the games on a TV w/ a controller is so much better than a computer keyboard. Especially when more than one person is involved in the playing.
Great... as if 16.99$ wasn't enough to pay for 45 minutes of music. Half of it probably trash anyhow.
I'm sure it's been said many times, and I'll say it again. The people at fault are not the ones sharing the music. Admittedly, their files may be illegally obtained, but if they actually own a version of the file being shared in some form (CD, Tape, whatever), and it has just been format-shifted, it falls on the shoulders of person downloading the file to be aware that they are breaking Copyright law by taking an unauthorized copy.
It won't even get voted on anytime soon. Congress is going into recess (god, what went wrong where children can't have recess past age 12, but filthy rich, corrupt, grown men can have recess at 50) very soon, and as we all know how long it takes them to bicker, this could take quite a while. Assuming it ever passes committee, that is.
According to subsection b) 1) A) they cannot do this if a file is shared on the same machine which is not copyrighted. Soo.... simply share some stupid text document or .mp3 of beeps you made from your old dx2 machine, and they can't do jack to you.
You obviously don't play games. Check out Neverwinter Nights sometime. 2 gigs, standard install. More with the extras.
If by long term they mean waiting over a year to seriously begin bringing game genres other than sports, fighting, and racing to the Xbox, then okay. Their selection is seriously lacking right now, and until it picks up in the styles it's lacking, I think it will continue to do poorly.
Argument:You've got servers and rooms and commands that go before your text. Oh my! How will I ever figure this out? What? I can just type in my name and a password and then see a list of all my friends and I just click their names and start typing? Horray, I think I'll use that.
That's what most people think. IRC is probably the best way to do things, if you know what you're doing. Sadly, most people don't, and don't want to.
Supposedly MSN Messenger will be able to be uninstalled under XP Service Pack 1, due out some time this August..... Supposedly.
Just a note, I can already transfer files via AIM, and have done so at over 1Mbps on a number of occasions. It's just a matter of the speed of the two parties doing the transferring. On a side note, it's funny to see the estimates for remaining time go haywire once the speed breaks 999Kbps
In the US you must have insurance providing for damages done to another car by your car. That is, if you rearend someone, you have to have an insurance policy that covers their damage. Whether that policy covers your damages doesn't matter.
Also, if you can show that you have enough liquid assets (ridiculously wealthy) to cover any damages you may cause as the result of a collision, you're not required to have insurance.
I wish I was in a position to make my own work schedule. Nothing like having more than three months paid vacation every year.
Maybe the reason less people use Speakeasy is because a lot more people can get Cable but do not have DSL available in their area. My area is a perfect example. From what I've managed to find out, DSL equipment has been installed, but due to a conflict with telephone wiring and a lack of a "qualified DSL network manager" they have yet to begin offering service. Cable on the other hand, has been available for some time.
I have a NEC MultiSync LCD 1530V - 15" diagonal, 1024x768 @ 75hz native.
It works beautifully for everything I've played thus far. As long as it stays at the native resolution. Try and run it at anything outside that (nevermind the fact that you can't go higher), and it begins to look horrible. Another thing you might want to try is playing CS in 1024x768 cloned onto a TV screen. You can't read the chat text for shit, but most of that is just insults anyhow. The game itself looks pretty good, in my opinion. Worth doing just for humor's sake, at the least.
It's cool. All my phone record is going to show is that I call Earthlink every day and "talk" to them for about twelve hours. Best way yet to keep the telemarketers away. Now if I could just get VoIP to be not crappy on dialup, I'll be all set.
I would tend to think the reason Arwen was introduced when she was is so that there was at least one female present. Watching a bunch of guys traipse around in the woods may be fun to those of us who understand the story, but doesn't really help bring out those who need see some hot actress flesh (however little it may be) in order to ever think of seeing a movie.
As far as I was aware, speeding is illegal. People are just whining because they got caught. Same thing as those cameras at stoplights taking pictures of plates of cars who run redlights.
If you can't pay the fine, slow the hell down.
Actually, most people don't want to know. That's why they're Joe-average consumer. Give them an OS that's easy to install, easy to update, and does everything they want it to, and you've got a winner. Gee, who's that sound like? Wonder why Microsoft's on top... They catered to the mass market.
If they do that to avoid the antitrust legislation, the US government would simply put a trade embargo on them, if they even recognize them as a nation, and that'd be the end of Microsoft.
Or they could just hire a bouncer to come along with every Windows computer, and order them to bash you into the wall every time you try to load disapproved content.
And that's the point of Palladium. Destroying the minds of all windows users in an attempt to build an army of zombies and take over the world.
Of course, he's basically done the latter.
They'll legislate deep linking as illegal, Google, Yahoo!, Northernlight, and whatever else is still around will shut down, information will be hard to find, the internet will go belly up and all these companies will question why nobody visits their websites anymore. Sure, we'll still have an array of points, the regular sites we visit, but those silly people who just go to Yahoo! and search every time they get on the web, (the "Where'd my Yahoo! go?" syndrome) will completely lose interest. If the companies have two brain cells, they'll wise up, pay to get the laws repealed, and set the web back 10 years, not entirely a bad thing.
I'm not quite sure who said it, but when the vast majority of people disobey specific laws, those laws become unenforceable due to the sheer amount of effort needed to curtail offenders.
Look at prohibition as an example. The government tried to make alcohol illegal, but due to the overwhelming amount of people who simply ignored those laws and continued to consume it anyhow, it was eventually repealed when they discovered just how much effort would have to be put into stopping offenders. Similarly, music trading will never be stopped, simply because people will move between media as necessary, even going so far as to design an anonymous program which does not allow the tracking of IPs or other identifying sources.
Oh, and don't forget the good old days of searching through websites for mp3's.
When movies on demand become a new offering available through blockbuster.com (or whatever), I'd assume you'd want to be able to download the movie in high definition rather than drive to the store. It's things like that, which become feasible as a business once a quorum of people have broadband access that creates a need for further increases. Sure, that 768 Kbps SDSL connection may be enough to watch that streaming video of Men In Black part 5, but will it be enough for her to watch that move AND let you play UT 2007 at the same time?