Definitely not the GBA-SP. My wife was very concerned about my "image" when I told her I was getting a GBA (for use as a special "controller" for the gamecube, don't have any GBA games and don't really plan on it). However when the GBA-SP arrived she said: "Oh. Well that looks kinda neat. Can we get the old Mario games on that?"
Since Nintendo _finally_ abandoned "the cartridge", can we dream of having all our $50 GameCube titles playable on the new machine? If the new machine reads either DVD (probable) or "Pocket DVD" (as it currently does) there really shouldn't be an issue with backwards compatibility unless the new machine is very, very radically different. By 2005 their machine should be capable of strict "emulation" of the GameCube, anyway.
Certain things must be achieved to be inducted into the "hits" programs for each company. Sony games must sell at least 400,00 copies to get into the "Greatest Hits" program. Xbox games simply need to be proven favorites and have sold well to be part of Microsoft's "Platinum Hits". Nintendo games must sell at least 450,000 units of a particular game before they are graced with Nintendo's "Player's Choice" tag.
So the summary is:
Sony: 400,000 units Nintendo: 450,000 units X-Box: need to be proven favorites and have sold well
So basically, the X-Box "Platinum Hits" award is a fancy way of saying "they paid us to put this sticker here". Maybe that's because nobody is buying X-Box titles other than Halo?
1. It must not be able to play games. If games are available, they will be much more entertaining than studies and you will play games to the detriment of your studies. 2. It must not be able to play music. You'll spend all your time perfecting your MP3 collection -- to the detriment of your studies. 3. It should be very, very heavy, so that it cannot easily be carried away. Dorms are rife with theft, so the bigger, heavily weighted cases are preferred. If you lose your computer, this will be -- you guessed it -- to the detriment your studies. 4. It should have a word processor, spreadsheet, and probably some kind of presentation software, along with email and calendaring software and a web browser. A lot of your assignments will be given from the professor's homepage and via e-mail, and some will even be able to be turned in on the website. Calendaring software will help you keep track of all your studies and project due dates.
I should have read your link before responding, I just assumed that you were linking to the DMCA.
What you linked to is actually fairly interesting, however you actually highlighted reasons why P2P users are not guilty of this charge.
distribution... which have a total retail value of more than $2,500
Those so-called "greedy" users which do not serve (i.e., distribute) the works are not included in this clause. In addition, at $0.99 per song retail value (several sites now offer this) that is 2500 songs in a 180-day period. Not a high percentage of the P2P users distribute 2500 songs in a 180-day period.
The other half of Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 506 states the other way for copyright infringement to be criminal: for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain. Most P2P users are not selling these songs for profit.
Also of importance is the following: evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
That would be for circumventing digital copy protection, which P2P software does not do. P2P software, unless it uses some built-in DeCSS to descramble DVD on-the-fly, is not touching digital copy protection at all. It is illegally copying files, not circumventing access to those files.
it's called copyright infringement and it is a civil matter, not a criminal matter. you serve prison time for felons. you pay fines for copyright infringement.
How is this off-topic? The article is about India's president. If he emigrated to the US now, he could be a citizen in time for the 2008 elections. If the US Constitution did not expressly include only US-born people in the presidential eligibility requirements, he could be a very interesting candidate.
The US: "Send us your tired, your weary..." but please, please not anyone who might be qualified to run for president. We reserve that for our own sons of our own billionaires.
Why bother? By the time any such impeachment process would come to any fruition, you could already be filling out your ballot in November, 2004. Instead of circulating completely pointless petitions for impeachment, circulate the agenda of someothercandidateforpresident.
You mean you're paying for broadband access and not using it? Why? Or do you mean you are using it for something else but feel that somehow other people using it for p2p is pushing up costs but that your use isn't?
First, there is no economically viable service between 56K modem (or 128K ISDN) and "broadband". I use the broadband access to legally access movie trailers, download linux ISO images, etc. If my downloading of trailers and ISO images pushes up the cost, or your downloading of trailers and ISO images pushes up the cost, that makes sense. We would be following the TOS of the contracts that we agreed to by using the ISP service.
If thousands of people illegally downloading music pushes up the cost to me, that doesn't make any sense. They should be removed from the network. They are violating the TOS which they agreed to by using the ISP service.
If you're not using the bandwidth you're paying for, switch to a cheaper service. Don't blame others for your stupidity.
If you're downloading copyrighted music which you didn't pay for, start listening to music which is out of copyright or otherwise made legally available by the copyright holder. Don't blame or charge others for your piracy.
Maybe you should call the MPAA and the RIAA, since they haven't happened upon your latest nugget of wisdom on their own.
I was more specifically speaking towards the ISPs, which are taking the cost of their other customers' copyright infringement's insane bandwidth requirements and passing them along to me, along with the degraded service which that bandwidth usage implies.
People kill people with guns. People build buildings using various tools. People burn gasoline in their cars. People illegally download the Matrix: Reloaded.
Quoth CmdrTaco: I'm not sure where they can go with this.
How about enforcing copyright law? That should cut down the P2P bandwidth by about 99.999%.
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BTW, I've always thought it funny that/. folks are so against spam, yet they're all for anonymity on the net. Weird.
I'm all for anonymity. It's a shame that people are so willing to abuse that privilege to (a) spam, (b) crapflood, (c) flame, (d) post goatse.cx links, etc.
When privileges are abused by a society, that society very very often revokes those privileges. See our current situation w.r.t. privacy protection in the US.
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Junk Mail != Spam
Both consume limited storage space. Junk mail can fill up your postal mailbox and you'll then get a note, "You can pick up the rest of your mail at the post office." How fun. Spam fills up your email inbox until the sender of the next message gets "MORTAR_COMBAT!@slashdot.org's email is full".
Both abuse a common carrier system, paid for at least partially by the recipients of the message. Junk mail is usually paid for using bulk pricing systems, subsidized by the rest of the postal audience. Oh yeah, and the USPS is a government program. Spam is paid for by the ISPs, who in turn charge their customers.
If you think that receiving a 100-page glossy magazine from Abercrombie and Fitch doesn't cost you anything you are flatly wrong. It doesn't have to come postage due. When your kids spend your money at Abercrombie and Fitch, you've just funded the next round of that glossy magazine's arrival.
client filtering is just wrong approach
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Because most of the actual monetary cost of sending the spam has already been incurred by the time you filter at the client. The message has already been transmitted from client to server to server to server to client over the internet, consuming bandwidth. It has already occupied disk space. Even the end-of-the-server-chain, pre-client filters like SpamAssassin only alleviate the last link in that bandwidth-bonanza (to-client).
That spam email should never be sent, period. It should not ever proceed across the internet whose bandwidth is being paid for by millions of users, providing benefit to the sender. It should never touch the hard disk of a server.
In addition, it simply takes too much sophistication for the VAST majority of email users to properly set up filters. A simple [ADV*] -> Trash filter would delete some email that quite honestly some users want -- special coupons from Amazon.com for repeat customers, for example. Those emails would by (proposed) law have to have the [ADV] tag on them. So then you add another filter above the Trash filter to allow ADV from Amazon through... and so on, and so forth.
Pretty soon the hassle of organising your filters has exceeded the hassle of having to just click 'delete' to spam (for the average email user). I can easily enter a new expression in my.procmailrc to deal with all kinds of situations, but Joe Schmoe email user shouldn't have to learn complex regular expressions.
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I think 3 and 5 would be the right number.
What does penguin taste like?
Why, chicken, of course. Just like everything else.
... the most masturbatory press release I have EVER read. SCO sure loves itself.
that we should go with biodiesel and synthetic diesel fuels.
Definitely not the GBA-SP. My wife was very concerned about my "image" when I told her I was getting a GBA (for use as a special "controller" for the gamecube, don't have any GBA games and don't really plan on it). However when the GBA-SP arrived she said: "Oh. Well that looks kinda neat. Can we get the old Mario games on that?"
In communism, man exploits man. In capitalism, it's the other way around.
Since Nintendo _finally_ abandoned "the cartridge", can we dream of having all our $50 GameCube titles playable on the new machine? If the new machine reads either DVD (probable) or "Pocket DVD" (as it currently does) there really shouldn't be an issue with backwards compatibility unless the new machine is very, very radically different. By 2005 their machine should be capable of strict "emulation" of the GameCube, anyway.
So the summary is:
Sony: 400,000 units
Nintendo: 450,000 units
X-Box: need to be proven favorites and have sold well
So basically, the X-Box "Platinum Hits" award is a fancy way of saying "they paid us to put this sticker here". Maybe that's because nobody is buying X-Box titles other than Halo?
1. It must not be able to play games. If games are available, they will be much more entertaining than studies and you will play games to the detriment of your studies.
2. It must not be able to play music. You'll spend all your time perfecting your MP3 collection -- to the detriment of your studies.
3. It should be very, very heavy, so that it cannot easily be carried away. Dorms are rife with theft, so the bigger, heavily weighted cases are preferred. If you lose your computer, this will be -- you guessed it -- to the detriment your studies.
4. It should have a word processor, spreadsheet, and probably some kind of presentation software, along with email and calendaring software and a web browser. A lot of your assignments will be given from the professor's homepage and via e-mail, and some will even be able to be turned in on the website. Calendaring software will help you keep track of all your studies and project due dates.
I should have read your link before responding, I just assumed that you were linking to the DMCA.
... which have a total retail value of more than $2,500
What you linked to is actually fairly interesting, however you actually highlighted reasons why P2P users are not guilty of this charge.
distribution
Those so-called "greedy" users which do not serve (i.e., distribute) the works are not included in this clause. In addition, at $0.99 per song retail value (several sites now offer this) that is 2500 songs in a 180-day period. Not a high percentage of the P2P users distribute 2500 songs in a 180-day period.
The other half of Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 506 states the other way for copyright infringement to be criminal: for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain. Most P2P users are not selling these songs for profit.
Also of importance is the following: evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
That would be for circumventing digital copy protection, which P2P software does not do. P2P software, unless it uses some built-in DeCSS to descramble DVD on-the-fly, is not touching digital copy protection at all. It is illegally copying files, not circumventing access to those files.
it's called copyright infringement and it is a civil matter, not a criminal matter. you serve prison time for felons. you pay fines for copyright infringement.
Me: "Honey, you know how you're always saying that I never take you to musicals?"
My wife: "Uh... yeah... I guess so..."
Me: "Well to show you how much I love you, I bought us two tickets to a musical tonight."
My wife: "You're so wonderful!"
Me: "OK. Instead of your normal evening attire, but on this cloak..."
How is this off-topic? The article is about India's president. If he emigrated to the US now, he could be a citizen in time for the 2008 elections. If the US Constitution did not expressly include only US-born people in the presidential eligibility requirements, he could be a very interesting candidate.
The US: "Send us your tired, your weary..." but please, please not anyone who might be qualified to run for president. We reserve that for our own sons of our own billionaires.
Of why the US Constitution should be amended such that foreign-born persons would no longer be excluded from running for president.
Why bother? By the time any such impeachment process would come to any fruition, you could already be filling out your ballot in November, 2004. Instead of circulating completely pointless petitions for impeachment, circulate the agenda of some other candidate for president.
You mean you're paying for broadband access and not using it? Why? Or do you mean you are using it for something else but feel that somehow other people using it for p2p is pushing up costs but that your use isn't?
First, there is no economically viable service between 56K modem (or 128K ISDN) and "broadband". I use the broadband access to legally access movie trailers, download linux ISO images, etc. If my downloading of trailers and ISO images pushes up the cost, or your downloading of trailers and ISO images pushes up the cost, that makes sense. We would be following the TOS of the contracts that we agreed to by using the ISP service.
If thousands of people illegally downloading music pushes up the cost to me, that doesn't make any sense. They should be removed from the network. They are violating the TOS which they agreed to by using the ISP service.
If you're not using the bandwidth you're paying for, switch to a cheaper service. Don't blame others for your stupidity.
If you're downloading copyrighted music which you didn't pay for, start listening to music which is out of copyright or otherwise made legally available by the copyright holder. Don't blame or charge others for your piracy.
Maybe you should call the MPAA and the RIAA, since they haven't happened upon your latest nugget of wisdom on their own.
I was more specifically speaking towards the ISPs, which are taking the cost of their other customers' copyright infringement's insane bandwidth requirements and passing them along to me, along with the degraded service which that bandwidth usage implies.
"BitTorent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads"
Gun blamed for killing spree
Circular saw blamed for rash of new buildings
Gasoline blamed for smog
People kill people with guns. People build buildings using various tools. People burn gasoline in their cars. People illegally download the Matrix: Reloaded.
Quoth CmdrTaco: I'm not sure where they can go with this.
How about enforcing copyright law? That should cut down the P2P bandwidth by about 99.999%.
BTW, I've always thought it funny that /. folks are so against spam, yet they're all for anonymity on the net. Weird.
I'm all for anonymity. It's a shame that people are so willing to abuse that privilege to (a) spam, (b) crapflood, (c) flame, (d) post goatse.cx links, etc.
When privileges are abused by a society, that society very very often revokes those privileges. See our current situation w.r.t. privacy protection in the US.
Junk Mail != Spam
Both consume limited storage space. Junk mail can fill up your postal mailbox and you'll then get a note, "You can pick up the rest of your mail at the post office." How fun. Spam fills up your email inbox until the sender of the next message gets "MORTAR_COMBAT!@slashdot.org's email is full".
Both abuse a common carrier system, paid for at least partially by the recipients of the message. Junk mail is usually paid for using bulk pricing systems, subsidized by the rest of the postal audience. Oh yeah, and the USPS is a government program. Spam is paid for by the ISPs, who in turn charge their customers.
If you think that receiving a 100-page glossy magazine from Abercrombie and Fitch doesn't cost you anything you are flatly wrong. It doesn't have to come postage due. When your kids spend your money at Abercrombie and Fitch, you've just funded the next round of that glossy magazine's arrival.
Because most of the actual monetary cost of sending the spam has already been incurred by the time you filter at the client. The message has already been transmitted from client to server to server to server to client over the internet, consuming bandwidth. It has already occupied disk space. Even the end-of-the-server-chain, pre-client filters like SpamAssassin only alleviate the last link in that bandwidth-bonanza (to-client).
.procmailrc to deal with all kinds of situations, but Joe Schmoe email user shouldn't have to learn complex regular expressions.
That spam email should never be sent, period. It should not ever proceed across the internet whose bandwidth is being paid for by millions of users, providing benefit to the sender. It should never touch the hard disk of a server.
In addition, it simply takes too much sophistication for the VAST majority of email users to properly set up filters. A simple [ADV*] -> Trash filter would delete some email that quite honestly some users want -- special coupons from Amazon.com for repeat customers, for example. Those emails would by (proposed) law have to have the [ADV] tag on them. So then you add another filter above the Trash filter to allow ADV from Amazon through... and so on, and so forth.
Pretty soon the hassle of organising your filters has exceeded the hassle of having to just click 'delete' to spam (for the average email user). I can easily enter a new expression in my
And you haven't received at least 50 of their CDs in the mail over the years?
Why isn't this the same crime as handing someone an ID card which says you are someone you are not?
He claims that he "has no choice but to resort to forging the sender information in his bulk e-mail so he can be anonymous".
Isn't that a bit like saying that when I was 19, I had no choice but to resort to forging my driver's license so I could buy beer?