Except that, when you think about it, there is already a fair bit of Canadian Green, BC Bud, etc flowing across the border. Decriminalizing won't necessarily increase production, or exportation (they're currently looking at making use not criminal, which is different from making production legal).
Yes, you'll probably get more Americans crossing the border to grab a toke or two, but hopefully most will be smart about it and also remember not to bring the product back.
Also, keep in mind that Canada has a lower generall legal age for drinking, sex, and many other things (=16 for sex I believe, and =19 for drinking - depending on province). You don't see a lot of people dragging underage girlfriends across the border, or a big impact on American drinking (it could cause some problems with a 20-yr-old having an 18 girlfriend across borders though, I've heard of this happening).
Long-lasting effect upon my life in games would have to come from the FF series, but if you want some nice midnight goosebumps try AvP or Avp2.
I played with my cousin a few times. Being that I'd played FPS games a lot more than him, I figured he'd be a pushover. Somehow, he excelled at using the freaky wall-crawling glassbowl-visioned aliens. All of a sudden, it's around midnight, the lights are dark, and the house is quiet (except for each of our headphones), and I'm almost panting with freaked-out expectation of this ugly alien bastard that keeps jumping out of holes in the roof/wall clawing me, and running off before I can blast it.
AvP2... my friends used to tell me how damn freaky it was when they could hear facecrawler legs clickety-clicking away on metal floor. Of course we were drunk at the time, but half-tanked late nights with low light are the best way to play a freaky game (my ambient red-ribbon Xmas lights probably helped too).
You might be interested in knowing that another FF-collection CD for playstation just came out - I believe it details the Japanese episodes 1-3 (could just be two of the three though), but with revamped graphics.
Currently I'm replaying my "FF Chronicles" CD, with FFIV (FF2 in USA, but with better translation, skills, and a few video cutscenes added).
For awhile, I lived the plots of FF2/FF3 (USA). The games were completely immersive, like having a great book but being able to dig into the plotline, and not being able to advance it without actually playing through.
I bought my PS2 for FFX, and it culminated the experience from my childhood. With full voice, awesome graphics, and cinematics, it's more a cross between a movie and book now. My only beef is the modifications for the USA version, why cut stuff out or change it???!!
I'm hoping FFXII can live up to my expectations (also hoping it will be available on PC, better graphics and I don't have to shell for yet another console).
In the meantime, has anyone ever considered trying to redevelop the old FF's into more modern graphics, perhaps with a 3d engine and cinematics? If somebody could come up with a short demo, I wonder if Square would be interested in furthing such a project.
Also, why couldn't somebody make a Open-Source RPG project of similar nature.
I'm not an expert, but I had developed a base 3D development engine (D3D) years back that would have been suitable for RPG's (less speedy rending needed, more cachable/fixed scenes). I'm sure there's somebody with better coding skills, and perhaps more time who could create a decent linux/GL engine and start an RPG.
I had a friend who experienced something similar - I believe it was with the game "Alien Vs Predator"
When he got to a certain level or area, he started hearing music like "the choochoo game goes round and round" etc etc... least to say when combined with people being ripped into pieces or having heads removed it was a little mismatched
As he put it to me: "This kids music was playing, and the aliens were running around ripping people to pieces. All I could think was 'whoever made this game is really f**ked up'"
I asked him what level/area he was at, as I've never heard this music - it later turned out his kid had left a Reader-Rabbit or similar CD left in the drive
America? More like catching up to Canada... I've never figured out quite how our government ended up taxing us on behalf of an American recording agency... but your didn't. Hopefully this disease won't spread to any more countries.
Did the original Doom demo ruin it for the full-version? Heck no... I think it was one of the first games we actually bought. And doom2... well people just had to get that one for the double-barrel shotgun and neato stuff there too.
Same goes to DN3D, played the demo, got the full.
Chop off a few items/weapons, give it a few levels to play (maybe only "demo" levels and not actually game ones), trim the multiplayer, and throw some "this is what you could have" eye candy in the end.
Seems to me that I bought a whole lot more games when there was shareware, often now people have to pirate stuff to see whether a game is actually good (some do buy afterwards, but less than with shareware I'll bet)
This is what Apple did, and there's nothing stopping someone else from doing it except cash and lack of customer base
There are a lot of us out there that aren't using Macs... how about the windows/linux/etc users. I'm sure we can fit room for a few more of these shops, particularly if they cater to the windows users as well.
was 89 days ago. But somehow they've only managed to go through 4-5 generations? It's a pretty simple calculation
So that would likely make these the great-great-great-great-grandchild worms of the original batch at descent. Not only did the parents survive, but it looks like they kept on breeding as normal.
Nice to be a worm... if a rat or other small mammal had been the one to survive, it would probably have not made it long after due to shock, etc.
In such a short comment, you've come with an astonishly and surprisingly easy arguement against such a court action.
It brings about the arguement: Where do HTML elements come from. Is a frame a component of
a) A website
b) A browser
c) The HTML standard
In reality, I think that (b) is the best answer- [since not all browsers do frames - , and (c) is a close second.
I mean, really, if you look at it. The website simply throws out a bunch of codewords to a client. The codewords are written in HTML format. The HTML format is interpreted by the browser.
So, really, one could argue that <frame> in its simplest form is simply a word. It's no different than <blah> or <sparkle> , except that it is part of standard HTML, and is interpreted by the browser in such a way that it renders a page differently. One could also point out that such things exist in many programming languages, notable Visual Basic, and have elements or dividers very similar to frames.
Want to get bitchy about it... take a laptop to court with a copy of anything as early as Win31, maybe DOSSHELL... oops... looks like we've got a framed navigator type there.
Plain text banner-style ads might not do as well, especially long ones... but truly I appreciate them more than the annoying flash-type versions. Also, they show up much better than GIF's on links/lynx
An, as mentioned, effective short ads are very effective. For instance, when you're searching for "Digital Camera", and you get an immediate link on google to thinks like "prices on digital cameras on ebay/amazon" are still good forms of advertising. Not only are these ads short and sweet, but they're often actually relevant to what you're looking for, which flashy annoying banner-ads often are not.
I think it's not really a matter of getting ads that are flashy graphics or plain text-based, but more a matter of getting ads that are relevent (for graphic based, thinkgeek.com ads and many others on slashdot would be nicely targetted), In fact, when you think about it, there is a lot of advertisingonslashdot, but most is relevant or from interested parties.
In theory, it's not a bad idea to advertise a "this cartidge is old, and past the optimal date of use" message - in fact, I'd even support this (particularly if the software told you how old the cartridge is, though not at every print job).
However, disabling the printing capability of the cartridge is just plain wrong... but from the article this sounds like a software issue instead of hardware, so perhaps somebody can come out with a crack or patch (perhaps even HP, if enough people bitch about it)
This is more like advertising, though whether or not Delia ever received benefits from those she plugs I don't know. A lot of people get offered free hardware (in this case utensils) in hopes that they'll give them popular reviews.
If you want to compare this to slashdot, I guess we could call a good slashdotting a "successful" advertising campaign. No... we didn't nuke your server, we just advertised it reallllly well.
I think we need a microsoft.slashdot.org and a microshaft.slashdot.org
That way, we can filter out all those random pro-MS articles (MS+AOL against spam, etc), and continue our bashing unabated.
Truly though, with MS actually doing some beneficitial things online currently, perhaps we need two icons, Bilgatous & the evil empire doesn't seem right on the "MS against spam" articles.
Ever noticed how many other countries play catch-up to the US as far as media, etc?
How much US culture insidiously infiltrates others (see old/. article about US gov't trying to circumvent the great firewall of China, because they don't like it blocking their political messages)
If the US and close-friend countries adopted such a functionality, it would eventually catch and and spread elsewhere.
I was mainly thinking about Carmack, mainly. Maybe he game-related achievements don't count in the business IT world, but they're still impressive and helped revolutionize a certain are of IT (Technology perhaps more than Information).
Yes... but without something indicatory of proof that such trading does occur with a particular user, Kazaa could probably push against allowing such blocks.
Not to mention the dynamic nature of many IP addresses on the net...
I found how many other types of people are actively starting their own "going to space" club. So far the only ones I've heard of on slashdot are IT-industry veterans. Are they the only ones, or is there somebody else out there with the money to pull it off?
Regardless, private space enterprise could be both a good and bad thing. As NASA seems to be flagging in some areas, private funding of exploration could be the big push needed to get us beyond the moon.
That... and whomever develops a working "warp drive" will probably have to be a Star Trek geek...
In going from tape to CD, you might have a valid point... but one of the things about DVD's is often the so-called "bonus material." If anything, they could claim that owning VHS isn't a right to own a copy of the DVD because it is in fact a different product, having included said "bonus material" (whether or not 80% of the people watching DVD's actually bother with it).
Except there's no proof that theft occurred... all the RIAA has is a number that might in no way be associated with piracy. This should be for neither Verizon to decide, to RIAA to request (unless done through judicial process).
Therefore, it's more like if Johnny X gets detention for tripping somebody in the halls, but gets a congratulation later on for stopping a bully from beating up on the class nerd. They're different, people, get the point!
We're not talking about the citizens proposing laws though, just having a say in the ones already proposed by congress.
It's about having more control over idiotic laws that slip through, not being able to create our own.
I'd have to agree with this. I've seen a lot of things by famous "artists" that could have well been passed in by a gr2 student with pastels and a paintbrush - yet somebody out there regards it as art. That be as it may though, sometimes popular opinion does hold sway: if several thousand people came to regard a particular item as a piece of art - particularly if it were sought after - in eventuality it would likely be accepted as "art", despite any dubious professional merits.
Perhaps though, the seperation is not between art, but a grey area between "art", "artistic", "professional art", "amateur art", etc
What gets me is that it seems a lot of people here are paying $35+ for plain phone service. I've never had to pay more then $25CAD, which is maybe $17USD.
The only thing that gets me is that a phone number is absolutely required to get DSL. I have a cell, and the only reason I bother with the landline is to run my DSL server connection (cable sucks here, but DSL is great).
Also, semi-offtopic but related to big companies and prices/packages - has anyone noticed that Canadian DSL seems a whole lot nicer than American, but cable often is much increased in crappiness?
Yes, and DeCSS was created to a certain extent by hard work, not simply scarfed up and fed to the masses. It also has a legitimate use beyond piracy (e.g. open-source DVD players).
The thing that makes cases like this evil is the fact that people will compare it to similar - but different in important ways - cases like deCSS. It just gives the copyright/etc lawyers more reason to attack. This person should be shunned not only by those in power, but also by those working hard to make legitimate products.
Which is because younger people often have the "can't be bothered" attitude. Now, if you throw in that they can simple "click-and-vote", it's not such a big deal to take 1 minute from surfing to hit your voter site - it might just help clear the voter gap (which was part of my point)
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Except that, when you think about it, there is already a fair bit of Canadian Green, BC Bud, etc flowing across the border. Decriminalizing won't necessarily increase production, or exportation (they're currently looking at making use not criminal, which is different from making production legal).
Yes, you'll probably get more Americans crossing the border to grab a toke or two, but hopefully most will be smart about it and also remember not to bring the product back.
Also, keep in mind that Canada has a lower generall legal age for drinking, sex, and many other things (=16 for sex I believe, and =19 for drinking - depending on province). You don't see a lot of people dragging underage girlfriends across the border, or a big impact on American drinking (it could cause some problems with a 20-yr-old having an 18 girlfriend across borders though, I've heard of this happening).
Long-lasting effect upon my life in games would have to come from the FF series, but if you want some nice midnight goosebumps try AvP or Avp2.
I played with my cousin a few times. Being that I'd played FPS games a lot more than him, I figured he'd be a pushover. Somehow, he excelled at using the freaky wall-crawling glassbowl-visioned aliens. All of a sudden, it's around midnight, the lights are dark, and the house is quiet (except for each of our headphones), and I'm almost panting with freaked-out expectation of this ugly alien bastard that keeps jumping out of holes in the roof/wall clawing me, and running off before I can blast it.
AvP2... my friends used to tell me how damn freaky it was when they could hear facecrawler legs clickety-clicking away on metal floor. Of course we were drunk at the time, but half-tanked late nights with low light are the best way to play a freaky game (my ambient red-ribbon Xmas lights probably helped too).
You might be interested in knowing that another FF-collection CD for playstation just came out - I believe it details the Japanese episodes 1-3 (could just be two of the three though), but with revamped graphics.
Currently I'm replaying my "FF Chronicles" CD, with FFIV (FF2 in USA, but with better translation, skills, and a few video cutscenes added).
For awhile, I lived the plots of FF2/FF3 (USA). The games were completely immersive, like having a great book but being able to dig into the plotline, and not being able to advance it without actually playing through.
I bought my PS2 for FFX, and it culminated the experience from my childhood. With full voice, awesome graphics, and cinematics, it's more a cross between a movie and book now. My only beef is the modifications for the USA version, why cut stuff out or change it???!!
I'm hoping FFXII can live up to my expectations (also hoping it will be available on PC, better graphics and I don't have to shell for yet another console).
In the meantime, has anyone ever considered trying to redevelop the old FF's into more modern graphics, perhaps with a 3d engine and cinematics? If somebody could come up with a short demo, I wonder if Square would be interested in furthing such a project.
Also, why couldn't somebody make a Open-Source RPG project of similar nature.
I'm not an expert, but I had developed a base 3D development engine (D3D) years back that would have been suitable for RPG's (less speedy rending needed, more cachable/fixed scenes). I'm sure there's somebody with better coding skills, and perhaps more time who could create a decent linux/GL engine and start an RPG.
I had a friend who experienced something similar - I believe it was with the game "Alien Vs Predator"
When he got to a certain level or area, he started hearing music like "the choochoo game goes round and round" etc etc... least to say when combined with people being ripped into pieces or having heads removed it was a little mismatched
As he put it to me: "This kids music was playing, and the aliens were running around ripping people to pieces. All I could think was 'whoever made this game is really f**ked up'" I asked him what level/area he was at, as I've never heard this music - it later turned out his kid had left a Reader-Rabbit or similar CD left in the drive
America? More like catching up to Canada... I've never figured out quite how our government ended up taxing us on behalf of an American recording agency... but your didn't. Hopefully this disease won't spread to any more countries.
Did the original Doom demo ruin it for the full-version? Heck no... I think it was one of the first games we actually bought. And doom2... well people just had to get that one for the double-barrel shotgun and neato stuff there too.
Same goes to DN3D, played the demo, got the full.
Chop off a few items/weapons, give it a few levels to play (maybe only "demo" levels and not actually game ones), trim the multiplayer, and throw some "this is what you could have" eye candy in the end.
Seems to me that I bought a whole lot more games when there was shareware, often now people have to pirate stuff to see whether a game is actually good (some do buy afterwards, but less than with shareware I'll bet)
This is what Apple did, and there's nothing stopping someone else from doing it except cash and lack of customer base
There are a lot of us out there that aren't using Macs... how about the windows/linux/etc users. I'm sure we can fit room for a few more of these shops, particularly if they cater to the windows users as well.
was 89 days ago. But somehow they've only managed to go through 4-5 generations? It's a pretty simple calculation
So that would likely make these the great-great-great-great-grandchild worms of the original batch at descent. Not only did the parents survive, but it looks like they kept on breeding as normal.
Nice to be a worm... if a rat or other small mammal had been the one to survive, it would probably have not made it long after due to shock, etc.
In such a short comment, you've come with an astonishly and surprisingly easy arguement against such a court action.
It brings about the arguement: Where do HTML elements come from. Is a frame a component of
a) A website
b) A browser
c) The HTML standard
In reality, I think that (b) is the best answer- [since not all browsers do frames - , and (c) is a close second.
I mean, really, if you look at it. The website simply throws out a bunch of codewords to a client. The codewords are written in HTML format. The HTML format is interpreted by the browser.
So, really, one could argue that <frame> in its simplest form is simply a word. It's no different than <blah> or <sparkle> , except that it is part of standard HTML, and is interpreted by the browser in such a way that it renders a page differently. One could also point out that such things exist in many programming languages, notable Visual Basic, and have elements or dividers very similar to frames.
Want to get bitchy about it... take a laptop to court with a copy of anything as early as Win31, maybe DOSSHELL... oops... looks like we've got a framed navigator type there.
Plain text banner-style ads might not do as well, especially long ones... but truly I appreciate them more than the annoying flash-type versions. Also, they show up much better than GIF's on links/lynx
An, as mentioned, effective short ads are very effective. For instance, when you're searching for "Digital Camera", and you get an immediate link on google to thinks like "prices on digital cameras on ebay/amazon" are still good forms of advertising. Not only are these ads short and sweet, but they're often actually relevant to what you're looking for, which flashy annoying banner-ads often are not.
I think it's not really a matter of getting ads that are flashy graphics or plain text-based, but more a matter of getting ads that are relevent (for graphic based, thinkgeek.com ads and many others on slashdot would be nicely targetted), In fact, when you think about it, there is a lot of advertising on slashdot, but most is relevant or from interested parties.
In theory, it's not a bad idea to advertise a "this cartidge is old, and past the optimal date of use" message - in fact, I'd even support this (particularly if the software told you how old the cartridge is, though not at every print job).
However, disabling the printing capability of the cartridge is just plain wrong... but from the article this sounds like a software issue instead of hardware, so perhaps somebody can come out with a crack or patch (perhaps even HP, if enough people bitch about it)
This is more like advertising, though whether or not Delia ever received benefits from those she plugs I don't know. A lot of people get offered free hardware (in this case utensils) in hopes that they'll give them popular reviews.
If you want to compare this to slashdot, I guess we could call a good slashdotting a "successful" advertising campaign. No... we didn't nuke your server, we just advertised it reallllly well.
I think we need a microsoft.slashdot.org and a microshaft.slashdot.org
That way, we can filter out all those random pro-MS articles (MS+AOL against spam, etc), and continue our bashing unabated.
Truly though, with MS actually doing some beneficitial things online currently, perhaps we need two icons, Bilgatous & the evil empire doesn't seem right on the "MS against spam" articles.
Ever noticed how many other countries play catch-up to the US as far as media, etc?
/. article about US gov't trying to circumvent the great firewall of China, because they don't like it blocking their political messages)
How much US culture insidiously infiltrates others (see old
If the US and close-friend countries adopted such a functionality, it would eventually catch and and spread elsewhere.
Of course they do, as usual it's a MS/AOL monopoly attempt... they don't want anyone else taking their share of the *evil*
I was mainly thinking about Carmack, mainly. Maybe he game-related achievements don't count in the business IT world, but they're still impressive and helped revolutionize a certain are of IT (Technology perhaps more than Information).
Yes... but without something indicatory of proof that such trading does occur with a particular user, Kazaa could probably push against allowing such blocks.
Not to mention the dynamic nature of many IP addresses on the net...
I found how many other types of people are actively starting their own "going to space" club. So far the only ones I've heard of on slashdot are IT-industry veterans. Are they the only ones, or is there somebody else out there with the money to pull it off?
Regardless, private space enterprise could be both a good and bad thing. As NASA seems to be flagging in some areas, private funding of exploration could be the big push needed to get us beyond the moon.
That... and whomever develops a working "warp drive" will probably have to be a Star Trek geek...
In going from tape to CD, you might have a valid point... but one of the things about DVD's is often the so-called "bonus material." If anything, they could claim that owning VHS isn't a right to own a copy of the DVD because it is in fact a different product, having included said "bonus material" (whether or not 80% of the people watching DVD's actually bother with it).
Except there's no proof that theft occurred... all the RIAA has is a number that might in no way be associated with piracy. This should be for neither Verizon to decide, to RIAA to request (unless done through judicial process).
Therefore, it's more like if Johnny X gets detention for tripping somebody in the halls, but gets a congratulation later on for stopping a bully from beating up on the class nerd. They're different, people, get the point!
We're not talking about the citizens proposing laws though, just having a say in the ones already proposed by congress.
It's about having more control over idiotic laws that slip through, not being able to create our own.
I'd have to agree with this. I've seen a lot of things by famous "artists" that could have well been passed in by a gr2 student with pastels and a paintbrush - yet somebody out there regards it as art. That be as it may though, sometimes popular opinion does hold sway: if several thousand people came to regard a particular item as a piece of art - particularly if it were sought after - in eventuality it would likely be accepted as "art", despite any dubious professional merits.
Perhaps though, the seperation is not between art, but a grey area between "art", "artistic", "professional art", "amateur art", etc
What gets me is that it seems a lot of people here are paying $35+ for plain phone service. I've never had to pay more then $25CAD, which is maybe $17USD.
The only thing that gets me is that a phone number is absolutely required to get DSL. I have a cell, and the only reason I bother with the landline is to run my DSL server connection (cable sucks here, but DSL is great).
Also, semi-offtopic but related to big companies and prices/packages - has anyone noticed that Canadian DSL seems a whole lot nicer than American, but cable often is much increased in crappiness?
Yes, and DeCSS was created to a certain extent by hard work, not simply scarfed up and fed to the masses. It also has a legitimate use beyond piracy (e.g. open-source DVD players).
The thing that makes cases like this evil is the fact that people will compare it to similar - but different in important ways - cases like deCSS. It just gives the copyright/etc lawyers more reason to attack. This person should be shunned not only by those in power, but also by those working hard to make legitimate products.
Which is because younger people often have the "can't be bothered" attitude. Now, if you throw in that they can simple "click-and-vote", it's not such a big deal to take 1 minute from surfing to hit your voter site - it might just help clear the voter gap (which was part of my point)