Can't someone being sued stand up to the RIAA and say
"I'm sorry for what I've done, please let me pay the artist directly the amount of money I stole from them."
It'd be great, it'd show how little the artist actually receives and it'd be a fair punishment. Lets say you have 1,000 songs, that might be around 70-80 albums, each album gets the artist $0.02-$0.10. At most you'll be paying $8.00. Even if they say "well each song spread to 50 different people", which is a lot of people to download one song directly off of one person, you'll only pay $400.00.
This has nothing to do with scouting out landmines. These robots have to follow a set path of waypoints. When you scout out landmines there aren't many waypoints cause you don't know where the landmines are. You could set a robot to travel a path in a field looking for landmines along the way but there are probably much better and easier ways to do it.
Beside's you'd probably want some kind of human interaction, what happens if the vehicle comes across a land mind, doesn't "see" it and blows up? At least if it had some kind of camera and a remote pilot they could stop it before it triggered a land mine
"As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly," said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment.
Some of the most vile, disgusting, and just plain horrible stuff is distributed on P2P networks. And after your kids download all the Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and N*Sync albums, their's pornography too!
I broke down and read the article and I still don't understand what are they trying to protect? Is it the database model like how it's structured and named? That really doesn't make any sense. If I "stole" ebay's database (don't they have a massive database taking many file servers to hold?) what good would that do me? How can anyone make money off of copyrighting a database. It doesn't make any sense... I probably need to know way more about databases and how they work to understand this I guess. Or maybe a copy of PHB's For Non-Dummies to understand the buisiness model behind database copyrights.
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Zakabog writes "Imagine if Tom Clancy wrote another Rainbow Six novel in which Jack Ryan and John Clark are hired to be hotel caretakers, but Jack Ryan goes insane and tries to kill everyone in the hotel. Now give Jack Ryan a wife named Wendy replace John Clark with a 10 year old boy named Danny and add a few ghosts. And shift the genre from action novel to thriller. That should give you an idea of the latest novel from Steven King, The Shining."
At 150,000 pounds most people won't have this car, that's a lot of money and it doesn't seem like it's worth it. So the Thames probably won't get over-crowded. And remember, it costs 150,000 pounds, I'm pretty sure the company making it will make a bunch of saftey features in case of an accident on the water.
Well I've walked to the beach to get high a few times but climbing a mountain, that's insane! You'll probably eat all your food and end up dying on top of the mountain cause you're too lazy to come down. You'll also end up make a bong out of your oxygen tanks. I really don't think getting high and climbing mountains would mix very well...
Yeah, you tell 'em! Why on earth would anyone want their lava lamp to get hot, I mean come on, who needs that stuff on the bottom to melt anyway. It just looks so nice their on the bottom. Let's do away with the bulb entirely, light up the lava lamp with a LED, all you really want to do is look at water anyway right?
Anyway, I really hope you were joking. The reason you use such a bulb is because the stuff on the bottom of the lava lamp needs to get really hot before it'll start melting and floating to the top, it sinks back down to the bottom because as it reaches the top it cools down, when it reaches the bottom it gets hotter and starts moving towards the top again, wash, rinse, repeat. It's nice to have a dimmer though to control the power of the bulb, it only needs to be hot till the liquid starts moving then you can turn it down a bunch and create a lot less heat and still have the liquid moving.
Sounds like a garage band tuning their instruments while their was some strange feedback being picked up in the background. It's horrid, it should filter out high pitched buzz noises and other things like that. And it should make some system of rythem, it's like random chunks of crap mixed into one big random chunk of crap.
It really bothers me when people compare stealing music (by downloading it) to stealing actual merchandise. If I download a song I am not moving the song from one computer to my own. I'm making a copy, the owner of the copy I'm downloading gets to keep his, and I get to keep my own. That's like going to a library and photocopying a page from a book. Should National Geographic have the right to charge me the full price of one magazine because I photocopied one page from it? If I copy a page from an encyclopedia, does that give Britannica the right to charge me $1,300 for the entire set of encyclopedias?
Also, if replicator's existed, and you could just make copy's of actual items (like food, clothes, that 60" plasma screen you always wanted.) and you decided to make a Porsche 911 in the replicator, should you have to pay full price for it? You're not taking any money away from Porsche since you never intended to purchase the car, and you didn't steal one that they made, you just made one of your own. Would you use a replicator to only make items that are distributed freely? Would you only use the replicator for items you own that got damaged? Or would you replace all your old junk with new, expensive, high-tech (illegal) junk?
Yeah and why even buy a camera to take photographs, you can just hire a photographer to take pictures of people doing other things you did once. Sure they might pictures that you don't want but who cares right?
The reason you would do this is not to get just any pictures from the sky, it's to get YOUR pictures from the sky. Like a picture of your house, or your car, or your neighborhood (all of these with you standing in the picture (or out of it depending on how YOU feel) controlling where the balloon goes to take pictures. Not an archived photo of someone elses. And that's $50 A MONTH, not close to a one time fee of $50. And also these are your pictures to share with the world, I'm pretty sure I can't go around sharing keyhole's earthviewer pictures with all my friends.
Most girls are not impressed, true. However, girls that want to have casual sex know that a guy in a Mustang or Porche is driving it because he's horny, lonely, and wants lots of sex, and acting as if they are impressed is an easy way to open conversation.
Absolutely! I mean come on, who ever buys a mustang or a porsche to race it, or to have a sweet looking car? No one! And guys who buy VW jettas are never interested in casual sex. Sure...
Really though, what fantasy world are you living in? A person will buy a car that suits their needs. Sure some guys will buy a nice car to attract girls, but not just any girls. Girls that are looking for a guy that has money go for the guy in the Dodge Viper or the Ferrari. They aren't looking for casual sex, they're looking for a guy that has tons of money so the girl can have a nice life. And not every guy that buys a nice car is looking for sex. I was going to buy a Nissan 350Z, not because it'll attract females, but because it looked nice (for me) and was a fast car (not insanely fast but it's faster than the average car.)
Yeah cause cat-5 cable is so much better than wireless
1 - You can trip over it (which usually drags your laptop along for the ride or rips out any network cards attached to the cable, or destroys the ends of the cable, which can be a lot of fun)
2 - You can only use it in a 20' radius as long as their is nothing blocking the wire
3 - Wires can get caught on things so when you walk to your bed carrying your laptop, the wire can get snagged and well since you're still walking the laptop gets yanked out of your arms and falls to the floor, which is always a great thing.
Ok that's enough sarcasm for now. I've wanted a wireless network for the longest time, I have a 5 port switch sitting on my floor that has people stepping on it all day. The only reason it's on the floor is cause the wires aren't long enough to reach it from all of my computers. If I had a wireless network for the computers that are too far away from my switch, I wouldn't have to worry about tripping over my switch. And I want to provide access to my cable modem for my aunt who lives on the first floor, I have a very large house and I'd need over 100' of cable to reach her computer (and that's if I drill through my floor and her roof.) If I had a wireless network I'd be able to easily setup a connection without any drilling or wires running through my whole house.
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Lioux is the single biggest threat to MS today
In other news: The village of Lioux has become a giant smoking crater, just a little while after Bill Gates decided to take a short business trip to the village.
Ummmm Japan has a game called airsoft. It has replica's of pretty much any gun available in the world (and if it's not available, build it yourself) this game is VERY popular in Japan. The guns fire small plastic BBs that hurt less than paintballs (but fly farther and are way more accurate.) I know a bunch of people who play it in the states (like half the number of people that play paintball play airsoft) but in Japan it is much more popular.
I've even seen a few anime's where some of the main characters would play airsoft (like all the time and they'd always talk about it in all the episodes, not like one time and forget about it.) I don't think their's a show in america where any of the characters play paintball. Besides, I don't think their's a gamer I know who never heard of paintball And 90% of the people who play games like CS love airsoft (after they find out it exists.) You can check out some of the guns and info here
Actually... sure they have a huge house a nice car and as you said "Unlimited resources", the only problem is that they all belong to the record company. And, well of course they want the money back for this stuff. Sooooo the artist gets no money for their albums until all that stuff is paid off. If they started to stop selling albums, they owe the record label tons of money and end up going bankrupt, they have no money in the bank since they were never paid (they never made enough money from record sales to pay for all the stuff they bought) and they own nothing since the record company paid for everything they did own that you saw on MTV cribs.
If the radiator is contained in the garage, why does it matter if it has fans or not? If you can hear them, invest in some type of material to block off the sound and put it around the hole connecting the two rooms. And why is this even on slashdot? It's like most other water cooling systems just with a radiator that's way too large for it's purpose. It probably would have been better if he got a much MUCH smaller radiator and made some huge heatsink for it (and it'd be more slashdot worthy, making a big effective heatsink is a lot harder than making a giant radiator out of copper pipes.) Plus with a smaller radiator he wouldn't have to waste so much space in his garage.
Most of the games I bought, I bought because a few years back when Half-Life was in a beta state I downloaded a warez copy and totally loved the game. I bought it the day it came out and since then I've been buying games. Sometimes I download a warez version and play it for a while first, if I really enjoy it I buy the full version. If I only play it for a month and get bored, well didn't cost me anything to find out the game sucked, and it didn't cost the company that made the game anything cause I wasn't going to buy their game anyway (it sucked.)
Let's see, you bake the muffins using your own ingredients. You create a CD using someone elses ingredients (software in this case).. and you fail to see why it is stealing?
Not quite. You create a CD using someone elses recipe (software in this case) it's not stealing physical items, it's copying a recipe. If you use someone elses recipe to make muffins without their permission, well that's a lot like copying software. You use your own ingredients (which would be a blank CD, computer, and CD burning software) which are all physical items that you could steal (but you're not stealing.) The only thing that isn't yours is the software itself and it costs the game company nothing for you to copy their software and use it yourself, unless you would have otherwise bought their software and most of the time you wouldn't have (can't afford it, don't like it, have no reason to buy it.) Unless you sell the CDs to people (like selling the muffins) there is no loss to the software company that made the games (or the bakery that makes the muffins.)
Actually you'd probably have to be over 20 to understand since the movie came out in '89, so it's 14 years old. Which means if you're 20 now you were 6 when the movie came out and won't remember much of it, you'd really remember it if you're 22-28 now since you were between the ages of 8 and 14 and the movie was targeted more towars this audience of kids to sell them stuff. Your statement would have been more correct if you said to anyone over 30 or so.
Why expect a kid that watches violent cop show after violent cop show to be a perfect angel?
Because to the kid who spent the rest of his life before watching the violent cop show was taught that violence is bad still remembers that VIOLENCE IS BAD. If I've been brought up my whole life (21 years so far) to wake up every morning and clean my room, I wouldn't suddenly start leaving the room a mess just because I saw a 30 minute show on TV (which I am quite capable of seperating from real life) where the main character woke up every day for a week without cleaning his room.
Another example, if I took my 6 year old cousin outside right now and brought a gun with me and we both went to the mall and I just decided to shoot some random person, she would know I did something wrong. She'd be scared and wonder why I shot the person. She wouldn't think "Hey I saw that on TV once, it's all right!" There's just some thing taught to us when we're younger that causing pain or killing another person is wrong. Doesn't mean we're all gonna be perfect, just that before a kid snaps and starts hurting people left and right because he saw the same thing on TV something has to be wrong with the kid. Maybe he wasn't brought up right, maybe he was treated wrong, TV might have triggered something in his mind that was going to go off some other way. Maybe if there was no TV he would have snapped 10 years later when he's like 21 and he catches his wife cheating on him with his boss so he decides to kill them and 20 other people in the office.
And if TV has such a giant impact on kids today, what about kids who watched looney tunes? I've seen Wile E. Coyote fall off hundreds of cliffs and survive, why aren't their hundreds of kids going out jumping off cliffs? Or there have been times where a toon would jump from a diving board into a glass full of water, I've never heard any stories of kids attempting that. Also, what about all the guns? Yosimite Sam and Elmer Fudd have guns in most of the cartoons they're in and they're constantly getting shot at or shooting at something. I've seen Daffy Duck get his beak shot to the back of his head (or blown back their with an explosive) so why aren't kids shooting themselves in the face or blowing M80s up in their faces to see if that happens, oh yeah, cause they know it's NOT REAL and they will get very hurt if they try.
I know, after getting cable I deeply regreted the decision. I mean I didn't even notice that I downloaded 3 complete Redhat ISOs in 2 hours compared to the week it took with dialup (not including 2 disconnects that occured when I wasn't at home). And when I download 100 meg game demos on cable in a few minutes compared to the hours it took on dialup, I don't even notice. Oh and with online gaming, you can't even tell that your shots are going exactly where you want them to go, exactly when you want them to go instead of having a 1/4 second delay.
If you really can't tell the difference between (good) broadband and 56K, there must be something very wrong with you. I get 400-500K/sec on most of my major downloads, that's a LOT faster than even the best dialup. When I did have dialup it was quite fast (for dialup), I would also have random sustained download speeds of 12K/sec (for about 10 minutes) which was a little weird but I didn't complain. And my lowest ping in a game was around 150 (although that's nothing compared to the 17 ping I had a few times with cable, in the same game.) Sharing one connection is also a good thing with broadband, I don't have to worry about getting disconnected and I have tons of bandwidth, so even if my sister is downloading a bunch of songs on kazaa, my ping in games doesn't suffer like it would from her just downloading one song with dialup.
Also, I remember when I had dialup file sizes were a lot smaller (for full movies and warez which I don't download anymore since I have a job and can buy the stuff now.) I would get full movies that were from 200-400 megs in ASF format. Wasn't the nicest quality picture but you could still watch the movie just fine. And games were usually 40-80 megs with everything else ripped from it (music, movies) with the option to download it seperately. And last I checked, they're like 100-200 megs or you'd have to get an ISO.
Lastly, as a person that has to fix a lot of computers (usually at that persons house) I can tell you from personal experience that broadband helps A LOT for that. I've had to spend hours fixing computers because there'd be a 20 meg file I need to download, or I'd have to go through a lot of bloated websites to find certain drivers. You should use broadband for a week and then go on a friend's dial up connection, you'll notice a HUGE difference.
This just in, a recent study in Japan shows that 30% of all cell phones sold in Japan get lost within the first week a customer purchases them.
In other news, many Japanese school girls have been having random orgasms, usually at the times of peak cell phone usage. Scientists believe it has something to do with the radiation cell phones give off.
I played it on Windows XP with a fairly decent computer (runs UT 2003 in 1024x768 with max details perfectly) and it was running like crap (well online playing, my ping was like crazy and it seemed pretty jumpy and not a smooth game (some games like Rainbow Six and Operation Flashpoint feel jumpy online, and other games like Urban Terror, Counter Strike and Quake 3, feel very smooth.) It seems like, the more realistic a game is, the worse online play is.
Anyway, does anyone know how well this game runs in linux? My linux computer is only a 600 MHz PIII with 388 MB of RAM and a GeForce3 Ti200 and I don't think the download would be worth it.
Ummm that's a rather silly statement. What happens if half of those 43 million americans hate her? Or if they're not of the legal age to vote (which is very likely)? Besides the average voter doesn't known much about P2P or even care.
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Can't someone being sued stand up to the RIAA and say
"I'm sorry for what I've done, please let me pay the artist directly the amount of money I stole from them."
It'd be great, it'd show how little the artist actually receives and it'd be a fair punishment. Lets say you have 1,000 songs, that might be around 70-80 albums, each album gets the artist $0.02-$0.10. At most you'll be paying $8.00. Even if they say "well each song spread to 50 different people", which is a lot of people to download one song directly off of one person, you'll only pay $400.00.
This has nothing to do with scouting out landmines. These robots have to follow a set path of waypoints. When you scout out landmines there aren't many waypoints cause you don't know where the landmines are. You could set a robot to travel a path in a field looking for landmines along the way but there are probably much better and easier ways to do it.
Beside's you'd probably want some kind of human interaction, what happens if the vehicle comes across a land mind, doesn't "see" it and blows up? At least if it had some kind of camera and a remote pilot they could stop it before it triggered a land mine
"As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly," said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment.
Some of the most vile, disgusting, and just plain horrible stuff is distributed on P2P networks. And after your kids download all the Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and N*Sync albums, their's pornography too!
I broke down and read the article and I still don't understand what are they trying to protect? Is it the database model like how it's structured and named? That really doesn't make any sense. If I "stole" ebay's database (don't they have a massive database taking many file servers to hold?) what good would that do me? How can anyone make money off of copyrighting a database. It doesn't make any sense... I probably need to know way more about databases and how they work to understand this I guess. Or maybe a copy of PHB's For Non-Dummies to understand the buisiness model behind database copyrights.
Zakabog writes "Imagine if Tom Clancy wrote another Rainbow Six novel in which Jack Ryan and John Clark are hired to be hotel caretakers, but Jack Ryan goes insane and tries to kill everyone in the hotel. Now give Jack Ryan a wife named Wendy replace John Clark with a 10 year old boy named Danny and add a few ghosts. And shift the genre from action novel to thriller. That should give you an idea of the latest novel from Steven King, The Shining."
At 150,000 pounds most people won't have this car, that's a lot of money and it doesn't seem like it's worth it. So the Thames probably won't get over-crowded. And remember, it costs 150,000 pounds, I'm pretty sure the company making it will make a bunch of saftey features in case of an accident on the water.
Well I've walked to the beach to get high a few times but climbing a mountain, that's insane! You'll probably eat all your food and end up dying on top of the mountain cause you're too lazy to come down. You'll also end up make a bong out of your oxygen tanks. I really don't think getting high and climbing mountains would mix very well...
Yeah, you tell 'em! Why on earth would anyone want their lava lamp to get hot, I mean come on, who needs that stuff on the bottom to melt anyway. It just looks so nice their on the bottom. Let's do away with the bulb entirely, light up the lava lamp with a LED, all you really want to do is look at water anyway right?
Anyway, I really hope you were joking. The reason you use such a bulb is because the stuff on the bottom of the lava lamp needs to get really hot before it'll start melting and floating to the top, it sinks back down to the bottom because as it reaches the top it cools down, when it reaches the bottom it gets hotter and starts moving towards the top again, wash, rinse, repeat. It's nice to have a dimmer though to control the power of the bulb, it only needs to be hot till the liquid starts moving then you can turn it down a bunch and create a lot less heat and still have the liquid moving.
Sounds like a garage band tuning their instruments while their was some strange feedback being picked up in the background. It's horrid, it should filter out high pitched buzz noises and other things like that. And it should make some system of rythem, it's like random chunks of crap mixed into one big random chunk of crap.
It really bothers me when people compare stealing music (by downloading it) to stealing actual merchandise. If I download a song I am not moving the song from one computer to my own. I'm making a copy, the owner of the copy I'm downloading gets to keep his, and I get to keep my own. That's like going to a library and photocopying a page from a book. Should National Geographic have the right to charge me the full price of one magazine because I photocopied one page from it? If I copy a page from an encyclopedia, does that give Britannica the right to charge me $1,300 for the entire set of encyclopedias?
Also, if replicator's existed, and you could just make copy's of actual items (like food, clothes, that 60" plasma screen you always wanted.) and you decided to make a Porsche 911 in the replicator, should you have to pay full price for it? You're not taking any money away from Porsche since you never intended to purchase the car, and you didn't steal one that they made, you just made one of your own. Would you use a replicator to only make items that are distributed freely? Would you only use the replicator for items you own that got damaged? Or would you replace all your old junk with new, expensive, high-tech (illegal) junk?
Yeah and why even buy a camera to take photographs, you can just hire a photographer to take pictures of people doing other things you did once. Sure they might pictures that you don't want but who cares right?
The reason you would do this is not to get just any pictures from the sky, it's to get YOUR pictures from the sky. Like a picture of your house, or your car, or your neighborhood (all of these with you standing in the picture (or out of it depending on how YOU feel) controlling where the balloon goes to take pictures. Not an archived photo of someone elses. And that's $50 A MONTH, not close to a one time fee of $50. And also these are your pictures to share with the world, I'm pretty sure I can't go around sharing keyhole's earthviewer pictures with all my friends.
Most girls are not impressed, true. However, girls that want to have casual sex know that a guy in a Mustang or Porche is driving it because he's horny, lonely, and wants lots of sex, and acting as if they are impressed is an easy way to open conversation.
Absolutely! I mean come on, who ever buys a mustang or a porsche to race it, or to have a sweet looking car? No one! And guys who buy VW jettas are never interested in casual sex. Sure...
Really though, what fantasy world are you living in? A person will buy a car that suits their needs. Sure some guys will buy a nice car to attract girls, but not just any girls. Girls that are looking for a guy that has money go for the guy in the Dodge Viper or the Ferrari. They aren't looking for casual sex, they're looking for a guy that has tons of money so the girl can have a nice life. And not every guy that buys a nice car is looking for sex. I was going to buy a Nissan 350Z, not because it'll attract females, but because it looked nice (for me) and was a fast car (not insanely fast but it's faster than the average car.)
Yeah cause cat-5 cable is so much better than wireless
1 - You can trip over it (which usually drags your laptop along for the ride or rips out any network cards attached to the cable, or destroys the ends of the cable, which can be a lot of fun)
2 - You can only use it in a 20' radius as long as their is nothing blocking the wire
3 - Wires can get caught on things so when you walk to your bed carrying your laptop, the wire can get snagged and well since you're still walking the laptop gets yanked out of your arms and falls to the floor, which is always a great thing.
Ok that's enough sarcasm for now. I've wanted a wireless network for the longest time, I have a 5 port switch sitting on my floor that has people stepping on it all day. The only reason it's on the floor is cause the wires aren't long enough to reach it from all of my computers. If I had a wireless network for the computers that are too far away from my switch, I wouldn't have to worry about tripping over my switch. And I want to provide access to my cable modem for my aunt who lives on the first floor, I have a very large house and I'd need over 100' of cable to reach her computer (and that's if I drill through my floor and her roof.) If I had a wireless network I'd be able to easily setup a connection without any drilling or wires running through my whole house.
Lioux is the single biggest threat to MS today
In other news: The village of Lioux has become a giant smoking crater, just a little while after Bill Gates decided to take a short business trip to the village.
Or, gamers could just discover paintball..
Ummmm Japan has a game called airsoft. It has replica's of pretty much any gun available in the world (and if it's not available, build it yourself) this game is VERY popular in Japan. The guns fire small plastic BBs that hurt less than paintballs (but fly farther and are way more accurate.) I know a bunch of people who play it in the states (like half the number of people that play paintball play airsoft) but in Japan it is much more popular.
I've even seen a few anime's where some of the main characters would play airsoft (like all the time and they'd always talk about it in all the episodes, not like one time and forget about it.) I don't think their's a show in america where any of the characters play paintball. Besides, I don't think their's a gamer I know who never heard of paintball And 90% of the people who play games like CS love airsoft (after they find out it exists.) You can check out some of the guns and info here
Redwolf Airsoft
Or here is one of the best airsoft stores in the world (with it's main store located in Japan)
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Actually... sure they have a huge house a nice car and as you said "Unlimited resources", the only problem is that they all belong to the record company. And, well of course they want the money back for this stuff. Sooooo the artist gets no money for their albums until all that stuff is paid off. If they started to stop selling albums, they owe the record label tons of money and end up going bankrupt, they have no money in the bank since they were never paid (they never made enough money from record sales to pay for all the stuff they bought) and they own nothing since the record company paid for everything they did own that you saw on MTV cribs.
If the radiator is contained in the garage, why does it matter if it has fans or not? If you can hear them, invest in some type of material to block off the sound and put it around the hole connecting the two rooms. And why is this even on slashdot? It's like most other water cooling systems just with a radiator that's way too large for it's purpose. It probably would have been better if he got a much MUCH smaller radiator and made some huge heatsink for it (and it'd be more slashdot worthy, making a big effective heatsink is a lot harder than making a giant radiator out of copper pipes.) Plus with a smaller radiator he wouldn't have to waste so much space in his garage.
Most of the games I bought, I bought because a few years back when Half-Life was in a beta state I downloaded a warez copy and totally loved the game. I bought it the day it came out and since then I've been buying games. Sometimes I download a warez version and play it for a while first, if I really enjoy it I buy the full version. If I only play it for a month and get bored, well didn't cost me anything to find out the game sucked, and it didn't cost the company that made the game anything cause I wasn't going to buy their game anyway (it sucked.)
Let's see, you bake the muffins using your own ingredients. You create a CD using someone elses ingredients (software in this case).. and you fail to see why it is stealing?
Not quite. You create a CD using someone elses recipe (software in this case) it's not stealing physical items, it's copying a recipe. If you use someone elses recipe to make muffins without their permission, well that's a lot like copying software. You use your own ingredients (which would be a blank CD, computer, and CD burning software) which are all physical items that you could steal (but you're not stealing.) The only thing that isn't yours is the software itself and it costs the game company nothing for you to copy their software and use it yourself, unless you would have otherwise bought their software and most of the time you wouldn't have (can't afford it, don't like it, have no reason to buy it.) Unless you sell the CDs to people (like selling the muffins) there is no loss to the software company that made the games (or the bakery that makes the muffins.)
Actually you'd probably have to be over 20 to understand since the movie came out in '89, so it's 14 years old. Which means if you're 20 now you were 6 when the movie came out and won't remember much of it, you'd really remember it if you're 22-28 now since you were between the ages of 8 and 14 and the movie was targeted more towars this audience of kids to sell them stuff. Your statement would have been more correct if you said to anyone over 30 or so.
Why expect a kid that watches violent cop show after violent cop show to be a perfect angel?
Because to the kid who spent the rest of his life before watching the violent cop show was taught that violence is bad still remembers that VIOLENCE IS BAD. If I've been brought up my whole life (21 years so far) to wake up every morning and clean my room, I wouldn't suddenly start leaving the room a mess just because I saw a 30 minute show on TV (which I am quite capable of seperating from real life) where the main character woke up every day for a week without cleaning his room.
Another example, if I took my 6 year old cousin outside right now and brought a gun with me and we both went to the mall and I just decided to shoot some random person, she would know I did something wrong. She'd be scared and wonder why I shot the person. She wouldn't think "Hey I saw that on TV once, it's all right!" There's just some thing taught to us when we're younger that causing pain or killing another person is wrong. Doesn't mean we're all gonna be perfect, just that before a kid snaps and starts hurting people left and right because he saw the same thing on TV something has to be wrong with the kid. Maybe he wasn't brought up right, maybe he was treated wrong, TV might have triggered something in his mind that was going to go off some other way. Maybe if there was no TV he would have snapped 10 years later when he's like 21 and he catches his wife cheating on him with his boss so he decides to kill them and 20 other people in the office.
And if TV has such a giant impact on kids today, what about kids who watched looney tunes? I've seen Wile E. Coyote fall off hundreds of cliffs and survive, why aren't their hundreds of kids going out jumping off cliffs? Or there have been times where a toon would jump from a diving board into a glass full of water, I've never heard any stories of kids attempting that. Also, what about all the guns? Yosimite Sam and Elmer Fudd have guns in most of the cartoons they're in and they're constantly getting shot at or shooting at something. I've seen Daffy Duck get his beak shot to the back of his head (or blown back their with an explosive) so why aren't kids shooting themselves in the face or blowing M80s up in their faces to see if that happens, oh yeah, cause they know it's NOT REAL and they will get very hurt if they try.
I know, after getting cable I deeply regreted the decision. I mean I didn't even notice that I downloaded 3 complete Redhat ISOs in 2 hours compared to the week it took with dialup (not including 2 disconnects that occured when I wasn't at home). And when I download 100 meg game demos on cable in a few minutes compared to the hours it took on dialup, I don't even notice. Oh and with online gaming, you can't even tell that your shots are going exactly where you want them to go, exactly when you want them to go instead of having a 1/4 second delay.
If you really can't tell the difference between (good) broadband and 56K, there must be something very wrong with you. I get 400-500K/sec on most of my major downloads, that's a LOT faster than even the best dialup. When I did have dialup it was quite fast (for dialup), I would also have random sustained download speeds of 12K/sec (for about 10 minutes) which was a little weird but I didn't complain. And my lowest ping in a game was around 150 (although that's nothing compared to the 17 ping I had a few times with cable, in the same game.) Sharing one connection is also a good thing with broadband, I don't have to worry about getting disconnected and I have tons of bandwidth, so even if my sister is downloading a bunch of songs on kazaa, my ping in games doesn't suffer like it would from her just downloading one song with dialup.
Also, I remember when I had dialup file sizes were a lot smaller (for full movies and warez which I don't download anymore since I have a job and can buy the stuff now.) I would get full movies that were from 200-400 megs in ASF format. Wasn't the nicest quality picture but you could still watch the movie just fine. And games were usually 40-80 megs with everything else ripped from it (music, movies) with the option to download it seperately. And last I checked, they're like 100-200 megs or you'd have to get an ISO.
Lastly, as a person that has to fix a lot of computers (usually at that persons house) I can tell you from personal experience that broadband helps A LOT for that. I've had to spend hours fixing computers because there'd be a 20 meg file I need to download, or I'd have to go through a lot of bloated websites to find certain drivers. You should use broadband for a week and then go on a friend's dial up connection, you'll notice a HUGE difference.
Because sticking a cell phone up a man's ass (set to vibrate) would not give them an orgasm although during sex it would increase the pleasure?
This just in, a recent study in Japan shows that 30% of all cell phones sold in Japan get lost within the first week a customer purchases them.
In other news, many Japanese school girls have been having random orgasms, usually at the times of peak cell phone usage. Scientists believe it has something to do with the radiation cell phones give off.
I played it on Windows XP with a fairly decent computer (runs UT 2003 in 1024x768 with max details perfectly) and it was running like crap (well online playing, my ping was like crazy and it seemed pretty jumpy and not a smooth game (some games like Rainbow Six and Operation Flashpoint feel jumpy online, and other games like Urban Terror, Counter Strike and Quake 3, feel very smooth.) It seems like, the more realistic a game is, the worse online play is. Anyway, does anyone know how well this game runs in linux? My linux computer is only a 600 MHz PIII with 388 MB of RAM and a GeForce3 Ti200 and I don't think the download would be worth it.
Ummm that's a rather silly statement. What happens if half of those 43 million americans hate her? Or if they're not of the legal age to vote (which is very likely)? Besides the average voter doesn't known much about P2P or even care.