I have seen "R" rated films that would glorify the murder society much like scapegoats like the GTA series.
You view a movie from a greater physical and psychological distance.
You are not invited to wield the knife yourself or rewarded for the ingenuity of your kills. You are not encouraged to invest 40 to 60 hours or more in role-playing a pychopath.
"Hot Coffee" is not part of that content since you can't get to it without intentionally hacking the code.
Rockstar tried the hacker defense only to be shot down when Hot Coffee was unlocked on the console ports of the game.
The voluntary ratings system cannot survive if adult content can be secretly burnt into a game and later made accessible through publication of a cheat code.
Makes no sense to me. Why buy 5% of a sinking dial-up provider?
20 million or so paying subscribers
Radio@AOL with XM Radio, sitting comfortably at #1 or #2 in the Aribitron ratings. The best free internet radio service around. Great sound, no time-outs, free access through the web, Winamp, or the old Radio@Netscape client.
"[Britannica] has never claimed to meet the needs of a surgeon, a lawyer, or an engineer in his own specialty"
Wikipedia does. Tell me again why lackage is a benefit?
The Brittanica's purpose is to make the broad range of human knowledge accessible to the intelligent general reader, ideally, through vigorous and uniquely personal essays by men and women of extraordinary accomplishment, an Einstein or a Freud.
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I don't have access to Britannica, but I'm willing to bet that it doesn't explain the Reed-Solomon configuration for error correction on CDs
For two hundred and thirty-five years, the Britannica's target audience had been well-educated readers with interests outside their immediate experience or profession. The encyclopedia has never claimed to meet the needs of a surgeon, a lawyer, or an engineer in his own specialty.
I'm surprised the movie industry doesn't just have them shot and be done with it
Posts like these, modded +5, and the comments which inevitably follow, do not say much for the maturity of the Geek mind and culture:
"But it's no more surprising than the fact that nobody's yet provided the movie and music industry bosses with remedial education of the ballistic kind. With 100+ million active downloaders in the world feeling persecuted by a greed machine, death is coming, statistically"
It is lunatic to define "persecution" as "being forced to pay for music or movies produced for commercial distribution." and to suggest that the proper punishment is death.
I'd like to see a law stating that you get your money back or a free fixed edition if you buy an encyclopedia with an error.
The Britannica has been publishing its hardcover Book of the Year since before World War Two. Britannica, full text, on CD/DVD costs about $20-$40.
what is it I'm paying for?
Historically, among other things, signed and credentialed, peer-reviewed, articles, often book-length essays, by authors as significant as Einstein and Freud, essays that can stand on their own merits as prime examples of English prose.
This seems like a well thought out and logical article. But unfortunately it will probably fall on deaf ears for those who support Hillary Clinton's cause to ban games she doesn't personally approve of
The political focus remains on the marketing and sale of adult content to minors and the integrity of the ratings system:
"I have developed legislation that will empower parents by making sure their kids can't walk into a store and buy a video game that has graphic, violent and pornographic content." Hillary Clinton
Mrs. Clinton has shown she can win both the inner city and the suburbs. She is a successful centrist Democrat who has helped to drive a state Republican Party into chaos.
Not that I am disagreeing entirely, but in academia, peer review is done by people that have proven that they are experts in a field. Any random shmo can edit a Wiki. Wikipedia editors, by and large, need offer no credentials.
I would add that, as a traditional safeguard, nothing gets into print before it clears editorial and peer review.
Calling it "Windoze" won't endear you to the 95% of the market that might be persuaded to download the patch. You want IPv6 content, give your ISP a real reason to upgrade.
The reason this went unfound for so long? No one cares about Seigenthaler. Even if he was a Nazi.
Not good enough. Not nearly good enough.
A gets his libel of B published in the Wikipedia as an authentic biography. B doesn't know it exists. B isn't a likely target of a independent Wikipedia search. But A is posting the link outside the Wikipedia and its internal controls to everyone who can do B harm.
The number of readers does not matter so long as the libel reaches its target audience.
Remember "Grokster?" To the extent that the Wikipedia describes itself as the successor to the Brittanica, sotto voice disclaimers that it is not authoritative may not be persuasive to a judge and jury.
it sounds like the people he showed it to were people to whom he was saying, "Hey, look at what I put on this web site, isn't it funny?" Therefore I suspect that 100% of the people who read the article knew it was a hoax.
It sounds more like: "Hey, look at what this encyclopedia says about S. and the Kennedys!" There is no payoff unless the article appears authentic.
The essense of libel is a disturbance of the peace.
That is why truth was for centuries no defense. You simply cannot be allowed to call someone a murderer in print and shrug it off afterwards as a joke.
If the hoaxer had wanted people to read the hoax, he could have linked to it from the Kennedy article, for example. But then guess what? -- people would have corrected the hoax.
The hoaxer pointed readers to the article to shock the friends of its victim. He worked entirely outside the Wikipedia and its internal controls.
There are reasons why the Brittanica has survived for over 200 years. Nothing in the EB gets into print without real editorial review.
the act said the authors or the ISP (Wikipedia or Wikipedia's ISP) are not liable for any libel information which may be posted since they are not actual publishers
The CDA provides an ISP a limited "common carrier" defense against state and federal criminal prosecution for harassment, distribution of pornography to minors, etc. It does not protect the original publisher of the libel.
it's completely unfair for the author of this article to hold OOo up as some sort of typical example of an Open Source project
But OpenOffice.org is typical of OS projects that have "brand name" recognition among end-users. In this market, the cathedral model of corporate funding and control is still very much alive.
The Simputer: Began as yet another high-profile, charitable project. 4000 units sold to large-sale commercial enterprises that needed a PDA for auto diagnostics and other specialized apps. The poor aren't buying and the middle class can afford much better. Simputer
India had a programme to help fishermen be informed about storms and the like by having a special radio channel that broadcast such information. They gave all the fishermen free transistor radios and told them to use it - and guess what? Several lives were saved
We have 85 years experience in bringing radio broadcasting to remote communities using off-the-shelf technologies at a price they can afford.
What does this outsized and fragile hand-cranked PDA bring to the table?
This posted to a site where every incremental improvement in an OS app still in Beta gets trumpeted like the Second Coming and the True Believers recompile their kernel every night.
Copyright is, at its most basic, the monopoly to use force to control a non-physical "thing." Before copyright racketeering, we had ten thousand years of art, music and creation.,
The process bound to the fabulously wealthy and powerful private patron, the merchant prince, the shogun, the church, and the state.
This is the world of Shakespeare and Davinci, Michaelangelo and Mozart. The world in which Tyndale burns at the stake for his translation of the Bible.
I think I'll take my stand with a regime that has given an independent voice to the underclass and to those of low and middle state. Dickens and Twain, Joplin and Berlin, Baldwin and Hammett, Ellington and Elvis.
The laws of supply and demand say anything for sale with an unlimited supply is worthless.
Distribution is not production. No deposit, no return.
Small bands that give away their music are seeing increased sales of show tickets and merchandise
Our own home-grown bands compete with casino shows drawing adult audiences to big-name talent, theme-park sized performance venues, and the best cheap eats in town.
"India still constitutes less than one or two percent of the world software and related service markets. The total revenues of the entire software industry in India amount to less than a third of Microsoft revenues." Vibhu Srinivasan
Microsoft will be opening 500 retail centers in eight Indian cities over the next six months, targeting home users and small business.
The focus will be on the convenience of the OEM install, Win MCE 2005, Windows media, games, mature small business applications, etc. Everything the middle class likes about Windows.
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You view a movie from a greater physical and psychological distance.
You are not invited to wield the knife yourself or rewarded for the ingenuity of your kills. You are not encouraged to invest 40 to 60 hours or more in role-playing a pychopath.
Rockstar tried the hacker defense only to be shot down when Hot Coffee was unlocked on the console ports of the game.
The voluntary ratings system cannot survive if adult content can be secretly burnt into a game and later made accessible through publication of a cheat code.
20 million or so paying subscribers
Radio@AOL with XM Radio, sitting comfortably at #1 or #2 in the Aribitron ratings. The best free internet radio service around. Great sound, no time-outs, free access through the web, Winamp, or the old Radio@Netscape client.
AIM
Microsoft to distribute XP SP2 on one million CDs [July 9, 2004]
No charge, even for postage.
You would also have found SP2 bundled with your favorite computer magazine.
Wikipedia does. Tell me again why lackage is a benefit?
The Brittanica's purpose is to make the broad range of human knowledge accessible to the intelligent general reader, ideally, through vigorous and uniquely personal essays by men and women of extraordinary accomplishment, an Einstein or a Freud. .
For two hundred and thirty-five years, the Britannica's target audience had been well-educated readers with interests outside their immediate experience or profession. The encyclopedia has never claimed to meet the needs of a surgeon, a lawyer, or an engineer in his own specialty.
Posts like these, modded +5, and the comments which inevitably follow, do not say much for the maturity of the Geek mind and culture:
"But it's no more surprising than the fact that nobody's yet provided the movie and music industry bosses with remedial education of the ballistic kind. With 100+ million active downloaders in the world feeling persecuted by a greed machine, death is coming, statistically"
It is lunatic to define "persecution" as "being forced to pay for music or movies produced for commercial distribution." and to suggest that the proper punishment is death.
The Britannica has been publishing its hardcover Book of the Year since before World War Two. Britannica, full text, on CD/DVD costs about $20-$40.
what is it I'm paying for?
Historically, among other things, signed and credentialed, peer-reviewed, articles, often book-length essays, by authors as significant as Einstein and Freud, essays that can stand on their own merits as prime examples of English prose.
The political focus remains on the marketing and sale of adult content to minors and the integrity of the ratings system:
"I have developed legislation that will empower parents by making sure their kids can't walk into a store and buy a video game that has graphic, violent and pornographic content." Hillary Clinton
Mrs. Clinton has shown she can win both the inner city and the suburbs. She is a successful centrist Democrat who has helped to drive a state Republican Party into chaos.
I would add that, as a traditional safeguard, nothing gets into print before it clears editorial and peer review.
Calling it "Windoze" won't endear you to the 95% of the market that might be persuaded to download the patch. You want IPv6 content, give your ISP a real reason to upgrade.
Not good enough. Not nearly good enough.
A gets his libel of B published in the Wikipedia as an authentic biography. B doesn't know it exists. B isn't a likely target of a independent Wikipedia search. But A is posting the link outside the Wikipedia and its internal controls to everyone who can do B harm.
The number of readers does not matter so long as the libel reaches its target audience.
Remember "Grokster?" To the extent that the Wikipedia describes itself as the successor to the Brittanica, sotto voice disclaimers that it is not authoritative may not be persuasive to a judge and jury.
As I remember the books, Aslan's size is somewhat abritrary and subjective. He is as big as your imagination, love, need or fear makes him.
You might want to compare Disney's Aslan with Bill Melendez's 1979 cartoon and the BBC's mix of live action, animation, and puppetry from 1988.
It sounds more like: "Hey, look at what this encyclopedia says about S. and the Kennedys!" There is no payoff unless the article appears authentic.
The essense of libel is a disturbance of the peace.
That is why truth was for centuries no defense. You simply cannot be allowed to call someone a murderer in print and shrug it off afterwards as a joke.
The hoaxer pointed readers to the article to shock the friends of its victim. He worked entirely outside the Wikipedia and its internal controls.
There are reasons why the Brittanica has survived for over 200 years. Nothing in the EB gets into print without real editorial review.
The CDA provides an ISP a limited "common carrier" defense against state and federal criminal prosecution for harassment, distribution of pornography to minors, etc. It does not protect the original publisher of the libel.
But OpenOffice.org is typical of OS projects that have "brand name" recognition among end-users. In this market, the cathedral model of corporate funding and control is still very much alive.
The Simputer: Began as yet another high-profile, charitable project. 4000 units sold to large-sale commercial enterprises that needed a PDA for auto diagnostics and other specialized apps. The poor aren't buying and the middle class can afford much better. Simputer
We have 85 years experience in bringing radio broadcasting to remote communities using off-the-shelf technologies at a price they can afford.
What does this outsized and fragile hand-cranked PDA bring to the table?
Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86) 23 MB, 2-4 minutes to download, assumming a broadband connection.
if you're developing consumer Windows application with .NET v2.0...well, mod yourself down.
Paint.NET has aThis posted to a site where every incremental improvement in an OS app still in Beta gets trumpeted like the Second Coming and the True Believers recompile their kernel every night.
You begin by asking whether editions in the public domain are academically sound and in a state suitable for modern performance.
The process bound to the fabulously wealthy and powerful private patron, the merchant prince, the shogun, the church, and the state.
This is the world of Shakespeare and Davinci, Michaelangelo and Mozart. The world in which Tyndale burns at the stake for his translation of the Bible.
I think I'll take my stand with a regime that has given an independent voice to the underclass and to those of low and middle state. Dickens and Twain, Joplin and Berlin, Baldwin and Hammett, Ellington and Elvis.
The laws of supply and demand say anything for sale with an unlimited supply is worthless.
Distribution is not production. No deposit, no return.
Small bands that give away their music are seeing increased sales of show tickets and merchandise
Our own home-grown bands compete with casino shows drawing adult audiences to big-name talent, theme-park sized performance venues, and the best cheap eats in town.
They start small and they stay small.
it follows logically that Massachusetts should also turn its back on OpenDoc and OpenOffice.org because development is underwritten by Sun:
Current Employment Opportunites Sun Microsystems India
"India still constitutes less than one or two percent of the world software and related service markets. The total revenues of the entire software industry in India amount to less than a third of Microsoft revenues." Vibhu Srinivasan
Microsoft will be opening 500 retail centers in eight Indian cities over the next six months, targeting home users and small business.
The focus will be on the convenience of the OEM install, Win MCE 2005, Windows media, games, mature small business applications, etc. Everything the middle class likes about Windows.
There will be partnerships with OEMs and retail finance. Microsoft India finds retail & SMEs hot