Copywrite in the U.S. is based around the fact that there haven't been any significant advancements in technology for about 40 years.
What we've been seeing is a lot of tweaking, turning telephones and calculators into computers. But it hasn't been really new idea's.
If the copywrite laws break down or are allowed to expire the west will lose the moral right they gain from saying that they are the ones responsible for new technology, this is used as a justification for our quality of life which is mainly bolstered by stringent immigration laws.
I'm just stating what seems to be the reasoning behind the government's position. It works logically, unfortunatly right now they are dealing with an increasingly inward looking society. And societies that contemplate their navels, don't inovate, aren't dynamic, and don't survive.
Someone wanna put this up on suprnova? It's almost time for me to format, I'm installing all the crapware I always wanted to try and this looks interesting.
They would force Microsoft to create products around an open set of standards.
This is kind of interesting because it only applies to computer programming (actually I suppose it applies to any interchangeable parts in a machine but people rarely swap those in and out) but the main barrier to someone trying to assault the microsoft monopoly is that they use propreietary standards for their products.
No other word program can enter the market without being able to read and write.doc files for example.
There is no real reason for this, it is simply a way to bolster their monopoly, it is not as if these standards are particularly novel.
I wonder how you would write this as a law though, "outgoing documents and media material must be in a open standard"?
I think it would be unfair to deny them the ability to have documents make procedure calls (usually just a seemingly random interger in the file that tells the program to do soemthing specific) on their applications though so they can't move to a totally open standard.
Since there is skype for pocket pc it makes any pocket PC into a mobile phone.
What's more it is only useful when you are making outgoing calls or expecting an incomming one so there is not that annoying incoming cell phone buzz.
People will switch entirely to IP telephony and it will be free eventually, the hardware to implement it will become powerful enough.
What's bogging it down? No standards. Same as Webcams there simply is no way to get everyone onto one system except to get them to abandon their old system, something the telephone network never had to deal with.
If is has backwards compatibility and games are still developed for both platforms what's the harm!
Also OUR systems shipped with a harddrive so I can download games off the net, there will never be a lack of content as long as people want to make it for free or pay for it.
And if worst comes to worst it works just fine for streaming movies from my computer or DVD.
Toms is the site majorly responsible for the AMD heat issue scandal, the ATI and NVidia optimization and quality scandals and other's.
They may not be the first to market or have the most popular products but they often have the best reviews and it's investigative journalism.
Basically they are saying that many of the products that pass through their labs have glaring faults that they simply cannot assess with 12 hours of benchmarking.
They also need to look around at some of the customer complaints and assess the level of problems for themselves, I have to RFA crap all the time and it pisses me off. There is nowhere where you can get statistics on this kind of thing but Tom's takes the time to check out "common complaints" and see if there is a problem with the manufacturing.
There is so much music with the internet supply and demand mean that everyone doesn't need to pay so much for the crap.. it's like an instant message program, any chance you'd pay for one?
No, you switch to another one in a heartbeat. Why should we pay for the development of something people create for free all the time?
If I want a symphony made for my opera I will get investors together or if I want to see it performed I will pay, but to pay for popular music which I can get MOST EASILY THROUGH THE INTERNET?.
Hey dude I know my BBS's, efnet, dalnet, etc. (too young for listmail or whaever.
Hell yea we're lazy and it's a good thing too!
No one cares about information, they care about information organization and distribution. That will always have to be paid for because it simply can't be automated. If I don't know where to start google won't help.
Um you can install virus scanners that suck your resources but really, you shouldn't have to. These people are engaging in a wanton act of vandalism.
They destroy legitimate sources of advertising income.
They should be treated as criminals... how would you label someone who says, "They broke my window, I buy a new one problem solved! I like spammers if they break your window don't get angry!" -Flamebait.
CS doesn't have a monopoly on team based, squad combat, the only reason to play is the level of the gamers involved.
That being said Raven Shield is heading for the $19.99 bin and bullshit with extra "content packs" aside it's a brilliant game.
I got a copy of HL2 for free but I won't be using it until I'm damn sure they won't want credit card information.
The sad thing is that people will never have a game they can play nostalgicly, they will never have the option of being without steam. Why would you trust these people? They are trying to move away from Vivendi and ensure that they have a ton of money to start publishing for themselves.
On top of that you are playing MODS these were created by people who theorertically loved the gaming community, now they are thinking of doing it for a living! How many people who contributed to making CS, DOD, Natural Selection and other things that allowed this state of events will never be payed? In fact their hard work was flushed down the drain with the arrival of Steam.
Mod makers I beg you develop for a free platform! There are engines out there you can use for free!
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Copywrite in the U.S. is based around the fact that there haven't been any significant advancements in technology for about 40 years.
What we've been seeing is a lot of tweaking, turning telephones and calculators into computers. But it hasn't been really new idea's.
If the copywrite laws break down or are allowed to expire the west will lose the moral right they gain from saying that they are the ones responsible for new technology, this is used as a justification for our quality of life which is mainly bolstered by stringent immigration laws.
I'm just stating what seems to be the reasoning behind the government's position. It works logically, unfortunatly right now they are dealing with an increasingly inward looking society. And societies that contemplate their navels, don't inovate, aren't dynamic, and don't survive.
When you start against a monopoly there is only one competitor..(note period 1 should be read period.
Someone wanna put this up on suprnova? It's almost time for me to format, I'm installing all the crapware I always wanted to try and this looks interesting.
Whatever microsoft says is the standard. Well guess what... it's the standard. All the problems you have listed above are moot.
They would force Microsoft to create products around an open set of standards.
.doc files for example.
This is kind of interesting because it only applies to computer programming (actually I suppose it applies to any interchangeable parts in a machine but people rarely swap those in and out) but the main barrier to someone trying to assault the microsoft monopoly is that they use propreietary standards for their products.
No other word program can enter the market without being able to read and write
There is no real reason for this, it is simply a way to bolster their monopoly, it is not as if these standards are particularly novel.
I wonder how you would write this as a law though, "outgoing documents and media material must be in a open standard"?
I think it would be unfair to deny them the ability to have documents make procedure calls (usually just a seemingly random interger in the file that tells the program to do soemthing specific) on their applications though so they can't move to a totally open standard.
Since there is skype for pocket pc it makes any pocket PC into a mobile phone.
What's more it is only useful when you are making outgoing calls or expecting an incomming one so there is not that annoying incoming cell phone buzz.
People will switch entirely to IP telephony and it will be free eventually, the hardware to implement it will become powerful enough.
What's bogging it down? No standards. Same as Webcams there simply is no way to get everyone onto one system except to get them to abandon their old system, something the telephone network never had to deal with.
Sigh called home today 1 word in 10. Quality out is not so great.
Raises hand, Sega Owner!
Saying nintendo has better hardware because people take advantage of hacks?
N64 vs Ps1 hmmm there's a tough choice.
I loved Super Mario Kart, Starfox and other's, but technically... not super awsome.
Nintendo has traditionaly had the weakest hardware in every respect.
:)
Sigh... I really hate you nintendo fanboys
If is has backwards compatibility and games are still developed for both platforms what's the harm!
Also OUR systems shipped with a harddrive so I can download games off the net, there will never be a lack of content as long as people want to make it for free or pay for it.
And if worst comes to worst it works just fine for streaming movies from my computer or DVD.
Don't be bitter baby, you too can buy one.
Toms is the site majorly responsible for the AMD heat issue scandal, the ATI and NVidia optimization and quality scandals and other's.
They may not be the first to market or have the most popular products but they often have the best reviews and it's investigative journalism.
Basically they are saying that many of the products that pass through their labs have glaring faults that they simply cannot assess with 12 hours of benchmarking.
They also need to look around at some of the customer complaints and assess the level of problems for themselves, I have to RFA crap all the time and it pisses me off. There is nowhere where you can get statistics on this kind of thing but Tom's takes the time to check out "common complaints" and see if there is a problem with the manufacturing.
Basically the problem with advertising is that it is SO cheap!
They make way more from advertising than it costs.
People have no idea how to organize to drive the price of advertising up!
They don't compete with each other for advertising space... If slashdot charged 8c a hit think of the resources that would be available to them?
One commercial a TV show etc.
these guys send millions of spam, imagine a million pebbles.
There is so much music with the internet supply and demand mean that everyone doesn't need to pay so much for the crap.. it's like an instant message program, any chance you'd pay for one?
No, you switch to another one in a heartbeat. Why should we pay for the development of something people create for free all the time?
If I want a symphony made for my opera I will get investors together or if I want to see it performed I will pay, but to pay for popular music which I can get MOST EASILY THROUGH THE INTERNET?.
No, I'm sorry, you lose.
I'm amazed that they are able to charge people who SHARE music but not people who download it? Who came up with that brilliant peice of logic.
Hey dude I know my BBS's, efnet, dalnet, etc. (too young for listmail or whaever.
Hell yea we're lazy and it's a good thing too!
No one cares about information, they care about information organization and distribution. That will always have to be paid for because it simply can't be automated. If I don't know where to start google won't help.
Um you can install virus scanners that suck your resources but really, you shouldn't have to. These people are engaging in a wanton act of vandalism.
They destroy legitimate sources of advertising income.
They should be treated as criminals... how would you label someone who says, "They broke my window, I buy a new one problem solved! I like spammers if they break your window don't get angry!" -Flamebait.
one pebble per spam otta do it.
As someone in stats I think the most interesting thing is the actual effect the game has on voter opnion.
Which is very real in a race where people don't follow the actual issues. Conservatism vs Progress Pessimism vs Optomism.
Your a moron if you think that a search engine can replace the power of human contact.
That's how we ended up with Kazaa spyware edition. If people had asked they would have known about kazaalite.
URL me.
Do I need a cd key for that.
Actually I have one, but I've been thinking of running a non key server for a while.
CS doesn't have a monopoly on team based, squad combat, the only reason to play is the level of the gamers involved.
That being said Raven Shield is heading for the $19.99 bin and bullshit with extra "content packs" aside it's a brilliant game.
I got a copy of HL2 for free but I won't be using it until I'm damn sure they won't want credit card information.
The sad thing is that people will never have a game they can play nostalgicly, they will never have the option of being without steam. Why would you trust these people? They are trying to move away from Vivendi and ensure that they have a ton of money to start publishing for themselves.
On top of that you are playing MODS these were created by people who theorertically loved the gaming community, now they are thinking of doing it for a living! How many people who contributed to making CS, DOD, Natural Selection and other things that allowed this state of events will never be payed? In fact their hard work was flushed down the drain with the arrival of Steam.
Mod makers I beg you develop for a free platform! There are engines out there you can use for free!
If a politician ran on a platform of almost total transparency I would like to think he would get total voteage.
Republican or Democrat doesn't really matter when you worry they do something meriting impeachment behind closed doors.
Politicians that do this WILL win it's as simple as that.
If they release this as a standard system with free games it would totally blow other systems away.
The game makers aren't making money on the old titles anyway so getting a lump sum to package them with the dreamcast doesn't seem far out of line.