Yeah, but the "buy total shit because it's homemade" argument is dead in the water. Should you subsidize inferior, inefficient products with your pocketbook? No, and no economist would tell you to.
"Buy American" is patriotic-sounding, but wrong. Punishing buggywhip businesses that is darwinian, and - long term - better for the economy.
Yeah, I find it hard to believe. If the economics work, then the envronment aspects (probably) work out too.
If $10 worth CFLs can certainly save you more then $10 worth of electricity; but the OP think it costs more than $10 worth of oil to ship it here? If true, then they're loosing money on each shipment.
That's the best part of the GPL - if the court did decide that the GPL constitutes a "contract without consideration," and therefore was null and void... then the person making the copies is a copyright infringer. They've just argued away the only protection they had from a copyright lawsuit; they need to go back and negotiate with the copyright holder, because they have no permission to make copies.
The GPL is Judo for copyright law, using the aggressor's own weight against him.
No, the GPL serves a very different function than an EULA. The EULA takes rights away from you (like warranty protections and, sometime, ability tu publish benchmarks) - the GPL gives you rights you wouldn't otherwise have.
You need to agree to the EULA in order to install or use a program - not true for the GPL. You need to agree to the GPL in order to *copy and distribute* the GPL program - or, if you don't agree, you're a copyright infringer, because the GPL is the only thing giving you permission to make copies and distribute them.
It's nice to see the courts agree here (albeit pertaining to a different license) - "a violation of those conditions would put the violating product outside the license and thus make the violator a copyright infringer, potentially liable for an injunction. "
$599 for the Mac Mini - run it headless and remote into it from your other machines. $399 for the iPod touch. No service fees. $99 for the iPhone Developer program (you can write code for free, but you need a license to install on your device.)
That's $1100. Not pocket change, but not $3k either.
Even if we assume that taking screenshots is the same as photography, It is still 100% copyright infringement.
A photograph of a copyrighted work is a "derivative work." The right to create derivative works is reserved for whoever owns the copyright on the orginals (in this case Bethesda, Blizzard, others.)
They were not photographing trees or rocks here - they were copying someone else's work of art.
>It sure looks like it could fall under >fair use and derivative work.
No and "yes, but." Because it is for commercial use, and not for research or reporting, it's unlikely to be considered Fair Use. (There is no "10% rule" for Fair Use - "it's more a set of guidelines," yo ho, where you have to pass multiple tests to *possibly* be protected by the doctrine.)
It *is* certainly a derivative work, but that damns them, not saves them. The right to make derivative works lies with the original creator, so they're still screwed.
You've said "ethnically homogeneous" enough times that I have to ask what you're getting at. Are you saying that around people who look like you there's lower crime, but as soon as you have "them" roaming around it's a problem?
Seriously?
You get bonus points if you can use the phrase "mud people" in your answer.
Thank you! I'm not the only one that noticed tension between Cam and the girlfriend. I think that was a subplot that was cut from the script before filming, although Ferris alludes to it when he says "[Sloane] still has one more year of school left."
>[...] game authors could all have a single platform [...]
Except that the PC is not a single platform - there is a lot of work involved in making a PC title work on PCs with different processors / grapics cards / memory etc.
If you want to play a 5 year old playstation game, you can drop it into your machine tonight and start playing. If you want to play a 5 year old PC game - whoa Nelly. Get ready to downgrade your video drivers to get Knights of the Old Republic to work at normal speed, dive into your registry to keep the tanks in Mechwarrior 3 on the ground, and to tear your hair out when Freespace crashes at the start if a mission.
If console customers are paying a premium, it's for quality control, ease of use, and a stable platform.
The article needs more fact checking. I'm not a video game historian, but some errors jumped out here -
Blockbuster wasn't sued for renting out manuals (don't libraries do that?) They were sued for photocopying the manuals and keeping the originals. Copyright violation.
"Data East's 1984 arcade game" was not "The Way of Karate" - it was "Karate Champ."
Obese individuals DIDN'T sue McDonalds and win - they sued Mcdonalds and lost. The author is confusing that lawsuit with the woman who was served a cup of lava; she sued and won.
This would have been cool 3 years ago, but it's pointless now. For $300 you can get a wireless router and one wireless lan card, and you're golden anywhere in the house. This'll pay off in the future when your office or your local coffee shop sets up a wireless lan.
If you're worried about security, set the router so it only accepts signals from defined MAC addresses.
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Interesting side note - sweat doesn't smell, the ammonia waste products of bacteria smell. (Biologists are free to correct me here.)
If you're fresh out of the shower with clean clothes on (like I am when I rollerblade to work in the morning) you can sweat like a hog, but you won't smell; not enough bacteria eat sweat and make BO.
Eight hours later, you've built up a good supply of buggers (they've been multipling all day). When you rollerblade home, they'll gobble up all the sweat you make and then you'll stink. This is why your high-school gym clothes stank - they were bacteria havens that you fed with your sweat every day.
I was worried about the BO thing, especially in the summer, but it really doesn't happen.
MAPS has a regular practice of blocking large groups of IP numbers (often an entire ISP), with the intention of disruption to the spammer and many non-spammer customers at that same ISP.
I see no lie. It's true MAPS will sometimes block and entire IP range. This usually happens under a specific set of circumstances, like when one IP address has been blocked, and the ISP moves the spammer to another address to avoid the block.
In that case it's clear that the ISP is actively supporting spam, so the ISP's whole netblock goes in the black hole. Does this cause collateral damage? You bet it does, and this puts pressure on the black-hat ISP to clean up their act. I don't see a problem with it.
If the ISP is facilitating SPAM, then its block goes into the list. The IP address doesn't actually blelong to the end user any more than your telephone number does.
Telemarketers pay their phone bills, and are regulated - they must identify themselves. If I tell them to stop calling, they have to. Spammers do not.
Spammers lie (forge messages) and steal (exploit open mail relays). Wait until your company's mail server is crashed by a spammer trying to send 10,000 Make-Money-Fast messages from his PC, which is dialed into a Bellsouth dial-up line. Then tell me that spammers are honest businessmen and contributors to society.
This is also the man who brought us "Heavenly Creatures." If you have any doubts about his ability to be brilliant, see that movie. (Not that MTF and BD/DA aren't brilliant - just in different ways.)
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The LOTR strategy games were good - inclduing War of the Ring, which you can get for supercheap, and Battle for Middle Earth 1/2.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II
Action-wise, Return of the King is also fun for co-op play on consoles. My wife and I played it through twice.
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Yeah, but the "buy total shit because it's homemade" argument is dead in the water. Should you subsidize inferior, inefficient products with your pocketbook? No, and no economist would tell you to.
"Buy American" is patriotic-sounding, but wrong. Punishing buggywhip businesses that is darwinian, and - long term - better for the economy.
The cost of the fuel is reflected in the price of the product - if it makes economic sense to buy CFLs, it makes environmental sense too.
Yeah, I find it hard to believe. If the economics work, then the envronment aspects (probably) work out too.
If $10 worth CFLs can certainly save you more then $10 worth of electricity; but the OP think it costs more than $10 worth of oil to ship it here? If true, then they're loosing money on each shipment.
In short.. bullshit.
That's the best part of the GPL - if the court did decide that the GPL constitutes a "contract without consideration," and therefore was null and void... then the person making the copies is a copyright infringer. They've just argued away the only protection they had from a copyright lawsuit; they need to go back and negotiate with the copyright holder, because they have no permission to make copies.
The GPL is Judo for copyright law, using the aggressor's own weight against him.
No, the GPL serves a very different function than an EULA. The EULA takes rights away from you (like warranty protections and, sometime, ability tu publish benchmarks) - the GPL gives you rights you wouldn't otherwise have.
You need to agree to the EULA in order to install or use a program - not true for the GPL. You need to agree to the GPL in order to *copy and distribute* the GPL program - or, if you don't agree, you're a copyright infringer, because the GPL is the only thing giving you permission to make copies and distribute them.
It's nice to see the courts agree here (albeit pertaining to a different license) - "a violation of those conditions would put the violating product outside the license and thus make the violator a copyright infringer, potentially liable for an injunction. "
I have to correct [3] - iPhone development costs:
$599 for the Mac Mini - run it headless and remote into it from your other machines.
$399 for the iPod touch. No service fees.
$99 for the iPhone Developer program (you can write code for free, but you need a license to install on your device.)
That's $1100. Not pocket change, but not $3k either.
"where you can give away your certified creations" - does the XNA store allow for free apps?
If you create a library of screenshots for non-commercial commentary, or for personal use, you are probably protected by fair use.
But any time you're doing something commercial which is not news or education, you're pretty much screwed.
(BTW, news or educational uses are not always protected by fair use either; if your use affects the market for the original, you are also screwed.)
Even if we assume that taking screenshots is the same as photography, It is still 100% copyright infringement. A photograph of a copyrighted work is a "derivative work." The right to create derivative works is reserved for whoever owns the copyright on the orginals (in this case Bethesda, Blizzard, others.) They were not photographing trees or rocks here - they were copying someone else's work of art.
>It sure looks like it could fall under
>fair use and derivative work.
No and "yes, but." Because it is for commercial use, and not for research or reporting, it's unlikely to be considered Fair Use. (There is no "10% rule" for Fair Use - "it's more a set of guidelines," yo ho, where you have to pass multiple tests to *possibly* be protected by the doctrine.)
It *is* certainly a derivative work, but that damns them, not saves them. The right to make derivative works lies with the original creator, so they're still screwed.
You've said "ethnically homogeneous" enough times that I have to ask what you're getting at. Are you saying that around people who look like you there's lower crime, but as soon as you have "them" roaming around it's a problem?
Seriously?
You get bonus points if you can use the phrase "mud people" in your answer.
>and Cameron got the girl...
Thank you! I'm not the only one that noticed tension between Cam and the girlfriend. I think that was a subplot that was cut from the script before filming, although Ferris alludes to it when he says "[Sloane] still has one more year of school left."
Okay, you caught my hyperbole. I'm glad I didn't say "consoles never crash."
Still, the difference between compatability problems on consoles and PCs is
slight, it's two orders of magnitude.
>[...] game authors could all have a single platform [...]
Except that the PC is not a single platform - there is a
lot of work involved in making a PC title work on PCs
with different processors / grapics cards / memory etc.
If you want to play a 5 year old playstation game, you can
drop it into your machine tonight and start playing. If you
want to play a 5 year old PC game - whoa Nelly. Get ready
to downgrade your video drivers to get Knights of the Old
Republic to work at normal speed, dive into your registry
to keep the tanks in Mechwarrior 3 on the ground, and to
tear your hair out when Freespace crashes at the start if
a mission.
If console customers are paying a premium, it's for quality
control, ease of use, and a stable platform.
The article needs more fact checking. I'm not a video game historian, but some errors jumped out here -
Blockbuster wasn't sued for renting out manuals (don't libraries do that?) They were sued for photocopying the manuals and keeping the originals. Copyright violation.
"Data East's 1984 arcade game" was not "The Way of Karate" - it was "Karate Champ."
Obese individuals DIDN'T sue McDonalds and win - they sued Mcdonalds and lost. The author is confusing that lawsuit with the woman who was served a cup of lava; she sued and won.
In this country it makes you look like a pervert, but
EVERY SINGLE SCOTTISH PERSON DOES IT!
This would have been cool 3 years ago, but it's pointless now. For $300 you can get a wireless router and one wireless lan card, and you're golden anywhere in the house. This'll pay off in the future when your office or your local coffee shop sets up a wireless lan.
If you're worried about security, set the router so it only accepts signals from defined MAC addresses.
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Interesting side note - sweat doesn't smell, the ammonia waste products of bacteria smell. (Biologists are free to correct me here.)
If you're fresh out of the shower with clean clothes on (like I am when I rollerblade to work in the morning) you can sweat like a hog, but you won't smell; not enough bacteria eat sweat and make BO.
Eight hours later, you've built up a good supply of buggers (they've been multipling all day). When you rollerblade home, they'll gobble up all the sweat you make and then you'll stink. This is why your high-school gym clothes stank - they were bacteria havens that you fed with your sweat every day.
I was worried about the BO thing, especially in the summer, but it really doesn't happen.
MAPS has a regular practice of blocking large groups of IP numbers (often an entire ISP), with the intention of disruption to the spammer and many non-spammer customers at that same ISP.
I see no lie. It's true MAPS will sometimes block and entire IP range. This usually happens under a specific set of circumstances, like when one IP address has been blocked, and the ISP moves the spammer to another address to avoid the block.
In that case it's clear that the ISP is actively supporting spam, so the ISP's whole netblock goes in the black hole. Does this cause collateral damage? You bet it does, and this puts pressure on the black-hat ISP to clean up their act. I don't see a problem with it.
If the ISP is facilitating SPAM, then its block goes into the list. The IP address doesn't actually blelong to the end user any more than your telephone number does.
Telemarketers pay their phone bills, and are regulated - they must identify themselves. If I tell them to stop calling, they have to. Spammers do not.
Spammers lie (forge messages) and steal (exploit open mail relays). Wait until your company's mail server is crashed by a spammer trying to send 10,000 Make-Money-Fast messages from his PC, which is dialed into a Bellsouth dial-up line. Then tell me that spammers are honest businessmen and contributors to society.
This is also the man who brought us "Heavenly Creatures." If you have any doubts about his ability to be brilliant, see that movie. (Not that MTF and BD/DA aren't brilliant - just in different ways.)
And how is this different from other death cults (read: mainstream xtian religions)?
As another poster pointed out, it's not Mormonism in particular that's the problem - the same issues will come up in any culturally homogenous area.
>Having a majority of the population that beleives
>in things like this would be seriously
>discomforting to most people.
You're right, it is. I wish the USA were less religious than they are.
Oh great, now you've slashdotted a whole country. Very nice!