I miss Rocket Racing. It was fun riding on Mongooses and shooting other people off theirs with rocket launchers.
That is, fun as long as you were playing against people who actually played to win instead of just griefing to prevent anyone else from winning. It could have used a rule that expired the invulnerability for players that stayed off a ride too long.
Imagine: Omega watches which sync up with the radio signal from an atomic clock, but refuse to configure themselves for any timezones other than those for which it was authorized for sale.
Of course, they'd lose the lucrative international traveler market. Or they'll have temporary time zone support, but if you stay too long in a foreign timezone it will reset or disable itself.
And then comes the question: what if I, as an (American) international traveler, buy one of their manufactured-in-Switzerland watches cheaply in an authorized country, travel back to the US, and then decide I don't like it (or need the money) and want to sell the watch on eBay? Apparently they want to bar me from selling the watch because it wasn't authorized for sale in the US.
Will they have their goons patrolling the US looking for people wearing imported watches and harass them to show their receipts showing they personally purchased the watch overseas or give up who sold them the watch under threat of prosecution? "Product's papers, please?"
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
And IIRC was not originally a plumber but rather a zookeeper. At least, that's my vague impression of the depiction in the cartoon series "Saturday Supercade".
Mario didn't chase coins until Mario Bros. Before that he was trading off roles with Donkey Kong, first trying to rescue Pauline, then carrying a whip and sending snapjaws after Donkey Kong Jr. trying to free his daddy, and then shooting bug spray up Donkey Kong's butt.
And only when they went "super" did they obsess over a magical mushroom kingdom. (Though Donkey Kong did ask, "How high can you get?" it was literally about the height you'd climb in pursuit of the ape, not how stoned out of your mind you'll get on 'shrooms.)
What difference does it make if they say you can break DRM in your own home for private use if the tools necessary to do so are still illegal to possess, sell, offer as a service, or otherwise traffic in?
And by using the anchor tags yourself, you can even add spaces: Steal This Film.com vs. Stealth Is Film.com. (See also "Pen Island".) And that also avoids including the period in the URL.
Ah, the classic "it's not censorship if it's not the government" argument.
"Freedom. You know, writers have no freedom on TV. One rude suggestion, and the censors are straight on their back. Not on their back in a rude way."
"Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm. Successful, isn't it?"
"Well, most people would agree that censors are a silly breed. In fact, it surprises me how they ever manage to breed at all."
"Now, I'm no librarian - in fact, I don't know what star sign I am - but, as a famous person once said, `You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.' And as I - another more famous person - once said, `If you don't teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like!'"
Murray: Those that can, do. Those that can't, censor it.
Theora Jones: [reading a list of complaints from the network Censor] "I have noted three 'damns,' four 'hells,' sixteen cases of sexual innuendo, a reference to self-abuse, two veiled remarks about Network presidents, and a joke about the Son of God." Doesn't say which god. Edison Carter: I'm sure it's the current one. It's probably the guy who's running the Censor computer.
Ben Cheviot: Override Censor? Good God, Murray! I'm the Chairman, not the Creator!
And lastly, from a different episode, but more on-point to your "not the government" observation:
Edison Carter: Security Systems has its tendrils into every element of our society - the government, our homes, the police, the courts - I'm not gonna spike this story just because it deals with dollar amounts beyond your comprehension! It's too important! Murray:...cerebral... Theora Jones: Murray, we're trying to play this takeover as a threat to our average viewer. Nobody knows who's doing it. I mean, we all deal with SS every day - what if some really dangerous people got control of it? Murray: Who do you think controls it now?
Fuck Mohammed and his nine year old kid fucking condoning followers.
I don't understand what you're saying. Why is an old kid fucking Mohammed's condoning followers? And what's a "nine year"? Is it a year containing the digit "9"? It's 2010 now, dude. And why should we fuck an old kid? That sounds like statutory rape of a teenager to me.
(That sentence is so totally fucked it has not even a remnant of a hym^Hphen anywhere!)
I was expecting them to make a reference directly to the black censored bar as resembling the 1:4:9 Monoliths in 2001 and 2010. Especially since this is 2010!
They could have done it by having the "goo extractor" go out of control and operate in reverse, sucking all the celebrities into Muhammad, capped with the line, "My Muhammad, He's full of stars!"
Or did they use the Monolith as a reference before?
Collectors also contribute to removing old currency from distribution. I'm holding onto examples of multiple revisions of $5 and $10 bills.
I'm surprised that the features of this new $100 survived the crumpler test. Basically, it has to survive mechanically crushing the bill into a tube approximately one inch long and 1/4 inch diameter and retrieval without destroying the security feature. Holograms tend to get destroyed by this test. (Why so extreme? The only reason I can think of is so that it would survive ingestion in an established container used by espionage agents.)
- SACD playback (software) Did anyone actually want this? While it's likely that a PS3 owner would have an HDTV, it's unlikely they would own a high end audio setup to take advantage of SACD. Anyone serious about this functionality would own a proper standalone SACD player. Less hardware = cheaper console.
I didn't know I had it. I have one of the older PS3s with backwards compatibility. I do have SACDs. I also understood that they only allowed playback through 5.1 RCA analog cables, not S/PDIF. The PS3 doesn't have 6-channel RCA cable output; does that mean it would stream 5.1 digital audio from an SACD over S/PDIF? It makes sense then that they'd discontinue that support to prevent access to the raw digital stream.
I have not started the unit up since I heard of this Other OS-bricking update, but I'd applied all previous updates. I hadn't decided whether I'd ever use that Other-OS functionality or not, but I don't want them taking it away. I haven't used any BD-Live functionality, but apparently I'll be foregoing that.
I'm probably going to have to be paranoid about upcoming Blu-ray releases containing automatic updates as well, won't I? Especially from Sony Pictures. Guess I won't be attending Lost University. Not unless someone can come up with firewall rules to isolate the box from Sony's update servers while still allowing BD-Live to work.
While those examples don't explicitly state that those purposes have to apply directly to the copyrighted work used, there is a rationale that you shouldn't be shielded from infringing Peter's copyright just because you're using it to criticize Paul.
"Weird Al" Yankovic can make a parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad" about being fat, but you couldn't take Michael Jackson's "Bad" unaltered paired with images of corrupt politicians who have not only evaded punishment but even received awards to criticize them and not be sued by Jackson's estate. (I may be able to describe such a work legally, but not to realize it.)
The "Downfall" satires IM(IANAL)HO would have been fine if they had taken actual archive footage of Hitler, or possibly reenacted the scene themselves, even with nonsense babbling that only sounded vaguely German (consider some covers of "99 Luftballoons") so that they are also ridiculing Hitler, if only by their own original proxy, qualifying as protected parody.
Maybe if someone could come up with a defense based in the art of paraphrasing could the court opinion be swayed. Paraphrasing regularly takes the words of one person and applies them to another situation without the permission of the original person. There has to be tons of examples in literary works.
I've thought about this back in the days of Pacman and Defender about the feasibility of creating a machine with vision and mechanical access to the controls of a game if it could be taught to play indefinitely (at least for the games that had no real end).
I don't think this is the first time it has been applied to Tetris. But it shouldn't be hard to solve Space Invaders. Asteroids would be an interesting challenge. A computer playing Centipede perfectly would be very impressive (if it had to physically spin the trackball).
Of course there are games that get ridiculously difficult such that no one could ever play them indefinitely without infinite credits (Off Road would get to the point where you needed to constantly hit the Nitro 99 times to practically fly around the course, and still the grey computer car would manage to set record times beating you, and which you'd have to buy-in to refill).
Yes. "You are watching The Scenery Channel." Except it resembled a modern front-projection screen covering an actual window, but no clear indication of a projector.
That, and the Engrish from Magician Lord: "You, persistent guy. But your life ends right now," and, "Again changes to hell."
Then again, I sat in one spot on TNMT breaking boomerangs long enough to roll the score over (9999 to 0000). That proved to be a bit annoying to the others in the arcade. Particularly my second attempt the next day to get exactly 9999 points when a particular asshole unplugged the machine.
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I miss Rocket Racing. It was fun riding on Mongooses and shooting other people off theirs with rocket launchers.
That is, fun as long as you were playing against people who actually played to win instead of just griefing to prevent anyone else from winning. It could have used a rule that expired the invulnerability for players that stayed off a ride too long.
At last, a car analogy! It all makes sense now!
Imagine: Omega watches which sync up with the radio signal from an atomic clock, but refuse to configure themselves for any timezones other than those for which it was authorized for sale.
Of course, they'd lose the lucrative international traveler market. Or they'll have temporary time zone support, but if you stay too long in a foreign timezone it will reset or disable itself.
And then comes the question: what if I, as an (American) international traveler, buy one of their manufactured-in-Switzerland watches cheaply in an authorized country, travel back to the US, and then decide I don't like it (or need the money) and want to sell the watch on eBay? Apparently they want to bar me from selling the watch because it wasn't authorized for sale in the US.
Will they have their goons patrolling the US looking for people wearing imported watches and harass them to show their receipts showing they personally purchased the watch overseas or give up who sold them the watch under threat of prosecution? "Product's papers, please?"
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
And IIRC was not originally a plumber but rather a zookeeper. At least, that's my vague impression of the depiction in the cartoon series "Saturday Supercade".
Mario didn't chase coins until Mario Bros. Before that he was trading off roles with Donkey Kong, first trying to rescue Pauline, then carrying a whip and sending snapjaws after Donkey Kong Jr. trying to free his daddy, and then shooting bug spray up Donkey Kong's butt.
And only when they went "super" did they obsess over a magical mushroom kingdom. (Though Donkey Kong did ask, "How high can you get?" it was literally about the height you'd climb in pursuit of the ape, not how stoned out of your mind you'll get on 'shrooms.)
What difference does it make if they say you can break DRM in your own home for private use if the tools necessary to do so are still illegal to possess, sell, offer as a service, or otherwise traffic in?
You know, domain names are case-insensitive. It could just as well be http://StealThisFilm.com and avoid being misread as http://StealthIsFilm.com.
And by using the anchor tags yourself, you can even add spaces: Steal This Film.com vs. Stealth Is Film.com. (See also "Pen Island".) And that also avoids including the period in the URL.
We're gonna need a bigger finger.
Why would you climb a billion-to-one scale model of the Matterhorn?
Because it's barely there.
Ah, the classic "it's not censorship if it's not the government" argument.
"Freedom. You know, writers have no freedom on TV. One rude suggestion, and the censors are straight on their back. Not on their back in a rude way."
"Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm. Successful, isn't it?"
"Well, most people would agree that censors are a silly breed. In fact, it surprises me how they ever manage to breed at all."
"Now, I'm no librarian - in fact, I don't know what star sign I am - but, as a famous person once said, `You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.' And as I - another more famous person - once said, `If you don't teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like!'"
Murray: Those that can, do. Those that can't, censor it.
Theora Jones: [reading a list of complaints from the network Censor] "I have noted three 'damns,' four 'hells,' sixteen cases of sexual innuendo, a reference to self-abuse, two veiled remarks about Network presidents, and a joke about the Son of God." Doesn't say which god.
Edison Carter: I'm sure it's the current one. It's probably the guy who's running the Censor computer.
Ben Cheviot: Override Censor? Good God, Murray! I'm the Chairman, not the Creator!
And lastly, from a different episode, but more on-point to your "not the government" observation:
Edison Carter: Security Systems has its tendrils into every element of our society - the government, our homes, the police, the courts - I'm not gonna spike this story just because it deals with dollar amounts beyond your comprehension! It's too important! ...cerebral...
Murray:
Theora Jones: Murray, we're trying to play this takeover as a threat to our average viewer. Nobody knows who's doing it. I mean, we all deal with SS every day - what if some really dangerous people got control of it?
Murray: Who do you think controls it now?
Fuck Mohammed and his nine year old kid fucking condoning followers.
I don't understand what you're saying. Why is an old kid fucking Mohammed's condoning followers? And what's a "nine year"? Is it a year containing the digit "9"? It's 2010 now, dude. And why should we fuck an old kid? That sounds like statutory rape of a teenager to me.
(That sentence is so totally fucked it has not even a remnant of a hym^Hphen anywhere!)
I was expecting them to make a reference directly to the black censored bar as resembling the 1:4:9 Monoliths in 2001 and 2010. Especially since this is 2010!
They could have done it by having the "goo extractor" go out of control and operate in reverse, sucking all the celebrities into Muhammad, capped with the line, "My Muhammad, He's full of stars!"
Or did they use the Monolith as a reference before?
adult swim, it brought back futurama and family guy, why not be the savior of freedom of speech and expression for south park!
Have you forgotten their censoring of the two instances of "Great Zombie Jesus!" from Futurama?
Collectors also contribute to removing old currency from distribution. I'm holding onto examples of multiple revisions of $5 and $10 bills.
I'm surprised that the features of this new $100 survived the crumpler test. Basically, it has to survive mechanically crushing the bill into a tube approximately one inch long and 1/4 inch diameter and retrieval without destroying the security feature. Holograms tend to get destroyed by this test. (Why so extreme? The only reason I can think of is so that it would survive ingestion in an established container used by espionage agents.)
Also if you have a briefcase of brand new bills in the old design, you might as well print the word counterfeit on it.
Like counterfeiters wouldn't have ways to artificially age and weather their product.
But then it would look like currency from a major crime like a casino or bank robbery or an armored car heist.
- SACD playback (software)
Did anyone actually want this? While it's likely that a PS3 owner would have an HDTV, it's unlikely they would own a high end audio setup to take advantage of SACD. Anyone serious about this functionality would own a proper standalone SACD player. Less hardware = cheaper console.
I didn't know I had it. I have one of the older PS3s with backwards compatibility. I do have SACDs. I also understood that they only allowed playback through 5.1 RCA analog cables, not S/PDIF. The PS3 doesn't have 6-channel RCA cable output; does that mean it would stream 5.1 digital audio from an SACD over S/PDIF? It makes sense then that they'd discontinue that support to prevent access to the raw digital stream.
I have not started the unit up since I heard of this Other OS-bricking update, but I'd applied all previous updates. I hadn't decided whether I'd ever use that Other-OS functionality or not, but I don't want them taking it away. I haven't used any BD-Live functionality, but apparently I'll be foregoing that.
I'm probably going to have to be paranoid about upcoming Blu-ray releases containing automatic updates as well, won't I? Especially from Sony Pictures. Guess I won't be attending Lost University. Not unless someone can come up with firewall rules to isolate the box from Sony's update servers while still allowing BD-Live to work.
While those examples don't explicitly state that those purposes have to apply directly to the copyrighted work used, there is a rationale that you shouldn't be shielded from infringing Peter's copyright just because you're using it to criticize Paul.
"Weird Al" Yankovic can make a parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad" about being fat, but you couldn't take Michael Jackson's "Bad" unaltered paired with images of corrupt politicians who have not only evaded punishment but even received awards to criticize them and not be sued by Jackson's estate. (I may be able to describe such a work legally, but not to realize it.)
The "Downfall" satires IM(IANAL)HO would have been fine if they had taken actual archive footage of Hitler, or possibly reenacted the scene themselves, even with nonsense babbling that only sounded vaguely German (consider some covers of "99 Luftballoons") so that they are also ridiculing Hitler, if only by their own original proxy, qualifying as protected parody.
Maybe if someone could come up with a defense based in the art of paraphrasing could the court opinion be swayed. Paraphrasing regularly takes the words of one person and applies them to another situation without the permission of the original person. There has to be tons of examples in literary works.
I've thought about this back in the days of Pacman and Defender about the feasibility of creating a machine with vision and mechanical access to the controls of a game if it could be taught to play indefinitely (at least for the games that had no real end).
I don't think this is the first time it has been applied to Tetris. But it shouldn't be hard to solve Space Invaders. Asteroids would be an interesting challenge. A computer playing Centipede perfectly would be very impressive (if it had to physically spin the trackball).
Of course there are games that get ridiculously difficult such that no one could ever play them indefinitely without infinite credits (Off Road would get to the point where you needed to constantly hit the Nitro 99 times to practically fly around the course, and still the grey computer car would manage to set record times beating you, and which you'd have to buy-in to refill).
Karlos K. Krinkelbein, is that you? Are you still upset Klaus got that gig on Fox and not you?
Ridicule is not defamation.
Yes. "You are watching The Scenery Channel." Except it resembled a modern front-projection screen covering an actual window, but no clear indication of a projector.
They need to keep their society's necessities from mothering their inventions.
They'd better come with a calculatus eliminatus app.
Oh, just go and build a functioning replica of a PADD from Star Trek:TNG and move on.
The most memorable part about Neo-Geo in the arcade was the attract mode of a certain game:
REAL!
DYYYNAMIC! [v.o. "AAANNOYING!"]
BASEBALL STARS! PROFESSIONAL!
That, and the Engrish from Magician Lord: "You, persistent guy. But your life ends right now," and, "Again changes to hell."
Then again, I sat in one spot on TNMT breaking boomerangs long enough to roll the score over (9999 to 0000). That proved to be a bit annoying to the others in the arcade. Particularly my second attempt the next day to get exactly 9999 points when a particular asshole unplugged the machine.