Especially the constant reviewing of commented 6502 source code for reading and writing to floppy disks by track and sector! Why possible purpose does it serve to be reading that while shooting up a police department?
Double-blink the shopping window to see product specs
I've been waiting for this since sometime 1998!
And a small blast of compressed air can momentarily blind a user, followed by the user frantically trying to close all the pop-ups before he crashes his car.
You are a bus driver, going from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada. You drive the bus in real time for the 8 hour trip, with little to keep your attention, save for a swinging air freshener and an occasional bug splat on the windshield. To make matters worse, the bus pulls to the right, meaning you have to keep your hands on the controller at all times. Let the bus go off the road and you'll be towed all the way back to Tucson in real time, which, depending on how far along you are, can take up to 8 hours as well. If you manage to make it all the way to Vegas, though, you get a point. You then have seconds to decide whether to drive back for an additional point. And then again. And again. No pauses, no game saves, not even a periodic reminder from Keifer Sutherland that events are occurring in real time.
But hey, there's an idea: remake Desert Bus using Google Earth data!
Imagine if you could play GTA but across the whole world, dealing with drug cartels in Columbia and making weapons trades with the Russian mafia. Or recreate a WW2 battle. Google earth could become a platform for any game that is based in real world geography.
Money for trades is charged back to the trader's credit card up to three days after the transaction.
DarkSaber Up to 3 days later? The hell with that, if I'm handing over my game in store, the store can damn well give me my credit/money there and then.
DC191 It seems like a perfectly reasonable measure to prevent fraud. The kiosks are completely automated so there is no way to immediately verify what you actually give the machine.
Yeah, it's not like the disks are digital media that can be read electronically and compared against a known digital signature for the title.
(GamePolitics' registration captcha won't display in my browser or I'd be posting my response there. Is it a Flash-based captcha?)
The right to continue service under the terms which you agreed and the striking of the ability of a service provider to unilaterally alter the terms of service without notice. New service terms must be tied to new services; failure to agree to the new terms must only bar access to the new services and not restrict access to services under the previous agreement. Discontinuation of old services must either include access to equivalent level of replacement service without change to agreement or a discount on the service provided equivalent to the replacement value of the discontinued service to the user.
Any and all changes to agreements must include access to the complete old and new agreements and clear annotations showing the changes, noting both stricken text and additions.
Service overage charges must be in keeping with the charges incurred for the next tier of service or proportional to current service and not be punitive in nature. If overages would be in far excess of expected billing (more than double the previous month's billing), access is to be suspended until authorization for overage is granted. Service provider is responsible for all overages not authorized by the user. User is not responsible for any overage caused by service provider or a third party outside the user's control.
Some atheists call themselves radical atheists to forestall being asked if they're actually agnostic and emphasize that they really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that not only do they not believe that there is a god, they are convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference), and that it's an opinion they hold seriously.
One example in particular is Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts. The above is a paraphrasing of his own words on himself.
"It's funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. In England we seem to have drifted from vague wishy-washy Anglicanism to vague wishy-washy Agnosticism - both of which I think betoken a desire not to have to think about things too much." -- Douglas Adams
Plus the guys dead, so no need for residuals right?
The surviving family members still have copyright for another 70 years. Unless of course it was made for the family's corporation. Then it is copyrighted for 95 years.
And then we're back to using the law to enforce the rights granted to authors of creative works. "Don't want to meet me halfway? Fine, here's the DMCA".
What's halfway, and when did they offer to meet there?
Their end of the bargain was that they would enrich the public domain in exchange for increased production of works encouraged by a limited-duration monopoly. Ever since copyright went automatic, without need for renewal, and beyond the author's lifetime, they have not contributed a single work to the public domain and, with copyright reclamation, actually removed works from the public domain here in the US to achieve parity internationally, extended those limited times even further, and pressured other countries to extend theirs as well.
Berne Convention: "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever." Copyright Reclamation: "I do not want the Emperor's prize damaged. We will test it on Captain Solo." Sonny Bono Act: "Perhaps you feel you are being treated unfairly?" DMCA: "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter it any further."
Troll, huh? Perhaps I should explain myself with a fuller quotation:
Arthur: He's totally mad, isn't he? Ford: Well, the border between madness and genius is very narrow. Arthur: So is the Berlin Wall. Ford: The Berlin— ? Arthur: Oh, the Berlin Wall... the border between East and West Germany. It's very narrow. I mean the point I'm making— Ford:Was very narrow. Get your tenses right. Arthur: Thank you. Ford: Anything wrong? Arthur: On Earth we have a word— Ford:Had a word. Arthur:Had a word called "tact". Ford: Oh yeah? Arthur: Yes. Ford: And what happened to it? Arthur: Well apparently it's not in common usage....
It also means that everyone that worked on the album and were not paid outright get screwed...often times, if you only pay the artist, folks like the songwriters and the producer and even the little guys that did something for substandard pay because they believed the work was good and would eventually get paid for it -- those folks get nothing when you send them the money directly.
So he should have sent the money instead to the RIAA, because they have such a good track record of properly subdividing the profits amongst the interests behind a musical work, huh?
I'd rather leave it up to the artist named on the cheque to divide up the proceeds based on his conscience. He's in a better position to know than I am. (I'd even make it explicit by putting in the "memo" space "divvy up as you see fit".)
Slashdot Mirror
To sum up, every time you post a comment on slashdot, a child is raped. Think about that next time before you hit the submit button.
If there's a time to point out that correlation is not causation, this is it.
I think somebody wears nothing but super-tight pants.
They don't start that way.
and i guess it might be fun to be able to watch pr0n with no one around to be the wiser.
Unless it also induces temporary erectile dysfunction, someone's gonna notice. At least until you get desensitized to it due to constant exposure.
Especially the constant reviewing of commented 6502 source code for reading and writing to floppy disks by track and sector! Why possible purpose does it serve to be reading that while shooting up a police department?
Double-blink the restaurant to see the menu!
Double-blink the shopping window to see product specs
I've been waiting for this since sometime 1998!
And a small blast of compressed air can momentarily blind a user, followed by the user frantically trying to close all the pop-ups before he crashes his car.
congratulations! you've made the world's most boring game!
How does this upset Desert Bus from this title?
But hey, there's an idea: remake Desert Bus using Google Earth data!
That's nothing. Just in the last week we had a book reviewed on Slashdot with a spelling mistake in the title.
In the title of the book.
And it was published that way!
(And it wasn't deliberate like War of the Wordls.)
((UPDATE: Looks like Amazon has changed their page for the book.))
Imagine if you could play GTA but across the whole world, dealing with drug cartels in Columbia and making weapons trades with the Russian mafia. Or recreate a WW2 battle. Google earth could become a platform for any game that is based in real world geography.
The potential is pretty exciting...
Sounds like a harsh realm to me.
Money for trades is charged back to the trader's credit card up to three days after the transaction.
DarkSaber
Up to 3 days later? The hell with that, if I'm handing over my game in store, the store can damn well give me my credit/money there and then.
DC191
It seems like a perfectly reasonable measure to prevent fraud. The kiosks are completely automated so there is no way to immediately verify what you actually give the machine.
Yeah, it's not like the disks are digital media that can be read electronically and compared against a known digital signature for the title.
(GamePolitics' registration captcha won't display in my browser or I'd be posting my response there. Is it a Flash-based captcha?)
Oh, so that's your little plan: get us addicted [free RC], then jack up the price!
Well, you win.
The right to continue service under the terms which you agreed and the striking of the ability of a service provider to unilaterally alter the terms of service without notice. New service terms must be tied to new services; failure to agree to the new terms must only bar access to the new services and not restrict access to services under the previous agreement. Discontinuation of old services must either include access to equivalent level of replacement service without change to agreement or a discount on the service provided equivalent to the replacement value of the discontinued service to the user.
Any and all changes to agreements must include access to the complete old and new agreements and clear annotations showing the changes, noting both stricken text and additions.
Service overage charges must be in keeping with the charges incurred for the next tier of service or proportional to current service and not be punitive in nature. If overages would be in far excess of expected billing (more than double the previous month's billing), access is to be suspended until authorization for overage is granted. Service provider is responsible for all overages not authorized by the user. User is not responsible for any overage caused by service provider or a third party outside the user's control.
"Use Sophos's Klingon Anti-Virus to quickly perform an on-demand scan and find... Tribbles that your existing protection might have missed.
I breed my own Glommers to keep my home Tribble-free.
Now, let's have no more denigrating the practice of waving a dead chicken over the computer.
Some atheists call themselves radical atheists to forestall being asked if they're actually agnostic and emphasize that they really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that not only do they not believe that there is a god, they are convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference), and that it's an opinion they hold seriously.
One example in particular is Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts. The above is a paraphrasing of his own words on himself.
"It's funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. In England we seem to have drifted from vague wishy-washy Anglicanism to vague wishy-washy Agnosticism - both of which I think betoken a desire not to have to think about things too much." -- Douglas Adams
No, it just burns your retinas.
But mama, that's where the fun is!
Plus the guys dead, so no need for residuals right?
The surviving family members still have copyright for another 70 years. Unless of course it was made for the family's corporation. Then it is copyrighted for 95 years.
How about "Nowhere Man - The Motion Picture"
I thought about that too, but then was Nowhere Man really about a man who was erased or about a man whose own memories were fiction?
Well it IS more confortable, wouldnt you say?
How is Twittering from home like a literary chronicle containing the names of all the teachers and writers from the close of the Talmud to present day?
That's a waste of power. Do a luke-warm water heater and half the work is done for you.
And then we're back to using the law to enforce the rights granted to authors of creative works. "Don't want to meet me halfway? Fine, here's the DMCA".
What's halfway, and when did they offer to meet there?
Their end of the bargain was that they would enrich the public domain in exchange for increased production of works encouraged by a limited-duration monopoly. Ever since copyright went automatic, without need for renewal, and beyond the author's lifetime, they have not contributed a single work to the public domain and, with copyright reclamation, actually removed works from the public domain here in the US to achieve parity internationally, extended those limited times even further, and pressured other countries to extend theirs as well.
Berne Convention: "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever."
Copyright Reclamation: "I do not want the Emperor's prize damaged. We will test it on Captain Solo."
Sonny Bono Act: "Perhaps you feel you are being treated unfairly?"
DMCA: "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter it any further."
Troll, huh? Perhaps I should explain myself with a fuller quotation:
Arthur: He's totally mad, isn't he?
Ford: Well, the border between madness and genius is very narrow.
Arthur: So is the Berlin Wall.
Ford: The Berlin— ?
Arthur: Oh, the Berlin Wall... the border between East and West Germany. It's very narrow. I mean the point I'm making—
Ford: Was very narrow. Get your tenses right.
Arthur: Thank you.
Ford: Anything wrong?
Arthur: On Earth we have a word—
Ford: Had a word.
Arthur: Had a word called "tact".
Ford: Oh yeah?
Arthur: Yes.
Ford: And what happened to it?
Arthur: Well apparently it's not in common usage....
At least he's expressing his feelings effectively, something that is largely lost in text-only communications media.
Perhaps you could use Micros<3ft or S<3ny (in absence of ♥ support) as the mood takes you?
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Session musicians - already paid
Studio Engineers - already paid
Studio rental - already paid
Production costs - already paid
Cover artist - already paid
Distribution costs - already paid
So where do you think the money comes from to pay these people?
Came from. Get your tenses right.
It also means that everyone that worked on the album and were not paid outright get screwed...often times, if you only pay the artist, folks like the songwriters and the producer and even the little guys that did something for substandard pay because they believed the work was good and would eventually get paid for it -- those folks get nothing when you send them the money directly.
So he should have sent the money instead to the RIAA, because they have such a good track record of properly subdividing the profits amongst the interests behind a musical work, huh?
I'd rather leave it up to the artist named on the cheque to divide up the proceeds based on his conscience. He's in a better position to know than I am. (I'd even make it explicit by putting in the "memo" space "divvy up as you see fit".)