Clearly, Al Gore's habits should be ignored as the leader of the conservation movement. Being a public figure shouldn't cast any doubt on his message and people are trying to polute his agenda while he sends a do as I say not as I do message.
I'm sure if people took into consideration that he makes 20x more than anyone else and thus should have a right to pollute 20x more than anyone else or consume 20x more than anyone else they'd understand that this in no way negates his right to tell us all what to do to save his world.
Yes you can, depending on what country you are in. Advertising laws are different across the globe. America is pretty good about freedom in advertising. Some foreigners would be very surprised to come to America and see a Big Mac in Subway's latest ad campaign.
I agree with pretty much everything you've just said.
The only credit I give to this project is the credit that Michael Robertson can cause a big enough stir to give it a chance of being noticed.
You're right about the labels demanding DRM. I think the only true way to escape it is to get the artists to migrate away from the labels.
They can obviously have more freedom without them. The only obstacles are exposure and money. Those are pretty much intertwined. Get those up to par and it will work.
Even if they aren't in the list, it would definitely help in 'searching' for them. Adding to their 5424000000000000..5424999999999999 spanning problem which will be pumped up combined with this.
Anyway, didn't take me long to find a site listing some people's credit card number/exp date/security #/address using suggest.
Yeah, I'd prefer the image my family had 'before' they read my emails.
I seem to remember a skit on some comedy TV show about a service you could hire to come and get rid of all the porno mags/videos, drugs, sex toys and incriminated evidence and replace it with religious objects, awards and classical novels. Ya know, just so your family is left with a 'good' image of you. I think this falls along that line.
While there aren't many 'objects' I'm ashamed enough of I'd pay people to come hide before my relatives rummaged through my stuff, I'd definitely pay somebody to torch my computer the moment my pulse stopped.
Exactly. Cost is definitely an issue in people pirating software. Look at Serious Sam. It debuted at $20 with virtually noone I know ever hearing of it before hand. Just about 'all' of my friends bought it because it looked cool and it was only $20. If it sucked, it didn't matter, they only spent $20.
As for everything else, if I bought a game, and took it home, and couldn't play it because of the developers lack of due diligence in making sure I would be able to even 'use' my product because of their method of "copyright protection", I would be back in the store shortly, throwing it at the poor retail associate, seeing their manager, and getting my money back while making sure they knew how I felt about the company they were doing business with. Then I'd go home and look for a cracked version that I could actually 'play'. This is the 'real' backfire on a company like Valve, when the retailer loses revenue and gains an unhappy customer. If a company has too much of this, they lose a distributor, piss off a publisher, and or alienate/piss off their client base.
For the most part, this isn't going to be the case, in this instance, because obviously everybody wants to play HL2. I do know people who couldn't play the first day and were 'beyond' pissed though. If this was another game, this could almost irreparably damage a company.
Adobe's Encore DVD is a fairly powerful DVD editor.
You can make pro quality dvds with it. However, it has a bit of a learning curve though. It even allows for movie clips as backgrounds and as thumbnail buttons. It's also Adobe Quality "pricing", but if nothing else you can download a 30 day trial version to play around with.
Does anything in the article ever say a movie is in the works except for a presumptuous title and some anon AP writer? No.
It says two film studios have conflicting rights and are battling to see whose rights take precedence.
It says "if he were going to direct the movie" he would this... "I'd want Ian McKellen"... more *IF* statements.
Of course the studios want the movie made. Prequal to an 11 Oscars film? $$$
What the article basicly says is that there *isn't* a movie in the works. If it were in the works, and Peter Jackson was to direct it, he'd "like" this done this way or that way....
I saw absolutely no quotes where he said anything about something being "done".
This has offered no new information and just regurgitated wants and hopes and I resent being so happily drawn here by the RSS feed I saw it on.
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Clearly, Al Gore's habits should be ignored as the leader of the conservation movement. Being a public figure shouldn't cast any doubt on his message and people are trying to polute his agenda while he sends a do as I say not as I do message.
I'm sure if people took into consideration that he makes 20x more than anyone else and thus should have a right to pollute 20x more than anyone else or consume 20x more than anyone else they'd understand that this in no way negates his right to tell us all what to do to save his world.
Oh wait, that's stupid.
Yes you can, depending on what country you are in. Advertising laws are different across the globe. America is pretty good about freedom in advertising. Some foreigners would be very surprised to come to America and see a Big Mac in Subway's latest ad campaign.
I agree with pretty much everything you've just said.
The only credit I give to this project is the credit that Michael Robertson can cause a big enough stir to give it a chance of being noticed.
You're right about the labels demanding DRM. I think the only true way to escape it is to get the artists to migrate away from the labels.
They can obviously have more freedom without them. The only obstacles are exposure and money. Those are pretty much intertwined. Get those up to par and it will work.
It's gotta start somewhere.
That would be ideal, but then there wouldn't be that slight shred of hope that someone will want to pay lots of money for the rights.
Maybe it needs a (+1, Wrong) so it'll be easier for people to see when someone is
Your Passport isn't deactivated by your hotmail account being deactivated, at least not in my experience.
I have my Passport through my hotmail account and I haven't checked hotmail in probably nearing 2 years, but my Passport works fine.
the eXtreme! Edition, and my personal favorite, the Boomstick Edition.
Even if they aren't in the list, it would definitely help in 'searching' for them. Adding to their 5424000000000000..5424999999999999 spanning problem which will be pumped up combined with this.
Anyway, didn't take me long to find a site listing some people's credit card number/exp date/security #/address using suggest.
This could actually be a big hit with the shoplifter of the future.
Yeah, I'd prefer the image my family had 'before' they read my emails.
I seem to remember a skit on some comedy TV show about a service you could hire to come and get rid of all the porno mags/videos, drugs, sex toys and incriminated evidence and replace it with religious objects, awards and classical novels. Ya know, just so your family is left with a 'good' image of you. I think this falls along that line.
While there aren't many 'objects' I'm ashamed enough of I'd pay people to come hide before my relatives rummaged through my stuff, I'd definitely pay somebody to torch my computer the moment my pulse stopped.
If you reload slashdot 80 hours per week, this should have been first post.
I don't know if the UK's article had it wrong, but they said "10" hours for a recharge.
Exactly. Cost is definitely an issue in people pirating software. Look at Serious Sam. It debuted at $20 with virtually noone I know ever hearing of it before hand. Just about 'all' of my friends bought it because it looked cool and it was only $20. If it sucked, it didn't matter, they only spent $20.
As for everything else, if I bought a game, and took it home, and couldn't play it because of the developers lack of due diligence in making sure I would be able to even 'use' my product because of their method of "copyright protection", I would be back in the store shortly, throwing it at the poor retail associate, seeing their manager, and getting my money back while making sure they knew how I felt about the company they were doing business with. Then I'd go home and look for a cracked version that I could actually 'play'. This is the 'real' backfire on a company like Valve, when the retailer loses revenue and gains an unhappy customer. If a company has too much of this, they lose a distributor, piss off a publisher, and or alienate/piss off their client base.
For the most part, this isn't going to be the case, in this instance, because obviously everybody wants to play HL2. I do know people who couldn't play the first day and were 'beyond' pissed though. If this was another game, this could almost irreparably damage a company.
They should really think about that.
Is that somebody, notice anonymously, has managed to successfully slashbomb sites I'm going to bet were on his/her shitlist.
I don't think that the conservatives 'originated' the Fat comments.
It wasn't nice then, it isn't nice now. I bet there weren't any liberals complaining about it in '99 though.
My money is on the case modders and overclockers beating them to it.
Except for that one NVidia made.
No kidding. A friend and I played around with it in the same room.
The lag-latency was null and void.
I was using a 1 ear headset and between it and him it was almost stereo.
It also seems to block orkut invites which is a google sponsored community like friendster.
Noone on hotmail has ever gotten my invitations, including checking their 'spam' folder
The "vaporsuit". I can see this being applied to RIAA and DirectTV stories already.
Recycling, anything but cans, is actually more harmful to the environment than just throwing it away.
Not to mention Dolly has her own theme park, where I'm sure you could at least leave a message.
But the ones who would design it now do.
They saw it on slashdot.
Adobe's Encore DVD is a fairly powerful DVD editor.
You can make pro quality dvds with it. However, it has a bit of a learning curve though. It even allows for movie clips as backgrounds and as thumbnail buttons. It's also Adobe Quality "pricing", but if nothing else you can download a 30 day trial version to play around with.
Does anything in the article ever say a movie is in the works except for a presumptuous title and some anon AP writer? No.
It says two film studios have conflicting rights and are battling to see whose rights take precedence.
It says "if he were going to direct the movie" he would this... "I'd want Ian McKellen"... more *IF* statements.
Of course the studios want the movie made. Prequal to an 11 Oscars film? $$$
What the article basicly says is that there *isn't* a movie in the works. If it were in the works, and Peter Jackson was to direct it, he'd "like" this done this way or that way....
I saw absolutely no quotes where he said anything about something being "done".
This has offered no new information and just regurgitated wants and hopes and I resent being so happily drawn here by the RSS feed I saw it on.
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