Some of what you said makes sense, but I call flamebait on "right to healthcare". Many people in this country want to benefit from public healthcare like people in other countries do. The only people who are apposing it are greedy doctors who want to charge as much as they can from poor sick people, and people who's minds are still stuck in the McCarthy era.
And if your last statement is about welfare, statistics say that the majority of people who go on welfare only stay on it for 1 to 2 years. People want to get jobs that pay better than welfare, despite what you may think; they just sometimes get stuck in a situation where they need a little help until they can do so.
If there isn't any copy protection to go through, the DMCA doesn't stop me. The DMCA applies to copy protection; if I buy music with no copy protection, I can't be held responsible for breaking the DMCA. Thus, I only buy music that has no copy protection.
Actually, it does. Making mp3s is fair use as long as it is for personal use. If I want to take my CD collection and put the entire thing on an mp3 player so I don't have to carry 100 CDs around with me, it's perfectly fair and legal. Same goes for if I want it all on my computer so I don't have to change CDs. Fair use is legal, and I am entitled to use my music as I wish under it.
Why take the cheaper price if you aren't guaranteed that you'll have total control over your music? I'd rather pay a few more cents (or a dollar more) just to be able to use my music the way I want to.
Check with Mr Baby.
I think EGM made a good choice with Mortal Kombat Advance. The game isn't playable for more than a few seconds (that's only counting the start menu).
If you've ever owned or had access to a copy of Tetris, you know the feeling. Bored, left with nothing to do, you feel compelled to pick up the game and play it. You know that all you are doing is sorting a bunch of shapes into lines, and that there will be no reward in the end, but you keep on going anyways. And, as it speeds up, you become frustrated with the game, but can't stop playing. And when you finally lose, you feel releaved that you don't need to bother with it for a while. And then you realize you own a copy of Dr Mario. It's a viscious cycle.
Forget the old systems - get emulators on the computers and good gamepads (You might want to buy USB adaptors for the orginal pads). As long as you own copies of the games you won't have any legal problems. This will make maintenance of games much easier (people can't steal them); just make sure that access to writing is cut off - no access to CD-R drives, floppy drives, or unused USB ports. You won't need this on all computers; just the ones designated for old games.
I own a Gameboy Advance (pre-SP). I can see what's on it as long as light is hitting it, especially if it is sunlight. A TV screen with sunlight hitting it would be even easier to see.
Don't like Mozilla? Use Mozilla Firebird. Honestly, I can't think of any browser I've used that is better than Firebird (especially with the addition of extensions). Firebird should be enough proof to this guy that Mozilla was a step in the right direction.
I use Mozilla Firebird as my main browser, and I almost always have a tab open with Slashdot in it. Thus, I'm on slashdot almost as much as I'm on the internet.
If piracy was such a big concern, more games would be made for the piracy resistant (note that's resistent, not proof) Gamecube. While companies are concerned with piracy, sales are more important to them. Many companies make more console games than PC games because they can sell to a broader audience. Joe Average is more willing to play a game on a console than on a PC, and the companies notice this.
Just because a game is based on an already existing intellectual property, doesn't mean it won't have originality in it, nor does it mean it won't be any good. Just look at GoldenEye for the N64; it's considered one of the best games for the system.
Don't get me wrong, I know that a lot of licensed games are quite poorly done, but that doesn't mean that all of them will be that way. It's just a matter of how well the trasition from film to game is done.
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Some of what you said makes sense, but I call flamebait on "right to healthcare". Many people in this country want to benefit from public healthcare like people in other countries do. The only people who are apposing it are greedy doctors who want to charge as much as they can from poor sick people, and people who's minds are still stuck in the McCarthy era.
And if your last statement is about welfare, statistics say that the majority of people who go on welfare only stay on it for 1 to 2 years. People want to get jobs that pay better than welfare, despite what you may think; they just sometimes get stuck in a situation where they need a little help until they can do so.
If there isn't any copy protection to go through, the DMCA doesn't stop me. The DMCA applies to copy protection; if I buy music with no copy protection, I can't be held responsible for breaking the DMCA. Thus, I only buy music that has no copy protection.
Actually, it does. Making mp3s is fair use as long as it is for personal use. If I want to take my CD collection and put the entire thing on an mp3 player so I don't have to carry 100 CDs around with me, it's perfectly fair and legal. Same goes for if I want it all on my computer so I don't have to change CDs. Fair use is legal, and I am entitled to use my music as I wish under it.
Why take the cheaper price if you aren't guaranteed that you'll have total control over your music? I'd rather pay a few more cents (or a dollar more) just to be able to use my music the way I want to.
Maybe so, but the one thing MS is good at is holding up the courts. The advertisers will go backrupt from court cases before MS gives in.
I recommend using eDexter along with the host file. It will clean up the pages a bit more, and load them a bit faster too.
The Adblock extension for Firebird can block Flash, Java, and any other plug-in based ad. It can also block regular image file ads on pages.
I recommend using these filters with it:
*/ad/*
*/ads/*
*/banners/*
*/banner/*
That should stop a good amount of the ads found online.
Check with Mr Baby.
I think EGM made a good choice with Mortal Kombat Advance. The game isn't playable for more than a few seconds (that's only counting the start menu).
If you've ever owned or had access to a copy of Tetris, you know the feeling. Bored, left with nothing to do, you feel compelled to pick up the game and play it. You know that all you are doing is sorting a bunch of shapes into lines, and that there will be no reward in the end, but you keep on going anyways. And, as it speeds up, you become frustrated with the game, but can't stop playing. And when you finally lose, you feel releaved that you don't need to bother with it for a while.
And then you realize you own a copy of Dr Mario.
It's a viscious cycle.
... they better not bring back Howard the Duck.
Forget the old systems - get emulators on the computers and good gamepads (You might want to buy USB adaptors for the orginal pads). As long as you own copies of the games you won't have any legal problems. This will make maintenance of games much easier (people can't steal them); just make sure that access to writing is cut off - no access to CD-R drives, floppy drives, or unused USB ports. You won't need this on all computers; just the ones designated for old games.
I own a Gameboy Advance (pre-SP). I can see what's on it as long as light is hitting it, especially if it is sunlight. A TV screen with sunlight hitting it would be even easier to see.
Don't like Mozilla? Use Mozilla Firebird. Honestly, I can't think of any browser I've used that is better than Firebird (especially with the addition of extensions). Firebird should be enough proof to this guy that Mozilla was a step in the right direction.
Oh, you mean the Spirit rover. For a second there I thought that we Americans had ditched "freedom" for "spirit" in our anti-French food terminology.
WB means art and quality
Apperantely you haven't seen Batman & Robin.
I use Mozilla Firebird as my main browser, and I almost always have a tab open with Slashdot in it. Thus, I'm on slashdot almost as much as I'm on the internet.
Some of us are running ad blocking software.
If piracy was such a big concern, more games would be made for the piracy resistant (note that's resistent, not proof) Gamecube. While companies are concerned with piracy, sales are more important to them. Many companies make more console games than PC games because they can sell to a broader audience. Joe Average is more willing to play a game on a console than on a PC, and the companies notice this.
Only 3 people know? Talk about closed source! I wonder what their back up plan is in case the 3 of them die or come down with amnesia.
Just because a game is based on an already existing intellectual property, doesn't mean it won't have originality in it, nor does it mean it won't be any good. Just look at GoldenEye for the N64; it's considered one of the best games for the system.
Don't get me wrong, I know that a lot of licensed games are quite poorly done, but that doesn't mean that all of them will be that way. It's just a matter of how well the trasition from film to game is done.
Once again, Sun suffers because of windows.
I'm sure there are tons of slashdotters whose apartments are already soley lit by LEDs.
You misspelled "parent's basements".
There are a lot more LiveCDs out there than just these two.
You'd be surprised how often people do just that. And the results aren't pretty, to put it mildly.
It's a typo; everyone makes them every now and then, so don't worry about it.