This might lead to better and flexible displays or wearable computers
Could this be used to further "invisibility" research? For example, wear a suit of these displays and have a camera record a panoramic video around you and display the appropriate camera displays around the body?
It's impossible? They pretty much did that with Polio. And if they'd just listen to my endless emails recommending all the AIDS and Herpes and Syphilis and Hepititus victims be shipped off to a remote island and then dropping a few 100 megaton nukes onto it, we wouldn't have to wear those stupid rubber masks when entering previously explored territory.
What's so special about "author's life plus X" anyway? How did this concept get into copyright law in the first place...
Simple answer. Walt Disney died. And the Disney Corporation can't stand the thought of giving up their Mickey Mouse character or Snow White movie to the filthy public they sell copies to. Hence, intensive, successful lobbying to keep increasing copyright infinitely. Hence, I don't put value into almost anyone's claim at having copy rights anymore, unless what they did really, really knocks my socks off.
Perhaps, but that's not much different than going to Barnes and Noble, or even a library, every day for six or so hours and reading a book off the shelf cover to cover. By making it require you to search every few pages, it makes it enough of an effort that most people wouldn't bother (although some would certainly abuse it to no end, that's probably why they require credit card numbers).
My guess is that it was one of the proggies that was offered as an additional install (with nothing hidden about it). Remember how Kazaa used to (and probably still does, for all I know, I haven't used it in forever) include a screen in its install where it listed other possible software to install and you could click the checkboxes for what you wanted? That's a pretty ingenius system, if you ask me, to get exposure for your software. And quite honest, as well.
Rather they did that then have the "Gator security permission" pop up every time I want to go to some regular website that Gator just happened to purchase some adspace for.
Perhaps if it were read more like "South Korea sets another technological trendsetter..." I would agree with that, but the particular wording it has suggests that they are not a trendsetter yet (hence the "effort to establish" phrase) and that it just wants to be "a" trendsetter and not "the" trendsetter, or only.
I.E., they're trying to show the world that they have some worth so they're pushing new technology, not because they think they're better than everyone else, but because they think they are worth more than how rest of the world is treating them.
Yeah, R-Type had the claustrophobic walls-closing-in sections as well.
And I love impossibly difficult games. It saddens me that the market seems to be shrinking for them year after year.
For it's time, Pong was revolutionary.
Nowadays, though, it's admittedly kinda hard to appreciate.
Space Invaders still kicks ass though. As do almost all the rest of the golden oldies.
You sign up with a major record label now and it'll be your death wish. I, for one, refuse to give any band who decides to sign up with a major label even after all this bullshit one second of my attention, and I'm pretty certain more and more people will do the same (if they haven't already).
If you want me to listen, stay Independent, or sign up with a label who doesn't try to screw you with every breath they take, and deal with being locked out of the radio airplay (or better yet, fight it).
Heheh, I still rememeber when my elementary school had a computer that connected to Prodigy in their library (I think I was in the fourth grade). One day I sat down at the computer and typed up some stuff on the login screen. It wouldn't connect. I got confused and left....was I supposed to be one of the ones killed off?
I feel lucky I couldn't get onto the network. I feel sorry for all the people the school allowed to login to the system though.
...to point at all those people who argued with me relentlessly that the Gamecube could never be hacked despite endless prior evidence to the contrary (see past consoles which were also claimed to be unhackable), and say:
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.
That is all.
This is actually a working solution to brute-force hacking. By introducing a delay before verification, it's practically unnoticeable to the common user who knows their user/pass, but it deters (and maybe even defeats) the common brute force hacker. Sure, given enough time they'll be able to overcome this obstacle, but it aggravates most from attempting it.
It had something to do with the laser having a more difficult time reading the CD-R's and therefore shortening its lifespan significantly. I have no way to determine the validity of this, but I've noticed other players having difficulty reading certain CD-R's before, and I decided it wasn't worth the risk. However, I can get Dreamcasts for as little as $30 now, so it's probably more worthwhile, but I don't have the desire to play those NES games at the moment.
Plus, I got Ikaruga from Best Buy per 13Echo, so I don't needs to worry about it anymore anyway.
Hey, thanks man:). I managed to order one, and for whatever reason, they took $5 off my purchase on top of that (new customers get $5 their first purchase, but I think I've bought something off the site before) For $15 it's definitely worth it.
Eh, I have a Dreamcast, but I'm reluctant to do that. First off, I (accidentally) bought a pirated version of GG off of Ebay (it said it had no manual, I should have caught what it really meant). I got it taken care of, but I was curious to try the game and popped it in anyway, playing it a few times. Well, my DC just happened to die a week after I tried it. Bought another, got interested in NES emulation, and read about possible laser issues w/ burned games on the 'net and some people's comments scared me out of trying it out. So I would, just so I could try the game, (I really don't even know if I'll like it. The only scroller shmups I've ever really liked is R-Type and Einhander. However, there hasn't ever been a Treasure game I haven't loved, so...) but I don't want to risk something happening to my new DC.
Sims and Nightfire aren't exactly good titles to list. They're multiplatform, man.
Ikaruga though... I didn't have the cash before, and now I can't find the stupid game anywhere. Makes me mad >:(.
RE:Animal Crossing - Yeah, but those months of gameplay are spent doing extremely simple tasks, like delivering packages, mailing letters, digging up fossils, fishing, collecting fruit, and catching bugs, and they all use a single button to execute (well, plus movement). In fact, that's just about everything you can do with the game. It lasts only as long as you get tired of collecting virtual items in a virtual house and rearranging them, really. It has some neat touches, but there's just not a whole lot you can do.
I have several gripes with Wind Waker too. If you're interested, I've listed them all here for anyone who's interested. I won't waste the space otherwise.
Otherwise, your list is good. Those are some really great titles. Super Monkey Ball 2 and Sunshine are really stand out titles for the system, and coupled with the GBA Player they really make the console a worthwhile purchase (for me, at least).
Heh, I'm kinda opposite. XBox had a few standout titles for me (it was getting Oddworld and I wasn't impressed with the PS2 launch, so I decided to wait for XBox), so I got that first, and then later got a Gamecube because it's a great choice for a second console (especially for the GBA Player). PS2, in comparison, doesn't have anything that really catches my eye, except a few Koei games I really want to be ported to the 'Box. I'm willing to just keep playing my Dynasty Warriors 3, for now, and play Kessen and Dynasty Tactics on my friend's PS2 once we get an apartment.
You don't think this decline has anything to do with the recent recession or the music industry releasing less new music in the recent years or CD prices going up a full dollar on average each year for the past 4 years, despite the trend of ALL OTHER technology to get cheaper each year?
You want proof that sharing can result in increased sales? Take an example from the book industry - Baen Free Library. They put entire books of MANY of their authors on their websites, for free, and they have hard correlating data that their sales benefit incredibly when they put the full versions of their books online:
http://www.baen.com/library/palaver6.htm
The RIAA has lost me as a customer permanently. I haven't been buying CDs for almost two years as it was, but that was only because they were an inconvenient medium that took up too much physical space (and I thought they were a little expensive retail, but I had always just purchased them used anyway).
No more MTV (not that I ever watched it), no more radio, no more CDs, used or otherwise, no more RIAA downloads. I'm supporting artists individually from now on, and only if they're not under the choke-collar of the RIAA, either by purchasing their music, going to their shows, or directly compensating them.
I don't care if they do eventually change their business model. I'm not going to forgive and start giving them my money. There are better ways to compensate the artists then by going through a huge corporate middle-man. Probably the best way is to simply write a check to them and mail it:).
Man, I work for Verizon, and they really don't have the ability to do this from my vantage point. Most of the systems we use are still Telnet based. I still fix accounts on a daily basis that haven't been touched since they were first transferred over to the system in 1990 (that's usually the only time there's a major problem with the records, when the data switches databases). They'd probably have to build a whole new system from scratch in order to comply with RIAA's wishes.
Of course, I only deal with the business office lines, but most other departments use the same system I use.
I live in the Midwest (Illinois, specifically), and the way I understood how it works here is that if you're from another state, you still have to pay sales tax, but you can mail copies of the receipt to... the state government I think, with a form of ID and they'd mail you a refund, or some ridiculous scheme like that. I've never had to do it, obviously, I just remember hearing about it a while back.
I know I never paid attention to what state people were from when I worked retail here. I don't even think we had an option on the registers to remove sales tax from the order.
Actually, I went to a campus-hosted lecture on Globalization of the IT market, and I hear accounting majors are starting to have problems finding jobs as well. They're starting to be outsourced like crazy also. Haven't heard from the finance sector.
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This might lead to better and flexible displays or wearable computers Could this be used to further "invisibility" research? For example, wear a suit of these displays and have a camera record a panoramic video around you and display the appropriate camera displays around the body?
It's impossible? They pretty much did that with Polio. And if they'd just listen to my endless emails recommending all the AIDS and Herpes and Syphilis and Hepititus victims be shipped off to a remote island and then dropping a few 100 megaton nukes onto it, we wouldn't have to wear those stupid rubber masks when entering previously explored territory.
What's so special about "author's life plus X" anyway? How did this concept get into copyright law in the first place... Simple answer. Walt Disney died. And the Disney Corporation can't stand the thought of giving up their Mickey Mouse character or Snow White movie to the filthy public they sell copies to. Hence, intensive, successful lobbying to keep increasing copyright infinitely. Hence, I don't put value into almost anyone's claim at having copy rights anymore, unless what they did really, really knocks my socks off.
Perhaps, but that's not much different than going to Barnes and Noble, or even a library, every day for six or so hours and reading a book off the shelf cover to cover. By making it require you to search every few pages, it makes it enough of an effort that most people wouldn't bother (although some would certainly abuse it to no end, that's probably why they require credit card numbers).
My guess is that it was one of the proggies that was offered as an additional install (with nothing hidden about it). Remember how Kazaa used to (and probably still does, for all I know, I haven't used it in forever) include a screen in its install where it listed other possible software to install and you could click the checkboxes for what you wanted? That's a pretty ingenius system, if you ask me, to get exposure for your software. And quite honest, as well.
Rather they did that then have the "Gator security permission" pop up every time I want to go to some regular website that Gator just happened to purchase some adspace for.
Perhaps if it were read more like "South Korea sets another technological trendsetter..." I would agree with that, but the particular wording it has suggests that they are not a trendsetter yet (hence the "effort to establish" phrase) and that it just wants to be "a" trendsetter and not "the" trendsetter, or only.
I.E., they're trying to show the world that they have some worth so they're pushing new technology, not because they think they're better than everyone else, but because they think they are worth more than how rest of the world is treating them.
Yeah, R-Type had the claustrophobic walls-closing-in sections as well. And I love impossibly difficult games. It saddens me that the market seems to be shrinking for them year after year.
For it's time, Pong was revolutionary. Nowadays, though, it's admittedly kinda hard to appreciate. Space Invaders still kicks ass though. As do almost all the rest of the golden oldies.
Yeah, that plus a crappy, hastily done Pacman port for the Atari (2600?) which they also manufactured WAY TOO MANY effectively killed off the company.
You sign up with a major record label now and it'll be your death wish. I, for one, refuse to give any band who decides to sign up with a major label even after all this bullshit one second of my attention, and I'm pretty certain more and more people will do the same (if they haven't already). If you want me to listen, stay Independent, or sign up with a label who doesn't try to screw you with every breath they take, and deal with being locked out of the radio airplay (or better yet, fight it).
Heheh, I still rememeber when my elementary school had a computer that connected to Prodigy in their library (I think I was in the fourth grade). One day I sat down at the computer and typed up some stuff on the login screen. It wouldn't connect. I got confused and left. ...was I supposed to be one of the ones killed off?
I feel lucky I couldn't get onto the network. I feel sorry for all the people the school allowed to login to the system though.
...to point at all those people who argued with me relentlessly that the Gamecube could never be hacked despite endless prior evidence to the contrary (see past consoles which were also claimed to be unhackable), and say: Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah. That is all.
This is actually a working solution to brute-force hacking. By introducing a delay before verification, it's practically unnoticeable to the common user who knows their user/pass, but it deters (and maybe even defeats) the common brute force hacker. Sure, given enough time they'll be able to overcome this obstacle, but it aggravates most from attempting it.
It had something to do with the laser having a more difficult time reading the CD-R's and therefore shortening its lifespan significantly. I have no way to determine the validity of this, but I've noticed other players having difficulty reading certain CD-R's before, and I decided it wasn't worth the risk. However, I can get Dreamcasts for as little as $30 now, so it's probably more worthwhile, but I don't have the desire to play those NES games at the moment. Plus, I got Ikaruga from Best Buy per 13Echo, so I don't needs to worry about it anymore anyway.
Hey, thanks man :). I managed to order one, and for whatever reason, they took $5 off my purchase on top of that (new customers get $5 their first purchase, but I think I've bought something off the site before) For $15 it's definitely worth it.
Eh, I have a Dreamcast, but I'm reluctant to do that. First off, I (accidentally) bought a pirated version of GG off of Ebay (it said it had no manual, I should have caught what it really meant). I got it taken care of, but I was curious to try the game and popped it in anyway, playing it a few times. Well, my DC just happened to die a week after I tried it. Bought another, got interested in NES emulation, and read about possible laser issues w/ burned games on the 'net and some people's comments scared me out of trying it out. So I would, just so I could try the game, (I really don't even know if I'll like it. The only scroller shmups I've ever really liked is R-Type and Einhander. However, there hasn't ever been a Treasure game I haven't loved, so...) but I don't want to risk something happening to my new DC.
Sims and Nightfire aren't exactly good titles to list. They're multiplatform, man. Ikaruga though... I didn't have the cash before, and now I can't find the stupid game anywhere. Makes me mad >:(.
RE:Animal Crossing - Yeah, but those months of gameplay are spent doing extremely simple tasks, like delivering packages, mailing letters, digging up fossils, fishing, collecting fruit, and catching bugs, and they all use a single button to execute (well, plus movement). In fact, that's just about everything you can do with the game. It lasts only as long as you get tired of collecting virtual items in a virtual house and rearranging them, really. It has some neat touches, but there's just not a whole lot you can do. I have several gripes with Wind Waker too. If you're interested, I've listed them all here for anyone who's interested. I won't waste the space otherwise. Otherwise, your list is good. Those are some really great titles. Super Monkey Ball 2 and Sunshine are really stand out titles for the system, and coupled with the GBA Player they really make the console a worthwhile purchase (for me, at least).
Heh, I'm kinda opposite. XBox had a few standout titles for me (it was getting Oddworld and I wasn't impressed with the PS2 launch, so I decided to wait for XBox), so I got that first, and then later got a Gamecube because it's a great choice for a second console (especially for the GBA Player). PS2, in comparison, doesn't have anything that really catches my eye, except a few Koei games I really want to be ported to the 'Box. I'm willing to just keep playing my Dynasty Warriors 3, for now, and play Kessen and Dynasty Tactics on my friend's PS2 once we get an apartment.
You don't think this decline has anything to do with the recent recession or the music industry releasing less new music in the recent years or CD prices going up a full dollar on average each year for the past 4 years, despite the trend of ALL OTHER technology to get cheaper each year? You want proof that sharing can result in increased sales? Take an example from the book industry - Baen Free Library. They put entire books of MANY of their authors on their websites, for free, and they have hard correlating data that their sales benefit incredibly when they put the full versions of their books online: http://www.baen.com/library/palaver6.htm
The RIAA has lost me as a customer permanently. I haven't been buying CDs for almost two years as it was, but that was only because they were an inconvenient medium that took up too much physical space (and I thought they were a little expensive retail, but I had always just purchased them used anyway). No more MTV (not that I ever watched it), no more radio, no more CDs, used or otherwise, no more RIAA downloads. I'm supporting artists individually from now on, and only if they're not under the choke-collar of the RIAA, either by purchasing their music, going to their shows, or directly compensating them. I don't care if they do eventually change their business model. I'm not going to forgive and start giving them my money. There are better ways to compensate the artists then by going through a huge corporate middle-man. Probably the best way is to simply write a check to them and mail it :).
Man, I work for Verizon, and they really don't have the ability to do this from my vantage point. Most of the systems we use are still Telnet based. I still fix accounts on a daily basis that haven't been touched since they were first transferred over to the system in 1990 (that's usually the only time there's a major problem with the records, when the data switches databases). They'd probably have to build a whole new system from scratch in order to comply with RIAA's wishes. Of course, I only deal with the business office lines, but most other departments use the same system I use.
I live in the Midwest (Illinois, specifically), and the way I understood how it works here is that if you're from another state, you still have to pay sales tax, but you can mail copies of the receipt to... the state government I think, with a form of ID and they'd mail you a refund, or some ridiculous scheme like that. I've never had to do it, obviously, I just remember hearing about it a while back.
I know I never paid attention to what state people were from when I worked retail here. I don't even think we had an option on the registers to remove sales tax from the order.
Actually, I went to a campus-hosted lecture on Globalization of the IT market, and I hear accounting majors are starting to have problems finding jobs as well. They're starting to be outsourced like crazy also. Haven't heard from the finance sector.
Or just cultivate a healthy Counter-Strike (or insert fave RTS/FPS here) addiction and save yourself from having to pay monthly fees :).