Wouldn't a better plan be to link to some of the better indie artists on the service and tell people to download their songs, therefore allowing people to actually listen to the music their code purchased?
Well, if you RTFA, you'd see that this drive is aimed towards people who neither have nor want to use iTunes. I think, "email us your cap number" is far easier than, "download iTunes, install it, and poke around until you find one of the following artists, then redeem your cap."
Of course, the article does list certain indie artists, whose music you can download with your winning cap if you use iTunes. But of course, you'd need to have read the article to know that.
China is a republic. Regions elect local People's Congresses, which elect from their number delegates in the National People's Congress. The National People's Congress elects one of its members as president.
Sure, you hear about how the evil Chinese government is surpressing the poor Falun Gong practitioners -- but do you ever hear about how hundreds of Falun Gong adherents have sliced open their stomachs to try to find the "cosmic wheel" that their founder supposedly implants in them with his psychic powers? That's why the PRC has declared Falun Gong an "evil cult." China has more reason to ban Falun Gong then the US ever did to lay seige to some harmless nutballs in Waco, Texas.
But of course, China is a dictatorship, and they throw unwanted baby girls in rivers.:sigh:
(Oh, by the way, your references to "the proletariat" are completely off base. Maoism differed from Marxism in its emphasis on the peasantry rather than China's [at the time] non-existant factory workers.)
It's a good thing we live next to a guy with an open WiFi network. I might be afraid to post something like this from my home network logged in with my user name...
Wouldn't it be funny if the poster actually had a WiFi network?
If you're having problems with that, use a different popup blocker. Some tools can be configured to still load popups and blocked images, but not display them on your end. To the server, there is no way to tell the difference.
Because white collar crime results in so many jail sentences, right?
Steal $240 from a convenience store, and you'll get at least 5 years behind bars. Defraud investors of millions, and -- if you're an executive for Worldcom, Enron, or Fannie Mae -- you'll pay a fine and get on with your life.
And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet?
Speaking of being brainwashed by the media, AL GORE NEVER SAID THAT. Sheesh, you'd think that with all the times this has been debunked, you people would eventually get it through your heads.
CS has fallen far behind on many fronts in terms of design and technology, but it's far and away the most popular online game.
Not quite so much as it used to be. Aside from decent competition from other shooters released since it came out (Halo, MoA, Battlefield 1942, Planetisde, etc.), CS (and half-life in general) has actually been regressing in quality recently. Ever hear of Steam? And not to mention the simply stupid design decisions that Valve has made since they took over CS development. Remember back in Beta 4, when Valve first started sticking their spoon in? Yeah, it's like that. Almost every gun has been renamed to something stupid and bizzare. (The AK-47 became the CR-47. This confers no conceivable benefit) The addition of shields, while novel, has made half of the maps unplayable. (Ever see someone shield-rush the tunnel in de_dust?) Valve adds new guns to the game that serve no purpose whatsoever (you can almost see the marketing line: "Now with over 40 weapons!"), and then quadruples their damage when no one uses them.
CS may still be popular, but the only people playing it are the "old guard," mostly people who joined clans and have too much invested to just pack up and leave. New players, when surveying the options available, simply have nothing to draw them to CS anymore.
The simple question is "Do these people have a legal right to distribute this music?" And the simple answer is "no". Just because you own a copy of something in no way gives you the right to distribute copies of it to other people.
You would have been correct if you had just said "Does the legal system currently permit you to distribute this music?" Of course, that would also be completely empty. The law should be what is right; something doesn't become right by being law. The legal system is very fluid, with laws being created, revised, re-interpreted, and stricken down continuously. It makes no sense to treat the current state of the law as something sacred.
I further object to your use of the word "right" because it implies that somehow, copyright restrictions are natural. They aren't. If I see someone execute a clever combination in a 2D fighter game, and I then use that same stratagem on him, he might well complain that I was copying him. Indeed, he had thought of it first... and my response would be, "tough." Laws restricting the ability to copy techniques, text, or items are completely artificial. The very ideas of copyright and patents have only existed for a few hundred years. This is not to say they are bad: patents, copyright laws, and trademark protection all exist for very good reason. But to imply that they are somehow natural, that such laws are as inevitable as laws prohibiting theft and murder, is ridiculous.
America's army sacrifices gameplay in a misguided attempt to achieve "realism." And somehow, the game almost manages to capture the drudgery of real combat.
Real war is not fun. This game attempts to be as realistic as possible, and although I can't tell you if the recoil on the M16 is just like the real thing, I can tell you that this game is no fun.
If you want to play soldier, America's Army is good enough. If you want to play a first-person shooter, then play something else.
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The article isn't a "double post," it is now a "follow-up." Really.
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The parent is completely out of touch with mainstream society. "Who actually listens to the radio anymore?!" I guess the record labels can stop paying Top 40 stations to play their crap, seeing as how no one listens to them. I guess all those rap stations my friends listen to can fold, since their only remaining membership is luddites.
Yes, MP3 players are getting cheaper, but an iPod is sill $200, and every car built in the last 30 years has an AM/FM radio. Aside from just the weather, the news, and talk shows -- streaming, time sensitive content -- the radio offers the opportunity to hear new music.
You might disagree about the benifits of radio, but the fact is that most people don't own an MP3 player, and most of those who do still listen to the radio. "Who still listens to the radio?" On the freeway, the vast majority of people.
Troll, or just ignorant of trademark law? Take your pick.
"Owning" a trademark is entirely dependent on using and defending it. If someone else was using it before you, you have no case for ownership. Registering something as a trademark merely establishes that you were using it at the date of registration; if someone else was using it before, sorry bub, but it ain't yours.
As for, "management implies content rights," sorry, no. Unless they explicitly signed them away, the rights to the everything published in the Linux Gazette remains with its authors. In any case, this has nothing to do with the name of the publication.
In short, SSC doesn't have a trademark on the name "Linux Gazette."
Who makes the products that make the corporation money? Hint: it isn't you sysadmins.
It is completely true that your only purpose is to keep the system running so that the people who make money for the company can do their jobs (and so the pointy-haired bosses can check their email). If you interfere with the work of people who bring home the bacon, you're defeating your own function.
I'm no PETA member, far from it -- I love a good steak -- but this could open up into a serious mess. What's going to happen when genetically modified cats, dogs, birds, fruit bats, orangutans, ad naseum, become the new trend?
More imporantly, who cares? Seriously, that is the most trivial reservation about genetic engineering that I've heard -- and I've heard some pretty silly ones.
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If you go by the numbering on the left, Wikipedia's traffic has plummeted from over 10,000 to less than 1,000 hits per day.
Well, if you RTFA, you'd see that this drive is aimed towards people who neither have nor want to use iTunes. I think, "email us your cap number" is far easier than, "download iTunes, install it, and poke around until you find one of the following artists, then redeem your cap."
Of course, the article does list certain indie artists, whose music you can download with your winning cap if you use iTunes. But of course, you'd need to have read the article to know that.
Sure, you hear about how the evil Chinese government is surpressing the poor Falun Gong practitioners -- but do you ever hear about how hundreds of Falun Gong adherents have sliced open their stomachs to try to find the "cosmic wheel" that their founder supposedly implants in them with his psychic powers? That's why the PRC has declared Falun Gong an "evil cult." China has more reason to ban Falun Gong then the US ever did to lay seige to some harmless nutballs in Waco, Texas.
But of course, China is a dictatorship, and they throw unwanted baby girls in rivers. :sigh:
(Oh, by the way, your references to "the proletariat" are completely off base. Maoism differed from Marxism in its emphasis on the peasantry rather than China's [at the time] non-existant factory workers.)
"Even more stupidly is submitting two big Word documents with no body text in the email"?!?
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There's nothing wrong with short sentences. Read Elements of Style some time.
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"Stupider" is most definately a word. It means "more stupid."
Wouldn't it be funny if the poster actually had a WiFi network?
I wouldn't put it past someone so paranoid.
Close enough to the truth, in this case.
Indeed. Games like Dungeon Keeper 2 and Black and White can be played without ever touching the keyboard, and you probably wouldn't even notice.
If you're having problems with that, use a different popup blocker. Some tools can be configured to still load popups and blocked images, but not display them on your end. To the server, there is no way to tell the difference.
You mean, the first graphical super-hero MMORPG. Sheesh, you'd think that MUDs had never existed...
Because white collar crime results in so many jail sentences, right?
Steal $240 from a convenience store, and you'll get at least 5 years behind bars. Defraud investors of millions, and -- if you're an executive for Worldcom, Enron, or Fannie Mae -- you'll pay a fine and get on with your life.
And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet?
Speaking of being brainwashed by the media, AL GORE NEVER SAID THAT. Sheesh, you'd think that with all the times this has been debunked, you people would eventually get it through your heads.
We need to train an army that is loyal to the country's constitution, not leaders.
What constitution?
CS has fallen far behind on many fronts in terms of design and technology, but it's far and away the most popular online game.
Not quite so much as it used to be. Aside from decent competition from other shooters released since it came out (Halo, MoA, Battlefield 1942, Planetisde, etc.), CS (and half-life in general) has actually been regressing in quality recently. Ever hear of Steam? And not to mention the simply stupid design decisions that Valve has made since they took over CS development. Remember back in Beta 4, when Valve first started sticking their spoon in? Yeah, it's like that. Almost every gun has been renamed to something stupid and bizzare. (The AK-47 became the CR-47. This confers no conceivable benefit) The addition of shields, while novel, has made half of the maps unplayable. (Ever see someone shield-rush the tunnel in de_dust?) Valve adds new guns to the game that serve no purpose whatsoever (you can almost see the marketing line: "Now with over 40 weapons!"), and then quadruples their damage when no one uses them.
CS may still be popular, but the only people playing it are the "old guard," mostly people who joined clans and have too much invested to just pack up and leave. New players, when surveying the options available, simply have nothing to draw them to CS anymore.
The simple question is "Do these people have a legal right to distribute this music?" And the simple answer is "no". Just because you own a copy of something in no way gives you the right to distribute copies of it to other people.
You would have been correct if you had just said "Does the legal system currently permit you to distribute this music?" Of course, that would also be completely empty. The law should be what is right; something doesn't become right by being law. The legal system is very fluid, with laws being created, revised, re-interpreted, and stricken down continuously. It makes no sense to treat the current state of the law as something sacred.
I further object to your use of the word "right" because it implies that somehow, copyright restrictions are natural. They aren't. If I see someone execute a clever combination in a 2D fighter game, and I then use that same stratagem on him, he might well complain that I was copying him. Indeed, he had thought of it first... and my response would be, "tough." Laws restricting the ability to copy techniques, text, or items are completely artificial. The very ideas of copyright and patents have only existed for a few hundred years. This is not to say they are bad: patents, copyright laws, and trademark protection all exist for very good reason. But to imply that they are somehow natural, that such laws are as inevitable as laws prohibiting theft and murder, is ridiculous.
Seriously, though, if you want to play this game well, someone should make a truly anonymous P2P network.
Someone already did. It's called Freenet.
America's army sacrifices gameplay in a misguided attempt to achieve "realism." And somehow, the game almost manages to capture the drudgery of real combat.
Real war is not fun. This game attempts to be as realistic as possible, and although I can't tell you if the recoil on the M16 is just like the real thing, I can tell you that this game is no fun.
If you want to play soldier, America's Army is good enough. If you want to play a first-person shooter, then play something else.
The article isn't a "double post," it is now a "follow-up." Really.
The parent is completely out of touch with mainstream society. "Who actually listens to the radio anymore?!" I guess the record labels can stop paying Top 40 stations to play their crap, seeing as how no one listens to them. I guess all those rap stations my friends listen to can fold, since their only remaining membership is luddites.
Yes, MP3 players are getting cheaper, but an iPod is sill $200, and every car built in the last 30 years has an AM/FM radio. Aside from just the weather, the news, and talk shows -- streaming, time sensitive content -- the radio offers the opportunity to hear new music.
You might disagree about the benifits of radio, but the fact is that most people don't own an MP3 player, and most of those who do still listen to the radio. "Who still listens to the radio?" On the freeway, the vast majority of people.
LimeWire (and other Gnutella clients)
Emule
Soulseek
Blubster
Elf
SuprNova (and other BitTorrent indicies)
Freenet
Earthstation 5
And many others, as well.
"Owning" a trademark is entirely dependent on using and defending it. If someone else was using it before you, you have no case for ownership. Registering something as a trademark merely establishes that you were using it at the date of registration; if someone else was using it before, sorry bub, but it ain't yours.
As for, "management implies content rights," sorry, no. Unless they explicitly signed them away, the rights to the everything published in the Linux Gazette remains with its authors. In any case, this has nothing to do with the name of the publication.
In short, SSC doesn't have a trademark on the name "Linux Gazette."
Whoever modded this +1 funny should never get any mod points again... ever.
Who makes the products that make the corporation money? Hint: it isn't you sysadmins.
It is completely true that your only purpose is to keep the system running so that the people who make money for the company can do their jobs (and so the pointy-haired bosses can check their email). If you interfere with the work of people who bring home the bacon, you're defeating your own function.
I'm no PETA member, far from it -- I love a good steak -- but this could open up into a serious mess. What's going to happen when genetically modified cats, dogs, birds, fruit bats, orangutans, ad naseum, become the new trend?
More imporantly, who cares? Seriously, that is the most trivial reservation about genetic engineering that I've heard -- and I've heard some pretty silly ones.
Wow, that's almost 31/2 days!
Acclaim have shit-for-brains and every time they pull this sort of crap, they get free publicity in the media.
Not all publicity is good publicity. Just ask Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.