Part of the irony, for those non players, is that these two locations (Hammerfall and Stromgarde Keep) are basically RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER. On the same map. The only way you could fail to find your way is by running backwards.
Actually, that calculation doesn't really accurately portray the facts. If I download a file from someone, and they are sued for $5 for letting me download it, I shouldn't be counted in anyone elses lawsuit either right? Because after the first lawsuit, they've accounted for the $5 I would have paid for my monthly fee. Granted, that doesn't take into account any monthly fees past the first month..but then, theres no guarantee I kept the file more than a month after downloading it anyway.
So, basically, the first guy sued should get royally reamed, but the lawsuits should get cheaper and cheaper as suits progress...
And shouldn't all those people who WANT to give away their works for free be able to? Because that's the root of this case. Killing the software. And handing the media industry and big business a loaded pistol that they can point at any software company that they don't control.
If they win this, then next they'll be looking at CD burners or whatever else that threatens the industries chokehold on content.
This case comes down to a simple fact: Just because something has possible illegal uses (which are already covered by other laws!), should anyone be able to get that product banned? Or effectively banned, since that's what the ability to be sued by every large company that competes with any given software would mean.
I first read that as Tolkein Ring, and thought "Hrmm, amazingly enough, when I was in the mall the other day..."
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Yeah, I just got done (somewhat) setting up a MythTV HTPC myself a few weeks ago.
Imagine my joy to have everything working just fine on my PC...move it out to the TV (standard, not HDTV, since I dont have cash falling out of my/dev/null) and hook it up via s-video...
only to find that the fonts (even when set to the largest resolution possible) are too small to read in the program guide.
So I go to the font controls in the setup section, and up the setting....and it changes NOTHING in the program guide.
To edit the fonts in ANYTHING but the main interface, you have to manually edit some VERY long, nonintuitive, and undocumented XML files.
And each theme has to be edited separately.
The user interface configuration part needs quite a bit of work.
AFAIK, it's Already illegal to download a TV show, even if its been broadcast for free. At least the way the industry interprets the law.
Make no mistake, if the industry could, they'd stop you from ever being able to record any show, even temporarily.
The only real reason the industry is able to be a bit more agressive with bittorrent is that people are SHARING the show simultaneously. It's built into the protocol.
They'd go after the people only downloading, if they didnt already have more than enough lawsuits to file on the people both downloading and sharing at the same time. And why go after the cases which most of the public would side against you?
No, they're just going to be nice about it. They'll say "Pay us $8000 now....or we'll sue you for $33 million and completely destroy your life. There's no way you'll ever have enough money to fight this. So just give us the money..oh, and agree to never talk to anyone about this...or else we'll sue you then too."
And most people will pay, regardless of whether they were guilty or not. After all, $8k is cheaper than losing your house right?
Now, my question is at what point is this extortion?
Erm....if everyone was doing this, where exactly would all that nice content come FROM? The vast majority of HD space is used by MEDIA files, music, tv, movies....if noone has them permenantly to share, then theres nothing to download.
Actually, not actually POSSIBLE to most people, especially anyone buying their first computer (as happened to one of my relatives).
Its a chicken/egg question. How are people with new computers supposed to GET the patches without connecting to the internet first? Or even find out said patches exist? Granted, computers shouldnt be sold without the latest patches already installed, but the fact is THEY ARE.
Walk into Best Buy, and they'll let you walk out the door with a factory stock unpatched e-machine, without saying a word (as long as youve paid for it that is.)
Battletoads is one of my ALL TIME favorite games, but the sadists who thought the hoverbike/ratrace/FRIKKING Ball chase!/Jet Plane level progression on the original NES should be shot. The snes version was excellent as well, and the arcade version was incredible looking at the time. Where the &#^$ is the battletoads, uniracers, smashtv for gamecube? We finally have a system that can handle the old multiplayer franchises the way we always wanted at the time, and NOBODY makes them!
Actually, this is a pretty good point, as I'm pretty sure the MPAA frowns on people even sharing trailers, considering how far they often go to try to make streams undownloadable. If trailer players using this swarming work similar to bittorrent, people viewing the trailer would automatically be sharing it to other people. I guess a trailer made availble from the MPAA through a player with swarming tech would constitute the author giving everyone permission to share. (Which in turn would make it unlikely to ever see this adopted for movie distrobution online, no matter HOW much it would save for online vendors in bandwidth costs.)
Actually, you CAN bookmark any audiobook on an iPod, with a few requirements: The book must be in AAC format, and the file extension must be.m4b before loading to the iPod.
The iPod will then recognize the file as being bookmarkable (which the mp3 format doesnt have built in as a feature i believe).
I convert any mp3 audiobooks I get to AAC using iTunes, then rename the extentions manually, and I've had no problems. This also allows you to use the increased playback speed function (which, as a warning, also seriously pegs your battery life).
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Part of the irony, for those non players, is that these two locations (Hammerfall and Stromgarde Keep) are basically RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER. On the same map. The only way you could fail to find your way is by running backwards.
I think such a concept is smurftastic.
Awww, and they just confirmed the release date for the Phantom port of Duke Nukem:Forever!
I believe you mean "cold, dead, charred from the flaming inferno, fing-"
Apparently, the answer is no.
$num_of_users_downloading * $DOWNLOAD_YAHOO_PRICE.
Actually, that calculation doesn't really accurately portray the facts. If I download a file from someone, and they are sued for $5 for letting me download it, I shouldn't be counted in anyone elses lawsuit either right? Because after the first lawsuit, they've accounted for the $5 I would have paid for my monthly fee. Granted, that doesn't take into account any monthly fees past the first month..but then, theres no guarantee I kept the file more than a month after downloading it anyway. So, basically, the first guy sued should get royally reamed, but the lawsuits should get cheaper and cheaper as suits progress...
I'd like to say thank you for ruining apparent story points for those of us who haven't seen anything but the pilot yet.
My sister was once bitten by a mööse
Yup! It's aboot $53.48 if my math is correct...
And I thought MY job was bad...
And shouldn't all those people who WANT to give away their works for free be able to? Because that's the root of this case. Killing the software. And handing the media industry and big business a loaded pistol that they can point at any software company that they don't control.
If they win this, then next they'll be looking at CD burners or whatever else that threatens the industries chokehold on content.
This case comes down to a simple fact: Just because something has possible illegal uses (which are already covered by other laws!), should anyone be able to get that product banned? Or effectively banned, since that's what the ability to be sued by every large company that competes with any given software would mean.
You misspelled "What are you looking at? Butthead."
Not sure why you couldnt just do this yourself, but fine, here you go:
= Quotes+Database = Car+Insurance
Google Personals:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Personals
Google Quotes Database:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q
Google Car Insurance:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q
I first read that as Tolkein Ring, and thought "Hrmm, amazingly enough, when I was in the mall the other day..."
Yeah, I just got done (somewhat) setting up a MythTV HTPC myself a few weeks ago. Imagine my joy to have everything working just fine on my PC...move it out to the TV (standard, not HDTV, since I dont have cash falling out of my /dev/null) and hook it up via s-video...
only to find that the fonts (even when set to the largest resolution possible) are too small to read in the program guide.
So I go to the font controls in the setup section, and up the setting....and it changes NOTHING in the program guide.
To edit the fonts in ANYTHING but the main interface, you have to manually edit some VERY long, nonintuitive, and undocumented XML files.
And each theme has to be edited separately.
The user interface configuration part needs quite a bit of work.
AFAIK, it's Already illegal to download a TV show, even if its been broadcast for free. At least the way the industry interprets the law. Make no mistake, if the industry could, they'd stop you from ever being able to record any show, even temporarily.
The only real reason the industry is able to be a bit more agressive with bittorrent is that people are SHARING the show simultaneously. It's built into the protocol. They'd go after the people only downloading, if they didnt already have more than enough lawsuits to file on the people both downloading and sharing at the same time. And why go after the cases which most of the public would side against you?
No, they're just going to be nice about it.
They'll say "Pay us $8000 now....or we'll sue you for $33 million and completely destroy your life. There's no way you'll ever have enough money to fight this. So just give us the money..oh, and agree to never talk to anyone about this...or else we'll sue you then too."
And most people will pay, regardless of whether they were guilty or not. After all, $8k is cheaper than losing your house right?
Now, my question is at what point is this extortion?
Erm....if everyone was doing this, where exactly would all that nice content come FROM? The vast majority of HD space is used by MEDIA files, music, tv, movies....if noone has them permenantly to share, then theres nothing to download.
Actually, not actually POSSIBLE to most people, especially anyone buying their first computer (as happened to one of my relatives).
Its a chicken/egg question. How are people with new computers supposed to GET the patches without connecting to the internet first? Or even find out said patches exist? Granted, computers shouldnt be sold without the latest patches already installed, but the fact is THEY ARE. Walk into Best Buy, and they'll let you walk out the door with a factory stock unpatched e-machine, without saying a word (as long as youve paid for it that is.)
Battletoads is one of my ALL TIME favorite games, but the sadists who thought the hoverbike/ratrace/FRIKKING Ball chase!/Jet Plane level progression on the original NES should be shot. The snes version was excellent as well, and the arcade version was incredible looking at the time.
Where the &#^$ is the battletoads, uniracers, smashtv for gamecube? We finally have a system that can handle the old multiplayer franchises the way we always wanted at the time, and NOBODY makes them!
Actually, this is a pretty good point, as I'm pretty sure the MPAA frowns on people even sharing trailers, considering how far they often go to try to make streams undownloadable. If trailer players using this swarming work similar to bittorrent, people viewing the trailer would automatically be sharing it to other people. I guess a trailer made availble from the MPAA through a player with swarming tech would constitute the author giving everyone permission to share. (Which in turn would make it unlikely to ever see this adopted for movie distrobution online, no matter HOW much it would save for online vendors in bandwidth costs.)
And that, my friends, is subtle t.
Actually, you CAN bookmark any audiobook on an iPod, with a few requirements: The book must be in AAC format, and the file extension must be .m4b before loading to the iPod.
The iPod will then recognize the file as being bookmarkable (which the mp3 format doesnt have built in as a feature i believe).
I convert any mp3 audiobooks I get to AAC using iTunes, then rename the extentions manually, and I've had no problems. This also allows you to use the increased playback speed function (which, as a warning, also seriously pegs your battery life).
Because it's dying.
Ahh! The Flames! They Burn!
Que the witty recursive OGG jokes such as.. "Yeah, but does it play..oh..it does..." I swear, I'm gonna smack the first person who posts one.