people have said chess and other classics ranks low because they're too abstact. Go is even more abstract, and it ranks 11th. Bridge is 71st and it's not even a board game.
Others are pointing out that Risk and Monopoly are hardly the best games ever made. This is true, but what other examples should I give that everyone has heard of?
Yes, I have heard of Puerto Rico and other very highly ranked games.
And to those who are offended my suggestion that vote-rigging may be occuring I say: you don't know fans and you don't know companies. Fans, even board game fans who should know that breaking the rules ruins it for everyone, can get really offended when something 'unworthy' is ranked higher than something they like. BTW D:TBG has dropped 7 places to 75th since 12 hours ago. OTOH if boardgamegeeks is A Trusted Site, the temptation is there for manufacturers to pump up the scores of it's games, thereby indirectly increasing games sales.(If you can't grasp how that works, I pity you.)
Also I did not say that vote-rigging WAS going on, I just said I suspect it might be. I do not trust the rankings, but hey - I'm not Buddha, Allah, Vishnu or any other all-powerful deity; make up your own mind.
Oh, and regarding Zombies!!! - yes, as CaptMonkeyDLuffy points out, it's the interminable uninteresting slog once all the tiles are out that detracts from it.
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Ranked 68th, that's very good!
I don't trust the rankings there. Boardgamegeek ranks DOOM: The Boardgame higher than Risk,Monopoly, and even Chess. It also beats Kill Doctor Lucky, which is definitely an award-winning kick-ass game (as well as a Cheap-Ass Game)
Now I havent played DOOM::TB, but I doubt it's more interesting and holds a better replay value than Chess. I have played Zombies!!! - a seriously flawed game, yet the voters of boardgame geeks still rank it higher than Risk and Monopoly. I suspect theres some vote-rigging going on, much like that which the admins at IMDb are constantly battling.
do they have a right to claim it for copyright just because they transcribed it into a different media or is this meerly FUD?
They do have a copyright claim - it's a "derivative work". Even if they didn't (a what-if) then they could still impose copyright-style contractual restrictions on it, as their copy is theirs to do with as they wish, so you'd be no better off. It's been tested in court both in the US and on my side of the pond in the UK (most recently with 16th century chamber music) repeatedly. It's considered a derivative work. If you have your own unrestricted copy of a PD text, make your own transcription and you can release that unconditionally into the public domain, but as editors they do have all the rights of a copyright holder to impose whatever crazy usage restrictions they wish.
The U.S. is obligated by international treaty to a minimum copyright period - I'm thinking it is 28 years?
1971 Berne Convention says protection extends 50 years from the 1st Jan after the authors's death (for books anyhoo). WIPO (the 1996 update) does not change the term of duration, except for photographic works. (that's photos, not movies BTW)
The current extended duration is an extension produced by private agreement between several member states, as provided for in section 20 of the convention, but are not international law in as much that they are not accorded international treaty status.
Basially put it's 50 years after the death of the author at a minimum, but the US isn't strictly adhering to the Berne Convention anyway.
There are at least 565 different digital media players out there, why is it people only know about the iPod?
The answer? Because there are at least 565 different digital media players out there. The market is saturated. If you don't make a stonkingly great product and advertise the crap out of it no one will even be aware youur product. Advertising and word of mouth recommendation = brand visibility. It also helps that Steve Jobs repeatedly beats the Apple engineers with his big Stylish-And-User-Friendly-Hammer 'til they do what he wants.
According to the figures Jobs was touting at MacWorld, they've got ~70% of the market share, the other HD based players have ~6%, and the remaining 24% is little flash-based players. If they play the iPod shuffle right, Apple could completely crush the competition, making themselves the kings of the market and people won't own a digital audio player - they'll own an iPod or an iPod clone.
I'm sure dozens of those have replaceable batteries (most of the flash ones use AA/AAA), and hundreds are 'good'.
Replacable batteries are a mixed selling point - I, like many others, do not want to feed the battery-eating gods. The down side is, of course, that you have a limited life away from a power supply. Both are substantial drawbacks.
Also, 'good' doesn't cut it. 'great' is what gets your customers recommending the product to friends. Apple simply did it better (in some ways, mainly style, size and usability) than everyone else, and the market has rewarded them accordingly.
Disclaimer: I own a 3G iPod (my first and only Apple product) and am very very happy with my purchase...
It's certainly not irrelevent. Your argument is flawed.
What are you gibbering on about? I have put forth no agenda. I repeat my statement here in it's entirety; Try reading it again. "Being pregnant, female or a pornographer does not necessarily make one a feminist"
A physically disabled nun who performs brain surgery would still not necessarily be a feminist. The only defining thing that makes one a feminist is actively encouraging social (and by extension political and economic) equality of women. It is essentially the act of recognising that men and women are just people: equals together...
you have to accept that just because there is a character of a certain type in a game, that does not mean that the game makes an observation about women in general.
Yes, that's quite true. As painful as it was to admit it to myself, I have come to accept that women are not all gun-toting archeologists or somesuch. Oh, wait, I never believed that - that's just some sort of retarded presumption on your part, pulled from the aether... In fact, I am denying a sterotype.
It's simple logic!
More like crazy moon-logic. Did you read my post, or the letters that God writes to you on the inside of your eyelids? You certainly are addressing something I have neither said nor implied.
it's irrelevant, as was explained in more depth by brkello and Elwood P. Dowd in posts a few hours later than mine.
Why are you pointing out all women are not busty blonde whores? Do you have to remind yourself on a regular basis so as to avoid falling into mysogyny? Because otherwise it's irrelevant too.
This is properly a "tough luck" situation. The planet shrugged, and some people fell off.
If it had happened to California, thousands would have died too, regardless of the USGS. In that situation, I doubt the most citizens of Sri Lanka or other other countries would have given a damn about the loss of life. They would only have been mildly interested for the entertainment value.
Most of us don't care if anyone that they don't know dies. Humanity does not currently have a dangerously low breeding population, so no problem.
Generally you can buy english-to-another-language glossaries of the specialist technical terms of scientific and engineering disciplines for most major langauges.
I'm not entirely sure if this is true in every discipline, as I can hardly be bothered to check this one, but here's a very pertinent book from Amazon.
Your keywords, should you choose to accept them, are : glossary, english, spanish, computer
We didn't really discover fractals until we had computers.
Tell that to Julia - he seemed to manage okay without electronic computational power. Mandelbrot used computers to refine his work and do ever more complex sets.
I can't see how having jupiter hidden from view by the moon will be particularly "spectacular". I'm no astronomer, but I doubt they're too excited about this either - it's not of any astronomical significance beyond demonstrating that Keplerian motion of the planets is still happening.
You can watch it, which makes it a spectacle on some level - a dot of light goes behind the moon then later it comes out from the other side - but that's only impressive when it's the Moon or the Earth obscuring the sun.,.
Also, some on the list have a sizable portfolio of patents to their name...I always liked the Einstein/Szilard refrigeration devices. most of them were much more efficient than the current consumer systems.
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These days? when have kids not been interested in shiny?
The iPod Shuffle does not randomly play songs. It shuffles the playlist...then plays the songs in the new order.
whereas a random play function could lead to a single track being played twice as often as another, shuffle precludes that.
hence the name, rather than "iPod Random".
Soon the Triangle of Torvalds will be recovered, causing Mecha-Stallman to go on the rampage.
At that point only Ultura Gatesu and Megara Ballameru could save the day...
AIUI, next year MS are planning to patent the NAnd operator in a patent application titled On a general method of analysis.
I understand It is written by a rather elderly MS employee by the name of George Boole.
a General reply to the many posters:
people have said chess and other classics ranks low because they're too abstact. Go is even more abstract, and it ranks 11th. Bridge is 71st and it's not even a board game.
Others are pointing out that Risk and Monopoly are hardly the best games ever made. This is true, but what other examples should I give that everyone has heard of?
Yes, I have heard of Puerto Rico and other very highly ranked games.
And to those who are offended my suggestion that vote-rigging may be occuring I say: you don't know fans and you don't know companies. Fans, even board game fans who should know that breaking the rules ruins it for everyone, can get really offended when something 'unworthy' is ranked higher than something they like. BTW D:TBG has dropped 7 places to 75th since 12 hours ago. OTOH if boardgamegeeks is A Trusted Site, the temptation is there for manufacturers to pump up the scores of it's games, thereby indirectly increasing games sales.(If you can't grasp how that works, I pity you.)
Also I did not say that vote-rigging WAS going on, I just said I suspect it might be. I do not trust the rankings, but hey - I'm not Buddha, Allah, Vishnu or any other all-powerful deity; make up your own mind.
Oh, and regarding Zombies!!! - yes, as CaptMonkeyDLuffy points out, it's the interminable uninteresting slog once all the tiles are out that detracts from it.
Ranked 68th, that's very good!
,Monopoly, and even Chess. It also beats Kill Doctor Lucky, which is definitely an award-winning kick-ass game (as well as a Cheap-Ass Game)
I don't trust the rankings there. Boardgamegeek ranks DOOM: The Boardgame higher than Risk
Now I havent played DOOM::TB, but I doubt it's more interesting and holds a better replay value than Chess. I have played Zombies!!! - a seriously flawed game, yet the voters of boardgame geeks still rank it higher than Risk and Monopoly. I suspect theres some vote-rigging going on, much like that which the admins at IMDb are constantly battling.
do they have a right to claim it for copyright just because they transcribed it into a different media or is this meerly FUD?
They do have a copyright claim - it's a "derivative work". Even if they didn't (a what-if) then they could still impose copyright-style contractual restrictions on it, as their copy is theirs to do with as they wish, so you'd be no better off. It's been tested in court both in the US and on my side of the pond in the UK (most recently with 16th century chamber music) repeatedly. It's considered a derivative work. If you have your own unrestricted copy of a PD text, make your own transcription and you can release that unconditionally into the public domain, but as editors they do have all the rights of a copyright holder to impose whatever crazy usage restrictions they wish.
The U.S. is obligated by international treaty to a minimum copyright period - I'm thinking it is 28 years?
1971 Berne Convention says protection extends 50 years from the 1st Jan after the authors's death (for books anyhoo). WIPO (the 1996 update) does not change the term of duration, except for photographic works. (that's photos, not movies BTW)
The current extended duration is an extension produced by private agreement between several member states, as provided for in section 20 of the convention, but are not international law in as much that they are not accorded international treaty status.
Basially put it's 50 years after the death of the author at a minimum, but the US isn't strictly adhering to the Berne Convention anyway.
There are at least 565 different digital media players out there, why is it people only know about the iPod?
The answer? Because there are at least 565 different digital media players out there. The market is saturated. If you don't make a stonkingly great product and advertise the crap out of it no one will even be aware youur product. Advertising and word of mouth recommendation = brand visibility. It also helps that Steve Jobs repeatedly beats the Apple engineers with his big Stylish-And-User-Friendly-Hammer 'til they do what he wants.
According to the figures Jobs was touting at MacWorld, they've got ~70% of the market share, the other HD based players have ~6%, and the remaining 24% is little flash-based players. If they play the iPod shuffle right, Apple could completely crush the competition, making themselves the kings of the market and people won't own a digital audio player - they'll own an iPod or an iPod clone.
I'm sure dozens of those have replaceable batteries (most of the flash ones use AA/AAA), and hundreds are 'good'.
Replacable batteries are a mixed selling point - I, like many others, do not want to feed the battery-eating gods. The down side is, of course, that you have a limited life away from a power supply. Both are substantial drawbacks.
Also, 'good' doesn't cut it. 'great' is what gets your customers recommending the product to friends. Apple simply did it better (in some ways, mainly style, size and usability) than everyone else, and the market has rewarded them accordingly.
Disclaimer: I own a 3G iPod (my first and only Apple product) and am very very happy with my purchase...
It's certainly not irrelevent. Your argument is flawed.
What are you gibbering on about? I have put forth no agenda. I repeat my statement here in it's entirety; Try reading it again. "Being pregnant, female or a pornographer does not necessarily make one a feminist"
A physically disabled nun who performs brain surgery would still not necessarily be a feminist. The only defining thing that makes one a feminist is actively encouraging social (and by extension political and economic) equality of women. It is essentially the act of recognising that men and women are just people: equals together...
you have to accept that just because there is a character of a certain type in a game, that does not mean that the game makes an observation about women in general.
Yes, that's quite true. As painful as it was to admit it to myself, I have come to accept that women are not all gun-toting archeologists or somesuch. Oh, wait, I never believed that - that's just some sort of retarded presumption on your part, pulled from the aether... In fact, I am denying a sterotype.
It's simple logic!
More like crazy moon-logic. Did you read my post, or the letters that God writes to you on the inside of your eyelids? You certainly are addressing something I have neither said nor implied.
it's irrelevant, as was explained in more depth by brkello and Elwood P. Dowd in posts a few hours later than mine.
Why are you pointing out all women are not busty blonde whores? Do you have to remind yourself on a regular basis so as to avoid falling into mysogyny? Because otherwise it's irrelevant too.
Being pregnant, female or a pornographer does not necessarily make one a feminist.
WARNING: Recent fire codes require that in-wall speaker be insulated. The specific cable linked to in that article is NOT insulated
It looks insulated to me. The product description says it's insulated.
In fact I cannot recall seeing speaker wire sold in an uninsulated fashion.
Do you mean double-insulated? A lot of safety codes require two layers of insulation between any powersource and other metalwork.
This post just upset me so much.
I apologise if it has, but I stand by my somewhat cynical statement.
you've clearly don't know what your talking about.
Go ask a someone who's been withing 100 miles of the coastline.
This is properly a "tough luck" situation. The planet shrugged, and some people fell off.
If it had happened to California, thousands would have died too, regardless of the USGS. In that situation, I doubt the most citizens of Sri Lanka or other other countries would have given a damn about the loss of life. They would only have been mildly interested for the entertainment value.
Most of us don't care if anyone that they don't know dies. Humanity does not currently have a dangerously low breeding population, so no problem.
other handy spanish slashdot phrases.
5. BSD está muriendo.
6. Primer poste.
7. Usted ha fallado.
and of course the ever useful
8. Su error lógico es que ningún residente del slashdot tiene una novia.
Generally you can buy english-to-another-language glossaries of the specialist technical terms of scientific and engineering disciplines for most major langauges.
I'm not entirely sure if this is true in every discipline, as I can hardly be bothered to check this one, but here's a very pertinent book from Amazon.
Your keywords, should you choose to accept them, are : glossary, english, spanish, computer
We didn't really discover fractals until we had computers.
Tell that to Julia - he seemed to manage okay without electronic computational power. Mandelbrot used computers to refine his work and do ever more complex sets.
I can't see how having jupiter hidden from view by the moon will be particularly "spectacular". I'm no astronomer, but I doubt they're too excited about this either - it's not of any astronomical significance beyond demonstrating that Keplerian motion of the planets is still happening.
You can watch it, which makes it a spectacle on some level - a dot of light goes behind the moon then later it comes out from the other side - but that's only impressive when it's the Moon or the Earth obscuring the sun.,.
-1 redundant
just like this post!
You should never disturb in-house engineering code. it's usually cranky and sometimes quite fast.
Also, some on the list have a sizable portfolio of patents to their name...I always liked the Einstein/Szilard refrigeration devices. most of them were much more efficient than the current consumer systems.
That's quite reasonable legislation, but the ad execs are waaay ahead of you.
I recently saw an advert where they had added clay to soap. This not an isolated incident.
Dirty Soap! These people can sell anything!
any good caveat will do.
"I believe Cmdr Taco eats babies" -- safe as long as you never admit lying, and that CmdrTaco cannot prove that you know he's allergic to babies.