I disagree. The essence of capitalism is competition. Competition can only exist where choices are offered, and choices can be made freely. Totalitarian systems by definition do not tolerate freely made choices. Ergo, they are not very compatible.
Communism is open source society as compared to Capitalism which is closed source.
So Bill Gates was right!
Q: In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, "We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights." What's driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
GATES: No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.
I dont myself own a guy (yet) but I'm damn glad its an option.
Sorry, you might be disappointed.
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Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
If so, they're welcome to it, but despite the fact that own no land and no property, I'll use my USA-recognized human right of free speech to say that they're stupid idiots.
Personally, the game I'd love to play is a serious infantry simulation, with an accurate aiming model (no reticule, only blind shooting or irons ights), damage model, and people who play
Have you tried out America's Army? Seems to fit the bill, and it's free-as-in-beer to boot.
I agree with you, and both agree and disagree with the article. I think there needs to be an aknowledgement that there are fundamentally two different kinds of games.
The first kind is non-immersive; it either requires the use of imagination (e.g., text-based games) or doesn't attempt to immerse the player at all (e.g., Tetris.) For these kinds of games, graphics are irrelevant and gameplay is all that matters.
But there is another class of games, mostly RPG and FPS, that have as their goal total immersion - that the user forget s/he is sitting behind a display device and believes that what s/he is seeing, hearing, interacting with is real. Gameplay is still important here, but graphics are also important, because the better the graphics, the more complete the immersion is.
So I don't think it's fair to categorically state that graphics don't matter, unless you don't believe that immersion is a valid goal of games.
Command and Conquer: Generals lets you blow the crap out of Muslim terrorists. Oh, but I'm guessing you meant Christians. Yeah, haven't seen many of those.
Conversations between you and your lawyer about what your liability might be and how to avoid it are privileged and cannot be used as evidence against you.
The Clinton administration signed the Kyoto treaty, which the Bush administration withdrew from.
As soon as I read that, I stopped reading because I knew you were pulling facts out of your ass. Clinton signed the protocol and didn't even bother to send the treaty to the Senate.
I don't see why Apple couldn't get the same deal from IBM.
Because Microsoft negotiates from positions of strength, and Apple negotiates from positions of weakness. Microsoft could promise big sales and royalties. What can Apple promise?
Well the reason for that was pretty obvious: the Apple machines most closely approximated the hardware that will be in the Xbox360. Here's where things get interesting, though. We know that the Xbox360 will use a version of the NT kernel, so we know that development of the Windows kernel for PPC is now in high gear. We also know that Microsoft has been at times exasperated with Intel AND that Microsoft has been acquiring OS emulation assets. There's nothing particularly tying Microsoft down to x86 - it was just the most popular platform because that's what people bought. And while Apple doesn't have the volume to get major development of the desktop PPC CPU from IBM, Microsoft certainly does. Finally, Microsoft is slowly but surely establishing itself in the hardware business.
Interesting, that...Apple can't get the development it wants on the PPC, while Microsoft gets a custom hi-performance PPC chip for Xbox360.
Hmmm...
So Apple doesn't have the muscle or the sales to motivate IBM to pour a lot of R&D into the PPC chips...but Microsoft does...
Wild speculation...Apple adopts specialized DRM-enabled x86 derivatives with Altivec; Microsoft officially declares support for PPC computers in Longhorn...maybe releases dee-luxe Microsoft PPC boxes...
I think the other comment, about Loser Association Syndrome, is more cogent. Video games are an escape. If I'm escaping to what ought to be real-life experiences, something is wrong.
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
Its a cival case anyway , so i dont think you can be convicted of conspiring to break civil law.
Read that FBI warning at the beginning of the next movie you watch. Copyright infringement is a civil offense, but it is also a federal criminal offense.
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Actually, what you are asking is that we ingore the planks in our brothers' eyes until we remove every speck from our own.
I disagree. The essence of capitalism is competition. Competition can only exist where choices are offered, and choices can be made freely. Totalitarian systems by definition do not tolerate freely made choices. Ergo, they are not very compatible.
So Bill Gates was right!
Q: In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, "We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights." What's driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
GATES: No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.
Sorry, you might be disappointed.
If so, they're welcome to it, but despite the fact that own no land and no property, I'll use my USA-recognized human right of free speech to say that they're stupid idiots.
How the fuck is "wondering how long" about a paranoid delusion informative?!?
Only in America does "Not in school library" = "banned".
Have you tried out America's Army? Seems to fit the bill, and it's free-as-in-beer to boot.
The first kind is non-immersive; it either requires the use of imagination (e.g., text-based games) or doesn't attempt to immerse the player at all (e.g., Tetris.) For these kinds of games, graphics are irrelevant and gameplay is all that matters.
But there is another class of games, mostly RPG and FPS, that have as their goal total immersion - that the user forget s/he is sitting behind a display device and believes that what s/he is seeing, hearing, interacting with is real. Gameplay is still important here, but graphics are also important, because the better the graphics, the more complete the immersion is.
So I don't think it's fair to categorically state that graphics don't matter, unless you don't believe that immersion is a valid goal of games.
Command and Conquer: Generals lets you blow the crap out of Muslim terrorists. Oh, but I'm guessing you meant Christians. Yeah, haven't seen many of those.
Conversations between you and your lawyer about what your liability might be and how to avoid it are privileged and cannot be used as evidence against you.
As soon as I read that, I stopped reading because I knew you were pulling facts out of your ass. Clinton signed the protocol and didn't even bother to send the treaty to the Senate.
That's why HL2 is the most realistic game ever. It has crates, oh yes. But it also has pallets. AND cardboard boxes!
Now we just need some County Sheriff rovers to chase the good ol' boys around the martian byways.
Ask a lawyer. Preferably one that knows something about copyright law.
Because Microsoft negotiates from positions of strength, and Apple negotiates from positions of weakness. Microsoft could promise big sales and royalties. What can Apple promise?
Oh...x87, x88, whatever it takes.
Well the reason for that was pretty obvious: the Apple machines most closely approximated the hardware that will be in the Xbox360. Here's where things get interesting, though. We know that the Xbox360 will use a version of the NT kernel, so we know that development of the Windows kernel for PPC is now in high gear. We also know that Microsoft has been at times exasperated with Intel AND that Microsoft has been acquiring OS emulation assets. There's nothing particularly tying Microsoft down to x86 - it was just the most popular platform because that's what people bought. And while Apple doesn't have the volume to get major development of the desktop PPC CPU from IBM, Microsoft certainly does. Finally, Microsoft is slowly but surely establishing itself in the hardware business.
Offered for your consideration.
Hmmm...
So Apple doesn't have the muscle or the sales to motivate IBM to pour a lot of R&D into the PPC chips... but Microsoft does...
Wild speculation...Apple adopts specialized DRM-enabled x86 derivatives with Altivec; Microsoft officially declares support for PPC computers in Longhorn...maybe releases dee-luxe Microsoft PPC boxes...
So Apple is the Bizarro Microsoft.
I think the other comment, about Loser Association Syndrome, is more cogent. Video games are an escape. If I'm escaping to what ought to be real-life experiences, something is wrong.
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Let's go to the source. 17 U.S.C. 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works
The something you are looking for is probably "contributory infringement."
Read that FBI warning at the beginning of the next movie you watch. Copyright infringement is a civil offense, but it is also a federal criminal offense.