How responsible is it for a lawyer for one of the litigants to write an opinion piece in a national journal prior to the litigation going forward? Can't opposition lawyers just file something claiming it's bound to be prejudicial to the whole process? Sure, vague comments about how "we're right and they're wrong" are to be expected, but laying out the meat of a case?
My best guess, and I could be way wrong, is that a counter notice wouldn't carry enough legal weight to stave of Viacom in the long run. If they file a counter notice, and get the content restored, it just becomes a battle of lawyer memos. If they sue Viacom in court for falsely filing DMCA claims, they can get some legal legs to stand on to shut this stuff down quickly in the future.
Privacy never existed in public. Like it or not, broadcasting something over a radio is not the best way to make sure things stay away from the public.
What's going to happen when Dell releases a flavor that can't play MP3s, or some media files, out of the box? I wonder if the idea of it being Linux is going to be...for lack of a better way of putting it...scary enough to the average user to dissuade them from selecting it as an option even if it saves 'em money.
I doubt that. I think most people would perceive that buying the MS product would make it most likely that they'd be able to exchange documents with others. I'd take a free copy of MS Office, knowing I could download Open Office.
Fuzzy bunnies. My brain got ahead of my keyboard again. Yeah, the MS product would be the product of choice for people given an option.
why isn't OpenOffice already available by default on new PC's and Workstations?"
Because your average home user buying an off the shelf PC (regardless of who it's from) has no idea what Open Office is. Even if you provided it as an option, given the choice between a (seemingly) free version of some MS product and Open Office, the average customer would take Open Office. Throw in the bit about most customers expecting to get support from the PC manufacturer for everything that's on there, and you have to talk about training your tech support folks on how to handle Open Office support calls.
Tech savy users and corporate customers are likely to blow the default image away and replace it with something tweaked to their choosing, so you wouldn't be saving them a tremendous amount of time by having it installed anyway.
To the best of my knowledge, and I may well be wrong, neither Everquest nor World of Warcraft have officially released server code for end users to toy with. Both have private servers out there in the world to play on. It's certainly not trivial in the grand scheme of things. But neither is actually coming up with the mod chip and such for existing consoles. Game companies can continue to obfuscate and change code around, and I'm sure they do. But if you already have a private server running some version of the game, the game companies can't force you to upgrade the version you've got installed. Yes, by going that route you're (trite phrase alert) only cheating yourself, but I'm sure people will still do it.
I know I don't play Final Fantasy games because they're innovative. I play Final Fantasy games because they're damn gorgeous. Besides, when was the last time any of you played an RPG that doesn't suffer from the same worries/problems that FFXII does?
I don't know about FFXII specifically, but after spending a seeming eternity in cut-scene after cut-scene in FFX, I pretty much decided I was done with the series. I buy RPGs to play the game, not to watch a movie.
So I don't see where the challenge is for these people.
The challenge is in the purpose. AFAIK, people don't just got into the guts of their system to crank everything up for the joy of theoretical numbers to throw around. Generally, they're after the biggest, baddest box for a reason. A big reason for a lot of people is gaming, after all...it's what consumes the most horsepower. And gaming is currently where Linux falls short. I think if more games (that people want to play) were available with native Linux support, more people would be willing to switch.
Distro's like Ubuntu are great for non-technical users to have a solution to hop on the Internet, check email, do word processing, that sort of thing. In short, all the stuff that a non-technical user is likely to do with a computer anyway.
If you lose a ship in EVE it's gone, no free respawn once you walk back to your body. Diablo 2 is the only other game that offered anything like this. Why haven't other games caught on?
I haven't played a MMOG yet that won't let you delete your character.
So you're ok with letting someone walk all over you, as long as you don't have to pay any money? The sad fact is, that unless more people stand up against groups like the RIAA in cases like this, they'll continue their legal fishing expeditions forever.
I find the monitoring of citizens location during every moment of a cell phone call to be a bit more frightening than not being able to use false data to register an email address. Why'd the pseudonym get bigger billing, as it were?
If you go out of your way to make it easier to harass your customers, we'll be happy to give you a little something extra... Wonder if we can get a list of ISP's that are volunteering to comply with this.
Thus, 74 million unsold CDs from that year are 'without an excuse for sitting on shelves.
That's the excuse. Sorry, people are buying less CDs because so many of the new CDs pushed by major labels are cookie-cutter copies of other CD's that sold well. Maybe I'm just getting crotchety in my old age, but all the music *does* sound the same to me.
You can thank Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton (among others) for high GTA sales. Tons of publicity, making it the "maverick" game to play. I bet if a Senator had asked for a probe into Psychonauts, it would've sold a few more copies.
Ok... People can put bricks in their ovens to force temperature variations to be minimal over the on-off cycle of a typical oven. At what point do we stop building roads and crap that (seemingly) have the potential to do the same damn thing? Maybe I'm too uneducated on the whole mess, but it seems like city after city of giant thermal capacitors can't be helping.
But how about a system for consumers to vote on the games they actually...I dunno...enjoyed playing? I'd like to see games rated on things like best playability, best replay, best time waster (those little games that help you kill 10 or 15 minutes here and there), that sort of thing.
Here's the sad thing... I've griped about M$ forever, but I still run their OS because I play computer games. A lot. I know you can do wonders with various Linux tools, but there's something nice about not fussing with that sort of stuff to just play some games after work. Vista, with all its "features," is about to push me to something else in a hurry. Especially if the performance enhancements that are supposed to come down from on high with DX10 don't really meet expectations. Never leaned so far toward a Mac before in my life (the only game I play these days will run on that natively).
Only when the consequences of allowing one's machines to be zombified is serious and high people will take security seriously.
"I never could get that darn cable modem to work right after a while. So I swapped to DSL and it's fine again!"
I think you're overestimating the people this is likely to catch. Most companies are likely to have reasonable security. Most knowledgeable home users are going to have reasonable security. It's the guy that has no idea what they're doing that's going to get in trouble. And I'm betting they're just as likely to swap service providers as they are to think something's wrong with their box. Unless you want to pay more for broadband so they can have the manpower necessary to keep up with blocked machines and make the end users aware...
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How responsible is it for a lawyer for one of the litigants to write an opinion piece in a national journal prior to the litigation going forward? Can't opposition lawyers just file something claiming it's bound to be prejudicial to the whole process? Sure, vague comments about how "we're right and they're wrong" are to be expected, but laying out the meat of a case?
My best guess, and I could be way wrong, is that a counter notice wouldn't carry enough legal weight to stave of Viacom in the long run. If they file a counter notice, and get the content restored, it just becomes a battle of lawyer memos. If they sue Viacom in court for falsely filing DMCA claims, they can get some legal legs to stand on to shut this stuff down quickly in the future.
Privacy never existed in public. Like it or not, broadcasting something over a radio is not the best way to make sure things stay away from the public.
What's going to happen when Dell releases a flavor that can't play MP3s, or some media files, out of the box? I wonder if the idea of it being Linux is going to be...for lack of a better way of putting it...scary enough to the average user to dissuade them from selecting it as an option even if it saves 'em money.
I doubt that. I think most people would perceive that buying the MS product would make it most likely that they'd be able to exchange documents with others. I'd take a free copy of MS Office, knowing I could download Open Office.
Fuzzy bunnies. My brain got ahead of my keyboard again. Yeah, the MS product would be the product of choice for people given an option.
why isn't OpenOffice already available by default on new PC's and Workstations?"
Because your average home user buying an off the shelf PC (regardless of who it's from) has no idea what Open Office is. Even if you provided it as an option, given the choice between a (seemingly) free version of some MS product and Open Office, the average customer would take Open Office. Throw in the bit about most customers expecting to get support from the PC manufacturer for everything that's on there, and you have to talk about training your tech support folks on how to handle Open Office support calls.
Tech savy users and corporate customers are likely to blow the default image away and replace it with something tweaked to their choosing, so you wouldn't be saving them a tremendous amount of time by having it installed anyway.
Four words: "Not releasing the server."
To the best of my knowledge, and I may well be wrong, neither Everquest nor World of Warcraft have officially released server code for end users to toy with. Both have private servers out there in the world to play on. It's certainly not trivial in the grand scheme of things. But neither is actually coming up with the mod chip and such for existing consoles. Game companies can continue to obfuscate and change code around, and I'm sure they do. But if you already have a private server running some version of the game, the game companies can't force you to upgrade the version you've got installed. Yes, by going that route you're (trite phrase alert) only cheating yourself, but I'm sure people will still do it.
Does this put an end to piracy or are there some new and clever forms that will emerge?
Two words... Private servers.
That can't be right. The quote didn't even have the word "billions" in it once, it can't be Sagan.
I know I don't play Final Fantasy games because they're innovative. I play Final Fantasy games because they're damn gorgeous. Besides, when was the last time any of you played an RPG that doesn't suffer from the same worries/problems that FFXII does?
I don't know about FFXII specifically, but after spending a seeming eternity in cut-scene after cut-scene in FFX, I pretty much decided I was done with the series. I buy RPGs to play the game, not to watch a movie.
In my head? And they're all the same?
So I don't see where the challenge is for these people.
The challenge is in the purpose. AFAIK, people don't just got into the guts of their system to crank everything up for the joy of theoretical numbers to throw around. Generally, they're after the biggest, baddest box for a reason. A big reason for a lot of people is gaming, after all...it's what consumes the most horsepower. And gaming is currently where Linux falls short. I think if more games (that people want to play) were available with native Linux support, more people would be willing to switch.
Distro's like Ubuntu are great for non-technical users to have a solution to hop on the Internet, check email, do word processing, that sort of thing. In short, all the stuff that a non-technical user is likely to do with a computer anyway.
Who wants to take bets on which console Gore is backing!
I'll tell you after I find out how much money each company donates to his campaign.
If you lose a ship in EVE it's gone, no free respawn once you walk back to your body. Diablo 2 is the only other game that offered anything like this. Why haven't other games caught on?
I haven't played a MMOG yet that won't let you delete your character.
So you're ok with letting someone walk all over you, as long as you don't have to pay any money? The sad fact is, that unless more people stand up against groups like the RIAA in cases like this, they'll continue their legal fishing expeditions forever.
I find the monitoring of citizens location during every moment of a cell phone call to be a bit more frightening than not being able to use false data to register an email address. Why'd the pseudonym get bigger billing, as it were?
If you go out of your way to make it easier to harass your customers, we'll be happy to give you a little something extra... Wonder if we can get a list of ISP's that are volunteering to comply with this.
Thus, 74 million unsold CDs from that year are 'without an excuse for sitting on shelves.
That's the excuse. Sorry, people are buying less CDs because so many of the new CDs pushed by major labels are cookie-cutter copies of other CD's that sold well. Maybe I'm just getting crotchety in my old age, but all the music *does* sound the same to me.
You can thank Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton (among others) for high GTA sales. Tons of publicity, making it the "maverick" game to play. I bet if a Senator had asked for a probe into Psychonauts, it would've sold a few more copies.
Ok... People can put bricks in their ovens to force temperature variations to be minimal over the on-off cycle of a typical oven. At what point do we stop building roads and crap that (seemingly) have the potential to do the same damn thing? Maybe I'm too uneducated on the whole mess, but it seems like city after city of giant thermal capacitors can't be helping.
But how about a system for consumers to vote on the games they actually...I dunno...enjoyed playing? I'd like to see games rated on things like best playability, best replay, best time waster (those little games that help you kill 10 or 15 minutes here and there), that sort of thing.
Umm. Yay?
I'm not saying the intent is bad. But it's an enormous waste of money in my opinion.
Get made to look like an idiot in front of the world == Charges
Here's the sad thing... I've griped about M$ forever, but I still run their OS because I play computer games. A lot. I know you can do wonders with various Linux tools, but there's something nice about not fussing with that sort of stuff to just play some games after work. Vista, with all its "features," is about to push me to something else in a hurry. Especially if the performance enhancements that are supposed to come down from on high with DX10 don't really meet expectations. Never leaned so far toward a Mac before in my life (the only game I play these days will run on that natively).
Only when the consequences of allowing one's machines to be zombified is serious and high people will take security seriously.
"I never could get that darn cable modem to work right after a while. So I swapped to DSL and it's fine again!"
I think you're overestimating the people this is likely to catch. Most companies are likely to have reasonable security. Most knowledgeable home users are going to have reasonable security. It's the guy that has no idea what they're doing that's going to get in trouble. And I'm betting they're just as likely to swap service providers as they are to think something's wrong with their box. Unless you want to pay more for broadband so they can have the manpower necessary to keep up with blocked machines and make the end users aware...