Actually, if you get the preferences toolbar (I wish I could remember where I got it), it has a checkbox for pop-ups, and will disable *any* pop-up when unchecked, even requested ones. It's nice though, very easy to allow popups when you want them, then immediately disable them again afterwards.
"...totally technically inept (sure you might not be able to find the uninstall link by yourself, but once someone shows it to you, the lawsuit kinda evaporates)..."
Read the article. It says that while there is an uinstaller for Xupiter, it doesn't actually seem to work. If it does anything at all, it leaves the system in a state where every time IE is started up, it throws out error dialogs that Xupiter is not installed correctly and must be re-installed.
It's probably also similar to Gator in that, when you uninstall it, it only uninstalls part of itself and leaves other things, like web3000, on your machine, still doing its nefarious things.
'Course, you're probably right anyway, I'd rather just kick 'em in the teeth than sue 'em.
I think most of the hardware companies are struggling financially, so any major short term loss could be enough to put them under the ground. Long term, of course, it would be better for them to not go the DRM route. As more and more consumers start to realize their rights are taken away and they can't do what they used to be able to do, more and more are going to educate themselves and move to non-DRM alternatives. The problem is, most people don't know this right now.
In the short term, people will continue to buy what they're used to, buying Windows based PCs. Say Microsoft comes along and makes it so their next version of Windows will *only* run on Palladium-friendly CPUs. Then, Microsoft shows all these consumers the new features that let you watch two DVDs at the same time or something, and they all flock to buy it. All new PCs are sold only with this new OS. In the meantime, while people are still demanding this new version of Windows, the non-DRM CPU makers are left out in the cold, waiting for people to come to their senses. Before they do, though, that CPU maker runs out of cash in its treasure chest and has to fold.
Losing the support of Microsoft (or even the ability to run Microsoft OS's at all) would be a death blow to any CPU maker. That, or find a niche market (like us Slashdotter's) and sell a Linux-friendly non-DRM CPU at a much higher profit margin, banking that we'll be willing to shell out some extra money to avoid all this madness. However, how many of us are, especially if the price difference isn't negligible, like $200 more @ CPU or something?
Consumers need to be educated, and the DivX debacle proves that can happen. The question is, how many outlets are there that aren't controlled by one of the big media companies, the very ones that are fighting for DRM? I can't answer it, but hopefully the same people that helped to kill DivX off can do the same thing here...
Well, this is why I don't ask Cedar Point or Six Flags, I usually listen to coaster enthusiasts instead.
I don't think anyone can truly make a determination about S:TE & Demon Drop. There are reasons that they don't fit into the classical definition of a coaster, and there are reasons that they do. If you want to get truly technical, they roll, and they coast.
I still think a bigger issue, when it comes to who has more rides, was/is Flashback at SFMM. That ride is standing but not operating all summer long, and it only runs in the offseason.
Well, like you said, by that criteria a ride like Deja Vu at SFMM (and other places) wouldn't be a coaster. It's also a back & forth.
I still maintain that S:TE is a coaster. It still rolls, and once the initial launch (building energy via LIM instead of a chain lift) is done, it's all working with gravity & friction, just like any other coaster.
I honestly know nothing about Demon Drop, so I won't comment on that.
My question is, with a 20 second ride, I would think that you'd be lucky to get a train full of people and all the restraints checked by the time the previous train makes it back to the station. I mean, even on rides with simple restraints, it takes at *least* 20 seconds for everyone to get out of the queue, into the car, and get their restraints on comfortably. I don't see horrible lines, but I do see a lot of waiting in trains that are stopped outside the station.
I'm assuming that's why the launch point is a ways up from the station. That way, people spend a bit more time waiting in the launch queue and less in line. People are happier waiting in the train than outside on the concrete...
You're completely right about this. Six Flags (at least Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA) has started using their "Fastlane" passes. For $15, you buy four fastlane passes, and they get you into the line about 2/3 of the way in. Problem is, it just makes the rest of the line take that much longer, and in my experience, almost starts class warfare. We got some for X when it first opened, and the people waiting in the normal line got so angry about fastlane people that they had to have security all through the ride queue to keep things in check.
They've since made it so fastlane can't be used on X or Deja Vu, their two newest and meanest rides.
The Disneyland appointment system is a *far* superior system for both the riders & the park. The riders don't have to stand in a queue forever (X was reported to have 7 hour waits on Memorial Day last year), so they get to wander the park. People wandering the park tend to go into the shops or eat food, so the park makes more money. The park can't make any money off you if you're standing in a queue...
Heh, and Arrow Dynamics said that X at Six Flags: Magic Mountain would be able to get approx. 1,680 riders per hour. The fastest I've ever clocked it at is about 580 riders per hour.
There's going to be a lot of restraints checking on this ride for at least the first year, just like Xcelerator at Knott's (smaller version of this guy). I sincerely doubt it'll be up to that capacity (or running six trains simultaneously) this season.
Unfortunately, Superman: TE has shown that this type of coaster may not be the greatest thing since sliced bread. S:TE is definitely not the big new thing, but it sure as heck was when it came out. However, now everyone knows that it's a one trick pony. That one trick rocks, but it's over before it even began. It's still the ride that goes higher up than any other in the park, but I think most people would prefer to ride X or Goliath over it.
I still think most people will think Millenium Force is a better coaster overall, but I also believe a *lot* of people will come to check this new guy out. I know I'd love to, but I have the feeling that if I go, I'll go for TTD, I'll stay for MF.
Which might be what they're going for...I'm not very good at marketing.
No one really cares what comes after the first hill.
That's completely untrue. The big hill brings people to the park, but a better overall coaster brings people back. Almost everyone who has ridden a large number of coasters puts either Millenium Force or, even more often, Superman: Ride of Steel at the top of their lists.
Still consider Riddler's Revenge at Six Flags Magic Mountain to be one of the best coasters I've ridden. It's smooth, the transitions are fantastic, and there's great airtime. The general public are drawn to a park because of the numbers...the biggest drop, the highest speed, etc. But they come back to a good ride experience, meaning airtime, headchoppers (or footchoppers for inverted coasters), and other elements that make a great coaster are very important.
I would have preferred that they make a launched coaster like Xcelerator, but instead of going bigger, adding a whole coaster to it. I guess that doesn't sound as good to the marketing guys, though.
No it ain't! I was at SFMM two days ago, adult admission price is $45.99. This is, admittedly, ridiculously high, but they have season tickets for $52.99 on Six Flags' Website. Warning, lotsa flash on that page.
The season passes work at any Six Flags park as well, so that's a bonus.
I did just think that maybe you were including the $8 in parking in that total, so I guess it is over $50. Still, same with all the other parks...
I am no good at physics, but according to a guy on Fark (and some other folk backed him up), assuming a constant rate of acceleration out of the gate (which is probably a flawed assumption), the riders would experience about 1.375 Gs from the launch. That's pretty massive, and I would imagine that it has a stronger launch for the first two seconds, if only because of wind resistance as it gets up to speed.
This is, of course, assuming that the coaster is constantly going 120mph. It will only be going that fast at launch, despite what their literature says (there's no way it'll be going as fast at the bottom of the first drop as it would at the end of the launch...friction's gotta work, and it looks like it pulls out of the dive higher up than it enters the climb). Ideally, there could be another major hill (obviously not quite as high) with some overbanked turns to keep the G forces positive for a bit, and possibly just a massive helix to try to burn off some speed. Then, a set of trim brakes near the middle of the coaster, and round out the rest with some nice bunny hills and headchoppers.
You would only need 176 feet right at the very launch, it wouldn't be *super* hard to burn off a lot of the coasters speed, especially with some magnetic trim brakes. However, given that it would still be somewhat difficult, I am afraid that this is *not* the future of coaster design.
One can say that there are successful art films, but that doesn't mean that they've gained a mass market audience. Or that a bad like Stereolab can be seen as successful, but no-one would ever call them mass market. I know a *lot* of game-players, and only a few of them regularly play Everquest, certainly nowhere near the number of players for a game like Madden or NFL2K3.
Psst! The bill is called the "DMCA", that's what the comment was about! Pass it on!!
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As much as I hate to give ammunition to the pro RIAA/record company crowd, I think you've left out a number of costs in your list.
I don't know the actual dollar amounts, so I can't tell you how much it adds to the $2.04 you've already stated, but I'm sure that it's at least a couple more dollars.
Just off the top of my head (I don't work in the industry, but I can imagine that these would be involved): Distribution costs, Advertising costs (including TV & Radio ads for the biggest ones, plus getting your record played on major radio stations, press junkets, etc etc etc), production costs (renting/owning a studio, producers, mixers, equipment that goes along with all that)...
There are tremendous costs involved with creating, distributing, and promoting an album. I have a friend who's been struggling with her own album, producing her own CDs, and trying to get promoted in Los Angeles. She's gotten some promotion from a DJ here in LA that's been promoting a lot of female artists in the area, but it's been a good year-year and a half since the CD was released, and I think it's still a money-losing effort.
There's a lot more to it than that $2.04. Despite that, I agree that the RIAA still is greedy, just not to the point that you claim. I also agree that they are doing everything they can to destroy our fair use rights, and they need to be fought on every front, especially the political one. They may have lots of money, but if the populace can be educated, votes are still more powerful than money.
I haven't had a single Mozilla crash in at least 4 months under Enlightenment.
The only one I've had in that period of time was under Win2K when attempting to load a Java applet. Locked it all up, and I had to kill the process. Other than that, Mozilla has been solid as a rock.
I've been with EMusic for a while now too, and for the most part I like 'em.
However, be aware that it's not totally unlimited now. There are a number of posts on CNET from customers who have had their accounts terminated after downloading too much in too short a time, and when I asked (quite politely) their customer service department about this, I got a response back that started:
"Although EMusic is an 'unlimited' service, there have to be some restrictions on this policy. EMusic is similar to a buffet advertised as 'all you can eat.' For the restaurant to be successful, it has to have reasonable limitations that apply to people that stay too long, eat more than their fair share -- or waste food."
So their definition of unlimited means unlimited up until a limit. They claim in their e-mail that it's "more than 2,000 tracks in a 30-day period", I haven't personally tested this myself.
At least in the time since I got their e-mail (November 23rd), they've changed the "Unlimited" on their webpage to say "Unlimited*".
One quick question: Was this back in the heydey of Amazon, or more recently?
I know early on where I worked, money was flowing so freely that we didn't care if something got a bad review. We were all going to be rich either way, I mean, it's the Intarweb!!
When things started to turn sour though, people starting paying a little more attention to anything that would start bringing just a little more money in. Didn't work though, we still went under.
Well, your logic isn't making a seperation between what you're buying and whether or not that has a direct correlation to said activities.
If you buy high quality steel from a company that poisoned the town's watershed, it's assumed that it's through the process of producing said steel that the poisoning is occuring.
A think a more analogous situation would be saying that either A) you have a moral obligation not to support a steel company whose factories pose no real threat, but the CEO enjoys walking around his neighborhood poisoning everyone's water, or B) you have a moral obligation not to buy his book because he uses his book to lure children in to molest them.
Seeing as the Java book has precious little to do with his pedophilia (unless he was in chat rooms saying "Hey there, little one, did you know I write Java books? Don't you want me now?"), it's not exactly the same thing.
True, but unfortunately I only seem to be able to find cheap-o DVD players that can be made region-free. I have a number of DVDs from England & Germany, and the only DVD player in my house that can play them (and VCDs, MP3s, etc etc) is a $70 Apex AD-1500. My $300 Sony can't.
If only a *good* DVD player would come out that has all the features I want...I'd buy it in a second.
This is even more true with the PlayStation. I've gone through 4 PS1s and 2 PS2s so far, all of them with the exact same problem. The laser eventually falls out of alignment and can't read discs anymore.
I also know that I'm not the only one who has this problem. Not to say that everyone who owns one will have this problem, but it is widespread enough that I've heard many other tales of woe.
Sony usually wants $90 + shipping + a few weeks to fix the PS. Sadly enough, if I want to keep using my PSX/PS2, I have to do something I would never normally do and buy one of those unconditional warranties from the store I buy it at.
Can we then require that any advertising money that goes to the radio station also has to be distributed amongst all the cab drivers that broadcasted said advertisement in their cab?
My only problem with my own argument is that then the radio stations are getting screwed, not my intended RIAA targets...
Find out if someone can burn it to a CD for you then. The speech on the 3DO version still holds up as some of the best voice-over work out there, and you will laugh yourself silly whenever you deal with the Spathi. I heard them again while playing this alpha and had a stupid grin on my face all weekend afterwards.
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Actually, if you get the preferences toolbar (I wish I could remember where I got it), it has a checkbox for pop-ups, and will disable *any* pop-up when unchecked, even requested ones. It's nice though, very easy to allow popups when you want them, then immediately disable them again afterwards.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
I believe the phrase is "Fool me once, shame on....shame on you. Fool me twice........ifulmuh, can't get fooled again."
I know, I know, cheap gag.
"...totally technically inept (sure you might not be able to find the uninstall link by yourself, but once someone shows it to you, the lawsuit kinda evaporates)..."
Read the article. It says that while there is an uinstaller for Xupiter, it doesn't actually seem to work. If it does anything at all, it leaves the system in a state where every time IE is started up, it throws out error dialogs that Xupiter is not installed correctly and must be re-installed.
It's probably also similar to Gator in that, when you uninstall it, it only uninstalls part of itself and leaves other things, like web3000, on your machine, still doing its nefarious things.
'Course, you're probably right anyway, I'd rather just kick 'em in the teeth than sue 'em.
I think most of the hardware companies are struggling financially, so any major short term loss could be enough to put them under the ground. Long term, of course, it would be better for them to not go the DRM route. As more and more consumers start to realize their rights are taken away and they can't do what they used to be able to do, more and more are going to educate themselves and move to non-DRM alternatives. The problem is, most people don't know this right now.
In the short term, people will continue to buy what they're used to, buying Windows based PCs. Say Microsoft comes along and makes it so their next version of Windows will *only* run on Palladium-friendly CPUs. Then, Microsoft shows all these consumers the new features that let you watch two DVDs at the same time or something, and they all flock to buy it. All new PCs are sold only with this new OS. In the meantime, while people are still demanding this new version of Windows, the non-DRM CPU makers are left out in the cold, waiting for people to come to their senses. Before they do, though, that CPU maker runs out of cash in its treasure chest and has to fold.
Losing the support of Microsoft (or even the ability to run Microsoft OS's at all) would be a death blow to any CPU maker. That, or find a niche market (like us Slashdotter's) and sell a Linux-friendly non-DRM CPU at a much higher profit margin, banking that we'll be willing to shell out some extra money to avoid all this madness. However, how many of us are, especially if the price difference isn't negligible, like $200 more @ CPU or something?
Consumers need to be educated, and the DivX debacle proves that can happen. The question is, how many outlets are there that aren't controlled by one of the big media companies, the very ones that are fighting for DRM? I can't answer it, but hopefully the same people that helped to kill DivX off can do the same thing here...
Well, this is why I don't ask Cedar Point or Six Flags, I usually listen to coaster enthusiasts instead.
I don't think anyone can truly make a determination about S:TE & Demon Drop. There are reasons that they don't fit into the classical definition of a coaster, and there are reasons that they do. If you want to get truly technical, they roll, and they coast.
I still think a bigger issue, when it comes to who has more rides, was/is Flashback at SFMM. That ride is standing but not operating all summer long, and it only runs in the offseason.
Well, like you said, by that criteria a ride like Deja Vu at SFMM (and other places) wouldn't be a coaster. It's also a back & forth.
I still maintain that S:TE is a coaster. It still rolls, and once the initial launch (building energy via LIM instead of a chain lift) is done, it's all working with gravity & friction, just like any other coaster.
I honestly know nothing about Demon Drop, so I won't comment on that.
My question is, with a 20 second ride, I would think that you'd be lucky to get a train full of people and all the restraints checked by the time the previous train makes it back to the station. I mean, even on rides with simple restraints, it takes at *least* 20 seconds for everyone to get out of the queue, into the car, and get their restraints on comfortably. I don't see horrible lines, but I do see a lot of waiting in trains that are stopped outside the station.
I'm assuming that's why the launch point is a ways up from the station. That way, people spend a bit more time waiting in the launch queue and less in line. People are happier waiting in the train than outside on the concrete...
You're completely right about this. Six Flags (at least Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA) has started using their "Fastlane" passes. For $15, you buy four fastlane passes, and they get you into the line about 2/3 of the way in. Problem is, it just makes the rest of the line take that much longer, and in my experience, almost starts class warfare. We got some for X when it first opened, and the people waiting in the normal line got so angry about fastlane people that they had to have security all through the ride queue to keep things in check.
They've since made it so fastlane can't be used on X or Deja Vu, their two newest and meanest rides.
The Disneyland appointment system is a *far* superior system for both the riders & the park. The riders don't have to stand in a queue forever (X was reported to have 7 hour waits on Memorial Day last year), so they get to wander the park. People wandering the park tend to go into the shops or eat food, so the park makes more money. The park can't make any money off you if you're standing in a queue...
Heh, and Arrow Dynamics said that X at Six Flags: Magic Mountain would be able to get approx. 1,680 riders per hour. The fastest I've ever clocked it at is about 580 riders per hour.
There's going to be a lot of restraints checking on this ride for at least the first year, just like Xcelerator at Knott's (smaller version of this guy). I sincerely doubt it'll be up to that capacity (or running six trains simultaneously) this season.
Though it probably will do better than X....
Unfortunately, Superman: TE has shown that this type of coaster may not be the greatest thing since sliced bread. S:TE is definitely not the big new thing, but it sure as heck was when it came out. However, now everyone knows that it's a one trick pony. That one trick rocks, but it's over before it even began. It's still the ride that goes higher up than any other in the park, but I think most people would prefer to ride X or Goliath over it.
I still think most people will think Millenium Force is a better coaster overall, but I also believe a *lot* of people will come to check this new guy out. I know I'd love to, but I have the feeling that if I go, I'll go for TTD, I'll stay for MF.
Which might be what they're going for...I'm not very good at marketing.
No one really cares what comes after the first hill.
That's completely untrue. The big hill brings people to the park, but a better overall coaster brings people back. Almost everyone who has ridden a large number of coasters puts either Millenium Force or, even more often, Superman: Ride of Steel at the top of their lists.
Still consider Riddler's Revenge at Six Flags Magic Mountain to be one of the best coasters I've ridden. It's smooth, the transitions are fantastic, and there's great airtime. The general public are drawn to a park because of the numbers...the biggest drop, the highest speed, etc. But they come back to a good ride experience, meaning airtime, headchoppers (or footchoppers for inverted coasters), and other elements that make a great coaster are very important.
I would have preferred that they make a launched coaster like Xcelerator, but instead of going bigger, adding a whole coaster to it. I guess that doesn't sound as good to the marketing guys, though.
No it ain't! I was at SFMM two days ago, adult admission price is $45.99. This is, admittedly, ridiculously high, but they have season tickets for $52.99 on Six Flags' Website. Warning, lotsa flash on that page.
The season passes work at any Six Flags park as well, so that's a bonus.
I did just think that maybe you were including the $8 in parking in that total, so I guess it is over $50. Still, same with all the other parks...
I am no good at physics, but according to a guy on Fark (and some other folk backed him up), assuming a constant rate of acceleration out of the gate (which is probably a flawed assumption), the riders would experience about 1.375 Gs from the launch. That's pretty massive, and I would imagine that it has a stronger launch for the first two seconds, if only because of wind resistance as it gets up to speed.
This is, of course, assuming that the coaster is constantly going 120mph. It will only be going that fast at launch, despite what their literature says (there's no way it'll be going as fast at the bottom of the first drop as it would at the end of the launch...friction's gotta work, and it looks like it pulls out of the dive higher up than it enters the climb). Ideally, there could be another major hill (obviously not quite as high) with some overbanked turns to keep the G forces positive for a bit, and possibly just a massive helix to try to burn off some speed. Then, a set of trim brakes near the middle of the coaster, and round out the rest with some nice bunny hills and headchoppers.
You would only need 176 feet right at the very launch, it wouldn't be *super* hard to burn off a lot of the coasters speed, especially with some magnetic trim brakes. However, given that it would still be somewhat difficult, I am afraid that this is *not* the future of coaster design.
success != appeal to a mass audience.
One can say that there are successful art films, but that doesn't mean that they've gained a mass market audience. Or that a bad like Stereolab can be seen as successful, but no-one would ever call them mass market. I know a *lot* of game-players, and only a few of them regularly play Everquest, certainly nowhere near the number of players for a game like Madden or NFL2K3.
Psst! The bill is called the "DMCA", that's what the comment was about! Pass it on!!
As much as I hate to give ammunition to the pro RIAA/record company crowd, I think you've left out a number of costs in your list.
I don't know the actual dollar amounts, so I can't tell you how much it adds to the $2.04 you've already stated, but I'm sure that it's at least a couple more dollars.
Just off the top of my head (I don't work in the industry, but I can imagine that these would be involved): Distribution costs, Advertising costs (including TV & Radio ads for the biggest ones, plus getting your record played on major radio stations, press junkets, etc etc etc), production costs (renting/owning a studio, producers, mixers, equipment that goes along with all that)...
There are tremendous costs involved with creating, distributing, and promoting an album. I have a friend who's been struggling with her own album, producing her own CDs, and trying to get promoted in Los Angeles. She's gotten some promotion from a DJ here in LA that's been promoting a lot of female artists in the area, but it's been a good year-year and a half since the CD was released, and I think it's still a money-losing effort.
There's a lot more to it than that $2.04. Despite that, I agree that the RIAA still is greedy, just not to the point that you claim. I also agree that they are doing everything they can to destroy our fair use rights, and they need to be fought on every front, especially the political one. They may have lots of money, but if the populace can be educated, votes are still more powerful than money.
I haven't had a single Mozilla crash in at least 4 months under Enlightenment.
The only one I've had in that period of time was under Win2K when attempting to load a Java applet. Locked it all up, and I had to kill the process. Other than that, Mozilla has been solid as a rock.
I've been with EMusic for a while now too, and for the most part I like 'em.
However, be aware that it's not totally unlimited now. There are a number of posts on CNET from customers who have had their accounts terminated after downloading too much in too short a time, and when I asked (quite politely) their customer service department about this, I got a response back that started:
"Although EMusic is an 'unlimited' service, there have to be some restrictions on this policy. EMusic is similar to a buffet advertised as 'all you can eat.' For the restaurant to be successful, it has to have reasonable limitations that apply to people that stay too long, eat more than their fair share -- or waste food."
So their definition of unlimited means unlimited up until a limit. They claim in their e-mail that it's "more than 2,000 tracks in a 30-day period", I haven't personally tested this myself.
At least in the time since I got their e-mail (November 23rd), they've changed the "Unlimited" on their webpage to say "Unlimited*".
One quick question: Was this back in the heydey of Amazon, or more recently?
I know early on where I worked, money was flowing so freely that we didn't care if something got a bad review. We were all going to be rich either way, I mean, it's the Intarweb!!
When things started to turn sour though, people starting paying a little more attention to anything that would start bringing just a little more money in. Didn't work though, we still went under.
Well, your logic isn't making a seperation between what you're buying and whether or not that has a direct correlation to said activities.
If you buy high quality steel from a company that poisoned the town's watershed, it's assumed that it's through the process of producing said steel that the poisoning is occuring.
A think a more analogous situation would be saying that either A) you have a moral obligation not to support a steel company whose factories pose no real threat, but the CEO enjoys walking around his neighborhood poisoning everyone's water, or B) you have a moral obligation not to buy his book because he uses his book to lure children in to molest them.
Seeing as the Java book has precious little to do with his pedophilia (unless he was in chat rooms saying "Hey there, little one, did you know I write Java books? Don't you want me now?"), it's not exactly the same thing.
True, but unfortunately I only seem to be able to find cheap-o DVD players that can be made region-free. I have a number of DVDs from England & Germany, and the only DVD player in my house that can play them (and VCDs, MP3s, etc etc) is a $70 Apex AD-1500. My $300 Sony can't.
If only a *good* DVD player would come out that has all the features I want...I'd buy it in a second.
This is even more true with the PlayStation. I've gone through 4 PS1s and 2 PS2s so far, all of them with the exact same problem. The laser eventually falls out of alignment and can't read discs anymore.
I also know that I'm not the only one who has this problem. Not to say that everyone who owns one will have this problem, but it is widespread enough that I've heard many other tales of woe.
Sony usually wants $90 + shipping + a few weeks to fix the PS. Sadly enough, if I want to keep using my PSX/PS2, I have to do something I would never normally do and buy one of those unconditional warranties from the store I buy it at.
Can we then require that any advertising money that goes to the radio station also has to be distributed amongst all the cab drivers that broadcasted said advertisement in their cab?
My only problem with my own argument is that then the radio stations are getting screwed, not my intended RIAA targets...
Maybe more cabs will put on NPR?
Find out if someone can burn it to a CD for you then. The speech on the 3DO version still holds up as some of the best voice-over work out there, and you will laugh yourself silly whenever you deal with the Spathi. I heard them again while playing this alpha and had a stupid grin on my face all weekend afterwards.