Amiga didn't disappear because it was the #3. It disappeared because the Commodore exec was so stupid that he didn't think publicity was necessary with such a great product. In the end, Amiga disappeared into oblivion and Commodore went bankrupt.
Unless there's concrete proof that Manhunt 2 causes cancer, murder, or the death of many kittens at the hand of God I don't believe it should be banned.
The problem is that the concrete proof you're looking for needs some serious RESEARCH. The circumstances have too much weight in these kinds of analysis. It doesn't matter if the murderers were fans of this and that videogame, or movies, since they're a minority they will ALWAYS be considered "isolated cases".
Please allow me to play devil's advocate here. A very frequent complaint i hear in slashdot is about censoring violent games. But it's so ironic that when talking about violent videogames you completely support the companies. Ah, but when it's music they're evil!!!.
My question is: Why do the games need so much gratuitous violence? Is it a requirement for good sales? Where's the study that says that the more violent a game is, the better it gets sold?
One of the reasons Spider-Man is roundly regarded as the best of these movies is because it stays reasonably close to the source material. I just saw the new Fantastic Four movie and was left with the impression that they didn't grok the fundamentals of the series at all...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did the original Invisible woman actually have ANY personality outside her role of useless housewife stereotype? All I could see about her in the original cartoons was something like "Oh, Reed, what's going to happen to us now?" while waiting for hubby to save the day. Compared to today (a Britney), I'd say the movie did a wonderful adaptation of the role:P
But yes, I completely agree with you about Dr. Doom. Another thing I didn't quite like about Fantastic 4, is that Mr. Fantastic sometimes reminded me too much of Chandler from 'friends' (specially in the movie posters). Perhaps it has to do with the new comedy scenes in the latest movie?:)
Microsoft is not taking control away from users... Users are agreeing to MS terms when they purchase the product, therefore they are *giving* control to MS.
Get a hacker to hack the said machines and display:
"This voting machine was infected with a virus. Who knows if they're altering the votes? MUAHAHAHAHAH! P.S. Thank you for choosing Microsoft products:) "
All of a sudden how did Microsoft become as respected as Don Corleone? Everybody's signing pact with them for "protection". And they're JUST BLUFFING!!
I feel as if the world's been turned upside down.
Or maybe the true nature of computer businesses has been revealed. In the end, it's just a bunch of greedy b=$)/"%...
YES, IT IS. It wastes YOUR ISP's hard-drive, it wastes YOUR time, and it wastes YOUR ISP's BANDWIDTH.
In snail mail at least the junkmailers pay for the mail. With SPAM, they're using YOUR resources to do business. Not to mention promoting the use of botnets and viruses and spyware. They're disrupting the whole e-mail system, don't you get it? About 90% of e-mail I get is spam. That's 10-to-1 ratio. If you don't consider that a big deal, then you've gotten so close to garbage that you forgot how "clean" smells.
Fine, he goes to jail. But in the meantime, he's probably sold millions of e-mail addresses to other spammers, because people trusted CAN-SPAM and clicked on the "unsubscribe" link.
The problem with CAN-SPAM is that it's a reactive measure. While allowing spammers to collect your e-mail addresses, the government is feeding the beast they're supposed to kill in the first place.
1) Plug the computer line input into your ipod's earphone plug 2) Record 3) Encode using LAME MP3 encoder at whatever bitrate you wish 4) Share!!
Common users won't have time to do this, but pirates do. In other words, as long as you let the user HEAR the music, you can let him RECORD it. All the measures you take to "prevent" the user from copying, are actually to prevent the STUPID user from doing so. In the meantime, you end up annoying a lot of your customers for nothing.
There's nothing wrong with believing in God. Problem is when your pastor starts teaching you to burn scientific books and to hang physicians in public.
For example, I'm catholic, and I just love JPII's encyclica "Fides et ratio" (Faith and reason). It's a wonderful reading for both scientists and religious people.
LGPL allows me to reuse the code that I've written as open source, in my boss' projects. I distribute it free because I feel it'll be useful to other developers out there.
I have the tendency to write software libraries, because they allow me to reuse my code in several different projects. The executable programs are just a wrapper. So, the LGPL suits me. Good examples of LGPL projects are the FFMPEG library, which the LGPL ensures it can be used for both commercial and non-commercial projects.
And if that's not enough, there's the wxWindows (wxWidgets) license, which is GPL + exception.
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
Wow. An actual truth. What went wrong there?
As long as you don't get a bad radio commercial instead of the song you wanted to listen. I remember when a friend wanted to d/l Matrix Reloaded and instead was given... well you get the idea.
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But seriously, what of Gentoo.
Gentoo + Microsoft. hmm....
"To compile properly, this version of Gentoo requires Microsoft Visual C++ for Linux(TM) version 7.0 or later. [Click to buy online]"
Nah..
Actually 2.
1. How will that prevent the 99% of existing computer users with DVD-R/Ws from using their compies to backup their dvd's?
And 2. How will that prevent the 10% of existing computer users with Divx software from ripping their dvd's?
Headline - "AT&T has Turned on Its Anti-Pirating Program blocking webpages"
:(
Headline (30 mins laters) - "Slashdot blocked by AT&T Big Brother Anti-Pirating Program". 0 views.
These aren't the droids.... GAHHHH!
(Remember Amiga? Commodore?
Amiga didn't disappear because it was the #3. It disappeared because the Commodore exec was so stupid that he didn't think publicity was necessary with such a great product. In the end, Amiga disappeared into oblivion and Commodore went bankrupt.
Unless there's concrete proof that Manhunt 2 causes cancer, murder, or the death of many kittens at the hand of God I don't believe it should be banned.
The problem is that the concrete proof you're looking for needs some serious RESEARCH. The circumstances have too much weight in these kinds of analysis. It doesn't matter if the murderers were fans of this and that videogame, or movies, since they're a minority they will ALWAYS be considered "isolated cases".
Please allow me to play devil's advocate here. A very frequent complaint i hear in slashdot is about censoring violent games. But it's so ironic that when talking about violent videogames you completely support the companies. Ah, but when it's music they're evil!!!.
My question is: Why do the games need so much gratuitous violence? Is it a requirement for good sales? Where's the study that says that the more violent a game is, the better it gets sold?
but more like price fixing. There's been a lot of that in the industry recently, and even more outside the technology field.
What calls my particular attention is this little piece of info: "Attorney General Investigates Music price fixing." Hmmmm...
One of the reasons Spider-Man is roundly regarded as the best of these movies is because it stays reasonably close to the source material. I just saw the new Fantastic Four movie and was left with the impression that they didn't grok the fundamentals of the series at all...
:P
:)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did the original Invisible woman actually have ANY personality outside her role of useless housewife stereotype? All I could see about her in the original cartoons was something like "Oh, Reed, what's going to happen to us now?" while waiting for hubby to save the day. Compared to today (a Britney), I'd say the movie did a wonderful adaptation of the role
But yes, I completely agree with you about Dr. Doom. Another thing I didn't quite like about Fantastic 4, is that Mr. Fantastic sometimes reminded me too much of Chandler from 'friends' (specially in the movie posters). Perhaps it has to do with the new comedy scenes in the latest movie?
Microsoft is not taking control away from users... Users are agreeing to MS terms when they purchase the product, therefore they are *giving* control to MS.
Which reminds me of this comic strip.
A lawmaker would be far, far more careful if he knew everyone (media, citizens, etc) could see exactly what changes he made, and when.
I have the impression there's a name for that.
BTW, I think Slashdot and Transparency Intl. should collaborate more closely. Just a thought.
Get a hacker to hack the said machines and display:
:) "
"This voting machine was infected with a virus. Who knows if they're altering the votes? MUAHAHAHAHAH!
P.S. Thank you for choosing Microsoft products
That'll teach 'em. The voters i mean >:D
Split recording companies in 2. Recording-ONLY companies, and publicity-ONLY companies. Then the problem will take care of itself.
we have to recognize that *THIS* particular action is good.
Too bad he's choosing Free Software to promote his government where personal freedom is gone.
Yes, Signal-to-noise. Out of 10 e-mails, only one is good. That's what I meant.
All of a sudden how did Microsoft become as respected as Don Corleone? Everybody's signing pact with them for "protection". And they're JUST BLUFFING!!
I feel as if the world's been turned upside down.
Or maybe the true nature of computer businesses has been revealed. In the end, it's just a bunch of greedy b=$)/"%...
Oink oink.
Spam isn't a bigger deal than junkmail
YES, IT IS. It wastes YOUR ISP's hard-drive, it wastes YOUR time, and it wastes YOUR ISP's BANDWIDTH.
In snail mail at least the junkmailers pay for the mail. With SPAM, they're using YOUR resources to do business. Not to mention promoting the use of botnets and viruses and spyware. They're disrupting the whole e-mail system, don't you get it? About 90% of e-mail I get is spam. That's 10-to-1 ratio. If you don't consider that a big deal, then you've gotten so close to garbage that you forgot how "clean" smells.
Companies compete.
Communities EVOLVE.
Fine, he goes to jail. But in the meantime, he's probably sold millions of e-mail addresses to other spammers, because people trusted CAN-SPAM and clicked on the "unsubscribe" link.
The problem with CAN-SPAM is that it's a reactive measure. While allowing spammers to collect your e-mail addresses, the government is feeding the beast they're supposed to kill in the first place.
and has made me lose faith in the US Patent Office.
Remove the words "Patent Office", and I'll agree with you 100%.
1) Plug the computer line input into your ipod's earphone plug
2) Record
3) Encode using LAME MP3 encoder at whatever bitrate you wish
4) Share!!
Common users won't have time to do this, but pirates do.
In other words, as long as you let the user HEAR the music, you can let him RECORD it. All the measures you take to "prevent" the user from copying, are actually to prevent the STUPID user from doing so. In the meantime, you end up annoying a lot of your customers for nothing.
Embrace, Extend, and Explode! :D
There's nothing wrong with believing in God. Problem is when your pastor starts teaching you to burn scientific books and to hang physicians in public.
For example, I'm catholic, and I just love JPII's encyclica "Fides et ratio" (Faith and reason). It's a wonderful reading for both scientists and religious people.
contact@intellectualweapons.com
;-)
submit@intellectualweapons.com
apply@intellectualweapons.com
Now listen: do *NOT* post these e-mail addresses in public places, specially forums, you know how bad SPAM can get!
LGPL allows me to reuse the code that I've written as open source, in my boss' projects. I distribute it free because I feel it'll be useful to other developers out there.
I have the tendency to write software libraries, because they allow me to reuse my code in several different projects. The executable programs are just a wrapper. So, the LGPL suits me.
Good examples of LGPL projects are the FFMPEG library, which the LGPL ensures it can be used for both commercial and non-commercial projects.
And if that's not enough, there's the wxWindows (wxWidgets) license, which is GPL + exception.
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
... well you get the idea.
Wow. An actual truth. What went wrong there?
As long as you don't get a bad radio commercial instead of the song you wanted to listen. I remember when a friend wanted to d/l Matrix Reloaded and instead was given