Not only does it work together with the hardware, but the software works a little better with the software too. It's a little bit less frustrating than using software under windows. A little bit more stable, a little bit more intuitive, simple, and less maintenance. Hardware doesn't have to play a role here.
I don't know where you got the flamebait tag from, I think it's undeserved.
Yes, Nintendo should pursue their rights. But they should not quash the rights of the owner in doing so. I think if they had a "backup" option, or a method of putting their games on harddisk and plying it from the harddisk, that the back-up rights would be preserved. Doing away with this zoning system also gives the owner one less reason to meddle with the innards.
You might fear people copying their friend's disk onto harddisk, and sure, that will happen. But the damage incurred from copying a friend's game is negligible compared to the damage of a person playing a game downloaded from the internet. So the back-up option would be the lesser "evil", required to maintain the rights of the owner.
All in all, if the manufacturer maintains the rights of the people, then I think it's free to take whatever steps against illegal activity that it can.
This whole zoning system is fucked up anyway. Wasn't it Sony that abandoned the zoning for the PS3? As for your case, it sounds like they want you to buy a US Wii besides your Japanese Wii, for playing US games. Hell, I think you're lucky that the TV signals are even compatible, otherwise you had to buy a Japanese TV for the Japanese Wii and a US Wii for your US TV:).
Yes, mod chips could be used for illegal activities, but also for good. The article really fails to highlight that. With a tone like this, you'd wonder how tape recorders ever got sold.
When copying you might devaluate their product slightly. Is it stealing? No, you are not bereaving the original owner from his physical product. Is it copying? Yes. Is it copyright infringement? Yes, absolutely.
leaving your quip about my counting abilities to the side for a moment, and moving on to your analogy: sure, it would be allright for you to copy my mothers wedding photo's (even though for the light of day I cannot imagine what pleasure you'd get out of doing so). They are not protected by any rights, merely the standard copyright. If you copy it and make a profit from the photo's, then you're in breach of the law. What that has to do with stealing versus copying, I am at a loss there.
Parent argued that the amounts mentioned were not representative for the actual loss. You argue that the parent is lobotomized and resort to countless bad analogies to make the point that parent is stealing the propoerty of the entertainment industry (I won't go into the stealing vs. copying argument here).
Wasn't your father then really not saying something that could be reworded as: "I work on some super cool secret B2 radar"? Doesn't that sound like the big fat liar zone described by you as "I worked on a secret anti-missle program"? I don't mean this as a flame, but more as an honest question. Where do you draw the line?
Yes, or by changing gradually. The Chinese government is already getting active in terms of pollution control of the rivers and other items that would endanger health.
And greenifying factories is a prime-value market. It's a hot topic, will create even more jobs and require more well-trained engineers to limit the downtime during the conversion.
Em, Germany at least signed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kyoto_Protocol_signatories).
I don't know why China and India shouldn't bear so much of the burden of the Kyoto Protocol. Oh, hang on, perhaps because they are poor, thrid world countries perhaps.
You know, I'm pretty sure all this came up during the negociations of the protocol. It isn't like the US wasn't part of it and didn't agree to it then. The protocol was adjusted enough so that the US would agree to be part of it. So, what changed your mind? Is it.... Money?
These days, an invention is more like who came up with it first. If you don't publish it first, there's undoubtedly someone sooner or later that thinks along the same lines.
I do, however, hear the difference between the internal DA convertor of my CD player (Marantz CD4000) and an external DA convertor (Denon DA-600). It's not large, but certainly not missable. I do not say that one is better than the other (well, I have an inkling), but they are most certainly different.
The biggest improvement I've had was by replacing amplifiers. I used to have a philips, which broke. This was quickly replaced by a cheap Japanese amplifier. From this amplifier, I could simply not get any decent sound. Then I replaced it with a Sanyo (DCA 401) amplifier, which really did produce proper sound. All of my amplifiers were given to me for free, so no wishful thinking there. Again, I do not say that my current Sanyo is not just playing tricks on the ears, but it is certainly different (and a whole lot more bearable).
My next system is probably going to consist of my CD-player and DA convertor, and a new record player and NAD amp with decent speakers. Nothing (too) fancy. My biggest limitation is the lack of dampening material against my room walls, so no use investing in shit expensive stuff. Reasonably expensive will do just fine:).
Probably because it costs quite a bit of computing time to recognise faces and number plates in gajillions of images... It's all about money in the end.
p.s. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE SWITCH OFF THAT FUCKING DELAY BETWEEN POSTS!
So the iPhone became a lot less expensive now. And everyone complains? Why? I mean, the alternative is that Apple would have kept the price high, and made more money. That would have had some people complaining, for sure!
Sometimes it seems you just can't do things right.
You left out the part where nothing about the embedded user information in the tracks is secret. It's just there. not in code. Not really a secret now, is it?
And hey, you also left out the fact that they are at least _doing something_ in terms of offering DRM-free tracks. For a market leader, that's quite a big step to take. Could it be, perhaps, and bear with me here, for this is a wild guess, that they don't actually have PERMISSION to sell the other tracks DRM-free? Perhaps because it is not their property?
The recipe for a chocolate bomb A joke that kills me with laughter Information on the Genocide in the second world war The effects of terrorism on current society?
Or does he propose an intellectual limit to the searches? That'd be fun. We'd get all kinds of _smart_ terrorists...
The license key I entered was "unoriginal", and the software knew.
I believe it said something like: "You do not wish to pay me for this software huh? Well, fine. But please then donate some money to UNICEF." And the software continued to work with that code.
I liked that. Some people can't afford to pay for each bit of software, but still need it. It shouldn't be made easy for those people, but it shouldn't be impossible either. One day they'll pay.
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Not only does it work together with the hardware, but the software works a little better with the software too. It's a little bit less frustrating than using software under windows. A little bit more stable, a little bit more intuitive, simple, and less maintenance. Hardware doesn't have to play a role here.
I don't know where you got the flamebait tag from, I think it's undeserved.
Yes, Nintendo should pursue their rights. But they should not quash the rights of the owner in doing so. I think if they had a "backup" option, or a method of putting their games on harddisk and plying it from the harddisk, that the back-up rights would be preserved. Doing away with this zoning system also gives the owner one less reason to meddle with the innards.
You might fear people copying their friend's disk onto harddisk, and sure, that will happen. But the damage incurred from copying a friend's game is negligible compared to the damage of a person playing a game downloaded from the internet. So the back-up option would be the lesser "evil", required to maintain the rights of the owner.
All in all, if the manufacturer maintains the rights of the people, then I think it's free to take whatever steps against illegal activity that it can.
This whole zoning system is fucked up anyway. Wasn't it Sony that abandoned the zoning for the PS3? As for your case, it sounds like they want you to buy a US Wii besides your Japanese Wii, for playing US games. Hell, I think you're lucky that the TV signals are even compatible, otherwise you had to buy a Japanese TV for the Japanese Wii and a US Wii for your US TV :).
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...the way this article is spun.
Yes, mod chips could be used for illegal activities, but also for good. The article really fails to highlight that. With a tone like this, you'd wonder how tape recorders ever got sold.
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Yup, but not in the rest of the world.
So I still don't see why people shouldn't be allowed to use these mod chips and play their copied games here.
Oh, and I counted eight bad analogies in your message. There may be more, but this is what I counted.
When copying you might devaluate their product slightly. Is it stealing? No, you are not bereaving the original owner from his physical product. Is it copying? Yes. Is it copyright infringement? Yes, absolutely.
leaving your quip about my counting abilities to the side for a moment, and moving on to your analogy: sure, it would be allright for you to copy my mothers wedding photo's (even though for the light of day I cannot imagine what pleasure you'd get out of doing so). They are not protected by any rights, merely the standard copyright. If you copy it and make a profit from the photo's, then you're in breach of the law. What that has to do with stealing versus copying, I am at a loss there.
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Well, it's a little more, given that you can now get 1.435 dollars per euro :). So make that about 1.4% and you'd be about right.
Your argument is misplaced.
Parent argued that the amounts mentioned were not representative for the actual loss. You argue that the parent is lobotomized and resort to countless bad analogies to make the point that parent is stealing the propoerty of the entertainment industry (I won't go into the stealing vs. copying argument here).
Please stick to the point in future posts.
B.
Wasn't your father then really not saying something that could be reworded as: "I work on some super cool secret B2 radar"? Doesn't that sound like the big fat liar zone described by you as "I worked on a secret anti-missle program"? I don't mean this as a flame, but more as an honest question. Where do you draw the line?
B.
Yes, or by changing gradually. The Chinese government is already getting active in terms of pollution control of the rivers and other items that would endanger health.
And greenifying factories is a prime-value market. It's a hot topic, will create even more jobs and require more well-trained engineers to limit the downtime during the conversion.
Em, Germany at least signed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kyoto_Protocol_signatories).
I don't know why China and India shouldn't bear so much of the burden of the Kyoto Protocol. Oh, hang on, perhaps because they are poor, thrid world countries perhaps.
You know, I'm pretty sure all this came up during the negociations of the protocol. It isn't like the US wasn't part of it and didn't agree to it then. The protocol was adjusted enough so that the US would agree to be part of it. So, what changed your mind? Is it.... Money?
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These days, an invention is more like who came up with it first. If you don't publish it first, there's undoubtedly someone sooner or later that thinks along the same lines.
Yes, this was my thought exactly: "Hang on, didn't Apple patent this already?"
I agree with you, mostly.
:).
I do, however, hear the difference between the internal DA convertor of my CD player (Marantz CD4000) and an external DA convertor (Denon DA-600). It's not large, but certainly not missable. I do not say that one is better than the other (well, I have an inkling), but they are most certainly different.
The biggest improvement I've had was by replacing amplifiers. I used to have a philips, which broke. This was quickly replaced by a cheap Japanese amplifier. From this amplifier, I could simply not get any decent sound. Then I replaced it with a Sanyo (DCA 401) amplifier, which really did produce proper sound. All of my amplifiers were given to me for free, so no wishful thinking there. Again, I do not say that my current Sanyo is not just playing tricks on the ears, but it is certainly different (and a whole lot more bearable).
My next system is probably going to consist of my CD-player and DA convertor, and a new record player and NAD amp with decent speakers. Nothing (too) fancy. My biggest limitation is the lack of dampening material against my room walls, so no use investing in shit expensive stuff. Reasonably expensive will do just fine
Probably because it costs quite a bit of computing time to recognise faces and number plates in gajillions of images... It's all about money in the end.
p.s. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE SWITCH OFF THAT FUCKING DELAY BETWEEN POSTS!
Mod parent funny :).
Ils sont fous, bien-sur. (disclaimer: I'm not a French-speaking person :) ). Shooting themselves in the Fous, they are.
So the iPhone became a lot less expensive now. And everyone complains? Why?
I mean, the alternative is that Apple would have kept the price high, and made more money. That would have had some people complaining, for sure!
Sometimes it seems you just can't do things right.
B.
So let's get written permission from the owner or occupier of the property. all of us. :)
You left out the part where nothing about the embedded user information in the tracks is secret. It's just there. not in code. Not really a secret now, is it?
And hey, you also left out the fact that they are at least _doing something_ in terms of offering DRM-free tracks. For a market leader, that's quite a big step to take. Could it be, perhaps, and bear with me here, for this is a wild guess, that they don't actually have PERMISSION to sell the other tracks DRM-free? Perhaps because it is not their property?
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Mod funny ++ :).
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The recipe for a chocolate bomb
A joke that kills me with laughter
Information on the Genocide in the second world war
The effects of terrorism on current society?
Or does he propose an intellectual limit to the searches? That'd be fun. We'd get all kinds of _smart_ terrorists...
B.
The license key I entered was "unoriginal", and the software knew.
I believe it said something like: "You do not wish to pay me for this software huh? Well, fine. But please then donate some money to UNICEF."
And the software continued to work with that code.
I liked that. Some people can't afford to pay for each bit of software, but still need it. It shouldn't be made easy for those people, but it shouldn't be impossible either. One day they'll pay.
B.
This value is not to be repeated! 3$! 3$!
(apologies to "crazy warehouse guy" from the Chaser's War on Everything).
B.