That is the single most insightful comment I've read in this discussion. You are completely and obviously correct about the intent behind this. If it's not possible to make another charge stick, well, there's always this one. They'll get their victims in jail one way or another.
Interesting you mention that. Of course the Blair regime has already given itself the right to incarcerate people without charge (and the Home Secretary has the power to repeat any such incarceration, effectively making the term of incarceration indefinite); perhaps some here might not be aware that it has also been trying very hard for some time to revoke the right to trial by jury (perhaps the most interesting bit of the Magna Carta still more-or-less in effect, even if it's no longer the Magna Carta itself that guarantees that right). Perhaps they don't care about that second bit so much now, having realised that the right to trial by jury really doesn't matter if a case never comes to trial.
It's weird, but I find some resolutions look much better than others on my 1280x1024 monitor. 1280x1024 looks good, of course; 800x600 also looks good. However, 1024x768 and 960x600 look abominably awful. Strangely, 1152x864 looks very nice indeed. Is it just me?
The PC is like a restaurant that also helps you do your taxes, write messages and books, cut an album, and brings you your news and information.
... and, with carefully chosen components, costs about the same as a PS3. (No, I take that back: less. The PS3 doesn't come with a monitor, why should the PC?)
I don't care for caviar, and escargot is actually a really boring food, but foie gras is just lovely. Mind you, if you're not in a restaurant, and if it's legal in the country you're living in, it can also be pretty cheap...
I sympathise. The problem is that the gpp doesn't know anything about what s/he is talking about, and is simply grinding an axe. The accurate answers to the questions s/he posed are:
Who was the patron goddess of the Roman Republic? Roma (= Rome personified).
Whose statue stands tall in New York Harbour? Liberty (or Bartholdi, depending on how you interpret the question)
What became of the Roman Republic and her patron goddess? The Republic stood for several hundred years, conquered most of Europe, and had an overpowering influence on the history, politics, and culture of pretty much all the nations of the world ever since. The patron goddess appeared on some coins and now only classicists are interested in her.
If you don't see the connection between these three facts, and how they're relevant to current affairs... you're not alone. They have very little to do with one another, except in the mind of the gpp.
"Share-alike, non-commercial" rules just mean people can't ever make money off derivative works...
No. that's a misunderstanding. What "non-commercial" rules mean is that the same restrictions apply to people wanting to make money out of the content as would apply if the content were under copyright without a CC licence attached.
Whether there's a CC "non-commercial" licence or not, you have to get permission from the copyright owner to do that.
What the "non-commercial" CC licence does is bestow extra freedoms on those people who don't want to make money out of the content; it doesn't have any effect at all on those who do.
I see your point, but you're missing something. Barriers even greater than what you cite stands in the way of playing games like tennis, soccer, golf, and cricket, and in the way of doing fun things like dancing, exercising, etc. I'm one of those people who plays games but has never been even slightly interested in a console; I've played on a PS1 and 2 occasionally but never really been interested; but my jaw just dropped with surprise when I saw the promo video that Nintendo produced last year. The breadth of the potential appeal of this thing is just immense. I can't confidently predict that it'll be huge, but I sure hope it is.
Who could seriously think, for example, that people would rather play EA Tennis 2007 on a 360 than on a Wii? Let alone Practise your tennis/golf/baseball swing? Who can avoid drooling at the thought of playing Oblivion on a Wii?
Indeed. They gave me a score of 3 out of 8 even though I only answered three questions. The answer to the other five was, of course, "I wouldn't trust either of these sites".
... but this is basically letting ALL of the software work be done by someone else and then profiting on it. I would hope they would at least donate some proceeds to MythTV...
What, you mean like publically contributing their own modified code back to the MythTV community, of which they are a part? You couldn't even be bothered to check before assuming the worst about them? Are you a troll? (Pardon, that last question was just a rhetorical one.)
I live in NZ, ergo am a potential customer. However I'm obviously a bit ignorant. Could you possibly explain what the difference/benefit is of your product over something like the NZD$700 HDD recorder sold by DSE? Is it that it's built on FOSS, or that the DSE hardware is DRMed somehow, that your product has a better or more intuitive GUI, or what? From looking at the specs of the two products, I get the impression that the main advantages of your one seem to be (1) bigger HDD (2) dual layer DVD writer (3) more customisation (4) option for dual tuners. Am I missing something? FWIW, I think just the customisation by itself is a big draw.
Daakon... A shame Leonard Nimoy's probably a bit too long in the tooth to be swinging swords.
Morty: I always imagined Steve Buscemi would have a good voice for that part.
Heck, why not Mitch Pileggi and Rob Paulsen, who played them in the game? Pileggi is a perfectly decent actor, and Paulsen specialises in voice-only roles anyway.
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Also an episode of MASH ("Point of view", season seven).
"Does anyone know any manchester United supporters from Manchester?"
Well actually, yes. Quite a lot, in fact. They seem mostly to live on the north side of the city, but they're there. It's just that they're enormously enormously enormously outnumbered by all the Man Utd fans elsewhere...
I like the long-distance scenery (it's a big thing I missed in Morrowind -- what's with this haze that prevents me from seeing entire cities directly below me when I'm levitating??), so I've solved all my Oblivion problems by turning off the grass. Runs fine and looks nice on a 6600GT at 800x600 with 2x AA (though I must say I never thought I'd be going back to 800x600).
I agree about your preference for Morrowind, though. I find dungeon design, especially, a lot less interesting in Oblivion. Morrowind has some fantastic dungeons. In fact I think I'll go back to it after I finish playing through Oblivion.
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That is the single most insightful comment I've read in this discussion. You are completely and obviously correct about the intent behind this. If it's not possible to make another charge stick, well, there's always this one. They'll get their victims in jail one way or another.
Interesting you mention that. Of course the Blair regime has already given itself the right to incarcerate people without charge (and the Home Secretary has the power to repeat any such incarceration, effectively making the term of incarceration indefinite); perhaps some here might not be aware that it has also been trying very hard for some time to revoke the right to trial by jury (perhaps the most interesting bit of the Magna Carta still more-or-less in effect, even if it's no longer the Magna Carta itself that guarantees that right). Perhaps they don't care about that second bit so much now, having realised that the right to trial by jury really doesn't matter if a case never comes to trial.
It's weird, but I find some resolutions look much better than others on my 1280x1024 monitor. 1280x1024 looks good, of course; 800x600 also looks good. However, 1024x768 and 960x600 look abominably awful. Strangely, 1152x864 looks very nice indeed. Is it just me?
Well, I did, thanks to Slashdot, and my machine likes PCIE. So I'm happy.
... and, with carefully chosen components, costs about the same as a PS3. (No, I take that back: less. The PS3 doesn't come with a monitor, why should the PC?)
I don't care for caviar, and escargot is actually a really boring food, but foie gras is just lovely. Mind you, if you're not in a restaurant, and if it's legal in the country you're living in, it can also be pretty cheap ...
Interesting. The only way Microsoft could get me to acquire an XBox would be to give me one free with a Wii.
I sympathise. The problem is that the gpp doesn't know anything about what s/he is talking about, and is simply grinding an axe. The accurate answers to the questions s/he posed are:
Roma (= Rome personified).
Liberty (or Bartholdi, depending on how you interpret the question)
The Republic stood for several hundred years, conquered most of Europe, and had an overpowering influence on the history, politics, and culture of pretty much all the nations of the world ever since. The patron goddess appeared on some coins and now only classicists are interested in her.
If you don't see the connection between these three facts, and how they're relevant to current affairs ... you're not alone. They have very little to do with one another, except in the mind of the gpp.
No. that's a misunderstanding. What "non-commercial" rules mean is that the same restrictions apply to people wanting to make money out of the content as would apply if the content were under copyright without a CC licence attached.
Whether there's a CC "non-commercial" licence or not, you have to get permission from the copyright owner to do that.
What the "non-commercial" CC licence does is bestow extra freedoms on those people who don't want to make money out of the content; it doesn't have any effect at all on those who do.
On the bright side, it's only the lyrics that are still under copyright, not the tune.
Ooops ... he posted the lyrics.
Altogether, then! "Good morning to you, good morning to you ..." (-- now how does "CmdrTaco" scan?)
Psst: the 'e' depends on whether it's Irish or not.
Well, I thought his personal website was Slashdot. Funny, I didn't know he had another one ... ah well.
I see your point, but you're missing something. Barriers even greater than what you cite stands in the way of playing games like tennis, soccer, golf, and cricket, and in the way of doing fun things like dancing, exercising, etc. I'm one of those people who plays games but has never been even slightly interested in a console; I've played on a PS1 and 2 occasionally but never really been interested; but my jaw just dropped with surprise when I saw the promo video that Nintendo produced last year. The breadth of the potential appeal of this thing is just immense. I can't confidently predict that it'll be huge, but I sure hope it is.
Who could seriously think, for example, that people would rather play EA Tennis 2007 on a 360 than on a Wii? Let alone Practise your tennis/golf/baseball swing? Who can avoid drooling at the thought of playing Oblivion on a Wii?
Well, instead of moaning about the non-existence of something that you've clearly not checked for, you could always try this site, followed by this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one, plus many others.
Cool, thanks for that. Like I said I'm obviously a bit ignorant! I've never used MythTV before.
Indeed. They gave me a score of 3 out of 8 even though I only answered three questions. The answer to the other five was, of course, "I wouldn't trust either of these sites".
What, you mean like publically contributing their own modified code back to the MythTV community, of which they are a part? You couldn't even be bothered to check before assuming the worst about them? Are you a troll? (Pardon, that last question was just a rhetorical one.)
I live in NZ, ergo am a potential customer. However I'm obviously a bit ignorant. Could you possibly explain what the difference/benefit is of your product over something like the NZD$700 HDD recorder sold by DSE? Is it that it's built on FOSS, or that the DSE hardware is DRMed somehow, that your product has a better or more intuitive GUI, or what? From looking at the specs of the two products, I get the impression that the main advantages of your one seem to be (1) bigger HDD (2) dual layer DVD writer (3) more customisation (4) option for dual tuners. Am I missing something? FWIW, I think just the customisation by itself is a big draw.
> Pick up tea
no tea: dropped.
... Nnnn-no, I disagree with that. HL was a masterpiece of storytelling through the FPS medium, but the story itself was fairly mundane.
Heck, why not Mitch Pileggi and Rob Paulsen, who played them in the game? Pileggi is a perfectly decent actor, and Paulsen specialises in voice-only roles anyway.
Also an episode of MASH ("Point of view", season seven).
Well actually, yes. Quite a lot, in fact. They seem mostly to live on the north side of the city, but they're there. It's just that they're enormously enormously enormously outnumbered by all the Man Utd fans elsewhere ...
I like the long-distance scenery (it's a big thing I missed in Morrowind -- what's with this haze that prevents me from seeing entire cities directly below me when I'm levitating??), so I've solved all my Oblivion problems by turning off the grass. Runs fine and looks nice on a 6600GT at 800x600 with 2x AA (though I must say I never thought I'd be going back to 800x600).
I agree about your preference for Morrowind, though. I find dungeon design, especially, a lot less interesting in Oblivion. Morrowind has some fantastic dungeons. In fact I think I'll go back to it after I finish playing through Oblivion.
Random factoid of the day: the ancient Greek word for a burglar, teichôrychos, literally means "wall-digger".