Grampa: What the hell is that?
Frink: Why, it's a death ray my good man, behold.
(Frink fires death ray)
Grampa: Hey, feels warm, kinda nice.
Frink: Well it's just a prototype, with proper funding I'm
confident this little baby could destroy an area the
size of New York City.
Grampa: But I want to help people, not kill 'em!
Frink: Oh, well to be honest, the ray only has evil
applications. You know my wife will be happy,
she's hated this whole death ray thing from day
one.
I think moderators should be listed with the post, and moreover, you should be able to "ignore" the moderations of foes. My sole journal post has more on that.
That was already a feature in Perfect Dark. This is a little different since it's online. I sort of had that idea in the past, but it wouldn't work so well because 90% of the time you'd have to play as some generic henchman instead of the main player.
Ballmer will be too after he realizes that they've spent millions of dollars to craft these comics after it's shown that they have no effect on piracy.
It doesn't take someone colour-blind/deficient to realize that green text on a red background is one of the fugliest and unpractical colour schemes one could possibly come up with. Why not try teal on light-brown next time guys? Oh I got one: orange on yellow. That will totally enhance the quality of any application. Seriously.
"Deathblow: When someone kills you not because of who you are, but for other reasons entirely"
Hopefully they (as in Red Octane) would do that in the form of not making their controller a piece of shit. Now admittedly I only have a sample of two to work with, but both of our controllers broke down without any undue stress applied to them. About me and 5 of my friends bought Ignitions from Red Octane and none of them survived, and I heard from multiple forums their new Afterburner pad is no better. 'Tis a shame there aren't better peripheral companies out there (aside from the very expensive Cobalt Flux).
One of the awesome things about the Wii that might not get totally fleshed out is that ability to wire in a peripheral so it can be "wireless" without needing the necessary electronics in the actual peripheral.
Agreed. The button-makers seemed to cause more of a patent-style problem than copyright. But it has been a few hours since/. posted an article about **IA, so they needed to find something.
What's illegal isn't always wrong. Many would argue that certain laws are wrong, and I think almost anyone would agree or admit that certain gov't policies conflict with each other.
But,in a fundamental sense, copyright laws do have a reason for existing. Few would produce a movie just for the hell of sharing it; they want some payback for their work. That's why I have a beef with those that say "stealing" and "copyright infringement" are so different. The truth is if everyone "copyright infringed" movies, not a whole lot of movies would exist (not that I'm claiming innocence). As an anti-thesis to that, many open source projects thrive from user contribution, so if that kind of logic can be applied to movies in the future, you can't rule anything out.
To throw another opinion while I'm posting on a **ia thread, I think they might want to reduce the years before a copyright expires, not increase it like they've been doing. Few will say "I'm not going to buy movie x because it's public domain in 15 years anyway".
Anyway just my 2 cents, Copyright 2007.
'We' don't, but 'they' do, and if DRM goes too far, soon enough Joe Sixpack will notice.
Thing is, they won't go 'too far'. I'm sure their strategy is to tighten DRM slowly but surely until it eventually takes away functions 'we' and 'they' used to take for granted, without 'them' really noticing. Hopefully they'll have trouble with that.
What's so backwards about wanting to charge two different people for the same product or service? Video games and music CDs would be damn pricey if only one person bought them. I hate DRM but there is some logic behind copyright laws (though copyrights should expire a lot sooner).
The only thing remotely ironic about it is that you thought that this was an example of irony, where in reality it's pretty close to the opposite of irony.
This apple tastes different from this orange even though they both look different. How ironic!
Slashdot Mirror
Ahem. The Simpsons Archive.
SLOW DOWN COWBOY!
Grampa: What the hell is that?
Frink: Why, it's a death ray my good man, behold. (Frink fires death ray)
Grampa: Hey, feels warm, kinda nice.
Frink: Well it's just a prototype, with proper funding I'm confident this little baby could destroy an area the size of New York City.
Grampa: But I want to help people, not kill 'em!
Frink: Oh, well to be honest, the ray only has evil applications. You know my wife will be happy, she's hated this whole death ray thing from day one.
With thanks to The Simpsons Archive
Just another reason to put on those tinfoil hats.
ACs always stereotype.
You can't expect everyone to read the synopsis. Hell, I didn't even read the whole title. We are talking about RIAA, right?
I think moderators should be listed with the post, and moreover, you should be able to "ignore" the moderations of foes. My sole journal post has more on that.
Been there, done that.
That was already a feature in Perfect Dark. This is a little different since it's online. I sort of had that idea in the past, but it wouldn't work so well because 90% of the time you'd have to play as some generic henchman instead of the main player.
Ballmer will be too after he realizes that they've spent millions of dollars to craft these comics after it's shown that they have no effect on piracy.
Once I didn't apply a stitch in time, and was shocked that I only had to make five stitches to fix it back up, instead of the expected nine.
Also, to save power, make a spaceship that stays still and moves the entire universe around it!
It doesn't take someone colour-blind/deficient to realize that green text on a red background is one of the fugliest and unpractical colour schemes one could possibly come up with. Why not try teal on light-brown next time guys? Oh I got one: orange on yellow. That will totally enhance the quality of any application. Seriously.
"Deathblow: When someone kills you not because of who you are, but for other reasons entirely"
"or pass some of the savings on to the customer."
lol.
Hopefully they (as in Red Octane) would do that in the form of not making their controller a piece of shit. Now admittedly I only have a sample of two to work with, but both of our controllers broke down without any undue stress applied to them. About me and 5 of my friends bought Ignitions from Red Octane and none of them survived, and I heard from multiple forums their new Afterburner pad is no better. 'Tis a shame there aren't better peripheral companies out there (aside from the very expensive Cobalt Flux).
One of the awesome things about the Wii that might not get totally fleshed out is that ability to wire in a peripheral so it can be "wireless" without needing the necessary electronics in the actual peripheral.
Agreed. The button-makers seemed to cause more of a patent-style problem than copyright. But it has been a few hours since /. posted an article about **IA, so they needed to find something.
What's illegal isn't always wrong. Many would argue that certain laws are wrong, and I think almost anyone would agree or admit that certain gov't policies conflict with each other.
But,in a fundamental sense, copyright laws do have a reason for existing. Few would produce a movie just for the hell of sharing it; they want some payback for their work. That's why I have a beef with those that say "stealing" and "copyright infringement" are so different. The truth is if everyone "copyright infringed" movies, not a whole lot of movies would exist (not that I'm claiming innocence). As an anti-thesis to that, many open source projects thrive from user contribution, so if that kind of logic can be applied to movies in the future, you can't rule anything out.
To throw another opinion while I'm posting on a **ia thread, I think they might want to reduce the years before a copyright expires, not increase it like they've been doing. Few will say "I'm not going to buy movie x because it's public domain in 15 years anyway". Anyway just my 2 cents, Copyright 2007.
The Colbert Report. He clearly cuts Democrats too much slack. Moving on...
"The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth"
That was pre-fairness doctrine.
Post-fairness doctrine:
"The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth?"
'We' don't, but 'they' do, and if DRM goes too far, soon enough Joe Sixpack will notice.
Thing is, they won't go 'too far'. I'm sure their strategy is to tighten DRM slowly but surely until it eventually takes away functions 'we' and 'they' used to take for granted, without 'them' really noticing. Hopefully they'll have trouble with that.
What's so backwards about wanting to charge two different people for the same product or service? Video games and music CDs would be damn pricey if only one person bought them. I hate DRM but there is some logic behind copyright laws (though copyrights should expire a lot sooner).
Yo measuring system is so primitive, it doesn't even take the freezing and boiling points of water into consideration!
... Well as long as it's not "Mac Phone" it's ok by me.
The only thing remotely ironic about it is that you thought that this was an example of irony, where in reality it's pretty close to the opposite of irony.
This apple tastes different from this orange even though they both look different. How ironic!
(give or take a hell of a lot).
Also, I'm pretty sure I couldn't hold 500 sugar cubes in my hands.
I like this article as a story, but I'm not believing anything in it, despite the fact that instinctually I don't like MADD, for whatever reason.