The U.S. is also pushing for reviving a 1962 treaty (never ratified) that would give the large cable distributors (like Discovery, Sci-fi, Spike, etc) ownership of even public domain content if they carry it.
Are new bad ideas so difficult to come up with that they have to re-use 46-year-old bad ideas?
Ill-advised remakes of things that weren't much good in the first place.. you can just smell Hollywood's influence.
At this point, we are far too close to these events and their repercussions to even begin to hope of the slightest possibility of imagining how history looking back impartially on this fiasco.
For a real, insightful, bias-free look at the 2000/2004 election controversy, wait for one of our great-grandchildren to write it. Until then, either accept or reject the various biased accounts, parsing them accordingly as your owm bias permits.
All he says on the site is "The graphics used to simulate these screens were produced by the many Star Trek fans and are available from several sites on the web. The images are intenionally blurred."
Were I one of those fan artists, I'm not at all sure how I'd feel about his use of my work, so perhaps he's just protecting himself from that issue.
Ninendo sells some funky controller N64 based thing with games built in in department stores - and thats the single legit example I know of.
Are you sure that's a legit product? Stores and malls here are full of N64 controller-shaped things with names like "Super Happy Fun Mage Joy Pad II" that are all NES bootlegs.
Now that they are suing people for posting leaked Windows source code^H^H^H DeCSS^H^H^H The Grey Album^H^H^H Paris Hilton pr0n^H^H^H Metallica MP3s^H^H^H iPhone skins for Smartphones, they will surely vanish from the Internet forever.
I've been playing that game for ages! You know, the one where you have to restore from a save point again and again until you finally complete the damn level...
Despite the recent resurge of rumors, there isn't a GB3 in the works, according to many sources including Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Aykroyd has had a script ready for ages, but Bill Murray had zero interest in it, studios weren't into it, and even Harold Ramis has cooled on the idea at this point.
We are definitely *not* going to see a doubling of performance for switch fabric in the near future. We definitely *could* see a doubling of Internet traffic as a result of IPTV.
We weren't going to see a doubling of performance on the speed of a modem connected to POTS lines either, once that topped out. Instead of trying to break laws of physics with century-old copper wire, they replaced it with broadband.
Of course working on the backbone is much different than swapping your 56K modem for cable or fiber or what have you, and I'm not saying any of this will happen overnight, or even anytime soon. However, it is pretty much a guarantee that something will eventually come along to upgrade what's in use now. And if broadband video and/or other goodies the customers want choke out the current system, the providers will have to either set up something new, or lose their clientele to someone who does.
Remember AOL apologizing in their TV ads for service interruptions and busy signals during the Internet boom? Nobody in the industry wants to do that again, and they'll throw all the cash they can at avoiding it.
Normally I'm among the first to complain about FPSes made from licenses that just aren't FPSish (coughstartrekvoyagercough) but IMO this actually fits. The movie is actually about guys who shoot stuff, and I for one spent far too much of my 1980s-based childhood in my backyard wearing my school backpack and shooting imaginary ghosts with the garden hose to not want to similarly bust ghosts on an Xbox.
This sounds a lot like that Super Mario amusement park from a while back. Sure, these people have a neat concept and some demos, but they didn't get a comission or even permission from the IP holders to do anything with it. This is about as official as a Ghostbuster mod for Doom II, with about the same chance of ending up on retail shelves.
"Not to lose the momentum, a part the ZootFly team is currently working on an original game called TimeO, which is closely related to Ghostbusters. The game follows the adventures of two die-hard New Yorkers. They get trapped deep in the shadow world of a parallel New York. The city itself is a war machine threatening to wipe out our world and they have three days to stop it. As soon as the Ghostbusters IP issue is resolved, the whole team will go back to Ghostbusters."
How very interesting.. this seems almost exactly the plot of Dan Aykroyd's much-discussed "Ghostbusters in Hell" script for a third film that Murray and Ramis aren't into making.
Wait a sec.. You mean you want us to abandon the possibility of implementing DRM, allow customers to fairly use our media, remove our ability to exploit the living crap out of our content providers, and fail to benefit the industry types who give us huge sacks of cash money to keep telling our bosses that their proprietary codecs rock everyone's socks six ways?
Up until now, your typical 1337 torrent freak was pretty uncommon among the general public
Nonono, that's just what we want the **AA to think!
Actually, people were saying the same things about MMOs, and before that Usenet binaries, and before the integration of images into webpages. As long as people expect a certain level of service, the industry will grow to provide it, which in turn will make people expect a certain level of service. It's a cycle, you can never "top out" on infrastructure.
The weakness with the "honor system" is that it relies on end users to respect the wishes of the content creators.
This is the big one.. it means that the content creators have to earn the respect of the end users. Produce content that people feel is worth paying for, in a format that isn't designed to work against them, at a price they are willing to pay. Encourage some local band who produces genuine art rather than forcing your latest pre-fab lip-synch act down everyone's throats. Come up with a new and interesting movie rather than just pulling something out of the vaults to remake with minimal effort. Quit directing your wares to the lowest common denominator, and quit treating your talent and your consumers like lukewarm shit. And for pity's sake, stop suing grannies, children, and dead people.
Of course, the powers that be would rather just throw more money at enforcing their immoral rules and bullying people into giving them money they claim to be entitled to, and continue business as usual. Much less of a perceived hassle for them. And that is why the **AA and the like are hemorrhaging relevance by the hour.
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Ill-advised remakes of things that weren't much good in the first place.. you can just smell Hollywood's influence.
Dr. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) is using his watch to take a patient's pulse.
"Either he's dead, or my watch has stopped."
At this point, we are far too close to these events and their repercussions to even begin to hope of the slightest possibility of imagining how history looking back impartially on this fiasco.
For a real, insightful, bias-free look at the 2000/2004 election controversy, wait for one of our great-grandchildren to write it. Until then, either accept or reject the various biased accounts, parsing them accordingly as your owm bias permits.
Yes, but Richard Dawkins is married to a hottie from Dr Who. Why should he ever have to use "sex" and "why?" in the same sentence?
/sadfanboy
All he says on the site is "The graphics used to simulate these screens were produced by the many Star Trek fans and are available from several sites on the web. The images are intenionally blurred."
Were I one of those fan artists, I'm not at all sure how I'd feel about his use of my work, so perhaps he's just protecting himself from that issue.
Hooray for the continuing adventures of Captain Space MacGyver!
*sheds just one more tear*
Armed with this fair and just legal precedent, we can finally put all those scheming hoodlums from Bugtraq in Federal PMITA Prison where they belong.
Now that they are suing people for posting leaked Windows source code^H^H^H DeCSS^H^H^H The Grey Album^H^H^H Paris Hilton pr0n^H^H^H Metallica MP3s^H^H^H iPhone skins for Smartphones, they will surely vanish from the Internet forever.
Are we breaking even?
I've been playing that game for ages! You know, the one where you have to restore from a save point again and again until you finally complete the damn level...
Despite the recent resurge of rumors, there isn't a GB3 in the works, according to many sources including Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Aykroyd has had a script ready for ages, but Bill Murray had zero interest in it, studios weren't into it, and even Harold Ramis has cooled on the idea at this point.
Of course working on the backbone is much different than swapping your 56K modem for cable or fiber or what have you, and I'm not saying any of this will happen overnight, or even anytime soon. However, it is pretty much a guarantee that something will eventually come along to upgrade what's in use now. And if broadband video and/or other goodies the customers want choke out the current system, the providers will have to either set up something new, or lose their clientele to someone who does.
Remember AOL apologizing in their TV ads for service interruptions and busy signals during the Internet boom? Nobody in the industry wants to do that again, and they'll throw all the cash they can at avoiding it.
Yeahhhh, we'll get right on that.
Love,
the **AA
Actually, people were saying the same things about MMOs, and before that Usenet binaries, and before the integration of images into webpages. As long as people expect a certain level of service, the industry will grow to provide it, which in turn will make people expect a certain level of service. It's a cycle, you can never "top out" on infrastructure.
They're way ahead of you. The state-of-the-art disc simulation subroutines will utilize something called "network lag" for much the same effect.
Of course, the powers that be would rather just throw more money at enforcing their immoral rules and bullying people into giving them money they claim to be entitled to, and continue business as usual. Much less of a perceived hassle for them. And that is why the **AA and the like are hemorrhaging relevance by the hour.