Eventually this bullying will get the attention of even US anti-trust regulators. Meanwhile we can watch them dig a deeper and deeper hole for themselves.
Moral right to "M.A.M.E" rests with the authors of that software. If you do not have their blessing to trademark the term, you are doing wrong.
That is an issue separate from the legal status of ROMs. When you conflate those two issues you engage in an emotional argument, which serves only to balkanize the interested parties.
Your insight into the industry is fascinating, but your letter did not address the issue of a MAME trademark.
Regarding video games in Greece: We have that problem in US too. Our "representatives" make crazy laws that to any rational mind are wildly unconsitutional. "Let the courts figure it out."
Regarding the canola seeds, if Montsanto were a US company the guy could sue under NAFTA chapter 11: the ruling is restraint of trade by that definition.
translation: our law-buying department has an unlimited budget to defeat this napster thingy.
Be very afraid, people. But more importantly, write to your congressfolk (on paper and fax! email doesn't work!) about it. Don't assume the good guys will win. We won't unless we fight.
Let's do our fighting in a way it counts: lobby the right people the right way and educate the public.
Along with the basic tenet of Keep your Wrists Straight, the thing to watch for with any keyboard is how can you avoid moving your hand, arms and wrists excessively.
For vi and emacs users, that means watch out for the escape key. (For those who don't use vi or emacs, that means watch out for the mouse. Good luck with that.)
The solution I use to avoid reaching for the escape key is to map the right windows key to escape. This way I can use my right ring finger instead of reaching with my left hand.
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I remap the windows key to escape so I can hit escape with my right ring finger. No movement from homerow required.
On a free email system with >>25000, we've run into several bottlenecks. The first was on a 32MB P90, in which the RAM size was the bottleneck. We upgraded that to 128MB. Then sendmail was the bottleneck, so we got a K6 225, again with 128MB RAM. Then qpopper wouldn't handle large mailboxes, so we started going to qmail. Then 16-bit UIDs was the bottleneck, so we finished going to qmail. Then we didn't have big enough disks, so we got another server (k6-300,256MB; now single p][450, dual when we figure out why nfs doesn't like dual) and put several multi-gig UW disks in and did software raid-5, and delivered email over nfs. Then network (10BaseT ethernet) was the bottleneck so we put the nfs traffic on a separate 100BaseT network. Then CPU was a problem because of the high traffic on the raid-5. Oh, and fsck-ing takes forever. Qmail's queue is on ide, and showing signs of bottleneck so we'll have to deal with that soon too.
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Eventually this bullying will get the attention of even US anti-trust regulators. Meanwhile we can watch them dig a deeper and deeper hole for themselves.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Moral right to "M.A.M.E" rests with the authors of that software. If you do not have their blessing to trademark the term, you are doing wrong.
That is an issue separate from the legal status of ROMs. When you conflate those two issues you engage in an emotional argument, which serves only to balkanize the interested parties.
Your insight into the industry is fascinating, but your letter did not address the issue of a MAME trademark.
It's art if you think it's art.
Art is not art because the artist says so. Art is art because the viewer feels it's art.
When the artist says it's art, he speaks only for himself.
That would nix any terraforming efforts we might like to employ in the future.
The Martians will have to get busy lobbying if they want to keep Mars red.
And besides, I haven't really had much luck aiming the spacecraft I've so far crashed into Mars.
A better headline would have been "UK Music Industry Admits to Record Sales".
I get from the article that Bush supporters are better at demagoguery.
So not only do they appeal to to people's basest instincts, they now game the impartial computer?
It's called an anti-hero, and you find it throughout literature.
Just as we glorify 20's mobsters, we are now fascinated by the criminal element depicted in GTA.
Anyway, it only scares those who feel such a GAME might FORCE them to commit heinous acts. Get real.
Think first-person billiards.
Koules is an original game I played this year. It's from 1995, but still fun and unique.
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At least he has that part right. "Media" won't get any respect if it keeps escalating this conflict.
If they're regulated, they can point to the legislation and claim legitimacy whenever they do something not explicitly outlawed.
Not to mention that they'll probably sneak in a clause to outlaw RBLs.
And besides, I doubt the worst offenders are members of the DMA, much less citizens of the US.
Regarding video games in Greece: We have that problem in US too. Our "representatives" make crazy laws that to any rational mind are wildly unconsitutional. "Let the courts figure it out."
Regarding the canola seeds, if Montsanto were a US company the guy could sue under NAFTA chapter 11: the ruling is restraint of trade by that definition.
Who wants to bet that the new service be msn?
(other likely options being aol and earthlink)
What service would be best for the subscribers?
Video games are interactive movies. Does anyone still deny that movies are an artform?
Even better, video games can be ported to movies and movies can be ported to video games. Novels likewise.
How is the present system of legislation by graft justified by its participants?
Right after the birth of Linux.
See, they were scared even then.
At least they tried. Poor Microsoft.
Would amiga's vm be a good alternative to c#?
The least slashdot could've done was post a story that something fishy was going on.
Tell me, editors, why did you suppress this story?
Not enough info? Very funny. ORBS is being sued, and the suit is having an affect. That's more than enough.
We fund softhome with advertisements, which includes email.
We do however try very hard to prevent spam from reaching softhome accounts.
I'd love to hear alternative ways to fund a free email service.
Isn't there a law against harassing suits?
If not, there should be. That would put a nice damper on using baseless lawsuits as weapons.
If it were enforced.
What can we do to solve this problem once and for all?
What weaknesses are there in SMTP that, if fixed,
would improve the situation?
Better watch out. US law reaches to the Netherlands.
Go decss!
translation: our law-buying department has an unlimited budget to defeat this napster thingy.
Be very afraid, people. But more importantly, write to your congressfolk (on paper and fax! email doesn't work!) about it. Don't assume the good guys will win. We won't unless we fight.
Let's do our fighting in a way it counts: lobby the right people the right way and educate the public.
Along with the basic tenet of Keep your Wrists Straight, the thing to watch for with any keyboard is how can you avoid moving your hand, arms and wrists excessively.
For vi and emacs users, that means watch out for the escape key. (For those who don't use vi or emacs, that means watch out for the mouse. Good luck with that.)
The solution I use to avoid reaching for the escape key is to map the right windows key to escape. This way I can use my right ring finger instead of reaching with my left hand.
Xmodmap: keysym Meta_R = Escape
I remap the windows key to escape so I can hit escape with my right ring finger. No movement from homerow required.
On a free email system with >>25000, we've run into several bottlenecks. The first was on a 32MB P90, in which the RAM size was the bottleneck. We upgraded that to 128MB. Then sendmail was the bottleneck, so we got a K6 225, again with 128MB RAM. Then qpopper wouldn't handle large mailboxes, so we started going to qmail. Then 16-bit UIDs was the bottleneck, so we finished going to qmail. Then we didn't have big enough disks, so we got another server (k6-300,256MB; now single p][450, dual when we figure out why nfs doesn't like dual) and put several multi-gig UW disks in and did software raid-5, and delivered email over nfs. Then network (10BaseT ethernet) was the bottleneck so we put the nfs traffic on a separate 100BaseT network. Then CPU was a problem because of the high traffic on the raid-5. Oh, and fsck-ing takes forever. Qmail's queue is on ide, and showing signs of bottleneck so we'll have to deal with that soon too.