Another use: when robots take over teaching (no matter the subject), whenever the robot teaching goes into a possibly pornographic direction, make an interested face, otherwise look bored. In due time, the robot should lecture about pr0n exclusively.
this is the least intrusive, and very close to Steam, the main difference being that LGP games will have a different log-in for each of their games. However, either of those two beats Starforce and its ilk with ease.
Because of AitD previews, Atari pulled already paid for ad campaigns. Requests for testing versions were completely ignored.
Literally minutes after the reviews were online, Atari lawyers demanded that 4Players.de pulls the reviews, claiming they were "not actual objective product tests" (product tests as in refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, not something like games that can't objectively tested and which therefore do not fall under regulations regarding product tests). Also, because 4P tested based on the retail version before the street date, they alleged that 4P had downloaded the game illegally (they bought it early from a retailer they have contacts with). They allege that 4P just wanted "first review!" (ignoring that print magazines had even earlier reviews). The lawyers set the value of the case at 50,000 Euro.
Later, they tried the same to 2 Norwegian online mags, Gamer.no and Gamereactor.no, with the same results, namely none.
A wireframe of an existing object should be akin to a performance of a known song. While that song is still copyrighted, the new performance thereof is still original art and should be copyrighted by its performer.
Besides, it's a rather dubious ruling in general. How close must the wireframe be to count as an exact model? Where's the line between exact recreation and sufficient modification? I'm not proficient enough in US law, but in Germany, whatever you create something in whatever medium has your copyright on it (as long as it is minimally creative, which would clearly be the case here). The right to distribute and make money off of it, however, is another question. Does US law not make such a distinction?
if they get immunity and the public never finds out what happened, the only other logical next step is to convince everyone I know not to get an iPhone.
"As soon as you mention child pornography, everybody's senses go out the window, she [the computer forensics expert] said."
Sounds too familiar. What's really fucked up is that his former employers "stand by their decision", namely to fire the guy. The bare minimum would be a public excuse, an offer to let him work there again, and probably a hefty compensation if he refused. But that's not likely to happen since by definition, the government knows best.
Rapper Vanilla Ice sampled this song without permission for his biggest hit, the commercially successful "Ice Ice Baby". His response to criticism relied upon the addition of one note not present in the original.
Sampling as I understand it requries permission of the rights holders and/or a significant change of the original material.
As far as I can tell, Majestic has done neither. They have taken bits and pieces (and bytes and chunks) from other games, thrown it together with original art of their own, and hoped nobody would notice. In the short run, they have saved themselves work hours probably into the hundreds, which they, by the way, should have used to make their game look less like something from 10 years ago. They have not changed the "sampled" content in any notable way, unless you count "making it look worse" as such a change. If this was some non-commercial fan project, it would be another thing in my book. As it is, they should be in for a world of legal hurt.
Kudos however for Majestic's display of balls by "sampling" a Disney movie (Pirates of the Carribean), I'm sure Disney will take it like sportsmen, considering their past track record.
And what do you propose to do about it, if anything? If that's what the people want, then by all means, let them have it; isn't that the whole point of a relatively free market, to be able to decide what to spend money on? As for people becoming helpless imbeciles regarding their own food: where I live, books and TV shows about cooking have seen a massive surge in popularity over the last few years, so the sky may, after all, not yet be falling. At least not everywhere.
Can't speak for the others, but I would exempt LEGO Indy from criticism even though it sports not one, but two high-profile licenses. If you're any kind of gamer at all, do yourself a favor and play it.
"Second chance for a first impression" hits it on the head. They are not Blizzard, and they could not back Vanguard with an already strong franchise, so the game has to impress on its own from day one. With so many high-quality and/or free MMOs to choose from nowadays, you either have to find a niche of your own, like ArenaNet with GuildWars, or you have to take on the biggest, right out of the gate.
To play the devil's advocate, if everyone started uploading your initial copy as he/she received it and at the same speed as you, after uploading it only 24 times there would be 2^24 copies around, which is more than 16 million.
Uhm hyperventilating much? This is/. after all and we don't need to RTFA, but please at least cut down the unwarranted profanity. FTA:
"Rather than using an ill-gotten botnet, Phalanx would use the large networks of computers which companies currently use to serve massive amounts of content," says team member Colin Dixon."
Flame where warranted, but please, please, don't rely on/. summaries to form your opinion. *sigh*.
because every seonsor has to obey the rules of quantum mechanics. The only difference being which theory is sufficient to explain a certain effect.
Even if pointing this out may be a bit boring, people should stop mystifiying Science and speak of it as cavemen would grunt of a lightning storm. There's absolutely nothing mysterious about Science, that's the whole point of Science to begin with.
The problem with any kind of gun shooting stuff into orbit is not the amount of energy required - that's just engineering - but for the stuff to survive the crushing acceleration (and probably air friction in the lower atmosphere), which is a whole different league of engineering. Unlike a rocket, a gun has to deliever all the lifting work over a very short duration (until the payload leaves the barrel), only allowing the least amount of complexity in the paylod. It could be an interesting concept for delievering bulk building material into orbit e.g. for some hypothetical space ship or station, but you can probably forget about living tissue or slightly complex optics/electronics/mechanics.
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Another use: when robots take over teaching (no matter the subject), whenever the robot teaching goes into a possibly pornographic direction, make an interested face, otherwise look bored. In due time, the robot should lecture about pr0n exclusively.
this is the least intrusive, and very close to Steam, the main difference being that LGP games will have a different log-in for each of their games. However, either of those two beats Starforce and its ilk with ease.
Maybe the submitter meant to write "'orgy' then 'apple pie'"?
The details of the story are:
Because of AitD previews, Atari pulled already paid for ad campaigns. Requests for testing versions were completely ignored.
Literally minutes after the reviews were online, Atari lawyers demanded that 4Players.de pulls the reviews, claiming they were "not actual objective product tests" (product tests as in refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, not something like games that can't objectively tested and which therefore do not fall under regulations regarding product tests). Also, because 4P tested based on the retail version before the street date, they alleged that 4P had downloaded the game illegally (they bought it early from a retailer they have contacts with). They allege that 4P just wanted "first review!" (ignoring that print magazines had even earlier reviews). The lawyers set the value of the case at 50,000 Euro.
Later, they tried the same to 2 Norwegian online mags, Gamer.no and Gamereactor.no, with the same results, namely none.
Yes, but are they more fun than a Wii?
A wireframe of an existing object should be akin to a performance of a known song. While that song is still copyrighted, the new performance thereof is still original art and should be copyrighted by its performer.
Besides, it's a rather dubious ruling in general. How close must the wireframe be to count as an exact model? Where's the line between exact recreation and sufficient modification? I'm not proficient enough in US law, but in Germany, whatever you create something in whatever medium has your copyright on it (as long as it is minimally creative, which would clearly be the case here). The right to distribute and make money off of it, however, is another question. Does US law not make such a distinction?
if they get immunity and the public never finds out what happened, the only other logical next step is to convince everyone I know not to get an iPhone.
Verily! That will show The Man who's boss!
"As soon as you mention child pornography, everybody's senses go out the window, she [the computer forensics expert] said."
Sounds too familiar. What's really fucked up is that his former employers "stand by their decision", namely to fire the guy. The bare minimum would be a public excuse, an offer to let him work there again, and probably a hefty compensation if he refused. But that's not likely to happen since by definition, the government knows best.
Most important they don't try to make any money off of it.
From the wiki entry for Under Pressure:
Rapper Vanilla Ice sampled this song without permission for his biggest hit, the commercially successful "Ice Ice Baby". His response to criticism relied upon the addition of one note not present in the original.
Sampling as I understand it requries permission of the rights holders and/or a significant change of the original material.
As far as I can tell, Majestic has done neither. They have taken bits and pieces (and bytes and chunks) from other games, thrown it together with original art of their own, and hoped nobody would notice. In the short run, they have saved themselves work hours probably into the hundreds, which they, by the way, should have used to make their game look less like something from 10 years ago. They have not changed the "sampled" content in any notable way, unless you count "making it look worse" as such a change. If this was some non-commercial fan project, it would be another thing in my book. As it is, they should be in for a world of legal hurt.
Kudos however for Majestic's display of balls by "sampling" a Disney movie (Pirates of the Carribean), I'm sure Disney will take it like sportsmen, considering their past track record.
And what do you propose to do about it, if anything? If that's what the people want, then by all means, let them have it; isn't that the whole point of a relatively free market, to be able to decide what to spend money on? As for people becoming helpless imbeciles regarding their own food: where I live, books and TV shows about cooking have seen a massive surge in popularity over the last few years, so the sky may, after all, not yet be falling. At least not everywhere.
This adds another dimension of meaning to NetBeans.
Can't speak for the others, but I would exempt LEGO Indy from criticism even though it sports not one, but two high-profile licenses. If you're any kind of gamer at all, do yourself a favor and play it.
You don't have to RTFA, because TFS is virtually identical to TFA.
"Second chance for a first impression" hits it on the head. They are not Blizzard, and they could not back Vanguard with an already strong franchise, so the game has to impress on its own from day one. With so many high-quality and/or free MMOs to choose from nowadays, you either have to find a niche of your own, like ArenaNet with GuildWars, or you have to take on the biggest, right out of the gate.
To play the devil's advocate, if everyone started uploading your initial copy as he/she received it and at the same speed as you, after uploading it only 24 times there would be 2^24 copies around, which is more than 16 million.
Uhm hyperventilating much? This is /. after all and we don't need to RTFA, but please at least cut down the unwarranted profanity. FTA:
/. summaries to form your opinion. *sigh*.
"Rather than using an ill-gotten botnet, Phalanx would use the large networks of computers which companies currently use to serve massive amounts of content," says team member Colin Dixon."
Flame where warranted, but please, please, don't rely on
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because every seonsor has to obey the rules of quantum mechanics. The only difference being which theory is sufficient to explain a certain effect.
Even if pointing this out may be a bit boring, people should stop mystifiying Science and speak of it as cavemen would grunt of a lightning storm. There's absolutely nothing mysterious about Science, that's the whole point of Science to begin with.
As long as they don't call it the Dukeliner...
To keep US citizens in?
Care to explain how this statement, as it stands, does not conflict with the 2nd law of Thermodynamics?
The problem with any kind of gun shooting stuff into orbit is not the amount of energy required - that's just engineering - but for the stuff to survive the crushing acceleration (and probably air friction in the lower atmosphere), which is a whole different league of engineering. Unlike a rocket, a gun has to deliever all the lifting work over a very short duration (until the payload leaves the barrel), only allowing the least amount of complexity in the paylod. It could be an interesting concept for delievering bulk building material into orbit e.g. for some hypothetical space ship or station, but you can probably forget about living tissue or slightly complex optics/electronics/mechanics.
2001 called, they want their overblown terrorist threat back.
Well, you summarized TFA. Bonus points for avoiding a car analogy.