I may have mispoken about the DMCA (not something I would have admitted a few years ago). Several previous writeups on it said that it made reverse enginerring illigal, but when I read the actual DMCA it appears you are right. Though if they claimed it was a copyright protection feature who has access to the source code to prove them wrong in court. What judge is an expert on copyright protection software? It could go either way I guess.
We will have to wait and see. From a brief my boss got earlier this week in Redmond Longhorn may not be ALL bad. The fact everything is getting stripped makes it seem like XP SP3 though. Only time will tell. I'll make final judgement after release.
Just because you have a law degree doesn't mean you are a good lawyer. I doesn't mean you know what your talking about. It also doesn't mean we have to listen to you. Free speech gives you the right to be an ass, but it also gives us the right to tell you to Shut The Fuck Up!
Also just beacuse something is law doesn't make it right. We have the right to debate its morality and push to have the law changed. Get over yourself.
Yes all factors must be taken into account and considered as a whole. Part three alone does not prove guilt. My referrence to part 1 was merly from the fact that it was the largest most applicable part based on past case rulings. The fact that he used the images unchanged was a poor choice on his part, but acceptable as they were part of a work of parody. His life would have been much easier if he had altered them though.
And please continue to show your true nature with your unfounded name calling. I use open source yes, but I use MS and other closed source products just as much from both need and convenience. I don't think that makes me a fanatic even if my sig does point out MS anti trust tendancies. I also believe in IP rights, just not the current system of them. Since it is the law I follow it, but that does not mean I have to like it or that I can't work to educate people to promote change.
If I wrote a book and someone copied it without permssion I would be upset. If I invented something and someone stole it I would be upset. Corporations who spend millions on drugs should have their investments protected to a point. I have had several websites in the past and if images or text on them had been stolen I would be upset. If someone didn't like my site and made a parody I would be upset, but I would let it go. IP has its place, but so does fair use. I am a fair use fanatic if anything.
No it is a Fair Use parody. If that isn't obvious enough for you try Section 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use of the US copyright law: In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; The site clearly falls into the nonprofit educational category.
This would be the only way that a Knoppix type boot would work on a box that had ever touched LH. The problem is it would break the DMCA. MS would absolutely love that. They just want someone related to Linux to openly reverse engineer something. Add to that a quote from another article that this one linked to on the same subject: Laptop owners will benefit from a feature that prevents thieves from installing a new operating system or from bypassing the operating system to access the laptop's hard drive. This sounds like not just Knoppix, but any Linux or non-MS OS would be blocked. For your own security of course! The only good thing I see is that TPM will not be manditory so Winsows users will have some freedom still.
Actually if you set the little drop down next to preview to "plain old text" it leaves spaces just fine with just a hit of your enter key. Then again you would need to know where the preview button was. And yes you can still use HTMLtags with "Plain old text"
Funny I thought the major MMORPGs (EQ2 at least, I didn't follow WoW closely, but heard the same about it) last year were still open beta several months after being shipped to stores.
Yes in option B they give you a check for 70% of the estimated cost prior to the move. After the move they calculate the exact costs and then pull a random number from a hat and say that is what it costs. You make a move from city A to City B and they pay you $700 advance and $300 on arrival for a total of $1000 when all is said and done. You make another move of the same distance with the same weight (the two factors that affect how much they pay you) and they give you an advance for $700. When it comes time to get the additional $300 they say nope it only costs $300 and you now owe us $400. Pay us now or we keep your taxes plus a % for our trouble.
Yes this is a common occurence. Yes their is an appeal process. It takes 18 months for them to admit that it exists. It takes 3 months for the appeal. They then send you a bill for the $400 plus interest with no reason for why you owe the money. Yes this occured to me. I know that all the numbers matched because I was moving back from city B to city A with the same stuff I had to start with, and a little more as well.
Don't forget the expenses of having your uniforms pressed regularly (not something most young people have to deal with at that stage of their career) and replacing uniforms that cost much more than street clothes or the allowence you recive for that as well. Having your pay suspended arbitrarily and having the finance department say oops your SSN had 6 numbers in common with someone else who owed us money. Recieving a bill for your manditory relocation. I can go on for hours...
And there's nothing "broken" about not taking game returns when anyone with a moderate amount of knowledge can buy a game and copy it and return it.
Why would someone go through the trouble of going to the store, buying a copy, bringing it home, copying it, and bringing the game back for a refund? For anyone with the skill to do that (and get the copy to run correctly) it would be much faster to download the ISO and burn it straight to CD or run off the ISO directly. The theory that this prevents piracy in todays world is crap!
Who can spot the notions that haven been proven wrong or outdated and should be changed?
Congratulations! You have spotted one of the outdated enforced moralities. I had a feeling that this would be the first to get attention from the list. The only logic behind outlawing recreational drugs is the same that is used to limit alcohol (which I do agree with most current laws on). I have yet to hear one argument against recreational drugs that was not a)equally true about alcohol, b)would still be true if drugs were legal, c)"drugs are bad um'kay". So why should the two not be regulated the same?
It was first thought that blaster caused the 2003 blackout for the USA. While it played a role (delaying several major reporting systems that should have alerted plant officials in time to trigger failsafes) it never touched the direct controls of the plant. Slammer did penetrate deep into the Davis-Besse nuclear plant, but by luck the plant had a 6-by-5-inch hole in the plant's reactor head (Never thought I could say that about a hole in a nuke plant), so was already shutdown.
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Its been along time since I've had a need to return software and I hadn't realized EB had changed policy. It used to be that all stores except EB and Gamestop had these policies. I've had the problem of software not working for me before even though my computer met the requirments and other stores refused to refund my money. "We only offer an exchange for the same item, thats the law!" When I would ask the manager to explain which law they never could, but remained stubborn on the subject even when I brought in various copies of the law. This is why I stopped buying from anywhere but those two stores.
As others have pointed out most malls EB and Gamestop are just a few feet from each other and the local BB or Walmart. This will only hurt gamers. In addition to being one less decent store to buy from the square footage of gaming stores in the malls will be halved. And no I don't believe for a second they will just double the size of the one store.
18-year olds can be very good at killing people, but that doesn't mean they can hold their liquor or stay awake through a whole episode of "Frontline.
The idea is that if they're old enough to make a choice that can result in getting killed for their country that they should be able to make choices regarding their own bodies.
The theory is that when you plow your car into someone else you are making choices for their body. Going to war it only involves you dying or killing someone else lawfully (in theory). In smoking the original thought was it only hurt your body. In voting your opinion is averaged against the millions of older people around you and those unable to make rational choices balance with those who can. For drugs no matter what your age, you are not responsible enough to control what goes into your body. Who can spot the notions that haven been proven wrong or outdated and should be changed?
How many people buy games with the plans of selling it though? I know some do, but its still a samll percentage. I personally wouldn't buy that $40-50 game if i knew I would get rid of it in just a month. If it is that good I have to spend $50 ($30 if i sell it in a month) then I will keep it, if I know I will be bored with it in 30 days I won't waste my money. Maybe when it hits the $19.99 rack, but I'm still going to tuck it away in the closet for when I want to go old school. Generally the amount of money lost from someone not buying the game because they might no be able to resell the game would be tiny percentage. It is also an indication of game quality.
I will agree that pirating can cost a company money though not for most of the games this article mentioned. I think too many companies only think of there profits and not the rights you mentioned. I agree that a middle ground is needed.
Yes feel free to put education into a game. Its called edutainment. My kids have a number of color/shape/spelling/math type games that provide plenty of learning and entertainment at their level. If something is based primarily on entertainment and has alot of spotty accuracy it should not be billed as educational. Most developers realize this and gamers should too. The fact that AoE tries to be more or less historically accurate is solely for realistic value not education. Anyone with a brain should see that.
Most of the stores that don't carry AO games are part of the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA). If you look at there membership it is mostly large retail stores that don't have room for or want a backroom. Small (physical size, not company size) chain stores usually keep the AO games in the open with the other games. The boxes themselves don't show anything unlike pr0n so it doesn't need to be closed off to the gerneral public. Just have the clerks use common sense and not sell an AO game to a 10 year old.
That is utter BS! If someone has a legitimate copy then the value has gone up because it has collectors value in the physical cartridge being an original. A software ROM will not affect the collectors value of a physical cartridge to any real collector. And since only a real collector would pay any noticable amount of money nothing is lost to the owner. And in that case Nintendo has already sold the cartridge and makes nothing off of the resale of the cartridge. Others have pointed out ways in which Nintendo is losing real money on some of the games mentioned, but your reasoning is wanting.
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According to TFA the closest approach for the observer is 300 miles.
Add in the slightest bit of an accent and yes they are. But since he isn't a native english speaker its obvious he wouldn't have this problem...
I may have mispoken about the DMCA (not something I would have admitted a few years ago). Several previous writeups on it said that it made reverse enginerring illigal, but when I read the actual DMCA it appears you are right. Though if they claimed it was a copyright protection feature who has access to the source code to prove them wrong in court. What judge is an expert on copyright protection software? It could go either way I guess.
We will have to wait and see. From a brief my boss got earlier this week in Redmond Longhorn may not be ALL bad. The fact everything is getting stripped makes it seem like XP SP3 though. Only time will tell. I'll make final judgement after release.
Just because you have a law degree doesn't mean you are a good lawyer. I doesn't mean you know what your talking about. It also doesn't mean we have to listen to you. Free speech gives you the right to be an ass, but it also gives us the right to tell you to Shut The Fuck Up!
Also just beacuse something is law doesn't make it right. We have the right to debate its morality and push to have the law changed. Get over yourself.
Yes all factors must be taken into account and considered as a whole. Part three alone does not prove guilt. My referrence to part 1 was merly from the fact that it was the largest most applicable part based on past case rulings. The fact that he used the images unchanged was a poor choice on his part, but acceptable as they were part of a work of parody. His life would have been much easier if he had altered them though.
And please continue to show your true nature with your unfounded name calling. I use open source yes, but I use MS and other closed source products just as much from both need and convenience. I don't think that makes me a fanatic even if my sig does point out MS anti trust tendancies. I also believe in IP rights, just not the current system of them. Since it is the law I follow it, but that does not mean I have to like it or that I can't work to educate people to promote change.
If I wrote a book and someone copied it without permssion I would be upset. If I invented something and someone stole it I would be upset. Corporations who spend millions on drugs should have their investments protected to a point. I have had several websites in the past and if images or text on them had been stolen I would be upset. If someone didn't like my site and made a parody I would be upset, but I would let it go. IP has its place, but so does fair use. I am a fair use fanatic if anything.
No it is a Fair Use parody. If that isn't obvious enough for you try Section 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use of the US copyright law:
In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
The site clearly falls into the nonprofit educational category.
This would be the only way that a Knoppix type boot would work on a box that had ever touched LH. The problem is it would break the DMCA. MS would absolutely love that. They just want someone related to Linux to openly reverse engineer something. Add to that a quote from another article that this one linked to on the same subject:
Laptop owners will benefit from a feature that prevents thieves from installing a new operating system or from bypassing the operating system to access the laptop's hard drive.
This sounds like not just Knoppix, but any Linux or non-MS OS would be blocked. For your own security of course! The only good thing I see is that TPM will not be manditory so Winsows users will have some freedom still.
Actually if you set the little drop down next to preview to "plain old text" it leaves spaces just fine with just a hit of your enter key. Then again you would need to know where the preview button was. And yes you can still use HTMLtags with "Plain old text"
malice... stupidity... whats the difference?
That means nothing these days. It wouldn't be the first time someone got screwed with prior permission.
Now if only my computer wasn't a PoS I could judge for myself.
Funny I thought the major MMORPGs (EQ2 at least, I didn't follow WoW closely, but heard the same about it) last year were still open beta several months after being shipped to stores.
It just works...We just don't know how...That's why we can't fix the bugs.
It just works...For the hackers trying to get in.
Yes in option B they give you a check for 70% of the estimated cost prior to the move. After the move they calculate the exact costs and then pull a random number from a hat and say that is what it costs. You make a move from city A to City B and they pay you $700 advance and $300 on arrival for a total of $1000 when all is said and done. You make another move of the same distance with the same weight (the two factors that affect how much they pay you) and they give you an advance for $700. When it comes time to get the additional $300 they say nope it only costs $300 and you now owe us $400. Pay us now or we keep your taxes plus a % for our trouble.
Yes this is a common occurence. Yes their is an appeal process. It takes 18 months for them to admit that it exists. It takes 3 months for the appeal. They then send you a bill for the $400 plus interest with no reason for why you owe the money. Yes this occured to me. I know that all the numbers matched because I was moving back from city B to city A with the same stuff I had to start with, and a little more as well.
Don't forget the expenses of having your uniforms pressed regularly (not something most young people have to deal with at that stage of their career) and replacing uniforms that cost much more than street clothes or the allowence you recive for that as well. Having your pay suspended arbitrarily and having the finance department say oops your SSN had 6 numbers in common with someone else who owed us money. Recieving a bill for your manditory relocation. I can go on for hours...
And there's nothing "broken" about not taking game returns when anyone with a moderate amount of knowledge can buy a game and copy it and return it.
Why would someone go through the trouble of going to the store, buying a copy, bringing it home, copying it, and bringing the game back for a refund? For anyone with the skill to do that (and get the copy to run correctly) it would be much faster to download the ISO and burn it straight to CD or run off the ISO directly. The theory that this prevents piracy in todays world is crap!
Who can spot the notions that haven been proven wrong or outdated and should be changed?
Congratulations! You have spotted one of the outdated enforced moralities. I had a feeling that this would be the first to get attention from the list. The only logic behind outlawing recreational drugs is the same that is used to limit alcohol (which I do agree with most current laws on). I have yet to hear one argument against recreational drugs that was not a)equally true about alcohol, b)would still be true if drugs were legal, c)"drugs are bad um'kay". So why should the two not be regulated the same?
It was first thought that blaster caused the 2003 blackout for the USA. While it played a role (delaying several major reporting systems that should have alerted plant officials in time to trigger failsafes) it never touched the direct controls of the plant. Slammer did penetrate deep into the Davis-Besse nuclear plant, but by luck the plant had a 6-by-5-inch hole in the plant's reactor head (Never thought I could say that about a hole in a nuke plant), so was already shutdown.
Its been along time since I've had a need to return software and I hadn't realized EB had changed policy. It used to be that all stores except EB and Gamestop had these policies. I've had the problem of software not working for me before even though my computer met the requirments and other stores refused to refund my money. "We only offer an exchange for the same item, thats the law!" When I would ask the manager to explain which law they never could, but remained stubborn on the subject even when I brought in various copies of the law. This is why I stopped buying from anywhere but those two stores.
As others have pointed out most malls EB and Gamestop are just a few feet from each other and the local BB or Walmart. This will only hurt gamers. In addition to being one less decent store to buy from the square footage of gaming stores in the malls will be halved. And no I don't believe for a second they will just double the size of the one store.
18-year olds can be very good at killing people, but that doesn't mean they can hold their liquor or stay awake through a whole episode of "Frontline.
The idea is that if they're old enough to make a choice that can result in getting killed for their country that they should be able to make choices regarding their own bodies.
The theory is that when you plow your car into someone else you are making choices for their body. Going to war it only involves you dying or killing someone else lawfully (in theory). In smoking the original thought was it only hurt your body. In voting your opinion is averaged against the millions of older people around you and those unable to make rational choices balance with those who can. For drugs no matter what your age, you are not responsible enough to control what goes into your body. Who can spot the notions that haven been proven wrong or outdated and should be changed?
How many people buy games with the plans of selling it though? I know some do, but its still a samll percentage. I personally wouldn't buy that $40-50 game if i knew I would get rid of it in just a month. If it is that good I have to spend $50 ($30 if i sell it in a month) then I will keep it, if I know I will be bored with it in 30 days I won't waste my money. Maybe when it hits the $19.99 rack, but I'm still going to tuck it away in the closet for when I want to go old school. Generally the amount of money lost from someone not buying the game because they might no be able to resell the game would be tiny percentage. It is also an indication of game quality.
I will agree that pirating can cost a company money though not for most of the games this article mentioned. I think too many companies only think of there profits and not the rights you mentioned. I agree that a middle ground is needed.
Yes feel free to put education into a game. Its called edutainment. My kids have a number of color/shape/spelling/math type games that provide plenty of learning and entertainment at their level. If something is based primarily on entertainment and has alot of spotty accuracy it should not be billed as educational. Most developers realize this and gamers should too. The fact that AoE tries to be more or less historically accurate is solely for realistic value not education. Anyone with a brain should see that.
Most of the stores that don't carry AO games are part of the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA). If you look at there membership it is mostly large retail stores that don't have room for or want a backroom. Small (physical size, not company size) chain stores usually keep the AO games in the open with the other games. The boxes themselves don't show anything unlike pr0n so it doesn't need to be closed off to the gerneral public. Just have the clerks use common sense and not sell an AO game to a 10 year old.
That is utter BS! If someone has a legitimate copy then the value has gone up because it has collectors value in the physical cartridge being an original. A software ROM will not affect the collectors value of a physical cartridge to any real collector. And since only a real collector would pay any noticable amount of money nothing is lost to the owner. And in that case Nintendo has already sold the cartridge and makes nothing off of the resale of the cartridge. Others have pointed out ways in which Nintendo is losing real money on some of the games mentioned, but your reasoning is wanting.
I know full well I'm a pompous ass thank you! My wife tells me 10 or 12 times a day!