I think Vista is worse than ME personally. The interface took several steps back. I have to jump through unnecessary hoops to find dialogs. The OS not only is unstable, and provides serious driver issues, but it runs like a dog. ME had tons of crashes, but Vista just annoys me. UAC drives me up the wall.
It is a bluetooth controller. People them on Windows boxes all the time. And frankly, I find selecting items on the screen rather a pain-in-the-ass with the Wiimote. For an adventure game, a mouse would likely be better.
www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
The European versions of FO1 and FO2 were edited/censored to remove the ability to kill children. I'm not necessarily a proponent of censorship, but it wasn't like the game was really missing anything.
The Bethesda games (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion) don't feature kids because you can kill anyone in game.
Penny Arcade's Greenhouse games is a great alternative to Stardock, and due to the Penny Arcade guys, it is likely to see a bigger audience.
Let me be honest. I pirated games in the past because I was broke and wanted to play the games for free. It wasn't a big political statement the way some people would like you to believe.
I prefer to buy games DRM free. But in the end, I noticed that many of my favorite game companies either closed shop, or were bought out because of financial troubles. I realized you need to vote with your wallet. I purchase games now, and that is more of a political statement. I want those games to continue to exist.
Origin Games, Looking Glass Studios, Black Isle, etc. are gone forever. I need to support the few good game shops that are left.
1 - Put out a good game. This is the most important. 2 - Put out a demo, and let people get their hands on it. Word of mouth advertising is key. Let the internet market your product for you, for free. 3 - Give a good incentive to buy. By that I don't mean a very weak, gimped demo, but rather online play, and nice features that encourage the full purchase. 4 - This is the least important to me, but please just skip the DRM. It costs you money, annoys the people who purchase the game, and in the end, it doesn't stop piracy one bit. 5 - Ask people like Jeff Vogel from Spiderweb games how he does it.
Again, I can't claim to know everything here. However, the Lexicon author devoted 9 years to the site and didn't try to cash in on it. Publishers repeatedly approached him about book deals, and he agreed to it after they repeatedly assured him that it was legal to do so.
Even from the above quoted Wikipedia site, the bulk of the content in the book does come from the website, but the book isn't an exact copy of the website. Some of the articles from the website are going into the book, and even then they are being rewritten and truncated.
Real can be modifier for the word property. Within proper grammatical context, one could even say that "real-property" meaning realty should have the hyphen to denote the two words are actually one term to clear up confusion about one word possibly modifying the other.
However, "real property" as meaning property that exists is perfectly acceptable English.
Except the lawyers both claimed that they had no real communication back from the lexicon group, and would have cooperated except they had no clue what was going into the book, and then made definitive statements about the content of the book at the same time.
They filed the lawsuit and made claims about lifting of text before seeing or reading the book.
I have not read the book myself, but many of the claims Rowling has made are contradictory in nature. They can't possibly all be true at once.
Moreover, the people who have read the lexicon seem extremely confident their book falls within legal grounds. Rowling's initial claim was based upon assumptions from the website, where as the book did go through an editing process, and the book only represents a portion of the website.
But if you're talking about "music, movies, to books, software and video games", you're talking about plain copyright, not "intellectual property" which also includes patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. So just say "copyright".
A belongs to B. B belongs to C. Calling A part of C is wrong?
What next? I'm sorry, you can't call a Toyota Matrix a car, because it is a crossover vehicle, and cars denote a larger field of several types of cars. For that matter, cars include Toyotas, Hondas, etc. You must just simply call it Toyota Matrix specifically, and can not lump into a larger group which it belongs to, even if everyone else does so commonly.
What is a good length for a book? 25 years? 50 years? What about music? What about software?
Sometimes I wonder if the simplest solution is to treat it almost like a trademark, which means you must continue to use and enforce it. Disney still very much actively uses Mickey Mouse. So despite Steamboat Willie being an ancient cartoon, it would be protected. However, abandoned software products would become legal abandonware after a certain number of years.
Some of the early Beatles music is coming up to the period of public domain in the UK I do believe, and yet that music is still actively sold. So long as the original copyright holder is still maintaining the copyright, they should keep it.
I don't think copyrights should extend past one generation of inheritance. A widow or child could benefit, but not grandkids and so on.
I'd also like to add you should read that entire Wikipedia page and you'll find over and over again Rowling sued people who were in their legal right, and occasionally she has won court cases, likely do to her wealth and ability to fight lengthy legal battles.
She has claimed parody books have no right to parody, and that reference books are theft.
Rowling is a perfect example of someone who abuses copyright and has no clue what the law actually states.
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I think Vista is worse than ME personally. The interface took several steps back. I have to jump through unnecessary hoops to find dialogs. The OS not only is unstable, and provides serious driver issues, but it runs like a dog. ME had tons of crashes, but Vista just annoys me. UAC drives me up the wall.
Is that counting sales of Vista licenses, or people actually using Vista?
Plenty of people are buying computers with Vista and switching to another OS, or downgrading to XP.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/fhqwhgads.html
It is a bluetooth controller. People them on Windows boxes all the time. And frankly, I find selecting items on the screen rather a pain-in-the-ass with the Wiimote. For an adventure game, a mouse would likely be better.
www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
You can pickpocket them, and place a grenade/bomb on them, walk away and watch them blow up.
I however would never do such a thing. I...heard about it from someone else.
As long as they aren't very long.
The European versions of FO1 and FO2 were edited/censored to remove the ability to kill children. I'm not necessarily a proponent of censorship, but it wasn't like the game was really missing anything.
The Bethesda games (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion) don't feature kids because you can kill anyone in game.
I wonder how this was handled with FO3.
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It has trouble with very thick 2D objects.
I thought I remember reading on Slashdot how some MIT guys already did a proof-of-concept on this a while back.
Penny Arcade's Greenhouse games is a great alternative to Stardock, and due to the Penny Arcade guys, it is likely to see a bigger audience.
Let me be honest. I pirated games in the past because I was broke and wanted to play the games for free. It wasn't a big political statement the way some people would like you to believe.
I prefer to buy games DRM free. But in the end, I noticed that many of my favorite game companies either closed shop, or were bought out because of financial troubles. I realized you need to vote with your wallet. I purchase games now, and that is more of a political statement. I want those games to continue to exist.
Origin Games, Looking Glass Studios, Black Isle, etc. are gone forever. I need to support the few good game shops that are left.
1 - Put out a good game. This is the most important.
2 - Put out a demo, and let people get their hands on it. Word of mouth advertising is key. Let the internet market your product for you, for free.
3 - Give a good incentive to buy. By that I don't mean a very weak, gimped demo, but rather online play, and nice features that encourage the full purchase.
4 - This is the least important to me, but please just skip the DRM. It costs you money, annoys the people who purchase the game, and in the end, it doesn't stop piracy one bit.
5 - Ask people like Jeff Vogel from Spiderweb games how he does it.
Again, I can't claim to know everything here. However, the Lexicon author devoted 9 years to the site and didn't try to cash in on it. Publishers repeatedly approached him about book deals, and he agreed to it after they repeatedly assured him that it was legal to do so.
Even from the above quoted Wikipedia site, the bulk of the content in the book does come from the website, but the book isn't an exact copy of the website. Some of the articles from the website are going into the book, and even then they are being rewritten and truncated.
Don't try to be pedantic with me.
Real can be modifier for the word property. Within proper grammatical context, one could even say that "real-property" meaning realty should have the hyphen to denote the two words are actually one term to clear up confusion about one word possibly modifying the other.
However, "real property" as meaning property that exists is perfectly acceptable English.
Except the lawyers both claimed that they had no real communication back from the lexicon group, and would have cooperated except they had no clue what was going into the book, and then made definitive statements about the content of the book at the same time.
They filed the lawsuit and made claims about lifting of text before seeing or reading the book.
I have not read the book myself, but many of the claims Rowling has made are contradictory in nature. They can't possibly all be true at once.
Moreover, the people who have read the lexicon seem extremely confident their book falls within legal grounds. Rowling's initial claim was based upon assumptions from the website, where as the book did go through an editing process, and the book only represents a portion of the website.
Intellectual property isn't real property?
Nevermind. I'm done with you. Twitter will be your friend however.
NASA likes to call them weather balloons.
No THX-1138 XKCD); DROP TABLE asteroids;
Don't forget the animal crackers!
But if you're talking about "music, movies, to books, software and video games", you're talking about plain copyright, not "intellectual property" which also includes patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. So just say "copyright".
A belongs to B. B belongs to C. Calling A part of C is wrong?
What next? I'm sorry, you can't call a Toyota Matrix a car, because it is a crossover vehicle, and cars denote a larger field of several types of cars. For that matter, cars include Toyotas, Hondas, etc. You must just simply call it Toyota Matrix specifically, and can not lump into a larger group which it belongs to, even if everyone else does so commonly.
Back on my C64 I used to track incoming meteors and asteroids, and then blast them into smaller polygons that were much safer, but still a nuisance.
None of the RFID tags seemed to go anywhere near a shower during the conference. Clearly, this must be a bug.
What is a good length for a book? 25 years? 50 years? What about music? What about software?
Sometimes I wonder if the simplest solution is to treat it almost like a trademark, which means you must continue to use and enforce it. Disney still very much actively uses Mickey Mouse. So despite Steamboat Willie being an ancient cartoon, it would be protected. However, abandoned software products would become legal abandonware after a certain number of years.
Some of the early Beatles music is coming up to the period of public domain in the UK I do believe, and yet that music is still actively sold. So long as the original copyright holder is still maintaining the copyright, they should keep it.
I don't think copyrights should extend past one generation of inheritance. A widow or child could benefit, but not grandkids and so on.
I'd also like to add you should read that entire Wikipedia page and you'll find over and over again Rowling sued people who were in their legal right, and occasionally she has won court cases, likely do to her wealth and ability to fight lengthy legal battles.
She has claimed parody books have no right to parody, and that reference books are theft.
Rowling is a perfect example of someone who abuses copyright and has no clue what the law actually states.