Ha, they lost this fan LONG before Napster. Most of their real fans left sometime around the release of the black album. The 90's were just not kind to the band that was arguably the greatest metal band of the 80's. The band that once refused to even make a music video spent the 90's proving that their earlier feigned integrity was just a sham.
Did you know you can buy a "map" down at any corner convenience store that shows where every school and government building in the city is located?!?!? HASN'T ANYONE THOUGHT OF WHAT THE TERRORISTS COULD DO TO OUR CHILDREN WITH THIS?!?!?!?
It never ceases to amaze me that some of my most innocuous posts can get modded down as "troll" or "flamebait." Sometimes I can understand getting modded down (when I say something provocative or not in line with popular/. groupthink). But this one? Really?
Forcing me to remove IE just because I install Firefox is not "freedom." In fact, as a web designer, it would actually make me LESS inclined to install Firefox since it would force me to choose between them and I would then have to go with the most popular one. As someone who uses Firefox exclusively as my personal browser, but also tests his sites out for IE, being forced to choose between the two would accomplish nothing but pissing me off. In fact, AFAIC, there is nothing wrong with the way it's set up right now. The EU's stance is nothing more than a relic from the 90's, with a bit of anti-American and anti-MS sentiment thrown in for good measure. All modern OS's come with default browsers. In fact, if MS didn't come with a default browser, it would be a huge pain in the ass to download and install Firefox (how else could I get to Mozilla's website and download it?).
Even worse these gsames are actually stealing money from you as well. A physical game has resale value (or equity, if you will), a downloaded game has no value at all beyond the first sale. Speaking as someone who buys most of his games used (you'd be amazed at how much you can save on the latest-and-greatest game just by waiting a few months) and who frequently resells games that I no longer play, this is nothing more than a blatant theft of what has always been a fundamental consumer right (the right to resell the things you buy and to buy used goods from others).
Actually, you're wrong. There is clearly supposed to be an "and" before "claimed." The physicist who called Joe just wishes to stay anonymous at this time.
They showed this on Attack of the Show on Monday night. In truth, it looks more like hamster torture than anything fun (for either operator or hamster). The poor hamster is locked in a colored (surprisingly opaque) ball on top of what looks like a standard Roomba. The hamster looked less amused than terrified.
I should clarify that I was referring to the IWF, which admittedly hasn't been extended to bittorent traffic yet. But if to think that it won't be now that the precedent for universal blocking has been set would be pretty delusional.
For the thousandth time, the idea that the U.S. was founded by a bunch of religious wackjobs looking to establish a "City on a Hill" is a myth. This was ONLY true of the New England colonies. The middle and southern colonies (you know, little settlements like Jamestown, New York, Philadelphia, etc.) were secular settlements populated by settlers interested in economic, not religious, opportunity. This makes the whole "and they've somehow survived to this day" argument even more laughable--because the former New England colonies are today some of the most secular and liberal areas of the country, whereas the former secular southern colonies have become some of the most religiously conservative (this has to do with historical movements like the Great Awakening, the north/south church schisms of the Civil War, and the Restorationist movement, etc. that took place LONG after the U.S. was founded).
Thanks to recent efforts by the RIAA/MPAA, the threat now isn't just that ISP's will throttle P2P, it's that they will outright BLOCK it (and any sites related to it). Their counterpart in the UK has already succeeded in this effort with most of their ISP's, and you can bet it will happen here too soon. If this guy doesn't step in with some legal protections (and threats) for these ISP's, the days of typing www.thepiratebay.org into your browser and getting any message besides "This site has been blocked for copyright infringement" are numbered.
WorldWideWeb.app was the first written for NeXt (and first one, period). Erwise was was the first one written for Unix. And Cello (or Mosaic?) was the first one written for Windows. You can try and parse it all you like, but you'll still have to give an American at least some of the credit. Sorry to spoil the pissing contest.
No the problem is that there is a difference between a problem-solver and a visionary.
A problem-solver comes up with a solution to a specific problem. The genesis of Cello, for example, was one guy saying to himself "I need a windows-based program that can access legal sites in html" and then solving the problem.
But it takes a visionary to realize when a solution has a much great potential. It was Marc Andreessen (and guys like him) who came along and said "You know, a Windows based browser could have a general appeal beyond just some specialized applications. We could actually sell this thing and start a revolution."
Why is it that, everytime someone credits an American with something, some European must immediately chime in with "Oh no, Ludwig Von Whogivesashit did it first!" Even my black nationalist friend (who insists that the black man invented almost everything), cuts us evil white Americans SOME slack.
Thanks to a loophole in public domain laws, a lot of book companies will copyright a specific translation or edition of a public domain work (in the specific case you're talking about, probably a specific translation). You see the same thing in the recording industry. Mozart may not be copyrightable, but a specific PERFORMANCE of Mozart can be (and usually is) copyrighted.
"Rights" in the sense of "the rights to allow people to search these texts and see a small slice where their search hit" *NOT* "rights to reprint them or republish them without the original copyright holder's consent." That's a pretty big distinction--one which the summary completely ignored in favor of the more sensational "Google is out to steal your copyrighted books!!" approach.
I would also add that Google (and pretty much every search engine) already does the EXACT same thing with websites, and I don't hear any website creators complaining about Google "stealing" their work just because an excerpt from their site pops up in a list of Google search results.
This summary is laughably inaccurate, biased, and sensational. This agreement doesn't give Google anything even *like* a "monopoly over all out-of-copyright works." If a work is out-of-copyright Google (or anyone else for that matter) is free to do whatever the hell they want with it. The issue of this case was the right to provide SEARCH RESULTS for COPYRIGHTED books. The Authors Guild was suing Google because they said Google didn't have the right to provide full text search results for copyrighted texts (even if the results page of the search only displayed a couple of sentences from the text). Rather than fight out what was probably a legitimate fair-use case, Google simple paid them off. This case has nothing to do with whether a writer should be "paid for their work." These are just SEARCH RESULTS we're talking about, not full texts.
Full details (minus the blogspam and reactionary hyperbole) are available here.
Gonzales isn't going to step back down and do that. After all these years of working his way up the evil ladder, he is looking to move up and hopefully one day replace Cheney as Satan's assistant. Representing a mere RIAA case is a job for an evil rookie.
I'm pretty sure that the fact that Fallout 3 is the fifth game in the Fallout series pretty much implies that a sequel is not only possible, but also quite likely.
Slashdot Mirror
Please God, tell me it's not too late for me to invest in your company!
Ha, they lost this fan LONG before Napster. Most of their real fans left sometime around the release of the black album. The 90's were just not kind to the band that was arguably the greatest metal band of the 80's. The band that once refused to even make a music video spent the 90's proving that their earlier feigned integrity was just a sham.
Did you know you can buy a "map" down at any corner convenience store that shows where every school and government building in the city is located?!?!? HASN'T ANYONE THOUGHT OF WHAT THE TERRORISTS COULD DO TO OUR CHILDREN WITH THIS?!?!?!?
Most of my company's memos have been made out of bullshit for years.
It never ceases to amaze me that some of my most innocuous posts can get modded down as "troll" or "flamebait." Sometimes I can understand getting modded down (when I say something provocative or not in line with popular /. groupthink). But this one? Really?
Forcing me to remove IE just because I install Firefox is not "freedom." In fact, as a web designer, it would actually make me LESS inclined to install Firefox since it would force me to choose between them and I would then have to go with the most popular one. As someone who uses Firefox exclusively as my personal browser, but also tests his sites out for IE, being forced to choose between the two would accomplish nothing but pissing me off. In fact, AFAIC, there is nothing wrong with the way it's set up right now. The EU's stance is nothing more than a relic from the 90's, with a bit of anti-American and anti-MS sentiment thrown in for good measure. All modern OS's come with default browsers. In fact, if MS didn't come with a default browser, it would be a huge pain in the ass to download and install Firefox (how else could I get to Mozilla's website and download it?).
Even worse these gsames are actually stealing money from you as well. A physical game has resale value (or equity, if you will), a downloaded game has no value at all beyond the first sale. Speaking as someone who buys most of his games used (you'd be amazed at how much you can save on the latest-and-greatest game just by waiting a few months) and who frequently resells games that I no longer play, this is nothing more than a blatant theft of what has always been a fundamental consumer right (the right to resell the things you buy and to buy used goods from others).
Actually, you're wrong. There is clearly supposed to be an "and" before "claimed." The physicist who called Joe just wishes to stay anonymous at this time.
They showed this on Attack of the Show on Monday night. In truth, it looks more like hamster torture than anything fun (for either operator or hamster). The poor hamster is locked in a colored (surprisingly opaque) ball on top of what looks like a standard Roomba. The hamster looked less amused than terrified.
I should clarify that I was referring to the IWF, which admittedly hasn't been extended to bittorent traffic yet. But if to think that it won't be now that the precedent for universal blocking has been set would be pretty delusional.
And what does it say when you type in www.thepiratebay.org into your browser?
I'm just glad no one has ever rickrolled me in real life either.
For the thousandth time, the idea that the U.S. was founded by a bunch of religious wackjobs looking to establish a "City on a Hill" is a myth. This was ONLY true of the New England colonies. The middle and southern colonies (you know, little settlements like Jamestown, New York, Philadelphia, etc.) were secular settlements populated by settlers interested in economic, not religious, opportunity. This makes the whole "and they've somehow survived to this day" argument even more laughable--because the former New England colonies are today some of the most secular and liberal areas of the country, whereas the former secular southern colonies have become some of the most religiously conservative (this has to do with historical movements like the Great Awakening, the north/south church schisms of the Civil War, and the Restorationist movement, etc. that took place LONG after the U.S. was founded).
Thanks to recent efforts by the RIAA/MPAA, the threat now isn't just that ISP's will throttle P2P, it's that they will outright BLOCK it (and any sites related to it). Their counterpart in the UK has already succeeded in this effort with most of their ISP's, and you can bet it will happen here too soon. If this guy doesn't step in with some legal protections (and threats) for these ISP's, the days of typing www.thepiratebay.org into your browser and getting any message besides "This site has been blocked for copyright infringement" are numbered.
The vision to become the dominant OS maker many years earlier, of course.
WorldWideWeb.app was the first written for NeXt (and first one, period). Erwise was was the first one written for Unix. And Cello (or Mosaic?) was the first one written for Windows. You can try and parse it all you like, but you'll still have to give an American at least some of the credit. Sorry to spoil the pissing contest.
No the problem is that there is a difference between a problem-solver and a visionary.
A problem-solver comes up with a solution to a specific problem. The genesis of Cello, for example, was one guy saying to himself "I need a windows-based program that can access legal sites in html" and then solving the problem.
But it takes a visionary to realize when a solution has a much great potential. It was Marc Andreessen (and guys like him) who came along and said "You know, a Windows based browser could have a general appeal beyond just some specialized applications. We could actually sell this thing and start a revolution."
Cue some European chiming in about how a European programmer did it earlier and better than Thomas Bruce too, in...3...2...1...
Why is it that, everytime someone credits an American with something, some European must immediately chime in with "Oh no, Ludwig Von Whogivesashit did it first!" Even my black nationalist friend (who insists that the black man invented almost everything), cuts us evil white Americans SOME slack.
Thanks to a loophole in public domain laws, a lot of book companies will copyright a specific translation or edition of a public domain work (in the specific case you're talking about, probably a specific translation). You see the same thing in the recording industry. Mozart may not be copyrightable, but a specific PERFORMANCE of Mozart can be (and usually is) copyrighted.
"Rights" in the sense of "the rights to allow people to search these texts and see a small slice where their search hit" *NOT* "rights to reprint them or republish them without the original copyright holder's consent." That's a pretty big distinction--one which the summary completely ignored in favor of the more sensational "Google is out to steal your copyrighted books!!" approach.
I would also add that Google (and pretty much every search engine) already does the EXACT same thing with websites, and I don't hear any website creators complaining about Google "stealing" their work just because an excerpt from their site pops up in a list of Google search results.
Santa don't like noisy cars. You'd gonna get a lump of coal up your ass for that one.
Full details (minus the blogspam and reactionary hyperbole) are available here.
Gonzales isn't going to step back down and do that. After all these years of working his way up the evil ladder, he is looking to move up and hopefully one day replace Cheney as Satan's assistant. Representing a mere RIAA case is a job for an evil rookie.
I'm pretty sure that the fact that Fallout 3 is the fifth game in the Fallout series pretty much implies that a sequel is not only possible, but also quite likely.