Then I saw Solomon's Key. Sometimes I've wondered if I'm the only person who has ever played that game. It isn't fantastic but it's very good. I'm glad it will have the chance to get a little more much-deserved exposure.
Don't worry, you're not the only one - I used to love that game back on my rubber keyed Spectrum! Classic!:)
I'm really looking forward to playing Bonk's Adventure and Super Star Soldier again, but why are they launching Bomberman '93 instead of Bomberman '94!!!
Do you understand the difference between making a copy of a reference and copying an entire object? I ask this because if you did you would realise that these are modified copies of an original god - not the same god...
Hang on a second - where did I say that ideas should be ownable?
I did say that "Intellectual property" is not equal to "redistribution of wealth" which is what my original post's parent claimed. IP (which I am opposed to) is the hoarding of wealth (by allowing idea creators a limited time monopoly).
A straightforward socialist solution would be to directly fund innovation with public money. A straightforward free-market solution would be to have no IP laws.
The socialist solution would mean that all creators of content/ideas would be compensated equally regardless of how good their stuff was. The free market solution would lead to rampant piracy.
The question then is if there is another way to encourage good content/idea creation without "intellectual property".
Usually when people use the phrase "redistribution of wealth" they're talking about taking from the rich and giving to the poor, which is something that almost all governments do, and socialist governments do to a greater extent than right wing ones.
Equating "Intellectual property" with "redistribution of wealth" is complete nonsense. Intellectual property is about claiming exclusive rights to ideas, not redistributing anything.
Denmark (19th) dropped from joint first place because of serious threats against the authors of the Mohammed cartoons published there in autumn 2005. For the first time in recent years in a country that is very observant of civil liberties, journalists had to have police protection due to threats against them because of their work.
You're quite right, this doesn't make much sense at all - the Danish newspapers could only have published the cartoons in a country with excellent freedom of the press. The only way I can see this making any sense is if they're suggesting that the Danish press is now more likely to self-censure because of threats from Muslims (bless their cotton socks). Mind you, how many countries in the world had the guts to republish the cartoons? Not many.
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but why on earth should anyone be boasting about an OS being "pretty responsive" on a 350MHz AMD box with 64MB of ram? What the hell is it doing?
I thought I'd been clever on the blog I run for an open source project of mine by stripping all links from comments. Now I'll have to try to strip bot commands too:(
None, but I have read many books that have been translated from other countries - the article I linked is talking about any foreign books (not just English ones). How many books do you think were translated into English last year?
Unfortunately, it seems that the arabic world (and I would guess Iran too) is culturally very closed minded and creatively stunted:
"Another, no less grave, result is the dearth of creativity. The report comments sadly on the severe shortage of new writing, and, for instance, the decline in the film industry. Nor are foreign books much translated: in the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun, say the authors, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in one year."
Bush-redneck. Blair is a redneck. Kim il jung is a redneck. Saddam is a redneck. And so on. When you see international tension, look at their leaders, invariably they are rednecks.
Look, I'm not a fan of Blair by any stretch, but calling him a redneck is just silly. He studied law at Oxford, and went on to become a barrister before becoming a politician.
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Sorry, I should have said "home" platform - the PC Engine/TurboGrafx was codeveloped by Hudson Soft and NEC...
The TurboGrafx (PC Engine in Japan) was the original platform for Bomberman (it was written by Hudsonsoft), so yes it's very much the same idea.
Don't worry, you're not the only one - I used to love that game back on my rubber keyed Spectrum! Classic!
I'm really looking forward to playing Bonk's Adventure and Super Star Soldier again, but why are they launching Bomberman '93 instead of Bomberman '94!!!
Excellent point - MOD UP please!
Do you understand the difference between making a copy of a reference and copying an entire object? I ask this because if you did you would realise that these are modified copies of an original god - not the same god...
Hang on a second - where did I say that ideas should be ownable?
I did say that "Intellectual property" is not equal to "redistribution of wealth" which is what my original post's parent claimed. IP (which I am opposed to) is the hoarding of wealth (by allowing idea creators a limited time monopoly).
The socialist solution would mean that all creators of content/ideas would be compensated equally regardless of how good their stuff was. The free market solution would lead to rampant piracy.
The question then is if there is another way to encourage good content/idea creation without "intellectual property".
Usually when people use the phrase "redistribution of wealth" they're talking about taking from the rich and giving to the poor, which is something that almost all governments do, and socialist governments do to a greater extent than right wing ones.
Equating "Intellectual property" with "redistribution of wealth" is complete nonsense. Intellectual property is about claiming exclusive rights to ideas, not redistributing anything.
Oh, that's alright then! I expect this will do wonders for your tourism industry...
You're quite right, this doesn't make much sense at all - the Danish newspapers could only have published the cartoons in a country with excellent freedom of the press. The only way I can see this making any sense is if they're suggesting that the Danish press is now more likely to self-censure because of threats from Muslims (bless their cotton socks). Mind you, how many countries in the world had the guts to republish the cartoons? Not many.
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but why on earth should anyone be boasting about an OS being "pretty responsive" on a 350MHz AMD box with 64MB of ram? What the hell is it doing?
Umm, this is how most X window managers do it too...
I thought I'd been clever on the blog I run for an open source project of mine by stripping all links from comments. Now I'll have to try to strip bot commands too :(
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No, that's how it's spelt in every English speaking country except the USA.
None, but I have read many books that have been translated from other countries - the article I linked is talking about any foreign books (not just English ones). How many books do you think were translated into English last year?
Mine would be a lengthy build time ("make veryclean all"). What's other slashdotters?
In my experience, journalists have difficulty with most concepts, whether technology based or not.
Whoever modded that as offtopic didn't RTFA!
What are you doing on this site? Don't you know that fundamentalist religious beliefs are incompatible with scientific and engineering principles?
If we're going to link to Python sketches, How not to be seen must be among the best...
Look, I'm not a fan of Blair by any stretch, but calling him a redneck is just silly. He studied law at Oxford, and went on to become a barrister before becoming a politician.