Sure, parents have a right to limit what their kids buy. The law can't (well, shouldn't -- because apparently it is) mandate it for all parents, though.
1 in infinity billion is so close to zero in infinity billion that you have virtually the same chance of finding aliens if you use SETI than if you do nothing at all.
Consequently, the literal text of the First Amendment has been functionally revised through the doctrine of stare decisis, as the Court has also acknowledged. For example, in Denver v. FCC (1996), [1], the Court stated that "this Court, in different contexts, has consistently held that the Government may directly regulate speech . ..", even though the text of the 1791 First Amendment states clearly that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . ..".
This phenomenon of functionally revising literal text has also been referred to as creating a "virtual First Amendment".
But if the literal text of the First Amendment is no longer used by the Supreme Court in rendering its decisions, what is? The text below is a brief representation of the virtual text used by the Supreme Court in its First Amendment jurisprudence over the years, from Thomas Ladanyi's book The 1987 Constitution.
Text of the Virtual First Amendment (heavily abridged)
No State legislature or the Congress of the United States shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press all media of information; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances
Declaration of Independence, while not binding law, indicates that the people who founded the US beleive that Rights cannot be granted or rescinded by the government, as they are a gift from God (or Nature, for yon Athiests)
"to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"
The new ones just aren't as entertaining, period. I mean, what happened to the good old days when a Japanese kid couldn't buy a Dragon Quest game without getting shivved for it on the way home? That's demand, baby!
The reason they didn't beleive Arroway was because the sphere just dropped through the portal in real-time. She said that she'd been gone for hours, but the cameras showed her just dropping.
The caveat being that The Man knew it had 3 hours of static on her headset, just didn't want to tell anyone because it would give her story credence.
Any chance we can, as Red from The Shawshank Redemption so eloquently put "have him do the airdance before the first May flowers push up out the ground?"
If some highschool kid living in his parents basement can create an emulator superior to the game company staff (remember Chrono Trigger/Final Fantasy 4 on PS1), then the development costs are wasted money.
c.) There's a significant number of people who haven't played these games before that may have fun buying them today. I agree that ROMs will always be around, but there's little to be bitchy about here.
I highly doubt this. The big draw on rereleases of old games is the nostalgia from those who played it when they were young.
Try giving a 10-year-old who loved Ocarina of Time a copy of the original Zelda (or, god forbid, Adventures of Link), and they most likely wouldn't find it fun at all. First off, it'd be amazingly difficult, (simply due to the fact that newer games utilize different skillsets and strategies) and secondly, the audial/graphical downgrade would also be a big turnoff.
For all the talk about how current games are less innovative than their predecessors, I find that the cream of the PS2/N64 crop are much more fun than the top-tier NES/Atari games.
The EULA does inform the end user that they are making modifications to their system. However this fact is (reportedly) buried in the EULA and there is not any install notification.
Well, there you go. In this country, you have to be up front about EULAs. You can't just call it 1103sys.ini.txt and say it's the user's fault for not reading every file in the CD.
A great example I read before on slashdot was about a storeowner who hid a sign behind the counter that said "Anyone who enters my store, I get to punch in the nose." He can't hit you, then say that it was your responsibility to fully examine the store before walking in.
I hated the wall-jump in Strider (and later, Super Metroid). Back when I was a kid, it was difficult enough that I simply couldn't get past that part of the game and had to quit:(
Couldn't you send Capcom a proof of purchase for buying these games on the NES, and get the PSP game in the mail for free? I mean, you already bought it once, right?
One of the biggest reasons piracy will continue to flourish regardless of price -- (most) consumers won't keep paying to play stuff from years ago simply because the original hardware broke down.
We get a news story about a group of mysterious stormtroopers breaking into the Tivo headquarters and slaughtering its executive board.
I mean, didn't the MPAA just force them to allow remove-deletion of content at will? I can't imagine that promoting copying of saved tv shows will sit well with the cartels.
It's from the TNG 6th season episode 25 - Timescape, where Picard discusses a particularly dull speaker at a scientific conference.
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt; it was really quite hypnotic
Full-blown lie. Even if the ads are at the same resolution as a plain grey wall, they're being refreshed. That's a loss of performance because your machine has to do more work to update the ads. What they meant to say was "will not noticeably affect performance"
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Technology-based entertainment products decrease in popularity over time.
What do you think is really in those "vaccines" that are mandatory for every kid?
Just what we need... targeted advertisements during our phone calls. Like this one I just found on a google search:
Bank Robbery
Products and information about
Bank Robbery.
eBay.com
Sure, parents have a right to limit what their kids buy. The law can't (well, shouldn't -- because apparently it is) mandate it for all parents, though.
1 in infinity billion is so close to zero in infinity billion that you have virtually the same chance of finding aliens if you use SETI than if you do nothing at all.
Previous poster does make a highly valid point that we're de-volving as a species in this respect.
:(
A 13-year old in the middle ages could hunt, fight, and raise a family. I'm 25 and can't do any of those things
From Wikipedia:
.", even though the text of the 1791 First Amendment states clearly that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . .".
Consequently, the literal text of the First Amendment has been functionally revised through the doctrine of stare decisis, as the Court has also acknowledged. For example, in Denver v. FCC (1996), [1], the Court stated that "this Court, in different contexts, has consistently held that the Government may directly regulate speech . .
This phenomenon of functionally revising literal text has also been referred to as creating a "virtual First Amendment".
But if the literal text of the First Amendment is no longer used by the Supreme Court in rendering its decisions, what is? The text below is a brief representation of the virtual text used by the Supreme Court in its First Amendment jurisprudence over the years, from Thomas Ladanyi's book The 1987 Constitution.
Text of the Virtual First Amendment (heavily abridged)
No State legislature or the Congress of the United States shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press all media of information; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances
Declaration of Independence, while not binding law, indicates that the people who founded the US beleive that Rights cannot be granted or rescinded by the government, as they are a gift from God (or Nature, for yon Athiests)
"to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"
Billy Boy can probably look between the cushions of his couch and find more than that.
Microsoft has been out of the "making money" business for so long. All Gates really wants is attention at this point.
The new ones just aren't as entertaining, period. I mean, what happened to the good old days when a Japanese kid couldn't buy a Dragon Quest game without getting shivved for it on the way home? That's demand, baby!
The reason they didn't beleive Arroway was because the sphere just dropped through the portal in real-time. She said that she'd been gone for hours, but the cameras showed her just dropping.
The caveat being that The Man knew it had 3 hours of static on her headset, just didn't want to tell anyone because it would give her story credence.
You forgot to add "ports of PS2 games on an inferior system"
Why buy Liberty City stories when I can pick up the original GTA for like $10? It's old enough now to be just as fun to play again.
Make sure it has the fire wheel equipped for Jacquio. And kill the tail first when you fight the statue.
Well, except that showing as much cleavage as Christina Auguleria or Ashlee Simpson would have you lined up against a wall and shot...
Any chance we can, as Red from The Shawshank Redemption so eloquently put "have him do the airdance before the first May flowers push up out the ground?"
Still no cure for cancer, eh?
If some highschool kid living in his parents basement can create an emulator superior to the game company staff (remember Chrono Trigger/Final Fantasy 4 on PS1), then the development costs are wasted money.
c.) There's a significant number of people who haven't played these games before that may have fun buying them today. I agree that ROMs will always be around, but there's little to be bitchy about here.
I highly doubt this. The big draw on rereleases of old games is the nostalgia from those who played it when they were young.
Try giving a 10-year-old who loved Ocarina of Time a copy of the original Zelda (or, god forbid, Adventures of Link), and they most likely wouldn't find it fun at all. First off, it'd be amazingly difficult, (simply due to the fact that newer games utilize different skillsets and strategies) and secondly, the audial/graphical downgrade would also be a big turnoff.
For all the talk about how current games are less innovative than their predecessors, I find that the cream of the PS2/N64 crop are much more fun than the top-tier NES/Atari games.
The EULA does inform the end user that they are making modifications to their system. However this fact is (reportedly) buried in the EULA and there is not any install notification.
Well, there you go. In this country, you have to be up front about EULAs. You can't just call it 1103sys.ini.txt and say it's the user's fault for not reading every file in the CD.
A great example I read before on slashdot was about a storeowner who hid a sign behind the counter that said "Anyone who enters my store, I get to punch in the nose." He can't hit you, then say that it was your responsibility to fully examine the store before walking in.
I hated the wall-jump in Strider (and later, Super Metroid). Back when I was a kid, it was difficult enough that I simply couldn't get past that part of the game and had to quit :(
Couldn't you send Capcom a proof of purchase for buying these games on the NES, and get the PSP game in the mail for free? I mean, you already bought it once, right?
One of the biggest reasons piracy will continue to flourish regardless of price -- (most) consumers won't keep paying to play stuff from years ago simply because the original hardware broke down.
We get a news story about a group of mysterious stormtroopers breaking into the Tivo headquarters and slaughtering its executive board.
I mean, didn't the MPAA just force them to allow remove-deletion of content at will? I can't imagine that promoting copying of saved tv shows will sit well with the cartels.
But, they're not making a profit, that's why they're adding more ads. And that drives usercount down, and... OH SHIT, PARADOX!
It's from the TNG 6th season episode 25 - Timescape, where Picard discusses a particularly dull speaker at a scientific conference.
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt; it was really quite hypnotic
It's a problem if they're finagling weasels:
"Ads will not affect the game's performance"
Full-blown lie. Even if the ads are at the same resolution as a plain grey wall, they're being refreshed. That's a loss of performance because your machine has to do more work to update the ads. What they meant to say was "will not noticeably affect performance"