Yeah, in the US it had a pretty nutty media campaign for it, so it was hard to miss.
For the record, this intern spends much of his time reading videogame comics and other such geekerific things, so I cannot excuse his not knowing of its existence.
Voltron was very popular in the US. It came out in a series of "anime made into American cartoons" along with Transformers and Macross/Southern Cross/Genesis Climber Mospeada (collectively "Robotech") plus a number of American spinoffs, during the huge cartoon+merchandising craze of the 1980's. All of those were staples of either weekday afternoon or saturday morning cartoon blocks (both of which are sorely lacking these days, I'm sad to say).
Thing is, even Transformers suffered from the relative youthfulness of their target audience. I commented to an intern that I didn't think that the Transformers movie could be as entertaining to me as the original Transformers movie.
His response? "There was an original Transformers movie?"
I'm just going to go ahead and assume that since you posted as an AC, that you looked up "economics" on Wikipedia in order to try to "zing!" me, and not bother to argue with you. kthx.
Well, I suppose it depends. If we say the Sun is a house and it had a REALLY big plot it was sitting on, maybe 1400 yr away would be on the back 700 or something? (don't take me too seriously, I'm just giddy from not being laid off this afternoon)
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Of course there wasn't! GOLDGOLDGOLDGODLGOLDGOLD!!!!!!!!111
I'm fairly certain that those who base their entire dislike of the movement away from "gold standards" in currency matters overlap to a great extent with those who don't really understand economics on some imaginary Venn diagram.
Well, it remains to be seen how they'll handle the 70-80 stuff. BC added some killer quest content for the BE's and Drae (mostly 1-20 but some elsewhere), so I can't imagine that you wouldn't be able to quest from 70 to 80.
Whether or not it's illegal doesn't necessarily imply that a given party in question thinks it should be legal, which is the point I was trying to get at, there.
In the US, at least in my area, they put the "you wouldn't steal " stuff in the middle of the 1/2 hour of commercials at the beginning. Last I went to a movie, that is.
Well, this girl, as far as we all know at this point, wasn't copying the whole movie. As Lessig found out, you don't even need to copy something with market value, you just have to copy something that gets a knee-jerk reaction going (in the case of Lessig, it was copying the bit that says not to copy!).
I'm firmly of the belief that the theater owner was being a hardass because he/she could be, and I'm also betting that the officers who showed up really had something better to do than deal with a kid who made a short clip of a movie.
And yes, I do think the current DMCA-slathered copyright setup is braindead. Why do you ask?
FFIW, I show up late to movies just to miss the stuff they play before them (assuming I go to movies at all), and many people talk through the "pre-movie" stuff, go to the can, get food, etc.
And you comment doesn't really address whether it should be illegal or not, just the fact that movie theaters believe it should be illegal (and this particular chain feels it should be harshly enforced).
Well, the delays for Spore are starting to get frustrating. On the other hand, after all these delays it better be a pretty freaking good game... which it won't be if they rush it to put an end to the delays. I would suggest that if the delay for a game is actually *frustrating*, that you need to diversify your hobbies a little bit.
Recording something in a theater is not "obviously illegal" for anyone who isn't a copyright/left/DMCA wonk (even in passing), which the *vast* majority of people are not (not to mention kids). By and large, the mindset with the general populace is "if I can see it, why can't I record it." So, again, while smoking at a gas station or bringing firearms on a plan can be easily grasped by a lay-person (in a few seconds you can explain why its a real, physical danger), recording something that I can see with my eyes anyway is a danger to some rich person's profits, and as such is significantly less obvious of a crime (if it really even should be a crime).
While I agree with what you said, also realize that chances are high that the theater manager has an IQ of around 40 and regards the theater as his/her realm of power (likely the only place in his life where they have any power at all), so blindly enforcing the rules not only feels good to them, but since they have no real job skills to begin with, it keeps them from getting fired and having to start over at McDonalds flipping burgers and not understanding the Spanish being spoken by their coworkers.
No, it's "moronic" to try and draw a direct comparison between (ostensibly) physical security concerns and short, substandard videotaping in a movie theater. It's people like you and your bizarre sense of comparisons in the legal system that allow this sort of insanity to continue. The theater managers *were* being dickheads, there's just no other way a rational person can think of this sort of incident.
Both DAoC and WoW thieves have this ability to backstab for quite a few years now. Other PC/NPC players' ability to see those "stealthed" thieves depends, I believe, on their perception skills and how quickly/slowly the thief moves.
The fiscal governance folks in China seem to be aware of the looming problem. You can occasionally see an article on Google News where they've increased a lending rate or adjusted their currency trading ratio in an effort to slow their economy down to a more sustainable pace. It doesn't seem to be doing a ton of good, however.
Pretty much. It's only a minor revision difference between XP and 2k, and it takes only a few clicks to make the GUI for XP essentially mirror that of 2k. Not at all like the difference between XP and Vista
Just as the Plaintiff is required to notify the court and the DoJ
from the Plaintiff's answer and counterclaim:
"Rule 24(c) further provides that "[a] party challenging the constitutionality of legislation should call the attention of the court to its consequential duty" to notify the Attorney General of the United Sates under 28 U.S.C. 2403. Defendant Boggs therefore is submitting concurrently with this Answer a Notification to call the attention of this Court to his challenge to the constitutionality of the statutory damages provision of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 504(c)."
I have one of the more pricey D-Link home routers (it's a "gaming router" so has QOS and what not), and I actually haven't had to reset the thing in about 4 months. YMMV, but my Linksys needed resetting (before I put on the dd-wrt firmware) about every week.
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I find your anecdote amusing. Is there a source for it available?
Ah, good memories of creative group names
alt.alien.vampires.flonk.flonk.flonk and alt.christnet.second-coming.real-soon-now were my favorites
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Interactive Adventure game from Infocom
Always wished they'd made a sequel to that.
Yeah, in the US it had a pretty nutty media campaign for it, so it was hard to miss.
For the record, this intern spends much of his time reading videogame comics and other such geekerific things, so I cannot excuse his not knowing of its existence.
Plus, he's the intern, so comeon.
"Uh, what?"
Cindi Lou Who?
Voltron was very popular in the US. It came out in a series of "anime made into American cartoons" along with Transformers and Macross/Southern Cross/Genesis Climber Mospeada (collectively "Robotech") plus a number of American spinoffs, during the huge cartoon+merchandising craze of the 1980's. All of those were staples of either weekday afternoon or saturday morning cartoon blocks (both of which are sorely lacking these days, I'm sad to say).
Thing is, even Transformers suffered from the relative youthfulness of their target audience. I commented to an intern that I didn't think that the Transformers movie could be as entertaining to me as the original Transformers movie.
His response? "There was an original Transformers movie?"
I'm just going to go ahead and assume that since you posted as an AC, that you looked up "economics" on Wikipedia in order to try to "zing!" me, and not bother to argue with you. kthx.
Well, I suppose it depends. If we say the Sun is a house and it had a REALLY big plot it was sitting on, maybe 1400 yr away would be on the back 700 or something? (don't take me too seriously, I'm just giddy from not being laid off this afternoon)
Of course there wasn't! GOLDGOLDGOLDGODLGOLDGOLD!!!!!!!!111
I'm fairly certain that those who base their entire dislike of the movement away from "gold standards" in currency matters overlap to a great extent with those who don't really understand economics on some imaginary Venn diagram.
Save yourself the headache, get/make a Windows box on a budget and splurge on the video card.
Now if they could only make upgrading the RAM in a Mac Mini that easy.
RAM upgrades shouldn't require putty knives and/or spatulas
Well, it remains to be seen how they'll handle the 70-80 stuff. BC added some killer quest content for the BE's and Drae (mostly 1-20 but some elsewhere), so I can't imagine that you wouldn't be able to quest from 70 to 80.
Whether or not it's illegal doesn't necessarily imply that a given party in question thinks it should be legal, which is the point I was trying to get at, there.
In the US, at least in my area, they put the "you wouldn't steal " stuff in the middle of the 1/2 hour of commercials at the beginning. Last I went to a movie, that is.
Well, this girl, as far as we all know at this point, wasn't copying the whole movie. As Lessig found out, you don't even need to copy something with market value, you just have to copy something that gets a knee-jerk reaction going (in the case of Lessig, it was copying the bit that says not to copy!).
I'm firmly of the belief that the theater owner was being a hardass because he/she could be, and I'm also betting that the officers who showed up really had something better to do than deal with a kid who made a short clip of a movie.
And yes, I do think the current DMCA-slathered copyright setup is braindead. Why do you ask?
FFIW, I show up late to movies just to miss the stuff they play before them (assuming I go to movies at all), and many people talk through the "pre-movie" stuff, go to the can, get food, etc.
And you comment doesn't really address whether it should be illegal or not, just the fact that movie theaters believe it should be illegal (and this particular chain feels it should be harshly enforced).
Recording something in a theater is not "obviously illegal" for anyone who isn't a copyright/left/DMCA wonk (even in passing), which the *vast* majority of people are not (not to mention kids). By and large, the mindset with the general populace is "if I can see it, why can't I record it." So, again, while smoking at a gas station or bringing firearms on a plan can be easily grasped by a lay-person (in a few seconds you can explain why its a real, physical danger), recording something that I can see with my eyes anyway is a danger to some rich person's profits, and as such is significantly less obvious of a crime (if it really even should be a crime).
While I agree with what you said, also realize that chances are high that the theater manager has an IQ of around 40 and regards the theater as his/her realm of power (likely the only place in his life where they have any power at all), so blindly enforcing the rules not only feels good to them, but since they have no real job skills to begin with, it keeps them from getting fired and having to start over at McDonalds flipping burgers and not understanding the Spanish being spoken by their coworkers.
No, it's "moronic" to try and draw a direct comparison between (ostensibly) physical security concerns and short, substandard videotaping in a movie theater. It's people like you and your bizarre sense of comparisons in the legal system that allow this sort of insanity to continue. The theater managers *were* being dickheads, there's just no other way a rational person can think of this sort of incident.
Both DAoC and WoW thieves have this ability to backstab for quite a few years now. Other PC/NPC players' ability to see those "stealthed" thieves depends, I believe, on their perception skills and how quickly/slowly the thief moves.
The fiscal governance folks in China seem to be aware of the looming problem. You can occasionally see an article on Google News where they've increased a lending rate or adjusted their currency trading ratio in an effort to slow their economy down to a more sustainable pace. It doesn't seem to be doing a ton of good, however.
Until there's an affordable HDDVD/BluRay hybrid player, I couldn't care less what format has what movies (or what kind of movies, for that matter).
Pretty much. It's only a minor revision difference between XP and 2k, and it takes only a few clicks to make the GUI for XP essentially mirror that of 2k. Not at all like the difference between XP and Vista
from the Plaintiff's answer and counterclaim:
"Rule 24(c) further provides that "[a] party challenging the constitutionality of legislation should call the attention of the court to its consequential duty" to notify the Attorney General of the United Sates under 28 U.S.C. 2403. Defendant Boggs therefore is submitting concurrently with this Answer a Notification to call the attention of this Court to his challenge to the constitutionality of the statutory damages provision of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 504(c)."
I'd give you mod points if I had them.
I have one of the more pricey D-Link home routers (it's a "gaming router" so has QOS and what not), and I actually haven't had to reset the thing in about 4 months. YMMV, but my Linksys needed resetting (before I put on the dd-wrt firmware) about every week.