If they wanted the product to be called GNU/Linux, then they shouldn't have released their software under the GPL. The GPL gives people the right to port the software to other platforms with the only legal requirement being that they release the source. If they wanted it to be GNU/Linux maybe they should have came out with their own license that clearly stated the terms of use of the software....oh..wait a minute..
But as you said, Dance Dance Revolution is not educational. The kids are saying that an educational game would need a great storyline, Oregan Trail is one from my youth. Dance Dance Revolution doesn't have a story so it doesn't need a great storyline. Presumable a game whose purpose is to teach WOULD have a something to say. That something should be wrapped in a great story, is what the kids are saying.
Do you know the meaning of the word study? You seem to be using it in the improper way when referring to young kids, or even high school kids. When a parent tells a child to "go study history", it means to read the history book, or play the flashcards, now the videogames. It DOES NOT mean go out and become a freakin' historian!
If you're still selling out shows it isn't time to quit. Their new song is great, I could care less if Keith Richards looks old. I don't listen to music or go to concerts to LOOK at the men. Maybe you would prefer the Backstreet Boys?
You pretty much gave the definition of child porn, picture of underage people engaged in sexually explicit acts or positions. Theoretically this would not include something like photos of a nudist camp with children in it. Of course sexually explicit doesn't have to mean engaged in any sex act, it could just mean the girl spreading, or posing in a clearly provacacitive way. Which is the way it should be IMHO, the child shouldn't have to be physically molested to be protected by the law.
Strange thing about the law though is that, until recently, if you rendered a picture of the pre-teen girl in poser without clothes on it might be considered child pornography. There are warnings not to display those types of pictures on many of the sites that distribute texture maps and such. That law was repealled, which is probably a good thing, I don't get off looking at 3d rendered pre-teens, but I'm guessing NOBODY does which is why the law was silly. Besides, if somebody does get off on that sort of thing, I'd rather them get off on a fake girl than a real one.
Sorry, I meant european, but still do you think my error proves my point or nullifies it? The fact that I am ONLY smarter than a High School government teacher about the discovery and founding of our country and eventually government, says alot more about the teachers than me, no? After all, I never claimed to be a teacher, or claimed to be worthy of being a teacher.
Anybody see Jay Leno yesterday. He did a Jaywalking segment where he asked people questions about American History. He asked one TEACHER who said "The British are coming!"? Her answer...the south! He asked her who they told and she said the other side. The North? yes. So, the South ran up to the North yelling the British are coming! Would that not be the funniest thing in the world to see. Might be good strategy, the north would be laughing to hard to fight.
Another high school government teacher was asked who arrived first, the pilgrims or Columbus. She made Jay give his answer first, Columbus. She then adamantly told him he was wrong, it was the pilgrims. So the chronology of 13 colonies is that the english pilgrims came and settled, then Columbus became the first englishman to discover America. Apparently the pilgrims were just roque nomads. Straight from the mouth of a government teacher.
Those aren't even the worst example, but the worst examples weren't teachers. But basically the future looks dim if these non-english speaking kids are being taught by too many people like the teachers above. Do you think Dubya would mind if I formed my own little country on my land before the current crop of kids gets into office?
That's all I need is an official government memorandum reading:
A11 UR R1GH7'5 R BL0N6 70 US!
The door was 200 feet into the chamber, that is a REALLY long stick being wielded by someone with REALLY good low light eyesight. It was also 3.5" of solid stone, so it would have to be a pretty strong stick as well.
I agree with the other guy, coke tastes better than pepsi. But that's not the point. I said I'm sure coke makes as much profit, but they don't throw it in our faces by saying "Hey we just paid Britney Spears $20 million of your dollars" or "Hey we're going to spend $20 million in a marketing campaign to send someone to space." $20 million is ALOT of freaking money and they throw it around in front of our faces as if it's chump change. Maybe if Britney Spears was even remotely qualified to give an educated opinion on the quality of soda, like Tiger Woods endorsing golf clubs or something I could see it. But she's not. And space ships don't have anything to do with Pepsi either.
The fact that pepsi have $20 million to piss away hiring Britney Spears and Micheal Jackson and sending people to space sends the message to me loud and clear that their prices are WAY to high. Cokes prices are the same and assume their profit margins are similar but the fact that they don't throw in our faces the fact that they are bending us over and anally raping us makes me much more inclined to buy their product. In addition to the fact that I enjoy coke more than pepsi and RC more than both.
The next spiderman movie. I want to watch movies, I enjoy movies and spiderman has been my favorite character since I was a kid. Nobody is saying that I can't trade "information", I am free to tell anyone who will listen the plot of spiderman. If getting to watch the next spiderman means that I can't give away a copy of the next spiderman, I am fine with that. There is absolutely no reason why I need to give away the next spiderman.
You seem to be confused on what information is. Information is something important. Spiderman isn't important, it's not a pressing subject that everyone should be made aware of. The fact that you think it is makes you...strange.
I did think it was strange that the guy though a fingerprint was enough to prove that space aliens (or whomever else besides egyptians) didn't have anything to do with it. Not saying that space aliens did have anything to do with it, just that a fingerprint only means that a human was in egypt at the time a human was buried. (We don't even know for sure it was an egyptian human, based on a fingerprint). And yeah, the moon thing was a bit hokey.
And if nobody pays for the distribution because everybody just copies it for their friends then what happens to the $200 million? It's lost and no more movies are made. Not every movies makes what it cost to produce in the theaters, and there has to be SOME profit for people to stay interested.
Games today have much more artwork involved in them. Most of them have CGI cutscenes which takes a ton of extra money, voice actors, which is more money. You have to compare the costs of production (and thus the cost to the consumer) between games just four or five years ago and today. Gamers expect more from games now.
You are equating software with food and light? Seriously, am I the only one that thinks that is the most pathetic thing ever? Gees man, you don't have to have software to survive. And last time I checked breadmakers didn't spend millions of dollars making a single loaf of bread. Software companies have to charge enough to get their money back. It goes beyond duplication costs. Titanic only costs a few cents to duplicate, it cost $200 million to make. That's the difference. You aren't paying for the DVD, your paying for the Actors, Producers, Film, Cameras, etc. Same goes for software, music, and any other "information".
All I'm doing is repeating what the people who've spent their lives studying the egyptians said. I don't know anything about slavery in the Roman period, but I assumed it was better to trust an egyptologist(?) over a poster on Slashdot regarding the subject.
The reason they don't think there were any slaves is because there were enough cow bones found in the cooking area to feed thousands of men comfortably for the entire construction period of the pyramid. Also one of the workers was found to have recieved and survived a medical amputation, 4500 years ago.
Slaves don't get fed like kings and recieve (what was then) first class medical procedures.
You don't know what you are talking about. It is true that 1g is normal, but when speaking of gforces, they mean in addition to normal. I corvette can pull a skid pad rating of about 1g, a musclecar launches off the line at about 1g. There is definite postive g acting on the body. +1g as in normal "plus" one g.
That's the problem though, many people WILL sue. Look at the jackass that got a few billion dollars because he ignored the big "YOU WILL GET CANCER" warning on the side of cigarettes.
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Not goldeneye, they don't have the Bond license anymore either.
But as you said, Dance Dance Revolution is not educational. The kids are saying that an educational game would need a great storyline, Oregan Trail is one from my youth. Dance Dance Revolution doesn't have a story so it doesn't need a great storyline. Presumable a game whose purpose is to teach WOULD have a something to say. That something should be wrapped in a great story, is what the kids are saying.
Do you know the meaning of the word study? You seem to be using it in the improper way when referring to young kids, or even high school kids. When a parent tells a child to "go study history", it means to read the history book, or play the flashcards, now the videogames. It DOES NOT mean go out and become a freakin' historian!
If you're still selling out shows it isn't time to quit. Their new song is great, I could care less if Keith Richards looks old. I don't listen to music or go to concerts to LOOK at the men. Maybe you would prefer the Backstreet Boys?
You pretty much gave the definition of child porn, picture of underage people engaged in sexually explicit acts or positions. Theoretically this would not include something like photos of a nudist camp with children in it. Of course sexually explicit doesn't have to mean engaged in any sex act, it could just mean the girl spreading, or posing in a clearly provacacitive way. Which is the way it should be IMHO, the child shouldn't have to be physically molested to be protected by the law. Strange thing about the law though is that, until recently, if you rendered a picture of the pre-teen girl in poser without clothes on it might be considered child pornography. There are warnings not to display those types of pictures on many of the sites that distribute texture maps and such. That law was repealled, which is probably a good thing, I don't get off looking at 3d rendered pre-teens, but I'm guessing NOBODY does which is why the law was silly. Besides, if somebody does get off on that sort of thing, I'd rather them get off on a fake girl than a real one.
It's a good thing they were facing North to begin with then, eh? :)
Sorry, I meant european, but still do you think my error proves my point or nullifies it? The fact that I am ONLY smarter than a High School government teacher about the discovery and founding of our country and eventually government, says alot more about the teachers than me, no? After all, I never claimed to be a teacher, or claimed to be worthy of being a teacher.
Anybody see Jay Leno yesterday. He did a Jaywalking segment where he asked people questions about American History. He asked one TEACHER who said "The British are coming!"? Her answer...the south! He asked her who they told and she said the other side. The North? yes. So, the South ran up to the North yelling the British are coming! Would that not be the funniest thing in the world to see. Might be good strategy, the north would be laughing to hard to fight. Another high school government teacher was asked who arrived first, the pilgrims or Columbus. She made Jay give his answer first, Columbus. She then adamantly told him he was wrong, it was the pilgrims. So the chronology of 13 colonies is that the english pilgrims came and settled, then Columbus became the first englishman to discover America. Apparently the pilgrims were just roque nomads. Straight from the mouth of a government teacher. Those aren't even the worst example, but the worst examples weren't teachers. But basically the future looks dim if these non-english speaking kids are being taught by too many people like the teachers above. Do you think Dubya would mind if I formed my own little country on my land before the current crop of kids gets into office? That's all I need is an official government memorandum reading: A11 UR R1GH7'5 R BL0N6 70 US!
Not really, the conflict could not have been resolved without killing storm troopers. It could have been resolved without killing the emperor.
The door was 200 feet into the chamber, that is a REALLY long stick being wielded by someone with REALLY good low light eyesight. It was also 3.5" of solid stone, so it would have to be a pretty strong stick as well.
I agree with the other guy, coke tastes better than pepsi. But that's not the point. I said I'm sure coke makes as much profit, but they don't throw it in our faces by saying "Hey we just paid Britney Spears $20 million of your dollars" or "Hey we're going to spend $20 million in a marketing campaign to send someone to space." $20 million is ALOT of freaking money and they throw it around in front of our faces as if it's chump change. Maybe if Britney Spears was even remotely qualified to give an educated opinion on the quality of soda, like Tiger Woods endorsing golf clubs or something I could see it. But she's not. And space ships don't have anything to do with Pepsi either.
I agree, but saying that it goes to far so let's abandon it all together is ludicrous.
The fact that pepsi have $20 million to piss away hiring Britney Spears and Micheal Jackson and sending people to space sends the message to me loud and clear that their prices are WAY to high. Cokes prices are the same and assume their profit margins are similar but the fact that they don't throw in our faces the fact that they are bending us over and anally raping us makes me much more inclined to buy their product. In addition to the fact that I enjoy coke more than pepsi and RC more than both.
The next spiderman movie. I want to watch movies, I enjoy movies and spiderman has been my favorite character since I was a kid. Nobody is saying that I can't trade "information", I am free to tell anyone who will listen the plot of spiderman. If getting to watch the next spiderman means that I can't give away a copy of the next spiderman, I am fine with that. There is absolutely no reason why I need to give away the next spiderman. You seem to be confused on what information is. Information is something important. Spiderman isn't important, it's not a pressing subject that everyone should be made aware of. The fact that you think it is makes you...strange.
I did think it was strange that the guy though a fingerprint was enough to prove that space aliens (or whomever else besides egyptians) didn't have anything to do with it. Not saying that space aliens did have anything to do with it, just that a fingerprint only means that a human was in egypt at the time a human was buried. (We don't even know for sure it was an egyptian human, based on a fingerprint). And yeah, the moon thing was a bit hokey.
And if nobody pays for the distribution because everybody just copies it for their friends then what happens to the $200 million? It's lost and no more movies are made. Not every movies makes what it cost to produce in the theaters, and there has to be SOME profit for people to stay interested.
Games today have much more artwork involved in them. Most of them have CGI cutscenes which takes a ton of extra money, voice actors, which is more money. You have to compare the costs of production (and thus the cost to the consumer) between games just four or five years ago and today. Gamers expect more from games now.
You are equating software with food and light? Seriously, am I the only one that thinks that is the most pathetic thing ever? Gees man, you don't have to have software to survive. And last time I checked breadmakers didn't spend millions of dollars making a single loaf of bread. Software companies have to charge enough to get their money back. It goes beyond duplication costs. Titanic only costs a few cents to duplicate, it cost $200 million to make. That's the difference. You aren't paying for the DVD, your paying for the Actors, Producers, Film, Cameras, etc. Same goes for software, music, and any other "information".
All I'm doing is repeating what the people who've spent their lives studying the egyptians said. I don't know anything about slavery in the Roman period, but I assumed it was better to trust an egyptologist(?) over a poster on Slashdot regarding the subject.
The reason they don't think there were any slaves is because there were enough cow bones found in the cooking area to feed thousands of men comfortably for the entire construction period of the pyramid. Also one of the workers was found to have recieved and survived a medical amputation, 4500 years ago. Slaves don't get fed like kings and recieve (what was then) first class medical procedures.
You need to realize how much 5.6g is. A Pitts airplane which is one of the most successfull unlimited aerobatics planes ever, is only rated to +6/-6g.
You don't know what you are talking about. It is true that 1g is normal, but when speaking of gforces, they mean in addition to normal. I corvette can pull a skid pad rating of about 1g, a musclecar launches off the line at about 1g. There is definite postive g acting on the body. +1g as in normal "plus" one g.
That's the problem though, many people WILL sue. Look at the jackass that got a few billion dollars because he ignored the big "YOU WILL GET CANCER" warning on the side of cigarettes.
Yes, trailers used to be at the end of the movie, but people stopped watching them. hence the word, trailer.