It's about freaking time. Too bad Media Sentry has shifted it's primary focus overseas. Would be nice if they end up being found to be criminally responsable though.
You want to patent something, go invent a machine. Leave abstract concepts, math, my DNA, the way in which a window opens on my computer and the like the hell out of it.
Not to mention that black markets are by definition illegal; claiming that they breed crime is tautological.
No, it's not. A tautology is a statement like "Bachelors are unmarried men". It's trivial because it's a definition.
"Black markets breed crime" would only be a tautology if the definition of black market was the breeding of crime.
It's not a tautology to say that one crime leads to more crimes. Which is the point - a black market leads to further crime to support the market. Murder as dispute resolution for example.
I'll just add independance from britain and the civil rights movement. Giving black people and women the right to vote was a fairly radical change at the time...
I think that Americans are being indocrinated to believe that their system is as close to perfect as it's going to get. Thus any significant change will be a step down.
I vote "no" due to the fact that you really can't get hurt and probably won't develop PTD after watching your buddy's face explode in a shower of blood and bone, leaving you to wash his brains out of your mouth.
Not to mention that most wargames don't involve the player having to realistically deal with other people on their own side comitting war atrocities - never mind comitting them themselves.
Actually, Wierd Al makes a point of never recording and releasing any of the songs that he doesn't get permission for, even though there's no legal requirement for him to do so. He apparently does perform them at his concerts though.
The whole Coolio thing was almost certainly miscommunication on the part of the studio.
With seperate servers for each region, instead of each server having a copy of the full world. Travel far enough, and you shift from one server to the next.
Actually, from my experience, it's the opposite. A
Almost every "free copies boosted my sales" story I've ever heard has been in regards to fiction.
Reference materials are far, far more usefull with searching capabilities, etc. There really isn't much you can do with a paper book that you can't do digitally, provided it's in a decent format.
How would the forensics expert know any given MP3 he finds is illegal? Between online music stores and CD-Ripping, he could very well find 1000 MP3s, and every last one of them be legal.
Implanting a tracking device that monitors your every movement would do an even better job. Or, for a lower-tech approach, simply being followed 24/7 by a police officer.
Yes, the book tours are a lot of work, you get sore wrists, etc. But it's a part of the job that she chooses to do. There isn't anything that requires it. It's just a sales boosting event.
But nobody is going to give a damn about a mechanically reproduced signature. Nobody, except the most hardcore fans, are going to care about that - they want to meet the author, not the author's mechanical stand-in. If she actually used it, it would defeat the entire purpose of the signing.
Also, I have to think that it would make more sense for the government to just shell out for a scanner and a wacomm tablet.
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It's about freaking time. Too bad Media Sentry has shifted it's primary focus overseas. Would be nice if they end up being found to be criminally responsable though.
You want to patent something, go invent a machine. Leave abstract concepts, math, my DNA, the way in which a window opens on my computer and the like the hell out of it.
Porn?
That IS what it's for.
Not to mention that black markets are by definition illegal; claiming that they breed crime is tautological.
No, it's not. A tautology is a statement like "Bachelors are unmarried men". It's trivial because it's a definition.
"Black markets breed crime" would only be a tautology if the definition of black market was the breeding of crime.
It's not a tautology to say that one crime leads to more crimes. Which is the point - a black market leads to further crime to support the market. Murder as dispute resolution for example.
I'll just add independance from britain and the civil rights movement. Giving black people and women the right to vote was a fairly radical change at the time...
I think that Americans are being indocrinated to believe that their system is as close to perfect as it's going to get. Thus any significant change will be a step down.
"putting significant human genes into mice is the only feasible way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps"
I can think of dozens of feasable ways to explore that. For example, examining chimps.
Damnit! You beat me to it.
The current status of AI in games is such that playing against computer-controlled bots is less satisfying that playing against people
Actually, I've found people to be one of the most aggravating aspects of MMOs.
Vogon ships have been sited heading towards Earth.
Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly LIKE windows. I actually don't care about operating systems at all, except when they actively get in my way.
What I care about is the Apps. Windows has them, Linux doesn't, and so Windows wins for the moment.
Around 0%.
Database on every child in the UK = database on every adult in the UK in just a few years.
Is it possible to make a realistic war game?
I vote "no" due to the fact that you really can't get hurt and probably won't develop PTD after watching your buddy's face explode in a shower of blood and bone, leaving you to wash his brains out of your mouth.
Not to mention that most wargames don't involve the player having to realistically deal with other people on their own side comitting war atrocities - never mind comitting them themselves.
Actually, Wierd Al makes a point of never recording and releasing any of the songs that he doesn't get permission for, even though there's no legal requirement for him to do so. He apparently does perform them at his concerts though.
The whole Coolio thing was almost certainly miscommunication on the part of the studio.
With seperate servers for each region, instead of each server having a copy of the full world. Travel far enough, and you shift from one server to the next.
Actually, from my experience, it's the opposite. A
Almost every "free copies boosted my sales" story I've ever heard has been in regards to fiction.
Reference materials are far, far more usefull with searching capabilities, etc. There really isn't much you can do with a paper book that you can't do digitally, provided it's in a decent format.
It's an expensive version of turning the radio up.
How would the forensics expert know any given MP3 he finds is illegal? Between online music stores and CD-Ripping, he could very well find 1000 MP3s, and every last one of them be legal.
In other words, hook up a TV tuner card to your PC, and it'll be taxed as a TV. Download your TV programs and it won't be.
Of course, if he's not actually a fucking pansy, you've just comitted libel...
"selling fake artifacts isn't really illegal."
If you pretend it's real, it's fraud.
Of course, in Japan, virtually all phones have full email capabilities.
Implanting a tracking device that monitors your every movement would do an even better job. Or, for a lower-tech approach, simply being followed 24/7 by a police officer.
Yes, the book tours are a lot of work, you get sore wrists, etc. But it's a part of the job that she chooses to do. There isn't anything that requires it. It's just a sales boosting event.
But nobody is going to give a damn about a mechanically reproduced signature. Nobody, except the most hardcore fans, are going to care about that - they want to meet the author, not the author's mechanical stand-in. If she actually used it, it would defeat the entire purpose of the signing.
Also, I have to think that it would make more sense for the government to just shell out for a scanner and a wacomm tablet.
99% of the games out there are retreads. If they aren't outright sequels, they are just slight variations on standardized genres.
The only place you generally see real innovation is the small, quirky independant game studios. The big places can't afford to risk inovation.