I too still listen to System Shock music, both 2 *and* 1.
Also, concerining the Diablo Tristram-theme, i've actually heard it being streamed in a classical-music-only internet radio station. Apparently it's called "rogue" and it's credited to some wolfoski guy, or sth, i noted it down somewhere but i can't seem to be able to find the txt file, sorry.
Swedish law is much less precedent based than for instance US or UK laws. The text of the law is more important than previous cases and you need a shitload of precedent before it becomes relevant. Right now we have something that amounts to anecdotal evidence. I'm glad somebody else recognises the increasing gap between common law and civil law. It's the second time i come across it today, the first being this article http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/00 39247 about a blogger and his rights on his material being subpoena'd etc. etc.
You might think it's irrelevant, but it isn't. It all boils down to legal principles. I don't think there is hope of reconciliating slashdotters from different countries (hence raised to believe in different principles about what is fair and what is not) anytime soon.
It's an interesting fact that the notion of a Grand Jury is an abberation to latin-derived law. In the "old continent" the legal system isn't qualified to double as an oracle.
Unfortunately for mr. Wolf, he lives in the USA.
This reminds me that the best storytelling i've ever encountered was in Dynamix/Sierra's Betrayal at Krondor, which was based on Reimond E. Feist's universe, with the author actually doing the character, item and scenery descriptions, and of course dialogs, if i remember correctly.
Sega's Dreamcast had VMU's for each cotnroller which *did* remember your favourite birthday, blood type, favourite colour etc. which essentially qualifies them as the only really customiseable cotnroller.
Let's say i'm a journalist, right? I can write an article on WoW, or give WoW tips and i won't get sued, right?
How about if i am the editor of the computer-games-related magazine, the above journalist works for : I won't get sued for selling the magazine containing said article, right?
And how about if i do a special issue? A WoW themed issue of the magazine, filled with WoW related articles? Do the various journalists working on the issue risk getting sued? How about the editor, is he getting sued?
How about if we do an extra issue? Let's say the magazine is published every month and i decide do do a special, WoW dedicated, 13th issue? Is Blizzard going to knock on the editor's door saying he can't publish his magazine?
How about if the magazine is big enough for it to be printed in paperback format, instead of the normal magazine format? Can't the editor of the above mentioned magazine change formats to reduce printing expenses? Or is it illegal?
How about if a journalist asks the editor to write a book about WoW? It might get him the pulitzer prize or whatever - should the editor comply? Will he be breaking the law? Will the journalist?
Can somebody point out to me where do we draw the line?
I own four pcs atm - weird thing is the most noisy one is my laptop. It was really, really cheap, and the via nehemiah cpuis supposed not to overheat but there are two fans on this thing and the cheap hard drive just ROARS and i'm not talking about the dvd whet it gets spinning...
The least noisy pc i ever owned is this 486 by zenith, still works btw. The thing has no fan on the cpu and the power supplu one is completely inaudible - the sony cdrom i stuffed on it is noiseless too, even when spinning at a whopping (sic) 4x
There are two ways to see things imho: either be reminiscent of "good old times when hardware quality was better and people used 14 screws for a mobo and 6 for a floppy drive", or realise that kinetic energy usually is accompanied by heat and/or noise and that "quicker stuff" will most probably mean "hotter and noisier stuff"
(Imho again) as long as HDDs have moving parts and are portable storage medium is a spinning disc (be it cd or dvd) noise and heat will have to be tolerated. Why can't we make 40gig hdds from the same stuff usb pendrives are made of again?
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No, wait...
LOL mod parent up funny please ^^
That reminds me of those old Sierra installers for windows that deleted everything in the parent directory when the game was unistalled.
I too still listen to System Shock music, both 2 *and* 1.
Also, concerining the Diablo Tristram-theme, i've actually heard it being streamed in a classical-music-only internet radio station. Apparently it's called "rogue" and it's credited to some wolfoski guy, or sth, i noted it down somewhere but i can't seem to be able to find the txt file, sorry.
Is there ANY discipline that some slashdotter doesn't have a Ph.D. in?
My thought exactly :)
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It can also be fixed to read: ;-)
I guess the motto here in MPAA is "you must respect people's rights, unless we don't like them.
Works both ways
I for one welcome our new criminal overlords.
You might think it's irrelevant, but it isn't. It all boils down to legal principles. I don't think there is hope of reconciliating slashdotters from different countries (hence raised to believe in different principles about what is fair and what is not) anytime soon.
It's an interesting fact that the notion of a Grand Jury is an abberation to latin-derived law. In the "old continent" the legal system isn't qualified to double as an oracle. Unfortunately for mr. Wolf, he lives in the USA.
This reminds me that the best storytelling i've ever encountered was in Dynamix/Sierra's Betrayal at Krondor, which was based on Reimond E. Feist's universe, with the author actually doing the character, item and scenery descriptions, and of course dialogs, if i remember correctly.
...which apparently i don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_at_Krondor claims he was only responsible for the editing.
Anyway the thing is, the game proved so successful it was made it into a book *afterwards*.
Sega's Dreamcast had VMU's for each cotnroller which *did* remember your favourite birthday, blood type, favourite colour etc. which essentially qualifies them as the only really customiseable cotnroller.
It was inevitable somebody would start quoting timecube.
Let's say i'm a journalist, right? I can write an article on WoW, or give WoW tips and i won't get sued, right?
How about if i am the editor of the computer-games-related magazine, the above journalist works for : I won't get sued for selling the magazine containing said article, right?
And how about if i do a special issue? A WoW themed issue of the magazine, filled with WoW related articles? Do the various journalists working on the issue risk getting sued? How about the editor, is he getting sued?
How about if we do an extra issue? Let's say the magazine is published every month and i decide do do a special, WoW dedicated, 13th issue? Is Blizzard going to knock on the editor's door saying he can't publish his magazine?
How about if the magazine is big enough for it to be printed in paperback format, instead of the normal magazine format? Can't the editor of the above mentioned magazine change formats to reduce printing expenses? Or is it illegal?
How about if a journalist asks the editor to write a book about WoW? It might get him the pulitzer prize or whatever - should the editor comply? Will he be breaking the law? Will the journalist?
Can somebody point out to me where do we draw the line?
I own four pcs atm - weird thing is the most noisy one is my laptop. It was really, really cheap, and the via nehemiah cpuis supposed not to overheat but there are two fans on this thing and the cheap hard drive just ROARS and i'm not talking about the dvd whet it gets spinning...
The least noisy pc i ever owned is this 486 by zenith, still works btw. The thing has no fan on the cpu and the power supplu one is completely inaudible - the sony cdrom i stuffed on it is noiseless too, even when spinning at a whopping (sic) 4x
There are two ways to see things imho: either be reminiscent of "good old times when hardware quality was better and people used 14 screws for a mobo and 6 for a floppy drive", or realise that kinetic energy usually is accompanied by heat and/or noise and that "quicker stuff" will most probably mean "hotter and noisier stuff"
(Imho again) as long as HDDs have moving parts and are portable storage medium is a spinning disc (be it cd or dvd) noise and heat will have to be tolerated. Why can't we make 40gig hdds from the same stuff usb pendrives are made of again?