The judge decided that it's the depiction of violence that is to blame. What I said is that there's no reason to single out depiction of violence in videogames, when we have depictions of violence in any other medium.
Now, I realize that the depiction of violence is not to blame here, it's the teenager's obvious mental deficiency. A videogame won't make a mentally healthy teenager believe people come back to life, healthy people simply aren't that susceptible.
But were the depiction of violence really to blame, then we'd have to ban all depictions of violence, whether videogames, films, books, spoken language, or any other form of expression, except violence itself -- because actual violence is not a depiction of violence.
And that's why I wrote "no different than killing over a copy of a violent film".
Enough of this. People have been killing each other over for thousands of years. Sometimes over territory, sometimes over possessions, sometimes for no reason at all.
Killing over a copy of a violent videogame is no different than killing over a copy of a violent film.
This is just spin-doctoring. Quit publicizing everything that has a title that matches "videogames AND violence".
Now that consumers can get pretty much any digital media without compensating the copyright holder -- films, music, videogames -- what is a copyright holder to do?
Right now they've found they can use cryptographically signed copies on a closed system. That evens the playing field for pirates and content providers for now, because people find it unappealing to hack their hardware and risk loss of support. That's what's happening in consoles through their virtual shops, and that's what'll happen with the DS.
That same page you link to has an interesting graph. Seems to correlate to global warming nicely. You should look up some solar radiation studies, you'd be surprised how well the data correlates.
Merrick: "The vaccine will be distributed gratis." Al: Free gratis. Merrick: Free gratis is a redundancy. [Al looks at EB quizzically] EB: Does that mean 'repeats itself?' Al: Then leave gratis out. Merrick: What luck for me Al, that you have such a keen editorial sense. Free. Distributed free. Period."
This quote distributed gratis, but I do accept gratuities.
When they over-price the finished product at 20 dollars they create their own piracy problem.
Are there gamers in the house? Did you buy Super Mario 64 for $50? You know you could have just bought a pirated version for $5. Was it 900% overpriced? "Piracy" is unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution of copyrighted work. It's not created by price inflation. It's created by a low price of reproduction and distribution. If the price of reproduction is significantly lower than the price of creating content, then there's a market for piracy. There is no "grand scheme of things" in which there's a right price point for music, or a videogame. Every business has risks. In the content industry, one risk is piracy. You're angry at the way the music industry is dealing with that risk. You say lower prices. They say more enforcement. (The only issue I have with this is throwing people to jail for copyright infringement. That's disproportionate punishment to the crime. Other than that, it's a tug of war.)
I never bought a music CD, because I don't like the music they're selling. But I have bought Super Mario 64, and I will buy Super Mario Galaxy, even though I could modify my console and pirate a lot of games. Why don't I? I don't care. If there's a lesson to be learned, it's that consumers will do what's comfortable for them. If DRM is a hassle, the problem will solve itself (so long we guard our rights and liberties, such as punishment proportionate to the crime).)
Mmm, extra ranty flavor.
Is there really an impression that the PSP isn't doing well? I know it sold over twenty million units, and it has a decent game library. What's up with the gloom and doom?
Is there a decline in the belief in Evolution? Isn't 48% on par with the rest of the world? Should this be discussed every time large poll is conducted? Do we really need a 600-post discussion criticizing the US education system and society?
Don't get your panties in a bunch; it sounds like Van Eck phreaking to me.
Information that drives the video display takes the form of high frequency electrical signals. These oscillating electric currents create electromagnetic radiation in the radio frequency range. The radio emissions are correlated to the video image being displayed, so in theory they can be used to recover the displayed image.
I should make myself clear: Is it news, or does it matter, that a progressive lobby is lobbying for progressive agendas? Not trolling. It's the same as saying "Conservative Lobby Lobbying for Conservative Agenda". Would anyone be bothered if I was pointing out that some Slashdot article originates from a Microsoft shill? I guess I should never point out that Slashdot-compatible agenda is being disseminated by a lobbyist; that's asking for it... The message is just fine and valid with me, but the impact of the message has a lot to do with the messenger.
If you read around a little bit, the majority are talking about who's right it is to take away rights, and no one's talking about the message. That's because everybody (around here) already agrees that copyright laws should be updated. No one's getting excited about the prospect of the UK changing its copyright laws. That's because the messenger is a lobbyist, and no one's certain about the message's impact on the government. I think this point was made early in the discussion along the lines of "think tanks keep saying this, but it's not getting done". So I think, even if the modders thought I was trolling, that no one's getting excited about a progressive lobby lobbying for a progressive agenda. No need to be spiteful because you think you hear someone ignoring your holy truths. Maybe I'm just ignoring the messenger, and not the message?
Seeing their reasons are "it's cool", "the screen's better", and my favorite, "you can program it", I think they haven't thought this through. Add to that a rosy outlook on Vista's market penetration, and it seems like any relation of the article to actual events is purely coincidental.
(Rant: And if you care for my opinion, the portable media player is not the key to the entire consumer media market, even with the most sophisticated of DRM technology. Would consumers be willing to use their portable device to store content for their living room set-top box? Would they buy a movie if they can't watch it at a friend's house? I believe people like their entertainment hassle free, and they like to have a physical item they can identify. No menus, no dialog boxes, just pop it in and play. I simply can't see millions of consumers running Vista Media Edition or iTV in their living room, downloading movies to their Zunes or iPods and streaming them to their televisions.)
1. "Writing Semantic Markup: Transition to XML"
2. "Remixing Content: About When and What, not Who or Why"
3. "Emergent Navigation and Relevance: Users are in Control"
4. "Adding Metadata Over Time: Communities Building Social Information"
5. "Shift to Programming: Separation of Structure and Style"
What I see:
1. Tags
2. Large font
3. Rounded edges
4. Top-right search box
5. Prominent, two-tone, quasi-logical logo
Every OS has kernel updates. Linux is admittedly more susceptible to updates due to the way that device drivers (modules) are tied to it, and the lack of a stable binary interface for drivers (which requires them to be compiled against the kernel you're running).
Linux being open, I wonder why kernel drivers and an external driver interface can't coexist? I appreciate the benifits of having the drivers in the kernel tree, but I think BLOB drivers shouldn't have to be hacked in.
Slashdot is really hammering the copyright violation lawsuits. What's the point here? That if you break copyrights you're going to get sued? Fine. Lets all mature to a point where we can deal with the consequences to our actions.
Okay, they've shut down a firm that was directly hosting and indirectly responsible for massive copytight infringement. Seeing that unauthorised distribution of copyrighted material is illegal in most, if not all, the western world, I think it's good to see the law being enforced. Sadly it's being enforced by corporate lawyers and not governments. Untill now, copyright infringers have been prosecuted, and had lost, to the corporate lawyers. Even so, copyright infringement is steadily on the rise.
What do you think they'll do next, seeing that going after the clients and servers can only yield so much? Perhaps ask the government to join in on the "War on Piracy", and target the infrastructure? Personally I don't see my government being very interested in media piracy, but the US government sure is.
Putting a link to a 3.5 meg GIF, on slashdot's front page. Yeah. For those who didn't get a chance to watch it, at 5:42:15:93 there was a round white flash over a grey rectangle scattered with black dots.
The rigid armors that weigh 5 to 10 kilograms aren't very comfortable for running either. Having a flexible 2kg armor that's just as effective is a nice benefit. Special units do a lot of maneuvering, and even regular grunts have to chase a hostile here and there.
On the other hand, those rigid armors come in handy when you're steaking out and want some smooth surface to rest your back on.
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XP Pro, XP Pro x64 and Windows 2000 users will still be able to purchase the "upgrade edition" of any version of Vista. They just won't be able to upgrade with their existing files and settings in place.
If they can't keep their files and settings, in what sense is it an upgrade? Price?
The long tail is supposedly the collective worth of the niche markets. It may add up to a lot more than the mainstream market, but I believe the tail is naturally distributed among the smaller, specialized suppliers. iTunes can potentially offer to cater to those niche markets, but would someone go to a popular music service to purchase his unique and less popular music?
The sum of the unpopular music sold, or niche commodity for that matter, may be larger than the sum of popular music sold. Whether or not that's the case is not important to big business. They see in terms of numbers of units sold, and increase the supply (or marketing, or front page links) of the popular items. Any way you slice it, if you want to cater to the long tail, you're going to have to split your resources. And that might not make business sense.
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The judge decided that it's the depiction of violence that is to blame. What I said is that there's no reason to single out depiction of violence in videogames, when we have depictions of violence in any other medium.
Now, I realize that the depiction of violence is not to blame here, it's the teenager's obvious mental deficiency. A videogame won't make a mentally healthy teenager believe people come back to life, healthy people simply aren't that susceptible.
But were the depiction of violence really to blame, then we'd have to ban all depictions of violence, whether videogames, films, books, spoken language, or any other form of expression, except violence itself -- because actual violence is not a depiction of violence.
And that's why I wrote "no different than killing over a copy of a violent film".
Enough of this. People have been killing each other over for thousands of years. Sometimes over territory, sometimes over possessions, sometimes for no reason at all.
Killing over a copy of a violent videogame is no different than killing over a copy of a violent film.
This is just spin-doctoring. Quit publicizing everything that has a title that matches "videogames AND violence".
Now that consumers can get pretty much any digital media without compensating the copyright holder -- films, music, videogames -- what is a copyright holder to do?
Right now they've found they can use cryptographically signed copies on a closed system. That evens the playing field for pirates and content providers for now, because people find it unappealing to hack their hardware and risk loss of support. That's what's happening in consoles through their virtual shops, and that's what'll happen with the DS.
That same page you link to has an interesting graph. Seems to correlate to global warming nicely. You should look up some solar radiation studies, you'd be surprised how well the data correlates.
Merrick: "The vaccine will be distributed gratis."
Al: Free gratis.
Merrick: Free gratis is a redundancy.
[Al looks at EB quizzically]
EB: Does that mean 'repeats itself?'
Al: Then leave gratis out.
Merrick: What luck for me Al, that you have such a keen editorial sense. Free. Distributed free. Period."
This quote distributed gratis, but I do accept gratuities.
"Piracy" is unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution of copyrighted work. It's not created by price inflation. It's created by a low price of reproduction and distribution. If the price of reproduction is significantly lower than the price of creating content, then there's a market for piracy. There is no "grand scheme of things" in which there's a right price point for music, or a videogame. Every business has risks. In the content industry, one risk is piracy. You're angry at the way the music industry is dealing with that risk. You say lower prices. They say more enforcement. (The only issue I have with this is throwing people to jail for copyright infringement. That's disproportionate punishment to the crime. Other than that, it's a tug of war.)
I never bought a music CD, because I don't like the music they're selling. But I have bought Super Mario 64, and I will buy Super Mario Galaxy, even though I could modify my console and pirate a lot of games. Why don't I? I don't care. If there's a lesson to be learned, it's that consumers will do what's comfortable for them. If DRM is a hassle, the problem will solve itself (so long we guard our rights and liberties, such as punishment proportionate to the crime).) Mmm, extra ranty flavor.
to make simple text websites?
Is there really an impression that the PSP isn't doing well? I know it sold over twenty million units, and it has a decent game library. What's up with the gloom and doom?
Is there a decline in the belief in Evolution? Isn't 48% on par with the rest of the world? Should this be discussed every time large poll is conducted? Do we really need a 600-post discussion criticizing the US education system and society?
How about writing to the people responsible to show some support?
I should make myself clear: Is it news, or does it matter, that a progressive lobby is lobbying for progressive agendas? Not trolling. It's the same as saying "Conservative Lobby Lobbying for Conservative Agenda". Would anyone be bothered if I was pointing out that some Slashdot article originates from a Microsoft shill? I guess I should never point out that Slashdot-compatible agenda is being disseminated by a lobbyist; that's asking for it... The message is just fine and valid with me, but the impact of the message has a lot to do with the messenger.
If you read around a little bit, the majority are talking about who's right it is to take away rights, and no one's talking about the message. That's because everybody (around here) already agrees that copyright laws should be updated. No one's getting excited about the prospect of the UK changing its copyright laws. That's because the messenger is a lobbyist, and no one's certain about the message's impact on the government. I think this point was made early in the discussion along the lines of "think tanks keep saying this, but it's not getting done". So I think, even if the modders thought I was trolling, that no one's getting excited about a progressive lobby lobbying for a progressive agenda. No need to be spiteful because you think you hear someone ignoring your holy truths. Maybe I'm just ignoring the messenger, and not the message?
The Institute for Public Policy is some sort of progressive leftist lobbying firm. Just calling a spade a spade.
Seeing their reasons are "it's cool", "the screen's better", and my favorite, "you can program it", I think they haven't thought this through. Add to that a rosy outlook on Vista's market penetration, and it seems like any relation of the article to actual events is purely coincidental.
(Rant: And if you care for my opinion, the portable media player is not the key to the entire consumer media market, even with the most sophisticated of DRM technology. Would consumers be willing to use their portable device to store content for their living room set-top box? Would they buy a movie if they can't watch it at a friend's house? I believe people like their entertainment hassle free, and they like to have a physical item they can identify. No menus, no dialog boxes, just pop it in and play. I simply can't see millions of consumers running Vista Media Edition or iTV in their living room, downloading movies to their Zunes or iPods and streaming them to their televisions.)
What the author of the article sees: What I see:
1. Tags
2. Large font
3. Rounded edges
4. Top-right search box
5. Prominent, two-tone, quasi-logical logo
Slashdot is really hammering the copyright violation lawsuits. What's the point here? That if you break copyrights you're going to get sued? Fine. Lets all mature to a point where we can deal with the consequences to our actions.
Okay, they've shut down a firm that was directly hosting and indirectly responsible for massive copytight infringement. Seeing that unauthorised distribution of copyrighted material is illegal in most, if not all, the western world, I think it's good to see the law being enforced. Sadly it's being enforced by corporate lawyers and not governments. Untill now, copyright infringers have been prosecuted, and had lost, to the corporate lawyers. Even so, copyright infringement is steadily on the rise.
What do you think they'll do next, seeing that going after the clients and servers can only yield so much? Perhaps ask the government to join in on the "War on Piracy", and target the infrastructure? Personally I don't see my government being very interested in media piracy, but the US government sure is.
Putting a link to a 3.5 meg GIF, on slashdot's front page. Yeah. For those who didn't get a chance to watch it, at 5:42:15:93 there was a round white flash over a grey rectangle scattered with black dots.
(Yeah spelling nazis, it's "staking out")
The rigid armors that weigh 5 to 10 kilograms aren't very comfortable for running either. Having a flexible 2kg armor that's just as effective is a nice benefit. Special units do a lot of maneuvering, and even regular grunts have to chase a hostile here and there.
On the other hand, those rigid armors come in handy when you're steaking out and want some smooth surface to rest your back on.
XP Pro, XP Pro x64 and Windows 2000 users will still be able to purchase the "upgrade edition" of any version of Vista. They just won't be able to upgrade with their existing files and settings in place.
If they can't keep their files and settings, in what sense is it an upgrade? Price?
The long tail is supposedly the collective worth of the niche markets. It may add up to a lot more than the mainstream market, but I believe the tail is naturally distributed among the smaller, specialized suppliers. iTunes can potentially offer to cater to those niche markets, but would someone go to a popular music service to purchase his unique and less popular music?
The sum of the unpopular music sold, or niche commodity for that matter, may be larger than the sum of popular music sold. Whether or not that's the case is not important to big business. They see in terms of numbers of units sold, and increase the supply (or marketing, or front page links) of the popular items. Any way you slice it, if you want to cater to the long tail, you're going to have to split your resources. And that might not make business sense.
I've never played a Metal Gear game before, but I'm about to play one soon.