The fact that Nintendo *is* porting software shows that they are still willing to contribute and evolve the work. They're a far cry from Disney, although I don't think this closes the abandonware discussion.
I'm not a IP buff so I don't know if you could somehow separate the original software 'performances' from the new ones. Pay royalties for the idea, but encourage others to adopt new mediums and forms.
Being that random seems fair given how we have this popular love of 'presumed innocence' and all that.
As a heartless bastard I support a "Nothing personal bud, but the stats show..." kind of profiling, but it's socially frowned upon, too many people equate profiling with guilt, and I don't trust airport staff's bedside manners to express the above attitude all of the time every day.
I don't have a Blackberry but I was finally given access to our corporate VPN... which is the greatest thing ever as far as I'm concerned.
It means I can leave the office, relax in different surroundings (the house or the coffee-shop) and hack away in a change of scenery. Better yet, if something strikes me at ten p.m. I can log in instead of trying to hold onto an idea until the morning.
I find, however, that when I leave work I'm very conscious of having spent my eight hours sitting in front of a screen... I'm aware that this is my downtime (i.e. more expendable but more treasured) and I try to enforce that. As such, I've never found myself lost in work at home.
The question is: if this ends up carving a huge dent in Bell's market (which it probably won't), will the lesson be "People don't like being monitored" or "People don't like knowing they are being monitored?"
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The fact that Nintendo *is* porting software shows that they are still willing to contribute and evolve the work. They're a far cry from Disney, although I don't think this closes the abandonware discussion. I'm not a IP buff so I don't know if you could somehow separate the original software 'performances' from the new ones. Pay royalties for the idea, but encourage others to adopt new mediums and forms.
Being that random seems fair given how we have this popular love of 'presumed innocence' and all that.
As a heartless bastard I support a "Nothing personal bud, but the stats show..." kind of profiling, but it's socially frowned upon, too many people equate profiling with guilt, and I don't trust airport staff's bedside manners to express the above attitude all of the time every day.
Disclaimers: Saudi-born, NorthAm-raised.
Except that Activision lost the Mechwarrior license ... I believe Microsoft owns it now, which is why they put out MW3, 4 and Mech Commander.
I don't have a Blackberry but I was finally given access to our corporate VPN ... which is the greatest thing ever as far as I'm concerned.
It means I can leave the office, relax in different surroundings (the house or the coffee-shop) and hack away in a change of scenery. Better yet, if something strikes me at ten p.m. I can log in instead of trying to hold onto an idea until the morning.
I find, however, that when I leave work I'm very conscious of having spent my eight hours sitting in front of a screen ... I'm aware that this is my downtime (i.e. more expendable but more treasured) and I try to enforce that. As such, I've never found myself lost in work at home.
The question is: if this ends up carving a huge dent in Bell's market (which it probably won't), will the lesson be "People don't like being monitored" or "People don't like knowing they are being monitored?"