How are pacifiers, stuffed animals, gloves with LEDs and such causing kids to get high on XTC? If you can explain that to me, you earn the right to become a politician.
I mean, I know babies that have pacifiers and hold stuffed animals. The only thing missing are the gloves.
No, my Wii has a large brick that supplies the power, but I'm not sure what effect using an American power adapter would have on a European Wii. Technically, it should work, but I don't know the schematics of a Wii.
I'd almost agree with you, but I wouldn't call the motion control stuff a gimmick that won't save Nintendo.
Given that MS and Sony have sought to copy that (after deriding it the year before) with Kinect and PSMove, respectively.
That motion sensing stuff in the Wii is what saved Nintendo from a certain doom. And the DS did the same thing with the dual screens.
The 3DS however failed miserably indeed (mostly, because the 3d doesn't add functionality or even gameplay, at least not in the way a touch screen does).
And I have my doubts about Wii U as well.
I do agree with you that Nintendo needs to listen to their fanbase. It doesn't hurt to leave the paved roads for a bit to revolutionize the industry, but at some point it does have to look at the people who are following them almost religiously and see if these fans are being catered by Nintendo. And it's quite clear that they are not.
(I assume the power adaptors push out the same power)
That could be a dangerous assumption. All of Europe pushes out 220-230v of electricity, the US gives out 140v. But it might work.
Yes, except it wasn't a parody on Jansher's comment, but rather a foolish attack on Techdirt.
And you reappropriated about one third of his comment.
Why should his comment be too short to merit copyright? I never understood that. When you publish something, it's automatically copyrighted, whether it's a three word story or a 5 part novel.
And it's by no means a standard Techdirt answer.
I don't remember Mike or anyone else say anything about something being too short to merit copyright.
There is no way to release stuff into the public domain, anything you create is automagically copyrighted. So you can't create LESS copyrighted works.
But you can make it so that you set a clear license on what can be done with your works, even though it is copyrighted. Sort of giving your written permission to have your work copied, before it's been asked. (as is usually the copyright notice)
Almost all my photos on Flickr are licensed CC-BY-SA (I only put pictures of my family under my complete control if I share them at all.) (and am considering using the CC-BY license)
And while I think they aren't that great, a few have been picked up by both online and offline publications. One, even so far as in a Chinese magazine. A French indie artist used one of my photos as a base picture for a cover for a remix he had created.
If I had put these up for sale, or with a more restrictive license, they wouldn't have been used, period, I'm sure of it.
Now, I received a plug in the articles, and I get a proud feeling over those photos as they were chosen for print, and I can claim to be a published photographer.
Sure, it'd be nice to make money making photos, and perhaps there might be a future in that for me. But for now, it's just a hobby, and if what I create gets used for other projects or magazine articles, all the better.
Indeed, not everyone is native English-speaking (the world is bigger than just the US and the UK), but can you find any faults (language issues notwithstanding) in TAC's comments? I, sure as heckfire, can't.
I especially like the closing remark: "The Emperor is naked, we all know this. Now stop acting like spoiled brats, give up the temper tantrum, and get back to the business of running the country instead of your damn mouths."
Re: Re: Re: Re: So make copyright non-transferrable.
First 5 years free, after that when you want to extent your copyright you pay (increasing in value). That will have you wonder about making incentives to either sell it more, because you paid to extend the copyright for a reason.
This would ensure a lively and decent public domain as well.
but this all is just a pipe-dream, will never happen, unless we can oust the morons calling the shots and get people in that also take the public's interests in mind when proposing laws.
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I mean, I know babies that have pacifiers and hold stuffed animals. The only thing missing are the gloves.
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And the Wii powerplug doesn't have a slide-in adapter in Europe. It has this kind of plug:
http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/powersockets/power_plug_euro.jpg
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Given that MS and Sony have sought to copy that (after deriding it the year before) with Kinect and PSMove, respectively.
That motion sensing stuff in the Wii is what saved Nintendo from a certain doom. And the DS did the same thing with the dual screens.
The 3DS however failed miserably indeed (mostly, because the 3d doesn't add functionality or even gameplay, at least not in the way a touch screen does).
And I have my doubts about Wii U as well.
I do agree with you that Nintendo needs to listen to their fanbase. It doesn't hurt to leave the paved roads for a bit to revolutionize the industry, but at some point it does have to look at the people who are following them almost religiously and see if these fans are being catered by Nintendo. And it's quite clear that they are not.
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Was it even Reggie "Impossible to pronounce lastname" Fils-Aime?
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That could be a dangerous assumption. All of Europe pushes out 220-230v of electricity, the US gives out 140v. But it might work.
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And you reappropriated about one third of his comment.
Why should his comment be too short to merit copyright? I never understood that. When you publish something, it's automatically copyrighted, whether it's a three word story or a 5 part novel.
And it's by no means a standard Techdirt answer.
I don't remember Mike or anyone else say anything about something being too short to merit copyright.
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http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/license/
And they have a whole section of the website devoted to photos released under the Creative Commons.
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
As Karl says, there is no registration involved, except for you choosing a license on Flickr.
I'm not sure how it works on other sites, but undoubtedly you can add it yourself to the description of the image.
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But you can make it so that you set a clear license on what can be done with your works, even though it is copyrighted. Sort of giving your written permission to have your work copied, before it's been asked. (as is usually the copyright notice)
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And while I think they aren't that great, a few have been picked up by both online and offline publications. One, even so far as in a Chinese magazine. A French indie artist used one of my photos as a base picture for a cover for a remix he had created.
If I had put these up for sale, or with a more restrictive license, they wouldn't have been used, period, I'm sure of it.
Now, I received a plug in the articles, and I get a proud feeling over those photos as they were chosen for print, and I can claim to be a published photographer.
Sure, it'd be nice to make money making photos, and perhaps there might be a future in that for me. But for now, it's just a hobby, and if what I create gets used for other projects or magazine articles, all the better.
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Indeed, not everyone is native English-speaking (the world is bigger than just the US and the UK), but can you find any faults (language issues notwithstanding) in TAC's comments? I, sure as heckfire, can't.
I especially like the closing remark: "The Emperor is naked, we all know this. Now stop acting like spoiled brats, give up the temper tantrum, and get back to the business of running the country instead of your damn mouths."
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This would ensure a lively and decent public domain as well.
but this all is just a pipe-dream, will never happen, unless we can oust the morons calling the shots and get people in that also take the public's interests in mind when proposing laws.
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Oh wait, that's right, you love being a moron. Never mind.
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