You laugh, but I remember some lawyers (I think they were here in California) tried to get some state legilation through that would make "lawyer jokes" illegal. Fortunately, they must not have paid off the legilature enough, and it never went anywhere. Wish I could find a reference to it, somewhere.
At my company, we write code. A lot of it. We also distribute the source code for our (relatively expensive) product. Almost none of our clients bother with the code. But, there are a couple of people at a couple of the clients who actually do understand and have looked at pieces of our code. Usually, it's because they want to make some sort of "add-on" that their in-house programmers wrote. We don't support their stuff, but because the source is available, they can write it in the first place.
There are two things that keep us from getting screwed, as far as I can tell. 1) We have a relatively small client list, so we can keep track of most of the copies of the code. 2) Our contracts with these clients spell out exactly what they can and cannot do with the source.
However, I don't know of anyone actually looking at our code to check it for correctness or security. They do that by extensive testing. They know that when they input A and B, C is supposed to come out. If it doesn't, our FAX machine starts working overtime.
The replies to this are correct: people should realize that sharing music is actually much less of a crime than failing to stop at a stop sign due to the very real danger of bodily injury from failing to stop.
However, we have to make small steps. According to the current punishments for sharing copyrighted materical, it's actually worse than some degrees of murder. If we can get the punishments from being several years in jail down to the level of a minor moving violation (mp3 school for people who haven't been caught in the last 18 months? ), that will be a MAJOR step in the right direction.
Simply saying "but it shouldn't be a crime now!" isn't helping. It is a crime, purchased as the legislation may be. And I'm not even sure that I disagree with the fact that it is illegal. But the punishments have NEVER fit the crimes.
I use my Palm III (got it used) all the time. And I really only use it for the basics. I have a very nice shared calendar/contact program called WeSync (no longer supported or available) that keeps the contacts and calendars of both myself and my wife in sync. I also use Pocket Quicken for keeping track of my petty cash (yeah, it's overkill, but I damn well know where I spend my money!).
I have a couple of games, but I pretty much just play solitare on it while waiting at doctors' offices.
I know you're kidding, but there are other meteor showers here and there. Perhaps if people get off their butts and do some experimenting now, they'll be prepared for the next shower.
I know I am--I just put a tripod on my wish list.:-)
This sounds like a latency vs. bandwidth problem. True, if you get all at once, then watch them all, then send them all back, you're rather limited. But what about getting them, watching one, send it back, watch another, send it back, then watch the third, and send it back. By the time you finally send the third one back, you could have the replacement for the first one on its way to you (depending on how long it takes you to watch a movie). Certainly, not ideal, but there's a lot less lag when you start the older movie moving (and getting replaced) before you're done with the more recent movies.
The album "The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief" is supposed to be the first three-sided record. One of the sides has two grooves. I wonder what that would do to the optical scanner....
I know you're making a point, and you're absolutely right.
However, it's my understanding, from former McDonald's employees, that they will serve you whatever you order. If you order a PB&J, they're supposed to go figure out how to fill your order. Granted, it says nothing about how much they're charging you...
On a somewhat related note, Carl's Jr. got so many requests for having the burger cut in half that they added a button on the cash register just for that.
John Edward's Crossing Over looks like, to me, to be the Profession Wrestling of Science Fiction. It's complete tripe, but I'll bet there are a lot of people who are not only entertained by it, but think that it's real.
In all seriousness, it always amazes me how well dentists can understand people with dental tools crammed in their mouths. I guess it's like parents who can understand what on earth their kids just said...
I thought it was just eps 4-6 that weren't going to be released for a while. The best reason I heard (not necessarily the most plausible, though;-) was that he wanted to make the DVDs "special" and he didn't have the time to do them "right" for quite some time. So, instead of putting out one version now, then adding a few things on and putting out a special version, then putting everything in and calling it a Collector's Edition, he's waiting until the Collector's Edition is the only one.
After 2008 there is supposed to be no more analogue signal. No more spare TV in the bedroom. All need a digital decoder to function as they did before.
Why is that a surprise? A television, analog or digital, simply doesn't work without a tuner. Your "spare TV" has one--it's just much cheaper than the one it'll need. Theretically, by 2008, digital tuners will have come down in price, just like analog tuners have, to the point where you can still have a "spare TV" in another room.
Your analogy is better, but I suspect that the phone company would just force you to upgrade to a business line, which has per-minute charges (at least, all of them that I've heard of do).
Oh, it's okay. If anyone tries to steal Gray Davis' identity, they'll either muck things up less for my state, or they'll be identified as not being the real thing because of their cluefulness.
And, incidentally, if they broke into a Sacramento office and got people's payroll, such as Gray Davis', it was almost certainly the California State government, not the US Federal government.
At least in some games, you can change your field of view. In the Half-Life mod TFC, you do this with the console command
fov [degrees]
This may work on other Half-Life games, as well. Then, you probably want to adjust your mouse sensativity accordingly. Check to see if there's a way to do it in your game (assuing it isn't TFC).
That's nothing. Steal millions or billions of dollars from your employees, shareholders, or the general public, and you can get off (pretty much) scott-free.
Show me the hacker that's caused more problems that the Corporate Level Officers in some of the high profile accounting scams in the last year or so. I dare you.
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You laugh, but I remember some lawyers (I think they were here in California) tried to get some state legilation through that would make "lawyer jokes" illegal. Fortunately, they must not have paid off the legilature enough, and it never went anywhere. Wish I could find a reference to it, somewhere.
At my company, we write code. A lot of it. We also distribute the source code for our (relatively expensive) product. Almost none of our clients bother with the code. But, there are a couple of people at a couple of the clients who actually do understand and have looked at pieces of our code. Usually, it's because they want to make some sort of "add-on" that their in-house programmers wrote. We don't support their stuff, but because the source is available, they can write it in the first place.
There are two things that keep us from getting screwed, as far as I can tell. 1) We have a relatively small client list, so we can keep track of most of the copies of the code. 2) Our contracts with these clients spell out exactly what they can and cannot do with the source.
However, I don't know of anyone actually looking at our code to check it for correctness or security. They do that by extensive testing. They know that when they input A and B, C is supposed to come out. If it doesn't, our FAX machine starts working overtime.
The replies to this are correct: people should realize that sharing music is actually much less of a crime than failing to stop at a stop sign due to the very real danger of bodily injury from failing to stop.
However, we have to make small steps. According to the current punishments for sharing copyrighted materical, it's actually worse than some degrees of murder. If we can get the punishments from being several years in jail down to the level of a minor moving violation (mp3 school for people who haven't been caught in the last 18 months? ), that will be a MAJOR step in the right direction.
Simply saying "but it shouldn't be a crime now!" isn't helping. It is a crime, purchased as the legislation may be. And I'm not even sure that I disagree with the fact that it is illegal. But the punishments have NEVER fit the crimes.
Oh. My. God. :-D If only I had some mod points. That made me laugh my ass off!
(And furthermore, no, your joke wasn't lost on everyone...)
I use my Palm III (got it used) all the time. And I really only use it for the basics. I have a very nice shared calendar/contact program called WeSync (no longer supported or available) that keeps the contacts and calendars of both myself and my wife in sync. I also use Pocket Quicken for keeping track of my petty cash (yeah, it's overkill, but I damn well know where I spend my money!).
I have a couple of games, but I pretty much just play solitare on it while waiting at doctors' offices.
Well, I thought it was funny. :-) I just ran out of moderator points.
I know you're kidding, but there are other meteor showers here and there. Perhaps if people get off their butts and do some experimenting now, they'll be prepared for the next shower.
:-)
I know I am--I just put a tripod on my wish list.
Funny...I thought it stood for "Worthless Encryption Protocol."
This sounds like a latency vs. bandwidth problem. True, if you get all at once, then watch them all, then send them all back, you're rather limited. But what about getting them, watching one, send it back, watch another, send it back, then watch the third, and send it back. By the time you finally send the third one back, you could have the replacement for the first one on its way to you (depending on how long it takes you to watch a movie). Certainly, not ideal, but there's a lot less lag when you start the older movie moving (and getting replaced) before you're done with the more recent movies.
The album "The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief" is supposed to be the first three-sided record. One of the sides has two grooves. I wonder what that would do to the optical scanner....
I know you're making a point, and you're absolutely right.
However, it's my understanding, from former McDonald's employees, that they will serve you whatever you order. If you order a PB&J, they're supposed to go figure out how to fill your order. Granted, it says nothing about how much they're charging you...
On a somewhat related note, Carl's Jr. got so many requests for having the burger cut in half that they added a button on the cash register just for that.
Don't forget that entering through the rear door or a window would be circumventing the license and should be punishable by law.
John Edward's Crossing Over looks like, to me, to be the Profession Wrestling of Science Fiction. It's complete tripe, but I'll bet there are a lot of people who are not only entertained by it, but think that it's real.
Shouldn't the code have been something like 421? ;-)
In all seriousness, it always amazes me how well dentists can understand people with dental tools crammed in their mouths. I guess it's like parents who can understand what on earth their kids just said...
I thought it was just eps 4-6 that weren't going to be released for a while. The best reason I heard (not necessarily the most plausible, though ;-) was that he wanted to make the DVDs "special" and he didn't have the time to do them "right" for quite some time. So, instead of putting out one version now, then adding a few things on and putting out a special version, then putting everything in and calling it a Collector's Edition, he's waiting until the Collector's Edition is the only one.
If it's true, I see nothing wrong with it.
I don't think I'll ever be over Macho Grande....
Nah. We'd just beat to a bloody pulp anyone in Fry's or CompUSA holding a boxed copy of winXP.
What? You mean we're not supposed to be doing that already? Oops...uh....CLEANUP ON AILSE 5!
After 2008 there is supposed to be no more analogue signal. No more spare TV in the bedroom. All need a digital decoder to function as they did before.
Why is that a surprise? A television, analog or digital, simply doesn't work without a tuner. Your "spare TV" has one--it's just much cheaper than the one it'll need. Theretically, by 2008, digital tuners will have come down in price, just like analog tuners have, to the point where you can still have a "spare TV" in another room.
Your analogy is better, but I suspect that the phone company would just force you to upgrade to a business line, which has per-minute charges (at least, all of them that I've heard of do).
I'm not that familiar with the workings, but I'm pretty sure that the SR-71 is the Blackbird not the Blackhawk.
Oh, it's okay. If anyone tries to steal Gray Davis' identity, they'll either muck things up less for my state, or they'll be identified as not being the real thing because of their cluefulness.
And, incidentally, if they broke into a Sacramento office and got people's payroll, such as Gray Davis', it was almost certainly the California State government, not the US Federal government.
At least in some games, you can change your field of view. In the Half-Life mod TFC, you do this with the console command
fov [degrees]
This may work on other Half-Life games, as well. Then, you probably want to adjust your mouse sensativity accordingly. Check to see if there's a way to do it in your game (assuing it isn't TFC).
Well, I'm pretty sure that was the point. Presumably, you're the first to admit that the desired effect has been achieved. ;-)
That's nothing. Steal millions or billions of dollars from your employees, shareholders, or the general public, and you can get off (pretty much) scott-free.
Show me the hacker that's caused more problems that the Corporate Level Officers in some of the high profile accounting scams in the last year or so. I dare you.