Wow, that's odd, let's think about it. Anakin is a teenager, Amildala is a teenager they fall in love. HOLY SHIT you're right, how dare he make a movie about two teenagers falling in love when he's telling the story about how two teenagers fell in love which eventually results in Episodes 4,5, and 6. It would be SO much more satisfying if Amidala just has Luke and Leia with no explanation.
Which is what I've been saying all along. I'm sick of people who seem to think that the government was wrong in arresting Dmitri. The law was wrong, but it IS on the books. There was nothing wrong with the arrest.
I'm not arguing about whether or not the law should or should not exist. For the record I'm against the DMCA.
You can be sickened all you want. The strength of this country is the fact that we have a malleable constitution which give us the right to change laws. In this situation a illegal act, according to current law, was commited. There is no two ways about it. When an illegal act happens there are certain peocedures that are followed. If the law is found to be unjust it will be done so through the proper channels. NOT because you, or I believe it is so, but because it went through the legal system as it should.
Talk about sickened. It's the people who constantly claim the Dmitri should never have been arrested, while ignoring the fact that he broke the law. There is a distinction between a moral stance on the law and the belief that the laws should be upheld. That doesn't mean the belief that the law should exist immutable for all time, but that law enforcement officials should make decisions based on current law.
The description of how the product worked however, was not the seminaar was given on American soil. And it is illegal in this country to describe to others how to violate the protection put on a work by the copyright holder. Regardless of whether the fact that it should be illegal to do so it is.
You can't pre-defend your analogy by saying it's only an analogy, your entire point rests on that analogy as an appeal to emotion to win your argument, it's bullshit. Your putting the best possible face on the illegal act. You could just as easily change it to be a talk about how to go about producing kiddy porn on U.S. soil by someone from where kiddy pron is legal.
Wouldn't it be more like opening a brothel in Amsterdam, possibly serving clients from the U.S. on vacation there (and possibly not), and then saying "We didn't violate any Amsterdam laws".
No it wouldn't, it would be more like opening a brothel in Amsterdam and selling prostitutes to U.S. citizens on vacation to sneak into the U.S.. You left out a key point in the analogy.
I would also ask, exactly what moral principles is this this guy defending? Some kind of "Microsoft is evil" or "Outlook contains exploitable technology holes, and isn't
Simple, it doesn't adhere to RFC's. Outlook should comply with standards, it doesn't therefore the blame is on them.
Screw that, he's not the one who is wrong. Outlook has major bugs, and IT DOESN'T adhere to the RFC's. It's up to them to fix their broken client. Not this guy to change his perfectly compliant email.
Actually I think this is actually the same hell I may start doing it everytime I get a doc attachment. I'l hack up the headers for my reply. Sounds fair to me. This is exactly the tactic that MS uses, and while I don't agree that it should become a wide spread process I applaud this guy for the creativity to pull it off.
Let me just add the fact that it is the MS proprietary crap that they're trying to dominate the market with that is causing the problem. I have no sympathy for anyone who can't access content because of non-rfc-compliant software.
You have to realize that the box you do your developement on and the target box for the game need not be the same architecture. Many stages of developement can be done on one machine and cross-compiled to the other. I haven't tried it yet, (probably never will because I really don't have the desire to write for windows), but it would be relatively easy to set up a developement environment in Linux that builds an executable for Windows, and to launch the program for testing over a Samba share on the Windows side. So doing the same from a Mac to Windows shouldn't be that difficult.
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Speak for yourself, I tend to differentiate between stupid shit like Kung Pow and quality comedy like Hitchhikers, Monty Python, and Mel Brooks. There are people who can do offbeat and those who cannot, the poepl who did Kung Pow cannot. People are actually stupider for having watched this movie.
There's a huge difference between pulling off a movie with a crappy plot and special effects and failing miserably at it. It was obvious from the previews that the writers were a bunch of non-funny people attempting to be funny, trying to capitalize on other non-funny spoofs that have come out in the past several years (starting with Scary Movie, although IMHO I'd say Austin Powers sorry guys I know a lot of people liked it but I had to force myself to smile at all during it). If you want a good kung-fu fan boy movie spood, go watch "They Call Me Bruce", or it's sequels. Or even "The Last Dragon", although I think that one was semi-serious, but the kung-fu villian dressed in football pads was great.
That sucks, I followed the link and Medieva looked like a fun diversion in the wake of FFX, but I won't play if the way to get ahead is to send money. I was never a big MUD-er but I enjoy the occasional "lost weekend" or two. Wish I could find a kick ass active MUD, but whenever I search around I usually find ones that don't hold my attention.
...whether I think that this is stupid and won't fly or cool, and I want to play, I can't definitely see how it would be cool to actually have a small chance of getting a monetary return on the time I spent paying a game instead of waving bye-bye to monthly fees. I wonder though, how imbalanced the game will be if you spent A LOT of money on stuff. Granted thsi is the way the real world works too, so does it then become less of a game and more like real life?
That's not necessarily true. Let me try to say this clearly so I don't get marked as flamebait:
It's true that a OS doesn't make you smart or stupid. However, I'm willing to bet that the claim that "on average Linux users are smarter" can be backed up as truth. Let's see if my logic holds.
The user bases for Linux and Windows are vastly different, correct? When you look at it from a total users perspective, almost every Joe Blow runs Windows. Very, few people relatively run Linux, for the most part these are people who are intelligent enough to at least figure out what is going on and get what they need done. Now to be fair, there are plenty of intelligent people who use windows, but most likely no more than use Windows. The set of all Linux users does not include the teeming masses fo average, (and of course sometimes just plain stupid people) who wander into Best Buy and pick up a machine running Windows. Therefore on average, Linux users are smarter.
So while the gauge of intelligence is on the user alone, the fact that he/she uses Linux is a good indication that he/she is more intelligent than average (or at least the probability is that they are more intelligent than average). Of course I'd probably extend this to not just include Linux, but also FeeBSD, Solaris, etc..
So why don't you just watch in on a regular DVD player. Not flaming just curious, I'm not sure I see the point in wasting cycles when you're watching it on a tv anyway.
Yes, this is similar to what I've done in applications, especially easy in an OO environment. Coded correctly you can view your process as a virtual machine, one that has a fixed instruction set. Serializing all of the data and dumping it to file will allow you to pick up where you left off. Of course this is per application, but it's is relatively simple to build into your app when you write it.
Americans don't have accents, it's the rest of the world that does:)
Seriously, it is a fantasy game, medieval setting or no, it's not our world so how can you justify any existing accent? All accents are equal in a fantasy game.
Ummm, that kinda sucks. Last time I looked into NN the toolset WAS the game. The video I watched the narrator, I forget who it was, was saying that the great thing about NN was that the toolset was the actual game, that an adventure was being shipped with it and that it was created with the same tools that the gamers were recieving. I was looking forward to a high quality version of the software that let you create SSI Goldbox style games. Not that I'm above booting to Windows to use the toolset, it would be cool to be able to work in Linix though.
I'm hoping the user base exceeds that of the "Gold Box" creator though. It had a large number of people creating mosules and it wasn't overly popular. I'm expecting to see user created adventures created from old (A)D&D modules pop up all over the place pretty quickly following the release, like the Half-Life mod scene on steroids. I wonder if Bioware plans on setting up a db for use created games so that there's a central place for gamers to d/l them,... CPAN for NN.
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Makes sense, you know because Europeans have such a healthy beef market.
Wow, that's odd, let's think about it. Anakin is a teenager, Amildala is a teenager they fall in love. HOLY SHIT you're right, how dare he make a movie about two teenagers falling in love when he's telling the story about how two teenagers fell in love which eventually results in Episodes 4,5, and 6. It would be SO much more satisfying if Amidala just has Luke and Leia with no explanation.
Which is what I've been saying all along. I'm sick of people who seem to think that the government was wrong in arresting Dmitri. The law was wrong, but it IS on the books. There was nothing wrong with the arrest.
I'm not arguing about whether or not the law should or should not exist. For the record I'm against the DMCA.
You can be sickened all you want. The strength of this country is the fact that we have a malleable constitution which give us the right to change laws. In this situation a illegal act, according to current law, was commited. There is no two ways about it. When an illegal act happens there are certain peocedures that are followed. If the law is found to be unjust it will be done so through the proper channels. NOT because you, or I believe it is so, but because it went through the legal system as it should.
Talk about sickened. It's the people who constantly claim the Dmitri should never have been arrested, while ignoring the fact that he broke the law. There is a distinction between a moral stance on the law and the belief that the laws should be upheld. That doesn't mean the belief that the law should exist immutable for all time, but that law enforcement officials should make decisions based on current law.
You can't pre-defend your analogy by saying it's only an analogy, your entire point rests on that analogy as an appeal to emotion to win your argument, it's bullshit. Your putting the best possible face on the illegal act. You could just as easily change it to be a talk about how to go about producing kiddy porn on U.S. soil by someone from where kiddy pron is legal.
Wouldn't it be more like opening a brothel in Amsterdam, possibly serving clients from the U.S. on vacation there (and possibly not), and then saying "We didn't violate any Amsterdam laws".
No it wouldn't, it would be more like opening a brothel in Amsterdam and selling prostitutes to U.S. citizens on vacation to sneak into the U.S.. You left out a key point in the analogy.
Dude, what the fuck is redderic? Is that red-neck rhetoric?
Simple, it doesn't adhere to RFC's. Outlook should comply with standards, it doesn't therefore the blame is on them.
Elitist doesn't bother me, but regardless. They are the ones who aren't RFC compliant not me.
Screw that, he's not the one who is wrong. Outlook has major bugs, and IT DOESN'T adhere to the RFC's. It's up to them to fix their broken client. Not this guy to change his perfectly compliant email.
It's funny 'cu paypack is a bitch.
hell I may start doing it everytime I get a doc attachment. I'l hack up the headers for my reply. Sounds fair to me. This is exactly the tactic that MS uses, and while I don't agree that it should become a wide spread process I applaud this guy for the creativity to pull it off.
Let me just add the fact that it is the MS proprietary crap that they're trying to dominate the market with that is causing the problem. I have no sympathy for anyone who can't access content because of non-rfc-compliant software.
You have to realize that the box you do your developement on and the target box for the game need not be the same architecture. Many stages of developement can be done on one machine and cross-compiled to the other. I haven't tried it yet, (probably never will because I really don't have the desire to write for windows), but it would be relatively easy to set up a developement environment in Linux that builds an executable for Windows, and to launch the program for testing over a Samba share on the Windows side. So doing the same from a Mac to Windows shouldn't be that difficult.
Speak for yourself, I tend to differentiate between stupid shit like Kung Pow and quality comedy like Hitchhikers, Monty Python, and Mel Brooks. There are people who can do offbeat and those who cannot, the poepl who did Kung Pow cannot. People are actually stupider for having watched this movie.
There's a huge difference between pulling off a movie with a crappy plot and special effects and failing miserably at it. It was obvious from the previews that the writers were a bunch of non-funny people attempting to be funny, trying to capitalize on other non-funny spoofs that have come out in the past several years (starting with Scary Movie, although IMHO I'd say Austin Powers sorry guys I know a lot of people liked it but I had to force myself to smile at all during it). If you want a good kung-fu fan boy movie spood, go watch "They Call Me Bruce", or it's sequels. Or even "The Last Dragon", although I think that one was semi-serious, but the kung-fu villian dressed in football pads was great.
That sucks, I followed the link and Medieva looked like a fun diversion in the wake of FFX, but I won't play if the way to get ahead is to send money. I was never a big MUD-er but I enjoy the occasional "lost weekend" or two. Wish I could find a kick ass active MUD, but whenever I search around I usually find ones that don't hold my attention.
Heh, you had me at hacking. Thanks to you I've got another coding project to add to the list <grin> just what I needed project number #6382.
...whether I think that this is stupid and won't fly or cool, and I want to play, I can't definitely see how it would be cool to actually have a small chance of getting a monetary return on the time I spent paying a game instead of waving bye-bye to monthly fees. I wonder though, how imbalanced the game will be if you spent A LOT of money on stuff. Granted thsi is the way the real world works too, so does it then become less of a game and more like real life?
That's not necessarily true. Let me try to say this clearly so I don't get marked as flamebait:
It's true that a OS doesn't make you smart or stupid. However, I'm willing to bet that the claim that "on average Linux users are smarter" can be backed up as truth. Let's see if my logic holds.
The user bases for Linux and Windows are vastly different, correct? When you look at it from a total users perspective, almost every Joe Blow runs Windows. Very, few people relatively run Linux, for the most part these are people who are intelligent enough to at least figure out what is going on and get what they need done. Now to be fair, there are plenty of intelligent people who use windows, but most likely no more than use Windows. The set of all Linux users does not include the teeming masses fo average, (and of course sometimes just plain stupid people) who wander into Best Buy and pick up a machine running Windows. Therefore on average, Linux users are smarter.
So while the gauge of intelligence is on the user alone, the fact that he/she uses Linux is a good indication that he/she is more intelligent than average (or at least the probability is that they are more intelligent than average). Of course I'd probably extend this to not just include Linux, but also FeeBSD, Solaris, etc..
So why don't you just watch in on a regular DVD player. Not flaming just curious, I'm not sure I see the point in wasting cycles when you're watching it on a tv anyway.
Yes, this is similar to what I've done in applications, especially easy in an OO environment. Coded correctly you can view your process as a virtual machine, one that has a fixed instruction set. Serializing all of the data and dumping it to file will allow you to pick up where you left off. Of course this is per application, but it's is relatively simple to build into your app when you write it.
Obligatory Simpson's quote:
"You're charming the pants off of me"
"What did you say Aunt Selma"
"I said take thos damn glasses off!"
Cool, Bob and Doug Mackenzie do dungeons and dragons, with cameo by Red Green.
Americans don't have accents, it's the rest of the world that does :)
Seriously, it is a fantasy game, medieval setting or no, it's not our world so how can you justify any existing accent? All accents are equal in a fantasy game.
Ummm, that kinda sucks. Last time I looked into NN the toolset WAS the game. The video I watched the narrator, I forget who it was, was saying that the great thing about NN was that the toolset was the actual game, that an adventure was being shipped with it and that it was created with the same tools that the gamers were recieving. I was looking forward to a high quality version of the software that let you create SSI Goldbox style games. Not that I'm above booting to Windows to use the toolset, it would be cool to be able to work in Linix though.
I'm hoping the user base exceeds that of the "Gold Box" creator though. It had a large number of people creating mosules and it wasn't overly popular. I'm expecting to see user created adventures created from old (A)D&D modules pop up all over the place pretty quickly following the release, like the Half-Life mod scene on steroids. I wonder if Bioware plans on setting up a db for use created games so that there's a central place for gamers to d/l them,... CPAN for NN.