If you don't mind me asking how did you inherit your father's debt? I had thought that debt could not be transferred to someone else. For example if my father some lost all his money and went $100k in the hole, I would not be responsible for taking care of that would I? This is a very scary thing if this can happen. I will have to make sure that my dad NEVER goes to Vegas. Molog
But the precedent was set. They refused to hear the case, thus validating the lower courts decision. This precedent is now nation wide unless I don't understand something. If I am wrong please correct me, as I would rather know the truth then be right. Molog
It would be a cool thing to do but you would have to get a line for the server, then you would need to get a machine to put it on, then put in your time. The first two can cost a little bit of money and that is probably the biggest issue to the whole thing. Would be a fun project though. Molog
There was no sales decline. Sales of Redhat were up by 69% but total Linux growth was 89% or something like that. Redhat didn't grow as much as the other distros. Molog
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The author declines any responsability from the use of this program. This software can not be used with copyrighted material because doing so, would infringe many laws all around the world.
The author doesn't intend to promote piracy by any means, and the scope of the application is limited to video processing tasks with home made digital video material.
Why would it be illegal to compress or change formats of copyrighted material? It is illegal to distribute copyrighted material without consent of the authors but compressing isn't illegal. Does anyone know an example where I am wrong? Molog
You are right that some people's income is just above what is required for good financial aid and below being able to afford the big shot schools. You can still get loans though (Yeah I know loans suck) and that can take care of part of it. If local schools are too expensive then consider getting out of the area. There are some excellent schools out there that are quite affordable even for out of state tuition.
For example, the state schools in Texas are very cheap for residents. If you could stick it out a year there you could pay around 5k a year going full time. Don't like Texas? It isn't the only state where you can find affordable education.
I'm from Vermont and the price of schools in the North East is high. I simply moved much further south and west. It really comes down to what sacrifices you are willing to make. I believe that anyone can afford a college education if they are willing to move. Some people may want to stay near where they grew up but that is a lame duck excuse in my book.
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I believe that would keep your code open source and allowed non-free uses if they are dynamically linked. Would this have been an acceptable solution or is there something that I am missing? Molog
Someone should have contacted the company directly before just going out and doing directly without permission.
Do you need permission to take a car apart? No because you bought it (I hope you were not stupid enough to lease). Do you need permission to build yourself a new carburetor? They gave these things away. The people who wrote the Linux drivers merely found out how the devices worked and then wrote new devices. Yes there are copyrights on these things but the Linux developers own them.
I am not sure what the legality on this issue is...
The legality is this. Reverse engineering is totally legal. If it wasn't there would only be one brand of car, IBM would be the only PC in town plus just about anything where you have multiple brands. Why should I need some companies permission to find out how the thing I bought works?
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A bug is when a program doesn't work as it intended to work. The designers/programmers have explicitly chosen to allow monsters to walk thru walls. Call it a bad design choice, but not a bug.
I didn't know about that choice, I'm sorry for my ignorance. It was a very bad design choice, and the players shooting through windows makes since if enemies can do it too. Ok, so necros have been brought back down to earth since I left, which I suppose is good. The Hell levels are the result of bad design then. There is no reason for an Exp formula to behave like this at all.
Doesn't change the fact that the GM events suck and that the only thing to do is max you levels while chatting to people. I will never look back to trying to get into a group just so I could waist hours at a time waiting for stuff to spawn every 10 minutes or so just to gain a very small fraction of experience points. I believe the current average to get to level 50 now is 80 days (1,920 hours) play time. I wonder what percentage of that is waiting for an enemy to spawn? I would say probably, from my own experience, around 80%.
I suppose one could argue that this is similar to many other RPGs out there where you mindlessly fight stuff to raise levels but at least in those there was an achievable goal besides just becoming the most powerful being. There was an enemy to fight, a kingdom to restore or something along those lines that made this a means to an end. There is nothing for the players to strive for, except to be more powerful then everyone else and that gets too old too soon.
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I say this because Verant doesn't know anything about game balance. Pretty much everyone who plays EQ knows that a necromancer can wipe out a party of adventurers their own level, and can solo dragons. Other classes aren't really good at anything. For example wizards, who are supposed to be the masters of directed damage, consistently miss all the time, ok an exaggeration, with their spells.
Also because people were leveling too fast Verant made a stupid decision to put hell levels in, basically they are levels that take 2x the xp to get to the next level as the game would normally have you do when the better solution would have been to have the experience curve increase over all the levels instead of just 30, 35, 40, 45, etc.
There are problems and other bugs, like enemies attacking you through a stonewall, that Verant doesn't admit is a bug. Maybe if some REAL role-players ran things there would be more fun then sitting and waiting for an enemy to spawn so you can get one step closer to maxing your level which is all there is to do besides chatting with people. Really, chatting and killing the infrequent enemy is all it is. So it might not be the same experiance but I feel it couldn't be too much worse. Molog
Wrong. Copyright is protected anytime you want to go after it. You are thinking of trademark. This is a patent dispute. I find it kinda interesting that these patents cover everything from the Voodoo 3 up. Let me guess. Nvidia patented a way to rout power to a chip and becuase 3dfx is similar it is a violation. Gotta love patent law. Molog
The slashdot crowd refuses to acknowledge that Rambus is actually a solid and viable memory technology (that's just a couple years ahead of its time).
All the information I have read has pointed to the latency as a killing factor to RD-DRAM. While RD-RAM has faster access, it is only 16 bits at a time, which puts it with DDR-DRAM. If there is something that myself or others don't understand about RD-RAM which will make it better for future use could please allaberate more then just saying Rambus is actually a solid and viable memory technology? I have heard many techinical arguments against it. I am willing to hear arguments for it but I haven't heard any yet so if you have some please post them as I am more interested in the truth then in personal bias.
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AMD expensive? Last I checked the're processors were close to half the price of the Intel versions. Where you might get hit is the motherboards can be a little bit more but the most expensive one I have seen is $140 and even then, the FIC is around $100 flat and that is one of the best ones (I didn't say best so please don't nail me for that) you can get. You might need to buy brand name RAM but even then that is cheaper then RAMBus. As far as pre-assembled systems go, gateway sells them as do most of the PC manufactures. Isn't Dell the only hold out? I have seen AMD systems consistantly cheaper then the other stuff. For a direct cost comparison, see pricewatch or compare Dell prices verses systems containing AMD processors. Molog
One easy way to take care of this for Media Jukebox and everyone else. Don't use them. If everyone says uses some other service they will have no customers. Don't use clients that use it. If you have a favorite client write them and ask to not use CDDB and use FreeDB instead. If they want to be like this then they should be left behind. Molog
They don't own it. DeCSS has been deemed a device, which is made to bypass an access mechanism, in this case CSS. Therefore it is not copyrighted by Time Warner, it is merely and illegal tool in their eyes. That is what makes this so funny. Molog
USA is not self-sufficient, and it has more natural resources and a greater diversity of natural resources than any country I can think of.
What is your definition of being self-sufficient? Is the US able to support itself agriculturally without imports? Certainly it could do that but the goods are produced cheaper in other countries. Does the US have enough natural resources to handle transportation of the populous as well as handling the power of homes? Yes, the only thing is that we can get oil and other stuff cheaper from other countries. In actuality the US can be self-sufficient but in an open market capitalist economy it would not be.
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Cool! You go to UVM? Sweet, I'm origonally from Vermont. Haven't been back since getting out of high school. Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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This is quite true. I am from Vermont where the large cat known as the catamount, which is also the mascot for UVM, was supposedly hunted down to extinction. Back in '93 a small family of catamounts were discovered around Canon Vermont I believe. It has been a while since I have heard anything about it though. Molog
I watched both the cartoons and read the comic books. As far as Beast Wars go, I hated them. I was just too partial to the origonals I guess. As far as the best story line, that has to go to the comics by Marvel. It got a little weird in the latter issues before they ended it but I really liked them. Too bad my mom acidently threw them away =( Molog
From the article linked above: "Miguel and the Helixes" are in a running battle with Red Hat and Eazel...
Maybe I have it all wrong. When Helix really started coming around I remember reading on Redhat Labs that with Helix working on GNOME usability and how it looked they were going to focus their energy on improving the base toolkits like the GTK. Eazel is making the filemanager thingy(for lack of a better word) to add to the GNOME desktop. This doesn't sound like a battle to me. It sounds like each is working on their own part. Well I don't have anything to add other than that.
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
Why would it be illegal to compress or change formats of copyrighted material? It is illegal to distribute copyrighted material without consent of the authors but compressing isn't illegal. Does anyone know an example where I am wrong?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
For example, the state schools in Texas are very cheap for residents. If you could stick it out a year there you could pay around 5k a year going full time. Don't like Texas? It isn't the only state where you can find affordable education.
I'm from Vermont and the price of schools in the North East is high. I simply moved much further south and west. It really comes down to what sacrifices you are willing to make. I believe that anyone can afford a college education if they are willing to move. Some people may want to stay near where they grew up but that is a lame duck excuse in my book.
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
Do you need permission to take a car apart? No because you bought it (I hope you were not stupid enough to lease). Do you need permission to build yourself a new carburetor? They gave these things away. The people who wrote the Linux drivers merely found out how the devices worked and then wrote new devices. Yes there are copyrights on these things but the Linux developers own them.
I am not sure what the legality on this issue is...
The legality is this. Reverse engineering is totally legal. If it wasn't there would only be one brand of car, IBM would be the only PC in town plus just about anything where you have multiple brands. Why should I need some companies permission to find out how the thing I bought works?
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
I didn't know about that choice, I'm sorry for my ignorance. It was a very bad design choice, and the players shooting through windows makes since if enemies can do it too. Ok, so necros have been brought back down to earth since I left, which I suppose is good. The Hell levels are the result of bad design then. There is no reason for an Exp formula to behave like this at all.
Doesn't change the fact that the GM events suck and that the only thing to do is max you levels while chatting to people. I will never look back to trying to get into a group just so I could waist hours at a time waiting for stuff to spawn every 10 minutes or so just to gain a very small fraction of experience points. I believe the current average to get to level 50 now is 80 days (1,920 hours) play time. I wonder what percentage of that is waiting for an enemy to spawn? I would say probably, from my own experience, around 80%.
I suppose one could argue that this is similar to many other RPGs out there where you mindlessly fight stuff to raise levels but at least in those there was an achievable goal besides just becoming the most powerful being. There was an enemy to fight, a kingdom to restore or something along those lines that made this a means to an end. There is nothing for the players to strive for, except to be more powerful then everyone else and that gets too old too soon.
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
Also because people were leveling too fast Verant made a stupid decision to put hell levels in, basically they are levels that take 2x the xp to get to the next level as the game would normally have you do when the better solution would have been to have the experience curve increase over all the levels instead of just 30, 35, 40, 45, etc.
There are problems and other bugs, like enemies attacking you through a stonewall, that Verant doesn't admit is a bug. Maybe if some REAL role-players ran things there would be more fun then sitting and waiting for an enemy to spawn so you can get one step closer to maxing your level which is all there is to do besides chatting with people. Really, chatting and killing the infrequent enemy is all it is. So it might not be the same experiance but I feel it couldn't be too much worse.
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
All the information I have read has pointed to the latency as a killing factor to RD-DRAM. While RD-RAM has faster access, it is only 16 bits at a time, which puts it with DDR-DRAM. If there is something that myself or others don't understand about RD-RAM which will make it better for future use could please allaberate more then just saying Rambus is actually a solid and viable memory technology? I have heard many techinical arguments against it. I am willing to hear arguments for it but I haven't heard any yet so if you have some please post them as I am more interested in the truth then in personal bias.
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
What is your definition of being self-sufficient? Is the US able to support itself agriculturally without imports? Certainly it could do that but the goods are produced cheaper in other countries. Does the US have enough natural resources to handle transportation of the populous as well as handling the power of homes? Yes, the only thing is that we can get oil and other stuff cheaper from other countries. In actuality the US can be self-sufficient but in an open market capitalist economy it would not be.
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
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So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
Maybe I have it all wrong. When Helix really started coming around I remember reading on Redhat Labs that with Helix working on GNOME usability and how it looked they were going to focus their energy on improving the base toolkits like the GTK. Eazel is making the filemanager thingy(for lack of a better word) to add to the GNOME desktop. This doesn't sound like a battle to me. It sounds like each is working on their own part. Well I don't have anything to add other than that.
Molog
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?