I think that's a client-server sync lag issue: I've experienced it the other way: Humanoid mobs running away server-side but the models stayed at the same spot on the client so I had no idea where it actually was, just that I wasn't facing it or it was too far away. Haven't experienced it after version 2.0.3 though.
They broke the letter of the law, not the intent of the law. Laws are interpreted by courts. Using a law designed to protect children to punish children instead is just bizarre.
No it's not - it's perfectly able to run on a 600 MHz PPC with 32 MB of RAM. And that is with a lot of stuff running that a phone doesn't need. A "media phone" like the iPhone will most likely have a CPU speed and memory akin to that.
You are confusing the OS with the content of their Mac-oriented "distribution", including Aqua which the phone of course will not run, any more than Linux on an iPaq runs X11.
Why the fuck should the website have to cater to every possible browser out there.
Because: "Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. 794d), agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information that is comparable to the access available to others."
If the information isn't accessible in Opera it sure as hell isn't in any disabled person's browser.
Because there is a sizable number of Firefox zealots who take every opportunity to denigrate Opera - this Slashdot discussion as a prime example. You were just in their firing line.
No, PC video cards are. A console generation lasts 5-10 years, which is far longer than a PC hardware generation does. A PS2 game bought today will work on a PS2 bought at launch. A "PC" game bought today may not work on your computer even if it relatively recent, just because it e.g. has a GeForce 4 card (sufficient for most tasks) and the game uses some cryptic technology that card doesn't support.
(Conclusion: PCs are not good for casual gamers. Consoles are.)
Yeah, I hate newspapers for the same reason. In fact Blizzard et al should run the servers, provide the GMs, support et al pro bono. Like Game Servers Sans Frontières or whatever.
2.) Programs that try to detect cheating.
Yeah, I know the feeling: The same goes for sports, where those stupid referees don't let people win by poking the opponent in the eye.
Take the police, who would pay them? Should they all be rent a cops (or thugs)?
The Mafia started out as a "private police". See where that led?
(Sometimes I think Libertarians are incapable of realizing that the state is the only reason they can go around advocating their political views in discussions instead of fighting for survival in some stupid "self-first" individual hunter-gatherer devolved society.)
Humans flock together because it brings benefits - a state is just the largest flock. Now such a flock - a town - decides that it wants to spend the flock's common resources (taxes) on broadband. If some shitty big-city mindfucker wants to REGULATE the community to serve big business he should stop pretending he's a "libertarian" - he's really a fascist.
Business pretends to love a free market until they gain market power enough to keep competition out. If there is profit, there is no free market, because if it was free then a competitor would come in to sell cheaper until the "winner" sold at cost and with zero profits. Why would someone pretending to support the free market want to stop a community from establishing a competitor?
So don't carry important information in PCs when crossing the border, just like you don't carry too much (or too little) money when walking in South Central, L.A.
Not to mention that the Gametap "exclusive" early release is USELESS to us Europeans anyway. It's Telltale or Steam for the purchase come Nobember 1st.
Sun's Java specifications are available only under restrictive licenses
No, they are freely downloadable from java.sun.com (unlike, say, the ISO-9899 C standard which ISO charge 340 Swiss Francs for). The license states that any independent implementation cannot make proprietary extensions/subtractions and needs to pass a test. How is that a bad thing? Do you enjoy that the multitude of SQL implementations do most small things in their own different way?
Other specifications are provided by the JCP where Sun is one member of many - but with extra powers.
Anyway: Some of us are satisfied with Sun's free-as-in-beer implemenation, as are most other developers, which is reflected in the slow progress of the OSS implementations (since OSS developers generally make software for their own use).
IKVM, Kaffe, Classpath, and others have been laboriously reverse engineered from third party sources, and Sun has to this day refused to help in their creation.
"Kaffe is a clean room implementation of the Java virtual machine, plus the associated class libraries needed to provide a Java runtime environment." - clean room does not necessarily mean reverse engineered. Anyway, Kaffe now has merged in parts of GNU Classpath, so perhaps the NIH-istic multitude of implementations could merge into one so that an OSS project actually got somewhere? It's not like GCC depended on AT&T to make progress.
Then Microsoft came along and released a Java that was a better Java, on top of a JVM that was a better JVM.
No, they released a Java that had contract-violating proprietary extensions to support a proprietary library and native calling mechanism. (I blame Sun for not specifying JNI until 1.2, meaning Microsoft and Netscape had to come up with their own interpretation of "native".) And it was a better JVM than Sun.s 1.1.x in speed, but it wasn't better once J2SE 1.2 was out and Microsoft failed to update their implementation.
On top of that, they actively supported language diversity, encouraged efforts to port popular languages, and changed the VM to accomodate these languages.
Ah, you were talking about.Net and the C# language. That's more a merge between C++ and Delphi/Object Pascal than Java - Anders Hejsberg was after all hired from Borland to make it. And as for "change the VM to accomodate the languages", it's more a story of writing a VM for C# and wrestle other languages like VB and C++ into the confines.
Why can't.Net fans see that Java is still the dominant developent platform of the two? The "catch up" is to add features into the language that C# "borrowed" from other sources. So C# is playing catch-up just as much as Java.
What is being taken away? If it is theft, why is there a separate law governing copyright, when - according to you - the existing laws regarding property theft would suffice?
It's simply because THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. Calling copyright infringement theft is FUD designed to scare the less educated masses. One easily spotted difference is that copyright expires, property ownership (usually) does not. Others include all that "derived work" stuff and all the questions raised by broadcasting and the like.
You end up with something you did not pay for
No, you end up with ACCESS you did not pay for. As in the cable example you used: You are getting a service without paying for the privilege. So someone illegally using copyrighted material is leeching on those who pay, since those are the ones generating revenue to the rights holders, and they are leeching on the creators. But they are not STEALING any more than someone riding a bus without paying the fare is stealing a ticket.
you steal from me when you take an album I may have been associated with
What is being stolen? What do you no longer have that you had before? Why don't you use "rape" instead? It's an even stonger word that doesn't have anything to do with the actual crime!
If copyright was as it began - a few years' monopoly after a work's creation - or if it only applied to actual works of art, people would have less problems with it than the current "corporight" laws. Where you end up with a situation like the current where the lawyers are more important than the creators - who often are under contracts where they sign over the rights to the company they work for - so these works-for-hire become industry products, not really the works of art intended by the laws.
Copyright, like patents, is a government-granted right, NOT a "natural right". The intent is to promote creation and invention by allowing a limited monopoly so that others can build on the works after they pass into the public domain where they belong. But then the publishing industry got lobbyists, and things have been shit ever since.
(I am sure the RIAA and friends like your free shilling for them, but you don't have to, you know: They pay people to do that.)
Have you ever taken a drink of alcohol in your life? Then you are a drug user.
Exactly! What people are ignoring is that this is a War on Some Drugs. And mostly drugs that the "colored people" and the underclass used back at the start of the last century when they became illegal, or drugs that psychiatrists experimented with and then abandoned. It's like they never did learn the lesson of Prohibition, that making desired products illegal creates a nurturing climate for crime.
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Modding any post in this thread as insightful is like a pun, that's probably the reason. Must be.
I think that's a client-server sync lag issue: I've experienced it the other way: Humanoid mobs running away server-side but the models stayed at the same spot on the client so I had no idea where it actually was, just that I wasn't facing it or it was too far away. Haven't experienced it after version 2.0.3 though.
uhhh.. what they did was break the law.
They broke the letter of the law, not the intent of the law. Laws are interpreted by courts. Using a law designed to protect children to punish children instead is just bizarre.
Going forward, that will be effectuated.
OSX is a very large OS.
No it's not - it's perfectly able to run on a 600 MHz PPC with 32 MB of RAM. And that is with a lot of stuff running that a phone doesn't need. A "media phone" like the iPhone will most likely have a CPU speed and memory akin to that.
You are confusing the OS with the content of their Mac-oriented "distribution", including Aqua which the phone of course will not run, any more than Linux on an iPaq runs X11.
Why the fuck should the website have to cater to every possible browser out there.
Because: "Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. 794d), agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information that is comparable to the access available to others."
If the information isn't accessible in Opera it sure as hell isn't in any disabled person's browser.
See http://www.section508.gov/ before your ignorance spreads.
Because there is a sizable number of Firefox zealots who take every opportunity to denigrate Opera - this Slashdot discussion as a prime example. You were just in their firing line.
Console generations are the epitome of churn.
No, PC video cards are. A console generation lasts 5-10 years, which is far longer than a PC hardware generation does. A PS2 game bought today will work on a PS2 bought at launch. A "PC" game bought today may not work on your computer even if it relatively recent, just because it e.g. has a GeForce 4 card (sufficient for most tasks) and the game uses some cryptic technology that card doesn't support.
(Conclusion: PCs are not good for casual gamers. Consoles are.)
So did Megadeth every time they released an album that fans chose instead of Metallica's output, though. BURN DAVE MUSTAINE!
1.) Monthly subscription fees.
Yeah, I hate newspapers for the same reason. In fact Blizzard et al should run the servers, provide the GMs, support et al pro bono. Like Game Servers Sans Frontières or whatever.
2.) Programs that try to detect cheating.
Yeah, I know the feeling: The same goes for sports, where those stupid referees don't let people win by poking the opponent in the eye.
Take the police, who would pay them? Should they all be rent a cops (or thugs)?
The Mafia started out as a "private police". See where that led?
(Sometimes I think Libertarians are incapable of realizing that the state is the only reason they can go around advocating their political views in discussions instead of fighting for survival in some stupid "self-first" individual hunter-gatherer devolved society.)
Humans flock together because it brings benefits - a state is just the largest flock. Now such a flock - a town - decides that it wants to spend the flock's common resources (taxes) on broadband. If some shitty big-city mindfucker wants to REGULATE the community to serve big business he should stop pretending he's a "libertarian" - he's really a fascist.
Business pretends to love a free market until they gain market power enough to keep competition out. If there is profit, there is no free market, because if it was free then a competitor would come in to sell cheaper until the "winner" sold at cost and with zero profits. Why would someone pretending to support the free market want to stop a community from establishing a competitor?
In parts of Africa tolls are collected at gunpoint by non-owners of the roads (but owners of the guns). So the world has all kinds of enterprise.
Oh, and there is no such thing as a free market other than as an abstract idea.
There is also the Allegiance multiplayer PC game, which has a "we give up, do whatever you want as long as you don't make any money" license of sorts.
That's your reason, right there.
So don't carry important information in PCs when crossing the border, just like you don't carry too much (or too little) money when walking in South Central, L.A.
How about the fact that you can't change ids on the fly?
What? Next you'll want database vendors to allow you to change primary keys - which is what ids sorta are. Use name for "business keys".
"Mii" is the name of the Nintendo Wii's online avatar services.
Not if "independently run" means "not run by us but by volunteers" or the like.
Not to mention that the Gametap "exclusive" early release is USELESS to us Europeans anyway. It's Telltale or Steam for the purchase come Nobember 1st.
Big industry can buy politicans who decide, or those that enforce - or both!
Welcome to the United States of Clear Channel and News Corp.
Sun's Java specifications are available only under restrictive licenses
No, they are freely downloadable from java.sun.com (unlike, say, the ISO-9899 C standard which ISO charge 340 Swiss Francs for). The license states that any independent implementation cannot make proprietary extensions/subtractions and needs to pass a test. How is that a bad thing? Do you enjoy that the multitude of SQL implementations do most small things in their own different way?
Other specifications are provided by the JCP where Sun is one member of many - but with extra powers.
Anyway: Some of us are satisfied with Sun's free-as-in-beer implemenation, as are most other developers, which is reflected in the slow progress of the OSS implementations (since OSS developers generally make software for their own use).
IKVM, Kaffe, Classpath, and others have been laboriously reverse engineered from third party sources, and Sun has to this day refused to help in their creation.
"Kaffe is a clean room implementation of the Java virtual machine, plus the associated class libraries needed to provide a Java runtime environment." - clean room does not necessarily mean reverse engineered. Anyway, Kaffe now has merged in parts of GNU Classpath, so perhaps the NIH-istic multitude of implementations could merge into one so that an OSS project actually got somewhere? It's not like GCC depended on AT&T to make progress.
This Kaffe project slideshow is a very interesting read.
Then Microsoft came along and released a Java that was a better Java, on top of a JVM that was a better JVM.
.Net and the C# language. That's more a merge between C++ and Delphi/Object Pascal than Java - Anders Hejsberg was after all hired from Borland to make it. And as for "change the VM to accomodate the languages", it's more a story of writing a VM for C# and wrestle other languages like VB and C++ into the confines.
.Net fans see that Java is still the dominant developent platform of the two? The "catch up" is to add features into the language that C# "borrowed" from other sources. So C# is playing catch-up just as much as Java.
No, they released a Java that had contract-violating proprietary extensions to support a proprietary library and native calling mechanism. (I blame Sun for not specifying JNI until 1.2, meaning Microsoft and Netscape had to come up with their own interpretation of "native".) And it was a better JVM than Sun.s 1.1.x in speed, but it wasn't better once J2SE 1.2 was out and Microsoft failed to update their implementation.
On top of that, they actively supported language diversity, encouraged efforts to port popular languages, and changed the VM to accomodate these languages.
Ah, you were talking about
Why can't
"Ma'am, did you download Pirates of the Caribbean Part 4"
"Yes sir, I did. You see...."
"Just answer the question please, Ma'am.
*Judge slams club*
"I must remind the lawyer that the defendant as witness was asked to tell 'the whole truth' - so please don't interrupt the witness."
Yeah, as if that ever happens... *sigh*
Copyright infringment is theft
What is being taken away? If it is theft, why is there a separate law governing copyright, when - according to you - the existing laws regarding property theft would suffice?
It's simply because THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. Calling copyright infringement theft is FUD designed to scare the less educated masses. One easily spotted difference is that copyright expires, property ownership (usually) does not. Others include all that "derived work" stuff and all the questions raised by broadcasting and the like.
You end up with something you did not pay for
No, you end up with ACCESS you did not pay for. As in the cable example you used: You are getting a service without paying for the privilege. So someone illegally using copyrighted material is leeching on those who pay, since those are the ones generating revenue to the rights holders, and they are leeching on the creators. But they are not STEALING any more than someone riding a bus without paying the fare is stealing a ticket.
you steal from me when you take an album I may have been associated with
What is being stolen? What do you no longer have that you had before? Why don't you use "rape" instead? It's an even stonger word that doesn't have anything to do with the actual crime!
If copyright was as it began - a few years' monopoly after a work's creation - or if it only applied to actual works of art, people would have less problems with it than the current "corporight" laws. Where you end up with a situation like the current where the lawyers are more important than the creators - who often are under contracts where they sign over the rights to the company they work for - so these works-for-hire become industry products, not really the works of art intended by the laws.
Copyright, like patents, is a government-granted right, NOT a "natural right". The intent is to promote creation and invention by allowing a limited monopoly so that others can build on the works after they pass into the public domain where they belong. But then the publishing industry got lobbyists, and things have been shit ever since.
(I am sure the RIAA and friends like your free shilling for them, but you don't have to, you know: They pay people to do that.)
"You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
Doesn't this mean that - since GPL 3 is more restrictive - that already GPL'ed software cannot be distributed under GPL 3?
Have you ever taken a drink of alcohol in your life? Then you are a drug user.
Exactly! What people are ignoring is that this is a War on Some Drugs. And mostly drugs that the "colored people" and the underclass used back at the start of the last century when they became illegal, or drugs that psychiatrists experimented with and then abandoned. It's like they never did learn the lesson of Prohibition, that making desired products illegal creates a nurturing climate for crime.