Hi, I'm a Linux gamer.
Wine is getting really really good nowadays, to the extent that when a new game comes out it actually has an estimated 50/50 chance of working out of the box or with minor tweaks. Amusingly, I'm using Steam too and it runs fine. Valve can be forgiven for not supporting Linux natively - their wine compatibility has always been very good. Not that it doesn't bum me.
Personally I have friends in the US that I could lan play with if Blizzard/Activision hadn't insisted on keeping it out as part of their silly struggle to keep everything running through crappy BNet2 - and if you think that has nothing to do with restrictions management, you're deluded.
The NT examples are themselves interpretations of earlier texts.. I know all of the bible is supposedly "divinely inspired", but surely there must be a difference in "quality of inspiration" between "word of Jesus" and "word of some apostle with a cause".
The Sodom example has been explained elsewhere; wrt the Leviticus text I just want to note that these laws were never meant to apply to the gentiles.
Nope. Read what I said. I didn't consider any son being picked, but events that could move a family into the list we consider. Of those events, the case of "first a boy, second a boy" is half as likely as "first boy, then girl, OR first girl, then boy". Because of this, you will find twice as many (unordered) boy/girl in your set than boy/boy.
That is beautiful - and yes; of the three (out of four) events that can make you eligible for inclusion in the 900 (boy, then girl; girl, then boy; boy, then boy), two include a girl.
What makes this counterintuitive is that you treat children as unordered, but they're not - in fact, your (boy, girl) case actually mixes (boy, girl) and (girl, boy), which are both equally probable.
I wouldn't have bought a DS if it wasn't for homebrew.
I believe you massively overestimate the amount of people who would go out and buy game cartridges if they couldn't pirate, especially if piracy is so very much more convenient.
Don't worry. All that's needed for a pattern to persist is for it to be self-consistent. All the alien kid did was break the connection to his computing device. Life goes on. (See also: Permutation City)
That's great, but it doesn't make this particular decision any less nonsensical.
From my understanding, the court basically decided that while software itself was not patentable, when it was designed to run and take advantage of a computer, it _was_ patentable after all. Shouldn't by that logic any algorithm be patentable that, for instance, takes advantage of L2 cache size? Certain sorting algorithms come to mind. Believe me, I'd be happy to be told I'd misunderstood.
If you are using something like Gnome or KDE, it can probably save your GUI session. Individual applications will have to deal with their contents, but many of them already do that. At least Firefox and Openoffice can restore their sessions after being terminated.
In KDE, System Settings -> Advanced -> Session Manager -> On Login, Restore Manually Saved Session. After that, you can save your session state from the logout menu or, alternatively, using a shellscript that loops every 30s or so and does
Basically, I disagree with everything you said. No, you shouldn't be able to retain permanent control over an idea. No, saving the GPL is not worth perpetuating our current broken copyright. And no, a world with drastically reduced creator control over their "intellectual property" would be on the whole far less controlling, instead of more.
Besides, how often does the GPL come up in non-commercial cases?
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Hi, I'm a Linux gamer. Wine is getting really really good nowadays, to the extent that when a new game comes out it actually has an estimated 50/50 chance of working out of the box or with minor tweaks. Amusingly, I'm using Steam too and it runs fine. Valve can be forgiven for not supporting Linux natively - their wine compatibility has always been very good. Not that it doesn't bum me.
Personally I have friends in the US that I could lan play with if Blizzard/Activision hadn't insisted on keeping it out as part of their silly struggle to keep everything running through crappy BNet2 - and if you think that has nothing to do with restrictions management, you're deluded.
It's called Poe's Law. Look it up.
You know what this thread needs?
More rhetoric and less sources!
Oh wait.
The converse question is; without letting you play a LAN game with only one gamedisc, would it ever have become the leader in esports?
Heh.
You liar.
The NT examples are themselves interpretations of earlier texts .. I know all of the bible is supposedly "divinely inspired", but surely there must be a difference in "quality of inspiration" between "word of Jesus" and "word of some apostle with a cause".
The Sodom example has been explained elsewhere; wrt the Leviticus text I just want to note that these laws were never meant to apply to the gentiles.
Nope. Read what I said. I didn't consider any son being picked, but events that could move a family into the list we consider. Of those events, the case of "first a boy, second a boy" is half as likely as "first boy, then girl, OR first girl, then boy". Because of this, you will find twice as many (unordered) boy/girl in your set than boy/boy.
That is beautiful - and yes; of the three (out of four) events that can make you eligible for inclusion in the 900 (boy, then girl; girl, then boy; boy, then boy), two include a girl. What makes this counterintuitive is that you treat children as unordered, but they're not - in fact, your (boy, girl) case actually mixes (boy, girl) and (girl, boy), which are both equally probable.
And of course that would stop them once the technology is in place.
For all of ten seconds.
And I believe you underestimate the convenience bonus of having all your games on a single cartridge. :)
I wouldn't have bought a DS if it wasn't for homebrew.
I believe you massively overestimate the amount of people who would go out and buy game cartridges if they couldn't pirate, especially if piracy is so very much more convenient.
Don't worry. All that's needed for a pattern to persist is for it to be self-consistent. All the alien kid did was break the connection to his computing device. Life goes on. (See also: Permutation City)
I've been using Quodlibet as a player. It's no Amarok1.4 but it measures up pretty well.
Today's issues today.
Tomorrow's issues tomorrow.
That's great, but it doesn't make this particular decision any less nonsensical.
From my understanding, the court basically decided that while software itself was not patentable, when it was designed to run and take advantage of a computer, it _was_ patentable after all. Shouldn't by that logic any algorithm be patentable that, for instance, takes advantage of L2 cache size? Certain sorting algorithms come to mind. Believe me, I'd be happy to be told I'd misunderstood.
Yeah, XOrg is shit. I don't think many people debate that, but it's not a reason to let Microsoft off the hook.
In KDE, System Settings -> Advanced -> Session Manager -> On Login, Restore Manually Saved Session. After that, you can save your session state from the logout menu or, alternatively, using a shellscript that loops every 30s or so and does
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That is so my new favorite word.
No.
:)
Basically, I disagree with everything you said. No, you shouldn't be able to retain permanent control over an idea. No, saving the GPL is not worth perpetuating our current broken copyright. And no, a world with drastically reduced creator control over their "intellectual property" would be on the whole far less controlling, instead of more.
Besides, how often does the GPL come up in non-commercial cases?
I checked with noclip; sadly, the thing that drags you away is not rendered.
Out of interest - why aren't you supposed to have something if you wouldn't buy it?
Ask your DS-playing friends if they'd even own a DS if it weren't for homebrew and pirating. Remember, Nintendo makes a profit on the device.
That tunnel leads to the Virgin Islands.
We don't go there anymore.
We are all sociopaths. It's a fundamental part of human nature.