Granted; however, it's an amusing tagline when someone high-up in their own hierarchy gets burned with their marketing strategies, no matter what side of the company they're on. Especially when they bitch about it in internal emails that get propagated.
Of course it's coming, we just have to win the lawsuits first.
Seriously, with all of the john-due suing that's apparently failed hard enough that the RIAA ends up paying attorney's fees, I'd be surprised if there's anything left to divvy up.
Of course, it goes without saying that the RIAA's board of directors get their yachts first, too. Can't even think about dividing up the money until those get paid off.
Of course the RIAA's testimony was "factually erroneous". We've been hearing about the shaky technical ground that these lawsuits have been based on since they started coming out, and it's "experts" like this, blatantly lying to non-technically-proficient judges, that've allowed the RIAA to keep pulling the crap it's been pulling. Thank god someone is both A. Knowledgable enough to call them on it, and B. Is in a position where they might actually be listened to.
Granted, I'm sure that "depression" in the clinical definition is treatable by antidepressants due to chemical imbalances in the brain. However, two things:
How many times are antidepressants prescribed to people who have some sort of outside influence contributing to their apparent depression? If they're convinced they'll be happier in their current circumstances with the addition of an antidepressant, they will be happier. Which is almost the definition of a placebo effect in a nutshell.
Not to write off all depression as "Sure, you can think your way out of illness", but considering how impressively complex the human body is in the first place, is it that unbelievable that it can fix it's own brain-based chemical imbalances?
This is a popular revenue model in Asia, where the games themselves are free to play but charge a premium for a variety of premium extras, from vanity items to additional content or abilities. It's a model that's working well for Korean developer Nexon but hasn't been adopted by many American developers.
Your face and my ass, sweetheart. The entirety of the World of Warcraft CCG is a microtransaction, with the addendum that you're not actually guaranteed to get a vanity item when you buy them. Just go look for an ebay auction of a Spectral Tiger to see how popular it is.
I could see this working if you run, say, a WAP up with a balloon and use an ethernet cable as a balloon string, but floating them around and having them "float" (ha ha) back down to earth every 24 hours and trusting that someone'll actually see them (as compared to running them over with a tractor in a huge field of what-have-you), AND return them, seems unworkable.
I think Linux users have cursed themselves in the "spreading Linux" department, for the time being. If you walk up to someone on the street and ask them about Linux, you'll invariably hear something along the lines of "Only geeks use it". Linux users have perpetrated the "We're better than you because we use the command line" idea for quite awhile, and exacerbated the problem by not creating GUI-usable tools that equate with the CLI. While it's getting a lot better now, especially with the idea Ubuntu's trying to get across (heck, even Gentoo has a LiveCD with a GUI installer, something I never thought I'd see), looking up a "How To Do so-and-so" generally and invariably involves "Pull up a terminal and type...". Even if that wasn't the case, it's going to take a good while or a concentrated advertising effort to try and reverse this public preconception of what Linux is. I mean, as a counterpoint to that, look at the public conception of Mac. It's based on Unix, and yet because they've spent so much time pushing it as the "It just works, anyone can use it" operating system that the only reason it didn't do as well as Windows back in the day was the exorbitant hardware prices, and even that's coming down somewhat.
If there's mirrors up and running, I don't know how "centralized" you can call it. Besides, after this, I imagine they'll the benefit in mirroring it elsewhere (read: multiple countries) too.
Just to toss in an addendum to that, they just only decided that his leg, when compared with a human leg, was "better" insofar as shock absorption and materials. They didn't actually say anything or bother to test the amount of effort difference from the bit where he doesn't have any muscles in his leg, or how his body worked in comparison with someone else in the same shape who didn't have prosthetics.
At least it would give the Wikipedia community something to do other than argue over what webcomics are considered notable and deleting spyware company description pages because...actually, I don't know why they did that one.
Digging around for the best way to apply the patch without screwing up my portage updates, I came across a request for this to be merged into the portage back in 2005, and is apparently usable with the HPN useflag.
Not that I'm that surprised to see this is old news, since they're apparently on major revision 13...
This blatant money-grab is just one more nail in their coffin.
If I had a nail for every time I've heard this phrase in regards to the RIAA, I could make coffins enough for every greedy RIAA chairman that's pushing this type of crap, and have enough left over to start a hardware store. And yet the RIAA is still chugging along.
Face facts: despite all of these quote-unquote deal-breaking, money-grubbing, END OF THE MAFIAA deals and lawsuits that've been reported on/., they still have a long way to go before they're gone.
Trying to "start a dialogue" with people who strap bombs onto themselves so they can go out and kill women and children on a city bus is not "clear thinking".
Because hunting them down has worked so well- oh wait.
It isn't as if this is a judicial sentence of death. What he deserved is irrelevant. You use that term when you are talking about justice not when you are talking about accidents with wildlife.
Grantecd, but I think it's directed more at the people who say "You taunt a tiger, you deserve to get mauled."
Personally, I agree, yes this dude was stupid. However, the zoo is very much at fault here-- while I don't know the extent of the taunting that was going on, if a tiger can get enraged enough to jump the fence for three guys, what happens if it's a rambunctious field trip full of 6 year olds? Do taunting children "deserve" to be mauled too? And more importantly (since I don't care about a bunch of 6 year olds, but think-of-the-children is always a great argument point), do the rest of this zoo's "safety" measures come up to code, or are they lacking elsewhere? Are we going to be getting news that a shark rammed it's way through an aquarium window when someone starting humming the Jaws theme and tapping on the glass?
For one, they didn't climb over the fence, they were standing on top of the fence. Two, the fence was 3' high-- the kind you have to prevent 3 year olds from falling into the moat, not to prevent the tiger from getting out.
It says that, and yet in the Why Silverlight? section, it promises "Compelling Cross-Platform User Experiences" and "Consistent experiences between Windows-based and Macintosh computers". So I guess what they mean is compelling and consistent experiences across all the platforms you're liscenced to use it on?
Ideally, there would be a body out there to whom you could assign "obvious" patents so that they can't be used for evil. That seems like such a good idea that I'm sure it must exist.
You'd think so, but I have a patent on the idea and I'm just waiting someone to infringe on it.
I realize it sounds silly at first glance, but I'd agree with the general idea. While an IP isn't private per se, you don't run around IRC and chat channels shouting your IP at random people. Your IP is between you and whatever sites you choose to visit. In addition to that, you generally don't want your named linked to an IP. Even if an untrustworthy website, they have your IP but not your name with it. Once you have a name and an IP, someone with an axe to grind can start trying in earnest to break the door down, or DDoSing your personal website, if you have one.
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Granted; however, it's an amusing tagline when someone high-up in their own hierarchy gets burned with their marketing strategies, no matter what side of the company they're on. Especially when they bitch about it in internal emails that get propagated.
First rule of programming: Don't listen to your users.
Of course it's coming, we just have to win the lawsuits first.
Seriously, with all of the john-due suing that's apparently failed hard enough that the RIAA ends up paying attorney's fees, I'd be surprised if there's anything left to divvy up.
Of course, it goes without saying that the RIAA's board of directors get their yachts first, too. Can't even think about dividing up the money until those get paid off.
Is it just me, or did and editor confuse the Slashdot submission form with the idle.slashdot submission form?
Of course the RIAA's testimony was "factually erroneous". We've been hearing about the shaky technical ground that these lawsuits have been based on since they started coming out, and it's "experts" like this, blatantly lying to non-technically-proficient judges, that've allowed the RIAA to keep pulling the crap it's been pulling. Thank god someone is both A. Knowledgable enough to call them on it, and B. Is in a position where they might actually be listened to.
Your face and my ass, sweetheart. The entirety of the World of Warcraft CCG is a microtransaction, with the addendum that you're not actually guaranteed to get a vanity item when you buy them. Just go look for an ebay auction of a Spectral Tiger to see how popular it is.
I could see this working if you run, say, a WAP up with a balloon and use an ethernet cable as a balloon string, but floating them around and having them "float" (ha ha) back down to earth every 24 hours and trusting that someone'll actually see them (as compared to running them over with a tractor in a huge field of what-have-you), AND return them, seems unworkable.
I think Linux users have cursed themselves in the "spreading Linux" department, for the time being. If you walk up to someone on the street and ask them about Linux, you'll invariably hear something along the lines of "Only geeks use it". Linux users have perpetrated the "We're better than you because we use the command line" idea for quite awhile, and exacerbated the problem by not creating GUI-usable tools that equate with the CLI. While it's getting a lot better now, especially with the idea Ubuntu's trying to get across (heck, even Gentoo has a LiveCD with a GUI installer, something I never thought I'd see), looking up a "How To Do so-and-so" generally and invariably involves "Pull up a terminal and type...". Even if that wasn't the case, it's going to take a good while or a concentrated advertising effort to try and reverse this public preconception of what Linux is. I mean, as a counterpoint to that, look at the public conception of Mac. It's based on Unix, and yet because they've spent so much time pushing it as the "It just works, anyone can use it" operating system that the only reason it didn't do as well as Windows back in the day was the exorbitant hardware prices, and even that's coming down somewhat.
If there's mirrors up and running, I don't know how "centralized" you can call it. Besides, after this, I imagine they'll the benefit in mirroring it elsewhere (read: multiple countries) too.
Just to toss in an addendum to that, they just only decided that his leg, when compared with a human leg, was "better" insofar as shock absorption and materials. They didn't actually say anything or bother to test the amount of effort difference from the bit where he doesn't have any muscles in his leg, or how his body worked in comparison with someone else in the same shape who didn't have prosthetics.
At least it would give the Wikipedia community something to do other than argue over what webcomics are considered notable and deleting spyware company description pages because...actually, I don't know why they did that one.
Digging around for the best way to apply the patch without screwing up my portage updates, I came across a request for this to be merged into the portage back in 2005, and is apparently usable with the HPN useflag.
Not that I'm that surprised to see this is old news, since they're apparently on major revision 13...
We will, at our discretion, either do X or do Y. Reading comprehension is your friend.
Scan back half a sentence to the at our discretion bit again. Since you missed it the first time, apparently.
Face facts: despite all of these quote-unquote deal-breaking, money-grubbing, END OF THE MAFIAA deals and lawsuits that've been reported on
Trying to "start a dialogue" with people who strap bombs onto themselves so they can go out and kill women and children on a city bus is not "clear thinking".
Because hunting them down has worked so well- oh wait.
I don't know about the third one, but according to Ars, the first two were 2 km apart from each other.
Grantecd, but I think it's directed more at the people who say "You taunt a tiger, you deserve to get mauled."
Personally, I agree, yes this dude was stupid. However, the zoo is very much at fault here-- while I don't know the extent of the taunting that was going on, if a tiger can get enraged enough to jump the fence for three guys, what happens if it's a rambunctious field trip full of 6 year olds? Do taunting children "deserve" to be mauled too? And more importantly (since I don't care about a bunch of 6 year olds, but think-of-the-children is always a great argument point), do the rest of this zoo's "safety" measures come up to code, or are they lacking elsewhere? Are we going to be getting news that a shark rammed it's way through an aquarium window when someone starting humming the Jaws theme and tapping on the glass?
For one, they didn't climb over the fence, they were standing on top of the fence. Two, the fence was 3' high-- the kind you have to prevent 3 year olds from falling into the moat, not to prevent the tiger from getting out.
The Bronze Age turns 4000. People care equally about both milestones. GIFs at 11.
It says that, and yet in the Why Silverlight? section, it promises "Compelling Cross-Platform User Experiences" and "Consistent experiences between Windows-based and Macintosh computers". So I guess what they mean is compelling and consistent experiences across all the platforms you're liscenced to use it on?
You'd think so, but I have a patent on the idea and I'm just waiting someone to infringe on it.
I realize it sounds silly at first glance, but I'd agree with the general idea. While an IP isn't private per se, you don't run around IRC and chat channels shouting your IP at random people. Your IP is between you and whatever sites you choose to visit. In addition to that, you generally don't want your named linked to an IP. Even if an untrustworthy website, they have your IP but not your name with it. Once you have a name and an IP, someone with an axe to grind can start trying in earnest to break the door down, or DDoSing your personal website, if you have one.