I didn't say that you were working for the music industry. I suggested that, considering you both hold a disjointed view of the definition of the word "steal", you may wish to seek gainful employment with them.
FWIW, Google is not a dictionary 1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force 2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Console games: Sports, driving games, fighting, button-mashers. PC games: RPGs, first person shooters.
If it ain't on PC, you can take one lost sale away from the "OMG TEH PIEWATS!" statistics, and add it onto "Don't know which platform a game should be developed for" chart.
I've played FPS games on a PC and a console. If I have to wait 2+ seconds to spin 180 degrees, or the same amount of time lining up the crosshair / ironsight to get a headshot, you've failed in creating a good FPS.
If I take a picture of your house without your consent, I'm not stealing your house. If I walk across your lawn without your consent, I'm not stealing your lawn. If I scrape my key across your car without your consent, I'm not stealing your car.
Really, the two parts of the definition must be fulfilled for theft to occur: A deprivation of a good or service, and that deprivation of good or service to be without the proper owners consent. Your definition is still incorrect.
"Someone stole my wallet on the train" is fine. A person is deprived of a property of service which is rightfully theres by another person not authorised to do so.
"This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" is a falicy. The original author still has the full dissertation, and was not deprived of anything. This is not theft, it is copyright infringement.
Dark Side of The Moon in 8bit sound! Have it on in the background while you play around with Slashroulette.
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Care to recommend an alternative? I'd look myself, but repo descriptions are hardly... Well, descriptive. You sound like you've used a few, and know enough about them to make an informed recommendation.
You do realise that you put those guys there, don't you?
Not you personally, but the people who voted for their respective party's. You folks really need to sort out your electorate... Maybe handing out fliers on election day, outside the polling areas? List alternative parties, some of their major points... Something for them to read while in line.
The figure given in the stub, and the linked article, is inaccurate.
"The small percentage of what the authors termed "supertaskers" obviously left the authors considering the possibility that it was a statistical fluke. So, they created four pools from the scores from their tests (memory, math, braking distance, and response time) and used Monte Carlo sampling to create 100,000 random scores. Supertaskers appeared in only 0.16 percent of these, which indicates that the 2.5 percent figure they saw represents a real phenomena. "
You're buying the hype. Big label games, movies, and music are making record profits (by the admission of their own figures) despite protestations that they're losing money hand-over-fist to pirates.
And that's on platforms where you can download unlicensed, working versions of media.
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I didn't say that you were working for the music industry. I suggested that, considering you both hold a disjointed view of the definition of the word "steal", you may wish to seek gainful employment with them.
FWIW, Google is not a dictionary
1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force
2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
You might think that 2. fits your description. It does not. Nothing was appropriated (to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate:) It was duplicated. Google still retains the code.
I grow tired of making this distinction on every single post which deals with an infringement of copyright or other licensed work.
Console games: Sports, driving games, fighting, button-mashers.
PC games: RPGs, first person shooters.
If it ain't on PC, you can take one lost sale away from the "OMG TEH PIEWATS!" statistics, and add it onto "Don't know which platform a game should be developed for" chart.
I've played FPS games on a PC and a console. If I have to wait 2+ seconds to spin 180 degrees, or the same amount of time lining up the crosshair / ironsight to get a headshot, you've failed in creating a good FPS.
I don't know about that. My mum is pretty good at shooting the ducks to win $1m now.
If I take a picture of your house without your consent, I'm not stealing your house.
If I walk across your lawn without your consent, I'm not stealing your lawn.
If I scrape my key across your car without your consent, I'm not stealing your car.
Really, the two parts of the definition must be fulfilled for theft to occur: A deprivation of a good or service, and that deprivation of good or service to be without the proper owners consent. Your definition is still incorrect.
Your examples are spurious.
"Someone stole my wallet on the train" is fine. A person is deprived of a property of service which is rightfully theres by another person not authorised to do so.
"This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" is a falicy. The original author still has the full dissertation, and was not deprived of anything. This is not theft, it is copyright infringement.
Google still has the code which was copied.
You should probably work for the music industry.
Yet it seems there is on their keyboard
Then why the hell are you talking about it?
Sharing internally reduces the chance of malware infection from internet-based file sharing networks to zero.
I'd support it, too.
DRM is to prevent use of the product when the criteria for authorised use are not met.
How is DRM supposed to not affect your gameplay?
FUCK YEAH!
Coming again to save the motherfucking day, yeah!
AMERICUH! Fuck yeah!
Suppression of information which would negatively influence world opinion of us is the only way, yeah!
Ugh, I just wish /. didn't have to run a story on other people's April 1st jokes. Can't it get some of it's own?
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This is seventy billion shades more awesome than the video chat. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/floyd_nes/
Dark Side of The Moon in 8bit sound! Have it on in the background while you play around with Slashroulette.
Care to recommend an alternative? I'd look myself, but repo descriptions are hardly... Well, descriptive. You sound like you've used a few, and know enough about them to make an informed recommendation.
You do realise that you put those guys there, don't you?
Not you personally, but the people who voted for their respective party's. You folks really need to sort out your electorate... Maybe handing out fliers on election day, outside the polling areas? List alternative parties, some of their major points... Something for them to read while in line.
The figure given in the stub, and the linked article, is inaccurate.
"The small percentage of what the authors termed "supertaskers" obviously left the authors considering the possibility that it was a statistical fluke. So, they created four pools from the scores from their tests (memory, math, braking distance, and response time) and used Monte Carlo sampling to create 100,000 random scores. Supertaskers appeared in only 0.16 percent of these, which indicates that the 2.5 percent figure they saw represents a real phenomena. "
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Your mom: 0h y34h, ur a n4w7y b0i!11
Anyone can be puerile. Try being witty instead.
St George was Turkish, yet plenty of racist twats in the UK have him tattooed on their body.
I find that most amusing.
They find it less so when you point it out...
Yeah, and I bet you love a good spadding, don't you.
Pervert.
Iron Man 2 has Don Cheadle as War Machine. Don Cheadle ffs.
Terrence Howard must be gutted.
Jesus holly fucker.
1) It was made of thorns.
2) Wrong head.
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You're buying the hype. Big label games, movies, and music are making record profits (by the admission of their own figures) despite protestations that they're losing money hand-over-fist to pirates.
And that's on platforms where you can download unlicensed, working versions of media.
I was of the (maybe mistaken) that the law did not distinguish between the two.
Law makers are hardly IT literate, after all.
... Only if you're trying to wash your junk by having sex.