Yes, I do realise where I am. I also realise that some here may be mechanical engineers, physicists, or work in medicine etc. and may not be aware of Bash.
Why would I do that? I'm not trying to convince him for my sake! I gave him the information, and he rejected it. His short term benefit of *Oooooh shiney shiney new game!* was more important than his (and our) long term benefit of *No more draconian restrictions on games!*
That's the beauty of our current state of cultural development; People are allowed to make stupid decisions for rubbish reasons. It's their money, after all.
FWIW, I hope BT do some major exchange work in his area and he's stuck with a £35 coaster for a couple of days.
I disliked it because it was a 2D film edited for 3D, so it looked like a pop-up picture book. It was especially noticeable when the army of playing cards was marching; I felt like I was watching one of those rubbish lever devices children create with split pins and cardboard.
Avatar was rendered and filmed specifically for 3D, and included all of the proper camera angle and rendering POV alterations which it required. Alice in Wonderland used the same image and had a guy put the appropriate filter on scene elements to butcher the effect. It looked 3D, but only in that the characters looked like they were walking over the scene, not on it.
Here's an anecdote for you. It's something I'm considering sending in an email to Ubi once I have a few more instances under my belt.
Browsing the gaming section of my local supermarket (they still sell PC games! I'm amazed at that) I encountered a guy roughly my age looking at Assassin's Creed II. He'd spotted the "Constant Internet Connection Required to Play." sticket on the front, and was looking at roughly the area I'd say was the "System Requirements" part of the back now. I asked him what he thought of the "Always On" DRM.
"I don't mind. I have broadband anyway."
Surely you're aghast at the prospect of all of the bandwidth usage! The sheer audacity of UbiSoft for insisting that you're connected to the internet to play a single player game!
"No, not really. I have 30GB per month, I never use it."
Does it ever slow down or disconnect quickly when someone else in the house is downloading some music, or have to reboot your modem / router sometimes?
"Yeah, but I usually play a game while it reboots."
Well, every time that happens the game will pause. If it's disconnected for too long, it will quit and you lose your progress. You don't get the option to save.
"Well, they do say to save early, save often!"
- And this is why DRM is here to stay. Nobody else cares.
kdawson has hacked all of the other editor's accounts and is posting his inflammatory bullshit at every opportunity.
I swear, he's the/. version of Panorama on the BBC, or Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 (now the Panorama presenter). That man is contradictory just to get a reaction.
No, you take your own developed character to the game you play with your friend. Think Dragon Age: Origins with the second member of your party being your mate with his player character, with the gear and talents downloaded from an online account.
Regarding your hypothetical "caught in a lie" scenario, there's a simple answer:
"Nobody wants to be charged with a crime, let alone convicted. I did everything I could to try and remain without charge. Lying to a police officer is totally without legal repercussions, and as they lie frequently in interview (by their own admission) lying to them is also morally fine with me. In court, however, I am under oath. There's a word for lying under oath, and it doesn't apply when you're not in court."
But there is another flaw in your argument. Bob cannot go and post an email that Alice sent to him on Facebook (well, legally at least). Even though Alice doesn't have 4th amendment rights over Bob's copy, she still does hold copyright over the message. She granted him an implicit license to read the work when she sent it to him. She did not grant a license to show that email to anyone else...
... and yet we're fine with ripping and distributing the information to which we are granted an explicit license to listen / watch the work when that license was sold to us.
Boy I love the hypocrisy of this!
Offering 3:1 odds on me being modded down Flamebait / Off-topic.
Your email is not a letter. It is a selection of bits.
You cannot control what happens to those bits once you have hit the "Send" button any more than the BPI can control what happens to the bits of the most recently ripped JLS / Coldplay track. You're effectively suggesting that we legislate DRM for our email.
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Yes, I do realise where I am. I also realise that some here may be mechanical engineers, physicists, or work in medicine etc. and may not be aware of Bash.
So will employing a foreigner to do it for them.
They'll learn just how expendable they are, and how easy it is to outsource their skills from a nation of cheaper labour.
Why would I do that? I'm not trying to convince him for my sake! I gave him the information, and he rejected it. His short term benefit of *Oooooh shiney shiney new game!* was more important than his (and our) long term benefit of *No more draconian restrictions on games!*
That's the beauty of our current state of cultural development; People are allowed to make stupid decisions for rubbish reasons. It's their money, after all.
FWIW, I hope BT do some major exchange work in his area and he's stuck with a £35 coaster for a couple of days.
Oh yes, I agree totally.
The trouble is that apathy is convenient. Fighting for your beliefs is just too much like hard work.
I disliked it because it was a 2D film edited for 3D, so it looked like a pop-up picture book. It was especially noticeable when the army of playing cards was marching; I felt like I was watching one of those rubbish lever devices children create with split pins and cardboard.
Avatar was rendered and filmed specifically for 3D, and included all of the proper camera angle and rendering POV alterations which it required. Alice in Wonderland used the same image and had a guy put the appropriate filter on scene elements to butcher the effect. It looked 3D, but only in that the characters looked like they were walking over the scene, not on it.
You can play a steam game without updating it in offline mode. The Valve games (HL series etc) anyway.
Here's an anecdote for you. It's something I'm considering sending in an email to Ubi once I have a few more instances under my belt.
Browsing the gaming section of my local supermarket (they still sell PC games! I'm amazed at that) I encountered a guy roughly my age looking at Assassin's Creed II. He'd spotted the "Constant Internet Connection Required to Play." sticket on the front, and was looking at roughly the area I'd say was the "System Requirements" part of the back now. I asked him what he thought of the "Always On" DRM.
"I don't mind. I have broadband anyway."
Surely you're aghast at the prospect of all of the bandwidth usage! The sheer audacity of UbiSoft for insisting that you're connected to the internet to play a single player game!
"No, not really. I have 30GB per month, I never use it."
Does it ever slow down or disconnect quickly when someone else in the house is downloading some music, or have to reboot your modem / router sometimes?
"Yeah, but I usually play a game while it reboots."
Well, every time that happens the game will pause. If it's disconnected for too long, it will quit and you lose your progress. You don't get the option to save.
"Well, they do say to save early, save often!"
- And this is why DRM is here to stay. Nobody else cares.
Sorry bud, I just patented that.
Eastern District Court of Texas, here I come!
For those of you who don't speak "hoity-toity" here's a translation:
"I disagree with your pessimism regarding humanity. You're a clever bloke, but far too cynical.
Wanna make out?"
(N.B. This comment is fully-laden with humour.)
Boy, I will punch you in the JEANS
kdawson has hacked all of the other editor's accounts and is posting his inflammatory bullshit at every opportunity.
/. version of Panorama on the BBC, or Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 (now the Panorama presenter). That man is contradictory just to get a reaction.
I swear, he's the
The very definition of a troll.
We need to find out who first coined the phrase "There are 10 types of people in the world; Those who understand binary, and those who don't."
It should be named after that person.
This isn't even on land, though! This thing wants to fly, and some clever engineering trickery is keeping it on the ground.
The fastest car driven by its wheels is from 1938, and hit 400mph
The...name car is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle")...
Excellent point! You've totally refuted the OP's point about this not being a real car.
Let me show you a few "cars."
Here's one!
Here is another "car"
These are all really fast cars!
There's no separate league for cars driven by internal combustion engine, but here is the fastest of those.
Alpha, upper and lower case, numbers, special characters after sanitisation is 78 characters, if I remember correctly.
I may be wrong, but it's a good indication.
No, you take your own developed character to the game you play with your friend. Think Dragon Age: Origins with the second member of your party being your mate with his player character, with the gear and talents downloaded from an online account.
I've set kdawson stories so they don't show up on the homepage. There's a setting somewhere in your user options.
I'm only here because I came from an RSS feed, which is unfortunately unaffected by that setting.
We're still not at the root of the issue.
The true conclusion is that people are people, and that is how Tautology Club came to be a club about tautology.
Regarding your hypothetical "caught in a lie" scenario, there's a simple answer:
"Nobody wants to be charged with a crime, let alone convicted. I did everything I could to try and remain without charge. Lying to a police officer is totally without legal repercussions, and as they lie frequently in interview (by their own admission) lying to them is also morally fine with me. In court, however, I am under oath. There's a word for lying under oath, and it doesn't apply when you're not in court."
Ok not so simple, but you get the idea.
Well done, sunshine! You've just reduced the number of attempts to break $LARGE_US_BANK passwords to 1370114370683136 (78^8)
At 103000 attempts per seconds, that's... 421 years oh.
(Yes I know it's not going to take until the entire set has been attempted to crack a password.)
By the way, your Tautology Club card is your Tautology Club card. You can collect it at a place of collecting Tautology Club cards.
There'd be an Excel spreadsheet involved? That's just sadistic!
Well, here's the argument the RIAA is fighting. That scrap of paper is the same as a CD when comparing an email to a letter.
It's a grand idea, isn't it!
But there is another flaw in your argument. Bob cannot go and post an email that Alice sent to him on Facebook (well, legally at least). Even though Alice doesn't have 4th amendment rights over Bob's copy, she still does hold copyright over the message. She granted him an implicit license to read the work when she sent it to him. She did not grant a license to show that email to anyone else...
... and yet we're fine with ripping and distributing the information to which we are granted an explicit license to listen / watch the work when that license was sold to us.
Boy I love the hypocrisy of this!
Offering 3:1 odds on me being modded down Flamebait / Off-topic.
Your email is not a letter. It is a selection of bits.
You cannot control what happens to those bits once you have hit the "Send" button any more than the BPI can control what happens to the bits of the most recently ripped JLS / Coldplay track. You're effectively suggesting that we legislate DRM for our email.
Do you know how daft that sounds?