Not played TF2 but, didn't they add shields to counter strike only to make them the most hated weapon. Snipers should be powerful but weak( and rubbish at close range) adding a shield sounds stupid.
Your PC can't play TF2? I have an old (6 years i think) PC i built for ~£300* (P4@2.8+some nvidia card+1.25GB), it handled HL2 fine. I also used the same setup to play the updated dod:s and dystopia(makes heavy use of effects) under wine. Valve are great at supporting old systems, so unless you have a really old setup / old laptop i doubt youll run into too many problems
nice rant against labour, but what makes you think the conservatives who have been shown to be just as corrupt and in fact pushed though much of the totalitarian legislation when labour backbenchers rebelled, will be any better! If your looking to get rid of the totalitarian bullshit your going to have to vote elsewhere but as the system is inherently biased towards the big two, there's not much point, if your looknig to get rid of the corruption then even voting lib dem wont do you much good.
It is a dangerous situation in the likes of Venezuelan where the people have been dumb enough to allow Chavez to stand indefinitely
If people want to elect somebody over and over, that is their decision, the right were not complaining when thatcher ran for 11 years (3 terms), and could have run for more.
Isn't a suicide video abit far for a staging something, the guy is dead right! Normally when the right accuse the left wing leader of something i wait till the dust settles (unlike certain former presidents), because the right often own much of the media, but i don't think many on the right would have the balls to kill themselves just to take out a leader.
A homogenous network of secure computers is better than a mix of secure&insecure, you only need to break the weakest computers. If you run 30 pcs with 30 different operating systems then only one needs to get exploited for there to breach of security. The advantage of heterogeneous systems only applies when 1) Your dealing with two systems that are roughly as safe 2) You are dealing with a layered secured system. attacker -> A -> B -> C (important stuff) As this is a web server your looking simply at attacker -> A.
Cern would have been a large scale mature system even back in 2004, and AFAIK most of their desktops run linux, granted it is because they need scientific tools, but if you were paid to do research you could of atleast taken a look at their system.
I go to UCL (london,uk), in the first year i had a gf who spent >£120 (~$180) at the time on biomedical textbooks that were "co-written" by the course organizer. See was told she needed them, but I went out with her for ~1year and never saw her use them. The system in the UK can be just as screwed up as the US.
I do think it varies a lot by department though (e.g in the physics department i remember a lecturer charging roughly the cost of making copies, for cheap prints of a few important texts)
If people are bothering to pirate this book that means that it is still relevant.
If this book is being pirated, that likely means that it is still in "500 vaguely related computer e-books DVD ISO.rar.torrent".
Just because he hasn't updated it lately does not give people the right to rip it off. He invested his time and energy into writing it and most works do not pay for themselves instantly, but over time.
Book authorship has been non-viable as a primary source of income for the vast majority of authors for far longer than e-books have been around.
I agree somewhat with those of the view that, getting paid little for a 10 year old non-fiction book is fair. I'm not saying you don't deserve anything but $60 for an ebook is excessive.
If i needed information in data compression i would be unlikely to pay $60 for it, (personally I'd find an alternative source) especially as i suspect most readers will pick it up a couple of times to get something done and then it will just sit unused. If you still want to milk this book for a bit more, catering to your audience more, i think you'd be getting a fair share if you stuck the whole thing on a website and used ads/links to legitimate copies (id also drop the price considerably)
No but any justification for a fat/smoking tax is bullshit! Im all for taxing stuff is a burden on society (socialism by/. standards i know), but if smokers aren't costing the NHS more money then smokers shouldn't pay more,
Given that one of the many reasons they increased the duty on alchol in the UK was to pay for the policing it causes, shouldn't people get a rebate for taking pills which makes it almost impossible to fight or cause trouble!?
Regardless, the biggest expense comes if you ever have to go to court to enforce a license, and that isn't changing here.
IT seams to me that hes missing a chance on this one, if he provided a basic framework for the licenses, defining terms, etc, then all the licenses would be sufficiently similar that once one gets tested in court companies will just pay up in future.
With music its even more clear cut than software, whereas you can get away with distributing binaries because nobody can see the source, with music you can hear if a piece is being redistributed (if its so heavily remixed that you cant be sure then its probably fair use anyway)
They don't seem to care much about corporate copyright either, so you've lost nothing but gained: 1) fans 2) A way for legitimate small companies to redistribute your stuff, with some profits handed to you.
I think most Britain's hold the view, that what you do in public is public and what you do in a shop can be recorded by the store owners for whatever means they see fit. IMO this is a good deal, however some people are unhappy and looking for more privacy in public places (less CCTV) and thats also cool, it appears that the greek have a somewhat different balance and would rather not have thier public spaces photographed by streetview and IMO that is also fine.
The world doesn't run by your standards! In greece people do not want picture of them in public view published on the internet, so they have passed laws/etc to prevent it. If you don't like it move to...
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Not played TF2 but, didn't they add shields to counter strike only to make them the most hated weapon. Snipers should be powerful but weak( and rubbish at close range) adding a shield sounds stupid.
Your PC can't play TF2? I have an old (6 years i think) PC i built for ~£300* (P4@2.8+some nvidia card+1.25GB), it handled HL2 fine. I also used the same setup to play the updated dod:s and dystopia(makes heavy use of effects) under wine. Valve are great at supporting old systems, so unless you have a really old setup / old laptop i doubt youll run into too many problems
nice rant against labour, but what makes you think the conservatives who have been shown to be just as corrupt and in fact pushed though much of the totalitarian legislation when labour backbenchers rebelled, will be any better! If your looking to get rid of the totalitarian bullshit your going to have to vote elsewhere but as the system is inherently biased towards the big two, there's not much point, if your looknig to get rid of the corruption then even voting lib dem wont do you much good.
It is a dangerous situation in the likes of Venezuelan where the people have been dumb enough to allow Chavez to stand indefinitely
If people want to elect somebody over and over, that is their decision, the right were not complaining when thatcher ran for 11 years (3 terms), and could have run for more.
Isn't a suicide video abit far for a staging something, the guy is dead right! Normally when the right accuse the left wing leader of something i wait till the dust settles (unlike certain former presidents), because the right often own much of the media, but i don't think many on the right would have the balls to kill themselves just to take out a leader.
A homogenous network of secure computers is better than a mix of secure&insecure, you only need to break the weakest computers. If you run 30 pcs with 30 different operating systems then only one needs to get exploited for there to breach of security. The advantage of heterogeneous systems only applies when
1) Your dealing with two systems that are roughly as safe
2) You are dealing with a layered secured system. attacker -> A -> B -> C (important stuff)
As this is a web server your looking simply at attacker -> A.
Could you only turn it on, once population density gets too high?
Cern would have been a large scale mature system even back in 2004, and AFAIK most of their desktops run linux, granted it is because they need scientific tools, but if you were paid to do research you could of atleast taken a look at their system.
french police
french railway
cern
900 pharmacies
Thats 5 minutes of googling (im sure EU offices of google also use linux) if i got paid to do a study, I'm sure i could find more.
I go to UCL (london,uk), in the first year i had a gf who spent >£120 (~$180) at the time on biomedical textbooks that were "co-written" by the course organizer. See was told she needed them, but I went out with her for ~1year and never saw her use them. The system in the UK can be just as screwed up as the US.
I do think it varies a lot by department though (e.g in the physics department i remember a lecturer charging roughly the cost of making copies, for cheap prints of a few important texts)
effort?
1) search on torrentz
2) download (3 clicks +1 in the torrent program)
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?)no-profit
Even for stuff i own i sometimes pirate CDs because its easier than finding & ripping them.
p.s stealing deprives the victim of the original
p.p.s piracy involves ships
If people are bothering to pirate this book that means that it is still relevant.
If this book is being pirated, that likely means that it is still in "500 vaguely related computer e-books DVD ISO.rar.torrent".
Just because he hasn't updated it lately does not give people the right to rip it off. He invested his time and energy into writing it and most works do not pay for themselves instantly, but over time.
Book authorship has been non-viable as a primary source of income for the vast majority of authors for far longer than e-books have been around.
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I agree somewhat with those of the view that, getting paid little for a 10 year old non-fiction book is fair. I'm not saying you don't deserve anything but $60 for an ebook is excessive.
If i needed information in data compression i would be unlikely to pay $60 for it, (personally I'd find an alternative source) especially as i suspect most readers will pick it up a couple of times to get something done and then it will just sit unused. If you still want to milk this book for a bit more, catering to your audience more, i think you'd be getting a fair share if you stuck the whole thing on a website and used ads/links to legitimate copies (id also drop the price considerably)
Time for an uber-cannon? I mean wouldn't that save alot of money launching satellites?
That guy has balls and achieved something with his death. Nobody is going to notice if a few people stop tweeting, the SS can just post:
Life sucks, might shoot myself in the back, jump off my balcony, shoot myself again w/ different gun, and then trip into a wood chipper, FML
So getting caught tweeting shit about the president isn't going to achieve much. It's not about backing down, just no point getting caught tweeting
I bet if you did the maths, the numbers wouldn't add up
No but any justification for a fat/smoking tax is bullshit! Im all for taxing stuff is a burden on society (socialism by /. standards i know), but if smokers aren't costing the NHS more money then smokers shouldn't pay more,
Given that one of the many reasons they increased the duty on alchol in the UK was to pay for the policing it causes, shouldn't people get a rebate for taking pills which makes it almost impossible to fight or cause trouble!?
Regardless, the biggest expense comes if you ever have to go to court to enforce a license, and that isn't changing here.
IT seams to me that hes missing a chance on this one, if he provided a basic framework for the licenses, defining terms, etc, then all the licenses would be sufficiently similar that once one gets tested in court companies will just pay up in future.
With music its even more clear cut than software, whereas you can get away with distributing binaries because nobody can see the source, with music you can hear if a piece is being redistributed (if its so heavily remixed that you cant be sure then its probably fair use anyway)
They don't seem to care much about corporate copyright either, so you've lost nothing but gained:
1) fans
2) A way for legitimate small companies to redistribute your stuff, with some profits handed to you.
How is this better than just dual licensing CC-BY-NC-SA & then selling commercial licenses?
You wouldn't shoot a policeman, THEN STEAL HIS HAT
I think most Britain's hold the view, that what you do in public is public and what you do in a shop can be recorded by the store owners for whatever means they see fit. IMO this is a good deal, however some people are unhappy and looking for more privacy in public places (less CCTV) and thats also cool, it appears that the greek have a somewhat different balance and would rather not have thier public spaces photographed by streetview and IMO that is also fine.
How about you let the people of Greece decide what THEY consider a compromise?
The world doesn't run by your standards! In greece people do not want picture of them in public view published on the internet, so they have passed laws/etc to prevent it. If you don't like it move to...
I'll have already patented patented trolling by then, so they'll owe me royalties every time they even try!