Several years ago, I was implementing Microsoft SMS on a small business network, and I wanted to try out the license enforcement feature. Basically, install a piece of software on every computer, tell SMS you have X number of licenses, and it will let X copies run; somebody else tries to run it, and they got a little window asking if they'd like to wait in line, so to speak.
So, I tried it out on Solitare. Told it that there was one license for sol.exe, fired up a copy on one workstation, then tried to fire it up on another, and sure enough, got the popup.
A minute later, one of the executive VPs comes over to my desk, demanding to know why he can't run solitare. He liked to play it while on boring conference calls with vendors, things like that.
George Lucas, of course, who has long made it clear that he has absolutely no problem with people using Star Wars related IP for non-commercial use, within certain decency boundaries.
Then why doesn't the playback device compress levels in these recordings?
Home Theater audio works this way; your Dolby Digital, DTS or whatever track is recorded with a very large dynamic range; whispers are whispers, and ear-shattering kabooms are ear-shattering kabooms. The receiver, however, will have a 'Dynamic Range Compensation' setting (often called 'midnight mode') to, well, dynamically compensate the range.
Of course, your entire post is completely irrelevant, as he explains in the original post that what he has "was a direct casting off the original prop". Completely unambiguous; he did not ruin the original prop, he ruined a first-generation copy.
In fact the "editorialist" is right: for the time being, "microexpressions" are a pseudo-science. That is, the claims for their predictive ability are not sufficiently well-founded, there haven't been large enough studies, and the experiments have not been replicated enough, to justify widespread deployment.
The thing is, however, that with studies and experiments, this could very well become a valid science.
After all, at one point, the germ theory of disease was a pseudo-science, and only quacks would bother spraying their operating rooms with carbolic acid.
Personally, this is the part that jumped out at me:
Johnson & Johnson began using the Red Cross design and "Red Cross" word trademarks in 1887, predating the formation of the American Red Cross. The Company has had exclusive rights to use the Red Cross trademark on commercial products within its longstanding product categories for over 100 years. Since its creation, the American Red Cross has at all times possessed only the rights to use the Red Cross trademark in connection with its non-profit relief services.
...we were very disappointed to find that the American Red Cross started a campaign to license the trademark to several businesses for commercial purposes on all types of products being sold in many different retail and other commercial outlets. These products include baby mitts, nail clippers, combs, toothbrushes and humidifiers. This action is in direct violation of a Federal statute protecting the mark as well as in violation of our longstanding trademark rights.
Well, if J&J has said for however long 'feel free to use the red cross for anything charitable, non-commercial, and directly by yourselves,' and they've now started selling with it, or licensing it out to third parties, and J&J says something, then yes, they're defending their trademark just right.
Back before the spring update that allowed the unit to download in a low power state, there were two separate instances where I'd queue up a big demo, turn off the TV and receiver, and leave; only to find when I got home, that my wife, while cleaning up, had closed the doors to the entertainment center, leaving the 360 running, on full tilt, in a fully enclosed space about, oh, maybe two to three times the size of the 360 itself, with naught but a three-inch-diameter cable hole in the back for ventilation.
Diggity damn, could you hear those fans just a-roaring away, but the 360 itself doesn't seem to have been adversely affected by either of it's own personal trips to Hell....
What exactly is a "professional grade" switch or router?
Managability, hardware features such as isolating bad ports, easily replacable hardware, monitoring and reporting capability, higher quality backplanes, expansion slots, dedicated switch interconnects, and so on.
Can't query that 5-port Dlink switch to see what ports are moving what traffic, can't disable a port, can't assign VLANs, can't monitor via SNMP to make sure that it's not over-heating, and so on.
The ver excellent Civilization strategy guide "Civilization, or Rome on 640K per day" or something to that effect, had a section on modding the game.
One of the mods was editing the text that was part of the opening cinematic, and the example the guy used was, in part that very sequence, as well as the digital watches bit.
On the subject of partial-body vacuum exposure, the results are not quite as serious. In 1960, during a high-altitude balloon parachute-jump, a partial-body vacuum exposure incident occurred when Joe Kittinger, Jr. lost pressurization in his right glove during an ascent to 103,000 ft (19.5 miles) in an unpressurized balloon gondola, Despite the depressurization, he continued the mission, and although the hand became painful and useless, after he returned to the ground, his hand returned to normal. Kittinger wrote in National Geographic (November 1960):
Where laws are nothing but arbitrary, then they are not moral and thus are not just.
Arbitrary laws are bad, but there are other choices than 'abritrary' and 'moral.'
Laws should be about the public good, not about morality. A lot of 'public good' happens to fit in with common morality; laws against murder, rape, and so on. But as soon as you start legislating things like 'a married man shall not be in a room alone with an umarried woman,' or 'A 17 year old having sex with a fifteen year old is fine, but if she then gives him a BJ, he gets 10 years and a permanant sex-offender status,' or 'you will attend the church of my choice every day' you have problems.
I'm suddenly reminded of those beasties in the Super Mario games that turn around, and you can sneak past, but then they whip around to look, and you have to stop moving, or they attack you.
So let's look at the AAA exclusives for PS3: Resistance, Motorstorm, Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
I keep seeing Ninja Gaiden Sigma referred to as a 'AAA exclusive,' or similar wording, when it is just a port of Ninja Gaiden Xbox, with a few new weapons and moves thrown in, and Rachel as a playable character.
Ah, but don't forget, the 360 was launched in November, IIRC, and there were supply problems until at least March, if not all the way into summer, of the next year; PS3s seem to have been in easy supply since launch.
You're a troll. Sony got cocky and Nintendo is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumers demands.
1970s: Arcades got cocky, and Atari is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
1980s: Atari got cocky, and Nintendo is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
1990s: Nintendo got cocky, and Sony is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
2000s: Sony got cocky, and Microsoft is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
For every video game, Chuck Norris has unlimited continues. However, he's never actually used one, as Chuck Norris's video game characters have never died.
When Chuck Norris plays Pitfall, the crocodiles get eaten.
Chuck Norris played the very first game of Pac-Man. Tbad guys wern't originally ghosts; he just beat them that badly.
I'm assuming that a race that makes it beyond the Nuclear and the Pollution Age (like we are in), has some maturity with respect to balancing Wants and Needs.
Why would you assume that? Honest question.
Wants can take you anywhere, but needs start wars.
Again, you assume that what you define as a 'need' is what somebody else would define as a 'need.' What 'need' started World War 1? World War 2? Vietnam? Korea?
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Several years ago, I was implementing Microsoft SMS on a small business network, and I wanted to try out the license enforcement feature. Basically, install a piece of software on every computer, tell SMS you have X number of licenses, and it will let X copies run; somebody else tries to run it, and they got a little window asking if they'd like to wait in line, so to speak.
So, I tried it out on Solitare. Told it that there was one license for sol.exe, fired up a copy on one workstation, then tried to fire it up on another, and sure enough, got the popup.
A minute later, one of the executive VPs comes over to my desk, demanding to know why he can't run solitare. He liked to play it while on boring conference calls with vendors, things like that.
George Lucas, of course, who has long made it clear that he has absolutely no problem with people using Star Wars related IP for non-commercial use, within certain decency boundaries.
Home Theater audio works this way; your Dolby Digital, DTS or whatever track is recorded with a very large dynamic range; whispers are whispers, and ear-shattering kabooms are ear-shattering kabooms. The receiver, however, will have a 'Dynamic Range Compensation' setting (often called 'midnight mode') to, well, dynamically compensate the range.
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
--Mel Brooks (I think)
Maybe they'll finally get around to releasing Pimps At Sea.
Of course, your entire post is completely irrelevant, as he explains in the original post that what he has "was a direct casting off the original prop". Completely unambiguous; he did not ruin the original prop, he ruined a first-generation copy.
The thing is, however, that with studies and experiments, this could very well become a valid science.
After all, at one point, the germ theory of disease was a pseudo-science, and only quacks would bother spraying their operating rooms with carbolic acid.
Personally, this is the part that jumped out at me:
Well, if J&J has said for however long 'feel free to use the red cross for anything charitable, non-commercial, and directly by yourselves,' and they've now started selling with it, or licensing it out to third parties, and J&J says something, then yes, they're defending their trademark just right.
Back before the spring update that allowed the unit to download in a low power state, there were two separate instances where I'd queue up a big demo, turn off the TV and receiver, and leave; only to find when I got home, that my wife, while cleaning up, had closed the doors to the entertainment center, leaving the 360 running, on full tilt, in a fully enclosed space about, oh, maybe two to three times the size of the 360 itself, with naught but a three-inch-diameter cable hole in the back for ventilation.
Diggity damn, could you hear those fans just a-roaring away, but the 360 itself doesn't seem to have been adversely affected by either of it's own personal trips to Hell....
On the other hand, they can make the search a condition of entry. Private property and all that.
Managability, hardware features such as isolating bad ports, easily replacable hardware, monitoring and reporting capability, higher quality backplanes, expansion slots, dedicated switch interconnects, and so on.
Can't query that 5-port Dlink switch to see what ports are moving what traffic, can't disable a port, can't assign VLANs, can't monitor via SNMP to make sure that it's not over-heating, and so on.
Sorry, but increase or decrease of seratonin causing a physical reaction in blood vessels is a 'non-physical means' of causing a headache?
Perhaps you meant 'external stimuli?'?
Or before the server software notices a cracking attempt, and starts tarpitting or refusing the connections?
The ver excellent Civilization strategy guide "Civilization, or Rome on 640K per day" or something to that effect, had a section on modding the game.
One of the mods was editing the text that was part of the opening cinematic, and the example the guy used was, in part that very sequence, as well as the digital watches bit.
And it goes on. Found at http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/vacuum.h tml linked in another comment.
Nonsense.
Arbitrary laws are bad, but there are other choices than 'abritrary' and 'moral.'
Laws should be about the public good, not about morality. A lot of 'public good' happens to fit in with common morality; laws against murder, rape, and so on. But as soon as you start legislating things like 'a married man shall not be in a room alone with an umarried woman,' or 'A 17 year old having sex with a fifteen year old is fine, but if she then gives him a BJ, he gets 10 years and a permanant sex-offender status,' or 'you will attend the church of my choice every day' you have problems.
I'm suddenly reminded of those beasties in the Super Mario games that turn around, and you can sneak past, but then they whip around to look, and you have to stop moving, or they attack you.
I keep seeing Ninja Gaiden Sigma referred to as a 'AAA exclusive,' or similar wording, when it is just a port of Ninja Gaiden Xbox, with a few new weapons and moves thrown in, and Rachel as a playable character.
Ah, but don't forget, the 360 was launched in November, IIRC, and there were supply problems until at least March, if not all the way into summer, of the next year; PS3s seem to have been in easy supply since launch.
Well, I do recall that the PS1 was specifically priced $100 less than the Sega Saturn, and that the price was announced specifically to screw Sega.
Wouldn't surprise me if they had to drop the price early to follow a desperate Sega drop...
1970s: Arcades got cocky, and Atari is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
1980s: Atari got cocky, and Nintendo is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
1990s: Nintendo got cocky, and Sony is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
2000s: Sony got cocky, and Microsoft is kicking their ass for losing sight of the consumer's demands.
Well, yes, but probably not the mainstream comics. That having been said, I've been enjoying the various Ultimate lines, especially The Ultimates.
Otherwise, give The Boys a try.
For every video game, Chuck Norris has unlimited continues. However, he's never actually used one, as Chuck Norris's video game characters have never died.
When Chuck Norris plays Pitfall, the crocodiles get eaten.
Chuck Norris played the very first game of Pac-Man. Tbad guys wern't originally ghosts; he just beat them that badly.
Chuck Norris always get the Pole Position.
Why would you assume that? Honest question.
Again, you assume that what you define as a 'need' is what somebody else would define as a 'need.' What 'need' started World War 1? World War 2? Vietnam? Korea?