we are making this change for the men and women serving in the military and for the families of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice
I'm pretty sure this applies to every soldier/rebel/freedom fighter who ever served for their country or their personal beliefs... including the Taliban, who probably also believe their "cause" is just, however misguided we believe it to be.
All this spam clogs up the pipes. It doesn't matter is it get's filtered by your personal e-mail client, or by Yahoo or GMails spam filtering software. The point is, it still has to travel multiple hops from source to destination, slowing down multiple servers and sucking bandwidth, just to tell you "you successfully registered and can now play".
You could do all that ON THE WEBPAGE, with no email addresses involved. Chose a username, choose a password, YOU'RE IN. Finished.
For 99% of registrations, there is NO need to use email addresses (unless they want to send you spam now or in the future). And for the 99% of registrations that DO require you use an email address, I'll bet it's a throwaway one, making the whole thing an exercise in futility.
Like every other "holy book" it's all in the interpretation.
An example of such incoherence and unintelligibility is the Quranic view of strong drinks and wine. The Quran is clearly confused regarding its view of intoxicants as the following passages conclusively demonstrate:
And We have not revealed to you the Book except that you may make clear to them that about which they differ, and (as) a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe. And Allah has sent down water from the cloud and therewith given life to the earth after its death; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who would listen. And most surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle; We give you to drink of what is in their bellies -- from betwixt the feces and the blood-- pure milk, easy and agreeable to swallow for those who drink. And of the fruits of the palms and the grapes -- you obtain from them intoxication (sakaran) and goodly provision; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who ponder. And your Lord revealed to the bee saying: Make hives in the mountains and in the trees and in what they build: Then eat of all the fruits and walk in the ways of your Lord submissively. There comes forth from within it a beverage of many colours, in which there is healing for men; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect. S. 16:64-69 Shakir
The impression given by this passage is that intoxicants are something good, since the context deals with signs or proofs of God's care and provisions for mankind. Nothing is said about the negative affects of intoxicants or whether it is impermissible for believers.
O you who believe! do not go near prayer when you are Intoxicated (sukara) UNTIL YOU KNOW (WELL) WHAT YOU SAY, nor when you are under an obligation to perform a bath -- unless (you are) travelling on the road-- until you have washed yourselves; and if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth, then wipe your faces and your hands; surely Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving. S. 4:43 Shakir
This verse forbids Muslims from coming to prayers while intoxicated. This gives the impression that drinking before praying is permissible, provided that one doesn't get drunk.
They ask thee concerning wine (al-khamri) and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin, AND SOME PROFIT, for men; but the sin is greater than the profit." They ask thee how much they are to spend; Say: "What is beyond your needs." Thus doth Allah Make clear to you His Signs: In order that ye may consider. S. 2:219 A. Yusuf Ali
Here, wine (which falls under the category of intoxicants) is said to be both sinful and profitable, with the sin being greater. Even this passage stops short of explicitly prohibiting the consumption of wine.
Finally:
O ye who believe! Intoxicants (al-khamru) and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are AN ABOMINATION,- OF SATAN'S HANDWORK: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper. Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants (al-khamri) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain? S. 5:90-91 A. Yusuf Ali
This passage says that intoxicants are the handiwork of Satan! Hence, the Quran goes from describing wine as something good to something completely evil.
Now a Muslim may interject here and claim that the verses which permit intoxicants were abrogated. Yet, this is precisely the point. How does a Muslim know that these verses have been abrogated? Where does the Quran explicitly, or even implicitly, state this? Second, how does the Muslim know for certain which verses came first? Does the Quran give the date these "revelations" were allegedly sent down so that we can know which passage came first? After all, one can just as likely claim that S. 16:66-67 was "revealed" last and therefore abrogated S. 2:219 and 5:90-91. How can one know for certain?
Funny that, years ago I worked in Oman, and the locals were very emphatic on the subject (especially after their 5th beer).
Apparently their reasoning was like this.
The Koran says you shall not pray while drunk. It does NOT say alcohol is forbidden.
So they'd get steaming drunk till 3am, then spend the next 2 hours sobering up on very strong Arabic coffee, so they'd have a clear head for the morning prayers. Problem solved.
Simple. If you cause an accident, your insurance (i.e. everyone else) pays the bill. If you cause an accident due to negligence (texting, reading a book, eating a sandwich), YOU pay the bill. One shot to the wallet for a few hundred dollars will mean one less unsafe driver on the road in future. People always take more care after the fact.
You aren't making a derivative copy of the entire SDK, you are using a subset of the SDK to create your game. Your game is not functional as an SDK in itself, so it is not derivative. In fact, if you aren't including source code (headers, whatever you want to call them), the call to a certain function presumably always lies at the same address in flash / memory... how could you prove that the SDK had been used to create that code ? The call is to the same address whichever development platform was used to create the code.
Their terms are wrong, and I'm surprised they are legally enforceable. Well no, I'm not surprised because judges don't need to be knowledgeable in the cases they try, and this is the US we are talking about, where the legal system is fucked up anyway.
Sony are simply trying to equate using something as making a derivative copy of something, which is absolute nonsense. Example...
A piano is an instrument that allows you to make music. When you create something on a piano, you aren't COPYing the piano. The music "Mozart's Concerto in D Minor" is NOT a piano. It is something created by a piano.
Now s/piano/SDK and s/music/game... see what I mean ?
Because the proper version of run-time is required to run the final program - and user isn't guaranteed to have it install
Fine, yes, for a computer, the user could have anything on there.
But we're talking about a console... there is ONE version of the PS3, no more, no less (and it updates itself automatically, much to the chagrin of people who thought they were buying a computer OS also)... the RTLs are all flashed into the system. All your "compiled code" is doing is calling built in routines AFAIK, there's no need to package the graphics driver library or the sound driver library along with every single game released.
Torrenting it and then distributing code compiled with it both are
So, if I use MS Visual Studio to compile MY code, somehow that is a violation of THEIR copyright.
They aren't distributing the SDK itself, so no copyright has been infringed. And mores to the point, if they didn't want people using their SDK, why on earth did they make it public ?
If I build a house out of bricks, I'm not infringing the copyright of the brick manufacturer. I'm merely using their tool to create something that is mine.
Oh, and just because something is "torrented" doesn't automatically make it illegal. If I put it on an FTP server, or send it as an email attachment, does that somehow make it "better" than a torrent ?
You might as well argue that a 3 year old drawing a picture of her favorite cartoon character, then giving it to her friend as a gift constitutes "a derivative copyrighted work that was then distributed".
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Its as if a million gold-plated turds cried out, and were suddenly silent.
Scrabble boards indeed, what kind of a metaphor is THAT ?
we are making this change for the men and women serving in the military and for the families of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice
I'm pretty sure this applies to every soldier/rebel/freedom fighter who ever served for their country or their personal beliefs ... including the Taliban, who probably also believe their "cause" is just, however misguided we believe it to be.
So the L2 shared cache is like the coffee machine ?
How about: Visual Studio is way betterz than eMacs and Vi
FTFY. Remember, we're trying to incite violence, not irritation.
FTFTFY. Remember, we're trying to incite violence, not uncontrollable laughter.
You seem to be missing the point.
All this spam clogs up the pipes. It doesn't matter is it get's filtered by your personal e-mail client, or by Yahoo or GMails spam filtering software. The point is, it still has to travel multiple hops from source to destination, slowing down multiple servers and sucking bandwidth, just to tell you "you successfully registered and can now play".
You could do all that ON THE WEBPAGE, with no email addresses involved. Chose a username, choose a password, YOU'RE IN. Finished.
For 99% of registrations, there is NO need to use email addresses (unless they want to send you spam now or in the future). And for the 99% of registrations that DO require you use an email address, I'll bet it's a throwaway one, making the whole thing an exercise in futility.
I'm putting my foot down, FWIW.
That has got to be the most insightful, clear-headed and common-sense thing I've ever read.
You deserve a +1000 moderation. Well done, Sir / Madam.
So they're stuck with kdawson now ?
Is it like some kind of work exchange program ? They get kdawson, and we get a bucket of sentient algae ?
Why, you want to hold horse races there ?
Demonstrating what exactly ?
That you have Alzheimers and forgot your other logins ?
That you like replying to yourself with sockpuppets ?
That everyone should get off your lawn ?
In a universe of infinite possibilities, and (if Steven Hawking is correct) infinite universes to choose from, how could anything NOT be possible ?
Can you beat Frustration Trivia?
No because like everything else it wants registration to play, and I'm tired of getting spammed.
(Creating a throwaway Hotmail or GMail account is NOT a solution, as it merely diverts the spam for someone else to deal with).
Like every other "holy book" it's all in the interpretation.
An example of such incoherence and unintelligibility is the Quranic view of strong drinks and wine. The Quran is clearly confused regarding its view of intoxicants as the following passages conclusively demonstrate:
And We have not revealed to you the Book except that you may make clear to them that about which they differ, and (as) a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe. And Allah has sent down water from the cloud and therewith given life to the earth after its death; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who would listen. And most surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle; We give you to drink of what is in their bellies -- from betwixt the feces and the blood-- pure milk, easy and agreeable to swallow for those who drink. And of the fruits of the palms and the grapes -- you obtain from them intoxication (sakaran) and goodly provision; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who ponder. And your Lord revealed to the bee saying: Make hives in the mountains and in the trees and in what they build: Then eat of all the fruits and walk in the ways of your Lord submissively. There comes forth from within it a beverage of many colours, in which there is healing for men; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect. S. 16:64-69 Shakir
The impression given by this passage is that intoxicants are something good, since the context deals with signs or proofs of God's care and provisions for mankind. Nothing is said about the negative affects of intoxicants or whether it is impermissible for believers.
O you who believe! do not go near prayer when you are Intoxicated (sukara) UNTIL YOU KNOW (WELL) WHAT YOU SAY, nor when you are under an obligation to perform a bath -- unless (you are) travelling on the road-- until you have washed yourselves; and if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth, then wipe your faces and your hands; surely Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving. S. 4:43 Shakir
This verse forbids Muslims from coming to prayers while intoxicated. This gives the impression that drinking before praying is permissible, provided that one doesn't get drunk.
They ask thee concerning wine (al-khamri) and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin, AND SOME PROFIT, for men; but the sin is greater than the profit." They ask thee how much they are to spend; Say: "What is beyond your needs." Thus doth Allah Make clear to you His Signs: In order that ye may consider. S. 2:219 A. Yusuf Ali
Here, wine (which falls under the category of intoxicants) is said to be both sinful and profitable, with the sin being greater. Even this passage stops short of explicitly prohibiting the consumption of wine.
Finally:
O ye who believe! Intoxicants (al-khamru) and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are AN ABOMINATION,- OF SATAN'S HANDWORK: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper. Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants (al-khamri) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain? S. 5:90-91 A. Yusuf Ali
This passage says that intoxicants are the handiwork of Satan! Hence, the Quran goes from describing wine as something good to something completely evil.
Now a Muslim may interject here and claim that the verses which permit intoxicants were abrogated. Yet, this is precisely the point. How does a Muslim know that these verses have been abrogated? Where does the Quran explicitly, or even implicitly, state this? Second, how does the Muslim know for certain which verses came first? Does the Quran give the date these "revelations" were allegedly sent down so that we can know which passage came first? After all, one can just as likely claim that S. 16:66-67 was "revealed" last and therefore abrogated S. 2:219 and 5:90-91. How can one know for certain?
Funny that, years ago I worked in Oman, and the locals were very emphatic on the subject (especially after their 5th beer).
Apparently their reasoning was like this.
The Koran says you shall not pray while drunk. It does NOT say alcohol is forbidden.
So they'd get steaming drunk till 3am, then spend the next 2 hours sobering up on very strong Arabic coffee, so they'd have a clear head for the morning prayers. Problem solved.
What the hell is RUFOOYM ?
Oh, and your smiley has no nose, how does he smell ?
Simple. If you cause an accident, your insurance (i.e. everyone else) pays the bill. If you cause an accident due to negligence (texting, reading a book, eating a sandwich), YOU pay the bill. One shot to the wallet for a few hundred dollars will mean one less unsafe driver on the road in future. People always take more care after the fact.
How can you destroy that which is already destroyed ?
So why isn't this classified as fair use ?
You aren't making a derivative copy of the entire SDK, you are using a subset of the SDK to create your game. Your game is not functional as an SDK in itself, so it is not derivative. In fact, if you aren't including source code (headers, whatever you want to call them), the call to a certain function presumably always lies at the same address in flash / memory ... how could you prove that the SDK had been used to create that code ? The call is to the same address whichever development platform was used to create the code.
Their terms are wrong, and I'm surprised they are legally enforceable. Well no, I'm not surprised because judges don't need to be knowledgeable in the cases they try, and this is the US we are talking about, where the legal system is fucked up anyway.
Sony are simply trying to equate using something as making a derivative copy of something, which is absolute nonsense. Example ...
A piano is an instrument that allows you to make music. When you create something on a piano, you aren't COPYing the piano. The music "Mozart's Concerto in D Minor" is NOT a piano. It is something created by a piano.
Now s/piano/SDK and s/music/game ... see what I mean ?
Because the proper version of run-time is required to run the final program - and user isn't guaranteed to have it install
Fine, yes, for a computer, the user could have anything on there.
But we're talking about a console ... there is ONE version of the PS3, no more, no less (and it updates itself automatically, much to the chagrin of people who thought they were buying a computer OS also) ... the RTLs are all flashed into the system. All your "compiled code" is doing is calling built in routines AFAIK, there's no need to package the graphics driver library or the sound driver library along with every single game released.
William Shatner, is that, you ?
Wow - using an SDK is piracy?
Torrenting it and then distributing code compiled with it both are
So, if I use MS Visual Studio to compile MY code, somehow that is a violation of THEIR copyright.
They aren't distributing the SDK itself, so no copyright has been infringed. And mores to the point, if they didn't want people using their SDK, why on earth did they make it public ?
If I build a house out of bricks, I'm not infringing the copyright of the brick manufacturer. I'm merely using their tool to create something that is mine.
Oh, and just because something is "torrented" doesn't automatically make it illegal. If I put it on an FTP server, or send it as an email attachment, does that somehow make it "better" than a torrent ?
You might as well argue that a 3 year old drawing a picture of her favorite cartoon character, then giving it to her friend as a gift constitutes "a derivative copyrighted work that was then distributed".
You sir, are a moron.
Two more ?
To my knowledge, he created one three-film epic saga, and one three-film abortion.
It will never be a "passing fad" when the cinemas can charge DOUBLE for the privilege of watching it in 3D, and there are morons willing to pay it.
Reminds me of post on Failbook a while back ...
Person 1: I've just seen Avatar in 3D, it was awesome. I wish the whole world was 3D.
Person 2: It is.
Not even close ... 10^80 == 2^333
Haven't you worked it out yet ?
Whenever a textarea tag is found on a page, NoScript is automatically adding in the glowing references to NoScript, and hitting the submit button.
No user interaction required. How smart is that ?