Darling, I was talking about the person behind me. The person I am not, the one I have no control over. Reading comprehension is a wonderful skill. I'd recommend working on yours.
I can assure you the development company owns the copyright on the story and not just the game as you shoehorn it to be. I wouldn't really call playing the game as it was intended to be played a "transformation".
But I completely agree about this being a stupid decision on their part. Even if I think the law gives them the "right" to do this.
Your contract with the car rental agency is about renting cars, not about paying tickets.
Except it probably is about paying tickets. This isn't a EULA; you should actually read a binding contract before signing it. Or did you think car rental companies just plum forgot about tickets?
Which gets even worse because now the person behind you is tailgating extra close because they're annoyed you keep slowing down to rebuild that space. Or they whip around and cut in front of you themselves.
They will not do it for everybody that goes through the place though. They can't; they don't have the manpower to keep track of all that. Taking and keeping track of 10-30 credit cards in an evening is wholly different from 100 - 300 and that's in a small bar. A large club would go through way more people.
Sorry sir but I have served you two whole pints tonight. I cannot serve you or we will be held liable and shut down. And then where will the 5 people that still come here get their two drinks?
I understand your reasoning but I just don't see how making the bar liable would really be workable for such a low limit. And if you thought a $10 drink was expensive wait until you see the price once they have to chauffeur home all their patrons (hundreds of people go through a bar in an evening). A bar won't even guarantee my coat will be in check when I come back for it I sure as hell won't trust them with my house and car keys.
I could see there being more 0.01 - 0.03 involved in accidents than 0.08 - 0.10 but only because I would reason that there would be far more participants (not drivers because these statistics do not put that limit in place) in the first category. I would like to see sources for properly separated statistics. As in: drinking passenger is different from drinking driver. Perhaps it exists and I've just never seen it but until then I'll forgo judgment on lowering the BAC and just assume it's about money-making and busy-body politicians like all other special interests.
They can already get a traceless weapon factory for a lot cheaper than 50 grand. It's called a file and only costs a couple of bucks. They could also melt the used gun into slag if really wanted to. If an organization can afford to blow 50 grand on some toy then they're not the type of organization that has to worry about their weapon supply.
Why do people think criminals are looking for the most complicated and expensive ways to commit crime? The real world is not comprised of Bond villains.
I'm not sure you understand what deterministic means. Does a cpu overheating and shutting down prove that cpus are non-deterministic? Absolutely not, just that shutting down is part of the process.
I can almost guarantee there'd be a significantly higher percentage of users in the group than in the general public though. Probably a higher percentage of dealers too.
The C standard library is insufficient for writing real user level applications. It is more for low level applications, systems programming, or simple non-graphical applications. Have fun with your CLI smartphone.
If the platform provides additional C libraries to interface with their device you have already lost the "universal" part of the requirement.
Care to name a "universal" API that is good for developing applications in? Something tells me you're fairly young and don't have a strong understanding of lower level systems. Different devices/OSes/systems are different and hence programming them is different.
We made the battery and as such have a pretty good idea of how much it starts with. Additionally we've used tonnes of batteries so we can use that to reason how much the next one has. Your battery example is not valid in the context of the original post.
If game selling is such a minority why do they have to work so hard to cripple the games and prevent it? No one can buy a used game unless someone has sold it. If enough people are selling games that these idiots think it's hurting their bottom line then there must be a huge amount of people doing it. Either way the publishers are showing extreme ignorance, greed and contempt for their user base.
Exactly. The system has to be closed to the user. You could not have an open source browser because the user cannot compile it themself and hope to use this drm module. Because then they could redirect the stream. The key to drm is hiding the method of unlocking the data from the person the data is for. Something somewhere has to be obscured from the user.
Not if you want "untrusted" (like open source software) to be able to interface with it. If the entire chain is not trusted and locked from the user drm cannot work. Because otherwise the user can just reroute the stream to file. The user can have no way of getting the key.
No, I read your post. You took something that had nothing to do with Google or Apple and went on some huge rant about how Google is not open (I really have no idea why you brought up Apple at all). Except everything you said was bullshit. It's fairly trivial to get your data out of almost all Google services which seemed to be your reasoning why Google is bad.
Misread your post? Someone mentions something posted on Google+ and you go off on some Google vs. Apple rant and I'm the one misreading posts?
No nerd rage here. You got all fired up because someone mentioned Google. I called you out on your bullshit (because your entire post was drivel). Your passive-aggressive attempt to insult me was pretty cute though.
Slashdot is perfectly usable with Javascript- I do it every day. Should I really have to re-download/re-parse and re-display all X hundred comments so that I can post one? Absurd.
Javascript is not a minor convenience it is a huge one. Why should I have to make a full post-back for every little change to the interface? What a waste of time and bandwidth. Without client side scripting there is no smooth user experience.
All these people that want to get rid of interactivity of web apps sound more like stubborn old people that are angry because their car stereo has too many buttons now. There's no real rational it's just different and you don't like it. You all talk about how great the web was way back when. No ads blah blah blah. But you're wrong- the web sucked compared to today. You couldn't do half the things we take for granted today.
Client side scripting needs to stay. But I'd prefer Javascript to be replaced; it's a terrible language.
Not very much of one, when you only count the people educated enough to know what they're talking about.
No true Scotsman fallacy.
The masses want an interactive web. As do I and I know what I'm talking about (or do I not because I disagree with you?) Do you think we would be enjoying all the benefits of the web today and high bandwidth connections if we never made it past newsgroups and Gopher? No, the web exploded because we could use it for everything. Largely based on the fact that we kludged a bunch of crap together to make it work. Networks were malware infested long before Javascript.
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To obfuscated for you? You and your friend not knowing how to use a tool does make it closed; it just makes you ignorant. And telling outright lies based on your ignorance and forcing a discussion about html5 to be Google vs. Apple just makes you obnoxious.
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Darling, I was talking about the person behind me. The person I am not, the one I have no control over. Reading comprehension is a wonderful skill. I'd recommend working on yours.
I can assure you the development company owns the copyright on the story and not just the game as you shoehorn it to be. I wouldn't really call playing the game as it was intended to be played a "transformation".
But I completely agree about this being a stupid decision on their part. Even if I think the law gives them the "right" to do this.
Your contract with the car rental agency is about renting cars, not about paying tickets.
Except it probably is about paying tickets. This isn't a EULA; you should actually read a binding contract before signing it. Or did you think car rental companies just plum forgot about tickets?
Which gets even worse because now the person behind you is tailgating extra close because they're annoyed you keep slowing down to rebuild that space. Or they whip around and cut in front of you themselves.
They will not do it for everybody that goes through the place though. They can't; they don't have the manpower to keep track of all that. Taking and keeping track of 10-30 credit cards in an evening is wholly different from 100 - 300 and that's in a small bar. A large club would go through way more people.
Sorry sir but I have served you two whole pints tonight. I cannot serve you or we will be held liable and shut down. And then where will the 5 people that still come here get their two drinks?
I understand your reasoning but I just don't see how making the bar liable would really be workable for such a low limit. And if you thought a $10 drink was expensive wait until you see the price once they have to chauffeur home all their patrons (hundreds of people go through a bar in an evening). A bar won't even guarantee my coat will be in check when I come back for it I sure as hell won't trust them with my house and car keys.
I could see there being more 0.01 - 0.03 involved in accidents than 0.08 - 0.10 but only because I would reason that there would be far more participants (not drivers because these statistics do not put that limit in place) in the first category. I would like to see sources for properly separated statistics. As in: drinking passenger is different from drinking driver. Perhaps it exists and I've just never seen it but until then I'll forgo judgment on lowering the BAC and just assume it's about money-making and busy-body politicians like all other special interests.
Because they've been declining in most (all?) of the developed world. There are a number of reasons for that I'm sure.
They can already get a traceless weapon factory for a lot cheaper than 50 grand. It's called a file and only costs a couple of bucks. They could also melt the used gun into slag if really wanted to. If an organization can afford to blow 50 grand on some toy then they're not the type of organization that has to worry about their weapon supply.
Why do people think criminals are looking for the most complicated and expensive ways to commit crime? The real world is not comprised of Bond villains.
I'm not sure you understand what deterministic means. Does a cpu overheating and shutting down prove that cpus are non-deterministic? Absolutely not, just that shutting down is part of the process.
I can almost guarantee there'd be a significantly higher percentage of users in the group than in the general public though. Probably a higher percentage of dealers too.
Expect new laws enacted to protect the corporation from these lawsuits.
The C standard library is insufficient for writing real user level applications. It is more for low level applications, systems programming, or simple non-graphical applications. Have fun with your CLI smartphone.
If the platform provides additional C libraries to interface with their device you have already lost the "universal" part of the requirement.
Care to name a "universal" API that is good for developing applications in? Something tells me you're fairly young and don't have a strong understanding of lower level systems. Different devices/OSes/systems are different and hence programming them is different.
We made the battery and as such have a pretty good idea of how much it starts with. Additionally we've used tonnes of batteries so we can use that to reason how much the next one has. Your battery example is not valid in the context of the original post.
If it is trivial why do they put so much effort into squishing it?
If game selling is such a minority why do they have to work so hard to cripple the games and prevent it? No one can buy a used game unless someone has sold it. If enough people are selling games that these idiots think it's hurting their bottom line then there must be a huge amount of people doing it. Either way the publishers are showing extreme ignorance, greed and contempt for their user base.
Exactly. The system has to be closed to the user. You could not have an open source browser because the user cannot compile it themself and hope to use this drm module. Because then they could redirect the stream. The key to drm is hiding the method of unlocking the data from the person the data is for. Something somewhere has to be obscured from the user.
Not if you want "untrusted" (like open source software) to be able to interface with it. If the entire chain is not trusted and locked from the user drm cannot work. Because otherwise the user can just reroute the stream to file. The user can have no way of getting the key.
No, I read your post. You took something that had nothing to do with Google or Apple and went on some huge rant about how Google is not open (I really have no idea why you brought up Apple at all). Except everything you said was bullshit. It's fairly trivial to get your data out of almost all Google services which seemed to be your reasoning why Google is bad.
Misread your post? Someone mentions something posted on Google+ and you go off on some Google vs. Apple rant and I'm the one misreading posts?
No nerd rage here. You got all fired up because someone mentioned Google. I called you out on your bullshit (because your entire post was drivel). Your passive-aggressive attempt to insult me was pretty cute though.
The key to drm is. I think you should look up the details on how drm works.
Well that is dumb; I wouldn't have expected that. Sorry, we don't get Hulu way up here so I don't have any experience with it.
Slashdot is perfectly usable with Javascript- I do it every day. Should I really have to re-download/re-parse and re-display all X hundred comments so that I can post one? Absurd.
Javascript is not a minor convenience it is a huge one. Why should I have to make a full post-back for every little change to the interface? What a waste of time and bandwidth. Without client side scripting there is no smooth user experience.
All these people that want to get rid of interactivity of web apps sound more like stubborn old people that are angry because their car stereo has too many buttons now. There's no real rational it's just different and you don't like it. You all talk about how great the web was way back when. No ads blah blah blah. But you're wrong- the web sucked compared to today. You couldn't do half the things we take for granted today.
Client side scripting needs to stay. But I'd prefer Javascript to be replaced; it's a terrible language.
Not very much of one, when you only count the people educated enough to know what they're talking about.
No true Scotsman fallacy.
The masses want an interactive web. As do I and I know what I'm talking about (or do I not because I disagree with you?) Do you think we would be enjoying all the benefits of the web today and high bandwidth connections if we never made it past newsgroups and Gopher? No, the web exploded because we could use it for everything. Largely based on the fact that we kludged a bunch of crap together to make it work. Networks were malware infested long before Javascript.
File -> Download As -> Select [ xlsx, ods, pdf, csv, txt, html ]
To obfuscated for you? You and your friend not knowing how to use a tool does make it closed; it just makes you ignorant. And telling outright lies based on your ignorance and forcing a discussion about html5 to be Google vs. Apple just makes you obnoxious.