No, it just means that generally the only place he'd be able to go is back to Sweden, unless another country chose to allow him entry without a passport (which they're entirely at liberty to).
No-one can tell British Petroleum to do anything because there's no such company any more: it changed its name to BP PLC in 2001, after briefly being BP Amoco PLC from 2000.
I don't know about that: working in a company that shifts large amount of data around its internal network, having fast network access to the file servers is kind of desirable. Or at least as fast access to them as the computers can actually manage.
The phrase "watching some kids" could easily be taken to mean "looking after", in which case I could easily believe "these kids are being such a pain I could kill them"; I'm pretty sure that's a sentiment expressed by adults since time immemorial, yet rarely acted upon (relative to the amount of times it's expressed).
Cutting Bombadil is a common thing with LoTR adaptations. Mostly because the character adds little or nothing to the story and is something of an anomaly in the setting, even Tolkien said, "Tom Bombadil is not an important person - to the narrative".
I believe they're asking for a citation for the fact that the BBC can't broadcast the original radio series; which I find hard to believe, given they produced it. There has been legal wrangling over releases of the recordings, because of them using copyright music and only having permissions to use it for broadcast. There was also a minor spat with Walt Disney when they were working on the film as the same time as the BBC were working on the Tertiary Phase, but it was resolved.
That's just normal foley work. Amusingly they only used them because they over shot their budget and couldn't afford real horses; so they turned it in to a sight gag.
I would guess that's the Razer Naga, which is designed for MMORPGs, where moving the mouse is less of an issue. They used to do one with a hex shaped ring of buttons for AORPG style games, which probably have been more suitable - they don't seem to make it any more though. The also several which just have two buttons on the side.
I think I agree with you - I have bought precisely one iPod. I've only bought one because it's still working and has a reasonable capacity at 80GB (it's a 1st revision 5th Gen iPod Video). When it does die I will replace it with a new iPod, probably the current 160GB iPod Classic, or whatever is comparable.
No-one would buy anything when it came out. They'd just wait for the producer to abandon it so it became free. Copyright law arguably needs reforming, but reforming it in such a way that no-one ever wants to produce something is not how to do it.
Plus expiring the copyright on something like an MMO doesn't really do anything useful. The copyright might expire, but that doesn't force them to hand out copies of the source code to anyone who asks, which is what you probably want to achieve. You can reverse engineer the server from the extant copies of the client, but it's a pain in the arse.
It also gets a lot more complicated when you start introducing third party IP in to the mix. Sony shut down SWG, but they didn't own any of the Star Wars property, they only had a limited licence to produce an MMO using it. Whilst they could have given out the source code to the server and client, they almost certainly wouldn't have been able to release any of the assets that went with it, because they're tied to the Star Wars IP that Lucas* owns. You couldn't just take the game engine produce your own Star Wars assets, because you don't have a licence from Lucas* to do so. You could have taken the engine and made your own non-Star Wars assets, but then you just have a generic SciFi MMO; which you could have simply achieved by using one of the open source MMO game engines that are available.
If you actually want old games that are no-longer commercially viable to be released in to the public domain by the producers, you're going to have to figure out a way of encouraging a cultural and/or philosophical change within the industry itself. A lot of them seem to be waking up to the fact that they can still get a small revenue stream from their old IP for very little effort by releasing it on Steam or GOG.
My memories of Guild Wars are basically that, for female armour at least, the level of protection afforded by armour was inversely proportional to the amount of protection it afforded.
Even when you get female armour that's moderately sensible - in that it actually covers everything the male armour would - they usually fall in to the trap of giving it boob contours. The thing about female armour is it looks exactly like male armour: by the time you have all the padding or harnessing you wear under your actual armour, there's no figure worth speaking about left, unless you have really pronounced curves.
I would and you wouldn't, because you don't care and I don't care, but I bet someone would and does. People like to collect all sorts of things and some of them have a lot of money to spare. Collecting game cartridges is no more stupid than numismatics, philately, or even cartophily - some cigarette cards have sold for millions.
The US relied heavily on Britain's remaining colonial outposts during the cold war. They were quite vocal, in back channels at least, about us not divesting ourselves of them. A lot of them were in very useful places for placing either USAF or USN bases, or sigint and elint stations. Places like Diego Garcia are officially under the control of the British Government, but if you went there all you'd find is a US Naval base and a notional British Government official presence.
They still multicast content, they were multicasting all the extra Olympic channels as well. You just have to be attached to the internet via a provider that's actually on MBONE - one of my house mates was watching it on multicast at work (working at a Uni has its perks).
I'm not the best, I'm just competent. I know I'm better than some people I've worked with, I also know I'm nowhere near as good as other people I've worked with. I do what my employers want: they feed me a requirement, I churn out working code.
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Non-Player Character. How anyone can play RPGs and not know that I'm not sure.
Vicarious liability.
No, it just means that generally the only place he'd be able to go is back to Sweden, unless another country chose to allow him entry without a passport (which they're entirely at liberty to).
No-one can tell British Petroleum to do anything because there's no such company any more: it changed its name to BP PLC in 2001, after briefly being BP Amoco PLC from 2000.
I don't know about that: working in a company that shifts large amount of data around its internal network, having fast network access to the file servers is kind of desirable. Or at least as fast access to them as the computers can actually manage.
The phrase "watching some kids" could easily be taken to mean "looking after", in which case I could easily believe "these kids are being such a pain I could kill them"; I'm pretty sure that's a sentiment expressed by adults since time immemorial, yet rarely acted upon (relative to the amount of times it's expressed).
If in doubt, resort to innuendo.
If you get all three you can call bingo.
Cutting Bombadil is a common thing with LoTR adaptations. Mostly because the character adds little or nothing to the story and is something of an anomaly in the setting, even Tolkien said, "Tom Bombadil is not an important person - to the narrative".
I believe they're asking for a citation for the fact that the BBC can't broadcast the original radio series; which I find hard to believe, given they produced it. There has been legal wrangling over releases of the recordings, because of them using copyright music and only having permissions to use it for broadcast. There was also a minor spat with Walt Disney when they were working on the film as the same time as the BBC were working on the Tertiary Phase, but it was resolved.
That's just normal foley work. Amusingly they only used them because they over shot their budget and couldn't afford real horses; so they turned it in to a sight gag.
Because some people are idiots.
Flipping a coin is how ties are decided in British elections.
I would guess that's the Razer Naga, which is designed for MMORPGs, where moving the mouse is less of an issue. They used to do one with a hex shaped ring of buttons for AORPG style games, which probably have been more suitable - they don't seem to make it any more though. The also several which just have two buttons on the side.
The Met Office (UK's erm, met office) has an API available, it's very UK-centric though.
Don't let Oxford hear you say that.
I think I agree with you - I have bought precisely one iPod. I've only bought one because it's still working and has a reasonable capacity at 80GB (it's a 1st revision 5th Gen iPod Video). When it does die I will replace it with a new iPod, probably the current 160GB iPod Classic, or whatever is comparable.
No-one would buy anything when it came out. They'd just wait for the producer to abandon it so it became free. Copyright law arguably needs reforming, but reforming it in such a way that no-one ever wants to produce something is not how to do it.
Plus expiring the copyright on something like an MMO doesn't really do anything useful. The copyright might expire, but that doesn't force them to hand out copies of the source code to anyone who asks, which is what you probably want to achieve. You can reverse engineer the server from the extant copies of the client, but it's a pain in the arse.
It also gets a lot more complicated when you start introducing third party IP in to the mix. Sony shut down SWG, but they didn't own any of the Star Wars property, they only had a limited licence to produce an MMO using it. Whilst they could have given out the source code to the server and client, they almost certainly wouldn't have been able to release any of the assets that went with it, because they're tied to the Star Wars IP that Lucas* owns. You couldn't just take the game engine produce your own Star Wars assets, because you don't have a licence from Lucas* to do so. You could have taken the engine and made your own non-Star Wars assets, but then you just have a generic SciFi MMO; which you could have simply achieved by using one of the open source MMO game engines that are available.
If you actually want old games that are no-longer commercially viable to be released in to the public domain by the producers, you're going to have to figure out a way of encouraging a cultural and/or philosophical change within the industry itself. A lot of them seem to be waking up to the fact that they can still get a small revenue stream from their old IP for very little effort by releasing it on Steam or GOG.
My memories of Guild Wars are basically that, for female armour at least, the level of protection afforded by armour was inversely proportional to the amount of protection it afforded.
Even when you get female armour that's moderately sensible - in that it actually covers everything the male armour would - they usually fall in to the trap of giving it boob contours. The thing about female armour is it looks exactly like male armour: by the time you have all the padding or harnessing you wear under your actual armour, there's no figure worth speaking about left, unless you have really pronounced curves.
So basically he's doing what Gene Kranz used to do with waistcoats, but using his hair instead?
I would and you wouldn't, because you don't care and I don't care, but I bet someone would and does. People like to collect all sorts of things and some of them have a lot of money to spare. Collecting game cartridges is no more stupid than numismatics, philately, or even cartophily - some cigarette cards have sold for millions.
The US relied heavily on Britain's remaining colonial outposts during the cold war. They were quite vocal, in back channels at least, about us not divesting ourselves of them. A lot of them were in very useful places for placing either USAF or USN bases, or sigint and elint stations. Places like Diego Garcia are officially under the control of the British Government, but if you went there all you'd find is a US Naval base and a notional British Government official presence.
They still multicast content, they were multicasting all the extra Olympic channels as well. You just have to be attached to the internet via a provider that's actually on MBONE - one of my house mates was watching it on multicast at work (working at a Uni has its perks).
You - for subject definitions of "you" - can peer with them at AMS-IX and DE-CIX as well.
I'm not the best, I'm just competent. I know I'm better than some people I've worked with, I also know I'm nowhere near as good as other people I've worked with. I do what my employers want: they feed me a requirement, I churn out working code.