What mitigation can an individual realisticly do? Sure, you can become a prepper and move to an inland farm and stockpile supplies and seeds, but how to you fend off millions of displaced, starving people if shit really hits the fan?
The public, the people, via government allowed a limited time for the content creator to exclusively profit from their work before it enters the public domain, and that is the concept of "copyright."
What is this "limited" you speak of? A cartoon made 82 years ago, by a guy who's been dead 44 years now, still has another 13 years of protection before it gets another extension.
SPOILER: When Verbal Kint falls to the ground during the interrogation by Kujan, Verbal clearly says "I did, I did kill Keaton." Kujan is yelling at the time and does not hear the slip up, which Verbal quickly covers up by saying "I did see Keaton get shot."
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Steam will need more clout before this changes. Publishers right now don't want to risk pissing off brick & mortar retailers by offering cheaper software online. This probably won't change until online distribution of games is more popular than B&M and publishers can risk losing the shelf space.
Only a very minute part of your tax is spent on this sort of light entertainment
By this agency, on this project. When you start adding up the hundreds of projects from dozens of agencies, it doesn't seem so minute. And when you factor in our short-term trillion dollar deficit and the long-term budgetary crisis that will happen in the next couple decades, maybe a space MMO isn't such a great use of taxpayer dollars right now.
It's the DRM. Many of the crashing problems seem to be Securom crashing, which causes the game client to exit to desktop imediately.
Most of the problems are being caused by the dual online accounts required. The Rockstar Social Club servers initially couldn't handle the volume, which was causing the game to crash on startup. And people were having problems getting Games for Windows live installed right with its dependencies (such as.NET Framework 3.5). My guess is something isn't quite right with the GTA4 installer.
It also needs you to upgrade to the latest Games For Windows release, which doesn't support Vista64 at the moment. So that's all the hardcore gamers with 4GB+ of ram out of the picture.
False. I have Vista64 and 8GB of RAM and am able to run GTA4 and GfW just fine.
Obviously some serious thought would have to go in to how long to set copyrights, and there would possible be different standards for different mediums, but this 'life of the author + 70 years' crap is ridiculous. Copyrights are artificials restrictions placed on information by the government and, according to the Constitution, are suppose to be for "a limited time." If the copyright lasts longer than the lifespan of a typical American, then from an individual's point of view, the copyright is essentially forever. A stupid cartoon about a mouse made some 50 years before I was born will be protected for another 15 years. That's insane.
As for your artists and authors, well, they would have to adapt or die. We're fond of telling the music industry that the old way of doing business is no longer sustainable, the same would hold true for other areas.
But all this is moot, of course. Copyrights will not get shorter, they will continue to get longer as corporations buy-off^H^H^H^H^H^H^H lobby governments to keep control of their respective IPs.
I'm in a similar boat. 2001 Mustang. Since I drive mostly highway, I get ~24mpg. I've crunched the numbers and any fuel savings will not offset the car payments I'll have to make. Gas prices will have to more than double before it makes economic sense.
So I'll be driving this into the ground and wait until I actually need a new car.
I thought the point of prison was to punish and correct the guilty and get them back into working order
The problem is there is no point. There's no overreaching goal. It's an ad hoc system where special interest groups get to push their own agenda. MADD wants anyone blowing a.06 to be executed, abuse victims want all sexual offenders fitted with radio collars, and politicans are always pushing the latest [adorable victim name]'s Law.
The amount of resources directed towards sports medicine is considerable. In addition, there's all the resources consumed in the manufacturing of sports equipment. This consumpiton of resources for athletics has raised the costs of goods and services in various sectors of the economy for everybody. If you want to blame fat people for raising costs, you should blame athletes, too.
Atheletes require more food than the average person due to the high levels of activity and training, they have to travel regularly for competitions and training, and are a bigger drain on the health care system due to sports related injuries.
And I don't just mean professional atheletes, but all levels, including college, high-school, little league, etc.
Is engaging in atheletics a more justifiable waste of resources than overeating?
Bullshit. When Vista was first released (retail, not betas), Nvidia's drivers were horrid. They were very buggy and lacking SLI and other functionality, even for their flagship card. They've been greatly improved since then, but I believe Nvidia's early driver releases are one of the biggest reasons Vista has such a negative reputation.
I've been passed on the right while driving 5 mph above the limit in the middle lane, with a completely open left lane.
Some people seem to be deathly afraid of the left lane. Like there's a cop just waiting for them to cross over so they can give them a ticket, but they're safe if they stay in the middle or right lanes.
I'm also perfectly happy to move right occasionally to let people by (only occasionally; I don't want to get stuck in the right lane any more than you do), but generally the people who pass on the right don't give me the chance; I can hardly move right if somebody's currently passing me there!
I hate impatient drivers behind me, also. I generally drive faster than the middle and right lanes, and I'm conscious of the cars behind me. But if there's no room for me to move over, I'm not going to put myself into reckless driving territory (20 MPH over the speed limit, or over 80, in Virginia) just so I can get out of their way.
I think Vista really did get a bad rap. I've been using it for a year now. I believe one of the major sources of complaints was early driver support. Even some big name companies, like NVidia, had really shitty drivers at first. This is not really an issue any more.
The other major complaint, UAC, really ceases to be a problem once the system is configured. Sure, when you first set it up, you get a lot of pop-ups when trying to change settings, but once things are pretty much the way you want them, you rarely see a UAC pop-up anymore. About the only time I see them is when installing a new program.
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What mitigation can an individual realisticly do? Sure, you can become a prepper and move to an inland farm and stockpile supplies and seeds, but how to you fend off millions of displaced, starving people if shit really hits the fan?
Unfortunately, you can't know what the weather patterns will be. With chaning sea and air currents, the area could conceivably end up quite arid.
I feel the same way playing Fallout 3. The interface is crap for the PC. Why can't I type 'm' to bring up the map?
The public, the people, via government allowed a limited time for the content creator to exclusively profit from their work before it enters the public domain, and that is the concept of "copyright."
What is this "limited" you speak of? A cartoon made 82 years ago, by a guy who's been dead 44 years now, still has another 13 years of protection before it gets another extension.
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SPOILER: When Verbal Kint falls to the ground during the interrogation by Kujan, Verbal clearly says "I did, I did kill Keaton." Kujan is yelling at the time and does not hear the slip up, which Verbal quickly covers up by saying "I did see Keaton get shot."
I dont work at CC
Not many do these days...
Steam will need more clout before this changes. Publishers right now don't want to risk pissing off brick & mortar retailers by offering cheaper software online. This probably won't change until online distribution of games is more popular than B&M and publishers can risk losing the shelf space.
Only a very minute part of your tax is spent on this sort of light entertainment
By this agency, on this project. When you start adding up the hundreds of projects from dozens of agencies, it doesn't seem so minute. And when you factor in our short-term trillion dollar deficit and the long-term budgetary crisis that will happen in the next couple decades, maybe a space MMO isn't such a great use of taxpayer dollars right now.
your government are spending fractions of pennies
Besides, what's the big deal about trillion dollar deficit anyway?
so you buy a $500 video card and there are exactly ZERO games that take full advantage of it.
Clearly, you've never played Crysis.
It's the DRM. Many of the crashing problems seem to be Securom crashing, which causes the game client to exit to desktop imediately.
Most of the problems are being caused by the dual online accounts required. The Rockstar Social Club servers initially couldn't handle the volume, which was causing the game to crash on startup. And people were having problems getting Games for Windows live installed right with its dependencies (such as .NET Framework 3.5). My guess is something isn't quite right with the GTA4 installer.
It also needs you to upgrade to the latest Games For Windows release, which doesn't support Vista64 at the moment. So that's all the hardcore gamers with 4GB+ of ram out of the picture.
False. I have Vista64 and 8GB of RAM and am able to run GTA4 and GfW just fine.
I am a polar bear. Don't bother to ask me how I managed to get on Slashdot and post this, you would never believe it.
Dharma Initiative?
Obviously some serious thought would have to go in to how long to set copyrights, and there would possible be different standards for different mediums, but this 'life of the author + 70 years' crap is ridiculous. Copyrights are artificials restrictions placed on information by the government and, according to the Constitution, are suppose to be for "a limited time." If the copyright lasts longer than the lifespan of a typical American, then from an individual's point of view, the copyright is essentially forever. A stupid cartoon about a mouse made some 50 years before I was born will be protected for another 15 years. That's insane.
As for your artists and authors, well, they would have to adapt or die. We're fond of telling the music industry that the old way of doing business is no longer sustainable, the same would hold true for other areas.
But all this is moot, of course. Copyrights will not get shorter, they will continue to get longer as corporations buy-off^H^H^H^H^H^H^H lobby governments to keep control of their respective IPs.
A different article states he was found with $11,000 cash in his house and was thus considered a flight risk.
Well, they each have their own, so it's one scription per person.
I'm in a similar boat. 2001 Mustang. Since I drive mostly highway, I get ~24mpg. I've crunched the numbers and any fuel savings will not offset the car payments I'll have to make. Gas prices will have to more than double before it makes economic sense.
So I'll be driving this into the ground and wait until I actually need a new car.
I thought the point of prison was to punish and correct the guilty and get them back into working order
.06 to be executed, abuse victims want all sexual offenders fitted with radio collars, and politicans are always pushing the latest [adorable victim name]'s Law.
The problem is there is no point. There's no overreaching goal. It's an ad hoc system where special interest groups get to push their own agenda. MADD wants anyone blowing a
The amount of resources directed towards sports medicine is considerable. In addition, there's all the resources consumed in the manufacturing of sports equipment. This consumpiton of resources for athletics has raised the costs of goods and services in various sectors of the economy for everybody. If you want to blame fat people for raising costs, you should blame athletes, too.
Atheletes require more food than the average person due to the high levels of activity and training, they have to travel regularly for competitions and training, and are a bigger drain on the health care system due to sports related injuries.
And I don't just mean professional atheletes, but all levels, including college, high-school, little league, etc.
Is engaging in atheletics a more justifiable waste of resources than overeating?
I hate articles like this. They take a controversial phrase and make it the headline, but they don't provide the context of the quote.
Seems simpler than going through the rather long Vista install prosses twice over.
In my experience, Vista installs considerably quicker than XP.
Nvidia's drivers were bad throughout the betas. It wasn't just a last-minute change that broke them.
Bullshit. When Vista was first released (retail, not betas), Nvidia's drivers were horrid. They were very buggy and lacking SLI and other functionality, even for their flagship card. They've been greatly improved since then, but I believe Nvidia's early driver releases are one of the biggest reasons Vista has such a negative reputation.
I've been passed on the right while driving 5 mph above the limit in the middle lane, with a completely open left lane.
Some people seem to be deathly afraid of the left lane. Like there's a cop just waiting for them to cross over so they can give them a ticket, but they're safe if they stay in the middle or right lanes.
I'm also perfectly happy to move right occasionally to let people by (only occasionally; I don't want to get stuck in the right lane any more than you do), but generally the people who pass on the right don't give me the chance; I can hardly move right if somebody's currently passing me there!
I hate impatient drivers behind me, also. I generally drive faster than the middle and right lanes, and I'm conscious of the cars behind me. But if there's no room for me to move over, I'm not going to put myself into reckless driving territory (20 MPH over the speed limit, or over 80, in Virginia) just so I can get out of their way.
I think Vista really did get a bad rap. I've been using it for a year now. I believe one of the major sources of complaints was early driver support. Even some big name companies, like NVidia, had really shitty drivers at first. This is not really an issue any more.
The other major complaint, UAC, really ceases to be a problem once the system is configured. Sure, when you first set it up, you get a lot of pop-ups when trying to change settings, but once things are pretty much the way you want them, you rarely see a UAC pop-up anymore. About the only time I see them is when installing a new program.