There is one woman on the board who tries to explain to the rest that it is not worth changing the plot just to pick up the disaffected X-files watchers looking for the next big conspiracy show.
was last night. I was lining up a nice dinner and a chick flick with an old friend a week ago. It didn't trigger at the time that Thursday was VD. So, of course the night was free for both of us.
Although the night didn't end with sex, I realised half-way through dinner that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get into trouble, be insensitive, embarrassing, or thoughtless. There were going to be no tantrums, expectations, or politics. We laughed at our dirty laundry instead of using it to hurt each other.
What more could you want from the night? (You are not allowed to reply with "sex":)
If a company wants to sue you for lying about their software, they should be able to sue you. But they should not be able to prevent you from talking about it, analysing it, or comparing it.
In the UK, the burden of proof is on the defendant to prove that what they said is right, but in other countries, the burden of proof is on the complainant to prove that what was said was a lie.
I won a box of software at a programming conference. So I have no proof of purchase. I can't prove I won it, either. I think requiring proof of purchase rather than legitimate media/licence/packaging may not stand up too well legally. If thats the case, then just say you won all your software:)
Being an Australian, I played Wipeout way before Red Bull was promoted here. So it looked like a made up sponsor for the game, and I wondered why the game promoted a pretend product so heavily. I thought that maybe it was some kind of in joke. Of course, it made sense once I knew what Red Bull was:)
A sci-fi/sci-fact magazine in paperback form called Destinies had a story about this in their Aug-Sept 1979 edition. The story was called "How to Build a Beanstalk" by Charles Sheffield. He did some research into the material strength required, and to get the stalk to reach down to earth, or somewhere near it required a material with a tensile strength of 2 000 000 kg/cm^2, which was 10 times the current known tensile strength of known materials at the time.
"Beanstalks, originally called skyhooks, are an idea of the 1960's whose time may at last have come. They are used as important elements of at least two novels published in 1979, Authur Clarke's 'The Fountains of Paradise' and my own 'The Web Between Two Worlds' "
If so, I can eat airplane peanuts on my Melbourne to London flight and power my laptop with a strategically placed tube from my MethPort to my... well, if you are here, you've got an imagination...
Don't be fooled. This is not a back down.
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Dale Fuller said,
"The new end user license agreement mistakenly contains language that is specific to enterprise volume customers"
He said that the language, not the conditions were innappropriate for non enterprise licenses. He was probably just saying that they have to word things more obscurely for thin-skinned personal users.
This is a relief for me because I was planning to live forever by replacing my body parts with pig organs. The big hole in my plans was that the Earth was going to be eaten by the sun. Woohoo!
If you only need a backup in case of break down, fire, etc, put a cheap second hand computer on the network with a removable hard disk, that you can store in a fire-proof safe, or off-site if you are worried about floods:)
Then the only possible way to lose both lots of data is if the lot is stolen, or lightning strikes your power lines when both hard drives are in operation.
Your backup is useless if it doesn't restore, and from experience, tape has failed too many times. The beauty of the hard drive backup is that it is quick, and you can image your production hard disk to the backup, and use something like Norton Ghost to restore it.
No-one ever said we had to rely on Hollywood for our history lessons.
People are complaining about the historical accuracy of the movie, but this leads to an astounding implication:
We take our history lessons from hollywood. Full stop. If you watch movies to learn, your reality becomes a victim of tricks used to put bums on seats in a cinema. Please open a book. Then again, how can they be believed either?
And there, folks, is the reason history repeats itself. Now I'm thinking maybe Nixon really was an arsehole.
A copulation(corporation) should use this kind of event to solve a tricky development problem that has stumped their enormous IT resources. Then they can sponsor the event knowing they will get something good out of it:)
I remember playing Wipeout on the Playstation when I didn't even know what Red Bull was.
It will make car racing games more realistic. Instead of driving under a big tyre on pit straight that says "Dunlopo", you get real brand names.
Who cares if advertising is on the walls of 3D games? It's on all the walls in Real Life (tm). But if I ever hit a puzzle in System Shock 2 where the only way to continue is to rewire the door lock to spell "Coke is It", I'll start fighting.
Re:Long way to go with free books and the law
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Yup, imagine how stupid I felt when I read past the first page:(
Unless you got express written permission to mirror this, you are in breach of the copyright. But then again, so is everyone who downloads it without express written permission and intends to retrieve it from their retrieval system. I wish people who slapped copyright messages on their works actually read them. It'd save a lot of hassle.
Slashdot Mirror
If the law was simplified, thousands of shady people in busy jobs would be on the streets. It wouldn't be pretty. Keep them legal :)
There is one woman on the board who tries to explain to the rest that it is not worth changing the plot just to pick up the disaffected X-files watchers looking for the next big conspiracy show.
was last night. I was lining up a nice dinner and a chick flick with an old friend a week ago. It didn't trigger at the time that Thursday was VD. So, of course the night was free for both of us.
:)
Although the night didn't end with sex, I realised half-way through dinner that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get into trouble, be insensitive, embarrassing, or thoughtless. There were going to be no tantrums, expectations, or politics. We laughed at our dirty laundry instead of using it to hurt each other.
What more could you want from the night? (You are not allowed to reply with "sex"
Nah, that probably wouldn't work work, because you were not licenced to use the software without agreeing to the licence.
If a company wants to sue you for lying about their software, they should be able to sue you. But they should not be able to prevent you from talking about it, analysing it, or comparing it.
In the UK, the burden of proof is on the defendant to prove that what they said is right, but in other countries, the burden of proof is on the complainant to prove that what was said was a lie.
By displaying thumbnails as link to the actual pages, they are not in contravention. But what about cached copies of the full images?
I won a box of software at a programming conference. So I have no proof of purchase. I can't prove I won it, either. I think requiring proof of purchase rather than legitimate media/licence/packaging may not stand up too well legally. If thats the case, then just say you won all your software :)
Did they write an OO program that fooled judges into thinking they were conversing with real people on a terminal?
JUDGES: We are going to award you with this year's Turing Award.
D&N: Why are you going to award you with this year's Turing Award?
Being an Australian, I played Wipeout way before Red Bull was promoted here. So it looked like a made up sponsor for the game, and I wondered why the game promoted a pretend product so heavily. I thought that maybe it was some kind of in joke. Of course, it made sense once I knew what Red Bull was :)
A sci-fi/sci-fact magazine in paperback form called Destinies had a story about this in their Aug-Sept 1979 edition. The story was called "How to Build a Beanstalk" by Charles Sheffield. He did some research into the material strength required, and to get the stalk to reach down to earth, or somewhere near it required a material with a tensile strength of 2 000 000 kg/cm^2, which was 10 times the current known tensile strength of known materials at the time.
"Beanstalks, originally called skyhooks, are an idea of the 1960's whose time may at last have come. They are used as important elements of at least two novels published in 1979, Authur Clarke's 'The Fountains of Paradise' and my own 'The Web Between Two Worlds' "
If so, I can eat airplane peanuts on my Melbourne to London flight and power my laptop with a strategically placed tube from my MethPort to my... well, if you are here, you've got an imagination...
Dale Fuller said,
"The new end user license agreement mistakenly contains language that is specific to enterprise volume customers"
He said that the language, not the conditions were innappropriate for non enterprise licenses. He was probably just saying that they have to word things more obscurely for thin-skinned personal users.
They can just copy and paste it into Microsoft Windows NotePad, turn word-wrapping on, and resize the window until it makes a recognisable image.
OTOH, they will be pissed off when it takes fifty years to transmit a one year subscription key for their new version of Windows from Earth.
I think a good message to send would be "All your base are belong to us" We would find out if they had a sense of humour or not.
I got about 6:1 compression on the pizza I ate last night.
If they got anything more than about 20:1 compression, I'd suggest eating food with more fibre.
But 100:1 lossless compression? Guys, call yourselves an ambulance. Healthy digestion should include some loss of information.
This is a relief for me because I was planning to live forever by replacing my body parts with pig organs. The big hole in my plans was that the Earth was going to be eaten by the sun. Woohoo!
If you only need a backup in case of break down, fire, etc, put a cheap second hand computer on the network with a removable hard disk, that you can store in a fire-proof safe, or off-site if you are worried about floods :)
Then the only possible way to lose both lots of data is if the lot is stolen, or lightning strikes your power lines when both hard drives are in operation.
Your backup is useless if it doesn't restore, and from experience, tape has failed too many times. The beauty of the hard drive backup is that it is quick, and you can image your production hard disk to the backup, and use something like Norton Ghost to restore it.
DOWN WITH TAPES!
If we put a light on the camera, we can see inside the ears of millions of mobile phone lusers.
"Hullo John? My ear's really bugging me, can you see if anything's stuck in there?"
Brainfuck
Here is a program:
has sex in exchange for information.
No-one ever said we had to rely on Hollywood for our history lessons.
People are complaining about the historical accuracy of the movie, but this leads to an astounding implication:
We take our history lessons from hollywood. Full stop. If you watch movies to learn, your reality becomes a victim of tricks used to put bums on seats in a cinema. Please open a book. Then again, how can they be believed either?
And there, folks, is the reason history repeats itself. Now I'm thinking maybe Nixon really was an arsehole.
Design web sites, offer online shopping or otherwise provide a service that customers need hosting for, and then you will have your customer base.
Too easy.
A copulation(corporation) should use this kind of event to solve a tricky development problem that has stumped their enormous IT resources. Then they can sponsor the event knowing they will get something good out of it :)
I remember playing Wipeout on the Playstation when I didn't even know what Red Bull was.
It will make car racing games more realistic. Instead of driving under a big tyre on pit straight that says "Dunlopo", you get real brand names.
Who cares if advertising is on the walls of 3D games? It's on all the walls in Real Life (tm). But if I ever hit a puzzle in System Shock 2 where the only way to continue is to rewire the door lock to spell "Coke is It", I'll start fighting.
Yup, imagine how stupid I felt when I read past the first page :(
Unless you got express written permission to mirror this, you are in breach of the copyright. But then again, so is everyone who downloads it without express written permission and intends to retrieve it from their retrieval system. I wish people who slapped copyright messages on their works actually read them. It'd save a lot of hassle.