Sorry to inform you that your memory isn't serving you. The SPEs work in Linux just fine, it's the videocard that doesn't. In short, Sony doesn't want you to play games under Linux so no one can develop games that run on Linux (cirvumventing Sony's stranglehold on the hardware) for the PS3. Linux games wouldn't need to pay Sony for each game sold as the normal titles do.
They aren't. However: building new Uranium mines and enrichment facilities takes many years and lots and lots of money. In the early 90s when all that uranium from the USSR (and NATO) became available for civilian uses, the price of uranium dropped sharply. Mining companies could not justify investing in new mines cause it simply wouldn't turn a profit. Now that this "uranium peace dividend" is running out, there are not enough mines anymore to cover the uranium needs of all the nuclear power plants. The situation is made worse by the planned switch to nuclear power to meet CO2 emission targets all over the world. We definitely don't have the capacity to cover all of those with current and planned mines.
You assume religions have consistent commandments which is a huge assumption, that is also false.
The same book you say has a "Thou shalt not kill" has lots of offences described where it demands the offender must be punished by stoning him/her to death. So which part of that religion is now right? The not killing part or the stone adulterers to death one? Hardly universal.
In the end it's always "Thou shalt not kill UNLESS I say so". Why the religion's founder, a prophet or just a worldly leader says so and if that is justified is open to debate of course.
Won't that decrease signal range of cellphone towers? If all the phones in the vicinity power themselves from the tower's signal, that signal can't travel as far as before, leading to needing more towers per square mile, no?
Please reread the GPL until you actually understand it. If I patch GPLed software and use it myself, I don't have to give my patches to anyone, ever. Only if I give a my modified binary to someone, I have to give the source for this binary (which has to include my patches) to this same someone, no one else.
> Why is there such a big push to punish infringers outside the court system?
Because there are so many infringers that the court system would be clogged for years with nothing else and the cost for the justice system not bearable.
Honestly, the generation that gets their information from the internet (instead of cable or newspapers) is going to have a much more liberal bias in general. All you have to do is look at age group demographics for any polling done and you'll see the heavy liberal skew to the younger ages.
There is a saying here (paraphrased): "A 20 year old liberal will end up a 70 year old conservative and doesn't have to change a single of his views".
So I don't fear for the conservative parties of the world just yet.
Usually companies do this the full Linux based software which comprises their firmware, it's just that almost only busybox and netfilter developers actually enforce the and sue if needed.
The "IP people" and the "legal people" have to interact for any 3rd party library a company uses, be it proprietary or open source, so this is no excuse.
If they do, their absolute profits will plummet. You can't hide the same amount of profit in absolute dollar value in a product half the price easily. Especially when the new product costs almost as much to develop as the old one.
Medicine is not a science either. It tries to be through research, but at this stage it's an advanced version of already tried stuff which has been tested to various degrees. "With patients with symptoms X Y and Z, procedure A helped first in animal trials and then in specified-percentage of humans. Now do the same to him, it might work even when he also gets undesirable result B with a chance of foo%"
Procedure being anything from a medication to operation.
If their network can't take the Net as it is, then they have a few choices: a) sell slower links to their customers b) sign up fewer customers (fat chance....) c) expand the network
Double dipping from customers and content providers is not the way
Labels, retail outlets, etc are cut out, replaced by creditcard agencies, CD-R manufactucters, ink makers, webhosters and ISPs. Overall the new middlemen are more efficient and differect, yes, but they are still middlemen.
One role that the "new middlemen" fill very well is promotion, the traditional role of the label. NIN is in a good position right now since the whole media does that for free for them: they are an established act and do something new and to spite the established power structure. So it's news and gets reported generating publicity. New bands won't have that luxury unfortunately.
The (possible) SLAs are exactly the point: chances are, the telecommunications company, and probably the cable too, is directly owned by the government. This is a usual arrangement in most islamic countries so any payout or loss of revenue due SLAs is directly hurting the government of which this minister is an officer.
Anyone that played Morrowind before and then Oblivion saw the huge difference.
Morrowind was a PC game that got ported to console. Oblivion was was a Console game ported to PC. A "port" as commonly known with PC players. And as most "Ports" it sucked in the same ways like them. The RPG part dumbed down overall with more emphasis on fights, made more lowest common denominator accessible for the "casual gamers", had simplified controls due to the lack of keyboard and mouse, horrible user interface, again due due bad res of the typical console "monitor" (NTSC TV) and controls.
It might have helped Bethesda's pocketbook (bigger market, easier to sell the bonus quests due to missing moddability on consoles, etc) but it made the game itself worse in the eyes of (PC)gamers and especially long time ElderScrolls players.
No it's not a full FPS (yet) but it certaily is a lot less of a RPG like it was.
There is LOTS of frozen methane in the Deep Sea. If average temperatures rise approximately 3C globally, this methane will melt and go into the atmosphere. Methane acts like CO2 only more so: average temps get even higher (apparently another 3). You really don't want that.
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Sorry to inform you that your memory isn't serving you. The SPEs work in Linux just fine, it's the videocard that doesn't. In short, Sony doesn't want you to play games under Linux so no one can develop games that run on Linux (cirvumventing Sony's stranglehold on the hardware) for the PS3. Linux games wouldn't need to pay Sony for each game sold as the normal titles do.
They aren't. However: building new Uranium mines and enrichment facilities takes many years and lots and lots of money. In the early 90s when all that uranium from the USSR (and NATO) became available for civilian uses, the price of uranium dropped sharply. Mining companies could not justify investing in new mines cause it simply wouldn't turn a profit.
Now that this "uranium peace dividend" is running out, there are not enough mines anymore to cover the uranium needs of all the nuclear power plants. The situation is made worse by the planned switch to nuclear power to meet CO2 emission targets all over the world. We definitely don't have the capacity to cover all of those with current and planned mines.
You assume religions have consistent commandments which is a huge assumption, that is also false.
The same book you say has a "Thou shalt not kill" has lots of offences described where it demands the offender must be punished by stoning him/her to death. So which part of that religion is now right? The not killing part or the stone adulterers to death one? Hardly universal.
In the end it's always "Thou shalt not kill UNLESS I say so". Why the religion's founder, a prophet or just a worldly leader says so and if that is justified is open to debate of course.
It's not about transportation, it's about destination.
Every PO-box is then unprotected under 4th amendment too?
Shall we make the rule take down first, ask questions later?
We already have that rule, we commonly call it DMCA
If you don't find what you see on the picture you've linked impressive, something is wrong with you.
Of course, that's just a drawing, so it's still just vaporware.
Yes I'm very much impressed by a screenshot from a game: http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3tc/info_en.php
Won't that decrease signal range of cellphone towers? If all the phones in the vicinity power themselves from the tower's signal, that signal can't travel as far as before, leading to needing more towers per square mile, no?
No you don't. Only if you distribute your patched binary, then you have to give the source for this binary to your users.
Please reread the GPL until you actually understand it. If I patch GPLed software and use it myself, I don't have to give my patches to anyone, ever.
Only if I give a my modified binary to someone, I have to give the source for this binary (which has to include my patches) to this same someone, no one else.
> Why is there such a big push to punish infringers outside the court system?
Because there are so many infringers that the court system would be clogged for years with nothing else and the cost for the justice system not bearable.
There is no new Google-feature needed which they can datamine. All you need is the GooglePreview addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/189
It allows you to filter out unwanted domains from your search results among very nice other features.
Don't they need the gun for self-defense?
They don't. In the EU where we don't have software patents (yet), Microsoft is one of the strongest supporters of introduction of software patents.
Don't hate the player, hate the game, you know.
If they were against patents they wouldn't do that and be happy about the status quo. So I hate them for playing the game without need.
Always remember: their actions speak louder than their anti patent rhetoric when they get hit by a patent suit again.
Now guess who is one of the biggest manufacturers of Intel Mainboards? Yes: FoxConn....
Tell it to valve. They regularly run a hardware survey.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
More than one million datapoints. That isn't enough to be useful for you?
The hoster terminates the client and won't sign him up again. Amazon could easily do he same but doesn't. Instead the only terminate the instance.
There is a saying here (paraphrased): "A 20 year old liberal will end up a 70 year old conservative and doesn't have to change a single of his views".
So I don't fear for the conservative parties of the world just yet.
Usually companies do this the full Linux based software which comprises their firmware, it's just that almost only busybox and netfilter developers actually enforce the and sue if needed.
The "IP people" and the "legal people" have to interact for any 3rd party library a company uses, be it proprietary or open source, so this is no excuse.
If they do, their absolute profits will plummet. You can't hide the same amount of profit in absolute dollar value in a product half the price easily. Especially when the new product costs almost as much to develop as the old one.
Medicine is not a science either. It tries to be through research, but at this stage it's an advanced version of already tried stuff which has been tested to various degrees.
"With patients with symptoms X Y and Z, procedure A helped first in animal trials and then in specified-percentage of humans. Now do the same to him, it might work even when he also gets undesirable result B with a chance of foo%"
Procedure being anything from a medication to operation.
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If their network can't take the Net as it is, then they have a few choices:
a) sell slower links to their customers
b) sign up fewer customers (fat chance....)
c) expand the network
Double dipping from customers and content providers is not the way
Labels, retail outlets, etc are cut out, replaced by creditcard agencies, CD-R manufactucters, ink makers, webhosters and ISPs. Overall the new middlemen are more efficient and differect, yes, but they are still middlemen.
One role that the "new middlemen" fill very well is promotion, the traditional role of the label. NIN is in a good position right now since the whole media does that for free for them: they are an established act and do something new and to spite the established power structure. So it's news and gets reported generating publicity. New bands won't have that luxury unfortunately.
The (possible) SLAs are exactly the point: chances are, the telecommunications company, and probably the cable too, is directly owned by the government. This is a usual arrangement in most islamic countries so any payout or loss of revenue due SLAs is directly hurting the government of which this minister is an officer.
Anyone that played Morrowind before and then Oblivion saw the huge difference.
Morrowind was a PC game that got ported to console. Oblivion was was a Console game ported to PC. A "port" as commonly known with PC players. And as most "Ports" it sucked in the same ways like them. The RPG part dumbed down overall with more emphasis on fights, made more lowest common denominator accessible for the "casual gamers", had simplified controls due to the lack of keyboard and mouse, horrible user interface, again due due bad res of the typical console "monitor" (NTSC TV) and controls.
It might have helped Bethesda's pocketbook (bigger market, easier to sell the bonus quests due to missing moddability on consoles, etc) but it made the game itself worse in the eyes of (PC)gamers and especially long time ElderScrolls players.
No it's not a full FPS (yet) but it certaily is a lot less of a RPG like it was.
There is LOTS of frozen methane in the Deep Sea. If average temperatures rise approximately 3C globally, this methane will melt and go into the atmosphere. Methane acts like CO2 only more so: average temps get even higher (apparently another 3). You really don't want that.