[...] 2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.
Emphasis Mine. However, I haven't heard of a case of this ever happening. If it did, I'm sure there would be a shitstorm of people flooding the web and defaming Valve.
I think Valve is doing well to set Steamworks up as the nextgen distribution platform, I can't remember the last time I had to pop in a CD for a game and I'm enjoying it more. I suppose the 20 to 30 dollars you save by skipping a retailer means taking the risk of having it taken away from you, but I think as long as you are not a complete retard, Valve wouldn't do that.
I have heard cases where Valve would close an account on someone who was hacking (CS:S). However, they had more than 5 temporary bans each of which informing the user they would lose access to their steam account indefinately if they continued.
Is that why Turbine Struggled so much with D&D Online that they made it free, while Blizzard Flourished with WoW, being on the exact same subscription service?
It couldn't be that Blizzard has created consistent top selling games since Warcraft 2, all of which were not subscritption based?
If they're wrong, they'll be punished at exam time.
Or, they turn around and blame the professor (and the school) for failing to teach them. And ask for their money back. If the school can demonstrate, that they have not attended the classes, they can defend themselves.
Has that happened? I thought in order to do that, the student has to demonstrate that they took active measures to ensure they understood the material. They would need email logs of students trying to contact the Prof, old exams that show no feedback, that kind of stuff. As far as my experience has gone (which is usually that of friends who go to University, I went to a polytechnic), they can only challenge their prof if they can prove he wasn't giving them proper feedback or responding to their questions, attendance was not even considered.
As a side note, I have a friend who has ONE prof who cares about attendance, but she also spent the entire first lecture going over "classroom rules", which included a bathroom pass, no chewing gum, or food, only bottled water to drink, and daily homework checks to see if they were doing the questions in the textbook. She requested to swap but the U didn't let her. She said it was the worst class she's ever taken, ever.
And as a school, yes I have the responsibility to vouch that said student did actually come to the classes they claim they did when they show you that way overpriced framed piece of paper. Otherwise, I'm not better than some 2bit school selling degrees
No, actually, you don't have that responsibility. You have to ensure students that graduate have sufficient knowledge in the field of their studies, nothing more. This is what the final exam is for, and why it is worth so much of the grade.
If someone learned everything they needed to PRIOR to going to university, but they couldn't get a degree without taking the courses, shouldn't they have the right to not go to class and write the final? (Not all schools allow you to simply pay to challenge the course).
I know I learned a lot about programming before going to a CS degree, so half a semester was a waste of my time, so I skipped it, still passed with flying colours.
In my classes, they didn't care if you showed up or not, you already paid your tuition. If you fail out, thats your problem and your lost cash.
I don't see why I would necessarily have to go to class if I knew the material. And I didn't always go to class when I knew what its about. Using VB to talk to Oracle? Boring. Anyways, I wasn't graded on my attendance, and neither should any university student. They talk about how its their job to prepare people for the working world, when its not. It's their job to educate you on the skills you need to work in the field, your work ethics are an entirely seperate subject they should not have a part in, unless you want to go to a class dedicated to that.
I dunno, I could see this working for elementary school, but not University.
Build it. They will come. Someone will buy it. And if you want them to stay, the FOSS project better be remain as well supported as the eventual commercial version
(Ignoring how difficult that is to read, since its a quote.)
So at what point do you think the acquirer will always want them to stay, or that the FOSS project will remain as well supported?
I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out like every other Open Source project that gets bought out.
I bet they expected the OS community to have mirrored the reference code sites, start their own blogs, and master the libraries and dole out advice, if they really wanted the.NET Libraries to be Open Source.
Not defending Microsoft, it's not exactly cool, but like you said, what were they expecting?
No. Its not plausible. At all. If you had any idea how difficult it is to migrate a program from English to French, you wouldn't be saying that. Decimals to Comma's, that alone messes up tons of Accounting databases.
1) They still didn't know how it worked, they mentioned that. 2) Regardless, the idea is that its a human OS and not alien. 3) Then they wouldn't have shields. 4) Not all electronics work the same. This is why there are issues with video games on differing video cards, why you can't run MS-DOS on Solaris machines, etc etc. 5) No, I'm assuming that the system is beyond our skillset to manipulate. Like if they use quantum computing and quantum encryption, we wouldn't have the means to inject our own code into a stream. Not too mention our own code, C or assembly or even Matlab won't run on alien architecture, like how most Windows games don't run on Macs. 6) His exploit was mystically deciphering an entire alien legacy of computers and machinery in order to disable one function. If I had that power, I would have turned off the cooling systems for the plasma firing weapons. Have them blow themselves up.
I think one of the bigger issues is that Mars doesn't have a molten core, and therefor, not much of a magnetic field. We already know that Nuclear reactions can cause bad radiation, and that the core of the sun is constantly going through nuclear reactions. As such, a lot of radiation gets shot towards Earth, but because our planet has a magnetic field a lot of it gets reflected or refracted away. This is what causes the Northern lights.
So, I mean, should we get air on Mars, we'll still probably get bombarded with Beta Particles.
We already have permanently damaged the environment.
There are species of Tigers whose population has been decreased so much that it is impossible for them to recover, they will inevitably die off. Pandas are pretty close to that as well.
And yes, new life could be start if we left the planet alone for a while, but we don't. In the same way an Asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and millions of species died, humans are killing more and more species.
I'm more concerned about the effect this has on US than it does on the environment. If the planet isn't sustainable with us on it, than we won't live on it, not for long. But I don't doubt life will come back should we wipe ourselves out.
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Indeed, the EULA states:
C. Termination by Valve.
[...]
2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.
Emphasis Mine.
However, I haven't heard of a case of this ever happening. If it did, I'm sure there would be a shitstorm of people flooding the web and defaming Valve.
I think Valve is doing well to set Steamworks up as the nextgen distribution platform, I can't remember the last time I had to pop in a CD for a game and I'm enjoying it more. I suppose the 20 to 30 dollars you save by skipping a retailer means taking the risk of having it taken away from you, but I think as long as you are not a complete retard, Valve wouldn't do that.
I have heard cases where Valve would close an account on someone who was hacking (CS:S). However, they had more than 5 temporary bans each of which informing the user they would lose access to their steam account indefinately if they continued.
Generally its if you are in the middle of an update for the game, I believe.
Pretty soon, you'll be able to play Crysis without a computer!
Yeah, they are a little behind. They just implemented AOL keywords.
Is that why Turbine Struggled so much with D&D Online that they made it free, while Blizzard Flourished with WoW, being on the exact same subscription service?
It couldn't be that Blizzard has created consistent top selling games since Warcraft 2, all of which were not subscritption based?
Your arguement holds less water than a paper bag.
Apple is a secret sponsor of Betamax, its making a comeback!
Microsoft has decided that upon registering for any of their forums, you must complete and pass a turing test. Twice.
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Or, they turn around and blame the professor (and the school) for failing to teach them. And ask for their money back. If the school can demonstrate, that they have not attended the classes, they can defend themselves.
Has that happened? I thought in order to do that, the student has to demonstrate that they took active measures to ensure they understood the material. They would need email logs of students trying to contact the Prof, old exams that show no feedback, that kind of stuff. As far as my experience has gone (which is usually that of friends who go to University, I went to a polytechnic), they can only challenge their prof if they can prove he wasn't giving them proper feedback or responding to their questions, attendance was not even considered.
As a side note, I have a friend who has ONE prof who cares about attendance, but she also spent the entire first lecture going over "classroom rules", which included a bathroom pass, no chewing gum, or food, only bottled water to drink, and daily homework checks to see if they were doing the questions in the textbook. She requested to swap but the U didn't let her. She said it was the worst class she's ever taken, ever.
And as a school, yes I have the responsibility to vouch that said student did actually come to the classes they claim they did when they show you that way overpriced framed piece of paper. Otherwise, I'm not better than some 2bit school selling degrees
No, actually, you don't have that responsibility. You have to ensure students that graduate have sufficient knowledge in the field of their studies, nothing more. This is what the final exam is for, and why it is worth so much of the grade.
If someone learned everything they needed to PRIOR to going to university, but they couldn't get a degree without taking the courses, shouldn't they have the right to not go to class and write the final? (Not all schools allow you to simply pay to challenge the course).
I know I learned a lot about programming before going to a CS degree, so half a semester was a waste of my time, so I skipped it, still passed with flying colours.
Did you notice how everyone kept saying the same thing? I bet there are going to be a ton of people downmodded for being redundant.
In my classes, they didn't care if you showed up or not, you already paid your tuition. If you fail out, thats your problem and your lost cash.
I don't see why I would necessarily have to go to class if I knew the material. And I didn't always go to class when I knew what its about. Using VB to talk to Oracle? Boring. Anyways, I wasn't graded on my attendance, and neither should any university student. They talk about how its their job to prepare people for the working world, when its not. It's their job to educate you on the skills you need to work in the field, your work ethics are an entirely seperate subject they should not have a part in, unless you want to go to a class dedicated to that.
I dunno, I could see this working for elementary school, but not University.
Build it. They will come. Someone will buy it. And if you want them to stay , the FOSS project better be remain as well supported as the eventual commercial version
(Ignoring how difficult that is to read, since its a quote.)
So at what point do you think the acquirer will always want them to stay, or that the FOSS project will remain as well supported?
I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out like every other Open Source project that gets bought out.
They made it open source so that they didn't have to support it.
Then when they stopped supporting it, the open source community went Huh?
Microsoft has a forum
Ziiiiing!
I bet they expected the OS community to have mirrored the reference code sites, start their own blogs, and master the libraries and dole out advice, if they really wanted the .NET Libraries to be Open Source.
Not defending Microsoft, it's not exactly cool, but like you said, what were they expecting?
I suppose the error we make is that Aliens would be past the idiotic Pointy Haired Boss phase.
Agreed, though I think it was a matter of relativistic physics, where a clock might not have been synched when travelling various distances in space.
Though really, whats a few seconds between annihilating cities.
No. Its not plausible. At all. If you had any idea how difficult it is to migrate a program from English to French, you wouldn't be saying that. Decimals to Comma's, that alone messes up tons of Accounting databases.
1) They still didn't know how it worked, they mentioned that.
2) Regardless, the idea is that its a human OS and not alien.
3) Then they wouldn't have shields.
4) Not all electronics work the same. This is why there are issues with video games on differing video cards, why you can't run MS-DOS on Solaris machines, etc etc.
5) No, I'm assuming that the system is beyond our skillset to manipulate. Like if they use quantum computing and quantum encryption, we wouldn't have the means to inject our own code into a stream. Not too mention our own code, C or assembly or even Matlab won't run on alien architecture, like how most Windows games don't run on Macs.
6) His exploit was mystically deciphering an entire alien legacy of computers and machinery in order to disable one function. If I had that power, I would have turned off the cooling systems for the plasma firing weapons. Have them blow themselves up.
I think one of the bigger issues is that Mars doesn't have a molten core, and therefor, not much of a magnetic field. We already know that Nuclear reactions can cause bad radiation, and that the core of the sun is constantly going through nuclear reactions. As such, a lot of radiation gets shot towards Earth, but because our planet has a magnetic field a lot of it gets reflected or refracted away. This is what causes the Northern lights.
So, I mean, should we get air on Mars, we'll still probably get bombarded with Beta Particles.
Have they found the soundstage on mars where they faked the moon landing?
Gunpowder.
My Hot Fresh Brewed Coffee shot out my nose. It still burns a little, but that joke was totally worth it.
We already have permanently damaged the environment.
There are species of Tigers whose population has been decreased so much that it is impossible for them to recover, they will inevitably die off. Pandas are pretty close to that as well.
And yes, new life could be start if we left the planet alone for a while, but we don't. In the same way an Asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and millions of species died, humans are killing more and more species.
I'm more concerned about the effect this has on US than it does on the environment. If the planet isn't sustainable with us on it, than we won't live on it, not for long. But I don't doubt life will come back should we wipe ourselves out.