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Most of the world has real problems (AIDS
So why are American companies denying other nations (not only 3rd world) that medical treatment? They can't afford to pay US$ for it, and their own laws don't give patents to essential medicine anyway. US companies are crying up a river about patent infringement while thousands die of AIDS.
Increasing number of treaties binding us to other nations' hardly-enlightend laws; these same treaties also have the effect of reducing the control of Americans over their own government, as they are the "supreme law of the land" alongside the increasingly-mythical Constitution
jesus christ man! USA is THE main offender in enforcing their shit world wide!
Leaving the US won't do shit - your laws will be everywhere before long because nobody can do business with you arseholes without conforming.
lean toward what they personally feel is right, not what is legally right.
This bothers me. Why is the law so out of control that the only way for what is "right" to prevail is to either ignore/bend the law or get it struck down as unconstitutional? Can't bad shit be fixed without it being unconstitutional?
'Intellectual Property' is a lie. It is NOT property.
Copyright (and related laws: patents, etc) is not a natural right, it's granted by the government (on behalf of the People) to encourage more works.
Copyright is being abused in a major way - when the People decide they're tired of being fucked over (like not being able to OWN what they pay for, and other minor trivialities like DYING OF FUCKING HIV/AIDS), they will revoke your Copyright. No more soup for you.
If you abuse it, you lose it. And that's just too fuckin' bad.
The 2.2 version of RFS is compatible with 2.4, but the 2.4 version is not compatible with 2.2. You have to re-mkfs your filesystem(s) if you want them to work with 2.2 - you'll have to read the docs yourself to find out what the mkfs parameter is for 2.2 compatibility...
You rarely notice the increase unless it's a significant one, but you will most likely notice a decrease.
After you've had your fast machine for a several months, halfway through a normal day go back to your old one (or in the case of upgrades, pull the fast CPU and put the old one back, remove that extra 512 meg RAM, VooDoo2 instead of the GF2).
It could also be that software and hardware are advancing at a more stable rate, rather than leapfrogging each other every year?
There are libraries giving you all these features using GL graphics, but they are not made full time and/or they are made by hobby programmers
Looks like someone with money (ie. none if this tree hugging hippie crap) needs to come up with a 'standard' set OpenGL extensions. Since so many OpenGL games license their engines anyway, I say id software gets this job*.. if Carmack needs to say fuck the OpenGL consortium in order to get everything to work, so be it.
publish the formatting protocol? i bet had they done so (and they probably did) it would have been the first thing to be tossed in the bin next time the cleaners came - the developers are dead damnit.
Not only that, but it was NASA's system and NASA's tapes, there's no point publishing anything.. who'd be able to use it?
OTOH, had they printed out the data (or spread it to media companies on film or something) then everything would be sweet. Someone might give the OK to dump a box of programmers notes, but not half a warehouse of paper, which everyone knows is The Data.
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I haven't heard copyright called that for a looong time.
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a game that will only get you $80 a pop, when you can develop
one that will get you $80 a pop, plus a monthly fee?
(note: this was humour. i have no idea what Sims Online actually costs to play, if anything).
It's freedom from getting fucked over by certain large closed-source companies.
Obviously there are no legal protections for copyright abuse, so we just use copyright to even the score.
Woohoo!
I'd move to Europe except they're passing their own DMCA (AFAIK?) laws so it's not a whole lot better than where I am..
the various "International" (ie. American) trade organisations will force everyone to comply or lose the ability to do business with the USA.
Failure to apply encryption restrictions may get countries accused of harboring terrorists. Bombs away.
Probably all of it, since they never realised they had it to begin with. (on-topic): it's just silly computer stuff.
In a shock announcement, the Feds reveal that internet users are too busy downloading bad pr0n to try plotting terrorist attacks.
In other news, revolutionary technology allows humans "verbal" communication for the first time in 45 years.
Indeed.
So why are American companies denying other nations (not only 3rd world) that medical treatment? They can't afford to pay US$ for it, and their own laws don't give patents to essential medicine anyway. US companies are crying up a river about patent infringement while thousands die of AIDS.
it's most likely the USA Govt's existing powers being abused that is responsible for this attack.
Lots of people don't like the USA, and they don't like you for a reason.
jesus christ man! USA is THE main offender in enforcing their shit world wide!
Leaving the US won't do shit - your laws will be everywhere before long because nobody can do business with you arseholes without conforming.
This bothers me. Why is the law so out of control that the only way for what is "right" to prevail is to either ignore/bend the law or get it struck down as unconstitutional? Can't bad shit be fixed without it being unconstitutional?
If the car doesn't start, they can't milk a couple hundred bucks out of you in fines.
'Intellectual Property' is a lie. It is NOT property.
Copyright (and related laws: patents, etc) is not a natural right, it's granted by the government (on behalf of the People) to encourage more works.
Copyright is being abused in a major way - when the People decide they're tired of being fucked over (like not being able to OWN what they pay for, and other minor trivialities like DYING OF FUCKING HIV/AIDS), they will revoke your Copyright. No more soup for you.
If you abuse it, you lose it. And that's just too fuckin' bad.
The 2.2 version of RFS is compatible with 2.4, but the 2.4 version is not compatible with 2.2. You have to re-mkfs your filesystem(s) if you want them to work with 2.2 - you'll have to read the docs yourself to find out what the mkfs parameter is for 2.2 compatibility...
You rarely notice the increase unless it's a significant one, but you will most likely notice a decrease.
After you've had your fast machine for a several months, halfway through a normal day go back to your old one (or in the case of upgrades, pull the fast CPU and put the old one back, remove that extra 512 meg RAM, VooDoo2 instead of the GF2).
It could also be that software and hardware are advancing at a more stable rate, rather than leapfrogging each other every year?
My desk, from left to right:
2Ghz file/mail/web/firewall box
1Ghz 'old-skool' box for experimenting/nostalgia
me + monitor
4.77Ghz dual boot Linux/Win2010 box (for playing games only I swear!)
Portable fusion reactor in a fruity cube case.
Looks like someone with money (ie. none if this tree hugging hippie crap) needs to come up with a 'standard' set OpenGL extensions. Since so many OpenGL games license their engines anyway, I say id software gets this job*.. if Carmack needs to say fuck the OpenGL consortium in order to get everything to work, so be it.
*specs are Free. id's implementation is not.
I can't wait until my end users know WTF an 'icon' is, let alone a fucking tachyon pulse, inverse or otherwise..
capitalism may suck, but it's the best system we have - it suits human nature perfectly.
Until humans stop being spineless, greedy, snivelling, backstabbing arseholes, capitalism it is.
publish the formatting protocol? i bet had they done so (and they probably did) it would have been the first thing to be tossed in the bin next time the cleaners came - the developers are dead damnit.
Not only that, but it was NASA's system and NASA's tapes, there's no point publishing anything.. who'd be able to use it?
OTOH, had they printed out the data (or spread it to media companies on film or something) then everything would be sweet. Someone might give the OK to dump a box of programmers notes, but not half a warehouse of paper, which everyone knows is The Data.
teach em how to build pr0n sites then.. they'll be making more than you 6 months after graduating.
good news is, playing it full screen on a handheld is actually normal size :)
wait, wait... yes... wait, yup! that's a nipple!
when the pollies/media are out for a scapegoat, 'probably' isn't good enough...