That's relating to the fact that MP3Tunes had not removed the files for which DMCA takedown notices were filed and the files that Robertson himself had uploaded there. Ie. a completely DIFFERENT ISSUE.
Inconclusive at best.. The lawyers can milk this for a while longer
If you'd actually read the whole thing you'd see that this is a clear victory: the Judge clearly ruled that these locker services do not need to buy licensing from record companies, they don't need to police the files of the users unless someone files a DMCA takedown request against a specific file.. How is this NOT a huge victory?
My wife picked up our touchpad yesterday from Harvey Norman for 98 AUD. Its hard not to be happy at that price. I can see that most of the time we will use the web browser to it doesn't matter much what operating system we run.
I too wish I could pick up a HP TouchPad for that price. But unfortunately the Finnish shops haven't realized the firesale and are still stubbornly selling them with the original price...:/
Aye, but fret not! Once they've finished reading the books they'll be back here to complain how there isn't anything worth reading there, and the ratio will jump to the regular 90%+:)
I know some thing for sure, I won't be signing up for google plus. You know damn well they aren't concerned with your privacy or protecting you, they just want to use the info you put on google plus to market to you. The more info, the better the marketing. never ever ever.
I often see people justifying the fact that they don't participate in Google+ because of the marketing, but... well, HOW do they market to you anything that they don't already do? I mean, unless you have something that e.g. blocks all Google AdWords then YOU'RE SEEING MARKETING ANYWAYS. You don't suddenly see more marketing once you sign to Google+, you just might see more interesting ads, that's all. And well, why is it bad to see more ads for stuff that might actually interest you? Do you have trouble deciding for yourself whether or not you should buy something and that's why you avoid ads that might be even mildly interesting, or what?
Atleast I rather see ads that I might find intriguing than ads that aren't in any way related to my tastes, especially when I'm going to see ads anyways.
The most notable thing is that LibreOffice has more momentum than OpenOffice, and that translates to better support and likely faster bugfixes and feature improvements. For someone who needs an office suite for actual work good support and timely bugfixes are probably among the most important features.
Of course it was. Cencorship is any time anything published by an entity is removed from the view of the general populace against the wish of the original publisher, regardless of whether the content itself is legal or not.
Some changes are probably related to gameplay, San Fransisco just isn't made to drive through at 120 MPH;
If utilized well that could actually make for quite a challenging and interesting gameplay.
It probably was easier to do exactly as you said, the management telling the designers to skip on realism and to try to cater to casual gamers as much as possible, but if the designers were given free reign over the map and quest design the game could've been a total blast.
The biggest issue is having a nose that's over a meter off the ground.
That matters only if the object you're sniffing is on the ground. But very often the object is way above the dog yet they can still very precisely smell it.
I don't know how well humans fare against the whole of animal kingdom, but atleast compared to dogs our smelling capabilities are literally laughably poor. My family has always had dogs ever since I was small, and I even have a dog right now myself, and I've seen some of the stuff they can pull off: humans can't get even near.
At our technological level, we pose no danger to anything off this planet.
Not now, no. But once we advance enough technologically and can actually move around in space with relative easy...well, mankind has shown extraordinary talent for selfishness and greed and wanton destruction of even our own planet just to please our short-term interests. If we do this to our OWN planet then what do you think we would do to something where we do not live?
I'd actually be pretty sympathetic with the aliens and wouldn't mind them annihilating the human race completely.
As the other commenters mentioned there are now games on Google+. However, they failed to mention that you DON'T see constant spam about games or who's been playing what or stuff like that unless you specifically go view the games tab; those games-related things do not appear in your regular feed at all.
I'd say that's already quite a big improvement over Facebook.
RIFT is a much more fun game, it has a lot of variety and you get to the fun stuff right from the beginning
What? RIFT is exactly what WoW is, only with different graphics and apparently no support for phasing of content meaning the game world is even more static than in WoW. The only thing going for RIFT is the more interesting class/spec system, nothing else.
I'm personally eagerly waiting for Guild Wars 2; from everything I've seen and read the developers are atleast trying hard to rethink old conventions, ditching the whole tank-healer-dps system and whatnot. And well, it'll obviously come with updated graphics. I'm atleast getting somewhat tired of WoW's low-poly models and things that haven't changed at all in all these years due to how the game engine was designed back in the days of vanilla (you put on a dress and your god damn legs disappear from beneath o_O)
They may claim they never signed/agreed to the GPL
That'd be the same as admitting to the court that they knew they were in breach of copyright law but decided to willfully continue anyway. NO sane company would tell that to the court!
I turn off my computer every night to, you know, save some electricity. It's not much, but it's still something, especially when you multiply it with 365..
It takes about 2 minutes for me to get up to useable desktop from cold-boot, and during that 2 minutes I visit the kitchen to get me something to drink, so, well, I wouldn't benefit in any way or form from suspending and resuming anyways.
Where else do you get a desktop PC with a touch-screen, stylus, and 24/7 support willing to help you with setting up Facebook account or holding your hand through writing an email? What, can you repeat that a bit louder, I can't hear you. Yes, that's right: nowhere!
This device is aimed at people who want/need a VERY simplified computing experience, so just slapping Android/MeeGo/whatever on there is not and will not be enough.
Well, I just tried it simply out of curiosity and for the heck of it: it merely asks you to gauge how you feel about how things have been going during the last 7 days, and apparently you'll get to fill the same gauges again after a week. Oh, and then it's filled with the "social" aspect where you can chat with other users about your ratings.
Luckily I've never needed these kinds of things, I can't really be much more satisfied with my relationship. Then again, I use common sense and just _talk_ things out, both of which most people these days seem incapable of doing.
Go e.g. farm mineral veins in Twilight Highlands: sooner or later you're bound to meet a bot who flies around under the ground and grabs the veins in front of you and you can't even target him for more than a few seconds. Mine point is: Warden doesn't work, there's plenty of cheats and hacks around that work just fine even after several years of being available.
For the small trade-off you get cheat-free economy
Unfortunately that's a pipe-dream: you lose the ability to play without Internet-connection AND you'll still have to suffer cheaters in multiplayer-games. Just take a look at WoW: you can find hundreds of bots, cheats that allow you to fly/run faster than other players, go underground so you're unattackable, wall-climb and so on and so forth. Diablo III will not be any different.
Besides, if you get your account stolen you won't even be able to play SINGLE-PLAYER until you get it back. IF you get it back at all.
If "The Cloud" rises up and devours natives software, nobody will give a fuck about any application on the Linux desktop, except for the browser(the state of which is fine) and none of the suits will care about the raging emacs/vi crusades, so long as they can get their almost-thin-clients booted into gmail as cheaply as possible...
Considering that Windows can't really be stripped down to bare essentials, atleast not yet, and used just as a thin-client but Linux can be stripped down to fit in under 200 megabytes, INCLUDING browser... well, I'd say that actually makes it darn interesting for someone solely focused on "cloud" software.
Slashdot Mirror
If you look good enough from the neck down
But what to do about the hideous thing above my neck?
butt crap
Somehow I feel there's a connection there.
Salutations, though I don't get your reference or why you're saluting me.. o_o
Conclusion
It's not clear where the ruling leaves MP3tunes.
That's relating to the fact that MP3Tunes had not removed the files for which DMCA takedown notices were filed and the files that Robertson himself had uploaded there. Ie. a completely DIFFERENT ISSUE.
Inconclusive at best.. The lawyers can milk this for a while longer
If you'd actually read the whole thing you'd see that this is a clear victory: the Judge clearly ruled that these locker services do not need to buy licensing from record companies, they don't need to police the files of the users unless someone files a DMCA takedown request against a specific file.. How is this NOT a huge victory?
My wife picked up our touchpad yesterday from Harvey Norman for 98 AUD. Its hard not to be happy at that price. I can see that most of the time we will use the web browser to it doesn't matter much what operating system we run.
I too wish I could pick up a HP TouchPad for that price. But unfortunately the Finnish shops haven't realized the firesale and are still stubbornly selling them with the original price... :/
Aye, but fret not! Once they've finished reading the books they'll be back here to complain how there isn't anything worth reading there, and the ratio will jump to the regular 90%+ :)
I know some thing for sure, I won't be signing up for google plus. You know damn well they aren't concerned with your privacy or protecting you, they just want to use the info you put on google plus to market to you. The more info, the better the marketing. never ever ever.
I often see people justifying the fact that they don't participate in Google+ because of the marketing, but... well, HOW do they market to you anything that they don't already do? I mean, unless you have something that e.g. blocks all Google AdWords then YOU'RE SEEING MARKETING ANYWAYS. You don't suddenly see more marketing once you sign to Google+, you just might see more interesting ads, that's all. And well, why is it bad to see more ads for stuff that might actually interest you? Do you have trouble deciding for yourself whether or not you should buy something and that's why you avoid ads that might be even mildly interesting, or what?
Atleast I rather see ads that I might find intriguing than ads that aren't in any way related to my tastes, especially when I'm going to see ads anyways.
The most notable thing is that LibreOffice has more momentum than OpenOffice, and that translates to better support and likely faster bugfixes and feature improvements. For someone who needs an office suite for actual work good support and timely bugfixes are probably among the most important features.
Dude, this was not censorship.
Of course it was. Cencorship is any time anything published by an entity is removed from the view of the general populace against the wish of the original publisher, regardless of whether the content itself is legal or not.
Some changes are probably related to gameplay, San Fransisco just isn't made to drive through at 120 MPH;
If utilized well that could actually make for quite a challenging and interesting gameplay.
It probably was easier to do exactly as you said, the management telling the designers to skip on realism and to try to cater to casual gamers as much as possible, but if the designers were given free reign over the map and quest design the game could've been a total blast.
The biggest issue is having a nose that's over a meter off the ground.
That matters only if the object you're sniffing is on the ground. But very often the object is way above the dog yet they can still very precisely smell it.
I don't know how well humans fare against the whole of animal kingdom, but atleast compared to dogs our smelling capabilities are literally laughably poor. My family has always had dogs ever since I was small, and I even have a dog right now myself, and I've seen some of the stuff they can pull off: humans can't get even near.
At our technological level, we pose no danger to anything off this planet.
Not now, no. But once we advance enough technologically and can actually move around in space with relative easy...well, mankind has shown extraordinary talent for selfishness and greed and wanton destruction of even our own planet just to please our short-term interests. If we do this to our OWN planet then what do you think we would do to something where we do not live?
I'd actually be pretty sympathetic with the aliens and wouldn't mind them annihilating the human race completely.
Even more pro tip: it's spelled "your."
As the other commenters mentioned there are now games on Google+. However, they failed to mention that you DON'T see constant spam about games or who's been playing what or stuff like that unless you specifically go view the games tab; those games-related things do not appear in your regular feed at all.
I'd say that's already quite a big improvement over Facebook.
RIFT is a much more fun game, it has a lot of variety and you get to the fun stuff right from the beginning
What? RIFT is exactly what WoW is, only with different graphics and apparently no support for phasing of content meaning the game world is even more static than in WoW. The only thing going for RIFT is the more interesting class/spec system, nothing else.
I'm personally eagerly waiting for Guild Wars 2; from everything I've seen and read the developers are atleast trying hard to rethink old conventions, ditching the whole tank-healer-dps system and whatnot. And well, it'll obviously come with updated graphics. I'm atleast getting somewhat tired of WoW's low-poly models and things that haven't changed at all in all these years due to how the game engine was designed back in the days of vanilla (you put on a dress and your god damn legs disappear from beneath o_O)
They may claim they never signed/agreed to the GPL
That'd be the same as admitting to the court that they knew they were in breach of copyright law but decided to willfully continue anyway. NO sane company would tell that to the court!
I'm actually rather dreadfully waiting for the version number 95..
I turn off my computer every night to, you know, save some electricity. It's not much, but it's still something, especially when you multiply it with 365..
It takes about 2 minutes for me to get up to useable desktop from cold-boot, and during that 2 minutes I visit the kitchen to get me something to drink, so, well, I wouldn't benefit in any way or form from suspending and resuming anyways.
Where else do you get a desktop PC with a touch-screen, stylus, and 24/7 support willing to help you with setting up Facebook account or holding your hand through writing an email? What, can you repeat that a bit louder, I can't hear you. Yes, that's right: nowhere!
This device is aimed at people who want/need a VERY simplified computing experience, so just slapping Android/MeeGo/whatever on there is not and will not be enough.
Tbh, I'd LOVE to have the ability to glow in the dark or in UV light. Damn, that'd be cool :D
Well, I just tried it simply out of curiosity and for the heck of it: it merely asks you to gauge how you feel about how things have been going during the last 7 days, and apparently you'll get to fill the same gauges again after a week. Oh, and then it's filled with the "social" aspect where you can chat with other users about your ratings.
Luckily I've never needed these kinds of things, I can't really be much more satisfied with my relationship. Then again, I use common sense and just _talk_ things out, both of which most people these days seem incapable of doing.
Go e.g. farm mineral veins in Twilight Highlands: sooner or later you're bound to meet a bot who flies around under the ground and grabs the veins in front of you and you can't even target him for more than a few seconds. Mine point is: Warden doesn't work, there's plenty of cheats and hacks around that work just fine even after several years of being available.
For the small trade-off you get cheat-free economy
Unfortunately that's a pipe-dream: you lose the ability to play without Internet-connection AND you'll still have to suffer cheaters in multiplayer-games. Just take a look at WoW: you can find hundreds of bots, cheats that allow you to fly/run faster than other players, go underground so you're unattackable, wall-climb and so on and so forth. Diablo III will not be any different.
Besides, if you get your account stolen you won't even be able to play SINGLE-PLAYER until you get it back. IF you get it back at all.
Doesn't sound like a fair trade-off to me.
If "The Cloud" rises up and devours natives software, nobody will give a fuck about any application on the Linux desktop, except for the browser(the state of which is fine) and none of the suits will care about the raging emacs/vi crusades, so long as they can get their almost-thin-clients booted into gmail as cheaply as possible...
Considering that Windows can't really be stripped down to bare essentials, atleast not yet, and used just as a thin-client but Linux can be stripped down to fit in under 200 megabytes, INCLUDING browser... well, I'd say that actually makes it darn interesting for someone solely focused on "cloud" software.