More like a basket of money in a public space that says take money here. Except copyright makes it so that after the taking there can be extra restrictions (in the case of some github projects restrictions like copying to a separate drive you own is an offense).
Honestly, if they are making it available, I think they should put a warning up for people, that by downloading and compiling the code you could be in violation of the law, or require everything free for non commercial use.
It's not an unreasonable assumption that something available for download is less than fully encumbered.
Generally the policy at copy places was self serve was fine for infringement, as it wasn't the employee doing the infringing. If somebody rented a machine, then made a personal copy, that was fair use. If an employee was doing it, that was work done by the company (at a few places I've worked).
It was usually done as a way to turn away non profitable work (lots of single copies that wouldn't feed, slightly oversized music sheets that were nearly impossible to place right to get the whole thing, etc). And for the sake of photographers as they were a chunk of our clientele, and if they saw copies of recentish professional prints there'd be hell to pay (any photographer asked for the sake of a calendar or greeting card faxed a waver too, so that was cool).
our guide line was if there was a (c) logo, though technically that doesbt really offer protection.
Smile train is my charitable charity of choice actually (though I give money to a few (arguably) non charitable non profits that do important work too.
Well, I am hoping bundle 7 falls immediately afterwards.
If it doesn't I'll just go strait to a charity.
I see the numbers rising and it's obvious my opinion (supporting indie developers and giving a little to charity is the purpose) is far less successful for them that the strategy of getting serious major games, I like that they are doing it, but it's not for me.
I have a Windows computer, and value wise this may be the best bundle yet, but I feel it is against the spirit of the bundle and am not chipping in, if they don't do another one before xmas, my big donation one is going strait towards a charity.
If the entirety of wealth in the world was backed by gold (no fractional reserves, all currency gold backed), transactions could be done with the gold in seawater.
Usually in discovery you turn over data, often times even processed data (scans, copies, PDFs rather than original files).
Redactions are very common. Handing over 100% of communication, relevant or not, completely ubredacted is NOT how things are supposed to work.
note, always make sure to send a message to your lawyer with every account. They should then be able to argue that it contains priveledged info and needs to be turned over by the lawyer in a different format (not saying it will work, but It's worth a try).
Back when records were physical, lawyers were given temporary, unrestricted, but observed access to documents, and able to ask for broad sections to be copied and sent based on what they saw.
I think the facebook equivalent is to give access to the account supervised for x number of hours, and then allow requests to be made for all messages in this date range, or these people, etc.
Think phone that barely run older versions of android, but snappy. High end feature phones rather than smart phones.
honestly, if one of them had decent battery and screen I'd be tempted, cost savings would be a perk.
I want internet, text, and decent camera with flash. I use a fair number of apps, but would be happy to trade sing a website for battery life. Oh yeah, and every now and again, I need the phone function...
It's true, people (myself included) loved Angry Birds, and didn't complain about the graphics.
Also, when I played Oblivion it felt very much the same to me as Arena (though I did not go back and play Arena and check, it was simply the first game I played since Arena that felt as open and free (I don't play too many games, I assume at least Daggerfall and Morrowind were similar).
But a game is not just pure gameplay, it's gameplay and sound at lest (I will actually use Angry Birds as an example of almost perfect sound, and even if the NES could render with enough detail to get meaningful differentiation of the materials, have as many pieces in a level, and do the physics as well (I doubt that any of these are true), the sound itself adds to the game.
An open world game would be pretty bad without enough storage, and processing power was required to make a FPS, an entire genre of gameplay (you could argue that once 2.5d was functional gameplay didn't change, but I would think that's wrong.
Yes, people will play for fun gameplay and relatively simple graphics, but to pretend that the power of a system doesn't augment everything involved is silly. There are many reasons there's more gamers now than a decade ago, and one (not the largest, but one) is that the processing power made games more awesome, and people picked it up as a hobby in their adult life.
N64 was pretty good when going all out, it was expensive though, as textures had to be burned into ROM and were far more expensive to use than PS1.
It was far easier and less expensive to make a nice looking PS1 game though, as texture storage was basically free, and texture makes a huge difference. Also, FMV cutscenes and lots of voice could be stored better, and cutscenes were all the rage.
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I'm all for DRM, I really like the accelerated desktop experience personally.
More like a basket of money in a public space that says take money here. Except copyright makes it so that after the taking there can be extra restrictions (in the case of some github projects restrictions like copying to a separate drive you own is an offense).
If it was officially posted It's hardly warez (and I assume It's the content owners choosing to post publicly to github)
Honestly, if they are making it available, I think they should put a warning up for people, that by downloading and compiling the code you could be in violation of the law, or require everything free for non commercial use.
It's not an unreasonable assumption that something available for download is less than fully encumbered.
We've already run out of cheap oil by the standards of not that long ago
There's a reason tar sands aren't generally in peak oil estimates.
Generally the policy at copy places was self serve was fine for infringement, as it wasn't the employee doing the infringing. If somebody rented a machine, then made a personal copy, that was fair use. If an employee was doing it, that was work done by the company (at a few places I've worked).
It was usually done as a way to turn away non profitable work (lots of single copies that wouldn't feed, slightly oversized music sheets that were nearly impossible to place right to get the whole thing, etc). And for the sake of photographers as they were a chunk of our clientele, and if they saw copies of recentish professional prints there'd be hell to pay (any photographer asked for the sake of a calendar or greeting card faxed a waver too, so that was cool).
our guide line was if there was a (c) logo, though technically that doesbt really offer protection.
Smile train is my charitable charity of choice actually (though I give money to a few (arguably) non charitable non profits that do important work too.
Or I can put 100% of my money to charity, get a tax deduction, and not inflate their numbers...
Well, I am hoping bundle 7 falls immediately afterwards.
If it doesn't I'll just go strait to a charity.
I see the numbers rising and it's obvious my opinion (supporting indie developers and giving a little to charity is the purpose) is far less successful for them that the strategy of getting serious major games, I like that they are doing it, but it's not for me.
I should add, it looks like it could be their most productive (money wise) bundle ever.
I have a Windows computer, and value wise this may be the best bundle yet, but I feel it is against the spirit of the bundle and am not chipping in, if they don't do another one before xmas, my big donation one is going strait towards a charity.
They have always will and and have a computer
Wish I lived in a neighborhood that nice,
One could argue a slow SSD is fast though.
pretty sure the Wii-U is out, I saw a sign somewhere saying they had it in stock.
I'm enthusiastic, I purchased a Zbox with an e-350, as soon as it was available.
If the entirety of wealth in the world was backed by gold (no fractional reserves, all currency gold backed), transactions could be done with the gold in seawater.
Highly deflationary indeed.
So It's like when Lincoln tailored his speeches by region, but with a phone and on the individual level?
cool use of tech.
Fucking autocunty
I've never seen someone given access to a corporate account for the sake of discovery, they are given access to the data.
the turning over the password is not legit, a copy of the timeline, activity log, and messages to and from relevant people (with details redacted) is.
In every case I've been involved with, a lawyer gets to go over all of these thongs before turning it over, this is highly unorthodox.
Usually in discovery you turn over data, often times even processed data (scans, copies, PDFs rather than original files).
Redactions are very common. Handing over 100% of communication, relevant or not, completely ubredacted is NOT how things are supposed to work.
note, always make sure to send a message to your lawyer with every account. They should then be able to argue that it contains priveledged info and needs to be turned over by the lawyer in a different format (not saying it will work, but It's worth a try).
Back when records were physical, lawyers were given temporary, unrestricted, but observed access to documents, and able to ask for broad sections to be copied and sent based on what they saw.
I think the facebook equivalent is to give access to the account supervised for x number of hours, and then allow requests to be made for all messages in this date range, or these people, etc.
Wow, $350 for driving without insurance? That's like nothing. 3 months of minimum coverage tops.
I'm shocked that penalty is effective at all.
I think Firefox os is targeting cheaper hardware.
Think phone that barely run older versions of android, but snappy. High end feature phones rather than smart phones.
honestly, if one of them had decent battery and screen I'd be tempted, cost savings would be a perk.
I want internet, text, and decent camera with flash. I use a fair number of apps, but would be happy to trade sing a website for battery life. Oh yeah, and every now and again, I need the phone function...
Sounds more likely it was for a lifetime of servitude.
It's true, people (myself included) loved Angry Birds, and didn't complain about the graphics.
Also, when I played Oblivion it felt very much the same to me as Arena (though I did not go back and play Arena and check, it was simply the first game I played since Arena that felt as open and free (I don't play too many games, I assume at least Daggerfall and Morrowind were similar).
But a game is not just pure gameplay, it's gameplay and sound at lest (I will actually use Angry Birds as an example of almost perfect sound, and even if the NES could render with enough detail to get meaningful differentiation of the materials, have as many pieces in a level, and do the physics as well (I doubt that any of these are true), the sound itself adds to the game.
An open world game would be pretty bad without enough storage, and processing power was required to make a FPS, an entire genre of gameplay (you could argue that once 2.5d was functional gameplay didn't change, but I would think that's wrong.
Yes, people will play for fun gameplay and relatively simple graphics, but to pretend that the power of a system doesn't augment everything involved is silly. There are many reasons there's more gamers now than a decade ago, and one (not the largest, but one) is that the processing power made games more awesome, and people picked it up as a hobby in their adult life.
I'm too young to know of anything before the N64
N64 was pretty good when going all out, it was expensive though, as textures had to be burned into ROM and were far more expensive to use than PS1.
It was far easier and less expensive to make a nice looking PS1 game though, as texture storage was basically free, and texture makes a huge difference. Also, FMV cutscenes and lots of voice could be stored better, and cutscenes were all the rage.
N64 example:
https://www.google.com/search?q=indana+jones+n64&rlz=1C1_____enUS387US390&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D2&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=4YmpUKW5BYyN0QGzvoFA&biw=1309&bih=726&sei=44mpUKm4I8W00QHymIDYAQ