Not exactly, they can't. It depends on the market. If there's just 1 guy willing to pay for the full "version" vs. 4 willing to pay for the locked-down chip, guess what? you make the most profit locking down 4 units and letting every seller pay what he's willing to pay to get one or another product.
the guy is a nazi... trust? confidence? authority? have you ever tried telling your kids what to do and expect them to obey? But of course such a control freak will have trouble making the kids abide to thousands of absurd rules.
And not just malware, scam shops and all kinds of shady stuff. You want to know what's the best part? Google, Yahoo, and so on don't give a f*ck about it, I've reported such ads several times and I've never seen any action taken. As long as the criminals pay for the ads, nobody cares.
It's not really a change, it's just the correct interpretation of the law. In Spain you can copy for private use if you don't intend to make money (and this is the law not something a judge came up with). Distributing/collective use (like projecting in a cinema or playing in a bar) is illegal, and so is having ads to get money in your p2p-links page. Basically it's always legal unless you have commercial interests, that is, "preventing the record company from earning money" is legal, "making money in their place" is not.
Indeed. There's been a huge regression in that aspect, now all you got are first-person shooters and "casual" style games, which are really really dumb, even a monkey could play satisfactorily. Where are the game designers of the 80s and 90s? I wonder what the current game designers do... it takes the mind of a 3-year old to design a current game (and dozens of 3D artists... bah). Playing games now is purely a waste of time.
It's not about studying, it's about the things you do when you don't. Kids that age don't need to spend much time studying at home anyway. Any activity can't be dumber than playing the typical PlayStation first-person shooter, that's the problem when you spend too much doing it. A graphical adventure kind of game would have a completely different effect IMHO.
Whatever it is ETs would use, current SETI is like indians from the 1500s trying to eavesdrop our current communications by looking for smoke signals. Not going to happen.
The Spanish system is too lax in many aspects, even terrorists that have killed dozens of people can get out of jail in maybe 20 years. By the way, there's also a recent case of a teenager who raped and burned alive a retarded girl, and he's now (like ~6 years later) out of prison and commiting crimes like car theft, just because he was underage he is now out of prison. The maximum time you can spend in prison is 30 years (or 40 for terrorism), and the reductions apply to that time, not the time you were sentenced to (so for instance you can be sentenced to 200 years, but reductions apply to a 30-year period so you'll probably be out of jail even sooner than 30 years).
Well, a budget SSD of 40 gigs or so for OS and software would be perfect for many people. You can just buy a conventional spinning hard disk for the rest of your data.
That was me, i just registered a new account... by the way does anybody know how to match uid to year? i'd like to guess what my old account email address was, i can't remember and knowing the year would be a good clue to begin with.
I've noticed i didn't talk about UO at all so, about the UO-versus-current mmorpgs, I think the main difference is freedom and possibilities. Killing and PvP is not just arcade, it's also a form of socializing, versus the current "single-player" achiever-whiner profile that plagues online games. I played UO for a brief period many years ago and what current games lack that UO had is more openness and posibilities, more freedom. But people would rather be locked-in than let others have the freedom to harm them, making the gameplay much less rich and more single-player like.
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Not exactly, they can't. It depends on the market. If there's just 1 guy willing to pay for the full "version" vs. 4 willing to pay for the locked-down chip, guess what? you make the most profit locking down 4 units and letting every seller pay what he's willing to pay to get one or another product.
the guy is a nazi... trust? confidence? authority? have you ever tried telling your kids what to do and expect them to obey? But of course such a control freak will have trouble making the kids abide to thousands of absurd rules.
Now aliens know when to invade... on April Fools day
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And not just malware, scam shops and all kinds of shady stuff. You want to know what's the best part? Google, Yahoo, and so on don't give a f*ck about it, I've reported such ads several times and I've never seen any action taken. As long as the criminals pay for the ads, nobody cares.
It's not really a change, it's just the correct interpretation of the law. In Spain you can copy for private use if you don't intend to make money (and this is the law not something a judge came up with). Distributing/collective use (like projecting in a cinema or playing in a bar) is illegal, and so is having ads to get money in your p2p-links page. Basically it's always legal unless you have commercial interests, that is, "preventing the record company from earning money" is legal, "making money in their place" is not.
Indeed. There's been a huge regression in that aspect, now all you got are first-person shooters and "casual" style games, which are really really dumb, even a monkey could play satisfactorily. Where are the game designers of the 80s and 90s? I wonder what the current game designers do... it takes the mind of a 3-year old to design a current game (and dozens of 3D artists... bah). Playing games now is purely a waste of time.
It's not about studying, it's about the things you do when you don't. Kids that age don't need to spend much time studying at home anyway. Any activity can't be dumber than playing the typical PlayStation first-person shooter, that's the problem when you spend too much doing it. A graphical adventure kind of game would have a completely different effect IMHO.
Whatever it is ETs would use, current SETI is like indians from the 1500s trying to eavesdrop our current communications by looking for smoke signals. Not going to happen.
The Spanish system is too lax in many aspects, even terrorists that have killed dozens of people can get out of jail in maybe 20 years. By the way, there's also a recent case of a teenager who raped and burned alive a retarded girl, and he's now (like ~6 years later) out of prison and commiting crimes like car theft, just because he was underage he is now out of prison. The maximum time you can spend in prison is 30 years (or 40 for terrorism), and the reductions apply to that time, not the time you were sentenced to (so for instance you can be sentenced to 200 years, but reductions apply to a 30-year period so you'll probably be out of jail even sooner than 30 years).
Well, a budget SSD of 40 gigs or so for OS and software would be perfect for many people. You can just buy a conventional spinning hard disk for the rest of your data.
That was me, i just registered a new account... by the way does anybody know how to match uid to year? i'd like to guess what my old account email address was, i can't remember and knowing the year would be a good clue to begin with. I've noticed i didn't talk about UO at all so, about the UO-versus-current mmorpgs, I think the main difference is freedom and possibilities. Killing and PvP is not just arcade, it's also a form of socializing, versus the current "single-player" achiever-whiner profile that plagues online games. I played UO for a brief period many years ago and what current games lack that UO had is more openness and posibilities, more freedom. But people would rather be locked-in than let others have the freedom to harm them, making the gameplay much less rich and more single-player like.
Many games have special zones for spawns, you can't be killed there or affected by spells intended to kill you or harm you.