This. We've even recently pointed out how possible it is. You absolutely must be creative, though, and come up with novel gameplay that a lot of people (not necessarily including yourself) will enjoy. You will never be able to compete with the big houses on the quality of your art, but if you provide compelling gameplay people will beat a path to your door.
I certainly hope that at least the final revision and formatting was the work of the teacher, if not the majority of the writing, but if the kids did a significant part of the work they deserve authorship credit.
Oh, yeah, that would end well. You're just enjoying yourself after work one day, when your roommate comes home unexpectedly early. The device sees him, goes into panic mode, and switches the display to the Discovery Channel. Your roommate takes one look at what you're doing, one look at the grizzly bears on the screen, and suddenly you're on the hook for pizza and beer for the rest of the month.;) (Heaven help you if you're married in this situation.)
I think the key is that it's not a mass storage device, it's another computer on the network. As such, they will have ways of controlling what is contained on it the way they do with all their other machines. And since they presumably already deal with laptops, they should already understand the risks of portability and have procedures in place. The problem with dumb storage devices is that you can never have that control.
Isn't that exactly what they're doing, here? Helping Firefox, to the possible detriment of IE? Not that this means they are henceforth obligated to, but it's still interesting.
Firefox reproduces core functionality already provided by IE.;)
That's why this is so surprising, though as others have pointed out it's likely part of an effort to steer people to h264 instead of, say, VP8. Apple seems to be on board with that campaign to some extent, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see the same from them.
It's surprising because MS also wants people to use IE instead of Firefox. There was a time when they would try to make it more difficult for competitors to access features of Windows to push people toward their products. They've gotten better at that after getting hammered by regulators, but in this case they are not only exposing the function, they are going to the trouble of implementing it for the competition. It's not even like Firefox is capable of it on other platforms, so they're really going out of their way to make the Windows experience better. For those who remember the 'old' days, it seems very strange.
In 2003 there weren't really any alternatives to XFree86, either. It is entirely plausible that someone like Pierre Omidyar (e.g.) would seed a new foundation to support a fork, if they were dissatisfied with Wikimedia.
Came here with the intention to post this, and lo, I am not alone. It bears repeating:
I (would) support Wikipedia. I do not support the rest of Wikimedia.
Without being able to direct my contribution, they get nothing. And really, if they can't pay their hosting costs with $10M, I'm either seriously underestimating either the cost of bandwidth or the amount of their traffic.
For what it's worth, Michigan does exactly what you describe (link is to PDF), at least with bottles and cans. I don't know why other states with deposits don't do the same, or for that matter why so few states have deposits.
Yes. The amateur community had pretty good tracking on this thing, since it's so fascinating. They only ever lost it for a day or two at a time when it changed altitude.
I'm going to presume to speak for the GP and say "Yes, that would be fine, " though I think you're misinterpreting him. Since it would be life+15, given that Linus is still alive it wouldn't be anywhere close to expiring. Most Open Source licenses, and the GPL in particular, are designed to subvert copyright. The less restrictive copyright becomes, the less they are needed. Certainly once copyright expires authors using the GPL would have no problem letting everyone use their stuff, the key here being that MSFT and IBM and AAPL have to do the same.
I don't know that a 20 year old version of an OS would do many people much good, especially with BSD out there... but you'd be welcome to try.
Interesting. I'm running an Integrated Radeon HD 3200, and I really haven't had many problems in the 2 years I've had it. Not all the driver releases work, mind, but usually one of the last few will. In this case the 32-25 kernel update broke the 10.10 drivers, and installing the 10.11 drivers (in safe graphics mode) fixed it.
Honestly, I'm having a hard time figuring out who to blame here... It was an update from Ubuntu that broke it, but the never left me without a working system (just without games), and AMDTIs drivers are flaky to begin with. In any case, it's a far cry from the driver hell of years ago.
She sold her home, moved, and bought a new home. Then she lost her job, and while unemployed could not make payments on the new home. As a result, she lost her home.
I agree that this indicates some financial irresponsibility about the amount of home she could afford, but it still looks quite likely.
Assuming that he actually had 1.9 mil left after taxes in the first year, and given enough support for the 4% rule, he could have around $76,000 a year, inflation adjusted annually, for the rest of his life.
Assuming only 1 mil after the first year's taxes, it would still be around $40,000, which isn't to far from the median for a single wage earner. I won't claim it's a life of fabulous luxury, but especially if he already had some savings it would certainly be security.
Given that the UNIX code is old enough that no one is looking at it now (if they ever were when working on Linux), the fact that Novell released Suse under the GPL which means that even if there IS any UNIX code in Linux (not likely), it's still safe.
And get your stomach pumped. Oh, but then terrorists would surgically implant bombs. CAT scans for everyone! Bonus: Military levels of spending on the technology will make it faster and cheaper for medical use.
I think for many of us it's a matter of fighting think-of-the-children crap with think-of-the-children crap. In some ways it harms the debate, but it's hard to argue that it's not one of the few things that works in these kinds of situations. If we can stop the invasion here, at whatever cost, there will be less ground to retake with the real arguments.
If they're not using Euros because of the (horribly hypothetical) issue the GP is positing, and you're saying they won't use Dollars, what will they use? Renminbi?
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This. We've even recently pointed out how possible it is. You absolutely must be creative, though, and come up with novel gameplay that a lot of people (not necessarily including yourself) will enjoy. You will never be able to compete with the big houses on the quality of your art, but if you provide compelling gameplay people will beat a path to your door.
I certainly hope that at least the final revision and formatting was the work of the teacher, if not the majority of the writing, but if the kids did a significant part of the work they deserve authorship credit.
Oh, yeah, that would end well. You're just enjoying yourself after work one day, when your roommate comes home unexpectedly early. The device sees him, goes into panic mode, and switches the display to the Discovery Channel. Your roommate takes one look at what you're doing, one look at the grizzly bears on the screen, and suddenly you're on the hook for pizza and beer for the rest of the month. ;)
(Heaven help you if you're married in this situation.)
I think the key is that it's not a mass storage device, it's another computer on the network. As such, they will have ways of controlling what is contained on it the way they do with all their other machines. And since they presumably already deal with laptops, they should already understand the risks of portability and have procedures in place. The problem with dumb storage devices is that you can never have that control.
Help other companies compete with them?
Isn't that exactly what they're doing, here? Helping Firefox, to the possible detriment of IE? Not that this means they are henceforth obligated to, but it's still interesting.
Firefox reproduces core functionality already provided by IE. ;)
That's why this is so surprising, though as others have pointed out it's likely part of an effort to steer people to h264 instead of, say, VP8. Apple seems to be on board with that campaign to some extent, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see the same from them.
It's surprising because MS also wants people to use IE instead of Firefox. There was a time when they would try to make it more difficult for competitors to access features of Windows to push people toward their products. They've gotten better at that after getting hammered by regulators, but in this case they are not only exposing the function, they are going to the trouble of implementing it for the competition. It's not even like Firefox is capable of it on other platforms, so they're really going out of their way to make the Windows experience better. For those who remember the 'old' days, it seems very strange.
In 2003 there weren't really any alternatives to XFree86, either. It is entirely plausible that someone like Pierre Omidyar (e.g.) would seed a new foundation to support a fork, if they were dissatisfied with Wikimedia.
Came here with the intention to post this, and lo, I am not alone. It bears repeating:
I (would) support Wikipedia. I do not support the rest of Wikimedia.
Without being able to direct my contribution, they get nothing. And really, if they can't pay their hosting costs with $10M, I'm either seriously underestimating either the cost of bandwidth or the amount of their traffic.
For what it's worth, Michigan does exactly what you describe (link is to PDF), at least with bottles and cans. I don't know why other states with deposits don't do the same, or for that matter why so few states have deposits.
Now, that article is a stub and I didn't RTFD, but at first glance it looks like you're misinterpreting Quality King.
The Supreme Court found that the copyright holder could not prevent re-importation of materials it had authorized.
(emphasis mine)
Yes. The amateur community had pretty good tracking on this thing, since it's so fascinating. They only ever lost it for a day or two at a time when it changed altitude.
I think the 'or any other reason clause is in the bit that gp highlighted:
Activities that may be harmful to our users, operations, or reputation...
What I think constitutes a good reputation and what they do seems rather different.
I'm going to presume to speak for the GP and say "Yes, that would be fine, " though I think you're misinterpreting him. Since it would be life+15, given that Linus is still alive it wouldn't be anywhere close to expiring. Most Open Source licenses, and the GPL in particular, are designed to subvert copyright. The less restrictive copyright becomes, the less they are needed. Certainly once copyright expires authors using the GPL would have no problem letting everyone use their stuff, the key here being that MSFT and IBM and AAPL have to do the same.
I don't know that a 20 year old version of an OS would do many people much good, especially with BSD out there... but you'd be welcome to try.
We can fix that? We're going to be billionaires!
Interesting. I'm running an Integrated Radeon HD 3200, and I really haven't had many problems in the 2 years I've had it. Not all the driver releases work, mind, but usually one of the last few will. In this case the 32-25 kernel update broke the 10.10 drivers, and installing the 10.11 drivers (in safe graphics mode) fixed it.
Honestly, I'm having a hard time figuring out who to blame here... It was an update from Ubuntu that broke it, but the never left me without a working system (just without games), and AMDTIs drivers are flaky to begin with. In any case, it's a far cry from the driver hell of years ago.
Ubuntu 10.04 has some issues with ATI drivers. I installed a bunch of upgrades yesterday, rebooted, and the binary driver isn't working anymore.
Also Eastern White Pine, aka Mast Pine, famous for it's lack of knots though it's lesser strength means it's not as good for boards.
The problem is in your [snip]. Try:
She sold her home, moved, and bought a new home.
Then she lost her job, and while unemployed could not make payments on the new home.
As a result, she lost her home.
I agree that this indicates some financial irresponsibility about the amount of home she could afford, but it still looks quite likely.
Assuming that he actually had 1.9 mil left after taxes in the first year, and given enough support for the 4% rule, he could have around $76,000 a year, inflation adjusted annually, for the rest of his life.
Assuming only 1 mil after the first year's taxes, it would still be around $40,000, which isn't to far from the median for a single wage earner. I won't claim it's a life of fabulous luxury, but especially if he already had some savings it would certainly be security.
Given that the UNIX code is old enough that no one is looking at it now (if they ever were when working on Linux), the fact that Novell released Suse under the GPL which means that even if there IS any UNIX code in Linux (not likely), it's still safe.
And get your stomach pumped. Oh, but then terrorists would surgically implant bombs. CAT scans for everyone! Bonus: Military levels of spending on the technology will make it faster and cheaper for medical use.
I really wish that wasn't plausible.
I think for many of us it's a matter of fighting think-of-the-children crap with think-of-the-children crap. In some ways it harms the debate, but it's hard to argue that it's not one of the few things that works in these kinds of situations. If we can stop the invasion here, at whatever cost, there will be less ground to retake with the real arguments.
It's worse than you think. Some 7.7% of Americans don't have any sort of bank account, according to the FDIC
If they're not using Euros because of the (horribly hypothetical) issue the GP is positing, and you're saying they won't use Dollars, what will they use? Renminbi?