There were a number of well known XP edu keys that made the piracy rounds that would automatically activate. The problem though.. once they were eventually invalidated, they killed all the real edu XP installs. I snagged both Win2k Pro and XP Pro through my schools MS Software Education Alliance (or something like that) and my XP is now useless (no SN required for the W2k).
Was informed a week ago when I was canceling my Sprint contract. Spring has been really hurting wih the 'get out of contract ETF-free' thing. The reason for the contract change is to accommodate the launch of the iPhone.
Sorry you got modded down.. I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Like you, I could care less now.. but you are correct - ever since the old school women's liberation movement (which was a good and necessary thing) the balance his shifted so that women aren't equals, they are male superiors. Most advertising portrays females as the wise and NECESSARY figureheads of families while men are bumbling with 0 (or equally idiotic) focus. I'm very fortunate in my marriage.. but the occasional times we bump heads, why is the supposition that I'm automatically the one who's wrong?
The cynical and sexist side of me thinks that this is because women generally still feel inadequate in some capacity.
But yea.. factor in TV advertising, divorced moms who typically end up with custody ranting about how evil fathers/men are and doctors prescribing away 'boys will be boys' (generally at the request of the mom), future generations will have some serious genetics to do battle with.
No wonder males are evolving faster than women. Survival of the fittest.. and men are no longer fit in the battle of the sexes.
No, the whole idea of evolution is that you have differentiation through physical necessitation. Often isolation can/will lead to necessity, but it's a symptom of rather than a cause of.
I'm not going to put words in your mouth, but if you are also of the belief that depressed people need to cheer up and autistic kids just need a slap upside the head... than your world view and exposure has been extremely narrow.
I've followed various game remakes/mods for a while now and I've been trying to avoid a number of flaws they usually pull.
I'm about a year in (seriously) on a 2 year long planned indie remake of a fairly popular game from about a decade ago. I'm not doing a clone of the game so much as a reimagining/homage to the original. Obviously it'll be free (the whole thing is being built on top of Source SDK) but I've gone out of my way to:
1) not reference the name - but make it similar enough so that people can make the connection. Right off the bat, people want to make a Goldeneye or Dragonball Z clone, or some such thing. Obviously, take the name will bring people in, but you bring EVERYONE in, including the IP holders. Some entities are cool (ie: Valve seems pretty estatic over the WIP Black Mesa remake of the original HL). Most others are not (Nintendo is a beast over their IP for example).
2) not use any resources from or closely resemble anything that could be pulled from the game. I'm using Source SDK and one of the things I've been doing is (as much as possible) using all stock art/models from the HL2/L4D1&2 games. It's not a lazy thing (though it helps - have a background in art&3d, so knowledge/ability isn't an issue), it's a CYA thing - noone can say I imported a model/texture/sound from the original game if very few additional elements are brought in. The downside though is that yes, you will need to own all of those games in order to use the mod. Meh, noone has a gun to the head, etc...
3) not clone the original game. I'm trying to keep the atmosphere and general principles established by the original - ie, the stuff that made my like the game in the first place, but nothing is directly lifted (esp the story, names, etc - though of course everything will be similar). Before I even sat down and started working seriously, I spent 2 months researching and fleshing out my ideas to make things tweaked and original 'enough'.
4) not charge anything - even donations. If I can use this as resume fodder that's cool (which I doubt since I'm not really interested in working in the game industry - had a coop position back in the day, it was enough for me), but I have really nothing I want to gain from this other than showing my love of the original.
(there are a lot of stickywickets here and not enough details.. but reading between the lines and going with my gut based on my dealings.. this is my take)
Everyone want to rant about the evils of health care and I agree with damn near all of it. But as someone who has dealt with depression for a couple of decades and with (actually pretty good) healthcare assistance, I'm inclined to think she's taking advantage of the system and deserves to be dropped.
As I understand it, sick leave in Canada is paid sick leave (like maternity leave here in the US) which over insurance premiums. Sick leave is designed for medical recovery that would inhibit your ability to perform you job.
Now believe me.. coping with depression can definitely include going to the beach and smiling for pictures, but by doing those things in the capacity mentioned in the article, she's demonstrating that she is in fact capable of doing tasks where she had previously claimed her depression would inhibit her job performance. As she's being paid, she's now defrauding the system.
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she is depressed. In her case, her sick leave is designed to allow her time to visit therapists, psychologists for medications, or even prolonged hospital visitation if required. She should be using the paid sick leave to take real advantage of her medical coverage.
Seriously people, learn your grammatically-correct English!
"... to try and end..." should be "... to try to end...". Try is the verb, 'try to' is the proper way of using said verb in a sentence. Otherwise, you're combining the two on the same subject.
I'm going to try international trade of tungsten and end the international trade of tungsten. OR I'm going to try to end the international trade of tungsten.
or does the article seem poorly written due to an unclear idea? I understand the premise.. the whole thing just doesn't make a lot of sense.
Every time I see one of these nonsensical (referring to the content itself) I get the impression that it's some sort of run on quick advertising income. Make up something (anything) that would get a lot of notice and profit.
Wife and I recently upgraded to Blackberries, hated them, canceled our service (now on Pres) and we had to return the BBs. Not that we wanted to, but I really don't see a way to screw Verizon out of the BOGO.
Not really. The tech recession started 98-99. 9/11 didn't really trigger anything specifically, things were already well underway by that point. What 9/11 did do, as the market was a FUD disaster afterwards and panic ruled the Street, was changed mindsets to those that caused the economic mess we are in now. (Most likely, people probably realized life was short so make as much profit as possible).
He sounds like a textbook MCSE/MSCD and is probably about as skilled as such. The only thing he seems to be good at is marketing seeing as that we're talking about him here in spite of never having heard of him until now.
I know nothing about PhysX other than what I've gleaned from the article..
If you buy an nvidia card to do some headless gpu grunt work, they will disable the functionality to do that unless the work is being shown through another nvidia card?
The displaying of the work is pretty much superfluous to the work being done, and they've already made their money on selling, support, etc the PhysX card.
All of this would sort itself out pretty cleanly if first sale doctrine focused on the transfer of currency/wealth rather than the good itself. If you paid (or otherwise exchanged value, ie gift), a sale has taken place.
Most of the time I think ambiguously worded law is a good thing, but certain things really should be made plain.
We pontificate all the time about shoulda/coulda/woulda regarding YRO and freedom online and such. But really, most people don't much about the DMCA let alone how to challenge or defend against it. Not to mention most people get the shit scared out of them anytime they are mailed (snail mail = real life = anything to avoid being screwed) anything by a lawyer.
IIRC, ownership and transfer of property was one of the [many] big talking points in the founding of America. Being a nobody and still able to actually own something, where previously only royalty could (or you could be lucky and they would grant you some, lords I'm looking at you!) was pretty nearly unheard of.
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There were a number of well known XP edu keys that made the piracy rounds that would automatically activate. The problem though.. once they were eventually invalidated, they killed all the real edu XP installs. I snagged both Win2k Pro and XP Pro through my schools MS Software Education Alliance (or something like that) and my XP is now useless (no SN required for the W2k).
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Was informed a week ago when I was canceling my Sprint contract. Spring has been really hurting wih the 'get out of contract ETF-free' thing. The reason for the contract change is to accommodate the launch of the iPhone.
It's part of the Jan 27th announcement by Apple.
Sorry you got modded down.. I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Like you, I could care less now.. but you are correct - ever since the old school women's liberation movement (which was a good and necessary thing) the balance his shifted so that women aren't equals, they are male superiors. Most advertising portrays females as the wise and NECESSARY figureheads of families while men are bumbling with 0 (or equally idiotic) focus. I'm very fortunate in my marriage.. but the occasional times we bump heads, why is the supposition that I'm automatically the one who's wrong?
The cynical and sexist side of me thinks that this is because women generally still feel inadequate in some capacity.
But yea.. factor in TV advertising, divorced moms who typically end up with custody ranting about how evil fathers/men are and doctors prescribing away 'boys will be boys' (generally at the request of the mom), future generations will have some serious genetics to do battle with.
No wonder males are evolving faster than women. Survival of the fittest.. and men are no longer fit in the battle of the sexes.
No, the whole idea of evolution is that you have differentiation through physical necessitation. Often isolation can/will lead to necessity, but it's a symptom of rather than a cause of.
No, it really isn't.
I'm not going to put words in your mouth, but if you are also of the belief that depressed people need to cheer up and autistic kids just need a slap upside the head... than your world view and exposure has been extremely narrow.
I've followed various game remakes/mods for a while now and I've been trying to avoid a number of flaws they usually pull.
I'm about a year in (seriously) on a 2 year long planned indie remake of a fairly popular game from about a decade ago. I'm not doing a clone of the game so much as a reimagining/homage to the original. Obviously it'll be free (the whole thing is being built on top of Source SDK) but I've gone out of my way to:
1) not reference the name - but make it similar enough so that people can make the connection. Right off the bat, people want to make a Goldeneye or Dragonball Z clone, or some such thing. Obviously, take the name will bring people in, but you bring EVERYONE in, including the IP holders. Some entities are cool (ie: Valve seems pretty estatic over the WIP Black Mesa remake of the original HL). Most others are not (Nintendo is a beast over their IP for example).
2) not use any resources from or closely resemble anything that could be pulled from the game. I'm using Source SDK and one of the things I've been doing is (as much as possible) using all stock art/models from the HL2/L4D1&2 games. It's not a lazy thing (though it helps - have a background in art&3d, so knowledge/ability isn't an issue), it's a CYA thing - noone can say I imported a model/texture/sound from the original game if very few additional elements are brought in. The downside though is that yes, you will need to own all of those games in order to use the mod. Meh, noone has a gun to the head, etc...
3) not clone the original game. I'm trying to keep the atmosphere and general principles established by the original - ie, the stuff that made my like the game in the first place, but nothing is directly lifted (esp the story, names, etc - though of course everything will be similar). Before I even sat down and started working seriously, I spent 2 months researching and fleshing out my ideas to make things tweaked and original 'enough'.
4) not charge anything - even donations. If I can use this as resume fodder that's cool (which I doubt since I'm not really interested in working in the game industry - had a coop position back in the day, it was enough for me), but I have really nothing I want to gain from this other than showing my love of the original.
Good luck!
You win! By far the best!
then how was she outed?
I worry about your attention span and quality of life if you can't successfully multitask.
Gotta have a boogeyman..
(there are a lot of stickywickets here and not enough details.. but reading between the lines and going with my gut based on my dealings.. this is my take)
Everyone want to rant about the evils of health care and I agree with damn near all of it. But as someone who has dealt with depression for a couple of decades and with (actually pretty good) healthcare assistance, I'm inclined to think she's taking advantage of the system and deserves to be dropped.
As I understand it, sick leave in Canada is paid sick leave (like maternity leave here in the US) which over insurance premiums. Sick leave is designed for medical recovery that would inhibit your ability to perform you job.
Now believe me.. coping with depression can definitely include going to the beach and smiling for pictures, but by doing those things in the capacity mentioned in the article, she's demonstrating that she is in fact capable of doing tasks where she had previously claimed her depression would inhibit her job performance. As she's being paid, she's now defrauding the system.
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she is depressed. In her case, her sick leave is designed to allow her time to visit therapists, psychologists for medications, or even prolonged hospital visitation if required. She should be using the paid sick leave to take real advantage of her medical coverage.
Seriously people, learn your grammatically-correct English!
"... to try and end ..." should be "... to try to end ...". Try is the verb, 'try to' is the proper way of using said verb in a sentence. Otherwise, you're combining the two on the same subject.
I'm going to try international trade of tungsten and end the international trade of tungsten.
OR
I'm going to try to end the international trade of tungsten.
There are gaming software companies other than Blizz and EA?
all over again!
or does the article seem poorly written due to an unclear idea? I understand the premise.. the whole thing just doesn't make a lot of sense.
Every time I see one of these nonsensical (referring to the content itself) I get the impression that it's some sort of run on quick advertising income. Make up something (anything) that would get a lot of notice and profit.
How exactly??
Wife and I recently upgraded to Blackberries, hated them, canceled our service (now on Pres) and we had to return the BBs. Not that we wanted to, but I really don't see a way to screw Verizon out of the BOGO.
Not really. The tech recession started 98-99. 9/11 didn't really trigger anything specifically, things were already well underway by that point. What 9/11 did do, as the market was a FUD disaster afterwards and panic ruled the Street, was changed mindsets to those that caused the economic mess we are in now. (Most likely, people probably realized life was short so make as much profit as possible).
The system works!
He sounds like a textbook MCSE/MSCD and is probably about as skilled as such. The only thing he seems to be good at is marketing seeing as that we're talking about him here in spite of never having heard of him until now.
Congrats on getting your name out there!
Anyone else see this is as a way for MS to get WinMo 6.5 phones (which by all accounts are tanking) into more hands?
"We're sorry we hosed your data, but to attempt to make amends we'll give you/discount you this brand new fancy UI Windows Phone with our apologies."
I know nothing about PhysX other than what I've gleaned from the article..
If you buy an nvidia card to do some headless gpu grunt work, they will disable the functionality to do that unless the work is being shown through another nvidia card?
The displaying of the work is pretty much superfluous to the work being done, and they've already made their money on selling, support, etc the PhysX card.
Err?
All of this would sort itself out pretty cleanly if first sale doctrine focused on the transfer of currency/wealth rather than the good itself. If you paid (or otherwise exchanged value, ie gift), a sale has taken place.
Most of the time I think ambiguously worded law is a good thing, but certain things really should be made plain.
We pontificate all the time about shoulda/coulda/woulda regarding YRO and freedom online and such. But really, most people don't much about the DMCA let alone how to challenge or defend against it. Not to mention most people get the shit scared out of them anytime they are mailed (snail mail = real life = anything to avoid being screwed) anything by a lawyer.
IIRC, ownership and transfer of property was one of the [many] big talking points in the founding of America. Being a nobody and still able to actually own something, where previously only royalty could (or you could be lucky and they would grant you some, lords I'm looking at you!) was pretty nearly unheard of.
Good to see some ideas never die :)