You are absolutely right. According to the political mainstream, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have become "far leftists"; and Benjamin Franklin is of course "left of the centre" too.
1) Like "an upgrade is available, please click to install" 2) Like "an upgrade is available, please click to install" 3) Fans? I'm missing those on my EeePC.
Abolition of Software Patents is just plainly nonsense.
"Kvack, Kvack. I want my government-granted monopoly."
Are we being a fan of mercantilism and governement-protectionism?
Funny enough, one of the main causes of the american revolution was exactly this sort of behaviour from the british side: The exempt of paying taxes for tea for the *cough* Honourable East-India Company, effectively granting them a monopoly on tea in the american colonies.
Now instead of a monopoly on tea you have one on the implementation of ideas. Cure worse than disease, indeed.
Of course it is also needed for the DRM. Those 20MB+ also need to be decrypted.
In the early days of DVDs, I had some 450Mhz machine which was unable to play DVDs without stuttering, but was perfectly able to play the same mpeg2-File without encryption with no problems. And not everything on the DVD is encrpyted, precisely because of the (at this time very high) demand on cpu.
You don't like open source, do you? Because its another source from where your operating system can come from, which diminishes the saleability of your BeOS (or whatever).
The value of a work is not defined by copyright. Copyright is just a vehicle to promote the arts and sciences -- well, in theory, it should.
you have no more proof that there isn't a superior being who created the universe than they have for it
Yes, there is no evidence for or against such a being. So what? There is no specific evidence for or against the tooth-fairy neither. But no evidence for something does not mean it should be assumed to exist, and then demand your opponents to disprove it. This is exactly what science is not about; thus creationism or flying spaghetti monsters have absolutely no place in science (except as an example of bad aberrations in socio-historic context).
On another note, Occam, a 14th century monk(!) stated "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor. Which means you should not invent something complicated to explain something which could be explained with a lot less assumptions.
To assume a lost tooth of a child is replaced with a coin on the cushion by the parents (known entities) satisfies Occams razor, inventing a tooth-fairy does not.
D&D is, and has been, tedious to play, the rules are incoherent and gameplay in combat is slow.
These are NOT just bugs, this is brokenness by design. Some concepts like "levels" or "character classes" or the dichotomy of monsters vs. characters are just not fit for coherent rules and fast gameplay.
For contrast, compare this to RuneQuest (1977): - Monsters, animals, characters, whatever, are all the same, follow all the same rules. - events which have similar effect all use the same rule: there is one rule for hits by falling debris, dragons and falling off towers. There is one rule for chocking, suffocating, drowning and getting chocked. - there are no levels. there are just skills you can get better in. You can get more hitpoints by increasing attributes like strength, but there is some definive cap on that, which is about 18 for humans; for comparison, the average is about 13. And even a new character can start with 18 hitpoints. - A sword will do 1d8+1 damage, plus damage bonus. Even the strongest and best human fighter can be slain in one lucky hit. Which makes combat very deadly and fast. And fun;)
The game isn't much newer than D&D, but the mechanics are of a complete other generation, way more modern.
If I wasn't so much into Live-Action Roleplaying, I'd play RuneQuest (or its derivates Call of Cthulhu, Nephilim, Ringworld or ElfQuest) or Hârnmaster (which is similar to RuneQuest).
$ gcc -o jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:138:2: error: #error "unsupported arch" jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c: In function 'kernel_code': jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:159: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c: In function 'main': jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:211: error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function) jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:211: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:211: error: for each function it appears in.)
Sounds like the interface of a LucasArts-adventure to me. If you pick up a banana the pointer changes and the environment reacts differently if you click on something.
Actually, it's most probably not. Game rules are not copyrightable, and if a specific board-layout is needed for the rules to work, that means this layout belongs to the rules.
Of course, you can't copy it verbatim, but if you can construct it mostly the same. For instance if you want to clone risk, you would have to draw the map of europe yourself, but you could set all borders of the regions in a way that the neighbouring regions are exactly the same ones as in the original.
You can even rewrite Dungeons and Dragons, so that it works exactly like the original if you're only using your own words to phrase the rules.
I second that. I surely would have wanted that, the state allowed it, but my parents didn't. So I ended up needing to have all these things when I was grown up (sorta): halberd, spear, long sword, falchion, rondel dagger, long bow, crossbow, pole gun (all medieval) and cavalry sabre, briquet sabre (finally my parents caved in, I got this one from my father on christmas), french cutlass, smallsword (all 18/19th century). Right now, I desperately need a british cutlass and a flintlock sea service pistol;).
It's quite a good school. I still can't stand the taste of a whole lot of hard liquors (including Whisky and Whiskey).
Of course, getting drunk is much less a problem than to get shot. That's why you can't go to the army unless you're 18, but are allowed to drink at age 16.
Absolutely. And you not only get a product without limitations, but a better product too, because you can download something other than Britney Spears.
It's a complete misunderstanding on Sonys part on how basic economics work:
An illegal copy basically is a COMPETING PRODUCT, with no limitations, for a better price.
well if he can cock the crossbow with just his hand then it's not a very powerful crossbow. try a 90lb long bow and get back to me.
Yes, judging from the force he exerts maybe 10kg. That's about 18 pound for you longbowmen (because crossbowmen don't use pounds.;)). So this really isn't a real crossbow, it's a toy. 13th-15th century non-metal crossbows are somewhere around 50-150kg, later 16th century ones with a metal bow go upwards, 250kg is not uncommon but 500kg ones also exist.
You'd be surprised how many slashdotters use windows nowadays. Count the postings. How many of those mention they use windows? How many of them give tips on securing windows other than switching to linux? How many told you you are an idiot and should use linux instead? As I read the comments (some 60), none of them did the latter. So I do: You are an idiot and should switch to linux instead.
There, you got it. Reason to complain about the biased slashdot-crowd consisting of ME.
> If someone changes the rules to a game, it becomes no fun. If a game is no fun, > I don't like to play it.
What about life? People are constantly changing rules there also.
Besides "changing rules" can be a game in itself; and some of that "change rules" is part of a lot of games: the "what if". You can't try out things if you don't change rules, because you'll end up trying to recreate the real world.
Well, the fun part isn't replicating the real world, but to change the rules. And I doubt you can implement a monetary system with negative inflation in that game.
Things like this were done in a live-roleplaying game: Money made out of clay (Adobe, so to say): It would crumbe with time, making for an automatic deflation. People tried to get rid of money as fast as possible...
Nope. But we might spell it "jetzt häsch verschisse" (non-literal translation, because "schrauben" hasn't the same connotations as the english "screwing").
280 people per year killed with army weapons actually, it was rounded up for publicity reasons.
BUT of those 280, 260 are cases of suicide!
And this is extremely low; of all 1500 homicide and suicide-cases only this many? And moreover, there are an estimated 535'000 army-weapons (mostly assault guns, some pistols) in the homes of the population.
The title is of course misleading, because it concerns counterfeiting and not software piracy:
Software Piracy ('soft-"wer 'pI-r&-sE): Robbery of software on the high seas; the taking of software from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal.
> Protecting the integrity of IP is pretty important.
It's called "Intellectual Monopoly", and the act of protecting it in the rest of the world is called "Mercantilism".
> Stealing IP is against the law, and the law is very clear on the matter. When I was younger, I pirated > games and music all the time,
And it's called "illegal copying" which is against the law. And also, you probably didn't "pirate" games and music, since that would imply you conducted armed robbery on the high seas.
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You are absolutely right. According to the political mainstream, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have become "far leftists"; and Benjamin Franklin is of course "left of the centre" too.
Not "the interests of capitalism" but "The interests of their capitalism". -- contrary also, by the way, to "the interests of free trade".
1) Like "an upgrade is available, please click to install"
2) Like "an upgrade is available, please click to install"
3) Fans? I'm missing those on my EeePC.
I really don't know what kind of EeePC you got.
Abolition of Software Patents is just plainly nonsense.
"Kvack, Kvack. I want my government-granted monopoly."
Are we being a fan of mercantilism and governement-protectionism?
Funny enough, one of the main causes of the american revolution was exactly this sort of behaviour from the british side: The exempt of paying taxes for tea for the *cough* Honourable East-India Company, effectively granting them a monopoly on tea in the american colonies.
Now instead of a monopoly on tea you have one on the implementation of ideas. Cure worse than disease, indeed.
Of course it is also needed for the DRM. Those 20MB+ also need to be decrypted.
In the early days of DVDs, I had some 450Mhz machine which was unable to play DVDs without stuttering, but was perfectly able to play the same mpeg2-File without encryption with no problems. And not everything on the DVD is encrpyted, precisely because of the (at this time very high) demand on cpu.
You don't like open source, do you? Because its another source from where your operating system can come from, which diminishes the saleability of your BeOS (or whatever).
The value of a work is not defined by copyright. Copyright is just a vehicle to promote the arts and sciences -- well, in theory, it should.
you have no more proof that there isn't a superior being who created the universe than they have for it
Yes, there is no evidence for or against such a being. So what? There is no specific evidence for or against the tooth-fairy neither. But no evidence for something does not mean it should be assumed to exist, and then demand your opponents to disprove it. This is exactly what science is not about; thus creationism or flying spaghetti monsters have absolutely no place in science (except as an example of bad aberrations in socio-historic context).
On another note, Occam, a 14th century monk(!) stated "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor. Which means you should not invent something complicated to explain something which could be explained with a lot less assumptions.
To assume a lost tooth of a child is replaced with a coin on the cushion by the parents (known entities) satisfies Occams razor, inventing a tooth-fairy does not.
D&D is, and has been, tedious to play, the rules are incoherent and gameplay in combat is slow.
;)
These are NOT just bugs, this is brokenness by design. Some concepts like "levels" or "character classes" or the dichotomy of monsters vs. characters are just not fit for coherent rules and fast gameplay.
For contrast, compare this to RuneQuest (1977):
- Monsters, animals, characters, whatever, are all the same, follow all the same rules.
- events which have similar effect all use the same rule: there is one rule for hits by falling debris, dragons and falling off towers. There is one rule for chocking, suffocating, drowning and getting chocked.
- there are no levels. there are just skills you can get better in. You can get more hitpoints by increasing attributes like strength, but there is some definive cap on that, which is about 18 for humans; for comparison, the average is about 13. And even a new character can start with 18 hitpoints.
- A sword will do 1d8+1 damage, plus damage bonus. Even the strongest and best human fighter can be slain in one lucky hit. Which makes combat very deadly and fast. And fun
The game isn't much newer than D&D, but the mechanics are of a complete other generation, way more modern.
If I wasn't so much into Live-Action Roleplaying, I'd play RuneQuest (or its derivates Call of Cthulhu, Nephilim, Ringworld or ElfQuest) or Hârnmaster (which is similar to RuneQuest).
The Irish have something called a Shillelagh which should be applied to Mr. McCreevy.
Not only there:
/tmp/ccJWJWBA.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccJWJWBA.s:156: Error: Illegal operands /tmp/ccJWJWBA.s:156: Error: Unknown opcode: `andl' /tmp/ccJWJWBA.s:156: Error: Illegal operands
$ gcc -o jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c
jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:138:2: error: #error "unsupported arch"
jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c: In function 'kernel_code':
jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:159: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c: In function 'main':
jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:211: error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:211: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c:211: error: for each function it appears in.)
$ gcc -o 27704-2 27704-2.c
Bloody x86-asm. Doesn't work on Sparc.
Sounds like the interface of a LucasArts-adventure to me. If you pick up a banana the pointer changes and the environment reacts differently if you click on something.
whether a copyright over the board shape is valid
Actually, it's most probably not. Game rules are not copyrightable, and if a specific board-layout is needed for the rules to work, that means this layout belongs to the rules.
Of course, you can't copy it verbatim, but if you can construct it mostly the same. For instance if you want to clone risk, you would have to draw the map of europe yourself, but you could set all borders of the regions in a way that the neighbouring regions are exactly the same ones as in the original.
You can even rewrite Dungeons and Dragons, so that it works exactly like the original if you're only using your own words to phrase the rules.
I second that. I surely would have wanted that, the state allowed it, but my parents didn't. So I ended up needing to have all these things when I was grown up (sorta): halberd, spear, long sword, falchion, rondel dagger, long bow, crossbow, pole gun (all medieval) and cavalry sabre, briquet sabre (finally my parents caved in, I got this one from my father on christmas), french cutlass, smallsword (all 18/19th century). Right now, I desperately need a british cutlass and a flintlock sea service pistol ;).
It's quite a good school. I still can't stand the taste of a whole lot of hard liquors (including Whisky and Whiskey).
Of course, getting drunk is much less a problem than to get shot. That's why you can't go to the army unless you're 18, but are allowed to drink at age 16.
Absolutely. And you not only get a product without limitations, but a better product too, because you can download something other than Britney Spears.
It's a complete misunderstanding on Sonys part on how basic economics work:
An illegal copy basically is a COMPETING PRODUCT, with no limitations, for a better price.
well if he can cock the crossbow with just his hand then it's not a very powerful crossbow. try a 90lb long bow and get back to me.
;)). So this really isn't a real crossbow, it's a toy. 13th-15th century non-metal crossbows are somewhere around 50-150kg, later 16th century ones with a metal bow go upwards, 250kg is not uncommon but 500kg ones also exist.
Yes, judging from the force he exerts maybe 10kg. That's about 18 pound for you longbowmen (because crossbowmen don't use pounds.
You'd be surprised how many slashdotters use windows nowadays. Count the postings. How many of those mention they use windows? How many of them give tips on securing windows other than switching to linux? How many told you you are an idiot and should use linux instead? As I read the comments (some 60), none of them did the latter. So I do: You are an idiot and should switch to linux instead.
There, you got it. Reason to complain about the biased slashdot-crowd consisting of ME.
> If someone changes the rules to a game, it becomes no fun. If a game is no fun,
> I don't like to play it.
What about life? People are constantly changing rules there also.
Besides "changing rules" can be a game in itself; and some of that "change rules" is part of a lot of games: the "what if". You can't try out things if you don't change rules, because you'll end up trying to recreate the real world.
Well, the fun part isn't replicating the real world, but to change the rules. And I doubt you can implement a monetary system with negative inflation in that game.
Things like this were done in a live-roleplaying game: Money made out of clay (Adobe, so to say): It would crumbe with time, making for an automatic deflation. People tried to get rid of money as fast as possible...
Yes, that's about what I think. Just elect Cheney and we'll have World War III against Fascist USA in about 2015.
Nope. But we might spell it "jetzt häsch verschisse" (non-literal translation, because "schrauben" hasn't the same connotations as the english "screwing").
280 people per year killed with army weapons actually, it was rounded up for publicity reasons.
BUT of those 280, 260 are cases of suicide!
And this is extremely low; of all 1500 homicide and suicide-cases only this many? And moreover, there are an estimated 535'000 army-weapons (mostly assault guns, some pistols) in the homes of the population.
Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays.
Oh yeah? First show me the code!
I don't believe in any of this cargo-cult-mumbo-jumbo, I believe in computer-science.
The title is of course misleading, because it concerns counterfeiting and not software piracy:
Software Piracy ('soft-"wer 'pI-r&-sE): Robbery of software on the high seas; the taking of software from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal.
> Protecting the integrity of IP is pretty important.
It's called "Intellectual Monopoly", and the act of protecting it in the rest of the world is called "Mercantilism".
> Stealing IP is against the law, and the law is very clear on the matter. When I was younger, I pirated
> games and music all the time,
And it's called "illegal copying" which is against the law. And also, you probably didn't "pirate" games and music, since that would imply you conducted armed robbery on the high seas.