Do you work for Paizo or something? They took the 3.5 rules and reprinted and sold them with very minor adjustments. The rules have to be open as far as I am aware because WotC unusually made the Open Game Licence where they open sourced their base rules, and so derivative works need to follow suit, which is why PF books say OGL on them. That people even buy Pathfinder is amazing to me. I am in a Pathfinder game on Thursdays and the difference from 3.5 is barely noticeable. In another group I'm playing the d100 Space Marine game this afternoon for the first time, though this group switches between 4e, nWoD and stuff like Dark Heresy, but they don't see the point in Pathinder, as they have all the 3.5 books, so why rebuy them with another company?
Are WotC occasionally a nasty company? Yes, they need to please their Hasbro overlords or they will be cut in to oblivion. Paizo SHOULD put more work in to their adventures, as they already put minimal work in to the ruleset and made a bunch of cash from it.
But seriously, do you work for them, with a post like this?
The sheriff was the defendant. The plaintiffs intended to uses the likes as evidence that the defendant fired them for protected speech. The judge said that the likes were not protected speech, which infers that if he did fire them for that then it was legitimate, meaning the case did not need to continue.
I am not a lawyer, but that's what I took from TFA.
I'm betting he is doing what an informed consumer should and putting his money where his mouth is when making an informed purchasing choice, in chosing not to support and fund a business model he doesn't like.
In the style of the worst newspapers, the Daily Mail start with the result they want and steer all discourse towards it, even if it means twisting and lying along the path. They will just make it up if they need to do so, and there have been a lot of cases where this has happened!
It's interesting you say this, the last two letters that I sent from the UK to my friend in the USA arrived opened. I do not know if it was the UK or US governments, but it is something I should really look at.
Iran bought dolphins from Ukraine in 2000. Weren't dolphins also deployed in 2003? I recall a story about them being loosed in the sea and then just swimming off to freedom, but as I'm having trouble finding links to any such story maybe it is misremebered. From the TFA I think this is interesting
Former Admiral KEATING: They are astounding in their ability to detect underwater objects.
NPR's TOM BOWMAN: Dolphins were sent to the Persian Gulf as part of the American invasion force in Iraq.
KEATING: I'd rather not talk about whether we used them or not. They were present in theater.
BOWMAN: But you can't say whether you used them or not.
KEATING: I'd rather not.
I should probably note that the thread was made by the guy who is doing the restoration work, and he created the website in TFS and has a load of cool pictures and stuff.
This has been showing on Channel 4 in the UK for a while now, I really recommend giving it a watch. Some pretty good episodes of Hawking's tv show, with lots of scientists hosting various sections.
Do you have any proof of this disillusionment? I would be interested to read it. I have heard otherwise in that he remained a communist yet was obviously disillusioned by the betrayals done to the workers through things like the Ribbentrop Pact and Stalinism in general and the problems around revolution in general.
The game requires a CD be in the drive to play, so it is pretty useless for that.
You should be able to get a no-cd crack easily enough. I hope I'm not telling you something too simple that you are already aware of, but just in case, I think it is viable, but do not know the legality. On the other hand, you could rip the CD on a separate computer and mount the ISO, though that might be heavy for a netbook to do this and also play at the same time.
Also I like sites like GoG.com which sell old games with no DRM, but that might not be such a consolation if you already own the agmes and do not want to repurchase.
Games companies chose to do and have steadily eroded the ability to have a player run dedicated server. They opted to pay these costs, no-one made them do it.
As someone who has just completed the first year of a physics degree, I wonder if it is worth me going on to do a masters. The place I'm at run an MPhys which can be chosen to embark upon at the end of the second year, for a total of four years instead of the three for BSc (Hons) which can also be chosen. I just don't know if it is worth it for the future.
Does The Matrix count as Sci-Fi? There seems to have been a re-emergence of fantasy recently, also, action movies. Statham, Vin Diesel, Matt Damon off the top of my head.
Was Captain America a kind of light science fiction when it was written?
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The future is here guys!
And don't read physics, where they are simplified as a spherical woman in a vacuum
The pound is a unit of mass and separately a unit of force.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pound_(force)
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pound_(mass)
So it is the slug and the newton, in your scenario. The space dinosaur has 0 lbs of weight, but a mass of x lbs.
Are WotC occasionally a nasty company? Yes, they need to please their Hasbro overlords or they will be cut in to oblivion. Paizo SHOULD put more work in to their adventures, as they already put minimal work in to the ruleset and made a bunch of cash from it.
But seriously, do you work for them, with a post like this?
I am not a lawyer, but that's what I took from TFA.
I'm betting he is doing what an informed consumer should and putting his money where his mouth is when making an informed purchasing choice, in chosing not to support and fund a business model he doesn't like.
Allow Mozilla.org with noscript and it should work, it did for me!
In the style of the worst newspapers, the Daily Mail start with the result they want and steer all discourse towards it, even if it means twisting and lying along the path. They will just make it up if they need to do so, and there have been a lot of cases where this has happened!
It's interesting you say this, the last two letters that I sent from the UK to my friend in the USA arrived opened. I do not know if it was the UK or US governments, but it is something I should really look at.
"They can take our IP's but they can never take our freedom...?"
Other way round.
As someone said earlier elsewhere, this only applies to companies with 250+ employees, and there's no obvious restriction on oursourcing.
Weren't dolphins also deployed in 2003? I recall a story about them being loosed in the sea and then just swimming off to freedom, but as I'm having trouble finding links to any such story maybe it is misremebered.
From the TFA I think this is interesting
Former Admiral KEATING: They are astounding in their ability to detect underwater objects.
NPR's TOM BOWMAN: Dolphins were sent to the Persian Gulf as part of the American invasion force in Iraq.
KEATING: I'd rather not talk about whether we used them or not. They were present in theater.
BOWMAN: But you can't say whether you used them or not.
KEATING: I'd rather not.
I should probably note that the thread was made by the guy who is doing the restoration work, and he created the website in TFS and has a load of cool pictures and stuff.
The Manos find was documented on the Something Awful forums, here is a link to the original thread if anyone is interested, it is an interested work. May be NSFW. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3450845
That's horrifying.
And yet, this horrific setup is what brings us the BBC and the like, you know, commercially and politically independent television.
You can't be that naive. The Beeb is pretty much the in-house press organ for the Labour Party in the UK.
That's funny, people in Labour say that it works for the Conservatives. Funny how that works huh?
This has been showing on Channel 4 in the UK for a while now, I really recommend giving it a watch. Some pretty good episodes of Hawking's tv show, with lots of scientists hosting various sections.
Do you have any proof of this disillusionment? I would be interested to read it. I have heard otherwise in that he remained a communist yet was obviously disillusioned by the betrayals done to the workers through things like the Ribbentrop Pact and Stalinism in general and the problems around revolution in general.
Nonsense, Orwell himself was a communist. It was a message against supreme nationalism espoused by conservatives at the time.
Here is the co-author condeming the very article you are linking to! http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/30/mail-on-best/#more-5526
Portal 2 has split-screen support on the PC (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1847904), don't know about CoD.
The game requires a CD be in the drive to play, so it is pretty useless for that.
You should be able to get a no-cd crack easily enough. I hope I'm not telling you something too simple that you are already aware of, but just in case, I think it is viable, but do not know the legality. On the other hand, you could rip the CD on a separate computer and mount the ISO, though that might be heavy for a netbook to do this and also play at the same time.
Also I like sites like GoG.com which sell old games with no DRM, but that might not be such a consolation if you already own the agmes and do not want to repurchase.
Games companies chose to do and have steadily eroded the ability to have a player run dedicated server. They opted to pay these costs, no-one made them do it.
As someone who has just completed the first year of a physics degree, I wonder if it is worth me going on to do a masters. The place I'm at run an MPhys which can be chosen to embark upon at the end of the second year, for a total of four years instead of the three for BSc (Hons) which can also be chosen. I just don't know if it is worth it for the future.
Was Captain America a kind of light science fiction when it was written?
To me Breath of Death VII seems more like the old Dragon Warrior NES games in its graphical style, both in and out of battle.