implied rights hold no legal bearing, especially when explicit rights are spelled out in the EULA, and do *not* include the right to create an account.
I concur. Kotor2 is a far worse story, is far easier, is far shorter, and is quite a bit more... bland than it's original. It's still a fine game compared to other modern games... but doesn't hold a candle to kotor1...
The OP did get the entirety of the Game, but not the account on the game servers, which is created after the fact, and is not part of the sale. In the same way the Game is useless without an account, so can the Game be transferred without it.
I am not a Lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but it seems fairly clear cut from a legal purspective that the OP got everything Blizzard sells in the store. Just because the Game has lost nearly all value due to the Activation Key being broken doesn't change that fact. If the OP has any gripes, it is with the seller, who sold them a lemon, not Blizzard.
And if I were setting up [another] IT infrastructure at a 200+ computer office, I'd realise that every non-technical user expects calendaring to be part of their messaging system, since y'know their messaging system is used solely to schedule things...
Though personally, I'd love that messaging system to be IM rather than email, but that is yet to exist nicely [though Exchange supports something like it, but I've not tried it, since... it's Exchange...]
Because odometers are considerably easier to tamper with without detection than GPS transmitters?
And my milage doesn't indicate how much I use the road, especially in California, the land that practically invented the "30 minute drive to anywhere in the city, even next door".
People will try and exploit other people for profit. People will release closed source software that does more than advertised. People in MMORPGs are asshats, and cause the more honest MMORPG players harm.
Right. Thanks for the heads up, I -never- would've known...
Indeed. While the whole "no globals" mantra is getting a little silly, this is not exactly the proper counter argument.
Being able to serialize/unserialize data to a common format is pretty much required for any savegame processes and network communication. [okay okay, not required, but it makes life tons easier]
That's at least debatable. It's wasting your tax money to pay the teacher to do it manually, and the admin to check directly with the teacher's log book rather than checking a database when the info needs retrieved.
Still I'm inclined to agree with you, but still, it's no great violation in rights.
Use the spare space and bandwidth on the company web server to host porn. Use profits from porn hosting to run IT dept.
*shrug* it's a no worse idea than cutting support costs when support is already overworked. Perhaps such a message [perhaps in more businesslike terms] should be the proper reply.
Except that communication is relatively time dependant. Posting on slashdot isn't so important it gets there as that it gets there expediantly...
There's no shortage of electricity or materials needed for me to post to Slashdot.
Probes to Titan aren't exactly common. Wouldn't it be better to do 2 experiments and add 3 months [after it took years to get there in the first place] to analyze the doppler data rather than just 1?
This might seem a little harsh, but why was a wind measuring experiment sent with the probe if we could gather the same data remotely via doppler shift measurements?
I imagine it's not the same data [or rather the same certainty or resolution], but still, wouldn't the space/weight be better spent on a different experiment if the wind study team could make do with the data gathered from doppler shift analysis?
From the overly serious cruft the reviewer describes in the intro? The review makes this book sound just like every other piece of junk about game design I've ever seen.
Nothing about game design, too many stories without morals, and far far too many gimmicks rather than providing actual information/instruction.
Another game which is tied to a marketting schedule and not a development schedule. I'm sure it will be a rising success like the Matrix game and the recent Lord of the Rings game.
Might not be the 'cool' answer, but I've never seen a decent sized company use anything else. Management types like bragging, and their buddies at least know about RedHat. They offer support, and have a bunch of hardware compatability agreements with 'enterprise' machines.
Beyond that, linux is linux and the IT infrastructure matters more in making it usable and functional for the company than the distro.
Was it slashdot or Wired [or perhaps both!] which had an article regarding preliminary research into direct mental control of computers? I don't remember too well. The actual article was interesting, as the researcher in question [at Duke iirc?] managed to learn/devise something unexpected. They had gotten to the point where the chimp could control a robotic arm via neural implants.
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implied rights hold no legal bearing, especially when explicit rights are spelled out in the EULA, and do *not* include the right to create an account.
I concur. Kotor2 is a far worse story, is far easier, is far shorter, and is quite a bit more... bland than it's original. It's still a fine game compared to other modern games... but doesn't hold a candle to kotor1...
Because [to my knowledge] it's illegal to forbid it.
The OP did get the entirety of the Game, but not the account on the game servers, which is created after the fact, and is not part of the sale. In the same way the Game is useless without an account, so can the Game be transferred without it.
I am not a Lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but it seems fairly clear cut from a legal purspective that the OP got everything Blizzard sells in the store. Just because the Game has lost nearly all value due to the Activation Key being broken doesn't change that fact. If the OP has any gripes, it is with the seller, who sold them a lemon, not Blizzard.
And if I were setting up [another] IT infrastructure at a 200+ computer office, I'd realise that every non-technical user expects calendaring to be part of their messaging system, since y'know their messaging system is used solely to schedule things...
Though personally, I'd love that messaging system to be IM rather than email, but that is yet to exist nicely [though Exchange supports something like it, but I've not tried it, since... it's Exchange...]
Because odometers are considerably easier to tamper with without detection than GPS transmitters?
And my milage doesn't indicate how much I use the road, especially in California, the land that practically invented the "30 minute drive to anywhere in the city, even next door".
So, let me get this straight...
People will try and exploit other people for profit.
People will release closed source software that does more than advertised.
People in MMORPGs are asshats, and cause the more honest MMORPG players harm.
Right. Thanks for the heads up, I -never- would've known...
Indeed. While the whole "no globals" mantra is getting a little silly, this is not exactly the proper counter argument.
Being able to serialize/unserialize data to a common format is pretty much required for any savegame processes and network communication. [okay okay, not required, but it makes life tons easier]
Crap.
Followed by the big names getting into IP telephony, and promptly turning that into crap.
Oh really. So the readers can track your room to room movements, just like... *teachers!*
And somehow I doubt the readers will look for students hiding out behind the gym...
The only reason you'd feel controlled is because you're too blind to see how controlled you were before.
That's at least debatable. It's wasting your tax money to pay the teacher to do it manually, and the admin to check directly with the teacher's log book rather than checking a database when the info needs retrieved.
Still I'm inclined to agree with you, but still, it's no great violation in rights.
So what? I mean schools require students to reply to a roll call... making them swipe a badge is the same thing.
Use the spare space and bandwidth on the company web server to host porn. Use profits from porn hosting to run IT dept.
*shrug* it's a no worse idea than cutting support costs when support is already overworked. Perhaps such a message [perhaps in more businesslike terms] should be the proper reply.
Except that communication is relatively time dependant. Posting on slashdot isn't so important it gets there as that it gets there expediantly...
There's no shortage of electricity or materials needed for me to post to Slashdot.
Probes to Titan aren't exactly common. Wouldn't it be better to do 2 experiments and add 3 months [after it took years to get there in the first place] to analyze the doppler data rather than just 1?
and Tux is far more "Professional"...
This might seem a little harsh, but why was a wind measuring experiment sent with the probe if we could gather the same data remotely via doppler shift measurements?
I imagine it's not the same data [or rather the same certainty or resolution], but still, wouldn't the space/weight be better spent on a different experiment if the wind study team could make do with the data gathered from doppler shift analysis?
So maybe now you can explain how a giant network buffer is somehow revolutionary technology...
Frankly, it's probably *because* he's faculty at Penn State. I'd wager if he were a proffesor at Stanford it would've been bigger news.
From the overly serious cruft the reviewer describes in the intro? The review makes this book sound just like every other piece of junk about game design I've ever seen.
Nothing about game design, too many stories without morals, and far far too many gimmicks rather than providing actual information/instruction.
Another game which is tied to a marketting schedule and not a development schedule. I'm sure it will be a rising success like the Matrix game and the recent Lord of the Rings game.
They all shot themselves after being spanked by such tripe as Who wants to be a Millionaire? and Survivor.
To do it per shipping address?
Might not be the 'cool' answer, but I've never seen a decent sized company use anything else. Management types like bragging, and their buddies at least know about RedHat. They offer support, and have a bunch of hardware compatability agreements with 'enterprise' machines.
Beyond that, linux is linux and the IT infrastructure matters more in making it usable and functional for the company than the distro.
Was it slashdot or Wired [or perhaps both!] which had an article regarding preliminary research into direct mental control of computers? I don't remember too well. The actual article was interesting, as the researcher in question [at Duke iirc?] managed to learn/devise something unexpected. They had gotten to the point where the chimp could control a robotic arm via neural implants.
There's been about 100 of high schoolers looking to do their game IS project, and asked questions. The advice is fairly sound.