Ahh, a textualist and originalist--you must be a huge fan of Justices Thomas and Scalia and despise Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg, etc?
However, I don't think your analysis is correct. The copyright clause is, as you cite, part of section 8. Section 8 enumerates the powers of congress. The text you managed to find (the copyright clause) clearly allows congress to "Secure for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." There is very little to interpret in that part of the clause, it's clear.
On the other hand "To promote the progress of science and useful arts" is up for much greater interpretation. How exactly does one promote the progress? You and I might have very different ideas about how to do this. Congress might have other ideas. Congress has the clearly enumerated mandate to do so, and the way to do so.
Yeah, and gas prices here seem "reasonable" compared to UK gas prices. But they're still over three times as high as they were when those two oil men first took occupancy of the White House. Do you expect gas prices to go down under President Obama?
If you're American, Read the Comstitution. Intellectual pooperty is un-American. You are either a foreigner or a traitor to your country. Please list where in the constitution intellectual property (ROFL ROFL, "pooperty" -- hilarious!!) is declared un-American. Bonus points for forgetting the copyright clause!
I'm not arguing the case of embedded applications--though I WOULD point out my other post to this article which mentions devices like Soekris http://www.soekris.com/ which are x86, powerful, and small.
No doubt some/many embedded devices benefit greatly from non-x86. X86 is very steadily improving. Part of this is for sure because of Intel+AMD research divisions and fabs. What I'm saying is, the "why" is irrelevant.
How can you say that x86 is relatively inferior when compared to ARM, performancewise? Show me an ARM that competes with the latest offerings from AMD or Intel? It's all theory! Incidentally, I've read papers analyzing relative performance that suggest the modern ia32/ia64 architectures actually benefit from their hybrid risc/cisc design in terms of optimizing the flow of microops.
Although it's true that we have been forced to use x86 for quite a while, and as a result have gotten quite good at using it, that doesn't mean that it is an optimal instruction set. amd64 is an ugly hack, as is PAE, and although they do work, they don't change the fact that x86 was never intended to handle 64-bit spaces. The point is, who cares one iota if x86 is an "ugly" architecture. It gets the job done, and hands down beats most of the performance in what matters most of the time--speed. Saying something like "amd64 is an ugly hack" is just completely irrelevant. If you're one of the very few programmers in the world who regularly write assembly level code, you might have a valid complaint. If you're a more typical developer or an enduser, the ancestral design of your CPU couldn't be less important.
Depends on what exactly the definition of embedded device is, but Soekris (http://www.soekris.com/) and a number of competitors are quite popular. Very cool products, all of them.
I'm currently designing a system using one to monitor weather + soil conditions in my garden.
Good question, I don't know. You do see people every now and then (for instance Spun) who go on trolling runs after building up karma.
HOWEVER, I apologize for saying you were a troll--a troll wouldn't have responded two more times:-) I do think your original post was trollish though, how about that?
The OSX port of WoW does perform less well than the windows port. The difference USED to be bigger than it is now (say 1-2+ years ago). My understanding is that this is primarily due to the Opengl implementation on osx?
I don't currently play WoW anymore, but I don't ever recall having that kind of performance discrepancy.
Usually bzip2 (bz2) is better, meaning that it produces smaller compressed files than gzip (gz).
Gzip on the otherhand typically uses less memory and processing power, and is faster. So gzip is sometimes used in (increasingly rare) situations where memory and processing power (and speed) are at an absolute premium.
Ok, I'm 99% sure you're a blatant troll, but to give you the benefit of doubt..
There's something terribly wrong with your computer. I could crawl along in warcraft with my old Geforce2 on an AthlonXP. Very, very slow, and very low quality, but it could run. WoW ran fine on my powerbook 1.25ghz g4.
What's the worst GPU that comes with a quadcore? The ATI 2600? With quadcore, 2gb ram (I don't think you can get mac pro with less?), and a HD2600, you should be fine. Probably not max graphics nor max resolution, and I would guess you would dip into the 20s of fps at times if you're pushing your graphical settings, but very playable.
If you paid the approximately $100 extra bucks to get a Geforce 8800, you should be rolling along at just about any resolution and maxed out graphics.
The post by workingdev that I replied to said exactly that. Why do you think I am making these posts? Because somebody made a clearly false statement for political reasons. I've reread the post, and I think if you are interpreting "Democrats" or "the Democrats" as meaning solely the official Democratic party leadership, you are off base, I don't see it. Just read the rest of the thread for context!
I don't think that pointing out facts makes me partisan. No, but your (or my!) interpretation of the facts can certainly act as a good indicator of partisan stances!
Why? The article itself says there is no forensic evidence. What is partisan in any way about saying that? It's the truth. It's wikipedia, I could edit it right now to say that the preponderance of the evidence makes it a clear forgery. Doesn't mean that it is, or that it isn't. What I said was, if you can honestly read all the evidence presented in the post (and include what I told you you can try as an experiment with your very own copy of Office 2003) and conclude there's no evidence of a forgery, I think that's very dishonest.
Now, if you want to look at it differently, flip your statement around, there's absolutely zero forensic evidence that the letters ARE real.
There has never been a real investigation into who committed the forgery and why. That's not really true. If you mean a police investigation, I believe that's accurate. But a number of news organizations DID investigate. For instance read the wikipedia page about Bill Burkett.
I'm not claiming, nor do I believe that the official Democratic party leadership sanctioned the forgery. I do believe that a democrat planned it (Burkett)--this is debatable, and that another highly partisan news reporter--Rather--jumped all over the story with doing any proper investigation for partisan reasons. I don't think Rather's role is debatable at all.
I imagine it's much the same way that you can be ticketed for parking illegally, even though the police can't know it was the owner of the vehicle that was driving? Are you really saying that the police should not have the ability to ticket illegally parked cars?
This seems a very simple matter to me. With a speeding ticket you can pay the fine or go to court. With a red light ticket you can pay the fine or go to court. If the ticket is wrong--go to court. What's the problem? If it's worth it to you to continue illegal behavior of running red lights, by all means, disguise yourself and fight it at court.
Are you talking solely about police surveillance cameras, or surveillance cameras in general?
One plus for surveillance cameras in general is that they provide businesses with the ability to defend themselves. Whether against false claims, injury lawsuits, etc. Additionally, cameras can sometimes act as a deterrent. I know this is just an anecdote, but at my parents old company, located in a not-so-good neighborhood, they were broken into pretty much on a yearly basis. After they installed two big interior security cameras with blinking lights near the front door, there were no more breaks ins. Can't say for sure the two were linked, but I would bet on it. In other words, I disagree that "cameras in general do not deter crime by their presence." As a second example, at some tennis courts I used to visit, they had a problem with car breakins. They installed cameras, and within a month had managed to catch 3 people who had been breaking into cars. ~shrug~
As for police cameras, I'm less thrilled with them. I don't have any problem with redlight cameras (and by all accounts they do punish unsafe behavior), but sidewalk cameras or the microphones like they have in Chicago..? I'm more dubious on their effectiveness.
And if they are unconstitutional here, why do they fly other places? It is a pretty simple argument that the car owner is being presumed guilty without any evidence they were actually operating the vehicle at the time. Seems pretty cut and dried to me, just wondering how other states argue the case that that is legal. Ahh, the Minneapolis cameras didn't take pictures of the drivers as well? That could be the difference..
Democrat or Republican, the stance of both parties on intellectual property is the same. As such a central figure in the Warez scene (past or present), by all rights he should currently be treated as if his last name was Gotti. But as he "just happens" to be a higher-up in one of the Beloved Parties, so far he "just happens" to be getting away with it with less than a slap on the wrist. Were you aware that a number of members of the fairlight warez group HAVE been arrested in the past decade? Do you think it's possible that maybe--assuming strider is one and the same as the man in this article (which it certainly seems he is!)--that he hasn't been active in 20 years and there's absolutely no evidence to the contrary?
In any case, since you DID ask about statute of limitations (before ranting about how they should go after this guy as if he were a murderer and racketeer) google the No Electronic Theft Act. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems that 5 years is the limit. So, your question is answered, and you don't have to be upset anymore about alleged injustices!:-)
Ah, so when somebody says "republicans act this" it can refer to anybody who self-identifies as a republican, but when somebody else say "democrats act this way" it's scandalous and false because there's no evidence that the Democratic PARTY leadership directly did something? Come on, nobody is claiming that the Democratic party leadership created those fake documents, however a number of democrats (private citizens even) were involved in the creation and propagation of the news story.
And if you can read the wikipedia article and come away saying "there is no forensic evidence of any forgery" I've got to conclude that you are being either due to your partisan nature or unconsciously being very intellectually dishonest.
(btw, try downloading the graphic of the letter, and type the same text into MS word. then overlay in photoshop/gimp/whatever. when I did this with office 2003, it was a 100% match. Wordperfect did not match at all. you really think a typewriter from 30-40 years ago is going to match?)
I completely disagree. People hate playing when there are bots running all around. People hate playing when auction house etc prices are all out of whack making it impossible or very hard for casual players to do anything. You'll find very, VERY few who feel alienated by Blizzard.
Blizzard has a great and well-earned reputation for releasing quality content. It remains to be seen if (and for how long) this will carry on with WoW, but I'm not betting against blizzard. IMHO, the only thing that could kill wow is a substantially better competitor game, or WoW2.
That's my understanding as well. The RAW from a Canon SLR might have no relation at al to a nikon to a sony, etc (or even between canon models, etc). They are just the unprocessed raw data that the cameras use internally. Thus the need for import filters for programs like photopshop, aperture, and lightroom to be able to read the files from different cameras.
Ok, the person to whom I replied said "In all seriousness, everybody talks about email, texting and cellphone use as "cheapening" communication". That's what I quoted and replied to when I said that frequency can lessen importance. I then, one sentence later said that the frequency and kinds of modern communication can be called "vastly improved communication."
So in other words, I don't get what you are disputing? Nothing I said could be construed as meaning that modern communication is inferior?
Perceived value is actually all that matters. You took water for granted, and don't care about wells. Wells have no importance to you (or to me). The existence of municipal water has made them effectively irrelevant for most people. That has lessened the importance, and even cheapened the experience of using wells. That in no way means that wells are superior to plumbing and municipal water supplies! I hope that example works for you.
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If your game is so simple that a bot can play it, maybe your game isn't really fun to play to begin with. And maybe that's a ridiculous statement? Are you claiming that any game that an AI can play with some level of aptitude isn't fun?
If you have zones that a bot can play, maybe you should tool your game so bots can't play them. Meaning the game should be hard enough so that it doesn't have mass appeal? Or meaning it should be coded differently?
If your game is failing, it isn't because people are playing your game with bots. So I don't get it, are you talking about MMORPGs that are failures or only small successes, or are you talking about the wildly popular WoW? I don't think anyone is even trying to claim that WoW is a failure, are you?
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I think glider DOES cheat. Let's face it--WoW is not a skill heavy game. The entire time I played I can think of only one or two things that actually involved practice and skill to pull off (I guess end game content is slightly skillful). The rest is just grinding and variations of grinding (quest grinding, instance grinding, etc).
Basically WoW takes your time, and converts it into in game coolness--level, weapons, outfits, items, etc. Your time is basically the only game currency--when you eliminate the need to put in time, you're effectively cheating. No, you're not hacking the game code, or abusing the servers, but you ARE cheating.
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Ahh, a textualist and originalist--you must be a huge fan of Justices Thomas and Scalia and despise Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg, etc?
However, I don't think your analysis is correct. The copyright clause is, as you cite, part of section 8. Section 8 enumerates the powers of congress. The text you managed to find (the copyright clause) clearly allows congress to "Secure for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." There is very little to interpret in that part of the clause, it's clear.
On the other hand "To promote the progress of science and useful arts" is up for much greater interpretation. How exactly does one promote the progress? You and I might have very different ideas about how to do this. Congress might have other ideas. Congress has the clearly enumerated mandate to do so, and the way to do so.
So what exactly is unconstitutional?
I'm not arguing the case of embedded applications--though I WOULD point out my other post to this article which mentions devices like Soekris http://www.soekris.com/ which are x86, powerful, and small.
No doubt some/many embedded devices benefit greatly from non-x86. X86 is very steadily improving. Part of this is for sure because of Intel+AMD research divisions and fabs. What I'm saying is, the "why" is irrelevant.
How can you say that x86 is relatively inferior when compared to ARM, performancewise? Show me an ARM that competes with the latest offerings from AMD or Intel? It's all theory! Incidentally, I've read papers analyzing relative performance that suggest the modern ia32/ia64 architectures actually benefit from their hybrid risc/cisc design in terms of optimizing the flow of microops.
Depends on what exactly the definition of embedded device is, but Soekris (http://www.soekris.com/) and a number of competitors are quite popular. Very cool products, all of them.
I'm currently designing a system using one to monitor weather + soil conditions in my garden.
Good question, I don't know. You do see people every now and then (for instance Spun) who go on trolling runs after building up karma.
:-) I do think your original post was trollish though, how about that?
HOWEVER, I apologize for saying you were a troll--a troll wouldn't have responded two more times
Hmm... very high ratio of +5 funny to only one +4 informative. Conclusion: inconclusive!
To be fair, I should have said "I'm 99% sure you're blatantly TROLLING" as you're right, I don't know if you're a troll or not.
The OSX port of WoW does perform less well than the windows port. The difference USED to be bigger than it is now (say 1-2+ years ago). My understanding is that this is primarily due to the Opengl implementation on osx?
I don't currently play WoW anymore, but I don't ever recall having that kind of performance discrepancy.
what about the older .tar.Z (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress) ?
Which is better--bzip2 or gzip?
Usually bzip2 (bz2) is better, meaning that it produces smaller compressed files than gzip (gz).
Gzip on the otherhand typically uses less memory and processing power, and is faster. So gzip is sometimes used in (increasingly rare) situations where memory and processing power (and speed) are at an absolute premium.
Ok, I'm 99% sure you're a blatant troll, but to give you the benefit of doubt..
There's something terribly wrong with your computer. I could crawl along in warcraft with my old Geforce2 on an AthlonXP. Very, very slow, and very low quality, but it could run. WoW ran fine on my powerbook 1.25ghz g4.
What's the worst GPU that comes with a quadcore? The ATI 2600? With quadcore, 2gb ram (I don't think you can get mac pro with less?), and a HD2600, you should be fine. Probably not max graphics nor max resolution, and I would guess you would dip into the 20s of fps at times if you're pushing your graphical settings, but very playable.
If you paid the approximately $100 extra bucks to get a Geforce 8800, you should be rolling along at just about any resolution and maxed out graphics.
Apple offers plenty of good CPUs.
Now, if you want to look at it differently, flip your statement around, there's absolutely zero forensic evidence that the letters ARE real. There has never been a real investigation into who committed the forgery and why. That's not really true. If you mean a police investigation, I believe that's accurate. But a number of news organizations DID investigate. For instance read the wikipedia page about Bill Burkett.
I'm not claiming, nor do I believe that the official Democratic party leadership sanctioned the forgery. I do believe that a democrat planned it (Burkett)--this is debatable, and that another highly partisan news reporter--Rather--jumped all over the story with doing any proper investigation for partisan reasons. I don't think Rather's role is debatable at all.
I imagine it's much the same way that you can be ticketed for parking illegally, even though the police can't know it was the owner of the vehicle that was driving? Are you really saying that the police should not have the ability to ticket illegally parked cars?
This seems a very simple matter to me. With a speeding ticket you can pay the fine or go to court. With a red light ticket you can pay the fine or go to court. If the ticket is wrong--go to court. What's the problem? If it's worth it to you to continue illegal behavior of running red lights, by all means, disguise yourself and fight it at court.
Are you talking solely about police surveillance cameras, or surveillance cameras in general?
One plus for surveillance cameras in general is that they provide businesses with the ability to defend themselves. Whether against false claims, injury lawsuits, etc. Additionally, cameras can sometimes act as a deterrent. I know this is just an anecdote, but at my parents old company, located in a not-so-good neighborhood, they were broken into pretty much on a yearly basis. After they installed two big interior security cameras with blinking lights near the front door, there were no more breaks ins. Can't say for sure the two were linked, but I would bet on it. In other words, I disagree that "cameras in general do not deter crime by their presence." As a second example, at some tennis courts I used to visit, they had a problem with car breakins. They installed cameras, and within a month had managed to catch 3 people who had been breaking into cars. ~shrug~
As for police cameras, I'm less thrilled with them. I don't have any problem with redlight cameras (and by all accounts they do punish unsafe behavior), but sidewalk cameras or the microphones like they have in Chicago..? I'm more dubious on their effectiveness.
Also, states have different state constitutions.
In any case, since you DID ask about statute of limitations (before ranting about how they should go after this guy as if he were a murderer and racketeer) google the No Electronic Theft Act. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems that 5 years is the limit. So, your question is answered, and you don't have to be upset anymore about alleged injustices!
How's Rush a crook? I'll give you (more than a little!) obsessed with the Clintons, but I don't know about his being a crook.
Ah, so when somebody says "republicans act this" it can refer to anybody who self-identifies as a republican, but when somebody else say "democrats act this way" it's scandalous and false because there's no evidence that the Democratic PARTY leadership directly did something? Come on, nobody is claiming that the Democratic party leadership created those fake documents, however a number of democrats (private citizens even) were involved in the creation and propagation of the news story.
And if you can read the wikipedia article and come away saying "there is no forensic evidence of any forgery" I've got to conclude that you are being either due to your partisan nature or unconsciously being very intellectually dishonest.
(btw, try downloading the graphic of the letter, and type the same text into MS word. then overlay in photoshop/gimp/whatever. when I did this with office 2003, it was a 100% match. Wordperfect did not match at all. you really think a typewriter from 30-40 years ago is going to match?)
I completely disagree. People hate playing when there are bots running all around. People hate playing when auction house etc prices are all out of whack making it impossible or very hard for casual players to do anything. You'll find very, VERY few who feel alienated by Blizzard.
Blizzard has a great and well-earned reputation for releasing quality content. It remains to be seen if (and for how long) this will carry on with WoW, but I'm not betting against blizzard. IMHO, the only thing that could kill wow is a substantially better competitor game, or WoW2.
I know you're serious, and I do the same thing on my osx laptop (though without having to use cmd line--just double click the iso)
The difference is, now you don't even need to do that.
You're right, I am aware that it does happen, and I think it sucks too. Unfortunately, we're already well down that slippery slope..
That's my understanding as well. The RAW from a Canon SLR might have no relation at al to a nikon to a sony, etc (or even between canon models, etc). They are just the unprocessed raw data that the cameras use internally. Thus the need for import filters for programs like photopshop, aperture, and lightroom to be able to read the files from different cameras.
Ok, the person to whom I replied said "In all seriousness, everybody talks about email, texting and cellphone use as "cheapening" communication". That's what I quoted and replied to when I said that frequency can lessen importance. I then, one sentence later said that the frequency and kinds of modern communication can be called "vastly improved communication."
So in other words, I don't get what you are disputing? Nothing I said could be construed as meaning that modern communication is inferior?
Perceived value is actually all that matters. You took water for granted, and don't care about wells. Wells have no importance to you (or to me). The existence of municipal water has made them effectively irrelevant for most people. That has lessened the importance, and even cheapened the experience of using wells. That in no way means that wells are superior to plumbing and municipal water supplies! I hope that example works for you.
I think glider DOES cheat. Let's face it--WoW is not a skill heavy game. The entire time I played I can think of only one or two things that actually involved practice and skill to pull off (I guess end game content is slightly skillful). The rest is just grinding and variations of grinding (quest grinding, instance grinding, etc).
Basically WoW takes your time, and converts it into in game coolness--level, weapons, outfits, items, etc. Your time is basically the only game currency--when you eliminate the need to put in time, you're effectively cheating. No, you're not hacking the game code, or abusing the servers, but you ARE cheating.