There is no reason that I can see that this java applet could not fool the user by displaying a real image in the space that the gif was supposed to have been loaded. If well done, a casual user would never know something funny happened.
Its actually quite easy to get FLV files off of YouTube. Any number of firefox extensions can do it, not to even mention your ability to just record the stream of bits using a little php, java or even c.
1: a combination of a single letter and a single number is not covered by copyright. Each tile in unavailable for copyright.
2: The scrabble board is a tabular representation of space. That is not covered by copyright.
The only marginal claim to copyright infringement that could possibly be levied is if the colors and fonts used on the board are identical.
The trademark suit based on name may have some minor merit. Though it should be noted that trademarks require diligence in protection. The fact they delayed their prior lawsuit in defense of the mark may reflect poorly on that diligence.
Candyland is a different matter, it is mostly artwork. And I would point out that monopoly was developed in the public domain, and there are numerous perfectly legal variants and copies available.
China is going through its industrial revolution. America and Europe did the same thing 1 to 2 centuries ago. They are not really any "dirtier" than a coal burning industrial city of the last century. The only difference is that they are trying to bring a billion people through that revolution vs a few hundred million.
They are using law enforcement (and therefore public resources) to enforce civil contract and copyright law. That is illegal in many jurisdictions and unethical for most.
One of the articles I had a hard time finding was one that stated that the BSA had armed civilian agents operating in a few places. Either I have a wacky paranoid memory, or my google-fu is weak.
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html I am having difficulty digging up other articles about the BSA using armed police (in some european countries the police carried machine guns) on their audits. IIRC there were a few slashdot articles on this a couple years ago.
Oh, and my bad. It looks like the RIAA does use jack booted thugs with machine guns... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18djdrama.t.html?_r=1&ref=slashdot&oref=slogin
Does the RIAA have jack booted thugs that can walk into your office with body armor and machine guns? Do they fine you millions of dollars if you can not produce the receipt for every version of software ever purchased or installed on a machine? Etc.
We use recycling breeder reactors to not only increase our efficiency of standard nuclear fuel by 1000%, but we also use it to convert waste fuel (that isn't really spent) into useful energy. At the end of the process we have a much smaller amount of material that will decay within a couple centuries.
We can thank Washington politicians (Ronald "Raygun" among them) for squashing this technology in favor of an unsuccessful attempt at nuclear non-proliferation.
Actually, they did predict the coming of the bearded white skinned gods from the east and that this would signal the end of their civilization. They predicted the exact date, down to the day that the conquistadors arrived.
I recently purchased a western digital MyBookWorld. And I am happy with it. It may be a little below your requirements, but the price is really hard to beat.
Mine came with a 1tb drive and supports USB external drive additions. There are 2tb versions of the drive as well. The standard connectivity software is less than ideal. But it runs on linux and with a little hacking can do run just about anything that you can run with linux.
There are a lot of people who agree that 4th edition is not for them. That is why Paizo is going to continue supporting 3rd edition D&D under the pathfinder name. Not only is pathfinder a great series of 3.5 D&D adventures. BUt the pathfinder alpha release is an open and free playtest of core rules that extend and correct flaws with D&D 3.5 instead of replacing the system with combat monsters as 4e did. This is all made possible by the OGL.
The material being released on this wiki is not infringing. It is covered and protected by the Open Gaming License. This License has clearly defined terms concerning how material may be shared and what kind of attribution is required.
I participated in some of the discussions that led to the creation of this wiki in the ENWorld.org forums. IIRC it began with a blog post by developer Mike Mearls claiming that the OGL was a failure.
of course it does. All material published under the Open Gaming License is freely reproducible under the terms of the OGL. For those not familiar with it, it is similar to some creative commons licenses (but with well defined, non vague terms) in that it has elements of share-alike and requires attribution.
the basic stamp breadboard and the various kits built around it are pretty good IMO.
http://www.parallax.com/
My suggestion is the BOE-BOT. Its manual does a fair compromise between ease of use for beginners and explaining some of the underlying electrical principals for intermediate users. plus you get to build a robot.
to elaborate: You can use the SRD's OGL material and even include your own versions of character creation and advancement in a digital game provided you can produce the game is such a way that the OGL material is clearly defined.
This can be achieved somewhat easily if the game is an engine that interprets a text/xml document that defines the rules of the game.
However, you would not be able to include the d20 logo or reference compatibility with the D&D brand.
he speaks the truth. Hell, my parents live in a condemned trailer and can not even get voice phone service much less any kind of internet. But its the only "home" they can afford to pay rent on. I tell people i lived in the "third world county" of Stone County, MS.
Things are only getting worse for most of these people as well. Rising gas costs affect the rural poor most of all. They have farther to drive for work and basic services, can not afford new and efficient vehicles and the cost of gas and food (with a price that is rapidly rising due to transport costs) represents a much larger percentage of their gross income.
Here in Mississippi a lot of people build using old shipping containers. Mostly as storm shelters, but I know of at least one house on the coast that was built around them after the shipping containers were dropped on the property during hurricane Camille.
I consider a nerd to be an intellectual that has many fields of interest, a renaissance man.
But a geek is an intellectual that focuses on a very narrow field, a specialist.
When comparing the ability of a geek and a nerd of similar intelligence, the geek would far exceede the nerd in his chosen field, while the nerd would wave a far wider range not quite so exceptional abilities.
In general both tend to be social outcasts of one form or another, be it through his/her rejection by society or by his/her rejection of society.
I classify myself as a nerd.
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In Canada, the title "Engineer" has a very specific and legally binding definition. There are no software engineers in Canada.
It would be like claiming that you are a "Martian Lawyer" when you are really not a lawyer at all.
There is no reason that I can see that this java applet could not fool the user by displaying a real image in the space that the gif was supposed to have been loaded. If well done, a casual user would never know something funny happened.
Its actually quite easy to get FLV files off of YouTube. Any number of firefox extensions can do it, not to even mention your ability to just record the stream of bits using a little php, java or even c.
1: a combination of a single letter and a single number is not covered by copyright. Each tile in unavailable for copyright.
2: The scrabble board is a tabular representation of space. That is not covered by copyright.
The only marginal claim to copyright infringement that could possibly be levied is if the colors and fonts used on the board are identical.
The trademark suit based on name may have some minor merit. Though it should be noted that trademarks require diligence in protection. The fact they delayed their prior lawsuit in defense of the mark may reflect poorly on that diligence.
Candyland is a different matter, it is mostly artwork. And I would point out that monopoly was developed in the public domain, and there are numerous perfectly legal variants and copies available.
Glen Danzig would make a far better wolverine physically. He is very short, and very muscular. I am not so sure about his acting talent. though.
The rules of a game can not be protected by copyright, trademark or patent. Only the specific expression of those rules can be covered by copyright.
x5 mass is actually closer to x2 gravity assuming a density relatively close to earth.
Surface gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the radius of the object.
China is going through its industrial revolution. America and Europe did the same thing 1 to 2 centuries ago. They are not really any "dirtier" than a coal burning industrial city of the last century. The only difference is that they are trying to bring a billion people through that revolution vs a few hundred million.
They are using law enforcement (and therefore public resources) to enforce civil contract and copyright law. That is illegal in many jurisdictions and unethical for most.
One of the articles I had a hard time finding was one that stated that the BSA had armed civilian agents operating in a few places. Either I have a wacky paranoid memory, or my google-fu is weak.
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
I am having difficulty digging up other articles about the BSA using armed police (in some european countries the police carried machine guns) on their audits. IIRC there were a few slashdot articles on this a couple years ago.
Oh, and my bad. It looks like the RIAA does use jack booted thugs with machine guns...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18djdrama.t.html?_r=1&ref=slashdot&oref=slogin
Not as bad as the RIAA?
Does the RIAA have jack booted thugs that can walk into your office with body armor and machine guns? Do they fine you millions of dollars if you can not produce the receipt for every version of software ever purchased or installed on a machine? Etc.
We use recycling breeder reactors to not only increase our efficiency of standard nuclear fuel by 1000%, but we also use it to convert waste fuel (that isn't really spent) into useful energy. At the end of the process we have a much smaller amount of material that will decay within a couple centuries.
We can thank Washington politicians (Ronald "Raygun" among them) for squashing this technology in favor of an unsuccessful attempt at nuclear non-proliferation.
Actually, they did predict the coming of the bearded white skinned gods from the east and that this would signal the end of their civilization. They predicted the exact date, down to the day that the conquistadors arrived.
I recently purchased a western digital MyBookWorld. And I am happy with it. It may be a little below your requirements, but the price is really hard to beat.
Mine came with a 1tb drive and supports USB external drive additions. There are 2tb versions of the drive as well. The standard connectivity software is less than ideal. But it runs on linux and with a little hacking can do run just about anything that you can run with linux.
There are a lot of people who agree that 4th edition is not for them. That is why Paizo is going to continue supporting 3rd edition D&D under the pathfinder name. Not only is pathfinder a great series of 3.5 D&D adventures. BUt the pathfinder alpha release is an open and free playtest of core rules that extend and correct flaws with D&D 3.5 instead of replacing the system with combat monsters as 4e did. This is all made possible by the OGL.
www.paizo.com
It does.
for references:
http://mearls.livejournal.com/
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=231991
The material being released on this wiki is not infringing. It is covered and protected by the Open Gaming License. This License has clearly defined terms concerning how material may be shared and what kind of attribution is required.
I participated in some of the discussions that led to the creation of this wiki in the ENWorld.org forums. IIRC it began with a blog post by developer Mike Mearls claiming that the OGL was a failure.
of course it does. All material published under the Open Gaming License is freely reproducible under the terms of the OGL. For those not familiar with it, it is similar to some creative commons licenses (but with well defined, non vague terms) in that it has elements of share-alike and requires attribution.
the basic stamp breadboard and the various kits built around it are pretty good IMO.
http://www.parallax.com/
My suggestion is the BOE-BOT. Its manual does a fair compromise between ease of use for beginners and explaining some of the underlying electrical principals for intermediate users. plus you get to build a robot.
to elaborate: You can use the SRD's OGL material and even include your own versions of character creation and advancement in a digital game provided you can produce the game is such a way that the OGL material is clearly defined.
This can be achieved somewhat easily if the game is an engine that interprets a text/xml document that defines the rules of the game.
However, you would not be able to include the d20 logo or reference compatibility with the D&D brand.
he speaks the truth. Hell, my parents live in a condemned trailer and can not even get voice phone service much less any kind of internet. But its the only "home" they can afford to pay rent on. I tell people i lived in the "third world county" of Stone County, MS.
Things are only getting worse for most of these people as well. Rising gas costs affect the rural poor most of all. They have farther to drive for work and basic services, can not afford new and efficient vehicles and the cost of gas and food (with a price that is rapidly rising due to transport costs) represents a much larger percentage of their gross income.
Here in Mississippi a lot of people build using old shipping containers. Mostly as storm shelters, but I know of at least one house on the coast that was built around them after the shipping containers were dropped on the property during hurricane Camille.
I consider a nerd to be an intellectual that has many fields of interest, a renaissance man. But a geek is an intellectual that focuses on a very narrow field, a specialist. When comparing the ability of a geek and a nerd of similar intelligence, the geek would far exceede the nerd in his chosen field, while the nerd would wave a far wider range not quite so exceptional abilities. In general both tend to be social outcasts of one form or another, be it through his/her rejection by society or by his/her rejection of society. I classify myself as a nerd. nadaka