They want it to fail. That way they can say "we tried online delivery, but the pirates stole it and we didn't make any money, see?" And buy some more laws to take control of our machines.
Frankly I find it rather interesting that Germany is censoring and banning pro-Nazi sites and literature that it doesn't agree with.
I'm fairly sure it was part of the terms of surrender that pro-nazi speech would be (forever?) illegal in germany, you can go to jail for saying the holocaust didn't happen for example.
The Metropolitan Police will probably have a shortage of donuts in the office for quite awhile.
If that's the worst that happens after such a cock-up of public money that this money-grabbing scheme was, I think they got off light.
Any else anticipate an article that states Metropolitan Police are reducing the tolerance for speeding limit to 1% and then upping the cost of a tickets, they'll have to recover this money somehow.:-)
Who'd notice? England's about the only place in the world worse than Victoria when it comes to revenue raising speed cameras.
I never said they're not better.... But they're maybe worth twice the price. They're sold at 5X the price for a 10k drive, and abou 8X for a 15k drive. It's an artificial pricing. They've been making SCSI drives for at least 15 years, I think they're as common as they're going to get, and it's not like they're rare. Most servers around the world run on scsi (not as much now as it used to be, but still most).
it's got nothing to do with how common it is, scsi is expensive because it raises the percieved value of the product, and it's common knowledge that this "elite"ness of more expensive alternatives to a product aid sales.
In short, it's expensive because they like it that way. There's no shortage of scsi drives, they're not particularly more expensive to produce.
But instead of using thick/heavy material to absorb radiation as we do now, perhaps we could devise something that would simply reflect it, instead of absorbing it?
the people running the game are essentially printing money
No they're not. They're printing virtual money, in a vitrual world. They can make all the virtuamoney they want, and sell it for real world money, but only when people still want it. There is no net gain in the amount of real money, thus no devaluation of existing real money.
Saying they're printing money is like saying that since my time is valuable to some people, being a live is printing money.
There's a big hullabaloo about this, but I met one of the guys writing this software (a close mate of mine did the interface / icons etc), and he was your regular average geek... Apart from recording your mac address, it's pretty good software. Seems better than gamespy that's fer sure, and has a built in irc client.
Personally I don't think the mac address recording is all that bad... Your average person who cares that it's recorded can change it easily, and your average 12 year old cheating 5||21p7 |1DD13 probably won't even know why he got banned...
I'm happily running dual-head at home from my geforce 4, and I know it's part of the geforce2 chipset as well (although most gf2s only have one monitor out plug)
Hey peace dude, i was only kidding. Personally debian doesn't do it for me, but the heal brush and shapes layers in photoshop 7, that's another story...
A lot of systems are like this. All aftermarket tv systems installed in Australia in view of the driver must have it. Usually, pulling the handbrake up one notch by-passes it:)
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Fat chance, they won't even let you drive with neons turned on in most states.
Thank christ. Any idiot with shit like that on his car needs to be dragged out of it and beaten senseless with a clue-by-four.
They want it to fail. That way they can say "we tried online delivery, but the pirates stole it and we didn't make any money, see?" And buy some more laws to take control of our machines.
What if we're all part of some gigantic computer and the molecules we put to work computing were already computing something ?
Well duh! What do you think the mice are doing here?
Saying it is a "Compact Disk type R" would probably get past their automated "CD-R" scanning.
Yeah but then he'd need some neon lights, glow in the dark windscreen washers, and a vtec sticker!
Frankly I find it rather interesting that Germany is censoring and banning pro-Nazi sites and literature that it doesn't agree with.
I'm fairly sure it was part of the terms of surrender that pro-nazi speech would be (forever?) illegal in germany, you can go to jail for saying the holocaust didn't happen for example.
The Metropolitan Police will probably have a shortage of donuts in the office for quite awhile.
:-)
If that's the worst that happens after such a cock-up of public money that this money-grabbing scheme was, I think they got off light.
Any else anticipate an article that states Metropolitan Police are reducing the tolerance for speeding limit to 1% and then upping the cost of a tickets, they'll have to recover this money somehow.
Who'd notice? England's about the only place in the world worse than Victoria when it comes to revenue raising speed cameras.
I never said they're not better.... But they're maybe worth twice the price. They're sold at 5X the price for a 10k drive, and abou 8X for a 15k drive. It's an artificial pricing. They've been making SCSI drives for at least 15 years, I think they're as common as they're going to get, and it's not like they're rare. Most servers around the world run on scsi (not as much now as it used to be, but still most).
it's got nothing to do with how common it is, scsi is expensive because it raises the percieved value of the product, and it's common knowledge that this "elite"ness of more expensive alternatives to a product aid sales.
In short, it's expensive because they like it that way. There's no shortage of scsi drives, they're not particularly more expensive to produce.
first, IANARS (rocket scientist) by any means...
But instead of using thick/heavy material to absorb radiation as we do now, perhaps we could devise something that would simply reflect it, instead of absorbing it?
Plus, you can use it for all sorts of other things, like growing food, storing power, and drinking.
Although lead shielding is indeed a stupid idea, I don't see radioactive water being all that much healthier for consumption than lead.
"Antarctica and a few Arctic land patches were not included in the study because of the lack of data and near absence of human influences"
So in conclusion, humans occupy about 83% of the land, except the parts where there aren't any people.
What sort of imbeciles is the patent office hiring these days?
Um, probably the same kind they hire to be slashdot editors, they do as much checking for prior art when approving a patent/article.
BSDish for US citizens and corporations, and GPLish for others.
That's definitely a violation of the spirit of the GPL, and probably also the word of it.
As somebody who knows no more about chess than (i assume all of) the rules, and can't read the moves, what are those moves, and what's bad about them?
the people running the game are essentially printing money
No they're not. They're printing virtual money, in a vitrual world. They can make all the virtuamoney they want, and sell it for real world money, but only when people still want it. There is no net gain in the amount of real money, thus no devaluation of existing real money.
Saying they're printing money is like saying that since my time is valuable to some people, being a live is printing money.
There's a big hullabaloo about this, but I met one of the guys writing this software (a close mate of mine did the interface / icons etc), and he was your regular average geek... Apart from recording your mac address, it's pretty good software. Seems better than gamespy that's fer sure, and has a built in irc client.
Personally I don't think the mac address recording is all that bad... Your average person who cares that it's recorded can change it easily, and your average 12 year old cheating 5||21p7 |1DD13 probably won't even know why he got banned...
I'm happily running dual-head at home from my geforce 4, and I know it's part of the geforce2 chipset as well (although most gf2s only have one monitor out plug)
Yeah it's so swell of them, no?
Wow, a 40% tax bracket... that'd be sweet. Here in .au, anything over (iirc) 39,000 is 49% taxed
Hey peace dude, i was only kidding. Personally debian doesn't do it for me, but the heal brush and shapes layers in photoshop 7, that's another story...
Sometimes a new package that I'd never have found out about with dselect will radically change my life
;-)
In which case you should probably get out more
No it's not hard, but if you have the option of making $10 more per copy than you would if you were paying MS tax, you'd be a fool not to.
Not users you twit, game dev companies, like the whole "nintendo seal of approval" scenario from the late 80s.
A lot of systems are like this. All aftermarket tv systems installed in Australia in view of the driver must have it. Usually, pulling the handbrake up one notch by-passes it :)
...NO ONE has the numbers to prove there are more honest modders playing imports than there are pirates stealing games...
;-)
Hmmm, I wonder why that might be?