"For a real life analogy, imagine a bill allowing people to tear down signs placed on a public bulletin boards which are slanderous."
How does this analogy apply? Currently, you do not have the right to tear down signs you consider slanderous. You can post a rebuttal, and seek out due process of law to have it removed, but you do not have the right to remove it yourself. Why? because it is for the courts to decide what is slanderous, not the victim. A bill exactly like you describe should cause a similiar uproar.
Im really tired of hearing this. I love it when I hear from (non-technical) people that hacking is "illegal". Those shrinkwrap licenses dont mean crap to me. When you buy something, you agreed to a contract that takes precedence. That contract involved you giving them money, and them giving you said product. You know own that product, whatever it may be. You are free to do whatever you want with it (provided it is not illegal under existing copyright law) and they have no right to stop you or hinder you. Those licenses mean nothing as far as I'm concerned. If they don't want me to tinker with said product, they never should have agreed to sell it to me. They have recieved fair and just compensation (as decided by them, not me) it is now mine. If they want to "license" me under a restrictive license, my consent would have to be gained at the time I bought said license.
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I can't agree with you more. I played TF avidly, even after TFC came out, even playing in tournaments with a clan for years. Carmack releasing the source almost destroyed it for me, but I had enough connections in the community to still find good games on private servers for a good while longer. I don't know how they did it, but TF found a perfect balance. What really did it for me was the teamwork. Before a match, our clan would spend days working out a perfect defense and offense. The classes meant noone could solo. In my opinion, the community hit its peak after its mainstream popularity had long faded. Public servers were ussually filled with skilled players who knew how to work together. Joining a public CS server is like jumping in a zoo of armed monkies in comparison.
Many games have been inspired by Tetris, anyone care to post their own favorites? My personal favorites are Tetrinet(8 player tetris with weapons over the net. http://www.tetrinet.org/) and Super Puzzle Fighter (availble as a Mame rom, and a crappy PC port).
As a high school student in South Florida(where Battlebots IQ originated), and a participant in the FIRST Robotics Competition (Battlebots IQ is run by the same person who used to run an unofficial FIRST competition called Mayhem in Miami), I feel obligated to respond. The school you describe is only found in the poorest or the poor districts. That kind of school system definitly is not worried about a battlebot curriculum. They are few and far between. As far as current textbooks, all the new textbooks I've seen and used have been vastly inferior to the ones it replaced. My brand new calculus book is completely useless as anything other then a source for problems for home work. Trust me on this, new textbook != better textbook. Furthermore, this program is no more expensive then any athletic team, and is, in my opinion, a much better use of our funds.
I would say the exact opposite. While linking to a printer friendly version might be slightly nicer for you, it abuses the website owner. Many sites do not offer any form of printer friendly version, those sites that do should be encouraged. Linking directly to the printer friendly version, skipping past revenue generating ads etc. is just plain bad manners. Abusing this feature just means it will be removed, and people who really want to print it will be stuck with the ad laden misformatted version. Just because the feature is there doesnt mean you get to abuse it whenever you want.
You are correct, I should've made that clear. All these examples however are commercial, and is similiar to redistributing it when you think of it. I should have made private use more clear.
The answer is quite simple. You are buying a legally authorized copy of a copyrighted work. This copy is yours to do with as you please. You have the legal right to do anything with it you please. The only thing you can't do is reproduce and distribute it. That's called copyright law. Fair Use means sometimes you can redistribute it in certain limited forms. For example, fair use gives me the right to quote a portion of a book for a review or article about it. The same applies to software and movies.
In South Florida, check out Tate's Comics in Coral Springs. Most likely the largest selection in the entire state to buy/rent, with a nice, knowledgable staff.
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Wouldnt it makes more sense if all the bloggers engaged in a google bomb linked to each other as well? This way they raise each other's page rank, making their site count even more towards boosting the target site.
Quake3 has a console command to introduce artificial lag to your comp, go look it up on planetquake.com or something. Im sure it would be possible for someone to whip an autoadjusting system up as a mod, the problem is broadband users are the majority these days (56k users having long ago been chased away as games have gotten less and less modem friendly. For an example of this compare q1 to q3 on a 56k modem.) and simply dont want this. When u pay extra for high speed you want to take advantage of it.
Last I heard S & M was ussually a consensual thing. Ifi ts nonconsensual its called rape. Not that im saying it isnt freaky, but as far as Ive heard its a fetish that some people seem to enjoy ( and not just the one inflicting, thats why they call it masochism).
Technology gives us better planes, better guns, better bombs, i.e. better ways to kill people.
Technology gives them better planes, better guns, better bombs, i.e. better ways to kill people.
I'm sure glad my tax money is helping America get better technology, so they can kill people cheaper, faster, and better then the other guy.
I realize this is a joke but please dont request it if you arent gonna use it. This looks like a really neat idea and after/. Im doubt they will have enough to cover just the ppl who will actually use it.
Actually, its more like you picking up your subscription glasses from the optrician, in which they've installed this "feature" without bothering to tell you. And, once having figured out something is wrong, returning them to be fixed, and getting the same glasses back.
I've been a Mac user for a long time. I'm also infected with the disease just about all geeks have: I am constantly putting in various non-standard hardware. The problem is Apple doesnt have the best record when it comes to supporting third-party hardware. For example, I bought a MicroConversions(Mac 3dfx-card maker) Voodoo 2 and a MacAlly USB card. However, both MIcroConversion and 3dfx(who made some decent but bugy reference drivers for mac) are long out of business ) and Apple has pretty much forgotten about thier severly buggy USB card drivers. With all the various unsupported hardware in my system Mac OS X won't even install. Apple has basically left all us legacy hardware owners out in the cold. This is the perfect oppurtunity for Open Source Developers to get a hold on the Mac community. Furthermore, it cant possibly be to hard to get Mac OS X native applications to run on a Mac linux distro, and we can always boot into classic for older classic apps. Any developer that shows they actually care about users with older hardware, instead of just expecting us to buy thier newest peice of translucent plastic(for the record I have a beige G3) will get my hardware.
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"For a real life analogy, imagine a bill allowing people to tear down signs placed on a public bulletin boards which are slanderous."
How does this analogy apply? Currently, you do not have the right to tear down signs you consider slanderous. You can post a rebuttal, and seek out due process of law to have it removed, but you do not have the right to remove it yourself. Why? because it is for the courts to decide what is slanderous, not the victim. A bill exactly like you describe should cause a similiar uproar.
Im really tired of hearing this. I love it when I hear from (non-technical) people that hacking is "illegal". Those shrinkwrap licenses dont mean crap to me. When you buy something, you agreed to a contract that takes precedence. That contract involved you giving them money, and them giving you said product. You know own that product, whatever it may be. You are free to do whatever you want with it (provided it is not illegal under existing copyright law) and they have no right to stop you or hinder you. Those licenses mean nothing as far as I'm concerned. If they don't want me to tinker with said product, they never should have agreed to sell it to me. They have recieved fair and just compensation (as decided by them, not me) it is now mine. If they want to "license" me under a restrictive license, my consent would have to be gained at the time I bought said license.
I can't agree with you more. I played TF avidly, even after TFC came out, even playing in tournaments with a clan for years. Carmack releasing the source almost destroyed it for me, but I had enough connections in the community to still find good games on private servers for a good while longer. I don't know how they did it, but TF found a perfect balance. What really did it for me was the teamwork. Before a match, our clan would spend days working out a perfect defense and offense. The classes meant noone could solo. In my opinion, the community hit its peak after its mainstream popularity had long faded. Public servers were ussually filled with skilled players who knew how to work together. Joining a public CS server is like jumping in a zoo of armed monkies in comparison.
Many games have been inspired by Tetris, anyone care to post their own favorites?
My personal favorites are Tetrinet(8 player tetris with weapons over the net. http://www.tetrinet.org/) and Super Puzzle Fighter (availble as a Mame rom, and a crappy PC port).
As a high school student in South Florida(where Battlebots IQ originated), and a participant in the FIRST Robotics Competition (Battlebots IQ is run by the same person who used to run an unofficial FIRST competition called Mayhem in Miami), I feel obligated to respond. The school you describe is only found in the poorest or the poor districts. That kind of school system definitly is not worried about a battlebot curriculum. They are few and far between. As far as current textbooks, all the new textbooks I've seen and used have been vastly inferior to the ones it replaced. My brand new calculus book is completely useless as anything other then a source for problems for home work. Trust me on this, new textbook != better textbook. Furthermore, this program is no more expensive then any athletic team, and is, in my opinion, a much better use of our funds.
I would say the exact opposite. While linking to a printer friendly version might be slightly nicer for you, it abuses the website owner. Many sites do not offer any form of printer friendly version, those sites that do should be encouraged. Linking directly to the printer friendly version, skipping past revenue generating ads etc. is just plain bad manners. Abusing this feature just means it will be removed, and people who really want to print it will be stuck with the ad laden misformatted version. Just because the feature is there doesnt mean you get to abuse it whenever you want.
You are correct, I should've made that clear. All these examples however are commercial, and is similiar to redistributing it when you think of it. I should have made private use more clear.
The answer is quite simple. You are buying a legally authorized copy of a copyrighted work. This copy is yours to do with as you please. You have the legal right to do anything with it you please. The only thing you can't do is reproduce and distribute it. That's called copyright law. Fair Use means sometimes you can redistribute it in certain limited forms. For example, fair use gives me the right to quote a portion of a book for a review or article about it. The same applies to software and movies.
In South Florida, check out Tate's Comics in Coral Springs. Most likely the largest selection in the entire state to buy/rent, with a nice, knowledgable staff.
Wouldnt it makes more sense if all the bloggers engaged in a google bomb linked to each other as well? This way they raise each other's page rank, making their site count even more towards boosting the target site.
Quake3 has a console command to introduce artificial lag to your comp, go look it up on planetquake.com or something. Im sure it would be possible for someone to whip an autoadjusting system up as a mod, the problem is broadband users are the majority these days (56k users having long ago been chased away as games have gotten less and less modem friendly. For an example of this compare q1 to q3 on a 56k modem.) and simply dont want this. When u pay extra for high speed you want to take advantage of it.
Last I heard S & M was ussually a consensual thing. Ifi ts nonconsensual its called rape. Not that im saying it isnt freaky, but as far as Ive heard its a fetish that some people seem to enjoy ( and not just the one inflicting, thats why they call it masochism).
Technology gives us better planes, better guns, better bombs, i.e. better ways to kill people.
Technology gives them better planes, better guns, better bombs, i.e. better ways to kill people.
I'm sure glad my tax money is helping America get better technology, so they can kill people cheaper, faster, and better then the other guy.
I realize this is a joke but please dont request it if you arent gonna use it. This looks like a really neat idea and after /. Im doubt they will have enough to cover just the ppl who will actually use it.
Actually, its more like you picking up your subscription glasses from the optrician, in which they've installed this "feature" without bothering to tell you. And, once having figured out something is wrong, returning them to be fixed, and getting the same glasses back.
I've been a Mac user for a long time. I'm also infected with the disease just about all geeks have: I am constantly putting in various non-standard hardware. The problem is Apple doesnt have the best record when it comes to supporting third-party hardware. For example, I bought a MicroConversions(Mac 3dfx-card maker) Voodoo 2 and a MacAlly USB card. However, both MIcroConversion and 3dfx(who made some decent but bugy reference drivers for mac) are long out of business ) and Apple has pretty much forgotten about thier severly buggy USB card drivers. With all the various unsupported hardware in my system Mac OS X won't even install. Apple has basically left all us legacy hardware owners out in the cold. This is the perfect oppurtunity for Open Source Developers to get a hold on the Mac community. Furthermore, it cant possibly be to hard to get Mac OS X native applications to run on a Mac linux distro, and we can always boot into classic for older classic apps. Any developer that shows they actually care about users with older hardware, instead of just expecting us to buy thier newest peice of translucent plastic(for the record I have a beige G3) will get my hardware. -