You wouldn't want your own personal police officer following you to make sure you didn't commit a crime, would you?
Sure, why not? I have nothing to worry about - I haven't committed any crimes and I'm not going to start now. If that 'personal police officer' following me happens to instead catch the guy who mugs me around the corner, I'll be very happy indeed.
You know what? I don't like you taking away my freedom.
You know what? I care much less about that than I do about the chap with the knife who's infringing on my freedom to walk through the park.
Had this guy done anything wrong? If not, he didn't have anything to worry about! In fact, he should be able to sleep a little better at night knowing that the camera system works!
$25,000 - that is a very low price, considering the rarity of the object.
That's right...there's only one 3.5" floppy disk in the world with my signature on it in gold pen - imagine how valuable that is!!!
It would take Steve Wozinak twenty five seconds to sign all the produced models of the Apple I, so the fact that it was signed is pretty much neither here nor there.
If that's the case, I bet he's really cursing the fact that his mother didn't give him a name that'd take longer to sign like "Steven Ivanovich Rasputin Kubechesky De Soto Nimitz Wozniak".
Sorry, but I was messing around and making robots with my KIM-1 way before Apples came around.
You were lucky to have a KIM-1! When I were a lad, if we wanted to 'compute' something we had to use a boonch of stones sorted into piles. Lose one and all your calculations go to hell! No manual! No interface! Oh sure, it weren't a hobby computer, but it were a hobby computer to us!
But you try telling the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
I know this one is still in beta so I can't expect too much, but can anyone tell me why so many of these video card reviews never have screen shots? I don't care if the card goes fast if it doesn't look good.
Woah, there are a few differences between "Abandonware" and your examples here:
1. If I break into your house to take your Dreamcast or anything else, I am breaking the law: this is regardless of whether I take anything or not.
2. If I steal your car because you haven't driven it, I am breaking the law (even if your car has been in an accident and is now damaged beyond recognition).
BUT
here, the software is no longer available in any useful way AND my acquisition of it doesn't prevent others from having it. This may be analagous to the concept that my catching a glimpse of the Mona Lisa does not affect your glimpse-catching activity. Yet, if I was to steal your car from a parking lot, or steal your dreamcast, you would no longer be able to acquire benefit from its ownership...
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You wouldn't want your own personal police officer following you to make sure you didn't commit a crime, would you?
Sure, why not? I have nothing to worry about - I haven't committed any crimes and I'm not going to start now. If that 'personal police officer' following me happens to instead catch the guy who mugs me around the corner, I'll be very happy indeed.
You know what? I don't like you taking away my freedom.
You know what? I care much less about that than I do about the chap with the knife who's infringing on my freedom to walk through the park.
Had this guy done anything wrong? If not, he didn't have anything to worry about! In fact, he should be able to sleep a little better at night knowing that the camera system works!
DD
$25,000 - that is a very low price, considering the rarity of the object.
That's right...there's only one 3.5" floppy disk in the world with my signature on it in gold pen - imagine how valuable that is!!!
It would take Steve Wozinak twenty five seconds to sign all the produced models of the Apple I, so the fact that it was signed is pretty much neither here nor there.
If that's the case, I bet he's really cursing the fact that his mother didn't give him a name that'd take longer to sign like "Steven Ivanovich Rasputin Kubechesky De Soto Nimitz Wozniak".
Sorry, but I was messing around and making robots with my KIM-1 way before Apples came around.
You were lucky to have a KIM-1! When I were a lad, if we wanted to 'compute' something we had to use a boonch of stones sorted into piles. Lose one and all your calculations go to hell! No manual! No interface! Oh sure, it weren't a hobby computer, but it were a hobby computer to us!
But you try telling the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
I know this one is still in beta so I can't expect too much, but can anyone tell me why so many of these video card reviews never have screen shots? I don't care if the card goes fast if it doesn't look good.
Sigi
Yesterday I couldn't spel lawyer - now I are one!
DD
The Blade Runner unicorn footage was from "The Shining", not "Legend".
Thankyou.
Woah, there are a few differences between "Abandonware" and your examples here: 1. If I break into your house to take your Dreamcast or anything else, I am breaking the law: this is regardless of whether I take anything or not. 2. If I steal your car because you haven't driven it, I am breaking the law (even if your car has been in an accident and is now damaged beyond recognition). BUT here, the software is no longer available in any useful way AND my acquisition of it doesn't prevent others from having it. This may be analagous to the concept that my catching a glimpse of the Mona Lisa does not affect your glimpse-catching activity. Yet, if I was to steal your car from a parking lot, or steal your dreamcast, you would no longer be able to acquire benefit from its ownership...