This seems like the perfect opportunity to copy and paste one of the many responses about it being patent encumbered, because asking this question 12 times is not enough!
There doesn't really seem to be a practical use for cursive. I learned it in elementary school, and can still read it, but remembering how some of the capital letters are written is beyond me.
It seems more difficult to read handwritten papers that are written with cursive. I guess I never really saw a speed advantage in cursive, and add the fact that I can type much faster on the keyboard than I can write by hand, this hardly seems like a surprise.
I can't really say I feel my education would have been compromised if cursive had been left out.
As far as I can tell, they DO NOT own Real Networks. They are an investment capital firm, so they own part of Real Networks (give them money, the goal is that that investment will make a return).
I could own a share of Hormel, but I wouldn't say I "own" the company that makes Spam.
They are trying to get people to sign an NDA, tell them that it is all a hoax, and hope they squeal! Then they can go around and sue the crap out of anyone who let the bag out.
Make sure you check out the response from the CEO of SearchKing (and probably the only employee): http://gooogle.searchking.com
Juicy tidbits: "Of course we are dissappointed with the judge's decision to dismiss the preliminary injunction, but it was not unexpected. We knew this was a case of a highly technical nature and that educating the court with only the short filings allowed would be very difficult."
"It was about the abuse of power. SearchKing never broke a law, yet was accused, judged and executed without so much as a notice of intent. This affected thousands of innocent people without just cause."
And then, the letter, the whole thing is so good that you just HAVE to read it in its entirety.
Does anyone else think that perhaps Justin Frankel released this himself, knowing that it would be pulled, just so that it would get out? He could probably care less if AOL tries to pull it; it's out, just like Gnutella.
He sure as hell doesn't seem to mind pissing off AOL, so this definitely has his signature.
It appears that they're trying to sell this game. It seems like they could run into some major legal problems if Sega wants them to- doesn't Sega have to license you in order for you to create and sell games for its system?
Actually, they implemented a wallhack block not too long ago into Counter-Strike. It doesn't transmit player locations behind walls it seems, but the problem is, the client still needs to know where footstep sounds are coming from, and some cheats actually take advantage of this and show the footsteps through the walls.
I'm assuming there's probably a fairly easy way to do it.
When mp3.com had their whole streaming system where you would "beam" your cd's to verify you owned them. They claimed the system could only be used to stream, but by simply identifying yourself as something like WinAmp, it would let you download the entire file. I'm talking at speeds of like 100KB/sec (much faster than streaming). You could literally download the MP3, unmodified.
If they make you pay, you'd actually have to give them money in an attempt to bother them. Then, when you try to bother them, they just remove you account and keep your money.
If you're implying some denial of service attack, I don't really think you're any better than they are.
It was not the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, it was the 50th anniversary of the publication of Watson and Crick's paper saying that DNA possibly has a double helix.
It's kind of funny, everyone seems to be making this mistake, I heard the vice president of Clonaid talk just yesterday, and he said the same thing. Not that Clonaid is a legitimate company.:p
The URL news.com gets redirected to news.com.com, but in reality it really is News.com. The title of the page is "CNET News.com," therefore "News.com" is the correct term. The com.com thing is really a marketing thing, you'll notice that Download.com (yes, that's it's name in the title and the images) also rediectes to download.com.com.
Not that it really matters, but if you're going to make a silly correction, make sure it is actually true.
CD keys for online games are VERY effective in stopping piracy. Since it checks the key each time you connect to an online server, it won't let you play with a pirated key, even if your game thinks it's real.
For single player games, I'd have to agree, but gaming is becoming much more internet oriented these days.
PC Gameplay's cover has been released at: http://www.pcgameplay.be/ And if that female in the background is from the game, it appears that perhaps there will be a sidekick for Gordon (wild speculation).
I'm not sure why your "leaked" shot has the top of it blurred out, you can see an unblurred version at: http://www.gamez.nl/content/artwork.phtml?sho tid=0 &nieuwsid=5587
Half-Life runs on WINE, and is practically supported by Valve in this configuration.
They have pulled back releases of their security modules (anti-cheat) just because users of WINE were having trouble. This is not to say that the experience is perfect, but it does mean that they don't have a "screw linux, it's not supported" attitude.
The rumor is that Half-Life 2 will come out THIS year, which is a very real possibility. Nothing has been heard about Team Fortress 2 for over a year now, so this project has been under very tight wraps (I mean, up until a couple of weeks ago, everyone thought they were still working on Team Fortress 2, and the Valve team gave no hints that they were doing something else).
November will be the 5 year anniversary of the original Half-Life. I would say a 5 year product development cycle should be enough, but I would have only said that with 100% confidence BEFORE Daikatana, and lord knows when the next Duke Nukem game will come out (it's been so long, I'm beginning to think that maybe the original really actually sucked, but we had low expectations back in the day, and the suspense keeps growing).
craft a strong enough bill to stand 1st Amendment challenges
That statement contradicts itself. One does not make a bill stronger to make it "withstand" the First Amendment, rather, it is made to comply with it. The only way to get something to be strong enough to "withstand the 1st Amendment" is to amend the constitution. Otherwise, you need to make it comply, or hope that that courts interpret it as being in line with the constitution.
I don't go around hoping that our lawmakers make laws to "withstand" our constitution.
Why? Because many of us would rather do what I like to call "long term sampling" where I sample it until it no longer suits my fancy, or when I can buy it for $2 used because no one wants it anymore so that I can say, "yes, I buy music that I sample on-line."
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If the user went through the steps and then decided they didn't want it for some reason, then they would be responsible for the charges.
Of course, there could be a one week grace period where they can cancel it at any time and get a refund.
This is actually the reason that the Klingons have pink blood in one of the movies (where it is zero gravity and it floats around)- the entire purpose of it was to avoid an R rating.
If one looks at today's standards, many PG-13 movies of today would have been rated R fifteen years ago.
The article says Electronic Arts believe it has something to do with what's going on in Iraq right now.
If this is the case, it's plain ignorance.
Many games are put on the restricted list in Germany, and this one isn't really a shocker. Perhaps if Timmy the Tooth: Decay Demolisher II was placed on this list there might be some questions behind the reasoning, but a war game? Not a surprise by a long shot.
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This seems like the perfect opportunity to copy and paste one of the many responses about it being patent encumbered, because asking this question 12 times is not enough!
Let's drive home the point a little more!
There doesn't really seem to be a practical use for cursive. I learned it in elementary school, and can still read it, but remembering how some of the capital letters are written is beyond me.
It seems more difficult to read handwritten papers that are written with cursive. I guess I never really saw a speed advantage in cursive, and add the fact that I can type much faster on the keyboard than I can write by hand, this hardly seems like a surprise.
I can't really say I feel my education would have been compromised if cursive had been left out.
As far as I can tell, they DO NOT own Real Networks. They are an investment capital firm, so they own part of Real Networks (give them money, the goal is that that investment will make a return).
I could own a share of Hormel, but I wouldn't say I "own" the company that makes Spam.
This is absolutely true.
They are trying to get people to sign an NDA, tell them that it is all a hoax, and hope they squeal! Then they can go around and sue the crap out of anyone who let the bag out.
I don't call that a "Power User." I call that an idiot.
Make sure you check out the response from the CEO of SearchKing (and probably the only employee):
http://gooogle.searchking.com
Juicy tidbits:
"Of course we are dissappointed with the judge's decision to dismiss the preliminary injunction, but it was not unexpected. We knew this was a case of a highly technical nature and that educating the court with only the short filings allowed would be very difficult."
"It was about the abuse of power. SearchKing never broke a law, yet was accused, judged and executed without so much as a notice of intent. This affected thousands of innocent people without just cause."
And then, the letter, the whole thing is so good that you just HAVE to read it in its entirety.
Does anyone else think that perhaps Justin Frankel released this himself, knowing that it would be pulled, just so that it would get out? He could probably care less if AOL tries to pull it; it's out, just like Gnutella.
He sure as hell doesn't seem to mind pissing off AOL, so this definitely has his signature.
Firebid is based on the Mozilla code base to begin with. It's not really that big of a change in the code base from what I can tell.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
And if they don't need a big Cisco router, they could easily just build a cheap computer and run this for well under 1k.
It appears that they're trying to sell this game. It seems like they could run into some major legal problems if Sega wants them to- doesn't Sega have to license you in order for you to create and sell games for its system?
Actually, they implemented a wallhack block not too long ago into Counter-Strike. It doesn't transmit player locations behind walls it seems, but the problem is, the client still needs to know where footstep sounds are coming from, and some cheats actually take advantage of this and show the footsteps through the walls.
Thank you for listing the expensive cars he purchases, it makes me feel much more sorry for him when I know a nice Audi was completely destroyed.
I'm assuming there's probably a fairly easy way to do it.
When mp3.com had their whole streaming system where you would "beam" your cd's to verify you owned them. They claimed the system could only be used to stream, but by simply identifying yourself as something like WinAmp, it would let you download the entire file. I'm talking at speeds of like 100KB/sec (much faster than streaming). You could literally download the MP3, unmodified.
If they make you pay, you'd actually have to give them money in an attempt to bother them. Then, when you try to bother them, they just remove you account and keep your money.
If you're implying some denial of service attack, I don't really think you're any better than they are.
Probably not, unless you can fit that toilet seat with an mp3 player in it into an AK-47 magazine.
It was not the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, it was the 50th anniversary of the publication of Watson and Crick's paper saying that DNA possibly has a double helix.
:p
It's kind of funny, everyone seems to be making this mistake, I heard the vice president of Clonaid talk just yesterday, and he said the same thing. Not that Clonaid is a legitimate company.
The URL news.com gets redirected to news.com.com, but in reality it really is News.com. The title of the page is "CNET News.com," therefore "News.com" is the correct term. The com.com thing is really a marketing thing, you'll notice that Download.com (yes, that's it's name in the title and the images) also rediectes to download.com.com.
Not that it really matters, but if you're going to make a silly correction, make sure it is actually true.
CD keys for online games are VERY effective in stopping piracy. Since it checks the key each time you connect to an online server, it won't let you play with a pirated key, even if your game thinks it's real.
For single player games, I'd have to agree, but gaming is becoming much more internet oriented these days.
PC Gameplay's cover has been released at:
o tid=0 &nieuwsid=5587
http://www.pcgameplay.be/
And if that female in the background is from the game, it appears that perhaps there will be a sidekick for Gordon (wild speculation).
I'm not sure why your "leaked" shot has the top of it blurred out, you can see an unblurred version at:
http://www.gamez.nl/content/artwork.phtml?sh
Half-Life runs on WINE, and is practically supported by Valve in this configuration.
They have pulled back releases of their security modules (anti-cheat) just because users of WINE were having trouble. This is not to say that the experience is perfect, but it does mean that they don't have a "screw linux, it's not supported" attitude.
The rumor is that Half-Life 2 will come out THIS year, which is a very real possibility. Nothing has been heard about Team Fortress 2 for over a year now, so this project has been under very tight wraps (I mean, up until a couple of weeks ago, everyone thought they were still working on Team Fortress 2, and the Valve team gave no hints that they were doing something else).
November will be the 5 year anniversary of the original Half-Life. I would say a 5 year product development cycle should be enough, but I would have only said that with 100% confidence BEFORE Daikatana, and lord knows when the next Duke Nukem game will come out (it's been so long, I'm beginning to think that maybe the original really actually sucked, but we had low expectations back in the day, and the suspense keeps growing).
That statement contradicts itself. One does not make a bill stronger to make it "withstand" the First Amendment, rather, it is made to comply with it. The only way to get something to be strong enough to "withstand the 1st Amendment" is to amend the constitution. Otherwise, you need to make it comply, or hope that that courts interpret it as being in line with the constitution.
I don't go around hoping that our lawmakers make laws to "withstand" our constitution.
Why? Because many of us would rather do what I like to call "long term sampling" where I sample it until it no longer suits my fancy, or when I can buy it for $2 used because no one wants it anymore so that I can say, "yes, I buy music that I sample on-line."
If the user went through the steps and then decided they didn't want it for some reason, then they would be responsible for the charges.
Of course, there could be a one week grace period where they can cancel it at any time and get a refund.
This is actually the reason that the Klingons have pink blood in one of the movies (where it is zero gravity and it floats around)- the entire purpose of it was to avoid an R rating.
If one looks at today's standards, many PG-13 movies of today would have been rated R fifteen years ago.
The article says Electronic Arts believe it has something to do with what's going on in Iraq right now.
If this is the case, it's plain ignorance.
Many games are put on the restricted list in Germany, and this one isn't really a shocker. Perhaps if Timmy the Tooth: Decay Demolisher II was placed on this list there might be some questions behind the reasoning, but a war game? Not a surprise by a long shot.