I tried it... after seeing a lot of naked "boy" chests (clearly a lot of high school or college kids showing off their "six pack") it finally stopped on a guy that looked reasonable to chat with.
Chatted with him for about 10-15 mins, just exchanging some random questions and info. Wasn't too bad, except he was from China and his english wasn't so great:)
Overall, definitely has potential for some random social interaction if you have nothing better to do.
As stated in the article, the whole controversy is also generating sales for the lesser-known "Strobo" book that was allegedly plagiarized. That can't be a bad thing.
And, then there is FarmTown, almost the exact same game. That's the annoying bit about Facebook apps, everyone one has at least two or three near duplicates.
Where I live, we have 5 tiers of KWh usage above baseline (PG&E, northern CA)...
When I was running distributed computing projects on ~10 machines, my power bill was breaking the $500/month barrier on occasion.
Power usage differences between idle and 100% CPU are easily measured with a P3 Killawatt or similar watt-meter - and the differences can be pretty enlightening. Different machines produce different results.
The higher performance P4's were pretty bad - running between 150-200W at the wall at 100% CPU, while my AMD X2 would only reach ~100W at full load.
Augmented Reality is what the *theives* are gonna be using - as they walk around, they see geo-tagged pictures of 50" TVs pop into view, and next to them, the twitter feed stating the owner is away on vacation...
The guy on vacation is just using "Distorted Reality" believing that all that info he posted on the internet was a good idea, and he has thousands of internet friends looking at it.
I understand of course that a pirated copy is not always a lost "sale", but the sales dropped immediately after the pirated versions showed up on the web. It's a pity that Apple seems to have little interest in preventing piracy on the iPhone.
So you're saying that after the pirated version appeared, only the jailbroken phone users were using it thereafter?
Indeed - after re-reading it (rather than looking at all the pretty graphs), I see that some of my curiosity has been quenched. It's some interesting statistical data for sure.
Does pirating an iphone app require a jailbroken phone?
If so, does that mean the "rule" is that there are more jailbroken phone users out there using these pirated applications than there are non-jailbroken phone users using them?
Doesn't that essentially indicate the apps are overpriced to begin with? (not that this is a legitimate excuse for pirating them).
If the source is available today, what is the time until someone throws up a virtual image that I can run?
Tomorrow?
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What am I missing?
You're likely missing the bigger picture.
Eventually google's turn-by-turn will have integrated street view imagery, and probably virtual advertisements on the buildings paid for by those businesses (or their competitors)...
Furthermore, as you pass areas of interest, you'll likely see wikipedia articles and user-generated-content (read: pictures/reviews) pop into view (like Google Earth), and eventually google will own your entire travelling experience.
I believe even changing a license from MIT/BSD to GPL without author's consent is illegal. You are changing someone's chosen license, that's wrong.
Just because MIT/BSD code can be used in a GPL project does *not* mean the GPL authors can adjust the license of the code they have re-used. Just because their license is restrictive doesn't mean they have the ability to restrict others' chosen licenses as well.
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I tried it... after seeing a lot of naked "boy" chests (clearly a lot of high school or college kids showing off their "six pack") it finally stopped on a guy that looked reasonable to chat with.
Chatted with him for about 10-15 mins, just exchanging some random questions and info. Wasn't too bad, except he was from China and his english wasn't so great :)
Overall, definitely has potential for some random social interaction if you have nothing better to do.
As stated in the article, the whole controversy is also generating sales for the lesser-known "Strobo" book that was allegedly plagiarized. That can't be a bad thing.
http://www.amazon.de/Axolotl-Roadkill-Helene-Hegemann/dp/3550087926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266012743&sr=8-1
Still waiting for copyright enforcement advocates to realize that copyright infringement isn't always a bad thing.
It appears Erik Andersen is responsible for a large amount of rewritten core apps in BusyBox:
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/AUTHORS
Which is still possible without releasing any source code.
The keyword here is "distributing" - even if you don't create a derivative at all.
Are you sure these companies "embrace" open source? sounds to me like they really just raped it...
Well, this was mentioned in page 8 of the PDF:
"Western Digital's WDBABF0000NBK WD TV HD Media Player;"
Where does one find a wasgij for cutting out one such puzzle?
Don't forget the whole thing can be turned over also.
And, then there is FarmTown, almost the exact same game. That's the annoying bit about Facebook apps, everyone one has at least two or three near duplicates.
pcloadtissue, wtf does that mean?
http://neurosciences.ucsd.edu/
Where I live, we have 5 tiers of KWh usage above baseline (PG&E, northern CA)...
When I was running distributed computing projects on ~10 machines, my power bill was breaking the $500/month barrier on occasion.
Power usage differences between idle and 100% CPU are easily measured with a P3 Killawatt or similar watt-meter - and the differences can be pretty enlightening. Different machines produce different results.
The higher performance P4's were pretty bad - running between 150-200W at the wall at 100% CPU, while my AMD X2 would only reach ~100W at full load.
Social networking is fun. You can buy a new TV, you can't buy back having wasted your life hiding.
You also can't buy back all that wasted time sitting in front of the computer mindlessly staring at Twitter and Facebook...
No no no, you have it all wrong.
Augmented Reality is what the *theives* are gonna be using - as they walk around, they see geo-tagged pictures of 50" TVs pop into view, and next to them, the twitter feed stating the owner is away on vacation...
The guy on vacation is just using "Distorted Reality" believing that all that info he posted on the internet was a good idea, and he has thousands of internet friends looking at it.
I understand of course that a pirated copy is not always a lost "sale", but the sales dropped immediately after the pirated versions showed up on the web. It's a pity that Apple seems to have little interest in preventing piracy on the iPhone.
So you're saying that after the pirated version appeared, only the jailbroken phone users were using it thereafter?
I guess probably because I don't own an iPhone - and I have no clue how much iPhone apps cost in the first place :P
The summary made it sound as if 60% of users of these games were pirates (piracy being the rule not the exception), which gave me pause to wonder.
Oh well, nobody ever said /. was fair :)
Indeed - after re-reading it (rather than looking at all the pretty graphs), I see that some of my curiosity has been quenched. It's some interesting statistical data for sure.
Does pirating an iphone app require a jailbroken phone?
If so, does that mean the "rule" is that there are more jailbroken phone users out there using these pirated applications than there are non-jailbroken phone users using them?
Doesn't that essentially indicate the apps are overpriced to begin with? (not that this is a legitimate excuse for pirating them).
will-power
Does this part of the remedy come in pill form?
If the source is available today, what is the time until someone throws up a virtual image that I can run?
Tomorrow?
What am I missing?
You're likely missing the bigger picture.
Eventually google's turn-by-turn will have integrated street view imagery, and probably virtual advertisements on the buildings paid for by those businesses (or their competitors)...
Furthermore, as you pass areas of interest, you'll likely see wikipedia articles and user-generated-content (read: pictures/reviews) pop into view (like Google Earth), and eventually google will own your entire travelling experience.
That's cuz everyone's waiting to snipe 'em at the end...
For everyone's sake, please do your "rebooting" in private.
Except plastic is a horrible conductor of heat...
Copper makes the most sense in this application.
I believe even changing a license from MIT/BSD to GPL without author's consent is illegal. You are changing someone's chosen license, that's wrong.
Just because MIT/BSD code can be used in a GPL project does *not* mean the GPL authors can adjust the license of the code they have re-used. Just because their license is restrictive doesn't mean they have the ability to restrict others' chosen licenses as well.