Software Developers need to eat too. There is no way I would release anything under 'AGPL' or even 'GPL' if it was important to my core business. How am I supposed to pay for a roof over my head!?
It doesn't matter how good, or even how bad the system is. As long as it cannot be shown to have a particular bias to a player, or the side of the court then it is automatically more fare than any existing judge.
period.
It doesn't matter if it is even out my 5 centimeters, never mind having an error rate of less than half a centimeter.
They do this because they know it's the only way they can communicate with the rest of the world. What else are you supposed to do when stringing more than 3 letters together is a challenge?
If you can't find the line between financial gain, competitiveness and clouding of your judgement you have a problem with ethics.
A lot of people seem to have a problem with ethics. Ethics are about making the right decision, even when it hurts. It isn't about making an easy decision at a convenient time.
If the release, and the pirated version share little of value in common (GAME PLAY) then who is to say what happened to it before it was reviewed? It may have been another party that f'd it up (it's not actually hard to do, a few low-level tweaks here and there and it could make it super easy, or impossible to play). who knows? Knowingly reviewing such a version (known to at least be pirated) and publishing that as a review of the release version is entirely actionable. And should be.
However, if the game play is virtually identical then Atari won't have a leg to stand on for the review itself.
If the reviews are based on a pirated copy of the game, and the released versions game play is different then Atari has every right in the world to not only sue these guys, but put them out of business.
Send a notice to all the email addresses with a notice informing them that your competitor has been disclosing their email address in all the emails they send out.
A small signature indicating who you are, and a link to your website would be enough to bring some of them to you.
This could be considered a public-service to those people.
It also could be a trap and some of those email address could be honey pots with the hope that you send email to them and get yourself put on the spam lists.
drafting actually increases the aerodynamics of the group of vehicles making it more efficient.
A truck will create a large low-pressure zone behind the trailer, this increases drag on the truck, a vehicle inserting itself close enough to get the airflow reduces the size of the low-pressure zone and thereby increases the efficiency. Obviously once the aerodynamic drag is reduced to zero for any one vehicle it can no-longer gain any efficiency advantage. Of course, that doesn't happen in the real world.
Traveling from Winnipeg to Norfolk via Chicago, I don't have to touch my luggage until Norfolk.
Of course, that assumes my luggage makes it all the way! Once you've cleared customs in Winnipeg you're done.
Last time I was going through there was a group of people from one company comming through. One of the guys brought his luggage into the area right before customs and handed it off to a co-worker. He the attempted to leave the area to get a coffee. Bad move. The RCMP office nearby came over to see what was up and directed him to go back to where he was.
You are legally allowed to leave (with your luggage), but the net result of doing that is a presumption of guilt (of something) and a search.
Honestly, thieves, in general, aren't smart. That's why they are thieves. They are looking for a quick easy buck. They don't know anything about computers, in general, they just steal them and sell them to the first available buyer. It's a cursory wipe and move on to the next one, at best. When 1% (guess) of laptops have some form of 'call home' it isn't like it's a big risk.
The solution, from a government perspective, for this is to allow all states to collect tax from online sales for each state who agrees to a single, across the board, tax rate.
The government win because they get to tax something that they haven't been taxing for 50 years (mail order predates internet by a few decades) and business 'win' inspite of the hit to their sales (they will slump a little, but they would likely recover quickly) because a single tax rate simplifies their business dramatically. The biggest reason today to not tax internet sales is that the difference in tax methods and rates varies so widely between states, countries, cities, etc. It's too complicated and small businesses would have a hell of a time dealing with them all. At this point only a company large enough to have locations in many locals has the problem. And they are typically big enough to afford solving that problem.
Proof of what insurance? You need a vehicle to have car insurance. While this individual may have a car in his name, that doesn't make it a requirement for purchasing a car.
As for driving without being accompanied by someone from the dealership; it's actually pretty typical in Canada, at least everywhere I've been. Sure, if your young and trying to test drive a fancy car they might insist on accompanying you, but they typically only do that if they think you can't be trusted for 5 seconds to not do something stupid. If you find the original story in this case, they had previously taken the car out with someone else, they stole it the second time they took it for a spin. Somebody comes back to check out a car after a test drive they are generally pretty interested in the vehicle, and I would expect not stupid enough to think they won't be recognized.
As well, they provided fake information when they borrowed the car.
All that said; he's an interesting circumstance for you:
I went to a local dealership to buy a new car, just looked it over. Came back a few days later and decided to test drive the car. We (girlfriend and I) took it for a spin on a Saturday, came back a little while later and told the sales guy I wanted to buy it. We start the process and it turns out it was about 10-15 minutes too late in the day to process the credit check. Sales guy tells me I can take the car for the weekend and we can finish up the sale on Monday. No photocopy of my license was taken, he had merely glanced at the license to verify I had one.
An hour later we stopped off to rent a movie and the rental place did a more thorough job of verifying who I was. So yeah, easier to steal a 30K vehicle than a $15 DVD.
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Anybody else think there should be a moratorium on Writers / Editors being reviewers?
Overall I think the review had a few good points, but started devling into a one-upmanship type sitation. It became obvious to me that there was a virtual axe to grind and it was not a suprise to see the reviewer claims to be a writer and editor.
Somewhere it stopped being about real flaws, and became a game of pointing out minutia
I've resolved to call this 'Spam Day'. Officially, March 26th, from 2008 onwards shall be Spam day.
And sure enough, there were a rash of inquiries today as to why people couldn't send email. It sent just fine; but was bounced by the recipients for exactly this reason.
(Fortinet firewall/email filtering seems to have this one in it's list still, not everybody uses it, but those that do are likely to not even know it themselves.)
Dealing with Email and Spam issues can be enough of a pain in the ass without the added hassle of this shit.
It isn't that the recipient complains they aren't getting email, it's when the sender (my customer) complains to me that their mail isn't making it to the recipient and blames me when it's the spam filters at the other end causing the problem. And now this? Nice.
Re:Artists should make the most money, not the lab
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Maybe you think that; but that is virtually never the case.
as mentioned; I got to play in dependency hell. cpan would have been great if I needed a library, or two. I need about 30; and CPAN kept trying to give me the latest and greatest, when I needed specific versions.
I'm sure somebody more familiar with it than me would have known how to get it to give exactly what they needed, but the default behaviour seemed to be to grab the latest, which would then cascade to get the latest other dependant library, etc...
Have you ever wanted to install a single perl application? On an otherwise clean Linux system you can end up in module hell, downloading module after module and having to be extra carefull with versioning.
The last time I had to do this it was about 30 modules and they had to be specific versions because more recent ones had incompatibilities. It took forever to get them all.
Now, what does this have to do with Microsoft? I think they see profit in this model!
Now, instead of paying a couple hundred dollars for windows, it'll add up to three times as much if you want 70% of the capabilities. And your applications are going to dictate which modules you need.
The company i work for has dual-T1s. About once every two months or so there is a T1 failure and everything switches over to the other T1 for an hour or two.
No problem, nobody notices except us.
However, we still have failures affecting both T1s on occasion. There is very little we can do about it, without spending a hell of a lot more money. How much money can we spend before we charge it to you, the end customer?
Look, if it was a good spec then there would be reason to debate it's license, implied or otherwise. There would be reason to discuss Microsofts standing.
WAAS does not work particularly well on the ground. Most people seem to care about this, more so than whether it works well for it's intended use. Aircraft navigation on approach.
The biggest issue with WAAS being that those of us in the central area of North America may have both satellites very near the horizon. If you are on either coast one satellite is high enough above the horizon to be clear line of sight past most ground obstacles. exceptions being large nearby buildings, or mountains.
Of course, I don't see much difference in usage on the ground with, or without waas. Ground based clutter causes other error types anyway and you have to use GPS as an aid, not as a solution to a non-existent problem. It works and it works damn well, but it won't auto-navigate your car through traffic.
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People don't get it.
Software Developers need to eat too.
There is no way I would release anything under 'AGPL' or even 'GPL' if it was important to my core business. How am I supposed to pay for a roof over my head!?
It doesn't matter how good, or even how bad the system is. As long as it cannot be shown to have a particular bias to a player, or the side of the court then it is automatically more fare than any existing judge.
period.It doesn't matter if it is even out my 5 centimeters, never mind having an error rate of less than half a centimeter.
They do this because they know it's the only way they can communicate with the rest of the world.
What else are you supposed to do when stringing more than 3 letters together is a challenge?
If you can't find the line between financial gain, competitiveness and clouding of your judgement you have a problem with ethics.
A lot of people seem to have a problem with ethics.
Ethics are about making the right decision, even when it hurts. It isn't about making an easy decision at a convenient time.
Transparent Aluminum isn't fiction and never was.
Al(2)O(3) is sapphire. Personally I wear a watch made of Titanium and Sapphire.
If the release, and the pirated version share little of value in common (GAME PLAY) then who is to say what happened to it before it was reviewed? It may have been another party that f'd it up (it's not actually hard to do, a few low-level tweaks here and there and it could make it super easy, or impossible to play). who knows? Knowingly reviewing such a version (known to at least be pirated) and publishing that as a review of the release version is entirely actionable. And should be.
However, if the game play is virtually identical then Atari won't have a leg to stand on for the review itself.
If the reviews are based on a pirated copy of the game, and the released versions game play is different then Atari has every right in the world to not only sue these guys, but put them out of business.
Send a notice to all the email addresses with a notice informing them that your competitor has been disclosing their email address in all the emails they send out.
A small signature indicating who you are, and a link to your website would be enough to bring some of them to you.
This could be considered a public-service to those people.
It also could be a trap and some of those email address could be honey pots with the hope that you send email to them and get yourself put on the spam lists.
drafting actually increases the aerodynamics of the group of vehicles making it more efficient.
A truck will create a large low-pressure zone behind the trailer, this increases drag on the truck, a vehicle inserting itself close enough to get the airflow reduces the size of the low-pressure zone and thereby increases the efficiency. Obviously once the aerodynamic drag is reduced to zero for any one vehicle it can no-longer gain any efficiency advantage. Of course, that doesn't happen in the real world.
Supposedly -
Aluminum reacts with the Oxygen in H2O and releases the Hydrogen. The Aluminum is they re-recycled.
Traveling from Winnipeg to Norfolk via Chicago, I don't have to touch my luggage until Norfolk.
Of course, that assumes my luggage makes it all the way!
Once you've cleared customs in Winnipeg you're done.
Last time I was going through there was a group of people from one company comming through. One of the guys brought his luggage into the area right before customs and handed it off to a co-worker. He the attempted to leave the area to get a coffee. Bad move. The RCMP office nearby came over to see what was up and directed him to go back to where he was.
You are legally allowed to leave (with your luggage), but the net result of doing that is a presumption of guilt (of something) and a search.
The first thing a smart thief does?
They don't steal laptops for a living.
Honestly, thieves, in general, aren't smart. That's why they are thieves. They are looking for a quick easy buck. They don't know anything about computers, in general, they just steal them and sell them to the first available buyer. It's a cursory wipe and move on to the next one, at best. When 1% (guess) of laptops have some form of 'call home' it isn't like it's a big risk.
The solution, from a government perspective, for this is to allow all states to collect tax from online sales for each state who agrees to a single, across the board, tax rate.
The government win because they get to tax something that they haven't been taxing for 50 years (mail order predates internet by a few decades) and business 'win' inspite of the hit to their sales (they will slump a little, but they would likely recover quickly) because a single tax rate simplifies their business dramatically. The biggest reason today to not tax internet sales is that the difference in tax methods and rates varies so widely between states, countries, cities, etc. It's too complicated and small businesses would have a hell of a time dealing with them all. At this point only a company large enough to have locations in many locals has the problem. And they are typically big enough to afford solving that problem.
Proof of what insurance? You need a vehicle to have car insurance. While this individual may have a car in his name, that doesn't make it a requirement for purchasing a car.
As for driving without being accompanied by someone from the dealership; it's actually pretty typical in Canada, at least everywhere I've been.
Sure, if your young and trying to test drive a fancy car they might insist on accompanying you, but they typically only do that if they think you can't be trusted for 5 seconds to not do something stupid. If you find the original story in this case, they had previously taken the car out with someone else, they stole it the second time they took it for a spin. Somebody comes back to check out a car after a test drive they are generally pretty interested in the vehicle, and I would expect not stupid enough to think they won't be recognized.
As well, they provided fake information when they borrowed the car.
All that said; he's an interesting circumstance for you:
I went to a local dealership to buy a new car, just looked it over. Came back a few days later and decided to test drive the car. We (girlfriend and I) took it for a spin on a Saturday, came back a little while later and told the sales guy I wanted to buy it. We start the process and it turns out it was about 10-15 minutes too late in the day to process the credit check. Sales guy tells me I can take the car for the weekend and we can finish up the sale on Monday. No photocopy of my license was taken, he had merely glanced at the license to verify I had one.
An hour later we stopped off to rent a movie and the rental place did a more thorough job of verifying who I was. So yeah, easier to steal a 30K vehicle than a $15 DVD.
Anybody else think there should be a moratorium on Writers / Editors being reviewers?
Overall I think the review had a few good points, but started devling into a one-upmanship type sitation. It became obvious to me that there was a virtual axe to grind and it was not a suprise to see the reviewer claims to be a writer and editor.
Somewhere it stopped being about real flaws, and became a game of pointing out minutia
Aparently, other than yourself, nobody can read.
I've resolved to call this 'Spam Day'. Officially, March 26th, from 2008 onwards shall be Spam day.
And sure enough, there were a rash of inquiries today as to why people couldn't send email.
It sent just fine; but was bounced by the recipients for exactly this reason.
(Fortinet firewall/email filtering seems to have this one in it's list still, not everybody uses it, but those that do are likely to not even know it themselves.)
Dealing with Email and Spam issues can be enough of a pain in the ass without the added hassle of this shit.
It isn't that the recipient complains they aren't getting email, it's when the sender (my customer) complains to me that their mail isn't making it to the recipient and blames me when it's the spam filters at the other end causing the problem. And now this?
Nice.
Maybe you think that; but that is virtually never the case.
as mentioned; I got to play in dependency hell. cpan would have been great if I needed a library, or two. I need about 30; and CPAN kept trying to give me the latest and greatest, when I needed specific versions.
I'm sure somebody more familiar with it than me would have known how to get it to give exactly what they needed, but the default behaviour seemed to be to grab the latest, which would then cascade to get the latest other dependant library, etc...
Have you ever wanted to install a single perl application? On an otherwise clean Linux system you can end up in module hell, downloading module after module and having to be extra carefull with versioning.
The last time I had to do this it was about 30 modules and they had to be specific versions because more recent ones had incompatibilities. It took forever to get them all.
Now, what does this have to do with Microsoft? I think they see profit in this model!
Now, instead of paying a couple hundred dollars for windows, it'll add up to three times as much if you want 70% of the capabilities. And your applications are going to dictate which modules you need.
The company i work for has dual-T1s. About once every two months or so there is a T1 failure and everything switches over to the other T1 for an hour or two.
No problem, nobody notices except us.
However, we still have failures affecting both T1s on occasion. There is very little we can do about it, without spending a hell of a lot more money. How much money can we spend before we charge it to you, the end customer?
Actually, he references megabytes of random text in the emacs executable, after which every elegant word ever spoken, or even conceived was expressed.
buy an iPod touch.
or; buy my Axim x50v
Look, if it was a good spec then there would be reason to debate it's license, implied or otherwise. There would be reason to discuss Microsofts standing.
It isn't a good spec, so it isn't relevant.
WAAS does not work particularly well on the ground. Most people seem to care about this, more so than whether it works well for it's intended use. Aircraft navigation on approach.
The biggest issue with WAAS being that those of us in the central area of North America may have both satellites very near the horizon. If you are on either coast one satellite is high enough above the horizon to be clear line of sight past most ground obstacles. exceptions being large nearby buildings, or mountains.
Of course, I don't see much difference in usage on the ground with, or without waas. Ground based clutter causes other error types anyway and you have to use GPS as an aid, not as a solution to a non-existent problem. It works and it works damn well, but it won't auto-navigate your car through traffic.