Anything which makes unwanted bells go off in my house by remote control is an invasion of my peace and quiet.
I hate telemarketers, I hate robocallers, I think they should be illegal, but your statement falls flat on it's face because you HOOKED THE DAMN BELL UP TO THE REMOTE CONTROL AND LET REMOTE PEOPLE RING IT.
This is actually Dell's entire process and proceedure. I bought an off lease Dell laptop from a retailer who got it through dfsdirect.ca (dell financial services). The damn thing had a bad fan, so I called up Dell to buy the fan and just replace it myself. They wouldn't sell me the fan because I didn't know the name and address of the original owner.
It's not the ISPs job to say what is illegal and what is legal. If I buy service from them, and they say that the service is unlimited, then I should get unlimited service, period, for whatever purpose I see fit to use it for. That is not abuse.
The term is defined as: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing -- the act of taking something from someone unlawfully . A song copied unlawfully is certainly stolen.
Herein lies the rub: You define stealing as the act of taking something from someone unlawfully, then you indicate that copying is stealing.
Copying and taking are not synonymous. I'm either making a copy of something, or I am taking something.
Stealing is the act of unlawfully taking property from someone else, from which if I take the property from the owner means the owner no longer has possession of the property. To steal something the original owner must be deprived of the property, because a requirement of stealing is to take.
If I make a copy of the property, be it a car, a piece of furniture, a chapter in a book, a photograph, or bits of information, the original owner still has possession of the property as I have taken nothing. Therefore it is not theft or stealing, it is copyright infringement.
This is why copyright infringement is not prosecuted under criminal theft laws, they are not the same.
I however, am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
This is a plane which can also stow it's wings and drive on roads. You will need an aircraft pilots licence, you will need to take off and land at aircraft runways. This is not a flying car like the moller which envisioned VTOL from your driveway.
Still missing: real GPS, MMS, 5mp camera, optical zoom for same, video calling, integrated VoIP, PTT, TV Out, stereo Bluetooth audio, hardware OpenGL 3D acceleration.
MMS is stupid when everyone has email. You can get VoIP clients for the iPhone. The iPhone has hardware accelerated OpenGL.
The iPhone really does have GPS, it won't tell you to "turn right in 100 meters", but it will tell you where you need to go. The camera, meh, it is kinda crappy by I don't care, only used it a couple times.
Video Calling? Are you kidding me? Who the hell uses this? PTT? What? TV Out? It's a cell phone.
I started playing PlanetSide during the open stress testing. I loved that game. I bought it the day it was available at the local EBGames. The game was simple: kill the other guys and take their territory. It was like this until WoW's open beta, then something happened...
They started adding crazy crap: now certain bases couldn't be captured just by taking them over, you had to grab a football (LIU I think they tried to call them?) and take it back to another base you controlled. Oh wait, look at that, you're not on just one planet anymore, the planet blew apart and now you're on a bunch! Holy shit Jenkins, you have to go underground now! This is when people started to stop playing. When the fundamentals of the game changed. The part that made it fun was teaming up with a few squads and taking a heavily defended base, not running a football. If I wanted fucking football I would have bought Madden. I still miss flying my reaver....
I started playing World of Warcraft during open beta stress testing. I still play it. I am a pretty hard core end game raider. I have killed Illidan, I have seen the Sunwell. There are a lot of things WoW does right. The main one is the developers don't just add a bunch of stupid shit simply to add a bunch of stupid shit. This is what screwed up PlanetSide. If the developers of PlanetSide had left well enough alone with the goddamn rules of the game and stuck to just adding more vehicles, weapons, maybe the world breaking apart could have been handled and we could have seen some new terrain, but no, they add in ridiculous crap like certain bases have impervious shields unless you capture the other bases around it in order. Oh yeah, and you can only cap bases that you have a base connected to via this lattice shit. What, the, fuck guys? This is WAR, not checkers. I should be able to flank. I should be able to surprise my enemy.
I started playing Tabula Rasa during open beta stress testing. This game was bad. Terribly bad. The graphics were horrible, the animations were junk, the combat.... ugh. The storyline, while very good and is what interested me in the first place, was somehow non-existent in the actual game. Maybe I was jaded by WoW. No, I am jaded by WoW. I expect certain things of a modern "post-WoW" MMO. I expect not to look like I'm ice skating while I'm running. I expect that if I read the whole quest text that it will tell me what I need to do and I don't have to guess. I expect to have options in combat and not to just be completely useless if I run out of ammo. I expect to be given the opportunity to make enough money to buy said essential ammo via my characters normal course of events without having to go out of my way to farm at level 5. TR was deleted from my system after 3 days of play. I am not surprised this game is ending. It was very bad.
Actually yes, it does make it so improbable that it will never be done. The state of the art in computing isn't there yet for a computer to be able to create unique, contextual, meaningful or sensical quests on the fly. That means a human would have to do it, and for a human to be able to do this, unless these quests were so enormous as to take months, even seasons, to complete, you're looking at almost a 1:1 ratio of players to game master/developers.
Which in turn means the cost to play this game would be many fold more than the game masters salary, and no one could afford it.
Yet, for some reason, when World of Warcraft was released, PvP wasn't even in the game initially, and seems to have been added as an afterthought, creating a lot of game balance issues.
It wouldn't be a problem if anyone could set up their own app store to distribute software to iPhone users.
I'm also an iPhone owner, people and companies are already doing this.
A vast amount of iPhone users have their phones jailbroken (if this poll posted earlier today is any indication, it would seem the majority do) thanks to the iphone-dev team. Cydia is a GUI application installed which uses apt at the backend, just like debian/ubuntu, for installing third party software. Pretty much anyone can get an app listed in the default sources, or you could make your own repository.
This is going to get modded flame bait but this is probably one of the reasons why your games in particular are getting pirated and not so much bought: people are downloading the pirated version, trying it a couple times, but because the game play is boring and repetitive, they are deleting it.
Your games are all the same with different graphics, they're all the "tycoon" style simulations with minor variations. I know this is probably not what you want to hear, but most people are generally good in that if they play a game a lot they will buy it.
Your games are niche and your intended market isn't going to be going online and downloading them, they won't be that savvy. Your market is looking for them on the shelf at bestbuy and getting roller coaster tycoon instead.
presented both before and after the sale, able to be declined without penalty within given terms (do not open to refuse licence).
I don't know what fucking planet you live on, but on this one software boxes don't have the 50 page EULA's printed on them.
The big issue with EULAs is you have to open the box to see it, yet you can't open the box and see it until you buy it, at which point no store will refund an opened software box if you disagree with an EULA.
If the service was sold to your neighbour as being unlimited, then he should be able to use it in any way he wishes. It's not your neighbours fault for using the service he paid for, it's the ISPs fault for not providing you the service you paid for. If they are overselling lines, which they are because every ISP does it, then ISPs are gambling on the fact that 90% of their subscribers only browse a few pages and use email.
The analogy falls on it's face: as much as some corporations would like to believe, the internet is not a big store. Nor is information analogous to physical property.
This analogy would be more apropos: Not allowing someone who has duplicated an item three times from walking on any street.
Infact they give you stickers! Every time I have bought an apple product, Mac Pro, iPod Touch, Leopard, etc, it has come with these white apple stickers that I have had no idea what to do with. This is what they're for!
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Ray, when someone asks you if you're a God, you say YES!
Something's wrong with this calculator, I plugged in my Canadian plan and it gave me a monthly of $120 CDN, I only pay $85.
Anything which makes unwanted bells go off in my house by remote control is an invasion of my peace and quiet.
I hate telemarketers, I hate robocallers, I think they should be illegal, but your statement falls flat on it's face because you HOOKED THE DAMN BELL UP TO THE REMOTE CONTROL AND LET REMOTE PEOPLE RING IT.
Now lets be sensible about this.
This is actually Dell's entire process and proceedure. I bought an off lease Dell laptop from a retailer who got it through dfsdirect.ca (dell financial services). The damn thing had a bad fan, so I called up Dell to buy the fan and just replace it myself. They wouldn't sell me the fan because I didn't know the name and address of the original owner.
I'll never buy a Dell anything again.
It's not the ISPs job to say what is illegal and what is legal. If I buy service from them, and they say that the service is unlimited, then I should get unlimited service, period, for whatever purpose I see fit to use it for. That is not abuse.
The term is defined as: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing -- the act of taking something from someone unlawfully . A song copied unlawfully is certainly stolen.
Herein lies the rub: You define stealing as the act of taking something from someone unlawfully, then you indicate that copying is stealing.
Copying and taking are not synonymous. I'm either making a copy of something, or I am taking something.
Stealing is the act of unlawfully taking property from someone else, from which if I take the property from the owner means the owner no longer has possession of the property. To steal something the original owner must be deprived of the property, because a requirement of stealing is to take.
If I make a copy of the property, be it a car, a piece of furniture, a chapter in a book, a photograph, or bits of information, the original owner still has possession of the property as I have taken nothing. Therefore it is not theft or stealing, it is copyright infringement.
This is why copyright infringement is not prosecuted under criminal theft laws, they are not the same.
I however, am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
This is a plane which can also stow it's wings and drive on roads. You will need an aircraft pilots licence, you will need to take off and land at aircraft runways. This is not a flying car like the moller which envisioned VTOL from your driveway.
Except you keep referring to this "woman" as a "he".
Yes with jailbreaking, yes also to wlan for the most part, because it's convenient. But not always.
I can run whatever software I wish on my iPhone, and I have a tethering app installed on it.
Still missing: real GPS, MMS, 5mp camera, optical zoom for same, video calling, integrated VoIP, PTT, TV Out, stereo Bluetooth audio, hardware OpenGL 3D acceleration.
MMS is stupid when everyone has email. You can get VoIP clients for the iPhone. The iPhone has hardware accelerated OpenGL.
The iPhone really does have GPS, it won't tell you to "turn right in 100 meters", but it will tell you where you need to go. The camera, meh, it is kinda crappy by I don't care, only used it a couple times.
Video Calling? Are you kidding me? Who the hell uses this?
PTT? What?
TV Out? It's a cell phone.
They're not common, but here's a turkey.
PETA is like D.H.E.T.A. except they're all humans. As a member of the horde I routinely slaughter PETA members whenever possible.
I started playing PlanetSide during the open stress testing. I loved that game. I bought it the day it was available at the local EBGames. The game was simple: kill the other guys and take their territory. It was like this until WoW's open beta, then something happened...
They started adding crazy crap: now certain bases couldn't be captured just by taking them over, you had to grab a football (LIU I think they tried to call them?) and take it back to another base you controlled. Oh wait, look at that, you're not on just one planet anymore, the planet blew apart and now you're on a bunch! Holy shit Jenkins, you have to go underground now! This is when people started to stop playing. When the fundamentals of the game changed. The part that made it fun was teaming up with a few squads and taking a heavily defended base, not running a football. If I wanted fucking football I would have bought Madden. I still miss flying my reaver....
I started playing World of Warcraft during open beta stress testing. I still play it. I am a pretty hard core end game raider. I have killed Illidan, I have seen the Sunwell. There are a lot of things WoW does right. The main one is the developers don't just add a bunch of stupid shit simply to add a bunch of stupid shit. This is what screwed up PlanetSide. If the developers of PlanetSide had left well enough alone with the goddamn rules of the game and stuck to just adding more vehicles, weapons, maybe the world breaking apart could have been handled and we could have seen some new terrain, but no, they add in ridiculous crap like certain bases have impervious shields unless you capture the other bases around it in order. Oh yeah, and you can only cap bases that you have a base connected to via this lattice shit. What, the, fuck guys? This is WAR, not checkers. I should be able to flank. I should be able to surprise my enemy.
I started playing Tabula Rasa during open beta stress testing. This game was bad. Terribly bad. The graphics were horrible, the animations were junk, the combat.... ugh. The storyline, while very good and is what interested me in the first place, was somehow non-existent in the actual game. Maybe I was jaded by WoW. No, I am jaded by WoW. I expect certain things of a modern "post-WoW" MMO. I expect not to look like I'm ice skating while I'm running. I expect that if I read the whole quest text that it will tell me what I need to do and I don't have to guess. I expect to have options in combat and not to just be completely useless if I run out of ammo. I expect to be given the opportunity to make enough money to buy said essential ammo via my characters normal course of events without having to go out of my way to farm at level 5. TR was deleted from my system after 3 days of play. I am not surprised this game is ending. It was very bad.
Actually yes, it does make it so improbable that it will never be done. The state of the art in computing isn't there yet for a computer to be able to create unique, contextual, meaningful or sensical quests on the fly. That means a human would have to do it, and for a human to be able to do this, unless these quests were so enormous as to take months, even seasons, to complete, you're looking at almost a 1:1 ratio of players to game master/developers.
Which in turn means the cost to play this game would be many fold more than the game masters salary, and no one could afford it.
Yet, for some reason, when World of Warcraft was released, PvP wasn't even in the game initially, and seems to have been added as an afterthought, creating a lot of game balance issues.
Wait, what? Did you even play at launch?
It wouldn't be a problem if anyone could set up their own app store to distribute software to iPhone users.
I'm also an iPhone owner, people and companies are already doing this.
A vast amount of iPhone users have their phones jailbroken (if this poll posted earlier today is any indication, it would seem the majority do) thanks to the iphone-dev team. Cydia is a GUI application installed which uses apt at the backend, just like debian/ubuntu, for installing third party software. Pretty much anyone can get an app listed in the default sources, or you could make your own repository.
Apple has never made any move against people who want to buy a retail copy of OSX and make a hackintosh.
Except Psystar.
Hey Cliff,
This is going to get modded flame bait but this is probably one of the reasons why your games in particular are getting pirated and not so much bought: people are downloading the pirated version, trying it a couple times, but because the game play is boring and repetitive, they are deleting it.
Your games are all the same with different graphics, they're all the "tycoon" style simulations with minor variations. I know this is probably not what you want to hear, but most people are generally good in that if they play a game a lot they will buy it.
Your games are niche and your intended market isn't going to be going online and downloading them, they won't be that savvy. Your market is looking for them on the shelf at bestbuy and getting roller coaster tycoon instead.
presented both before and after the sale, able to be declined without penalty within given terms (do not open to refuse licence).
I don't know what fucking planet you live on, but on this one software boxes don't have the 50 page EULA's printed on them.
The big issue with EULAs is you have to open the box to see it, yet you can't open the box and see it until you buy it, at which point no store will refund an opened software box if you disagree with an EULA.
Question: who do you think foots the bill when a content creator decides to use BitTorrent to distribute their bytes?
Answer: it's not the content creator. It's the ISPs (.. it should be the "peer", but broken ISP pricing models make it the ISPs).
It's the users who paid the ISP for the bandwidth they use.
If the service was sold to your neighbour as being unlimited, then he should be able to use it in any way he wishes. It's not your neighbours fault for using the service he paid for, it's the ISPs fault for not providing you the service you paid for. If they are overselling lines, which they are because every ISP does it, then ISPs are gambling on the fact that 90% of their subscribers only browse a few pages and use email.
The analogy falls on it's face: as much as some corporations would like to believe, the internet is not a big store. Nor is information analogous to physical property.
This analogy would be more apropos: Not allowing someone who has duplicated an item three times from walking on any street.
Looks about the same size of worms we have here in Ontario.
The DMCA prohibits reverse-engineering for the purpose of breaking copyright.
No, it doesn't. It prohibits circumvention of an access control that protects a copyrighted work.
Are you trying to argue that compiling a program is access control?
Infact they give you stickers! Every time I have bought an apple product, Mac Pro, iPod Touch, Leopard, etc, it has come with these white apple stickers that I have had no idea what to do with. This is what they're for!