By that flawed logic, the GPL is unenforceable if you have to download the software first and yet licenses for GPLed software often is available separately as well as being included with the source and compiled binaries.
The GPL grants rights, if you don't agree with it then you have the default copyright restrictions provided by law: no copying, no distributing, etc. The only way you are bound by the GPL is if you take advantage of the rights it grants you.
EULAs remove rights, if you don't agree with it you... what? return it? Please name for me a software retailer who will accept for refund open software packages.
Right, like so many people have been able to do with Microsoft Windows.
Suppose this software is bundled with my brand new shiney intel macintosh? You want me to return the entire thing and be subject to "restocking fees"? Not very moral, is it?
Considering that "in BlackBerry-centric Washington, D.C., [...] every congressman, lobbyist and political operative worth his expense account has one in his pocket." I would have to say yes. Reference.
I actually have fun farming, harvesting, mining and crafting. If you don't find a game fun then don't play. I wouldn't pay someone else to play all my chess games up to the point where all the pawns are gone so I can play the "really good parts". Bottom line: don't fuck it up for the rest of us.
ITs particularly bad in FFXI, where its hard to even get a group if you don't have near perfect equipment.
As an elvaan 65 BLM, 56 SMN, 37 DRG and various other ~30 level jobs who has never had perfect equipment I have to say that you are wildly mistaken.
I have never bought gil. I farm. I harvest. I mine. I craft. There are plenty of ways to make good gil without mindlessly grinding out for 8 hours.
If you don't want to play the game the way it is, and feel the need to ruin it for everyone else by supporting gil sellers who screw with the economy and monopolize whole mines and NMs then I would rather you just quit.
I did the same thing with my 486. A BIOS flash went bad and my high end 486 (yeah I know how rediculous it sounds now, but it was high end back then!) machine was a boat anchor. My server machine had a different mobo, but the BIOS EEPROM slots were the same. I booted it into DOS, popped its EEPROM out and put the toasted one in, ran the BIOS flasher for the server machine but used the image for my 486 mobo to flash it and powered it off.
Put the right chips in the right sockets and everything was golden!
New players get almost nothing from it as far as I can tell.
As a level 43 undead rogue on Darkspear this is not entirely correct. Even if we can't raid the new dungeons yet contributing to the war effort is fruitful in the way of items and reputation. Every time you turn in items you receive tokens you can turn in for reputation as well as a chest which has random items in it.
Turning in 20 wool bandages that I made from wool dropping off of mobs netted me 25 gold when that chest had a blue (rare) mace in it that I was able to sell on the auction house.:) I was 37 at the time and saving up for my horse, this was a huge help.
You are correct about it being an adage as I misused the term "euphemism" however you are completely dead wrong about the meaning.
Please look at this reference which states rather clearly that the meaning is that you cannot use something up and still have it to enjoy. It has nothing to do about work.
Picked it up when Doom 3 came out. It's good for FPS games. The way the keysets attach to the base unit needs some work however. The metal contacts are in the upper right corner of the board and the snap down mechanism is on the right side in the middle. I have to press on the upper right corner of the keyset sometimes to get the software to recognize the board is there, it'll intermittantly lose contact and the software wont recognize it.
Novel idea, poor implimentation, only worth it if you play a lot of FPS games.
FFXI introduced an "Adventuring Fellow" you can gain by completing the "Fellowship" quest, basically you receive a magical earring you can use to "summon" your fellow. They have all the abilities of a normal player character however they are not directly player controlled, they're controlled by AI and mimic the actions you take so they are NPCs. They level when they gain experience, you can tell them what role to play so they can melee fight or magically heal, etc.
It gets rediculously hard for non-pet owning classes (jobs in FFXI speak) to solo monsters at higher levels, Squeenix brought out this fellow to help. For instance if you are a mage you could set your fellow to melee tank and take all the hits while you cast magic, or if you're a melee class you can set your fellow to heal you, etc.
No, disabling it at the driver level will cause ALL DVD player applications to not work with RPC1 drives on Vista, not just the built in DVD player app.
Well, then you have to set it based on the regional setting, ensure that it can be modified (if I remember correctly there's a limited number of changes allowed?), and protect it in some way (ho ho;)).
You don't seem to understand. The driver does *none* of this and never has.
With RPC1 drives the drive doesn't track region codes at all, it's handled by the DVD Player application. The DVD Player app will usually allow you to change it's own region code 5 times before it locks itself. This is handled by the player application itself, internally. RPC1 drives will give up their key to whatever application requests it.
RPC2 drives however are set to a particular region in the drives firmware, and the drives firmware will accept commands from an application on the computer to change it 5 times. The region code is in the drives firmware itself, not handled by the driver. When a DVD Player app tries to play a DVD the drive will querry the app as to what region code the application is set to, if they do not match then it doesn't give up it's key.
In both cases the driver just passes the messages and commands back and forth between the actual drive and the player application. It doesn't handle RPC1 drives differently from RPC2, it just passes whatever messages the drive and player app tells it to. The DVD player applications are what have to handle the two drive types differently.
I still think keeping track of the region that one is in is a large problem. The actual interface with the drive, the part you describe, is probably very simple in comparison. There's no regard to storing information or anything there, and it'll be part of the interface with the drive which is needed anyway.
What? You don't make any sense. The drive stores its region number in firmware, the driver has absolutely nothing to do with the region number, it's just a go between passing messages between the drive and the player application. These messages are standardized and do not change between RPC1 and RPC2 drives, only the contents change which the driver doesn't care about.
Bottom line: to exclude RPC1 drives from working you actually have to code a check for them in the driver and refuse to work if it finds one. The ONLY reason this would be done is because of DRM as a DVD-ROM drive driver would handle both RPC1 and RPC2 drives exactly the same. This is why you don't need different drive drivers if you flash your drive from RPC2->RPC1!
What I'm saying is that Apple asserts rights for itself that it doesn't respect in others.
Apple is licensing these rights to code it uses, not simply wilful copying. Others aren't licensing rights from Apple for technologies it owns and so Apple sues.
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By that flawed logic, the GPL is unenforceable if you have to download the software first and yet licenses for GPLed software often is available separately as well as being included with the source and compiled binaries.
The GPL grants rights, if you don't agree with it then you have the default copyright restrictions provided by law: no copying, no distributing, etc. The only way you are bound by the GPL is if you take advantage of the rights it grants you.
EULAs remove rights, if you don't agree with it you... what? return it? Please name for me a software retailer who will accept for refund open software packages.
And this may come as a surprise to you, but EULA's are not laws.
Right, because if you've never heard of an EULA, you're certainly going to be able to ask the guy at the store all about it.
Right, like so many people have been able to do with Microsoft Windows.
Suppose this software is bundled with my brand new shiney intel macintosh? You want me to return the entire thing and be subject to "restocking fees"? Not very moral, is it?
Right, if I am a new computer buyer and I buy from Apple, how am I supposed to read their website as I have no computer to do so.
"Well go to a library" you might say. Being a new computer buyer how am I supposed to know there are software licence agreements at all!
"Well it's common knowledge by now" you might say. And I say this to you: common knowledge isn't very common nor is it legally binding.
It's immoral for a company to expect me to adhere to licence agreements that I can't look at before I pay for the product.
It's immoral for a company to expect the general public to be able to read and fully understand mounds of legalese that most lawyers would cringe at.
Considering that "in BlackBerry-centric Washington, D.C., [...] every congressman, lobbyist and political operative worth his expense account has one in his pocket." I would have to say yes. Reference.
Thanks lots! I'm going to try it out!
How do you get one of these 14 day trials? I've looked over EVE and it looks interesting but I don't want to pay for a game that I'll never play.
I actually have fun farming, harvesting, mining and crafting. If you don't find a game fun then don't play. I wouldn't pay someone else to play all my chess games up to the point where all the pawns are gone so I can play the "really good parts". Bottom line: don't fuck it up for the rest of us.
ITs particularly bad in FFXI, where its hard to even get a group if you don't have near perfect equipment.
As an elvaan 65 BLM, 56 SMN, 37 DRG and various other ~30 level jobs who has never had perfect equipment I have to say that you are wildly mistaken.
I have never bought gil. I farm. I harvest. I mine. I craft. There are plenty of ways to make good gil without mindlessly grinding out for 8 hours.
If you don't want to play the game the way it is, and feel the need to ruin it for everyone else by supporting gil sellers who screw with the economy and monopolize whole mines and NMs then I would rather you just quit.
The US government for granting software patents.
I did the same thing with my 486. A BIOS flash went bad and my high end 486 (yeah I know how rediculous it sounds now, but it was high end back then!) machine was a boat anchor. My server machine had a different mobo, but the BIOS EEPROM slots were the same. I booted it into DOS, popped its EEPROM out and put the toasted one in, ran the BIOS flasher for the server machine but used the image for my 486 mobo to flash it and powered it off.
Put the right chips in the right sockets and everything was golden!
New players get almost nothing from it as far as I can tell.
:) I was 37 at the time and saving up for my horse, this was a huge help.
As a level 43 undead rogue on Darkspear this is not entirely correct. Even if we can't raid the new dungeons yet contributing to the war effort is fruitful in the way of items and reputation. Every time you turn in items you receive tokens you can turn in for reputation as well as a chest which has random items in it.
Turning in 20 wool bandages that I made from wool dropping off of mobs netted me 25 gold when that chest had a blue (rare) mace in it that I was able to sell on the auction house.
You are correct about it being an adage as I misused the term "euphemism" however you are completely dead wrong about the meaning.
Please look at this reference which states rather clearly that the meaning is that you cannot use something up and still have it to enjoy. It has nothing to do about work.
Picked it up when Doom 3 came out. It's good for FPS games. The way the keysets attach to the base unit needs some work however. The metal contacts are in the upper right corner of the board and the snap down mechanism is on the right side in the middle. I have to press on the upper right corner of the keyset sometimes to get the software to recognize the board is there, it'll intermittantly lose contact and the software wont recognize it.
Novel idea, poor implimentation, only worth it if you play a lot of FPS games.
This euphemism is a big misconception. Anybody can have their cake and then eat it, the real trick is to eat your cake and then have it.
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Tell me that's not what they're trying to do with Windows. They're trying to have all the same features, however they're failing.
That's: "you're gay".
FFXI introduced an "Adventuring Fellow" you can gain by completing the "Fellowship" quest, basically you receive a magical earring you can use to "summon" your fellow. They have all the abilities of a normal player character however they are not directly player controlled, they're controlled by AI and mimic the actions you take so they are NPCs. They level when they gain experience, you can tell them what role to play so they can melee fight or magically heal, etc.
It gets rediculously hard for non-pet owning classes (jobs in FFXI speak) to solo monsters at higher levels, Squeenix brought out this fellow to help. For instance if you are a mage you could set your fellow to melee tank and take all the hits while you cast magic, or if you're a melee class you can set your fellow to heal you, etc.
No, disabling it at the driver level will cause ALL DVD player applications to not work with RPC1 drives on Vista, not just the built in DVD player app.
Well, then you have to set it based on the regional setting, ensure that it can be modified (if I remember correctly there's a limited number of changes allowed?), and protect it in some way (ho ho ;)).
You don't seem to understand. The driver does *none* of this and never has.
With RPC1 drives the drive doesn't track region codes at all, it's handled by the DVD Player application. The DVD Player app will usually allow you to change it's own region code 5 times before it locks itself. This is handled by the player application itself, internally. RPC1 drives will give up their key to whatever application requests it.
RPC2 drives however are set to a particular region in the drives firmware, and the drives firmware will accept commands from an application on the computer to change it 5 times. The region code is in the drives firmware itself, not handled by the driver. When a DVD Player app tries to play a DVD the drive will querry the app as to what region code the application is set to, if they do not match then it doesn't give up it's key.
In both cases the driver just passes the messages and commands back and forth between the actual drive and the player application. It doesn't handle RPC1 drives differently from RPC2, it just passes whatever messages the drive and player app tells it to. The DVD player applications are what have to handle the two drive types differently.
The software, as in the DVD Player application, not the driver. The driver doesn't care and never has.
I still think keeping track of the region that one is in is a large problem. The actual interface with the drive, the part you describe, is probably very simple in comparison. There's no regard to storing information or anything there, and it'll be part of the interface with the drive which is needed anyway.
What? You don't make any sense. The drive stores its region number in firmware, the driver has absolutely nothing to do with the region number, it's just a go between passing messages between the drive and the player application. These messages are standardized and do not change between RPC1 and RPC2 drives, only the contents change which the driver doesn't care about.
Bottom line: to exclude RPC1 drives from working you actually have to code a check for them in the driver and refuse to work if it finds one. The ONLY reason this would be done is because of DRM as a DVD-ROM drive driver would handle both RPC1 and RPC2 drives exactly the same. This is why you don't need different drive drivers if you flash your drive from RPC2->RPC1!
What I'm saying is that Apple asserts rights for itself that it doesn't respect in others.
Apple is licensing these rights to code it uses, not simply wilful copying. Others aren't licensing rights from Apple for technologies it owns and so Apple sues.
Who isn't respecting whose rights?