That review is dead on accurate for solo type players. Still, it's intended to be funny which it succeeds at, even the most hardcore eve fanboy can admit it's mostly true. It just completely misses the good parts of eve.
Everyone should try eve once. There is about a 75% chance you'll loathe it with every fiber of your being and go out of your way to talk about how awful it is whenever it gets mentioned. However, for the people looking for something different in MMOs, eve can be fun on levels untouched by any other.
The Niagara Falls power station and reservoir DID used to be blurred out. After seeing this article, I checked again and it is clear as day. Some corporate/government drone probably just adjusted the rules of what needs to be censored and what doesn't.
If censorship of google maps images is a myth, then so are evolution, global warming, and the round earth "theory".
Steam is pretty great. Like you said, the only problem is the inability to resell games. The copy protection is hidden, the company behind it has a decent history that means one can reasonably expect steam stuff to be made free when they fold. Most importantly, they make is almost as easy to buy a game as it is to pirate the game. That last point is the most important one. A lot of people are willing to buy games, most of those same people are willing to pirate them. In general piracy is FAR less complicated, more reliable, and flat out easier. Steam makes it simple, and makes sure you have the game, whether or not you have the original media. Steam combines most of the advantages of piracy, with many of the advantages of buying the game. The only way to improve it is meta-server based multiplayer.
Those 1990 and 1980s games from EA are just as copyrighted now as they were then. You are publicly admitting to larceny and I hope you're nailed to the wall for it. Right to the fucking wall.
If someone has some sort of malware running on my computer, they don't need my router's MAC address to find out where I live. And in that case, them knowing where I live is the least of my problems.
There is a massive difference between pirating something and selling someone else's copyrighted work. The minute you turn piracy into a for-profit operation is when criminal copyright infringement makes sense.
Yea Goddard's liquid rocket was a waste of time. It only flew 40 feet and couldn't even carry a payload! The idea was nice, but it was nothing more than a child's toy.
Seriously though, it's a step towards making long term solar powered flight work. Creating aircraft able to keep flying indefinitely on solar power is not trivial. Once we can make it work though, then it's time to start scaling it up and sticking payloads on it.
A solar powered aircraft able to stay in the air for months or years at a time would be a hell of a lot cheaper than a satellite while being able to perform many of the same jobs.
Well not quite. For one, newspapers have a lot of room for things which aren't time sensitive. When it comes to news itself things are a bit different. The days of newspapers being able to stick AP articles into the paper are long over. To maintain relevance, newspapers have to (*gasp*) start researching, thinking about, and producing their own content. Today breaking news is available minutes after it was written, newspapers cannot afford to simply reprint what we've already read the day before. They have to put the effort in to consolidate and analyze all of the available information, as well as gather their own to produce something better.
Newspapers need to accept that all of this NEEDS to be duplicated on the web. The web should be thought of as nothing more than a free digital version of the newspaper. Advertising should be expected to support it.
Newspapers that can't pull it off, should shut down while they can.
Cyrix originally didn't license anything. They reverse engineered 386/486 designs. Intel sued them over it and mostly lost. The settlement allowed Cyrix to continue producing the designs, provided they were made in Intel licensed factories. Later, Cyrix nailed Intel infringing on some of their patents, and it was settled by allowing each to use the others patents.
If Nvidia tries to produce their own CPU, I would guess they'd be sued, but it would probably end in a pro-nvidia settlement. I suspect Nvidia holds some patents they can dangle over Intel's head.
Anyways, all of the speculation is meaningless, if Nvidia is actually doing this they've got the legal parts taken care of.
Microsoft knows that a lot of open source products overlap their patents, many of which would be dubious in court. MS is positioning itself to justify using it's patents to try and crush competing open source projects.
While EVERY modern phone in existence has 3g support, the iphone is inexplicably tied to EDGE. No matter how great the iphone may be, EDGE is not fast enough for modern data. An iphone without 3g support might as well just be an itouch.
It's not even a security hole. Forcing someone to buy a ticket doesn't keep anyone unwanted out of the terminal. Forging a fake boarding pass that will get you into the terminal is trivial even without that "tool".
What it DOES do is reduce the number of people in the terminal. It means that the security checkpoints can do more and move people through faster, since non-flyers aren't around.
But it's still a good idea to require people to have them.
Requiring everyone to have a boarding pass reduces the load on security, it reduces the crowding inside the terminals. In theory less people needing to pass through security means more resources can be devoted to people getting onto the planes.
So people printing their own passes to get through security is really a non-issue, it won't become widespread enough to change the above.
The GPL isn't a contract. There is nothing to agree to. It's terms under which you may redistribute the software. If you do redistribute you have to follow those terms, if you don't you're committing copyright violation.
The GPL is irrelevent to someone who is simply using a piece of software.
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That review is dead on accurate for solo type players. Still, it's intended to be funny which it succeeds at, even the most hardcore eve fanboy can admit it's mostly true. It just completely misses the good parts of eve.
Everyone should try eve once. There is about a 75% chance you'll loathe it with every fiber of your being and go out of your way to talk about how awful it is whenever it gets mentioned. However, for the people looking for something different in MMOs, eve can be fun on levels untouched by any other.
The Niagara Falls power station and reservoir DID used to be blurred out. After seeing this article, I checked again and it is clear as day. Some corporate/government drone probably just adjusted the rules of what needs to be censored and what doesn't.
If censorship of google maps images is a myth, then so are evolution, global warming, and the round earth "theory".
Welcome to politics. Wishy-washy positions mean nothing in the face of issues people don't care(i.e. know) about, but lobbyists do.
Steam is pretty great. Like you said, the only problem is the inability to resell games. The copy protection is hidden, the company behind it has a decent history that means one can reasonably expect steam stuff to be made free when they fold. Most importantly, they make is almost as easy to buy a game as it is to pirate the game. That last point is the most important one. A lot of people are willing to buy games, most of those same people are willing to pirate them. In general piracy is FAR less complicated, more reliable, and flat out easier. Steam makes it simple, and makes sure you have the game, whether or not you have the original media. Steam combines most of the advantages of piracy, with many of the advantages of buying the game. The only way to improve it is meta-server based multiplayer.
Those 1990 and 1980s games from EA are just as copyrighted now as they were then. You are publicly admitting to larceny and I hope you're nailed to the wall for it. Right to the fucking wall.
If someone has some sort of malware running on my computer, they don't need my router's MAC address to find out where I live. And in that case, them knowing where I live is the least of my problems.
All this was was an initial test, the first attempt to circulate a beam through the collider. Nothing was actually collided.
Subpoena the customer list of these registrars under conspiracy to avoid taxation. Then audit the taxes of all the domain owners.
This, along with the lists going into public records could kill off the penis pill spam completely, even if nobody got prosecuted.
I do not think that word means what they think it does.
Depends on the battlefield. If there is no battlefield it means 5 years. If there is an active war it often means 6 months or a year.
There is little that can kick technological advancement into high-gear like an active war.
There is a massive difference between pirating something and selling someone else's copyrighted work. The minute you turn piracy into a for-profit operation is when criminal copyright infringement makes sense.
Yea Goddard's liquid rocket was a waste of time. It only flew 40 feet and couldn't even carry a payload! The idea was nice, but it was nothing more than a child's toy.
Seriously though, it's a step towards making long term solar powered flight work. Creating aircraft able to keep flying indefinitely on solar power is not trivial. Once we can make it work though, then it's time to start scaling it up and sticking payloads on it.
A solar powered aircraft able to stay in the air for months or years at a time would be a hell of a lot cheaper than a satellite while being able to perform many of the same jobs.
Well not quite. For one, newspapers have a lot of room for things which aren't time sensitive. When it comes to news itself things are a bit different. The days of newspapers being able to stick AP articles into the paper are long over. To maintain relevance, newspapers have to (*gasp*) start researching, thinking about, and producing their own content. Today breaking news is available minutes after it was written, newspapers cannot afford to simply reprint what we've already read the day before. They have to put the effort in to consolidate and analyze all of the available information, as well as gather their own to produce something better.
Newspapers need to accept that all of this NEEDS to be duplicated on the web. The web should be thought of as nothing more than a free digital version of the newspaper. Advertising should be expected to support it.
Newspapers that can't pull it off, should shut down while they can.
Cyrix originally didn't license anything. They reverse engineered 386/486 designs. Intel sued them over it and mostly lost. The settlement allowed Cyrix to continue producing the designs, provided they were made in Intel licensed factories. Later, Cyrix nailed Intel infringing on some of their patents, and it was settled by allowing each to use the others patents.
If Nvidia tries to produce their own CPU, I would guess they'd be sued, but it would probably end in a pro-nvidia settlement. I suspect Nvidia holds some patents they can dangle over Intel's head.
Anyways, all of the speculation is meaningless, if Nvidia is actually doing this they've got the legal parts taken care of.
That's just mist. It'd just evaporation and humidity. Stupid American propagandists.
Microsoft knows that a lot of open source products overlap their patents, many of which would be dubious in court. MS is positioning itself to justify using it's patents to try and crush competing open source projects.
I remember games like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "Full Throttle" where if you didn't catch something 2 levels back you couldn't proceed.
This kind of thing is a big part of what killed adventure/puzzle games.
It's a little bit crackpot, but there is speculation that oil, and especially methane on earth comes from non-biological sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
While EVERY modern phone in existence has 3g support, the iphone is inexplicably tied to EDGE. No matter how great the iphone may be, EDGE is not fast enough for modern data. An iphone without 3g support might as well just be an itouch.
It's not even a security hole. Forcing someone to buy a ticket doesn't keep anyone unwanted out of the terminal. Forging a fake boarding pass that will get you into the terminal is trivial even without that "tool".
What it DOES do is reduce the number of people in the terminal. It means that the security checkpoints can do more and move people through faster, since non-flyers aren't around.
"We are pretty sure this won't harm you permanently, but it definitely hurts, and you notice we don't get in front of the beam."
In police and military, everyone who uses a taser, mace, tear gas, etc, has themselves been exposed to it. This would be no different.
Wearing a conductive suit would negate a taser completely, if the electrodes were both in contact with the suit.
Well Firebird the database is why Firefox got its name. So to say it has nothing to do with Firefox is wrong.
Thats why all the firebird/firefox jokes.
But it's still a good idea to require people to have them.
Requiring everyone to have a boarding pass reduces the load on security, it reduces the crowding inside the terminals. In theory less people needing to pass through security means more resources can be devoted to people getting onto the planes.
So people printing their own passes to get through security is really a non-issue, it won't become widespread enough to change the above.
The GPL isn't a contract. There is nothing to agree to. It's terms under which you may redistribute the software. If you do redistribute you have to follow those terms, if you don't you're committing copyright violation.
The GPL is irrelevent to someone who is simply using a piece of software.