Actually, it's sort of true, sort of not. There's a tax added to audio cassette tapes and blank audio CD's (AFAIK, not blank "multi media" or "data" CD's) that goes to the publishers of music, which allows one to use it to copy copyighted works.
Slashdot, a online news reposting service that focuses on whatever "news" and the odd user contribution that appeals to the readership (or editors)
It's not a free legal consultation service. Notice the number lf "IANAL"s? That should give you a clue to start looking elsewhere for senseable legal advice...
(Yeah, yeah, it's trollish, but all these sort of questions on ask slashdot are getting to me)
Seriously, this is the best route to take. Simply inquire about the situation, politly, and explain your viewpoint. Demands and threats are probably the best way to not get you your raise.
It's a common issue it seems. Few companies seem to realise that when they change the pay scale for new hires, they need to alter it all across the board.
I've got no clue what point that it'd become viable.
However, there's one item of trade that's better suited for such a system.
Information.
There's actually been some novels about it, where the traders don't trade for goods, but for information, new concepts, inventions and the like. Information for information (and supplies as nessisary, but that's less often). It takes up less space, and you don't need to rendevous to preform the trade.
It memory serves (and it usually doesn't) UT2003 was based on the old Unreal Engine (although much updated). Unreal II is based on a differt/more advanced engine than UT2003.
Yeah, you can be them... by having them in your party... that's a differnt creature entirely than being able to customise your character fully.
Only 3 of the classes are implimented, out of the 6 non Jedi ones (I include Force Adept in the non Jedi listings).Having the Noble, fringer and force adept classes could open up the game a lot more, giving more ways to solve a puzzle.
Oh I'm still going ot get the game. I just wish it were done differntly.
Further detailed exploreation of the solar system is something that needs to be done, if only to give us humans more things to chew on.
Personally, I hope we don't find any sort of lifeforms beyond the microsopic, at present Humans have enough trouble dealing with other humans, let alone a compleatly differnt being from a vastly differnt evolutionary chain.
But I do hope that this technology gets up there, and gets used, one more step in the refinement of space tavel, even if it doesn't work, at least it was tried.
It looks close to a SW version of NWN... although, there's a few big differences.
1) You can play as only human. 2) Limited classes. Soldier, scout and scoundrel to start, with Jedi classes opening up later in game. 3) No multiplayer!
and you know what? These issues likely have the existance of SWG to blame.
Hmm... surprised nobody made a SW mod for NWN yet...
I was refering to the case of actually selling the ROMS on a per download basis. Few companies would take the risk of selling any games that they didn't have thier greedy fingers wrapped around a contract stating they can sell it.
Otherwise, they'd be sure to be hearing from the copyright owners, probably in the from of a lawsuit.
But I agree with the copyright law amendments... although, if they're passed in the US, they still mean little to me. I'm not American.:)
Probably the sheer number of individual pubishers involved make it a daunting task.
Not to mention the need to trace exaclly who owns the rights to what. There's been various mergers, selloffs of divisions, not to mention companies folding in the years we're talking about.
Plus, as mentioned in another reply, there'd be the need to develop a less acessable ROM format, and a offical emulator as well (to prevent more "piracy")
Plenty of leg work needs to be done, I wouldn't look for anything like that for a long time...
Although, admitidly you need to install from a FTP, or run it straight from a CD... but it can be done.
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Short range, yes... but it's not hard to say... equip the storage room racks with the receavers and tie the information into the network. Or have a hand held device that sets off the tags and you can read off what's in the vacinity.
You just have to wire things properly to gather the data.
Cost savings? Where are there going to be cost savings?
The companies producing the goods won't just swallow the increased price, and while not every store will with the chips, it's cheaper to put it in your entire product run, then do some with, some without.
Heck, in the end this won't save even wal-mart any money. They've got a reasonable inventory control system... just thier buyers are frigging morons who over purchase and ship piles of crap to the stores that have no market for the item, and don't ship them the items that sell like hotcakes.
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Cost is the only thing that's really holding the adoptation of these down.
Wal-Mart is adoptng it, their top 100 suppiers (as stated in the article) will be increasingly pressured to use them.
Although, Wal-mart has a fairly relyable system for keeping track of instocks (comparitively... human error tends to throw things out of wack somewhat, that and theft.), this will hopefully make it a lot easier to find justwhere the product is in the stockrooms.
Dunno about doing it on IRC... buuuut, I do know about it on other online chats...
Been doing non system based Star Wars role play online for 4 or 5 years now... and that's what is going to keep me keep me away from playing SWG... I've played in a freer enviroment and prospered, bulding up my characters as I go. I don't think I can make it in a MMORPG enviroment... I have enough trouble in NWN, typing and keeping track of things in real time.
Heck, in my opinion online chat based role play is a great thing, that gives you more control and more freedom than any game could... probably one of the reasons I enjoy it so much...
Because they want to maximie profits... which releasing the games individually does. They'll probably promote the GBA player accessory as the way to play your old favorites on your TV, using your game cube...
Which, to me is the best way to do it... by releaseing them for the GBA, and with the soon to be relased player, you can play the games at home, and on the go...
Of course there will be more accicdents... the only way to prevent them will be to compleatly cease manned space flight. It's not hard to make a small, wrong decision and have things go fataly wrong.
As for national pride, is there any more driving force for a government to do anything at present? Other than go a terrorist huntin'?
Each time something is done, the process is refined, and new things are learned (either that something works, or doesn't). It's the refinement of knowledge that will be the ultimate reward... eventually a trip to the moon or mars will be a routine thing. And the onward to bigger and better projects.
Humans by their very nature are competitive beings, sending people out into space for the sake of a nation's pride is better than sending people off to war for national pride, don't you think?
Unfortantly nobody's designing the hybrid vehicles with any style... most of them look awful. If they were redesigned to be more apealing to the eye, sales would probably take off.
Popularity of 'em. It shows what could be done to improve something big, ugly and gas guzzling.
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Yeah, but cars are getting less and less tinkerable all the time, between packing everything into a smaller space and the introduction of a lot more electronic controls, it's nothing like it once was...
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Actually, it's sort of true, sort of not. There's a tax added to audio cassette tapes and blank audio CD's (AFAIK, not blank "multi media" or "data" CD's) that goes to the publishers of music, which allows one to use it to copy copyighted works.
But who buys the over priced "music" CD-R's?
Understand the title of this post?
Slashdot, a online news reposting service that focuses on whatever "news" and the odd user contribution that appeals to the readership (or editors)
It's not a free legal consultation service. Notice the number lf "IANAL"s? That should give you a clue to start looking elsewhere for senseable legal advice...
(Yeah, yeah, it's trollish, but all these sort of questions on ask slashdot are getting to me)
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
Seriously, this is the best route to take. Simply inquire about the situation, politly, and explain your viewpoint. Demands and threats are probably the best way to not get you your raise.
It's a common issue it seems. Few companies seem to realise that when they change the pay scale for new hires, they need to alter it all across the board.
I've got no clue what point that it'd become viable.
However, there's one item of trade that's better suited for such a system.
Information.
There's actually been some novels about it, where the traders don't trade for goods, but for information, new concepts, inventions and the like. Information for information (and supplies as nessisary, but that's less often). It takes up less space, and you don't need to rendevous to preform the trade.
It memory serves (and it usually doesn't) UT2003 was based on the old Unreal Engine (although much updated). Unreal II is based on a differt/more advanced engine than UT2003.
Yeah, you can be them... by having them in your party... that's a differnt creature entirely than being able to customise your character fully.
Only 3 of the classes are implimented, out of the 6 non Jedi ones (I include Force Adept in the non Jedi listings).Having the Noble, fringer and force adept classes could open up the game a lot more, giving more ways to solve a puzzle.
Oh I'm still going ot get the game. I just wish it were done differntly.
Further detailed exploreation of the solar system is something that needs to be done, if only to give us humans more things to chew on.
Personally, I hope we don't find any sort of lifeforms beyond the microsopic, at present Humans have enough trouble dealing with other humans, let alone a compleatly differnt being from a vastly differnt evolutionary chain.
But I do hope that this technology gets up there, and gets used, one more step in the refinement of space tavel, even if it doesn't work, at least it was tried.
It looks close to a SW version of NWN... although, there's a few big differences.
1) You can play as only human.
2) Limited classes. Soldier, scout and scoundrel to start, with Jedi classes opening up later in game.
3) No multiplayer!
and you know what? These issues likely have the existance of SWG to blame.
Hmm... surprised nobody made a SW mod for NWN yet...
I was refering to the case of actually selling the ROMS on a per download basis. Few companies would take the risk of selling any games that they didn't have thier greedy fingers wrapped around a contract stating they can sell it.
:)
Otherwise, they'd be sure to be hearing from the copyright owners, probably in the from of a lawsuit.
But I agree with the copyright law amendments... although, if they're passed in the US, they still mean little to me. I'm not American.
Probably the sheer number of individual pubishers involved make it a daunting task.
Not to mention the need to trace exaclly who owns the rights to what. There's been various mergers, selloffs of divisions, not to mention companies folding in the years we're talking about.
Plus, as mentioned in another reply, there'd be the need to develop a less acessable ROM format, and a offical emulator as well (to prevent more "piracy")
Plenty of leg work needs to be done, I wouldn't look for anything like that for a long time...
SuSe does offer free downloads (install from FTP, and a Live CD version). Some packages are left out due to licensing concerns.
x /index.html
http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/suse_linu
*scratches head*
There isn't?
Although, admitidly you need to install from a FTP, or run it straight from a CD... but it can be done.
Short range, yes... but it's not hard to say... equip the storage room racks with the receavers and tie the information into the network. Or have a hand held device that sets off the tags and you can read off what's in the vacinity.
You just have to wire things properly to gather the data.
Cost savings? Where are there going to be cost savings?
The companies producing the goods won't just swallow the increased price, and while not every store will with the chips, it's cheaper to put it in your entire product run, then do some with, some without.
Heck, in the end this won't save even wal-mart any money. They've got a reasonable inventory control system... just thier buyers are frigging morons who over purchase and ship piles of crap to the stores that have no market for the item, and don't ship them the items that sell like hotcakes.
Cost is the only thing that's really holding the adoptation of these down.
Wal-Mart is adoptng it, their top 100 suppiers (as stated in the article) will be increasingly pressured to use them.
Although, Wal-mart has a fairly relyable system for keeping track of instocks (comparitively... human error tends to throw things out of wack somewhat, that and theft.), this will hopefully make it a lot easier to find justwhere the product is in the stockrooms.
It looks like that's another game where the "good guys" will behard to see... everyone's dealing a lot of damage...
Why download it off kazaa? There's a perfectly functional, free antivirus program for windows out there. AVG Anti Virus. http://www.grisoft.com/
Dunno about doing it on IRC... buuuut, I do know about it on other online chats...
Been doing non system based Star Wars role play online for 4 or 5 years now... and that's what is going to keep me keep me away from playing SWG... I've played in a freer enviroment and prospered, bulding up my characters as I go. I don't think I can make it in a MMORPG enviroment... I have enough trouble in NWN, typing and keeping track of things in real time.
Heck, in my opinion online chat based role play is a great thing, that gives you more control and more freedom than any game could... probably one of the reasons I enjoy it so much...
Because they want to maximie profits... which releasing the games individually does. They'll probably promote the GBA player accessory as the way to play your old favorites on your TV, using your game cube...
Which, to me is the best way to do it... by releaseing them for the GBA, and with the soon to be relased player, you can play the games at home, and on the go...
You forgot the driver, the only person in the outfit who can drive the truck that brought the equpment there.
Of course there will be more accicdents... the only way to prevent them will be to compleatly cease manned space flight. It's not hard to make a small, wrong decision and have things go fataly wrong.
As for national pride, is there any more driving force for a government to do anything at present? Other than go a terrorist huntin'?
Each time something is done, the process is refined, and new things are learned (either that something works, or doesn't). It's the refinement of knowledge that will be the ultimate reward... eventually a trip to the moon or mars will be a routine thing. And the onward to bigger and better projects.
Humans by their very nature are competitive beings, sending people out into space for the sake of a nation's pride is better than sending people off to war for national pride, don't you think?
*scratches head*
If they're placed where they generate revenues, that implies people are frequently speeding there.
Which implies that there's a need ot enforcethe speed limit there, or the speed limit needs to be cahnged.
Unfortantly nobody's designing the hybrid vehicles with any style... most of them look awful. If they were redesigned to be more apealing to the eye, sales would probably take off.
Popularity of 'em. It shows what could be done to improve something big, ugly and gas guzzling.
Yeah, but cars are getting less and less tinkerable all the time, between packing everything into a smaller space and the introduction of a lot more electronic controls, it's nothing like it once was...