I think you are seeing a very different kind of commercial than airs here... All of the Emerald Nuts commercials I have seen just end with "E_____ N_____s love Emerald Nuts".
Whether contracts such as Adobe's EULA, often referred to as "shrinkwrap" licenses, are valid is a much-disputed question. A number of courts that have addressed the validity of the shrinkwrap license have found them to be invalid, characterizing them as contracts of adhesion, unconscionable, and/or unacceptable pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code. Step-Saver, 939 F.2d 91; Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd., 847 F.2d 255 (Sth Cir. 1988).
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In short, the transfer of copies of Adobe software making up the distribution chain from Adobe to SoftMan are sales of the particular copies, but not of Adobe's intellectual rights in the computer program itself, which is protected by Adobe's copyright. SoftMan is an "owner" of the copy and is entitled to the use and enjoyment of the software, with the rights that are consistent with copyright law. The Court rejects Adobe's argument that the EULA gives to purchasers only a license to use the software. The Court finds that SoftMan has not assented to the EULA and therefore cannot be bound by its terms.
they've bought an aluminium and plastic disc, a cardboard box and a _licence_ to use the software
incorrect. copies of software are sold, not licensed. this is established by precedent. there may be licensing involved, although i choose to reject most EULAs, but what you pay for in the store is a copy.
If you can SSH in, its not a hard lockup. I have any number of random devices in this room that are always connected to my main machine by ssh, and are used in just such occasions.
If it's a problem with the nVidia driver then it has nothing to do with Cedega and Linux-native games are going to lock up too.
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[i]Hard lock up.[/i]
Then your system is broken at a level far deeper than Cedega. No misbehaving software can completely lock up the average linux system other than unintentional fork bombs, which I am relatively sure you won't encounter with Cedega.
Heh, I hate to sound weird, but when I am using a touchscreen device regularly (like my last PDA, which I needed to use every day for navigation) I just keep my right index fingernail clipped to a very slight rounded point (say, 160 degrees with a.5mm bevel). Barely noticable, but it gives me even better precision on the screen than a stylus does.
I've got a bit better than 75% the skills listed, and I would be glad to do the job for $15/hr. That is more than I make now, and I would have more fun in a 'boring' admin job. You sysadmins/programmers/etc are spoiled on $30+/hr wages.
The HTML problems made it hard to read, but here is the text... not particularly interesting:
There are conventions in media we become perfectly used to, despite their having no place in reality. If we watch a movie, and someone is given CPR in the street, on the beach or dangling on a rope from a hot air balloon, we know they'll come back to life. Nevermind that CPR merely sustains things until proper medical equipment arrives - we know, and accept, that with a couple of compressions and a few puffs in the mouth, they'll be up and about and back to shooting zombies in a couple of minutes.
All romantic comedies will end in life-lasting true love, and all soap operas will have a 100% relationship failure rate. All cops will announce, "There's no time for back up!" when they arrive at the scene of a crime, before being asked to hand in their gun and badge to the furious captain (what with the governor being in town) on a weekly basis. All aliens are bipedal, and of all the languages spoken on Earth,
choose English. Shopping bags always contain a long stick of French bread. And if you bump into someone of the opposite sex carrying a large stack of files, you will fall in love while picking them up. These are truths.
Conventions require time. Videogames have finally reached an age where such imaginary stalwarts are becoming firmly established, most especially within roleplaying games.
The distinguishing feature of such behaviors is we don't stop to question them until they're starkly pointed out. We accept them, unconsciously suspending our disbelief, only noticing when some smart-ass comes along and says, "Why is it when men disguise themselves as women, they suddenly gain super-strength?" So tell me, why is it in every RPG I've ever played, complete strangers are perfectly happy to walk up to me and entrust their very most intimate and important needs to my charge?
Lux is a risk-like game that can be played online. It has a SDK for writing Risk-playing bots, which people play against and are ranked against players and other bots.
I have not played in a long time, but if memory serves... No. The limitations will not affect your overall choices of weaponry, only the items you can use on the same day.
No one has made a [practical] vehicle that runs much above the 40 mpg mark (that I know of).
My 1994 Geo Metro cost $1300 a year ago and gets 40mpg city and 45mpg highway on gasoline as long as I keep it under 65 (and the Ford Festiva is similar), but it sadly takes 45 seconds to go from 0 to 60. Others have already pointed out the VW alternatives which are newer and perform better on diesel. The Metro is what happened when power was traded for efficiency over a decade ago. A similar car made today would have a cruising speed of 80 instead of 65, probably accelerate 25% faster, and still get 50+ MPG.
Has anyone considered the legal ramifications of them ripping media from the game and distributing it online? Unless I am mistaken, this map is generated from the minimap's textures. Problems arose in the same sort of online maps for other games (EQ, DAOC, AO).
*whoops* Before I started typing that response I expected to be pushing a gigabit network. I should have scrutinized my numbers more closely when 100Mb turned out to be more than enough. My math above was for 1 FPS. 30FPS takes 884Mb/s, which DOES require a gigabit connection.
If anyone wants to tell me 30FPS isnt enough for drawing pictures, shut up and go back to playing Quake.
Have you never bothered to read an EULA? ALL Windows software is marked 'EXPERIMENTAL, USE AT OWN RISK', they just hide it 10 paragraphs down and use bigger words.
Get a faster network. 1280x960x24bpp @ 30fps is only 29Mb/s, under a third of what a decent PC can handle across a 100Mb network. And that is with no compression. Remote X is blazing fast over a dedicated network connection under almost any circumstances, and in a situation like this (4GHz server running the app, 1GHz "terminal" on the artist's desk) it has many advantages.
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I think you are seeing a very different kind of commercial than airs here... All of the Emerald Nuts commercials I have seen just end with "E_____ N_____s love Emerald Nuts".
Some excerpts for your pre-reading pleasure:
Whether contracts such as Adobe's EULA, often referred to as "shrinkwrap" licenses, are valid is a much-disputed question. A number of courts that have addressed the validity of the shrinkwrap license have found them to be invalid, characterizing them as contracts of adhesion, unconscionable, and/or unacceptable pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code. Step-Saver, 939 F.2d 91; Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd., 847 F.2d 255 (Sth Cir. 1988).
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In short, the transfer of copies of Adobe software making up the distribution chain from Adobe to SoftMan are sales of the particular copies, but not of Adobe's intellectual rights in the computer program itself, which is protected by Adobe's copyright. SoftMan is an "owner" of the copy and is entitled to the use and enjoyment of the software, with the rights that are consistent with copyright law. The Court rejects Adobe's argument that the EULA gives to purchasers only a license to use the software. The Court finds that SoftMan has not assented to the EULA and therefore cannot be bound by its terms.
they've bought an aluminium and plastic disc, a cardboard box and a _licence_ to use the software
incorrect. copies of software are sold, not licensed. this is established by precedent. there may be licensing involved, although i choose to reject most EULAs, but what you pay for in the store is a copy.
And you can always resort to ctrl-alt-backspace before you reboot.
If you can SSH in, its not a hard lockup. I have any number of random devices in this room that are always connected to my main machine by ssh, and are used in just such occasions.
If it's a problem with the nVidia driver then it has nothing to do with Cedega and Linux-native games are going to lock up too.
[i]Hard lock up.[/i]
Then your system is broken at a level far deeper than Cedega. No misbehaving software can completely lock up the average linux system other than unintentional fork bombs, which I am relatively sure you won't encounter with Cedega.
bzzt, wrong. the ps2 had network access via any number of usb networking dongles (or even direct usbnet in linux)
Heh, I hate to sound weird, but when I am using a touchscreen device regularly (like my last PDA, which I needed to use every day for navigation) I just keep my right index fingernail clipped to a very slight rounded point (say, 160 degrees with a .5mm bevel). Barely noticable, but it gives me even better precision on the screen than a stylus does.
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I farmed gold in Everquest for about $80K/yr... and I don't dare put that on my resume.
Psst. No button in the bottom right corner.
I've got a bit better than 75% the skills listed, and I would be glad to do the job for $15/hr. That is more than I make now, and I would have more fun in a 'boring' admin job. You sysadmins/programmers/etc are spoiled on $30+/hr wages.
Still just seeing one page, the same one page I saw from the link in the story.
I see nothing in the bottom right corner but a lot of blue background (covered in the white text of the article).
The HTML problems made it hard to read, but here is the text... not particularly interesting:
There are conventions in media we become perfectly used to, despite their having no place in reality. If we watch a movie, and someone is given CPR in the street, on the beach or dangling on a rope from a hot air balloon, we know they'll come back to life. Nevermind that CPR merely sustains things until proper medical equipment arrives - we know, and accept, that with a couple of compressions and a few puffs in the mouth, they'll be up and about and back to shooting zombies in a couple of minutes.
All romantic comedies will end in life-lasting true love, and all soap operas will have a 100% relationship failure rate. All cops will announce, "There's no time for back up!" when they arrive at the scene of a crime, before being asked to hand in their gun and badge to the furious captain (what with the governor being in town) on a weekly basis. All aliens are bipedal, and of all the languages spoken on Earth,
choose English. Shopping bags always contain a long stick of French bread. And if you bump into someone of the opposite sex carrying a large stack of files, you will fall in love while picking them up. These are truths.
Conventions require time. Videogames have finally reached an age where such imaginary stalwarts are becoming firmly established, most especially within roleplaying games.
The distinguishing feature of such behaviors is we don't stop to question them until they're starkly pointed out. We accept them, unconsciously suspending our disbelief, only noticing when some smart-ass comes along and says, "Why is it when men disguise themselves as women, they suddenly gain super-strength?" So tell me, why is it in every RPG I've ever played, complete strangers are perfectly happy to walk up to me and entrust their very most intimate and important needs to my charge?
First generation quality... like FF7? FF8 and FF9 took the PSX much farther, but FF7 very much did not suck.
Guild Wars is not a MMORPG. It is a MORPG (and less RPGish than most others) with MMO chatrooms.
This is the kind of question that belongs on USENET. Pick a [very] few relevant groups, ask for exactly what you need.
Lux is a risk-like game that can be played online. It has a SDK for writing Risk-playing bots, which people play against and are ranked against players and other bots.
I have not played in a long time, but if memory serves... No. The limitations will not affect your overall choices of weaponry, only the items you can use on the same day.
My 1994 Geo Metro cost $1300 a year ago and gets 40mpg city and 45mpg highway on gasoline as long as I keep it under 65 (and the Ford Festiva is similar), but it sadly takes 45 seconds to go from 0 to 60. Others have already pointed out the VW alternatives which are newer and perform better on diesel. The Metro is what happened when power was traded for efficiency over a decade ago. A similar car made today would have a cruising speed of 80 instead of 65, probably accelerate 25% faster, and still get 50+ MPG.
Has anyone considered the legal ramifications of them ripping media from the game and distributing it online? Unless I am mistaken, this map is generated from the minimap's textures. Problems arose in the same sort of online maps for other games (EQ, DAOC, AO).
*whoops*
Before I started typing that response I expected to be pushing a gigabit network. I should have scrutinized my numbers more closely when 100Mb turned out to be more than enough. My math above was for 1 FPS. 30FPS takes 884Mb/s, which DOES require a gigabit connection.
If anyone wants to tell me 30FPS isnt enough for drawing pictures, shut up and go back to playing Quake.
Have you never bothered to read an EULA? ALL Windows software is marked 'EXPERIMENTAL, USE AT OWN RISK', they just hide it 10 paragraphs down and use bigger words.
Get a faster network. 1280x960x24bpp @ 30fps is only 29Mb/s, under a third of what a decent PC can handle across a 100Mb network. And that is with no compression. Remote X is blazing fast over a dedicated network connection under almost any circumstances, and in a situation like this (4GHz server running the app, 1GHz "terminal" on the artist's desk) it has many advantages.