A lot of very small copywriting and image manipulation tasks crop up on RAC. If MTurk has lower transaction fees then I expect to see most of them moving over, providing a very nice user base for the service.
Sure, for games that don't matter. The important games are the cross platform ones. PS2's being decentralized means that games can be made to play PC vs PS3 (although it was rarely done for PS2). Or, better yet, that the PS3 can even run servers that PC players can play on.
I got a USB ethernet adapter for my PS2 from the local compusa for $25, $15 after the $10 rebate. Played Tony Hawk 3 online for a while, was kinda fun.
Ahh, a graphics whore. I imagine you would never consider something like nethack to be one of the best games ever. I have played many games that would have been BETTER in 2D. Graphics do not make the game, gameplay does. If the game sucks at 1280x960 (my resolution of choice) it is still going to suck at 1600x1200 or 320x240.
the OS, case, speakers, mouse, keyboard and monitor
All things that I already have, and that have not improved significantly since I bought them 2 years ago. I have been using the same (high quality home stereo) speakers for almost a decade now. My favorite mouse is the Logitech iFeel MouseMan, of which I own 3, one still in the box, and I do not plan to buy anything else for at least another 5 years.
The things listed in this article are the things needed by someone with a good gaming computer from 1-2 years ago to have a good gaming computer today.
WTF? I game on a GF4 TI4600 or a GF FX 5200 depending on the game and which side of my desktop I want it on. Both are completely up to the task of running any game out there at 40+FPS (except BF2 won't run on the GF4, but thats another gripe for another day).
I did not say anything about congress. It is a matter of money. The asteroid belt is a gold mine of rare elements for the first company rich enough to get there, and one of the martian moons is the perfect halfway point. Eventually TimeWarnerSonyLockheedHaliburtonIBMPfizerMegaCorp is going to be willing to spend the N-billion dollars it takes to put people there and reap the N-trillion dollar rewards. Once that happens it will be a matter of expand or die, any company or government with interests on just one planet will quickly (on the order of decades) become insignificant.
They don't pay fees to the show. They pay the fees to the company that handled ticket sales. Even with the concert cancelled that company still had to pay someone to handle your purchase, and now they have to pay someone else (more, I'm sure) to handle your refund. You should be glad that the different parts of the price are spelled out in advance, it is better than the "15% restocking fee" you might find when returning hardware.
Never is such a strong word. I am 20 years old. I expect a corporation to put a geological research team on Mars before I am 40. I expect a colony (of a country that doesn't exist today) there before I am 60. And I expect to visit there before I am 80, even if it costs my life savings and 15 months on a slow transfer orbit.
in EQ each character is stored as a file. to change your name they have to rename the file. to change your surname its just a piece of data in the file.
Of course. And Copyright doesnt say a damn thing about modifying your copy of the software, outside of the DMCA which i continue to hope in vain will be gotten rid of.
"you would be in violation of copyright as you never accepted the holder's only offer of license."
I think the key point you miss here is that running the software without a license is not a violation of copyright. The right to USE copyrighted works is held by the owner of the copy, not the owner of the copyright. You never accepted their offer of license because you did not need said license. When you buy a book you have the right to read it, or shred it, regardless of what the author says. Thank God we (US-centric argument) do not live in Canada where some jackass judge(s) said people couldn't read the new Harry Potter book when they bought it early.
Given that the right to use the software is not theirs to give, the majority of EULAs are null and void because there is zero consideration on their part, they give you nothing in return for your giving up the ability to do various things to/with the product.
PS: Installing software does not qualify as making a copy on the hard drive, as it is required to utilize the software (grep "utili" Title17.txt). Running the software does not qualify as making a copy in memory, precedent states it is an Ephemeral Copy.
I am not planning for retirement. When I can make enough to do so, I will. Benefits are sorely lacking as well. No student loan here, and no taxes since I make less than the minimum.
It is sad that you are so spoiled that you consider $50/hr to be normal and $10/hr to be "foreigners". $10/hr is above the average wage where I live, a thousand miles from anywhere NOT in the USA. When I bid on RAC jobs I usually bid between $5 and $10 per hour it will take, depending on the difficulty of the job and the research required to complete it.
Here is the paragraph you are looking for. A "more official" version (but less easily naviable) is available here. In short, if you cut out the intervening parts that cover all the OTHER stuff you arent allowed to do, the relevant part boils down to:... the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to... reproduce the copyrighted work...
Now, all nonsense aside, when you click that "download" button you ARE reproducing the work, copying it from the remote computer(s) to your own.
The civil and criminal penalties for violating that exclusive right are laid out a few pages away from those links.
You mean linking to a page that links to a page that links to a file that directs you to a server that keeps track of places to download a pirated movie?
OK, I guess I can see the distinction you are making. But is it codified anywhere? I have actually un-adhesion-ised a boilerplate contract, with my cable and water companies, with actual negotiation and acceptance/signatures on both sides to my changes. How is that any different than any other "contract of adhesion" in the eyes of the law? Where exactly is the line, if there is one?
This blurb is completely misleading. Lexmark is not enforcing this 'contract' on anyone. The suit in question is because a third party manufacturer is trying to claim Lexmark is being misleading and unfair in implementing this policy.
But, ignoring the actual contents of this article to discuss the bigger issue... This is just another case of shrink-wrap licensing. Take the box home and don't open it, BURN IT. I am sure the cartridge will be none the worse for wear and completely usable.
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Crystalis had depth to rival the SNES' Chrono Trigger in a game over a half decade earlier.
calling "whack jobs" people who have done real work
no one ever called you a person who has done real work.
A lot of very small copywriting and image manipulation tasks crop up on RAC. If MTurk has lower transaction fees then I expect to see most of them moving over, providing a very nice user base for the service.
Sure, for games that don't matter. The important games are the cross platform ones. PS2's being decentralized means that games can be made to play PC vs PS3 (although it was rarely done for PS2). Or, better yet, that the PS3 can even run servers that PC players can play on.
I got a USB ethernet adapter for my PS2 from the local compusa for $25, $15 after the $10 rebate. Played Tony Hawk 3 online for a while, was kinda fun.
Ahh, a graphics whore. I imagine you would never consider something like nethack to be one of the best games ever. I have played many games that would have been BETTER in 2D. Graphics do not make the game, gameplay does. If the game sucks at 1280x960 (my resolution of choice) it is still going to suck at 1600x1200 or 320x240.
the OS, case, speakers, mouse, keyboard and monitor
All things that I already have, and that have not improved significantly since I bought them 2 years ago. I have been using the same (high quality home stereo) speakers for almost a decade now. My favorite mouse is the Logitech iFeel MouseMan, of which I own 3, one still in the box, and I do not plan to buy anything else for at least another 5 years.
The things listed in this article are the things needed by someone with a good gaming computer from 1-2 years ago to have a good gaming computer today.
WTF? I game on a GF4 TI4600 or a GF FX 5200 depending on the game and which side of my desktop I want it on. Both are completely up to the task of running any game out there at 40+FPS (except BF2 won't run on the GF4, but thats another gripe for another day).
I did not say anything about congress. It is a matter of money. The asteroid belt is a gold mine of rare elements for the first company rich enough to get there, and one of the martian moons is the perfect halfway point. Eventually TimeWarnerSonyLockheedHaliburtonIBMPfizerMegaCorp is going to be willing to spend the N-billion dollars it takes to put people there and reap the N-trillion dollar rewards. Once that happens it will be a matter of expand or die, any company or government with interests on just one planet will quickly (on the order of decades) become insignificant.
They don't pay fees to the show. They pay the fees to the company that handled ticket sales. Even with the concert cancelled that company still had to pay someone to handle your purchase, and now they have to pay someone else (more, I'm sure) to handle your refund. You should be glad that the different parts of the price are spelled out in advance, it is better than the "15% restocking fee" you might find when returning hardware.
Never is such a strong word. I am 20 years old. I expect a corporation to put a geological research team on Mars before I am 40. I expect a colony (of a country that doesn't exist today) there before I am 60. And I expect to visit there before I am 80, even if it costs my life savings and 15 months on a slow transfer orbit.
in EQ each character is stored as a file. to change your name they have to rename the file. to change your surname its just a piece of data in the file.
Of course. And Copyright doesnt say a damn thing about modifying your copy of the software, outside of the DMCA which i continue to hope in vain will be gotten rid of.
"you would be in violation of copyright as you never accepted the holder's only offer of license."
I think the key point you miss here is that running the software without a license is not a violation of copyright. The right to USE copyrighted works is held by the owner of the copy, not the owner of the copyright. You never accepted their offer of license because you did not need said license. When you buy a book you have the right to read it, or shred it, regardless of what the author says. Thank God we (US-centric argument) do not live in Canada where some jackass judge(s) said people couldn't read the new Harry Potter book when they bought it early.
Given that the right to use the software is not theirs to give, the majority of EULAs are null and void because there is zero consideration on their part, they give you nothing in return for your giving up the ability to do various things to/with the product.
PS: Installing software does not qualify as making a copy on the hard drive, as it is required to utilize the software (grep "utili" Title17.txt). Running the software does not qualify as making a copy in memory, precedent states it is an Ephemeral Copy.
Not agreeing is the perfect response. Amend the EULA to your liking and propose the amended version back to the vendor.
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I am not planning for retirement. When I can make enough to do so, I will. Benefits are sorely lacking as well. No student loan here, and no taxes since I make less than the minimum.
It is sad that you are so spoiled that you consider $50/hr to be normal and $10/hr to be "foreigners". $10/hr is above the average wage where I live, a thousand miles from anywhere NOT in the USA. When I bid on RAC jobs I usually bid between $5 and $10 per hour it will take, depending on the difficulty of the job and the research required to complete it.
Here is the paragraph you are looking for. A "more official" version (but less easily naviable) is available here. In short, if you cut out the intervening parts that cover all the OTHER stuff you arent allowed to do, the relevant part boils down to: ... the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to ... reproduce the copyrighted work ...
Now, all nonsense aside, when you click that "download" button you ARE reproducing the work, copying it from the remote computer(s) to your own.
The civil and criminal penalties for violating that exclusive right are laid out a few pages away from those links.
You mean linking to a page that links to a page that links to a file that directs you to a server that keeps track of places to download a pirated movie?
OK, I guess I can see the distinction you are making. But is it codified anywhere? I have actually un-adhesion-ised a boilerplate contract, with my cable and water companies, with actual negotiation and acceptance/signatures on both sides to my changes. How is that any different than any other "contract of adhesion" in the eyes of the law? Where exactly is the line, if there is one?
You're close. Lexmark didnt get their panties in a bunch, the OTHER company did, and they sued Lexmark for unfair business practices.
This is my strategy with EULAs of all sorts. Amend them. The original then holds no weight.
This blurb is completely misleading. Lexmark is not enforcing this 'contract' on anyone. The suit in question is because a third party manufacturer is trying to claim Lexmark is being misleading and unfair in implementing this policy.
But, ignoring the actual contents of this article to discuss the bigger issue... This is just another case of shrink-wrap licensing. Take the box home and don't open it, BURN IT. I am sure the cartridge will be none the worse for wear and completely usable.
Where do you live that they would have to pay taxes on money like this?