In most places bikes legally belong on the road, not the sidewalk. Get out there, take the lane you deserve. Ride two abreast, or staggered like motorcycles tend to.
benefit from the contract (i.e. use the software) but not incur the responsibilities (i.e. the limitations)
You make a key mistake here. There is no benefit from the contract. The ability to use the software is not theirs to give. You possess a copy of the software, you are legally allowed to do anything not listed here or here.
Running it is notably missing, as is reading or watching it in the case that the work is a book or movie.
In a similar vein to the "my cat clicked accept" defense, you could simply have two people. One installs the game and accepts the EULA, the other does all the anti-EULA stuff.
Not really. In Blizzard's games the primary goal tends to be to have fun. Thus you bot the parts that are not fun. A few people bot for money, but not many. In Poker the primary goal tends to be to make money. Many people play for fun as well, but botting removes the fun from poker, the exact opposite of in MMOGs.
A single bot playing statistically perfect poker is an even match for a good player, and would lose to a great player who could see its betting patterns. However, when you consider multiple bots (or humans) working together they become unbeatable. Perfect statistical play given knowledge of 4 to 10 extra cards is truly unbeatable.
You seem to misunderstand the process. Bots are not "sharing" information in the sense you seem to think. This is not a case of 3 guys all running bots and sharing. It is a case of one guy running 3 different bots that work together. There is no chance of misinformation entering the picture, and knowing the location of 4-10 extra cards in play gives a SERIOUS advantage, far more than the cost of the blinds or ante for the extra bots.
i have no problem putting hot coffee between my legs when i am eating breakfast in the car on my non-driving carpool days. spilling hot coffee on my pants is only mildly uncomfortable, thanks to the magic of conduction, radiation, and convection. spilling scalding coffee on your pants *COOKS YOUR SKIN*.
wtf? coffee pots are HEATED ON THE HOT PLATE. if your coffee is getting colder sitting on the hot plate, where the hell did it get heated up in the first place?
no, she did not lose an appeal. she entered into a sealed settlement with mcdonald's. you obviously did not read the link.
If the bleach bottle is labelled "Vinegar" then the answer is "not yours".
If I served you ice cream at -240F and your tongue froze and broke off after you put a spoonful in your mouth, would that be your fault? After all, everyone knows ice is cold.
"Hot Coffee" means 120-140 degrees. That is what it means everywhere in the country EXCEPT some McDonalds, where they think they know better so they served it at 180 degrees. At 180 degrees the behavior of water (which is what coffee really is) in contact with skin is completely different than at 140. More so than the difference in spilling bleach on your skin vs spilling vinegar. At 140 degrees your skin and the air can dissipate the heat of the liquid faster than it can cook your skin. At 180 degrees it cannot. There is a threshold passed where you move from "Hot" to "Scalding".
I would suggest setting up a number of outgoing relays. Group your customers into tiers of trustworthiness. Everyone goes on server 1 to begin with. Anyone who behaves for 3 months gets moved up to server 2. Anyone who behaves for 3 months there gets moved up to server 3. Anyone who misbehaves gets moved back down to server 1, and anyone who continues to misbehave on server 1 gets disconnected. This ensures that your non-spamming customers end up with more reliable delivery.
Given that the majority, by far, of previous developers will be working on the non-Miro version, I would call that the trunk. Whatever Miro's new developers do with the code is the fork, despite the fact that they get to keep the name.
I am torn between giving you Friend+2 or Foe-3 for that:) I will let it sit at Freak+1 for now and moderate you accordingly as I see your posts come up in the future.
Yes, you can. Wine/Cedega doesnt actually emulate much (a few un-implemented calls have "emulated" dummy replacements). Most of its function is simply providing a layer to convert DirectX graphics and Windows system calls to the appropriate calls for OpenGL/Linux. If the Linux calls run appreciably faster, which they do in many cases for graphics, memory management, and file system access, it often outweighs the light overhead involved in the conversion.
For example, the graphical part of EverQuest runs a bit slower in Linux, but new zones loaded about twice as fast as in Windows.
theres a 4 megabyte.mdf disc image you can mount via daemon tools that works just fine for running BF2. i just leave it mounted to T: or something (ive got a dozen perma-mounted game discs). the filename escapes me, google is your friend.
The IL2 demo works, I would expect the full game to work fine.
Two of the others are unrated or rated only once at transgaming.org, so I won't say if they work or not. And Steel Beasts isnt listed there at all.
If you really want to see those games working, buy a copy for a Cedega developer. Or at least make an entry in their wiki, games database, or forums indicating that they wont work.
You cannot expect support for games so rare that one, or less, contributing user has ever tried them.
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In most places bikes legally belong on the road, not the sidewalk. Get out there, take the lane you deserve. Ride two abreast, or staggered like motorcycles tend to.
play two like WoW, where time logged out nets you double advancement rate once you log back in.
I would probably suggest the Apple Rights and Permissions department. Not dead on topic, but definitely in the right building.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Attention: Rights and Permissions
1 Infinite Loop MS 3-TM
Cupertino, CA 95014
408.974.2205
True, but linking is a violation of the DMCA.
benefit from the contract (i.e. use the software) but not incur the responsibilities (i.e. the limitations)
You make a key mistake here. There is no benefit from the contract. The ability to use the software is not theirs to give. You possess a copy of the software, you are legally allowed to do anything not listed here or here.
Running it is notably missing, as is reading or watching it in the case that the work is a book or movie.
In a similar vein to the "my cat clicked accept" defense, you could simply have two people. One installs the game and accepts the EULA, the other does all the anti-EULA stuff.
Digital Vomit, "they".
"they", Digital Vomit.
There, now that introductions are finished we can get on with understandable english.
We already have that right, in most states at least. I cannot speak for other countries. Know your rights!
we all know what strategy means. i was explaining what this other word that the parent posted, stratedgy, meant
Stratedgy
noun
being able to get the unbeatable combination of items faster than the other guy
What ads?
Not really. In Blizzard's games the primary goal tends to be to have fun. Thus you bot the parts that are not fun. A few people bot for money, but not many. In Poker the primary goal tends to be to make money. Many people play for fun as well, but botting removes the fun from poker, the exact opposite of in MMOGs.
A single bot playing statistically perfect poker is an even match for a good player, and would lose to a great player who could see its betting patterns. However, when you consider multiple bots (or humans) working together they become unbeatable. Perfect statistical play given knowledge of 4 to 10 extra cards is truly unbeatable.
You seem to misunderstand the process. Bots are not "sharing" information in the sense you seem to think. This is not a case of 3 guys all running bots and sharing. It is a case of one guy running 3 different bots that work together. There is no chance of misinformation entering the picture, and knowing the location of 4-10 extra cards in play gives a SERIOUS advantage, far more than the cost of the blinds or ante for the extra bots.
i have no problem putting hot coffee between my legs when i am eating breakfast in the car on my non-driving carpool days. spilling hot coffee on my pants is only mildly uncomfortable, thanks to the magic of conduction, radiation, and convection. spilling scalding coffee on your pants *COOKS YOUR SKIN*.
wtf? coffee pots are HEATED ON THE HOT PLATE. if your coffee is getting colder sitting on the hot plate, where the hell did it get heated up in the first place?
no, she did not lose an appeal. she entered into a sealed settlement with mcdonald's. you obviously did not read the link.
If the bleach bottle is labelled "Vinegar" then the answer is "not yours".
If I served you ice cream at -240F and your tongue froze and broke off after you put a spoonful in your mouth, would that be your fault? After all, everyone knows ice is cold.
"Hot Coffee" means 120-140 degrees. That is what it means everywhere in the country EXCEPT some McDonalds, where they think they know better so they served it at 180 degrees. At 180 degrees the behavior of water (which is what coffee really is) in contact with skin is completely different than at 140. More so than the difference in spilling bleach on your skin vs spilling vinegar. At 140 degrees your skin and the air can dissipate the heat of the liquid faster than it can cook your skin. At 180 degrees it cannot. There is a threshold passed where you move from "Hot" to "Scalding".
I would suggest setting up a number of outgoing relays. Group your customers into tiers of trustworthiness. Everyone goes on server 1 to begin with. Anyone who behaves for 3 months gets moved up to server 2. Anyone who behaves for 3 months there gets moved up to server 3. Anyone who misbehaves gets moved back down to server 1, and anyone who continues to misbehave on server 1 gets disconnected. This ensures that your non-spamming customers end up with more reliable delivery.
I gave up on IWD during the final battle. The party combat system was fun, but the story stopped.
The story stopped at the final battle... Am I the only one who considers that normal?
Given that the majority, by far, of previous developers will be working on the non-Miro version, I would call that the trunk. Whatever Miro's new developers do with the code is the fork, despite the fact that they get to keep the name.
I am torn between giving you Friend+2 or Foe-3 for that :) I will let it sit at Freak+1 for now and moderate you accordingly as I see your posts come up in the future.
Yes, you can. Wine/Cedega doesnt actually emulate much (a few un-implemented calls have "emulated" dummy replacements). Most of its function is simply providing a layer to convert DirectX graphics and Windows system calls to the appropriate calls for OpenGL/Linux. If the Linux calls run appreciably faster, which they do in many cases for graphics, memory management, and file system access, it often outweighs the light overhead involved in the conversion.
For example, the graphical part of EverQuest runs a bit slower in Linux, but new zones loaded about twice as fast as in Windows.
theres a 4 megabyte .mdf disc image you can mount via daemon tools that works just fine for running BF2. i just leave it mounted to T: or something (ive got a dozen perma-mounted game discs). the filename escapes me, google is your friend.
Sure, if you have insurance. And if you don't, you're fucked. And if everyone had insurance... then there would be waiting lists.
touche
The IL2 demo works, I would expect the full game to work fine.
Two of the others are unrated or rated only once at transgaming.org, so I won't say if they work or not. And Steel Beasts isnt listed there at all.
If you really want to see those games working, buy a copy for a Cedega developer. Or at least make an entry in their wiki, games database, or forums indicating that they wont work.
You cannot expect support for games so rare that one, or less, contributing user has ever tried them.