It's been a while since I've read a MS EULA but most of the others I've looked at say something to the effect of "you may transfer this licence provided you keep no copy of the software (including giving all copies of the disks to the new 'owner')" I take it MS has removed this paticular grant.
Anyway with a bit of luck Kmart will fight, the licence will be thrown out and we'll be back to fist sale doctrin.
Supporting WINE implies that you are pretty anti-Microsoft Oh contrare.. money makes the world go round. If your game can run on both Windows and Linux without a port (such as by supporting WINE) you increase your possible market, hence more sales, hence more moolah. Then again maybe I'm just sinicle.
-Orthanc Don't bother fixing my spelling, I know it's wrong
I believe the argument was that pluto and Charon are twin planets (don't know if this is the right terminology). Like a binary star two planets orbiting each other rather than a moon orbiting a planet. Then again I may be wrong.
You'd rather lie in the street bleeding to death slowly than to get it over with quickly... Go ask an A&E doctor how many people with gunshot wounds die instantly.
All gun laws effect law-abiding citizens that don't generally pull guns and kill people How so? For example. If automatic weapons were banned/restricted would that affect hunters. If you are hunting with automatic weapons you need a serious change of attitude.
It's already illegal to shoot someone, but in order to keep people from breaking that law, you create a new law Last time I checked it was illegal to blow up building (I believe this is know as "terrorism"), I'm pretty sure you need a licence to legally obtain nitro or plastic explosives. It's illegal to steal. It's also illegal to sell stolen property. A law to stop people breaking the law by stealing.
If someone wants to kill and a gun isn't available.. True, but I'd rather someone come at me with a knife rather than an assult rifle.
Banning guns seems to be restricting your rights... Guns are not banned they are licenced. I know plenty of people that hunt on a regular basis and have been myself. Owning a gun is not a right it is a privelege. In order to own a gun you must have a licence, it is not a difficult process to go through but it stops some of the "bad people" from getting guns. It also makes it far easier to trace those that are used.
Orthanc Sorry for feeding the Trolls but they threatened my billy-goat (sheep).
There's an old expression that I can't rember. The jist of it is "if humans can make it, humans can break it". I don't deny that this makes it harder but rember that most virii exploit bugs and oversights and it would be naive to believe that there would be none in a trusted system. Especially when you consider who is making it.
Maybe they should be fighting their government for basic guaranteed human rights like free speech and press and the freedom to own guns before worrying about their "rights" online because they don't have any Is owning a gun a basic human right? Lets take a quick guess at why there are so many shootings in USA. Quite frankly you can keep your rite to own guns, down here in NZ the cops don't normally carry guns. If someone is shot its headline news, not a daily occurance as it seems to be over there. You should be fighting to remove such a "right" as it will likely get you killed.
if I licked my finger and rubbed... Last time i checked same happens to the good old fassioned floopy disk..
I guess the scientist were surprised to find that the atoms stayed where they were left Exactly. Verry slow at present but being able to keep the atoms where they were put is a step towards a viable atomic storage.
So someone found a way to spend a lot of time using the electron microscope... Yes electron microscopes have been used to move atoms before. The breakthrough (ignoring the fact it was posted a month ago) is that the self creating tracks and the fact the atoms can be packed at high density and stay there.
On an offtopic side note: There seems to be an abnormally high number of Trolls on this paticular story. Any ideas why??
Work in this context is not necessarily work for a company. It is achieving some goal. That goal could well be to "analyze great tomes of philosophy" or to find the meaning of life ("Talk to interesting people").
On that I'll agree.. reading my post again I see what you mean. Could would have been a better word. Then again, I'm an engineer so I can be expected to have decent grammer/spelling/english....
The article reads like all they have done is code a bog standard Genetic Algorithm for moving boxes. Have I read the article wrong or have they discovered nothing new??
There are many examples of theoryies being "dreamed" up long befor the technology existed to prove/build them. Time dilation and the Atomic bomb are two good examples.
Leonardo da Vinci came up with many modern devices that were essntially functional. Examples include the heilcoper and the bicycle.
A theory is scientifically valid if it can be disproven by experiment. Note that this is different from it can be disproven with todays technology.
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Newtownian physics, hell no, that kind of powere you want to be working at the quantum level...
Or alternativly just get a couple of extra keyboards (and hands) and play several games at once.
why simulate the battle, hook it up to some manufacuturing machinery and play it out for real.. far more entertaining
When I tried brak.slashdot when it was posted for load testing the server had been slashdoted
It's been a while since I've read a MS EULA but most of the others I've looked at say something to the effect of "you may transfer this licence provided you keep no copy of the software (including giving all copies of the disks to the new 'owner')"
I take it MS has removed this paticular grant.
Anyway with a bit of luck Kmart will fight, the licence will be thrown out and we'll be back to fist sale doctrin.
--Orthanc
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thats not redundant... It's funny
Supporting WINE implies that you are pretty anti-Microsoft
Oh contrare.. money makes the world go round. If your game can run on both Windows and Linux without a port (such as by supporting WINE) you increase your possible market, hence more sales, hence more moolah.
Then again maybe I'm just sinicle.
-Orthanc
Don't bother fixing my spelling, I know it's wrong
We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in
So it wouldn't be viable, so they'd stop sending it... don't see the problem.
I'm surprised it's viable at the moment, that would indicate people actually follow the links.
--Orthanc
Brute-forced my way through those in my younger days... and it hasn't warped me too badly...
quick look under the desk..
powerboards adding up to 8 sockets...
one extention cord
one plug...
Speak of the devil. Read that comment while it was loading the dreaded "server too busy" error.
Orthanc
I believe the argument was that pluto and Charon are twin planets (don't know if this is the right terminology). Like a binary star two planets orbiting each other rather than a moon orbiting a planet.
Then again I may be wrong.
Orthanc
If your trying to avoid getting laywers invloved do you really want to go getting policians invloved??
Orthanc
If you want a gun bad enough
I didn't say all. I said some.
anyway If you read my origonal post you would see the example I'm using is not Canada.
You'd rather lie in the street bleeding to death slowly than to get it over with quickly...
Go ask an A&E doctor how many people with gunshot wounds die instantly.
All gun laws effect law-abiding citizens that don't generally pull guns and kill people
How so? For example. If automatic weapons were banned/restricted would that affect hunters. If you are hunting with automatic weapons you need a serious change of attitude.
It's already illegal to shoot someone, but in order to keep people from breaking that law, you create a new law
Last time I checked it was illegal to blow up building (I believe this is know as "terrorism"), I'm pretty sure you need a licence to legally obtain nitro or plastic explosives.
It's illegal to steal. It's also illegal to sell stolen property. A law to stop people breaking the law by stealing.
If someone wants to kill and a gun isn't available..
True, but I'd rather someone come at me with a knife rather than an assult rifle.
Orthanc
Not the only factor granted. But remove weapon accessability and gun murders are likely to decrease.
Orthanc
Banning guns seems to be restricting your rights...
Guns are not banned they are licenced. I know plenty of people that hunt on a regular basis and have been myself.
Owning a gun is not a right it is a privelege. In order to own a gun you must have a licence, it is not a difficult process to go through but it stops some of the "bad people" from getting guns. It also makes it far easier to trace those that are used.
Orthanc
Sorry for feeding the Trolls but they threatened my billy-goat (sheep).
There's an old expression that I can't rember. The jist of it is "if humans can make it, humans can break it".
I don't deny that this makes it harder but rember that most virii exploit bugs and oversights and it would be naive to believe that there would be none in a trusted system. Especially when you consider who is making it.
Orthanc
Maybe they should be fighting their government for basic guaranteed human rights like free speech and press and the freedom to own guns before worrying about their "rights" online because they don't have any
Is owning a gun a basic human right? Lets take a quick guess at why there are so many shootings in USA. Quite frankly you can keep your rite to own guns, down here in NZ the cops don't normally carry guns. If someone is shot its headline news, not a daily occurance as it seems to be over there. You should be fighting to remove such a "right" as it will likely get you killed.
Orthanc
As for the TROLL rating
I was refering to the posts not the ratings.
if I licked my finger and rubbed ...
Last time i checked same happens to the good old fassioned floopy disk..
I guess the scientist were surprised to find that the atoms stayed where they were left
Exactly. Verry slow at present but being able to keep the atoms where they were put is a step towards a viable atomic storage.
So someone found a way to spend a lot of time using the electron microscope...
Yes electron microscopes have been used to move atoms before. The breakthrough (ignoring the fact it was posted a month ago) is that the self creating tracks and the fact the atoms can be packed at high density and stay there.
On an offtopic side note:
There seems to be an abnormally high number of Trolls on this paticular story. Any ideas why??
Orthanc
Work in this context is not necessarily work for a company. It is achieving some goal. That goal could well be to "analyze great tomes of philosophy" or to find the meaning of life ("Talk to interesting people").
Orthanc
On that I'll agree.. reading my post again I see what you mean.
Could would have been a better word.
Then again, I'm an engineer so I can be expected to have decent grammer/spelling/english....
Orthanc
The article reads like all they have done is code a bog standard Genetic Algorithm for moving boxes. Have I read the article wrong or have they discovered nothing new??
Either way, this is _not_ science, it's dreaming.
There are many examples of theoryies being "dreamed" up long befor the technology existed to prove/build them. Time dilation and the Atomic bomb are two good examples.
Leonardo da Vinci came up with many modern devices that were essntially functional. Examples include the heilcoper and the bicycle.
A theory is scientifically valid if it can be disproven by experiment. Note that this is different from it can be disproven with todays technology.