But another telco is providing that connection to the actual land line phones, so Skype are not occupying a public resource. Is it reasonable for Skype to be required to implement 999 (or whatever it is in France, but that would be like 911 in the US) calls from within Skype on a PC? And, is it reasonable for Skype to be required to provide the location of your PC, or your mobile phone, or your ipad, to the authorities when you make such a call? How is Skype going to know where my PC is? How is Skype going to know where my iPad is if I'm using a tethered 'phone to make a call?
"Prior art" is irrelevant to trademarks. If no-one else is using a phrase in a commercial category, you can register it as a trademark in that category. When the phrase was invented or by whom is totally beside the point.
Why would the product not be worth pirating? If it's a good game other than the always-online side, why pretend that it isn't? If you want to send a message to a company, make it accurate. Slinging mud at every aspect of a game, when it's just the DRM that's a problem, will not get DRM issues addressed.
The lastes OS/X has reversed mouse wheel direction. This is so that the action of pushing with your finger has a consistent effect on the screen between touch and mouse environments. It also has the effect of reversing the selection order of weapons and items in games.
I think the US can cope with doing more than one thing at once. There will always be "more important" issues, that doesn't mean that all progress in less-important areas should be infinitely postponed.
If they do even a half decent job at capturing the original and maybe putting in a half-decent story then I'll be more than happy to throw my money at them.
They hung a routine off the VSync interrupt, that changed the screen to mode 4, and set up a timer in the 6522 VIA chip. When the timer expired, it kicked off another interrupt service routine that changed the screen mode to mode 5.
Clever stuff for the time. I wonder if Acorn helped them with that, as no one had done it before.
Revs did a very similar thing, but I don't know which was released first, they were both in 1984. Revs stored some data in the top quarter of the screen buffer and did a timer interrupt to redefine all the colours to blue in the top quarter and then back to their proper colours in the remainder so that you wouldn't see the data as pixels.
... And I sincerely hope to play Elite: Dangerous. But Elite will be competing with Eve for my monthly dollars, and they have some serious architectural challenges ahead of them.
No it won't. There won't be any monthly fees for Elite: Dangerous.
Ah, but in doing that you're violating their intellectual property rights, and as we all know, IP violation is just like physical theft. So it's still like theft because it's like theft, so there.
If you jailbreak your device, I think you have no choice but to install from a pirate App Store don't you? Or can you still purchase apps legitimately on a jailbroken device? I don't know, I've never done it.
And the answer to "why would you jailbreak in the first place" is the same as real-world jailbreaks. You break out of jail because you're in jail, and not everyone likes the idea of being in jail.
Backing up a currency is a tragic waste of gold, which has substantial industrial uses but sadly is too expensive because of the irrational attachment that people have to it. Plus if a new source of very large amounts of gold were to be discovered, then it would endanger the economy.
Are we looking at the same graph? That shows a distinct accelerating upward curve over 140 years, and the graph has too much noise to take any notice of 5-year timescales.
20 years should be a big enough time frame to see something, but it's still hard to make out what that graph is saying. The first 12 years look like acceleration, then there seems to be a fall-off in the rise for 6 years, but the dip in 2011 might just be an anomaly.
An American advocating action in America is entirely sensible. Englishmen should advocate action in England. Chinese peple should advocate action in China. Our leaders should talk to each other on our behalves to ensure that everyone does the right thing, but it has to start with electing leaders who are willing to do what we think needs doing.
Kind of. The presence of life indicates that life is more likely to be present in cold lakes than if there were no life down there. "Chance" was a poor choice of words. "Likelihood" is better. "Chance" indicates that someone rolls the dice when we get there, and the presence or absence of life hangs on the dice roll. And lets not get into macroscopic quantum waveform collapse...:)
A whistleblower is someone who tells the world about a problem that can't be resolved other than by publicizing it. A whistleblower isn't someone who exploits a vulnerability 110,000 times and publishes the private information gained by exploiting it. That is not legitimate white-hat whistleblowing. This is a person who leaked personal data, not a person who reported a leak.
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But another telco is providing that connection to the actual land line phones, so Skype are not occupying a public resource. Is it reasonable for Skype to be required to implement 999 (or whatever it is in France, but that would be like 911 in the US) calls from within Skype on a PC? And, is it reasonable for Skype to be required to provide the location of your PC, or your mobile phone, or your ipad, to the authorities when you make such a call? How is Skype going to know where my PC is? How is Skype going to know where my iPad is if I'm using a tethered 'phone to make a call?
What they need is rats. Lots of rats.
"Prior art" is irrelevant to trademarks. If no-one else is using a phrase in a commercial category, you can register it as a trademark in that category. When the phrase was invented or by whom is totally beside the point.
Why would the product not be worth pirating? If it's a good game other than the always-online side, why pretend that it isn't? If you want to send a message to a company, make it accurate. Slinging mud at every aspect of a game, when it's just the DRM that's a problem, will not get DRM issues addressed.
Whoosh!
The lastes OS/X has reversed mouse wheel direction. This is so that the action of pushing with your finger has a consistent effect on the screen between touch and mouse environments. It also has the effect of reversing the selection order of weapons and items in games.
What, like this? https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=area+51&hl=en&ll=37.233726,-115.804396&spn=0.001452,0.002926&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=9.031557,23.972168&t=h&hq=area+51&z=19
I think the US can cope with doing more than one thing at once. There will always be "more important" issues, that doesn't mean that all progress in less-important areas should be infinitely postponed.
Oolite is fun, I've been playing it again for the last few weeks. But Elite: Dangerous is something very different.
If they do even a half decent job at capturing the original and maybe putting in a half-decent story then I'll be more than happy to throw my money at them.
Why does it need a story?
Not Mac/Linux, just Mac.
They hung a routine off the VSync interrupt, that changed the screen to mode 4, and set up a timer in the 6522 VIA chip. When the timer expired, it kicked off another interrupt service routine that changed the screen mode to mode 5.
Clever stuff for the time. I wonder if Acorn helped them with that, as no one had done it before.
Revs did a very similar thing, but I don't know which was released first, they were both in 1984. Revs stored some data in the top quarter of the screen buffer and did a timer interrupt to redefine all the colours to blue in the top quarter and then back to their proper colours in the remainder so that you wouldn't see the data as pixels.
I just tried it. I didn't get on well with it. Clunky user interface, cartoony animation, not my cup of tea.
... And I sincerely hope to play Elite: Dangerous. But Elite will be competing with Eve for my monthly dollars, and they have some serious architectural challenges ahead of them.
No it won't. There won't be any monthly fees for Elite: Dangerous.
But warlords, bandits, and petty tyrants are always the first result of anarchy. Then more sophisticated systems form to gradually replace them.
Ah, but in doing that you're violating their intellectual property rights, and as we all know, IP violation is just like physical theft. So it's still like theft because it's like theft, so there.
If you jailbreak your device, I think you have no choice but to install from a pirate App Store don't you? Or can you still purchase apps legitimately on a jailbroken device? I don't know, I've never done it.
And the answer to "why would you jailbreak in the first place" is the same as real-world jailbreaks. You break out of jail because you're in jail, and not everyone likes the idea of being in jail.
seeking the protection of a warlord seems like a common choice.
You probably want to ease up on the WoW and LoTR.
All social systems ultimately derive from warlords, bandits, and other tyrants.
How will he make gravity rotate 90 degrees when going from the access tube to the gunner pods?
Backing up a currency is a tragic waste of gold, which has substantial industrial uses but sadly is too expensive because of the irrational attachment that people have to it. Plus if a new source of very large amounts of gold were to be discovered, then it would endanger the economy.
recent data doesn't show any increase in rate of sea level rise:
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
The article doesn't say that the rate of sea level rise is accelerating, it says that it is higher than was predicted.
looking at the decadal rate of increase it has actually been falling off for last 5 years:
http://www.masterresource.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/sea_level_rise_fig1.jpg
doesn't appear to be any significant alteration in rate of rise over last 100 years,
Are we looking at the same graph? That shows a distinct accelerating upward curve over 140 years, and the graph has too much noise to take any notice of 5-year timescales.
rate of rise in 30's-60's was about the same as current:http://www.oceanclimatechange.org.au/content/images/uploads/2012_sea_level_fig1.jpg
20 years should be a big enough time frame to see something, but it's still hard to make out what that graph is saying. The first 12 years look like acceleration, then there seems to be a fall-off in the rise for 6 years, but the dip in 2011 might just be an anomaly.
An American advocating action in America is entirely sensible. Englishmen should advocate action in England. Chinese peple should advocate action in China. Our leaders should talk to each other on our behalves to ensure that everyone does the right thing, but it has to start with electing leaders who are willing to do what we think needs doing.
Kind of. The presence of life indicates that life is more likely to be present in cold lakes than if there were no life down there. "Chance" was a poor choice of words. "Likelihood" is better. "Chance" indicates that someone rolls the dice when we get there, and the presence or absence of life hangs on the dice roll. And lets not get into macroscopic quantum waveform collapse... :)
It's not like the life there has a choice of where to live.
A whistleblower is someone who tells the world about a problem that can't be resolved other than by publicizing it. A whistleblower isn't someone who exploits a vulnerability 110,000 times and publishes the private information gained by exploiting it. That is not legitimate white-hat whistleblowing. This is a person who leaked personal data, not a person who reported a leak.