Incorrect. You are only responsible for the power you use. The excess power is sold to the power company. They only operate in areas where the local power pays you back for power entered into the grid(and actually haven't actually delivered to those areas yet anyway, afaik). They make a profit on the power you don't use, as well as the power you use; but they don't double-dip.
That said, there are a lot of critics of this particular startup, and not without good reason. They "swear" they have a ton in funding; but won't say where that money comes from or even where it's held (they're not public, so they're not required to). They seem to be holding-up on delivery of said goods (the solar panels) until they have their own fab plant for solar panels. It's been hypothesized that they're actually waiting 'til PV matures to over 40% efficiency in a cheap fab process before they even plan on building their own plant; but that's hearsay.
Basically, don't be an early adopter; but if you feel strongly that they're heading in the right direction, feel free to call them and get more info.
Another thing to note is that these "resellers" haven't been paid yet, and won't be until they actually perform their "roll-out," so you resellers are probably spinning you wheels for a while, while hoping to gods this turns-out to be profitable.
To be fair to Nightfall, you can gain all the "Sunspear" points just by remembering to talk to the priests etc whenever you do a quest and keep talking to them as you see new ones on the map. If you forget to do that, or didn't realize you should have been doing that than it can be a pain to go back and farm those points.
Guild Wars in general offers a lot of ways out of the grind, most noteworthy would be the PvP packs they sell for each campaign, for the same cost as the campaign. These unlock all skills from that campaign, including all elites and gives you PvP character slots. You can skip the PvE altogether if it's not your thing, and just get going in the many, many versions of PvP play Guild Wars offers.
For those who may not know, Guild Wars is a rather huge MMORPG with no monthly fees. It has a fairly low learning curve and, comes recomended by me.:)
They (ArenaNet, the devs) release a new campaign every so often and add new and interesting professions(all GW chars are human-based, there's no choosing "race") and game-play styles. They just added "Heroes" with the last campaign. They're like henchies you have greater control over, including choosing secondary profession and skills.
Go try it! There's a free demo that lets you play like 14 hours or something like that!
OK, maybe I misspoke when I said by a faked IP. I'm in the middle of playing some Guild Wars (not a fan of WoW for some reason); but a more accurate scenario would be:
How hard would it be to find the IP addresses of a competitor and hack or backdoor or botnet his machine and start spamming websites with bogus false advertising?
Thank you for answering my questions. I have to agree to disagree with you on your answers though. You base your premise on the thought that my private love letters aren't really worth anything (basically because I use love letters as a bad example of what I meant; but I'll work with that). What if they are worth a fortune? What if my love letters were a rosetta's stone of how to get laid, by anyone, anytime?
I'm not saying they are, in fact, I don't think I've ever written a love letter on anything but paper, and certainly not since 10th grade or so(I'm 34). Contrary to the jokes here on/. my high school affairs were legendary:P
Why should that be true? I think that it would be a bad idea to do that, and again, that's a pretty new idea which has been having a lot of predictably bad results. Care to explain? Maybe some linkage, or perhaps an anecdotal example would help to clarify what you mean.
I tend to disagree with the rest of your argument as well, but you make some valid points. If I'm not planning on publishing them, I can understand your sentiment that I shouldn't be protected by copyright. Let me posit this though: what if I decide that all of my love notes over the years constitute a publishable, marketable product? Since I didn't write them initially to publish have I lost my right to do so?
Copyright can NOT involve exchange of money for protection. When you write something, anything really (that's not immune to copyright such as a recipe), it's copyrighted to you. Remove money from the situation at all, would it be OK for someone to break into my computer and start distributing my private records or love notes without my permission?
I can't think of a faster way to destroy the American culture than to marry a jap. Wow, I'm gonna give-up my mods on this story to reply to you.
I've read your comments quite a bit here, as you have a decent track record of being modded-up. Correctly modded-up, as what you've said in the past has, at times, been been interesting and insightful.
You're now completely ignored and I wont be reading your comments from now on.
You're an asshole, and wont be using any more of my bandwidth.
Rare Earth Hypothesis is definitely what I was getting at, though I wouldn't have known it back then. Where was Wikipedia 15 years ago, huh?
I could be happily married right now, but to a different woman(I am happily married)!
It's funny in a way, in that her basic premise, which prompted my theory, was basically the Fermi paradox. "If there are intelligent beings from other worlds, we would know by now, we'd have proof..."
My answer to that was my own version of the REH, which I'd never heard of; but would've loved to be able to access both sides of the debate via internet. Gopher just wasn't cutting-it for me I guess.
Interestingly(or maybe not), we also had different definitions of "god." My definition at the time was "the cumulative knowledge and will to live of mankind," while hers was even more wishy-washy. Most of our friends were Gardnerian Wiccan, and none of them appreciated my explaining to then how Wicca works:
Mind over matter being just another means of sticking-to, and attaining goals(I'd started-out getting more "psychological" than that, but at one point a good friend of ours[hers] started screaming at the top of her lungs[in my own apartment, nonetheless] about how EVIL I was[she wasn't kidding] and that I needed to shut-up before I destroyed everything magical[yeah, cause knowledge is evil and ignorance is bliss ya know]).
Wow, that was rambling; but completely true.(and scary and hilarious at the same time)
OK, now that I've RTFA it's not quite the same thing. My "God Ratio" was talking more about life on other planets. More precisely, the "God Ratio" dealt with planets with polar ice caps. The polar caps, imho are a necessary part of a stable planet.
I was trying to explain this theory about fifteen years ago to an x-girlfriend.
The way I thought about it was:
Heat(scale? strength?)of Star vs Mass of Planet vs Distance from Star
I called it the God Ratio in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way.
I have no idea what calculations I was playing with and was way off of any "real" science about it, but the basic gist is the same.
You're not thinking it all the way through. If you're getting money from the GOOG for a video you uploaded, then THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
A means of paying users for uploads is what will "save" youtube, legally.
3) having to just pay Microsoft for the number of licenses which they "suspect" you need just to get them off your back.
Congratulations, you used "your" correctly that time!:P
I had a "family friend" who had become my mentor of sorts. When I was 8-12 years old he was that guy I knew (probably 10 years my senior) who had built all kinds of steam engines and generators that he kept in his bedroom. His father owned a company that rented jukeboxes, video games and pinball machines to local hot dog stands and such, and that family gave me an Asteroids stand-up machine for my 10th birthday.
He eventually enlisted and joined the marines, we all missed him for four years. We had a huge party about a month after he returned home for good. At that party he was showing-off a framed letter he'd received from the navy(marines). The letter was a bill that they had mailed to him for $0.01 because of a discrepancy while returning some of his equipment.
At that time stamps cost $0.20
So, while I see your point, consider that this is the government we're talking about, and that they rarely see the forest for the trees.
Everyone seems to be ignoring the giant elephant in the room. The move to censor China's Google portal hurt them "in Western Countries."
The move to be in China at all has MORE than made-up for that discrepancy. They lost a little Western market share to pick-up a billion NEW users.
I don't see any other way to read this, yet noone has brought it up.
If you buy some land in the hopes of selling it at a premium about all you can do is something constructive with it while you are waiting. You mean like put up some cheap billboards on the land right?
She's 12 years old. I thought it was the parents responsibility to monitor what there kids are doing online. Isn't that right? Sure, we can just view her myspace page and take it for granted that we're seeing everything. I was just glad to see that she had actually listened to us and not given-up any identifying information.
As I already said, I don't know the ins-and-outs of myspace; but I sure as hell know what's going on if we have her password.
Label me whatever you want, but she has no right to use my computer, network, or home(for that matter) in ways that her mother and I don't see fit.
Even better that it didn't take my threatening to install a key-logger for her to cough-up the password(because I certainly would have, it's my system, she's a child).
My wife and I just demanded the myspace password for my step-daughter's account (she's 12). I kick myself for not paying any attention to that damned site, because of it's sheer obnoxiousness and ugly designs. If I had paid attention I'd have a better feel for all the "ins-and-outs" of the stupid site. I was glad to see this information brought up on the local news here; but like I said to my wife:
The kids will just go someplace else.
So who wants to fund the next "myspace killer" with me?:P
your usage is not restricted and you are now allowed to give away copies and modify yours in whatever way you want - provided that if you give away a modified copy you need to give away the source code. Again, it's nit-picky; but we are talking about licenses and copyrights, which are nit-picky by nature. Anyway, your usage IS restricted. You don't have to "agree" to the GPL in order to install and use the software; but try clicking "Decline" or "Cancel" and see how your install goes.
And not accepting it means you have no legal right to use the code or have a copy of it on your machine at all
Hate to be nit-picky; but you have every right to have a copy of it on your machine without accepting into agreement with the GPL. The GPL only applies if you distribute derivative works. On a side note, that's a weird issue when it comes to GUI installers. Especially win32 installers that make you click "Accept" on the GPL posting. Seems strange that the people using the GPL, who generally hate EULAs, basically implement the same sort of thing in their own installers.
Maybe I'm way off, but I think that practice should be changed.
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Incorrect. You are only responsible for the power you use. The excess power is sold to the power company. They only operate in areas where the local power pays you back for power entered into the grid(and actually haven't actually delivered to those areas yet anyway, afaik). They make a profit on the power you don't use, as well as the power you use; but they don't double-dip.
That said, there are a lot of critics of this particular startup, and not without good reason. They "swear" they have a ton in funding; but won't say where that money comes from or even where it's held (they're not public, so they're not required to). They seem to be holding-up on delivery of said goods (the solar panels) until they have their own fab plant for solar panels. It's been hypothesized that they're actually waiting 'til PV matures to over 40% efficiency in a cheap fab process before they even plan on building their own plant; but that's hearsay.
Basically, don't be an early adopter; but if you feel strongly that they're heading in the right direction, feel free to call them and get more info.
Another thing to note is that these "resellers" haven't been paid yet, and won't be until they actually perform their "roll-out," so you resellers are probably spinning you wheels for a while, while hoping to gods this turns-out to be profitable.
I love this one:e .jhtml?galleryID=4&imageID=4 :)
http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImag
WTF is that? The Ameribear? The Don't-Be-Evil-Ameribear? The Beargle? Smokey the Beargle? Smoogle, the Don't-Be-Evil Ameribear?
It Boogles the mind!
To be fair to Nightfall, you can gain all the "Sunspear" points just by remembering to talk to the priests etc whenever you do a quest and keep talking to them as you see new ones on the map. If you forget to do that, or didn't realize you should have been doing that than it can be a pain to go back and farm those points. :)
Guild Wars in general offers a lot of ways out of the grind, most noteworthy would be the PvP packs they sell for each campaign, for the same cost as the campaign. These unlock all skills from that campaign, including all elites and gives you PvP character slots. You can skip the PvE altogether if it's not your thing, and just get going in the many, many versions of PvP play Guild Wars offers.
For those who may not know, Guild Wars is a rather huge MMORPG with no monthly fees. It has a fairly low learning curve and, comes recomended by me.
They (ArenaNet, the devs) release a new campaign every so often and add new and interesting professions(all GW chars are human-based, there's no choosing "race") and game-play styles. They just added "Heroes" with the last campaign. They're like henchies you have greater control over, including choosing secondary profession and skills.
Go try it! There's a free demo that lets you play like 14 hours or something like that!
OK, maybe I misspoke when I said by a faked IP. I'm in the middle of playing some Guild Wars (not a fan of WoW for some reason); but a more accurate scenario would be:
How hard would it be to find the IP addresses of a competitor and hack or backdoor or botnet his machine and start spamming websites with bogus false advertising?
How easy would it be to get a competitor sued to oblivion by faking an IP addy?
Thank you for answering my questions. I have to agree to disagree with you on your answers though. You base your premise on the thought that my private love letters aren't really worth anything (basically because I use love letters as a bad example of what I meant; but I'll work with that). What if they are worth a fortune? What if my love letters were a rosetta's stone of how to get laid, by anyone, anytime? /. my high school affairs were legendary :P
I'm not saying they are, in fact, I don't think I've ever written a love letter on anything but paper, and certainly not since 10th grade or so(I'm 34). Contrary to the jokes here on
I tend to disagree with the rest of your argument as well, but you make some valid points. If I'm not planning on publishing them, I can understand your sentiment that I shouldn't be protected by copyright. Let me posit this though: what if I decide that all of my love notes over the years constitute a publishable, marketable product? Since I didn't write them initially to publish have I lost my right to do so?
Copyright can NOT involve exchange of money for protection. When you write something, anything really (that's not immune to copyright such as a recipe), it's copyrighted to you. Remove money from the situation at all, would it be OK for someone to break into my computer and start distributing my private records or love notes without my permission?
I've read your comments quite a bit here, as you have a decent track record of being modded-up. Correctly modded-up, as what you've said in the past has, at times, been been interesting and insightful.
You're now completely ignored and I wont be reading your comments from now on.
You're an asshole, and wont be using any more of my bandwidth.
Funny, but I had to scroll up to see if I was reading Jon Katz. Lucky for me, I wasn't; but you may have a /. editor roll to add to your resume soon.
Rare Earth Hypothesis is definitely what I was getting at, though I wouldn't have known it back then. Where was Wikipedia 15 years ago, huh?
I could be happily married right now, but to a different woman(I am happily married)!
It's funny in a way, in that her basic premise, which prompted my theory, was basically the Fermi paradox. "If there are intelligent beings from other worlds, we would know by now, we'd have proof..."
My answer to that was my own version of the REH, which I'd never heard of; but would've loved to be able to access both sides of the debate via internet. Gopher just wasn't cutting-it for me I guess.
Interestingly(or maybe not), we also had different definitions of "god." My definition at the time was "the cumulative knowledge and will to live of mankind," while hers was even more wishy-washy. Most of our friends were Gardnerian Wiccan, and none of them appreciated my explaining to then how Wicca works:
Mind over matter being just another means of sticking-to, and attaining goals(I'd started-out getting more "psychological" than that, but at one point a good friend of ours[hers] started screaming at the top of her lungs[in my own apartment, nonetheless] about how EVIL I was[she wasn't kidding] and that I needed to shut-up before I destroyed everything magical[yeah, cause knowledge is evil and ignorance is bliss ya know]).
Wow, that was rambling; but completely true.(and scary and hilarious at the same time)
OK, now that I've RTFA it's not quite the same thing. My "God Ratio" was talking more about life on other planets. More precisely, the "God Ratio" dealt with planets with polar ice caps. The polar caps, imho are a necessary part of a stable planet.
I was trying to explain this theory about fifteen years ago to an x-girlfriend.
The way I thought about it was:
Heat(scale? strength?)of Star vs Mass of Planet vs Distance from Star
I called it the God Ratio in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way. I have no idea what calculations I was playing with and was way off of any "real" science about it, but the basic gist is the same.
You're not thinking it all the way through. If you're getting money from the GOOG for a video you uploaded, then THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
A means of paying users for uploads is what will "save" youtube, legally.
Congratulations, you used "your" correctly that time!
I had a "family friend" who had become my mentor of sorts. When I was 8-12 years old he was that guy I knew (probably 10 years my senior) who had built all kinds of steam engines and generators that he kept in his bedroom. His father owned a company that rented jukeboxes, video games and pinball machines to local hot dog stands and such, and that family gave me an Asteroids stand-up machine for my 10th birthday.
He eventually enlisted and joined the marines, we all missed him for four years. We had a huge party about a month after he returned home for good. At that party he was showing-off a framed letter he'd received from the navy(marines). The letter was a bill that they had mailed to him for $0.01 because of a discrepancy while returning some of his equipment.
At that time stamps cost $0.20
So, while I see your point, consider that this is the government we're talking about, and that they rarely see the forest for the trees.
Everyone seems to be ignoring the giant elephant in the room. The move to censor China's Google portal hurt them "in Western Countries."
The move to be in China at all has MORE than made-up for that discrepancy. They lost a little Western market share to pick-up a billion NEW users.
I don't see any other way to read this, yet noone has brought it up.
Yeah, I guess if you were really serious about trying to rig an election it'd be hard to find someone with those skills... Oh wait...
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there :P
She's 12 years old. I thought it was the parents responsibility to monitor what there kids are doing online. Isn't that right? Sure, we can just view her myspace page and take it for granted that we're seeing everything. I was just glad to see that she had actually listened to us and not given-up any identifying information.
As I already said, I don't know the ins-and-outs of myspace; but I sure as hell know what's going on if we have her password.
Label me whatever you want, but she has no right to use my computer, network, or home(for that matter) in ways that her mother and I don't see fit.
Even better that it didn't take my threatening to install a key-logger for her to cough-up the password(because I certainly would have, it's my system, she's a child).
My wife and I just demanded the myspace password for my step-daughter's account (she's 12). I kick myself for not paying any attention to that damned site, because of it's sheer obnoxiousness and ugly designs. If I had paid attention I'd have a better feel for all the "ins-and-outs" of the stupid site. I was glad to see this information brought up on the local news here; but like I said to my wife: :P
The kids will just go someplace else.
So who wants to fund the next "myspace killer" with me?
Hate to be nit-picky; but you have every right to have a copy of it on your machine without accepting into agreement with the GPL. The GPL only applies if you distribute derivative works. On a side note, that's a weird issue when it comes to GUI installers. Especially win32 installers that make you click "Accept" on the GPL posting. Seems strange that the people using the GPL, who generally hate EULAs, basically implement the same sort of thing in their own installers.
Maybe I'm way off, but I think that practice should be changed.
Oh you tease! http://dl.torrentreactor.net/download.php?id=25151 0&name=pirates.avi
OK, there ya go! :P