OMG I just heard about this game called "Counterstrike" where they let you play as TERRORISTS!!! And they take hostages and shoot at anti-terrorist forces! OMG OMG OMG!!!
Seriously, when did it become an issue to have people play as bad guys in video games? Why are we even talking about this?
I actually prefer the sites that have a "continue" button after an ad to the ones that just go right back into the program. The continue button allows me to wander off and do something else while the ad is playing without having to worry about missing anything.
"but recognise that if you decide to play hardball and say "We are going to make you do this or you can't use our stuff," that people may say "Ok fine, we won't.""
Are you talking about GPLv3 or TiVo here? That statement could apply to either.
I believe 1) and 3) are mutually exclusive. How often do you install Windows and then don't install anything else? I suppose if all you were doing is browsing the web and using e-mail, IE and Outlook(Does Vista have Outlook?) would be enough. But then... why would you need Vista for that?
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about God of War when you said "GoW" and I was trying to remember where in God of War there were any racial slurs.
Microsoft hasn't been convicted of being a monopoly. It's not illegal to have a monopoly. They have been convicted of abusing their monopoly, which is illegal according to anti-trust laws.
A better example would be that magazine that had an excerpt from Harry Potter in it. They didn't have legal rights to distribute that. Does that mean everyone who bought the magazine could be sued? NO! Because the consumer is not legally required to make sure what they are getting is being legally distributed. Seriously, show me which law says that accepting a copyrighted work that is not being legally distributed is illegal.
That person had it available for download from their own computer, so I thought they owned the copyright. Seriously, it's not MY responsibility to make sure everything I download or buy is being distributed legally. It's the distributor's responsibility to make sure they have the right to distribute.
Does HP make the motherboard? The CPU? The RAM? I'm willing to bet every one of those components come from different companies. Does this make the whole computer illegal? If you could argue that the OS is non-integral, then you could say having RAM is non-integral. Or even having a network card. Or a video card (you could always just network boot a linux OS and SSH in). This whole argument is stupid.
"this country was not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" That was actually written by Joel Barlow, and is part of the Treaty of Tripoli. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
Even if you moved everything to GMT, you'd still have to account for geographical locations. Bars would have to close at the equivalent of 1AM (or whatever the law is where you are) meaning your bar in Florida would still likely have 2 different closing times for each half. Time zones won't just "go away" if everyone started using GMT, because time zones DO have real meaning. Or are you implying the sun would miraculously rise at 06:00GMT everywhere in the world?
I heard they had to delay DNF because it's going to be a DirectX 10 game, so they need to wait for Vista to be released. It's not 3D Realms' fault, honest!
It doesn't seem likely to me that someone who has a PS2 and a library of PS2 games is going to buy a PS3 for the sole purpose of playing their PS2 games, when their PS2 is already capable of doing just that. Backwards compatibility is an incentive to upgrade, not a reason to upgrade.
Why not just use a type="button" instead of a type="submit", and use an onClick event? The only thing I can think of is it would break being able to hit Enter on a field to submit the form, instead you could only submit by clicking the button.
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Yeah, it looks like C# to me.
The actual name of the game is "APB".
OMG I just heard about this game called "Counterstrike" where they let you play as TERRORISTS!!! And they take hostages and shoot at anti-terrorist forces! OMG OMG OMG!!!
Seriously, when did it become an issue to have people play as bad guys in video games? Why are we even talking about this?
Broken Window Fallacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Mr. Murdoch points out that those darn automobile companies devalue horse drawn buggies and threaten to put them out of business.
I actually prefer the sites that have a "continue" button after an ad to the ones that just go right back into the program. The continue button allows me to wander off and do something else while the ad is playing without having to worry about missing anything.
"but recognise that if you decide to play hardball and say "We are going to make you do this or you can't use our stuff," that people may say "Ok fine, we won't.""
Are you talking about GPLv3 or TiVo here? That statement could apply to either.
That's the whole point of April Fool's day. To remind you to be skeptical.
It can't be that lame, it got over 93 thousand votes! The public has spoken.
Send them to Tolerance Camp!
I believe 1) and 3) are mutually exclusive. How often do you install Windows and then don't install anything else?
I suppose if all you were doing is browsing the web and using e-mail, IE and Outlook(Does Vista have Outlook?) would be enough. But then... why would you need Vista for that?
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about God of War when you said "GoW" and I was trying to remember where in God of War there were any racial slurs.
Microsoft hasn't been convicted of being a monopoly. It's not illegal to have a monopoly.
They have been convicted of abusing their monopoly, which is illegal according to anti-trust laws.
Just how much exactly did Sony pay you to post that?
(And I wish I could find a PS3 for sale somewhere around here.)
A better example would be that magazine that had an excerpt from Harry Potter in it. They didn't have legal rights to distribute that. Does that mean everyone who bought the magazine could be sued? NO! Because the consumer is not legally required to make sure what they are getting is being legally distributed. Seriously, show me which law says that accepting a copyrighted work that is not being legally distributed is illegal.
That person had it available for download from their own computer, so I thought they owned the copyright. Seriously, it's not MY responsibility to make sure everything I download or buy is being distributed legally. It's the distributor's responsibility to make sure they have the right to distribute.
Does HP make the motherboard? The CPU? The RAM? I'm willing to bet every one of those components come from different companies. Does this make the whole computer illegal?
If you could argue that the OS is non-integral, then you could say having RAM is non-integral. Or even having a network card. Or a video card (you could always just network boot a linux OS and SSH in). This whole argument is stupid.
"this country was not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"
That was actually written by Joel Barlow, and is part of the Treaty of Tripoli.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
Even if you moved everything to GMT, you'd still have to account for geographical locations. Bars would have to close at the equivalent of 1AM (or whatever the law is where you are) meaning your bar in Florida would still likely have 2 different closing times for each half. Time zones won't just "go away" if everyone started using GMT, because time zones DO have real meaning. Or are you implying the sun would miraculously rise at 06:00GMT everywhere in the world?
I heard they had to delay DNF because it's going to be a DirectX 10 game, so they need to wait for Vista to be released. It's not 3D Realms' fault, honest!
Another thing to think about:
It's my understanding that it would STILL be illegal to crack a product even if it's EOL'd, according to the DMCA.
Not so
"vast minority" ... Are you saying it's the large minority?
It doesn't seem likely to me that someone who has a PS2 and a library of PS2 games is going to buy a PS3 for the sole purpose of playing their PS2 games, when their PS2 is already capable of doing just that.
Backwards compatibility is an incentive to upgrade, not a reason to upgrade.
Why not just use a type="button" instead of a type="submit", and use an onClick event?
The only thing I can think of is it would break being able to hit Enter on a field to submit the form, instead you could only submit by clicking the button.