...is that you expect everything to be free as in beer. Most developers aren't going to put in thousands of man-hours to produce a really good game just to give it away for free. Don't be such a cheapskate, you're probably some geek with an IT job pulling in $50k per year
of course not, blizzard is one of the most reputable game developers out there. Warcraft 3 is bringing in the bacon as we speak and Starcraft: Ghost will rock.
IANAL, but the provider of a service has the right to dictate how users will use that service. It's called capitalism. Sending bulk email is a use of that service. So, they could sue the brains out of any spammers they wanted as long as they made it known via some public EULA (or whatever) that the service was not to be used to distribute any form of advertizing.
All the companies have to do is put a term in their EULA that the text messaging system is not to be used for any sort of commercial bulk mailing, then sue the brains out of any and all spammers they can track down. They don't need any new law.
"Information licensed by creator"
"Copyrighted Ideas"
"Licensed Original Ideas"
"Protected Inventions"
"Intellectual Progeny"
"Monopolized Ideas"
Ok, that last one was a joke.
most of us nerds don't need any more wrist excircise, thank you. Although it was a great idea to harness the one muscle capable of carrying its own weight in most nerds...
all this does is make copyright holders pay a nominal fee every few years to avoid forfeiting their copyright. This makes it so that when the creating entity is defunct or doesn't need the copyright, it will pass into the public domain quickly rather than a century later.
According to Apple's impending press release, each 2ghz G5 processor will deliver up to 66 gayafruits of aesthetic appeal! Didn't Kasparov say that chess is a beautiful art?!
If I'm allowed to let my friends borrow and use my physical DVDs, I should be allowed to rip all my DVDs, to 700mb DivX files and make them available for all my friends (and anybody else) to use on my IRC fileserver, right?
Who would actually do this, or build their own CPU and VGA card, or buy their own Aircraft carrier, or watnot. These slashdot do-it-yourself articles are getting sillier and sillier.
Slashdot Mirror
Real Life is a bit buggy. You may sometimes have errors where the graphics won't render or there is no sound...
"The house my family is building just burn down 2 weeks before competition." Was that before or after completion?
You'd have to be crazy to waste that much time on a woefully obsolete machine instead of using the modern one you've already got for the same purpose.
Hardware reviewer you get every piece of hardware you could possibly want for free and *don't* have to blow it up.
...is that you expect everything to be free as in beer. Most developers aren't going to put in thousands of man-hours to produce a really good game just to give it away for free. Don't be such a cheapskate, you're probably some geek with an IT job pulling in $50k per year
out of a staff of > 100, of course
of course not, blizzard is one of the most reputable game developers out there. Warcraft 3 is bringing in the bacon as we speak and Starcraft: Ghost will rock.
IANAL, but the provider of a service has the right to dictate how users will use that service. It's called capitalism. Sending bulk email is a use of that service. So, they could sue the brains out of any spammers they wanted as long as they made it known via some public EULA (or whatever) that the service was not to be used to distribute any form of advertizing.
All the companies have to do is put a term in their EULA that the text messaging system is not to be used for any sort of commercial bulk mailing, then sue the brains out of any and all spammers they can track down. They don't need any new law.
Linus Torvalds will be there
"Information licensed by creator" "Copyrighted Ideas" "Licensed Original Ideas" "Protected Inventions" "Intellectual Progeny" "Monopolized Ideas" Ok, that last one was a joke.
if the motion sensing thing skips ever so slightly, the output will be fubar'd, so i don't think this is a very good idea.
this is the first time i ever heard of a CD-ROM having a love life... methinks that would hurt...
If the RIAA can't serve the papers, they can't sue slashdot for anything!
that too...
maybe, if they can anonymously do it anonymously
most of us nerds don't need any more wrist excircise, thank you. Although it was a great idea to harness the one muscle capable of carrying its own weight in most nerds...
all this does is make copyright holders pay a nominal fee every few years to avoid forfeiting their copyright. This makes it so that when the creating entity is defunct or doesn't need the copyright, it will pass into the public domain quickly rather than a century later.
According to Apple's impending press release, each 2ghz G5 processor will deliver up to 66 gayafruits of aesthetic appeal! Didn't Kasparov say that chess is a beautiful art?!
that's wishy-washy. you could just make a jesus-like declaration that everyone is your "neighbor" in the server disclaimer.
If I'm allowed to let my friends borrow and use my physical DVDs, I should be allowed to rip all my DVDs, to 700mb DivX files and make them available for all my friends (and anybody else) to use on my IRC fileserver, right?
These are the folks who ashcroft should be worrying about.
Unfortunately, there is still no law against email harvesting, so there is nothing you can do to them unless you want a little vigilante justice.
nVidia denys it
Who would actually do this, or build their own CPU and VGA card, or buy their own Aircraft carrier, or watnot. These slashdot do-it-yourself articles are getting sillier and sillier.