They had to identify the copyright to every single line of code and where they didn't own it, either negotiation distribution rights or remove it completly. That takes time to do.
I bet if theaters made going to the movies cheaper, more people would go.
I for one would go to the movies a lot less if it wasn't for Cineplex here in Brisbane (no relation to the US company). Cheapest movie tickets in Brisbane and probably the cheapest munchies as well.
If I had to pay the rip-off prices charged by Event Cinemas for tickets and munchies I wouldn't see very many movies at all.
Here in Australia the theaters (some of them anyway) run special sessions aimed at mothers/fathers/other carers with babies. Lighting is kept on low and they have change tables in the back.
I have never once experienced a baby problem in any movie I have been to.
I gaurantee you there are very few people in Congress willing to stand up to (thanks to the purchase of Marvel, Lucas and now Fox) the largest producer of filmed entertainment on the planet no matter how much lobbying comes from the other side.
I gaurantee you that if the UK government wasn't so determined to put him in jail (possibly followed up with a one way flight to federal pound me in the a** prison in the USA) he would be in a country with no extradition treaty with the USA, UK or EU by now.
I also use SeaMonkey and LOVE it. If I wasn't so busy with other stuff, I would become a contributor and write some code for it and help keep it alive.
Isn't it time Microsoft started changing Windows so that it no longer exposes the horridly broken SMB protocol to the Internet at large (rather than the local LAN) unless you explicitly turn on the ability for the Internet at large to speak SMB to your computer?
The point of Hornsdale is to provide power REALLY fast to keep the grid in balance (in terms of frequency and voltage) should there be a sudden drop in power output of a major generator or generators ( wind farms or solar plants) or a sudden spike in demand in order to then allow slower sources of power like gas turbines to spin up and provide proper replacement to the grid.
Its entirely possible that (in certain circumstances) the sudden spike in demand or drop in supply will only be very short and Hornsdale can provide enough to tide things over without any of the gas turbines or other sources needing to kick in at all
As well as pretty much every so-called "comedy" that's been on Australian commercial TV for at least the last 5 years and isn't a repeat of something made back when they made TV that was actually funny.
The last thing I bought from EA was The Ultimate Collection for C&C (with all the C&C games in it) and that was long before all this microtransaction and loot box crap became a thing. None of the games I own have microtransactions or loot boxes and I will not buy or play any game that has them. (and no Fallout 4 Creators Club is NOT microtransactions since you can buy every single piece of content available at a given point in time and not need to spend any more money, if anything it counts as DLC)
I also use calorie counts sometimes, e.g. if I am trying to figure out which kind of meat to put on my sandwiches I will consider which one is healthier (e.g. ham vs pastrami vs roast beef vs salami vs whatever) and pick a healthier option.
There are plenty of rare 1st party games they could make available. Some of the limited carts used only for contests for example. Or that (IIRC rare and possibly undumped) English translation of the first Earthbound game on the NES. Or (with the right emulation of the satellite box and setup) that japan-only satellite download Zelda 1 port on the SNES.
What exactly about Java is so important to the Internet? Java Applets haven't been a thing in who knows how long. (I haven't had a JRE installed on my PC for years because of all the security flaws and because I haven't found any software I want to run that needs Java)
As for.NET, the compilers for C# and VB.NET, the runtime environment and a lot of the base system libraries are available (as well as things like some of the ASP.NET and WCF stuff) under FOSS licenses (Apache 2.0 and MIT from the look of it).
And this is development in the open (with contributions accepted from outsiders) rather than random out-of-date code drops.
Plus with the future of the.NET platform being directed via the.NET foundation and its technical steering group (a group that includes Microsoft, Red Hat, Jet Brains, Unity, Samsung and google) and via the ECMA standards for.NET and C#, its a lot more open than Java is (the core bits at least, I do know things like WPF and WinForms and such aren't open)
Just use OpenJDK. Unfortunately for Oracle, the GNU General Public License prohibits Oracle from stopping anyone using OpenJDK for whatever they like as long as they comply with the license. And the "classpath exception" (or whatever it is) means you can use OpenJDK and you dont have to publish any of your source code, just the source code for OpenJDK and any changes you have made to OpenJDK.
I go to the cheapest theater chain in Brisbane (Cineplex, no relation to the North American entity of the same name) and the only time I have ever seen a session that was sold out was for Avengers Infinity War on opening day (Wednesday Anzac Day public holiday) when all the sessions were sold out. Went there on Thursday to see it and had no problems walking up to the ticket counter and getting a ticket.
Its a lot easier to grab a gun from a trunk (especially if that trunk is already unlocked for you) than to buy one at a gun shop with all the paperwork and checks.
The definition of a "loot box" is simple. Its something where you pay real world money to a finite number of in-game items and where you do not have a way to know in advance what you are getting for your money.
If you know in advance what you are getting before you pay money, its not a loot box. (regardless of how many items you get for your money) If you pay a single price to get access to the item and then never need to pay any more money again (even if the chance to pick up the item is random), its not a loot box.
Ask anyone who has had to deal with the nightmare that is the Ford Powershift (aka Powershit) double clutch automatic transmission fitted to various smaller Ford vehicles in some market how much they like Ford...
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They had to identify the copyright to every single line of code and where they didn't own it, either negotiation distribution rights or remove it completly. That takes time to do.
It will just be another checklist item and another button they press or lever they pull.
I bet if theaters made going to the movies cheaper, more people would go.
I for one would go to the movies a lot less if it wasn't for Cineplex here in Brisbane (no relation to the US company). Cheapest movie tickets in Brisbane and probably the cheapest munchies as well.
If I had to pay the rip-off prices charged by Event Cinemas for tickets and munchies I wouldn't see very many movies at all.
Here in Australia the theaters (some of them anyway) run special sessions aimed at mothers/fathers/other carers with babies. Lighting is kept on low and they have change tables in the back.
I have never once experienced a baby problem in any movie I have been to.
The second looks very much like a kernel source tree to me...
I gaurantee you there are very few people in Congress willing to stand up to (thanks to the purchase of Marvel, Lucas and now Fox) the largest producer of filmed entertainment on the planet no matter how much lobbying comes from the other side.
I gaurantee you that if the UK government wasn't so determined to put him in jail (possibly followed up with a one way flight to federal pound me in the a** prison in the USA) he would be in a country with no extradition treaty with the USA, UK or EU by now.
I doubt they would make any money trying to sell a high end device that doesn't have that all-important selfie camera.
I also use SeaMonkey and LOVE it. If I wasn't so busy with other stuff, I would become a contributor and write some code for it and help keep it alive.
Isn't it time Microsoft started changing Windows so that it no longer exposes the horridly broken SMB protocol to the Internet at large (rather than the local LAN) unless you explicitly turn on the ability for the Internet at large to speak SMB to your computer?
The point of Hornsdale is to provide power REALLY fast to keep the grid in balance (in terms of frequency and voltage) should there be a sudden drop in power output of a major generator or generators ( wind farms or solar plants) or a sudden spike in demand in order to then allow slower sources of power like gas turbines to spin up and provide proper replacement to the grid.
Its entirely possible that (in certain circumstances) the sudden spike in demand or drop in supply will only be very short and Hornsdale can provide enough to tide things over without any of the gas turbines or other sources needing to kick in at all
As well as pretty much every so-called "comedy" that's been on Australian commercial TV for at least the last 5 years and isn't a repeat of something made back when they made TV that was actually funny.
The last thing I bought from EA was The Ultimate Collection for C&C (with all the C&C games in it) and that was long before all this microtransaction and loot box crap became a thing. None of the games I own have microtransactions or loot boxes and I will not buy or play any game that has them. (and no Fallout 4 Creators Club is NOT microtransactions since you can buy every single piece of content available at a given point in time and not need to spend any more money, if anything it counts as DLC)
I also use calorie counts sometimes, e.g. if I am trying to figure out which kind of meat to put on my sandwiches I will consider which one is healthier (e.g. ham vs pastrami vs roast beef vs salami vs whatever) and pick a healthier option.
There are plenty of rare 1st party games they could make available. Some of the limited carts used only for contests for example. Or that (IIRC rare and possibly undumped) English translation of the first Earthbound game on the NES. Or (with the right emulation of the satellite box and setup) that japan-only satellite download Zelda 1 port on the SNES.
Many people happen to like the fact that you can link your phone to your car via Bluetooth and then make completly hands-free phone calls.
In what universe does French law apply to a domain hosted and managed in the US by a US company?
What exactly about Java is so important to the Internet? Java Applets haven't been a thing in who knows how long. (I haven't had a JRE installed on my PC for years because of all the security flaws and because I haven't found any software I want to run that needs Java)
As for .NET, the compilers for C# and VB.NET, the runtime environment and a lot of the base system libraries are available (as well as things like some of the ASP.NET and WCF stuff) under FOSS licenses (Apache 2.0 and MIT from the look of it).
And this is development in the open (with contributions accepted from outsiders) rather than random out-of-date code drops.
Plus with the future of the .NET platform being directed via the .NET foundation and its technical steering group (a group that includes Microsoft, Red Hat, Jet Brains, Unity, Samsung and google) and via the ECMA standards for .NET and C#, its a lot more open than Java is (the core bits at least, I do know things like WPF and WinForms and such aren't open)
They cant target OpenJDK since the GPL explicitly allows you to use all the code (including the API definitions) under the terms of that license.
Just use OpenJDK. Unfortunately for Oracle, the GNU General Public License prohibits Oracle from stopping anyone using OpenJDK for whatever they like as long as they comply with the license. And the "classpath exception" (or whatever it is) means you can use OpenJDK and you dont have to publish any of your source code, just the source code for OpenJDK and any changes you have made to OpenJDK.
I go to the cheapest theater chain in Brisbane (Cineplex, no relation to the North American entity of the same name) and the only time I have ever seen a session that was sold out was for Avengers Infinity War on opening day (Wednesday Anzac Day public holiday) when all the sessions were sold out. Went there on Thursday to see it and had no problems walking up to the ticket counter and getting a ticket.
Its a lot easier to grab a gun from a trunk (especially if that trunk is already unlocked for you) than to buy one at a gun shop with all the paperwork and checks.
The definition of a "loot box" is simple. Its something where you pay real world money to a finite number of in-game items and where you do not have a way to know in advance what you are getting for your money.
If you know in advance what you are getting before you pay money, its not a loot box. (regardless of how many items you get for your money) If you pay a single price to get access to the item and then never need to pay any more money again (even if the chance to pick up the item is random), its not a loot box.
Ask anyone who has had to deal with the nightmare that is the Ford Powershift (aka Powershit) double clutch automatic transmission fitted to various smaller Ford vehicles in some market how much they like Ford...
Haven't you seen the Dyson ads where they say its got a "digital motor V10" or whatever it is?