Steam is the exact opposite of this ridiculous garbage. Steam is actually my favorite way to purchase games now... I just buy a game once and then every time I rebuild I just leave my computer to download and install all of my games again overnight - simple.
I've got to agree here. I was bitter at Valve for their stupid locking down based on serial numbers back around 2002(stupid because I'd lost my Half Life+opposing force codes long before they started cracking down on bad keys), but steam is actually pretty nice. There are better platforms out there, such as Stardock's impulse (which doesn't need to be on in order to play games unlike steam), but in both cases, I don't need to keep little pieces of paper with me just to get my games to run.
If you knew a single thing about the market, you'd realise that abuse of the markets by regulators is NOT a partisan issue. The right is raping the market and the left is raping the market.
If we actually had a congress who followed the constitution, if we actually had sound money, if we actually had a stable federal budget, maybe we wouldn't be seeing the same boom/bust cycle that's chipping away at our wealth.
If those authors believe they've been wronged, they should go through the courts. That's why we have copyright law, instead of just letting publishers send rappers around to authors homes to pop a cap in their ass in retribution.
They have pointed this out without anything to back it up besides "It isn't nice! She's rich!!!"
I guess my statement of morality comes from the first principle of "One who has an idea, takes a risk, and makes an investment ought to reap the rewards of their ideas, risks, and work, and anyone who wants to reap rewards without taking risk or making an investment is unjust".
Rowling had the idea of writing a certain sort of book. She took the risk of becoming a full-time writer. She did the work of sitting in a coffee shop day after day writing. Thus, when the product she created became immensely popular due to her skill at writing, it's just that she be compensated for it. By contrast, these people basically took that incredibly popular book and reorganized it, with a few small additions.
She took the risk, she did the work, she made the investment, and these people are hoping to get a share of the rewards without very much risk, work, or investment at all.
It's within her legal rights to prevent this instance of people making money directly off her work. If it wasn't, then she would've lost the case.
Even if the copyright arguement fell through, there's still the matter where you can't go around selling a Harry Potter book unless you own the rights to the Harry Potter name. If you could do that, I could sell my homemade wicker automobile as a Ford Optiplex, and not get sued by either Dell or Ford.
Someone was trying to release a commercial product whose premise was stealing content from an established work.
If they didn't get hit hard on copyright infringement, they'd get hit hard on trademark infringement, and rightly so.
Like it nor not, J. K. Rowling created the series, and decided to turn it into a commercial enterprise. It's well within her moral and legal rights to make sure a bunch of idiots don't cling to her coattails trying to milk dollars from a popular franchise that they have no legitimate claim to.
An actual microchip is absolutely miniscule. The ceramic(or plastic, or meta) that holds it and contains the pins that get soldered to the board is called packaging.
The music industry is constantly being charged with and convicted of such violations. They're constantly being fined for it, and have been pretty much since the '50s.
"general relativity describes a black hole as a region of empty space with a pointlike singularity at the center and an event horizon at the outer edge".
And if Hawking radiation doesn't exist, then that's the only description we've got.
Rather, it's volume compared to an atom would be like an atom compared to mount everest.
I'm sort of wondering what the effects of subatomic scale gravitational forces would be. Maybe we'd see an atom torn apart if such a black hole ever managed to graze one?
The effective volume of a miniature black hole, the event horizon, would be like an atom compared to mount everest. Even if we were to create such a thing, what are the odds that it would actually be capable of grabbing enough matter to be a problem within the lifetime of the solar system?
The event horizon of a black hole is proportional to the mass of the black hole. A black hole with the mass of mount everest would have an event horizon of less than a nanometer. A black hole with the mass of a single particle, which is what we'd be creating, would have an event horizon approaching no size at all.
And scientists wouldn't be able to do anything with a black hole even if one were to be created by the lhc. Besides the infintesimal size, How would you hold it? A black hole has no charge, no magnetic field, only a gravity and a rotation. It's a singularity, which means all the forces which normally keep matter from imploding onto itself have been overcome.
You're right. If it behaves that way, it's DRM. My mistake.
At that point, though, it becomes a moot point for me, because the only real issue I have with DRM is the fact that it locks me out of software I've bought and paid for, or it's overly intrusive, or it hacks my computer because I'm a thief by default. In this case, Impulse actually increases the product's value for me, because I can always download a new copy whether I've got my CD or not, I don't have to ever keep track of another stupid piece of paper with a serial number on it, I don't need to keep my CD in pristine condition because the game demands it every time I play.
It should be noted that just becuase this species can SURVIVE exposure to space doesn't mean they can THRIVE in it.
This species is capable of entering a state of suspended animation that renders it rather resistant to extreme heat and cold, dehydration and hard radiation.
I'd be happy to tell you about why the religion of Bob(Because writing about scientology will get me sued) is a load of shit, but I'll need a cheque for $360,000 first. If you can't afford that, I'll happily help you out, by letting you work for me. Then the bill will come to only $52,000.
Oh, but don't try to leave while I'm indoct-- I mean educating you, because I'll kill your family. Hope you don't mind.
There's no such software program as 'stardock'. There's no such game as 'galactic civilizations 4'.
So you've used a product that doesn't exist to activate your product that doesn't exist?
Last weekend, I installed Galactic Civilizations 2 with the expansion packs using Stardock's Impulse.
With the exception of some problems caused by Internet Explorer 7 (updated to Internet Explorer 8 and the problems were fixed, it worked well, and I didn't see any DRM crap. If I reformat, I can re-download the game right away.
It's just like consoles though; The Xbox and Xbox 360 are ridiculously easy to hack. It's an order of magnitude easier than hacking even the most basic CD check protection on the PC.
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Steam is the exact opposite of this ridiculous garbage. Steam is actually my favorite way to purchase games now... I just buy a game once and then every time I rebuild I just leave my computer to download and install all of my games again overnight - simple.
I've got to agree here. I was bitter at Valve for their stupid locking down based on serial numbers back around 2002(stupid because I'd lost my Half Life+opposing force codes long before they started cracking down on bad keys), but steam is actually pretty nice. There are better platforms out there, such as Stardock's impulse (which doesn't need to be on in order to play games unlike steam), but in both cases, I don't need to keep little pieces of paper with me just to get my games to run.
I call bullshit.
If you knew a single thing about the market, you'd realise that abuse of the markets by regulators is NOT a partisan issue. The right is raping the market and the left is raping the market.
If we actually had a congress who followed the constitution, if we actually had sound money, if we actually had a stable federal budget, maybe we wouldn't be seeing the same boom/bust cycle that's chipping away at our wealth.
If those authors believe they've been wronged, they should go through the courts. That's why we have copyright law, instead of just letting publishers send rappers around to authors homes to pop a cap in their ass in retribution.
They have pointed this out without anything to back it up besides "It isn't nice! She's rich!!!"
I guess my statement of morality comes from the first principle of "One who has an idea, takes a risk, and makes an investment ought to reap the rewards of their ideas, risks, and work, and anyone who wants to reap rewards without taking risk or making an investment is unjust".
Rowling had the idea of writing a certain sort of book. She took the risk of becoming a full-time writer. She did the work of sitting in a coffee shop day after day writing. Thus, when the product she created became immensely popular due to her skill at writing, it's just that she be compensated for it. By contrast, these people basically took that incredibly popular book and reorganized it, with a few small additions.
She took the risk, she did the work, she made the investment, and these people are hoping to get a share of the rewards without very much risk, work, or investment at all.
If J. K. Rowling wins the case, then you're going to need something other than stating the opposite to convince me that I'm not correct.
It's within her legal rights to prevent this instance of people making money directly off her work. If it wasn't, then she would've lost the case.
Even if the copyright arguement fell through, there's still the matter where you can't go around selling a Harry Potter book unless you own the rights to the Harry Potter name. If you could do that, I could sell my homemade wicker automobile as a Ford Optiplex, and not get sued by either Dell or Ford.
Terrorphilia - One who loves terror to the point that someone will try to have sex with it.
Examples: Lynne Cheney, Bill Clinton
Why the bad attitude in the submission post?
Someone was trying to release a commercial product whose premise was stealing content from an established work.
If they didn't get hit hard on copyright infringement, they'd get hit hard on trademark infringement, and rightly so.
Like it nor not, J. K. Rowling created the series, and decided to turn it into a commercial enterprise. It's well within her moral and legal rights to make sure a bunch of idiots don't cling to her coattails trying to milk dollars from a popular franchise that they have no legitimate claim to.
An actual microchip is absolutely miniscule. The ceramic(or plastic, or meta) that holds it and contains the pins that get soldered to the board is called packaging.
Then my game is installed so I'll just be a bit upset. If need be, I'll crack it to ensure I continue to have it.
The music industry is constantly being charged with and convicted of such violations. They're constantly being fined for it, and have been pretty much since the '50s.
If those same virtual particles exist, wouldn't hawking radiation exist, making this entire discussion sort of moot?
Care to elaborate with something other than "it would, and probably"?
If no electromagnetic effects such as light could escape a black hole, how could it have an effective charge?
"general relativity describes a black hole as a region of empty space with a pointlike singularity at the center and an event horizon at the outer edge".
And if Hawking radiation doesn't exist, then that's the only description we've got.
Rather, it's volume compared to an atom would be like an atom compared to mount everest.
I'm sort of wondering what the effects of subatomic scale gravitational forces would be. Maybe we'd see an atom torn apart if such a black hole ever managed to graze one?
The effective volume of a miniature black hole, the event horizon, would be like an atom compared to mount everest. Even if we were to create such a thing, what are the odds that it would actually be capable of grabbing enough matter to be a problem within the lifetime of the solar system?
The event horizon of a black hole is proportional to the mass of the black hole. A black hole with the mass of mount everest would have an event horizon of less than a nanometer. A black hole with the mass of a single particle, which is what we'd be creating, would have an event horizon approaching no size at all.
And scientists wouldn't be able to do anything with a black hole even if one were to be created by the lhc. Besides the infintesimal size, How would you hold it? A black hole has no charge, no magnetic field, only a gravity and a rotation. It's a singularity, which means all the forces which normally keep matter from imploding onto itself have been overcome.
You're right. If it behaves that way, it's DRM. My mistake.
At that point, though, it becomes a moot point for me, because the only real issue I have with DRM is the fact that it locks me out of software I've bought and paid for, or it's overly intrusive, or it hacks my computer because I'm a thief by default. In this case, Impulse actually increases the product's value for me, because I can always download a new copy whether I've got my CD or not, I don't have to ever keep track of another stupid piece of paper with a serial number on it, I don't need to keep my CD in pristine condition because the game demands it every time I play.
Unlike actual DRM, I don't really see the problem, since I know I can just download and install another copy.
It should be noted that just becuase this species can SURVIVE exposure to space doesn't mean they can THRIVE in it.
This species is capable of entering a state of suspended animation that renders it rather resistant to extreme heat and cold, dehydration and hard radiation.
I'd be happy to tell you about why the religion of Bob(Because writing about scientology will get me sued) is a load of shit, but I'll need a cheque for $360,000 first. If you can't afford that, I'll happily help you out, by letting you work for me. Then the bill will come to only $52,000.
Oh, but don't try to leave while I'm indoct-- I mean educating you, because I'll kill your family. Hope you don't mind.
There's no such software program as 'stardock'. There's no such game as 'galactic civilizations 4'.
So you've used a product that doesn't exist to activate your product that doesn't exist?
Last weekend, I installed Galactic Civilizations 2 with the expansion packs using Stardock's Impulse.
With the exception of some problems caused by Internet Explorer 7 (updated to Internet Explorer 8 and the problems were fixed, it worked well, and I didn't see any DRM crap. If I reformat, I can re-download the game right away.
It's just like consoles though; The Xbox and Xbox 360 are ridiculously easy to hack. It's an order of magnitude easier than hacking even the most basic CD check protection on the PC.
Come on! You know you want to pay 30 dollars for "18 wheels of steel"! Who wouldn't?
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