The article in this story is mainly focused on the problem of DNA contamination. Microbes mostly, but also othe sources such as the palentoligists themselves. They used a dog DNA-map as a reference since they are closely related (we think).
Now imagine trying the same thing on the dessicated remains of a misquito gut. Think their might be some comtamination in there? Putting aside the issue of a 40,000 year old sample versus a 180 million year old sample.
The team determined that nearly 6% of the sequences analysed from one of their animal samples belonged to ancient bear: an unexpectedly large amount. The rest of the DNA probably came from soil microbes or the palaeontologists handling the bones, the team says.
So six percent of the sample was cave bear. How much of the entire cave bear DAN-map was recovered? This sounds much less impressive than at first blush. Can anyone with access to the whole study and the abilty to comprehend it tell us how useful/significant this DNA really is?
I disagree. If google puts a tag on its page which loads an image from AFP's publicly accessible server they have neither reproduced nor distributed the content.
Sure they have. Google downloaded the image, resized it, and distibuted it from their server. Clearly copying and redistibuting.
The first sentence or two and the headline? That'll be tougher to convince a judge to enforce, though not impossible.
But to legaly display this content you have to pay AFP, even if other site are putting this content for free on the web.
If that's the crux of AFP's complaint, they're grasping I think. They may have a legitamate beef over using AFP photo thumbnails, but the headline and the first sentence or two? That's silly, even from a legal standpoint.
In retrospect, they could have introduced these features into the install package years ago and been applauded (obviously for free or as a fraction of the price). Even if they weren't as good as third party software they would have been "fine" from a legal standpoint, and acceptable from a PR standpoint.
As it stands now, I can't see how they come out on top on both points, or even one point.
The article states that Microsoft is thinking about charging for their anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
I'd think long and hard about it too if I were MS. I could charge for it and compete like everyone else in those markets. Or I could give one or both away to consumers. I'm either going to completely undercut the competiton in perhaps a manner that get's anti-monopoly noise going again, or I could charge and be blasted for profitting from the flaws in my own software.
Makes me wonder why they even bought the companies in the first place. My predicition is they release crappy software that does the bare minumum for free, hoping to avoid the worst of both options.
Sandvine claims that this will put added pressure on cable company (my edit) ISPs to improve the quality of their broadband offerings, as users will demand reliability and low latency.
I find it hard to beleive this is an issue for DSL providers, but I can see this totally clogging up some sections of cable broadband ISP.
Right now, the buzz going around internally is that unless things change significantly over the Christmas season with boxed retail sales, they'll drop it completely for their next game.
Perhaps, but Valve is still contractually obligated to do one more game for Vivendi. They may want to release thier next game as steam only, but they have to do one more major title for Vivendi.
Doom 3 wouldn't run if you had Nero installed, and yes it created an uproar:
Installation/Loading Problems: Many users report that they have difficulty installing or launching Doom 3. It is important to understand that Doom 3 uses a copy protection system which objects to the presence of CloneCD, Alcohol, Daemon Tools and even Nero Burning Rom (in rare cases). So if you are experiencing these problems make sure you disable and even uninstall any such software if you want Doom 3 to run. Don't tell me this isn't cool, I agree with you.
1.) If I had mod points I wouldn't be posting this reply.
2.) I had forgotten how truly evil it can be to work with 20 year old's who think they know everything.
3.) I remeber being 20 and thinking the world was so lucky to have me. Thank god someone older and wiser stepped on me hard and made me realize I was being a snot.
No, dipshit. That was an option before I bought it and spent my money and time on it. I did my part of the bargain, they didnt. I now deserve compensation. No matter what dimwitted appologists of Valve are about to say in between the bouts of licking their master's balls.
I can almost see the froth at the corners of your mouth. No matter how much inflamatory and homo-erotic language you use, you are still stealing the game. No amount of chest pounding and posturing will change that.
No, what is immoral is your spineless insistence that only the game developers have rights because they are the ones bringing you new "oooh shiney" moments in exchange for you parting with some of your rights. And yes indeed, all of this is bound to be "beyond your comprehension". No suprise there.
The game developers have the right to release the game under any conditions they want. If you don't agree with them, your only legal recourse is to not buy the game. Oh and act like a tool on a message board, the later you obviously have down pat.
Not to me, unless your talking about after the game is turned on.
Once valve opens activation and releases the final download, It's going to be cracked, of that I'm sure. But that means mission one was accomplished, they held the unwashed masses at bay until release day.
Keep in mind that valve can take this victory, concede the SP battle for now, and continue to fight the MP battle witha very robust platform.
This is a little different than just straight DRM. Whether you install from CD's or pre-order through steam, you can't play until Valve says so. Why? Becasue not only is the content encrypted (which could be cracked) but it's missing vital parts of the game that can only be downloaded from Steam/Valve.
Even if the gfc encryption is broken you wont be able to play until valve lets you download the rest of the game! How in the hell is a cracker/hacker gonna get around that?
I don't know off the top of my head the truth of the 14 straight day rule, but I do know this: Most of these programmers are "exempt" employees. That usually means salaried but it always means exempt from overtime and other labor laws.
I haven't seen anything anywhere stating that it would be available on steam the same day it's available in the stores.
You're being a petulant child. You'll have to wait until November 16th just like everybody else. You knew you'd have to wait for the retail release date and to claim anything else is just being obstinant and whiney.
You've become bored with the game. The SDK is released. This does not inspire you? Obviously you are a player of games like myself, not a maker of games, the target audience of a game SDK.
Note the careful use of sarcasm in the post you replied to. The company only cares about the bottom line, which wouldn't be hurt if they lost all 1000 people with this problem.
Stated another way : corps of the size we're talking about here could not care less about this problem beacause it affects so few people.
The survey comes up after the successful Steam software update. Network speed is self-reported, all the rest is automatically pulled from your system. Participation in the survey is volountary.
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The article in this story is mainly focused on the problem of DNA contamination. Microbes mostly, but also othe sources such as the palentoligists themselves. They used a dog DNA-map as a reference since they are closely related (we think).
Now imagine trying the same thing on the dessicated remains of a misquito gut. Think their might be some comtamination in there? Putting aside the issue of a 40,000 year old sample versus a 180 million year old sample.
The team determined that nearly 6% of the sequences analysed from one of their animal samples belonged to ancient bear: an unexpectedly large amount. The rest of the DNA probably came from soil microbes or the palaeontologists handling the bones, the team says.
So six percent of the sample was cave bear. How much of the entire cave bear DAN-map was recovered? This sounds much less impressive than at first blush. Can anyone with access to the whole study and the abilty to comprehend it tell us how useful/significant this DNA really is?
I disagree. If google puts a tag on its page which loads an image from AFP's publicly accessible server they have neither reproduced nor distributed the content.
Sure they have. Google downloaded the image, resized it, and distibuted it from their server. Clearly copying and redistibuting.
The first sentence or two and the headline? That'll be tougher to convince a judge to enforce, though not impossible.
But to legaly display this content you have to pay AFP, even if other site are putting this content for free on the web.
If that's the crux of AFP's complaint, they're grasping I think. They may have a legitamate beef over using AFP photo thumbnails, but the headline and the first sentence or two? That's silly, even from a legal standpoint.
And I'm still baffled by the whole thing.
In retrospect, they could have introduced these features into the install package years ago and been applauded (obviously for free or as a fraction of the price). Even if they weren't as good as third party software they would have been "fine" from a legal standpoint, and acceptable from a PR standpoint.
As it stands now, I can't see how they come out on top on both points, or even one point.
The article states that Microsoft is thinking about charging for their anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
I'd think long and hard about it too if I were MS. I could charge for it and compete like everyone else in those markets. Or I could give one or both away to consumers. I'm either going to completely undercut the competiton in perhaps a manner that get's anti-monopoly noise going again, or I could charge and be blasted for profitting from the flaws in my own software.
Makes me wonder why they even bought the companies in the first place. My predicition is they release crappy software that does the bare minumum for free, hoping to avoid the worst of both options.
Sandvine claims that this will put added pressure on cable company (my edit) ISPs to improve the quality of their broadband offerings, as users will demand reliability and low latency.
I find it hard to beleive this is an issue for DSL providers, but I can see this totally clogging up some sections of cable broadband ISP.
Right now, the buzz going around internally is that unless things change significantly over the Christmas season with boxed retail sales, they'll drop it completely for their next game.
Perhaps, but Valve is still contractually obligated to do one more game for Vivendi. They may want to release thier next game as steam only, but they have to do one more major title for Vivendi.
Doom 3 wouldn't run if you had Nero installed, and yes it created an uproar:
Installation/Loading Problems: Many users report that they have difficulty installing or launching Doom 3. It is important to understand that Doom 3 uses a copy protection system which objects to the presence of CloneCD, Alcohol, Daemon Tools and even Nero Burning Rom (in rare cases). So if you are experiencing these problems make sure you disable and even uninstall any such software if you want Doom 3 to run. Don't tell me this isn't cool, I agree with you.
from Doom 3 article.
Oh, and apparently some new EA games like Sims 2:
Sims 2 blocked by CD copying software.
1.) If I had mod points I wouldn't be posting this reply.
2.) I had forgotten how truly evil it can be to work with 20 year old's who think they know everything.
3.) I remeber being 20 and thinking the world was so lucky to have me. Thank god someone older and wiser stepped on me hard and made me realize I was being a snot.
No, dipshit. That was an option before I bought it and spent my money and time on it. I did my part of the bargain, they didnt. I now deserve compensation. No matter what dimwitted appologists of Valve are about to say in between the bouts of licking their master's balls.
I can almost see the froth at the corners of your mouth. No matter how much inflamatory and homo-erotic language you use, you are still stealing the game. No amount of chest pounding and posturing will change that.
No, what is immoral is your spineless insistence that only the game developers have rights because they are the ones bringing you new "oooh shiney" moments in exchange for you parting with some of your rights. And yes indeed, all of this is bound to be "beyond your comprehension". No suprise there.
The game developers have the right to release the game under any conditions they want. If you don't agree with them, your only legal recourse is to not buy the game. Oh and act like a tool on a message board, the later you obviously have down pat.
Not to me, unless your talking about after the game is turned on.
Once valve opens activation and releases the final download, It's going to be cracked, of that I'm sure. But that means mission one was accomplished, they held the unwashed masses at bay until release day.
Keep in mind that valve can take this victory, concede the SP battle for now, and continue to fight the MP battle witha very robust platform.
This is a little different than just straight DRM. Whether you install from CD's or pre-order through steam, you can't play until Valve says so. Why? Becasue not only is the content encrypted (which could be cracked) but it's missing vital parts of the game that can only be downloaded from Steam/Valve.
Even if the gfc encryption is broken you wont be able to play until valve lets you download the rest of the game! How in the hell is a cracker/hacker gonna get around that?
I don't know off the top of my head the truth of the 14 straight day rule, but I do know this: Most of these programmers are "exempt" employees. That usually means salaried but it always means exempt from overtime and other labor laws.
No, that's coming out as a sepertate expansion.
And of course the University will somehow never get around to informing the individuals whose personal data was stolen.
I haven't seen anything anywhere stating that it would be available on steam the same day it's available in the stores.
You're being a petulant child. You'll have to wait until November 16th just like everybody else. You knew you'd have to wait for the retail release date and to claim anything else is just being obstinant and whiney.
You've become bored with the game. The SDK is released. This does not inspire you? Obviously you are a player of games like myself, not a maker of games, the target audience of a game SDK.
Because Vivend is trying to get the court to assign the IP rights of the Half-Life franchise to them.
Note the careful use of sarcasm in the post you replied to. The company only cares about the bottom line, which wouldn't be hurt if they lost all 1000 people with this problem.
Stated another way : corps of the size we're talking about here could not care less about this problem beacause it affects so few people.
Dude, that's crazy talk!
I thought MS had strictly forbidden XBox live to be used for bug fixes, only content updates.
No. You are not allowed to publish copyrighted material without the author's permission. The end.
Participation in the survey is voluntary.
The survey comes up after the successful Steam software update. Network speed is self-reported, all the rest is automatically pulled from your system. Participation in the survey is volountary.