This is great. This means that draconian EULAs might not have the legal punch that the writers' expected them to. I mean, hopefully it will force EULA writers to not be as anal about what they put in EULAs. I won't give any specific examples, because anyone with Microsoft software will be able to open up some sort of EULA and read for themselves. Really, its all a matter of what the court deems fair and unfair. Microsoft has some pretty bad EULAs, and I know most people would NOT agree to them if they were written in plain, every day english.
What makes a good language is a language that's open to all OSes. Since it can be used on any system, its potential is really really high. Now, if you make it easy to program in, customizable, and able to have direct access to hardware if needed, or go through an interpreter...it starts to become a good programming language. Of course, no programming language would be good unless it was tested and recognized, meaniing, a compiler and basic help would have to be released free at first, like it should be anyway. All those ingredients combined, and you have the perfect mix for a good language.
PVR's throw a wrench into the finely tuned machine that is mainstream television. They make their money from ads, and the more people sitting through those ads, the more money they make. Well, what happens when advertising firms start paying channels less because there are less people actually viewing the show than recording it? You can guess that the channels will be pretty pissed off. They're just trying to protect a source of money there, really.
We can't even access DSL Reports from work (well, easily). I wouldn't dare post it from work, that would be immoral and would have given me 100% chance of getting fired. No, they wouldn't have overheard me, as most of the time supervisors don't walk around and listen to people's conversations. Only monitor the phone call. The only other thing I've heard of that will get you fired from that place is mentioning anything about a union.
I don't think slander/libel applies to Internet message boards/chat rooms. Besides, I did NOT post my real name. I didn't post the company I work for. I posted it as an opinion. The funny part is that everyone I knew that worked there agreed with me on the subject. Thats like 30 people. When 31 people in one tech support place agree that email addresses are being sold as they're made, it should be a sign to the ISP that people know about it. Not a sign to fire people who like the truth to be out.
When I signed up for their ADSL service, I used a very odd username which I haven't used before, nor have I ever seen. I checked my email a day (after the account was made, not after I got DSL) later and guess what? Two email from Bellsouth, one from some porn company. I posted my findings to DSL reports, and got fired from my tech support job at Bellsouth DSL for that.
So basically you use it once or twice and it breaks. You could just easily play it once and copy it either directly to tape or directly to your HDD, and rewrite it onto a DVD.
(Tried to get this submitted, but as usual, eveything I try to submit as a story is rejected)I posted to DSL Reports that it was my opinion that the ISP I worked for was sellign email addresses. Just an opinion. Well, a few days later (today) I come in, and I got fired for it. I posted in my spare time, from home. Is this even legal/right?
What I said was not offtopic. I watch my post get modded down from +4 points back to +1 because people mod it offtopic and over-rated. Anyway, I won't gripe that someone is probably modding me down with about everything I post that gains karma. I will focus on the children. People don't want to take responsibility for something their kids do. I wouldn't either. The kids should be at fault. Kids know right from wrong at a very early stage. Granted, they might not know the full consequences or the possible outcome, they still know that its wrong. And we don't punish them? This leads them to think that wrong isn't so bad, and that they can get away with it. This ties in with the Mythic thing. Leave it to someone, someone is going to bitch and moan when they get their account banned/removed for violating the TOS. Probably will be a kid, or someone who has yet to grow up. This will probably be the case, wait and see. And if someone mods this offtopic, they deserve to never be a moderater again.
Children are given far too much freedom in this country. A child wonders onto the interstate and ends up smeared down the road for a halfmile by your car? Its your fault. A child walks into your yard, picks up a rock and bashes himself in the head until he dies? Your fault. You have to remember, every citizen in the U.S. is supposed to be a parent. They're supposed to raise everyone elses' kids. Maybe they don't have to abide by the TOS, but I'd tell them that either they can not play if they're under 18, or that if they choose to play they have to follow the TOS. If courts have a problem with it, screw them. It was the kids choice to play the game, despite what the TOS said. The kid should be held fully responsible. Another thing is that say someone gets their lv60 deleted for cheating/selling it/whatever, they should NOT be allowed any legal recourse other than to start all over again. I know it will probably lead to Mythic being sued into bankruptcy when BIGDICK13M loses his level 60 character that he spent 12 hours a day for 6 months to make.
See, jobless teenagers have way more free time than us working teenagers/adults. They can think nothing of spending 12 hours a day working on a character. So when they become uber, they fully deserve it. The biggest problem with online gaming today is immaturity. Who cares if you're level 60 if you're a total dick? I play a lot of Counter-Strike, and in almost every game I go into, there's some 10 year old bragging about his T-1 line and Godly computer. They're usually the same one using OGC wallhack/aimbot and screaming obscene things/playing music into the mic. They're also the same ones who will be saying, "god u sux, u only lv25" when their rich parents bought their character. Truthfully, I'd like to see only the skilled players with high level character, but it isn't going to happen.
Does Linux support the South African language of clicks and whistles?
clickclickbeeptapclurk 'hello world' beepbeeptapclurkclickclick!
Spell Checker: 'hello world' to 'clickbeepbeeptapclurkclurkclick'
From what I hear, DSL providers are mostly gaining very little profit per customer. Most of the fee is used for bandwidth, facilities, what have you. Now either astronomical fees will have to be charged for the bandwidth needed, or one person is going to have gigabit speeds while everyone else gets to lag and be slow, and fight each other over who gets the extra.01k of bandwidth.
Anything is available on today's market. Anything sold or made you can buy. You can buy people, nukes, more money, llamas, what have you. Because you can, some of these things are illegal to buy (ie nukes, people). Some can only be used in certain places (more money, llamas). This works well whenever the government sets an unbiased law. Now look at something like video games. Companies will make it illegal to mod hardware that you own to buy games that aren't even sold in your country, or the REAL version of the game when the Americian port turns out to be half of the original. Any company wants to protect its profits, and if they wanted to protect their profits enough, they'd sell their OWN mod hardware, import their own damn games and whatnot.
No, they don't have that right. When you buy the hardware, it becomes yours to do with as you please, but the company shouldn't have to replace it if you solder together half the mobo trying to mod your PS2. If they want to sell DVDs or video games in different areas for different prices, let them. That's called supply and demand. If they want to release only 1,000 of a certain DVD to make the price skyrocket, that's fair too. But region coding I can't deal with. It allows them to sell as many DVDs as they want in whatever region, and almost guarentee that the surplus will not spill over into another market, and instead become just a loss of what it cost to make the product, instead of that loss AND a lost sale. Region coding lets them have their cake and eat it too. The whole situation has the potential to turn into a black market. What if it became illegal to sell DVDs or video games from a different region? Even if they didn't sell it in your region? People would be thrown in jail because a company isn't willing to take the extra step to ensure a hassle-free experience for the end user.
Region coding is the biggest ripoff I can imagine. Traditionally, you could go to other markets to buy things at a cheaper price with some items. With video games and DVDs already making items from other regions inaccessible to hardware in this region, it cuts that off. As an added bonus, the producers of the video games, DVDs, and their respective systems are trying to make it ILLEGAL to modify the hardware so that it will play games or DVDs from another region (aka mod chipping). This is one of the more noticible ways corporations are trying to make it illegal to not buy what they want you to buy.
Move all Everquest players in the world to some empty huge tract of land in Europe, increase the capacity of the servers, and make it their jobs to play. You could base a real economy off of virtual items if you kept them isolated from the rest of the world.
You, sir, are under arrest for violating the laws of physics. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney, but having an attorney won't help you if you're stupid.
As usual, a lower MHz rating on an Athlon easily competes with the higher MHz on a Pentium. Maybe if Intel starts renaming their processers, starting with maybe the 1800- and 2000- series.
Modding is of course an art. There is no clear-cut mod for every post. A Slashdot template would be cool, but it might bring the problems of Slashdot with it. Trolls, flamers, the Slashdot effect, webhosting costs. All of those things would slap down most smaller sites that are gaining in popularity. A more efficient style should be adopted to keep costs down, trolls and flamers at bay, and a cache system for articles would be nice, too.
The aforementioned German teen was unable to be reached for comment after alledgedly sig..err..typing..the name of his next door neighbor when signing for a truckload of porn and beer.
Following that train of thinking, I imagine the FBI will be setting up accounts on all the popular messenger programs, sending people illegal data, and arresting them if the file transfer completes.
The Hell it is. You can download OGC (a client hook) and run in D3D, and still have a wallhack, aimbot, and a bunch of other nifty features just by running the program before the game. CS is easyeasy to cheat on and get away with. But its gay.
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This is great. This means that draconian EULAs might not have the legal punch that the writers' expected them to. I mean, hopefully it will force EULA writers to not be as anal about what they put in EULAs. I won't give any specific examples, because anyone with Microsoft software will be able to open up some sort of EULA and read for themselves. Really, its all a matter of what the court deems fair and unfair. Microsoft has some pretty bad EULAs, and I know most people would NOT agree to them if they were written in plain, every day english.
What makes a good language is a language that's open to all OSes. Since it can be used on any system, its potential is really really high. Now, if you make it easy to program in, customizable, and able to have direct access to hardware if needed, or go through an interpreter...it starts to become a good programming language. Of course, no programming language would be good unless it was tested and recognized, meaniing, a compiler and basic help would have to be released free at first, like it should be anyway. All those ingredients combined, and you have the perfect mix for a good language.
PVR's throw a wrench into the finely tuned machine that is mainstream television. They make their money from ads, and the more people sitting through those ads, the more money they make. Well, what happens when advertising firms start paying channels less because there are less people actually viewing the show than recording it? You can guess that the channels will be pretty pissed off. They're just trying to protect a source of money there, really.
We can't even access DSL Reports from work (well, easily). I wouldn't dare post it from work, that would be immoral and would have given me 100% chance of getting fired. No, they wouldn't have overheard me, as most of the time supervisors don't walk around and listen to people's conversations. Only monitor the phone call. The only other thing I've heard of that will get you fired from that place is mentioning anything about a union.
I don't think slander/libel applies to Internet message boards/chat rooms. Besides, I did NOT post my real name. I didn't post the company I work for. I posted it as an opinion. The funny part is that everyone I knew that worked there agreed with me on the subject. Thats like 30 people. When 31 people in one tech support place agree that email addresses are being sold as they're made, it should be a sign to the ISP that people know about it. Not a sign to fire people who like the truth to be out.
When I signed up for their ADSL service, I used a very odd username which I haven't used before, nor have I ever seen. I checked my email a day (after the account was made, not after I got DSL) later and guess what? Two email from Bellsouth, one from some porn company. I posted my findings to DSL reports, and got fired from my tech support job at Bellsouth DSL for that.
So basically you use it once or twice and it breaks. You could just easily play it once and copy it either directly to tape or directly to your HDD, and rewrite it onto a DVD.
(Tried to get this submitted, but as usual, eveything I try to submit as a story is rejected)I posted to DSL Reports that it was my opinion that the ISP I worked for was sellign email addresses. Just an opinion. Well, a few days later (today) I come in, and I got fired for it. I posted in my spare time, from home. Is this even legal/right?
What I said was not offtopic. I watch my post get modded down from +4 points back to +1 because people mod it offtopic and over-rated. Anyway, I won't gripe that someone is probably modding me down with about everything I post that gains karma. I will focus on the children. People don't want to take responsibility for something their kids do. I wouldn't either. The kids should be at fault. Kids know right from wrong at a very early stage. Granted, they might not know the full consequences or the possible outcome, they still know that its wrong. And we don't punish them? This leads them to think that wrong isn't so bad, and that they can get away with it. This ties in with the Mythic thing. Leave it to someone, someone is going to bitch and moan when they get their account banned/removed for violating the TOS. Probably will be a kid, or someone who has yet to grow up. This will probably be the case, wait and see. And if someone mods this offtopic, they deserve to never be a moderater again.
I don't have children. I never plan on having children. No jokes about 'accidents' because I'm not going to put myself in one of those positions.
Children are given far too much freedom in this country. A child wonders onto the interstate and ends up smeared down the road for a halfmile by your car? Its your fault. A child walks into your yard, picks up a rock and bashes himself in the head until he dies? Your fault. You have to remember, every citizen in the U.S. is supposed to be a parent. They're supposed to raise everyone elses' kids. Maybe they don't have to abide by the TOS, but I'd tell them that either they can not play if they're under 18, or that if they choose to play they have to follow the TOS. If courts have a problem with it, screw them. It was the kids choice to play the game, despite what the TOS said. The kid should be held fully responsible. Another thing is that say someone gets their lv60 deleted for cheating/selling it/whatever, they should NOT be allowed any legal recourse other than to start all over again. I know it will probably lead to Mythic being sued into bankruptcy when BIGDICK13M loses his level 60 character that he spent 12 hours a day for 6 months to make.
See, jobless teenagers have way more free time than us working teenagers/adults. They can think nothing of spending 12 hours a day working on a character. So when they become uber, they fully deserve it. The biggest problem with online gaming today is immaturity. Who cares if you're level 60 if you're a total dick? I play a lot of Counter-Strike, and in almost every game I go into, there's some 10 year old bragging about his T-1 line and Godly computer. They're usually the same one using OGC wallhack/aimbot and screaming obscene things/playing music into the mic. They're also the same ones who will be saying, "god u sux, u only lv25" when their rich parents bought their character. Truthfully, I'd like to see only the skilled players with high level character, but it isn't going to happen.
Does Linux support the South African language of clicks and whistles? clickclickbeeptapclurk 'hello world' beepbeeptapclurkclickclick! Spell Checker: 'hello world' to 'clickbeepbeeptapclurkclurkclick'
From what I hear, DSL providers are mostly gaining very little profit per customer. Most of the fee is used for bandwidth, facilities, what have you. Now either astronomical fees will have to be charged for the bandwidth needed, or one person is going to have gigabit speeds while everyone else gets to lag and be slow, and fight each other over who gets the extra .01k of bandwidth.
Anything is available on today's market. Anything sold or made you can buy. You can buy people, nukes, more money, llamas, what have you. Because you can, some of these things are illegal to buy (ie nukes, people). Some can only be used in certain places (more money, llamas). This works well whenever the government sets an unbiased law. Now look at something like video games. Companies will make it illegal to mod hardware that you own to buy games that aren't even sold in your country, or the REAL version of the game when the Americian port turns out to be half of the original. Any company wants to protect its profits, and if they wanted to protect their profits enough, they'd sell their OWN mod hardware, import their own damn games and whatnot.
No, they don't have that right. When you buy the hardware, it becomes yours to do with as you please, but the company shouldn't have to replace it if you solder together half the mobo trying to mod your PS2. If they want to sell DVDs or video games in different areas for different prices, let them. That's called supply and demand. If they want to release only 1,000 of a certain DVD to make the price skyrocket, that's fair too. But region coding I can't deal with. It allows them to sell as many DVDs as they want in whatever region, and almost guarentee that the surplus will not spill over into another market, and instead become just a loss of what it cost to make the product, instead of that loss AND a lost sale. Region coding lets them have their cake and eat it too. The whole situation has the potential to turn into a black market. What if it became illegal to sell DVDs or video games from a different region? Even if they didn't sell it in your region? People would be thrown in jail because a company isn't willing to take the extra step to ensure a hassle-free experience for the end user.
Region coding is the biggest ripoff I can imagine. Traditionally, you could go to other markets to buy things at a cheaper price with some items. With video games and DVDs already making items from other regions inaccessible to hardware in this region, it cuts that off. As an added bonus, the producers of the video games, DVDs, and their respective systems are trying to make it ILLEGAL to modify the hardware so that it will play games or DVDs from another region (aka mod chipping). This is one of the more noticible ways corporations are trying to make it illegal to not buy what they want you to buy.
Move all Everquest players in the world to some empty huge tract of land in Europe, increase the capacity of the servers, and make it their jobs to play. You could base a real economy off of virtual items if you kept them isolated from the rest of the world.
You, sir, are under arrest for violating the laws of physics. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney, but having an attorney won't help you if you're stupid.
As usual, a lower MHz rating on an Athlon easily competes with the higher MHz on a Pentium. Maybe if Intel starts renaming their processers, starting with maybe the 1800- and 2000- series.
Indiana Jones and the Search for Broadband?
Modding is of course an art. There is no clear-cut mod for every post. A Slashdot template would be cool, but it might bring the problems of Slashdot with it. Trolls, flamers, the Slashdot effect, webhosting costs. All of those things would slap down most smaller sites that are gaining in popularity. A more efficient style should be adopted to keep costs down, trolls and flamers at bay, and a cache system for articles would be nice, too.
The aforementioned German teen was unable to be reached for comment after alledgedly sig..err..typing..the name of his next door neighbor when signing for a truckload of porn and beer.
Following that train of thinking, I imagine the FBI will be setting up accounts on all the popular messenger programs, sending people illegal data, and arresting them if the file transfer completes.
The Hell it is. You can download OGC (a client hook) and run in D3D, and still have a wallhack, aimbot, and a bunch of other nifty features just by running the program before the game. CS is easyeasy to cheat on and get away with. But its gay.