*shrug* I was able to pirate q3 pretty darn easy. (I'm not a big fan really, prefer UT, I just wanted to see what the fuss was about. So pirating it, playing a few times, and then getting rid of it seems ethical to me)
The reasoning here is, the end user CAN'T get the patch without exposing themselves to a hack - like a former poster said, it's a race between how fast they can download the patch and how fast the l33t d00d on thier cable segment can portscan his way in. Not that I think a recall would ever happen, but still.
I'll say that. Copyright should be eliminated entirely, or limited to life of the creator(perhaps +3 years. Less than 10, certainly).
If there was no copyright, there would be no content-distribution companies. This is not a bad thing. As people keep saying, we don't need them anymore. There would be no more Brittney Spears, no more boy bands, and no more RIAA. Art would be created by artists who enjoyed doing so, not bought and paid for by people who like to be able to profit for 3 generations off a single creation.
Movies would still be around, altho not so much (blockbusters still make thier money well within the lifetime of the creator)
Thats a whole different unjust law that relates only to drugs, howver - the seizure of property that drug crimes take place on is a ridiculous measure. For example, if someone is growing pot on land you own (even without your knowledge or consent), YOUR land can be (and has been) confiscated.
This actually raises a point - it's pretty common to call Windows apps (especially free or shareware ones) Winwhatever. Even more so with Mac apps - MacWrite, MacDraw, etc. If MS has failed to pursue these applications in the past, that might be a good defense for the lindows team. Not that the little cheaters deserve it (note post above about them seeding own message boards)
This is called trademark dilution - and the way you fight it is by obsessively combating anyone who markets using your trademark. Like they are doing. Also, while to many people "windows" means "computer", anyone who knows what an OS is knows that Windows is a specific OS, and nobody I've ever met uses it as a generic OS term.
Thats really messed up. I thought that maybe it was a default ID for anonymous posters, but no such luck - I just lost a heck of alot of respect for lindows...
OE can't be removed from windows 2k in any non-trivial manner (ie, theres no uninstall info anywhere). Thats close enough to "included in the operating system" for me.
I installed ICQ a while ago in an attempt to get a file from someone who couldn't manage to upload it to my ftp server (whatever:P), and within seconds of creating an ID, I was greeted by a Jennifer or Sally or whatever. Interestingly, there actually was someone on the other end of the ID - I replied and chatted for a bit. However, they ignored me as soon as it became apparent that I wasn't going to the website. Come to think of it, it could have been an Eliza bot...
The Opera download (especially without the JVM) is teensy compared to an IE or mozilla download. Also, consider using GetRight or Download Accelerator, or practically anything that allows you to resume downloads - saved me from MUCH aggravation in my modem days (about a month ago:P)
Nitpick: Sabotaging a companies product isn't treason, even by todays loose standards. Unless it's being produced under federal contract, and even then (I think) it has to be for military/national defense purposes.
I see alot of "change direction in midair" to be an approximation of activity that is difficulto simulate via controls - for example, moving forward while you jump to represent jumping farther. Always jumping the same distance, in the direction you were facing when you jumped, would get very old very quickly.
Well, thats a pretty realistic simulation of space combat:p Incidently, you CAN maneuver even if you're facing a different direction - just turn off the inertial compensators.
(d) run, within the variations permitted by the agreement, of even kind, quality and quantity within each unit and among all units involved; and
Does this mean that by distributing both protected and non-protected versions as the same product, they are infringing? Even if the copy protection itself is deemed non-infringing for some reason?
Because, as a previous poster mentioned, the mom and pop stores have no pull with the RIAA. If Borders gets pissed off, Universal will sit up and listen. If Jack and Jills Music Store gets pissed off, they're up the creek. Also, large stores can afford the overhead involved with returns (generally, small stores don't buy direct from the publisher - they go through a distributor, which ups the overhead another notch. Huge chains act as thier own distributors). Finally, with a mom and pop store, you can talk to them about your issues with copy protected CDs - now, if the CD is selling, don't expect them to stop carrying it. But they might certainly take your concerns to heart, and make an extra point of labelling it, or advising people who buy it. That's not gonna happen at a megastore.
Even then, the jewel case (and possibly the liner notes and CD itself) say CD on them - if they're not CDs (and they aren't) thats bait and switch marketing - Not sure of the exact laws in UK, but in the US it opens them up to lawsuits, in small claims court if nothing else. YMMV, of course.
The space sim Terminus is great in this regard - when you start the game, you can select the level of reality in your physics - anywhere from (almost) 0, to full Newtonian. So if you just wanna blow stuff up, go for 0, and if you want to have to worry about carefully calculating your path so you take maximum advantage of gravity and don't waste fuel on course adjustments, you take full. Great stuff. I reccomend the game, BTW, fantastic gameplay even if the graphics lack by todays standards.
The amount of detail top military satellites are capable of aside, there are people who spend all day doing nothing but looking at grainy satellite photos with magnifying glasses. I wouldn't be suprised if they can tell the make/model of a car with pretty good reliability at 1m resolution.
Probably not quite like it is in the movies just yet, tho:P Anyone but me annoyed how images become HIGHER resolution when you zoom in on them in movies?
It's amazing how many people have trouble with the whole click thing - I was at some cultish party thing, and the hostess was explaining to me how she can never remember when to single click and when to double click - and the whole "Active Desktop" thing just made it all worse. Theres a real blurring in (some) peoples minds about the difference between IE, and internet sites, and your desktop - I realize this is by design, but seriously - it was liking watching a cat pounce on it's prey the way this woman clicked on links.
And don't even get me started on "AOL is the internet"...
You know, it's funny how poorly people react to people who are secure in themselves. I'm not autistic, but I am secure in the fact that my opinion is more important than anyone elses(It's a nice reinforcing loop - my opinion is important to me, and my opinion is all that matters) - But someone people get all pissed off an defensive whenever I say that. Why SHOULDN'T I feel superior to everyone else? For that matter, why shouldn't you feel superior to me? I don't care about your opinions, so why do you care about mine?
You think that rejecting your natural feelings and talents (because thats what we're talking about here) because you're afraid of getting beat up is better than a world where people celebrate differences? He's not saying "needs help" in a negative sense - he's saying that people who are forced to act as less than they are because they might be hurt need support, so that they CAN act as they are! If you felt safe and secure in expressing yourself, then you could do so, or not, without having to factor getting beat up into it.
If you are actively trying to change yourself into something you aren't, then you aren't finding yourself.
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*shrug* I was able to pirate q3 pretty darn easy. (I'm not a big fan really, prefer UT, I just wanted to see what the fuss was about. So pirating it, playing a few times, and then getting rid of it seems ethical to me)
The reasoning here is, the end user CAN'T get the patch without exposing themselves to a hack - like a former poster said, it's a race between how fast they can download the patch and how fast the l33t d00d on thier cable segment can portscan his way in. Not that I think a recall would ever happen, but still.
Well, aside from the way that it tries to open up full-page popunder adds, it renders fine for me. Exactly the same way Opera renders it, anyway.
Opera actually doesn't - you can disable pop-ups, but you can't do things like just disable popups on page load, which is much more useful.
I'll say that. Copyright should be eliminated entirely, or limited to life of the creator(perhaps +3 years. Less than 10, certainly).
If there was no copyright, there would be no content-distribution companies. This is not a bad thing. As people keep saying, we don't need them anymore. There would be no more Brittney Spears, no more boy bands, and no more RIAA. Art would be created by artists who enjoyed doing so, not bought and paid for by people who like to be able to profit for 3 generations off a single creation. Movies would still be around, altho not so much (blockbusters still make thier money well within the lifetime of the creator)
Thats a whole different unjust law that relates only to drugs, howver - the seizure of property that drug crimes take place on is a ridiculous measure. For example, if someone is growing pot on land you own (even without your knowledge or consent), YOUR land can be (and has been) confiscated.
This actually raises a point - it's pretty common to call Windows apps (especially free or shareware ones) Winwhatever. Even more so with Mac apps - MacWrite, MacDraw, etc. If MS has failed to pursue these applications in the past, that might be a good defense for the lindows team. Not that the little cheaters deserve it (note post above about them seeding own message boards)
This is called trademark dilution - and the way you fight it is by obsessively combating anyone who markets using your trademark. Like they are doing. Also, while to many people "windows" means "computer", anyone who knows what an OS is knows that Windows is a specific OS, and nobody I've ever met uses it as a generic OS term.
Thats really messed up. I thought that maybe it was a default ID for anonymous posters, but no such luck - I just lost a heck of alot of respect for lindows...
OE can't be removed from windows 2k in any non-trivial manner (ie, theres no uninstall info anywhere). Thats close enough to "included in the operating system" for me.
I installed ICQ a while ago in an attempt to get a file from someone who couldn't manage to upload it to my ftp server (whatever :P), and within seconds of creating an ID, I was greeted by a Jennifer or Sally or whatever. Interestingly, there actually was someone on the other end of the ID - I replied and chatted for a bit. However, they ignored me as soon as it became apparent that I wasn't going to the website. Come to think of it, it could have been an Eliza bot...
The Opera download (especially without the JVM) is teensy compared to an IE or mozilla download. Also, consider using GetRight or Download Accelerator, or practically anything that allows you to resume downloads - saved me from MUCH aggravation in my modem days (about a month ago :P)
Nitpick: Sabotaging a companies product isn't treason, even by todays loose standards. Unless it's being produced under federal contract, and even then (I think) it has to be for military/national defense purposes.
I see alot of "change direction in midair" to be an approximation of activity that is difficulto simulate via controls - for example, moving forward while you jump to represent jumping farther. Always jumping the same distance, in the direction you were facing when you jumped, would get very old very quickly.
Well, thats a pretty realistic simulation of space combat :p Incidently, you CAN maneuver even if you're facing a different direction - just turn off the inertial compensators.
(d) run, within the variations permitted by the agreement, of even kind, quality and quantity within each unit and among all units involved; and
Does this mean that by distributing both protected and non-protected versions as the same product, they are infringing? Even if the copy protection itself is deemed non-infringing for some reason?
Because, as a previous poster mentioned, the mom and pop stores have no pull with the RIAA. If Borders gets pissed off, Universal will sit up and listen. If Jack and Jills Music Store gets pissed off, they're up the creek. Also, large stores can afford the overhead involved with returns (generally, small stores don't buy direct from the publisher - they go through a distributor, which ups the overhead another notch. Huge chains act as thier own distributors). Finally, with a mom and pop store, you can talk to them about your issues with copy protected CDs - now, if the CD is selling, don't expect them to stop carrying it. But they might certainly take your concerns to heart, and make an extra point of labelling it, or advising people who buy it. That's not gonna happen at a megastore.
Even then, the jewel case (and possibly the liner notes and CD itself) say CD on them - if they're not CDs (and they aren't) thats bait and switch marketing - Not sure of the exact laws in UK, but in the US it opens them up to lawsuits, in small claims court if nothing else. YMMV, of course.
The space sim Terminus is great in this regard - when you start the game, you can select the level of reality in your physics - anywhere from (almost) 0, to full Newtonian. So if you just wanna blow stuff up, go for 0, and if you want to have to worry about carefully calculating your path so you take maximum advantage of gravity and don't waste fuel on course adjustments, you take full. Great stuff. I reccomend the game, BTW, fantastic gameplay even if the graphics lack by todays standards.
The amount of detail top military satellites are capable of aside, there are people who spend all day doing nothing but looking at grainy satellite photos with magnifying glasses. I wouldn't be suprised if they can tell the make/model of a car with pretty good reliability at 1m resolution. :P Anyone but me annoyed how images become HIGHER resolution when you zoom in on them in movies?
Probably not quite like it is in the movies just yet, tho
Not to mention that 61cm isn't enough to tell one bearded dude in a turban from another bearded dude in a turbane. Especially at night.
It's amazing how many people have trouble with the whole click thing - I was at some cultish party thing, and the hostess was explaining to me how she can never remember when to single click and when to double click - and the whole "Active Desktop" thing just made it all worse. Theres a real blurring in (some) peoples minds about the difference between IE, and internet sites, and your desktop - I realize this is by design, but seriously - it was liking watching a cat pounce on it's prey the way this woman clicked on links.
And don't even get me started on "AOL is the internet"...
You know, it's funny how poorly people react to people who are secure in themselves. I'm not autistic, but I am secure in the fact that my opinion is more important than anyone elses(It's a nice reinforcing loop - my opinion is important to me, and my opinion is all that matters) - But someone people get all pissed off an defensive whenever I say that. Why SHOULDN'T I feel superior to everyone else? For that matter, why shouldn't you feel superior to me? I don't care about your opinions, so why do you care about mine?
You think that rejecting your natural feelings and talents (because thats what we're talking about here) because you're afraid of getting beat up is better than a world where people celebrate differences? He's not saying "needs help" in a negative sense - he's saying that people who are forced to act as less than they are because they might be hurt need support, so that they CAN act as they are! If you felt safe and secure in expressing yourself, then you could do so, or not, without having to factor getting beat up into it.
If you are actively trying to change yourself into something you aren't, then you aren't finding yourself.
Bzzzt. Pure capitalism doesn't get "kept on track". If you "keep it on track", it's being controlled, and therefore isn't pure.
As a side note, pure capitalism is a flawed concept and doesn't (and never has) worked in the real world.