I forgot to add, the reason there are so many negative review is more due to the hype and the weakness of the game, rather than true fight against the DRM.
It attempts to do many things at the same time, and fail miserably on all but one : make up a new creature. I started a game as herbivore/religious from cell up to space time, and carnivore/warrior to space time. There are few difference of game play during the cell stage, more during creature and tribal stage. For civilisation stage, whether you are a warrior firing cannon or a religious guy firing "prayer" there is really no difference. Maybe the economic gameplay differ, but probably not. Up to now I have not yet started the long space stage. I have got the feeling the 4 first stage is more like a way to set up your creature. An advanced character editor. And afterward you have got a loooong space stage.
It is not a bad game, it was simply overhyped, and really only the last space stage is of note. I won't say it is a BAD game, but neither it is a good one. In 10 years I will remember populous, planescape torment, and other games but I won't recall spore.
Many of the proteins of the mammals are qu7ite in common except sometimes for a few details. If those few details make no difference to the attack site of the prion, it ain't that surprising that other similar brain protein can similarly badly in other mammals. Sooooo we should simply ban utterly to feed other dead mammals protein to other specy which are for human consumption (cue the sales of meat carcass into pet food....).
historically around here, it was since governement had the hand in producing electricity that it stayed at a low price (read : stable). So low , that it went under "production price" (aka: at a loss, but this is a misnomer since actually the loss part was paid with the taxes). Once that was privatized, the price was also deregulated and it went within month, if not weeks in price hikes. I have my bills to prove it. And I will be hit by another price hike of 29% next month. And I am not too sure there was a real "competition" for electricity production and a real self-regulation in the US in the last 20/30 years either (cue on Enron shenanigan).
Dictionary give only common usage, but mine says that "torture is the infliction of intense pain to coerce, punish or afford sadistic pleasure". It says nothing on whether the pain must leave permanent damage or not. So no matter how much Bush and co want to redefine water boarding and other niceties, it is by common usage of the definition *torture*. That they can get away with it and not much more American is not on the street protesting such a policy is beyond me.
Dictionary definition are only common usage , yada,yada etc... Originally defined as "ungodly, wicked" (16th and earlier ?) and used as an insult it shifted in the 19th to "disbelief in the Abrahamic God". Only recently it took over the definition as "absence of belief in any gods", so you are mostly right.
Ryanair is not the largest airline in Europe. "Classical" airline like air France or Lufthansa or BA, have more passenger volume per year. Ryan air for example this year had 40+ million, whereas Lufthansa had 55+ millions. Still that does not take away from your argument. I just wanted to correct a detail.
But I am clever enough to understand that a hacker will use a 3rd party compromised PC to launch his attack from, maybe in his own country maybe in another. If you think the chinese governement would launch attack directly on YOUR web server and get back the data on a chinese server (heck maybe you think it would be cyberwarfare.china.gov.cn or something), then you really think they are more bloody stupid than the average hacker. If I was the chinese government, I dunno if I should be angry at being thought to be THAT stupid, or if I should be happy to be THAT underestimated.
The researchers were able to load whatever content they wanted into any location they wished on a user's machine using a variety of scripting languages, such as Java, ActiveX and even.NET objects.
Those parasite and fungus and whatnot, have their own cellular machinery with its own basal functionality, accepting energy, execrating toxins, dividing etc, so even if they need a SPECIFIC environment to reproduce (the host) the reproduction process/cellular division or cellular life process are still available ad-hoc... Virus OTOH lack everything. They are more or less only proteins encapsulating a RNA chains which really need to hijack a real cell to be able to do even the most basic operation. Virus have no "metabolism".
And yet all it would take is for a human to crumble the soil in his hand.
FOr what ? 100 times or more the prices of a robotic mission ? By the time you sent you "human" crumbling in his hand a little soil on Mars, and he comes back, the next bazillon robots which will land , will have taken into account the sticky nature of the soil.
But all other annoyance visual/auditive don't have the same potential to make you physically sick (puking, loss of appetite, general disgust) as smoke can do.
IIRC we left mirrors which are used regularly by pinging laser onto their surface. So.... It might be a bit obvious if we remove them than removing a flag. By the way, I do wonder how the conspirawcy theorist "we never went to the moon" do explain away the mirrors. Maybe santa & rudolf placed them for christmas as a gift for the Nasa ß
is the so called professor revising his "expertise" so quickly and so radically. Now it would be interesting to know (or the court forcing him to say) on WHAT he based his first expertise and what new publicly available information made him change his mind, and why he did not make use of this information for the first written testimony. I get the feeling this guy is as much expert in GPS & radar gun, as my expertise in medicine forensic is (not much).
GP don't cite reference for his numbers where as at least one can argue with the numbers in the BBC article. Vietname war cost 111 billions the GDP of the US was roughly 3500+ over the years of the war so 111 billion total cost is NOWHERE near 9.4% it is at most 3% of any given year. Furthermore inflation adjusted dollar this is roughly 450 billion of today (see same GDP page as before). today gdp is 11000 billion so an estimated Irak total war cost of 500 billion is higher in percent of GDP (5% today compared to aforementionned 3%) and higher inflation adjusted.
Anyway there is a cost which is not really counted or accountable in vietnam war : the cost of the dead and veteran (human cost) the same for the Irak war. Ples the resulting international terrorism for vietnam war was zero (or at least I am not aware of it) whereas one can certainly argue this is relatively open for Irak war and could certainly rise. Finally I am not certain comparing TOTAL cost over many years to GDP is really that useful a comparison anyway. It should be comapred to say, day to day cost of education to day to day cost of the war in both case and see what comes out. I am too lazy to do it;).
1) the firm I work with, we went through a turn around of 10+ coworker out of Mumbai 2) 8 out of 10 could not code out of a paper bag, making obvious error that anybody having more than 1 week of experience should not do, and NEVER EVER testing what they produced before delivering (sometimes it did not even COMPILE). 3) after years of saying "everything is fine" management finally admitted they did not get from outsourcing the benefit they waited for (hint : it costs them 2 millions more in operation instead of the waited 10 millions money spare) 4) that was not an isolated case, the problem is that just like in the boom of the internet bubble anybody was calling themselves coder when in reality they had no idea on really developping software. The result was that there were a lot of people could not code out of paper bag in my own country either. I think the same is happening locally in India where the one which can code get better paid job / develop stuff,whereas the cheap guy which NEED to learn is put out to outsourcing departement.
I am sure there are many case where outsourcing was successful (who knows maybe a majority), but after seeing my firm declaring it was a success to the outside world, and only after 4 years admitting internally it was failed for the main objective, I begin to suspect many of the success touted by consulting firm are not that successful in reality.
OK 1 is not a big sample (/sarcasm), but it is enough for me to tell you that they don't always check inside the kitchen or some of the place where you don't wait for a computer. From what I could tell they don't dismantle cupboard or anything. So yes, there is plenty of place which are not searched in case of a civil delict. Now when this is not a civil delict, but a criminal one, I don't know, but I would assume that you and the other poster would be right, they do an extremly torough search for every stuff in your flat/house. The key here, is that copyright infringement is a civil delict, and the ability to search your whole living place is then limited.
Your own Wifi laptop connected to your open wifi network, and hidden in a good place.
Cop come and will confiscate your OPEN wifi with no evidence whatsoever that you did anything. Who will be searching for a second laptop which use your open wifi ?
No DRM. But if you want update/additional content => you need to be registered. AFAIK the CEO of the company making sins of a solar empire even said the same (DRM is stupid and costly)
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I forgot to add, the reason there are so many negative review is more due to the hype and the weakness of the game, rather than true fight against the DRM.
It attempts to do many things at the same time, and fail miserably on all but one : make up a new creature. I started a game as herbivore/religious from cell up to space time, and carnivore/warrior to space time. There are few difference of game play during the cell stage, more during creature and tribal stage. For civilisation stage, whether you are a warrior firing cannon or a religious guy firing "prayer" there is really no difference. Maybe the economic gameplay differ, but probably not. Up to now I have not yet started the long space stage. I have got the feeling the 4 first stage is more like a way to set up your creature. An advanced character editor. And afterward you have got a loooong space stage.
It is not a bad game, it was simply overhyped, and really only the last space stage is of note. I won't say it is a BAD game, but neither it is a good one. In 10 years I will remember populous, planescape torment, and other games but I won't recall spore.
Many of the proteins of the mammals are qu7ite in common except sometimes for a few details. If those few details make no difference to the attack site of the prion, it ain't that surprising that other similar brain protein can similarly badly in other mammals. Sooooo we should simply ban utterly to feed other dead mammals protein to other specy which are for human consumption (cue the sales of meat carcass into pet food....).
88% of the slashdot reader would steal their boss password of they were promised to get laid.
historically around here, it was since governement had the hand in producing electricity that it stayed at a low price (read : stable). So low , that it went under "production price" (aka: at a loss, but this is a misnomer since actually the loss part was paid with the taxes). Once that was privatized, the price was also deregulated and it went within month, if not weeks in price hikes. I have my bills to prove it. And I will be hit by another price hike of 29% next month. And I am not too sure there was a real "competition" for electricity production and a real self-regulation in the US in the last 20/30 years either (cue on Enron shenanigan).
Dictionary give only common usage, but mine says that "torture is the infliction of intense pain to coerce, punish or afford sadistic pleasure". It says nothing on whether the pain must leave permanent damage or not. So no matter how much Bush and co want to redefine water boarding and other niceties, it is by common usage of the definition *torture*. That they can get away with it and not much more American is not on the street protesting such a policy is beyond me.
Your last argument about creativity is more an argument of increased complexity but not for or against free will.
Dictionary definition are only common usage , yada ,yada etc... Originally defined as "ungodly, wicked" (16th and earlier ?) and used as an insult it shifted in the 19th to "disbelief in the Abrahamic God". Only recently it took over the definition as "absence of belief in any gods", so you are mostly right.
Then really in city and zone where bike / people goes, the speed limit should be 5 to 10 km h-1. Problem solved.
Ryanair is not the largest airline in Europe. "Classical" airline like air France or Lufthansa or BA, have more passenger volume per year. Ryan air for example this year had 40+ million, whereas Lufthansa had 55+ millions. Still that does not take away from your argument. I just wanted to correct a detail.
But I am clever enough to understand that a hacker will use a 3rd party compromised PC to launch his attack from, maybe in his own country maybe in another. If you think the chinese governement would launch attack directly on YOUR web server and get back the data on a chinese server (heck maybe you think it would be cyberwarfare.china.gov.cn or something), then you really think they are more bloody stupid than the average hacker. If I was the chinese government, I dunno if I should be angry at being thought to be THAT stupid, or if I should be happy to be THAT underestimated.
The researchers were able to load whatever content they wanted into any location they wished on a user's machine using a variety of scripting languages, such as Java, ActiveX and even .NET objects.
Thanks got for mozilla and noscript...
Those parasite and fungus and whatnot, have their own cellular machinery with its own basal functionality, accepting energy, execrating toxins, dividing etc, so even if they need a SPECIFIC environment to reproduce (the host) the reproduction process/cellular division or cellular life process are still available ad-hoc... Virus OTOH lack everything. They are more or less only proteins encapsulating a RNA chains which really need to hijack a real cell to be able to do even the most basic operation. Virus have no "metabolism".
if you look for sex on the internet you are getting into legal trouble, and if you look for legal advice on the internet you are going to get fucked
Which simply means if you are searching for sex on the internet, just go on a lawyer forum, or ask for legal advice.
And yet all it would take is for a human to crumble the soil in his hand.
FOr what ? 100 times or more the prices of a robotic mission ? By the time you sent you "human" crumbling in his hand a little soil on Mars, and he comes back, the next bazillon robots which will land , will have taken into account the sticky nature of the soil.
Nazi death camp were not kept hidden for 60 years.
But all other annoyance visual/auditive don't have the same potential to make you physically sick (puking, loss of appetite, general disgust) as smoke can do.
IIRC we left mirrors which are used regularly by pinging laser onto their surface. So.... It might be a bit obvious if we remove them than removing a flag. By the way, I do wonder how the conspirawcy theorist "we never went to the moon" do explain away the mirrors. Maybe santa & rudolf placed them for christmas as a gift for the Nasa ß
is the so called professor revising his "expertise" so quickly and so radically. Now it would be interesting to know (or the court forcing him to say) on WHAT he based his first expertise and what new publicly available information made him change his mind, and why he did not make use of this information for the first written testimony. I get the feeling this guy is as much expert in GPS & radar gun, as my expertise in medicine forensic is (not much).
GP don't cite reference for his numbers where as at least one can argue with the numbers in the BBC article. Vietname war cost 111 billions the GDP of the US was roughly 3500+ over the years of the war so 111 billion total cost is NOWHERE near 9.4% it is at most 3% of any given year. Furthermore inflation adjusted dollar this is roughly 450 billion of today (see same GDP page as before). today gdp is 11000 billion so an estimated Irak total war cost of 500 billion is higher in percent of GDP (5% today compared to aforementionned 3%) and higher inflation adjusted.
;).
Anyway there is a cost which is not really counted or accountable in vietnam war : the cost of the dead and veteran (human cost) the same for the Irak war. Ples the resulting international terrorism for vietnam war was zero (or at least I am not aware of it) whereas one can certainly argue this is relatively open for Irak war and could certainly rise. Finally I am not certain comparing TOTAL cost over many years to GDP is really that useful a comparison anyway. It should be comapred to say, day to day cost of education to day to day cost of the war in both case and see what comes out. I am too lazy to do it
1) the firm I work with, we went through a turn around of 10+ coworker out of Mumbai
2) 8 out of 10 could not code out of a paper bag, making obvious error that anybody having more than 1 week of experience should not do, and NEVER EVER testing what they produced before delivering (sometimes it did not even COMPILE).
3) after years of saying "everything is fine" management finally admitted they did not get from outsourcing the benefit they waited for (hint : it costs them 2 millions more in operation instead of the waited 10 millions money spare)
4) that was not an isolated case, the problem is that just like in the boom of the internet bubble anybody was calling themselves coder when in reality they had no idea on really developping software. The result was that there were a lot of people could not code out of paper bag in my own country either. I think the same is happening locally in India where the one which can code get better paid job / develop stuff,whereas the cheap guy which NEED to learn is put out to outsourcing departement.
I am sure there are many case where outsourcing was successful (who knows maybe a majority), but after seeing my firm declaring it was a success to the outside world, and only after 4 years admitting internally it was failed for the main objective, I begin to suspect many of the success touted by consulting firm are not that successful in reality.
How exactly am I supposed to "enjoy" my stolen Britney Spears collection? Streaming from the laptop from which you connect to the open wifi to.
OK 1 is not a big sample (/sarcasm), but it is enough for me to tell you that they don't always check inside the kitchen or some of the place where you don't wait for a computer. From what I could tell they don't dismantle cupboard or anything. So yes, there is plenty of place which are not searched in case of a civil delict. Now when this is not a civil delict, but a criminal one, I don't know, but I would assume that you and the other poster would be right, they do an extremly torough search for every stuff in your flat/house. The key here, is that copyright infringement is a civil delict, and the ability to search your whole living place is then limited.
Your own Wifi laptop connected to your open wifi network, and hidden in a good place. Cop come and will confiscate your OPEN wifi with no evidence whatsoever that you did anything. Who will be searching for a second laptop which use your open wifi ?
No DRM. But if you want update/additional content => you need to be registered. AFAIK the CEO of the company making sins of a solar empire even said the same (DRM is stupid and costly)