Well, this reminds me of the Lessig case that the Supremes shot down. In that case, the constitutional "limited times" just means that there exists a finite limit.
In a similar vein, "unlimited" could just mean that they won't have a published limit. They just whack the outliers.
I worked on a system for ranking Tradewars players. This system is based on the work that I did. It is interesting to see how various games value achievement, team size, etc.
I only wish that the article was more technical since others may have thoughts on multi-player online game ranking systems.
After winning Best Virtual Character at the MTV Movie awards, there can be little doubt that Gollum will walk away with this one as well.
If that is what gets your engine running then you are a sick man!
Keep in mind that buying a search engine brings with it the set of users that patronize it. Of course this assumes that any changes related to an acquisition don't create a mass exodus of users.
We have seen lots of other corporations that go for the easy targets. Sure, the folks the RIAA are targetting have no dough. However, this establishes the desired long arm of the RIAA. If they get this to happen (and 'let the students off easy' by lowering the $$ sued for) then they think they can come off in a better position.
Wow! I guess the MAME rom that I saw must not have been the real Pac Man! This 160 MB file seems to be the full version! Maybe they added another couple mazes beyond the originals . . .
Illston(the judge) asked Zacharia to explain the conundrum of locking up copyrighted works behind encryption and then making the breaking of that encryption illegal, even after the copyrights on those works expire. The judge wondered if it would effectively extend copyrights to keep such works out of the public domain. Zacharia said it would not, because the copyright had expired. "But it's encrypted. If it doesn't stop being encrypted, it's still encrypted," Illston said, adding that such protected works still couldn't be legally copied.
My biggest surprise was that the judge saw an excellent logical argument that seems to be overlooked by most anti DMCA folks - including myself. It is great to have another reason to tell the neophytes about to gain their support in protecting fair use rights.
Funny, I also have similar inclinations. Some of the most vivid memories that I have as a child include huddling up with my family in a hallway in our house. My dad had pulled matresses off of our beds and placed them as a temporary shelter in the hall. During one such storm a large tree (big enough that kids climbed in it) was uprooted from a neighbors backyard. It was fun at the time.
Oddly I miss that kind of experience.
With the recent slashdot story about forcing websites to redesign based on the current interpretations of the ADA laws I was wondering how this could be handled. I suppose that the route would have to allow the humans to either visually or auraly recognize something. But at that point the "defense" against automated systems becomes no better than the weakest link.
Does anyone have any other ideas about how to work it so that people with disabilities can still gain access?
Maybe you can set up the Win-box like suggested and then require them to pay for the privilege. Some small token payment of $0.25 per hour may be enough to remind them of the cost just to use windows!
Of course this is all assuming that you wish to drive home the cost/benefit of non-free OSes.
*) The PayPal documents were multi-page MS Word documents. AbiWord
opened and printed both copies (paper output in my hands) before
OpenOffice even loaded. Abi's versions look better, to boot.
I was quite impressed with the performance from AbiWord. This really is a good incentive to check it out!
Maybe Linux/Unix/etc. should take notes from VMS
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Having been involved in some Time Change projects at work I was impressed to hear how the VMS system handled the time change. Instead of having a big jump in the time they slew the clock over the course of 6-12 hours. That way it lets all the jobs run with times that are 'close enough' without having to worry too much about the special cases.
Just my $0.02
If you read the article then you would have noticed that the problem has been ongoing for three weeks. If they were 'testing' it, then why haven't they fixed the problem after such a long time.
So, now the new thing will be for the seedier kids to hang out at the library and ambush anyone walking out. Books have a pretty high value and with this system, thieves are able to get full-face value for their loot.
Hmmmm. Methinks it won't work. . .
So, based on your comments would this quote from Nintendo's FAQs may have little to no actual legal merit?
Can I Download a Nintendo ROM from the Internet if I Already Own the Authentic Game?
There is a good deal of misinformation on the Internet regarding the backup/archival copy exception. It is not a "second copy" rule and is often mistakenly cited for the proposition that if you have one lawful copy of a copyrighted work, you are entitled to have a second copy of the copyrighted work even if that second copy is an infringing copy. The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic. Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.
Not only is the length of these replies very exciting - it seems that he has taken great care to provide technical details that are invaluable.
In all the classes that I have taken I haven't seen such an excitement for this kind of material. And, just to put those statements in context I completed a MS in CS with a focus on AI . . .
Notice - emphasis added - I did not say that the techinal education that I received was lacking. Only the excitement level!
I am actually a AI project that is running on a Beowolf cluster of 250 of the new yet-to-be-released AMD Hammer processors running at 3.4 GHz. So our clock speed is 250 * 3.4 GHz. And I am going to not do the math. More convincing if I fail at those trivial meatspace tasks.
Not only is the length of these replies very exciting - it seems that he has taken great care to provide technical details that are invaluable. In all the classes that I have taken I haven't seen such an excitement for this kind of material. And, just to put those statements in context I completed a MS in CS with a focus on AI . . .
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This one perhaps: https://m.xkcd.com/2006/
I was trying to figure out what kind of game that would be!
I feel pretty, oh so pretty...
Shouldn't that be:
I feel petty, oh so petty...
Well, this reminds me of the Lessig case that the Supremes shot down. In that case, the constitutional "limited times" just means that there exists a finite limit. In a similar vein, "unlimited" could just mean that they won't have a published limit. They just whack the outliers.
I only wish that the article was more technical since others may have thoughts on multi-player online game ranking systems.
After winning Best Virtual Character at the MTV Movie awards, there can be little doubt that Gollum will walk away with this one as well.
If that is what gets your engine running then you are a sick man!
Keep in mind that buying a search engine brings with it the set of users that patronize it. Of course this assumes that any changes related to an acquisition don't create a mass exodus of users.
We have seen lots of other corporations that go for the easy targets. Sure, the folks the RIAA are targetting have no dough. However, this establishes the desired long arm of the RIAA. If they get this to happen (and 'let the students off easy' by lowering the $$ sued for) then they think they can come off in a better position.
Wow! I guess the MAME rom that I saw must not have been the real Pac Man! This 160 MB file seems to be the full version! Maybe they added another couple mazes beyond the originals . . .
One of the things I remember was a "secret room" that had an Alligator that would consume the various wires and gates . . .
Now that was a great game!
Funny, I also have similar inclinations. Some of the most vivid memories that I have as a child include huddling up with my family in a hallway in our house. My dad had pulled matresses off of our beds and placed them as a temporary shelter in the hall. During one such storm a large tree (big enough that kids climbed in it) was uprooted from a neighbors backyard. It was fun at the time. Oddly I miss that kind of experience.
With the recent slashdot story about forcing websites to redesign based on the current interpretations of the ADA laws I was wondering how this could be handled. I suppose that the route would have to allow the humans to either visually or auraly recognize something. But at that point the "defense" against automated systems becomes no better than the weakest link. Does anyone have any other ideas about how to work it so that people with disabilities can still gain access?
Maybe you can set up the Win-box like suggested and then require them to pay for the privilege. Some small token payment of $0.25 per hour may be enough to remind them of the cost just to use windows!
Of course this is all assuming that you wish to drive home the cost/benefit of non-free OSes.
I was quite impressed with the performance from AbiWord. This really is a good incentive to check it out!
Having been involved in some Time Change projects at work I was impressed to hear how the VMS system handled the time change. Instead of having a big jump in the time they slew the clock over the course of 6-12 hours. That way it lets all the jobs run with times that are 'close enough' without having to worry too much about the special cases. Just my $0.02
If you read the article then you would have noticed that the problem has been ongoing for three weeks. If they were 'testing' it, then why haven't they fixed the problem after such a long time.
But book buybacks are not *full* value - as the parent to my original post had suggested . . . But yeah - I don't deny that "stuff happens" already.
So, now the new thing will be for the seedier kids to hang out at the library and ambush anyone walking out. Books have a pretty high value and with this system, thieves are able to get full-face value for their loot. Hmmmm. Methinks it won't work. . .
Notice - emphasis added - I did not say that the techinal education that I received was lacking. Only the excitement level!
I am actually a AI project that is running on a Beowolf cluster of 250 of the new yet-to-be-released AMD Hammer processors running at 3.4 GHz. So our clock speed is 250 * 3.4 GHz. And I am going to not do the math. More convincing if I fail at those trivial meatspace tasks.
Not only is the length of these replies very exciting - it seems that he has taken great care to provide technical details that are invaluable. In all the classes that I have taken I haven't seen such an excitement for this kind of material. And, just to put those statements in context I completed a MS in CS with a focus on AI . . .
Just get posted on /. and *nobody* will be able to get in for a while.
So, how long before we get some form of legal action . . . .