You think it's reasonable that you and I have to endure coughing and foul tastes because some addicts are unreasonable bastards and cannot last the course of a meal without lighting up and blowing their smoke all over my food? (I was talking about that, not about Sun/Kodak).
If they want to kill themselves and smell like tramps, they should do it out of range of my nose and dry-cleaning bill, e.g. outside or in a specialised smokeatorium. Since they have proved themselves incapable of doing this without the government telling them to (i.e. it becoming standard practice to have smoke-free meals, like it is now with offices), the government seems the only way to do so.
As for Sun/Kodak I am with Sun on that. Overbroad software patents are plain evil.
IIRC the safest form of transport (per passenger mile) is mass transit e.g. on a subway or city bus. *Catching* the bus on the other hand ain't so safe (but that gets counted towards walking:-)
Now I am being rung up by computers with recorded messages! I am sure that was illegal last time I looked. They tend to be hawking premium rate phonelines for "winning prizes". Its only started this year.
In a pub near my work they have some nice americans running the place, with themed food etc. The place is empty despite other local bars being packed. I do wonder if business would pick up if they plastered a few maple leafs around the place.
Because nintendo patented the idea of D-pads that actually work, Sony worked around the patent, and PC manufacturers don't even bother, so mostly they just get diagonals:-/ but who knows, maybe the logitech one is better.
Don't live in the USA. If you live there damn near everything will be genetically modified, and unless you grow your own food there is not a thing you can do about it. Thanks for being the beta test program for GM food for the rest of the world!
Looking in the smallprint for food items, e.g. "traditional pretzels" there is so much stuff in there I just think "what? why is that there?".
I've heard halo isn't that bad a game. The fps junkies in the office like keyboard and mouse apparently, but seem convinced that everyone else in the world is using an "aimbot".
I do like the higher resolution of PC games for some genres, but have yet to find a decent controller for the PC. Perhaps I will have to get a USB to Playstation adapter; the dual shock is not a bad controller.
BTW I'm up to 93% of the patch downloaded now:-) only the equivalent of Super Mario 64 left to download...
Since I am now downloading a 61Megabyte "patch" to a PC game (over dialup) in a vain hope that this will make it actually work without crashing every hour, I wouldn't be surprised if console characters get voted higher. Their games actually work and they sell several times as many copies.
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Personally, I'd rather watch the oversized men... than watching a fat, hairy, man...
So which of those was the amateur and which the pro?
In some countries you can be imprisoned for possesion of certain large integer numbers, which happen to be bitmaps of illegal images, even if they were drawn from the imagination.
how could it be an alternative to abolish patents on software ideas altogether when this would remove the financial incentive for someone to protect their software invention?
You may have missed a few key points. Europe doesn't have software patents yet. So they cannot be abolished, they can only be established or prevented from being established. I can assure you that there are several software developers in Europe.
The USA does have software patents. Many many jobs have been lost in the IT industry in the USA in the last year or so (mostly not related to patents, but it doesn't show those companies in a good light). The large US companies want Europe to also have software patents, so that we can lose our jobs also, by being randomly sued. An alternative to patents for software is the current system, also known as copyright, trademarks, trade secrets.
Look at the names of cities in California - Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose. What makes you think they were setup by english/german immigrants? Your family are most likely newbies to the area.
Well if the FBI can arrest people for buying sugar, or for crossing a state line to meet up with an over-age FBI agent who pretended to be young on the internet, I guess formal logic doesn't feature much in US procedure.
I went to a conference recently where Microsoft was explaining how to get games to behave under windows - for example don't write your save files to c:\program files and don't mess around with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE at runtime.
There were less than ten people there, most of whom were speakers. And so I notice most games (and many other packages) require to be run with admin privileges. They still think they are writing DOS games, except with a snazzy graphics library.
I thought they generally behaved. BTW the football "hooligans - storm over europe"
RTS game is now only £5 on PC. Or can be downloaded (61Mbytes).
Wasn't it coded by a Dutch team? I haven't played it but have seen it about.
Unlike that council in england (I can't find a link) which used low-level waste in brick form for roads, buildings, etc. I hope you mean the process would be useful for glass bricks *without* the added nuclear waste:-)
New Zealand is the first nation to be a modern representative democracy! Since 1893
most adults regardless of gender or race were allowed to vote.
The USA lags behind that on both counts, although some states (Wyoming) predate it. Most european countries also took longer to extend the vote to all adults, e.g. in Great Britain certain occupations didn't get the vote until later.
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If they want to kill themselves and smell like tramps, they should do it out of range of my nose and dry-cleaning bill, e.g. outside or in a specialised smokeatorium. Since they have proved themselves incapable of doing this without the government telling them to (i.e. it becoming standard practice to have smoke-free meals, like it is now with offices), the government seems the only way to do so.
As for Sun/Kodak I am with Sun on that. Overbroad software patents are plain evil.
IIRC the safest form of transport (per passenger mile) is mass transit e.g. on a subway or city bus. *Catching* the bus on the other hand ain't so safe (but that gets counted towards walking :-)
Now I am being rung up by computers with recorded messages! I am sure that was illegal last time I looked. They tend to be hawking premium rate phonelines for "winning prizes". Its only started this year.
The quote I found was: "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
In a pub near my work they have some nice americans running the place, with themed food etc. The place is empty despite other local bars being packed. I do wonder if business would pick up if they plastered a few maple leafs around the place.
Because nintendo patented the idea of D-pads that actually work, Sony worked around the patent, and PC manufacturers don't even bother, so mostly they just get diagonals :-/ but who knows, maybe the logitech one is better.
Looking in the smallprint for food items, e.g. "traditional pretzels" there is so much stuff in there I just think "what? why is that there?".
By making everyone into criminals, those who enforce the laws have arbitrary power. Some dead french guy said it better I think :-)
As Develop magazine says... Jeff Minter, Peter Molyneux and that French guy :-) I imagine they have already given an award to Shigsy.
I do like the higher resolution of PC games for some genres, but have yet to find a decent controller for the PC. Perhaps I will have to get a USB to Playstation adapter; the dual shock is not a bad controller.
BTW I'm up to 93% of the patch downloaded now :-) only the equivalent of Super Mario 64 left to download...
Was not a fundie muslim (well, until the war started anyway when he rediscovered Allah).
Since I am now downloading a 61Megabyte "patch" to a PC game (over dialup) in a vain hope that this will make it actually work without crashing every hour, I wouldn't be surprised if console characters get voted higher. Their games actually work and they sell several times as many copies.
So which of those was the amateur and which the pro?
Unfortunately that seems not to be what most voters think. "My country right or wrong" remember?
In some countries you can be imprisoned for possesion of certain large integer numbers, which happen to be bitmaps of illegal images, even if they were drawn from the imagination.
And if someone can confuse both copyright and patents with theft, there are positions available at the RIAA!
You may have missed a few key points. Europe doesn't have software patents yet. So they cannot be abolished, they can only be established or prevented from being established. I can assure you that there are several software developers in Europe.
The USA does have software patents. Many many jobs have been lost in the IT industry in the USA in the last year or so (mostly not related to patents, but it doesn't show those companies in a good light). The large US companies want Europe to also have software patents, so that we can lose our jobs also, by being randomly sued. An alternative to patents for software is the current system, also known as copyright, trademarks, trade secrets.
NTSC has a colour blacker than black :-)
Look at the names of cities in California - Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose. What makes you think they were setup by english/german immigrants? Your family are most likely newbies to the area.
Well if the FBI can arrest people for buying sugar, or for crossing a state line to meet up with an over-age FBI agent who pretended to be young on the internet, I guess formal logic doesn't feature much in US procedure.
I went to a conference recently where Microsoft was explaining how to get games to behave under windows - for example don't write your save files to c:\program files and don't mess around with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE at runtime. There were less than ten people there, most of whom were speakers. And so I notice most games (and many other packages) require to be run with admin privileges. They still think they are writing DOS games, except with a snazzy graphics library.
Now, you just grab the NSA control room that has back doors to all the systems. Or has someone already done that? :-)
I thought they generally behaved. BTW the football "hooligans - storm over europe" RTS game is now only £5 on PC. Or can be downloaded (61Mbytes). Wasn't it coded by a Dutch team? I haven't played it but have seen it about.
Unlike that council in england (I can't find a link) which used low-level waste in brick form for roads, buildings, etc. I hope you mean the process would be useful for glass bricks *without* the added nuclear waste :-)
The USA lags behind that on both counts, although some states (Wyoming) predate it. Most european countries also took longer to extend the vote to all adults, e.g. in Great Britain certain occupations didn't get the vote until later.