"this may be the case, but it doesn't really matter... the producers would have developed the software anyways... if there is a coypright violation that has real impact on a developer then they'll just take it to the courts... are so wealthy that they can easily hire a lawyer to defend their IP rights... I agreed that it would be very very hard for the "little guy" to properly defend his IP... by using GPLed code and releasing it as a closed source product... "
Your justifications for breaking the law, breaching agreements and ignoring licencing are weak. Following these illegal activities is not recomended.
"Replace the harddrive, add more ram, replace mouse and keyboard, replace fans, replace the PS, if necessary. If its not clearly one of those, tell them they need a new PC."
Or it might be the CD-ROM. Or it might actually be a software problem.
"If they have a software problem, just tell them they need a new harddrive and reinstall windows on it. That's a whole lot faster than trying to remove all the crap they've installed on it."
A good way to lose freinds and customers. Data-retention is of paramount importance to a lot of people - college work, photos, genealogy records... Are you charging for the new hardware that they don't need? you could just format their existing drive, if you feel a re-install is the best way. A lot of OEM Machines are difficult to install from the original media (the one they havea licence for) if the hardware has been changed(especially the hidden recovery partition)
"Keep the drives you swap out, format them at your leisure, and sell them to the next customer who has a malware problem."
These second-hand drives will have to be sold at reduced prices and clearly marked as second-hand. Putting unreliable equipment (you removed it for a reason, yes?) into a system is hardly what I would consider proffesional.
Your "Do it quick" tactics seem to revolve around replacing the HDD and reinstalling. Not a fast job. Install, drivers, software, updates... when you could have solved the actual problem.
Except that this case is about fully-clothed sex, where as that NG picture is of a nude woman in a not-particularly-sexy pose. Nudity and sex are not the same. And the GTA HC mod is FULLY CLOTHED.
" people who download music from peer to peer networks paid for four and a half times more music "
Or:
People who buy a lot of music also download music from P2P networks.
Buying Music encourages pirating? I suppose that is not the message they wanted to convey, and so read the statistics (lies and damned lies) differently.
Agreed. A GNU/Linux distribution is not an OS. It is a Distribution, including an OS (Kernel and tools), applications, often some media (pictures, audio), documentation and more. If you want JUST an OS, you need something like LFS or DSL.
Headline: Debris Seen Hitting Shuttle During Launch
Summary: While the debris does not appear to hit the shuttle...
So Debris does not hit the shuttle, and someone decided to go with headline of Yes It Did!
And tomorow? Headline: Bill Gates Seen Eating Babies! Summary: While Bill Gates has never been seen eating babies, we did review his latest software release...
It can take several hours to clean a machine properly, but with a workshop setup, you do not have to only clean one machine at a time. Our small setup has four bays and so can be cleaning four machines at a time. Plus laptops (just need a power socket). A lot of the time "spent" cleaning/scanning does not require interaction. Set the scans running, and ocaisianally glance over them; "Finished yet? Found much? let it run another 1/2 hour. Time for another game of Quake" Assuming one wants to earn $90/hr, with four machines being cleaned, one only needds to charge $22.5/hr Sure, one can charge $90 to each of them, but one may find that not all bays are being used, as customers choose the cheaper guy down the street. If one is called out on-site, then prices rise, as it takes one away from the other work.
Sounds like my solution. BUT the cable-monkies usually find a way of knotting the cables together while i'm out. This isn't a probelme until I come to move something and the wie is inexplicably linked to four other cables, and I need to rip out the whole set and start over. And my PCs are spread around the lounge, on differnt walls, so I need network cable running round the skirting boards.
What customers? I didn't think Blu-Ray or HD-DVD were on the market yet. Or do they mean "People who have bought anything ever" ? Or "People that we think will become customers" ?
Ignorance is the fault of the ignorant? Do you explain to these users that the IBM disks will work, and WHY they willl? Do you let them know the 'proper' (standard?) meaning of "downloading" ? You have personally met them and know they are ignorant of 'technical' matters. So do you educate them or blame them?
IMHO the reason people still use floppy disks is because they are included with their PC. People use Windows because it is included. Ditto Internet Explorer. Ditto Windows Media Player (and related formats).
The Pottery comment, as I read it, refers to Babylonian pottery tablets. Thousands have been found, carrying huge amounts of information, and they have lasted (albeit a little damaged, but compare to floppy-disk corruption levels), for thousands of years.
I, too, used a tape-recorder for my ZX81. It sucked bigtime. All we had though - No pottery-scanner was compatible with Sinclair at the time.
Q. Which games fall under this license? A. All White Wolf roleplaying games (traditional tabletop or live-action) regardless of setting. This includes all World of Darkness games, Exalted, Trinity, Scarred Lands and most anything else published by White Wolf, Arthaus Publishing or Sword & Sorcery Studios.
Is this licence going to be printed in the front of each rule book/suppliemnt? If I buy a rulebook without this licence in it, and they come after me for fees, where do I stand? Can a company distribute a product with no restrictions noted in it, and then come after me for not abiding by a licence I never agreed to, never saw and was not even aware of?
I do not charge a fee to play WW games. I charge a fee for our regular "Local Gaming Group" to cover admin costs for venue, newsletter, and assorted sundries. Occaisonally, we play WW games. Not every week. Do I need a licence? How often Do I need a Licence?What If i apply for a licence and then don;t play? What if we we'ren't going to play WW, but then do? Can I retroactively apply for a licecnce?
Alternatively, can I ignore this ruling altogether?
"But the video game industry has so far ignored the topic of religion."
I play: Pharoah (God-On-Earth, charged with ensuring the God's-In-Heaven get enough worship). Black'n'White (God-Game). Populous (God-Game) Civilisation (Charts progress of religious worship) Most RPG-type games (especially medieval/Fantasy) have their own religions. (Pauses before mentioning Star Wars/Jedi...) and many more. Even Carmageddon has a "Hell" level... Haven't seen SimChurch yet...
Games have addressed Religion. It is Religion that has not addressed Video Games.
Why not, instead of trying to get games-writers to include (your choice of) Religion, get your religious people to write games.
USA_funded IRA Bombings were usually preceded by a warning to evacuate, so that there was little loss of life. Town-centres were evacuated. Then a huge bomb would go off. Just to make sure people realised they were serious. The IRA are in no way "peace-loving hippies". They are a vicious bunch of criminals. Whoever planned this attack may have planned it to have low deaths, to lower the retaliation. "Bombs kill 2 in London" has a lot less power for retaliation than "Bomb kills hundreds in London. War Cabinet has been formed"
My current peeve in this area is people saying the opposite of what they mean, with little clue that they are actually doing it.
"I could care less" means that the speaker does care more. "I could not care less" means that the speaker does not care very much, in fact they could not care any less than they do.
In my experience, the phrases are used to mean the same thing, i.e. the speaker does not care very much. This is correctly done by using the second version.
The phrase has also been shortened to "I could care..." as in "I could care about your problems, I have more important things to do". This could be considered more in keeping with the original intent e.g. "I could care (but I don't)..."
Unwittingly using the negative version of a sentence to try to comunicate the positive version leads to many errors and misunderstandings.
Sid Meier should be considered for a knighthood, for services to Computerised Games. Civ, Col, AlphaCantauri, they all sit in my "essential software to re-install after a crash/upgrade". Call to Power was great. Civ 4 this Autumn? Its already on my xmas list!
I'm just wondering how hard USA would fight to stop its colonies on the moon from claiming their independance...
Surely as a Free Market Economy, USA should have no jusrisdiction, and compete on equal footing with other Nations to supply the imports MoonBase will need.
I have been waiting for a 3-in-one pizza oven/PC/beer-cooler. Use the excess heat from the CPU to cook that pizza, and ramp up the cooling system to keep my cans nice n frosty.
"Looks like we've got company arriving tonight" "sure thing, I'll play another couple of levels of Half-life to get the oven nice n hot!"
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"this may be the case, but it doesn't really matter ... ... ... ... ... ... "
the producers would have developed the software anyways
if there is a coypright violation that has real impact on a developer then they'll just take it to the courts
are so wealthy that they can easily hire a lawyer to defend their IP rights
I agreed that it would be very very hard for the "little guy" to properly defend his IP
by using GPLed code and releasing it as a closed source product
Your justifications for breaking the law, breaching agreements and ignoring licencing are weak. Following these illegal activities is not recomended.
"Replace the harddrive, add more ram, replace mouse and keyboard, replace fans, replace the PS, if necessary. If its not clearly one of those, tell them they need a new PC."
...
... when you could have solved the actual problem.
Or it might be the CD-ROM. Or it might actually be a software problem.
"If they have a software problem, just tell them they need a new harddrive and reinstall windows on it. That's a whole lot faster than trying to remove all the crap they've installed on it."
A good way to lose freinds and customers. Data-retention is of paramount importance to a lot of people - college work, photos, genealogy records
Are you charging for the new hardware that they don't need? you could just format their existing drive, if you feel a re-install is the best way.
A lot of OEM Machines are difficult to install from the original media (the one they havea licence for) if the hardware has been changed(especially the hidden recovery partition)
"Keep the drives you swap out, format them at your leisure, and sell them to the next customer who has a malware problem."
These second-hand drives will have to be sold at reduced prices and clearly marked as second-hand. Putting unreliable equipment (you removed it for a reason, yes?) into a system is hardly what I would consider proffesional.
Your "Do it quick" tactics seem to revolve around replacing the HDD and reinstalling. Not a fast job. Install, drivers, software, updates
Except that this case is about fully-clothed sex, where as that NG picture is of a nude woman in a not-particularly-sexy pose. Nudity and sex are not the same.
And the GTA HC mod is FULLY CLOTHED.
" people who download music from peer to peer networks paid for four and a half times more music "
Or:
People who buy a lot of music also download music from P2P networks.
Buying Music encourages pirating? I suppose that is not the message they wanted to convey, and so read the statistics (lies and damned lies) differently.
Agreed.
A GNU/Linux distribution is not an OS. It is a Distribution, including an OS (Kernel and tools), applications, often some media (pictures, audio), documentation and more.
If you want JUST an OS, you need something like LFS or DSL.
Headline: Debris Seen Hitting Shuttle During Launch
...
...
Summary: While the debris does not appear to hit the shuttle
So Debris does not hit the shuttle, and someone decided to go with headline of Yes It Did!
And tomorow?
Headline: Bill Gates Seen Eating Babies!
Summary: While Bill Gates has never been seen eating babies, we did review his latest software release
It can take several hours to clean a machine properly, but with a workshop setup, you do not have to only clean one machine at a time.
Our small setup has four bays and so can be cleaning four machines at a time. Plus laptops (just need a power socket).
A lot of the time "spent" cleaning/scanning does not require interaction. Set the scans running, and ocaisianally glance over them; "Finished yet? Found much? let it run another 1/2 hour. Time for another game of Quake"
Assuming one wants to earn $90/hr, with four machines being cleaned, one only needds to charge $22.5/hr
Sure, one can charge $90 to each of them, but one may find that not all bays are being used, as customers choose the cheaper guy down the street.
If one is called out on-site, then prices rise, as it takes one away from the other work.
Sounds like my solution.
BUT the cable-monkies usually find a way of knotting the cables together while i'm out. This isn't a probelme until I come to move something and the wie is inexplicably linked to four other cables, and I need to rip out the whole set and start over.
And my PCs are spread around the lounge, on differnt walls, so I need network cable running round the skirting boards.
"Customers" prefer ...
What customers? I didn't think Blu-Ray or HD-DVD were on the market yet.
Or do they mean "People who have bought anything ever" ?
Or "People that we think will become customers" ?
Ignorance is the fault of the ignorant?
Do you explain to these users that the IBM disks will work, and WHY they willl?
Do you let them know the 'proper' (standard?) meaning of "downloading" ?
You have personally met them and know they are ignorant of 'technical' matters. So do you educate them or blame them?
IMHO the reason people still use floppy disks is because they are included with their PC.
People use Windows because it is included.
Ditto Internet Explorer.
Ditto Windows Media Player (and related formats).
The Pottery comment, as I read it, refers to Babylonian pottery tablets.
Thousands have been found, carrying huge amounts of information, and they have lasted (albeit a little damaged, but compare to floppy-disk corruption levels), for thousands of years.
I, too, used a tape-recorder for my ZX81. It sucked bigtime. All we had though - No pottery-scanner was compatible with Sinclair at the time.
"any LARP group "
Q. Which games fall under this license?
A. All White Wolf roleplaying games (traditional tabletop or live-action) regardless of setting. This includes all World of Darkness games, Exalted, Trinity, Scarred Lands and most anything else published by White Wolf, Arthaus Publishing or Sword & Sorcery Studios.
Is this licence going to be printed in the front of each rule book/suppliemnt?
If I buy a rulebook without this licence in it, and they come after me for fees, where do I stand?
Can a company distribute a product with no restrictions noted in it, and then come after me for not abiding by a licence I never agreed to, never saw and was not even aware of?
I do not charge a fee to play WW games. I charge a fee for our regular "Local Gaming Group" to cover admin costs for venue, newsletter, and assorted sundries.
Occaisonally, we play WW games. Not every week.
Do I need a licence? How often Do I need a Licence?What If i apply for a licence and then don;t play? What if we we'ren't going to play WW, but then do? Can I retroactively apply for a licecnce?
Alternatively, can I ignore this ruling altogether?
Ah, you mean "Identity Theft", or as we used to call it back in the day: "FRAUD".
...
With all these new words for things that happen "on mobile phones" and "on the internet", its a wonder we got along at all without them
"But the video game industry has so far ignored the topic of religion."
... ...
I play:
Pharoah (God-On-Earth, charged with ensuring the God's-In-Heaven get enough worship).
Black'n'White (God-Game).
Populous (God-Game)
Civilisation (Charts progress of religious worship)
Most RPG-type games (especially medieval/Fantasy) have their own religions.
(Pauses before mentioning Star Wars/Jedi...)
and many more.
Even Carmageddon has a "Hell" level
Haven't seen SimChurch yet
Games have addressed Religion.
It is Religion that has not addressed Video Games.
Why not, instead of trying to get games-writers to include (your choice of) Religion, get your religious people to write games.
USA_funded IRA Bombings were usually preceded by a warning to evacuate, so that there was little loss of life. Town-centres were evacuated.
Then a huge bomb would go off. Just to make sure people realised they were serious.
The IRA are in no way "peace-loving hippies". They are a vicious bunch of criminals.
Whoever planned this attack may have planned it to have low deaths, to lower the retaliation.
"Bombs kill 2 in London" has a lot less power for retaliation than "Bomb kills hundreds in London. War Cabinet has been formed"
Some of us already did.
In fact, some of us questioned it before we started fighting. And marched on the Capital to make our feelings known.
Although USA is the major force in Iraq, there are plenty of nations with troops there.
"Who would want a pill that makes you blind?"
"That's Marketings' problem"
You'd have thought a story about serious mathematical stuff would at least have the maths right....
...
... MOD PARENT UP!
Oh, sorry, forgot where I was
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My current peeve in this area is people saying the opposite of what they mean, with little clue that they are actually doing it.
..." as in "I could care about your problems, I have more important things to do". This could be considered more in keeping with the original intent e.g. "I could care (but I don't)..."
"I could care less" means that the speaker does care more.
"I could not care less" means that the speaker does not care very much, in fact they could not care any less than they do.
In my experience, the phrases are used to mean the same thing, i.e. the speaker does not care very much. This is correctly done by using the second version.
The phrase has also been shortened to "I could care
Unwittingly using the negative version of a sentence to try to comunicate the positive version leads to many errors and misunderstandings.
Sid Meier should be considered for a knighthood, for services to Computerised Games.
Civ, Col, AlphaCantauri, they all sit in my "essential software to re-install after a crash/upgrade".
Call to Power was great.
Civ 4 this Autumn? Its already on my xmas list!
Still playing MoM here. And Colonisation. And Masters Of Orion 2.
I'm just wondering how hard USA would fight to stop its colonies on the moon from claiming their independance...
Surely as a Free Market Economy, USA should have no jusrisdiction, and compete on equal footing with other Nations to supply the imports MoonBase will need.
I have been waiting for a 3-in-one pizza oven/PC/beer-cooler.
Use the excess heat from the CPU to cook that pizza, and ramp up the cooling system to keep my cans nice n frosty.
"Looks like we've got company arriving tonight"
"sure thing, I'll play another couple of levels of Half-life to get the oven nice n hot!"