Read the Friendly Article. This is about there being in-game (as in the computer game) rewards for people who spend real-life money on these collectible cards. My point is that this will follow the path that every other set of new content brings: People will be obsessed about it for a month, then the next patch will come out new content and they will move on.
Players of WoW will be pissed for about two weeks, then blizzard will implement [Axe of ZOMGWTF Pwnage], and soon they'll all be off to EPL to grind the 400 zombie asses they need to turn in to get it. This is just the epic obsession of the month. Next patch there will be something better.
The grandparent will probally be wondering why his employees are unwilling to stay late, work extra hours, and why they leave as soon as they get a better offer. In the non-military world, you need to show basic human descency or else you're going to get employees that won't do a damn thing more than their employment contract says they will do. If on the other hand, you're nice to them, you'll find your employees liking you more, which will lead to having loyalty, and them being willing to give the extra effort.
A member of the QA team said "I regret that I have but one crash report to give for my company"
Another member of Ethan Allen's team added "Give me Vista, or give me death". When Microsoft asked on what authority they could make such demands, Allen replied "In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress". Off the record, he also retorted "Come out, you son of an XP hack, or I'll smoke you out!"
I used to play as her. I rolled a female character to creep out my finace. I abandoned that character about a year ago. I got a little sick of creepy gnomes that would/pinch and/flirt when I was on the subway. An interesting mirror to see the world through, to say the least.
Not to mention the human females all look like contestants for Miss Azeroth. I get a little worried when I see a "Heavy Mithril Breastplate" jiggling when my character runs. What do they make these thing out of? Mithril foil?
The French plan was to let themselves be flanked through Belgium, but then to counter attack through there, letting much of the fighting happen on Dutch or Belgain soil, so that France wouldn't be torn apart like it was in WWI.
The Germans went through too fast, however. France was very well prepared to fight WWI. Just in time to fight WWII
It isnt' always faster. A real-time system that uses polling based IO where each application gets, say, a 10ms timeslice every 100ms, might be a bit slower than a non-real time system that uses interrupt-driven IO when the system is under a light load. (interrupt IO is a bit trickier in a real-time OS, since one input can basically spam out every other application).
For a person in party X, party !X is crooked as hell. Party X is justified in 'bending' the rules because it's only to deal with something party !X has done.
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good idea, except for point two.
Enjoy a free Big Mac today if you bring in your slip that says you voted for X!!
Or: Ah, late on the rent again. Tell ya what. Bring me in your voting slip next week that says you voted for X, and we'll call it even, otherwise you're out on the street.
This could be avoided if it was deliberatly made easy to counterfeit the receipts, but it's still an issue.
I'm guilty of this myself. Sure, by day I wear an button with Elan and Banjo on my ESD lab coat, hang up pictures of my fiance and I dressing up like Pompey and Vaarsuvius (from the same comic) outside my cube, and reading Linux Kernel Device driver books for fun. But by night, when no one is looking, I'm over at sportsdot and playing fantasy football.
It varies depending on the culture. As another poster pointed out, some people in the US (IE, former slaves), can trace their last name to the last name of the person that owned thier ancestor.
Back in the middle ages, people didn't have last names. When populations grew to a size where there might be multiple people with a certain first name, there were basically two conventions used. "Bob the Baker", or "Bob John's Son". Later, as last names became more common, those would be shortened to "Bob Baker" or "Bob Johnson". Other cultures did things the same way. "Bob of John" (shortened to Bob O'John) or Bob McJohn for the Irish, Bob von John for the Germans, Bob duJohn for the French, etc.
I like, know what you mean. Last night I was huffing Dark Matter, it was like I was on FIRE man. I went tango dancing with Stephen Hawking and then we watched Charles Darwin and Al Sharpton settle the whole Intelligent Design vs. Evolution thing once and for all by having a hot dog eating contest.
the term cat and mouse game implies that there is a chance for the big media companies to win. For every programer that they employ to create DRM, there are at least 10 hackers sitting around with nothing better to do than to break this, and many of them come from countries that either do not respect US IP laws (Korea, China), or that do not have such insane IP laws like ours to begin with (Sweden). To be blunt, they do not have a chance to win at all.
Sad to say, they may actually be hurting things more than they're helping. I want my military to have the best tools available. Accurate bombs kill fewer civilians.
That being said, I'd really like to see someone try to enforce this. If they miliary wants to use it, they'll just use it. The US miliary will just use it, and good luck getting anyone who isn't the US to honor that 'no military' clause.
"This is one of the ballsiest moves I've ever been privy to"
Does anyone have the numbers on whether or not circuit city can afford to stand its legal ground against the MPAA? I imagine they'll probally settle out of court such that Circuit City can make the copies, provided that they include the same copy-protection stuff on the copied DVD as was on the original. The stakes that Circuit City and the MPAA are gambling are frighteningly high, as they risk setting a legal precident that says that you can't bypass copy protection for your own fair-use rights. On the other hand, a precident the other way would be a deathknell to a lot of the provision of the DMCA.
Only for some weapons. Most guns when adapted to the new 'D30 Modern' system are 28-30x2.
on the down side, it will lead to even crazier wealth check results (We had a guy that was able to afford a car, but was unable to afford a knife due to some crazy rolls.)
We had those in my freshman computer enginnering classes. We had these little Rug Warrior robots that we got to program to do crazy things like navigate a maze, measure the area of a room, etc. They were a great introduction not only to the field, but also to a lot of other concepts such as the C language, pointer, and working with registers and drivers.
sadly, our Computer Science department is moving in the opposite direction. They recently changed the first language they teach freshman from C++ to Java. I can't think of a worse (learning) language. They're not getting basic concepts such as memory management, pointers, improving performance, or debugging without some fischer-price gui there to hold thier hands.
plus good thought gilroy. oldspel is thoughtcrime. why have crimewords like "freedom" when "unslavery" works doubleplus good. I must return to work before Big Brother eyes me surfing slashdot (plus ungood!).
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Read the Friendly Article. This is about there being in-game (as in the computer game) rewards for people who spend real-life money on these collectible cards. My point is that this will follow the path that every other set of new content brings: People will be obsessed about it for a month, then the next patch will come out new content and they will move on.
Players of WoW will be pissed for about two weeks, then blizzard will implement [Axe of ZOMGWTF Pwnage], and soon they'll all be off to EPL to grind the 400 zombie asses they need to turn in to get it. This is just the epic obsession of the month. Next patch there will be something better.
The grandparent will probally be wondering why his employees are unwilling to stay late, work extra hours, and why they leave as soon as they get a better offer. In the non-military world, you need to show basic human descency or else you're going to get employees that won't do a damn thing more than their employment contract says they will do. If on the other hand, you're nice to them, you'll find your employees liking you more, which will lead to having loyalty, and them being willing to give the extra effort.
Another member of Ethan Allen's team added "Give me Vista, or give me death". When Microsoft asked on what authority they could make such demands, Allen replied "In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress". Off the record, he also retorted "Come out, you son of an XP hack, or I'll smoke you out!"
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I used to play as her. I rolled a female character to creep out my finace. I abandoned that character about a year ago. I got a little sick of creepy gnomes that would /pinch and /flirt when I was on the subway. An interesting mirror to see the world through, to say the least.
Not to mention the human females all look like contestants for Miss Azeroth. I get a little worried when I see a "Heavy Mithril Breastplate" jiggling when my character runs. What do they make these thing out of? Mithril foil?
Crack coming in 5...4...3...
The Germans went through too fast, however. France was very well prepared to fight WWI. Just in time to fight WWII
Interestingly enough, that word in French can also be translated to be "Maginot Line".
It isnt' always faster. A real-time system that uses polling based IO where each application gets, say, a 10ms timeslice every 100ms, might be a bit slower than a non-real time system that uses interrupt-driven IO when the system is under a light load. (interrupt IO is a bit trickier in a real-time OS, since one input can basically spam out every other application).
For a person in party X, party !X is crooked as hell. Party X is justified in 'bending' the rules because it's only to deal with something party !X has done.
Enjoy a free Big Mac today if you bring in your slip that says you voted for X!!
Or: Ah, late on the rent again. Tell ya what. Bring me in your voting slip next week that says you voted for X, and we'll call it even, otherwise you're out on the street.
This could be avoided if it was deliberatly made easy to counterfeit the receipts, but it's still an issue.
*cries*
Back in the middle ages, people didn't have last names. When populations grew to a size where there might be multiple people with a certain first name, there were basically two conventions used. "Bob the Baker", or "Bob John's Son". Later, as last names became more common, those would be shortened to "Bob Baker" or "Bob Johnson". Other cultures did things the same way. "Bob of John" (shortened to Bob O'John) or Bob McJohn for the Irish, Bob von John for the Germans, Bob duJohn for the French, etc.
That dark matter stuff is better than ether, man.
the term cat and mouse game implies that there is a chance for the big media companies to win. For every programer that they employ to create DRM, there are at least 10 hackers sitting around with nothing better to do than to break this, and many of them come from countries that either do not respect US IP laws (Korea, China), or that do not have such insane IP laws like ours to begin with (Sweden). To be blunt, they do not have a chance to win at all.
That being said, I'd really like to see someone try to enforce this. If they miliary wants to use it, they'll just use it. The US miliary will just use it, and good luck getting anyone who isn't the US to honor that 'no military' clause.
Does anyone have the numbers on whether or not circuit city can afford to stand its legal ground against the MPAA? I imagine they'll probally settle out of court such that Circuit City can make the copies, provided that they include the same copy-protection stuff on the copied DVD as was on the original. The stakes that Circuit City and the MPAA are gambling are frighteningly high, as they risk setting a legal precident that says that you can't bypass copy protection for your own fair-use rights. On the other hand, a precident the other way would be a deathknell to a lot of the provision of the DMCA.
I mis-read the title as "Blackbeard Patenting Educational Groupware" and thought that the pirate party had taken off a lot better than expected
on the down side, it will lead to even crazier wealth check results (We had a guy that was able to afford a car, but was unable to afford a knife due to some crazy rolls.)
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Seriously, I can't think of a worse system than quotas to put investigators under. It just screams Civil-Rights-Violation-Waiting-To-Happen.
Only Go^H^Han intelligent designer could have implemented DNA with private and protected data. This sort of thing just can't randomly 'evolve'.
sadly, our Computer Science department is moving in the opposite direction. They recently changed the first language they teach freshman from C++ to Java. I can't think of a worse (learning) language. They're not getting basic concepts such as memory management, pointers, improving performance, or debugging without some fischer-price gui there to hold thier hands.
plus good thought gilroy. oldspel is thoughtcrime. why have crimewords like "freedom" when "unslavery" works doubleplus good. I must return to work before Big Brother eyes me surfing slashdot (plus ungood!). PS.