a) new - WTF, abusing system RAM for
graphics RAM is really old!
and
b) faster - BS, direct attached RAM on the
card itself can't be outperformed
over whatever bus the card sits in!
instead of what it really is: a bad and old trick to save costs for real graphics memory.
They even encourage the card manufacturers to conceal the fact of the crippeled RAM size, they tell them to write "supports up to 128 MB" instead of "has only 16 MB" on the packages.
The bad thing is that there are enough idiots out there who will buy this shit that Nvidia will get away with it.
It all exists on Blizzard's servers and as such they have ownership of any virtual items.
LOL, if that was true, all the $$$ in your bank account would belong to the bank. Luckily, ownership does not end when the property becomes virtual.
And even if the stuff was really not my property, I own the right to use it, and I can sell this right to whomever I want. Neither way can Blizzard tell me what I can or can't do with my items!
I don't know what Blizzard thinks they are, but at least here in Germany no company will tell me when and how I can sell or do whatever else with my very own property!
Although I don't like the fact that rich people get better chances at the game (like in RL, isn't it?), there must be an other way to prevent this.
where it's normal to share a tiny apartment in the city with other families
Ever looked at the rents in Tokyo? 20 m cost you more than I earn as a well paid network admin in Germany before taxes. Then you know why such things happen.
As the spammer unsually wants to sell me something, wouldn't it be plain stupid to work with a forged address? After all the spammer does not want my order to land somewhere else than in his mailbox!
I don't know much about this, as I delete Spam immediately.
I still don't understand. If GS doesn't work for me, I'll find my opponents/companions otherwise. Even if it's built in, I can't imagine that you 'd be forced to find other players only though it, only idiots would buy such a game! You can get together on Websites, IRC, IM or many many other ways, swap your IP addresses and go playing, where's the problem?
I'm not into (online) gaming much, so forgive me, if I understood something wrong.
AFAIU GameSpy is a tool that helps you to locate other players that want to play the same game online. So, if they drop the support for my OS or fuck up things in other ways, I'll quit using it and search for companions/opponents somewhere else and with another tool or no tool at all.
This is the proof, even here in Germany the SCHUFA charges you for your very own infos about yourself, being backed by the govt although it is illegal to charge for it.
This can't be true! It's the whole end of the story and contains a lot of the message that Tolkien has put into LOTR.
It was a big, big flaw that it was left out in the cinema version, but I can't imagine P. Jackson being such a complete idiot that he wholly omits such an important part of the story. OTOH, he was idiot enough to inflate the Aragorn-Arwen lovestory so annoyingly, so who knows?
And about the considerations of length: If I have enough movie-time that I can even waste it with a big bloat of the lovestory, there must be enough time to let the movie have the correct ending.
Ah, ok. This way could be legal in Germany, too. Although I can't imagine why anyone would pay for this license, when he could buy the cops somewhere else.
No, I'm not copying anything. It's the plant that makes the new seeds. That a plant reproduces itself is simply natural and happens without my influence.
you may have the use of the room, but it's not yours.
As the law stands, GM plants contain somebody's IP, and that somebody gets the right to say what it can be used for.
There is some IP that belongs to someone in nearly any product of a little compexity. Ever saw a car manufacturer telling the people on which roads they could drive or a shoe manufacturer dictating where you can walk or what you can do while wearing the shoes? Nobody would accept that!
IP law prevents that you build someone others products that he ivented. When you buy crops, and it grows crops itself, you have not rebuilt anything, so you can't be held liable that a plant is growing and produces seeds, that is a simple natural occurence!
Yes, just like the CD your commercial compiler came on.
No, this is not software, where other kinds of law apply than with nearly all other products. (Like other products, only the "how to build it" should be protected by IP law, not the product itself!)...subject to the terms of the licence "shrinkpwrapped" with them.
And those shrinkwrap toilet papers have exactly no relevance when it comes to court, at least here in Germany. You have a contract of sale, which is the only relevant contract.
Unfortunately, when you purchase GM seeds from the owner of the intellectual properly, you're effectively licenced for one use of them only - growing the crop for feed or industrial use.
Why should I? If I have a normal contract of sale, those crops become my property and I can deal with it like I please. It would be something other, if I didn't buy the seeds, but made a contract where I bought the right to use it.
If you acquire the seed in any other way (whether through purchase from someone who doesn't have a licence to sell it as seedstock, or from your own fields) you aren't licenced to use it as seedstock.
Here again, if I have a normal contract of purcase, the crops become my property. If the seller had any contracts that prohibited him from selling it to me, it's his problem.
You can mill it, you can feed it to your pigs, you can use it to make biodiesel, but if you stick it in the ground you have committed an unlicensed use of the seed.
But I'm not bound to any licenses, it would only violate IP law, if I "built" my own seeds.
And, after all, this is totally stupid. Only ways how to construct something should be protected by IP law, not the products themselves and what the owner does with them.
If I buy seeds, they become my property. I can do whatever I want with them, plant, sell or eat them. If I grow them and the resulting plants grow seeds themselves, these seeds are my very own property, too. I can do whatever I like with my property, and nobody has any right to tell me when I can put my property in the ground and when not!
No, but they are responsible for the actions of their employees. And they should be held to be.
Just imagine a small company where some guy runs a illegal copy of Windows XP. Sure they would be sued or threatened with it to pay the license fee plus something. Same procedure should be applied to MS.
Yes, just recently I listened to Marillion's 'Misplaced Childhood' album. It's fantastic, how it is one piece of work, fluently connected songs and including the cover art, in which you can find several connections to the lyrics.
Such pieces of art are hard to find nowadays, even outside the mainstream, where it is impossible.
I can see nothing funny in these debates. They just try to make the people hear what they want to hear, so they are given the power. In case of GWB he then does what the people really in power want him to do. Kerry won't be totally independent either, but he's a lot smarter and much more sensible. But he's still a politician.
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And these morons at Nvidia try to sell it as
a) new - WTF, abusing system RAM for
graphics RAM is really old!
and
b) faster - BS, direct attached RAM on the
card itself can't be outperformed
over whatever bus the card sits in!
instead of what it really is: a bad and old trick to save costs for real graphics memory.
They even encourage the card manufacturers to conceal the fact of the crippeled RAM size, they tell them to write "supports up to 128 MB" instead of "has only 16 MB" on the packages.
The bad thing is that there are enough idiots out there who will buy this shit that Nvidia will get away with it.
Ingame items are not your property.
Whose else than mine?
It all exists on Blizzard's servers and as such they have ownership of any virtual items.
LOL, if that was true, all the $$$ in your bank account would belong to the bank. Luckily, ownership does not end when the property becomes virtual.
And even if the stuff was really not my property, I own the right to use it, and I can sell this right to whomever I want. Neither way can Blizzard tell me what I can or can't do with my items!
I don't know what Blizzard thinks they are, but at least here in Germany no company will tell me when and how I can sell or do whatever else with my very own property!
Although I don't like the fact that rich people get better chances at the game (like in RL, isn't it?), there must be an other way to prevent this.
where it's normal to share a tiny apartment in the city with other families
Ever looked at the rents in Tokyo? 20 m cost you more than I earn as a well paid network admin in Germany before taxes. Then you know why such things happen.
As the spammer unsually wants to sell me something, wouldn't it be plain stupid to work with a forged address? After all the spammer does not want my order to land somewhere else than in his mailbox!
I don't know much about this, as I delete Spam immediately.
I still don't understand. If GS doesn't work for me, I'll find my opponents/companions otherwise. Even if it's built in, I can't imagine that you 'd be forced to find other players only though it, only idiots would buy such a game! You can get together on Websites, IRC, IM or many many other ways, swap your IP addresses and go playing, where's the problem?
I'm not into (online) gaming much, so forgive me, if I understood something wrong.
AFAIU GameSpy is a tool that helps you to locate other players that want to play the same game online. So, if they drop the support for my OS or fuck up things in other ways, I'll quit using it and search for companions/opponents somewhere else and with another tool or no tool at all.
So, what's the big fuzz around this?
Kosi
This is the proof, even here in Germany the SCHUFA charges you for your very own infos about yourself, being backed by the govt although it is illegal to charge for it.
As an iPod is a thing, this can only mean as in "free beer", bot "free speech".
In other words, you suggest a PFY for everyone. Fine with me!
because you can never agree on anything.
Then it would have been the better idea to stay single. Or at least one should be clever enough not to watch movies with SWMBO.
Wait, did you say "girlfriend"? You must be an alien, after all this is Slashdot!
I miss the point here completely. Would someone please be so kind to explain the fun in the parent to me?
The scouring of the shrie is NOT in the EE
This can't be true! It's the whole end of the story and contains a lot of the message that Tolkien has put into LOTR.
It was a big, big flaw that it was left out in the cinema version, but I can't imagine P. Jackson being such a complete idiot that he wholly omits such an important part of the story. OTOH, he was idiot enough to inflate the Aragorn-Arwen lovestory so annoyingly, so who knows?
And about the considerations of length: If I have enough movie-time that I can even waste it with a big bloat of the lovestory, there must be enough time to let the movie have the correct ending.
You didn't even read the post? It's about California, not Germany!
Ah, ok. This way could be legal in Germany, too. Although I can't imagine why anyone would pay for this license, when he could buy the cops somewhere else.
Kosi
But you're copying
No, I'm not copying anything. It's the plant that makes the new seeds. That a plant reproduces itself is simply natural and happens without my influence.
you may have the use of the room, but it's not yours.
But the crops I buy is mine.
As the law stands, GM plants contain somebody's IP, and that somebody gets the right to say what it can be used for.
There is some IP that belongs to someone in nearly any product of a little compexity. Ever saw a car manufacturer telling the people on which roads they could drive or a shoe manufacturer dictating where you can walk or what you can do while wearing the shoes? Nobody would accept that!
IP law prevents that you build someone others products that he ivented. When you buy crops, and it grows crops itself, you have not rebuilt anything, so you can't be held liable that a plant is growing and produces seeds, that is a simple natural occurence!
Kosi
Yes, just like the CD your commercial compiler came on.
...subject to the terms of the licence "shrinkpwrapped" with them.
No, this is not software, where other kinds of law apply than with nearly all other products. (Like other products, only the "how to build it" should be protected by IP law, not the product itself!)
And those shrinkwrap toilet papers have exactly no relevance when it comes to court, at least here in Germany. You have a contract of sale, which is the only relevant contract.
Unfortunately, when you purchase GM seeds from the owner of the intellectual properly, you're effectively licenced for one use of them only - growing the crop for feed or industrial use.
Why should I? If I have a normal contract of sale, those crops become my property and I can deal with it like I please. It would be something other, if I didn't buy the seeds, but made a contract
where I bought the right to use it.
If you acquire the seed in any other way (whether through purchase from someone who doesn't have a licence to sell it as seedstock, or from your own fields) you aren't licenced to use it as seedstock.
Here again, if I have a normal contract of purcase, the crops become my property. If the seller had any contracts that prohibited him from selling it to me, it's his problem.
You can mill it, you can feed it to your pigs, you can use it to make biodiesel, but if you stick it in the ground you have committed an unlicensed use of the seed.
But I'm not bound to any licenses, it would only violate IP law, if I "built" my own seeds.
And, after all, this is totally stupid. Only ways how to construct something should be protected by IP law, not the products themselves and what the owner does with them.
If I buy seeds, they become my property. I can do whatever I want with them, plant, sell or eat them. If I grow them and the resulting plants grow seeds themselves, these seeds are my very own property, too. I can do whatever I like with my property, and nobody has any right to tell me when I can put my property in the ground and when not!
By the time ... its been in the operating system for a long time.
Yeah, it will be when MS donates the Windows sources to a museum.
No, but they are responsible for the actions of their employees. And they should be held to be.
Just imagine a small company where some guy runs a illegal copy of Windows XP. Sure they would be sued or threatened with it to pay the license fee plus something. Same procedure should be applied to MS.
Yes, just recently I listened to Marillion's 'Misplaced Childhood' album. It's fantastic, how it is one piece of work, fluently connected songs and including the cover art, in which you can find several connections to the lyrics.
Such pieces of art are hard to find nowadays, even outside the mainstream, where it is impossible.
I can see nothing funny in these debates. They just try to make the people hear what they want to hear, so they are given the power. In case of GWB he then does what the people really in power want him to do. Kerry won't be totally independent either, but he's a lot smarter and much more sensible. But he's still a politician.
Geez, every time I stumble across such stuff, I'm happy to live in europe, our law implies a warranty of 24 months length.