Laws, rules and properties are different for every game as well as between gaming and real worlds.
In one possible virtual environment, theft of the aforementioned amulet might consitute a property loss, while in another - taking the opposite team's flag is the premise for the whole exercise.
My point is - it should not be different. In real world, (in US, at least), the jurisdiction of the court is determined by the nature of the crime and the location where crime allegedly took place. So, if the crime took place inside a virtual gaming world, the plaintiff should appeal to the legal system or peoples court inside the target virtual environment rather than wasteing real taxpayers money on this virtual crap.
Re:This won't please YHWH/Allah/insert deity here
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New Calendar Proposal
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The 10 commandments are slightly different in jewdaism and in christianity, hence the numbering confusion.
...But, going to back to calendar. Well, fine, god rested on the seventh day. Does it say anywhere that after 7 days the week starts over? I don't recall any explicit statement, but if it doesn't... may i propose 10 day week. That way you can still take care of all your Sabath needs on the 7th day of the week and at the same time be on base-10 system. [just easier to count]
I have not tried the JDE, but i wasn't able to get Suse 8.1 and even Suse 9.0 installed as delivered on my machine due to SATA issues. Pretty much same error - installer couldn't find a place where to drop the OS.
My suspicion is that it may be the same issue. SATA only got seriously addressed at the end of 2.5 kernel tree, as i recall Redhat had its own version of kernel 2.4 that incidentally supported serial ATA, but Suse was behind on this front. Of course, for Sun not to include such support is just a shame, since more and more users switch to Serial ATA storage.
Of course it is for real, that's why they are building a new Copernicus data center - to accomodate all the new users for the gmail 1GB service.
And other derivative works....
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My Visit to SCO
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So, could SCO be saying that anything written in C or C++ or... wait, how about C#, is also a derivative work of Unix. In that case, why stop there, you can pretty much sue everybody under that assumption.
I think, just like the author has mentioned, they cannot really get a decent case against Linux. All we have to do is a source compare on one of those old Caldera distros. And if it turns out there - well, SCO has distributed the source code themselves... Did people actually use caldera?
And since they are claiming that JFS and SMP and other components contributed to Linux by IBM are coming from AIX, that remains just an assumption. Do they have a source for AIX? Of course they don't, i hope they don't. Good luck proving that one, buddy!
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I was raised on MacGyver, KnightRidder, Mission Impossible'88 - i am sad
The owls are just not what they appear, my friend! Omitting Twin Peaks is a serious crime
Did anybody notice - it's running through vmware http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=279&slide=4
French court has ordered Slashdot to stop displaying Microsoft banners....
Laws, rules and properties are different for every game as well as between gaming and real worlds.
In one possible virtual environment, theft of the aforementioned amulet might consitute a property loss, while in another - taking the opposite team's flag is the premise for the whole exercise.
My point is - it should not be different. In real world, (in US, at least), the jurisdiction of the court is determined by the nature of the crime and the location where crime allegedly took place. So, if the crime took place inside a virtual gaming world, the plaintiff should appeal to the legal system or peoples court inside the target virtual environment rather than wasteing real taxpayers money on this virtual crap.
dR!u$
Are you referring to their patent -> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/06/14 37236&tid=155&tid=109?
Somehow this reminds me of http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/graphics/ran d_computer.jpg/
* ducks for cover *
yeah...
I have not tried the JDE, but i wasn't able to get Suse 8.1 and even Suse 9.0 installed as delivered on my machine due to SATA issues. Pretty much same error - installer couldn't find a place where to drop the OS.
My suspicion is that it may be the same issue.
SATA only got seriously addressed at the end of 2.5 kernel tree, as i recall Redhat had its own version of kernel 2.4 that incidentally supported serial ATA, but Suse was behind on this front. Of course, for Sun not to include such support is just a shame, since more and more users switch to Serial ATA storage.
Just my 2c
Hmmm, i wonder what kind of targetted adds would terrorists be receiving....
Of course it is for real, that's why they are building a new Copernicus data center - to accomodate all the new users for the gmail 1GB service.
So, could SCO be saying that anything written in C or C++ or... wait, how about C#, is also a derivative work of Unix.
In that case, why stop there, you can pretty much sue everybody under that assumption.
I think, just like the author has mentioned, they cannot really get a decent case against Linux. All we have to do is a source compare on one of those old Caldera distros. And if it turns out there - well, SCO has distributed the source code themselves... Did people actually use caldera?
And since they are claiming that JFS and SMP and other components contributed to Linux by IBM are coming from AIX, that remains just an assumption. Do they have a source for AIX? Of course they don't, i hope they don't. Good luck proving that one, buddy!
Goot times!