In a word: Yes.
Thankfully I've got unlimited text now, but unless you want to spend 100+ dollars a month you won't have unlimited talk/text, and LIMITED data (5gb) will put you up to 150+ for a single user (family plans lower this slightly but not a whole lot. 70+ dollars per phone, plus 30 each for data. And that's T-Mobile/Verizon's prices, not ATT)
The cotton gin and the American Industrial Revolution (Hint: We stole many of our inventions from Britain and ignored their own copyright/patent laws because it economically benefitted us... But we'll complain now when other developing nations do the same thing? Go look at China for another example, they've spent how many decades copying american patent/copyrighted stuff and now all of a sudden are making the move to 'Big IP' now that they've got creations of their own.
Get rid of patents and make the licensing based on FDA certification. After X number of years it goes PD. Given that the field trials and certification are supposedly where a lot of the money is spent, doing it this way allows the same effect while removing the patent motivation altogether. If someone else can get a similiar but different drug trialed and past the clinical trials, then they can do the same thing (or license the original from whoever got it certified.)
Problem solved, and patents weren't even necessary.
If you're trying to be cute, tell her the two of you need time debugging how to spawn a child process.
If she's really nerdy in a computer savvy sort of way that should work far better wonders than some of these other suggestions:)
The payments may be free, but I imagine the VAT is not?
And I imagine they expect it on all bank to bank transfer for goods and services?
Disclosure: I'm just a dumb American, so I don't know much, beyond large government organizations like taxing commerce, intra or inter state.
I actually made a longer post in a reply further up about that very issue. I forgot to mention the lack of some form of escrow or a required copy in order to provide the copyrighter with their desired protections. If such a thing became required to enforce copyrights, perhaps more information from this generation, culturally significant or not, would survive for future generations to explore.
I've been complaining about this for a while regarding source code. The notable example I can remember pointing this out was Star Control 2 (Ur Quan Masters is the name of the Open Source release.) Due to the fact that they weren't required to SUPPLY a copy of their copyrighted work/code/etc in order to obtain copyright, the original source code for the DOS version of the game was lost years ago. Toys for Bob, the guys who had programmed it (But not distributed it, which is why it's not called the SC2 Open Source release) decided after many years of fan interest to allow a full open source release of the game, datafiles and all. However they'd lost the master source code for the game years before, which resulted in the release instead of the 3do version of the source code, which thankfully HAD survived all these years.
My point with this being: In the 50-100 years or so when CP/M, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, Microsoft Windows 1.0, etc should be coming out of copyright, allowing people three to five generations from now to benefit from being able to explore the code behind the massively successful and historic works, those works will not exist, because in the greatest travesty of this generation (and there are many, both great and small), all of that information, code, documents, film, etc will be lost, because nobody other than the 'owners' was allowed to look at, back up, save, translate, and otherwise secure those culturally significant treasures for future generations. (And yes some people might not consider these items 'treasures' but they are important to both outlook and understanding of what went on during the latter half of the 20th century on through to today.
Given how much that 33 percent drop in profits is costing him in viagra, probably more like a blow job with every copy sold (lube is expensive! Spit is not!)
EXCEPT Bacteria is self-replicating, Viruses ARE NOT. That's the key difference you're missing here.
In the case of bacteria anti-biotics are killing it directly, thus not all bacteria is killed immediately.
In contrast to this, the virus has to be able to infect a cell first in order to replicate.
Don't worry, I'm sure the next addition to TPM will be a built in nuclear clock using the isotope decay to keep it energized. That way all future computers manufacturered will be unable to have the wrong timestamp set on files:) (Obv that won't be 100 percent true, but you can see the gov. wanting that perception present... saves on prosecution time:D)
Hey, I *AM* Still using Win2k, and you know what? It's *ON* A new computer. WITH Radeon HD3650, And a Logitech DFP, with a 500 gig SATA hard disk.
And y'know what? It runs circles around both Vista and XP, has had no crashes (although it HAS had irrepairable registry corruption! Appears to be either app or driver related but it's hard to track down once the OS is hosed.)
Best part is, with the except of games using Windows Live or Developer Studio 2k8 runtime libs I've had no problems installing/running games that are supposed to be XP only.
Anyone else out there with me?
I *WISH* She had oversized tits, it would've given me something to keep me occupied during the embarrassing excuse for dialogue that accompanied Episodes 2&3 of Star Wars that I finally got around to watching this week... I really wish I could return these videos for a refund because that's 30 bucks and 4.5 hours of my life I'm never going to get back:D
Hey, be glad, technically in California (most of the rest of the US is more lax) we can't even get R32 Skylines because they'd have to pass all requisite crash safety testing and such. Motorex was the exception, and since their demise (as well as the fact that the crash testing only covered '96+ R33's) you can't legally import them to Cali, and grey market cars titled out of state have the same restrictions (bring them in to cal and get caught and you have two weeks to have them out of state before they're crushed) Additionally our smog exemption status is stuck at 1975, due in part to our made-for-tv governor's decision to lock it there rather than on the 30 year schedule it was supposed to hold to. (Much like the 15 year smog and safety exemption you lucky bums currently have.)
Shame on you for not getting it reported for the rest of us! I haven't been to defcon in years, and given that 'authentic vegas atmosphere' wouldn't go back, but the STE closing I would've made time for.
I will agree with you here. I was actually just saying 'Slashdot lets me down again.' given that a lot of the articles that've been coming up in the last couple months have been 'too little too late' affairs with things not being mentioned until AFTER they happen. Kinda sucks when it's places/things nerds might actually want to GO TO/BUY.
I actually had been to Vegas once, like 5 years ago, and had thought of going to it (except I would've been underage at the time) and had no clue where it was located. Given what a filthy disgusting place Vegas felt like, even on the trailing end of the strip (down towards the airport, nevermind a few blocks in from the strip proper!) I would never have gone back there again. However if I'd been told about this closure last week, I would've grabbed every damn cent I had, jumped in my car driven my ass 8 hours straight to Vegas, and spent every dime on me enjoying my last shot at the experience. And that's coming from someone who hasn't watched an episode of Star Trek in a good 3-4 years, and hasn't considered theirself a trekkie in a good 10 years.
Actually someone had mentioned it months ago in another article, but EA has been a publisher since the very beginning, most of the games people thought were amazing and innovative were only so because of the small time game companies that either convinces EA to publish them, or were courted by EA because they saw potential.
Maybe that's what needs to happen more nowadays, publishers stick to what they're good at: publishing, and leave the game development to independent studios who then market it to publishers with whatever contract they can mutually agree upon (and this right here is why publishers wouldn't want that...)
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In a word: Yes. Thankfully I've got unlimited text now, but unless you want to spend 100+ dollars a month you won't have unlimited talk/text, and LIMITED data (5gb) will put you up to 150+ for a single user (family plans lower this slightly but not a whole lot. 70+ dollars per phone, plus 30 each for data. And that's T-Mobile/Verizon's prices, not ATT)
If you've ever seen the WINGS on a V1 you'd know why they were so slow. The V2s on the other hand... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb There's a link for ya :)
The cotton gin and the American Industrial Revolution (Hint: We stole many of our inventions from Britain and ignored their own copyright/patent laws because it economically benefitted us... But we'll complain now when other developing nations do the same thing? Go look at China for another example, they've spent how many decades copying american patent/copyrighted stuff and now all of a sudden are making the move to 'Big IP' now that they've got creations of their own.
Get rid of patents and make the licensing based on FDA certification. After X number of years it goes PD. Given that the field trials and certification are supposedly where a lot of the money is spent, doing it this way allows the same effect while removing the patent motivation altogether. If someone else can get a similiar but different drug trialed and past the clinical trials, then they can do the same thing (or license the original from whoever got it certified.) Problem solved, and patents weren't even necessary.
First Pandora's Box opened!
If you're trying to be cute, tell her the two of you need time debugging how to spawn a child process. If she's really nerdy in a computer savvy sort of way that should work far better wonders than some of these other suggestions :)
The payments may be free, but I imagine the VAT is not? And I imagine they expect it on all bank to bank transfer for goods and services? Disclosure: I'm just a dumb American, so I don't know much, beyond large government organizations like taxing commerce, intra or inter state.
The chinese are famous for their shell games :)
Which shell is it under? That one? Noooo.
I actually made a longer post in a reply further up about that very issue. I forgot to mention the lack of some form of escrow or a required copy in order to provide the copyrighter with their desired protections. If such a thing became required to enforce copyrights, perhaps more information from this generation, culturally significant or not, would survive for future generations to explore.
I've been complaining about this for a while regarding source code. The notable example I can remember pointing this out was Star Control 2 (Ur Quan Masters is the name of the Open Source release.) Due to the fact that they weren't required to SUPPLY a copy of their copyrighted work/code/etc in order to obtain copyright, the original source code for the DOS version of the game was lost years ago. Toys for Bob, the guys who had programmed it (But not distributed it, which is why it's not called the SC2 Open Source release) decided after many years of fan interest to allow a full open source release of the game, datafiles and all. However they'd lost the master source code for the game years before, which resulted in the release instead of the 3do version of the source code, which thankfully HAD survived all these years. My point with this being: In the 50-100 years or so when CP/M, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, Microsoft Windows 1.0, etc should be coming out of copyright, allowing people three to five generations from now to benefit from being able to explore the code behind the massively successful and historic works, those works will not exist, because in the greatest travesty of this generation (and there are many, both great and small), all of that information, code, documents, film, etc will be lost, because nobody other than the 'owners' was allowed to look at, back up, save, translate, and otherwise secure those culturally significant treasures for future generations. (And yes some people might not consider these items 'treasures' but they are important to both outlook and understanding of what went on during the latter half of the 20th century on through to today.
Obviously the Death Star Logo for AT&T, after they buy up Verizon so one of the lines can be etched with 'Can you hear me now?' :D
Given how much that 33 percent drop in profits is costing him in viagra, probably more like a blow job with every copy sold (lube is expensive! Spit is not!)
Of failed automobile cities of any country? :D
EXCEPT Bacteria is self-replicating, Viruses ARE NOT. That's the key difference you're missing here. In the case of bacteria anti-biotics are killing it directly, thus not all bacteria is killed immediately. In contrast to this, the virus has to be able to infect a cell first in order to replicate.
Don't worry, I'm sure the next addition to TPM will be a built in nuclear clock using the isotope decay to keep it energized. That way all future computers manufacturered will be unable to have the wrong timestamp set on files :) (Obv that won't be 100 percent true, but you can see the gov. wanting that perception present... saves on prosecution time :D)
Hey, I *AM* Still using Win2k, and you know what? It's *ON* A new computer. WITH Radeon HD3650, And a Logitech DFP, with a 500 gig SATA hard disk. And y'know what? It runs circles around both Vista and XP, has had no crashes (although it HAS had irrepairable registry corruption! Appears to be either app or driver related but it's hard to track down once the OS is hosed.) Best part is, with the except of games using Windows Live or Developer Studio 2k8 runtime libs I've had no problems installing/running games that are supposed to be XP only. Anyone else out there with me?
Penetration Enhanced Network Interface Security.
Except by that point you'll be senile, and you can just have the clock set to 199x anyways, and problem solved :D
You mean because it also filters out the morons who were too stupid to not have kids? :D
I *WISH* She had oversized tits, it would've given me something to keep me occupied during the embarrassing excuse for dialogue that accompanied Episodes 2&3 of Star Wars that I finally got around to watching this week... I really wish I could return these videos for a refund because that's 30 bucks and 4.5 hours of my life I'm never going to get back :D
America? :D
Hey, be glad, technically in California (most of the rest of the US is more lax) we can't even get R32 Skylines because they'd have to pass all requisite crash safety testing and such. Motorex was the exception, and since their demise (as well as the fact that the crash testing only covered '96+ R33's) you can't legally import them to Cali, and grey market cars titled out of state have the same restrictions (bring them in to cal and get caught and you have two weeks to have them out of state before they're crushed) Additionally our smog exemption status is stuck at 1975, due in part to our made-for-tv governor's decision to lock it there rather than on the 30 year schedule it was supposed to hold to. (Much like the 15 year smog and safety exemption you lucky bums currently have.)
Shame on you for not getting it reported for the rest of us! I haven't been to defcon in years, and given that 'authentic vegas atmosphere' wouldn't go back, but the STE closing I would've made time for.
I will agree with you here. I was actually just saying 'Slashdot lets me down again.' given that a lot of the articles that've been coming up in the last couple months have been 'too little too late' affairs with things not being mentioned until AFTER they happen. Kinda sucks when it's places/things nerds might actually want to GO TO/BUY.
I actually had been to Vegas once, like 5 years ago, and had thought of going to it (except I would've been underage at the time) and had no clue where it was located. Given what a filthy disgusting place Vegas felt like, even on the trailing end of the strip (down towards the airport, nevermind a few blocks in from the strip proper!) I would never have gone back there again. However if I'd been told about this closure last week, I would've grabbed every damn cent I had, jumped in my car driven my ass 8 hours straight to Vegas, and spent every dime on me enjoying my last shot at the experience. And that's coming from someone who hasn't watched an episode of Star Trek in a good 3-4 years, and hasn't considered theirself a trekkie in a good 10 years.
Truly a sad day!
Actually someone had mentioned it months ago in another article, but EA has been a publisher since the very beginning, most of the games people thought were amazing and innovative were only so because of the small time game companies that either convinces EA to publish them, or were courted by EA because they saw potential.
Maybe that's what needs to happen more nowadays, publishers stick to what they're good at: publishing, and leave the game development to independent studios who then market it to publishers with whatever contract they can mutually agree upon (and this right here is why publishers wouldn't want that...)