...in IN-GAME GOLD. Not real money. Seriously, do you actually pay attention to these Blizzard games, or just hear little bits and pieces, and then get pissed about it?
They are also considering paid character appearance changes (face style/skin color) for real money (see WoW Insider for details of when they said this).
Actually, the thing to look at would be the changes in the dollar to euro exchange rate. Which shows that over the past 3 months or so (and especially the past couple of weeks), the dollar has been climbing vs the euro.
Will this apply to AIM sent text messages as well (if not, expect these people to automate it that way)? To send a text message from AIM, just open an IM to +11235551212 (+1, then the phone number without dashes). Or messages sent from Verizon's website?
All your numbers and calculations mean nothing because of one simple fact:
You'll never have a flash drive under $1. With optical media, it's a guarantee. In a few years, a BD-r will be 50 cents or cheaper.
Nobody will ever hand out a SD drive for distribution. It's too easy to lose a $10 card.
As long as optical media is cheap as in $/unit (NOT $/GB), they'll be around.
Yeah, right. Dual layer DVD(+/-)Rs are still over $1 each (except at some select online stores. In retail, try $2-5 each). No way BD-Rs are getting that cheap any time soon. Pressed disks probably will get cheaper, but the consumer available burnable ones? No way.
The gag order is to prevent an actual hacking event. These machines are in use in places outside NJ. By making this information available to the public prior the the election he'd be virtually ensuring tat there's be a breach, especially if as we suspect it's easy to crack the system.
This has little to do with trade secrets, which are often published, and which are protected by patents.
If the information in the report is enough for an actual hacking event to happen, then it should be released and every district using one of the machines should have to deal with it (go back to pen and paper). There is no excuse for allowing votes to be "counted" by machines you know are hackable. (Or for allowing machines to count votes without voter-verified paper ballots being the real count, but that's another topic.)
How about if a malicious site puts amazon.com in a iframe positioned so as to induce you to hit the 1-click order button on some expensive camera or something? Using an Amazon referral link to themselves, of course.
That's a very nice argument you've made there by redefining terms. DRM, to most of us here (and everywhere), means attempting to prevent us from copying (or doing something else with) information that has been given to us to view. If you are going to disagree with the rest of this post, please do so in light of this definition, not your own definition of DRM.
CHMOD and passwords are not DRM, they are real security, in that they attempt to do something which is possible (you really can prevent people from modifying your files or accessing your computer if you don't give them permission to do so). DRM is pretend security. If I can view it, then I can copy it. If you give me information, I should be able to do what I want with it for my personal use.
My vision is really messed up so I mostly just use my left eye. I only have noticeable depth perception problems on objects with no frame of reference. The best example of this is when playing tennis or ping-pong if the ball is high above the court/table I have problems telling exactly where it is.
As a side note, because of this, the red/blue and differing polarization 3-D glasses don't work very well for me. I suppose the shutter glasses might, I've never had a chance to try them out.
Assuming that you have obtained the software legally (for example, from somehow who is distributing it under the GPL), you need no further rights granted to run it. The GPL gives you the additional right to distribute the software (under the given conditions). However, the GPL also contains some things (like a disclaimer of warranty), which do apply to all end users.
Those are the patch notes for the last patch (2.4.3), not the current one on the test realm (3.0.2). Sorry, as GP I'm behind a filter, so I can't post the real ones.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the people who should really be suing EA are EA's shareholders, who have a chance (a small chance, but a chance), of proving that EA was not doing the right thing for it's profits by releasing games with DRM.
Here's an interview with Hans Camenzind, the said desinger of the 555. I thought this part was interesting:
There are no patents on the 555. Signetics did not want to apply for a patent. You see, the situation with patents in Silicon Valley in 1970 was entirely different than it is now. Everybody was stealing from everybody else. I designed the 555 Signetics produced it, and six months, or before a year later, National had it, Fairchild had it, and nobody paid any attention to patents. The people at Signetics told me they didn't want to apply for a patent, because what would happen if they tried to enforce that patent, is the people from Fairchild would come back with a Manhattan-sized telephone book and say "These are our patents, now let's see what you're violating". It was a house of cards - if you blew on it, the whole thing collapsed.
Actually, that sounds exactly like patents in Silicon Valley right now. Many software companies are gathering defensive patents to countersue with, just like that interview describes. Interesting to see that the practice dates back to early ICs.
What I would personally like is to be able to add certain sites to a password-protected "privacy list", so that visits to those sites would be stealthed, while visits to other sites would not. I don't want to have to start a special private session, which seems like a pretty lame way to do it. Mozilla should have looked at how to improve this feature by adding something like that, for example. Unfortunately it looks like Mozilla are just implementing the same thing as IE and Chrome, instead of looking to improve on it.
Let me be sure I've got this. Your proposal on how to keep from generating lists of sites you don't want people to know you visit, is to generate a list of sites you don't want people to know you visit.
Brilliant!
Or you store it as a list of hashes of domain names?
WoW passwords are case insensitive as well. (Really, I'm not joking, they are.)
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I'm not sure about that. I think the real jewel is the sandboxed tab infrastructure. FF's tracemonkey js VM will (probably) be as fast or faster than V8, though I don't know enough technical details to compare the two in any other way.
Actually, here's a comparison of Chrome's Javascript speed with Firefox 3.1 and Safari 3.1 (both with their new Javascript engines), and Chrome goes roughly twice as fast as either of them.
On the other hand, a limit laid out in is much better than one you don't know about. On the gripping hand, I guess Comcast just doesn't want your business if you use more than 250 GB per month?
Consider collectible card games like Magic. It could cost you hundreds of dollars to build an effective deck.
What I'm surprised about is that nobody has ever considered trying the same sort of thing with online gaming.
Never heard of Magic Online?. All the cards from real Magic (the last couple years of sets anyways)...for exactly the same prices. Yes, it's really $4 for a virtual pack of 15 random cards.
According to this post, and as can be seen at this closed bug, you won't get the nag screen on Linux if your version of GTK is too low to support FF3 (or on Windows if you're using a version before 2000).
I am still waiting for the test procedure that verifies the Big Bang theory.
Hypothesis: If the universe started with the Big Bang, the microwave background radiation should have this shape of energy density vs. freq. Conclusion: http://xkcd.com/54/ (see also: Wikipedia)
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WotLK- Paid character appearance enhancements
...in IN-GAME GOLD. Not real money. Seriously, do you actually pay attention to these Blizzard games, or just hear little bits and pieces, and then get pissed about it?
They are also considering paid character appearance changes (face style/skin color) for real money (see WoW Insider for details of when they said this).
Actually, the thing to look at would be the changes in the dollar to euro exchange rate. Which shows that over the past 3 months or so (and especially the past couple of weeks), the dollar has been climbing vs the euro.
Will this apply to AIM sent text messages as well (if not, expect these people to automate it that way)? To send a text message from AIM, just open an IM to +11235551212 (+1, then the phone number without dashes). Or messages sent from Verizon's website?
All your numbers and calculations mean nothing because of one simple fact:
You'll never have a flash drive under $1. With optical media, it's a guarantee. In a few years, a BD-r will be 50 cents or cheaper.
Nobody will ever hand out a SD drive for distribution. It's too easy to lose a $10 card.
As long as optical media is cheap as in $/unit (NOT $/GB), they'll be around.
Yeah, right. Dual layer DVD(+/-)Rs are still over $1 each (except at some select online stores. In retail, try $2-5 each). No way BD-Rs are getting that cheap any time soon. Pressed disks probably will get cheaper, but the consumer available burnable ones? No way.
The gag order is to prevent an actual hacking event. These machines are in use in places outside NJ. By making this information available to the public prior the the election he'd be virtually ensuring tat there's be a breach, especially if as we suspect it's easy to crack the system.
This has little to do with trade secrets, which are often published, and which are protected by patents.
If the information in the report is enough for an actual hacking event to happen, then it should be released and every district using one of the machines should have to deal with it (go back to pen and paper). There is no excuse for allowing votes to be "counted" by machines you know are hackable. (Or for allowing machines to count votes without voter-verified paper ballots being the real count, but that's another topic.)
How about if a malicious site puts amazon.com in a iframe positioned so as to induce you to hit the 1-click order button on some expensive camera or something? Using an Amazon referral link to themselves, of course.
That's a very nice argument you've made there by redefining terms. DRM, to most of us here (and everywhere), means attempting to prevent us from copying (or doing something else with) information that has been given to us to view. If you are going to disagree with the rest of this post, please do so in light of this definition, not your own definition of DRM.
CHMOD and passwords are not DRM, they are real security, in that they attempt to do something which is possible (you really can prevent people from modifying your files or accessing your computer if you don't give them permission to do so). DRM is pretend security. If I can view it, then I can copy it. If you give me information, I should be able to do what I want with it for my personal use.
My vision is really messed up so I mostly just use my left eye. I only have noticeable depth perception problems on objects with no frame of reference. The best example of this is when playing tennis or ping-pong if the ball is high above the court/table I have problems telling exactly where it is.
As a side note, because of this, the red/blue and differing polarization 3-D glasses don't work very well for me. I suppose the shutter glasses might, I've never had a chance to try them out.
Assuming that you have obtained the software legally (for example, from somehow who is distributing it under the GPL), you need no further rights granted to run it. The GPL gives you the additional right to distribute the software (under the given conditions). However, the GPL also contains some things (like a disclaimer of warranty), which do apply to all end users.
The onion is far more accurate than your average editorial page.
Perhaps, but it is a rather bad reference on actual onions.
Those are the patch notes for the last patch (2.4.3), not the current one on the test realm (3.0.2). Sorry, as GP I'm behind a filter, so I can't post the real ones.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the people who should really be suing EA are EA's shareholders, who have a chance (a small chance, but a chance), of proving that EA was not doing the right thing for it's profits by releasing games with DRM.
Sins of a Solar Empire made by Stardock is a recently released DRM free game (their other games are DRM free as well).
We've discussed Stardock's anti-DRM policy before.
No affiliation with Stardock, just a happy customer.
Here's an interview with Hans Camenzind, the said desinger of the 555. I thought this part was interesting:
There are no patents on the 555. Signetics did not want to apply for a patent. You see, the situation with patents in Silicon Valley in 1970 was entirely different than it is now. Everybody was stealing from everybody else. I designed the 555 Signetics produced it, and six months, or before a year later, National had it, Fairchild had it, and nobody paid any attention to patents. The people at Signetics told me they didn't want to apply for a patent, because what would happen if they tried to enforce that patent, is the people from Fairchild would come back with a Manhattan-sized telephone book and say "These are our patents, now let's see what you're violating". It was a house of cards - if you blew on it, the whole thing collapsed.
Actually, that sounds exactly like patents in Silicon Valley right now. Many software companies are gathering defensive patents to countersue with, just like that interview describes. Interesting to see that the practice dates back to early ICs.
What I would personally like is to be able to add certain sites to a password-protected "privacy list", so that visits to those sites would be stealthed, while visits to other sites would not. I don't want to have to start a special private session, which seems like a pretty lame way to do it. Mozilla should have looked at how to improve this feature by adding something like that, for example. Unfortunately it looks like Mozilla are just implementing the same thing as IE and Chrome, instead of looking to improve on it.
Let me be sure I've got this. Your proposal on how to keep from generating lists of sites you don't want people to know you visit, is to generate a list of sites you don't want people to know you visit.
Brilliant!
Or you store it as a list of hashes of domain names?
Jedi training worked so well for Anakin Skywalker after all...
WoW passwords are case insensitive as well. (Really, I'm not joking, they are.)
I'm not sure about that. I think the real jewel is the sandboxed tab infrastructure. FF's tracemonkey js VM will (probably) be as fast or faster than V8, though I don't know enough technical details to compare the two in any other way.
Actually, here's a comparison of Chrome's Javascript speed with Firefox 3.1 and Safari 3.1 (both with their new Javascript engines), and Chrome goes roughly twice as fast as either of them.
Huh?
Chrome is using the BSD license, see http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html .
Well, 250 GB per month averages to 771.6 kbps (Calculated as 250 billion bytes * 8 bits/byte / 30 days). Quite a bit less than the speeds they advertise.
On the other hand, a limit laid out in is much better than one you don't know about.
On the gripping hand, I guess Comcast just doesn't want your business if you use more than 250 GB per month?
Consider collectible card games like Magic. It could cost you hundreds of dollars to build an effective deck.
What I'm surprised about is that nobody has ever considered trying the same sort of thing with online gaming.
Never heard of Magic Online?. All the cards from real Magic (the last couple years of sets anyways)...for exactly the same prices. Yes, it's really $4 for a virtual pack of 15 random cards.
According to this post, and as can be seen at this closed bug, you won't get the nag screen on Linux if your version of GTK is too low to support FF3 (or on Windows if you're using a version before 2000).
I am still waiting for the test procedure that verifies the Big Bang theory.
Hypothesis: If the universe started with the Big Bang, the microwave background radiation should have this shape of energy density vs. freq.
Conclusion: http://xkcd.com/54/ (see also: Wikipedia)
I faced a similar team in the Arena on my mage and killed them at once with area effects.
Until they add real dying, LARPing will remain incredibly stupid.
Yet somehow D&D or computer RPGs are fine without real dying?