Given that the license terms for OsX force (by the terms, nothing else) the user to run it on Apple hardware
Thats not strictly accurate.
The OSX EULA specifically states that it must be run on "an Apple labeled computer".
Since the OSX disks come with a sticky "Apple" label one must assume that they intend for the end user to stick this label on the machine that they install OSX onto. And that sticking this label onto that computer is a EULA requirement.
Its when you DON'T stick the label onto the machine which you install OSX on that you violate the EULA.
The EULA does NOT say "Apple *manufactured* computer".
I used to listen to the BBC world service all the time. For years.
I couldn't get any reception on radio so I listened online, they had a realaudio feed, as I recall.
One Olympics, the BBC world service news on the hour was replaced by a voice repeating over and over:
"Due to rights restrictions, we are unable to bring you this program".
For the entire Olympics there was no BBC world service news broadcast online.
I never went back.
I don't think that BBC online broadcasts could be worth paying for because they would always be subject to these kinds of 'rights restrictions' and you never know when they are going to forbid you listening to the news in case you hear something that you don't have the rights to.
"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real."
Perhaps, at one time, this statement could have been true. Perhaps it is official schooling that has brought about the change.
However, I can tell you for sure that dumb people *do* exist in mind-numbingly huge numbers.
This 'mass dumbness' *is* real and it is scary.
It almost seems that as a species we are heading to less and less intelligence.
Brain power requires energy. If you can get away without using your brain you can be more efficient. Its evolution at work.
The industrialised operations for harvesting baby seal blubber would be a sight to behold!
Great icebreakers with huge scoops on the front ploughing through the pack ice slurping up the baby seals and turning them into bio-fuel. Awesome image there!
Ah for the good old days... Me and my girl, seal clubbing. Me and my girl, out on the ice.
Is it a good idea to use food pre-consumption as a serious fuel?
Should use food post-consumption as biofuel.
Turning human excrement into biofuel would be fantastic.
It might even encourage megacorporations to feed the hungry. So that their poop can be harvested and turned into fuel to be sold to the western industrialised world at a huge mark-up.
This would be delicious irony. Well, ok, not delicious but stinky...
IIRC, George Bernard Shaw said "America is the first nation to pass from barbarism directly to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilisation".
why do we still have rules that tell sports teams that they have to be all male or all female?
I mean, for some sports I can understand that the team might want all male, rugby or gridiron come to mind.
But cricket? Baseball? pffft.
It should be up to the coach who they field, man woman or whatever. At the end of the day it should be their call and on their heads does it fall if the team loses because of it.
Its as bad as paying a woman less than a man for doing the same job.
I love WoW and always will (even if I don't play it now for 6 months), but the 3D engine is getting old.
Be careful what you wish for.
A lot of games with 'high end' graphics like Crysis or Age of Conan for example, have APPALLING color depth. These games really may as well be using 16 bit color.
Age of Conan, the one I'm (shudder) most familiar with makes my eyes hurt after just a few hours play due to its lack of contrast, everything being colored with the same few shades of brown, green or grey.
At least with WoW they have highly colorful, contrasty graphics that make the world easy to see and separate one thing from another.
Not terribly helpful since you don't illustrate WHY you left.
For one thing, I would imagine that anyone who has played this game would understand that.
For another, the reasons are far too many to list here. If I gave one or two of my reasons, by themselves they may seem insignificant and people would wonder what the fuss is about.
Let me put it this way;
If MMOs were a drug, World of Warcraft would be the heroin of MMOs.
Age of Conan would be the methadone.
Its list of adverse effects on the user is far longer than that of heroin. Its very unpleasent to use but still addictive.
You want a concrete example?
The graphics.
Phew, the graphics in AoC are amazing aren't they? Fantastic effects and detail.
But what about the colors? Everything is so drab; all browns, greys and greens.
You may say 'well much of nature is browns greys and greens' and that'd be true.
But in nature the contrast between shades of these colors is noticable.
Age of Conan may *use* 24 bit color but it may as well be 16 bit.
I turned the digital vibrance on my video card up so high it hurt my eyes on the desktop and that produced *some* contrast in AoC.
Thats the flavor of the game; its drab, dull, boring and monotonous. I have never seen an MMO like it.
Interestingly, Funcom is a Swiss company. Perhaps if they had done an MMO based on cleaning, for example, it'd have been truly great.
I was there at release and played for a few months. When I realised that it was the most expensive MMO available I decided to give it up until it had a chance to improve.
They recently sent me an email offering a free retry period.
After a few days, I deleted all my characters, old and new, uninstalled the game and emailed them to ask that they delete my account completely.
You feel like you got conned into buying it?
I feel conned that they got me to reinstall the game and download a couple gigs worth of patches.
I am NEVER going back. And never buying another Funcom product ever again.
The same fascist pigs that you won't hesitate to call if you hear someone breaking into your house at 2:00 in the morning?
Where I live, if I call the police about hearing someone breaking into the house at 2am its likely that I might actually see a police officer in a few weeks time.
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Given that the license terms for OsX force (by the terms, nothing else) the user to run it on Apple hardware
Thats not strictly accurate.
The OSX EULA specifically states that it must be run on "an Apple labeled computer".
Since the OSX disks come with a sticky "Apple" label one must assume that they intend for the end user to stick this label on the machine that they install OSX onto. And that sticking this label onto that computer is a EULA requirement.
Its when you DON'T stick the label onto the machine which you install OSX on that you violate the EULA.
The EULA does NOT say "Apple *manufactured* computer".
Was this an office or a preschool?
New Zealand.
Here, most people wander around as if they have just woken up...
This PC crap has gone too far!
New Zealand is like the WORLD FUCKING CAPITAL of political correctness.
Political correctness *drives* New Zealanders.
I used to listen to the BBC world service all the time. For years.
I couldn't get any reception on radio so I listened online, they had a realaudio feed, as I recall.
One Olympics, the BBC world service news on the hour was replaced by a voice repeating over and over:
"Due to rights restrictions, we are unable to bring you this program".
For the entire Olympics there was no BBC world service news broadcast online.
I never went back.
I don't think that BBC online broadcasts could be worth paying for because they would always be subject to these kinds of 'rights restrictions' and you never know when they are going to forbid you listening to the news in case you hear something that you don't have the rights to.
"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real."
Perhaps, at one time, this statement could have been true. Perhaps it is official schooling that has brought about the change.
However, I can tell you for sure that dumb people *do* exist in mind-numbingly huge numbers.
This 'mass dumbness' *is* real and it is scary.
It almost seems that as a species we are heading to less and less intelligence.
Brain power requires energy. If you can get away without using your brain you can be more efficient. Its evolution at work.
MMOs are a great example of this...
Your idea may sound right, but I don't give a crap.
Yeah good luck with that when the oil companies come round with a hosepipe and an oil tanker and ask you to bend over.
They'll be 'tapping' into the enema market around the world -- you mark my words!!!!!
It'll be "Shell oil is made from feeeeceeeeesssss!!!!! Feces I tell you!!!!".
(little play on the ending of Soylent Green there).
and burning baby seal blubber
The industrialised operations for harvesting baby seal blubber would be a sight to behold!
Great icebreakers with huge scoops on the front ploughing through the pack ice slurping up the baby seals and turning them into bio-fuel. Awesome image there!
Ah for the good old days... Me and my girl, seal clubbing. Me and my girl, out on the ice.
Is it a good idea to use food pre-consumption as a serious fuel?
Should use food post-consumption as biofuel.
Turning human excrement into biofuel would be fantastic.
It might even encourage megacorporations to feed the hungry. So that their poop can be harvested and turned into fuel to be sold to the western industrialised world at a huge mark-up.
This would be delicious irony. Well, ok, not delicious but stinky...
Actually I had thought it might be a performance thing; having to render less color depth.
Americans, sorry, your golden age is at an end
IIRC, George Bernard Shaw said "America is the first nation to pass from barbarism directly to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilisation".
Ok for crying out loud...
why do we still have rules that tell sports teams that they have to be all male or all female?
I mean, for some sports I can understand that the team might want all male, rugby or gridiron come to mind.
But cricket? Baseball? pffft.
It should be up to the coach who they field, man woman or whatever. At the end of the day it should be their call and on their heads does it fall if the team loses because of it.
Its as bad as paying a woman less than a man for doing the same job.
Just like people can develop ambiguous genitals or chromosomes, some people develop a psychological gender similar to the opposite biological sex..
That would be a neurosis.
If they are taking hormones to support their neurosis then that'd likely count as 'doping' and they'd be banned for being a 'drug cheat'.
Otherwise they should enter events based on what you'd see when looking at their nuclei under the microscope.
It is nearly monty hall in effect
nearly???
Have you seen the new instances? 'Trials of the Crusader'?
That place is literaly *a* monty hall! Its pure cheese.
(yeah I know, Monty Hall was a person not a place).
I love WoW and always will (even if I don't play it now for 6 months), but the 3D engine is getting old.
Be careful what you wish for.
A lot of games with 'high end' graphics like Crysis or Age of Conan for example, have APPALLING color depth. These games really may as well be using 16 bit color.
Age of Conan, the one I'm (shudder) most familiar with makes my eyes hurt after just a few hours play due to its lack of contrast, everything being colored with the same few shades of brown, green or grey.
At least with WoW they have highly colorful, contrasty graphics that make the world easy to see and separate one thing from another.
for the coal powered electric plant that produces the electricity to turn that salt water into clean jet fuel.
A coal-powered aircraft carrier. Now theres a thought.
In a light-saber battle, your primary targets would probably be your opponent's hand and wrist, just as it is in epee and saber fencing today.
So you wield your epee or saber two-handed eh?
Lightsaber fighting (in the movies) was based on Kendo. Not Western fencing styles.
Mark Hamil got Kendo lessons in preparation for this.
Not terribly helpful since you don't illustrate WHY you left.
For one thing, I would imagine that anyone who has played this game would understand that.
For another, the reasons are far too many to list here. If I gave one or two of my reasons, by themselves they may seem insignificant and people would wonder what the fuss is about.
Let me put it this way;
If MMOs were a drug, World of Warcraft would be the heroin of MMOs.
Age of Conan would be the methadone.
Its list of adverse effects on the user is far longer than that of heroin. Its very unpleasent to use but still addictive.
You want a concrete example?
The graphics.
Phew, the graphics in AoC are amazing aren't they? Fantastic effects and detail.
But what about the colors? Everything is so drab; all browns, greys and greens.
You may say 'well much of nature is browns greys and greens' and that'd be true.
But in nature the contrast between shades of these colors is noticable.
Age of Conan may *use* 24 bit color but it may as well be 16 bit.
I turned the digital vibrance on my video card up so high it hurt my eyes on the desktop and that produced *some* contrast in AoC.
Thats the flavor of the game; its drab, dull, boring and monotonous. I have never seen an MMO like it.
Interestingly, Funcom is a Swiss company. Perhaps if they had done an MMO based on cleaning, for example, it'd have been truly great.
I was there at release and played for a few months. When I realised that it was the most expensive MMO available I decided to give it up until it had a chance to improve.
They recently sent me an email offering a free retry period.
After a few days, I deleted all my characters, old and new, uninstalled the game and emailed them to ask that they delete my account completely.
You feel like you got conned into buying it?
I feel conned that they got me to reinstall the game and download a couple gigs worth of patches.
I am NEVER going back. And never buying another Funcom product ever again.
Or you could just implement clipping in the game, so that players and mobs are not like ghosts that you can walk through.
Then your 'tank' becomes part of a team; whats known as 'a shield wall', physically blocking movement of opponents.
Truly pure evil is insanity.
Too true.
I've lived and worked with aspergers sufferers.
NEVER AGAIN.
Annual leave is a minimum of 4 weeks and 2 weeks sick leave.
In New Zealand, interestingly enough, its half that. 2 weeks annual and 5 days sick leave.
Maybe I should come over there... is there some place in Aussie where I won't have my nose full of flies after 10 minutes out of doors?
And then, after infecting Australia with the tabloid poison, he went on to destroy journalism in the UK, and the rest of the world. What a her
Its gotten so bad that people can't tell the difference between bloggers and journalists any more...
The same fascist pigs that you won't hesitate to call if you hear someone breaking into your house at 2:00 in the morning?
Where I live, if I call the police about hearing someone breaking into the house at 2am its likely that I might actually see a police officer in a few weeks time.
'The Filth' is the most apt term I know.
50/50 chance that I end up being given access to the Administrator account on the exchange server
access to the Administrator account on the exchange server
exchange server
You lost all credibility right there.
These people you are dealing with? They are not sysadmins.
Exchange server sysadmin indeed. LOL
The real question is, who owns the copyright in your photo? You or Canon.
Does the Canon printer include a 'fingerprint' on each page printed so that the printout can be traced back to that specific printer?
Is that 'fingerprint' copyright Canon?
Does your printout therefore constitute a 'derivative work'?