I like the way the course registration system actually has to take nights and Sundays off, because the POS software can't do backups and/or data integrity verification while online.
The user interface is a combination of random bullshit with absolutely no rhyme nor reason underlying anything. The comp. sci. department regards it with utter contempt and uses it as an example in the software design courses of what not to do when designing a system.
And I'm saying it'd be stupid even then. The links aren't the problem, the thief is. Take him out and the link is irrelevant. Don't take him out, and the link is the least of your worries.
Let's back up and look at the big picture. What's the argument here? That it should be illegal to link to illegal material? In other words, that it should be illegal to say "There is illegal activity going on at such-and-such location"? Obviously that entirely cripples the ability to report crimes, and is ridiculous, so lets confine this to the internet.
So a link to illegal material is itself illegal? Ok, then LokiTorrent is illegal, because it hosts files which point out where illegal material can be found. So LokiTorrent itself is illegal material. Uhoh, Slashdot just linked to it, and it's illegal to link to illegal material, because otherwise someone might find their way to it. So Slashdot is illegal. But wait, the entire internet is nothing but an interconnected web of links. Oh noes, the internet is illegal.
Linking to millegal material is illegal is the dumbest meme to come down the pipe in a long time.
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So that is irrelevant in Copyright infringement cases such as this.
Why sue the index? Going after the actual credit card thief would be more effective, and having an index on which they can be found actually helps track them down.
Driving them underground and making them harder to find would be several distinct varieties of stupid.
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Because this is about defending the right to say "There's a guy over there in that place illegally distributing software", not about getting access to said software. LokiTorrent wasn't distributing software, they were just hosting torrent files that pointed the way to people who were.
This is like suing Google for finding a link to a site distributing software illegally. It's silly, and it's a chilling restriction of the concept of free speech.
Raise your hand if you have iTunes...
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port...
Raise your hand if you have both...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
From user LoudMusic. I hope you don't make a living off of predicting the future, buddy;)
Yes? Then I fail to see how this is an ethical question at all. If they didn't want others using it, they wouldn't have made it available for others to use.
Never let your ego stand in the way of improving the software.
Is that the yahoo Go Beginers sections is full of intermediate assholes who like to slum it and who will make fun of you for making rookie mistakes. There are better places to play, with far fewer asswipes.
ITMS US has the rights to distribute the music on their store as negotiated with the US companies who hold those rights.
But, and this is crucial, those companies don't hold the rights to distribute those songs in Canada, or the UK, or Spain, or any other country but the US. So in order to sell the songs to Canadians (or in the UK, or in Spain) they have to negotiated the distribution rights with the people who do hold the rights in each of those countries.
Hence each country needs its own store, with distribution rights negotiated with the local rights holder, which only sells to credit card billing addresses within the country to which those distribution rights pertain.
That entire "debate" consists of one idiot flipping a shit because of a poorly worded snippet from a pre-release version of the "What's New?" overview. He didn't even bother to reference the appropriate PEPs and documentation before grossly misrepresenting the point of the new Decimal type.
No, the Decimal type isn't IEEE 754 standard. No, it doesn't solve, or intend to solve, all the world's numerical analysis problems. Yes, it is a good thing in a language intended to minimize the dissonance between user expectation and actual result.
but it isn't "officially" supported. The UTs are kind of a special case because Tim Sweeney's long said that they'd do Linux ports because they were the right thing to do, even if they weren't profitable, so they put the extra effort into creating a OpenGL code path even though they don't need it, because its existence makes a Linux port quite simple.
Except that both the UTs and DooM III/Quake/ etc, make use of OpenGL, making the port relatively easy, whereas the Steam engine is strictly DirectX, meaning a full engine rewrite would be necessary. That's much more than a simple one person job.
I can understanding wanting a port, but economically its a lot costlier than you're making it out to be. Half-life 2 just wasn't designed with the kind of portability in mind that those games were.
His point was that since the "on demand" texturing loading was causing the stuttering, it was Yet Another Example that premature optimization is the root of all evil. Trying to be clever about optimizing texture memory usage only ended up hurting performance.
By loading all textures on level load, they remove the attempted optimization, and solve the problem.
I reduced the stuttering to non-existence by changing the size of my AGP aperture. They may have been using a range of High- and Low- end machines that were simply better configured than most people's machines are.
Try turning your audio acceleration down with dxdiag, or try typing snd_async_fullyasync 1 in the in-game developer's console (after doing this sounds may play slightly out of sync with reality, but it's a good temporary solution).
So don't get your shirt in a knot. All the ruiling did was establish that, yes, if you can show beyond a reasonable doubt that John Smith sent the message, "It was just the internet" is not a reasonable defence against Libel charges.
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I like the way the course registration system actually has to take nights and Sundays off, because the POS software can't do backups and/or data integrity verification while online.
The user interface is a combination of random bullshit with absolutely no rhyme nor reason underlying anything. The comp. sci. department regards it with utter contempt and uses it as an example in the software design courses of what not to do when designing a system.
ncix is probably the best Canadian online store for this sort of thing.
He spelt the correct answer wrong. Sacramento has two "A"s in it.
And I'm saying it'd be stupid even then. The links aren't the problem, the thief is. Take him out and the link is irrelevant. Don't take him out, and the link is the least of your worries.
Let's back up and look at the big picture. What's the argument here? That it should be illegal to link to illegal material? In other words, that it should be illegal to say "There is illegal activity going on at such-and-such location"? Obviously that entirely cripples the ability to report crimes, and is ridiculous, so lets confine this to the internet.
So a link to illegal material is itself illegal? Ok, then LokiTorrent is illegal, because it hosts files which point out where illegal material can be found. So LokiTorrent itself is illegal material. Uhoh, Slashdot just linked to it, and it's illegal to link to illegal material, because otherwise someone might find their way to it. So Slashdot is illegal. But wait, the entire internet is nothing but an interconnected web of links. Oh noes, the internet is illegal.
Linking to millegal material is illegal is the dumbest meme to come down the pipe in a long time.
So that is irrelevant in Copyright infringement cases such as this.
Why sue the index? Going after the actual credit card thief would be more effective, and having an index on which they can be found actually helps track them down.
Driving them underground and making them harder to find would be several distinct varieties of stupid.
Because this is about defending the right to say "There's a guy over there in that place illegally distributing software", not about getting access to said software. LokiTorrent wasn't distributing software, they were just hosting torrent files that pointed the way to people who were.
This is like suing Google for finding a link to a site distributing software illegally. It's silly, and it's a chilling restriction of the concept of free speech.
So in other words it's an amazingly accurate recreation of the HP Lovecraft stories they were pastiching?
He was pretty heavy on the ominous and low on the payoff too, you know.
This post caught my eye:
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Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...
Raise your hand if you have both ...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
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Raise your hand if you have iTunes
From user LoudMusic. I hope you don't make a living off of predicting the future, buddy
Yes? Then I fail to see how this is an ethical question at all. If they didn't want others using it, they wouldn't have made it available for others to use.
Never let your ego stand in the way of improving the software.
So right click on HL2 in the games list, go into Properties..., and Change the setting to "Do not automatically update this game".
Is that the yahoo Go Beginers sections is full of intermediate assholes who like to slum it and who will make fun of you for making rookie mistakes. There are better places to play, with far fewer asswipes.
They've open sourced their kernel, rendevous, and several other homegrown things whose name escapes me at the moment.
Easy with the conspiracy theories. Canadian content laws only apply to broadcasts on the public airwaves.
In all liklihood, the problem is that the local Candian rights holder for the Foo Fighters hasn't signed on with Apple Canada yet.
ITMS US has the rights to distribute the music on their store as negotiated with the US companies who hold those rights.
But, and this is crucial, those companies don't hold the rights to distribute those songs in Canada, or the UK, or Spain, or any other country but the US. So in order to sell the songs to Canadians (or in the UK, or in Spain) they have to negotiated the distribution rights with the people who do hold the rights in each of those countries.
Hence each country needs its own store, with distribution rights negotiated with the local rights holder, which only sells to credit card billing addresses within the country to which those distribution rights pertain.
That entire "debate" consists of one idiot flipping a shit because of a poorly worded snippet from a pre-release version of the "What's New?" overview. He didn't even bother to reference the appropriate PEPs and documentation before grossly misrepresenting the point of the new Decimal type.
No, the Decimal type isn't IEEE 754 standard. No, it doesn't solve, or intend to solve, all the world's numerical analysis problems. Yes, it is a good thing in a language intended to minimize the dissonance between user expectation and actual result.
like Memtest86. I'm wondering if Hl2 isn't just stressing out some flakey RAM.
but it isn't "officially" supported. The UTs are kind of a special case because Tim Sweeney's long said that they'd do Linux ports because they were the right thing to do, even if they weren't profitable, so they put the extra effort into creating a OpenGL code path even though they don't need it, because its existence makes a Linux port quite simple.
Except that both the UTs and DooM III/Quake/ etc, make use of OpenGL, making the port relatively easy, whereas the Steam engine is strictly DirectX, meaning a full engine rewrite would be necessary. That's much more than a simple one person job.
I can understanding wanting a port, but economically its a lot costlier than you're making it out to be. Half-life 2 just wasn't designed with the kind of portability in mind that those games were.
on just what kind of home movies we're talking about, doesn't it? *Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge, Nod Suggestively*
His point was that since the "on demand" texturing loading was causing the stuttering, it was Yet Another Example that premature optimization is the root of all evil. Trying to be clever about optimizing texture memory usage only ended up hurting performance.
By loading all textures on level load, they remove the attempted optimization, and solve the problem.
I reduced the stuttering to non-existence by changing the size of my AGP aperture. They may have been using a range of High- and Low- end machines that were simply better configured than most people's machines are.
Try turning your audio acceleration down with dxdiag, or try typing snd_async_fullyasync 1 in the in-game developer's console (after doing this sounds may play slightly out of sync with reality, but it's a good temporary solution).
It's the sound a cash register makes when it rings in a sale.
Electronic ones don't generally make that sound, but the old style mechanical ones used to.
So don't get your shirt in a knot. All the ruiling did was establish that, yes, if you can show beyond a reasonable doubt that John Smith sent the message, "It was just the internet" is not a reasonable defence against Libel charges.