World of Goo is on Steam now, and I was close to buying it this past weekend, except I have other games I haven't finished yet.
Now that I know it's completely DRM free, I'll just go to their site and buy it directly from them, same as I did with Darwinia and Defcon from Introversion.
Bethesda was good enough to include only a CD check with Oblivion. No StarForce, no SecuROM, none of that install-three-times-and-then-you're-screwed. Their reward, apparently, is that some assmunches rip off their new game three weeks before the release date.
Since they ripped off the Xbox360 version, though, I guess there's at least a tiny "fuck you" to Microsoft's DRM involved in this one.
You obviously have never encountered a Chrysler PT Cruiser
I always let a PT Cruiser go ahead of me. About five seconds later, I realize that it's actually not either the start of a funeral procession or Grandpa Munster.
The only ways you could have avoided the US becoming a service-based economy is (a) have a crappy economy so that you'd be the destination for manufacturing jobs as a result of having a low wage rate, or (b) have huge tariffs and a heavily isolationist policy (which would eventually result in meeting the qualifications for option a).
They're doing so much better over there in Europe right now, after all.
The really doesn't have much to do with Reaganomics, Bushonomics, or Obamanomics. The root causes here were the inducement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to dig deep into the ranks of the poor to offer homeownership to those who couldn't afford a home (thus inflating home prices and making affordability even worse), and the lack of oversight in dealing with new mortgage-backed securities that were ultimately based on risky borrowers (also inflating home prices and increasing the risk of a bubble pop that would make these securities worthless).
I know it's all chic and vogue and whatever to blame Bush for everything around here, but let's give credit where credit is due for the root of this whole mess. Liberal policies that attempted to move everyone (read: the renting lower and lower-middle class) into homeownership en masse resulted in huge unsustainable upswings in real estate prices. When the bubble burst about the same time that lots of ARMs got, er, twisted, tons of people got caught with their pants down.
Yes, predatory lending made the problem worse, but FNMA and FMAC were at the heart of pushing loans to those who wanted the house they "deserved" rather than what they could afford. The bailout is essentially an ass-backwards method of fully nationalizing these loans, and the efforts to keep people from declaring bankruptcy and getting stuck renting again amount to a new public welfare program.
So, while there's plenty of blame to go around, don't forget to blame the Lefties on this one as well.
The court order is not protected by copyright or anything, so anyone is free to download it and make it publicly available. However, there is a nominal fee to cover the access costs to obtain a copy of the court order from PACER.
Prohibition of alcohol involved a personal decision with essentially personal consequences -- never something the government should have been involved in.
Not really. At least some of the people who drink subsequently (or simultaneously) get in their cars and kill other people. Some of the people who drink subsequently beat their spouses or children. Some of them get involved in rowdy street riots after their favorite insert-sport-here team wins or loses a big game, breaking into shops, turning over cars, and starting fires. And while getting drunk doesn't cause those things to happen, it reduces the inhibitions of some people to the point where they suddenly decide that doing those things would be a fantastic idea.
I'm not saying that prohibition was a good thing. I'm just saying that alcohol consumption has ramifications far beyond oneself.
Not exactly true. It was passed by unanimous consent, which means that nobody who might have decided to vote against it actually cared enough to participate in the process.
I think Bethesda would be doing themselves a great favor by once again being forthcoming about what, if any, DRM they plan to use in Fallout 3. Before Oblivion released, some rumor about them using StarForce was going around, and they explicitly said that not only were they not going to use StarForce, but all they were putting in was a CD check when you start the game. People went out and bought the game with confidence that it wasn't going to fux0r their b0xen and that they'd still be able to play even if someone dropped a nuke on the Greater DC Metro Area the next day.
Considering how much grief EA has had over Spore, etc., they might want to preannounce their DRM plans again, as a selling point.
On the other hand, you can conduct all the non-government-business stuff you want over Yahoo without running afoul of various government regulations about misappropriation of resources.
For example, US federal rules forbid using government resources for personal money-making purposes, so if you're a government employee, you better not use your work address to conduct those eBay sales.
So, when it comes down to it, Palin really should use an outside e-mail address for non-government business purposes, but she's taking heat for it anyway, not because she did anything wrong, but because some of her opponents have no qualms about contorting the truth against her instead of criticizing her on any legitimate grounds they might find.
Nielsen coined the term and holds a trademark on it.
DMCA takedown requests are meant to be used in cases of alleged copyright violations. Trademarks and copyrights are two different things, so Nielsen's recourse in this instance does not include filing a DMCA takedown request.
If trademark protection is the only thing at stake here, the original editor could easily file an un-takedown request and tempt the fates as to whether Nielsen files a lawsuit against them or Wikimedia Foundation for improper use of trademarks (a suit they would likely lose, since it would be difficult to prove that their trademark was actually misappropriated).
It claims domestic priority from a provisional application filed January 7, 2007. Anything before that date counts as prior art, unless the inventors provide evidence that they invented the claimed invention before the prior art was published (which they can't do if the prior art was published more than a year before the effective filing date).
Democrat Howard Berman is one of the House's most notorious copyright proponents, as is Republican Mary Bono. A person could name ample people on both sides of the aisle if they wanted, and the common thread would be which people are willing to take dirty money from the content cabal, not what political party they are a member of.
How is that disingenuous? You gloss over the WIPO negotiations like the Clinton Administration was somehow completely uninvolved, and you completely ignore Congress's unanimous implementation of the treaty obligations at the hands of both Democrats and Republicans, which the earlier poster was trying to get at.
Intellectual property is not a partisan issue. It's all about deep pockets.
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World of Goo is on Steam now, and I was close to buying it this past weekend, except I have other games I haven't finished yet.
Now that I know it's completely DRM free, I'll just go to their site and buy it directly from them, same as I did with Darwinia and Defcon from Introversion.
Bethesda was good enough to include only a CD check with Oblivion. No StarForce, no SecuROM, none of that install-three-times-and-then-you're-screwed. Their reward, apparently, is that some assmunches rip off their new game three weeks before the release date.
Since they ripped off the Xbox360 version, though, I guess there's at least a tiny "fuck you" to Microsoft's DRM involved in this one.
But news at 11 is 1 louder than news at 10.
They moved the nightly news to 10 here because people were complaining about all the noise.
I'm pretty sure he said, "Putting loud-speakers inside your ear purple monkey dishwasher."
You obviously have never encountered a Chrysler PT Cruiser
I always let a PT Cruiser go ahead of me. About five seconds later, I realize that it's actually not either the start of a funeral procession or Grandpa Munster.
The only ways you could have avoided the US becoming a service-based economy is (a) have a crappy economy so that you'd be the destination for manufacturing jobs as a result of having a low wage rate, or (b) have huge tariffs and a heavily isolationist policy (which would eventually result in meeting the qualifications for option a).
i dont give a damn about shift key and capitalism.
Fixed.
They're doing so much better over there in Europe right now, after all.
The really doesn't have much to do with Reaganomics, Bushonomics, or Obamanomics. The root causes here were the inducement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to dig deep into the ranks of the poor to offer homeownership to those who couldn't afford a home (thus inflating home prices and making affordability even worse), and the lack of oversight in dealing with new mortgage-backed securities that were ultimately based on risky borrowers (also inflating home prices and increasing the risk of a bubble pop that would make these securities worthless).
I know it's all chic and vogue and whatever to blame Bush for everything around here, but let's give credit where credit is due for the root of this whole mess. Liberal policies that attempted to move everyone (read: the renting lower and lower-middle class) into homeownership en masse resulted in huge unsustainable upswings in real estate prices. When the bubble burst about the same time that lots of ARMs got, er, twisted, tons of people got caught with their pants down.
Yes, predatory lending made the problem worse, but FNMA and FMAC were at the heart of pushing loans to those who wanted the house they "deserved" rather than what they could afford. The bailout is essentially an ass-backwards method of fully nationalizing these loans, and the efforts to keep people from declaring bankruptcy and getting stuck renting again amount to a new public welfare program.
So, while there's plenty of blame to go around, don't forget to blame the Lefties on this one as well.
the most complex and least-understood of the five senses, smell
And here I thought it was "smision".
The court order is not protected by copyright or anything, so anyone is free to download it and make it publicly available. However, there is a nominal fee to cover the access costs to obtain a copy of the court order from PACER.
All that does is encourage people to file lots of crapplications that will never stand a chance of being issued.
Prohibition of alcohol involved a personal decision with essentially personal consequences -- never something the government should have been involved in.
Not really. At least some of the people who drink subsequently (or simultaneously) get in their cars and kill other people. Some of the people who drink subsequently beat their spouses or children. Some of them get involved in rowdy street riots after their favorite insert-sport-here team wins or loses a big game, breaking into shops, turning over cars, and starting fires. And while getting drunk doesn't cause those things to happen, it reduces the inhibitions of some people to the point where they suddenly decide that doing those things would be a fantastic idea.
I'm not saying that prohibition was a good thing. I'm just saying that alcohol consumption has ramifications far beyond oneself.
The Senate vote was unanimous
Not exactly true. It was passed by unanimous consent, which means that nobody who might have decided to vote against it actually cared enough to participate in the process.
I think Bethesda would be doing themselves a great favor by once again being forthcoming about what, if any, DRM they plan to use in Fallout 3. Before Oblivion released, some rumor about them using StarForce was going around, and they explicitly said that not only were they not going to use StarForce, but all they were putting in was a CD check when you start the game. People went out and bought the game with confidence that it wasn't going to fux0r their b0xen and that they'd still be able to play even if someone dropped a nuke on the Greater DC Metro Area the next day.
Considering how much grief EA has had over Spore, etc., they might want to preannounce their DRM plans again, as a selling point.
This is most unfortunate. Never would there have been a more appropriate place to call someone a team-killing fucktard.
So they're the ones who've been creating all those forum spam accounts!
It's supposed to be 20 years after the end of Diablo 2 when everything has been put to rest and all that evil has left Tristram.
In other words, the Worldstone was a fluffy bunny prison made of candy. And that bastard Tyrael let them all out!
On the other hand, you can conduct all the non-government-business stuff you want over Yahoo without running afoul of various government regulations about misappropriation of resources.
For example, US federal rules forbid using government resources for personal money-making purposes, so if you're a government employee, you better not use your work address to conduct those eBay sales.
So, when it comes down to it, Palin really should use an outside e-mail address for non-government business purposes, but she's taking heat for it anyway, not because she did anything wrong, but because some of her opponents have no qualms about contorting the truth against her instead of criticizing her on any legitimate grounds they might find.
Nielsen coined the term and holds a trademark on it.
DMCA takedown requests are meant to be used in cases of alleged copyright violations. Trademarks and copyrights are two different things, so Nielsen's recourse in this instance does not include filing a DMCA takedown request.
If trademark protection is the only thing at stake here, the original editor could easily file an un-takedown request and tempt the fates as to whether Nielsen files a lawsuit against them or Wikimedia Foundation for improper use of trademarks (a suit they would likely lose, since it would be difficult to prove that their trademark was actually misappropriated).
It claims domestic priority from a provisional application filed January 7, 2007. Anything before that date counts as prior art, unless the inventors provide evidence that they invented the claimed invention before the prior art was published (which they can't do if the prior art was published more than a year before the effective filing date).
I'd be willing to come over and act as Lord, once we can get details like droit de seigneur sorted out.
I prefer living in my good old anarchosyndicalist commune.
Democrat Howard Berman is one of the House's most notorious copyright proponents, as is Republican Mary Bono. A person could name ample people on both sides of the aisle if they wanted, and the common thread would be which people are willing to take dirty money from the content cabal, not what political party they are a member of.
Can we say this is bad because it is a patent on a software concept that has massive prior art?
No, because it's not a patent. It's just a patent application.
How is that disingenuous? You gloss over the WIPO negotiations like the Clinton Administration was somehow completely uninvolved, and you completely ignore Congress's unanimous implementation of the treaty obligations at the hands of both Democrats and Republicans, which the earlier poster was trying to get at.
Intellectual property is not a partisan issue. It's all about deep pockets.