Crud. Maybe you're right. Perhaps/. is actually doing something with this redundancy - a new storage mechanism - RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Dupes
Very few things of value are free, in fact I would posit that nothing of value is ever free.
I may be misunderstanding your position, but your comment seems to imply that you desire something for, quite literally, nothing.
If you construct a business model on a product (in this case internet access) - one where money must be spent to transfer the data (unless you just connected a perpetual motion machine to a generator) then you have to recoup this somehow.
Free as in beer, free as in no advertising of ancilliary products that generate enough revenue to cover the delivery cost - choose one.
Finally, if it is free as in beer, it's their bandwidth, not yours. If I used my neighbours AP for access, I think he'd be really annoyed if I went round to him and said 'hey stop throttling *my* bandwidth by using your connection' - even if he was happy with me using it in the first place.
I used to live in Sheffield so N'market Rd is just round the corner from Arbury:). I'm amazed at the number of people who think that walking the length of Liz Way and East Rd is some epic trek when for someone from a slightly hillier and larger place views it as barely a reason to take off the slippers and put sensible shoes on. 'sall relative mate.
Just to set the record straight, I live on the Arbury/KH boundary - so be careful or I'll abandon my Saxo in yer front garden:).
I believe it has the ability to have 256 nodes
in a ZigBee network and also has better low power
behaviour than Bluetooth especially if the data transmission is very sporadic, also the latency in going from sleep to transmit is low.
They are pitching it as complementary to BT, not as a competitor - they acknowledge that BT has the edge in raw data rate.
While we're at it let's throw in..., people who vandalize public toilets
Truly you have some serious 'issues'. You support a mandatory death sentence for petty vandalism?
Lemme guess, your mother weighs 300lbs; she has 4 teeth, probably her own. Her vocabulary spans all of 800 words and ends each sentence with the
word 'bawww'. You father probably knew your mother in a 'sisterly' way. He has buck teeth, and wheat ear stuck behind his remaining ear (the other having been lost in a bet). Am I close? You on the other hand support the constitutional right to kill people who are mildly annoying which you espouse between episodes of Turettes and have difficulty with irony.
"I think it is [like] water behind a dam," he said.
I think it is impressive that they have managed to convince anyone that there is even something damp behind the dam, let alone bona fide water.
I'm just glad the Beagle team aren't doing this...
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With our track record for slamming into things we should bounce off and hitting things we should miss, I'm certain that it would be one of the few missions to miss the thing we should hit...
Captains additional: Does this mean we can add 'bath tub' to the ISO weights and measures along with VW Beetle, football field and 18 wheel truck?
Goddamned bastard should drop his fricking act, roll up his sleeves and help instead of bitch. I have
But you don't get it. He has helped. He has identified weaknesses that few people have considered. He has brought his experience of editing encyclopedias in a commercial environment, where accuracy and adequate referencing is paramount, to the Wikipedia project - for free. The stupidest thing that could happen is if Wikipedians don't act on his comments and just whine "why didn't you fix the article".
OK. Imagine - he does what you ask. He fixes the article. The Wikipedia now has one fixed article and still has all the systemic problems it had ten minutes ago.
Wait a minute, this is coming from an organization that forbids people from sharing ISOs of their "official" CD set?
Isn't that what we are all saying is good about OSS/Free as in speech software? Value added development. We all start from the same base and if you want to make money/kudos/whatever then add value by producing a bundle/ISO that targets a particular market.
They write the software and bundle it up in a way they and we percieve as 'adding value'. You can still d/l the whole kit yourself and value add for re-distribution and give that away free.
Just don't reduce the value of anothers work by giving away their hard work if they ask you not to.
And will bore non-cat people senseless with stupid anecdotes about how yesterday at dinner time their cat Snuffles did something sooo cute with the lid to the Chinese takeaway tray.
I had a look at Steam News - on Oct 14th Valve started preloading the maps. Does this mean that only now they have the final maps and that their 'announcement' that they had handed the final game to VU in August was a lie? Or does it mean it takes Valve 3 months to prep an update to Steam?
What "value" do you get from a record store except for touching the plastic? You can see the art, hear samples (can't always do this at a record store), get poignant recommendations (I haven't seen a record store in years with more than one knowledgeable employee outside of college genres),
I buy mostly classical and I can assure you the store I go to is set up for people browsing. All the albums are available in mp3 for quick preview (scan the barcode at the headphones pillar and lo' - all the album is played to you). There is a guy at the counter who doesn't care if you like mainstream pop classical (I heard it in an ad - what's it called?) to English countertenor duet with original instruments. Hum a bar or two of something you heard on the radio in another country to the guy and he goes "Ah, Sir, you'll be wanting $SONG by $COMPOSER performed by $PERFORMER - I hear it is popular in Bulgaria this month".
It's this level of expert knowledge available 'on tap' that online stores have yet to reproduce.
With all due respect, there are those that believe it is perfectly ethical to disregard a law that one considers immoral or unjust as long as it does not present risk to anyone else.
This, in the context of LSL, is possibly a false argument. You are making the assumption that the producers will never appeal the ban or won't create an edited version for.au territories. You protest against the ban by downloading a torrent of LSL. In two months (for example) the Committee sees the error of its ways and lifts the ban. Now the publishers have no market.
Protest against unjust laws by civil disobedience usually takes place after normal legal process of appeal has failed. Here, the ink is barely dry on the ban and already we have exhortations to d/l it. The internet is a fast place, but that doesn't mean it should always act outside the sphere of normal 'niceties' of legal (or civil disobedience) protest.
Finally, as has been mentioned, it is after all LSL and hardly 'haute cuisine' in the games world so the market is probably limited.
Your "friend" shouldYour "friend" can be
I may not totally agree with your argument, but why is my friend in quotes?
I haven't asked them yet, as to whether they are contesting the rating, but I can assure you that they aren't going to 'distribute and be damned' to protest against the ruling. They will probably just follow the usual legal proceedings.
I do get it. If I cannot afford X, or it is illegal to do X and it isn't my right enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights to have X, then I do without X. If you are suggesting that playing LSL is a fundamental human right or the rights of the Copyright holder are less than your desire to play a game then go ahead, blow yourself away and torrent it, but I do have to say that your compass in this area is a bit skew.
A friend of mine is involved in the production of LL:MCL - its sales pay my friend. So, rather than protest the rather odd decision of the OFLC by contacting/protesting/petitioning the OFLC or even importing a copy you wish to penalize my friend... Your logic is infallible.
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Crud. Maybe you're right. Perhaps /. is actually doing something with this redundancy - a new storage mechanism - RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Dupes
Damn - are you suggesting that when I do get to play Alyx it will be an Alyx with false teeth, sagging buns and a wig? Eeeeeewwww!
I may be misunderstanding your position, but your comment seems to imply that you desire something for, quite literally, nothing. If you construct a business model on a product (in this case internet access) - one where money must be spent to transfer the data (unless you just connected a perpetual motion machine to a generator) then you have to recoup this somehow. Free as in beer, free as in no advertising of ancilliary products that generate enough revenue to cover the delivery cost - choose one.
Finally, if it is free as in beer, it's their bandwidth, not yours. If I used my neighbours AP for access, I think he'd be really annoyed if I went round to him and said 'hey stop throttling *my* bandwidth by using your connection' - even if he was happy with me using it in the first place.
Please clarify if I've misunderstood you.
Just to set the record straight, I live on the Arbury/KH boundary - so be careful or I'll abandon my Saxo in yer front garden :).
Well, that's what you get for living on the Arbury :).
They are pitching it as complementary to BT, not as a competitor - they acknowledge that BT has the edge in raw data rate.
Truly you have some serious 'issues'. You support a mandatory death sentence for petty vandalism?
Lemme guess, your mother weighs 300lbs; she has 4 teeth, probably her own. Her vocabulary spans all of 800 words and ends each sentence with the word 'bawww'. You father probably knew your mother in a 'sisterly' way. He has buck teeth, and wheat ear stuck behind his remaining ear (the other having been lost in a bet). Am I close? You on the other hand support the constitutional right to kill people who are mildly annoying which you espouse between episodes of Turettes and have difficulty with irony.
I rather enjoyed the HL demo Uplink and it was worth the download time.
I think it is impressive that they have managed to convince anyone that there is even something damp behind the dam, let alone bona fide water.
Captains additional: Does this mean we can add 'bath tub' to the ISO weights and measures along with VW Beetle, football field and 18 wheel truck?
SplashPower who seem to be making a more cross-device version of this.
But you don't get it. He has helped. He has identified weaknesses that few people have considered. He has brought his experience of editing encyclopedias in a commercial environment, where accuracy and adequate referencing is paramount, to the Wikipedia project - for free. The stupidest thing that could happen is if Wikipedians don't act on his comments and just whine "why didn't you fix the article".
OK. Imagine - he does what you ask. He fixes the article. The Wikipedia now has one fixed article and still has all the systemic problems it had ten minutes ago.
Don't worry, there's an Indian version of this book available for $1.75.
Isn't that what we are all saying is good about OSS/Free as in speech software? Value added development. We all start from the same base and if you want to make money/kudos/whatever then add value by producing a bundle/ISO that targets a particular market.
They write the software and bundle it up in a way they and we percieve as 'adding value'. You can still d/l the whole kit yourself and value add for re-distribution and give that away free. Just don't reduce the value of anothers work by giving away their hard work if they ask you not to.
Which retard thought comparing this with an imaginary object would be regarded as anything other than plain stupid?
And will bore non-cat people senseless with stupid anecdotes about how yesterday at dinner time their cat Snuffles did something sooo cute with the lid to the Chinese takeaway tray.
If the maps are only just being made available for preload, then what was submitted to VU for approval by Valve back in August? A game with no maps?
I had a look at Steam News - on Oct 14th Valve started preloading the maps. Does this mean that only now they have the final maps and that their 'announcement' that they had handed the final game to VU in August was a lie? Or does it mean it takes Valve 3 months to prep an update to Steam?
"Yes, I'm a gay robot."
I buy mostly classical and I can assure you the store I go to is set up for people browsing. All the albums are available in mp3 for quick preview (scan the barcode at the headphones pillar and lo' - all the album is played to you). There is a guy at the counter who doesn't care if you like mainstream pop classical (I heard it in an ad - what's it called?) to English countertenor duet with original instruments. Hum a bar or two of something you heard on the radio in another country to the guy and he goes "Ah, Sir, you'll be wanting $SONG by $COMPOSER performed by $PERFORMER - I hear it is popular in Bulgaria this month".
It's this level of expert knowledge available 'on tap' that online stores have yet to reproduce.
This, in the context of LSL, is possibly a false argument. You are making the assumption that the producers will never appeal the ban or won't create an edited version for .au territories. You protest against the ban by downloading a torrent of LSL. In two months (for example) the Committee sees the error of its ways and lifts the ban. Now the publishers have no market.
Protest against unjust laws by civil disobedience usually takes place after normal legal process of appeal has failed. Here, the ink is barely dry on the ban and already we have exhortations to d/l it. The internet is a fast place, but that doesn't mean it should always act outside the sphere of normal 'niceties' of legal (or civil disobedience) protest.
Finally, as has been mentioned, it is after all LSL and hardly 'haute cuisine' in the games world so the market is probably limited.
I haven't asked them yet, as to whether they are contesting the rating, but I can assure you that they aren't going to 'distribute and be damned' to protest against the ruling. They will probably just follow the usual legal proceedings.
I do get it. If I cannot afford X, or it is illegal to do X and it isn't my right enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights to have X, then I do without X. If you are suggesting that playing LSL is a fundamental human right or the rights of the Copyright holder are less than your desire to play a game then go ahead, blow yourself away and torrent it, but I do have to say that your compass in this area is a bit skew.
A friend of mine is involved in the production of LL:MCL - its sales pay my friend. So, rather than protest the rather odd decision of the OFLC by contacting/protesting/petitioning the OFLC or even importing a copy you wish to penalize my friend... Your logic is infallible.