Yes, you just bought a box with some media in it.. you own the box and the media. You do not own what is on the media but luckily the box comes with a license for usign it.
So let me get this straight, I'm holding a Doom3 box in a store. It has 'doom3' written right on the front of the box, it has screen shots and a description of the game all over the back. For all anyone can tell, Activision is trying to sell me a copy of the game in this box.
Yet if I take this box the the front and buy it, I didn't actually buy a copy of doom3? I bought a cardboard box and some useless media? In order to get the advertised game, I have to pay more than the advertised price (The more being my rights)? Not only that, but this additional price was not disclosed until I have already given them my initial $60, and in many cases cannot get it back because I broke some seal on the package?
Sounds like a clear cut case of false advertising to me.
That would certainly locate the watermark, but random garbage doesn't cure the problem. The watermark probably has a checksum with it. Like the last digit on your average barcode. Some function of the watermark data must be equal to the checksum value. Certainly someone can reverse engineer that or crack the program and remove the check, but it will be harder.
And even if there is a checksum in this 19 byte string, why would anyone need to pay any attention to it? The whole point of this watermark is to trace copies back to the source. If you overwrite the watermark with random garbage, you've thwarted it... unless there's code in the game or the installer to check this watermark, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
If they could write decent code, they could make some cash on publishing a mac version. ID knows all the ubergeeks on PCs are slobbering for Doom3 and are willing to upgrade no matter the cost.
Right. 80% of macs can't run doom3 well because John Carmack is an incompetent idiot programmer who doesn't know what the hell he's doing. If they had a halfway knowledgeable programmer the it would run fine. Right. And you know this because you're one of the top game programmers in the world with 10+ years of experience and several top quality games under your belt, each of which were revolutionary for their time. Right.
Hummers do have a reason to exist, the same reason Porsches and Vipers and every other luxury car exists... because people want them. People prefer luxury over pure practicality
That's fine. Now we just need those needless SUV drivers to properly compensate society for the extra damange done to the roads and the environment, and require them to pass more stringent driving tests due to the extra safety risk they pose to everyone else on the road.
SUVs are fine, just stop making everyone else pay for them.
"Hey, I heard DVD-Jon cracked another proprietary scheme designed to inhibit fair use and ensure the profits of pigopolist corporative CEOs, wait, it's Apple OMG that bastard is going to hang for this, he has no business infringing on legitimate patents and destroying the livelyhood of thousands of people! Fetch the pitchforks, iPods and Segways, we're driving over to Washington D.C. to stage a mass protest in favor of the DMCA."
As if you can somehow diminish a corporation's revenue. Yeah right. Go and try to make Wal-mart bankrupt by not shopping there. It won't happen, for the same reason that a Libertarian won't be president this year.
Right, because wal-mart gets all its money from santa claus. They will continue to take over wether anyone shops there or not.
Big deal my street car also doubles as a drag race car 90 mph plus in the quater mile, so I wounder what kind of rates I would get???
And this had what exactly do to with always driving 5mph over the limit? Oh, that's right, nothing whatsoever. You just wanted to say "look how big my dick is everybody!".
You are another one of those Libertarian loonies. Do you not realize that, in the absence of relevant laws, the entity with the most money or resources wins? The fact is, a corporation can afford things like PR campaigns, which are very expensive and extremely powerful. It can afford to fight in the courts. It could do lots more if there weren't so many laws. For some reason libertarians choose to ignore these obvious facts.
And where do you think they get all that money? From people - you and me. Without a constant source of revenue from people and laws protecting its existance, no organization will last very long.
Oracle for "mission-critical"? I don't see how any one could feel comfortable putting the life of their company in the hands of another company like that.
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This large Danish wifi network: is it all connected to the Internet via NAT? Or do they have a block of routable IP addresses to use on this network? Just wondering... I can't read Danish.
How does a graduate with a CSBS compare to someone who has just got their degree from ITT, Devry or whatever other IT schools that are "hot" right now?
Fresh grauduates from anywhere, university or tech school are not very in demand right now (unless you are walking out of Standford with a PhD and into someplace like Google). Two of my friends who graduated from a university with me have been un/under employed for the past 2-3 years. What gets you the job these days is experience, or so I'm told.
Maybe I should be looking at more schooling and get a Masters?
No, you should be looking at getting experience somehow, somewhere... unless you want to stay in school for a few more years in hopes that the demand for tech labor will be back up by the time you graduate... but that is a bit of a gamble.
A mod has lots of predictable elements like models, textures, sound. All those can be made already without the need for any version of the game.
But that doesn't help you decide what engine you want to write the mod for. I mean of all the FPS games out there to mod, I don't understand how they came to pick one that isn't released yet as what they want to build their mod on.
And those things are mostly portable among engines anyway.
Absolutely not. We have moved on to a new generation of engines, opening up vast new opportunities, and the UT2K4 engine is, for all intents and purposes, still back with the Q3 and original UT engines, IMO.
And the other thing is, if mod developers are so interested in new engine features, why has half life 1 modding been so popular? Halflife 1 is what, 6 years old now? People have been producing new mods for that long after that engine became dated (see natural selection). If mod developers were concerned about the latest graphics features, you'd think they would have moved on from the half-life 1 engine by now.
We have moved on to a new generation of engines, opening up vast new opportunities, and the UT2K4 engine is, for all intents and purposes, still back with the Q3 and original UT engines, IMO.
Huh? For starters, Ut2004 is the first unreal game to have vehicles (land, air, space). Neither UT or Q3 had them.
OpenVPN easy to configure? I just checked it out, and as a very advanced user, it'd probably still take me an hour or two to set up a couple endpoints.
That's not good enough.
Read the examples section of the man page. You only need a couple of options to get started. Trust me, it won't take you an hour or two.
But carrying every possible kind of packet is implied by "internet service". Yeah, that's consistent.
Yes - exactly. Or more specificly, carrying every kind of internet packet is implied by "internet service". I don't expect an ISP to carry IPX/SPX frames to my friend's house to play an old video game. Just internet (ipv4) packets.
Imagine signing up for local phone service. Just plain old local phone service. You try to call some 1-800 tech support number, but you hear a message saying "sorry, we don't allow tech support calls. people tend to stay on those calls longer which uses up too much bandwidth". Or calling your friend 5 doors down and hear a message saying "sorry, the person you are calling is a suspected child pornographer. We don't allow calls to him.".
The difference between the grocery store and phone or internet service is there are practical physical limits on what a grocery store can carry. It is unreasonable to expect them to carry every kind of grocery that exists. The limitations on some internet service and my hypothetical local phone service are arbitrary, pointless and underhanded.
A lot of broadband ISPs filter traffic to services running on the customers end, the argument being that servers use more bandwidth. Is it neccesarrily true that servers use more bandwidth than anything else you could do? No, of course not. The real reason is just to have a reason to charge you more for "higher grade" service. I bet they will do something similar if IPv6 ever becomes popular. It is written in RFCs that customers of ISPs, or end users, are supposed to get a/64 worth of address space for their uses. I bet many broadband ISPs will only give a single address and then charge more for what is implied in the definition of IPv6 service - a/64.
By your logic, a "grocery store" should stock every grocery there is. Come to think of it, that'd be great. Then I wouldn't have to hunt around for those obscure cookies I like and nobody else does. Of course, it'd be hard on the grocers, since they'd have to stock a lot of stuff they'd never sell. But that's their problem, right?
A grocery store? That analogy made no sense whatsoever. That is not my logic at all. Carrying every conceivable grocery isn't implied in the term "grocery store"
"internet service" provider means you carry internet traffic for your customers. P2P traffic is internet traffic just as much as web traffic. If ISP's dont want to carry it they need to stop saying they supply internet service and tell their customers what it really is - partial internet service. They don't carry all internet traffic, just some of it.
Would you not be upset if I sold you a car and then after the deal you found out it didn't come with a transmission?
Oh grow up. Just because an ISP doesn't support what you want to do doesn't mean they're evil.
If they're going to be in the INTERNET SERVICE provider business, they need to provide INTERNET SERVICE. Internet service means they carry IPv4 packets from you to anywhere you want on the internet and back again. *All* of them. If they aren't doing that then they aren't really providing internet service.
Perhaps Im wrong and this cariculum will teach excelent data structure usage, and algorithim analysis and AI and compiler design and low level architecture
Then again, the vast majority of "business" programming is just taking stuff out of a database and throwing it onto a web page or a GUI. Your average business programmer (such as those that tech schools like this one churn out) will never need to know anything about data structures or algorithm performance. All the hard stuff is already done for him in the database or in language libraries.
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So let me get this straight, I'm holding a Doom3 box in a store. It has 'doom3' written right on the front of the box, it has screen shots and a description of the game all over the back. For all anyone can tell, Activision is trying to sell me a copy of the game in this box.
Yet if I take this box the the front and buy it, I didn't actually buy a copy of doom3? I bought a cardboard box and some useless media? In order to get the advertised game, I have to pay more than the advertised price (The more being my rights)? Not only that, but this additional price was not disclosed until I have already given them my initial $60, and in many cases cannot get it back because I broke some seal on the package?
Sounds like a clear cut case of false advertising to me.
Why should apple have any say in what iPods they've already sold to other people play?
And even if there is a checksum in this 19 byte string, why would anyone need to pay any attention to it? The whole point of this watermark is to trace copies back to the source. If you overwrite the watermark with random garbage, you've thwarted it... unless there's code in the game or the installer to check this watermark, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Right. 80% of macs can't run doom3 well because John Carmack is an incompetent idiot programmer who doesn't know what the hell he's doing. If they had a halfway knowledgeable programmer the it would run fine. Right. And you know this because you're one of the top game programmers in the world with 10+ years of experience and several top quality games under your belt, each of which were revolutionary for their time. Right.
What's the 'poverty industry'?
That's fine. Now we just need those needless SUV drivers to properly compensate society for the extra damange done to the roads and the environment, and require them to pass more stringent driving tests due to the extra safety risk they pose to everyone else on the road.
SUVs are fine, just stop making everyone else pay for them.
Ain't this the truth...
WTF exactly. chkconfig doesn't have the slightest thing to do with a custom kernel.
Right, because wal-mart gets all its money from santa claus. They will continue to take over wether anyone shops there or not.
And this had what exactly do to with always driving 5mph over the limit? Oh, that's right, nothing whatsoever. You just wanted to say "look how big my dick is everybody!".
And where do you think they get all that money? From people - you and me. Without a constant source of revenue from people and laws protecting its existance, no organization will last very long.
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This happens quite frequently here.
When all else fails, just lie...
This large Danish wifi network: is it all connected to the Internet via NAT? Or do they have a block of routable IP addresses to use on this network? Just wondering... I can't read Danish.
Fresh grauduates from anywhere, university or tech school are not very in demand right now (unless you are walking out of Standford with a PhD and into someplace like Google). Two of my friends who graduated from a university with me have been un/under employed for the past 2-3 years. What gets you the job these days is experience, or so I'm told.
No, you should be looking at getting experience somehow, somewhere... unless you want to stay in school for a few more years in hopes that the demand for tech labor will be back up by the time you graduate... but that is a bit of a gamble.
But that doesn't help you decide what engine you want to write the mod for. I mean of all the FPS games out there to mod, I don't understand how they came to pick one that isn't released yet as what they want to build their mod on.
And those things are mostly portable among engines anyway.
And the other thing is, if mod developers are so interested in new engine features, why has half life 1 modding been so popular? Halflife 1 is what, 6 years old now? People have been producing new mods for that long after that engine became dated (see natural selection). If mod developers were concerned about the latest graphics features, you'd think they would have moved on from the half-life 1 engine by now.
How did they decide to start using HL2 when it hasn't been released yet?
Huh? For starters, Ut2004 is the first unreal game to have vehicles (land, air, space). Neither UT or Q3 had them.
Read the examples section of the man page. You only need a couple of options to get started. Trust me, it won't take you an hour or two.
Yes - exactly. Or more specificly, carrying every kind of internet packet is implied by "internet service". I don't expect an ISP to carry IPX/SPX frames to my friend's house to play an old video game. Just internet (ipv4) packets.
Imagine signing up for local phone service. Just plain old local phone service. You try to call some 1-800 tech support number, but you hear a message saying "sorry, we don't allow tech support calls. people tend to stay on those calls longer which uses up too much bandwidth". Or calling your friend 5 doors down and hear a message saying "sorry, the person you are calling is a suspected child pornographer. We don't allow calls to him.".
The difference between the grocery store and phone or internet service is there are practical physical limits on what a grocery store can carry. It is unreasonable to expect them to carry every kind of grocery that exists. The limitations on some internet service and my hypothetical local phone service are arbitrary, pointless and underhanded.
A lot of broadband ISPs filter traffic to services running on the customers end, the argument being that servers use more bandwidth. Is it neccesarrily true that servers use more bandwidth than anything else you could do? No, of course not. The real reason is just to have a reason to charge you more for "higher grade" service. I bet they will do something similar if IPv6 ever becomes popular. It is written in RFCs that customers of ISPs, or end users, are supposed to get a
A grocery store? That analogy made no sense whatsoever. That is not my logic at all. Carrying every conceivable grocery isn't implied in the term "grocery store"
"internet service" provider means you carry internet traffic for your customers. P2P traffic is internet traffic just as much as web traffic. If ISP's dont want to carry it they need to stop saying they supply internet service and tell their customers what it really is - partial internet service. They don't carry all internet traffic, just some of it.
Would you not be upset if I sold you a car and then after the deal you found out it didn't come with a transmission?
In common sense. What do you think "internet service" means? carrying just some of your internet traffic? Would that not be partial internet service?
If they're going to be in the INTERNET SERVICE provider business, they need to provide INTERNET SERVICE. Internet service means they carry IPv4 packets from you to anywhere you want on the internet and back again. *All* of them. If they aren't doing that then they aren't really providing internet service.
Then again, the vast majority of "business" programming is just taking stuff out of a database and throwing it onto a web page or a GUI. Your average business programmer (such as those that tech schools like this one churn out) will never need to know anything about data structures or algorithm performance. All the hard stuff is already done for him in the database or in language libraries.