It seems it may be like burdock seeds. These -are- pain-free, and they can attach even to skin. The tips of the spikes surrounding the burdock seeds end with tiny hooks with sharp tips. The tips easily pierce into skin, but due to the bend don't go any deeper than 0.2mm inside the skin, meaning they never get near neurons or blood vessels, never cause bleeding or pain, while retaining a good grip.
Patent office = zoo filled with interns, people fired from other better paid but higher requirement jobs, clueless friends of state-employed lowest-grade clerks and idiots unable to find any better job.
The job of a patent examiner is low-pay, low-qualifications, sucks major ass and is the low of the low you can get, so no wonder there are very few competent people doing it.
>>Because you are a completionist and there happens to be a percentage of found items
No, they are entirely random and respawn after a while. I can raid the same ruin over and over, spending a week in a tavern in between the raids. There is no counter, there is just gold for sold stuff (which after a while becomes meaningless), and you won't find anything your current level doesn't allow for. And once you finally level up, the rats in the ruin will get stronger and give you more exp, and the loot will be somewhat better. But it doesn't matter if you do this here or there.
respawn is the third killer of immersion and motivation.
That's what really discouraged me from Stalker. An enemy spawning right behind my back in a place I had checked to be empty, and killing me in one rapid burst from his gun.
Why should I climb the tallest tower in the furthest castle, if I get the same stuff as from the chest behind the entrance door?
Why should I conquer the strongest enemies and explore their castle if I'm better off killing millions of rats, then open a chest in the tavern cellar?
>>I guess we should just not try to extract any information from prisoners. Forget the whole "intelligence" thing.
Okay, I'll barge in your home and drag you to my cellar then keep extracting intelligence from you till your anus bleeds.
I have exactly as much right to do so, and exactly as many clues that you actually possess this information. And I will not stop till you tell me all I want to know.
I expect to receive all the admissions to everything I suspect you for, in the process, proving my actions were right too. Primary reason being I think people like you mean danger to me.
Of course the enforcer is random. The chance of the enemy surviving is pretty high.
OTOH the chance of survival of enemy surviving a hit by a volley of 6 rockets is exactly zero, no matter what his armor, health or other bonuses. That's why I don't use enforcer.
Stalin didn't directly murder nearly as many as Hitler did (though the Great Hunger might have taken more, and Stalin was at least partially responsible for that).
OTOH the evil empire Stalin built was a total opposite of the ideals of Communism the revolution fought for. Freedom and availability of information might have stopped the corruption and actually turn the fate of the country and make it succeed.
Note that the idea behind Free Software is exact duplication of ideals of communism into the realm of software, with the special advantage of software being extremely easy to replicate and distribute (which is a blocking factor in distribution of goods in "real communism", one true limiting factor keeping it from being successful.)
OTOH if Internet existed at that time, the communist revolution would have swallowed the whole world. (1: the corruption that destroyed communism from inside would be efficiently fought, 2: the West would be getting objective image of the East, and after Black Thursday there would be more than a few willing for the change.)
It's not a PR stunt. It's not a deterrent. It's a business branch.
Their strategy is to earn actual hard cash from settlements and cases. They could entirely stop selling records, kill the whole distribution branch, and just "leak" the new albums to pirates, then live off suing people for sharing them. Qnd they would likely be better off than currently, financially.
Why bother selling a CD for $30 when you can sue someone for $800 statutory damages for sharing the CD?
I've used my phone as my alarm clock, and the alarm was set to a 'ship siren', a truly fearsome, horribly loud and mean signal.
One morning I just couldn't get myself to wake up. Then one of the characters in my dream scolded me: "What the hell are you doing? This is the Fucking Rabid Titanic. These who ignored this signal were found in the morning smeared on the wall over their bed."
Sorry to disappoint you, but 1) I'm not in your country, 2) anything else than simultaneous green on directions defined as "colliding" is a fair game, covered by warranty for "out of specs operation" maybe, but not qualifying under "jail time".
I could just cover everything under "invalid frame".
Instead, outside of "invalid CRC" I report whatever info I can extract from the frame, in form of errors and warnings.
"Device %d (type %s) reports its lock-out line is up. This kind of devices has no lock-out lines." "Device %d reported temperature below zero kelvin" (rated -40C ~ 80C) "Device %d reported temperature above temperature sensor meltdown point." "Device %d reports faulty channel %d which it does not possess." "Timestamp (%s) predates manufacture date (%s)." "Device %d confirmed successful end of transmission which didn't occur." "Device %d exits emergency mode %d which it never entered." "Device %d (type %d) reports firmware version %d.%d%c This firmware version is characteristic to devices type %d, which this device is not." "the IP address %s has too many dots in it." (...and I had told that guy to send it to me in unsigned char[4]). "Device %d, which doesn't exist, sent a message." "Device %d successfully leaves nonexistent emergency mode %d." "Device %d claims its power supply voltage is 0V". "Device %d claims to be the CPU. I am the CPU."
...and with the other guy who does the code with me, we agreed to include "disco mode". We're still thinking what set of conditions to pick to trigger it.
I recall reading about people getting letters for merely the filename of a file being shared, I recall Microsoft threatening to sue a company that offered OpenOffice for download on their public FTP site....Because it had Office in the name. And anything with Office in the name must be MS Office.
Failure to show up and defend yourself will result in a default ruling against you- not a wise move.
Actually, that's covered under point 5; the purpose of avoiding accepting the papers is to drive their costs up, tire them and delay the moment they actually get there. You're running on borrowed time from the very first moment you start, you -will- be called upon this all -eventually-. This is calculated into the equation, unavoidable cost. The tactics is to stall as long as possible and give as little as possible when stalling is not good anymore, and to discourage the opponent from pursuing their goal, because they are bound to win if they are determined, but they will get almost nothing for their victory, and you will lose very little.
So, your methods don't have to be 100% proof. They just need to give you enough time to break even and earn some before they fail.
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Horrible?
Scary?
Annoying?
Of course "bad software is bad" deserves -1, Informative.
It seems it may be like burdock seeds. These -are- pain-free, and they can attach even to skin. The tips of the spikes surrounding the burdock seeds end with tiny hooks with sharp tips. The tips easily pierce into skin, but due to the bend don't go any deeper than 0.2mm inside the skin, meaning they never get near neurons or blood vessels, never cause bleeding or pain, while retaining a good grip.
Patent office = zoo filled with interns, people fired from other better paid but higher requirement jobs, clueless friends of state-employed lowest-grade clerks and idiots unable to find any better job.
The job of a patent examiner is low-pay, low-qualifications, sucks major ass and is the low of the low you can get, so no wonder there are very few competent people doing it.
>>Because you are a completionist and there happens to be a percentage of found items
No, they are entirely random and respawn after a while. I can raid the same ruin over and over, spending a week in a tavern in between the raids. There is no counter, there is just gold for sold stuff (which after a while becomes meaningless), and you won't find anything your current level doesn't allow for. And once you finally level up, the rats in the ruin will get stronger and give you more exp, and the loot will be somewhat better. But it doesn't matter if you do this here or there.
in Oblivion: just before you grab the stone from the top of any oblivion towers, save.
If you don't like what the stone contained, load, grab again, repeat until satisfied.
It is undecided what the chest contains until you open it.
unless they all respawn.
respawn is the third killer of immersion and motivation.
That's what really discouraged me from Stalker. An enemy spawning right behind my back in a place I had checked to be empty, and killing me in one rapid burst from his gun.
...the primary killers of motivation to explore.
Why should I climb the tallest tower in the furthest castle, if I get the same stuff as from the chest behind the entrance door?
Why should I conquer the strongest enemies and explore their castle if I'm better off killing millions of rats, then open a chest in the tavern cellar?
>>I guess we should just not try to extract any information from prisoners. Forget the whole "intelligence" thing.
Okay, I'll barge in your home and drag you to my cellar then keep extracting intelligence from you till your anus bleeds.
I have exactly as much right to do so, and exactly as many clues that you actually possess this information. And I will not stop till you tell me all I want to know.
I expect to receive all the admissions to everything I suspect you for, in the process, proving my actions were right too. Primary reason being I think people like you mean danger to me.
In a fight of 30 vs 20 the chances ARE better for the stronger side than in 3 vs 2.
The expected value is the same, the variance is different.
Toss five coins. What is your chance that at least three show heads up? Now toss 50 coins. What is the chance that at least 30 of them show heads up?
Of course the enforcer is random. The chance of the enemy surviving is pretty high.
OTOH the chance of survival of enemy surviving a hit by a volley of 6 rockets is exactly zero, no matter what his armor, health or other bonuses. That's why I don't use enforcer.
Stalin didn't directly murder nearly as many as Hitler did (though the Great Hunger might have taken more, and Stalin was at least partially responsible for that).
OTOH the evil empire Stalin built was a total opposite of the ideals of Communism the revolution fought for. Freedom and availability of information might have stopped the corruption and actually turn the fate of the country and make it succeed.
Note that the idea behind Free Software is exact duplication of ideals of communism into the realm of software, with the special advantage of software being extremely easy to replicate and distribute (which is a blocking factor in distribution of goods in "real communism", one true limiting factor keeping it from being successful.)
What about Nine lives of Fritz the Cat?
Where underaged Fritz is having sex with underaged girl, while high?
OTOH if Internet existed at that time, the communist revolution would have swallowed the whole world.
(1: the corruption that destroyed communism from inside would be efficiently fought, 2: the West would be getting objective image of the East, and after Black Thursday there would be more than a few willing for the change.)
Oh, quadruple amputee?
I can't wait for them to sue a totally deaf person.
Does placing the papers on an unconscious patient's bed count as "serving them"?
OTOH someone's freedom of speech cannot deprive you from your freedom not to listen.
Meaning if I don't want someone to rant and rave on my lawn, they may still exercise their freedom of speech...elsewhere.
It's not a PR stunt. It's not a deterrent. It's a business branch.
Their strategy is to earn actual hard cash from settlements and cases. They could entirely stop selling records, kill the whole distribution branch, and just "leak" the new albums to pirates, then live off suing people for sharing them. Qnd they would likely be better off than currently, financially.
Why bother selling a CD for $30 when you can sue someone for $800 statutory damages for sharing the CD?
I've used my phone as my alarm clock, and the alarm was set to a 'ship siren', a truly fearsome, horribly loud and mean signal.
One morning I just couldn't get myself to wake up.
Then one of the characters in my dream scolded me:
"What the hell are you doing? This is the Fucking Rabid Titanic. These who ignored this signal were found in the morning smeared on the wall over their bed."
woke me up.
Let them have the IP rights to the program.
You - just keep its source code.
I mean, putting the key INSIDE the box instead is too difficult, isn't it?
Sorry to disappoint you, but 1) I'm not in your country, 2) anything else than simultaneous green on directions defined as "colliding" is a fair game, covered by warranty for "out of specs operation" maybe, but not qualifying under "jail time".
I could just cover everything under "invalid frame".
Instead, outside of "invalid CRC" I report whatever info I can extract from the frame, in form of errors and warnings.
"Device %d (type %s) reports its lock-out line is up. This kind of devices has no lock-out lines."
"Device %d reported temperature below zero kelvin" (rated -40C ~ 80C)
"Device %d reported temperature above temperature sensor meltdown point."
"Device %d reports faulty channel %d which it does not possess."
"Timestamp (%s) predates manufacture date (%s)."
"Device %d confirmed successful end of transmission which didn't occur."
"Device %d exits emergency mode %d which it never entered."
"Device %d (type %d) reports firmware version %d.%d%c This firmware version is characteristic to devices type %d, which this device is not."
"the IP address %s has too many dots in it." (...and I had told that guy to send it to me in unsigned char[4]).
"Device %d, which doesn't exist, sent a message."
"Device %d successfully leaves nonexistent emergency mode %d."
"Device %d claims its power supply voltage is 0V".
"Device %d claims to be the CPU. I am the CPU."
...and with the other guy who does the code with me, we agreed to include "disco mode". We're still thinking what set of conditions to pick to trigger it.
I recall reading about people getting letters for merely the filename of a file being shared, ...Because it had Office in the name. And anything with Office in the name must be MS Office.
I recall Microsoft threatening to sue a company that offered OpenOffice for download on their public FTP site.
Failure to show up and defend yourself will result in a default ruling against you- not a wise move.
Actually, that's covered under point 5; the purpose of avoiding accepting the papers is to drive their costs up, tire them and delay the moment they actually get there. You're running on borrowed time from the very first moment you start, you -will- be called upon this all -eventually-. This is calculated into the equation, unavoidable cost. The tactics is to stall as long as possible and give as little as possible when stalling is not good anymore, and to discourage the opponent from pursuing their goal, because they are bound to win if they are determined, but they will get almost nothing for their victory, and you will lose very little.
So, your methods don't have to be 100% proof. They just need to give you enough time to break even and earn some before they fail.