Seems someone is afraid of the very essence of capitalism?
The customer picks the best offer and the worse ones either catch up or perish. This is the golden rule set by Adam Smith. Meanwhile, let's try to dazzle the customer with flashy commercials and fake discount signs and see if we can get away with worse product, worse price and better marketing instead... oh, no, they found a way around that? Informed customers? They demand actually competitive wares?Oh woe!
And what if no side called such a witness? If they falsely assumed I have a clue while I don't? AFAIK, jury cannot even suggest what witnesses they would like to possess. So, I honestly don't know if he's guilty or not. This information is at hand's reach, a solid confirmed piece of data that would remove my doubt and allow me to judge fairly. And yet I'm not allowed to reach for it and I'm not allowed to ask to get it. As result, a lawyer's incompetence combined with blind luck will decide about a person's freedom, while a few words extra could make the verdict definitely fair. But no, they would taint my cluelessness...
The problem with CNC is they are all 2.5d which all too often is a showstopper.
These 3D printers can do real 3D printouts even with fully overhanging pieces, with little help: they first print a "scaffolding" from an easily-removable material, then print actual part on top of that with final material, then you remove the "scaffolding" by heating, washing with a solvent or even just breaking it off.
(still, as I look at the resolution, I'm not very impressed. The UV-hardening resin 3D printer made of an LCD display between a tub of the resin and an UV lamp seemed much more subtle and precise, and likely faster too (printing a whole layer at once instead of just a point). And yep, it could print real 3D too, display gray area on the LCD, making the resin stick but not harden for "scaffolding" bit that can be removed by strong water jet).
They both have a strict purpose of making replicating them easy. They can't print their own PCBs. They can't place and solder their components. They can't make their own stepper motors or even create the construction metal bars. But they were made with a specific ability in mind: to be able to print any custom part of themselves, and for the rest of the parts to be off-the-shelf commodities or doable by common low-difficulty DIY techniques requiring no advanced tools.
It's 16h assembly of off-the-shelf parts and parts printed by the device. No milling, stamping, welding or anything like that. Making and soldering the PCBs is the most difficult, and the hot plastic dispenser/noozle is the only part hard to obtain "off the shelf" and not printable itself.
There are quite a few games out there that have top settings in a range no hardware on earth is capable to support. Sure for $200 you can get sustained 30FPS at medium settings in about all games available now and in a year at best. If you want hardware able to run newest games in 2-3 years in acceptable quality, you have to dish out much more than that.
Still, at cost of increased latency, OnLive promised to top the video quality of all the "affordable" PC hardware and current-generation consoles and provide a very "high end" rendering quality instead, and to sustain the "best available" trend, their hardware following requirements of the new game releases.
Did it deliver on that promise? Honestly, I don't know.
IF they provided a subscription model with unlimited access to enormous games library, at cost comparable to a MMORPG subscription, it would be quite attractive. Sure twitch-based games would be worse than on your "localhost" but still playable, and you wouldn't need a beefy PC to run newest games in high quality. If it could be integrated into some cable TV packages, it would be quite nice for semi-casual gamers who are not willing to shell out $2000 for a newest gfx cards but don't mind $30/mo to play anything they like.
IMO, Wikipedia shouldn't go after classic banners and such, but instead allow for paid "related services" sections of articles. Say, a technology, a product, a branch of art or such is shown. Allow for links to companies that sell this kind of product, offer or heavily utilize this technology, to people who produce this kind of art on sale, and so on. Page on hot-stamping print? Add a company that does it. A page on some rock band? Add a link to a shop that sells their albums. Some book? Amazon link to this book's purchase page.
Anonymous doesn't mean people who keep their identities secret, shadow figures nobody knows about, mysterious strangers. No.
Anonymous is synonym for "Joe Average". An anonymous person you pass by on the street. Somebody who doesn't mean a thing to you. Name not hidden, but unimportant, totally not worth writing down. Somebody who means nothing as a single person, whose loss won't be mourned by anyone significant, just a disposable person. They are aware of being meaningless people with no worth as individuals. But as a bulk, they form a formidable force. And if one or ten or a hundred is lost, this changes nothing. They were just some anonymous people, but The Anonymous lives on.
I don't remember whether that was Kings Quest, Quest For Glory or something like this - a sequel to a series anyway, that's been first hit by C&D, and then the copyright holders saw the light and issued a P&P instead.
I don't remember more, but I remember there were more - I guess search old stories on Slashdot...
Blind eye - rarely. It's a risk to trademark ownership. OTOH, "Permit&Proceed" instead of Cease&Desist" - it happens. Not very often but happens.
Some companies require the modders to have a license. Then you are free to produce the mod, and their trademarks remain safe.
The usual license can be revoked at will (which would happen if the company decides your work is damaging for their profits or PR) and guarantees that if you profit from your work, they get their cut. Usually the license grants unlimited rights to distribute the product at no charge but is in your name only - you can't sub-license anyone or sell the code base or finished product.
The business has been performed the moment I purchased a book. And now they are taking away from me a ware I have already purchased. It's not refusal to do a business. This is a one-sided cancellation of a contract that has been already finalized. Sounds like plain theft to me.
Sure... who would bother writing extras for PC? Just make it use the same shit as the console. The history of PC games being dumbed down, simplified and generally to suck, because "the console could not handle that much" is long and painful. Sure Oblivion on PC didn't look much different either. Until you installed fan-made mods that unlocked the full potential.
No, at the day of the release I'm pretty sure the PC and 360 versions may be very similar. Wait half a year and visit a friend with a good PC and knowledge how to use mods and you'll change your mind.
Cue: - rabies vaccinations - fixed path through buildings that underwent renovation - fences to keep visitors from leaving the fixed route - strong fences to keep bigger wild animals at bay - security to move stragglers who stay behind...
Radiation is the least of the problems and there's really nothing that could go wrong with it. OTOH, the zone has grown very wild and desolate, and is not really a safe place to be in. Rabies is common in wild animals (and there is a major population of them), the buildings, roads and bridges are not maintained since '86 and many of them are on brink of collapse, and the place is BIG, it's quite easy to get lost if you get separated from the group.
AFAIK, the zone is already open for tourists. In guided tours, with authorized guides, the tour takes at most a day, visitors are screened for radiation levels upon entering and exitting and the guide has an active geiger counter at all times (which is one of major attractions too). At least a few travel agencies in Poland and Ukraine offer these tours (e.g. link)
The route, time and organization of these tours really minimizes all radiation-related danger to bare minimum and as long as you follow the guide, there is no risk of overexposure whatsoever. (still, the free-roaming of Pripyat part of the tour, on the other hand, has a considerable risk of getting hurt by parts of ruined buildings.)
The zone is in major part uncontaminated and totally harmless (save for rabid wolves, collapsing roofs of houses, getting lost and freezing to death, wild boars and the likes) but there are still many smaller or bigger patches of more radioactive areas - not radioactive enough to harm you if you cross in a car or even walking at a fast pace, but enough to mean somewhat heightened cancer risk if you camp there for a night. Generally, if you have a geiger counter and an inch of brain to follow what it says, radiation is not a danger - the count rises, you turn around. If you are an experienced hiker and have some rudimentary means of defense from wild animals, you can spend weeks in the zone just fine.
Generally, obtaining permission to enter the zone is not very hard. Many Airsoft groups organize their games there for example. Which areas you are allowed to enter and for how long, is a different matter. You get day permissions at most for Pripyat, but for example, the far west of the zone is pretty open and accessible - the standard 30km perimeter around the power plant has been extended about 30km more to the east-north-east where one of two major clouds of contamination struck. That cloud was long, wide, but more stretched, so the levels near that border of the zone have already dropped to entirely safe levels by now and getting a prolonged permit for that area is not a problem at all.
Knowing Bethesda and its schedule-keeping skill, if your machine arrives at 11.11.11, it will be obsolete and too old to run TESV when it finally comes out.
Actually, if Bethesda keeps its usual TES schedule, it will be released somewhere between christmas 2012 and summer 2014. Then another half a year for a massive fan-made patch fixing all the content bugs and an official patch fixing most of the engine bugs, and sometime around 2015 the game should be actually playable and fun.
(remember, NO TES game has been released on time, and some delays were years long)
IIRC, the whole lore sprouted from a homebrew RPG the original authors/developers played among themselves. And it was quite tongue-in-cheek in places.
What about the forest elves, who live in such a harmony with the forest, that they are strictly carnivorous, consider eating plants a blasphemy and even brew alcohol from insects?
What about puzzles, riddle books, crosswords, and a number of (non-board) games and toys (like hoola hoop) that always co-existed with multi-player games? There are hundreds of individual sports, and their origin is usually physical games, like throwing the ball against a wall or throwing rocks against the surface of water.
The problem is "with the right mods". There are no "supermods" that I know of. You have to piece it all by hand - and most of guides to make Morrowind good link to mod sites that are gone since. And with the wrong set of mods... let's just say I abandonned my last playthrough as I got hopelessly lost in massive jungles and rainforests somewhere between Ald-Rhuhn and Gnisis, couldn't find my way back and gave up playing entirely.
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You really need to search for PRICES on cheapest 6-axis CNC machines.
We're talking about a product a hobbyist can afford.
Seems someone is afraid of the very essence of capitalism?
The customer picks the best offer and the worse ones either catch up or perish. This is the golden rule set by Adam Smith.
Meanwhile, let's try to dazzle the customer with flashy commercials and fake discount signs and see if we can get away with worse product, worse price and better marketing instead... oh, no, they found a way around that? Informed customers? They demand actually competitive wares?Oh woe!
Thankfully, the justice system accounts for this & allows me to appeal with a new defense team IF I CAN STILL AFFORD IT.
It's quite likely the current team was incompetent because I couldn't afford any competent ones.
And what if no side called such a witness? If they falsely assumed I have a clue while I don't?
AFAIK, jury cannot even suggest what witnesses they would like to possess. So, I honestly don't know if he's guilty or not. This information is at hand's reach, a solid confirmed piece of data that would remove my doubt and allow me to judge fairly. And yet I'm not allowed to reach for it and I'm not allowed to ask to get it. As result, a lawyer's incompetence combined with blind luck will decide about a person's freedom, while a few words extra could make the verdict definitely fair. But no, they would taint my cluelessness...
The problem with CNC is they are all 2.5d which all too often is a showstopper.
These 3D printers can do real 3D printouts even with fully overhanging pieces, with little help: they first print a "scaffolding" from an easily-removable material, then print actual part on top of that with final material, then you remove the "scaffolding" by heating, washing with a solvent or even just breaking it off.
(still, as I look at the resolution, I'm not very impressed. The UV-hardening resin 3D printer made of an LCD display between a tub of the resin and an UV lamp seemed much more subtle and precise, and likely faster too (printing a whole layer at once instead of just a point). And yep, it could print real 3D too, display gray area on the LCD, making the resin stick but not harden for "scaffolding" bit that can be removed by strong water jet).
And what if that company started making profit from it?!
How would the CEO who sold it look in such a light?
Cutting dry branches vs losing a valuable asset?
If it's not profitable to Yahoo, it cannot, under any circumstances be allowed to be profitable to anyone else!
They both have a strict purpose of making replicating them easy.
They can't print their own PCBs. They can't place and solder their components. They can't make their own stepper motors or even create the construction metal bars. But they were made with a specific ability in mind: to be able to print any custom part of themselves, and for the rest of the parts to be off-the-shelf commodities or doable by common low-difficulty DIY techniques requiring no advanced tools.
It's 16h assembly of off-the-shelf parts and parts printed by the device. No milling, stamping, welding or anything like that. Making and soldering the PCBs is the most difficult, and the hot plastic dispenser/noozle is the only part hard to obtain "off the shelf" and not printable itself.
At top settings? Nope.
There are quite a few games out there that have top settings in a range no hardware on earth is capable to support.
Sure for $200 you can get sustained 30FPS at medium settings in about all games available now and in a year at best. If you want hardware able to run newest games in 2-3 years in acceptable quality, you have to dish out much more than that.
Still, at cost of increased latency, OnLive promised to top the video quality of all the "affordable" PC hardware and current-generation consoles and provide a very "high end" rendering quality instead, and to sustain the "best available" trend, their hardware following requirements of the new game releases.
Did it deliver on that promise? Honestly, I don't know.
IF they provided a subscription model with unlimited access to enormous games library, at cost comparable to a MMORPG subscription, it would be quite attractive. Sure twitch-based games would be worse than on your "localhost" but still playable, and you wouldn't need a beefy PC to run newest games in high quality. If it could be integrated into some cable TV packages, it would be quite nice for semi-casual gamers who are not willing to shell out $2000 for a newest gfx cards but don't mind $30/mo to play anything they like.
IMO, Wikipedia shouldn't go after classic banners and such, but instead allow for paid "related services" sections of articles. Say, a technology, a product, a branch of art or such is shown. Allow for links to companies that sell this kind of product, offer or heavily utilize this technology, to people who produce this kind of art on sale, and so on. Page on hot-stamping print? Add a company that does it. A page on some rock band? Add a link to a shop that sells their albums. Some book? Amazon link to this book's purchase page.
This would actually add to the value of the site.
Anonymous doesn't mean people who keep their identities secret, shadow figures nobody knows about, mysterious strangers. No.
Anonymous is synonym for "Joe Average". An anonymous person you pass by on the street. Somebody who doesn't mean a thing to you. Name not hidden, but unimportant, totally not worth writing down. Somebody who means nothing as a single person, whose loss won't be mourned by anyone significant, just a disposable person. They are aware of being meaningless people with no worth as individuals. But as a bulk, they form a formidable force. And if one or ten or a hundred is lost, this changes nothing. They were just some anonymous people, but The Anonymous lives on.
I don't remember whether that was Kings Quest, Quest For Glory or something like this - a sequel to a series anyway, that's been first hit by C&D, and then the copyright holders saw the light and issued a P&P instead.
I don't remember more, but I remember there were more - I guess search old stories on Slashdot...
Blind eye - rarely. It's a risk to trademark ownership. OTOH, "Permit&Proceed" instead of Cease&Desist" - it happens. Not very often but happens.
Some companies require the modders to have a license. Then you are free to produce the mod, and their trademarks remain safe.
The usual license can be revoked at will (which would happen if the company decides your work is damaging for their profits or PR) and guarantees that if you profit from your work, they get their cut. Usually the license grants unlimited rights to distribute the product at no charge but is in your name only - you can't sub-license anyone or sell the code base or finished product.
The business has been performed the moment I purchased a book. And now they are taking away from me a ware I have already purchased. It's not refusal to do a business. This is a one-sided cancellation of a contract that has been already finalized. Sounds like plain theft to me.
Oh, they won't be removing books about just any war. Only books on domestic wars.
How many do you take with you on your trip?
I usually keep about 60 of my favorites and a couple new ones.
Sure... who would bother writing extras for PC? Just make it use the same shit as the console.
The history of PC games being dumbed down, simplified and generally to suck, because "the console could not handle that much" is long and painful. Sure Oblivion on PC didn't look much different either. Until you installed fan-made mods that unlocked the full potential.
No, at the day of the release I'm pretty sure the PC and 360 versions may be very similar. Wait half a year and visit a friend with a good PC and knowledge how to use mods and you'll change your mind.
I prefer to date such things as "in the previous millennium".
Cue:
- rabies vaccinations
- fixed path through buildings that underwent renovation
- fences to keep visitors from leaving the fixed route
- strong fences to keep bigger wild animals at bay
- security to move stragglers who stay behind...
Radiation is the least of the problems and there's really nothing that could go wrong with it. OTOH, the zone has grown very wild and desolate, and is not really a safe place to be in. Rabies is common in wild animals (and there is a major population of them), the buildings, roads and bridges are not maintained since '86 and many of them are on brink of collapse, and the place is BIG, it's quite easy to get lost if you get separated from the group.
AFAIK, the zone is already open for tourists. In guided tours, with authorized guides, the tour takes at most a day, visitors are screened for radiation levels upon entering and exitting and the guide has an active geiger counter at all times (which is one of major attractions too). At least a few travel agencies in Poland and Ukraine offer these tours (e.g. link)
The route, time and organization of these tours really minimizes all radiation-related danger to bare minimum and as long as you follow the guide, there is no risk of overexposure whatsoever. (still, the free-roaming of Pripyat part of the tour, on the other hand, has a considerable risk of getting hurt by parts of ruined buildings.)
The zone is in major part uncontaminated and totally harmless (save for rabid wolves, collapsing roofs of houses, getting lost and freezing to death, wild boars and the likes) but there are still many smaller or bigger patches of more radioactive areas - not radioactive enough to harm you if you cross in a car or even walking at a fast pace, but enough to mean somewhat heightened cancer risk if you camp there for a night. Generally, if you have a geiger counter and an inch of brain to follow what it says, radiation is not a danger - the count rises, you turn around. If you are an experienced hiker and have some rudimentary means of defense from wild animals, you can spend weeks in the zone just fine.
Generally, obtaining permission to enter the zone is not very hard. Many Airsoft groups organize their games there for example. Which areas you are allowed to enter and for how long, is a different matter. You get day permissions at most for Pripyat, but for example, the far west of the zone is pretty open and accessible - the standard 30km perimeter around the power plant has been extended about 30km more to the east-north-east where one of two major clouds of contamination struck. That cloud was long, wide, but more stretched, so the levels near that border of the zone have already dropped to entirely safe levels by now and getting a prolonged permit for that area is not a problem at all.
Knowing Bethesda and its schedule-keeping skill, if your machine arrives at 11.11.11, it will be obsolete and too old to run TESV when it finally comes out.
Actually, if Bethesda keeps its usual TES schedule, it will be released somewhere between christmas 2012 and summer 2014. Then another half a year for a massive fan-made patch fixing all the content bugs and an official patch fixing most of the engine bugs, and sometime around 2015 the game should be actually playable and fun.
(remember, NO TES game has been released on time, and some delays were years long)
IIRC, the whole lore sprouted from a homebrew RPG the original authors/developers played among themselves. And it was quite tongue-in-cheek in places.
What about the forest elves, who live in such a harmony with the forest, that they are strictly carnivorous, consider eating plants a blasphemy and even brew alcohol from insects?
What about puzzles, riddle books, crosswords, and a number of (non-board) games and toys (like hoola hoop) that always co-existed with multi-player games? There are hundreds of individual sports, and their origin is usually physical games, like throwing the ball against a wall or throwing rocks against the surface of water.
The problem is "with the right mods".
There are no "supermods" that I know of. You have to piece it all by hand - and most of guides to make Morrowind good link to mod sites that are gone since. And with the wrong set of mods... let's just say I abandonned my last playthrough as I got hopelessly lost in massive jungles and rainforests somewhere between Ald-Rhuhn and Gnisis, couldn't find my way back and gave up playing entirely.