Someone please tell the lawmakers to think a little. Like someone's already pointed out, just because it's the internet doens't make it different. Of course, there are differences, which are blithely ignored when it suits the lawmakers.
I'm offended. By what? By everything! Shut down the net!
Sue users for what? Next thing we know they'll be suing us for breathing. The air was probably once in their offices, you know.
This stuff has been freely available to anyone with the means of access, and some without, for years. Isn't there some kind of prior-art law? Oh right, there isn't.
SCO is taking tips from the RIAA. Some poor random end-user is going to get sued, will have no money and no publicity, and willhave to settle out of court with life savings. I think I'll buy a Windows OS now. It's cheaper considering that I pay the MS tax anyway when I buy a computer from certain vendors.
Well, they could always use open document formats instead of closed proprietary formats. Really, this should not be an issue.
Hmm, wonder if mswordview, strings, and so on violate DMCA.
People are dumb, Jay. Somewhere out there there are just enough people just stupid enough to fall for spam and scam. As for all caps and stupid English, AOLers and/. trolls do that all the time.
... and more hype. When's the game going to be released? I'm not too interested in quake, but all the hype behind every game and movie release these days really turns me off from the thing being hyped.
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It's way too expensive. A price closer to Rs. 5000 might work.
If the games come on CD, they're going to be pirated faster than you can say 'DMCA'.
Of course, these are the same people who think a McD's burger is high-status food. (It does taste better than what I've eaten at KFC.)
That would be because friction is a per-area measure. What you're thinking of is something like friction times area, which is what really matters, of course. Brake pads with a 10x10 cm surface area do better stopping than pads with a 1x1 cm area.
True, I had a nice little story about how a certain cellular services company, whose name might be a race, refuses to delete my information from their database. But that story was rejected.
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I kinda agree with him. The laws usually leave out important things like the definition of spam. See also laws about copyrights online, piracy, etc.
So, if you buy the stuff, you're giving them money. Darned if you do, darned if you don't.
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Plenty of games out there with no ending. Not just arcade games, either. MMORPGs, for example.
Someone please tell the lawmakers to think a little. Like someone's already pointed out, just because it's the internet doens't make it different. Of course, there are differences, which are blithely ignored when it suits the lawmakers. I'm offended. By what? By everything! Shut down the net!
Sue users for what? Next thing we know they'll be suing us for breathing. The air was probably once in their offices, you know. This stuff has been freely available to anyone with the means of access, and some without, for years. Isn't there some kind of prior-art law? Oh right, there isn't. SCO is taking tips from the RIAA. Some poor random end-user is going to get sued, will have no money and no publicity, and willhave to settle out of court with life savings. I think I'll buy a Windows OS now. It's cheaper considering that I pay the MS tax anyway when I buy a computer from certain vendors.
People are dumb, Jay. Somewhere out there there are just enough people just stupid enough to fall for spam and scam. As for all caps and stupid English, AOLers and /. trolls do that all the time.
... and more hype. When's the game going to be released? I'm not too interested in quake, but all the hype behind every game and movie release these days really turns me off from the thing being hyped. (Mod roulette. Will this be -1 flamebait, -1 troll, +2 funny, +4 informative, or +5 insightful?)
I'm guessing it's because they can't release the game data files. You'd probably need to get those from an original copy of the game.
I wouldn't buy or sell anything expensive (over, say, $200) or hard to ship (plasma TVs) on ebay anyway.
But that's not the point, you could write it in C with assembly mixed in if you wanted.
I have the sudden urge to write one in perl, and then in 8085 assembly. Not gonna do it, of course.
It's way too expensive. A price closer to Rs. 5000 might work. If the games come on CD, they're going to be pirated faster than you can say 'DMCA'. Of course, these are the same people who think a McD's burger is high-status food. (It does taste better than what I've eaten at KFC.)
India and Pakistan are not in South East Asia.
That would be because friction is a per-area measure. What you're thinking of is something like friction times area, which is what really matters, of course. Brake pads with a 10x10 cm surface area do better stopping than pads with a 1x1 cm area.
That's exactly what the resident MS weenie on a forum I frequent says.
'Weenie' is not the word, he's otherwise smart. Just up MS's arse.
I wish Sprint would just delete my data from their database, but they say they can't.
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A 'sprint' is a type of race, Coward. Get your facts straight before calling someone a dumbtard, dumbass.
Yet another slow day at /. today.
True, I had a nice little story about how a certain cellular services company, whose name might be a race, refuses to delete my information from their database. But that story was rejected.
At this point, we have more data than we know what to do with.
Or we could all abandon SMTP and move to my jabber-based email "solution".
What? Where is it? Oh, I'm still working on it. You can send and receive, but buddy lists are not implemented yet.
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Not me. Where I live, I have only one viable ISP.
Moving isn't an option.