look how many of the popular video games today are actual simulations of war, complete with virtual clones of the exact weaponry and vehicles our military uses in real life!
I can only think of one or two which relatively speaking aren't really that popular (and have player bases just as large in Europe as the US). The other "modern warfare" video games that you are no doubt thinking of are about as close to "actual simulations of war" as Duke Nukem or Halo are.
I work at a company that uses Fortran extensively and I don't much like it either, but.. You and everyone else who leaves white space at the end of lines needs to be taken outside into the street and shot. Seriously, if you care about your code so little that you are leaving invisible garbage characters all throughout it, you should be thinking of another career.
Fortunately modern software tools point out these garbage characters but I am still left cleaning up after all the jerks who use braindead tools and put them there in the first place, thus making extraneous changes in commits or needless "cleanup" commits.
While I appreciate your post, trying to reason with these people is almost pointless. The christian cult is founded on guilt because supposedly some hippy in the desert died over two thousand years ago for the "sins" that all past and present inhabitants of this planet had committed and would commit. Guilt. Guilt. Guilt.
I was not suggesting that Steam games should be rentable. The list is the most comprehensive one that I know of and is certainly missing many PC games because additional DRM has been removed in favor of simply relying on Steam. Thus the list is merely a response to your claim of the "lack of DRM on PCs". PC games (from major publishers at least) are rife with it.
Lack? Here is a list of PC games with DRM. Not to mention that these are all games on Steam which is DRM in itself. Some DRM schemes are bearable, others are not. All are circumventable in one way or another (both for PC and consoles).
As the former owner of a '70 GTO I can tell you that driving around your old gas guzzler is not really helping the whole situation. If you are extremely attached to the car, I'd suggest shelving it until an efficient, non-fossil fuel burning engine is available to haul around that huge mass of steel. I'd have done the same, but idiots are still paying big money for old cars.
It partly boils down to how significant is the copyrighted image in your photo - you couldn't take a picture of a copyrighted object where the object is basically the picture; and how you use it - and then use it commercially.
What if I run a site that links to a site that links to this guy's pictures of copyrighted works? Will I get extradited to Guantanamo Bay?
Android phones are deeply integrated with Google's very profitable ad-supported services -- GMail, Google search, Google Maps, etc. For Google, the user is not the customer; the advertisers are. So whose interests are being served here?
I rather like that integration. It allows me to use these fine services quickly and efficiently. As far as ads go, I have yet to see one on my Android phone while using any of Google's services (some apps have ads, but I tend to avoid those and wager that there are ad-supported iPhone apps as well).
You could make the argument that using the service on the phone gets you hooked on using the service on the PC where you actually see the ads. Well, I use mutt's IMAP support with GMail so rarely log into that and I have no problem with the unobtrusive ads on Google Search and Maps. I know that I should use the ad-free iSearch and iMaps like you but I have been suckered into Google's services by my phone.
Morocco has its own laws and I would imagine that many of them are different than in the US and EU. If Apple was doing this to uphold the laws in Morocco, then they should have filed their ridiculous patent there.
I recently watched Voyage To The Planets, a BBC produced drama based on a hypothetical voyage throughout the solar system in a few decades' time. Not only was it entertaining, it was highly educational as actual facts about the properties of the various planets and what special conditions or hazards they pose were presented. I think more productions along these lines would do wonders for improving the public view of science and engineering.
Dear sir, I would like to invest in your hot air idea. It is refreshing to see individuals who are looking beyond the tired and boring list of renewable energy sources. That you should strike upon a source so vast and foreseeably endless is indeed impressive.
That is the US. It is a bit the opposite in most of Europe. It is not unusual to see nudity in various media or suggestive adverts (usually involving some humor) that would have mothers over here in the US demanding that someone think of the children. Meanwhile graphic violence so common in the US is avoided. Many video games ship with blood removed or characters changed so that the player is not killing "humans".
The us.army.mil addresses aren't even worth mentioning. Every member of the Army has one of these. So you just proved that some members of the Army look at porn. Good job!
The walls of the squad rooms of the first platoon that I was assigned to had their walls plastered with porn. Probably not unusual of any other all male environment either.
earth will appear once more from the sea, beautiful and green, where self-sown crops grow. The field Iðavöllr exists where Asgard once was, and, there, untouched by Surtr's flames, Víðarr and Váli reside. Now possessing their father's hammer Mjolnir, Thor's sons Móði and Magni will meet them there, and, coming from Hel, Baldr and Höðr also arrive.
So, the earth grows anew and the children of the gods take their parents' places. Sounds more like a cycle of rebirth than a cataclysmic end. Though, if your name is not Líf or Lífthrasir you are probably going to die.
Huzzah for that! An axe-age, a sword-age, shields shall be split! Let Surtr spread his fire, let the nail-ship sail with her legions! We shall meet our doom as men battling the hordes of the underworld, not naked floating in the clouds. Die with your boots on! A wind-age, a wolf-age, before the wrecking of the world.
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I can only think of one or two which relatively speaking aren't really that popular (and have player bases just as large in Europe as the US). The other "modern warfare" video games that you are no doubt thinking of are about as close to "actual simulations of war" as Duke Nukem or Halo are.
"Need all records of your illicit and illegal business wiped when your phone is confiscated by police and in a Faraday bag? There's an app for that!"
I work at a company that uses Fortran extensively and I don't much like it either, but.. You and everyone else who leaves white space at the end of lines needs to be taken outside into the street and shot. Seriously, if you care about your code so little that you are leaving invisible garbage characters all throughout it, you should be thinking of another career.
Fortunately modern software tools point out these garbage characters but I am still left cleaning up after all the jerks who use braindead tools and put them there in the first place, thus making extraneous changes in commits or needless "cleanup" commits.
If you are going to make a comment like that then you should provide an example else don't bother fi.
While I appreciate your post, trying to reason with these people is almost pointless. The christian cult is founded on guilt because supposedly some hippy in the desert died over two thousand years ago for the "sins" that all past and present inhabitants of this planet had committed and would commit. Guilt. Guilt. Guilt.
I was not suggesting that Steam games should be rentable. The list is the most comprehensive one that I know of and is certainly missing many PC games because additional DRM has been removed in favor of simply relying on Steam. Thus the list is merely a response to your claim of the "lack of DRM on PCs". PC games (from major publishers at least) are rife with it.
Lack? Here is a list of PC games with DRM. Not to mention that these are all games on Steam which is DRM in itself. Some DRM schemes are bearable, others are not. All are circumventable in one way or another (both for PC and consoles).
As the former owner of a '70 GTO I can tell you that driving around your old gas guzzler is not really helping the whole situation. If you are extremely attached to the car, I'd suggest shelving it until an efficient, non-fossil fuel burning engine is available to haul around that huge mass of steel. I'd have done the same, but idiots are still paying big money for old cars.
Reminds one of USENET..
comp.sys.apple
comp.sys.apple.ipad2
alt.music.apple.beatles
At last I can give my waterborne wheat grinding operation the online presence that it deserves! http://marines.mill/
The same type of person that has a balance on ten different credit cards.
Navy SEALs do not fly helicopters. But maybe that was part of the problem..
What if I run a site that links to a site that links to this guy's pictures of copyrighted works? Will I get extradited to Guantanamo Bay?
I rather like that integration. It allows me to use these fine services quickly and efficiently. As far as ads go, I have yet to see one on my Android phone while using any of Google's services (some apps have ads, but I tend to avoid those and wager that there are ad-supported iPhone apps as well).
You could make the argument that using the service on the phone gets you hooked on using the service on the PC where you actually see the ads. Well, I use mutt's IMAP support with GMail so rarely log into that and I have no problem with the unobtrusive ads on Google Search and Maps. I know that I should use the ad-free iSearch and iMaps like you but I have been suckered into Google's services by my phone.
Morocco has its own laws and I would imagine that many of them are different than in the US and EU. If Apple was doing this to uphold the laws in Morocco, then they should have filed their ridiculous patent there.
I recently watched Voyage To The Planets, a BBC produced drama based on a hypothetical voyage throughout the solar system in a few decades' time. Not only was it entertaining, it was highly educational as actual facts about the properties of the various planets and what special conditions or hazards they pose were presented. I think more productions along these lines would do wonders for improving the public view of science and engineering.
Italy having the balls to do the right thing environmentally would set a good precedent for the major offenders like the US.
Dear sir, I would like to invest in your hot air idea. It is refreshing to see individuals who are looking beyond the tired and boring list of renewable energy sources. That you should strike upon a source so vast and foreseeably endless is indeed impressive.
Sounds like it will be a good game when I buy it for $10.
That is the US. It is a bit the opposite in most of Europe. It is not unusual to see nudity in various media or suggestive adverts (usually involving some humor) that would have mothers over here in the US demanding that someone think of the children. Meanwhile graphic violence so common in the US is avoided. Many video games ship with blood removed or characters changed so that the player is not killing "humans".
The us.army.mil addresses aren't even worth mentioning. Every member of the Army has one of these. So you just proved that some members of the Army look at porn. Good job!
The walls of the squad rooms of the first platoon that I was assigned to had their walls plastered with porn. Probably not unusual of any other all male environment either.
It's not all bad actually, from the Wikipedia article:
So, the earth grows anew and the children of the gods take their parents' places. Sounds more like a cycle of rebirth than a cataclysmic end. Though, if your name is not Líf or Lífthrasir you are probably going to die.
Huzzah for that! An axe-age, a sword-age, shields shall be split! Let Surtr spread his fire, let the nail-ship sail with her legions! We shall meet our doom as men battling the hordes of the underworld, not naked floating in the clouds. Die with your boots on! A wind-age, a wolf-age, before the wrecking of the world.
Carpathian Forest - Christian Incoherent Drivel would make a good second track, I think.
I don't know what you just said, but when I saw the headline I thought the MMO was for the pirates to keep them busy indeed.