the DMCA specifically makes format switching to remove DRM illegal as it falls under the umbrella of "Circumventing access-control technologies." It provides for this kind of format switching only under explicitly enumerated conditions, none of which is device compatibility.
Most likely, wealthy, lazy parents who want to buy an autisti-bot to watch their kid, creating a market demand which someone who wants to make money will fill with a supply.
this is a pretty simple logical syllogism, I'm not sure anyone didn't know this.
A) there are people who will give in-game items to female avatars as a way of flirting
B) there are other people who do anything possible for an ingame advantage
C) free in-game items are an in-game advantage
Ergo: people, males and females, will play female avatars in order to gain a playing advantage.
what a shocker.
As far as different characters, yeah, ASCII doesn't cut, it, but unicode can and does deal with it, allowing anyone who wants to take the time to reconfigure their keyboard to communicate in whatever alphabet they want. But if accents are your problem, even ASCII contains accented versions of characters in the high-8 bits. Just bind alt-letter to the accented version, and look literate again.
The fact that international communication is primarily english has nothing to do with the inaccessability of other character sets.
While it is true that the Boy Scout law has a pledge of "Reverence" and the oath promises "to do my duty to God and my Country," That's about as specific as it gets. The Boy Scouts of America does actually award religious emblems for Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and a number of other religions http://www.scouting.org/awards/religious/awards/.
However, they do not make official mention of Athiesm, Agnositicism, nor Unitarian Universalism.
Unofficially, however, all of the councils with whom I have been affiliated [most of the ones in Texas] have been quite tolerant of Agnosticism and Atheism, even to the extent that they advertised the option not to attend the non-denominational services being held if your beliefs did not align with the existance of a higher power.
As a card-carrying Agnostic Eagle Scout, I felt the need to step in here and dispell some rumors.
how do Itunes or the Ipod present an alternative to the existing entertainment industry. Neither of these Apple products create an alternate production scheme. These are simply distrobution models [I'm not even sure the Ipod qualifies as that], and further, Apple makes it's deals with the established production companies for distrobution rights.
That still leaves the matter of producing an album to begin with.
Perhaps a more accurate sentiment would be that self-recorded Direct-to-Consumer MP3 sales are the alternative scheme
And I really hope they don't let people change their display name (or at least let me keep theirs static.) Cute sayings are what comments are for - your display name should tell me who the hell you are.
AFAIK, any fully-functioning IM Client [with the exception of mIRC, etc] will allow for aliasing, which should do exactly what you want regardless of what they change their display name to. gAIM and Google Talk both have this functionality, and I suspect the official AIM client has it as well.
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the DMCA specifically makes format switching to remove DRM illegal as it falls under the umbrella of "Circumventing access-control technologies." It provides for this kind of format switching only under explicitly enumerated conditions, none of which is device compatibility.
Most likely, wealthy, lazy parents who want to buy an autisti-bot to watch their kid, creating a market demand which someone who wants to make money will fill with a supply.
this is a pretty simple logical syllogism, I'm not sure anyone didn't know this. A) there are people who will give in-game items to female avatars as a way of flirting B) there are other people who do anything possible for an ingame advantage C) free in-game items are an in-game advantage Ergo: people, males and females, will play female avatars in order to gain a playing advantage. what a shocker.
As far as different characters, yeah, ASCII doesn't cut, it, but unicode can and does deal with it, allowing anyone who wants to take the time to reconfigure their keyboard to communicate in whatever alphabet they want. But if accents are your problem, even ASCII contains accented versions of characters in the high-8 bits. Just bind alt-letter to the accented version, and look literate again.
The fact that international communication is primarily english has nothing to do with the inaccessability of other character sets.
s/teached/taught
that is all
two words: Bear Patrol.
While it is true that the Boy Scout law has a pledge of "Reverence" and the oath promises "to do my duty to God and my Country," That's about as specific as it gets. The Boy Scouts of America does actually award religious emblems for Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and a number of other religions http://www.scouting.org/awards/religious/awards/. However, they do not make official mention of Athiesm, Agnositicism, nor Unitarian Universalism. Unofficially, however, all of the councils with whom I have been affiliated [most of the ones in Texas] have been quite tolerant of Agnosticism and Atheism, even to the extent that they advertised the option not to attend the non-denominational services being held if your beliefs did not align with the existance of a higher power. As a card-carrying Agnostic Eagle Scout, I felt the need to step in here and dispell some rumors.
how do Itunes or the Ipod present an alternative to the existing entertainment industry. Neither of these Apple products create an alternate production scheme. These are simply distrobution models [I'm not even sure the Ipod qualifies as that], and further, Apple makes it's deals with the established production companies for distrobution rights.
That still leaves the matter of producing an album to begin with.
Perhaps a more accurate sentiment would be that self-recorded Direct-to-Consumer MP3 sales are the alternative scheme
And I really hope they don't let people change their display name (or at least let me keep theirs static.) Cute sayings are what comments are for - your display name should tell me who the hell you are.
AFAIK, any fully-functioning IM Client [with the exception of mIRC, etc] will allow for aliasing, which should do exactly what you want regardless of what they change their display name to. gAIM and Google Talk both have this functionality, and I suspect the official AIM client has it as well.