Suddenly, my eyes were attracted to the immense flock of black birds that hovered directly below me. They circled to the ground, and there before my eyes, stark and silent, lay the Humans, with the hungry birds pecking and tearing pink shreds of flesh from their dead bodies. Later when their bodies were examined in laboratories, it was found that they were killed by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared... slain after all our defenses had failed, by the humblest thing that the Eternal, in His wisdom, has put upon this planet Mars.
putting a impact shield around spacecraft - but the kind of impact speeds we are talking about probably makes this uneconomical as the shield would need to be massive.
The spacecraft would have trouble getting off the ground. That's even worse than uneconomical.
You could use a ballute for a shield, deployed when you reach the dangerous area. It's been suggested before as a deployable heat shield and way to safely slow down a spacecraft by skimming the outer atmosphere of Jupiter. I hear it's dynamite on paper, and about a year from realization.
Slightly angled. For FEAR they'd have to be greatly angled to account for the distortion, but not so much for Unreal Tournament. The big problem is the size of the bezels on the CRTs I use. The newer all-DVI version of the TripleHead2Go includes support for accounting for bezel thickness, though it does create dead pillarbox bars on the peripheral displays as well as blind spots where the bezels are. That feature isn't available for the VGA version I have. And meanwhile I'm watching for some 1280x1024 LCDs with VGA inputs and very thin (or removable!) bezels to drop a bit further in price.
Since the multi-head is all in an exterior box that presents itself to the computer as one display, you get full graphics acceleration on all the screens, without installing drivers. With drivers, you can make the computer aware of the screen's nature and e.g. maximization can work on a per-display nature. I tried it out on a Redhat 6.2 system at work before taking it home.
I just wish it could run three displays each in portrait orientation but in an overall landscape configuration. 3072x1280 would be better than 3840x1024 and allow displaying 1920x1080 HD video without cropping. If it also had 120Hz display support for use with NVidia's 3D card....
I remember now. The Matrox TripleHead2Go support software creates a special launcher for games that enables playing it at 3840x1024. There's probably a way to alter the launcher to do 1920x1200 or other widescreen resolutions. Of course, for games not designed for that wide of field-of-view, there can be some major distortion on the peripheral screens. But that tends to make F.E.A.R. even more strange.
Bzzt. Make up your mind. Either I paid for possessing it - and so I can use it anyway I see fit - or I just licensed it, and so they can (reasonably) limit the circumstances under which I can use it.
You can use it in any way you see fit other than the purpose for which it was intended which requires a license. A fraudulent agreement grants no rights.
Obligatory car analogy: you can own an unlicensed car if never drive it. You can use it as a very large paperweight if you like, or a doorstop (typically an outward-swinging door). But to use it on public roads, it (and its driver) need to be licensed.
IANAL. I'm not saying I agree with this reasoning. I'm just putting forth a possible legal theory by which someone trying to get around a EULA applying to them may be in for more trouble than breach of contract. It could also be argued that the EULA is an effective control preventing access to the work and that defeating it through deception is a violation of the DMCA.
that's good to know, because I have a ton of pirated software, and since I've clicked "agree" on that EULA during installation, i now have a valid license, and I am now authorized to use it. sweet!
You may have a license to use, but you aren't authorized to possess. They still have you.
Or you defrauded the software by employing a non-entity to press the "Agree" button, so you never had a valid license, so we'll prosecute you for pirating the software. (You paid to possess it, not to use it.)
So, if someone wrongly incarcerates 5000 people for 3 months each, does it follow that they should be incarcerated themselves for 1250 years? Would that be the punishment fitting the crime?
That would depend on your belief system of justice.
Garibaldi: I'm an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kinda guy, Ambassador. Delenn: So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless. Garibaldi: Not everyone; just the bad guys.
But then, do you divide that 1250 years up amongst the co-conspirators, or do they each get the same sentence?
I love when people make this retarded argument, completely ignoring that PirateBay acts as a tracker server which means it's specifically connecting IPs for the purposes of distributing file chunks.
So it's like DNS, or like TCP/IP? Everything's a file chunk. You're reading one now.
Why is Slashdot so pro-piracy in every situation? I've never understood it. Why would you ever rationally take a position in SUPPORT of Pirate Bay?
Because copyright duration is insufficiently limited and is infinitely extensible due to the whims of the inheritors of the rights to a crudely drawn cartoon mouse? Just a theory.
TPB publishes facts. What people do with those facts is their business. Are you suggesting that certain facts or collections of facts should be illegal for someone to gather and publish?
How many locations of drug dealing operations can one person know before he knows too many and can be held in custody indefinitely as an illegal criminal resource, and is Google Maps contributory for offering driving directions to these locations from anywhere in the world? When does public information become a state secret illegal to disclose?
Good thing I can't practice law, I'd be one step ahead of them: Aiding and Abetting the Assistance of Making Available Material that Might be Copyrighted.
Nah, Attempted Conspiracy to Attempt to Aid and Abet the Assistance of Making Available Material that Might be Copyrighted.
It depends if they're being brought up on the individual actions or the entire business model. If it's the latter and they are acquitted, they can continue to do the underlying actions as they are shielded under the acquitted business model.
This is why you prosecute the actions of organized crime and not the organization of crime itself.
To take it a step further, isn't Sony, Pioneer, Denon, or any other manufacturer of a cassette tape deck "making copyright infringement available" by providing me with a means of copying a CD to cassette?
The makers of audio cassette recorders pay a royalty (bribe) to the regional recording industries for every unit sold in their region in exchange for not being sued.
If you're going to drop a syllable from "finally", contract it as "fin'ly". "Finely" means something else.
I'd advise dropping "mater" from your spelling checker's dictionary as well as it is rarely what you'd intend to write ("wether", a castrated ram, is already deleted from mine).
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Suddenly, my eyes were attracted to the immense flock of black birds that hovered directly below me. They circled to the ground, and there before my eyes, stark and silent, lay the Humans, with the hungry birds pecking and tearing pink shreds of flesh from their dead bodies. Later when their bodies were examined in laboratories, it was found that they were killed by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared... slain after all our defenses had failed, by the humblest thing that the Eternal, in His wisdom, has put upon this planet Mars.
putting a impact shield around spacecraft - but the kind of impact speeds we are talking about probably makes this uneconomical as the shield would need to be massive.
The spacecraft would have trouble getting off the ground. That's even worse than uneconomical.
You could use a ballute for a shield, deployed when you reach the dangerous area. It's been suggested before as a deployable heat shield and way to safely slow down a spacecraft by skimming the outer atmosphere of Jupiter. I hear it's dynamite on paper, and about a year from realization.
The law clearly states that they should have a monopoly on making money.
I thought that was (in the US) the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but it turns out it's a duopoly: the B.E.P. doesn't do coins.
Slightly angled. For FEAR they'd have to be greatly angled to account for the distortion, but not so much for Unreal Tournament. The big problem is the size of the bezels on the CRTs I use. The newer all-DVI version of the TripleHead2Go includes support for accounting for bezel thickness, though it does create dead pillarbox bars on the peripheral displays as well as blind spots where the bezels are. That feature isn't available for the VGA version I have. And meanwhile I'm watching for some 1280x1024 LCDs with VGA inputs and very thin (or removable!) bezels to drop a bit further in price.
Since the multi-head is all in an exterior box that presents itself to the computer as one display, you get full graphics acceleration on all the screens, without installing drivers. With drivers, you can make the computer aware of the screen's nature and e.g. maximization can work on a per-display nature. I tried it out on a Redhat 6.2 system at work before taking it home.
I just wish it could run three displays each in portrait orientation but in an overall landscape configuration. 3072x1280 would be better than 3840x1024 and allow displaying 1920x1080 HD video without cropping. If it also had 120Hz display support for use with NVidia's 3D card....
You're confusing the right to copy as necessary stages of use (as directed by the code) with the scope of use naturally permitted by the code.
"heinous case of texting without permission."
"from the buttocks area"
In New York City, she would be charged with a vicious felony for that.
*DUN-DUN!*
I remember now. The Matrox TripleHead2Go support software creates a special launcher for games that enables playing it at 3840x1024. There's probably a way to alter the launcher to do 1920x1200 or other widescreen resolutions. Of course, for games not designed for that wide of field-of-view, there can be some major distortion on the peripheral screens. But that tends to make F.E.A.R. even more strange.
This will suck for people who like to take portrait-oriented photos more than landscape photos.
Also, last I checked, my mouth was not on my neck directly below either of my ears.
Be forewarned, the original FEAR doesn't support widescreen
IIRC, for a short time the developer was giving licenses for multiplayer for free. I'm sure I played it on a 3840x1024 screen. If that's not wide....
Then again, for some reason the sound didn't work.
aliens sitting on fucking toilets.
I think that would be a bit uncomfortable for the alien.
"Well, Timmy, when a toilet and a urinal really like each other...."
Bzzt. Make up your mind. Either I paid for possessing it - and so I can use it anyway I see fit - or I just licensed it, and so they can (reasonably) limit the circumstances under which I can use it.
You can use it in any way you see fit other than the purpose for which it was intended which requires a license. A fraudulent agreement grants no rights.
Obligatory car analogy: you can own an unlicensed car if never drive it. You can use it as a very large paperweight if you like, or a doorstop (typically an outward-swinging door). But to use it on public roads, it (and its driver) need to be licensed.
IANAL. I'm not saying I agree with this reasoning. I'm just putting forth a possible legal theory by which someone trying to get around a EULA applying to them may be in for more trouble than breach of contract. It could also be argued that the EULA is an effective control preventing access to the work and that defeating it through deception is a violation of the DMCA.
that's good to know, because I have a ton of pirated software, and since I've clicked "agree" on that EULA during installation, i now have a valid license, and I am now authorized to use it. sweet!
You may have a license to use, but you aren't authorized to possess. They still have you.
It started with "@[=g3,8d]\&fbb=-q]/hk%fg" (quotes included) and a few more as yet unidentified characters.
Or you defrauded the software by employing a non-entity to press the "Agree" button, so you never had a valid license, so we'll prosecute you for pirating the software. (You paid to possess it, not to use it.)
Maybe its time I got in touch with that bully I knew in kindergarten. He seemed to have a natural gift in that area.
He had two faces?
Funny, but I imagine it was more like he had a skill in reconfiguring the faces of others.
So, if someone wrongly incarcerates 5000 people for 3 months each, does it follow that they should be incarcerated themselves for 1250 years? Would that be the punishment fitting the crime?
That would depend on your belief system of justice.
Garibaldi: I'm an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kinda guy, Ambassador.
Delenn: So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless.
Garibaldi: Not everyone; just the bad guys.
But then, do you divide that 1250 years up amongst the co-conspirators, or do they each get the same sentence?
I love when people make this retarded argument, completely ignoring that PirateBay acts as a tracker server which means it's specifically connecting IPs for the purposes of distributing file chunks.
So it's like DNS, or like TCP/IP? Everything's a file chunk. You're reading one now.
Why is Slashdot so pro-piracy in every situation? I've never understood it. Why would you ever rationally take a position in SUPPORT of Pirate Bay?
Because copyright duration is insufficiently limited and is infinitely extensible due to the whims of the inheritors of the rights to a crudely drawn cartoon mouse? Just a theory.
TPB publishes facts. What people do with those facts is their business. Are you suggesting that certain facts or collections of facts should be illegal for someone to gather and publish?
How many locations of drug dealing operations can one person know before he knows too many and can be held in custody indefinitely as an illegal criminal resource, and is Google Maps contributory for offering driving directions to these locations from anywhere in the world? When does public information become a state secret illegal to disclose?
Good thing I can't practice law, I'd be one step ahead of them: Aiding and Abetting the Assistance of Making Available Material that Might be Copyrighted.
Nah, Attempted Conspiracy to Attempt to Aid and Abet the Assistance of Making Available Material that Might be Copyrighted.
It depends if they're being brought up on the individual actions or the entire business model. If it's the latter and they are acquitted, they can continue to do the underlying actions as they are shielded under the acquitted business model.
This is why you prosecute the actions of organized crime and not the organization of crime itself.
To take it a step further, isn't Sony, Pioneer, Denon, or any other manufacturer of a cassette tape deck "making copyright infringement available" by providing me with a means of copying a CD to cassette?
The makers of audio cassette recorders pay a royalty (bribe) to the regional recording industries for every unit sold in their region in exchange for not being sued.
If the Pirate Bay wrote a quick op-ed piece about every torrent they linked to
But who's going to have the time to write reviews
That's easy, if you use a computer. I mean use. Not click and play.
See, computers are machines made for automation.
I always thought "op-ed" meant "opinion and editorial". How does one automate an opinion piece?
See Fox News.
(News, Fox. News.)
24/7/365?
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks a ???
heptade. Like a decade, except made up of seven years instead of ten.
Or would it be septuade? It depends if you prefer Greek or Latin prefixes.
it may finely be the thing
If you're going to drop a syllable from "finally", contract it as "fin'ly". "Finely" means something else.
I'd advise dropping "mater" from your spelling checker's dictionary as well as it is rarely what you'd intend to write ("wether", a castrated ram, is already deleted from mine).
Was I making a joke? I don't remember.
We're all out of gum.
We are? Oh well, I guess there's nothing else to do than kick some ass then.