But anyway, yes, you do have to "pirate" it. As far as Apple is concerned, installing it on non-Apple hardware, installing it on more than one machine, or obtaining it without purchasing it are all equally violative of the license.
As prior law cases have demonstrated, they can write whatever they want in the licenses, but it won't make it automatically legal. There is a legal precedent for somehing called fair use that says, essentially, once I buy it I can do with as I please within the realms of copyright law. Can I have it installed on a Mac and a PC at the same time? No. Can I choose to not use the OSX license I paid for on a Mac, and on a PC instead? It's well within my right to try.
I think this is more concerned with internal people ripping the pre-released CDs to MP3 and distributing them, rather than people recording them via radio at worse quality.
You wouldn't know it to look, though - sports teams get new shiny gear while classrooms are falling apart.
That's overly simplistic. Sports teams also GENERATE revenue. If only 200 people show up to your local high school football game and spend 5$ to get in and 2$ each at the concession stand, you have already made $1400 minus food costs. I'd say that the numbers listed are pretty conservative estimates (at least when I went to high school at a relatively small high school), and considering most high school teams will have 5-6 home games, they usually make more money for the school than they spend. I'm no jock, nor some jock apologist, but just as I resent backlash against others based by the ignorant because of their high intelligence (i.e., jocks picking on nerds), it's also unfair to have a backlash against someone who is more adept physically than others. Each one has it's value, whether you can see that or not.
Sorry but I can't think of a single reason to run crapware like IE6 on Linux.
Web Development. If your site doesn't look good in IE you can stomp your feet and claim it's not standards compliant all you want, but if it drives away up to 80% of your potential customers off the bat, then it makes sense to make sure it works.
You're confusing statistics a bit here. Do 90% of desktops use Windows? Though I can't verify that, I'd be willing to agree that it's probably close. That number, however, is meaningless in this context. What is Songbird's major draw? It's freedom (i.e., open source, drm free, etc). So the important question becomes "How many people who are in that 'market' run Windows?" While it still may be a majority (such as myself, who enjoys and contributes to OSS, but still prefers Windows to Linux), you'll find it is a MUCH more level playing field than 90% vs. 10%.
Rising gas prices I'll give you, but even if gas prices double in the time it takes to rack up 200K miles, you're still coming out ahead. As far as resale value, that's hard to predict. It's difficult to say what the resale value for the hybrids that have only been out a year or two will be. The Corolla, on the other hand, holds a lot of it's value historically, so the hybrid would have to hold CONSIDERABLE value (which is unlikely to happen as new tech like this tends to have a few parts that are not designed for high lifetime).
What you're arguing though is that the concept is prudent, but the implementation is rife with abuse, and thus the concept should be abandoned. This is the same argument the RIAA used against file sharing.
I would disagree. When I used to play Tecmo Bowl, I didn't mind that I couldn't pick the Raiders (not my favorite team, but a good team on the game). It said Los Angeles and their colors were silver and black, so the hint was strong enough to ignore the fact that it never said Raiders. Had Bo Jackson (or any of the other stars) not been on the team, however, it wouldn't be worth playing.
Did you play both battle systems? I agree the "active" one was very AI driven, but I enjoyed the other one a bit. I agree with you in that I would like to see something turn based, but I think that would get away too much from what traditional FF-ites would expect.
Buy it for DQ8. The FF12 demo isn't worth it. I was extremely disappointed.
I agree, but from a slightly different standpoint. I bought DQ8, half because it looked at least interesting, and half because I wanted to play the FF12 demo. While I wouldn't say I was dispappointed by the demo, it;s definately NOT a reason to buy the game, as it's MAYBE (at most) a half hour to an hour long. DQ8 however is turning out to be a VERY pleasant surprise, and I am enjoying it a lot.
If a lot of/. goes stampeding into buying the book, that's a tidy fortune for the parent.
And I think the question that comes to mind is "So what?" If the price stays the same between buying it through him, or buying it straight from Amazon, why would it matter?
Well if the people who coded it to do the behavior you described had half a brain it would. It's much easier to do something like this than anything else:
scanZipforEXE(zipfile):
foreachfile:
if filetype == exe:
return true
else if filetype == zip:
return scanZipforEXE(file)
return false
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I don't know about you, but I'd rather see Plan 9 from Bell Labs: The Movie
I take that more as Apple trying to control who can make money off their devices.
Once it's in my hands, it's MY device, not theirs. They can choose not to support that configuration, but they should not be able to prevent it.
But anyway, yes, you do have to "pirate" it. As far as Apple is concerned, installing it on non-Apple hardware, installing it on more than one machine, or obtaining it without purchasing it are all equally violative of the license.
As prior law cases have demonstrated, they can write whatever they want in the licenses, but it won't make it automatically legal. There is a legal precedent for somehing called fair use that says, essentially, once I buy it I can do with as I please within the realms of copyright law. Can I have it installed on a Mac and a PC at the same time? No. Can I choose to not use the OSX license I paid for on a Mac, and on a PC instead? It's well within my right to try.
I think this is more concerned with internal people ripping the pre-released CDs to MP3 and distributing them, rather than people recording them via radio at worse quality.
You wouldn't know it to look, though - sports teams get new shiny gear while classrooms are falling apart.
That's overly simplistic. Sports teams also GENERATE revenue. If only 200 people show up to your local high school football game and spend 5$ to get in and 2$ each at the concession stand, you have already made $1400 minus food costs. I'd say that the numbers listed are pretty conservative estimates (at least when I went to high school at a relatively small high school), and considering most high school teams will have 5-6 home games, they usually make more money for the school than they spend. I'm no jock, nor some jock apologist, but just as I resent backlash against others based by the ignorant because of their high intelligence (i.e., jocks picking on nerds), it's also unfair to have a backlash against someone who is more adept physically than others. Each one has it's value, whether you can see that or not.
Sorry but I can't think of a single reason to run crapware like IE6 on Linux.
Web Development. If your site doesn't look good in IE you can stomp your feet and claim it's not standards compliant all you want, but if it drives away up to 80% of your potential customers off the bat, then it makes sense to make sure it works.
You're confusing statistics a bit here. Do 90% of desktops use Windows? Though I can't verify that, I'd be willing to agree that it's probably close. That number, however, is meaningless in this context. What is Songbird's major draw? It's freedom (i.e., open source, drm free, etc). So the important question becomes "How many people who are in that 'market' run Windows?" While it still may be a majority (such as myself, who enjoys and contributes to OSS, but still prefers Windows to Linux), you'll find it is a MUCH more level playing field than 90% vs. 10%.
Rising gas prices I'll give you, but even if gas prices double in the time it takes to rack up 200K miles, you're still coming out ahead. As far as resale value, that's hard to predict. It's difficult to say what the resale value for the hybrids that have only been out a year or two will be. The Corolla, on the other hand, holds a lot of it's value historically, so the hybrid would have to hold CONSIDERABLE value (which is unlikely to happen as new tech like this tends to have a few parts that are not designed for high lifetime).
What you're arguing though is that the concept is prudent, but the implementation is rife with abuse, and thus the concept should be abandoned. This is the same argument the RIAA used against file sharing.
I think what set Blitz the league apart though was the off field things that could be done, rather than the on field gameplay.
I would disagree. When I used to play Tecmo Bowl, I didn't mind that I couldn't pick the Raiders (not my favorite team, but a good team on the game). It said Los Angeles and their colors were silver and black, so the hint was strong enough to ignore the fact that it never said Raiders. Had Bo Jackson (or any of the other stars) not been on the team, however, it wouldn't be worth playing.
Did you play both battle systems? I agree the "active" one was very AI driven, but I enjoyed the other one a bit. I agree with you in that I would like to see something turn based, but I think that would get away too much from what traditional FF-ites would expect.
Buy it for DQ8. The FF12 demo isn't worth it. I was extremely disappointed.
I agree, but from a slightly different standpoint. I bought DQ8, half because it looked at least interesting, and half because I wanted to play the FF12 demo. While I wouldn't say I was dispappointed by the demo, it;s definately NOT a reason to buy the game, as it's MAYBE (at most) a half hour to an hour long. DQ8 however is turning out to be a VERY pleasant surprise, and I am enjoying it a lot.
If a lot of /. goes stampeding into buying the book, that's a tidy fortune for the parent.
And I think the question that comes to mind is "So what?" If the price stays the same between buying it through him, or buying it straight from Amazon, why would it matter?
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I would doubt it considering that they had already violated the GPL by not releasing their source. Why would an extra GPL violation matter?
I want the "Asian Flu" biological weapon.
I was thinking more Manchurian Candidate
Yes, but it's not possible for him to realize he's sure without changing the surity.
wouldn't work for me and ruby rocks!
Well if the people who coded it to do the behavior you described had half a brain it would. It's much easier to do something like this than anything else: scanZipforEXE(zipfile): foreachfile: if filetype == exe: return true else if filetype == zip: return scanZipforEXE(file) return false
Does that qualify this for reality TV then?