Damnit to fuck, Twitter, quit throwing away what little shred of fucking credibility you have by resorting to the shitty sock-puppets! Don't you realize that you are HURTING YOUR OWN CAUSE by engaging in tactics that piss people off at you?!
You ALREADY MADE your point (in a rather good way) with the post from your real account; you didn't need to FUCK IT UP with this bullshit!
Obviously, I'm just wasting my breath -- I'm beginning to believe that YOU ARE A MICROSOFT SHILL YOURSELF because NOTHING you could do to be more HARMFUL to the cause you claim to advocate than what you are doing RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!
I fucking AGREE with you and still wish you would DIE IN A FIRE!
So I'm going to say this once and for all: if you're indeed not a shill, then SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU STUPID BITCH!!!!!
There's no copyright violation, so none of the extreme remedies in the Copyright Act apply.
If (and only if) Psystar preinstalls the OS for the customer (as previous articles have claimed they plan to do), then it would be copyright infringement.
Yeah, no kidding! The important thing they should have filmed (but didn't) was something proving it was a Psystar and not some other random hackintosh.
(2) is the important bit here: Psystar has no right to distribute Apple software.
No, copyright law only applies to the act of making copies and then distributing them. Merely passing along the thing you got without making an additional copy of it falls only under the doctrine of first sale.
Preinstalling the OS is the only thing that can get Psystar in trouble here (because they're making an additional copy, onto the hard drive).
It also seems that Psystar induces its customers to break the EULA (and whether Apple can enforce the EULA or not doesn't matter; Psystar isn't allowed to do this)
On the contrary, they're inducing customers to break the EULA only if the EULA is valid in the first place. I'll bet that Psystar will argue (in the inevitable lawsuit) that it's not.
Trains use (1/5) the fuel of trucks per ton-mile, barges (1/10) and the engines are far easier to convert to biodiesel.
The point of mentioning trains though, is that railroads have to pay HUGE property taxes on the one best solution to their pollution. The railroads would see their property taxes TRIPLE on electrification improvements.
Wait a second, something doesn't compute here: first you were talking about running trains on biodiesel, then you were talking about running them on electricity. Which is it?
If they did electrify, rail transportation could potentially be carbon-neutral.
It's a game, not a novel, and even as a game the story in it is on the lower tier as far as game stories go. This isn't Half Life or Bioshock where the stories are integral to the game. It's a game where you go around killing gangsters and prostitutes on the way to becoming a mob boss
How do you know? Have you played it? Maybe the reviews are saying what they're saying because it does actually have a great story!
I don't think I'm exaggerating by saying that basically any task is automatically many times harder to program when you're dealing with a massively networked environment. It's just not that easy to translate single-player game development experience into a full featured MMO. There are huge architectural issues you have to think of when doing so that are not obvious to the lay-person (or often to the average developer).
Screw technical issues, the real problem is that it's just not easy to translate single-player game playing experience into a full featured MMO.
The whole point of a good sandbox-type single player game, like GTA or TES is that you're exceptional. You're the hero. There isn't anybody else in the game world like you. In an MMO, that basic paradigm utterly and irretrevably fails.
What I'd like to see in terms of multiplayer for a game like GTA would be two entirely separate things:
A capture-the-flag (or otherwise goal-oriented) team (or "gang") based mode with no storyline for up to, say, 32 players
A co-op mode for somewhere between 2-8 players, where you are all in the same gang and experience a deep storyline in a world that persists between gaming sessions. Obviously, this would require a lot of logistical coordination between members of the play group, and would become more complex to implement as the number of players allowed (and the variablity of the numbers of players allowed) increased, so it would unfortunately be too much development work for too small an audience.
I'd say it's rivaled by Morrowind (and maybe Oblivion, though I haven't played it yet). They're so different that they're more complimentary than competitive, though.
Since when did "it's" not mean "it is?!" And since when did "its" not mean "[the succeeding thing] belongs to it" or "[the succeeding thing] of it" (i.e., the opposite of your definition)?
When it comes to grammar, it's [it is] a damn shame that you don't understand its subtleties [subtleties of grammar, not grammar of subtleties] nearly as well as you think you do!
Then the problem is that the "less-than-stellar programmer" didn't understand (pointers|out references|returning structs), not that he wanted to divide stuff up into a helper function.
A function (method, procedure, subroutine) should be just as long as it has to be to encapsulate the work it's doing. Sometimes that's one line. Sometimes it's pages.
But if it's pages long, then the "work it's doing" is most likely more than one thing.
Breaking those pages of code into a bunch of other subroutines solely on some misguided notion that a function shouldn't be longer than N lines, makes for code that is harder to understand an maintain.
You're right that there should be no limit in the number of lines, but there certainly should be a limit in the number of "things."
Ah ha! I don't know how long your growing season is, so let's assume half a year (26 weeks). 26 weeks * 5 minutes/week / 60 minutes/hr * $150/hr = $325
Your garden looks much more profitable than it is, because your estimates were off (even if we assume your 5 min/week is correct, which I doubt, it's still more than twice as large as your previous estimate of 1 hour/season).
Well, when I said "synthesize" I was including biological processes such as algae. I mainly used that word as a hedge against the people who complain about biodiesel because they fear it would displace food production.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. But still, rather than saying that non-organic mercury compounds have "low toxicity," wouldn't it be better to say that they have extremely high toxicity, but are still less toxic than organic mercury compounds with are super-ultra-mega-toxic? Although I now realize you were speaking in relative terms, it sounded like you were implying that stuff like the metallic mercury from a thermometer would be good spread on toast. ; )
I don't know about oil, but most coal was deposited during the Carboniferous Period, which, as part of the Paleozoic Era, was considerably earlier than the Cretaceous Period (part of the Mesozoic Era) that you're referring to.
Believe it or not, we got where we are by design. Back, well, ages ago, Rand published classified reports that highly encouraged spread out cities.
You're right about the "by design" part, but not so right about the "nuclear strikes" part. Spread-out suburban planning was well underway before WWII, as a reaction against urban pollution (wanting to separate industrial areas from residential areas) and an infatuation with the automobile. I think they just didn't realize that cars would become such a problem.
Ethanol only has 2/3 the energy of gasoline by volume, so you'll need 588 million gallons of ethanol per day to replace it.
Gasoline only has 7/10 the energy of diesel fuel, so you'd only need 272 million gallons of diesel per day to replace it. Therefore, gasoline is just as stupid as ethanol... right?
But seriously, if we used a combination of ethanol and biodiesel we could probably manage it. (Also, more efficient vehicles and better public transportation wouldn't hurt.)
It's inorganic mercury, which has low toxicity. What coal plants emit is largely organic.
That statement doesn't make sense. Mercury is an element; elements can't be organic. Do you mean that coal plants emit compounds containing carbon and mercury?
Also, you're wrong: even elemental mercury (which is within your "inorganic" category) is -- and I quote -- "extremely toxic".
with proper research you could get a greater energy density packed into a fuel cell then a battery
Yeah, right... if this is what you mean when you say fuel cell!
An electric economy makes sense, but neither hydrogen nor batteries are the answer for how to get that electricity to the car.
Besides, as for "seamless transitions," a really seamless one would be to switch from gasoline and diesel made from oil, to gasoline and diesel made from biomass or synthetic sources. Heck, I've already done it: my 10-year-old VW New Beetle runs on reformulated veggie oil collected from restaurants, and all I have to do is fill up at a normal pump, just like any other diesel vehicle.
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He may be guessing now, but that won't make him any less right in the end.
Damnit to fuck, Twitter, quit throwing away what little shred of fucking credibility you have by resorting to the shitty sock-puppets! Don't you realize that you are HURTING YOUR OWN CAUSE by engaging in tactics that piss people off at you?!
You ALREADY MADE your point (in a rather good way) with the post from your real account; you didn't need to FUCK IT UP with this bullshit!
Obviously, I'm just wasting my breath -- I'm beginning to believe that YOU ARE A MICROSOFT SHILL YOURSELF because NOTHING you could do to be more HARMFUL to the cause you claim to advocate than what you are doing RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!
I fucking AGREE with you and still wish you would DIE IN A FIRE!
So I'm going to say this once and for all: if you're indeed not a shill, then SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU STUPID BITCH!!!!!
If (and only if) Psystar preinstalls the OS for the customer (as previous articles have claimed they plan to do), then it would be copyright infringement.
Yeah, no kidding! The important thing they should have filmed (but didn't) was something proving it was a Psystar and not some other random hackintosh.
No, copyright law only applies to the act of making copies and then distributing them. Merely passing along the thing you got without making an additional copy of it falls only under the doctrine of first sale.
Preinstalling the OS is the only thing that can get Psystar in trouble here (because they're making an additional copy, onto the hard drive).
On the contrary, they're inducing customers to break the EULA only if the EULA is valid in the first place. I'll bet that Psystar will argue (in the inevitable lawsuit) that it's not.
Why not? He's not the government!
Wait a second, something doesn't compute here: first you were talking about running trains on biodiesel, then you were talking about running them on electricity. Which is it?
Biodiesel is carbon-neutral too, you know.
How do you know? Have you played it? Maybe the reviews are saying what they're saying because it does actually have a great story!
Screw technical issues, the real problem is that it's just not easy to translate single-player game playing experience into a full featured MMO.
The whole point of a good sandbox-type single player game, like GTA or TES is that you're exceptional. You're the hero. There isn't anybody else in the game world like you. In an MMO, that basic paradigm utterly and irretrevably fails.
What I'd like to see in terms of multiplayer for a game like GTA would be two entirely separate things:
I'd say it's rivaled by Morrowind (and maybe Oblivion, though I haven't played it yet). They're so different that they're more complimentary than competitive, though.
Yeah, but a new 3D one.
Since when did "it's" not mean "it is?!" And since when did "its" not mean "[the succeeding thing] belongs to it" or "[the succeeding thing] of it" (i.e., the opposite of your definition)?
When it comes to grammar, it's [it is] a damn shame that you don't understand its subtleties [subtleties of grammar, not grammar of subtleties] nearly as well as you think you do!
(No, I'm not an English major.)
By the way: cite.
Then the problem is that the "less-than-stellar programmer" didn't understand (pointers|out references|returning structs), not that he wanted to divide stuff up into a helper function.
But if it's pages long, then the "work it's doing" is most likely more than one thing.
You're right that there should be no limit in the number of lines, but there certainly should be a limit in the number of "things."
If it's truly a literate program, shouldn't the "tool that spits out pretty documentation" be a no-op, returning the source code unchanged?
Ah ha! I don't know how long your growing season is, so let's assume half a year (26 weeks). 26 weeks * 5 minutes/week / 60 minutes/hr * $150/hr = $325
Your garden looks much more profitable than it is, because your estimates were off (even if we assume your 5 min/week is correct, which I doubt, it's still more than twice as large as your previous estimate of 1 hour/season).
Well, when I said "synthesize" I was including biological processes such as algae. I mainly used that word as a hedge against the people who complain about biodiesel because they fear it would displace food production.
Because you stored it on your PC as FLAC, and don't have good software to transcode it on-the-fly when syncing?
Yes.
Absolutely.
Hint: the question you should be asking is "can you distribute code which does this?"
Ah, thanks for the clarification. But still, rather than saying that non-organic mercury compounds have "low toxicity," wouldn't it be better to say that they have extremely high toxicity, but are still less toxic than organic mercury compounds with are super-ultra-mega-toxic? Although I now realize you were speaking in relative terms, it sounded like you were implying that stuff like the metallic mercury from a thermometer would be good spread on toast. ; )
I don't know about oil, but most coal was deposited during the Carboniferous Period, which, as part of the Paleozoic Era, was considerably earlier than the Cretaceous Period (part of the Mesozoic Era) that you're referring to.
You're right about the "by design" part, but not so right about the "nuclear strikes" part. Spread-out suburban planning was well underway before WWII, as a reaction against urban pollution (wanting to separate industrial areas from residential areas) and an infatuation with the automobile. I think they just didn't realize that cars would become such a problem.
Gasoline only has 7/10 the energy of diesel fuel, so you'd only need 272 million gallons of diesel per day to replace it. Therefore, gasoline is just as stupid as ethanol... right?
But seriously, if we used a combination of ethanol and biodiesel we could probably manage it. (Also, more efficient vehicles and better public transportation wouldn't hurt.)
That statement doesn't make sense. Mercury is an element; elements can't be organic. Do you mean that coal plants emit compounds containing carbon and mercury?
Also, you're wrong: even elemental mercury (which is within your "inorganic" category) is -- and I quote -- "extremely toxic".
Yeah, right... if this is what you mean when you say fuel cell!
An electric economy makes sense, but neither hydrogen nor batteries are the answer for how to get that electricity to the car.
Besides, as for "seamless transitions," a really seamless one would be to switch from gasoline and diesel made from oil, to gasoline and diesel made from biomass or synthetic sources. Heck, I've already done it: my 10-year-old VW New Beetle runs on reformulated veggie oil collected from restaurants, and all I have to do is fill up at a normal pump, just like any other diesel vehicle.