The "source code" for a book would be the author's imagination and creative ability. The publishing company most certainly doesn't own *that* after they buy the rights to a particular book.
In the software world, if I buy the rights to a program I'm buying the end result of a particular combination of code. I don't get the rights to the individual modules/libraries inside that code.
Books absolutly have source code. Publishers may retain the rights to characters and what not depending on how badly they want to screw the author.
I always wondered if they were going to try and tie Portal to Half Life. After all in Episode 2 Aperture Labs was mentioned and GLaDOS tells Chell that the world has changed since she last saw it. Maybe they are doing something very interesting story wise.
Portal is already tied to Half Life.
Aperture Labs is Black Mesas competitor.
The story takes place paralell to Half Life 1.
Batman: Arkham Asylum had a fake leaked version that crashed at a certain point. Comments on the Assassin's Creed II torrents say it's a 7 gig document of just spaces hidden behind a passworded.rar
Slashdot yanked my comment last time I posted a pirate link but if your having trouble finding it look for the Russian version, it's very real.
No it hasn't. It's not even due to come out until the second week of next month. Going by the moderation system on BTJunkie.org, any Assassin's Creed II torrents currently available are fakes.
There is a fake going around that always crashes at a fixed point but there's a real one that was leaked and cracked.
It's actually a very appropriate, even polite, method of communication in many circumstances. One that doesn't scream at you "ANSWER NOW! I DEMAND TO TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW!!!"
If only there was a way to leave a voice message when the other person doesn't want to talk to you right away.
The so called acts of "terrorism" against the USA, could be called by another name. They are the resistance. The United States is an empire. it's ok, it's not a bad thing in itself. Embrace what you are. So, there is a resistance. A small, stupid, disorganized, and full of religious fanatics resistance. The fact that the resistance isn't bigger doesn't mean there are not a lot of other people that would like to resist, they just don't think blowing up buildings is the way to resist the empire.
So, when you say "Anti-terrorism" you actually mean "Anti enemies of the empire". What the government is doing is chasing the enemies of the empire. It is doing so using the worth methodologies: fear, violence, persecution, surveillance. And what the US is accomplishing is far from stopping that resistance: It actually gets more people to join in, and causes even more hate against your country.
The UK was once a Huge Empire, and they conquered most of the known world. And nobody hated them as much as everyone hates the US. And many times, what they did was actually far worse than the actions of the US. Then, why is the US hated so much? two reasons: One, people don't like self-righteous fucks. Do what you must, but don't pretend to be the land of the free and home of the whatever anymore. You are an empire. Conquer and STFU. Stop trying to sell the "American" way to everyone. Second: Conquer, but don't destroy. The UK conquered half the world, and now those places are known as Australia, The United States, Canada... The US, OTOH, conquered Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and those places are the same shitholes they were before. They are actually worse now after you screwed them up. Want their oil? Conquer them, get their oil, and in the process establish there and build trains and schools. The Colony model works, the big country takes the resources and cheap work that they need, and the small startup country grows and learns. Eventually, it becomes independent.
But if you keep conquering, screwing the place up, and then leaving, with the sole goal of selling more weapons and controlling the price of oil, people will hate you mroe and more, and they'll continue trying to blow the fuck out of your country.
Being a self righteous fuck and saying "why does the world hate us" doesn't help. Realizing what you are, and acting in consequence does.
So what we remove the Iraqi government and declare it the 51st state?
I sincerily doubt we will be hated less by doing that.
The 'War on Terror' will prove to be ineffective as the 'War on Drugs'. When you boil it all down, you are pitting human intelligence against human intelligence. Humans are very clever critters and will find one way or another around obstacles. If any progress at all is to be made, you need to fight the disease, not the symptoms. You have to ask "Why are these people doing this in the first place?" and address that as the root problem.
....but then everyone would have to admit that were at war with Islam.
Not going to happen.
then realized I hadn't even looked at the short skirt-wearing protagonist.
That sound you just heard was a million slashdotters clicking on that link at the same time.....
except me since I'm familiar with the book in question and realized long ago that she has sharp knees,
Some how, in North America, your mentality would be viewed as admission of guilt, and they'd find you guilty of pirating software that quite probably hasn't even been written yet.
If it hasn't been written yet then clearly you don't own that copy legally.
Also we have a patient on the time machiene you used.
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Books don't have source code.
The "source code" for a book would be the author's imagination and creative ability. The publishing company most certainly doesn't own *that* after they buy the rights to a particular book.
In the software world, if I buy the rights to a program I'm buying the end result of a particular combination of code. I don't get the rights to the individual modules/libraries inside that code.
Books absolutly have source code. Publishers may retain the rights to characters and what not depending on how badly they want to screw the author.
I always wondered if they were going to try and tie Portal to Half Life. After all in Episode 2 Aperture Labs was mentioned and GLaDOS tells Chell that the world has changed since she last saw it. Maybe they are doing something very interesting story wise.
Portal is already tied to Half Life.
Aperture Labs is Black Mesas competitor.
The story takes place paralell to Half Life 1.
So Valve, what ever happened to Half Life 2 Episode 3? Portal was fun and all but did not leave you with a cliffhanger ending like HL2 Episode 2.
Yes it did. I mean was the cake really a lie? We just don't know.
The fact that Chell and Gordon are both completely voiceless is disturbing to me.
Silent Protagonists are not all that uncommon and usually very effective. (Crono!)
you need ... in a speach bubble for it to be affective.
That's a sweat drop not a tear.
Then provide a link.
Batman: Arkham Asylum had a fake leaked version that crashed at a certain point. Comments on the Assassin's Creed II torrents say it's a 7 gig document of just spaces hidden behind a passworded .rar
Slashdot yanked my comment last time I posted a pirate link but if your having trouble finding it look for the Russian version, it's very real.
No it hasn't. It's not even due to come out until the second week of next month. Going by the moderation system on BTJunkie.org, any Assassin's Creed II torrents currently available are fakes.
There is a fake going around that always crashes at a fixed point but there's a real one that was leaked and cracked.
I don't suppose anyone bothered to point out the obvious. That the game is already cracked and available for download on the pirate bay.
Understanding satire and tongue-in-cheek humor and begin funny or clever are very different things. You are not very skilled in the latter.
Knowing when to end a running gage and to keep running with it are very different things.
Considering it normally looks like this: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100204-pluto-hubble-best-pictures/, those blobs of yellow and grays are pretty impressive.
But the normal picture looks shiny.
Pluto is one of those chicks that looks better from a distance.
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
NO! The risk of him creating a Dune Jarjar is too great.
Call Michael Bay!
Actually, I only click-thru for the comments.
(For those of you too young to get the joke, it was originally said by a comedian who claimed to read Playboy only for the articles.)
Why else would you read Playboy?
In most cases, "Don't make Admin look stupid, especially if they are." is implied policy #0. .
Of course, schools are designed to teach kids how the real world works.
It's actually a very appropriate, even polite, method of communication in many circumstances. One that doesn't scream at you "ANSWER NOW! I DEMAND TO TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW!!!"
If only there was a way to leave a voice message when the other person doesn't want to talk to you right away.
Civil war? When did that happen? I just never stay up with current events....
If you llive in certain parts if the south you might know it as the war of northern agression.
Am I the only person who read that as a giant plane that orbits a bright young star called HR 8799?
just let them do what they want, namely, kill each other, we simply cannot put an American MP on every crossroad of the world.
Yeah it's not like they would ever try to kill us.
The so called acts of "terrorism" against the USA, could be called by another name. They are the resistance. The United States is an empire. it's ok, it's not a bad thing in itself. Embrace what you are. So, there is a resistance. A small, stupid, disorganized, and full of religious fanatics resistance. The fact that the resistance isn't bigger doesn't mean there are not a lot of other people that would like to resist, they just don't think blowing up buildings is the way to resist the empire.
So, when you say "Anti-terrorism" you actually mean "Anti enemies of the empire". What the government is doing is chasing the enemies of the empire. It is doing so using the worth methodologies: fear, violence, persecution, surveillance. And what the US is accomplishing is far from stopping that resistance: It actually gets more people to join in, and causes even more hate against your country.
The UK was once a Huge Empire, and they conquered most of the known world. And nobody hated them as much as everyone hates the US. And many times, what they did was actually far worse than the actions of the US. Then, why is the US hated so much? two reasons: One, people don't like self-righteous fucks. Do what you must, but don't pretend to be the land of the free and home of the whatever anymore. You are an empire. Conquer and STFU. Stop trying to sell the "American" way to everyone. Second: Conquer, but don't destroy. The UK conquered half the world, and now those places are known as Australia, The United States, Canada ... The US, OTOH, conquered Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and those places are the same shitholes they were before. They are actually worse now after you screwed them up. Want their oil? Conquer them, get their oil, and in the process establish there and build trains and schools. The Colony model works, the big country takes the resources and cheap work that they need, and the small startup country grows and learns. Eventually, it becomes independent.
But if you keep conquering, screwing the place up, and then leaving, with the sole goal of selling more weapons and controlling the price of oil, people will hate you mroe and more, and they'll continue trying to blow the fuck out of your country.
Being a self righteous fuck and saying "why does the world hate us" doesn't help. Realizing what you are, and acting in consequence does.
So what we remove the Iraqi government and declare it the 51st state?
I sincerily doubt we will be hated less by doing that.
The 'War on Terror' will prove to be ineffective as the 'War on Drugs'. When you boil it all down, you are pitting human intelligence against human intelligence. Humans are very clever critters and will find one way or another around obstacles. If any progress at all is to be made, you need to fight the disease, not the symptoms. You have to ask "Why are these people doing this in the first place?" and address that as the root problem.
....but then everyone would have to admit that were at war with Islam.
Not going to happen.
Ah, my bad, got it on the second reading.
Don't lie to me. You'll never understand the greatness of my work.
Did you respond to the wrong comment?
Nope.
You'll have to be patient if you ever want to find it.
That wasn't a spelling error. The fictional character I was writing dialog for has a lisp.
Everyone knows that 98.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Duh, 74.2% of all people already know that.
then realized I hadn't even looked at the short skirt-wearing protagonist.
That sound you just heard was a million slashdotters clicking on that link at the same time.....
except me since I'm familiar with the book in question and realized long ago that she has sharp knees,
Some how, in North America, your mentality would be viewed as admission of guilt, and they'd find you guilty of pirating software that quite probably hasn't even been written yet.
If it hasn't been written yet then clearly you don't own that copy legally.
Also we have a patient on the time machiene you used.