As for using any software in violation of the license, that's lame. Do you think it's ok to distribute Linux without providing the source? What you are doing is morally equivalent to that. if you can't understand the difference between distributing someone elses work and using software in a way the publisher doesn't want, then you are an idiot.
I hope this shows more people why they need to resist DRM schemes.
I'm doing my part by not getting the legit version of any steam game, I was tempted to get it when I heard that they added a half-life multiplayer but not if i have to deal with this crap.
Re:The better have one HELL of an excuse!
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If you want an old, reliable, never-failing game, pull pong out of the closet.
funny, i can install and play my copy of half life 2 whenever i want to, I guess that Valve fucked up by making the pirate copy inherently superior to the legit copy.
the personal info isn't verified or even checked really, sometimes it's used to mail out flyers, which is legitimats since a business is reasonable in wanting to send out ads to people who shop there.
looking for the same types of patterns in large groups, such as "lots of people who buy milk and cheese on mondays and thurdays, will buy cereal on wednesday and sunday, at which point you have a sale on milk monday to push up the sales of profitable cerials on wednesday.
This store kept that linking information. It's harder not to, since the aggregate data needs to link one shopping trip to previous trips, without a complex encryption and signing scheme it would be hard to keep that link while severing the link to the account.
the cops may care about the purchases as evidence, but the store doesn't care, it's not an invasion of privacy it's an offer, you don't have to take the offer.
And that whole bit in Fight Club about not doing a recall until the cost of lawsuits gets more expensive is entirely true. Our house was the eighth, but since no one had been killed they never did a recall. I'm not so sure about that, depending on how many of those TV's were made, and the age of the TV itself 8 fires from a particular model may not be outside normal electronics wearing out, especially if small power surges or brownouts were involved.
you need to either raise or lower the dose on your meds.
Seriously I work for a grocery store, while the individual data is stored it's purpose is to obtain aggregate data on what items are purchased together and in consecutive shopping trips in order to analyse the effect on discounting certain items and shelf placement on profits. I can assure you we don't care if oyu bought KY, rope, jam, and a few large sausages, but if lots of people bought KY, rope, jam, and a few large sausages, and lots of people bought KY, rope, jam, and sandpaper. You might start seeing premium sandpaper show up in a shipper near the sausages.
the sale has not been made untill you have checked out and payed, now if someone refuses to take legal tender at its face value as payment for a debt they are breaking the law, but nobody is required to take any particular for of money for a sale.
multiple levels of LLC's have a frontier level which published maybe 2 or 3 books at a time, then a developed level which would puiblish 10-15 at a time and a few core levels which published 100-200 books.
you can unload many of the extra pluins, i have acrobat starting in under a second now, the only function so far i have noticed missing is clicking hyperlinks within PDF's
1)go to Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\plug_ins
2) move everything except
Escript.api AWH32.api IA32.api Search5.api Sea rch.api
to Reader\Optional
embedded WMV loads and plays just fine in firefox, maybe it's only because i have MEdia player classic installed, but i could have sworn last time i wastched an embedded wmv it was plain windows media player running it.
Re:Who would buy a camera with this "feature"?
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someone who wants high quality security camera footage, but doesn't trust all their security guards no to steal copies of tapes containing sensitive IP to their competitors.
using it for graphics cards would be terrible if it has higher latency, graphics processing requires constant "random" access because rendering a life-like scene requires knowing the state of everything in line of sight, as well as ambient and reflected lighting.
Slashdot Mirror
how is it corrupt to buy in bulk then sell at a profit, shit all the retail stores must be corrupt too.
anyone out there want to help me out on getting the prerequisites to try this out? see my sig.
As for using any software in violation of the license, that's lame. Do you think it's ok to distribute Linux without providing the source? What you are doing is morally equivalent to that.
if you can't understand the difference between distributing someone elses work and using software in a way the publisher doesn't want, then you are an idiot.
there is a good chance that your online play will get banned if steam finds that hacked .exe, fuck steam, fuck Valve.
I hope this shows more people why they need to resist DRM schemes.
I'm doing my part by not getting the legit version of any steam game, I was tempted to get it when I heard that they added a half-life multiplayer but not if i have to deal with this crap.
If you want an old, reliable, never-failing game, pull pong out of the closet.
funny, i can install and play my copy of half life 2 whenever i want to, I guess that Valve fucked up by making the pirate copy inherently superior to the legit copy.
the personal info isn't verified or even checked really, sometimes it's used to mail out flyers, which is legitimats since a business is reasonable in wanting to send out ads to people who shop there.
looking for the same types of patterns in large groups, such as "lots of people who buy milk and cheese on mondays and thurdays, will buy cereal on wednesday and sunday, at which point you have a sale on milk monday to push up the sales of profitable cerials on wednesday.
not sure about the grit size, but i think they are.... hot grits.
This store kept that linking information. It's harder not to, since the aggregate data needs to link one shopping trip to previous trips, without a complex encryption and signing scheme it would be hard to keep that link while severing the link to the account.
the cops may care about the purchases as evidence, but the store doesn't care, it's not an invasion of privacy it's an offer, you don't have to take the offer.
And that whole bit in Fight Club about not doing a recall until the cost of lawsuits gets more expensive is entirely true. Our house was the eighth, but since no one had been killed they never did a recall. I'm not so sure about that, depending on how many of those TV's were made, and the age of the TV itself 8 fires from a particular model may not be outside normal electronics wearing out, especially if small power surges or brownouts were involved.
you need to either raise or lower the dose on your meds.
Seriously I work for a grocery store, while the individual data is stored it's purpose is to obtain aggregate data on what items are purchased together and in consecutive shopping trips in order to analyse the effect on discounting certain items and shelf placement on profits. I can assure you we don't care if oyu bought KY, rope, jam, and a few large sausages, but if lots of people bought KY, rope, jam, and a few large sausages, and lots of people bought KY, rope, jam, and sandpaper. You might start seeing premium sandpaper show up in a shipper near the sausages.
no that's just stuff that happens randomly when you buy a Saturn.
the sale has not been made untill you have checked out and payed, now if someone refuses to take legal tender at its face value as payment for a debt they are breaking the law, but nobody is required to take any particular for of money for a sale.
not only that, but anything available from the RMB is also available with the context-menu key
simple, have an exception that any work which has never been published need not be published to maintain copyright.
multiple levels of LLC's have a frontier level which published maybe 2 or 3 books at a time, then a developed level which would puiblish 10-15 at a time and a few core levels which published 100-200 books.
that is why the GP posted about slashdot being broken and did not claim firefox was the problem
Acrobat still sucks to load though.
a rch.api
you can unload many of the extra pluins, i have acrobat starting in under a second now, the only function so far i have noticed missing is clicking hyperlinks within PDF's
1)go to Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\plug_ins
2) move everything except
Escript.api
AWH32.api
IA32.api
Search5.api
Se
to Reader\Optional
embedded WMV loads and plays just fine in firefox, maybe it's only because i have MEdia player classic installed, but i could have sworn last time i wastched an embedded wmv it was plain windows media player running it.
tan's come from ultraviolet light, not infra red
someone who wants high quality security camera footage, but doesn't trust all their security guards no to steal copies of tapes containing sensitive IP to their competitors.
Unless the guy hired to photoshop the faces is on the take.
using it for graphics cards would be terrible if it has higher latency, graphics processing requires constant "random" access because rendering a life-like scene requires knowing the state of everything in line of sight, as well as ambient and reflected lighting.