One angle I could see on this: Sure, everyone might want to make their webpages look this way. But if you rip off the exact code MS is using, change some variables, and get caught, well hey, looky here, we patented that beyotch.
For some reason I thought Halo 2 still had online multiplayer--just not through the actual old hub servers anymore. You have to set it up yourself. Just like Quake.
I clicked on one of the supposedly HTML5 books, but it's still in flash. I right click on it, and it says "About Adobe Flash Player" at the bottom of the context menu.
Dropped against the computer? That's the saddest joke ever. With my occasionally-flaky wireless, damned if I'm going to buy any games from this generation--and I don't pirate, either.
And if someone writes a GameSpy for Halo 2 (hell, I'm sure there's something like that out there already), people can use it to play Halo 2 online, just like they used it to play Quake online. Quake never had a centralized server, and now Halo 2 is just like Quake in that regard.
It's not like they removed the ability to connect by IP.
This is not a "corrupt people seek out the profession" troll.
No, I mean...Where are you going to find better people? Who grows up wishing to be a police officer any more? You guys go on about how these people should be suspended or fired. Who the bloody hell is going to take their place?
They work in a high-edge profession that, in some ways, is kind of like some medical or military fields: You have to take care of a problem FAST, and mistakes are going to happen. That's a really shitty job. Their nerves are shot. And believe me, they would be way happier if there was more funding so they could have better people on the force, or more backup. But until awesome people start wishing to be cops again, until the profession starts paying better, we won't see any improvement...
...and people will still make mistakes in the heat of the moment, because that's what it is, the heat of the moment. Sometimes it's because the situation is escalating fast, sometimes it's because there's somewhere else they have to be, but circumstances just aren't in cops' favor most of the time.
Who the hell would use this? How many people are really that desperate to escape social networks? People who REALLY didn't want them would never have signed up in the first place. People who used to like them and don't anymore, can just spend a couple hours tracking it all down. Mightn't people who use this want to customize its exact effects? Isn't the easiest way to do that...to just close your accounts yourself?
This sounds like something a sixth-grader would come up with...
Yeah, it sucks for him, but I bet I could find ten other people who could live six years longer on average with just $60,000 to spend on their health care. Medication they couldn't afford, living conditions that are toxic, not having enough food, being in need of rehab, hell, just finding cancer early so it can be treated.
Not to mention what impact that money would have in third-world countries.
$600,000 kept him alive for seven years...That could be two reasonably-paid people working full-time on HIM ALONE, for seven years straight. Think of what else they could do, what other benefits they could bring to the world. Or hell, that money could pick a smart but poor high-school graduate out of Wal-Mart and put him through medical school to become a doctor. Yes, there's a point where the money ought to be spent on someone else...especially when it's public money.
That makes it sound MORE like a customer, to me. Customers have tons of time on their hands, and whatever weird stuff they can get ahold of. What kind of supplier employee would use materials like?
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...along with the rest of the ARG. They've already been quite solved, over there.
http://portalwiki.net/
Just want to make sure I get what you're saying... So you're complaining that if you don't use a computer for a month, then suddenly you have to catch up on a month's worth of updates? Sure, it would be nice if they were cumulative--but these patches are designed for a daily user, and putting out multiple versions of updates just means there's more ways that something could go wrong.
And if you have to patch BEFORE you start working, then that's bad, but if you have to patch when you shut down instead, that's bad too. When should these updates happen, ideally?
Funny--my Firefox updates when I start it up, my Flash and Java and Adobe Reader update essentially on their own, and Windows updates when I shut it down...Steam updates on its own...Trillian and uTorrent give me a button to push to update them...I'm pretty much a power user, but I've never been prompted to update something that was remotely confusing. As long as things that need updating have an easy button to push to do it for you, I'm happy--extra bonus points if there's a checkbox in the installer to choose between "update automatically" and "prompt annoyingly when an update is available"
I'm too lazy to find links, but the counter-anecdote I've heard is that the cancer was tied to the herbicide they used to nuke the ground where they wanted to put the power lines. They used one big standardized REALLY NASTY herbicide across the country because, well, you're trying to build them as cheap as possible, so you want to kill the undergrowth as fast and as dead you can. Turns out it got into the water/air/children playing/whatever.
Again, though, this is just another anecdote too, until you look up some real research.
It happened because two different time tracking systems disagreed with each other and were stupid. System 1 said "It's February 29th, 2010", and passed it to System 2. System 2 says "WHOA, that's impossible, nuke it from orbit and start over".
Why did they do it like that? Who knows?
The new Prince of Persia reboot ensured that I won't buy a PC game from Ubisoft ever again. It suffered from the same "Let's fill the UI with references to console-controller buttons" issue.
While the answers to the questions may be uncopyrightable facts, the collection of QUESTIONS, are not--they are clearly a creative work, because creative selection went into them. A phone book on the other hand, doesn't have the same creative element: "Who are all the people within this location" versus "What questions might be fun to make people guess".
Pretty sure the "no cameras" thing works like that in the USA, as well. Or at least popular media seems to suggest that. It makes a vague kind of sense that I can't entirely put my finger on.
I saw some vibration-powered wearable devices that made similar claims, as long as you moved as often as your average sedentary person across an average week. Doesn't seem particularly new...
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One angle I could see on this: Sure, everyone might want to make their webpages look this way. But if you rip off the exact code MS is using, change some variables, and get caught, well hey, looky here, we patented that beyotch.
Just a vague idea though.
Yeah...
For some reason I thought Halo 2 still had online multiplayer--just not through the actual old hub servers anymore. You have to set it up yourself. Just like Quake.
Er, I think that if even the tiniest part of the original remains, that it's by very clear definition a derived work...
I clicked on one of the supposedly HTML5 books, but it's still in flash. I right click on it, and it says "About Adobe Flash Player" at the bottom of the context menu.
Dropped against the computer? That's the saddest joke ever. With my occasionally-flaky wireless, damned if I'm going to buy any games from this generation--and I don't pirate, either.
And if someone writes a GameSpy for Halo 2 (hell, I'm sure there's something like that out there already), people can use it to play Halo 2 online, just like they used it to play Quake online. Quake never had a centralized server, and now Halo 2 is just like Quake in that regard. It's not like they removed the ability to connect by IP.
This is not a "corrupt people seek out the profession" troll.
...and people will still make mistakes in the heat of the moment, because that's what it is, the heat of the moment. Sometimes it's because the situation is escalating fast, sometimes it's because there's somewhere else they have to be, but circumstances just aren't in cops' favor most of the time.
No, I mean...Where are you going to find better people? Who grows up wishing to be a police officer any more? You guys go on about how these people should be suspended or fired. Who the bloody hell is going to take their place?
They work in a high-edge profession that, in some ways, is kind of like some medical or military fields: You have to take care of a problem FAST, and mistakes are going to happen. That's a really shitty job. Their nerves are shot. And believe me, they would be way happier if there was more funding so they could have better people on the force, or more backup. But until awesome people start wishing to be cops again, until the profession starts paying better, we won't see any improvement...
Who the hell would use this? How many people are really that desperate to escape social networks? People who REALLY didn't want them would never have signed up in the first place. People who used to like them and don't anymore, can just spend a couple hours tracking it all down. Mightn't people who use this want to customize its exact effects? Isn't the easiest way to do that...to just close your accounts yourself?
This sounds like something a sixth-grader would come up with...
Yeah, it's even sadder for the people who are forced to make that decision. They don't LIKE to. But SOMEONE has to, to save more lives.
Yeah, it sucks for him, but I bet I could find ten other people who could live six years longer on average with just $60,000 to spend on their health care. Medication they couldn't afford, living conditions that are toxic, not having enough food, being in need of rehab, hell, just finding cancer early so it can be treated. Not to mention what impact that money would have in third-world countries. $600,000 kept him alive for seven years...That could be two reasonably-paid people working full-time on HIM ALONE, for seven years straight. Think of what else they could do, what other benefits they could bring to the world. Or hell, that money could pick a smart but poor high-school graduate out of Wal-Mart and put him through medical school to become a doctor. Yes, there's a point where the money ought to be spent on someone else...especially when it's public money.
That makes it sound MORE like a customer, to me. Customers have tons of time on their hands, and whatever weird stuff they can get ahold of. What kind of supplier employee would use materials like?
...along with the rest of the ARG. They've already been quite solved, over there. http://portalwiki.net/
Or maybe she needs to connect on something faster than dial-up.
Just want to make sure I get what you're saying... So you're complaining that if you don't use a computer for a month, then suddenly you have to catch up on a month's worth of updates? Sure, it would be nice if they were cumulative--but these patches are designed for a daily user, and putting out multiple versions of updates just means there's more ways that something could go wrong.
And if you have to patch BEFORE you start working, then that's bad, but if you have to patch when you shut down instead, that's bad too. When should these updates happen, ideally?
Funny--my Firefox updates when I start it up, my Flash and Java and Adobe Reader update essentially on their own, and Windows updates when I shut it down...Steam updates on its own...Trillian and uTorrent give me a button to push to update them...I'm pretty much a power user, but I've never been prompted to update something that was remotely confusing. As long as things that need updating have an easy button to push to do it for you, I'm happy--extra bonus points if there's a checkbox in the installer to choose between "update automatically" and "prompt annoyingly when an update is available"
I'm too lazy to find links, but the counter-anecdote I've heard is that the cancer was tied to the herbicide they used to nuke the ground where they wanted to put the power lines. They used one big standardized REALLY NASTY herbicide across the country because, well, you're trying to build them as cheap as possible, so you want to kill the undergrowth as fast and as dead you can. Turns out it got into the water/air/children playing/whatever.
Again, though, this is just another anecdote too, until you look up some real research.
It happened because two different time tracking systems disagreed with each other and were stupid. System 1 said "It's February 29th, 2010", and passed it to System 2. System 2 says "WHOA, that's impossible, nuke it from orbit and start over". Why did they do it like that? Who knows?
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I got it from Steam, and running it from Steam still had a console UI. Any idea what specifically I'd need to do, in order to get a real UI back?
The new Prince of Persia reboot ensured that I won't buy a PC game from Ubisoft ever again. It suffered from the same "Let's fill the UI with references to console-controller buttons" issue.
While the answers to the questions may be uncopyrightable facts, the collection of QUESTIONS, are not--they are clearly a creative work, because creative selection went into them. A phone book on the other hand, doesn't have the same creative element: "Who are all the people within this location" versus "What questions might be fun to make people guess".
Patents are not the same as copyrights.
Pretty sure the "no cameras" thing works like that in the USA, as well. Or at least popular media seems to suggest that. It makes a vague kind of sense that I can't entirely put my finger on.
I saw some vibration-powered wearable devices that made similar claims, as long as you moved as often as your average sedentary person across an average week. Doesn't seem particularly new...