I'd say the opposite - the tone in AutoZone's filing is pretty dismissive, especially for a legal pleading. DaimlerChrysler is similarly unimpressed, SCO's investors want their money back, and the real digging is now in following the money trail and guessing whether or not IBM is going to get the BSD case unsealed.
The truth is coming to light (thanks in large part to Groklaw) even outside the geek community.
For interchange among the major 3D packages, Kaydara has the free (like beer) FBX file format, which seems to work pretty well. They've even gotten it incorporated into Quicktime, so it might be viable for online/relatime content as well.
That's why the legal system has discovery. The scenario you describe assumes you have no ability to test the explosive residue yourself, and/or that any such test would give a simple yes/no result, and couldn't distinguish between types or quantities of explosive. Neither of these assumptions are true.
I thought the added error was ditched a few weeks into the first Iraq war, given the scarcity of the military-grade stuff, the price advantage of the off-the-shelf stuff for military use, and the software error correction civilian manufacturers were employing to increase accuracy anyway.
Not an FPS, but try Loop, a brilliant and extremely difficult game from gamelab (creators of Blix and Sissyfight2000, among others). The whole game is ABOUT catching butterflies.
Liquid nitrogen is NOT a nitrogen compound the way fertilizers are. It's just nitrogen, and will evaporate without a trace. That's like saying carbon is sugar.
Whoa there... are you saying liquid nitrogen is environmentally safe? Seems to me that dumping a few thousand gallons of that stuff into a river or lake would probably not be particularly good for the biosphere.
What dastardly environmental effects of Nitrogen exposure did you have in mind? You do know the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, right? Wile I agree that any fish/wildlife that happen to be in the immediate vicinity of a few thousand gallons of liquid nitrogen would be frozen to death, the contamination wouldn't exactly have a long half-life.
Salen, K. & Zimmerman, E. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Chap. 28
Those authors also reference an essay called "Metagames," by one Richard Garfield, in Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Essays on roleplaying, London:Jolly Roger Games, 2000
And to enforce license fees on developers. The console requires cartridges to display the logo, so that they can go after unlicensed developers on copyright grounds. I believe this started after a series of lawsuits around 3rd-party development for the Atari 2600 and NES.
True. The Dreamcast won't load a cartridge unless a bit-for-bit copy of the logo screen stored in ROM is the first thing on the CD. Some of the indie DC games/emulators have a screen after the first screen saying that the first screen was lying.
Dungeon Siege springs immediately to mind - this was obviously a design priority for them. However, it seems to have been made a priority over gameplay in that particular case.
Perhaps mini-games while loading (that could even affect the main game), or loading as much as possible in the background while on the mission selection screen, for games which feature that sort of thing, would be solutions.
It's about as accurate as you can get without employing technologies that either make roads less useable (tollbooths, including RFID EZPass-like tech) or are horribly invasive (London traffic cams). And vehicles that use more gas do tend to be heavier and cause more wear on roads. Your lawnmower doesn't impact roads, but then how big is its tank?
Ah, yes... That worked as a strategy for laptop purchases for about a year and a half starting in 1994. Then they stopped selling them.
Same thing is happening in cellpohnes now.
Your agreement to abide by the assinine rules is irrevocably written into your deed to the property. The HOA is empowered to fine you whatever they want. Don't want to pay? They can take your house.
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That's "Crystal Shit"...
How do you get Thief to install? My Thief Gold CD won't run the install on NT/2k/XP...
The truth is coming to light (thanks in large part to Groklaw) even outside the geek community.
For interchange among the major 3D packages, Kaydara has the free (like beer) FBX file format, which seems to work pretty well. They've even gotten it incorporated into Quicktime, so it might be viable for online/relatime content as well.
That's why the legal system has discovery. The scenario you describe assumes you have no ability to test the explosive residue yourself, and/or that any such test would give a simple yes/no result, and couldn't distinguish between types or quantities of explosive. Neither of these assumptions are true.
...and you have no idea what a film recorder can do.
Did they turn it back on?
Not an FPS, but try Loop, a brilliant and extremely difficult game from gamelab (creators of Blix and Sissyfight2000, among others). The whole game is ABOUT catching butterflies.
Liquid nitrogen is NOT a nitrogen compound the way fertilizers are. It's just nitrogen, and will evaporate without a trace. That's like saying carbon is sugar.
I always wondered why deer bury their dead on high ground.
What dastardly environmental effects of Nitrogen exposure did you have in mind? You do know the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, right? Wile I agree that any fish/wildlife that happen to be in the immediate vicinity of a few thousand gallons of liquid nitrogen would be frozen to death, the contamination wouldn't exactly have a long half-life.
Yeah, and the damn Miss Universe pageant is rigged: Earth always wins.
Salen, K. & Zimmerman, E. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Chap. 28
Those authors also reference an essay called "Metagames," by one Richard Garfield, in Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Essays on roleplaying, London:Jolly Roger Games, 2000
And to enforce license fees on developers. The console requires cartridges to display the logo, so that they can go after unlicensed developers on copyright grounds. I believe this started after a series of lawsuits around 3rd-party development for the Atari 2600 and NES.
True. The Dreamcast won't load a cartridge unless a bit-for-bit copy of the logo screen stored in ROM is the first thing on the CD. Some of the indie DC games/emulators have a screen after the first screen saying that the first screen was lying.
Perhaps mini-games while loading (that could even affect the main game), or loading as much as possible in the background while on the mission selection screen, for games which feature that sort of thing, would be solutions.
bitchin' UID, but you forgot the tags.
'Cuz I bet GWB could slim down to 132 if he really tried. Don't think it's gonna happen for Cheney, though.
Have a better solution?
Fine for small-scale devices like cars, but how about power plants? Those take a hell of a long time to design, approve, build, and get running.
Roads cost money.
Ah, yes... That worked as a strategy for laptop purchases for about a year and a half starting in 1994. Then they stopped selling them. Same thing is happening in cellpohnes now.
Your immune system's used to the bacteria, but most people's arent. For god's sake, break out the dish soap for friends.
Now bend over.