Dammit, Jim, I'm an attorney, not an environmental scientist. But what I studied is irrelevant; anthropomorphization nearly always impedes clear thinking.
In most of these cases, from a purely legal perspective, the modders seem to have a pretty strong case.
No, they have a spectacularly weak case. The touchstone in trademark cases is the likelihood of consumer confusion. Halo and HaloGen are both video games. They take place in the same universe, with the same factions, the same characters, the same look and feel, and the same storyline. There is no way you can argue that this isn't likely to create confusion between what is and is not officially sanctioned by Microsoft, who actually own the mark.
All this paper argues is that the dark matter might not be a truly new particle - the combination of modified gravity and neutrinos can be made to work.
Oh my, yes. You have your ordinary gravitons, which are mostly harmless, and then you have your graviolis, a neutrino on the outside with a rich, meaty graviton embedded inside of it.
The real shame here is that MS doesn't EVER license their devkits to anyone unless they are a serious game developer and can front a huge amount of cash.
Did you get the memo about XNA? Mmmmm. Yeah. You see, it's just that Microsoft is giving away the XNA studio which allows you to develop for Xbox360, for free. I'll go ahead and get you another copy of that memo. Mmmmkay?
That's a fascinating story, but it does not in any way constitute evidence that the "vast majority" of Windows users share your personal evaluation, which is what I was asking for.
For the most part, there is a huge majority of people who run XP in "classic" mode, enjoying all applications in a one-size-fits all, boxy, ugly as sin, tan/grey everything Windows 2000-style interface.
You are claiming that the "huge majority" of people who use Windows XP run in "classic" mode. What is your source for this?
It depends on whether your particular RAID implementation will automatically rebuild degraded mirrors or whether manual intervention is required to initiate the rebuild process.
Yes it would, because the mirrors are in cartridge containers, so I can always keep one in, say, my car or at work. As cartridges, they would function just like tapes, except that they would be a bit-for-bit copy, so I could just attach the drive and boot it up.
Say it with me now: RAID is not a backup solution.
Well hold on there - maybe you're just not trying hard enough. What about a RAID-1 with one primary and multiple mirrors, all of which exist in removable hard drive cartridges? Pop in a cartridge, the mirror rebuilds, pop it out, you have a bitwise snapshot of your primary that's safely offline. Tomorrow pop in another cartridge, let it rebuild, pop it out. Repeat as necessary.
I haven't tried this, but if you're willing to tolerate the performance degradation from the rebuilds, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
There's a little utility called XCOPY that comes with Windowss that copies files without stopping, skipping inaccessible ones and continuing. XCOPY/C/D/E/F/H usually does the trick for me.
As someone who worked in the criminal trial "biz", I have to say I find your attitude to be incredibly insulting. The vast majority of jurors are not mindless automatons - they are thinking people like you or me. Your a priori assumption that jurors are actually incapable of independent judgement betrays either an unfamiliarity with the criminal justice system (not an entirely bad thing, but still a form of ignorance) or a crippling amount of cynicism.
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Assuming that you need to buy a copy of Halo to use the mod
A very poor assumption, considering that this is a mod of C&C Generals, and not Halo.
But of course if it was Microsoft ripping off GPL assets, then copyright and trademark is a good thing, right? IP for me but not for thee?
Dammit, Jim, I'm an attorney, not an environmental scientist. But what I studied is irrelevant; anthropomorphization nearly always impedes clear thinking.
I'm fuzzy on the whole "good/bad" thing. Define "bad."
In most of these cases, from a purely legal perspective, the modders seem to have a pretty strong case.
No, they have a spectacularly weak case. The touchstone in trademark cases is the likelihood of consumer confusion. Halo and HaloGen are both video games. They take place in the same universe, with the same factions, the same characters, the same look and feel, and the same storyline. There is no way you can argue that this isn't likely to create confusion between what is and is not officially sanctioned by Microsoft, who actually own the mark.
Please do not anthropmorphize the Earth. It discredits actual environmental science. Thank you.
Except they weren't modding Halo, they were modifying a completely different game using Halo assets.
There is nothing arbitrary at "violate the same law ==> pay the same fine".
There certainly is if the law is vague to the point that one cannot reliably tell in advance whether one will be violating it or not.
All this paper argues is that the dark matter might not be a truly new particle - the combination of modified gravity and neutrinos can be made to work.
Oh my, yes. You have your ordinary gravitons, which are mostly harmless, and then you have your graviolis, a neutrino on the outside with a rich, meaty graviton embedded inside of it.
The real shame here is that MS doesn't EVER license their devkits to anyone unless they are a serious game developer and can front a huge amount of cash.
Did you get the memo about XNA? Mmmmm. Yeah. You see, it's just that Microsoft is giving away the XNA studio which allows you to develop for Xbox360, for free. I'll go ahead and get you another copy of that memo. Mmmmkay?
is it really any different than owning a laptop?
The difference is that it's not portable.
Commentary? Commentary? Using just half of a DVD, with CD-quality 192 kbps vorbis audio, you get about two and a half days of solid commentary.
Oh, and just in case - I personally authored the above code, and as owner of the copyright, release it into the public domain. ;)
I agree with above. For example, the following C# code works (.NET 2.0):
That's a fascinating story, but it does not in any way constitute evidence that the "vast majority" of Windows users share your personal evaluation, which is what I was asking for.
ASP and ASP.NET are not very similar. I wouldn't judge one on the basis of the other.
Make sure you are not running it in quirks mode! You must use an XML doctype declaration to enable proper formatting.
For the most part, there is a huge majority of people who run XP in "classic" mode, enjoying all applications in a one-size-fits all, boxy, ugly as sin, tan/grey everything Windows 2000-style interface.
You are claiming that the "huge majority" of people who use Windows XP run in "classic" mode. What is your source for this?
It depends on whether your particular RAID implementation will automatically rebuild degraded mirrors or whether manual intervention is required to initiate the rebuild process.
Your RAID drive won't help you then.
Yes it would, because the mirrors are in cartridge containers, so I can always keep one in, say, my car or at work. As cartridges, they would function just like tapes, except that they would be a bit-for-bit copy, so I could just attach the drive and boot it up.
Say it with me now: RAID is not a backup solution.
Well hold on there - maybe you're just not trying hard enough. What about a RAID-1 with one primary and multiple mirrors, all of which exist in removable hard drive cartridges? Pop in a cartridge, the mirror rebuilds, pop it out, you have a bitwise snapshot of your primary that's safely offline. Tomorrow pop in another cartridge, let it rebuild, pop it out. Repeat as necessary.
I haven't tried this, but if you're willing to tolerate the performance degradation from the rebuilds, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
There's a little utility called XCOPY that comes with Windowss that copies files without stopping, skipping inaccessible ones and continuing. XCOPY /C /D /E /F /H usually does the trick for me.
Believe it or not, a lot of people take their responsibility seriously. Unlike, apparently, you.
Not always. I noticed right away that all of the monitors in "V for Vendetta" are obviously Dell flat panels.
As someone who worked in the criminal trial "biz", I have to say I find your attitude to be incredibly insulting. The vast majority of jurors are not mindless automatons - they are thinking people like you or me. Your a priori assumption that jurors are actually incapable of independent judgement betrays either an unfamiliarity with the criminal justice system (not an entirely bad thing, but still a form of ignorance) or a crippling amount of cynicism.