Ok, well, look at your range: At the most draconian end, you could use USB dongles, and phoning home to servers on a periodic basis (both of which can be circumvented).
At the most liberal end, you can leave the software open and charge a nice low price.
I personally would reccomend a low price which makes the software appear easily attainable, combined with a small, very light copy protection if you abesolutely must have it. No matter what you do there will be pirated copies. Accept it, smile, and ask for seconds.
The real solution lies in why people pirate software - most people can't justify paying lots of money for something they can't even hold. So if you make your software as accessible as possible, theoretically you should see a boom of usage.
Or you could skip the copy protection alltogether, make it free (as in free beer) software and then just make money off of advertising. *shrug*
This was not a NASA experiment per se, it was a Stanford experiment. The original press release can be found here. The official stanford website also lists preliminary findings here.
Just thinking about it, if they're selling them using the DVD label identifying it as a dvd, doesn't it legally have to be playable in dvd compatible players? If it wasn't, wouldn't that be a bait and switch scam? Just saying, they may have just opened up the floodgates to yet another massive lawsuit.
Well, after more than 10 years in the pits of customer service, all I can say is this:
this guy is my HERO. Please, please dear god lycos, start making posters with him. Please! My cubicle needs one so bad.
When I was back in middle school we had to group up and design a structure, out of paper, which could hold the most weight (measured in encyclopedia volumes - scientific, eh?) The caveat was that you had a limited amount of paper, and you couldn't just lay flat sheets of paper on the table.
We designed a 7 column structure, with a flat paper on top. The structure, looking rather flimsy, not only was the leader of the class, it was one of the only ones the professor had ever seen which could support an entire encyclopedia set, including both index volumes. We were quite impressed with ourselves.
Get some Sun Microsystems SunRays. Seriously.. thats exactly how they work. Your session can be saved on server and resumed anywhere else you plug in your smart card. One server and all of the terminals you need.
You sir are a moron. The idea of a consensus doesn't work in this case. Have you ever worked a day of your life on a farm? No? Neither has 80% of your population. So how can you have a valid consensus concerning farmers if you aren't one? Their consensus has no idea what the minority of farmers is talking about. If I started rattling off to the average person about how monsanto has been suing farmers for daring to let kernels of corn fall (or, EGAD, be excreted by animals) because it messes with their license, they would likely be clueless.
In the US, farmers have been getting treated more and more brutally by the government, most to the point of bankruptcy. You need to realize, that if the farmers need help, they need help. Guess what happens if they don't get help?
Enjoy eating a wild moose, because you won't get food elsewhere. You have no idea what it is like to be a farmer, and your idiotic post proves why democracy is ultimately flawed. The majority often has no idea what will actually benefit them, because they don't realize that by shoving the minority out of their way they can destroy their own infastructure.
You want to know what right they have to slow your progress to the all-important movies or workplace? You ate today. I think that's enough.
Apparently the study hasn't been peer reviewed or published yet. Its not listed in PsychINFO, or ebsco. Even if it was published a few days ago it should be listed. Although James Roney does have about 10 other studies to his name - all appearing to do with human mating behaviors.
I tend to not trust things until they've been peer-reviewed. Call me picky.
I actually performed an experiment like this for an undergrad psych stats project. We used different types of video games, Puzzle oriented (tetris), physically oriented (DDR), and an FPS (halo). We used the BDHI (buss-durkee hostility inventory) to get a baseline score. We then subjected the control group (tetris) to their treatment, and the other two groups to theirs. The end result? Nothing significant. Standard deviations were all over the place and it all ended up meaning rubbish. I got a C on that project.
It seems funny that correlations between games and violence seem to pop up all over, but when you actually use a true experiment they seem to dissapear.
My only problem is that still, 3.6 bln degrees... that's a LOT of heat, even for a low density plasma. That's a whole lot of energy too... where did all of it come from? Where did it go to?
As for the heat... thermite burns at a fraction of the sun's temperature and its more than enough to melt through any material it touches, and most material within a radius of about 6 inches. Given that 3.6 billion is about 720x as hot, I can't imagine it doing anything but igniting the entire lab in smoldering burny goodness from the radiation alone. They must have had one heck of a water cooler/peltier setup...
more like triple *QUEEN* dog dare. Saying something is hackproof to the mod community is about equivilent to laying down gloves and issuing a formal challenge.
Unless you're looking for a pretty print means of typing things out (in which case, check out LaTeX), use a pen and paper. You should know the basics of anything mathematical, and be able to do it by hand before you use a calculator for it. Otherwise learning it is pointless, since you've learned nothing more than how to hit a few buttons.
There's very little difference between this liscence and the GPL, actually. The major difference is that the GPL allows redistrobution, where this doesn't. Remember... free as in free-speech, not as in free-beer. Open source projects can charge as much money as they want for their products, so long as they allow the source to be available to the user base.
Actually this question was answered for us already (at least in the USA) in the court case of Sony v. Bleem. It was ruled that Bleem could continue operations, and sell their software publicly since they didn't not copy any proprietary Sony code. This should fend off Nazism from Redmond for now, but then again that ruling was also in a pre-DMCA world.
It actually depends on the type of dev kit. For instance, there were 2 development editions of the original Playstation (the development version of the console). One, with a black casing, was released through a North American game programming enthusiasts club. The true playstation development consoles were a drab olive green (you can see them in action in the special making of video grom Lunar:SSS for Playstation). The olive green were sony's own, and had direct interfaces with pc's. The others I think only allowed for a serial connection (don't quote me on that last part, been a long time since I saw the article). The point being, when you paid the 2k to join the club, you got the playstation to keep. No law broken to sell it then if it's you're property.
How many Americans do you know who have been in China? Outside of Academia, I know none that would be over there and actually be in touch with someone who owns a gaming store (or whatever kind of facility that liquidates this kind of stock). I doubt there were any speakers of American english available to meet with.
I'm not a geological historian, but it seems that (despite the annual claims of finding this place) there's a lot more evidence than usual. It's kind of interesting. Working off of the evidence Plato left us, this place seems to fit the bill a heck of a lot more than Schlieman's so called "Troy."
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No. Nuh-uh. Non. Never. Ethernet has survived many, many other layer 2 protocols coming and going. Its here to stay for the time being.
Ok, well, look at your range:
At the most draconian end, you could use USB dongles, and phoning home to servers on a periodic basis (both of which can be circumvented).
At the most liberal end, you can leave the software open and charge a nice low price.
I personally would reccomend a low price which makes the software appear easily attainable, combined with a small, very light copy protection if you abesolutely must have it. No matter what you do there will be pirated copies. Accept it, smile, and ask for seconds.
The real solution lies in why people pirate software - most people can't justify paying lots of money for something they can't even hold. So if you make your software as accessible as possible, theoretically you should see a boom of usage.
Or you could skip the copy protection alltogether, make it free (as in free beer) software and then just make money off of advertising.
*shrug*
This was not a NASA experiment per se, it was a Stanford experiment. The original press release can be found here. The official stanford website also lists preliminary findings here.
Just thinking about it, if they're selling them using the DVD label identifying it as a dvd, doesn't it legally have to be playable in dvd compatible players? If it wasn't, wouldn't that be a bait and switch scam? Just saying, they may have just opened up the floodgates to yet another massive lawsuit.
Well, after more than 10 years in the pits of customer service, all I can say is this: this guy is my HERO. Please, please dear god lycos, start making posters with him. Please! My cubicle needs one so bad.
When I was back in middle school we had to group up and design a structure, out of paper, which could hold the most weight (measured in encyclopedia volumes - scientific, eh?) The caveat was that you had a limited amount of paper, and you couldn't just lay flat sheets of paper on the table.
We designed a 7 column structure, with a flat paper on top. The structure, looking rather flimsy, not only was the leader of the class, it was one of the only ones the professor had ever seen which could support an entire encyclopedia set, including both index volumes. We were quite impressed with ourselves.
Get some Sun Microsystems SunRays. Seriously.. thats exactly how they work. Your session can be saved on server and resumed anywhere else you plug in your smart card. One server and all of the terminals you need.
You sir are a moron. The idea of a consensus doesn't work in this case. Have you ever worked a day of your life on a farm? No? Neither has 80% of your population. So how can you have a valid consensus concerning farmers if you aren't one? Their consensus has no idea what the minority of farmers is talking about. If I started rattling off to the average person about how monsanto has been suing farmers for daring to let kernels of corn fall (or, EGAD, be excreted by animals) because it messes with their license, they would likely be clueless.
In the US, farmers have been getting treated more and more brutally by the government, most to the point of bankruptcy. You need to realize, that if the farmers need help, they need help. Guess what happens if they don't get help?
Enjoy eating a wild moose, because you won't get food elsewhere. You have no idea what it is like to be a farmer, and your idiotic post proves why democracy is ultimately flawed. The majority often has no idea what will actually benefit them, because they don't realize that by shoving the minority out of their way they can destroy their own infastructure.
You want to know what right they have to slow your progress to the all-important movies or workplace? You ate today. I think that's enough.
Apparently the study hasn't been peer reviewed or published yet. Its not listed in PsychINFO, or ebsco. Even if it was published a few days ago it should be listed. Although James Roney does have about 10 other studies to his name - all appearing to do with human mating behaviors. I tend to not trust things until they've been peer-reviewed. Call me picky.
I actually performed an experiment like this for an undergrad psych stats project. We used different types of video games, Puzzle oriented (tetris), physically oriented (DDR), and an FPS (halo). We used the BDHI (buss-durkee hostility inventory) to get a baseline score. We then subjected the control group (tetris) to their treatment, and the other two groups to theirs. The end result? Nothing significant. Standard deviations were all over the place and it all ended up meaning rubbish. I got a C on that project.
It seems funny that correlations between games and violence seem to pop up all over, but when you actually use a true experiment they seem to dissapear.
My only problem is that still, 3.6 bln degrees... that's a LOT of heat, even for a low density plasma. That's a whole lot of energy too... where did all of it come from? Where did it go to?
As for the heat... thermite burns at a fraction of the sun's temperature and its more than enough to melt through any material it touches, and most material within a radius of about 6 inches. Given that 3.6 billion is about 720x as hot, I can't imagine it doing anything but igniting the entire lab in smoldering burny goodness from the radiation alone. They must have had one heck of a water cooler/peltier setup...
more like triple *QUEEN* dog dare. Saying something is hackproof to the mod community is about equivilent to laying down gloves and issuing a formal challenge.
Unless you're looking for a pretty print means of typing things out (in which case, check out LaTeX), use a pen and paper. You should know the basics of anything mathematical, and be able to do it by hand before you use a calculator for it. Otherwise learning it is pointless, since you've learned nothing more than how to hit a few buttons.
There's very little difference between this liscence and the GPL, actually. The major difference is that the GPL allows redistrobution, where this doesn't. Remember... free as in free-speech, not as in free-beer. Open source projects can charge as much money as they want for their products, so long as they allow the source to be available to the user base.
Actually this question was answered for us already (at least in the USA) in the court case of Sony v. Bleem. It was ruled that Bleem could continue operations, and sell their software publicly since they didn't not copy any proprietary Sony code. This should fend off Nazism from Redmond for now, but then again that ruling was also in a pre-DMCA world.
It actually depends on the type of dev kit. For instance, there were 2 development editions of the original Playstation (the development version of the console). One, with a black casing, was released through a North American game programming enthusiasts club. The true playstation development consoles were a drab olive green (you can see them in action in the special making of video grom Lunar:SSS for Playstation). The olive green were sony's own, and had direct interfaces with pc's. The others I think only allowed for a serial connection (don't quote me on that last part, been a long time since I saw the article). The point being, when you paid the 2k to join the club, you got the playstation to keep. No law broken to sell it then if it's you're property.
How many Americans do you know who have been in China? Outside of Academia, I know none that would be over there and actually be in touch with someone who owns a gaming store (or whatever kind of facility that liquidates this kind of stock). I doubt there were any speakers of American english available to meet with.
I'm not a geological historian, but it seems that (despite the annual claims of finding this place) there's a lot more evidence than usual. It's kind of interesting. Working off of the evidence Plato left us, this place seems to fit the bill a heck of a lot more than Schlieman's so called "Troy."