The count is actually imposed by the inventors of SMS who decided to make a 140 byte maximum per message. Well I guess you could argue that it's still self-imposed since it was Twitter who decided they wanted to build everything around that limiting system, but they can't just ignore HTML characters for the count as someone other than them is doing the count.
I don't see how she's attacking her fans, since she lists dozens of things she's okayed. Plus all she's attacking in this case is the publisher, because she's already praised the author's work (of which the book in question is not: the publisher removed most of the author's original work to shorten it) and admitted she used it as a reference herself.
You still haven't presented why it's "flagrantly wrong" at all in this thread. In fact every time anyone has called you out on it, you haven't returned to give an answer. So how about it, why exactly is this ruling wrong?
First of all, Blizzard controls the money flow into the game. The newly invented dailies are probably the number one day-to-day money maker for a majority of characters in the game. If they were worried they were flooding the market with gold they could just halve the rewards from those quests. As well, the expansion was designed with 25 man raids in mind and so if (for whatever reason) dropping to that number somehow magically causes inflation they could have nipped it in the bud to begin with.
If you remember, reagents/materials/etc were actually more in demand and much much more expensive when the first few guilds started going into 25 man content because they slathered themselves with consumables (Blizzard has since changed Alchemy to make this practice not possible which has had more effect on the cost of mats than anything else to that point). The reason they did this is because 25 mans are much much more unforgiving than 40 mans and so generally if someone important dies everyone dies, whereas in 40 mans you may have had a spare healer or tank around to step up and fix the mistake. So there's generally a ton more wiping when learning content in TBC than in the orignal game.
Even so, the people hitting this MAX_INT limit are abnormalities. Normal people have trouble getting the 5000g for an epic flying mount let alone 40 times that.
Also, in case you didn't know, any combat will damage your gear; it's just that dying to a PvE monster will give you a 10% durability hit while to another player won't. So people who pvp still have to repair their gear, and based on how much they PvP they may need to repair it more or less than a raider.
What if it was in a folder on his desktop that they just dragged to be burned and then when they tested the DVD to see if it burned correctly they discovered what it was?
Please. The last thing we need are specious slippery slope arguments and people complaining without knowing exactly what went down.
No matter how they found the porn they did and by federal law they have to report it. They don't have to report people fibbing on their taxes or if they're cheating on their wives, so even if they discovered such things on the computer they would just leave them be.
Couldn't you just walk away from this? I mean it's a stationary device pointing to one area. You could start avoiding the area entirely, discovering new routes around it. If business in the area decreases from people avoiding the billboard wouldn't that encourage them to remove it?
I just don't see how this is (too much) different from if the billboard was shouting the same thing to everyone. It's just beaming it in a narrow column: just walk away.
I guess the confusion comes from the Slashdot writeup that makes it seem like some guy's going to be standing on the rooftop aiming the device at you, but that's not the case. If that were the case I can see the cause for alarm, but since it isn't I find the majority of the posts in here to be alarmist at best.
A major difference in scenarios is that if a science director was parading ID around (a most unscientific theory) people would expect them to be fired based on the fact they are in a job they are not qualified for. Firing someone for doing their job and supporting what is theory by science over what is purely faith based is why people are up in arms about this.
If you wanted to rail on slashdot posters about this story you could have nit picked and pointed out she was fired for not following policy and that said firing is not really about her favoring evolution over ID, at least at the outermost level.
That's not true, though. If someone sells you a stolen car, the car technically isn't yours since it technically wasn't theirs to sell. As such, the police are free to confiscate the car from you. Something similar happened with this case, even though the goods themselves are legit, the means which they were procured were illegal and thus you don't own the good.
Except they didn't legally purchase it, as the seller wasn't supposed to sell to people from outside the country. The seller is at fault here and the people who purchased the game get burned because of it.
A slightly analogous argument is to say "well someone could use a knife to kill someone, we can't allow people to have knives then." Just because she could abuse fair use to make 8 movies each using 30 different seconds of a 4 minute song with the intent of people piecing them together into the original song doesn't mean fair use should be illegal, it means abusing fair use to make 8 movies each using 30 different seconds of a 4 minute song with the intent of people piecing them together into the original song should be illegal, which it is. A big portion of that is intent: in the presented case the person is intending for the music to be a replacement of the purchased version, just like someone buying a knife to cut veggies is different from someone buying a knife to murder someone with.
Yes, the reason companies have to license work is because they're making money off of them in effect by having them inside their movie. The mom wasn't making money off of the video and the video wasn't going to steal sales away from people who would want to buy the song, so she was within fair use rights to use the song.
Student versions don't always have half the features, and in fact I'd say that the case of student versions matching the normal versions is greater than the ones that don't. The thing that makes them cheaper is that the user cannot use the product to make something they can sell, the same reasoning behind companies that give away software for free for non-commercial use.
If an uncrupulous company sold a commercial business a student version or a non-commercial version of a program without letting them know what exactly they were buying, then the company would be at fault. This matches this case almost to a T.
To reword it in an analogy, let's say the game is a car. You're allowed to sell the car as long as the title for it is valid in the country you're selling it to. If it's not valid then for all intents and purposes you don't actually own that car in that country. This specific Orange "Car"'s title was valid only in Thailand and Russia, and selling it outside of the borders means the product purchased is technically not yours. Valve can treat it like a stolen good because you have no legal proof you bought it, as the only proof you have only applies in a country you don't live in.
DS games already have the local friends code passing. For example, let's say you play a local game of Mario Kart with your friend from next door, you'll get his friend code and he yours from just doing that.
It's pretty obvious, the real reason Windows Next will require 64-bit processors is because it will take up 4GB of RAM while running, meaning you'll need more than that to actually be able to do anything.
Oh no! A ?? level character? Let me look up his name right quick here... alt+tab... load up site... type in name... pick right character from search results... wait for it to load... oh, he's 15 levels above me! Well, let me alt-tab back into the game and--! Oh no I'm dead!
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Vivendi acquired Activision, not the other way around.
The count is actually imposed by the inventors of SMS who decided to make a 140 byte maximum per message. Well I guess you could argue that it's still self-imposed since it was Twitter who decided they wanted to build everything around that limiting system, but they can't just ignore HTML characters for the count as someone other than them is doing the count.
Note that there's already been some counterpoints against this story posted elsewhere on the internet:
Counterpoint from John Gibson
Counterpoint from Derek Smart
In addition, the reward is far below the cost of the processes needed to retrieve that data, so no one's going to bother for that reason as well.
And this attitude is why no one likes Wikipedia. Good job driving away the people you're "helping" with your deleting.
Good thing you're just granting them a license then.
I don't see how she's attacking her fans, since she lists dozens of things she's okayed. Plus all she's attacking in this case is the publisher, because she's already praised the author's work (of which the book in question is not: the publisher removed most of the author's original work to shorten it) and admitted she used it as a reference herself.
She tried to work with him, and he wanted to work with her, but his publisher basically said no and forbid it. Too bad, that.
You still haven't presented why it's "flagrantly wrong" at all in this thread. In fact every time anyone has called you out on it, you haven't returned to give an answer. So how about it, why exactly is this ruling wrong?
Gotta love websites that put [AD] a small amount of content [AD] on multiple pages [AD] to up their ad co- [AD] unt.
First of all, Blizzard controls the money flow into the game. The newly invented dailies are probably the number one day-to-day money maker for a majority of characters in the game. If they were worried they were flooding the market with gold they could just halve the rewards from those quests. As well, the expansion was designed with 25 man raids in mind and so if (for whatever reason) dropping to that number somehow magically causes inflation they could have nipped it in the bud to begin with.
If you remember, reagents/materials/etc were actually more in demand and much much more expensive when the first few guilds started going into 25 man content because they slathered themselves with consumables (Blizzard has since changed Alchemy to make this practice not possible which has had more effect on the cost of mats than anything else to that point). The reason they did this is because 25 mans are much much more unforgiving than 40 mans and so generally if someone important dies everyone dies, whereas in 40 mans you may have had a spare healer or tank around to step up and fix the mistake. So there's generally a ton more wiping when learning content in TBC than in the orignal game.
Even so, the people hitting this MAX_INT limit are abnormalities. Normal people have trouble getting the 5000g for an epic flying mount let alone 40 times that.
Also, in case you didn't know, any combat will damage your gear; it's just that dying to a PvE monster will give you a 10% durability hit while to another player won't. So people who pvp still have to repair their gear, and based on how much they PvP they may need to repair it more or less than a raider.
No modern programming language or CPU uses anything but 2's complement integers, so I don't get the idea behind your post.
What if it was in a folder on his desktop that they just dragged to be burned and then when they tested the DVD to see if it burned correctly they discovered what it was?
Please. The last thing we need are specious slippery slope arguments and people complaining without knowing exactly what went down.
No matter how they found the porn they did and by federal law they have to report it. They don't have to report people fibbing on their taxes or if they're cheating on their wives, so even if they discovered such things on the computer they would just leave them be.
Couldn't you just walk away from this? I mean it's a stationary device pointing to one area. You could start avoiding the area entirely, discovering new routes around it. If business in the area decreases from people avoiding the billboard wouldn't that encourage them to remove it? I just don't see how this is (too much) different from if the billboard was shouting the same thing to everyone. It's just beaming it in a narrow column: just walk away. I guess the confusion comes from the Slashdot writeup that makes it seem like some guy's going to be standing on the rooftop aiming the device at you, but that's not the case. If that were the case I can see the cause for alarm, but since it isn't I find the majority of the posts in here to be alarmist at best.
A major difference in scenarios is that if a science director was parading ID around (a most unscientific theory) people would expect them to be fired based on the fact they are in a job they are not qualified for. Firing someone for doing their job and supporting what is theory by science over what is purely faith based is why people are up in arms about this.
If you wanted to rail on slashdot posters about this story you could have nit picked and pointed out she was fired for not following policy and that said firing is not really about her favoring evolution over ID, at least at the outermost level.
That's not true, though. If someone sells you a stolen car, the car technically isn't yours since it technically wasn't theirs to sell. As such, the police are free to confiscate the car from you. Something similar happened with this case, even though the goods themselves are legit, the means which they were procured were illegal and thus you don't own the good.
Except they didn't legally purchase it, as the seller wasn't supposed to sell to people from outside the country. The seller is at fault here and the people who purchased the game get burned because of it.
A slightly analogous argument is to say "well someone could use a knife to kill someone, we can't allow people to have knives then." Just because she could abuse fair use to make 8 movies each using 30 different seconds of a 4 minute song with the intent of people piecing them together into the original song doesn't mean fair use should be illegal, it means abusing fair use to make 8 movies each using 30 different seconds of a 4 minute song with the intent of people piecing them together into the original song should be illegal, which it is. A big portion of that is intent: in the presented case the person is intending for the music to be a replacement of the purchased version, just like someone buying a knife to cut veggies is different from someone buying a knife to murder someone with.
Yes, the reason companies have to license work is because they're making money off of them in effect by having them inside their movie. The mom wasn't making money off of the video and the video wasn't going to steal sales away from people who would want to buy the song, so she was within fair use rights to use the song.
Student versions don't always have half the features, and in fact I'd say that the case of student versions matching the normal versions is greater than the ones that don't. The thing that makes them cheaper is that the user cannot use the product to make something they can sell, the same reasoning behind companies that give away software for free for non-commercial use. If an uncrupulous company sold a commercial business a student version or a non-commercial version of a program without letting them know what exactly they were buying, then the company would be at fault. This matches this case almost to a T. To reword it in an analogy, let's say the game is a car. You're allowed to sell the car as long as the title for it is valid in the country you're selling it to. If it's not valid then for all intents and purposes you don't actually own that car in that country. This specific Orange "Car"'s title was valid only in Thailand and Russia, and selling it outside of the borders means the product purchased is technically not yours. Valve can treat it like a stolen good because you have no legal proof you bought it, as the only proof you have only applies in a country you don't live in.
DS games already have the local friends code passing. For example, let's say you play a local game of Mario Kart with your friend from next door, you'll get his friend code and he yours from just doing that.
In addition Nintendo doesn't milk their franchises near as badly as as others. For example, the Ratchet and Clank series or the Jak series.
It's pretty obvious, the real reason Windows Next will require 64-bit processors is because it will take up 4GB of RAM while running, meaning you'll need more than that to actually be able to do anything.
Oh no! A ?? level character? Let me look up his name right quick here... alt+tab... load up site... type in name... pick right character from search results... wait for it to load... oh, he's 15 levels above me! Well, let me alt-tab back into the game and--! Oh no I'm dead!
Let me be the first to nominate Sony's execs (namely games devision but not limited to) for executive hubris running their company into the ground.