If you're taking the article at face value, then you should take the fact that the 48.4m is the money to date Capita have invested in something as the truth.
The article is just a bunch of big sounding unrelated numbers thrown together to effect a sense of outrage.
I've yet to discover an android app that's incompatible with my phone. Maybe that's because the Galaxy S has a superset of currently available features - but as far as my experience with a user goes, I don't care. All I know is I haven't seen personal evidence of the much talked about fragmentation and incompatibility.
Unlike my previous experiences with J2ME, where pretty much no applications ever worked with my phone, no matter which manufacturer it was from, or if they did work, they were very clunky (like not taking advantage of a touch screen)
The fibre was always going to be capable of Gigabit, and beyond. And pretty much any off-the-shelf network hardware will handle gigabit. To achieve 100mb in the first place they probably would have had to artificially limit the speed.
I doubt there's a big increase in exposure in having a game pirated vs having a decent demo available.
I don't know if this game in particular had a demo, but World of Goo does, and it's a good demo that more than sells the game to you, particularly given the low price of World of Goo.
If you don't want to pay for a game, that's your decision, but never pretend you're doing the developers a favour.
For information the transaction is different. If I have money and you have information, after the transaction, I have information but no money, you have money AND still have the information. It is a fundamentally different sort of transaction. This difference is at the heart of most discussions on information sharing / stealing / selling. We want to make it look like a physical good, but it isn't!
and that is why his sheet music costs $3.99, not $39,000
The did have a say - they had their say in 2007, and will have another say in only a couple of months.
Australians vote for their local members, and the party (or coalition) with the most members forms government. The party then elects their leader, who becomes prime minister.
Labor elected Rudd initially, and now they decided to elect Gillard instead. Also, she was deputy Prime Minister, and went as such into the election, so it's not like people were voting for Labor without the knowledge that she would have some power - and that she'd be filling in as PM from time to time anyway.
I don't see any evidence that the filter will ever go through. The government isn't even trying.
Even if they win the next election with a majority in the senate (and currently it's looking like they might not win at all), to put it before parliament Conroy is finally going to have to write down exactly what it is, which is something he's been utterly unable to do to this date.
it would be true though. There can be many different (and unrelated) sites hosted on one IP address, and of course there can be many different pages on each of those sites.
There's a big difference between logging the ip addresses used in tcp connections and actually inspecting the http and logging page requests. (Not that I'm in favour of either of them)
you know, copy and pasting a sentence and replacing a work in it is very easy, but it doesn't actually constitute an argument, despite what a number of slashdotters might think
I see nothing wrong with that syntax - it's pretty standard C++ style syntax, the same code is identical in pretty much any C based object oriented language.
Unless of course it was the libraries you had the problem with, not the syntax.
you cannot patent concepts in the first place. You can patent inventions. Whilst some companies like to act like they have a patent on a concept, what they really have is a patent on a specific implementation of that concept (which may or may have some overly broad language that got past the examiners).
yup, level scaling bugged the hell out of me too. Increasing the challenge should be done by having parts of the map or story require stronger characters, then the character just doesn't _do_ those things till they're strong enough. And when there's been nothing but rats in a part of the map for ages, having it suddenly overrun by bears and mountain lions is just stupid. There's guards walking the paths night and day - the sudden infestation makes no sense.
Also, I hated the artificial quick-travel. It made the map way too small. Morrowind had realistic quick travel that made sense - boats, stilt striders and mages guilds. each of those methods had a cost - either in time or in money or both. The limitations of those methods also gave you another implicit goal - to create the perfect flying/leaping potion or spell...
it wasn't a problem with the random number generator - it was a problem with where the number was used. They "shuffled" by passing a user defined "compare" function which returned random results to a sort function. For sort to work properly, the results must be repeatable - so basically rather than create a random sort, they just created a broken sort, and the result would then be dependant on the actual sorting algorithm used by the language.
The important part is what isn't said. The ruling didn't say that there was no obligation to police a certain part of the net for copyright violations, just that the ISP wasn't responsible for BitTorrent and thus wasn't obligated to police that part of the net.
so, "the law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another" doesn't meet your definition of that?
The number of people who chose PHP because it has a superficial syntactic resemblance to C (actually it looks more like Perl than C) must be vanishingly small. No one(*) develops in C any more, being C-like is no longer a benefit.
(*) Ok, I know that _some people_ do - I do myself, for a job even, but it's very rare to find new developers that know real C, compared with Java, C# or C++. And the number of people who profess some level of PHP proficiency dwarf all of them.
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No, AMD makes Radeon and has done for years.
They've _branded_ them ATI since the buyout, but even that has changed now and future parts (which is what these are) will be AMD branded.
If any game is likely to still be played in 10 years time, it's Civilization. (Assuming there's not a Civ 6 by then, of course).
If you're taking the article at face value, then you should take the fact that the 48.4m is the money to date Capita have invested in something as the truth.
The article is just a bunch of big sounding unrelated numbers thrown together to effect a sense of outrage.
I've yet to discover an android app that's incompatible with my phone.
Maybe that's because the Galaxy S has a superset of currently available features - but as far as my experience with a user goes, I don't care. All I know is I haven't seen personal evidence of the much talked about fragmentation and incompatibility.
Unlike my previous experiences with J2ME, where pretty much no applications ever worked with my phone, no matter which manufacturer it was from, or if they did work, they were very clunky (like not taking advantage of a touch screen)
if it takes five years for your solution to stop scaling, then you've probably done a pretty good job.
There's nothing magical about this.
The fibre was always going to be capable of Gigabit, and beyond. And pretty much any off-the-shelf network hardware will handle gigabit.
To achieve 100mb in the first place they probably would have had to artificially limit the speed.
I doubt there's a big increase in exposure in having a game pirated vs having a decent demo available.
I don't know if this game in particular had a demo, but World of Goo does, and it's a good demo that more than sells the game to you, particularly given the low price of World of Goo.
If you don't want to pay for a game, that's your decision, but never pretend you're doing the developers a favour.
For information the transaction is different. If I have money and you have information, after the transaction, I have information but no money, you have money AND still have the information. It is a fundamentally different sort of transaction. This difference is at the heart of most discussions on information sharing / stealing / selling. We want to make it look like a physical good, but it isn't!
and that is why his sheet music costs $3.99, not $39,000
The did have a say - they had their say in 2007, and will have another say in only a couple of months.
Australians vote for their local members, and the party (or coalition) with the most members forms government.
The party then elects their leader, who becomes prime minister.
Labor elected Rudd initially, and now they decided to elect Gillard instead.
Also, she was deputy Prime Minister, and went as such into the election, so it's not like people were voting for Labor without the knowledge that she would have some power - and that she'd be filling in as PM from time to time anyway.
why?
I don't see any evidence that the filter will ever go through.
The government isn't even trying.
Even if they win the next election with a majority in the senate (and currently it's looking like they might not win at all), to put it before parliament Conroy is finally going to have to write down exactly what it is, which is something he's been utterly unable to do to this date.
it would be true though. There can be many different (and unrelated) sites hosted on one IP address, and of course there can be many different pages on each of those sites.
There's a big difference between logging the ip addresses used in tcp connections and actually inspecting the http and logging page requests.
(Not that I'm in favour of either of them)
What does the value of Telstra's shares right now have to do with the cost of building a national network over 8 years?
they have not implemented the filter at all, and will not implement the filter.
The filter only exists (and will only ever exist) in the imagination of Steven Conroy and non RTFAing slashdotters (ie. most of them).
it's never too soon!
EB Games have always had that policy. I would imagine some of their competitors do too.
That's not a counter example.
how is it more GUI-fied, or toy like than any other mainstream distro?
Also, the answer to your question is: because they have nothing to prove to anyone.
yes, so it would seem...
you know, copy and pasting a sentence and replacing a work in it is very easy, but it doesn't actually constitute an argument, despite what a number of slashdotters might think
I see nothing wrong with that syntax - it's pretty standard C++ style syntax, the same code is identical in pretty much any C based object oriented language.
Unless of course it was the libraries you had the problem with, not the syntax.
you cannot patent concepts in the first place. You can patent inventions.
Whilst some companies like to act like they have a patent on a concept, what they really have is a patent on a specific implementation of that concept (which may or may have some overly broad language that got past the examiners).
yup, level scaling bugged the hell out of me too.
Increasing the challenge should be done by having parts of the map or story require stronger characters, then the character just doesn't _do_ those things till they're strong enough.
And when there's been nothing but rats in a part of the map for ages, having it suddenly overrun by bears and mountain lions is just stupid. There's guards walking the paths night and day - the sudden infestation makes no sense.
Also, I hated the artificial quick-travel. It made the map way too small. Morrowind had realistic quick travel that made sense - boats, stilt striders and mages guilds. each of those methods had a cost - either in time or in money or both. The limitations of those methods also gave you another implicit goal - to create the perfect flying/leaping potion or spell...
it wasn't a problem with the random number generator - it was a problem with where the number was used.
They "shuffled" by passing a user defined "compare" function which returned random results to a sort function.
For sort to work properly, the results must be repeatable - so basically rather than create a random sort, they just created a broken sort, and the result would then be dependant on the actual sorting algorithm used by the language.
The important part is what isn't said. The ruling didn't say that there was no obligation to police a certain part of the net for copyright violations, just that the ISP wasn't responsible for BitTorrent and thus wasn't obligated to police that part of the net.
so, "the law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another" doesn't meet your definition of that?
The number of people who chose PHP because it has a superficial syntactic resemblance to C (actually it looks more like Perl than C) must be vanishingly small.
No one(*) develops in C any more, being C-like is no longer a benefit.
(*) Ok, I know that _some people_ do - I do myself, for a job even, but it's very rare to find new developers that know real C, compared with Java, C# or C++. And the number of people who profess some level of PHP proficiency dwarf all of them.