Not if that was part of the perceived value of a new game that costs $59.99! A whole new can of worms opens up when you start charging a value for something that was part of the original product. As long as someone can establish that as part of perceived value in court, you (the seller) is in trouble if you wish to charge extra to the enxt owner, although you can stop supporting it all together because of age or lack of products in the market but I don't think that was part of the arguments.
Better for the software company to work with used game seller (like EB Games and Gamestop) in a "dealership" model for the used games. At least they know the games were traded in and not pirated.
Of course 50 years from now the "dealership" may rebel against the major game studio and the studios will have to a tough time resolving the partnership. But that's the headache down the road and we can deal with it then rather than now.
Actually XBox Live is pretty upfront of the cost, and it is per account subscription, not per game per transfer. I can buy used games and still play online, while the prior owner of the game enjoyed in his time and now I enjoy mine.
However, I still don't like the trend to sell us half of a game, and then force you to buy the additional content digitally.
This is why I play less video games lately. It is not fun anymore having to deal with all this crap. I'd rather go ride a bike or read a book or do some non-profit work or even learn to play an instrument than having to deal with this crappy hassle. At least I don't have to pay someone a subscription fee to play a guitar that I rightfully owned.
The thoughts that everyone old folks in/. were once the young 'uns scares the crap out of me.
Jokes aside, we were all young, inexperience programmers at some point of time in our life, unfortunately. Somebody more experienced have shown me the ropes before I got better (besides just ME thinking that I am good). Just hope I didn't cause too much pain for other "more experienced" co-worker when I was younger.
Conclusion: Young/.er be nice to the older co-workers!
Texas and South Carolina were both part of The Confederate States of America. So I guess the idea of secession from the Union is not exactly a subversive act against SC.
But wait! Texas was an soverign State at one point! It is also in the Texas State Constitution that the State has the right to seperate from the Union (peacefully). Although Perry's act is more of a political stunt it is well within the capacity of the State of Texas to carry out this act legally.
--
Disclaimer: I live in Texas and am very proud of being a Texan!
Then we need a standard! What is the ANSI been doing the last few years (or even decades)! Measuring the accuracy of punds?
Personally I think Murdoch knows that his editor is still getting well paid with ebook, since his publisher can reduce the cost of physically producing a book. What he is not saying is that he want his company to get more profit (by charging the same price but at half the cost), much like the music industry once sought out to do.
I hope Eric Holder would look into possible fair-trade violation Fox is trying to force on other businesses and consumer in recent years. I hope all their audiences realize how hypocritical Fox has been when it comes to be "people's media". Not because of their content, but more for how they conduct their own business.
The longer the investment, the bigger the return. I'm not necessarily equate big spending in research will bring those new technology in fruitation, but rather a steady, year-after-year commitment, are the way to go. Regargless of how favorable the concept was when it was first proposed, once it is in the pipeline and on its way to be successfully developed, it should be allowed to be completed in a steady pace.
Other governments, in particular the Asian country, Japan, China, and even India alike, recognized that paradigm. They put the level of resource they can commit and keep pushing. That is the way you proceed with a high risk, long term investments. It is just that typically a government can have a bigger checkbook and can afford to wait longer to see an actual return. Just look at the nuclear technology development in China and Japan. In particular in China they have slowly but surely accumulate expertise in nuclear power plant design that is recognized internationally. If we want to continue our technology excellence (not necessarily superiority in everything), we need to keep doing what we are good at and start strenghening other areas that needs attention. Robbing John to pay Paul is never the answer. That's what a typical short-sighted private industry would do, not what the NASA, one of the fledging science and engineering pioneer in the world should be doing.
I am very saddened the way this administration allocate the funding to jerk NASA from what they had set out to do (while so far very successful on some of the programs). Whoever made the administration, or even the panel drink the wrong coolade should be mocked be banished from US science and engineering community. I even wonder what what kind of foreign influence they received (of course I'm speak out of ignorance here with no proof - take this with a grain of salt) let so much R&D effort wasted, not because they won't amount to anything, but rather because they will never see the light of day.
The Climate Change is worthy our time and effort. However establishing a moon base, establishing the proper technology to make things cheaper and more affordable is equally important. The dollar amount is high, but compare to the rest of our spending, it is a drop in the bucket, not to mention the private commercial development our space program has spurred on for the last 4 decades. Don't kill it just because it was planned out during Bush Administrations. You know this is what NASA recommended and not invented by Bush himself.
It is so sad that the decision of our science and engineering pioneering effort are being decided by bunch of politicians without an eye for long term benefits. What happend to the Jefferson and Poke who would rather risk their next term but make the right decision (major land purchases in history)?
This is totally absurd. If I steal a bread and the bakery develops their own hitech satellite surveillance system to catch me, they couldn't possible claim that they lost a billion dollars because I stole a bread.
Yes they can. It's called politics. Just watch how the health and industry and drug companies twisting their words. Money talks, especially after the new Supreme Court decision. The big companies and their lobbiest are out to get you.
Three times the minimum might be reasonable, if we just looking at the plain academic side of the law. In reality it is still quite a sum for the family with 4 kids with average income. The decision can still bankrupt the family.
FPGA are known to take a long time to be loaded with the citcuit design. It can easily take 45min to 3 hrs to load any built file to do that unless the changes are fairly minor (or your FPGA is really small). You are far better off to have pre-built FPGA ready to be swapped out.
He's talking about how their culture and government are doing in this era.
Better than ever, by all accounts.
Age hasn't got anything to do with it. Neither has his culture got anything to do with the accuracy of his evaluation.
If his culture is tinted with jingoism, making him spew nationalistic prattle, it has a lot to do with it.
I don't really agree with him and I'm interested in hearing opposing viewpoints. But I'm not interested in hearing stupid bullshit that attacks the arguer and ignores the argument. Just saying.
Then you shouldn't be happy that his ignorant bile gets modded up, nor should you be defending it.
And BTW, thanks for calling my reply "stupid bullshit", it really illustrate just how much you hate it when people attack the arguer and how much you value opposing viewpoints. Just saying.
While we are on topic on Chinese spying, are you one of those poster Chinese government owned droids trolling the internet posts for a good fight? Seriously I've seen many of them on many news site's discussion board. You are the first one that are so balatently apparent on your intention here at slashdot.
The vocabulary you uses are not of typical of English speaking person would use. Rather I sense you either type in Chinese and then have the reply translated by a computer (are you using Google's language tool for the translation?), or you have an electronic Chinese/English dictionary rigth in front of you.
We slashdot readers are technology centric people who cares about technology as well as the humanities in general around us. I don't think we really like to parade a particular nation for its virtues (just look at how much fun we have with the American government and businesses). We have good discussions on what is fair, and what is not. We are stongly opinionated, but we tend to respect each other's point. I think you should read the help section of the Slashdot's forum before posting any more and make a fool out of yourself.
The current Chinese government has only been at it for about 60 years.
The GP shouldn't have questioned the value of their culture if he wanted to limit his thoughts to that timeframe.
Through your numerous reply of the same thing. I can only conclude that you are biased and not listening what other slashdotter is trying to point out here. Your opinion is not constructive for the conversation of the topic. I wish I have the mod points to mod you down to avoid another reader wasting their time on your posts.
You only counted that the Chinese culture has a lineage of a few thousand years. Have you check on the actual lineage of the government itself? How many nations, even empires, that has been founded and died in the same time frame? Perhaps no one has taught you yet that one sure thing in Chinese history is the fact that history tends to repeats itself because we make same mistakes over and over again. We have not yet began a discussion on all political tensions, rifts, riots, and revolts that has happened through out the ages of time. One thing it really says is that the same regime don't last forever. That's Chinese History for you.
But then, there's the Cultural Revolutions. It was suppose to cure "all ills of old cultures". So did the government/culture of PRC really in existence for thousands of years? You be the judge (after you actually did your homework).
Actually the plastic explosives are good fire source like charcoal. US Service members use those to start a camp fire during Vietnam. You need a higher density of energy source than a small fire to make it explode. Otherwise it simply burns with no spectacular fireworks.
What is scary and get people upset is the fact that we are risking innocent bystanders who have no clue what to do. I'm sure the Slovakian government didn't leave a note in the explosives to tell someone the full story and that this poor guy is not involved. I'm not even sure if it would have made him looked even guiltier with that.
Quite frankly the thoughs of this could possibly happen to my parents who doesn't speak proper English to defend themselves just makes me livid.
My group does use quite a few non-standard issued software that, for the most part, the rest of the company don't use. Incidentally we also support field techs that are in the middle of nowhere, far, far away from us on those software as well. Based on the control systems our company has acquired during acquisition or what has already in placed, we have numerous systems varied by vendors and even seperate generations of systems by the same vendors. It is actually a great deal of pain to just "upgrade" the system to one platform since our upgrades does involved physical change out and that means lost production time that can be quite costly in a 24/7 environment. We manage and support those self packages (to ourselves or other techs that may have to use it from time to time to support us).
There had been talk in the past to remove the local admin rights from our laptop in the past (for standard IT policy for all desktops and laptops). Being the fact that we do go off-line during our normal work assignment it is near impossible to do any work, especially having to install/support others and not having local admin right to add/remote software packages. Some of our software packages, in fact, requires a local admin account in order to function.
The day we lose local Admin privledge is the day we pretty much come to a complete stop. We had this discussion twice in the last few years. It simply comes down to that. We will be responsible for our machines (all of us knows at least how to keep our machine working, hardware and software) and Security leaves us along with the local admin rights.
Somehow I get the feeling with Windows 7 Microsoft is ready to "swap" the platform instruction code/assembler compiler in their kernel to include support for 3rd vender, after Intel and AMD. Microsoft is simply waiting for the market response. So this hurts Intel more than Microsoft.
Remember that MS already has the experience of building a platform for XBox 360 with PowerPC yet they built a platform for game developer to port the game between PC and 360 with relative ease (dispite the fact that most major studios already built their engine to be cross platform compatible). As long as the brain trust are still in the company this should be a fairly easy fix. nVidia can only be too happy to allow Microsoft support as long as they pay. Same goes with ARM, especially CE already support ARM processor.
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Try Molton Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC). It is probably a re-application of the technology or something similar to that.
Not if that was part of the perceived value of a new game that costs $59.99! A whole new can of worms opens up when you start charging a value for something that was part of the original product. As long as someone can establish that as part of perceived value in court, you (the seller) is in trouble if you wish to charge extra to the enxt owner, although you can stop supporting it all together because of age or lack of products in the market but I don't think that was part of the arguments.
Better for the software company to work with used game seller (like EB Games and Gamestop) in a "dealership" model for the used games. At least they know the games were traded in and not pirated.
Of course 50 years from now the "dealership" may rebel against the major game studio and the studios will have to a tough time resolving the partnership. But that's the headache down the road and we can deal with it then rather than now.
Actually XBox Live is pretty upfront of the cost, and it is per account subscription, not per game per transfer. I can buy used games and still play online, while the prior owner of the game enjoyed in his time and now I enjoy mine.
However, I still don't like the trend to sell us half of a game, and then force you to buy the additional content digitally.
This is why I play less video games lately. It is not fun anymore having to deal with all this crap. I'd rather go ride a bike or read a book or do some non-profit work or even learn to play an instrument than having to deal with this crappy hassle. At least I don't have to pay someone a subscription fee to play a guitar that I rightfully owned.
The thoughts that everyone old folks in /. were once the young 'uns scares the crap out of me.
/.er be nice to the older co-workers!
Jokes aside, we were all young, inexperience programmers at some point of time in our life, unfortunately. Somebody more experienced have shown me the ropes before I got better (besides just ME thinking that I am good). Just hope I didn't cause too much pain for other "more experienced" co-worker when I was younger.
Conclusion: Young
Running a patch server so I can personally release patches as I please.
Texas and South Carolina were both part of The Confederate States of America. So I guess the idea of secession from the Union is not exactly a subversive act against SC.
But wait! Texas was an soverign State at one point! It is also in the Texas State Constitution that the State has the right to seperate from the Union (peacefully). Although Perry's act is more of a political stunt it is well within the capacity of the State of Texas to carry out this act legally.
--
Disclaimer: I live in Texas and am very proud of being a Texan!
Then we need a standard! What is the ANSI been doing the last few years (or even decades)! Measuring the accuracy of punds?
Personally I think Murdoch knows that his editor is still getting well paid with ebook, since his publisher can reduce the cost of physically producing a book. What he is not saying is that he want his company to get more profit (by charging the same price but at half the cost), much like the music industry once sought out to do.
I hope Eric Holder would look into possible fair-trade violation Fox is trying to force on other businesses and consumer in recent years. I hope all their audiences realize how hypocritical Fox has been when it comes to be "people's media". Not because of their content, but more for how they conduct their own business.
And nobody likes pure science anymore.
The longer the investment, the bigger the return. I'm not necessarily equate big spending in research will bring those new technology in fruitation, but rather a steady, year-after-year commitment, are the way to go. Regargless of how favorable the concept was when it was first proposed, once it is in the pipeline and on its way to be successfully developed, it should be allowed to be completed in a steady pace.
Other governments, in particular the Asian country, Japan, China, and even India alike, recognized that paradigm. They put the level of resource they can commit and keep pushing. That is the way you proceed with a high risk, long term investments. It is just that typically a government can have a bigger checkbook and can afford to wait longer to see an actual return. Just look at the nuclear technology development in China and Japan. In particular in China they have slowly but surely accumulate expertise in nuclear power plant design that is recognized internationally. If we want to continue our technology excellence (not necessarily superiority in everything), we need to keep doing what we are good at and start strenghening other areas that needs attention. Robbing John to pay Paul is never the answer. That's what a typical short-sighted private industry would do, not what the NASA, one of the fledging science and engineering pioneer in the world should be doing.
I am very saddened the way this administration allocate the funding to jerk NASA from what they had set out to do (while so far very successful on some of the programs). Whoever made the administration, or even the panel drink the wrong coolade should be mocked be banished from US science and engineering community. I even wonder what what kind of foreign influence they received (of course I'm speak out of ignorance here with no proof - take this with a grain of salt) let so much R&D effort wasted, not because they won't amount to anything, but rather because they will never see the light of day.
The Climate Change is worthy our time and effort. However establishing a moon base, establishing the proper technology to make things cheaper and more affordable is equally important. The dollar amount is high, but compare to the rest of our spending, it is a drop in the bucket, not to mention the private commercial development our space program has spurred on for the last 4 decades. Don't kill it just because it was planned out during Bush Administrations. You know this is what NASA recommended and not invented by Bush himself.
It is so sad that the decision of our science and engineering pioneering effort are being decided by bunch of politicians without an eye for long term benefits. What happend to the Jefferson and Poke who would rather risk their next term but make the right decision (major land purchases in history)?
This is totally absurd. If I steal a bread and the bakery develops their own hitech satellite surveillance system to catch me, they couldn't possible claim that they lost a billion dollars because I stole a bread.
Yes they can. It's called politics. Just watch how the health and industry and drug companies twisting their words. Money talks, especially after the new Supreme Court decision. The big companies and their lobbiest are out to get you.
Three times the minimum might be reasonable, if we just looking at the plain academic side of the law. In reality it is still quite a sum for the family with 4 kids with average income. The decision can still bankrupt the family.
FPGA are known to take a long time to be loaded with the citcuit design. It can easily take 45min to 3 hrs to load any built file to do that unless the changes are fairly minor (or your FPGA is really small). You are far better off to have pre-built FPGA ready to be swapped out.
Can't I just have a general-purpose 21.6Gbps hardware interface, with "supplemental built in support" for any video-specific items?
There is a fiber optic cable for you!
they could say they were exploring whether those dissidents had contact with foreign intelligence agencies.
You think human right activists will be CIA's next best friend after all those secrete presions they setup overseas?
He's talking about how their culture and government are doing in this era.
Better than ever, by all accounts.
Age hasn't got anything to do with it. Neither has his culture got anything to do with the accuracy of his evaluation.
If his culture is tinted with jingoism, making him spew nationalistic prattle, it has a lot to do with it.
I don't really agree with him and I'm interested in hearing opposing viewpoints. But I'm not interested in hearing stupid bullshit that attacks the arguer and ignores the argument. Just saying.
Then you shouldn't be happy that his ignorant bile gets modded up, nor should you be defending it.
And BTW, thanks for calling my reply "stupid bullshit", it really illustrate just how much you hate it when people attack the arguer and how much you value opposing viewpoints. Just saying.
While we are on topic on Chinese spying, are you one of those poster Chinese government owned droids trolling the internet posts for a good fight? Seriously I've seen many of them on many news site's discussion board. You are the first one that are so balatently apparent on your intention here at slashdot.
The vocabulary you uses are not of typical of English speaking person would use. Rather I sense you either type in Chinese and then have the reply translated by a computer (are you using Google's language tool for the translation?), or you have an electronic Chinese/English dictionary rigth in front of you.
We slashdot readers are technology centric people who cares about technology as well as the humanities in general around us. I don't think we really like to parade a particular nation for its virtues (just look at how much fun we have with the American government and businesses). We have good discussions on what is fair, and what is not. We are stongly opinionated, but we tend to respect each other's point. I think you should read the help section of the Slashdot's forum before posting any more and make a fool out of yourself.
The current Chinese government has only been at it for about 60 years.
The GP shouldn't have questioned the value of their culture if he wanted to limit his thoughts to that timeframe.
Through your numerous reply of the same thing. I can only conclude that you are biased and not listening what other slashdotter is trying to point out here. Your opinion is not constructive for the conversation of the topic. I wish I have the mod points to mod you down to avoid another reader wasting their time on your posts.
You only counted that the Chinese culture has a lineage of a few thousand years. Have you check on the actual lineage of the government itself? How many nations, even empires, that has been founded and died in the same time frame? Perhaps no one has taught you yet that one sure thing in Chinese history is the fact that history tends to repeats itself because we make same mistakes over and over again. We have not yet began a discussion on all political tensions, rifts, riots, and revolts that has happened through out the ages of time. One thing it really says is that the same regime don't last forever. That's Chinese History for you.
But then, there's the Cultural Revolutions. It was suppose to cure "all ills of old cultures". So did the government/culture of PRC really in existence for thousands of years? You be the judge (after you actually did your homework).
Actually the plastic explosives are good fire source like charcoal. US Service members use those to start a camp fire during Vietnam. You need a higher density of energy source than a small fire to make it explode. Otherwise it simply burns with no spectacular fireworks.
What is scary and get people upset is the fact that we are risking innocent bystanders who have no clue what to do. I'm sure the Slovakian government didn't leave a note in the explosives to tell someone the full story and that this poor guy is not involved. I'm not even sure if it would have made him looked even guiltier with that.
Quite frankly the thoughs of this could possibly happen to my parents who doesn't speak proper English to defend themselves just makes me livid.
My group does use quite a few non-standard issued software that, for the most part, the rest of the company don't use. Incidentally we also support field techs that are in the middle of nowhere, far, far away from us on those software as well. Based on the control systems our company has acquired during acquisition or what has already in placed, we have numerous systems varied by vendors and even seperate generations of systems by the same vendors. It is actually a great deal of pain to just "upgrade" the system to one platform since our upgrades does involved physical change out and that means lost production time that can be quite costly in a 24/7 environment. We manage and support those self packages (to ourselves or other techs that may have to use it from time to time to support us).
There had been talk in the past to remove the local admin rights from our laptop in the past (for standard IT policy for all desktops and laptops). Being the fact that we do go off-line during our normal work assignment it is near impossible to do any work, especially having to install/support others and not having local admin right to add/remote software packages. Some of our software packages, in fact, requires a local admin account in order to function.
The day we lose local Admin privledge is the day we pretty much come to a complete stop. We had this discussion twice in the last few years. It simply comes down to that. We will be responsible for our machines (all of us knows at least how to keep our machine working, hardware and software) and Security leaves us along with the local admin rights.
Somehow I get the feeling with Windows 7 Microsoft is ready to "swap" the platform instruction code/assembler compiler in their kernel to include support for 3rd vender, after Intel and AMD. Microsoft is simply waiting for the market response. So this hurts Intel more than Microsoft.
Remember that MS already has the experience of building a platform for XBox 360 with PowerPC yet they built a platform for game developer to port the game between PC and 360 with relative ease (dispite the fact that most major studios already built their engine to be cross platform compatible). As long as the brain trust are still in the company this should be a fairly easy fix. nVidia can only be too happy to allow Microsoft support as long as they pay. Same goes with ARM, especially CE already support ARM processor.
laser jets are as harmfull to ones health as somebody who lites a sigarette in your room. I don't know what it's called... fine dust?
I don't print enough to notice this dreadful side effect. However I can tell you my toner last a lot longer than 6 months!
I hope they follow up by castrating the vendor that gave them the hot code in the first place.
You bet they will be burned.