I know guys who have 10, 15 DVDs in their share directories -- not stuff they've personally ripped, but stuff they've collected via P2P. Fifty downloads across all those titles in six months isn't unreasonable in my opinion.
Judge : - You're being charged for criminal infringment!
Some guy : - Your honor, I only distributed one copy, the other 999 were stolen from me.
(a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
A DVD has a retail value of about $20, that means you can reproduce or distribute 50 movies in a 180 days period (or 100 movies a year) before being "criminally infrigning". That's quite a lot, not your average file-sharer.
In Canada, there are a few banks that will give you free usage of Interac (Debit).
Actually, for almost all banks, the richer you are the less you have to pay. They just don't want you to take your business elsewhere, while if you are poor and only have about $100 in your account at any time, they don't really care about you and can afford to treat you like shit.
The National Bank of Canada, for example, has a special kind of savings account that is strictly reserved to some professionals, like doctors or engineers (I know, I have one of those), which don't have any fee at all (certified check, debit card, misc. transaction).
That sure sucks for the ones that have to pay huge fees for no service, but I'm not the one who'll be doing the complaining, being an engineer and all.........
the whole idea in the first place was to make that info available to everyone.
And Microsoft's proposed license does just that!
No it does not. I'm an open-source software programmer, therefore the licence is not available to me. If I ever pay for a licence, I will not be allowed to write any open-source software that happens to operate with Microsoft's software because they'll sue my ass out.
It seems that all the "automatic" updates do is download the lastest installer, and reinstall it on top of the old one. Notice how (in Windows) they leave a copy of the installer on your desktop? Or if you goto the add/remove program options it still lists both FF 1.0 and 1.0.1?
Prior to installing Firefox 1.0.1, please ensure that the directory you've chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Firefox installations.
since it's just one number off in the third spot, I doubt anyone will really notice except us geeks...
True... My version of Internet Explorer is 6.0.2900... I don't think I've seen all 2900 versions (although with the large amount of Windows updates I've done since I have WinXP, maybe I *did* update it 2900 times...)
The problem will be that the only trusted platform will be a Longhorn one.:/
A bank web site that only allows online banking from "trusted" platforms such as IE7 on Longhorn to prevent fraud.:(
Considering that TCPA has (or at least will have) a GPL driver, I wouldn't worry too much about Linux and Firefox... Doesn't IBM usually do stuff to help Linux rather than to stop it? IBM != Microsoft
Personally? I don't care if there was a single abuse of the Patriot Act or not. It should not have been passed in the first place.
From an outsider point of view, I must say I find this whole discussion about the USAPATRIOT ACT (and someday, people will understand that it's never been called the PATRIOT act, it's the USAPATRIOT ACT, because it means Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, but you all know that right? I mean... you wouldn't dare argue against something if you don't know what it means, right?)
On the night of the 2004 election, when I heard that you re-elected George W. Bush to be your leader, after four years of what he had done, I thought to myself "The american citizens deserve everything that happens to them."
The 2000 election can be excused, because you didn't know the guy and he made all sorts of crazy promises to get your vote. In 2004 though, you knew who you were voting for, and still, you wanted more of it.
In the 2000-2004 period, American people were telling me "You're not anti-american, you're anti-Bush, we hate him too". Now that you've given him four more years, no one can say that anti-Bush and anti-american aren't the same.
And don't go telling me that the Americans also hate Bush as much as the rest of the world. Don't tell me that the Americans didn't elect Bush and that he stole the election. I mean, he might have stolen a state, but he got 62 million votes! The majority of Americans elected Bush, therefore the majority of Americans agree to his politics, and the majority of Americans agree to the USAPATRIOT ACT.
Quit your whining, you voted for it in a democratic way.
Now go ahead and mod me as troll, but keep in mind that it won't change the facts.
It is mentioned that part of the cost is data analysis. I wonder how much? If they can't afford a staff to conduct the analysis, they might be able to get away with saving the data for later analysis. (Hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays!)
Or what about forming a relationship with a University and having them conduct all the research and data analysis?
Heck... Seti@Home is able to convince thousands of people to donate their CPU cycles for pretty useless stuff (IMHO)... If what they need is data analysis, distribute the effort and make a Voyager@Home or something like that. Other than the cost of the software development, the data analysis part is almost free.
Physics is what makes a game real, far more than graphics. I spent my first hour in HL2 just throwing bottles at a lady in the train station!
That's not making the game more real... Two hours of throwing bottles at a woman... if it were real, you'd either have knocked her dead, or she defended herself, or cops took you away...
I feel a bit confused. Is he saying that the other consoles like PS3 and the second XBox may be better, and those better ones could destroy his chances of getting other developers to develop for the Revolution?
No, what he's saying is that the Revolution will be nothing like your usual game console, it will have additional features and it will be a totally different concept of gaming. Thus, third-parties might have to decide on whether to make a game only for PS3 and Xbox2, or exclusively on Revolution, becuase there will be no easy way of porting the games from Revolution to PS3 and vice-versa due to big differences in features.
Today, all three consoles are still relatively similar... it's just a DVD player (or mini-disc reader) with a cpu, some RAM, a memory-card slot and all that is interfaced with a controller that has 2 analog joysticks and 8 buttons. Only minor changes are required to port from a console to another, while the next generation might require a complete re-write.
It can be either bad (if third party refuses to develop for the Revolution) or good (if third parties make some games exclusive to Revolution).
It also says that this new console will be so "revolutionary" that it may pull in more third party support.
That will really depend on how the big software companies react in the near future. If everything becomes "EA style" (let's buy everyone so we don't have to innovate), then third-parties won't support Nintendo. On the other hand, if game companies hire really good game designers and actually try to innovate, they might love that new innovative Revolution console.
Unfortunately, it seems game companies prefer staying with what worked in the past and not try new things... otherwise, we'd see much more third party games on the DS:-(
to require 1) and 2) means that your users are putting post-its on their monitors to remind them
What amazes me is that the most non-technical types of guys claim to have trouble remembering a string of random characters, yet they are able to remember the name of every member of their favorite sport's team... When it comes to NHL or some European teams, those players' name do look like just a bunch of random characters put in a string.
And not only that, but they can also remember all the season stats for that team, which also changes regularly...
Basicallyl, it's not that they don't have the cognitive ability to remember passwords, it's just that they don't give a shit.
Prior to installing Firefox 1.0.1, please ensure that the directory you've chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Firefox installations.
If you can't trust Mozilla's own instructions for upgrading, who can you trust?
I'd just be happy now if they could release just a patch, or something that can be applied without having to uninstall Firefox everytime.
That goes in the way of usability. My mom is used to clicking a couple of buttons and Windows Update fixes her IE without her having to uninstall or reinstall anything. With Firefox, you have to uninstall 1.0 to install 1.0.1, and I bet I'll have to uninstall Thunderbird 1.0 too when TB 1.0.1 comes out. It's hard convincing mom that Firefox is better and easier to use if she has to repeat those administrative steps over and over again.
That is, I'm not asking why they didn't create a standard gram mass, rather why does the SI unit of mass, alone amongst all such units, have a prefix?
Grams existed way before they standardized the mass unit, but it was only an approximation back then. When they standardized it, they made it so the starndard unit for mass would be the mass of exactly one liter of pure water (the liter was already the standard unit for liquid volume). Since the actual mass of a liter of water was much much closer to one thousand grams, they made the kilogram the standard unit for mass. If they had made the gram the standard unit, then it would have been the mass of a milliliter, which is not the official volume unit. Some sort of chicken or the egg situation here...
but you can't be knighted at all if you're an American (or any other nationality) like Bill.
Actually, you can be knighted if you're from another nationality, just not American. As long as you're from a country that is in the Commonwealth, you can be knighted. For some reason the United States aren't part of it, so Americans can't be knighted, not that it means much anyway...
Holding hands? That has to be the lamest feature ever.
Coming Soon: Unreal 2K5! We've replaced running with skipping, and instead of bullets, you shoot love-beams. Also instead of robots, there's CareBears.
That's similar to just about any lame argument I've heard against Nintendo and it's "friendlyness". Why is a game automatically considered as not good if it doesn't have blood and gore in it? Are you so starved for violence that you need it every single time you power up your console or PC?
If you're unable to appreciate a good game because of its lack of violence, then I pity you.
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Judge : - You're being charged for criminal infringment!
Some guy : - Your honor, I only distributed one copy, the other 999 were stolen from me.
(a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
A DVD has a retail value of about $20, that means you can reproduce or distribute 50 movies in a 180 days period (or 100 movies a year) before being "criminally infrigning". That's quite a lot, not your average file-sharer.
Because the background made me go blind...
I saw a cool /. sig once (I don't remember whose it was) that went : Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Actually, for almost all banks, the richer you are the less you have to pay. They just don't want you to take your business elsewhere, while if you are poor and only have about $100 in your account at any time, they don't really care about you and can afford to treat you like shit.
The National Bank of Canada, for example, has a special kind of savings account that is strictly reserved to some professionals, like doctors or engineers (I know, I have one of those), which don't have any fee at all (certified check, debit card, misc. transaction).
That sure sucks for the ones that have to pay huge fees for no service, but I'm not the one who'll be doing the complaining, being an engineer and all... ... ...
No it does not. I'm an open-source software programmer, therefore the licence is not available to me. If I ever pay for a licence, I will not be allowed to write any open-source software that happens to operate with Microsoft's software because they'll sue my ass out.
It simply is not acceptable.
That, and the licence also forbids software using this licence to be open-source, which does nothing to encourage competition.
What makes it really bad though is that it does exactly what Mozilla tells you not to do:
True... My version of Internet Explorer is 6.0.2900... I don't think I've seen all 2900 versions (although with the large amount of Windows updates I've done since I have WinXP, maybe I *did* update it 2900 times...)
Considering that TCPA has (or at least will have) a GPL driver, I wouldn't worry too much about Linux and Firefox... Doesn't IBM usually do stuff to help Linux rather than to stop it? IBM != Microsoft
From an outsider point of view, I must say I find this whole discussion about the USAPATRIOT ACT (and someday, people will understand that it's never been called the PATRIOT act, it's the USAPATRIOT ACT, because it means Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, but you all know that right? I mean... you wouldn't dare argue against something if you don't know what it means, right?)
On the night of the 2004 election, when I heard that you re-elected George W. Bush to be your leader, after four years of what he had done, I thought to myself "The american citizens deserve everything that happens to them."
The 2000 election can be excused, because you didn't know the guy and he made all sorts of crazy promises to get your vote. In 2004 though, you knew who you were voting for, and still, you wanted more of it.
In the 2000-2004 period, American people were telling me "You're not anti-american, you're anti-Bush, we hate him too". Now that you've given him four more years, no one can say that anti-Bush and anti-american aren't the same.
And don't go telling me that the Americans also hate Bush as much as the rest of the world. Don't tell me that the Americans didn't elect Bush and that he stole the election. I mean, he might have stolen a state, but he got 62 million votes! The majority of Americans elected Bush, therefore the majority of Americans agree to his politics, and the majority of Americans agree to the USAPATRIOT ACT.
Quit your whining, you voted for it in a democratic way.
Now go ahead and mod me as troll, but keep in mind that it won't change the facts.
Well yeah... Just start with the fact that Virtual Reality is derived from artificial reality, and then you build from there...
Heck... Seti@Home is able to convince thousands of people to donate their CPU cycles for pretty useless stuff (IMHO)... If what they need is data analysis, distribute the effort and make a Voyager@Home or something like that. Other than the cost of the software development, the data analysis part is almost free.
I spent my first hour in HL2 just throwing bottles at a lady in the train station!
That's not making the game more real... Two hours of throwing bottles at a woman... if it were real, you'd either have knocked her dead, or she defended herself, or cops took you away...
A.I. is what makes a game real...
Yeah... the kind of rats that say "Damn, the ship is sinking and we're all gonna die if we stay here. Let's jump ship and drown before it sinks!"
No, what he's saying is that the Revolution will be nothing like your usual game console, it will have additional features and it will be a totally different concept of gaming. Thus, third-parties might have to decide on whether to make a game only for PS3 and Xbox2, or exclusively on Revolution, becuase there will be no easy way of porting the games from Revolution to PS3 and vice-versa due to big differences in features.
Today, all three consoles are still relatively similar... it's just a DVD player (or mini-disc reader) with a cpu, some RAM, a memory-card slot and all that is interfaced with a controller that has 2 analog joysticks and 8 buttons. Only minor changes are required to port from a console to another, while the next generation might require a complete re-write.
It can be either bad (if third party refuses to develop for the Revolution) or good (if third parties make some games exclusive to Revolution).
That will really depend on how the big software companies react in the near future. If everything becomes "EA style" (let's buy everyone so we don't have to innovate), then third-parties won't support Nintendo. On the other hand, if game companies hire really good game designers and actually try to innovate, they might love that new innovative Revolution console.
Unfortunately, it seems game companies prefer staying with what worked in the past and not try new things... otherwise, we'd see much more third party games on the DS :-(
What amazes me is that the most non-technical types of guys claim to have trouble remembering a string of random characters, yet they are able to remember the name of every member of their favorite sport's team... When it comes to NHL or some European teams, those players' name do look like just a bunch of random characters put in a string.
And not only that, but they can also remember all the season stats for that team, which also changes regularly...
Basicallyl, it's not that they don't have the cognitive ability to remember passwords, it's just that they don't give a shit.
Only if software code is considered to be a good. IANAL, but IIRC, software has been determined to be a service, not a good.
Mozilla says it doesn't.
If you can't trust Mozilla's own instructions for upgrading, who can you trust?
That goes in the way of usability. My mom is used to clicking a couple of buttons and Windows Update fixes her IE without her having to uninstall or reinstall anything. With Firefox, you have to uninstall 1.0 to install 1.0.1, and I bet I'll have to uninstall Thunderbird 1.0 too when TB 1.0.1 comes out. It's hard convincing mom that Firefox is better and easier to use if she has to repeat those administrative steps over and over again.
Grams existed way before they standardized the mass unit, but it was only an approximation back then. When they standardized it, they made it so the starndard unit for mass would be the mass of exactly one liter of pure water (the liter was already the standard unit for liquid volume). Since the actual mass of a liter of water was much much closer to one thousand grams, they made the kilogram the standard unit for mass. If they had made the gram the standard unit, then it would have been the mass of a milliliter, which is not the official volume unit. Some sort of chicken or the egg situation here...
Actually, you can be knighted if you're from another nationality, just not American. As long as you're from a country that is in the Commonwealth, you can be knighted. For some reason the United States aren't part of it, so Americans can't be knighted, not that it means much anyway...
That's similar to just about any lame argument I've heard against Nintendo and it's "friendlyness". Why is a game automatically considered as not good if it doesn't have blood and gore in it? Are you so starved for violence that you need it every single time you power up your console or PC?
If you're unable to appreciate a good game because of its lack of violence, then I pity you.
Indeed it is. However, it looks more like a scene from the NES version of Mario, not the SNES one...