Oh, the worst AI cheat was a bug that happened when your creatuere died and was returned to your temple while the enemy was casting a lightning at it, he'd continue with it next to your temple until the spell was used up, constantly damaging your temple (or more exactly, your towns because the temple absorbs buildings when damaged).
Most sane people change their minds if they find out their position was "wrong". Of course, arguing on the internet sometimes makes you believe the opposite.
It was their secret plan, install a jammer into the console so all Sony and Nintendo wireless equipment within 500m becomes useless while the X360 is on. Your neighbours would never have figured out it was your XBox 360 if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
That may be because each iteration of Madden, FIFA, NHL, etc gets very high scores and people tend to forget about those and only see EA's non-sports lineup, which does have many awful or just bland titles.
Well, EA just licensed the names, they didn't patent the gameplay so any game with editable datafiles (so you can download the official names off the web) would be able to compete. Well, would be if the customer base for these games was well informed...
Nope, you are not bound to a contract you didn't agree to and unless the computer asks you to agree while displaying the EULA it does not matter. The merchant may be bound by it but you aren't. Therefore, until you reach a point where the computer shows you the EULA and refuses to continue until you agree only copyright law applies. There is nothing special about the software that's installed on the computer compared to, say, the firmware of your DVD player. Might just as well use that and start reverse engineering that OEM install.
(j) Software is not designed, licensed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility and Sun and its licensors disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for such uses.
Earlier versions included "piloting airplanes, managing air traffic and maintaining aerospace security".
Well, torture is rather effective to get information but that doesn't mean it should be legal. Sometimes "effective" and "right" are opposite ends of the stick. Of course, if you think that being sentenced to death by a jury (which, in a corrupted system, could be caused by many things) immediately strips one of all human rights that's something else. That the "State" does it doesn't matter, the human rights are mostly directed towards preventing governments from abusing their citizens.
If "The State" doing it was sufficient to circumvent the human rights charta, executing people for crimethink or homosexuality wouldn't be an issue, after all, "The State" does it, right?
Disclaimer: I post this without knowing exactly what "control of the Internet" means!
Replacing ICANN. Handing out the control of TLDs and AFAIK resolving domain name disputes in the non-country TLDs (e.g. if Microsoft thinks www.mikerowesoft.com infringes upon their trademarks they are supposed to complain to ICANN). What the EU wants to be put in the hands of the UN is the handling of TLDs, so ICANN can no longer decide who gets to run some country's TLD.
Most people, especially those that never learned to speak English, couldn't care less about the loss of the US sites (US companies with subsidiaries in other countries will set up sites for both parts, anyway). What would most definitely suffer is opensource software since a lot of developers would suddently be shut out of their project.
As matters stand today, any vicious murderer can escape the death penalty in the US; all he has to do is get to Canada or any EU country, since these countries will not extradite until the death penalty is waived.
Well, the US won't implement gun control or abolish free speech either. In those countries the right to live is inalienable and it's unconstitutional to extradict someone when that would mean their death.
WW2 had the US in the defense, there's a difference between defending yourself or your allies and attacking some country because you happen not to agree with their political system (official reason). Sure, there was the "we are definding ourselves from WMDs" claim but Hitler also claimed to be defending. Both the WMDs and the Nazi defense were lies and rather thinly veiled ones at that. What other countries do is essentially their business until the UN decides it's an international affair (or it crosses borders). When you hear of a CEO exploiting his workforce you don't go over and shoot him, you let the legal system handle that. There are international laws, disregarding them will obviously make the rest of the world hate you.
When was the last time a government action gave a fuck about small business? Sure there will be new stations, provided they pay a license fee to some huge corporation.
What amazes me even more are all those people who insist on their right to bear arms to defend themselves from tyranny but never even kill a single corrupt politician with them.
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I just hope they'll stop using that idiotic alphabetic order and give the software keyboard a qwerty layout.
And it's oviously wrong because to Nintendo 200USD translate to 200 EUR or 150 GBP (not sure about the GBP figure). Still a ripoff but not as bad.
Oh, the worst AI cheat was a bug that happened when your creatuere died and was returned to your temple while the enemy was casting a lightning at it, he'd continue with it next to your temple until the spell was used up, constantly damaging your temple (or more exactly, your towns because the temple absorbs buildings when damaged).
Most sane people change their minds if they find out their position was "wrong". Of course, arguing on the internet sometimes makes you believe the opposite.
It was their secret plan, install a jammer into the console so all Sony and Nintendo wireless equipment within 500m becomes useless while the X360 is on. Your neighbours would never have figured out it was your XBox 360 if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
If THQ hadn't created Valusoft to save at least some face they'd have the lowest average rating of the entire industry.
That may be because each iteration of Madden, FIFA, NHL, etc gets very high scores and people tend to forget about those and only see EA's non-sports lineup, which does have many awful or just bland titles.
Well, EA just licensed the names, they didn't patent the gameplay so any game with editable datafiles (so you can download the official names off the web) would be able to compete. Well, would be if the customer base for these games was well informed...
It's sorted by profit, free software won't be on that list by definition.
Without the implicit contract of sale the coke and the money don't change ownership.
Nope, you are not bound to a contract you didn't agree to and unless the computer asks you to agree while displaying the EULA it does not matter. The merchant may be bound by it but you aren't. Therefore, until you reach a point where the computer shows you the EULA and refuses to continue until you agree only copyright law applies. There is nothing special about the software that's installed on the computer compared to, say, the firmware of your DVD player. Might just as well use that and start reverse engineering that OEM install.
But in that case the nougat pralines don't require you to sign a contract to eat and don't cost a hundred bucks extra.
Speaking of StarOffice:
(j) Software is not designed, licensed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility and Sun and its licensors disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for such uses.
Earlier versions included "piloting airplanes, managing air traffic and maintaining aerospace security".
Well, torture is rather effective to get information but that doesn't mean it should be legal. Sometimes "effective" and "right" are opposite ends of the stick. Of course, if you think that being sentenced to death by a jury (which, in a corrupted system, could be caused by many things) immediately strips one of all human rights that's something else. That the "State" does it doesn't matter, the human rights are mostly directed towards preventing governments from abusing their citizens.
If "The State" doing it was sufficient to circumvent the human rights charta, executing people for crimethink or homosexuality wouldn't be an issue, after all, "The State" does it, right?
Death penalty is already a human rights violation but since it's tradition noone really cares.
Disclaimer: I post this without knowing exactly what "control of the Internet" means!
Replacing ICANN. Handing out the control of TLDs and AFAIK resolving domain name disputes in the non-country TLDs (e.g. if Microsoft thinks www.mikerowesoft.com infringes upon their trademarks they are supposed to complain to ICANN). What the EU wants to be put in the hands of the UN is the handling of TLDs, so ICANN can no longer decide who gets to run some country's TLD.
Most people, especially those that never learned to speak English, couldn't care less about the loss of the US sites (US companies with subsidiaries in other countries will set up sites for both parts, anyway). What would most definitely suffer is opensource software since a lot of developers would suddently be shut out of their project.
As matters stand today, any vicious murderer can escape the death penalty in the US; all he has to do is get to Canada or any EU country, since these countries will not extradite until the death penalty is waived.
Well, the US won't implement gun control or abolish free speech either. In those countries the right to live is inalienable and it's unconstitutional to extradict someone when that would mean their death.
WW2 had the US in the defense, there's a difference between defending yourself or your allies and attacking some country because you happen not to agree with their political system (official reason). Sure, there was the "we are definding ourselves from WMDs" claim but Hitler also claimed to be defending. Both the WMDs and the Nazi defense were lies and rather thinly veiled ones at that. What other countries do is essentially their business until the UN decides it's an international affair (or it crosses borders). When you hear of a CEO exploiting his workforce you don't go over and shoot him, you let the legal system handle that. There are international laws, disregarding them will obviously make the rest of the world hate you.
When was the last time a government action gave a fuck about small business? Sure there will be new stations, provided they pay a license fee to some huge corporation.
What amazes me even more are all those people who insist on their right to bear arms to defend themselves from tyranny but never even kill a single corrupt politician with them.
Does that mean there are browser hijackers for Linux now? Or is that the fault of your ISP?
The last digit changes pretty often so a 70000 would be hard to get. I bought mine a few weeks after the 70000 line launched and got a 70004.
It's not even smaller, the 7000x (slim) models aren't affected, only the new 7500x (silver slim) are.
... but Sony can't even change the paint on their hardware without breaking compatibility?