"This is the part I don't get. Comedy Central [comedycentral.com] itself links to Daily Show [comedycentral.com] and Colbert Report [comedycentral.com] clips on Youtube. So who, then, issued the DMCA requests, and why didn't they let the webmaster know?
This makes no sense."
Well, who would have the most benefit from having those clips removed from YouTube?
I've done a lot of work through RaC. Their rates are very high, and their minimum charges make it very hard to partake in small jobs. I do enjoy RaC and am thankful for all the jobs I got through them and business relations I've made.
Often I'll do one or two jobs for a client on RaC, after which we continue our relationship outside of the site. Usually for three reasons:
Communication. Communicating via the RaC site is inefficient. It's much easier to talk via instant messenger or email. The RaC site is slow and not all that good. Cost. Although this is the smallest of the points, RaC do charge a lot and it's just much more attractive to make 15% more for doing the same amount of work. Payment. Even if you choose to get paid by PayPal or similar, it can take weeks for a payment to be made after your work has been accepted.
Some people say that it's too hard to compete with third world coders. I don't think it is, as long as you have the reputation. Take on a few small projects for low pay to get some ratings, get "certified" for $25 and soon you'll get a lot more work. I usually don't take jobs for less than $20 an hour. You can't make a living working off of RaC, but you can make a living working for clients you've met through RaC.
While I definitely played worse games (and better ones), I found it kind of pointless that he chooses to just rant about the Bible and his religious views instead of discussing the game.
That kind of lawsuit isn't for enforcing the law, it's to make money. If you can't make money, you're less likely to sue. Especially if you're waiting for someone with money to buy it out so you can make some.
"It's a smelly, scummy sort of ambulance chaser that doesn't have his/her ducks in a row before they baste some poor person in oil and fry them before the bench."
I bet no-one's ever uttered that exact sentence ever before.
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"I feel for his kids. These poor kids are going to grow up with a father."
"Doing a 180 = taking an opposing position to that previously taken. Doing a 360 = doing donuts in a parking lot. Doing a 720 = you're drunk and the room is spinning many, many times."
"The losers were required to pay the winners back for the damage they caused."
No they weren't. The losers were only required to pay some damages to countries they invaded. They never had to pay for damages done to any other country.
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He is the Aussie; from one of the original developers:
"freedb2 is the development project that played a big role in the demise of freedb. That the developer is advertising it here now, apparently trying to profit from what he caused is immoral in my opinion. Additionally, using the name freedb2.org is stealing freedb's name. Furthermore horar has not yet released source code or a database dump, so as of this moment, freedb2 is a closed source project, which violates the GPL under which the database archives are released. Even if the GPL may not be enforceable in this case, not releasing a database dump is certainly morally wrong."
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Tell that to my pet turkey
If we used that 2% of solar energy as a substitute for fossil fuels, we wouldn't need any fossil fuels anymore.
"This is the part I don't get. Comedy Central [comedycentral.com] itself links to Daily Show [comedycentral.com] and Colbert Report [comedycentral.com] clips on Youtube. So who, then, issued the DMCA requests, and why didn't they let the webmaster know?
This makes no sense."
Well, who would have the most benefit from having those clips removed from YouTube?
Comedy Central, or... Fox?
I've done a lot of work through RaC. Their rates are very high, and their minimum charges make it very hard to partake in small jobs. I do enjoy RaC and am thankful for all the jobs I got through them and business relations I've made.
Often I'll do one or two jobs for a client on RaC, after which we continue our relationship outside of the site. Usually for three reasons:
Communication. Communicating via the RaC site is inefficient. It's much easier to talk via instant messenger or email. The RaC site is slow and not all that good.
Cost. Although this is the smallest of the points, RaC do charge a lot and it's just much more attractive to make 15% more for doing the same amount of work.
Payment. Even if you choose to get paid by PayPal or similar, it can take weeks for a payment to be made after your work has been accepted.
Some people say that it's too hard to compete with third world coders. I don't think it is, as long as you have the reputation. Take on a few small projects for low pay to get some ratings, get "certified" for $25 and soon you'll get a lot more work. I usually don't take jobs for less than $20 an hour. You can't make a living working off of RaC, but you can make a living working for clients you've met through RaC.
While I definitely played worse games (and better ones), I found it kind of pointless that he chooses to just rant about the Bible and his religious views instead of discussing the game.
That kind of lawsuit isn't for enforcing the law, it's to make money. If you can't make money, you're less likely to sue. Especially if you're waiting for someone with money to buy it out so you can make some.
"I am God ...try prove otherwise."
God uses correct grammar.
Dies a fast and painful death. It could completely ruin the console gaming experience.
"It's a smelly, scummy sort of ambulance chaser that doesn't have his/her ducks in a row before they baste some poor person in oil and fry them before the bench."
I bet no-one's ever uttered that exact sentence ever before.
"I feel for his kids. These poor kids are going to grow up with a father."
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"Doing a 180 = taking an opposing position to that previously taken.
Doing a 360 = doing donuts in a parking lot.
Doing a 720 = you're drunk and the room is spinning many, many times."
Doing a 69 = nothing the judge wants to admit to
from the animal rights groups.
"Stop abusing those poor lab rats!"
"But they're happy!"
"Well, that's true - in retrospect, it was a mistake. "
I think you mean: it was erroneous.
"You're misreading it...
It's critical that no one person in a company ever appears to be above a code of ethics.
" Nono, I think you're misreading it:
It's critical that no one person in a company ever appears to be above a code of ethics.
I was afraid you were going to say:
"You mean there's more to invisibility than meets the eye?"
But luckily I was wrong.
"
In the Dell Corprate HQ.... "Mike, we want you to make Dells look pretty so people won't notice Vista as much"
"Fuck off, Ballmer""
It'd be pretty funny if Dell started producing chair shaped Vista machines.
Wow, that's an almost exact copy of my comment ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187464&cid=154 68977 ).
I don't know whether to be offended or flattered =:\
"Perhaps the 65 ring puzzle instead requires 2^64+2^62+2^60+...+2^2+1=24,595,658,764,946,068,82 1 moves to solve?"
I tried it, but I lost count after almost 600,232,124,442,500 moves.
I'll try again tonight and let you know.
I found these on an old Duke Nukem CDROM I had bought.
http://xieke.com/prey.php
I don't know why you're being modded down; you're absolutely right.
"The losers were required to pay the winners back for the damage they caused."
No they weren't. The losers were only required to pay some damages to countries they invaded. They never had to pay for damages done to any other country.
In a country where rebates aren't found in the wild: Why is it hated so much? I can understand the inconvenience, but it seems I'm missing something.
Just to be a pain, over here in Holland (and several other European countries), it goes:
o rds/billion
million -> milliard -> billion -> billiard -> trillion -> trilliard.
It would be correct to use billiard and trilliard in the UK as well, though it's not used.
Reference: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutw
He is the Aussie; from one of the original developers:
"freedb2 is the development project that played a big role in the demise of freedb. That the developer is advertising it here now, apparently trying to profit from what he caused is immoral in my opinion.
Additionally, using the name freedb2.org is stealing freedb's name. Furthermore horar has not yet released source code or a database dump, so as of this moment, freedb2 is a closed source project, which violates the GPL under which the database archives are released. Even if the GPL may not be enforceable in this case, not releasing a database dump is certainly morally wrong."
Just to nitpick, but lowering from $600 to $500 is 16.7% off. $500 to $400 is 20%.