Actually, the original Warcraft 2 game had Heroes in them too. The expansion pack basically just introduced a new campaign for the Humans and Orcs, with new Heroes.
Ah yes, the old "You don't actually own the copy of the music, just a license to play it." I always found that amusing. I may not own the copyright to the content, but the actual physical copy is still mine, of course.
Very amusing, makes me glad I do live in a country that allows the provisions of fair use.
How are you a thief for making a backup of a copy of the music CD you bought? Even burning them to a lossless codec like FLAC would be perfectly within fair use.
Okay, so what about companies that hoard all the patents they can get, and then abuse them like IBM and Microsoft do, with litigation, and getting money out of the small guy anyways via something like cross-licensing?
True, but you would screw them over even more if you don't buy the PS3 in the first place.
I find it funny that Sony is trying something the equivalent of the razors and blades model.. Only the razor is so expensive that although they are selling it at a loss, most people find it too expensive for the benefit it gives.
In some Universities in Canada too (Waterloo, where I go), they also switch every four months between school and work terms. This is what happens at my school, and for 95% of the things required, I love it. Mainly because after 4 months, you get sick of classes, and at 4 months you actually get anticipated to go back to work again.
It's win-win between the employer and the student. The student gets real work experience (~2 years) that will help immensely after graduating to find appropriate kinds of employment (in addition to decent pay for the most part where you can pay for your tuition every term), and the employer gets relatively cheap labour from fast learners. Although I've heard this has been done in U.S. universities too, I see it isn't as heard of as I thought it was.
Nor do you necessarily need to know from slashdot what's the most popular torrent sites.
You can also determine that via Google pagerank from the Google Toolbar plugin, or in additional to a bunch of other metrics as well. I'm very doubtful this happened due to the MPAA reading the article.
No, Canada still hasn't ratified the WIPO anti-piracy laws yet. In addition, it is actually legal to download torrents, though uploading still remains a grey matter (mainly due to the levy paid on burned CD/DVDs/Hard drives).
However, this may change within a year or two, depending on if the conservative party gets a majority. There is some legislation planned to make another version of the DMCA up here.
So, this may still work in the short-term, they may yet to have to move to another if the Canadian version of the DMCA does somehow go into law here within the next 1-2 years.
There was another article a few days ago that mentioned these issues, but I can't think of it off the top of my head.
As another person mentioned, have you not heard of Google, or any other search engine? That is by far how they were found rather than some random/. comment.
University of Waterloo, apparently. At least at the Bomber pub (I didn't see if this was the case at Fed Hall as well). Yes, I was deeply disappointed, with my fists shaking and all when I heard of this.
As a Canadian going to a Canadian university, I wish I could say that is still true. Especially so after one of the campus bars here discontinued serving Guinness!:(
In any case, if it really is illegal, in my experience it is never enforced. I've seen plenty of videos in my classes when I was growing up, and I haven't seen a single teacher leave the building in handcuffs at all. (I am Canadian by the way).
Somehow, I get the feeling this will still be the case even if the piece of legislation in the article does get passed. However, with all the parliamentary processes the bill would have to go through, it will take months before any new updates are seen about it. That is, if there are updates, depending on how secretive the government tries to be to pass this bill through.
Indeed, considering all the amount of critism he had for Direct X many years ago.
Speaking of which, can anyone point me to a link or other resource that talk about, or actually has the so-called debates between Carmack and Bill Gates of OpenGL and Direct X? Last time I tried Google with this, I couldn't find too much useful information.
Well, there is the Opera browser for it that's available for free right now. I'd take a look at it, it's pretty neat for stuff like Youtube, Flash Games and such. However, it's a bit of a pain for browsing large discussion threads in slashdot, and for typing as well.
However, hopefully there is some firmware update that will become available that will support forms of wire(d|less) USB keyboards. Then I'll actually be able to surf the web on a nice 40" TV.:)
I take it you also do not know how to drink coffee. I don't know, perhaps you should maybe get advice from an elderly person who has been likely been drinking (hot) coffee for years, but thing I can tell is that YOU DO NOT CHUG IT, you sip it.
Well, thanks for reminding me to buy any coffee from anywhere the next time I go down to visit the U.S., since all I can expect to get is terrible lukewarm coffee, because some retards don't know how to hold or drink it correctly.
I think you're the one that needs to refresh your algebra skills. Consider this Wikipedia article, especially under the section 'warning' should reclarify this matter.
Mathematicians do not come up with the axioms in an 'arbitrary' manner, in the sense that they hope everything works out for the best. The rules come about as a kind of formalization from earlier investigations, to see what other information they can glean from that.
If you take Group Theory for example, in most university courses, you start off with the basic four axioms for them, and you work your way up to the key results. Historically, Groups were never looked at in that way. They were looked originally as groups of permutations, when applied to substitutions for variables in polynomials, when attempting to find a 'quintic formula', expressed only in terms of algebraic operations (namely, by radicals). That turned out not to be the case, due to the work of Abel and Galois.
It was from that people figured out what kinds of structures would satisfy the requirements like a permutation.. And hence you get the modern definition of a group, from which other stuff, like symmetry and various other phenomena could be explained. The same kind of things happen when you're dealing with other kinds of algebraic structures (Rings, Fields, Modules, etc.)
Of course, how it's taught in education is a different issue altogether. However, There are reasons from which the axioms do come about, and it isn't at all because a person was having a bad day, hence insisted on this one axiom for no reason at all.:)
Actually, I did read the article. It was rather uneventful though, since you have yet another politician spreading all kinds of disinformation that's so blatantly incorrect (as has been pointed out by others). This happens with all kinds of subjects, and not just Open Source as well.
I think you're the one that has your articles mixed up.
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Actually, the original Warcraft 2 game had Heroes in them too. The expansion pack basically just introduced a new campaign for the Humans and Orcs, with new Heroes.
Ah yes, the old "You don't actually own the copy of the music, just a license to play it." I always found that amusing. I may not own the copyright to the content, but the actual physical copy is still mine, of course.
Very amusing, makes me glad I do live in a country that allows the provisions of fair use.
How are you a thief for making a backup of a copy of the music CD you bought? Even burning them to a lossless codec like FLAC would be perfectly within fair use.
Okay, so what about companies that hoard all the patents they can get, and then abuse them like IBM and Microsoft do, with litigation, and getting money out of the small guy anyways via something like cross-licensing?
True, but you would screw them over even more if you don't buy the PS3 in the first place.
I find it funny that Sony is trying something the equivalent of the razors and blades model.. Only the razor is so expensive that although they are selling it at a loss, most people find it too expensive for the benefit it gives.
In some Universities in Canada too (Waterloo, where I go), they also switch every four months between school and work terms. This is what happens at my school, and for 95% of the things required, I love it. Mainly because after 4 months, you get sick of classes, and at 4 months you actually get anticipated to go back to work again. It's win-win between the employer and the student. The student gets real work experience (~2 years) that will help immensely after graduating to find appropriate kinds of employment (in addition to decent pay for the most part where you can pay for your tuition every term), and the employer gets relatively cheap labour from fast learners. Although I've heard this has been done in U.S. universities too, I see it isn't as heard of as I thought it was.
Nor do you necessarily need to know from slashdot what's the most popular torrent sites. You can also determine that via Google pagerank from the Google Toolbar plugin, or in additional to a bunch of other metrics as well. I'm very doubtful this happened due to the MPAA reading the article.
No, Canada still hasn't ratified the WIPO anti-piracy laws yet. In addition, it is actually legal to download torrents, though uploading still remains a grey matter (mainly due to the levy paid on burned CD/DVDs/Hard drives).
However, this may change within a year or two, depending on if the conservative party gets a majority. There is some legislation planned to make another version of the DMCA up here.
So, this may still work in the short-term, they may yet to have to move to another if the Canadian version of the DMCA does somehow go into law here within the next 1-2 years.
There was another article a few days ago that mentioned these issues, but I can't think of it off the top of my head.
As another person mentioned, have you not heard of Google, or any other search engine? That is by far how they were found rather than some random /. comment.
University of Waterloo, apparently. At least at the Bomber pub (I didn't see if this was the case at Fed Hall as well). Yes, I was deeply disappointed, with my fists shaking and all when I heard of this.
As a Canadian going to a Canadian university, I wish I could say that is still true. Especially so after one of the campus bars here discontinued serving Guinness! :(
Oh really, and where does it say that?
In any case, if it really is illegal, in my experience it is never enforced. I've seen plenty of videos in my classes when I was growing up, and I haven't seen a single teacher leave the building in handcuffs at all. (I am Canadian by the way).
Somehow, I get the feeling this will still be the case even if the piece of legislation in the article does get passed. However, with all the parliamentary processes the bill would have to go through, it will take months before any new updates are seen about it. That is, if there are updates, depending on how secretive the government tries to be to pass this bill through.
Oh yes mr. Coward, ability to do mental arithmetic is an awesome measure of mathematical ability!!
Indeed, considering all the amount of critism he had for Direct X many years ago.
Speaking of which, can anyone point me to a link or other resource that talk about, or actually has the so-called debates between Carmack and Bill Gates of OpenGL and Direct X? Last time I tried Google with this, I couldn't find too much useful information.
Well, there is the Opera browser for it that's available for free right now. I'd take a look at it, it's pretty neat for stuff like Youtube, Flash Games and such. However, it's a bit of a pain for browsing large discussion threads in slashdot, and for typing as well.
:)
However, hopefully there is some firmware update that will become available that will support forms of wire(d|less) USB keyboards. Then I'll actually be able to surf the web on a nice 40" TV.
What Canadian 'DMCA' are you talking about?
You do realize that the entire book is available online at Gatto's website for free, right? Link
I take it you also do not know how to drink coffee. I don't know, perhaps you should maybe get advice from an elderly person who has been likely been drinking (hot) coffee for years, but thing I can tell is that YOU DO NOT CHUG IT, you sip it.
Well, thanks for reminding me to buy any coffee from anywhere the next time I go down to visit the U.S., since all I can expect to get is terrible lukewarm coffee, because some retards don't know how to hold or drink it correctly.
I think the GP has other problems anyways, such as buying low quality coffee at Starbucks anyways...
What? You mean it's not a series of tubes!?
Actually, I wasn't the original poster. I also saw the typo of i^2 = 0, but I figured it was just a typo.
You are correct, but that's exactly why I posted the Wikipedia link int he first place!
I think you're the one that needs to refresh your algebra skills. Consider this Wikipedia article, especially under the section 'warning' should reclarify this matter.
Mathematicians do not come up with the axioms in an 'arbitrary' manner, in the sense that they hope everything works out for the best. The rules come about as a kind of formalization from earlier investigations, to see what other information they can glean from that.
:)
If you take Group Theory for example, in most university courses, you start off with the basic four axioms for them, and you work your way up to the key results. Historically, Groups were never looked at in that way. They were looked originally as groups of permutations, when applied to substitutions for variables in polynomials, when attempting to find a 'quintic formula', expressed only in terms of algebraic operations (namely, by radicals). That turned out not to be the case, due to the work of Abel and Galois.
It was from that people figured out what kinds of structures would satisfy the requirements like a permutation.. And hence you get the modern definition of a group, from which other stuff, like symmetry and various other phenomena could be explained. The same kind of things happen when you're dealing with other kinds of algebraic structures (Rings, Fields, Modules, etc.)
Of course, how it's taught in education is a different issue altogether. However, There are reasons from which the axioms do come about, and it isn't at all because a person was having a bad day, hence insisted on this one axiom for no reason at all.
Ya, but that would require him to withdraw from the internet entirely. So I don't think that will happen, since he's posting on slashdot after all!
Actually, I did read the article. It was rather uneventful though, since you have yet another politician spreading all kinds of disinformation that's so blatantly incorrect (as has been pointed out by others). This happens with all kinds of subjects, and not just Open Source as well.
I think you're the one that has your articles mixed up.