I doubt anyone who knew the first thing about MMORPGs would go along with this case. Its common practice for MMORPG developers who put out boxed products. MMORPGs just aren't something you can buy used.
Also, the WoW ToS changed the other day. I don't read it, but it made me scroll through again. I'd make sure that's up to date first of all.
I'm wearing a cotton shirt, I'm typing with my wrists resting on part of a wooden desk, and as far as I know, its all real. I have three cats, and can see trees and sky through the living room windows when I get up to get something to drink.
Of course, it sounds like you must have some amount of sarcasm, so I apologize.
This is just another indicator of how screwed up the economy is. Where's all the money I spend on healthcare going? To the insurance company's pockets. I'd MUCH rather pay the same amount for healthcare and have it all go to the creators of whatever it is I need than to have it go into greedy pockets. If you know anyone who has had to buy chemotherapy drugs for instance, I think you'll agree with me.
You are incorrect. The Webster's definition of theft is similar to, but easier to read than the US federal law definition of theft, I dont know how you got modded insightful.
I disagree, but I respect your opinion because you are civil about it.
The way I see it, therapeutic cloning is no worse than taking a tissue sample back to the lab for analysis. Its really just part of you thats growing somewhere else. Its like using part of the pelvis for bone repair elsewhere.
What strikes me as hypocritical is Christian "Pro-lifers." They're vehemently for the preservation of "life," but the religion they so actively support is the one that has directly caused the most human death. I wonder how much they would care if it was just atheist or muslim embryos being harvested.
I don't understand why you think human life plays into this. The goal of this research is to IMPROVE human life. How is that not being respectful of it?
How is cloning for stem cells any different than taking a skin-tissue sample? The only difference is that the sample grows on its own. Its far from being a living thinking being, and not all that unusual. The issue is that people don't seem to grasp that if there's something morally wrong with this, why didn't they complain about the vast amounts of other problems? I suppose if we only used black people for cloning research, the Christian Fundamentalists wouldn't mind.
Which strikes me as odd, because AOL already bought Netscape.
What about Opera, though? And then we've got the slightly less used but still existant broswers like Konqueror. I don't know if they're based on Gecko, maybe they are.
And if you believe that, do us a favor and go jump off of something tall. They kindly neglect to show any of the obviously plane-based (and of the exact type of plane that crashed there) wreckage and holes. And yes, there are some. No, I'm not going to waste my time Googling for them when you could do it yourself.
I don't grasp what you are trying to say. Do you mean that the average driver has better than average driving skills? Saying more than half is plausible, but nearly all is false.
Where I live, people aren't very good at driving under these conditions here. The conditions suck, because there's always some sort of roadworks happening, and the paint on the roadway is faded, or they didnt' bother removing old lines after they put in new ones (especially the town right next to me, which is primarily upper-class people). These situations make it harder to drive: around here, you should NOT use a cell phone while driving. People, even experienced drivers, do unexpected things, and its very dangerous.
Yes, he tries to point how its hypocritical, but the two points are completely unrelated and have no effect on eachother.
I understood the point completely. Perhaps you were lured in by the BS logic.
The profit model isn't as simple as that. What usually happens is abuse of an affiliate program. Corporation pays advertising agency, advertising agency says, okay affiliates, lets get this advertising on as many banners as possible, so we'll pay you by commission. The affiliates decide, the best way to get people to view these ads (doesn't matter if they click on it or not) is to send them email disguised as something they'll open (like these ones I get that say Joe Smith "RE: Important" or Annie Smith "hi" and things they'll expect me to click, and I probably would if it didn't get filtered, and if it didn't matter because I view the messages in plaintext). Every time someone mistakes the spam for something they want to read, which happens a lot more often than somebody buying something from it, the spammer gets a few cents from their advertising company. Its very profitable for them.
The issue, I believe, is that the term morality is too vague. There's human morality, which are the morals of humans in general, and there's religious morality, which are morals of a small sect of humanity. The government is supposed to arbitrate human morality, not religious morality.
However, I see the arguement that it is not morality at all for a government to legislate on the matter: the government's goal is to protect soceity; they don't feel that it would benefit soceity to have people killing eachother, so for the immediate good (not a moral good, but a shortsighted good) they say, its not legal to kill eachother. Again, there's a discrepancy in terminology. Language is a barrier even amongst English-speaking Americans.
Having a monument supporting Chrisianity is unlawful. Having no monument is lawful. Having a monument supporting atheism is unlawful (an example would be a plaque saying "God does not exist").
Pick one: You are a troll; you don't understand the first amendment to the Constitution.
And by the way, your first sentence doesn't make sense. The points within it are completely unrelated.
It might offend citizen Bar, but being offended is not being harmed.
You're walking a thin line with your terminology... Offense is in some cases harm.
However, if someone is doing this thing, whatever it is, in their own privacy, there's not even any room to be offended, so the whole thing is moot. =)
You make a mostly valid point, but with one major error. The CPU does quite a bit more than just interface with memory and devices (sometimes it doesn't even need to do that: DMA channels). In a computer game it is quite possible that this wouldn't make a difference, but when you're dealing with big number crunching or repeated instructions (IE computing from cache) the speed is important. If it has power per cycle it doesn't need this speed, but if it lacks the power it needs the speed. Throttling a chip will hurt performance in most scenarios.
Have you ever run a distributed computing project on your computer? Like Folding@home or SETI@home? You can crunch a LOT more work units on a computer that merely has a faster (not in MHz terms) processor.
Compared to most MMORPGs, WoW has been VERY well polished from day one. Consider all the quest text, consider all the items, the world, it all feels more or less done, except for a few things like the PvP honor system.
And in WoW, when there's a gameplay bug, you don't bang your head against the desk (ie EQ), you come back and do something else.
I play WoW, I haven't experienced anything further than lag, and that only happens on one of the two servers I play on.
I know being able to get a hold of the game has been an issue since the week after New Years when a friend of mine was trying to get a copy. They were back for a while though, and he got ahold of it no problem. Unfortunately he had a media problem! So I let him have my install discs and all went smoothly. In any case, WoW is worth $15/mo. Its worth more than any of the other MMORPGs I've played.
If it starts out with lower specs, explain to me how that means it has a longer lifespan of usefulness. Do you mean it is most useful to buy a new one in 10 years, because there are just oh-so-many ways to upgrade a Mac?
An entry level Mac, with lower specs than an entry-level x86, is useful longer than it, even though Apple and others continue to release new software with higher demands? Somehow, this does not make the least bit of sense.
By the way, I'm assuming you still use your Macs from early 1995, and in 1995 were using ones from 1985. Would most Mac users do this? Why buy an iMac, eMac, whatever, now, unless you hadn't bought a computer in ten years?
You lack coherent logic.
Commercial entities usually haven't had the resources to do DoD satellite launches. The US military is rather privatized: they buy most of their stuff, they don't produce it themselves, why should they launch their own satellites? It seems like a logical trend.
It prevents me from downloading it in the first place: I have deleted IE. It keeps annoying programs, like AIM when I used it, from creating popups. It also cripples a few aspects of Windows... like Network Neighborhood...
However, I still have the DLLs intact, so the Windows Explorer can actually read from the Internet with its IE backend... I would delete that too if I noticed any unwanted behaviour, but so far without the executables, it seems benign.
Is this something new to readers here? Police don't need a warrant to make a search of a vehicle, they need probable cause. They had probable cause. The article has a huge bias. This doesn't mean a thing for average Joe, it only makes a difference for people who may seem to commit crimes. It is possible that further rulings would allow them to do more than that, but not this ruling! The article, and most other slashdotters, have taken this WAY out of proportion.
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I doubt anyone who knew the first thing about MMORPGs would go along with this case. Its common practice for MMORPG developers who put out boxed products. MMORPGs just aren't something you can buy used.
Also, the WoW ToS changed the other day. I don't read it, but it made me scroll through again. I'd make sure that's up to date first of all.
Ease off, you AGREED on the issue, just for different reasons.
Mech Warrior is a clone of a tabletop GURPS game.
So Descartes was wrong, then?
I'm wearing a cotton shirt, I'm typing with my wrists resting on part of a wooden desk, and as far as I know, its all real. I have three cats, and can see trees and sky through the living room windows when I get up to get something to drink.
Of course, it sounds like you must have some amount of sarcasm, so I apologize.
This is just another indicator of how screwed up the economy is. Where's all the money I spend on healthcare going? To the insurance company's pockets. I'd MUCH rather pay the same amount for healthcare and have it all go to the creators of whatever it is I need than to have it go into greedy pockets. If you know anyone who has had to buy chemotherapy drugs for instance, I think you'll agree with me.
You are incorrect. The Webster's definition of theft is similar to, but easier to read than the US federal law definition of theft, I dont know how you got modded insightful.
I disagree, but I respect your opinion because you are civil about it.
The way I see it, therapeutic cloning is no worse than taking a tissue sample back to the lab for analysis. Its really just part of you thats growing somewhere else. Its like using part of the pelvis for bone repair elsewhere.
What strikes me as hypocritical is Christian "Pro-lifers." They're vehemently for the preservation of "life," but the religion they so actively support is the one that has directly caused the most human death. I wonder how much they would care if it was just atheist or muslim embryos being harvested.
I don't understand why you think human life plays into this. The goal of this research is to IMPROVE human life. How is that not being respectful of it? How is cloning for stem cells any different than taking a skin-tissue sample? The only difference is that the sample grows on its own. Its far from being a living thinking being, and not all that unusual. The issue is that people don't seem to grasp that if there's something morally wrong with this, why didn't they complain about the vast amounts of other problems? I suppose if we only used black people for cloning research, the Christian Fundamentalists wouldn't mind.
Which strikes me as odd, because AOL already bought Netscape. What about Opera, though? And then we've got the slightly less used but still existant broswers like Konqueror. I don't know if they're based on Gecko, maybe they are.
And if you believe that, do us a favor and go jump off of something tall. They kindly neglect to show any of the obviously plane-based (and of the exact type of plane that crashed there) wreckage and holes. And yes, there are some. No, I'm not going to waste my time Googling for them when you could do it yourself.
I don't grasp what you are trying to say. Do you mean that the average driver has better than average driving skills? Saying more than half is plausible, but nearly all is false.
Where I live, people aren't very good at driving under these conditions here. The conditions suck, because there's always some sort of roadworks happening, and the paint on the roadway is faded, or they didnt' bother removing old lines after they put in new ones (especially the town right next to me, which is primarily upper-class people). These situations make it harder to drive: around here, you should NOT use a cell phone while driving. People, even experienced drivers, do unexpected things, and its very dangerous.
Yes, he tries to point how its hypocritical, but the two points are completely unrelated and have no effect on eachother. I understood the point completely. Perhaps you were lured in by the BS logic.
The profit model isn't as simple as that. What usually happens is abuse of an affiliate program. Corporation pays advertising agency, advertising agency says, okay affiliates, lets get this advertising on as many banners as possible, so we'll pay you by commission. The affiliates decide, the best way to get people to view these ads (doesn't matter if they click on it or not) is to send them email disguised as something they'll open (like these ones I get that say Joe Smith "RE: Important" or Annie Smith "hi" and things they'll expect me to click, and I probably would if it didn't get filtered, and if it didn't matter because I view the messages in plaintext). Every time someone mistakes the spam for something they want to read, which happens a lot more often than somebody buying something from it, the spammer gets a few cents from their advertising company. Its very profitable for them.
The issue, I believe, is that the term morality is too vague. There's human morality, which are the morals of humans in general, and there's religious morality, which are morals of a small sect of humanity. The government is supposed to arbitrate human morality, not religious morality. However, I see the arguement that it is not morality at all for a government to legislate on the matter: the government's goal is to protect soceity; they don't feel that it would benefit soceity to have people killing eachother, so for the immediate good (not a moral good, but a shortsighted good) they say, its not legal to kill eachother. Again, there's a discrepancy in terminology. Language is a barrier even amongst English-speaking Americans.
Having a monument supporting Chrisianity is unlawful. Having no monument is lawful. Having a monument supporting atheism is unlawful (an example would be a plaque saying "God does not exist").
Pick one: You are a troll; you don't understand the first amendment to the Constitution.
And by the way, your first sentence doesn't make sense. The points within it are completely unrelated.
It might offend citizen Bar, but being offended is not being harmed.
You're walking a thin line with your terminology... Offense is in some cases harm.
However, if someone is doing this thing, whatever it is, in their own privacy, there's not even any room to be offended, so the whole thing is moot. =)
You make a mostly valid point, but with one major error. The CPU does quite a bit more than just interface with memory and devices (sometimes it doesn't even need to do that: DMA channels). In a computer game it is quite possible that this wouldn't make a difference, but when you're dealing with big number crunching or repeated instructions (IE computing from cache) the speed is important. If it has power per cycle it doesn't need this speed, but if it lacks the power it needs the speed. Throttling a chip will hurt performance in most scenarios.
Have you ever run a distributed computing project on your computer? Like Folding@home or SETI@home? You can crunch a LOT more work units on a computer that merely has a faster (not in MHz terms) processor.
Compared to most MMORPGs, WoW has been VERY well polished from day one. Consider all the quest text, consider all the items, the world, it all feels more or less done, except for a few things like the PvP honor system.
And in WoW, when there's a gameplay bug, you don't bang your head against the desk (ie EQ), you come back and do something else.
I play WoW, I haven't experienced anything further than lag, and that only happens on one of the two servers I play on.
I know being able to get a hold of the game has been an issue since the week after New Years when a friend of mine was trying to get a copy. They were back for a while though, and he got ahold of it no problem. Unfortunately he had a media problem! So I let him have my install discs and all went smoothly. In any case, WoW is worth $15/mo. Its worth more than any of the other MMORPGs I've played.
Damn, if things are supposed to start pissing me off when I'm almost 70... things don't look good! Fucking kids!
If it starts out with lower specs, explain to me how that means it has a longer lifespan of usefulness. Do you mean it is most useful to buy a new one in 10 years, because there are just oh-so-many ways to upgrade a Mac? An entry level Mac, with lower specs than an entry-level x86, is useful longer than it, even though Apple and others continue to release new software with higher demands? Somehow, this does not make the least bit of sense. By the way, I'm assuming you still use your Macs from early 1995, and in 1995 were using ones from 1985. Would most Mac users do this? Why buy an iMac, eMac, whatever, now, unless you hadn't bought a computer in ten years? You lack coherent logic.
Commercial entities usually haven't had the resources to do DoD satellite launches. The US military is rather privatized: they buy most of their stuff, they don't produce it themselves, why should they launch their own satellites? It seems like a logical trend.
It prevents me from downloading it in the first place: I have deleted IE. It keeps annoying programs, like AIM when I used it, from creating popups. It also cripples a few aspects of Windows... like Network Neighborhood... However, I still have the DLLs intact, so the Windows Explorer can actually read from the Internet with its IE backend... I would delete that too if I noticed any unwanted behaviour, but so far without the executables, it seems benign.
Not all nerds are computer nerds.
Is this something new to readers here? Police don't need a warrant to make a search of a vehicle, they need probable cause. They had probable cause. The article has a huge bias. This doesn't mean a thing for average Joe, it only makes a difference for people who may seem to commit crimes. It is possible that further rulings would allow them to do more than that, but not this ruling! The article, and most other slashdotters, have taken this WAY out of proportion.