Dude, I think everyone understands the roll y'all played in this:-)
Next time, release everything of interest yourselves, first, and you won't have to worry about it. Lawsuits be damned---you guys being the actual hackers, maybe you have the wherewithal to take the Right To Tinker With Shit We Own all the way up to the Supreme Court so we can all have fun again.
I've got a few bucks I would throw your way if you needed it.
The only problem I have with paying for an electronic version is that they then feel obliged to lock it up in some crappy DRM format that never, ever, works properly.
Which of course never fulfills its intended purpose, either.
They (like movie, music industries) just need to get behind selling unlocked media files, like PDF, for a small convenience fee. I have paid for mp3's and I'll do it again if it's convenient for me.
Just do it and show him the tests running. It always impresses people to see a bunch of automated tests happening--it makes it more intuitive what the value is.
Anybody can understand how that can save valuable human tester time (particularly if that human is expensive and talented).
Dude, if we have to have a law to tell us if we are doing wrong or not, then the law is fucking insane. Either it is obvious that it is wrong (which this would be), or it is not, in which case we really need to ask the question of whether or not we need this law.
Doing what this law makes illegal was already fraud.
They were afraid of filesharers, so they started suing them, with predictable results.
Clearly "they" are now very afraid of open source--so we must be doing something right.
And I don't think they can win this battle, either. If nothing else, have you noticed how common heterogeneous environments have become in the corporate world? Nice job, my droogies!
I would imagine that Google honors their own "don't play on tv, only play on a 'computer'" tags? I ran into that on my WDTV box, and a 3rd party (legal) firmware update took care of it. But will Google support hacking themselves?
You have only to look at the fairly well accepted theory that plantlife on Earth provided all the oxygen that now exists on it, to realize that living things can indeed change the planet and make in uninhabitable.
Good thing for us, not so great for lots of anaerobic bacteria that may have been around before.
They are not currently about running serious applications. It's about being able to look up an actor in IMDB without *getting up*. Check yer email. Web surf a little, and yet still truly light and convenient to carry.
You have to match the software to the hardware, which is why you have those 2000 dollar tablets collecting dust--my bet is that the software or interface is so poorly designed that it's a pain to use.
Most developers can't *design* software to save their lives.
Part of "quality of life" is having a "life of the mind". If you were even now to go to college with the intent of *becoming better educated*, you probably would. Which is nice.
One of the "hacks" I was most proud of was reverse engineering the level structure for Keen, so I could make my own levels (this was before someone more professional than I released an editor a few years later).
Not that it was too difficult with a hex editor, and id software didn't try to obfuscate the levels or anything. But still, a couple weeks well spent!
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Dude, I think everyone understands the roll y'all played in this :-)
Next time, release everything of interest yourselves, first, and you won't have to worry about it. Lawsuits be damned---you guys being the actual hackers, maybe you have the wherewithal to take the Right To Tinker With Shit We Own all the way up to the Supreme Court so we can all have fun again.
I've got a few bucks I would throw your way if you needed it.
Nice job, though.
The only problem I have with paying for an electronic version is that they then feel obliged to lock it up in some crappy DRM format that never, ever, works properly.
Which of course never fulfills its intended purpose, either.
They (like movie, music industries) just need to get behind selling unlocked media files, like PDF, for a small convenience fee. I have paid for mp3's and I'll do it again if it's convenient for me.
Just do it and show him the tests running. It always impresses people to see a bunch of automated tests happening--it makes it more intuitive what the value is.
Anybody can understand how that can save valuable human tester time (particularly if that human is expensive and talented).
Dude, if we have to have a law to tell us if we are doing wrong or not, then the law is fucking insane. Either it is obvious that it is wrong (which this would be), or it is not, in which case we really need to ask the question of whether or not we need this law.
Doing what this law makes illegal was already fraud.
And until it remains so, this is going to be going on constantly.
Just sayin'.
No fair use for four year olds? Are you insane?
If nothing else, it is for educational purposes.
I think you are insane.
They were afraid of filesharers, so they started suing them, with predictable results.
Clearly "they" are now very afraid of open source--so we must be doing something right.
And I don't think they can win this battle, either. If nothing else, have you noticed how common heterogeneous environments have become in the corporate world? Nice job, my droogies!
I would agree, except that I believe I'm finding that the *right* people will understand the value.
I was one of those poor ruined youths deluded by BASIC.
Better to go with Python or Perl, imo. Not PHP...no need for that.
Nice.
What's ironic, is you probably didn't include that process ON your resume. You probably should.
C64 rocked.
Actually, I think it's brilliant. I would never use it, but I can easily imagine that many people would.
Seems to be a lot of traction with embeddable javascript buttons these days, and this concept is simple enough to work.
That's it. Just fucking stupid.
I would imagine that Google honors their own "don't play on tv, only play on a 'computer'" tags? I ran into that on my WDTV box, and a 3rd party (legal) firmware update took care of it. But will Google support hacking themselves?
That's the main advantage of consoles over PC games--the social, in person, experience of playing with your friends in your living room.
However, given that most of my friends still play this way as if it was made of crack, I doubt there is any substance to the claim, in any case.
Thank you.
You have only to look at the fairly well accepted theory that plantlife on Earth provided all the oxygen that now exists on it, to realize that living things can indeed change the planet and make in uninhabitable.
Good thing for us, not so great for lots of anaerobic bacteria that may have been around before.
They are not currently about running serious applications. It's about being able to look up an actor in IMDB without *getting up*. Check yer email. Web surf a little, and yet still truly light and convenient to carry.
You have to match the software to the hardware, which is why you have those 2000 dollar tablets collecting dust--my bet is that the software or interface is so poorly designed that it's a pain to use.
Most developers can't *design* software to save their lives.
Part of "quality of life" is having a "life of the mind". If you were even now to go to college with the intent of *becoming better educated*, you probably would. Which is nice.
It is clear then that Bank of America is an instrument of US foreign policy.
One of the "hacks" I was most proud of was reverse engineering the level structure for Keen, so I could make my own levels (this was before someone more professional than I released an editor a few years later).
Not that it was too difficult with a hex editor, and id software didn't try to obfuscate the levels or anything. But still, a couple weeks well spent!
Has anybody noticed that the New York Times seems to have stopped printing more cables articles since the 9th?
Have they caved already?
Except it's not even new taxes we're talking about, but a mandate to buy a product.
I'd love a new tax to pay for our single payer system, where everybody pays the same and the cost of all care is distributed amongst all of us.
But the mandate to buy a crappy product from crappy people sucks.
Roger that!