I know you may have heard this several times, but you're having to use System Restore much more often than normal. It seems there's a problem with either the computer or the user, I don't know which.
Were you specifically promised a response by the development team when this Q/A was arranged?
This has been a long-standing problem in the WoW community, the "ivory tower" approach (or lack of approach) that the developers have taken to the common gamer.
Compare that to a game like City of Heroes where the developers post on a daily basis.
In Baton Rouge following the storm, cell phones for all practical purposes were as useless here as in New Orleans. Whether this was due to damage to infrastructure or network overload, I couldn't tell you.
The problem here is that a program and its source code are two different things. I can choose to release the program but hold on to the source code. I guess if you want to reverse engineer the code that's up to you.
Aside from just copyright, it's also a matter of property rights, and I consider source code intellectual property. Users shouldn't have the freedom to do what they want with someone else's property.
You are not entitled to both secrecy of your code and a de-facto perpetual copyright.
Excuse me? It's THEIR CODE. They wrote it, and they should be entitled to do whatever they want with it. If they want to lock it away in a vault for the rest of their natural lives, bravo to them.
YOU are not entitled to do anything with their source code that they don't want to allow. If you don't like this, you're welcome to write your own.
So you make a highly contraversial statement that the Bible explicitly states extraterrestrials exist, and don't bother to back it up with chapter/verse, book of origin, or even try to paraphrase the line?
This is borderline tinfoil territory.
I suppose OJ Simpson thought getting into smartcard programming would being him one step closer to finding the real killer?
Talk about selective editing of the article you chopped up and quoted here.
And Beta 1--and the pre-Beta 1 builds I've used over the past weeks--are much, much more impressive than Build 5048. Microsoft may have made some boneheaded mistakes in the past, but they're clearly learning.
On a much grander scale, Longhorn is finally improving again. Beta 1 doesn't feature the end-user functionality that will make this release compelling to actual human beings, but it does include enough new technology to stir my technology-loving heart.
On that note, as long as Microsoft can continue to meet and, God forbid, exceed expectations in future builds, then Windows Vista is on the right path. It might be worth comparing this build to Whistler Beta 1 (see my review), which at the time only barely hinted at the goodness to come. But Windows Vista Beta 1 is much further along than was Whistler Beta 1. Maybe this thing isn't a train wreck after all.
Its worth pointing out here for people who don't understand what "free speech" means in the context of the Constitution that the First Amendment does not protect you from the consequences of your speech, nor does it guarantee you or anyone an outlet for your speech.
It also does not prohibit private organizations from suppresing speech they disagree with on their privately owned forums, which means that the editors of Slashdot are well within their rights to delete posts such as this for no other reason then they dislike my use of run-on sentences.
Police say people were starting to push and shove the officers.
BTW, this was in Jacksonville, OR. I needed to let people know because you apparently didn't care enough to do more than drop a rumor you heard about on some blog.
This is not a good analogy. The intended use of armor-piercing ammunition, killing and maiming human beings, is not de facto illegal. There are circumstances, such as self defense, where it's perfectly legal.
Now, if these companies that produce the ammunition marketed them as "COP Killers" or for the purpose of robbing banks, that would be clearly illegal and would fit the analogy you're trying to make.
I'm saying it's rather pointless to try to discourage people in this manner, as the ones most likely to fall for it wouldn't know there's a problem at all, let alone connect it to their file sharing.
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The good guys can't win, can they? I thought the RIAA had all these judges in their pocket!
I know you may have heard this several times, but you're having to use System Restore much more often than normal. It seems there's a problem with either the computer or the user, I don't know which.
I'm incapable of being shocked and/or offended anymore.
I think I speak for many when I ask...WHAT EVOLVING STORYLINE??
This has been a long-standing problem in the WoW community, the "ivory tower" approach (or lack of approach) that the developers have taken to the common gamer.
Compare that to a game like City of Heroes where the developers post on a daily basis.
They were coming along nicely on Office 13, but Larry lost the floppies.
In Baton Rouge following the storm, cell phones for all practical purposes were as useless here as in New Orleans. Whether this was due to damage to infrastructure or network overload, I couldn't tell you.
Please, if you don't know anything about the characters, don't say anything at all.
Aside from just copyright, it's also a matter of property rights, and I consider source code intellectual property. Users shouldn't have the freedom to do what they want with someone else's property.
Excuse me? It's THEIR CODE. They wrote it, and they should be entitled to do whatever they want with it. If they want to lock it away in a vault for the rest of their natural lives, bravo to them.
YOU are not entitled to do anything with their source code that they don't want to allow. If you don't like this, you're welcome to write your own.
There's more to /. than reading the headlines, as well.
Who the hell do you think you are?
This is borderline tinfoil territory. I suppose OJ Simpson thought getting into smartcard programming would being him one step closer to finding the real killer?
Is that the business model where they give away music for free?
...and thank goodness for that.
It also does not prohibit private organizations from suppresing speech they disagree with on their privately owned forums, which means that the editors of Slashdot are well within their rights to delete posts such as this for no other reason then they dislike my use of run-on sentences.
Moderation system needs a (-1) Verbal Diarrhea option.
And you didn't think it relevant to explain why this is?
Police say people were starting to push and shove the officers. BTW, this was in Jacksonville, OR. I needed to let people know because you apparently didn't care enough to do more than drop a rumor you heard about on some blog.
You probably meant to say "prize", but I think "price" works too in this case. That will take care of some of these worthless lawsuits.
This is not a good analogy. The intended use of armor-piercing ammunition, killing and maiming human beings, is not de facto illegal. There are circumstances, such as self defense, where it's perfectly legal.
Now, if these companies that produce the ammunition marketed them as "COP Killers" or for the purpose of robbing banks, that would be clearly illegal and would fit the analogy you're trying to make.
He did look a bit green afterwards.
I'm not saying that they aren't responsible.
I'm saying it's rather pointless to try to discourage people in this manner, as the ones most likely to fall for it wouldn't know there's a problem at all, let alone connect it to their file sharing.