They're not. They're in charge with helping you regain control of your own property.
The point here, as has been pointed out here, is that Apple wants proof that the deceased woman in question is, in fact, the owner of that Apple ID. Yes, it's more than a little draconian, and they should have better means of making that connection other than a freaking court order, but the fact of the matter is that security and convenience are on a sliding scale, and while it may be just a tad too far towards security, they're still trying to look out for their customers.
Pay attention, will you; this is a feature for SteamOS and Big Picture mode, meaning it's meant for the living room, where you use a controller, not a keyboard.
Umm... no, no it wasn't. Valve hired the guys behind Narbacular Drop, who then worked at Valve to create Portal using many of the same concepts, but Portal was developed entirely by people who earned their paychecks working for Valve at the time they were working on the game.
In other words, Valve didn't buy the game, they bought the team.
It's only "unenforceable" from a legal standpoint, but before it ever even sees a courtroom, it's already intimidated enough people to raise the company's BBB rating from an F to a B, and ruined other people's credit; the couple from TFA have been turned down for loans due to the credit hit they've taken because these guys sent that $3500 "penalty" to collections.
Why pay court costs for a judge to enforce your schemes when you can get the credit bureaus to do it for free?
Actually, the law HAS changed. Originally, copyright was for a much shorter time (14 years, renewable for another 14 years if the creator was still alive), but in modern times the length has been pushed so far that the "for limited times" part of the constitutional clause that gives the U.S. government the authority to CREATE a copyright law is, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant. Anything you see created today will still be copyrighted long after you die.
Unfortunately, this makes the public domain a nearly worthless concept; copyright is limited so that things will eventually become public domain, but with copyrights so long, nothing relevant to modern society belongs in it. Hell, we have entire forms of media that will never have a single item enter public domain until you are dead, buried, and dust.
I think the harder part for you is realizing the fact that evidence the people held these beliefs in the past is not the same as evidence of truth of these beliefs.
I think the difference here is that, theoretically, any Linux game on Steam would work on Steambox, so those "partisan" developers don't need to make a non-PC port.
Microsoft does not want to show google ads, because google gets the money. Microsoft wants to show their own ads, so they change the program to disregard google ads and show their own instead.
It is my understanding that the original version of the app didn't show any ads at all, and this updated version shows only the ads that Google themselves serves up.
Assuming my understanding is correct, then this isn't about ad revenue; this is about user experience. Microsoft wants a good Youtube app on their phones because they know their users want one; not having it makes them look bad.
Which is also a very good reason for Google to want them to NOT have such an app. I don't have any idea if that is the actual reason they pulled MS's API key, but I find it infinitely more likely than an ad dispute.
The fuck? UEFI is a replacement for BIOS; "disabling" it would entail disabling your system's ability to boot at all. Likely what you mean is Secure Boot, which is an optional feature for newer UEFI systems that caused a bunch of stink with Windows 8.
Actually, 100% of MMORPG character names are at risk, already. Someone can petition to force you to change your character's name at any time, for no reason. Whether or not they're listened to is a different matter.
Heck, I once knew someone who played WoW, with a tauren named USDAApproved; someone complained, and he had to change it.
Since your house comes with plumbing and a toilet, do you then get to complain when your water company charges you for flushing?
The preinstalled apps that have ads all have one common thread: they all use an online service. Online services cost money to run; every time you use the Weather app, it costs them money, even if it's a rather insignificant amount. It is hardly "unreasonable" for them to try to offset those costs.
The fact that paintball guns are only similar to firearms in a rudimentary sense, for one.
Seriously, no firearm in existence uses a feed system even REMOTELY similar to a paintball gun's, nor do they have the need of a separate fuel source, like a paintball gun's CO2 canister. Then you get to the fact that paintball guns don't experience any of the "kick" a hunting rifle will (seriously, Newton's third law), nor does the ammunition have the same range or ballistic trajectory.
And let's not forget completely different sights.
Firing a paintball gun is NOTHING like firing a hunting rifle, and training with a paintball gun is about as effective as training with a laser pointer rigged up with a trigger.
The point of the Second Amendment wasn't to protect the USA. It was to protect the citizens FROM the USA.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The "security of a free state" does not refer to the security of a nation from outside threats, but to the security of the people to HAVE a "free state". The people who wrote it had just fought a bloody war of revolution against a tyrannical state government, and they believed that the people may need to do so again in the future.
You DO realize that the entire point of the second amendment was to protect the people's ability to rise against a tyrannical government, like the people who wrote it had just done?
The modern equivalent of what the framers intended would be full military hardware, including tanks and drones, not just a really pointy stick. I'm betting that if they understood just how far military technology would advance, they may have rethought things a bit, but the intent was for the people to have the ability to be just as armed as the government.
Blatant lies are blatant. There is no Xbox version of Diablo 3, or any other game in the Diablo series.
They DID just announce an upcoming version for PS4/PS3, but they haven't said much about it yet; more details will come from PAX East later this month. I wouldn't doubt that it'll have an offline mode, but that wouldn't make your statement any less a lie.
Yes, we all know that any "server work" excuse for games like Diablo 3 are utter bullshit, but blatant lies like this don't help your argument.
Decode is the right word; if it were a raw data stream, closer to an actual HDMI signal, there wouldn't be these kinds of issues like noticeable lag and artifacts. My guess is it's a digital video stream, perhaps H.264 or some other codec, that the SoC has to decode before sending out over HDMI (which, yes, would require some encoding, due to HDCP).
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They're not. They're in charge with helping you regain control of your own property.
The point here, as has been pointed out here, is that Apple wants proof that the deceased woman in question is, in fact, the owner of that Apple ID. Yes, it's more than a little draconian, and they should have better means of making that connection other than a freaking court order, but the fact of the matter is that security and convenience are on a sliding scale, and while it may be just a tad too far towards security, they're still trying to look out for their customers.
Pay attention, will you; this is a feature for SteamOS and Big Picture mode, meaning it's meant for the living room, where you use a controller, not a keyboard.
Umm... no, no it wasn't. Valve hired the guys behind Narbacular Drop, who then worked at Valve to create Portal using many of the same concepts, but Portal was developed entirely by people who earned their paychecks working for Valve at the time they were working on the game.
In other words, Valve didn't buy the game, they bought the team.
Considering the original was "you can't take the sky from me", yeah, the "away" throws the melody off.
It's only "unenforceable" from a legal standpoint, but before it ever even sees a courtroom, it's already intimidated enough people to raise the company's BBB rating from an F to a B, and ruined other people's credit; the couple from TFA have been turned down for loans due to the credit hit they've taken because these guys sent that $3500 "penalty" to collections.
Why pay court costs for a judge to enforce your schemes when you can get the credit bureaus to do it for free?
Actually, the law HAS changed. Originally, copyright was for a much shorter time (14 years, renewable for another 14 years if the creator was still alive), but in modern times the length has been pushed so far that the "for limited times" part of the constitutional clause that gives the U.S. government the authority to CREATE a copyright law is, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant. Anything you see created today will still be copyrighted long after you die.
Unfortunately, this makes the public domain a nearly worthless concept; copyright is limited so that things will eventually become public domain, but with copyrights so long, nothing relevant to modern society belongs in it. Hell, we have entire forms of media that will never have a single item enter public domain until you are dead, buried, and dust.
I think the harder part for you is realizing the fact that evidence the people held these beliefs in the past is not the same as evidence of truth of these beliefs.
The original XBone concept would have worked out just fine, had the system not included physical media.
Hey, now, Wolfenstein 3D had plenty of blue, too. :P
I think the difference here is that, theoretically, any Linux game on Steam would work on Steambox, so those "partisan" developers don't need to make a non-PC port.
It is my understanding that the original version of the app didn't show any ads at all, and this updated version shows only the ads that Google themselves serves up.
Assuming my understanding is correct, then this isn't about ad revenue; this is about user experience. Microsoft wants a good Youtube app on their phones because they know their users want one; not having it makes them look bad.
Which is also a very good reason for Google to want them to NOT have such an app. I don't have any idea if that is the actual reason they pulled MS's API key, but I find it infinitely more likely than an ad dispute.
Turn off... UEFI...
The fuck? UEFI is a replacement for BIOS; "disabling" it would entail disabling your system's ability to boot at all. Likely what you mean is Secure Boot, which is an optional feature for newer UEFI systems that caused a bunch of stink with Windows 8.
Actually, 100% of MMORPG character names are at risk, already. Someone can petition to force you to change your character's name at any time, for no reason. Whether or not they're listened to is a different matter.
Heck, I once knew someone who played WoW, with a tauren named USDAApproved; someone complained, and he had to change it.
Hay now, do we really need these stupid puns?
...it's a normal Patch Tuesday? How the hell is this news?
BAM, Godwin's Law.
We're done here folks, move along.
Just to play Devil's Advocate...
Since your house comes with plumbing and a toilet, do you then get to complain when your water company charges you for flushing?
The preinstalled apps that have ads all have one common thread: they all use an online service. Online services cost money to run; every time you use the Weather app, it costs them money, even if it's a rather insignificant amount. It is hardly "unreasonable" for them to try to offset those costs.
The fact that paintball guns are only similar to firearms in a rudimentary sense, for one.
Seriously, no firearm in existence uses a feed system even REMOTELY similar to a paintball gun's, nor do they have the need of a separate fuel source, like a paintball gun's CO2 canister. Then you get to the fact that paintball guns don't experience any of the "kick" a hunting rifle will (seriously, Newton's third law), nor does the ammunition have the same range or ballistic trajectory.
And let's not forget completely different sights.
Firing a paintball gun is NOTHING like firing a hunting rifle, and training with a paintball gun is about as effective as training with a laser pointer rigged up with a trigger.
The point of the Second Amendment wasn't to protect the USA. It was to protect the citizens FROM the USA.
The "security of a free state" does not refer to the security of a nation from outside threats, but to the security of the people to HAVE a "free state". The people who wrote it had just fought a bloody war of revolution against a tyrannical state government, and they believed that the people may need to do so again in the future.
You DO realize that the entire point of the second amendment was to protect the people's ability to rise against a tyrannical government, like the people who wrote it had just done?
The modern equivalent of what the framers intended would be full military hardware, including tanks and drones, not just a really pointy stick. I'm betting that if they understood just how far military technology would advance, they may have rethought things a bit, but the intent was for the people to have the ability to be just as armed as the government.
Woo-hoo!
Blatant lies are blatant. There is no Xbox version of Diablo 3, or any other game in the Diablo series.
They DID just announce an upcoming version for PS4/PS3, but they haven't said much about it yet; more details will come from PAX East later this month. I wouldn't doubt that it'll have an offline mode, but that wouldn't make your statement any less a lie.
Yes, we all know that any "server work" excuse for games like Diablo 3 are utter bullshit, but blatant lies like this don't help your argument.
Decode is the right word; if it were a raw data stream, closer to an actual HDMI signal, there wouldn't be these kinds of issues like noticeable lag and artifacts. My guess is it's a digital video stream, perhaps H.264 or some other codec, that the SoC has to decode before sending out over HDMI (which, yes, would require some encoding, due to HDCP).
Doubtful. More likely that it's streaming encoded digital video via the cable itself, and the components on the connector just decode the stream.
Perhaps this is a slight step forward, as far as technology is concerned, but it's a big leap back, as far as consumers are concerned...