Actually, they aren't under copyright in the US either. They were published before 1978, so therefore the copyright extension is not retroactive to them (at least according to Wikipedia and the Copyright Office factsheet). The only way they could still be under copyright is if an explicit registration was filed with the office, which there isn't (I checked).
So no, 1984 and Animal Farm are free to get - just be aware that you can't pirate a copy you pick up in a store because the cover art is under copyright.
How about spending the resources on busting pedophiles and exposing pedophile rings instead? Or was that too straightforward and precise?
But that might drop the arrest numbers down considerably, which means cutting funding, which means less sweet desk jobs for law enforcement officials.
Bad example. Here in the USSNZ, the government is firing thousands of state officials. They'd LOVE the opportunity to cut funding, and end sweet desk jobs for law enforcement officials.
No, that's also wrong. ASP actually makes you write ALL the code, both UI and server scripting. Unless they used Microsoft Frontpage (which is an unequalled piece of shit) to make the site, it's entirely down to the person who wrote the code as to whether it works in other browsers or not.
Unfortunately, since ASP allows you to write in Visual Basic Script (which almost equals Frontpage for shittiness), it attracts a lot of imbeciles.
No, it's not because they're using ASP that it doesn't work in other browsers. It's because the developers are morons that it doesn't work in other browsers. Much like anyone that believes that using ASP automatically makes a page incompatible with other browsers. Let me rephrase your post to prove my point:
The sites work in Firefox but do not work with other browsers. The link says ".php".
I don't care that it isn't part of the browser-- it only works with Firefox so I must use Firefox if I want to purchase boardgames from that site. Because they are using PHP, they've lost my business when they lacked a significant price advantage. I'll load up Firefox if they are $5+ cheaper tho.
Uh... you do realise that the browserCaps section is completely optional, since ASP.NET has some built in anyway? At worst, it'll recognise all non-IE browsers as DownLevel (like Outlook Web Access 2003 does).
Also, do NOT use browserCaps sections, which were deprecated about 5 years ago. You simply add.browser files to your app instead (Microsoft ships a few, but no Firefox or Safari support)
Because you ignored half my comment. IE7Pro, a third party addon, implements the functionality of AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Flashblock, and Greasemonkey for IE.
Yes, actually, there is. Microsoft's BUILT IN InPrivate filtering by default manages to block every ad and tracking site (it works by auto-blocking things that are common to lots of sites) and you can set it to manual mode to block only things you don't want.
Also, IE7Pro (third party) goes the extra mile and is pretty much AdBlock, FlashBlock, and NoScript in one.
You know, rsync is available for Windows too... I even use it! It's quite simply the best cross-platform sync utility there is. But still, that's no excuse for the statement that "Unix utilities are better written than Windows utilities". That's wrong, like any other generalisation. There are some better written ones (and rsync does come to mind as an example) and some worse ones.
And what the fuck happened to the discussions page this time?!? For fuck sake Slashdot.
Not unless you manually log in and add them so far as I know - of course there's no reason not to what with the whole free re-downloading if you damage the disc.
I read it. It says they will monetize battle.net. Nowhere does the quote from Blizzard say they will charge fees on it. That's just a kneejerk reaction from a website wanting more hits.
Now, what we DO know is that Massive has been signed to provide ads in lobbies. Activision being Activision, they'll likely push Blizzard to put them in-game soon enough too.
Actually, they've signed Massive to provide advertising in Battle.net lobbies. They insist there will never be in-game advertising too, but that was before Activision.
I don't think they CAN delete accounts any more, considering a Battle.net account also nowadays contains your Blizzard Store purchases and WoW accounts.
Not really cripple bandwidth at all. Battle.net is really just a facilitator - except for Diablo II Closed games and Warcraft III Ladder games, all games are hosted on the clients with direct peer-to-peer connection.
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Actually, they aren't under copyright in the US either. They were published before 1978, so therefore the copyright extension is not retroactive to them (at least according to Wikipedia and the Copyright Office factsheet). The only way they could still be under copyright is if an explicit registration was filed with the office, which there isn't (I checked).
So no, 1984 and Animal Farm are free to get - just be aware that you can't pirate a copy you pick up in a store because the cover art is under copyright.
You can't trademark that kind of thing. You're thinking of a copyright. Which does NOT become invalid just due to disuse.
How about spending the resources on busting pedophiles and exposing pedophile rings instead? Or was that too straightforward and precise?
But that might drop the arrest numbers down considerably, which means cutting funding, which means less sweet desk jobs for law enforcement officials.
Bad example. Here in the USSNZ, the government is firing thousands of state officials. They'd LOVE the opportunity to cut funding, and end sweet desk jobs for law enforcement officials.
No, that's also wrong. ASP actually makes you write ALL the code, both UI and server scripting. Unless they used Microsoft Frontpage (which is an unequalled piece of shit) to make the site, it's entirely down to the person who wrote the code as to whether it works in other browsers or not.
Unfortunately, since ASP allows you to write in Visual Basic Script (which almost equals Frontpage for shittiness), it attracts a lot of imbeciles.
There may also be 3 or 4 good ASP/VB developers.
No, it's not because they're using ASP that it doesn't work in other browsers. It's because the developers are morons that it doesn't work in other browsers. Much like anyone that believes that using ASP automatically makes a page incompatible with other browsers. Let me rephrase your post to prove my point:
The sites work in Firefox but do not work with other browsers.
The link says ".php".
I don't care that it isn't part of the browser-- it only works with Firefox so I must use Firefox if I want to purchase boardgames from that site.
Because they are using PHP, they've lost my business when they lacked a significant price advantage. I'll load up Firefox if they are $5+ cheaper tho.
They charge statutory minimum royalties I believe.
SoundExchange collects royalties for all music. Not just its members. so yes, you'd still have to cough up. It's a bit of a scam really.
Uh... you do realise that the browserCaps section is completely optional, since ASP.NET has some built in anyway? At worst, it'll recognise all non-IE browsers as DownLevel (like Outlook Web Access 2003 does).
Also, do NOT use browserCaps sections, which were deprecated about 5 years ago. You simply add .browser files to your app instead (Microsoft ships a few, but no Firefox or Safari support)
Because you ignored half my comment. IE7Pro, a third party addon, implements the functionality of AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Flashblock, and Greasemonkey for IE.
InPrivate filtering, or IE7Pro.
Also, ASP/ASP.NET != IE. That's like claiming that PHP requires the user be using Firefox. It's idiotic.
Yes, actually, there is. Microsoft's BUILT IN InPrivate filtering by default manages to block every ad and tracking site (it works by auto-blocking things that are common to lots of sites) and you can set it to manual mode to block only things you don't want.
Also, IE7Pro (third party) goes the extra mile and is pretty much AdBlock, FlashBlock, and NoScript in one.
It doesn't need to be Lynx. Slashdot looks like that in Chrome even right now.
You know, rsync is available for Windows too... I even use it! It's quite simply the best cross-platform sync utility there is. But still, that's no excuse for the statement that "Unix utilities are better written than Windows utilities". That's wrong, like any other generalisation. There are some better written ones (and rsync does come to mind as an example) and some worse ones.
And what the fuck happened to the discussions page this time?!? For fuck sake Slashdot.
Not unless you manually log in and add them so far as I know - of course there's no reason not to what with the whole free re-downloading if you damage the disc.
That's just trolling. Quit with the generalizations.
I read it. It says they will monetize battle.net. Nowhere does the quote from Blizzard say they will charge fees on it. That's just a kneejerk reaction from a website wanting more hits.
Now, what we DO know is that Massive has been signed to provide ads in lobbies. Activision being Activision, they'll likely push Blizzard to put them in-game soon enough too.
Actually, they've signed Massive to provide advertising in Battle.net lobbies. They insist there will never be in-game advertising too, but that was before Activision.
And it was only released to support the digital download of their games (so they'd only have one codebase to support)
What happened to you, Blizzard? You used to be cool.
They got bought out by... er, I mean merged with... Activision.
Need I say more.
I got 2Mbit down/1Mbit up. It sucks.
You forwarded it to the broadcast address? How the blasted hell would that work?!?
I don't think they CAN delete accounts any more, considering a Battle.net account also nowadays contains your Blizzard Store purchases and WoW accounts.
Not really cripple bandwidth at all. Battle.net is really just a facilitator - except for Diablo II Closed games and Warcraft III Ladder games, all games are hosted on the clients with direct peer-to-peer connection.
What the hell? StarCraft lets you have an 8 player LAN with ONE CD! Haven't you heard of StarCraft Spawn?!?
I'd suggest trying it first. Even on Windows, piping out to null like that doesn't discard stderr.
I haven't tried it to make sure because I don't have Robocopy at work and I use rsync at home (synching to a Mac) but it's worth a shot anyway.