It sounds like it will be a great addition but ME2 had a shitty plot compared to ME1 so I'm not convinced about ME3. Plus if you are forced to use origin then there's no way I'll buy it.
this means they're not paying you enough; therefore you should see if they'll match what the other company will offer. dunno what you could do about the 90 mins travel time though
how can you be sure the vendor is following the open standard without access to an open source implementation of it? If it turns out in 50 years time that he wasn't following the standard correctly, what do you do?
Open source software means that if the original developer goes out of business, then somebody else can take it over. Also it means that the software can be ported to whatever devices people use in 50 years, instead of having to keep alive an archaic 2011 PC.
How about amazon provide ebooks in a format that works already on many more devices, then they wouldn't need to come up with a name for some technology that circumvents a barrier they themselves created?
No your movie ticket gives you entrance to one performance; you are basically renting that performance.
There is a difference between buying a film and renting a film - likewise there historically has been a difference between buying a game and renting a game.
Actually purported blackmail is the latest trend in these gagging orders. Worryingly, there have been a few cases where the claimant claims that he has been threatened with blackmail, then due to this the injunction pretty much has carte blanche. and they get this super injunction, yet the person who supposedly blackmailed them has no opportunity to defend the allegation.
ye I think the presumption should be that people are tried at home, because I don't really see how you can mount a great defence when you are a) away from your friends/family/normal support networks and b) tried in a country whose laws are all completely new to you. essentially non-essential extradition throws a fair trial to the wind.
sucks really because you have about one tenth the chance of defending yourself while remanded in a foreign prison than if you are tried in your own country
I really liked the idea in that 3rd link of displaying the history inline, i.e. above your current page, so you can just scroll up to go back. or scroll back down again to go forward.
although having said that I dont like scrolling because you have to use a mouse to do it in a precise way.
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It sounds like it will be a great addition but ME2 had a shitty plot compared to ME1 so I'm not convinced about ME3. Plus if you are forced to use origin then there's no way I'll buy it.
this means they're not paying you enough; therefore you should see if they'll match what the other company will offer. dunno what you could do about the 90 mins travel time though
is toilet slavery a common practice?
how can you be sure the vendor is following the open standard without access to an open source implementation of it? If it turns out in 50 years time that he wasn't following the standard correctly, what do you do?
Open source software means that if the original developer goes out of business, then somebody else can take it over. Also it means that the software can be ported to whatever devices people use in 50 years, instead of having to keep alive an archaic 2011 PC.
Open source has huge implications for archiving.
looking at the design IP, its just a flat thin shape with curved edges and corners.
it seems pretty generic...
How about we compete on innovation instead of on ability to lock a competitor out of a market?
How about amazon provide ebooks in a format that works already on many more devices, then they wouldn't need to come up with a name for some technology that circumvents a barrier they themselves created?
If there is dodgy content on the internet, then the courts should get an injunction against the content's uploader and force him to remove it!
We don't close the roads to a shopping centre because there is someone walking around selling pirated dvds.
No your movie ticket gives you entrance to one performance; you are basically renting that performance.
There is a difference between buying a film and renting a film - likewise there historically has been a difference between buying a game and renting a game.
so i'll be sticking with steam then - the games are much cheaper on there anyway
Assuming this website is in violation of the law, then they should be targetting the operators of the website, not BT.
Its like suing a bus company because a shoplifter used the bus to go and rob a store.
Bullshit action like this just makes our broadband connections more expensive.
Actually purported blackmail is the latest trend in these gagging orders. Worryingly, there have been a few cases where the claimant claims that he has been threatened with blackmail, then due to this the injunction pretty much has carte blanche. and they get this super injunction, yet the person who supposedly blackmailed them has no opportunity to defend the allegation.
ye I think the presumption should be that people are tried at home, because I don't really see how you can mount a great defence when you are a) away from your friends/family/normal support networks and b) tried in a country whose laws are all completely new to you. essentially non-essential extradition throws a fair trial to the wind.
sucks really because you have about one tenth the chance of defending yourself while remanded in a foreign prison than if you are tried in your own country
yes - now we would have an incentive for finding prior art. Maybe businesses would be set up purely to locate prior art for patents.
give this man a medal.
ye looking at the release notes I can't see any reason for me to upgrade.
about time! evolution is such a slow piece of shit
I really liked the idea in that 3rd link of displaying the history inline, i.e. above your current page, so you can just scroll up to go back. or scroll back down again to go forward.
although having said that I dont like scrolling because you have to use a mouse to do it in a precise way.
no, because they can oblige you to reveal your private key under threat of imprisonment.
one million copies on the 1st day isn't too bad
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/03/starcraft-2-sells-1m-day-one-1-5m-in-first-48-hours-roughly-62/
it seems only yesterday that Mark Shuttleworth was demanding that the entire linux ecosystem move to a 6 month release cycle in order to match ubuntu
interesting, in england it was about 40% more than any other pc game
"I haven't played it" so guess what you don't know!
they have dropped various features from bnet like chat rooms etc, and people complain about the maphosting problems.
it matches players fairly well.
This is quite a good point:
The local loop maintenance costs have an inverse relationship to the sustainable sync rate.