From what I have read, a supernova occuring within approximately 60 light years of us would be bad news. Obviously the closer it gets the worse for the Earth, but the environmental effects diminish to negligable levels after 60.
The bummer is that we wouldn't know until it hit us.
I pointed it out because it shows one example in law where removing identification numbers that might hide a crime is a criminal activity in and of itself. Other such examples can be found in FAA regulations, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and construction.
Yet the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a massive murder of hundreds of thousands. Sure, it made for a lot of news, yet the reaction in the Western world was hardly as vocal as was the tragedy of 9/11 or even perhaps as much as the Oklahoma bombing.
The reason that 9/11 was such a big deal to Americans is because it happened to them and not someone else.
Once the rights have been granted to copy, distribute and modify the program any attempt to revoke those rights is imposing further restrictions, which as the quoted section says is forbidden.
Except that the licence is a contract from the copyright holder to the licencee. The copyright holder has the right to change the terms of the licence, or add new licences at any time. It may be possible for Oracle, as the new owner of the MySQL copyright, to revoke the GPL licence.
And who's going to stop them?
Since the FSF doesn't own the copyright, it might not be granted the right to sue Oracle for a breach of the licence. Besides who'd want to take a behemoth like Oracle on in court anyway. It would be like Lionel Hutz standing up against Burn's cadre of high priced on-retainer attorneys. At the very least it would drag on for years while Oracle systematically destroys MySQL. Even if the FSF won, there'd be nothing left.
Browsing the web with just one app is fine, unless you (want to) use Googles Chrome browser. Each tab that Chrome opens is a seperate process and would run afoul of this limitation pretty quickly.
This just looks like a money grab to me. A user will be quickly motivated to upgrade. What's the bet the initial price plus upgrade price will be more than just buying the more capable version in the first place?
Another thought. Official MS software like Office probably won't count towards the app limit. Want cheap capability? Only use official Microsoft software.
You're right. IT doesn't care about a users wasted time until the user starts booking that time to an IT chargecode.
Some of the developers at one company I worked for were getting so pissed off at the amount of time that they were wasting against IT procedures that they started tracking exactly how much time each day they were losing and charged it to IT. That ended up causing quite a stir, and although the developers ended up being told to desist by management, it did get some balls rolling on improvements.
Well of course he is. He's not making games that he doesn't like playing. He's not giving them away because he doesn't care about the power bill and the mortgage. He's doing something that he likes doing and trying to scrape a buck or two together at the same time. Good luck to him to be doing something he loves. Why begrudge him a decent income?
With that high and mighty attitude of yours, I suspect you are in full time charity work and being paid the minimum possible, turning down gifts that could oh so help the poor children of the world?
Perhaps, if that's not the case, then whatever you're doing for a crust you're doing for yourself.
Both scifi and fantasy deal with impossible things happening. The difference is scifi attempts to justify how an impossible thing could happen via some new technology. Fantasy allows impossible things to occur and makes absolutely no attempt to rationalize those happenings. So, yes, Scifi and Fantasy are related areas of fiction. Should also be mentioned that scifi tends to focus on the future and fantasy on the past.
Not so.
It's entirely possible to have a science fiction story set in the present, or even the past, that utilises the technology of the time. For instance, how about a story (or movie) that plays on the faked lunar landing conspiracy theory? Remember Capricorn One?
Where science fiction does head into the fantasy realm is when the story has conventions that can't really happen. Star Treks Warp Drive is one of these. ST could be term Science Fantasy.
Buffy ended well, with Sunnydale disappearing into a hole in the ground, and Buffy being released from the curse of the Slayer. I believe that everyone knew that Season 7 was the last before it began. Angel, less satisfying because it was a cliffhanger ending; "I'm gonna kill me a dragon." And I think that was canceled late in the season.
Deep Space Swine had a very B5esque ending, but it was a developed ending, not something that was sprung two episodes from the end of the season.
The PS2 did have the valuable advantage of a large stable of PS1 games that it could play. The XBox was starting out of the gate and had a long way to catch up. The PS2 also had a large existing fanbase that would automatically upgrade from their PS1. It's more likely those advantages superseded any inherent difficulty in programming its games.
And don't forget, gamers don't care how hard it is to develop games, they just want to play them.
Libertarianism is the new Communism. It's an ideology that sounds nice on paper, but doesn't really work in real life.
Except that you are mixing your apples and oranges here. Libertarianism is a political ideology that goes along with conservatism and liberalism (and others.) While Communism is an economic philosophy that opposes capitalism.
To say that Communism doesn't work in real life isn't entirely accurate either. All we've seen so far is a form of Totalitarian Communism where all the power of the state is vested in a small group at the top. It's entirely possible to have a Democratic Communism where the the power of the state is vested in the people who make the decisions and the state still retains the means of production. We can't say that this form of Communism doesn't work because it hasn't really been tested.
We can surmise that it probably won't work because of the nature of people. But that's not proof of failure.
You're probably not too far off the mark with this one.
A lot of companies tend to struggle after the founders/visionaries depart. It's not that the people left in charge are incompetent. It's because the founders had a clear direction and were successful enough to stare down the more troublesome shareholders. Once they're gone the new management tends to lose that direction.
I suspect that Microsoft will go through the same struggles once Gates is completely out of the picture. I wouldn't be surprised to see the company make some quite bad business decisions based on shareholder pressure.
The same thing will probably happen to Google, Facebook, and others.
As for micro-transactions, they won't fly in the U.S. for a long time, especially in today's economy. People won't justify paying $xx for an item they can get with some time they already paid for. Even the geeks with cash they normally burn through are cutting back on extras.
A large number of players in the US market already take part in micro-transactions across all the games out there. The difference is that they are not generally sanctioned by the game companies.
Gold selling and powerleveling services are big business, and the players themselves have proved that they are willing to pay real cash for in-game items. If players are willing to pay third-party gold sharks and take risks with their accounts, it'd be a good bet that they'd pay for officially sanctioned items too.
I wouldn't count out micro-transactions in the US market yet.
If someone came out with a full featured non-violent sex and love themed RPG with nudity and a touch of the hardcore, it would outsell 10 to 1 GTA IV and WoW combined.
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Looks like you missed the formation of the United States of Google.
From what I have read, a supernova occuring within approximately 60 light years of us would be bad news. Obviously the closer it gets the worse for the Earth, but the environmental effects diminish to negligable levels after 60.
The bummer is that we wouldn't know until it hit us.
You forgot mattresses.
Yet the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a massive murder of hundreds of thousands. Sure, it made for a lot of news, yet the reaction in the Western world was hardly as vocal as was the tragedy of 9/11 or even perhaps as much as the Oklahoma bombing.
The reason that 9/11 was such a big deal to Americans is because it happened to them and not someone else.
Except that the licence is a contract from the copyright holder to the licencee. The copyright holder has the right to change the terms of the licence, or add new licences at any time. It may be possible for Oracle, as the new owner of the MySQL copyright, to revoke the GPL licence.
And who's going to stop them?
Since the FSF doesn't own the copyright, it might not be granted the right to sue Oracle for a breach of the licence. Besides who'd want to take a behemoth like Oracle on in court anyway. It would be like Lionel Hutz standing up against Burn's cadre of high priced on-retainer attorneys. At the very least it would drag on for years while Oracle systematically destroys MySQL. Even if the FSF won, there'd be nothing left.
perhaps with a half-gnawed leg.
Browsing the web with just one app is fine, unless you (want to) use Googles Chrome browser. Each tab that Chrome opens is a seperate process and would run afoul of this limitation pretty quickly.
This just looks like a money grab to me. A user will be quickly motivated to upgrade. What's the bet the initial price plus upgrade price will be more than just buying the more capable version in the first place?
Another thought. Official MS software like Office probably won't count towards the app limit. Want cheap capability? Only use official Microsoft software.
You're right. IT doesn't care about a users wasted time until the user starts booking that time to an IT chargecode.
Some of the developers at one company I worked for were getting so pissed off at the amount of time that they were wasting against IT procedures that they started tracking exactly how much time each day they were losing and charged it to IT. That ended up causing quite a stir, and although the developers ended up being told to desist by management, it did get some balls rolling on improvements.
Why begrudge someone a fair price for their hard work?
Well of course he is. He's not making games that he doesn't like playing. He's not giving them away because he doesn't care about the power bill and the mortgage. He's doing something that he likes doing and trying to scrape a buck or two together at the same time. Good luck to him to be doing something he loves. Why begrudge him a decent income?
With that high and mighty attitude of yours, I suspect you are in full time charity work and being paid the minimum possible, turning down gifts that could oh so help the poor children of the world?
Perhaps, if that's not the case, then whatever you're doing for a crust you're doing for yourself.
Not so.
It's entirely possible to have a science fiction story set in the present, or even the past, that utilises the technology of the time. For instance, how about a story (or movie) that plays on the faked lunar landing conspiracy theory? Remember Capricorn One?
Where science fiction does head into the fantasy realm is when the story has conventions that can't really happen. Star Treks Warp Drive is one of these. ST could be term Science Fantasy.
Only if Kevin Bacon is involved.
To call it an island is inaccurate. It's really more of a penisula.
Strawman argument designed to put down criticism by saying that unless someone creates something of equal value, then they have no right to criticize.
This argument fails because it doesn't take into account that anyone can make a valid point.
Buffy ended well, with Sunnydale disappearing into a hole in the ground, and Buffy being released from the curse of the Slayer. I believe that everyone knew that Season 7 was the last before it began. Angel, less satisfying because it was a cliffhanger ending; "I'm gonna kill me a dragon." And I think that was canceled late in the season.
Deep Space Swine had a very B5esque ending, but it was a developed ending, not something that was sprung two episodes from the end of the season.
The PS2 did have the valuable advantage of a large stable of PS1 games that it could play. The XBox was starting out of the gate and had a long way to catch up. The PS2 also had a large existing fanbase that would automatically upgrade from their PS1. It's more likely those advantages superseded any inherent difficulty in programming its games.
And don't forget, gamers don't care how hard it is to develop games, they just want to play them.
Wasn't it somewhere around the 1000's to 1200's when the little ice age occured?
Except that you are mixing your apples and oranges here. Libertarianism is a political ideology that goes along with conservatism and liberalism (and others.) While Communism is an economic philosophy that opposes capitalism.
To say that Communism doesn't work in real life isn't entirely accurate either. All we've seen so far is a form of Totalitarian Communism where all the power of the state is vested in a small group at the top. It's entirely possible to have a Democratic Communism where the the power of the state is vested in the people who make the decisions and the state still retains the means of production. We can't say that this form of Communism doesn't work because it hasn't really been tested.
We can surmise that it probably won't work because of the nature of people. But that's not proof of failure.
We can't communicate with snails either. Doesn't mean they're not alive.
You're probably not too far off the mark with this one.
A lot of companies tend to struggle after the founders/visionaries depart. It's not that the people left in charge are incompetent. It's because the founders had a clear direction and were successful enough to stare down the more troublesome shareholders. Once they're gone the new management tends to lose that direction.
I suspect that Microsoft will go through the same struggles once Gates is completely out of the picture. I wouldn't be surprised to see the company make some quite bad business decisions based on shareholder pressure.
The same thing will probably happen to Google, Facebook, and others.
If the music comparison was accurate, publishers would be suing grandmothers for lending books to their friends.
A very similar presentation of that idea is Sean William's The Resurrected Man. (http://www.amazon.com/Resurrected-Man-Sean-Williams/dp/1591023114) That's the link to the hardcover version.
Sounds like Godaddy.
A large number of players in the US market already take part in micro-transactions across all the games out there. The difference is that they are not generally sanctioned by the game companies.
Gold selling and powerleveling services are big business, and the players themselves have proved that they are willing to pay real cash for in-game items. If players are willing to pay third-party gold sharks and take risks with their accounts, it'd be a good bet that they'd pay for officially sanctioned items too.
I wouldn't count out micro-transactions in the US market yet.
If someone came out with a full featured non-violent sex and love themed RPG with nudity and a touch of the hardcore, it would outsell 10 to 1 GTA IV and WoW combined.