Ahh, so the meaning of the words "up to" escape you...
That's what's complete bullshit: the cop-out "up to" phrase in their advertising which does not appear in their advertising except as a tiny disclaimer elsewhere without even a footnote mark next to the claimed network speed to denote that the disclaimer even exists.
or you just figure you can read any old thing you want into advertising and it's not your fault if you're wrong...
How about companies stop the false and/or deceptive advertising and advertise honestly for a change? "e.g. median service is 25 mbps, plus or minus 5 mbps"
The problem is worse than that. Thanks to copyright law, Blizzard is allowed a monopoly on the game; no one else is allowed to take the source code, add value to it, then sell it. Imagine if your only option was to buy the "internet fridge" or no fridge at all.
These are some of the important reasons why, as an essential service, the telecommunications grid needs to be nationalized. Imagine if roads or water pipes were similarly managed by private companies...
I'm not surprised companies are looking for DRM methods, even if just to keep the piracy out for a little bit during the first few weeks so that people who want to play it buy it because they cant pirate it.
Are you serious? A few weeks? You're as deluded as the software publishers who punish their paying customers with DRM.
The original meaning of the phrase "eye for an eye" -- shortened from various forms in the Hebrew Bible: e.g. "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth", "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe", etc. -- means the punishment should fit the crime and is used in the context of lawful punishment for harm inflicted on someone.
Contrary to what Ghandi may have thought, the phrase does not refer to vigilante justice or revenge.
Even way back in the days of Starflight (1986) EA was a terrible company. I remember an email conversation I had with on of the developers many years ago where we talked a bit about the development of Starflight. He warned about dealing with Electronic Arts and didn't have anything good to say about them.
Not only is it immoral, but it has also been hampering the development of the arts and sciences for decades. The advancement of human civilization is, itself, being retarded by IP laws.
"Paladins are indeed meant to be the bravest, most loyal, and purest of knights. [An] example is the killing evil prisoners that have surrendered and asserted a change of alignment to the paladin's own. This is not generally unacceptable, for that act assures the former lost ones will go on to a better reward in the after life and no returning to their evil ways.
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Also, as I have often noted, a paladin can freely dispatch prisoners of Evil alignment that have surrrendered and renounced that alignment in favor of Lawful Good. They are then sent on to their reward before thay can backslide"
He may have been the Father or RPGs, but he knew fuck all about what it meant to be "good".
This is so true. For example, the influence of Gary Kurtz -- co-producer of the original Star Wars -- was a big reason why the first movie was as good as it was.
Reading mangled quotations on the internet really irks me (e.g. "the goggles, they do nothing!"), but this one takes the cake, if you'll pardon the pun. How hard is it to remember "the cake is a lie"?
The paper specifically addresses this sort of thing:
"Our algorithm is designed specifically for hand-crafted pixel art images. (emphasis mine) Starting in the mid-nineties, video game consoles and computers were able to display more than just a handful of colors. On these systems, designers would start from high resolution multicolor images, or even photos, and then downsample them to the actual in-game resolution. This results in very anti-aliased sprites, which are in some sense closer to natural images than to the type
of input our algorithm was designed for. The hard edges that we produce do not always seem suitable for representing such figures."
A better system that treats everyone fairly, is not a burden to the poor, takes the most from those who feel it the least, and is in line with what appears to work when looking back at historic tax rates for the wealthy over the past hundred years or so:
(income * 0.9) - $100,000 = what you pay
No other deductions.
Negative values are rounded up to zero (i.e. no refunds).
(don't focus on the numbers -- they are rough; the example is just to illustrate a point)
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That's what's complete bullshit: the cop-out "up to" phrase in their advertising which does not appear in their advertising except as a tiny disclaimer elsewhere without even a footnote mark next to the claimed network speed to denote that the disclaimer even exists.
Take a look at Shaw Canada's website listing their different internet packages. There's no indication anywhere on that page that the speeds advertised are "up to" the numbers they claim. No "up to", no asterisk, nothing.
How about companies stop the false and/or deceptive advertising and advertise honestly for a change? "e.g. median service is 25 mbps, plus or minus 5 mbps"
The problem is worse than that. Thanks to copyright law, Blizzard is allowed a monopoly on the game; no one else is allowed to take the source code, add value to it, then sell it. Imagine if your only option was to buy the "internet fridge" or no fridge at all.
These are some of the important reasons why, as an essential service, the telecommunications grid needs to be nationalized. Imagine if roads or water pipes were similarly managed by private companies...
Are you serious? A few weeks? You're as deluded as the software publishers who punish their paying customers with DRM.
The original meaning of the phrase "eye for an eye" -- shortened from various forms in the Hebrew Bible: e.g. "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth", "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe", etc. -- means the punishment should fit the crime and is used in the context of lawful punishment for harm inflicted on someone.
Contrary to what Ghandi may have thought, the phrase does not refer to vigilante justice or revenge.
Um, Freedom of Movement *is* a constitutional right in the US -- and there is no exception for movement via airplanes.
Even way back in the days of Starflight (1986) EA was a terrible company. I remember an email conversation I had with on of the developers many years ago where we talked a bit about the development of Starflight. He warned about dealing with Electronic Arts and didn't have anything good to say about them.
If you're referring to the cost in human lives, at deaths/TWH, nuclear power is *still* the safest power source, even when you include Fukushima.
Easy. Abolish patent law and copyright law. (PDF here)
Historically, those two concepts have probably been the biggest impediments to the advancement of human civilization.
We, as a people, really have to stand up and fight against copyright if we want any kind of future for society.
Ditch copyright itself. It does more harm than good.
The iPhone 5 will have tape sensors around the IR sensors.
Not only is it immoral, but it has also been hampering the development of the arts and sciences for decades. The advancement of human civilization is, itself, being retarded by IP laws.
Lip syncing to a copyrighted recording is very harmful to major companies? Are you on drugs? I mean, like, right now?
A proper paladin, yes, but not a paladin as originally envisioned by Gary Gygax. Out of his own mouth from the many archived Gygax Q&A threads on ENWorld:
He may have been the Father or RPGs, but he knew fuck all about what it meant to be "good".
I know...solar prominence...etc....but damned if that headline doesn't sound like something out of The Onion.
This is so true. For example, the influence of Gary Kurtz -- co-producer of the original Star Wars -- was a big reason why the first movie was as good as it was.
When writing the possessive form of a person whose name ends with the letter 's', the former (Lucas') is correct, not the latter (Lucas's).
Reading mangled quotations on the internet really irks me (e.g. "the goggles, they do nothing!"), but this one takes the cake, if you'll pardon the pun. How hard is it to remember "the cake is a lie"?
That would be one of the 'up' sides, yes.
The paper specifically addresses this sort of thing:
So, no "enhance...enhance...enhance..."
And that differs from the American system how?
A better system that treats everyone fairly, is not a burden to the poor, takes the most from those who feel it the least, and is in line with what appears to work when looking back at historic tax rates for the wealthy over the past hundred years or so:
(income * 0.9) - $100,000 = what you pay
No other deductions.
Negative values are rounded up to zero (i.e. no refunds).
(don't focus on the numbers -- they are rough; the example is just to illustrate a point)
I'm pretty sure Osama did win. And big.
I honestly can't decide whether or not I think that's true.