[...] you'll hear someone in office suggest that we should tag the mentally ill homeless so they can be located and retrieved when they wander from shelters.
That's not a bad idea actually...:P
Just joking;-)
I have never played to WoW. But I played Eve Online and I can tell you that people who sell millions of isk (isk are the currency of Eve Online) for RL money piss me off. Not because they have an avantage over you, but because they kill the market prices of the goods! I don't know if the impact is the same in WoW, but in Eve Online there are enough "script players" that mine in high security sectors and sell their ore low that the prices got trough the floor! That's what piss me off!
Indeed, the number would be incredibly high for Microsoft. But don't forget you have to download IE 6 to keep your system up to date since IE is so tightly integrated in Windows. Hell, as a user of Firefox, I have to download IE to keep XP up to date. So, at best, these numbers would be much more a lie than the numbers advertised by the Firefox Community.
I'm Canadian and a lawyer once came in one of our classes to explain to us what the copyright law cover in Canada. We were very surprised to learn that it's completly legal to have mp3s of copyrighted music on CD. But it isn't to have them on your hard drive! So, if you want to be legal, download your mp3s, burn them on a CD and then erase them from your hard drive and you are safe! If you apply this law to the letter, recording your favorite TV show on a VHS is illegal and iPods are illegal too!
Soo confusing!:S
I've downloaded Firefox over 10 times in 6 months. [...] Do those count?
They are distinct downloads so, yes, they did count. It's not easy to know how many distinct users downloaded something. If you ask a e-mail, somebody could use many distinct adresses to download it or use a service like Mailinator. The IP adress is not usable either because many Internet users (like me) have dynamic IP adresses. A cookie is out of question for obvious reasons. Any ideas people?
I may be stating the obvious here, but there IS a difficulty scale between the two. The stars stick in one piece only because gravity keep them together. How do you do that in a laboratory? Also, it is the incredible pressure created by the gravity that cause the middle of a star to heat up to the point it can start a fusion reaction. If we stick to the comparaison between a flying bird and a fusion reactor, it's kind of easy to see a bird fly and get to some conclusions about it. But it's awfully harder to look inside a star and understand how it works.
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[...] you'll hear someone in office suggest that we should tag the mentally ill homeless so they can be located and retrieved when they wander from shelters.
That's not a bad idea actually...Just joking
I have never played to WoW. But I played Eve Online and I can tell you that people who sell millions of isk (isk are the currency of Eve Online) for RL money piss me off. Not because they have an avantage over you, but because they kill the market prices of the goods! I don't know if the impact is the same in WoW, but in Eve Online there are enough "script players" that mine in high security sectors and sell their ore low that the prices got trough the floor! That's what piss me off!
Indeed, the number would be incredibly high for Microsoft. But don't forget you have to download IE 6 to keep your system up to date since IE is so tightly integrated in Windows. Hell, as a user of Firefox, I have to download IE to keep XP up to date. So, at best, these numbers would be much more a lie than the numbers advertised by the Firefox Community.
I'm Canadian and a lawyer once came in one of our classes to explain to us what the copyright law cover in Canada. We were very surprised to learn that it's completly legal to have mp3s of copyrighted music on CD. But it isn't to have them on your hard drive! So, if you want to be legal, download your mp3s, burn them on a CD and then erase them from your hard drive and you are safe! If you apply this law to the letter, recording your favorite TV show on a VHS is illegal and iPods are illegal too! Soo confusing! :S
I've downloaded Firefox over 10 times in 6 months. [...] Do those count?
They are distinct downloads so, yes, they did count. It's not easy to know how many distinct users downloaded something. If you ask a e-mail, somebody could use many distinct adresses to download it or use a service like Mailinator. The IP adress is not usable either because many Internet users (like me) have dynamic IP adresses. A cookie is out of question for obvious reasons. Any ideas people?I may be stating the obvious here, but there IS a difficulty scale between the two. The stars stick in one piece only because gravity keep them together. How do you do that in a laboratory? Also, it is the incredible pressure created by the gravity that cause the middle of a star to heat up to the point it can start a fusion reaction. If we stick to the comparaison between a flying bird and a fusion reactor, it's kind of easy to see a bird fly and get to some conclusions about it. But it's awfully harder to look inside a star and understand how it works.