For all the hours of entertainment that Zelda: Twilight Princess and Guitar Hero 3 have given me, I'd consider them absolute bargains at 50 euros (or rather, the DKK equivalent). I paid more than that, FWIW.
If you spend, say, 1200 euro on a TV + Wii + games, and they entertain you for 400 hours (that's 2 hours per week over four years), it comes out to 3 euros per hour. Highly competitive with movie-going on price per time.
there is a huge appeal to having a machine that is dedicated to gaming, comes on in seconds and is (mostly) guaranteed not to choke on the games you feed it.
Riiiiight...
In Zelda: Twilight Princess, once you cross a bridge that then becomes uncrossable, be sure not to save! Otherwise, when you load, you'd start on the wrong side of the bridge with no way to cross it, meaning no way to progress further in the game.
There's a similar game-state deadlock in the room with the big contraption; if you save, the archaeology dude starts in the room, and you can't do the thing to the contraption that you need to do to progress.
In Guitar Hero 3 (for Wii), there's a unidimensional lag calibration, which doesn't match the reality of "lag between button-press and audio output" and also "lag between button-press and video output". In Through the Fire and Flames on Medium, in the section "Grinding Scales 2", the notes are wrong. The UI and menu structure is confusing (words have more than one meaning; meanings have more than one word) and unsuited for certain tasks; say you want to n-star all songs (for n in {3,4,5,gold}), then navigating from the "medium setlist" (sub)menu to the "hard setlist" (sub)menu takes waaaay too many clicks. It's completely boneheaded that at the screen where you see your character standing (and have a menu item named "change character"), when you press "back" (which presumably would take you to the band menu), you instead get taken to the "change character" menu. Why, if I wanted that, I'd have chosen that menu item!
I've noticed that Nintendo has made some IOS updates which "fix" the twilight hack (quotes both in the sense of "not really" and of "you can't fix a feature"). Do they perhaps fix the deadlocked z:tp saved games too?
Games really do need patching. Like all software, it's imperfect on day 0 (probably for most values of 0, actually). If you just shove a disc in, you might be unpleasantly surprised.
Seriously, I my password to your dipshit forum shouldn't have to contain mixed case, three numbers, nine punctuation marks, Egyptian fucking hieroglyphs, and that goddamn symbol the artist formerly known as Prince uses.
If I were in the jury, I'd probably figure that she had done what she's accused of.
I'd also figure that the statutory damages, which I hear the plaintiff requested, are at least $750 per song.
That's $18000. Or 18000 songs. I'd have problems believing she actually did that much damage. Recall, statutory damages are there to allow the jury to estimate damages when they're hard to compute, but should reflect actual damages.
So finding in favor of plaintiff is a dereliction of justice. So is finding in favor of the defendant.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. What's the jury supposed to do, then?
"free as in speech". I guarantee you that he will not infer copyleft.
Your freedom to swing your fist around stops at my nose. Your freedom to distribute software stops when you deprive others of freedom.
That seems easy enough to understand.
Also, you seem to misunderstand what the FSF says. Understand that "free software" and "copyleft('ed) software" are two different things. Copyleft is a licensing scheme that makes software licensed under a copyleft license Free Software (as the FSF defines it) for all users.
This is not true for permissive (bsd-style) licenses: you can relicense them and make them proprietary. What is free for you is not free for your users.
If you can't do anything you want with it, then it's not free as in freedom.
Again, your freedom to swing your fist stops at my nose.
I will concede that only saying "free as in free speech" makes people think certain things that are wrong. But those wrong conclusions are in the subtleties. The wrong conclusions people come to when they intuit meaning from "open source" are much bigger.
I'm only realizing the pun as I'm writing this: I meant that as "in psychology you can study common sense", but I see how you can interpret it as results of psychology being common sense.
There's an interesting study showing that people say "that's just common sense" when presented with the results of psychological experiments; when asked to predict the outcomes before the fact, though, people do as well as tossed coins. Make of that what you will.
I mean it's very nice, since it's given us games like Urban Terror and OpenAreana
And Nexuiz!
It's really great. The weapons are somewhat sci-fi'esque: the sniper rifle shoots blue "laser" beams, and the Electro shoots funky blue balls which explode either on proximity or by being hit.
The maps are great; "dm6" is obviously "stolen", as is Agressor (I guess, since it's also in OpenArena).
Try it out some time:)
(happy customer, not paid shill; besides, they can only pay me in source code which is free anyways:D)
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I always thought it was called "pullout van de ars"
I'm just not ready to drop 50 euros on a game
For all the hours of entertainment that Zelda: Twilight Princess and Guitar Hero 3 have given me, I'd consider them absolute bargains at 50 euros (or rather, the DKK equivalent). I paid more than that, FWIW.
If you spend, say, 1200 euro on a TV + Wii + games, and they entertain you for 400 hours (that's 2 hours per week over four years), it comes out to 3 euros per hour. Highly competitive with movie-going on price per time.
there is a huge appeal to having a machine that is dedicated to gaming, comes on in seconds and is (mostly) guaranteed not to choke on the games you feed it.
Riiiiight...
In Zelda: Twilight Princess, once you cross a bridge that then becomes uncrossable, be sure not to save! Otherwise, when you load, you'd start on the wrong side of the bridge with no way to cross it, meaning no way to progress further in the game.
There's a similar game-state deadlock in the room with the big contraption; if you save, the archaeology dude starts in the room, and you can't do the thing to the contraption that you need to do to progress.
In Guitar Hero 3 (for Wii), there's a unidimensional lag calibration, which doesn't match the reality of "lag between button-press and audio output" and also "lag between button-press and video output". In Through the Fire and Flames on Medium, in the section "Grinding Scales 2", the notes are wrong. The UI and menu structure is confusing (words have more than one meaning; meanings have more than one word) and unsuited for certain tasks; say you want to n-star all songs (for n in {3,4,5,gold}), then navigating from the "medium setlist" (sub)menu to the "hard setlist" (sub)menu takes waaaay too many clicks. It's completely boneheaded that at the screen where you see your character standing (and have a menu item named "change character"), when you press "back" (which presumably would take you to the band menu), you instead get taken to the "change character" menu. Why, if I wanted that, I'd have chosen that menu item!
I've noticed that Nintendo has made some IOS updates which "fix" the twilight hack (quotes both in the sense of "not really" and of "you can't fix a feature"). Do they perhaps fix the deadlocked z:tp saved games too?
Games really do need patching. Like all software, it's imperfect on day 0 (probably for most values of 0, actually). If you just shove a disc in, you might be unpleasantly surprised.
But no one in their right mind would retard the progress of society just to line their own pockets, would they?? :-O
</naive>
And by the same token, one would expect UV-ray discs to be able to store even more data.
But don't try getting a tan inside your CD-player. You won't fit.
What, it requires a user interface? Screw it if it can't run on my elevator controller chip! Who needs printf anyways?!
(I can't believe I'm making C standardization (in-)jokes... I should go out more often)
this is a thread about C++. Not Perl
Just wait until you see the guy's APL code! :-O
Or, lack of a proper lambda.
I think \bigger problems
Is that backslash some kind of Haskell joke?
See Planck's law
Or look on the backside of your t-shirt: http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Science ;-)
I don't like your sig. Please ^c$emacs rules<ESC>:wq or C-a C-k vi rocks C-x C-s C-x C-c
Big drawback is the lack of a scroll wheel on the Marble Mouse though.
Your friend is the "EmulateWheel" X.org mouse configuration option.
I use it with my Marble Mouse, and actually prefer it to a scroll wheel. As a bonus, you get horizontal scrolling as well.
If they have found them, they are by definition not lost anymore.
Well then, I think I've found your marbles!
Seriously, I my password to your dipshit forum shouldn't have to contain mixed case, three numbers, nine punctuation marks, Egyptian fucking hieroglyphs, and that goddamn symbol the artist formerly known as Prince uses.
You forgot Tengwar.
You probably misspelled your mail server's "user agent" string as postfux ;-)
They also 'helpfully' keep 70+% of the price end-users pay.
Recall the Ask /. about software marketing. One poster named a company which will advertise your product and charge you 25% of every sale.
I though 25% was a bit on the high side...
justify these hugely exorbitant awards
I've pondered this:
If I were in the jury, I'd probably figure that she had done what she's accused of.
I'd also figure that the statutory damages, which I hear the plaintiff requested, are at least $750 per song.
That's $18000. Or 18000 songs. I'd have problems believing she actually did that much damage. Recall, statutory damages are there to allow the jury to estimate damages when they're hard to compute, but should reflect actual damages.
So finding in favor of plaintiff is a dereliction of justice. So is finding in favor of the defendant.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. What's the jury supposed to do, then?
Nothing with an e-ink screen is going to browse the internet "properly"
I figure my eyes/brain just glitched, as I read it as "e-kink".
I'll leave it up to the reader to guess how I read the word "properly"...
"free as in speech". I guarantee you that he will not infer copyleft.
Your freedom to swing your fist around stops at my nose. Your freedom to distribute software stops when you deprive others of freedom.
That seems easy enough to understand.
Also, you seem to misunderstand what the FSF says. Understand that "free software" and "copyleft('ed) software" are two different things. Copyleft is a licensing scheme that makes software licensed under a copyleft license Free Software (as the FSF defines it) for all users.
This is not true for permissive (bsd-style) licenses: you can relicense them and make them proprietary. What is free for you is not free for your users.
If you can't do anything you want with it, then it's not free as in freedom.
Again, your freedom to swing your fist stops at my nose.
I will concede that only saying "free as in free speech" makes people think certain things that are wrong. But those wrong conclusions are in the subtleties. The wrong conclusions people come to when they intuit meaning from "open source" are much bigger.
It's like a Moebius loop of good times.
Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down?
Or you mean that unlike a normal loop, it's not two-faced? Then again, it lacks (an) edge...
Maybe you mean that no matter how fast you run, you always end up where you started.
I like that metaphor, it's so rich ;-)
PhDs aren't granted for common sense.
Can be, if you study psychology ;-)
I'm only realizing the pun as I'm writing this: I meant that as "in psychology you can study common sense", but I see how you can interpret it as results of psychology being common sense.
There's an interesting study showing that people say "that's just common sense" when presented with the results of psychological experiments; when asked to predict the outcomes before the fact, though, people do as well as tossed coins. Make of that what you will.
I presume that ITAR means "International Traffic in Arms Regulations", as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations
But to me as a non-american, it sounds more like Apple's archive format, iTar. You can then iGzip it and create secret_plans.itar.igz
Roth is getting a pretty light slap with four years.
Yeah, just think of what could have happened if he had copied intellectual property!
Or even worse, hosted a site which told visitors who had copies of the intellectual property they wanted to purch^Wacquire!
If you're so easily convinced that something is "truth" then its not Wikipedia that's the problem.
Citation or I don't believe you!
I mean it's very nice, since it's given us games like Urban Terror and OpenAreana
And Nexuiz!
It's really great. The weapons are somewhat sci-fi'esque: the sniper rifle shoots blue "laser" beams, and the Electro shoots funky blue balls which explode either on proximity or by being hit.
The maps are great; "dm6" is obviously "stolen", as is Agressor (I guess, since it's also in OpenArena).
Try it out some time :)
(happy customer, not paid shill; besides, they can only pay me in source code which is free anyways :D)
run by Linux / BSD with costume modifications
Skinnable kernels? ;-)