If it's a plug in, without including GPL code, then it doesn't have to be GPLed and there is no basis for a suit. That's been the case for quite some time mainly because you can't impose your license on somebody else's code. Now, if they include your code with their code, then you can, but it isn't sufficient to use their platform for that to come into play. Running code on a platform isn't the same thing as using somebody else's code in that respect.
But causing people to want what you're selling is even more profitable than predictability. Just look at the way that the music industry and film industry have destroyed the quality to make a buck.
And, that one that overheats is a good example of being more accurate and being more fun as in real life you can't expect to unload clip after clip without pause or melting the barrel anyways.
Been done, Return to Castle Wolfenstein did that. In fact they did it one better in that if you're using the machine guns as intended, as in short bursts they're pretty accurate, but if you hold down the trigger you lose a lot of the precision.
Actually, Lusers with low IQs aren't really a problem, it's Lusers with low IQs and a gun near other people and things of value that become a serious problem. As long as you're not stupid enough to point the barrel at yourself, there's not a whole lot you can do that's going to hurt you, but a hell of a lot that can be done to accidentally harm others.
Which is why I didn't jump to Verizon and their Droid. I was seriously considering it, but when I found out that I couldn't buy it unlocked and that I was stuck using their network I said forget it. I've been burned enough times by wireless carriers to know that signing a contract is a bad idea and definitely buying a phone that prevents you from any use on other networks isn't smart. With my Nexus One, I can use it with any GSM carrier, I just may or may not get 3G service depending upon the frequencies used. But still better than being locked in via phone.
I find that hard to believe. It's an Apple product, lots of people stand in ridiculous lines at launch to be the first to have them. They don't necessarily want the phones subsidized, that helps by hiding the true price tag, but we certainly don't want to plunk down cash, then pay to subsidize the phone we've already paid for.
What killed it was that you didn't see a lot of them, you probably didn't know what it could do, unless you were a fanbois or really looked into it. I have one, it's a much better phone than any of the iPhones, but I had to take a leap of faith that a phone purchased online without any opportunity to play with or hold it was a good idea. Chances are with an iPhone you can at least go into an AT&T retailer and hold it before buying or at least know somebody that owns one.
Probably not, it's common for firmware updates to require a match in order to update. Meaning that if the signature doesn't match what they think it should match, the update might very well not install. And with good reason. You really don't want to install a new firmware only to find yourself bricked because a small portion of the chip had gone bad.
Right and Ireland rarely extradites people to the US, Brazil refused to extradite a local business person that set a fire that ultimately killed 4 of our firefighters unless the charges were restricted to what they would be in Brazil. A number of countries without the death penalty won't extradite for capital offenses without assurances that the death penalty is off the table, even for people that are pretty solidly guilty.
In other words, the US is hardly the only country that does that so get off your damned high horse. Gary McKinnon is guilty nobody disputes the fact that he really did do what he's accused of doing. Now maybe if there were a dispute about that you'd have a point, but considering that he really did it, I'm not sure what about this is unfair. Don't want to do the time the easiest thing is to just not do the crime. These charges weren't exactly trumped up.
That's bullshit and hardly relevant. Firmware is installed on a chip in the hardware. The significance is that even if you were to reinstall the OS, you'd still have the code pop up every time you try to use it. Hardware in this case indicates that it doesn't reside on the HDD or in some other removable portion of the computer. While you can change motherboards, that's a serious enough operation that you're essentially ending up with a different computer once finished.
It's worse than that. Even those of us that do realize it are kind of stuck. The model that saw out sourcing to China as the solution to pretty much everything more or less obliterated the midrange category for many items. It's really hard to find things these days that are midranged in price and quality. I don't generally need to go top of the line on things, but thanks to the outsourcing there isn't a whole lot of choice, I can cheap out which usually isn't a good idea or buy high end.
The free market really doesn't handle the situation where there's a nascent market for something which investors are ignoring.
Technically yes, but it's a really, really hard thing to do. You'd have to quadruple the frame rate, then manage a way of changing the orientation of the polarization at each frame. And unfortunately since polarizing filters have maximum effect at a 90 degree angle you're stuck with covering lenses at some points to ensure that the wrong person doesn't get the effect. Mainly because the minimum effect is at 0 and 180 degrees. You can somewhat offset that by going at angles less ideal, but then you have to put up with only partially blocking the light.
There is also the clockwise and counter clockwise option, but that only gives you one set of perspectives. Layering that over the other scheme just ensures that you don't see anything. And with any scheme you need to have a really bright source of light as you're losing at least half the light due to polarization technology, and probably more like 2/3.
Yes, but they were already paying for that. It's probably a net loss as they presumably aren't showing ads to paying customers, meaning that they're getting the revenue they got excluding the ad revenue.
For it to be a scientifically viable study, you pretty much have to cut legs off. 3 legged dogs are sufficiently unusual that depending upon the study you'd have to get before data on pretty much every dog in a country to get enough before and after information to make for a valid study. At which point you've pretty much negated the point of doing a study in the first place. Likewise if you wait until afterwards you're going to be dealing with data that's not scientifically valid as you don't know what it looked like before hand and have no idea what specific changes have happened as a result.
Normally I'm all for studies that don't have any obvious near term benefit, but this is ridiculous. It's not a particularly useful set of studies to be making for the purposes of robotics, as a robot is going to be designed so as to not have that extra moment of inertia that 3 legged animals have to cope with. If you really want interesting useful stuff, the formerly quadrupeds that are now bipedal in nature are much more interesting in that respect.
As for making robotic prosthesises, perhaps at some point we need to just admit that it's just an animal and provided that it wasn't done intentionally that the best thing might just be to put the damned thing to sleep. I've seen 3 legged dogs, and they really don't strike me as terribly happy. Giving it a robotic leg is just plane silly.
No I didn't, I pointed out that you made a bad argument. The fact that most are handled in a DRM locked down fashion is not the same thing as saying they have to be. Saying that something like this can't be done is a high standard to meet, and you haven't met it. The reason why they do it is that they think it's good for them. That's not the same thing as have to, notice what's happened with DRMed music in recent years.
The conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. Just because ebooks are now restricted in that fashion doesn't mean that they necessarily always will be. Sure it's possible, but it definitely isn't the one to one correlation necessary to support the argument.
Printed books are only superior in possibly 3 ways, being able to trade them, being able to use them without electricity and being able to mark them up. Which is really only 2 ways, as anybody that enamored with them shouldn't be writing in them. Both of those can be dealt with, solar cells and fixing the DRM model.
Not necessarily, there are alternatives, which are less unwieldy. My Nexus one is a good example, it's not perfect, but it does adjust the backlighting based upon the ambient light to keep things visible in bright light. It does a pretty good job, I'm sure that as backlighting gets more efficient and brighter that it'll be no time before that solves it.
Actually reading posts before you reply is generally a plus. Pirate copies will always have the DRM stripped or in some other fashion disabled, meaning that you're not actually doing anything other than pissing off the customer base, seeing as pirates won't ever actually see the DRM when they're installing it.
Free games, as in commercial games released for download for a certain period of time free are a great reason to use DRM. You aren't stuck making it free permanently or selling it at all points so if you want to do an anniversary give away you can do so somewhat legitimately. But since DRM doesn't work, it's kind of limited in its effect.
You mean until the novelty wears off and people realize that they're getting screwed. The print customers with free access which is presumably the majority aren't actually paying anything for the privilege, so most likely it isn't going to fly. Especially when people start to figure out that they've been had.
You're not looking at it correctly. That's 90% of their online customers that are spared from Murdoch's incompetent propaganda. I'd say that's a net win, just not for him.
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If it's a plug in, without including GPL code, then it doesn't have to be GPLed and there is no basis for a suit. That's been the case for quite some time mainly because you can't impose your license on somebody else's code. Now, if they include your code with their code, then you can, but it isn't sufficient to use their platform for that to come into play. Running code on a platform isn't the same thing as using somebody else's code in that respect.
But causing people to want what you're selling is even more profitable than predictability. Just look at the way that the music industry and film industry have destroyed the quality to make a buck.
And, that one that overheats is a good example of being more accurate and being more fun as in real life you can't expect to unload clip after clip without pause or melting the barrel anyways.
Been done, Return to Castle Wolfenstein did that. In fact they did it one better in that if you're using the machine guns as intended, as in short bursts they're pretty accurate, but if you hold down the trigger you lose a lot of the precision.
Actually, Lusers with low IQs aren't really a problem, it's Lusers with low IQs and a gun near other people and things of value that become a serious problem. As long as you're not stupid enough to point the barrel at yourself, there's not a whole lot you can do that's going to hurt you, but a hell of a lot that can be done to accidentally harm others.
Doom, now there's a poster boy for realistic firearms if ever I saw one. Now excuse me as I use my BFG to hunt gophers.
Which is why I didn't jump to Verizon and their Droid. I was seriously considering it, but when I found out that I couldn't buy it unlocked and that I was stuck using their network I said forget it. I've been burned enough times by wireless carriers to know that signing a contract is a bad idea and definitely buying a phone that prevents you from any use on other networks isn't smart. With my Nexus One, I can use it with any GSM carrier, I just may or may not get 3G service depending upon the frequencies used. But still better than being locked in via phone.
I find that hard to believe. It's an Apple product, lots of people stand in ridiculous lines at launch to be the first to have them. They don't necessarily want the phones subsidized, that helps by hiding the true price tag, but we certainly don't want to plunk down cash, then pay to subsidize the phone we've already paid for.
What killed it was that you didn't see a lot of them, you probably didn't know what it could do, unless you were a fanbois or really looked into it. I have one, it's a much better phone than any of the iPhones, but I had to take a leap of faith that a phone purchased online without any opportunity to play with or hold it was a good idea. Chances are with an iPhone you can at least go into an AT&T retailer and hold it before buying or at least know somebody that owns one.
Probably not, it's common for firmware updates to require a match in order to update. Meaning that if the signature doesn't match what they think it should match, the update might very well not install. And with good reason. You really don't want to install a new firmware only to find yourself bricked because a small portion of the chip had gone bad.
One time I reverse engineered Swedish. It turns out the chef was mostly obsessed with pork. True story.
Right and Ireland rarely extradites people to the US, Brazil refused to extradite a local business person that set a fire that ultimately killed 4 of our firefighters unless the charges were restricted to what they would be in Brazil. A number of countries without the death penalty won't extradite for capital offenses without assurances that the death penalty is off the table, even for people that are pretty solidly guilty.
In other words, the US is hardly the only country that does that so get off your damned high horse. Gary McKinnon is guilty nobody disputes the fact that he really did do what he's accused of doing. Now maybe if there were a dispute about that you'd have a point, but considering that he really did it, I'm not sure what about this is unfair. Don't want to do the time the easiest thing is to just not do the crime. These charges weren't exactly trumped up.
That's bullshit and hardly relevant. Firmware is installed on a chip in the hardware. The significance is that even if you were to reinstall the OS, you'd still have the code pop up every time you try to use it. Hardware in this case indicates that it doesn't reside on the HDD or in some other removable portion of the computer. While you can change motherboards, that's a serious enough operation that you're essentially ending up with a different computer once finished.
It's worse than that. Even those of us that do realize it are kind of stuck. The model that saw out sourcing to China as the solution to pretty much everything more or less obliterated the midrange category for many items. It's really hard to find things these days that are midranged in price and quality. I don't generally need to go top of the line on things, but thanks to the outsourcing there isn't a whole lot of choice, I can cheap out which usually isn't a good idea or buy high end.
The free market really doesn't handle the situation where there's a nascent market for something which investors are ignoring.
Dude, I'm getting a GENERIC VIAGRA!
Technically yes, but it's a really, really hard thing to do. You'd have to quadruple the frame rate, then manage a way of changing the orientation of the polarization at each frame. And unfortunately since polarizing filters have maximum effect at a 90 degree angle you're stuck with covering lenses at some points to ensure that the wrong person doesn't get the effect. Mainly because the minimum effect is at 0 and 180 degrees. You can somewhat offset that by going at angles less ideal, but then you have to put up with only partially blocking the light.
There is also the clockwise and counter clockwise option, but that only gives you one set of perspectives. Layering that over the other scheme just ensures that you don't see anything. And with any scheme you need to have a really bright source of light as you're losing at least half the light due to polarization technology, and probably more like 2/3.
Yes, but they were already paying for that. It's probably a net loss as they presumably aren't showing ads to paying customers, meaning that they're getting the revenue they got excluding the ad revenue.
For it to be a scientifically viable study, you pretty much have to cut legs off. 3 legged dogs are sufficiently unusual that depending upon the study you'd have to get before data on pretty much every dog in a country to get enough before and after information to make for a valid study. At which point you've pretty much negated the point of doing a study in the first place. Likewise if you wait until afterwards you're going to be dealing with data that's not scientifically valid as you don't know what it looked like before hand and have no idea what specific changes have happened as a result.
Normally I'm all for studies that don't have any obvious near term benefit, but this is ridiculous. It's not a particularly useful set of studies to be making for the purposes of robotics, as a robot is going to be designed so as to not have that extra moment of inertia that 3 legged animals have to cope with. If you really want interesting useful stuff, the formerly quadrupeds that are now bipedal in nature are much more interesting in that respect.
As for making robotic prosthesises, perhaps at some point we need to just admit that it's just an animal and provided that it wasn't done intentionally that the best thing might just be to put the damned thing to sleep. I've seen 3 legged dogs, and they really don't strike me as terribly happy. Giving it a robotic leg is just plane silly.
No I didn't, I pointed out that you made a bad argument. The fact that most are handled in a DRM locked down fashion is not the same thing as saying they have to be. Saying that something like this can't be done is a high standard to meet, and you haven't met it. The reason why they do it is that they think it's good for them. That's not the same thing as have to, notice what's happened with DRMed music in recent years.
The conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. Just because ebooks are now restricted in that fashion doesn't mean that they necessarily always will be. Sure it's possible, but it definitely isn't the one to one correlation necessary to support the argument.
You say that as if there's an inherent reason why ebooks can't be handled in a similar fashion.
Printed books are only superior in possibly 3 ways, being able to trade them, being able to use them without electricity and being able to mark them up. Which is really only 2 ways, as anybody that enamored with them shouldn't be writing in them. Both of those can be dealt with, solar cells and fixing the DRM model.
Not necessarily, there are alternatives, which are less unwieldy. My Nexus one is a good example, it's not perfect, but it does adjust the backlighting based upon the ambient light to keep things visible in bright light. It does a pretty good job, I'm sure that as backlighting gets more efficient and brighter that it'll be no time before that solves it.
Actually reading posts before you reply is generally a plus. Pirate copies will always have the DRM stripped or in some other fashion disabled, meaning that you're not actually doing anything other than pissing off the customer base, seeing as pirates won't ever actually see the DRM when they're installing it.
Free games, as in commercial games released for download for a certain period of time free are a great reason to use DRM. You aren't stuck making it free permanently or selling it at all points so if you want to do an anniversary give away you can do so somewhat legitimately. But since DRM doesn't work, it's kind of limited in its effect.
You mean until the novelty wears off and people realize that they're getting screwed. The print customers with free access which is presumably the majority aren't actually paying anything for the privilege, so most likely it isn't going to fly. Especially when people start to figure out that they've been had.
You're not looking at it correctly. That's 90% of their online customers that are spared from Murdoch's incompetent propaganda. I'd say that's a net win, just not for him.