Well, if my knowledge of history by way of Hollywood is any help, that's the portion of the game that if accidentally accessed by a kid renders him in control of our nuclear arsenal.
Does that even apply? It's not the physical copy to which Atari has legal rights, they have the copyright to the code on the disks. And that's a huge difference, if that weren't the case then people would be perfectly free to copy disks as much as they liked, provided they could find one that had been tossed in the garbage bin.
Somehow I don't think that theory would hold up in court, well either theory.
Well, not that's the way it works. It's not that different than if I were to show up to work without my license. I have one, but not having it on my person at work is a gross misdemeanor. There's any number of legitimate reasons why one might forget, but ultimately, I'm still liable if that happens.
I'm not really sure why this would be any different.
People do it all the time, it's probably more appropriately termed a "thinko" most of the time it's a result of somebody changing their mind midstream as to how the rest of the sentence should go. Other it's as simple as getting a little bit distracted and thinking of that instead of than.
Then there's the people who don't actually know any better. Good luck figuring out which one it is.
Don't they just hire middle schoolers to type in dirty words and see what happens? Or if they're being really cost conscious, they just block anything too large to completely review.
Part of it probably has to do with the fact that Amazon is picking up the tab on the wireless connection. I'm also not sure that the display is really designed to handle much more than just e-books.
It's worth noting that Apple refuses to license out their AAC DRM and never used WMA DRM, meaning that if you wanted the ITMS support back when it was DRMed, you had to have an iPod or be happy only playing via the computer. And no burning to CD to rerip really doesn't cut it. I'm still curious as to why the DoJ never looked into the obvious antitrust violations that represents.
I don't know about your library, but the ones around here provide e-books through the website. You've got to install a DRMed Win program to use them, but I don't think you can use it with the kindle, which is going to cost you opportunities. I'm sure that's not a big deal to the Kindle audience, but it may be to some people.
Service for that is through http://www.netlibrary.com/ if anybody's interested, it may or may not be available in any given library system.
Trust me if you think that the unemployment rate has anything to do with why they claim that, you've been hittin' the pipe a bit much.
The same folks were saying that when the economy was booming, and trust me on this, they'll be saying it again when we're out of the recession. That's how fascism works. You appeal to tribalism, and fear to advance corporate interests over the needs of the people.
Because it's not really about free markets, it's about completely unregulated markets that don't interfere with people getting a lot of stuff and rich.
Then there's the people who call it a tax and therefore an unwarranted interference into the lives of people.
Because it's not good practice to include betas in these sorts of tests. A proper beta is going to have debug code and such activated making the results not necessarily accurate. As a result there's really no guarantee that the final product will behave in a similar fashion.
If it were an article speculating on what Opera 10 is going to be like, that would be fairly reasonable, but otherwise I don't see any reason to include an unfinished browser.
It was spawning, and it was a huge part of why Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft were so popular. You had to have a copy for every, two I think, players, and when the copy wasn't there it reverted to a shareware experience, IIRC.
I can accept and understand if they're not wanting to allow spawning any longer, but banning local net play is just wrong. There's just something about playing multiplayer and hearing somebody cursing in the other room because they've just noticed that you've been slaughtering their doods.
It's easier than that, just set up the firewall to block traffic to and from any IPs other than 127.0.0.1, believe you me, that would get it to stop right there.
That's what some states have been doing. The problem though is that we've got a mix of cars from hybrids and electrics up to gas guzzlers. Mileage taxes are an effort to normalize that a bit. This wouldn't replace gas taxes in total, most likely they'd offset it a bit.
You're assuming quite a bit. The game companies are encouraging the piracy by attempting to price games over what the market will bear and requiring people to crack games that they've paid for with their own hard earned money. EA being the worst offender, but others being egregious as well.
I pay for the games I play, and I buy a lot fewer games now that I have to worry about whether DRM is going to spy on me, prevent reinstallation or cause other undesirable problems. I've paid for the game, I own it, including the right to sell it to somebody else when I'm done with it. If they want to not grant that right, fine, but they're going to have to lower the price significantly because of that.
On top of that, it's observed reality that pirates can break any DRM that's been devised, and that's not going to change. I personally found myself really questioning why I was being the sucker that pays when MS made me wait several days to play Broken Steel when it was already up in other regions and even a pirated German language version.
Sorry to break it to you, but there is no entitlement to profit, if you don't put out a quality product in a form people are willing to buy, you're not entitled to any money at all. If you're business model is so incompetently thought out that it requires mafia tactics, then you shouldn't be allowed to have a business.
The college my mother teaches at has gotten fed up with that problem in the math department. The book she's going to be using in the near future will cost the students somewhere around $30. I'm not sure if it's going to be viable to resell the books, but at $30 it's far less expensive than what the status quo was.
One of the other instructors is letting his basic math class bring in whatever math book they want to use for course lessons. I guess he'll be handing out worksheets or something along those lines for homework.
I personally shudder to think how bad prices for games would be if game companies weren't having to compete with a secondary market. But then again at some point people decide that enough is enough and look for cheaper ways of doing it or of opting out completely.
Well, to paraphrase Dr. Horrible, sometimes that status isn't quo.
That would be correct, and they've been known to lock people out of their entire account because they tried to buy or sell a game on the second hand market. Meaning that not only do you have the potential to not get what you paid for with one game, but they will take all of them back without giving a refund. I've also heard of similiar things happening if the account gets broken into. Which isn't really that far fetched, IIIRC hotmail always had this ridiculously easy way of breaking into it which led to this sort of trouble.
I do not do business with steam, perhaps if they're giving away games for free I'll be willing to go along, but definitely not while they retain that kind of grip on the accounts.
Have you tried the last few versions of MS Office? I mean seriously, the amount of training it would take somebody to go from Office XP to OO.org is less than the amount that would be required to make the switch to the current version of MS Office. At least at the default, there may be a way that I don't know about to give it older UI.
Trust me, those folks are going to have a lot more trouble trying to follow MS as it innovates its way along.
One shouldn't ever use DOCs for that sort of thing, ever. I thought everybody realized what a security problem they were years ago. Beyond that there's the compatibility headaches and requiring people to us a compatible office suite.
At this stage, I'm not sure that ODF is any better, but I've pretty much always had good luck using RTFs. And PDFs are great if you're just wanting them to print them.
You do realize that this is terribly inaccurate, right? The movements that this sort of thing is tracking aren't within a lot, trust me if one corner of the lot is contaminated all the cattle in the lot are likely to be put down. This is about tracking cows as they go from lot to lot and in that context what you're arguing makes absolutely no sense.
A huge amount of damage was done to the US beef industry when a small number of cows were fed in Canada. It turned out that those particular cows were fed contaminated feed and ended up with mad cow. This technology makes it a lot easier to limit the cows that are put down to ones that are likely infected with better accuracy than what we do now.
What exactly it is that warrants an increment from 0.9.9 to 1.0.0 is going to vary somewhat, but in general there's supposed to be a few things in common amongst the releases.
At 1.0 release it's supposed to be feature complete, free of show stopper bugs and reliable enough for regular use. Yes, there is some degree of legitimate disagreement as to exactly what that means, but not that much. It's a convention which people have largely agreed to because there needs to be some way of informing the user that this isn't quite ready for prime time. Adding features later on isn't an issue, but it does need to have all the features necessary to function properly.
Then there's ZFS on FreeBSD which is experimental and will be experimental until there's enough people working on it for the dev to feel comfortable with things being fixed in a reasonable time.
Dude, you don't have to have a landline, you just have to pay an extra $5 a month for the DSL. And that covers the portion that you would've paid if you had phone service.
And secondly, what good is 20mbit service if they don't actually provide you with any at times when you need it? Qwest DSL might be slower, but at least it's there when I need it, I can't say that about Comcrap.
Don't make me laugh, Comcast cuts prices rarely and usually because they don't have to waste money on infrastructure maintenance. Seriously, before we quit them, the service would be out a few hours every single day and they made it perfectly clear that they'd issue a refund if and only if we kept track and notified them of the change. Besides that during the time I was with them, I don't recall them ever cutting rates.
As for Qwest, the service has been reliable and they're not going to be raising their rates as long as we don't change plans. We're locked in at our current rate, if they're giving up the ability to raise rates, precisely how are they going to pay for upkeep if they have to cut rates. At some point the costs of things like inflation and other unforeseeables have to be factored in.
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Well, if my knowledge of history by way of Hollywood is any help, that's the portion of the game that if accidentally accessed by a kid renders him in control of our nuclear arsenal.
Does that even apply? It's not the physical copy to which Atari has legal rights, they have the copyright to the code on the disks. And that's a huge difference, if that weren't the case then people would be perfectly free to copy disks as much as they liked, provided they could find one that had been tossed in the garbage bin.
Somehow I don't think that theory would hold up in court, well either theory.
Well, not that's the way it works. It's not that different than if I were to show up to work without my license. I have one, but not having it on my person at work is a gross misdemeanor. There's any number of legitimate reasons why one might forget, but ultimately, I'm still liable if that happens.
I'm not really sure why this would be any different.
People do it all the time, it's probably more appropriately termed a "thinko" most of the time it's a result of somebody changing their mind midstream as to how the rest of the sentence should go. Other it's as simple as getting a little bit distracted and thinking of that instead of than.
Then there's the people who don't actually know any better. Good luck figuring out which one it is.
Don't they just hire middle schoolers to type in dirty words and see what happens? Or if they're being really cost conscious, they just block anything too large to completely review.
Part of it probably has to do with the fact that Amazon is picking up the tab on the wireless connection. I'm also not sure that the display is really designed to handle much more than just e-books.
It's worth noting that Apple refuses to license out their AAC DRM and never used WMA DRM, meaning that if you wanted the ITMS support back when it was DRMed, you had to have an iPod or be happy only playing via the computer. And no burning to CD to rerip really doesn't cut it. I'm still curious as to why the DoJ never looked into the obvious antitrust violations that represents.
Amazon is just a couple of steps worse than that.
I don't know about your library, but the ones around here provide e-books through the website. You've got to install a DRMed Win program to use them, but I don't think you can use it with the kindle, which is going to cost you opportunities. I'm sure that's not a big deal to the Kindle audience, but it may be to some people.
Service for that is through http://www.netlibrary.com/ if anybody's interested, it may or may not be available in any given library system.
No, but just wait until we get physics acceleration support. The explosions will be truly breathtaking.
Trust me if you think that the unemployment rate has anything to do with why they claim that, you've been hittin' the pipe a bit much.
The same folks were saying that when the economy was booming, and trust me on this, they'll be saying it again when we're out of the recession. That's how fascism works. You appeal to tribalism, and fear to advance corporate interests over the needs of the people.
Because it's not really about free markets, it's about completely unregulated markets that don't interfere with people getting a lot of stuff and rich.
Then there's the people who call it a tax and therefore an unwarranted interference into the lives of people.
Of course I'll get modded flamebait to, but meh.
Because it's not good practice to include betas in these sorts of tests. A proper beta is going to have debug code and such activated making the results not necessarily accurate. As a result there's really no guarantee that the final product will behave in a similar fashion.
If it were an article speculating on what Opera 10 is going to be like, that would be fairly reasonable, but otherwise I don't see any reason to include an unfinished browser.
It was spawning, and it was a huge part of why Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft were so popular. You had to have a copy for every, two I think, players, and when the copy wasn't there it reverted to a shareware experience, IIRC.
I can accept and understand if they're not wanting to allow spawning any longer, but banning local net play is just wrong. There's just something about playing multiplayer and hearing somebody cursing in the other room because they've just noticed that you've been slaughtering their doods.
It's easier than that, just set up the firewall to block traffic to and from any IPs other than 127.0.0.1, believe you me, that would get it to stop right there.
That's what some states have been doing. The problem though is that we've got a mix of cars from hybrids and electrics up to gas guzzlers. Mileage taxes are an effort to normalize that a bit. This wouldn't replace gas taxes in total, most likely they'd offset it a bit.
You're assuming quite a bit. The game companies are encouraging the piracy by attempting to price games over what the market will bear and requiring people to crack games that they've paid for with their own hard earned money. EA being the worst offender, but others being egregious as well.
I pay for the games I play, and I buy a lot fewer games now that I have to worry about whether DRM is going to spy on me, prevent reinstallation or cause other undesirable problems. I've paid for the game, I own it, including the right to sell it to somebody else when I'm done with it. If they want to not grant that right, fine, but they're going to have to lower the price significantly because of that.
On top of that, it's observed reality that pirates can break any DRM that's been devised, and that's not going to change. I personally found myself really questioning why I was being the sucker that pays when MS made me wait several days to play Broken Steel when it was already up in other regions and even a pirated German language version.
Sorry to break it to you, but there is no entitlement to profit, if you don't put out a quality product in a form people are willing to buy, you're not entitled to any money at all. If you're business model is so incompetently thought out that it requires mafia tactics, then you shouldn't be allowed to have a business.
The college my mother teaches at has gotten fed up with that problem in the math department. The book she's going to be using in the near future will cost the students somewhere around $30. I'm not sure if it's going to be viable to resell the books, but at $30 it's far less expensive than what the status quo was.
One of the other instructors is letting his basic math class bring in whatever math book they want to use for course lessons. I guess he'll be handing out worksheets or something along those lines for homework.
I personally shudder to think how bad prices for games would be if game companies weren't having to compete with a secondary market. But then again at some point people decide that enough is enough and look for cheaper ways of doing it or of opting out completely.
Well, to paraphrase Dr. Horrible, sometimes that status isn't quo.
That would be correct, and they've been known to lock people out of their entire account because they tried to buy or sell a game on the second hand market. Meaning that not only do you have the potential to not get what you paid for with one game, but they will take all of them back without giving a refund. I've also heard of similiar things happening if the account gets broken into. Which isn't really that far fetched, IIIRC hotmail always had this ridiculously easy way of breaking into it which led to this sort of trouble.
I do not do business with steam, perhaps if they're giving away games for free I'll be willing to go along, but definitely not while they retain that kind of grip on the accounts.
Have you tried the last few versions of MS Office? I mean seriously, the amount of training it would take somebody to go from Office XP to OO.org is less than the amount that would be required to make the switch to the current version of MS Office. At least at the default, there may be a way that I don't know about to give it older UI.
Trust me, those folks are going to have a lot more trouble trying to follow MS as it innovates its way along.
Well, he certainly seems to make a lot of them. Perhaps it's a picture of Kdawson in the advert.
One shouldn't ever use DOCs for that sort of thing, ever. I thought everybody realized what a security problem they were years ago. Beyond that there's the compatibility headaches and requiring people to us a compatible office suite.
At this stage, I'm not sure that ODF is any better, but I've pretty much always had good luck using RTFs. And PDFs are great if you're just wanting them to print them.
You do realize that this is terribly inaccurate, right? The movements that this sort of thing is tracking aren't within a lot, trust me if one corner of the lot is contaminated all the cattle in the lot are likely to be put down. This is about tracking cows as they go from lot to lot and in that context what you're arguing makes absolutely no sense.
A huge amount of damage was done to the US beef industry when a small number of cows were fed in Canada. It turned out that those particular cows were fed contaminated feed and ended up with mad cow. This technology makes it a lot easier to limit the cows that are put down to ones that are likely infected with better accuracy than what we do now.
What exactly it is that warrants an increment from 0.9.9 to 1.0.0 is going to vary somewhat, but in general there's supposed to be a few things in common amongst the releases.
At 1.0 release it's supposed to be feature complete, free of show stopper bugs and reliable enough for regular use. Yes, there is some degree of legitimate disagreement as to exactly what that means, but not that much. It's a convention which people have largely agreed to because there needs to be some way of informing the user that this isn't quite ready for prime time. Adding features later on isn't an issue, but it does need to have all the features necessary to function properly.
Then there's ZFS on FreeBSD which is experimental and will be experimental until there's enough people working on it for the dev to feel comfortable with things being fixed in a reasonable time.
Dude, you don't have to have a landline, you just have to pay an extra $5 a month for the DSL. And that covers the portion that you would've paid if you had phone service.
And secondly, what good is 20mbit service if they don't actually provide you with any at times when you need it? Qwest DSL might be slower, but at least it's there when I need it, I can't say that about Comcrap.
Don't make me laugh, Comcast cuts prices rarely and usually because they don't have to waste money on infrastructure maintenance. Seriously, before we quit them, the service would be out a few hours every single day and they made it perfectly clear that they'd issue a refund if and only if we kept track and notified them of the change. Besides that during the time I was with them, I don't recall them ever cutting rates.
As for Qwest, the service has been reliable and they're not going to be raising their rates as long as we don't change plans. We're locked in at our current rate, if they're giving up the ability to raise rates, precisely how are they going to pay for upkeep if they have to cut rates. At some point the costs of things like inflation and other unforeseeables have to be factored in.