Not really, just rip them to disc and store the spares in a closet. It's not really that hard. Personally, I'm skeptical of any business that claims to allow downloads at a later date. I wonder how much longer downloads are going to be available from the 3drealms store and what arrangements are being made otherwise.
Sony selling DRM-free tracks would be tantamount to the Republican party admitting that the culture wars is a sham devised to distract from their real agenda.
While that is to some extent true, it's a minor problem compared to the others. You don't want to use corn for fuel as it is terribly inefficient. You'd be better off burning the portions of the corn not eaten than turning it into ethanol.
On top of that even if it did work better than the alternatives you'd still have serious issues since it doesn't lower carbon emissions.
Not really, it would be all but impossible to get a virus to work like that. Theoretically if one were to do that, one would then need at least 1 virus per cell, at which point you'd be talking about millions of them. The success rate really isn't the good for viruses so you'd be outnumbering the cells by probably thousands to one.
Or in other words, viruses have to be able to reproduce in order to be useful, you just have to be extremely careful that they can't mutate in a way that harms cells you're wanting left alone.
Yeah, the switch to FreeBSD has saved me so much money over the years, it's not even funny.
Admittedly, Windows XP runs a lot better now that I use Advanced SystemCare on it, but it's still somewhat sluggish and unreliable at points. (As an aside, their gamebooster proves pretty definitively how bloated Windows is)
But really, the fact that you have to get a third party application to get decent, stable performance or go on a registry safari is definitely absurd.
It's better to just reinstall, but it's not something that is technically required. I personally reinstall just so that I don't have to worry about inconsistencies popping up latter because I changed a few settings.
Well, that and the fact that an upgrade is a good time to dispose of software that's just sitting there, and a lot less work than trying to track down unused dependencies after you remove said programs.
No serious graphics professional is going to use anything other than Mac or possibly Win until such a time as all of the tools necessary are available on other platforms.
Unfortunately, Photoshop is only one bit, and not necessarily that important for some types of work. The main hold up at present is the spotty availability of color profile systems for other OSes.
Of course, they had a warrant to do so. In most parts of the country having a warrant is sufficient to shield from liability. The check to the police action is in the process of getting the warrant. If the warrant turns out to be bunk, the police aren't going to get into trouble unless they provided false evidence.
Misinterpreting evidence is not sufficient in most cases.
Or perhaps the moral of the story is that if you behave like a dick you can get into trouble. Seriously, this guy was a dick and he ended up having a huge inconvenience. Sure the police action was inappropriate, but it's not like he was acting in good faith from the start.
I'd be surprised if he ends up with any windfall over this, if by some chance he does successfully sue, I'm sure he will himself be sued by the person that he outed.
As self fulfilling as that may be, it's horribly inefficient for people to take that route. I just shudder to think what happens to the people that want to get the doctorate for actual use that are prevented from doing so because somebody got it to work in a completely different field.
It's hard enough to get into a good school without having to compete with people that aren't going to be using the degree for its stated purpose.
But, everybody does need to graduate from high school. At this point you can't even get into the military without at least a high school education. I'm sure there are jobs that don't require it, but they're few and far between, definitely not paying a living wage.
As for college, the big mistake we made was by insisting that everybody go to college, but refusing to pony up the scholarship money to do it properly and refusing to ensure that there were enough jobs available upon graduation.
Patents is a fair point, but with the GPL it's not exactly ambiguous. If you use their code and distribute the result then you have to provide the source and license your code appropriately.
It's not that hard to figure out in most cases. It can be a bit ambiguous if you're linking in code without thinking about it, but it's not exactly that hard to find solutions.
Yes, an attorney could, but an attorney could also make the case that moonlight is the same thing as sunlight and that it's plenty good to pay up fines in whatever Zimbabwe's currency denomination of the moment is. That doesn't mean that it's going to be accepted or that it's a solid argument or that the argument is relevant, it just means that attorneys are good at arguing things.
Monetary damage isn't necessarily going to be limited to what a party charges, it's fairly common for attorneys to use the cost of comparable items instead of the actual cost when it makes sense to do so. Sometimes it'll be higher than what the cost was and sometimes it'll be lower, but it definitely doesn't have to be the same as the actual cost.
Right as opposed to the other group that purposely prevents green technologies from being available to anybody that's willing to pay?
I know that people like to pretend that there's some sort of massive conspiracy, but the fact of the matter is that if people would make reasonable choices forcing people wouldn't be necessary. I personally see no reason why emissions should vary so much between a car in California and one that's supposedly exactly the same in Washington or Illinois.
They aren't claiming ownership of the bits of data they provide, they're claiming copyright over the whole page. Sort of like how an encyclopedia will copyright the book even if it includes quotes from people. Basically over the presentation of the data.
Additionally much of what they would be claiming copyright over isn't subject to copyright protections. Things such as birth dates and astronomical data aren't subjected to copyright protection.
Which is exactly why I use DVDs for that purpose. Sure they're not archival, but the fact that you can't rewrite them is why the data on them has survived better than any of the other choices I've used. With the exception of CDROMs, and for similar reasons.
Personally, I use a ZFS mirror to store data which requires that sort of rewriting, but for backup backup I use optical discs with svf. I've yet to have any trouble with the lifespan of the media, and my only complaint is that they're a bit small. Hopefully BlueRay will solve that portion of the problem. It's also nice because they're not that hard to send offsite when I need to.
Doesn't matter, any punishment severe enough to effect a difference is severe enough to cause personality and emotional problems later on. The result that parents look for when administering corporal punishment is in and of itself disorder.
It is terribly, terribly difficult to assess the real impact of an action on another people, so to assume that it's not a big deal is not a valid conclusion. Any use of physical force to make a kid do something should be given extreme consideration ahead of time. And you're not necessarily going to see the effects for a long time.
To be fair and balanced. We made fun of the Bush administration for being incompetent on secrets, so we have to make fun of the Obama administration for similar reasons.
It's sort of like when the press pretends like the opposition to rights for GLBT is based upon something other than pure bigotry or that there's a constitutional protection for interfering in other people's lives for bigoted reasons.
That's pretty much complete bullshit right there. It's the job of the military to censor that sort of information. It's not his fault if the military flunky that was supposed to be handling that screwed it up.
But then again, why question it when somebody accuses the "liberal" media of doing something that the Republican party doesn't like, I mean hey, it's not like it's the responsibility of the military to censor such things.
Not necessarily. As the saying goes, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Paranoia is judged from a reference frame, and it's implied that the paranoia isn't justified. Unfortunately for those that are subjected to sporadic abuse when authority figures ignore it or try to talk the victim into believe otherwise you surprisingly enough get paranoia as well. I don't think that there's a healthier alternative available, one loses sight of what is and is not abuse, and as such is forced to consider everybody potentially dangerous.
Which sounds a lot like a "protective mechanism" to me.
Same here, on my cell phone for a vehicle that doesn't exist. So I reported it to the government via the website. I'm not positive, but I suspect it was the same outfit that's the article talks about.
Because we don't want varying standards for security. The cybersecurity czar would more likely than not be mostly responsible for making sure efforts are coordinated and testing. In the past the various departments have done a piss poor job of verifying that systems are in fact hardened.
When I didn't have much money, I didn't buy or play games often. The games that I would buy were usually a few years old costing a fraction of what new ones would. And I'd be able to play them on an inexpensive computer. I saved a huge amount of money over all on gaming. Plus most of the classics are just as good now as they were back then.
In most cases there were reliable reviews out there and communities surrounding the ones that are worthwhile. It doesn't particularly bother me to pay for old games. Best of all when I purchased my copies of Commander Keen and Terminal velocity in the recent past, they didn't come with any DRM.
But, I do have to admit that I usually pay for games second hand, since it's a lot less expensive. Game sites like gog.com definitely need to be more common. I've yet to have any problem at all with any of my purchases from there. Of course once you buy there's no backsies, but still.
That would be the normal way that word of mouth campaigns go. I wouldn't expect any of the alternative browsers to crack 50%. Not because they aren't good enough, but because there's competition. When IE and Netscape did it, there weren't really any other browsers available to the internet going public. It was also a smaller total market. In more recent times MS had to use it's power to force it up there. Getting above 50% is going to be tough considering the different needs of various people going online.
But that being said, even with numbers in the 30-40% range, that's much too large of a market for developers to ignore. Plus even if the figures don't get better for the alternatives, the best thing for everybody is going to be when IE 6 dies the horrific death it deserves, abomination that it was.
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Not really, just rip them to disc and store the spares in a closet. It's not really that hard. Personally, I'm skeptical of any business that claims to allow downloads at a later date. I wonder how much longer downloads are going to be available from the 3drealms store and what arrangements are being made otherwise.
Sony selling DRM-free tracks would be tantamount to the Republican party admitting that the culture wars is a sham devised to distract from their real agenda.
Yeah, because allowing the rich to make those decisions has sure worked out well for us.
While that is to some extent true, it's a minor problem compared to the others. You don't want to use corn for fuel as it is terribly inefficient. You'd be better off burning the portions of the corn not eaten than turning it into ethanol.
On top of that even if it did work better than the alternatives you'd still have serious issues since it doesn't lower carbon emissions.
Not really, it would be all but impossible to get a virus to work like that. Theoretically if one were to do that, one would then need at least 1 virus per cell, at which point you'd be talking about millions of them. The success rate really isn't the good for viruses so you'd be outnumbering the cells by probably thousands to one.
Or in other words, viruses have to be able to reproduce in order to be useful, you just have to be extremely careful that they can't mutate in a way that harms cells you're wanting left alone.
Yeah, the switch to FreeBSD has saved me so much money over the years, it's not even funny.
Admittedly, Windows XP runs a lot better now that I use Advanced SystemCare on it, but it's still somewhat sluggish and unreliable at points. (As an aside, their gamebooster proves pretty definitively how bloated Windows is)
But really, the fact that you have to get a third party application to get decent, stable performance or go on a registry safari is definitely absurd.
It's better to just reinstall, but it's not something that is technically required. I personally reinstall just so that I don't have to worry about inconsistencies popping up latter because I changed a few settings.
Well, that and the fact that an upgrade is a good time to dispose of software that's just sitting there, and a lot less work than trying to track down unused dependencies after you remove said programs.
No serious graphics professional is going to use anything other than Mac or possibly Win until such a time as all of the tools necessary are available on other platforms.
Unfortunately, Photoshop is only one bit, and not necessarily that important for some types of work. The main hold up at present is the spotty availability of color profile systems for other OSes.
Of course, they had a warrant to do so. In most parts of the country having a warrant is sufficient to shield from liability. The check to the police action is in the process of getting the warrant. If the warrant turns out to be bunk, the police aren't going to get into trouble unless they provided false evidence.
Misinterpreting evidence is not sufficient in most cases.
Or perhaps the moral of the story is that if you behave like a dick you can get into trouble. Seriously, this guy was a dick and he ended up having a huge inconvenience. Sure the police action was inappropriate, but it's not like he was acting in good faith from the start.
I'd be surprised if he ends up with any windfall over this, if by some chance he does successfully sue, I'm sure he will himself be sued by the person that he outed.
As self fulfilling as that may be, it's horribly inefficient for people to take that route. I just shudder to think what happens to the people that want to get the doctorate for actual use that are prevented from doing so because somebody got it to work in a completely different field.
It's hard enough to get into a good school without having to compete with people that aren't going to be using the degree for its stated purpose.
But, everybody does need to graduate from high school. At this point you can't even get into the military without at least a high school education. I'm sure there are jobs that don't require it, but they're few and far between, definitely not paying a living wage.
As for college, the big mistake we made was by insisting that everybody go to college, but refusing to pony up the scholarship money to do it properly and refusing to ensure that there were enough jobs available upon graduation.
Patents is a fair point, but with the GPL it's not exactly ambiguous. If you use their code and distribute the result then you have to provide the source and license your code appropriately.
It's not that hard to figure out in most cases. It can be a bit ambiguous if you're linking in code without thinking about it, but it's not exactly that hard to find solutions.
Yes, an attorney could, but an attorney could also make the case that moonlight is the same thing as sunlight and that it's plenty good to pay up fines in whatever Zimbabwe's currency denomination of the moment is. That doesn't mean that it's going to be accepted or that it's a solid argument or that the argument is relevant, it just means that attorneys are good at arguing things.
Monetary damage isn't necessarily going to be limited to what a party charges, it's fairly common for attorneys to use the cost of comparable items instead of the actual cost when it makes sense to do so. Sometimes it'll be higher than what the cost was and sometimes it'll be lower, but it definitely doesn't have to be the same as the actual cost.
Right as opposed to the other group that purposely prevents green technologies from being available to anybody that's willing to pay?
I know that people like to pretend that there's some sort of massive conspiracy, but the fact of the matter is that if people would make reasonable choices forcing people wouldn't be necessary. I personally see no reason why emissions should vary so much between a car in California and one that's supposedly exactly the same in Washington or Illinois.
They aren't claiming ownership of the bits of data they provide, they're claiming copyright over the whole page. Sort of like how an encyclopedia will copyright the book even if it includes quotes from people. Basically over the presentation of the data.
Additionally much of what they would be claiming copyright over isn't subject to copyright protections. Things such as birth dates and astronomical data aren't subjected to copyright protection.
Don't have to try this link.
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Which is exactly why I use DVDs for that purpose. Sure they're not archival, but the fact that you can't rewrite them is why the data on them has survived better than any of the other choices I've used. With the exception of CDROMs, and for similar reasons.
Personally, I use a ZFS mirror to store data which requires that sort of rewriting, but for backup backup I use optical discs with svf. I've yet to have any trouble with the lifespan of the media, and my only complaint is that they're a bit small. Hopefully BlueRay will solve that portion of the problem. It's also nice because they're not that hard to send offsite when I need to.
Doesn't matter, any punishment severe enough to effect a difference is severe enough to cause personality and emotional problems later on. The result that parents look for when administering corporal punishment is in and of itself disorder.
It is terribly, terribly difficult to assess the real impact of an action on another people, so to assume that it's not a big deal is not a valid conclusion. Any use of physical force to make a kid do something should be given extreme consideration ahead of time. And you're not necessarily going to see the effects for a long time.
To be fair and balanced. We made fun of the Bush administration for being incompetent on secrets, so we have to make fun of the Obama administration for similar reasons.
It's sort of like when the press pretends like the opposition to rights for GLBT is based upon something other than pure bigotry or that there's a constitutional protection for interfering in other people's lives for bigoted reasons.
That's pretty much complete bullshit right there. It's the job of the military to censor that sort of information. It's not his fault if the military flunky that was supposed to be handling that screwed it up.
But then again, why question it when somebody accuses the "liberal" media of doing something that the Republican party doesn't like, I mean hey, it's not like it's the responsibility of the military to censor such things.
Not necessarily. As the saying goes, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Paranoia is judged from a reference frame, and it's implied that the paranoia isn't justified. Unfortunately for those that are subjected to sporadic abuse when authority figures ignore it or try to talk the victim into believe otherwise you surprisingly enough get paranoia as well. I don't think that there's a healthier alternative available, one loses sight of what is and is not abuse, and as such is forced to consider everybody potentially dangerous.
Which sounds a lot like a "protective mechanism" to me.
Same here, on my cell phone for a vehicle that doesn't exist. So I reported it to the government via the website. I'm not positive, but I suspect it was the same outfit that's the article talks about.
Because we don't want varying standards for security. The cybersecurity czar would more likely than not be mostly responsible for making sure efforts are coordinated and testing. In the past the various departments have done a piss poor job of verifying that systems are in fact hardened.
When I didn't have much money, I didn't buy or play games often. The games that I would buy were usually a few years old costing a fraction of what new ones would. And I'd be able to play them on an inexpensive computer. I saved a huge amount of money over all on gaming. Plus most of the classics are just as good now as they were back then.
In most cases there were reliable reviews out there and communities surrounding the ones that are worthwhile. It doesn't particularly bother me to pay for old games. Best of all when I purchased my copies of Commander Keen and Terminal velocity in the recent past, they didn't come with any DRM.
But, I do have to admit that I usually pay for games second hand, since it's a lot less expensive. Game sites like gog.com definitely need to be more common. I've yet to have any problem at all with any of my purchases from there. Of course once you buy there's no backsies, but still.
That would be the normal way that word of mouth campaigns go. I wouldn't expect any of the alternative browsers to crack 50%. Not because they aren't good enough, but because there's competition. When IE and Netscape did it, there weren't really any other browsers available to the internet going public. It was also a smaller total market. In more recent times MS had to use it's power to force it up there. Getting above 50% is going to be tough considering the different needs of various people going online.
But that being said, even with numbers in the 30-40% range, that's much too large of a market for developers to ignore. Plus even if the figures don't get better for the alternatives, the best thing for everybody is going to be when IE 6 dies the horrific death it deserves, abomination that it was.