You can take that up with the supreme court and george lucas. It's the supreme court that stated that was a requirement and george lucas who would have to sue them.
My game only crashed once in the first 40-45 hours I played it. After that point it was crashing non-stop. Nothing on my system changed. Something happens to this game over time. I don't know what it is.
The next 15 hours of game play it probably crashed about 30 times. At least. Some crashes were obvious, like when I killed a ghoul who seemed to be glitched through the terrain or when I was constantly approaching this cave. It finally stopped crashing when I backed up to the cave (seems like a corrupted texture) ED-E pissed off on my when I sent him home after doing the brotherhood quest and never made it there. The quest to out the dirty merchant at the NCR base was completely broken.
Fast traveling to the legion raid camp respawned broken powder gangers and legion guys.
fast traveling to nipton sometimes spawned another lottery winner fleeing to the distance.
Neil refused to join me on the quest.
Constantly saying "Let me know!" when you said "I'm ready"
Here in Korea the close door buttons actually do work, which is great. You push it and it immediately closes.
Really speeds up the ride when you have a lot of people pushing both directions so they can just "get on" leaving the elevator being called to empty floors.
The elevators here also allow you to "unpush" a floor. If you accidentally hit one just push it again and it'll unselect. Maybe they do have them back home, but I'd never seen one that did that back in Canada.
it's extremely weak commentary. Since some of the content they post isn't "lame" and instead is posted to indicate it's funny, it doesn't seem to be particularly good commentary either.
regardless of who owns it, it may be owned by each individual who made a comment on some of those long status updates, it is extremely unlikely they have permission from each person in the thread to repost those. So even if it's not facebook who owns the content for copyright, they're likely on the hook to someone. Someone mentioned earlier something about the Facebook ToS taking any work you create on there.
No, it's not. legal parody requires that the the person creating the parody use the material to comment on the original author's creation.
is the use of some elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's works
Lamebook has done nothing of the sort. They're simply posting pictures and content without comment as far as I can see. About the only thing they create is the blurry stuff and the titles, neither of which make comments about Facebook.
and parody requires that the content created under fair use be used for or as commentary on the original author's work. I can't see any evidence that lamebook has done that, and it'd be too late to start now.
I can't see anywhere on that site where they are commenting on the author's work. They are producing screenshots of various updates and things they think are amusing, without as far as I can tell, commenting on them at all.
Note that parody is a copyright defense not a trademark defense.
The short answer is, every SCADA system in the Americas is Internet connected, and no one has the balls to tell them to stop
That's incorrect. I used to build SCADA systems and we often included a separate "work terminal" that was connected to the corporate network for workers to access anything outside they needed. It was not connected to SCADA and the SCADA system was not connected to the main corporate network or the internet.
Not at all. Most Koreans live with their parents until they're married/have a decent job. For most people saving 10K after a year of work isn't really that hard unless you're pissing money away. That's all it takes to get into a place.
For those who don't have the deposit, there are lower deposit places but you're starting very far down the rung. The monthly will be higher/it'll be hole to live in.
Alternatively for those who have to go to work not near their family, they can live in things called goshiwons, which are essentially dorm rooms. Costs around $200-$400 a month, depending on quality, basically the size of a small dorm room for 1 person. You get a single bed, closet, the higher end ones give you a private shower. You get free internet, TV, heat, air conditioning, basic food, laundry, and other facilities.
As a culture they're quite accustomed to living with their parents until they are 25-30. The parents are also saving quite a bit to help them get their first place. Korea is based on a savings culture.
However anyone who wants to get into it with an average starting job can save up enough deposit for that first rung after only a years work. Even if they were living in a goshiwon away from their family. There are alternatives. We might not like them. However, my first year here, I decided to stick it out in a goshiwon and you'd think it was tiny, but actually it was okay. I wouldn't trade it for the larger place I have now, but I didn't go crazy and got settled just fine.
no, they're not. Those rankings are garbage. I've lived here for 3 years and living here is so cheap compared to anywhere in North America it's not even funny.
I wonder how many South Koreans would want to take on that burden. I know there are lot of West Germans who were, within a few years, a lot less enthusiastic about Reunification.
West Germans and South Koreans aren't even in the same boat. Korea is a collectivist society. Their parents lived and died for the country to make it what it was today because that was best for Koreans. if they were faced with a similar situation again, they'd buckle up and make it happen.
While the younger generation is getting more individualistic you can still see the duty in them when push comes to shove.
The big problem in South Korea is the high cost of real estate, with an average 2-bedroom apartment in Seoul going for between $500K - $750K and 3-bedrooms, often over $1m in nicer neighborhood. For those not already in the real estate market, it's almost impossible to buy in without support from relatives.
I see this as a good thing.
It is very easy to get into the market without a family. It's not easy to step into a mansion without a family. However, I find the Korean system to be far superior in the long-term. Let's look at an example: I get an apartment in western city X I pay, for example, $1200 deposit, and $1200 a month in rent. It is very common to pay deposit equal to 1 month's rent.
At the end of 1 year, I leave. I paid $14400 in rent, and get my $1200 back. I move to a new apartment, and do it all over again.
in Korea I have to pay $10000 deposit for an entry level place big enough for a couple. However, I'm only paying $600 rent. At the end of 1 year, (I can't leave, they typically have 2 year contracts, but anyway) I paid $7200 in rent, and I get my $10000 rent back.
However, after 2 years, I've saved like a bugger, and let's say I know have an additional $20,000 to put on a deposit, perfectly doable here due to cost of living. Now I drop $30000 on a deposit and as a result, my monthly rent drops to $400. I'm now paying $4800 a year for rent and I get my $30000 back. during which time I've saved up $20k more. I drop that back in and now I'm putting down $50000. With $50000 down and paying $200 a month, you can get a decent place.
That's after 4 years in the market and not pissing your money away. If you got married at a typical age, you'd be prime to have a kid at that age and your place would be more than adequate.
Korea uses a stepping stone real estate market.
the western system is a very flat system in which you can never get ahead. The high deposit system and low monthly rent assures the average person can upgrade their living accommodations while not pissing away all their money.
Yes do a little research. Those cost of living indexes are garbage. I've lived in Korea for nearly 3 years now, after having spent most of my adult life paying for things in big city Canada, and Korea is ridiculously cheap compared to North American cities.
That last one of these I read claimed a dozen eggs in Seoul cost something like $4. I don't know where they found those eggs, but I can get a dozen, regular price, for about $1.45 USD with exchange at the local megamart, and I've never seen a dozen for $4 anywhere. Even at 7-11.
They also claimed a can of beer was $3, when I can walk to the 7-11 and get a can of domestic for about 90 cents.
The fact of the matter is that the cost of living in South Korea is very low compared to any major city back home.
The only thing that is truly expensive is getting into real-estate, but it works out better. Korea works on a Key money system. Want a western sized apartment,2 bedrooms? Probably cost you 100,000$ in deposit. But you'll likely pay no rent with that, and you'll get that $100,000. This is where people get confused.
They ignore the fact that a great deal of daily living costs are tiny compared to other cities.
you want to have a quality meal at a sit down restaurant with lots of vegetables, and unlimited side dishes? about $4.50. Prime time movies are only around $8, with assigned seating and a couple's combo that only costs $5. Internet, cheaper, faster, better.
The utilities on my 1 bedroom place are so cheap it's laughable. $6 a month in water, $8 in gas, $20 in electricity.
Transit? $0.83 gets you on the subway/bus and unless you're going a really long distance that's it. Over something like 12-15 km, starts to add 9 cents per few kms.
Some local buses are only about 40 cents to get on.
If you buy things that aren't part of the local taste, it's expensive. A local shop might be $5 for a good meal, but you go to Outback steakhouse here, and the prices are high, but that's not a good comparison.
As for computers, since I just bought a new one here, I priced it online to compare the online retailer here and newegg in the US. on a $1600 machine, buying identical parts between the countries, the price difference was only $80.
once you started adding in neweggs high shipping prices, the price differences became almost nothing.
local shipping and even international shipping here is ridiculously cheap. I can send anything anywhere in the country for peanuts.
packages I've sent to Canada have costed like 1/3 of what my parents paid for an equal package there to send here.
inter-city transportation is very cheap here as well. Buses/trains cost 1/2 to 1/3 what you'd pay in Canada for similar distances.
These cost of living indexes are clearly made by people who don't have a clue, and once you've actually lived in some of these places you'll realize how out to lunch they are.
More than likely they're not shopping like a local. If you want to make those kinds of comparisons its 17x more expensive to live in any western city since a bottle of soju is like $17 in any bar there, but you can get it for about 90 cents here.
Nothing at all. There are many users who do new page patrol. Anything newly created they see. If it's not notable it gets flagged.
There are also those who do recent page patrol. Which means any article edited goes across their view. Someone updating some pet band page will give it away.
or there may have been a problem with the article which has a bot run across it and bring it to someone's attention.
we seriously have different definitions of "fairly listenable"
I'd call them fairly rage inducing.
on a semi-related note, this new comment system is also rage inducing. Forced preview, loading everything on a single page (slowly mind you)
That's hardly an equalizer. The player would also lose a chunk of his forces in battle and there is no guarantee that the player is keeping 100% of his forces grouped in one spot. The point is with 2 completely controlled attacks, it's quite likely they could easily attack your resources and wipe that out while keeping you busy somewhere else.
I'm convinced timothy is kdawson's new pseudonym. I've noticed whenever someone pries the dead cat out his hands that he was swinging around timothy picks up the slack.
Multi-pronged attacks are also something that it should theoretically be great at but it never really tries.
Mostly because if standard AI did this, players would raise hell. No human can really keep up with 2 100% controlled and coordinated attacks. Mainly because we have to split our resources between them. The AI could realistically perfectly control 2 attacks with all the skill that a human player could devote to a single attack.
Even with all the hot keys in the world you still need to flip your view between the battles. AI doesn't have to do that. You still have to keep 2 different attacks straight in your head. the AI has no problem making space for both.
I don't think it's so much a function of not really trying so much as no one bothers because it would be incredibly cheap.
yes. the correct representation is.3 with the little line over it..33,.333,.3333,.33333 are all incorrect. These are not 1/3 it is laziness. Same with the guy up above who just tried to prove that -1 = 1. He threw away the signs in one step for no reason and created a false proof. pure laziness attempting to pass as clever intelligence.
When I was working in a convenience store a very long time ago the shelves were tempered glass. I was tasked with cleaning them one night. So I emptied them, pulled them off, and was wiping them down. I went to put one back in, lifted it about 1 inch off the floor and it slipped. I had grabbed it so it didn't fall, but the edge struck the floor and the whole thing shattered.
every time we have a story about this I've mentioned this idea. Botnets have specific behaviour. They do things which are bot-like. They send mass amounts of e-mails, connect in certain ways, etc. It should actually not be that difficult for an ISP to determine if one of their customers is infected by checking logs for certain patterns.
The solution to botnets, spammers, and others like that has always been very simple. Cut them off. Then have the "good" ISPs who cut these people off blacklist any ISP that won't do it. If someone wants to be a haven for spammers and malware distributors I can't really see the need of doing business with them.
This shouldn't be a pre-emptive thing. it should be responsive. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Let them make whatever choices they want. But if it appears they're infected with a bot net, give them a chance to either clean it up, or cut them off. It's trivial to add that customer to an automatic group whose only access is to a local intranet where they're given a choice of a wide variety of free and paid applications (along with all recent definitions) to clean up their machine. After doing so, they can be moved back into the general public.
I just built a machine here in Korea to replace my laptop and wanted to maintain that resolution but couldn't find it in less than 24. It was too big for my desk so I went with something smaller but the company I ordered the parts from did have about 6 with that resolution most were in the $200-$300 range. As for why it's the size. Most people don't want 15 and 17" desktop monitors
You can get 1920x1200 desktop monitors. They're not as common, but they're there. The only problem was I couldn't find one under 24" with that resolution.
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You can take that up with the supreme court and george lucas. It's the supreme court that stated that was a requirement and george lucas who would have to sue them.
My game only crashed once in the first 40-45 hours I played it. After that point it was crashing non-stop.
Nothing on my system changed. Something happens to this game over time.
I don't know what it is.
The next 15 hours of game play it probably crashed about 30 times. At least.
Some crashes were obvious, like when I killed a ghoul who seemed to be glitched through the terrain or when I was constantly approaching this cave. It finally stopped crashing when I backed up to the cave (seems like a corrupted texture)
ED-E pissed off on my when I sent him home after doing the brotherhood quest and never made it there.
The quest to out the dirty merchant at the NCR base was completely broken.
Fast traveling to the legion raid camp respawned broken powder gangers and legion guys.
fast traveling to nipton sometimes spawned another lottery winner fleeing to the distance.
Neil refused to join me on the quest.
Constantly saying "Let me know!" when you said "I'm ready"
I liked the game, but I feel ripped off.
Here in Korea the close door buttons actually do work, which is great. You push it and it immediately closes.
Really speeds up the ride when you have a lot of people pushing both directions so they can just "get on" leaving the elevator being called to empty floors.
The elevators here also allow you to "unpush" a floor. If you accidentally hit one just push it again and it'll unselect. Maybe they do have them back home, but I'd never seen one that did that back in Canada.
it's extremely weak commentary.
Since some of the content they post isn't "lame" and instead is posted to indicate it's funny, it doesn't seem to be particularly good commentary either.
regardless of who owns it, it may be owned by each individual who made a comment on some of those long status updates, it is extremely unlikely they have permission from each person in the thread to repost those.
So even if it's not facebook who owns the content for copyright, they're likely on the hook to someone. Someone mentioned earlier something about the Facebook ToS taking any work you create on there.
No, it's not. legal parody requires that the the person creating the parody use the material to comment on the original author's creation.
Lamebook has done nothing of the sort. They're simply posting pictures and content without comment as far as I can see. About the only thing they create is the blurry stuff and the titles, neither of which make comments about Facebook.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#Copyright_issues
and parody requires that the content created under fair use be used for or as commentary on the original author's work. I can't see any evidence that lamebook has done that, and it'd be too late to start now.
Parody is not a blanket defense to allow someone to copy another by trying to make it funny:
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#Copyright_issues
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._Acuff-Rose_Music,_Inc.
I can't see anywhere on that site where they are commenting on the author's work. They are producing screenshots of various updates and things they think are amusing, without as far as I can tell, commenting on them at all.
Note that parody is a copyright defense not a trademark defense.
That's incorrect.
I used to build SCADA systems and we often included a separate "work terminal" that was connected to the corporate network for workers to access anything outside they needed. It was not connected to SCADA and the SCADA system was not connected to the main corporate network or the internet.
Not at all. Most Koreans live with their parents until they're married/have a decent job. For most people saving 10K after a year of work isn't really that hard unless you're pissing money away. That's all it takes to get into a place.
For those who don't have the deposit, there are lower deposit places but you're starting very far down the rung. The monthly will be higher/it'll be hole to live in.
Alternatively for those who have to go to work not near their family, they can live in things called goshiwons, which are essentially dorm rooms.
Costs around $200-$400 a month, depending on quality, basically the size of a small dorm room for 1 person. You get a single bed, closet, the higher end ones give you a private shower. You get free internet, TV, heat, air conditioning, basic food, laundry, and other facilities.
As a culture they're quite accustomed to living with their parents until they are 25-30. The parents are also saving quite a bit to help them get their first place. Korea is based on a savings culture.
However anyone who wants to get into it with an average starting job can save up enough deposit for that first rung after only a years work. Even if they were living in a goshiwon away from their family. There are alternatives. We might not like them. However, my first year here, I decided to stick it out in a goshiwon and you'd think it was tiny, but actually it was okay. I wouldn't trade it for the larger place I have now, but I didn't go crazy and got settled just fine.
no, they're not. Those rankings are garbage. I've lived here for 3 years and living here is so cheap compared to anywhere in North America it's not even funny.
Those rankings were mostly done by idiots.
West Germans and South Koreans aren't even in the same boat. Korea is a collectivist society. Their parents lived and died for the country to make it what it was today because that was best for Koreans. if they were faced with a similar situation again, they'd buckle up and make it happen.
While the younger generation is getting more individualistic you can still see the duty in them when push comes to shove.
I see this as a good thing.
It is very easy to get into the market without a family. It's not easy to step into a mansion without a family. However, I find the Korean system to be far superior in the long-term. Let's look at an example:
I get an apartment in western city X
I pay, for example, $1200 deposit, and $1200 a month in rent. It is very common to pay deposit equal to 1 month's rent.
At the end of 1 year, I leave.
I paid $14400 in rent, and get my $1200 back. I move to a new apartment, and do it all over again.
in Korea I have to pay $10000 deposit for an entry level place big enough for a couple. However, I'm only paying $600 rent.
At the end of 1 year, (I can't leave, they typically have 2 year contracts, but anyway)
I paid $7200 in rent, and I get my $10000 rent back.
However, after 2 years, I've saved like a bugger, and let's say I know have an additional $20,000 to put on a deposit, perfectly doable here due to cost of living.
Now I drop $30000 on a deposit and as a result, my monthly rent drops to $400.
I'm now paying $4800 a year for rent and I get my $30000 back.
during which time I've saved up $20k more.
I drop that back in and now I'm putting down $50000. With $50000 down and paying $200 a month, you can get a decent place.
That's after 4 years in the market and not pissing your money away. If you got married at a typical age, you'd be prime to have a kid at that age and your place would be more than adequate.
Korea uses a stepping stone real estate market.
the western system is a very flat system in which you can never get ahead. The high deposit system and low monthly rent assures the average person can upgrade their living accommodations while not pissing away all their money.
Yes do a little research. Those cost of living indexes are garbage. I've lived in Korea for nearly 3 years now, after having spent most of my adult life paying for things in big city Canada, and Korea is ridiculously cheap compared to North American cities.
That last one of these I read claimed a dozen eggs in Seoul cost something like $4. I don't know where they found those eggs, but I can get a dozen, regular price, for about $1.45 USD with exchange at the local megamart, and I've never seen a dozen for $4 anywhere. Even at 7-11.
They also claimed a can of beer was $3, when I can walk to the 7-11 and get a can of domestic for about 90 cents.
The fact of the matter is that the cost of living in South Korea is very low compared to any major city back home.
The only thing that is truly expensive is getting into real-estate, but it works out better. Korea works on a Key money system. Want a western sized apartment,2 bedrooms? Probably cost you 100,000$ in deposit. But you'll likely pay no rent with that, and you'll get that $100,000.
This is where people get confused.
They ignore the fact that a great deal of daily living costs are tiny compared to other cities.
you want to have a quality meal at a sit down restaurant with lots of vegetables, and unlimited side dishes? about $4.50.
Prime time movies are only around $8, with assigned seating and a couple's combo that only costs $5. Internet, cheaper, faster, better.
The utilities on my 1 bedroom place are so cheap it's laughable. $6 a month in water, $8 in gas, $20 in electricity.
Transit?
$0.83 gets you on the subway/bus and unless you're going a really long distance that's it. Over something like 12-15 km, starts to add 9 cents per few kms.
Some local buses are only about 40 cents to get on.
If you buy things that aren't part of the local taste, it's expensive. A local shop might be $5 for a good meal, but you go to Outback steakhouse here, and the prices are high, but that's not a good comparison.
As for computers, since I just bought a new one here, I priced it online to compare the online retailer here and newegg in the US. on a $1600 machine, buying identical parts between the countries, the price difference was only $80.
once you started adding in neweggs high shipping prices, the price differences became almost nothing.
local shipping and even international shipping here is ridiculously cheap. I can send anything anywhere in the country for peanuts.
packages I've sent to Canada have costed like 1/3 of what my parents paid for an equal package there to send here.
inter-city transportation is very cheap here as well. Buses/trains cost 1/2 to 1/3 what you'd pay in Canada for similar distances.
These cost of living indexes are clearly made by people who don't have a clue, and once you've actually lived in some of these places you'll realize how out to lunch they are.
More than likely they're not shopping like a local. If you want to make those kinds of comparisons its 17x more expensive to live in any western city since a bottle of soju is like $17 in any bar there, but you can get it for about 90 cents here.
Nothing at all. There are many users who do new page patrol. Anything newly created they see. If it's not notable it gets flagged. There are also those who do recent page patrol. Which means any article edited goes across their view. Someone updating some pet band page will give it away. or there may have been a problem with the article which has a bot run across it and bring it to someone's attention.
we seriously have different definitions of "fairly listenable" I'd call them fairly rage inducing. on a semi-related note, this new comment system is also rage inducing. Forced preview, loading everything on a single page (slowly mind you)
it'll be declared a national security issue and buried in the courts forever.
Their great-grandchildren might get a notice someday.
That's hardly an equalizer. The player would also lose a chunk of his forces in battle and there is no guarantee that the player is keeping 100% of his forces grouped in one spot. The point is with 2 completely controlled attacks, it's quite likely they could easily attack your resources and wipe that out while keeping you busy somewhere else.
I'm convinced timothy is kdawson's new pseudonym. I've noticed whenever someone pries the dead cat out his hands that he was swinging around timothy picks up the slack.
Mostly because if standard AI did this, players would raise hell. No human can really keep up with 2 100% controlled and coordinated attacks. Mainly because we have to split our resources between them. The AI could realistically perfectly control 2 attacks with all the skill that a human player could devote to a single attack.
Even with all the hot keys in the world you still need to flip your view between the battles. AI doesn't have to do that. You still have to keep 2 different attacks straight in your head. the AI has no problem making space for both.
I don't think it's so much a function of not really trying so much as no one bothers because it would be incredibly cheap.
yes. the correct representation is .3 with the little line over it. .33, .333, .3333, .33333 are all incorrect. These are not 1/3
it is laziness. Same with the guy up above who just tried to prove that -1 = 1. He threw away the signs in one step for no reason and created a false proof. pure laziness attempting to pass as clever intelligence.
When I was working in a convenience store a very long time ago the shelves were tempered glass. I was tasked with cleaning them one night. So I emptied them, pulled them off, and was wiping them down. I went to put one back in, lifted it about 1 inch off the floor and it slipped. I had grabbed it so it didn't fall, but the edge struck the floor and the whole thing shattered.
every time we have a story about this I've mentioned this idea. Botnets have specific behaviour. They do things which are bot-like. They send mass amounts of e-mails, connect in certain ways, etc. It should actually not be that difficult for an ISP to determine if one of their customers is infected by checking logs for certain patterns.
The solution to botnets, spammers, and others like that has always been very simple. Cut them off.
Then have the "good" ISPs who cut these people off blacklist any ISP that won't do it. If someone wants to be a haven for spammers and malware distributors I can't really see the need of doing business with them.
This shouldn't be a pre-emptive thing. it should be responsive. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Let them make whatever choices they want. But if it appears they're infected with a bot net, give them a chance to either clean it up, or cut them off. It's trivial to add that customer to an automatic group whose only access is to a local intranet where they're given a choice of a wide variety of free and paid applications (along with all recent definitions) to clean up their machine. After doing so, they can be moved back into the general public.
I just built a machine here in Korea to replace my laptop and wanted to maintain that resolution but couldn't find it in less than 24. It was too big for my desk so I went with something smaller but the company I ordered the parts from did have about 6 with that resolution most were in the $200-$300 range. As for why it's the size. Most people don't want 15 and 17" desktop monitors
You can get 1920x1200 desktop monitors. They're not as common, but they're there. The only problem was I couldn't find one under 24" with that resolution.