The reason people are catching on fire about it is it's a growing trend, and one that allows for abuses ("we sold you a game, but we decided to close the authentication servers two weeks after the initial release. You agreed we could do that in the EULA. No refund for you!").
not necessarily a piracy thing, but heck if it is, can you blame them?
Yes. Group punishment is a civil wrong.
Besides, used game markets do just fine, you just can't continue to play it once you sell it. That doesn't mean ownership can't be passed along though.
I see you haven't been victim of some of the used games that require online activation. The games become useless for resale once installed on the original machine.
Within 10 years all video evidence will be useless, for the simple reason that anyone will be able to render any sort of video. Want a video of the Prez free-basing with hookers? No problem. Want a video of the prosecutor and the judge having sex with a dead donkey? No problem.
Eventually, the standard of proof will fall back to "if you don't have at least 2 witnesses, forget it."
And in a century, we might have to relax that rule, assuming anyone can clone a "witness" and hyper-grow/teach it to say the right things on the witness stand. I'm no expert, but aren't photographs still considered as evidence (especially with the whole "preponderance" concept)?
How about Mozilla focus their resources on projects more to their core and worthwhile.
Mozilla is kind of like Congress. It's nice to know they're spending time specifying a National Hamster Breed or color for the Senate carpet instead of spending time screwing up important stuff. When Firefox and Thunderbird got Good Enough (TM), programmers had to justify their jobs, so tons of terrible features got shoved down our throats with no option to disable some of them. Now Firefox is bloated like Mozilla (Seamonkey) was.
Mild-mannered high school student, Luna Selene was attending a presentation on radioactivity at New York University when she was bitten by an irradiated moon!
I was about to say that the "user experience" has been fragmented across the different types of iPads until I realized that true Apple fans will have destroyed their old iPads (and any others they find) before buying new iPads.
I'm not interested in a computer that can't compile. I deal with it on my iPhone because it's a phone ( but it's really a computer that's faster than my 10yo box), but I'm not going to buy a Mac and a $99 development license just to make a simple RPG assistant (I've been making them with JavaScript as a result; at least they didn't strip all programs that can interpret code).
As people would look longer at the GPS to try and wait for the refresh, they'll start crashing into things more often. Better to ban them outright than do this.
Because dogs scare people, and the real purpose of the TSA is to make people feel safe about flying. It was a way to prop up the airline industry when people were scared away.
It's been an oft-asked for feature in Vegastrike. And they've already got the flying around in space and trading stuff covered. Maybe he could do the "I'm just a space janitor" portion that no one seems to want to do?
Or is this a test? Those who say 'sure' don't get return calls, those who say 'not a chance'...show the requisite intelligence and are kept in the running for the position?
A poorly designed test; once you've asked for something that reveals age, sex, race, etc., you're in a bad position to not be hiring someone. It's just a dumb idea no matter how you look at it.
It's actually easier to sue for discrimination if you allow them full access. They'll suddenly know your age, political preference, your other-racial significant other, sexual preference, etc. Plenty of fertile ground for lawsuits.
new combinations of those manage to be copyrightable music.
Both pieces were conceived by assigning numbers to musical notes, then deriving a melody based on the pattern defined by a finite set of numbers in Pi
PI is PI. You can't go shifting the numbers around, then assign notes to those numbers and still call it PI. You've made a new combination of numbers/letters/notes.
The copyright argument failed because "PI is a non copyrightable fact", and it doesn't matter how it's expressed, whether in spoken word, written Arabic numerals, or musical notes.
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Why so scientists use FUD? Because it works.
And it destroys scientific literacy in the process.
Not as much as vaccines. They destroy scientific literacy more than anything.
Normal people know normal when they see it. But you knew that, right?
The reason people are catching on fire about it is it's a growing trend, and one that allows for abuses ("we sold you a game, but we decided to close the authentication servers two weeks after the initial release. You agreed we could do that in the EULA. No refund for you!").
not necessarily a piracy thing, but heck if it is, can you blame them?
Yes. Group punishment is a civil wrong.
Besides, used game markets do just fine, you just can't continue to play it once you sell it. That doesn't mean ownership can't be passed along though.
I see you haven't been victim of some of the used games that require online activation. The games become useless for resale once installed on the original machine.
Within 10 years all video evidence will be useless, for the simple reason that anyone will be able to render any sort of video. Want a video of the Prez free-basing with hookers? No problem. Want a video of the prosecutor and the judge having sex with a dead donkey? No problem.
Eventually, the standard of proof will fall back to "if you don't have at least 2 witnesses, forget it."
And in a century, we might have to relax that rule, assuming anyone can clone a "witness" and hyper-grow/teach it to say the right things on the witness stand. I'm no expert, but aren't photographs still considered as evidence (especially with the whole "preponderance" concept)?
How about Mozilla focus their resources on projects more to their core and worthwhile.
Mozilla is kind of like Congress. It's nice to know they're spending time specifying a National Hamster Breed or color for the Senate carpet instead of spending time screwing up important stuff. When Firefox and Thunderbird got Good Enough (TM), programmers had to justify their jobs, so tons of terrible features got shoved down our throats with no option to disable some of them. Now Firefox is bloated like Mozilla (Seamonkey) was.
Much less intrusive? Tell that to homer simpson. "Elmo knows where you live!"
Right now they're silencing you officially and nicely, but they might step over the line at some point.
Mild-mannered high school student, Luna Selene was attending a presentation on radioactivity at New York University when she was bitten by an irradiated moon!
I was about to say that the "user experience" has been fragmented across the different types of iPads until I realized that true Apple fans will have destroyed their old iPads (and any others they find) before buying new iPads.
I'm not interested in a computer that can't compile. I deal with it on my iPhone because it's a phone ( but it's really a computer that's faster than my 10yo box), but I'm not going to buy a Mac and a $99 development license just to make a simple RPG assistant (I've been making them with JavaScript as a result; at least they didn't strip all programs that can interpret code).
But isn't the road you're on a crossroad to its crossroad?
As people would look longer at the GPS to try and wait for the refresh, they'll start crashing into things more often. Better to ban them outright than do this.
Was it because the keywords started to cry?
Because dogs scare people, and the real purpose of the TSA is to make people feel safe about flying. It was a way to prop up the airline industry when people were scared away.
Dear Penthouse,
It's been an oft-asked for feature in Vegastrike. And they've already got the flying around in space and trading stuff covered. Maybe he could do the "I'm just a space janitor" portion that no one seems to want to do?
Or is this a test? Those who say 'sure' don't get return calls, those who say 'not a chance'...show the requisite intelligence and are kept in the running for the position?
A poorly designed test; once you've asked for something that reveals age, sex, race, etc., you're in a bad position to not be hiring someone. It's just a dumb idea no matter how you look at it.
It's actually easier to sue for discrimination if you allow them full access. They'll suddenly know your age, political preference, your other-racial significant other, sexual preference, etc. Plenty of fertile ground for lawsuits.
But then you're just expressing PI - a non copyrightable fact - in a new language. Unless you make sure it's not PI, it's not copyrightable.
I haven't seen it, but I heard he uses hydraulics to enhance his muscle strength (of course they would add to the weight).
new combinations of those manage to be copyrightable music.
Both pieces were conceived by assigning numbers to musical notes, then deriving a melody based on the pattern defined by a finite set of numbers in Pi
PI is PI. You can't go shifting the numbers around, then assign notes to those numbers and still call it PI. You've made a new combination of numbers/letters/notes.
The copyright argument failed because "PI is a non copyrightable fact", and it doesn't matter how it's expressed, whether in spoken word, written Arabic numerals, or musical notes.
Brutal? That's a nice winter temperature in the US. Try -20C for a change. -11C will seem quite warm.
Not summer: spring. 80F is spring weather. Summer weather is 90-103F.