I can't see how a EULA could possibly be enforcable unless the publisher undertook to refund you if you did not agree. You can't have a contract without a meeting of minds, and if you don't have a meeting of minds, then you deserve your money back.
Plenty of UK law on this - the 'ticketing cases' where term/conditions written on a ticket given to you after you buy it are unenforcable.
There is an actionable tort, at least in Australia, against government administrators who do not do what they are required to do by statute. Alas, I think the last time somebody sued in it was about 100 years ago.
The point is not to convert the unwashed masses; the point is to get a critical mass of the technically competent users and the enthusiasts to leave Windows (mostly, if not fully) for Linux. Get the vocal crowd, the more savvy crowd, the ones who will get behind a good* product and ignore or pan a bad* one, the ones that will speak to other users with their words and to companies with their wallet, but carefully*. Supremacy is not a necessity; equality is. When companies with quality products see that some of their user base is shifting, they will take more interest in cross-platform programming.
That's me. At school I was the first kid with a laptop, and I was the first person I know *personally* to install firefox, and I extol its virtues far and wide; and people have been asking me for 'help with there computer' for years. But I have resisted installing Linux because I have to install it. It's not like the good old days when you could install QDos in a number of minutes just to check it out. You've got drivers and all the other shit now added on top of the time it takes to set something up.
Until PC's ship with Linux, it will never take off.
I could see something like stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/ being useful here. Allowing users to say - i suspect this of being phishing, or this is not a phishing site.
BTW - I like how FF's spell checker has the word 'phishing' in it!
I concur and smile as my original spelling of 'concur' is underlined and corrected.
Two things trouble me with 2.0.
1. What happened to automatically 'i feel luckying' from the address bar - now I get a message saying the URL is not valid and can't be loaded.
2. I want the box in the corner that allows me to close tabs. I don't want to click a box in each tab to close it.
Still, the load time is noticeably faster, and that in itself makes the upgrade worth it.
A Nuke goes of in a small town by a highway in the US. It kills 2000 people. The N.Koreans claim reponsibility. Do you nuke them now?
OK. After that nuke goes off, Kim calls George to say that one is now in a major city in the US ready to go off. Do you nuke them now? Do you send in conventional forces? Or does the potential death of millions stop you?
What about the level of panic this would cause?
Just some questions. I realise getting them into the US would be hard, but...
Frankly, scares the shit outta me.
While the rest of the world (read the USA) thought he was an icon, He was not an Australian Icon in Australia. He was, at best, someone who 'Americans liked'.
And then what about Star Gate SG1? Modern Mythology?
Which of course brings to mind The Matrix Movies. Indeed, one might wonder if in 300 years the new empire won't pick up those movies and make a state religion out of them...
They still have judges in the UK who have some idea of fundementals. Recently, one such judge ruled unlawful control orders against terrorist suspects, saying that they were contrary to EU human rights laws. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0 ,,1808325,00.html
One way that an open source game might work is if people who play can add bits to it. Having implemented the core of a massive multiplayer game, users who had programming skills might add new weapons, or new buildings or whatever.
Unskilled users could still play the game online.
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I can't see how a EULA could possibly be enforcable unless the publisher undertook to refund you if you did not agree. You can't have a contract without a meeting of minds, and if you don't have a meeting of minds, then you deserve your money back. Plenty of UK law on this - the 'ticketing cases' where term/conditions written on a ticket given to you after you buy it are unenforcable.
The Electoral role is available to all who ask for it in Oz
There is an actionable tort, at least in Australia, against government administrators who do not do what they are required to do by statute. Alas, I think the last time somebody sued in it was about 100 years ago.
Yeah, and if I don't like I have to do a XP install again! No way!
Second life's problem is that it is too hard for someone with no programming or design experience/knowledge to build anything.
Imagine if you could make a car by clicking and dragging off the shelf items to make it. That would attract a lot more people.
The other problem SL has is that you can kill people. What's a game w/out death?
The point is not to convert the unwashed masses; the point is to get a critical mass of the technically competent users and the enthusiasts to leave Windows (mostly, if not fully) for Linux. Get the vocal crowd, the more savvy crowd, the ones who will get behind a good* product and ignore or pan a bad* one, the ones that will speak to other users with their words and to companies with their wallet, but carefully*. Supremacy is not a necessity; equality is. When companies with quality products see that some of their user base is shifting, they will take more interest in cross-platform programming.
That's me. At school I was the first kid with a laptop, and I was the first person I know *personally* to install firefox, and I extol its virtues far and wide; and people have been asking me for 'help with there computer' for years. But I have resisted installing Linux because I have to install it. It's not like the good old days when you could install QDos in a number of minutes just to check it out. You've got drivers and all the other shit now added on top of the time it takes to set something up. Until PC's ship with Linux, it will never take off.
I could see something like stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/ being useful here. Allowing users to say - i suspect this of being phishing, or this is not a phishing site. BTW - I like how FF's spell checker has the word 'phishing' in it!
I concur and smile as my original spelling of 'concur' is underlined and corrected. Two things trouble me with 2.0. 1. What happened to automatically 'i feel luckying' from the address bar - now I get a message saying the URL is not valid and can't be loaded. 2. I want the box in the corner that allows me to close tabs. I don't want to click a box in each tab to close it. Still, the load time is noticeably faster, and that in itself makes the upgrade worth it.
A Nuke goes of in a small town by a highway in the US. It kills 2000 people. The N.Koreans claim reponsibility. Do you nuke them now? OK. After that nuke goes off, Kim calls George to say that one is now in a major city in the US ready to go off. Do you nuke them now? Do you send in conventional forces? Or does the potential death of millions stop you? What about the level of panic this would cause? Just some questions. I realise getting them into the US would be hard, but... Frankly, scares the shit outta me.
One must draw a distinction between mind and brain. Memory and processing. It would be difficult to have the brain processing the way it once did.
While the rest of the world (read the USA) thought he was an icon, He was not an Australian Icon in Australia. He was, at best, someone who 'Americans liked'.
And then what about Star Gate SG1? Modern Mythology? Which of course brings to mind The Matrix Movies. Indeed, one might wonder if in 300 years the new empire won't pick up those movies and make a state religion out of them...
Man, in Sanscrit, means to think!
They still have judges in the UK who have some idea of fundementals. Recently, one such judge ruled unlawful control orders against terrorist suspects, saying that they were contrary to EU human rights laws. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0 ,,1808325,00.html
One way that an open source game might work is if people who play can add bits to it. Having implemented the core of a massive multiplayer game, users who had programming skills might add new weapons, or new buildings or whatever. Unskilled users could still play the game online.
How about the complication of taking all of those things out with you to a night club? oh, wait, this is /.