Bodyless, reading comprehension. To design a program that subverts and replaces an aspect of another program, you have to know what inputs and outputs to capture and replace. In the case I gave, you would need to neutralize the built in dictionary and replace it with your own. That would require going in and finding out the format and access methods so that you could make it compatible. Since Microsoft's dictionary is fucking pathetic, truly, this is an entirely reasonable desire, an
Sheeple. What's scary is that he's about a third of the population... [quote]psychoak - more realistically, EULAs are intended to prevent consumers from becoming competitors. A legitimate competitor would be producing a similar but imdependant product. And no, a competitor cannot RE a program that directly competes with their own. You cannot RE the MS spellcheck and put it in your own word processing program. Compatability does not mean functionally identical, it means both programs wo
It would be, if oil had highly flexible price/demand ratios. It takes a big jump in price to cut demand a couple percent, adding a couple percent to the market will create a big drop in the price. When it's a necessary use and you're hosed if you don't buy it, minute supply changes can have massive effects on price, and oil is one of the worst. Just a bill passing congress that lifted the moratorium on offshore drilling would drop futures substantially.
You're still arguing an empty point with no foundation. This idiotic industry standard is pointless. The software is already protected from infringement by copyright. Fraud is already prohibited by fraud laws. Stardock EULA's don't even say anything of merit. They have a ban on reverse engineering that is counter to copyright law. The rest of their "protections" are already fucking protected. The ban on reverse engineering violates anti-competition concepts and is specifically per
Fucking asshole. I hate my ISP, fuck. This is probably going to be less polite than it was the first time through, shit fucking satellite. Ok, second time through. This thread was started by no such thing. There was no abuse of copyright. You are specifically protected when reverse engineering for the purposes of creating compatible software. It's because there was no violation that the asshole cunt of a judge wrote such a despicable ruling. Blizzard wasn't even dumb enou
First class mail is also dependent on you actually sending things by mail. There are alternative methods, email, telephones, faxes, internet bill pay. Almost everything has a viable, cheaper alternative method of transfer. Which is why first class mail is almost entirely comprised of junk mail now. :)
[link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments"]This[/link] is you. Congratulations. The sky is green. I know so because a couple judges say so!
1. It is common knowledge that EULA's have no standard. If they were standard, they would be enforcible. Such as a GNU license, it is a standard. Your car comes with the contracts given to you to read before purchase. Not after. The onus in reading a contract is upon the signatories, the onus on finding it is not. If you are going to make someone sign a contract to purchase a product, it has to be provided to them before sale, get over it. 2. I am forced, you said so yourself, y
Which is exactly why idiots shouldn't be allowed to be judges. A judge is supposed to rule on the law, not pad the pockets of an asshole software vendor because he feels like it. They exist specifically to protect us from practices like EULA's. A judge ruling that a hidden contract is legal is simply more evidence that we need to round a lot of them up and shoot them. Since you're stuck on the accepting bit. I have never accepted an EULA in my life. I click agree kn
You pay for it in taxes. Government subsidies pay the rest. It's also what resulted in the above average spike in food prices. Corn in particular went through the roof. The actual cost to the economy vastly outstrips the production costs, which are $12-15 a gallon. :) Subsidizing it to hide the cost doesn't change anything, it just hides it. Ethanol mixtures are costing us a fucking fortune.
Once upon a time, ratings were done in context. If you're playing a good guy wasting bad guys left and right, there isn't anything morally aberrant. This was understood for thousands of years, bad guys were supposed to be exterminated. The viewing of it in a movie as such was entirely normal, proper material, if perhaps not for young children. Violent games where you're committing mass murder and violent games where you're exterminating invading aliens, Nazi's, whatever, are entirely
Then you listed games from a whopping three publishers to support your point outside the already been mentioned in every post for the last several pages WOW. Congratulations on your widely diverse list. I signed a residence hall contract. I was given the terms with the information material months before I payed. When I payed, I signed the contract, terms and all, before I got to pay. If you didn't, your university was breaking the law and vulnerable to suite for enforcing contract t
Aren't making any money and aren't making any money developing six million dollar graphics engines for doom rehashes aren't the same thing. Look at the returns. When a game costs a million bucks to produce and sells a million copies, they've made an obscene amount of money off it. They've made enough money that if they were an oil company, people would be rioting in the street and calling for their heads. EA sold 50 million copies of The Sims. Do you have any idea how big the margins on tha
Those are all EA games with the exception of FFXI, which is Sony. Thanks for listing a whole two publishers, one of which I already gave as an example of one of the few that does. Perhaps next time you decide to call me a liar, you could sample a slightly larger variety first? I have original retail covers from six different publishers, I've looked at probably every major and minor publisher currently in existence at one point or another. I have never seen the license displayed. A warning i
Chaos, is it really that difficult? You go to the store, you buy an item, the item is yours. It's final, that's the nature of a sale. The only things that can be done are allowances. You can allow the store to return your money in a recall. The store can allow you to return an item that you can't use or doesn't work. The store cannot call you up and demand that you give it back. The people that sell through the store can't either. You can give something away without any compensat
You list a handful of titles, with the highest seller going back a couple decades, and use Half-life 2 as your example for the PC. A game that sold half as well as it's predecessor, is rumored to be improperly tracked, and isn't anywhere near the top of the chart. Either you're attempting to mislead people on purpose, or you don't double check your sources and are mislead yourself. Reality is the exact opposite of the claim, the console industry is dwarfed by the PC industry.
The primary one being no one would agree to them if they had to before hand. I'd love to know where you're finding all this wonderful information. Reading EULA's before purchase for EA games takes some work, and they are the only company that even mentions them on any of the boxes I have sitting around. Perhaps you're looking at corporate software instead of game cases? The Spore EULA is displayed nowhere, to get the Creature Creator EULA, you have to check the manual, to get the man
Monk, that may be true of our worthless fuck politicians picking and choosing which wars to half finish, but it's entirely inaccurate for a description of our country. We are by far the most charitable nation on earth apart from the government, and the vast majority of the overseas work the government does is unnoticed. Every time some third world shit tard country gets decimated by a minor natural event, our military saves more lives than the rest of the world combined when they aren'
[quote]"This is a market that dwarfs the size of any of the proprietary closed platforms", Newell said."PC is where all the action is, and there's a perception problem." Really, Gabe?Some actual figures: Half-Life 2 (PC): 4M Halo 3 (360): 8M Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (PS2/Xbox): 20M Call Of Duty 4 (PS3/360): 10M Super Mario Bros (NES): 40M Gran Turismo 3 (PS2): 15M Source: VGChartz.com[/quote] The Sims, 50 million sold, 70 with the expansion
That you've met people more stupid than yourself isn't beyond belief, so I will accept your statement that there are conservatives saying Obama is a Muslim because his cousin is. I do believe this is the first time I've even heard such, I wasn't aware of his cousin at all. Edit:(Rather than reword this first paragraph, I'll just note that it isn't actually meant to be inflammatory, it's entirely literal. Any other offensive statements in this post were meant as such.:)) A que
Only the entertainment industry could ever consider needing to make a 500% profit margin for something to be a good idea... You guys do realize that most people make cents on the dollar for their investments, and not dollars on the cents? 10% is good, 15% is great. The returns from games like Halo 3 are better than the oil companies are getting from crude oil sales right now. If the anti-capitalist assholes were paying any attention at all, they'd be going into convulsions.
I'm not missing the point. I am not at the whim of a judge. Judges have no right to remake the law, I do not recognize their interpretations when they are obviously wrong. I will go to jail before I bend to such. It is an illegal ruling done by a judge violating his oaths of office. He should be stripped of his office and charged with treason for failing to uphold them. If things get bad enough, I'll be one of the nuts knocking them off before I become one of the sheep letting my governmen
It means that WOW is so fucking boring(as most MMO's are) that it's more interesting if you let the computer play for you outside of various special quests that take hours of grinding to get to. The justification you asshats are using is that a judge has ruled in an obviously wrong manner, therefore it's right. Slavery was legal, ruled legal on many occasions. Segregation was legal, ruled legal on many occasions. The barring of various classes from voting and other rights considered
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