Oh -*THAT's* useful to know - I've been obsessively tweaking locations for constructors on the assumption that I *had* to be more than halfway inside the line for my system to get the starbase benefits. Jonnan
I like the starbases screen - Another thing *I* would like with starbases is that (And maybe this is just my desire to Roleplay) I think starbases should have the 'waypoint' marker toggle-able from the starbase screen - if you're working on a starbase or need to make a fleet point, it only makes sense to me that the starbase is the place to go. And I still would love to see Waypoints made into better management tools, just in general - Any mission you can assign a ship to do should be
An 'Activist Judge' that notes that the constitution prevents a law from being legal *isn't* an activist judge. The term gets thrown around a lot, it typically means exactly that though - the judge found a constitutional argument *I* disagree with. That's not the case here - the judge is ignoring the plain text reading of the UCC which all the states in the district have signed on to, *and* ignoring the plain text reading of the copyright act, and is not overturning them based on the a
[quote]wrong on two counts. well, maybe. dunno if you live in the US, if so then your gas tax isn't being set aside to fix roads. the federal tax goes to the general fund where it can be spent on silly things like $10,000 toilets and laws prohibiting incandescent light bulbs. (better stock up on them by 2014. personally, i'm gettin' into that black market.) your millage may vary with state taxes.[/quote] BTW - I knew that in Indiana the gas tax is dedicated to highway funds, but it look
That was my impression when I was looking at the xml too, but I thought I might have been missing something a more skilled player was aware of. Jonnan
[quote]It's like the argument that eliminating the gas tax will lower gas prices - if the market price is 4.10/gal, then eliminating the gas tax just means that money goes straight to the gas station instead of being set aside to fix roads - the supply and demand have not changed, so, *by definition*, the market price has not changed.[/quote] [quote]wrong on two counts. well, maybe. dunno if you live in the US, if so then your gas tax isn't being set aside to fix roads. the federal tax
Personally, I just wanna win the lottery and buy a [link="http://www.teslamotors.com"]Tesla[/link] - Just stick photovoltaics on my land, take the top down, and blast "It's not easy being Green" on the CD player - {G} Although, barring a full electric, the BBC had an interesting story about doing hybrid electrics a step better and developing diesel electric motors, which strikes me as being an awfully nice combo given some of the ways a diesel engine is simpler than gasoline anyway, and
[quote]There seems to be some weird thing in this thread that the law here is somehow complex and esoteric, and god knows sometimes it is, but on *this*, it is written here as plain as day. [/quote] [quote] It IS as plain as day, but you somehow got it wrong anyway. Good job. Specifically, the UCC section 2-106 defines a sale: A "sale" consists in the passing of title from the seller to the buyer for a price (Section 2-401). The referenced section 2-401 poi
[quote](a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.— Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided: Special emphasis on the important words. The court ruled in this case that we are not owners. We are licensees.[/quote] You guys are so *very* determined to give up your rights without blinking an
Actually - It seems to me that what is needed is the ability for the AI to calculate relative values down that tech trading path. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the AI value tech in a sort of 'absolute' way - i.e. Phaser II is valued equally whether it's a step away, or if the AI has not researched beam weapons at all - it's either worth it to trade X for Y or it's not. Something where the AI valued branches of technology, and multiplied that by how much research it
Oh - UI improvement please - If I have the colonies sorted in a specific order on the colonies screen, click a colony, work on it, and then clink the next or previous colony button, it should go to the next colony in the order I sorted it in. I'm not quite sure what it does now - maybe the date of first colonization, but it is really annoying that when I have it sorted in a specific order, that has no effect on the order you go through the colonies in. Mission Priorit
[quote]If Microsoft puts a paragraph in Words that says you are not allowed to criticize Microsoft, and you use Word, they can sue *you* (for infringement) and *the place you criticized them at* (for contributory infringement). If you use free software on the internet, and it says you are bound to not contribute to the Republican Party, that is a valid interpretation of this decision, and they can sue the GOP for punitive damages. [/quote] [quote] There's a funny opinion most Am
[quote]The EULA isn't legally binding, but copyright law is. Without the EULA you can't create copies, period. Without the EULA, all you have is a nice coaster for your coffee because you can't install the software because that's copying it. If you take out the EULA as legally binding, what you have left is a product that is even more useless to you, because you're not allowed to copy it at all.[/quote] You sir, are just flat out stubbornly wrong. [link="http://www.law
[quote]I really like the previous suggestion though too, though I think it would be cooler as something other than a mega event. It would certainly be neat to be able to find and lay claim to remnants of the Precursors floating about in space. Maybe change the ascension victory, make it so that if you wind up controlling a certain percentage of these for some time, you suddenly discover the difference between them and your own race (ascension victory). In the meantime, said hulks give you certai
[quote]That works better.Oh the expansion pack will include Kahn's Botany Bay.[/quote] Botany Bay? BOTANY BAY!!! Keptin, we must leave this forum immediately!!!! Sorry - I'm better now - {G} - Jonnan In other news - A Starfleet Command aficionado?!? Kewl!
[quote]Who gives a toss about 'legal basis for suing' other than armchair theorists and mass debaters?[/quote] Well, *I* do - because I think this is a bad decision that's going to end up biting consumers in the backside. It took *work* for the judge to misinterpret the law this badly, and that, to me, indicates there is an ideological thing going on beneath the surface somewhere. When Ideologues are sure they're not doing anything wrong, they tend to be open about what they're
Seems to be - although my setup had issues with lots of eyecandy on the screen (Which I resolved by simply using the Icon view most of the time, it was typically fine in the intelligence screen, battles, and the shipbuilding screens before. [quote]I did have occasion to realize last night - the problem seems to be confined to the session I built the ship in - when I exit and reload, the ships that have Life support on them view fine - until I create another ship, which seem to me to ind
[quote]Oh yah? I know one. It's called hello world. It's probably the easiest program to write that actually does something and I think it would be hard to find a computer that it wouldn't work on. It's about 3 lines of code![/quote] I once had a teacher use that as an example of code that looked fine, even though it had a memory leak - {G}. I can't remember which variation of C it was in at the moment. That said - Another Suggestion - found ships *besides* Precursor/Lucky Rang
[quote]All this debate and hypothesis is cute...as the Law [as always] tries to catch up with 'real life'. The 'Law isn't an ass'...it's simply not up to date. In the meantime closet-thinkers continue to think themselves into a pickle about what semantics apply and how to interpret and live with anacronysms [such as Hotels still required to be able to stable your HORSE]. Give it time...the 'law makers' will eventually get their heads out of their collective arses and legislate.<br/
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Sixties Era? Hah - You Wuss! 1890's Farmhouse - {G}. Parts of it evidently date back to a 1830's fur trading outpost (though I'm not sure there's any actual direct connection going back that far) Although, amazingly enough the wiring is good - My Grandfather did it in the 60's with milspec (at the time) shielded wiring. Wish I had as much confidence in the power companies wiring frankly, but at least it was a *pleasant* surprise given the joyous fun that ripping out and redoing plumbing
Now *that's* interesting. Mine have been horrendously powerful relative to the other ships in the game at the time, but *slow*. But I tend to design fast ships anyway relative to the AI - I *have* wondered if the AI is dumber just because I have an older PC on occasion. Jonnan
May be my relatively wimpy setup, but it seems to kick in the instant I add life support to a design, at least some days. Given that I pretty much stay at icon level just because the machine is old, it's a minor irritant rather than a major issue, but it would be neat if fixable too. I'm on older ATI Drivers because there seems to be an issue with everything after a certain point that they have chosen not to fix. Jonnan [quote] Debug Message: Version v1.96 Twi
This leaves the second argument, the EULA and the TOS. There are enormous problems with these being utilized to stop glider, because these fall under Contract Law, a pretty specific and well understood area. Contract Law under the U.S. (save Lousiana) falls under the [link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code"]Uniform Comercial Code[/link], which requires pretty stringent standards for a contract to be formed. Unlike Copyright law, it's pretty cut and dried - I am egoti
[link="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/106.html"]§ 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works[/link] [quote]Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or othe
[quote]These extensions are either licensed or only work because of an inbuild feature of a given program as intended by the devs of the program.[/quote] [quote]But they do not own the WoW Program. Neither did the programmer of wowglider. But his program uses and needs the wow program to do anything. Which is illegal.[/quote] Okay - I think you are indulging in incredibly sloppy thinking, and although I consider the reasons why it's sloppy very obvious, you keep going back to this o