I will confess, now that I've realized how the other empires use their agents, it simplifies my own use of them - I just concentrate my own agents on whoevers ahead militarily, they're too busy to kill my agents off, then I steal their stuff - {G}. Jonnan
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[quote]Do you use an UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) for your computer setup? And do you think it's worth it/does it work? Yes....and yes....and yes. Mine has kicked-in 3 times in the past few months...2 ELCB trips and a blackout. The first two went uninterrupted...and the blackout allowed a controlled [normal] shutdown. [Power was out for about an hour]...[/quote] Must - not - agree with JAFO . . . Okay, except when he's completely right- UPS's are defi
Does anyone else have no problems till they add a support module - as soon as I do, the PC frame rate just *dies*. Jonnan
I've noticed the "Oh, I was just trolling" a lot too. Gets tiresome quick. Jonnan
My fourth (DA) game I was getting horrendous numbers of them - I don't think I'm indulging in hyperbole when I say I think I had over two dozen of them. I know for a fact I counted 19 at one point. Something I've noticed though is that the speed always really sucks on the one's I've found - I tend to use them defensively (Stick them on a starbase out in the boonies somewhere, and just build up my own fleets of fast attack vessels - sure they're more lightly armed during the main game, b
[quote]Oh my god - someone wrote an additional program, using features of an underlying system of operating system and application programs, and dared to *sell* that? [/quote][quote]Is WoW an operating system? [quote] No - Neither is Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Word, Photoshop, or any of the other dozens of applications programs with third party extensions written for them. That's purely aside from the fact that there is no real *legal* distinction between an OS an
Did I do something wrong in the way I posted my mod? Assuming First in First Out, it looks like some others have gone in and out since then, so if I did something dumb I would prefer being pointed and laughed at while I fix it? With apologies - Jonnan
Whose forcing anything? The argument was whether or not DRM was required in order to make money on intellectual property, and it's a valid theory to state that it does. Lie any other valid theory, what makes it a valid theory is that it makes predictions that can be verified or falsified, and I think the Baen Free Library, Safari, and indeed Galactic Civilizations II do a very good job of falsifying that prediction. That doesn't 'force' anyone to abandon the theory in their bu
[quote]It just floors me to see that there are people who are defending this guy. He's making money off of something that he doesn't own, and is doing real financial damage to Blizzard in the process. There is a word for organisms like him- parasite. I know for a fact that Blizzard has lost money because of him, and I can prove it. I offer into evidence...myself. I was a big fan of the Diablo series. I spent countless hours leveling up just about every build of every character type in the game.
[quote]The point is...I wonder with photocopiers available, why are not more people photocopying books en masses. We never heard of book publishers losing money, but then we hear a lot about it from game companies.When books go fully digital you will - one of the light hearted examples below actually already is.Meanwhile contemplate photocopying that favorite discourse of yours Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, all 100 pages of it, complete with bulging page and nasty gutter distorting the copyi
[quote]I take it you don't visit the auction house very much in WoW.Uh yeah and I take it you have actually surveyed the multimillion WOW users to see if they have actually even heard of this bot! My bet is the vast majority would have no clue what you are talking about if you asked them, and I would even go so far as to say few of the millions would truely care. The existence of farming bots is common knowledge in every WoW server I've visited - ways to mess with them, including explo
Well, no one but me seems to think this way but - More Diplomatic options - Levels of diplomatic relations for talking to other Civs, where "face to face" meetings are unusual occurrences, a'la "Sire, the Drengin have approached us through the Terrans regarding some military issues. They seem honestly concerned . . ." I would love for the AI's to have more options in discussion trees, something on the order of a low level chatbot - one get's tired of being threatened with anni
[quote] By Blizzard's estimate, it takes a typical player 8 months to reach level 50, compared to the bot doing it for you in less than one month.[/quote] [link="http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/080624.html"]Greg Dean[/link] will be so happy to know this - {G} Jonnan
[quote]For an analogy. Since CDs are a big issue with copyright. A person goes and buys a CD from a store. The person goes home and plays the CD. They dont like how the CD sounds, so they go on their computer and create a mix/remix of the CD and sell it. The person uses the same tempo and beat, but changes the lyrics. (weird al yankovich has been sued by almost every artist he has done parodies of. Coolio with Gangsters Paradise, weird al doing Amish Paradise) Now its not the SAME thing. But
[quote]Here's a thought. The 'bot' plays the game for you, however it was you who 'agreed' to the EULA...not the bot. Ergo the bot has no right to be playing the game as it did not indicate tacit agreement to the EULA.... AND he's selling it, too.... This bloke is screwed. If he is not then the US Legal system is more screwed than most people imagine. There IS no positive legal/defensible spin that can be placed on what his proggy does. It's actually not a Game Chea
[quote]The particular cheat in question, as I understand it, doesn't modify anything. It basically just plays the game for you.[/quote][quote]You wouldn't consider that a modification of the user interface?[/quote] Been away for a few days but honestly - if that is a sufficient modification of the user interface to violate the contract - then using a Dvorak Keyboard is sufficient modification of the user interface to constitute violation of the contract. For what is done, no modificatio
[quote]....and Heinlein's Starship Troopers was a treatise on Fascism within Western Democracies [read USA] ...so probably shouldn't be held up as something to aspire to/applaud...[/quote] I'm a bit confused regarding your opinions on Starship Troopers. You say it was a treatise on fascism - which, if it was, it was certainly not arguing against the government on display in the novel. I think it's awfully hard to argue he wasn't on at least on some level advocating for the nati
[quote]....and Heinlein's Starship Troopers was a treatise on Fascism within Western Democracies [read USA] ...so probably shouldn't be held up as something to aspire to/applaud...[/quote] Heinlein's Starship Troopers really doesn't meet the standards attributed to [link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism"]Fascism[/link] - typically a nationalistic movement involving the subordination of individual liberties to the combination of business and government interests. Mere militarism (Wh
[quote]Recently I lost the contents of my HDD, including my Guild Wars soundtrack and the DRM encryption keys for it due to no fault of my own. Is that fair to me to now be deprived of the music I paid for? Similarly I scratch my DRM-disk of Civ4 or a music CD I purchased - can't I use the fact that I already purchased it and get a new disc at a reduced cost? After all, I cannot play the game without the CD any more, so I am deprived of something I paid for. Do I need to re-license the software
[quote]Exactly why copyright should be the same as patents, a finite time to hold something in a monopoly/hostage!Laws differ between Countries - clearly - but as I understand it in the US, there is a finite time for copyright. There appears to have been some transition clauses put in for the 1978 changes, but nontheless, it appears to me that there are time limits. As always of course there will be difference of views on what they should be and their circumstances, that'll never change, but t
[quote]You can. Weird Al Yankovic makes a living modifying other peoples songs, he's hardly the only parody specialist.The Grimm's are dead, they've been that way for a fair bit of time. Disney can't steal their ideas anymore than a car company steals the idea of the wheel from whoever invented it. Even if they take works from living people and modify them, a story loosely based off another and written from scratch is an impossible standard for intellectual property theft.[/quote] We
[quote]I mean why does and why should copyright last the creators lifetime plus 70 years!To provide for relatives and family. To go second generation after death would be stretching the point a little too much, but life + 70yrs is fair enough. The majority like to provide for their immediate family. To take to extremes to illustrate, why should the world benefit from a freebie, and their family live on the breadline.RegardsZy[/quote] (I feel obliged to apologize in advance to Frogboy
[quote]Consider a hypothetical case: you have a company that decides to release a piece of software. They only have two copies of the software, and put it on their shelf. There are also only two potential customers.One customer buys the product, and finds a way to make it available for free on the net. The other customer notices this availability, and has the choice of either buying the product from the company, or downloading it for free. Let us assume that he will obtain this product with cert
[quote]...if the system automatically makes .raceconfigxml files when you play a race in this, then these may need to be cleared prior to changing out the mods - that is *REALLY* annoying.To the contrary in fact, this "function" has proven to be particularly useful in many instances while i am developping CoSH & X-Worlds' compatibility switching assets & altered files.- Unless you don't see the advantages we get just by editing the races ID from default tags to a full blast temporary #12 custom
[quote]The reason The Great State of America gets 1 million canadian immigrants each year, while they only get about 10,000 amercians is because we tax, at most, about 40% of a worker's income. And you can blame liberals for that.[/quote] Really? That must explain why Alaska, as the largest state, gets more immigrants than any other state. No - wait, that right. They don't. Because it's frick'n' *COLD*. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the U.S. had high immigra