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solid = "having three dimensions";
static = "pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition";
if( solid == static ) solidState = "no moving parts";
assert( solidState == "no moving parts" );
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Error! What?!
Why should anyone get lag in a single player game?
The obvious reason is because DRM is cool! duh!
Contributory infringement doesn't seem like it would fit in this situation, unless you knew your friends were going to use the software in an infringing manner. I could be wrong, but it sounds like you, as a friend, are simply a referrer. If you don't know your referral is being used illegitimately you wouldn't be abetting. It would be akin to 2 of your friends robbing a bank, and you getting charged with a crime because they met through facebook with you as a mutual friend.
I whole heartedly agree. Video game tastes differ just as music taste do. He may not want to be in the business of making interactive movie, just as he may not want to be in the business of making pop song, but that doesn't degrade their market value. --And yes, I think if interactive movies were songs they'd be the pop songs of the gaming world: over produced, over hyped, catchy, low replay value.
Is the bane of the 124th employee.
I 100% agree. Out of all the things that major corporations do to collude and monopolize (Microsoft definitely not excluded), I can't believe how much of a deal people make about the addition of software to operating systems. --And I'm not a Micro$oft fan-boy, but people don't even seem to be equal-opportunity anti-trust criers. Apple is way way more likely to be guilty of leveraging monopolistic tendencies in this vein of logic, than M$ is, yet I seldom hear a peep about them.
Microsoft relies on market cornering strategies for the crux of their monopolization. Apple is the one who has always used the stadium concessions approach to monopolize, and not a single person, save apparently me, seems to be crying about that these days.
In the past I chalked that discrepancy up to the vast difference in the size of the 2 companies, but that's no longer a valid excuse, especially considering how much money Apple throws at its devil's disguise.
"pubic representative."
tee hee.
No, but seriously, you have a good point.
Don't hate the playa', hate the game.
Colleges aren't dealers of knowledge as much as they are of branding. The college pitch has always been one of a luxury good. Now days, they try to pitch that it's a required luxury, which is moronic, but none the less, the case. Colleges have spent tons of money and effort weaving their narrative of college into our culture. In fact, even earlier posts in this thread demonstrate how pervasive their advertising has gone. Like Apple fans un-knowingly regurgitating subliminal-ish advertising.
Before I get too far out in left field, my point is, for that method to work they require that knowledge be viewed as a luxury good. The Internet has the ability to make storage and dispersal of knowledge nearly free and extremely accessible. Thus, to colleges, technology is candy being offered by a man in a window-less van. The environment has been changing, and colleges will have to adapt or go extinct, but like with everything else, until their hand is forced they will continue to grasp at what has worked in the past. --Which is, throwing money at branding opportunities like research and sports instead of worrying about pesky things like quality, efficiency, or quantity of information exchange.
Personally, I think design flaws is a much more damming claim to make about your product than a bug report. A bug is a low implementation level issue/oversight. A design flaw means your product is rubbish from the ground-up. I would MUCH rather someone say my software had a bud than that there were design issues. I doubt this is going to be a trend that catches-on. The only way I think it could possibly help a company to make such a damming claim would be if it took the words vulnerability or security off the table, which have a much worse connotation. --Although, design flaws create vulnerabilities and security concerns, so even that doesn't seem likely, IMHO.
Baby On Board.