So...
Masters in CS
Make 35K a year
Health benefits
Matching retirement
Free bus (parking is super expensive)

Why do I work this job? Simple
1. I get to do cool shit.
2. It's academics.

Still, threatening 15,000 times the cost as punitive is over doing it. Typical willful infringement I think is triple the cost.

The cost these people should pay under a fair interpretation of the law is below the threshold to take them to court for. The burden of proof required is also too high to make it viable to try and prove that they offended (its not like you can catch them shoplifting candy from a store). These companies will simply have to realize that trying to stop people from downloading by using legislative means isn't going to work, and is simply toxic to their image to try and do so.

Most of their lost subscribers are in the Asian area, probably China. And with China its anyone's guess what is happening. Also they pay a lot less for wow than the American/European regions.

So? Finger printing does a pretty good job as it is. And why anyone would want to clone me is beyond my understanding. Not that I would care much; who I am is far more dependent on environment than my genetic makeup.

Is the cost to maintain the machine. They are much more expensive to maintain than a stand up arcade; even games like DDR are cheaper. With the shift of gaming from arcades to consoles pinball has naturally also declined as you can't get an authentic pinball experience from a virtual display. Now, if there was a rise to bring arcades back, then you would see games that have a unique advantage in the arcade over a home console rise in popularity within the arcade.

P.S. If you like virtual pinball games check out little wing

Some of the amendments (in addition to the original) have aged well over time, and I agree with mostly. Others I disagree with. Others still are simply irrelevant in today's time (like the 3rd). I won't let the decisions of past people define the proper way for civilization to be run. Any law, or guideline has a limit to how long it is relevant as long as society changes. In 100 years many of our laws work seem barbaric, short sighted and simply ones that can't be used in the light of changing technology.

Screw the constitution. It is out of date, but people keep standing behind it trying to justify their stance. The constitution is difficult to change and enough people will lose power if any part of it does that they can put a stop to it changing. Some parts I approve of, but that is no excuse for people to keep treating it as the absolute unchanging principal that defines the United States.

I do agree with allowing tax of online sales should not be different than local stores, but I disagree with your reasoning. By your reasoning, virtual services like purchasing software online should be taxed less as it is very cheap to produce and sell online vs buying a box from a physical store. The tax should simply be fair, and the market will punish the less efficient systems. Besides, what is more efficient? The goods have to get to the stores in some way. Making the extra trip to each house to deliver as opposed to a bunch of people driving to the store and back sounds more efficient to me.

Audit *all* genes? That is like asking someone to determine if a database has hidden data when all you can do is use a SELECT statement. In other words, you aren't going to find anything bad unless you know what to look for.

Yes, I know I'm completely missing the point of the comment.

1. I think this is required as part of the GPL. And Valve hasn't tried to stop running their games on other distros.
2. Not possible. Some distributions will simply be incompatible by their design. It would be up to each distro to ensure compatibility.
3. Their DRM is their DRM. As per #1 and #2, I don't think they will do any hardware DRM integration.
4. I don't think they will include a keyboard and mouse, so a developer that requires one would face an uphill battle. I don't think Valve will completely ban those devices though.

You want a game to succeed with a small dev team? The roguelike random levels element is IN. Just combine it with existing game models and profit:
Contra + roguelike = profit
Tetris + roguelike = profit
Super Mario Bros + roguelike = profit
Your favorite FPS + roguelike = profit
DDR + roguelike = wtf (maybe profit)

PS I did see a draft gameplay for Blizzards TCG which is similar to the way roguelikes work.

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Since in my mind, the money would be tax free until you cash out. From my understanding you have:
1. The D3 received account. This contains all profits from auctions and can be used to buy stuff on the D3 auction house or cash out on paypal (after fees).
2. The Battle.net Balance. You can deposit real money into this account, transfer money from the D3 received account, and spend it on various digital Blizzard stuff (excluding wow time) including the D3 AH. You can't cash out this account, and you have a limit of around 250 USD for each currency type. Basically its like Microsoft or Nintendo points, except that they keep track of the actual money you put in.

Now there is a limit to how much you can have in your account at once before you have to cash out. However, you can't sell any one item on the D3 Auction house for more than 250 USD. Unless these kids have their own paypal account, I really doubt they would be subject to the taxes.

I'm making much more than 16K a year, but I don't spend anywhere near what I make.

I'm not sure what kind of car you have that requires $200 per month. Maybe you mean per year? And if needed I could ditch my car. I really only use it for shopping on the weekends, and I could just take a bus instead. Food for me runs around $140 per month. Rent is $365 per month (screw good apartments, they are too expensive). Internet is $50 (yea I can't really get a better price in the town I'm in), cell phone is $35 a month. All in all, I spend less than $1000 per month (except on Christmas).

Not entirely true. You simply want to disable automatic execution of Java code. There are many apps out there that people don't even know use Java to run (although many of them use a private JVM to run in). The same goes for flash.... you wouldn't want your flash app to stop working since you disabled it in your web browser.

I know that Ubuntu requires jars to have the executable set on them before you can use them with java. What the mac did will still allow this, as it marks files as to their original location. If you download a program (including java jars) you will get a warning that you downloaded this [java, perl, unix, flash, windows, , ect...] program on the internet, It could harm your computer. Are you sure you want to continue? Additionally, since Java isn't installed on Macs by default anymore, it will ask you if you want to install it if you try and open a jar.

A webstart link is simply a jnlp file, which is an xml file, that if opened with javaws will start up the Java application (in a sandbox or warn the user it won't). This does not attach to the web browser and runs in its own frame. When you install Java it should associate jnlp files with javaws so that when you click with a browser it shouldn't launch the javaws program unless you choose to always open with it when you click it.

From the article this seems to be a bug with the way the Mac handled scripts in an unexpected way.

Yes. Most of us can withstand a little bit of unruly people from time to time. Don't let the vocal minority speak for the majority.