Comment Re:'Fail Often, Fail Early' Is Not Just Wales' Man (Score 3, Informative) 164
...I don't know who said it: "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Seems it was Benjamin Franklin, in the guise of Poor Richard.
...I don't know who said it: "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Seems it was Benjamin Franklin, in the guise of Poor Richard.
I'm always curious about the high praise for 360 controllers. First of all, I'm not that keen on the shoulder button arrangement, but that is a minor gripe. For me the issue was always the analogue sticks. I find that they feel rather loose, providing little to no resistance and I therefore find fine control tricky (of course, a balance is required here – analogue sticks that are too stiff are even worse).
But, since I seem to be the only one I know who has this issue, maybe my experience has been tainted by the store demo models, which to date is the only means by which I have played a 360. It's reasonable to suspect that these controllers have been somewhat overused and abused, and the quality of the sticks may have diminished because of this. If so, it seems somewhat ironic to me that I may have been (unfairly) dissuaded from purchasing a 360 due to the substandard experience offered by the units installed to promote it.
I owned a couple of Mad Catz controllers, both for PlayStation2. One was just average 3rd party fare, whereas the other was actually a very nice remodelled controller in a smaller form factor that I initially much preferred to Sony's official controller.
Unfortunately, they barely saw two month's use before the analogue sticks went out of alignment, with no way to recalibrate them, rendering them useless for most games. Whether their products have improved much in the past 5-6 years, I couldn't say.
If you truly want anything decent, I'd rely the education of others.
And you can always rely on Muphry's law.
Doesn't it depend on how they present the product ? Let's say the product is the software, the physical media, the packaging, and maybe online access.
But is that the way they present it? Surely they would claim that the product is the physical media, packaging and a license to use the software?
It wouldn't surprise me if their defence would be that they don't inhibit first sale doctrine, as anyone is free to resell the physical product. The licence (which may cover access to an online service), however, is a contract rather than a physical product and not covered by first sale. (In case I've not already made it obvious by way of ignorant rambling, IANAL)
If the above is the case, I would wonder if EULAs would be non-transferable by nature, or if it would have to be explicitly defined in the agreement. It's been a long time since I actually read an EULA properly, so for all I know some already explicitly state this.
Not that I would be happy with the above situation. I definitely think that EULAs ought to be transferable, and I really hope my assessment is incorrect. But even if I'm wrong I would guess it is only a matter of time before industry lobbyists make me right.
How did they think would get away with that?
My thoughts exactly. And to have the audacity to use it as grounds for accusations of "improper activity"? Outrageous. I would chuckle at the irony were it not so reprehensible.
I hope they have the book thrown at them.
These "domain harvesters" should be illegal and removed.
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. 1125(d)
Actually - I once went to slashdit.org by accident and there were ads there. Don't know who is making money from that.
Well, I just had to check and what do you know? "Ads by Google".
At least they were good enough to provide a link to the intended site. That's something, I guess.
The real question is WHY school boards across the country still use the output of this moonbat-manipulated process to choose books?
My understanding is that they don't. But Texas is a huge purchaser of textbooks and the standards they set influence what the publishers are willing to print. They publish books in order to placate Texas and the rest of the country are stuck with them.
...dismissing the stories as just 'dumbass Texans,' but what I didn't realize is that Texas schoolbooks set the standard for the rest of the country.
I knew this and am not even American. Every piece of coverage I've seen on this issue has explained how wide reaching the ramifications are. How can anyone have missed it?
I suffered from confusion because as a million is the square of a thousand, then surely a billion should be the square of a million, and a trillion the square of a billion etc etc.
A trillion is not the square of a billion in either system. It is either a thousand billion (10^3 × 10^9) or a million billion (10^6 × 10^12).
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
