Comment Re:Just to pre-empt it... (Score 1) 408
In other words, it's only been since the King James version of the bible that the world was created in 6 days.
getting the gnome in HL2: Episode 2 into space.
Gahhh! Don't remind me. I carried that stupid gnome all the way to the Ant Lion caves. I had to set it down for just one second to use the gravity gun to smash some grubs... and I hit the wrong button. Instead of gently dropping the gnome at my feet, I launched the little bastard right out into the depths. of course, then I panicked and hit the Quick Save button instead of Quick Load.
...I can still see his cheeky grin as he tumbles end over end into the darkness.
I don;t think you're far off. Windows has the benefit of being available on multiple oem pcs - that is going to increase the installed base. It is also its weakness (although not a crippling one) in that you have a varied platform that you need to manage. The benefit of OS X is the very small set of hardware that OS X runs on. Advantages and disadvantages to both systems, but that's just how it is.
Hasn't seemed to to do Microsoft any harm...
Virii is not the plural of virus.
It will be if you wait a little while - language being what it is.
I know people, myself included who go to a dozen or so colleges
Whoa! Hardcore, man! I thought it was tough enough just going to one college!
Why do you think testing "less than 11" would be more efficient than testing "less than or equal to 10"?
These go to 11.
First off, let me state that I do want to see copyright reform. It's overlong and seems to protect the interests of large corporations over the interests of our culture.
Having said that, sites like IsoHunt don't have to prove their innocence, but it sure helps to have a defense shown to stand up in court. For those accused of profiting by facilitating copyright infringement the best defense has been to show that their technology has significant non-infringing uses. This defense is why we have technology like the (now outdated) VHS recorder or DVR systems.
As a company, IsoHunt was shown to a) be making a profit and b) derive a large portion of their traffic (and thus, indirectly, profit) from infringing materials. In order to have any chance of not being found guilty they would have to show that their platform was used more for good than not. They were unable to convince the court that they were totally innocent, but they're not being summarily closed, only ordered to remove all infringing materials they can find.
That difference is important because it shows that the court does believe that IsoHunt has non-infringing uses! They just also believe that IsoHunt needs to do a better a job keeping its nose clean as the infringing uses were (in the court's mind) more significant than the non-infringing ones.
"Sometimes insanity is the only alternative" -- button at a Science Fiction convention.