Math Is Fun Forum

... or yourself, I guess?

Well, had the same thing happening with an iPod. Used a hammer, and gravity plus a window at seventh floor, same result as you.

Can't say I feel any different about that particular night... I'm not sure if that's good or bad to be honest.

I think I remember you starting to become less active around the time I started becoming active.
Anyway, welcome back.

What's your problem Kiran?

Well, as I see it, Zeno of Elea(it's not Xeno) got this all wrong. Instead of saying before you can move one unit, you have to move a half unit, you should be saying when you move one unit you also move a half unit.

Well, I don't know if it's possible with PunBB (or wanted at all). You'll have to wait 'till Rod comes around, I guess.

Well, what is, right? Even what you think is real, is just an interpretation, of the 'real' world, made by your brain.

Apparently you didn't understand it at all. First of all, I'm not that interrested in the game. Second of all, buying your rules wouldn't be cheaper, because I don't even have to. I could just use them, no problem. Copyright applies only to a finished product, not an idea.

Plagiarism can be treated as an infringement of copyright, but doesn't always.

No need for a dictionary here, I'm Danish (It's "Opretslov" in Danish by the way, and Rod it is in fact "Copyright"). I think you've misunderstood it. It is, as you say, selfdeclaring, but it does not apply to ideas. I'll give an example: You say you've made the pieces already. Now, what the copyright does, is to ensure that I don't copy your pieces 1:1. By this I mean that I have the right to make a new game called "Taskespillet", make pieces accordingly, and then use the same rules you created.
Say you had actually produced a final game. Along with the game itself, was put a booklet with the rules. Now, I would not be allowed to copy the text itself, but it would be perfectly legal for me to write the same rules with different words.

"Okay, so if this is true, how can people make money off their products?" You might ask. Well, this is where patents come into the picture! You can actually own an idea. I'm not getting into wether I think this should be possible or not, but you can. An idea can be patented, and then you would be right. In that case I would not be able to just alter the words, since the idea would actually be more or less the same.

Art is a way for an artist to express ideas or feelings.

edit: ... to an audience.

Rod, when we're talking spammers, we're talking serious business. Hiding a process, so it doesn't show in the taskmanager, is a rather easy job for a programmer. The problem here, I think, is the amount of knowledge you need about computers to use one. If Microsoft, whos software I'm guessing most people are using, gave you too much information, you'd get confused. If people got confused, they might not choose Microsoft, and that wouldn't be too good, would it?

Also, Devanté, as it's already been said, sending to invalid adresses takes way more time. But even with fake e-mails, it's not really a problem for the spammers. There are plenty of company and university servers, not to mention internetconnections(100mbit typically for big companies), out there to exploit. This is how the warez(we're talking scene here) works, so it should work for spammers aswell.

When we're talking about defending ourselves, there's two major problems. First of all, the defenses 'we' have to make, can only be made when the hackers(crackers) create an exploit, so we're allways many steps behind. Secondly, and this is not a fact but I'm very sure, the programmers we call hackers or crackers are simply more skilled. We're talking people who've devoted their lives to this, and they know protocols, coding languages and processor architures like their own pockets.

Awesome ! Love the game Rod

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Awesome game with awesome music Off to school, and then home to play this