looks like just some fancy GPS and orientation coding (and that's kindof iffy, the overlays slide when you pan the view). What's so "terminator"ish about this?
as this may lead to the devastation of the planet, we must invest in a way to protect ourselves from the sun (and you thought GLOBAL WARMING was bad, this shit here is SOLAR WARMING), so I anxiously await Al Gore's appearance on the scene since there's plenty of government spending and fear mongering to be done here!
500 million years give or take a few hundred thousand to develop warp drive capability. Either we'll figure it out or we'll blow ourselves up.. I doubt it'll be the sun that kills off life on this planet.
Is it just me... or is the landlord making things much worse here. From 20 twitterers who may have ever viewed the tweet.. to making headlines on slashdot.. if 20 twitterers cost him $50,000 in reputation damages, what kind of damages does filing a lawsuit and stupidly getting your story on slashdot cause? Will he be suing slashdot next?
The set-in-stone nature of most video games plays hand in hand with things that companies often do; copyrights. When you make a game, you have copyright over the materials (sounds, textures, maps, models, what have you) unless otherwise indicated.
Now for randomly generated maps, you can still copyright the textures and so forth used.. but you can't really copyright the map itself (so if I save a generated cached copy of a map from your game to a static map file to re-use.. say in an emulated version of the game.. you don't have a copyright to this material!.. granted I replace the textures etc etc).
How might this impact copyright law as it stands? Server emulation? Circumvention of securities that might be deemed as "copyright protection" that prevent you PRIMARILY from using cheats in-game but one can claim inadvertantly they protect copyrighted material.. but if the game-content is constantly evolving and changing, is there a copyrighted material to protect?
If a game truly grows and evolves as people play it, it stands to question "who owns it". The developers? Or the players who molded the system into what it's become? We commonly see phrases in EULAs of online games to the effect of "you recognize that all virtual items in [insert over-hyped game here] are property of [insert megarich company who doesn't care about its customers here]....". How can evolved content based on the interaction with a user still fit into a clause such as this? This item DID NOT EXIST before that user played the game.. so what then?
This is the obvious, logical, cheap, and easy solution. Putting aside the fact that you'd need transformers built into devices as most require different voltages.
But then again, these guys have been working around "energy fields" far too long, perhaps this is a side-effect we might want to be forewarned about?
You make a joke about the deodorant issue but.. maybe that really is the root cause of all of this. Women get disgusted at the smell of computer labs and decide it's better to be in the kitchen cooking.
I think political discussion makes people want to shoot other people far more than any video game ever could.
When will we ban political discussion? Or politics altogether? By this logic, surely it's bad!
Or wait..
it's the children..
i'm pretty sure being forced to watch Barney as a child would've made me a serial killer.. playing mortal kombat on the other hand.. was fun and relieved stress:)
If I wrote software which hooked DirectX calls in an existing application and provided an interface for say.. Lua scripts.. which allow any end user to call into my application's code and manipulate the way in which the application's calls were made or would insert/remove some calls, or manipulate memory even, then the legitimate uses of such a system are abound, it would be an incredibly useful tool for debugging and for research.
But in hindsight, such a product could also be used by any person to run scripts for some game X which provided the ability of the user to gain an advantage over other players (ie.. wallhack, aimbot, or some kind of bot in an mmo), while clearly the product would be CAPABLE of violating the terms of service of any of these games, the product itself would not. Rather, it would be the end-user at fault for using such scripts.
And if it turns out that this product becomes popular for just such a reason, it is completely wrong for anyone or any company to prosecute for any reason of "cause of damages", since clearly the application is not developed specifically for such a purpose. This is paramount to suing a company that makes a wrench because someone broke your windows out and beat in your car door with one. Simply retarded.
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looks like just some fancy GPS and orientation coding (and that's kindof iffy, the overlays slide when you pan the view). What's so "terminator"ish about this?
as this may lead to the devastation of the planet, we must invest in a way to protect ourselves from the sun (and you thought GLOBAL WARMING was bad, this shit here is SOLAR WARMING), so I anxiously await Al Gore's appearance on the scene since there's plenty of government spending and fear mongering to be done here!
500 million years give or take a few hundred thousand to develop warp drive capability. Either we'll figure it out or we'll blow ourselves up.. I doubt it'll be the sun that kills off life on this planet.
Is it just me... or is the landlord making things much worse here. From 20 twitterers who may have ever viewed the tweet.. to making headlines on slashdot.. if 20 twitterers cost him $50,000 in reputation damages, what kind of damages does filing a lawsuit and stupidly getting your story on slashdot cause? Will he be suing slashdot next?
This gives a WHOLE new meaning to the phrase "rollover minutes". I like it.
The set-in-stone nature of most video games plays hand in hand with things that companies often do; copyrights. When you make a game, you have copyright over the materials (sounds, textures, maps, models, what have you) unless otherwise indicated.
....". How can evolved content based on the interaction with a user still fit into a clause such as this? This item DID NOT EXIST before that user played the game.. so what then?
Now for randomly generated maps, you can still copyright the textures and so forth used.. but you can't really copyright the map itself (so if I save a generated cached copy of a map from your game to a static map file to re-use.. say in an emulated version of the game.. you don't have a copyright to this material!.. granted I replace the textures etc etc).
How might this impact copyright law as it stands? Server emulation? Circumvention of securities that might be deemed as "copyright protection" that prevent you PRIMARILY from using cheats in-game but one can claim inadvertantly they protect copyrighted material.. but if the game-content is constantly evolving and changing, is there a copyrighted material to protect?
If a game truly grows and evolves as people play it, it stands to question "who owns it". The developers? Or the players who molded the system into what it's become? We commonly see phrases in EULAs of online games to the effect of "you recognize that all virtual items in [insert over-hyped game here] are property of [insert megarich company who doesn't care about its customers here]
hey.. i heard that
We need to stop worrying about ending hunger there and start getting every last one of them a cell phone!
You must be new here...
Are you seriously telling me this guy is trying to patent clouds? Really? What next? Rainbows? Sentence fragments?
Remember post-it notes?
Who knew? The most advanced memory created yet was invented far before the computer...
I store data using just a pencil, paper, and some tape. I knew there was a way. Oh wait...
This is the obvious, logical, cheap, and easy solution. Putting aside the fact that you'd need transformers built into devices as most require different voltages.
But then again, these guys have been working around "energy fields" far too long, perhaps this is a side-effect we might want to be forewarned about?
What's with all this religious shit?
Did you just recommend doing research before arguing on the internet?
Clearly you must be new here. ...
Karen, is that you?
Did you forget the "hard" somewhere in there?
They can't crystallize dilithium..
wait..
has anyone tried this!?
Perhaps afterwards we can stabilize Omega particles...
Gold? Bah. That's so egyptian.
I'd like to be buried in a pyramid with statues carved of me out of antimatter. Finally, I can loot King Tut and make my dream a reality!
You make a joke about the deodorant issue but.. maybe that really is the root cause of all of this. Women get disgusted at the smell of computer labs and decide it's better to be in the kitchen cooking.
I think political discussion makes people want to shoot other people far more than any video game ever could. When will we ban political discussion? Or politics altogether? By this logic, surely it's bad! Or wait.. it's the children.. i'm pretty sure being forced to watch Barney as a child would've made me a serial killer.. playing mortal kombat on the other hand.. was fun and relieved stress :)
God was one of us?
Now it looks like someone can steal my porn downloads. How rude.
This is not true at all.
If I wrote software which hooked DirectX calls in an existing application and provided an interface for say.. Lua scripts.. which allow any end user to call into my application's code and manipulate the way in which the application's calls were made or would insert/remove some calls, or manipulate memory even, then the legitimate uses of such a system are abound, it would be an incredibly useful tool for debugging and for research.
But in hindsight, such a product could also be used by any person to run scripts for some game X which provided the ability of the user to gain an advantage over other players (ie.. wallhack, aimbot, or some kind of bot in an mmo), while clearly the product would be CAPABLE of violating the terms of service of any of these games, the product itself would not. Rather, it would be the end-user at fault for using such scripts.
And if it turns out that this product becomes popular for just such a reason, it is completely wrong for anyone or any company to prosecute for any reason of "cause of damages", since clearly the application is not developed specifically for such a purpose. This is paramount to suing a company that makes a wrench because someone broke your windows out and beat in your car door with one. Simply retarded.
So can I define my "Domain" to be the entire internet?