Not only is HTML5 iffy and buggy, but wait until every non-technical designer in the world has an easy to use development environment for HTML5. I promise you we'll see 1000's of CPU-slowing HTML5 ads that are equally power hungry.
Client-side animation is CPU intensive. Period.
And I promise you that Jobs will begin to loathe HTML5 too, as soon as HTML5 apps/web-games become commonplace and kill the golden-cow otherwise known as the App Store.
Let's be clear: It's not Flash that's the problem, per se. It's client-side animation.
I'm looking forward to the "oops" moment, when we kill Flash and replace it with HTML 5 -- only to realize that HTML 5 ends up sucking just as much juice as Flash did.
Every new platform (almost by definition of the term "platform") allows it to be married to myriad other technologies. Unfortunately the USPTO does not seem to understand that each one of these secondary permutations does not (should not) constitute "invention".
But ultimately -- the answer, like most answers to legal questions, isn't a matter of who's right and who's wrong, or even "what is the truth?". The answer depends on who has the combination of legal-budget and willpower to pursue the patent.
The idiotic claim made by big business is that every counterfeited product "would" have been purchased had it not been counterfeited.
The claim not only illustrates a complete lack of understanding of the basic supply/demand curve, but gives us yet another example of a deeply flawed business model which relies on legal threats and big government to plaster over it's shortcomings.
I for one see counterfeiters as a necessary force: Reminding us of the stupidity of major-brand retail prices, and their massive disconnect from underlying value.
We're talking about a piece of hardware here which is capable of melting itself down with no internal cap on processing, and we're blaming the software?
IANAE (I am not an engineer) but it seems to me that the software designers should be able to throw whatever they like at the cards, and it's up to the hardware manufacturers to see to it that the hardware doesn't self destruct.
Wait. What? Why is this a troll. Someone help me out here.
The law AFAIK is quite clear: Unidentified man, in unidentified car leaps out pointing a gun at you? YES, you are within your rights to SHOOT HIM IN THE FACE.
The motorcyclist would have been 100% within his rights to draw a gun and shoot his attacker in the face. This police officer is extraordinarily lucky to be breathing.
Given that loads of major software companies have released plugins for WordPress, including payment gateways, social networking plugins, twitter plugins, etc... doesn't this expose a huge amount of proprietary code to potential (and possibly unintended) open-sourcing?
For the most part, I agree. Although property ownership, economics models, in-game reputation, character types, race, etc. play increasing roles. Freeform exploration is also a major plus.
Morrowind imho did a great job re: character types and freeform exploration. (Oblivion less so, imho because the world was more homogenous/uniform -- but that's just me, and many would disagree).
To date, no game has come close to Baldur's Gate II in my opinion. Where choice of party-members radically altered in-game conversation, side-quests, alignment and overall gameplay.
If someone were to say -- make a 3D version of BG2, I'd probably have to cancel my life for a few months...
Please define the difference between "environmental change", and "environmental damage". Do you believe that the current environmental "stasis" (however incredibly brief it is, by any measure of geologic time) is somehow "good" and any deviation from this stasis is "bad"?
Do you believe that climate is static, consistent and invariable? (There are mountains of data to refute this).
Do you believe that changes in climate are inherently "bad"? Do you believe that it is possible to differentiate between man-made climatic shifts and naturally occurring climatic shifts? How? Do you believe that a man-made influence on the environment is "worse" than a naturally occurring climatic shift? Why?
Do you subscribe the puritanical view of causation whereby actions and causations which are man-made, are by definition 'evil'?
Are these games more cross-platform than Flash games? Than Java games? Will they run on the iPhone? iPad? (Not that either platform represents a remotely significant percentage of web users)
Are Canvas games better than Flash games? Are they better than Java games?
Is the development environment better than existing Flash/Java development environments?
Is HTML5/Canvas less CPU intensive?
I've played with HTML5 and Canvas a few times, and I always come away scratching my head and wondering "why all the fuss"?
When I read stories like this though, I'm forced to ask the question: Why lectures?
For me, studying from hypertext is infinitely more effective. I can pause whenever I like, check additional sources, cross-reference, backtrack, etc.
Personally, I think the hypertext is the greatest educational medium ever created. Universities clearly prefer lectures for a variety of (I would say) self-interested reasons. But unless you simply learn 'better' from spoken dialogue -- which is fine -- I think lectures are a very dated medium which are difficult to edit, expand upon and randomly access.
Access to lectures is great. I'm glad Kahn is doing this. But IMHO the true educational power of the web exists in the web's original, native medium: Hypertext.
Why must constant vigilance be required? There need to be fines against companies who install software without consent. It doesn't matter who you are, it should be an illegal act.
"Hollywood, you can keep producing ridiculously expensive and wasteful movies"
One word: Unions.
It's the reason we can't do anything cheaply in America. They will of course, eventually immolate themselves -- as all efforts to extract more revenue than the system can support, ultimately do.
> " Instead, each item would be isolated from every other item, and online defamation lawsuits aimed at anyone and everyone with a Web site would instantly become commonplace."
Actually, what would happen is everyone would host their websites offshore in nations with looser copyright laws, and the Internet would become increasingly decentralized as larger, "legitimate" players are isolated, and independent, "less legitimate" players circumvent legislation and continue to link.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you under the age of 12? (Y/n)
Are you male? (Y/n)
Are you currently alone? (Y/n)
Do you have FaceTime installed? (Y/n)
Uh.. the OL seems to be working for me. I'm using FF 3.6
Wouldn't dark matter galaxies so close to ours result in the occlusion of galaxies behind them?
Since a galaxy is mostly empty space -- wouldn't this result in a detectable degree of light variation?
Keen was a fantastic 2D platformer. Why hasn't anyone ported it to the DS, PSP, iPhone, etc. ?
Not only is HTML5 iffy and buggy, but wait until every non-technical designer in the world has an easy to use development environment for HTML5. I promise you we'll see 1000's of CPU-slowing HTML5 ads that are equally power hungry.
Client-side animation is CPU intensive. Period.
And I promise you that Jobs will begin to loathe HTML5 too, as soon as HTML5 apps/web-games become commonplace and kill the golden-cow otherwise known as the App Store.
Let's be clear: It's not Flash that's the problem, per se. It's client-side animation.
I'm looking forward to the "oops" moment, when we kill Flash and replace it with HTML 5 -- only to realize that HTML 5 ends up sucking just as much juice as Flash did.
Every new platform (almost by definition of the term "platform") allows it to be married to myriad other technologies. Unfortunately the USPTO does not seem to understand that each one of these secondary permutations does not (should not) constitute "invention".
But ultimately -- the answer, like most answers to legal questions, isn't a matter of who's right and who's wrong, or even "what is the truth?". The answer depends on who has the combination of legal-budget and willpower to pursue the patent.
The idiotic claim made by big business is that every counterfeited product "would" have been purchased had it not been counterfeited.
The claim not only illustrates a complete lack of understanding of the basic supply/demand curve, but gives us yet another example of a deeply flawed business model which relies on legal threats and big government to plaster over it's shortcomings.
I for one see counterfeiters as a necessary force: Reminding us of the stupidity of major-brand retail prices, and their massive disconnect from underlying value.
We're talking about a piece of hardware here which is capable of melting itself down with no internal cap on processing, and we're blaming the software?
IANAE (I am not an engineer) but it seems to me that the software designers should be able to throw whatever they like at the cards, and it's up to the hardware manufacturers to see to it that the hardware doesn't self destruct.
Not to mention that the USA is one of the only nations in the world where you *still* have to pay taxes if you move abroad. (As I do).
Leaving doesn't actually help you.
As opposed to which other country? Seriously -- show me a country that isn't corrupt.
Wait. What? Why is this a troll. Someone help me out here.
The law AFAIK is quite clear: Unidentified man, in unidentified car leaps out pointing a gun at you? YES, you are within your rights to SHOOT HIM IN THE FACE.
IANAL, but am I wrong here???
The motorcyclist would have been 100% within his rights to draw a gun and shoot his attacker in the face. This police officer is extraordinarily lucky to be breathing.
Given that loads of major software companies have released plugins for WordPress, including payment gateways, social networking plugins, twitter plugins, etc ... doesn't this expose a huge amount of proprietary code to potential (and possibly unintended) open-sourcing?
1. Ad Hominem attack bears zero relevance to the enforceability of the contract.
2. Seven years time between enactment and seeking enforcement is not a lot.
3. Statute of limitations? What? Show me that law please.
4. Did you sign a contract which states that you will deliver said bridge? If so, you're the one in hot water.
For the most part, I agree. Although property ownership, economics models, in-game reputation, character types, race, etc. play increasing roles. Freeform exploration is also a major plus.
Morrowind imho did a great job re: character types and freeform exploration. (Oblivion less so, imho because the world was more homogenous/uniform -- but that's just me, and many would disagree).
To date, no game has come close to Baldur's Gate II in my opinion. Where choice of party-members radically altered in-game conversation, side-quests, alignment and overall gameplay.
If someone were to say -- make a 3D version of BG2, I'd probably have to cancel my life for a few months...
Chrome has Xmarks, btw. I use it to sync my bookmarks between FF and Chrome.
And Web Developer is cool, but Chrome has pretty awesome Firebug style debugging built in.
Please define the difference between "environmental change", and "environmental damage". Do you believe that the current environmental "stasis" (however incredibly brief it is, by any measure of geologic time) is somehow "good" and any deviation from this stasis is "bad"?
Do you believe that climate is static, consistent and invariable? (There are mountains of data to refute this).
Do you believe that changes in climate are inherently "bad"? Do you believe that it is possible to differentiate between man-made climatic shifts and naturally occurring climatic shifts? How? Do you believe that a man-made influence on the environment is "worse" than a naturally occurring climatic shift? Why?
Do you subscribe the puritanical view of causation whereby actions and causations which are man-made, are by definition 'evil'?
You're missing the point: You *can't* tell the browser about it.
Are these games more cross-platform than Flash games? Than Java games? Will they run on the iPhone? iPad? (Not that either platform represents a remotely significant percentage of web users)
Are Canvas games better than Flash games? Are they better than Java games?
Is the development environment better than existing Flash/Java development environments?
Is HTML5/Canvas less CPU intensive?
I've played with HTML5 and Canvas a few times, and I always come away scratching my head and wondering "why all the fuss"?
When I read stories like this though, I'm forced to ask the question: Why lectures?
For me, studying from hypertext is infinitely more effective. I can pause whenever I like, check additional sources, cross-reference, backtrack, etc.
Personally, I think the hypertext is the greatest educational medium ever created. Universities clearly prefer lectures for a variety of (I would say) self-interested reasons. But unless you simply learn 'better' from spoken dialogue -- which is fine -- I think lectures are a very dated medium which are difficult to edit, expand upon and randomly access.
Access to lectures is great. I'm glad Kahn is doing this. But IMHO the true educational power of the web exists in the web's original, native medium: Hypertext.
Why must constant vigilance be required? There need to be fines against companies who install software without consent. It doesn't matter who you are, it should be an illegal act.
How do you say "Suppuku" in Korean?
"Hollywood, you can keep producing ridiculously expensive and wasteful movies"
One word: Unions.
It's the reason we can't do anything cheaply in America. They will of course, eventually immolate themselves -- as all efforts to extract more revenue than the system can support, ultimately do.
Flame away, unionites.
> " Instead, each item would be isolated from every other item, and online defamation lawsuits aimed at anyone and everyone with a Web site would instantly become commonplace."
Actually, what would happen is everyone would host their websites offshore in nations with looser copyright laws, and the Internet would become increasingly decentralized as larger, "legitimate" players are isolated, and independent, "less legitimate" players circumvent legislation and continue to link.
Ironically, this will *hurt* big media.