Obviously, someone shouldn't be allowed to fly the flag of Nazi Germany outside their house,[...]
Just a precision, The US is the only country I've seen where people display their flag outside their house. Elsewhere it's at most sometimes done during the national day.
It would be the obvious defense. I wonder why his lawyer didn't think of that.
"Tell them my house is just a front and all my assets are in the Caiman Islands ! My scheme works, I'm not a scammer !" "As a professional, I suggest you shut the fuck up. Also my fee just went up quite a bit."
MIT researchers have successfully embedded a gallium nitride layer onto silicon to create a hybrid microchip.
Arthur: What do you mean, an african or european gallium nitride layer? Bridgekeeper: Both! That's why it's an hybrid! Arthur: I didn't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!
Meanwhile, a few hundred years later...
Customer : So, um, I'll only have to refill my computer half as often right ? Best Buy Salesperson : Actually it so happens that we have a promotion on computer tanks in the next aisle.
Come on, 75% is a HIGHLY dubious claim. Where's the source / proof / evidence?
Actually if just Solitaire was coded in COBOL it would seriously skew the statistics already, numerous people would spend hours poking at a COBOL app each day.
It seems that Eric Spiegel and I have very different perspectives and work ethic. If you do a good job, you will be rewarded.
Huh ?
Maybe it's a good work ethic but it's not one that actually flies in the real world. That's certainly not how actual corporations work outside of small shops (and if you found one that's nice and pays ok, by all means stay there).
In any large "Fortune 500" type of corporation, quality has as much to do with rewards as sunspots.
Sounds like a possible application for them there newfangled computer doohickeys.
That's assuming they ever take off. Professionals say there's a world market for maybe 4 or 5 of 'em. And it's not like you'll ever squeeze one in your basement anytime soon.
It would help if we didn't make it so easy. Like it or not, America is the gold-standard for 'sex is bad' (and 'skin = sex', therefore 'skin = bad').
As bad as it is in the US, there are a few other places that spring to mind. You know, on the rest of the planet (where it apparently says "Here be Dragons" on US maps), places like, Egypt, or if you want it real bad, Saudi Arabia, or Afghanistan...
Your anecdote does nothing to invalidate the article's data.
It makes sense for any animal to avoid a site where its own are dead.
It's the same category of reflex that makes us want to throw up when someone pukes (being social animals we often eat together), that makes us universally find some smells offensive (pretty much always originally attached to something potentially toxic), etc.
If you read through the patent, it's basically the same as a mailing list that sends out digests. Trivial.
While there have been "mail" games running through mailing lists for a while, MUDs would be a much more pertinent comparison. There have been MUD servers pretty much since someone figured out that you could telnet to any port and stick a server that did silly things on there (or in other words, since the 70s). Everybody who was around in the 70s or 80s had a few MUD accounts, if only to see what all the fuss was about.
It should be trivial to shoot this one down in flames (which assumes the lawyer understands what he's talking about and the judge understands him, fairly optimistic assumptions...).
My first thought was this is great anything to force innovation. Something more then the same old, same old in MMO gaming.
But then again sounds a bit broad, as do many a patent these days.
On the other hand, an online game where none of the players would share the same environment would be more challenging !
- So shall we conquer the castle ? You have flaming arrows, right ? - I'm feeding my pink ponies - What space station is that castle on again ? - Has anybody got spare rifle grenades ? - Wait, we have to act in sync - Ooops, gotta go, the unicorn is here ! - wait, what ? - I think a castle just floated by - floated ? Wait, where are you ? - It's behind that large asteroid ! - Never mind about the grenades, I found a RPG, let's go ! - Ok, let's pause for a moment, this doesn't make sense - They have fighters in orbit ! I'm on it ! - I'll cover you with the RPG ! - I'm so going back to Wow...
Really? I always assumed that the average gamer was between 5 and 15. Can you back up your stats?
Numerous people seem to think so (pretty much wrong everywhere, as pointed out by numerous posts) which is why computer games have so many stupid laws passed (or people attempting to pass them) against them when (for example) books publishers can do pretty much what they want.
(ooh, a violent book got published, let's ban it so that 8 years old don't read it !, after all they read comics all day, clearly they're the biggest book reading demographic !)
It really depends. Dolphins certainly could be around in 10 million years depending on how suitable the environment remains for their current form. As you say cockroaches will still be around, but other species of fish and such (the bowfin and the gar) have also been around for extremely long periods of time too, because their current physical form has remain well suited to environmental changes.
Those environmental changes didn't so far encompass our hunting them (and their prey) to death. Their environment is turning hostile to their current form (which is fatty and comestible) very fast.
My grandfather is dying right now of congestive heart failure (among other things). He was supposed to die in December of last year. He's done absolutely nothing (just called hospice) because he's resigned to dieing (he has plenty of other health issues which prevent any surgery, and his second wife just served him with divorce papers, etc) but he is still alive.
Obviously, divorce papers can help alleviate the effects of congestive heart failure.
Meanwhile, I seem to also hear arguments about how we pay the tax on gas already, so wouldn't this kind of require a drop of that?
This was my first thought as well, doesn't taxing petrol more or less equate to taxing mileage ?
This is "more or less" because the efficiency of the vehicle has to be taken into account. If the purpose is to maintain roads,many of which were in a sorry state last time I drove around the US, some 6 or 8 years ago, I suppose the mass of the vehicle should also be factored in since it's also a factor in road damage.
But then US people are all so fond of their huge massive cars (gotta be able to go right through that sucker we crash through) that maybe it doesn't make that much difference after all.
And of course, maybe practical electric vehicles will start to appear one of these days so taxing petrol won't work any more for that purpose (apart as an incentive to switch to electric).
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Obviously, someone shouldn't be allowed to fly the flag of Nazi Germany outside their house,[...]
Just a precision, The US is the only country I've seen where people display their flag outside their house. Elsewhere it's at most sometimes done during the national day.
Then he's innocent?
It would be the obvious defense. I wonder why his lawyer didn't think of that.
"Tell them my house is just a front and all my assets are in the Caiman Islands ! My scheme works, I'm not a scammer !"
"As a professional, I suggest you shut the fuck up. Also my fee just went up quite a bit."
And yes, I know, there is some unstable proprietary binary blob available for my ATI card which can do 3D, but it is immoral to use that
Now that you have confessed you shall say 2 our RMS and 3 hail Linus and all will be forgiven for the GNU is merciful. Go in peace, user.
(duh)
and it is actually so slow on 2D (which to me is more important) compared to the free "radeon" driver that it's ridiculous.
Or you could get supported hardware from "the other company", or stop being anal about trivial issues nobody in his right mind cares about.
Or just get a real SVGA card which is perfectly supported with completely open drivers. I hear Tseng ET3000 are a steal these days.
Arthur: What do you mean, an african or european gallium nitride layer?
Bridgekeeper: Both! That's why it's an hybrid!
Arthur: I didn't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!
Meanwhile, a few hundred years later...
Customer : So, um, I'll only have to refill my computer half as often right ?
Best Buy Salesperson : Actually it so happens that we have a promotion on computer tanks in the next aisle.
Come on, 75% is a HIGHLY dubious claim. Where's the source / proof / evidence?
Actually if just Solitaire was coded in COBOL it would seriously skew the statistics already, numerous people would spend hours poking at a COBOL app each day.
It seems that Eric Spiegel and I have very different perspectives and work ethic. If you do a good job, you will be rewarded.
Huh ?
Maybe it's a good work ethic but it's not one that actually flies in the real world. That's certainly not how actual corporations work outside of small shops (and if you found one that's nice and pays ok, by all means stay there).
In any large "Fortune 500" type of corporation, quality has as much to do with rewards as sunspots.
Sounds like a possible application for them there newfangled computer doohickeys.
That's assuming they ever take off. Professionals say there's a world market for maybe 4 or 5 of 'em. And it's not like you'll ever squeeze one in your basement anytime soon.
Ah, yes, my pills, thank you nurse.
It would help if we didn't make it so easy. Like it or not, America is the gold-standard for 'sex is bad' (and 'skin = sex', therefore 'skin = bad').
As bad as it is in the US, there are a few other places that spring to mind. You know, on the rest of the planet (where it apparently says "Here be Dragons" on US maps), places like, Egypt, or if you want it real bad, Saudi Arabia, or Afghanistan...
Your anecdote does nothing to invalidate the article's data.
It makes sense for any animal to avoid a site where its own are dead.
It's the same category of reflex that makes us want to throw up when someone pukes (being social animals we often eat together), that makes us universally find some smells offensive (pretty much always originally attached to something potentially toxic), etc.
If you read through the patent, it's basically the same as a mailing list that sends out digests. Trivial.
While there have been "mail" games running through mailing lists for a while, MUDs would be a much more pertinent comparison. There have been MUD servers pretty much since someone figured out that you could telnet to any port and stick a server that did silly things on there (or in other words, since the 70s). Everybody who was around in the 70s or 80s had a few MUD accounts, if only to see what all the fuss was about.
It should be trivial to shoot this one down in flames (which assumes the lawyer understands what he's talking about and the judge understands him, fairly optimistic assumptions...).
The patent seem to be about reducing network traffic on multi-server systems, and having some way of aggregating messages to groups of clients.
Are you sure it's not about getting large sums of money from other companies without having to do any actual work ?
My first thought was this is great anything to force innovation. Something more then the same old, same old in MMO gaming.
But then again sounds a bit broad, as do many a patent these days.
On the other hand, an online game where none of the players would share the same environment would be more challenging !
- So shall we conquer the castle ? You have flaming arrows, right ?
- I'm feeding my pink ponies
- What space station is that castle on again ?
- Has anybody got spare rifle grenades ?
- Wait, we have to act in sync
- Ooops, gotta go, the unicorn is here !
- wait, what ?
- I think a castle just floated by
- floated ? Wait, where are you ?
- It's behind that large asteroid !
- Never mind about the grenades, I found a RPG, let's go !
- Ok, let's pause for a moment, this doesn't make sense
- They have fighters in orbit ! I'm on it !
- I'll cover you with the RPG !
- I'm so going back to Wow...
I shouldn't need to use 12 separate disks spread across the globe just for basic reliability / redundancy
You're trying to weasel out of paying IBM protection money !
What's a smart grid?
It's when you give each electron it's own IP on the power grid. It's the new big thing !
Really? I always assumed that the average gamer was between 5 and 15. Can you back up your stats?
Numerous people seem to think so (pretty much wrong everywhere, as pointed out by numerous posts) which is why computer games have so many stupid laws passed (or people attempting to pass them) against them when (for example) books publishers can do pretty much what they want.
(ooh, a violent book got published, let's ban it so that 8 years old don't read it !, after all they read comics all day, clearly they're the biggest book reading demographic !)
I think the currently accepted theory is that the dinasaurs evolved into birds.
A small branch indeed apparently did.
"Dinosaurs" didn't, any more than "mammals" evolved into primates (for a kludgy analogy).
It really depends. Dolphins certainly could be around in 10 million years depending on how suitable the environment remains for their current form. As you say cockroaches will still be around, but other species of fish and such (the bowfin and the gar) have also been around for extremely long periods of time too, because their current physical form has remain well suited to environmental changes.
Those environmental changes didn't so far encompass our hunting them (and their prey) to death. Their environment is turning hostile to their current form (which is fatty and comestible) very fast.
Breaking news !
The universe is green with blotches of red !
Details to follow !
Well, intelligence is relative. Compared to what we evolve into in the next ten million years we probably AREN'T intelligent.
But what about the dolphins?
Very unlikely that there will be any dolphins in 10 million years...
Now cockroaches...
My grandfather is dying right now of congestive heart failure (among other things). He was supposed to die in December of last year. He's done absolutely nothing (just called hospice) because he's resigned to dieing (he has plenty of other health issues which prevent any surgery, and his second wife just served him with divorce papers, etc) but he is still alive.
Obviously, divorce papers can help alleviate the effects of congestive heart failure.
Does this fall under "alternative medicine" ?
Will Wright had one good game. SimCity.
It's time to face it - everything else has been shit.
He never made any other game. He just themed it differently.
Also, CFL's are notorious for interfering with WiFi.
I hear they also kick puppies and strangle kittens.
Girlfriends had screens?
Sure, they would screen everything you said. It was a built-in function.
Meanwhile, I seem to also hear arguments about how we pay the tax on gas already, so wouldn't this kind of require a drop of that?
This was my first thought as well, doesn't taxing petrol more or less equate to taxing mileage ?
This is "more or less" because the efficiency of the vehicle has to be taken into account. If the purpose is to maintain roads ,many of which were in a sorry state last time I drove around the US, some 6 or 8 years ago, I suppose the mass of the vehicle should also be factored in since it's also a factor in road damage.
But then US people are all so fond of their huge massive cars (gotta be able to go right through that sucker we crash through) that maybe it doesn't make that much difference after all.
And of course, maybe practical electric vehicles will start to appear one of these days so taxing petrol won't work any more for that purpose (apart as an incentive to switch to electric).
Learning to exercise and keep yourself in shape is a part of the cirriculum.
Start looking up child obesity numbers and you'll see that schools need to be doing more, not less.
I think it would be much simpler to just add liposuction to the curriculum.