They keep making BS laws about Copyright, Patents, Data Security, etc. By your logic, the legislators really shouldn't, because the don't know fuck all about technology. Actually, they don't know shit about anything except what a lobbyist tells them...
The founding father of the USA were smart, but the overestimated us. A Democratic-Republic only works if the majority of the senate isn't corrupt, and if the majority of the citizens voting aren't ignorant gits voting along party lines... In short, we're damned if we do, damned if we don't.
However, ANYTHING is better than what we have now. (Yes, Anything!)
You should read the license. It includes a worldwide, royalty free license grant. It does indeed "release patents" with the small qualification that if you sue Pixar for patent infringement your royalty free license is automatically yanked.
Thanks to Patent Trolls (non practising entities) this retaliation clause means absolutely nothing, it's the prime function of Shell Corps. You want to sue Pixar? Just spin up a new Paper Person, toss some patent and moolah grants their way and sick 'em. What is Pixar going to do against such a non practising entity? They don't make anything, so they can't counter sue for infringement.
If you included a large enough snippet to have your work considered derivative, then it would also need to be licensed under the Ms-PL. Not sure why Balmer went all stupid over the evils of "viral" open source licensing, they wrote the same sort of beast themselves.
Just listen to you... "He" Ha! Your notion of gender is quaint -- Your small mind can not begin to comprehend the mechanisms of C'thulhu's procreation. To conceive of such cosmorganic machinations is to become their very product.... which looks surprisingly like pumice flotsam.
This anecdote is not so that I can say I am an old cantankerous fart, it it to illustrate that even though people have rights to information, the ones that hold the information feel compelled not to give it up. THis is true with software, medical data, music... I don;t know where this attitude comes from.
Emboldening mine. I know where the attitude originates, and so doe Sid Meier...
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
- Commissioner Pravin Lal, Alpha Centauri
The bandwidth is slow (lower bit rates are more reliable), and both Mars and Earth are rotating. Constant broadcast of microwave signal takes a lot of juice, and you don't have a dedicated satellite for the rover in Mars orbit. Your puny encryption technology would be laughable at best, a waste of effort. You can barely ensure the signal is intact, any possible hindrance would be a catastrophe -- Oops, a cosmic ray changed the encryption code, now your drone is useless! Ha! You can see all the images in their raw archive.
I prefer to stitch superior panoramas via placing the individual frames in 3D space in relation to my point of view... I find it odd that all Humans don't have such basic visualization tools. What's wrong? Three dimensions too much for your puny minds to grasp and manipulate?
You may have such capability eventually on Mars soon enough, but for now these are still relatively small baby steps. At this rate you're acceptance into the Galactic Concillium will take longer than your star system's life span! You've got the perfect setup: A lush well protected world with a huge easy to reach moon; Mars, a planet perfect for testing your ability to overcome lack of magnetic shielding -- You even got A BROWN DWARF (to better teach the lessons of gravitation), and its surrounded with A MOON FULL OF METHANE FUEL?! If you don't succeed, you'll have no one but yourselves to blame. To any other race this would all be too enticing to ignore, yet you obsess over Reality TV?!?! Are your own lives so pathetic you need to watch someone else's? It's telling indeed that the Mars One project can only be funded by harnessing your love for "Reality TV"... The problem is that humans will allocate 15 billion to the Reality TV Event "World's Best Exercisers" every four years, but only 2.5b on technology that paves the way for the assured survival of your kind.
Of course you'll have OTA TV broadcast from Mars eventually -- Your damn race is addicted to it!
You have the perfect setup to survive the evolutionary dead end and leap for the stars, it's a shame you choose to keep all of your eggs in one basket, Earth. To quote one of your black comedies: "Get your ass to Mars!"
Wat? Why would windows 7 be the last OS? Are we assuming that Microsoft can't improve on that system?
They just reskin the previous OS and make minimal if any changes. I see single zero day exploits that target XP, Vista, and 7 -- Wouldn't that be impossible if the OS was actually different? At what point does it become cheaper to just reskin BSD or Linux?
It does bring into question the Obviousness and Iterative nature, which a patent must not be. The PTO will grant you a weak patent if you like, just cross the T and dot the i... If you want to waste money defending a shitty patent in court, then it's on you -- That's their reasoning, granting a patent doesn't even mean it's valid these days -- remove your head from your ass: Swinging on a Swing Sideways was Patented!
So, basically, what you're saying is: Blame the FemeNazis? I don't buy that. What I do buy is this:
I remember when Arcades hit the scene, man, that was great. Dedicated machines for playing one game -- From Skiball to Pinball, to Pong and Asteroids, Galaga, DigDug, etc.
Then came a general purpose game machine; It needed to be tailored to running only games. Then you could play multiple games via one device. General Purpose Computers were around, but they needed some dedicated tricks to do video games as well as the dedicated game machines, hence Consoles killed the Arcades.
Now we have General Purpose Computers that can fit in your pocket and do everything a game console can do -- It can play games, it's easy to setup and run the games, the control schemes are tailored to the devices, buying games is easy... The writing has been on the wall a long time for Consoles. It's their turn to go the way of the dedicated arcade machine.
Arcades aren't extinct, but they're not the prime players. So also goes the dedicated game playing Consoles. I mean, a console is just a neutered PC at this point -- Which can you live without? Your general purpose computer or a game console? Even if you don't have a game console, you're going to have a personal (portable?) computer. Consoles aren't needed any more.
One sign of the times is so much cross platform development. From a game developer's perspective it makes no sense at all to do a Console exclusive -- You're limiting your market reach for no good reason. Now that cross platform development toolchains exist, there's no reason to be exclusive. Unless you're owned slaves of the console MFG, you want as many players to buy your game as possible. The days when you made stuff explicitly for one console and it was hard to port are over -- PS3 tried some hard to code BS to "innovate" (read: provide vendor lock in), but we worked around it, finally. In a few months after a console is released, PCs outpace the device in every way.
Casual gaming is legitimising the mobile AND desktop space (which needed no help), as development targets. Put it this way, Sony couldn't pay me enough money to make games exclusively for their console, no one can. When platforms don't matter any more, PLATFORMS DO NOT MATTER ANY MORE.
Agreed. They should have taken a page from EVERY SOFTWARE DEV, and chopped each milestone into roughly twice as many with half as many goals: Kilometerstones.
It's taken so damn long (over 8 years) for HTML5 to get here that everyone's moved on to Apps, because:
0. Javascript is shite at everything from performance to scalability.
1. We need standards we can use, no one gives a fuck how broken they are -- That's what next version is for, you can't perfect shit.
2. Cross platform toolchains exist for native program development.
3. Every browser does everything different, even Canvas and Audio, devs need stable APIs just to Survive!
4. We CAN'T FUCKING WAIT till they pull their heads out of their asses, we've got mouths to feed.
Like it or not the Web is a cobbled together application deployment platform made out of the most haphazardly constructed protocols and languages. Software repositories, here we come! Java had the right idea, but got too bloated then dropped the ball. The W3C is what's made walled gardens look good...
What matters is the product, which in this case is a web-based implementation of voice/video chat. Out of the two proposed standards, the one that can actually be used to implement the product that users want, will win.
Then by your logic, MS will use Skype to win this standard war... Which I agree is probably the case, and also why I said "Fuck you" to building anything on top of browsers a long time ago. Native applications are where it's at. This way, when MS wins, and FF can't work around some patent BS, then I can still just keep using classic NAT traversal like STUN and TURN, and ignore all this bullshit.
What we need is an open platform to develop applications on -- A shitty document display mark up language and a horrid scripting language are what we have to work with. It's really a shame that Java dropped the ball.
It takes me OVER SIX TIMES AS LONG to write a HTML5 web app than to make the same app as a native program on Android (ARM), x86 / x64 windows, iOS, OSX, Linux (and BSD). Cross platform tool-chains exist -- The web only wishes it were one. Long Live The Internet, fuck the web.
Where is the control group where the pictures contain Celebrities unconscious, in a pool of blood, beheaded, or otherwise similar to images found in Faces of Death?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not going to support a platform that the real Bad Guys are using to screw consumers.
It must be nice to be Amish...
I will agree the defcon "security" is out of hand almost all of the time.
One does not simply "security" at a Defcon.
They keep making BS laws about Copyright, Patents, Data Security, etc. By your logic, the legislators really shouldn't, because the don't know fuck all about technology. Actually, they don't know shit about anything except what a lobbyist tells them...
The founding father of the USA were smart, but the overestimated us. A Democratic-Republic only works if the majority of the senate isn't corrupt, and if the majority of the citizens voting aren't ignorant gits voting along party lines... In short, we're damned if we do, damned if we don't.
However, ANYTHING is better than what we have now. (Yes, Anything!)
You should read the license. It includes a worldwide, royalty free license grant. It does indeed "release patents" with the small qualification that if you sue Pixar for patent infringement your royalty free license is automatically yanked.
Thanks to Patent Trolls (non practising entities) this retaliation clause means absolutely nothing, it's the prime function of Shell Corps. You want to sue Pixar? Just spin up a new Paper Person, toss some patent and moolah grants their way and sick 'em. What is Pixar going to do against such a non practising entity? They don't make anything, so they can't counter sue for infringement.
If you included a large enough snippet to have your work considered derivative, then it would also need to be licensed under the Ms-PL. Not sure why Balmer went all stupid over the evils of "viral" open source licensing, they wrote the same sort of beast themselves.
I've just proved to you that this whole thing is like the spawn of Satan––or Blizzard entertainment, 'cause they can't fix Diablo III.
Discuss below.
So, If OpenSubdiv isn't the spawn of Satan, then it's the spawn of Blizzard's broken Satan Simulator?
Just listen to you... "He" Ha! Your notion of gender is quaint -- Your small mind can not begin to comprehend the mechanisms of C'thulhu's procreation. To conceive of such cosmorganic machinations is to become their very product.... which looks surprisingly like pumice flotsam.
This anecdote is not so that I can say I am an old cantankerous fart, it it to illustrate that even though people have rights to information, the ones that hold the information feel compelled not to give it up. THis is true with software, medical data, music... I don;t know where this attitude comes from.
Emboldening mine. I know where the attitude originates, and so doe Sid Meier...
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
- Commissioner Pravin Lal, Alpha Centauri
If you don't move for long periods of time you could cause deep vein thrombosis, and die from blood clots.
The bandwidth is slow (lower bit rates are more reliable), and both Mars and Earth are rotating. Constant broadcast of microwave signal takes a lot of juice, and you don't have a dedicated satellite for the rover in Mars orbit. Your puny encryption technology would be laughable at best, a waste of effort. You can barely ensure the signal is intact, any possible hindrance would be a catastrophe -- Oops, a cosmic ray changed the encryption code, now your drone is useless! Ha! You can see all the images in their raw archive.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
I prefer to stitch superior panoramas via placing the individual frames in 3D space in relation to my point of view... I find it odd that all Humans don't have such basic visualization tools. What's wrong? Three dimensions too much for your puny minds to grasp and manipulate?
You may have such capability eventually on Mars soon enough, but for now these are still relatively small baby steps. At this rate you're acceptance into the Galactic Concillium will take longer than your star system's life span! You've got the perfect setup: A lush well protected world with a huge easy to reach moon; Mars, a planet perfect for testing your ability to overcome lack of magnetic shielding -- You even got A BROWN DWARF (to better teach the lessons of gravitation), and its surrounded with A MOON FULL OF METHANE FUEL?! If you don't succeed, you'll have no one but yourselves to blame. To any other race this would all be too enticing to ignore, yet you obsess over Reality TV?!?! Are your own lives so pathetic you need to watch someone else's? It's telling indeed that the Mars One project can only be funded by harnessing your love for "Reality TV"... The problem is that humans will allocate 15 billion to the Reality TV Event "World's Best Exercisers" every four years, but only 2.5b on technology that paves the way for the assured survival of your kind.
Of course you'll have OTA TV broadcast from Mars eventually -- Your damn race is addicted to it!
You have the perfect setup to survive the evolutionary dead end and leap for the stars, it's a shame you choose to keep all of your eggs in one basket, Earth. To quote one of your black comedies: "Get your ass to Mars!"
I have to say, I have found that, in a large majority of instances, "Belly-Button Logic Works!"
Wat? Why would windows 7 be the last OS? Are we assuming that Microsoft can't improve on that system?
They just reskin the previous OS and make minimal if any changes. I see single zero day exploits that target XP, Vista, and 7 -- Wouldn't that be impossible if the OS was actually different? At what point does it become cheaper to just reskin BSD or Linux?
I'm sorry, just posting to remove a bad mod -- I was laughing too hard and selected the wrong one.
It does bring into question the Obviousness and Iterative nature, which a patent must not be. The PTO will grant you a weak patent if you like, just cross the T and dot the i... If you want to waste money defending a shitty patent in court, then it's on you -- That's their reasoning, granting a patent doesn't even mean it's valid these days -- remove your head from your ass: Swinging on a Swing Sideways was Patented!
So, basically, what you're saying is: Blame the FemeNazis? I don't buy that. What I do buy is this:
I remember when Arcades hit the scene, man, that was great. Dedicated machines for playing one game -- From Skiball to Pinball, to Pong and Asteroids, Galaga, DigDug, etc.
Then came a general purpose game machine; It needed to be tailored to running only games. Then you could play multiple games via one device. General Purpose Computers were around, but they needed some dedicated tricks to do video games as well as the dedicated game machines, hence Consoles killed the Arcades.
Now we have General Purpose Computers that can fit in your pocket and do everything a game console can do -- It can play games, it's easy to setup and run the games, the control schemes are tailored to the devices, buying games is easy... The writing has been on the wall a long time for Consoles. It's their turn to go the way of the dedicated arcade machine.
Arcades aren't extinct, but they're not the prime players. So also goes the dedicated game playing Consoles. I mean, a console is just a neutered PC at this point -- Which can you live without? Your general purpose computer or a game console? Even if you don't have a game console, you're going to have a personal (portable?) computer. Consoles aren't needed any more.
One sign of the times is so much cross platform development. From a game developer's perspective it makes no sense at all to do a Console exclusive -- You're limiting your market reach for no good reason. Now that cross platform development toolchains exist, there's no reason to be exclusive. Unless you're owned slaves of the console MFG, you want as many players to buy your game as possible. The days when you made stuff explicitly for one console and it was hard to port are over -- PS3 tried some hard to code BS to "innovate" (read: provide vendor lock in), but we worked around it, finally. In a few months after a console is released, PCs outpace the device in every way.
Casual gaming is legitimising the mobile AND desktop space (which needed no help), as development targets. Put it this way, Sony couldn't pay me enough money to make games exclusively for their console, no one can. When platforms don't matter any more, PLATFORMS DO NOT MATTER ANY MORE.
Agreed. They should have taken a page from EVERY SOFTWARE DEV, and chopped each milestone into roughly twice as many with half as many goals: Kilometerstones.
It's taken so damn long (over 8 years) for HTML5 to get here that everyone's moved on to Apps, because:
0. Javascript is shite at everything from performance to scalability.
1. We need standards we can use, no one gives a fuck how broken they are -- That's what next version is for, you can't perfect shit.
2. Cross platform toolchains exist for native program development.
3. Every browser does everything different, even Canvas and Audio, devs need stable APIs just to Survive!
4. We CAN'T FUCKING WAIT till they pull their heads out of their asses, we've got mouths to feed.
Like it or not the Web is a cobbled together application deployment platform made out of the most haphazardly constructed protocols and languages. Software repositories, here we come! Java had the right idea, but got too bloated then dropped the ball. The W3C is what's made walled gardens look good...
Broadest will be measured by which protocol is used to implement Skype first.
most pleasing adj. - Consistently giving the most head.
What matters is the product, which in this case is a web-based implementation of voice/video chat. Out of the two proposed standards, the one that can actually be used to implement the product that users want, will win.
Then by your logic, MS will use Skype to win this standard war... Which I agree is probably the case, and also why I said "Fuck you" to building anything on top of browsers a long time ago. Native applications are where it's at. This way, when MS wins, and FF can't work around some patent BS, then I can still just keep using classic NAT traversal like STUN and TURN, and ignore all this bullshit.
What we need is an open platform to develop applications on -- A shitty document display mark up language and a horrid scripting language are what we have to work with. It's really a shame that Java dropped the ball.
It takes me OVER SIX TIMES AS LONG to write a HTML5 web app than to make the same app as a native program on Android (ARM), x86 / x64 windows, iOS, OSX, Linux (and BSD). Cross platform tool-chains exist -- The web only wishes it were one. Long Live The Internet, fuck the web.
Where is the control group where the pictures contain Celebrities unconscious, in a pool of blood, beheaded, or otherwise similar to images found in Faces of Death?
The job of the TSA is to acclimate you to your future in a police state.
How many terrorists has the TSA caught?
If the number is large, then your question is relevant. Otherwise they are the magic rock that keeps the tigers away.
Act now and with every tiger repelling Magic Rock, get a Magic Sling that Slays Giants!
But wait there's more!
Sign up within the next election year, and We'll throw in a 2000 year old instruction manual that also contains the secret to Eternal* Life!
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Falling, floating, and flying? So, what's next, fucking?
a team of nanoengineers
I think the politically correct term would be "vertically challenged engineers".
So, they're essentially two dimensional? How strange.
HUGE BUDGETS!
I take it you never had a power glove...
I take it you had the glove, but were not gifted with the power...