Yeah...I was pretty disapoointed by that...there were only 70 viewable when I posted mine...and if anyone accuses me of being a slacker again...I got mine in 12 people before Sony, and 31 before the MPAA. =)
All of them to go and flame LinuxOne. My friends and I were going to take the Mandrake installation, and swap out ALL of the logos and names, and then market it as "Linux2000...2000 times better than LinuxOne." (Because...2000 * 0 is still 0.) But, alas...someone already took the Linux2000 domain name...and anything else nearly related to it we could find...sigh...
Exactly! I'm not the designer...I'm just a reviewer...We've been begging the boss guy to ditch the lame logo, and get rid of the kiddie font. But he likes all that sh---stuff...
I think what he needs is some constructive reader criticism. =) Our problem is that nobody ever says anything about anything on our site. I've gotten a total of 4 different emails. 2 cuz I flamed some retarded company's game, and 2 others for hints after I posted reviews. Maybe some "feedback" for the dude would help.
My character was a Detective when my house got robbed...but I had burglar alarms in the other areas of the house...so the five-o got him...he jacked a chair and my stereo, but I got a bunch of insurance $$$, so I bought the best stereo after that. =)
Fortunately my father was a computer repairman. There weren't seperate joysticks for sale, but I got handed down a Coleco system, and there were always busted Ataris being dropped off at the repair shop and never being picked up. I had all the propriety sticks I could want...except that first generation Apple stick...ick...
You could just have substituted another joystick...back then, in the simple days...all the joysticks had the same plug...
But I rember Decathalon...you remember Summer Games I & II, what about Winter Games I & II? Not to mention California Games, and the mother of all spinny games...720 (that skateborading game.) I just took one of my old Coleco joysticks, which had a problem that made a button stick...however, the Coleco controller actually sent holding down the button as "auto-fire" so life got much much easier after that "malfunction."
I figured you had some personal vested interest. Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with that...but I dunno, I could just tell.
Anyway, that aside...the way this whole thing is new was something you just glossed over...this is a new realm. Business and personal stuff are intermingled...trademarks for a strictly business world don't apply. This new world does away with old borders, as well...who's entitled to IBM.com, if some guy in Japan registers it first for his company? Treat the net as if it were a new country, because that's basically what it is...in the new country, trademarks go to whoever gets there first.
I guarantee that someone with a legitimately large business would yell til he's red in the face at you if you told him he had to give up rights to his domain name because it was stealing legitimate business from a bigger company. I'm positive he's not going to view his taking a domain name that incorporates a "contested" name as stealing their business...won't they be stealing HIS business if it were the oter way around?
There's only one real way to settle this for right now...until all the other TLD's are handed out...and if the current proposed system is enacted...it won't actually solve ANYTHING. The only way is to let whoever gets there first with a legit interest gets it first. Other people should then have the rights to search engine rights to properly direct people to their sites, and a link on the "offending" page.
You haven't answered why this is fraud if ther are international cases with involve simlar names. Why should a UK company get strapped with a.co.uk address if the US company doesn't have to attach.co.us? Does the fact that the US invented the internet give it the right to buly the rest of the world? Do the same rights apply for smaller companies colliding with bigger ones, just because of the US dominance? This isn't fraud, my friend.
Oh...I got my Sims...(whistles, and looks around...)
But let's just say that UGODirect/GameDealer can just delete my account right now...I'm never ordering anything from them again...
All's good for me...in fact...I liked the Sims so much, I wrote a review about it. Check it out...maybe you'll dig our site. I make no guarantees about it not sucking.
Although...if more people would be informed...I could have used my moderator points!! Sigh...Anyway, the guys at Square use motion capture to get a general idea of what stuff should look like...then replicate it without using any of the mo-cap data. I read this from an article in a gaming mag somewhere, where they interviewed some of the CG guys on the Square Hawaii staff. (For those who don't know...Square, the mother company is in Japan...Squaresoft and Square/EA are HQed in Costa Mesa, and the hardcore animation staff and bigwigs are in Square Hawaii.) He also went on to say that while they get many influences for their characters, no character is really based off of one particular person. (I heard that Squall was supposed to be a combination of Leo DiCaprio, the lead singer Teru, from the J-Pop band Glay, and a few other people...Maybe that's why his dialogue is bad...) Anyway, I believe this one is true for about 95% of the characters...
I wonder if I'm going to be able to get into an advance screening of this, or if my old cronies ar going to be bastards about this one...
I believe the trademark McDonald's posesses is only on the logo...which is why you can't put the logo up on a webpage...but if some guy had an auto repair store...there's nothing to prevent him from calling it "McDonald's Car Repair", and having a big sign that says "McDonald's" on it.
Ok, so it is a valid analogy. It hasn't proven anything. www.IBM.com is not explicitly a billboard. It is closer to street adress than it is a billboard. This is basically assigning your computer a name in cyberspace. That name translates to a physical computer location...an address. The fact that the Internet isn't a place of business alone, and that these address find both by the SAME addresses means that trademarks don't apply. Is "www.alkaiser.com" a billboard for me to advertise on? No. It's a address to tell people where to find me. Just because there can be only one doesn't mean it falls under the same auspices of the original trademark. This is a different realm of operations.
These are new ways of doing business, and this is theoretically a whole new world. The old trademarks do not cover new ways of business. (Just ask me how many times new products have come out and these "all" encompassing coupons I have are not honored because new products are not covered by the coupon...it's about time you guys got your own mantras handed back to you on a plate.) Old copyrights on books applied...if the book explicity stated "This work may noy be copied in any means." Electronic copying falls into the auspices of "any means". The trademarks most definitely do NOT give the holders rights to that name "under ANY circumstances", and they most certainly do NOT grant the trademark holders "all business rights to that name under ANY circumstances." Now trademakr holders are upset becuse they didn't have the foresight to claim these things ahead of time...too bad. This is the realm at which I'm most at home...and I'm going to use every advantage I have over you.
When was the last time you could depend on a software store to give you a release date when the COMPANY hasn't listed one.
Here's my favorite story from one of the Blizzard customer service/tech support guys that used to work with me.
Guy calls up: "I called Software Etc, they say they've got copies of Diablo in the stores, but they won't sell it to us because you have an agreement that says they can't sell it for 3 months! (I may be wrong about time span.)
My friend: "What kind of stupid policy is that? We WANT your money...why would we do something that would PREVENT us from getting your money?"
So in short...don't believe EbWorld, unless you see some corroborating evidence from Blizzard. And don't buy your games from UGODirect/Gamedealer.com. I preordered The Sims from them on 2/1/00...they're apparently still waiting to restock it.
I don't demand a law that stops IBM from taking their name...but what if some guy's got like "Interesting Bomb Materials". (Cuz all that's really on the net is porn and bomb-making stuff...) Doesn't he have an equally valid right to claim IBM.com? Or a "Cyber News Network" claiming cnn.com.
On the Net we are "taller". I'm not saying we have to say that IBM can't have their domain...it's whoever gets to it first...just like it was in the real world. This is a new business paradigm, and the old rules don't apply...the same as when any paradigm shift happens. Otherwise, we'd still be getting our electricity and phone service from one company...times change, and so do the rules. You can't go stamping the old rules on the new playing field...or else we would have just stuck with the old playing field.
I think it should still be a open ended thing. I mean people could get hurt...but it could also be a big break for the little guy. I don't mean this domain squatting crud...I mean, legit small businesses. (IMHO, you should only get to keep 1 name in a range...i.e. International Business Machines, and not get to register International Business Machinery.)
Something like, say, computers.com. Nobody "owns" that...but now, if the big companies get first crack at it...shouldn't the little guy have as much access to that potential cash as the big guy?
How did they all get their big business names in the first place? It was an open market. If it was uncontested, it was yours...if it wasn't, then you could buy them out...the same system should apply here. If you aren't market savvy enough to get the names first, then pay someone for it.
Granted, everyone who does something similar to what you described in the Man U example, should still be subject to slander and libel laws. All the legal constructs are in place already...it doesn't mean we should be losing another edge to established businesses.
The tech industry is a rapidly advancing and growing field. This is our battleground...(not because we made it, but because we flow best with its guidelines.) and just because others can't hang with us doesn't mean we should level the playing field? Are they going to mandate that the NBA mandate a upper limit on height? Because then I could play...but as it is now, I lack the necessary qualifications. On the Net if I have them...why shouldn't I enjoy the privledges my advantages offer on my own turf? This would be like telling me I can't grab the Redeemer in UT unless the other guy picks it up, too. This is the area my attributes let me excel in...why, when every other marketplace is evenly competitive, do I have to have my own advantages stripped of me? If you can sufficiently answer that, I'll agree with you...
Yeah. What Six said. He's more correct. The article looked like it was giving people the idea that there was whole course already. (Judging from some of the posts.) So I decided to set everyone straighter.
Didn't know Rob was going to do all that stuff with the consoles...sweet...probably going to take a couple years, though, right Six? Lunch for tomorrow still good?
That whole part about "playing" Quake...you're supposed to be focus testing it. How do I know? My roomates were part of the program last year before it got hyped as a seperate "Gaming Studies" class. He got quoted in the Wall Street Journal article 2 weeks ago. (Slashdot must be a bit busy doing "research" on this one. =)
You were supposed to take a PC game you hadn't played before, or a PC game that you had played before, for at least 100 hours, and write about it's good & bad points, and flaws in the software that you would fix.
But the crux of the misconception of this article is that this is some sort of multi-class affair. It's 1 class...10 weeks. Your project...make a game. Basically, it's trying to close the information gap between coders, and artists and evryone else who's involved in a game's production. They all have to meet & get along in a team environment in order to crank out a decent product in 10 weeks. (Nobody's making Quake.) This isn't some wussy, play Quake, and assess it's impact on society BS. The program has actual merits, and is a pretty good idea for anyone who wants to get started in the industry.
And for those who think that game programming ins't vastly different from ther stuff...when was the last time your spreadsheet had to do anything using texture mapping? The reason games are so different is because you have to use ALL parts of the computer...sound, 2D/3D, etc, etc, and make sure you still have enough system resources to run them all, and make sure they're linking properly. Teamwork is SO much more important in gaming than in anything else...except maybe OS coding...
Never played Rock Climber. I had Chisholm Trail, Blasto! (which was Da Bomb!), Football (which totally blew.), TI Invaders, Tunnels of Doom, and Hunt the Wumpus (the sounds were coo'.)
Karl Malone is practically the most evil player in all of basketball. I, for one won't shed a tear when that aging trio retires, and doesn't have any championships. They don't deserve it.
It was a nice machine...however, all the models I'd ever seen busted the sound chip, after something like a month.
On top of the the RF box for the thing wasn't a normal box, and you couldn't swap out stndard RCA plugs for it. If than thing busted then you were FUBAR. The worst thing about my TI, is my Dad bought it a week before it was discontinued. No more suport after that...but that was where I learned how to code. Good little machine.
Damn, I'd be interested in that too. I used to have some pretty kick butt games...I think they're still sitting somewhere in my garage...but the SID chip broke in it and I never had sound.
Remember Tunnels of Doom? My first RPG experience ever...sigh....Like an old ex-girlfriend...who isn't trying to kill you.
Ok, so maybe I don't get exp. for slaying a troll...but I should at least get the "Playing in Character" exp, and the "Avoiding unecessary violence" points. (References to Palladium RPGs, in case anyone's wondering.)
But, seriously, I've given this guy every chance to be civil and to explain himself. Seriously, I thought like you. I thought maybe this guy ins't just talking out of his ass, and maybe the guy has something legit to say. But every time he write something new, he contradicts something old, and he contradicts himself WITHIN the post! Then he goes off an accuses me of being anything...and what was the deal with that whole "I don't even think slave owners would listen to this abolitionist crap". thing? Doesn't he realize abolition was a GOOD thing? I think that's trollworthy. I've been called a racist, a Hitler supporter, a denier of "indepenace", and a FONZIE LOVER! (I mean, I was 5 when I had that Fonz jacket...it was the last piece of fad wear I ever owned...)
The only thing I don't get is why he's so damn perisistant...except now...he never emailed back. Maybe the FBI tracked him down and killed him...in which case...they'd be after me next...or maybe I'd get a big ol' reward...cuz I "goaded him into leaking so much information on a public forum."
That and I'm ALL FOR keeping warm piles of crap PROPRIETARY! If someone tries to make a contribution to my proprietary source of warm crap, I WILL KILL THEM! =)
1 Person, 1 Toilet! No Open Sourced Crap! That's the platform I'm running for President on.
You're missing the point. This is the internet. I'm not talking to you face to face. I have no idea what you look like, nor you I. So I cannot believe that you are who you say you are, and that you did and saw what you say you did and saw with only that to back it up. If you're the witness in a trial, and you say something that's diametrically opposed to something everyone else has, your testimony usually gets thrown out of court. Furhermore, if you were a witness in a trial, I'd have the added benefits of seeing you, I'd also have the added benefit of knowing if others, who were at the event know and recognize you.
If you were telling me you ate something for breakfast, I'd believe you. Because without anyone else but you to contradict what you ate for breakfast, I have no other soucres of information. This situation is nothing like that. This would be like you saying you were there when they murdered Christ, and telling people that Jesus was picking up swords and decapitating people before they subdued and killed him, and then you expecting me to believe you over everyone else, because you, an unknown entity in the ether, told me so.
Listen, boy, I've been alive long enough to know that everything isn't what everyone tells you. It's been a long, long time since I was anything near gullible. I'm a hard core, dyed-in-the-wool cynic now. I've had my share of shit hitting the fan to know you can't just time shift through difficult parts of life. You suck it up and deal. I've *never* taken drugs, and I've dealt with enough people like you to know when someone's lying and when someone's telling the truth. Your story's riddled with inaccuracies.
I drink Coke, I drink Pepsi, I watch TV, and I read slashdot. I cook my hamburger until it's done and I don't understand what the hell any of that was supposed to prove.
Here's your final chance to prove that you're not a punk kid. email me. Alkaiser10000@yahoo.com. If you're a punk send me tons of spam. Like I care about my Yahoo account. This is what the damn thing's for. If you're not, I'll give you a chance to air out your story. But take it off of here. And I don't want to hear any crap about how you're afraid of people watching you. You've already thrown out more than enough information to track down where you are. The slashdot guys probably know who you are already. So there it is...air out your story, or once and for all, shut the fuck up.
I'm not nitpicking. If I wanted to, you'd see a much larger writeup. Those were major points, and you have *NO* comebacks for them. I therefore, declare you a unknowledgable, lying, hate filled little troglodyte. You have been exposed, and your only recourse so far has been to insult everyone...you little high schooler.
I'm not trying to reconstruct any events...Any reconstruction has been done by you, and nobody but you. Everyone else sees the facts? Please, is that why you're getting laughed off this board? You go on worrying about who and how you're being watched. Make sure there aren't any peeping toms at your window, and spout meaningless hate-filled platitudes at everyone you see. I'm sure that's something that, even you can live up to.
Oh, and as to your "hating minorities" thing, I am a "minority". But, I've wasted enough time on you, you have nothing productive to say, and only lies to spread. Go back to your chain e-mails, and remember...
I guess I came off as rude, which wouldn't really surprise me...this is the Internet, manners come second to proving yourself right.
What I meant by "real" state is that your state, as well as Louisiana is known for having policies and laws that don't necessarily impact the rest of the country because the lifestyle there is so much different from the rest of the contiguous US. (When Hawaii was trying to adopt some radical new license plate law, did anyone care? No.) I don't need coffee houses to be cool...in fact, I find most coffee houses to be frequented by the pseudo-intellectual, smug types that I am most likely to kill the most of, should I ever go postal.
The difference between California, New York, Florida, Nevada, or even Washington and Utah life is immense. Utah is known for having stricter moral guidelines than the rest of the country because of its Mormon roots. I tend to strongly disagree with most of their religion, but morals are good...however, most of the rest of the US will look at it and say, it's just Utah, and this is the type of thing Utah is known for. If Utah were to say, start sweeping educational and health care reform, the rest of the US would stand up and take notice, but Utah and codes of morality are as linked together as Texas and the death penalty. When Texas announces it's getting tough on crime again, nobody else in the US really cares...except for the fact that they'll be that much less likely to visit Texas.
It's not that I think your state isn't "real" in general (except the fact that I hate the Utah Jazz.)...it's just that in that case, you guys are the Boy who's cried moral wolf once too often. Now that I've made a more reasonable explanation of my actions, maybe the "Troll" moderation should be removed.
Look, your "story" is very touching, and I'd love to believe it except:
In your first post you say it was "well known" that there were 3 FBI agents at SJG. Now you say you were undercover.
Second, why would you grab the evidence and bury it? If it was obvious that a bust was going to go down from the SS, why did you care what happened to SJG? It wasn't your ass. You didn't have anything to hide. You were trying to get them, the only reason you say you were working against the SS was because you wanted to amass more evidence...why didn't you just give the SS the evidence you had since you weren't going to get a chance to amass any more?
Third, and most importantly...if you were one of the FBI agents that worked there, the SS knows who you are, and so does the FBI. And know that you've gone and told everyone that you faked your wife's death, and hid all the documents in her coffin, they can just go search her coffin for it. Because if they know who you are, and they know where you live, they know where you buried your "wife". If if they just know who you are they can just search for death certificates, and find out where you buried your wife. If you truly were as panicked as you say you were about revealing info...you wouldn't have gone ahead and revealed any of this stuff.
You've got a great story man, and it'd be really interesting if it were true, but as it is, I see more plot holes and inconsistencies in this tale than I do in most Hollywood productions. Take care man...keep loving your wife.
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Yeah...I might need the human genome...in case I ever have to enter in 2 chromosomes from the human genome from memory whilst on the plant Mars.
We should mnemonic genome songs to hlp us rememer them by. (And here's the new one that's screaming up the charts "T-A-C-G-T-A-T-T-G"!)
Yeah...I was pretty disapoointed by that...there were only 70 viewable when I posted mine...and if anyone accuses me of being a slacker again...I got mine in 12 people before Sony, and 31 before the MPAA. =)
All of them to go and flame LinuxOne. My friends and I were going to take the Mandrake installation, and swap out ALL of the logos and names, and then market it as "Linux2000...2000 times better than LinuxOne." (Because...2000 * 0 is still 0.) But, alas...someone already took the Linux2000 domain name...and anything else nearly related to it we could find...sigh...
Exactly! I'm not the designer...I'm just a reviewer...We've been begging the boss guy to ditch the lame logo, and get rid of the kiddie font. But he likes all that sh---stuff...
I think what he needs is some constructive reader criticism. =) Our problem is that nobody ever says anything about anything on our site. I've gotten a total of 4 different emails. 2 cuz I flamed some retarded company's game, and 2 others for hints after I posted reviews. Maybe some "feedback" for the dude would help.
My character was a Detective when my house got robbed...but I had burglar alarms in the other areas of the house...so the five-o got him...he jacked a chair and my stereo, but I got a bunch of insurance $$$, so I bought the best stereo after that. =)
Fortunately my father was a computer repairman. There weren't seperate joysticks for sale, but I got handed down a Coleco system, and there were always busted Ataris being dropped off at the repair shop and never being picked up. I had all the propriety sticks I could want...except that first generation Apple stick...ick...
You could just have substituted another joystick...back then, in the simple days...all the joysticks had the same plug...
But I rember Decathalon...you remember Summer Games I & II, what about Winter Games I & II? Not to mention California Games, and the mother of all spinny games...720 (that skateborading game.) I just took one of my old Coleco joysticks, which had a problem that made a button stick...however, the Coleco controller actually sent holding down the button as "auto-fire" so life got much much easier after that "malfunction."
I figured you had some personal vested interest. Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with that...but I dunno, I could just tell.
.co.uk address if the US company doesn't have to attach .co.us? Does the fact that the US invented the internet give it the right to buly the rest of the world? Do the same rights apply for smaller companies colliding with bigger ones, just because of the US dominance? This isn't fraud, my friend.
Anyway, that aside...the way this whole thing is new was something you just glossed over...this is a new realm. Business and personal stuff are intermingled...trademarks for a strictly business world don't apply. This new world does away with old borders, as well...who's entitled to IBM.com, if some guy in Japan registers it first for his company? Treat the net as if it were a new country, because that's basically what it is...in the new country, trademarks go to whoever gets there first.
I guarantee that someone with a legitimately large business would yell til he's red in the face at you if you told him he had to give up rights to his domain name because it was stealing legitimate business from a bigger company. I'm positive he's not going to view his taking a domain name that incorporates a "contested" name as stealing their business...won't they be stealing HIS business if it were the oter way around?
There's only one real way to settle this for right now...until all the other TLD's are handed out...and if the current proposed system is enacted...it won't actually solve ANYTHING. The only way is to let whoever gets there first with a legit interest gets it first. Other people should then have the rights to search engine rights to properly direct people to their sites, and a link on the "offending" page.
You haven't answered why this is fraud if ther are international cases with involve simlar names. Why should a UK company get strapped with a
Oh...I got my Sims...(whistles, and looks around...)
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But let's just say that UGODirect/GameDealer can just delete my account right now...I'm never ordering anything from them again...
All's good for me...in fact...I liked the Sims so much, I wrote a review about it. Check it out...maybe you'll dig our site. I make no guarantees about it not sucking.
http://www.gameplayer.com/reviews/scripts/gprevie
Alright, here's what I know...
Although...if more people would be informed...I could have used my moderator points!! Sigh...Anyway, the guys at Square use motion capture to get a general idea of what stuff should look like...then replicate it without using any of the mo-cap data. I read this from an article in a gaming mag somewhere, where they interviewed some of the CG guys on the Square Hawaii staff. (For those who don't know...Square, the mother company is in Japan...Squaresoft and Square/EA are HQed in Costa Mesa, and the hardcore animation staff and bigwigs are in Square Hawaii.) He also went on to say that while they get many influences for their characters, no character is really based off of one particular person. (I heard that Squall was supposed to be a combination of Leo DiCaprio, the lead singer Teru, from the J-Pop band Glay, and a few other people...Maybe that's why his dialogue is bad...) Anyway, I believe this one is true for about 95% of the characters...
I wonder if I'm going to be able to get into an advance screening of this, or if my old cronies ar going to be bastards about this one...
I believe the trademark McDonald's posesses is only on the logo...which is why you can't put the logo up on a webpage...but if some guy had an auto repair store...there's nothing to prevent him from calling it "McDonald's Car Repair", and having a big sign that says "McDonald's" on it.
Ok, so it is a valid analogy. It hasn't proven anything. www.IBM.com is not explicitly a billboard. It is closer to street adress than it is a billboard. This is basically assigning your computer a name in cyberspace. That name translates to a physical computer location...an address. The fact that the Internet isn't a place of business alone, and that these address find both by the SAME addresses means that trademarks don't apply. Is "www.alkaiser.com" a billboard for me to advertise on? No. It's a address to tell people where to find me. Just because there can be only one doesn't mean it falls under the same auspices of the original trademark. This is a different realm of operations.
These are new ways of doing business, and this is theoretically a whole new world. The old trademarks do not cover new ways of business. (Just ask me how many times new products have come out and these "all" encompassing coupons I have are not honored because new products are not covered by the coupon...it's about time you guys got your own mantras handed back to you on a plate.) Old copyrights on books applied...if the book explicity stated "This work may noy be copied in any means." Electronic copying falls into the auspices of "any means". The trademarks most definitely do NOT give the holders rights to that name "under ANY circumstances", and they most certainly do NOT grant the trademark holders "all business rights to that name under ANY circumstances." Now trademakr holders are upset becuse they didn't have the foresight to claim these things ahead of time...too bad. This is the realm at which I'm most at home...and I'm going to use every advantage I have over you.
HA!
When was the last time you could depend on a software store to give you a release date when the COMPANY hasn't listed one.
Here's my favorite story from one of the Blizzard customer service/tech support guys that used to work with me.
Guy calls up: "I called Software Etc, they say they've got copies of Diablo in the stores, but they won't sell it to us because you have an agreement that says they can't sell it for 3 months! (I may be wrong about time span.)
My friend: "What kind of stupid policy is that? We WANT your money...why would we do something that would PREVENT us from getting your money?"
So in short...don't believe EbWorld, unless you see some corroborating evidence from Blizzard. And don't buy your games from UGODirect/Gamedealer.com. I preordered The Sims from them on 2/1/00...they're apparently still waiting to restock it.
I don't demand a law that stops IBM from taking their name...but what if some guy's got like "Interesting Bomb Materials". (Cuz all that's really on the net is porn and bomb-making stuff...) Doesn't he have an equally valid right to claim IBM.com? Or a "Cyber News Network" claiming cnn.com.
On the Net we are "taller". I'm not saying we have to say that IBM can't have their domain...it's whoever gets to it first...just like it was in the real world. This is a new business paradigm, and the old rules don't apply...the same as when any paradigm shift happens. Otherwise, we'd still be getting our electricity and phone service from one company...times change, and so do the rules. You can't go stamping the old rules on the new playing field...or else we would have just stuck with the old playing field.
I think it should still be a open ended thing. I mean people could get hurt...but it could also be a big break for the little guy. I don't mean this domain squatting crud...I mean, legit small businesses. (IMHO, you should only get to keep 1 name in a range...i.e. International Business Machines, and not get to register International Business Machinery.)
Something like, say, computers.com. Nobody "owns" that...but now, if the big companies get first crack at it...shouldn't the little guy have as much access to that potential cash as the big guy?
How did they all get their big business names in the first place? It was an open market. If it was uncontested, it was yours...if it wasn't, then you could buy them out...the same system should apply here. If you aren't market savvy enough to get the names first, then pay someone for it.
Granted, everyone who does something similar to what you described in the Man U example, should still be subject to slander and libel laws. All the legal constructs are in place already...it doesn't mean we should be losing another edge to established businesses.
The tech industry is a rapidly advancing and growing field. This is our battleground...(not because we made it, but because we flow best with its guidelines.) and just because others can't hang with us doesn't mean we should level the playing field? Are they going to mandate that the NBA mandate a upper limit on height? Because then I could play...but as it is now, I lack the necessary qualifications. On the Net if I have them...why shouldn't I enjoy the privledges my advantages offer on my own turf? This would be like telling me I can't grab the Redeemer in UT unless the other guy picks it up, too. This is the area my attributes let me excel in...why, when every other marketplace is evenly competitive, do I have to have my own advantages stripped of me? If you can sufficiently answer that, I'll agree with you...
Yeah. What Six said. He's more correct. The article looked like it was giving people the idea that there was whole course already. (Judging from some of the posts.) So I decided to set everyone straighter.
Didn't know Rob was going to do all that stuff with the consoles...sweet...probably going to take a couple years, though, right Six? Lunch for tomorrow still good?
That whole part about "playing" Quake...you're supposed to be focus testing it. How do I know? My roomates were part of the program last year before it got hyped as a seperate "Gaming Studies" class. He got quoted in the Wall Street Journal article 2 weeks ago. (Slashdot must be a bit busy doing "research" on this one. =)
You were supposed to take a PC game you hadn't played before, or a PC game that you had played before, for at least 100 hours, and write about it's good & bad points, and flaws in the software that you would fix.
But the crux of the misconception of this article is that this is some sort of multi-class affair. It's 1 class...10 weeks. Your project...make a game. Basically, it's trying to close the information gap between coders, and artists and evryone else who's involved in a game's production. They all have to meet & get along in a team environment in order to crank out a decent product in 10 weeks. (Nobody's making Quake.) This isn't some wussy, play Quake, and assess it's impact on society BS. The program has actual merits, and is a pretty good idea for anyone who wants to get started in the industry.
And for those who think that game programming ins't vastly different from ther stuff...when was the last time your spreadsheet had to do anything using texture mapping? The reason games are so different is because you have to use ALL parts of the computer...sound, 2D/3D, etc, etc, and make sure you still have enough system resources to run them all, and make sure they're linking properly. Teamwork is SO much more important in gaming than in anything else...except maybe OS coding...
Never played Rock Climber. I had Chisholm Trail, Blasto! (which was Da Bomb!), Football (which totally blew.), TI Invaders, Tunnels of Doom, and Hunt the Wumpus (the sounds were coo'.)
Karl Malone is practically the most evil player in all of basketball. I, for one won't shed a tear when that aging trio retires, and doesn't have any championships. They don't deserve it.
It was a nice machine...however, all the models I'd ever seen busted the sound chip, after something like a month.
On top of the the RF box for the thing wasn't a normal box, and you couldn't swap out stndard RCA plugs for it. If than thing busted then you were FUBAR. The worst thing about my TI, is my Dad bought it a week before it was discontinued. No more suport after that...but that was where I learned how to code. Good little machine.
Damn, I'd be interested in that too. I used to have some pretty kick butt games...I think they're still sitting somewhere in my garage...but the SID chip broke in it and I never had sound.
Remember Tunnels of Doom? My first RPG experience ever...sigh....Like an old ex-girlfriend...who isn't trying to kill you.
Ok, so maybe I don't get exp. for slaying a troll...but I should at least get the "Playing in Character" exp, and the "Avoiding unecessary violence" points. (References to Palladium RPGs, in case anyone's wondering.)
But, seriously, I've given this guy every chance to be civil and to explain himself. Seriously, I thought like you. I thought maybe this guy ins't just talking out of his ass, and maybe the guy has something legit to say. But every time he write something new, he contradicts something old, and he contradicts himself WITHIN the post! Then he goes off an accuses me of being anything...and what was the deal with that whole "I don't even think slave owners would listen to this abolitionist crap". thing? Doesn't he realize abolition was a GOOD thing? I think that's trollworthy. I've been called a racist, a Hitler supporter, a denier of "indepenace", and a FONZIE LOVER! (I mean, I was 5 when I had that Fonz jacket...it was the last piece of fad wear I ever owned...)
The only thing I don't get is why he's so damn perisistant...except now...he never emailed back. Maybe the FBI tracked him down and killed him...in which case...they'd be after me next...or maybe I'd get a big ol' reward...cuz I "goaded him into leaking so much information on a public forum."
That and I'm ALL FOR keeping warm piles of crap PROPRIETARY! If someone tries to make a contribution to my proprietary source of warm crap, I WILL KILL THEM! =)
1 Person, 1 Toilet! No Open Sourced Crap! That's the platform I'm running for President on.
Zoinks! Scoob! Hide all the kiddie porn! It's the FBI!
You're missing the point. This is the internet. I'm not talking to you face to face. I have no idea what you look like, nor you I. So I cannot believe that you are who you say you are, and that you did and saw what you say you did and saw with only that to back it up. If you're the witness in a trial, and you say something that's diametrically opposed to something everyone else has, your testimony usually gets thrown out of court. Furhermore, if you were a witness in a trial, I'd have the added benefits of seeing you, I'd also have the added benefit of knowing if others, who were at the event know and recognize you.
If you were telling me you ate something for breakfast, I'd believe you. Because without anyone else but you to contradict what you ate for breakfast, I have no other soucres of information. This situation is nothing like that. This would be like you saying you were there when they murdered Christ, and telling people that Jesus was picking up swords and decapitating people before they subdued and killed him, and then you expecting me to believe you over everyone else, because you, an unknown entity in the ether, told me so.
Listen, boy, I've been alive long enough to know that everything isn't what everyone tells you. It's been a long, long time since I was anything near gullible. I'm a hard core, dyed-in-the-wool cynic now. I've had my share of shit hitting the fan to know you can't just time shift through difficult parts of life. You suck it up and deal. I've *never* taken drugs, and I've dealt with enough people like you to know when someone's lying and when someone's telling the truth. Your story's riddled with inaccuracies.
I drink Coke, I drink Pepsi, I watch TV, and I read slashdot. I cook my hamburger until it's done and I don't understand what the hell any of that was supposed to prove.
Here's your final chance to prove that you're not a punk kid. email me. Alkaiser10000@yahoo.com. If you're a punk send me tons of spam. Like I care about my Yahoo account. This is what the damn thing's for. If you're not, I'll give you a chance to air out your story. But take it off of here. And I don't want to hear any crap about how you're afraid of people watching you. You've already thrown out more than enough information to track down where you are. The slashdot guys probably know who you are already. So there it is...air out your story, or once and for all, shut the fuck up.
I'm not nitpicking. If I wanted to, you'd see a much larger writeup. Those were major points, and you have *NO* comebacks for them. I therefore, declare you a unknowledgable, lying, hate filled little troglodyte. You have been exposed, and your only recourse so far has been to insult everyone...you little high schooler.
I'm not trying to reconstruct any events...Any reconstruction has been done by you, and nobody but you. Everyone else sees the facts? Please, is that why you're getting laughed off this board? You go on worrying about who and how you're being watched. Make sure there aren't any peeping toms at your window, and spout meaningless hate-filled platitudes at everyone you see. I'm sure that's something that, even you can live up to.
Oh, and as to your "hating minorities" thing, I am a "minority". But, I've wasted enough time on you, you have nothing productive to say, and only lies to spread. Go back to your chain e-mails, and remember...
"Ey-----"
I guess I came off as rude, which wouldn't really surprise me...this is the Internet, manners come second to proving yourself right.
What I meant by "real" state is that your state, as well as Louisiana is known for having policies and laws that don't necessarily impact the rest of the country because the lifestyle there is so much different from the rest of the contiguous US. (When Hawaii was trying to adopt some radical new license plate law, did anyone care? No.) I don't need coffee houses to be cool...in fact, I find most coffee houses to be frequented by the pseudo-intellectual, smug types that I am most likely to kill the most of, should I ever go postal.
The difference between California, New York, Florida, Nevada, or even Washington and Utah life is immense. Utah is known for having stricter moral guidelines than the rest of the country because of its Mormon roots. I tend to strongly disagree with most of their religion, but morals are good...however, most of the rest of the US will look at it and say, it's just Utah, and this is the type of thing Utah is known for. If Utah were to say, start sweeping educational and health care reform, the rest of the US would stand up and take notice, but Utah and codes of morality are as linked together as Texas and the death penalty. When Texas announces it's getting tough on crime again, nobody else in the US really cares...except for the fact that they'll be that much less likely to visit Texas.
It's not that I think your state isn't "real" in general (except the fact that I hate the Utah Jazz.)...it's just that in that case, you guys are the Boy who's cried moral wolf once too often. Now that I've made a more reasonable explanation of my actions, maybe the "Troll" moderation should be removed.
Look, your "story" is very touching, and I'd love to believe it except:
In your first post you say it was "well known" that there were 3 FBI agents at SJG. Now you say you were undercover.
Second, why would you grab the evidence and bury it? If it was obvious that a bust was going to go down from the SS, why did you care what happened to SJG? It wasn't your ass. You didn't have anything to hide. You were trying to get them, the only reason you say you were working against the SS was because you wanted to amass more evidence...why didn't you just give the SS the evidence you had since you weren't going to get a chance to amass any more?
Third, and most importantly...if you were one of the FBI agents that worked there, the SS knows who you are, and so does the FBI. And know that you've gone and told everyone that you faked your wife's death, and hid all the documents in her coffin, they can just go search her coffin for it. Because if they know who you are, and they know where you live, they know where you buried your "wife". If if they just know who you are they can just search for death certificates, and find out where you buried your wife. If you truly were as panicked as you say you were about revealing info...you wouldn't have gone ahead and revealed any of this stuff.
You've got a great story man, and it'd be really interesting if it were true, but as it is, I see more plot holes and inconsistencies in this tale than I do in most Hollywood productions. Take care man...keep loving your wife.