"All" means "all". Not "all white male property owners age 35 and above", even though that's what it meant when this Consititution thing got its legs; but ALL. The closer we get to all, the better.
Should have done this in the first place. The idea of a logical hierarchy lasted until the first private dollar was spent on the system. "dot com" became nothing more than a suffix that meant "on the internet", and "dot org" means "I was the second to try to register some name at 'dot com'" (let's not even talk about ".net"). Everything's "on the internet" now, and the original roles for.com,.org, and.net are completely washed away, adding only confusion (and revenue streams for registrars). Why worry about getting yourcompany.com and yourcompany.org and yourcompany.tv (man, who knew that Tuvalu would one day see such economic benefit from a more-or-less randomly assigned abbreviation)? Just get "yourcompanyname".
Of course, it's probably too late now; ".com" is so ingrained into the brain of every fool-with-a-creditcard already, so you'll have to hold onto that, and all the other old.tlds, AND get a new one.
I came in late, and just read all the +5 comments. So apoligies if I missed some posts.
Has no one has pointed out that this happened over a month ago? Or the last line mentioning that no comparable bill has been proposed in the Senate (which is still the case)? Or that the Justice Department has come out to opposing the bill? Yes, I'm pissed off that the House is turning the same stupid (and failed) drug-war tactics to the ip-war; but thankfully, it looks like this is dead in the water.
If these issues are important to you, you can keep better abreast of them at techdirt.com (often seen in a/. article... three days later) or williampatry.blogspot.com (Google's senior copyright lawyer's blog).
Actually, wo do have some idea of when it first appeared. It formed somewhere between 178 and 343 years ago.
(Really, a few relevant wikipedia pages should be required pre-posting reading for every/. science article.)
Yes, "making available" might be illegal (not sure under what law; there's no "reckless endagerment" equivilent for copyright), but it's not unlawful copyright distribution unless there's a distribution.
This is more appropriate under the last discussion (but since it was under the consistently lackluster "Games" topic, I didn't read it) but part of their complaint was:
"bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time."
So? You control the game. Limit the effectiveness, or boot people off (like they ALREADY DO in parts of SE Asia), when they've been on too long.
Or, you know, if your servers are accepting bogus input that lets people cheat, maybe you could validate the input first? (Or heck, if people a willing to pay to replace your "gameplay" with the use of a script, maybe that speaks to just how engaging your "gameplay" really is.)
Trademark infringement? Sure; same field, similar names, could be confusing. They should be required to change their name, or something.
But why should they be barred from using a competitor's name in their advertising? A federal court has found that to be perfectly legal, so this is an unusal punishment.
Disagree. Whether she was planing (or claiming to plan) to make something similar should have ZERO to do with the legality of this. Otherwise, I could just claim that I'm _planning_ to make a for-charity product for whatever I don't want you to make. It'd be a stupid precedent to set.
There wasn't a horizon given on his predictions. What he said about the important numbers being "1" and "12,000" means consumer CPUs have about, what, 9 to 12 years to go before we get there? At which point it'd be foolish/not/ to have the GPU be part of the CPU. Personally, I think it'll be a bit sooner than that. Not next year, or the year after; but soon.
So, assuming for a moment their story is true and it *is* just negligence, incompetence, and stupidity; it is still FEDERALLY CRIMINAL negligence, incompetence, and stupidity, Right? Books will be thrown at those responsible, yes?
We vote in November, for positions that start in January. If "speed" is the BEST reason for electronic voting, then there aren't any GOOD reasons for it.
Damn that Craig for providing a better service at a cheaper price! What a dirty commie! The gov'mnt should make him charge more, because these huge corporations can't make ends meet anymore!
On the first day of class, my AI Prof in college asked "What is AI? Well, they used to say 'when a computer can win at chess, then we'll have AI'; but we did that and they said that's not it. So they said 'drive a car', and when we did that they said it didn't count... so they said 'play soccer'; done, 'doesn't count'. So what is AI? AI is anything we haven't figured out how to do with a computer. Yet."
Let's not forget about Loki Software's well-publicised collapse; now, it was embezelment that killed them, not a bad business plan. But to the people who pay the bills for gaming development, all they remember from it is "Linux == FAIL".
Adjusted for inflation, the costs of the latest-and-greatest console has held pretty much constant throughout the life of the industry (PS/3 and Wii being the greatest out-liers.)
Over the same time period, the (real) cost of the average gaming-PC has slowly but consistently dropped.
When the cost of a new gaming-PC drops to equal the cost of the latest console (likely in two, maybe one or
three more generations), then the difference between "PC gaming" and "console gaming" will cease to be relevant. It won't die, exactly; it will be subsumed. And it'll happen in about 7 to 12 years.
At that point, "hot rodding" PC-gaming hobbyists will be in the same class as "hot rodding" car-racing hobbyists: they'll still be around, but not even the manufacturers of the objects of their desire will care.
Sure, in most in-home uses, LEDs are (once the manufacturing costs come down a bit more) going to be great; but I've got, for example, a friend who does lighting-design for plays and such; and she FLIPS OUT over LEDs because they do not interact properly for what she tries to do with color.
But that, I think, is an edge case; she can keep using incandescents (although she'll need a bigger budget when production is scaled back.)
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"All" means "all". Not "all white male property owners age 35 and above", even though that's what it meant when this Consititution thing got its legs; but ALL. The closer we get to all, the better.
Of course, it's probably too late now; ".com" is so ingrained into the brain of every fool-with-a-creditcard already, so you'll have to hold onto that, and all the other old .tlds, AND get a new one.
Has no one has pointed out that this happened over a month ago? Or the last line mentioning that no comparable bill has been proposed in the Senate (which is still the case)? Or that the Justice Department has come out to opposing the bill? Yes, I'm pissed off that the House is turning the same stupid (and failed) drug-war tactics to the ip-war; but thankfully, it looks like this is dead in the water.
If these issues are important to you, you can keep better abreast of them at techdirt.com (often seen in a /. article... three days later) or williampatry.blogspot.com (Google's senior copyright lawyer's blog).
Metallic Hydrogen?
Actually, wo do have some idea of when it first appeared. It formed somewhere between 178 and 343 years ago. (Really, a few relevant wikipedia pages should be required pre-posting reading for every /. science article.)
Agreed! If avoiding Flash (except when you want it) is your gola, Flashblock > NoScript.
Yes, "making available" might be illegal (not sure under what law; there's no "reckless endagerment" equivilent for copyright), but it's not unlawful copyright distribution unless there's a distribution.
negligent homicide:reckless endangerment::felony copyright distribution:?
"bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time."
So? You control the game. Limit the effectiveness, or boot people off (like they ALREADY DO in parts of SE Asia), when they've been on too long.
Or, you know, if your servers are accepting bogus input that lets people cheat, maybe you could validate the input first? (Or heck, if people a willing to pay to replace your "gameplay" with the use of a script, maybe that speaks to just how engaging your "gameplay" really is.)
But why should they be barred from using a competitor's name in their advertising? A federal court has found that to be perfectly legal, so this is an unusal punishment.
Game theory algorithm improves security by putting police on unpredictable schedules
Security, not through obscurity, but through complex mathematics. It's not just for computers.
Disagree. Whether she was planing (or claiming to plan) to make something similar should have ZERO to do with the legality of this. Otherwise, I could just claim that I'm _planning_ to make a for-charity product for whatever I don't want you to make. It'd be a stupid precedent to set.
There wasn't a horizon given on his predictions. What he said about the important numbers being "1" and "12,000" means consumer CPUs have about, what, 9 to 12 years to go before we get there? At which point it'd be foolish /not/ to have the GPU be part of the CPU. Personally, I think it'll be a bit sooner than that. Not next year, or the year after; but soon.
So, assuming for a moment their story is true and it *is* just negligence, incompetence, and stupidity; it is still FEDERALLY CRIMINAL negligence, incompetence, and stupidity, Right? Books will be thrown at those responsible, yes?
We vote in November, for positions that start in January. If "speed" is the BEST reason for electronic voting, then there aren't any GOOD reasons for it.
(Yes, I'm an engineer. And, I admit, I'm slacking.)
Damn that Craig for providing a better service at a cheaper price! What a dirty commie! The gov'mnt should make him charge more, because these huge corporations can't make ends meet anymore!
It's not a bug; it's a feature! Seriously!
Calendars are funny things.
On the first day of class, my AI Prof in college asked "What is AI? Well, they used to say 'when a computer can win at chess, then we'll have AI'; but we did that and they said that's not it. So they said 'drive a car', and when we did that they said it didn't count... so they said 'play soccer'; done, 'doesn't count'. So what is AI? AI is anything we haven't figured out how to do with a computer. Yet."
Let's not forget about Loki Software's well-publicised collapse; now, it was embezelment that killed them, not a bad business plan. But to the people who pay the bills for gaming development, all they remember from it is "Linux == FAIL".
Over the same time period, the (real) cost of the average gaming-PC has slowly but consistently dropped.
When the cost of a new gaming-PC drops to equal the cost of the latest console (likely in two, maybe one or three more generations), then the difference between "PC gaming" and "console gaming" will cease to be relevant. It won't die, exactly; it will be subsumed. And it'll happen in about 7 to 12 years.
At that point, "hot rodding" PC-gaming hobbyists will be in the same class as "hot rodding" car-racing hobbyists: they'll still be around, but not even the manufacturers of the objects of their desire will care.
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. -- Thomas Jefferson
No competition? Now's my chance to launch a Sealed-bid second-price auction site; something which actualy provides benefits to the buyers.
Techdirt claims it (probably) ain't so.
Sure, in most in-home uses, LEDs are (once the manufacturing costs come down a bit more) going to be great; but I've got, for example, a friend who does lighting-design for plays and such; and she FLIPS OUT over LEDs because they do not interact properly for what she tries to do with color.
But that, I think, is an edge case; she can keep using incandescents (although she'll need a bigger budget when production is scaled back.)