There are Dildo's in the shape of all the avengers - not made by Marvell either.
I suspect Marvell wouldn't sue - if only to avoid giving them more publicity but even if they did - ironically - they have a better chance of winning than this guy did. You could make a reasonable argument that using characters popularly thought of as "children's fiction" for dildos is clear parody, and thus protected fair use.
Now of course fair use isn't well defined and must be decided on a case by case basis by the judge, so your bet is as good as mine whether the judge would agree with that argument (and it would be strongly dependent on how good a lawyer the dildo company had) but it's a good enough shot that if Marvell did decide to sue, and I was them, I would try it.
Apparently the judge is an idiot according ot you as well then - since it was the JUDGE who declared the car is copyright protected and JUSTIFIED that conclusion on the basis that it's a character in the comics.
And guaranteed to be 50 times as long as it should have been. Deep inside java was a functional, elegant and readable OO language trying to get out. Its name was python.
If that's the plan, the government should really stop trying to weaken encryption. Because the fastest way to defeat the US's new unstoppable robot army is to hijack the signal and make them turn right back around and attack your own country.
It took centuries for computing devices to go from the Abacus to the Hollerith tabulator. Along the way they gradually but steadily progressed. Mechanical computation devices got more and more advanced (read a bit of the history of mechanical computers -there were some very fascinating and surprisingly powerful ones over the centuries) - and when we reached their limits they were gradually replaced by electrical devices which were in turn slowly replaced by electronic devices (a line you can draw roughly at the point where mechanical relays were replaced by solid-state vaccuum tubes).
But the semi-conductor revolution was waiting. It took a while to get off the ground - nearly two decades from when we built the first modern computers (in the seperates data from code sense) before transistors even appeared and another decade for them to become the standard tech. Even as they did work on semiconductors were continuing and ICs were well on their way but still a long way off.
The same pattern happened in storage - as mechanical/magnetic storage got refined and improved over time - and we are currently in the midst of the transition to solid state storage.
And right back some 2000 or more years ago there was somebody like you who said: "Fingers are still the best computing devices we have - they've been promising us that this 'abacus' thing will revolutionize computing in the near future but they still can't get the beads to reliably stay on the right side of the wire" and there's been people like you saying it about every revolution as it unfolded ever since. Computational technology has, in fact, been a running thread right through human history - and as it improved, society did as well, the better it got- the better we could organize ourselves (what is organisation after all, but the ability to process numbers - the faster and more reliably you can do that, the better things work).
Right now our best bet, by far, for the next generation of computing is quantum. Positronic computing was mentioned by Asimov and Star Trek alike but considering a positron is the anti-particle of an electron it would offer exactly zero advantages over electrons while offering a huge containment issue (and in theory - a positronic computer would have to be built entirely out of anti-matter or the positrons would anihilate the circuitry), that one is really pure science fiction - because even though it's entirely theoretically possible it has no practical value. Biological computers are possible, but that adds a whole host of practical difficulties - a living computer is subject to diseases, it needs food and oxygen and water... it has all the difficulties, in fact, of a pet - and when you factor those in there is no real reason to believe it would be good at what computers are good at, it's more likely to be good at the things we are already good at ourselves. Nah, biological computer research is incredibly valuable - not for what it can teach us about computers but for what it can teach us about ourselves. What else is there ? Photonic computers - taking the fibre-obtics right into the CPU ? Theorectically it's possible but it has a whole host of it's own difficulties and electrons can already reach light-speed under some conditions so solving them will only offer marginal rewards - it may never be cost-effective for what it offers.
Of all the research going on - this is the only one that promises the potential of another revolution similar to the switch from vaccuum tubes to transistors. And like all the previous ones, it will be the governments and large corporations who will be early adopters - and the military perhaps first of all. You probably won't see a home quantum computer for decades, but then it took decades from ENIAC to the ALTAIR. That doesn't make ENIAC the worthless symbol of some pipe dream.
As I recall the last piece of technology documented to require a hot cup of tea was the infinite improbability drive, which while capable of revolutionizing space travel, was not exactly a computational device.
Stupidity, noun, citing a historically supported fact.
Fact: emigrants always produce more than they cost and on average the difference is far larger than for natives. They use less social services and produce more wealth. Never in all of history has *any* amount of immigration ever FAILED to make the locals RICHER.
As for the claim of wanting to destroy the natives ? Well in all of history that only ever happened once. It was called colonialism and it was done exclusively *by* Europeans. Do not project the failures of your ancestors on the entire world - who mostly consist of the people they did it to.
Nah, the GOP has had candidates like Trump (and worse) for decades, and it wouldn't be the first time one of them got the nomination. Remember Barry Goldwater anybody ? And you can't call them outliers either. Nixon's Southern Strategy was lifted almost word for word from Goldwater's policies - I say almost because he left out one word (only one word) and that was the word "nigger". That and he no longer outright said he was against the civil war act, the supreme court decision on seperate-but-equal had killed that as an option or he would have however.
The fact is, the last sane republican was Eisenhower. Reagan may have qualified if not for the Iran/Contra scandal - sorry but letting your sitting president get away with high treason means the entire damn party has gone crazy.
If you believe the definition of a natural monopoly is somehow fatally flawed - don't waste your time arguing that on slashdot, write a paper - it's GUARANTEED to win the nobel prize if you can prove it, seriously. And that's a *lot* of money you're due.
Can't do it ?
Then I'll stick to the proven economic theories until there is actual proof they are wrong.
Google, however, did not start that as their first business - they were already very rich, and have always had a habit of being willing to take huge investment risks with long-term returns.
That is an extraordinarily rare business model - and you don't get to cite a rare exception like that as a model because we can't base policies on one in a million events, we need to base them on what the other million do.
That would be government intervention. And it would include siezing property. We can debate whether its a better solution or not but its definitely still intervention and arguably a greater intrusion on liberty.
So what's the barrier to entry here... oh that's right extremely high initial capital investment coupled with very low per-unit margins resulting in a very long time to make your initial investment back and start earning profits.
Hey wait a second... that's the textbook definition of a natural monopoly.
These kind of industries will never HAVE a "free" market, it's literally economically impossible - a natural monopoly is itself a textbook example of a market failure - a situation where a free and efficient market simply cannot ever exist. In those situations government intervention is not only warranted and justified but REQUIRED.
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There are Dildo's in the shape of all the avengers - not made by Marvell either.
I suspect Marvell wouldn't sue - if only to avoid giving them more publicity but even if they did - ironically - they have a better chance of winning than this guy did. You could make a reasonable argument that using characters popularly thought of as "children's fiction" for dildos is clear parody, and thus protected fair use.
Now of course fair use isn't well defined and must be decided on a case by case basis by the judge, so your bet is as good as mine whether the judge would agree with that argument (and it would be strongly dependent on how good a lawyer the dildo company had) but it's a good enough shot that if Marvell did decide to sue, and I was them, I would try it.
It's America so er... 30 seconds before the heat death of the universe I believe.
Apparently the judge is an idiot according ot you as well then - since it was the JUDGE who declared the car is copyright protected and JUSTIFIED that conclusion on the basis that it's a character in the comics.
Indeed, you can't copyright small planets.
And guaranteed to be 50 times as long as it should have been. Deep inside java was a functional, elegant and readable OO language trying to get out. Its name was python.
I dont have a thousand other reasons not to install C support. Also, unlike java, C lets me run some actually usefull programs.
I wonder what the budget is for making the human centipede real. If you're going to network brains, why not digestive tracts ?
If that's the plan, the government should really stop trying to weaken encryption. Because the fastest way to defeat the US's new unstoppable robot army is to hijack the signal and make them turn right back around and attack your own country.
Dude, we've all read about "The Singularity" years ago.
But personally I'm betting on it happening through a major advance in teledildonics. Nothing drives new technological adoption like porn does.
>Dice employees used to be the lowest form of life
Used to be ?!??!?!
another reason to uninstall java.
That is some seriously hot tea. Superheated in fact. Better be carefull...
>something nearing the temperature of the surface of the sun if left uncooled, how the hell do you cool that?
Hold it against Hillary's tit ?
It took centuries for computing devices to go from the Abacus to the Hollerith tabulator. Along the way they gradually but steadily progressed. Mechanical computation devices got more and more advanced (read a bit of the history of mechanical computers -there were some very fascinating and surprisingly powerful ones over the centuries) - and when we reached their limits they were gradually replaced by electrical devices which were in turn slowly replaced by electronic devices (a line you can draw roughly at the point where mechanical relays were replaced by solid-state vaccuum tubes).
But the semi-conductor revolution was waiting. It took a while to get off the ground - nearly two decades from when we built the first modern computers (in the seperates data from code sense) before transistors even appeared and another decade for them to become the standard tech. Even as they did work on semiconductors were continuing and ICs were well on their way but still a long way off.
The same pattern happened in storage - as mechanical/magnetic storage got refined and improved over time - and we are currently in the midst of the transition to solid state storage.
And right back some 2000 or more years ago there was somebody like you who said: "Fingers are still the best computing devices we have - they've been promising us that this 'abacus' thing will revolutionize computing in the near future but they still can't get the beads to reliably stay on the right side of the wire" and there's been people like you saying it about every revolution as it unfolded ever since.
Computational technology has, in fact, been a running thread right through human history - and as it improved, society did as well, the better it got- the better we could organize ourselves (what is organisation after all, but the ability to process numbers - the faster and more reliably you can do that, the better things work).
Right now our best bet, by far, for the next generation of computing is quantum. Positronic computing was mentioned by Asimov and Star Trek alike but considering a positron is the anti-particle of an electron it would offer exactly zero advantages over electrons while offering a huge containment issue (and in theory - a positronic computer would have to be built entirely out of anti-matter or the positrons would anihilate the circuitry), that one is really pure science fiction - because even though it's entirely theoretically possible it has no practical value. Biological computers are possible, but that adds a whole host of practical difficulties - a living computer is subject to diseases, it needs food and oxygen and water... it has all the difficulties, in fact, of a pet - and when you factor those in there is no real reason to believe it would be good at what computers are good at, it's more likely to be good at the things we are already good at ourselves. Nah, biological computer research is incredibly valuable - not for what it can teach us about computers but for what it can teach us about ourselves. What else is there ? Photonic computers - taking the fibre-obtics right into the CPU ? Theorectically it's possible but it has a whole host of it's own difficulties and electrons can already reach light-speed under some conditions so solving them will only offer marginal rewards - it may never be cost-effective for what it offers.
Of all the research going on - this is the only one that promises the potential of another revolution similar to the switch from vaccuum tubes to transistors. And like all the previous ones, it will be the governments and large corporations who will be early adopters - and the military perhaps first of all. You probably won't see a home quantum computer for decades, but then it took decades from ENIAC to the ALTAIR. That doesn't make ENIAC the worthless symbol of some pipe dream.
And just what exactly about atoms make you think that shining some lasers on them is anything like juggling knifes ?
As I recall the last piece of technology documented to require a hot cup of tea was the infinite improbability drive, which while capable of revolutionizing space travel, was not exactly a computational device.
Stupidity, noun, citing a historically supported fact.
Fact: emigrants always produce more than they cost and on average the difference is far larger than for natives. They use less social services and produce more wealth. Never in all of history has *any* amount of immigration ever FAILED to make the locals RICHER.
As for the claim of wanting to destroy the natives ? Well in all of history that only ever happened once. It was called colonialism and it was done exclusively *by* Europeans.
Do not project the failures of your ancestors on the entire world - who mostly consist of the people they did it to.
> the US doesn't make pennies, we make cents
No. You really don't. :)
Nah, the GOP has had candidates like Trump (and worse) for decades, and it wouldn't be the first time one of them got the nomination. Remember Barry Goldwater anybody ?
And you can't call them outliers either. Nixon's Southern Strategy was lifted almost word for word from Goldwater's policies - I say almost because he left out one word (only one word) and that was the word "nigger". That and he no longer outright said he was against the civil war act, the supreme court decision on seperate-but-equal had killed that as an option or he would have however.
The fact is, the last sane republican was Eisenhower. Reagan may have qualified if not for the Iran/Contra scandal - sorry but letting your sitting president get away with high treason means the entire damn party has gone crazy.
Well Mister Trump, I'm afraid you're going to have to die. That will show the bitches.
If you believe the definition of a natural monopoly is somehow fatally flawed - don't waste your time arguing that on slashdot, write a paper - it's GUARANTEED to win the nobel prize if you can prove it, seriously. And that's a *lot* of money you're due.
Can't do it ?
Then I'll stick to the proven economic theories until there is actual proof they are wrong.
Google, however, did not start that as their first business - they were already very rich, and have always had a habit of being willing to take huge investment risks with long-term returns.
That is an extraordinarily rare business model - and you don't get to cite a rare exception like that as a model because we can't base policies on one in a million events, we need to base them on what the other million do.
And if Donald Trump was an intelligent, thoughtful, decent person the GOP primaries wouldn't be a complete joke.
That would be government intervention. And it would include siezing property. We can debate whether its a better solution or not but its definitely still intervention and arguably a greater intrusion on liberty.
So what's the barrier to entry here... oh that's right extremely high initial capital investment coupled with very low per-unit margins resulting in a very long time to make your initial investment back and start earning profits.
Hey wait a second... that's the textbook definition of a natural monopoly.
These kind of industries will never HAVE a "free" market, it's literally economically impossible - a natural monopoly is itself a textbook example of a market failure - a situation where a free and efficient market simply cannot ever exist. In those situations government intervention is not only warranted and justified but REQUIRED.