Thanks for beating me to the punch, Dalroth. You're right. Accepting government money (in the form of a loan, tax break) only invites the government to poke their nose deeper into your business.
If a smaller business can't make an AAA game, maybe they should focus on a simpler game that is just as fun to play?
I'm sure that there will be one or two poor sobs who will be made an example of using this law. Outside of that, you're right, very little good will come from this (mostly)- the opt-in is good, and this will control the local (UK) advertising.
But why can't people hire Apple's design firm or at least be 'enspired' by the iPod?
And, while we're tossing out wish lists, more file formats to play, can't someone make the damn thing play everything under the sun? Why not use an engine design that allow for plug-ins, ala WinAmp?
I don't know about how you will rate your list there. One thought is to find a nice place to live and register the company in another state that has laws in your favor (and host the server from there as well). In this day and age of drop shipping, UPS, FedEx, faxes and the like, maybe the thing(s) that you should be looking for are: Schools, Libraries, Parks, Cultural Events, transportation, proximity to family, jobs (what if your company goes out of business?), friends, and so forth. Good luck.
the Any key to be added. Where the @#$% is it and why do all these programs ask for it?
Building a business on publlic information
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There are plently of companies which do this with public data, not just WestLaw, LexisNexis, who are the largest in their field.
The problem is this: The government either outsources the electronic publication of their information, or these companies hired people to go out and scan the public documents. If it is the latter, then they have every right to charge access to their database- they've complied the data on their dime! However, if the government outsourced the publication, then the database should fall into public domain.
I recall one other database which did title searches on property, which were built completely from public data, and was sold back to the county and state because such a tool did not exisit until then, and to redevelop such a tool wasn't worth the effort (at the time). The data was public domain, but the relationships inside the DB was not.
Where do you see the law and society heading? With companies trying and succeeding in buying laws which protect their markets (RIAA / MPAA, MS) and IP laws covering more and more ground (State Street, SBC), at what point will the law makers have an epiphany and start to reverse these bad laws, or should we hope that we end up with a reactive court to over turn these laws?
platform reminds me of the LART project. Anyone else more knowledgable about this care to comment?
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Well then why did AOL, MSN, and Earthlink all report lose of subscribers due to an uptake of broadband?
I'd think that it is more of 'what does being online offer The Sims' vs the stand alone version. Not much judging by what other people here are saying.
Correct, which is why the MIT spam conference was so disappointing to me.
The filter that works for me will not work for you, the porn star, the priest, or the city counsel member.
A system of trusted email servers is the only workable solution, either that, or the whole email system colpases under the weight of spam.
Sometimes I wonder about the meaning of life, what I would like get out of it (and alive doesn't appear to be an option here *grin*), and so forth.
Everyone wonders. What makes life so enjoyable for some, dudgery for others? Think of the things that make you happy of course, figure out what you like, dislike, set goals and follow though.
I've created my short list (in no order):
Travel
Friends / Family
Art
Keeping my mind sharp
Being with someone
Some of my goals are easy. I just finished a 3 week vacation in Paris with a week in Val Thorens (Apls ski resort), met a bunch of great people and spent time with my sister and her husband. Other goals are very hard, Being with someone, my relastionships don't workout, and that hurts.
Others like keeping my mind sharp is why I like programming (the puzzles of solving problems), and art (relaxes the mind).
Life is what you make of it- so make the most of it.
Of course the tag line on/. reads:
Life may have no meaning, or, even worse, it may have a meaning of which you disapprove.
Guess even random quote programs have a sense of whimsy.
Depends on where you want to go! I like NPR's The Savvy Traveler since they usually give really good advice and pearls of wisdom.
Here are a few places that I've thought about going:
Australia and Brazil
Do they have a super-duper hide out, with all sorts of cool toys to play with and fight with super villians like Jack "da Tape" Valenti and Hilary "Broken Record" Rosen, while their lacky Senator Fritz "Hollywood" Hollings does their evil bidding?
The IP Justice League- Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Amer... uh-oh, it appears that my lawyer is telling me that the rest of that statement is copyrighted.
This Software Is Provided By The Copyright Holders And Contributors "As Is" And Any Express Or Implied Warranties, Including, But Not Limited To, The Implied Warranties Of Merchantability And Fitness For A Particular Purpose Are Disclaimed. STAR TREK IS STUPID. In No Event Shall The Copyright Owner Or Contributors Be Liable For Any Direct, Indirect, Incidental, Special, Exemplary, Or Consequential Damages (Including, But Not Limited To, Procurement Of Substitute Goods Or Services; Loss Of Use, Data, Or Profits; Or Business Interruption) However Caused And On Any Theory Of Liability, Whether In Contract, Strict Liability, Or Tort (Including Negligence Or Otherwise) Arising In Any Way Out Of The Use Of This Software, Even If Advised Of The Possibility Of Such Damage.
Okay, so I missed the time frame, and based my statement on semesters being 4 months long, with summers off. It's been a while since I was in school. Kudos for catching that one.
BUT: You missed my point.
The school is about game design, which does take creativity to begin with (I'd hope...), so classes about designing puzzles, writing, composing music, etc, should be included. Being there with other students in a like minded manner should begin out the best in each of them, but I'm afriad that with the focus being on a FPS, you will end up with 'group think', and no orginality.
Things that I think would make the school better would be classes on Game Theory, Arts and Culture, Music, along with a health dose of what they already are offering. Open up the student's mind to various things and see where a random connection takes a student. They might come up with the next Tetris game (a game that is simple to learn, hard to master, and quite fun to play hours on end).
And wasn't impressed. Then I looked at what was offered and really wasn't impressed.
The courses end with you building a FPS game. Where are the classes on designing puzzles, creative writing, composing music, and everything else that goes into being a game designer and developer? Not downplaying what is offered, but there is more to a game play than real time lighting effects and game physics.
Sega's web site once had a great set of articals title "So you want to be a game designer?", and one of the first things they said was to take a shape (like the DC swirl) and describe it, it's function and purpose. That type of streching the mind brough forth games like Ecco and Jet Grind Radio (not to mention Crazy Taxi, Chu Chu Rocket and so on).
If you're going to be there for 3 years, I'd hope more is taught about being a developer and designer of games than level design, art design and FPS design.
[13] It's sometimes argued that we should be working on filtering at the network level, because it is more efficient. What people usually mean when they say this is: we currently filter at the network level, and we don't want to start over from scratch. But you can't dictate the problem to fit your solution.
This is where the problem of spam will be solved, by having a web of trust between the mail servers, that sign the message in a maner which makes it easier to back track a message and if these servers also do filting, well we kill two birds with one stone.
The problems are:
CPU intensive
Need to look at every message
Seeding the filter database
Building trust with other servers
And others of course. Think about this one, what does the typical email a porn star would get look like? What we think of spam, might not be someone else's. How would the system scale?
And what would stop a spammer from installing a server with a bogus filter database, or just signing off on each message as being legit?
Perhaps filtering based on each user's personal corpus of valid email is the only workable solution, or that spammers will kill off email as a usable means of communication.
Why not just assign one number, and then add to it a postfix digit which indicates which line to ring, have it default to a voice line if no postfix is dailed;
555-555-5555[-1](Home)
555-555-5555-2(FAX)
555-555-5555-3(Pager)
555-555-5555-4(Cell)
555-555-5555-n(Fido)
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Thanks for beating me to the punch, Dalroth.
You're right. Accepting government money (in the form of a loan, tax break) only invites the government to poke their nose deeper into your business.
If a smaller business can't make an AAA game, maybe they should focus on a simpler game that is just as fun to play?
If the DOR is thinking about it, then so much the citys and other public / goverment offices. As soon as one jumps the ship, the others will follow.
Just hope they know what they're doing.
I'm sure that there will be one or two poor sobs who will be made an example of using this law.
Outside of that, you're right, very little good will come from this (mostly)- the opt-in is good, and this will control the local (UK) advertising.
But why can't people hire Apple's design firm or at least be 'enspired' by the iPod?
And, while we're tossing out wish lists, more file formats to play, can't someone make the damn thing play everything under the sun? Why not use an engine design that allow for plug-ins, ala WinAmp?
I don't know about how you will rate your list there. One thought is to find a nice place to live and register the company in another state that has laws in your favor (and host the server from there as well).
In this day and age of drop shipping, UPS, FedEx, faxes and the like, maybe the thing(s) that you should be looking for are:
Schools, Libraries, Parks, Cultural Events, transportation, proximity to family, jobs (what if your company goes out of business?), friends, and so forth.
Good luck.
Whew!
I thought it was about Bill Gates and RMS having a love child together.
the Any key to be added.
Where the @#$% is it and why do all these programs ask for it?
There are plently of companies which do this with public data, not just WestLaw, LexisNexis, who are the largest in their field.
The problem is this: The government either outsources the electronic publication of their information, or these companies hired people to go out and scan the public documents.
If it is the latter, then they have every right to charge access to their database- they've complied the data on their dime! However, if the government outsourced the publication, then the database should fall into public domain.
I recall one other database which did title searches on property, which were built completely from public data, and was sold back to the county and state because such a tool did not exisit until then, and to redevelop such a tool wasn't worth the effort (at the time). The data was public domain, but the relationships inside the DB was not.
Thanks for clearing that up.
tell me if their platform is just a copy of the LART project?
Where do you see the law and society heading? With companies trying and succeeding in buying laws which protect their markets (RIAA / MPAA, MS) and IP laws covering more and more ground (State Street, SBC), at what point will the law makers have an epiphany and start to reverse these bad laws, or should we hope that we end up with a reactive court to over turn these laws?
platform reminds me of the LART project. Anyone else more knowledgable about this care to comment?
Well then why did AOL, MSN, and Earthlink all report lose of subscribers due to an uptake of broadband?
I'd think that it is more of 'what does being online offer The Sims' vs the stand alone version. Not much judging by what other people here are saying.
Correct, which is why the MIT spam conference was so disappointing to me.
The filter that works for me will not work for you, the porn star, the priest, or the city counsel member.
A system of trusted email servers is the only workable solution, either that, or the whole email system colpases under the weight of spam.
Everyone wonders. What makes life so enjoyable for some, dudgery for others? Think of the things that make you happy of course, figure out what you like, dislike, set goals and follow though. I've created my short list (in no order):
- Travel
- Friends / Family
- Art
- Keeping my mind sharp
- Being with someone
Some of my goals are easy. I just finished a 3 week vacation in Paris with a week in Val Thorens (Apls ski resort), met a bunch of great people and spent time with my sister and her husband.Other goals are very hard, Being with someone, my relastionships don't workout, and that hurts. Others like keeping my mind sharp is why I like programming (the puzzles of solving problems), and art (relaxes the mind).
Life is what you make of it- so make the most of it.
Of course the tag line on
Guess even random quote programs have a sense of whimsy.
Depends on where you want to go!
I like NPR's The Savvy Traveler since they usually give really good advice and pearls of wisdom. Here are a few places that I've thought about going: Australia and Brazil
Do they have a super-duper hide out, with all sorts of cool toys to play with and fight with super villians like Jack "da Tape" Valenti and Hilary "Broken Record" Rosen, while their lacky Senator Fritz "Hollywood" Hollings does their evil bidding?
The IP Justice League- Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Amer... uh-oh, it appears that my lawyer is telling me that the rest of that statement is copyrighted.
This Software Is Provided By The Copyright Holders And Contributors "As Is" And Any Express Or Implied Warranties, Including, But Not Limited To, The Implied Warranties Of Merchantability And Fitness For A Particular Purpose Are Disclaimed. STAR TREK IS STUPID. In No Event Shall The Copyright Owner Or Contributors Be Liable For Any Direct, Indirect, Incidental, Special, Exemplary, Or Consequential Damages (Including, But Not Limited To, Procurement Of Substitute Goods Or Services; Loss Of Use, Data, Or Profits; Or Business Interruption) However Caused And On Any Theory Of Liability, Whether In Contract, Strict Liability, Or Tort (Including Negligence Or Otherwise) Arising In Any Way Out Of The Use Of This Software, Even If Advised Of The Possibility Of Such Damage.
George has a problem with the Mountain?Okay, so I missed the time frame, and based my statement on semesters being 4 months long, with summers off. It's been a while since I was in school. Kudos for catching that one.
BUT: You missed my point.
The school is about game design, which does take creativity to begin with (I'd hope...), so classes about designing puzzles, writing, composing music, etc, should be included. Being there with other students in a like minded manner should begin out the best in each of them, but I'm afriad that with the focus being on a FPS, you will end up with 'group think', and no orginality.
Things that I think would make the school better would be classes on Game Theory, Arts and Culture, Music, along with a health dose of what they already are offering. Open up the student's mind to various things and see where a random connection takes a student. They might come up with the next Tetris game (a game that is simple to learn, hard to master, and quite fun to play hours on end).
And wasn't impressed. Then I looked at what was offered and really wasn't impressed.
The courses end with you building a FPS game. Where are the classes on designing puzzles, creative writing, composing music, and everything else that goes into being a game designer and developer? Not downplaying what is offered, but there is more to a game play than real time lighting effects and game physics.
Sega's web site once had a great set of articals title "So you want to be a game designer?", and one of the first things they said was to take a shape (like the DC swirl) and describe it, it's function and purpose. That type of streching the mind brough forth games like Ecco and Jet Grind Radio (not to mention Crazy Taxi, Chu Chu Rocket and so on).
If you're going to be there for 3 years, I'd hope more is taught about being a developer and designer of games than level design, art design and FPS design.
Okay, so we build an AI and then torture the poor thing with insane emails about penis enlargers and the like?
No wonder Skynet rebelled.
This is where the problem of spam will be solved, by having a web of trust between the mail servers, that sign the message in a maner which makes it easier to back track a message and if these servers also do filting, well we kill two birds with one stone. The problems are:
- CPU intensive
- Need to look at every message
- Seeding the filter database
- Building trust with other servers
And others of course.Think about this one, what does the typical email a porn star would get look like? What we think of spam, might not be someone else's.
How would the system scale?
And what would stop a spammer from installing a server with a bogus filter database, or just signing off on each message as being legit?
Perhaps filtering based on each user's personal corpus of valid email is the only workable solution, or that spammers will kill off email as a usable means of communication.
Why not just assign one number, and then add to it a postfix digit which indicates which line to ring, have it default to a voice line if no postfix is dailed;
555-555-5555[-1](Home)
555-555-5555-2(FAX)
555-555-5555-3(Pager)
555-555-5555-4(Cell)
555-555-5555-n(Fido)