Besides, let's face it: Glider users are cheating bastards. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Amen.
But in all seriousness, I can't see what has people so worked up by this case. It states that you can't use a program for uses outside of it's original intent, and to be honest, most companies probably won't pounce on this except in times when malicious software (such a bots) are used. Blizzard just had to find the right loophole to jumpthrough to get people from breaking the balance of their game. I can't really blame them. Even if this wasn't the best way to go about it.
"court, pcgames, censorship, suddenoutbreakofcommonsense, haha (tagging beta)"
I swear sometimes the tags on stories make me laugh more than the story themselves. But good riddance to bad rubbish as they say. But, it won't be long for someone new to come and take up the reins where he left off.
Montesquieu's political beliefs based on years of inspection, thought and philosophy are clearly inferior to the well though out political apporoach of the Bush adminstration. 1984 was a book on how to run the government, right?
I was thinking more along the lines of the military when he said the implications. We already have planes that can fly without a pilot (UAVs). If a person could wholly be inside a plane mentally (in a sense), imagine the increased control one could have, without the limitations of G-forces on a pilot's body or the fear of real death. And the military definately has the budget.
"Milepost is realizing the vision of customized hardware with tailor fit software"
This particular part made me think of a day when every program comes with a redesign.exe. Simply click the button, and it scans every piece of hardware on your computer, and then rewrites every optimization in it to perfectly fit your computer. Programs that streamline to your hardware, maybe even change the OS's they work under. It's written for Windows, you're running OSX? No problem, it'll rewrite itself as an OSX program. Though, that's probably still decades off. But AI seems to me to be the way to ultimate compatibility.
Also to add:
"They would not be used for stem cell treatments of patients because of concerns about disease and because cybrid cells may still contain rabbit DNA in mitochondria, the "batteries" of the cell. The few rabbit genes present may generate proteins that would be attacked by the human immune system, for example."
A sublink from Telegraph
As this is a research only venture, and these stems cells are not being allowed to survive beyond the first stages of developement or used in humans, hopefully the relgious community won't strike this down like they usually do.
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Acme made way too much money off of these analogies.
With the regulation came improved communications
I don't understand how a regulated internet is going to improve communications.
A Wikipedia where the information put in actually has to be correct would be pretty nice. (though a lot less fun)
Besides, let's face it: Glider users are cheating bastards. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Amen.
But in all seriousness, I can't see what has people so worked up by this case. It states that you can't use a program for uses outside of it's original intent, and to be honest, most companies probably won't pounce on this except in times when malicious software (such a bots) are used. Blizzard just had to find the right loophole to jumpthrough to get people from breaking the balance of their game. I can't really blame them. Even if this wasn't the best way to go about it.
California: Will break off from the rest of the US and go hang out with Hawaii. Alaska can come too.
What would such companies do to get money? Sell action figures and t-shirts?
YES!
"court, pcgames, censorship, suddenoutbreakofcommonsense, haha (tagging beta)" I swear sometimes the tags on stories make me laugh more than the story themselves. But good riddance to bad rubbish as they say. But, it won't be long for someone new to come and take up the reins where he left off.
Montesquieu's political beliefs based on years of inspection, thought and philosophy are clearly inferior to the well though out political apporoach of the Bush adminstration. 1984 was a book on how to run the government, right?
I was thinking more along the lines of the military when he said the implications. We already have planes that can fly without a pilot (UAVs). If a person could wholly be inside a plane mentally (in a sense), imagine the increased control one could have, without the limitations of G-forces on a pilot's body or the fear of real death. And the military definately has the budget.
"Milepost is realizing the vision of customized hardware with tailor fit software" This particular part made me think of a day when every program comes with a redesign.exe. Simply click the button, and it scans every piece of hardware on your computer, and then rewrites every optimization in it to perfectly fit your computer. Programs that streamline to your hardware, maybe even change the OS's they work under. It's written for Windows, you're running OSX? No problem, it'll rewrite itself as an OSX program. Though, that's probably still decades off. But AI seems to me to be the way to ultimate compatibility.
Also to add: "They would not be used for stem cell treatments of patients because of concerns about disease and because cybrid cells may still contain rabbit DNA in mitochondria, the "batteries" of the cell. The few rabbit genes present may generate proteins that would be attacked by the human immune system, for example." A sublink from Telegraph As this is a research only venture, and these stems cells are not being allowed to survive beyond the first stages of developement or used in humans, hopefully the relgious community won't strike this down like they usually do.