Yeah, cause clearly the government has done nothing to help the companies within its borders. It certainly doesn't provide education for their workforce, roads for their commuters, patent/copyright/trademark protection, investment in pure research that forms the basis of private R&D, emergency personnel to save them from natural disasters, military protection, retirement and insurance benefits for their employees, regulation of the markets so their stock can't be manipulated, and so forth.
Yup, those greedy government bastards! Demanding we provide the money for the services they provide!
Moving operations to the lowest cost location is not illegal. Also, it is inevitable. Even if MS doesn't do it, someone will form a software company offshore that costs less to operate. Over the long term, this new company will take business from MS, making the end result the exact same.
Right. That's why we all run Mocrosift Wandoze on our Entil CPUs. All major companies are based overseas because they have a smaller tax burden.
Oh, what's that you say? "It hasn't happened yet, but trust me, it will any day now"? Right.... Have you considered the possibility that Rush Limbaugh is not as authoritative a source on economics as he purports himself to be?
Yeah, but if they leave Germany, do you really think all the devs are going to follow? They'll end up with an entirely new team making games on the old IP, and it won't be the same.
Hopefully, the politicians behind this get some sort of backlash from their constituents, and back down.
Defendant's response to plaintiffs' motion to preclude reference to cases
Now, I'm no lawyer, and I don't speak legalese. But if this were English, I'd think the RIAA had filed a motion to prevent the defense from citing precedents set in other cases. Is that seriously what this is?
You realize that companies can and do buy fruit and resell it to a third party for a profit right? The farmers don't then get a second slice of the profits.
And who's going to sell those cheaper games? Game retailers will try to convince buyers to go with the used copy, even if it means not stocking the new copies after they've been out for a year. You might sell a few direct from your website, but you're not going to cut into the used games market.
Which, if you ask me, is fine. The game's producers don't have some sort of intrinsic right to make money off their game forever.
That'll make for one traumatic moment when the lead mermaid tries to surface and bursts open from the tremendous drop in pressure. I don't think my kids would want to see that one.
This is mostly a nitpick, but water is blue because other frequencies of visible light get absorbed and turned into molecular vibrations (or something like that, I never fully understood that mechanic). This is an entirely separate phenomenon from what causes it to attenuate RF signals.
I only bring it up because blue, and even red, light are much higher frequencies than would be used in RF transmissions (10^14 Hz for visible light as opposed to 10^11 at the most for RF).
...you just compared using someone else's laptop to sleeping with their wife. WTF?
Some sitting down at your desk to check email for a couple minutes won't hurt anything. Yes, there's an infinitesimal chance that they have an uncontrollable muscle spasm and knock your laptop off the desk. There's also a chance that someone will bump into and knock it off as they walk by... but you still bring it to class.
The only reason to refuse every request is out of an irrational and anti-social distrust of your peers.
Maybe, but the people borrowing the computer aren't hackers. They're art students. They're gonna look for the internet button, type their webmail URL into google, and be done with it.
Most of them wouldn't even know where to find another user's documents. Hell, most of them probably don't even realize that you can get to "my documents" from "my computer".
This is terrible advice. If you do this, you will garner a well deserved reputation as "that guy who doesn't trust anyone to touch his laptop". You will not make as many friends, and friends you do make won't be as close (since you obviously don't trust them).
I know nerds are not generally known for their social skills (at least not in a good way), but trust me on this one. Just set up a guest account that you can quickly switch to when someone asks. Refusing such a harmless request is anti-social.
Patents are absolutely about promoting innovation. There's no reason to share a design with other companies unless you can be sure they'll pay you for it. Without patents, they could just take the idea and run. Companies would become reliant on trade secrets, and *that* would stifle innovation.
Disclaimer: Business method and software patents, as well as a few other types, are an abuse of the system, I hope the court rules against them.
Agreed. I said many times that I'd be happy to spend $10 on a DLC for L4D that included a new "movie" plus some extra weapons/infected/etc... If they want to bundle five such packages into a single game, then I'll be happy to buy it.
While I admittedly have never applied for a job in Japan, I find it very hard to believe that employers would base their hiring decisions on the attendance policy of the school, rather than technical drilling of the applicant. I realize that it's a very difficult thing to cite, but do you have any sort of evidence to back that up?
No, the degree is more valuable to the employer if the employer has gotten great employees from that university in the past.
An employer doesn't care how many hours of lecture you sat through. Hell, they normally don't even care what your grades were. They're going to drill you on technical questions that are directly relevant to what you'd be doing at their company. If you know the answers, they're satisfied. If you, and a lot of your fellow alumni, all do great work, then they'll be more likely to hire from that school in the future.
But they're not gonna look into the school's attendance policy.
Didn't make it to the second half of the summary, eh?
Also... what sort of college has an attendance sheet? (Aside, apparently, from the one in TFA.) At that point in life, you know enough to decide for yourself if you want to attend class. If you cut, it's no one's loss but your own.
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Yeah, cause clearly the government has done nothing to help the companies within its borders. It certainly doesn't provide education for their workforce, roads for their commuters, patent/copyright/trademark protection, investment in pure research that forms the basis of private R&D, emergency personnel to save them from natural disasters, military protection, retirement and insurance benefits for their employees, regulation of the markets so their stock can't be manipulated, and so forth.
Yup, those greedy government bastards! Demanding we provide the money for the services they provide!
Moving operations to the lowest cost location is not illegal. Also, it is inevitable. Even if MS doesn't do it, someone will form a software company offshore that costs less to operate. Over the long term, this new company will take business from MS, making the end result the exact same.
Right. That's why we all run Mocrosift Wandoze on our Entil CPUs. All major companies are based overseas because they have a smaller tax burden.
Oh, what's that you say? "It hasn't happened yet, but trust me, it will any day now"? Right.... Have you considered the possibility that Rush Limbaugh is not as authoritative a source on economics as he purports himself to be?
Yeah, but if they leave Germany, do you really think all the devs are going to follow? They'll end up with an entirely new team making games on the old IP, and it won't be the same.
Hopefully, the politicians behind this get some sort of backlash from their constituents, and back down.
Yeah, and blackbirds are just black birds, so it should be written that way!
Or, you could learn English as its actually used, instead of pretending its a programming language.
Defendant's response to plaintiffs' motion to preclude reference to cases
Now, I'm no lawyer, and I don't speak legalese. But if this were English, I'd think the RIAA had filed a motion to prevent the defense from citing precedents set in other cases. Is that seriously what this is?
Those are synonyms. They're just cool ways of saying "gravity is still there, but you're falling, so you don't notice."
And before you bring it up - orbit is the same thing, only you miss the ground.
You realize that companies can and do buy fruit and resell it to a third party for a profit right? The farmers don't then get a second slice of the profits.
And who's going to sell those cheaper games? Game retailers will try to convince buyers to go with the used copy, even if it means not stocking the new copies after they've been out for a year. You might sell a few direct from your website, but you're not going to cut into the used games market.
Which, if you ask me, is fine. The game's producers don't have some sort of intrinsic right to make money off their game forever.
That'll make for one traumatic moment when the lead mermaid tries to surface and bursts open from the tremendous drop in pressure. I don't think my kids would want to see that one.
Also, why did the addition of this story put the entire front page into italics?
This is mostly a nitpick, but water is blue because other frequencies of visible light get absorbed and turned into molecular vibrations (or something like that, I never fully understood that mechanic). This is an entirely separate phenomenon from what causes it to attenuate RF signals.
I only bring it up because blue, and even red, light are much higher frequencies than would be used in RF transmissions (10^14 Hz for visible light as opposed to 10^11 at the most for RF).
It's not even comparable to kissing someone's wife. The fact that you think it is tells me just how much you value possessions compared to people.
...you just compared using someone else's laptop to sleeping with their wife. WTF?
Some sitting down at your desk to check email for a couple minutes won't hurt anything. Yes, there's an infinitesimal chance that they have an uncontrollable muscle spasm and knock your laptop off the desk. There's also a chance that someone will bump into and knock it off as they walk by... but you still bring it to class.
The only reason to refuse every request is out of an irrational and anti-social distrust of your peers.
Maybe, but the people borrowing the computer aren't hackers. They're art students. They're gonna look for the internet button, type their webmail URL into google, and be done with it.
Most of them wouldn't even know where to find another user's documents. Hell, most of them probably don't even realize that you can get to "my documents" from "my computer".
This is terrible advice. If you do this, you will garner a well deserved reputation as "that guy who doesn't trust anyone to touch his laptop". You will not make as many friends, and friends you do make won't be as close (since you obviously don't trust them).
I know nerds are not generally known for their social skills (at least not in a good way), but trust me on this one. Just set up a guest account that you can quickly switch to when someone asks. Refusing such a harmless request is anti-social.
I, personally, have taken and implemented designs that I found in (expired) patents many times.
Sounds reliable to me!
Patents are absolutely about promoting innovation. There's no reason to share a design with other companies unless you can be sure they'll pay you for it. Without patents, they could just take the idea and run. Companies would become reliant on trade secrets, and *that* would stifle innovation.
Disclaimer: Business method and software patents, as well as a few other types, are an abuse of the system, I hope the court rules against them.
Well, we here in the civiliZed world have our own way of doing things, if you hadn't noticed.
Agreed. I said many times that I'd be happy to spend $10 on a DLC for L4D that included a new "movie" plus some extra weapons/infected/etc... If they want to bundle five such packages into a single game, then I'll be happy to buy it.
While I admittedly have never applied for a job in Japan, I find it very hard to believe that employers would base their hiring decisions on the attendance policy of the school, rather than technical drilling of the applicant. I realize that it's a very difficult thing to cite, but do you have any sort of evidence to back that up?
How are you going to do the lab if you're not actually there?
You're not, and you're going to fail. So why bother with an attendance sheet?
No, the degree is more valuable to the employer if the employer has gotten great employees from that university in the past.
An employer doesn't care how many hours of lecture you sat through. Hell, they normally don't even care what your grades were. They're going to drill you on technical questions that are directly relevant to what you'd be doing at their company. If you know the answers, they're satisfied. If you, and a lot of your fellow alumni, all do great work, then they'll be more likely to hire from that school in the future.
But they're not gonna look into the school's attendance policy.
So there's no way to have something run in the background? Hmm... well, one more reason I'm glad I didn't waste that sorta money on a phone.
Didn't make it to the second half of the summary, eh?
Also... what sort of college has an attendance sheet? (Aside, apparently, from the one in TFA.) At that point in life, you know enough to decide for yourself if you want to attend class. If you cut, it's no one's loss but your own.