True, but I did enjoy the films of H.G Well's The Time Machine and The Man Who Could Perform Miracles. These weren't so desperate to be faithful to the book, but did have the same basic themes.
Mary Sheeley's Frankenstein was a very good conversion of the book, and quite accurate. I did enjoy the book more though.
Then there was the movie of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (Blade Runner for the few people who don't know) which I enjoyed as much as the book. Of course this was a totally different story.
Okay, it would be difficult to portray, but the hissing sound was horrible. Personally I'd have made it sound a little buit surreal. Use reverse Echo or some resonance based effect.
Not that I was totally unimpressed by the film, but I think it was a mistake to try to film an accurate version of a brick sized tome in less than 6 hours.
I also hope they make "The Voice" a little bit more convincing.
Still, I agree. According to the origional article, its "interesting" (but apparently also obvious) and also "A very useful technique", which would suggest that somebody would have done it before if it was obvious.
On the other hand, I think a lot of things do get patented dispite being obvious. This can happen when the costs of doing something outweight the benefits , giving someone an unfair monopoly if the costs go down.
"using a hard disk to store digitized telephone messages". I hear that and think, "give a patent to the hard disk guy, to the A/D guy, and to the telephone guy
I see your point. This is just an answering machine with a funny sort of tape recorder, but what if nobody had invented an answering machine before? Surely then it would have been a suitably new idea to patent, yet its still just 3 things stuck together.
Yeah, but pointless things can be fun. It would have the added benefit of allowing the huge selection of games available for Linux to run on the Dreamcast.
The question is could a Dreamcast handle the vast quantity of processing needed for Star Trek or Hangman?
Interesting. Does that mean that I could make a game that runs on the Linux kernel and have that run straight out of the box? I wonder if it would be easier to port Linux, OpenGL, and Quake or to produce a version of Quake that uses Sega's OS.
That is every platform has its own sound API, so I hope this does catch on. What we really need is a port to games consoles. Ease of portability would be a great selling point.
You're not wrong. But its not your call. It would be nice if one of these companies came up with a new piece of software rather than producing Yet Another Linux Distro(TM). Still, Slackware have been around forever, so they have more cause to keep doing the same than a lot of the newbies.
Hey, I bought one of those iMacs and it was useless at getting the creases out of my clothes!
But seriously, if this iron is sufficiently different in design from all other irons, and the iMac is based on it, then of course they should pay royalties. They're ripping off someone elses idea.
This is different from fashions. Fashions are usually based on standard looks. The iMac was an attempt to totally redefine the look.
The bell bottom is a standard design thats been around for years. If I came up with a totally new look for an item of clothing, I would be upset is someone else copied me. Expensive fashion shows try to completely redesign the entire look of clothes. Any designer that copied another would immediately lose all credit for origionality.
Cars are allowed to all look the same because all cars look the same. If GM were to copy the looks of the GT40 then yes, Ford should get upset.
Films are allowed to be the same if they come in batches of similar themes. Armageddon obviously wasn't an origional idea since Deep Impact was in production at the same time. Was anyone else designing iMac like computers before the iMac came out? What if I was to make a film about a bunch of Roughnecks saving the Earth from an asteroid? Am I allowed to?
Just because you spent time doing something does not stop others from spending their time doing something similar.
Absolutely. People should spend their time coming up with a new look, rather than spending no time at all copying the look of something thats been done before. If they designed their machines as silver pyramids with a CD-Rom at the top, and connectors on the front then that would have been worthwhile, and Apple should not have been allowed to copy them.
The Apple case is not designed for functionality, but for looks. The shape of the machine is a way to identify the product as being an iMac just like the Apple Logo is. Don't they desrve some protection?
Don't discount the possibility that the inversion of letters is just obfuscation, or maybe it means that you should swap with another letter in the word. Tyler's First Cryptograph suggests that the writer likes scrambling as well as substitution.
There's 105 letters in this code (upper + lower case upside down and right way up + spaces)
But back to your point, for most simple substitution codes, you can also use the rule that t is the second most repeated letter, and most of the time "t?e" maps on to "the". Doesn't everyone know this?
Oh, I remember those joysyick wagglers. One of the Commodore 64 magazines predicted that in 2005 there would be a special form of RSI attributed to these games.
These games aren't as popular these days so this probably won't happen.
How about a law that states that a percentage of any profit made from any genetic sequence should go to the person who discovered it, and also invalidates all genetic patents.
I'm not totaly sure about this, but I think the Hippocartic oath has been replaced by the Geneva Declaration. This looks something like this
I solemnly pledge myself to consecrate my life to the service of humanity; I will give to my teachers the respect and gratitude which is their due; I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity; The health of my patient will by my first consideration; I will respect the secrets which are confided in me, even after the patient has died; I will maintain by all means in my power, the honor and the noble traditions of the medical profession; My colleagues will be my brothers; I will not permit considerations of religion, nationality, race, party politics or social standing to intervene between my duty and my patient; I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from its beginning even under threat and I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity; I make these promises solemnly, freely and upon my honor.
The health of their patients should still be their first priority of course
Mere possession of something that could be used to commit a crime is usually not considered a crime
Have you heard about the DMCA?
I think it stops short of saying that possession of a device that can be used for piracy is against the law, but distribution and production are.
So if you were to apply the same rules as the DMCA don't try to give that knife to someone else or lend the use of your hands to another person. Even the person who sold you that knife is a criminal.
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Its all down to the challenge. This is one of the less imaginitive and more useful ones though.
Apparently you can get a version of Linux for the Palm Pilot. I did hear about someone porting Linux to a Furby.
Theres even some unsubstantiated rumours of someone porting it to an x86 compatible PC, but that just sounds too ridiculous.
Over time, they improved them, and now we have our modern PC's.
Oh my god! They were responsible for Microsoft! Stop this now before its too late.
Now, I've got to go and install Linux on my fridge.
Isn't a macrovision filter illegal according to the DMCA as well though?
True, but I did enjoy the films of H.G Well's The Time Machine and The Man Who Could Perform Miracles. These weren't so desperate to be faithful to the book, but did have the same basic themes.
Mary Sheeley's Frankenstein was a very good conversion of the book, and quite accurate. I did enjoy the book more though.
Then there was the movie of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (Blade Runner for the few people who don't know) which I enjoyed as much as the book. Of course this was a totally different story.
Okay, it would be difficult to portray, but the hissing sound was horrible. Personally I'd have made it sound a little buit surreal. Use reverse Echo or some resonance based effect.
Not that I was totally unimpressed by the film, but I think it was a mistake to try to film an accurate version of a brick sized tome in less than 6 hours.
I also hope they make "The Voice" a little bit more convincing.
I don't think you should be so angry about it.
Still, I agree. According to the origional article, its "interesting" (but apparently also obvious) and also "A very useful technique", which would suggest that somebody would have done it before if it was obvious.
On the other hand, I think a lot of things do get patented dispite being obvious. This can happen when the costs of doing something outweight the benefits , giving someone an unfair monopoly if the costs go down.
"using a hard disk to store digitized telephone messages". I hear that and think, "give a patent to the hard disk guy, to the A/D guy, and to the telephone guy
I see your point. This is just an answering machine with a funny sort of tape recorder, but what if nobody had invented an answering machine before? Surely then it would have been a suitably new idea to patent, yet its still just 3 things stuck together.
but that's kind of pointless, really.
Yeah, but pointless things can be fun. It would have the added benefit of allowing the huge selection of games available for Linux to run on the Dreamcast.
The question is could a Dreamcast handle the vast quantity of processing needed for Star Trek or Hangman?
Has Bill Gates visited demanding the return of his property yet?
Interesting. Does that mean that I could make a game that runs on the Linux kernel and have that run straight out of the box? I wonder if it would be easier to port Linux, OpenGL, and Quake or to produce a version of Quake that uses Sega's OS.
Is there's so many to choose from.
That is every platform has its own sound API, so I hope this does catch on. What we really need is a port to games consoles. Ease of portability would be a great selling point.
You're not wrong. But its not your call. It would be nice if one of these companies came up with a new piece of software rather than producing Yet Another Linux Distro(TM). Still, Slackware have been around forever, so they have more cause to keep doing the same than a lot of the newbies.
Hey, I bought one of those iMacs and it was useless at getting the creases out of my clothes!
But seriously, if this iron is sufficiently different in design from all other irons, and the iMac is based on it, then of course they should pay royalties. They're ripping off someone elses idea.
Obviously not enough caffiene today. You can only patent a shape if that shape does something functional. I meant "trademark" of course.
This is different from fashions. Fashions are usually based on standard looks. The iMac was an attempt to totally redefine the look.
The bell bottom is a standard design thats been around for years. If I came up with a totally new look for an item of clothing, I would be upset is someone else copied me. Expensive fashion shows try to completely redesign the entire look of clothes. Any designer that copied another would immediately lose all credit for origionality.
Cars are allowed to all look the same because all cars look the same. If GM were to copy the looks of the GT40 then yes, Ford should get upset.
Films are allowed to be the same if they come in batches of similar themes. Armageddon obviously wasn't an origional idea since Deep Impact was in production at the same time. Was anyone else designing iMac like computers before the iMac came out? What if I was to make a film about a bunch of Roughnecks saving the Earth from an asteroid? Am I allowed to?
Just because you spent time doing something does not stop others from spending their time doing something similar.
Absolutely. People should spend their time coming up with a new look, rather than spending no time at all copying the look of something thats been done before. If they designed their machines as silver pyramids with a CD-Rom at the top, and connectors on the front then that would have been worthwhile, and Apple should not have been allowed to copy them.
This is another shape they patented
The Apple case is not designed for functionality, but for looks. The shape of the machine is a way to identify the product as being an iMac just like the Apple Logo is. Don't they desrve some protection?
Don't discount the possibility that the inversion of letters is just obfuscation, or maybe it means that you should swap with another letter in the word. Tyler's First Cryptograph suggests that the writer likes scrambling as well as substitution.
My syntax here is "!" -> Upside down
!TIA is repeated at least twice
!A!mL is repeated at least twice
These are probably "The" and "And"
!i!rz and !irz are both in there
b, !b and K are the only symbols on their own.
Multiple representations of "I" and "A"?
There's 105 letters in this code (upper + lower case upside down and right way up + spaces)
But back to your point, for most simple substitution codes, you can also use the rule that t is the second most repeated letter, and most of the time "t?e" maps on to "the". Doesn't everyone know this?
Oh, I remember those joysyick wagglers. One of the Commodore 64 magazines predicted that in 2005 there would be a special form of RSI attributed to these games.
These games aren't as popular these days so this probably won't happen.
You mean these aren't special effects?
Yep. The machine also kicks you in the shins in football games.
How about a law that states that a percentage of any profit made from any genetic sequence should go to the person who discovered it, and also invalidates all genetic patents.
I'm not totaly sure about this, but I think the Hippocartic oath has been replaced by the Geneva Declaration. This looks something like this
I solemnly pledge myself to consecrate my life to the service of humanity;
I will give to my teachers the respect and gratitude which is their due;
I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity;
The health of my patient will by my first consideration;
I will respect the secrets which are confided in me, even after the patient has died;
I will maintain by all means in my power, the honor and the noble traditions of the medical profession;
My colleagues will be my brothers;
I will not permit considerations of religion, nationality, race, party politics or social standing to intervene between my duty and my patient;
I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from its beginning even under threat and I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity;
I make these promises solemnly, freely and upon my honor.
The health of their patients should still be their first priority of course
Mere possession of something that could be used to commit a crime is usually not considered a crime
Have you heard about the DMCA?
I think it stops short of saying that possession of a device that can be used for piracy is against the law, but distribution and production are.
So if you were to apply the same rules as the DMCA don't try to give that knife to someone else or lend the use of your hands to another person. Even the person who sold you that knife is a criminal.