It's entirely likely they did pass it along; while we do like to take pride in our work, lawyers are bound by certain ethical obligations which means sometimes we have to suggest things we don't really want to, just to "diligently represent our clients".
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So instead of the 50th WW2 FPS, it's the 50th modern warfare FPS. Big deal. I remember when FPSes used to be a varied group; what are the chances of us getting another Thief, or Deus Ex, or Heretic?
I will remind myself next time to check with you before writing a letter in protest of a decision by a legal department.
Legal departments generally advise rather than make executive decisions like that. What probably happened is someone in legal found out, or was asked about it, and said something like "well, if we don't vigorously defend our trademark, we risk losing it". The decision then is put to the executive decision-makers how they want to react. I doubt the actual decision was made by the legal department.
Oh, customer support is going to handle it in a better fashion?
Umm.....ok. So you think there are only two divisions in the company, legal and customer support? For a letter like that you want to send it to a division that is involved with fomenting customer good will and sales strategy. So, marketing or sales would be a much better bet.
Call of Duty 4 seemed to be the most popular game of the event, with the single-player demo going over very well and news of a multiplayer Beta coming soon raising the eyebrows of FPS gamers.
What is wrong with these people? Aren't they bored with the WW2 FPS setting yet? How stoned do you have to be to be like "WHOA ANOTHER ONE, AWESOME!".
And why does this bother you? You and all other slashdotters can sit there in your almighty knowing worlds and look down on the common man who believes in religion, magic or whatever.
Ok, I will.
Seriously though, we don't like seeing people conned out of their money. And honestly, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I'd like the human race to go somewhere special. This kind of ridiculousness is holding our species back from a higher, more important existence.
The administration purposely tailored its message towards religious members of this country, solely in order to get into power.
I honestly do disagree. While many of his underlings don't share his beliefs, Bush is a zealot who really does think he's doing God's work. His religious convictions can't really legitimately be called "Christian", except in the term's broadest sense, but he thinks every bomb he has dropped, every bullet he has fired, is part of a pure and noble cause.
The only thing that will really change for hardcore gamers is that they'll increase the amount of bitching they do about all those ordinary people trying to pretend that they're real gamers.
More annoying than them are the ex-hardcore-gamers, who everytime there's a game console story on slashdot flood it with their smug replies that they only play multiplayer nintendo party games now, and that's all developers should make.
It certainly wasn't the best move. This is just going to further encourage someone to take the time to break the format. When will these companies learn to not make silly statements like this?
Eh, PGP threw down the gauntlet a long time ago, and as far as I know it still remains uncracked. Just because CSS was cracked doesn't mean BD will necessarily be.
However, discrediting advanced math altogether is idiotic.
From what I understand (which admittedly, isn't much--I'm pretty far outside the realm of math OR CS), he seems to be criticizing a pure mathematics approach to solving problems with a computer. The article quotes his book as follows:
"Mathematicians and computer scientists are pursuing fundamentally different aims, and the mathematician's tools are not as appropriate as was once supposed to the questions of the computer scientist. The primary questions of computer science are not of computational possibilities but of expressional possibilities. Computer science does not need a theory of computation; it needs a comprehensive theory of process expression."
This concept of 'process expression' is, he says, a common thread running through the various disciplines of computer science. "A logic circuit is an expression of a logical process; an architecture is an expression of a continuously acting process to interpret symbolically expressed processes; a program is a symbolic expression of a process; a programming language is an environment within which to create symbolic process expression; a compiler is an expression of a process that translates between symbolic process expressions in different languages; an operating system is an expression of a process that manages the interpretation of other process expressions; any application is an expression of the application process."
The way I read this means that you may need to use advanced mathematics at the process level, depending on the needs of the program, but approaching the entire program as an algorithm, or collection of algorithms, is counterproductive. I think.
I look forward to reviewing some of this guys code.
Knock yourself out. Whether you agree or disagree with this guy, it's obvious his credentials put him at a level above 95% of the people criticizing him here.
In reality our States have lost alot of autonomy to the Federal Government because of abuses of the Interstate commerce clause.
A lot of the abuses of the interstate commerce clause rose up in regards to state oppression of black Americans; let's be honest, while I agree the Federal government is overreaching, they had good reason to begin doing it. There was no other way to stop state governments from oppressing a sizeable chunk of their population otherwise.
The FISA court is slow and hardly secret since people seem to find out when a warrant has been issued by the FISA court.
Really? Do you have any support for this somewhat unusual assertion? The FISA court has issued thousands and thousands of warrants, how many of those have been found out? And the wiretaps can be authorized by the DOJ in emergency situations, as long as within 72 hours they go to the FISA court.
You can't have it both ways. We either risk another huge terrorist attack on our soil or we spy on international phone calls.
Then we risk another attack. Goddamn it, I think all of the "stop-terrorism-at-any-cost" mob need to grow a freaking backbone. You're deluding yourself if you think we're ever going to be 100% safe. I'd rather keep the government from thinking they can just spy on whoever they want just because the executive branch says so, even if that means we're put in a little danger.
You'll have to excuse me, because I don't see a problem with this at all.
Then you're part of the problem.
Sure there's no warrant, but if there were a warrant, it would jeopardize the secrecy of the tap and the effectiveness of our intelligence. And in this case, there was every reason to listen in. The program was properly applied to help find terrorists.
They could have applied for a warrant under FISA, which would not have jeopardized the secrecy of the tap at all; all it would have done is made sure there was some judicial oversight of it.
Most people buying albums only really buy it for a few songs, with most of the rest being padding so that "you get your money's worth".
Great, now you're going to provoke countless indie music snobs on slashdot to pontificate how the bands THEY like release whole albumfulls of great music.
There is no shortage of programmers or software engineers in the U.S.; there is a shortage of people who are interested in being paid next to nothing.
There's also this false perception that somehow American programmers are inferior, because as everyone knows Americans are as a rule lazy, uneducated, and bad at anything even remotely related to math and technology. The constant denigration by the media eventually becomes imprinted on the executives and HR personnel.
What I'd love to see is for the INS to run a few stings; find out those tech jobs of which U.S. companies insist they can't find ANY U.S. citizens to fill, send a few fake resumes there, and see if they get callbacks. Any company that falsifies their H-1B application in this way should be barred for a year from getting ANY H-1Bs.
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The survey reports that only 1.5 percent of computer users have DVD copying software, and of those 1.5%, 2/3rds of them don't even use it.
.5% of computer users is a breathtaking high number of people.
I can't help but think that this a move to slyly demonize FOSS by scaring businesses into thinking they don't know what's on their PCs.
They have medication for that.
It's entirely likely they did pass it along; while we do like to take pride in our work, lawyers are bound by certain ethical obligations which means sometimes we have to suggest things we don't really want to, just to "diligently represent our clients".
But at least you're an intern. Imagine doing that for a living.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So instead of the 50th WW2 FPS, it's the 50th modern warfare FPS. Big deal. I remember when FPSes used to be a varied group; what are the chances of us getting another Thief, or Deus Ex, or Heretic?
I will remind myself next time to check with you before writing a letter in protest of a decision by a legal department.
Legal departments generally advise rather than make executive decisions like that. What probably happened is someone in legal found out, or was asked about it, and said something like "well, if we don't vigorously defend our trademark, we risk losing it". The decision then is put to the executive decision-makers how they want to react. I doubt the actual decision was made by the legal department.
Oh, customer support is going to handle it in a better fashion?
Umm.....ok. So you think there are only two divisions in the company, legal and customer support? For a letter like that you want to send it to a division that is involved with fomenting customer good will and sales strategy. So, marketing or sales would be a much better bet.
Why would you send it to their legal department?
Call of Duty 4 seemed to be the most popular game of the event, with the single-player demo going over very well and news of a multiplayer Beta coming soon raising the eyebrows of FPS gamers.
What is wrong with these people? Aren't they bored with the WW2 FPS setting yet? How stoned do you have to be to be like "WHOA ANOTHER ONE, AWESOME!".
Now I have no excuse to avoid working on the dbase (Access and VBA, ugh).
Eesh, you have fun with that.
Back in my day we called it renice.
Yes, I'm kidding. Please don't post a long reply explaining how renice differs from this cheat thing. It isn't necessary.
And why does this bother you? You and all other slashdotters can sit there in your almighty knowing worlds and look down on the common man who believes in religion, magic or whatever.
Ok, I will.
Seriously though, we don't like seeing people conned out of their money. And honestly, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I'd like the human race to go somewhere special. This kind of ridiculousness is holding our species back from a higher, more important existence.
The administration purposely tailored its message towards religious members of this country, solely in order to get into power.
I honestly do disagree. While many of his underlings don't share his beliefs, Bush is a zealot who really does think he's doing God's work. His religious convictions can't really legitimately be called "Christian", except in the term's broadest sense, but he thinks every bomb he has dropped, every bullet he has fired, is part of a pure and noble cause.
The only thing that will really change for hardcore gamers is that they'll increase the amount of bitching they do about all those ordinary people trying to pretend that they're real gamers.
More annoying than them are the ex-hardcore-gamers, who everytime there's a game console story on slashdot flood it with their smug replies that they only play multiplayer nintendo party games now, and that's all developers should make.
It certainly wasn't the best move. This is just going to further encourage someone to take the time to break the format. When will these companies learn to not make silly statements like this?
Eh, PGP threw down the gauntlet a long time ago, and as far as I know it still remains uncracked. Just because CSS was cracked doesn't mean BD will necessarily be.
From what I understand (which admittedly, isn't much--I'm pretty far outside the realm of math OR CS), he seems to be criticizing a pure mathematics approach to solving problems with a computer. The article quotes his book as follows:
The way I read this means that you may need to use advanced mathematics at the process level, depending on the needs of the program, but approaching the entire program as an algorithm, or collection of algorithms, is counterproductive. I think.
The author really sucks at math but heard that there's big bucks in the computer stuff, right?
No.
I look forward to reviewing some of this guys code.
Knock yourself out. Whether you agree or disagree with this guy, it's obvious his credentials put him at a level above 95% of the people criticizing him here.
In reality our States have lost alot of autonomy to the Federal Government because of abuses of the Interstate commerce clause.
A lot of the abuses of the interstate commerce clause rose up in regards to state oppression of black Americans; let's be honest, while I agree the Federal government is overreaching, they had good reason to begin doing it. There was no other way to stop state governments from oppressing a sizeable chunk of their population otherwise.
The FISA court is slow and hardly secret since people seem to find out when a warrant has been issued by the FISA court.
Really? Do you have any support for this somewhat unusual assertion? The FISA court has issued thousands and thousands of warrants, how many of those have been found out? And the wiretaps can be authorized by the DOJ in emergency situations, as long as within 72 hours they go to the FISA court.
You can't have it both ways. We either risk another huge terrorist attack on our soil or we spy on international phone calls.
Then we risk another attack. Goddamn it, I think all of the "stop-terrorism-at-any-cost" mob need to grow a freaking backbone. You're deluding yourself if you think we're ever going to be 100% safe. I'd rather keep the government from thinking they can just spy on whoever they want just because the executive branch says so, even if that means we're put in a little danger.
You'll have to excuse me, because I don't see a problem with this at all.
Then you're part of the problem.
Sure there's no warrant, but if there were a warrant, it would jeopardize the secrecy of the tap and the effectiveness of our intelligence. And in this case, there was every reason to listen in. The program was properly applied to help find terrorists.
They could have applied for a warrant under FISA, which would not have jeopardized the secrecy of the tap at all; all it would have done is made sure there was some judicial oversight of it.
That's never happened before. :rolleyes:
Yes, that's not too original. Let me know when one of them pokes a badger with a spoon.
Most people buying albums only really buy it for a few songs, with most of the rest being padding so that "you get your money's worth".
Great, now you're going to provoke countless indie music snobs on slashdot to pontificate how the bands THEY like release whole albumfulls of great music.
There is no shortage of programmers or software engineers in the U.S.; there is a shortage of people who are interested in being paid next to nothing.
There's also this false perception that somehow American programmers are inferior, because as everyone knows Americans are as a rule lazy, uneducated, and bad at anything even remotely related to math and technology. The constant denigration by the media eventually becomes imprinted on the executives and HR personnel.
What I'd love to see is for the INS to run a few stings; find out those tech jobs of which U.S. companies insist they can't find ANY U.S. citizens to fill, send a few fake resumes there, and see if they get callbacks. Any company that falsifies their H-1B application in this way should be barred for a year from getting ANY H-1Bs.
it has got to be at least a little worrisome that a group of American corporations can effectively control the legal system of another major nation.
Not that Russia has much of one.