My problem with Myst is it took out most interactivity with the environment. As a gamer who grew up with LucasArts-style adventure games where you can walk around, being offered what's basically a slideshow was not that appealing.
I've read the case, and it's a lousy opinion. Posner's a brilliant man in some ways, but it's a dumb opinion, and I'm sure it will be struck down if it gets to the Supreme Court. If you attach something to my car, you've violated my fourth amendment rights. But Posner is notoriously unsympathetic to people who have been intruded on by government.
And it is perfectly incompatible with Kyllo, and his arguments to the contrary are unconvincing.
What is different about GPS vs. a human tracker is that human tracking requires a much greater expenditure of resources.
No, the main difference is the GPS tracker requires the police to actually interact with the suspect's possessions. It will be like me picking your pocket to look at your driver's license and find your address. Should I just be able to say "well, it's just an extension of me following you home to see where you live"?
think you are the total idiot. His legal precedent will specifically go against such widespread GPS tracking as that is what he ruled. If any instance of the cops, the feds or anyone performing such is discovered then they will be facing charges themselves, as they will be breaking the law. Whether they still do it or not is be side the point, they will be acting illegally.
No, that comment in the opinion was dicta, which means it has no binding force.
To paraphrase: A branch of the government, especially a non-elected one, should *never* regulate ITSELF. That actually makes a good deal of sense, don't you think?
The Florida judiciary is for the most part elected. Judges, even Florida Supreme Court justices, can be voted out of office.
And none of the branches of government in Florida regulate themselves without oversight. The Florida Supreme Court is granted sole authority to regulate the practice of law, and the legislature and electorate could take that authority away if they wanted.
and he is a *competent* lawyer who understands exactly what's gone wrong with the law.
Membership in a bar as a requirement to practice has been around for CENTURIES. You make it sound like at some point it was different.
He's EFFECTIVE
How? As far as I can tell his case history reveals a lot of failures. Most of the stuff he gets in trouble for is him stupidly venting, rather than him promoting his case, which reveals a certain ineptitude.
Now it is the Southern and MidWestern states which benefit from the federal government squeezing the Northern/Coastal states for tax money to re-distribute to the Southern and Midwestern states!
Volcano wathcer- installs and maintains volcano sensors on the Soufriere volcano (his hometown)
Lap top girl
Laser light show- designs and produces laser light shows. Also holds laser safety programs.
Come on! You give descriptions to everything that we could figure out for ourselves, and then leave the description off the one thing that we couldn't!! What does a laptop girl do, I'm dying to know!
On increased revenues? Sounds like the company's up a creek. If sales tank next quarter (because they've flooded the market seeking raw sales), I'd look for a loss.
I bet it's just because they overpay and underwork their programmers.
Well like I said, not my state, so I'll take your word for it. IIED is always a hard sell, but sometimes you throw it in just to intimidate the other side and make them work a little harder.
As for Texas I have heard that, whatever the law is, certain districts are notorious for pro-plaintiff juries.
Like I said it would depend on the facts of the situation. I remember when I was interning on personal injury defense, everyone threw emotional distress counts into their complaints, either intentional or negligent (or both sometimes). If it was iffy I wouldn't put it in, just because you don't want to make your other counts look shakier by association, but if this guy suffered then I could definitely see an argument for it.
Absent a violation of a Federal labor law, which unless there was discrimination that the poster hasn't told us about, it would most likely be handled in state court, and I'm not sure if Texas has a Rule 11 equivalent. I think most states have one though, either in their rules of procedure or somewhere in their statutes.
Hell, I'm an attorney and I would love to get this case (too bad it's in a different state). What this sounds like is a bunch of legally clueless management types got mad, and decided to take it out on this guy, using a court system they're ignorant about.
If I were his lawyer I'd countersue for malicious prosecution, tortious interference with business relationship, and hell maybe intentional infliction of emotional distress depending on the facts of the case. A lot of states also have attorneys' fees statutes for frivolous actions, so I'd ask for attorneys' fees too.
Unfortunately the company would probably fold after one letter to their corporate counsel, so whatever lawyer this guy gets likely wouldn't get the pleasure of bringing this to trial.
Harry Potter's success is mostly from momentum. People hear it's good. They read it. A lot of them generally don't read much, so they're surprised to find out how enjoyable reading is. They assume it's just these books. They tell other people about how good these specific books are. And so on.
I read a few of them, they're pretty good, but they do have serious flaws that keep me from being a fan.
For example...
Harry Potter apparently never loses. It gets annoying. I mean, he seems to come out in front in every confrontation throughout the books, so there's no build up of tension, no waiting for him to finally win, etc. It gets boring.
Also the whole if-I-only-knew-my-parents thing just gets so old and worn. It's been done so many times in fantasy. But then again, the author manages to hit almost cliche out there, so not surprising she hit this one.
Of course, the most annoying part about Harry Potter is the fans, but you all knew that already...
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I swear, when I first saw the words "PS3 Oblivion" I thought it was going to refer to the PS3's sales record...
You live in a country without anything wrong with it? Please inform me as to its identity so I can move there!
My problem with Myst is it took out most interactivity with the environment. As a gamer who grew up with LucasArts-style adventure games where you can walk around, being offered what's basically a slideshow was not that appealing.
I've read the case, and it's a lousy opinion. Posner's a brilliant man in some ways, but it's a dumb opinion, and I'm sure it will be struck down if it gets to the Supreme Court. If you attach something to my car, you've violated my fourth amendment rights. But Posner is notoriously unsympathetic to people who have been intruded on by government.
And it is perfectly incompatible with Kyllo, and his arguments to the contrary are unconvincing.
What is different about GPS vs. a human tracker is that human tracking requires a much greater expenditure of resources.
No, the main difference is the GPS tracker requires the police to actually interact with the suspect's possessions. It will be like me picking your pocket to look at your driver's license and find your address. Should I just be able to say "well, it's just an extension of me following you home to see where you live"?
think you are the total idiot. His legal precedent will specifically go against such widespread GPS tracking as that is what he ruled. If any instance of the cops, the feds or anyone performing such is discovered then they will be facing charges themselves, as they will be breaking the law. Whether they still do it or not is be side the point, they will be acting illegally.
No, that comment in the opinion was dicta, which means it has no binding force.
To paraphrase: A branch of the government, especially a non-elected one, should *never* regulate ITSELF. That actually makes a good deal of sense, don't you think?
The Florida judiciary is for the most part elected. Judges, even Florida Supreme Court justices, can be voted out of office.
And none of the branches of government in Florida regulate themselves without oversight. The Florida Supreme Court is granted sole authority to regulate the practice of law, and the legislature and electorate could take that authority away if they wanted.
and he is a *competent* lawyer who understands exactly what's gone wrong with the law.
Membership in a bar as a requirement to practice has been around for CENTURIES. You make it sound like at some point it was different.
He's EFFECTIVE
How? As far as I can tell his case history reveals a lot of failures. Most of the stuff he gets in trouble for is him stupidly venting, rather than him promoting his case, which reveals a certain ineptitude.
but this is also the sort of story that we tend to never see a followup on.
Console yourself with the fact that we'll probably get 3 or 4 dupes of the story. Those are...sort of a followup.
Now it is the Southern and MidWestern states which benefit from the federal government squeezing the Northern/Coastal states for tax money to re-distribute to the Southern and Midwestern states!
"Now"? It's always been that way.
Volcano wathcer- installs and maintains volcano sensors on the Soufriere volcano (his hometown)
Lap top girl
Laser light show- designs and produces laser light shows. Also holds laser safety programs.
Come on! You give descriptions to everything that we could figure out for ourselves, and then leave the description off the one thing that we couldn't!! What does a laptop girl do, I'm dying to know!
He did less damage then the Enron guys, yet he'll still probably end up facing worse punishment.
He got probation, so no jail time. Jeff Skilling of Enron fame got 24 years in prison. Andrew Fastow got 10 years.
Here, in the American southeast, jobs are very important.
While in the rest of the country, nobody cares about jobs?
Andy Hertzfield: Eazel developer and Macintosh forefather
Jean Ichbiah: Creator of Ada
Grace Murray Hopper: Developer of the first compiled high level programming language, COBOL
Jordan Hubbard: One of the creators of FreeBSD; currently a manager of Apple's Darwin project
Jean D Ichbiah: Principal designer, Ada language (1977)
Ken Iverson: Inventor of APL, later J
I've never used ADA, is it really so good that its inventor had to be listed twice in the same list?
Amen. I love nethack but there are serious issues with the entire structure of the game.
Or the ones who want the impossible
Perhaps you'll tell the Emperor yourself WHEN HE ARRIVES!
I didn't know Microsoft had a "way" they're somehow losing now. To say that Microsoft has always been lazy in these areas is an understatement.
Say what you will from an internal design standpoint, but it in terms of the end-user, MS Dos 6.2 was a pretty good OS...
we are allowed to quote things to make our point.
On increased revenues? Sounds like the company's up a creek. If sales tank next quarter (because they've flooded the market seeking raw sales), I'd look for a loss.
I bet it's just because they overpay and underwork their programmers.
Well like I said, not my state, so I'll take your word for it. IIED is always a hard sell, but sometimes you throw it in just to intimidate the other side and make them work a little harder.
As for Texas I have heard that, whatever the law is, certain districts are notorious for pro-plaintiff juries.
Like I said it would depend on the facts of the situation. I remember when I was interning on personal injury defense, everyone threw emotional distress counts into their complaints, either intentional or negligent (or both sometimes). If it was iffy I wouldn't put it in, just because you don't want to make your other counts look shakier by association, but if this guy suffered then I could definitely see an argument for it.
Absent a violation of a Federal labor law, which unless there was discrimination that the poster hasn't told us about, it would most likely be handled in state court, and I'm not sure if Texas has a Rule 11 equivalent. I think most states have one though, either in their rules of procedure or somewhere in their statutes.
BTW, the above is not intended to be legal advice.
Goddamn lawyers.
Hell, I'm an attorney and I would love to get this case (too bad it's in a different state). What this sounds like is a bunch of legally clueless management types got mad, and decided to take it out on this guy, using a court system they're ignorant about.
If I were his lawyer I'd countersue for malicious prosecution, tortious interference with business relationship, and hell maybe intentional infliction of emotional distress depending on the facts of the case. A lot of states also have attorneys' fees statutes for frivolous actions, so I'd ask for attorneys' fees too.
Unfortunately the company would probably fold after one letter to their corporate counsel, so whatever lawyer this guy gets likely wouldn't get the pleasure of bringing this to trial.
Harry Potter's success is mostly from momentum. People hear it's good. They read it. A lot of them generally don't read much, so they're surprised to find out how enjoyable reading is. They assume it's just these books. They tell other people about how good these specific books are. And so on.
I read a few of them, they're pretty good, but they do have serious flaws that keep me from being a fan.
For example...
Harry Potter apparently never loses. It gets annoying. I mean, he seems to come out in front in every confrontation throughout the books, so there's no build up of tension, no waiting for him to finally win, etc. It gets boring.
Also the whole if-I-only-knew-my-parents thing just gets so old and worn. It's been done so many times in fantasy. But then again, the author manages to hit almost cliche out there, so not surprising she hit this one.
Of course, the most annoying part about Harry Potter is the fans, but you all knew that already...
the reasons behind his decision to change the focus of his creative efforts
Besides the better money, larger audience, better parties, more cultural relevance, and greater prestige?
-- Given that it costs $230 CDN, I should hope so.
What's that, $5 American?