In fact, if I invent something independently, and it turns out someone else has already patented that idea, then I cannot use my idea for profit, since that would infringe on the patent. But I have certainly not stolen any labour - quite the opposite.
What did you mean by "quite the opposite"? Did you mean opposite as in THEY stole the labor or opposite as you GAVE them something? Because if I did independent work on project A and you did independent work on Project B (both which coincidentally are the same), you doing your work is not stealing from me, but it is also not the "opposite".
Even when a patent infringement is clearly a case of using someone else's idea, you still cannot call it stealing someone else's labour simply because that person/company MIGHT have made money from it. There's no guarantee that investing in an idea will pay itself back.
You are correct that a new invention may not earn any money - but by taking someone's work, without their permission, you have denied that person the right to make a decision concerning their invention. For that there is penalties, and rightly so; it is unfair for people to reap benefits of someone elses work without their permission.
It's a real shame that you believe information has no value. If you spend ## time and/or ## money on some new idea only to have it copied by someone (without your permission) and then that someone sells/gives it away to the world. You would lose revenue and that is stealing. You invested time/money and now you either can't get it back or will get less - because there are lots of people who believe they shouldn't pay for information (e.g. you). That is stealing. Tangible has nothing to do with it - theft is theft. Lawmakers see that. Exclusivity allows people to recoup their investment. E.g. Pharmaceuticals who spend YEARS and MILLIONS OF DOLLARS inventing/testing new drugs that may 1) not work 2) not get approved or 3) someone else may invent a competative drug that does the same thing, except they came out with it first...but I guess years and millions of dollars of work has no value...
Only if you prefer to live in closed-minded world. Information has value in our society, actually in all society (even primitive societies...the local witch-doctor which people give tribute to so he can provide his juju magic). Taking that information, which has value, without the owners permission is stealing. It is such defined by law, it is such defined by most people even if typical/. users don't like that definition because it removes part of their justification for "stealing" music/movies.
While the above comments are not/. approved comments (for all the talk of free speech/. loves to mod down posts they don't agree with) they are valid./. crew fail to be the moral compass of our society.
This guy got a job at MS with intent to steal information that belonged to MS. He says it was originally his information, not sure on the details, but if it was and he could prove so he should have taken them to court. Since he did not, even if he was correct, he broke the terms of his contract and potentially the law. We may not like how certain things are in life - but we need to follow protocal.
I believe you, but this totally confuses me. Isn't time the same everywhere? If it takes me 1 hour to go from my house to work, then my girlfriend still experiences 1 hour of time passing. It's just weird.
That a foreign national should enjoy the same treatment as someone who has spent his life paying into the system, whose family has been doing the same for generations?
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Yes, because if we are capable of getting resources to the moon to build a colony we are obviously not capable of getting resources to space to build a space ship (or at least assemble modules of one).
That a foreign national should enjoy the same treatment as someone who has spent his life paying into the system, whose family has been doing the same for generations?
You are going down a slippery slope. I migrated to this country when I was four years old. My parents became citizens, and I became one when I was 17. I learned here (unlike some of our US born school dropouts), work here (unlike some of our US born wellfare lifetimers), and pay taxes here (unlike some of our US born gov't officals). Are you saying I should not get the same protections as the person born here gets? I don't break the law, I pay my taxes, I got educated (in the US), and I have the same challenges as you. You are no better then I am. In fact if I never told you my name, or that I was born in another country then you would never know. I look like a good ole white-boy.
Now an organization getting gov't funding should use people who LIVE in america instead of importing them. So if someone is here based on being born here, getting a green card, or they have a long-term workers visa then they should be able to work for these companies. To import someone, brand new, from another country would be wrong since they are getting paid with US tax dollars. Once a person is here they should enjoy ALL freedoms/protections of our gov't (exception is becoming US president due to constitutional law).
In all fairness I think Microsoft should be forced to open source things they want to add on to NON MS applications. That way people can go take a look... Especially when you don't ask the user permission.
Actually, that is not fair. Fair would be: MS should ask, and only ask once, for your permission. If you say no then it should not install it. Many companies have add-ons from their software to other software without it being open source. It's not unreasonable. As long as you have the option to install it then it is OK.
These objects aren't just lost because they don't know where they are (satellites have been able to bypass the water for object detection for a while now). The problem with retrieving these items is the depth, or danger. So to retrieve these items you need to have advanced submarine technology...and if you have that, you probably have nuclear weapons. But even if you have that, submarines still cannot penetrate the deepest parts of our oceans, and even if they could --- how does a submarine wrap a hook on another object? It would need robotic arms (the pressure would kill a scuba diver). So while a potential issue, it is VERY hard/impossible to retrieve such objects with todays technologies.
Well this will only detail the top, and maybe slightly angular, shots of wrecks. This will helpe us find lost wrecks. But as a diver I can tell you this will not replace scuba diving by any means....to see gorgeous coral, fish life, and go inside caves/wrecks is something you can only experience in person....video doesn't begin to capture the feeling...of being dinner for a school of barricuda:D
Second they want to have one of these for every dozen or so conventional reactors. This means transporting waste and an inevitable accident. They might be able to build one of these transmuters and take it around to each decommissioned power plant site to help with clean up, but what of the transmuter itself? How soon does it become radioactive waste?
Transporting waste if they create this plan is no different then transporting waste to be stored in a mountain. At least with this they can put the waste in a relatively closer spot. If you are located in Pennsylvania (Limrik) then travelling to a storage facility in the midwest would be a LOT farther then having a reprocessing plant within 300 miles of your location.
If you covered every inch of the US desert with solar panels you still wouldn't generate the electricity we need to power this country. Wind/Solar is a nice addon but that is all.
Our best sources of energy, right now, have horrendous by-products. So this technology is here and about to be work-able. It has a ratio of 1 fusion building for every 12 fission reactors. That's not bad at all. I do not know where you get 50-100 years - it seems the hard part has been done - INVENTING it.
As long as the energy it produces is greater then what is spent (breaking even or a slight loss is ok too) then it is worth it to clean up to 99% of this toxic sludge. It costs us a LOT of time/money/energy to store this stuff and even then it ends up screwing with the local environment.
Something is wrong with your comp. I have a dual core system and my video card is a bit weaker then yours and I had no problems with the graphics. Prior to that i had P4 - 3.02 ghtz with Gigbyte motherboard 2gigs ram and a radea 9700. It crawled but at min settings I could play it. Given your system is WAY better then my old system I think you should check your computer.
What did annoy me is that ranged had SUCH a far range that if an archer was on top of a hill he could blast you and you could not get away from you or out of his LOS so you were literally toast. But that is just gameplay.
With regards to LFG - the game is based on PVP you should have gone for the scenarios not the world events.
It's also apathy. Players of WoW don't want to leave their established characters to start from scratch.
One thing Mythic did screw up on, they created WAY too many servers to start. They helped fix it by giving free transfers - but I can't help but think how many people they lost to that.
I went and played it (had quit wow in 2007) since friends asked me to. Then they quit so I did and went back to WoW. If blizz were smart they would adopt the PvP aspect of War. They did it right.
They do actually do this. Let's see:
AQ20/AQ40 was a MASSIVE world event where opposing factions worked together and against each other to race to get AQ40 gates open.
NAXX40 was at no additional charge.
Blizzard continuously updates their game and modifies it to help improve it (or at least try). Where I think Warhammer is vastly superior to WoW is PvP. In Warhammer you can never attack a PVE mob and get levels and items. PVP generates experience, items, reputation etc. Or you can go to PVE and play that. If Blizzard tweaked their PVP to provie better and more frequent item drops as well as experience in PVP - to the point a person never had to grind out in the environment they would see a swell of people leave Warhammer for them.
Warhammer seems to be less resource intensive and I think the graphics are a bit better (at least are coded with better potential). I was getting 90 FPS on my video card (only display 60 due to the monitor). WoW I get about 51 FPS - and WoW is 5 years old...it should be doing better then Warhammer.
WoW has better tab-targetting then Warhammer. Warhammer has superior PvP which Blizzard should ninja into WoW
So WoW could be improved, but it is a matter if they want to improve those aspects.
My experience was different. I graduated in 95. There were Apple II-e's for 1st to 6th grade. After that no computer classes at all. I was in Independent STudy Computers. I would go around doing tech support for teachers who had apple ii-e's in their computer. They were fairly ignorant to computers but appreciated my help. Only once did a school admin get snippy. She claimed I didn't setup the Apple II-e correctly...in reality, she held the floppy disk upside down, reverse touching the actual disk part (5 1/4 floppy). After I explained to her how she ruined the disk she learned to listen....but other then her, everyone was excited when I turned in my book reports typed up. Though one teacher didn't understand how I didn't have "rough drafts".
I knew the kid that did it and he thought it was absolutely hilarious what happened. At the time my ethics demanded I did not "squeal", so I never said I knew who did it.
His ethics at throwing you under the bus, however, were not compromised. There is either somethign to this story you are neglecting to tell us or you were an abject retard. Got let yourself get expelled. At least you didn't claim he was your friend.
Do you have concrete evidence that the RIAA is maliciously targeting people who do not download/upload music content? And I am not talking about the person who says "I didnt do it" only to later find out their son did it.
because if you do, I think there are a few lawyers who would like to speak with these people and get rich.
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In fact, if I invent something independently, and it turns out someone else has already patented that idea, then I cannot use my idea for profit, since that would infringe on the patent. But I have certainly not stolen any labour - quite the opposite.
What did you mean by "quite the opposite"? Did you mean opposite as in THEY stole the labor or opposite as you GAVE them something? Because if I did independent work on project A and you did independent work on Project B (both which coincidentally are the same), you doing your work is not stealing from me, but it is also not the "opposite".
Even when a patent infringement is clearly a case of using someone else's idea, you still cannot call it stealing someone else's labour simply because that person/company MIGHT have made money from it. There's no guarantee that investing in an idea will pay itself back.
You are correct that a new invention may not earn any money - but by taking someone's work, without their permission, you have denied that person the right to make a decision concerning their invention. For that there is penalties, and rightly so; it is unfair for people to reap benefits of someone elses work without their permission.
It's a real shame that you believe information has no value. If you spend ## time and/or ## money on some new idea only to have it copied by someone (without your permission) and then that someone sells/gives it away to the world. You would lose revenue and that is stealing. You invested time/money and now you either can't get it back or will get less - because there are lots of people who believe they shouldn't pay for information (e.g. you). That is stealing. Tangible has nothing to do with it - theft is theft. Lawmakers see that. Exclusivity allows people to recoup their investment. E.g. Pharmaceuticals who spend YEARS and MILLIONS OF DOLLARS inventing/testing new drugs that may 1) not work 2) not get approved or 3) someone else may invent a competative drug that does the same thing, except they came out with it first...but I guess years and millions of dollars of work has no value...
Only if you prefer to live in closed-minded world. Information has value in our society, actually in all society (even primitive societies...the local witch-doctor which people give tribute to so he can provide his juju magic). Taking that information, which has value, without the owners permission is stealing. It is such defined by law, it is such defined by most people even if typical /. users don't like that definition because it removes part of their justification for "stealing" music/movies.
/. approved comments (for all the talk of free speech /. loves to mod down posts they don't agree with) they are valid. /. crew fail to be the moral compass of our society.
While the above comments are not
This guy got a job at MS with intent to steal information that belonged to MS. He says it was originally his information, not sure on the details, but if it was and he could prove so he should have taken them to court. Since he did not, even if he was correct, he broke the terms of his contract and potentially the law. We may not like how certain things are in life - but we need to follow protocal.
Yeah, myself... I'm waiting for them to get Streetview of the ocean floor....
See now i'll have to get a job for Google and slip some text for one of the pictures: /.
I believe you, but this totally confuses me. Isn't time the same everywhere? If it takes me 1 hour to go from my house to work, then my girlfriend still experiences 1 hour of time passing. It's just weird.
Hey you found my golf-ball! Thanks!
That a foreign national should enjoy the same treatment as someone who has spent his life paying into the system, whose family has been doing the same for generations?
br Yes, because if we are capable of getting resources to the moon to build a colony we are obviously not capable of getting resources to space to build a space ship (or at least assemble modules of one).
That a foreign national should enjoy the same treatment as someone who has spent his life paying into the system, whose family has been doing the same for generations?
You are going down a slippery slope. I migrated to this country when I was four years old. My parents became citizens, and I became one when I was 17. I learned here (unlike some of our US born school dropouts), work here (unlike some of our US born wellfare lifetimers), and pay taxes here (unlike some of our US born gov't officals). Are you saying I should not get the same protections as the person born here gets? I don't break the law, I pay my taxes, I got educated (in the US), and I have the same challenges as you. You are no better then I am. In fact if I never told you my name, or that I was born in another country then you would never know. I look like a good ole white-boy.
Now an organization getting gov't funding should use people who LIVE in america instead of importing them. So if someone is here based on being born here, getting a green card, or they have a long-term workers visa then they should be able to work for these companies. To import someone, brand new, from another country would be wrong since they are getting paid with US tax dollars. Once a person is here they should enjoy ALL freedoms/protections of our gov't (exception is becoming US president due to constitutional law).
Shame on MS. They have been through this before and should know better. Bad. Bad. Negative points. Sad, sad negative Karma.
Negative Karma doesn't seem to hurt their bottom line. Don't use MS products...problem solved.
In all fairness I think Microsoft should be forced to open source things they want to add on to NON MS applications. That way people can go take a look... Especially when you don't ask the user permission.
Actually, that is not fair. Fair would be: MS should ask, and only ask once, for your permission. If you say no then it should not install it. Many companies have add-ons from their software to other software without it being open source. It's not unreasonable. As long as you have the option to install it then it is OK.
These objects aren't just lost because they don't know where they are (satellites have been able to bypass the water for object detection for a while now). The problem with retrieving these items is the depth, or danger. So to retrieve these items you need to have advanced submarine technology...and if you have that, you probably have nuclear weapons. But even if you have that, submarines still cannot penetrate the deepest parts of our oceans, and even if they could --- how does a submarine wrap a hook on another object? It would need robotic arms (the pressure would kill a scuba diver). So while a potential issue, it is VERY hard/impossible to retrieve such objects with todays technologies.
Well this will only detail the top, and maybe slightly angular, shots of wrecks. This will helpe us find lost wrecks. But as a diver I can tell you this will not replace scuba diving by any means....to see gorgeous coral, fish life, and go inside caves/wrecks is something you can only experience in person....video doesn't begin to capture the feeling...of being dinner for a school of barricuda :D
Picture in front of my place has a hot girl standing there. I love the city.
On a different aspect - imagine what this will do for scuba divers - especially wreck divers.
Second they want to have one of these for every dozen or so conventional reactors. This means transporting waste and an inevitable accident. They might be able to build one of these transmuters and take it around to each decommissioned power plant site to help with clean up, but what of the transmuter itself? How soon does it become radioactive waste?
Transporting waste if they create this plan is no different then transporting waste to be stored in a mountain. At least with this they can put the waste in a relatively closer spot. If you are located in Pennsylvania (Limrik) then travelling to a storage facility in the midwest would be a LOT farther then having a reprocessing plant within 300 miles of your location.
If you covered every inch of the US desert with solar panels you still wouldn't generate the electricity we need to power this country. Wind/Solar is a nice addon but that is all.
Our best sources of energy, right now, have horrendous by-products. So this technology is here and about to be work-able. It has a ratio of 1 fusion building for every 12 fission reactors. That's not bad at all. I do not know where you get 50-100 years - it seems the hard part has been done - INVENTING it.
As long as the energy it produces is greater then what is spent (breaking even or a slight loss is ok too) then it is worth it to clean up to 99% of this toxic sludge. It costs us a LOT of time/money/energy to store this stuff and even then it ends up screwing with the local environment.
If at any point in this process (say you stop it at 50%) the 'waste' is now weapons grade this will never be allowed in the US.
This is where you are wrong...the US will allow it...but ONLY in the US.
I guess there's a price to pay for living in Hawaii. :)
Lot's of SPAM imo.
Something is wrong with your comp. I have a dual core system and my video card is a bit weaker then yours and I had no problems with the graphics. Prior to that i had P4 - 3.02 ghtz with Gigbyte motherboard 2gigs ram and a radea 9700. It crawled but at min settings I could play it. Given your system is WAY better then my old system I think you should check your computer.
What did annoy me is that ranged had SUCH a far range that if an archer was on top of a hill he could blast you and you could not get away from you or out of his LOS so you were literally toast. But that is just gameplay.
With regards to LFG - the game is based on PVP you should have gone for the scenarios not the world events.
It's also apathy. Players of WoW don't want to leave their established characters to start from scratch.
One thing Mythic did screw up on, they created WAY too many servers to start. They helped fix it by giving free transfers - but I can't help but think how many people they lost to that.
I went and played it (had quit wow in 2007) since friends asked me to. Then they quit so I did and went back to WoW. If blizz were smart they would adopt the PvP aspect of War. They did it right.
They do actually do this. Let's see:
AQ20/AQ40 was a MASSIVE world event where opposing factions worked together and against each other to race to get AQ40 gates open.
NAXX40 was at no additional charge.
Blizzard continuously updates their game and modifies it to help improve it (or at least try). Where I think Warhammer is vastly superior to WoW is PvP. In Warhammer you can never attack a PVE mob and get levels and items. PVP generates experience, items, reputation etc. Or you can go to PVE and play that. If Blizzard tweaked their PVP to provie better and more frequent item drops as well as experience in PVP - to the point a person never had to grind out in the environment they would see a swell of people leave Warhammer for them.
Warhammer seems to be less resource intensive and I think the graphics are a bit better (at least are coded with better potential). I was getting 90 FPS on my video card (only display 60 due to the monitor). WoW I get about 51 FPS - and WoW is 5 years old...it should be doing better then Warhammer.
WoW has better tab-targetting then Warhammer. Warhammer has superior PvP which Blizzard should ninja into WoW
So WoW could be improved, but it is a matter if they want to improve those aspects.
This is /. Copyright infringement is OK. Who cares what the owners of the works in place set as their rules to use their products.
My experience was different. I graduated in 95. There were Apple II-e's for 1st to 6th grade. After that no computer classes at all. I was in Independent STudy Computers. I would go around doing tech support for teachers who had apple ii-e's in their computer. They were fairly ignorant to computers but appreciated my help. Only once did a school admin get snippy. She claimed I didn't setup the Apple II-e correctly...in reality, she held the floppy disk upside down, reverse touching the actual disk part (5 1/4 floppy). After I explained to her how she ruined the disk she learned to listen....but other then her, everyone was excited when I turned in my book reports typed up. Though one teacher didn't understand how I didn't have "rough drafts".
I knew the kid that did it and he thought it was absolutely hilarious what happened. At the time my ethics demanded I did not "squeal", so I never said I knew who did it.
His ethics at throwing you under the bus, however, were not compromised. There is either somethign to this story you are neglecting to tell us or you were an abject retard. Got let yourself get expelled. At least you didn't claim he was your friend.
Do you have concrete evidence that the RIAA is maliciously targeting people who do not download/upload music content? And I am not talking about the person who says "I didnt do it" only to later find out their son did it.
because if you do, I think there are a few lawyers who would like to speak with these people and get rich.