If I read the article correctly, all they are doing is compressing the data on the storage medium (the carrier wave) so they can fit more on it.
Hmm, maybe I should throw out this explanation using some basic ideas. If your car is 12' long and travels at 100mph, think of that as the standard. Now what this guy has done is figured out a way to make your car 3' long (while still holding the exact same stuff) and it still only travels at 100mph. He calls it a "time telescope" because if you paint a finish line on the road, the shorter car arrives at the finish line at the exact same time as the longer car, but it takes it less time to completely cross it because it's shorter... Yeah, I'm thinking he's an #@&*$ also.
To be nice, maybe it's just somebody with the heart of a marketing weasel trying to make their relatively boring (but potentially important) creation sound exciting...
Now, what happens if you're a diabetic? You consume non-sugar sweetness substitutes. You avoid the sugar in the first place. So this bozo goes and taxes your 'diet' foods because he's afraid it might cause a non-diabetic to eat even more sugary stuff than they would without the diet stuff.... Not bloody likely you moron, and now you've pissed off the growing number of diabetics. With the 'logic' that cretin uses in that one paragraph, he might as well tax diabetic medication because it indirectly increases you ability to tolerate, and thus consume, more sugar.
Somebody kick that scum out of office and into the deepest darkest metaphorical well of forgotten politicians they have so nobody ever hears any of his stupid ideas again.
As a type 2 diabetic, I'm not exactly unbiased in this issue. As someone allergic to milk, who dislikes alcohol, and is living someplace where the tap water just isn't desirable, I don't find a lot of other drink choices. I'll admit I occasionally have a real candy bar, but I have to be careful with that stuff. As to the non-sugar replacement candies, a lot are horrible (most peanut butter cups), but some (mostly the hard candies) are just as good. There's already a premium price on those, and if this idiot gets his way, it'll get much worse. And yes, I know he's 'targeting' beverages, but he's doing it by talking about sugar and sweeteners. It's a very very short leap to all foods with those in them. And when politicians are talking taxes, it's not a question of IF they'll make the jump, but rather HOW FAR they can actually go before hitting a brick wall...
They still 'do a beat through a neighborhood', it's just a different type of beating...
In reality, there are good cops, but every bad cop outweighs all the work of a hundred good ones. And then there are the guilty by association cops, you know, the ones that don't speak up against the wrongdoing of the bad cops, or worse, help hide it...
Ever seen the results of a panic in a crowd? They can't maneuver to save their lives, literally. Extended periods in the area of effect is going to be absolutely unavoidable.
I know the people pushing for these weapons show "examples" of targets getting out of the way quickly and efficiently. Of course, these are rigged. The targets are trained individuals (often military or police) who are in limited quantities (never seen more than a dozen at once) and are not panicking because they know exactly what's going to happen, exactly what to do, and how to evacuate the test area. That is as much of an unrealistic situation as using the film work of a Hollywood stuntman to show that it's safe to fall down stairs.
They make it much easier, faster, and cheaper to smuggle goods and other illegal activities across state lines. Obviously they were made to promote such illegal activities...
No, hate the idiot player that doesn't follow the rules of the game, especially when he's too lame to take responsibility for his own cheating when caught and called on it...
Didn't you know that companies are currently patenting parts of the human genome/DNA that they don't even know what it does... So yeah, patent laws are insane. When it comes to lifeforms, I preferred it when the rule was that you copyright creatures you create, and you patent the process it was done by.
In my case, Gameguard wouldn't let Aion run unless I disabled some basic and horribly common online security measures. I did not like that, especially when I've ran games before that used Gameguard and that action wasn't necessary with them.
I don't mind the idea of Gameguard, I just don't like it's implementation and lack of effectiveness. (Especially when it won't play nice with my security.)
I agree with you, it looks very weak to me. As I understood it when I was a child, the universities and such dealing with virtual environments (3d worlds) obviously wanted multiple users to share the same environment and experience the events/occurrences at the same time, just like in the real world. It seems to me that this patent completely fails the obviousness test with MMOs are VR Worlds. Here's hoping the judge smacks them down.
Over a period of time the DNA of the garlic (and all living reproducing organisms) will change, it's called evolution, and microwaves have never been sited as a major (or minor) concern in this issue, as far as I'm aware. Hmm, nice run on sentence if I do say so myself.:)
I'm no where near an expert on this stuff, but my understanding is that the big change is a soluble nasty material is made non-soluble.
In other words, that really nasty stuff likes to dissolve in water and spread everywhere, especially into the water table.
They want to make it not do that, so it's in a contained area, and might even be possible to extract it, or at least stopping it from making everything within a huge area into Chernobyl Nitelights.
I actually worked at a place that had to monitor this kind of stuff. Previous owners had 'disposed' of contaminated materials by buying them. Ironically, it wasn't the buried stuff that was the greatest risk factor to us.
I'm sure most of you, including icebike, probably understand this, but it seemed the perfect chunk of thread to post this.:)
All religions are cults, some are just bigger than others. It's the media that likes to label small religions as cults, especially if they differ from the larger ones in some significant fashion or another.
Yes, and after someone commented that his successful writing career must have made him a lot of money, he is quoted as having saying, "If you want to be rich, start a religion...", and a few years later, Scientology was created...
Completely right, except for the Carebear jokes. It's just another person predicting a paradigm shift that just won't happen due to inertia and unperceived limitations.
By the way, ewww.... Carebears.... I think I have to go take another shower, and check my glucose levels... ick....
hmmm, sound mark singing acapella, in groups of 3 to 5. I'll make a mint suing barber shop quartets! They have money, right? Might have to specify the song though....
Yeah, that would be stupid, inane, unlikely to work, etc... Drat, another evil plan dashed to bits on the rocks of morals and reason....
Additionally, the article (trademark link expired) indicates it's for "a quacking noise made by tour guides and tour participants by use of duck call devices" which raises a few red flags for me. The activities or performers shouldn't be relevant to the sound if the sound is the Trademark. It's like saying the sound is not important, it's what's causing the sound that we are trademarking, so nobody riding a duck (if tourist or tourguide) can use duck calls.
And second, let's face it, they just trademarked a bunch of people making random noise with duck calls. Not audibly different from any other group of random people with duck calls. Have you ever been to an Oregon Ducks Football game? (University of Oregon) They've been using duck calls at the games since Walt Disney was still alive and gave them permission to use Donald Duck as their mascot.
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If I read the article correctly, all they are doing is compressing the data on the storage medium (the carrier wave) so they can fit more on it.
Hmm, maybe I should throw out this explanation using some basic ideas.
If your car is 12' long and travels at 100mph, think of that as the standard.
Now what this guy has done is figured out a way to make your car 3' long (while still holding the exact same stuff) and it still only travels at 100mph.
He calls it a "time telescope" because if you paint a finish line on the road, the shorter car arrives at the finish line at the exact same time as the longer car, but it takes it less time to completely cross it because it's shorter...
Yeah, I'm thinking he's an #@&*$ also.
To be nice, maybe it's just somebody with the heart of a marketing weasel trying to make their relatively boring (but potentially important) creation sound exciting...
Yes, I said Diabetic Tax.
Now, what happens if you're a diabetic? You consume non-sugar sweetness substitutes. You avoid the sugar in the first place. So this bozo goes and taxes your 'diet' foods because he's afraid it might cause a non-diabetic to eat even more sugary stuff than they would without the diet stuff.... Not bloody likely you moron, and now you've pissed off the growing number of diabetics. With the 'logic' that cretin uses in that one paragraph, he might as well tax diabetic medication because it indirectly increases you ability to tolerate, and thus consume, more sugar.
Somebody kick that scum out of office and into the deepest darkest metaphorical well of forgotten politicians they have so nobody ever hears any of his stupid ideas again.
As a type 2 diabetic, I'm not exactly unbiased in this issue. As someone allergic to milk, who dislikes alcohol, and is living someplace where the tap water just isn't desirable, I don't find a lot of other drink choices. I'll admit I occasionally have a real candy bar, but I have to be careful with that stuff. As to the non-sugar replacement candies, a lot are horrible (most peanut butter cups), but some (mostly the hard candies) are just as good. There's already a premium price on those, and if this idiot gets his way, it'll get much worse. And yes, I know he's 'targeting' beverages, but he's doing it by talking about sugar and sweeteners. It's a very very short leap to all foods with those in them. And when politicians are talking taxes, it's not a question of IF they'll make the jump, but rather HOW FAR they can actually go before hitting a brick wall...
They still 'do a beat through a neighborhood', it's just a different type of beating...
In reality, there are good cops, but every bad cop outweighs all the work of a hundred good ones. And then there are the guilty by association cops, you know, the ones that don't speak up against the wrongdoing of the bad cops, or worse, help hide it...
Ever seen the results of a panic in a crowd?
They can't maneuver to save their lives, literally.
Extended periods in the area of effect is going to be absolutely unavoidable.
I know the people pushing for these weapons show "examples" of targets getting out of the way quickly and efficiently. Of course, these are rigged. The targets are trained individuals (often military or police) who are in limited quantities (never seen more than a dozen at once) and are not panicking because they know exactly what's going to happen, exactly what to do, and how to evacuate the test area. That is as much of an unrealistic situation as using the film work of a Hollywood stuntman to show that it's safe to fall down stairs.
Copyright a song, and wait for someone to sing it without getting your permission... Stone Age IP Piracy !
Or you could use something closer to real piracy, get some clubs, beat the snot outta some other group, and take their stuff.
The only thing likable about the stone-age (Hollywood version) is the gorgeous busty leopard skin bikini wearing ladies. (At least if your male.)
>^_^<
They make it much easier, faster, and cheaper to smuggle goods and other illegal activities across state lines.
Obviously they were made to promote such illegal activities...
(yes, that's sarcasm, and so is this...)
>^_^<
Yes, you guys beat me to the Blinx the Timesweeper reference.
The point is, it's not a "brand new game mechanic", it's been done before.
He obviously isn't listening to what the boss at EA has been saying about pricing...
I think it looks ugly, dorky, and rather uncomfortable.
No thanks, guess I'll wait for hoverchairs or something...
No, hate the idiot player that doesn't follow the rules of the game, especially when he's too lame to take responsibility for his own cheating when caught and called on it...
If they've got time to play games that aren't theirs when they are supposed to be doing their job, maybe they have too many cops...
Maybe he is, but then again, they tend to be the same people, at least where I live.
They are also afraid that engineered genes will somehow jump to humans if they eat the 'frankenfoods'... Idiots!
Didn't you know that companies are currently patenting parts of the human genome/DNA that they don't even know what it does...
So yeah, patent laws are insane.
When it comes to lifeforms, I preferred it when the rule was that you copyright creatures you create, and you patent the process it was done by.
In my case, Gameguard wouldn't let Aion run unless I disabled some basic and horribly common online security measures.
I did not like that, especially when I've ran games before that used Gameguard and that action wasn't necessary with them.
I don't mind the idea of Gameguard, I just don't like it's implementation and lack of effectiveness.
(Especially when it won't play nice with my security.)
Guess he'll have to ban the Internet...
"...because it can be used to assist copyright infringement..."
I agree with you, it looks very weak to me. As I understood it when I was a child, the universities and such dealing with virtual environments (3d worlds) obviously wanted multiple users to share the same environment and experience the events/occurrences at the same time, just like in the real world.
It seems to me that this patent completely fails the obviousness test with MMOs are VR Worlds.
Here's hoping the judge smacks them down.
Over a period of time the DNA of the garlic (and all living reproducing organisms) will change, it's called evolution, and microwaves have never been sited as a major (or minor) concern in this issue, as far as I'm aware. Hmm, nice run on sentence if I do say so myself. :)
I'm being a rotten speller again.
"buying" should be "burying"...
I'm no where near an expert on this stuff, but my understanding is that the big change is a soluble nasty material is made non-soluble.
:)
In other words, that really nasty stuff likes to dissolve in water and spread everywhere, especially into the water table.
They want to make it not do that, so it's in a contained area, and might even be possible to extract it, or at least stopping it from making everything within a huge area into Chernobyl Nitelights.
I actually worked at a place that had to monitor this kind of stuff.
Previous owners had 'disposed' of contaminated materials by buying them.
Ironically, it wasn't the buried stuff that was the greatest risk factor to us.
I'm sure most of you, including icebike, probably understand this, but it seemed the perfect chunk of thread to post this.
You just know they'll find some way to weasel out of it...
All religions are cults, some are just bigger than others.
It's the media that likes to label small religions as cults, especially if they differ from the larger ones in some significant fashion or another.
Yes, and after someone commented that his successful writing career must have made him a lot of money, he is quoted as having saying, "If you want to be rich, start a religion...", and a few years later, Scientology was created...
You connect the dots....
Completely right, except for the Carebear jokes.
It's just another person predicting a paradigm shift that just won't happen due to inertia and unperceived limitations.
By the way, ewww.... Carebears.... I think I have to go take another shower, and check my glucose levels... ick....
hmmm, sound mark singing acapella, in groups of 3 to 5.
I'll make a mint suing barber shop quartets!
They have money, right?
Might have to specify the song though....
Yeah, that would be stupid, inane, unlikely to work, etc...
Drat, another evil plan dashed to bits on the rocks of morals and reason....
I would have to agree with you.
Additionally, the article (trademark link expired) indicates it's for "a quacking noise made by tour guides and tour participants by use of duck call devices" which raises a few red flags for me. The activities or performers shouldn't be relevant to the sound if the sound is the Trademark. It's like saying the sound is not important, it's what's causing the sound that we are trademarking, so nobody riding a duck (if tourist or tourguide) can use duck calls.
And second, let's face it, they just trademarked a bunch of people making random noise with duck calls. Not audibly different from any other group of random people with duck calls. Have you ever been to an Oregon Ducks Football game? (University of Oregon) They've been using duck calls at the games since Walt Disney was still alive and gave them permission to use Donald Duck as their mascot.