Actually, the ones I hate and keep running into are those god-freaking-awful "search" sites. They're not even a scam/phish/copy - they're just a really shitty search page with a lot of ads.
I'd say that web design hampers the internet in general. Far too many sites are crufty and overloaded with script when all I want are my freaking movie listings or the like. Even with a decent pipe, such sites can run dl slow when under heavy load. Besides, sometimes I don't want to use my full screen, or my full pipe, just to view a website.
Hint: the biggest success story on the internet is Google. Notice Google's layout.
Simple then - next time, just don't use the name and features of Scrabble. Hell, you could probably get away with even marketing it as "WordGrid: based on the rules of Scrabble(TM)* Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro and is used here without permission. Jared is unafilliated with Hasbro." or some such nonsense.
After all, Hasbro does not own all references to Scrabble - they just own the game. Still, lawyers like to think otherwise.
Consider how many block falling games there are out there - many of which advertise themselves as "Tetris clones".
Well, you can thank the USA for that. Every time the UN wants to call something genocide and move out, the USA says that its not and stalls until enough people are dead that the point is moot.
While I don't know for sure (IANAL) I know that Canada, being a British colony, actually uses caselaw that predates Confederation - that is, Canadian courts use British caselaw that exists from before the time that Canada became a soveirgn nation. So, if the British policy on libel predates Canada, then yes, the same law will apply.
Flunky: "Apple is releasing a model of Ipod with no UI, no playlist management, minimal data storage, and are brandining it based on its random behaviour".
Well.... if someone can make a distributed hosting system similar to Seti @home, you can bet a bazillion opensource nerds would sign on to run it. Of course, the kind of latency inherent in @home systems (besides the fact that space and bandwidth consumption would be higher for the user) makes it inappropriate for this work.
In Canada, the big one was the Quebec bridge, which collapsed twice (taking many workers with it) during construction. Dunno what it is in various states. Either way, at the turn of the century, construction projects were becoming more and more ambitious and civilian lives were becoming more valuable, so engineering disasters became more important.
You're feeding a troll - read down the comments and look for the ACs. One guy is posting this same Randian dog-eat-dog crap just to get nibbles. Ignore him.
Well then, why don't we start calling police officers "lawyers", and military aircraft pilots "commandoes".
The word Engineer means something. It denotes a level of legal and professional obligation to one's work that does not necessarily exist in other careers. When an individual software developer becomes personally legally responsible for the performance of his company's product, then he can call himself an engineer.
That kind of legal liability don't sound fun? Well then, don't be champing at the bit to get to call yourself "engineer". Its not a snobbery thing, its a safety thing: a person knows that, if they hire an engineer to do something, then they're legally required to stand behind their work. As such, certain jobs require an Engineer, not an "engineer" - this is much like how a person can have a doctorate in biology and extensive medical knowledge, but can't practice legally as a medical doctor. Its for safety reasons - he might be every bit the doctor as the real, certified person, but he has not sworn to the hippocratic oath, he does not have malpractice insurance set up, and various other considerations of accountability may not exist. Also, the state did not keep as close an eye on his medical training. Engineering programs are inspected.
The whole Engineer licensing thing didn't start because of a bunch of engineers wanting to stroke their egos. It started because of a series of catastrophes where nobody was accountable.
So, if you are not designing safety-critical systems, there's no reason to want to call yourself an engineer, unless you just like the fancy word. It is not just a fancy word - abusing it is just like people who use the word "literally" for emphasis.
Epic is, actually, the exception. UT2k4 has the same graphics and models as UT2k3 - all the new sequel stuff is new game content - vehicles, gametypes, maps, etc. As a result, UT2k4 is the most overstuffed multiplayer game I've ever seen (outside of MMOs).
That does raise a good point - if it were developed for, say, Tenebrae, it could be a completely free game. Why do modders insist on sticking to Half-Life and leave their creations to be trapped under Valve's licensing?
Looking at that list, I'm surprised that Twisted Metal and Wipeout aren't getting more loving from the waiting fans - these games are two of the most stylish, fun franchises for Playstation.
I'm curious about the new Darkstalkers title - they were cute fighting games, but fighting games generally flop on handheld.
And where the fuck is Armored Core? I saw promo footage of AC on PSP - to me, that's enough reason alone to own one (AC is hands down the best giant robot experience available - all you Mechwarrior fans can stuff it).
If the mepis website is any indication of the Mepis distro, colour me unimpressed. I couldn't find any indication upfront about what Mepis was besides "yet another Linux desktop" without substantial digging. No way to know why I should choose it over, say, Ubuntu.
The bug happens because of styles. Since about office 2000, people have been realising that the approach of formatting-as-you go is stupid - like they already knew in HTML (CSS, anyone). Once And Only Once, remember?
So for both Word and OO Write, there are style managers. The "End of document" is always in "normal" style, and you'll frequently pop back to "normal" style as you work. The fact is that you should be altering "normal" to fit with your work.
Actually, OO 2 is catching up to word 2000, which is my current standard document program. The only newer feature I love in Office 2k3 is the improved style manager.
Anybody else notice that desktop user-oriented opensource software always looks 5 years old, but consumes resources like it was only 2 years old? The only reason that Firefox surpassed Explorer is that it stagnated for 7.
Have you looked at the new technologies coming out? 802.11g is _not_ the cutting edge. Blanketing a city in wifi wouldn't be too hard with the new 802.16 technologies which are designed for running a wireless ISP.
The fact is that some things can actually be done cheaper by a government or a government regulated monopoly. There are fields where competition just leads to wasteful redundancy. Imagine having competing overlaid power distribution systems. Redundant cabling would be horribly wasteful.
In some cases, commercialism complicates things even further. Imagine if people tried to charge for broadcast radio before digital encryption? How the hell would you do that? If something becomes a free government service that is maintained by tax dollars, then all of the infrastructure needed for payment, unauthorised access, most advertising, and fighting competition goes away.
The problem is this attitude that seems to occur on both sides of the spectrum - that waste is good, as long as the economy can bare it, because it encourages job growth. I think that's stupid - waste is waste, the money not spent on waste can instead go into a more productive section of the economy, and the city will be stronger and more successful for it.
While this is a principle usually part of communism, the problem is that communism also fails to account for the sloth and inefficiency inherent in government beaurocracy. The trick is to find the line where a single monopoly (government or otherwise) can so massively outperform a redundant marketplace that it compensates for the inefficiency inherent in government or monopolistic companies. Most municipal systems that involve cabling and pipes are such systems.
(I was tempted to write an example about how Canadians spend less on health-care per capita and have a longer average lifespan, but that would be flamebait).
Wait - does this mean fark flamewars (which often, frequently include numerous links to political websites and 527s or whatever the number is) will be lillegal? Hilarious.
Wow, you seem to know an awful lot about me from my position on the 2nd amendment (which is not the same as my position on gun control). Do you tell other people's fortunes too? Do Taco next!
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No - I didn't mean to argue your point - just because your comment seemed to be a good place to threadjack.
Actually, the ones I hate and keep running into are those god-freaking-awful "search" sites. They're not even a scam/phish/copy - they're just a really shitty search page with a lot of ads.
I'd say that web design hampers the internet in general. Far too many sites are crufty and overloaded with script when all I want are my freaking movie listings or the like. Even with a decent pipe, such sites can run dl slow when under heavy load. Besides, sometimes I don't want to use my full screen, or my full pipe, just to view a website.
Hint: the biggest success story on the internet is Google. Notice Google's layout.
Whoops - I meant innovate, not litigate.
Yes. Both parties fail to litigate. Really, what's hasbro done besides republish old games and gobble up other companies?
Simple then - next time, just don't use the name and features of Scrabble. Hell, you could probably get away with even marketing it as "WordGrid: based on the rules of Scrabble(TM)* Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro and is used here without permission. Jared is unafilliated with Hasbro." or some such nonsense.
After all, Hasbro does not own all references to Scrabble - they just own the game. Still, lawyers like to think otherwise.
Consider how many block falling games there are out there - many of which advertise themselves as "Tetris clones".
Well, you can thank the USA for that. Every time the UN wants to call something genocide and move out, the USA says that its not and stalls until enough people are dead that the point is moot.
While I don't know for sure (IANAL) I know that Canada, being a British colony, actually uses caselaw that predates Confederation - that is, Canadian courts use British caselaw that exists from before the time that Canada became a soveirgn nation. So, if the British policy on libel predates Canada, then yes, the same law will apply.
freenet is static page storage, not active services, isn't it? Like, you don't run php sites on it?
I can see the boardroom now:
Flunky: "Apple is releasing a model of Ipod with no UI, no playlist management, minimal data storage, and are brandining it based on its random behaviour".
Exec: "I think we can handle this one".
Well.... if someone can make a distributed hosting system similar to Seti @home, you can bet a bazillion opensource nerds would sign on to run it. Of course, the kind of latency inherent in @home systems (besides the fact that space and bandwidth consumption would be higher for the user) makes it inappropriate for this work.
You do know you could just lie to it and say "yeah, I've paid". At any rate, I use ABC and like it.
In Canada, the big one was the Quebec bridge, which collapsed twice (taking many workers with it) during construction. Dunno what it is in various states. Either way, at the turn of the century, construction projects were becoming more and more ambitious and civilian lives were becoming more valuable, so engineering disasters became more important.
You're feeding a troll - read down the comments and look for the ACs. One guy is posting this same Randian dog-eat-dog crap just to get nibbles. Ignore him.
Well then, why don't we start calling police officers "lawyers", and military aircraft pilots "commandoes".
The word Engineer means something. It denotes a level of legal and professional obligation to one's work that does not necessarily exist in other careers. When an individual software developer becomes personally legally responsible for the performance of his company's product, then he can call himself an engineer.
That kind of legal liability don't sound fun? Well then, don't be champing at the bit to get to call yourself "engineer". Its not a snobbery thing, its a safety thing: a person knows that, if they hire an engineer to do something, then they're legally required to stand behind their work. As such, certain jobs require an Engineer, not an "engineer" - this is much like how a person can have a doctorate in biology and extensive medical knowledge, but can't practice legally as a medical doctor. Its for safety reasons - he might be every bit the doctor as the real, certified person, but he has not sworn to the hippocratic oath, he does not have malpractice insurance set up, and various other considerations of accountability may not exist. Also, the state did not keep as close an eye on his medical training. Engineering programs are inspected.
The whole Engineer licensing thing didn't start because of a bunch of engineers wanting to stroke their egos. It started because of a series of catastrophes where nobody was accountable.
So, if you are not designing safety-critical systems, there's no reason to want to call yourself an engineer, unless you just like the fancy word. It is not just a fancy word - abusing it is just like people who use the word "literally" for emphasis.
No. Because no matter how easy it is to make gameplay, the meat of the work is still in the content. Modelling is hard, painful, tedious work.
Epic is, actually, the exception. UT2k4 has the same graphics and models as UT2k3 - all the new sequel stuff is new game content - vehicles, gametypes, maps, etc. As a result, UT2k4 is the most overstuffed multiplayer game I've ever seen (outside of MMOs).
That does raise a good point - if it were developed for, say, Tenebrae, it could be a completely free game. Why do modders insist on sticking to Half-Life and leave their creations to be trapped under Valve's licensing?
Looking at that list, I'm surprised that Twisted Metal and Wipeout aren't getting more loving from the waiting fans - these games are two of the most stylish, fun franchises for Playstation.
I'm curious about the new Darkstalkers title - they were cute fighting games, but fighting games generally flop on handheld.
And where the fuck is Armored Core? I saw promo footage of AC on PSP - to me, that's enough reason alone to own one (AC is hands down the best giant robot experience available - all you Mechwarrior fans can stuff it).
If the mepis website is any indication of the Mepis distro, colour me unimpressed. I couldn't find any indication upfront about what Mepis was besides "yet another Linux desktop" without substantial digging. No way to know why I should choose it over, say, Ubuntu.
The bug happens because of styles. Since about office 2000, people have been realising that the approach of formatting-as-you go is stupid - like they already knew in HTML (CSS, anyone). Once And Only Once, remember?
So for both Word and OO Write, there are style managers. The "End of document" is always in "normal" style, and you'll frequently pop back to "normal" style as you work. The fact is that you should be altering "normal" to fit with your work.
Actually, OO 2 is catching up to word 2000, which is my current standard document program. The only newer feature I love in Office 2k3 is the improved style manager.
Anybody else notice that desktop user-oriented opensource software always looks 5 years old, but consumes resources like it was only 2 years old? The only reason that Firefox surpassed Explorer is that it stagnated for 7.
Have you looked at the new technologies coming out? 802.11g is _not_ the cutting edge. Blanketing a city in wifi wouldn't be too hard with the new 802.16 technologies which are designed for running a wireless ISP.
The fact is that some things can actually be done cheaper by a government or a government regulated monopoly. There are fields where competition just leads to wasteful redundancy. Imagine having competing overlaid power distribution systems. Redundant cabling would be horribly wasteful.
In some cases, commercialism complicates things even further. Imagine if people tried to charge for broadcast radio before digital encryption? How the hell would you do that? If something becomes a free government service that is maintained by tax dollars, then all of the infrastructure needed for payment, unauthorised access, most advertising, and fighting competition goes away.
The problem is this attitude that seems to occur on both sides of the spectrum - that waste is good, as long as the economy can bare it, because it encourages job growth. I think that's stupid - waste is waste, the money not spent on waste can instead go into a more productive section of the economy, and the city will be stronger and more successful for it.
While this is a principle usually part of communism, the problem is that communism also fails to account for the sloth and inefficiency inherent in government beaurocracy. The trick is to find the line where a single monopoly (government or otherwise) can so massively outperform a redundant marketplace that it compensates for the inefficiency inherent in government or monopolistic companies. Most municipal systems that involve cabling and pipes are such systems.
(I was tempted to write an example about how Canadians spend less on health-care per capita and have a longer average lifespan, but that would be flamebait).
Wait - does this mean fark flamewars (which often, frequently include numerous links to political websites and 527s or whatever the number is) will be lillegal? Hilarious.
Well, the show is called "The O.C." - so its not like the producers of the show need to explain themselves, so why should Slashdot?
Wow, you seem to know an awful lot about me from my position on the 2nd amendment (which is not the same as my position on gun control). Do you tell other people's fortunes too? Do Taco next!
Like I said - you're hurting America.