No, but is the way to go. The only time you should be investigating patents is when you want to apply for your own.
If you infringe unknowingly, the worst punishment they can level is damages, i.e., all the money you made.
If they can show you investigated the patents (i.e., you knew about the patent), then you will get hit with damages that are three times what you earned.
Yes. You might not be able to build Doom 3 by yourself, but a small group of people wrote Serious Sam. So it is still doable; check out some of the software on the Mac side of things. Many of the Shareware games, utilities, and programs are written by individuals.
What about Slackware? That's a one man job. A single coder can still to quite a bit in the modern computing industry, especially if he builds on available tools.
Yes, it sure was nice of that Mrs. Claus to go out of her way to give us all something to drool over... [an error occurred while processing this directive]
Actually, the Star Wars sets are pretty good about using reusable pieces. This TIE Bomber is 229 pieces, and the only custom pieces are the cockpit windows, the bomb, and the pilot. A very nice set.
Actually, the price per piece is not bad for some of those themed sets, and when they go on sale, all bets are off. I picked up 20 of the Harry Potter Dumbledor's Office for like $5 each, which is really cheap.
The number one rule of special pieces is: when you have lots of them, they're cool!
That's what I've done. For a while, I used an external firewire drive to hold the music, but now it's all on a Linux box elsewhere in the building. Works quite well, I must say. I use rsync to backup the linux share to the External firewire drive once in a while.
Well, I think the poster could just buy an Airport Base Station, what with the multiple Airport Expresses (at $125 each) and the two houses, you know.......
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No, but is the way to go. The only time you should be investigating patents is when you want to apply for your own.
If you infringe unknowingly, the worst punishment they can level is damages, i.e., all the money you made.
If they can show you investigated the patents (i.e., you knew about the patent), then you will get hit with damages that are three times what you earned.
Yes. You might not be able to build Doom 3 by yourself, but a small group of people wrote Serious Sam. So it is still doable; check out some of the software on the Mac side of things. Many of the Shareware games, utilities, and programs are written by individuals.
What about Slackware? That's a one man job. A single coder can still to quite a bit in the modern computing industry, especially if he builds on available tools.
With lasers on its head!
No, really. If you incorporate (for $800 or so), then the worst that can happen is that your little company is made non-existent.
At least I don't think they'll pierce the corporate veil over a small company. It's simply not worth their time.
You do know that the author of the Iron Giant wrote The Incredibles, right?
I think 2D animation is on its way out; especially as the 3D gets better and better.
Perhaps 2D will become the "film noir" of animation.
This .
I want to know when I can buy a copy of the NYT and see my name.
Compyright? Compy is dead!
Zero point energy! I kept the best for myself, of course.
That's worthy of a comic, right there.
"Argh, mateys! Within that thar site, thar be fruitfuckers!"
Hmm. If I use a projector and walk up to the wall, all I see is a shadow.
I keed! I keed!
So you're saying that Valve is going to get bought by Apple and Steam renamed to iGames? Sounds basically like the iTunes Music Store to me.
Let's make this moment be the symbol of our lives
We'll pawn your dad's computer
and we'll sail to paradise
You're a girl... or maybe a wagon...
filled up with pancakes
Ah, but remember that a RAID isn't a backup. Unless you have two arrays in separate machines.
And unless you're creating 400GB of content a day, it isn't that hard to backup to DVD once, and then archive the changes every week or so.
I'm currently burning DVDs of my 24,605 songs, and that's above and beyond my rsync backups, etc.
Yup.
They go overboard.
Actually, the Star Wars sets are pretty good about using reusable pieces. This TIE Bomber is 229 pieces, and the only custom pieces are the cockpit windows, the bomb, and the pilot. A very nice set.
Actually, the price per piece is not bad for some of those themed sets, and when they go on sale, all bets are off. I picked up 20 of the Harry Potter Dumbledor's Office for like $5 each, which is really cheap.
The number one rule of special pieces is: when you have lots of them, they're cool!
But I do like the buckets, too.
Some people have developed that to a science: Pick-a -Brick packing
I prefer the LegoLand Pick A Brick - it is by the pound.
The buckets of 1000 pieces should be easy to find. Here they are at the Lego store.
Keep an eye open for the sales at Toys R Us - I got 40 of these tubs for $10 each.....
Take a look at the New Castle sets, and the Trains and the Return of older City sets and more.
Next birthday, get another 1000 piece bucket, and (wait for it) a bedsheet.
Putting the bedsheet on the floor before dumping out the Lego makes for teh esay cleanup.
I am ashamed to admit that I didn't figure this out until I was 22.
Be sure to visit for all your buy a single Lego piece needs.
That's what I've done. For a while, I used an external firewire drive to hold the music, but now it's all on a Linux box elsewhere in the building. Works quite well, I must say. I use rsync to backup the linux share to the External firewire drive once in a while.
Airport Express is cool.
Well, I think the poster could just buy an Airport Base Station, what with the multiple Airport Expresses (at $125 each) and the two houses, you know.......