Liberté, égalité, fraternité and all that bullshit are far behind them now.
Actually, for the last 50 years, their motto has become Libertés, inégalités, fraternités. Which more or less means taking liberties, unfairness, unions. Once again they are going on strike because they want someone else to pay for their pension. Fighting the wrong fights, they are.
I like the word "Denialand", but I think you're going a bit over the top in your post. You seem to suggest that things will go horribly, horribly wrong if we abolish patents. I am not convinced. Since the thread was about patents on algorithms, I'll stick to those.
There are no "my own blood and sweet" [sic] in a lazy 5-liner. It is nothing but inane party line spouting. Moderating this up to 5 *is* over the top.
I utterly against software patents, but both patents and copyrights were reasonable solutions at the time they were introduced a few century ago. Denying their usefulness shows a profound lack of insight.
Where's the insightful litmus test on how to distinguish between hard work and lazy copy?
Not a word about all those master-apprentice trade secrets that got lost over the ages, nor about how the patent race forces you to get results now instead of sitting on your idea for 5 years. Yes, patent don't work as they should, but if you want to fix them come up with solutions to those problems rather than living in Denialand.
Nothing but a wind of fallacies to please the crowd.
There were elite ogres in Alterac Mountain, it was great fun challenging yourself against those mobs. They could have left a few dangerous spots on the map, where casual players had to wait a few more levels before entering.
You used to be able to take quests that were red or orange, because of the level limitation all WotLK quests are green.
This is catering to "cry mommy" casual who don't even have 10y old skills. And I'm talking from experience, looking at my son levelling his toons.
They lost me when they removed all challenges for good players, but they didn't.
This is something that has always annoyed me about the GW debate (or more like GW screaming match). When something bad happens, a glacier breaks off, there's a strong hurricane, or when the weather is unseasonably hot people say "See? See! This event counters your 'unseasonably cool' argument. Are you still going to denie Global warming! Look at the bad shit happening!" However when the opposite is true, when things are unseasonably cool, or when the weather is nice and mild (so far this year's hurricane season is shaping up to not be that intense) the screams are "Weather is not climate! You cannot look at isolated events and try to use them as proof!"
The "See? See!" quote is not a proof of GW, but a counter-proof to every "Weather is climate" denialists claims. Next time add in the bold yourself, now that you know what they really meant.
Do you really think it takes too much arrogance to imagine that a single man can alter 13,7 football fields within his lifetime through farming, mining, driving, building, etc.?
As opposed to the sun which has a surface area of 6088000000000 Km^2 ?
That's 887 Km^2/habitant, or 164,377 of your "real international standards units" (football fields).
Well, that's assuming the Sun only works for the Earth. But only an arrogant self-centered bastard would believe that.
Considering the Earth covers about 20 arc-seconds, that give something like a 2 km radius circle directly below the Earth. Berly enough space for both feet.
If we left schooling to parents only, many kids would not learn math, science, reading, history, or geography.
This statement is demonstrably false. Prior to modern public schools kids learned all of those things and in fact 19th century children were generally more knowledgeable in these subjects than their 20th and 21st century counterparts. This is well documented in Gatto's book which I linked above.
Do you mean rich kids, or the plebe working in the mines and factories? Because on the last year of the 19th century, working kids still represented more than 2% of the total population. Quoth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
By 1900, there were 1.7 million child labourers reported in American industry under the age of fifteen
The lights are not synchronized for people who floor the accelerator to 50 mph and brake at the last second. There's quite a few spots where quietly getting to 30 gets you there as the light turns green. But if you do that you'll get cut and have to stop.
One of the largest reasons for having such a huge patent portfolio is mainly to discourage patent trolls from trying to sue IBM.
Sorry but if you deal with a troll in the sense of a non-practicing (or some say non-producing) entity, there's no way you can use your own patent portfolio to countersue. The troll has no products/services against which you can assert your patents, where you have none, a few, or tens of thosuands. There's simply no counterthreat for a lack of a target area on which to drop a bomb.
There is a counter-threat. Troll sues Gizmo Inc. Nazgûl goes knocking on Gizmo Inc's door : "If you pay the patent troll, we will sue you with our own patent on which you also infringe. Don't pay the troll." If trolls have to sue IBM to get any money, they lose big time.
Next, you are pointing to a corner case and trying to suggest that it invalidates the general argument.
Asserting a correlation of 0.0 is not the general case.
Rather than sticking to your corner case, why don't you reverse your calculations : convert all unpaid application into sales, see that a jailbreaker is N times more likely to buy the game, and then make fun because N is such a ridiculously high number. That'd be the smart thing to do.
I have no sympathy for the PR fluff and cliché. If you use the same tricks as the mafiaa, you'll get the same contempt.
You are making the same invalid assumption as Wolfire. Even with a chance to think it through, you failed.
Lets say X% of iPod users play games, and Y% of jailbreakers play games.
If 40% of iPod users play games and 80% of jailbreakers play games, you lose 8 out of 40 = 20% sales. If 80% of iPod users play games and 40% of jailbreakers play games, you lose 4 out of 80 = 5% sales.
Mind explaining to me how you can believe it's always 10%?
This means that even though games see that 80% of their copies are pirated, only 10% of their potential customers are pirates, which means they are losing at most 10% of their sales.
This is so bad it ain't even lies and statistics. It assumes a random slice of the users jailbreak their iPhone, that there are no correlation between jailbreaking and playing games.
This is like saying that Gerber controls 20% of the baby food market, but because babies represent 10% of the population, they cannot increase their sales by more than 10%.
To use a car analogy, Toyota has 10% of the market and therefore only 10% of their cars have accelerator problems. Thank His Noodly Appendage they don't control 100% of the market, or we'd suffer a continuous stream of accidents!
I uploaded some song samples on Wikipedia for my favorite albums and the rules were 10% of the length of a song or 30 seconds, whichever is shorter. And, honestly, there's no law that completely and irrefutably protects this as fair use.
Yeah, it cannot be that simple. If I distribute the first 30 seconds and you distribute the next 30 seconds, what we would collectively distribute is not fair use. I don't think there's any solution for intangible property.
Being someone who sleepwalks through work, I say that effort is the most important thing to learn from school. I never had to learn effort in school and now it handicaps me. Anything outside my area of expertise is hard because I have to make an effort to make an effort.
If it takes money to persuade kids to make an effort, then the end justifies the means. But if you manage to have them make an effort for the sake of success, they gain confidence.
You gain much more when the reward comes from the inside.
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"legitimate customers"? Either way, they're paying for it, right?
Yeah right. Because resellers are customers.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité and all that bullshit are far behind them now.
Actually, for the last 50 years, their motto has become Libertés, inégalités, fraternités. Which more or less means taking liberties, unfairness, unions. Once again they are going on strike because they want someone else to pay for their pension. Fighting the wrong fights, they are.
Pick any format-aware application that doesn't handle Microsoft's bloat and paste those 2000 pages. Problem solved!
I like the word "Denialand", but I think you're going a bit over the top in your post. You seem to suggest that things will go horribly, horribly wrong if we abolish patents. I am not convinced. Since the thread was about patents on algorithms, I'll stick to those.
There are no "my own blood and sweet" [sic] in a lazy 5-liner. It is nothing but inane party line spouting. Moderating this up to 5 *is* over the top.
I utterly against software patents, but both patents and copyrights were reasonable solutions at the time they were introduced a few century ago. Denying their usefulness shows a profound lack of insight.
Insightful? What a bunch of crock!
How is it insightful to re-invent the wheel?
Where's the insightful litmus test on how to distinguish between hard work and lazy copy?
Not a word about all those master-apprentice trade secrets that got lost over the ages, nor about how the patent race forces you to get results now instead of sitting on your idea for 5 years. Yes, patent don't work as they should, but if you want to fix them come up with solutions to those problems rather than living in Denialand.
Nothing but a wind of fallacies to please the crowd.
So for 72 liters ( 0.072 m^3) of He, you would need a giga watt for about 15 minutes.
Your table top fusor is now plasma, you just used up more electricity than I will likely use in my life, and you can fill a small balloon.
72 liters? That's 18 gallons! Do you inflate your balloons to 300 psi?
Blizzard realized casuals are a bigger group.
There were elite ogres in Alterac Mountain, it was great fun challenging yourself against those mobs. They could have left a few dangerous spots on the map, where casual players had to wait a few more levels before entering.
You used to be able to take quests that were red or orange, because of the level limitation all WotLK quests are green.
This is catering to "cry mommy" casual who don't even have 10y old skills. And I'm talking from experience, looking at my son levelling his toons.
They lost me when they removed all challenges for good players, but they didn't.
This is something that has always annoyed me about the GW debate (or more like GW screaming match). When something bad happens, a glacier breaks off, there's a strong hurricane, or when the weather is unseasonably hot people say "See? See! This event counters your 'unseasonably cool' argument. Are you still going to denie Global warming! Look at the bad shit happening!" However when the opposite is true, when things are unseasonably cool, or when the weather is nice and mild (so far this year's hurricane season is shaping up to not be that intense) the screams are "Weather is not climate! You cannot look at isolated events and try to use them as proof!"
The "See? See!" quote is not a proof of GW, but a counter-proof to every "Weather is climate" denialists claims. Next time add in the bold yourself, now that you know what they really meant.
Or maybe they could assign letter grades, like A B C D and F.....
I can understand "this is a ten" or "this is an eleven", but who in their right mind would say "this is a fifteen"! No really, the scale stops at B.
Do you really think it takes too much arrogance to imagine that a single man can alter 13,7 football fields within his lifetime through farming, mining, driving, building, etc.?
As opposed to the sun which has a surface area of 6088000000000 Km^2 ?
That's 887 Km^2/habitant, or 164,377 of your "real international standards units" (football fields).
Well, that's assuming the Sun only works for the Earth. But only an arrogant self-centered bastard would believe that.
Considering the Earth covers about 20 arc-seconds, that give something like a 2 km radius circle directly below the Earth. Berly enough space for both feet.
If you can convert to binary in your head, you don't need your hands to count.
This statement is demonstrably false. Prior to modern public schools kids learned all of those things and in fact 19th century children were generally more knowledgeable in these subjects than their 20th and 21st century counterparts. This is well documented in Gatto's book which I linked above.
Do you mean rich kids, or the plebe working in the mines and factories? Because on the last year of the 19th century, working kids still represented more than 2% of the total population. Quoth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
By 1900, there were 1.7 million child labourers reported in American industry under the age of fifteen
When the cars fly, we can try for using km, not miles.
Your car is a hog.
IOW, the fines for the first 5 mph above limit goes to the State, and the rest to the PD?
"A single unelected commercial entity has worldwide control over what gets published for" the PS3.
"A single unelected commercial entity has worldwide control over what gets published for" the Wii.
Are they pushing Apple to do the same as Sony and Nintendo, or are they pushing for special privileges?
What's stopping them from simply publishing their content as web pages?
Why would they want special applications?
Google should wear pants that hides more than its show. Because when your show is public, there's no privacy.
The lights are not synchronized for people who floor the accelerator to 50 mph and brake at the last second. There's quite a few spots where quietly getting to 30 gets you there as the light turns green. But if you do that you'll get cut and have to stop.
One of the largest reasons for having such a huge patent portfolio is mainly to discourage patent trolls from trying to sue IBM.
Sorry but if you deal with a troll in the sense of a non-practicing (or some say non-producing) entity, there's no way you can use your own patent portfolio to countersue. The troll has no products/services against which you can assert your patents, where you have none, a few, or tens of thosuands. There's simply no counterthreat for a lack of a target area on which to drop a bomb.
There is a counter-threat. Troll sues Gizmo Inc. Nazgûl goes knocking on Gizmo Inc's door : "If you pay the patent troll, we will sue you with our own patent on which you also infringe. Don't pay the troll." If trolls have to sue IBM to get any money, they lose big time.
What God wants, God gets! God help us all.
Next, you are pointing to a corner case and trying to suggest that it invalidates the general argument.
Asserting a correlation of 0.0 is not the general case.
Rather than sticking to your corner case, why don't you reverse your calculations : convert all unpaid application into sales, see that a jailbreaker is N times more likely to buy the game, and then make fun because N is such a ridiculously high number. That'd be the smart thing to do.
I have no sympathy for the PR fluff and cliché. If you use the same tricks as the mafiaa, you'll get the same contempt.
You are making the same invalid assumption as Wolfire. Even with a chance to think it through, you failed.
Lets say X% of iPod users play games, and Y% of jailbreakers play games.
If 40% of iPod users play games and 80% of jailbreakers play games, you lose 8 out of 40 = 20% sales.
If 80% of iPod users play games and 40% of jailbreakers play games, you lose 4 out of 80 = 5% sales.
Mind explaining to me how you can believe it's always 10%?
This means that even though games see that 80% of their copies are pirated, only 10% of their potential customers are pirates, which means they are losing at most 10% of their sales.
This is so bad it ain't even lies and statistics. It assumes a random slice of the users jailbreak their iPhone, that there are no correlation between jailbreaking and playing games.
This is like saying that Gerber controls 20% of the baby food market, but because babies represent 10% of the population, they cannot increase their sales by more than 10%.
To use a car analogy, Toyota has 10% of the market and therefore only 10% of their cars have accelerator problems. Thank His Noodly Appendage they don't control 100% of the market, or we'd suffer a continuous stream of accidents!
Am I making sense? I hope not.
I uploaded some song samples on Wikipedia for my favorite albums and the rules were 10% of the length of a song or 30 seconds, whichever is shorter. And, honestly, there's no law that completely and irrefutably protects this as fair use.
Yeah, it cannot be that simple. If I distribute the first 30 seconds and you distribute the next 30 seconds, what we would collectively distribute is not fair use. I don't think there's any solution for intangible property.
Being someone who sleepwalks through work, I say that effort is the most important thing to learn from school. I never had to learn effort in school and now it handicaps me. Anything outside my area of expertise is hard because I have to make an effort to make an effort.
If it takes money to persuade kids to make an effort, then the end justifies the means. But if you manage to have them make an effort for the sake of success, they gain confidence.
You gain much more when the reward comes from the inside.
High congestion, lots of pedestrians, crowded sidewalk? You realize this is a mountain road, no?
Moreover, there's lots of room to mess up if you don't mind falling off the cliffside.