Oh wait, the "headache" bullshit again? Give your kid your glasses, and let them wear them until they get a severe headache. You ALSO had a severe headache when you started to wear glasses, you also also got one when you changed your glasses strenght. What Nintendo should be allowed to do is just to roughly sue every single BS organisation intil they either make a disclaimer against glasses, or they stop spewing out FUD.
I am still waiting for the 3DS lite to come out, the version with a bit better weight, a bit better screen, with a few good games already out, and on the top of that: Actually has a battery life. Well, Nintendo do still have a gold cache from the Wii and the DS, so no worries. And please lets pray that Reggie dies of cancer, because he is a horrible horrible figurehead.
Then lets discuss what we mean by "reasonable safety". 1. If there is a fall distance, it must be so high that the child can start twisting the body before it lands, so it can avoid breaking its neck 2. The walls must be so low that the children are not tempting to climb them and start balancing on them 3. Breaking bones is under no circumstances a danger unless it involves the spine or the neck. 4. Getting injured is under no circumstances a danger either, so long the wound is not life threatening. I can still say that "children must under no circumstances even get a scratch" to be the worst funkiller. If you do not let them have fun, they will find dangerous ways to have fun.
Have you ever been to a public shcool when a project comes up? Or something important will be discussed? The key point still stands: What happens if you let a persuasive and strongwilled person into the jury? Unless there are more people like that person, the strongwilled will most likely dominate and then corrupt the jury.
I guess you are looking for something like a iMac, or computers buildt on the same concept of desktop PC. Basically that the computer is buildt into the back of the monitor. And perhaps a battery with 30 minuttes of power, to protect it against power surges, and enable you to do a quick move of it, without it losing power.
Oh shut it, you missed his bloody point. Diablo 2s lenght is good because the game is good. The setup of mechanics allow replay. A bit like Minecraft, or other genuinely good games.
Now lets take a "cinematic long corridor game", which easly racks up several weeks of gameplay. The problem? It completely lacks content? It would have been enjoyable if it was 3-4 hours long. You can't replay those game either, because of the complete linearity. Those linear corredor shooters easly dwarfs down diablo in gametime, but the gameplay is sorely lacking.
Lets do this really simple: 1. Each cop carries a blackbox, that records and tapes his or her actions 2. The "zero tolerance" only applies to cases where the cop lied If you do a bad judgment, and admit it, it is just normal penality. If cops can not be that maturewhat is the bloody point of having cops in the first place?
The entire idea behind a "patented idea" is that anybody may go into a patent repositary, and fetch a copy of the patent, and study it, and then perhaps either contact the patenter and allow to develop it further, or create something that does the same but is not hit by the patent. The reason this is a good idea is because of what happened before the patent system came: You had companies producing items, and the production techology, or how they where put together to work where trade secrets. If the correct person in the corporation died or was hit by a aciddent, then that tech would be "lost forever".
A example: People making metal back in the day, ye old smiths of items such as armor or weapons. Making the metal was a trade secret, which may or may not be given to the next apprentice. The reason the idea of "masterwork" items existed was because there was no "common low level" for metal. The metal the smith made could either be high grade steel, or really brittle iron, and you had no way of knowing. If there was a patent system back then, the process of "what works" could have been started a lot earlier. And there would have been less attempts at forcing people to reinvent the wheel.
1. We made more money before newgame+ revamp 2. We keep on adding shitty stuff to the game, so more people leave 3. We don't feel like actually revamping it into something that does not resemble WoW, and then regain playerbase 4. God forbid that some dev could highjack the team if we attempted revamping, and turned it into something good. 5. We are still making a large profit of it, but not enough, so we axe it like the dicks we are May not be everything wrong with capitalism and the industry, but it is enough of it.
Here is my problem with your statement: What if a criminal gets away with his first 4-5 crimes? He would be doing the exact same amount of crimes as the con, but would not be marked because he has not yet been caught. A small outline of your proposed system is that a con stands a lot worse chance of a fair trail compared to a criminal that has not yet been caught. I do agree cons should lose some rights, IF they can still be able to make a living. If the marking is too visible, then they will be shunned by society, and resort back to crime.
That would be wrong. The only important issue is how much you as a shareholder or managment earn. Company going towards the bottom of the deep sea? Lets do something silly to fix this ship, ignoring the given list of issues.......
If I got your suggestion correctly, you suggest that: 1. The improvement means that the old patent is invalid 2. The improvement means that the patent must be "re verifed", and go trough a sane process of checking if it actually is innovative enough to be worth of a patent This would actually be quite good. It would mean that you have the choice between losing the patent rights by timer, or file and still lose them. The real problem is that nobody is actually checking the patents in the first place, so it is not a good suggestion.
1. Plugin systems are the source of all evils. Instead of doing something properly, you have halfbaked plugins conflicting over the implention. If plugins are going to be allowing, they must be approved. Adding plugins for the sake of "lol lets makre sure they are not forced to do a proper implention" is a really bad idea. If what you are proposing is not a "plugin" but rather a set of spesific pipes, it could work.
2. You forgot adding "a sane user account scheme" to that list. Something like battle.net for warcraft III, or what skype has, all you ask is "whats your skype name", and you get the answer "It is X" instead of "It is X, and then it is this spesific mailserver thingy at the end". Fragmentation IS bad.
3. You forgot "it must under no circumstances require to be configed to work" on the list of requirements.
As for why something like this does not exist? If you forced all the people from the different VoIP and IM lib projects together, you could have the manpower to actually make something like this. A few idealists can not do this, because it requires expertize in several areas instead of 4-5.
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Apparently you have not played it either.
The controls where crisp and accurate.
I think there is a "do not attempt to drink" label on acid btw.
Have I made my point, or are you ignoring it?
Oh wait, the "headache" bullshit again?
Give your kid your glasses, and let them wear them until they get a severe headache.
You ALSO had a severe headache when you started to wear glasses, you also also got one when you changed your glasses strenght.
What Nintendo should be allowed to do is just to roughly sue every single BS organisation intil they either make a disclaimer against glasses, or they stop spewing out FUD.
I am still waiting for the 3DS lite to come out, the version with a bit better weight, a bit better screen, with a few good games already out, and on the top of that: Actually has a battery life.
Well, Nintendo do still have a gold cache from the Wii and the DS, so no worries.
And please lets pray that Reggie dies of cancer, because he is a horrible horrible figurehead.
Then lets discuss what we mean by "reasonable safety".
1. If there is a fall distance, it must be so high that the child can start twisting the body before it lands, so it can avoid breaking its neck
2. The walls must be so low that the children are not tempting to climb them and start balancing on them
3. Breaking bones is under no circumstances a danger unless it involves the spine or the neck.
4. Getting injured is under no circumstances a danger either, so long the wound is not life threatening.
I can still say that "children must under no circumstances even get a scratch" to be the worst funkiller. If you do not let them have fun, they will find dangerous ways to have fun.
Have you ever been to a public shcool when a project comes up? Or something important will be discussed?
The key point still stands: What happens if you let a persuasive and strongwilled person into the jury? Unless there are more people like that person, the strongwilled will most likely dominate and then corrupt the jury.
The thing is: Where can I find 2 applications that runs fine in 980 width? And lets not ignore the middle needs a border of 1-4 pixels either.
I guess you are looking for something like a iMac, or computers buildt on the same concept of desktop PC.
Basically that the computer is buildt into the back of the monitor.
And perhaps a battery with 30 minuttes of power, to protect it against power surges, and enable you to do a quick move of it, without it losing power.
Oh shut it, you missed his bloody point.
Diablo 2s lenght is good because the game is good. The setup of mechanics allow replay. A bit like Minecraft, or other genuinely good games.
Now lets take a "cinematic long corridor game", which easly racks up several weeks of gameplay. The problem? It completely lacks content? It would have been enjoyable if it was 3-4 hours long. You can't replay those game either, because of the complete linearity.
Those linear corredor shooters easly dwarfs down diablo in gametime, but the gameplay is sorely lacking.
Lets do this really simple:
1. Each cop carries a blackbox, that records and tapes his or her actions
2. The "zero tolerance" only applies to cases where the cop lied
If you do a bad judgment, and admit it, it is just normal penality. If cops can not be that maturewhat is the bloody point of having cops in the first place?
The entire idea behind a "patented idea" is that anybody may go into a patent repositary, and fetch a copy of the patent, and study it, and then perhaps either contact the patenter and allow to develop it further, or create something that does the same but is not hit by the patent.
The reason this is a good idea is because of what happened before the patent system came: You had companies producing items, and the production techology, or how they where put together to work where trade secrets. If the correct person in the corporation died or was hit by a aciddent, then that tech would be "lost forever".
A example: People making metal back in the day, ye old smiths of items such as armor or weapons. Making the metal was a trade secret, which may or may not be given to the next apprentice. The reason the idea of "masterwork" items existed was because there was no "common low level" for metal. The metal the smith made could either be high grade steel, or really brittle iron, and you had no way of knowing.
If there was a patent system back then, the process of "what works" could have been started a lot earlier. And there would have been less attempts at forcing people to reinvent the wheel.
Running DOSgames are we? 3
Oh, I confused your, a "patents is evil"-type with "dog of the free anarchy".
I apologize for being rude, your point stands correct.
That is irrelevant to the point. Prove that there is no barrier or entry in... lets say CPUs, and we can talk.
1. We made more money before newgame+ revamp
2. We keep on adding shitty stuff to the game, so more people leave
3. We don't feel like actually revamping it into something that does not resemble WoW, and then regain playerbase
4. God forbid that some dev could highjack the team if we attempted revamping, and turned it into something good.
5. We are still making a large profit of it, but not enough, so we axe it like the dicks we are
May not be everything wrong with capitalism and the industry, but it is enough of it.
Mod up, things should work like that.
Would not 100% tax theoretically be a society based on resources instead of fiat?
All of them, if the critial parts of the system is not connected.
Here is my problem with your statement: What if a criminal gets away with his first 4-5 crimes?
He would be doing the exact same amount of crimes as the con, but would not be marked because he has not yet been caught.
A small outline of your proposed system is that a con stands a lot worse chance of a fair trail compared to a criminal that has not yet been caught.
I do agree cons should lose some rights, IF they can still be able to make a living. If the marking is too visible, then they will be shunned by society, and resort back to crime.
And why does a carbon tax stop non-carbon tech?
That would be wrong. The only important issue is how much you as a shareholder or managment earn.
Company going towards the bottom of the deep sea? Lets do something silly to fix this ship, ignoring the given list of issues.......
And what if he ripped a few thousend songs to mp3 back in the days of the old napster?
There is no way of telling the difference solely on that.
Mod up!
If I got your suggestion correctly, you suggest that:
1. The improvement means that the old patent is invalid
2. The improvement means that the patent must be "re verifed", and go trough a sane process of checking if it actually is innovative enough to be worth of a patent
This would actually be quite good. It would mean that you have the choice between losing the patent rights by timer, or file and still lose them.
The real problem is that nobody is actually checking the patents in the first place, so it is not a good suggestion.
1. Plugin systems are the source of all evils. Instead of doing something properly, you have halfbaked plugins conflicting over the implention. If plugins are going to be allowing, they must be approved. Adding plugins for the sake of "lol lets makre sure they are not forced to do a proper implention" is a really bad idea.
If what you are proposing is not a "plugin" but rather a set of spesific pipes, it could work.
2. You forgot adding "a sane user account scheme" to that list.
Something like battle.net for warcraft III, or what skype has, all you ask is "whats your skype name", and you get the answer "It is X" instead of "It is X, and then it is this spesific mailserver thingy at the end".
Fragmentation IS bad.
3. You forgot "it must under no circumstances require to be configed to work" on the list of requirements.
As for why something like this does not exist?
If you forced all the people from the different VoIP and IM lib projects together, you could have the manpower to actually make something like this.
A few idealists can not do this, because it requires expertize in several areas instead of 4-5.