From that distance the energy is going to be distributed over the entire body of the victim... err target. That means it will damage eye's, the skin around your ears, and if you are a card carrying member of the Y-chromosone club your going to get your testes roasted.
Think about that last one for a minute there, boys.
Well what if i don't want to use javascript? What if i think it's annoying? what if i (gasp!) don't use a browser that supports it?
Then you (gasp!) don't get to read their information, and they (gasp!) don't get your eyeballs on their page, and they (gasp!) might reconsider if enough people complain.
I think I'm getting tired of the IANAL comments (including my own) when it comes to the patent issue.
U ANAL?
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What concerns me is the attitude you voiced in your comment; if I misinterpreted it, feel free to correct me, but it sounds too much like "as long as we benefit side effects don't matter," or "screw the natives, give us our gold."
I thought I was pretty clear in my original post, when I said both, "I think the discoveries and new possibilities that arise from exploration vastly outweigh any fear of destroying an ecosphere," and "there are always good and bad side effects from exploration."
I think far more good has come from exploration than bad.
Guess what: if trademark law worked the way you think it does, then no one could ever name a product or business anything.
Trademark law does work the way I think it does! I'm sorry if I didn't cover all the nuances in a single slashdot post... it's called a summary. FYI, Blizzard did create a "film" that used the name Diablo, a couple years ago I believe. Do a google search for it...
I hope they also move their focus closer to diseases that prevent people in less developed countries from reaching the age at which many of these diseases develop.
Who is "they"? These scientists are experts in this particular field. Why would they "move their focus" elsewhere?
AIDS, trachoma, hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, yellow fever, malaria, and tuberculosis still rage. With climactic change and increased travel, they will continue to spread.
Only one or two on that list haven't been cured. What you need now are people good at organizing things to completely get rid of most of those diseases, you don't need scientists and doctors anymore, with the exception of those diseases not yet cured.
A balanced priority schedule in medical research takes these important social and ecological factors into account.
Are you implying that all money and effort should be focused on those specific diseases? That is completely ridiculous!
If New Line can make a movie called "Diablo" without Blizzard's consent, can Blizzard come out with a game called "Nightmare On Elm Street" without New Line's consent?
That depends. Does New Line own the trademark "Nightmare on Elm Street" as it relates to computer software and services?
Because Blizzard owns the trademark on "Diablo" as it relates to movie titles.
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Please grab some of his books. In one of them (can't remember which, alas), he describes how and why they chose the images they did.
They had to make some assumptions of intelligence of course, but it's very rational and well thought out.
Sting (the musician) sued over a web site using his name (www.sting.com). He lost because "sting" is a common English word. Diablo has been used for hundreds of years and Lamborghini needs to sue Blizzard Entertainment if B.E. wins this idiotic lawsuit.
You obviously don't understand how trademarks work. Trademarks are made for words or groups of words or logos in regards to a specific area, e.g. "movies" or "cars."
Whether or not it's a "common" word has nothing to do with trademark infringement, or whether you are granted a trademark. For example, the word "be" is very common, and yet Be Inc. has a trademark for that word, but only as it relates to computer software and services, and only when used in certain ways.
Likewise, Blizzard has a trademark on the word Diablo as it relates to movie titles. Therefore, they won't be sued by Lamborghini, and they will probably win against New Line.
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Imagine those (or similar) words coming out of Christopher Columbus's mouth, and then think back to your 16th-19th century American history...
Believe me, I thought about the exploration that eventually led to the discovery of America.
(BTW, it was NOT Christopher Colombus that discovered America, but Leif Erikson. It was later surveyed by Amerigo Vespucci, leading to the naming of this land, "America," probably due to a clerical error.)
If you're implying something about the destruction of the Native Americans and their way of life, all I can say is it was not exploration into America that killed the Indians, but ignorant, racist conquerors.
Explorers need not be conquerors.
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Does anyone know if the folks at NASA checked their Voyager ideograms on folks living in remote areas, far away from most industrialized humans?
Carl Sagan led the creation of the drawings on the Voyager payload, and he's really smart.
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One or the other of those two groups will get to Mars first.
Whoops... that should read:
"One or the other of those two groups will get to Mars eventually."
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The great irony of the War of the Worlds is that the precise opposite of the conclusion to that great tale could occur if we visit Mars - Earthly microrganisms could leak into the Martian environment and cause havoc.
I think the discoveries and new possibilities that arise from exploration vastly outweigh any fear of destroying an ecosphere.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be extremely careful, but what exactly would we gain by not visiting Mars? The preservation of micro-organisms that we will never meet, which may after trillions of years form a civilization that we will never know?
There are always good and bad side effects from exploration... but it is man's natural tendency to explore.
So you must ask yourself this one question... do you want NASA and related scientists to be the first to explore Mars, or some unregulated (perhaps largely unscientific) group of people?
One or the other of those two groups will get to Mars first.
if you don't want to see advertising, don't read sites that have advertising: that's your choice. there's good reason to get pissed off about billboard advertising, as you can't "opt-out," but reading sites with advertising and purposefully blocking out that advertising is extremely immoral.
Immoral? You're extremely confused.
I am downloading data that they are making freely available on the internet. To imply that I cannot take that data, and transform it in any manner I wish, is offensive. If I don't wish to view banner ads, I will filter them out, period. It is not immoral, it is called PERSONAL FREEDOM.
If, in turn, they wish to make it more difficult to block those ads... that is THEIR RIGHT.
Please do not force your version of morality onto others... that's what's wrong with the world.
While real-time games are great if you're sitting in your house alone, turn-based games can be played with a group of people all at one machine. So you get to play computer games and get the social interaction parent-types seem to think we should get, all at once.
Why are there 2-4 joystick ports on the front of the game consoles instead of just one?
That's right folks... real-time, multi-player games that you and your friends can play while gathered around the same machine.
As far as old-school games go, none better than King's Quest I! KQ1 was classic because you had to actually TELL THE COMPUTER WHAT TO DO! None of that sissy click-everywhere-with-the-mouse like the rest of the KQ series had... Classic.
I'm a bit concerned with the idea of everyone having thermal vision. Talk about a huge invasion of privacy. I'm an apartment dweller and would not like for other tenants snooping on me simply by looking through the wall.
That's no big deal... just turn the A/C down to 50 when having sex!
Jeez are you serious? Do you honestly think Creative Labs, Guillemot, and all the rest of the current GeForce/GeForce2 partners aren't climbing over themselves trying to get GeForce3 done first?
It's very simple -- Apple must have paid nVidia lots of money to secure the exclusive, because they need some sort of competitive advantage.
As cool as beOS is, a business is a business. Spending time to develop drivers for the very small group of people who want a very unlikely combination of beOs and NVidia is not on their priority list, and I don't blame them.
Ummm, who said anything about asking nVidia to develop drivers for BeOS? Shit, we'd be happy if nVidia would simply SHARE THE SPECS with Be!
You should hear what Leo Schwab had to do to write the current nVidia drivers (and that was 2D only). This means no 3D or DVI support in the drivers.
BTW, BeOS *should* be on their priority list. It is a free operating system, and the benchmarks that have been run on their upcoming OpenGL update have matched or beaten Windows, and blown away Linux (which is logical since Linux 3D performance trails Windows).
Seems like a good platform for gamers -- an OS that can be dual booted from within a FAT paritition, is free to download, and will have a kick-ass OpenGL hardware accel implementation.
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From that distance the energy is going to be distributed over the entire body of the victim... err target. That means it will damage eye's, the skin around your ears, and if you are a card carrying member of the Y-chromosone club your going to get your testes roasted.
Think about that last one for a minute there, boys.
Are you talking to us, or your genitals?
Well what if i don't want to use javascript? What if i think it's annoying? what if i (gasp!) don't use a browser that supports it?
Then you (gasp!) don't get to read their information, and they (gasp!) don't get your eyeballs on their page, and they (gasp!) might reconsider if enough people complain.
Shit, now I'm out of breath.
-thomas
I think I'm getting tired of the IANAL comments (including my own) when it comes to the patent issue.
U ANAL?
What concerns me is the attitude you voiced in your comment; if I misinterpreted it, feel free to correct me, but it sounds too much like "as long as we benefit side effects don't matter," or "screw the natives, give us our gold."
I thought I was pretty clear in my original post, when I said both, "I think the discoveries and new possibilities that arise from exploration vastly outweigh any fear of destroying an ecosphere," and "there are always good and bad side effects from exploration."
I think far more good has come from exploration than bad.
Guess what: if trademark law worked the way you think it does, then no one could ever name a product or business anything.
Trademark law does work the way I think it does! I'm sorry if I didn't cover all the nuances in a single slashdot post... it's called a summary. FYI, Blizzard did create a "film" that used the name Diablo, a couple years ago I believe. Do a google search for it...
I hope they also move their focus closer to diseases that prevent people in less developed countries from reaching the age at which many of these diseases develop.
Who is "they"? These scientists are experts in this particular field. Why would they "move their focus" elsewhere?
AIDS, trachoma, hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, yellow fever, malaria, and tuberculosis still rage. With climactic change and increased travel, they will continue to spread.
Only one or two on that list haven't been cured. What you need now are people good at organizing things to completely get rid of most of those diseases, you don't need scientists and doctors anymore, with the exception of those diseases not yet cured.
A balanced priority schedule in medical research takes these important social and ecological factors into account.
Are you implying that all money and effort should be focused on those specific diseases? That is completely ridiculous!
If New Line can make a movie called "Diablo" without Blizzard's consent, can Blizzard come out with a game called "Nightmare On Elm Street" without New Line's consent?
That depends. Does New Line own the trademark "Nightmare on Elm Street" as it relates to computer software and services?
Because Blizzard owns the trademark on "Diablo" as it relates to movie titles.
Please grab some of his books. In one of them (can't remember which, alas), he describes how and why they chose the images they did.
They had to make some assumptions of intelligence of course, but it's very rational and well thought out.
Sting (the musician) sued over a web site using his name (www.sting.com). He lost because "sting" is a common English word. Diablo has been used for hundreds of years and Lamborghini needs to sue Blizzard Entertainment if B.E. wins this idiotic lawsuit.
You obviously don't understand how trademarks work. Trademarks are made for words or groups of words or logos in regards to a specific area, e.g. "movies" or "cars."
Whether or not it's a "common" word has nothing to do with trademark infringement, or whether you are granted a trademark. For example, the word "be" is very common, and yet Be Inc. has a trademark for that word, but only as it relates to computer software and services, and only when used in certain ways .
Likewise, Blizzard has a trademark on the word Diablo as it relates to movie titles. Therefore, they won't be sued by Lamborghini, and they will probably win against New Line.
Imagine those (or similar) words coming out of Christopher Columbus's mouth, and then think back to your 16th-19th century American history...
Believe me, I thought about the exploration that eventually led to the discovery of America.
(BTW, it was NOT Christopher Colombus that discovered America, but Leif Erikson. It was later surveyed by Amerigo Vespucci, leading to the naming of this land, "America," probably due to a clerical error.)
If you're implying something about the destruction of the Native Americans and their way of life, all I can say is it was not exploration into America that killed the Indians, but ignorant, racist conquerors.
Explorers need not be conquerors.
Does anyone know if the folks at NASA checked their Voyager ideograms on folks living in remote areas, far away from most industrialized humans?
Carl Sagan led the creation of the drawings on the Voyager payload, and he's really smart.
Really smart.
Let loose the pornographic joke floods...
One or the other of those two groups will get to Mars first.
Whoops... that should read:
"One or the other of those two groups will get to Mars eventually."
The great irony of the War of the Worlds is that the precise opposite of the conclusion to that great tale could occur if we visit Mars - Earthly microrganisms could leak into the Martian environment and cause havoc.
I think the discoveries and new possibilities that arise from exploration vastly outweigh any fear of destroying an ecosphere.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be extremely careful, but what exactly would we gain by not visiting Mars? The preservation of micro-organisms that we will never meet, which may after trillions of years form a civilization that we will never know?
There are always good and bad side effects from exploration... but it is man's natural tendency to explore.
So you must ask yourself this one question... do you want NASA and related scientists to be the first to explore Mars, or some unregulated (perhaps largely unscientific) group of people?
One or the other of those two groups will get to Mars first.
-thomas
I would gladly subscribe to CNET News.com without ads of any kind.
However, slashdot, please don't drop your banner ad agreements... hint hint.
if you don't want to see advertising, don't read sites that have advertising: that's your choice. there's good reason to get pissed off about billboard advertising, as you can't "opt-out," but reading sites with advertising and purposefully blocking out that advertising is extremely immoral.
Immoral? You're extremely confused.
I am downloading data that they are making freely available on the internet. To imply that I cannot take that data, and transform it in any manner I wish, is offensive. If I don't wish to view banner ads, I will filter them out, period. It is not immoral, it is called PERSONAL FREEDOM.
If, in turn, they wish to make it more difficult to block those ads... that is THEIR RIGHT.
Please do not force your version of morality onto others... that's what's wrong with the world.
-thomas
I never realized I "universally despised" this device. It's just a barcode scanner, after all.
While real-time games are great if you're sitting in your house alone, turn-based games can be played with a group of people all at one machine. So you get to play computer games and get the social interaction parent-types seem to think we should get, all at once.
Why are there 2-4 joystick ports on the front of the game consoles instead of just one?
That's right folks... real-time, multi-player games that you and your friends can play while gathered around the same machine.
As far as old-school games go, none better than King's Quest I! KQ1 was classic because you had to actually TELL THE COMPUTER WHAT TO DO! None of that sissy click-everywhere-with-the-mouse like the rest of the KQ series had... Classic.
(Stop your bitching -- everyone reading this site has access to a PC or a Mac, and no amount of zealotry will change that.)
What do you run your copy of Linux on, a mainframe?
I'm a bit concerned with the idea of everyone having thermal vision. Talk about a huge invasion of privacy. I'm an apartment dweller and would not like for other tenants snooping on me simply by looking through the wall.
That's no big deal... just turn the A/C down to 50 when having sex!
We need *more* companies like NVIDIA, closed drivers or not.
Wrong... we need more products like nVidia's products, but we need LESS companies like nVidia.
I never said I was happy about the Be thing. But I can't ignore their fast cards, solid drivers and decent prices.
I didn't suggest you should ignore nVidia... I merely wondered how you can advocate them!
-thomas
Jeez are you serious? Do you honestly think Creative Labs, Guillemot, and all the rest of the current GeForce/GeForce2 partners aren't climbing over themselves trying to get GeForce3 done first?
It's very simple -- Apple must have paid nVidia lots of money to secure the exclusive, because they need some sort of competitive advantage.
As cool as beOS is, a business is a business. Spending time to develop drivers for the very small group of people who want a very unlikely combination of beOs and NVidia is not on their priority list, and I don't blame them.
Ummm, who said anything about asking nVidia to develop drivers for BeOS? Shit, we'd be happy if nVidia would simply SHARE THE SPECS with Be!
You should hear what Leo Schwab had to do to write the current nVidia drivers (and that was 2D only). This means no 3D or DVI support in the drivers.
BTW, BeOS *should* be on their priority list. It is a free operating system, and the benchmarks that have been run on their upcoming OpenGL update have matched or beaten Windows, and blown away Linux (which is logical since Linux 3D performance trails Windows).
Seems like a good platform for gamers -- an OS that can be dual booted from within a FAT paritition, is free to download, and will have a kick-ass OpenGL hardware accel implementation.
-thomas
It also offers Unicode support, something not widely offered elsewhere
Yeah, unless you consider Perl and Java to be "widely offered." (I would.)