If that ever actually happens, good luck breathing. We have simply massive coal reserves in the U.S. and China -- Coal is a long term solution. The only down side is that the poisons and carbon it releases takes far too long to come out of the atmosphere. In other words -- we'll all asphyxiate. But hey, we won't pay for those green bastards with our tax money!!
The Market maximizes PROFIT that is the ONLY measure it goes by. Looking to the market to correct for the hidden costs of an activity is like looking to gravity for a way out of a 200 foot drop. It ain't gonna happen.
Yeah, but if we're going to subsidize energy, how about energy that pollutes less (solar, not oil)
You mean pollutes/differenly/. Every type of energy we've found produces some environmental impact (pollution). Whether it's waterwheels chewing up trout and salmon or solar panels made with highly poisonous chemicals -- killing the environment is kind of how we play the game.
It sucks, but that's why I'm pro nuclear -- at least Chyrnobyl teaches us that the radiation zones those leave behind are good for the environment.
Extends is not eternal. Copyright is still for a "fixed" amount of time. Right now my lease is for a "fixed" length of 1 year, I can extend that lease, that doesn't mean my lease is without end. However, point taken, Mickey Mouse must die before copyright becomes eternal -- unless we swap out a few members of the supreme court bench (hint, time does that too).
He directed his organization to license its use and used the money to fund his organization. The estate has continued the practice. Given how widely available the text and audio is, there's a lot of fire and brimstone over this basic and well understood application of black-letter copyright law. You're allowed to profit from your work during your lifetime, afterward your heirs get to profit from your work for a set period of time.
Now, Happy Birthday to You, THERE'S a sticky copyright issue.
MLK was alive for the suit against Mister Maestro and Twentieth Century Fox.
The copyright notice, hastily scribbled onto the text of the speech by Mr. King's attorney as copies were being mimeographed in the press tent the day of the speech is one of the financial pillars that gave MLK's organization the funding to keep moving forward.
To be clear, the speech had been pressed onto records and was being sold over over the country as a single. The MLK foundation stepped in, enforced the copyright, and claimed a cut to continue Mr. King's work.
Martin Luther King, Jr. vs Mister Maestro, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Record Corporation USDC, S.D.N.Y. (12-13-1963) 224 F.Supp.101, 140 USPQ 366. Since I'm guessing you do not actually know -- MLK died on April 4, 1968, about 5 years after you think he was "rolling over in his grave."
-GiH
MLK was alive for the suit against Mister Maestro and Twentieth Century Fox.
The copyright notice, hastily scribbled onto the text of the speech by Mr. King's attorney as copies were being mimeographed in the press tent the day of the speech is one of the financial pillars that gave MLK's organization the funding to keep moving forward.
To be clear, the speech had been pressed onto records and was being sold over over the country as a single. The MLK foundation stepped in, enforced the copyright, and claimed a cut to continue Mr. King's work.
Martin Luther King, Jr. vs Mister Maestro, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Record Corporation USDC, S.D.N.Y. (12-13-1963) 224 F.Supp.101, 140 USPQ 366. Since I'm guessing you do not actually know -- MLK died on April 4, 1968, about 5 years after you think he was "rolling over in his grave."
We are in the U.S. -- by and large our courtrooms are NOT televised. The exceptions make the news because they are so exceptional. And, generally, the rules vary dramatically from court to court and room to room. In the court's I work in phones are generally permitted, but must be silenced so as not to offend the court. We spend much of our time "in court" sitting on benches typing out e-mails and reading off our phones waiting for our cases to be called before the judge.
As for me: I have not yet purchased a tablet (going to pair that with my purchase of a new Droid when the Bionic drops) but I do use my DroidX quite often when I'm in court. I use it to pull up the clerk's docket search through case histories and double-check room numbers, I've been known to pull up cases off findlaw, and I send PDFs of cases I need to review to my kindle (WestlawNEXT actually supports this with a quick link to forward documents directly to a kindle account -- note: those can be connected to an iPXX or droid device).
Of course, what I really look forward to is the larger digital keyboard, so I can review and reply to e-mails on the train or in court without as many "fat finger" errors (crap, delete delete re-type repeat five or six times for case / client names which don't pop up in the auto-complete/correct list).
One of the key tools of my profession is a nice big blank legal pad and printed copies of the documents I'm working on which I can then notate and draw all over as appropriate. I want that functionality in a tablet, not sure if it's there yet, but I trust it will be by end of the year.
Writing, sure, but you could have the BIOS refuse to boot any MBR not signed by its password/key.
Why bother? If the MBR is infected you can fix it and eventually unwind the damage. If you refuse to boot from the MBR you lock yourself out of the system until you find a copy of Knopix.
There was the one particularly ugly virus that got into the systems of the company I provided IT services for in HS. Back then it kept getting reinstalled with boot-leg versions of DOOM and Duke Nukem 3d that the users would install and uninstall after I went home for the evening. Took me months to figure out how it kept getting back on the systems.
You'd have a point . . . except that with the LFG tool people get a LOT of exposure to other gamers outside their group. Let me tell you, this is not a positive feature of the system. However, as terrible as it is to wind up grouped with some random foul-mouthed tool that wants to rush every pull and rolls need on everything the system allows him to roll on, its STILL significantly better than most of the raiding guilds I've played in.
Before WotLK I played in a number of raiding guilds. In vanilla I raided 40 man content as a healer. In Burning crusade I had three 70's a Warrior, a Paladin and a Druid -- each a tank. I had three toons because, as the expansion went on, I was given the choice between leveling the new "optimal" tanking class, or getting the boot. When I say that progression guilds are full of sh*theads, I mean, the progression guilds I have played in have always had an inordinate number of elitist pricks and sh*heads. Moreover, as you said, its both common and accepted for WOW players to acknowledge that the raiding guilds are filled with Elitist Jerks. (No surprise, one of the better theory and method forums out there is called... elitist-jerks.com).
However, yes, there are MANY nice guilds filled with nice people. However, those nice guilds with nice people CANNOT do the raiding content in Cata, at least not as it existed before I quit. When your guild is failing on heroic dungeons... yeah.. not going to happen.
WoW has been attracting new and untested gamers into the whole concept of gaming for years. I'm talking about folks that never played a videogame more involved than tetris until their buddy or their S/O sent them a free trial. People like my wife, who like to follow my friends and I around healing and got decent enough to raid with us, or my friend Joe who has aggrophobia and enjoys the opportunity to socialize without having to take a bunch of meds. But these folks are NOT gamers. They don't have a ton of coordination, and they don't have this concept that trying to do the same jump 40 times until you get it right is somehow enjoyable. They play, they enjoy playing, but severe difficulty is, for them, a wall.
In Wrath of the Lich King, these folks could play everything in the game. The most difficult fights were unlocked by triggering optional hard-modes, and the basic level of difficulty was set low enough that even my wife and my friend Joe could do their part and we'd make decent progress from week to week without burning out. For me, that all changed in Cata. It started with the truly bad players who we carried at the end of Wrath of the Lich King -- but once they were gone there was another layer of players who tried hard, liked to play, wanted to succeed, but for whatever reason couldn't hack it. Cata, even the five man dungeons, was way too hard. The poster above captures one element of that, the changes to the healing system made it hard for healers (and hey, guess what role tends to get asigned ot the guy that dose not game and dosen't really know what to role they want to play). That in turn makes it hard for tanks (and let me tell you, dieing because my healer runs out of mana when the boss is at 50% health, NOT a fun experience for a tank). That in turn makes sucess impossible for the DPS, who's key roles are to (1) not take damage and (2) do as much damage as fast as possible.
For me, and for my guild, we enjoyed raiding with people we actually liked as, you know, people. Once the difficulty level goes up I was forced to choose again between finding some raiding guild full of elitist sh*theads (and always that one guy who's REALLY good at playing the game and also a total racist/mysogenist pig) OR not getting to play end-game and just tooling through 5 man dungeons over and over until I got my teir pieces... whee. I chose option three, RIFT and wait for TOR.
Now -- watch for the elitist responses blaming the players for not being up to the challenge. I guess my response would be, okay, say you're right -- I'm still not going to pay for a game that is set to an unadjustable difficulty level that is so hight that my wife and friends gave up and quit.
labeling C as the "speed of light" makes the article seem like a tautology -- but C is a constant in certain theories, not a proven wall. Light often fails to travel at the speed of light, like when light is passing through air or water -- or lead (albeit not so much slower as "halted"). Take from that the following postulation: Light can vary in speed, sometimes much slower than C. Then ask this question: Does that mean that light can exceed theoretical C under the right conditions (i.e. Vacume outside the influence of gravity)? If so, what does that mean?
I think its everything after the 'if' in that last line that explains the muddy second half of the article. (the time travel nonsense). The article does overstate the findings though -- what they did sounds pretty neat, isolating one part of the wave element of light for observation and measuring its speed in a vacum. However, observation never tells you what's impossible, only what's been observed. They have shown that the set of conditions they created support Einstein's theory. They haven't "demonstrated that light can't" do anything. They have made observations which suggests that light does not travel faster than C.
I fail to see the relationship. What tasks are being performed by the thousands of game consoles or MP3 players that have replaced file cabinets and typewriters?
Keeping bored troops from killing themselves binge drinking and whoring on bases the world over. Entertaining wounded vets in the VA. Being used as cheap hardware for parallel computing systems that are far cheaper than buying a custom super-computer.
Those are some of the uses. $117M in a several trillion dollar budget is shockingly low. Cudous to gov't IT staff for keeping the overhead down.
Except.. you know... that's not what the U.S. Government does.
It's one thing when our reporters or paparazzi run and get a picture of a cooling corpse. The U.S. Government (usually) stays out of the buisness of putting heads on pikes so everyone can see the body. I get really creeped out every time someone suggests this. Ignoring the anger it would stoke, the loss of the moral high-ground we require to win the long war, we're talking about putting a dead dude on display so folks can exhault in the holes we put through it.
Dude's dead. He belongs in the dustbin of history, not center aisle at madison square garden.
... adventure games. Although, if Diablo is your marker for what makes an "adventure game" you might be better off looking to something like the newer Zelda games. They're not multi-player, but sometimes the best way to roll through a game like that is to sit on the couch with a friend and take turns working out the puzzles / fights.
I didn't know that we release developers in 10 year batches... see, I thought they were constantly joining the workforce, moving through these roles, and working with other developers with a few years more or less experience.
Also... Since when is 15 years a "generation" in career terms? 25-65 is usually a forty year span. Unless the assumption is that all the lead designers from the 90s decided to go off and become lawyers and chefs at least a third of them should still be in business. Jobs, who sure as hell vetted the apple interfaces, is not a "new generation" from the 90s.
This article's premise can best be sumarized as "you're not being cautious with your interface redesign and the inconsistency scares me." Well.. TFB. The Aeron chair was widely panned when it came out because it broke too many conventions and didn't "look" right. Then people sat in it. The I-pad is kicking ass and taking names -- these little interface kluges show what the system/can/ do. In 10 years the parts that work will be universalized, but its this period of exploration and innovation that is paving the way for the next set of standards. Dude's a tool.
The RIAAs of the world care not for your piddling laws and "established precedent."
More seriously though, you don't want to take up a duty that is not imposed on you because you may, by custom, come to be responsible for that duty. In the same sense that you aren't responsible for the safety of a tresspasser on your property until you observe them regularly tromping past your open pit mine and don't do something to either bar them from the property or protect them from your mine.
The realm of the quasi-contractual relationships and expectations of industry custom is a dangerous place for corporations. Not because the opposing party will win necessarily (they might I gues... not going to think about it very hard), but because they'll get past a motion to dismiss and force you to fight out discovery and all the other expensive stuff that follows.
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If that ever actually happens, good luck breathing. We have simply massive coal reserves in the U.S. and China -- Coal is a long term solution. The only down side is that the poisons and carbon it releases takes far too long to come out of the atmosphere. In other words -- we'll all asphyxiate. But hey, we won't pay for those green bastards with our tax money!!
The Market maximizes PROFIT that is the ONLY measure it goes by. Looking to the market to correct for the hidden costs of an activity is like looking to gravity for a way out of a 200 foot drop. It ain't gonna happen.
-GiH
You mean pollutes /differenly/. Every type of energy we've found produces some environmental impact (pollution). Whether it's waterwheels chewing up trout and salmon or solar panels made with highly poisonous chemicals -- killing the environment is kind of how we play the game.
It sucks, but that's why I'm pro nuclear -- at least Chyrnobyl teaches us that the radiation zones those leave behind are good for the environment.
-GiH
Corporations also can't claim copyright in their own name, only as the result of works for hire, which immediately sets the clock moving.
Extends is not eternal. Copyright is still for a "fixed" amount of time. Right now my lease is for a "fixed" length of 1 year, I can extend that lease, that doesn't mean my lease is without end. However, point taken, Mickey Mouse must die before copyright becomes eternal -- unless we swap out a few members of the supreme court bench (hint, time does that too).
-GiH
I think the point is that he's not stating this as what /should/ or /aught/ to happen generally, just what he'd do were he "the decider."
-GiH
He directed his organization to license its use and used the money to fund his organization. The estate has continued the practice. Given how widely available the text and audio is, there's a lot of fire and brimstone over this basic and well understood application of black-letter copyright law. You're allowed to profit from your work during your lifetime, afterward your heirs get to profit from your work for a set period of time.
Now, Happy Birthday to You, THERE'S a sticky copyright issue.
-GiH
MLK was alive for the suit against Mister Maestro and Twentieth Century Fox. The copyright notice, hastily scribbled onto the text of the speech by Mr. King's attorney as copies were being mimeographed in the press tent the day of the speech is one of the financial pillars that gave MLK's organization the funding to keep moving forward. To be clear, the speech had been pressed onto records and was being sold over over the country as a single. The MLK foundation stepped in, enforced the copyright, and claimed a cut to continue Mr. King's work. Martin Luther King, Jr. vs Mister Maestro, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Record Corporation USDC, S.D.N.Y. (12-13-1963) 224 F.Supp.101, 140 USPQ 366. Since I'm guessing you do not actually know -- MLK died on April 4, 1968, about 5 years after you think he was "rolling over in his grave." -GiH
MLK was alive for the suit against Mister Maestro and Twentieth Century Fox.
The copyright notice, hastily scribbled onto the text of the speech by Mr. King's attorney as copies were being mimeographed in the press tent the day of the speech is one of the financial pillars that gave MLK's organization the funding to keep moving forward.
To be clear, the speech had been pressed onto records and was being sold over over the country as a single. The MLK foundation stepped in, enforced the copyright, and claimed a cut to continue Mr. King's work.
Martin Luther King, Jr. vs Mister Maestro, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Record Corporation USDC, S.D.N.Y. (12-13-1963) 224 F.Supp.101, 140 USPQ 366. Since I'm guessing you do not actually know -- MLK died on April 4, 1968, about 5 years after you think he was "rolling over in his grave."
-GiH
We are in the U.S. -- by and large our courtrooms are NOT televised. The exceptions make the news because they are so exceptional. And, generally, the rules vary dramatically from court to court and room to room. In the court's I work in phones are generally permitted, but must be silenced so as not to offend the court. We spend much of our time "in court" sitting on benches typing out e-mails and reading off our phones waiting for our cases to be called before the judge.
As for me: I have not yet purchased a tablet (going to pair that with my purchase of a new Droid when the Bionic drops) but I do use my DroidX quite often when I'm in court. I use it to pull up the clerk's docket search through case histories and double-check room numbers, I've been known to pull up cases off findlaw, and I send PDFs of cases I need to review to my kindle (WestlawNEXT actually supports this with a quick link to forward documents directly to a kindle account -- note: those can be connected to an iPXX or droid device).
Of course, what I really look forward to is the larger digital keyboard, so I can review and reply to e-mails on the train or in court without as many "fat finger" errors (crap, delete delete re-type repeat five or six times for case / client names which don't pop up in the auto-complete/correct list).
One of the key tools of my profession is a nice big blank legal pad and printed copies of the documents I'm working on which I can then notate and draw all over as appropriate. I want that functionality in a tablet, not sure if it's there yet, but I trust it will be by end of the year.
-GiH
Writing, sure, but you could have the BIOS refuse to boot any MBR not signed by its password/key.
Why bother? If the MBR is infected you can fix it and eventually unwind the damage. If you refuse to boot from the MBR you lock yourself out of the system until you find a copy of Knopix.
There was the one particularly ugly virus that got into the systems of the company I provided IT services for in HS. Back then it kept getting reinstalled with boot-leg versions of DOOM and Duke Nukem 3d that the users would install and uninstall after I went home for the evening. Took me months to figure out how it kept getting back on the systems.
Who else?
You'd have a point . . . except that with the LFG tool people get a LOT of exposure to other gamers outside their group. Let me tell you, this is not a positive feature of the system. However, as terrible as it is to wind up grouped with some random foul-mouthed tool that wants to rush every pull and rolls need on everything the system allows him to roll on, its STILL significantly better than most of the raiding guilds I've played in.
... elitist-jerks.com).
Before WotLK I played in a number of raiding guilds. In vanilla I raided 40 man content as a healer. In Burning crusade I had three 70's a Warrior, a Paladin and a Druid -- each a tank. I had three toons because, as the expansion went on, I was given the choice between leveling the new "optimal" tanking class, or getting the boot. When I say that progression guilds are full of sh*theads, I mean, the progression guilds I have played in have always had an inordinate number of elitist pricks and sh*heads. Moreover, as you said, its both common and accepted for WOW players to acknowledge that the raiding guilds are filled with Elitist Jerks. (No surprise, one of the better theory and method forums out there is called
However, yes, there are MANY nice guilds filled with nice people. However, those nice guilds with nice people CANNOT do the raiding content in Cata, at least not as it existed before I quit. When your guild is failing on heroic dungeons... yeah.. not going to happen.
It's a trap.
Run.
WoW has been attracting new and untested gamers into the whole concept of gaming for years. I'm talking about folks that never played a videogame more involved than tetris until their buddy or their S/O sent them a free trial. People like my wife, who like to follow my friends and I around healing and got decent enough to raid with us, or my friend Joe who has aggrophobia and enjoys the opportunity to socialize without having to take a bunch of meds. But these folks are NOT gamers. They don't have a ton of coordination, and they don't have this concept that trying to do the same jump 40 times until you get it right is somehow enjoyable. They play, they enjoy playing, but severe difficulty is, for them, a wall.
In Wrath of the Lich King, these folks could play everything in the game. The most difficult fights were unlocked by triggering optional hard-modes, and the basic level of difficulty was set low enough that even my wife and my friend Joe could do their part and we'd make decent progress from week to week without burning out. For me, that all changed in Cata. It started with the truly bad players who we carried at the end of Wrath of the Lich King -- but once they were gone there was another layer of players who tried hard, liked to play, wanted to succeed, but for whatever reason couldn't hack it. Cata, even the five man dungeons, was way too hard. The poster above captures one element of that, the changes to the healing system made it hard for healers (and hey, guess what role tends to get asigned ot the guy that dose not game and dosen't really know what to role they want to play). That in turn makes it hard for tanks (and let me tell you, dieing because my healer runs out of mana when the boss is at 50% health, NOT a fun experience for a tank). That in turn makes sucess impossible for the DPS, who's key roles are to (1) not take damage and (2) do as much damage as fast as possible.
For me, and for my guild, we enjoyed raiding with people we actually liked as, you know, people. Once the difficulty level goes up I was forced to choose again between finding some raiding guild full of elitist sh*theads (and always that one guy who's REALLY good at playing the game and also a total racist/mysogenist pig) OR not getting to play end-game and just tooling through 5 man dungeons over and over until I got my teir pieces... whee. I chose option three, RIFT and wait for TOR.
Now -- watch for the elitist responses blaming the players for not being up to the challenge. I guess my response would be, okay, say you're right -- I'm still not going to pay for a game that is set to an unadjustable difficulty level that is so hight that my wife and friends gave up and quit.
labeling C as the "speed of light" makes the article seem like a tautology -- but C is a constant in certain theories, not a proven wall. Light often fails to travel at the speed of light, like when light is passing through air or water -- or lead (albeit not so much slower as "halted"). Take from that the following postulation: Light can vary in speed, sometimes much slower than C. Then ask this question: Does that mean that light can exceed theoretical C under the right conditions (i.e. Vacume outside the influence of gravity)? If so, what does that mean?
I think its everything after the 'if' in that last line that explains the muddy second half of the article. (the time travel nonsense). The article does overstate the findings though -- what they did sounds pretty neat, isolating one part of the wave element of light for observation and measuring its speed in a vacum. However, observation never tells you what's impossible, only what's been observed. They have shown that the set of conditions they created support Einstein's theory. They haven't "demonstrated that light can't" do anything. They have made observations which suggests that light does not travel faster than C.
-GiH
Worse then the death of Wave? /snark
Boo. :(
looks like a cut in costs for me. Bye bye dead dinosaur juice media, hello interwebs.
I fail to see the relationship. What tasks are being performed by the thousands of game consoles or MP3 players that have replaced file cabinets and typewriters?
Keeping bored troops from killing themselves binge drinking and whoring on bases the world over. Entertaining wounded vets in the VA. Being used as cheap hardware for parallel computing systems that are far cheaper than buying a custom super-computer.
Those are some of the uses. $117M in a several trillion dollar budget is shockingly low. Cudous to gov't IT staff for keeping the overhead down.
-GiH
Except.. you know... that's not what the U.S. Government does.
It's one thing when our reporters or paparazzi run and get a picture of a cooling corpse. The U.S. Government (usually) stays out of the buisness of putting heads on pikes so everyone can see the body. I get really creeped out every time someone suggests this. Ignoring the anger it would stoke, the loss of the moral high-ground we require to win the long war, we're talking about putting a dead dude on display so folks can exhault in the holes we put through it.
Dude's dead. He belongs in the dustbin of history, not center aisle at madison square garden.
-GiH
... adventure games. Although, if Diablo is your marker for what makes an "adventure game" you might be better off looking to something like the newer Zelda games. They're not multi-player, but sometimes the best way to roll through a game like that is to sit on the couch with a friend and take turns working out the puzzles / fights.
Also ... Since when is 15 years a "generation" in career terms? 25-65 is usually a forty year span. Unless the assumption is that all the lead designers from the 90s decided to go off and become lawyers and chefs at least a third of them should still be in business. Jobs, who sure as hell vetted the apple interfaces, is not a "new generation" from the 90s.
This article's premise can best be sumarized as "you're not being cautious with your interface redesign and the inconsistency scares me." Well.. TFB. The Aeron chair was widely panned when it came out because it broke too many conventions and didn't "look" right. Then people sat in it. The I-pad is kicking ass and taking names -- these little interface kluges show what the system /can/ do. In 10 years the parts that work will be universalized, but its this period of exploration and innovation that is paving the way for the next set of standards. Dude's a tool.
More seriously though, you don't want to take up a duty that is not imposed on you because you may, by custom, come to be responsible for that duty. In the same sense that you aren't responsible for the safety of a tresspasser on your property until you observe them regularly tromping past your open pit mine and don't do something to either bar them from the property or protect them from your mine.
The realm of the quasi-contractual relationships and expectations of industry custom is a dangerous place for corporations. Not because the opposing party will win necessarily (they might I gues... not going to think about it very hard), but because they'll get past a motion to dismiss and force you to fight out discovery and all the other expensive stuff that follows.
The verdict is the least of your worries.
-GiH