Weren't the first two Warcraft games (or maybe just the first) developed before there were two divisions of Blizzard?
Err, why would that matter? In either case, the people at Blizzard North (a formerly seperate company acquired by Blizzard some years ago) never had anything to do with the development of the *craft games. Blizzard North did the Diablo series -- whether it was before or after Warcraft -- I'm not seeing why it would matter...
The whole point of a trademark is to ensure customers are not duped into buying things they thought were something else, such as buying someone else's inline skates when what they really wanted were genuine Rollerblades, for example. That kind of customer confusion hurts the original company who put a lot ot working to making a quality produce and needs that trademark protection.
Now with Spam Arrest and others putting "spam" in their name, Hormel has to worry about people walking into a store and leaving with a software package under the misimpression that they're buying genuine Hormel SPAM.
[scratches head] Did I miss something here? There do seem to be people out there who don't immediately recognize this as an obviously frivolous lawsuit. What are they seeing that I'm missing?
It's a lot easier than that... make BeamBack your.m3u "player". Better still, make some other script your.m3u player, and have it ask "play or save to disk" when you start a stream...
Actually, I think the closest and most appropriate analogy would be recording music off your radio, digital cable music station, or whatever. I believe it's perfectly legal in any case. If they make it available for download, it's available for download -- no reason you have to download it to XMMS rather than to disk...
To be honest, I think I was so disgusted with the third film that it tainted my opinion of the whole series to the point where I just wished they'd made the one film and forgotten about any sequels. The second was fine, but I'd give it up to under the rest of the series...
Actually, not really. About the worst I've done is my tendency to clearly label a kludge with the comment:
// KLUDGE
Gives me an easily searchable tag in my code for when it needs fixing. (Why not write it correct the first time? Because in the real world, it's more important to make the deadline and clean up during debugging/testing phase than it is to do it right to begin with. Does this extend the debugging/testing phase? Yes. Does this end up costing the company more in the long run? Yes. Does the boss care? Not really, he's as happy to push that problem into the future as anyone, so long as the current deadline is met...)
We didn't know what we were missing. Mostly, though, we wouldn't have had the time. These days, today's slow computers leave you waiting often enough to tab to another window and read Slashdot. In the 80's, the hyperfast computers we used* never left you waiting that long.
* I am, of course, refering to my old trusty Apple II. I can boot it, launch my word processor, type a short note, and print it in less time than it takes my Athlon XP 1700+ to boot up and display my word processor icon. Then of course I can click that icon and go make a sandwich while it loads...
Actually, there were four actors who played the role in that series: In one of the Young Indy episodes, the opening/ending sequence (where Indy talks to someone else, and sets of the "flashback" that's the meat of the episode) takes place during the 50's rather than the 90's, and thus instead of the usual dose of George Hall we got Harrison Ford. As I recall, he stops the badguys using a saxaphone...
Aw, but A View To A Kill had one of the best villans. [Okay, so I'm a Christopher Walken fan.] Not to mention one of the best looking Bond girls ever to don a jumpsuit. Yes, the real problem was the retirement-age Bond. Well, that and the Bond who was almost campy, even in his earlier works. I think the only one I liked was Live and Let Die, more for Solitaire and the overall spooky feel than for Moore's debut...
Well, then, we just need to find out what Saddam was really hiding when he kept refusing to let inspectors look at particular sites throughout the 90's...
Unfortunately, in the subsequent movies, they tried to divide everyone's attention between two villians rather than going deep into one. That's why the rest of the movies were so bad. At least I assume so, I stopped watched after they totally botched Two-Face (and they had such potential, too -- such an interesting character, and a great actor like Tommy Lee Jones, and we get, what, 5 whole seconds of backstory? I was so disgusted...)
I suspect though, that any cancers or ailments he may have unknowingly had were healed at the time as well, and although immortality will not be his, a long and healthy life out to be. Indy will probably live to be around 140 or so... (We know from the Young Indiana Jones chronicles that he's still alive during the 90's...)
Yes, but did they age more slowly after having left, or did they just hang around there for 60 years or so, then leave and age normally (but make it to 200 because they'd spent 50 years before not aging at all)?
Personally, I find NVidia cards quite annoying. Everytime I do a kernel upgrade, I have to seperately obtain and install patches, and the I have to do the same for the XFree86 drivers. It's a royal pain that I don't have to put up with on other systems where I have other graphics cards -- a simple apt-get install of the kernal or XFree gets me everything I need. I've already decided my next graphics card is going to be something *other* than NVidia -- most likely ATI...
I don't think algorithms are invented any more than mathematical truths are invented, rather they are discovered.
I entirely agree with this, but I'm not sure if this is the right question to be asking. The question is, is there a benefit to the public to award a time-limited monopoly (aka a patent) for those who bother to go out and discover these things, or isn't there one? If it benefits us, we should do it. If not, we shouldn't. Whether it was a process of invention or discovery is moot if we can somehow encourage addition invention or discovery. But I'm skeptical as to whether the benefits are real, or more substantial than the problems that also ensue...
I guess there's some truth to that old statement people make when the stock market tanks: "I lost my shirt." And their pants. And their teddies. And their knickers.
The Anglophile in me loves it when people talk about knickers...;)
I was referring to the drive, the curiosity, that would make going to the moon inevitable.
In which case, it could be argued that once the poets made popular the tale of Icarus, it was inevitable that we would go to the moon.
Even better (and probably closer to the truth), ever since life evolved intelligence and the ability to dream, it was inevitable that we'd go to the moon...
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In Meta-Mod, can we moderate up a moderator as funny? ;)
Err, why would that matter? In either case, the people at Blizzard North (a formerly seperate company acquired by Blizzard some years ago) never had anything to do with the development of the *craft games. Blizzard North did the Diablo series -- whether it was before or after Warcraft -- I'm not seeing why it would matter...
Now with Spam Arrest and others putting "spam" in their name, Hormel has to worry about people walking into a store and leaving with a software package under the misimpression that they're buying genuine Hormel SPAM.
[scratches head] Did I miss something here? There do seem to be people out there who don't immediately recognize this as an obviously frivolous lawsuit. What are they seeing that I'm missing?
It's a lot easier than that... make BeamBack your .m3u "player". Better still, make some other script your .m3u player, and have it ask "play or save to disk" when you start a stream...
Actually, I think the closest and most appropriate analogy would be recording music off your radio, digital cable music station, or whatever. I believe it's perfectly legal in any case. If they make it available for download, it's available for download -- no reason you have to download it to XMMS rather than to disk...
[For crying out loud, what is with all the typos today... that's about the 20th I think...]
To be honest, I think I was so disgusted with the third film that it tainted my opinion of the whole series to the point where I just wished they'd made the one film and forgotten about any sequels. The second was fine, but I'd give it up to under the rest of the series...
Actually, not really. About the worst I've done is my tendency to clearly label a kludge with the comment:
// KLUDGE
Gives me an easily searchable tag in my code for when it needs fixing. (Why not write it correct the first time? Because in the real world, it's more important to make the deadline and clean up during debugging/testing phase than it is to do it right to begin with. Does this extend the debugging/testing phase? Yes. Does this end up costing the company more in the long run? Yes. Does the boss care? Not really, he's as happy to push that problem into the future as anyone, so long as the current deadline is met...)
* I am, of course, refering to my old trusty Apple II. I can boot it, launch my word processor, type a short note, and print it in less time than it takes my Athlon XP 1700+ to boot up and display my word processor icon. Then of course I can click that icon and go make a sandwich while it loads...
Actually, there were four actors who played the role in that series: In one of the Young Indy episodes, the opening/ending sequence (where Indy talks to someone else, and sets of the "flashback" that's the meat of the episode) takes place during the 50's rather than the 90's, and thus instead of the usual dose of George Hall we got Harrison Ford. As I recall, he stops the badguys using a saxaphone...
Aw, but A View To A Kill had one of the best villans. [Okay, so I'm a Christopher Walken fan.] Not to mention one of the best looking Bond girls ever to don a jumpsuit. Yes, the real problem was the retirement-age Bond. Well, that and the Bond who was almost campy, even in his earlier works. I think the only one I liked was Live and Let Die, more for Solitaire and the overall spooky feel than for Moore's debut...
Well, then, we just need to find out what Saddam was really hiding when he kept refusing to let inspectors look at particular sites throughout the 90's...
Unfortunately, in the subsequent movies, they tried to divide everyone's attention between two villians rather than going deep into one. That's why the rest of the movies were so bad. At least I assume so, I stopped watched after they totally botched Two-Face (and they had such potential, too -- such an interesting character, and a great actor like Tommy Lee Jones, and we get, what, 5 whole seconds of backstory? I was so disgusted...)
"I said 'no camels', you have five camels! Can't you count?"
I suspect though, that any cancers or ailments he may have unknowingly had were healed at the time as well, and although immortality will not be his, a long and healthy life out to be. Indy will probably live to be around 140 or so... (We know from the Young Indiana Jones chronicles that he's still alive during the 90's...)
Yes, but did they age more slowly after having left, or did they just hang around there for 60 years or so, then leave and age normally (but make it to 200 because they'd spent 50 years before not aging at all)?
(Wait a minute -- that's not an entirely bad idea...)
Not until the NVidia drivers become a standard part of the XFree86 distribution. ATI currently provides much better Linux support than NVidia...
Personally, I find NVidia cards quite annoying. Everytime I do a kernel upgrade, I have to seperately obtain and install patches, and the I have to do the same for the XFree86 drivers. It's a royal pain that I don't have to put up with on other systems where I have other graphics cards -- a simple apt-get install of the kernal or XFree gets me everything I need. I've already decided my next graphics card is going to be something *other* than NVidia -- most likely ATI...
P.S. Minnesota is a wonderful state to live in.
Rhymes with "tetraverse"...
I entirely agree with this, but I'm not sure if this is the right question to be asking. The question is, is there a benefit to the public to award a time-limited monopoly (aka a patent) for those who bother to go out and discover these things, or isn't there one? If it benefits us, we should do it. If not, we shouldn't. Whether it was a process of invention or discovery is moot if we can somehow encourage addition invention or discovery. But I'm skeptical as to whether the benefits are real, or more substantial than the problems that also ensue...
host-loc 24.196.258.3 | xargs missile-launch
Talk about divesting.
I guess there's some truth to that old statement people make when the stock market tanks: "I lost my shirt." And their pants. And their teddies. And their knickers.
The Anglophile in me loves it when people talk about knickers... ;)
In which case, it could be argued that once the poets made popular the tale of Icarus, it was inevitable that we would go to the moon.
Even better (and probably closer to the truth), ever since life evolved intelligence and the ability to dream, it was inevitable that we'd go to the moon...