I gotta end this lame joke chain. Let me do so with a suggestion for Google. This federation stuff is tricky. To stop spam and still be truely open simply don't let nonfederated servers make a join list request that actually shows up to the user on Google's end. So basically only let adding work from Google's or any of the federated partner's end amongst each other. Otherwise have adding work in a mutual matter: both people choose to add each other and then they both just get added. No "request" pops up. This then removes the problem of "request spam." It isn't ideal as you can't just give someone your business card and expect them to contact you (though they could email you and request that you add them), but it is better than gutting the key benefit of Jabber: its ability to let IM merge with and gain the legitimacy and ubiquity of email.
Even still, if I just want to do 34787*38762 I use Google and not the OS's built-in calc. I guess the reason is that I have a web browser open all the time.
"So, I'm in school longer, and will have to do more work, but will get paid the same or less... why is technology a good thing again?" Theoretically technology makes the things you desire cheaper, so you don't need more money. The average American today lives more comfortably than kings of the past. In actuallity it isn't about having a comfortable life or any of that crap; it is about power and/or having more money than your neighbor.
The Xbox mod community is larger than the communities for any of those systems you mentioned. There are parts of the Xbox mod community that don't use the Microsoft dev kit in writing their apps. Just because there are some that do doesn't mean everyone in the community is "bad".
Touring by established bands is indeed a huge money maker. The promotion for those tours builds itself. I think he is talking about the newer, "up and coming," band's manufactured tours. They are actually a loss because of the heavy promotion and advertising that goes in to them. They exist to make the label's artists into bigger celebrities, and that's not cheap.
Because sometimes shit like your OP actually gets modded up, I wish someone would write an addition to the greasemonkey script which allows you to collapse comments to automatically collapse anything saying "I for one welcome our new blah blah blah overlords," "blah blah imagine a beowulf cluster of these blah blah" and all the other canned posts.
Sony doesn't have an attitude against homebrew. Sony doesn't even care about the potential piracy. Sony doesn't want 3rd parties to be able to make game for their system and not pay licensing fees.
I looked a little more and indeed it was patented (it isn't in effect anymore). I can't believe the PS controller got around it because it is still a cross shaped thing exactly like the nintendo one (they aren't separate buttons, you can't press left and right at the same time), but I guess the patent was really really basic.
What is patented about the Nintendo d-pad that Sony had to change? The nintendo d-pad hasn't changed since the Famicom, originally released in Japan in what, '83? Can you provide a link or at least tell what is patented? Why aren't the upcoming consoles (PS3 and 360) aren't using the Nintendo design if it is superior (by 2003 there should be no chance of patents from '83 surviving).
Where are the patents? This is the first I have heard of any patents on the revolution controller concept (it seems to me to be functionally identical to a gyroscopic mouse with one extra degree of freedom). If you are speaking of the rumble patents that is a bit unfair (it isn't something unique to this controller and it is something Microsoft has already dealt with in their current controllers).
I don't think that could possibly be a big part when there exists a reason so big as to leave anything else non-existant. The reason is that "unlicensed" 3rd parties would be able to make and sell applications/games without paying anything to Sony. In comparison any other consequences are just extremely minor (albeit beneficial) side effects from Sony's point of view.
As a student coming out of undergrad say a company makes this deal "we'll pay for your grad school but you have to work for us afterwards for 5 years or else you must pay us back." You go to grad school. You are a student with no money. You declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy can't get you out of federal student loans but it sure can get you out of private ones.
People might attack mass transit for being a waste when someone like you identifies "pedestrian/biker only pathways" as "mass transit." That is one of the most rediculous things I have ever heard. Apparently you have defined mass transit as "not automobiles." I can't believe you included pedestrian/bike pathways and left out busing. Just because it uses the road doesn't mean it is a waste. Consider that a full bus replaces what like 2 football fields in length of single passenger cars?
"Companies should offer funding in exchange for a commitment to work for the company for X number of years after finishing the degree." They can't effectively have such a contract in the US.
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It also doesn't seem like it will work. You can just expose all your services through two layers: the first layer is powered by modified GPL code, and includes the function for sending out the code. The second layer is just a wrapper that isn't GPLed at all and only passes function calls to the first layer and pipes output back to the user. The catch is this second layer can be made to not pass the "give me the code" function.
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I gotta end this lame joke chain. Let me do so with a suggestion for Google. This federation stuff is tricky. To stop spam and still be truely open simply don't let nonfederated servers make a join list request that actually shows up to the user on Google's end. So basically only let adding work from Google's or any of the federated partner's end amongst each other. Otherwise have adding work in a mutual matter: both people choose to add each other and then they both just get added. No "request" pops up. This then removes the problem of "request spam." It isn't ideal as you can't just give someone your business card and expect them to contact you (though they could email you and request that you add them), but it is better than gutting the key benefit of Jabber: its ability to let IM merge with and gain the legitimacy and ubiquity of email.
Even still, if I just want to do 34787*38762 I use Google and not the OS's built-in calc. I guess the reason is that I have a web browser open all the time.
"So, I'm in school longer, and will have to do more work, but will get paid the same or less... why is technology a good thing again?" Theoretically technology makes the things you desire cheaper, so you don't need more money. The average American today lives more comfortably than kings of the past. In actuallity it isn't about having a comfortable life or any of that crap; it is about power and/or having more money than your neighbor.
Consumer Reports famously doesn't have ads. I also don't think I've seen an ad in national geographic.
The Xbox mod community is larger than the communities for any of those systems you mentioned. There are parts of the Xbox mod community that don't use the Microsoft dev kit in writing their apps. Just because there are some that do doesn't mean everyone in the community is "bad".
Why would I want to use Google as a calculator when almost every OS already has one? I don't know but I sure use it a lot.
Touring by established bands is indeed a huge money maker. The promotion for those tours builds itself. I think he is talking about the newer, "up and coming," band's manufactured tours. They are actually a loss because of the heavy promotion and advertising that goes in to them. They exist to make the label's artists into bigger celebrities, and that's not cheap.
These scenarios also are possible even if the copyright is guarded on the map. Someone can easily make their own fake map from scratch.
I just want to reiterate: it isn't at all like trademarks. You don't lose it if you fail to protect it.
Because sometimes shit like your OP actually gets modded up, I wish someone would write an addition to the greasemonkey script which allows you to collapse comments to automatically collapse anything saying "I for one welcome our new blah blah blah overlords," "blah blah imagine a beowulf cluster of these blah blah" and all the other canned posts.
Perhaps he was by himself and doesn't resemble Heman. He couldn't pick it up and move it outside.
Sony doesn't have an attitude against homebrew. Sony doesn't even care about the potential piracy. Sony doesn't want 3rd parties to be able to make game for their system and not pay licensing fees.
Yep, SSX has terrible aliasing on the Xbox. So does Jade Empire. For an example of a game with good antialiasing see Ninja Gaiden.
I looked a little more and indeed it was patented (it isn't in effect anymore). I can't believe the PS controller got around it because it is still a cross shaped thing exactly like the nintendo one (they aren't separate buttons, you can't press left and right at the same time), but I guess the patent was really really basic.
What is patented about the Nintendo d-pad that Sony had to change? The nintendo d-pad hasn't changed since the Famicom, originally released in Japan in what, '83? Can you provide a link or at least tell what is patented? Why aren't the upcoming consoles (PS3 and 360) aren't using the Nintendo design if it is superior (by 2003 there should be no chance of patents from '83 surviving).
Where are the patents? This is the first I have heard of any patents on the revolution controller concept (it seems to me to be functionally identical to a gyroscopic mouse with one extra degree of freedom). If you are speaking of the rumble patents that is a bit unfair (it isn't something unique to this controller and it is something Microsoft has already dealt with in their current controllers).
I don't think that could possibly be a big part when there exists a reason so big as to leave anything else non-existant. The reason is that "unlicensed" 3rd parties would be able to make and sell applications/games without paying anything to Sony. In comparison any other consequences are just extremely minor (albeit beneficial) side effects from Sony's point of view.
There is a problem though: does it really accomplish anything in practice? See my earlier post in this thread: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163271&cid=136 40232
I would hate to work at a place that had you on documentation. You overuse commas and refuse to break things up into logical paragraphs.
As a student coming out of undergrad say a company makes this deal "we'll pay for your grad school but you have to work for us afterwards for 5 years or else you must pay us back." You go to grad school. You are a student with no money. You declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy can't get you out of federal student loans but it sure can get you out of private ones.
People might attack mass transit for being a waste when someone like you identifies "pedestrian/biker only pathways" as "mass transit." That is one of the most rediculous things I have ever heard. Apparently you have defined mass transit as "not automobiles." I can't believe you included pedestrian/bike pathways and left out busing. Just because it uses the road doesn't mean it is a waste. Consider that a full bus replaces what like 2 football fields in length of single passenger cars?
"Companies should offer funding in exchange for a commitment to work for the company for X number of years after finishing the degree." They can't effectively have such a contract in the US.
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Yes, his (the parent of your post's) was too.
It also doesn't seem like it will work. You can just expose all your services through two layers: the first layer is powered by modified GPL code, and includes the function for sending out the code. The second layer is just a wrapper that isn't GPLed at all and only passes function calls to the first layer and pipes output back to the user. The catch is this second layer can be made to not pass the "give me the code" function.
It isn't that interesting. Most people looking for IE already have it and only have to look on their own system.