that the more complex an organism the more it is adapted to it's niche environment and the easier it would be to affect it's ability to reproduce when stresses are added to said environment.
Even though Sony itself says they don't plan on using this technology, I can think of a couple of other reasons they may want to have patented it.
1) Altruistic reasons. Sony is a nice company and they don't want other companies to screw their customers in this fashion. (My opinion: unlikely)
2) Licensing revenue. If other companies want to screw their customers in this fashion at least Sony will get a cut of the action. (My opinion: very likely)
Or do they bleed money away from other companies in the industry as MMORPG players spend their money on subscriptions and skip out on trying other games that hit the shelf because they already have something to go home to?
I'd like to point out that if they "bleed" money away from other companies then they simply have a more desireable product than the competition. People will generally spend their money exactly were they think they will derive the greatest benefit to themselves. If it's spending their money on an MMORPG to the detriment of the competition, so be it. If it's to sample a wide array of games and not pay a monthly fee, that's what they'll do. Just because a company delivers a a game to market doesn't mean that it will sell. If they complain that it's because MMORPG's are draining money away from gamers that would otherwise have bought their game, they're naive about how the marketplace works and they should have done some work to determine if there was a market for what they wanted to develop before developing it.
The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"
I think that any district that you pay taxes in you should also be allowed to vote in district wide elections (State, County, City). You should have a say in how things are being run if you are paying for it's support.
A chimpanzee has done just as much "evolving" as a human has, it just went in a different direction.
This statebment is not necessarily true. the environment that an organism lives in plays a large role in how much evolution has taken place. Organisms in a very stable environment tend to have smaller levels of genetic drift than those in a more chaotic one. While I agree that the evolutionary paths of chimps and humans have gone is different directions to say that chimps have evolved as much as humans have, just differently, is not as solid of a conclusion as one might think.
Even if it is expensive, I suspect a victory by XM will be worth a substantial amount of money. It will be good not only for them but for the entire industry.
Perhaps, just perhpas, this can be used to instruct students on what it means to be "just a theory" and how that whole "scientific method" thingy works.
You know if you just colonize a planet and don't have comingling in a reproductive sense with other colonies, the population of that planet will begin to diverge, evolutionarily speaking, and will eventually end up as a species different from the "home planet"
And where does he come up with his, 1 chance in 455 over the next 100 years, statistic anyway?
Other sources are also reporting the breaking news story.
How the hell is the fact that Bill Gates gets a lot of email a "breaking" news story. Is this even news? Who gives a shit. Tell bill to keep a white list and dump the rest to/dev/null. If someone needs to get a hold of him and it's important enough there are ways other than email to get the job done and/or get set up onthe white list.
Rural Sourcing's fees are about the same as the overall cost of using an Indian outsourcer, she said--if you consider factors such as communication costs, travel expenses and inconvenience.
I wonder if that's anything like the inconvenience of being out of a job?
If you want to gather a bunch of personal data and cover your butt at the same time start an ad company and release your virus, er demographics data gathering software and just claim it's business.
Slashdot Mirror
Kind of looks like the way my HP RPN calculator works
that the more complex an organism the more it is adapted to it's niche environment and the easier it would be to affect it's ability to reproduce when stresses are added to said environment.
Even though Sony itself says they don't plan on using this technology, I can think of a couple of other reasons they may want to have patented it.
1) Altruistic reasons. Sony is a nice company and they don't want other companies to screw their customers in this fashion. (My opinion: unlikely)
2) Licensing revenue. If other companies want to screw their customers in this fashion at least Sony will get a cut of the action. (My opinion: very likely)
rapier like wit, to "sharp as a single atom tip formed by chemically assisted spatially controlled field evaporation" like wit.
add to this an always-on, all-sides video camera to document that it was the minivan that strayed into your lane, and it'll be even better.
You'll think that until it show's that it was you that strayed into the minivan's lane.
Or do they bleed money away from other companies in the industry as MMORPG players spend their money on subscriptions and skip out on trying other games that hit the shelf because they already have something to go home to?
I'd like to point out that if they "bleed" money away from other companies then they simply have a more desireable product than the competition. People will generally spend their money exactly were they think they will derive the greatest benefit to themselves. If it's spending their money on an MMORPG to the detriment of the competition, so be it. If it's to sample a wide array of games and not pay a monthly fee, that's what they'll do. Just because a company delivers a a game to market doesn't mean that it will sell. If they complain that it's because MMORPG's are draining money away from gamers that would otherwise have bought their game, they're naive about how the marketplace works and they should have done some work to determine if there was a market for what they wanted to develop before developing it.
The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"
It almost sounds like they did something bad.
Thanks for the support :-)
I think that any district that you pay taxes in you should also be allowed to vote in district wide elections (State, County, City). You should have a say in how things are being run if you are paying for it's support.
That Open Lazlo was an open source project to easily fillout those, no purchase neccessary, enter as often as you like, sweepstakes entry forms?
A chimpanzee has done just as much "evolving" as a human has, it just went in a different direction.
This statebment is not necessarily true. the environment that an organism lives in plays a large role in how much evolution has taken place. Organisms in a very stable environment tend to have smaller levels of genetic drift than those in a more chaotic one. While I agree that the evolutionary paths of chimps and humans have gone is different directions to say that chimps have evolved as much as humans have, just differently, is not as solid of a conclusion as one might think.
Even if it is expensive, I suspect a victory by XM will be worth a substantial amount of money. It will be good not only for them but for the entire industry.
Jack & Shit
& Jack left town.
Herculean implies that the request is possible yet requires a tremendous amount of effort.
Perhaps Sisyphean: "Of or relating to an endless and ineffective task." is more appropriate.
Just in case this hasn't been poseted yet. /Intelligent-design /evoultion controversy.
Talk origins, is a great resource on the Creation
Talk Origins
Actually ID doesn't even rise to the level of Hypothesis as it is neither testable or falsifiable. It might, perhpas, be a conjecture.
Perhaps, just perhpas, this can be used to instruct students on what it means to be "just a theory" and how that whole "scientific method" thingy works.
Actually ID isn't even a hypothesis because it is not testable or falsifiable, two requirements for a statement to be a hypothesis.
Cheap f'ing hardware running cheap f'ing software. I'm not interested, but most of the world should love it.
What the hell do they think has been happening all these since it's introduction.
You know if you just colonize a planet and don't have comingling in a reproductive sense with other colonies, the population of that planet will begin to diverge, evolutionarily speaking, and will eventually end up as a species different from the "home planet" And where does he come up with his, 1 chance in 455 over the next 100 years, statistic anyway?
Other sources are also reporting the breaking news story.
/dev/null. If someone needs to get a hold of him and it's important enough there are ways other than email to get the job done and/or get set up onthe white list.
How the hell is the fact that Bill Gates gets a lot of email a "breaking" news story. Is this even news? Who gives a shit. Tell bill to keep a white list and dump the rest to
Would this be constitutional? Something about freedom to move about within the country/states.
Rural Sourcing's fees are about the same as the overall cost of using an Indian outsourcer, she said--if you consider factors such as communication costs, travel expenses and inconvenience.
I wonder if that's anything like the inconvenience of being out of a job?
If you want to gather a bunch of personal data and cover your butt at the same time start an ad company and release your virus, er demographics data gathering software and just claim it's business.