Pretty common among ordinary garden vegetables. Frex, a lot of the leafy veggies (lettuce etc.) that sometimes "bolt" (grow a flower spike) will croak shortly after the flower spike matures.
Probably just the result of natural selection toward "adult plant dies, gets its leaves out of the way of the sunlight, and becomes fertilizer" to give the offspring a better shot at growing into mature plants too.
While a long-view franchise sounds good, it's just not how the film industry works. It's not going to wait around for your game to become a successful franchise... and how many games COULD do that in the first place? It's rare even for very successful movies and TV series to manage it!!
I think it's important that these variant (and even just plain wrong) viewpoints be preserved at least as historical notes, rather than extinguished and forgotten -- it's mighty hard to study and learn about the good and the bad from *anything* if it no longer exists.
Because when you license or option a game, book, etc. to a film company, you usually get paid cash up front whether the film is ever made or not. It's like free money that falls from heaven.
And considering the short shelf-life of today's games, and the fickleness of the market, it's wise to take the money and run. Given the slow pace of even the cheapest film production, the movie won't come out til after the game's shelf-life is pretty much over anyway, so it certainly won't have a negative impact on sales, and may get you a few straggler-buyers you'd not have otherwise.
All in all, a win-win for the game company, no matter what kark the film proves to be (or even if it never gets shot, as most don't).
I'm wondering this... if AT&T filters all content on its network, doesn't that mean it also filters content that goes to ISPs that buy bandwidth from AT&T?
Wouldn't that amount to breach of contract with these ISPs??
Not only that, but what about those ISPs' own customers -- who can no longer get what they are paying their ISP for, since their ISP can no longer get unfiltered bandwidth from AT&T.
If this is how it works, it's one helluva can of legal worms.
Yep, trademarks are another thing entirely... but they can't be used to prevent someone else from entering the market, nor from making a competing offering.
As to copyright, this is the relevant section from the link in our FA: ======== The idea for a game is not protected by copyright. The same is true of the name or title given to the game and of the method or methods for playing it.
Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author's expression in literary, artistic, or musical form. Copyright protection does not extend to any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in the development, merchandising, or playing of a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles.
Some material prepared in connection with a game may be subject to copyright if it contains a sufficient amount of literary or pictorial expression. For example, the text matter describing the rules of the game, or the pictorial matter appearing on the gameboard or container, may be registrable. ========
In short, about all that's protected are the in-game specifics and documentation. The concept, and even the name, are not copyrightable, tho the name MAY be trademarkable.
Could be useful for anyone whose physiological state is in itself mission-critical (pilots, train engineers; firefighters who enter burning buildings, in fact anyone working in high-risk environments; maybe even surgeons). Obviously you need a baseline first, tho; otherwise what is normal excitement for a particular person (frex, combat pilots) could be misinterpreted as stress.
However, as to its use in the workplace -- one could argue either way:
Against: Do you really WANT the boss to know every time you hit a snag? maybe you're best off if left alone to work it out.
For: Frustrated about something? Maybe it's time for help and you don't realise it. (Potentially useful for schools.)
Numerous similar arguments could be added to either side. My own feeling is that I'd prefer occasional mistakes, even fatal ones, to a pervasive Big Brother Is Monitoring You, so hopefully this will be utilized in a sensible manner, rather than across the board.
My fave role, tho, was his character in the short-lived espionage series "Under Cover" (1991). Just priceless. Wish this would come out on DVD -- there are several unaired episodes.
People are different, true, but biochemistry (which I have most of a degree in -- short 3 classes) is *basically* the same for everyone. And you can argue micronutrients all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that protein and fat are the defining nutrients for long-term appetite control.
And I know a lot of vegetarians; MOST of them are overweight to obese.
I also know a lot of people who DON'T struggle with their weight... and guess what, MOST of them eat pretty much like I do. Funny thing, this was the norm before the "obesity epidemic". And obese children were *extremely* rare before all this "healthy eating" -- perhaps one child in a thousand. Now, fat kids are everywhere... and so is adult-onset diabetes, also formerly rare. Draw your own conclusions.
Thanks, didn't know that! (Someone, please mod parent Informative!) Very good start... since this insanity won't end until governments stop letting themselves be stampeded into making stupid laws.
As I ranted here the other day, it's time that the content owners started using filesharing as a positive marketing force (watermarks and ID3 links to a shopping cart could work with commissions for sales subsequent to downloads, etc.) that costs them nothing, rather than trying to acheive what can only be, in the end, a Pyrrhic victory.
The only possible downside to the consumer of cloned flesh, far as I can see (and my background is biochem) is if the degraded DNA happens to produce defective RNA leading to defective enzymes and thence to defective amino acids or other needful biochemicals.
However, we normally call that chain a "genetic defect" and the animal usually dies at a very early age and winds up as fertilizer. And if you did dig it up and eat it... well, think of it as diet food, since such defective biochemicals would lack nutrient value. But they wouldn't *harm* you, at least no more than sucralose or other "defective nutrients".
Enjoyed reading your posts. And I think it's informative for the rest of us to see how life can be in the trenches. -- Thanks for being a good soldier, by whatever definition.:)
Make encryption wholly transparent and automatic, and resistance to using it will go away.
Of course, so long as it's not universal, using encyrption is as good as shouting "I'M UP TO SOMETHING!" -- a Bad Thing in our current political climate, with our ever-growing "terrorist watch list" (now closing on one million names).
Well, not necessarily; lots of folks pay $4/mo. to keep their ELN mailbox. Didn't know if you had or not.
As to the nominal topic, I finally got a look at the new M$Office interface: I do NOT want a freakin' web-style interface on an office app! I know M$ wants to blur the line and eventually move entirely to SaaS, but not on my computer they won't.
Does OO use that zip-up-the-entire-mess approach to document storage that StarOffice did? Hated that, what a PITA if you want to do anything else with the document.
I didn't say red meat makes you FULL. I said that the protein balance found in red meat (and not adequately substitutable with anything else) keeps your *long-term* appetite under control -- and the effect there is that you need *fewer* carbs to achieve that final feeling of satsifaction. One potato will do instead of two, and so on. (BTW being low on B-complex vitamins will make you crave wheat products.)
And yes, the age of metabolic slowdown varies; I know other people who had it at age 20, and a few who never really had it. But 30 is the most typical age.
And you are right, it's perfectly possible to be pretty chunky and still be healthy; lots of farmers and eskimos will agree with you. But if your weight is affecting your lifestyle (including negative impacts on health, such as joint problems or diabetes), ie. preventing you from activities you could do when you were thinner, you are carrying too much, and that threshold can be 5 pounds or 100 pounds (which is about the max before it WILL negatively impact your life).
Veggies are very poor weight-control food, as you need to eat a lot more calories worth of veggies to get the same net level of nutrients that you do from a more-concentrated food. Lack or imbalance of nutrients creates cravings (which is why in general you should listen to your cravings, not fight them).
BTW I am not a skinny-bigot; in fact I love the "big beautiful woman" look (tho most guys can't pull it off). I also have a background in biochem and animal nutrition, so I'm not just pulling this out of my ass.:)
Small rant: the people who most like to dispute my methods are also most likely to be those with a lifelong weight battle. But which of us still wears the same clothes we did in college??
I think the average person overestimates the amount of control a manufacturing process has, unless it's entirely vertical. Buy one chip from some 3rd-party fab, or use a single binary (such as a driver) from outside your trusted, clean-room environment, and you've got a potential attack vector.
The wonder shouldn't be that it happens, but that it happens so *seldom* -- a testament to folks like yourself.
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Pretty common among ordinary garden vegetables. Frex, a lot of the leafy veggies (lettuce etc.) that sometimes "bolt" (grow a flower spike) will croak shortly after the flower spike matures.
Probably just the result of natural selection toward "adult plant dies, gets its leaves out of the way of the sunlight, and becomes fertilizer" to give the offspring a better shot at growing into mature plants too.
While a long-view franchise sounds good, it's just not how the film industry works. It's not going to wait around for your game to become a successful franchise... and how many games COULD do that in the first place? It's rare even for very successful movies and TV series to manage it!!
I think it's important that these variant (and even just plain wrong) viewpoints be preserved at least as historical notes, rather than extinguished and forgotten -- it's mighty hard to study and learn about the good and the bad from *anything* if it no longer exists.
[goes off, reads linked articles]
Oh, I see -- quite literally this:
1) Brainwash the masses
2) Launder the money
3) ???
4) Profit!!
Because when you license or option a game, book, etc. to a film company, you usually get paid cash up front whether the film is ever made or not. It's like free money that falls from heaven.
And considering the short shelf-life of today's games, and the fickleness of the market, it's wise to take the money and run. Given the slow pace of even the cheapest film production, the movie won't come out til after the game's shelf-life is pretty much over anyway, so it certainly won't have a negative impact on sales, and may get you a few straggler-buyers you'd not have otherwise.
All in all, a win-win for the game company, no matter what kark the film proves to be (or even if it never gets shot, as most don't).
I'm wondering this... if AT&T filters all content on its network, doesn't that mean it also filters content that goes to ISPs that buy bandwidth from AT&T?
Wouldn't that amount to breach of contract with these ISPs??
Not only that, but what about those ISPs' own customers -- who can no longer get what they are paying their ISP for, since their ISP can no longer get unfiltered bandwidth from AT&T.
If this is how it works, it's one helluva can of legal worms.
I've seen worse than that. Are you sitting down??
DVD movie: $30
CD of soundtrack of same movie: $60
And that was at a warehouse discount price!!
Yep, trademarks are another thing entirely... but they can't be used to prevent someone else from entering the market, nor from making a competing offering.
As to copyright, this is the relevant section from the link in our FA:
========
The idea for a game is not protected by copyright. The same is true of the name or title given to the game and of the method or methods for playing it.
Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author's expression in literary, artistic, or musical form. Copyright protection does not extend to any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in the development, merchandising, or playing of a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law
prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles.
Some material prepared in connection with a game may be subject to copyright if it contains a sufficient amount of literary or pictorial expression. For example, the text matter describing the rules of the game, or the pictorial matter appearing on the gameboard or container, may be registrable.
========
In short, about all that's protected are the in-game specifics and documentation. The concept, and even the name, are not copyrightable, tho the name MAY be trademarkable.
Could be useful for anyone whose physiological state is in itself mission-critical (pilots, train engineers; firefighters who enter burning buildings, in fact anyone working in high-risk environments; maybe even surgeons). Obviously you need a baseline first, tho; otherwise what is normal excitement for a particular person (frex, combat pilots) could be misinterpreted as stress.
However, as to its use in the workplace -- one could argue either way:
Against: Do you really WANT the boss to know every time you hit a snag? maybe you're best off if left alone to work it out.
For: Frustrated about something? Maybe it's time for help and you don't realise it. (Potentially useful for schools.)
Numerous similar arguments could be added to either side. My own feeling is that I'd prefer occasional mistakes, even fatal ones, to a pervasive Big Brother Is Monitoring You, so hopefully this will be utilized in a sensible manner, rather than across the board.
I've wondered... if you pick "Close", would that shut YOU down??
My exact words -- over and over and over!!
My fave role, tho, was his character in the short-lived espionage series "Under Cover" (1991). Just priceless. Wish this would come out on DVD -- there are several unaired episodes.
People are different, true, but biochemistry (which I have most of a degree in -- short 3 classes) is *basically* the same for everyone. And you can argue micronutrients all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that protein and fat are the defining nutrients for long-term appetite control.
And I know a lot of vegetarians; MOST of them are overweight to obese.
I also know a lot of people who DON'T struggle with their weight... and guess what, MOST of them eat pretty much like I do. Funny thing, this was the norm before the "obesity epidemic". And obese children were *extremely* rare before all this "healthy eating" -- perhaps one child in a thousand. Now, fat kids are everywhere... and so is adult-onset diabetes, also formerly rare. Draw your own conclusions.
Thanks, didn't know that! (Someone, please mod parent Informative!) Very good start... since this insanity won't end until governments stop letting themselves be stampeded into making stupid laws.
As I ranted here the other day, it's time that the content owners started using filesharing as a positive marketing force (watermarks and ID3 links to a shopping cart could work with commissions for sales subsequent to downloads, etc.) that costs them nothing, rather than trying to acheive what can only be, in the end, a Pyrrhic victory.
The only possible downside to the consumer of cloned flesh, far as I can see (and my background is biochem) is if the degraded DNA happens to produce defective RNA leading to defective enzymes and thence to defective amino acids or other needful biochemicals.
However, we normally call that chain a "genetic defect" and the animal usually dies at a very early age and winds up as fertilizer. And if you did dig it up and eat it... well, think of it as diet food, since such defective biochemicals would lack nutrient value. But they wouldn't *harm* you, at least no more than sucralose or other "defective nutrients".
This article, linked from TFA, is interesting, and was written BY a member of the Swedish Parliment:
http://sigfrid.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/decriminalize-file-sharing/
Been there, been annoyed by that, rapidly gave it up :(
To be viable for the majority, it may have to be a little less than "good", and fetch the key automagically.
Allllviiiiiin!! stop playing with those balloons and get down here this instant!!!
Well, I'm driving a Ford truck that turned 29 years old this month. That far enough out of warranty for ya? :)
Enjoyed reading your posts. And I think it's informative for the rest of us to see how life can be in the trenches. -- Thanks for being a good soldier, by whatever definition. :)
Make encryption wholly transparent and automatic, and resistance to using it will go away.
Of course, so long as it's not universal, using encyrption is as good as shouting "I'M UP TO SOMETHING!" -- a Bad Thing in our current political climate, with our ever-growing "terrorist watch list" (now closing on one million names).
An amazingly versatile actor. He often "disappears" into the role to the point that only when the credits roll do I realise it was him.
Well, not necessarily; lots of folks pay $4/mo. to keep their ELN mailbox. Didn't know if you had or not.
As to the nominal topic, I finally got a look at the new M$Office interface: I do NOT want a freakin' web-style interface on an office app! I know M$ wants to blur the line and eventually move entirely to SaaS, but not on my computer they won't.
Does OO use that zip-up-the-entire-mess approach to document storage that StarOffice did? Hated that, what a PITA if you want to do anything else with the document.
I didn't say red meat makes you FULL. I said that the protein balance found in red meat (and not adequately substitutable with anything else) keeps your *long-term* appetite under control -- and the effect there is that you need *fewer* carbs to achieve that final feeling of satsifaction. One potato will do instead of two, and so on. (BTW being low on B-complex vitamins will make you crave wheat products.)
:)
And yes, the age of metabolic slowdown varies; I know other people who had it at age 20, and a few who never really had it. But 30 is the most typical age.
And you are right, it's perfectly possible to be pretty chunky and still be healthy; lots of farmers and eskimos will agree with you. But if your weight is affecting your lifestyle (including negative impacts on health, such as joint problems or diabetes), ie. preventing you from activities you could do when you were thinner, you are carrying too much, and that threshold can be 5 pounds or 100 pounds (which is about the max before it WILL negatively impact your life).
Veggies are very poor weight-control food, as you need to eat a lot more calories worth of veggies to get the same net level of nutrients that you do from a more-concentrated food. Lack or imbalance of nutrients creates cravings (which is why in general you should listen to your cravings, not fight them).
BTW I am not a skinny-bigot; in fact I love the "big beautiful woman" look (tho most guys can't pull it off). I also have a background in biochem and animal nutrition, so I'm not just pulling this out of my ass.
Small rant: the people who most like to dispute my methods are also most likely to be those with a lifelong weight battle. But which of us still wears the same clothes we did in college??
OT... Joe, your ELN email is bouncing... people are worried. Hope you've updated /. and will see this. You need to update your zeff.us email link too!
I think the average person overestimates the amount of control a manufacturing process has, unless it's entirely vertical. Buy one chip from some 3rd-party fab, or use a single binary (such as a driver) from outside your trusted, clean-room environment, and you've got a potential attack vector.
The wonder shouldn't be that it happens, but that it happens so *seldom* -- a testament to folks like yourself.