> Disney said in a statement, "The notices involved are an attempt to terminate rights > seven to 10 years from now, and involve claims that were fully considered in the acquisition."
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along.
> Greg McAlpin, a software consultant and a leader of the Ensemble: "Having these > big collaborations may be great for innovation, but it's very, very difficult. Out of > thousands, you have only two that succeeded. The big lesson for me was that most of > those collaborations don't work."
Tough luck on the loss. Oh, and you're an idiot.
Saying "only two" worked is like saying "only one person actually found the car keys and all the other guys looking are a big Fail".
See, they stop looking after it's found. Two possibilities: they start slowly pouring in results faster and faster, like a Marathon race end, or nobody else does, because your two groups were the only two bright enough to begin with. In which case a mass attack is still useful the same way gym class for every student is useful to find fast runners for the NFL.
You could code up a Universal Turing Machine, which is capable of running any other Turing machine possible, with any given input possible, and thus show Turing-equivalence.
But yes, efficiency of either could suffer. One wonders if some versions of MS Word or Windows weren't written in Universal Turing Machine. Oh, and this is only a little bit of an exaggeration. Windows, etc. did and does way too much using scripts on scripts on scripts. Some things do feel like they're java text-script executing on a java interpreter executing on a C++ interpreter executing on a java interpreter executing on Visual Basic for Applications.
710 messages, so nobody will read this, but yes, studies showed that actually writing words by hand (not necessarily cursive) does contribute heavily to word ability.
Whether a same or similar thing will happen with "typing mostly" remains to be seen. It's quite an experiment.
My bud just whined that, since it's the fall and he must get one for his new HS 9th grader, prices on used TI 83 or whatever are now in excess of $50, when just last spring when he got one for his daught, it was about $30.
I'm like, please, do you know what you get for that?
Boy, it's a good thing this guy's theories, demonstrated to have great predictive value, are being followed rather than a politician's theories about the impending Moore's Law crash.
You could make hummous. You just couldn't call it "hummous".
The concept is foreign to the US, but to much older areas, culturally, it's very important. You can't make "Delft" pottery except in Delft. You can't make "champaign" except in the Champaign region of France.
And cheeses, don't get me started.
Of course, that wouldn't apply in the US which doesn't recognize this (since they're ancient names and words, which thus would not be copyrightable or trademarkable, IANAL YMMV) but the US's not the point here.
This is true, but every citizen has a right to demand if something is illegal or not, if nothing else, and to know about and talk about the laws.
I submit that, while the firm that writes the law may retain some kind of copyright with respect to, say, other governments adopting the laws, they certainly give up any and all rights to republish it per se.
I go even further -- Some years ago Microsoft wanted to know if this or that action would amount to a violation of anti-trust laws, and the government said, "Sorry. We'll wait and see what happens and decide then."
Sorry, no. Any free citizen should be able to ask the government if proposed action X is or is not illegal, end of story. And no, there is no justification for that that overrides preventing the government from getting into shenanigans.
And the Jawas, what could they be? Is there any real-life group with a name similar to "Jawas" who are little, beady-eyed desert nomads always concerned about money and trying to rip you off in deals?
Nope, I'm at a loss. Ah well, cya. Gonna go fire up my "Jar Jar Binks: The Complete Live Action Works: The Director's Cut" blueray.
Civilization is the restraining of the hunter-gatherer impulse so as to protect property rights, such that a farmer might now not have to worry about people coming and taking his stuff. It's the de-animalization of humanity.
Every professor who told you otherwise is wrong and was just blowing hot air from ignorance.
In '86, U-Mich had a walk up window where you could feed in your punch cards, that nobody used but they kept open just in case some geezer walked in who didn't wanna do things the new-fangled way, or found some old stack on his shelf he thought might be useful to convert to online storage. They also still had reel-to-reel tape racks where you could store your own data, and you could request via prompt to have a worker put it online for awhile for you.
I also remember a "free half day" of exploration at my Jr. High where you got to pick one of a couple of dozen one-shot classes like caligraphy and so on. I and 1 other guy picked "computers", and we got sat down in front of an old ball-type tele-terminal. We accidentally got the complete "program list" printout, which seemed logical at the time, to see what we could do, but took so long to print it used up 70% of our time. Ran two "sims", the wagon train going out west one, and the civil war one (hey, let's pay our troops like a million dollars each!) Apparently paying troops too much money actually increases the AWOL rate. Who knew? On the positive side, since we lost, the debt was null and void.
I do give them credit for the environment. I even logged back in a year after the massive changes that accelerated its death spiral, into Mos Eisley. Outside "The Cantina", the robots still walked around, gibbering their cute noises and stuff. A few red cons here and there. Went inside and saw a boisterous bar, with "the music", and a bunch of patrons sitting around.
Then suddenly "I has a sad". I realized there wasn't one damned real person anywhere nearby. It was an odd feeling, that hollow emptiness in the midst of what, to my senses, felt like a real, bustling, happenin' area.
Then they refused to return my Master Dancer to Master status after I "tried" some other builds after their massive re-do. Boilerplate, "I'm sorry" from them got boilerplate likewise in return, and I turned off the spigot.
> I don't have WOW experience, can you reframe this in terms of Eve Online?
Imagine you could now only be a specialist in frigates OR destroyers OR cruisers OR... OR dreadnaughts.
And your drones all went away.
And you were a battlecruiser who had good DPS and good remote repair/shielding, and you logged in one day and found a popup that said, "Good DPS or good healer, pick one. Now."
So you picked DPS, but now you just had a handful of damage clickies, and the entire warp scrambler/webbing stuff was gone, and people just stood there and blasted at each other until only one side was left.
> So essentially you had health, mana and endurance? Gee, now that's new. > Or at least was, around 1990 before MUDs came into existance.
I'm not surprised if it was in old-school stuff, but for modern, 3D worlds, it was new.
In any case, to expand on the description, different attacks could damage different bars. If any went below zero, you died.
So the game had an interesting dynamic -- do you specialize in one attack type, or defense for that matter, or become a jack of all trades doing mediocre damage and defense in all three? Sooner or later you'll run across someone who's got your number.
And while humans may leap things like leap the worst of global warming over 100 years, or a slow return to an ice age without much sweat, more sudden disasters like an asteroid or, say, an ice age onset in 1-2 years (as some studies suggest happens), could prove much more problematic.
I'm sorry, but the Devil could kick any mortal's ass. A normal human, no matter how skilled, could not defeat him without kiting him around and around and possibly needing to get him snagged on a corner or something.
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> Disney said in a statement, "The notices involved are an attempt to terminate rights
> seven to 10 years from now, and involve claims that were fully considered in the acquisition."
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along.
> Greg McAlpin, a software consultant and a leader of the Ensemble: "Having these
> big collaborations may be great for innovation, but it's very, very difficult. Out of
> thousands, you have only two that succeeded. The big lesson for me was that most of
> those collaborations don't work."
Tough luck on the loss. Oh, and you're an idiot.
Saying "only two" worked is like saying "only one person actually found the car keys and all the other guys looking are a big Fail".
See, they stop looking after it's found. Two possibilities: they start slowly pouring in results faster and faster, like a Marathon race end, or nobody else does, because your two groups were the only two bright enough to begin with. In which case a mass attack is still useful the same way gym class for every student is useful to find fast runners for the NFL.
It's more like an unprogrammed FPGA.
You could code up a Universal Turing Machine, which is capable of running any other Turing machine possible, with any given input possible, and thus show Turing-equivalence.
But yes, efficiency of either could suffer. One wonders if some versions of MS Word or Windows weren't written in Universal Turing Machine. Oh, and this is only a little bit of an exaggeration. Windows, etc. did and does way too much using scripts on scripts on scripts. Some things do feel like they're java text-script executing on a java interpreter executing on a C++ interpreter executing on a java interpreter executing on Visual Basic for Applications.
Proof isn't that hard -- could you write a C (or Pascal or Fortran or LISP or ...) interpreter in it? If so, it's Turing-equivalent.
Hehe, and of real interest would be that it's impossible to write an interpreter of that language in C and so on.
Two people have incorrectly whined about "passed". There must be a web page of common mistakes somewhere with a crappy description of this.
Grammar Nazi wannabees should leave it in the hands of us professionals.
710 messages, so nobody will read this, but yes, studies showed that actually writing words by hand (not necessarily cursive) does contribute heavily to word ability.
Whether a same or similar thing will happen with "typing mostly" remains to be seen. It's quite an experiment.
My bud just whined that, since it's the fall and he must get one for his new HS 9th grader, prices on used TI 83 or whatever are now in excess of $50, when just last spring when he got one for his daught, it was about $30.
I'm like, please, do you know what you get for that?
Z80 is pre-x86 architecture, i.e. pre-pre-Pentium, and 68k is pre-Power PC architecture.
So technically, this should have sarcasmed with "oshwho".
Boy, it's a good thing this guy's theories, demonstrated to have great predictive value, are being followed rather than a politician's theories about the impending Moore's Law crash.
It's why I create karma in the first place.
You could make hummous. You just couldn't call it "hummous".
The concept is foreign to the US, but to much older areas, culturally, it's very important. You can't make "Delft" pottery except in Delft. You can't make "champaign" except in the Champaign region of France.
And cheeses, don't get me started.
Of course, that wouldn't apply in the US which doesn't recognize this (since they're ancient names and words, which thus would not be copyrightable or trademarkable, IANAL YMMV) but the US's not the point here.
Holy crap, sanity. The equivalent to "That guy over there is saying something gnasty about soandso!" isn't a problem in and of itself.
On the other hand, TFA suggests these are particular implementation strategies to do this.
So it could be possible the companies are all ripping it off.
Do sci-fi stories I rad in the '70s with multiple people sharing a virtual computer world count as prior art?
This is true, but every citizen has a right to demand if something is illegal or not, if nothing else, and to know about and talk about the laws.
I submit that, while the firm that writes the law may retain some kind of copyright with respect to, say, other governments adopting the laws, they certainly give up any and all rights to republish it per se.
I go even further -- Some years ago Microsoft wanted to know if this or that action would amount to a violation of anti-trust laws, and the government said, "Sorry. We'll wait and see what happens and decide then."
Sorry, no. Any free citizen should be able to ask the government if proposed action X is or is not illegal, end of story. And no, there is no justification for that that overrides preventing the government from getting into shenanigans.
Stormtroopers are supposed to be Nazis.
And the Jawas, what could they be? Is there any real-life group with a name similar to "Jawas" who are little, beady-eyed desert nomads always concerned about money and trying to rip you off in deals?
Nope, I'm at a loss. Ah well, cya. Gonna go fire up my "Jar Jar Binks: The Complete Live Action Works: The Director's Cut" blueray.
Oooo-teeni, indeed.
Civilization is the restraining of the hunter-gatherer impulse so as to protect property rights, such that a farmer might now not have to worry about people coming and taking his stuff. It's the de-animalization of humanity.
Every professor who told you otherwise is wrong and was just blowing hot air from ignorance.
And the white armor is supposed to be blaster-resistant, yet they die to one shot more easily than the cloth-"armored" rebels do.
In '86, U-Mich had a walk up window where you could feed in your punch cards, that nobody used but they kept open just in case some geezer walked in who didn't wanna do things the new-fangled way, or found some old stack on his shelf he thought might be useful to convert to online storage. They also still had reel-to-reel tape racks where you could store your own data, and you could request via prompt to have a worker put it online for awhile for you.
I also remember a "free half day" of exploration at my Jr. High where you got to pick one of a couple of dozen one-shot classes like caligraphy and so on. I and 1 other guy picked "computers", and we got sat down in front of an old ball-type tele-terminal. We accidentally got the complete "program list" printout, which seemed logical at the time, to see what we could do, but took so long to print it used up 70% of our time. Ran two "sims", the wagon train going out west one, and the civil war one (hey, let's pay our troops like a million dollars each!) Apparently paying troops too much money actually increases the AWOL rate. Who knew? On the positive side, since we lost, the debt was null and void.
I do give them credit for the environment. I even logged back in a year after the massive changes that accelerated its death spiral, into Mos Eisley. Outside "The Cantina", the robots still walked around, gibbering their cute noises and stuff. A few red cons here and there. Went inside and saw a boisterous bar, with "the music", and a bunch of patrons sitting around.
Then suddenly "I has a sad". I realized there wasn't one damned real person anywhere nearby. It was an odd feeling, that hollow emptiness in the midst of what, to my senses, felt like a real, bustling, happenin' area.
Then they refused to return my Master Dancer to Master status after I "tried" some other builds after their massive re-do. Boilerplate, "I'm sorry" from them got boilerplate likewise in return, and I turned off the spigot.
> I don't have WOW experience, can you reframe this in terms of Eve Online?
Imagine you could now only be a specialist in frigates OR destroyers OR cruisers OR ... OR dreadnaughts.
And your drones all went away.
And you were a battlecruiser who had good DPS and good remote repair/shielding, and you logged in one day and found a popup that said, "Good DPS or good healer, pick one. Now."
So you picked DPS, but now you just had a handful of damage clickies, and the entire warp scrambler/webbing stuff was gone, and people just stood there and blasted at each other until only one side was left.
> So essentially you had health, mana and endurance? Gee, now that's new.
> Or at least was, around 1990 before MUDs came into existance.
I'm not surprised if it was in old-school stuff, but for modern, 3D worlds, it was new.
In any case, to expand on the description, different attacks could damage different bars. If any went below zero, you died.
So the game had an interesting dynamic -- do you specialize in one attack type, or defense for that matter, or become a jack of all trades doing mediocre damage and defense in all three? Sooner or later you'll run across someone who's got your number.
And while humans may leap things like leap the worst of global warming over 100 years, or a slow return to an ice age without much sweat, more sudden disasters like an asteroid or, say, an ice age onset in 1-2 years (as some studies suggest happens), could prove much more problematic.
Didn't "they" do a double-blind study that showed acoustic experts couldn't actually tell the difference between a Stradivarius and a Wal-Mart?
I'm sorry, but the Devil could kick any mortal's ass. A normal human, no matter how skilled, could not defeat him without kiting him around and around and possibly needing to get him snagged on a corner or something.
Really. They haven't even released the equivalent to City of Hero's Wedding Pack.