The term usually used in these contexts is "negligence." Typically, the plaintiff in a negligence action will have to show that: (1) the plaintiff suffered a cognizable injury (death is generally pretty cognizable in the eyes of the law) (2) the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of care (to reasonably design the video game) (3) the defendant breached that duty (they didn't reasonably design the game) (4) the defendant's breach proximately caused the plaintiff's injury (this is understandably the toughest element)
Legal scholarship is fully of brilliant and inventive characterizations of the subtle interplay between duty and proximate cause. Unfortunately, this subtlety makes juries especially susceptible to emotional persuasion, thus opening the door for opportunistic plaintiffs' lawyers to wring money out of deep-pocket defendants. Teary-eyed relatives on the witness stand can really tip the scales in favor of the plaintiffs, even where the case is on very questionable legal ground.
There was an article in the NY Times about the inventor of this. Apparently, it started out as his grandfather's idea for an air freshener. The original idea was to capture some kind of deodorizer in the silica gel which would be released when dissolved in the toilet. The grandfather envisioned naming the product "Plop and Drop"
I am in law school currently and have heard of this happening at some rather expensive thrid-party study/review courses, especially bar-review courses. Actually, it's nothing new, my mother is an attorney and she told me that when she was studying for the bar exam the review courses were 4 hours at a time watching videos of the lecturer.
I've been through a number of classes where it would make very little difference if the teacher were real or a tape. Whether it becomes a problem seems more related to the students. If they participate in the discussion, a real teacher is invaluable. Otherwise, what's the difference?
IANAL (yet) but I did just finish my first semester of law school. One of the cases we read in my contracts class is ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg decided in 1996. It involved a database of phone numbers that some guy bought then tried to resell through an online interface. There the court held that the "shirnkwrap" license was valid so long as the purchaser affirmatively agreed by clicking "I Agree."
As far as the requirements for entering into a contract, age is irrelevent. A minor is perfectly capable of entering into a contract. He does, however, have the option to disaffirm the contract as long as it not for "necessaries" (food, clothing, etc.). This privilege is not extended to the other party of the contract, however, so they are taking a risk.
A weird thing in contract law is that you can accept the terms even if you don't know what they are. For example, if you leave a message for your friend on his voice mail asking if he will rent you his apartment for the summer for $500/month and then later speak to him in person and say "did you get my message, do we have a deal?" and he accepts even though he has not heard the message because he is embarassed that he didn't listen to your message, an enforcable contract has been formed. Here, if you click the agree button, you are bound by it, even if you chose not to read the EULA.
From the 30th roof of my apartment building in NYC it's a beautiful site. A mysterious dim red circle suspended over the city. I'll head back up in a few minutes when it begins to wane. It's a little cold to sit the whole thing out up there.
The day i see a gradient on my computer screen without visible "banding" is the day we have reached a high enough color depth...32-bits is simply not enough.
This is dead on. The notion that you can capture an artist's performance in a sequence of numbers that represents how they pushed down the keys on a particular piano in a particular hall, and graft that onto another piano in another room, is patently absurd. If the pianist is not directly responsible for the sound that the judge is hearing, how can this even be suggested as a suitable way to judge a realtime art like music?
Secondly, CHEATING. It would be way to easy to correct mistakes before the final cut is sent to be judged. Worse than fixing mistakes, clearly below par players could multi-track passages they are not up to playing.
No self-respecting musician will take part in a competition of this nature.
My machine has been the happy host of a LFS build for several months now. You're right about the boot time. BIOS takes about twice as much time to post as the actual OS loading does.
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Here is one proposal that is quickly gaining much support.
http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/
The term usually used in these contexts is "negligence." Typically, the plaintiff in a negligence action will have to show that:
(1) the plaintiff suffered a cognizable injury (death is generally pretty cognizable in the eyes of the law)
(2) the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of care (to reasonably design the video game)
(3) the defendant breached that duty (they didn't reasonably design the game)
(4) the defendant's breach proximately caused the plaintiff's injury (this is understandably the toughest element)
Legal scholarship is fully of brilliant and inventive characterizations of the subtle interplay between duty and proximate cause. Unfortunately, this subtlety makes juries especially susceptible to emotional persuasion, thus opening the door for opportunistic plaintiffs' lawyers to wring money out of deep-pocket defendants. Teary-eyed relatives on the witness stand can really tip the scales in favor of the plaintiffs, even where the case is on very questionable legal ground.
Never mind that 507+13 only equals 520.
The idea of the viability of older machines infringing on PC sales has a counter part:y .html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1121714413-DRsR6D+N9V6Va2Tk Eulp+Q
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/technology/17sp
They have made perhaps the worst possible color choices for that page. Yuck!
There was an article in the NY Times about the inventor of this. Apparently, it started out as his grandfather's idea for an air freshener. The original idea was to capture some kind of deodorizer in the silica gel which would be released when dissolved in the toilet. The grandfather envisioned naming the product "Plop and Drop"
http://www.live-shot.com/ After viewing some of the links from that site I ran outside to make sure that my car was not up on cinder blocks.
I am in law school currently and have heard of this happening at some rather expensive thrid-party study/review courses, especially bar-review courses. Actually, it's nothing new, my mother is an attorney and she told me that when she was studying for the bar exam the review courses were 4 hours at a time watching videos of the lecturer.
I've been through a number of classes where it would make very little difference if the teacher were real or a tape. Whether it becomes a problem seems more related to the students. If they participate in the discussion, a real teacher is invaluable. Otherwise, what's the difference?
All these people have set doubleclick to 127.0.0.1 in their /etc/hosts and are desperately trying to view the PDF ...
In soviet russia slashdot slashdots you!
What?
Imagine the likelihood of surviving a counter-claim by said corporation. Guess who would end up eating the upkeep, and TCO of that factory?
IANAL (yet) but I did just finish my first semester of law school. One of the cases we read in my contracts class is ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg decided in 1996. It involved a database of phone numbers that some guy bought then tried to resell through an online interface. There the court held that the "shirnkwrap" license was valid so long as the purchaser affirmatively agreed by clicking "I Agree."
As far as the requirements for entering into a contract, age is irrelevent. A minor is perfectly capable of entering into a contract. He does, however, have the option to disaffirm the contract as long as it not for "necessaries" (food, clothing, etc.). This privilege is not extended to the other party of the contract, however, so they are taking a risk.
A weird thing in contract law is that you can accept the terms even if you don't know what they are. For example, if you leave a message for your friend on his voice mail asking if he will rent you his apartment for the summer for $500/month and then later speak to him in person and say "did you get my message, do we have a deal?" and he accepts even though he has not heard the message because he is embarassed that he didn't listen to your message, an enforcable contract has been formed. Here, if you click the agree button, you are bound by it, even if you chose not to read the EULA.
Thats easy to beat. I'm a Juilliard graduate. The number of my fellow alum who are unemployed...you can imagine.
From the 30th roof of my apartment building in NYC it's a beautiful site. A mysterious dim red circle suspended over the city. I'll head back up in a few minutes when it begins to wane. It's a little cold to sit the whole thing out up there.
"Will Ed join the ranks of happy FreeBSD users?"
Will ofb.biz join the ranks of happy fried slashdotted servers?
That voice will come in handy while fantisizing to the porn.
Reading that gave me a feeling best described as motion-sickness.
The heat from running these distributed computing apps causes climate change inside my apartment.
Actually, I was thinking of being able to navigate the web (especially the back button) while using my real hands for something else...
That's going to make them sound wonderful...
The comments on that pic are really scary.
The day i see a gradient on my computer screen without visible "banding" is the day we have reached a high enough color depth...32-bits is simply not enough.
Last time i checked, my eye was a human one.
"I wouldn't recommend running it on a production machine hooked up to anything..."
Do you mean Windows or the exploit?
I'm sure some non-Linux unix users listen too music too...
This is dead on. The notion that you can capture an artist's performance in a sequence of numbers that represents how they pushed down the keys on a particular piano in a particular hall, and graft that onto another piano in another room, is patently absurd. If the pianist is not directly responsible for the sound that the judge is hearing, how can this even be suggested as a suitable way to judge a realtime art like music?
Secondly, CHEATING. It would be way to easy to correct mistakes before the final cut is sent to be judged. Worse than fixing mistakes, clearly below par players could multi-track passages they are not up to playing.
No self-respecting musician will take part in a competition of this nature.
My machine has been the happy host of a LFS build for several months now. You're right about the boot time. BIOS takes about twice as much time to post as the actual OS loading does.