Take a flexible OLED, back it with this flexible circuitry, add a flexible battery and you've got an electronic material which could really give paper a run for it's money. Is there flexible memory or storage yet?
The Scots don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. The patron of Scotland is St. Andrew. His feast day is November 30. It's the Irish who drink to excess on Patrick's Day.
I mention this in the interest of ethnographically correct slurs.
So, now that you can choose which side of your brain is more likely to get a tumor, decide which hemisphere you need more and use the other ear for your cellphone. Logical. Artistic. Logical? Artistic? Logical! Artistic! Choices, choices.
The Grandaddy of all this type of game; it pre-dates Risk and the others. Avalon Hill bought the game in the late 70s when the original publisher went out of business.
It is unique not only in having no die, but in the players not taking turns. A gamesmaster collects the players sealed moves, and at the time-limit for the "turn" all players moves are revealed simultaneously.
The game really hinges upon diplomacy, actual diplomatic machinations between the players. And since all moves are revealed at the same time, you can never be certain what your purported ally is doing.
Because alliances are the meat of the game you need to allow a good long time for play. You also need a way for players to meet and scheme without other player seeing or overhearing their meetings. Plan on playing in a good-sized house with many rooms, or with large wooded grounds, or perhaps a hedge maze, anything that will allow secrecy.
Play starts in the year 1910 and continues through 1918. There are 18 turns to the game, divided into Spring and Fall moves, the object being to control Europe. Figure about 30 minutes per turn, that's not unreasonable for a real-time game.
Because players move simultaneously it is a particularly good game for playing through the mail. The gamesmaster collects the moves via post and mails the combined move to the players each month. The print Diplomacy 'zine has been replaced by online versions, but the finest was probably John Boardman's wonderful Graustark.
When Avalon Hill acquired the game they Bowdlerized the rules slightly by removing what was originally the ultimate rule. But it is really that original, final rule that exposes the spirit of the game. It read, "Anything not expressly forbidden is allowed."
While the OCLC may not have a real cause of action, that doesn't prevent them from bringing suit. As long as they've got the registration they can initiate a suit, though the judge might chuck it out on first hearing. Or it may be judged that the trademark has devolved into a common usage and is no longer protected, but that would be a decision the court would make after hearing arguments. As to the damages, lawyers always suggest you ask for way more than you can actually get. Gives them room to haggle when discussing a settlement.
The suit is for trademark infringement, not copyright or patent infringement.
In the U.S. Trademark rights can be held indefinitely by the registrant, or it's successors in interest as in this case, with timely filing of required paperwork and paying of appropriate fees.
What I find amusing is that the designer's of the hotel clearly did not do their homework. The research branch of the New York Public Library doesn't even use the Dewey system. It uses the Library of Congress categories.
Here's the NYPL's online catalog. I guess the designer's went into the Library to look at the architecture, but didn't actually bother to call for a book, or even check the catalog. Had they, they wouldn't be in this pickle.
CSS has not a whit to do with piracy. Piracy is the bogey man that the MPAA trots out to camoflage its agenda. CSS is about control of when you can watch a movie.
Without CSS the DVD consortium wouldn't have "officially licensed" decoders. And without those licensed decoders they couldn't carve the world up into zones. Those Intl zones keep a European DVD from playing in the US. More importantly, from the MPAA's point of view, it quashes the possibility of an Int'l gray market. Everybody has to by the disks in their own zone. No one can send them to their relatives "back home" and expect them to play.
CSS is there purely as a legal manoeuvre: "See, we have encryption!" The real point is to keep as absolute control of every disk and, ultimately, every viewing of that disk as is humanly possible.
Disney's decaying DVDs are the next step. You can expect the price of regular Disney DVDs to go way up once the decaying ones hit the market.
DVD players manufactured by the Shinco Co. are software ugradeable with firmware on CD. Most of the models, branded to various companies, have had their firmware hacked to disable regions, macrovision, menu-disabling, etc. You can even change the startup wallpaper and the screen savers. You can get info on Shinco players at shincodvd.emuunlim.com/.
See, who says you can't find good science in the back of comic books!
Ah, the lowly Artemia; with what anticipation one awaited the arrival of those lovable Sea Monkeys. And now they are handmaids of science.
I always knew they'd be good for something.
I built all sorts of things with my Erector Set when I was a tyke. The thing I remember most was that you had to master getting those little nuts onto those little bolts. This really helped to train my fine motor control. (Well, that and the 10 years of classical piano lessons.)
The snap together kits allow for quick-and-easy construction, and that, to my mind, is where they fall short. Working at tasks which are physically, as well as conceptually, challenging is an important part of a child's development.
I'd bet that a child who grew to adolescence in a zero-G environment would have a really hard time learning how to walk, even if his muscles could be exercised up to proper strength. His sense of balance would not have developed well enough to allow him to operate in gravity.
Americans have an unfortunate tendency to want everything to be easy for their kids, forgetting that it is life's early challenges that teach us how to persevere.
Perhaps if the U.S. moved to the European system of universities and technical colleges we wouldn't need this discussion at all.
Those who wanted a liberal education could go to university; those who wanted technical training could go to the Polytechnic.
This might also prevent our Liberal Arts colleges from turning into trade schools.
It's T'Pol. T'Pau was the elderly lady who conducted the marriage ritual in "Amok Time." Played by Celia Lovsky, T'Pau was, according to the script, "the only person to ever turn down a seat on the Federation Council."
But at least theyseem to have returned to the convention of Vulcan female names starting with T and male names starting with S.
You can get a minimal 3-piece keyboard called the Ergo-Flex from the Comfort Keyboard company. Then you can arrange it however you like, even on the arms of your chair, like this fellow.
Gyroscopically stabilized pogo-stick
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Clearly it is transportation.
It probably comes out of his wheelchair research.
And it made Jobs laugh.
Gyroscopically stabilized pogo stick.
Or maybe a stabilized unicycle.
Though that's not as funny.
But you can't really blame the producers, or the director, or anyone else, for that matter. (Well, I mean you can. They did decide to try and do the thing, after all.) It's just that, Dune is bound to make a really lousy movie.
Now, what do I mean by that. Well, there is far too much narrative exposition in the novel to translate to the screen. Herbert does not use action and dialogue to expose the culture of his future. He tells you about it. Narrative exposition makes for lousy film, way too many hours of voice overs.
Think of how many films resort to having one character say to another, "Of course you know that, blah blah blah." Trite, but often the only way to cue the audience in to the necessary plot devices.
Look at the scene with the hunter-seeker. In the novel Paul is alone in his bedroom when he is attacked by it. But if he were alone in the film there would be no way to explain to the audience what that little silver thingy was. So, put a maid in there with him so he can explain it to her.
Dune is so full of things that do need explaining that there is bound to be more of this sort of stuff in the next 4 hours.
Contrast this with a writer like Chip Delany, who hardly ever explains anything, but allows the reader to discover the future he is creating through the actions and dialogue of his characters. He describes what is happening, rather than explaining it to you. Anyone think Dhalgren would make a fine mini-series? (That grinding sound you hear is a can of worms being opened.)
Just my 2 solari.
Silver is not only the best electrical conductor, but also the best heat conductor. So manufacture heatsinks from.999 pure silver. Not that pricey for the hobbyist, really. Silver is $4.97/tr.oz. today. I used to be in the jewelry industry. Maybe i ought to start a little cottage industry, making silver heatsinks to order. Hmm.
They cover functional design. There's no new function in the iMac. It seems to me that the all-in-one-box computer has been around for a while, at least since 1984. Clear plastic casing doesn't really change the function of the cabinet in any way.
Artistic creation, however, is covered by copyright law. And copyrighting a design is the simplest thing. Merely file the papers, submit two exemplars and wait about 6 weeks for your copyright certificate to arrive. Then, in case of infringement, you've got proof of the originality and prior existence of your design.
(BTW, I want one of those penguin shaped cocktail shakers. Maybe they ought to carry them at copyleft. "Consumers are aware of the reality that, almost invariably, even the most unusual of product designs--such as a cocktail shaker shaped like a penguin--is intended not to identify the source, but to render the product itself more useful or more appealing.")
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Take a flexible OLED, back it with this flexible circuitry, add a flexible battery and you've got an electronic material which could really give paper a run for it's money. Is there flexible memory or storage yet?
Please learn how to better say it.
Are we splitting our infinitives these days? I blame it in Star Trek.
Who wouldn't?
As a boy sooo envious of Bob Cummings. Oh, those three little beauty marks.
The Scots don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. The patron of Scotland is St. Andrew. His feast day is November 30.
It's the Irish who drink to excess on Patrick's Day.
I mention this in the interest of ethnographically correct slurs.
Probably some sort of encapsulation would be necessary.
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Talk to the folks over at VideoLAN. The software is very robust and runs on any OS. Check the fora or get on the streaming mailing list.
"Let him rot in prison," is usually just a figure of speech, but in this case...
So, now that you can choose which side of your brain is more likely to get a tumor, decide which hemisphere you need more and use the other ear for your cellphone.
Logical. Artistic. Logical? Artistic? Logical! Artistic!
Choices, choices.
Personally, I prefer my coffee soda straight. Manhattan Special baby.
The platters make nice hand mirrors.
The Grandaddy of all this type of game; it pre-dates Risk and the others. Avalon Hill bought the game in the late 70s when the original publisher went out of business.
It is unique not only in having no die, but in the players not taking turns. A gamesmaster collects the players sealed moves, and at the time-limit for the "turn" all players moves are revealed simultaneously.
The game really hinges upon diplomacy, actual diplomatic machinations between the players. And since all moves are revealed at the same time, you can never be certain what your purported ally is doing.
Because alliances are the meat of the game you need to allow a good long time for play. You also need a way for players to meet and scheme without other player seeing or overhearing their meetings. Plan on playing in a good-sized house with many rooms, or with large wooded grounds, or perhaps a hedge maze, anything that will allow secrecy.
Play starts in the year 1910 and continues through 1918. There are 18 turns to the game, divided into Spring and Fall moves, the object being to control Europe. Figure about 30 minutes per turn, that's not unreasonable for a real-time game.
Because players move simultaneously it is a particularly good game for playing through the mail. The gamesmaster collects the moves via post and mails the combined move to the players each month. The print Diplomacy 'zine has been replaced by online versions, but the finest was probably John Boardman's wonderful Graustark.
When Avalon Hill acquired the game they Bowdlerized the rules slightly by removing what was originally the ultimate rule. But it is really that original, final rule that exposes the spirit of the game. It read, "Anything not expressly forbidden is allowed."
We learned to program in Hex on punch-paper tape. Only after we knew what we were doing could we move on to Fortran on punchcards.
And yes, we also had to walk 12 miles through the snow to school. Uphill. Both ways.
While the OCLC may not have a real cause of action, that doesn't prevent them from bringing suit. As long as they've got the registration they can initiate a suit, though the judge might chuck it out on first hearing.
Or it may be judged that the trademark has devolved into a common usage and is no longer protected, but that would be a decision the court would make after hearing arguments.
As to the damages, lawyers always suggest you ask for way more than you can actually get. Gives them room to haggle when discussing a settlement.
The suit is for trademark infringement, not copyright or patent infringement.
In the U.S. Trademark rights can be held indefinitely by the registrant, or it's successors in interest as in this case, with timely filing of required paperwork and paying of appropriate fees.
What I find amusing is that the designer's of the hotel clearly did not do their homework. The research branch of the New York Public Library doesn't even use the Dewey system. It uses the Library of Congress categories. Here's the NYPL's online catalog. I guess the designer's went into the Library to look at the architecture, but didn't actually bother to call for a book, or even check the catalog. Had they, they wouldn't be in this pickle.
Crap.
CSS has not a whit to do with piracy. Piracy is the bogey man that the MPAA trots out to camoflage its agenda. CSS is about control of when you can watch a movie.
Without CSS the DVD consortium wouldn't have "officially licensed" decoders. And without those licensed decoders they couldn't carve the world up into zones. Those Intl zones keep a European DVD from playing in the US. More importantly, from the MPAA's point of view, it quashes the possibility of an Int'l gray market. Everybody has to by the disks in their own zone. No one can send them to their relatives "back home" and expect them to play.
CSS is there purely as a legal manoeuvre: "See, we have encryption!" The real point is to keep as absolute control of every disk and, ultimately, every viewing of that disk as is humanly possible.
Disney's decaying DVDs are the next step. You can expect the price of regular Disney DVDs to go way up once the decaying ones hit the market.
DVD players manufactured by the Shinco Co. are software ugradeable with firmware on CD. Most of the models, branded to various companies, have had their firmware hacked to disable regions, macrovision, menu-disabling, etc. You can even change the startup wallpaper and the screen savers. You can get info on Shinco players at shincodvd.emuunlim.com/.
See, who says you can't find good science in the back of comic books!
Ah, the lowly Artemia; with what anticipation one awaited the arrival of those lovable Sea Monkeys. And now they are handmaids of science.
I always knew they'd be good for something.
I built all sorts of things with my Erector Set when I was a tyke. The thing I remember most was that you had to master getting those little nuts onto those little bolts. This really helped to train my fine motor control. (Well, that and the 10 years of classical piano lessons.)
The snap together kits allow for quick-and-easy construction, and that, to my mind, is where they fall short. Working at tasks which are physically, as well as conceptually, challenging is an important part of a child's development.
I'd bet that a child who grew to adolescence in a zero-G environment would have a really hard time learning how to walk, even if his muscles could be exercised up to proper strength. His sense of balance would not have developed well enough to allow him to operate in gravity.
Americans have an unfortunate tendency to want everything to be easy for their kids, forgetting that it is life's early challenges that teach us how to persevere.
Perhaps if the U.S. moved to the European system of universities and technical colleges we wouldn't need this discussion at all.
Those who wanted a liberal education could go to university; those who wanted technical training could go to the Polytechnic.
This might also prevent our Liberal Arts colleges from turning into trade schools.
It's T'Pol. T'Pau was the elderly lady who conducted the marriage ritual in "Amok Time." Played by Celia Lovsky, T'Pau was, according to the script, "the only person to ever turn down a seat on the Federation Council."
But at least theyseem to have returned to the convention of Vulcan female names starting with T and male names starting with S.
You can get a minimal 3-piece keyboard called the Ergo-Flex from the Comfort Keyboard company. Then you can arrange it however you like, even on the arms of your chair, like this fellow.
Clearly it is transportation.
It probably comes out of his wheelchair research.
And it made Jobs laugh.
Gyroscopically stabilized pogo stick.
Or maybe a stabilized unicycle.
Though that's not as funny.
Now, what do I mean by that. Well, there is far too much narrative exposition in the novel to translate to the screen. Herbert does not use action and dialogue to expose the culture of his future. He tells you about it. Narrative exposition makes for lousy film, way too many hours of voice overs.
Think of how many films resort to having one character say to another, "Of course you know that, blah blah blah." Trite, but often the only way to cue the audience in to the necessary plot devices.
Look at the scene with the hunter-seeker. In the novel Paul is alone in his bedroom when he is attacked by it. But if he were alone in the film there would be no way to explain to the audience what that little silver thingy was. So, put a maid in there with him so he can explain it to her.
Dune is so full of things that do need explaining that there is bound to be more of this sort of stuff in the next 4 hours.
Contrast this with a writer like Chip Delany, who hardly ever explains anything, but allows the reader to discover the future he is creating through the actions and dialogue of his characters. He describes what is happening, rather than explaining it to you. Anyone think Dhalgren would make a fine mini-series? (That grinding sound you hear is a can of worms being opened.)
Just my 2 solari.
Silver is not only the best electrical conductor, but also the best heat conductor. So manufacture heatsinks from .999 pure silver. Not that pricey for the hobbyist, really. Silver is $4.97/tr.oz. today.
I used to be in the jewelry industry. Maybe i ought to start a little cottage industry, making silver heatsinks to order.
Hmm.
They cover functional design. There's no new function in the iMac. It seems to me that the all-in-one-box computer has been around for a while, at least since 1984. Clear plastic casing doesn't really change the function of the cabinet in any way.
Artistic creation, however, is covered by copyright law. And copyrighting a design is the simplest thing. Merely file the papers, submit two exemplars and wait about 6 weeks for your copyright certificate to arrive. Then, in case of infringement, you've got proof of the originality and prior existence of your design.
(BTW, I want one of those penguin shaped cocktail shakers. Maybe they ought to carry them at copyleft. "Consumers are aware of the reality that, almost invariably, even the most unusual of product designs--such as a cocktail shaker shaped like a penguin--is intended not to identify the source, but to render the product itself more useful or more appealing.")