Our rights our protected. We can exercise them. But we're not protected from people working around that to penalize us for exercising our rights. They simply define any situation where you would conceivably exercise said rights as "bad" or "illegal" and then persecute you with a sadistic choice. Let them screw you over directly. Or let them screw you over indirectly. Either way, you're screwed.
But "society" didn't create the work. And telling people "you didn't profit in X-months, so you don't deserve to profit at all"? A great way to disincentivize the sharing of knowledge.
And, as I said. It allows a property creator to benefit within the term of their own life. It also allows the children of said creator to benefit into adulthood, should said creator come to an early demise.
Because, at times, the immediate worth of a product or a work isn't apparent. And only becomes apparent over time. Sometimes in fields not even thought about by the writer (see Game Theory).
This gives the author the chance to profit from their work within the span of their life, plus 20 years also gives a buffer of time to see minor children to the age of majority in cases where the inventor/writer dies young.
I might actually give a shit about his kids if it wasn't for the fact that they're just wrangling amongst themselves over money.
This is why IP/Copyright/etc/etc should be life of the creator +20 years or a flat 20 years in the case of assets held by a corporation.
It has now been over FIFTY YEARS since the man gave his famous speech. And he's been dead for 45 of them. I'd think that his children have reaped a decent return off something they didn't do for themselves.
For the wired part? Yes. For the wireless? No. What I've described is sheer overload of available spectrum as there's so many devices "screaming" that I simply cannot get signal, in what is otherwise a 3-4 bar area. Call quality and completion suffer similarly.
You're sharing SPECTRUM with everyone and their brother. And that's actually even worse.
And building capacity for wireless is non-trivial as well. It's not just a matter of putting up another access point or uplink.
Example: GenCon.
Downtown Indianapolis has a plethora of connection options. Wired, wireless, cellular, etc.
On a Friday evening it just doesn't matter. Getting online via ANY means is a joke. You're better off with IP over smoke signal. As 50,000 people (over twice the population of the city I live in and an increase in Indy's total population to the tune of about 5-6%) in the area blitz the available spectrum for wifi and cellular, while wired connections in the hotels are drowned by rooms filled to capacity and everyone sporting a laptop/tablet/etc. And it's a static population increase for those 4-5 days.
Granted, in much of Africa, the population density is NOWHERE near that high. But you also have the same problems you would laying out a "universal" internet or power grid in the US. You have densely populated areas that are difficult and expensive to build capacity into. And you have very sparsely populated areas where people building the capacity likely will never see a return on investment. And the latter actually outnumbers the former by an order of magnitude or more. And Africa is the same thing, but with over 3x the landmass and population.
If something like this was going to be as simple as they're talking about, it'd have been done already.
If those buildings are occupied, utilities have to be running (Power, water, heat/AC,etc). That means firing up the physical plant on-premises. Running that physical plant requires staff. This being Chicago (A Good Union Town...), and for liability reasons, they're NOT going to turn over physical plant and grounds to A. Random Tenant. That means union labor. The utilities, salaries, insurance, etc all cost real money. And probably a LOT more than any makerspace tenant is going to be able to pay. That means the city would have to foot the bill.
Which means it ain't happening. City Hall wouldn't give a shit HOW much it helped the local neighborhood out.
Up until MW4, they were a completely separate product from the MechWarrior brand.
It was only with MW4 that the products co-mingled. Mainly because it wasn't until then that consumer-grade video cards were powerful enough to rival the custom-made setups previously used in BT pod construction. Essentially MW4 started as a back-port of the VWE BattleTech engine to a consumer-grade setup (I've actually seen some of the backporting they'd done for the Red Planet game).
Then a bunch of the changes made in the system were back-ported into the VWE system, which emerged as "Firestorm".
And it still won't help under the sheer inertia of the entrenched system.
My grade school district was a fucking joke. There were some decent teachers, but the majority of them were misanthopic whack-jobs, including the school principal.
My mom did everything in her power to change the system. It didn't help.
So, if you're a parent who has the chance to:
A: Make your kid suffer because you were stupid enough to send him to a shitty public school because you thought you could actually change something. B: Send them to a private school that'll fit themselves to your kid's educational needs and will foster learning in a better manner.
Basically this was an arcade-ized version of the MW4/Virtual World BattleTech game.
It'd drop you as a single cockpit into a bunch of bots and let you shoot it out.
One of the local theaters in my area had one at one time.
Honestly, I've been a BattleTech-head for decades. And I was prepared to spend some money on MWO. I even opened my wallet for a Founders package. But the way PGI is shaping up, I have real difficulty justifying giving them any more money. Ever.
HOWEVER, judging at this point would be stupid in the extreme. This isn't about taking a single benchmark after a couple years and declaring it "worth it". This is about amortizing the cost against the value the product's integration bring into other products. Even with further development and support costs, if it becomes a foundation technology for Microsoft for the next 5-10-15 years, $8.5 billion will have been VERY worth it.
If this were last year, I'd have recommended City of Heroes for you. Creativity and flexibility out the ying-yang. Unfortunately, those mental defectives at NCSoft put the kibosh on that.
It seems like this tidbit of info, coming when it has, is pitch perfect to make people stop listening to the Bradley Manning situation and turn the whole fiasco into a bad joke.
Isn't that just TERRIBLY convenient for the government?
Looks stale? Sorry Picasso, but real people don't base their usage on look. It is based on functionality.
And your opinion of the OSX interface is just that. IMNSHO the OSX interface wastes too much space and is spare and overly situational in how their application features are exposed.
And as someone who has been fighting with OSX for the last few years, I can state, unequivocally, "It just works" IS BULLSHIT! First to last.
The lifespan issue with SSDs has three main factors.
1: Type of flash memory (SLC, MLC, TLC, in order of decreasing durability) 2: Size of the flash drive (larger drives have more room for wear leveling algorithms to work with, thus staving off flash cell burnouts due to exceeding maximum number of writes). 3: The amount of throughput on the flash drive. An expected heavy load is roughly 10GB/day. Doubling the load halves the lifetime of the drive. Quadrupling the load quarters it.
Granted, the cache on a Hybrid is being used a bit differently than how you would use a straight SSD. But, with such a small cache drive, you ARE going to wind up cooking it after a relatively brief period of time.
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Can't live with them.
And they scream too loud when you feed them to the chipper-shredder.
Our rights our protected. We can exercise them.
But we're not protected from people working around that to penalize us for exercising our rights.
They simply define any situation where you would conceivably exercise said rights as "bad" or "illegal" and then persecute you with a sadistic choice.
Let them screw you over directly. Or let them screw you over indirectly.
Either way, you're screwed.
"That's the artist's problem, not society's."
But "society" didn't create the work. And telling people "you didn't profit in X-months, so you don't deserve to profit at all"? A great way to disincentivize the sharing of knowledge.
And, as I said. It allows a property creator to benefit within the term of their own life.
It also allows the children of said creator to benefit into adulthood, should said creator come to an early demise.
Because, at times, the immediate worth of a product or a work isn't apparent. And only becomes apparent over time. Sometimes in fields not even thought about by the writer (see Game Theory).
This gives the author the chance to profit from their work within the span of their life, plus 20 years also gives a buffer of time to see minor children to the age of majority in cases where the inventor/writer dies young.
I keep seeing people (even the parent article here) using the term "toy" helicopter.
These models are NOT "toys". They're precision machines and very VERY dangerous. Treating them like toys is what leads to people getting hurt.
Is gives the author the right to attempt to profit from their work within their lifetime, plus a set amount of time for their immediate descendants.
Considering that since 1976 it was Life + 50
And since that idiocy named for that idiot Sonny Bono, it's even worse.
I might actually give a shit about his kids if it wasn't for the fact that they're just wrangling amongst themselves over money.
This is why IP/Copyright/etc/etc should be life of the creator +20 years or a flat 20 years in the case of assets held by a corporation.
It has now been over FIFTY YEARS since the man gave his famous speech. And he's been dead for 45 of them. I'd think that his children have reaped a decent return off something they didn't do for themselves.
For the wired part? Yes.
For the wireless? No. What I've described is sheer overload of available spectrum as there's so many devices "screaming" that I simply cannot get signal, in what is otherwise a 3-4 bar area. Call quality and completion suffer similarly.
Not necessarily.
You're sharing SPECTRUM with everyone and their brother. And that's actually even worse.
And building capacity for wireless is non-trivial as well. It's not just a matter of putting up another access point or uplink.
Example: GenCon.
Downtown Indianapolis has a plethora of connection options. Wired, wireless, cellular, etc.
On a Friday evening it just doesn't matter. Getting online via ANY means is a joke. You're better off with IP over smoke signal. As 50,000 people (over twice the population of the city I live in and an increase in Indy's total population to the tune of about 5-6%) in the area blitz the available spectrum for wifi and cellular, while wired connections in the hotels are drowned by rooms filled to capacity and everyone sporting a laptop/tablet/etc. And it's a static population increase for those 4-5 days.
Granted, in much of Africa, the population density is NOWHERE near that high. But you also have the same problems you would laying out a "universal" internet or power grid in the US. You have densely populated areas that are difficult and expensive to build capacity into. And you have very sparsely populated areas where people building the capacity likely will never see a return on investment. And the latter actually outnumbers the former by an order of magnitude or more. And Africa is the same thing, but with over 3x the landmass and population.
If something like this was going to be as simple as they're talking about, it'd have been done already.
It isn't.
If those buildings are occupied, utilities have to be running (Power, water, heat/AC,etc).
That means firing up the physical plant on-premises.
Running that physical plant requires staff.
This being Chicago (A Good Union Town...), and for liability reasons, they're NOT going to turn over physical plant and grounds to A. Random Tenant.
That means union labor.
The utilities, salaries, insurance, etc all cost real money. And probably a LOT more than any makerspace tenant is going to be able to pay.
That means the city would have to foot the bill.
Which means it ain't happening. City Hall wouldn't give a shit HOW much it helped the local neighborhood out.
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Actually. No they shouldn't.
Up until MW4, they were a completely separate product from the MechWarrior brand.
It was only with MW4 that the products co-mingled. Mainly because it wasn't until then that consumer-grade video cards were powerful enough to rival the custom-made setups previously used in BT pod construction. Essentially MW4 started as a back-port of the VWE BattleTech engine to a consumer-grade setup (I've actually seen some of the backporting they'd done for the Red Planet game).
Then a bunch of the changes made in the system were back-ported into the VWE system, which emerged as "Firestorm".
And it still won't help under the sheer inertia of the entrenched system.
My grade school district was a fucking joke. There were some decent teachers, but the majority of them were misanthopic whack-jobs, including the school principal.
My mom did everything in her power to change the system. It didn't help.
So, if you're a parent who has the chance to:
A: Make your kid suffer because you were stupid enough to send him to a shitty public school because you thought you could actually change something.
B: Send them to a private school that'll fit themselves to your kid's educational needs and will foster learning in a better manner.
Anyone with the cash SHOULD pick option B.
Specifically, BattleTech has ALWAYS been some sort of 3rd person tactics game
Bzzt! You're forgetting the BattleTech Virtual World pods. So no. Not "always".
Basically this was an arcade-ized version of the MW4/Virtual World BattleTech game.
It'd drop you as a single cockpit into a bunch of bots and let you shoot it out.
One of the local theaters in my area had one at one time.
Honestly, I've been a BattleTech-head for decades.
And I was prepared to spend some money on MWO. I even opened my wallet for a Founders package.
But the way PGI is shaping up, I have real difficulty justifying giving them any more money. Ever.
Howsabout "Fuck No!".
HOWEVER, judging at this point would be stupid in the extreme.
This isn't about taking a single benchmark after a couple years and declaring it "worth it".
This is about amortizing the cost against the value the product's integration bring into other products.
Even with further development and support costs, if it becomes a foundation technology for Microsoft for the next 5-10-15 years, $8.5 billion will have been VERY worth it.
Hell, at this point, they're so far along they're wearing golf cleats and standing in a puddle of salty vinegar.
If this were last year, I'd have recommended City of Heroes for you. Creativity and flexibility out the ying-yang.
Unfortunately, those mental defectives at NCSoft put the kibosh on that.
Honestly,
It seems like this tidbit of info, coming when it has, is pitch perfect to make people stop listening to the Bradley Manning situation and turn the whole fiasco into a bad joke.
Isn't that just TERRIBLY convenient for the government?
Looks stale? Sorry Picasso, but real people don't base their usage on look. It is based on functionality.
And your opinion of the OSX interface is just that. IMNSHO the OSX interface wastes too much space and is spare and overly situational in how their application features are exposed.
And as someone who has been fighting with OSX for the last few years, I can state, unequivocally, "It just works" IS BULLSHIT! First to last.
I've never seen such a huge pile of shit!
Metro apps are how Microsoft is going to let go of their Win32 legacy.
So we can revert to the multitasking equivalent of 1980's offerings.
How about "NO"?
How about "HELL NO"?
How about "HELL FUCKING NO"?
Metro apps are a colossal, leap (with rocket assist) BACKWARD in interface technology.
You can cry all you want about "old code" and "spaghetti code". But simply being newer, possibly cleaner, code doesn't make it better.
MS lost nearly a billion on that (and now their WinRT ads are getting obnoxiously frequent as they try to hock their stock).
That's the problem with Seagate's caching algorithm.
You, the user, have no control over what's cached and what isn't.
The lifespan issue with SSDs has three main factors.
1: Type of flash memory (SLC, MLC, TLC, in order of decreasing durability)
2: Size of the flash drive (larger drives have more room for wear leveling algorithms to work with, thus staving off flash cell burnouts due to exceeding maximum number of writes).
3: The amount of throughput on the flash drive. An expected heavy load is roughly 10GB/day. Doubling the load halves the lifetime of the drive. Quadrupling the load quarters it.
Granted, the cache on a Hybrid is being used a bit differently than how you would use a straight SSD. But, with such a small cache drive, you ARE going to wind up cooking it after a relatively brief period of time.