Stop casting aspersions of bad intentions and just admit that there are flaws in your licensing scheme.
Here's a clue, when they hang 'v2' at the end of something, you know there are improvements still to be made. Let's do a quick idiot count, "Hands up if you think there will not be a GPLv4". Everyone with their hands up is an idiot.
I don't believe that the 1st world is exporting any appreciable amount of trash to 3rd world nations. Please cite a source for 1st world countries dumping an appreciable amount of trash in 3rd world countries and not a local land fill. I've lived in many 1st world countries and they all had local land fills.
The only dumping I've ever heard of was from NYC to Puerto Rico, but they were putting it into a landfill there, so it wouldn't apply at all to the great pacific trash island. So stop being stupid and/or disingenuous.
As opposed to all the drugs they advertise on TV that cause anal leakage and severe risk of stroke?
We are all different and some people can handle a cigarette every now and then and some people have to have a pack a day. Just like not everyone that takes the TV drug will get anal leakage or suffer a stroke.
Feel free to admit that you pay capitalists and other varieties of dictators in poor countries to let you dump things there, but my trash goes to the local land fill. Where exactly do you live that your trash is going anywhere but a local land fill?
And before anyone starts harping about the evils of landfills, they are one of the few proven methods of carbon sequestering, which is a good thing.
"And this is just the refuse that got dumped in North Pacific-draining watersheds, which is a tiny amount of our total trash...."
Actually, it could be trash from anywhere, carried by the ocean currents that circle the world. The US and most 1st world nations actually do a good job of safely disposing of our trash. Travel to any 3rd world country and you will be amazed by the amount of garbage that is everywhere, except the westernized 'green' zones.
The only way for a civilization to travel to another star is to be able to live in space. If a civilization can live in space, why would they need or want to colonize another planet. To a space faring civilization, planets are just deep gravity wells. Any resources they need will be much easier to get from asteroid and kuiper belts.
The first miners to reach a roid in space is not going to take their profits to Mars. They are going to turn around and head for home. When they get back, they will sell those resources (parked conveniently in space) to other people wanting to mine asteroids. Soon you get industry, administrators, services supporting the increasing number of miners.
That's the first step. Anything else is a waste of time and resources.
Honestly, the waffles in Belgium are incredible. They sell them from carts, like hot dogs in NY, and sprinkle them with powdered sugar. They are nothing like what they sell in IHOP or the diy machines in the hotel buffet.
Their french fries are also about the best in the world. They have some mutant growth gene that creates ginormous potatoes and horses.
Bull! The population has been increasing for a very long time, pretty much all of recorded history. In fact, the standard of living for the entire world went up the most during the period with the largest increase in population. Kind of puts a dent in your whole argument.
See this hastily copied chart from Wikipedia...
Year World Pop 1750 791 1800 978 1850 1,262 1900 1,650 1950 2,521 1999 5,978 2008 6,707
"Either we stop growing at these rates or we will be stopped by scarcity of resources, increase of diseases or catastrophic wars."
Disease and catastrophic wars (are there any other kind?) haven't put much of a dent in population growth in the past. WWI, WWII and the Spanish flu all occurred between 1900 and 1950 but you wouldn't know it from looking at a chart of world population.
Unless you are arguing that the standard of living has not gone up in the last 50 years, in which case you have my pity.
There were a couple of moments that seemed kind of cool, like the fan opening up to cover the guys face. But where are they going with this? What game will you be playing where you're going to be looking at your yourself for more then a few seconds? Hall of Mirrors? SimPerson? When they did switch to an outward looking view, it looked like a wall in a men's room.
It might be precise, but the guy couldn't hit a ball with a racket, a bat, a golf club and just barely managed to touch the ball with the stop sign. They need to get out a better video, if they have one, and soon.
I could understand if they were in 1st place, but they're still millions of consoles away from 2nd. At least for this generation of consoles.
What a horrible system. Unless the company that originally won the bid was the wrong-doer, why should they be excluded? Sounds like something a lawyer could sue over and a bureaucrat could manipulate to game the system.
I don't think you are a coder or at least not a very good one.
The people who designed and implemented javascript and regexp have provided the framework to solve an innumerable number of problems. The first person to do so should not get a patent for being first. They should not get anything except basic copyright that says the second person can't just copy their code.
If it turns out that IBM has created SUPER-javascript and STUPENDOUS-regexp, then they should get a patent for that because they invented SUPER-javascript and STUPENDOUS-regexp. I can still use javascript and regexp to do exactly the same thing, even though you've never seen a form validate the input on the client, and they can do whatever they want with their new libraries.
The OP should be modded +5 Insightful. If WoW is 'addictive', then the word no longer has the same meaning as before. The word can just as easily be applied to chocolate, slashdot and American Idol as to a voluntary activity like WoW.
The truth is that none of these things are addictive. There are people who are obsessed with each of those things, but if stranded on a desert island, those people wouldn't suffer any ill effects from being removed from their obsession.
I'm currently obsessed with Battlefield Heroes, but in a good way.
Maybe it would add something to the game, like balance and an emotional depth that is lacking with the Leeroy Jenkins crowd.
The whole premise of doing things in games that you can't in life is a flawed premise. You will find that you will still be you even in the game. If you are a dull nitwit in real life, guess what, you're still dull nitwit online.
"but the idea behind it would require an interesting variant of regexp that examines not the full pattern, but POTENTIAL patterns"
Even if it was a single regexp, which the patent doesn't indicate, it would be trivial to put it into a tree structure. After that, evaluating the regexp for POTENTIAL patterns should be a piece of cake. You could even identify exactly which part or parts of the regexp fail or pass. You could then label those pieces and put little hints like "That area code only has 2 digits". This is beyond trivial, its the whole freaking point of using regexp.
What exactly is the innovation here? Using tools as their creators intended them to be used, like javascript and regex? Every day, all over the world, there are coders solving software problems JUST LIKE THIS ONE. I can live with copyright, to a point, but software patents are evil.
The only funny thing about this story is that it took a team of 4 at IBM to figure this out.
"blizzard is warming up to the fact that the game is aging"
I'd like to see the characters age, ya know, peak and then decline. One of the reasons I won't play an MMORPG is that starting at the bottom and knowing you'll never catch the early/elite players is a drag. There are lots of WoWsers around the office and hearing them talk about leveling and which quests they've completed almost always makes me laugh a little. Where's the role playing if your character can never get old, never really die and has done the exact same things as every other character.
I think some of the early non-MMO RPGs had aging and real death as features. Sure, they weren't expecting people to shell out $$$ every month, but there are ways to make aging and death be kind of cool. Maybe have an heir system where you get to have your main character, who goes out questing and such, and if they die, you can create a new, lower level character that inherits what's left of their stuff.
If you had the right set of skills, you could have some of the skills peak at different times, so that agility plateaus before constitution and intellect plateaus last. This way, you wouldn't have young, level 80 mages. They would be old, like mages were back in the good old days before Harry Potter.
Gee, I can't see how being able to map out the boundary of the Solar System we live in could be beneficial to science. We should all crawl back into our caves and shine our clubs for the coming Ice Age.
Use projectors that mount on your head or over the shoulders, ala the TED presentation that I am too lazy to cite or even google for. You'll know which one I am talking about if you see a calculator app that gets projected onto a hand.
Has VR been overhyped? No, people are just whiners. My first video game was brick breaker. Not the cartridge, the whole system had 1 game (2 if you count pong).
Way to turn a thread about 'Crazy' Joe the Democrat into a hate fest on the Republicans.
Valerie Plame was a CIA Agent like the 1st Lady was a Hospital Director. When your husband is a Senator or Ambassador, you get lots of nice job offers. But only if your husband is a Democrat. If your husband is a Democrat and makes it to the Presidency, you get a Senate seat and become the presumptive nominee. No questions asked, literally.
Valerie Plame was outed by her husband in his autobiography.
The whole thread is mind numbing. The OP takes a quote out of context and trolls on both sides start flaming each other. Trolls, being fireproof, can flame for as long as there is oxygen to feed their tiny minds. It makes for interesting reading on a Friday morning, and would be great as a dramatic short.
Come on Slashdot, get someone to build the dramatic text to speech button already. What would be cool is if members could select the voice they want for each comment.
Then I wouldn't have to imagine your post sounds like the voice over on the Dukes of Hazard.
You should check all three against Windows 95. You'll be shocked at what a scorcher Windows 95 is compared to those bloated pigs the illegal monopolists keep trying to get me to pay for. I wasn't fooled the last 2 times.
Besides, you don't need multiple cores, more memory, bigger hard drives, faster internet. All that big hardware is for posers and Moore's Law devotees.
The 85% does not refer to the number of vulnerabilities, but the number of attacks, crafted by the NSA, that no longer succeeded. It also doesn't refer exclusively to Windows XP but to the Air Force's entire network, including 3rd party apps that run on XP.
Still, I mostly agree with your point. Security should have long ago moved out onto the network, using a bump in the wire that does not connect back into the network. You can't trust security software on a client machine because once the client is infected, the security software is suspect as well.
They have a software monopoly which required intervention by the US and the EU, and you think people don't trust their programming? Love em or hate em, but don't delude yourself.
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Stop casting aspersions of bad intentions and just admit that there are flaws in your licensing scheme.
Here's a clue, when they hang 'v2' at the end of something, you know there are improvements still to be made. Let's do a quick idiot count, "Hands up if you think there will not be a GPLv4". Everyone with their hands up is an idiot.
I don't believe that the 1st world is exporting any appreciable amount of trash to 3rd world nations. Please cite a source for 1st world countries dumping an appreciable amount of trash in 3rd world countries and not a local land fill. I've lived in many 1st world countries and they all had local land fills.
The only dumping I've ever heard of was from NYC to Puerto Rico, but they were putting it into a landfill there, so it wouldn't apply at all to the great pacific trash island. So stop being stupid and/or disingenuous.
As opposed to all the drugs they advertise on TV that cause anal leakage and severe risk of stroke?
We are all different and some people can handle a cigarette every now and then and some people have to have a pack a day. Just like not everyone that takes the TV drug will get anal leakage or suffer a stroke.
What's this 'we' business?
Feel free to admit that you pay capitalists and other varieties of dictators in poor countries to let you dump things there, but my trash goes to the local land fill. Where exactly do you live that your trash is going anywhere but a local land fill?
And before anyone starts harping about the evils of landfills, they are one of the few proven methods of carbon sequestering, which is a good thing.
"And this is just the refuse that got dumped in North Pacific-draining watersheds, which is a tiny amount of our total trash...."
Actually, it could be trash from anywhere, carried by the ocean currents that circle the world. The US and most 1st world nations actually do a good job of safely disposing of our trash. Travel to any 3rd world country and you will be amazed by the amount of garbage that is everywhere, except the westernized 'green' zones.
The only way for a civilization to travel to another star is to be able to live in space. If a civilization can live in space, why would they need or want to colonize another planet. To a space faring civilization, planets are just deep gravity wells. Any resources they need will be much easier to get from asteroid and kuiper belts.
The first miners to reach a roid in space is not going to take their profits to Mars. They are going to turn around and head for home. When they get back, they will sell those resources (parked conveniently in space) to other people wanting to mine asteroids. Soon you get industry, administrators, services supporting the increasing number of miners.
That's the first step. Anything else is a waste of time and resources.
Even weirder, the first time I read it, I thought the blob's name was Konar and was communicating with us.
Now that would be News for Nerds...
Honestly, the waffles in Belgium are incredible. They sell them from carts, like hot dogs in NY, and sprinkle them with powdered sugar. They are nothing like what they sell in IHOP or the diy machines in the hotel buffet.
Their french fries are also about the best in the world. They have some mutant growth gene that creates ginormous potatoes and horses.
Bull! The population has been increasing for a very long time, pretty much all of recorded history. In fact, the standard of living for the entire world went up the most during the period with the largest increase in population. Kind of puts a dent in your whole argument.
See this hastily copied chart from Wikipedia...
Year World Pop
1750 791
1800 978
1850 1,262
1900 1,650
1950 2,521
1999 5,978
2008 6,707
"Either we stop growing at these rates or we will be stopped by scarcity of resources, increase of diseases or catastrophic wars."
Disease and catastrophic wars (are there any other kind?) haven't put much of a dent in population growth in the past. WWI, WWII and the Spanish flu all occurred between 1900 and 1950 but you wouldn't know it from looking at a chart of world population.
Unless you are arguing that the standard of living has not gone up in the last 50 years, in which case you have my pity.
There were a couple of moments that seemed kind of cool, like the fan opening up to cover the guys face. But where are they going with this? What game will you be playing where you're going to be looking at your yourself for more then a few seconds? Hall of Mirrors? SimPerson? When they did switch to an outward looking view, it looked like a wall in a men's room.
It might be precise, but the guy couldn't hit a ball with a racket, a bat, a golf club and just barely managed to touch the ball with the stop sign. They need to get out a better video, if they have one, and soon.
I could understand if they were in 1st place, but they're still millions of consoles away from 2nd. At least for this generation of consoles.
What a horrible system. Unless the company that originally won the bid was the wrong-doer, why should they be excluded? Sounds like something a lawyer could sue over and a bureaucrat could manipulate to game the system.
I don't think you are a coder or at least not a very good one.
The people who designed and implemented javascript and regexp have provided the framework to solve an innumerable number of problems. The first person to do so should not get a patent for being first. They should not get anything except basic copyright that says the second person can't just copy their code.
If it turns out that IBM has created SUPER-javascript and STUPENDOUS-regexp, then they should get a patent for that because they invented SUPER-javascript and STUPENDOUS-regexp. I can still use javascript and regexp to do exactly the same thing, even though you've never seen a form validate the input on the client, and they can do whatever they want with their new libraries.
The OP should be modded +5 Insightful. If WoW is 'addictive', then the word no longer has the same meaning as before. The word can just as easily be applied to chocolate, slashdot and American Idol as to a voluntary activity like WoW.
The truth is that none of these things are addictive. There are people who are obsessed with each of those things, but if stranded on a desert island, those people wouldn't suffer any ill effects from being removed from their obsession.
I'm currently obsessed with Battlefield Heroes, but in a good way.
Maybe it would add something to the game, like balance and an emotional depth that is lacking with the Leeroy Jenkins crowd.
The whole premise of doing things in games that you can't in life is a flawed premise. You will find that you will still be you even in the game. If you are a dull nitwit in real life, guess what, you're still dull nitwit online.
"but the idea behind it would require an interesting variant of regexp that examines not the full pattern, but POTENTIAL patterns"
Even if it was a single regexp, which the patent doesn't indicate, it would be trivial to put it into a tree structure. After that, evaluating the regexp for POTENTIAL patterns should be a piece of cake. You could even identify exactly which part or parts of the regexp fail or pass. You could then label those pieces and put little hints like "That area code only has 2 digits". This is beyond trivial, its the whole freaking point of using regexp.
What exactly is the innovation here? Using tools as their creators intended them to be used, like javascript and regex? Every day, all over the world, there are coders solving software problems JUST LIKE THIS ONE. I can live with copyright, to a point, but software patents are evil.
The only funny thing about this story is that it took a team of 4 at IBM to figure this out.
"blizzard is warming up to the fact that the game is aging"
I'd like to see the characters age, ya know, peak and then decline. One of the reasons I won't play an MMORPG is that starting at the bottom and knowing you'll never catch the early/elite players is a drag. There are lots of WoWsers around the office and hearing them talk about leveling and which quests they've completed almost always makes me laugh a little. Where's the role playing if your character can never get old, never really die and has done the exact same things as every other character.
I think some of the early non-MMO RPGs had aging and real death as features. Sure, they weren't expecting people to shell out $$$ every month, but there are ways to make aging and death be kind of cool. Maybe have an heir system where you get to have your main character, who goes out questing and such, and if they die, you can create a new, lower level character that inherits what's left of their stuff.
If you had the right set of skills, you could have some of the skills peak at different times, so that agility plateaus before constitution and intellect plateaus last. This way, you wouldn't have young, level 80 mages. They would be old, like mages were back in the good old days before Harry Potter.
Gee, I can't see how being able to map out the boundary of the Solar System we live in could be beneficial to science. We should all crawl back into our caves and shine our clubs for the coming Ice Age.
You get a Free Software Director.
Disclaimer: Free Software Director is not 'free', nor 'software'.
Use projectors that mount on your head or over the shoulders, ala the TED presentation that I am too lazy to cite or even google for. You'll know which one I am talking about if you see a calculator app that gets projected onto a hand.
Has VR been overhyped? No, people are just whiners. My first video game was brick breaker. Not the cartridge, the whole system had 1 game (2 if you count pong).
I have several really good "patentapplication.sty" and "litigationpleading.sty" files.
The bad news is that I used them to patent "A method for generating really good .sty files".
The good news is that no sane court would ever find the patents valid.
The bad news is that I am posting from East Texas.
The good news is that you'll be receiving some very nicely formatted letters in the mail.
The bad news... I could keep this up all day.
The good news is I won't.
Way to turn a thread about 'Crazy' Joe the Democrat into a hate fest on the Republicans.
Valerie Plame was a CIA Agent like the 1st Lady was a Hospital Director. When your husband is a Senator or Ambassador, you get lots of nice job offers. But only if your husband is a Democrat. If your husband is a Democrat and makes it to the Presidency, you get a Senate seat and become the presumptive nominee. No questions asked, literally.
Valerie Plame was outed by her husband in his autobiography.
The whole thread is mind numbing. The OP takes a quote out of context and trolls on both sides start flaming each other. Trolls, being fireproof, can flame for as long as there is oxygen to feed their tiny minds. It makes for interesting reading on a Friday morning, and would be great as a dramatic short.
Come on Slashdot, get someone to build the dramatic text to speech button already. What would be cool is if members could select the voice they want for each comment.
Then I wouldn't have to imagine your post sounds like the voice over on the Dukes of Hazard.
You should check all three against Windows 95. You'll be shocked at what a scorcher Windows 95 is compared to those bloated pigs the illegal monopolists keep trying to get me to pay for. I wasn't fooled the last 2 times.
Besides, you don't need multiple cores, more memory, bigger hard drives, faster internet. All that big hardware is for posers and Moore's Law devotees.
The 85% does not refer to the number of vulnerabilities, but the number of attacks, crafted by the NSA, that no longer succeeded. It also doesn't refer exclusively to Windows XP but to the Air Force's entire network, including 3rd party apps that run on XP.
Still, I mostly agree with your point. Security should have long ago moved out onto the network, using a bump in the wire that does not connect back into the network. You can't trust security software on a client machine because once the client is infected, the security software is suspect as well.
"No wonder people don't trust their programming"
They have a software monopoly which required intervention by the US and the EU, and you think people don't trust their programming? Love em or hate em, but don't delude yourself.