I would have expected less from some independents but I guess maybe I need to start raising the bar for what I should start expecting from independent film makers in the effects arena. I have to check this out if only for the effects.
Thankfully this is a parody or I could only imagine the pain and suffering that would come from all of the IP (ship designs) that they borrowed:)
If you hide all of the various forms of keeping track of who your source is, how do you validate that your source is actually who they say they are and that you aren't getting conflicting information from various sources? Can a source that you're going to verify (if you know ANYTHING about journalistic integrity) ever be truly anonymous?
This seems to be more of a problem that has a solution in the courts than one that can realisticly be enforced using technology because if you want to go this route, then you might as well just set up a "anonymous tip" box somewhere that people will insert information into from time to time.
Do you know what rights you have as someone who might want to distribute those works if all you run across is a copyright? None. Do you know what rights you have if you run across a creative commons notice? Click on the notice and it will tell you.
The creative commons effort GIVES you some limited rights where you would have absolutely none otherwise. CreativeCommons isn't about saying "hey don't take my stuff" (if all you want is 'no use' then sure, just put a copyright notice on it). CreativeCommons is about saying "hey you can use what you see here - but here are the restrictions".
In one case you have no rights for redistribution and a legal minefield if you think you might have some 'fair use' rights that the author hasn't given you. (What are you going to do, spend thousands of dollars in court to defend yourself?) In the CC case, you have pretty clearly defined rights for limited use. The copyright owner is granting you something that you didn't have before!
How can Dvorak be so clueless yet profess to even speak intelligently about the space?
There are people in the world who do want to contribute their works to people who aren't going to exploit them commercially. That's their right! If they don't want commercial entities to have access to it, move on and spend some money to get commercial use of those items. On top of which (the beyond dumb), there are PLENTY of things in CreativeCommons that ARE usable in the commercial space if the copyright owner so permits. Man I guess its true that reading IS becoming a lost area.
What CreativeCommons has done, is provide a fairly simple, understandable end-user level license agreement for content providers to give limited distribution rights to their works. CreativeCommons is far clearer than having works under GPL and LGPL and much more straightforward than hoping that people understand copyright law enough to know what counts as allowable and disallowed distribution.
I can't believe someone who professes to even speak intelligently about the community could be so clueless and detached from some of the issues currently in the industry.
While I'm sure the Mac platform will still have some markup in it, the fact that the machines will be on par performance wise with their PC cousins and the liklihood of high speed emulation of the Win32API/DirectX in OSX itself or the ability to just switch over to WIndows - I can say with certainty that I am more anxious about Macs than I have ever been. While my Dual-G5 at work is certainly an excellent machine, I expect that I will actually get more out of the Intel Macs in terms of being able to reuse hardware (like videocards) and swap out SOME parts that fail more cheaply.
Mailing it to yourself IS useless, but if you present it in a public forum (like a trade magazine) it does serve as prior art and would prevent someone else from doing it. Companies who claim to be using patents defensively clearly aren't communicating those desires to their legal departments because there are very easy and cheap ways to get prior art out there so that no one can claim patentability over it.
Apple is just telling people to stop using the Java-Cocoa bridge which was actually not useful for building cross platform applications and not used much by the development community anyways.
People wanting this functionality in the future will still be able to do so by just writing a little JNI to handle it - though I'm really not sure its worth the effort.
Ford Motors is a car company, but when you need a parts upgrade because something is ob obsolete it still cost you money. Being primarily in one market doesn't mean that you don't make money in others.
Shipping out volume in Linux servers, XBox 360s, PS3s and Nintendo Revolutions would be my first guess as to how they afford the R&D. IBM doesn't build these chip fab facilities just for the tax writeoff:)
SuSe is indeed a sensible distro. Its the only Linux distro that I could stand (considering Fedora is still a 'work in progress'). However even with SuSE you have to deal with the application discrepancy advantage that OSX has. Sure you CAN find applications for Linux that can do many things - and some of them are opensource or even free, but you have to look for them. You have to know WHERE to look for them. Then you need to make sure the damn thing will install on your distro.
Is this the best that Palm can do? The PDA market is going away and everyone knows it already except for Palm. Many players have been fleeing the PDA space in favor of the much more interesting (and useful) smartphone space. Only Palm would slap in additional storage in a device and assume that they had pushed the market forward. Its like they are stuck in 90's limbo world and can't get out of it.
* There are a growing number of phones that have full keyboard pads on them and that number looks only to increase.
* Why would you run a word processor or spreadsheet on your PDA, much less your phone. They are useful for showing things off to folks (at which point there are some J2ME midlets that can do this), but PDAs are VERY poor content creation devices.
* Depends on your definition of decent and what its being used for. Many cellphones have the same resolution of the Treo 600.
* Yes yes oh goodness yes - this is especially true if you run Symbian OS on your phone. J2ME adoption by phone folks has led to a HUGE assortment of freely (or cheaply) available wares for phones.
* Yes, depends on the phone. Some have GPS in them and others can use tower triangulation to provide driving directions.
Your views of cell phone technology is about 3-4 years old. Flash your brain with CTIA knowledge - STAT!
for making APIs that lock people into Windows, Windows Media for not working on PalmOS, Torvalds for not making the Linux Kernel applications run on Mac OS, etc.
Are we now advocating that all content must be available for all platforms? That's just silly.
This is legal. You can look at an implementation, understand it, and reimplement it. Copyright (which is all an Open Source license grants) only covers a particular expression of an idea - it does not prevent other people from developing the idea again whether or not they looked at some other work for inspiration.
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I would have expected less from some independents but I guess maybe I need to start raising the bar for what I should start expecting from independent film makers in the effects arena. I have to check this out if only for the effects.
:)
Thankfully this is a parody or I could only imagine the pain and suffering that would come from all of the IP (ship designs) that they borrowed
If you hide all of the various forms of keeping track of who your source is, how do you validate that your source is actually who they say they are and that you aren't getting conflicting information from various sources? Can a source that you're going to verify (if you know ANYTHING about journalistic integrity) ever be truly anonymous?
This seems to be more of a problem that has a solution in the courts than one that can realisticly be enforced using technology because if you want to go this route, then you might as well just set up a "anonymous tip" box somewhere that people will insert information into from time to time.
Do you know what rights you have as someone who might want to distribute those works if all you run across is a copyright? None. Do you know what rights you have if you run across a creative commons notice? Click on the notice and it will tell you.
The creative commons effort GIVES you some limited rights where you would have absolutely none otherwise. CreativeCommons isn't about saying "hey don't take my stuff" (if all you want is 'no use' then sure, just put a copyright notice on it). CreativeCommons is about saying "hey you can use what you see here - but here are the restrictions".
In one case you have no rights for redistribution and a legal minefield if you think you might have some 'fair use' rights that the author hasn't given you. (What are you going to do, spend thousands of dollars in court to defend yourself?) In the CC case, you have pretty clearly defined rights for limited use. The copyright owner is granting you something that you didn't have before!
How can Dvorak be so clueless yet profess to even speak intelligently about the space?
There are people in the world who do want to contribute their works to people who aren't going to exploit them commercially. That's their right! If they don't want commercial entities to have access to it, move on and spend some money to get commercial use of those items. On top of which (the beyond dumb), there are PLENTY of things in CreativeCommons that ARE usable in the commercial space if the copyright owner so permits. Man I guess its true that reading IS becoming a lost area.
What CreativeCommons has done, is provide a fairly simple, understandable end-user level license agreement for content providers to give limited distribution rights to their works. CreativeCommons is far clearer than having works under GPL and LGPL and much more straightforward than hoping that people understand copyright law enough to know what counts as allowable and disallowed distribution.
I can't believe someone who professes to even speak intelligently about the community could be so clueless and detached from some of the issues currently in the industry.
While I'm sure the Mac platform will still have some markup in it, the fact that the machines will be on par performance wise with their PC cousins and the liklihood of high speed emulation of the Win32API/DirectX in OSX itself or the ability to just switch over to WIndows - I can say with certainty that I am more anxious about Macs than I have ever been. While my Dual-G5 at work is certainly an excellent machine, I expect that I will actually get more out of the Intel Macs in terms of being able to reuse hardware (like videocards) and swap out SOME parts that fail more cheaply.
Mailing it to yourself IS useless, but if you present it in a public forum (like a trade magazine) it does serve as prior art and would prevent someone else from doing it. Companies who claim to be using patents defensively clearly aren't communicating those desires to their legal departments because there are very easy and cheap ways to get prior art out there so that no one can claim patentability over it.
Apple is just telling people to stop using the Java-Cocoa bridge which was actually not useful for building cross platform applications and not used much by the development community anyways.
People wanting this functionality in the future will still be able to do so by just writing a little JNI to handle it - though I'm really not sure its worth the effort.
Trademark it. You'd waste 5K trying to patent it :)
Uhh, sorry but isn't "unacceptable" still just one word?
Ford Motors is a car company, but when you need a parts upgrade because something is ob obsolete it still cost you money. Being primarily in one market doesn't mean that you don't make money in others.
I'm sure Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo "make money" on their devkits as well if you look at the dollar value of the components on the inside of it :)
Good. That means you should be willing to sell that G5 pretty cheap then.
Shipping out volume in Linux servers, XBox 360s, PS3s and Nintendo Revolutions would be my first guess as to how they afford the R&D. IBM doesn't build these chip fab facilities just for the tax writeoff :)
You read it here first folks! Light gives us cancer....
SuSe is indeed a sensible distro. Its the only Linux distro that I could stand (considering Fedora is still a 'work in progress'). However even with SuSE you have to deal with the application discrepancy advantage that OSX has. Sure you CAN find applications for Linux that can do many things - and some of them are opensource or even free, but you have to look for them. You have to know WHERE to look for them. Then you need to make sure the damn thing will install on your distro.
I'm in. I just need some sample material to start with. NASA, are you supplying the raw materials?
This post is NOT a troll and deserves to be modded up insightful. I mean come on, this is a straightforward opinion. Certainly not flaimbait.
Is this the best that Palm can do? The PDA market is going away and everyone knows it already except for Palm. Many players have been fleeing the PDA space in favor of the much more interesting (and useful) smartphone space. Only Palm would slap in additional storage in a device and assume that they had pushed the market forward. Its like they are stuck in 90's limbo world and can't get out of it.
* There are a growing number of phones that have full keyboard pads on them and that number looks only to increase.
* Why would you run a word processor or spreadsheet on your PDA, much less your phone. They are useful for showing things off to folks (at which point there are some J2ME midlets that can do this), but PDAs are VERY poor content creation devices.
* Depends on your definition of decent and what its being used for. Many cellphones have the same resolution of the Treo 600.
* Yes yes oh goodness yes - this is especially true if you run Symbian OS on your phone. J2ME adoption by phone folks has led to a HUGE assortment of freely (or cheaply) available wares for phones.
* Yes, depends on the phone. Some have GPS in them and others can use tower triangulation to provide driving directions.
Your views of cell phone technology is about 3-4 years old. Flash your brain with CTIA knowledge - STAT!
I know, I stopped using a Mac last year and my soddomy cleared right up.
Using the other spelling would have been copyright infringement.
for making APIs that lock people into Windows, Windows Media for not working on PalmOS, Torvalds for not making the Linux Kernel applications run on Mac OS, etc.
Are we now advocating that all content must be available for all platforms? That's just silly.
This is legal. You can look at an implementation, understand it, and reimplement it. Copyright (which is all an Open Source license grants) only covers a particular expression of an idea - it does not prevent other people from developing the idea again whether or not they looked at some other work for inspiration.
What does a Game Developers Conference have to do with this?
You have uttered the name of evil and summoned the beast McBride! Why, why have you done this!!