Copyright is the right to copy. To publish. Given by the author to the publisher. And a relatively recent invention.
Of course they both exist, based on the assumption that an idea is also a physical product. Which obviously is bullshit, and therefore the whole reverse pyramids built on top are bullshit too.
I’m planning on using the following method for future projects: - Instead of pitching my idea to a publisher, I pitch it to the general public. - It will include a clear list of requirements, just like with a publisher. - Now people can, over a system similar to PayPal, pre-order/finance that game. BUT they don’t actually pay anything. We just make a simple contract (no stupid giant list of terms!!) that if I fulfill the requirements, they will pay that amount. - They can themselves decide, how much they want to pay/invest. - With that contractual commitment, I can e.g. go to a bank, and lend me the required money. (Which always [including interest] has to be smaller than the actual committed money, for me to make a profit too.) - The project will go in cycles, like the spiral model. In a prototype-based, test-driven way. - When all the requirements are fulfilled, I create a new pitch, with perhaps a trailer, and everything. - Then I listen to the new input of the people, and create a new list of requirements. - People can then, based on my bigger commitment, also make bigger commitments. (E.g. raise it from $5 to $10.) - If I can not continue to work on the project, with the money that that gives me, I have to A) make a better pitch, B) commit to bigger goals, C) market it to more people. - I will always be completely honest and open to my customers. I try to be someone that gets payed because people think I deserve it. Not because of some nasty trickery/fraud/EA. And now the kicker: - If the game comes out, those who committed to paying, will actually own the game! Just like a publisher. They are the only ones who are getting a copy. - They are free to do with it, whatever they like. Full stop. If someone else wants it too, they can themselves decide, if they want to make it a business, and sell it. Or if they want to give it away to good friends. (Who then of course can sell it themselves, if they find someone who buys it.)
I think that model is more fitting to what software actually is: Information, that resulted from a service. You see, how far away from concepts like “copyright” that is, and how little those concepts are actually needed.
I await you comments on how this whole idea is horrible, idiotic and will never ever work.;)) (Then I’ll learn from you, if you made constructive critique, and laugh at you, if you didn’t;)
Aren’t we on the level of 30,000+ dead people by now. I wonder what Bush/Cheney would do to a country that invades another country and kills that many people. And what they would call them...
That’s the modern terrorist’s strategy: Why work hard to fuck up the enemy, when you can work little, and let them fuck themselves up, better than you ever could.
Sometimes I wonder, if I would have a better life, if I were with them...
I generally agree. But what is that “above that of an animal”. Are you seriously still thinking, that humans aren’t animals?
That doesn’t fit in with the rest of what you’re saying, but rather with the talk of someone who reads the bible a lot, refers to developing nations as “savages” and thinks the sun revolves around the earth, but especially around him. ^^
Should we send a thank you note to the cheap Chinese (and other) workers in those Gulag-like factories?
P.S.: It’s so stupid. If the products were so expensive, that people there could live at a high standard, then they could buy so much stuff that by selling them that stuff, we could afford those expensive products anyway. There was an interesting study, that showed that an economy can be in two stable states. The high standard and the low standard (of living) one. And the important part was, that for both states, the economy and businesses ran just as well. There was no difference from their p.o.v. But prepare yourself, because according to the study, we are headed for the lower stable state, and it’s very hard to get out of there once you’re in it. (Well, technically we are definitely already in it. But it can still get even worse.) I don’t get why business people don’t get this simple rule: The more you pay your employees, the more they will be able to buy! I guess it’s short-term greed. It takes time for it to come back. Even if it is more profitable in the long run, short term greed seems to win...
Isn’t that why the simple and effective solution called a “roof” was invented for?
Just put a box around it, with a flat, transparent, 45 downwards facing surface in front of the light. There you go. Problem solved. You can even coat it with a water-repelling substance, to prevent fogging. Gravity will do the rest.
Oh wait... they don’t believe in gravity, in the midwest, right? ^^
That’s because it’s a half-assed solution, that sits between two already crappy starting points: text menus, and icon bars.
That mouse-controlled icon bars are stupid, in a text processor, should be totally obvious, so I’m not commenting on them. And menus are bad, because they are very limited, simple UI elements. No multiple choice, no parameters, no nothing. For that they use modal dialogs. Which are just plainly idiotic.
The idea of the ribbon came from the more than a decade old InfoBox in Lotus products, that you got in e.g. WordPro (part of SmartSuite). But other than the InfoBox, the ribbon still is more of a icon bar than anything else. It still lacks big parts of the functionality. There still in no separation between object properties and wizards. No way to choose the parent object to apply things to it. It’s just a big piece of half-assed failure. And even the InfoBox still was relatively bad, since there was little you could do with it, without using the mouse.
A good UI does not have to limit itself to text. But it should also never go for colorful clickables where you have to guess what they mean. (I fully expect an MS PHB go “But we’re excluding the part of our target group, who can’t [even fuckin’] read!” ^^)
Sorry, I can’t list all the changes I would make to that UI to make it as good as I can. Because that would be so much, that I rather just scrap it all and start over from scratch.
Yes, they have latency. But on multiple levels. Most of those are not very relevant or unbearable. Maybe you don’t know how modern engines work. They use elaborate prediction algorithms, to have e.g. the enemy an the right position when you shoot, even when the whole game lags some frames behind. Or else you would never hit anyone. If the prediction was wrong, that’s when those weird things happen, like you think you hit him, but the engine tells you you missed. Try tweaking the prediction in Quake 3. You stop hitting anything.
So yes, there is lag, but there is no visible lag. But is this case here, there will be visible lag. Lag you can’t hide, because the local device can’t do predictions. And that is the problem that will never go away.
To me, seeing MS Office and OOo “fight” each other, is (/would be) like seeing two drooling retards beat each other with a stick or something.
Both are so bad, it’s beyond belief. Even the more than a decade old SmartSuite was better.
Maybe I’m spoiled, since I did so much hard work, and thought so long about how to invent better user interfaces. But to me, they are somewhere at -100 vs -102. I just can’t see the difference so deep down there.
Hell, they still use modal dialogs! And require mouse usage in a text processor! It’s beyond ridiculous...
(Yes, I will give you a money back guarantee to improve it beyond what you could imagine, if you pay me to improve it. But I did too much work to just tell you for free.)
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WTF? Have you ever heard of dynamic layouting?
Yes, I can write one UI that scales from 128x128 to 1920*1080 without compromises. And so should you.
My exact thought.
This things needs to be tagged “[weasel words]”.
That’s author’s right.
Copyright is the right to copy. To publish. Given by the author to the publisher. And a relatively recent invention.
Of course they both exist, based on the assumption that an idea is also a physical product. Which obviously is bullshit, and therefore the whole reverse pyramids built on top are bullshit too.
I’m planning on using the following method for future projects:
- Instead of pitching my idea to a publisher, I pitch it to the general public.
- It will include a clear list of requirements, just like with a publisher.
- Now people can, over a system similar to PayPal, pre-order/finance that game. BUT they don’t actually pay anything. We just make a simple contract (no stupid giant list of terms!!) that if I fulfill the requirements, they will pay that amount.
- They can themselves decide, how much they want to pay/invest.
- With that contractual commitment, I can e.g. go to a bank, and lend me the required money. (Which always [including interest] has to be smaller than the actual committed money, for me to make a profit too.)
- The project will go in cycles, like the spiral model. In a prototype-based, test-driven way.
- When all the requirements are fulfilled, I create a new pitch, with perhaps a trailer, and everything.
- Then I listen to the new input of the people, and create a new list of requirements.
- People can then, based on my bigger commitment, also make bigger commitments. (E.g. raise it from $5 to $10.)
- If I can not continue to work on the project, with the money that that gives me, I have to A) make a better pitch, B) commit to bigger goals, C) market it to more people.
- I will always be completely honest and open to my customers. I try to be someone that gets payed because people think I deserve it. Not because of some nasty trickery/fraud/EA.
And now the kicker:
- If the game comes out, those who committed to paying, will actually own the game! Just like a publisher. They are the only ones who are getting a copy.
- They are free to do with it, whatever they like. Full stop. If someone else wants it too, they can themselves decide, if they want to make it a business, and sell it. Or if they want to give it away to good friends. (Who then of course can sell it themselves, if they find someone who buys it.)
I think that model is more fitting to what software actually is: Information, that resulted from a service.
You see, how far away from concepts like “copyright” that is, and how little those concepts are actually needed.
I await you comments on how this whole idea is horrible, idiotic and will never ever work. ;)) ;)
(Then I’ll learn from you, if you made constructive critique, and laugh at you, if you didn’t
Aren’t we on the level of 30,000+ dead people by now. I wonder what Bush/Cheney would do to a country that invades another country and kills that many people. And what they would call them...
Oh... wait... :(
That’s the modern terrorist’s strategy: Why work hard to fuck up the enemy, when you can work little, and let them fuck themselves up, better than you ever could.
Sometimes I wonder, if I would have a better life, if I were with them...
They can never take all bloggers off the net.
So the result will only be even more Streisand effect.
I generally agree. But what is that “above that of an animal”. Are you seriously still thinking, that humans aren’t animals?
That doesn’t fit in with the rest of what you’re saying, but rather with the talk of someone who reads the bible a lot, refers to developing nations as “savages” and thinks the sun revolves around the earth, but especially around him. ^^
So I’m assuming a typo. :)
Yeah, because if you can read it on Wikipedia, it must be the truth! :P
This video shows how they looked.
You mean like a primitive caveman-style-fighting everything-fucking bonobo chimpanzee is much better than a real leader with class and culture? ^^
Who enjoys Christmas Carols? The only Christmas Carol I could enjoy would be a hooker with an extra-dirty fantasy. ^^
Oh, and now a quote from the best Christmas movie ever:
“Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa!” XD
Uuum, first of all: Why would you not be sure that they really need it? Do you think they sent it up there just for fun??
From what I know, 4K is way too hot / above the wanted temperature. Which is closer to 0.5K (dunno the exact temperature, but it’s a quick search).
Should we send a thank you note to the cheap Chinese (and other) workers in those Gulag-like factories?
P.S.: It’s so stupid. If the products were so expensive, that people there could live at a high standard, then they could buy so much stuff that by selling them that stuff, we could afford those expensive products anyway.
There was an interesting study, that showed that an economy can be in two stable states. The high standard and the low standard (of living) one. And the important part was, that for both states, the economy and businesses ran just as well. There was no difference from their p.o.v.
But prepare yourself, because according to the study, we are headed for the lower stable state, and it’s very hard to get out of there once you’re in it. (Well, technically we are definitely already in it. But it can still get even worse.)
I don’t get why business people don’t get this simple rule: The more you pay your employees, the more they will be able to buy! I guess it’s short-term greed. It takes time for it to come back. Even if it is more profitable in the long run, short term greed seems to win...
*thick American accent* NAIN! VERBOTTEN!
*waits for you to realize I’m not Russian, American, or even really German at all*
JAHAHA! WUUNDABAAAR!!
— Dr. Betruger
P.S.: Yes. Wolfenstein/RTCW is freakin’ hilarious to native German speakers. And ID knows it! :D
Well, they don’t need to be physical. But they are definitely toys.
XP for the drooling Playmobil playing retard. ;)
OSX for the gay hipster designer.
the Apple article today, (or did I miss it?), I’d say:
hwl = filter(dictionary,isHipsterWord); hwll = hwl.length-1
for i in 1..10 {
print i+". i"+hwl[random()*hwl]
}
NOW it’s regular slashvertisement. ;))
Yeah, exactly the same guys... of all the 142 million... exactly the same...
Just like you are exactly the same guy as Dick Cheney who is exactly the same guy as Jon Steward and.. apparently... Ronald McDonald.
Wait, let me get my Lederhosen, Bratwurst, Sauerkraut and Volksmusik, so I can join it with my country.
Riiiight... ;)
Nah, you forgot that little bit of emphasis: ;)
NASA: Listen, there's no way that thing is going to hit us.
Roscosmos: Yeah, because it’s going to hit us, dickheads.
I don’t. I will just stand is the direction of the oncoming asteroid and let it give me the epic facepalm.
At least that way I’m 100% sure I won’t die slowly and cruely in the nuclear winter.
If I can, I will also do all the nasty illegal shit right before that. All drugs, crimes and sick shit ever invented. ^^
If he is, then he got nothing on you, who is also an expert in using reverse psychology for trolling. ^^
Isn’t that why the simple and effective solution called a “roof” was invented for?
Just put a box around it, with a flat, transparent, 45 downwards facing surface in front of the light. There you go. Problem solved.
You can even coat it with a water-repelling substance, to prevent fogging.
Gravity will do the rest.
Oh wait... they don’t believe in gravity, in the midwest, right? ^^
That’s because it’s a half-assed solution, that sits between two already crappy starting points: text menus, and icon bars.
That mouse-controlled icon bars are stupid, in a text processor, should be totally obvious, so I’m not commenting on them.
And menus are bad, because they are very limited, simple UI elements. No multiple choice, no parameters, no nothing. For that they use modal dialogs. Which are just plainly idiotic.
The idea of the ribbon came from the more than a decade old InfoBox in Lotus products, that you got in e.g. WordPro (part of SmartSuite).
But other than the InfoBox, the ribbon still is more of a icon bar than anything else. It still lacks big parts of the functionality. There still in no separation between object properties and wizards. No way to choose the parent object to apply things to it. It’s just a big piece of half-assed failure.
And even the InfoBox still was relatively bad, since there was little you could do with it, without using the mouse.
A good UI does not have to limit itself to text. But it should also never go for colorful clickables where you have to guess what they mean. (I fully expect an MS PHB go “But we’re excluding the part of our target group, who can’t [even fuckin’] read!” ^^)
Sorry, I can’t list all the changes I would make to that UI to make it as good as I can. Because that would be so much, that I rather just scrap it all and start over from scratch.
And that’s bullshit anyways.
Yes, they have latency. But on multiple levels. Most of those are not very relevant or unbearable.
Maybe you don’t know how modern engines work.
They use elaborate prediction algorithms, to have e.g. the enemy an the right position when you shoot, even when the whole game lags some frames behind. Or else you would never hit anyone.
If the prediction was wrong, that’s when those weird things happen, like you think you hit him, but the engine tells you you missed.
Try tweaking the prediction in Quake 3. You stop hitting anything.
So yes, there is lag, but there is no visible lag.
But is this case here, there will be visible lag. Lag you can’t hide, because the local device can’t do predictions. And that is the problem that will never go away.
To me, seeing MS Office and OOo “fight” each other, is (/would be) like seeing two drooling retards beat each other with a stick or something.
Both are so bad, it’s beyond belief. Even the more than a decade old SmartSuite was better.
Maybe I’m spoiled, since I did so much hard work, and thought so long about how to invent better user interfaces. But to me, they are somewhere at -100 vs -102. I just can’t see the difference so deep down there.
Hell, they still use modal dialogs! And require mouse usage in a text processor!
It’s beyond ridiculous...
(Yes, I will give you a money back guarantee to improve it beyond what you could imagine, if you pay me to improve it. But I did too much work to just tell you for free.)