Indeed. Mantle came to mind for me as well. Vendor-specific lock-in.
Also, how can Mantle be Beta when it's supposedly incorporated into games like BF4? I don't doubt that NVidia does things to encourage lock-in (I recall certain extensions for terrain/texture generation that didn't work correctly with AMD), but this is really a pot-and-kettle situation.
Actually, not irrelevant. Transformative changes and "verbatim copy" are certainly issues which affect fair use. An unplayable video is substantially less derivative than a verbatim copy of a game.
Says someone who has no appreciation for a good audiobook. A good 'reader' provides lots of value add.
Reading VS narrating. Hence the following part about an audiobook. You don't need to be a genius to read a book (to yourself). Yes, being a good narrator is a skill, similar to being able to make a speech or voice-act in an animated movie. Similarly, being able to teach somebody to read is also a skill.
However, in most cases I'm not going to be incapable of completing a leisure book because I lack the average ability to do so. A game recording is somebody demonstrating their skill, and/or teaching people how to accomplish similar things. Also, fair use has been seen to cover transformative copying. Moving from an interactive medium to a narrative/teaching medium might very well be construed as such.
The one where TV shows have fake brands for everything
You mean how companies *PAY* to have brand recognition, and thus often request that any competing brands aren't shown? Yes, they might get irate if their brands were used in a damaging manner, but that's different. And yes, people do post videos of their monopoly games online. About.com has a video on how to play Risk, as do many others. I can take a picture of me and my buds on "monopoly night" without being sued.
40% of women think their ass is too fat an addition 40% think their ass is too skinny the remaining 20% say he's just right and a hard worker
So... that joke wasn't funny until the end, right? Why is that? Because at some point, man-bashing became socially acceptable, kinda like lawyer jokes, etc. Personally, I do find the twist of that one amusing, but if it were the other way around...
I think the point is, yes, we do realize that there are a lot of jerks out there. They are jerks for a variety of reasons. Beyond that are the true pieces of sh** like this guy [in the article] and those that kill their family. Unfortunately we - based on our gender - are somehow associated with this guy. It's not a *MAN* problem, it's a human problem. Mario saves the princess? Is that because men identify women are useless and weak, or because they want to be heroic. Just because they might like to be "Thor" doesn't mean that they wouldn't appreciate Janeway, Ripley, or Sarah Conner doing the same for us dudes.
Honestly, I'm not Urkle or even a Leonard. When I was younger I admit to be a complete dork (and annoying to girls and guy both), but that was a social awkwardness I grew out of. The same a**holes that women have so hard a time get a leg up with are the ones that regular guys have issues with, and the thing is, we DO make an issue of it. Maybe not right away in the open, but a "that wasn't cool" or "that was totally unprofessional" when a moment is available to do so. I've dealt with some pretty horrible women too, both personally and professionally (though I'd admit, professionally women do come out on top overall).
So why are we associated Mario and Big Bang Theory nerds - they type that go out of their way to be helpful but don't quite get it - with some sociopathic monster who murdered a bunch of people?
Figure out how to make it better. Call people out. A lot of us are already doing that. Sometimes it even puts us in jeopardy (suddenly we're not team players for appreciating b.s. "humor"). Our response isn't that we don't realize there are jerks out there, it's DON'T ASSOCIATE US WITH THEM, because we're not.
Editing a photo with photoshop creates a derivative work of the original photo, not a derivative work of photoshop.
And creating a gameplay video does not create a derivative work of the game. Can you play it? No
A derivative work would be an unofficial fan-sequel, or a modified rip. Back in the day some Japanese-only games were ripped and re-encoded with english text by fans, *THAT* would be a derivative work.
Might as well have Oscar-Meier sue you for taking a video of your kids eating hot-dogs.
It's the same as someone buying a book, and then publishing ad-supported audio of them reading it.
Reading a book requires no special skill (beyond the ability to read). Also, listening to an audiobook may remove the reason for somebody to purchase/read a book, but watching a game "walkthrough" doesn't remove the incentive to purchase the game (unless it sucks).
If I record a video of myself and buddies playing a game of Monopoly or some kids demonstrating a hula-hoop technique, should Hasbro or the Hoop manufacturer be able to issue a takedown for my video and then take ownership?
is about as reasonable an outcome as it gets
No, a reasonable outcome is that people say f*** you to Nintendo. For a company that's already struggling to sell their current-gen games/consoles this is another good case of them putting a gun to their foot and pulling the trigger.
agree that requests within the same connection are always for the same host
I've worked in situations that involve a lot of load-balanced hosts, and routing of traffic is dependant on the URL. Requests within the same connection are definitely NOT always for the same host.
If cracking it lowers resources, then processing it also consumes resources. Not something you want when you're using low-power or battery-driven devices.
Regarding getting things done: you could also try a task/reward model. A lot of behaviour change can center around patterning. Getting started is the hardest part of course, but if you start small and basically force yourself into a positive loop, a pattern is a good behaviour modifier. Things to get done? Make a small checklist. For example if you wanted to improve physical health, you could add some basic exercise (say 5-10 push-ups). Add a few other small tasks like "walk the dog", "water the plants" etc.
Too many video games or too much TV VS "productive" tasks. Make them a reward. For many, they're probably already in the same brain category as sugary treats etc. So before you can game, check off those push-ups and dog walking, then "reward" yourself. Tie amounts together, so that 1h of gaming = more pushups or a longer walk with Fido.
Maybe add in weekly goals of some larger tasks, broken into small increments. E.G. if you need to build some shelves (buy wood, cut wood, assemble, paint/stain, install in daily tasks).
Eventually, you can help your brain break bad patterns and add productive ones.
The coupling of Google and Android means that it has a better chance of being mass-penetration than a lesser-known or more hobbiest manufacturer. Would it be useless to a lot of people, yeah probably. However, if they can produce it cheaply enough so that it's included in consumer-level equipment by default, then it helps reach the critical mass between applications, hardware, and improvements.
Mass availability of hardware = more applications using hardware More applications using hardware = improvements hardware as apps push the envelope
Even if it's a cheap "scanner" which allows a bunch of geeks to play DnD using their environments, eventually we may end up with something where more useful work can also be done with it.
1080p has been a terrible burden on consumer equipment for quite awhile. It's really sad to look back and see older models that were reaching higher resolution, only to have the average resolution drop after 1920x1080 became "standard"
I couldn't give a shit about >1080p for gaming. I do accept that some people might want more, especially on bigger screens, but even 720p looks fine to me most of the time. However, when it comes to workspace I've got two screens running 1920x1200 and frankly, it's not enough. Coding window. Browser. IM. Email. Monitoring system. There's a lot of stuff that I need to keep an eye on. Beyond that, the browserification of everything means that there aren't a lot of dedicated applications for much of that, so lots of stuff ends up with a crappy oversized web-UI. Having a bigger monitor means more space to work. Having a better way to manage large monitors (subdividing) would be even nicer.
Staff come and go from a company, and usually initial tiers of tech support are people with scripts who often have never used the product. For many questions along those lines, a support forum is a good place. The problem there is signal-to-noise ratio.
One of the best places for forums (especially "unofficial" forums), is around bugs or defects that companies refuse to acknowledge. In my experience, HP has been especially nasty for known design defects which they refuse to acknowledge. Before I swore off using their products, I had one laptop with a Northbridge issue which would spontaneously reboot in high-memory applications if you had more than 1 stick of RAM. HP for a long time refused to acknowledge that it was a design issue, instead insisting it was software (they were even a patch for Photoshop users as it commonly ran into the issue, but lots of other graphics/game/media software also experienced it). They actually tried the old "deny until the warranty runs out" tactic on me for that but I found enough collaborative evidence to force some action from their support dept.
The second HP product I had "fun" with was one of the reversible tablet laptops. Remember the fun graphics chips that were bottom-mounted and tended to de-solder after heating up (similar to Xbox 360 RROD)? Many manufacturers actually replaced them with models that remedied the issue. HP just replaced the laptops with the same model (which inevitably would die) until you ran out of warranty. Even better, later models used a chip that was less hot, but still had the same *terrible* thermal design (it died a similar death, just took longer). One solution to that from forums: remove CPU, add copper shim with good thermal paste (similar to the "X-Clamp" for the 360), and basically you had enough force to hold the chip onto the board as well as slightly improved thermal conductivity to the heatsink/fan. HP would obviously never recommend such user service, they'd just do as before replacing the laptop with the same model (same failure) until your warranty was out.
I've found lots of issues that had functional (if inelegant/unsupported) methods for keeping products alive that the manufacturers wouldn't dream of mentioning, mainly because they involved user-servicing. I'd also expect that since planning obsolescence into products means that your average user blames himself/herself/the kids and goes and buys the next piece of junk from the SAME VENDOR... it's money in the bank.
Actually, when dealing with a certain Java-based Adobe product, I've found many answers to my questions in forums for completely different products. As the underlying technology is the same, sometimes the issues/fixes are as well.
"If google and facebook could find qualified black (or American employees in general) employees, wouldn't they do that rather than importing people from X"
Not if you count "qualified" as "skilled and willing to work for only $X level wage"
presume that the car would be putting itself in the same kinds of unnecessarily hazardous driving positions that human drivers put themselves in every single day
No, but they'll still occasionally blow tires, hit an oil slick, loose gravel, unexpected pothole, black ice, etc. Bad things do happen even in ways a machine cannot anticipate, so even if you eliminate the mistakes caused by [stupid] you still have a fair margin for unexpected circumstances.
They do have the power to block Cisco from all government contracts, which is quite often what's used in cases such as these. There's also the whole adding of executives to special lists for tax audits etc See also Joseph Nacchio and QWest
Do those things actually happen in Europe? I'm fairly sure the "pissing in public = sex offender" is more a twisted thing in US law. Similarly 18/16 and "self pics" aren't something I've heard of being an issue in European courts. (for the pics, teens sharing underage photos has come up in both the US and Canada though).
Congrats on living in a major metropolitan area. The other 99% of the world still has to pay for texts.
Eh? Canada. While big cities used to be the one ones that had "unlimited" plans, nowadays anywhere in the country offers unlimited calling in-country, unlimited text (for many, in-country, for Virgin Mobile it's to anywhere in the world), 2GB+ of data, etc. About $65-70 (say $60-65USD). Oh, wait, they're in the US too. My understanding is that U.S. carrier rates are lower... but yours still ding you for... text messages? Wow, they've been free here for years. And we're talking places with a population of 7k here. Hell, they're available in the town about 1h away that has a population of 700.
Also free in the parts of Asia I've been to (worldwide text, often enough). Not 100% sure about Europe in general but I believe those are free as well based on people I know in various areas. My German is fairly rusty but I'm pretty sure that Frei-SMS und Frei-MMS follows that.
Pebble has an app that does something similar with Bluetooth. So long as your Pebble (watch) is in range and connected via BT, the phone is unlocked. As soon as it loses the connection it's back to pin-unlock mode.
nepomuk is not something I'd consider a friend. It's always "fun" to be in the middle of something when the system gets sluggish and the CPU fan starts cranking up, only to find that nepomuk decided to go on an indexing rampage and consume 100% of a core or more.
Thankfully, though, it can be disabled. Which generally makes my KDE system quite usable (even with KDE4).
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very significant shift from claiming your walk through video is a completely original work
Where did I ever claim this?
It seems pretty clear its a for-profit commercial purpose to me.
Fair-use does not only include non-profit uses, although they tend to get more leeway
Indeed. Mantle came to mind for me as well. Vendor-specific lock-in.
Also, how can Mantle be Beta when it's supposedly incorporated into games like BF4? I don't doubt that NVidia does things to encourage lock-in (I recall certain extensions for terrain/texture generation that didn't work correctly with AMD), but this is really a pot-and-kettle situation.
Can you play it? No
Irrelevant.
Actually, not irrelevant. Transformative changes and "verbatim copy" are certainly issues which affect fair use. An unplayable video is substantially less derivative than a verbatim copy of a game.
Says someone who has no appreciation for a good audiobook. A good 'reader' provides lots of value add.
Reading VS narrating. Hence the following part about an audiobook. You don't need to be a genius to read a book (to yourself). Yes, being a good narrator is a skill, similar to being able to make a speech or voice-act in an animated movie. Similarly, being able to teach somebody to read is also a skill.
However, in most cases I'm not going to be incapable of completing a leisure book because I lack the average ability to do so. A game recording is somebody demonstrating their skill, and/or teaching people how to accomplish similar things. Also, fair use has been seen to cover transformative copying. Moving from an interactive medium to a narrative/teaching medium might very well be construed as such.
The one where TV shows have fake brands for everything
You mean how companies *PAY* to have brand recognition, and thus often request that any competing brands aren't shown? Yes, they might get irate if their brands were used in a damaging manner, but that's different. And yes, people do post videos of their monopoly games online. About.com has a video on how to play Risk, as do many others. I can take a picture of me and my buds on "monopoly night" without being sued.
40% of women think their ass is too fat
an addition 40% think their ass is too skinny
the remaining 20% say he's just right and a hard worker
So... that joke wasn't funny until the end, right? Why is that?
Because at some point, man-bashing became socially acceptable, kinda like lawyer jokes, etc. Personally, I do find the twist of that one amusing, but if it were the other way around...
I think the point is, yes, we do realize that there are a lot of jerks out there. They are jerks for a variety of reasons. Beyond that are the true pieces of sh** like this guy [in the article] and those that kill their family. Unfortunately we - based on our gender - are somehow associated with this guy. It's not a *MAN* problem, it's a human problem.
Mario saves the princess? Is that because men identify women are useless and weak, or because they want to be heroic. Just because they might like to be "Thor" doesn't mean that they wouldn't appreciate Janeway, Ripley, or Sarah Conner doing the same for us dudes.
Honestly, I'm not Urkle or even a Leonard. When I was younger I admit to be a complete dork (and annoying to girls and guy both), but that was a social awkwardness I grew out of. The same a**holes that women have so hard a time get a leg up with are the ones that regular guys have issues with, and the thing is, we DO make an issue of it. Maybe not right away in the open, but a "that wasn't cool" or "that was totally unprofessional" when a moment is available to do so. I've dealt with some pretty horrible women too, both personally and professionally (though I'd admit, professionally women do come out on top overall).
So why are we associated Mario and Big Bang Theory nerds - they type that go out of their way to be helpful but don't quite get it - with some sociopathic monster who murdered a bunch of people?
Figure out how to make it better. Call people out. A lot of us are already doing that. Sometimes it even puts us in jeopardy (suddenly we're not team players for appreciating b.s. "humor"). Our response isn't that we don't realize there are jerks out there, it's DON'T ASSOCIATE US WITH THEM, because we're not.
Editing a photo with photoshop creates a derivative work of the original photo, not a derivative work of photoshop.
And creating a gameplay video does not create a derivative work of the game.
Can you play it? No
A derivative work would be an unofficial fan-sequel, or a modified rip. Back in the day some Japanese-only games were ripped and re-encoded with english text by fans, *THAT* would be a derivative work.
Might as well have Oscar-Meier sue you for taking a video of your kids eating hot-dogs.
It's the same as someone buying a book, and then publishing ad-supported audio of them reading it.
Reading a book requires no special skill (beyond the ability to read). Also, listening to an audiobook may remove the reason for somebody to purchase/read a book, but watching a game "walkthrough" doesn't remove the incentive to purchase the game (unless it sucks).
If I record a video of myself and buddies playing a game of Monopoly or some kids demonstrating a hula-hoop technique, should Hasbro or the Hoop manufacturer be able to issue a takedown for my video and then take ownership?
is about as reasonable an outcome as it gets
No, a reasonable outcome is that people say f*** you to Nintendo. For a company that's already struggling to sell their current-gen games/consoles this is another good case of them putting a gun to their foot and pulling the trigger.
agree that requests within the same connection are always for the same host
I've worked in situations that involve a lot of load-balanced hosts, and routing of traffic is dependant on the URL. Requests within the same connection are definitely NOT always for the same host.
If cracking it lowers resources, then processing it also consumes resources. Not something you want when you're using low-power or battery-driven devices.
can even do with with a three or four way circuit - basically a XOR wiring - with no modifications whatsoeve
How do you plan on wiring 3/4-way circuits in a house that only came build with 2-wire (+ground) cable?
Regarding getting things done: you could also try a task/reward model. A lot of behaviour change can center around patterning. Getting started is the hardest part of course, but if you start small and basically force yourself into a positive loop, a pattern is a good behaviour modifier.
Things to get done? Make a small checklist. For example if you wanted to improve physical health, you could add some basic exercise (say 5-10 push-ups). Add a few other small tasks like "walk the dog", "water the plants" etc.
Too many video games or too much TV VS "productive" tasks. Make them a reward. For many, they're probably already in the same brain category as sugary treats etc. So before you can game, check off those push-ups and dog walking, then "reward" yourself. Tie amounts together, so that 1h of gaming = more pushups or a longer walk with Fido.
Maybe add in weekly goals of some larger tasks, broken into small increments. E.G. if you need to build some shelves (buy wood, cut wood, assemble, paint/stain, install in daily tasks).
Eventually, you can help your brain break bad patterns and add productive ones.
The coupling of Google and Android means that it has a better chance of being mass-penetration than a lesser-known or more hobbiest manufacturer. Would it be useless to a lot of people, yeah probably. However, if they can produce it cheaply enough so that it's included in consumer-level equipment by default, then it helps reach the critical mass between applications, hardware, and improvements.
Mass availability of hardware = more applications using hardware
More applications using hardware = improvements hardware as apps push the envelope
Even if it's a cheap "scanner" which allows a bunch of geeks to play DnD using their environments, eventually we may end up with something where more useful work can also be done with it.
1080p has been a terrible burden on consumer equipment for quite awhile. It's really sad to look back and see older models that were reaching higher resolution, only to have the average resolution drop after 1920x1080 became "standard"
I couldn't give a shit about >1080p for gaming. I do accept that some people might want more, especially on bigger screens, but even 720p looks fine to me most of the time. However, when it comes to workspace I've got two screens running 1920x1200 and frankly, it's not enough. Coding window. Browser. IM. Email. Monitoring system. There's a lot of stuff that I need to keep an eye on. Beyond that, the browserification of everything means that there aren't a lot of dedicated applications for much of that, so lots of stuff ends up with a crappy oversized web-UI. Having a bigger monitor means more space to work. Having a better way to manage large monitors (subdividing) would be even nicer.
Staff come and go from a company, and usually initial tiers of tech support are people with scripts who often have never used the product. For many questions along those lines, a support forum is a good place. The problem there is signal-to-noise ratio.
One of the best places for forums (especially "unofficial" forums), is around bugs or defects that companies refuse to acknowledge. In my experience, HP has been especially nasty for known design defects which they refuse to acknowledge.
Before I swore off using their products, I had one laptop with a Northbridge issue which would spontaneously reboot in high-memory applications if you had more than 1 stick of RAM. HP for a long time refused to acknowledge that it was a design issue, instead insisting it was software (they were even a patch for Photoshop users as it commonly ran into the issue, but lots of other graphics/game/media software also experienced it). They actually tried the old "deny until the warranty runs out" tactic on me for that but I found enough collaborative evidence to force some action from their support dept.
The second HP product I had "fun" with was one of the reversible tablet laptops. Remember the fun graphics chips that were bottom-mounted and tended to de-solder after heating up (similar to Xbox 360 RROD)? Many manufacturers actually replaced them with models that remedied the issue. HP just replaced the laptops with the same model (which inevitably would die) until you ran out of warranty. Even better, later models used a chip that was less hot, but still had the same *terrible* thermal design (it died a similar death, just took longer).
One solution to that from forums: remove CPU, add copper shim with good thermal paste (similar to the "X-Clamp" for the 360), and basically you had enough force to hold the chip onto the board as well as slightly improved thermal conductivity to the heatsink/fan. HP would obviously never recommend such user service, they'd just do as before replacing the laptop with the same model (same failure) until your warranty was out.
I've found lots of issues that had functional (if inelegant/unsupported) methods for keeping products alive that the manufacturers wouldn't dream of mentioning, mainly because they involved user-servicing. I'd also expect that since planning obsolescence into products means that your average user blames himself/herself/the kids and goes and buys the next piece of junk from the SAME VENDOR... it's money in the bank.
Actually, when dealing with a certain Java-based Adobe product, I've found many answers to my questions in forums for completely different products. As the underlying technology is the same, sometimes the issues/fixes are as well.
"If google and facebook could find qualified black (or American employees in general) employees, wouldn't they do that rather than importing people from X"
Not if you count "qualified" as "skilled and willing to work for only $X level wage"
And Space Herpes...
OK, that was Robot Chicken... but it was pretty damn funny actually (youtube it if you haven't seen).
presume that the car would be putting itself in the same kinds of unnecessarily hazardous driving positions that human drivers put themselves in every single day
No, but they'll still occasionally blow tires, hit an oil slick, loose gravel, unexpected pothole, black ice, etc. Bad things do happen even in ways a machine cannot anticipate, so even if you eliminate the mistakes caused by [stupid] you still have a fair margin for unexpected circumstances.
They do have the power to block Cisco from all government contracts, which is quite often what's used in cases such as these. There's also the whole adding of executives to special lists for tax audits etc
See also Joseph Nacchio and QWest
A U.S.-backed coup of the corrupt Russia-backed previous government?
Unclean hands all around.
Do those things actually happen in Europe? I'm fairly sure the "pissing in public = sex offender" is more a twisted thing in US law.
Similarly 18/16 and "self pics" aren't something I've heard of being an issue in European courts. (for the pics, teens sharing underage photos has come up in both the US and Canada though).
Congrats on living in a major metropolitan area. The other 99% of the world still has to pay for texts.
Eh?
Canada. While big cities used to be the one ones that had "unlimited" plans, nowadays anywhere in the country offers unlimited calling in-country, unlimited text (for many, in-country, for Virgin Mobile it's to anywhere in the world), 2GB+ of data, etc. About $65-70 (say $60-65USD). Oh, wait, they're in the US too.
My understanding is that U.S. carrier rates are lower... but yours still ding you for... text messages? Wow, they've been free here for years. And we're talking places with a population of 7k here. Hell, they're available in the town about 1h away that has a population of 700.
Also free in the parts of Asia I've been to (worldwide text, often enough). Not 100% sure about Europe in general but I believe those are free as well based on people I know in various areas. My German is fairly rusty but I'm pretty sure that Frei-SMS und Frei-MMS follows that.
New Zealand... Texts included (as well as to Aus)
Australia... SMS unlimited in-country
So, by 99% of the the world... I'm guessing you mean with your carrier in USA? Who is being myopic?
Hmm, maybe this is a good sign that they're actually trying to get IPv6 working...
Pebble has an app that does something similar with Bluetooth. So long as your Pebble (watch) is in range and connected via BT, the phone is unlocked. As soon as it loses the connection it's back to pin-unlock mode.
nepomuk is not something I'd consider a friend. It's always "fun" to be in the middle of something when the system gets sluggish and the CPU fan starts cranking up, only to find that nepomuk decided to go on an indexing rampage and consume 100% of a core or more.
Thankfully, though, it can be disabled. Which generally makes my KDE system quite usable (even with KDE4).