one day, you come across a vintage graphic from the 1960s at a yard sale; it would be perfect for your next video, you know exactly how you want to use it, but it contains no copyright information.New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability
I know that forty years sounds like eternity to the eternally adolescent Geek - but your treasure trove will almost certainly turn out to be an instantly recognizable icon of commercial art and illustration.
The page clipped from Life magazine, the poster that was taped to a dorm room wall.
What looks like a "good faith effort" to you may may look pathetically inadequate and self-serving to a judge. It is altogether too easy not to find what you don't want to find.
The whole idea of the entity that has to pay for your health only benefiting when they do not is morally flawed.
You could - with equal intelligence - or the lack of it - have said that fire insurance is morally flawed.
The private insurer has money to invest, not all of the pay out has to come directly and immeadiately from those it insures.
Funding from general revenues means that the middle class taxpayer carries the full burden for the entire population from day one. It means that life and death decisions become subject to every political whim.
Remember Terri Shavio?
The private insurer can do things which are not going to be politically popular. You join a managed care plan. The colonoscopy goes on your schedule and stays on your schedule.
if the technology was so widely recognized/easily adopted that it became industry standard during or just after the prosecution of the patents, isn't this a great argument that the patents themselves are invalid for obviousness?
It is an argument that the patented solution was practical and cheap.
The reality is most open source advocates run M$ windows OS, after all it gives you a choice of a wide range of computer games, fair enough that (P)OS ain't fit for work or school but as a toy OS it is just, almost, somewhat, nearly, fine
That PC game is blasting out 3D graphics, animation and multichannel sound. It is simultaneously manipulating dozens - perhaps hundreds - of elements within the game world. It does not run on a toy OS.
The home is a much more challenging environment for an OS than the geek is willing to admit. The geek needs to be asking why the proprietary OS and the proprietary app do so well in this space.
M$ will feel totally threatened by any GUI that threatens its monopoly windows GUI
The Windows metaphor has been extraordinarily successful across a broad range of users and markets. It is the Geek's alternative that usually dies aborning.
You know the Baylis radio project turned into a successful company right? IIRC they'd been trying to make it look small and cool, as you would for the European market, but the most popular prototype was the biggest and loudest. I wonder if the OLPC group could have learnt something from that?
Like OLPC, the original Bayless Freeplay Plus Radio was designed for local production.
The problem is that the precision manufacturer in Asia can also produce a rugged, reliable, clockwork dynamo.
The $67 three pound Midland may not be best-of-breed - but it is an easily portable dynamo powered transceiver and battery charger with AM/FM radio, NOAA weather radio and alerts.
It was always no more than a matter of time before a Windows laptop began competing in XO's space.
The Bayless "Freeplay" radio began with many of the same ideals as OLPC. But it is tough to hold your ground when the OEM giants see opportunities in the same market.
It would be easy for OLPC to go the same way as the Simputer.
You can't hold the line on costs. Your sales projections are unrealistic.
You have a solid platform for development but not much else. The mass-market alternative is leaping ahead of your own technology and is compatible with an enormous library of existing software.
Yah, too bad for the whole point of freeing the world for the domination of a single US software company.
60% of Microsoft's revenues come from outside the U.S. and these revenues are growing at a fantastic pace.
Microsoft has an R&D presence pretty much everywhere in the world. It is working with an African university on the design and launch of a comsat for Africa. Microsoft has become a multinational.
Nor is it the least likely that anything you are drinking now has the dubious parentage and potency of the pre-World War One product sold out of the saloon or roadhouse. "A Fight in Five Minutes."
and yet you do not see border agents confiscating copies of B-grade horror slasher movies or "Rambo III". Why is that? These movies pefrom the exact same function as the pervert's pictures
Only a geek could make an argument so patently disingenuous.
Child pornography is the rape of a child for the sexual entertainment of an adult.
You hold in your hands the evidence of a real-life sexual assault - in many societies, a capital offense.
You were damn lucky to have been caught at the American border and not elsewhere.
It is not all unlikely that you have paid for these photos and videos - and it is not beyond possibility that you commissioned these photos and videos.
There are no scary monsters to slay, no enemies to shoot and no cars to hijack. But with more than 100 million units sold since its launch in 2000, "The Sims" is the world's best-selling computer game.'The Sims' sells 100 million copies worldwide
Now, that's for a console AAA title with whiz-bang graphics, voice acting, etc. I'm sure the NASA MMO doesn't need to be on that level but I'm not sure the term "MMO" can properly be applied to anything with a $3MM budget
You have to deliver something at least as sophisticated in game play and graphics as "America's Army."
If the game is constricted to real-world physics, you will be constantly struggling to keep the players interested and engaged. You can't compromise on the elements that promise some immediate reward.
Perhaps this is the sort of thing that RedHat or someone should get involved in.
RedHat specializes in service and support for the enterprise OS and apps. It has no experience in gaming - and there no more arcane art in gaming than the crafting of a successful online multi-player RPG. The landscape is littered with failures.
I wonder if OLPC is regretting G1G1...putting thousands of XO's into the hands of people for whom it was never intended. The XO is for children and geeks
I wasn't aware that the Geek was ever the intended market.
Maybe EA, LucasArts, or TakeTwo would pay for them? Seriously, why aren't the big names in gaming spending any money on commercials about what crap it is that playing violent games makes you violent?
Because when you take Rockstar out of the picture most of the problems go away.
Bioshock entered the market to rave reviews, healthy sales and nary a word of complaint. Half-Life has been on the shelves for ten years now. There are dozens of other examples.
The games that strike a raw nerve, the games that make headlines, do so for a reason.
Lucas doesn't award points based on the sadism of your kills. It doesn't invite you to mime a graphically explicit disembowelment with the Wii controller.
Lucas doesn't "game" the ratings system to get adult content in under the wire.
Failing that, why is MS not building the heat equivalent of a circuit breaker into these PSUs?
again, I am not sure how that helps.
you can read the ambient temperature of the power supply easily enough. but that doesn't mean there won't be dangerous hot spots if you shove the PSU into the back of a poorly ventilated storage unit.
set it on shag carpeting or some other easily ignited surface.
Perhaps there should be a temperature sensor which would turn the system off if the temperature got too high.
Where do you put the sensor? What is it reading? The ambient temperature of the power brick as a whole - or that pinched little pocket between the brick, the cord, and the wall, which is the real danger?
Little Rock, Ark., media are reporting this week that a local gamer now has a singed house following a fire blamed on the power supply cord to his Xbox. Firefighters investigating the blaze say the cord was found pinched between the wall and the Xbox power brick, which tends to get very hot during extended game play.Xbox 360 blamed for house fire
Too often on Slashdot, it can be difficult - if not impossible to trace a link to a primary source, and this link is really no better.
But the impression I have is of a fire waiting to happen. The power supply as a whole could be at its normal operating temperature. That doesn't meant that heat couldn't build up dangerously in some tight corner behind it.
The risk isn't unique to the XBox or the power brick. Poor ventilation is probably the roots cause of hundreds - if not thousands - of fires ignited by ordinary home appliances.
I would almost say boycotting is the best way. Organize a boycott of companies that don't meet with our ideals. I already do this with Microsoft, AT&T, and Time Warner cable
As if babbling on about the "sanctity of tech" wasn't pretentious enough.
Now again we have the geek talking boycott.
In markets where he is less sigificant a presence than the sixth grader with her first cell phone.
They actually show that Vista has gained share much more slowly than XP did.
Vista has been most successful in the Premium and Ultimate markets.
The proper comparison would be to adoption rates for Windows MCE and XP Pro.
But this "growth" comes from cannibalizing the share of older versions of Windows, while OS X and Linux are actually growing their total.
The Net Applications stats show damn little growth for OSX or Linux.
I would argue that a 0.2% gain in market share for Linux is as close to zero as makes no difference. I would argue that a 0.61% share isn't much to show for ten years of "The Year of Linux on the Desktop."
The Net Applications stats do distinguish between the MacIntel and OSX platforms - and what one wins the other loses.
Apple has not been shy in claiming that the MacIntel is the perfect platform for running Windows. Apple has never been shy about leveraging Windows to its own advantage: iTunes for Windows.
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I know that forty years sounds like eternity to the eternally adolescent Geek - but your treasure trove will almost certainly turn out to be an instantly recognizable icon of commercial art and illustration.
The page clipped from Life magazine, the poster that was taped to a dorm room wall.
What looks like a "good faith effort" to you may may look pathetically inadequate and self-serving to a judge. It is altogether too easy not to find what you don't want to find.
The library that has a children's section. The library that restricts access to other collections.
Insurance covers the losses likely to be experienced in a population large enough to make meaningful predictions for the population as a whole.
The key word here is "average."
It doesn't mean that you won't be permanently disabled by emphysema at age thirty-five.
Wasn't possible?
Insurance companies have been building profiles of high-risk populations from the beginning.
You don't have to read or understand the genetic markers to trace patterns of disease across five generations within your own family.
You could - with equal intelligence - or the lack of it - have said that fire insurance is morally flawed.
The private insurer has money to invest, not all of the pay out has to come directly and immeadiately from those it insures.
Funding from general revenues means that the middle class taxpayer carries the full burden for the entire population from day one. It means that life and death decisions become subject to every political whim.
Remember Terri Shavio?
The private insurer can do things which are not going to be politically popular. You join a managed care plan. The colonoscopy goes on your schedule and stays on your schedule.
It is an argument that the patented solution was practical and cheap.
The $100 target for the XO seems to be moved back a little farther each day.
In third world educational markets, Windows SE and Office Home & Student 2007 is $3 not $200. Microsoft Student Innovation Suite
The reality is most open source advocates run M$ windows OS, after all it gives you a choice of a wide range of computer games, fair enough that (P)OS ain't fit for work or school but as a toy OS it is just, almost, somewhat, nearly, fine
That PC game is blasting out 3D graphics, animation and multichannel sound. It is simultaneously manipulating dozens - perhaps hundreds - of elements within the game world. It does not run on a toy OS.
The home is a much more challenging environment for an OS than the geek is willing to admit. The geek needs to be asking why the proprietary OS and the proprietary app do so well in this space.
M$ will feel totally threatened by any GUI that threatens its monopoly windows GUI
The Windows metaphor has been extraordinarily successful across a broad range of users and markets. It is the Geek's alternative that usually dies aborning.
Like OLPC, the original Bayless Freeplay Plus Radio was designed for local production.
The problem is that the precision manufacturer in Asia can also produce a rugged, reliable, clockwork dynamo.
He can package more sophisticated electronics and he can beat your price anywhere in the world. Midland XT511 Dynamo 22-Channel FRS/GMRS Emergency Crank Radio
The $67 three pound Midland may not be best-of-breed - but it is an easily portable dynamo powered transceiver and battery charger with AM/FM radio, NOAA weather radio and alerts.
The Bayless "Freeplay" radio began with many of the same ideals as OLPC. But it is tough to hold your ground when the OEM giants see opportunities in the same market.
It would be easy for OLPC to go the same way as the Simputer.
You can't hold the line on costs. Your sales projections are unrealistic.
You have a solid platform for development but not much else. The mass-market alternative is leaping ahead of your own technology and is compatible with an enormous library of existing software.
60% of Microsoft's revenues come from outside the U.S. and these revenues are growing at a fantastic pace.
Microsoft has an R&D presence pretty much everywhere in the world. It is working with an African university on the design and launch of a comsat for Africa. Microsoft has become a multinational.
I read the letter before submitting the story, but, be to perfectly honest. I couldn't extract much substance from it.
In many ways it worked very well.
Per capita alcohol consumption in the states dropped from 2.6 gallons in 1910 to 0.97 gallons in 1934.
Apparent per capita ethanol consumption for the United States, 1850-2005
Nor is it the least likely that anything you are drinking now has the dubious parentage and potency of the pre-World War One product sold out of the saloon or roadhouse. "A Fight in Five Minutes."
Only a geek could make an argument so patently disingenuous.
Child pornography is the rape of a child for the sexual entertainment of an adult.
You hold in your hands the evidence of a real-life sexual assault - in many societies, a capital offense.
You were damn lucky to have been caught at the American border and not elsewhere.
It is not all unlikely that you have paid for these photos and videos - and it is not beyond possibility that you commissioned these photos and videos.
I wish I had mod points to offer -
There are no scary monsters to slay, no enemies to shoot and no cars to hijack. But with more than 100 million units sold since its launch in 2000, "The Sims" is the world's best-selling computer game. 'The Sims' sells 100 million copies worldwide
You have to deliver something at least as sophisticated in game play and graphics as "America's Army."
If the game is constricted to real-world physics, you will be constantly struggling to keep the players interested and engaged. You can't compromise on the elements that promise some immediate reward.
RedHat specializes in service and support for the enterprise OS and apps. It has no experience in gaming - and there no more arcane art in gaming than the crafting of a successful online multi-player RPG. The landscape is littered with failures.
OLPC won't find it so easy to extract a second check from donors whose laptops fail prematurely.
I wasn't aware that the Geek was ever the intended market.
Because when you take Rockstar out of the picture most of the problems go away.
Bioshock entered the market to rave reviews, healthy sales and nary a word of complaint. Half-Life has been on the shelves for ten years now. There are dozens of other examples.
The games that strike a raw nerve, the games that make headlines, do so for a reason.
Lucas doesn't award points based on the sadism of your kills. It doesn't invite you to mime a graphically explicit disembowelment with the Wii controller.
Lucas doesn't "game" the ratings system to get adult content in under the wire.
again, I am not sure how that helps.
you can read the ambient temperature of the power supply easily enough. but that doesn't mean there won't be dangerous hot spots if you shove the PSU into the back of a poorly ventilated storage unit.
set it on shag carpeting or some other easily ignited surface.
Where do you put the sensor? What is it reading? The ambient temperature of the power brick as a whole - or that pinched little pocket between the brick, the cord, and the wall, which is the real danger?
Too often on Slashdot, it can be difficult - if not impossible to trace a link to a primary source, and this link is really no better.
But the impression I have is of a fire waiting to happen. The power supply as a whole could be at its normal operating temperature. That doesn't meant that heat couldn't build up dangerously in some tight corner behind it.
The risk isn't unique to the XBox or the power brick. Poor ventilation is probably the roots cause of hundreds - if not thousands - of fires ignited by ordinary home appliances.
As if babbling on about the "sanctity of tech" wasn't pretentious enough.
Now again we have the geek talking boycott.
In markets where he is less sigificant a presence than the sixth grader with her first cell phone.
Vista has been most successful in the Premium and Ultimate markets.
The proper comparison would be to adoption rates for Windows MCE and XP Pro.
But this "growth" comes from cannibalizing the share of older versions of Windows, while OS X and Linux are actually growing their total.
The Net Applications stats show damn little growth for OSX or Linux.
I would argue that a 0.2% gain in market share for Linux is as close to zero as makes no difference. I would argue that a 0.61% share isn't much to show for ten years of "The Year of Linux on the Desktop."
The Net Applications stats do distinguish between the MacIntel and OSX platforms - and what one wins the other loses.
Apple has not been shy in claiming that the MacIntel is the perfect platform for running Windows. Apple has never been shy about leveraging Windows to its own advantage: iTunes for Windows.