The key word you used was "recipe". If your sister follows the same recipe, exactly, then yes, you are in violation of your NDA. If, however, your sister has a different recipe that just happens to taste similar, then you are not in violation of your NDA.
Lovely. Once again, I have to say that IP rights should not be assignable to corporations.
It is quite clear to me that SCO is only suing to get money from a cash cow / destroy a competitor (IBM) by leveraging IP rights that it should not be allowed to own in the first place.
in a way it was like Aragorn using Athelas/Kingsfoil to ease Frodo's pain and heal Merry, Eowyn & Faramir.
I am, in a word, stunned. You have backed up your claim of ancient knowledge using ancedotal evidence from a work of fiction.
No, I provided that as an example, not as evidence. I have no evidence, other than what I read in the papers and online, which I'll grant you probably needs a grain of salt to wash it down. I did provide that "evidence", however, in the form of a link to a Slashdot article.
The rule is: "If old knowledge is SPECIFICALLY sited as evidence INSTEAD of scientific evidence, it may be suspect." Not therefore proven untrue, mind you. Just suspect.
That's a much better parse of the rule. I suppose it was a bit vague, but on rereading it with your interpretation it makes sense in that way. I can deal with that.:)
That was the word I kept wracking my brain for... mesopotamians. I was gonna put Babylonians, but the "batteries" were found in Bagdad, which I was pretty sure was a different culture.
An interesting article, and for the most part I agree. However, I must criticize one point:
5. The discoverer says a belief is credible because it has endured for centuries. There is a persistent myth that hundreds or even thousands of years ago, long before anyone knew that blood circulates throughout the body, or that germs cause disease, our ancestors possessed miraculous remedies that modern science cannot understand. Much of what is termed "alternative medicine" is part of that myth.
Ancient folk wisdom, rediscovered or repackaged, is unlikely to match the output of modern scientific laboratories.
I think he goes a little too far here. The fact is that modern science *has* been rediscovering many things that ancients knew. Not because they understood underlying principles behind it, but because they just learned (likely through trial/error) that it worked. It amounted to things along the lines of rub that plant on the wound and it will close quicker; in a way it was like Aragorn using Athelas/Kingsfoil to ease Frodo's pain and heal Merry, Eowyn & Faramir.
I mean, just a few days ago Slashdot ran an article about how the ancient Iraqis may have known electricity. Yes, I will agree with the author trying to point out bogus herbal remedies, which are, for the most part bogus. But to blanketly deny the wisdom of the ancients, when we make so many rediscoveries.... better to chalk this whole category up to the failure to seek peer review.
I was sorta suspicious about this post, thought maybe the poster was trolling or outright fasifying his post (note the lack of a link), but then I found this link on their official phpbb forums page. Turns out they *did* flame the people they need supporting them. That's a direct quote. See for yourself.
I gotta say, when I saw this article, the first thing I thought was "Yoper? What's that?" So I looked at the website. I thought to myself, hey, I might try that. Good idea with the Yoperize thingy, if they ever show how it could be done. Then I saw this post.
I'm all for trying to market Linux and make money off it, but this flame shows the true colors of the bunch that run Yoper. Avoid this distro with every ounce of your will.
Considering that the CLR evolved almost directly from Microsoft's non-Java compliant Java Virtual Machine, I'm not surprised CLR is very much like a Java VM.;)
And if it wasn't in Fountains of Paradise, then at the very least there have been dozens of books since in which this idea was used.
Well, I didn't read Fountains of Paradise, but the concept was in 3001.
Not that it would necessarily be possible, mind. The centripital acceleration alone would require a scrith-like material, let alone the high possibility of a catastrophic failure. It would be fun, however, to be standing on the inside of one of these Earth-rings and looking up to Earth....
It shouldn't, as the force is perpendicular to the rotation of the ring.
Ahh, but that's only when the ring is perfectly aligned (and a perfect circle). If the ring is wobbling, it's no longer exactly perpindicular everywhere.;)
I doubt it would be more significant than the solar wind.
Ok, so what you're saying is that the neutrinos given off by the star could continually push the ringworld outwards from the star, thus compensating for the rotational wobble? Essentially the neutrinos would act like the stabilizer thrusters Niven used in Ringworld Engineers?
Interesting theory. Can the neutrinos provide enough force to overcome the wobble? Also, wouldn't the impulse of the thrust eventually slow down the rotation of the ring?
On second thought, I think I misread the original question. Feel free to ignore my post.;)
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I'll answer that for you; the Ringworld is both inherintly stable *and* inherintly unstable because of rotational inertia.
The Ringworld, by being spun around the center of mass of the solar system, was inherintly stable and would do its best to stay rotating around that center of mass. That's what Niven assumed when he first wrote Ringworld.
It is that very rotational inertia is what causes the wobble in Ringworld Engineers. Niven assumed (or at least I assume that he assumed) that the star the Ringworld was rotating around was stationary. Unfortunately, it is not. The star orbits the center of the galaxy, which in turn may orbit a center of a galactic cluster, which in turn is apparently continually expanding from the center of the universe.
The rotational inertia of the Ringworld simply makes it tough to stay in exactly the same path as the star.
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Larry,
In Ringworld Engineers, you spend an great deal of time surrounding the concept of inter-species sex and copulation. Luis Wu engages in it frequently, it's even mentioned that it has evolved into a means to seal a bargain.
A more modest, and reasonable, start to a solution would be to eliminate corporate ownership of IP. Does that sound the same as what you proposed? It's not. I don't mean that transfer of copyrights should be banned- but that corporate IP holders should be treated the same as everyone else. That means no "Author's Life + 70 years, vs 90 years for a corporation"- all copyrights should last the same time (X years from date of publication), regardless of who holds it (or how long he lives).
Done! I like the way you think.:)
The truth is, that's the opinion I started with, I just did some analysis of how corporations might abuse it. Another reply to my original post suggested that an individual who owned IP could work within a corporation and it would amount to that corporation owning the IP. Of course, if the owner of the IP left the corporation, then the IP goes with him.
That's why I was concerned about transfer of IP rights; the patent owner could simply sell his IP to the chairman of the company, who would sell it to the chairman that succeded him, and so on.
The owner could be one of the company investors, one that happens to own most of the company for example.
A valid concern, but one I feel would be a "necessary evil". The owener of IP should be free to use whatever is at his disposal; if he happens to also own a large share in a corporation, that's a good thing for him. As long as the corporation itself doesn't own the IP, and only he does. That's the key. The company itself is not guaranteed access to his IP; if he should sell off his stock, or get fired, etc., that IP still belongs to him. He's free to take it to another company if he wishes.
Then how about a large team that works to produce an idea? Who would hold the patent then?
Also a valid concern. I suppose, as an AC suggested, that IP could be equally owned by the team, provided the team was small. I suppose there would have to be some statutory upper limit.
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Surely buggy GUIs outweigh a lack of games...
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Yes! I second this wholeheartedly!!!!1!11!!!!!!
I miss old-skool graphic adventures. Sure, go 3D if ya gotta, but stick to the gameplay similar to, say, the old Sierra *Quest series.
And remember... Story, Graphics, Story, Gameplay, Story!
The key word you used was "recipe". If your sister follows the same recipe, exactly, then yes, you are in violation of your NDA. If, however, your sister has a different recipe that just happens to taste similar, then you are not in violation of your NDA.
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Except the recipe is the source code.
Lovely. Once again, I have to say that IP rights should not be assignable to corporations.
It is quite clear to me that SCO is only suing to get money from a cash cow / destroy a competitor (IBM) by leveraging IP rights that it should not be allowed to own in the first place.
That was the word I kept wracking my brain for... mesopotamians. I was gonna put Babylonians, but the "batteries" were found in Bagdad, which I was pretty sure was a different culture.
So it has. Here's a topic where you can bitch about the deletion.
I mean, just a few days ago Slashdot ran an article about how the ancient Iraqis may have known electricity. Yes, I will agree with the author trying to point out bogus herbal remedies, which are, for the most part bogus. But to blanketly deny the wisdom of the ancients, when we make so many rediscoveries.... better to chalk this whole category up to the failure to seek peer review.
Just, you know, in case somebody gets sucked in by the desire to pay 98 bucks for something they can get free... ;)
I was sorta suspicious about this post, thought maybe the poster was trolling or outright fasifying his post (note the lack of a link), but then I found this link on their official phpbb forums page. Turns out they *did* flame the people they need supporting them. That's a direct quote. See for yourself.
I gotta say, when I saw this article, the first thing I thought was "Yoper? What's that?" So I looked at the website. I thought to myself, hey, I might try that. Good idea with the Yoperize thingy, if they ever show how it could be done. Then I saw this post.
I'm all for trying to market Linux and make money off it, but this flame shows the true colors of the bunch that run Yoper. Avoid this distro with every ounce of your will.
Cool!
What I wanna know is: am I gonna have an epileptic seizure looking at the tower?
Note the mods down on the entire thread from the early mods up; clearly a few mods are secretly into bondage and don't want to be outed on /. :)
How do they make whips and chains that small is what I want to know. ;)
Considering that the CLR evolved almost directly from Microsoft's non-Java compliant Java Virtual Machine, I'm not surprised CLR is very much like a Java VM. ;)
Not that it would necessarily be possible, mind. The centripital acceleration alone would require a scrith-like material, let alone the high possibility of a catastrophic failure. It would be fun, however, to be standing on the inside of one of these Earth-rings and looking up to Earth....
Ok, so what you're saying is that the neutrinos given off by the star could continually push the ringworld outwards from the star, thus compensating for the rotational wobble? Essentially the neutrinos would act like the stabilizer thrusters Niven used in Ringworld Engineers?
Interesting theory. Can the neutrinos provide enough force to overcome the wobble? Also, wouldn't the impulse of the thrust eventually slow down the rotation of the ring?
On second thought, I think I misread the original question. Feel free to ignore my post. ;)
I'll answer that for you; the Ringworld is both inherintly stable *and* inherintly unstable because of rotational inertia.
The Ringworld, by being spun around the center of mass of the solar system, was inherintly stable and would do its best to stay rotating around that center of mass. That's what Niven assumed when he first wrote Ringworld.
It is that very rotational inertia is what causes the wobble in Ringworld Engineers. Niven assumed (or at least I assume that he assumed) that the star the Ringworld was rotating around was stationary. Unfortunately, it is not. The star orbits the center of the galaxy, which in turn may orbit a center of a galactic cluster, which in turn is apparently continually expanding from the center of the universe.
The rotational inertia of the Ringworld simply makes it tough to stay in exactly the same path as the star.
Larry,
In Ringworld Engineers, you spend an great deal of time surrounding the concept of inter-species sex and copulation. Luis Wu engages in it frequently, it's even mentioned that it has evolved into a means to seal a bargain.
Why the fascination?
The truth is, that's the opinion I started with, I just did some analysis of how corporations might abuse it. Another reply to my original post suggested that an individual who owned IP could work within a corporation and it would amount to that corporation owning the IP. Of course, if the owner of the IP left the corporation, then the IP goes with him.
That's why I was concerned about transfer of IP rights; the patent owner could simply sell his IP to the chairman of the company, who would sell it to the chairman that succeded him, and so on.