Because the patent is still essentially yours. If something happens, and the company breaches your contract or dies a horrible, gruesome death, you are the one who ends up still owning the patent at the end of it.
The way I respond to that was actually something I got from a fiction book: The time machine can move in four dimensions, yes. However, if you were to try to move the thing to a time before it was built, it does not exist yet / any more and you get tumbled off into 4-space. This is why you can't go back and teach yourself how to build a time machine - by the time you could get there safely, it'd already been built. It's might also be the reason why there aren't any right now: the first thing anyone tries to do when they have a working time machine is go off and see the dinosaurs, to bring back proof that they aren't crackpots.
I will be dead within 100 years in any case. If I am not, it will be because someone discovered a method of preventing death from extreme age. I somehow doubt that this person discovered it through the study of ancient religions, although I will agree that the study of spirituality in itself may have something to do with the discovery.
If this happens, I will have time to study anything and everything at my leisure, and I will.
Really, the biggest problem I have with religion is this: it has absolute faith in the impossible, against overwhelming evidence to the contrary. When a new discovery as to the nature of the world is made, evidence is presented on both sides, for and against. Whichever side has the most compelling evidence is given the most credibility. Of course, a few of the people on the losing side continue to disbelieve the evidence, but technology advances and eventually proves them wrong. If it doesn't, they or their descendents can redeem themselves. Once the issue is settled, it's settled.
Religion, however, insists on believing the unbelievable. We settled the "shape of the earth" issue a long time ago. It's time to put the posters down and stop protesting that the world really is flat. Evolution has been observed in many creatures with small gaps between generations. There's no need to teach children that God made everything as it is, and less than 10000 years ago, too.
Yes, I know that these people are just an incredibly vocal minority. The problem is that they are given any credibility at all - I'm certain that a few school districts are giving "equal time" to both creationism and evolution. Science tends to filter these ridiculous things out before they hit the public, and even then it's just an opinion. When they try to convince you, they have reproducible results and myriad sources. Religions (actually, I shouldn't say that. It's almost entirely Christianity.) seem to lack the filter, and try to spread their ideas to whoever they can, entirely on the basis of one source. They rarely have believable sources besides their single holy book, and almost never have any results, reproducible or otherwise.
Now, I'm not saying I dislike religions. I don't. I'm perfectly fine with spirituality. Albert Einstein himself was intensely spiritual, or so I've heard. What I dislike are those annoying people, no matter who they are, who try to force their opinions on me, no matter what those are, without and back up other than "God said it's so" or "because it is".
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The only bad thing about Neil Gaiman is that he's done mostly comic books, and my library doesn't carry them.
And then, of course, you have to pay for it by the computon. And everyone's happy. Except you. But who cares about you? The big important companies are all nice and bloated on your money, so you can go screw yourself.
Yes, that would be stupid, insane, and a waste of time. In America.
However, this is taking place in Germany. Germany, if you will note the name, is not America. Laws are different there. Exactly how different, I'm not sure, but I'd assume that they are different enough that this is not a suicidal attack on SCO. I doubt these Germans are stupid enough to start something like this if they can't carry through with it. At least, I hope so. Otherwise, I fear for their history teachers.
This would work best if there was an admin paying attention, to make the final decision on borderline cases.
Unfortunately, pretty much all cheaters could be eradicated if there was an admin paying attention. What servers really need to be cheat free is to have a high admin/player ratio, which is generally undoable due to lack of trust between people who haven't met in real life.
Essentially, we're going to be cursed with cheaters until more people are trustworthy and unlikely to abuse their powers. This will happen as soon as George W. Bush stops looking like a monkey.
People with admin priveleges can turn cheats on or off in their server. Indeed, there're a few cheats that only work in Multiplayer, such as the double-sided lightsabre.
(Is it sabre or saber? I know one is British or something and the other is American. I use sabre becuase it looks cooler.)
I, personally, would rather only play SP games on a non-protected machine than be forced to use something that could concievably be used against my interests just to play against other people over the net without fear of other people cheating.
Counter-Strike isn't that good. I doubt anything would be.
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Because the patent is still essentially yours. If something happens, and the company breaches your contract or dies a horrible, gruesome death, you are the one who ends up still owning the patent at the end of it.
You do realize that this is Slashdot, right? Getting fat is not a problem, it's the general condition.
Suspension of disbelief is nice and all, but I think you go too far when you expect us to believe this guy has children.
So you're saying we ought to have all the world's leaders mud wrestle? Cool.
That's the sort of logic that says quines are impossible.
The way I respond to that was actually something I got from a fiction book: The time machine can move in four dimensions, yes. However, if you were to try to move the thing to a time before it was built, it does not exist yet / any more and you get tumbled off into 4-space. This is why you can't go back and teach yourself how to build a time machine - by the time you could get there safely, it'd already been built. It's might also be the reason why there aren't any right now: the first thing anyone tries to do when they have a working time machine is go off and see the dinosaurs, to bring back proof that they aren't crackpots.
This display of disrespect cannot go unpunished! We must bomb them!
Yes, they carry two of those. But that's four books out of something like a dozen comic books he's written. Not the vast majority of his work, no.
If this happens, I will have time to study anything and everything at my leisure, and I will.
Really, the biggest problem I have with religion is this: it has absolute faith in the impossible, against overwhelming evidence to the contrary. When a new discovery as to the nature of the world is made, evidence is presented on both sides, for and against. Whichever side has the most compelling evidence is given the most credibility. Of course, a few of the people on the losing side continue to disbelieve the evidence, but technology advances and eventually proves them wrong. If it doesn't, they or their descendents can redeem themselves. Once the issue is settled, it's settled.
Religion, however, insists on believing the unbelievable. We settled the "shape of the earth" issue a long time ago. It's time to put the posters down and stop protesting that the world really is flat. Evolution has been observed in many creatures with small gaps between generations. There's no need to teach children that God made everything as it is, and less than 10000 years ago, too.
Yes, I know that these people are just an incredibly vocal minority. The problem is that they are given any credibility at all - I'm certain that a few school districts are giving "equal time" to both creationism and evolution. Science tends to filter these ridiculous things out before they hit the public, and even then it's just an opinion. When they try to convince you, they have reproducible results and myriad sources. Religions (actually, I shouldn't say that. It's almost entirely Christianity.) seem to lack the filter, and try to spread their ideas to whoever they can, entirely on the basis of one source. They rarely have believable sources besides their single holy book, and almost never have any results, reproducible or otherwise.
Now, I'm not saying I dislike religions. I don't. I'm perfectly fine with spirituality. Albert Einstein himself was intensely spiritual, or so I've heard. What I dislike are those annoying people, no matter who they are, who try to force their opinions on me, no matter what those are, without and back up other than "God said it's so" or "because it is".
Yes, I am too cheap to buy books.
I think you just described Open Battle Net.
And then, of course, you have to pay for it by the computon. And everyone's happy. Except you. But who cares about you? The big important companies are all nice and bloated on your money, so you can go screw yourself.
Actually, all you need to look at for evidence of old comet impacts is the Gulf of Mexico. That one must have been a doozy.
However, this is taking place in Germany. Germany, if you will note the name, is not America. Laws are different there. Exactly how different, I'm not sure, but I'd assume that they are different enough that this is not a suicidal attack on SCO. I doubt these Germans are stupid enough to start something like this if they can't carry through with it. At least, I hope so. Otherwise, I fear for their history teachers.
Those buggers can kill humans, not to mention chew through plastic.
There should be no problem with the normal varieties that don't break out and carry off young children.
The only problem is getting buses that small.
If it were Unix, the ants would all ignore anything unexpected, even if that meant walking into it repeatedly.
Psh. Sleep. What a waste of time.
Not that it matters, really.
They didn't.
Unfortunately, pretty much all cheaters could be eradicated if there was an admin paying attention. What servers really need to be cheat free is to have a high admin/player ratio, which is generally undoable due to lack of trust between people who haven't met in real life.
Essentially, we're going to be cursed with cheaters until more people are trustworthy and unlikely to abuse their powers. This will happen as soon as George W. Bush stops looking like a monkey.
People with admin priveleges can turn cheats on or off in their server. Indeed, there're a few cheats that only work in Multiplayer, such as the double-sided lightsabre.
(Is it sabre or saber? I know one is British or something and the other is American. I use sabre becuase it looks cooler.)
Counter-Strike isn't that good. I doubt anything would be.
I'm fairly certain that Ogg is from Netrek, but the only other place I've seen the name "Vorbis" is in Terry Pratchett's Small Gods.