No, only games that are perceived to make large amounts of money are made. Better yet, the treadmill games like World of Warcraft, Everquest, and like games with X$/month are made preferential over others.
And also console games are made. What a waste if you cant upgrade them and make content for them (and no, DRM does not count, ask those xboxers).
Ill look at your games if the following occurs..
Cheap - 30$ or so, you compete with movies and music... both of which can be easily gotten for free Extensible - Do I expect you all to create new content for free? Nope. But I want to. And I want my friends able to do so. Console Server - Most do, games like Dawn of War dont, and they suck. We went away from them cause of that. No cd checks - Hmm... If I pay, im treated like a criminal. If I dl from Piratebay, its cracked. If you treat me like a criminal, ill be damned sure to act like one. Easy multiplayer Spawn - Just like TA, 1 minute install to get user up and running. No BS. Just play. Creators Have private server for paying customers - Just like Q3A, private lan can play with no serials. Wanna play on OUR servers? Then pay for it, downloader.
And after all this time, UT and TA get the most play time wise. That's why.
Yah, we play games we all can enjoy, mainly RTSes and FPSes. We all use laptops, so we gravitate on the lowest common denominator. That and TA now has unofficial support for 5000 units per player... We have had wars on 64x64 maps with 30000 units at one time. Meh to Supreme Commander and its onerous graphics and cpu requirements.
And no, We dont like GoldenEye much. We all agree that we hate Do-ya-blow with a passion, and never played MoO (read about it).
Magic is one of our favorites though. They like to play "Kill the guy with the Stasis or Megrim deck..." and thats me. As taken from Gauntlet: Blue Mage Is About To Die.
I guess it is, but I didn't see Maus as a "comic". I saw it much more as a literary commentary on the effects of discrimination and hate.
I have that misconception that comics have to be about superheroes and villains and whatnot. And, Maus was required reading for our high school elective class studying Jewish history. I'm not Jewish, but it was a fascinating class. We were going to have a guest speaker who survived the death camps, but he was too frail to do so... That portion of our history is literally dying.
Games are the funnest when you can get with a bunch of friends. No, not over the net, but in real life. We all get together, get some fun games and play for hours. Here's some what we play:
Unreal Tournament original Total Annihilation Starcraft Super Smash Bros - emulated Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (and similar 2player fight sims) Quake3 Magic The Gathering (yes, card game, but crazy fun) AD&D ed 3.0 - when we have enough people Wii multiplayer games - Best when we drink, the games get craAAaazy!
It's fun when you're with friends. Other wise, it's all just grind. And that ain't fun.
Both extremes are bad for you. Keeping completely away from mobiles also keep you from your friends and family. Also, bathing yourselves in continual RF isn't exactly healthy either.
The FCC has guidelines on acceptable RF radiation exposure, as per frequency. Frequencies in the cell phone bands do not seem to show ionizing effects, however do show heating effects.
These days, the PEP wattage from standard mobile phones aren't high at all, compared to the older phones from the analog era. I have an emergency mobile that powers itself on the 12vdc car mains. It is a 5W phone. Yes, 5 watts. I've communicated with the ISS with 2W, on a handheld.
However, playing with higher frequency, non-ionizing wattage makes me fear one real thing: cataracts. I knew a ham who was near an EME array when it was accidentally powered on. He received insta-cataracts in the way one would cook an egg. The egg whites are akin to the aqueous tissues in the eye, and congeal the similar way, as the eye has no real way to conduct heat away. It is also why being near an opened microwave is dangerous: cooking your skin makes it hot, but you cook your eyes.
Fortunately, he was able to have them repaired by an eye surgeon. This is what I most fear from constant mobile exposure, over a long term. However, I do acknowledge that the FCC is on the safe side of PEP calculations. I'm safe around my 100W rigs, as is everybody else.
I only used the "Friend in the car" as an example of distracted driving.
It matters not if you are eating, talking on the mobile, using the computer, reading a magazine/newspaper, or what have you.
All show signs that complete concentration are not being used for driving. When we're using directly controlled missiles with 3 sicks of dynamite of energy in them, we need our best concentration.
I also remember what the original "Cell phones cause Cancer" was about: somebody called the Larry King show about them being diagnosed with a brain tumor after using the mobile many hours per day. One anecdote lead to mass hysteria about RF and cancer.
True, but isn't that defeated by application of a dark field mask (or at least crippled)?
Dark field definition: Take a photo with lens cap on, then observe the image file of what should be black. One will see spots of colors in which the CCD triggers at defective locations. One can apply as a negative filter to all images proceeding the dark-field image so have better appropriate colors.
Firstly, there is no such thing as "intellectual property". Those are my thoughts, and nobody owns them. There is copyright, patent, and trademark.
The copyright system was built upon a social contract: We'll encourage you to keep creating, and in exchange, we'll prevent free trade so only you can for a limited time.
That was it: a balancing act between everybody and the few. That has been perverted. We understand what this contract has turned in to, and the majority of our society has decided to declare the contract null and void. The answer: come back with a fair social contract that benefits inventors, artists, and such people, NOT the record companies and other predatory media companies that demand signatory of all copyright.
Regardless of legality, the people have spoken: We dont this copyright in what it is today. Come back with sane laws or else.
Well, anybody who bought this heaping pile of shit and didn't expect this kind of behavior to ensue deserves EVERY bit of it.
Look at MS's business plan... oh, thats right, they don't have one. At least not to Warren Buffet. Instead, they are determined to get into bed with every "content creation" company. It's called Writing On The Wall.
Consider the 200$ a learning experience in small claims. That's the only place you'll see any money.
Back in Jeffersons' time, company charters were only granted in terms of creation of a public works project (like building a bridge, or other gigantic structure).
It was only the scribing of a court reporter on a "off the cuff" comment a judge made after a court case. It was later seen as "part of the case", and corporations were considered a "person". Our current mega-corporations are a fluke in judicial "law".
Hmm.. intellectual property. What is it? Is it like that car? No? Oh, it must be like land.. What, it isn't?
I know about copyrights too. They were originally were 20 or so years at most. They aren't anymore, and are extended when the time "runs out" on them. That's not part of the "limited" we read in the Constitution.
I also know about patents. My pops has a bunch of them, and they're for neat inventions on vehicle systems. The company he works for only has 17 or so years for sole profitability. After that, anybody can use them.
I also know about trademarks. They're used to differentiate brands. Having unique names for special goods also allows us to apply blame if we need so.
---That said, is it honest to take Intellectual Property (songs, tv shows, books, and other) that is copyrighted and not offered by the owner for free? It surely is NOT.
I like this statement. Many people here are in the USA, and we need jobs to make money to prosper. However, the "media" jobs are the only group of people that demand to get paid for their works far past the actual action of creation. Everybody else needs to continue doing X actions (however simple or complex) to get paid. Tell me: Is it fair to pay your lawyer 10 years, 20 years, or 50 years from now for that law suit you filed in the 80's?
The Constitution was a bargain: Make new stuff, and you can profit on it for a limited time. That promise has been broken. What makes "content creators" so special in that they deserve special protections when the rest of us doesn't need to rely upon them?
---That Linux and other programs are offered by their owners, are valuable, and give value to the user are free, doesn't mean that we can ignore the wishes of the owners of Intellectual Property that do NOT choose to offer it without cost.
You need to talk about the specific license, the GPL, if that is the license you talk about. Go read Stallman's manifesto on which the intent of the GPL was made. Its intent is to create a system in which everybody shared content in a pool that was freely used. Since we had no system to represent that kind of idea, he re-created public domain with the exception that content in the new domain would stay, and be additive.
I see this akin to the way Newton said the he built The Calculus upon the shoulders of giants.
---I NEVER download songs. I rip them, yes, because I have the legal right (despite RIIA's assertions to the contrary) to do so. (Again, that is a personal opinion, not a legal opinion.)
Is it a legal right, or a legal opinion?
Do you fail to understand the absurdity of our system that is in place? I do, and understand that it will fail. However, I am a catalyst. I show others on how to obtain anything. Yes, anything. OS specific software, games for the computer and consoles, internal corporate software, music, movies, you name it. I need not give anybody one bit (yes, literal 1/8 of a byte) of information, with the exception on the teachings of searching and uncovering what which has been lost. I will teach anybody this art of finding the old. It is one of my specialties, in which no college will teach, no professor will utter, no book will explain.
I do not value the protection of copyrights or patents in our current implementation, and will seek the end of them. Instead of obtaining terabytes upon terabytes of local storage, I rely upon the Internet and its associated networks for my storage, for it is all there as an ocean of knowledge, but only centimeters deep.
That's right. EE are the teachers of embedded discipline. We have to know algorithms from CS, pure mathematics (enough for a minor at least), physics of light/energy/magnetism (as like math, enough for a minor), circuit design, OS design in theory and practicality, and a bunch of other things.
All together, that's what an EE is. If it's not on fire, we can program it;D
And if you Linux/Unix platform as it was originally meant for, most of your library work is already done.
You build C programs to handle real data crunching, and bash scripts for data-passing. One has all of this running in console, and have a console hooked to a X program which simply passes GUI data. One can change the GUI without touching the engine, and likewise.
Unlike Windows, where one doesn't know exactly what the system is doing, hence we require trials and testing. In Linux, we know what does what, so programming there is no surprise.
And if I require, I can build "bare metal" interfaces. The kernel is open, unlike Windows. That, and building modules for a monolithic-modular kernel is simpler than a microkernel-like arch Windows has.
My dad is an EE, and does embedded work for vehicle systems. My granddad was an EE, and did the early work on embedded missile guidance systems. He was a ham operator also.
I'm also a ham operator, program in C fluently, and have a knack for getting electronics to do what it wasn't intended for.
I'm going for my EE at IUPUI. I'm also learning Japanese, and also working on my commercial FCC license.
My plan: there's a large amount of Japanese factories located here (Columbus, IN), and I have connections with a few of them. There was recently a job offering (60k embedded EE, 1-2 yrs exp) that one would go to Japan for. I'd jump on that, if I could. Also, with the spectrum opening, equipment implementation will happen roughly when I get done. Either way, I'm going to be making a "livable" wage;)
If I could travel abroad, I would. We only have one life. I'm going to make mine fun.
And I would fault your wife for not growing a backbone.
If she said that she didn't know what happened, and everybody except the ME was lying, then the only logical answer is to find not guilty.
Each person has veto power to a judgment in a court case: that's why there is 12 members of the jury. We hope we get one who is sane and honest and won't let bad stuff go through.
Instead, the jury probably felt that enough time has passed and they didn't want to think of it any more... "Just vote guilty so we can go back to our lives." Shameful.
I would be embarrassed to have a wife like that... to know that she is completely responsible for the imprisonment of a fellow person. It takes 12 to find guilty, only 1 to acquit.
I'm from a rural county in Indiana, and I was recently chosen for the second quarter of this year for the jury pool.
I await to see if there's any crimes that aren't settled before court takes place. After reading here, I can't say that I expect to much. However, what does give me hope is that our county is extremely political, in that they do seem to read a lot of happenings in our county government. The weekly paper and its 2 pages of opinions from readers shows that to be true.
What I do know is I'll be the hellish juror: I won't stop to think of deadlocking a jury if there's no evidence, or bad circumstantial at best. The higher the crime, the more proof I need. You want me to sit on a death penalty trial? Sure. Better have some damned good proof, else I'll jam up your works.
As the old saying goes, I'd rather let 9 guilty people go free than imprison 1 innocent, but I'd take responsibility of letting them go free myself. We jurors are the highest means to acquit, and even nullify laws (I dare not say that in court though). I do not take my responsibility lightly.
1. I hold the (copyright/patent) on this idea. 2. The allowance of these rights are extended to everybody in any country, regardless of motive or profit. 3. There is no royalty or cost in using them, by themselves, or in derivative works. 4. This allowance of rights is unrevokable, and will exist as long as this work is protected by said rights. 5. The purpose of this license is to mimic the Public Domain in locales in which it is not expressly allowed. 6. In countries in which there is no public domain, I give everybody a non-transferable license to use my works royalty free, for infinite duration.
Unlike software, we do NOT have the means to implement a project on OpenCores. If you happen to work in a business or university setting in which you do have limited time, then you possibly can... but that's not the most of us. The majority of people do have the ability to download a compiler for free, and write/use software.
In order to use the big guy's tools, we need to entice them to do so: and that means profits. If they are public domained, it reduces cost and liability on these companies, in which they will want to use our plans to create new goods.
Take a look at another post I did here to understand my viewpoint on this topic.
That viewpoint will approach the FSF the faster we can take "instructions" and make any arbitrary objects in the convenience of our own home, with given raw materials.
Not that I agree with this idea, but Communism put forth by Marx says that the people should own the means to manufacture.
When it comes to software, one can write, and many can gain. Considering that we have free OSes, free compilers, and free testing kits says that the people DO have the means now. That there is communism, as according to Karl Marx. No rights are trampled on, nobody thrown in gulags. In fact, the FSF tries to keep a civil tone when dealing with GPL-breaking companies and approach compliance with a stern, but nice tone.
When this idea comes to hardware (and other objects) we have the problem... How do we take instructions to make an X so that we can all use them? We need a lot of industrial equipment (compilers, if you will) that take an idea and instructions to a real tangible object. How much does an injection molder cost? How much does metal presses cost? How much do chip fabs cost?
Yeah, they're that expensive. A company will pay millions per machine that may have one purpose, and will have 3 of these machines for their business. They then ship their output to another company for more processing and machining, as they were just one step through the industrial process.
Communism work when the means of production is free, and modification is free. It does not work when there is many vertical industries with multi-millions in equipment that the citizens do not have access to.
In that case, the most sensible approach is to entice companies to take our schematics and take them through production. They will have high profits at first, but competition via no barriers of entry (no patents or copyright on said work) will allow multiple entrants. This idea hinges that as many compete, profits approach cost. The end result: we people benefit.
Software is different. It can be copied without detriment. The modifying of one can benefit many.
Hardware like ASICs (NOT fpga's) requires rather specialized equipment. Even etched boards are expensive unless one has them mass-produced.
When it comes to hardware, there is rather high climb to approach industrial standards. Having them use their industrial methods to leverage our technology is just smart. I sure couldn't afford a 100 nm fab by myself, or with a group of friends.
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No, only games that are perceived to make large amounts of money are made. Better yet, the treadmill games like World of Warcraft, Everquest, and like games with X$/month are made preferential over others.
And also console games are made. What a waste if you cant upgrade them and make content for them (and no, DRM does not count, ask those xboxers).
Ill look at your games if the following occurs..
Cheap - 30$ or so, you compete with movies and music... both of which can be easily gotten for free
Extensible - Do I expect you all to create new content for free? Nope. But I want to. And I want my friends able to do so.
Console Server - Most do, games like Dawn of War dont, and they suck. We went away from them cause of that.
No cd checks - Hmm... If I pay, im treated like a criminal. If I dl from Piratebay, its cracked. If you treat me like a criminal, ill be damned sure to act like one.
Easy multiplayer Spawn - Just like TA, 1 minute install to get user up and running. No BS. Just play.
Creators Have private server for paying customers - Just like Q3A, private lan can play with no serials. Wanna play on OUR servers? Then pay for it, downloader.
And after all this time, UT and TA get the most play time wise. That's why.
Yah, we play games we all can enjoy, mainly RTSes and FPSes. We all use laptops, so we gravitate on the lowest common denominator. That and TA now has unofficial support for 5000 units per player... We have had wars on 64x64 maps with 30000 units at one time. Meh to Supreme Commander and its onerous graphics and cpu requirements.
And no, We dont like GoldenEye much. We all agree that we hate Do-ya-blow with a passion, and never played MoO (read about it).
Magic is one of our favorites though. They like to play "Kill the guy with the Stasis or Megrim deck..." and thats me. As taken from Gauntlet: Blue Mage Is About To Die.
I guess it is, but I didn't see Maus as a "comic". I saw it much more as a literary commentary on the effects of discrimination and hate.
I have that misconception that comics have to be about superheroes and villains and whatnot. And, Maus was required reading for our high school elective class studying Jewish history. I'm not Jewish, but it was a fascinating class. We were going to have a guest speaker who survived the death camps, but he was too frail to do so... That portion of our history is literally dying.
Games are the funnest when you can get with a bunch of friends. No, not over the net, but in real life. We all get together, get some fun games and play for hours. Here's some what we play:
Unreal Tournament original
Total Annihilation
Starcraft
Super Smash Bros - emulated
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (and similar 2player fight sims)
Quake3
Magic The Gathering (yes, card game, but crazy fun)
AD&D ed 3.0 - when we have enough people
Wii multiplayer games - Best when we drink, the games get craAAaazy!
It's fun when you're with friends. Other wise, it's all just grind. And that ain't fun.
That most assuredly depends on what kind of friend you have. Somebody fooling around or doing stupid actions would assuredly be worse.
My original question was making the connection to distracted driving: what difference is there in a conversation over a phone vs. in person?
Both extremes are bad for you. Keeping completely away from mobiles also keep you from your friends and family. Also, bathing yourselves in continual RF isn't exactly healthy either.
The FCC has guidelines on acceptable RF radiation exposure, as per frequency. Frequencies in the cell phone bands do not seem to show ionizing effects, however do show heating effects.
These days, the PEP wattage from standard mobile phones aren't high at all, compared to the older phones from the analog era. I have an emergency mobile that powers itself on the 12vdc car mains. It is a 5W phone. Yes, 5 watts. I've communicated with the ISS with 2W, on a handheld.
However, playing with higher frequency, non-ionizing wattage makes me fear one real thing: cataracts. I knew a ham who was near an EME array when it was accidentally powered on. He received insta-cataracts in the way one would cook an egg. The egg whites are akin to the aqueous tissues in the eye, and congeal the similar way, as the eye has no real way to conduct heat away. It is also why being near an opened microwave is dangerous: cooking your skin makes it hot, but you cook your eyes.
Fortunately, he was able to have them repaired by an eye surgeon. This is what I most fear from constant mobile exposure, over a long term. However, I do acknowledge that the FCC is on the safe side of PEP calculations. I'm safe around my 100W rigs, as is everybody else.
I only used the "Friend in the car" as an example of distracted driving.
It matters not if you are eating, talking on the mobile, using the computer, reading a magazine/newspaper, or what have you.
All show signs that complete concentration are not being used for driving. When we're using directly controlled missiles with 3 sicks of dynamite of energy in them, we need our best concentration.
I also remember what the original "Cell phones cause Cancer" was about: somebody called the Larry King show about them being diagnosed with a brain tumor after using the mobile many hours per day. One anecdote lead to mass hysteria about RF and cancer.
How does talking on a mobile compare to having a friend in the car next to you, while talking?
True, but isn't that defeated by application of a dark field mask (or at least crippled)?
Dark field definition: Take a photo with lens cap on, then observe the image file of what should be black. One will see spots of colors in which the CCD triggers at defective locations. One can apply as a negative filter to all images proceeding the dark-field image so have better appropriate colors.
That's because there are no such things as the anthropomorphic software "bug" that creeps in to your system at night and takes up residence.
There is no bug.
However, there is an error. A programmer made your program, and in doing so, he made an error in his logic which he did not fix.
Would you let something supposedly of high quality be released if it was full of errors? But there's just a few bugs in it...
It's much simpler than that.
Firstly, there is no such thing as "intellectual property". Those are my thoughts, and nobody owns them. There is copyright, patent, and trademark.
The copyright system was built upon a social contract: We'll encourage you to keep creating, and in exchange, we'll prevent free trade so only you can for a limited time.
That was it: a balancing act between everybody and the few. That has been perverted. We understand what this contract has turned in to, and the majority of our society has decided to declare the contract null and void. The answer: come back with a fair social contract that benefits inventors, artists, and such people, NOT the record companies and other predatory media companies that demand signatory of all copyright.
Regardless of legality, the people have spoken: We dont this copyright in what it is today. Come back with sane laws or else.
Well, anybody who bought this heaping pile of shit and didn't expect this kind of behavior to ensue deserves EVERY bit of it.
Look at MS's business plan... oh, thats right, they don't have one. At least not to Warren Buffet. Instead, they are determined to get into bed with every "content creation" company. It's called Writing On The Wall.
Consider the 200$ a learning experience in small claims. That's the only place you'll see any money.
Not if Hawking was right.
Then it will be "bl0wz3rs".
Back in Jeffersons' time, company charters were only granted in terms of creation of a public works project (like building a bridge, or other gigantic structure).
It was only the scribing of a court reporter on a "off the cuff" comment a judge made after a court case. It was later seen as "part of the case", and corporations were considered a "person". Our current mega-corporations are a fluke in judicial "law".
Hmm.. intellectual property. What is it? Is it like that car? No? Oh, it must be like land.. What, it isn't?
I know about copyrights too. They were originally were 20 or so years at most. They aren't anymore, and are extended when the time "runs out" on them. That's not part of the "limited" we read in the Constitution.
I also know about patents. My pops has a bunch of them, and they're for neat inventions on vehicle systems. The company he works for only has 17 or so years for sole profitability. After that, anybody can use them.
I also know about trademarks. They're used to differentiate brands. Having unique names for special goods also allows us to apply blame if we need so.
---That said, is it honest to take Intellectual Property (songs, tv shows, books, and other) that is copyrighted and not offered by the owner for free? It surely is NOT.
I like this statement. Many people here are in the USA, and we need jobs to make money to prosper. However, the "media" jobs are the only group of people that demand to get paid for their works far past the actual action of creation. Everybody else needs to continue doing X actions (however simple or complex) to get paid. Tell me: Is it fair to pay your lawyer 10 years, 20 years, or 50 years from now for that law suit you filed in the 80's?
The Constitution was a bargain: Make new stuff, and you can profit on it for a limited time. That promise has been broken. What makes "content creators" so special in that they deserve special protections when the rest of us doesn't need to rely upon them?
---That Linux and other programs are offered by their owners, are valuable, and give value to the user are free, doesn't mean that we can ignore the wishes of the owners of Intellectual Property that do NOT choose to offer it without cost.
You need to talk about the specific license, the GPL, if that is the license you talk about. Go read Stallman's manifesto on which the intent of the GPL was made. Its intent is to create a system in which everybody shared content in a pool that was freely used. Since we had no system to represent that kind of idea, he re-created public domain with the exception that content in the new domain would stay, and be additive.
I see this akin to the way Newton said the he built The Calculus upon the shoulders of giants.
---I NEVER download songs. I rip them, yes, because I have the legal right (despite RIIA's assertions to the contrary) to do so. (Again, that is a personal opinion, not a legal opinion.)
Is it a legal right, or a legal opinion?
Do you fail to understand the absurdity of our system that is in place? I do, and understand that it will fail. However, I am a catalyst. I show others on how to obtain anything. Yes, anything. OS specific software, games for the computer and consoles, internal corporate software, music, movies, you name it. I need not give anybody one bit (yes, literal 1/8 of a byte) of information, with the exception on the teachings of searching and uncovering what which has been lost. I will teach anybody this art of finding the old. It is one of my specialties, in which no college will teach, no professor will utter, no book will explain.
I do not value the protection of copyrights or patents in our current implementation, and will seek the end of them. Instead of obtaining terabytes upon terabytes of local storage, I rely upon the Internet and its associated networks for my storage, for it is all there as an ocean of knowledge, but only centimeters deep.
That's right. EE are the teachers of embedded discipline. We have to know algorithms from CS, pure mathematics (enough for a minor at least), physics of light/energy/magnetism (as like math, enough for a minor), circuit design, OS design in theory and practicality, and a bunch of other things.
;D
All together, that's what an EE is. If it's not on fire, we can program it
And if you Linux/Unix platform as it was originally meant for, most of your library work is already done.
You build C programs to handle real data crunching, and bash scripts for data-passing. One has all of this running in console, and have a console hooked to a X program which simply passes GUI data. One can change the GUI without touching the engine, and likewise.
Unlike Windows, where one doesn't know exactly what the system is doing, hence we require trials and testing. In Linux, we know what does what, so programming there is no surprise.
And if I require, I can build "bare metal" interfaces. The kernel is open, unlike Windows. That, and building modules for a monolithic-modular kernel is simpler than a microkernel-like arch Windows has.
That's what I rejoined school for.
;)
My dad is an EE, and does embedded work for vehicle systems.
My granddad was an EE, and did the early work on embedded missile guidance systems. He was a ham operator also.
I'm also a ham operator, program in C fluently, and have a knack for getting electronics to do what it wasn't intended for.
I'm going for my EE at IUPUI. I'm also learning Japanese, and also working on my commercial FCC license.
My plan: there's a large amount of Japanese factories located here (Columbus, IN), and I have connections with a few of them. There was recently a job offering (60k embedded EE, 1-2 yrs exp) that one would go to Japan for. I'd jump on that, if I could. Also, with the spectrum opening, equipment implementation will happen roughly when I get done. Either way, I'm going to be making a "livable" wage
If I could travel abroad, I would. We only have one life. I'm going to make mine fun.
I found the link to the "Legitimate" upgrade.
Go here and save it to a CD. Then load it up and patch up Vista.
It'll run faster than you ever can believe! It's like Vista, only better!
And I would fault your wife for not growing a backbone.
If she said that she didn't know what happened, and everybody except the ME was lying, then the only logical answer is to find not guilty.
Each person has veto power to a judgment in a court case: that's why there is 12 members of the jury. We hope we get one who is sane and honest and won't let bad stuff go through.
Instead, the jury probably felt that enough time has passed and they didn't want to think of it any more... "Just vote guilty so we can go back to our lives." Shameful.
I would be embarrassed to have a wife like that... to know that she is completely responsible for the imprisonment of a fellow person. It takes 12 to find guilty, only 1 to acquit.
That's the same with me right now.
I'm from a rural county in Indiana, and I was recently chosen for the second quarter of this year for the jury pool.
I await to see if there's any crimes that aren't settled before court takes place. After reading here, I can't say that I expect to much. However, what does give me hope is that our county is extremely political, in that they do seem to read a lot of happenings in our county government. The weekly paper and its 2 pages of opinions from readers shows that to be true.
What I do know is I'll be the hellish juror: I won't stop to think of deadlocking a jury if there's no evidence, or bad circumstantial at best. The higher the crime, the more proof I need. You want me to sit on a death penalty trial? Sure. Better have some damned good proof, else I'll jam up your works.
As the old saying goes, I'd rather let 9 guilty people go free than imprison 1 innocent, but I'd take responsibility of letting them go free myself. We jurors are the highest means to acquit, and even nullify laws (I dare not say that in court though). I do not take my responsibility lightly.
How about this? How is it no different?
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1. I hold the (copyright/patent) on this idea.
2. The allowance of these rights are extended to everybody in any country, regardless of motive or profit.
3. There is no royalty or cost in using them, by themselves, or in derivative works.
4. This allowance of rights is unrevokable, and will exist as long as this work is protected by said rights.
5. The purpose of this license is to mimic the Public Domain in locales in which it is not expressly allowed.
6. In countries in which there is no public domain, I give everybody a non-transferable license to use my works royalty free, for infinite duration.
You fail to understand.
Unlike software, we do NOT have the means to implement a project on OpenCores. If you happen to work in a business or university setting in which you do have limited time, then you possibly can... but that's not the most of us. The majority of people do have the ability to download a compiler for free, and write/use software.
In order to use the big guy's tools, we need to entice them to do so: and that means profits. If they are public domained, it reduces cost and liability on these companies, in which they will want to use our plans to create new goods.
Take a look at another post I did here to understand my viewpoint on this topic.
That viewpoint will approach the FSF the faster we can take "instructions" and make any arbitrary objects in the convenience of our own home, with given raw materials.
Not that I agree with this idea, but Communism put forth by Marx says that the people should own the means to manufacture.
When it comes to software, one can write, and many can gain. Considering that we have free OSes, free compilers, and free testing kits says that the people DO have the means now. That there is communism, as according to Karl Marx. No rights are trampled on, nobody thrown in gulags. In fact, the FSF tries to keep a civil tone when dealing with GPL-breaking companies and approach compliance with a stern, but nice tone.
When this idea comes to hardware (and other objects) we have the problem... How do we take instructions to make an X so that we can all use them? We need a lot of industrial equipment (compilers, if you will) that take an idea and instructions to a real tangible object. How much does an injection molder cost? How much does metal presses cost? How much do chip fabs cost?
Yeah, they're that expensive. A company will pay millions per machine that may have one purpose, and will have 3 of these machines for their business. They then ship their output to another company for more processing and machining, as they were just one step through the industrial process.
Communism work when the means of production is free, and modification is free. It does not work when there is many vertical industries with multi-millions in equipment that the citizens do not have access to.
In that case, the most sensible approach is to entice companies to take our schematics and take them through production. They will have high profits at first, but competition via no barriers of entry (no patents or copyright on said work) will allow multiple entrants. This idea hinges that as many compete, profits approach cost. The end result: we people benefit.
Software is different. It can be copied without detriment. The modifying of one can benefit many.
Hardware like ASICs (NOT fpga's) requires rather specialized equipment. Even etched boards are expensive unless one has them mass-produced.
When it comes to hardware, there is rather high climb to approach industrial standards. Having them use their industrial methods to leverage our technology is just smart. I sure couldn't afford a 100 nm fab by myself, or with a group of friends.