3) Because you need to keep protecting your IP or risk setting precedent that you are OK with people stealing your IP
This is only true for trademarks. It is not true for copyrights and patents, which are entirely different both from trademarks and from each other!
Additionally, there is no such thing as "intellectual property." There are patents, copyrights and trademarks, each of which are entirely different things and none of which are property!
Trying to use the term "intellectual property" to describe anything is exactly like using the term "fruit" to describe the cereal, beef jerky and bleach I have in my pantry. Do you see how absurd it is now?
You should read some of my posts, because I actually have said it. Here's the executive summary:
(Please try to consider the following from a layperson's or "common-sense" perspective, rather than a lawyer's one.)
Copyright exists only at the whim of Congress (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution allows Congress to "promote... progress" by creating copyright, but does not require it to do so). In contrast, the ownership of property is a fundamental right.
The purpose of the afore-mentioned clause is explicitly to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts," not to create a new property right.
Copyright expires. Genuine property rights don't.
Intellectual works are fundamentally different from physical goods because their value is created by sharing and duplicating them. Property has inherent value, and can (or in many cases, must) only be used by one "owner" at a time. In contrast, an idea has no value if it is never communicated to anyone else!
Because of this, I have to conclude that copyright is not, in fact, a property right. Therefore, I take issue with your use of "owner" and "property" in the quotation above.
Now, if you rephrased that to say "I have not seen any one saying there is something 'wrong with a copyright music holder protecting their government-granted monopoly'" then that would be different.
For what it's worth, I'm not certain there are any US laws prohibiting spoofing of caller ID data (which isn't to say there aren't any)
They solicit you on your CELLULAR PHONE, which is blatantly illegal whether the caller ID is spoofed or not!
you can always play along as a highly interested customer (i.e. a sucker) in order to get more information. Pretend you're ready to make a transaction with them, getting the name of the person you're speaking to, name of the company, say you want to call him/her back at a more convenient time, etc.
I've tried it -- you can't. They absolutely refuse to give you any information whatsoever unless they have your bank details first (and who knows, they may not even cooperate then!).
Can you tell I'm pissed off about this kind of shit too?
I would assume they'd write a Direct3D/OpenGL driver for it, just like they do with their graphics cards. That's what it is: a graphics card without the card. I would also hope that they'd provide an OpenCL compiler too, of course.
When the speed limit is 50, they do indeed design the road for 60. However, I would think that 60 would be the speed you'd go to just barely not hit the preceding red light, not to avoid the following yellow.
Perhaps the lights are actually timed for the opposite direction, and it's just a coincidence that the frequency sort-of works out for your direction?
As a civil engineering student, I took a course that (among other things) taught me how to design traffic signal timing. I learned two surprising things:
how hard it is to time the lights to give all traffic movements an acceptable level of service (especially if you can't add new lanes), and
how poorly designed some of the intersections around here are.
I think the root problem is that good transportation engineers are few and far in between (probably because a lot of people who went into transportation did so because structural engineering was too hard).
Firefox as an "awesome bar"? Is that like a spacebar, but it makes things awesome?
It's the new address bar. It's supposed to have better autocomplete or something, and the drop-down displays the cached HTML title of the page in addition to the URL. I think it would be better named the "not-that-much-better-than-the-old-bar," but that's just me.
However, changing the game to incorporate Radeon-style parallel pipelines is a different story.
Bingo! What AMD really needs is a Radeon co-processor that sits in an AM3 socket and talks to the rest of the system over HyperTransport. I sure as heck would go buy me a dual-socket board for that, and a Phenom 2 to go with it!
The Athlon (I assume you mean the Athlon 64, the older athlons were a bit...hot...and prone to melting if the heatsink failed) was never a "decent" Chip, per se, it just so happens that netburst was shit and AMD happened to get more things right than they usually do.
I had an Athlon 500Mhz (the oldest, slowest, first one they ever made -- it was back when AMD was just jumping on that fad of putting the chip on a slot instead of a socket). First of all, this was before NetBurst, so it was competing against P3s, not P4s. Second, it was better than the P3. I know this because if the P3 had been better, I would have gotten it instead. The K6-2s were the last "not decent" chips AMD made.
And it also did not run hot. A few years later, when I was finally upgrading the graphics card (from a TNT2 to a GeForce 3), I noticed that I had never even plugged in the CPU fan! It had run perfectly well passively-cooled that whole time!
A metal wire every 15 centimeter seems a bit ridiculous
No it doesn't; chain link fences and chicken wire are both smaller than that.
(oh and there is obviously a difference between Christians and hippies, for starters the fact that Christians actually have a purpose and generally act very sensibly)
No more so than hippies, really. Christians just have more social inertia.
but the problem is that most genres need you to be able to control the direction and movement of the character, and if you want to achieve this you either lose the benefit of aiming with the wiimote, or end up with a complex control system which looses the benefit of the wiimote entirely.
That's what the "nunchuk" (which includes a thumb joystick) is for.
I bet it works the same way as exercise: if you do a lot of sprints, you'll build fast-twitch muscles and become better at sprinting, while if you do marathons you'll instead build slow-twitch muscles and become better at marathon-running. Similarly, concentrating on one thing for a long time makes you better at concentrating while multitasking makes you better at multitasking.
I don't think this is all that revolutionary of a concept, by the way...
Intellectual property is a tough subject but when it comes down to it I have two choices:
1) Support people for the work they produce, in doing so having to agree to the rules they apply to the transaction
2) Not support them and not get the benefits of their creativity.
No, you only have to agree to the rules that they have the right to impose. Rules that they do not have the right to impose do not have to be agreed with!
If I purchase/license something from someone
Purchase or license, which is it? You can't write them with a slash like that as if they were the same, because they're very different things (and that's a big part of my point)!
Essentially, you've already lost the argument because you demonstrated that you don't understand this crucial difference.
Let me spell it out for you: if you're purchasing the item, then they can't impose extra conditions on the transaction. And if you're licensing the item, then it requires the actual signing of a contract and is conducted differently than a sale (where you simply exchange money for the goods or services, using only the implied contract of the Uniform Commercial Code).
So, are you talking about a license or a purchase? You can't have it both ways!
Exactly! For example, the application needs to support Services, Mac keyboard shortcuts, and (here's the biggie) Applescript & Automator. I don't think there's any way to do that without writing Mac-specific code!
I've noticed that too. I find it helps to search for Mac Free Software rather than merely "freeware" -- there's a lot more of the former than the latter, and if you look for the latter you end up finding shareware (crippleware or nagware) instead.
But hey, if you're going for that angle, target Mac users because they spend more money and are grateful for any decent games, and target Linux users because they might buy one just to up the Linux stats.
The way I see it, you should target Mac users because they'll pay for software, and target Linux users because you might as well since you already made your software cross-platform to get the Mac users! Games do not need to have different code between the Mac and Linux versions; they can standard stuff like OpenGL, SDL, and POSIX. (Don't try it with applications though, since Mac users won't tolerate non-native UIs!)
And if the government is funding your research, why should the profits go to you personally, rather than to the community at large (perhaps through better-funded universities profiting from patents)?
They shouldn't go to you. They also shouldn't go to the university! Since they are funded by the government, they should be public domain!
The fact that there are good reasons for it doesn't make it any less of an arbitrary distinction. From a strict constructionist point of view, requiring licensing for operating motor vehicles really is unconstitutional. Not that it matters, of course; Congress "gets around" that (as with everything else) using the elastic and interstate commerce clauses.
By the way, it's only operating a motor vehicle on public roads that is a privilege; I have the right to drive a vehicle on private property all I want, whether I have a license or not, as long as I have permission from the property owner.
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I don't run a datacenter, but I sure would like to get rid of the power bricks that all small electronic appliances seem to come with these days!
This is only true for trademarks. It is not true for copyrights and patents, which are entirely different both from trademarks and from each other!
Additionally, there is no such thing as "intellectual property." There are patents, copyrights and trademarks, each of which are entirely different things and none of which are property!
Trying to use the term "intellectual property" to describe anything is exactly like using the term "fruit" to describe the cereal, beef jerky and bleach I have in my pantry. Do you see how absurd it is now?
You should read some of my posts, because I actually have said it. Here's the executive summary:
(Please try to consider the following from a layperson's or "common-sense" perspective, rather than a lawyer's one.)
Because of this, I have to conclude that copyright is not, in fact, a property right. Therefore, I take issue with your use of "owner" and "property" in the quotation above.
Now, if you rephrased that to say "I have not seen any one saying there is something 'wrong with a copyright music holder protecting their government-granted monopoly'" then that would be different.
They solicit you on your CELLULAR PHONE, which is blatantly illegal whether the caller ID is spoofed or not!
I've tried it -- you can't. They absolutely refuse to give you any information whatsoever unless they have your bank details first (and who knows, they may not even cooperate then!).
Can you tell I'm pissed off about this kind of shit too?
Fine. Why not VMWare (or equivalent)?
Yeah, but I'm waiting for them to finally make it.
I would assume they'd write a Direct3D/OpenGL driver for it, just like they do with their graphics cards. That's what it is: a graphics card without the card. I would also hope that they'd provide an OpenCL compiler too, of course.
Hey, I'm in Atlanta. I guarantee we have plenty of horrible intersections to look at locally!
When the speed limit is 50, they do indeed design the road for 60. However, I would think that 60 would be the speed you'd go to just barely not hit the preceding red light, not to avoid the following yellow.
Perhaps the lights are actually timed for the opposite direction, and it's just a coincidence that the frequency sort-of works out for your direction?
As a civil engineering student, I took a course that (among other things) taught me how to design traffic signal timing. I learned two surprising things:
I think the root problem is that good transportation engineers are few and far in between (probably because a lot of people who went into transportation did so because structural engineering was too hard).
It's the new address bar. It's supposed to have better autocomplete or something, and the drop-down displays the cached HTML title of the page in addition to the URL. I think it would be better named the "not-that-much-better-than-the-old-bar," but that's just me.
Bingo! What AMD really needs is a Radeon co-processor that sits in an AM3 socket and talks to the rest of the system over HyperTransport. I sure as heck would go buy me a dual-socket board for that, and a Phenom 2 to go with it!
I had an Athlon 500Mhz (the oldest, slowest, first one they ever made -- it was back when AMD was just jumping on that fad of putting the chip on a slot instead of a socket). First of all, this was before NetBurst, so it was competing against P3s, not P4s. Second, it was better than the P3. I know this because if the P3 had been better, I would have gotten it instead. The K6-2s were the last "not decent" chips AMD made.
And it also did not run hot. A few years later, when I was finally upgrading the graphics card (from a TNT2 to a GeForce 3), I noticed that I had never even plugged in the CPU fan! It had run perfectly well passively-cooled that whole time!
No it doesn't; chain link fences and chicken wire are both smaller than that.
No more so than hippies, really. Christians just have more social inertia.
That's what the "nunchuk" (which includes a thumb joystick) is for.
I bet it works the same way as exercise: if you do a lot of sprints, you'll build fast-twitch muscles and become better at sprinting, while if you do marathons you'll instead build slow-twitch muscles and become better at marathon-running. Similarly, concentrating on one thing for a long time makes you better at concentrating while multitasking makes you better at multitasking.
I don't think this is all that revolutionary of a concept, by the way...
No, you only have to agree to the rules that they have the right to impose. Rules that they do not have the right to impose do not have to be agreed with!
Purchase or license, which is it? You can't write them with a slash like that as if they were the same, because they're very different things (and that's a big part of my point)!
Essentially, you've already lost the argument because you demonstrated that you don't understand this crucial difference.
Let me spell it out for you: if you're purchasing the item, then they can't impose extra conditions on the transaction. And if you're licensing the item, then it requires the actual signing of a contract and is conducted differently than a sale (where you simply exchange money for the goods or services, using only the implied contract of the Uniform Commercial Code).
So, are you talking about a license or a purchase? You can't have it both ways!
And so the Amtrak cop's only remedy is to remove him from the train platform, not demand that he delete the photos!
Oh right -- good point! I should have realized that myself. I guess that's what happens when I post in the middle of the night...
You use OpenGL for the graphics. SDL is for sound etc., and is fast enough for that.
Exactly! For example, the application needs to support Services, Mac keyboard shortcuts, and (here's the biggie) Applescript & Automator. I don't think there's any way to do that without writing Mac-specific code!
That's what I said -- search for Free Software.
I've noticed that too. I find it helps to search for Mac Free Software rather than merely "freeware" -- there's a lot more of the former than the latter, and if you look for the latter you end up finding shareware (crippleware or nagware) instead.
The way I see it, you should target Mac users because they'll pay for software, and target Linux users because you might as well since you already made your software cross-platform to get the Mac users! Games do not need to have different code between the Mac and Linux versions; they can standard stuff like OpenGL, SDL, and POSIX. (Don't try it with applications though, since Mac users won't tolerate non-native UIs!)
They shouldn't go to you. They also shouldn't go to the university! Since they are funded by the government, they should be public domain!
The fact that there are good reasons for it doesn't make it any less of an arbitrary distinction. From a strict constructionist point of view, requiring licensing for operating motor vehicles really is unconstitutional. Not that it matters, of course; Congress "gets around" that (as with everything else) using the elastic and interstate commerce clauses.
By the way, it's only operating a motor vehicle on public roads that is a privilege; I have the right to drive a vehicle on private property all I want, whether I have a license or not, as long as I have permission from the property owner.