Loonatics Unleashed... Ugh. That show hurts to watch. It's an insult to any fan of the hero team genre. I prefer having my hero teams done right, like in Cyborg 009.
More importantly, it's an insult to Looney Tunes! How the fuck did that show get a second season? Are kids today stupid and blind?!
"Although the show is set in the future the designs are founded in TOS, it is a throwback that is also looking forward," explains Rossi.
That makes no sense what-so-ever.
Picture the new Ford Mustang or a PT Cruiser -- that's how the Enterprise (or whatever ship they're using) will look. For the bridge, an orange handrail but no obsolete-looking-by-reality's-standards raised buttons would be my guess.
Deep Space Nine was more about politics than exploration. But in my opinion that's okay, because it still made good sci-fi (it was alien politics)! For example, they "explored" the ethical situation regarding the Tosk, the dichotomy between science and religion on Bajor, the drug dependence of the Jem'Hadar, biological warfare (Section 31 infecting the Founders with that disease), etc.
The entire content of the World Wide Web is in violation of my patent rights. E-mail me for the address to which you may send payments.
Oooh, too bad for you -- I've already patented the business method of "trolling for patent royalties via email." So yeah, just forward all those payments to me and I we'll call it even, eh?
So I can make a doorknob that looks a particular way, and since it's a physical object and not a play, song, book, whatever, it's not copyrightable
I would say it should be classified as "sculpture" and be copyrighted instead, but since copyright lasts (effectively) forever and patents don't, I'm happier with the patent!
then how can people make a living out of creating things for the public to enjoy?
Simple: they don't!
What is it with everybody always assuming the world needs full-time professional artists?! The human race did just fine -- and in some places, is still doing fine -- with everyone having a "day job" and making folk art for fun!
I can understand banning photoshopping greenbacks because the fiduciary system, and society in general is hurt
I can't. In fact, that sounds remarkably like the other side of this issue! It's not the photoshopping that's harmful; what's harmful is the act of trying to pass the result off as real money. Therefore, it's that act that should be (and is) illegal, not the photoshopping.
In the same way, it's the real child porn that's harmful, not the animated kind, so only the former should be illegal.
Furthermore, it could be argued that this kind of stuff existing could alter the behavior of pedophiles.
Indeed -- argued both ways, no less! It could alter the behavior by making them want to act on their urges with real children more, or it could alter the behavior by satisfying their urges so they no longer feel the need to go after real kids.
It is not a trivial problem to resurrect a computer game that has been out of print for ten years. What do you suppose happens when the "source code" and secondary resources are over two hundred years old ?
This is exactly the problem that copyright law is supposed to prevent!!!
Which part of Title 17 of the United States Code do you read as permitting reproduction into a different media for the purpose of playing (private performance)?
Oh, well of course that would be subsection 42, paragraph Q, clause IV, entitled "Common Fucking Sense!" It's a little known clause, especially among those involved in the legal system...
Well then, you just need to go really retro and get SNES/Genesis-era games. Just think, you can go back and play all those rare "gems" you missed, like Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Genesis (seriously, it's hilarious for at least a couple of minutes)! : )
Not to mention you could also play actually good games, like Mario Kart and Ecco the Dolphin.
Perhaps I failed to mention that I'm predominantly a Mac user at the moment*, and I was trying to get it to work in both OpenOffice/X11 and NeoOffice. I don't recall whether I tried installing it from Fink or Darwinports or not, but if I did it didn't work.
(*I'm waiting on my new laptop, which is a Tablet PC instead of a Macbook -- so it's back to Linux for me!)
First of all, NeoOffice lags behind OpenOffice. Second of all, NeoOffice just isn't "OpenOffice." I realize it's irrational, but it's important for public perception that there be an "official" native Mac version (i.e., one named OpenOffice).
I would like to be able to say that their behavior was just irrational, but honestly I don't think it is. Actually there are at least two common graphing tasks that are extremely difficult to do in OOo. (1) Adjusting the scales on the axes. Sometimes it works, and sometimes, no matter how many times I click on the right place, it doesn't work. (2) Fitting a line and displaying the equation. This is dead easy in Excel, but unless they've improved OOo recently, it requires a mystic incantation (typing two different non-obvious, complicated formulas).
I agree completely. I was basically forced to use Excel in one of my classes recently, even though it required staying at school to do the lab report because I don't have MS Office at home, because OpenOffice Calc is basically unusable. Not only is it hard to do many things that Excel can do, it's actually impossible to do some others (such as error bars!!!!).
It's especially frustrating because I'm a Free Software evangelist myself, and I really, really don't want to have to use MS Office.
And that's a mistake, considering all the people who use OS X and all the people thinking of switching to OS X. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is abandoning Office/Mac...
Better than not seeing individual pixels -- with resolution that small, you need every one you can get! (Seriously, I've used something like this (a MicroOptical SV-3, to be specific) before -- if anything, I wish the pixels were bigger.)
Face recognition is okay, but to really do augmented reality well you need to first figure out the geometry of the whole scene. Hardware is just getting fast enough to do that in real time, but portable hardware that can do it is still a few years away. For example, OpenVIDIA is fast enough to track 1000 features in real time, but requires a high-end SLI setup to do it (at least, if I remember the benchmark correctly -- I can't find it again).
It's not that Rob was asking the wrong questions, it's that Microsoft provided the wrong people.
I suspect this whole trip was more of a hey look were not so bad were/were real people working on these products sort of trip.
No, the purpose of the trip was to make Rob dislike Microsoft less. Since he made it abundantly clear from the beginning that the only way to accomplish that would be for Microsoft to answer his question, then Microsoft should have answered the questions! By refusing to do so, it failed miserably and made the whole trip pointless.
Here's the bottom line: when you're trying to persuade somebody, they're the one calling the shots, not you. And Microsoft apparently doesn't understand that.
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More importantly, it's an insult to Looney Tunes! How the fuck did that show get a second season? Are kids today stupid and blind?!
Picture the new Ford Mustang or a PT Cruiser -- that's how the Enterprise (or whatever ship they're using) will look. For the bridge, an orange handrail but no obsolete-looking-by-reality's-standards raised buttons would be my guess.
Deep Space Nine was more about politics than exploration. But in my opinion that's okay, because it still made good sci-fi (it was alien politics)! For example, they "explored" the ethical situation regarding the Tosk, the dichotomy between science and religion on Bajor, the drug dependence of the Jem'Hadar, biological warfare (Section 31 infecting the Founders with that disease), etc.
Does it make a difference?
You work for Verizon, don't you?
Oooh, too bad for you -- I've already patented the business method of "trolling for patent royalties via email." So yeah, just forward all those payments to me and I we'll call it even, eh?
I would say it should be classified as "sculpture" and be copyrighted instead, but since copyright lasts (effectively) forever and patents don't, I'm happier with the patent!
Simple: they don't!
What is it with everybody always assuming the world needs full-time professional artists?! The human race did just fine -- and in some places, is still doing fine -- with everyone having a "day job" and making folk art for fun!
I can't. In fact, that sounds remarkably like the other side of this issue! It's not the photoshopping that's harmful; what's harmful is the act of trying to pass the result off as real money. Therefore, it's that act that should be (and is) illegal, not the photoshopping.
In the same way, it's the real child porn that's harmful, not the animated kind, so only the former should be illegal.
Indeed -- argued both ways, no less! It could alter the behavior by making them want to act on their urges with real children more, or it could alter the behavior by satisfying their urges so they no longer feel the need to go after real kids.
Sounds like now is a great time for a follow-up "I told you so" one!
This is exactly the problem that copyright law is supposed to prevent!!!
Oh, well of course that would be subsection 42, paragraph Q, clause IV, entitled "Common Fucking Sense!" It's a little known clause, especially among those involved in the legal system...
Well then, you just need to go really retro and get SNES/Genesis-era games. Just think, you can go back and play all those rare "gems" you missed, like Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Genesis (seriously, it's hilarious for at least a couple of minutes)! : )
Not to mention you could also play actually good games, like Mario Kart and Ecco the Dolphin.
Perhaps I failed to mention that I'm predominantly a Mac user at the moment*, and I was trying to get it to work in both OpenOffice/X11 and NeoOffice. I don't recall whether I tried installing it from Fink or Darwinports or not, but if I did it didn't work.
(*I'm waiting on my new laptop, which is a Tablet PC instead of a Macbook -- so it's back to Linux for me!)
Apple doesn't need to do that, but it should ditch Pages' and Keynote's file formats in favor of ODF.
First of all, NeoOffice lags behind OpenOffice. Second of all, NeoOffice just isn't "OpenOffice." I realize it's irrational, but it's important for public perception that there be an "official" native Mac version (i.e., one named OpenOffice).
Suggestions 1 through 6 suggest you want LyX.
I agree completely. I was basically forced to use Excel in one of my classes recently, even though it required staying at school to do the lab report because I don't have MS Office at home, because OpenOffice Calc is basically unusable. Not only is it hard to do many things that Excel can do, it's actually impossible to do some others (such as error bars!!!!).
It's especially frustrating because I'm a Free Software evangelist myself, and I really, really don't want to have to use MS Office.
And that's a mistake, considering all the people who use OS X and all the people thinking of switching to OS X. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is abandoning Office/Mac...
Better than not seeing individual pixels -- with resolution that small, you need every one you can get! (Seriously, I've used something like this (a MicroOptical SV-3, to be specific) before -- if anything, I wish the pixels were bigger.)
I'm Elwood Blues, you insensitive clod!
Face recognition is okay, but to really do augmented reality well you need to first figure out the geometry of the whole scene. Hardware is just getting fast enough to do that in real time, but portable hardware that can do it is still a few years away. For example, OpenVIDIA is fast enough to track 1000 features in real time, but requires a high-end SLI setup to do it (at least, if I remember the benchmark correctly -- I can't find it again).
It's not that Rob was asking the wrong questions, it's that Microsoft provided the wrong people.
No, the purpose of the trip was to make Rob dislike Microsoft less. Since he made it abundantly clear from the beginning that the only way to accomplish that would be for Microsoft to answer his question, then Microsoft should have answered the questions! By refusing to do so, it failed miserably and made the whole trip pointless.
Here's the bottom line: when you're trying to persuade somebody, they're the one calling the shots, not you. And Microsoft apparently doesn't understand that.