"Is this what poor third-world countries yearn for? Should they leapfrog to disaster?"
That's what western corporations want them to do - the third world is a vast, untapped resource to them: they have lots of nice natural resources for western companies to strip-mine or patent to hell and a big population that may forma huge market eventually.
"I'm disappointed someone like Mr.Kofi Annan suggested this stuff to poor nations."
you shouldn't be disappointed or surprised - the UN is little more than a US plaything.
"evelopers should do illegal act copying Bitkeepers protocols and the whole product"
There's nothing illegal about making interoperable software, clients and servers. Indeed most copyright laws include clauses that specifically allow it. Of course, if they encrypt it you get into the messy area of breaking a protection measure, which will cause no end of fun DMCA/EUCD/etc-wise, but right now that isn't an issue - it's just as legal as writing word importers and exporters for openoffice. If you put the company up out of business in the process then it is called "evolution" - the best solution wins. If they can't offer a compelling reason to use their software instead of yours, that is their problem.Heaven forbit that you actually give them some competition!
Irrational Games, a splinter group from Looking Glass Studios, were the main developers but they used the Dark Engine technology from LGS and had engine/audio help from LGS.
most of the members of the company went and formed another one and are currently working on Thief III...
Nope. A lot of the old team have been taken on by Ion Storm Austin (which was going before LGS was shut down) who have the rights to develop T3 from Eidos.
A lot of places seem to attribute the quote to Mother Teresa. Is this accurate? Only you can decide...
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Except that the firm that does it will charge a rediculous amount, patent it to hell and a fair chunk of the benefits would end up lining shareholder and board member pockets.
IANAB, but I'm sure there's bound to be a downside - accelerating cell regneration and blood vessel growth is going to stress nearby cells, in some cases this could cause damage to telomeres and may lead to premature aging of the cells in the damaged areas.
All the more reason to get decent human space exploration - there's enough helium in Jupiter's atmosphere to keep us going for a bit longer than that...
True, not that difficult at all... but then you get bastards like me who always gets money out of the same machine, with the same bank card and then walks off with cash - you know that thing people used before credit cards - and tracking what I do with that is a whole lot harder. Until RFID tags or some other electronic tagging system goes into the notes of course.
The times I do need to use a card (debit, not credit though..) I tend to buy things for other people, nothing quite like messing with their brains is there?
Just because it is technically easy to track you, it doesn't mean you have to play along...
As legit as sharing copyrighted files?;) IANAL, but I doubt that the Recording Industry Ass. of America can use existing laws to prevent this being done (although I doubt that'll stop them trying).
If the Kazaa guys have done it right they may even be able to wave the good old DMCA under the Recording Industry Ass. of America's nose if they try to crack the system as well (oh the irony!)
But this is just the latest volley in what is going to be a very drawn-out and bloody Information Cold War.
"lthough somewhere it is set to autoreplace the word lepton with leprechaun which is proving most annoying as I write my paper on particle physics."
Maybe OO knows something you don't eh?;)
Off the top of my head I can't give a list, certainly can't give links to proof, but I'll dig later. One name that sticks in my mind is Konq on Mandrake 9, but I'll have to check that.
Except for spoofing. Some distros even ship browsers (konq, mozilla etc ) set up to spoof as IE from the start. And then there's the problem that a lot of people will be searching from work - which almost always means IE (and that's without spoofing).
I've never thought that Google zeitgeist is a realiable measure of anything except how futile measuring things based on user agent strings can be.
" Big deal. I knew it would, and I also knew it shouldn't do any lasting harm."
O_o An American who didn't sue the stun gun company for geting a shock from it? Bloody hell, there may be hope for the world yet.
Okay, not much hope. But I can at least die in the impending civilisation-ending fireball happy in the knowledge that there are some human beings on the planet who aren't litigious morons..
Yeah, like you need to be a genius to work out you can do this...
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"It takes a lot of work and a lot of studying."
More importantly it also takes cartloads of cash - you can sit and think about propulsion systems until your arse turns blue, but all of it is for nothing if you never actually test one. And that takes cash, a lot of red tape fighting a team of engineers and probably some highly dangerous, restricted chemicals.
Four - civilisations do not last long enough for the ER phase to be likely to be detected. Either they are self destroying ot civilisations that advertise their existence learn that it is a really, really stupid thing to do...
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A barrier that can be ignored at will, vetoed and accused of being irrelivant if it doesn't do what the US wants? Sure, some barrier...
"Is this what poor third-world countries yearn for? Should they leapfrog to disaster?"
That's what western corporations want them to do - the third world is a vast, untapped resource to them: they have lots of nice natural resources for western companies to strip-mine or patent to hell and a big population that may forma huge market eventually.
"I'm disappointed someone like Mr.Kofi Annan suggested this stuff to poor nations."
you shouldn't be disappointed or surprised - the UN is little more than a US plaything.
"evelopers should do illegal act copying Bitkeepers protocols and the whole product" There's nothing illegal about making interoperable software, clients and servers. Indeed most copyright laws include clauses that specifically allow it. Of course, if they encrypt it you get into the messy area of breaking a protection measure, which will cause no end of fun DMCA/EUCD/etc-wise, but right now that isn't an issue - it's just as legal as writing word importers and exporters for openoffice. If you put the company up out of business in the process then it is called "evolution" - the best solution wins. If they can't offer a compelling reason to use their software instead of yours, that is their problem.Heaven forbit that you actually give them some competition!
"the company which made SS2 (Looking Glass?)"
Irrational Games, a splinter group from Looking Glass Studios, were the main developers but they used the Dark Engine technology from LGS and had engine/audio help from LGS.
most of the members of the company went and formed another one and are currently working on Thief III...
Nope. A lot of the old team have been taken on by Ion Storm Austin (which was going before LGS was shut down) who have the rights to develop T3 from Eidos.A lot of places seem to attribute the quote to Mother Teresa. Is this accurate? Only you can decide...
Except that the firm that does it will charge a rediculous amount, patent it to hell and a fair chunk of the benefits would end up lining shareholder and board member pockets.
IANAB, but I'm sure there's bound to be a downside - accelerating cell regneration and blood vessel growth is going to stress nearby cells, in some cases this could cause damage to telomeres and may lead to premature aging of the cells in the damaged areas.
All the more reason to get decent human space exploration - there's enough helium in Jupiter's atmosphere to keep us going for a bit longer than that...
"but I don't think sherman networks OR the k++ guys are within the reach of us law."
I bet Jon Johansen thought something similar, as did Dmitry Sklyarov.
True, not that difficult at all... but then you get bastards like me who always gets money out of the same machine, with the same bank card and then walks off with cash - you know that thing people used before credit cards - and tracking what I do with that is a whole lot harder. Until RFID tags or some other electronic tagging system goes into the notes of course.
The times I do need to use a card (debit, not credit though..) I tend to buy things for other people, nothing quite like messing with their brains is there?
Just because it is technically easy to track you, it doesn't mean you have to play along...
As legit as sharing copyrighted files? ;) IANAL, but I doubt that the Recording Industry Ass. of America can use existing laws to prevent this being done (although I doubt that'll stop them trying).
If the Kazaa guys have done it right they may even be able to wave the good old DMCA under the Recording Industry Ass. of America's nose if they try to crack the system as well (oh the irony!)
But this is just the latest volley in what is going to be a very drawn-out and bloody Information Cold War.
"lthough somewhere it is set to autoreplace the word lepton with leprechaun which is proving most annoying as I write my paper on particle physics." Maybe OO knows something you don't eh? ;)
Off the top of my head I can't give a list, certainly can't give links to proof, but I'll dig later. One name that sticks in my mind is Konq on Mandrake 9, but I'll have to check that.
Except for spoofing. Some distros even ship browsers (konq, mozilla etc ) set up to spoof as IE from the start. And then there's the problem that a lot of people will be searching from work - which almost always means IE (and that's without spoofing). I've never thought that Google zeitgeist is a realiable measure of anything except how futile measuring things based on user agent strings can be.
" Big deal. I knew it would, and I also knew it shouldn't do any lasting harm." O_o An American who didn't sue the stun gun company for geting a shock from it? Bloody hell, there may be hope for the world yet. Okay, not much hope. But I can at least die in the impending civilisation-ending fireball happy in the knowledge that there are some human beings on the planet who aren't litigious morons..
This maay answer your question. IANAL, but as far as I can tell you'd be able to claim ownership unless the original owner made a proper claim.
Nah, much easier to just brainwash them by using repeated messages all day. Pretty soon you have easily replaced, cheap robots...
Yeah, like you need to be a genius to work out you can do this...
"It takes a lot of work and a lot of studying."
More importantly it also takes cartloads of cash - you can sit and think about propulsion systems until your arse turns blue, but all of it is for nothing if you never actually test one. And that takes cash, a lot of red tape fighting a team of engineers and probably some highly dangerous, restricted chemicals.
Four - civilisations do not last long enough for the ER phase to be likely to be detected. Either they are self destroying ot civilisations that advertise their existence learn that it is a really, really stupid thing to do...