I'm waiting for the (late) wednesday or friday comic to see what comes up. With enough spin, they might double the attendance of PAX next year. "Want a great weekend and a reason to stay home the next week? Penny Arcade is flying in lepers from all over the world for PAX2010!".
... to "The soon-to-be-ousted-middlemen continue to look for new ways to make money in the digital age" and the article is put in it's proper perspective.
From IBM's perspective, software patents are good if used right. From a big (blue) brother perspective, if I patent something and then share with it with people who share their work with me, life is good. If another company does the same thing, but uses the patent offensively, my contributing network of OSS coders is negatively impacted. More importantly, IBM could be forced to withdraw their own products due to somebody else getting the patent first. Don't forget relatively recent adventures with MS and FAT32 or any number of patent trolls sitting in their submarines.
It's easy to make this into a patent/no-patent argument, but that's a big change on how things are done now. IBM's acting on the idea that things are how they are and have to be dealt with as such for the time being. Granted, they do have a lot to lose if the patent system on such things change, so it's not done only in the interest of the OSS community (even if parts of the community disagree with how IBM's "protecting" them).
Is it odd that Verizon is now a bit of a hero for trying to maintain the status quo? I wonder how often this happens in other industries. I may have to ask to weigh my quarter-pounder burgers before they're cooked now.
The joy button here for you is that you can do all this if you find the right application of the information. Playing Tetris in and of itself is fun, building brain pathways fine, but roll that in to some sort of procedure for rehabilitating accident/disease victims and you might have some dough headed your way.
Want to do something with social online gaming? Find a way to tie that into speech or dsylexia therapy. Hand-eye coordination? Almost title will do. Then state simply "while there are more effective therapies in practice now, this method has the advantage of being a self promoting activity. Short term positive reinforcement ensures the patient will faithfully follow through to the ultimate, if unrelated, long term goal".
Think about it. Why Tetris? It's addictive fun. Pursing fun can be more effective than asking people to use sheer willpower in the face of an arduous task such as rehabbing an injury. That makes the situation as close to win/win as it can be rather than just "character building", which many people will just give up on.
That'd equate reincarnation to fixing a hacked box with a full system rebuild, so no. That's actually spot on in many cases. Hopefully they get it right the next go around.
/roll/
Ok then. Everybody looks around as you begin choking on cyber-hacked cheddar cheese. Somebody has the sense of mind to come behind you and start giving you the Heimlich maneuver.
/rolls again/
Corn chip shrapnel sprays out of your mouth and onto the crowd. Disgusted patrons glare at you as they wipe the hacked orange cheese goo from their faces.
/lots of dice/
Abstrackt. Please roll to save versus hacked cheese mind control. And you might want to pray that the leather clad bald guy coming towards you with the switchblade fails his roll in time...
It is a form of protection, but it's more like comparing camouflage to bullet proof armor with camouflaged bullet proof armor being the ideal. Too many folks think that better armor is the only solution.
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Your proposal intrigues me. Let us discuss it over cheetos and... everything else in reach.
Security does not actually protect you, it delays others. If you don't implement enough delays to allow yourself to find out you're being attacked and to act accordingly, it's all useless.
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To inspire researchers. If somebody will fund that, you can find somebody to fund your beer pyramid project if you polish the proposal enough.
You're sitting in a bar. The vid screen is barely audible over the sounds of the loud patrons hammering back their brews and celebrating the end of the day and beginning of the night. With some effort, you tune your cybernetic hearing enhancement to hear the newscaster.
"Hackers used banned mould robots to conquer cheese factories in Wisconsin and France. News at Eleven.
Looking down, the plate of nachos you ordered suddenly doesn't look so appealing. It looks less appealing as it leaps up from the plate, tortilla chips poking your eye and jalapenos forcing their way down your throat.
I point you to the case of Quake3 on the Dreamcast being fully compatible with all other ports of Quake3 as proof that Sony is just trying to sap your wallet of $300+ to play the same fucking game and alienate all of your Xbox owning friends.
Quite the contrary. It's proof that MS is trying to sap your wallet and alienate all of your PS3 owning friends. Or Nintendo. Either way. Just stop thinking and buy more.
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Basically, when grandma can install and run her greeting card creating software without any help, you there
I'm pretty sure 99% of the grey haired grandparents out there can't,or are afraid to, install that software on windows either.
I'm waiting for the (late) wednesday or friday comic to see what comes up. With enough spin, they might double the attendance of PAX next year. "Want a great weekend and a reason to stay home the next week? Penny Arcade is flying in lepers from all over the world for PAX2010!".
... to "The soon-to-be-ousted-middlemen continue to look for new ways to make money in the digital age" and the article is put in it's proper perspective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_patent_aggregation
From IBM's perspective, software patents are good if used right. From a big (blue) brother perspective, if I patent something and then share with it with people who share their work with me, life is good. If another company does the same thing, but uses the patent offensively, my contributing network of OSS coders is negatively impacted. More importantly, IBM could be forced to withdraw their own products due to somebody else getting the patent first. Don't forget relatively recent adventures with MS and FAT32 or any number of patent trolls sitting in their submarines.
It's easy to make this into a patent/no-patent argument, but that's a big change on how things are done now. IBM's acting on the idea that things are how they are and have to be dealt with as such for the time being. Granted, they do have a lot to lose if the patent system on such things change, so it's not done only in the interest of the OSS community (even if parts of the community disagree with how IBM's "protecting" them).
TFA is about prayers before sex, not after.
Personally I always liked "Please, don't let this be a cop, Amen".
Is it odd that Verizon is now a bit of a hero for trying to maintain the status quo? I wonder how often this happens in other industries. I may have to ask to weigh my quarter-pounder burgers before they're cooked now.
Nope. Wooooshes scare me too.
Panacea. It's better at breakfast ;)
The joy button here for you is that you can do all this if you find the right application of the information. Playing Tetris in and of itself is fun, building brain pathways fine, but roll that in to some sort of procedure for rehabilitating accident/disease victims and you might have some dough headed your way.
Want to do something with social online gaming? Find a way to tie that into speech or dsylexia therapy. Hand-eye coordination? Almost title will do. Then state simply "while there are more effective therapies in practice now, this method has the advantage of being a self promoting activity. Short term positive reinforcement ensures the patient will faithfully follow through to the ultimate, if unrelated, long term goal".
Think about it. Why Tetris? It's addictive fun. Pursing fun can be more effective than asking people to use sheer willpower in the face of an arduous task such as rehabbing an injury. That makes the situation as close to win/win as it can be rather than just "character building", which many people will just give up on.
That'd equate reincarnation to fixing a hacked box with a full system rebuild, so no. That's actually spot on in many cases. Hopefully they get it right the next go around.
"British teeth" is apparently a fatal disease to the little buggers if left untreated.
Children scare me. If not having friends is the price I have to pay to keep them away, then I guess I'll have to accept that.
Jolly good show.
/roll/
/rolls again/
/lots of dice/
Ok then. Everybody looks around as you begin choking on cyber-hacked cheddar cheese. Somebody has the sense of mind to come behind you and start giving you the Heimlich maneuver.
Corn chip shrapnel sprays out of your mouth and onto the crowd. Disgusted patrons glare at you as they wipe the hacked orange cheese goo from their faces.
Abstrackt. Please roll to save versus hacked cheese mind control. And you might want to pray that the leather clad bald guy coming towards you with the switchblade fails his roll in time...
It is a form of protection, but it's more like comparing camouflage to bullet proof armor with camouflaged bullet proof armor being the ideal. Too many folks think that better armor is the only solution.
Your proposal intrigues me. Let us discuss it over cheetos and... everything else in reach.
Security does not actually protect you, it delays others. If you don't implement enough delays to allow yourself to find out you're being attacked and to act accordingly, it's all useless.
To inspire researchers. If somebody will fund that, you can find somebody to fund your beer pyramid project if you polish the proposal enough.
You're sitting in a bar. The vid screen is barely audible over the sounds of the loud patrons hammering back their brews and celebrating the end of the day and beginning of the night. With some effort, you tune your cybernetic hearing enhancement to hear the newscaster.
"Hackers used banned mould robots to conquer cheese factories in Wisconsin and France. News at Eleven.
Looking down, the plate of nachos you ordered suddenly doesn't look so appealing. It looks less appealing as it leaps up from the plate, tortilla chips poking your eye and jalapenos forcing their way down your throat.
Roll for initiative, please.
I thought the fruit was for after he picked them up?
It's in the EULA.
Not to be confused with SCUMM.
I point you to the case of Quake3 on the Dreamcast being fully compatible with all other ports of Quake3 as proof that Sony is just trying to sap your wallet of $300+ to play the same fucking game and alienate all of your Xbox owning friends.
Quite the contrary. It's proof that MS is trying to sap your wallet and alienate all of your PS3 owning friends. Or Nintendo. Either way. Just stop thinking and buy more.
Ignore the fact that you'd have to get Sony, Nintendo and MS to cooperate with their matchmaking systems and such first.
... sell you one copy of a game when they can potentially sell you two or three?
Are you sure they're not just outsourcing? I hear Canadian robots are much cheaper to hire.