The...autonomous ground vehicle that finishes...most quickly...will receive $2 million. The route will be...175 miles...featuring...man-made obstacles.
Bulk purchases of these robots, modified for high-speed runs of less than 30 minutes, is under consideration by Domino's Pizza.
It's similar to the argument that gun rights advocates make - stricter gun control laws or programs will hurt legitimate owners, but the real problems will still lie with the criminals who don't abide by those laws anyway.
Moreover... while the gun owners just want their toys, spammers and advertisers in general want you. 'Coca-cola' would be writ large on your windshield...except that you'd crash before reaching the mini-mart.
I am not saying that downloading and watching the dailyshow everyday is right, but there is definitely a moral grey area.
Might be realistic to demote morality as a factor in the illegal-copying ecology. (Cf. Nancy Reagan's "just say no"... vs. increased health-awareness re drugs.)
The true unavoidables seem to be that intellectual property 1) leaks, and 2) must have its creation costs met. The steady-state "solution" is wherever the leakage-speed reaches equilibrium with the shows' production and containment costs. E.g., if leakage becomes extreme, then shows go away... or maybe retreat to your local multiplex...
I've long had a deplorable tendency to view things as Black-and-White. According to this book, though, perhaps I've merely needed to include also Charcoal and Gray.
Seems likely that most here would declare themselves to be anti-censorship..... until their own particular threshold is crossed. And if one indeed has such a threshold (and most do, somewhere), then moral indignation at someone else's more restrictive threshold seems hard to come by.
If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then [you] develop open source... give it away [and] work on it at night....Open source doesn't guarantee upward compatibility.
So, if you give it away, then it falls short of the pantheon of "intellectual property"? (Betcha Gates will say that it's not "property"... but want me to hear that neither is it "intellectual".)
...and FWIW, isn't poor software-compatibility one of the staple historic guarantors of jobs?
All art is perception. All perception is biology. All biology is science. All science (except math) is empiricism. All empiricism is creative. All creativity is art.
When Alfredo di Lelio made fettucine Alfredo in the 1920s, it was art (bordering on genius). When I make it today, it's science (bordering on worship).
FWIW, the film ENIGMA is a romanticized but entertaining thriller about another important, earlier (than Colossus), Bletchley Park decryption mechanism.
Way back, THE LITTLE MERMAID video had to be recalled because the box-art sported a phallus among the castle spires (courtesy of an enterprising/bored Disney artist).
How much spontaneous imagery might find its way into individual frames of a entire publicly rendered movie?
"[DreamWorks] find out about Bug's Life, they release Antz."
With ANTZ, DreamWorks took a page from from Disney's ALADDIN, and cast a major comic talent, persona intact, in the (effective) lead. DreamWorks might claim they emphasized entertainment over CGI. Regardless, Pixar pretty much followed suit in MONSTERS and NEMO.
The ploy was/is so successful, in fact, that it's astonishing when DreamWorks subsequently confines Mike Myers (Shrek) to merely straight-lines in dialect. (Or maybe they just seemed like straight-lines, next to Eddie Murphy's.)
That's exactly why patents exist...to promote innovation....and to protect the innovators...
Or rather, patents exist to promote innovation BY protecting the innovators. Mere "justice" for the innovator, for its own sake, is a fictional ideal that serves only to undermine the creation of an effective patent system.
Legislate what's best for us consumers. The innovators will adapt. (It's what they do.)
With an appropriate musical download, your cranium can now house an ongoing duel between the IQ-enhancing effect of Mozart
and the lobotomizing effect of microwaving your cerebral cortex.
What sort of legal definition could discriminate between a software and a non-software patent?
...and, bearing in mind that patents are a means of enlisting the prodigious creative efforts of the masses, isn't innovation in software at least as desirable as in any other arena?
(With respect to patent-abuse, anything can and will be abused. The question is always whether such negative side-effects can be suppressed enough to net a clear benefit.)
I assume/. has addressed these questions earlier, but I couldn't find succinct answers...
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Isn't the point of Velcro that you can pull it apart?
Literally pulling two Velcro blocks apart can be next to impossible.
Usually it's a matter of peeling Velcro apart... which should work here too if one of the bondees (the "composite", presumably) is flexible.
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A major aid to this advance was the recent development of industrial-strength flypaper...
Bulk purchases of these robots, modified for high-speed runs of less than 30 minutes, is under consideration by Domino's Pizza.
For movie-consumers, now those DVD extras will include the cast party, the set-security tapes . . .
And TV-fans now can buy a single disk with the entire 2004 season of . . . well . . . TV.
The frustration's understandable, but...
1) Both co-exist in some state of equilibrium ...so, in all likelihood, both are, in fact, "good".
2) It's unrealistic to expect any major news source, or online wannabe, to align itself (openly) with any political camp.
Moreover... while the gun owners just want their toys, spammers and advertisers in general want you. 'Coca-cola' would be writ large on your windshield ...except that you'd crash before reaching the mini-mart.
Do airlines try to rent you parachutes?
Might be realistic to demote morality as a factor in the illegal-copying ecology. (Cf. Nancy Reagan's "just say no"... vs. increased health-awareness re drugs.)
The true unavoidables seem to be that intellectual property 1) leaks, and 2) must have its creation costs met. The steady-state "solution" is wherever the leakage-speed reaches equilibrium with the shows' production and containment costs. E.g., if leakage becomes extreme, then shows go away... or maybe retreat to your local multiplex...
Yep. Now I feel far less judgemental.
Seems likely that most here would declare themselves to be anti-censorship ..... until their own particular threshold is crossed. And if one indeed has such a threshold (and most do, somewhere), then moral indignation at someone else's more restrictive threshold seems hard to come by.
So, if you give it away, then it falls short of the pantheon of "intellectual property"? (Betcha Gates will say that it's not "property"... but want me to hear that neither is it "intellectual".)
All art is perception. All perception is biology. All biology is science. All science (except math) is empiricism. All empiricism is creative. All creativity is art.
When Alfredo di Lelio made fettucine Alfredo in the 1920s, it was art (bordering on genius). When I make it today, it's science (bordering on worship).
FWIW, the film ENIGMA is a romanticized but entertaining thriller about another important, earlier (than Colossus), Bletchley Park decryption mechanism.
How much spontaneous imagery might find its way into individual frames of a entire publicly rendered movie?
"[DreamWorks] find out about Bug's Life, they release Antz."
With ANTZ, DreamWorks took a page from from Disney's ALADDIN, and cast a major comic talent, persona intact, in the (effective) lead. DreamWorks might claim they emphasized entertainment over CGI. Regardless, Pixar pretty much followed suit in MONSTERS and NEMO.
The ploy was/is so successful, in fact, that it's astonishing when DreamWorks subsequently confines Mike Myers (Shrek) to merely straight-lines in dialect. (Or maybe they just seemed like straight-lines, next to Eddie Murphy's.)
There's plenty of info to construct a 3D-image. There's just not enough to construct the 3D-image.
Part of the bizplan likely involves consumers not caring.
Tired of waiting for that ultimate supernova your philosophy professor kept mentioning? Well, guess what...
Or rather, patents exist to promote innovation BY protecting the innovators. Mere "justice" for the innovator, for its own sake, is a fictional ideal that serves only to undermine the creation of an effective patent system.
Legislate what's best for us consumers. The innovators will adapt. (It's what they do.)
Place your bets.
(... or so I'm told ...)
Yes, but only because it's where he began (stylistically), and should've stayed, because he's quite good at it. Not everyone has to be Kubrick.
[He used] the old rip-off-the-latex-mask-disguise device not once, but three times.
Heck, he turned that device into an entire movie, FACE OFF. That the "latex" bled made it no less preposterous.
True (and outrageous) ... but of litigation in general, of course, and not solely patents.
Indeed, those are long-standing problems with us organic units, too.
(Well, production hasn't been such a problem, I guess...)
Wonder what the effective mileage would be if adjusted for the resulting reduced wear-and-tear on that road.
(With respect to patent-abuse, anything can and will be abused. The question is always whether such negative side-effects can be suppressed enough to net a clear benefit.)
I assume /. has addressed these questions earlier, but I couldn't find succinct answers...
Literally pulling two Velcro blocks apart can be next to impossible. Usually it's a matter of peeling Velcro apart... which should work here too if one of the bondees (the "composite", presumably) is flexible.