Fine...to make this work then another rule needs to be added...
5. Any company registering for a patent, can only register it under their top level parent company. That way there are no subcompanies filing 5 each as you suggest...
This is one of those things I guess I just assume would already be there, but obviously needs to be more specifically needs to be addressed;)
That's a very easy conclusion to jump to. However, if patents were reserved to things that were truely innovative it wouldn't necessarily be that bad of a thing. And it would only be for a very short time anyway... If you invent a flying car that can run off old garbage (ala Back to the Future) next week, then it would only be fair for you to have a little extra time to get yourself established before everyone else starts immitating. If you full read my post, which it's pretty clear you didn't, you would have seen that I of course wouldn't not be for the superfolous things many people try to patent today...
well, there would be a bell curve as he continued to produce these patent applications, but yes...if he's making the system have to work harder and require more workers then he should help pay for that burden. Primarily such a restriction would mostly only hurt large companies like Microsoft who want to get 3000 patents in the next 3 years;)
Addendum: 10 years for physical inventions, and only maybe 5 years for Software, if not less. Things like protocols, file formats, and "one click shopping" would obvioulsy not be allowed;)
Agreed, patents aren't really a bad idea in theory... it's in practice that they've become a problem.
Quick and easy ways to solve current patent issues: 1. Make patents only last for around 10 years. This gives the inventor more than enough time to establish themselves as the original. 2. Make corporations have to pay much more than an actual person would be charged to file. 3. Any person or business that files over 5 patents in one year has their filing fees raised expotentially with each subsequent submission. 4. Don't allow patents on concepts and ideas, only something that's actually been produced already.
These won't fix everything, but it's a good start and woulnd't be hard at all to implement. Getting the guys in charge to listen however, is a very different story...
The main reason you don't see it advertised for more distros is because you have to pay for certification. A lot of the distros will try to follow most of the LSB guidelines, but don't have the funding to spend on certification.
I'd love it if Autopackage support became part of the LSB one day;)
Do keep in mind this is a 2D gaming device...so the majority of games made today won't possibly play on it unless they make a 2D port specifically for it (like the GBA). It's not really intended to compete with PSP and the DS...it's more for indie developers and people who want to run emulators...
As for games on your Linux PC... you could always try giving WINE a shot;)
I've got a cube and it's great;) Unfortunately I end up playing it about as much as my Xbox (not much) due to the lack of good games on any system these days. I usually just end up back on my Genesis and SNES...although I really do like this one game on GC, what's it called? Oh yeah...Sonic Mega Collection:P
Linux on Xbox360 will probably be nicer on that triple core Power based processor too being that there are already programs designed for it's PPC cousins. It's great and all that Sony's starting to support open source and standards, but it's just so much fun putting Linux on Microsoft hardware;P
If the PS3 is anything like the PS1 and PS2, a large portion of the first few million will be faulty machines anyway.
Perhaps Nintendo will just keep making a little bit of profit for the next ten years, while Sony and MS's debt grows and grows and eventually devours them? Oh wait, that's right...M$ made $38 billion last year even with the hardware loss:(
...still might happen to Sony though. Prepare for the Nintendo comeback in 2015!!!
I wonder which console they would support more if they went software only (not counting handhelds)? Playing Zelda and Mario on an Xbox360 and/or PS3 would certainly be weird...but then again, I do have Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo Gamecube:P Maybe Sega and Nintendo will band together and create an open/standardized console format and make proprietary consoles obsolete??? Hey...I can still dream can't I?;)
It's pretty obvious to most that the PC gaming market is Microsoft's biggest strength over the other OSes. You can find just about anything else for Mac and Linux without much work. Probably yet another reason Macs are switching to Intel is because the x86 Windows games can be ported over much more easily. This is why Linux distros and developers really need to work on making it much easier for games to be ported to Linux. Unfortunately 9 out 10 games created for PC these days run off Direct X, so getting people to switch to things like OpenGL and SDL will be very important in this. As far as the xbox 360 pad goes, it shouldn't be too hard to reverse engineer... What ever happened to that gamer oriented distro people were trying to start up last year?
Slashdot really really needs an edit comment option. Even if it's only limited to subscriber accounts (hell, that'd be a good incentive for Me to get one).
If the kid's 14 and the game's rated M, for 17+ then she shouldn't have a case right there alone...modding or no modding. If anything, she should be tried for parental/guardian negligence.
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Fine...to make this work then another rule needs to be added...
;)
5. Any company registering for a patent, can only register it under their top level parent company. That way there are no subcompanies filing 5 each as you suggest...
This is one of those things I guess I just assume would already be there, but obviously needs to be more specifically needs to be addressed
That's a very easy conclusion to jump to. However, if patents were reserved to things that were truely innovative it wouldn't necessarily be that bad of a thing. And it would only be for a very short time anyway... If you invent a flying car that can run off old garbage (ala Back to the Future) next week, then it would only be fair for you to have a little extra time to get yourself established before everyone else starts immitating. If you full read my post, which it's pretty clear you didn't, you would have seen that I of course wouldn't not be for the superfolous things many people try to patent today...
well, there would be a bell curve as he continued to produce these patent applications, but yes...if he's making the system have to work harder and require more workers then he should help pay for that burden. Primarily such a restriction would mostly only hurt large companies like Microsoft who want to get 3000 patents in the next 3 years ;)
Is there any chance Microsoft may go a similar route as Apple has with OSX, by making Windows just a Desktop Environment built on top of Linux or BSD?
I would say the patents those employees come up with should belong to the individual employees, not the business in the first place ;)
Addendum: 10 years for physical inventions, and only maybe 5 years for Software, if not less. Things like protocols, file formats, and "one click shopping" would obvioulsy not be allowed ;)
Agreed, patents aren't really a bad idea in theory... it's in practice that they've become a problem.
Quick and easy ways to solve current patent issues:
1. Make patents only last for around 10 years. This gives the inventor more than enough time to establish themselves as the original.
2. Make corporations have to pay much more than an actual person would be charged to file.
3. Any person or business that files over 5 patents in one year has their filing fees raised expotentially with each subsequent submission.
4. Don't allow patents on concepts and ideas, only something that's actually been produced already.
These won't fix everything, but it's a good start and woulnd't be hard at all to implement. Getting the guys in charge to listen however, is a very different story...
The main reason you don't see it advertised for more distros is because you have to pay for certification. A lot of the distros will try to follow most of the LSB guidelines, but don't have the funding to spend on certification.
;)
I'd love it if Autopackage support became part of the LSB one day
The Gamepark has had plenty of mention in the past... just do a search for "gp32" or "gamepark".
Yes it will according to the article (WMA, not Windows).
Do keep in mind this is a 2D gaming device...so the majority of games made today won't possibly play on it unless they make a 2D port specifically for it (like the GBA). It's not really intended to compete with PSP and the DS...it's more for indie developers and people who want to run emulators...
;)
As for games on your Linux PC... you could always try giving WINE a shot
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I know! I can't wait to play Sonic CD :) ...never had a SegaCD when I was little :/
I've got a cube and it's great ;) Unfortunately I end up playing it about as much as my Xbox (not much) due to the lack of good games on any system these days. I usually just end up back on my Genesis and SNES...although I really do like this one game on GC, what's it called? Oh yeah...Sonic Mega Collection :P
Linux on Xbox360 will probably be nicer on that triple core Power based processor too being that there are already programs designed for it's PPC cousins. It's great and all that Sony's starting to support open source and standards, but it's just so much fun putting Linux on Microsoft hardware ;P
If the PS3 is anything like the PS1 and PS2, a large portion of the first few million will be faulty machines anyway.
So your saying that Nintendo's small amount of content is better than the crap on the other systems? lol...sorry, couldn't help it ;)
Nope, not all. Now a Troll on the otherhand.....
Perhaps Nintendo will just keep making a little bit of profit for the next ten years, while Sony and MS's debt grows and grows and eventually devours them? Oh wait, that's right...M$ made $38 billion last year even with the hardware loss :(
...still might happen to Sony though. Prepare for the Nintendo comeback in 2015!!!
I wonder which console they would support more if they went software only (not counting handhelds)? Playing Zelda and Mario on an Xbox360 and/or PS3 would certainly be weird...but then again, I do have Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo Gamecube :P Maybe Sega and Nintendo will band together and create an open/standardized console format and make proprietary consoles obsolete??? Hey...I can still dream can't I? ;)
It's a frickin' hundred dollars? WTF!? How cheap do you expect it to be???
I had seen tapwave print ads, but never really got what it was all about till a couple weeks ago. I was thinking about getting one, but oh well now :(
;)
On a positive note, maybe this all just means they're about to release a new, even better, yet similar product that runs Linux no less
It's pretty obvious to most that the PC gaming market is Microsoft's biggest strength over the other OSes. You can find just about anything else for Mac and Linux without much work. Probably yet another reason Macs are switching to Intel is because the x86 Windows games can be ported over much more easily. This is why Linux distros and developers really need to work on making it much easier for games to be ported to Linux. Unfortunately 9 out 10 games created for PC these days run off Direct X, so getting people to switch to things like OpenGL and SDL will be very important in this. As far as the xbox 360 pad goes, it shouldn't be too hard to reverse engineer... What ever happened to that gamer oriented distro people were trying to start up last year?
Slashdot really really needs an edit comment option. Even if it's only limited to subscriber accounts (hell, that'd be a good incentive for Me to get one).
;)
That, along with an overhaul of the modderation system
If the kid's 14 and the game's rated M, for 17+ then she shouldn't have a case right there alone...modding or no modding. If anything, she should be tried for parental/guardian negligence.
Forget LCD, bring on the OLED ;)