Remember, iTunes is *not* installed by default on Windows machines. Yet, it's growing leaps and bounds, despite WMP being installed. Why? Apple gives something that WMP cannot: the downloaded iTunes / iPod interaction.
Real *was* good, but now, it's a clunker, complete with tricky menus, doing everything it can to make you by the software.. (Ever try downloading the "free" version? Assuming you can find the page, you need to give them a lot of information (or you did the last time I tried to download it.))
Please, Real, be creative. Be Innovative.. Do something that no one else has done, or at the very least, be successful at. *then* everyone will try to copy you.!
-Delaware Boy in 2004
There have been many lawsuits (specifically involving Lotus Notes, I believe) over the "look and feel" of software. In the LN case, it involved spreadsheets. The courts ruled that merely copying the look and feel is *not* a violation of copyright law, unless actual code was, indeed, copied (as in cut & paste, etc.)
Not sure how that fits into patents, though.
-DB in 2004 (Bring on the donuts..)
>>>It's also morally wrong to use your "Intellectual Property" as a sword and not a shield...
Wouldn't that depend on your modality of morality? (sorry about the verbiage..) I mean, from *one* Utilitarian perspective, using your IP as a sword and shield might protect a company's profits, thus keeping lots of people employed. You can also use the Utilitarian Persective to come up with an opposite verdict as well.
One could argue that the GPL is also used as a sword and (more readily) a shield..
-DB in 2004 (not Dubya.. Delaware Boy..)
Actually you could. At least in the first one. If you killed *all* the pedestrians, you would win.
Personally, I liked taking out the football team with a single spin..:)
It's not the violence, it's the shock / originality. Anyone remember Carmageddon? Where the point of the car race is, well, run over as many people as possible? (Including little old ladies with Walkers).
Once GTA has a few dozen rip offs, this will be a non-issue. Example, a fairly good graphics game where you deal drugs to high school students would be insanely popular. Right up until it was banned, the company sued, etc.
it's when a) companies push limits and b) Those products are recognized by the media. Add those two together and you have a great recipe for controversy.
-DB in 2004
Just because the man made it to the moon does *not* mean he is an authority on the economic / social / political needs to make a manned trip to Mars.
I use the American Economy every day.. I don't get asked to testify before congress, etc., on economic matters..
-DB in 2004
OOP is only as good as the designer. Any of the OOP languages (Java, C# , VB.NET (gasp) to name a few) can still have a clueless idiot make a God class.
Conversely, you can "simulate" inheritance, polymorphism, etc. in procedural languages as well. U of Delaware has a Scheme class where this is often done.
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Remember, iTunes is *not* installed by default on Windows machines. Yet, it's growing leaps and bounds, despite WMP being installed. Why? Apple gives something that WMP cannot: the downloaded iTunes / iPod interaction. Real *was* good, but now, it's a clunker, complete with tricky menus, doing everything it can to make you by the software.. (Ever try downloading the "free" version? Assuming you can find the page, you need to give them a lot of information (or you did the last time I tried to download it.)) Please, Real, be creative. Be Innovative.. Do something that no one else has done, or at the very least, be successful at. *then* everyone will try to copy you.! -Delaware Boy in 2004
There have been many lawsuits (specifically involving Lotus Notes, I believe) over the "look and feel" of software. In the LN case, it involved spreadsheets. The courts ruled that merely copying the look and feel is *not* a violation of copyright law, unless actual code was, indeed, copied (as in cut & paste, etc.) Not sure how that fits into patents, though. -DB in 2004 (Bring on the donuts..)
>>>It's also morally wrong to use your "Intellectual Property" as a sword and not a shield... Wouldn't that depend on your modality of morality? (sorry about the verbiage..) I mean, from *one* Utilitarian perspective, using your IP as a sword and shield might protect a company's profits, thus keeping lots of people employed. You can also use the Utilitarian Persective to come up with an opposite verdict as well. One could argue that the GPL is also used as a sword and (more readily) a shield.. -DB in 2004 (not Dubya.. Delaware Boy..)
Actually you could. At least in the first one. If you killed *all* the pedestrians, you would win. Personally, I liked taking out the football team with a single spin.. :)
It's not the violence, it's the shock / originality. Anyone remember Carmageddon? Where the point of the car race is, well, run over as many people as possible? (Including little old ladies with Walkers). Once GTA has a few dozen rip offs, this will be a non-issue. Example, a fairly good graphics game where you deal drugs to high school students would be insanely popular. Right up until it was banned, the company sued, etc. it's when a) companies push limits and b) Those products are recognized by the media. Add those two together and you have a great recipe for controversy. -DB in 2004
Doh!.. Thanks for the correction.. Although I think the argument is still valid..
Just because the man made it to the moon does *not* mean he is an authority on the economic / social / political needs to make a manned trip to Mars. I use the American Economy every day.. I don't get asked to testify before congress, etc., on economic matters.. -DB in 2004
OOP is only as good as the designer. Any of the OOP languages (Java, C# , VB.NET (gasp) to name a few) can still have a clueless idiot make a God class. Conversely, you can "simulate" inheritance, polymorphism, etc. in procedural languages as well. U of Delaware has a Scheme class where this is often done.