no way to "own" an idea unless you copyright or patent it and I don't recall a galaga type patent anywhere.
This wasn't very clear from the article, but I'm guessing Hasbro went after the other game companies on copyright. Copyright law (at least in the US) doesn't require registration, although Hasbro probably did register them.
A quote taken from the article: "When you look at our games and their games side by side, there's no doubt that the defendants have copied the creative expression of the Atari games, not just abstract ideas."
The question is, how similar were the new games? Did the new games actually mimic the "creative expression" of the original Hasbro games?
Hasbro probably wants royalties from the companies currently cloning their games. Other companies are using what they consider to be their game concepts, so they feel that they're entitled to royalties.
It's not necessary on the Mac side, but on Windows you might try un-checking PNG files in the Quicktime control panel's media selection.
Ok, that mostly worked. It took me a while to figure out that you have to double-click the options to select and unselect them. But now when I click on one of the links to a png image from here, IE asks me if I want to download the image. No, I just want the browser to display it!
You have to change your file mappings so QuickTime doesn't open it
How do you do that on Windows? I have the.png extension associated with an image viewer, but IE sends all of the PNG images to quicktime. This wouldn't be all that annoying, except that quicktime "forgets" to put scrollbars on large PNG images such as screenshots.
[2] click Mozilla.exe --> open browser == 11 seconds. Cool.
Cool? Maybe it's just because I'm not comparing to other linux browsers, but I find that painfully slow. IE on Windows loads in 2 seconds, and takes half a second to load a new window.
In order to compete with IE, Mozilla needs to leave itself resident in memory when the browser windows are closed. I didn't see this on bugzilla (although I admittedly didn't really know what to search for), so I just submitted a request for this feature.
And you can use it on an operating system that
doesn't have to be rebooted every 38 seconds, has a hideous registry system, and the most horrible GUI on the face of the earth!
That almost describes the current state of mozilla.
reboot every 38 seconds = crash every 15 minutes horrible gui = bad (default) skin hideous registry system = bugs that come from reading old preference files incorrectly, like this one. takes forever to boot = takes forever to load
And stop bitching about the extra features... The editor and the mail program and all that shit are basically hyper-dynamic webpages. The size is probably going to be like 10MB compressed for EVERYTHING that mozzy does when it gets to netscape release... that includes all SORTS of shit plus new java.
I'm actually significantly more concerned with speed than with download size. Maybe that's just because I have a cable modem *shrug*.
Have what it opens to be fully configurable (you choose default: homepage, blankpage, or currentpage), but also allow the new window to inherit the history one step behind (at your discretion [this is configurable too]). Best of both worlds.
I like that. Moderate parent up as "insightful", please.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "one step behind", but the way I'd do it is the first alt-left (or click on the back button) would take you from your start page to the site you were just at.
Not really. It's intended to display to the spec (just like any other browser) but still messes up quite often. Most of www.gmx.de gets cut off, articles linked to from slashdot get jumbled, etc. Yes, it's open source, so these bugs get fixed in a reasonable amount of time, but mozilla isn't anywhere near being able to claim standards compliance.
Following the specs to the letter isn't such a great idea anyway, even when they're not contradicting each other and themselves. According to Ian Hickson, image alt text is supposed to be displayed as normal text, with nothing distinguishing it from page text, unless the page specifies how broken images are supposed to be displayed. And, oh, the spec for how to say how broken images are displayed will be in the NEXT version of CSS for website developers who don't want to use mozilla-specific code. Very few webpages with broken or slashdotted images look good in mozilla as a result, and layout is completely messed up even when width= and height= are specified.
It's like one dynamic living document... I love it.
Yeah, it's cool, as long as you have a dual 1Ghz box. (I'm sure it will start getting faster quickly once the features solidify a little more.)
Netscape 6 is described by Netscape as offering "innovative functionality in these key areas", including "Small download size and speed." I guess some of the "small speed" code might have leaked into the open-source version as well.
A U.S. company's move to post Russian spy satellite photos of ``Area 51'', the mysterious U.S. Air Force test site in Nevada, on the Internet prompted a Web meltdown on Tuesday as UFO buffs jammed its computers looking for insights into one of the world's most enduring real life X-Files.
For high school students, there's a cool contest called usaco. It's used to pick the US team for the international high-school level contests, but most of the participants are actually outside of the US. I think the problems are similar to (but easier than) the ACM problems.
Oh, and not to pick on Japan, because Sony is part of the Entertainment Trust, which, in this country, has managed to successfully equate content control with "anti-piracy" and has judges going along with it.
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This wasn't very clear from the article, but I'm guessing Hasbro went after the other game companies on copyright. Copyright law (at least in the US) doesn't require registration, although Hasbro probably did register them.
A quote taken from the article: "When you look at our games and their games side by side, there's no doubt that the defendants have copied the creative expression of the Atari games, not just abstract ideas."
The question is, how similar were the new games? Did the new games actually mimic the "creative expression" of the original Hasbro games?
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Ok, that mostly worked. It took me a while to figure out that you have to double-click the options to select and unselect them. But now when I click on one of the links to a png image from here, IE asks me if I want to download the image. No, I just want the browser to display it!
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How do you do that on Windows? I have the
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But that always takes you to the original URL, not the URL of the page that's trying to break out.
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Oops. I wasn't clear with my original statement. I should have said "when alt text is displayed".
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Cool? Maybe it's just because I'm not comparing to other linux browsers, but I find that painfully slow. IE on Windows loads in 2 seconds, and takes half a second to load a new window.
In order to compete with IE, Mozilla needs to leave itself resident in memory when the browser windows are closed. I didn't see this on bugzilla (although I admittedly didn't really know what to search for), so I just submitted a request for this feature.
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reboot every 38 seconds = crash every 15 minutes
horrible gui = bad (default) skin
hideous registry system = bugs that come from reading old preference files incorrectly, like this one.
takes forever to boot = takes forever to load
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bug 26373 covers that
(keyboard shortcuts should be a high priority, but so should a lot of other things, and there's only so much time in a day.)
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I'm actually significantly more concerned with speed than with download size. Maybe that's just because I have a cable modem *shrug*.
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I like that. Moderate parent up as "insightful", please.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "one step behind", but the way I'd do it is the first alt-left (or click on the back button) would take you from your start page to the site you were just at.
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Agreed. Apparently, one of the Netscape engineers agrees too -- he just filed a "bug" quoting you.
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Not really. It's intended to display to the spec (just like any other browser) but still messes up quite often. Most of www.gmx.de gets cut off, articles linked to from slashdot get jumbled, etc. Yes, it's open source, so these bugs get fixed in a reasonable amount of time, but mozilla isn't anywhere near being able to claim standards compliance.
Following the specs to the letter isn't such a great idea anyway, even when they're not contradicting each other and themselves. According to Ian Hickson, image alt text is supposed to be displayed as normal text, with nothing distinguishing it from page text, unless the page specifies how broken images are supposed to be displayed. And, oh, the spec for how to say how broken images are displayed will be in the NEXT version of CSS for website developers who don't want to use mozilla-specific code. Very few webpages with broken or slashdotted images look good in mozilla as a result, and layout is completely messed up even when width= and height= are specified.
It's like one dynamic living document... I love it.
Yeah, it's cool, as long as you have a dual 1Ghz box. (I'm sure it will start getting faster quickly once the features solidify a little more.)
It's a platform, not a program.
So why does the security still suck? (see my sig)
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