Personally I believe this has less to do with the patent system and more to do with pimping SOA. The whole point of SOA is that you can build your applications independent of the hardware/OS. I can build a service for example on Windows server using SOA and another application can talk to it without having to know anything about Windows.
What do you mean enhance them without fear? There are many applications built on Notes/Domino/Websphere, and at least in the Domino+Notes space I know there are many Applications which enhance the application. (Teamstudio/YTria for example).
Opening the patents actually allows other companies to build competing applications without having to pay IBM tax.
Actually what amazes me is that so much has happened and they are still in power. The only reason Bush is considered the worst president in the history of the USA is that all the others would of been fired long before they got a chance to do further screw ups.
Nothing surprises me anymore with this administration.
> "Don't you feel like you're being ripped off paying for > the health care of jobless people when you're busting a > gut earning a living?"
You make good points in your post and feeling ripped off is a feeling everyone gets when paying taxes.:)
In Ireland it is free to some extent but not totally free, however if you do incur medical costs you can claim the money back from your taxes to almost the same amount. Also certain things are free by default (eg. Eye/Dental check ups). So it is not like you are being ripped off.
Some guilds make their mark. I haven't heard of Syndicate.
I hadn't heard of m0o either when I joined eve, however that clan is instrumental in across the board structural changes to how Eve is played purely by how they played the game.
I am curious, if that the games are being shipped out as "Vista only" in an attempt force people to upgrade. Can they get in trouble for that if it is shown it is only being done to force consumers instead of giving a choice?
> The images projected in Manhunt 2 and > other games are merely pictures, and > not particularly realistic ones.
TBH Manhunt 1 only selling point was it annoyed the censors. The game was total kack and was just violence for violence sake. No game play. Someone who did find that interesting has issues.
Sure movies depicting the rape of a child is not the same as doing it, but someone who watches it for pleasure is clearly not well in the head.
I haven't seen the whole movie. I have seen bits of it though and it is more then just the first responders.
MM also isn't pointing out that Health care is expensive in the film. He points out that the system is designed to screw you. Sure you have cheap health care now, but as pointed out in the movie so did quite a few others.
TBH I think it would make the system even worse. As it stands now the health care system in the US is more focused on making money and less about treating people who are sick.
I haven't seen Moores movie (just some clips). So the previous paragraph is based on personal experience in the USA and other countries.
Ireland isn't much better (where I live now) but I don't get double billed here that I was getting in the USA, nor do I get harassed when I have a bill to pay and I could even show up at an Irish hospital and get seen to without paying up front or having to prove I could pay in the future.
Of course of all the countries I've been where I've had to see a doctor/hospital I found South Korea to be the best service in speed and price (seen within half an hour totally around 20 euros). But then I haven't lived/been to every country in the world.
> Cuba is run by a fairly bad dude. > He once even thought it nice to offer launch sites for Soviet missles.
If I recall correctly he was part of a revolution to throw out US Organized crime and prostitution in Cuba. Ironically its become what he tried to remove.
Also before the missiles were put in Cuba (as part of an Aid package to Cuba from the Russians), Castro actually went to the USA to ask for help with his country. The USA could of defused the situation long before. What did they do? Told Castro to get lost because the President was busy playing Golf.
So that is why he went to the Russians next.
Lastly the USA was doing the same thing to the Russians in placing missiles close to Russia around the same time.
Actually if you watched the movie, no wait if you even watched the promo's you would know he didn't go to Cuba to show how great Castro medical centers were. He went there as he heard that suspected terrorists got free and better health care then most Americans and tried to get to Gitmo to get health care.
I also find it funny that a lot of posts on/. pointing out anything positive on the movie get down rated, while those calling Moore fat seem to be get positive ratings.
Sure make fun of the guy. It is easier to ignore the actual message that the US private Healthcare system is a total mess.
> It's easier than opting-out and so they abuse the process.
They are not abusing the process the newsletter does not allow you unsubscribe easy so the user takes the easiest method.
For example I'm on Dr Dobbs Mailing list. I don't read them anymore as its mostly kack so I hit unsubscribe. Yet I still get them. I've tried a number of times to unsubscribe without any luck. So I just created a mail rule to move them directly to the trash.
I would of marked it as spam except I orginally signed up for it. But anyone else sends me a newsletter without asking for it first gets marked as spam. I don't even bother going through the hoops.
so don't blame the consumer for the business model failings.
I'm inclined to agree with you. I've been watching the latest scandal and CCP for the most part handled it well. Especially after the last SNAFU.
Personally I see it as the game maturing. Anyway remember Ultima Online from years ago? Various tales of GMs helping friends, looking after castles for famous baseball players and manufacturing gold faster then Rumpelstiltskin. They put in a lot of processes/systems to stop this.
CCP is just doing the same.
Btw, I believe any game where the players have interaction with GMs/dev team at any level will eventually call claims of favoritism/cheating. I recall stories like this from Asherons Call or City of Heroes. In those games the Dev/GMs vary become visible in the game.
> if any other country invests in its military capability, it's equivalent to an attack on the US?
Isn't that the whole pretense behind pre-emptive strikes? Hit them before they are in a position to hit you. Pretty sure that is the doctrine being thrown around these days from the US.
Personally can't see the US attacking China though. If it ever did happen it would end up destroying the US more and certainly US corporations where the real power is.
I would say it is less to do with class snobbery and more to do how the cities in the US where designed. If you go to the older cities like say Boston public transport is great and easy to get around.
If on the other hand you head out to the middle of nowhere you can literally die if you don't have a car to get around.
Also your correct the price isn't that high, it is just a lot of US cars waste an awful lot of gas.
I do disagree with your premise though that at $10 the standard of living would not change much. It would change a lot. For starters all those delivery trucks still have to pay for Gas, that gets pushed onto the consumer along with other costs (house heating, electricity). It has a huge ripple effect.
> "LOL DO U LIKE TEH SLASHDOTS 2? I LIK IT WHEN BILL GATE$ IS TEH BORG"
I believe that is called a strawman argument.
3D medium as a collaboration tool works quite well. For example lets try and relate it to/.
I walk into an area discussing this topic I see various people talking various comments, those making more sense would have more people gravitating to them to talk while those screaming what you mentioned are more likely to be turfed out the back with the rest of the loonies.
Avatar representation also helps with conversation. For example at the moment all you are to me is "Anonymous Coward". Nothing of note about you, in a 3D world I would probably get a better idea of what you were talking about if you were in normal clothes or dressed as a 5 foot wang.
Even so on a webpage all the other people are just links. It is rarely I wander off to look at individual people (it is a link out of my way). In a 3D work those barriers drop easier.
I am not saying you can't build a website that would have a lot of this collaboration features but 3D offers a lot. By the same token I certainly wouldn't suggest someone create what amounts to a webpage within a metaverse if just reading it in a browser is easier.
btw I can remember people were saying we would never need anything except Gopher when the Web was starting to appear.
"why spend all that time navigating around a virtual world (which has to be built) and doing things in the virtual space when really you should be actually working?"
Why spend all that time navigating around the WWW (which has to be built) and doing things in the these websites when really you should be actually working?
The problem is that a lot of people see the metaverse as a "Game". A better way to think of it is as the next extension of the web. You don't have a game client, you have a 3D browser.
Webpages are not always fully interactive. But lets say if you turned up at a webpage and you saw three other people viewing it at the same time. You could chat to them, find out if they found something interesting or maybe they have a common field you need a question answered on.
It is a bit silly to throw away as a waste of time at this stage.
As for gated communities, that is kind of what we have now with the web and to be honest it is the only way I can see the metaverse surviving. The Second life model is horribly flawed imho.
Someone better may be able to expand better on me but I am pretty sure you cannot be held liable if software you bought infringed on patents. It would be up to the company that made the software to pay it.
On the other hand if it was a matter of support contracts, etc it might scare someone away.
Slashdot Mirror
Clearly your post is like a big truck and not a series of tubes.
You will find the business model works the other way. They let you into the market but expect micro-payments.
/. where someone mentioned that the PC industry was paying IBM micro payments on each PC for various patents that the PC used.
I recall a story on
Personally I believe this has less to do with the patent system and more to do with pimping SOA. The whole point of SOA is that you can build your applications independent of the hardware/OS. I can build a service for example on Windows server using SOA and another application can talk to it without having to know anything about Windows.
Evens the playing field.
What do you mean enhance them without fear? There are many applications built on Notes/Domino/Websphere, and at least in the Domino+Notes space I know there are many Applications which enhance the application. (Teamstudio /YTria for example).
Opening the patents actually allows other companies to build competing applications without having to pay IBM tax.
Actually what amazes me is that so much has happened and they are still in power. The only reason Bush is considered the worst president in the history of the USA is that all the others would of been fired long before they got a chance to do further screw ups.
Nothing surprises me anymore with this administration.
> "Don't you feel like you're being ripped off paying for
:)
> the health care of jobless people when you're busting a
> gut earning a living?"
You make good points in your post and feeling ripped off is a feeling everyone gets when paying taxes.
In Ireland it is free to some extent but not totally free, however if you do incur medical costs you can claim the money back from your taxes to almost the same amount. Also certain things are free by default (eg. Eye/Dental check ups). So it is not like you are being ripped off.
Some guilds make their mark. I haven't heard of Syndicate.
I hadn't heard of m0o either when I joined eve, however that clan is instrumental in across the board structural changes to how Eve is played purely by how they played the game.
I am curious, if that the games are being shipped out as "Vista only" in an attempt force people to upgrade. Can they get in trouble for that if it is shown it is only being done to force consumers instead of giving a choice?
> The images projected in Manhunt 2 and
> other games are merely pictures, and
> not particularly realistic ones.
TBH Manhunt 1 only selling point was it annoyed the censors. The game was total kack and was just violence for violence sake. No game play. Someone who did find that interesting has issues.
Sure movies depicting the rape of a child is not the same as doing it, but someone who watches it for pleasure is clearly not well in the head.
I haven't seen the whole movie. I have seen bits of it though and it is more then just the first responders.
MM also isn't pointing out that Health care is expensive in the film. He points out that the system is designed to screw you. Sure you have cheap health care now, but as pointed out in the movie so did quite a few others.
I haven't read interworld but the synopsis in the OP sounds like morrisons Zenith Phase IV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_(comics)
TBH I think it would make the system even worse. As it stands now the health care system in the US is more focused on making money and less about treating people who are sick.
I haven't seen Moores movie (just some clips). So the previous paragraph is based on personal experience in the USA and other countries.
Ireland isn't much better (where I live now) but I don't get double billed here that I was getting in the USA, nor do I get harassed when I have a bill to pay and I could even show up at an Irish hospital and get seen to without paying up front or having to prove I could pay in the future.
Of course of all the countries I've been where I've had to see a doctor/hospital I found South Korea to be the best service in speed and price (seen within half an hour totally around 20 euros). But then I haven't lived/been to every country in the world.
> Cuba is run by a fairly bad dude.
> He once even thought it nice to offer launch sites for Soviet missles.
If I recall correctly he was part of a revolution to throw out US Organized crime and prostitution in Cuba. Ironically its become what he tried to remove.
Also before the missiles were put in Cuba (as part of an Aid package to Cuba from the Russians), Castro actually went to the USA to ask for help with his country. The USA could of defused the situation long before. What did they do? Told Castro to get lost because the President was busy playing Golf.
So that is why he went to the Russians next.
Lastly the USA was doing the same thing to the Russians in placing missiles close to Russia around the same time.
Actually if you watched the movie, no wait if you even watched the promo's you would know he didn't go to Cuba to show how great Castro medical centers were. He went there as he heard that suspected terrorists got free and better health care then most Americans and tried to get to Gitmo to get health care.
/. pointing out anything positive on the movie get down rated, while those calling Moore fat seem to be get positive ratings.
I also find it funny that a lot of posts on
Sure make fun of the guy. It is easier to ignore the actual message that the US private Healthcare system is a total mess.
> It's easier than opting-out and so they abuse the process.
They are not abusing the process the newsletter does not allow you unsubscribe easy so the user takes the easiest method.
For example I'm on Dr Dobbs Mailing list. I don't read them anymore as its mostly kack so I hit unsubscribe. Yet I still get them. I've tried a number of times to unsubscribe without any luck. So I just created a mail rule to move them directly to the trash.
I would of marked it as spam except I orginally signed up for it. But anyone else sends me a newsletter without asking for it first gets marked as spam. I don't even bother going through the hoops.
so don't blame the consumer for the business model failings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-tkqpHnxTI
someone should mod you up. Your correct, but it is the usual argument thrown out there by the anti-abortionists.
I'm inclined to agree with you. I've been watching the latest scandal and CCP for the most part handled it well. Especially after the last SNAFU.
Personally I see it as the game maturing. Anyway remember Ultima Online from years ago? Various tales of GMs helping friends, looking after castles for famous baseball players and manufacturing gold faster then Rumpelstiltskin. They put in a lot of processes/systems to stop this.
CCP is just doing the same.
Btw, I believe any game where the players have interaction with GMs/dev team at any level will eventually call claims of favoritism/cheating. I recall stories like this from Asherons Call or City of Heroes. In those games the Dev/GMs vary become visible in the game.
> if any other country invests in its military capability, it's equivalent to an attack on the US?
Isn't that the whole pretense behind pre-emptive strikes? Hit them before they are in a position to hit you. Pretty sure that is the doctrine being thrown around these days from the US.
Personally can't see the US attacking China though. If it ever did happen it would end up destroying the US more and certainly US corporations where the real power is.
A quick google it would appear that the FDA, ABA and Drinks companies have known about this issue at least since very early last year.
I would say it is less to do with class snobbery and more to do how the cities in the US where designed. If you go to the older cities like say Boston public transport is great and easy to get around.
If on the other hand you head out to the middle of nowhere you can literally die if you don't have a car to get around.
Also your correct the price isn't that high, it is just a lot of US cars waste an awful lot of gas.
I do disagree with your premise though that at $10 the standard of living would not change much. It would change a lot. For starters all those delivery trucks still have to pay for Gas, that gets pushed onto the consumer along with other costs (house heating, electricity). It has a huge ripple effect.
> "LOL DO U LIKE TEH SLASHDOTS 2? I LIK IT WHEN BILL GATE$ IS TEH BORG"
/.
I believe that is called a strawman argument.
3D medium as a collaboration tool works quite well. For example lets try and relate it to
I walk into an area discussing this topic I see various people talking various comments, those making more sense would have more people gravitating to them to talk while those screaming what you mentioned are more likely to be turfed out the back with the rest of the loonies.
Avatar representation also helps with conversation. For example at the moment all you are to me is "Anonymous Coward". Nothing of note about you, in a 3D world I would probably get a better idea of what you were talking about if you were in normal clothes or dressed as a 5 foot wang.
Even so on a webpage all the other people are just links. It is rarely I wander off to look at individual people (it is a link out of my way). In a 3D work those barriers drop easier.
I am not saying you can't build a website that would have a lot of this collaboration features but 3D offers a lot. By the same token I certainly wouldn't suggest someone create what amounts to a webpage within a metaverse if just reading it in a browser is easier.
btw I can remember people were saying we would never need anything except Gopher when the Web was starting to appear.
Correct only a 3D representation.
"why spend all that time navigating around a virtual world (which has to be built) and doing things in the virtual space when really you should be actually working?"
Why spend all that time navigating around the WWW (which has to be built) and doing things in the these websites when really you should be actually working?
The problem is that a lot of people see the metaverse as a "Game". A better way to think of it is as the next extension of the web. You don't have a game client, you have a 3D browser.
Webpages are not always fully interactive. But lets say if you turned up at a webpage and you saw three other people viewing it at the same time. You could chat to them, find out if they found something interesting or maybe they have a common field you need a question answered on.
It is a bit silly to throw away as a waste of time at this stage.
As for gated communities, that is kind of what we have now with the web and to be honest it is the only way I can see the metaverse surviving. The Second life model is horribly flawed imho.
Someone better may be able to expand better on me but I am pretty sure you cannot be held liable if software you bought infringed on patents. It would be up to the company that made the software to pay it.
On the other hand if it was a matter of support contracts, etc it might scare someone away.