Well, I have always been a fan of Gasohol and Biodiesel. I wonder why they did not mention that as a viable alternative fuel-source. It seems that, under Jimmy Carter, a bill was passed that exempted taxes on such fuels. So, it would be a little cheaper to use these. Although you might have to modify your engine to get the same gas-effecientcy.
On another note, IIRC, natural gas and gasoline are also ordorless and colorless, but they add something to them to make them smell like that. The same should be doable for hydrogen./. needs spell check
So, if I were to make a video game and I wanted to sell it, under this guy's plan, I would have to patent the game so that no one could pirate it?
Patents and copyrights do completely different things. Patents prevent competitors from cutting in to your market for a short period of time after you invent something. Copyright (it is used this way now anyway) prevents people from pirating your software, and keeps others from uses your trademarks and the like.
Unless I am mistaked (IANAL, so I very well maybe) all that patenting does it prevent others from making something too much like your invetion and selling it. So, they could make something like yours and give it away, and that would be ok.
I really like that idea. It reallys puts accountablity on the author, but the one flaw I see is that, since you can just edit a small bit of the page, how would you show who put what? I mean, I have changed a single word of a wikipedia article once, would this make me the author of one word?
But, overall, it is a nice idea, but I do not know how you could implement it on a wiki.
Well, it already has, to a small degree.
In music, there is the
Creative Commons.
And, in books, there is
WikiBooks. So, yes, it does seem to want to expand to other things.
When do you think RIAA will start sueing the US Postal Service because people send cds full of pirated music thought it?
Is it really differant?
People sending pirated music though a medium that was not intended to be used for that purpose and does not check for pirated music.
Although, going by this logic, the US postal service should have been shutdown after the anthrax attacks, because it was obviously their fault that they did not check well enough for the anthrax.
There were only 4 questions, and the last two had one sentence answers. So, to sum it up for those who don't want to RTFA, he thinks Abe's Odd World is the most creative game that he didn't make, and the next big thing in gaming will be physics simulation.
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Well, I have always been a fan of Gasohol and Biodiesel.
/. needs spell check
I wonder why they did not mention that as a viable alternative fuel-source. It seems that, under Jimmy Carter, a bill was passed that exempted taxes on such fuels. So, it would be a little cheaper to use these. Although you might have to modify your engine to get the same gas-effecientcy.
On another note, IIRC, natural gas and gasoline are also ordorless and colorless, but they add something to them to make them smell like that. The same should be doable for hydrogen.
So, if I were to make a video game and I wanted to sell it, under this guy's plan, I would have to patent the game so that no one could pirate it?
Patents and copyrights do completely different things. Patents prevent competitors from cutting in to your market for a short period of time after you invent something. Copyright (it is used this way now anyway) prevents people from pirating your software, and keeps others from uses your trademarks and the like.
Unless I am mistaked (IANAL, so I very well maybe) all that patenting does it prevent others from making something too much like your invetion and selling it. So, they could make something like yours and give it away, and that would be ok.
On Runescape, they accually do that.
Only differance is that they only do it when you sleep, not when you buy things.
I really like that idea. It reallys puts accountablity on the author, but the one flaw I see is that, since you can just edit a small bit of the page, how would you show who put what? I mean, I have changed a single word of a wikipedia article once, would this make me the author of one word?
But, overall, it is a nice idea, but I do not know how you could implement it on a wiki.
Well, it already has, to a small degree.
In music, there is the Creative Commons.
And, in books, there is WikiBooks.
So, yes, it does seem to want to expand to other things.
When do you think RIAA will start sueing the US Postal Service because people send cds full of pirated music thought it? Is it really differant? People sending pirated music though a medium that was not intended to be used for that purpose and does not check for pirated music.
...o wait...
Although, going by this logic, the US postal service should have been shutdown after the anthrax attacks, because it was obviously their fault that they did not check well enough for the anthrax.
Go back to sueing the users RIAA!
You know, Evel Knievel, that motocycling stuntman.
Heaven forbid he ever got into a public office!
There were only 4 questions, and the last two had one sentence answers. So, to sum it up for those who don't want to RTFA, he thinks Abe's Odd World is the most creative game that he didn't make, and the next big thing in gaming will be physics simulation.
I misread it as Devil may try AMD. Though, I am sleepy. Though, I know a lot of people who would agree that Dell == Devil.
He is not saying that the christians should like Kerry. He is saying that the christian people should not like Bush.
There is a huge differance.