are game-saves some sort of trophy/reward/win/pose thing?
What is really happening is he never played them to begin with. He just copied some friends game saves so he could beat the game real fast and then brag about it.
I wanted to ignore bad patents because that is an entirely different problem. Bad patents like the one-click and the many others need to be stopped at the patent office. But that doesn't mean get rid of patents altogether. The only examples people come up with are bad patents, which you did as well. Maybe there can be a peer review or some other some such. But patents aren't inherently bad. And with a limited time frame, like a year or two, good software patents aren't bad. In fact they are good.
My thoughts are that if several companies are developing software with "similar ideas" then perhaps that patent is fairly obvious and should not be granted. I was not commenting on the difference between good and bad, only on the freedom and length of time. Twenty-two years for a software patent can really lock people out because of the fast paced development cycles we are experiencing. What someone might have patented twenty-two years ago is probably not going to be used much today. But what was patented only two years ago is probably still relevant. So no freedom loss, just a delay.
I agree that we advance by using the advancements from those who came before. And I think that the length of time patents are at now is a little ridiculous. But at a much shorter time-frame there is nothing wrong with this.
Now if you want to talk bad software patents that's another cookie altogether. I don't have any good ideas on that one, but getting rid of patents outright I don't believe is a good solution.
The UK has bigger problems right now than worrying about a bunch of Spice Girl piratez.
Why do people say things like this? It's not like everyone is going to drop what they are doing and go after only the absolute most important thing. I would like to know the way that the music industry in any way can help the UK equivalent to the FBI find and stop radicals intent on killing.
By your logic why aren't patents already at the "lifetime of the corporation"? And yes freedom is more important than money. But they're not taking any freedom from you are they? How do you define freedom? Is freedom the ability to take someone's hard work and make money off of it.
I support patents on tangible goods, and on software patents I think they could work at something short, like 2-3 years. That way you can really get a market for your product. 5 years is a little long since 5 year old software is really rather old.
The question that I have and would really like a thought-out reply is: "What freedom have they taken from you by patenting something (ignoring the obvious bad-patents like one-click, etc.)?"
After people spend so much on Windows for so long you have to wean them off of that habit. If they suddenly saved all their money they might go and spend it somewhere else a little more unsavory.
See, what they really want to do is get rid of disk formats altogether. A TV would come preloaded with only one movie. If you want another movie then you have to buy the TV that has it. This way they get back into hardware and that stops piracy./sarcasm
Well didn't you know that when AMD came out with their 64-bit CPUs that nobody uses 32-bit anymore? Were you not aware that when Intel came out with the P4s that nobody uses a Pentium M^H3 anymore?
Am I the only one who thinks professors in a technical field who came straight from academia deserve no respect? Where I am going to school there are several Profs who never worked in industry and they are the worst teachers.
and you can reduce the amount of electricity produced
And so what I said still stands. Of course you can conserve fuel. I never said you couldn't. And I did say "you can reduce the amount of electricity produced". But the point remains, you cannot conserve electricity like you can other things.
Yeah, me too. I mean, why would anyone pay for a NIC card and then pay monthly for Internet access. And why would you buy a TV and then pay for Cable. Who in their right mind would buy a DVD player and then expect to pay for DVD's. I tell you, its ludicrous that people buy a client and then willingly fork over money to access the content the client provides. I mean sheesh! What is up with these crazies?!?!!
Not to be nitpicky, but if the electricity is made and you don't use it, you didn't conserve it, you wasted it. It was there and then went bye-bye without use. That's wasting. You can save money by using less electricity, and you can reduce the amount of electricity produced, but electricity isn't conserved like water.
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That's why I never read "The Invisible Man"
What is really happening is he never played them to begin with. He just copied some friends game saves so he could beat the game real fast and then brag about it.
Since we're getting into old hardware, where is Pitfall for the Atari 2600?
So if the Bells slash prices to that below the cost of VoIp what's the problem?
My thoughts are that if several companies are developing software with "similar ideas" then perhaps that patent is fairly obvious and should not be granted. I was not commenting on the difference between good and bad, only on the freedom and length of time. Twenty-two years for a software patent can really lock people out because of the fast paced development cycles we are experiencing. What someone might have patented twenty-two years ago is probably not going to be used much today. But what was patented only two years ago is probably still relevant. So no freedom loss, just a delay.
I agree that we advance by using the advancements from those who came before. And I think that the length of time patents are at now is a little ridiculous. But at a much shorter time-frame there is nothing wrong with this.
Now if you want to talk bad software patents that's another cookie altogether. I don't have any good ideas on that one, but getting rid of patents outright I don't believe is a good solution.
Why do people say things like this? It's not like everyone is going to drop what they are doing and go after only the absolute most important thing. I would like to know the way that the music industry in any way can help the UK equivalent to the FBI find and stop radicals intent on killing.
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Perhaps you are too old to understand the humor of us young whippersnappers?
I support patents on tangible goods, and on software patents I think they could work at something short, like 2-3 years. That way you can really get a market for your product. 5 years is a little long since 5 year old software is really rather old.
The question that I have and would really like a thought-out reply is: "What freedom have they taken from you by patenting something (ignoring the obvious bad-patents like one-click, etc.)?"
After people spend so much on Windows for so long you have to wean them off of that habit. If they suddenly saved all their money they might go and spend it somewhere else a little more unsavory.
If the internet didn't exist they wouldn't be able to pwn my computer unless I let them into my house. /pedantic
How about Nike? /ducks
Who needs a 15 year old. I can bring you some of the professors I used to work for and they should do the job quite nicely.
See, what they really want to do is get rid of disk formats altogether. A TV would come preloaded with only one movie. If you want another movie then you have to buy the TV that has it. This way they get back into hardware and that stops piracy. /sarcasm
Probably because it was overblown to begin with and now we are continuously beating the dead horse. Let die what should never have been born. Please.
In 10 years, we will be using computers that just might not have 3.5" floppy drives.
Because the control center says "Mandriva Control Center" now. That is obviously different and thus deserves its own screenshot frenzy.
Well didn't you know that when AMD came out with their 64-bit CPUs that nobody uses 32-bit anymore? Were you not aware that when Intel came out with the P4s that nobody uses a Pentium M^H3 anymore?
I stuck a baseball card in my fans to give it that motorcycle sound. Worked in my bike when I was a kid, why not a computer fan.
Of course it will start on the XBox 360. Microsoft just hasn't felt at home without it yet.
Am I the only one who thinks professors in a technical field who came straight from academia deserve no respect? Where I am going to school there are several Profs who never worked in industry and they are the worst teachers.
Try DrScheme. They are at version 299.100 alpha. They've got to be releasing like 50 new versions a year or something!
And so what I said still stands. Of course you can conserve fuel. I never said you couldn't. And I did say "you can reduce the amount of electricity produced". But the point remains, you cannot conserve electricity like you can other things.
Yeah, me too. I mean, why would anyone pay for a NIC card and then pay monthly for Internet access. And why would you buy a TV and then pay for Cable. Who in their right mind would buy a DVD player and then expect to pay for DVD's. I tell you, its ludicrous that people buy a client and then willingly fork over money to access the content the client provides. I mean sheesh! What is up with these crazies?!?!!
Not to be nitpicky, but if the electricity is made and you don't use it, you didn't conserve it, you wasted it. It was there and then went bye-bye without use. That's wasting. You can save money by using less electricity, and you can reduce the amount of electricity produced, but electricity isn't conserved like water.
Just my $0.002.
Unless of course you looked up where the term frag came from.
http://www.videogamecritic.net/gloss.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3A frag&btnG=Search