They do too have DRM!
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The eBook, Mark 2
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Pulp books stricly forbid copying & pasting (though there is a hack going around called a scanner + OCR, but it's pretty expensive, hard to use and worst of all: requires you to get off your computer!). They cannot be emailed. You can't even link to them from a blog. And without the aforementioned hack, you can't transfer them among your various devices, even though you legally purchased them.
PS: I'm going back to reading His Dark Materials in this evil format now.
One additional device, an auto-talk board, does not respond to a DMX command. Rather, it is fed a pre-recorded or live line level audio signal and it moves a servo (mounted on Quasi's jaw) in proportion to the signal's amplitude. The net effect is that Quasi appears to speak in time with the audio, without having to invest any time in pre-animating mouth movements.
I think this means that a human was talking to this auto-talk board behind the scenes. The whole innovation seems focused on the various methods used to convey emotions, which I think are pretty cool and think outside the box of mimicking facial expressions, not on any aspect of AI or intelligent conversations.
I completely agree with parent. To counter the grand-parent's analogy: saying that I have flown an object in the air for an hour, without saying what it is I did, is good show-business but horrible science. The scientific community has every right to ignore me because I provide no useful data (and no the mere possibility of something flying is not useful) - and if someone later actually invents the kite it will be the culmination of good, honest & faithfully reported science that does it.
The problem with the first part (patents only granted to working models) is that then small inventors won't be able to market their original invention ideas that need big capital to implement. A previous post from an alleged researcher explains this problem in detail.
Are you kidding?!! I doubt even bored slashdotters have time to review 3 patents a week, and that's just the amount accepted from one guy in one company! So if you do some bad math (or just search the net) that's about a gazillion legalese documents a day, way too much for me.
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Pulp books stricly forbid copying & pasting (though there is a hack going around called a scanner + OCR, but it's pretty expensive, hard to use and worst of all: requires you to get off your computer!). They cannot be emailed. You can't even link to them from a blog. And without the aforementioned hack, you can't transfer them among your various devices, even though you legally purchased them.
PS: I'm going back to reading His Dark Materials in this evil format now.
I completely agree with parent. To counter the grand-parent's analogy: saying that I have flown an object in the air for an hour, without saying what it is I did, is good show-business but horrible science. The scientific community has every right to ignore me because I provide no useful data (and no the mere possibility of something flying is not useful) - and if someone later actually invents the kite it will be the culmination of good, honest & faithfully reported science that does it.
Oh tough choice: die of a horrible liver deterioration disease vs be rude to a dead person. Public call to everyone: when I die, please be rude to me.
Ha. I one-upped you and moved to a different continent.
The problem with the first part (patents only granted to working models) is that then small inventors won't be able to market their original invention ideas that need big capital to implement. A previous post from an alleged researcher explains this problem in detail.
Are you kidding?!! I doubt even bored slashdotters have time to review 3 patents a week, and that's just the amount accepted from one guy in one company! So if you do some bad math (or just search the net) that's about a gazillion legalese documents a day, way too much for me.
Hey that's a first time the lameness filter proves itself! Who wants the whole code here? Go LF!