Honestly, given how little information has actually been released about any games shown at E3, were there "actual questions" being asked?
I don't feel particularly represented by a journalist who isn't a geek. Having said journalists be the only people who can attend an event means I'll get more information on 3Q earnings, less information on the games being presented. You can see a lot of that in the fact that most of the games shown had no playable demos whatsoever. What's the point? Most of the journalists attending probably don't play games.
So, yeah, I'd like there to be pudgy star wars nerds ogling booth babes in between really hard hitting questions about whether or not the next LucasArts game is going to appeal to him. Because if anyone in the world is going to be able to ask questions relevant to the game, it's that guy.
This still makes it confusing, if that were the case, then that's copyright. Not a patent.
I think patents need to be brought into Newton's era. You can only patent implementations of mechanisms that perform some physical process. Novel methods of performing some process would be protected, but not the end result.
So you could patent -a- process to produce a particular drug, but not that drug. If someone else goes to the lengths of finding an alternate and viable method of producing a drug, then sorry.
You could also patent -a- process to perform floating point math in a CPU, but not the floating point math itself or the result of any particular operation. If someone else figures out how to do the same thing, meh.
Copyrights should protect creative works, trademarks protect those who engage in trade and patents protect processes.
Copyright = uniqueness of creative work Trademark = uniqueness of trade identity Patent = uniqueness of process
Oh. My. God. I saw the Mythbusters episode where they made a steel beam deviate over a foot up and down with a computer controlled linear motor and a five pound weight... imagine a handheld version you could attach to the frame of someone's car?
I'm sorry, so so sorry if anyone is harmed by this. But it'll be -awesome-.
If you're using a Linux DNS server that's open source, why don't you just read through the source code and find out what changed, I mean, psht, it's so easy?
Are you kidding me? I'm typing and accidentally hit enter or tab or somesuch, WHIZ-BANG, AJAX thing disappears. Ok, click on "reply" again, type and finish "640 counts of treason is enough for anyone." Type preview, looks good. Hit submit. Whiz, bang, fwoom. "640 counts of treason is en"
Yeah, uhm, listen. You moving around causes a slight drag on the moon. The incredibly minute change in distribution of the Earth's mass thanks to civilization has changed the orbit of the moon. Sending satellites and people into space has altered the rate of rotation of the Earth.
And yet, she still moves and we're all ok.
You've obviously never run the numbers on how many waves we'd have to stop, how much mass we'd have to move in order to affect the Earth or the Moon in a detrimental way.
That doesn't make sense though, ShieldW0lf. We see subduction and mountain formation occurring all over, and if that theory were true, there would be no formation of mountains. They would, instead, have "always been there."
Also, the amount of water was apparently close to none in the early history of Earth, because rather than draw rising oceans due to a smaller surface area, he simply makes the blue areas disappear.
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Try multiplying it by -1 and see if your stack is large enough.
Bread and circuses!
We won't care what the people in charge are doing as long as we have our bread and circuses!
Honestly, given how little information has actually been released about any games shown at E3, were there "actual questions" being asked?
I don't feel particularly represented by a journalist who isn't a geek. Having said journalists be the only people who can attend an event means I'll get more information on 3Q earnings, less information on the games being presented. You can see a lot of that in the fact that most of the games shown had no playable demos whatsoever. What's the point? Most of the journalists attending probably don't play games.
So, yeah, I'd like there to be pudgy star wars nerds ogling booth babes in between really hard hitting questions about whether or not the next LucasArts game is going to appeal to him. Because if anyone in the world is going to be able to ask questions relevant to the game, it's that guy.
Uh, no. Matter doesn't contain anti-matter.
The result would be very bad.
They'd migrate to Digg, where even people who copy-paste headlines and summaries manage to slip in mistakes.
People would still covet each other's wives and oxen?
That, like all trademark and copyright cases, is up for the courts to decide.
This still makes it confusing, if that were the case, then that's copyright. Not a patent.
I think patents need to be brought into Newton's era. You can only patent implementations of mechanisms that perform some physical process. Novel methods of performing some process would be protected, but not the end result.
So you could patent -a- process to produce a particular drug, but not that drug. If someone else goes to the lengths of finding an alternate and viable method of producing a drug, then sorry.
You could also patent -a- process to perform floating point math in a CPU, but not the floating point math itself or the result of any particular operation. If someone else figures out how to do the same thing, meh.
Copyrights should protect creative works, trademarks protect those who engage in trade and patents protect processes.
Copyright = uniqueness of creative work
Trademark = uniqueness of trade identity
Patent = uniqueness of process
Double bucky? GET OFF MY LAWN!
Back in my day we had quadruple bucky cokebottle commands.
Oh. My. God. I saw the Mythbusters episode where they made a steel beam deviate over a foot up and down with a computer controlled linear motor and a five pound weight... imagine a handheld version you could attach to the frame of someone's car?
I'm sorry, so so sorry if anyone is harmed by this. But it'll be -awesome-.
Are you sure that spokesperson wasn't one of the customer service representatives?
Us cosmologists actually order a special light keyboard (a custom Model M, of course) that has a "light " key.
It's kind of unfortunate light though because it's right next to the light spacebar.
Oh well... It sure does make typing light papers easier.
Wouldn't either the sudden outbreak of common sense or anaphylactic shock in politicians and lawyers be ideal outcomes?
Is it on sale?
That's like assuming you're going to hit the next deaf (and possibly blind) guy who decides to cross the street.
Anyway, both replies to my post are along the same terms and I cast logical fallacy on you both. *rolls* Ah, a 20. Sorry, play again.
If I owned a Tesla, I'd show it off at the lights. Who cares what sound it makes when I'm already going 60 a mere three to four seconds later?
If you're using a Linux DNS server that's open source, why don't you just read through the source code and find out what changed, I mean, psht, it's so easy?
Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
There are even axes to the graph, crazily enough. Plural.
I divide everything into 3 + 2i bins myself.
Are you kidding me? I'm typing and accidentally hit enter or tab or somesuch, WHIZ-BANG, AJAX thing disappears. Ok, click on "reply" again, type and finish "640 counts of treason is enough for anyone." Type preview, looks good. Hit submit. Whiz, bang, fwoom. "640 counts of treason is en"
Awesome.
640 counts of treason is en
Yeah, uhm, listen. You moving around causes a slight drag on the moon. The incredibly minute change in distribution of the Earth's mass thanks to civilization has changed the orbit of the moon. Sending satellites and people into space has altered the rate of rotation of the Earth.
And yet, she still moves and we're all ok.
You've obviously never run the numbers on how many waves we'd have to stop, how much mass we'd have to move in order to affect the Earth or the Moon in a detrimental way.
This guy is totally legit, I sent him my PC last week and... *clicks refresh on UPS site a few more times* Ahah! He just got the package.
Any moment now the escrow service he recommended will wire me the funds.
Didn't say you did, I used the pronoun "he" to make that distinction. I could have used "you" instead if I sought to say you made that theory.
That doesn't make sense though, ShieldW0lf. We see subduction and mountain formation occurring all over, and if that theory were true, there would be no formation of mountains. They would, instead, have "always been there."
Also, the amount of water was apparently close to none in the early history of Earth, because rather than draw rising oceans due to a smaller surface area, he simply makes the blue areas disappear.
It just doesn't hold up, sorry.
Before, actually, in keeping with Blizzard's habit of missing the release date.
It's only due to the crazy physics involved with the world ending that somehow the game ends up finished anyway.