Seems like they have clear-cut statements about what each category filters, but they also have a disclaimer about non-responsibility for errors and omissions.
But this isn't an "error", this is an active effort on their part. So they don't disclaim it, because they can't -- and thus there is clear grounds for a successful lawsuit.
Basically you'd have lots of quakers and a couple of commanders who can see the whole battlefield from their command posts.
Note that it would be tough to get teams together on the fly. Unfortunately there are a whole lot of game "trolls", and you only need a few, who would join one side and then do their level best to hinder that side.
However, the clan concept might work well here. Each side in the battle would be a clan, so clanners presumably could rely on fellow clanners to play "right."
I agree with the prediction that things will end up moving more towards centralized computer resources
It's not resources that will be centralized, it's data, and it's not centralization you want, it's ubiquitous access such that it all seems as-one personal database. I don't want 7 copies of my address book and manual synchronization, I want one master copy, and cached copies as needed. I want access to all my data no matter where I am and what machine I'm using.
The point you're ignoring is that big corporations are the product of big government;
Jon's point, I think, is that as corporations become larger, they get the power to influence governments and modify the playing field. That is the essence of corporatism: that large sums of money don't just mean you can play the game well, but that you can even change the rules to your advantage.
people afflicted with this rare genetic disease have been known to randomly spew long-winded tirades of meaningless drivel and expect other people to care about it.
Personally i think it good that it will play other region discs, but i doubt the dvd bosses will like it.
What with all these mainstream devices revealing secret methods for disabling region coding, I suspect that they aren't all accidents. Apex has probably gotten more exposure and more sales from the AD600's secret menu than from their entire marketing department's efforts. Just leak the secret through some anonymous tip, and boost your sales immensely! It'll be interesting to see how many more of these "accidents" there are.
The goal should not be to write a metaformat with hooks so anyone can plug in their own algorithm; the goal should be to write a single application which implements LOTS of algorithms.
The problem with this is that there isn't just one program. Thus someone else has to implement the code, and can't use an existing library (for language reasons, design reasons, platform differences, etc.), and they may just do a partial implementation for their short-term needs, and then the long-term implementation may never happen. Moreover, even if they're more conscientious, they have to do more implementation than if only a few algorithms were needed, and some may give so little improvement it really isn't worth the support overhead.
Abandoning his patents completely leaves him at the mercy of other folks with patents. So here's what I think he should do. Make an open offer to anyone and everyone: agree not to enforce your business method/internet patents against me, and I shall do likewise. Then the patents are still of value as a preventative measure, but he has little incentive to use them offensively.
What is the big difference between a stand alone CD recorder and one that is hooked up to a computer? (other than the price of CD-Rs I understand)
The difference is that the manufacturer of the former must pay a tax for each such device manufactured, and by doing so and making the device respect anti-copying measures, they're legally entitled to sell it as a device for copying. Users of such a device are specifically legally entitled to copy digital audio to "audio" CD-Rs.
This particular law does *not* say what the rules are for CD-ROMs, VCRs, TiVo, and the like, for that one would have to read other laws regarding copyright and what restrictions are placed on the licensee.
It's almost amusing how they can spare staff to produce 70 minute soundtrack CDs, 24 minute DVD titles, a f*cking DnD based paper RPG, and a manual signed by the development team when they can't even get product out the door.
It's quite possible that the only contribution of the programming development team to this whole effort was their signatures. Game programming takes a whole bunch of people, most of whom don't have the skills to help finish the code. So instead they do the fluff while the code weenies furiously try to whack the game engine into shape.
*If* I had vast resources of money to burn, I would definitely hire a small team of programmers to work on a few opensource projects that I think are worthwhile.
I'd do something similar, but with a minor change; solicit programmers to work on open source projects *they* think are worthwhile. You can select the ones you want based on your impression of the value of their projects, of course. The key for open source development is that people who are working what they want to work on, work more productively. Since it's their choice of project, you should be able to offer moderately sub-standard wages and still get interest.
I like his idea of minimalist design, but I'm not so sure that I'm as zealous as him. For instance, when it comes to an FAQ, I absolutely detest having to view each answer individually.
But I don't think that was his answer. What he wanted was some way to separate the data from the format, so you could view a list of the questions, select one, and nigh-instantly have the contents up. You're thinking in terms of the browser limitation, that such an action takes probably 20 seconds and completely redraws the page. If it was more like a Windows tree view, this would be a much more viable model.
At work I view Slashdot in flat mode, just so I don't have to reload. At home, long Slashdot pages make Netscape crash my Windows 98 machine. So even the computer can affect how one wants to view stuff.
Have you ever USED VC++ or just seen screenshots and assumed it was exactly like KDevelop?
I've used it close to 8 hours a day every workday for the last 3.7 years. My biggest complaint about its windowing system is that it uses MDI, so you can't have multiple arbitrarily-sized edit windows. Also, everything that can be undocked wants to be on top of the main pane, you can't just select the edit pane to put it on top, you have to resize or close the undocked window.
It also has some weaknesses in that the "go to definition/reference" option doesn't work on stuff not in the selected subproject, even if it's part of the whole project, and likewise you can't select "compile" on a file that is not part of the active subproject. We broke our app so our model stuff is part of a.lib that gets linked into the main app, so I hit that all the time.
Their non-standard C++ is rather a pain also (things like the scope of variables in a for loop, whether new throws or returns NULL, the inability to define pure virtual functions, and so on.)
Their search engine has some neat extensions (such as the "Whole word only" checkbox), but significant limitations. There's no equivalent to grep's -L or -l, for example, and the checkbox settings have to be used for all pieces of an or'ed or and'ed search. I keep cygwin around largely to do complex search operations.
Still, there's a lot to like that should be learned from when one is developing an IDE. Unlike some IDEs (Metrowerks, for example), it creates text makefiles.
However, I am concerned about her tendency toward motion sickness. She can go to IMAX movies, but not the ones that have a lot of panning or swooping.
Not a problem with this movie. I felt it a bit during the previews (for Everest and the like), but not an ounce during Fantasia itself. They don't move the camera in the same way, and there's not the same sense of depth.
And if this thing ever gets a keyboard, I can see emacs ported over;).
It has a USB port, and thus keyboards are already available for it. The only issue is whether a pre-existing driver will work.
I wonder how possible it would be to write a driver to have the screen work in landscape rather than portrait mode, which would probably be better for text editing.
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Seems like they have clear-cut statements about what each category filters, but they also have a disclaimer about non-responsibility for errors and omissions.
But this isn't an "error", this is an active effort on their part. So they don't disclaim it, because they can't -- and thus there is clear grounds for a successful lawsuit.
As always, IANAL.
Basically you'd have lots of quakers and a couple of commanders who can see the whole battlefield from their command posts.
Note that it would be tough to get teams together on the fly. Unfortunately there are a whole lot of game "trolls", and you only need a few, who would join one side and then do their level best to hinder that side.
However, the clan concept might work well here. Each side in the battle would be a clan, so clanners presumably could rely on fellow clanners to play "right."
But, do you want to have your data at home? Or at some crappy internet providers' computer?
Both, for redundancy, accessibility, and speed reasons.
Yeah, Goldfinger took it.... oh wait, he was foiled by James Bond...
Actually, Goldfinger tried to irradiate it and make it unusable, there was simply too much to carry away.
But there's still 140 million ounces of gold at Fort Knox according to the U.S. Mint's web site.
They need some sort of objective metric, after all.
How about using the person's height? It's about as good a benchmark for evaluating their work...
I agree with the prediction that things will end up moving more towards centralized computer resources
It's not resources that will be centralized, it's data, and it's not centralization you want, it's ubiquitous access such that it all seems as-one personal database. I don't want 7 copies of my address book and manual synchronization, I want one master copy, and cached copies as needed. I want access to all my data no matter where I am and what machine I'm using.
The point you're ignoring is that big corporations are the product of big government;
Jon's point, I think, is that as corporations become larger, they get the power to influence governments and modify the playing field. That is the essence of corporatism: that large sums of money don't just mean you can play the game well, but that you can even change the rules to your advantage.
As for science being free ... um well when the people that ask for it will pay my rent, buy my groceries, and take care of my bills I'll be all for it
Seems to me like that's exactly what's happening in the Human Genome Project and others, the people are paying taxes to pay for the project.
people afflicted with this rare genetic disease have been known to randomly spew long-winded tirades of meaningless drivel and expect other people to care about it.
Umm, what's so danged rare about that?
Personally i think it good that it will play other region discs, but i doubt the dvd bosses will like it.
What with all these mainstream devices revealing secret methods for disabling region coding, I suspect that they aren't all accidents. Apex has probably gotten more exposure and more sales from the AD600's secret menu than from their entire marketing department's efforts. Just leak the secret through some anonymous tip, and boost your sales immensely! It'll be interesting to see how many more of these "accidents" there are.
The goal should not be to write a metaformat with hooks so anyone can plug in their own algorithm; the goal should be to write a single application which implements LOTS of algorithms.
The problem with this is that there isn't just one program. Thus someone else has to implement the code, and can't use an existing library (for language reasons, design reasons, platform differences, etc.), and they may just do a partial implementation for their short-term needs, and then the long-term implementation may never happen. Moreover, even if they're more conscientious, they have to do more implementation than if only a few algorithms were needed, and some may give so little improvement it really isn't worth the support overhead.
Trying to squeeze the last possible bit of use out of Galileo
My first thought when I read this? "I hope they don't expect too much, he's been dead for several hundred years..."
Abandoning his patents completely leaves him at the mercy of other folks with patents. So here's what I think he should do. Make an open offer to anyone and everyone: agree not to enforce your business method/internet patents against me, and I shall do likewise. Then the patents are still of value as a preventative measure, but he has little incentive to use them offensively.
What is the big difference between a stand alone CD recorder and one that is hooked up to a computer? (other than the price of CD-Rs I understand)
The difference is that the manufacturer of the former must pay a tax for each such device manufactured, and by doing so and making the device respect anti-copying measures, they're legally entitled to sell it as a device for copying. Users of such a device are specifically legally entitled to copy digital audio to "audio" CD-Rs.
This particular law does *not* say what the rules are for CD-ROMs, VCRs, TiVo, and the like, for that one would have to read other laws regarding copyright and what restrictions are placed on the licensee.
It's almost amusing how they can spare staff to produce 70 minute soundtrack CDs, 24 minute DVD titles, a f*cking DnD based paper RPG, and a manual signed by the development team when they can't even get product out the door.
It's quite possible that the only contribution of the programming development team to this whole effort was their signatures. Game programming takes a whole bunch of people, most of whom don't have the skills to help finish the code. So instead they do the fluff while the code weenies furiously try to whack the game engine into shape.
Every schoolchild knows that Bull Aldrin got there second
That should be "Buzz", as in Lightyear.
*If* I had vast resources of money to burn, I would definitely hire a small team of programmers to work on a few opensource projects that I think are worthwhile.
I'd do something similar, but with a minor change; solicit programmers to work on open source projects *they* think are worthwhile. You can select the ones you want based on your impression of the value of their projects, of course. The key for open source development is that people who are working what they want to work on, work more productively. Since it's their choice of project, you should be able to offer moderately sub-standard wages and still get interest.
I like his idea of minimalist design, but I'm not so sure that I'm as zealous as him. For instance, when it comes to an FAQ, I absolutely detest having to view each answer individually.
But I don't think that was his answer. What he wanted was some way to separate the data from the format, so you could view a list of the questions, select one, and nigh-instantly have the contents up. You're thinking in terms of the browser limitation, that such an action takes probably 20 seconds and completely redraws the page. If it was more like a Windows tree view, this would be a much more viable model.
At work I view Slashdot in flat mode, just so I don't have to reload. At home, long Slashdot pages make Netscape crash my Windows 98 machine. So even the computer can affect how one wants to view stuff.
Just for the record, I was born on Feb 29, 1980 in the middle of a massive snowstorm.
Gee, usually people are conceived during massive snowstorms. (Hey, ya gotta do something...;-)
Have you ever USED VC++ or just seen screenshots and assumed it was exactly like KDevelop?
.lib that gets linked into the main app, so I hit that all the time.
I've used it close to 8 hours a day every workday for the last 3.7 years. My biggest complaint about its windowing system is that it uses MDI, so you can't have multiple arbitrarily-sized edit windows. Also, everything that can be undocked wants to be on top of the main pane, you can't just select the edit pane to put it on top, you have to resize or close the undocked window.
It also has some weaknesses in that the "go to definition/reference" option doesn't work on stuff not in the selected subproject, even if it's part of the whole project, and likewise you can't select "compile" on a file that is not part of the active subproject. We broke our app so our model stuff is part of a
Their non-standard C++ is rather a pain also (things like the scope of variables in a for loop, whether new throws or returns NULL, the inability to define pure virtual functions, and so on.)
Their search engine has some neat extensions (such as the "Whole word only" checkbox), but significant limitations. There's no equivalent to grep's -L or -l, for example, and the checkbox settings have to be used for all pieces of an or'ed or and'ed search. I keep cygwin around largely to do complex search operations.
Still, there's a lot to like that should be learned from when one is developing an IDE. Unlike some IDEs (Metrowerks, for example), it creates text makefiles.
However, I am concerned about her tendency toward motion sickness. She can go to IMAX movies, but not the ones that have a lot of panning or swooping.
Not a problem with this movie. I felt it a bit during the previews (for Everest and the like), but not an ounce during Fantasia itself. They don't move the camera in the same way, and there's not the same sense of depth.
And if this thing ever gets a keyboard, I can see emacs ported over ;).
It has a USB port, and thus keyboards are already available for it. The only issue is whether a pre-existing driver will work.
I wonder how possible it would be to write a driver to have the screen work in landscape rather than portrait mode, which would probably be better for text editing.
Dude, if he's doing scat circles around most of you, then who the hell cleans up the ice?
No, he means scat as in the jazz singing style. So not only is he skating circles around them, he's also taunting them with singing...
"Shoobedobedo-wopbobadoobop.."
So put two of them in a drive bay, and have a RAID in the same space as the 40+ gig monstrosity. Even more of a speed advantage...
At the beginning of the article, he says that he signed an agreement NOT to do precisely what he's doing.
Actually, he said he wouldn't do it without Microsoft reviewing it, which seems like a subtle way of telling us that he had to write a "nice" piece.