Why just patents? Copyright must go too. (Score:5, Interesting)
It's hard to take this statement too seriously on a site that thinks NASA shouldn't be able to patent a working Warp Drive because they saw it on Star Trek.
Kids can be flooded with unlimited fictional violence on TV, movies and video games but the real thing is suddenly objectionable?
I bolded the operational word. If you want to argue with me please browse the images of Rotten.com before coming by to tell me Hollywood violence is the same.
Before anyone starts jumping on Fox News for whatever axe they have to grind with them, please substitute Fox News with "CNN" or "MSNBC" and ask yourself if your vitriol would be just the same.
I am going to be completely up front and honest about this. It's gonna show that I'm a jerk. But I do have an issue with the way this article is presented. The title of this story says a 'suicide went viral'. If my anecdote is any indication, I don't think that's quite true. I didn't seek out that video to watch a suicide. Instead I went to find it so I could see Fox News screw up.
The story I heard on the radio about this while driving home wasn't that a guy committed suicide, but that Fox News aired it and claimed it was accidental. The radio personalities were accusing Fox News of airing the suicide just to get ratings. Mainly they took issue with the delay only being 5 seconds and how anybody knows it could take longer than that to have it sink in what was happening.
No hard feelings if you think I'm a bad person for it, but yeah I'm always game to watch Fox News screw up. I'm not interested in digging up videos of people dying, it's not something I've ever Google or YouTube searched for.
If he hadn't been doing something illegal already, he'd still be walking the streets right now, video or not.
This is why I mentioned the bit about 'if you have nothing to hide.'. If he hadn't had that criminal history behind him, what else do you think they would have dug up on him? "We found he downloaded 6 mp3 files, bring him in!"
True, but let's not pretend that once he got the attention that it didn't become somebody's job to dig this up. I'm not defending the asshole, rather the phrase "If you have nothing to hide...."" is echoing through my head right now.
What's also a fact is that you didn't bother doing a simple Google search before posting. Instead of making a point, you outed yourself as a thick-skulled fanboy who, if Murphy is listening, will soon discover the offline mode doesn't always work.
The simplest way to explain Steam is that it is DRM done right.
Speaking as somebody who recently lived in a hotel with shitty wifi for 6 months, I have to chuckle at that statement. It stopped being "DRM done right" when it decided it wouldn't let me play my single-player game while the wifi was down.
Don't get me wrong, I do agree with most of your post, especially the point about it being a deterrent to piracy, but really it's not 'right' it's just courteously applied lube.
the defining range problem is easy- when you click down, that is your zero point, when you roll it up as Fwy as you can, it's equal to spreading your fingers apart as far as you can, and vice versa.
Mice do not have a standard for telling the computer that the user has completed a quarter turn. The configurability of the OS compounds this problem.
the problem about the software knowing when it's a zoom and when it's a multi-touch pinch... Can't you bind the click wheel to always equal a multi-touch pinch, and just let the position of the mouse determine whether to zoom or not, just like pinching in certain areas on the screen?
Lots of 'pinch to zoom' apps also handle rotation. That means the gesture is not as simple as "X and Y plus Distance'. It becomes "x1, y1 plus x2, y2". You're trying to control four inputs with only 3 outputs. You'll be able to make certain circumstances work, and that's about it.
You're gonna end up with a lot of apps not working right.
I never said it was a replacement for multi-touch-input.
I didn't say you said it was. What I said was the app emulating the Android device would need to know the difference between being a generic multi-touch gesture and an actual 'zoom' or you're going to get undesired behaviour.
I know you're not convinced, but that actually is a pretty compelling argument of why it's not as simple as you've made it out to be. Think about it.
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Absolutism does not an argument make and history does not agree with you.
No patents, no innovation.
Why just patents? Copyright must go too. (Score:5, Interesting)
It's hard to take this statement too seriously on a site that thinks NASA shouldn't be able to patent a working Warp Drive because they saw it on Star Trek.
Kids can be flooded with unlimited fictional violence on TV, movies and video games but the real thing is suddenly objectionable?
I bolded the operational word. If you want to argue with me please browse the images of Rotten.com before coming by to tell me Hollywood violence is the same.
Before anyone starts jumping on Fox News for whatever axe they have to grind with them, please substitute Fox News with "CNN" or "MSNBC" and ask yourself if your vitriol would be just the same.
I am going to be completely up front and honest about this. It's gonna show that I'm a jerk. But I do have an issue with the way this article is presented. The title of this story says a 'suicide went viral'. If my anecdote is any indication, I don't think that's quite true. I didn't seek out that video to watch a suicide. Instead I went to find it so I could see Fox News screw up.
The story I heard on the radio about this while driving home wasn't that a guy committed suicide, but that Fox News aired it and claimed it was accidental. The radio personalities were accusing Fox News of airing the suicide just to get ratings. Mainly they took issue with the delay only being 5 seconds and how anybody knows it could take longer than that to have it sink in what was happening.
No hard feelings if you think I'm a bad person for it, but yeah I'm always game to watch Fox News screw up. I'm not interested in digging up videos of people dying, it's not something I've ever Google or YouTube searched for.
He's a consumer and thus is automatically entitled and owed everything that he wants and demands.
If this behaviour bothers you, don't evangelize OSS.
You have the timeline ass-backwards... His parole officer would have to be blind and deaf not to pick up he had broken his conditional freedom.
*Sigh* I wish people would read my posts a little more carefully.
Bummer, I guess the *nix hipsters will have to migrate to BSD.
Corporations are people too... thus your statement is true.
I've actually heard Limbaugh make this argument.
Way to miss the point. Seriously.
You forgot to enable Steam's Offline Mode.
No, I didn't.
It's not as gratifying as posting a complaint, but it would've taken less time and energy just to google it.
You mean like Googling to see if there's a problem with the off-line mode?
Don't forget to do that search. You'll want to know about when the off-line mode fails before it bites you.
If he hadn't been doing something illegal already, he'd still be walking the streets right now, video or not.
This is why I mentioned the bit about 'if you have nothing to hide.'. If he hadn't had that criminal history behind him, what else do you think they would have dug up on him? "We found he downloaded 6 mp3 files, bring him in!"
True, but let's not pretend that once he got the attention that it didn't become somebody's job to dig this up. I'm not defending the asshole, rather the phrase "If you have nothing to hide...."" is echoing through my head right now.
What's also a fact is that you didn't bother doing a simple Google search before posting. Instead of making a point, you outed yourself as a thick-skulled fanboy who, if Murphy is listening, will soon discover the offline mode doesn't always work.
Classy.
I know, I've done this, and after a while it wants to talk to mothershio again. I'm not the only one who has encountered this.
Go do a Google search.
Steam doesn't require online access to play games once they've been downloaded.
Yes, it does. It re-authenticates every couple of weeks or so. Trust me, I gnashed my teeth quite a bit during that hotel stay.
The simplest way to explain Steam is that it is DRM done right.
Speaking as somebody who recently lived in a hotel with shitty wifi for 6 months, I have to chuckle at that statement. It stopped being "DRM done right" when it decided it wouldn't let me play my single-player game while the wifi was down.
Don't get me wrong, I do agree with most of your post, especially the point about it being a deterrent to piracy, but really it's not 'right' it's just courteously applied lube.
"Wakey wakey, hands off snakey!"
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Try the Phandroid Forums.
On that note, I would like to thank you for the civil debate.
Cheers man, you've been great to talk to as well. Have a nice weekend. :)
There are way more linux users than you realize Mr AC.
Do any of them have a sense of humor?
the defining range problem is easy- when you click down, that is your zero point, when you roll it up as Fwy as you can, it's equal to spreading your fingers apart as far as you can, and vice versa.
Mice do not have a standard for telling the computer that the user has completed a quarter turn. The configurability of the OS compounds this problem.
the problem about the software knowing when it's a zoom and when it's a multi-touch pinch... Can't you bind the click wheel to always equal a multi-touch pinch, and just let the position of the mouse determine whether to zoom or not, just like pinching in certain areas on the screen?
Lots of 'pinch to zoom' apps also handle rotation. That means the gesture is not as simple as "X and Y plus Distance'. It becomes "x1, y1 plus x2, y2". You're trying to control four inputs with only 3 outputs. You'll be able to make certain circumstances work, and that's about it.
You're gonna end up with a lot of apps not working right.
I never said it was a replacement for multi-touch-input.
I didn't say you said it was. What I said was the app emulating the Android device would need to know the difference between being a generic multi-touch gesture and an actual 'zoom' or you're going to get undesired behaviour.
I know you're not convinced, but that actually is a pretty compelling argument of why it's not as simple as you've made it out to be. Think about it.