At least that story was kinda funny in a perverse way. The thought of someone taking legalese nonsense and trying to respond with their own nonsense sticks it to the legal profession and pokes fun at the corporations trying to control software this way. The only thing that makes it kinda sad is that it went beyond a joke and is wasting real life legal resources.
That last part makes me think you, like a lot of others, didn't actually bother reading the article about the EULA and the Cat. Then again I have always said that conjecture makes for more interesting argument than reality or fact.
I love Empire Total War, but the battle AI is far from perfect. Though the two things that really made me scratch my head was 1) That after the Independence of the Thirteen Colonies the troops still say "Yes Your Majesty"; even though they have an elected President. 2) First turn of the last chapter of The Road to Independence; Great Britain wanted me to give them Main offering technology and Gibraltar in exchange. And every turn their after they kept offering crap in exchange for Main; though nothing quite as stupid as Gibraltar.
So clearly the Battle AI isn't the only part in need of some work. Now got a military campaign to run so I can't sit here talking to you people all day.
What pisses me off about these blogs (techdirt is another), is how doggone smug they seem about the whole thing, with the implication that they (the bloggers) have found a business model that works for writers and creative artists; everyone else needs to get with it and adopt a similar approach.
Truism and elitism exists everywhere in all fields, categories and subjects. There are those that find something that works for them and then become True Believers; believing that their way is the true and future path and that that other ways are trivial, unimportant or misguided.
Personally I believe in diversity, there are many paths, many ways to take to happiness, success, or whatever other goal you might have. What works for me might not work for others, that does not mean my way is better, or that their ways are better; they are different. Different, but equal. However some ways are more equal than others and if you don't believe like me then obviously you are an insensitive misguided cloth!
You want to amend a document that's only been changed 27 times in ~200 years over computer software? Just think about what you are advocating for a minute.
While I for the most part agree with your post; altering the constitution of the United States over computer software still seems more reasonable then to change it because a possibly real or fictive deity might possibly have told some possibly real or mythical person(s) that marriage should be between a male and a female.
Quoted from the article:
"That has not discouraged the Stanford engineers who say they are on a mission to âoereinvent the Internet.â They argue that their new strategy is intended to allow new ideas to emerge in an evolutionary fashion, making it possible to move data traffic seamlessly to a new networking world. Like the existing Internet, the new network will almost certainly have no one central point of control and no one organization will run it. It is most likely to emerge as new hardware and software are built in to the router computers that run todayâ(TM)s network and are adopted as Internet standards."
While I would never move to such a "gated community" (willingly) the article, as I read it, speaks of the creation of such a community were people can go willingly and leave willingly while keeping the current "internet" on the side.
As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your shoulder while you were there."
So while I agree with some of the sentiments in your post I feel you are slightly missing the point of the article (stupid as the point in the article might or might not be).
Might be a good idea to go make some bacteria bombs before they finish building those tripedal walkers.
Check. I'll go down to the local kindergarten and start collection specimens; you begin assembling the deliver mechanism (though I reckon just holding up a kid a making it sneeze should do the trick).
And won't people figure out a way to beat the armor, or beat the system. Imagine a sniper rifle that fires a decoy bullet, that knocks the target down (as he evades the first bullet) and puts the armor wearer in a prone position on the ground, making him or her easy to target. Or perhaps a decoy bullet is shot from one barrel and the real bullet follows in a pre-calculated trajectory requiring no manual aiming for the sniper. Perhaps a bullet can be made undetectable to the electromagnetic pulse that the armor gives off. Maybe the armor can be jammed? You fire a bullet with an electromagnetic pulse destabilizer and then pick off your target when the armor fails.
If and buts were candy and nuts everyday would be Christmas!
Oh brilliant. So all you need is a rocket built to home in on EM waves from the armor?
And if you are McGyver you might be able to create such a rocket, and a launch system, with pocket lint and 5$ worth of stuff from radioshack. If not, you might need a bit of a budget to actually create the targeting mechanism.
Long range sniper kills of this type represent an insignificant minority of deaths
Snipers aren't about killing lots of people, but about killing the right people. The death of one person might be trivial compared to the total number of soldiers, but killing a high ranking officer, or essential intelligence personnel, can be very effective even if that one dead person is statistically insignificant.
Imagine streaming video so clear you can actually sense the actresses' emotional issues!
Not to mention all the scar-tissue from aesthetic surgery and skin ravaged by too much make-up. High-resolution could be a bit of a problem for some; thankfully they are making improvements to CGI every year.
I guess that is kinda the idea behind an Investigation and a trial. Do collect evidence, examine evidence, ensure that said evidence is correct, then present it in a court for consideration. Just putting out a bounty doesn't mean hackers can "just frame someone" and then collect the reward. In fact, under the current set of laws, framing someone would be a far more serious crime than the worm itself.
Of course clones could be a great way for others to see what works and what doesn't, what feature is worth noting and etc. Of course if your product does the same as a few other products and in no way better or worse; just less used; you could consider jumping aboard a bigger distro. One could assume that certain things regarding making and maintaining a workable distro is made easier with resources and capacity.
I reckon a strong broadly supported Desktop distro could help make Linux even more mainstream; thus benefiting the niche to as more resources and energy get channelled into various Linux apps and the core itself.
I reckon the core of this is more and more realizing the future is diverse when it comes to operating systems. Already some run Microsoft systems, while others run Linux distros or other systems. Coming out with Wine as a supported platform can mean that when a company or person decides to switch to a Linux based system that person know that they can chose one of their familiar alternatives and that it will run under Wine. This not only helps make it easier for certain people to make the switch to a Liunx system it also gives the companies that declares Wine a supported platform with an "early" in; into what promises to be a bigger marked than most of the old guard within Open Source might accept or realize.
While there might be free alternatives certain companies and organization isn't looking for free. They are looking for function and more importantly; support.
I think the main problem with multiple versions, in this case, is that previous versions of Windows had several versions, at different prices, without actually including something that fully justified the extra cost.
The idea of having different versions for different users is a good idea, but when it is confusing and pointless it becomes just another strategy for getting profit from nothing.
A new version of an operating system actually working better and more efficiently than the last version? Oh my how will this end; surely someone have made a mistake. My past experience dictates that this is exactly the opposite of how things should be. Each new version should siphon away more and more of the resources to pointless and trivial tasks to ensure that we never get the full capacity of our computer; thus increasing our incentive to buy new shiny gadgets and hardware! Oh bring back the glory days of our past!
It could be considered relevant in this matter that Microsoft have about 900 million euro in unpaid fines; the EU is increasingly annoyed by this and therefore considers a variation of measures.
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Wouldn't it have been better to rename it Speculative Fiction channel or something like that.
At least that story was kinda funny in a perverse way. The thought of someone taking legalese nonsense and trying to respond with their own nonsense sticks it to the legal profession and pokes fun at the corporations trying to control software this way. The only thing that makes it kinda sad is that it went beyond a joke and is wasting real life legal resources.
That last part makes me think you, like a lot of others, didn't actually bother reading the article about the EULA and the Cat. Then again I have always said that conjecture makes for more interesting argument than reality or fact.
I love Empire Total War, but the battle AI is far from perfect. Though the two things that really made me scratch my head was
1) That after the Independence of the Thirteen Colonies the troops still say "Yes Your Majesty"; even though they have an elected President.
2) First turn of the last chapter of The Road to Independence; Great Britain wanted me to give them Main offering technology and Gibraltar in exchange. And every turn their after they kept offering crap in exchange for Main; though nothing quite as stupid as Gibraltar.
So clearly the Battle AI isn't the only part in need of some work. Now got a military campaign to run so I can't sit here talking to you people all day.
What pisses me off about these blogs (techdirt is another), is how doggone smug they seem about the whole thing, with the implication that they (the bloggers) have found a business model that works for writers and creative artists; everyone else needs to get with it and adopt a similar approach.
Truism and elitism exists everywhere in all fields, categories and subjects. There are those that find something that works for them and then become True Believers; believing that their way is the true and future path and that that other ways are trivial, unimportant or misguided.
Personally I believe in diversity, there are many paths, many ways to take to happiness, success, or whatever other goal you might have. What works for me might not work for others, that does not mean my way is better, or that their ways are better; they are different. Different, but equal. However some ways are more equal than others and if you don't believe like me then obviously you are an insensitive misguided cloth!
My full name in quotes retuned me 9 hits on Google :P
All of them are me in various phone registers and a guestbook entry I made about 9 years ago.
You want to amend a document that's only been changed 27 times in ~200 years over computer software? Just think about what you are advocating for a minute.
While I for the most part agree with your post; altering the constitution of the United States over computer software still seems more reasonable then to change it because a possibly real or fictive deity might possibly have told some possibly real or mythical person(s) that marriage should be between a male and a female.
Quoted from the article:
"That has not discouraged the Stanford engineers who say they are on a mission to âoereinvent the Internet.â They argue that their new strategy is intended to allow new ideas to emerge in an evolutionary fashion, making it possible to move data traffic seamlessly to a new networking world. Like the existing Internet, the new network will almost certainly have no one central point of control and no one organization will run it. It is most likely to emerge as new hardware and software are built in to the router computers that run todayâ(TM)s network and are adopted as Internet standards."
As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your shoulder while you were there."
So while I agree with some of the sentiments in your post I feel you are slightly missing the point of the article (stupid as the point in the article might or might not be).
And here I thought it was porn and free movies and music.
Sometimes I don't even know right now who/what it is that prevents them from having their way with the net.
Fear of losing customers i.e. money?
But.. but... I want to blame random people for unrelated problems! Damn you it is my right as an ignorant insensitive cloth!
Might be a good idea to go make some bacteria bombs before they finish building those tripedal walkers.
Check. I'll go down to the local kindergarten and start collection specimens; you begin assembling the deliver mechanism (though I reckon just holding up a kid a making it sneeze should do the trick).
And won't people figure out a way to beat the armor, or beat the system. Imagine a sniper rifle that fires a decoy bullet, that knocks the target down (as he evades the first bullet) and puts the armor wearer in a prone position on the ground, making him or her easy to target. Or perhaps a decoy bullet is shot from one barrel and the real bullet follows in a pre-calculated trajectory requiring no manual aiming for the sniper. Perhaps a bullet can be made undetectable to the electromagnetic pulse that the armor gives off. Maybe the armor can be jammed? You fire a bullet with an electromagnetic pulse destabilizer and then pick off your target when the armor fails.
If and buts were candy and nuts everyday would be Christmas!
Oh brilliant. So all you need is a rocket built to home in on EM waves from the armor?
And if you are McGyver you might be able to create such a rocket, and a launch system, with pocket lint and 5$ worth of stuff from radioshack. If not, you might need a bit of a budget to actually create the targeting mechanism.
Long range sniper kills of this type represent an insignificant minority of deaths
Snipers aren't about killing lots of people, but about killing the right people. The death of one person might be trivial compared to the total number of soldiers, but killing a high ranking officer, or essential intelligence personnel, can be very effective even if that one dead person is statistically insignificant.
Imagine streaming video so clear you can actually sense the actresses' emotional issues!
Not to mention all the scar-tissue from aesthetic surgery and skin ravaged by too much make-up. High-resolution could be a bit of a problem for some; thankfully they are making improvements to CGI every year.
I guess that is kinda the idea behind an Investigation and a trial. Do collect evidence, examine evidence, ensure that said evidence is correct, then present it in a court for consideration. Just putting out a bounty doesn't mean hackers can "just frame someone" and then collect the reward. In fact, under the current set of laws, framing someone would be a far more serious crime than the worm itself.
Of course clones could be a great way for others to see what works and what doesn't, what feature is worth noting and etc. Of course if your product does the same as a few other products and in no way better or worse; just less used; you could consider jumping aboard a bigger distro. One could assume that certain things regarding making and maintaining a workable distro is made easier with resources and capacity.
I reckon a strong broadly supported Desktop distro could help make Linux even more mainstream; thus benefiting the niche to as more resources and energy get channelled into various Linux apps and the core itself.
I reckon the core of this is more and more realizing the future is diverse when it comes to operating systems. Already some run Microsoft systems, while others run Linux distros or other systems. Coming out with Wine as a supported platform can mean that when a company or person decides to switch to a Linux based system that person know that they can chose one of their familiar alternatives and that it will run under Wine. This not only helps make it easier for certain people to make the switch to a Liunx system it also gives the companies that declares Wine a supported platform with an "early" in; into what promises to be a bigger marked than most of the old guard within Open Source might accept or realize.
While there might be free alternatives certain companies and organization isn't looking for free. They are looking for function and more importantly; support.
I think the main problem with multiple versions, in this case, is that previous versions of Windows had several versions, at different prices, without actually including something that fully justified the extra cost.
The idea of having different versions for different users is a good idea, but when it is confusing and pointless it becomes just another strategy for getting profit from nothing.
And to think it only took them eight years and one eight-billion-dollar miss-try to do it slightly better.
A new version of an operating system actually working better and more efficiently than the last version? Oh my how will this end; surely someone have made a mistake. My past experience dictates that this is exactly the opposite of how things should be. Each new version should siphon away more and more of the resources to pointless and trivial tasks to ensure that we never get the full capacity of our computer; thus increasing our incentive to buy new shiny gadgets and hardware! Oh bring back the glory days of our past!
And so on and so on and so on.
According to experts 30 years ago, the was simply no way we could produce enough food for 5 billion people. Now we're doing it for 7.
I guess that is why there is no starvation or death from hunger in the world. Hurray.
It could be considered relevant in this matter that Microsoft have about 900 million euro in unpaid fines; the EU is increasingly annoyed by this and therefore considers a variation of measures.