From the patent: "The meaning of 'kword' is up to the interpreter. SGML specifies rules for insertion of tags into the content stream and how tags are to be differentiated from the content."
They discuss how SMGL allows the interpreter to determine the semantics of "kword" so clearly (IMO) they acknowledge the pre-existance of the idea of separation of expression of "architecture" from the expression of content.
I didn't get all the way through the application so I don't know the specifics of the manipulation they are staking claim to but by my interpretation, there is no danger to XML since XML is a direct descendant of SGML.
Their claim is they are selling a *license* to use the thing, not the thing itself. The price is what you pay to experience the product. It's the same argument as other media (ripping music, taking your camcorder into a theater). I think it a perfectly reasonable argument.
The car example that another poster offered is not valid since the business model the car company put together bakes in the used car market.... a car has a much longer shelf life than an "experience". Another poster made the point that game makers should create a game that has a longer shelf life... sure that would be great but it's much harder and not worth the price we would have to pay for it. If you don't want to pay full-price for a game, wait until it's no longer "hot" then by it once the company drops it's prices (which is what the game companies *should* be focused on to protect themselves from reselling)
There's a lot of focus on the methodologies the Developers need to focus on to achive agility. For me the biggest challenge in my current organization has not been the developers doing things the agile way but getting the customer (or in our case product development... the customer's representative) to be able to think in smaller, self-contained chunks. Some of this may be that we are dealing with a complete rewrite of an existing system... perhaps agile is better suited towards incremental improvements of an existing code-base rather than a "port" style project.
In summary, our biggest hurdle seems to have been getting the product sponsors to think in smaller chunks. Not in us implementing an agile methodology within engineering but rather across the organization.
Over the past 20 years SciAm seems to have moved more towards technology/applied articles than pure science. I remember a much higher number (per issue) of pure mathemetics/physics/anthropology/etc articles.
Maybe there's something to the position some have taken is that there is nothing left to discover;-)
An alternative view might be that the number of "pure science" (i.e. academic) journals keeps growing and it's more important for the already strapped academics to keep churning out articles in the peer-review journals.
When I saw the first couple of episodes of B5, I almost wrote it off; the acting was so piss poor. The fact that it *was* a serial, that it existed within the trajectory of a much larger (and sometimes subtly addressed) plot, was really hooked me. Having characters and plots develop/evolve over time like that was fantastic.
I look forward to further character development (though I am fearful of the short format and the tendancy to try and wrap things up in neat packages by the end)
BTW.. a couple of interesting trivia points I came across over the past couple of years.
Billy Mumy (also of lost in space fame) also did a stint as a Jazz composer. He wrote a "famous" song that was featured on Dr Demento (yllor yllop hsif sdaeh)
Also... my brother in law loaned me a story about a psi cop... written by one "Alfred Bester". I'm sure there are many sci-fi heads who have heard of this guy.. apparently he had some influence on the field... I had not heard of him before reading this book a year ago. It seems Ellison (creative consultant to JMS) was a big fan of Bester's to the point where he called a hospital Bester was dying and and pretended to be a reporter to make sure the hospital took good care of him.
ok... off to lunch.
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From the patent: "The meaning of 'kword' is up to the interpreter. SGML specifies rules for insertion of tags into the content stream and how tags are to be differentiated from the content." They discuss how SMGL allows the interpreter to determine the semantics of "kword" so clearly (IMO) they acknowledge the pre-existance of the idea of separation of expression of "architecture" from the expression of content. I didn't get all the way through the application so I don't know the specifics of the manipulation they are staking claim to but by my interpretation, there is no danger to XML since XML is a direct descendant of SGML.
Their claim is they are selling a *license* to use the thing, not the thing itself. The price is what you pay to experience the product. It's the same argument as other media (ripping music, taking your camcorder into a theater). I think it a perfectly reasonable argument. The car example that another poster offered is not valid since the business model the car company put together bakes in the used car market.... a car has a much longer shelf life than an "experience". Another poster made the point that game makers should create a game that has a longer shelf life... sure that would be great but it's much harder and not worth the price we would have to pay for it. If you don't want to pay full-price for a game, wait until it's no longer "hot" then by it once the company drops it's prices (which is what the game companies *should* be focused on to protect themselves from reselling)
There's a lot of focus on the methodologies the Developers need to focus on to achive agility. For me the biggest challenge in my current organization has not been the developers doing things the agile way but getting the customer (or in our case product development... the customer's representative) to be able to think in smaller, self-contained chunks. Some of this may be that we are dealing with a complete rewrite of an existing system... perhaps agile is better suited towards incremental improvements of an existing code-base rather than a "port" style project. In summary, our biggest hurdle seems to have been getting the product sponsors to think in smaller chunks. Not in us implementing an agile methodology within engineering but rather across the organization.
Over the past 20 years SciAm seems to have moved more towards technology/applied articles than pure science. I remember a much higher number (per issue) of pure mathemetics/physics/anthropology/etc articles. Maybe there's something to the position some have taken is that there is nothing left to discover ;-)
An alternative view might be that the number of "pure science" (i.e. academic) journals keeps growing and it's more important for the already strapped academics to keep churning out articles in the peer-review journals.
64% move on to more violent games like centipede.
When I saw the first couple of episodes of B5, I almost wrote it off; the acting was so piss poor. The fact that it *was* a serial, that it existed within the trajectory of a much larger (and sometimes subtly addressed) plot, was really hooked me. Having characters and plots develop/evolve over time like that was fantastic. I look forward to further character development (though I am fearful of the short format and the tendancy to try and wrap things up in neat packages by the end) BTW.. a couple of interesting trivia points I came across over the past couple of years. Billy Mumy (also of lost in space fame) also did a stint as a Jazz composer. He wrote a "famous" song that was featured on Dr Demento (yllor yllop hsif sdaeh) Also... my brother in law loaned me a story about a psi cop... written by one "Alfred Bester". I'm sure there are many sci-fi heads who have heard of this guy.. apparently he had some influence on the field... I had not heard of him before reading this book a year ago. It seems Ellison (creative consultant to JMS) was a big fan of Bester's to the point where he called a hospital Bester was dying and and pretended to be a reporter to make sure the hospital took good care of him. ok... off to lunch.