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• On the post: Ubisoft's Despised DRM Continues To Annoy, Fail

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 05:01pm

  Re: Boring...

  *I heard AC2...

• On the post: Ubisoft's Despised DRM Continues To Annoy, Fail

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 05:00pm

  Boring...

  I got bored half-way through the first AC. It was the same thing over and over and over and over....... I heard AC has some extra special (extra-special?) moves and better graphics...yippee. I can understand why people bothered to hack the DRM, but why would anyone bother actually playing the game???

• On the post: Ubisoft's Despised DRM Continues To Annoy, Fail

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 04:56pm

  Re: Speak with your $$

  That's the way it's SUPPOSED to work. The way things are going nowadsys, they'll spend millions of dollars to get lobbyists to pass a new bill REQUIRING you to play their game....for $24.95 a month, of course.

• On the post: Ubisoft's Despised DRM Continues To Annoy, Fail

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 04:54pm

  Re: Re: Next time

  They'll be there some time between 8 and 12...

• On the post: Ubisoft's Despised DRM Continues To Annoy, Fail

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 04:53pm

  Re:

  BUYING a game and then having to continuously pay out the wazzoo just to keep playing it is the sole reason that I DON'T play a lot of online games.

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 01:36pm

  Re: Re: Invention == innovation++

  Or...
  
  Problem -> Invention -> Innovation -> Marketable product -> Innovation
  Process repeats indefinitely, and "Marketable product" can move laterally anywhere in there.
  
  However...
  Problem -> Invention -> POSSIBLY marketable product -> Patent -> GOTO "Problem", and start over.

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Invention == innovation++

  "You 'invent' a transistor, and you innovate upon that invention to create computers, radio, TV's and so on. You also invent new things that use allready invented things such as the transistor. Patents and invention promote innovation and further invention. And rewards those that do that for us."
  
  You are absolutely correct that inventions lead to innovations upon that invention, and possibly other inventions. Patents have NOTHING to do with that process. If the light bulb, or the transistor, or the electron tube, had never been patented, the following inventions and innovations would still have occured. Patents only serve to get people paid for having an idea; if you have an invention and want to make money off it, sell the physical product, don't lean on the government.

• On the post: US Convicts Nigerian 419 Email Scammer

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 01:15pm

  Love the TV commercials

  I love the TV commercials that depict someone walking up and saying "I have a $10 million check here for you and all I need is a $5000 processing fee...."

• On the post: Now, Apparently It's Not Just Content Providers That Are Getting A Free Ride On Broadband Networks, But Consumers Too

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 01:02pm

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  "access to free content they dont want to pay for legally."
  
  1)Most, though admittedly not all, people access the internet via an ISP for which they are paying.
  2)If they're paying for internet access, and they're not breaking any laws, who cares what or how they download? Caveat: a lot of laws need to be changed; moving on.
  3)Syntax fail: how does one pay for content ILlegally? Why are they PAYING for FREE content?

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 12:37pm

  problem-invention-innovation

  Problem: warming homes and cooking food in open fireplaces is dangerous.
  
  Invention: Franklin stove (Ben Franklin intentionally DECLINED a patent)
  
  Innovation: EVERY currently existing closed wood-burning stove
  
  From http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/frankstove.htm
  Governor Thomas, even offered to give Franklin a patent for the sole right of producing and vending them. However Franklin declined because he believed that peoples appreciation of his invention was better then any financial reward. He wrote in his autobiography, "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously"
  
  One of the greatest inventors of all time was opposed patents because he thought that the potentional innovations were better than the inventions themselves; and yet here we are with multi-million dollar lawsuits because people are trying to innovate upon someone else's invention.
  
  Still not convinced? The original Franklin stove, while it solved the problem he was trying to solve, sucked! It was innovators who made it better; and are STILL making it better today.

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 12:20pm

  Re: You dont know the difference between Invention and Innovation:

  Mike says: "Real innovation is a process of continually trying out new ideas and tweaking them slightly until you figure out what really attracts the market's attention."
  
  Darryl says: "An INVENTION is the REAL and PRACTICAL, WORKING design, it's not a theoretical idea. It's a practical method of doing something.
  INNOVATION, is the application of existing inventions to do something different or not expected when the original invention was invented."
  
  I'm not seeing where your points disagree with Mike, Darryl. With your arguments, you seem more to prove his position and counter your own. Which tells me that you're arguing with him because of WHO HE IS and not because of WHAT HE THINKS.

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 12:12pm

  Re: Innovation vs Invention

  innovate: –verb (used without object)
  1.to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
  
  invent: verb (used with object)
  1.to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
  2.to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.
  3.to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
  
  The only part where innovate and invent cross paths is the "something new" part. However, an innovation is the INTRODUCTION of something new, whereas an invention is the CREATION of something new. Similar, yes, but not the same.

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 12:09pm

  Re:

  "changing the color of the box something comes in is innovation"
  
  Just like trading Bush for Obama? (yeah i went there)

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 12:06pm

  Re:

  "A good example of innovation by imitation is Apple's borrowing the concept of the GUI interface from Xerox"
  
  ...and they're being sued because they put someone else's idea to good use for profit.
  
  "If we augmented the patent laws with something akin to fair use (from copyright law) it would help tremendously"
  
  Augment - verb (used with object)
  1.to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase
  
  No. No more "augmentation" bull. By definition, all that does is make government bigger. Change it, scrap and start over, make Constitutional amendments, but don't augment it.

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 11:52am

  Re: Re: Re: @1

  Interestingly, you just proved that "social learning" works.

• On the post: Innovation By Imitation: Study Shows That Success Comes From Imitation

  

  DJ ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 11:50am

  Re:

  "if everyone is watch and nobody is doing there is nobody to learn from"
  
  That logic suggests that NOBODY will EVER do anything, which is clearly false. Even the laziest among us (guilty as charged) eventually have to get up and do SOMETHING. When we do, whoever is watching could learn from our success or failure.
  The reason it's costly is that you have to wait for that eventuality. How many cliches are there akin to "no free lunch", "no pain no gain"...etc?

• On the post: Yet Another Cheating Red Light Camera

  

  DJ ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2010 @ 05:56pm

  Re: cameras Vs timing

  Here's an even better solution, and it's 100% free to taxpayers:
  Teach your kids right from wrong!! Be a parent! Teach them that their actions have consequences, and the likelihood of them breaking the law decreases.
  Don't let the government raise your kids; they'll only teach according to their own agenda.
  
  /soap-box

• On the post: Yet Another Cheating Red Light Camera

  

  DJ ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2010 @ 05:50pm

  Re: Too big they fail

  The very first President and Congressional members earned a whopping salary of $0.00. Their position in Congress was actually that of SERVICE. In today's world I think it would make things a little awkward for them to have to find another job, but a $100K or greater salary is F-ing ridiculous!
  Three solutions:
  1)Congressional term limits -- perhaps 4 terms
  2)Congressional salary cap of $75K
  3)While lobbying for stuff is acceptable, make professional lobbyists illegal

• On the post: Irish Judge OKs Three Strikes, Calls Copyright A Human Right

  

  DJ ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2010 @ 06:42pm

  Why we left...and yet....

  "The right to be identified with and to reasonably exploit one's own original creative endeavour I regard as a human right."
  
  One of the reasons the original settlers of this land LEFT Europe was because lawmakers/enforcers/judges employed OPINION with regard to the law, not necessarily upholding the law itself. And yet we're starting to see this sort of thing in the States as well....

• On the post: Judge Rules: Drunk Moron In A Hurry Wouldn't Know Tequila From Maker's Mark

  

  DJ ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2010 @ 05:13pm

  Monster effect...

  This has become an epidemic. Apparently Monster cable started a fad....

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