no, I understand the differences. I also know that commercial exploitation of my work product is pretty much the same thing. I can't fight them, they've got the money and the power. all I've got is my ideas. Gotta have a new one every day
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based on this answer http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/41686/5624 I wonder - can I kill .... a rat, put all my things inside of him and just push him to nearest city(without slowing down) then extract my stuff and sell them?
major corporations like apple and amazon can patent stupid things, things that shouldn't be patented. things like gestures on a smartphone or "one click ordering" that (usually) have been around forever. If that was my idea, as a lone innovator, I have no recourse.
I could try to take them to court and spend years with the EFF on my side, and maybe I'd win. maybe.
works for copyrights too though, if they copied my content outright, then I can DMCA them, perhaps. if they just copied the idea behind my program, I can't dmca them for "putting together a bundle like the indie bundle I put together"
I'm speaking about ideas. Exact duplication of content, yes, there's a method in place that was written to "protect" large content producers that occasionally helps smaller content producers.
but I would argue that most of the time it's possible to change content just enough to capture a market, even though it wasn't your idea to begin with.
the legal system is mainly a war of attrition more than who is right or wrong. I could fight that war, or I could use my resources elsewhere. I guess it's a "make love not war" thing to me. I'd rather do what I like and acknowledge that sometimes I'll have good ideas that get copied, rather than try to block everyone from gaining from my contributions.
I'd rather open source a program and make $0 from it when it gets bundled by some company and sold, than try to outsmart, outwit, and outfight the internet legion and the billion dollar corporation
@agent86 "I know for a fact that if someone decided to come along and sell something I made in blatant violation of whatever license I used, my recourse is to suck it up and deal"
"I could fight that war, or I could use my resources elsewhere."
I don't think meaningful change is likely to come during my lifetime; historically speaking this is the way it's been for thousands of years. I have it better than pretty much any other time in history. To me, this is a celebration, not a defeat.
if I was one of the first explorers of america, but colombus got the credit and all I got was a footnote in a history book, I'd be okay with that. I helped bring about change, and whether it was a large, heavily acknowledged part of that change, or just the slave shoveling the coal into the steam train of progress, that's okay by me.
people pay me money to play with technological toys for a living. I'm exceedingly, overwhelmingly blessed. They give me a paycheck every two weeks in exchange for some small part of my ideas, and I have to stop myself from laughing and saying SUCKERS!
when I go home at night, I do this for other people for free!
so I guess you could call me a defeatist; I must be the happiest loser in history :)
Ever since Notch made Endermen teleport away from danger, they've gone from being scary to being giant chickens.
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I care about their jobs. I'm not trying to say they need to have the same outlook as I do.
I did, in their shoes. They don't have to.
I think the world is big enough for everyone to have a different opinion. I won't assert that I'm correct, just that my outlook is one that I've given thought to and I'm comfortable with.
improvement is important. I am an advocate of it. I also think it's a good idea to have ways to cope with your current situation, and find ways to work within the box you've been placed.
I think you're drawing an overly broad conclusion about my attitude, and that if you knew me better perhaps you'd have a different viewpoint on it. I otherwise agree with your statement.
Who to proceed from the dragon-fountain?
This is actually the first time I see locked path. I bought some keys for $2,500 but they didn't work. Now I have no money. What should I do?
is this the one where giant lizards arise from the sea? or is this the one where nuclear war wipes out everyone except Mel Gibson and a group of leather fetishists?
@alexanderpas in this economy? I've got to be conservative with the emergency glass panel budget.
Games like skyrim, fallout, oblivion. for me the game is about killing monsters, doing quests and stealing. For some weird reason the last part is always very hard.
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games like fallout (same company) do not allow you to continue your adventure after you killed the main boss. they try to force you to start the game again or from late savegame, i bet they do enjoy it.
can I finish the main story in skyrim and be able to do side quests? are there any side quest...
I'm making a video game for the Android platform and I need advice on the overall set up of the activities and views in the code. I don't need actual code, just a general idea of how to do it, but code always helps. I will basically have the following:
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The Stargate franchise (which I'm a huge fan of) developed a couple games for PC, including Stargate Worlds and Stargate Resistence. I never got to play any of them, sadly.
Everytime I see the gameplay trailer of SG Worlds I still think it's awesome, but unfortunately the game was never publishe...
games like fallout (same company) do not allow you to continue your adventure after you killed the main boss. they try to force you to start the game again or from late savegame, i bet they do enjoy it.
can I finish the main story in skyrim and be able to do side quests? are there any side quest...
I have noticed that pigs can dive underwater, so most chicken farm models fail. They climb ladders and can jump, so it looks like there's no easy way to build a farm that I can get in and out of easily, and still have my pigs. What am I missing?
After killing the first dragon and becoming Thane of Whiterun, the Jarl suggested I visit the Greybeards to learn more about the "power of the voice".
I could see High Hrothgar was on a nearby mountain top on the map. And there were enough hints with the "seven thousand steps" to make the connec...
More and more Android apps (games to be specific) require permissions to make calls. Some of them also require permission to send SMS, read bookmarks, history, etc. What is the explanation for this? I mean, why would a game need to have those permissions?
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I had a game that a friend of mine gave me and I need some help finding the name of it.
I only remember playing in the PC.
It was sort like this:
The graphics were really simple and you controled a little man that walked only sideways on the top of the screen. Bellow him there was a line of balls...
The main character has a green suit with spiked black hair. He fights things around the house by shooting nails and fighting in a bathtub I think. He might have of used a jet pack once or twice in the game.
Wish I had more info, but I haven't played since I was a kid.
@NickT I'm not 100% sure of the utility of the tag in comparison to things like [molecular-biology] and the like. It's also on two questions. Methinks perhaps a Meta question on whether or not the disciplines should be tagged would be wise, if not just one saying why [biochemistry] needs to go.
@GraceNote I wrote that meta post already. If the type of questions stays the same the tag is probably not needed, but if we really cover the whole of biology it certainly makes sense
She just glided down from the Whiterun gate like that, flapping her arms...
Also, I inexplicably got a 80 point bounty in Solitude because Louis Letrush, who had absolutely no business being stuck halfway in the ground outside of the stables here, somehow got struck by my storm call lightning.
On Saints Row The Third I own the terrain 'Deckers' for 64% and I don't know how to own the other 36% left...
Who to proceed from the dragon-fountain?
This is actually the first time I see locked path. I bought some keys for $2,500 but they didn't work. Now I have no money. What should I do?
The main character has a green suit with spiked black hair. He fights things around the house by shooting nails and fighting in a bathtub I think. He might have of used a jet pack once or twice in the game.
Wish I had more info, but I haven't played since I was a kid.
