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I love this idea, and in a society that prided itself on honor, Bethesda would take him up on it.

Unfortunately the law does not promote honorable behavior.
Hang on, we didn't know how molecules conduct electricity?
correct it with "no users"
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full list in single window http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29...
If you're on a Mac or Linux, it's easy to switch to a click-through model where you don't have to click a window before selecting a tool. It renders GIMP usable on a Mac if you do this.

Personally, I just haven't managed to get into Pixelmator, I always try, then end up running back to GIMP, and I'm not a heavy user of the program by any means, though I did do all the FemCal art in it.

The biggest fix to GIMP right now should be to get 16-bit color depth working. 12-bit isn't a huge problem for me, but I can understand it holding people back who are doing lots of photo manipulation.
0.7, 0.9, 1.6. Those are commonly understood to be versions.

If anything Minecraft is a port of creative mode Minecraft (which is completely free). But not even a straightforward port.
I'm sorry, but the themes you have are pretty bad. Part of being a wiki is making the words the primary focus. I'm distracted by large green borders with yours.
I think you made a good move by releasing the code and, please, do ask for upfront cash, or don't take the job. Nothing good can come out of not doing so.
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If only all legal battles could be solved with an old-fashion duel. Even better, lets make the lawyers fight to the death. Solves both the legal side and serves as a nice control of the lawyer population...

More seriously, I really hope that the legal system can start setting a practical standard for intelectual property debates. From patents to trademarks or even how we handle trade secrets, it's like the information age has created a new cold-war era in business mentality and it serves no purpose other than to abuse power.
This looks all great and all, but this

Ultimately it should lead to more hours of work, with
those hours being even more productive. Working weekends
blur into working nights into working weekdays, since
none of the work feels like work.

give the feeling that the company really wants to own the employees, make sure that whatever the employee is doing it will benefits the company. How as an employee can I ever build a healthy life balance? I know my contradictory would feel pretty pissed having that nagging voice over my shoulder telling me "You are happy now, it is for the greater good of the Company."

/paranoid-rant
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Yep, Microsoft did it, and everyone else (for some reason) followed. My approach is to actively avoid relying on it for real work - but pull it out for the JS1K/10K comps ;)
Come on Bethesda. Take the bait. It's great PR. (I'm sure valve would do it)
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Choosing a name is just about one of the hardest things of any new project. Sometimes you end up going with something, and it sticks - no way you're changing it halfway...
Best Buy upset with HP over selling just 25K TouchPads
Simply beautiful:

In the e-mail, reproduced in the complaint, Berry stressed that his past work experience as an engineer made him more
valuable than the usual first-year associate, and that "after working here for several months now it has become clear that I have as much experience and ability as an associate many years my senior, as much skill writing, and a superior legal mind to most I have met."
But Chromium is, and there's no difference between the two beside branding and Chrome shipping with some non-free stuff: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...
Based on Notch's G+ updates, I get the impression he's pretty content and not really looking to maximize profit. So he probably went with the platform he prefers for whatever his reasons are.
It feels to me that all he's done is show that the "instantly" in the usual definition of markets being "efficient" is a nonsense. Prices must take time to compute, you can't know the correct price instantly even with access to all the past information.

He proves that, but it doesn't seem that surprising to me.
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There's also a 4th spatial dimension. The 4th dimension does not automatically equal time - it is only considered that when talking about "space-time".

also, check out Braid (braidgame.com) for a fun puzzle game that requires you to consider time travel.
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Does that count as legally defending your trademark on Bethesda's part?

And if Bethesda is right in that "Scrolls" is too similar to "The Elder Scrolls", as to cause confusion in the market place, how would a game of Quake rectify that?
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Because Minecraft Pocket Edition is different software that required months of work and financing (if you've followed its development) to develop.

You have to pay again in order for the software developer to make those funds back. There would be a lot less incentive to port software or develop future versions if they had to be made free.
What law was violated?
I hate to be harsh, but the design is so amateurish that it's hard to take it seriously.
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Far Cry 2 really was a glorious experiment in immersion—for some it seemed to fail spectacularly, and for others (like you and I) it seemed to hit some nerve in just the right way.

I play the game very similarly to you. Have you tried the self—imposed permadeath route? I did one play that way—didn't end up beating it, of course—and it was a hell of an experience.
Deadlifts are arguably the best thing you can do to your body, however they're also the easiest to get wrong and wreck your spine, so be careful and don't push them - based on 3yrs of personal gym experience and 1 yr of gym retirement due to herniated disc.
I would say "How can this work on such a small screen" but when I was younger, Age of Empires for Dell Axium was one of the most exciting games to to play. Felt so futuristic.
This is a great solution because it can settle things quickly with less stress and let everyone get back to work.

Gamers are _not_ going to confuse Notch's and Bethesda's use of the word "scrolls," so I don't see why either company should take this too seriously. (Re-naming a game is less work than a drawn-out lawsuit.)
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It looks remarkably similar to TiddlyWiki (http://tiddlywiki.com). Any influence there or...

(Disclaimer: I work for Osmosoft (who make TiddlyWiki))
Document as you go
They can specifically give him a license to use the name "Scrolls" under certain conditions (a disclaimer that this game is unrelated). Then there is no issue of failing to protect their trademark.
I have no clue who Bethesda is, but if they took him up on the offer it would be great PR in the eyes of gaming(?) consumers. It would show they're cool and don't take themselves too seriously. They'd certainly win cool points from me.

Do it, Bethesda.
I find it surprising to introduce a function intended for animation callback that doesn't seem to provide facilities for time handling. That is, the callback doesn't seem to be provided with the current time, and requestAnimationFrame() does not take a desired FPS as a parameter.

.. Sorry the spec does say the callback should be provided the time as an argument. It's just not being used in these examples.
The fact that Bethesda has engaged counsel means they've already invested in defending their trademark rights. Agreeing to any "contest" in which they'd abandon their mark would serve as record (to other competitors) that their mark is diluted. No chance of that happening. Unfortunately this is a legal issue now, not a game.
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Canvas 2D is hardware accelerated in Chrome, Firefox and IE9, is it not? But I think what you're saying is that WebGL can still be much faster. Google demo-ed at I/O this year, how when an animation is done in WebGL it can be 10x faster than in Canvas 2D.

I believe Angry Birds is done in WebGL, but also falls back to Canvas 2D for browsers (or computers) that don't support WebGL.
Now I want to see Larry and Steve battle it out over Angry Birds.
Yeah. Even with added SFW context:

> http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=tennis%20balls

> {"response": "true"}
Apple adding DisplayPort to iOS devices?
In ancient Mesopotamia (according to my grade 10 ancient history class a long time ago), when one man accused another of a crime, the accused would be thrown into the Euphrates river. If the man died, then the gods decided he was guilty. If the man survived, then he was falsely accused, and the accused gained possession of the accuser's wife.

I believe the point of a duel in this context, though, is simply to avoid an elongated legal process, arguing something so ridiculous and trivial. Notch just wants to keep developing.
Nice one antr!
Except it's highly doubtful Valve would've sent the C & D in the first place.
awesome way to settle frivolous lawsuits
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Chrome isn’t open source. Full stop. If you don’t count Safari you also can’t count Chrome.

I think it’s equally stupid to not count Chrome and Safari.
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I'd love to see an official reply to that.
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Bethesda being the company responsible for the Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion and now Skyrim, amongst others), and for Fallout3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: naming things, cache coherency, and off-by-one errors.
Gecko (Firefox) does this in quirks mode only. We're holding the line against this for the moment (http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11960).
I tried various apps from their pre-configured list, but nothing works yet. Disappointing so far.
Right. But, Bethesda already have a stellar reputation in the gaming community, their "The Elder Scrolls" series is many many orders of magnitude more well known than Mojang's upcoming game "Scrolls". The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most anticipated games this year.

Mojang and Notch have far far more to gain from this than Bethesda do.
I can relate to the <write line of code> and immediately switch to Twitter, email, etc. In fact, this is me right now!

However when I'm working on something truly interesting and challenging, all the distractions vanish. Tweets go unread, emails unanswered, RSS ignored. Unfortunately that state has become a lot more rare lately as I slug away on uninteresting parts of the project and my mind wanders to new ideas I don't have time or opportunity to play with.

I do think that when I was younger it was easier to be utterly immersed in a project because the whole thing was still new and challenging. Now some of the stuff I used to spend hours or days or weeks toiling away with intense concentration feel like.. busy work. It feels like I shouldn't have to program in assembly anymore and that it's tedious. It feels like I shouldn't have to implement yet another <insert data structure or process>. The act of implementing a lot of the small pieces are no longer interesting and instead I just want to get on to the large scale interesting bits, but it can seem that there's so much boilerplate and cruft in the way...

And so I check Hacker News...
But as far as an investment goes, Groupon is looking about as profitable as giving away your merchandise for 90% off
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Didn't work for Google in China all that well, did it now?
Not exactly; I mean, sure, he clearly doesn't care a massive amount, but if his only aim was to keep developing then he could always just give in and change the name without trying to get this PR out of it.
seems like the next next best widgets for hooking up with people at college and telling your friends what you're doing at SxSW have turned out to be things rather important in some of the most pivotal events we've recently seen in developing countries.

the place the first and third world are perhaps the closest in on the internet.
> you could try using the Google Profanity API to avoid displaying ads on pages that contain profanities

I assume that must be a requirement of some ad networks
upvote me instead of thanking me with a comment to avoid noise.
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Remember, in Game of Thrones, that Bronn only became Tyrion's champion for the money, not any sense of honor.

What if Bethesda finds it easier to hire 3 top Quake 3 players for 1k each to fight Notch and friends? They might find it easier than going through the lawsuit.
i think it was actually etude.
They wouldn't necessarily need to be for free. Porting it to another platform opens up a new market. There are probably a lot of people that have an Android phone that haven't bought Minecraft for iPhone or PC.
"Hey UK, welcome to the club of repressive nations".

Nice work, China: this is pretty much the most effective indictment I can imagine of Cameron's idiotic response.
Very true, but a few more differences.

By default, awesome has a bar at the top to tell you what mode you're in, list windows, list workspaces, etc. Also, it provides a system tray. You can get one of these set up in xMonad without that much effort, but its an extra hurdle.

On the other hand, if you just want to swap out the window manager on GNOME you don't want to have to remove this, so xMonad has the advantage there.

Awesome has this really nifty thing where windows can be tagged, and views are compositions of tags. So there are easy ways to have a window on more than one workspace at a time.

On the other hand, xMonad seems to have better multi-monitor defaults.

xMonad also has dmenu by default, and that's seriously awesome (no pun intended).

Personally, I use awesome as my window manager on GNOME, but I've redone some keybindings to be more xMonadish and I used documentation from xMonad as part of getting things set up.

EDIT: Here's the uber-helpful xMonad GNOME integration page. You'll want to read it even if you use awesome.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gn...
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"The words Mozilla, Google, Sony, and Atari pretty much mean nothing."
Not true!

Google => Googol, 10^100
Atari => A situation in go where a chain of stones only has 1 liberty.
Mozilla => Mosaic killer + Godzilla
Sony => Conflation of sonus (the latin word for sound) and sonny (young boy).

That of course isn't to say that this excellent article is invalid, just that he happened to choose all companies who's names do in fact means something.
Their business model is profitable, but is it sustainable? How many merchants, after they have tried Groupon, will be likely to use Groupon again for advertising? Not bloodly likely.

Advertisers/merchants keep going back to Google AdWords because they're getting ROI. There's not much ROI from Groupon.
Despite the fact the author is probably right, his lack of discussing a little company called Amazon makes it hard to take him too seriously.
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The original wiki also had an amateurish design, which didn't stop it from being interesting.
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I think they should actually make their lawyers play the Quake 3 match.
If it's true it uproots a lot of conventional wisdom about trading and the ability to time the market.
I don't know anyone who plays The Elder Scrolls but I could see their fanbase calling it "Scrolls" for short. If not for trademark, they could just be trying to protect SERPs:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=scrolls&tbs=... (query: scrolls)

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=scrolls+game&... (query: scrolls game)

You can clearly see that "scrolls" pulls up mostly pages about The Elder Scrolls. (You have to ignore the pages about the lawsuit.) Then again, Notch called his previous game Minecraft, which certainly makes you think of Warcraft and Starcraft. Sounds like this is just his shtick.
Thanks for this explanation. I've vaguely heard of Bethesda, but for some reason, it was attached to the old GEOS GUI for DOS, in my head.

I hadn't head of Elder Scrolls before. I'm a GTA/Battlefield/Minecraft junky, but thats about it for games.
Is the business model really so nonviable? Companies are coming to Groupon willing to give them exclusive coupons for their businesses, and Groupon gets to take 50% of the money from every Groupon bought.

I thought the only reason they were unprofitable was the issue of scale -- they were blowing large amounts of money trying to become as big as possible, as fast as possible. Once they are the 500 pound gorilla on the market and the majority of businesses go through them, I can't see them being as bad as they are now.
"pretend the next guy is a psycho path with a baseball bat who knows where you live"

That'll helps to motivate you to write good documentation. And interestingly, many times it may be you referring to your old documentation.

There's a parallel here with programming, writing good comments, documentation, and unit tests.

Nice post
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Fair enough, and interesting facts, but I think what he meant is more that they do not have a meaning to most people. It's not like concatenating real words, it's just finding a name that has meaning to you, but still sounds unique to the world at large.
A typical wiki is a collection of pages, with each page containing an unstructured blob of text.

Wikis like Wagn and Semantic Mediawiki are an attempt to find a middle ground between a typical wiki (where each content page is unstructured) and a database-driven CMS (where each content page is a view of a row of a database).

The idea is that you get the benefits of a wiki, where you can build as you go, plus the benefits of a database, because you can add structure (new fields in content pages) as you need it. The added structure gives you the ability to create new pages using queries (e.g. a list of all country names in Africa), rather than manually (as is the case for a typical "List of ____" page on Wikipedia).
Funny enough i often do a e.g "!icon vine" search on DDG :-)
If the TouchPad, with all its geek cred, is only able to move 25,000 units, then it really makes me wonder how well the other tablets are doing. I went to Best Buy (note: this is Canada) the other day and they had a huge number of tablets in their tablet section. The TouchPad, Xoom, Acer's Iconia, the Galaxy Tab, and various Windows 7-based tablets. If the TouchPad has only been able to move that many units, then there's no way that Best Buy can be happy with any of its other customers. While I see a lot of people playing around with the tablets, very few people are buying them regardless of brand (Apple excluded, obviously).
Can this method be adopted to solve software patent disputes?
Classic cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
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And this is why he prefers WP7 and you prefer WebOS. But then again, this was a WP7 topic -- perhaps you should submit more WebOS topics to evangelize in?
From the Full Article:

The move suggests that the standard could be coming in the future, but since the position is still listed, it seems unlikely that we'll see DisplayPort included with the next iPhone / iPad at this point.

So apple may be adding displayport to iOS devices... some day
Possibly because there's enough of it that it would affect statistical algorithms involving language processing (e.g. google translate)
> Companies are coming to Groupon willing to give them exclusive coupons for their businesses, and Groupon gets to take 50% of the money from every Groupon bought.

Companies are not likely to be willing to give up 75% of revenue all that frequently, and there's a limited number of companies willing to do it even once in any given area.

In Rochester, NY, Groupon seems to have already blown through the low hanging fruit. Now we're getting tooth whitening and batting cage tokens as offers.
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Chances are, anybody new to consulting with BigCo's can build that "surcharge" in without any negotiation at all: just jack your rates. You are almost certainly wildly undercharging as it stands.
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Its a wiki that uses a card metaphor, not a CMS. You could maybe use it as a CMS.
it goes without saying that a 17 year old series is more well known than a new game. on the other hand, i have never referred to "The Elder Scrolls" as just "Scrolls". i've called it "Morrowind" or "Oblivion" and i'll probably refer to the new game as just "Skyrim". if i saw a game that was just called "Scrolls" i would not confuse it with Bethesda's games.
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Took me a while, but this is 2010's.
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This is a nice to have feature.

Currently I do this with http://hellofax.com

They have a web based pdf editor / signature tool
I recently started using xmonad on a netbook and found it quite easy to get started. I use xmobar for status. I haven't done much customization yet, but just getting the basic setup running was very straightforward. I'm a convert, and planning on switching my desktop to xmonad when I get a chance.
Because you need to look under the milestones section. Still 6 left:

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues?milestone=1&state=...
It's interesting that a smart company like Google almost paid $6B for them.

Did they not understand the business model well enough or did they just want it to bolster other services (like payments) despite it not being profitable?

How Google Offers goes should tell us. Maybe they've found a way to make the model work.
I think the numbers are suspect. And note that the source is anonymous so take things with a grain of salt.
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Worst. Analogy. Evar.

If you bought a house, would you expect to be able to use that house on both your desktop AND your laptop, because it's the same damn house? Uh, no, because physical matter doesn't work that way. In case you haven't heard, though, copying data _does_ work that way, and many people DO expect that if they buy music they SHOULD be able to use it on more than one device. And similarly for games (when it's a single chunk of code), which is actually how Minecraft actually works.

Note, I'm not arguing that MPE should be free with purchase of Minecraft, or that it shouldn't. I'm just pointing out the deadly obvious: that physical-goods arguments are basically useless for digital goods.

I just fed a troll, didn't I?
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Title should read: "If markets are perfectly efficient P=NP" rather than "Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP". For example, say P = NP, but the only person that knows the proof is me. If I start using my knowledge that P = NP to trade I will not have enough capital to swing the market to truly reflect the efficient price. Therefore it does not follow that if P = NP the market will be perfectly efficient, which is required in an "if and only if" proof.