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> They kind of have to, protecting your trademark is part of your obligations.

Their trademark is "The Elder Scrolls". Not "Scrolls". Yet they're refusing that Mojang use the word "scrolls" at all, whether as the game's sole name or as any subset of the game's name.
Comparing code reviews against software testing is a bit odd to me. They are both necessary in a professional software environment.

Code reviews are great to ensure a consistent code base that follows a certain coding standard. It is also great for passing on the knowledge between developers (avoiding common pitfalls, better ways of doing things, etc...)

Testing is such a big field that it is hard to compare directly with reviewing code. Manual tests help in verifying the user experience and end to end scenarios, esp for UI (something that code reviews can't do). Automated functionality tests are great in verifying daily builds and catching regressions (which is also very hard to do in code reviews in fairly complicated systems). Various other types of automated tests are necessary for different considerations: performance tests, security tests etc...
He also write the more partisan "news" items at appleinsider.com. Even the people who register on a site called Apple Insider seem to think he's a bit out-there.
I've met Michael Clear a few times, being in the same University as him and generally hanging around with the same crowd of people.

As much as I would love to believe this conspiracy, and would suddenly make my pub meetings with his research group way more interesting, I don't think it's him. But I will keep this article in mind so I can bring it up at every opportunity.
Have you read TFA? Notch offered to drop the trademarking entirely.

And while their attitude could (of course) change in the future, so far Mojang has only used trademark law in a single case: against a fellow selling a minecraft ripoff as "Minecraft" in the AppStore (which is about as clear-cut as you can be for trademark infringement). Not even FortressCraft[0], a blatant ripoff of the game using a very similar name structure and reusing half the trademark, has triggered any giving of fuck from Mojang (as far as I know, I might be wrong) although it has drawn the ire of the community.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHdWswvezds&feature=mfu_i...
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So I made it through the month with 3$ left. It has some interesting facts, but altogether it's a bit odd that everything breaks down in a single month.
I'd have thought the opposite would be a more accurate comparison: Disney claiming "Pirates!" as similar to/confusable with "Pirates of the Caribbean" (discounting any issues of who actually owns what trademarks in reality just now).

No mention of the issue is complete without a reference to Tim Langdell, and his hilarious suits against anyone using the word 'Edge' in their games[1].

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Edge_Games
Meat. Cheesy. Spirits.

Sorry.
Thought so. It's a pity because that unusual move alone would worth a couple of bucks in terms of advertising. At least they didn't sit down to play AND sue Notch at the same time.

Thanks for the update.
I noticed I got the Swedish URL. I tried to find an international or English URL, but I couldn't find it, I hope you get English text anyway.

When I just visit that page it suggests that I download version 10.3.183.10, but if I choose to download for another OS or browser version 11 is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. 64 bit version for Linux is finally stable.

You can also have a look here: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ where version 11 is listed as the current version.

Version 11 isn't available from the Adobe Yum repository yet, I will probably wait for that before I try it.
> The name of the game os "Elder Scrolls."

Actually that's the name of the game series and the sub-title of the games (and technically it's "The Elder Scrolls), the games are called Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. Or "The Elder Scrolls [game sequence number]: [actual game title]" if you want it in full. With [actual game title] replaced by expansion names for each installment's expansions.
Lots of people currently tour the world performing music that is partly algorithmic, where aspects of the performance are determined by (usually simple) AI algorithms. This is normal. The crowd doesn't know, and those that do know think it's cool.

When we get to the point where AI can make good music on its own without direction, we will have a lot bigger questions to worry about than the fate of musicians. It won't be a pressing issue.
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Trademark law is not patent law, it tends to be stricter, more restricted and much harder to abuse (although it can be abused, see Tim Langdell).
My apologies too, I don't mean to criticise without trying your product. It seems like you've made a lot of advances.

I see where you're going, i just think the analogy would be inappropriate if this were a product aimed at C or C++ developers (which it isn't). Perhaps, "Notepad to Notepad++"?
Slide rules would have been common in 1967, but would not help with these kind of calculations.
> and you regard your time as totally worthless

I could hardly love this whole comment, but particularly that, any more. Rock on.
I lolled (at work).
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The fifth most valuable? Only the fifth?

We use Dropbox for teams for our company data. We forked out for it because it is that good. Admittedly we're small - only five people thus far - but growing. A few years ago we couldn't do this reliable without a file server. Dropbox has revolutionised file sharing from the low end, and will continue to hit up into the business market with their current trajectory.

Yes, we have used alternatives, but none are as straightforward and fuss-free as Dropbox. I think they're the most valuable startup out there at the moment.
> The problem of someone taking copyrighted content and making it available for others is a small one. The big problem is the many millions of people who take advantage of it.

Precisely. Many millions of people take advantage of it, and the overall good is greater than if they didn't. If the cost of distributing some good falls down to zero, you can't make a living by distributing these. Find another way; for instance provide a web service through your app, that unregistered copies can't access.

> It's just sad to think that everybody enjoys music, just like they enjoy software, and so many other things that can be easily taken, and yet don't care if the people who create it see enough benefit to keep making it for them.

For the tremendous majority of professional musicians recorded music never represented a significant source of revenue at all, if ever. Most musicians get paid for playing, and nothing else. That people swap mp3 around have absolutely no influence on their life -- except when it helps them getting known.
I can't buy most music digitally (except via places like Bandcamp) where I live. I could buy or import CDs, but I don't like waiting and my computer doesn't have an optical drive. Pardon my French, but if you think I shouldn't listen to music at all because of that, you can fuck right off.

It's not as if I'm not willing to spend either. I buy plenty of games from Steam and other places. I buy them because they actually sell stuff in my country and offer me convenience at prices I'm willing to pay. If the music business did the same I'd start buying music instantly.

Let's stop guilt-tripping people into buying music through thinly-veiled and largely inaccurate allegories and start treating piracy as an economic problem.
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Good for a 6am-because-I-stayed-up-all-night laugh though.

The post is devoid of any information that is actually useful and seems like a medium for pointless meme comics.

Why do I care about this? You need to answer this question within the first paragraph, if not sentence.

This is the polar opposite of good copy.

I will use this anti-example in my next discussion of copywriting with my employers/clients.

SAAS/PAAS for PHP/Windows programmers? The punchline writes itself.

Automation of internal infrastructure is good, but you're not really going to be able to improve upon or otherwise differentiate yourself from any of the existing providers.
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I don't "take" anything from anyone; I copy my Bieber, and you still have it. People who care about Bieber are still supporting him financially; people who don't, they wouldn't have bothered anyway.
Since production and distribution costs have basically disappeared, supply is now virtually unlimited; economic theory tells us that the market price is now zero. Harsh reality, but that's the truth. Any law implemented to alter this state of things is simply trying to make the water flow upwards.

(besides, you cannot "steal" digital content, it's just a bunch of bits; I flip mine to look like yours, and I have a copy. Which is why SaaS is so popular, of course: what is sold is now the actual service, rather than a bunch of bits.)
Is there not a way of giving your app away for free, and then encouraging users to setup some sort of subscription or purchase from within the app if they like it? People regularly provide voluntary financial support (tips, street performers)when it's easy and they see benefit.

Unless the ev1l pirat0rs actually compiled a different version of your app in order to give it away for free without those messages (which seems unlikely given there's absolutely no incentive for them to do so) you'd make a pretty penny through the sheer volume of users.

Imagin busking to an audience of 1 million people, all equidistant from your guitar case with one dollar in their hand?

The scale at which digital distribution allows piracy is the same thing that will make you money: you have free distribution to millions of people, just figure out a way for them to voluntarily give you money and you'll be sorted.
This is perceptive. 419 is like any other advertising: if you think it is stupid, you are not in the target market, but someone else is.

Who communicates in all caps? The elderly and the mentally ill. Target market.
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Then go out there and say it.
You're No-True-Scotsman'ing a subject/concept that was dead on arrival.

Stop pretending the 10,000 hours thing is a "real thing" or somehow fact.

It's not. Fucking stop it. It's the fantasy of a bad writer who makes up shit based on pure anecdote.

And to use your own bullshit against you, he never said it was deliberate practice in the book, he explicitly used the example of the Beatles, whose "10,000 hours" was them jamming in public and fiddling around privately, not hammering at chord progressions.

The 10,000 hours meme is bullshit. Stop propagating it.
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>the best creatives would rather start their own company than work for someone else

I do not believe this is true. There are many very good technical people who don't mind running businesses, but my experience is that the best technical people? they don't want the headache.

The best technical people I know lack the business/social skills to negotiate what I think their maximum salary as an employee would be, much less the ability to run a business.

We can't all be polymaths.
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Computing is in a bad shape partly because of momentum, and the momentum exists because of the nature of capitalism.

The momentum means we can never stop to make sure the software is as carefully written at it needs to be, and we can never stop to think of the big picture (all the other software we need to operate with).

And because of capitalism's inherent competitive nature, there is no concerted movement towards a unified goal in computing; competition leads to fragmentation, not unification. So we have a profileration of operating systems, redundant software reinventing wheels etc.

Open source is interesting in that regard. It's sort of the solution to a lot of the mess -- in theory, by making the source public, nobody should ever need to solve a problem more than once, and a specific piece of problem-solving code should evolve over time into the perfect solution -- but it's screwed by the competitive nature of people. (People don't just compete among themselves with their egos. They also compete against the status quo; what I like to call the "not invented by me" syndrome which drives people to create new stuff even though what they really ought to have done is to improve the old stuff, thus expanding the pile of legacy software even further.)

Why do we have both Python and Ruby? They are incredibly similar to each other. They are so similar it's silly. Sure, one's got whitespace-sensitive syntax, the other has runtime-extensible OO. But those are superficial differences, and nobody can objectively say that Python is better than Ruby, or vice versa. Do we really need both? And yet Matz and Guido are never going to join forces to work together on a common goal to create a single, superior technology.

Open source ought to work less like capitalism. People need to work together into creating the best, safest, most robust software imaginable.
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That's a perfectly fine choice for an artist to make.

If they do not want to do that, and instead would like each person who takes a copy of their work to pay for it, is that not also a choice they should have? Your choice as a consumer should then be to either pay that person for a copy, or not take a copy and move on.

Nobody is arguing that giving away music isn't a viable model for success - simply that it's not ethical to make that choice on behalf of content creators.
Maybe I'm missing something here… but is there a particular reason that you built your service atop what you admit yourselves to be a crap platform, other than "nobody else is doing it"?

Seems to me there's a reason nobody else was doing it.
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Since you're speaking in terms of entitlements, let's make this clear: the natural state of any idea (including large numbers such as the sequence of bits that make up an mp3) is to be free. Every human is naturally entitled through his consciousness to be able to copy and reproduce any idea he comes across.

Any restrictions imposed on them through legal or technical means are artificial and have to be justified when weighed against the costs of imposing them. For instance, protection against plagiarism has a very large benefit for not much cost so it's easily justified. For music it definitely isn't as clear-cut.
RailsCasts gets recommended to beginners a lot but every time I go there I'm kind of overwhelmed and have no idea where to start. The archives go back to 2007 so starting at the beginning seems likely to cover outdated subjects now. On the front page I see Draper, Spork, Sorcery, Foreman, Pry... none of this means much to me.

Any suggestions on how to attack this for a relative newbie to rails?
OTOH, perfect can at times be the enemy of good.

You have to weigh the value of immediacy against permanently enshrined qualities and perform your own cost-benefit analysis.

This is called critical thinking, they introduce this around age 12 in most western societies. You don't have to pick a religion and stick with it, you can just make a judgment call on a case-by-case basis.

Works great for me, fyi.
Agreed, however I'd say the technology barrier to compete is not that high and it might soon be common to share files conveniently. With a choice of many services that offer the same. That would probably lower the value of Dropbox significantly.

Or is there reason to believe there will be no equally useful competition products?
This was exactly what I was thinking
Git is the same, moving a Git repo from bitbucket to github shouldn't be an issue

bitbucket for your private repos,
promote to github for when they become open-source to benefit from the larger community

i believe github might end up charging for public repos, rather than reducing the prices for private ones ;)
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It is interesting you should mention that. There is actually a standard that the Japanese are developing for fast charging cars. It provides for high current charging with the charge station communicating with the car to ensure it does not blow the batteries. Supposedly you can get a decent charge for 10 min or so.

However the previous Tesla (the roadster) did not support that standard. Lets hope this one does.
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"Most computers today, for all of their potential speed, are largely a mistake, based on the provenly unscalable Von Neumann architecture, controlled with one of the most shortsighted languages of all time, x86 assembly. They are almost unfathomably inefficient."

Well put, Sir.
MG has been a successful Arrington employee/teammate for years, so...

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Firstly, what are the current equivalents of a mobile App Store for (pirated) music?

What.cd.
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How is that a different experience to listening to recorded music though? You could argue that new music could be generated on the fly but that isn't particularly exciting either, generally when a band plays something no one has heard before live it is a lot worse an experience than hearing the songs you know and love from the band.
Exactly. Android is similar to the traditional PC market, so for non-critical software SaaS or advertising are more profitable than shrinkwrap -- unless you stumble on the Android equivalent of MS Office (i.e. something so critical that people will just consider it a natural cost of doing business).
It's not really good platform from developers perspective, the one deploying stuff. But it's not a bad platform from platform perspective and allows great things to be built on top who actually make it fine for developers. Makes sense?..
>It might also result in fewer jobs to go around. But I don't think so.

It would result in more wealth and efficiency, not more jobs. Capitalism says nothing about jobs, only wealth.

We don't really (in western society) have a mechanism for transferring wealth beyond trade, labor, and government fiat. In the absence of busywork created by government fiat, we're going to have a hard time socially speaking midwifing an increasingly efficient world where redundant jobs get replaced with technology and processes.

This will continue the trend of increasing wealth stratification as whomever has control over the means of production will be subject to the will of others less and less, and be able to keep more of their profits.

Incidentally, this means it'll be fantastic to be a programmer, and terrible to be a laborer.

If a novel solution isn't found, the best many could hope for is a service job or medieval-style patronage of arts as production and maintenance of product pipelines requires fewer humans.
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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I cant do that

I wonder how long before Asimov's three laws become a necessity...
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The ideas inherent in selling any form of IP are not sustainable. Our economics are traditionally based on finite resources - and economics involving sale of intellectual property allows an infinite number of transactions.

In my opinion, we can not expect to make money from the straightforward sale of any form of IP for much longer. New models are being developed and services industries are adapting to offer the value that's traditionally been disseminated through IP sale .. this is where the future is heading.

The bleating, repetitive carrion-call of the old guard is becoming increasingly annoying. While their incentive seems obvious; the fact that these organisations are unable to innovate is even more blatant.
It's not really for Windows people. It runs on Windows, but a normal PHP app can be deployed to it too. So as much as there is negativism against Windows, this doesn't require knowledge of it or using of any of it's features.

What's different now is the flexibility of live-change configuration and once it goes live - much better (think cheaper) pricing.
this is great news. b/c it means there's still (after how many yrs?) huge opportunity. think different.

code something simple (=terse) that follows common sense and just works and it's an island of consistent speed and reliability in a sea of crap and bloatware.

we need more djb-like coders, who do not mimick 1000's of other coding monkeys.

mcillroy said the hero is he who writes negative code. he's right. the world needs less not more code.

if you can't handle that, then you're just contributing to keeping the "state of the art" terrible. but then people just keep paying for this crap so that's why it won't disappear. the idiots are rewarded for their "productivity" in producing saleable crapware.

carry on.
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That was my issue too, I can only assume, given the inclusion of Facebook, that "start-up" is closer to "pre-IPO" than "pre-business model".
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I really don't understand what you're getting at.

The argument is essentially that piracy is okay because 90% of artists are never going to earn their living from music. 90% of artists do not create a product that appeals to enough people for them to earn a living selling that product. 10% create something popular enough that they might be able to earn a living at it.

How those products came to be popular socially is completely irrelevant. You're saying, let's not compensate them for being great musicians who created a recording I want a copy of. Let's instead require them to be in the business of selling clothes because I respect the value of a t-shirt more than the art they created that made me give a shit about a shirt with their name on it.
...or not consume it in the first place. I don't understand where this 'right to be able to get everything I want' has come from in recent years. Sometimes it sucks to not get all you want, but - you know - that's life.
I find that to be sort of like saying I'm a shop owner. My life would be shitloads easier if I didn't have to actually be there, and people could just put the money on the counter and make their own change (like clerks :)

You're being an idealist - be more pragmatic and you'll live a life less angry.

I may only be speaking for myself here, but I honestly think the law will take a century to catch up here. We're on the frontier - with all the advantages and disadvantages that come with it (one advantage being, for example, the lack of any sort of regulation or licensing getting in the way of being a developer).