Prior art all over the place I think too.
Cas 
I skimmed the patent filing and saw nothing in many many words.
Happened across this: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/183889/Minecraft_creator_fights_against_software_patent_trolls_with_250K_donation.php#.UNMZPHexuk0
He’s the coolest person.
Imagine Bill Gates doing that… nope.
Patent trolls are disgusting.
I thought that all humans are supposed to be reasonable, and to have morals, but these things are hypocrites who do nothing but destroy progress just to make quick cash which could be easily earned by doing the real work.
Not to mention how utterly stupid this particular group is with their comments about Mojang suing Bethesda.
I think Notch/Markus is doing an Awesome job of destroying this mess.
I hope this works out.
[quibble]Shouldn’t physics and chemistry be swapped?[/quibble]
And this is gonna get thrown out (for now) because they called it “Mindcraft” lol
Physicists are practically the same as mathematicians.
You have approximately 3 seconds before someone walks into your house and blows your head off your body.
Heck no. Physics provides the underlying model that makes chem work, not vice versa.
Hell, I’d argue that mathematics is the one that doesn’t fit, because it’s not empirical. But any joke, even geeky xkcd ones, can be killed by overanalyzing it.
Mathematics is a tool which is used by physicists (and many other people), they are not the same.
Ok, ok. Which probably means physics and mathematics should be swapped.
physics is applied mathematics.
Actually why not imagine instead Bill Gates giving billions of dollars to humanitarian charity.
Oh wait.
Cas
Well, humanitarian charity isn’t cool… it’s nice.
I find it quite cool myself.
Cas
Human society (and also human nature) has big forces towards an altruistic behaviour and fairness (of some extend). But like in most natural processes there are big deviations.
If we’d still live in groups where everyone knows everyone, patent trolls would soon see themselves being expelled by their community.
I’m somewhat certain though that the proposed claim will not stand a trial.
Let’s be honest. Self-interest is a much greater force in human nature than than anything nice.
I’m largely altruistic, provided I get something out of it…
Cas
Sometimes I get the feeling that you’re just saying things for “seniority”…I mean seriously, you said that physics and math were the same, and then two posts later you change your opinion and say something else random.