As a real world example of why this is a bad idea: FFXI. Its cross platform nature (PS2, 360, PC) means it is stuck with the limitations of PS2 hardware. This has far reaching effects, mostly with the graphic capabilities but also many issues with memory constraints.
I like the pulley concept, it just requires twice the length of cable. You would also need a means to keep them separate so they don't slam into each other and to stop it twisting. The benefits would include having a fixed point to apply power, being able to analyse the integrity of the loop as it passes the ground station and perhaps being able to lock one half of the ribbon while repairs are conducted on the other half.
Great link. I found this part particularly interesting:
38) AP has started calling everyone in the POTRIPPER tournament and giving them $500 for accidentally releasing their personal information.
I still don't see how you would stop collusion via phone, or just having multiple computers with different providers so you could hold two or three hands at a table. As an earlier poster said, there's only so many players in the high stakes games and only so many rooms to fill, randomization alone can't stop these behaviours.
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Well to do what you said would require complete read access to memory, at which point it would be trivial to seek for the code you wanted to replace without some proper obscufation. So Linus is right in that in theory, it provides only a trivial obstacle, but in practice he's wrong as anything that hinders malware code is a good thing.
Seeing as they used to receive a few cents from that $19.99 CD, but here are averaging $8 on over a million sales makes me think it is far more profitable than the old model. It's an acknowledgment that people want digitally distributed media and are willing to pay for a decent effort at doing this. It also seems to show that giving your product away for free generates far more publicity than it costs in sales.
The designers should be tied down Clockwork Orange style and forced to watch Terminator 2/7 while the collected works of Asimov blare at 100 decibels until they are cured.
You're right about the laws just being there to be broken, I can't recall a story without a conflict with the laws. You missed the mark on I, Robot though. It's a brilliant compendium of short stories, none of which were Frankenstein ripoffs, they were more like detective stories. There was that terrible Will Smith movie which had nothing to do with any Asimov works, which I guess could be construed as creation turning on creator in a search for humanity, or it might if that movie actually had a coherent plot.
Well, if you'd grown up all your life in the despotic, decadent corporate dystopia depicted in Robocop like those young'uns did, you'd be fairly oblivious too.
As well as the plethora of free packages such as Ardour, there's a few companies around with commercial linux products such as Syntheway who make linux compatible VST plug-ins, for use with FST or dssi. There's quite a few plugins for different architectures out there, here's a decent list. The linux sound architecture has been, well awkward until just a few years ago, but has come leaps and bounds since then. Advances in wine and vst emulation should push it past XPs capabilities before MS drops support, and the writings clearly on the wall for that OS, and as far as I'm concerned Vista is broken by design. Good luck with the switch.
10 for i=1 to 4 20 read a$ 30 print a$ 40 next i 50 end 60 data "You're not going to like it", "You're really not going to like it", 42, "I think the problem is you don't know the question."
Apart from being wasteful and pointlessly destructive, I fail to see how it is more of a deterrent than auctioning. When the offender loses their car, it is irrelevant if it is then auctioned or destroyed. Their loss doesn't somehow increase more if it is crushed rather than sold.
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32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition perhaps?
I touched on logo thanks to having an Amstrad 512k XT. It came with Locomotive basic, which included a logo dialect.
It was a good way to explore geometry, trigonometry and vector maths in an instant feedback environment, but was next to useless for any practical programming purpose. As such, it does make a decent educational tool, but not for learning programming, rather just for geometry.
As such, its uniqueness should be celebrated for the fact that while it is impractical for typical tasks it has survived for 40 years catering perfectly to an educational niche.
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No, I meant Triffids, a fictional GMO that destroys civilization.
As a real world example of why this is a bad idea: FFXI. Its cross platform nature (PS2, 360, PC) means it is stuck with the limitations of PS2 hardware. This has far reaching effects, mostly with the graphic capabilities but also many issues with memory constraints.
One deadly to the specific organism, no. One deadly to the surrounding ecosystem, yes. The Triffids are coming.
I like the pulley concept, it just requires twice the length of cable. You would also need a means to keep them separate so they don't slam into each other and to stop it twisting. The benefits would include having a fixed point to apply power, being able to analyse the integrity of the loop as it passes the ground station and perhaps being able to lock one half of the ribbon while repairs are conducted on the other half.
http://www.pocketfives.com/71799506-992E-48C2-9EC0-4DABF161EF92.aspx
It seems they think they can bribe their way out of this one. It's guaranteed to backfire on them, admitting liability like that.
I still don't see how you would stop collusion via phone, or just having multiple computers with different providers so you could hold two or three hands at a table. As an earlier poster said, there's only so many players in the high stakes games and only so many rooms to fill, randomization alone can't stop these behaviours.
They don't make nostalgia like they used to.
I wonder though, is it illegal to buy an Argentinians vote and resell it?
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Well to do what you said would require complete read access to memory, at which point it would be trivial to seek for the code you wanted to replace without some proper obscufation. So Linus is right in that in theory, it provides only a trivial obstacle, but in practice he's wrong as anything that hinders malware code is a good thing.
Seeing as they used to receive a few cents from that $19.99 CD, but here are averaging $8 on over a million sales makes me think it is far more profitable than the old model. It's an acknowledgment that people want digitally distributed media and are willing to pay for a decent effort at doing this. It also seems to show that giving your product away for free generates far more publicity than it costs in sales.
It just appears that way because it's logarithmic. 100 lawyers will net you 2 good ones, 1000 lawyers 3 good ones and so forth.
The designers should be tied down Clockwork Orange style and forced to watch Terminator 2/7 while the collected works of Asimov blare at 100 decibels until they are cured.
You're right about the laws just being there to be broken, I can't recall a story without a conflict with the laws. You missed the mark on I, Robot though. It's a brilliant compendium of short stories, none of which were Frankenstein ripoffs, they were more like detective stories. There was that terrible Will Smith movie which had nothing to do with any Asimov works, which I guess could be construed as creation turning on creator in a search for humanity, or it might if that movie actually had a coherent plot.
Well, if you'd grown up all your life in the despotic, decadent corporate dystopia depicted in Robocop like those young'uns did, you'd be fairly oblivious too.
As well as the plethora of free packages such as Ardour, there's a few companies around with commercial linux products such as Syntheway who make linux compatible VST plug-ins, for use with FST or dssi. There's quite a few plugins for different architectures out there, here's a decent list. The linux sound architecture has been, well awkward until just a few years ago, but has come leaps and bounds since then. Advances in wine and vst emulation should push it past XPs capabilities before MS drops support, and the writings clearly on the wall for that OS, and as far as I'm concerned Vista is broken by design. Good luck with the switch.
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Apart from being wasteful and pointlessly destructive, I fail to see how it is more of a deterrent than auctioning. When the offender loses their car, it is irrelevant if it is then auctioned or destroyed. Their loss doesn't somehow increase more if it is crushed rather than sold.
You can get windows running on it, so even the clinically insane are catered for.
32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition perhaps?
I touched on logo thanks to having an Amstrad 512k XT. It came with Locomotive basic, which included a logo dialect.
It was a good way to explore geometry, trigonometry and vector maths in an instant feedback environment, but was next to useless for any practical programming purpose. As such, it does make a decent educational tool, but not for learning programming, rather just for geometry.
As such, its uniqueness should be celebrated for the fact that while it is impractical for typical tasks it has survived for 40 years catering perfectly to an educational niche.
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