I wouldn't go so far as to say that materials that actually do get destroyed in their use haven't the ability to become scarce, but Helium by it's very nature is non-reactive, meaning that when we 'lose' helium, we're merely displacing it, meaning it can be recovered. Once we start fusing it, I will admit it may become a scarce resource, but the world as of right now has (through human usage) exactly as many (or at least, humans have used a statistically immeasurable amount of) Helium atoms as it ever has, which cannot be said for, say, molecules of oil, which have been transformed from a long hydrocarbon chain into several other forms, notably carbon mon- and dioxide, water, and various forms economically useful (I'm looking at you, plastic!).
Anyways, I haven't read Julian Simon's theories in their entirety, but I can tell you right now he's a moron. Energy is certainly not infinite - there is an upper limit of the amount of energy that could be absorbed by a 100% efficient solar cell with the exact cross section of the earth over 5 billion years in this orbit. Infinity is factually greater than that amount.
The world isn't running out of helium, the US government's reserves are running out of helium. It may seem like a minor distinction (after all, America is the world, so it follows that the US government's strategic reserves are the entire supply of the entire world), but in reality, there is plenty of Helium available... if we have enough of a need to start separating it again. This also explains why, as prices of helium have gone up, so have the number of factories producing it.
There've been numerous measurements of this planet before. It was chosen because it's relatively well-studied for an exoplanet, so it was good to test the precision and accuracy of the sensors.
Slashdot: the only place where people can complain that the social sciences aren't mathematically rigorous enough, only to follow up by countering a survey of all games with anecdotal evidence of the games *you've* played.
Also, do you *really* think we should count Tauren as being representative of Native Americans when they're half-ton 8 foot tall monsters?
Not exactly analogous. It's not like Apple is asking them to outlaw selling iPhones. It's more like Apple Guns, Inc. saying 'We sell an awesome gun, but if the people we sold our product to are allowed to use third-party bullets, PEOPLE could get SHOT!'
Why do you assume the game has to be public domain at the end? Couldn't you just assume it is shared property of a corporation-like entity comprised of those that funded the game? After all, there's always the sequel, and why not share some of the profits from selling the game with those that funded its creation?
I know you weren't being serious, but in all honesty, *some* of them probably should. There's obviously a lot of money available to the creators of Wii games, and *someone* is going to be making it. EVEN IF Wii's attach rate is half that of the other two (it's actually almost the same), it has about 2x the installed base. EVEN IF we cripple Wii's attach rate, there's (almost) the same amount of money in Wii development as development for both the other two. Someone's going to be earning that money, and frankly, it seems to me that developers not catering to Wii seem to be closing or posting large losses in a growing game industry. Maybe if there were fewer of them catering to the PS3 (and 360), and more catering to the Wii, there would be more money both for the ones on PS3/360 and for those moving to the Wii.
I read through the robinson method, and here's what I see: Loss of anonymity of votes. Therefore, it fails. Period. You may dismiss out of hand the potential for knowing someone who writes in a vote, but that is a loss of anonymity. It allows detection of voting patterns that may or may not directly identify a voter; how many people would vote (coin) (coin) (writein) (coin) (writein) (writein). Not to mention non-votes; am I required to vote for every race? And if I'm not required to vote for every race/proposition, then you get to see that I didn't vote because you see that I didn't put in a coin.
That's not even getting into the ease of purposefully adding errors to the counting process that could easily completely invalidate a vote count. Let's say a poll worker has the skills to shave 1/10th (or whatever the tolerance of the scale is) of the weight off of half the tokens, and add 1/10th the weight to the other half. Then, they systematically choose to give (say) black people the shaved tokens, and white people the unshaved tokens. All of a sudden, white people get a greater vote share equal to 2xW, where W is the tolerance of the scale.
Basically, stop being a whiny emokid and realize that every idea you have is not IPU's gift to mankind. You, sir, are indeed fallible.
Of course, the counter argument is that by selling DRM'd copies, you are limiting yourself to those who not only have a device that is capable of using the DRM, but also don't mind only using it on $X devices or logging onto a server first or whatever, whereas by releasing it DRM-free you just make people give you money and provide them a service.
It's entirely reasonable that more people will buy a copy of a book that they'd be able to, I dunno, email to a laptop to read on vacation without carrying around an e-book reader, or send it to work, or any number of other legitimate uses for a book that are generally disallowed by DRM.
0/6 Cases in Criminal Justice relating to the Establishment cause
0/3 Cases in Discrimination
0/1 Cases in Free Speech
0/2 Cases in Immigrants' Rights
0/1 in Students' rights
0/1 in Unlawful Detention
0/2 in Voting Rights
0/1 in Women's rights
So far, you're 0/17, and that's only the 2008 workload. Shall I continue?
Last I checked, we didn't have socialized health care. Seems to me that you're not paying for anything at all.
Last I checked, the flu could also be contracted by Americans visiting Mexico and returning. Seems to me like it would be entering YOUR country no matter what.
Last I checked, America had no official language. Seems to me like we should all be speaking Cherokee by that logic (speaking of bringing disease to another population....)
Yeah, that's some well-justified hatred right there...
They passed a law like 6 years ago to get a database of all signs to determine which billboards are illegal. Wanna know how much headway that's made? If you answered 'slim' to 'none,' you win!
If you ask me, they should make it illegal to have a sign that's not registered, and tear down any that remain unregistered a month later. They've had six years to get their ducks in a row, so I have no sympathy if they can't get it done in a month. There needs to be an economic disincentive to not registering them in addition to registering them or it'll never get done.
Check out http://illegalsigns.ca/ for a toronto-based movement that's had a surprising amount of success in eliminating illegal billboards.
I do like the A Capella Mario Bros one. Really well-done. Like I said above, there can be good ones and horrible ones. It's all about playing around. That said, it's also not really for me. My musical talent begins and ends with the kazoo...
Frankly, comparing it to a game where the choice is (Play Guitar Track) or (Don't play guitar track) seems silly. This is much more a game that is trying to get you to think about composing music, and seeing the ways different sounds work when combined. It has an entirely different reason for existing than a symphony orchestra playing Beethoven.
Much like I would never compare Wii Fit to running a mile every day, I wouldn't compare Wii Music (or any other rhythm game) to playing music; think of them as a way to expand your thinking, and to perhaps add more breadth to the things you care about. It's sharpening the saw in game form, basically.
That would be insightful, if it were not so clearly wrong. Plenty of spammers target specific individuals; see http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1259674,00.html for a specific example. Now, one could argue that targeting IT professionals would be an exercise in futility. Would you bet your livelihood on it? Would you bet access (possibly high-trust access, depending on how high up this IT professional is) to your company's network on it?
Because that's what's at stake. It's not a question of sending email selling \/|agra to these people. It's a question of a very specific, highly targeted spam operation with the express purpose of getting access to the networks of these specific individuals, in the hopes that they can provide the access the infiltrator would want to the company as a whole.
Now, I am not saying that this is a big deal; it's not like these emails wouldn't have been available from some other source than this email list. However, I will say that by completely dismissing an entire segment of spam email, that of targeted emails to specific individuals, you are unnecessarily lulling both yourself and anyone who reads your comment into a false sense of security. Highly targeted spam is a real risk; don't discount it as a very real attack vector. You must be ever vigilant, and I don't think you can be with that kind of attitude.
I would like to take this chance to encourage everyone to support groups working towards open government, from Black Box Voting to Verified Voting, and everything in between.
The government is supposed to work for us; until we limit how often lobbyists talk to them, what right do they have to limit how much we talk to them?
It could just mean that if failures occur along a normal distribution, which they probably do, each point is approximately 10-100x higher than the ATI cards, which would be a Big Deal.
Most companies offer at least a year long warranty; if they have significant failures in that year, like 10-100x higher than normal, that may put too much pressure on their warranty policy.
And let's not forget nVidia's partners in selling cards (you know, all the non-nVidia nVidia cards). Those people may see high failure rates of nVidia parts, and all of a sudden using another chipset just got a heckuva lot more attractive.
So, the moral of the story is, there is no set 'time' that a card will die. It's not like after 10 months all of them will just conk out. But if there are higher failure rates than normal in their warranty period, not to mention harm done to their reputation, it could end up costing them greatly.
Because if they didn't have the logs, they would be ordered to turn them over anyways and then be charged with destruction of evidence?
Especially as the lawsuit has been going on for a while, so they *may* have been required to at a minimum keep the logs since the lawsuit started.
You may also be surprised to learn that it also disproportionately taxes the poor, because when you are making just enough to live and eat, that 8% can make a huge difference. When you have enough money to live comfortably, that 8% will basically eat into the amount you put into the bank, not the amount you put into your mouth.
Income taxes are written to be more like Robin Hood; take from the rich, give to the poor (well, in theory... but as the saying goes, the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory).
So they process transactions for online gambling sites? Is that why?
I mean, I don't know the law they were breaking to do that, cause I could only find info on the settlement, but I don't think thats enough to call them crooks...(but I also didn't spend much time looking it up, which is why I want to know more about the case from someone who is obviously invested)
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that materials that actually do get destroyed in their use haven't the ability to become scarce, but Helium by it's very nature is non-reactive, meaning that when we 'lose' helium, we're merely displacing it, meaning it can be recovered. Once we start fusing it, I will admit it may become a scarce resource, but the world as of right now has (through human usage) exactly as many (or at least, humans have used a statistically immeasurable amount of) Helium atoms as it ever has, which cannot be said for, say, molecules of oil, which have been transformed from a long hydrocarbon chain into several other forms, notably carbon mon- and dioxide, water, and various forms economically useful (I'm looking at you, plastic!).
Anyways, I haven't read Julian Simon's theories in their entirety, but I can tell you right now he's a moron. Energy is certainly not infinite - there is an upper limit of the amount of energy that could be absorbed by a 100% efficient solar cell with the exact cross section of the earth over 5 billion years in this orbit. Infinity is factually greater than that amount.
The world isn't running out of helium, the US government's reserves are running out of helium. It may seem like a minor distinction (after all, America is the world, so it follows that the US government's strategic reserves are the entire supply of the entire world), but in reality, there is plenty of Helium available... if we have enough of a need to start separating it again. This also explains why, as prices of helium have gone up, so have the number of factories producing it.
There've been numerous measurements of this planet before. It was chosen because it's relatively well-studied for an exoplanet, so it was good to test the precision and accuracy of the sensors.
How does that apply to lifetime warranties? Not that it would apply here, I'm just curious.
Slashdot: the only place where people can complain that the social sciences aren't mathematically rigorous enough, only to follow up by countering a survey of all games with anecdotal evidence of the games *you've* played.
Also, do you *really* think we should count Tauren as being representative of Native Americans when they're half-ton 8 foot tall monsters?
It's user error if you're having the issue with VLC. Try moving the controller window to the other monitor.
Not exactly analogous. It's not like Apple is asking them to outlaw selling iPhones. It's more like Apple Guns, Inc. saying 'We sell an awesome gun, but if the people we sold our product to are allowed to use third-party bullets, PEOPLE could get SHOT!'
Why do you assume the game has to be public domain at the end? Couldn't you just assume it is shared property of a corporation-like entity comprised of those that funded the game? After all, there's always the sequel, and why not share some of the profits from selling the game with those that funded its creation?
I know you weren't being serious, but in all honesty, *some* of them probably should. There's obviously a lot of money available to the creators of Wii games, and *someone* is going to be making it. EVEN IF Wii's attach rate is half that of the other two (it's actually almost the same), it has about 2x the installed base. EVEN IF we cripple Wii's attach rate, there's (almost) the same amount of money in Wii development as development for both the other two. Someone's going to be earning that money, and frankly, it seems to me that developers not catering to Wii seem to be closing or posting large losses in a growing game industry. Maybe if there were fewer of them catering to the PS3 (and 360), and more catering to the Wii, there would be more money both for the ones on PS3/360 and for those moving to the Wii.
I read through the robinson method, and here's what I see: Loss of anonymity of votes. Therefore, it fails. Period. You may dismiss out of hand the potential for knowing someone who writes in a vote, but that is a loss of anonymity. It allows detection of voting patterns that may or may not directly identify a voter; how many people would vote (coin) (coin) (writein) (coin) (writein) (writein). Not to mention non-votes; am I required to vote for every race? And if I'm not required to vote for every race/proposition, then you get to see that I didn't vote because you see that I didn't put in a coin.
That's not even getting into the ease of purposefully adding errors to the counting process that could easily completely invalidate a vote count. Let's say a poll worker has the skills to shave 1/10th (or whatever the tolerance of the scale is) of the weight off of half the tokens, and add 1/10th the weight to the other half. Then, they systematically choose to give (say) black people the shaved tokens, and white people the unshaved tokens. All of a sudden, white people get a greater vote share equal to 2xW, where W is the tolerance of the scale.
Basically, stop being a whiny emokid and realize that every idea you have is not IPU's gift to mankind. You, sir, are indeed fallible.
Name me an profitable industry that has failed
Talk about a sophistic argument. You base your entire qualification for success on something that is semantically impossible?
Well, it's good for your argument, even if it fails at the tiniest iota of rational thought...
It's entirely reasonable that more people will buy a copy of a book that they'd be able to, I dunno, email to a laptop to read on vacation without carrying around an e-book reader, or send it to work, or any number of other legitimate uses for a book that are generally disallowed by DRM.
No, but ever since he discovered online ordering he doesn't have to tie up precious talking time for something as trivial as ordering a pizza.
0/6 Cases in Criminal Justice relating to the Establishment cause
0/3 Cases in Discrimination
0/1 Cases in Free Speech
0/2 Cases in Immigrants' Rights
0/1 in Students' rights
0/1 in Unlawful Detention
0/2 in Voting Rights
0/1 in Women's rights
So far, you're 0/17, and that's only the 2008 workload. Shall I continue?
Last I checked, we didn't have socialized health care. Seems to me that you're not paying for anything at all. Last I checked, the flu could also be contracted by Americans visiting Mexico and returning. Seems to me like it would be entering YOUR country no matter what. Last I checked, America had no official language. Seems to me like we should all be speaking Cherokee by that logic (speaking of bringing disease to another population....) Yeah, that's some well-justified hatred right there...
If you ask me, they should make it illegal to have a sign that's not registered, and tear down any that remain unregistered a month later. They've had six years to get their ducks in a row, so I have no sympathy if they can't get it done in a month. There needs to be an economic disincentive to not registering them in addition to registering them or it'll never get done.
Check out http://illegalsigns.ca/ for a toronto-based movement that's had a surprising amount of success in eliminating illegal billboards.
I do like the A Capella Mario Bros one. Really well-done. Like I said above, there can be good ones and horrible ones. It's all about playing around. That said, it's also not really for me. My musical talent begins and ends with the kazoo...
Frankly, comparing it to a game where the choice is (Play Guitar Track) or (Don't play guitar track) seems silly. This is much more a game that is trying to get you to think about composing music, and seeing the ways different sounds work when combined. It has an entirely different reason for existing than a symphony orchestra playing Beethoven.
Much like I would never compare Wii Fit to running a mile every day, I wouldn't compare Wii Music (or any other rhythm game) to playing music; think of them as a way to expand your thinking, and to perhaps add more breadth to the things you care about. It's sharpening the saw in game form, basically.
That would be insightful, if it were not so clearly wrong. Plenty of spammers target specific individuals; see http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1259674,00.html for a specific example. Now, one could argue that targeting IT professionals would be an exercise in futility. Would you bet your livelihood on it? Would you bet access (possibly high-trust access, depending on how high up this IT professional is) to your company's network on it?
Because that's what's at stake. It's not a question of sending email selling \/|agra to these people. It's a question of a very specific, highly targeted spam operation with the express purpose of getting access to the networks of these specific individuals, in the hopes that they can provide the access the infiltrator would want to the company as a whole.
Now, I am not saying that this is a big deal; it's not like these emails wouldn't have been available from some other source than this email list. However, I will say that by completely dismissing an entire segment of spam email, that of targeted emails to specific individuals, you are unnecessarily lulling both yourself and anyone who reads your comment into a false sense of security. Highly targeted spam is a real risk; don't discount it as a very real attack vector. You must be ever vigilant, and I don't think you can be with that kind of attitude.
I would like to take this chance to encourage everyone to support groups working towards open government, from Black Box Voting to Verified Voting, and everything in between.
The government is supposed to work for us; until we limit how often lobbyists talk to them, what right do they have to limit how much we talk to them?
Most companies offer at least a year long warranty; if they have significant failures in that year, like 10-100x higher than normal, that may put too much pressure on their warranty policy.
And let's not forget nVidia's partners in selling cards (you know, all the non-nVidia nVidia cards). Those people may see high failure rates of nVidia parts, and all of a sudden using another chipset just got a heckuva lot more attractive.
So, the moral of the story is, there is no set 'time' that a card will die. It's not like after 10 months all of them will just conk out. But if there are higher failure rates than normal in their warranty period, not to mention harm done to their reputation, it could end up costing them greatly.
Bah, accidental moderation post.
Because if they didn't have the logs, they would be ordered to turn them over anyways and then be charged with destruction of evidence? Especially as the lawsuit has been going on for a while, so they *may* have been required to at a minimum keep the logs since the lawsuit started.
You may also be surprised to learn that it also disproportionately taxes the poor, because when you are making just enough to live and eat, that 8% can make a huge difference. When you have enough money to live comfortably, that 8% will basically eat into the amount you put into the bank, not the amount you put into your mouth.
Income taxes are written to be more like Robin Hood; take from the rich, give to the poor (well, in theory... but as the saying goes, the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory).
So they process transactions for online gambling sites? Is that why?
I mean, I don't know the law they were breaking to do that, cause I could only find info on the settlement, but I don't think thats enough to call them crooks...(but I also didn't spend much time looking it up, which is why I want to know more about the case from someone who is obviously invested)