94 million is an estimate for the Internet use in America. Far fewer people use P2P. The worldwide number of downloads for the P2P clients is "only" in the tens of millions.
There is one really big difference. Most soldiers didn't go to war for fun. Violent games and movies are for fun, though.
Point taken.
However one can argue that imagining shooting a kid who beats you at school can just as pleasant.
I don't think your comparison with the Pavlovian dog is quite apropriate. Shooting live people is not exactly a conditional reflex and involves actions quite different from those used in videogames.
It is definitely not just something you've been conditioned to do and involves active thought and planning. If anyone is conditioned to kill people, that would be soldjers.
In any case even shown a strong correlational link (which I don't think exists), it would be extremely difficult to come up with any convincing proof for causation.
How easy would it be for a kid to look out his apartment window to the street below and imagine getting a perfect rail shot to a person below? Or turning the corner in school and hitting the local nerd with a double-barrel shotgun blast? Now that doesn't mean the kid would necessarily consider acting it out in real life, but is that the first step on a slippery slope towards real violence?
You don't have to play violent computer games to imagine shooting people. Have you ever imagined killing or beating someone for something they did to you?
Can you imagine shooting someone in the head?
One does not need to see pictures to imagine such things.
It is the exactly the power of imagination that makes premeditated killing possible.
Think about the World War II, millions of soldjers saw violent acts on almost unimaginable scale. Do they come home and start killing people? One does not commit violent acts even from seeing real horrible violence, much less from the
animated gore of computer games.
Yea but the TNT radiates it's energy in all directions from a volume that isn't as concentrated as a kinetic weapon.
That's why they use shaped charges.
If TNT worked was effective against armored targets wouldn't modern tanks use explosive shells rather than depleted uranium darts????
They use explosives in antitank missiles. However for anti-tank guns (on helicopters, etc) they use bullets, because you can shoot lots and lots of them in a short period of time.
A single bullet would do little, but tens or hundreds of them destroy a tank.
The more military power the USA has, and effective ways to deliver it, the more secure the world becomes.
Right, sure.
Kinetic weapons have the possibility to deliver effective yields greater than any of our current chemical devices.
1 ton of TNT yields around 10^10 J. You, accelerated to 1 km/sec, will yield approximately
100(kg)*(1000 (m/sec)^2/2 = 5*10^7 J on impact. Not even close.
I probably did not make myself clear enough.
I agree with you, these perverse incentives are rather unfortunate.
That's one of the reasons I am sceptical when people
talk about small government and efficiency of private enterprise -- it's not like the corporate bureaucracy is that much different...
Paying an extra $300 just for a little more speed, in the long run, just means that the budget to upgrade is higher than it could have been, so it will happen more infrequently, without other external economic influences of course.
Actually, it will happen with the same frequency but you will get more money, since you have set a precedent.
What do you mean by the intellectual art? L'art pour l'art is a relatively new concept anyway. The idea was to entertain, enlighten and pay homage to the Almighty. Was Bach an intellectual composer?
What about Plato? Was Tolstoy an intellectual writer? Kafka?
Sure, they were popular during their lives, does it make them less intellectual?
If you define intellectual as being unpopular, then, of course, very little will survive for 100
years.
Frame rate is an esthetic choice, not just a number to be increased. It gives the film its distinctive look. You would have to think very carefully before making any changes to it.
For example video (NTSC) has a frame rate of 30 vs 24 for film. Is video perceived to be better?
The Attack of the Clones was produced with a digital camera and then tranferred to film. There is no reason why the 35mm version would look any better. If it looks worse on film it is probably because of the technology used for the tranfer.
To make the comparison fair you would have to view it side by side with a fresh 35mm print of a film shot with standard equipment. My bet is that it would look inferior.
The only lasting value in life is the joy we derive from life; our only real duty in life is to increase the amount of joy experienced by others.
This seems to be a contradiction. If our joy is the only value in life, than presumably everyone should work on increasing their own joy, irrespectively of others.
For better or for worse, Europe lacks a First Amendment and the respect for limited government, private property and free enterprise that America still enjoys.
Talk about being biased. Such absurd and ignorant generalizations from one, admittedly seemingly ill-conceived, law proposal.
One might as well look at the American health care and say, for better or for worse, US lacks all respect for well-being of its citizens.
This is just as wrong as if a country mandated 80% Microsoft.
You forget that many government offices are, in fact, standardized on Microsoft. The government does not make you use Microsoft, but it can very well choose Microsoft for its own needs.
Actually no. As a quick look in OED shows, ignoramus means "We do not know" in Latin, so it is not a noun at all and does not have a plural in Latin. The plural in English should be constructed according to the usual rules then.
By now people hip to the open source concept use OpenOffice.org for everyday applications, yet MS Office is still the predominant application in the home and workplace. Many educated people have still not heard of it.
Damn ignoramuses.
You just cannot get proper education nowdays.
Lemelson had to wait years before collecting royalties for some of his ideas, such as the bar code.
Lemelson did not invent the bar code. In fact he engaged in practices very similar to the ones described in the article. His patent was an extremely generic one for machine vision applications, which according to his interpretation covered bar code readers.
He was one of the people who never implemented any of their ideas, preferring to wait for other people to reinvent them and then ask for royalties.
Innovations are neither good or bad in themselves. It is their applications which make them such. And the potential applications of those innovations by Poinedexter and co. is terrifying.
A researcher would do well to think carefully about the potential usage before taking any money to work on TIA.
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94 million is an estimate for the Internet use in America. Far fewer people use P2P. The worldwide number of downloads for the P2P clients is "only" in the tens of millions.
No, technically you violated the copyright which is distinct from stealing as far as the law is concerned.
You might notice that the law never refers to copying copyrighted material as theft.
Oh, I see, you are talking about a projective space
Ah, rays from a point source are parallel... A mathematician might have a heart attack.
You've got to love physicists, saying things like that, as if they are actually true. ;)
Point taken.
However one can argue that imagining shooting a kid who beats you at school can just as pleasant. I don't think your comparison with the Pavlovian dog is quite apropriate. Shooting live people is not exactly a conditional reflex and involves actions quite different from those used in videogames. It is definitely not just something you've been conditioned to do and involves active thought and planning. If anyone is conditioned to kill people, that would be soldjers.
In any case even shown a strong correlational link (which I don't think exists), it would be extremely difficult to come up with any convincing proof for causation.
You don't have to play violent computer games to imagine shooting people. Have you ever imagined killing or beating someone for something they did to you? Can you imagine shooting someone in the head? One does not need to see pictures to imagine such things.
It is the exactly the power of imagination that makes premeditated killing possible.
Think about the World War II, millions of soldjers saw violent acts on almost unimaginable scale. Do they come home and start killing people? One does not commit violent acts even from seeing real horrible violence, much less from the animated gore of computer games.
That's why they use shaped charges.
If TNT worked was effective against armored targets wouldn't modern tanks use explosive shells rather than depleted uranium darts????
They use explosives in antitank missiles. However for anti-tank guns (on helicopters, etc) they use bullets, because you can shoot lots and lots of them in a short period of time. A single bullet would do little, but tens or hundreds of them destroy a tank.
Right, sure.
Kinetic weapons have the possibility to deliver effective yields greater than any of our current chemical devices.
1 ton of TNT yields around 10^10 J.
You, accelerated to 1 km/sec, will yield approximately 100(kg)*(1000 (m/sec)^2/2 = 5*10^7 J on impact. Not even close.
I don't see how 0 fits here.
I probably did not make myself clear enough. I agree with you, these perverse incentives are rather unfortunate.
That's one of the reasons I am sceptical when people talk about small government and efficiency of private enterprise -- it's not like the corporate bureaucracy is that much different...
Don't get so personal. The comment was sarcastic (although true as well).
Actually, it will happen with the same frequency but you will get more money, since you have set a precedent.
Sure, they were popular during their lives, does it make them less intellectual?
If you define intellectual as being unpopular, then, of course, very little will survive for 100 years.
True there is a lot more to film than the fram rate, but the frame rate is important.
For example, check out http://www.cameraguild.com/technology/24frame.htm
They say that the lower frame rate gives film its "dreamlike quality".
For example video (NTSC) has a frame rate of 30 vs 24 for film. Is video perceived to be better?
To make the comparison fair you would have to view it side by side with a fresh 35mm print of a film shot with standard equipment. My bet is that it would look inferior.
The only lasting value in life is the joy we derive from life; our only real duty in life is to increase the amount of joy experienced by others.
This seems to be a contradiction. If our joy is the only value in life, than presumably everyone should work on increasing their own joy, irrespectively of others.
What an intriguing idea!
Talk about being biased. Such absurd and ignorant generalizations from one, admittedly seemingly ill-conceived, law proposal.
One might as well look at the American health care and say, for better or for worse, US lacks all respect for well-being of its citizens.
You forget that many government offices are, in fact, standardized on Microsoft. The government does not make you use Microsoft, but it can very well choose Microsoft for its own needs.
Actually no. As a quick look in OED shows, ignoramus means "We do not know" in Latin, so it is not a noun at all and does not have a plural in Latin.
The plural in English should be constructed according to the usual rules then.
Damn ignoramuses. You just cannot get proper education nowdays.
Lemelson did not invent the bar code. In fact he engaged in practices very similar to the ones described in the article. His patent was an extremely generic one for machine vision applications, which according to his interpretation covered bar code readers. He was one of the people who never implemented any of their ideas, preferring to wait for other people to reinvent them and then ask for royalties.
A researcher would do well to think carefully about the potential usage before taking any money to work on TIA.