Here is how I seem to understand all of this debarcle...
Nasa wants to make a game.
They have a paltry $3mill budget to make it.
They decide to not pay the developers to make it, but let them profit from making the Nasa game.
The game developer has to make what is likely going to be a dull drab game (compared to other space MMO standards) and as a reward is ALLOWED to make money off said game.
Now is it just me, or is this utterly setting yourself up for a fall? Not only do you not get to have all the aliens and things running about in your game, you probably won't get to run about conquering and destroying, and due to budgets and the likely developers who would actually GO FOR THIS deal, you will likely end up with a B-Grade MMO that looks totally like a B-Grade MMO.
Is this really a smart step for Nasa? If you can't do it properly or well enough, sometimes it is indeed better not to do it at all.
RIAA wants someone else to do the dirty work:
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A funny story that sort of shines out as an example here of how this all fits together:
In Australia in recent years there has been a push to stop selling cigarettes to under 18's. There are harsh fines and so forth to both the business and to the individuals who would do the selling.
One smart (or lazy/tricky depending on what way you look at it) cookie decided that as a shop owner who sold tabacco products, he was being asked to do regulatory work on behalf of the state government here who said that he shouldn't sell to minors. He took the government to court - and amazingly won the case. (I couldn't find anything on google though).
THe basic premise is the same here though, the RIAA and governments are imposing rules about what can and can't be done by users of something else, but they want someone else to do all the dirty work imposing the law. It's a bloody great way not to do any work if you ask me - by getting someone else to do it, and pay for it.
While I support copyright, I think that they should stop trying to get ISP's to do all the dirty work.
Given that they don't seem to be able to afford $3mil to make a game (Link) it seems pretty funny in a not really funny sort of way that they don't seem to be able to allot funds to this project either.
Maybe someone is trying to make some money off interest. @_@
So, the general meaning of "so we will stop you possibly getting yourself into trouble" really wasn't wrong. Just because you don't type it in with black and white fonts doesn't mean you don't mean it.
"Lets put this out and check public reaction before we make it 100% official.
Looking at the "features list" it doesn't appear that there is a huge amount that people want but certainly an install that Microsoft wants people to have.
If you put all the people it benefits on one side of a scale and dropped all the people it didn't benefit on the other side of the scale, I wonder what side would be heavier.
My point is really this: Who will benefit most from the XP SP3 pack? Users or Microsoft?
While I love the fact that my OS is being helped along and that they are keeping it up to date, I am still a little annoyed that the "follow up" OS is really still about as useful as a bucket full of random sized bolts.
Though I love gaming, each month seems to bring me closer and closer to blowing away all three of my windows boxes and replacing them with a distro of Ubuntu or something similar. My lack of knowledge is the one thing keeping that at bay for now.
When will Microsoft simply get the fact that a flashy desktop DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR A SHITTY OS.
Well thinking that the people who opposed it didn't show up, you could be led into thinking that therefore this was a victory for net neutrality right?
Too bad that while advocates of net neutrality were here making their case, the rest of the fight was being lost as the ISP's went about putting in more and more subtle things that were making net neutrality an old vision.
I agree with respecting the beliefs of others.
I am a Catholic in Australia and have been firm in my beliefs since I was about 10 years old.
I spent a good few years of my youth thinking that I would end up a priest.
However, in my opinion, teaching children that God made the world in seven days and we are all descended from Adam and Eve is akin to teaching them that the world is flat, but there are some crazy scientists who say it is round.
I really do not understand this (Sorry for the next bit to people I might offend) apparently purely American concept (Radicals aside) of taking everything in the bible as being word for word truth. Everyone agrees that people living for hundreds of years is not to be taken literally (Hello Old Testament) and there are many other non-literal things, but it seems that creationism is certainly MEANT to be taken literally.
Why not extend that magic spark to evolution? I personally don't even extend it this far, but what's wrong with saying that evolution took place, but God was involved in the original "spark of life" that set off the first unicellular organisms?
I really think that this continued debate in your country is feeding the stereotypes that already exist of the American people due to these and other similar arguments.
The world is not flat. Man was not made from clay. Woman was not created from the spare rib of a man. The history of the world did not start with seven magic days a few thousand years ago. Was God involved in this somehow anyway - that is where FAITH COMES IN.
I wonder how long it is before this could be used as a pretext for someone to be arrested and interrogated. Seems like a very easy way of putting a large amount of people into a position where they are "breaking" the allowing the government to "legally" do stuff that otherwise might be very nasty.
A detailed look at this can be found in this link from Nasa on the topic of moon fountains, which is basically the exact same thing under a different name.
Okay, so it's maybe not quite totally at the same level, but there are other groups who are certainly looking at exploiting a good level of cash in people wanting to get into space:
Sounds like a good thing to me, not only do you get a lovely platter at the end of your meal, but the thing floats above the plate. Talk about a light meal...
Well, the proof is clearly in the pudding. If school holidays didn't mark the end of anything decent on the tele I can assure you that the hoards of people wouldn't be racing off to download something better off the net than the horrid renditions of Dickens Christmas Carol being shown on the box.
Yes, lose the cold war, get angry about it but not have the economy to do anything, break out ad-injection to ramp up some revenue and then take over the world!
Goodness me, that's just not right. The internet should partly stay a case of survival of the fittest. Gosh, in some way, it might be our next evolutionary platform to weed out the poor badly adjusted humans from propagating into the future?
I can just see it now...
(Angry womans voice) "What? You lost your bank account because you used a poor browser to access Paypal? That's the last straw! I am leaving you for another man - one that is more aware of internet security!"
Actually, that link was one of the funnier things I have seen.
I just made a dumb joke in regards to how geeky I was back in the day, but that link just adds to it imo:)
As cool as it is, these engines are pushing the xenon gas out at over 40,000m/s, they still only push out 40kg (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7346789.stm)if the stuff before the fuel runs out. As much as I am all for cool new space stuff, I am also a fan of manga and sci-fi. Some of these guys should watch more Star Trek - we need THOSE sort of engines powering our experiments.
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It's pretty simple if you have a good agenda to keep, make sure you don't invite people who oppose said agenda.
Here is how I seem to understand all of this debarcle...
Nasa wants to make a game.
They have a paltry $3mill budget to make it.
They decide to not pay the developers to make it, but let them profit from making the Nasa game.
The game developer has to make what is likely going to be a dull drab game (compared to other space MMO standards) and as a reward is ALLOWED to make money off said game.
Now is it just me, or is this utterly setting yourself up for a fall? Not only do you not get to have all the aliens and things running about in your game, you probably won't get to run about conquering and destroying, and due to budgets and the likely developers who would actually GO FOR THIS deal, you will likely end up with a B-Grade MMO that looks totally like a B-Grade MMO.
Is this really a smart step for Nasa? If you can't do it properly or well enough, sometimes it is indeed better not to do it at all.
A funny story that sort of shines out as an example here of how this all fits together:
In Australia in recent years there has been a push to stop selling cigarettes to under 18's. There are harsh fines and so forth to both the business and to the individuals who would do the selling.
One smart (or lazy/tricky depending on what way you look at it) cookie decided that as a shop owner who sold tabacco products, he was being asked to do regulatory work on behalf of the state government here who said that he shouldn't sell to minors. He took the government to court - and amazingly won the case. (I couldn't find anything on google though).
THe basic premise is the same here though, the RIAA and governments are imposing rules about what can and can't be done by users of something else, but they want someone else to do all the dirty work imposing the law. It's a bloody great way not to do any work if you ask me - by getting someone else to do it, and pay for it.
While I support copyright, I think that they should stop trying to get ISP's to do all the dirty work.
Given that they don't seem to be able to afford $3mil to make a game (Link) it seems pretty funny in a not really funny sort of way that they don't seem to be able to allot funds to this project either.
Maybe someone is trying to make some money off interest. @_@
Like what the internet was originally developed for by those physics chaps - before all the advertisers found out they could make money off it?
It's almost like going back in time to the future to go back in time.
There were quite a few indications that Safari would have been included in the list of browsers that no longer were supported:
Ars link
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So, the general meaning of "so we will stop you possibly getting yourself into trouble" really wasn't wrong. Just because you don't type it in with black and white fonts doesn't mean you don't mean it.
"Lets put this out and check public reaction before we make it 100% official.
Wowsa, that change is quicker than it takes the read the following:
Previous: "We know better than you do about what you should and shouldn't be using, so we will stop you possibly getting yourself into trouble."
Current: "Wow, there are so many of you that are quite happy to be wrong that we think you better be allowed to get yourselves into trouble."
My interpretation: Right or wrong, the masses will always win it seems.
Looking at the "features list" it doesn't appear that there is a huge amount that people want but certainly an install that Microsoft wants people to have.
If you put all the people it benefits on one side of a scale and dropped all the people it didn't benefit on the other side of the scale, I wonder what side would be heavier.
My point is really this: Who will benefit most from the XP SP3 pack? Users or Microsoft?
If it smells bad, chances are it is.
While I love the fact that my OS is being helped along and that they are keeping it up to date, I am still a little annoyed that the "follow up" OS is really still about as useful as a bucket full of random sized bolts.
Though I love gaming, each month seems to bring me closer and closer to blowing away all three of my windows boxes and replacing them with a distro of Ubuntu or something similar. My lack of knowledge is the one thing keeping that at bay for now.
When will Microsoft simply get the fact that a flashy desktop DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR A SHITTY OS.
Well thinking that the people who opposed it didn't show up, you could be led into thinking that therefore this was a victory for net neutrality right?
Too bad that while advocates of net neutrality were here making their case, the rest of the fight was being lost as the ISP's went about putting in more and more subtle things that were making net neutrality an old vision.
This is an mpg of a web app currently being developed using this technology. How cool is this?:
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Firstly,
I agree with respecting the beliefs of others. I am a Catholic in Australia and have been firm in my beliefs since I was about 10 years old. I spent a good few years of my youth thinking that I would end up a priest.
However, in my opinion, teaching children that God made the world in seven days and we are all descended from Adam and Eve is akin to teaching them that the world is flat, but there are some crazy scientists who say it is round.
I really do not understand this (Sorry for the next bit to people I might offend) apparently purely American concept (Radicals aside) of taking everything in the bible as being word for word truth. Everyone agrees that people living for hundreds of years is not to be taken literally (Hello Old Testament) and there are many other non-literal things, but it seems that creationism is certainly MEANT to be taken literally.
Why not extend that magic spark to evolution? I personally don't even extend it this far, but what's wrong with saying that evolution took place, but God was involved in the original "spark of life" that set off the first unicellular organisms?
I really think that this continued debate in your country is feeding the stereotypes that already exist of the American people due to these and other similar arguments.
The world is not flat. Man was not made from clay. Woman was not created from the spare rib of a man. The history of the world did not start with seven magic days a few thousand years ago. Was God involved in this somehow anyway - that is where FAITH COMES IN.
I wonder how long it is before this could be used as a pretext for someone to be arrested and interrogated. Seems like a very easy way of putting a large amount of people into a position where they are "breaking" the allowing the government to "legally" do stuff that otherwise might be very nasty.
A detailed look at this can be found in this link from Nasa on the topic of moon fountains, which is basically the exact same thing under a different name.
Okay, so it's maybe not quite totally at the same level, but there are other groups who are certainly looking at exploiting a good level of cash in people wanting to get into space:
Nothing wrong with making money off it according to Richard Branson
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=70139&pt=n
Wow, I must have missed the news article on that.
Sounds like a good thing to me, not only do you get a lovely platter at the end of your meal, but the thing floats above the plate. Talk about a light meal...
Well, the proof is clearly in the pudding. If school holidays didn't mark the end of anything decent on the tele I can assure you that the hoards of people wouldn't be racing off to download something better off the net than the horrid renditions of Dickens Christmas Carol being shown on the box.
Yes, lose the cold war, get angry about it but not have the economy to do anything, break out ad-injection to ramp up some revenue and then take over the world!
Goodness me, that's just not right. The internet should partly stay a case of survival of the fittest. Gosh, in some way, it might be our next evolutionary platform to weed out the poor badly adjusted humans from propagating into the future? I can just see it now... (Angry womans voice) "What? You lost your bank account because you used a poor browser to access Paypal? That's the last straw! I am leaving you for another man - one that is more aware of internet security!"
Actually, that link was one of the funnier things I have seen. I just made a dumb joke in regards to how geeky I was back in the day, but that link just adds to it imo :)
As cool as it is, these engines are pushing the xenon gas out at over 40,000m/s, they still only push out 40kg (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7346789.stm)if the stuff before the fuel runs out. As much as I am all for cool new space stuff, I am also a fan of manga and sci-fi. Some of these guys should watch more Star Trek - we need THOSE sort of engines powering our experiments.
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