What is the point to get achievement by cheating ? This is just worthless.
Remember the news a while ago when one korean guy had completed all WoW achievements ? This guys is clearly a nolife, sure, but I respect this because I know (well, I imagine) how much dedication was needed to obtain it. If it had been possible to obtain these achievements by cheating, we would never have been told about this feat.
For your money analogy, if you won your million dollars working hard during your whole life, and the next day you see anybody can have it by just printing bills, I'm quite sure you would be very very unhappy.
Science-fiction novel distress, written by Greg Egan in 1995, features such an artificial island.
It is populated by climate refugees, and as they are not bound to any government they allow themselves to infringe biotechnology patents they need to survive in this environment.
Of course meaning of words change. Maybe Sci-fi was not pejorative in the 60's but now it is. And I'm quite sure it has been like that for at least 20 years.
Please use the term you like, but people may not understand what you intended.
An atheist should be tolerant, as he condemns intolerance amongst religion.
That does not mean he should be silent and never criticize religion. Religious people tends to easily forget that their faith is not universal and try to impose their rules. That is the whole topic of this discussion, a censorship imposed for religious reason.
In those cases, it would be a mistake to remain silent.
Personally, I don't really care if people take drug. It's just sad when they destroy their life doing so.
For sports it's another issue. It's not only breaking law. It's a competition and there are rules. To dope is to cheat. There is no meaning in competition if people cheat.
You are right that marginal price of actual production of a paper book is quite low. But distribution is costly, and publishers have to print a lot of books to be available in book shops, often a large part come back to be destroyed and recycled.
A a customer, I expect to buy e-books much cheaper than physical books, without lowering authors revenue.
Publishers are afraid of new media, or they want to take all profits from the productivity gains for them only. If they want to sell e-book at the same price than paper books, I will stick to paper.
This tweet was intended to be read by the guy's friends.
That police performs search all tweets for potential terrorist is already quite disturbing. Anyway, we can imagine this is a way to gather information on actual extremist group, at least amateur ones. And reading public information doesn't require a warrant.
But they should be able to understand context of such a message. If not, I afraid they can not catch real threats efficiently.
AFPA is a customer of Edu4. They buy an software system from them, for a given purpose. When they receive the product, they see that part of the software is not owned by Edu4 and that Edu4 has no right to redistribute this software as they don't comply to GPL and they don't have alternate license to redistribute it. AFPA sue Edu4 for selling them something they have no right to redistribute.
Imagine you go to a shop and buy a MS Office License. You go home and it appears this is an illegal copy. Don't you have the right to sue the shop to get a real one you have paid for ?
To come back to initial case, that's good news as when you are OSS user, you never know if the copyright holder of code you use will bother to take the expenses and risks to go to court to help you.
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What is the point to get achievement by cheating ? This is just worthless.
Remember the news a while ago when one korean guy had completed all WoW achievements ? This guys is clearly a nolife, sure, but I respect this because I know (well, I imagine) how much dedication was needed to obtain it. If it had been possible to obtain these achievements by cheating, we would never have been told about this feat.
For your money analogy, if you won your million dollars working hard during your whole life, and the next day you see anybody can have it by just printing bills, I'm quite sure you would be very very unhappy.
Science-fiction novel distress, written by Greg Egan in 1995, features such an artificial island.
It is populated by climate refugees, and as they are not bound to any government they allow themselves to infringe biotechnology patents they need to survive in this environment.
You don't need to avoid using facebook, just avoid marriage.
What the point of getting married, considering the high probability of catastrophic ending ? Oh, it will not happen with you, only others...
Of course meaning of words change. Maybe Sci-fi was not pejorative in the 60's but now it is. And I'm quite sure it has been like that for at least 20 years.
Please use the term you like, but people may not understand what you intended.
SF means science-fiction.
sci-fi is a pejorative term. It is used for stories that only use science-fiction as a decor.
As I can see from article, "For the win" is science-fiction, not sci-fi.
An atheist should be tolerant, as he condemns intolerance amongst religion.
That does not mean he should be silent and never criticize religion. Religious people tends to easily forget that their faith is not universal and try to impose their rules. That is the whole topic of this discussion, a censorship imposed for religious reason.
In those cases, it would be a mistake to remain silent.
Say, a large and growing user base ?
Of course, but you can also say that a picture taken from a digital camera is computer generated.
In this blog post, Youtube cites the famous "Charlie Bit My Finger" video.
This video is exactly like what Viacom is doing, using bad faith as its extreme. How childish...
2/6600 = 0.000303 that is 0.0303%
Personally, I don't really care if people take drug. It's just sad when they destroy their life doing so.
For sports it's another issue. It's not only breaking law. It's a competition and there are rules. To dope is to cheat. There is no meaning in competition if people cheat.
Really, I can't understand public can still have an interest in Tour de France with all these dope scandals.
You are right that marginal price of actual production of a paper book is quite low. But distribution is costly, and publishers have to print a lot of books to be available in book shops, often a large part come back to be destroyed and recycled.
A a customer, I expect to buy e-books much cheaper than physical books, without lowering authors revenue.
Publishers are afraid of new media, or they want to take all profits from the productivity gains for them only. If they want to sell e-book at the same price than paper books, I will stick to paper.
Max Tegmark, an eminent physicist, describes himself as an extreme platonist.
English is not my native language.
In french we say "Assis dans un fauteuil". This means literaly "sat in an armchair". Sorry for this french-ism.
They can run any study they want, people get badly injured doing sports, not sitting on a sofa.
That's not my point.
- You tell your friends you will blow up an airport
- You tell director of airport you will blow up it.
This is not the same thing. Your friends will understand it is a joke. Director of airport will take it as a risk even if it looks like a joke.
This tweet was intended to be read by the guy's friends.
That police performs search all tweets for potential terrorist is already quite disturbing. Anyway, we can imagine this is a way to gather information on actual extremist group, at least amateur ones. And reading public information doesn't require a warrant.
But they should be able to understand context of such a message. If not, I afraid they can not catch real threats efficiently.
I agree. Greg Egan is my favorite SF writer.
You may read Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel".
Dont get me started on the Japanese chess game Go.
Go is not Japanese only. It originally comes from China and is popular in all east-asia, well in all world now.
It is not a chess-like game. Go is way older than chess.
There is a "japanese chess", very popular game in japan, named Shogi.
Is it me ? I expected that the moral of the story is that you can't rely on an algorithm to choose a sentence in a criminal case.
Problem is not data wrongly entered or math errors. Problem is willing to apply those kind of formula. This is just absurd.
In addition to this post, with EDF algorithm if you meet some given conditions, you have the guaranty that your deadlines will be met.
Yes, at the cost of having players in different phase if they are not at the same step of the quest.
It has begun with current extension, I expect this to be heavily used in next one.
AFPA is a customer of Edu4. They buy an software system from them, for a given purpose. When they receive the product, they see that part of the software is not owned by Edu4 and that Edu4 has no right to redistribute this software as they don't comply to GPL and they don't have alternate license to redistribute it. AFPA sue Edu4 for selling them something they have no right to redistribute.
Imagine you go to a shop and buy a MS Office License. You go home and it appears this is an illegal copy. Don't you have the right to sue the shop to get a real one you have paid for ?
To come back to initial case, that's good news as when you are OSS user, you never know if the copyright holder of code you use will bother to take the expenses and risks to go to court to help you.