"Some of the currency is being generated illegally. No, the bitcoin system doesn't know or care. This is a further strike against it."
Slaves have been forced to mine gold illegally. No, the gold-based currencies of the world don't know or care. This is a further strike against them.
A voice will gently intone "I see you're masturbating, Dave. I happen to know of 20238 men and 3 women who are also masturbating right now. Would you like me to open video chat with any of them?"
I think the opening sentence of the summary might be more accurately rephrased: "The Bangalore Police have sensed an opportunity for a jolly fat slice of baksheesh from Google, and have hence objected to the collection of data by Google's cars". A company that size ought to be able to pay a few million USD to help the Bangalore Police address these security concerns, neh?
Liability would never work. The USPTO should require all applicants to post a bond of, say, $10,000 per claim that guarantees the originality of each claim. Then there would be a period of testing time during which a team of challengers who are knowledgeable in the field would be given the opportunity to come up with an invention to satisfy the claims made. If any of the ideas they come up with is substantially similar to the invention in the application, then the challengers get the bounty for whatever claims they invalidated. If the claim challengers don't come up with a substantially similar invention, then the spark of originality is proved, the applicant is refunded their bond(s) and the patent is granted.
This suit isn't about money, exactly. Bittorrent, Inc. are not your typical "deep pockets", so it's not as though the troll hopes to make a lot of money by suing them. In fact, the only way this makes business sense is as an obstructive competition tactic. Let's see... who would stand to benefit by tripping up Bittorrent, Inc.? Hmmm...
If someone were to follow the money, it wouldn't surprise me much to find out that our good friends in the old-fashioned media offered to pick up the legal tab to prosecute this. That's about the only thing that makes sense.
In conversation it's more likely that you'd refer to cents, mils, mics and sats. The last being a monosyllabic contraction of Satoshi, which is the generally agreed upon term for the smallest denomination.
Ignorance of the law is no defense for anything. You are expected to know and follow all the laws. If you're unfamiliar with the laws that govern your behavior, just ask your local representative for a copy of all the laws. I'm sure they'd be happy to accommodate your wishes.
I thought the usual biological comparison was to sperm cells, since both lawyers and sperm have about one in a billion chance of one day becoming a human.
Used books make a huge dent in an author's profits - way more than any piracy. It's relatively easy for authors to see how big the dent is, too, since used sales count on amazon, but don't show up in royalty reports. This is one reason authors are really happy with the locked eBook platforms like Kindle and Nook. I would imagine that game writers are similarly enthusiastic about locked-down platforms like Steam.
The real danger to the USD lies in that fact that it has been the standard hedge against local currency and political fluctuations. There are trillions of actual greenbacks tucked under mattresses worldwide for this purpose. This amounts to a several trillion dollar, zero percent interest loan to the US. Anything that erodes the perception that the USD is the safest and most universally accepted container of wealth will tend to limit future stockpiling of USD and increase liquidation of current stockpiles. This would amount to the world calling in that several trillion dollar loan. Which our beleaguered economy cannot easily afford. If such a redemption started in earnest, it could snowball, as there would be many more USD chasing the same wealth, causing inflation, which would further erode the value of the stockpiled USD, which would lead to further liquidation, etc...
Not so. Glancing up at my games shelf, I count five titles that I bought after having downloaded the pirate version. In some cases, I continue to run the pirate version, since it isn't burdened with cumbersome DRM that requires you to dig up the CD and insert it in your computer before you can play.
Theft is depriving someone of something they would otherwise have had. So piracy can be a form of contingent theft, when you would otherwise have bought the pirated item. Warez I try and like, I buy. There are some cases where I do commit theft, simply because the software is much too expensive for the three or four times a year that I use it. I feel that in those cases I am stealing the value delivered, rather than the full price of the package. If there were a pay-per-use model for these expensive programs, I would gladly pay for the value I actually receive.
We are all cultivators of the economic garden. The things we fertilize with our money are the things that flourish. I like to think most people realize that.
Another way of viewing it was that MP3.com was merely housing the dictionary part of your extremely well-compressed files. When you scanned your CD, it compressed all of that data into a dictionary key. This dictionary key could then be decompressed by MP3.com, where the dictionary part of your compressed file was stored. Without your part of the compressed file, MP3.com couldn't decompress it for you.
Most of the time it was a dead tube back then. When we were about 12, my buddy and I used to scavenge radios and TVs from the dump, pull the tubes and use the tube tester down at the corner drugstore. Replacing the dead tubes fixed maybe 90% of them.
It wasn't just the investment bankers who caused the huge mess. As the bad mortgage avalanche was building, I personally watched as people who had no damn business doing so were buying huge houses that were way beyond their means. If our public education required a couple of semesters of common sense, these people would surely have thought their decisions through a little better.
Another non-financial player in that fiasco was our financial regulators. If it were a crime to issue grossly inaccurate credit risk ratings, then all of these companies would have thought twice before giving AAA ratings to CDOs. Similarly, if it were a crime to lie about your assets on a mortgage application, folks might not have been given mortgages that were way beyond their means.
To place the entire blame for the financial crisis on the greed of the finance industry is simplistic and incorrect.
Art is a pattern of sensory inputs which is intended to evoke an emotional movement in the perceiver. Like science, good art embodies two properties: precision and accuracy. A work of art has precision when all perceivers of a work are moved in a similar way and to similar degree. A work has accuracy when the movement in the perceiver is what the artist intended. Any consideration of motivations, economics, politics or popularity are aspects outside the art itself and are relevant only to the extent that they affect the perception of that art.
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So when asking whether videogames can be art, we must ask whether we are moved by them. If yes, then it is art. If we are moved to a greater degree than when perceiving a "great" work of art, then isn't the videogame the greater work of the two?
Before DNS you'd give the specific route you wanted your email to travel. So instead of a simple flanders@ersys.com, you'd address it like decrwl!alberta!aunro!ersys!flanders. Since there was no reason you couldn't send email to yourself, all you had to do to gank a little extra storage was uuencode your payload and mail it to yourself by the longest route possible. Then set up a.forward file to automatically re-send the email once it made it around the loop. Some email servers would transact just once a day, so you could really add to the latency if you included a couple of those in your address path. And, yeah, people actually did this.
Knowledge of biochemistry is relevant to extraterrestrial life studies. If the putative life forms are DNA-based, then it is easy for even an undergrad biochem student to rule out any long-term space dwelling for that life form. DNA is thermodynamically unstable, and the formation of pyrimidine dimers is energetically favored. Without adequate shielding from UV and cosmic radiation, DNA degrades faster than any DNA repair mechanism can keep up with. This pretty much rules out extraterrestrial DNA-based life existing on meteors, comets or small moons.
Have you been into a major public library in a large urban center lately? They're usually about half full of "itinerant campers", who are either surfing porn on the free public internet terminals or are giving themselves sponge-baths (or worse) in the library's rest rooms. Emphasizing electronic content frees the genteel reader from the physical and social hazards of travel to their library building. It reduces the problem of specialized content being in a different building. It also allows patrons to relax more about borrowing, since there are never any overdue fines for electronic content.
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All the enterprising bot-master has to do is set up a BTC sales office, like this.
"Some of the currency is being generated illegally. No, the bitcoin system doesn't know or care. This is a further strike against it."
Slaves have been forced to mine gold illegally. No, the gold-based currencies of the world don't know or care. This is a further strike against them.
After all, C++0x has only taken, what, 4 years? Perl 6 has been brewing since July, 2000. (Maybe by Christmas?)
I'm pretty sure it got that way because they attempted to detonate it without opening.
Mental Floss has an interesting blurb on the distinction between commonwealth and a state.
A voice will gently intone "I see you're masturbating, Dave. I happen to know of 20238 men and 3 women who are also masturbating right now. Would you like me to open video chat with any of them?"
I think the opening sentence of the summary might be more accurately rephrased: "The Bangalore Police have sensed an opportunity for a jolly fat slice of baksheesh from Google, and have hence objected to the collection of data by Google's cars". A company that size ought to be able to pay a few million USD to help the Bangalore Police address these security concerns, neh?
Liability would never work. The USPTO should require all applicants to post a bond of, say, $10,000 per claim that guarantees the originality of each claim. Then there would be a period of testing time during which a team of challengers who are knowledgeable in the field would be given the opportunity to come up with an invention to satisfy the claims made. If any of the ideas they come up with is substantially similar to the invention in the application, then the challengers get the bounty for whatever claims they invalidated. If the claim challengers don't come up with a substantially similar invention, then the spark of originality is proved, the applicant is refunded their bond(s) and the patent is granted.
This suit isn't about money, exactly. Bittorrent, Inc. are not your typical "deep pockets", so it's not as though the troll hopes to make a lot of money by suing them. In fact, the only way this makes business sense is as an obstructive competition tactic. Let's see... who would stand to benefit by tripping up Bittorrent, Inc.? Hmmm...
If someone were to follow the money, it wouldn't surprise me much to find out that our good friends in the old-fashioned media offered to pick up the legal tab to prosecute this. That's about the only thing that makes sense.
In conversation it's more likely that you'd refer to cents, mils, mics and sats. The last being a monosyllabic contraction of Satoshi, which is the generally agreed upon term for the smallest denomination.
Another benefit is the political sentiment, which is relatively libertarian. Oh, and the people here are real nice, too.
Ignorance of the law is no defense for anything. You are expected to know and follow all the laws. If you're unfamiliar with the laws that govern your behavior, just ask your local representative for a copy of all the laws. I'm sure they'd be happy to accommodate your wishes.
I guess this means I'll have to start washing my coffee mug, after all.
I thought the usual biological comparison was to sperm cells, since both lawyers and sperm have about one in a billion chance of one day becoming a human.
Used books make a huge dent in an author's profits - way more than any piracy. It's relatively easy for authors to see how big the dent is, too, since used sales count on amazon, but don't show up in royalty reports. This is one reason authors are really happy with the locked eBook platforms like Kindle and Nook. I would imagine that game writers are similarly enthusiastic about locked-down platforms like Steam.
The real danger to the USD lies in that fact that it has been the standard hedge against local currency and political fluctuations. There are trillions of actual greenbacks tucked under mattresses worldwide for this purpose. This amounts to a several trillion dollar, zero percent interest loan to the US. Anything that erodes the perception that the USD is the safest and most universally accepted container of wealth will tend to limit future stockpiling of USD and increase liquidation of current stockpiles. This would amount to the world calling in that several trillion dollar loan. Which our beleaguered economy cannot easily afford. If such a redemption started in earnest, it could snowball, as there would be many more USD chasing the same wealth, causing inflation, which would further erode the value of the stockpiled USD, which would lead to further liquidation, etc...
Like salmon, cannon is its own plural. Oh, and in electrical terms, it's antennas, not "antennae", in case you were wondering.
Not so. Glancing up at my games shelf, I count five titles that I bought after having downloaded the pirate version. In some cases, I continue to run the pirate version, since it isn't burdened with cumbersome DRM that requires you to dig up the CD and insert it in your computer before you can play.
Theft is depriving someone of something they would otherwise have had. So piracy can be a form of contingent theft, when you would otherwise have bought the pirated item. Warez I try and like, I buy. There are some cases where I do commit theft, simply because the software is much too expensive for the three or four times a year that I use it. I feel that in those cases I am stealing the value delivered, rather than the full price of the package. If there were a pay-per-use model for these expensive programs, I would gladly pay for the value I actually receive.
We are all cultivators of the economic garden. The things we fertilize with our money are the things that flourish. I like to think most people realize that.
Another way of viewing it was that MP3.com was merely housing the dictionary part of your extremely well-compressed files. When you scanned your CD, it compressed all of that data into a dictionary key. This dictionary key could then be decompressed by MP3.com, where the dictionary part of your compressed file was stored. Without your part of the compressed file, MP3.com couldn't decompress it for you.
Most of the time it was a dead tube back then. When we were about 12, my buddy and I used to scavenge radios and TVs from the dump, pull the tubes and use the tube tester down at the corner drugstore. Replacing the dead tubes fixed maybe 90% of them.
It wasn't just the investment bankers who caused the huge mess. As the bad mortgage avalanche was building, I personally watched as people who had no damn business doing so were buying huge houses that were way beyond their means. If our public education required a couple of semesters of common sense, these people would surely have thought their decisions through a little better.
Another non-financial player in that fiasco was our financial regulators. If it were a crime to issue grossly inaccurate credit risk ratings, then all of these companies would have thought twice before giving AAA ratings to CDOs. Similarly, if it were a crime to lie about your assets on a mortgage application, folks might not have been given mortgages that were way beyond their means.
To place the entire blame for the financial crisis on the greed of the finance industry is simplistic and incorrect.
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So when asking whether videogames can be art, we must ask whether we are moved by them. If yes, then it is art. If we are moved to a greater degree than when perceiving a "great" work of art, then isn't the videogame the greater work of the two?
Before DNS you'd give the specific route you wanted your email to travel. So instead of a simple flanders@ersys.com, you'd address it like decrwl!alberta!aunro!ersys!flanders. Since there was no reason you couldn't send email to yourself, all you had to do to gank a little extra storage was uuencode your payload and mail it to yourself by the longest route possible. Then set up a .forward file to automatically re-send the email once it made it around the loop. Some email servers would transact just once a day, so you could really add to the latency if you included a couple of those in your address path. And, yeah, people actually did this.
Knowledge of biochemistry is relevant to extraterrestrial life studies. If the putative life forms are DNA-based, then it is easy for even an undergrad biochem student to rule out any long-term space dwelling for that life form. DNA is thermodynamically unstable, and the formation of pyrimidine dimers is energetically favored. Without adequate shielding from UV and cosmic radiation, DNA degrades faster than any DNA repair mechanism can keep up with. This pretty much rules out extraterrestrial DNA-based life existing on meteors, comets or small moons.
Have you been into a major public library in a large urban center lately? They're usually about half full of "itinerant campers", who are either surfing porn on the free public internet terminals or are giving themselves sponge-baths (or worse) in the library's rest rooms. Emphasizing electronic content frees the genteel reader from the physical and social hazards of travel to their library building. It reduces the problem of specialized content being in a different building. It also allows patrons to relax more about borrowing, since there are never any overdue fines for electronic content.