Point taken. But on the whole--its no worse than the blog sphere really.
The problem is people don't read informative articles. We (the general public) really do like our sensationalism over fact or rational, well reasoned articles. Its hard to find a good news source.
Titles like "Britney Spears Pregnant" or "Terrorist kill cute fluffy bunnies" just sells better... So its our won fault.
Let the reader beware... I'm sure there should be some cool sounding Latin phrase for that.
I was going to say the same thing. A ship is only armed if it has a gun. ie a mounted.50 cal or something. But crews *are* often armed. Especially around Africa. Most countries have rules with personal arms when entering territorial waters. In NZ you must tell them what you have and have them secured. Then the Police will check and either secure them further and return them when leaving or accept the current arrangements.
One Vessel got a sound bite on the news once when they even had rocket launchers! It was stressed that having arms was not uncommon, and perfectly legal, just they had never seen so much on one ship.
Orbit requirements match aircraft envelope characteristics about as well as trains work as aircraft.
Its a totally different problem. We don't expect trains to look like ships and planes to look like trains. Why do we expect space access vehicles to look like planes?
Personally I put it down to a lack of imagination on the part of SciFi writers and general lack of knowledge on what is required for orbit.
When its international espionage I think it has always been referred too as theft. Or treason. Or something that gets dam close to the death penalty when caught.
You don't really want to give a spy just a $750-$10000 dollar fine do you?
In these cases its really not copyright law thats involved.
Doom 2 IMHO was one of the most memorable games because all the enemies had some kind of interesting death, and in multiplayer the interesting death animations were hilarious.
Do you seriously think that professional journalism is anything more than idiots with training in sensationalism? When New Scientist will have articles on zero point energy and 20/20 will run segments on engines that run on water or even free energy machines? Or that the bulk media runs the moon landing conspiracy theories?
Nothing has changed. Idiots will be idiots and like attracts like. Anyone smart will know not to listen.
Python could get a good JIT compiler. Really you can be so close to C in performance that it does not matter. In java these days some things are even faster. There are very few cases where is slower.
Apparently it is Linux's fault that uses are too ignorant to use the *preinstalled* tools. So yes I would say its their fault. After all they want my money.
Yes, hackers WILL hack your game to produce a hot rodded license file. That's the price you pay.
I agree completely. I only hope its gets popular enough for this to be something that could happen. I was only going to have a "cd-key" or as you suggested a downloaded keyfile. I really want to be able to ban cheaters. But tell lawyers that and they a little crazy.
I didn't add all these thing because they distract from the point and they exist on *both* sides of distribution as you said. Really We had full quotes including insurance, storage, legal (a big one) and cost of credit (we don't need much we have cash) but only door to door. Not to a shop. I was not much extra. Once you hit the 100000 copy mark things get cheaper per unit not higher.
And *lot* of extra cost too. First is the costs of SLA and associated legal fees, no to mention that already you have to pay a pretty penny and are on a 2+year contract for this end of the server market with expensive termination options. Now you need a merchant account or to out source online transactions. Again this is not cheap and again its expensive if you want a SLA. This gets even more complicated in that its generally a pain if you can't really predict the transaction volume.
Yet you mention all that and then claim I'm wrong. We priced it up. It was about the same to cheaper with shipped DVD's than online. Both is worse of course. The claim that online distribution mean the cost of a copy is nothing is simply not true.
And yet there is even more. One of the big headaches is ratings. In some countries is fine to sell without a rating if you are not based there, in others you must get the game rated first regardless. Legal fees are a bit of a killer since its all international.
However there is another option. Bit torrent. But i don't know if that will really work with paying customers. I think a full download option would be needed at a minimum.
As i said. Fund it at the levels needed to achive the goals. If they say its 20 years away if you fund this at this level and then give them half that money *ten years later* you should not expect it to still be 20 years down the track.
Energy confinement has improved by over a factor of 100000 IIRC since the 60s. There has been serious progress.
It seems to be popular opinion that downloads cost are so close to zero that it does not matter. Well after pricing bandwidth deals for servers and minimum bandwidth cost, since you need enough bandwidth for peak demand not average. I was surprised that pressing DVD's and posting could easily be cheaper.
I can get 1000 DVD pressed for 30p including art on the disk and a 4 page slick. 10000 is much cheaper since it can use the same master. Its not much more for a box. Postage is pretty cheap if your not using amazon pricing as a guide. Now for bulk distribution to shops, I would estimate that is cheaper to sell box sets that online copies.
Really the price of infrastructure is the killer here. If you could get away with average bandwidth rather than peak it wouldn't be so bad.
I thought they were doing temporal filtering. aka the glasses have shutters, left clear right eye dark, then switch --fast. The reflection of light will stuff up the polarization of light in general. So unless they have screens that don't screw it up (An i know of nothing that *won't* interfere with the polarization when reflecting) then you are out of luck with polarized light... circular or otherwise.
To be fair ITER could have been running by now if there weren't both political and funding issues.
If we don't fund something at the level needed we should not really be surprised about delays.
And whats 50 years in the face of climate change time frames. I would say its a good investment, and this is for less than the price of the latest traditional nuclear plant in China discussed here.
And its illegal in the US because VLC don't pay the license fees. So is mplayer and ffmpeg. In fact to play a DVD on Linux is to break the DMCA. Its not like this in all countries. But it is this way in the USA.
A *lot* of people drink when underage too. Yet the law stands. Well most are a bit better than the US. You are allowed to drink from 16-18 in most places.
Using the irresponsibility of teenages to make point doesn't really work. What are their driving habits like? Do they take drugs? Do they have a job or pay rent? In fact do they have any responsibilities at all?
A *lot* of people drink when underage too. Yet the law stands. Well most are a bit better than the US. You are allowed to drink from 16-18 in most places.
Using the irresponsibility of teenages to make point doesn't really work. What are their driving habits like? Do they take drugs? Do they have a job or pay rent? In fact do they have any responsibilities at all?
AFAIK, cost of building a mile of rail is far more expensive than a mile of asphalt..
Thats not what i heard. However i can't find my source. The cost of a dual rail (not light rail as some freight trains were going to use it) was going to cost about 50-100M. The motorway is going to cost 1-2B. A lot of that was right of way costs. ie the railway system does not need to relocate so many people. But as i said, i can't find the source.
I do long haul flights quite often from here to NZ. Thats 2x12 hours in a plane with about 3 hours between flights. Trust me, these are beds no matter what way you slice it. You can get a full queen for a more expensive ticket. Also what are the quality of beds in cars these days?
The interstate highway system is *not* cheap. Not even close to cheap unless 40+ billion per year is cheap and thats mostly maintenance.
Roads cost far more per mile than rail generally.
The claim that there are no resources for a project of this size is clearly bunk, in light of a 4+ lane highway system over most of the USA.
Here in Europe the cheap airlines are usually only cheaper if you are booking about 6 months ahead, unless its for a longer flight (say Vienna to Sweden--good luck with trains for that one.). Also no one claims that the UK has a real rail system and the chunnel is expensive. Cars are expensive too. Most would say you need 3 in the car before its cheaper than rail for Austria (thats including all costs).
Oh also booking the same flight here in the EU is about 3-4 times cheaper than a friend was able to book from the USA.
Everyone keeps saying this. What about your roads? You found everything you needed for a highway system that uses much more resources per mile than rail.
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Point taken. But on the whole--its no worse than the blog sphere really.
The problem is people don't read informative articles. We (the general public) really do like our sensationalism over fact or rational, well reasoned articles. Its hard to find a good news source.
Titles like "Britney Spears Pregnant" or "Terrorist kill cute fluffy bunnies" just sells better...
So its our won fault.
Let the reader beware...
I'm sure there should be some cool sounding Latin phrase for that.
I was going to say the same thing. A ship is only armed if it has a gun. ie a mounted .50 cal or something. But crews *are* often armed. Especially around Africa. Most countries have rules with personal arms when entering territorial waters. In NZ you must tell them what you have and have them secured. Then the Police will check and either secure them further and return them when leaving or accept the current arrangements.
One Vessel got a sound bite on the news once when they even had rocket launchers! It was stressed that having arms was not uncommon, and perfectly legal, just they had never seen so much on one ship.
Orbit requirements match aircraft envelope characteristics about as well as trains work as aircraft.
Its a totally different problem. We don't expect trains to look like ships and planes to look like trains. Why do we expect space access vehicles to look like planes?
Personally I put it down to a lack of imagination on the part of SciFi writers and general lack of knowledge on what is required for orbit.
When its international espionage I think it has always been referred too as theft. Or treason. Or something that gets dam close to the death penalty when caught.
You don't really want to give a spy just a $750-$10000 dollar fine do you?
In these cases its really not copyright law thats involved.
Doom 2 IMHO was one of the most memorable games because all the enemies had some kind of interesting death, and in multiplayer the interesting death animations were hilarious.
Chainsaws for the win!
Do you seriously think that professional journalism is anything more than idiots with training in sensationalism? When New Scientist will have articles on zero point energy and 20/20 will run segments on engines that run on water or even free energy machines? Or that the bulk media runs the moon landing conspiracy theories?
Nothing has changed. Idiots will be idiots and like attracts like. Anyone smart will know not to listen.
Python could get a good JIT compiler. Really you can be so close to C in performance that it does not matter. In java these days some things are even faster. There are very few cases where is slower.
Apparently it is Linux's fault that uses are too ignorant to use the *preinstalled* tools. So yes I would say its their fault. After all they want my money.
Yes, hackers WILL hack your game to produce a hot rodded license file. That's the price you pay.
I agree completely. I only hope its gets popular enough for this to be something that could happen. I was only going to have a "cd-key" or as you suggested a downloaded keyfile. I really want to be able to ban cheaters. But tell lawyers that and they a little crazy.
My arguments went nowhere....
I didn't add all these thing because they distract from the point and they exist on *both* sides of distribution as you said. Really We had full quotes including insurance, storage, legal (a big one) and cost of credit (we don't need much we have cash) but only door to door. Not to a shop. I was not much extra. Once you hit the 100000 copy mark things get cheaper per unit not higher.
And *lot* of extra cost too. First is the costs of SLA and associated legal fees, no to mention that already you have to pay a pretty penny and are on a 2+year contract for this end of the server market with expensive termination options. Now you need a merchant account or to out source online transactions. Again this is not cheap and again its expensive if you want a SLA. This gets even more complicated in that its generally a pain if you can't really predict the transaction volume.
Yet you mention all that and then claim I'm wrong. We priced it up. It was about the same to cheaper with shipped DVD's than online. Both is worse of course. The claim that online distribution mean the cost of a copy is nothing is simply not true.
And yet there is even more. One of the big headaches is ratings. In some countries is fine to sell without a rating if you are not based there, in others you must get the game rated first regardless. Legal fees are a bit of a killer since its all international.
However there is another option. Bit torrent. But i don't know if that will really work with paying customers. I think a full download option would be needed at a minimum.
As i said. Fund it at the levels needed to achive the goals. If they say its 20 years away if you fund this at this level and then give them half that money *ten years later* you should not expect it to still be 20 years down the track.
Energy confinement has improved by over a factor of 100000 IIRC since the 60s. There has been serious progress.
It seems to be popular opinion that downloads cost are so close to zero that it does not matter. Well after pricing bandwidth deals for servers and minimum bandwidth cost, since you need enough bandwidth for peak demand not average. I was surprised that pressing DVD's and posting could easily be cheaper.
I can get 1000 DVD pressed for 30p including art on the disk and a 4 page slick. 10000 is much cheaper since it can use the same master. Its not much more for a box. Postage is pretty cheap if your not using amazon pricing as a guide. Now for bulk distribution to shops, I would estimate that is cheaper to sell box sets that online copies.
Really the price of infrastructure is the killer here. If you could get away with average bandwidth rather than peak it wouldn't be so bad.
I thought they were doing temporal filtering. aka the glasses have shutters, left clear right eye dark, then switch --fast. The reflection of light will stuff up the polarization of light in general. So unless they have screens that don't screw it up (An i know of nothing that *won't* interfere with the polarization when reflecting) then you are out of luck with polarized light... circular or otherwise.
To be fair ITER could have been running by now if there weren't both political and funding issues.
If we don't fund something at the level needed we should not really be surprised about delays.
And whats 50 years in the face of climate change time frames. I would say its a good investment, and this is for less than the price of the latest traditional nuclear plant in China discussed here.
And its illegal in the US because VLC don't pay the license fees. So is mplayer and ffmpeg. In fact to play a DVD on Linux is to break the DMCA. Its not like this in all countries. But it is this way in the USA.
What about the street? Here in Austria there are plenty of bootleg DVD for sale of various quality. Don't know about CD's though.
I posted this to the wrong post below....
A *lot* of people drink when underage too. Yet the law stands. Well most are a bit better than the US. You are allowed to drink from 16-18 in most places.
Using the irresponsibility of teenages to make point doesn't really work. What are their driving habits like? Do they take drugs? Do they have a job or pay rent? In fact do they have any responsibilities at all?
Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law.
Sorry clicked on the wrong post. My bad...
A *lot* of people drink when underage too. Yet the law stands. Well most are a bit better than the US. You are allowed to drink from 16-18 in most places.
Using the irresponsibility of teenages to make point doesn't really work. What are their driving habits like? Do they take drugs? Do they have a job or pay rent? In fact do they have any responsibilities at all?
Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law.
AFAIK, cost of building a mile of rail is far more expensive than a mile of asphalt..
Thats not what i heard. However i can't find my source. The cost of a dual rail (not light rail as some freight trains were going to use it) was going to cost about 50-100M. The motorway is going to cost 1-2B. A lot of that was right of way costs. ie the railway system does not need to relocate so many people. But as i said, i can't find the source.
I do long haul flights quite often from here to NZ. Thats 2x12 hours in a plane with about 3 hours between flights. Trust me, these are beds no matter what way you slice it. You can get a full queen for a more expensive ticket. Also what are the quality of beds in cars these days?
The interstate highway system is *not* cheap. Not even close to cheap unless 40+ billion per year is cheap and thats mostly maintenance. Roads cost far more per mile than rail generally.
The claim that there are no resources for a project of this size is clearly bunk, in light of a 4+ lane highway system over most of the USA.
Here in Europe the cheap airlines are usually only cheaper if you are booking about 6 months ahead, unless its for a longer flight (say Vienna to Sweden--good luck with trains for that one.). Also no one claims that the UK has a real rail system and the chunnel is expensive. Cars are expensive too. Most would say you need 3 in the car before its cheaper than rail for Austria (thats including all costs).
Oh also booking the same flight here in the EU is about 3-4 times cheaper than a friend was able to book from the USA.
Planes and airports are subsidized.
Everyone keeps saying this. What about your roads? You found everything you needed for a highway system that uses much more resources per mile than rail.
We can do one better than Australia. NZ rail baby. Worst in the world. We buy trains from museums, cus no one else use the 1.5 meter gauge anymore.