And honestly, I don't participate in Online Gambling myself, but I think people who want to should have that right. I hope they meet more resistance than just the minority of people who play.
The next thing I need is some bill saying I can't visit an MMO because they too are an online service depriving me of my money. It's my call to make. If you have a problem with gambling, go ahead and try to get it outright banned. Otherwise, targetting just the online sector of it is just silly. Why does the internet make a process any more illegal or immoral?
I mean, the idea is, don't let your guard down against those countries that are obviously against your ideologies. However, for everyone else who has sworn the non-proliferation, this would help diplomatic relations. Perhaps when the rest of the world starts seeing the U.S. in better light, countries like Iran and North Korea will be a little more amicable to joining these kinds of treaties proposed by the U.N.
In the event that they are stubborn about nuclear domination, the U.S. can still be the standing power capable of keeping them in line.
QA: The wireless capabilities seem to be crippled to the point where its only about as useful as a wired device. But we don't have a standard ethernet adapter.
Jobs: Hmmm. Could this be a problem?
Muffled Yell from the window: ITS NOT A BUG ITS A FEATURE!
Jobs: Ballmer is peering in through our windows again. Someone go tell him to get on that Windows 7 SP 2 or it'll never sell.
I don't see why they both can't overlap though, in the same way the Police and FBI work together. They may not like it because of who gets credit, but they are always working towards the same goal.
If the FCC is to deal with communication and the FTC is to deal with trade, then when the subject of net neutrality comes up, the FCC should be the ones setting the standard for everyone in their jurisdiction. When this is broken, they can deal with it. If it is in the interest of anti-trust or monopolies or abusing trade, the FTC can get in on the action.
I mean, wouldn't it put more pressure on ISP's to provide proper service if they had to worry about more than one agency, because more than one set of standards needs to be followed?
I really hate to rely on a single point of failure.
Why would the local or state government want to regulate it though?
I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of states aren't doing so hot right now with their budgets. Now, you've got two choices A) Spend more money on regulating Comcast, because your voters say so B) Say you care, accept a stipend, look the other way.
The FCC was really the best shot at handling this issue - they may not have been the perfect entity but they are better than the alternatives. The last thing you need is internet access dependant on states, otherwise you'll be getting into a whole can of worms where people are shifting around the country based on that, and what state is regulating it. If it eventually pans out to a consolidated regulated system, it will have been too late and more damage will have been done.
What is the point of having the FCC if you don't let it do its job? Under what guise could anyone come under the impression that this isn't FCC Jurisdiction?
Lacks the Authority? It should be the Authority. The courts should only be called in when the FCC is doing something that is questionable. Instead, they have prevented the FCC from stopping all of the questionable behavior that is undoubtedly going to be spawned by this.
With Wikileaks the other day, and now this, news is giving me a serious headache this week.
After watching a depressing 10 minute slide show of people who were feeling sick, all of the test subjects felt like getting drunk. Sadly, the only thing available was cough medicine.
Check out their website. The quotes they've listed.
“ I have installed your absolutely fantastic/390 emulator. You won't believe what I felt when I saw the prompt. Congratulations, this is a terrific software. I really have not had such a fascinating and interesting time on my PC lately. ” — IBM Large Systems Specialist
“ Such simulators have been available for a long time. One of the most complete (up to modern 64-bit z/Architecture) is hercules. ” — Michel Hack, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
An apparently excellent emulator that allows those open source developers with an "itch to scratch", to come to the S/390 table and contribute. ” — Mike MacIsaac, IBM
IBM -HAS- said "Go ahead and rip our stuff off, it helps us in the long run" And now that its paid off, they're going for more money by killing it. Despicable.
I think a better solution to the two-letter problem might be to just print all the two-letter words on a handy reference card and give copies to all players.)
As is done on Scrabble's online site! Who'd a thunk!
I am not an avid Scrabbler in that I don't go to tournaments or anything like that, but I do pull it out every other weekend to play with either the girlfriend or room mates. Sometimes we don't limit ourselves to the dictionary, in fact, last November we had a "Computer Science Terms" Scrabble, where you would get double the points if you listed a popular Computer entity (Java, or Linux), regular points for computer based acronyms, (HTML), but you had to be able to explain items the other players haven't heard of, which would be immediately followed by a google or a wikipedia of the subject. And if there was a miss-spelling or innaccuracy in the explanation, the player would lose points.
And when we're feeling adventurous, me and the girlfriend like to play "Naughty Scrabble" where you get bonus points for dirty words. I know, we're so sinful!
Remember it is real simple: You take all your costs to make something, all the development, support, staff and so on, call that X. You then take all the money you bring in selling that, call that Y. If Y is bigger than X by a non-trivial amount, say 10% or more, then it is worth doing. You are making a profit, and that's what matters.
Well its a little more complicated than that. If I said, here: Go do ditch digging for the rest of your life. Your basic necessities will be paid for, and at the end of it, I'll give you a dime.
That's a Dime more than you'll have right now, but you'll have wasted a lot of time for just that dime. This is the mentality of big entertainment industries. Spend millions on a product, knowing it will at least break even. How much profit you make should be proportional to the time spent on it.
Exactly. I think the problem essentially lies in that "gamification" does the opposite of what one should feel during the process.
For example, on April Fools, we hid one of newest coworkers files somewhere on the network that he had access to and told him to go searching for it. He semi-enjoyed the process, but the benefit was that he learned more about the current heirarchy and server structure at our company while doing so. It didn't feel like work because we made it a game. Turned that boring task into a game and it made it fun.
Inversely, like your example, people who would feel the weight of attrocities they commit became completely desensatized to that environment, and in the end have appalling effects. (I don't know for sure if those soldiers played video games, but I wouldn't at all be surprised).
The biggest shame is that its the military who essentially jump-started the whole gamification process. Pilots regularily went through computer simulators long before warfare tactic games were released. So how do you stop the military from doing something they helped invent?
HDDVD lost the format war because it had way too many syllables!
Everyone! We've been Had! Blu-Ray is exerting its dominance by proposing 4 or more syllable formats, forcing technical speak to be less groovy and savvy, making it once again disasterous to be a nerd, instead of the hip trend Apple was starting.
Quick, someone start an internet petition (because those always work) to rename the formats to something catchy!
And if a driver is 50, are they put into the 40-50 category, or the 50-60 category?
Well, Unless they happen to be answering the survey at the annual celebrated moment of their birth, I'd assume it would be higher. After all, if you were 50, turning 51 tomorrow, you'd probably just go ahead and say 50-60 category. So its not really any different than if you turned 50 yesterday, you are no longer in the 40-50 bracket, as you can kind of tell they mean to be asking "Are you over 50 or under 50?" and once you turn 50, you are over 50 immediately after.
It erks me when people try to point this out as some major fallacy (though humorous when done on slashdot polls), when its usually just a matter of employing your common sense.
The point that they are trying to make is this: They think bad driving starts around the age of 50, and a majority of their data points are past that point. Not as overwhelming as they might make it sound, but a majority none the less.
BTW, one-sided objects in games are usually due to mistakes, lazyness, lack of resources, or lack of time. Nobody plans to create a world with those rules.
You obviously haven't done professional map development, 1 Sided objects in games are at the core of the development, and learning how to use them properly is what makes a great developer.
Say I want to create a hollow box for the player to play in. Easy enough, Lets say the box is 10 by 10 by 10. Easiest way, make a 1x10x10 brush, copy it 6 times, move each one to be the floor, roof, and walls.
Simple enough right? Yes, well, that will work, but you've got 6 sides to every brush now, and 6 brushes, so 36 Polygons needing to be rendered.
Or, instead, I could use 6 One sided brushes, using 6 polygons. Essentially cutting map poly's by a lot. How many polygons make up a map is one of the biggest problems Map developers have. For indoor maps, the entire level is never rendered all at once. They break it off into rooms and hallways, and hallways act at the airlocks between. On outdoor maps, its a bit easier, since you don't have walls or ceilings to render - you have 5 (or 6) poly's for a skybox, and the rest is just the terrain below.
Don't go around making those claims if you don't actually know about it.
What defines the world? You stipulating a 2D object in a 3D world must have width does not make it true. We have many computer simulations that can show otherwise. The simple truth of the matter is, you've never encountered a 2D object, none such object exists in the real world (to my knowledge). So trying to place that constraint on it is rather folley.
There is nothing inconsistent about the world this game is set in.
Do you understand what it does? It DOESN'T CC the person but makes it look like you did.
This could actually be more useful than a BCC. Instead of BCCing my boss on an email I'm sending to a Co-worker telling him to get his work done, possibly upsetting my boss with bothering him with trivial stuff to have him review the other person, I could CCC my boss, and so my boss is left ouf of it entirely but the co-worker believes I've told him to get to work and the boss knows.
Do you seriously mean to tell me that there are no important tech stories taking place today?
Do you seriously mean to tell me that there could be any actually important stories taking place today?
Perhaps you aren't familiar with the concept of April Fool's and more importantly, how people AVOID making announcements on this day to avoid confusion.
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Agreed.
And honestly, I don't participate in Online Gambling myself, but I think people who want to should have that right. I hope they meet more resistance than just the minority of people who play.
The next thing I need is some bill saying I can't visit an MMO because they too are an online service depriving me of my money. It's my call to make. If you have a problem with gambling, go ahead and try to get it outright banned. Otherwise, targetting just the online sector of it is just silly. Why does the internet make a process any more illegal or immoral?
I can't figure out if you're at it with the Rum or the Whiskey.
About 2 and a half Slashdots.
I mean, the idea is, don't let your guard down against those countries that are obviously against your ideologies. However, for everyone else who has sworn the non-proliferation, this would help diplomatic relations. Perhaps when the rest of the world starts seeing the U.S. in better light, countries like Iran and North Korea will be a little more amicable to joining these kinds of treaties proposed by the U.N.
In the event that they are stubborn about nuclear domination, the U.S. can still be the standing power capable of keeping them in line.
I, and the grandparent for sure, would probably jump on something like this if we had any clue where to start.
Am I going to find this kind of stuff down at a Hobby shop? I've never looked.
QA: The wireless capabilities seem to be crippled to the point where its only about as useful as a wired device. But we don't have a standard ethernet adapter.
Jobs: Hmmm. Could this be a problem?
Muffled Yell from the window: ITS NOT A BUG ITS A FEATURE!
Jobs: Ballmer is peering in through our windows again. Someone go tell him to get on that Windows 7 SP 2 or it'll never sell.
I don't see why they both can't overlap though, in the same way the Police and FBI work together. They may not like it because of who gets credit, but they are always working towards the same goal.
If the FCC is to deal with communication and the FTC is to deal with trade, then when the subject of net neutrality comes up, the FCC should be the ones setting the standard for everyone in their jurisdiction. When this is broken, they can deal with it. If it is in the interest of anti-trust or monopolies or abusing trade, the FTC can get in on the action.
I mean, wouldn't it put more pressure on ISP's to provide proper service if they had to worry about more than one agency, because more than one set of standards needs to be followed?
I really hate to rely on a single point of failure.
Why would the local or state government want to regulate it though?
I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of states aren't doing so hot right now with their budgets. Now, you've got two choices
A) Spend more money on regulating Comcast, because your voters say so
B) Say you care, accept a stipend, look the other way.
The FCC was really the best shot at handling this issue - they may not have been the perfect entity but they are better than the alternatives. The last thing you need is internet access dependant on states, otherwise you'll be getting into a whole can of worms where people are shifting around the country based on that, and what state is regulating it. If it eventually pans out to a consolidated regulated system, it will have been too late and more damage will have been done.
It's the sound of the FCC never having anything to do with regulating the Internet to begin with.
Given its charter and even its full name, one would assume that it would, and if not, should.
I think everyone can agree that the subject in question (all information being treated equally) is a very big part of Net Neutrality.
What is the point of having the FCC if you don't let it do its job? Under what guise could anyone come under the impression that this isn't FCC Jurisdiction?
Lacks the Authority? It should be the Authority. The courts should only be called in when the FCC is doing something that is questionable. Instead, they have prevented the FCC from stopping all of the questionable behavior that is undoubtedly going to be spawned by this.
With Wikileaks the other day, and now this, news is giving me a serious headache this week.
After watching a depressing 10 minute slide show of people who were feeling sick, all of the test subjects felt like getting drunk. Sadly, the only thing available was cough medicine.
I was under the impression Most Linux users have also abandoned the PDF.
Check out their website. The quotes they've listed.
“ I have installed your absolutely fantastic /390 emulator. You won't believe what I felt when I saw the prompt. Congratulations, this is a terrific software. I really have not had such a fascinating and interesting time on my PC lately. ”
— IBM Large Systems Specialist
“ Such simulators have been available for a long time. One of the most complete (up to modern 64-bit z/Architecture) is hercules. ”
— Michel Hack, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
An apparently excellent emulator that allows those open source developers with an "itch to scratch", to come to the S/390 table and contribute. ”
— Mike MacIsaac, IBM
IBM -HAS- said "Go ahead and rip our stuff off, it helps us in the long run"
And now that its paid off, they're going for more money by killing it. Despicable.
Has it come across anyone people that they could have been playing by these rules all along?
I don't see why this affects anything at all.
I think a better solution to the two-letter problem might be to just print all the two-letter words on a handy reference card and give copies to all players.)
As is done on Scrabble's online site! Who'd a thunk!
I am not an avid Scrabbler in that I don't go to tournaments or anything like that, but I do pull it out every other weekend to play with either the girlfriend or room mates. Sometimes we don't limit ourselves to the dictionary, in fact, last November we had a "Computer Science Terms" Scrabble, where you would get double the points if you listed a popular Computer entity (Java, or Linux), regular points for computer based acronyms, (HTML), but you had to be able to explain items the other players haven't heard of, which would be immediately followed by a google or a wikipedia of the subject. And if there was a miss-spelling or innaccuracy in the explanation, the player would lose points.
And when we're feeling adventurous, me and the girlfriend like to play "Naughty Scrabble" where you get bonus points for dirty words. I know, we're so sinful!
Remember it is real simple: You take all your costs to make something, all the development, support, staff and so on, call that X. You then take all the money you bring in selling that, call that Y. If Y is bigger than X by a non-trivial amount, say 10% or more, then it is worth doing. You are making a profit, and that's what matters.
Well its a little more complicated than that. If I said, here: Go do ditch digging for the rest of your life. Your basic necessities will be paid for, and at the end of it, I'll give you a dime.
That's a Dime more than you'll have right now, but you'll have wasted a lot of time for just that dime. This is the mentality of big entertainment industries. Spend millions on a product, knowing it will at least break even. How much profit you make should be proportional to the time spent on it.
Exactly. I think the problem essentially lies in that "gamification" does the opposite of what one should feel during the process.
For example, on April Fools, we hid one of newest coworkers files somewhere on the network that he had access to and told him to go searching for it. He semi-enjoyed the process, but the benefit was that he learned more about the current heirarchy and server structure at our company while doing so. It didn't feel like work because we made it a game. Turned that boring task into a game and it made it fun.
Inversely, like your example, people who would feel the weight of attrocities they commit became completely desensatized to that environment, and in the end have appalling effects. (I don't know for sure if those soldiers played video games, but I wouldn't at all be surprised).
The biggest shame is that its the military who essentially jump-started the whole gamification process. Pilots regularily went through computer simulators long before warfare tactic games were released. So how do you stop the military from doing something they helped invent?
HDDVD lost the format war because it had way too many syllables!
Everyone! We've been Had! Blu-Ray is exerting its dominance by proposing 4 or more syllable formats, forcing technical speak to be less groovy and savvy, making it once again disasterous to be a nerd, instead of the hip trend Apple was starting.
Quick, someone start an internet petition (because those always work) to rename the formats to something catchy!
And if a driver is 50, are they put into the 40-50 category, or the 50-60 category?
Well, Unless they happen to be answering the survey at the annual celebrated moment of their birth, I'd assume it would be higher. After all, if you were 50, turning 51 tomorrow, you'd probably just go ahead and say 50-60 category. So its not really any different than if you turned 50 yesterday, you are no longer in the 40-50 bracket, as you can kind of tell they mean to be asking "Are you over 50 or under 50?" and once you turn 50, you are over 50 immediately after.
It erks me when people try to point this out as some major fallacy (though humorous when done on slashdot polls), when its usually just a matter of employing your common sense.
The point that they are trying to make is this: They think bad driving starts around the age of 50, and a majority of their data points are past that point. Not as overwhelming as they might make it sound, but a majority none the less.
"'strengthen privacy protections for the digital age"
In other words, watch your every online movement?
BTW, one-sided objects in games are usually due to mistakes, lazyness, lack of resources, or lack of time. Nobody plans to create a world with those rules.
You obviously haven't done professional map development, 1 Sided objects in games are at the core of the development, and learning how to use them properly is what makes a great developer.
Say I want to create a hollow box for the player to play in. Easy enough, Lets say the box is 10 by 10 by 10. Easiest way, make a 1x10x10 brush, copy it 6 times, move each one to be the floor, roof, and walls.
Simple enough right? Yes, well, that will work, but you've got 6 sides to every brush now, and 6 brushes, so 36 Polygons needing to be rendered.
Or, instead, I could use 6 One sided brushes, using 6 polygons. Essentially cutting map poly's by a lot. How many polygons make up a map is one of the biggest problems Map developers have. For indoor maps, the entire level is never rendered all at once. They break it off into rooms and hallways, and hallways act at the airlocks between. On outdoor maps, its a bit easier, since you don't have walls or ceilings to render - you have 5 (or 6) poly's for a skybox, and the rest is just the terrain below.
Don't go around making those claims if you don't actually know about it.
What defines the world? You stipulating a 2D object in a 3D world must have width does not make it true. We have many computer simulations that can show otherwise. The simple truth of the matter is, you've never encountered a 2D object, none such object exists in the real world (to my knowledge). So trying to place that constraint on it is rather folley.
There is nothing inconsistent about the world this game is set in.
I know a buddy of mine who wrote a simple shell script that could do that.
The world peace thing, I mean. Not the hook up.
Do you understand what it does? It DOESN'T CC the person but makes it look like you did.
This could actually be more useful than a BCC. Instead of BCCing my boss on an email I'm sending to a Co-worker telling him to get his work done, possibly upsetting my boss with bothering him with trivial stuff to have him review the other person, I could CCC my boss, and so my boss is left ouf of it entirely but the co-worker believes I've told him to get to work and the boss knows.
Do you seriously mean to tell me that there are no important tech stories taking place today?
Do you seriously mean to tell me that there could be any actually important stories taking place today?
Perhaps you aren't familiar with the concept of April Fool's and more importantly, how people AVOID making announcements on this day to avoid confusion.