If pi goes on forever and never repeats, then shouldn't all music (or anything) that was ever made and ever will be made, be able to found some where inside of pi's endless randomness. I think this judgement defeats all copy write.
It's a well known saying that america is for freedom, but are they? sure you get to vote but you don't get to choose what to vote on (personally i think the whole thing is an illusion of control), and if you look at the laws and restrictions on citizens then you have much more freedom in typically 'not free' countries. Most of Asia lets you do what ever you want (a few things are off limits, china has a pretty big firewall but where are all the hackers, and you wouldn't want to snort a line of coke in front of a cop but they don't randomly search people for it), Russia is fairly liberal (although there are some popular exceptions amplified by american press (not that america hasn't done worse to it's citizens)) and in the middle east you can grow heroin in your back yard. With all the "think of the children" stuff we aren't even allowed to cross the street when we think it's safe, we have to wait for the government to say it's OK. I'm sorry but freedom means to me that i can do what ever i want (obviously bar harming of other people) and that's defiantly not happening in western countries (in Australia your not even allowed to play certain video games and there is no free speech).
i can only hope. while we are at it how about pneumatic spear rams to deliver the acid and volts (or maybe liquid nitrogen) inside the enemy. Rail guns and pulsed lasers could potentially do a fair amount of damage. Also i really hope they allow a helicopter on the head (or some kind of jump jet) so you can rain hell from above.
If your going to cover your mech with a half inch of steel plate it's going to be very heavy and much harder to move (not saying it couldn't be done but you would need much bigger actuators and power supply), and you will always be able to take out the camera or heat it enough for plastic parts to fail.
check out the hardcore league they are starting, flame throwers, co2 rifles, and mini rockets but they need a better arena so they don't hurt spectators.
Sure you can't climb into them (they are 1/24 scale models) for obvious reasons, but you can only control them from the on-board wifi camera with FPV goggles (no outside view of the arena). So the game play will be more like mech warrior (cockpit view) than battle bots RC style. Personally I'm hanging out for when they allow jump jet versions.
I miss read your comment on the tax break, I've been in Thailand for a little while now so i missed the news first hand, but it appears that the tax break is only to partly cover the fact that everything is now going to cost more because of the carbon tax. Pensioners getting more money is of no use to me since i have super. Giving the nurses more money is fair, those people do a tough job. I've seen Q&A it's ok but the ABC is a little pro labor, but it doesn't matter if they weren't because people would only ever listen to the pros of their party and the cons of the opposition (every time you sit down to watch do you think hey maybe the liberals have come around and are a better party now? my guess is no). Talking of group polarization it's obvious you subscribe because you look at all the negatives of the liberals in international relations (which wasn't half as bad as you make out (how exactly are the race riots Howard's fault?)) and completely ignore how labor is currently fucking it up. We are now even more of America's bitch, and they are getting US army bases on our soil as well as acta. Also please explain how my ONE vote on a PERSON is in any way control of the country i live in, or be able to change anything?
Yes i was referring to the $900 dollars that they bought their votes with, which every one spent on a flat screen from Korea. Not that a tax free threshold for an incredibly slim number of the population (how many people do you know that earn under $18000?) isn't great.
As far as rights go how about all the increased police powers, the fact that they no longer need a search warrant to walk in to any house they want. Also the greens are one of the main supporters of no r18+ games and why we can't have nice paint ball guns.
I admit i am a victim of group polarization as well (not that i vote cause it will never change anything), because as i explained there is far to much to absorb and not enough facts to make a proper decision, but none the less you shouldn't belittle the liberals work because labour wouldn't be looking any where near as good if they hadn't laid the ground work. So apart from some tax breaks for people i don't know (while they jack up the other rates for the rest of the people) what has labour done for me? By the way NBN was Howard's idea, don't get me wrong i love that Rudd picked it up and ran with it, but do we really need fibre run all through out our mostly unused country.
Also what the hell how did the liberal party destroy our international reputation?
I don't like Abbott one bit probably less than Gillard (wait i don't think that's possible) but don't belittle liberals work we wouldn't of had a snowballs chance in hell of dealing with the gfc if the liberal party didn't get rid of our debt. What has the labour party actually done apart from give us a one time tax break and take rights away from the people left right and centre? Personally i think we were much better off 10 years ago, although I'm not a big fan of Howard either because of his bitchy exit of the party and driving away our chance at a kick ass PM Peter Costello (he would of mopped the floor with gillard, rud, or abbot).
Not that any of this really matters, your going to vote for whoever your parents voted for because it's far to complicated to sift through all the crap each party says (not that what they say has much relevance to what they will do) to make an informed decision. It's easier to go with what you know, gather only the positive things said about your party and only the negative about the opposition (referred to as group polarization).
People become these hard core criminals because of the states obsession with turning every tiny little crime into big one (you make a couple mistakes your labelled a crim, it's harder to get jobs, and the cops are even more interested in you). Back off the teenagers smoking a bit pot or jumping over a railway station gate, get the cops to treat them with a little respect, and i'm pretty sure your problem will go away. Wise up your not solving anything, your only making it worse.
What we need to do is separate patents from ideas. Patents are a good thing, they are the reason big companies spent millions of dollars on R&D pushing the bounds of science. Where the system gets abused however is the use of other peoples inventions. Like apple owning the patent for fuel cells in computers when they didn't invent either tech. Not saying ideas like this aren't valuable but they aren't even in the same league as inventing the actual computer. So what if we start an idea register where the application fee is small, less legal work, and maybe a computer system to look for previous work; but the idea can only be owned by a small group of people, and a payout for use of the idea is mandatory, unbiased, and a fraction of what can be charged today for patents. It means many more people will have access to the system (I've looked into registering patents and even if you can do all the legal work your self, it still cost a small fortune), which will boost the amount of brains on the problems, and big companies won't be able to abuse simple ideas.
Which is fine, no one is saying there shouldn't be any stories. The problem is how they are told, they are borrowing all the weaknesses of movies and not taking enough of the advantages of a virtual world. For example how many times have you seen a horror movie and thought "don't go through that door" (cause it' perfect for an ambush)? In a lot of modern games that's the only way to complete the level. Which makes for great cut scenes and quick time events, but honestly i think that's the easy way out. With the quality of games now days all cut scenes and quick time could be done inside the game without breaking the 4th wall or restricting controls. Which i think would take the cheapness out of it and you could get more involved in the plot and characters.
I don't believe he is arguing the value of a story, only how the story is told. For example (this is probably beyond our current tech) a WW2 game where instead of following captain price everywhere he goes, the entire war is simulated across Europe. Then you and maybe in command of a crack team of soldiers, or cut of from your platoon have to make it across Europe doing as much damage to the enemy forces as possible (you can have a radio to use for guidance but you can go any where or try anything). Suddenly the game isn't about a bunch of made up people running around winning the war single handed because they followed a pre-set path, it's about history, and you can have some fun with it (do you want to try and assassinate Hitler or launch some v2s at Berlin and steal one of the first jet planes).
Maybe I'm a bit biased cause I'm all about the game play. Give me a bunch of maps and really clever bots over scripted, one path to victory, invisible wall games with a really clever plot; but isn't it easier to turn an open world free game into a game based around a plot, than the other way around. You can reuse all the open world stuff again and again then improve it and use it again. With plot driven games a lot can't be reused, because too much is depended on having the exact environment and timing as before.
What we need to do is separate patents from ideas. Patents are a good thing, they are the reason big companies spent millions of dollars on R&D pushing the bounds of science. Where the system gets abused however is the use of other peoples inventions. Like apple owning the patent for fuel cells in computers when they didn't invent either tech. Not saying ideas like this aren't valuable but they aren't even in the same league as inventing the actual computer. So what if we start an idea register where the application fee is small, less legal work, and maybe a computer system to look for previous work; but the idea can only be owned by a small group of people, and a payout for use of the idea is mandatory, unbiased, and a fraction of what can be charged today for patents. It means many more people will have access to the system (I've looked into registering patents and even if you can do all the legal work your self, it still cost a small fortune), which will boost the amount of brains on the problems, and big companies won't be able to abuse simple ideas.
That was the original article i read it in. http://www.theaudeo.com/?action=technology shows the actual product and http://www.theaudeo.com/?action=buy is selling it for $2000. Also why the hell would the mods rate my above comment off topic . I'm pretty damn sure that this device is able to tune into the words your thinking which is exactly what the/. story proposed would happen soon. How can you get any more on topic?
I saw that as well and it explains why i don't like apple. I know what i want from a device and don't like being told to like something else. Of course it also explains why apple is so popular, because a lot of people haven't got a clue what they want (the grandmother that is scared of computers) they didn't think they needed a smartphone till steve told them they did.
I see what your getting at. I still think if you sell something to all the original owners and they get a certain product (extras included), they should have the right to sell all of that product (extras included) on. If that involves a bottle of wine that never runs out for them, then so be it.
I'll admit the mark-ups aren't that high, but as soon as you drive a car out the showroom you can say goodbye to at least %25 of the value, and if you try and re-sell it to a dealer expect to get ripped off then have them re-sell for thousands more than they paid you (they have to make a profit some how). How about the 2nd hand book trade you can get new releases there for a fraction the cost of the new book (plus they don't buy them for much); and i would be pretty pissed if all 2nd hand book shops had to rip out chapter 3 on a new release because the author wanted to make more sales.
No your analogy is the stupidest. The bottle of wine or new car smell is what condition the game case or disk is in, or whether or not the manual has been kept. These guys are taking functionality out of the product for the 2nd hand market. If you buy a second had car it does everything it did when it was new except smell as nice or maybe has a few scratches. Sure disabling gears is an extreme i was using to prove a point, it's more like allowing only the first owner to use the stereo. I'm sorry you want to give these people all this power, but i have the opinion once you sell it you loose all rights to it (except duplication), including changing it for the next user. What if you wrote a book but only people that bought it from you had access to chapters 6-9 (don't worry you can read the book without those chapters)?
If you bought a second hand car and the manufacture disabled 4th and 5th gear because they wanted to sell more first hand cars you would be pretty pissed; and the comment "we are just rewarding new car drivers with more gears because they are helping us", is a poor excuse.
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If pi goes on forever and never repeats, then shouldn't all music (or anything) that was ever made and ever will be made, be able to found some where inside of pi's endless randomness. I think this judgement defeats all copy write.
It's a well known saying that america is for freedom, but are they? sure you get to vote but you don't get to choose what to vote on (personally i think the whole thing is an illusion of control), and if you look at the laws and restrictions on citizens then you have much more freedom in typically 'not free' countries. Most of Asia lets you do what ever you want (a few things are off limits, china has a pretty big firewall but where are all the hackers, and you wouldn't want to snort a line of coke in front of a cop but they don't randomly search people for it), Russia is fairly liberal (although there are some popular exceptions amplified by american press (not that america hasn't done worse to it's citizens)) and in the middle east you can grow heroin in your back yard. With all the "think of the children" stuff we aren't even allowed to cross the street when we think it's safe, we have to wait for the government to say it's OK. I'm sorry but freedom means to me that i can do what ever i want (obviously bar harming of other people) and that's defiantly not happening in western countries (in Australia your not even allowed to play certain video games and there is no free speech).
i can only hope. while we are at it how about pneumatic spear rams to deliver the acid and volts (or maybe liquid nitrogen) inside the enemy. Rail guns and pulsed lasers could potentially do a fair amount of damage. Also i really hope they allow a helicopter on the head (or some kind of jump jet) so you can rain hell from above.
If your going to cover your mech with a half inch of steel plate it's going to be very heavy and much harder to move (not saying it couldn't be done but you would need much bigger actuators and power supply), and you will always be able to take out the camera or heat it enough for plastic parts to fail.
check out the hardcore league they are starting, flame throwers, co2 rifles, and mini rockets but they need a better arena so they don't hurt spectators.
Sure you can't climb into them (they are 1/24 scale models) for obvious reasons, but you can only control them from the on-board wifi camera with FPV goggles (no outside view of the arena). So the game play will be more like mech warrior (cockpit view) than battle bots RC style. Personally I'm hanging out for when they allow jump jet versions.
If you can't see why i think it's a scam, then your a waste of my time.
I miss read your comment on the tax break, I've been in Thailand for a little while now so i missed the news first hand, but it appears that the tax break is only to partly cover the fact that everything is now going to cost more because of the carbon tax. Pensioners getting more money is of no use to me since i have super. Giving the nurses more money is fair, those people do a tough job. I've seen Q&A it's ok but the ABC is a little pro labor, but it doesn't matter if they weren't because people would only ever listen to the pros of their party and the cons of the opposition (every time you sit down to watch do you think hey maybe the liberals have come around and are a better party now? my guess is no). Talking of group polarization it's obvious you subscribe because you look at all the negatives of the liberals in international relations (which wasn't half as bad as you make out (how exactly are the race riots Howard's fault?)) and completely ignore how labor is currently fucking it up. We are now even more of America's bitch, and they are getting US army bases on our soil as well as acta. Also please explain how my ONE vote on a PERSON is in any way control of the country i live in, or be able to change anything?
Yes i was referring to the $900 dollars that they bought their votes with, which every one spent on a flat screen from Korea. Not that a tax free threshold for an incredibly slim number of the population (how many people do you know that earn under $18000?) isn't great.
As far as rights go how about all the increased police powers, the fact that they no longer need a search warrant to walk in to any house they want. Also the greens are one of the main supporters of no r18+ games and why we can't have nice paint ball guns.
I admit i am a victim of group polarization as well (not that i vote cause it will never change anything), because as i explained there is far to much to absorb and not enough facts to make a proper decision, but none the less you shouldn't belittle the liberals work because labour wouldn't be looking any where near as good if they hadn't laid the ground work. So apart from some tax breaks for people i don't know (while they jack up the other rates for the rest of the people) what has labour done for me? By the way NBN was Howard's idea, don't get me wrong i love that Rudd picked it up and ran with it, but do we really need fibre run all through out our mostly unused country.
Also what the hell how did the liberal party destroy our international reputation?
Not that any of this really matters, your going to vote for whoever your parents voted for because it's far to complicated to sift through all the crap each party says (not that what they say has much relevance to what they will do) to make an informed decision. It's easier to go with what you know, gather only the positive things said about your party and only the negative about the opposition (referred to as group polarization).
People become these hard core criminals because of the states obsession with turning every tiny little crime into big one (you make a couple mistakes your labelled a crim, it's harder to get jobs, and the cops are even more interested in you). Back off the teenagers smoking a bit pot or jumping over a railway station gate, get the cops to treat them with a little respect, and i'm pretty sure your problem will go away. Wise up your not solving anything, your only making it worse.
destroying evidence is obstruction of justice. That's illegal. Why haven't these police officers been arrested?"
hahahahahahahahhah, some one thinks the police are more than goverment thugs.
What we need to do is separate patents from ideas. Patents are a good thing, they are the reason big companies spent millions of dollars on R&D pushing the bounds of science. Where the system gets abused however is the use of other peoples inventions. Like apple owning the patent for fuel cells in computers when they didn't invent either tech. Not saying ideas like this aren't valuable but they aren't even in the same league as inventing the actual computer. So what if we start an idea register where the application fee is small, less legal work, and maybe a computer system to look for previous work; but the idea can only be owned by a small group of people, and a payout for use of the idea is mandatory, unbiased, and a fraction of what can be charged today for patents. It means many more people will have access to the system (I've looked into registering patents and even if you can do all the legal work your self, it still cost a small fortune), which will boost the amount of brains on the problems, and big companies won't be able to abuse simple ideas.
Which is fine, no one is saying there shouldn't be any stories. The problem is how they are told, they are borrowing all the weaknesses of movies and not taking enough of the advantages of a virtual world. For example how many times have you seen a horror movie and thought "don't go through that door" (cause it' perfect for an ambush)? In a lot of modern games that's the only way to complete the level. Which makes for great cut scenes and quick time events, but honestly i think that's the easy way out. With the quality of games now days all cut scenes and quick time could be done inside the game without breaking the 4th wall or restricting controls. Which i think would take the cheapness out of it and you could get more involved in the plot and characters.
I don't believe he is arguing the value of a story, only how the story is told. For example (this is probably beyond our current tech) a WW2 game where instead of following captain price everywhere he goes, the entire war is simulated across Europe. Then you and maybe in command of a crack team of soldiers, or cut of from your platoon have to make it across Europe doing as much damage to the enemy forces as possible (you can have a radio to use for guidance but you can go any where or try anything). Suddenly the game isn't about a bunch of made up people running around winning the war single handed because they followed a pre-set path, it's about history, and you can have some fun with it (do you want to try and assassinate Hitler or launch some v2s at Berlin and steal one of the first jet planes).
Maybe I'm a bit biased cause I'm all about the game play. Give me a bunch of maps and really clever bots over scripted, one path to victory, invisible wall games with a really clever plot; but isn't it easier to turn an open world free game into a game based around a plot, than the other way around. You can reuse all the open world stuff again and again then improve it and use it again. With plot driven games a lot can't be reused, because too much is depended on having the exact environment and timing as before.
What we need to do is separate patents from ideas. Patents are a good thing, they are the reason big companies spent millions of dollars on R&D pushing the bounds of science. Where the system gets abused however is the use of other peoples inventions. Like apple owning the patent for fuel cells in computers when they didn't invent either tech. Not saying ideas like this aren't valuable but they aren't even in the same league as inventing the actual computer. So what if we start an idea register where the application fee is small, less legal work, and maybe a computer system to look for previous work; but the idea can only be owned by a small group of people, and a payout for use of the idea is mandatory, unbiased, and a fraction of what can be charged today for patents. It means many more people will have access to the system (I've looked into registering patents and even if you can do all the legal work your self, it still cost a small fortune), which will boost the amount of brains on the problems, and big companies won't be able to abuse simple ideas.
That was the original article i read it in. http://www.theaudeo.com/?action=technology shows the actual product and http://www.theaudeo.com/?action=buy is selling it for $2000. Also why the hell would the mods rate my above comment off topic . I'm pretty damn sure that this device is able to tune into the words your thinking which is exactly what the /. story proposed would happen soon. How can you get any more on topic?
"the study suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking."
too bad it's allready been done.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726466.000-hightech-necklace-can-speak-your-mind.html
Hell the iphone was designed by a Japanese company under contract.
I saw that as well and it explains why i don't like apple. I know what i want from a device and don't like being told to like something else. Of course it also explains why apple is so popular, because a lot of people haven't got a clue what they want (the grandmother that is scared of computers) they didn't think they needed a smartphone till steve told them they did.
I see what your getting at. I still think if you sell something to all the original owners and they get a certain product (extras included), they should have the right to sell all of that product (extras included) on. If that involves a bottle of wine that never runs out for them, then so be it.
I'll admit the mark-ups aren't that high, but as soon as you drive a car out the showroom you can say goodbye to at least %25 of the value, and if you try and re-sell it to a dealer expect to get ripped off then have them re-sell for thousands more than they paid you (they have to make a profit some how). How about the 2nd hand book trade you can get new releases there for a fraction the cost of the new book (plus they don't buy them for much); and i would be pretty pissed if all 2nd hand book shops had to rip out chapter 3 on a new release because the author wanted to make more sales.
No your analogy is the stupidest. The bottle of wine or new car smell is what condition the game case or disk is in, or whether or not the manual has been kept. These guys are taking functionality out of the product for the 2nd hand market. If you buy a second had car it does everything it did when it was new except smell as nice or maybe has a few scratches. Sure disabling gears is an extreme i was using to prove a point, it's more like allowing only the first owner to use the stereo. I'm sorry you want to give these people all this power, but i have the opinion once you sell it you loose all rights to it (except duplication), including changing it for the next user. What if you wrote a book but only people that bought it from you had access to chapters 6-9 (don't worry you can read the book without those chapters)?
If you bought a second hand car and the manufacture disabled 4th and 5th gear because they wanted to sell more first hand cars you would be pretty pissed; and the comment "we are just rewarding new car drivers with more gears because they are helping us", is a poor excuse.