Copyright law/IP are strongly defended by Libertarians (notice the big "L"; the party).
I think its a pretty divisive issue over all though amongst libertarians. (with a little "l"). Didn't know Libertarian party had a strong stance on this.
Seems like a pretty simple case of a monopoly based on government privilege to me. Just imagine what would happen to MSFT stock price if copyrights were declared over night not to apply to software anymore.
Kinda show how stupid IQ tests are. Maybe after you have kids you don't really give a crap about impressing some doofus at U of Indiana with your 3733T brain skillz, because you have more important things to worry about.
But then again, what would I know. I have kids, and when I was a child my IQ results varied by more than two standard deviations between tests, so it must have really tanked by now. I might be almost as dumb as you by now.
I really like the common sense straightforwdness of that idea.
do you think they were being truthful?
(not a rhetorical question)
from a game theory kind of view, giving away that kind of information is like giving away money.
like if are going to buy a car, I've read about this method of price negotiaion and maybe one day I'll have the balls to try it:
You tell the salesman that you are both going to write down a number on a piece of paper. You are going to write down the absolute highest price you would pay, and he is going to write down the absolute lowest price he hill accept. If the prices don't intersect, you walk [and you had _better_really_ be prepared to walk]. If they do intersect you will settle on the half-way mark.
Now, he is a proffesional car salesman, so he probably has an advantage on you still, but I think I'd still get screwed a lot worse doing it this way than just walking in and coming under the influence of their sales-guy reality distortion field.
doesn't strike me as even a good proof. just a correlation. You could just as easily state that cultures that don't practice counting don't bother to create words for concepts they don't think about.
There is one important difference. Gold has always, at least on a human-race time scale had some value.
OTOH, paper money always seems to _eventually_ end up being worth... about the paper its printed on. (modulo collectable value).
So in really bad times, yes the relative value of iron is going to increase versus gold and paper. But if you want to hold on to any wealth through those times, I don't think you need a tin foil hat to believe that gold the thing to hold.
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.
I don't think article is concerned w/ MMORPGs at all. I just assume I'd be better off starting a crack habit than ever touching one of those.
I think I'm exactly the guy he is talking about. Getting old, have a job have kids, still like to fire up the ps2 for 1-2 hours occasionally though.
examples of games which have met my needs:
1. EA's NCAA football series. 2. Dynasty Warriors stuff. 3. Baldurs Gater/Champions of Norrath type games - alhough sometimes these really push the limits - if you stop playing for a few weeks it can be hard to remember what kind of "magic key" needs to get to who. Plus the first baldurs gate did have one annoying "platform jumper level" that added zero to the game. 4. Goblin Commander. Warcraft lite, good interface.
In general I don't like shooters, but I almost liked "Metal Arms: Glitch in the system", but for these 2 things:
(1) the timed racing level. how dumb is that. I hate racing games. If I wanted one I would have bought one. I was actually very close to finishing for a while but had no idea where the damn finish line was. Almost microwaved the damn CD then.
(2) the "timed throw the bombs in the bosses mouth level". After wasting several hours, I looked up how to get past this level in a guide. How stupid. Why can't I just shoot the sombitch like everything else? Probably won't finish this game just because I now have the impression that they make about every sixth level suck just for the sake of variety. The variety should be in the tactical layout of the levels not a complete rewrite of the rules of the universe which I have managed to remember.
curious how much of go versus chess complexity is due to inherient nature of game, and how much is just due to size of the board.
I.e. how good is best computer algorithm (relative to 90%th percentile human player) at 8x8 go?
Or consider this made up chess like game, played on a 19x19 board. Back rank looks like this:
54321RNJBKQBNR12345, and front rank is still all pawns.
5 = King + Rook (can move like Rook or a King) 4 = King + Bishop 3 = King + Knight 2 = Rook + Knight 1 = Bishop + Knight R = Rook N = Knight J = Jester. Moves just like king, but just a piece. Q = Queen K = King
Would same-ole-same-ole chess methods in current use be as good at this game (relative to humans) as in normal chess?
My guess that, given N, the size of one side of the board
a) (given that N > than some 'small' N), go is in fact harder.
but:
(b) both games have as a part of their 'hardness' a quadratic relation to N, and a lot of these comparisons aren't really fair since 19^2/8^2 ~= 5.6
For personal playing purposes I like go a lot more than chess, but I wonder if I might like my made up chess game above better than either.Probably not.... probably would still always have that feeling of "why can't I just write a program to check my moves for obvious blunders".
I think current for current state of the art, Neural Nets are the best players. However, training time is measured in years, and the hardware (while general purpose) is a nightmare to maintain. (Its a special purpose neural hardware, with asynchrounous nodes.
Also, tax treatment of debt is usually more favorable than that of equity financing.
I.e. If you loan my company 100 dollars and I pay you back 105 dollars in a year, my company can deduct the 5 dollars of interest from its income.
But if you buy my one share of stock for 100 dollars, and my company pays out a 5 dollar dividend, then buys the stock back at 100 dollars in a year, then the exact same thing has happened in terms of our gains and losses, but the 5 dollar dividend can't be subtracted from income.
after you get the hang of it, is it comfortable enough to use with all your building? or is something you add on at the end when app/project is ready for export?
I'm good enough at makefiles to make them pretty portable (i.e. it'll work on the 2-3 platforms I really care about at the time), and just have never bit the bullet and learned use autconf.
still, if I download something, and install procedure is anything besides "./configure; make; make install", I consider it a significant (though not 100% reliable) warning sign that I just downloaded crap.
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Depends... is that a power given to them by the US constitution?
What does that have to do with it?
Copyright law/IP are strongly defended by Libertarians (notice the big "L"; the party).
I think its a pretty divisive issue over all though amongst libertarians. (with a little "l"). Didn't know Libertarian party had a strong stance on this.
Seems like a pretty simple case of a monopoly based on government privilege to me. Just imagine what would happen to MSFT stock price if copyrights were declared over night not to apply to software anymore.
Kinda show how stupid IQ tests are. Maybe after you have kids you don't really give a crap about impressing some doofus at U of Indiana with your 3733T brain skillz, because you have more important things to worry about.
But then again, what would I know. I have kids, and when I was a child my IQ results varied by more than two standard deviations between tests, so it must have really tanked by now. I might be almost as dumb as you by now.
>we asked our customers
I really like the common sense straightforwdness of that idea.
do you think they were being truthful?
(not a rhetorical question)
from a game theory kind of view, giving away that kind of information is like giving away money.
like if are going to buy a car, I've read about this method of price negotiaion and maybe one day I'll have the balls to try it:
You tell the salesman that you are both going to write down a number on a piece of paper. You are going to write down the absolute highest price you would pay, and he is going to write down the absolute lowest price he hill accept. If the prices don't intersect, you walk [and you had _better_really_ be prepared to walk]. If they do intersect you will settle on the half-way mark.
Now, he is a proffesional car salesman, so he probably has an advantage on you still, but I think I'd still get screwed a lot worse doing it this way than just walking in and coming under the influence of their sales-guy reality distortion field.
doesn't strike me as even a good proof. just a correlation. You could just as easily state that cultures that don't practice counting don't bother to create words for concepts they don't think about.
you can play a zone, as long as one of your zones isn't in the lane. I.e. where the offense wants to go. So its still pretty impractical.
its better than 'illegal defense' calls they just got rid of, but still stupid, and US team is reaping rewards of that crap now.
There is one important difference. Gold has always, at least on a human-race time scale had some value.
... about the paper its printed on. (modulo collectable value).
OTOH, paper money always seems to _eventually_ end up being worth
So in really bad times, yes the relative value of iron is going to increase versus gold and paper. But if you want to hold on to any wealth through those times, I don't think you need a tin foil hat to believe that gold the thing to hold.
Heard this joke before?
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.
ditto man.
I like google.
I like their method of distrubiting/selling shares.
But I'd start to be maybe interested in buying some at around 1/10'th of the price they are talking about now.
I also nominate:
size of output of gzip -9
I don't think article is concerned w/ MMORPGs at all. I just assume I'd be better off starting a crack habit than ever touching one of those.
I think I'm exactly the guy he is talking about. Getting old, have a job have kids, still like to fire up the ps2 for 1-2 hours occasionally though.
examples of games which have met my needs:
1. EA's NCAA football series.
2. Dynasty Warriors stuff.
3. Baldurs Gater/Champions of Norrath type games - alhough sometimes these really push the limits - if you stop playing for a few weeks it can be hard to remember what kind of "magic key" needs to get to who. Plus the first baldurs gate did have one annoying "platform jumper level" that added zero to the game.
4. Goblin Commander. Warcraft lite, good interface.
In general I don't like shooters, but I almost liked "Metal Arms: Glitch in the system", but for these 2 things:
(1) the timed racing level. how dumb is that. I hate racing games. If I wanted one I would have bought one. I was actually very close to finishing for a while but had no idea where the damn finish line was. Almost microwaved the damn CD then.
(2) the "timed throw the bombs in the bosses mouth level". After wasting several hours, I looked up how to get past this level in a guide. How stupid. Why can't I just shoot the sombitch like everything else? Probably won't finish this game just because I now have the impression that they make about every sixth level suck just for the sake of variety. The variety should be in the tactical layout of the levels not a complete rewrite of the rules of the universe which I have managed to remember.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
you forogt the inflation and hyper-inflation options.
curious how much of go versus chess complexity is due to inherient nature of game, and how much is just due to size of the board.
.... probably would still always have that feeling of "why can't I just write a program to check my moves for obvious blunders".
I.e. how good is best computer algorithm (relative to 90%th percentile human player) at 8x8 go?
Or consider this made up chess like game, played on a 19x19 board. Back rank looks like this:
54321RNJBKQBNR12345, and front rank is still all pawns.
5 = King + Rook (can move like Rook or a King)
4 = King + Bishop
3 = King + Knight
2 = Rook + Knight
1 = Bishop + Knight
R = Rook
N = Knight
J = Jester. Moves just like king, but just a piece.
Q = Queen
K = King
Would same-ole-same-ole chess methods in current use be as good at this game (relative to humans) as in normal chess?
My guess that, given N, the size of one side of the board
a) (given that N > than some 'small' N), go is in fact harder.
but:
(b) both games have as a part of their 'hardness' a quadratic relation to N, and a lot of these comparisons aren't really fair since 19^2/8^2 ~= 5.6
For personal playing purposes I like go a lot more than chess, but I wonder if I might like my made up chess game above better than either.Probably not
I think current for current state of the art, Neural Nets are the best players. However, training time is measured in years, and the hardware (while general purpose) is a nightmare to maintain. (Its a special purpose neural hardware, with asynchrounous nodes.
Let me know when His Excellency, Lord Kennedy is in danger of losing his family seat in the Senate.
Also, tax treatment of debt is usually more favorable than that of equity financing.
I.e. If you loan my company 100 dollars and I pay you back 105 dollars in a year, my company can deduct the 5 dollars of interest from its income.
But if you buy my one share of stock for 100 dollars, and my company pays out a 5 dollar dividend, then buys the stock back at 100 dollars in a year, then the exact same thing has happened in terms of our gains and losses, but the 5 dollar dividend can't be subtracted from income.
roughly speaking at least
to those who have some decent autoconf kung-fu:
after you get the hang of it, is it comfortable enough to use with all your building? or is something you add on at the end when app/project is ready for export?
I'm good enough at makefiles to make them pretty portable (i.e. it'll work on the 2-3 platforms I really care about at the time), and just have never bit the bullet and learned use autconf.
still, if I download something, and install procedure is anything besides "./configure; make; make install", I consider it a significant (though not 100% reliable) warning sign that I just downloaded crap.
and you are just touching on whats explictly prohibited. Not that which the government isn't authroized to do.
courts have too much power too.
come to think of it, so does congress.
until we stop putting up with this crap. it'll just get worse.
actually this is where the constitution SHOULD EASILY make the DMCA null and void.
that is if the constitution is something more than just ass wiping paper for our government.
I like NCAA. They do add non-trivial features. They don't suck.
But for the love of god, I'm not buying a new version of NCAA until you can design your own freaking plays.
so does this mean you couldn't GPL, say, perl poetry.
ya. All words derive from greek roots. you give me a word, and I'll tell you its greek root.
take for example "kimono".
Kimono is come from the Greek word kimona, which is mean winter. What do you wear in the winter? A robe! So, there you go
"life" detection.
Although I'd like to see a good definition of life before I believe anything can detect it.