Zuckerberg does have that killer instinct for business that Jobs had. Luck did have something to do with it, but he;d have been reasonably successful if someone else beat him to it.
Some might call it sociopathy of course, but Apple did a lot better with Jobs than without, and I dare say facebook would struggle without a clear leader.
Sorry to nitpick, but the one in the Science Museum was built using modern equipment - much of it computer controlled.
That is a nitpick though. Your point is valid. The tolerances were the same. Victorian engineers were capable of some very precise engineering. They had micrometers and milling tools and standardised measurements and parts.
Actually, ownership of data doesn't particularly. We created a metaphor and it worked well enough to encourage people to write books. The point being that until recently, copies actually existed in a fixed medium so it made sense that you could lend that medium, or resell it or do anything you like treating it and the data came with it.
It is possible to lock digital data to a single device (at least through the honour system) but when you do that you lose a lot of the benefits of a digital copy. We want those benefits. The ability to transfer to another device is essential. But when you do that, the metaphor no longer applies. We end up with a rather awkward metaphor for a metaphor. People suddenly notice that it makes no sense.
I have no idea what the solution is but trying to pretend digital copies are physical copies is not the answer.
The benefit to the customers here though, is that Sony will be forced to remove that clause, with additional benefit that other companies will be deterred from doing this.
So even if the console owner gets nothing, they're back in the position they were in before which is what the court should be doing.
They don't throw all the federal prisoners in together. He's going to go to a minimum security prison, which looks more like a college campus. The other prisoners are going to have been convicted of fraud or money laundering.
A corporation doesn't commit a crime. It has no guilty intent or intent at all. The one who commits a crime is the executive who makes the decision, and they certainly can be sent to prison.
And this is the way it should be. A company can easily behave if those without ethics are removed from the board.
I'm not sure P&T's Bullshit is the best source. It's fun and all, but it's not exactly fair and balanced. Even Penn Jilette says it's biased as hell.
Now, I'm sure there are other methods that also work in lie detection, possibly including educated guesses, but I'm not convinced that this makes a polygraph useless. Does it absolutely replicate the body language expert, or supplement it? Is training easier? Are individuals of consistent detectability during questioning? I can see how it could in some cases be a useful tool if the answer to any of these is yes.
Polygraphs have statistical correlation with lie detection. This doesn't mean they're particularly reliable - certainly not reliable enough for a court, but it gives an indication as to whether the subject is lying.
Trouble with this is if a charity replaces outside contractors with volunteers, their overheads go up. Volunteers aren't totally free. Likewise, if you hire a negotiator to drive costs down, overheads go up even though the negotiator may well more than pay for themselves.
We need to find a metric to measure the success of a charity.
It isn't up to the Office of National Statistics to determine what is and isn't a religion. And let's be honest, pretty much 100% of people who put down Jedi did so because it was funny. I suspect most people who put down Sikh did so because they are Sikhs.
Consoles can download entire games. And this is a great feature.
Actually loading while you're playing would be better though. And while this is probably technically possible, I don't think it's supported or even permitted by the standard developer agreements at the moment.
Split the map into tiles. Start off loading the entrance tile and 8 surrounding tiles. As soon as you reach the next tile, load the three extra tiles that are accessible from there asynchronously.
If this is still causing problems, you can minimise issues by initially loading low detail versions.
Also, at the moment the fastest broadband connection I am able to get would max out at 18 mbps
So about half the bitrate of single speed Blu-ray. Or a quarter that of a PS3. It's not insurmountable.
Although I'd be surprised if they didn't make sure there was the option for entirely online games. Broadband speeds will get faster, and publishers would love to cut out the middle men.
You need to load the amount that will fit into memory. While the player is playing, you can start downloading the rest onto semi-permanent storage. Most games are pretty linear like that. there's only a handful of options for what the next segment will be and you can easily download all of them in the time it takes to play them.
If it uses discs at all, Blu-ray level capacity will be essential. It will be a lot cheaper to base it entirely on online gaming, and XBox has established itself as an online system pretty well. But is there anuy need for this? The inclusion of a blu-ray movie player isn't going to be such a bonus by the time it is released. Blu-ray is reaching commodity pricing as it is.
Of course the rest of the online media is going to be in there. MS *knows* people want to stream movies, and know that the overlap between movie consumers and gamers is huge. And of course they need decent release titles.
Eventually the account gets "flagged" for repeated violations even though they've all been false positives.
Yeah. I reckon this is more about cost to youTube than any inherent sense of justice. Flagging means they need to spend time and money dealing with it, false positive or not. Easier and cheaper to just throw the whole lot out.
Fraud requires specific intent though. You need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they don't hold the copyright, that they knew they don't hold the copyright and they deliberately did this with malicious intent.
It's tricky to prove. The defence of an honest mistake is way too plausible for this to stick. A legal strategy that's a lot more likely to succeed is a civil lawsuit, where the standards of proof are much lower, and you can still claim damages (just less) if you can't prove they acted wilfully.
Apple Macs aren't IBM's even though Apple is an international company that makes machines used in businesses. Their processors are indeed Advanced Micro Devices, in fact, amongst the most advanced around, but they're not AMD processors.
It's because any possession is an expression of work of an individual and that's what individuals want to protect
But you didn't create the land! It's a shared resource. Yiu created what you built on it, but if I put more work into "your" land, why do I have to move?
in Germany we don't pay any, but in fact in Germany it depends from locality to locality,
So it sounds like in some localities you do pay land tax.
In Switzerland we have a canton tax on 'wealth',
Which would presumably include land.
What difference does it make whether it's federal or local?
Not sure about most of the world, but googling a random selection of reasonably developed countries suggested that there's some form of tax on property for all of them.
And why should here be absolute rights to land? It was previously a shared resource. One person is monopolising it. If he's going to do that then he's responsible for making sure that the land is put to good use for the people he'd depriving of it.
Couldn't find anything on the actual website, and the Daily Fail is known for sensationalism.
If they're genuinely concerned that games are glorifying wart and especially the violence, and are suggesting developers might want to include a slightly more intelligent premise, I think they have a decent point.
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Zuckerberg does have that killer instinct for business that Jobs had. Luck did have something to do with it, but he;d have been reasonably successful if someone else beat him to it.
Some might call it sociopathy of course, but Apple did a lot better with Jobs than without, and I dare say facebook would struggle without a clear leader.
Don't pick a fight with the internet.
Not really analogous to the old saying, but seems to be what this company has done.
using techniques available in his day
Sorry to nitpick, but the one in the Science Museum was built using modern equipment - much of it computer controlled.
That is a nitpick though. Your point is valid. The tolerances were the same. Victorian engineers were capable of some very precise engineering. They had micrometers and milling tools and standardised measurements and parts.
Actually, ownership of data doesn't particularly. We created a metaphor and it worked well enough to encourage people to write books. The point being that until recently, copies actually existed in a fixed medium so it made sense that you could lend that medium, or resell it or do anything you like treating it and the data came with it.
It is possible to lock digital data to a single device (at least through the honour system) but when you do that you lose a lot of the benefits of a digital copy. We want those benefits. The ability to transfer to another device is essential. But when you do that, the metaphor no longer applies. We end up with a rather awkward metaphor for a metaphor. People suddenly notice that it makes no sense.
I have no idea what the solution is but trying to pretend digital copies are physical copies is not the answer.
No. No benefit at all. Why should you benefit? You haven't lost anything.
The benefit to the customers here though, is that Sony will be forced to remove that clause, with additional benefit that other companies will be deterred from doing this.
So even if the console owner gets nothing, they're back in the position they were in before which is what the court should be doing.
I refuse to buy Sony products because they *keep* pulling this sort of shit!
Shame really. I actually like the look of a lot of their products.
They don't throw all the federal prisoners in together. He's going to go to a minimum security prison, which looks more like a college campus. The other prisoners are going to have been convicted of fraud or money laundering.
A corporation doesn't commit a crime. It has no guilty intent or intent at all. The one who commits a crime is the executive who makes the decision, and they certainly can be sent to prison.
And this is the way it should be. A company can easily behave if those without ethics are removed from the board.
I'm not sure P&T's Bullshit is the best source. It's fun and all, but it's not exactly fair and balanced. Even Penn Jilette says it's biased as hell.
Now, I'm sure there are other methods that also work in lie detection, possibly including educated guesses, but I'm not convinced that this makes a polygraph useless. Does it absolutely replicate the body language expert, or supplement it? Is training easier? Are individuals of consistent detectability during questioning? I can see how it could in some cases be a useful tool if the answer to any of these is yes.
The person who wrote that appears to have a bias.
Polygraphs have statistical correlation with lie detection. This doesn't mean they're particularly reliable - certainly not reliable enough for a court, but it gives an indication as to whether the subject is lying.
Trouble with this is if a charity replaces outside contractors with volunteers, their overheads go up. Volunteers aren't totally free. Likewise, if you hire a negotiator to drive costs down, overheads go up even though the negotiator may well more than pay for themselves.
We need to find a metric to measure the success of a charity.
Good... Let the hate flow through you!!!
(Sorry - seemed an appropriate response to your indignation given the topic)
It isn't up to the Office of National Statistics to determine what is and isn't a religion. And let's be honest, pretty much 100% of people who put down Jedi did so because it was funny. I suspect most people who put down Sikh did so because they are Sikhs.
Consoles can download entire games. And this is a great feature.
Actually loading while you're playing would be better though. And while this is probably technically possible, I don't think it's supported or even permitted by the standard developer agreements at the moment.
Split the map into tiles. Start off loading the entrance tile and 8 surrounding tiles. As soon as you reach the next tile, load the three extra tiles that are accessible from there asynchronously.
If this is still causing problems, you can minimise issues by initially loading low detail versions.
Also, at the moment the fastest broadband connection I am able to get would max out at 18 mbps
So about half the bitrate of single speed Blu-ray. Or a quarter that of a PS3. It's not insurmountable.
True.
Although I'd be surprised if they didn't make sure there was the option for entirely online games. Broadband speeds will get faster, and publishers would love to cut out the middle men.
You need to load the amount that will fit into memory. While the player is playing, you can start downloading the rest onto semi-permanent storage. Most games are pretty linear like that. there's only a handful of options for what the next segment will be and you can easily download all of them in the time it takes to play them.
If it uses discs at all, Blu-ray level capacity will be essential. It will be a lot cheaper to base it entirely on online gaming, and XBox has established itself as an online system pretty well. But is there anuy need for this? The inclusion of a blu-ray movie player isn't going to be such a bonus by the time it is released. Blu-ray is reaching commodity pricing as it is.
Of course the rest of the online media is going to be in there. MS *knows* people want to stream movies, and know that the overlap between movie consumers and gamers is huge. And of course they need decent release titles.
Eventually the account gets "flagged" for repeated violations even though they've all been false positives.
Yeah. I reckon this is more about cost to youTube than any inherent sense of justice. Flagging means they need to spend time and money dealing with it, false positive or not. Easier and cheaper to just throw the whole lot out.
Fraud requires specific intent though. You need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they don't hold the copyright, that they knew they don't hold the copyright and they deliberately did this with malicious intent.
It's tricky to prove. The defence of an honest mistake is way too plausible for this to stick. A legal strategy that's a lot more likely to succeed is a civil lawsuit, where the standards of proof are much lower, and you can still claim damages (just less) if you can't prove they acted wilfully.
Apple Macs aren't IBM's even though Apple is an international company that makes machines used in businesses. Their processors are indeed Advanced Micro Devices, in fact, amongst the most advanced around, but they're not AMD processors.
These are brand names. PC was also a brand name.
It's because any possession is an expression of work of an individual and that's what individuals want to protect
But you didn't create the land! It's a shared resource. Yiu created what you built on it, but if I put more work into "your" land, why do I have to move?
in Germany we don't pay any, but in fact in Germany it depends from locality to locality,
So it sounds like in some localities you do pay land tax.
In Switzerland we have a canton tax on 'wealth',
Which would presumably include land.
What difference does it make whether it's federal or local?
Not sure about most of the world, but googling a random selection of reasonably developed countries suggested that there's some form of tax on property for all of them.
And why should here be absolute rights to land? It was previously a shared resource. One person is monopolising it. If he's going to do that then he's responsible for making sure that the land is put to good use for the people he'd depriving of it.
Couldn't find anything on the actual website, and the Daily Fail is known for sensationalism.
If they're genuinely concerned that games are glorifying wart and especially the violence, and are suggesting developers might want to include a slightly more intelligent premise, I think they have a decent point.