The rules for books are quite different, and a publishing company generally does not take ownership of the music. They simply have exclusive publishing rights for some period of time.
Actually, thanks to a rider in the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, contracts for audio recordings now default to work for hire. Several people made a big stink about it, but not until it was already passed. In fact, it consists of 4 words added quietly by a person who now works for the RIAA. So, yes they have "exclusive publishing rights for some period of time". Forever.
An excellent writeup of the origin of RPGs and the whole TSR saga was in an issue of Computer Games a few months back. It doesn't appear to be online, unfortunately. Basically, TSR was taken over by a woman who was going to "show how a REAL business is run", she also believed that gamers were "socially inferior" and was responsible for things like the Rocky & Bullwinkle Party Game. If you can, find that article. As a RPG gamer since about 1978 I learned a lot I didn't know.
Although the thing is somewhat of a joke, check out all the HackMaster stuff being put out by Kenzer and Co. And there are a lot of RPGs, just not as well-known ones. Check out Dying Earth, Legend of Five Rings or Fading Suns, for example.
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Please dont tell me you're including the majority of management jobs in that count Professional doesn't include the managers, the two were listed together in my original post, but the linked document separates them into two sections: managers and professionals. And the count for professionals stands at 21 million.
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Again, what exactly is a service oriented job? You are equating everything that isn't turning physicial things into other things as "service". The 21 million professionals wouldn't qualify by your definition. The original poster was staring that 75% of jobs were "not... particularly useful or enjoyable" and "the interesting and ultimately neccessary jobs dont even exist", which is blatantly false. I'll take a professional career over a machinist anyday. Or don't you thing the use of the human mind counts for anything?
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What exactly are you defining as a service/retail job? Accoring to the Department of Labor as of the year 2000, the breakdown was as such:
Managerial and professional 40,887 (thousand)
Tech, Sales and Admin Support 39442
Service 18278
Precision Production, Craft and Repair 14882
Operators, Fabricators and Laborers 18319
Farming, Forestry, Fishing 3399
I doubt it has changed all that much, read the report for more details.
IMHO, the best way to implement a "universal" translator is using an intermediate language capable of expressing most, if not all, concepts.
Sounds a lot like Lojban to me. Check it out, an artificial language based on predicate calculus. Although I doubt that the list of "bridi"s could keep up with inevitable changes in society, it is an interesting approach.
I said that "D" that is probability of life on planet is nearly ZERO
If you said that, then you were in fact wrong. Read the article, it is talking about the probability of a Earth-like planet (C?) being formed as nearly zero. The probability of an Earth-like planet producing life has recently been estimated at 1 in 3 by some other researchers.
As an aside, the Manifold books by Stephen Baxter have good ideas of what the existence or non-existence of other life could mean. Manifold: Space deals with what happens assuming life is abundant. It is NOT pretty...
First of all, we'll discover a way to insure immortality through "uploading" our patterns into a computer database. The government will decide that it is best for all of us, and make it mandatory that we upload. Some people will want to remain human and form a rebel organization, let's call it the ARM while the rest form a giant hive mind we'll call the CORE. These two will fight it out in a great war that devastates everything into a state of "Total Annihilation".
This seems about as likely as anything Max More (people take this guy seriously?) has ever said.
If you have everything necessary to build a game, you still need to provide examples of how to use your nifty new engine. The easiest way to show off your engine is to write an actual game using all your neat features. This is more or less how Serious Sam, which comes with everything you were talking about, came to be.
That book is rather controversial, check out a rebuttal page before swallowing his arguments.
Large portions of the book are devoted to showing that historically "good" periods of growth and discovery took place while it was thought that the Universe was infinite. Well, so what? Believing doesn't make it so. This entire part of the book is irrelevent.
The evidence in favor of his theory seems mainly that electromagnetic clouds look very similar to galaxies. This is interesting, but hardly conclusive. He also doesn't give any alternative explanation for Hubble shift or a good answer to the question "Why is the sky dark?" A good overview of the debate is here.
Every time I see that Ben Franklin quote, I'm reminded that while many Americans risked (and lost) their lives to throw off British rule, Franklin "suffered" by staying in France during the revolution. I guess he didn't mind his own safety being secure while other people fought. Hypocrite.
It was the French who kept the British away from their reinforcements, otherwise the Colonists army would've been crushed by the second wave. As such, don't you think it was better for Franklin to be there to plead the Colonists case instead of dying in the mud? Without France, all the people who died would've died in vain.
According to legend Weiner used the prefix Cyber because of a friend who told him he needed to use a new term that was never defined so he could never lose an argument. If no one truly understood what he said, no one could ay he was wrong. I personally doubt this is why Weiner used the word, but it certainly applies to what has been done with it.
I wondered about the geneology of the idea of cyberspace - specifically, the projection of a metaphor of inhabitable space onto networked computers
And both were preceded by John Varley's "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (NOT the horrible movie, this is a really good short story) from the 70s. The first "cyperspace" I know of is Philip K. Dick's Maze of Death and to some degree Ubik (both mid 60s).
Spoiler alert! - do not read further if you don't want to know the plots of the PKD books.
The first is a group trapped in a dreamworld created by a computer to keep them sane, the second is a machine holding a group in some sort of electronic afterlife.
BTW, I think Dick should get credit for much of that 90's Gnostic stuff you mentioned.
Every once in a while a technology come along that doesn't follow the existing rules There are many sorts of rules. The mathematical ones have NEVER been defeated. It is possible that the math was misapplied (using Euclidean space for physics, for example) but since compression is purely mathematical, I doubt that is going to happen here. How many perpetual motion machines have you seen lately?
The best current RNG testing suite is DIEHARD. It uses a large number of tests to make sure that the numbers are random enough for most purposes. More information about RNGS and testing them can be found at the pLab which is one of most comprehensive sites on RNGs on the net.
Paycheck: a man takes a job which is so secret, they erase his memory when it is done. He goes to get his money and gets a piece of string, a bus ticket, and other miscellaneous junk. This could be a great movie
The Unteleported Man: There are two ways to get to the stars, the long way and a teleporting device. The 'porters are all owned by a corporation who may be lying about what actually happens. One man decides to go the long way and, well, stuff happens.
The Variable Man: a handyman from the 20th century gets shifted into the future and messes up the predictions of how events should unfold. Sort of an anti-Foundation.
I would also like to see anyone make something out of Maze of Death, Ubik, and, especially, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. These would be challenging.
Yes, but that ability to "pull yourself back in the air" was due to physics. If it worked sometimes and not other times, you would get annoyed, right? There are tricks to making sure that the physics always works correctly, that is what this book is concerned about.
There isn't anything in a good physics model which requires everything to work exactly as it does in the real world. Tony Hawk, for example, allows insane hang times for doing tricks. This is not realistic physics, but since the engine is based on a real physics model, you can know exactly what will happen under given inputs.
The question of what literature has been created directly from LOTR can be a complicated one.
For example, if I mention a story about a guy with a huge black sword that terrifies everyone, particularly because the person with the sword has the bad habit of killing off friends. This man is ever seeking revenge and is often tricked into performing great evils. In the end, the sword reveals it can speak.
Now, who do you think I am referring to? It could be Elric of Melnibone by Moorcock or it could be Turin Turambar from the Silmarillion. So, who stole from who? I find it hard to believe that these two didn't know of each other, Moorcock's influence in modern fantasy is pretty heavy (check the alignments in Dungeons & Dragons, for example).
Who wrote theirs first? Silmarillion was started around 1914 but not published until the 1970s. Elric first appeared in the 1950's, shortly after LOTR. So I don't think the question can be answered definitively. Is this a case of ripoff or parallel development?
Remember the name of the guy who showed up at the Patent Office 2 hours after Alexander Bell did? Neither does anybody else
What about Manzetti who applied for a "advice of patent" 5 years before Bell? I believe the name you're referencing is Elisha Gray. Interestingly, Gray's "caveat" (meaning he didn't have one built yet) would have worked while Bell's patent application did not. I read somewhere that Bell stole an idea from Gray's patent, but that has been disputed. Bell's claim was challenged hundreds of times and they never lost one. Here is a detailed history of the invention, including the patent wars.
It seems I had a slight case of slysdexia or something, and, yes, the formula was too simple. I found an article on Pearl Harbor in which they claim a slight profit overall for Waterworld.
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Trials (by jury), or military tribunals (in secret)?
The rules for books are quite different, and a publishing company generally does not take ownership of the music. They simply have exclusive publishing rights for some period of time.
Actually, thanks to a rider in the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, contracts for audio recordings now default to work for hire. Several people made a big stink about it, but not until it was already passed. In fact, it consists of 4 words added quietly by a person who now works for the RIAA. So, yes they have "exclusive publishing rights for some period of time". Forever.
An excellent writeup of the origin of RPGs and the whole TSR saga was in an issue of Computer Games a few months back. It doesn't appear to be online, unfortunately. Basically, TSR was taken over by a woman who was going to "show how a REAL business is run", she also believed that gamers were "socially inferior" and was responsible for things like the Rocky & Bullwinkle Party Game. If you can, find that article. As a RPG gamer since about 1978 I learned a lot I didn't know.
which got me thinking about automatic generation of realistic worlds for use as settings for rollplaying games.
You should check out Captain Barcode's War Room the best collection of computer world generating links anywhere.
Although the thing is somewhat of a joke, check out all the HackMaster stuff being put out by Kenzer and Co. And there are a lot of RPGs, just not as well-known ones. Check out Dying Earth, Legend of Five Rings or Fading Suns, for example.
Please dont tell me you're including the majority of management jobs in that count
Professional doesn't include the managers, the two were listed together in my original post, but the linked document separates them into two sections: managers and professionals. And the count for professionals stands at 21 million.
Again, what exactly is a service oriented job? You are equating everything that isn't turning physicial things into other things as "service". The 21 million professionals wouldn't qualify by your definition. The original poster was staring that 75% of jobs were "not ... particularly useful or enjoyable" and "the interesting and ultimately neccessary jobs dont even exist", which is blatantly false. I'll take a professional career over a machinist anyday. Or don't you thing the use of the human mind counts for anything?
Managerial and professional 40,887 (thousand)
Tech, Sales and Admin Support 39442
Service 18278
Precision Production, Craft and Repair 14882
Operators, Fabricators and Laborers 18319
Farming, Forestry, Fishing 3399
I doubt it has changed all that much, read the report for more details.
I get 2PI added, regardless of diameter. This doesn't seem right to me, but the math works out:
2PI*R = circumference of Earth
2PI*(R+1) = circumference desired
difference = (2PI*R + 2PI) - 2PI * R = 2PI.
IMHO, the best way to implement a "universal" translator is using an intermediate language capable of expressing most, if not all, concepts.
Sounds a lot like Lojban to me. Check it out, an artificial language based on predicate calculus. Although I doubt that the list of "bridi"s could keep up with inevitable changes in society, it is an interesting approach.
I said that "D" that is probability of life on planet is nearly ZERO
If you said that, then you were in fact wrong. Read the article, it is talking about the probability of a Earth-like planet (C?) being formed as nearly zero. The probability of an Earth-like planet producing life has recently been estimated at 1 in 3 by some other researchers.
As an aside, the Manifold books by Stephen Baxter have good ideas of what the existence or non-existence of other life could mean. Manifold: Space deals with what happens assuming life is abundant. It is NOT pretty...
First of all, we'll discover a way to insure immortality through "uploading" our patterns into a computer database. The government will decide that it is best for all of us, and make it mandatory that we upload. Some people will want to remain human and form a rebel organization, let's call it the ARM while the rest form a giant hive mind we'll call the CORE. These two will fight it out in a great war that devastates everything into a state of "Total Annihilation".
This seems about as likely as anything Max More (people take this guy seriously?) has ever said.
If you have everything necessary to build a game, you still need to provide examples of how to use your nifty new engine. The easiest way to show off your engine is to write an actual game using all your neat features. This is more or less how Serious Sam, which comes with everything you were talking about, came to be.
Large portions of the book are devoted to showing that historically "good" periods of growth and discovery took place while it was thought that the Universe was infinite. Well, so what? Believing doesn't make it so. This entire part of the book is irrelevent.
The evidence in favor of his theory seems mainly that electromagnetic clouds look very similar to galaxies. This is interesting, but hardly conclusive. He also doesn't give any alternative explanation for Hubble shift or a good answer to the question "Why is the sky dark?" A good overview of the debate is here.
I just honestly think game makers need to look back and reignite the Text Based RPG craze
Judging by their site, Skotos is trying to do just that.
It was the French who kept the British away from their reinforcements, otherwise the Colonists army would've been crushed by the second wave. As such, don't you think it was better for Franklin to be there to plead the Colonists case instead of dying in the mud? Without France, all the people who died would've died in vain.
According to legend Weiner used the prefix Cyber because of a friend who told him he needed to use a new term that was never defined so he could never lose an argument. If no one truly understood what he said, no one could ay he was wrong. I personally doubt this is why Weiner used the word, but it certainly applies to what has been done with it.
I wondered about the geneology of the idea of cyberspace - specifically, the projection of a metaphor of inhabitable space onto networked computers
And both were preceded by John Varley's "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (NOT the horrible movie, this is a really good short story) from the 70s. The first "cyperspace" I know of is Philip K. Dick's Maze of Death and to some degree Ubik (both mid 60s).
Spoiler alert! - do not read further if you don't want to know the plots of the PKD books.
The first is a group trapped in a dreamworld created by a computer to keep them sane, the second is a machine holding a group in some sort of electronic afterlife.
BTW, I think Dick should get credit for much of that 90's Gnostic stuff you mentioned.
Every once in a while a technology come along that doesn't follow the existing rules
There are many sorts of rules. The mathematical ones have NEVER been defeated. It is possible that the math was misapplied (using Euclidean space for physics, for example) but since compression is purely mathematical, I doubt that is going to happen here. How many perpetual motion machines have you seen lately?
The best current RNG testing suite is DIEHARD. It uses a large number of tests to make sure that the numbers are random enough for most purposes. More information about RNGS and testing them can be found at the pLab which is one of most comprehensive sites on RNGs on the net.
Paycheck: a man takes a job which is so secret, they erase his memory when it is done. He goes to get his money and gets a piece of string, a bus ticket, and other miscellaneous junk. This could be a great movie
The Unteleported Man: There are two ways to get to the stars, the long way and a teleporting device. The 'porters are all owned by a corporation who may be lying about what actually happens. One man decides to go the long way and, well, stuff happens.
The Variable Man: a handyman from the 20th century gets shifted into the future and messes up the predictions of how events should unfold. Sort of an anti-Foundation.
I would also like to see anyone make something out of Maze of Death, Ubik, and, especially, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. These would be challenging.
Yes, but that ability to "pull yourself back in the air" was due to physics. If it worked sometimes and not other times, you would get annoyed, right? There are tricks to making sure that the physics always works correctly, that is what this book is concerned about.
There isn't anything in a good physics model which requires everything to work exactly as it does in the real world. Tony Hawk, for example, allows insane hang times for doing tricks. This is not realistic physics, but since the engine is based on a real physics model, you can know exactly what will happen under given inputs.
The question of what literature has been created directly from LOTR can be a complicated one.
For example, if I mention a story about a guy with a huge black sword that terrifies everyone, particularly because the person with the sword has the bad habit of killing off friends. This man is ever seeking revenge and is often tricked into performing great evils. In the end, the sword reveals it can speak.
Now, who do you think I am referring to? It could be Elric of Melnibone by Moorcock or it could be Turin Turambar from the Silmarillion. So, who stole from who? I find it hard to believe that these two didn't know of each other, Moorcock's influence in modern fantasy is pretty heavy (check the alignments in Dungeons & Dragons, for example).
Who wrote theirs first? Silmarillion was started around 1914 but not published until the 1970s. Elric first appeared in the 1950's, shortly after LOTR. So I don't think the question can be answered definitively. Is this a case of ripoff or parallel development?
Remember the name of the guy who showed up at the Patent Office 2 hours after Alexander Bell did? Neither does anybody else
What about Manzetti who applied for a "advice of patent" 5 years before Bell? I believe the name you're referencing is Elisha Gray. Interestingly, Gray's "caveat" (meaning he didn't have one built yet) would have worked while Bell's patent application did not. I read somewhere that Bell stole an idea from Gray's patent, but that has been disputed. Bell's claim was challenged hundreds of times and they never lost one. Here is a detailed history of the invention, including the patent wars.
It seems I had a slight case of slysdexia or something, and, yes, the formula was too simple. I found an article on Pearl Harbor in which they claim a slight profit overall for Waterworld.