Who are you to make that value judgement? You just automatically assume it's bad.
simply take back what was taken from them...American revolution
Theft is theft. I don't remember any stories of socialist wealth redistribution from the American Revolution. Have you actually read the declaration of Independance? It's just about the most libertarian document ever written.
I'm not even going to address the rest of your message. I think your unsupported assertion that an imbalance of wealth leads to revolution is bogus, and all your arguments are based on that.
Poverty can lead to revolution, but an imbalance in wealth doesn't indicate anything about the levels of poverty in a country. Economics is not zero-sum, it doesn't work that way.
You don't have to identify with the ultra-wealthy to support the ideas of economic freedom. You only must believe it is morally wrong to take another person's property using force, especially using the force of the state.
Is that really different from the US? Most CS graduates can't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
They spent all their time learning about useless crap like advanced multivariable calculus, matrix theory, and other math crap instead of learning how to program.
We have several Cisco PIX doing routing and VPN. They break all the fucking time, whenever anyone touches anything. Fragile as hell, and hard to debug.
Our Cisco catalyst switch was the first switch I've ever seen that just crashed completely. We had to reboot it to fix it. Cisco wouldn't even believe us when we told them what happened.
I've had my fill of Cisco crap. Just because it costs a lot doesn't mean it's good. Look up cognitive dissonance.
I know, in hindsight my example wasn't too strong, I should have said 48 port switches, or pure gigabit.
But consider a pure Gigabit network. Right now you'd have to have gigabit IDFs with gigabit uplinks to gigabit MDFs... that's 24:1 oversubscription with 24 port switches.
Don't worry about content. We'll find plenty of things to fill that with.
Look at a platform like Second Life. It uses a very simplified version of CSG 3d modelling because of bandwidth constraints of current broadband. Now imagine Second Life with fully deformable meshes and high resolution textures in a world that is downloaded faster than you can move through it.
Anyway, we'll find plenty of things to do with more speed, we always do.
What I really want to see is higher uplink ports on SMB hardware.
Right now, if I want to make a medium size network using lower cost components, it might look something like 5- 24 port, 100-meg switches with 1 GB uplink to a big GB switch.
The bottleneck here is those uplinks. Each 100meg switch has plenty of backplane, and so does the gigabit switch, but those 100 meg 24 port switches have to share 1GB each to the backbone MDF.
So I really don't care about PCs or network cards or whatever, just give me 10GB links that I can use between switches without having to pay for overpriced Cisco crap.
Necessity for drugs is not going to drive development. Money is.
Exactly, and there's no reason patents are needed. Other industries still make products there is demand for, without ever registering a single patent.
Pharma research costs big money, because 1) paying your PHDs to do the research, and maintaining research facilities, costs quite a lot, and 2) the FDA approval process is costly and takes years.
They spend more on advertising than they do on research. The FDA thing is another government created problem that can be done away with as easily as the patent system. The risk of lawsuits is so great that the phrama companies will still be plenty careful about what they release. If anything the FDA gives them permission to be sloppy as it stands now. They only have to do the minimum required for approval, nothing more. A private branding mark of quality, similar to UL, can be used instead of FDA approval.
on the day they start selling the drug, a generic manufacturer sells the same thing and cuts them on price--it's going to be very hard for them to recoup their investment
Wah. Every other industry deals with knockoffs. There's nothing special about pharmacueticals. Most of them are not trivial to synthesize.
without investing a single cent of their own in research. Which isn't exactly fair.
Plenty of markets exist without ever involving patents. Those markets are generally very successful at providing the service.
medicine has the potential to improve the quality of life of tons of people
It does, which is why it's so much more important to eliminate patents here than anywhere else. I don't know why you want to support corporate handouts so badly.
Either way that's 100 million taken out of the economy for "broken windows". Patents, for the most part, no longer fulfill their constitutional mandate of "promoting science and the useful arts (engineering)".
Implied income (like shorting against the box, etc) is a specific exception to the tax laws to close that specific loophole. It used to be legal, and abused. In general the asset has to be liquid before you can be taxed on it as income.
I guess you don't pay sales tax on selling used comic books well above cover price either?
It doesn't matter whether something has some value to you, it only matters that it's valuable to someone.
On the other hand, this story is retarded because in none of these cases is the game/platform company paying the user, it's other players paying the user.
I don't know. Seems like it would open a lot of strange precedents. Second Life for example is a platform. People pay me money there in the fictional currency Lindens, which I can sell legally and is fungible for cash.
Now, how is that very different from what PayPal does? PayPal doesn't have to send me a 1099 because it's just moving money around, I'm not earning it from them.
Linden Lab is in a similar situation, they aren't paying me, the people that sent me money through their service are paying me.
Yeah, but no game has enough cycles to do fully dynamic lighting. They might render a few light sources per scene, but generally there's a "base brightness" of objects that is independant of the lighting.
A game like Thief, in the indoor scenes, might use mostly dynamic lighting, but keep in mind even if you shoot out the lights it isn't pitch black.
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The analogy breaks down because if it were true most of the ads for car mechanic jobs would say "advanced degree in physics required".
I'm actually not too bad at it, it just rarely comes up, never ever at work.
It comes up a lot more often at home when I'm inventing some new algorithm, but that's not exactly something that is common.
wealth maldistribution
Who are you to make that value judgement? You just automatically assume it's bad.
simply take back what was taken from them...American revolution
Theft is theft. I don't remember any stories of socialist wealth redistribution from the American Revolution. Have you actually read the declaration of Independance? It's just about the most libertarian document ever written.
I'm not even going to address the rest of your message. I think your unsupported assertion that an imbalance of wealth leads to revolution is bogus, and all your arguments are based on that.
Poverty can lead to revolution, but an imbalance in wealth doesn't indicate anything about the levels of poverty in a country. Economics is not zero-sum, it doesn't work that way.
You don't have to identify with the ultra-wealthy to support the ideas of economic freedom. You only must believe it is morally wrong to take another person's property using force, especially using the force of the state.
You don't "play" SL. That's like saying you got on this "world wide web" but the game of "buying stuff" was too boring. It's a platform, not a game.
Is that really different from the US? Most CS graduates can't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
They spent all their time learning about useless crap like advanced multivariable calculus, matrix theory, and other math crap instead of learning how to program.
There's no reason we need to have unnecessary bottlenecks on our uplink ports. 10G ethernet has been out of years, this waiting game is stupid.
it is their configurability that makes them rock.
You mispelled suck.
We have several Cisco PIX doing routing and VPN. They break all the fucking time, whenever anyone touches anything. Fragile as hell, and hard to debug.
Our Cisco catalyst switch was the first switch I've ever seen that just crashed completely. We had to reboot it to fix it. Cisco wouldn't even believe us when we told them what happened.
I've had my fill of Cisco crap. Just because it costs a lot doesn't mean it's good. Look up cognitive dissonance.
I said with reasonably priced hardware for a small to medium business. We aren't talking vlans here.
YES!
I want a car that goes "slow down whoop whoop slow down whoop whoop".
I know, in hindsight my example wasn't too strong, I should have said 48 port switches, or pure gigabit.
But consider a pure Gigabit network. Right now you'd have to have gigabit IDFs with gigabit uplinks to gigabit MDFs... that's 24:1 oversubscription with 24 port switches.
Don't worry about content. We'll find plenty of things to fill that with.
Look at a platform like Second Life. It uses a very simplified version of CSG 3d modelling because of bandwidth constraints of current broadband. Now imagine Second Life with fully deformable meshes and high resolution textures in a world that is downloaded faster than you can move through it.
Anyway, we'll find plenty of things to do with more speed, we always do.
What I really want to see is higher uplink ports on SMB hardware.
Right now, if I want to make a medium size network using lower cost components, it might look something like 5- 24 port, 100-meg switches with 1 GB uplink to a big GB switch.
The bottleneck here is those uplinks. Each 100meg switch has plenty of backplane, and so does the gigabit switch, but those 100 meg 24 port switches have to share 1GB each to the backbone MDF.
So I really don't care about PCs or network cards or whatever, just give me 10GB links that I can use between switches without having to pay for overpriced Cisco crap.
If you don't like pragmatic arguments, then what about ethics. It's not ethical to have the government grant artificial monopolies on ideas.
Necessity for drugs is not going to drive development. Money is.
Exactly, and there's no reason patents are needed. Other industries still make products there is demand for, without ever registering a single patent.
Pharma research costs big money, because 1) paying your PHDs to do the research, and maintaining research facilities, costs quite a lot, and 2) the FDA approval process is costly and takes years.
They spend more on advertising than they do on research. The FDA thing is another government created problem that can be done away with as easily as the patent system. The risk of lawsuits is so great that the phrama companies will still be plenty careful about what they release. If anything the FDA gives them permission to be sloppy as it stands now. They only have to do the minimum required for approval, nothing more. A private branding mark of quality, similar to UL, can be used instead of FDA approval.
on the day they start selling the drug, a generic manufacturer sells the same thing and cuts them on price--it's going to be very hard for them to recoup their investment
Wah. Every other industry deals with knockoffs. There's nothing special about pharmacueticals. Most of them are not trivial to synthesize.
without investing a single cent of their own in research. Which isn't exactly fair.
Plenty of markets exist without ever involving patents. Those markets are generally very successful at providing the service.
medicine has the potential to improve the quality of life of tons of people
It does, which is why it's so much more important to eliminate patents here than anywhere else. I don't know why you want to support corporate handouts so badly.
Either way that's 100 million taken out of the economy for "broken windows". Patents, for the most part, no longer fulfill their constitutional mandate of "promoting science and the useful arts (engineering)".
Implied income (like shorting against the box, etc) is a specific exception to the tax laws to close that specific loophole. It used to be legal, and abused. In general the asset has to be liquid before you can be taxed on it as income.
I guess you don't pay sales tax on selling used comic books well above cover price either?
It doesn't matter whether something has some value to you, it only matters that it's valuable to someone.
On the other hand, this story is retarded because in none of these cases is the game/platform company paying the user, it's other players paying the user.
I don't know. Seems like it would open a lot of strange precedents. Second Life for example is a platform. People pay me money there in the fictional currency Lindens, which I can sell legally and is fungible for cash.
Now, how is that very different from what PayPal does? PayPal doesn't have to send me a 1099 because it's just moving money around, I'm not earning it from them.
Linden Lab is in a similar situation, they aren't paying me, the people that sent me money through their service are paying me.
It used both, lightmaps for map objects, and dynamic lighting for non-map items.
As for the driver/API issue, I don't know. I think id software has always used OpenGL.
Yeah, but no game has enough cycles to do fully dynamic lighting. They might render a few light sources per scene, but generally there's a "base brightness" of objects that is independant of the lighting.
A game like Thief, in the indoor scenes, might use mostly dynamic lighting, but keep in mind even if you shoot out the lights it isn't pitch black.
Only for computers. -9 is an integer, it's a symbolic constant in and of itself, the - sign isn't an operator.
I bet you don't buy into other "religions" like the bill of rights?
You have rights, stand up for them. You own your computer, not them.
1/sqrt(x)
I did the apple seed calculation once. You'd have to eat about 8 ounces of seeds to be on the high side of human LD50.