" would refuse to follow orders if their superior officers told them to take action against their chain of command."
Uh - that *is* the chain of command. The superior officer tells you what to do. It's not your job to question the order - at least until after you executed it.
You might want to read up on VSL theories. They do make sense of the cosmological constant, and they solve several other problems. Homogeneity amongst them, which, AFAIK, is a rather big deal to cosmologists:)
It's not proven or anything, and it competes with inflation theory. But it looks like it might be experimentally verifiable, as opposed to inflation.
b) There is no official way for me to inspect if I'm on the records and/or ask to be cleared off.
c) The roads are *public* property. Contrary to popular belief, they are *not* owned by the wealthy residents, but by the people at large. Having money doesn't give you the right to take control over public property.
I don't give a bit about what you do on your private property. Record whatever you want. That's *your* property. The road isn't. It's a public place.
If the town is built entirely on private property, and not financed through any state or federal taxes, they can do what they want. As long as they keep spending tax money, they can't. It's that easy.
OK, you want an example - I'll give you one from Germany. (That's where I'm from, so I know a bit more about that place than the states:)
Imagine a bank watching all their ATMs. While doing a statistical analysis, they find one ATM that has significantly higher withdrawals than others, on average.
So they start logging every withdrawal there, with customer ID and all, since they figure something fishy might be going on.
While they log that data, it turns out that the ATM is simply close to a brothel. They're legal in Germany, but it still carries a social stigma to go there.
So suddenly the bank is in posession of a list of people who are likely to visit a brothel. The customers certainly did *not* want to share that with the bank. Just withdrawing interacting with a human person would not have gotten you on a list of people. Clearly violates my right to privately go wherever I like without having my bank know it.
What happened is that completely innocent data turned highly sensitive just by combining two data sources.
That is the problem. In all likelihood, just collecting license plates is fine. Just collecting ATM data is fine. Just collecting medical data is fine. Just collecting your cell phones position over time is fine - but you combine all those, and you might find out things that people want to keep private.
The high availability of the data combined with ease of correlation is what destroys privacy. No single data collection in itself needs to be bad - but cross-referencing generates new information that might be.
This is so arrogant, it's unbelievable. You pretend you know better than your customers what THEY want?
If my customer reads a report right now, setting up OLAP and wasting months of it is not worth a single red cent to him.
The design process it to elicit proper specifications from your customer. If he says he wants a report, feel free to mention OLAP and explain the benefits. If he insists on a report, you better give him one - no matter what you think is best for him.
If you don't provide the solution the customer specifies, you're defrauding him, plain and simple. You stay in business by establishing a relationship, not by employing a "Mommy knows best!" attitude.
The problem is not the act of watching. The problem is the fact that a computerized system is able to record *everything*, and people are able to search through that data long after.
What this effectively means is that I either give up privacy, or the right to travel freely. Before, with the human watching things, I could always choose to drive at nighttime, or in a convoy, and assume that he'd quickly forget I was there.
The problem with data collection is that computer memory never forgets, and it is frighteningly easy to cross-reference with other data. *That* is the real problem. If it would only compare the license plate to a list of stolen cars, and then discard the data, no problem.
But keeping data around allows people to get insights into private lifes that you don't want to share.
Look, this calculator is all sorts of cool. What it is not is stylish. Not even remotely. Heck, it's so ugly, you'd get kicked out of Starbucks by your local Apple crowd just for bringing one!
No, they don't. As a whole, they make about the same amount of money as movies as a whole at the box office. The box office is not where movies generate cash, though - it's TV syndication, rentals, and tie-ins.
Games are a *far* cry from that kind of money. And there are way more games than movies.
Hence, the average game doesn't make much at all. It's the block busters that carry the industry. (Like the movie industry)
You know, the whole "we don't have long term data" argument doesn't really work.
We're not talking about temperature per se, we talk about the differential. Temperature is not only rising, according to all evidence, it's rising faster than it ever did - as far as we know.
Yup, that might be perfectly natural - that doesn't help the people who will die due to climatic changes in the next couple of decades.
If you just want to sit back, give up, and watch the fireworks, that's fine. Just don't get in the way of those who want to fix things.
Don't you think there's the remote possibility that people who work on the same code base all the time know it better than your programmers/sysadmins, who have tons of other things to do?
You bought it from whom? Why is he the rightful owner? Who's the original owner?
In fact, in case you're American, we don't even need to get back to the fact that the first owner just took the land by squatters law - your pre-owners stole it from the previous owners.
And if you pay close attention, I did *not* suggest that you can just borrow as you please - but you took posession of a piece of land that belongs to everybody - so you might DAMN WELL PAY SOME TAXES FOR IT.
Yes, he said real time. Big deal. If he actually was informed about the topic, he'd know there are several GCs that are useable for *hard* realtime. They have *guaranteed* response times.
Sorry - the whole "GC is slow" is a myth, unless you implement a naive GC. But guess what - naive memory allocation by hand can kill performance, too. (It's not like malloc is a speed demon, after all...)
Oh, and the little fact that nobody really *owns* the land. (Yes, legally, you do. Morally, you don't - you can't create new land, so why is it yours if you didn't build it?)
Property tax is also the land owner paying off all the others who can't use that particular piece of land.
Cubic Zirconium can easily be spotted with just a modicum of gem experience. And they don't look *quite* as nice as diamonds.
Preferring *natural* diamonds is probably a status thing, yes. After all, what makes a diamond beautiful is only partially in the material - a lot of it is in the cut, and that would be the same for both.
I did the only sane thing - I asked a woman. (Yay! I am married! Now I just need a lower./ id for perfect happiness)
Answer - if you use it to print pictures from your camera, you might want to stow it away when you don't print. Leave it to women - putting things away. Who'd ever have thought of that?
"GTA teaches but one lesson: if you don't get caught, you can profit from being a low-life street thug. Lovely lesson, that. "
Ah, but that's where you are wrong. Only seldom do works of fiction directly intend to teach - they reflect society at the time of their creation. (Granted, the better ones make you think about it, but I think GTA has induced its share of thinking about violence...)
And GTA does just that - it reflects a society where dirty scumbags can get away by just hiring a pricey lawyer. OK, so the lawyer part is left out, and the scumbags are thugs, not business people. It's still the same message - our society is messed up. Can't say I disagree. Unlike the Bible, it just doesn't show a different way that leads out of the problem.
So, what you're saying, in a nutshell, is that you don't like the underlying message of GTA. That's fine - dislike it all you want. The developers still have a right to say it. That's what it's all about - the freedom to say what you think, without fear of retaliation.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Talk to other parents and convince 'em not to buy it. Just don't try to legislate what an appropriate message is.
"In Passion, we see an example of noble sacrifice."
Well, yes and no. It wasn't exactly Jesus decision - the decision was made by God. There's a reason Jesus says "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?", and it's not because he's happy he made the right choice.
That difference, of course, only exists if you're Christian. If you're not, they're both multimedia works about violence against fictional characters.
Oh, in GTA, you're actually in control, so you have to make a moral choice, while in Passion, you just absorb.
Nope, violence is violence. Just because it happened in the past doesn't make it any different.
Apart from that, it's not about "my right to violence". It's about freedom of speech. Steven Spielberg wants to make a movie about people getting blown up (SPR), I want to make a game about blowing people up - why exactly should it be OK to censor one and not the other?
They might be bad analogies, but they're the law. Same goes for your cookingrecipes.zip. The only way for your girlfriend to get out of this is to actually call the police and notify them that that's not what she downloaded.
Come to think of it, maybe people should do that. I can just imagine how happy the police would be about all those calls:)
Not an FPS developer, but I used to work on an arcade game that used something similar. (It was networked between LA, SF and CHI)
It worked fairly nicely, but you always have the problem of griefers - they just get a new account, pretend to be a n00b, and get to crash all the beginners parties.
If you can tie a unique ID to a player, it might just work. But as long as an ID is cheap to get, it won't work. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. (Not much else, unfortunately:)
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" would refuse to follow orders if their superior officers told them to take action against their chain of command."
Uh - that *is* the chain of command. The superior officer tells you what to do. It's not your job to question the order - at least until after you executed it.
Actually, the CD was a cooperation between Sony and Philips.
Whine, whine, whine.
Have you even played Bond:EoN? MK:DA? Looked at Mortal Kombat:Deception?
I didn't think so.
OK, just to settle the issue - I'm german, and the damn ship was "Die Bismarck". Not "Der". Not "Das". It's a she. Really.
It was named after OvB, yes - but it's still a she. We Germans are weird that way.
You might want to read up on VSL theories. They do make sense of the cosmological constant, and they solve several other problems. Homogeneity amongst them, which, AFAIK, is a rather big deal to cosmologists :)
It's not proven or anything, and it competes with inflation theory. But it looks like it might be experimentally verifiable, as opposed to inflation.
This just leeves me speachless.
a) 3 months is a *damn* long time.
b) There is no official way for me to inspect if I'm on the records and/or ask to be cleared off.
c) The roads are *public* property. Contrary to popular belief, they are *not* owned by the wealthy residents, but by the people at large. Having money doesn't give you the right to take control over public property.
I don't give a bit about what you do on your private property. Record whatever you want. That's *your* property. The road isn't. It's a public place.
If the town is built entirely on private property, and not financed through any state or federal taxes, they can do what they want. As long as they keep spending tax money, they can't. It's that easy.
OK, you want an example - I'll give you one from Germany. (That's where I'm from, so I know a bit more about that place than the states :)
Imagine a bank watching all their ATMs. While doing a statistical analysis, they find one ATM that has significantly higher withdrawals than others, on average.
So they start logging every withdrawal there, with customer ID and all, since they figure something fishy might be going on.
While they log that data, it turns out that the ATM is simply close to a brothel. They're legal in Germany, but it still carries a social stigma to go there.
So suddenly the bank is in posession of a list of people who are likely to visit a brothel. The customers certainly did *not* want to share that with the bank. Just withdrawing interacting with a human person would not have gotten you on a list of people. Clearly violates my right to privately go wherever I like without having my bank know it.
What happened is that completely innocent data turned highly sensitive just by combining two data sources.
That is the problem. In all likelihood, just collecting license plates is fine. Just collecting ATM data is fine. Just collecting medical data is fine. Just collecting your cell phones position over time is fine - but you combine all those, and you might find out things that people want to keep private.
The high availability of the data combined with ease of correlation is what destroys privacy. No single data collection in itself needs to be bad - but cross-referencing generates new information that might be.
Is that a good enough example?
This is so arrogant, it's unbelievable. You pretend you know better than your customers what THEY want?
If my customer reads a report right now, setting up OLAP and wasting months of it is not worth a single red cent to him.
The design process it to elicit proper specifications from your customer. If he says he wants a report, feel free to mention OLAP and explain the benefits. If he insists on a report, you better give him one - no matter what you think is best for him.
If you don't provide the solution the customer specifies, you're defrauding him, plain and simple. You stay in business by establishing a relationship, not by employing a "Mommy knows best!" attitude.
The problem is not the act of watching. The problem is the fact that a computerized system is able to record *everything*, and people are able to search through that data long after.
What this effectively means is that I either give up privacy, or the right to travel freely. Before, with the human watching things, I could always choose to drive at nighttime, or in a convoy, and assume that he'd quickly forget I was there.
The problem with data collection is that computer memory never forgets, and it is frighteningly easy to cross-reference with other data. *That* is the real problem. If it would only compare the license plate to a list of stolen cars, and then discard the data, no problem.
But keeping data around allows people to get insights into private lifes that you don't want to share.
Look, this calculator is all sorts of cool. What it is not is stylish. Not even remotely. Heck, it's so ugly, you'd get kicked out of Starbucks by your local Apple crowd just for bringing one!
Today, games make more money than films.
No, they don't. As a whole, they make about the same amount of money as movies as a whole at the box office. The box office is not where movies generate cash, though - it's TV syndication, rentals, and tie-ins.
Games are a *far* cry from that kind of money. And there are way more games than movies.
Hence, the average game doesn't make much at all. It's the block busters that carry the industry. (Like the movie industry)
You know, the whole "we don't have long term data" argument doesn't really work.
We're not talking about temperature per se, we talk about the differential. Temperature is not only rising, according to all evidence, it's rising faster than it ever did - as far as we know.
Yup, that might be perfectly natural - that doesn't help the people who will die due to climatic changes in the next couple of decades.
If you just want to sit back, give up, and watch the fireworks, that's fine. Just don't get in the way of those who want to fix things.
Or are you afraid your lifestyle might suffer?
You know, as I see it, let's not put an upper limit on drunken frat boys falling from roofs. It's for the good of society!
Don't you think there's the remote possibility that people who work on the same code base all the time know it better than your programmers/sysadmins, who have tons of other things to do?
You bought it from whom? Why is he the rightful owner? Who's the original owner?
In fact, in case you're American, we don't even need to get back to the fact that the first owner just took the land by squatters law - your pre-owners stole it from the previous owners.
And if you pay close attention, I did *not* suggest that you can just borrow as you please - but you took posession of a piece of land that belongs to everybody - so you might DAMN WELL PAY SOME TAXES FOR IT.
Otherwise, it *is* squatters law.
Yep - totally agree. But the guy behind D is not a wet-behind-the-ears college kid. He wrote one of the first C++ compilers for Zortech.
So if somebody with those credentials thinks there are things we could do better, maybe we should at least take the time to listen to him....
Yes, he said real time. Big deal. If he actually was informed about the topic, he'd know there are several GCs that are useable for *hard* realtime. They have *guaranteed* response times.
Sorry - the whole "GC is slow" is a myth, unless you implement a naive GC. But guess what - naive memory allocation by hand can kill performance, too. (It's not like malloc is a speed demon, after all...)
Oh, and the little fact that nobody really *owns* the land. (Yes, legally, you do. Morally, you don't - you can't create new land, so why is it yours if you didn't build it?)
Property tax is also the land owner paying off all the others who can't use that particular piece of land.
Cubic Zirconium can easily be spotted with just a modicum of gem experience. And they don't look *quite* as nice as diamonds.
Preferring *natural* diamonds is probably a status thing, yes. After all, what makes a diamond beautiful is only partially in the material - a lot of it is in the cut, and that would be the same for both.
I did the only sane thing - I asked a woman. (Yay! I am married! Now I just need a lower ./ id for perfect happiness)
Answer - if you use it to print pictures from your camera, you might want to stow it away when you don't print. Leave it to women - putting things away. Who'd ever have thought of that?
"GTA teaches but one lesson: if you don't get caught, you can profit from being a low-life street thug. Lovely lesson, that. "
Ah, but that's where you are wrong. Only seldom do works of fiction directly intend to teach - they reflect society at the time of their creation. (Granted, the better ones make you think about it, but I think GTA has induced its share of thinking about violence...)
And GTA does just that - it reflects a society where dirty scumbags can get away by just hiring a pricey lawyer. OK, so the lawyer part is left out, and the scumbags are thugs, not business people. It's still the same message - our society is messed up. Can't say I disagree. Unlike the Bible, it just doesn't show a different way that leads out of the problem.
So, what you're saying, in a nutshell, is that you don't like the underlying message of GTA. That's fine - dislike it all you want. The developers still have a right to say it. That's what it's all about - the freedom to say what you think, without fear of retaliation.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Talk to other parents and convince 'em not to buy it. Just don't try to legislate what an appropriate message is.
"In Passion, we see an example of noble sacrifice."
Well, yes and no. It wasn't exactly Jesus decision - the decision was made by God. There's a reason Jesus says "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?", and it's not because he's happy he made the right choice.
That difference, of course, only exists if you're Christian. If you're not, they're both multimedia works about violence against fictional characters.
Oh, in GTA, you're actually in control, so you have to make a moral choice, while in Passion, you just absorb.
Nope, violence is violence. Just because it happened in the past doesn't make it any different.
Apart from that, it's not about "my right to violence". It's about freedom of speech. Steven Spielberg wants to make a movie about people getting blown up (SPR), I want to make a game about blowing people up - why exactly should it be OK to censor one and not the other?
They might be bad analogies, but they're the law. Same goes for your cookingrecipes.zip. The only way for your girlfriend to get out of this is to actually call the police and notify them that that's not what she downloaded.
:)
Come to think of it, maybe people should do that. I can just imagine how happy the police would be about all those calls
Not an FPS developer, but I used to work on an arcade game that used something similar. (It was networked between LA, SF and CHI)
:)
It worked fairly nicely, but you always have the problem of griefers - they just get a new account, pretend to be a n00b, and get to crash all the beginners parties.
If you can tie a unique ID to a player, it might just work. But as long as an ID is cheap to get, it won't work. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. (Not much else, unfortunately