Why would Microsoft be held liable for its distribution system?
Under an extension of the logic that holds tobacco companies liable for marketing to minors.
Jack would have to show a few things that he hasn't been able to show before though (that violent games harm minors), and he would have to get a law passed first (preventing the sale of harmful games to minors). But if he can do that, the precedent is well established.
He can't do that though, so he is jumping the gun.
What I'd like to see is a benchmark rundown of each function in DX10, along with some realistic estimate of how much each function is called in normal game play. If different games favor different functions, then say so. Only then might I have some idea of how the two graphics powerhouses measure up against each other.
... or you could just benchmark the card running popular retail games.
I just want to be able to play casually without being completely destroyed every time by some kid who plays from his mom's basement for 20 hours a day.
I have no problems with them being better than me, I just want to play someone for fun.
The rising demand for corn as a source of ethanol-blended fuel is largely to blame for increasing food costs around the world
Really, are you sure that it isn't due to the rising cost of energy? It costs money to run farm equipment, and to transport the stuff. Or is it just due to inflation?
Statistics Canada says consumers in the country paid 3.8 per cent more for food in April 2007, compared to the same month last year.
I believe that core inflation (excluding energy) in Canada is 2.5%. The price of energy is rising much faster than that. (I believe that the cost of fuel is up 10 - 20%, though I cannot find year-over-year numbers).
You should also note that inflation in Alberta (where lots of grains come from) was 5.5%.
Ok, I know this is an overplayed argument - the 'humanity' card. Like when NASA announces they've found a way to get 3 men to the moon for just under 8 billion dollars - and people say, "Umm, couldn't we use 8 billion dollars in Florida for our worst-in-the-country school system?"
Please google for "false dichotomy."
This sounds like a monumental waste of sciences new most-precious resource - CPU time.
I was going to ignore the rest of your post, but this gem is too much. Do you have any idea of how much CPU time is wasted in the world? Wasted by idling? I'd be surprised if it was less than 95%.
However it is annoying to have to delete tons of garbage no sane person would ever want.
That's why those machines are so cheap though. Dell and the like are paid by those software companies to install the "trials" and subscription based packages. I have no problems in them subsidizing my purchase. I am happy to wipe the drives as soon as I get them.
Awesome. I didn't even think of this as an example of telephone, but it pretty clearly is.
How else can a simple malfunction, causing an unintended cascade, leading to a failsafe being triggered turn into a terrorist threat? Details got cut as the report went up the chain, and substitutions and errors accumulated until the ultimate message was changed.
It's not the entire image. Technically, it's a grid of small parts of the image, averaged together. You lose a LOT of the original image that way.
Put it this way: Say the original image is 1024x768 in size, and the thumbnail is 160x120. That's 786,432 pixels of image versus 19,200 pixels, or 1/40th of the image.
I think 1/40th falls well under fair use, don't you?
No, not if that 1/40th could have been considered a work on its own.
Say there's a 400 page textbook. Should I be free to resell any 10 of those pages? What if they were the best pages (ie, the "quick reference" or the "study guide")?
Google maps has the surface of the Earth photoed. Should I be able to resell 1/40th of it? Say, all of Canada or all of the USA (each is 1/50th).
How about a cookbook? I'll just take 1 of 40 recipes from this book, 2 of 80 from that book, etc, a make my own without creating any value.
What about compression? Take a high-def signal, drop it to low def (thats 1/4 of the data gone already), then I only need a 10:1 compression ratio (probably doable without making it useless). I'll open my own sports syndication business, and no need to pay those pesky leagues!
Oh, nevermind compression! Theatre screens are like... 20 feet by 40 feet... thats 800 sq feet. 1/40 is 20 square feet which is smaller than any normal TV. So I can record what I see in theatres and resell it for use on any screen smaller than 20 square feet (4x5), without paying the studios anything!
It's not just science articles. Arts articles suffer the same fate, but in the arts way. Their clear introductions (with a simple definition) get replaced with rambling meandering passages that assumes that the reader already know every term in that entire field of study and end up saying very little about the topic at hand. They become excellent references for experts, but completely unintelligible for people with less than a graduate degree.
I'd give an example, but my favourite was cleaned up sometime in the last 6 months.
Then this is what you should do. There are plenty of tech friendly cities with affordable housing and relatively low cost of living. Portland, OR; Austin, TX; Vancouver, BC;
Sorry, Vancouver hasn't been affordable for at least the last 2 years when the housing market heated up ahead of the Olympics in 2010.
A 700 sq foot condo downtown goes for at least 500,000. A house anywhere near downtown is at least a million. Even condos in the suburbs are going for 300,000 now.
Vancouver is the second most expensive city in Canada. I suspect that it will surpass Toronto within the next two years.
It's been known for years that e-mail opt-out lists are completely unworkable for controlling spam. None -- absolutely zero -- attempts have ever been successful. So Utah legislators decided that they -- and they alone -- would be the ones to implement the very first successful opt-out list.
As far as I know, they have all been voluntary. If it's legislated, it becomes compulsory. Compliance is no longer optional, and there are consequences for not complying. If the law is applied everywhere, and enforced, it might actually do something.
It takes willful ignorance to believe that you will succeed where thousands before you have failed. Utah legislators must have deliberately ignored all advice given to them by the technical experts.
I'm sure that technical experts in murder would tell the government that there's no technical way to stop people from killing each other. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't have laws that make it illegal.
This is not ordinary hubris. This is a special kind of hubris that's infused with a stubborn, childish refusal to educate oneself.
So what's your idea? You say that there is no technical solution. I say that there is no social solution (since this has been going on for years and pissing off everyone, there's good evidence for that). The only one that I know that's left is legal.
Is this like some sort of "jacket" you put your already existing RFID card into that blocks signals unless told otherwise, or is it something that would have to be added to new cards?
It is an active, selective jammer for existing cards.
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Under an extension of the logic that holds tobacco companies liable for marketing to minors.
Jack would have to show a few things that he hasn't been able to show before though (that violent games harm minors), and he would have to get a law passed first (preventing the sale of harmful games to minors). But if he can do that, the precedent is well established.
He can't do that though, so he is jumping the gun.
I just want to be able to play casually without being completely destroyed every time by some kid who plays from his mom's basement for 20 hours a day.
I have no problems with them being better than me, I just want to play someone for fun.
Offtopic? Hardly.
Eat one's own dog food
Eat your own dogfood.
Really, are you sure that it isn't due to the rising cost of energy? It costs money to run farm equipment, and to transport the stuff. Or is it just due to inflation?
I believe that core inflation (excluding energy) in Canada is 2.5%. The price of energy is rising much faster than that. (I believe that the cost of fuel is up 10 - 20%, though I cannot find year-over-year numbers).
You should also note that inflation in Alberta (where lots of grains come from) was 5.5%.
3.8% more for food doesn't seem much out of line.
Please google for "false dichotomy."
I was going to ignore the rest of your post, but this gem is too much. Do you have any idea of how much CPU time is wasted in the world? Wasted by idling? I'd be surprised if it was less than 95%.
...because the kind of people that this is proposed to protect always make sure that SSL is enabled.
The "point-by-point" response did not address DNS poisoning or l/p obsfucation ( www.citi.bank/youraccount/index.html@fraud.org ).
That's why those machines are so cheap though. Dell and the like are paid by those software companies to install the "trials" and subscription based packages. I have no problems in them subsidizing my purchase. I am happy to wipe the drives as soon as I get them.
Awesome. I didn't even think of this as an example of telephone, but it pretty clearly is.
How else can a simple malfunction, causing an unintended cascade, leading to a failsafe being triggered turn into a terrorist threat? Details got cut as the report went up the chain, and substitutions and errors accumulated until the ultimate message was changed.
No, not if that 1/40th could have been considered a work on its own.
Say there's a 400 page textbook. Should I be free to resell any 10 of those pages? What if they were the best pages (ie, the "quick reference" or the "study guide")?
Google maps has the surface of the Earth photoed. Should I be able to resell 1/40th of it? Say, all of Canada or all of the USA (each is 1/50th).
How about a cookbook? I'll just take 1 of 40 recipes from this book, 2 of 80 from that book, etc, a make my own without creating any value.
What about compression? Take a high-def signal, drop it to low def (thats 1/4 of the data gone already), then I only need a 10:1 compression ratio (probably doable without making it useless). I'll open my own sports syndication business, and no need to pay those pesky leagues!
Oh, nevermind compression! Theatre screens are like... 20 feet by 40 feet... thats 800 sq feet. 1/40 is 20 square feet which is smaller than any normal TV. So I can record what I see in theatres and resell it for use on any screen smaller than 20 square feet (4x5), without paying the studios anything!
...they are unique identifiers, not URLs.
They don't need to be hosted for the same reason that there isn't a machine out there called com.sun.java.util.dates.FunnyDate
Dear Slashdot, please do my homework for me.
It's not just science articles. Arts articles suffer the same fate, but in the arts way. Their clear introductions (with a simple definition) get replaced with rambling meandering passages that assumes that the reader already know every term in that entire field of study and end up saying very little about the topic at hand. They become excellent references for experts, but completely unintelligible for people with less than a graduate degree.
I'd give an example, but my favourite was cleaned up sometime in the last 6 months.
Sorry, Vancouver hasn't been affordable for at least the last 2 years when the housing market heated up ahead of the Olympics in 2010.
A 700 sq foot condo downtown goes for at least 500,000. A house anywhere near downtown is at least a million. Even condos in the suburbs are going for 300,000 now.
Vancouver is the second most expensive city in Canada. I suspect that it will surpass Toronto within the next two years.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Yes. Foolproof.
The first comment points out one type of attack that is not prevented.
The second reply points out another.
I didn't bother reading beyond that.
Foolproof indeed.
I can think of about 250 million good things that would come to me if I had sold it to him.
I'm pretty sure that I could build photobucket for less than 250 million...
As far as I know, they have all been voluntary. If it's legislated, it becomes compulsory. Compliance is no longer optional, and there are consequences for not complying. If the law is applied everywhere, and enforced, it might actually do something.
I'm sure that technical experts in murder would tell the government that there's no technical way to stop people from killing each other. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't have laws that make it illegal.
So what's your idea? You say that there is no technical solution. I say that there is no social solution (since this has been going on for years and pissing off everyone, there's good evidence for that). The only one that I know that's left is legal.
It is an active, selective jammer for existing cards.
RFID Personal Firewall Dec 07, '06
There's a saying in the (physical) lock business. I am not in it, so I may have the wording wrong, but the gist is:
In the safe business, safes are rated by how long they take to crack. They never claim to be uncrackable.
Trying to make DRM better than locks and safes in the real world is futile.
You do realize that Sony is in the movie business, don't you?