"For quick responses in games, you need low one-way latency. A network may be capable of throwing out 1000 zillion bytes/second, but if it takes too long to send out the first packet, the game isn't going to work very well. "
What if I send out all my moves at once? My brain has on board branch prediction.
The only way you can improve the standard of living is to increase the amount of work that can be done by the average person. In this case, it may take one person to run a restaurant making the average person extremely productive.
Currently, the Iron Law of Wages prevents pay increases or price drops from raising living standards (higher wages = higher prices, lower prices = lower wages).
If robots did all the work, we could all go off and be writers, poets, artists, and musicians. All the stuff robots suck at.
Mozilla mail works fine for me and if you need to back up your mail, all your data is stored in plain ASCII files. I don't think it could be much easier than that.
If you want to buy both, why would you have to do it at the same time? This way, you could choose which one you wanted first. Better to have the choice than not to have it at all.
"when they return to their programs after summer vacation, they might actually understand what they do."
Perl code only looks nasty if you code it that way. Sadly, most coders do. Packages, "use strict", and subroutines would be a required practice if I taught someone Perl programming.
If I had to teach a bunch of kids how to program, I'd easily choose Perl as a starting language. It's portable, well supported, and can do just about anything.
Perl/Tk can even be used to make some cool GUI apps, like my new Bugfight! program.
To all who replied, here's a quick business lesson.
You have the development costs of creating WindowsXP (Cost A)
You have the support cost of maintaining WindowsXP (Cost B)
You have the manufacturing cost of producing a single copy of WindowsXP (Cost C, and let's assume that all fixed maufacturing costs such as the buildings and machines are included in the fixed development cost)
If MS sells n copies of XP, their costs are A + B + ( n * C ).
So if they sell 100 copies, it's A + B + 100*C If they sell 10000 copies, it's A + B + 10000*C
A and B are already factored in. They know they have to pay for those no matter how many copies they can sell and they must price WindowsXP with some margin over C, and not worry about A or B.
If they can sell many copies of WindowsXP for a large margin over C, then they'll recover A and B very quickly. If the margin is small, it will take longer to recover those costs.
Microsoft estimates how many copies they can sell at various prices and chooses the price that allows them to recover A and B the fastest.
With a relatively small variable cost, it's almost impossible for Microsoft to "dump" their prices in the traditional definition of the word, which is temporarily selling below your variable cost to eliminate competition.
In the Lindows case, they're just reacting to market pressure.
"This is completely at odds with current copyright law."
That's why you need a new law to change it.
"Copyright law, under the Berne Convention, grants copyright immedietly upon creation of the work. There is no regisration requirement. Requiring registration on the backend is nonsensical and the Copyright Office will be unable to validate existence of a valid copyright when granting the extension."
Right now you don't have to register a copyrighted work so how does the Copyright Office settle disputes? Like everyone else - evidence.
Copyright would still be granted immediately and last for 50 years. After that, you must pay $1 a year to keep that copyrighted work out of the public domain. I would suggest they not care about who pays the $1 to uphold the copyright. Any author who wants to release his work in the the public domain can, whether someone pays the $1 or not. A third party interested in purchasing the rights to something may want to keep it out of the public domain, but I think this would be a rare exception considering they'd still have to buy it from the author if the work is copyrighted.
"This seems like what the RIAA wanted permisison to do. They believe its their content so they have access to it no matter where it is."
DRM itself isn't wrong, it's just a technology. Government mandated DRM is wrong because it eliminates the choice of using it or not. I don't see how that relates to this situation at all, since no laws say people have to have the Fizzer installed.
No, the Fizzer runs the code. I think this is a pretty elegant solution to the problem.
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"I've been coming up with an in-car multi-angled record to HDD system to" "I was planing to use Freevo or simular, a notebook some webcams and wireless lan" " I was also trying to figure out how to get a finger print scanner hidden in an unsuspecting place, like the gear shift."
Batman, you should really start posting anonymously.
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"You'd think after two decades of working at Sun, they could've found a better picture!"
How about this one?
Where is the lawmaker that is going to take the bold position to introduce legislation that 57 million americans would agree with?
So far 1.5 seems cool, but I could only find one ugly theme for it. Wait a week or two for the theme authors to support 1.5b.
"For quick responses in games, you need low one-way latency. A network may be capable of throwing out 1000 zillion bytes/second, but if it takes too long to send out the first packet, the game isn't going to work very well. "
What if I send out all my moves at once? My brain has on board branch prediction.
The Planescape Torment ending was awesome. I loved that game.
"Just like birds can never understand how to make a pizza"
The pizza I ate last night tasted like it was made by birds.
My fiance is a freak for Dr Mario. She also likes Tetris.
The only way you can improve the standard of living is to increase the amount of work that can be done by the average person. In this case, it may take one person to run a restaurant making the average person extremely productive.
Currently, the Iron Law of Wages prevents pay increases or price drops from raising living standards (higher wages = higher prices, lower prices = lower wages).
If robots did all the work, we could all go off and be writers, poets, artists, and musicians. All the stuff robots suck at.
Mozilla mail works fine for me and if you need to back up your mail, all your data is stored in plain ASCII files. I don't think it could be much easier than that.
I was thinking about giving this game a try, but I'm having an extremely hard time finding anyone with positive things to say. Did anyone like it?
Why don't we tax:
Sofas and recliners
Cordless phones
Remote controls
Large refrigerators
Drive through windows
If you want to buy both, why would you have to do it at the same time? This way, you could choose which one you wanted first. Better to have the choice than not to have it at all.
"when they return to their programs after summer vacation, they might actually understand what they do."
Perl code only looks nasty if you code it that way. Sadly, most coders do. Packages, "use strict", and subroutines would be a required practice if I taught someone Perl programming.
Doh. You know, you're right. I forgot I didn't include the source with that version. I'll try and get the code up tonight.
If I had to teach a bunch of kids how to program, I'd easily choose Perl as a starting language. It's portable, well supported, and can do just about anything.
Perl/Tk can even be used to make some cool GUI apps, like my new Bugfight! program.
"V" came out 20 years ago? Man, I was only four years old, but I remember someone scratching the fake skin off a lizard alien.
To all who replied, here's a quick business lesson.
You have the development costs of creating WindowsXP (Cost A)
You have the support cost of maintaining WindowsXP (Cost B)
You have the manufacturing cost of producing a single copy of WindowsXP (Cost C, and let's assume that all fixed maufacturing costs such as the buildings and machines are included in the fixed development cost)
If MS sells n copies of XP, their costs are A + B + ( n * C ).
So if they sell 100 copies, it's A + B + 100*C
If they sell 10000 copies, it's A + B + 10000*C
A and B are already factored in. They know they have to pay for those no matter how many copies they can sell and they must price WindowsXP with some margin over C, and not worry about A or B.
If they can sell many copies of WindowsXP for a large margin over C, then they'll recover A and B very quickly. If the margin is small, it will take longer to recover those costs.
Microsoft estimates how many copies they can sell at various prices and chooses the price that allows them to recover A and B the fastest.
With a relatively small variable cost, it's almost impossible for Microsoft to "dump" their prices in the traditional definition of the word, which is temporarily selling below your variable cost to eliminate competition.
In the Lindows case, they're just reacting to market pressure.
That's what pays their developers' salaries.
Price dumping implies Microsoft is selling it below cost. It costs far less than $50 to produce a WindowsXP CD.
"there is definitely a correlation between violent behaviour and violent video games. I know this, because I have felt them."
I don't know about you guys, but one anecdote is good enough evidence for me.
"This is completely at odds with current copyright law."
That's why you need a new law to change it.
"Copyright law, under the Berne Convention, grants copyright immedietly upon creation of the work. There is no regisration requirement. Requiring registration on the backend is nonsensical and the Copyright Office will be unable to validate existence of a valid copyright when granting the extension."
Right now you don't have to register a copyrighted work so how does the Copyright Office settle disputes? Like everyone else - evidence.
Copyright would still be granted immediately and last for 50 years. After that, you must pay $1 a year to keep that copyrighted work out of the public domain. I would suggest they not care about who pays the $1 to uphold the copyright. Any author who wants to release his work in the the public domain can, whether someone pays the $1 or not. A third party interested in purchasing the rights to something may want to keep it out of the public domain, but I think this would be a rare exception considering they'd still have to buy it from the author if the work is copyrighted.
Try my college Assembly game project -
Nuclear Beach Party!
"Why? Because I am not really a much at calculus, which is necessary if you want to be really good at Computer Science."
That sentence says alot. Calculus is needed in a very small number of software problems and Algebra is used more than anything else.
"This seems like what the RIAA wanted permisison to do. They believe its their content so they have access to it no matter where it is."
DRM itself isn't wrong, it's just a technology. Government mandated DRM is wrong because it eliminates the choice of using it or not. I don't see how that relates to this situation at all, since no laws say people have to have the Fizzer installed.
No, the Fizzer runs the code. I think this is a pretty elegant solution to the problem.
"I've been coming up with an in-car multi-angled record to HDD system to"
"I was planing to use Freevo or simular, a notebook some webcams and wireless lan"
" I was also trying to figure out how to get a finger print scanner hidden in an unsuspecting place, like the gear shift."
Batman, you should really start posting anonymously.