People said the same thing when computers started becoming common. Then we noticed that they vastly increased our productivity while leading us to a period of one of the highest employment rates in history.
When technology changes, jobs have to change. There are millions fewer cotton gin operators than there were 150 years ago, but you don't notice millions of unemployed cotton gin operators sitting around. Changing jobs is certainly not easy, but it is inevitable for an advancing economy, and the resulting increase in productivity benefits everyone.
It's not like anyone's gonna stop technology anyway.
Games are still fun.. but I've yet to find a game that beats Zelda: A Link to the Past. That could possibly be one of the best games of all time. The 3D sequals seem rather dumbbed down in comparison, and way too easy. I still like the Final Fantasy series, but the music's definitely gone downhill from 6/3. (I haven't played much of 8 or any of 9 though). The games just don't feel as good either.. 7-10 seem like their designed for people who have enough free time to do all the ridiculously long sidequests at the end.
Possibly most other games are fine, but I think these are the two examples people will cite most often in making this argument.
Just because they reject the RCPT TO: now doesn't mean they always have to. Indeed, during the first few days of sitefinder, it didn't bounce mail in this fashion at all.
Nope. No liability at all, unless the MMOG provider stated it in some sort of contract. And generally they won't, since they want to preserve their right to shut the game completely when they feel like it, essentially 'stealing' all items in the game (Though they now lack resale value). If the thief and seller on eBay are somehow working together though, an argument can probably made for fraud or something similar.
In fact, the seller has much more of an obligation for making good on his sale than the game owner does for maintaining a consistant universe, since the game owner essentially decides what the object does and what can be done to it in terms of the rules of the game.
I also think, that in most cases, if something is done in violation of game rules, (hacking, conning people) the game owner stands to gain by enforcing the rules himself, even though it doesn't have to. Having an RL market for game objects brings more active players to the game, and if the integrity of the market is suspect, fewer players will play. While the owner is under no obligation to enforce these rules, it's definitely in his best interest.
Unless you claim to guarantee the integrity of the registry, I don't see how you'd be liable in such a situation. There are lots of things (stock option contracts, for example), that are never guaranteed to keep their value (If the stock goes below the strike price), yet there is still a huge market for them.
It could, but did you ever notice that windows is basically useless for a while after you're given 'control' of the desktop after startup or login. That's why.
Virtual objects are valuable because people pay for them. Simply having value, however, does not make property law apply to them. The owners of the game, of course, are effectively God and can do anything they want, including taking your objects or character. Since these objects aren't really 'yours', having them stolen is irrelevant. Selling virtual items is like selling land on the moon. You can do it, but simply giving money for something doesn't actually earn you any extra rights to that object.
Try out Star Wars: From the Ashes MUSH. starwars.pennmush.org 9999
It's the second oldest SW game around. Roleplay based combat from the WEG (Not the D20) SW RPG. Be a rebel, imperial, or whatever else, we're open-ended.
From what I gathered, "Final" is generally used to mean "ultimate" in the series. For example, one of Rikku's mixes in FFX is the "Final Elixir", which doesn't really make much sense taken any other way. Also, in FF7, there is one point where what should have been "Megalixir" was translated as "Final Elixir".
A radioactive element is generally considered safe only after 10 half-lives have elapsed (Assuming is doesn't decay to something else radioactive, which complicates things). The half-life is the amount of time it takes for half the element to decay. It says nothing about safety.
Amps are current, not power. If taillights draw 2A from a 12V battery, that's 24W, which isn't really that much, compared to an ordinary light bulb, which is around 100W. The voltage available in your home is 120V, so you'd only need around.83A.. As voltage goes down, more current is required to produce the same output power. (We're talking resistors here...a lightbulb happens to be a resistor that makes light).. On the other hand, a tiny 2.4W flashlight bulb draws.5A off 4 AA batteries.
Perhaps what you're thinking of is the description of how many amps it takes to kill a person. About 50mA (.05A) is enough to kill someone; however, a person's resistance is very high. That's why the.5A that can be produced by flashlight batteries won't kill you..
Re:on second thought, pass the lead gloves please.
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The depleted uranium used in weapons can be easily and verifiably shown to produce no hazardous levels of radiation. As far as I know, the amount of radiation produced by depleted uranium is indistinguishable from background.
People that claim that depleted uranium caused their illnesses are mistaken. The cancer rate among people exposed to depleted uranium is the same as that of the population. Any appearence of depleted uranium-caused illnesses is an illusion, just like the Gulf War syndrome. (Studies show that the symptoms of Gulf War syndrome are just as common among people who were not in the Gulf War.)
When you grow up you'll realize how silly and stupid that is. While I prefer to communicate using proper capitalization and full sentences, there are plenty of people I know who are extremely articulate in person but would rather not take the time to type out "talk to you later" when they're on IM. There are levels, of course, but blocking people because they use acronyms and calling it an intelligence problem is rather arrogant and shortsighted of you. This attitude will only lead to problems later in life.
Drilling the screw out is a waste of time and effort. Get a small pair of locking pliers (Vise-grips are a common brand, I don't know how small they come though) grip the head of the screw, and turn. I have a small pair and I can't count how often they've come in handy in situations like this. Also, once you get the screw out, you can fix the offending standoff with a rethreading tap.
It's possible to design a weapon whose electronics will fail in such a way so that it will function as an ordinary mechanical gun. It's also possible to design circuitry that is designed to withstand EMP. The military is already working on this, as it also claims to have EMP weapons.
At my school, which has around 7000 undergraduates plus several professional schools, we employ several tactics to protect our network. We have a set of monitoring tools that detect abnormal network activity from viruses or machines that may have been compromised, as well as machines that are using unusally high amounts of bandwidth. We also have a system that requires registration of every MAC address on the residential network to a student's network ID, so every computer can be associated with a person. An attempt is made to contact them and tell them to correct the problem. If the problem isn't corrected, we shut off their port at the switch. We also keep record of their MAC address and ID, so if they attempt to change their MAC or connect their computer to another port, we can stop them. We leave their access off until appropriate disciplinary action has been taken or the virus/whatever is removed from their computers. In order to assist people who cannot clean their computers themselves, we have a few trained student consultants that can fix it for them, and ensure that they have virus protection appropriately set up.
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People said the same thing when computers started becoming common. Then we noticed that they vastly increased our productivity while leading us to a period of one of the highest employment rates in history.
When technology changes, jobs have to change. There are millions fewer cotton gin operators than there were 150 years ago, but you don't notice millions of unemployed cotton gin operators sitting around. Changing jobs is certainly not easy, but it is inevitable for an advancing economy, and the resulting increase in productivity benefits everyone.
It's not like anyone's gonna stop technology anyway.
No.. they don't smoke crack. They snort coke. Big difference.
Games are still fun.. but I've yet to find a game that beats Zelda: A Link to the Past. That could possibly be one of the best games of all time. The 3D sequals seem rather dumbbed down in comparison, and way too easy. I still like the Final Fantasy series, but the music's definitely gone downhill from 6/3. (I haven't played much of 8 or any of 9 though). The games just don't feel as good either.. 7-10 seem like their designed for people who have enough free time to do all the ridiculously long sidequests at the end.
Possibly most other games are fine, but I think these are the two examples people will cite most often in making this argument.
Just because they reject the RCPT TO: now doesn't mean they always have to. Indeed, during the first few days of sitefinder, it didn't bounce mail in this fashion at all.
Nope. No liability at all, unless the MMOG provider stated it in some sort of contract. And generally they won't, since they want to preserve their right to shut the game completely when they feel like it, essentially 'stealing' all items in the game (Though they now lack resale value). If the thief and seller on eBay are somehow working together though, an argument can probably made for fraud or something similar.
In fact, the seller has much more of an obligation for making good on his sale than the game owner does for maintaining a consistant universe, since the game owner essentially decides what the object does and what can be done to it in terms of the rules of the game.
I also think, that in most cases, if something is done in violation of game rules, (hacking, conning people) the game owner stands to gain by enforcing the rules himself, even though it doesn't have to. Having an RL market for game objects brings more active players to the game, and if the integrity of the market is suspect, fewer players will play. While the owner is under no obligation to enforce these rules, it's definitely in his best interest.
Unless you claim to guarantee the integrity of the registry, I don't see how you'd be liable in such a situation. There are lots of things (stock option contracts, for example), that are never guaranteed to keep their value (If the stock goes below the strike price), yet there is still a huge market for them.
Switched to Linux, I see?
It could, but did you ever notice that windows is basically useless for a while after you're given 'control' of the desktop after startup or login. That's why.
Virtual objects are valuable because people pay for them. Simply having value, however, does not make property law apply to them. The owners of the game, of course, are effectively God and can do anything they want, including taking your objects or character. Since these objects aren't really 'yours', having them stolen is irrelevant. Selling virtual items is like selling land on the moon. You can do it, but simply giving money for something doesn't actually earn you any extra rights to that object.
Try out Star Wars: From the Ashes MUSH.
starwars.pennmush.org 9999
It's the second oldest SW game around. Roleplay based combat from the WEG (Not the D20) SW RPG. Be a rebel, imperial, or whatever else, we're open-ended.
From what I gathered, "Final" is generally used to mean "ultimate" in the series. For example, one of Rikku's mixes in FFX is the "Final Elixir", which doesn't really make much sense taken any other way. Also, in FF7, there is one point where what should have been "Megalixir" was translated as "Final Elixir".
A radioactive element is generally considered safe only after 10 half-lives have elapsed (Assuming is doesn't decay to something else radioactive, which complicates things). The half-life is the amount of time it takes for half the element to decay. It says nothing about safety.
Amps are current, not power. If taillights draw 2A from a 12V battery, that's 24W, which isn't really that much, compared to an ordinary light bulb, which is around 100W. The voltage available in your home is 120V, so you'd only need around .83A.. As voltage goes down, more current is required to produce the same output power. (We're talking resistors here...a lightbulb happens to be a resistor that makes light) .. On the other hand, a tiny 2.4W flashlight bulb draws .5A off 4 AA batteries.
.5A that can be produced by flashlight batteries won't kill you..
Perhaps what you're thinking of is the description of how many amps it takes to kill a person. About 50mA (.05A) is enough to kill someone; however, a person's resistance is very high. That's why the
The depleted uranium used in weapons can be easily and verifiably shown to produce no hazardous levels of radiation. As far as I know, the amount of radiation produced by depleted uranium is indistinguishable from background.
People that claim that depleted uranium caused their illnesses are mistaken. The cancer rate among people exposed to depleted uranium is the same as that of the population. Any appearence of depleted uranium-caused illnesses is an illusion, just like the Gulf War syndrome. (Studies show that the symptoms of Gulf War syndrome are just as common among people who were not in the Gulf War.)
Johnson?
I think they make a program that detects and prevents cat-like typing.
When you grow up you'll realize how silly and stupid that is. While I prefer to communicate using proper capitalization and full sentences, there are plenty of people I know who are extremely articulate in person but would rather not take the time to type out "talk to you later" when they're on IM. There are levels, of course, but blocking people because they use acronyms and calling it an intelligence problem is rather arrogant and shortsighted of you. This attitude will only lead to problems later in life.
Drilling the screw out is a waste of time and effort. Get a small pair of locking pliers (Vise-grips are a common brand, I don't know how small they come though) grip the head of the screw, and turn. I have a small pair and I can't count how often they've come in handy in situations like this. Also, once you get the screw out, you can fix the offending standoff with a rethreading tap.
mbps? Like 1 x 10^-3 bps? Thats some slow-assed connection.
It's possible to design a weapon whose electronics will fail in such a way so that it will function as an ordinary mechanical gun. It's also possible to design circuitry that is designed to withstand EMP. The military is already working on this, as it also claims to have EMP weapons.
For all the claims of UT being biased, realize that the DMA has a significant interest in there NOT being taxes on out-of-state sales.
At my school, which has around 7000 undergraduates plus several professional schools, we employ several tactics to protect our network. We have a set of monitoring tools that detect abnormal network activity from viruses or machines that may have been compromised, as well as machines that are using unusally high amounts of bandwidth. We also have a system that requires registration of every MAC address on the residential network to a student's network ID, so every computer can be associated with a person. An attempt is made to contact them and tell them to correct the problem. If the problem isn't corrected, we shut off their port at the switch. We also keep record of their MAC address and ID, so if they attempt to change their MAC or connect their computer to another port, we can stop them. We leave their access off until appropriate disciplinary action has been taken or the virus/whatever is removed from their computers. In order to assist people who cannot clean their computers themselves, we have a few trained student consultants that can fix it for them, and ensure that they have virus protection appropriately set up.
That was a Dell...and he "didn't notice the warm feeling until it was too late"
#define MAX_SONGS 32000
arbitrarily.
This isn't a program. It's a hardware feature. Most people don't even know how to get into their BIOS setup and turn it off.