Eve Online is the only MMO that has been able to keep me interested in playing for more than a few months at a time. It doesn't have any elves or dragons. It's not built around a film franchise or a beloved series of books. It is unique in that the content created by the game developers plays second fiddle to the content created by the players themselves. It has vibrant player corporations (guilds) based around third-party websites like Something Awful and Reddit (see also: Fweddit and Brave Newbies); which leads to in-game drama aka content creation. It offers high-stakes PvP, in that when you die; your ship explodes and the winning player loots your wreck (corpse) taking whatever valuables survived the explosions. It also allows you to scam your fellow players; which is fairly unique among games. It regularly makes mainstreamnews for it's large fleet fights and huge losses. And, you're allowed to use your money to buy in-game currency if you are so inclined. I should note that your characters do not level and you don't earn XP or experience points for killing stuff in-game. Instead, your characters earn points that apply to in-game skills in real-time whether you are logged in or not. Eve Online, because spaceships.
have they ever designed anything that was completely bulletproof?
a DRM OS is going to holes and exploits just like every other OS. besides M$ has proven repeatedly that they can't get it right the first time around, or the second or third.
yes its true, it would get better over time and maybe M$ hasn't been completely honest and can actually write solid code. but it won't be perfect, it will be circumvented. it will be a classic arms race scenerio.
Personally I think what they should do is have an educational institution of Professors, and students come up with a resolution to their problems, on both the technological side of things, as well as a legal aspect of it to avoid future scrutiny.
when i read this i think that you have made an implicit assumption, namely that professors and students are unbiased. this is simply not true. there is a well-known bias typical(though certainly not universal) to colleges in general. namely that they are hotbeds of liberal thought and generally anti-corporate. mind you i don't believe that this is necessarily bad but perhaps we might be better served by balancing this with some corporate types and some conservative types. the best solutions usually come after vigorous debate where all sides can present their views. the left is just as capable of making mistakes as the right and any mistakes can be costly.
what about when both partners are engaged in the act, in this case looking at porn. is it still bad if you and your partner watch erotic movies together?
i feel that when all parties involved are fully aware of what is going on and give their consent then its okay. plus i've never bought the argument that people who are being photographed are victims. they choose to do that, most even got paid. there are plenty of jobs other than porn to support yourself. it is different when some peeping tom takes a picture without the other's knowledge, but that's already illegal.
IMO its a choice, specifically a choice made by an adult who understands the ramifications of the action.
i am profoundly hurt that so many consider art a trivial subject. i think that this is directly related to the fact that it is so poorly funded. It is difficult to develop an appreciate for a subject that is so filled with abstractions. Art is a cultural phenomenon, by that I mean that in order to understand the art produced by a culture one must understand the culture itself. So a study of art leads to a better understanding of the culture that produced it. Furthermore by studying our own culture's art we gain a deeper understanding of our own culture. And since we are part of our culture we gain a deeper understanding of ourselves. The arts permeate our lives very deeply. There are literary allusions in commercials to sell soap for instance. Look at video games, they are extremely artistic. And yet people continue to downplay the importance of art.
And my point about funding has a direct relationship in that as a society by allocating more money to prisons instead of schools; we are saying that education is less important than incarceration.
I really object to your statement that arts are a trivial application of human intellect. If all that existed were books about physics, chemistry, mathematics, civil engineering, and so on; I never would have become interested in learning or school. Because I never would have enjoyed reading. If I had never enjoyed school, I would have never become a programmer. So for me at least it was my interest in trivial human endeavors that lead me to science.
Furthermore trivial subjects like art, music, drama, and literature were the first subjects to lose their funding when schools didn't get enough money because we were spending the money on incarcerating citizens(I mean drug-crazed hippie lunatics, excuse my slip.) Forcing the schools to chose between sports and academics. So the one thing that I didn't get exposed to in school was fine arts and classic literature, because the school I went to didn't have enough money after buying new uniforms for the football team.
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If you're lucky, maybe they'd be willing to do a three-way.
Eve Online is the only MMO that has been able to keep me interested in playing for more than a few months at a time. It doesn't have any elves or dragons. It's not built around a film franchise or a beloved series of books. It is unique in that the content created by the game developers plays second fiddle to the content created by the players themselves. It has vibrant player corporations (guilds) based around third-party websites like Something Awful and Reddit (see also: Fweddit and Brave Newbies); which leads to in-game drama aka content creation. It offers high-stakes PvP, in that when you die; your ship explodes and the winning player loots your wreck (corpse) taking whatever valuables survived the explosions. It also allows you to scam your fellow players; which is fairly unique among games. It regularly makes mainstream news for it's large fleet fights and huge losses. And, you're allowed to use your money to buy in-game currency if you are so inclined. I should note that your characters do not level and you don't earn XP or experience points for killing stuff in-game. Instead, your characters earn points that apply to in-game skills in real-time whether you are logged in or not. Eve Online, because spaceships.
have they ever designed anything that was completely bulletproof?
a DRM OS is going to holes and exploits just like every other OS. besides M$ has proven repeatedly that they can't get it right the first time around, or the second or third.
yes its true, it would get better over time and maybe M$ hasn't been completely honest and can actually write solid code. but it won't be perfect, it will be circumvented. it will be a classic arms race scenerio.
i don't know, personally, i think Ogg Vorbis is kewl. but then i'm a geek.
when i read this i think that you have made an implicit assumption, namely that professors and students are unbiased. this is simply not true. there is a well-known bias typical(though certainly not universal) to colleges in general. namely that they are hotbeds of liberal thought and generally anti-corporate. mind you i don't believe that this is necessarily bad but perhaps we might be better served by balancing this with some corporate types and some conservative types. the best solutions usually come after vigorous debate where all sides can present their views. the left is just as capable of making mistakes as the right and any mistakes can be costly.
I don't think that Jesus posted this story.
what about when both partners are engaged in the act, in this case looking at porn. is it still bad if you and your partner watch erotic movies together?
i feel that when all parties involved are fully aware of what is going on and give their consent then its okay. plus i've never bought the argument that people who are being photographed are victims. they choose to do that, most even got paid. there are plenty of jobs other than porn to support yourself. it is different when some peeping tom takes a picture without the other's knowledge, but that's already illegal.
IMO its a choice, specifically a choice made by an adult who understands the ramifications of the action.
And my point about funding has a direct relationship in that as a society by allocating more money to prisons instead of schools; we are saying that education is less important than incarceration.
I really object to your statement that arts are a trivial application of human intellect. If all that existed were books about physics, chemistry, mathematics, civil engineering, and so on; I never would have become interested in learning or school. Because I never would have enjoyed reading. If I had never enjoyed school, I would have never become a programmer. So for me at least it was my interest in trivial human endeavors that lead me to science.
Furthermore trivial subjects like art, music, drama, and literature were the first subjects to lose their funding when schools didn't get enough money because we were spending the money on incarcerating citizens(I mean drug-crazed hippie lunatics, excuse my slip.) Forcing the schools to chose between sports and academics. So the one thing that I didn't get exposed to in school was fine arts and classic literature, because the school I went to didn't have enough money after buying new uniforms for the football team.