Cops and ambulances are subject to the law except when their sirens are on. Since these are traffic light cameras, we could be able to tell that pretty easily. Unless cops want to turn on their sirens all the time, they won't abuse their privilege.
By means of analogy, there are no US female presidents, but there's nothing preventing there from being one. Gender or genre is not typically significant except for trail blazers. Vonnegut was one of those.
(The definitions you offer don't actually support your claim. Anyone who says "I'm not interested in Shakespeare" would violate the "universal interest" clause making Shakespeare not literature and since this isn't true, the definition doesn't work. In your second definition, "Recognized" is in passive voice, which does of course, beg the question, by whom.)
He does want rewards after his death, but not the supernatural kind:
Mark Twain, at the end of a profoundly meaningful life, for which he never received a Nobel Prize, asked himself what it was we all lived for. He came up with six words which satisfied him. They satisfy me, too. They should satisfy you: "The good opinion of our neighbors."
~from Vonnegut's 1998 commencement address to Rice
We can still have good opinions of him now and share those. That is his reward.
Monopoly is 99% a zero sum game, just like chess is. Sure, it's possible to make money by passing go, but it's also possible to get more points in chess by promoting a pawn. In my experience, monopoly is a rather boring experience; someone gets a monopoly and everyone trades in 1-2 turns to get one as well. I've never seen any properties trade hands after both players have a monopoly. My friends and I stopped playing monopoly years ago after we discovered Settlers of Catan. Trading every turn and having everyone compete for dominance is much more fun in my experience.
Did you remember that quote from Civ IV or am I the only one.
Though I believe their translation of the quote (used for discovering fascism) was, "The great masses of the people will more easily for a big lie, than for a small one"
Where are all of the other big names with Windows-only offerings? Why haven't we heard from Valve, Blizzard, Sony, or EA
Sorry, but only one is windows only. Last I checked, World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3, and Diablo II run on Mac. And in the case of WC3, the CD has a Mac and windows version on the same CD. Amazon.com tells me that EA's #1 game (The Sims 2) also runs on the Mac. Can anyone tell me a Windows game Sony makes? The only windows software I can think of is SoundForge and their CD DRM, but the latter I don't think I want to work cross-platform;) That leaves Valve, which is run bun a former MS hotshot, so I think that might have something to do with the company's founder preferring Direct3D.
I think many developers are already using OpenGL, but of course, that's only one part of being cross platform. Network, sound, and input also need to be implemented cross-platform....
YIHAPD (Yes I have a Philosophy Degree) and you don't need future states for some types of morality, in the case of Greek virtue ethics or some forms of Kant's moral imparitive.
You see a situation and then imagine what a "hero" would do in that situation. So in the case of running away from battle, you may ask yourself "Would Hercules run away?" So you'd stay and fight. Perhaps the most pop form is the Christian form, which is "What would Jesus do?"
While there is imagination involved, there's no reason animals wouldn't be able to ask themselves "What did my mother do when X happened?" and make moral decisions on that basis. The caveat is that Greek theory casts the net wide in what is moral: whether to eat an apple or an orange can be a moral question in the same way as should kill my brother. Secondly, it's culturally dependent. If my "hero" is Stalin, killing or censoring those who disagree with me becomes not only a morally neutral action, but a moral commendable action.
There's one thing people seems to forget. Physical goods have two prices associated with them. If my product is oranges, I can sell each for $1, knowing that I have to buy additional trees for each orange sold and pay some migrant^H^H^H^H farmer to pick them.
For software, I just pay the cost of development. For each additional CD that I print, the cost is negligible. Let's say I'm releasing Mario's DS Funhouse. It's well-liked by a lot of people, but not the kind of people who pay $60 for a game. For $60, let's say I have 10K sales (so $600k net). But, once I lower it down to $50 I sell 20k copies, since your older sister now wants a copy (now I make $1m!)
Let's take the case of Wolfenstein 4D. It costs as much to make as Mario's DS Funhouse, but the players are mainly hardcore and would buy the game for almost anything. Selling it for $50, 12k people will it (600k net). At $60, 11k people still will buy it ($660k).
10 years ago, the audience for gaming was generally smaller (e.g. sales were up 26% last month) so even if development costs went up, assuming more people buy/play games, prices could actually be the same. As the above model suggests, regardless of development costs, the optimal profit for a game is entirely dependent on demand. Games aiming for a large audience ought to lower their price, but "hard-core" games ought to have a high price, since offering the game at a lower price is less likely to increase sales.
As a CS major, I didn't have money flung at me like you state and besides, you have to work for 5 years for the "handout". It's like calling the GI bill a handout for army folk.
I really wish Math/science people would get their heads out of their asses. During my best college semester, I got up at 11 AM (scheduled my first class at 12:30), wrote bad poetry, got a girlfriend, but no piercings. Taking more than full-time student, I had a 3.95 GPA (graduate AI, advanced Java, OS design, etc.), my B+ being Indian Religion and Philosophy, which I still consider being on of the hardest and most worthwhile courses I've ever taken. I ended up getting a second degree in Philosophy.
"McD's" turned out to be working for a fortune 500 company doing 3D software development on Linux.
If you really think philosophy is easy, go read Kant. Or if you'd prefer something in English, go read Fodor. It's just as difficult as any proof I encountered in Diff Eq, but gets watered down at some point to appeal to the masses.
It disgusts me when people take the self-centric position of "What I'm doing is more important than anyone else" for precisely the reason that I wouldn't want to encounter the attitude myself.
There's a program in my home state of Delaware to provide full/near full scholarships to anyone who goes to college and becomes a teacher, provided they sign a contract saying they'll teach 5 (?) years in the state.
Why not do it for math/science? "No money for college? Just teach some kids for a few years after you're done and we'll foot the bill". Seems like a nice win/win situation.
As someone who's programmed both on MS and Linux platforms, I'd say that you're using the wrong tools and would ask why you don't switch. MS languages are notorious for being rapidly shifting, meaning you're going to have to "port" your program every 5 years, even if you continue to use what you're using.
I did webwork for a while but got my choice of tools to use on WinXP/Win2K. I chose Perl even though I didn't know it. It worked great and when I applied for my second job, I could do Linux as well, but if a client wanted windows, we could do that too.
Using WinXP/Apache/MySQL/Perl is very similar and offers very similar advantages to using the traditional Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl setup but allows for a smoother transition since you can use C#/MSSQL. In the great platform wars, it allows you to not have to choose a winner, since you work well with everyone.
Lest the irony be lost, SBC or Southwestern Bell Telephone Company was once part of Bell Telephone, which was split by courts over its monopoly status into Bell Atlantic (now Verizon), SBC, and others. SBC just ate its mother and took her name.
What about TRPGs? In FFT, battles is balanced and it's possible to finish the game without "hacking" (since the plot is mainly advanced via battles, they don't seem a "pointless treadmill" either). While you end up advancing, I think it's a question of specialization, rather than having your stats raised.
In its purest DRM is a digitial extension of copyright: the ability of copyright holders to control the rights to their works.
Congress has the power to: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;" (See US Constitution section 1)
Congress has the power to promote the arts by securing copyright. I don't think it's a stretch to include "providing digital content restrictions" as part of "securing" in the digital age.
I would include DRM as part of congress's ability to regulate and enforce copyright, rather than necessarily a contract. But contrary to the GP's assertion, copyright is IN the constitution and the ability to enforce it is completely American.
Whether or not DRM is useful/good is an entirely seperate argument, but as far as being legal or "flying in the face of the constitution", I don't think there's any doubt.
According to Jobs' article, Apple is prevented from selling songs that are not $.99 by the major record companies. If an indy company were to ask him to sell songs for $.49, they'd quit the iTunes store. Selling songs without DRM is similar. While it would provide benefit to the end user, he/she would be confused when the newest punk album from iTunes works on their zune, but Dark Side of the Moon via iTunes doesn't, and the record company would "look bad".
I had a much different experience. I found the game way too easy, beating most battles before enemies moved. I didn't even level or anything. As for the last boss, it was the only battle I fought twice. On my first try, I forgot to equip skills, but managed to get to the second form anyway.
Then someone told me the enemies autoscale to your lowest level character. My lowest level character was level 4. Ooops.
Music is more abstract and less "preachy". Liking even popular/critically acclaimed movies like The Godfather/LotR/Shawshank Redeption (top 3 on imdb.com) will get you in trouble with the wrong person in a way liking the Beatles/Zeppelin/Rolling Stones doesn't.
Not that I believe that music is contentless, I think there's just more people "who likes our pretty songs and...likes to sing along...but...don't know what it means" (to quote Nirvana, whose legions of fans are most ironically in this catagory) than people who "get it".
My point was if you can't boot, you can't do the memory test. If you can't boot, how can I click somewhere in Windows to reboot and do the test? Since the test is still done using files on the hard drive how is it immune to viruses/system corruption?
In OS memory testing is mostly useless in my experience.
1) You have to boot up your system to use it. Much of the time I've seen bad RAM, your system won't boot as the OS uses too much of said bad RAM.
2) If your system has had a virus and/or the OS is corrupted, you're not really isolating the problem as you're still testing the OS + hardware.
I've found Memtest 86 to be a better solution since (1) uses its own OS (freeDos, very small memory footprint, so it WILL boot) (2) doesn't rely on the system having on OS so it can be used with system corruption/viruses/with a hard drive (if you're building a system) and (3) is free (can download/use on as many systems as you own without needing to buy an OS license to check you memory)
Why is the Vista tool so good again? (Am I missing something?)
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Cops and ambulances are subject to the law except when their sirens are on. Since these are traffic light cameras, we could be able to tell that pretty easily. Unless cops want to turn on their sirens all the time, they won't abuse their privilege.
By means of analogy, there are no US female presidents, but there's nothing preventing there from being one. Gender or genre is not typically significant except for trail blazers. Vonnegut was one of those.
(The definitions you offer don't actually support your claim. Anyone who says "I'm not interested in Shakespeare" would violate the "universal interest" clause making Shakespeare not literature and since this isn't true, the definition doesn't work. In your second definition, "Recognized" is in passive voice, which does of course, beg the question, by whom.)
We can still have good opinions of him now and share those. That is his reward.
Monopoly is 99% a zero sum game, just like chess is. Sure, it's possible to make money by passing go, but it's also possible to get more points in chess by promoting a pawn. In my experience, monopoly is a rather boring experience; someone gets a monopoly and everyone trades in 1-2 turns to get one as well. I've never seen any properties trade hands after both players have a monopoly. My friends and I stopped playing monopoly years ago after we discovered Settlers of Catan. Trading every turn and having everyone compete for dominance is much more fun in my experience.
A decent Sudoku implementation,
What's wrong with the one in Brain Age? I think it's pretty good....
Did you remember that quote from Civ IV or am I the only one.
Though I believe their translation of the quote (used for discovering fascism) was, "The great masses of the people will more easily for a big lie, than for a small one"
Where are all of the other big names with Windows-only offerings? Why haven't we heard from Valve, Blizzard, Sony, or EA
Sorry, but only one is windows only. Last I checked, World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3, and Diablo II run on Mac. And in the case of WC3, the CD has a Mac and windows version on the same CD. Amazon.com tells me that EA's #1 game (The Sims 2) also runs on the Mac. Can anyone tell me a Windows game Sony makes? The only windows software I can think of is SoundForge and their CD DRM, but the latter I don't think I want to work cross-platform;) That leaves Valve, which is run bun a former MS hotshot, so I think that might have something to do with the company's founder preferring Direct3D.
I think many developers are already using OpenGL, but of course, that's only one part of being cross platform. Network, sound, and input also need to be implemented cross-platform....
YIHAPD (Yes I have a Philosophy Degree) and you don't need future states for some types of morality, in the case of Greek virtue ethics or some forms of Kant's moral imparitive.
You see a situation and then imagine what a "hero" would do in that situation. So in the case of running away from battle, you may ask yourself "Would Hercules run away?" So you'd stay and fight. Perhaps the most pop form is the Christian form, which is "What would Jesus do?"
While there is imagination involved, there's no reason animals wouldn't be able to ask themselves "What did my mother do when X happened?" and make moral decisions on that basis. The caveat is that Greek theory casts the net wide in what is moral: whether to eat an apple or an orange can be a moral question in the same way as should kill my brother. Secondly, it's culturally dependent. If my "hero" is Stalin, killing or censoring those who disagree with me becomes not only a morally neutral action, but a moral commendable action.
There's one thing people seems to forget. Physical goods have two prices associated with them. If my product is oranges, I can sell each for $1, knowing that I have to buy additional trees for each orange sold and pay some migrant^H^H^H^H farmer to pick them.
For software, I just pay the cost of development. For each additional CD that I print, the cost is negligible. Let's say I'm releasing Mario's DS Funhouse. It's well-liked by a lot of people, but not the kind of people who pay $60 for a game. For $60, let's say I have 10K sales (so $600k net). But, once I lower it down to $50 I sell 20k copies, since your older sister now wants a copy (now I make $1m!)
Let's take the case of Wolfenstein 4D. It costs as much to make as Mario's DS Funhouse, but the players are mainly hardcore and would buy the game for almost anything. Selling it for $50, 12k people will it (600k net). At $60, 11k people still will buy it ($660k).
10 years ago, the audience for gaming was generally smaller (e.g. sales were up 26% last month) so even if development costs went up, assuming more people buy/play games, prices could actually be the same. As the above model suggests, regardless of development costs, the optimal profit for a game is entirely dependent on demand. Games aiming for a large audience ought to lower their price, but "hard-core" games ought to have a high price, since offering the game at a lower price is less likely to increase sales.
Is it just me or do AMD/MS get together and do marketing?
Windows XP / Athlon XP
Athlon 64 / Windows XP 64 (to be fair, Alpha/Itanium were 64 bit chips but Windows never sported the name....)
The newest thing now? Live mail and Live search from Microsoft. So what's AMD gonna call their stuff? AMD Live! That's right kids.
Mythologically speaking, after you die, you re-appear as an "image" rather than "in person". No one asks a ghost "Where'd you get your clothes?"
In short, if you've conquered death, making a holographic cloak shouldn't be too hard;)
As a CS major, I didn't have money flung at me like you state and besides, you have to work for 5 years for the "handout". It's like calling the GI bill a handout for army folk.
I really wish Math/science people would get their heads out of their asses. During my best college semester, I got up at 11 AM (scheduled my first class at 12:30), wrote bad poetry, got a girlfriend, but no piercings. Taking more than full-time student, I had a 3.95 GPA (graduate AI, advanced Java, OS design, etc.), my B+ being Indian Religion and Philosophy, which I still consider being on of the hardest and most worthwhile courses I've ever taken. I ended up getting a second degree in Philosophy.
"McD's" turned out to be working for a fortune 500 company doing 3D software development on Linux.
If you really think philosophy is easy, go read Kant. Or if you'd prefer something in English, go read Fodor. It's just as difficult as any proof I encountered in Diff Eq, but gets watered down at some point to appeal to the masses.
It disgusts me when people take the self-centric position of "What I'm doing is more important than anyone else" for precisely the reason that I wouldn't want to encounter the attitude myself.
There's a program in my home state of Delaware to provide full/near full scholarships to anyone who goes to college and becomes a teacher, provided they sign a contract saying they'll teach 5 (?) years in the state.
Why not do it for math/science? "No money for college? Just teach some kids for a few years after you're done and we'll foot the bill". Seems like a nice win/win situation.
As someone who's programmed both on MS and Linux platforms, I'd say that you're using the wrong tools and would ask why you don't switch. MS languages are notorious for being rapidly shifting, meaning you're going to have to "port" your program every 5 years, even if you continue to use what you're using.
I did webwork for a while but got my choice of tools to use on WinXP/Win2K. I chose Perl even though I didn't know it. It worked great and when I applied for my second job, I could do Linux as well, but if a client wanted windows, we could do that too.
Using WinXP/Apache/MySQL/Perl is very similar and offers very similar advantages to using the traditional Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl setup but allows for a smoother transition since you can use C#/MSSQL. In the great platform wars, it allows you to not have to choose a winner, since you work well with everyone.
Lest the irony be lost, SBC or Southwestern Bell Telephone Company was once part of Bell Telephone, which was split by courts over its monopoly status into Bell Atlantic (now Verizon), SBC, and others. SBC just ate its mother and took her name.
He's talking about his mac. When's the last time you got any laptop built-in camera hardware working on Linux?
Why buy a 3rd party $50 controller when the first party one comminicates with blue-tooth? (See this video for example.
I wonder how long it'll take before there is a wii emulator, with people using the original controller.
What about TRPGs? In FFT, battles is balanced and it's possible to finish the game without "hacking" (since the plot is mainly advanced via battles, they don't seem a "pointless treadmill" either). While you end up advancing, I think it's a question of specialization, rather than having your stats raised.
In its purest DRM is a digitial extension of copyright: the ability of copyright holders to control the rights to their works.
Congress has the power to:
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;" (See US Constitution section 1)
Congress has the power to promote the arts by securing copyright. I don't think it's a stretch to include "providing digital content restrictions" as part of "securing" in the digital age.
I would include DRM as part of congress's ability to regulate and enforce copyright, rather than necessarily a contract. But contrary to the GP's assertion, copyright is IN the constitution and the ability to enforce it is completely American.
Whether or not DRM is useful/good is an entirely seperate argument, but as far as being legal or "flying in the face of the constitution", I don't think there's any doubt.
According to Jobs' article, Apple is prevented from selling songs that are not $.99 by the major record companies. If an indy company were to ask him to sell songs for $.49, they'd quit the iTunes store. Selling songs without DRM is similar. While it would provide benefit to the end user, he/she would be confused when the newest punk album from iTunes works on their zune, but Dark Side of the Moon via iTunes doesn't, and the record company would "look bad".
I had a much different experience. I found the game way too easy, beating most battles before enemies moved. I didn't even level or anything. As for the last boss, it was the only battle I fought twice. On my first try, I forgot to equip skills, but managed to get to the second form anyway.
Then someone told me the enemies autoscale to your lowest level character. My lowest level character was level 4. Ooops.
Renting games (for any console) is illegal in Japan, so you may have just misread the country.
Music is more abstract and less "preachy". Liking even popular/critically acclaimed movies like The Godfather/LotR/Shawshank Redeption (top 3 on imdb.com) will get you in trouble with the wrong person in a way liking the Beatles/Zeppelin/Rolling Stones doesn't.
Not that I believe that music is contentless, I think there's just more people "who likes our pretty songs and...likes to sing along...but...don't know what it means" (to quote Nirvana, whose legions of fans are most ironically in this catagory) than people who "get it".
Homeword?
My point was if you can't boot, you can't do the memory test. If you can't boot, how can I click somewhere in Windows to reboot and do the test? Since the test is still done using files on the hard drive how is it immune to viruses/system corruption?
It seems like my cricism is still valid.
In OS memory testing is mostly useless in my experience.
1) You have to boot up your system to use it. Much of the time I've seen bad RAM, your system won't boot as the OS uses too much of said bad RAM.
2) If your system has had a virus and/or the OS is corrupted, you're not really isolating the problem as you're still testing the OS + hardware.
I've found Memtest 86 to be a better solution since (1) uses its own OS (freeDos, very small memory footprint, so it WILL boot) (2) doesn't rely on the system having on OS so it can be used with system corruption/viruses/with a hard drive (if you're building a system) and (3) is free (can download/use on as many systems as you own without needing to buy an OS license to check you memory)
Why is the Vista tool so good again? (Am I missing something?)