The problem is that what people conventionally regard as "intelligence" is not intelligence at all. Intelligence is related to potential, not use. Warping the meaning of a word to give value by association to other less desirable traits undermine the objective value of the word and makes it pointless in the long run.
But the laws in many countries in the world do not allow you to forfeit your legal rights by contract. Here, for example, a contract's clausal that forbids you from suing a person or a company in any way is null and void.
Yes, nobody can really predict the future, but Robot Apocalypse and Grey Goo Apocalyse aside the good news is that human civilizations tends to constantly change, which is good in case we reach a Orwellian dystopia
Farming can be and will eventually be fully automated. Services based on knowledge will be needed, on the other hand, at least until a proper AI is developed, after which there will be either no humans (if the Machine Apocalypse happens) or we will live in a Utopia where nobody needs to work to live.
There are certainly places where you wouldn't be liable either way, and others where you could regardless of any disclaimer, but there are some places were you could be liable if you don't have it, like US.
There are different levels of irrationality. Countries with higher level of education do manage to have better and less corrupt governments, because people are less gullible. Math helps people to learn how to think for themselves, how to question paradigms and how to understand, even if just a bit, how the world works.
It also helps people not to be easily fooled by statistics manipulations.
Mathematics is logic formalization. You can't really understand something if you are incapable of formalizing. The best you can do is to have some vague notion that can many times be wrong or misleading.
Mathematics teaches you to question your paradigms, to deeply understand some logical concepts that are important to avoid fallacies, and as a bonus helps you to understand why your money evaporates at the end of the money and what you should do to prevent it from happening.
No, it is not surprising for any business not to succeed. The problem with Romero is that he already had money, as the result of Doom becoming a megahit (in great part because of piracy).
Then he let his ego talk him into breaking with his partners, decided to start a new company, took a lot of money from investors, promising things he didn't have a clue how to deliver and failed miserably, becoming increasingly irrelevant to the game market until the only way for him to appear on news is to play the attention whore role, as in this case.
Actually no. It can be argued that Apple didn't have good results in their litigation, especially outside US. Most of their claims are of patents they filled of designs and concepts that either shouldn't be patented, because they were too general, or that had prior art. Additionally they got the reputation of patent trolls, which will hunt them sooner or later in courts, as judges start to get fed of it.
I can see the enthusiasts upgrading more, but I don't really know if the Android average user upgrades more or less than the Apple average user. If I had to bet I would say less, though.
The future is always unknown. MS, Apple, Oracle and all the big guys may even succeed in killing open source development one day, but, at least for now, I trust the trolls more than most and they still have a lot to say in any decision regarding what will happen with QT. That is why I will keep using it until I have reason to do otherwise.
They do not have a history of doing it a lot. Binary compatibility has been kept for a while now, and I have hopes that, with open governance it becomes a priority.
I never tries to rebut his statement. I was just saying he should stay quiet in matters he does not have a clue about.
Now if I wanted to rebut his argument, I would say that Android is increasing in sells worldwide and taking iOS market relentlessly. More and more developers are developing for it each day, and many of them are quite successfully making money with it.
Piracy is mostly a non issue. The low prices of apps in both platforms is a good enough deterrent to piracy. If someone will pirate instead of paying 2 dollars for an App this person wouldn't buy the App anyway even if it was impossible for him to pirate it.
Your arguments about Nokia's lack of trustworthiness are very valid, I must confess. Especially now that they are close to become just a MS pawn.
QT is LGPL, though, and, with open governance, if Nokia screws up, the community will take over, possibly change the name and go on without Nokia. It won't be worse than any other open source project without a big sponsor.
Technically QT is probably one of the best, if not the very best, C++ library in existence, so I don't see interest in keeping it alive dying anytime soon.
It is not an argument at all. I am just appreciating the irony of someone who has no clue about how to manage a business giving lessons on the subject.
So speaks John Romero. He should know what he is talking about, things like making money and such, right? Oh wait. He was the guy who managed to bankrupt his company and failed to deliver several games for which he had received money in advance, and the games he did delivery were failures.
He also bought offices with marble floors, opening ceilings and all kinds of ostentation whilst trying his very best to destroy his company.
The only thing he did right in his life was trusting John Carmack in the beginning.
The problem is that it is not just one member of the government behaving like this. We have several examples that show many are ignoring or circumventing the law at will, and are being allowed to do so by their superiors.
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The problem is that what people conventionally regard as "intelligence" is not intelligence at all. Intelligence is related to potential, not use. Warping the meaning of a word to give value by association to other less desirable traits undermine the objective value of the word and makes it pointless in the long run.
But the laws in many countries in the world do not allow you to forfeit your legal rights by contract. Here, for example, a contract's clausal that forbids you from suing a person or a company in any way is null and void.
Blizzard opened itself for this kind of trouble when they decided to condone with real money trading.
Yes, nobody can really predict the future, but Robot Apocalypse and Grey Goo Apocalyse aside the good news is that human civilizations tends to constantly change, which is good in case we reach a Orwellian dystopia
Farming can be and will eventually be fully automated. Services based on knowledge will be needed, on the other hand, at least until a proper AI is developed, after which there will be either no humans (if the Machine Apocalypse happens) or we will live in a Utopia where nobody needs to work to live.
Because it is easy to buy real guns.
Welcome to the jury-based system in US, where anything, anything, can happen.
Copyright violation is only one way through which something can become illegal. Fraud is another.
There are certainly places where you wouldn't be liable either way, and others where you could regardless of any disclaimer, but there are some places were you could be liable if you don't have it, like US.
There are different levels of irrationality. Countries with higher level of education do manage to have better and less corrupt governments, because people are less gullible. Math helps people to learn how to think for themselves, how to question paradigms and how to understand, even if just a bit, how the world works.
It also helps people not to be easily fooled by statistics manipulations.
*end of the month.
Mathematics is logic formalization. You can't really understand something if you are incapable of formalizing. The best you can do is to have some vague notion that can many times be wrong or misleading.
Mathematics teaches you to question your paradigms, to deeply understand some logical concepts that are important to avoid fallacies, and as a bonus helps you to understand why your money evaporates at the end of the money and what you should do to prevent it from happening.
No, it is not surprising for any business not to succeed. The problem with Romero is that he already had money, as the result of Doom becoming a megahit (in great part because of piracy).
Then he let his ego talk him into breaking with his partners, decided to start a new company, took a lot of money from investors, promising things he didn't have a clue how to deliver and failed miserably, becoming increasingly irrelevant to the game market until the only way for him to appear on news is to play the attention whore role, as in this case.
Exactly.
Actually no. It can be argued that Apple didn't have good results in their litigation, especially outside US. Most of their claims are of patents they filled of designs and concepts that either shouldn't be patented, because they were too general, or that had prior art. Additionally they got the reputation of patent trolls, which will hunt them sooner or later in courts, as judges start to get fed of it.
There is nothing 100% original in this universe. Actually there is nothing 10% original to tell the truth.
I can see the enthusiasts upgrading more, but I don't really know if the Android average user upgrades more or less than the Apple average user. If I had to bet I would say less, though.
The future is always unknown. MS, Apple, Oracle and all the big guys may even succeed in killing open source development one day, but, at least for now, I trust the trolls more than most and they still have a lot to say in any decision regarding what will happen with QT. That is why I will keep using it until I have reason to do otherwise.
They do not have a history of doing it a lot. Binary compatibility has been kept for a while now, and I have hopes that, with open governance it becomes a priority.
I never tries to rebut his statement. I was just saying he should stay quiet in matters he does not have a clue about.
Now if I wanted to rebut his argument, I would say that Android is increasing in sells worldwide and taking iOS market relentlessly. More and more developers are developing for it each day, and many of them are quite successfully making money with it.
Piracy is mostly a non issue. The low prices of apps in both platforms is a good enough deterrent to piracy. If someone will pirate instead of paying 2 dollars for an App this person wouldn't buy the App anyway even if it was impossible for him to pirate it.
Your arguments about Nokia's lack of trustworthiness are very valid, I must confess. Especially now that they are close to become just a MS pawn.
QT is LGPL, though, and, with open governance, if Nokia screws up, the community will take over, possibly change the name and go on without Nokia. It won't be worse than any other open source project without a big sponsor.
Technically QT is probably one of the best, if not the very best, C++ library in existence, so I don't see interest in keeping it alive dying anytime soon.
It is not an argument at all. I am just appreciating the irony of someone who has no clue about how to manage a business giving lessons on the subject.
I was going to ask this. Romero is and always were an idiot... Nobody likes him.
So speaks John Romero. He should know what he is talking about, things like making money and such, right? Oh wait. He was the guy who managed to bankrupt his company and failed to deliver several games for which he had received money in advance, and the games he did delivery were failures.
He also bought offices with marble floors, opening ceilings and all kinds of ostentation whilst trying his very best to destroy his company.
The only thing he did right in his life was trusting John Carmack in the beginning.
The problem is that it is not just one member of the government behaving like this. We have several examples that show many are ignoring or circumventing the law at will, and are being allowed to do so by their superiors.