How about some kind of mandatory test (every couple years or so) in which people are placed in various life-threatening situations involving wild animals, obstacle courses, etc.? That's already a quarter of Japanese TV, the other categories being news, feudal-era soap operas, and talk shows where live guests interact with anime characters.
This is not about being more open to private industry. Things are done and will continue to be done by the large contractors which are not, in fact, government agencies. The little X-prize companies are not anywhere close to putting a beeping metallic sphere, much less a human, into orbit - and by the time they do they will look more like peers among the military-industrial old guard than revolutionary startups.
When you boil this story down to its essence, NASA is just aiming to do with rockets what they're doing with that NASA MMO - if somebody wants to independently bear the cost and risk to build something, NASA will get involved if its good and stand aside at no cost to themselves if the effort fails.
What, aside from the lol forgot stamps bit, is the point of this story. Guy infringes copyright, gets sued. So? Are we supposed to be conditioned to find every case of copyright enforcement to be outrageous?
What point are they trying to make by reminding people that drunk driving is a "choice" and a "violent crime". The core of GTA is giving people the choice to commit violent crimes - and that is a positive thing for an adult oriented game. A Seasame Street environment is lacking in drama, pathos, etc. However, GTA's failing is that it doesn't go far if you choose NOT to commit violent crimes. The open-endedness and freedom the series is famed for is somewhat of an illusion, as there are no game systems or plot devices to steer you towards anything other than doing gopher tasks for street gangs, mafiosos, and assorted drug dealers. There are plenty of other roles the game could cast you in that would still support a story of political corruption and car chases in an urban environment.
Taking a look at the graphs, it looks like VB's motion is a mirror image of C++'s. My hypothesis is that a deluge of windows GUI development abandoned C++/MFC for VB.NET. C# might have been a better choice, but you really can't blame anyone for getting away from MFC by any means.
The article/summary completely misinterpreted what this is. It's not a no-fly kind of list. This is just requiring financial institutions to "red flag" unusual activity. It's quite common for credit card companies to call you and verify purchases if you make a sudden string of online purchases if you don't typically do that or make multi-$1000 purchases somewhere geographically remote from where you live. That's all this is.
[quote]If the only reason you don't kill people in real life is because you can't get away with it, you should reexamine your ethics.[/quote]
How much examination did you employ to determine that killing is a priori wrong, or did vasopressin do the examination for you? Declining to murder based on consequences shows greater ethical development than declining to murder on the basis of emotion (or on the basis of the command of an external authority such as parents or scripture.)
I would go so far as to say electing to murder on the basis of consequence is more ethical than declining to murder due to hormonal influences.
DX11, like DX10, will probably be Vista-only. So, will Intel build OpenGL support, roll their own API, or tie the success or failure of their graphics architecture to Vista?
What's really bull is the idea that DRM on games is aimed at major professional pirates rather than average users. There is no such thing as unbreakable DRM, at least not until the "trusted computing" hardware gets in the wild, and even that's not certain. The professionals have the will and resources to break whatever lock you put on. It's only the gamers who are not really that motivated to make copies that get stopped.
Oh, and "CDs that start flaking" would be a non-issue if you didn't check for a CD in the drive on a game that's fully installed to the hard drive.
I've figured out the missing piece. The operating system manages the software installation process to verify the software follows its rules. It's stealth research in the Trusted Computing Untrusted User field.
The supposed advances are: 1) It's a managed-code OS 2) It's a microkernel design but with faster interprocess communication
However,
1) In order to be an OS its compiled from VM bytecode (the definition of managed code) to machine code, so it is not in fact managed code. 2) Interprocess communication is fast because everything actually runs in the same context and is basically on its honor not to screw with other bits of the system. (Marketing name "Software-Isolated Processes") Basically a monolithic design and not a microkernel.
> If anything, try to come up with a computer model for ending the war and imprisoning its architects and enablers.
That's what this is. You seem a bit misled about who is responsible for the present violence. If the fundamentalist extremists layed down their arms, the violence would be over. If the US pulled out, the fundamentalists would still employ violence against the democratically elected government of Iraq. Sorry to rain on your fashionable cynicism though.
A networking stack in the kernel is horrible from a security perspective, but just about every OS does it because otherwise net performance is atrocious (as it was in BeOS R5). The major feature of the last unreleased/leaked version of Be from Be Inc. was a new net stack in the kernel.
System Shock and Deus Ex were groundbreaking. The only thing Bioshock did differently was to be on a console so that the unwashed masses could experience it. And, like Deus Ex 2, it suffered for its console-oriented developement.
If only we had some kind of vehicle with the capabilities for both spaceflight and controlled atmospheric flight. Some sort of orbiting space-plane that could shuttle things to and from orbit. I recall some research in that direction in the 70s and 80s.
There aren't many places in the US besides SF where you'd encounter a trolley. A flashing red light in most cases is equivalent to the standard octagonal stop sign.
I wouldn't call it a document format so much as a graphics format. The design is much more oriented towards typesetting and layout for printers than electronic data exchange. It's allowable and actually fairly common for PDFs to contain only a set of (font) graphics and their locations on the page, with no reverse mapping to figure out what letters the font graphics represent. The only way to get data back out is for a human or OCR to read it. This was actually my job function for a significant part of 2005.
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A) the second F below middle C is 87.31 Hz rather than the sub-20Hz postulated for the brown note.
B) Mythbusters tried to produce the brown note with huge rock concert speakers and achieved no gastronomical results.
The same can be achieved by humming the second F below middle C.
Still 70C for people living in countries that matter.
This is not about being more open to private industry. Things are done and will continue to be done by the large contractors which are not, in fact, government agencies. The little X-prize companies are not anywhere close to putting a beeping metallic sphere, much less a human, into orbit - and by the time they do they will look more like peers among the military-industrial old guard than revolutionary startups.
When you boil this story down to its essence, NASA is just aiming to do with rockets what they're doing with that NASA MMO - if somebody wants to independently bear the cost and risk to build something, NASA will get involved if its good and stand aside at no cost to themselves if the effort fails.
What, aside from the lol forgot stamps bit, is the point of this story. Guy infringes copyright, gets sued. So? Are we supposed to be conditioned to find every case of copyright enforcement to be outrageous?
What point are they trying to make by reminding people that drunk driving is a "choice" and a "violent crime". The core of GTA is giving people the choice to commit violent crimes - and that is a positive thing for an adult oriented game. A Seasame Street environment is lacking in drama, pathos, etc. However, GTA's failing is that it doesn't go far if you choose NOT to commit violent crimes. The open-endedness and freedom the series is famed for is somewhat of an illusion, as there are no game systems or plot devices to steer you towards anything other than doing gopher tasks for street gangs, mafiosos, and assorted drug dealers. There are plenty of other roles the game could cast you in that would still support a story of political corruption and car chases in an urban environment.
Taking a look at the graphs, it looks like VB's motion is a mirror image of C++'s. My hypothesis is that a deluge of windows GUI development abandoned C++/MFC for VB.NET. C# might have been a better choice, but you really can't blame anyone for getting away from MFC by any means.
The article/summary completely misinterpreted what this is. It's not a no-fly kind of list. This is just requiring financial institutions to "red flag" unusual activity. It's quite common for credit card companies to call you and verify purchases if you make a sudden string of online purchases if you don't typically do that or make multi-$1000 purchases somewhere geographically remote from where you live. That's all this is.
[quote]If the only reason you don't kill people in real life is because you can't get away with it, you should reexamine your ethics.[/quote]
How much examination did you employ to determine that killing is a priori wrong, or did vasopressin do the examination for you? Declining to murder based on consequences shows greater ethical development than declining to murder on the basis of emotion (or on the basis of the command of an external authority such as parents or scripture.)
I would go so far as to say electing to murder on the basis of consequence is more ethical than declining to murder due to hormonal influences.
Too bad they can't sell this to the FEMA anymore.
When I read it, it was The Glass Bead Game.
DX11, like DX10, will probably be Vista-only. So, will Intel build OpenGL support, roll their own API, or tie the success or failure of their graphics architecture to Vista?
What's really bull is the idea that DRM on games is aimed at major professional pirates rather than average users. There is no such thing as unbreakable DRM, at least not until the "trusted computing" hardware gets in the wild, and even that's not certain. The professionals have the will and resources to break whatever lock you put on. It's only the gamers who are not really that motivated to make copies that get stopped.
Oh, and "CDs that start flaking" would be a non-issue if you didn't check for a CD in the drive on a game that's fully installed to the hard drive.
I've figured out the missing piece. The operating system manages the software installation process to verify the software follows its rules. It's stealth research in the Trusted Computing Untrusted User field.
The supposed advances are:
1) It's a managed-code OS
2) It's a microkernel design but with faster interprocess communication
However,
1) In order to be an OS its compiled from VM bytecode (the definition of managed code) to machine code, so it is not in fact managed code.
2) Interprocess communication is fast because everything actually runs in the same context and is basically on its honor not to screw with other bits of the system. (Marketing name "Software-Isolated Processes") Basically a monolithic design and not a microkernel.
So, what was the point?
No, they're clearly working on the Parrot VM (which is just resting.)
> If anything, try to come up with a computer model for ending the war and imprisoning its architects and enablers.
That's what this is. You seem a bit misled about who is responsible for the present violence. If the fundamentalist extremists layed down their arms, the violence would be over. If the US pulled out, the fundamentalists would still employ violence against the democratically elected government of Iraq. Sorry to rain on your fashionable cynicism though.
A dead company came back to life and now controls another dead company. Does that make it a lich company?
A networking stack in the kernel is horrible from a security perspective, but just about every OS does it because otherwise net performance is atrocious (as it was in BeOS R5). The major feature of the last unreleased/leaked version of Be from Be Inc. was a new net stack in the kernel.
System Shock and Deus Ex were groundbreaking. The only thing Bioshock did differently was to be on a console so that the unwashed masses could experience it. And, like Deus Ex 2, it suffered for its console-oriented developement.
Yes, brute force is the best way to get to orbit. About 70 million newtons.
(And spaceshipone is more than an order of magnitude short of getting itself into a permanent orbit, much less any cargo.)
If only we had some kind of vehicle with the capabilities for both spaceflight and controlled atmospheric flight. Some sort of orbiting space-plane that could shuttle things to and from orbit. I recall some research in that direction in the 70s and 80s.
There aren't many places in the US besides SF where you'd encounter a trolley. A flashing red light in most cases is equivalent to the standard octagonal stop sign.
I wouldn't call it a document format so much as a graphics format. The design is much more oriented towards typesetting and layout for printers than electronic data exchange. It's allowable and actually fairly common for PDFs to contain only a set of (font) graphics and their locations on the page, with no reverse mapping to figure out what letters the font graphics represent. The only way to get data back out is for a human or OCR to read it. This was actually my job function for a significant part of 2005.