Slower computers use significantly less power per cycle, so actually buying a slower computer would have a net effect of exactly the opposite of what you suggest. That of course, and (slightly) less computers would be purchased if they were all $10 more expensive.
While I agree its a tax, all that is needed is to require businesses to recycle their computers, and that will provide plenty of computers that actually get recycled.
This is what appears at the top of the source files in the CVS repository. It does NOT look like GPL to me.../*
Copyright (c) 2003, Arvid Norberg, Magnus Jonsson All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the author nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The file sharing client Morpheus supports Creative Commons, and properly tagged mp3s are recognized in search results in the client. Creative Commons will soon begin tagging all their mp3 files in the Copyright id3 tag. On Morpheus, you can even search 'cc:sampling' and 'cc:sharing', and you'll find and be able to download all properly tagged Creative Commons content.
As far as i've been told, they used Rosalind Franklin's data, in particular her crystalography photographs, to form the helix theory. I think they also used some of data to theorize the make-up of the phosphate groups. I believe Francis figured out the AT GC pairings based on their relative proportions as reported by another guy, and then Watson actually got the molecules to fit together in a way that made sense. They did no experiments, other than a failed model they created before they created the correct one. There is actually a very good BBC documentary about it, and Watson's book also goes through the details.
I totally agree - this is like saying spam filters will completely block spam - and they just don't. Even with all the extra tools that aren't available to forgery stoppers (people reporting spam, spam traps, IP blocking) we still can't filter out the SPAM. What this guy seems to be claiming is that a photo that fools the software can't be made, even if the software's feedback is used to make the forgery - if he really believes that is the case, that should be the focus of the article.
comparing fileplanet to real just doesn't hold up. On fileplanet, sure they list the paid servers first, but the free ones are right below that, and aren't difficult to find AT ALL. Saying that they 'hide' them like real hid their player is just plain false. Thats like saying google hides real search results with their paid ones.
The main fileplanet differentiator is the wait time. I doubt anyone (other than you apparently) has trouble finding the free downloads...
Atitd (A Tale in the Desert) has only player made currencies (you learn to make paper and print money).
Two currencies now survive what was a 'battle' of sorts between different currencies. The main one, TN, is maintained by players who post prices of their goods online, and the value of TN slowly shifts over time.
Another currency, Goodscrip, is tied in value with a notion they call First Good, where the tradehouse maintains a supply, giving 1 First Good (10,000 Goodscrip) value to the first good of a type in their store, and it drops logarithmically, so that if they have N goods in stock, they are worth log2(n+1) First Good value.
Its really a fascinating system, and the prices of all goods quickly converge on supply and demand based prices.
Goodscrip explanation is up at http://wurb.com/goods/ - very neat system.
IANAL, but according to my lawyer friends, while this is legal if you are a Russian resident, you and allofmp3.com are violating copyright law when the music enters the United States (or any other country, I guess). I think they are committing contributory copyright infringement, and I believe you are as well (or worse).
Point is, even though its legal under Russian law (not sure if thats even true), both you and them are breaking U.S. laws by downloading music off their site.
To add to this - if they aren't selling a service worth paying for, there is no reason consumers won't just get a crack for the single player game they just bought so they can stop paying a monthly fee for something they think they are entitled to. I'm happy to buy games and play them, but if they turn that into a subscription service where they aren't actually offering value worth subscribing to, I won't think twice about patching the exe with the cracks that are always out there for every single player game.
People should be held responsible for the crimes they commit - period. I don't care if these games make people violent. I don't care that they are a 'bad influence' on children whatever thats supposed to mean. You do the crime, you do the time, and everybody knows it. Or at least thats how it should be imho. Would you let a soldier off for murder just because he was trained to do so?
The applet refers to the project's server, not your web server. I don't think they are asking you to host the data collection part, but rather just have your pages load the applet from their servers.
Didn't they see Gattaca? Once we start using biometrics, it will become this all knowing system where once you are biometrically identified, you will be considered the real thing even if it seems like you probably aren't. It will be like that guy from the 80s movie saying "Computers never lie, kid."
I can just imagine my biometric record getting screwed up because of some random computer bug, and guys with shotguns and big dogs coming out when I show my passport the next time I travel internationally...
Microsoft just doesnt't compile them properly and it is very frustrating to all C++ programmers. Chances are, if you write C++ in the commercial world, your company has the very wise policy of making sure you stay roughly within the capabilities of the most popular compilers. This basically means you can use STL's vector, string, and list, and a pretty small collection of others. This, in my opinion, is a programmer's tragedy.
Utility C++ templates allow it to create and use some amazing things. I personally rarely write anything but the most simple ones, but when I'm allowed, there are huge libraries of amazing template classes. I learned ML at some point, and I remember the wonder when I happened upon the tuple template class for c++. With the exception of the fact you are forced to carry the type around (as a typedef of course), it works exactly like an ML tuple, a tool I came to love in my short time with ML. Someone simply wrote the template, and it was in C++ too! (a tuple is like an STL pair, but has an arbitrary number of members, set on construction).
Of course, even VC7 doesn't compile it. If you work at Microsoft in the Visual Studio area, PLEASE tell them to get standard compliant already! Yeah yeah templates can be slow to compile, but give us the option at least!
once you got linux on there...can't you run any software basically? It seems like this takes away the whole motivation of having the security in the first place...
This is very simple to me. If pressure groups want to try to get labels on video games about their level of objectionable material, I think this is fine. If they can convince video game publishers to do this, that is great. Hopefully this is what is happening in stores today.
Now, if stores want to check people's IDs, this is where I start to get concerned. If a store chooses to check people's IDs, and to refuse people who are too young, then I'm all for this as long as what they are doing is legal. Forcing stores to comply with this kind of policy through legal means is going too far and should not happen.
As far as keeping these games out of kids hands, I think people are very simply blaming these games for doing something that they aren't. I personally might not let my children play these games, but not because of the violence, but because I think young children don't exactly benefit greatly from playing video games for hours on end. Now, that is my personal opinion, and that is exactly my point. Parents should be able to choose the rules about what activities their children can participate in, and they should be responsible for enforcing the rules they set.
If stores want to buckle under pressure and not sell this stuff to minors, I think that is great. They are making choices about what they are selling based on responses from the community they are in. If I'm a parent and I don't care if my child plays this game or not, I can still buy it myself for my children to play.
These games obviously present a lot of violence, which obviously educates people about violence crimes in their various forms. I think it is a very large jump however, to say that these games are responsible for acts of violence people commit. In school, very early on, i think, you learn that violent acts are against the rules of society, and that people who commit crime usually are caught and are held responsible for their actions. Ultimatly, regardless of what games a person might have been playing, a person, child or not, chooses to cross the line and commit a crime. They should be held responsible. Its that simple.
I personally hate all this crap about this stuff being bad for our kids. One side effect it has is making the defense 'but it was the video game's fault' that much more viable in court, which of course is rediculous. Promoting that idea seems to me will cause more crime than anything else. Next thing you know some 30 yr old murderer will be blaming his parents and the game company for the crime he committed because he played these games as a child...give me a break.
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_Kazaa_ recently admitted to tracking individual downloads. Morpheus had nothing to do with this.
Slower computers use significantly less power per cycle, so actually buying a slower computer would have a net effect of exactly the opposite of what you suggest. That of course, and (slightly) less computers would be purchased if they were all $10 more expensive.
While I agree its a tax, all that is needed is to require businesses to recycle their computers, and that will provide plenty of computers that actually get recycled.
This is what appears at the top of the source files in the CVS repository. It does NOT look like GPL to me... /*
Copyright (c) 2003, Arvid Norberg, Magnus Jonsson
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the author nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
The file sharing client Morpheus supports Creative Commons, and properly tagged mp3s are recognized in search results in the client. Creative Commons will soon begin tagging all their mp3 files in the Copyright id3 tag. On Morpheus, you can even search 'cc:sampling' and 'cc:sharing', and you'll find and be able to download all properly tagged Creative Commons content.
"If you're going to skip one film this year - make it "Gigli.""
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES (U.S.)
From here.
He actually has six grandchildren, though two are adopted. As for your link, its incorrect - he passed away Wednesday evening.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts.
As far as i've been told, they used Rosalind Franklin's data, in particular her crystalography photographs, to form the helix theory. I think they also used some of data to theorize the make-up of the phosphate groups. I believe Francis figured out the AT GC pairings based on their relative proportions as reported by another guy, and then Watson actually got the molecules to fit together in a way that made sense. They did no experiments, other than a failed model they created before they created the correct one. There is actually a very good BBC documentary about it, and Watson's book also goes through the details.
and I'll miss him...
I totally agree - this is like saying spam filters will completely block spam - and they just don't. Even with all the extra tools that aren't available to forgery stoppers (people reporting spam, spam traps, IP blocking) we still can't filter out the SPAM. What this guy seems to be claiming is that a photo that fools the software can't be made, even if the software's feedback is used to make the forgery - if he really believes that is the case, that should be the focus of the article.
comparing fileplanet to real just doesn't hold up. On fileplanet, sure they list the paid servers first, but the free ones are right below that, and aren't difficult to find AT ALL. Saying that they 'hide' them like real hid their player is just plain false. Thats like saying google hides real search results with their paid ones.
The main fileplanet differentiator is the wait time. I doubt anyone (other than you apparently) has trouble finding the free downloads...
Atitd (A Tale in the Desert) has only player made currencies (you learn to make paper and print money).
Two currencies now survive what was a 'battle' of sorts between different currencies. The main one, TN, is maintained by players who post prices of their goods online, and the value of TN slowly shifts over time.
Another currency, Goodscrip, is tied in value with a notion they call First Good, where the tradehouse maintains a supply, giving 1 First Good (10,000 Goodscrip) value to the first good of a type in their store, and it drops logarithmically, so that if they have N goods in stock, they are worth log2(n+1) First Good value.
Its really a fascinating system, and the prices of all goods quickly converge on supply and demand based prices.
Goodscrip explanation is up at http://wurb.com/goods/ - very neat system.
IANAL, but according to my lawyer friends, while this is legal if you are a Russian resident, you and allofmp3.com are violating copyright law when the music enters the United States (or any other country, I guess). I think they are committing contributory copyright infringement, and I believe you are as well (or worse).
Point is, even though its legal under Russian law (not sure if thats even true), both you and them are breaking U.S. laws by downloading music off their site.
To add to this - if they aren't selling a service worth paying for, there is no reason consumers won't just get a crack for the single player game they just bought so they can stop paying a monthly fee for something they think they are entitled to. I'm happy to buy games and play them, but if they turn that into a subscription service where they aren't actually offering value worth subscribing to, I won't think twice about patching the exe with the cracks that are always out there for every single player game.
People should be held responsible for the crimes they commit - period. I don't care if these games make people violent. I don't care that they are a 'bad influence' on children whatever thats supposed to mean. You do the crime, you do the time, and everybody knows it. Or at least thats how it should be imho. Would you let a soldier off for murder just because he was trained to do so?
The applet refers to the project's server, not your web server. I don't think they are asking you to host the data collection part, but rather just have your pages load the applet from their servers.
In boston they built an undersea tunnel by just digging a trench, dropping in a tunnel, then filling up the trench again...pretty cool I thought.
Details of the Ted Williams bridge here.
Didn't they see Gattaca? Once we start using biometrics, it will become this all knowing system where once you are biometrically identified, you will be considered the real thing even if it seems like you probably aren't. It will be like that guy from the 80s movie saying "Computers never lie, kid."
I can just imagine my biometric record getting screwed up because of some random computer bug, and guys with shotguns and big dogs coming out when I show my passport the next time I travel internationally...
Can someone explain what CAPSII is?
You do stand on the segway...thats a quantum leep for some ppl in terms of their exercise...
get the site here
try the following:
1. code up something using STL classes other than the ones i've mentioned, and then try to do something meaningful - they just won't compile.
2. try virtually any of the moer advanced templates of boost.org, a great site for templates. VERY few lack the note 'won't work with microsoft'
Microsoft just doesnt't compile them properly and it is very frustrating to all C++ programmers. Chances are, if you write C++ in the commercial world, your company has the very wise policy of making sure you stay roughly within the capabilities of the most popular compilers. This basically means you can use STL's vector, string, and list, and a pretty small collection of others. This, in my opinion, is a programmer's tragedy.
Utility C++ templates allow it to create and use some amazing things. I personally rarely write anything but the most simple ones, but when I'm allowed, there are huge libraries of amazing template classes. I learned ML at some point, and I remember the wonder when I happened upon the tuple template class for c++. With the exception of the fact you are forced to carry the type around (as a typedef of course), it works exactly like an ML tuple, a tool I came to love in my short time with ML. Someone simply wrote the template, and it was in C++ too! (a tuple is like an STL pair, but has an arbitrary number of members, set on construction).
Of course, even VC7 doesn't compile it. If you work at Microsoft in the Visual Studio area, PLEASE tell them to get standard compliant already! Yeah yeah templates can be slow to compile, but give us the option at least!
once you got linux on there...can't you run any software basically? It seems like this takes away the whole motivation of having the security in the first place...
places LIKE fileplanet, yes. Fileplanet, no.
Fileplanet doesn't use this kind of technology simply because it defeats their business model.
(not really relevant, of course)
This is very simple to me. If pressure groups want to try to get labels on video games about their level of objectionable material, I think this is fine. If they can convince video game publishers to do this, that is great. Hopefully this is what is happening in stores today.
Now, if stores want to check people's IDs, this is where I start to get concerned. If a store chooses to check people's IDs, and to refuse people who are too young, then I'm all for this as long as what they are doing is legal. Forcing stores to comply with this kind of policy through legal means is going too far and should not happen.
As far as keeping these games out of kids hands, I think people are very simply blaming these games for doing something that they aren't. I personally might not let my children play these games, but not because of the violence, but because I think young children don't exactly benefit greatly from playing video games for hours on end. Now, that is my personal opinion, and that is exactly my point. Parents should be able to choose the rules about what activities their children can participate in, and they should be responsible for enforcing the rules they set.
If stores want to buckle under pressure and not sell this stuff to minors, I think that is great. They are making choices about what they are selling based on responses from the community they are in. If I'm a parent and I don't care if my child plays this game or not, I can still buy it myself for my children to play.
These games obviously present a lot of violence, which obviously educates people about violence crimes in their various forms. I think it is a very large jump however, to say that these games are responsible for acts of violence people commit. In school, very early on, i think, you learn that violent acts are against the rules of society, and that people who commit crime usually are caught and are held responsible for their actions. Ultimatly, regardless of what games a person might have been playing, a person, child or not, chooses to cross the line and commit a crime. They should be held responsible. Its that simple.
I personally hate all this crap about this stuff being bad for our kids. One side effect it has is making the defense 'but it was the video game's fault' that much more viable in court, which of course is rediculous. Promoting that idea seems to me will cause more crime than anything else. Next thing you know some 30 yr old murderer will be blaming his parents and the game company for the crime he committed because he played these games as a child...give me a break.
The ICFP Programming Contest results just came out...and what happens? Same server gets slashdotted to hell...
check it out if you can:
http://icfpcontest.cse.ogi.edu/scoring/