"It could be through complete copyright reform..."
Doesn't matter. Even if they backed off copyright to, say, 14 years, people would just find some other rationalization for stealing.
By "complete copyright reform" I wasn't talking about reducing the term. I was thinking about something more radical, like finding another way to promote the creation of creative works without legislating an artificial scarcity.
The real problems is that can get valuable stuff FOR FREE, and NOT get caught or punished.
Every day I get a whole bunch of oxygen for free, and that's extremely valuable in the sense that I'd be dead without it. The reason I can do this is because the supply is, for practical purposes, unlimited. Copies of digital media are also unlimited for practical purposes. The reason copyright infringement is illegal is not because people are getting something valuable for free, it's because someone (the creator) is not getting their due. The unauthorised copier is breaching an implicit contract with the artist that reads something like "I will create this work now for no money if everyone who hears or sees it promises to give me some money when the do."
Fixing things will require either that: a) it's no longer free; or b) doing so leads to a probable chance of getting caught and punished.
Or (c) it's free and legal and artists are compensated in another way. Intellectual Property is a philosophical construct. There's no reason why it cannot be reconstructed differently.
Just like shoplifting in a store.
Apart from the fact that this is real theft, where the store owner is deprived of a real object with a definite value, the issue with 3-strikes copyright violation laws is that a convicted shoplifter is not banned from all stores forever. Of course, I'm equally against 3-strikes laws that would call for mandatory incarceration of 3-time shoplifters. It is, as I said, a question of the severity of the punishment fitting the gravity of the misdeed.
I RTFA, and it says that some copyright owners have suggested a three strikes law, but that this is unpopular. The government is interested in an "appropriate solution" to the issue of copyright infringement via the Internet. The language in the quoted passages is quite neutral and correct -- speaking of unauthorised copies, rather than theft.
There are many ways this issue could be resolved. It could be through complete copyright reform, however that is unlikely. It could be through criminalization and tough statutory penalties, which would be very unpopular. It could be by declaring the Internet and P2P as a type of broadcast system, with mandatory licensing of copyright and statutory royalties (like radio).
This is not an excuse to panic and engage in public Conroy-bashing. Join an appropriate lobby group, engage in public discussion of solutions fair to all parties, do something constructive. If you let a politician believe that he is hated beyond redemption, or a political party believe that they've already lost the next election, then they have absolutely no incentive to do what you want between now and when they leave office.
Downloading music or other files illegally should be punished.
Well, the law as currently written means that the creation of such unauthorised copies is something for which the copyright holder can claim compensation and damages. Certain types of commercial infringement are also criminal acts, but that's not the issue under discussion here. The core issue is whether the Government has a mandate to create statutory penalties for non-criminal acts. There is also an issue of matching the severity of punishment to the gravity of the misdeed.
Let's take the tort of defamation and draw some parallels. Defamation is illegal, and should be punished, but if I accuse you of defaming me, should there be a statutory on-the-spot fine levied against you on the strength of my allegation? If you are accused three times, should you lose the right to speak in public, or be published? I don't think such laws would find much support.
I know you're looking for outside influences, but don't forget to be a science hero yourself. When the kids ask "why?" don't be Calvin's Dad and make up some whacky explanation (funny as that is), say "let's find out" and devise an experiment.
Of course, there's going to be some questions that don't lend themselves to experiments ("Where do babies come from?" is easy enough to explain but probably not a good practical, "Why is the sky blue?" is hard to do right without an understanding of Raleigh scattering and quantum mechanics), but wind and water are fun and relatively safe to play with, while gardening and cookery are practical and lend themselves very well to the scientific method.
You've got years before they give a rat's ass about Cosmos or David Attenborough wildlife documentaries. It's OK, they're little kids.
Rubbish. Show the kids David Attenborough wildlife documentaries from the get-go. Children are very good at filtering what they understand and what they don't from material aimed at adults. Elmo and Curious George are entertainment, maybe even "edutainment", but it's not going to fill them with the awe, wonder and curiosity of the natural world that drives a scientist.
Talk to children like adults when you're discussing adult topics - like science. They'll thank you for it. Something that annoyed me no end growing up and going through my education was finding out at each new level that the previous one was not just a simplification but full of lies. "You can't subtract a larger number from a smaller number", "You can't find the square root of a negative number", "The sun is a big ball of burning gas". All lies.
Actually, you learn about bubble sort so you can understand where is might actually be a valid choice -- i.e. where you need to sort a small set in place with minimal use of stack space or other temporary storage.
Once more, I tend to agree, but I think the fact that some child got her picture included in this actually changes the issue.
Yes, that is very, shall we say, "uncool". However I'm not sure that it's a child pornography issue, and more of a personal privacy issue. I would be upset if I found that some one had pasted a picture of my face on a nude body for their personal amusement. I certainly believe that a person should have automatic "likeness rights", just as artists have automatic copyrights.
The fact that the faces were of children worsens the offense, because there is no possibility of informed consent, and the potential for (emotional or psychological) damage is greater, but doesn't change the class of offense from one of privacy violation and indecency to one of rape, abuse or assault.
There is certainly a mens rea of harm to a minor involved when someone has the faces of children pasted on adult bodies
I had to look up mens rea (lit: guilty mind), and I think you're taking it out of context. The intent of this phrase is to express that a defendant has not only physically committed a crime, but there was also intent. No actual harm (physical or psychological) has come to any minors here, so the mens rea is irrelevant.
It's even aggravated
Please explain. Exactly what about this incident could be considered aggravated? If anything the situation is mitigated by the fact that there were not even naked pictures of the children in question. Obscene? Almost certainly. Sexual exploitation? Probably. Aggravated? I think that's stretching it.
Can we really imprison someone for likely intending to rape a child?
This is really the core problem with your argument. You've got absolutely no evidence for this. I shoot virtual bullets at pictures of people in video games all the time. There are even games that simulate violence against specific individuals (Slap a Spice Girl was very popular in it's day). I have no intention of committing these acts in real life.
(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly promote, employ, use, assist, transport or permit a minor to participate in the performance of, or in the production of, acts or material that includes the minor engaging in: (2) Simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive.
The problem here is that the defendant in this case really hasn't done anything to "a minor", but rather to "a picture of a minor". The fact that the result is patently offensive (something I think no reasonable adult would deny) is beside the point. The real issue is whether a minor was actually used, employed or promoted to do something. In this case I believe that has not happened.
Well, looks like we can!
The Tennessee court seems to agree with you. Other people, myself included, do not.
If a jurisdiction decides to enact a law against any depiction, fictional or otherwise, of minors in a sexual context then that's their decision, but the statute you've quoted does not, in my reading, cover this. I believe that such laws have already been enacted in various places, although personally I find them hypocritical. If we take maximum prison sentences as a gauge of the seriousness of a crime in our society, murder is more serious than the sexualisation or abuse of a minor, but the fictionalised depiction of the latter can land you in prison while the fictionalised depiction of the former can make you a successful film producer.
Exactly. Half a mission? That's nothing to bring you into line with the rest of the world, opening up more opportunities for mixing in parts from other sources and making multi-national space missions run smoothly.
The problem, as others have pointed out, is that $370 million is a serious underestimate of the true cost. Converting all the documentation is the first step, but then you have to re-tool not just yourself but all your (domestic) suppliers. If the money was available for the suppliers to switch over that would be a good boost to US industry, but there would be a real risk of manufacturing being moved off shore to somewhere that's already using SI units.
You are not stealing any energy from the car at all. This argument is ludicrous. It is using the force of gravity to push down the plates.
If the energy doesn't come from the car, where does it come from? You can't say it comes from gravity, that makes no sense. In order for gravity to do work, the object in question (the car) has to fall through some distance (work = force x displacement). In order to fall, it must have been lifted. How was it lifted? By the engine
... the majority wish to buy a phone first and a gadget second.
Really? There are a lot of phones with better "phone" features that cost a whole lot less. I'm seriously considering an iPhone purchase, but only because of the mobile internet and gaming possibilities. For making calls and sending SMS there's nothing wrong with my T610. In fact, I only got the T610 because it came with a free iPod. If it wasn't for that I'd probably still use my Nokia 3310.
The disruptive power of iPhone as a gaming platform is that it brings mobile gaming to a wider audience. Not many people will buy an iPhone for gaming over a DS, but a lot of people who would never buy a DS and DS games will buy iPhone games from the app store. The low barrier to entry (in terms of dev costs and publishing channel) also lowers the price well into the impulse/novelty purchase range.
If gold became a serious black-market currency, it would be tagged with trace impurities. I wouldn't be surprised if much of it already is. It's already possible to tell which mine gold came from. (see gold fingerprinting)
World governments already have buy-in from printer manufacturers to tag all printouts for the purpose of tracing paper-money fraud. It would be even easier to coerce gold refiners to do the same, given that governments are such large consumers of gold.
There's overhead, but not 10x worse performance unless you're hitting the disk far more in the VM than you were in the native deployment.
The "gotcha" is that VMWare Server will, by default, use file-backed memory for your VMs so that you can get in a situation where the VM is "thrashing", but neither the host nor guest operating system shows any swap activity. The tell-tale sign is that a vmstat on the host OS will show massive numbers of buffered input and output blocks (i.e. disk activity) when you're doing things in the VM which should not require this amount of disk troughput.
A possible solution is:
1. Move the backing file to tmpfs* 2. Increase your mounted tmpfsto cover most of the host machine RAM (I'd say total RAM - 1 GB). 3. Allocate RAM to your VMs in such a way that you are not over-committed (total of all VMs not more than tmpfs size set at step 2).
*Take a look at the option mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
I'm not really a Microsoft platform coder any more, but I've used this one in the past and it's not bad. Basically a free (as in speech - LGPL) clone of VisualStudio.
Sounds like a cellular telephone network. It would be interesting to know how they solve these problems.
I suspect things like changing the hex size based on actual or estimated population density would be one way. This would have the consequence of reducing the view and interaction distances in densely populated areas, but that might not be so bad.
Of course, big real-world events do cause the cell network to overload. The real solution in an MMO would be to structure your amenities and events so that they don't encourage people to congregate so densely.
I know it. there is a site where people are telling everyone they are committing a crime, and how to get in touch with them, and they want to shut it down?
What I find odd about this is that Cragislist actually serves jurisdictions (such as Australia) where prostitution is legal. Are they making these changes for all locations? Are the reviewers going to be made aware of what is legal, and thus permissible, in each region?
There are also other (perfectly legal) professional services for which it is illegal to advertise in certain areas. In my state, for instance, it is illegal for lawyers to advertise services related to personal injury claims. Is Craigslist going to police this too?
You're going to get returns on Linux-based netbooks as long as you market them as general-purpose computing devices. The true purpose of a netbook is as a portable Internet-access appliance, like a large smart-phone with a keyboard. If manufacturers position them that way then they'll have a lot more satisfied customers.
How many people do you think returned their iPhone or iPod because it didn't run Windows? Not a lot, I'd say.
Put your netbook out there with Ubuntu on it and a unique, professionally designed theme. Build your own apt repository, add screenshot capabilities to Synaptic, and put "Free App Store" on the icon. Then you win.
Really it has nothing to do with IDEs, but more compilers, good coding practice and OO principles. A few cons:
The code should be simple enough that you can easily track a variable from declaration through use, or imply the type from the context and name.
Since most (all?) compilers and interpreters ignore the Hungarian prefix, there's no way of knowing that iFoo is really an integer. This is particularly true of weakly typed languages that are popular in a lot of modern programming environments.
In a large OO project you might have hundreds of types. Creating meaningful prefixes for all of them is going to be next to impossible, and having obj at the front of everything is redundant.
I see a lot of trolls, or out-of-touch people here. There is definitely a place for skilled professionals who concentrate on producing excellent markup and CSS, preferably with strong skills in a modern JavaScript framework like jQuery or MooTools and enough Photoshop/GIMP skills to cut up and make minor modifications.
In my experience these people are call Front End Developers.
Many companies don't have this role because they're not big enough to need it, or because they don't understand it's value.
Sure, an intern with Dreamweaver can make a web page but unless they are unusually talented they cannot produce the interface for a quality web-based application. Does an intern know how to make sure the CMS template they're coding will deal with different amounts of content, varying text sizes, nested lists, multiple floated images, or other things the content producers will want to put in there? Does your nephew know about W3C accessibility guidelines, the font licensing issues involved with implementing sIFR, or how to ensure that essential user interactions are still functional without JS or in older browsers?
Just because someone can do job doesn't mean they should. My dad is a building contractor. He can lay bricks, but he doesn't because he can hire someone else who does it better and faster. If there's room in your project's budget to hire specialists, do it. Front End Developer, Business Analyst, Information Architect, DBA -- start bringing them in as you can afford it and the quality of your output will surely improve.
Well, a power/force conversion is a bit of an odd thing to try and do. In "traditional" applications, you can say Power = Force.Velocity, but that really only makes sense in a situation where you're powering a vehicle at constant velocity against some opposing force (e.g. drag or friction).
If that were the case, this drive could keep something on the move at 100 km/s, provided the drag on the vessel was only 0.5 N. I have no idea what the actual drag would be on a space ship in inter-planetary space.
He wasn't a loser, he was a psychopath. This is why spamming should be considered a serious crime. This person has just proved, by murdering his wife and child and leaving a baby to die of exposure, that he had absolutely no respect for other human beings. Humans are almost completely dependent on social interaction for survival. To undermine the trust and mutual respect that allows us all to live is the worst possible crime.
Think about the activities which have, for centuries, been considered unquestionably criminal: assault, murder, theft, fraud. All cases where the victim's rights over their own person or property has been violated. Spamming is another case where the perpetrator is pursuing their own interests without any regard for others.
I'm in no way trying to equate the magnitude of rape or murder with sending spam, but in my mind they are certainly the same class of crime. When we are shown that a convicted practitioner of the lesser is also capable of the greater, it should not come as a great surprise.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or just ignorant, but I'll bite. You put a second fingers down on the touchpad and click to get a "right click" effect. After about 10 minutes of use this is not awkward - it's awesome. It's far less awkward than what's required on touchpads with two physical buttons.
There are drivers available from Apple which make this function available in Windows too, as well as the two-finger scroll (which is much nicer that the scroll area at the right of the touchpad that is common on other notebooks).
if you slam on the brakes, a lump of anti-matter, according to this negative-mass hypothesis, would fly backward
Wouldn't this only be true if the anti-matter had negative inertial mass? I thought that the idea being tested was that while an anit-particle may have the same inertial mass as its regular counterpart (i.e. same force required to produce a given acceleration), that perhaps the force of gravity between matter and anti-matter was repulsive rather than attractive.
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"It could be through complete copyright reform..."
Doesn't matter. Even if they backed off copyright to, say, 14 years, people would just find some other rationalization for stealing.
By "complete copyright reform" I wasn't talking about reducing the term. I was thinking about something more radical, like finding another way to promote the creation of creative works without legislating an artificial scarcity.
The real problems is that can get valuable stuff FOR FREE, and NOT get caught or punished.
Every day I get a whole bunch of oxygen for free, and that's extremely valuable in the sense that I'd be dead without it. The reason I can do this is because the supply is, for practical purposes, unlimited. Copies of digital media are also unlimited for practical purposes. The reason copyright infringement is illegal is not because people are getting something valuable for free, it's because someone (the creator) is not getting their due. The unauthorised copier is breaching an implicit contract with the artist that reads something like "I will create this work now for no money if everyone who hears or sees it promises to give me some money when the do."
Fixing things will require either that: a) it's no longer free; or b) doing so leads to a probable chance of getting caught and punished.
Or (c) it's free and legal and artists are compensated in another way. Intellectual Property is a philosophical construct. There's no reason why it cannot be reconstructed differently.
Just like shoplifting in a store.
Apart from the fact that this is real theft, where the store owner is deprived of a real object with a definite value, the issue with 3-strikes copyright violation laws is that a convicted shoplifter is not banned from all stores forever. Of course, I'm equally against 3-strikes laws that would call for mandatory incarceration of 3-time shoplifters. It is, as I said, a question of the severity of the punishment fitting the gravity of the misdeed.
I RTFA, and it says that some copyright owners have suggested a three strikes law, but that this is unpopular. The government is interested in an "appropriate solution" to the issue of copyright infringement via the Internet. The language in the quoted passages is quite neutral and correct -- speaking of unauthorised copies, rather than theft.
There are many ways this issue could be resolved. It could be through complete copyright reform, however that is unlikely. It could be through criminalization and tough statutory penalties, which would be very unpopular. It could be by declaring the Internet and P2P as a type of broadcast system, with mandatory licensing of copyright and statutory royalties (like radio).
This is not an excuse to panic and engage in public Conroy-bashing. Join an appropriate lobby group, engage in public discussion of solutions fair to all parties, do something constructive. If you let a politician believe that he is hated beyond redemption, or a political party believe that they've already lost the next election, then they have absolutely no incentive to do what you want between now and when they leave office.
Downloading music or other files illegally should be punished.
Well, the law as currently written means that the creation of such unauthorised copies is something for which the copyright holder can claim compensation and damages. Certain types of commercial infringement are also criminal acts, but that's not the issue under discussion here. The core issue is whether the Government has a mandate to create statutory penalties for non-criminal acts. There is also an issue of matching the severity of punishment to the gravity of the misdeed.
Let's take the tort of defamation and draw some parallels. Defamation is illegal, and should be punished, but if I accuse you of defaming me, should there be a statutory on-the-spot fine levied against you on the strength of my allegation? If you are accused three times, should you lose the right to speak in public, or be published? I don't think such laws would find much support.
I know you're looking for outside influences, but don't forget to be a science hero yourself. When the kids ask "why?" don't be Calvin's Dad and make up some whacky explanation (funny as that is), say "let's find out" and devise an experiment.
Of course, there's going to be some questions that don't lend themselves to experiments ("Where do babies come from?" is easy enough to explain but probably not a good practical, "Why is the sky blue?" is hard to do right without an understanding of Raleigh scattering and quantum mechanics), but wind and water are fun and relatively safe to play with, while gardening and cookery are practical and lend themselves very well to the scientific method.
How about Elmo and Curious George?
You've got years before they give a rat's ass about Cosmos or David Attenborough wildlife documentaries. It's OK, they're little kids.
Rubbish. Show the kids David Attenborough wildlife documentaries from the get-go. Children are very good at filtering what they understand and what they don't from material aimed at adults. Elmo and Curious George are entertainment, maybe even "edutainment", but it's not going to fill them with the awe, wonder and curiosity of the natural world that drives a scientist.
Talk to children like adults when you're discussing adult topics - like science. They'll thank you for it. Something that annoyed me no end growing up and going through my education was finding out at each new level that the previous one was not just a simplification but full of lies. "You can't subtract a larger number from a smaller number", "You can't find the square root of a negative number", "The sun is a big ball of burning gas". All lies.
Actually, you learn about bubble sort so you can understand where is might actually be a valid choice -- i.e. where you need to sort a small set in place with minimal use of stack space or other temporary storage.
Once more, I tend to agree, but I think the fact that some child got her picture included in this actually changes the issue.
Yes, that is very, shall we say, "uncool". However I'm not sure that it's a child pornography issue, and more of a personal privacy issue. I would be upset if I found that some one had pasted a picture of my face on a nude body for their personal amusement. I certainly believe that a person should have automatic "likeness rights", just as artists have automatic copyrights.
The fact that the faces were of children worsens the offense, because there is no possibility of informed consent, and the potential for (emotional or psychological) damage is greater, but doesn't change the class of offense from one of privacy violation and indecency to one of rape, abuse or assault.
There is certainly a mens rea of harm to a minor involved when someone has the faces of children pasted on adult bodies
I had to look up mens rea (lit: guilty mind), and I think you're taking it out of context. The intent of this phrase is to express that a defendant has not only physically committed a crime, but there was also intent. No actual harm (physical or psychological) has come to any minors here, so the mens rea is irrelevant.
It's even aggravated
Please explain. Exactly what about this incident could be considered aggravated? If anything the situation is mitigated by the fact that there were not even naked pictures of the children in question. Obscene? Almost certainly. Sexual exploitation? Probably. Aggravated? I think that's stretching it.
Can we really imprison someone for likely intending to rape a child?
This is really the core problem with your argument. You've got absolutely no evidence for this. I shoot virtual bullets at pictures of people in video games all the time. There are even games that simulate violence against specific individuals (Slap a Spice Girl was very popular in it's day). I have no intention of committing these acts in real life.
(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly promote, employ, use, assist, transport or permit a minor to participate in the performance of, or in the production of, acts or material that includes the minor engaging in:
(2) Simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive.
The problem here is that the defendant in this case really hasn't done anything to "a minor", but rather to "a picture of a minor". The fact that the result is patently offensive (something I think no reasonable adult would deny) is beside the point. The real issue is whether a minor was actually used, employed or promoted to do something. In this case I believe that has not happened.
Well, looks like we can!
The Tennessee court seems to agree with you. Other people, myself included, do not.
If a jurisdiction decides to enact a law against any depiction, fictional or otherwise, of minors in a sexual context then that's their decision, but the statute you've quoted does not, in my reading, cover this. I believe that such laws have already been enacted in various places, although personally I find them hypocritical. If we take maximum prison sentences as a gauge of the seriousness of a crime in our society, murder is more serious than the sexualisation or abuse of a minor, but the fictionalised depiction of the latter can land you in prison while the fictionalised depiction of the former can make you a successful film producer.
Exactly. Half a mission? That's nothing to bring you into line with the rest of the world, opening up more opportunities for mixing in parts from other sources and making multi-national space missions run smoothly.
The problem, as others have pointed out, is that $370 million is a serious underestimate of the true cost. Converting all the documentation is the first step, but then you have to re-tool not just yourself but all your (domestic) suppliers. If the money was available for the suppliers to switch over that would be a good boost to US industry, but there would be a real risk of manufacturing being moved off shore to somewhere that's already using SI units.
I find Celsius works pretty well as a human scale in Australia.
40 - Too bloody hot
30 - Let's go to the beach
20 - Nice
10 - Too bloody cold
0 - WTF! I'm moving to Queensland.
You are not stealing any energy from the car at all. This argument is ludicrous. It is using the force of gravity to push down the plates.
If the energy doesn't come from the car, where does it come from? You can't say it comes from gravity, that makes no sense. In order for gravity to do work, the object in question (the car) has to fall through some distance (work = force x displacement). In order to fall, it must have been lifted. How was it lifted? By the engine
... the majority wish to buy a phone first and a gadget second.
Really? There are a lot of phones with better "phone" features that cost a whole lot less. I'm seriously considering an iPhone purchase, but only because of the mobile internet and gaming possibilities. For making calls and sending SMS there's nothing wrong with my T610. In fact, I only got the T610 because it came with a free iPod. If it wasn't for that I'd probably still use my Nokia 3310.
The disruptive power of iPhone as a gaming platform is that it brings mobile gaming to a wider audience. Not many people will buy an iPhone for gaming over a DS, but a lot of people who would never buy a DS and DS games will buy iPhone games from the app store. The low barrier to entry (in terms of dev costs and publishing channel) also lowers the price well into the impulse/novelty purchase range.
If gold became a serious black-market currency, it would be tagged with trace impurities. I wouldn't be surprised if much of it already is. It's already possible to tell which mine gold came from. (see gold fingerprinting)
World governments already have buy-in from printer manufacturers to tag all printouts for the purpose of tracing paper-money fraud. It would be even easier to coerce gold refiners to do the same, given that governments are such large consumers of gold.
Unless they open it to Internet voting. In which case it will be Nevergonnagiveyouupium.
There's overhead, but not 10x worse performance unless you're hitting the disk far more in the VM than you were in the native deployment.
The "gotcha" is that VMWare Server will, by default, use file-backed memory for your VMs so that you can get in a situation where the VM is "thrashing", but neither the host nor guest operating system shows any swap activity. The tell-tale sign is that a vmstat on the host OS will show massive numbers of buffered input and output blocks (i.e. disk activity) when you're doing things in the VM which should not require this amount of disk troughput.
A possible solution is:
1. Move the backing file to tmpfs*
2. Increase your mounted tmpfsto cover most of the host machine RAM (I'd say total RAM - 1 GB).
3. Allocate RAM to your VMs in such a way that you are not over-committed (total of all VMs not more than tmpfs size set at step 2).
*Take a look at the option mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
Try SharpDevelop if you ever decide to trade in C++ for C# and the .NET framework.
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharpDevelop
I'm not really a Microsoft platform coder any more, but I've used this one in the past and it's not bad. Basically a free (as in speech - LGPL) clone of VisualStudio.
Sounds like a cellular telephone network. It would be interesting to know how they solve these problems.
I suspect things like changing the hex size based on actual or estimated population density would be one way. This would have the consequence of reducing the view and interaction distances in densely populated areas, but that might not be so bad.
Of course, big real-world events do cause the cell network to overload. The real solution in an MMO would be to structure your amenities and events so that they don't encourage people to congregate so densely.
I know it. there is a site where people are telling everyone they are committing a crime, and how to get in touch with them, and they want to shut it down?
What I find odd about this is that Cragislist actually serves jurisdictions (such as Australia) where prostitution is legal. Are they making these changes for all locations? Are the reviewers going to be made aware of what is legal, and thus permissible, in each region?
There are also other (perfectly legal) professional services for which it is illegal to advertise in certain areas. In my state, for instance, it is illegal for lawyers to advertise services related to personal injury claims. Is Craigslist going to police this too?
You're going to get returns on Linux-based netbooks as long as you market them as general-purpose computing devices. The true purpose of a netbook is as a portable Internet-access appliance, like a large smart-phone with a keyboard. If manufacturers position them that way then they'll have a lot more satisfied customers.
How many people do you think returned their iPhone or iPod because it didn't run Windows? Not a lot, I'd say.
Put your netbook out there with Ubuntu on it and a unique, professionally designed theme. Build your own apt repository, add screenshot capabilities to Synaptic, and put "Free App Store" on the icon. Then you win.
Really it has nothing to do with IDEs, but more compilers, good coding practice and OO principles. A few cons:
For a succinct summary: Hungarian Notation Considered Harmful
I see a lot of trolls, or out-of-touch people here. There is definitely a place for skilled professionals who concentrate on producing excellent markup and CSS, preferably with strong skills in a modern JavaScript framework like jQuery or MooTools and enough Photoshop/GIMP skills to cut up and make minor modifications.
In my experience these people are call Front End Developers.
Many companies don't have this role because they're not big enough to need it, or because they don't understand it's value.
Sure, an intern with Dreamweaver can make a web page but unless they are unusually talented they cannot produce the interface for a quality web-based application. Does an intern know how to make sure the CMS template they're coding will deal with different amounts of content, varying text sizes, nested lists, multiple floated images, or other things the content producers will want to put in there? Does your nephew know about W3C accessibility guidelines, the font licensing issues involved with implementing sIFR, or how to ensure that essential user interactions are still functional without JS or in older browsers?
Just because someone can do job doesn't mean they should. My dad is a building contractor. He can lay bricks, but he doesn't because he can hire someone else who does it better and faster. If there's room in your project's budget to hire specialists, do it. Front End Developer, Business Analyst, Information Architect, DBA -- start bringing them in as you can afford it and the quality of your output will surely improve.
Well, a power/force conversion is a bit of an odd thing to try and do. In "traditional" applications, you can say Power = Force.Velocity, but that really only makes sense in a situation where you're powering a vehicle at constant velocity against some opposing force (e.g. drag or friction).
If that were the case, this drive could keep something on the move at 100 km/s, provided the drag on the vessel was only 0.5 N. I have no idea what the actual drag would be on a space ship in inter-planetary space.
He wasn't a loser, he was a psychopath. This is why spamming should be considered a serious crime. This person has just proved, by murdering his wife and child and leaving a baby to die of exposure, that he had absolutely no respect for other human beings. Humans are almost completely dependent on social interaction for survival. To undermine the trust and mutual respect that allows us all to live is the worst possible crime.
Think about the activities which have, for centuries, been considered unquestionably criminal: assault, murder, theft, fraud. All cases where the victim's rights over their own person or property has been violated. Spamming is another case where the perpetrator is pursuing their own interests without any regard for others.
I'm in no way trying to equate the magnitude of rape or murder with sending spam, but in my mind they are certainly the same class of crime. When we are shown that a convicted practitioner of the lesser is also capable of the greater, it should not come as a great surprise.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or just ignorant, but I'll bite. You put a second fingers down on the touchpad and click to get a "right click" effect. After about 10 minutes of use this is not awkward - it's awesome. It's far less awkward than what's required on touchpads with two physical buttons.
There are drivers available from Apple which make this function available in Windows too, as well as the two-finger scroll (which is much nicer that the scroll area at the right of the touchpad that is common on other notebooks).
Wouldn't this only be true if the anti-matter had negative inertial mass? I thought that the idea being tested was that while an anit-particle may have the same inertial mass as its regular counterpart (i.e. same force required to produce a given acceleration), that perhaps the force of gravity between matter and anti-matter was repulsive rather than attractive.