An EULA has a different legal standing to a software license. It's a contract between the copyright owner and the user. As well as granting permission to copy the software for specific purposes, an EULA typically forces the user to agree with contractual conditions beyond the scope of copyright (for example, what you may use the software to do, or whether you are permitted to write a unfavourable review of the software). So, although a number of people present the GPL as a click-through-license, it's not really an EULA as it contains only the permission to do something the user would otherwise not be free to do: copy the software.
Compared to other countries Australia has damn cheap broadband that is widely available. Try going to South Africa or anywhere in eastern europe. You'll be using dialup on a crackling line.
My girlfriend watches the ads. She is continually saying to me: Oh, have you seen this ad? Watch the ad! Of course, our advertisements are little more witty than the same 3 truck ads they play on PBS.
Man, how the hell is "you must pay to get it" going to work. It's free software, you're free to give it to other people, those people are not going to pay for it are they? What's sad is that people still consider this an acceptable business model and then cry foul when someone starts handing out copies for nuffin.
Well, 6 people in a room was just an example. Choose your own necessary measure to see how much of a bandwidth gobbler this would be.. but yeah, surely some cool compression would be possible.
The crown is a figurative ruler. All the examples you gave are for problems that involve other people. We were talking about victimless crimes. The US people are ruled, when it comes to things like drugs and airport security. But most people in the US consider those things to be a travesty. People in the UK tend to take it as given that they need to be told what to do.
Heh, I was once considering how hard it would be to make a game input device where you had realtime control over your character's movement. Just for argument sake, let's say you had your own motion capture studio at home (this isn't too hard to imagine, the technology to capture motion data from unaligned webcam-type devices is available now, just not in realtime). Ok, so imagine you have 3 floats for each joint. There's neck, l&r shoulder, l&r elbow, l&r wrist, pelvis, l&r leg, l&r knee, l&r ankle. That's 14 joints and I havn't even covered the hands, for which there's like 14 joints in each. So say 42 joints. Ok, 42x3x4 = 504 bytes. Let's say you go at a lesurily 12 frames per second. That's 6k/sec.
Now when you think about that value you might say yeah, broadband could do that right? Well no, cause that would be how fast it would be to stream that to the server. You then have to stream from the server to every player. Suppose you have 6 characters in a room, that's 30k/sec that each player has to be able to receive (they don't need to receive their own stream).
Of course, I havn't said anything about compression. Who knows how well this kind of stuff will compress, especially if we use some kind of lossy algorithm. It could be doable I suppose. Once you have good motion capture in the home all you need is a sensible VR headset (I hear the Sony Glasstron is out of production now) and what I like to call "walking stones": little robots with a flat surface for you to walk on that move backwards after you step on them to enable you to walk on the spot without noticing it.
You just live in a different culture. It's very comon to get asked to step outside if you insult a guy's manhood - which you can do with just about any insult as you're effectively saying that he is incapable of stopping you from insulting him. Now, if you're like to test this, go to your local bar, pick the guy with the brightest shirt and say something along the lines of "Jesus, you think you could have bought a brighter shirt?" You will probably get a casual laugh out of him. Then you might say "No seriously, that shirt is ugly as hell, you must be really stupid to wear a shirt like that out in public." Now you have insulted him, and I would expect just about any man to tell you to go to hell. If you were to then provoke him further you are guarenteed to get a fat lip or asked to step outside. Surely you can't disagree with that.
No, you're just taking us literally. In Australia we are ruled by our government yes, but not nearly as much as in the UK. Our laws exist to prevent and address greivances between citizens. In the US people are not ruled at all. Any attempt to rule people of the US is met with immediate distain and legislative action. If you want an example of this, consider motocycle helmets. Here in Australia you are required to wear one. I bet you're required to wear one in the UK too. Don't wanna wear one in the US? No problem. Why? Cause only by ruling the people could you force them to wear a helmet. Attempts have been made of course.. most states have tried to introduce compulsory helmet laws for motocycles but they have been ruled unconstitutional numerous times.
BTW, when you go to court in the UK or in Australia you are prosecuted by the crown. You and I both know that is just a figure head, but what exactly does the figure head stand for?
MxO is not "buggy as hell". Every review of MxO has been from the beta. Besides which, MxO will not make a player-driven storyline. In fact, exactly the opposite, the story line will be driven by actors playing the main characters of the 3 films who will be following a script written by the Wachowski brothers. How fast they will put out new content is anyone's guess, but personally I think there won't be any "new monsters" in MxO, the plot line will be driven by the existing "cast" and the players will play minor roles. That's the way to tell a story in a MMORPG.
I never was on topic, so there's no need to come back onto it. I don't want laws to protect me from myself. If I give you consent to hit me then the law should stay out of it. Period. The fact that you think otherwise is what I was saying when I said you are ruled.. it doesn't matter who you are ruled by, you're still not in control of your own life.
Obviously you don't go around insulting strangers in real life otherwise you'd know that it will earn you a fat lip. I'm not even encouraging that kind of behaviour. If you insulted me in a public place I'd ask if I had misheard you and would you like to step outside. That doesn't make me a violent person, it makes me a normal human male. If you wouldn't do the same then I guess you're just extradinary.
Whatever, you're obviously more interested in nah-saying than actually thinking about the potential. You continue to talk about "rocks" entering the atmosphere, when I've made it clear that you'd be sending back almost 100% pure platinium, a metal which can go through heat shock with no ill effects.
yes. The point of the discussion was the comparison to admin dudes, who are not valued by just the skills that they bring to the job and receive training as a matter of course.
The "magic" you desire is called gravity. It takes little energy to boost a tonne of material into a capture with the moon which will leave it in orbit of earth. I suggested using the shuttle as we were talking about what NASA could be doing. Obviously just modifying the orbit so that it enters the earth's atmosphere would be enough to de-orbit a tonne of material with little loss. A parachute will do to ensure it doesn't make a crater. As for where all this energy comes from: space is an energy rich place. Our mining probe can sit on the asteroid collecting solar energy until it has enough to boost the materials into orbit. How would you turn the energy into thrust? Well the best way would be to utilise the materials that make up a significant portion of the surface of asteroids: hydrogen and oxygen. Solar energy could be used to turn asteroid regolith into rocket fuel. Again, it's simple 19th century technology. Using carbon in the regolith the probe could even make plastic to wrap the payload in.. hell, even the parachutes used for deorbiting could be made on the asteroid.
Wow, an economic argument for restricting the freedom of everyone on earth. Genius! By your logic people should be wrapped in cotton wool and never allowed to leave the house as they might hurt themselves and therefore cost the public money. Again, I must really congratulate you on this line of reasoning.
it's amazing the number of people who have replied to my post with the accusation that I swing my fists at anyone who insults me. Challenging someone to a fight is a perfectly civil way to request that someone show you respect. Just because you've lost touch with your masculine side doesn't mean the rest of us have.
which RP server would that be? The whole point of my post was the WoW is not a role playing game. Oh, and just because you have no concept of what a role playing game *is* doesn't mean you can go around insulting people who do.
Man, did you read anything I wrote? You don't just hit someone, you ask them if they would like to step outside. You ask them if they would like to backup their words with fists. If they decline then you say "boo hoo, sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me" and be on your way. Now, as you appear to have never challenged someone to fight you or accepted, who are you to tell me how one feels after engaging in such a challenge.
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heh, no. If we all seriously humiliate people who don't read the article then maybe they'll start (or at least piss off).
WTF does soon mean?
Just filter it.. this is basic cleanroom technology that has been perfected already.
And he would have known that if he had RTFA. And the person who modded him up would have known that he didn't RTFA if he had RTFA.
Just leave your space suit in the airlock, thank you.
Here's a wild idea. What if you simulated the processing done by the visual cortex in a chip and then fed the result into the retina?
An EULA has a different legal standing to a software license. It's a contract between the copyright owner and the user. As well as granting permission to copy the software for specific purposes, an EULA typically forces the user to agree with contractual conditions beyond the scope of copyright (for example, what you may use the software to do, or whether you are permitted to write a unfavourable review of the software). So, although a number of people present the GPL as a click-through-license, it's not really an EULA as it contains only the permission to do something the user would otherwise not be free to do: copy the software.
Compared to other countries Australia has damn cheap broadband that is widely available. Try going to South Africa or anywhere in eastern europe. You'll be using dialup on a crackling line.
My girlfriend watches the ads. She is continually saying to me: Oh, have you seen this ad? Watch the ad! Of course, our advertisements are little more witty than the same 3 truck ads they play on PBS.
Man, how the hell is "you must pay to get it" going to work. It's free software, you're free to give it to other people, those people are not going to pay for it are they? What's sad is that people still consider this an acceptable business model and then cry foul when someone starts handing out copies for nuffin.
Well, 6 people in a room was just an example. Choose your own necessary measure to see how much of a bandwidth gobbler this would be.. but yeah, surely some cool compression would be possible.
The crown is a figurative ruler. All the examples you gave are for problems that involve other people. We were talking about victimless crimes. The US people are ruled, when it comes to things like drugs and airport security. But most people in the US consider those things to be a travesty. People in the UK tend to take it as given that they need to be told what to do.
Now when you think about that value you might say yeah, broadband could do that right? Well no, cause that would be how fast it would be to stream that to the server. You then have to stream from the server to every player. Suppose you have 6 characters in a room, that's 30k/sec that each player has to be able to receive (they don't need to receive their own stream).
Of course, I havn't said anything about compression. Who knows how well this kind of stuff will compress, especially if we use some kind of lossy algorithm. It could be doable I suppose. Once you have good motion capture in the home all you need is a sensible VR headset (I hear the Sony Glasstron is out of production now) and what I like to call "walking stones": little robots with a flat surface for you to walk on that move backwards after you step on them to enable you to walk on the spot without noticing it.
You just live in a different culture. It's very comon to get asked to step outside if you insult a guy's manhood - which you can do with just about any insult as you're effectively saying that he is incapable of stopping you from insulting him. Now, if you're like to test this, go to your local bar, pick the guy with the brightest shirt and say something along the lines of "Jesus, you think you could have bought a brighter shirt?" You will probably get a casual laugh out of him. Then you might say "No seriously, that shirt is ugly as hell, you must be really stupid to wear a shirt like that out in public." Now you have insulted him, and I would expect just about any man to tell you to go to hell. If you were to then provoke him further you are guarenteed to get a fat lip or asked to step outside. Surely you can't disagree with that.
BTW, when you go to court in the UK or in Australia you are prosecuted by the crown. You and I both know that is just a figure head, but what exactly does the figure head stand for?
MxO is not "buggy as hell". Every review of MxO has been from the beta. Besides which, MxO will not make a player-driven storyline. In fact, exactly the opposite, the story line will be driven by actors playing the main characters of the 3 films who will be following a script written by the Wachowski brothers. How fast they will put out new content is anyone's guess, but personally I think there won't be any "new monsters" in MxO, the plot line will be driven by the existing "cast" and the players will play minor roles. That's the way to tell a story in a MMORPG.
I never was on topic, so there's no need to come back onto it. I don't want laws to protect me from myself. If I give you consent to hit me then the law should stay out of it. Period. The fact that you think otherwise is what I was saying when I said you are ruled.. it doesn't matter who you are ruled by, you're still not in control of your own life.
Obviously you don't go around insulting strangers in real life otherwise you'd know that it will earn you a fat lip. I'm not even encouraging that kind of behaviour. If you insulted me in a public place I'd ask if I had misheard you and would you like to step outside. That doesn't make me a violent person, it makes me a normal human male. If you wouldn't do the same then I guess you're just extradinary.
Whatever, you're obviously more interested in nah-saying than actually thinking about the potential. You continue to talk about "rocks" entering the atmosphere, when I've made it clear that you'd be sending back almost 100% pure platinium, a metal which can go through heat shock with no ill effects.
yes. The point of the discussion was the comparison to admin dudes, who are not valued by just the skills that they bring to the job and receive training as a matter of course.
The "magic" you desire is called gravity. It takes little energy to boost a tonne of material into a capture with the moon which will leave it in orbit of earth. I suggested using the shuttle as we were talking about what NASA could be doing. Obviously just modifying the orbit so that it enters the earth's atmosphere would be enough to de-orbit a tonne of material with little loss. A parachute will do to ensure it doesn't make a crater. As for where all this energy comes from: space is an energy rich place. Our mining probe can sit on the asteroid collecting solar energy until it has enough to boost the materials into orbit. How would you turn the energy into thrust? Well the best way would be to utilise the materials that make up a significant portion of the surface of asteroids: hydrogen and oxygen. Solar energy could be used to turn asteroid regolith into rocket fuel. Again, it's simple 19th century technology. Using carbon in the regolith the probe could even make plastic to wrap the payload in.. hell, even the parachutes used for deorbiting could be made on the asteroid.
Wow, an economic argument for restricting the freedom of everyone on earth. Genius! By your logic people should be wrapped in cotton wool and never allowed to leave the house as they might hurt themselves and therefore cost the public money. Again, I must really congratulate you on this line of reasoning.
it's amazing the number of people who have replied to my post with the accusation that I swing my fists at anyone who insults me. Challenging someone to a fight is a perfectly civil way to request that someone show you respect. Just because you've lost touch with your masculine side doesn't mean the rest of us have.
which RP server would that be? The whole point of my post was the WoW is not a role playing game. Oh, and just because you have no concept of what a role playing game *is* doesn't mean you can go around insulting people who do.
Man, did you read anything I wrote? You don't just hit someone, you ask them if they would like to step outside. You ask them if they would like to backup their words with fists. If they decline then you say "boo hoo, sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me" and be on your way. Now, as you appear to have never challenged someone to fight you or accepted, who are you to tell me how one feels after engaging in such a challenge.