If it lasts until the end of the world, the command sequence will for all practical purposes be infinite. So what I'm saying is... if there are 1000 rounds in a civ game, then make the command list 1001 commands and it'll practically be infinite.
Of course, I'm assuming you were actually asking, and not just being a general smart aleck.;-)
Cheers.
You can change jobs. But the new company needs to sign some paper work, stating that they take over the responsibility for your visa. I haven't changed work place, I'm happy where I'm at, but a friend of mine has. It's not *that* big a deal.
Civ III has the culture thing going for it, but I don't like the way trade is being done and I don't like you that you NEED a BIG civilization to stand any chance. In Civ II, thanks to trade and other stuff, territory did not matter that much. But in Civ III, because of the luxury items, the size of your empire is everything...
Actually, I heard an interview with one of the persons who had drafted this law, and she said that it was specifically intended to 1) comply with EU regulations and 2) still allow people to make copies for their own personal use.
Plus... The legal system in Sweden tends to be more flexible and common-sensical than the American system. I very very much doubt that any Swedish court would convict you of any crime in the situation described above. Unless, of course, you didn't actually break the original CD, but rather sold it... But that's a different story.
Pirate Bay is relying on a Swedish ruling back in '97, or so, when a guy was considered innocent of any wrong doing when he was linking to mp3's that were hosted on someone else's machine. He was pointing at the crime, but not committing it. This is the precedence that Pirate Bay leans on all the time.
Eventually I guess it will be taken back to court again, and then we'll see what happens. But until then, they can sail on.
Of course. And that's also why I like Ikea - it allows me to redecorate my home every year, for the kind of money that would only allow me to get new furniture every five or so years at other stores...
It's a feature, not a bug.:-)
But I agree that the analogy with MySQL is somewhat... lacking. I'm not enough of a technophile to change my DB because it's gone out of fashion.:-)
No, you're missing the part that actually makes the decisions - the Council of Ministers. The Commission does the ground work, and makes a proposal to the parliament. The Parliament gets to say yes or no. If they say no, the Commission needs to rework their proposal.
However, it's not decided until the Council of Ministers has had their say. This is representatives straight out of the EU's governments, who are the ones actually making the decision (but behind closed doors, so nobody knows who said what) and then go home to their home countries, point finger at Brussels and say "They decided it! It wasn't me! It's the EU, damn them!".
And that is actually what's happening in a lot of the member countries.
In TFA it seems as if the H1b cap has only been raised and raised. Not true - there was a big cut-back in 2003. The cap around 2000 was well over 100,000 and is today at 65,000. So that's a very, very ugly statement in an otherwise interesting article.
I've been thinking the same thing for quite a while now - they could use bittorrent and release the show, with the ads, the same time it airs. If they have the tracker they'll even know exactly who downloads it, and if they want it can't be hard to block foreign IP-addresses from their tracker...
If the show - with ads - is available before the rips and in better quality, I'll bet you a lot of money that the ad-version will be the one people see. Plus, they'll know exactly how many viewers they have for each episode... Not too bad!
It's a brilliant idea. Now, somebody gotta clue the networks in...
For hundreds of years there's been talk of the disappearance of all jobs. Some new technology comes in, there's a period of adjusting as people move around to do something else, but then things turn out better than they were. Would you want to go back to before factories? Before tractors? These took the jobs from many people, but we're all better off as a result.
Next - how many of you have heard of an overstaffed software project? Right, not that many... the problem in software is not (and most likely never will be) that there aren't things to do, but rather that there are not enough people to do it. With help from India, China and wherever bigger things can be attempted. More amazing programs written.
And higher level jobs will always stay in the US. Why? Because this is where the money is. As long as management isn't planning on moving itself to India, they're going to want to keep higher level jobs here in the US, they are going to want their project leading engineers at arms reach, to be able to grab them and say "Hey, is this working now?" or "The customer wants the program to do foo as well, how long will it take, can we do it?".
I imagine that in the future these two items will lead to more software companies here in the US, with even smaller companies taking on larger projects through outsourcing. Or putting more effort into QA, and working out details and fixes which weren't cost effective to do before.
Anyone remember this great old game? Now there's a game that has religion in it! Why, the player is god!
Actually, I'm thinking maybe this is part of the reason there's so little religion in games - quite often the gamer takes on the role of the supreme being. Like Sims. If the player isn't a god, I don't know what he is. Or Civ.
In the old times (maybe still, but definitely back in the day) some games "cheated" when you were playing against the computer. This was to make the game harder to beat, but it also became infinitely annoying. So in a sense the computer is god in a game, you know, the reason for it all. Or the programmer might be god. That means, writing god into a game will be like god creating a god for the game.
God in a game might be annoying - a super existence that can do anything in a flash... if he could do THAT, then why am I the one gunning down all those monsters?
I guess though that maybe religion could be the theme of a game, rather than god... Maybe.
A game needs to be interactive, or it's not a game. Most religions are not interactive, rather, they come with a set of rules or suggestion for how to make your life better. You can't change it, well, not much. Maybe this is the problem.
Hmm... I'm thinking that this is more of a publicity stunt than anything else. I mean, it's obviously not intended for 15gb Ipod's, since those are the same size and worth more than $100 if they're working. So then maybe the owners of older, 5gb, Ipod's would be the ones Dell is thinking of? But those are the Apple only ipod's... those customers are highly unlikely to switch to the Dell jukebox.
So what's left? A bunch of articles on the web, publicity, and what did it cost Dell? Almost nothing.
Although... it has to be mentioned that even in this day and age, guys tend to be driving more than women, and women tend to be doing more household work than men. Could it be that they're simply better at doing what they do more often?
AFAIK, the very first versions of Kazaa didn't come bundled with Spyware... these are the guys that wrote the first versions, then passed it on to other, more business minded, people when it started to be a big thing. I don't know at what point the spyware entered the picture, but if it was sometime after the first Kazaa ownership change, they shouldn't be blamed.
And be that as it may, I think this is great news. I have used Skype quite a bit although it's the lack of a Linux version has been real annoying. It works great, is dead easy to use and provides great sound. Of course I could use GnomeMeeting or whatever instead, but that's not true for my parents or many of my other friends.
I have not seen any kind of spyware at all.
For any kind of communication program the main goal is userbase, userbase, userbase. And you get that by being easy to use... so... Go skype.
Ok... Lets translate your inches and feet to metric system - the guy is then looking to see how many 1 decimeter boards he can get out of (about) 1 meter of wood. There are ten decimeters on one meter... I don't see how using 4 inches and 3.5 feet makes it any easier.
For the carpenter guy it's just a matter of what system he's used to using, for scientists it's good because everything fits together. So... We really just need one system.:-)
Sorry, no, you missed it.:-)
As has been stated earlier here, that was the trial judge who said - and his ruling was the one turned down by the appeals judge.
But it is a strange way of writing an article...
First off, in Europe, companies are not allowed to make comparative commercials. Saying that your product works would not force you to accept a reply from the other company, saying that "our product works better than nnn's" might, but it's also considered unethical and you might have to pay a fine anyway.
This is not capitalistic gentrification. Quite the opposite, this protects you from being sued if you write something inappropriate. All you need to do is post a link.
The 'other products' I'm not sure about, but still, it haven't been a problem with other media. Why should it be with the internet?
Even with this law, it doesn't require you to listen to me. However it forces you to let ME talk to the people YOU have been talking to (about me!).
You don't have to be my mouthpiece; all you have to do is to shut up for a while and let me talk. I know that for some people it's hard, but if free speech should fill any purpose, then people must be given different views. That's the goal of free speech - to expose us to different opinions (and not just the governments!).
And slashdot for sure would not have a problem. Anyone can reply here.:-)
I can't resist this... if you are anywhere, you are subject to US laws, no matter what country you are from or anything. Look at Dimitri!
And to be honest, if there's any law I am scared off, it's US law...
Well, simple reply to this - it's been in effect for quite a few years in newspapers in Europe, and believe it or not, but it works. Sometimes a debate takes off between two parties (sort of like what you describes) but the newspapers generally steps in and stops the discussion when it's not going further. Usually that happens after one or sometimes two replies. I've lived both in Europe and in the states, and I have to say that the debates in the newspapers in europe are a whole lot better (and not at all flamewars) than those I find in american papers.
And about M$ - do you really think they would have time to browse all weblogs? And would you prefer getting sued instead of posting a link to their reply for a week or so?
After browsing some of the comments made here, I think there is a basic flaw in the discussion. To most europeans, free speech is great but it's even better if it can make us create a better world. The purpose of free speech is to *create debate*, so that we together can find the best solutions to problems. Now the problem is that many people are so locked in with their opinions that they are not willing to let others voice theirs - well, that's what the right-to-reply laws addresses. It forces them to at least let the other party say what he wants somewhere close to them.
However, most americans here on slashdot (I assume you are americans, I might be wrong) seem to consider free speech a means in itself, how it is used is of no importance. And in some posts it seems that debate is not even wanted ("free speech does not mean the right to be heard"!).:-) That would explain why people in other countries often find americans loud.:-)
On another note, this doesn't have to bring anyone's website down. Say I have a popular website where I throw trash at amazon because they treated me wrong in one case. Amazon might want a reply. It doesn't say in the article that amazon could force me to host that reply - it quite clearly states that a link to the reply might be enough. So, something like "get amazon's reply +here+" would be enough. Their website might get downed if a lot of people want to read it (which I doubt, if they came to the website for what I put there).
And about the blogs. The typical situation where the right to reply is used in newspapers in european countries is the same situation where you might get sued in the US. Which do you think scares people off of talking the most - afraid of being sued or afraid of having to post a link to the reply? Now what promotes free speech and what stifles it?
I have a *really* hard time seeing why this is so bad.
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Well, it's interesting to see that this is starting to pick up in the US as well. Last year we (we = project team from Uppsala University, Sweden) competed in the RoboCup 2002, which was being held in Japan at the same time as the 'normal' soccer world cup. It was an extremely interesting experience and the exhibition floor and competitions were on the floor of a huge indoor baseball arena (maximum capacity: 50 000). During three days of competition about 100,000 people showed up.
It's a shame you don't have what I consider the most interesting leagues though - the middle size and the humanoid league. Those are the ones that require most work and has least competitors, so it might be hard to get a full league I suppose. Middle size robots have everything onboard and have to do everything by themselves. There are quite a few teams in Europe and Japan, coming from universities but also some companies (Philips, dutch home electronics company, had a good middle size team last year.)
Further, FYI, Aibo robots are programmed by the team, so the kind of tricks and cool stuff they do depends on who programmed them (and how much time they had...:-) ). Teams who compete in this league obviously don't have to construct the hardware which might be nice for all the software guys out there. In most other leagues you build the robots from standard off-the-shelf components.
There is also a German Open which is being held in Paderborn, Germany, sometime soon. Further, the world championships, the real RoboCup 2003, is being held in Padua, Italy in the summer. This is from the top of my head, I don't have any URL:s, but I'm sure they can be found with a quick search.
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From emporis.com (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=100765), section facts:
"Most aspects of the design, layout and planning are consulted by a Feng Shui master."
Although it doesn't say that they took his advice, so... What do I know.
If it lasts until the end of the world, the command sequence will for all practical purposes be infinite. So what I'm saying is ... if there are 1000 rounds in a civ game, then make the command list 1001 commands and it'll practically be infinite.
Of course, I'm assuming you were actually asking, and not just being a general smart aleck. ;-)
Cheers.
Not really true...
You can change jobs. But the new company needs to sign some paper work, stating that they take over the responsibility for your visa. I haven't changed work place, I'm happy where I'm at, but a friend of mine has. It's not *that* big a deal.
Cheers.
First: Civ I
Favorite: Civ II
Civ III has the culture thing going for it, but I don't like the way trade is being done and I don't like you that you NEED a BIG civilization to stand any chance. In Civ II, thanks to trade and other stuff, territory did not matter that much. But in Civ III, because of the luxury items, the size of your empire is everything...
Actually, I heard an interview with one of the persons who had drafted this law, and she said that it was specifically intended to 1) comply with EU regulations and 2) still allow people to make copies for their own personal use.
... The legal system in Sweden tends to be more flexible and common-sensical than the American system. I very very much doubt that any Swedish court would convict you of any crime in the situation described above. Unless, of course, you didn't actually break the original CD, but rather sold it... But that's a different story.
Plus
Pirate Bay is relying on a Swedish ruling back in '97, or so, when a guy was considered innocent of any wrong doing when he was linking to mp3's that were hosted on someone else's machine. He was pointing at the crime, but not committing it. This is the precedence that Pirate Bay leans on all the time.
Eventually I guess it will be taken back to court again, and then we'll see what happens. But until then, they can sail on.
Of course. And that's also why I like Ikea - it allows me to redecorate my home every year, for the kind of money that would only allow me to get new furniture every five or so years at other stores...
:-)
... lacking. I'm not enough of a technophile to change my DB because it's gone out of fashion. :-)
It's a feature, not a bug.
But I agree that the analogy with MySQL is somewhat
Hans island belongs to me
64,300
I think it's time to rethink my garden...
No, you're missing the part that actually makes the decisions - the Council of Ministers. The Commission does the ground work, and makes a proposal to the parliament. The Parliament gets to say yes or no. If they say no, the Commission needs to rework their proposal.
However, it's not decided until the Council of Ministers has had their say. This is representatives straight out of the EU's governments, who are the ones actually making the decision (but behind closed doors, so nobody knows who said what) and then go home to their home countries, point finger at Brussels and say "They decided it! It wasn't me! It's the EU, damn them!".
And that is actually what's happening in a lot of the member countries.
In TFA it seems as if the H1b cap has only been raised and raised. Not true - there was a big cut-back in 2003. The cap around 2000 was well over 100,000 and is today at 65,000. So that's a very, very ugly statement in an otherwise interesting article.
you can do this.
http://www.sub300.com/
They have a really neat ultra-lite for less than $900. Lindows, sure, but I think you can get without OS as well.
I've never bought anything from them though, so I have no clue about their business practices or such.
Man, you're so right on!
I've been thinking the same thing for quite a while now - they could use bittorrent and release the show, with the ads, the same time it airs. If they have the tracker they'll even know exactly who downloads it, and if they want it can't be hard to block foreign IP-addresses from their tracker...
If the show - with ads - is available before the rips and in better quality, I'll bet you a lot of money that the ad-version will be the one people see. Plus, they'll know exactly how many viewers they have for each episode... Not too bad!
It's a brilliant idea. Now, somebody gotta clue the networks in...
Guys,
... the problem in software is not (and most likely never will be) that there aren't things to do, but rather that there are not enough people to do it. With help from India, China and wherever bigger things can be attempted. More amazing programs written.
For hundreds of years there's been talk of the disappearance of all jobs. Some new technology comes in, there's a period of adjusting as people move around to do something else, but then things turn out better than they were. Would you want to go back to before factories? Before tractors? These took the jobs from many people, but we're all better off as a result.
Next - how many of you have heard of an overstaffed software project? Right, not that many
And higher level jobs will always stay in the US. Why? Because this is where the money is. As long as management isn't planning on moving itself to India, they're going to want to keep higher level jobs here in the US, they are going to want their project leading engineers at arms reach, to be able to grab them and say "Hey, is this working now?" or "The customer wants the program to do foo as well, how long will it take, can we do it?".
I imagine that in the future these two items will lead to more software companies here in the US, with even smaller companies taking on larger projects through outsourcing. Or putting more effort into QA, and working out details and fixes which weren't cost effective to do before.
The software boom has barely started.
Anyone remember this great old game? Now there's a game that has religion in it! Why, the player is god!
... if he could do THAT, then why am I the one gunning down all those monsters?
Actually, I'm thinking maybe this is part of the reason there's so little religion in games - quite often the gamer takes on the role of the supreme being. Like Sims. If the player isn't a god, I don't know what he is. Or Civ.
In the old times (maybe still, but definitely back in the day) some games "cheated" when you were playing against the computer. This was to make the game harder to beat, but it also became infinitely annoying. So in a sense the computer is god in a game, you know, the reason for it all. Or the programmer might be god. That means, writing god into a game will be like god creating a god for the game.
God in a game might be annoying - a super existence that can do anything in a flash
I guess though that maybe religion could be the theme of a game, rather than god... Maybe.
A game needs to be interactive, or it's not a game. Most religions are not interactive, rather, they come with a set of rules or suggestion for how to make your life better. You can't change it, well, not much. Maybe this is the problem.
Hmm... I'm thinking that this is more of a publicity stunt than anything else. I mean, it's obviously not intended for 15gb Ipod's, since those are the same size and worth more than $100 if they're working. So then maybe the owners of older, 5gb, Ipod's would be the ones Dell is thinking of? But those are the Apple only ipod's ... those customers are highly unlikely to switch to the Dell jukebox.
So what's left? A bunch of articles on the web, publicity, and what did it cost Dell? Almost nothing.
Although ... it has to be mentioned that even in this day and age, guys tend to be driving more than women, and women tend to be doing more household work than men. Could it be that they're simply better at doing what they do more often?
AFAIK, the very first versions of Kazaa didn't come bundled with Spyware ... these are the guys that wrote the first versions, then passed it on to other, more business minded, people when it started to be a big thing. I don't know at what point the spyware entered the picture, but if it was sometime after the first Kazaa ownership change, they shouldn't be blamed.
... so ... Go skype.
And be that as it may, I think this is great news. I have used Skype quite a bit although it's the lack of a Linux version has been real annoying. It works great, is dead easy to use and provides great sound. Of course I could use GnomeMeeting or whatever instead, but that's not true for my parents or many of my other friends.
I have not seen any kind of spyware at all.
For any kind of communication program the main goal is userbase, userbase, userbase. And you get that by being easy to use
Ok... Lets translate your inches and feet to metric system - the guy is then looking to see how many 1 decimeter boards he can get out of (about) 1 meter of wood. There are ten decimeters on one meter... I don't see how using 4 inches and 3.5 feet makes it any easier.
:-)
For the carpenter guy it's just a matter of what system he's used to using, for scientists it's good because everything fits together. So... We really just need one system.
Sorry, no, you missed it. :-)
As has been stated earlier here, that was the trial judge who said - and his ruling was the one turned down by the appeals judge.
But it is a strange way of writing an article...
First off, in Europe, companies are not allowed to make comparative commercials. Saying that your product works would not force you to accept a reply from the other company, saying that "our product works better than nnn's" might, but it's also considered unethical and you might have to pay a fine anyway.
This is not capitalistic gentrification. Quite the opposite, this protects you from being sued if you write something inappropriate. All you need to do is post a link.
The 'other products' I'm not sure about, but still, it haven't been a problem with other media. Why should it be with the internet?
Even with this law, it doesn't require you to listen to me. However it forces you to let ME talk to the people YOU have been talking to (about me!). You don't have to be my mouthpiece; all you have to do is to shut up for a while and let me talk. I know that for some people it's hard, but if free speech should fill any purpose, then people must be given different views. That's the goal of free speech - to expose us to different opinions (and not just the governments!). And slashdot for sure would not have a problem. Anyone can reply here. :-)
I can't resist this ... if you are anywhere, you are subject to US laws, no matter what country you are from or anything. Look at Dimitri!
And to be honest, if there's any law I am scared off, it's US law...
Well, simple reply to this - it's been in effect for quite a few years in newspapers in Europe, and believe it or not, but it works. Sometimes a debate takes off between two parties (sort of like what you describes) but the newspapers generally steps in and stops the discussion when it's not going further. Usually that happens after one or sometimes two replies. I've lived both in Europe and in the states, and I have to say that the debates in the newspapers in europe are a whole lot better (and not at all flamewars) than those I find in american papers.
And about M$ - do you really think they would have time to browse all weblogs? And would you prefer getting sued instead of posting a link to their reply for a week or so?
Well, just my two cents.
After browsing some of the comments made here, I think there is a basic flaw in the discussion. To most europeans, free speech is great but it's even better if it can make us create a better world. The purpose of free speech is to *create debate*, so that we together can find the best solutions to problems. Now the problem is that many people are so locked in with their opinions that they are not willing to let others voice theirs - well, that's what the right-to-reply laws addresses. It forces them to at least let the other party say what he wants somewhere close to them.
:-) That would explain why people in other countries often find americans loud. :-)
However, most americans here on slashdot (I assume you are americans, I might be wrong) seem to consider free speech a means in itself, how it is used is of no importance. And in some posts it seems that debate is not even wanted ("free speech does not mean the right to be heard"!).
On another note, this doesn't have to bring anyone's website down. Say I have a popular website where I throw trash at amazon because they treated me wrong in one case. Amazon might want a reply. It doesn't say in the article that amazon could force me to host that reply - it quite clearly states that a link to the reply might be enough. So, something like "get amazon's reply +here+" would be enough. Their website might get downed if a lot of people want to read it (which I doubt, if they came to the website for what I put there).
And about the blogs. The typical situation where the right to reply is used in newspapers in european countries is the same situation where you might get sued in the US. Which do you think scares people off of talking the most - afraid of being sued or afraid of having to post a link to the reply? Now what promotes free speech and what stifles it?
I have a *really* hard time seeing why this is so bad.
Well, it's interesting to see that this is starting to pick up in the US as well. Last year we (we = project team from Uppsala University, Sweden) competed in the RoboCup 2002, which was being held in Japan at the same time as the 'normal' soccer world cup. It was an extremely interesting experience and the exhibition floor and competitions were on the floor of a huge indoor baseball arena (maximum capacity: 50 000). During three days of competition about 100,000 people showed up.
:-) ). Teams who compete in this league obviously don't have to construct the hardware which might be nice for all the software guys out there. In most other leagues you build the robots from standard off-the-shelf components.
It's a shame you don't have what I consider the most interesting leagues though - the middle size and the humanoid league. Those are the ones that require most work and has least competitors, so it might be hard to get a full league I suppose. Middle size robots have everything onboard and have to do everything by themselves. There are quite a few teams in Europe and Japan, coming from universities but also some companies (Philips, dutch home electronics company, had a good middle size team last year.)
Further, FYI, Aibo robots are programmed by the team, so the kind of tricks and cool stuff they do depends on who programmed them (and how much time they had...
There is also a German Open which is being held in Paderborn, Germany, sometime soon. Further, the world championships, the real RoboCup 2003, is being held in Padua, Italy in the summer. This is from the top of my head, I don't have any URL:s, but I'm sure they can be found with a quick search.