Well I'm the first to say my wife isn't exactly average (smart and a babe? im a lucky geek) - but she enjoys a fair breadth of games. Civ3, Tekken3, JetSet Radio Future, any and all card/mahjong games, Sega GT, and especially carmaggedon (damn she loved that game - I pray she never gets her license...).
I hate to stereo type, but last night it was my mates and I playing 4 player deathmatch DieHard, while she was busy with world domination in Civ3.
Men=Destroy
Women=Create
Awfully simplistic (setting up the troll nets now) I know, but it is one of those stereotypes with a basis in reality. I am not alledging any causality here, only correlation.
To eventually finish my point: There are a larger number of games available that are not purely based around the see-something, shoot-it principle that has worked so admirably in the past. Perhaps it is this that is generating enough interest among the female gamers?
I hate to add fuel to this sort of fire, but is Moore's "Law" a law, or an "observation"? They are not equivalent.
"...historical trend that hasn't been broken in thousands of years." - What codswallop. In a theoretically infinite universe this may be the case, but real life is never that simple. Exponential growth of velocity - diminishing returns as you approach the speed of light. Exponential population growth - always a ceiling....
Sure we could abolish all IP (I hate that phrase) laws.
Personally I would just prefer that a modicum of common sense is applied to the process (especially in the tech market).
The current PanIP style patents are a complete farce. It is the tech version of patenting slicing bread with a knife (sorry "a new method for parallel segmentation of baked goods using small angle steel alloy implements").
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If there is an easy answer, you asked the wrong question...
I like the indeterminant ternary logic concept
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I have always felt (but my models have failed miserably so far) that combining binary with uncertainty to create an indeterminant ternary logic would be extremely useful for many rule-of-thumb applications (ie. pattern matching, fuzzy logic).
Picture a system with:
1/3 power = 0
2/3 power = alpha
3/3 power = 1
Now consider the case of recursion where each iteration must be deffered until the one above returns - by using uncertain values instead you may be able to perform a range of forward-possibilty operations upon the as yet indeterminant numbers.
When the higher order recursion results eventually (lets assume) returns a value that determines the alpha value all that is required is to create a specific instance of the generalised results.
I like the concept - and it seems it could easily be integrated on the same die as a standard ternary chip.
Anything that fscks with De Beers gets my vote (or votes if it is e-voting...).
That inhuman pack of gunship flying, mercenary hiring, indigenous population exploiting *ssholes can suck it down and shut up.
Our obsession over "pretty sparklies" is disgusting, and what we are willing to ignore to ensure a steady flow is reprehensible. How many middle-class housewifes with a rock on a finger know the TRUE cost of that shiny bauble?
Lets wake up to ourselves and try to develop a modicum of common sense? Why are diamonds expensive? Because they are in demand. Why are they in demand - no it is not the industrial applications? Because they are expensive.
A big problem with optical routers at the moment is that the electronic components can't keep pace with the optical components.
This is part of the reason why the fibre optic revolution has been more of a slow turn... fast pipes are great, but it helps if you know where to send them.
81GHz isn't going to solve the problem - but it will help.
If we are going to count SFX, the theme song and sound effects for Doctor Who were unquestionably ground breaking.
While studying music studio techniques at uni I had the opportunity to compose and perform a piece on a VCS3 (think pre-putney), one of the earliest commercial analog synths.
This "portable" british beast was housed in solid wood casing, "wired-up" by sticking metal pins into a matrix, the controlled by a button and a joystick.
To get any sort of pleasant sound from it (even if only once: analog = never the same twice) required serious effort. TheDoctor Who performers were using even older equipment, recording single fragments onto tape, then splicing till Apollo440 looks like childs play...
Now that was some serious effort - but resulted in a theme song that I will never forget.
My old business used a web based XML data passing demon to generate, store, and print PDF files (using libpdf I believe - but which ever) that were then sent to a high volume printer.
This was only for the envelope and invoice/receipt/statement (no estamps), but I did integrate a barcode->image->embedded in PDF functionality that allowed us to semi-automate return mail.
Worked like a dream - took me about a week to write.
Excluding contractual obligations, there is no basis for a law suit here.
AOL has not guaranteed delivery of email to it's servers (see the terns and conditions for SMS).
They will not have guaranteed delivery of emails to others servers.
At best you may be able to get a refund through threatening them with false advertising (if and only if they made or reasonably implied a service that they did not fulfill).
Legally there is nothing wrong with a ping only ISP as long as it is not misrepresented to the potential customers.
Any attempts to provide enough content to amuse enough people for any extended period of time is obviously doomed to economic failure.
It's just so much harder to create original, inventive content than it is to enjoy it...
Instead these companies should focus upon providing the base content, content creation tools, and infrastructure. Then enable and empower their users to create, alter, delete as they wish (in a controlled fashion - trust ratings and staff moderation).
People are hard to amuse, but generally find it easy to amuse themselves - Old jungle saying.
It is abhorrent that people will be given different rights (what was that bill of rights thingy again?) dependant purely upon their economic situation!
The fact that it is intentionally targetting those least equipped to defend their rights is more than a cynical self-serving decision. It is downright criminal.
Begine Rhetorical Questions:
How many of the homeless suffer from various mental and physical difficulties?
How many will avoid the aforementioned shelters etc., purely on the basis of the infringment of their rights?
Who thinks that this information will not be seriously abused by those parties given access?
The homeless are generally not born that way: they are members of our families, they are your old school teacher, your best friend.
In my first year at Uni I ended up without a roof over my head or food to eat. It was only through the homeless shelters and soup kitchens that I was able to survive in the sub-zero temperatures.
Should I have been "tagged" because of this?
Should I have been penalised for coming from a low income demographic?
Should I have given implicit consent for any interested government agency to track my movements at the merest whim?
I graduated years ago, have a wife and 1.5 kids (ETA january for #2:), a well-paying job in IT, and all round I am an exemplary citizen. I am not sure I would be here and now if it had been a choice between RFID tagging and probable death. I mean this in all seriousness.
Please, lets show a bit of humanity in our treatment of humans...
Q.
P.S. If you are American - please object loudly and often.
MFC's are higher priced in nearly every way (sometimes cheaper for initial purchase).
You are forced to purchase redundant units when you (inevitably) have to upgrade a component.
Quality is nearly always poorer than standalones.
The inconvenience of not being able to use the scanner or printer or copier or fax at the same time can VERY quickly make the "multi" part of MFC seem a bit of a misnomer.
As far as I can see - if we run it on Wine that is not a help or hindrance really. If native port is available, we would use it instead.
If a native port is not available, then wine is the only (free) option available for Linux.
The crux of the matter is that you should let the developers know that you are running it on Wine. Without this feedback you are just another windows statistic - to be regurgitated by MS at a later date as a reason not to port the software.
If they are aware of the linux demand, we stand a better chance of getting compatible/native releases.
If developers are informed that they are almost cross platform already, they will be much more open to the possibility of rewriting the portions that would help make it a better/faster/more stable linux game.
I agree in principle, it is only the ubiquity of the email spam reflector proxies (on some clueless cable users home pc etc.) that encourages restraint in this matter.
I would not like to think that I could possibly be persecuting an innocent party.
Even in the case where it is in fact the spammer in question there tend to be stronger laws, in most countries, for phone/personal/snail-mail harassment.
Presumably this goes some measure towards explaining why some of the global conveyor belt currents have been slowing down.
Generally the cold (gas absorbing) waters of the poles, sink to the ocean floor carrying large amounts of CO2 and O2. This dissolved oxygen is critical in keeping aerobic conditions in the deep sea (several early mass extinctions have been attributed to anaerobic organisms flourishing in oxygen depleted waters) and the dissolved carbon dioxide is attributed to the lower than expected climatic changes from greenhouse gas emmissions.
Why are we not freaking out about this??
This is the great engine of Earth (forget Deep Thought). It is responsible for the majority of heat storage and transfer in our environment, allowing disparate areas to acheive a modicum of energy equilibrium.
Without this "smoothing" force to even out the bumps - storms will become more violent as the coriolis effect is reinforced by the increasing density of the atmosphere as you travel towards the poles - sea currents will alter drastically, causing mass extinctions - seasons will be more extreme hot or cold.
All in all, this issue in no way deserves the (more than usual) flippant, offhand and dismissive treatment it is receiving.
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I hate to stereo type, but last night it was my mates and I playing 4 player deathmatch DieHard, while she was busy with world domination in Civ3.
Men=Destroy
Women=Create
Awfully simplistic (setting up the troll nets now) I know, but it is one of those stereotypes with a basis in reality. I am not alledging any causality here, only correlation.
To eventually finish my point: There are a larger number of games available that are not purely based around the see-something, shoot-it principle that has worked so admirably in the past. Perhaps it is this that is generating enough interest among the female gamers?
Q.
A DDoS attack will just as effectively block a whitelist as a blacklist - leaving you in the same information void as currently.
If you meant only that it will help avoid future lawsuits you may be correct.
Q.
(Exponential Growth = Unbreakable) => Tripe
I hate to add fuel to this sort of fire, but is Moore's "Law" a law, or an "observation"? They are not equivalent.
"...historical trend that hasn't been broken in thousands of years." - What codswallop. In a theoretically infinite universe this may be the case, but real life is never that simple. Exponential growth of velocity - diminishing returns as you approach the speed of light. Exponential population growth - always a ceiling....
I could go on and on - but I won't.
Q.
Personally I would just prefer that a modicum of common sense is applied to the process (especially in the tech market).
The current PanIP style patents are a complete farce. It is the tech version of patenting slicing bread with a knife (sorry "a new method for parallel segmentation of baked goods using small angle steel alloy implements").
Q.
If there is an easy answer, you asked the wrong question...
Picture a system with:
1/3 power = 0
2/3 power = alpha
3/3 power = 1
Now consider the case of recursion where each iteration must be deffered until the one above returns - by using uncertain values instead you may be able to perform a range of forward-possibilty operations upon the as yet indeterminant numbers.
When the higher order recursion results eventually (lets assume) returns a value that determines the alpha value all that is required is to create a specific instance of the generalised results.
I like the concept - and it seems it could easily be integrated on the same die as a standard ternary chip.
Q.
Sure they have gotten slowly less intrusive, but I can still pick them...
And on the front page too...
Q.
That inhuman pack of gunship flying, mercenary hiring, indigenous population exploiting *ssholes can suck it down and shut up.
Our obsession over "pretty sparklies" is disgusting, and what we are willing to ignore to ensure a steady flow is reprehensible. How many middle-class housewifes with a rock on a finger know the TRUE cost of that shiny bauble?
Lets wake up to ourselves and try to develop a modicum of common sense? Why are diamonds expensive? Because they are in demand. Why are they in demand - no it is not the industrial applications? Because they are expensive.
Q.
This is part of the reason why the fibre optic revolution has been more of a slow turn... fast pipes are great, but it helps if you know where to send them.
81GHz isn't going to solve the problem - but it will help.
Q.
I mean I understand it is a high stress job, but he made George Bush sound like a confident and interesting orator....
Dubyah has better script writers to.
Q.
While studying music studio techniques at uni I had the opportunity to compose and perform a piece on a VCS3 (think pre-putney), one of the earliest commercial analog synths.
This "portable" british beast was housed in solid wood casing, "wired-up" by sticking metal pins into a matrix, the controlled by a button and a joystick.
To get any sort of pleasant sound from it (even if only once: analog = never the same twice) required serious effort. TheDoctor Who performers were using even older equipment, recording single fragments onto tape, then splicing till Apollo440 looks like childs play...
Now that was some serious effort - but resulted in a theme song that I will never forget.
Q.
This was only for the envelope and invoice/receipt/statement (no estamps), but I did integrate a barcode->image->embedded in PDF functionality that allowed us to semi-automate return mail.
Worked like a dream - took me about a week to write.
Q.
AOL has not guaranteed delivery of email to it's servers (see the terns and conditions for SMS).
They will not have guaranteed delivery of emails to others servers.
At best you may be able to get a refund through threatening them with false advertising (if and only if they made or reasonably implied a service that they did not fulfill).
Legally there is nothing wrong with a ping only ISP as long as it is not misrepresented to the potential customers.
Q.
It's just so much harder to create original, inventive content than it is to enjoy it...
Instead these companies should focus upon providing the base content, content creation tools, and infrastructure. Then enable and empower their users to create, alter, delete as they wish (in a controlled fashion - trust ratings and staff moderation).
People are hard to amuse, but generally find it easy to amuse themselves - Old jungle saying.
Q.
They broke my crack monkey detector...
Q.
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Q.
It is abhorrent that people will be given different rights (what was that bill of rights thingy again?) dependant purely upon their economic situation!
The fact that it is intentionally targetting those least equipped to defend their rights is more than a cynical self-serving decision. It is downright criminal.
Begine Rhetorical Questions:
How many of the homeless suffer from various mental and physical difficulties?
How many will avoid the aforementioned shelters etc., purely on the basis of the infringment of their rights?
Who thinks that this information will not be seriously abused by those parties given access?
The homeless are generally not born that way: they are members of our families, they are your old school teacher, your best friend.
In my first year at Uni I ended up without a roof over my head or food to eat. It was only through the homeless shelters and soup kitchens that I was able to survive in the sub-zero temperatures.
Should I have been "tagged" because of this?
Should I have been penalised for coming from a low income demographic?
Should I have given implicit consent for any interested government agency to track my movements at the merest whim?
I graduated years ago, have a wife and 1.5 kids (ETA january for #2 :), a well-paying job in IT, and all round I am an exemplary citizen. I am not sure I would be here and now if it had been a choice between RFID tagging and probable death. I mean this in all seriousness.
Please, lets show a bit of humanity in our treatment of humans...
Q.
P.S. If you are American - please object loudly and often.
You are forced to purchase redundant units when you (inevitably) have to upgrade a component.
Quality is nearly always poorer than standalones.
The inconvenience of not being able to use the scanner or printer or copier or fax at the same time can VERY quickly make the "multi" part of MFC seem a bit of a misnomer.
Q.
If a native port is not available, then wine is the only (free) option available for Linux.
The crux of the matter is that you should let the developers know that you are running it on Wine. Without this feedback you are just another windows statistic - to be regurgitated by MS at a later date as a reason not to port the software.
If they are aware of the linux demand, we stand a better chance of getting compatible/native releases.
If developers are informed that they are almost cross platform already, they will be much more open to the possibility of rewriting the portions that would help make it a better/faster/more stable linux game.
Q.
It is amazing how unintentionally accurate he is with this statement.
At last count the Human-Chimp shared DNA component was greater than 99%.
Those bastard chimps must have been violating our DNA license agreement...
Q. (Captain Logical Fallacy)
I would not like to think that I could possibly be persecuting an innocent party.
Even in the case where it is in fact the spammer in question there tend to be stronger laws, in most countries, for phone/personal/snail-mail harassment.
Q.
goodbye...
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Q.
And men.
What have men got to do with this?
Q.
Generally the cold (gas absorbing) waters of the poles, sink to the ocean floor carrying large amounts of CO2 and O2. This dissolved oxygen is critical in keeping aerobic conditions in the deep sea (several early mass extinctions have been attributed to anaerobic organisms flourishing in oxygen depleted waters) and the dissolved carbon dioxide is attributed to the lower than expected climatic changes from greenhouse gas emmissions.
Why are we not freaking out about this??
This is the great engine of Earth (forget Deep Thought). It is responsible for the majority of heat storage and transfer in our environment, allowing disparate areas to acheive a modicum of energy equilibrium.
Without this "smoothing" force to even out the bumps - storms will become more violent as the coriolis effect is reinforced by the increasing density of the atmosphere as you travel towards the poles - sea currents will alter drastically, causing mass extinctions - seasons will be more extreme hot or cold.
All in all, this issue in no way deserves the (more than usual) flippant, offhand and dismissive treatment it is receiving.
Q.