Is it time to bring a legal system into these worlds? You could have company employees with the King's guards avatar's patrolling for miscreants. Or, if you feel you've been wronged, you can file a complaint and hold a public hearing. A judge or jury can watch a replay of the complaint and issue a ruling.
"2) Explain how your selected excerpt from the Bill of Rights could possibly have included a definition of speech which meant anything other than sound made from human lips absent of any recording of transmission technologies as none existed in the 1770s."
Yes, it does;) Normally I'm not a stickler for that kind of thing, because I make mistakes all the time, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity. Great post otherwise.
OK, so a catastrophe wipes out civilization. People (anatomically modern humans) have been around for about 200,000 years, but they've been living in cities (the anthropological definition of civilization) for only about 5,000 -- and not everybody has been living in cities for the past 5k. So I think we'll do alright.
What I would like to see is some kind of encrypted, p2p, email/IM replacement that doesn't rely on centralized servers. I realise what I've said is redundant -- P2P that doesn't rely on servers, but I'm trying to be clear. Messages would get routed through webs of trust, and if you lose your keys, you can have your new keys signed by people you know in real life. This would totally eliminate spam and ensure privacy and authentication for communcations.
Carriage returns are stripped out. Use the html 'br' or 'p' tags ( replace '' with greater-than and less-than signs. I can't type it that way or else I'd get weird breaks in my post!)
Well, my point is that games are just sets of rules that happen to be fun. Don't ask my why or how they're fun, that's another discussion. Whether it's a card game, a board game, a video game, or a DM, some dice, and paper and pencil, there is a set of rules that are the game itself.
A lot of people seem to think that you have to make jaw dropping graphics, pixar quality cutscenes, or amazing music in order for a video game to be "successful". I argue that that's not it -- graphics and sound are secondary to gameplay consideration. They might help, but 1. they don't make up for crappy gameplay, and 2. great games with crappy music and sound are still great games.
So, my plea to open source game makers is this: Make great games. If you do, maybe the game will attract great artists and musicians. If not, hey, we still have a great game!
"No, it takes artists, writers, designers, musicians, testers, etc. The code is only a small part of the overall thing."
No, the only thing that matters for a game is gameplay. People play games like card games, dungeons and dragons, pong, pacman, frogger, joust, and legend of zelda because of great gameplay. All of those games have lousy graphics and sound.
The supposed "need" for artists, writers, musicians, etc., is only because of the past ~5-10 of advanced graphics, but they are not required to make a great game.
"It takes $$$ and lots of it to create a Halo, a Counterstrike or a Sims. That's just how it is."
What is all that $$$ spent on? Mining for raw video game material? All that crazy hardware that is only for video game development? No. The only thing is takes to create video games is code, not $$$. You're confused because $$$ is a way of making code, but $$$ does not actually create video games by itself.
The reason why we don't have great open source video games now is simply a matter of tools. Look at the mods, maps, and levels that fans make freely available for commercial games. Those fans are hardly programmers. Once we get decent open source game engines, development environments, and media, the floodgates will open.
Instead of chasing down the lone cracker who created the GreatNewVirus, authorities can now pley members against each other in order to infiltrate a group. They can offer rewards for ratting out other members, or bribe them with reduced charges/punishment in exchange for squealing. This is a good thing.
Sorry, I meant their user account on the database.
A really useful feature for database security is column permissions. So, if I have a user that has no permissions to view or write to a particular column, I feel confident that, even with buggy code, that user will not get data from or into that column.
However, with the quote table, if a supplier with a user account that has select access to that table could theoretically get access to any suppliers quote -- they have access to the 'quote' field. The only thing preventing this is 1. the proper lookup of the supplier_id and 2. the construction of the WHERE clause on the query ( where supplier_id = $supplier_id ). If that process goes wrong, they get to see another supplier's quotes.
Who gets to arbitrate what context makes things appropriate? The Oprah show was actually teenagers talking about sex and sexual terms. Here's the transcript:
The Oprah Winfrey Show Transcript
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Clip One
Oprah: Lets talk about that secret language Michelle.
Michelle: Yes
Oprah: I didn't know any of this
Michelle: I have yea, I have gotten a whole new vocabulary let me tell ya
Oprah: I did not know any of this
Michelle: Salad tossing, cucumbers, lettuce tomatoes ok
Oprah: ok so so what is a salad toss?
Michelle: ok a tossed salad is, get ready hold on to your underwear for this one, oral anal sex, So oral sex with the anus is what that would be.
Clip Two
Michelle: a rainbow party is an oral sex party it's a gathering where oral sex is performed and
rainbow comes from all of the girls put on lipstick and each one puts her mouth around
the penis of the gentleman or gentlemen who are there to receive favors and makes
a mark um in a different place on the penis hence the term rainbow
C'mon folks. With wikipedia, it's at least tolerable. However, part of modern journalism is the credibility of the reporter. I just checked out several articles, and they appear to either be written by no one or God itself.
I can understand that there's not much need to recognize authorship in something like a science textbook, but for a news site, it is essential.
What I think wikinews needs, and indeed all wikis, is authorship so we can see who said what. If we implement something with PGP signatures, people can build reputations over time, and newcomers can filter out information from authors with no rep.
Imagine freelance journalists posting credible, signed reports to wikimedia outlets from warzones, political protests, etc. No editors, no goverment censors. It would be great!
It might search for certain kinds of penstrokes or something like that. You could input a vector map and it would find similar vectors. Or even bitmaps I guess.
Couldn't you do some light wave interference technique to get the light to show up in the right spot? E.g. you have a bunch of emitters in different places, and align them so that their light interferes in the right spot to create the correct visible color.
I remember something a while ago about an inventor that created a kind of speaker like this -- he used two (or more) speakers to create the actual sound by aiming the sound waves to interfere with each other in a particular location. So you could only hear the sound if you stood in the right spot.
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Is it time to bring a legal system into these worlds? You could have company employees with the King's guards avatar's patrolling for miscreants. Or, if you feel you've been wronged, you can file a complaint and hold a public hearing. A judge or jury can watch a replay of the complaint and issue a ruling.
See writing and printing.
I don't know, but did you have everything with c# and .net ready to go before you installed this program? There might be a simple explanation.
Yes, it does ;) Normally I'm not a stickler for that kind of thing, because I make mistakes all the time, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity. Great post otherwise.
Isn't that a feature?
OK, so a catastrophe wipes out civilization. People (anatomically modern humans) have been around for about 200,000 years, but they've been living in cities (the anthropological definition of civilization) for only about 5,000 -- and not everybody has been living in cities for the past 5k. So I think we'll do alright.
What I would like to see is some kind of encrypted, p2p, email/IM replacement that doesn't rely on centralized servers. I realise what I've said is redundant -- P2P that doesn't rely on servers, but I'm trying to be clear. Messages would get routed through webs of trust, and if you lose your keys, you can have your new keys signed by people you know in real life. This would totally eliminate spam and ensure privacy and authentication for communcations.
Since when did Slashdot editors start editing other people's articles?
Carriage returns are stripped out. Use the html 'br' or 'p' tags ( replace '' with greater-than and less-than signs. I can't type it that way or else I'd get weird breaks in my post!)
Or, someone swimming a nuclear bomb undected into a port city.
A lot of people seem to think that you have to make jaw dropping graphics, pixar quality cutscenes, or amazing music in order for a video game to be "successful". I argue that that's not it -- graphics and sound are secondary to gameplay consideration. They might help, but 1. they don't make up for crappy gameplay, and 2. great games with crappy music and sound are still great games.
So, my plea to open source game makers is this: Make great games. If you do, maybe the game will attract great artists and musicians. If not, hey, we still have a great game!
No, the only thing that matters for a game is gameplay. People play games like card games, dungeons and dragons, pong, pacman, frogger, joust, and legend of zelda because of great gameplay. All of those games have lousy graphics and sound.
The supposed "need" for artists, writers, musicians, etc., is only because of the past ~5-10 of advanced graphics, but they are not required to make a great game.
What is all that $$$ spent on? Mining for raw video game material? All that crazy hardware that is only for video game development? No. The only thing is takes to create video games is code, not $$$. You're confused because $$$ is a way of making code, but $$$ does not actually create video games by itself.
The reason why we don't have great open source video games now is simply a matter of tools. Look at the mods, maps, and levels that fans make freely available for commercial games. Those fans are hardly programmers. Once we get decent open source game engines, development environments, and media, the floodgates will open.
Have the Halfbakery handle all patent submission. Those people are ruthless when it comes to ideas already thought up!
Instead of chasing down the lone cracker who created the GreatNewVirus, authorities can now pley members against each other in order to infiltrate a group. They can offer rewards for ratting out other members, or bribe them with reduced charges/punishment in exchange for squealing. This is a good thing.
This is probably what I am looking for.
A really useful feature for database security is column permissions. So, if I have a user that has no permissions to view or write to a particular column, I feel confident that, even with buggy code, that user will not get data from or into that column.
However, with the quote table, if a supplier with a user account that has select access to that table could theoretically get access to any suppliers quote -- they have access to the 'quote' field. The only thing preventing this is 1. the proper lookup of the supplier_id and 2. the construction of the WHERE clause on the query ( where supplier_id = $supplier_id ). If that process goes wrong, they get to see another supplier's quotes.
The Oprah Winfrey Show Transcript
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Clip One
Oprah: Lets talk about that secret language Michelle.
Michelle: Yes
Oprah: I didn't know any of this
Michelle: I have yea, I have gotten a whole new vocabulary let me tell ya
Oprah: I did not know any of this
Michelle: Salad tossing, cucumbers, lettuce tomatoes ok
Oprah: ok so so what is a salad toss?
Michelle: ok a tossed salad is, get ready hold on to your underwear for this one, oral anal sex, So oral sex with the anus is what that would be.
Clip Two
Michelle: a rainbow party is an oral sex party it's a gathering where oral sex is performed and rainbow comes from all of the girls put on lipstick and each one puts her mouth around the penis of the gentleman or gentlemen who are there to receive favors and makes a mark um in a different place on the penis hence the term rainbow
The ecompmist is an editorial magazine, now a news magazine.
You are the clone.
C'mon, you expect us to get our news from Europe?! Don't you know that's right next to France ?
I can understand that there's not much need to recognize authorship in something like a science textbook, but for a news site, it is essential.
What I think wikinews needs, and indeed all wikis, is authorship so we can see who said what. If we implement something with PGP signatures, people can build reputations over time, and newcomers can filter out information from authors with no rep.
Imagine freelance journalists posting credible, signed reports to wikimedia outlets from warzones, political protests, etc. No editors, no goverment censors. It would be great!
Apparently, they will be distributing free LSD.
It might search for certain kinds of penstrokes or something like that. You could input a vector map and it would find similar vectors. Or even bitmaps I guess.
I remember something a while ago about an inventor that created a kind of speaker like this -- he used two (or more) speakers to create the actual sound by aiming the sound waves to interfere with each other in a particular location. So you could only hear the sound if you stood in the right spot.