When they're both 1500 ft up in the air, a person on the ground can easily see the balloon it takes to lift 1500 feet of fiber and a sensor package, but can't see the spindly four-rotor helicopter it takes to do the same.
All people in Noprivacyville have no privacy, but some have more privacy than others.
Sure, a cute idea. But not one that ever actually can be implemented.
Why is PayPal the issue here? I looked at the demo of his game, and it appears to be a little 3d java applet where you put in blocks and take out blocks and nothing else happens.
It appears to be of no more complexity than many college group software design projects.
What, pray tell, has he done, that merits him receiving Seven hundred and fifty thousand USD in contributions in sixteen days to promote and continue development of this app?
That values this java app at a $16M USD yearly revenue? I see no reason at all why it's unreasonable to set off an investigation into fraud or embezzling here. And if it is legit, hell, I need to get into making crappy Java apps.
Doot de doot de dooo... $1.09/hr if you're converting "Profits from playing the game" back to the USD you're saving if you're paying via in-game-purchased GTC. And it goes down from there if you're not really balls-to-the-walls on making ISK. And, of course, there's no legitimate channel to turn GTC into ISK. It's a one-way conversion.
Adding to the above to provide a bit of sense of the scales of money here.
Allowing players to exchange real-world money for in-game money:
The current rate is (roughly) $35 -> 2x 30day PLEX -> 560 million isk. 560 million isk will get you 4-5 fully equipped and fitted battleships, or halfway to a equipped and fitted capital ship. Amusingly, as with any real-world currency conversion, exchange rates vary minute to minute, based on the current buy and sell orders on the market.
Allow players to buy their subscription using only in-game money:
It costs 280 million isk to buy 30d of game time. Operating efficiently in a profitable area, you can make about 25 million an hour hunting NPCs in 0.0 or running high level missions in empire. (You will need a character who's a year old or so to be able to fly the ships you need to use to do those things) So, all considered, you can play for free, if you're willing to put in about 16 hours of sweat equity per month. Of course, to get ahead in the game, you'll also need to pay expenses like ammunition, replacing lost or damaged ships, and you'll need to be growing wealth to buy more things in the future.
A C64 was exactly the same as every other one, a Tandy Coco was identical to the million others of it's kind. Later models tended to retain as close to 100% backward compatibility as possible sothat it would be possible to even attempt to run code made for the computer you bought last year.
Now you buy a lot of PCs with the understanding that a year from now you won't be able to buy more of the exact model.Thank God that having identical hardware is no longer mandatory to ensure a program will run in the future.
It just irritates me Americans just seem to instantly think of a 30 year old movie as the first thing that comes to mind when they think of Australia... It's like they know nothing else about the place, except that.
Speaking as an American, I think you may be underestimating us. We also know about Outback Steakhouse.
There are existing rules and policies on the proper disclosure of material non-public information. The proper conduit is a formal press release by the corporate communications office of your company. A Facebook post or tweet is shockingly far from an appropriate method of disclosure of this type of information.
This is not just a "dumb regulation", it is a federal law with implications on securites fraud and insider trading. Your opinion, sir, is moronic.
And, if you work for any publicly traded company, and have access to material non-public information, then the exact same rule would apply.
Suppose you work for a company, and you tweet information about your company that has not been disclosed publicly through a formal press release, and which contains information that would cause someone to estimate the value of the company differently. If someone reads that, and makes an investing decision based on it (they buy, or sell, or short stock in your company) then, boom, you just broke the law by improperly releasing that information. If you disclose it to a small group of friends (say your Facebook circle), then they have you (and your friends) for insider trading. It won't just get you fired, it'll put you in jail.
Gmail wins mail. Google docs provides a position in the office market. Google Wave provides a shared, collaborative team synchronization system. Google Voice provides a complete solution replacement for all phones. Android positions Google in the handheld market. Cell providers cut Google a sweet deal for ad revenue sharing (well documented already) Cell providers cut Google a deal to resell wireless at their whim. (well documented) Chromium OS excludes local storage, relies on cloud computing, ties to ubiquitous wireless data access resold by Google.
Screw the future. It's not "still coming." With Chromium OS, Google just implemented ubiquitous, disposable, always-on, wireless computing, collaborating, and calling for the masses, who need never again fear their computer breaking, their hard drive eating their data, or nearly anything else. ...and from this future there will be no escape.
A scientist says, "This works, but I don't know why, How do I complete the theory?" An engineer says, "This works, but I don't know why. How do I use it to build something that does what I want?" A good engineer says, "This works, but I don't know why. How do I use it to build something that does what I want.. And, in what domain does my model break down and how do I make sure I don't get my system into that domain?"
Sizable chunks of control theory, frequency analysis, and some other core theoretical components of what we now consider to be solid engineering work were being applied long before the theoretical basis behind them was solidly proven to be correct from a pure mathematical standpoint.
In a bizarre twist, they are now also offering a Mac mini with Mac OS X Server bundled in, along with a two hard drives somehow stuffed into the tiny package.
The ROM is not on a chip, it's burned into the CPU die itself. There are no memory access lines which reach it. It's only able to be read from within the CPU itself, and there is a CPU register which permanently disables that data path, once that specific register is written to. The last instruction in the boot ROM writes to that register, the boot ROM eats the poison pill, and the next instruction is the start instruction of your cartridge ROM.
The ROM was read out by beating the hell out of the processor electrically, during the exact clock cycle that the poison pill register is written, such that the write gets lost or scrambled, therefore the boot ROM remains accessible for readout.
Next time, RTFA before you ask stupid questions. "+4, Interesting"? Give me a break. Lazy idiot.
The proper term for what they're describing is a mountain wave or wave action. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave contains a good description of the effect.
Mountain waves can be felt in small piston powered aircraft even flying significantly above the tops of the mountains, even several thousand feet above the peaks on either side of the valley you're crossing.
If you're holding altitude, you see that you speed up when you're crossing falling terrain and slow down when you're crossing rising terrain -- because as you cross the rising terrain, you're in the downdraft and so to maintain altitude, your airplane "feels" like it has to climb to stay at the same altitude in the falling air. Climbing requires additional power over simple cruise flight, or you slow down.
I've seen airspeed of an aircraft that should cruise at 150 knots, range from 90-180 knots, depending on whether you're on the uphill or downhill side of the wave. In severe conditions, you just cant' maintain altitude without slowing down too much, and you have to vary altitude to ride the waves.
It can be a scary experience knowing you don't have enough power to out-climb the wave -- That's the reason that you typically fly significantly higher in the mountains, even with good visibility -- You're not worried about hitting the mountains because you can't see them, you're worried about getting sucked by these waves and not having enough altitude to ride them out.
EVE solved this problem by creating a big world to start with then artificially cordoning off certain regions.
Technically accurate but irrelevant.
The expansion opened up approximately 25% more space, in a game that has grown from 5,000 peak concurrent users to 45,000 PCU since launch. When you have 9x the customers online, 25% more space to put them in doesn't even begin to make a dent.
Further, the space added is 0.0 space, which due to its dangerous environment, something like half the players in the game have never even been to. Essentially, they expanded the PK zone of the server without expanding the non-PK zone of the server. To the PK-fearing population (Carebears in EVE-speak), the new drone regions did nothing.
EVE has solved (mitigated?) the single server concept by sharding, but in a special hierarchical case. Each solar system is its own server, and has a means of transferring users from one server to another within the EVE cluster. A proxy server at their public internet connection funnels data from each user to the appropriate server, based on knowledge of which solar system each user is in. It's a hierarchical server-of-servers. Essentially, each solar system is a shard, but is a guaranteed singleton shard with constant portals to other nearby shards. Thus the illusion of an unsharded world is preserved.
The (relatively) recent Fossett crash is a prime example of this -- His aircraft was not equipped with a ELT beacon at all (in violation of law) and had he been ELT equipped, he would have been found within a day.
First, it isn't against the law unless he was carrying passengers. The plane he was flying did not fall under those regs.
14 CFR 91.207 states that you need an ELT unless you fly an "aircraft equipped to carry not more than one person". The Decathalon having having the second seat installed requires the ELT. Occupancy of the seat is irrelevant.
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When they're both 1500 ft up in the air, a person on the ground can easily see the balloon it takes to lift 1500 feet of fiber and a sensor package, but can't see the spindly four-rotor helicopter it takes to do the same.
And all this business stuff is such BS
This got +5 Insightful?
Wait till the tsunami wipes out the generators.
All people in Noprivacyville have no privacy, but some have more privacy than others.
Sure, a cute idea. But not one that ever actually can be implemented.
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Why is PayPal the issue here? I looked at the demo of his game, and it appears to be a little 3d java applet where you put in blocks and take out blocks and nothing else happens. It appears to be of no more complexity than many college group software design projects.
What, pray tell, has he done, that merits him receiving Seven hundred and fifty thousand USD in contributions in sixteen days to promote and continue development of this app?
That values this java app at a $16M USD yearly revenue? I see no reason at all why it's unreasonable to set off an investigation into fraud or embezzling here. And if it is legit, hell, I need to get into making crappy Java apps.
Doot de doot de dooo... $1.09/hr if you're converting "Profits from playing the game" back to the USD you're saving if you're paying via in-game-purchased GTC. And it goes down from there if you're not really balls-to-the-walls on making ISK. And, of course, there's no legitimate channel to turn GTC into ISK. It's a one-way conversion.
Adding to the above to provide a bit of sense of the scales of money here.
Allowing players to exchange real-world money for in-game money:
The current rate is (roughly) $35 -> 2x 30day PLEX -> 560 million isk. 560 million isk will get you 4-5 fully equipped and fitted battleships, or halfway to a equipped and fitted capital ship. Amusingly, as with any real-world currency conversion, exchange rates vary minute to minute, based on the current buy and sell orders on the market.
Allow players to buy their subscription using only in-game money:
It costs 280 million isk to buy 30d of game time. Operating efficiently in a profitable area, you can make about 25 million an hour hunting NPCs in 0.0 or running high level missions in empire. (You will need a character who's a year old or so to be able to fly the ships you need to use to do those things) So, all considered, you can play for free, if you're willing to put in about 16 hours of sweat equity per month. Of course, to get ahead in the game, you'll also need to pay expenses like ammunition, replacing lost or damaged ships, and you'll need to be growing wealth to buy more things in the future.
Actually his friends paid for him.
Per the District of Columbia Assessor, the property is assessed at $995 million -- $963m for the 18 acres of land and $31.1m for the building.
Pass the bill, with a rider that makes the law effective retroactively to the date of the bill was written.
Now you buy a lot of PCs with the understanding that a year from now you won't be able to buy more of the exact model. Thank God that having identical hardware is no longer mandatory to ensure a program will run in the future.
There I fixed that for you.
It just irritates me Americans just seem to instantly think of a 30 year old movie as the first thing that comes to mind when they think of Australia ... It's like they know nothing else about the place, except that.
Speaking as an American, I think you may be underestimating us. We also know about Outback Steakhouse.
There are existing rules and policies on the proper disclosure of material non-public information. The proper conduit is a formal press release by the corporate communications office of your company. A Facebook post or tweet is shockingly far from an appropriate method of disclosure of this type of information.
This is not just a "dumb regulation", it is a federal law with implications on securites fraud and insider trading. Your opinion, sir, is moronic.
And, if you work for any publicly traded company, and have access to material non-public information, then the exact same rule would apply.
Suppose you work for a company, and you tweet information about your company that has not been disclosed publicly through a formal press release, and which contains information that would cause someone to estimate the value of the company differently. If someone reads that, and makes an investing decision based on it (they buy, or sell, or short stock in your company) then, boom, you just broke the law by improperly releasing that information. If you disclose it to a small group of friends (say your Facebook circle), then they have you (and your friends) for insider trading. It won't just get you fired, it'll put you in jail.
Nothing about this is peculiar to brokerages.
Gmail wins mail.
Google docs provides a position in the office market.
Google Wave provides a shared, collaborative team synchronization system.
Google Voice provides a complete solution replacement for all phones.
Android positions Google in the handheld market.
Cell providers cut Google a sweet deal for ad revenue sharing (well documented already)
Cell providers cut Google a deal to resell wireless at their whim. (well documented)
Chromium OS excludes local storage, relies on cloud computing, ties to ubiquitous wireless data access resold by Google.
Screw the future. It's not "still coming." With Chromium OS, Google just implemented ubiquitous, disposable, always-on, wireless computing, collaborating, and calling for the masses, who need never again fear their computer breaking, their hard drive eating their data, or nearly anything else.
...and from this future there will be no escape.
A scientist says, "This works, but I don't know why, How do I complete the theory?"
An engineer says, "This works, but I don't know why. How do I use it to build something that does what I want?"
A good engineer says, "This works, but I don't know why. How do I use it to build something that does what I want.. And, in what domain does my model break down and how do I make sure I don't get my system into that domain?"
Sizable chunks of control theory, frequency analysis, and some other core theoretical components of what we now consider to be solid engineering work were being applied long before the theoretical basis behind them was solidly proven to be correct from a pure mathematical standpoint.
In a bizarre twist, they are now also offering a Mac mini with Mac OS X Server bundled in, along with a two hard drives somehow stuffed into the tiny package.
Uh. Hello? Ideal MythTV box?
The ROM is not on a chip, it's burned into the CPU die itself. There are no memory access lines which reach it. It's only able to be read from within the CPU itself, and there is a CPU register which permanently disables that data path, once that specific register is written to. The last instruction in the boot ROM writes to that register, the boot ROM eats the poison pill, and the next instruction is the start instruction of your cartridge ROM.
The ROM was read out by beating the hell out of the processor electrically, during the exact clock cycle that the poison pill register is written, such that the write gets lost or scrambled, therefore the boot ROM remains accessible for readout.
Next time, RTFA before you ask stupid questions. "+4, Interesting"? Give me a break. Lazy idiot.
Although getting hit with a taser while wearing one ...
Electrical charge stays on the outside of a conductive sphere.
See (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/potsph.html)
So In theory, wrapping yourself in a conductive nanotube mesh would prevent the charge from hurting you.
And wrapping yourself in tinfoil would protect you from the police even better! ... Waaaait a minute.
2002 called. They want their impending-IPv6-transition stories back.
The proper term for what they're describing is a mountain wave or wave action. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave contains a good description of the effect.
Mountain waves can be felt in small piston powered aircraft even flying significantly above the tops of the mountains, even several thousand feet above the peaks on either side of the valley you're crossing.
If you're holding altitude, you see that you speed up when you're crossing falling terrain and slow down when you're crossing rising terrain -- because as you cross the rising terrain, you're in the downdraft and so to maintain altitude, your airplane "feels" like it has to climb to stay at the same altitude in the falling air. Climbing requires additional power over simple cruise flight, or you slow down.
I've seen airspeed of an aircraft that should cruise at 150 knots, range from 90-180 knots, depending on whether you're on the uphill or downhill side of the wave. In severe conditions, you just cant' maintain altitude without slowing down too much, and you have to vary altitude to ride the waves.
It can be a scary experience knowing you don't have enough power to out-climb the wave -- That's the reason that you typically fly significantly higher in the mountains, even with good visibility -- You're not worried about hitting the mountains because you can't see them, you're worried about getting sucked by these waves and not having enough altitude to ride them out.
Nonsense. Everyone knows that paper kills rock.
EVE solved this problem by creating a big world to start with then artificially cordoning off certain regions.
Technically accurate but irrelevant.
The expansion opened up approximately 25% more space, in a game that has grown from 5,000 peak concurrent users to 45,000 PCU since launch. When you have 9x the customers online, 25% more space to put them in doesn't even begin to make a dent.
Further, the space added is 0.0 space, which due to its dangerous environment, something like half the players in the game have never even been to. Essentially, they expanded the PK zone of the server without expanding the non-PK zone of the server. To the PK-fearing population (Carebears in EVE-speak), the new drone regions did nothing.
EVE has solved (mitigated?) the single server concept by sharding, but in a special hierarchical case. Each solar system is its own server, and has a means of transferring users from one server to another within the EVE cluster. A proxy server at their public internet connection funnels data from each user to the appropriate server, based on knowledge of which solar system each user is in. It's a hierarchical server-of-servers. Essentially, each solar system is a shard, but is a guaranteed singleton shard with constant portals to other nearby shards. Thus the illusion of an unsharded world is preserved.
The (relatively) recent Fossett crash is a prime example of this -- His aircraft was not equipped with a ELT beacon at all (in violation of law) and had he been ELT equipped, he would have been found within a day.
First, it isn't against the law unless he was carrying passengers. The plane he was flying did not fall under those regs.
14 CFR 91.207 states that you need an ELT unless you fly an "aircraft equipped to carry not more than one person". The Decathalon having having the second seat installed requires the ELT. Occupancy of the seat is irrelevant.
Past that, agreed with all you say.