What was the game you have played? I had played one with 1st world war biplanes. I do not remember the name, but it was the most virtual gaming experience i ever had. I could move my head and watch the surroundings, the other planes coming in from different angles, etc. I could raise my head and view the sun and the horizon! it was amazing, even if the graphics were truly primitive. I think it was around 1992.
Most of us can no more imagine it now than some guy playing Pacman could have foreseen Half-Life 2. But it's coming.
As teenager playing PacMan, I have foreseen much more impressive games than HL2. I regularly imagine video games that are indistiguishable from reality when it comes to graphics and physics.
As for the limitations of physics regarding video hardware, the human brain can sythesize incredibly realistic images during dreaming. When we dream, we often see images we have never seen before, which are on par with reality. This means the human brain is the best rendering engine there is, so computers still have a very long way to go.
No sir. You are making a big mistake. Paying for products that are not free is the cornerstone of modern civilization. If we did not pay, and we just took what we desired, economic growth would be impossible. Anarchy and violence would be the law of the land. The smaller guys would not have a chance to survive.
You, and people like you, have created in your mind your own legal system, in order to justufy piracy. I understand you. I too had a great time downloading music, movies and games illegally. It did not cost me anything and I had plenty of material to enjoy. But, we all have to undersrand that, what we did harmed a lot of people, and we broke the law, for the sole purpose of our entertainment, disrespecting the foundations modern society is based upon.
I understand your unwillingness to admit the above, but it is the sad truth. The free ride is over.
That's exactly what I am saying, that my definition makes a lot more sense: when you use a product that you should have paid for, and you didn't, it's a lost sale.
The community has made a bogus definition in order to support its pirating habits. It's a simple as that.
Can we please stop with the shitty argument that one that has illegally downloaded something is not a lost sale? it is an insult to our minds. Someone who has downloaded and used something is a stolen sale, because that person is using something he/she should have paid for.
It is not that difficult to create a reliable electronic online voting system.
From the client side, all that is required is an application that runs from a bootable CD. Online voting does not mean voting using the regular Windows setup the user uses for gaming, email and browsing. A bootable CD may contain a totally locked down open source operating system (Linux, for example), and a single application that comes up as long as the system boots, without giving any other option to the user except the voting-related options.
From the server side, all that is required is dedicated servers with locked down operating systems that only run the voting software and receive/send data only on specific ports. The server PCs could also work with bootable CDs, ensuring no interference from other software.
The communication between the client and the server would be encrypted using public key cryptogtaphy. The user will have to submit the server's public key to the client application before the voting procedure starts, and then the client application can start an SSL connection, ensuring that the communication with the server is legit. Then the user will submit his vote and get back a unique reference number that corresponds to his vote. This unique reference number can then be used to verify the vote, using the client application on the bootable CD.
First of all, democracy does not mean that only the good things are voted for by a society. Democracy comes from the greek words 'demos' and 'kratos', roughly translated as the 'public' and 'government'. This means that democracy is the system were the will of the majority of the people becomes law for all the people.
Secondly, stupid decisions like the ones you mention do not usually happen, because people are actually afraid that by not taking into account their fellow citizens, one day the system might be turned against them.
With all your experience in Cell programming, can you please answer the following question?
Do you think it would be possible to abstract away all the low level details of Cell programming into a high level programming language so as that the programmer woud only have to deal with the actual algorithm at hand, and not the low level details?
As I grow older, TNG makes a lot more sense, especially when Rodenberry was in charge, where most episodes were some sort of philosophical debate in them.
DS9 is a soap opera about relationships. There are two or three episodes each season that advance the story, the rest are filler crap about who loves who, who is a friend with who and who betrayed who.
Money is also artificially limited. With modern technology, it is easy for each one of us to print money. However, there is this thing called devaluation, where money loses its value if its printed without limitations.
Have you ever thought that the same might be valid for movies, songs and games? artificial scarcity is what enables their creation, keeping their value high enough to be able to spend lots of man years developing those products.
The probe doesn't need to land: it can carry a smaller probe, which is the one to land. The smaller probe would transmit pictures and data to the mother probe from the surface, and when the mother probe is filled up, it can return home, or closer to home. Once it gets close, it can transmit the data.
The fuel requirements are not that big. It's mostly about acceleration/deceleration. Multiple launches with fuel tanks could carry enough fuel for this probe, and then assembled in space. Once assembled, the probe's engines can be fired and the trip can begin.
Various other methods can be combined to push the probe into the appropriate direction.
Even if the probe takes 200 years to return, it will be a mjor acomplishment for the human race, and it would provide extremely important scientific data.
Now that I mention it, how come there are no plans to send probes to nearby solar systems? for example, Alpha Centauri is just 4 light years away. If we send a probe now, and the probe could get to up 10% of light speed, in 40 years it will reach that solar system and in 80 years it will be back on Earth.
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What was the game you have played? I had played one with 1st world war biplanes. I do not remember the name, but it was the most virtual gaming experience i ever had. I could move my head and watch the surroundings, the other planes coming in from different angles, etc. I could raise my head and view the sun and the horizon! it was amazing, even if the graphics were truly primitive. I think it was around 1992.
Most of us can no more imagine it now than some guy playing Pacman could have foreseen Half-Life 2. But it's coming.
As teenager playing PacMan, I have foreseen much more impressive games than HL2. I regularly imagine video games that are indistiguishable from reality when it comes to graphics and physics.
As for the limitations of physics regarding video hardware, the human brain can sythesize incredibly realistic images during dreaming. When we dream, we often see images we have never seen before, which are on par with reality. This means the human brain is the best rendering engine there is, so computers still have a very long way to go.
No, the price has not dropped at all. Wages have not been increased proportionally to the devaluation of the dollar.
No sir. You are making a big mistake. Paying for products that are not free is the cornerstone of modern civilization. If we did not pay, and we just took what we desired, economic growth would be impossible. Anarchy and violence would be the law of the land. The smaller guys would not have a chance to survive.
You, and people like you, have created in your mind your own legal system, in order to justufy piracy. I understand you. I too had a great time downloading music, movies and games illegally. It did not cost me anything and I had plenty of material to enjoy. But, we all have to undersrand that, what we did harmed a lot of people, and we broke the law, for the sole purpose of our entertainment, disrespecting the foundations modern society is based upon.
I understand your unwillingness to admit the above, but it is the sad truth. The free ride is over.
What do you mean 'the legality never entered into it'? once you use a product, you have to pay for it, period. It's the law.
So, are you claiming that it is not illegal for you to use something you have not paid for, when you should have?
That's exactly what I am saying, that my definition makes a lot more sense: when you use a product that you should have paid for, and you didn't, it's a lost sale.
The community has made a bogus definition in order to support its pirating habits. It's a simple as that.
Can we please stop with the shitty argument that one that has illegally downloaded something is not a lost sale? it is an insult to our minds. Someone who has downloaded and used something is a stolen sale, because that person is using something he/she should have paid for.
It is not that difficult to create a reliable electronic online voting system.
From the client side, all that is required is an application that runs from a bootable CD. Online voting does not mean voting using the regular Windows setup the user uses for gaming, email and browsing. A bootable CD may contain a totally locked down open source operating system (Linux, for example), and a single application that comes up as long as the system boots, without giving any other option to the user except the voting-related options.
From the server side, all that is required is dedicated servers with locked down operating systems that only run the voting software and receive/send data only on specific ports. The server PCs could also work with bootable CDs, ensuring no interference from other software.
The communication between the client and the server would be encrypted using public key cryptogtaphy. The user will have to submit the server's public key to the client application before the voting procedure starts, and then the client application can start an SSL connection, ensuring that the communication with the server is legit. Then the user will submit his vote and get back a unique reference number that corresponds to his vote. This unique reference number can then be used to verify the vote, using the client application on the bootable CD.
First of all, democracy does not mean that only the good things are voted for by a society. Democracy comes from the greek words 'demos' and 'kratos', roughly translated as the 'public' and 'government'. This means that democracy is the system were the will of the majority of the people becomes law for all the people.
Secondly, stupid decisions like the ones you mention do not usually happen, because people are actually afraid that by not taking into account their fellow citizens, one day the system might be turned against them.
I think that the PS4 will not be able to emulate the Cell processors efficiently enough to have backwards compatibility in software.
I also think that putting a PS3 into a PS4 will not be viable economically.
So, what does Sony plan to do with backwards compatibility? will the PS4 not run the PS3 games at all?
With all your experience in Cell programming, can you please answer the following question?
Do you think it would be possible to abstract away all the low level details of Cell programming into a high level programming language so as that the programmer woud only have to deal with the actual algorithm at hand, and not the low level details?
Thank you in advance for your attention.
It reads like a LucasArts adventure game walkthough.
As I grow older, TNG makes a lot more sense, especially when Rodenberry was in charge, where most episodes were some sort of philosophical debate in them.
DS9 is a soap opera about relationships. There are two or three episodes each season that advance the story, the rest are filler crap about who loves who, who is a friend with who and who betrayed who.
Indeed. The only way to test's someone morals is to give them power.It is only then that their true feelings will be made public.
they are more able than the less rich, and everyone should contibute to the society according to their abilities.
In a room full of fire, the strongest person will curry the weakest one.
In a flood, the strongest person will swim and curry ther weakest one.
When in a forest, the tallest person can reach the fruits and offer them to the shorter ones.
When blind or having vision problems, the one will the best eyesight will lead the group to safety.
You see, in most cases in life, the more able enjoys more but also has to offer more.
The article mentions the word 'thorium', but it doesn't specifically mention thorium or breeder reactors.
Isn't thorium reactors considered for the future? are the development issues with it so great that it has been abandoned?
Money is also artificially limited. With modern technology, it is easy for each one of us to print money. However, there is this thing called devaluation, where money loses its value if its printed without limitations.
Have you ever thought that the same might be valid for movies, songs and games? artificial scarcity is what enables their creation, keeping their value high enough to be able to spend lots of man years developing those products.
Because 'kavli' in Greek means 'cock'.
I steal your car. Now you do not have a car. I copy your music. Now we both have music.
I steal your car. Now you do not have a car.
I copy your music. Now you don't have the $20 I would have paid you if I didn't steal your music.
Every single time the pirates state.. "make it playable on what I want to play it on and a reasonable price."
People who are willing to pay for it, will say that. People who are not willing to pay for it, will not say that.
Isn't it extortion though to demand lower prices like that?
The probe doesn't need to land: it can carry a smaller probe, which is the one to land. The smaller probe would transmit pictures and data to the mother probe from the surface, and when the mother probe is filled up, it can return home, or closer to home. Once it gets close, it can transmit the data.
The fuel requirements are not that big. It's mostly about acceleration/deceleration. Multiple launches with fuel tanks could carry enough fuel for this probe, and then assembled in space. Once assembled, the probe's engines can be fired and the trip can begin.
Various other methods can be combined to push the probe into the appropriate direction.
Even if the probe takes 200 years to return, it will be a mjor acomplishment for the human race, and it would provide extremely important scientific data.
Now that I mention it, how come there are no plans to send probes to nearby solar systems? for example, Alpha Centauri is just 4 light years away. If we send a probe now, and the probe could get to up 10% of light speed, in 40 years it will reach that solar system and in 80 years it will be back on Earth.
NSA most probably is doing this for a long time now.
Unless they are in debt, and their credit rating depends on US credit rating companies.
The above statement covers almost all countries...