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Of course, they could avoid the problem entirely by charging for paper submission rather than publication.
It's nothing new though. The Kindle has had free cellular internet (and a barely usable web browser) since it was launched. If B&N let you install additional Android apps, I'm sure the cellular internet will be restricted to their store.
This sounds like data mining, since essays are used to train their system. If so, their classifier can guess what a human would give a paper based on pre-defined textual features, but this classifier wouldn't necessarily be good at finding specific areas that need to be changed.
Someone on the project page asked the guy who did this if the data connection worked.
His reply was rather cryptic: "YES BUT DON'T DO THAT".
If the person who managed it is recommending against it, the very same hoopy frood with the smarts who managed to go to all the trouble to hack Ubuntu onto the Kindle, then I gotta go with "it either doesn't work well enough to bother, or there's a really good reason why you shouldn't use it if it does".
Amazon only guarantees that the Kindle can be used to access a few websites (Wikipedia, Amazon, maybe one or two more), but they currently allow you to access all of the internet for free over Sprint's cellular network. Amazon pays for it.
If people were to start tethering their Kindles and using them as a means of getting free internet anywhere, it would become too expensive for Amazon to continue. This is probably why the author said not to use the data connection; he doesn't want Amazon to discontinue the free internet service.
If the artificial brain is an accurate simulation, of course you could anesthetize it. I don't see how you can make any distinction between something that accurately "mimics consciousness" and you or me.
What is the distinction between a living being and a program that perfectly simulates one, then? Can you say with any certainty that the living beings you know are not programs?
Your suggestion that a program can't feel pain is puzzling to me. Why would that be so?
In MMORPGs, an instance location is a special area, typically a dungeon, that generates a new copy, or instance, of the dungeon map for each group that enters the area.
Admittedly, the article does list EVE as a game with instances, but that isn't consistent with the above definition.
Essentially missions are instanced (deadspace) within a zone (solar system) if you think about it. Wow does this for raids, Eve does this for all missions and raid equivalents (wormholes) basically, all while delivering a pretty darn good play experience to people across different countries without having to fuss with EU/US/Asia servers etc.
Technically nothing in EVE is an instance. Deadspace is literally dead space: an area in space that isn't near to anything else. Players in deadspace can be probed down, whereas there would be no way for other players to get to them if it were a true instance. Wormhole systems are basically just solar systems that are accessed through a wormhole rather than a jump gate.
And THEN you go out of your way to piss off the purchasers by screwing them from using anything but your overpriced content AFTER they just handed you money? Yeah, good luck ith that.
I haven't read TFA, of course, but I know for a fact that you can use any content on the kindle as long as it's in one of several formats. Something like html, txt, prc, and mobi, the latter both being ebook formats available from many places. What you can't do is use DRMed content from places other than Amazon, which is what you should expect anyway.
What this script allows you to do is buy Mobipocket books with DRM from places other than Amazon.
CCP doesn't support Linux, but wine has done a good job of making sure it runs well. I've been playing for a little over 2 years and have never had any problems with wine.
Because it's very possible for a tutorial to be very shitty and the game to be a lot more appealing later. For a great example, see City of Heroes/Villains. The game is interesting for about 5 minutes, and quickly becomes very frustrating - until you start getting your better powers and enhancements at about level 20 or so. Then it starts to get fun. LOTS of fun. But not many players stick around that long, because the first 10-15 levels are mostly a lesson in frustration. I'd *HOPE* Eve's failure is mostly the same, only magnified. Because quite honestly, of games I've tried that enjoyed any kind of real popularity, the Eve tutorial was easily the worst 15 minutes I've spent.
This. Eve's tutorial is bad. It seems to be meant to jam a lot of information down your throat, most of which is not particularly useful for a new player. I'm constantly amazed that Eve has the number of players that it has, because I don't understand how they get past the tutorial and first few weeks.
That said, it's an incredibly fun and rewarding game once you get to the point where you can actually play. By playing, I mean PVP. Missions, mining, and ratting (killing NPC pirates) are only there to grind for money, and this grind isn't even necessary: Eve is also an excellent economic simulator. I've played WoW and other MMOs, and I've only found PVP to be meaningful in Eve, because there's a real risk of losing items you value. The risk is so great that a common adage is to "never fly what you can't afford to lose," because you will lose it eventually. The risks make the rewards that much better and victory far more sweet.
While actual in-space-blowing-each-other-up PVP is the most common form of PVP, there's also a bit of market PVP as well. Except for some T1 items (T1 being tech 1, which is the weakest class of items), everything in Eve is player-produced and the market is almost completely player-driven. What this means is that the game can literally be played as an economic simulator from a single station, although one might want to travel between multiple stations for trading. This is where many of the spreadsheets come from; the market is so involved and complex that spreadsheets really are needed to keep track of what is profitable at any given time.
In short, Eve is an amazing game if you can get into it, but I honestly don't understand how so many people do. The game as viewed by a new player has little in common with how an older player sees the game. New and, more importantly, fun, opportunities constantly open themselves up as you continue to play. I immediately bought a 60 day subscription after starting the game, so that I would be forced to give it a fair try. If I hadn't done that, I probably wouldn't have continued long enough to realize how much fun it actually was.
SMP may have been there for awhile, but is SMP and software RAID supported yet? When I last checked (which was admittedly a long time ago), the only way to get both SMP and software RAID was to compile a custom kernel. This might not sound like a big deal, but OpenBSD developers aren't very friendly towards people who compile their own kernels. They're certainly not supported, and you're lucky if you get any replies past the standard "custom kernels are not supported, so stop using one" message.
If a large fraction populace is up in arms, then yes, there isn't much the military can do about it, assuming that they even fight.
If rights are slowly eroded to the point that the majority of the populace doesn't see a reason to rebel, anyone that does revolt would quickly be quashed by the military with the aid of Good Patriotic Citizen informers.
Accidentally modded you offtopic instead of funny. Posting to undo it. Damn JS.
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The police don't do a whole lot to stop killers before they kill and DRM doesn't do much to stop you after you crack it. Not the best analogy.
And just an FYI, no, saying that pirates with access to a non-existent product are able to crack the protection on said product is not an agreement that such protections are useless in 100% of cases.
Name a released (or available via warez) game with DRM that hasn't been cracked.
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Then what exactly is the point of DRM? You agree that it doesn't stop warez. Is annoying the customer really that important to you?
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Spore was available via warez and its copy protection was emulated at least 3 days before release. DRM didn't help much.
You also can't just say that with GPL, wine would obviously have gotten all of the cedega work, you also have to account for the (probably very hard to quantify) possibility that cedega wouldn't have existed at all...
How is that a bad thing? wine is now ahead of cedega in almost every area (save playing games that require copy protection) and would have been far sooner if DirectX work hadn't been frozen while everyone waited for cedega's improvements. Either way you look at it, we would be better off if wine had originally been LGPLed as it is now.
If grinding months in WoW for epic loot is stupid, then grinding for months for something that you'll lose in a few seconds is like... I don't know, there's not even a word for it.
Which is why EVE has minimal grinding. You have to grind for money to get started, but after that it's up to you. You can make just as much money by manipulating the market, which requires very little effort and no attention, as you can by doing anything else.
Many people like the fact that getting destroyed actually sets you back. You actually get scared when threatened with destruction, and actually get excited when you come out on top. No other game I've played has a comparable experience, and yes, I've tried WoW.
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We offer a complete or partial fee waiver for authors who do not have funds to cover publication fees. Editors and reviewers have no access to payment information, and hence inability to pay will not influence the decision to publish a paper.
Of course, they could avoid the problem entirely by charging for paper submission rather than publication.
It's nothing new though. The Kindle has had free cellular internet (and a barely usable web browser) since it was launched. If B&N let you install additional Android apps, I'm sure the cellular internet will be restricted to their store.
Yes, but if you were actually in Times Square you'd see the ads.
This sounds like data mining, since essays are used to train their system. If so, their classifier can guess what a human would give a paper based on pre-defined textual features, but this classifier wouldn't necessarily be good at finding specific areas that need to be changed.
Someone on the project page asked the guy who did this if the data connection worked. His reply was rather cryptic: "YES BUT DON'T DO THAT". If the person who managed it is recommending against it, the very same hoopy frood with the smarts who managed to go to all the trouble to hack Ubuntu onto the Kindle, then I gotta go with "it either doesn't work well enough to bother, or there's a really good reason why you shouldn't use it if it does".
Amazon only guarantees that the Kindle can be used to access a few websites (Wikipedia, Amazon, maybe one or two more), but they currently allow you to access all of the internet for free over Sprint's cellular network. Amazon pays for it.
If people were to start tethering their Kindles and using them as a means of getting free internet anywhere, it would become too expensive for Amazon to continue. This is probably why the author said not to use the data connection; he doesn't want Amazon to discontinue the free internet service.
If the artificial brain is an accurate simulation, of course you could anesthetize it. I don't see how you can make any distinction between something that accurately "mimics consciousness" and you or me.
What is the distinction between a living being and a program that perfectly simulates one, then? Can you say with any certainty that the living beings you know are not programs?
Your suggestion that a program can't feel pain is puzzling to me. Why would that be so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instance_dungeon
In MMORPGs, an instance location is a special area, typically a dungeon, that generates a new copy, or instance, of the dungeon map for each group that enters the area.
Admittedly, the article does list EVE as a game with instances, but that isn't consistent with the above definition.
Essentially missions are instanced (deadspace) within a zone (solar system) if you think about it. Wow does this for raids, Eve does this for all missions and raid equivalents (wormholes) basically, all while delivering a pretty darn good play experience to people across different countries without having to fuss with EU/US/Asia servers etc.
Technically nothing in EVE is an instance. Deadspace is literally dead space: an area in space that isn't near to anything else. Players in deadspace can be probed down, whereas there would be no way for other players to get to them if it were a true instance. Wormhole systems are basically just solar systems that are accessed through a wormhole rather than a jump gate.
The Android Market is entirely optional; if you want to, you can write apps and distribute them apart from it, the same as you do with Windows Mobile.
And THEN you go out of your way to piss off the purchasers by screwing them from using anything but your overpriced content AFTER they just handed you money? Yeah, good luck ith that.
I haven't read TFA, of course, but I know for a fact that you can use any content on the kindle as long as it's in one of several formats. Something like html, txt, prc, and mobi, the latter both being ebook formats available from many places. What you can't do is use DRMed content from places other than Amazon, which is what you should expect anyway.
What this script allows you to do is buy Mobipocket books with DRM from places other than Amazon.
They didn't. When CCP says "official Linux client", they mean "official Cedega and old Windows client bundle".
They use DirectX, so pretty hard.
CCP doesn't support Linux, but wine has done a good job of making sure it runs well. I've been playing for a little over 2 years and have never had any problems with wine.
Because it's very possible for a tutorial to be very shitty and the game to be a lot more appealing later. For a great example, see City of Heroes/Villains. The game is interesting for about 5 minutes, and quickly becomes very frustrating - until you start getting your better powers and enhancements at about level 20 or so. Then it starts to get fun. LOTS of fun. But not many players stick around that long, because the first 10-15 levels are mostly a lesson in frustration. I'd *HOPE* Eve's failure is mostly the same, only magnified. Because quite honestly, of games I've tried that enjoyed any kind of real popularity, the Eve tutorial was easily the worst 15 minutes I've spent.
This. Eve's tutorial is bad. It seems to be meant to jam a lot of information down your throat, most of which is not particularly useful for a new player. I'm constantly amazed that Eve has the number of players that it has, because I don't understand how they get past the tutorial and first few weeks.
That said, it's an incredibly fun and rewarding game once you get to the point where you can actually play. By playing, I mean PVP. Missions, mining, and ratting (killing NPC pirates) are only there to grind for money, and this grind isn't even necessary: Eve is also an excellent economic simulator. I've played WoW and other MMOs, and I've only found PVP to be meaningful in Eve, because there's a real risk of losing items you value. The risk is so great that a common adage is to "never fly what you can't afford to lose," because you will lose it eventually. The risks make the rewards that much better and victory far more sweet.
While actual in-space-blowing-each-other-up PVP is the most common form of PVP, there's also a bit of market PVP as well. Except for some T1 items (T1 being tech 1, which is the weakest class of items), everything in Eve is player-produced and the market is almost completely player-driven. What this means is that the game can literally be played as an economic simulator from a single station, although one might want to travel between multiple stations for trading. This is where many of the spreadsheets come from; the market is so involved and complex that spreadsheets really are needed to keep track of what is profitable at any given time.
In short, Eve is an amazing game if you can get into it, but I honestly don't understand how so many people do. The game as viewed by a new player has little in common with how an older player sees the game. New and, more importantly, fun, opportunities constantly open themselves up as you continue to play. I immediately bought a 60 day subscription after starting the game, so that I would be forced to give it a fair try. If I hadn't done that, I probably wouldn't have continued long enough to realize how much fun it actually was.
SMP may have been there for awhile, but is SMP and software RAID supported yet? When I last checked (which was admittedly a long time ago), the only way to get both SMP and software RAID was to compile a custom kernel.
This might not sound like a big deal, but OpenBSD developers aren't very friendly towards people who compile their own kernels. They're certainly not supported, and you're lucky if you get any replies past the standard "custom kernels are not supported, so stop using one" message.
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I should qualify that.
If a large fraction populace is up in arms, then yes, there isn't much the military can do about it, assuming that they even fight.
If rights are slowly eroded to the point that the majority of the populace doesn't see a reason to rebel, anyone that does revolt would quickly be quashed by the military with the aid of Good Patriotic Citizen informers.
Realistically, if the country ever came to that point, is a populace armed with assault weapons going to stand a chance against the military?
I seriously doubt it.
Accidentally modded you offtopic instead of funny. Posting to undo it.
Damn JS.
The police don't do a whole lot to stop killers before they kill and DRM doesn't do much to stop you after you crack it. Not the best analogy.
And just an FYI, no, saying that pirates with access to a non-existent product are able to crack the protection on said product is not an agreement that such protections are useless in 100% of cases.
Name a released (or available via warez) game with DRM that hasn't been cracked.
Then what exactly is the point of DRM? You agree that it doesn't stop warez. Is annoying the customer really that important to you?
Spore was available via warez and its copy protection was emulated at least 3 days before release. DRM didn't help much.
You also can't just say that with GPL, wine would obviously have gotten all of the cedega work, you also have to account for the (probably very hard to quantify) possibility that cedega wouldn't have existed at all...
How is that a bad thing? wine is now ahead of cedega in almost every area (save playing games that require copy protection) and would have been far sooner if DirectX work hadn't been frozen while everyone waited for cedega's improvements. Either way you look at it, we would be better off if wine had originally been LGPLed as it is now.
If grinding months in WoW for epic loot is stupid, then grinding for months for something that you'll lose in a few seconds is like... I don't know, there's not even a word for it.
Which is why EVE has minimal grinding. You have to grind for money to get started, but after that it's up to you. You can make just as much money by manipulating the market, which requires very little effort and no attention, as you can by doing anything else.
Many people like the fact that getting destroyed actually sets you back. You actually get scared when threatened with destruction, and actually get excited when you come out on top. No other game I've played has a comparable experience, and yes, I've tried WoW.