Libel doesn't even fit, because you can't sue for libel because someone attacks your book. The reviewer, despite his obvious dislike of the work, maintains a professional tone toward the reviewer, and doesn't indulge in character assassination or petty insults, but instead offers real constructive criticism, in addition to a few choice slams on the material.
Shrug. That's an extreme example, but sure, why not have an HD band? The point is not that all regulation is stupid, the point is that the regulation we have is perpetuating a stupid system. Fix the system, and we absolutely have the potential for massive amounts of content distributed across the poorly utilized current bandwidth.
No interference? Are you nuts? TCP/IP is all about interference. Remember, your standard cable has only enough bandwidth for one transmission at a time.
And I'm not saying you could have 100 broadcasters on the exact same band, but you could easily have 10 with a trivial amount of collision detection. Moving everything to digital packets you could vastly compress the data, then just spam packets UPD style at irregular intervals, with the usual collision/resend timing, same as with any streaming media. Sure, you're going to lose packets, but that's perfectly acceptable, and no different from current broadcasting.
Sticking to the current antiquated system we create for ourselves a massive artificial scarcity of bandwidth. We need to transition to something that lets us get more use out of what we have.
The problem with the current system is that it still based on century-old technology. Your radio works the way your grandad's radio worked, listening to a HUGE ass chunk of the spectrum to pick up a relatively small amount of data.
Contrast that to the way satellite radio (for example) works. Satellite radio has about 50Mhz of the S band for 150 channels of content. FM radio has about a 5th of the channels in about 5 times the spectrum...Massively inefficient.
Build a smarter radio that is capable of identifying specific traffic, and you can have people broadcasting digitally on the same bands all the time without a whole lot of problem. Sure, you'll have occasional overlaps, but it would be relatively trivial to split the same space among 10 times as many broadcasters with a shift in transmission protocol.
It may sound complex, but it's the exact same way TCP/IP works, and TCP/IP works fine on a far far far more limited transmission medium...Hell, TCP/IP is an adaptation of the old Aloha protocol which was itself originally a way to conserve broadcast bandwidth. The FCC really needs to move into the 20th century...The 21st century would be even better if at all possible.
Almost anything that is created by an artist or a writer can be copyrighted, so it's extremely doubtful that they could successfully argue that coupons are not protected by copyright.
And circumvention hardly ever works that way...The files are generally locked in with a registry key, so if you deleted the file, the system would freak out because of the registry entry requiring the deleted file, and if you deleted both the file and the registry entry, it would be hard to claim that any subsequent circumvention is "accidental."
English translation: "While infected with the virus, I made a suicidal dash into the middle of the market district of the Horde capitol city of Orgrimmar, causing untold havok and massive infections."
"Zerging" is from Starcraft, and is often used to describe an attack whose sole goal is damage, destruction, and mayhem, where the health of yourself or your soldiers is completely unimportant.
AH, IF, SW, etc are all common abbreviations. "Auction House." "IronForge." "StormWind."
"Hearth" as the sibling post pointed out correctly, is short for "Hearth Stone" which is a method of instantaneous travel from your current location to a previously defined location commonly verbed into the word "Hearthed." Generally in WoW (World of Warcraft) people set up their Hearth Stone to take them to a capitol city to give them easy access to trainers, banks, auction houses, and various vendors.
Not with a virus that spreads and kills as quickly as this one. The WoW equivalent of air travel would see anyone dead before they could get to another population center if they had that virus.
Meh. That's more of an external expression of self-loathing.
This was a lot more like ebola than HIV, and you don't see anyone chasing ebola.
The best real-world analog would be terrorists who intentionally infect themselves with communicable diseases and then rushing to spread them as a kind of bioterrorism...The problem is, either the disease isn't communicable enough to be spread effectively (e.g. HIV), the disease isn't bad enough to be worth spreading (e.g the regular human Flu), or the disease is so bad that it can't be spread effectively (e.g Ebola).
This disease was excellent; it spread like wildfire, it didn't kill quick enough to burn itself out and yet it was still massively fatal. It's the sort of thing that would be a massive challenge in a raid because you'd have to quarantine the infected extremely quickly or they'd infect everyone, and that would be a near-insurmountable problem. Outside of a raid environment, however, it would be obscene.
In a real world situation, this would be more ebola-like. People would hide in their houses for a few days, and the disease would run its course. Infected people just don't live long enough to keep it going. In the game there were several ways to keep the plague going...The first people discovered it because they'd die and then they'd re-summon their pet, and the pet would still have the disease...without that reservoir of disease, the outbreak will burn out.
Your idea is rejected because it's too cool. Please try again with something that would require more grinding.
Seriously, I've always wanted more stuff like this. I mean, 99% of the content never changes. Would it be too much to have more events that require significant numbers of players to actually dedicate their time to fixing the problem, pushing back the enemy, etc? Even the seasonal content in WoW is pretty static, and you don't have to participate.
Yea, it was pretty cool. I don't know how it would ever model anything because it's got a few flaws over a real world model.
First, there is no incubation period. There is no "unwitting carrier". If you have it, you know it, and you spread it either intentionally, or because you're an idiot. I carried it a few times for giggles (I nuked Org once by zerging the AH while infected), but for the most part, if I got it, I'd go hang out in a corner 'till I died.
Second, the transportation methods are completely unrealistic. You get it in IF, you hearth to SW, and poof, you've infected two population centers in a matter of moments. A mage could get all three, easily, without much danger of dying before people were infected.
Finally, a substantial subset of the population actually wants to get the disease, so people are actively seeking it out for themselves so they can spread it.
Untrue. It would only be illegal if you were deleting them for the purposes of circumventing copy protection, which would not be the case if you were simply removing the software from your hard drive.
It's an anti-circumvention clause...If there is no circumvention, then you haven't done any thing to violate it.
Who knows? In both cases, the second one never gets used.
R and NC-17 pretty much say the same thing...You can't get into an R movie under 17 either, unless you've got your parents with you. NC-17 just says, even if you've got your parents, you're still not getting in.
M and AO on the other hand, are 17 and 18 respectively...AO is no different than NC-17...They're both the top end of the scale, even if you apparently can be trusted with unlimitedly bad stuff at 17 if it's only a movie.
Judging by some of the torture porn horror movies that have been coming out lately, which are almost all rated R, it's hard to imagine what lengths a game would have to go to to be rated AO, if games were rated to the same "standards" as movies.
I don't think it could ever have created the hype if it wasn't the 5th(?) game in a massively popular series. A new game, without a massive PR budget, would have serious trouble with an AO rating. Hell, look at Manhunt II; Rockstar didn't just say, "Hah! GTA:SA sold great once it was AO, who cares if they AO this game!" they pushed the release date so they could rework the game to get an M rating.
If anyone knows the difference in sales, it's Rockstar.
No point...Since no major game retailer will carry the games, it'd be impossible to sell enough copies to cost justify the new hardware. Also, if it played regular console games you'd be sued by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo over copyright violations almost immediately.
As it stands, I'm sure there are any number of AO games out there for PCs, but I'm equally sure that their absence from standard distribution channels means that they are either unrated altogether or AO and only being sold off porn & warez sites.
Just to pick a nit, there have been several games that flaunted naked breasts that didn't get AO...God of War leaps to mind.
Still, you could easily have that much boob in a PG-13 movie, much less an R movie, and hell there is a lot of softcore pron in R that would be AO city if the same footage showed up in a game.
Sec. 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
* (a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.
o (1)
+ (A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. --DMCA
That's why it's illegal, because he's circumventing their anti-copying measures. The article title is pure troll.
You're hoping they're doing something to make it easier to program, and I doubt they are. The choke point is rapidly becoming scheduling rather than number of cores.
This is the same problem we've been working with on clusters forever...How do you tune and load balance the jobs to the point where you're getting the most out of your hardware, and nothing is sitting idle while other parts of the system are running at 100%? What do you do when the task is already reduced to the simplest level and there is no benefit from throwing extra processors at it?
Someone smarter than me is going to have to figure it out...The only way I can think of doing it is grafting more scheduling crap on top of all the processors to break down tasks and assign them to cores, and adding another layer of complexity is almost always a bad idea.
Right answer! Not that it did much for my overall GPA; 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 5.0 is only around a 3.1, which as the other guy so astutely pointed out is actually worse than my previous GPA (a C+ average instead of a B/C average).
Still, it was by far my best year of school in terms of my personal morale, my personal achievements, etc.
Shrug. They're all Christian to me. Frankly, these days, I view the Catholics far more kindly than most Protestants. My biggest problem with the Puritans is with their immense social conservativism, and I'm hardly alone in that. The inability to tolerate behaviours that deviate from the social norms poses a problem for all kinds of free thinking, not just science.
If you bothered to read anything I wrote, you'd know that I claimed Christianity itself has a bias against intellectualism, which is absolutely pertinent to the Dark Ages, as Christianity perpetuated the Dark Ages by attempting to quash any type of secular thinking in order to maintain its own power.
And frankly, and bias I could be said to be showing by claiming something so obvious as "Christianity is largely anti-intellectual" is far outweighed by the countless biases that Christianity perpetuates to this day.
Yea, I can't get over that whole "Dark Ages" thing. Every time I try, you guys start going nuts because some scientist says something that's not in your little book.
Yea, but you're kind of an asshole. You probably brag about other things like, "Hey I was on Slashdot today and I ranked on some dumbasses high school gpa! Ha ha! What a fucking retard!"
I read your post...It is possible to read something and not agree. Your examples are shallow; you pick flat out exceptional world changing people and say, "See we like smart people, just not bad smart people." This has no relation on how smart people in general are viewed.
It's okay to be smart if you change the world. It's okay to be smart as long as you're really humble about it. But if you don't change the world, or if you lack the proper humble demeanor to go with your big brain, then you're just an arrogant elitist. You've only yourself to blame. What gives you the right to know more than someone else anyway?
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Libel doesn't even fit, because you can't sue for libel because someone attacks your book. The reviewer, despite his obvious dislike of the work, maintains a professional tone toward the reviewer, and doesn't indulge in character assassination or petty insults, but instead offers real constructive criticism, in addition to a few choice slams on the material.
Shrug. That's an extreme example, but sure, why not have an HD band? The point is not that all regulation is stupid, the point is that the regulation we have is perpetuating a stupid system. Fix the system, and we absolutely have the potential for massive amounts of content distributed across the poorly utilized current bandwidth.
No interference? Are you nuts? TCP/IP is all about interference. Remember, your standard cable has only enough bandwidth for one transmission at a time.
And I'm not saying you could have 100 broadcasters on the exact same band, but you could easily have 10 with a trivial amount of collision detection. Moving everything to digital packets you could vastly compress the data, then just spam packets UPD style at irregular intervals, with the usual collision/resend timing, same as with any streaming media. Sure, you're going to lose packets, but that's perfectly acceptable, and no different from current broadcasting.
Sticking to the current antiquated system we create for ourselves a massive artificial scarcity of bandwidth. We need to transition to something that lets us get more use out of what we have.
The problem with the current system is that it still based on century-old technology. Your radio works the way your grandad's radio worked, listening to a HUGE ass chunk of the spectrum to pick up a relatively small amount of data.
Contrast that to the way satellite radio (for example) works. Satellite radio has about 50Mhz of the S band for 150 channels of content. FM radio has about a 5th of the channels in about 5 times the spectrum...Massively inefficient.
Build a smarter radio that is capable of identifying specific traffic, and you can have people broadcasting digitally on the same bands all the time without a whole lot of problem. Sure, you'll have occasional overlaps, but it would be relatively trivial to split the same space among 10 times as many broadcasters with a shift in transmission protocol.
It may sound complex, but it's the exact same way TCP/IP works, and TCP/IP works fine on a far far far more limited transmission medium...Hell, TCP/IP is an adaptation of the old Aloha protocol which was itself originally a way to conserve broadcast bandwidth. The FCC really needs to move into the 20th century...The 21st century would be even better if at all possible.
Almost anything that is created by an artist or a writer can be copyrighted, so it's extremely doubtful that they could successfully argue that coupons are not protected by copyright.
And circumvention hardly ever works that way...The files are generally locked in with a registry key, so if you deleted the file, the system would freak out because of the registry entry requiring the deleted file, and if you deleted both the file and the registry entry, it would be hard to claim that any subsequent circumvention is "accidental."
And, in fact, most of the rest of the legal system as well.
I nuked Org once by zerging the AH while infected
English translation: "While infected with the virus, I made a suicidal dash into the middle of the market district of the Horde capitol city of Orgrimmar, causing untold havok and massive infections."
"Zerging" is from Starcraft, and is often used to describe an attack whose sole goal is damage, destruction, and mayhem, where the health of yourself or your soldiers is completely unimportant.
AH, IF, SW, etc are all common abbreviations. "Auction House." "IronForge." "StormWind."
"Hearth" as the sibling post pointed out correctly, is short for "Hearth Stone" which is a method of instantaneous travel from your current location to a previously defined location commonly verbed into the word "Hearthed." Generally in WoW (World of Warcraft) people set up their Hearth Stone to take them to a capitol city to give them easy access to trainers, banks, auction houses, and various vendors.
Not with a virus that spreads and kills as quickly as this one. The WoW equivalent of air travel would see anyone dead before they could get to another population center if they had that virus.
Meh. That's more of an external expression of self-loathing.
This was a lot more like ebola than HIV, and you don't see anyone chasing ebola.
The best real-world analog would be terrorists who intentionally infect themselves with communicable diseases and then rushing to spread them as a kind of bioterrorism...The problem is, either the disease isn't communicable enough to be spread effectively (e.g. HIV), the disease isn't bad enough to be worth spreading (e.g the regular human Flu), or the disease is so bad that it can't be spread effectively (e.g Ebola).
This disease was excellent; it spread like wildfire, it didn't kill quick enough to burn itself out and yet it was still massively fatal. It's the sort of thing that would be a massive challenge in a raid because you'd have to quarantine the infected extremely quickly or they'd infect everyone, and that would be a near-insurmountable problem. Outside of a raid environment, however, it would be obscene.
In a real world situation, this would be more ebola-like. People would hide in their houses for a few days, and the disease would run its course. Infected people just don't live long enough to keep it going. In the game there were several ways to keep the plague going...The first people discovered it because they'd die and then they'd re-summon their pet, and the pet would still have the disease...without that reservoir of disease, the outbreak will burn out.
Your idea is rejected because it's too cool. Please try again with something that would require more grinding.
Seriously, I've always wanted more stuff like this. I mean, 99% of the content never changes. Would it be too much to have more events that require significant numbers of players to actually dedicate their time to fixing the problem, pushing back the enemy, etc? Even the seasonal content in WoW is pretty static, and you don't have to participate.
Yea, it was pretty cool. I don't know how it would ever model anything because it's got a few flaws over a real world model.
First, there is no incubation period. There is no "unwitting carrier". If you have it, you know it, and you spread it either intentionally, or because you're an idiot. I carried it a few times for giggles (I nuked Org once by zerging the AH while infected), but for the most part, if I got it, I'd go hang out in a corner 'till I died.
Second, the transportation methods are completely unrealistic. You get it in IF, you hearth to SW, and poof, you've infected two population centers in a matter of moments. A mage could get all three, easily, without much danger of dying before people were infected.
Finally, a substantial subset of the population actually wants to get the disease, so people are actively seeking it out for themselves so they can spread it.
Untrue. It would only be illegal if you were deleting them for the purposes of circumventing copy protection, which would not be the case if you were simply removing the software from your hard drive.
It's an anti-circumvention clause...If there is no circumvention, then you haven't done any thing to violate it.
Who knows? In both cases, the second one never gets used.
R and NC-17 pretty much say the same thing...You can't get into an R movie under 17 either, unless you've got your parents with you. NC-17 just says, even if you've got your parents, you're still not getting in.
M and AO on the other hand, are 17 and 18 respectively...AO is no different than NC-17...They're both the top end of the scale, even if you apparently can be trusted with unlimitedly bad stuff at 17 if it's only a movie.
Judging by some of the torture porn horror movies that have been coming out lately, which are almost all rated R, it's hard to imagine what lengths a game would have to go to to be rated AO, if games were rated to the same "standards" as movies.
No way dude, that's blood...Totally different.
Then he took a cup, gave thanks, 16 and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood... Matthew 26 27:28
One thing I never could stand about Christianity...All the damn vampires.
I don't think it could ever have created the hype if it wasn't the 5th(?) game in a massively popular series. A new game, without a massive PR budget, would have serious trouble with an AO rating. Hell, look at Manhunt II; Rockstar didn't just say, "Hah! GTA:SA sold great once it was AO, who cares if they AO this game!" they pushed the release date so they could rework the game to get an M rating.
If anyone knows the difference in sales, it's Rockstar.
No point...Since no major game retailer will carry the games, it'd be impossible to sell enough copies to cost justify the new hardware. Also, if it played regular console games you'd be sued by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo over copyright violations almost immediately.
As it stands, I'm sure there are any number of AO games out there for PCs, but I'm equally sure that their absence from standard distribution channels means that they are either unrated altogether or AO and only being sold off porn & warez sites.
Just to pick a nit, there have been several games that flaunted naked breasts that didn't get AO...God of War leaps to mind.
Still, you could easily have that much boob in a PG-13 movie, much less an R movie, and hell there is a lot of softcore pron in R that would be AO city if the same footage showed up in a game.
Sec. 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
* (a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.
o (1)
+ (A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. --DMCA
That's why it's illegal, because he's circumventing their anti-copying measures. The article title is pure troll.
You're hoping they're doing something to make it easier to program, and I doubt they are. The choke point is rapidly becoming scheduling rather than number of cores.
This is the same problem we've been working with on clusters forever...How do you tune and load balance the jobs to the point where you're getting the most out of your hardware, and nothing is sitting idle while other parts of the system are running at 100%? What do you do when the task is already reduced to the simplest level and there is no benefit from throwing extra processors at it?
Someone smarter than me is going to have to figure it out...The only way I can think of doing it is grafting more scheduling crap on top of all the processors to break down tasks and assign them to cores, and adding another layer of complexity is almost always a bad idea.
Right answer! Not that it did much for my overall GPA; 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 5.0 is only around a 3.1, which as the other guy so astutely pointed out is actually worse than my previous GPA (a C+ average instead of a B/C average).
Still, it was by far my best year of school in terms of my personal morale, my personal achievements, etc.
Shrug. They're all Christian to me. Frankly, these days, I view the Catholics far more kindly than most Protestants. My biggest problem with the Puritans is with their immense social conservativism, and I'm hardly alone in that. The inability to tolerate behaviours that deviate from the social norms poses a problem for all kinds of free thinking, not just science.
If you bothered to read anything I wrote, you'd know that I claimed Christianity itself has a bias against intellectualism, which is absolutely pertinent to the Dark Ages, as Christianity perpetuated the Dark Ages by attempting to quash any type of secular thinking in order to maintain its own power.
And frankly, and bias I could be said to be showing by claiming something so obvious as "Christianity is largely anti-intellectual" is far outweighed by the countless biases that Christianity perpetuates to this day.
Yea, I can't get over that whole "Dark Ages" thing. Every time I try, you guys start going nuts because some scientist says something that's not in your little book.
Yea, but you're kind of an asshole. You probably brag about other things like, "Hey I was on Slashdot today and I ranked on some dumbasses high school gpa! Ha ha! What a fucking retard!"
I read your post...It is possible to read something and not agree. Your examples are shallow; you pick flat out exceptional world changing people and say, "See we like smart people, just not bad smart people." This has no relation on how smart people in general are viewed.
It's okay to be smart if you change the world. It's okay to be smart as long as you're really humble about it. But if you don't change the world, or if you lack the proper humble demeanor to go with your big brain, then you're just an arrogant elitist. You've only yourself to blame. What gives you the right to know more than someone else anyway?