ironically in the UK this behaviour is currently less tolerated than similar crimes committed in person.
Indeed. If this guy had burgled someone or beaten them up in the street the judge would be doing everything he could not to send him to jail. Probably get a free cruise or something.
In a sovereign nation-state, starting from the assumption that it is democratically governed, each and all have opportunities to change their leadership - as well as changing the course the collective body is following.
LOL. You've clearly never lived in the UK.
Not only is the British government determined by the votes of about a million people in the Midlands, but they 'voted the bastards out' in the last election only to discover that the other bastards were just the same.
Action games with crappy controls designed for consoles are better on consoles. Mass Effect's controls were an abomination on the PC precisely because it was a console game.
Indeed. Capitalism's the worst religion of all, telling me I can't safely use nearly all the stuff around me because it "belongs" to other people - even when I'm harming no-one.
The odd part is that people who don't believe in private property shout the loudest when people come round and take all their stuff.
sci fi world with at least some effort at plausibility. (not all of it, but some details were there, for instance Jake suffering muscle weakness after prolonged time in the tank)
'Cause a culture capable of interstellar travel couldn't eliminate muscle weakness or fix nerve damage.
The reason the "indians" won was because the entire planet was a biological entity that could defend itself, by mobilizing all resources against the human invaders. It was never actually an underdog story : the planet has vastly superior technology and numbers to the human invaders (the brain transfers shown at the end of the movie were obviously extremely high tech), but the humans couldn't perceive it.
I remember writing that story in the early 90s and everyone who read it told me it was cliched back then. I seem to remember it was also a Star Trek episode in the 60s?
The best I can say about Avatar was that the last hour was really funny. I just wish we hadn't had to sit through the previous six hours to get there.
Many of the women I know have complained about female bosses, in part because 'these workplaces decisions are made more democratically and more interpersonal channels of communications are established'. They want a boss who tells them what to do and gets out of the way, not one who spends half their time asking people what they should be doing.
Though rather importantly, once you have that $40 disk you can watch it any time.
Unless TPTB decide to brick your Blu-Ray player.
I have three Blu-Ray players because they're not much more expensive than DVD players. But I mostly still buy DVDs because a) they don't have intrusive DRM and b) I don't need perpetual firmware upgrades to play new disks.
Hint: the G in GPU stands for 'Graphics'. They only started offering them as compute cards when the graphics market began to run out of steam.
And I'm guessing that they're salivating at the prospect of being able to sell dedicated compute cards for 10x the price of 3D cards rather than having cheapskates just load their systems with cheap consumer 3D hardware.
The interesting question is whether, if the US stops printing dollars, the existing physical dollars would become less valuable (no more state backing) or more valuable (no more state printing).
If it's secure, it's traceable, otherwise you can duplicate it.
Chaumian digital cash is anonymous in at least one direction; the buyer or seller can be anonymous, but probably not both.
So long as you have to deposit the cash back at the bank after every transaction, duplication isn't possible... the cash is either accepted or rejected during the transaction.
From what I remember, Mondex was not anonymous. I may be wrong as it was very hard to find technical details at the time, but I'm pretty sure that was the conclusion.
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Read the part after the one everyone always quotes about the 'military-industrial complex'.
ironically in the UK this behaviour is currently less tolerated than similar crimes committed in person.
Indeed. If this guy had burgled someone or beaten them up in the street the judge would be doing everything he could not to send him to jail. Probably get a free cruise or something.
This could be titled, 'Politicians waste money tearing dams up, and then putting them back.'
But just think how many more jobs you create that way.
Indeed. Far more people have been killed by accidental release of DHMO from hydro schemes than accidental release of radiation from nuclear plants.
In a sovereign nation-state, starting from the assumption that it is democratically governed, each and all have opportunities to change their leadership - as well as changing the course the collective body is following.
LOL. You've clearly never lived in the UK.
Not only is the British government determined by the votes of about a million people in the Midlands, but they 'voted the bastards out' in the last election only to discover that the other bastards were just the same.
action games are better on consoles
Action games with crappy controls designed for consoles are better on consoles. Mass Effect's controls were an abomination on the PC precisely because it was a console game.
Within a few phone generations (which are remarkably short) we'll have pretty staggering graphics capability on our cell phones.
Indeed. In a few years you might be able to play a game on a tiny phone display which looks as good as a current console.
You might even be able to play it for ten minutes before the battery goes flat.
Every time I've turned away from consoles in the past, it's been because I was impressed by how advanced the PC's had gotten compared to the consoles.
Fortunately 90% of PC games are now just crappy console ports so they don't have to worry about the PC looking better.
In the future the things the middle class will look back on is car and house ownership.
Who needs a car when they have bionic legs?
The First rule of hiring. It is better to let many excellent applicants not get the job then hire a bad employee.
If you want to end up with a company of mediocre employees.
I can foresee the author's arguments moving into new areas. A new Wii splash screen, for example.
"Why not take a break? IT'S THE LAW."
At least one MMOG I've played already bugs you to take a break after a couple of hours. Guild Wars, maybe?
Indeed. Capitalism's the worst religion of all, telling me I can't safely use nearly all the stuff around me because it "belongs" to other people - even when I'm harming no-one.
The odd part is that people who don't believe in private property shout the loudest when people come round and take all their stuff.
sci fi world with at least some effort at plausibility. (not all of it, but some details were there, for instance Jake suffering muscle weakness after prolonged time in the tank)
'Cause a culture capable of interstellar travel couldn't eliminate muscle weakness or fix nerve damage.
The reason the "indians" won was because the entire planet was a biological entity that could defend itself, by mobilizing all resources against the human invaders. It was never actually an underdog story : the planet has vastly superior technology and numbers to the human invaders (the brain transfers shown at the end of the movie were obviously extremely high tech), but the humans couldn't perceive it.
I remember writing that story in the early 90s and everyone who read it told me it was cliched back then. I seem to remember it was also a Star Trek episode in the 60s?
The best I can say about Avatar was that the last hour was really funny. I just wish we hadn't had to sit through the previous six hours to get there.
Don't worry, in five years the limit will be raised to ten years...
Many of the women I know have complained about female bosses, in part because 'these workplaces decisions are made more democratically and more interpersonal channels of communications are established'. They want a boss who tells them what to do and gets out of the way, not one who spends half their time asking people what they should be doing.
Though rather importantly, once you have that $40 disk you can watch it any time.
Unless TPTB decide to brick your Blu-Ray player.
I have three Blu-Ray players because they're not much more expensive than DVD players. But I mostly still buy DVDs because a) they don't have intrusive DRM and b) I don't need perpetual firmware upgrades to play new disks.
Hint: the G in GPU stands for 'Graphics'. They only started offering them as compute cards when the graphics market began to run out of steam.
And I'm guessing that they're salivating at the prospect of being able to sell dedicated compute cards for 10x the price of 3D cards rather than having cheapskates just load their systems with cheap consumer 3D hardware.
A GPU manufacturer optimising their cards for 3D graphics performance? Shocking!
A patent for creating music from numbers... using a computer.
The whole motivation of elimination of cash is not because it is good for citizens, it is because it is good for law enforcement or tax collection.
No, it's because it's good for control. Once all transactions are digital, anyone can be made a 'non-person' unable to buy or sell anything.
Imagine waking up one morning and finding that your 'payment card' had been disabled overnight.
The interesting question is whether, if the US stops printing dollars, the existing physical dollars would become less valuable (no more state backing) or more valuable (no more state printing).
If it's secure, it's traceable, otherwise you can duplicate it.
Chaumian digital cash is anonymous in at least one direction; the buyer or seller can be anonymous, but probably not both.
So long as you have to deposit the cash back at the bank after every transaction, duplication isn't possible... the cash is either accepted or rejected during the transaction.
From what I remember, Mondex was not anonymous. I may be wrong as it was very hard to find technical details at the time, but I'm pretty sure that was the conclusion.
A powerful government official proposes legislation that would grant more power to his branch of government, and hence himself.
A Senator demands that treaties must be ratified by the Senate, like the Constitution says? The horror!
Not really. Apple didn't have to deal with PowerPC applications. They told the market to deal with it. Could Microsoft do this? Yes. Should they? Yes.
Why would anyone choose to run Windows if it didn't run their Windows apps?
Windows lives and dies on backward compatibility. Metrosexual is the best thing they've done in years... for people selling other operating systems.