Keep in mind the reason the US doesn't sign a lot of international treaties is that we have a much stricter government when it comes to these sort of things. Getting treaties by congress is more difficult than the european model, where foreign ministers can just sign away.
Also, beware how things are publicized, they more often then not have crazy spin. There are very, very good reasons why not to sign Kyoto or the land mine treaty, which others here have iterated. But the media likes to focus on the US being unilateral, and not on the discrepancies in the treaties we don't sing.
Take for example the UN resolution to condemn Israel for killing the Hamas leader. US vetoed it, and was denounced for it. We vetoed it because it refused to critize Hamas for its killing of thousands of innocents, yet that doesn't make the papers. So be careful what you read.
There's a lot more to being a twenty year old than intelligence. Even if a ten year old did have the intelligence of the average college student (which I'm sure some do) that doesn't mean they're mature.
Instead they should learn how to interact with people who may not be as smart as they are. Goodness knows they'll have to at some point in their lives, if not all the time.
Please, please don't let your children end up looking like Richard Stallman.
Harvard is offering a course this semester under Anthropology called "Humans, Aliens, and Future Home Worlds: An Anthropologist Looks at Science Fiction."
Of course, I jumped on it, and so far it has been very interesting. We read Wells' War of the Worlds; Butler's Wild Seed; Clarke's Childhood's End; LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness; and Haldeman's The Forever War. There's also a bunch of books about scifi in general, for example why Star Trek is such a success.
A lot of people were incredulous that this class was being offered, but I think it points to a growing respect for the sci-fi genre.
In a related note, courses on mythology, including stuff about goblins, trolls, dragons, etc, have been offered for some time. But the focus is mythology, and not really modern fantasy.
If you don't enforce a patent, you lose it. So if it could be shown Microsoft knowingly neglected to enforce their patent, then they should lose it. But that will probably come up in the courts. It's not like Microsoft is doing anything wrong.
There is a difference between reading FAT and using FAT. As I understand it, MS is charging licensing fees to people who's products are built on top of FAT. Just because something like OSS reads FAT, doesn't mean it has to pay fees.
A little competition is always healthy. I think Id still has the ability and the brainpower to make a revolutionary game, not just a better version of Doom. Hopefully ppl like Valve will push them to do that.
key words: scripted events. Doom3 is full of them. HL2 doesn't have scripted events per se, most of the cool stuff you see is actually the AI interacting with the environment.
I would speculate that the reason is the the nordic countries are some of the most advanced tech-wise (as in lots of people have computers, broadband, etc) yet they have such low populations that its easy to have high "per capita" numbers.
If you took the US's total playing time, and divided it by Iceland's total population, you'd probably come out with something like 27 hours per capita per day. Yah.
He was arrested for breaking an American law protecting an American company, but remember he wasn't arrested until he came to the US. Its not like sweden extradited him or anything.
I'm not agreeing with the law, just saying that he came under the US jurisdiction when he entered the country.
And the president is protected by diplomatic immunity.
Mmm, I was sort of hoping there was am agreement between france etc. and the US etc. one set of countries playing good cop, the other playing bad cop, just to un-nerve Saddam, keep him on edge, create the tension required for him to get rid of his weapons, get his ass out of Iraq
I think a unified front would have put a LOT more pressure on Saddam. Ironically, if the French hadn't opposed us, we might actually have had a peaceful resolution.
Detecting hitability through mathematics? Are they serious? Have they ever heard of music theory? Every rock song since forever has been exactly the same. I-IV-V-I. That's pretty much the chord progression for everything. Artists have discovered that they can get cool effects if they make it minor, or throw in the seventh, but the fundamental model is the same for everything. And everything finishes with a perfect cadence (V-I). Anything else sounds weird to the brainwashed masses.
Keep in mind that most of these people are at LEAST in their 40's, and when they were in college they all used typewriters. The business leaders of tomorrow DO use computers. Go to any first/second tier university and everyone carries laptops.
I think real changes are beginning to happen with more business using Linux. Universities tend to be more Linux and Apple friendly anyway.
Here at Harvard they just replaced all the old Macs with new ones running OSX, and in the computer labs half the windows machines were just replaced with Red Hat! This was pretty easy since Harvard's (as well as most Ivy League's) networks are run on Unix and have been since forever.
It's kind of weird for people on here to talk about their given names and personal identity. Look at us...we all have fake names here on/.
I mean, really...Boromir here talks about his heritage, and then his sig is a fake heritage. But we all have identities. I don't think a name is really all that important.
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And you're calling him a nerd...I'm confused.
Not to mention the emperor...
Also, beware how things are publicized, they more often then not have crazy spin. There are very, very good reasons why not to sign Kyoto or the land mine treaty, which others here have iterated. But the media likes to focus on the US being unilateral, and not on the discrepancies in the treaties we don't sing.
Take for example the UN resolution to condemn Israel for killing the Hamas leader. US vetoed it, and was denounced for it. We vetoed it because it refused to critize Hamas for its killing of thousands of innocents, yet that doesn't make the papers. So be careful what you read.
Wait, you consider military personel unemployed?? are you serious?
There's a lot more to being a twenty year old than intelligence. Even if a ten year old did have the intelligence of the average college student (which I'm sure some do) that doesn't mean they're mature.
Instead they should learn how to interact with people who may not be as smart as they are. Goodness knows they'll have to at some point in their lives, if not all the time.
Please, please don't let your children end up looking like Richard Stallman.
This sounds unsettlingly like some nerd revenge fantasy. I suggest letting the big boys handle this one.
Harvard is offering a course this semester under Anthropology called "Humans, Aliens, and Future Home Worlds: An Anthropologist Looks at Science Fiction."
Of course, I jumped on it, and so far it has been very interesting. We read Wells' War of the Worlds; Butler's Wild Seed; Clarke's Childhood's End; LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness; and Haldeman's The Forever War. There's also a bunch of books about scifi in general, for example why Star Trek is such a success.
A lot of people were incredulous that this class was being offered, but I think it points to a growing respect for the sci-fi genre.
In a related note, courses on mythology, including stuff about goblins, trolls, dragons, etc, have been offered for some time. But the focus is mythology, and not really modern fantasy.
I seriously doubt www.nytimes.com would get taken down by the /. effect. It probably gets 5 times the hits /. does anyway.
This patent looks like distribute systems job bidding...isn't this an old idea?
Agreed. It's all about pine.
If you don't enforce a patent, you lose it. So if it could be shown Microsoft knowingly neglected to enforce their patent, then they should lose it. But that will probably come up in the courts. It's not like Microsoft is doing anything wrong.
There is a difference between reading FAT and using FAT. As I understand it, MS is charging licensing fees to people who's products are built on top of FAT. Just because something like OSS reads FAT, doesn't mean it has to pay fees.
A little competition is always healthy. I think Id still has the ability and the brainpower to make a revolutionary game, not just a better version of Doom. Hopefully ppl like Valve will push them to do that.
key words: scripted events. Doom3 is full of them. HL2 doesn't have scripted events per se, most of the cool stuff you see is actually the AI interacting with the environment.
Don't forget Descent! ...Though you might call that a flight game...I still think of it as as first person shooter...
If you took the US's total playing time, and divided it by Iceland's total population, you'd probably come out with something like 27 hours per capita per day. Yah.
I'm not agreeing with the law, just saying that he came under the US jurisdiction when he entered the country.
And the president is protected by diplomatic immunity.
I think a unified front would have put a LOT more pressure on Saddam. Ironically, if the French hadn't opposed us, we might actually have had a peaceful resolution.
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-Typhon
It worked, too. As a college student now, I can't tell you how many people still use macs and talk about how they'll never switch.
Ironically, many of them have 'upgraded' to OS X without realizing what it is.
-Typhon
Keep in mind that most of these people are at LEAST in their 40's, and when they were in college they all used typewriters. The business leaders of tomorrow DO use computers. Go to any first/second tier university and everyone carries laptops.
-Typhon
Here at Harvard they just replaced all the old Macs with new ones running OSX, and in the computer labs half the windows machines were just replaced with Red Hat! This was pretty easy since Harvard's (as well as most Ivy League's) networks are run on Unix and have been since forever.
-Typhon
I mean, really...Boromir here talks about his heritage, and then his sig is a fake heritage. But we all have identities. I don't think a name is really all that important.
-typhon