That's not in the city yet. That's a camp of radiation scientists. There are thousands of people there, so no wonder someone took a photo of her. By "alone" she probably means she doesn't drag people around with her, but she doesn't avoid random meetings:)
A fractal is defined as whole from the very beginning. Pick a set of parameters, apply to equation, you have whole fractal. Change one parameter, whole fractal is changed. Unlike mgreat most of objects in game, where they are defined point by point, changing one of them changes a single piece of the object. You can't apply the same simplifications to koch's snowflake and to human's head, just because human's head isn't a fractal. True you can drop points, but then results suddenly become really awful. Drop every fourth point and suddenly teeth become random sharp spikes, nose becomes a pinokio'ish point, ears get asymmetric... It's not math, it's art. Get an artist miss out every fourth note in a song and you get about the same result.
And don't mention MP3. MP3 optimizes for size, not for simplicity, eating up way more CPU time than uncompressed WAV.
Just pick minimum FPS and replace heaviest algorithms with lighter versions whenever FPS drops too drastically. Just look up "Morrowind FPS Optimizer" for example of a program that does similar thing - shortens view distance whenever it causes speed problems. It allows several other hacks too: Remove far, small objects, shorten view distance (better FPS) in battles and much more.
The price is all. Pay a professional service that will charge you a fortune and withstand a multimillion lawsuit if they screw up (probably they won't) or hire a cheap guy to remove pr0n wallpaper and dialers from startup, defragment the harddrive and wipe the screen with a damp cloth (because the contrast is off and adjusting it doesn't work;) - and pay maybe $20/hour. If he screws up, he won't charge you.
Citing the site: # Think telephone emulation (put the audio card into full duplex, and talk to the linmodem with it). # Think telephone with a backspace key (use the linmodem to dial for you). # Think smart telephone: "That line is busy. Do you want me to retry in five minutes?" # Think "voice dialling". # Think "soft pbx". Equip enough machines in an office for all the outside lines. Then do IP telephone inter-office, and go to a linmodem when you need an outside line. # Think answering machine. # Think pager interface. Your answering machine takes the call, phones your pager company and pages you). # Think "contact database with integral dialler, and answering machine recognition". # Think "call recording with no off-hook click". # Think message detail recorder (basically a record of all time spent on the phone. Great for billing.
Claims: (...) analyzing, with said software program, said stored binary image to detect whether said binary image constitutes a predetermined video game title;
Just load any binary file and run it, providing crash info within first 3-5 instructions, without testing if it is a binary image or a junk file. Omit "image recognition" piece, don't try extract info like game name, country region and such for user info, just assume all necessary data is there and crash if it isn't. No detection? No patent. By the way, you can couple a separate settings file with this data, so it isn't the binary image that is being analysed. The analysis performed by completely different program incapable of emulating.
So, you take "extract.exe zelda.rom" and it creates "zelda.emu" with all patches. Then bundle them in zip and spread. Download, launch "emulator.exe" and load "zelda.emu" which automatically causes load of "zelda.rom" which is assumed correct. No binary analysis to predetermine whether it is a game needed.
You just explained what would it be if FS was totalitarian. Communism is not about control. It's about sharing. It decides that all people should get what they need, without defining HOW. The model "I need it - I make it - I let others use it freely" is communist (though there are many others). Model "I need it - I force someone to make it - I take it from them - I may give something back, but may not just as well" isn't, no matter how those who do it call it.
On small scale, communism coexisted with anarchy perfectly - in primitive tribes. In most cases either conquest or alcohol doomed it.
where the air leaks from the station! Now just how did they steal it from the orbit and why nobody noticed it missing.... maybe they were too busy looking for the leak to perform any experiments, then they would notice there's nowhere to perform the experiments.
About 60%, give or take 5% depending on elections, but always considering about 10% intelligent "My option isn't available" people in the remaining number.
Sometimes the number drops drastically, but not without reason - like some pretty ridiculous voting that if passed, would introduce some rather dumb regulations, but to be valid required valid(yes/no) votes from 40% of eligible population, so everyone who would vote "no" just didn't vote, and with "70% yes" the voting was announced invalid with only some 25% voting.
In the oncoming parliament elections the number will supposedly be low though. All major political powers had their go in the last years and all they failed at least twice, so people just don't know who should they vote. An extremist party that doesn't have any solid programme, but points out all mistakes of the competitors in rather violent way shows up with about 30% votes. Imagine US presidential voting with both republican and democratic candidates missing or almost missing, and liberal candidate rather weak.
Problems/stereotypes: Right hand - christian wackos Left hand - weenies without balls to do things needed to be done, unreformable (pseudo)communist concrete. Liberals - thieves, egoists (politics = way for their companies to win on the market) Farmers 1 - weenies, traitors (shift sides way too often). Farmers 2 - Nazi-style wackos. all - corrupted, power-hungry.
Can you imagine you land line provider telling you that you would have to pay extra for using your line for a modem instead of voice? Actually, I can. TPSA Poland, installing special dampeners on their lines to prevent people from using modems faster than 12Kbps, so they could rip them off with their own Internet packages (ADSL) instead of using the lines to connect to cheaper ISPs.
Nope, I meant the Satan's Bible, the book the "true" Satanists base their beliefs on. It pretty much explains every kind of human behaviors by egoism and claims it's base of everything. All good you do is either for direct profit or for indirect - improving your looks in eyes of others - or at least in your own. You don't help an elder woman across the road because you believe it's the right thing to do. You do it to feed your ego. Matter of naming convention anyway. Let's use yours.
Anyway. I have a few questions. Why do your communist utopias always include billions of people just sleeping all day and doing absolutely nothing? What the hell for would the 600 million hard-working individuals need those 5.4 billion lazy-ass motherfuckers?
Who would you bitch about otherwise?:) Seriously - what else can one do about them? Soviets tried to make them all work. The system was very ineffective and collapsed - most of work done by them was too bad quality. Besides, the technology level didn't allow such high "system overhead" - 10 people working could barely produce enough to support 10 people living. That was the problem - even those who don't feel motivated to work have to work to keep the system running - to get them to work you need to force them, forcing people creates bad karma and leads to collapse of the whole thing. Now the 600 million hard-working individuals would need the remaining 5.4 billions for: a) feeding their egos, praising them for work well done. b) providing "source base" for more of the working ones (some would decide they just want to do some work to boost their egos) c) Providing all kinds of small services - feedback, Q/A, reporting problems, using=testing the goods. Otherwise, the mass would be pretty useless, but with enough technology support - not a real problem. They would just exist there, consume goods created in excess anyway, and hopefuly learn by good example that just drinking beer in front of TV will earn you less respect than getting to Mars, so if you move your ass, learn something and do something good, your neighbour will envy you, and a chick may prefer you to marry her?
The problem is still the limited resources - property. Land, rare goods, art, antiques, collectibles. I don't know how it could be solved. But I guess there IS a solution.
Communism assumes that indivduals don't have a right... Wrong. That's what totalitarism assumes. Communism assumes you believe it's better not to...
you'd have to convince... As opposed to force them/take the goods away from them.
How? Well, it's the tricky part. Certainly not by force. Preferably by good example. Attract best employees by very good work conditions (despite moderate salaries), build user-friendly products that don't perform nasty tricks the style printer cartridges do, respect people... and hope the competition will play fair and not use really bad dirty tricks using totalitarian methods of the government and law system to destroy you. Just like SCO tries to right now.
If I build my own factory convince workers to work for me and in exchange give them according to their needs that's not communism.
Thats a commune. Communism on small scale. Get 60% of factories to work on the same basis and you have plain communism. No terror required. If it would work though, is entirely different thing.
Sorry, but there's no such thing as "democracy" in economy. The closest thing would be communism, where everyone's impact/influence on the economy should be equal. In standard capitalism, there is one side who dictates the price and one who can at best disagree and not buy the product - but if 90% people decide printer cartridges are too expensive but the minority - all the producers - have agreed not to lower the prices, the prices will remain high.
Communism requires the goods being produced to be distributed to those who need it. As far as I can tell this requires a tolitarian state in order to enforce it.
Or good will (ego, as you prefer to call it. Are you under influence of LaVey's "Satan's Bible" or what?) from side of the producers.
In world where there's not enough to feed everyone and 5% going lazy make another 5% go hungry, communism can't work. But with current production efficiency, with current number of unemployed and difficulty to find a customer, only a small part of the society would have to really work to provide enough goods to satisfy the needs of the society. Maybe not -yet-. But soon. So what if 90% sleep all day and do nothing. Another 10% just to please their egos will take care of the rest of the production and it will completely suffice. (and I assure you, CROWDS of people WILLINGLY (some even cheerfully) participate in building stuff if they have faith in it. Check rebuilding Warsaw from ruins after IIWW if you don't believe, or look at enthusiasm of many current builders of Free Software.)
Note, it was always done in similar ways. Revolution, bloodshed, murdering the enemies. Totalitarism was there before communism. It was never attempted by evolutionary ways... before FSF. Lead by example, not by force. "Join us, follow us, if you want - leave, share your goods freely and don't try to steal others' free goods for your own". Firstly it succeeded because it's about software. Easy to copy, once you have one, everyone can have one at marginal cost. Implementing communism in this environment is very easy - you give a cake but you don't lose a cake. Nobody else tried to introduce communism slowly, gently, in a responsible, reasonable way yet.
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That's not in the city yet. That's a camp of radiation scientists. There are thousands of people there, so no wonder someone took a photo of her. By "alone" she probably means she doesn't drag people around with her, but she doesn't avoid random meetings :)
That's why this 3rd party tool was created :P
A fractal is defined as whole from the very beginning. Pick a set of parameters, apply to equation, you have whole fractal. Change one parameter, whole fractal is changed. Unlike mgreat most of objects in game, where they are defined point by point, changing one of them changes a single piece of the object. You can't apply the same simplifications to koch's snowflake and to human's head, just because human's head isn't a fractal. True you can drop points, but then results suddenly become really awful. Drop every fourth point and suddenly teeth become random sharp spikes, nose becomes a pinokio'ish point, ears get asymmetric... It's not math, it's art. Get an artist miss out every fourth note in a song and you get about the same result.
And don't mention MP3. MP3 optimizes for size, not for simplicity, eating up way more CPU time than uncompressed WAV.
Just pick minimum FPS and replace heaviest algorithms with lighter versions whenever FPS drops too drastically. Just look up "Morrowind FPS Optimizer" for example of a program that does similar thing - shortens view distance whenever it causes speed problems. It allows several other hacks too: Remove far, small objects, shorten view distance (better FPS) in battles and much more.
The price is all. ;) - and pay maybe $20/hour. If he screws up, he won't charge you.
Pay a professional service that will charge you a fortune and withstand a multimillion lawsuit if they screw up (probably they won't) or hire a cheap guy to remove pr0n wallpaper and dialers from startup, defragment the harddrive and wipe the screen with a damp cloth (because the contrast is off and adjusting it doesn't work
6:30? That means nothing in nowadays world!
WHAT TIMEZONE???
Get a winmodem and software from Linmodems.org
Citing the site:
# Think telephone emulation (put the audio card into full duplex, and talk to the linmodem with it).
# Think telephone with a backspace key (use the linmodem to dial for you).
# Think smart telephone: "That line is busy. Do you want me to retry in five minutes?"
# Think "voice dialling".
# Think "soft pbx". Equip enough machines in an office for all the outside lines. Then do IP telephone inter-office, and go to a linmodem when you need an outside line.
# Think answering machine.
# Think pager interface. Your answering machine takes the call, phones your pager company and pages you).
# Think "contact database with integral dialler, and answering machine recognition".
# Think "call recording with no off-hook click".
# Think message detail recorder (basically a record of all time spent on the phone. Great for billing.
I guess mailing voice recording wouldn't be hard.
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(...)
analyzing, with said software program, said stored binary image to detect whether said binary image constitutes a predetermined video game title;
Just load any binary file and run it, providing crash info within first 3-5 instructions, without testing if it is a binary image or a junk file. Omit "image recognition" piece, don't try extract info like game name, country region and such for user info, just assume all necessary data is there and crash if it isn't.
No detection? No patent.
By the way, you can couple a separate settings file with this data, so it isn't the binary image that is being analysed. The analysis performed by completely different program incapable of emulating.
So, you take "extract.exe zelda.rom" and it creates "zelda.emu" with all patches.
Then bundle them in zip and spread. Download, launch "emulator.exe" and load "zelda.emu" which automatically causes load of "zelda.rom" which is assumed correct. No binary analysis to predetermine whether it is a game needed.
I wanted to go, but they said they said people who use Vi instead of Emacs are not welcome. :(
You just explained what would it be if FS was totalitarian. Communism is not about control. It's about sharing. It decides that all people should get what they need, without defining HOW. The model "I need it - I make it - I let others use it freely" is communist (though there are many others). Model "I need it - I force someone to make it - I take it from them - I may give something back, but may not just as well" isn't, no matter how those who do it call it.
On small scale, communism coexisted with anarchy perfectly - in primitive tribes.
In most cases either conquest or alcohol doomed it.
where the air leaks from the station!
Now just how did they steal it from the orbit and why nobody noticed it missing.... maybe they were too busy looking for the leak to perform any experiments, then they would notice there's nowhere to perform the experiments.
About 60%, give or take 5% depending on elections, but always considering about 10% intelligent "My option isn't available" people in the remaining number.
Sometimes the number drops drastically, but not without reason - like some pretty ridiculous voting that if passed, would introduce some rather dumb regulations, but to be valid required valid(yes/no) votes from 40% of eligible population, so everyone who would vote "no" just didn't vote, and with "70% yes" the voting was announced invalid with only some 25% voting.
In the oncoming parliament elections the number will supposedly be low though. All major political powers had their go in the last years and all they failed at least twice, so people just don't know who should they vote. An extremist party that doesn't have any solid programme, but points out all mistakes of the competitors in rather violent way shows up with about 30% votes. Imagine US presidential voting with both republican and democratic candidates missing or almost missing, and liberal candidate rather weak.
Problems/stereotypes:
Right hand - christian wackos
Left hand - weenies without balls to do things needed to be done, unreformable (pseudo)communist concrete.
Liberals - thieves, egoists (politics = way for their companies to win on the market)
Farmers 1 - weenies, traitors (shift sides way too often).
Farmers 2 - Nazi-style wackos.
all - corrupted, power-hungry.
Whom to choose?
Can you imagine you land line provider telling you that you would have to pay extra for using your line for a modem instead of voice?
Actually, I can. TPSA Poland, installing special dampeners on their lines to prevent people from using modems faster than 12Kbps, so they could rip them off with their own Internet packages (ADSL) instead of using the lines to connect to cheaper ISPs.
Nope, I meant the Satan's Bible, the book the "true" Satanists base their beliefs on. It pretty much explains every kind of human behaviors by egoism and claims it's base of everything. All good you do is either for direct profit or for indirect - improving your looks in eyes of others - or at least in your own. You don't help an elder woman across the road because you believe it's the right thing to do. You do it to feed your ego.
:)
Matter of naming convention anyway. Let's use yours.
Anyway. I have a few questions. Why do your communist utopias always include billions of people just sleeping all day and doing absolutely nothing? What the hell for would the 600 million hard-working individuals need those 5.4 billion lazy-ass motherfuckers?
Who would you bitch about otherwise?
Seriously - what else can one do about them? Soviets tried to make them all work. The system was very ineffective and collapsed - most of work done by them was too bad quality. Besides, the technology level didn't allow such high "system overhead" - 10 people working could barely produce enough to support 10 people living. That was the problem - even those who don't feel motivated to work have to work to keep the system running - to get them to work you need to force them, forcing people creates bad karma and leads to collapse of the whole thing.
Now the 600 million hard-working individuals would need the remaining 5.4 billions for:
a) feeding their egos, praising them for work well done.
b) providing "source base" for more of the working ones (some would decide they just want to do some work to boost their egos)
c) Providing all kinds of small services - feedback, Q/A, reporting problems, using=testing the goods.
Otherwise, the mass would be pretty useless, but with enough technology support - not a real problem. They would just exist there, consume goods created in excess anyway, and hopefuly learn by good example that just drinking beer in front of TV will earn you less respect than getting to Mars, so if you move your ass, learn something and do something good, your neighbour will envy you, and a chick may prefer you to marry her?
The problem is still the limited resources - property. Land, rare goods, art, antiques, collectibles. I don't know how it could be solved. But I guess there IS a solution.
Communism assumes that indivduals don't have a right...
Wrong. That's what totalitarism assumes.
Communism assumes you believe it's better not to...
you'd have to convince...
As opposed to force them/take the goods away from them.
How? Well, it's the tricky part. Certainly not by force. Preferably by good example. Attract best employees by very good work conditions (despite moderate salaries), build user-friendly products that don't perform nasty tricks the style printer cartridges do, respect people... and hope the competition will play fair and not use really bad dirty tricks using totalitarian methods of the government and law system to destroy you. Just like SCO tries to right now.
If I build my own factory convince workers to work for me and in exchange give them according to their needs that's not communism.
Thats a commune. Communism on small scale. Get 60% of factories to work on the same basis and you have plain communism. No terror required.
If it would work though, is entirely different thing.
Sorry, but there's no such thing as "democracy" in economy. The closest thing would be communism, where everyone's impact/influence on the economy should be equal. In standard capitalism, there is one side who dictates the price and one who can at best disagree and not buy the product - but if 90% people decide printer cartridges are too expensive but the minority - all the producers - have agreed not to lower the prices, the prices will remain high.
Communism requires the goods being produced to be distributed to those who need it. As far as I can tell this requires a tolitarian state in order to enforce it.
Or good will (ego, as you prefer to call it. Are you under influence of LaVey's "Satan's Bible" or what?) from side of the producers.
In world where there's not enough to feed everyone and 5% going lazy make another 5% go hungry, communism can't work. But with current production efficiency, with current number of unemployed and difficulty to find a customer, only a small part of the society would have to really work to provide enough goods to satisfy the needs of the society. Maybe not -yet-. But soon. So what if 90% sleep all day and do nothing. Another 10% just to please their egos will take care of the rest of the production and it will completely suffice. (and I assure you, CROWDS of people WILLINGLY (some even cheerfully) participate in building stuff if they have faith in it. Check rebuilding Warsaw from ruins after IIWW if you don't believe, or look at enthusiasm of many current builders of Free Software.)
What about Free Software?
Agreed. Though the line is thin - only size. It doesn't try to overthrow the system, just gradually overtake it - by means of fair play.
Note, it was always done in similar ways. Revolution, bloodshed, murdering the enemies. Totalitarism was there before communism.
It was never attempted by evolutionary ways... before FSF.
Lead by example, not by force. "Join us, follow us, if you want - leave, share your goods freely and don't try to steal others' free goods for your own".
Firstly it succeeded because it's about software. Easy to copy, once you have one, everyone can have one at marginal cost. Implementing communism in this environment is very easy - you give a cake but you don't lose a cake. Nobody else tried to introduce communism slowly, gently, in a responsible, reasonable way yet.
Finally I'll be able to play Quake on big screen!