World PVP loses it's charm quickly when sides are not balanced and if you look at DAoC or WoW, sides are far, far from balanced. 2:1, 3:1 is more or less the norm for the "good" vs "evil". The outnumbered suckers are bound to give up sooner or later and simply ignore world pvp (if they can) or leave the game.
One problem in your argument is that if your God can be fooled by ones "just in case" belief, he is not really allmighty and allknowing - one truly believes or not. Belief out of fear is the worst and the most common replacement for faith I can imagine.
Another problem is that Christian God is the God of infinite love and forgiveness and not the God of infinite punishment and damnation, so when you die whatever you have done and whatever you have believed in - you will be forgiven.
Memory leaks in Java are almost as common as in other languages. The only difference is that in java they appear only when you have a live reference on something that should not be refenced anymore, so gc can't kill it.
I've never seen a simple, good, documented OS project where you pay for support. Do you know one?
On the other hand you can make some pretty nice money on suckering customers to use your product because it's "free", and then leech them through consulting and bugfixing fees.
This will very ofter lead to overhyped, underdocumented piece of software. When your business driver is in support, bug-fixing and consulting where do you get incentive to write simple, good, documented stuff? Just take a look at JBoss for example.
All 3 are taxable/controlled items
All 3 are routinely smuggled items
Illegal trade in all 3 is by the same cartels/organized crime groups/Mafiosi
It's cheaper and safer than having an agency for each.
So... The next logical step is to create ATFR - Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Records. It's cheaper and we get to get rid of RIAA.
New economy of nanotech age is pretty good described in Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Basically, everything that is nano-assembled is close to worthless. Hand-made things and "blueprints" to make something (IP) are considered to be of value.
There is a huge lower class of people who don't do anything and have access to social welfare nano-feeds that produce basic stuff for free. There's a pretty thin middle class of nerds that create new blueprints and feeds. Upper class is very small and basically they are all Equity Lords, initial owners of the company that patented the technology.
Yes, but you can't sue packaging material producers or fedex because they allowed that package with hazardous materials to be labeled as 'books', delivered and allowed itself to be opened.
We ought to fix things by requiring companies who use foreign labor to pay equivalent U.S. for each overseas position into a fund used for improving living conditions in the countries these companies are abusing (or similar causes).
There are no "overseas positions". Companies are paying for services. If you outsource to India for example, you basically can't tell if they themselves outsourced it to China or not.
Yes, everything can be done somewhere else, but it will never ever happen - not because of communication, skills, language or plain patriotism, but because outsourcing cuts the branch you are sitting on.
Imagine a software company that is 99% outsourced. What happens with your product when your partner decides that someone else (your competitor?) is paying better and says bye-bye?
When your core competence is outsourced you have placed your balls in the hands of the people you never saw in your life, and for most managers or "managers" and other control freaks that's not the most comfortable position. So, if you are out of job, wait a bit till they wiggle their way out.
Oh please... We are talking about high-school philosophy here. If you grow up to be a true geek and you find such ideas somehow "new" or they "open your mind" you need to go back to school and/or reading. Matrix is cool movie, with cool iconography (Shaft meets John Woo who was given 101 in high-tech), but please don't try to give popular media more meaning then they can carry.
As for "it is the first and only movie to really focus on the use of illusion as a tool of social control", every single anti-utopia movie has that line - Blade Runner, 1984 (speaking of which, it carries the message much better, but is not as "cool")
I personally think that "benefiting the artists" is a bit overboard... Think about it for a second - can you imagine a real artist painting one picture and earning millions on it? Yeah it happens, but generally you have to be dead and dutch or spanish.
We have thousands examples of completely worthless pop crap selling in millions and "artists" earning tens of millions, and somehow we consider that completely normal. IMO, calling that "art" and getting worried about "artists" is a bit too much, don't you think? True artists work out of their passion, love for art, fame and chicks, not because they want phat bank accounts.
What truly scares me, is the possibility of only the rich being able to afford genetic "enhancements". Imagine a world where if you want your child to benefit from genetics, you have to spend a proportional amount of money for said engineering to be done.
Imagine a world where if you want your child to benefit from education, you have to spend a proportional amount of money for said education to be done.
Scholarships are only the equivalent of "enchancing" the poor kids who already show enough talent to be usefull to corporations and/or government.
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I can understand some people have fears of "colonialism", but it is simply not the way the US works.
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Ya, surely not.... Colonialism would imply US occupies a country by force and then installs a puppet government that will protect US political and economical interests. As we all know, US never considered that. Proof is Latin Amer.... Errrr.... nm
Words like "freedom", "human rights", "legitimate", "abuse", "criminal" and even "citizen" are all ill defined. Different cultures have different moral standards and thus different laws. Our standards are based on thousands of years of euro-centric tradition - greece, rome, christianity, renesanse, revolutions, etc. Why on earth should Iraqis (or anyone else) give up on their own tradition, moral standards and laws? Because we don't like em?
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World PVP loses it's charm quickly when sides are not balanced and if you look at DAoC or WoW, sides are far, far from balanced. 2:1, 3:1 is more or less the norm for the "good" vs "evil". The outnumbered suckers are bound to give up sooner or later and simply ignore world pvp (if they can) or leave the game.
The glass in buildings where braking it would be your only option of escape is unbreakable anyway.
Do they have satellite antennas in your country?
Another problem is that Christian God is the God of infinite love and forgiveness and not the God of infinite punishment and damnation, so when you die whatever you have done and whatever you have believed in - you will be forgiven.
Tax. Shitloads of it.
Memory leaks in Java are almost as common as in other languages. The only difference is that in java they appear only when you have a live reference on something that should not be refenced anymore, so gc can't kill it.
I've never seen a simple, good, documented OS project where you pay for support. Do you know one?
On the other hand you can make some pretty nice money on suckering customers to use your product because it's "free", and then leech them through consulting and bugfixing fees.
This will very ofter lead to overhyped, underdocumented piece of software. When your business driver is in support, bug-fixing and consulting where do you get incentive to write simple, good, documented stuff? Just take a look at JBoss for example.
10 is maybe not very easy to divide, but it's very easy to multiply. For 12 x 15 you need to think a bit, for 10 x 15 you don't.
Swedish steel is even more expensive then US steel, and it has no problem whatsoever to find buyers.
All 3 are taxable/controlled items
All 3 are routinely smuggled items
Illegal trade in all 3 is by the same cartels/organized crime groups/Mafiosi
It's cheaper and safer than having an agency for each.
So... The next logical step is to create ATFR - Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Records. It's cheaper and we get to get rid of RIAA.
New economy of nanotech age is pretty good described in Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Basically, everything that is nano-assembled is close to worthless. Hand-made things and "blueprints" to make something (IP) are considered to be of value.
There is a huge lower class of people who don't do anything and have access to social welfare nano-feeds that produce basic stuff for free. There's a pretty thin middle class of nerds that create new blueprints and feeds. Upper class is very small and basically they are all Equity Lords, initial owners of the company that patented the technology.
Yes, but you can't sue packaging material producers or fedex because they allowed that package with hazardous materials to be labeled as 'books', delivered and allowed itself to be opened.
Tesla had a contract with Westinghouse that earned him 1c for every kW produced by Westinghouse generators. He tore it up.
He's showing a remarcable spectrum of subjects he misunderstands. Width is always a true sign of a Ph.D.
Justice has nothing to do with morality.
Try EJB CMRs. Specifically, I know Weblogic has some very interesting caching capabilities.
We ought to fix things by requiring companies who use foreign labor to pay equivalent U.S. for each overseas position into a fund used for improving living conditions in the countries these companies are abusing (or similar causes).
There are no "overseas positions". Companies are paying for services. If you outsource to India for example, you basically can't tell if they themselves outsourced it to China or not.
Yes, everything can be done somewhere else, but it will never ever happen - not because of communication, skills, language or plain patriotism, but because outsourcing cuts the branch you are sitting on.
Imagine a software company that is 99% outsourced. What happens with your product when your partner decides that someone else (your competitor?) is paying better and says bye-bye?
When your core competence is outsourced you have placed your balls in the hands of the people you never saw in your life, and for most managers or "managers" and other control freaks that's not the most comfortable position. So, if you are out of job, wait a bit till they wiggle their way out.
Slaves do not need to be enslaved, they already are.
Oh please... We are talking about high-school philosophy here. If you grow up to be a true geek and you find such ideas somehow "new" or they "open your mind" you need to go back to school and/or reading.
Matrix is cool movie, with cool iconography (Shaft meets John Woo who was given 101 in high-tech), but please don't try to give popular media more meaning then they can carry.
As for "it is the first and only movie to really focus on the use of illusion as a tool of social control", every single anti-utopia movie has that line - Blade Runner, 1984 (speaking of which, it carries the message much better, but is not as "cool")
I personally think that "benefiting the artists" is a bit overboard... Think about it for a second - can you imagine a real artist painting one picture and earning millions on it? Yeah it happens, but generally you have to be dead and dutch or spanish.
We have thousands examples of completely worthless pop crap selling in millions and "artists" earning tens of millions, and somehow we consider that completely normal. IMO, calling that "art" and getting worried about "artists" is a bit too much, don't you think? True artists work out of their passion, love for art, fame and chicks, not because they want phat bank accounts.
Scholarships are only the equivalent of "enchancing" the poor kids who already show enough talent to be usefull to corporations and/or government.
I can understand some people have fears of "colonialism", but it is simply not the way the US works.
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Ya, surely not.... Colonialism would imply US occupies a country by force and then installs a puppet government that will protect US political and economical interests. As we all know, US never considered that. Proof is Latin Amer.... Errrr.... nm
Words like "freedom", "human rights", "legitimate", "abuse", "criminal" and even "citizen" are all ill defined. Different cultures have different moral standards and thus different laws. Our standards are based on thousands of years of euro-centric tradition - greece, rome, christianity, renesanse, revolutions, etc. Why on earth should Iraqis (or anyone else) give up on their own tradition, moral standards and laws? Because we don't like em?