Well, PC games are more likely to be tipware (information that is free! but donations accepted). Since consoles are less likely to do this, PC games will dominate.
We who hate this "intellectual property" also seem fascinated by encryption. I think the difference is having the law behind the copyright tyrants. If there wasn't the law there, then all this DRM technology would be fun. Break it if you can, or just ignore it and use unencrypted content.
Predicting the motion due to gravity of three bodies is already inexact (the "3 body problem"). However, it can be simulated quite easily, resulting in a mess similar to what is observed in reality. But it will have no predictive power for a single run. Perhaps the statistics could be shown to match up with lots of runs, for example highest rebound and such? Be sure to avoid using decimal.
Toss around terms like genetic algorithm and neural networks, and some are dazzled by the elegance and simplicity of it. Well, then there's reality, which is often neither elegant nor simple. In Go, there is a computer player that utilizes neural networks, yet it is near the middle of the pack.
A good dose of skepticism should accompany any examination of the dazzingly elegant solution.
No. I view MP3 is an evil format. The squeezebox appears to support MP3 natively on the hardware (apparently to cut down on bandwidth needs and relieve the computer of decoding tasks). But there's nothing special about MP3 that Ogg and FLAC couldn't do.
It's patent-encumbered and lossy, yet has somehow permeated popular culture. This is yet another device that has MP3, but not FLAC or ogg. I'd buy something that announced as a feature the absence of MP3 support! Sure it's only a few cents to the price, but it's great not to have that baggage around. Somewhat like a language that doesn't support decimal. Think of what the historians will say about "MP3"--just an example of something imperfect can effect popular culture, but then die down as a useless artifact of the past.
The ancient game of Go could be played in a virtual environment too. At 13h (nineteen) square, it would be a bit bigger. But there are only three states for each square--black, white, or empty. Go is mentioned in every slashdot article on chess, but that is only because it is in many ways more elegant than chess. And even with quantum computing, Go computers won't be beating humans anytime soon.
I haven't modded ever, so that wasn't my mod. But I'm making the difference between a physical good versus an idea. The invention is the idea, the good is what is made. Say I've never heard of lemonade. I could say I discovered the recipe for lemonade, but what I create is only that particular glass that I made.
This "China" isn't a hot Asian (redundant) chick!
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You discover it. You can create lemonade from lemon juice, sugar, and water. Nobody else could have created that glass of lemonade. But with information, two people can independently "create" it. So it's not creating, it's discovering.
Take information versus a banana, land, or a concert ticket. You can copy information, and the original is still there. You cannot do that with a banana. You can copy a land deed, but not the land. You can copy a concert ticket, but you can't shove two people in the same seat.
Laws to prevent the free copying of information try to set up an artificial scarcity, and that is what is evil.
If I do give out my social security number, it is very hard to keep it from being copied. Once information is beamed everywhere on Earth, it's hard to keep it from being captured and decoded.
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Well, PC games are more likely to be tipware (information that is free! but donations accepted). Since consoles are less likely to do this, PC games will dominate.
If you don't know what binary is...do you even deserve to live?
It's rare to see, even on /. .
We who hate this "intellectual property" also seem fascinated by encryption. I think the difference is having the law behind the copyright tyrants. If there wasn't the law there, then all this DRM technology would be fun. Break it if you can, or just ignore it and use unencrypted content.
Can't we get beyond it? It implies sarcasm and a closed mind. Thinking must be really hard.
Yeah, it's still nice to get replies, even if it's a different viewpoint.
Or at least use .75 mach, which is binary aligned (0.11).
Predicting the motion due to gravity of three bodies is already inexact (the "3 body problem"). However, it can be simulated quite easily, resulting in a mess similar to what is observed in reality. But it will have no predictive power for a single run. Perhaps the statistics could be shown to match up with lots of runs, for example highest rebound and such? Be sure to avoid using decimal.
It'd be nice to see it, but most just whine about _abusive_ patents.
That's when the madness wil end.
Abolish patent law. That's when the madness will end.
Toss around terms like genetic algorithm and neural networks, and some are dazzled by the elegance and simplicity of it. Well, then there's reality, which is often neither elegant nor simple. In Go, there is a computer player that utilizes neural networks, yet it is near the middle of the pack.
A good dose of skepticism should accompany any examination of the dazzingly elegant solution.
No. I view MP3 is an evil format. The squeezebox appears to support MP3 natively on the hardware (apparently to cut down on bandwidth needs and relieve the computer of decoding tasks). But there's nothing special about MP3 that Ogg and FLAC couldn't do.
It's patent-encumbered and lossy, yet has somehow permeated popular culture. This is yet another device that has MP3, but not FLAC or ogg. I'd buy something that announced as a feature the absence of MP3 support! Sure it's only a few cents to the price, but it's great not to have that baggage around. Somewhat like a language that doesn't support decimal. Think of what the historians will say about "MP3"--just an example of something imperfect can effect popular culture, but then die down as a useless artifact of the past.
It can be parsed like any computer language! Ah, English..."Get in the right lane". "The correct lane?". "NO! The right lane". CRASH.
The ancient game of Go could be played in a virtual environment too. At 13h (nineteen) square, it would be a bit bigger. But there are only three states for each square--black, white, or empty. Go is mentioned in every slashdot article on chess, but that is only because it is in many ways more elegant than chess. And even with quantum computing, Go computers won't be beating humans anytime soon.
better?
Computing doesn't like decimal.
I haven't modded ever, so that wasn't my mod. But I'm making the difference between a physical good versus an idea. The invention is the idea, the good is what is made. Say I've never heard of lemonade. I could say I discovered the recipe for lemonade, but what I create is only that particular glass that I made.
Hey no fair, it's just a pasty white guy.
Who's to say nobody ever wrote something similar to the constitution and maybe did not get it circulated enough?
You discover it. You can create lemonade from lemon juice, sugar, and water. Nobody else could have created that glass of lemonade. But with information, two people can independently "create" it. So it's not creating, it's discovering.
Take information versus a banana, land, or a concert ticket. You can copy information, and the original is still there. You cannot do that with a banana. You can copy a land deed, but not the land. You can copy a concert ticket, but you can't shove two people in the same seat. Laws to prevent the free copying of information try to set up an artificial scarcity, and that is what is evil.
That's like ranking slave owners to me. It's all evil.
If I do give out my social security number, it is very hard to keep it from being copied. Once information is beamed everywhere on Earth, it's hard to keep it from being captured and decoded.