Internet: Yeah, we did. Computer: Arguable, depends on your definition of what constitutes a computer. Take a look at the work of Konrad Zuse. Yes, the US invented the integrated circuit. Motor Car: No, Benz, Daimler and others invented the car. However, an American, Ford, was the first with an affordable mass-produced car. Light Bulb: Edison may not have invented the light bulb but he did significantly improve it and mass produced the first long-lived incandescent. Telephone: Given that telephone is the name of a specific invention by Alexander Graham Bell, yeah, we did. Other inventors claimed to have transmitted sound over wires contemporaneously or nearly so. The courts stood by Bell's patent. Bell was a naturalized citizen of the US so we get to claim him.
People said that before the last shuttle disaster in '03 also, and here we are flying again. Whether the public is risk-averse or not, ultimately they don't get to decide, thank god. Public approval for Apollo never exceeded 40% at its height and NASA still went to the moon. Your doomsaying is needlessly inflammatory and inaccurate. Unless a private spacecraft crashed to Earth and incinerated an entire orphanage and puppy-mill, I don't think public opinion would impact a privately-held company at all.
Of course they're user problems! All social problems are user problems. While it's nice that you disagree with these assertions, many, many people would not. People can take offense for the slightest reasons, real or imaginary, IRL. A site like facebook just removes some of the in-person social context and customs around the "won't you be my friend?" request which are responsible for the dearth of such RL requests above the 4th grade level as Doctorow pointed out. So the problem with the social networking sites is that they reenable a behavior that the vast majority of people have grown out of, and that they have a publicizing effect on these behaviors.
Colbert should get together a couple thousand of his SC viewers, have them go through the Democratic convention process and have them vote every one of the No-voting Executive Committee members off the committee. They won't like it so much being on the receiving end of an arbitrary decision.
Dwarf Fortress, SimCity, Eve-Online. No rails in any of those (well, except for the railguns in Eve).
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The reason you think voting doesn't matter is that you're voting at the wrong time. These two candidates don't just pop into existence! They're selected during the primary process. If you were involved during the primary elections (unlike 91% of voters) your vote would count for much more and you'd have a broad field of choices. It's because people are apathetic and uninvolved in Party politics that they keep being handed two weasels to choose from! You get the candidates that someone is willing to put effort into, and if the broader public doesn't care, small groups with pet agendas certainly do and will dominate the underattended primaries and the political parties as well.
Isn't the solution obvious? Invert the quotas. Pay examiners per application denied. Then only the most nonobvious and innovative stuff will get through the process. The public is best served by preventing as many monopolies on ideas as possible while still rewarding true innovation.
Yes, and? I, for one, volunteer for permanent settlement, and I can find enough like-minded settlers for as many ships as Earth is likely to send. Let the day-trippers worry about going back to Earth.
Nah, an ideal "change the world" computer should come with self-replicating nanoassemblers so it can then produce more copies of itself from garbage as well as provide food, shelter, electricity generation and anything else the user might need.
When the computer is booted off a livecd, from a reputable source and you have checked the MD5 hash of the ISO. And you've checked your keyboard for hardware keystroke loggers. It's an immutable boot file system, so you should be pretty safe, assuming the distro provider didn't thoughtfully include malware for you. if your runtime environment does get infected with malware sometime after boot, a simple reboot will clean the compromise. Then make sure your computer is behind a firewall and don't run any trojans.
>Why not apply a rating system to journalists similar to that being used on Wikipedia by the UCSC crew? A journalist's rating is affected by whether they follow journalistic procedures in their writing, who they sell their article to (separate rating system for publishers based on the ratings of journalists who publish throgh them), accuracy of factual reporting, whether they include large blocks of text found to be non original, etc.
Let's do it! Rob Enderle and John Dvorak will have such a low rating!
I thought of becoming a caver, but you've talked me out of it. Hitting my head astoundingly hard all the time does not sound like my idea of fun. I have enough troubles with sorting out computer cables under a desk without banging my head.
Simple, don't have internet access at home. Remove the power supplies/batteries from all computers when you leave. Keep your credit card numbers secret and the cards themselves on your person at all times. That should solve the issue of accessing inappropriate material at home.
You can't buy an OldSpace duopoly launch for 30m. Luckily, we have companies like http://www.spacex.com/ which has agreed to provide a small discount over their usual low low prices on launch.
Sorry, while your observations may be true for other games, they are invalid for EVE. A point-by-point refutation:
>MMO: "Game Owners Create Money and distribute it to players at a fixed rate" In Eve there are isk (the unit of currency) spigots. Bounties are paid to pilots for killing npc pirates, completing missions and/or selling items to NPCs. This money is create ab initio and is distributed at a rate determined by the players. Killing more pirates creates more money.
>MMO: "Game Owners tax citizens in Non-MMO Money" While players do pay a monthly fee to play, they are also taxed in-game in isk. Every time I sell an item in Eve, I pay sales tax in ISK to the SSC. Players who are members of corporations which choose to tax their members take a percentage of bounties earned, in isk. Smugglers in EVE pay ISK penalties if caught. When your ship is destroyed in Eve, it doesn't respawn, so breaking the law in Eve effectively fines you for the cost of your ship, in Empire-controlled space anyway. People who have effective control over outlying star systems often charge tolls in ISK to pass unmolested.
>MMO: "No Lending/Credit" In Eve there are player-created banks. These are generally viewed as shady/untrustworthy institutions as they are not regulated in-game but some players do patronize them. See http://news.softpedia.com/news/Eve-Online-Economy-Suffers-700-billion-ISK-Scam-33737.shtml > MMO: No banks with fractional reserve lending ability This seems to be true, due to the lack of faith in the player banks in eve. From this we can see that the main difference between Eve's synthetic economy and the real one is regulation.
Correction, this is the way the US *used* to operate. These days we just go in without the doubt of the victory and the bare minimum of force to blow stuff up. This does not work well when the goal is actually to hold and secure territory. If we had 3 Million soldiers in Iraq and 100,000 aircraft, I guarantee the country would be secure. Of course, large parts would also be rubble, but it would be secure rubble, dammit.
These guys do it all the time. http://www.satobs.org/ It requires a telescope... a knowledge of mathematics and orbital mechanics or a computer built after 1992 or so and an open source sat tracking package, and of course copious free time and lots of coffee.
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Internet: Yeah, we did.
Computer: Arguable, depends on your definition of what constitutes a computer. Take a look at the work of Konrad Zuse. Yes, the US invented the integrated circuit.
Motor Car: No, Benz, Daimler and others invented the car. However, an American, Ford, was the first with an affordable mass-produced car.
Light Bulb: Edison may not have invented the light bulb but he did significantly improve it and mass produced the first long-lived incandescent.
Telephone: Given that telephone is the name of a specific invention by Alexander Graham Bell, yeah, we did. Other inventors claimed to have transmitted sound over wires contemporaneously or nearly so. The courts stood by Bell's patent. Bell was a naturalized citizen of the US so we get to claim him.
Andromeda Ascendant, is that you?
People said that before the last shuttle disaster in '03 also, and here we are flying again. Whether the public is risk-averse or not, ultimately they don't get to decide, thank god. Public approval for Apollo never exceeded 40% at its height and NASA still went to the moon. Your doomsaying is needlessly inflammatory and inaccurate. Unless a private spacecraft crashed to Earth and incinerated an entire orphanage and puppy-mill, I don't think public opinion would impact a privately-held company at all.
Yes, for the stupid person. We're making it more painful for everyone else.
Of course they're user problems! All social problems are user problems. While it's nice that you disagree with these assertions, many, many people would not. People can take offense for the slightest reasons, real or imaginary, IRL. A site like facebook just removes some of the in-person social context and customs around the "won't you be my friend?" request which are responsible for the dearth of such RL requests above the 4th grade level as Doctorow pointed out. So the problem with the social networking sites is that they reenable a behavior that the vast majority of people have grown out of, and that they have a publicizing effect on these behaviors.
Colbert should get together a couple thousand of his SC viewers, have them go through the Democratic convention process and have them vote every one of the No-voting Executive Committee members off the committee. They won't like it so much being on the receiving end of an arbitrary decision.
Dwarf Fortress, SimCity, Eve-Online. No rails in any of those (well, except for the railguns in Eve).
The reason you think voting doesn't matter is that you're voting at the wrong time. These two candidates don't just pop into existence! They're selected during the primary process. If you were involved during the primary elections (unlike 91% of voters) your vote would count for much more and you'd have a broad field of choices. It's because people are apathetic and uninvolved in Party politics that they keep being handed two weasels to choose from! You get the candidates that someone is willing to put effort into, and if the broader public doesn't care, small groups with pet agendas certainly do and will dominate the underattended primaries and the political parties as well.
Tell that to all the shells which don't hit the aircraft.
Isn't the solution obvious? Invert the quotas. Pay examiners per application denied. Then only the most nonobvious and innovative stuff will get through the process. The public is best served by preventing as many monopolies on ideas as possible while still rewarding true innovation.
Yes, and? I, for one, volunteer for permanent settlement, and I can find enough like-minded settlers for as many ships as Earth is likely to send. Let the day-trippers worry about going back to Earth.
Hell yeah, I'd love a Myth 4 with modern graphics. Myth 3 wasn't so good, but then again it wasn't made by Bungie.
Nah, an ideal "change the world" computer should come with self-replicating nanoassemblers so it can then produce more copies of itself from garbage as well as provide food, shelter, electricity generation and anything else the user might need.
When the computer is booted off a livecd, from a reputable source and you have checked the MD5 hash of the ISO. And you've checked your keyboard for hardware keystroke loggers. It's an immutable boot file system, so you should be pretty safe, assuming the distro provider didn't thoughtfully include malware for you. if your runtime environment does get infected with malware sometime after boot, a simple reboot will clean the compromise. Then make sure your computer is behind a firewall and don't run any trojans.
Way back down? The Google Lunar XPrize doesn't require you to return anything but signals to Earth.
Actually, just because the Feds won't have their vehicle ready doesn't mean that we will be limited to Russian launches. http://www.spacex.com/
>Why not apply a rating system to journalists similar to that being used on Wikipedia by the UCSC crew? A journalist's rating is affected by whether they follow journalistic procedures in their writing, who they sell their article to (separate rating system for publishers based on the ratings of journalists who publish throgh them), accuracy of factual reporting, whether they include large blocks of text found to be non original, etc. Let's do it! Rob Enderle and John Dvorak will have such a low rating!
I thought of becoming a caver, but you've talked me out of it. Hitting my head astoundingly hard all the time does not sound like my idea of fun. I have enough troubles with sorting out computer cables under a desk without banging my head.
Simple, don't have internet access at home. Remove the power supplies/batteries from all computers when you leave. Keep your credit card numbers secret and the cards themselves on your person at all times. That should solve the issue of accessing inappropriate material at home.
You can't buy an OldSpace duopoly launch for 30m. Luckily, we have companies like http://www.spacex.com/ which has agreed to provide a small discount over their usual low low prices on launch.
Sorry, while your observations may be true for other games, they are invalid for EVE. A point-by-point refutation:
>MMO: "Game Owners Create Money and distribute it to players at a fixed rate"
In Eve there are isk (the unit of currency) spigots. Bounties are paid to pilots for killing npc pirates, completing missions and/or selling items to NPCs. This money is create ab initio and is distributed at a rate determined by the players. Killing more pirates creates more money.
>MMO: "Game Owners tax citizens in Non-MMO Money"
While players do pay a monthly fee to play, they are also taxed in-game in isk. Every time I sell an item in Eve, I pay sales tax in ISK to the SSC. Players who are members of corporations which choose to tax their members take a percentage of bounties earned, in isk. Smugglers in EVE pay ISK penalties if caught. When your ship is destroyed in Eve, it doesn't respawn, so breaking the law in Eve effectively fines you for the cost of your ship, in Empire-controlled space anyway. People who have effective control over outlying star systems often charge tolls in ISK to pass unmolested.
>MMO: "No Lending/Credit"
In Eve there are player-created banks. These are generally viewed as shady/untrustworthy institutions as they are not regulated in-game but some players do patronize them. See http://news.softpedia.com/news/Eve-Online-Economy-Suffers-700-billion-ISK-Scam-33737.shtml
> MMO: No banks with fractional reserve lending ability
This seems to be true, due to the lack of faith in the player banks in eve. From this we can see that the main difference between Eve's synthetic economy and the real one is regulation.
What's your Blortle number?
Correction, this is the way the US *used* to operate. These days we just go in without the doubt of the victory and the bare minimum of force to blow stuff up. This does not work well when the goal is actually to hold and secure territory. If we had 3 Million soldiers in Iraq and 100,000 aircraft, I guarantee the country would be secure. Of course, large parts would also be rubble, but it would be secure rubble, dammit.
These guys do it all the time. http://www.satobs.org/ It requires a telescope... a knowledge of mathematics and orbital mechanics or a computer built after 1992 or so and an open source sat tracking package, and of course copious free time and lots of coffee.
Ah, so I guess global warming will be taken care of shortly then.