I think Lisp macros can do things with the AST, wheras C macros manipulate text. That is, one is about as powerful as a compiler, and the other is about as powerful as a preprocessor.
But, I'm a programming amateur and use neither C nor Lisp.
Well, you can trust thousands of different entities (the companies) to be responsible for human rights and such, or you can trust a single entity (government) to enforce human rights in companies. Furthermore, in one case the shareholders vote on what is responsible in their companies (such that each company could have a different idea of what responsibility is), or you could have the citizens of a country (or their representatives) vote for one responsibility is overall (within the municipality/state/federal system).
I'd go for having the citizen's government wield its power, and let the companies maximize profit. But if the shareholders want to be benevolant too, then let them; however, the fact that they get the opportunity to do so means the government might not be doing its job.
Afaik, the fair dealing doesn't cover making copies of a record for your friend, or even for personal archive. I just skimmed it again, and I read it in the past (subsequently forgetting most of it), but hey, it's complicated and IANAL so I could be wrong. It handles things like educational institutions, archives (not defined apparantly), research, criticism, reporting, derivitive works (though I didn't notice it), and public broadcasting. Unless I'm mistaken, there was nothing about personal copies.
The media levy is just an organized way for royalties to be handled. Thus, if you buy media with which to copy a music CD, it's legal because you've paid royalties*. However, with DRM I guess you'd be breaking one of the newer acts. It is of course a bit stupid that I'm paying some music levies on my data CDs however (for data CDs the amount is in proportion to the number of people who will be copying music with it, supposedly).
* There was a website hosted by the Government of Canada where I found this information about the levy. I haven't been able to find it again. Besides linking to the actual legal text regarding the levy, it had a list of appropriate and inappropriate extrapolations, which is what I remember best.
Case law muddies the waters further.
Imo, the entire thing is tiring and annoying. If I can't get caught, I'll just do what I want I suppose.
To me, needing imagination is a failure of muds (and books too). The mud designers and builders try to get their point across in text, which is much harder because you have to stop playing the game to read unnecessary descriptions, and text is inherently less descriptive than pictures. It might be me, but I usually think of the rooms and mobs in more abstract terms then, and rarely put a face to them--and when I do, it's usually something similar to a character in a movie or drawing I've seen already. What bonus is that?
I can never understand when people extol the virtues of imagination. It seems that they are really interested in having people be creative, and personally I hate coming up with imagery for someone else's ideas. I use my creativity within the game world, coming up with strategy and so on, not in defining the game world.
I'd much rather play a graphical mmorpg (or mud, even), with detailed, photorealistic 3d images, and sounds too.
Of course, that muds are written in text means the barrier to entry is low, which means muds can try a greater range of design options, unlike mmorpgs which have to pay their graphic designers and programmers. That is the huge advantage of muds.
I'd say that most MUDs don't support SSH, because most are based on old codebases whose cores are rarely updated. The people designing their codebases from scratch might be thinking of SSH though.
Exposure to young enough kids has a negative impact on them later in life. At least, that's what I'm led to believe by Dr. Drew Pinsky (co-host of the Loveline radio program). It's sounds plausible...
As for violence, a study by the Surgeon General found that violence influences only kids who are being negatively influenced in another type of way (bad parents one might think). I can't remember the specifics however. But the study is easy to get.
The pregnancy rate is higher than we think it should be.
STOP EXPOSING THEM TO SEX!!!
Or, people can be less reactionary and ask, "why is the rate so high?" The cause might be something that requires a different solution. Besides, to me, teens becoming pregnant isn't a obvious indicator that sex exposure should be halted, but rather than contraception should be used.
I don't know about your involvement in this stuff, but I know a lot of people who really are reactionary and try to solve these problems on their ignorant intuition.
Lastly, to make this complete, as for the swearing, I imagine one should expain why swearing is inappropriate to most people, and that it's reserved for times of duress or hate.
My calculus teacher told something similar. The idea was that you're driving a car, and two different cop cars measure your speed at different times, where both times you were driving lawfully. But they figure out your average speed in travelling between them, and that you had to have sped to travel so fast. Of course, cars don't change speeds magically like that, and you have to have accelerated instead. Using some approximation, I guess we figured (I forget the specifics, but this makes sense) that the max speed was actually faster than the cops' average. Doh.
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Imo, this stuff will be done in muds, if they haven't been already. I too like the idea of killing the curve which locks content and empowers veterns versus newbs. However, I think it might be hard to do, since people expect it, and it kills a nice definable goal (which isn't to say that it can't be replaced). Bartle has discussed the idea of changing features, and he said it's a bit doomed. So financially, it might not be very good, and mmorpgs will avoid it.
But the muds don't have to.
I like the idea of starting the player out with combat, which leads to economic power, which leads to politics. There are a number of different power struggles then, on different levels. There are lots of other ideas that haven't been tried though...
I was going to include some of that sentiment, but I thought I'd start small. With the internet age, it at least wouldn't hurt for netizens to use GMT instead of hassle with timezones (How many clan meets have I missed). But I'm all for GMT all-the-way.
Bah, just kill daylight savings instead. I'll just remember that sometimes 7:00 is darker than I might expect at a different time of the year. As it happens, I constantly forget to change my watch.
Now that I think of it, maybe the ESRB should consider how easy it is for kids to change/add the content of the game, as a warning to parents. By that I mean they should consider the existance of third party hacks on the internet. But obviously knowing all of the third party hacks which exist on the internet would be difficult, so the time-cheap way to do it is just consider "locked" content on the disc. Since Rockstar included the content, the likelihood of a hack existing that could change the rating of the game is much greater, so it should be mentioned, once again, to help parents.
But the fact that they use a blanked rating is a bit lousy. The current rating system doesn't seem to adequately consider locked content.
Well, it was missing the configuration of bits required to use those bits...
It seems to me like they're saying, "we classify your game based on its content for parents," but without defining much more. So is locked down content to be considered? The original statement doesn't say. So they need to re-examine why they exist. Think of it pragmatically.
If my kid wants to buy a game, and I want to know the types of content, does a rating that considers locked content help me? If one has to access the content with third party tools, I'd initially say no. But with the prevalence of internet, and the triviality of the hack, I'd think again. However, what if a game exists where an easy to acquire hack adds sexually explicit content? It seems arbitrary to consider that some content exists already on the disc, when it still needs third party tools to unlock.
So, I think I've concluded that this whole thing is dumb. But fuck it; I'm 21. (well, not really, but it rhymes...)
I imagine they don't really mean "fully rendered", because I doubt that's actually the case. The sex game is probably only some scripts (including the naughty animation scripts). Fully compiled maybe? Fully potentially interpreted..?
I wonder if there is a short of Laffer curve for hours vs. productivity. Maybe leading up to the 7th hour most people are already slowing down, and then the 8th is almost completely useless.
No it isn't... now try defining any of those variables! But really, a model can help you even if you don't define them, but since everybody knows it already it's probably completely useless.
This was analyzed in a Language Log post by Mark Liberman. Conclusion: very easily Bush was trying to control the flow of the debate, and more specifically, Bush was probably talking to Lehrer because it might have seemed like he was done.
Well, perhaps she was. I've only been listening since January--take the commercial free show from the newsgroups and listen while I read boards and slashdot--but she has tended to ramble insanely at each appearance when she's supposed to be sober to keep her kid.
You may very well be right, and it doesn't bother me, because regardless the show is entertaining. But I don't see anything spectacular about his on-air persona that might not possibly be him off-air, so I don't believe you. He isn't nearly as outrageous as those who followed suit, and he talks about his life so much that it doesn't seem very different.
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I could make an image of a human on a piece of paper. There is no connotation of superiority, in that case.
Yet another problem of translation and context I suppose.
I think Lisp macros can do things with the AST, wheras C macros manipulate text. That is, one is about as powerful as a compiler, and the other is about as powerful as a preprocessor.
But, I'm a programming amateur and use neither C nor Lisp.
Well, you can trust thousands of different entities (the companies) to be responsible for human rights and such, or you can trust a single entity (government) to enforce human rights in companies. Furthermore, in one case the shareholders vote on what is responsible in their companies (such that each company could have a different idea of what responsibility is), or you could have the citizens of a country (or their representatives) vote for one responsibility is overall (within the municipality/state/federal system).
I'd go for having the citizen's government wield its power, and let the companies maximize profit. But if the shareholders want to be benevolant too, then let them; however, the fact that they get the opportunity to do so means the government might not be doing its job.
Afaik, the fair dealing doesn't cover making copies of a record for your friend, or even for personal archive. I just skimmed it again, and I read it in the past (subsequently forgetting most of it), but hey, it's complicated and IANAL so I could be wrong. It handles things like educational institutions, archives (not defined apparantly), research, criticism, reporting, derivitive works (though I didn't notice it), and public broadcasting. Unless I'm mistaken, there was nothing about personal copies.
The media levy is just an organized way for royalties to be handled. Thus, if you buy media with which to copy a music CD, it's legal because you've paid royalties*. However, with DRM I guess you'd be breaking one of the newer acts. It is of course a bit stupid that I'm paying some music levies on my data CDs however (for data CDs the amount is in proportion to the number of people who will be copying music with it, supposedly).
* There was a website hosted by the Government of Canada where I found this information about the levy. I haven't been able to find it again. Besides linking to the actual legal text regarding the levy, it had a list of appropriate and inappropriate extrapolations, which is what I remember best.
Case law muddies the waters further.
Imo, the entire thing is tiring and annoying. If I can't get caught, I'll just do what I want I suppose.
Did they ever do any research to back up those generalizations? Speculation is fun, but for making policy..?
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To me, needing imagination is a failure of muds (and books too). The mud designers and builders try to get their point across in text, which is much harder because you have to stop playing the game to read unnecessary descriptions, and text is inherently less descriptive than pictures. It might be me, but I usually think of the rooms and mobs in more abstract terms then, and rarely put a face to them--and when I do, it's usually something similar to a character in a movie or drawing I've seen already. What bonus is that?
I can never understand when people extol the virtues of imagination. It seems that they are really interested in having people be creative, and personally I hate coming up with imagery for someone else's ideas. I use my creativity within the game world, coming up with strategy and so on, not in defining the game world.
I'd much rather play a graphical mmorpg (or mud, even), with detailed, photorealistic 3d images, and sounds too.
Of course, that muds are written in text means the barrier to entry is low, which means muds can try a greater range of design options, unlike mmorpgs which have to pay their graphic designers and programmers. That is the huge advantage of muds.
I'd say that most MUDs don't support SSH, because most are based on old codebases whose cores are rarely updated. The people designing their codebases from scratch might be thinking of SSH though.
Exposure to young enough kids has a negative impact on them later in life. At least, that's what I'm led to believe by Dr. Drew Pinsky (co-host of the Loveline radio program). It's sounds plausible...
As for violence, a study by the Surgeon General found that violence influences only kids who are being negatively influenced in another type of way (bad parents one might think). I can't remember the specifics however. But the study is easy to get.
You're possibly looking at it the wrong way.
The pregnancy rate is higher than we think it should be.
STOP EXPOSING THEM TO SEX!!!
Or, people can be less reactionary and ask, "why is the rate so high?" The cause might be something that requires a different solution. Besides, to me, teens becoming pregnant isn't a obvious indicator that sex exposure should be halted, but rather than contraception should be used.
I don't know about your involvement in this stuff, but I know a lot of people who really are reactionary and try to solve these problems on their ignorant intuition.
Lastly, to make this complete, as for the swearing, I imagine one should expain why swearing is inappropriate to most people, and that it's reserved for times of duress or hate.
But I don't follow any of this, so whatever.
My calculus teacher told something similar. The idea was that you're driving a car, and two different cop cars measure your speed at different times, where both times you were driving lawfully. But they figure out your average speed in travelling between them, and that you had to have sped to travel so fast. Of course, cars don't change speeds magically like that, and you have to have accelerated instead. Using some approximation, I guess we figured (I forget the specifics, but this makes sense) that the max speed was actually faster than the cops' average. Doh.
Imo, this stuff will be done in muds, if they haven't been already. I too like the idea of killing the curve which locks content and empowers veterns versus newbs. However, I think it might be hard to do, since people expect it, and it kills a nice definable goal (which isn't to say that it can't be replaced). Bartle has discussed the idea of changing features, and he said it's a bit doomed. So financially, it might not be very good, and mmorpgs will avoid it.
But the muds don't have to.
I like the idea of starting the player out with combat, which leads to economic power, which leads to politics. There are a number of different power struggles then, on different levels. There are lots of other ideas that haven't been tried though...
I was going to include some of that sentiment, but I thought I'd start small. With the internet age, it at least wouldn't hurt for netizens to use GMT instead of hassle with timezones (How many clan meets have I missed). But I'm all for GMT all-the-way.
Bah, just kill daylight savings instead. I'll just remember that sometimes 7:00 is darker than I might expect at a different time of the year. As it happens, I constantly forget to change my watch.
Now that I think of it, maybe the ESRB should consider how easy it is for kids to change/add the content of the game, as a warning to parents. By that I mean they should consider the existance of third party hacks on the internet. But obviously knowing all of the third party hacks which exist on the internet would be difficult, so the time-cheap way to do it is just consider "locked" content on the disc. Since Rockstar included the content, the likelihood of a hack existing that could change the rating of the game is much greater, so it should be mentioned, once again, to help parents. But the fact that they use a blanked rating is a bit lousy. The current rating system doesn't seem to adequately consider locked content.
Well, it was missing the configuration of bits required to use those bits...
It seems to me like they're saying, "we classify your game based on its content for parents," but without defining much more. So is locked down content to be considered? The original statement doesn't say. So they need to re-examine why they exist. Think of it pragmatically.
If my kid wants to buy a game, and I want to know the types of content, does a rating that considers locked content help me? If one has to access the content with third party tools, I'd initially say no. But with the prevalence of internet, and the triviality of the hack, I'd think again. However, what if a game exists where an easy to acquire hack adds sexually explicit content? It seems arbitrary to consider that some content exists already on the disc, when it still needs third party tools to unlock.
So, I think I've concluded that this whole thing is dumb. But fuck it; I'm 21. (well, not really, but it rhymes...)
I imagine they don't really mean "fully rendered", because I doubt that's actually the case. The sex game is probably only some scripts (including the naughty animation scripts). Fully compiled maybe? Fully potentially interpreted..?
I wonder if there is a short of Laffer curve for hours vs. productivity. Maybe leading up to the 7th hour most people are already slowing down, and then the 8th is almost completely useless.
"Both are humans, I think that's what we agree on (as it doesn't depend on time). Now the question is: do we grant every human the right to life?"
No? I'd add another classification, fully developed human, and not nearly developed human--in fact, about as far away as you could be.
The Internet isn't public, so it's not too terrible.
It's possible the hardware is specialized for chess and thus a better quality player, and it has excellent battery live.
You might not need the other features of a Palm. This device was about $60, and there are cheaper models.
They're friends: they could have played Manhunt together. Still, not damning evidence against video games.
No it isn't... now try defining any of those variables! But really, a model can help you even if you don't define them, but since everybody knows it already it's probably completely useless.
This was analyzed in a Language Log post by Mark Liberman. Conclusion: very easily Bush was trying to control the flow of the debate, and more specifically, Bush was probably talking to Lehrer because it might have seemed like he was done.
Well, perhaps she was. I've only been listening since January--take the commercial free show from the newsgroups and listen while I read boards and slashdot--but she has tended to ramble insanely at each appearance when she's supposed to be sober to keep her kid.
You may very well be right, and it doesn't bother me, because regardless the show is entertaining. But I don't see anything spectacular about his on-air persona that might not possibly be him off-air, so I don't believe you. He isn't nearly as outrageous as those who followed suit, and he talks about his life so much that it doesn't seem very different.
So vote with your wallet. But most people probably think it's worthwhile and will pay, so don't blame the companies.