Marx' canon says nothing about socialism. Actually, he uses two terms - "communism" and "socialism" interchangeably. The distinction emerged when Soviet leaders didn't want to change to communism, because they felt the country wasn't ready. And then they were more concerned about maintaining status quo. Today, we can argue that it's impossible for almost any government to change into communism and thus voluntarily abandon itself - be it Soviet socialist government or American democratic one. A revolution, bloody or not, is usually required.
But you know, if you take a banner and stand near the airport where Bush comes, trying to protest something, you are no longer free to say what you want. And there is a problem of groupthink, and corrupt media, and other stuff. So we can probabably say that democracy in the US is under attack and there is high risk that it might be destroyed soon.
Nice post, but it seems for most people the situation is very clear. The speech that we don't like should be banned. The speech that we like should be free.
Personally I think that all personal speech should be protected, including separatist Yahoo! groups and child porn, although standards should be a bit different for some organisations, such as advertisers and also for published speech (libel, etc.).
Not exactly. In games you can give odds to others. If you are much better in UT, play with 50% health or give others 200%. If everyone (or at least enough people) did it or were forced to do it, people will have closer matching skills, while the game would not become random like dice.
Well, theoretically it should be possible to design a game that would provide all players with similar but distinct games, so that all players can win.;) It's very difficult, but it can be done. You need enough simularity that people can communicate about the game and that it feels like playing a human, not an AI, but you need to make it distinct enough that in the last 15 minutes you can give both players a chance to win, by branching the game into two.:)
I can easily code a version of Tetris that would adapt to your playing skill, providing you with matching pieces and even moving them for you. May be sometimes removing lines that are not full yet.:) The question is - will it be a better multiplayer game overall? Will more people play it than the ordinary version that relies on your skill?
Well, may be the problem was the lack of real immediate demand, not lack of a patent. After all, if there is no competition, that means the first entrant will have a temporary monopoly, just like with the patent.
May be we should try to develop displays without fixed framerates. Say, something (like e-paper in some sense), where the limit is not the switch time of an individual pixel, but the total image change bandwidth. So that it is possible to either change a small number of pixels very frequently, or all pixels, but say every 1/100th second or so. Then we can ignore the insane memory and bandwidth requirements of UHDV displays, but still get high FPS when we need it.
The problem is that while the probability of impact is quite low (but for some asteroids it's as much as 1 in a million), the potential loss of life and wealth is huge. So the expected value of loss of life to meteorites is tens/hundreds of thousands of people and the expected loss of wealth is tens/hundreds of billions of dollars. Not to mention that extinction of humanity would be an immeasurable loss.
People in Zurich have better water in their faucets and city fountains than Evian. They do in fact drink water from fountains and sometimes fill the bottles from them, but AFAIK they also buy some bottled water.
People like free stuff, but they are also comfortable with paying for stuff. Hell, some people will even pay for land plots on the Moon, surely you can find some customers for your music.
I don't have a link, unfortunately. I've read the Russian translation, done by a babysitter employed by Hofstader - the story of this translation is amazing enough by itself.:) A great work and I was more than happy to buy the printed copy. In fact, I bought another one as a birthday gift.:) If you have access to scanner or a good digital camera, I suggest you buy the printed copy (you can buy used one cheaply or get it in the library), scan it, OCR it and upload to eDonkey and KaZaA.:)
As usual, MPAA ignores the benefits of the technology (this time a business practice) and concentrates on its flaws. Screeners help promote films, supposedly leading to greater box office revenues (for good movies) and DVD sales. But increasing sales is not a concern for MPAA, decreasing piracy is.
the Motion Picture Association of America is trying to get the major studios to stop mailing out DVD and video screeners, claiming the practice leads to piracy.
The MPAA was supposedly formed by the major studios! I see now it took the life of its own and started ordering the studios around... Soon they will probably try to stop studios from making new movies, because this leads to piracy as well. RIAA, reportedly have been very successful with this practice - greately reducing the number of newly released CDs and supposedly reducing the piracy with that...
If you become a member of communist party, you'd better stick to it.
In particular, you shouldn't publish a paper without running it by party censorship department first. You especially shouldn't publish a paper that might be critical of a friendly country or international organisation without doing this. You know why? Exactly. You are sent to labour camp. For violating your party membership vow. If you don't agree with the things that you vowed to do, you shouldn't have done that. Hell, even if you have permission to publish the paper, you might want to think twice about publishing a paper which does not completely agree with the party line.
When I worked at the Central Committee, I tried to get some of the Politburo members to realize that some of the party members could be a powerful force in the international community to raise the image of the Soviet Union. Just the ability to explain some of the things that weren't confidential, correct some of the misconceptions. It wouldn't be a magical transformation, but it would be an effort. And actually joining the community would be a big step. Peer review and PR oversight could both be used to help make sure that more incorrect information didn't go out, or that the wrong things didn't go out.
Noone wanted to talk about it. My assumption is that noone I got to wanted to rock the boat, and noone responsible trusted the ordinary Soviet citizens. It's too bad really. But even with something like that in place, this type of paper would never pass muster. Not through a peer review, and not through PR. You just don't criticize a friendly communist regime. Even a regime as scary as Campuchia.
Well, I am sorry to say that, but you seem to be a part of the problem. You shouldn't assume that a person always represents the company. If people didn't think that, this guy wouldn't have any problems.
With most helicopters you can use auto-rotation to land more or less safely when the engine fails. Some planes (probably the minority) can glide to a relatively safe landing, but that's more difficult because they need a long runway to land.
Everyone makes mistakes. Hell, just a few minutes ago I got an ICQ from my sister, who was frightened by the noises her CD drive was making. Well, it turned out she put a second disk there without taking the first one out.:) She isn't stupid, she knows very well CD drives don't work with 2 disks, she knows they don't work with floppies either, she knows how to burn CDs, etc.
She just didn't notice that because the computer is under her table.
That's why it's important to design fool-proof products. Not because all people are fools, but because all people make mistakes!
Personally I wouldn't want to attrack chicks who laugh at Segways anyway.:) So not a big deal if a bunch of stupid bimbos can't control themselves and laugh at you.
That's why it's a voluntary recall. If one of the ~6000 Segway users hurts his head, it's better to fix this now and do a recall, instead of waiting to sell millions of these and then dealing with tens of people dead and thousands injured per year.;)
Thanks, but that's not exactly it. I have TweakUI and also X-Setup (another tweaker), but I can only enable autorun there, not the insert notification. The page you reference also doesn't help, because in the Device Manager the CD-drive doesn't have the checkbox. The advice about Refreshing disk content also doesn't help. Right now I have Tron 2.0 CD in the drive. And yet, when I open it in Explorer, I see the contents of the AverTV Studio 2003 (tv-tuner) CD, which currently lies on my desk.;) I can browse the disk, open catalogues (only one level deep), see file icons, I can even right click on the files and see their properties (creation dates, sizes, attributes, etc.). I can press F5 (or select Refresh from the menu) all the way I want and nothing changes. If I remove the disk, refresh in My Computer and put the disk back, it changes.
Complete nonsense. I would love to fix it, but don't know how...:(
I can't find where I can enable or disable this in Win2k... I can change AutoRun settings, but insert notification is different and it might really be off. I don't know... Does anyone know where to change it in WIn2k?
Good point. But there is already too small a number of negative moderations... I can't be sure about the correct distinction, and without some clarification from/. admins we can never know...
BTW, I was just moderated Troll (twice) for this comment. So it seems the current/. policy is to moderate absolutely randomly.:)
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Marx' canon says nothing about socialism. Actually, he uses two terms - "communism" and "socialism" interchangeably. The distinction emerged when Soviet leaders didn't want to change to communism, because they felt the country wasn't ready. And then they were more concerned about maintaining status quo. Today, we can argue that it's impossible for almost any government to change into communism and thus voluntarily abandon itself - be it Soviet socialist government or American democratic one. A revolution, bloody or not, is usually required.
But you know, if you take a banner and stand near the airport where Bush comes, trying to protest something, you are no longer free to say what you want. And there is a problem of groupthink, and corrupt media, and other stuff. So we can probabably say that democracy in the US is under attack and there is high risk that it might be destroyed soon.
Nice post, but it seems for most people the situation is very clear. The speech that we don't like should be banned. The speech that we like should be free.
Personally I think that all personal speech should be protected, including separatist Yahoo! groups and child porn, although standards should be a bit different for some organisations, such as advertisers and also for published speech (libel, etc.).
Not exactly. In games you can give odds to others. If you are much better in UT, play with 50% health or give others 200%. If everyone (or at least enough people) did it or were forced to do it, people will have closer matching skills, while the game would not become random like dice.
One can't win every time they play, can they?
;) It's very difficult, but it can be done. You need enough simularity that people can communicate about the game and that it feels like playing a human, not an AI, but you need to make it distinct enough that in the last 15 minutes you can give both players a chance to win, by branching the game into two. :)
Well, theoretically it should be possible to design a game that would provide all players with similar but distinct games, so that all players can win.
I can easily code a version of Tetris that would adapt to your playing skill, providing you with matching pieces and even moving them for you. May be sometimes removing lines that are not full yet. :) The question is - will it be a better multiplayer game overall? Will more people play it than the ordinary version that relies on your skill?
Well, may be the problem was the lack of real immediate demand, not lack of a patent. After all, if there is no competition, that means the first entrant will have a temporary monopoly, just like with the patent.
May be we should try to develop displays without fixed framerates. Say, something (like e-paper in some sense), where the limit is not the switch time of an individual pixel, but the total image change bandwidth. So that it is possible to either change a small number of pixels very frequently, or all pixels, but say every 1/100th second or so. Then we can ignore the insane memory and bandwidth requirements of UHDV displays, but still get high FPS when we need it.
Not that much. About 20Mb/sec (160Mbps) compressed is realistic.
The problem is that while the probability of impact is quite low (but for some asteroids it's as much as 1 in a million), the potential loss of life and wealth is huge. So the expected value of loss of life to meteorites is tens/hundreds of thousands of people and the expected loss of wealth is tens/hundreds of billions of dollars. Not to mention that extinction of humanity would be an immeasurable loss.
People in Zurich have better water in their faucets and city fountains than Evian. They do in fact drink water from fountains and sometimes fill the bottles from them, but AFAIK they also buy some bottled water.
People like free stuff, but they are also comfortable with paying for stuff. Hell, some people will even pay for land plots on the Moon, surely you can find some customers for your music.
I don't have a link, unfortunately. I've read the Russian translation, done by a babysitter employed by Hofstader - the story of this translation is amazing enough by itself. :) A great work and I was more than happy to buy the printed copy. In fact, I bought another one as a birthday gift. :) If you have access to scanner or a good digital camera, I suggest you buy the printed copy (you can buy used one cheaply or get it in the library), scan it, OCR it and upload to eDonkey and KaZaA. :)
BTW, did you know that When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic, the silent version of the film The Poseidon Adventure was being screened aboard ship.
As usual, MPAA ignores the benefits of the technology (this time a business practice) and concentrates on its flaws. Screeners help promote films, supposedly leading to greater box office revenues (for good movies) and DVD sales. But increasing sales is not a concern for MPAA, decreasing piracy is.
I love that bit:
the Motion Picture Association of America is trying to get the major studios to stop mailing out DVD and video screeners, claiming the practice leads to piracy.
The MPAA was supposedly formed by the major studios! I see now it took the life of its own and started ordering the studios around... Soon they will probably try to stop studios from making new movies, because this leads to piracy as well. RIAA, reportedly have been very successful with this practice - greately reducing the number of newly released CDs and supposedly reducing the piracy with that...
If you become a member of communist party, you'd better stick to it.
In particular, you shouldn't publish a paper without running it by party censorship department first. You especially shouldn't publish a paper that might be critical of a friendly country or international organisation without doing this. You know why? Exactly. You are sent to labour camp. For violating your party membership vow. If you don't agree with the things that you vowed to do, you shouldn't have done that. Hell, even if you have permission to publish the paper, you might want to think twice about publishing a paper which does not completely agree with the party line.
When I worked at the Central Committee, I tried to get some of the Politburo members to realize that some of the party members could be a powerful force in the international community to raise the image of the Soviet Union. Just the ability to explain some of the things that weren't confidential, correct some of the misconceptions. It wouldn't be a magical transformation, but it would be an effort. And actually joining the community would be a big step. Peer review and PR oversight could both be used to help make sure that more incorrect information didn't go out, or that the wrong things didn't go out.
Noone wanted to talk about it. My assumption is that noone I got to wanted to rock the boat, and noone responsible trusted the ordinary Soviet citizens. It's too bad really. But even with something like that in place, this type of paper would never pass muster. Not through a peer review, and not through PR. You just don't criticize a friendly communist regime. Even a regime as scary as Campuchia.
Well, I am sorry to say that, but you seem to be a part of the problem. You shouldn't assume that a person always represents the company. If people didn't think that, this guy wouldn't have any problems.
The do in fact use libraries, they just don't mention it in the "making of" features, because that isn't terribly exciting, is it? :)
:) Of course, there are thousands of less known samples that are still used over and over.
Check this out for one hilarious example.
With most helicopters you can use auto-rotation to land more or less safely when the engine fails. Some planes (probably the minority) can glide to a relatively safe landing, but that's more difficult because they need a long runway to land.
Everyone makes mistakes. Hell, just a few minutes ago I got an ICQ from my sister, who was frightened by the noises her CD drive was making. Well, it turned out she put a second disk there without taking the first one out. :) She isn't stupid, she knows very well CD drives don't work with 2 disks, she knows they don't work with floppies either, she knows how to burn CDs, etc.
She just didn't notice that because the computer is under her table.
That's why it's important to design fool-proof products. Not because all people are fools, but because all people make mistakes!
Personally I wouldn't want to attrack chicks who laugh at Segways anyway. :) So not a big deal if a bunch of stupid bimbos can't control themselves and laugh at you.
That's why it's a voluntary recall. If one of the ~6000 Segway users hurts his head, it's better to fix this now and do a recall, instead of waiting to sell millions of these and then dealing with tens of people dead and thousands injured per year. ;)
Kudos to Segway folks for doing this.
Thanks, but that's not exactly it. I have TweakUI and also X-Setup (another tweaker), but I can only enable autorun there, not the insert notification. The page you reference also doesn't help, because in the Device Manager the CD-drive doesn't have the checkbox. The advice about Refreshing disk content also doesn't help. Right now I have Tron 2.0 CD in the drive. And yet, when I open it in Explorer, I see the contents of the AverTV Studio 2003 (tv-tuner) CD, which currently lies on my desk. ;) I can browse the disk, open catalogues (only one level deep), see file icons, I can even right click on the files and see their properties (creation dates, sizes, attributes, etc.). I can press F5 (or select Refresh from the menu) all the way I want and nothing changes. If I remove the disk, refresh in My Computer and put the disk back, it changes.
:(
Complete nonsense. I would love to fix it, but don't know how...
I can't find where I can enable or disable this in Win2k... I can change AutoRun settings, but insert notification is different and it might really be off. I don't know... Does anyone know where to change it in WIn2k?
Good point. But there is already too small a number of negative moderations... I can't be sure about the correct distinction, and without some clarification from /. admins we can never know...
/. policy is to moderate absolutely randomly. :)
BTW, I was just moderated Troll (twice) for this comment. So it seems the current