Do you know why, back in the good old days you would sign your name to the bottom of a contract?
It was so someone couldn't add a bunch of random shit after that to make it look like you agreed to something you didn't. Of course, nowadays, they throw the random shit on extra pages anyways, because contract law is dead.
If better AI results in worse gameplay, then I don't want to be good. The ghosts in pac-man are smarter than the bad guys in every FPS I've ever played.
Pragmatically, that's a reason to go with patents. They're only 17 years. And they don't disappear, they're freely available.
I actually support software patents. Take RSA encryption. It represents years of work by several geniuses. But anyone can reverse engineer it in days. And it didn't really pay off for at least 10 years. They deserved that patent.
EVERY feature he noted was, for him, more intuitive with AbiWord than with MS Word. So what if they have the same capability is one does it better than the other.
That said, I used AbiWord years ago and it didn't have any needed features and it sucked. So I had to boot into windows and use WordPad. And try getting Star Office on dialup again.
MMORORMORGA's (or whatever) have to keep adding gold because more people join and more work is done, thus more wealth is created and something that was once worth 1 gold piece is now purchasable at 10/per gold piece, so the money isn't fluid enough and you have to resort to barter. Just like in the real life. The only trick is correctly (and honestly) increasing the money to match the actual increased wealth. In our system, it's pretty stable, because there are lots of durable goods that retain value, and alternatives to cash (such as stock) that are fluidly traded as well as fixed quantity resources (such as land), independent currency (and commodity) markets, and variable interest loans backed by law and usable by most people.
There isn't much of a market for gold. At $400 an ounce, if this page is right (http://money.howstuffworks.com/question237.htm) then there is only about $4 trillion worth of gold in the world (not just in circulation) hardly enough to cover the national debt. And the bulk of it is kept in hordes (like Ft. Knox), artificially inflating it's price.
Gold HAD value because it was declared valuable by fiat by people in power, whether it was Pharoah or Cortes.
Lately, gold has gone out of fashion, and not many people desire more than a few ounces of it for decoration. Also, due to the fact that individuals just don't have as much power as they used to, it's hard for anyone outside of Madison Avenue to so dramatically determine something's value.
no, within the science of economics fiat means "having value determined by:
authorization, command, decree, dictate, dictum, edict, endorsement, mandate, ordinance, permission, precept, proclamation, sanction, ukase, warrant"
The word fiat comes from the Latin meaning "let it be done" -- borrowed directly from Genesis in the Bible "fiat lux" = "let there be light"
The whole point of government backed "fiat" money (which was completely missed in the article) is that the supply of money is regulated. Current dollars represent an amount of previous dollars, which represented an amount of gold, which represented an amount of coconuts, which were bartered for fish for cream pies once upon a time. The "fiat" is there to primarily to prevent counterfitting to make sure that the supply remains fairly constant (though gradually increasing over time as more wealth is "created.)
The money exchange market (and the market in general, i.e., the price of goods and services, and especially loan interest rates) act as checks that the declared value does not exceed the actual value in previous commodities.
Dinars doubled in value because there was a fixed amount (as long as counterfitting did not occur -- which is why it could only continue for a short time) and the quantity of dollars in circulation was rapidly increasing. The "post-fiat" dinars were still directly tied to the dollar (gold) standard but there was a massive influx of gold (greenbacks) at the time, resulting in inflation.
I'm shocked how low the percentage of the general public that thinks the e-iVoteX2K is less secure, but I'm even more shocked by how low the percentage of hackers that thinks the same.
Quite unlike the arbitrary figure attached to pressed CDs given to schools for advertising purposes in lieu of cash fines for their anti-trust violations?
I've got a funny suspicion that your "Guiness" is bottled in the local Pepsico plant by employees whose tax papers are processed in St. Loius, Missouri.
I've always wanted to learn python (or at least use it beyond the few simple tutorials I've done so far) but I'm still suspicious of it's greatness as a language, since there are few, if any, great tools written for, or in, python that I've heard of.
Like for instance, web apps. I really want to use python, but there's nothing for it. Zope is a toy, webware is incomplete, and mod_python is buggy. GnuE interested me for about a year, but I eventually realized it's all talk. What gives?
Simple things like def, tabs, and constructor syntax gave me the first impression that python users just didn't "get it" and as much as I'd like to get used to the syntax (it being the cleanest i've seen otherwise) I can't seem to find the seriousness of the languages creators, and I'm not clever enough to contribute on my own.
Quenta can also be plural. Actually, I don't know that, but the Silmarillion is mulitple stories, and fragments of stories. That's why it's not a coherent read.
You are seriousoly exaggerating the readership of existentialist/surrealist/communist crap. You haven't read them, and neither has any of your turtle-necked friends. Just kidding, I know that turtlenecks and berets are out of style. I was making fun of your youth.
Solzhenitsyn didn't expose Stalinism to anyone any more than the 1980s Time-Life books about the Holocaust exposed the Nazi horrors. Maybe people in your circles were ignorant, but it was obvious to anyone who chose to see what had been happening in Russia since 1917.
That's right, Stalin was only Lenin's pupil.
Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984)?
well, now that their writing are coming to life on a TV near you, it ain't that fun to read anymore, huh ?
That reminds me of how funny I used to think Office Space was before I moved to Seattle. Now, the only part I can still laugh at is the fax machine bashing, since I don't have to submit time sheets anymore.
And then, reading "Homage to Catalonia" makes you realize that Orwell's hatred of communism comes mainly from the factional conflicts he experienced during the Spanish Civil War.
Siddhatha is the only book on that list that would qualify, since it was written in the 20th century. Only it was really just a short story, and a rather trite one at that.
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For most Financial Transactions, you're probably safe enough throwing a `wc -c` on to your message to make MD5 impregnable, if you're really paranoid.
Do you know why, back in the good old days you would sign your name to the bottom of a contract? It was so someone couldn't add a bunch of random shit after that to make it look like you agreed to something you didn't. Of course, nowadays, they throw the random shit on extra pages anyways, because contract law is dead.
Nethack has terrible playability. I'd rather go through Rogue again.
Playability isn't infinite randomness. It's what Super Mario Bros. has that Commander Keen didn't. It's what Spear of Destiny had that Doom didn't.
If better AI results in worse gameplay, then I don't want to be good. The ghosts in pac-man are smarter than the bad guys in every FPS I've ever played.
Pragmatically, that's a reason to go with patents. They're only 17 years. And they don't disappear, they're freely available. I actually support software patents. Take RSA encryption. It represents years of work by several geniuses. But anyone can reverse engineer it in days. And it didn't really pay off for at least 10 years. They deserved that patent.
By Half Life, I assume you mean Wolfenstein 3D. Or that you are 5 years younger than I am.
EVERY feature he noted was, for him, more intuitive with AbiWord than with MS Word. So what if they have the same capability is one does it better than the other. That said, I used AbiWord years ago and it didn't have any needed features and it sucked. So I had to boot into windows and use WordPad. And try getting Star Office on dialup again.
You probably make more than homeboy.
MMORORMORGA's (or whatever) have to keep adding gold because more people join and more work is done, thus more wealth is created and something that was once worth 1 gold piece is now purchasable at 10/per gold piece, so the money isn't fluid enough and you have to resort to barter. Just like in the real life. The only trick is correctly (and honestly) increasing the money to match the actual increased wealth. In our system, it's pretty stable, because there are lots of durable goods that retain value, and alternatives to cash (such as stock) that are fluidly traded as well as fixed quantity resources (such as land), independent currency (and commodity) markets, and variable interest loans backed by law and usable by most people.
There isn't much of a market for gold. At $400 an ounce, if this page is right (http://money.howstuffworks.com/question237.htm) then there is only about $4 trillion worth of gold in the world (not just in circulation) hardly enough to cover the national debt. And the bulk of it is kept in hordes (like Ft. Knox), artificially inflating it's price. Gold HAD value because it was declared valuable by fiat by people in power, whether it was Pharoah or Cortes. Lately, gold has gone out of fashion, and not many people desire more than a few ounces of it for decoration. Also, due to the fact that individuals just don't have as much power as they used to, it's hard for anyone outside of Madison Avenue to so dramatically determine something's value.
no, within the science of economics fiat means "having value determined by: authorization, command, decree, dictate, dictum, edict, endorsement, mandate, ordinance, permission, precept, proclamation, sanction, ukase, warrant" The word fiat comes from the Latin meaning "let it be done" -- borrowed directly from Genesis in the Bible "fiat lux" = "let there be light"
The whole point of government backed "fiat" money (which was completely missed in the article) is that the supply of money is regulated. Current dollars represent an amount of previous dollars, which represented an amount of gold, which represented an amount of coconuts, which were bartered for fish for cream pies once upon a time. The "fiat" is there to primarily to prevent counterfitting to make sure that the supply remains fairly constant (though gradually increasing over time as more wealth is "created.) The money exchange market (and the market in general, i.e., the price of goods and services, and especially loan interest rates) act as checks that the declared value does not exceed the actual value in previous commodities. Dinars doubled in value because there was a fixed amount (as long as counterfitting did not occur -- which is why it could only continue for a short time) and the quantity of dollars in circulation was rapidly increasing. The "post-fiat" dinars were still directly tied to the dollar (gold) standard but there was a massive influx of gold (greenbacks) at the time, resulting in inflation.
I'm shocked how low the percentage of the general public that thinks the e-iVoteX2K is less secure, but I'm even more shocked by how low the percentage of hackers that thinks the same.
Any other "perks" are for suckers.
But good for any company who can get their employees to work harder, stay longer, and take less money.
Quite unlike the arbitrary figure attached to pressed CDs given to schools for advertising purposes in lieu of cash fines for their anti-trust violations?
I've got a funny suspicion that your "Guiness" is bottled in the local Pepsico plant by employees whose tax papers are processed in St. Loius, Missouri.
Of course, in Spain, practices like bribery and corruption are widely accepted.
I've always wanted to learn python (or at least use it beyond the few simple tutorials I've done so far) but I'm still suspicious of it's greatness as a language, since there are few, if any, great tools written for, or in, python that I've heard of. Like for instance, web apps. I really want to use python, but there's nothing for it. Zope is a toy, webware is incomplete, and mod_python is buggy. GnuE interested me for about a year, but I eventually realized it's all talk. What gives? Simple things like def, tabs, and constructor syntax gave me the first impression that python users just didn't "get it" and as much as I'd like to get used to the syntax (it being the cleanest i've seen otherwise) I can't seem to find the seriousness of the languages creators, and I'm not clever enough to contribute on my own.
has not have, but I doubt it.
Quenta can also be plural. Actually, I don't know that, but the Silmarillion is mulitple stories, and fragments of stories. That's why it's not a coherent read.
Marx was sci-fi, only based on worse junk science than star-trek.
You are seriousoly exaggerating the readership of existentialist/surrealist/communist crap. You haven't read them, and neither has any of your turtle-necked friends. Just kidding, I know that turtlenecks and berets are out of style. I was making fun of your youth.
Solzhenitsyn didn't expose Stalinism to anyone any more than the 1980s Time-Life books about the Holocaust exposed the Nazi horrors. Maybe people in your circles were ignorant, but it was obvious to anyone who chose to see what had been happening in Russia since 1917. That's right, Stalin was only Lenin's pupil.
Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984)? well, now that their writing are coming to life on a TV near you, it ain't that fun to read anymore, huh ? That reminds me of how funny I used to think Office Space was before I moved to Seattle. Now, the only part I can still laugh at is the fax machine bashing, since I don't have to submit time sheets anymore.
And then, reading "Homage to Catalonia" makes you realize that Orwell's hatred of communism comes mainly from the factional conflicts he experienced during the Spanish Civil War.
Siddhatha is the only book on that list that would qualify, since it was written in the 20th century. Only it was really just a short story, and a rather trite one at that.