That was the idea. Of course, it being a video game, I couched it in terms useful for the situation. But yes that is in fact the very conversation to which I am referring.
Wasn't it in Deus Ex somewhere they talked about the difference between governments being that some are openly controlling and others leave freedom to the people, thereby allowing the corporations, etc. to take power?
Of course, I am not suggesting that you take dictation on philosophy of rule from a video game, simply that China is a very different social climate than we are used to and that there are undoubtedly many advantages and disadvantages to any system...
In fact, present circumstances bearing heavily here, I for one am more and more interested in alternatives.
The only way I even hear about them is in reference to their ridiculous assertions, usually by something along the lines of a slashdot post. No one takes them seriously, and really we should just stop discussing them altogether.
If they want to go start a neo-scientific coven in a mountain cave somewhere that is fine. Let them leave us scientific types to use our fancy nukes and blow ourselves to hell. They can come out then and take over, but no sooner.
The former Cyrix site in Richardson, Texas... we visited the site and met ebullient Jerry Rogers, the ex-CEO, who... proudly showed us round the property, which sported a mock gravestone marked "Intel Inside RIP" in the reception area....
So,unless AMD bought the famed gravestone and has decided to sport it at their offices now (and I found no evidence to suggest this) the parent might be mistaken.
Also from the article: Cyrix, of course, was acquired by Via... who, it seems, faced some challenges netween their engineering and their business sectors after the acquisition. But, then again, when have these sorts of differences ever been news?
Many have said that all video RPG's have had the same limiting effect on imagination, of course these people are speaking from the perspective of either the Infocom/Scott Adams text adventure game genre, or the Pen-and-Paper RPG that really required serious imagination from all involved.
Seeing as most entertainment media is merely a variety of ways to communicate one person's creative thought to many others, isn't that the purpose? As games get more imersive they will naturally require less imagination on the part of the participant and more imagination on the part of the developer... or at least in theory.
To be more imersive in this way is to convey many of the details we are used to supplying for ourselves. Might as well get used to it.
Is it technically still plagiarism if you are publishing something, by any means, completely and irrevoccably anonymously??
The issue at hand with plagiarism is IP rights, and as a completely anymous poster the grandparent obviously absolves all claims to any, potentially or otherwise. Can this be considered plagiarism?
No, I didn't write the grandparent, and don't care to be accused of that. I am simply posing a question.
Obviously it would be preferrable to attribute credit to sources, if for nbothing else than to lend the article a trackable stream of academic thought behind it, therefore facilitating further debate on the topics at hand. However, I still question whether any IP rights have been violated by someone who effectively anonymously quotes someone, and then anonymously posts or publishes the resulting composition.
That is a bit like comparing nuclear weapons stockpiling to patent/IP rights hoarding, isn't it?
We, here on Slashdot, try to avoid indulging such extreme views.
But what happens when you ignore them???
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When you ignore IP rights you can:
A) Get some cool software for free.
B) Get some cool music for free.
C) Plagiarize a paper and finish your essay quickly while appearing smart, as long as you don't get caught.
D) Pick up some nifty code, making your project much easier to complete.
etc., etc., etc.
When you ignore nuclear weapons you can:
A) Be the victim of genocidal acts of violence in the span of minutes or seconds, dying in radioactive fire with the vast majority of your countrymen.
The comparison would seem to speak for itself. At the very least IP rights could be said to offer you more options.
This might explain why Mr. Pike found the comparison a bit extreme.
Of course, we would need to perfect the hydrogen powered vehicle first. But, then again, in a lower G environment their might be less resistance to such a vehicle and the power output requirements might be slightly cheaper...
This is all hypothetical however, and hopefully we'll have those details, at the very least, nailed down before we can make a serious moon mining mission a reality.
The Japanese unit of Microsoft Corp. said on Monday the company's next-generation operating system, Longhorn, would be compatible with HD-DVD, Reuters reported today. This announcement is considered a boost for the next-generation blue-laser DVD technology, which is promoted by Japanese corporations NEC and Toshiba.
Some further research indicates that they are talking about the AOD (Advanced Optical Disc format), which in it's current spec is read-only, and referred to as HD-DVD.
PS. The above Microsoft comments were largely tongue-in-cheek, lighten up. I mean we obviously don't like 'em, we live with 'em, and, for the most part, we laugh at all the ridiculous commentary we make about them while still harboring strange resentments and utilizing their software somewhere... Tell me that's not a tangled web.
You had to 'camp' the thing that guards the lode stone (basically walk back and forth across that square to keep fighting the monster), then in no time everyone in your party is level 50...
Now that doesn't mean a ton if you go out with a mixed party, but if you manage to struggle through with 4 black-belts then you can take warmech and chaos in one attack per. No problems there...
Besides Warmech was in the castle of air just before tiamat, right? Chaos was really just a transmogrified Garland and was in a different dungeon altogether.
The first FF was definitely my favorite. I even managed to beat the game with four white wizards, and again with four black wizards though those times it was really difficult.
Hail FFI! One of my favorite console games of all time, but then again I still think the Gold Box Adventure series from SSI are great, and still play Zork to pass time... but that's just me.
Also, the hot chicks are all taking Psych or Sociology.
Speaking from experience, both recent and remote, the parent is both oh so right and oh so wrong.
NEVER date a psych major. I would seriously recommend staying away from the discipline entirely as the temptation is usually irresistible. I'm convinced they learn stuff in those classes you couldn't learn from navy seals interrogation training.
I have no idea about the Sociology majors, but I do highly recommend entomology if you can take some of those classes. I've met many a very cute, super-cool bug-loving girl in my day, and have found their worth and demeanor to be much more reliable.
Of course, most generalizations are crap, but the thing about crazy Psych majors stands up to the test of time. Do yourself a favor and run like hell when that cute psych student starts making eyes, you may end up a research subject.
We all pay $3/month into a group fund to be used towards the cost of excellent legal counsel if the RIAA comes after one of us, or that can be used alternatively as a slush fund to buy off RIAA officials to secure statements in support of our lawful actions.
In other words, screw their mafia, let's start our own.
It almost seems that the US government could be found in violation of several of these basic statutes. How would someone go about making a case for this and having it heard before the UN?
This might be worth looking into, as a research project, or in the case that the current government trends continue into a new draft era America. I, for one, am not optimistic about the current political clime, and this may be a way to begin calling for help.
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
This seems to guarantee a right to privacy regardless, and of course the US government would never go against a UN decree... right?
The above poster is correct, and in fact even reading the stored data will corrupt it by the very nature of the action... it comes back to Schrodinger's Cat in concept...
Read this for a complete picture... In fact read it several times, it's very confusing... I had to read it like three times...
On the other hand I suppose this means the NSA will have a leg-up on reading our encrypted data for less, as if that's a good thing.:-/
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That was the idea. Of course, it being a video game, I couched it in terms useful for the situation. But yes that is in fact the very conversation to which I am referring.
Consider it food for thought.
They make no bones about it.
Wasn't it in Deus Ex somewhere they talked about the difference between governments being that some are openly controlling and others leave freedom to the people, thereby allowing the corporations, etc. to take power?
Of course, I am not suggesting that you take dictation on philosophy of rule from a video game, simply that China is a very different social climate than we are used to and that there are undoubtedly many advantages and disadvantages to any system...
In fact, present circumstances bearing heavily here, I for one am more and more interested in alternatives.
Who listens to creationists anyways?
The only way I even hear about them is in reference to their ridiculous assertions, usually by something along the lines of a slashdot post. No one takes them seriously, and really we should just stop discussing them altogether.
If they want to go start a neo-scientific coven in a mountain cave somewhere that is fine. Let them leave us scientific types to use our fancy nukes and blow ourselves to hell. They can come out then and take over, but no sooner.
I was thinking that the correlation would be that the Ukraine would have the fourth highest rate of unemployment in the world....
But some might find this joke in bad taste... like much of Africa. (link)
No offense intended.
From this article:
,unless AMD bought the famed gravestone and has decided to sport it at their offices now (and I found no evidence to suggest this) the parent might be mistaken.
The former Cyrix site in Richardson, Texas... we visited the site and met ebullient Jerry Rogers, the ex-CEO, who... proudly showed us round the property, which sported a mock gravestone marked "Intel Inside RIP" in the reception area....
So
Also from the article: Cyrix, of course, was acquired by Via... who, it seems, faced some challenges netween their engineering and their business sectors after the acquisition. But, then again, when have these sorts of differences ever been news?
Seriously?!?! My landlord is an asshole!
That's funny...
Many have said that all video RPG's have had the same limiting effect on imagination, of course these people are speaking from the perspective of either the Infocom/Scott Adams text adventure game genre, or the Pen-and-Paper RPG that really required serious imagination from all involved.
Seeing as most entertainment media is merely a variety of ways to communicate one person's creative thought to many others, isn't that the purpose? As games get more imersive they will naturally require less imagination on the part of the participant and more imagination on the part of the developer... or at least in theory.
To be more imersive in this way is to convey many of the details we are used to supplying for ourselves. Might as well get used to it.
Is it technically still plagiarism if you are publishing something, by any means, completely and irrevoccably anonymously??
The issue at hand with plagiarism is IP rights, and as a completely anymous poster the grandparent obviously absolves all claims to any, potentially or otherwise. Can this be considered plagiarism?
No, I didn't write the grandparent, and don't care to be accused of that. I am simply posing a question.
Obviously it would be preferrable to attribute credit to sources, if for nbothing else than to lend the article a trackable stream of academic thought behind it, therefore facilitating further debate on the topics at hand. However, I still question whether any IP rights have been violated by someone who effectively anonymously quotes someone, and then anonymously posts or publishes the resulting composition.
Just food for thought.
You have to keep life interesting somehow...
This is great!!!
It means that my level 60 wizard, with a staff of dragon smiting +uber in one hand, can now drink pepsi with his free hand... JUST LIKE ME!!!
Life just keeps getting better!!!
That is a bit like comparing nuclear weapons stockpiling to patent/IP rights hoarding, isn't it?
We, here on Slashdot, try to avoid indulging such extreme views.
When you ignore IP rights you can:
A) Get some cool software for free.
B) Get some cool music for free.
C) Plagiarize a paper and finish your essay quickly while appearing smart, as long as you don't get caught.
D) Pick up some nifty code, making your project much easier to complete.
etc., etc., etc.
When you ignore nuclear weapons you can:
A) Be the victim of genocidal acts of violence in the span of minutes or seconds, dying in radioactive fire with the vast majority of your countrymen.
The comparison would seem to speak for itself. At the very least IP rights could be said to offer you more options.
This might explain why Mr. Pike found the comparison a bit extreme.
Of course, we would need to perfect the hydrogen powered vehicle first. But, then again, in a lower G environment their might be less resistance to such a vehicle and the power output requirements might be slightly cheaper...
This is all hypothetical however, and hopefully we'll have those details, at the very least, nailed down before we can make a serious moon mining mission a reality.
Down-Under your rights take away the fundamentalists!!
In the article I linked above it seemed to indicate something to the contrary in this passage:
The Japanese unit of Microsoft Corp. said on Monday the company's next-generation operating system, Longhorn, would be compatible with HD-DVD, Reuters reported today. This announcement is considered a boost for the next-generation blue-laser DVD technology, which is promoted by Japanese corporations NEC and Toshiba.
Some further research indicates that they are talking about the AOD (Advanced Optical Disc format), which in it's current spec is read-only, and referred to as HD-DVD.
PS. The above Microsoft comments were largely tongue-in-cheek, lighten up. I mean we obviously don't like 'em, we live with 'em, and, for the most part, we laugh at all the ridiculous commentary we make about them while still harboring strange resentments and utilizing their software somewhere... Tell me that's not a tangled web.
Why would microsoft be microsoft??
You'd think they could see how wildly unpopular that stance would be.
Seriously, however, M$ seems to be putting their weight behind HD-DVD, leading many to conjecture that Xbox 2 will also utilize the format.
That's hilarious.
What takes years to realize completely is that any good training is really geared at teaching you how to teach yourself.
Learning at some point always becomes a self-run enterprise, and if you never learn that you are handicapped forever.
Learn how to teach yourself first and every class you ever take will be review.
You had to 'camp' the thing that guards the lode stone (basically walk back and forth across that square to keep fighting the monster), then in no time everyone in your party is level 50...
Now that doesn't mean a ton if you go out with a mixed party, but if you manage to struggle through with 4 black-belts then you can take warmech and chaos in one attack per. No problems there...
Besides Warmech was in the castle of air just before tiamat, right? Chaos was really just a transmogrified Garland and was in a different dungeon altogether.
The first FF was definitely my favorite. I even managed to beat the game with four white wizards, and again with four black wizards though those times it was really difficult.
Hail FFI! One of my favorite console games of all time, but then again I still think the Gold Box Adventure series from SSI are great, and still play Zork to pass time... but that's just me.
Also, the hot chicks are all taking Psych or Sociology.
Speaking from experience, both recent and remote, the parent is both oh so right and oh so wrong.
NEVER date a psych major. I would seriously recommend staying away from the discipline entirely as the temptation is usually irresistible. I'm convinced they learn stuff in those classes you couldn't learn from navy seals interrogation training.
I have no idea about the Sociology majors, but I do highly recommend entomology if you can take some of those classes. I've met many a very cute, super-cool bug-loving girl in my day, and have found their worth and demeanor to be much more reliable.
Of course, most generalizations are crap, but the thing about crazy Psych majors stands up to the test of time. Do yourself a favor and run like hell when that cute psych student starts making eyes, you may end up a research subject.
How about we start a non-profit...
We all pay $3/month into a group fund to be used towards the cost of excellent legal counsel if the RIAA comes after one of us, or that can be used alternatively as a slush fund to buy off RIAA officials to secure statements in support of our lawful actions.
In other words, screw their mafia, let's start our own.
You know, (sorry to repost so soon...)
It almost seems that the US government could be found in violation of several of these basic statutes. How would someone go about making a case for this and having it heard before the UN?
This might be worth looking into, as a research project, or in the case that the current government trends continue into a new draft era America. I, for one, am not optimistic about the current political clime, and this may be a way to begin calling for help.
Read Article 12:
Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
This seems to guarantee a right to privacy regardless, and of course the US government would never go against a UN decree... right?
The above poster is correct, and in fact even reading the stored data will corrupt it by the very nature of the action... it comes back to Schrodinger's Cat in concept...
:-/
Read this for a complete picture... In fact read it several times, it's very confusing... I had to read it like three times...
On the other hand I suppose this means the NSA will have a leg-up on reading our encrypted data for less, as if that's a good thing.
I, for one, welcome our new Macaque overlords.
Sorry.....