Wiretaps work because they are rare, the average connection doesn't have them so the assumption is that a given connection is not tapped. If every connection was tapped that presumption would disappear and people would stop saying incriminating things on the phone.
Don't be silly, power and profit are the exact same motive.
I'd rephrase that to "power and profit are closely connected". Paul doesn't have any intent on changing that, AFAIK the libertarian idea is to make money = power by introducing the "vote with your wallet" idea to any sort of question which of course distributes voting power equal to income and strengthens the connection. No idea why people support it when it's pretty damn sure they're not the ones getting the big power from it. I assume it's some sort of "live the American Dream or die" mentality where they're doing an all or nothing bet, if they get rich they win even greater than before, if they don't they're just fucked and hope or something prevents them from considering the second alternative as likely. However I don't think it's surprising that the idea doesn't get enough followers to be strong, there's a large number of people who are poor compared to a few who are rich and fucking the poor up to strengthen the rich isn't going to get popular with that large number without some serious propaganda that hides the idea.
That's human behaviour, not general behaviour of groups of individuals though. There's no indication that these robots exhibit similar behaviour. If they do it'd still put sociopaths at a huge advantage.
Mental illnesses are extremely common, 40% of the population will have one at least once in their life. However they are rarely recognized as such by laymen who think it's "just in your head" (yeah, so's a headshot...). While most of these aren't likely to cause a person to go on a killing spree it can cause permanent damage to not treat them. However treatment is expensive (socialized medicine helps there) and often hard to get (obviously less so where most can't afford it).
The difference is that martial arts work instead of presenting some kind of hollywood version of the act. If you tried to learn hand to hand combat from Virtua Fighter you'd probably only hurt yourself.
Furthermore, being on the highway probably means the man is a driver which means he should have learned first aid to get his license, no? (or is that not a requirement in the US?)
That'd be nonsense though, the way emotions work is not fixed to one way. You'd just give a robot a set of triggers for its emotions that match your intents for its actions. If the robot is designed for waste disposal it will feel happy when it disposes of waste, if the robot is designed for surgery it will feel happy when it saves lives through surgery. There's no reason it has to enjoy lazyness, TV and sex.
Other individuals lying is not dependent on one individual lying. That individual can lie or not lie and the others can still lie. It merely puts the honest individual at a disadvantage (assuming the lies are used to gain advantages, of course).
I think a 4 year cycle for the 360 is unlikely, it's mostly about generations and being early or late to a gen. Releasing a new console resets your userbase, eats R&D money and is generally something that you shouldn't do often. It would end up destroying MS's console division since consoles don't sell for being the latest and greatest but for havbing games and the 360 has games, a new console wouldn't.
The PS3 taking #1 is very unlikely. Its sales are the worst of all three consoles and just having a system be understood is not enough to make developers support it. Who'd make a game for the system that has the lowest maximum sales for a game out of all of them? I don't see any reason why the PS3 would beat the other two, it has nothing significant over the other two systems so considering roughly equal hardware plus much worse sales what's there to make you think it has any chance?
You think that's bad? Nintendo of Europe's online rewards programme is regularly sold out of Wii points codes. That's like iTunes being somd out of music.
One thing we (modders of the Spring Engine) have been wondering about is:
We make a mod. This mod is essentially a renamed ZIP file containing a bunch of data files (sounds, graphics, key-value lists and some custom scripting launguage that is compiled into bytecode) and some Lua code. Now if some of that Lua code is GPLed, how much does that affect? Some say it affects only the respective Lua files. Some say it affects all Lua within the archive. Some say it affects the whole archive. Which is it? I'm thinking the GPL would affect the whole archive but noone's really sure. I've even seen the idea that all development files for the data files must be included (e.g. PSDs for images,.blends for 3d models,...) but I doubt that's really necessary. How does the GPL handle non-code data? Is an archive that acts as a work when dropped into a certain folder still a mere accumulation?
Neither the public nor the private sector will punish an employee for an act the lead approves of (well, there may be PR firings but nothing serious). A corporation wouldn't fire anyone for killing thousands if that killing was in the intent of the leadership (of course few corps have the power to actually wage war but if you gave it to them you'd see the same or even worse wars). Do you think MS fired anyone over all those antitrust violations they've been racking up lately? Illegal or immoral does not equal unwanted.
Besides, those inaccurate voting machines were made by the private sector and Diebold didn't fire the responsible people either, instead they're continuing with the machines and try to make as many people use them as they can
The problem with the PS3 is not its power or difficulty of use. The userbase simply isn't there to warrant large numbers of PS3 exclusives. The PS2 had a headstart so even though it was slow at first it was selling while the other two consoles weren't (because they weren't on the market) so the PS2 had a large userbase advantage by the time the other consoles launched. The PS3 might be starting at the same speed but this time the competition was out earlier and the XBox 360 had the time to get a year's worth of sales, guaranteeing at least initially that it would be a better platform for game development than the PS3, giving the 360 more games and thus a better position vs the PS3. The Wii didn't have a headstart but sold extremely well, it already has the largest userbase and keeps selling more, thus appearing as the platform to develop for.
It's a tutorial for the Wiimote, in Japan Wii Sports isn't packed in so they probably wantwed to use it as the introduction to the Wii over there. Of course with Wii Sports being bundled here most people will have learned how to use the Wiimote before they got Wii Play.
On the other hand, I'm in Germany, we've got cable and as far as I can tell reruns only happen within 24 hours (usually the rerun is very late at night) if we ignore the old reruns (from the previous season or even earlier, rarely shown in sequence).
Even the libertarians should approve of that, it's impossible for "voting with your wallet" to weed out undesirable qualities if it's not possible or feasible to know which products have those qualities.
This needs more Spring RTS. Version 76b1 just came out. It's opensource, it runs on Linux (not sure it'll work on Macs but I guess if you wanted to play games you wouldn't have bought a Mac) and it's got plenty of "mods" (there's no base game so these aren't really modifications). The engine was originally meant to run Total Annihilation so there's plenty of variations of TA around and most if not all mods allow large scale battles. AFAIK the only recent commercial RTS like that was Supreme Commander and that was pretty disappointing with its bland gameplay.
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Wiretaps work because they are rare, the average connection doesn't have them so the assumption is that a given connection is not tapped. If every connection was tapped that presumption would disappear and people would stop saying incriminating things on the phone.
Don't be silly, power and profit are the exact same motive.
I'd rephrase that to "power and profit are closely connected". Paul doesn't have any intent on changing that, AFAIK the libertarian idea is to make money = power by introducing the "vote with your wallet" idea to any sort of question which of course distributes voting power equal to income and strengthens the connection. No idea why people support it when it's pretty damn sure they're not the ones getting the big power from it. I assume it's some sort of "live the American Dream or die" mentality where they're doing an all or nothing bet, if they get rich they win even greater than before, if they don't they're just fucked and hope or something prevents them from considering the second alternative as likely. However I don't think it's surprising that the idea doesn't get enough followers to be strong, there's a large number of people who are poor compared to a few who are rich and fucking the poor up to strengthen the rich isn't going to get popular with that large number without some serious propaganda that hides the idea.
That's human behaviour, not general behaviour of groups of individuals though. There's no indication that these robots exhibit similar behaviour. If they do it'd still put sociopaths at a huge advantage.
Zimbardo, P. G. & Gerrig, R. J. (2004).Psychologie. München: Pearson Education. Chapter 15+16
At least according to the lecture's website.
Basic law?
Just make sure you don't learn first aid from Battlefield 2. "Oooh he's bleeding! Let's use the defi!"
Mental illnesses are extremely common, 40% of the population will have one at least once in their life. However they are rarely recognized as such by laymen who think it's "just in your head" (yeah, so's a headshot...). While most of these aren't likely to cause a person to go on a killing spree it can cause permanent damage to not treat them. However treatment is expensive (socialized medicine helps there) and often hard to get (obviously less so where most can't afford it).
The difference is that martial arts work instead of presenting some kind of hollywood version of the act. If you tried to learn hand to hand combat from Virtua Fighter you'd probably only hurt yourself.
Ah yes, the infamous Goatse defense...
Furthermore, being on the highway probably means the man is a driver which means he should have learned first aid to get his license, no? (or is that not a requirement in the US?)
That'd be nonsense though, the way emotions work is not fixed to one way. You'd just give a robot a set of triggers for its emotions that match your intents for its actions. If the robot is designed for waste disposal it will feel happy when it disposes of waste, if the robot is designed for surgery it will feel happy when it saves lives through surgery. There's no reason it has to enjoy lazyness, TV and sex.
Other individuals lying is not dependent on one individual lying. That individual can lie or not lie and the others can still lie. It merely puts the honest individual at a disadvantage (assuming the lies are used to gain advantages, of course).
I think a 4 year cycle for the 360 is unlikely, it's mostly about generations and being early or late to a gen. Releasing a new console resets your userbase, eats R&D money and is generally something that you shouldn't do often. It would end up destroying MS's console division since consoles don't sell for being the latest and greatest but for havbing games and the 360 has games, a new console wouldn't.
The PS3 taking #1 is very unlikely. Its sales are the worst of all three consoles and just having a system be understood is not enough to make developers support it. Who'd make a game for the system that has the lowest maximum sales for a game out of all of them? I don't see any reason why the PS3 would beat the other two, it has nothing significant over the other two systems so considering roughly equal hardware plus much worse sales what's there to make you think it has any chance?
You think that's bad? Nintendo of Europe's online rewards programme is regularly sold out of Wii points codes. That's like iTunes being somd out of music.
One thing we (modders of the Spring Engine) have been wondering about is:
.blends for 3d models, ...) but I doubt that's really necessary. How does the GPL handle non-code data? Is an archive that acts as a work when dropped into a certain folder still a mere accumulation?
We make a mod. This mod is essentially a renamed ZIP file containing a bunch of data files (sounds, graphics, key-value lists and some custom scripting launguage that is compiled into bytecode) and some Lua code. Now if some of that Lua code is GPLed, how much does that affect? Some say it affects only the respective Lua files. Some say it affects all Lua within the archive. Some say it affects the whole archive. Which is it? I'm thinking the GPL would affect the whole archive but noone's really sure. I've even seen the idea that all development files for the data files must be included (e.g. PSDs for images,
I would argue the LGPL provides more freedom while the GPL liberates more code.
Neither the public nor the private sector will punish an employee for an act the lead approves of (well, there may be PR firings but nothing serious). A corporation wouldn't fire anyone for killing thousands if that killing was in the intent of the leadership (of course few corps have the power to actually wage war but if you gave it to them you'd see the same or even worse wars). Do you think MS fired anyone over all those antitrust violations they've been racking up lately? Illegal or immoral does not equal unwanted.
Besides, those inaccurate voting machines were made by the private sector and Diebold didn't fire the responsible people either, instead they're continuing with the machines and try to make as many people use them as they can
The problem with the PS3 is not its power or difficulty of use. The userbase simply isn't there to warrant large numbers of PS3 exclusives. The PS2 had a headstart so even though it was slow at first it was selling while the other two consoles weren't (because they weren't on the market) so the PS2 had a large userbase advantage by the time the other consoles launched. The PS3 might be starting at the same speed but this time the competition was out earlier and the XBox 360 had the time to get a year's worth of sales, guaranteeing at least initially that it would be a better platform for game development than the PS3, giving the 360 more games and thus a better position vs the PS3. The Wii didn't have a headstart but sold extremely well, it already has the largest userbase and keeps selling more, thus appearing as the platform to develop for.
It's a tutorial for the Wiimote, in Japan Wii Sports isn't packed in so they probably wantwed to use it as the introduction to the Wii over there. Of course with Wii Sports being bundled here most people will have learned how to use the Wiimote before they got Wii Play.
On the other hand, I'm in Germany, we've got cable and as far as I can tell reruns only happen within 24 hours (usually the rerun is very late at night) if we ignore the old reruns (from the previous season or even earlier, rarely shown in sequence).
However, in some languages it can mean "Hello says Mr pink cat!" or "Quick, more boiling oil!".
(apologies for inaccuracies, I only read translated versions of those books)
I'd be careful with extrapolation. World in Conflict, for example, didn't seem to have a very interesting story from what I saw.
Even the libertarians should approve of that, it's impossible for "voting with your wallet" to weed out undesirable qualities if it's not possible or feasible to know which products have those qualities.
This needs more Spring RTS. Version 76b1 just came out. It's opensource, it runs on Linux (not sure it'll work on Macs but I guess if you wanted to play games you wouldn't have bought a Mac) and it's got plenty of "mods" (there's no base game so these aren't really modifications). The engine was originally meant to run Total Annihilation so there's plenty of variations of TA around and most if not all mods allow large scale battles. AFAIK the only recent commercial RTS like that was Supreme Commander and that was pretty disappointing with its bland gameplay.
Well, that's what children do. Once they're in that phase it's not necessary to restrict them as much anyway.