I got new for you: Jewish holidays will still fall on different days, because they are linked to a radically different calendar system.
So much for 'universal'. I declare this guy to a be a 'false teacher'. He tries to change the law and the times. Yep, false teacher.
Actually, I bought a couple of the 40-game controllers. (Actually, each game has many, many different versions, so that you get something like 1200 game-versions in total.)
I gave one to my girlfriend. I don't think she really appreciated the nostalgia value. I need to find a girl like this chip designer chick - somebody with taste.
Asteroid impacts tend to happen on a 26 million years cycle. That doesn't mean they happen every 26 million years, but for unknown reasons (Planet X, possibly) they become more likely at 26 million year intervals.
We are at the 13 million year point. The chances of an impact are therefore far less than usual.
Volcanoes, on the other hand, were a contributing cause to the collapse of many a civilization. But exctinction? Unlesss they precipitated a war, and the human race commits sui-geno-cide, I dare say not bloody likely.
Its a poor historical reenacment made into game where you play the bad guy, and the vitims are still alive.
In most WWII games you play the "good guys" (i.e., the winners). Thats a bit more tasteful and patriotic, even if its still morbid.
What is truly amazing is that the turn-over rate is not 100% in the first year. That is because people like their jobs too damn much. Once you qualify for unemployment, start keeping regular hours, let them fire you, and get another job. Oh, I forgot, you can't get a job with normal hours because the market for jobs you want is glutted by people willing to take this mistreatment.
Yeah, I'd probably just leave after 9 hours, salaried or not. There is no point in obeying rules that hurt both you and the company. If you need more time off, take it. If the boss complains, give him a copy of one of those studies on total productivity loss after 45 hours/week. If he fires you, sue him for religious discrimination (where your religion is scientific materialism, or some such thing).
What, you don't have salaried workers in Europe?
What you have to understand about this is its partly the result of there being plenty of workers who want these particular jobs so much that they are willing to be screwed over. That is why it is mostly limited to video-game programmers. There are lots of young guys who actually enjoy this work so much that they want to just hang out at work after hours. This does not necessarily improve productivity. Sure, fantaticly positive attitude may improve their productivity, but forcing people to work longer hours does not.
The answer is to unionize, and bargain on the basis that working over 45 hours/week does not improve total productivity. Nobody should be spending more than 50 hours/week at the office, even including meal times. It's just a waist of electricity.
The problem in this case is that they were not accusing a person of a crime. They were accusing a person's property of a crime. It's the same loop hole the US government found during the war on drugs. Don't accuse the person of a crime - accuse his property of a crime.
Its despicable to exploit this loop hole, but at least some good comes out of it. It stops the government from needlessly hurting people sometimes. Can you imagine what the government would do if they had to accuse people of crimes in order to confiscate your property?
Owners of computer servers could then be accused of fictitious crimes if their servers were hacked and the government needed the server for evidence to go after the real criminal.
Landlords would be accused of fictitious crimes every time the government needed to temporarily bar people from some property to do an investigation.
It's not a perfect system, but I'm not quite sure how to fix it, even with a constitutional amendment. (I'm not talking about the Patriot Act, mind you. That should just be done away with.)
If he's donating the balance to charity, why does he need to pay taxes on it in the first place? Are these non-tax-deductible charities? Political campaigns, perhaps? Oh well... if he's donating it all to charity, I suppose he doesn't care much whether or not the IRS get their share.
I've taken a class in quantum computing, so I know a little bit (pardon the pun) about this.
IMNSHO, It's not really a 5-qubit register until you have interaction between the bits. That is their next step, but until then, it just doesn't count. The reason is that, other than the third "indeterminate" state that randomly returns "1" or "0" (which they also do not appear to have tested), without interaction between bits they might as well be classical bits. There is no computing advantage (other than true-random number generation) without the interaction. If they demonstrated the random-number generation capacity, I would admit that they have 5 1-qubit registers. But I won't give them credit for a 5-qubit register without demonstrating interaction between bits.
It's a board game heavy in diplomacy and strategy. It is well-balanced so that both elements count. (Unlike many diplomacy games where the percieved best player always looses because people gang-up on him.)
Actually, the fact that they have noe enforced their patent has kept prices lower and helped development of technology.
Would you rather that everybody go sue happy on the first technicalty of infringement? I LIKE the fact that companies only sue when there's some money involved. If they HAD to sue right away to defend their rights, they would be spending more money on lawsuits than on R&D.
Its NOT a submarine patent. It's been on public record since the early '90's. With the internet, there is no excuse for this sort of thing. Any business, large or small, with an internet connection can do patent research.
If they go after a specialized manufacturer whose primary business is making this stuff, they will never recover their losses because their losses exceed the manufacturer's net worth. Probably all they could get is future marginal profits, which is far less than they would have made from patent monopoly.
But by going after the big companies that have multiple lines of business, they can get as much money as the court settlement awards them. There's no problem with finding assests that the court can freeze. These companies have enough profits to cover the lawsuit.
But think how much more money they can make under the table for selling people information on how to hack it? I don't mean to imply that the corporation would do this... although they could... but anybody in the company with decision-making power on technical issues for thid product could deliberately leave back doors - even obvious ones - for the purpose of selling their knowledge and/or skilled labor on the black market.
If you can predict blackjacks before betting, you should have positive expectation just by doubling your bet before a blackjack. Let's talk. I know a lot about game theory. I could help.
Because it will stop the government from wasting money on rocket launches in the future. Once you have a space elevator, space travel becomes affordable, and therefore the government will no longer be needed for "space exploration". And if the government contiues to pursue space exploration, it will be cheaper with the elevator.
... who write laws that effectively stop spammers? Writing legislation on commission, what a novel concept! Oh, woops, I almost forgot, that's what big-money lobbyists offer all the time.
Alternative history is another genre. Sure, you could combine the alternative genre with the scifi genre, and the result is OK because they are both sub-genres of the fictional fantasy novel. But why? There are much more interesting alternative history stories than aliens invading in the 1800's, IMO. There are even more interesting alternative history combined with scifi plots. For instance, what would have happened if Leonardo Devinci had been sent by the King of France as a diplomat to the Middle East to secure access to the Holy Land, and while there discovered fossil fuels and invented the internal combustion engine? Much cooler than painting the Mona Lise, I say.
Science fiction is supposed to be about the future (or at least a plausible, believable past). Since aliens never invaded in the 1800's, this is a non-plausible, non-believable story set in the past. If it was made in the 1800's, it would be sci-fi. But a remake true to the original can not be.
This is just stupid. Get on with real sci-fi. Make a movie based on a Larry Niven novel. Farscape level make-up, with some computer animation for backgrounds, and just stay true to the novels, and you could have some good scifi
Actually, I think that the heat from global warming get converted into wind power because hot air rises, then the wind power gets converted back into heat through friction with the land surface. By harvesting wind power, we prevent the wind power from turning back into heat, with the end result that the earth stay cooler.
Of course, this assumes that we pseky humans don't use the energy to create heat, but that's somewhat of a separate issue.
I believe the same principle applies to hydroelectric power, although most of that energy would be going into the ocean rather than the atmosphere over land.
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I got new for you: Jewish holidays will still fall on different days, because they are linked to a radically different calendar system. So much for 'universal'. I declare this guy to a be a 'false teacher'. He tries to change the law and the times. Yep, false teacher.
Actually, I bought a couple of the 40-game controllers. (Actually, each game has many, many different versions, so that you get something like 1200 game-versions in total.) I gave one to my girlfriend. I don't think she really appreciated the nostalgia value. I need to find a girl like this chip designer chick - somebody with taste.
Asteroid impacts tend to happen on a 26 million years cycle. That doesn't mean they happen every 26 million years, but for unknown reasons (Planet X, possibly) they become more likely at 26 million year intervals. We are at the 13 million year point. The chances of an impact are therefore far less than usual. Volcanoes, on the other hand, were a contributing cause to the collapse of many a civilization. But exctinction? Unlesss they precipitated a war, and the human race commits sui-geno-cide, I dare say not bloody likely.
Its a poor historical reenacment made into game where you play the bad guy, and the vitims are still alive. In most WWII games you play the "good guys" (i.e., the winners). Thats a bit more tasteful and patriotic, even if its still morbid.
What is truly amazing is that the turn-over rate is not 100% in the first year. That is because people like their jobs too damn much. Once you qualify for unemployment, start keeping regular hours, let them fire you, and get another job. Oh, I forgot, you can't get a job with normal hours because the market for jobs you want is glutted by people willing to take this mistreatment.
We should write letters to EA threatening to boycott unless they change their labor practices.
Yeah, I'd probably just leave after 9 hours, salaried or not. There is no point in obeying rules that hurt both you and the company. If you need more time off, take it. If the boss complains, give him a copy of one of those studies on total productivity loss after 45 hours/week. If he fires you, sue him for religious discrimination (where your religion is scientific materialism, or some such thing).
What, you don't have salaried workers in Europe? What you have to understand about this is its partly the result of there being plenty of workers who want these particular jobs so much that they are willing to be screwed over. That is why it is mostly limited to video-game programmers. There are lots of young guys who actually enjoy this work so much that they want to just hang out at work after hours. This does not necessarily improve productivity. Sure, fantaticly positive attitude may improve their productivity, but forcing people to work longer hours does not. The answer is to unionize, and bargain on the basis that working over 45 hours/week does not improve total productivity. Nobody should be spending more than 50 hours/week at the office, even including meal times. It's just a waist of electricity.
Notice how they use the word "property" as a substitute for "program". Interesting choice of words.
Its despicable to exploit this loop hole, but at least some good comes out of it. It stops the government from needlessly hurting people sometimes. Can you imagine what the government would do if they had to accuse people of crimes in order to confiscate your property?
Owners of computer servers could then be accused of fictitious crimes if their servers were hacked and the government needed the server for evidence to go after the real criminal.
Landlords would be accused of fictitious crimes every time the government needed to temporarily bar people from some property to do an investigation.
It's not a perfect system, but I'm not quite sure how to fix it, even with a constitutional amendment. (I'm not talking about the Patriot Act, mind you. That should just be done away with.)
If he's donating the balance to charity, why does he need to pay taxes on it in the first place? Are these non-tax-deductible charities? Political campaigns, perhaps? Oh well... if he's donating it all to charity, I suppose he doesn't care much whether or not the IRS get their share.
IMNSHO, It's not really a 5-qubit register until you have interaction between the bits. That is their next step, but until then, it just doesn't count. The reason is that, other than the third "indeterminate" state that randomly returns "1" or "0" (which they also do not appear to have tested), without interaction between bits they might as well be classical bits. There is no computing advantage (other than true-random number generation) without the interaction. If they demonstrated the random-number generation capacity, I would admit that they have 5 1-qubit registers. But I won't give them credit for a 5-qubit register without demonstrating interaction between bits.
It's a board game heavy in diplomacy and strategy. It is well-balanced so that both elements count. (Unlike many diplomacy games where the percieved best player always looses because people gang-up on him.)
Would you rather that everybody go sue happy on the first technicalty of infringement? I LIKE the fact that companies only sue when there's some money involved. If they HAD to sue right away to defend their rights, they would be spending more money on lawsuits than on R&D.
Its NOT a submarine patent. It's been on public record since the early '90's. With the internet, there is no excuse for this sort of thing. Any business, large or small, with an internet connection can do patent research.
If they go after a specialized manufacturer whose primary business is making this stuff, they will never recover their losses because their losses exceed the manufacturer's net worth. Probably all they could get is future marginal profits, which is far less than they would have made from patent monopoly.
But by going after the big companies that have multiple lines of business, they can get as much money as the court settlement awards them. There's no problem with finding assests that the court can freeze. These companies have enough profits to cover the lawsuit.
But think how much more money they can make under the table for selling people information on how to hack it? I don't mean to imply that the corporation would do this ... although they could ... but anybody in the company with decision-making power on technical issues for thid product could deliberately leave back doors - even obvious ones - for the purpose of selling their knowledge and/or skilled labor on the black market.
If you can predict blackjacks before betting, you should have positive expectation just by doubling your bet before a blackjack. Let's talk. I know a lot about game theory. I could help.
Because it will stop the government from wasting money on rocket launches in the future. Once you have a space elevator, space travel becomes affordable, and therefore the government will no longer be needed for "space exploration". And if the government contiues to pursue space exploration, it will be cheaper with the elevator.
... who write laws that effectively stop spammers? Writing legislation on commission, what a novel concept! Oh, woops, I almost forgot, that's what big-money lobbyists offer all the time.
You're right.
Alternative history is another genre. Sure, you could combine the alternative genre with the scifi genre, and the result is OK because they are both sub-genres of the fictional fantasy novel. But why? There are much more interesting alternative history stories than aliens invading in the 1800's, IMO. There are even more interesting alternative history combined with scifi plots. For instance, what would have happened if Leonardo Devinci had been sent by the King of France as a diplomat to the Middle East to secure access to the Holy Land, and while there discovered fossil fuels and invented the internal combustion engine? Much cooler than painting the Mona Lise, I say.
So you either become registered with the state, or you use tools that were not specially made for lock picking.
This is just stupid. Get on with real sci-fi. Make a movie based on a Larry Niven novel. Farscape level make-up, with some computer animation for backgrounds, and just stay true to the novels, and you could have some good scifi
Of course, this assumes that we pseky humans don't use the energy to create heat, but that's somewhat of a separate issue.
I believe the same principle applies to hydroelectric power, although most of that energy would be going into the ocean rather than the atmosphere over land.