If Google gets sued (by China??) then who gets the 7 years in prison??
New post at Google Jobs!
Are you bored of the drudgery of paying your living costs? Are you tired of having to come home every night from a hard day at the office, only to have to cook your own meals. Ever dreamed of travelling to exciting new countries and seeing different cultures? If so, Google might have the job for you. Google Scapegoat(TM) is a new projet initiative they are developing to strengthen ties in China. We are looking for project leaders with a very strong sense of loyalty to the company in order to lead this venture into success. Benifits include free living accomodation and possibly food, and job security for at least 7 years! Any applicatants accepted.
has Athlon 64 screensavers on every computer in the game. If the adverts are part of the scenery and it isn't intrusive it might not be too bad.
I think long adverts are a bad idea in a situation you are doing real time interaction with the medium. Advertisements through association might be better, as amusing at is was having "Headache? Take advil" after getting killed by a headshot might be reasonably effective. Even if it isn't it is amusing and might generate more attention than a TV style advert where people have nothing better to do. Here in Scotland we have Irn-Bru adverts that are just plain comical. They are one of the few amusing adverts i would watch.
That said I'm suprised it isn't being shouted down by the "games promote violence" crowd as it creates a link between the game world and the real world. People associating a brand of beer with a ganster crowd you mow down GTA style might create some interesting news articles.
Give me a 5 GB/month data limit on a lightning fast connection over an unlimited 256K connection any day
I'd be careful what you wish for, 5GB/month could be blown in 1 days usage if you really wanted to make use of that line. Something more in the region of 100 Gb/month would be useful, anything less and you would have to limit your own usage to stop being cut off. That said, if all subscribers did have a hard limit but were warned that if they broke it they would be reduced to 56Kb or something I wonder what effect it would have on the use of 0wned machines and more importantly the motivation for people to make sure that their machine wasn't wasting their now much more valuable bandwidth.
Out of curiosity, an M rating is supposed to be for people over 17. If you are allowed to have consentual sex over the age of 16 what the heck is wrong with the M rating? Someting you are allowed to do in real life is ok (although seemingly heavily discouraged) but viewing an animation of it isn't?!? It must be a screwed up system indeed that is more concerned with increasing the rating for something that is legal than for something illegal like killing people, beating up hookers, stealing cars etc
Why are you trying to boot of a disk to format prior to installing Win XP? Win XP has an option in during the setup to format the drive for you. I haven't used a floppy disk for about 4 years, yet I've installed Win XP countless times. All you need to do is set the CD drive first in the boot order and that should do it. No floppy drive is needed.
Sounds like the lycos idea a while back, Make Love not Spam They justified it by saying that there system didn't saturate the spamming site but throttled back when it used up 95% of the bandwidth in order to drive up the costs making it unproductive. Not fully saturated therefore not DDOS.
its not absolute proof it's proof beyond reasonable doubt therefore there is still a possibility that is could be wrong, it is just very very unlikely.
Scholar Google provides direct links to papers which require a subscription to access, and also links to those same papers which are either google cached or hosted on a non subscription website, thus pointing to something that would normally require a subscription to access.
One could alternativly take the more morbid view of "death is too good for them" Having (thankfully) never been anywhere near this situation from any perspective I don't have any solid backing for this, but from a victims point of view I doubt any punishment would create a sense of "justice". As morbid as it sounds, I've heard stories where it is much worse for the victim if the culprit is executed, as they have essentially become free and untouchable, while the victim is still suffering on a psycological level. As such I personally doubt any crime of such horrific proportions as murder or rape would be effectivly justified with the death penalty, and to try and equate corporate loss in the same terms is almost insulting. While virus and worm writers are certainly not guiltless, I think there is a certain amount of blame that could be sent to system admins for not securing the network in the first place, especially if the worm manages to infect life critial systems. As for a deterent, there are enough locations in the world that wouldn't acknowledge this proposal that it would make it a moot point. Secondly, many worms are written by organisations and not individuals, so how would that work? Mass execution?
Try Acronym Finder if you want to find out what stuff like that means!
Regarding pre releasing books making headline news, I agree with the GP, its a book, people who had intended to buy it are going to buy it anyway, people who hear about the "spoilers" if they ever do surface, will probably read it anyway to find out the context of where the spoilers occur. I mean how many stories exist where the villan wins? People usually expect how something will turn out, it is the path that you take to get to the answer that makes books exciting.
Ooh Oooh me me! I want it! It will be like my computer is talking to me! After all its Bonzo buddy so he must be friendly! And all those popups, its like a big game where you get to try and close the windows faster than the computer can display them! I got 50 today but am hoping to beat that score tomorrow. Also this nice girl called Jenny says she wants me, but I've been having problems with my computer and can't get online to talk to her.
"Surely if someone wants to be reminded all the time about a specific thing, they could just get reminders to flash on the screen, instead of clogging their inbox with these e-mails.."
And in the follow up study, one group were given a Windows box infected with spyware to pop up adverts while the other group were given linux..
"When you ponder a problem, you will usually be able to figure out if you're going to end up with a solution be it good or bad, or if you're just running around in circles."
I suppose one reasons that you are "running around in circles" but can make a decision is that you can try every possibility you can think of. In other words you go through a finite set of methods, or a finite set of rules and decide whether something is endable. This leaves two paths. Either you can prove that something will either eventually end or go on forever, something that can therefore be computable, or you can infer that something is "very likely" to end or not.
Given the second option, could one not argue that you can program a set of rules and tests and that if it passes them all then the answer is as accurate as a human can reason. Of course this is subjective, the programmer might not think of everything that someone else might, but as a direct comparison the computer could solve that instance of the halting problem as well as the human who programmed it.
Unless you set the same criteria for a computer as for a human, this can't be used as a comparison. If humans are allowed to answer with a "reasonably high level of confidence" that something will halt or not, then surely a computer can answer within a certain probability. If humans have to have proof that something can halt or not, then a computer can surely be programmed construct the same proof and therefore draw the same answer. Just my thoughts though.:-)
I once read a Non Sequitur sketch which to my mind sums up the main problems with religion. People can believe what they want, but the problems arise when they try to force others to adhere to the same beliefs. By that token, if you absolutly believe in the force and consider yourself a Jedi Knight then right on! I'm sure you have your reasons, even if it seems daft to me, however thats your decision (hopefully).
"All right, that's really it. Is there more to it than that that I'm just not seeing?"
summon_town_portal_and_run_away();
I suppose that group enemies might prove more complex, also, the shamans resurecting other demons. Cooperative hirelings maybe, although in my experience they always seem to run in a get killed in about 2 secs;-) End act characters, certainly Baal (assuming he worked on the expansion as well) have some interesting behaviours depending on what class of character you play against them. I suppose the motivation for a learning AI is based on what to do given that the worlds (except the end of act character zones) are randomly generated so path finding, initial location selection etc all have to be generated as well. I could see a learning AI could be used to do this much more neatly than scripts. I assume that the definition of a learning AI is training them during game development and not in game. I've certainly not noticed (or maybe not appreciated!) enemies learning my strategies as I have been playing it! Just my thoughts though!
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If Google gets sued (by China??) then who gets the 7 years in prison??
New post at Google Jobs!
Are you bored of the drudgery of paying your living costs? Are you tired of having to come home every night from a hard day at the office, only to have to cook your own meals. Ever dreamed of travelling to exciting new countries and seeing different cultures? If so, Google might have the job for you. Google Scapegoat(TM) is a new projet initiative they are developing to strengthen ties in China. We are looking for project leaders with a very strong sense of loyalty to the company in order to lead this venture into success. Benifits include free living accomodation and possibly food, and job security for at least 7 years! Any applicatants accepted.
Thats what they said: "Embrace and extend" oh wait, they might not dump it..
has Athlon 64 screensavers on every computer in the game. If the adverts are part of the scenery and it isn't intrusive it might not be too bad.
I think long adverts are a bad idea in a situation you are doing real time interaction with the medium. Advertisements through association might be better, as amusing at is was having "Headache? Take advil" after getting killed by a headshot might be reasonably effective. Even if it isn't it is amusing and might generate more attention than a TV style advert where people have nothing better to do. Here in Scotland we have Irn-Bru adverts that are just plain comical. They are one of the few amusing adverts i would watch.
That said I'm suprised it isn't being shouted down by the "games promote violence" crowd as it creates a link between the game world and the real world. People associating a brand of beer with a ganster crowd you mow down GTA style might create some interesting news articles.
It's terrible that something like that would happen. It isn't legal
It should be!
Sic semper spammeris!
It is
The question is, who gets the $5000? Hehehe
to welcome our new American Overlords
new?
If you are innocent then you have nothing to worry about
I'm sure many "witches" in the middle ages would beg to differ
Or the Ministry of Love, reception is room 101 first door on your left.
Give me a 5 GB /month data limit on a lightning fast connection over an unlimited 256K connection any day
I'd be careful what you wish for, 5GB/month could be blown in 1 days usage if you really wanted to make use of that line. Something more in the region of 100 Gb/month would be useful, anything less and you would have to limit your own usage to stop being cut off. That said, if all subscribers did have a hard limit but were warned that if they broke it they would be reduced to 56Kb or something I wonder what effect it would have on the use of 0wned machines and more importantly the motivation for people to make sure that their machine wasn't wasting their now much more valuable bandwidth.
Out of curiosity, an M rating is supposed to be for people over 17. If you are allowed to have consentual sex over the age of 16 what the heck is wrong with the M rating? Someting you are allowed to do in real life is ok (although seemingly heavily discouraged) but viewing an animation of it isn't?!? It must be a screwed up system indeed that is more concerned with increasing the rating for something that is legal than for something illegal like killing people, beating up hookers, stealing cars etc
Why are you trying to boot of a disk to format prior to installing Win XP? Win XP has an option in during the setup to format the drive for you. I haven't used a floppy disk for about 4 years, yet I've installed Win XP countless times. All you need to do is set the CD drive first in the boot order and that should do it. No floppy drive is needed.
Sounds like the lycos idea a while back, Make Love not Spam
They justified it by saying that there system didn't saturate the spamming site but throttled back when it used up 95% of the bandwidth in order to drive up the costs making it unproductive. Not fully saturated therefore not DDOS.
The bbc news site also ran an article on it
its not absolute proof it's proof beyond reasonable doubt therefore there is still a possibility that is could be wrong, it is just very very unlikely.
Now only if the probability of things like this getting passed were the same as the lottery...
Scholar Google provides direct links to papers which require a subscription to access, and also links to those same papers which are either google cached or hosted on a non subscription website, thus pointing to something that would normally require a subscription to access.
One could alternativly take the more morbid view of "death is too good for them"
Having (thankfully) never been anywhere near this situation from any perspective I don't have any solid backing for this, but from a victims point of view I doubt any punishment would create a sense of "justice". As morbid as it sounds, I've heard stories where it is much worse for the victim if the culprit is executed, as they have essentially become free and untouchable, while the victim is still suffering on a psycological level.
As such I personally doubt any crime of such horrific proportions as murder or rape would be effectivly justified with the death penalty, and to try and equate corporate loss in the same terms is almost insulting.
While virus and worm writers are certainly not guiltless, I think there is a certain amount of blame that could be sent to system admins for not securing the network in the first place, especially if the worm manages to infect life critial systems. As for a deterent, there are enough locations in the world that wouldn't acknowledge this proposal that it would make it a moot point. Secondly, many worms are written by organisations and not individuals, so how would that work? Mass execution?
For F*** Sake..
Try Acronym Finder if you want to find out what stuff like that means!
Regarding pre releasing books making headline news, I agree with the GP, its a book, people who had intended to buy it are going to buy it anyway, people who hear about the "spoilers" if they ever do surface, will probably read it anyway to find out the context of where the spoilers occur. I mean how many stories exist where the villan wins? People usually expect how something will turn out, it is the path that you take to get to the answer that makes books exciting.
Ooh Oooh me me! I want it! It will be like my computer is talking to me! After all its Bonzo buddy so he must be friendly!
And all those popups, its like a big game where you get to try and close the windows faster than the computer can display them! I got 50 today but am hoping to beat that score tomorrow. Also this nice girl called Jenny says she wants me, but I've been having problems with my computer and can't get online to talk to her.
"Surely if someone wants to be reminded all the time about a specific thing, they could just get reminders to flash on the screen, instead of clogging their inbox with these e-mails.."
And in the follow up study, one group were given a Windows box infected with spyware to pop up adverts while the other group were given linux..
Well films have shown us that aliens often have advanced technology, maybe that will inspire innovation? ;-)
"When you ponder a problem, you will usually be able to figure out if you're going to end up with a solution be it good or bad, or if you're just running around in circles."
:-)
I suppose one reasons that you are "running around in circles" but can make a decision is that you can try every possibility you can think of. In other words you go through a finite set of methods, or a finite set of rules and decide whether something is endable. This leaves two paths. Either you can prove that something will either eventually end or go on forever, something that can therefore be computable, or you can infer that something is "very likely" to end or not.
Given the second option, could one not argue that you can program a set of rules and tests and that if it passes them all then the answer is as accurate as a human can reason. Of course this is subjective, the programmer might not think of everything that someone else might, but as a direct comparison the computer could solve that instance of the halting problem as well as the human who programmed it.
Unless you set the same criteria for a computer as for a human, this can't be used as a comparison. If humans are allowed to answer with a "reasonably high level of confidence" that something will halt or not, then surely a computer can answer within a certain probability. If humans have to have proof that something can halt or not, then a computer can surely be programmed construct the same proof and therefore draw the same answer. Just my thoughts though.
I once read a Non Sequitur sketch which to my mind sums up the main problems with religion. People can believe what they want, but the problems arise when they try to force others to adhere to the same beliefs. By that token, if you absolutly believe in the force and consider yourself a Jedi Knight then right on! I'm sure you have your reasons, even if it seems daft to me, however thats your decision (hopefully).
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with eating human flesh as long it is properly prepared."
:-)
And served with with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Oooh, I wonder if recursive patents are taken? Patenting a patent of a patent of a....
"All right, that's really it. Is there more to it than that that I'm just not seeing?"
;-)
summon_town_portal_and_run_away();
I suppose that group enemies might prove more complex, also, the shamans resurecting other demons. Cooperative hirelings maybe, although in my experience they always seem to run in a get killed in about 2 secs
End act characters, certainly Baal (assuming he worked on the expansion as well) have some interesting behaviours depending on what class of character you play against them. I suppose the motivation for a learning AI is based on what to do given that the worlds (except the end of act character zones) are randomly generated so path finding, initial location selection etc all have to be generated as well. I could see a learning AI could be used to do this much more neatly than scripts. I assume that the definition of a learning AI is training them during game development and not in game. I've certainly not noticed (or maybe not appreciated!) enemies learning my strategies as I have been playing it! Just my thoughts though!
"Q: How fast can a helicoptor travel? A: An African Helicopter or a European Helicopter?"
:-)
Is that a fully laiden helicopter?