but it also makes stealing/copying of objects/characters much easier
If you have a car and I use a machine to make an exact copy of it. How am I stealing from you? You still have your car.
However, I am probaly infrigining some patent or breaking IP law in the process of some company, but lets not call it stealing because that has a legal definition of depriving use of.
If I stole the car, I would have deprived use of that car from you. (Whether that was taking it for my own personal use or selling it to a chop shop.)
Keep in mind this isn't about moral definition of stealing and theoretical losses because what I am talking about is a different matter. Stealing results in criminal lawsuits. Copyright infringment results in civil suits. One of those you have to be proven guilty beyond a resonable doubt and the other you do not. (IANAL and all that )
Please explain how finding information required to do your job is not your job?
Example, your job is to write code for a project. Simple task right? However, someone else has put the customer specified requirements on an obscure document somewhere.
You are happily coding along and realized you don't know if the customer wants two choices or three so you go about to get the spec document. However, because of obstruction, you can't simply browse to a simple place and you have to leave your desk have to ask several coworkers and call vendor relations and finally after fighting several people they let you look at the document so now you find out that you only needed two choices in the program.
Well guess what... You just wasted an entire afternoon in not-coding and if I was your supervisor, I'd be asking you what the hell you were doing spending half the day not at your desk not coding. An efficient company would have that document ready and waiting for instant access and not require its workers to jump through hoops of fire to get that information.
An open company is an efficient company and one that suceeds. A closed and inefficient company (which employees hoard information) tends to be the ones handing out the pink slips after poor 4th quarter results.
Man, I hope this is real so much. I've always hated dark matter. You know what dark matter reminds me of?
Dark matter made sense because if matter wasn't activley emmitting light, it was still emitting gravity. However we'd should be able to see light being reflected off of dark matter.
However, I'd like to put for my own hypotheis is that every atom in the universe has a gravitational pull on every single other atom in the universe.
However, distance and the amount from each other makes the key difference on what gravity does to you those attoms. As in... If you are 10km from a neutron star, you probaly are going to be instantly pulled into it, but if you are 1,000,000,000,000,0000,000^10000km and near a regular sun about the distance from earth, the gravity effects from that neutron star will be so minimal you won't really be able to visibly meaure.
The same applies for the reason we aren't sucked off the earth's surface into the sun. But this layman's idea doesn't really explain the expansion of the universe unless after a certain point light actually overpowers gravity after a certain distance and it pushes the rest of the universe further apart.
That's right. Because you're expected to do your job. If you need information, go find it. It doesn't matter how many people you have to push your way past. Find what you need, and act on it.
If employees have to pro-actively do things that aren't part of their jobs (like find obscure information from the company) then your company is doing something wrong in area of efficiency.
In a small business, this is understandable, but in a large company these practices cause inter company politiking and wasting of time.
In the United States we have a free-market where small business is the backbone of our economy. If people don't like working for corporations they always have the option of starting up their own business and working for themselves.
Can a small business afford to hire on a full time team of lawyers needed for patent research and filling and to assist in common IP infrignment cases?
I don't know how much delay is implied in the phrase "on the fly" , but I personally don' think there could ever be real time translation for the following reason...
Still, the only thing faster or just as fast is a human translator for real time translation. Even then it is more or less based on the skill of the person doing the translating.
But at least they aren't wasting company resources for their own salary.
Most American CEOs should take this as the way to do things instead of giving themselves dubious raises. That or somehow their salary is tied into the stock price in which if they pump and dump the stocks their salary will go through the floor.
UO had flexibility but at least was wise enough to limit players from becoming best at everything.
That was so true in the day. Eventually, UO got it so that you had to specialize to do one thing really good or the other which lead to macers, fencers, and pure mages (the earlier templates usually involved people with halberds going cor por with ebolts all the time).
Even then since you had about 700 points to work with you could become a GM Tailor, Carpenter, Blacksmith but you weren't going to also be an expert in combat as well.
I can imaging Ask employees giddy with glee seeing that search engine #2 has consciously put their search market share in neutral.
I don't think Yahoo makes their bread and butter off of web searches. Its mostly on the finacial pages (note, when you look up a stock quote on google it points to finance.yahoo.com). They mostly likely have realized they can't compete and will have to make their monies elswhere.
So keep your DVDs. No one is forcing you to buy Blu-Ray or HD-DVD versions of them.
Right, but after 2007 will I be able to buy or rent any new releases without either format? I'm assuming yes, because I think DVD is around to stay, but what what if I am wrong.
I'd love to see a game where the numbers simply aren't available to the players.
Actually, I've thought about the same thing myself. I've been playing Red Ochestra Mod for UT2k3 which doesn't show health, amount of bullets, or stamina. Everything is given through cues like heavy breathing if you are tired and "clip is heavy" or light if you yank out your clip to check your ammo.
Then I thought to myself, why don't they apply this to MMOGs. Seriously, levels, hp, mp and all the other numerical stats make the game more gamey and less realistic. Yeah I know its all fantasy and sci-fi, but I want to be immersed and not sit down and do math calcuations on the best class/weapons/magic combo and complain about stastics on forums).
We have an entire 3d graphics, sound, and many other ways of displaying cues of strenght, power, health, and damage. These don't have to arbitrary numbers but rather creative methods in order to inform the player of their status.
Because of this causal attitude towards USB keys, it'll become near impossible to track all the data. Employee X copies Spread Sheet A onto a key, takes it home to work on it, brings it back, and tosses the key back in the pile. You now have an unaccounted for instance of that data. Each time an employee does that, you have more and more instances of data that are unaccounted for.
The problem is that 99% of the data you speak of is either public knowledge or rather useless. Unless we are talking about the DoD projects, information sensitive to stock trading, or HIPAA restricted patient information then internal memos and performance reviews aren't exactly critical to loose or even fall into the wrong hands.
If you do have something with the aforemention security related issues then you need systems that prevent such data loss with encryption or other security schemes.
I'd say in what I do for a living, the majority of the information I assist with is actually useless Excel spreadsheets that only results in being put into powerpoints to prove to upper management they deserve not to be fired. It wouldn't kill anyone to loose that information.
My personal experience suggests that people purchased Internet access for information and communication purposes, and that for the most part it was sites like Amazon that brought us e-commerce. Does anybody know of any research or science that backs up or refutes this claim?
I used to work at a computer shop and I'd give a guestimate thatn about 90% of the machines brought in had some type of porn on them.
Some of the likes, I wish I didn't see...
But the worst is when your dad asks you to fix his computer and the first thing you notice is his favorites and history.
My dad is pretty normal. He isn't a perv and is well adjusted in 28 years of marriage, but I guess everyone has to have some outlet... But I guess some of wish they were more discreet.
The problem with knowing the percentage of people who look at porn are never going to be accurate, but my assumption is that if you a male (gay or straight) and normally adjusted then you probaly look at porn regardless of if you are single, married, or have a regular girlfriend/boyfriend.
Whether you pay for it or get it for free is the only other question.
Ironically, I'm going to wager that Spongebob and Pikachu have more clout than Jenna Jameson and Larry Flynt in the format war. Because every child needs a babysitter and that babysitter always comes in the newest format.
Are you currently aware of what happens when you type "Spongebob Pikachu Porn" into a google images search.
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I really dig the last sentence of their response:
"We forgive you, Jack, and we hope that God will do the same for you."
But when you die, well, you're dead. And I happen to think it should stay that way.
If someone drowns and you just yanked their body out of the water. They aren't breathing anymore... They don't have a pulse. They are clinically dead.
Do you want to give them CPR and mouth to mouth, or are they already dead and we shouldn't try?
If you don't at least try, then is your inaction tantamount of killing them?
It shouldn't matter if they have been dead 1 minute or 1,000 years. If you have the ability, then you should at least attempt to save them. There is no difference between the two.
Nobody lives forever... nobody SHOULD live forever...
So you want 6-10 billion people to die even if we eventually found the technology to save every last one of them from death?
It is one thing to accept death as one fate, but to say people should get over it and die is like walking into a cancer ward and telling people they shouldn't waste their time with chemotherapy because it is a waste of resources.
And as always when we get into this argument about death we have to pull out the fable of the Dragon which explains in many terms why death is unnecessary.
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but it also makes stealing/copying of objects/characters much easier
If you have a car and I use a machine to make an exact copy of it. How am I stealing from you? You still have your car.
However, I am probaly infrigining some patent or breaking IP law in the process of some company, but lets not call it stealing because that has a legal definition of depriving use of.
If I stole the car, I would have deprived use of that car from you. (Whether that was taking it for my own personal use or selling it to a chop shop.)
Keep in mind this isn't about moral definition of stealing and theoretical losses because what I am talking about is a different matter. Stealing results in criminal lawsuits. Copyright infringment results in civil suits. One of those you have to be proven guilty beyond a resonable doubt and the other you do not. (IANAL and all that )
Please explain how finding information required to do your job is not your job?
Example, your job is to write code for a project. Simple task right? However, someone else has put the customer specified requirements on an obscure document somewhere.
You are happily coding along and realized you don't know if the customer wants two choices or three so you go about to get the spec document. However, because of obstruction, you can't simply browse to a simple place and you have to leave your desk have to ask several coworkers and call vendor relations and finally after fighting several people they let you look at the document so now you find out that you only needed two choices in the program.
Well guess what... You just wasted an entire afternoon in not-coding and if I was your supervisor, I'd be asking you what the hell you were doing spending half the day not at your desk not coding. An efficient company would have that document ready and waiting for instant access and not require its workers to jump through hoops of fire to get that information.
An open company is an efficient company and one that suceeds.
A closed and inefficient company (which employees hoard information) tends to be the ones handing out the pink slips after poor 4th quarter results.
I'd suggest Stephen Hawking's A Breif History of Time or The Universe in a Nutshell
Man, I hope this is real so much. I've always hated dark matter. You know what dark matter reminds me of?
Dark matter made sense because if matter wasn't activley emmitting light, it was still emitting gravity. However we'd should be able to see light being reflected off of dark matter.
However, I'd like to put for my own hypotheis is that every atom in the universe has a gravitational pull on every single other atom in the universe.
However, distance and the amount from each other makes the key difference on what gravity does to you those attoms. As in... If you are 10km from a neutron star, you probaly are going to be instantly pulled into it, but if you are 1,000,000,000,000,0000,000^10000km and near a regular sun about the distance from earth, the gravity effects from that neutron star will be so minimal you won't really be able to visibly meaure.
The same applies for the reason we aren't sucked off the earth's surface into the sun. But this layman's idea doesn't really explain the expansion of the universe unless after a certain point light actually overpowers gravity after a certain distance and it pushes the rest of the universe further apart.
That's right. Because you're expected to do your job. If you need information, go find it. It doesn't matter how many people you have to push your way past. Find what you need, and act on it.
If employees have to pro-actively do things that aren't part of their jobs (like find obscure information from the company) then your company is doing something wrong in area of efficiency.
In a small business, this is understandable, but in a large company these practices cause inter company politiking and wasting of time.
In the United States we have a free-market where small business is the backbone of our economy. If people don't like working for corporations they always have the option of starting up their own business and working for themselves.
Can a small business afford to hire on a full time team of lawyers needed for patent research and filling and to assist in common IP infrignment cases?
I wonder what their plans are for non-resident gasoline-powered vehicles, such as delivery trucks and tourists.
You don't think Norwegians and Finns are going to visit Sweeden on their days off do you?
As far as I know you have to take a ferry to Sweden from the mainland Europe.
And can every single driver in the country afford a brand new car?
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Yes.
But its the insurance rates that kill them.
I don't know how much delay is implied in the phrase "on the fly" , but I personally don' think there could ever be real time translation for the following reason...
Still, the only thing faster or just as fast is a human translator for real time translation. Even then it is more or less based on the skill of the person doing the translating.
But at least they aren't wasting company resources for their own salary.
Most American CEOs should take this as the way to do things instead of giving themselves dubious raises. That or somehow their salary is tied into the stock price in which if they pump and dump the stocks their salary will go through the floor.
UO had flexibility but at least was wise enough to limit players from becoming best at everything.
That was so true in the day. Eventually, UO got it so that you had to specialize to do one thing really good or the other which lead to macers, fencers, and pure mages (the earlier templates usually involved people with halberds going cor por with ebolts all the time).
Even then since you had about 700 points to work with you could become a GM Tailor, Carpenter, Blacksmith but you weren't going to also be an expert in combat as well.
I can imaging Ask employees giddy with glee seeing that search engine #2 has consciously put their search market share in neutral.
I don't think Yahoo makes their bread and butter off of web searches. Its mostly on the finacial pages (note, when you look up a stock quote on google it points to finance.yahoo.com). They mostly likely have realized they can't compete and will have to make their monies elswhere.
So keep your DVDs. No one is forcing you to buy Blu-Ray or HD-DVD versions of them.
Right, but after 2007 will I be able to buy or rent any new releases without either format? I'm assuming yes, because I think DVD is around to stay, but what what if I am wrong.
I'd love to see a game where the numbers simply aren't available to the players.
Actually, I've thought about the same thing myself. I've been playing Red Ochestra Mod for UT2k3 which doesn't show health, amount of bullets, or stamina. Everything is given through cues like heavy breathing if you are tired and "clip is heavy" or light if you yank out your clip to check your ammo.
Then I thought to myself, why don't they apply this to MMOGs. Seriously, levels, hp, mp and all the other numerical stats make the game more gamey and less realistic. Yeah I know its all fantasy and sci-fi, but I want to be immersed and not sit down and do math calcuations on the best class/weapons/magic combo and complain about stastics on forums).
We have an entire 3d graphics, sound, and many other ways of displaying cues of strenght, power, health, and damage. These don't have to arbitrary numbers but rather creative methods in order to inform the player of their status.
...let's see it predict STOCK WINNERS.
Oh that is easy. Just ask Google.
However, you may not be able to afford more than one stock.
Because of this causal attitude towards USB keys, it'll become near impossible to track all the data. Employee X copies Spread Sheet A onto a key, takes it home to work on it, brings it back, and tosses the key back in the pile. You now have an unaccounted for instance of that data. Each time an employee does that, you have more and more instances of data that are unaccounted for.
The problem is that 99% of the data you speak of is either public knowledge or rather useless. Unless we are talking about the DoD projects, information sensitive to stock trading, or HIPAA restricted patient information then internal memos and performance reviews aren't exactly critical to loose or even fall into the wrong hands.
If you do have something with the aforemention security related issues then you need systems that prevent such data loss with encryption or other security schemes.
I'd say in what I do for a living, the majority of the information I assist with is actually useless Excel spreadsheets that only results in being put into powerpoints to prove to upper management they deserve not to be fired. It wouldn't kill anyone to loose that information.
OS X won't just allow all this to be run without the user helping it along.
You underestimate the power of creative social engineering.
My personal experience suggests that people purchased Internet access for information and communication purposes, and that for the most part it was sites like Amazon that brought us e-commerce. Does anybody know of any research or science that backs up or refutes this claim?
I used to work at a computer shop and I'd give a guestimate thatn about 90% of the machines brought in had some type of porn on them.
Some of the likes, I wish I didn't see...
But the worst is when your dad asks you to fix his computer and the first thing you notice is his favorites and history.
My dad is pretty normal. He isn't a perv and is well adjusted in 28 years of marriage, but I guess everyone has to have some outlet... But I guess some of wish they were more discreet.
The problem with knowing the percentage of people who look at porn are never going to be accurate, but my assumption is that if you a male (gay or straight) and normally adjusted then you probaly look at porn regardless of if you are single, married, or have a regular girlfriend/boyfriend.
Whether you pay for it or get it for free is the only other question.
Ironically, I'm going to wager that Spongebob and Pikachu have more clout than Jenna Jameson and Larry Flynt in the format war. Because every child needs a babysitter and that babysitter always comes in the newest format.
Are you currently aware of what happens when you type "Spongebob Pikachu Porn" into a google images search.
I really dig the last sentence of their response:
"We forgive you, Jack, and we hope that God will do the same for you."
But when you die, well, you're dead. And I happen to think it should stay that way.
If someone drowns and you just yanked their body out of the water. They aren't breathing anymore... They don't have a pulse. They are clinically dead.
Do you want to give them CPR and mouth to mouth, or are they already dead and we shouldn't try?
If you don't at least try, then is your inaction tantamount of killing them?
It shouldn't matter if they have been dead 1 minute or 1,000 years. If you have the ability, then you should at least attempt to save them. There is no difference between the two.
Japan has it right with this.
I'm still waiting for the day they release a working persocom.
I'd really worry about a fleet of 'entertainment' robots looking after our sick and aged. Seems like a classic setting for a robot uprising story.
Not if Grandma buys Old Glory Robot Insurance!
Nobody lives forever... nobody SHOULD live forever...
So you want 6-10 billion people to die even if we eventually found the technology to save every last one of them from death?
It is one thing to accept death as one fate, but to say people should get over it and die is like walking into a cancer ward and telling people they shouldn't waste their time with chemotherapy because it is a waste of resources.
And as always when we get into this argument about death we have to pull out the fable of the Dragon which explains in many terms why death is unnecessary.
http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
All I can say is, let it go. You don't own anything in perpetuity, not even the water and dirt your body is made of.
So true. That is what corporations are for.