That's stupid because it presumes that the prosecuted party is guilty and might prevent them from finding the means to defend themselves. Ya there's a lot of scum out there, but it's not impossible for the innocent to get accused as well, which is why we have trials in the first place: to determine guilt. Another way in which this is stupid is that large companies can easily leverage more capital to go after the guy with less money. So in addition to already having the odds stacked against them financially, your suggestion would prevent any defence attorney from taking on a risky case.
I dunno, somehow, thinkofthechildren seems appropriate too. I mean, so much legislature designed to violate privacy in the name of protecting the children, and here we have a perfect example of an action that violates both. Yay.
I wonder how biased these reports are... Usually, in peer-reviewed journal articles, there is more of a tendency to publish successful experiments and slide unsuccessful ones under the rug. So, if I report sets out to link violence and video games, and fails, it might not get published versus one that does. It seems to me like there would be plenty of confounding factors to make this meta study moot.
Besides, a study that uses meta-analysis to 'prove' something 'conclusively' makes my bullshit-meter rise.
Or, because of the large demand, the marginal costs of producing extra pills approaches 0, thereby allowing them to sell pills at a cheaper price and maintain their profit margins.
I'm sure MS would be happy the facilitate researcher's needs and soak up some of their intellectual talent. Also, I'm not sure how publications are are provided in China, but in the US there are a number of databases targeted towards a specific scientific domain: ACM, iEEE, Medline, etc. So, instead of doing "google: well known database" one would have to be a little less lazy and go "url: well known database" and search for their topic.
On the other hand, if these researchers are looking up google translated publications (even with the flaws involved), I can see how that might hurt them significantly. Having access to the world's research would definitely be better than having access to just one country.
While there are many other wtf videos that could be used as prank material, it has what few other videos have: recognition as a prank video. If you were to show some random video, it wouldn't have the same 'gotcha' effect because the audience of the prank might not recognize what you're trying to do in time for the punchline. You could certainly try other videos, but I think you'd be the only one in on the joke.
Imagine the soul-wrenching hell when someone makes an iphone app/mod. That way, Civ V could consume your life while you're at or away from your computer.
P.S. If this happens, please don't Civ V and drive. I like my continued existence.
If I owned an xbox, I'd probably appreciate live with the same fervor you exhibit. But I don't, and I've found that using Live outside of the proper MS environment unpleasant. I still don't think I cheapen the word DRM by considering Live synonymous with it. While Live isn't the core DRM technology, they do enable game serials to be linked you your Live id. This can make Live a more integral part of a DRM system as a whole because it helps developers track and uniquely identify you (as best as possible). Granted, this is dependant on the game, but I still think Windows Live acts like a DRM system or at least part of one.
Now, my complaint really wasn't targeted at Windows Live, though it came out like that, but at the excessive layers of protection being placed on games. As such, you might get a game that requires a Steam login, a Windows Live login, and SecureROM on top of it. This ultimately makes pirating, or at least cracking, a game more appealing because they are less of a hassle to play.
I'm sorry if I was a bit hard on Live and I'm glad you're enjoying your experience with them. I only wish systems that acted as content providers+DRM, or the games provided by them, offered more options in terms of choosing what third-party software gets installed with it.
True, it's not DRM per-say, but for some games, it's not optional and feels like a an unnecessary and cumbersome third-pary add-on. For instance, I had purchased DOW II, upon downloading the 4+ gig behemoth, I had to install and run windows live, even though I only wanted to play the single player campaign. The absurdity about this is that Steam + Live is that it's redundant. Steam already tracks achievements, friends, etc. So why must I be forced to install and run Live? While it's not technically DRM, it feels like DRM because it's tracking software that the user has little control over if they want to play their game. Therefore, I really don't care for Live's "features" if they're going to be forced down my throat.
Ugh, I really hate windows live, especially when it's incorporated in steam games. It's like hey: we put DRM in your DRM so we can lock down your game while we lock down your game. The worst part are the involuntary patches that can get up to or greater than 100 mb. Just when you're ready to play, they slap you down a couple of pegs.
Probably. 'Evolution' for viruses involve swapping or mutating a few base pairs. So I imagine the overall size/structure won't change much. I'd say the tricky part is not detecting a virus after it's mutated but in discerning a virus from molecules of a similar size and polarity.
But if you transmit energy this way, doesn't that imply that you have sent information? i.e. energy is being sent or received which might be encoded as a bit.
I don't mean close to uninhabitable, I mean pretty much uninhabitable by even the most resilient of micro-organisms. In the example of the new world, the immigrants could still grow stuff off the land and extract resources from it. In order to survive on Mars, or any other planetoid within our reach, you'd need to create an enclosed, self-sustained environment that can undergo repairs in case stuff breaks down. The problem then, is not just growing fields, but establishing an industrial base with which a colony could be independent. Yes, this might be possible and take a lot of resources, but two questions remain: why? and why now? For the first, we have little incentive for doing so (certainly not for resources) other then ensuring humanity's survival if the earth undergoes some catastrophic event. But, like the GGP said, that colony, with the current technology we have now, would be screwed without some help from earth. Which brings us to the second question: why now? We can do much of the basic research now in our own backyard, i.e. earth, at a fraction of the cost and still develop the necessary technologies to making an extra-planetary colony work. Meanwhile, NASA could use unmanned probes to keep us looking upwards. Going to the moon or mars now, just seems like a giant pissing contest because we're worried about other countries catching up. I'm not saying we should stop space travel or colonization altogether, just to take a more rational approach to doing so. Before going to the moon or mars, we should develop cheaper means of transportation and more effective means of maintaining self-contained environments. Heck, the latter might even come from taking care of our own planet.
Your analogy doesn't necessarily track. While the mountain west, you refer to might have been inhospitable, it was not entirely inhabitable. With the case of interstellar travel, we jump up-and-down if we find some possible evidence of bacteria and water. The parent is very much correct in that, with the current technology and current foreseeable technology, establishing and maintaining an off-world colony is prohibitively expensive. You're better off cancelling immediate flights of fancy and exploring how we might survive in earth's current harsh environments or improving the parts we already messed up. If we cannot fulfil those criteria, then how can we hope to do so and ensure the survival of colonists who cannot even grow food on a planet with little to no atmosphere?
Maybe because there's some legal specification as to the min/max of statutory dmgs? As a judge he is allowed to move the slider but not change the endpoints, I'm guessing.
Can you give some examples of how you use it and how it fails? I use eclipse for smallish projects and haven't really run into any problems aside from a moderately chaotic config environment.
I did not say that the parent Godwinned the topic. Rather I was suggesting that the article and parent setup a convenient environment for Godwinning the article. I really didn't expect anyone to fly off the handle at what was obviously a sarcastic reference to the law. But, I suppose someone with low reading comprehension, posting as anonymous coward, would be enough of a self-righteous ass to do so.
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That's stupid because it presumes that the prosecuted party is guilty and might prevent them from finding the means to defend themselves. Ya there's a lot of scum out there, but it's not impossible for the innocent to get accused as well, which is why we have trials in the first place: to determine guilt. Another way in which this is stupid is that large companies can easily leverage more capital to go after the guy with less money. So in addition to already having the odds stacked against them financially, your suggestion would prevent any defence attorney from taking on a risky case.
I dunno, somehow, thinkofthechildren seems appropriate too. I mean, so much legislature designed to violate privacy in the name of protecting the children, and here we have a perfect example of an action that violates both. Yay.
I wonder how biased these reports are... Usually, in peer-reviewed journal articles, there is more of a tendency to publish successful experiments and slide unsuccessful ones under the rug. So, if I report sets out to link violence and video games, and fails, it might not get published versus one that does. It seems to me like there would be plenty of confounding factors to make this meta study moot.
Besides, a study that uses meta-analysis to 'prove' something 'conclusively' makes my bullshit-meter rise.
Or, because of the large demand, the marginal costs of producing extra pills approaches 0, thereby allowing them to sell pills at a cheaper price and maintain their profit margins.
I'm sure MS would be happy the facilitate researcher's needs and soak up some of their intellectual talent. Also, I'm not sure how publications are are provided in China, but in the US there are a number of databases targeted towards a specific scientific domain: ACM, iEEE, Medline, etc. So, instead of doing "google: well known database" one would have to be a little less lazy and go "url: well known database" and search for their topic.
On the other hand, if these researchers are looking up google translated publications (even with the flaws involved), I can see how that might hurt them significantly. Having access to the world's research would definitely be better than having access to just one country.
Smart brains ...
While there are many other wtf videos that could be used as prank material, it has what few other videos have: recognition as a prank video. If you were to show some random video, it wouldn't have the same 'gotcha' effect because the audience of the prank might not recognize what you're trying to do in time for the punchline. You could certainly try other videos, but I think you'd be the only one in on the joke.
Imagine the soul-wrenching hell when someone makes an iphone app/mod. That way, Civ V could consume your life while you're at or away from your computer.
P.S. If this happens, please don't Civ V and drive. I like my continued existence.
I think that's what the IOCCC is for.
If I owned an xbox, I'd probably appreciate live with the same fervor you exhibit. But I don't, and I've found that using Live outside of the proper MS environment unpleasant. I still don't think I cheapen the word DRM by considering Live synonymous with it. While Live isn't the core DRM technology, they do enable game serials to be linked you your Live id. This can make Live a more integral part of a DRM system as a whole because it helps developers track and uniquely identify you (as best as possible). Granted, this is dependant on the game, but I still think Windows Live acts like a DRM system or at least part of one.
Now, my complaint really wasn't targeted at Windows Live, though it came out like that, but at the excessive layers of protection being placed on games. As such, you might get a game that requires a Steam login, a Windows Live login, and SecureROM on top of it. This ultimately makes pirating, or at least cracking, a game more appealing because they are less of a hassle to play.
I'm sorry if I was a bit hard on Live and I'm glad you're enjoying your experience with them. I only wish systems that acted as content providers+DRM, or the games provided by them, offered more options in terms of choosing what third-party software gets installed with it.
True, it's not DRM per-say, but for some games, it's not optional and feels like a an unnecessary and cumbersome third-pary add-on. For instance, I had purchased DOW II, upon downloading the 4+ gig behemoth, I had to install and run windows live, even though I only wanted to play the single player campaign. The absurdity about this is that Steam + Live is that it's redundant. Steam already tracks achievements, friends, etc. So why must I be forced to install and run Live? While it's not technically DRM, it feels like DRM because it's tracking software that the user has little control over if they want to play their game. Therefore, I really don't care for Live's "features" if they're going to be forced down my throat.
Ugh, I really hate windows live, especially when it's incorporated in steam games. It's like hey: we put DRM in your DRM so we can lock down your game while we lock down your game. The worst part are the involuntary patches that can get up to or greater than 100 mb. Just when you're ready to play, they slap you down a couple of pegs.
Probably. 'Evolution' for viruses involve swapping or mutating a few base pairs. So I imagine the overall size/structure won't change much. I'd say the tricky part is not detecting a virus after it's mutated but in discerning a virus from molecules of a similar size and polarity.
When that happens, might I suggest the perfect date: Dim the lights, snuggle up close and watch the Aliens movie together.
buy this deluxe duct tape developed by nasa scientists to put yourself back together again. Just three easy installments of $99.99.
But if you transmit energy this way, doesn't that imply that you have sent information? i.e. energy is being sent or received which might be encoded as a bit.
That's fine, I'll also ignore sending pay-checks to this anonymous fellow as well, as he clearly isn't you.
I don't mean close to uninhabitable, I mean pretty much uninhabitable by even the most resilient of micro-organisms. In the example of the new world, the immigrants could still grow stuff off the land and extract resources from it. In order to survive on Mars, or any other planetoid within our reach, you'd need to create an enclosed, self-sustained environment that can undergo repairs in case stuff breaks down. The problem then, is not just growing fields, but establishing an industrial base with which a colony could be independent. Yes, this might be possible and take a lot of resources, but two questions remain: why? and why now? For the first, we have little incentive for doing so (certainly not for resources) other then ensuring humanity's survival if the earth undergoes some catastrophic event. But, like the GGP said, that colony, with the current technology we have now, would be screwed without some help from earth. Which brings us to the second question: why now? We can do much of the basic research now in our own backyard, i.e. earth, at a fraction of the cost and still develop the necessary technologies to making an extra-planetary colony work. Meanwhile, NASA could use unmanned probes to keep us looking upwards. Going to the moon or mars now, just seems like a giant pissing contest because we're worried about other countries catching up. I'm not saying we should stop space travel or colonization altogether, just to take a more rational approach to doing so. Before going to the moon or mars, we should develop cheaper means of transportation and more effective means of maintaining self-contained environments. Heck, the latter might even come from taking care of our own planet.
Your analogy doesn't necessarily track. While the mountain west, you refer to might have been inhospitable, it was not entirely inhabitable. With the case of interstellar travel, we jump up-and-down if we find some possible evidence of bacteria and water. The parent is very much correct in that, with the current technology and current foreseeable technology, establishing and maintaining an off-world colony is prohibitively expensive. You're better off cancelling immediate flights of fancy and exploring how we might survive in earth's current harsh environments or improving the parts we already messed up. If we cannot fulfil those criteria, then how can we hope to do so and ensure the survival of colonists who cannot even grow food on a planet with little to no atmosphere?
Well, you could always email him (see the second link) it's interesting to see that some of the photos take 1-4 hours to expose and render.
Maybe because there's some legal specification as to the min/max of statutory dmgs? As a judge he is allowed to move the slider but not change the endpoints, I'm guessing.
Ah but you could get text-based adventures and rpgs going. Zork can make a comeback : D.
Can you give some examples of how you use it and how it fails? I use eclipse for smallish projects and haven't really run into any problems aside from a moderately chaotic config environment.
I did not say that the parent Godwinned the topic. Rather I was suggesting that the article and parent setup a convenient environment for Godwinning the article. I really didn't expect anyone to fly off the handle at what was obviously a sarcastic reference to the law. But, I suppose someone with low reading comprehension, posting as anonymous coward, would be enough of a self-righteous ass to do so.
Must ... not ...Godwin forum ... but sooo tempting. Does it count as Godwin if it's relevant?