If NASA can get internet, and NASA communicates with the space station... What era is NASA living in, if the space station can't get an internet connection. The internet solves all problems, especially missing codec problems.
I'm scratching "Be an Astronaut" off my life goals list. Seriously, stuck in a room for months and months on end with OUT an internet connection?!
No pizza, and no internet make homer... something, something.
Yes, copyright is the issue. I think the term Open Source is more a metaphor than a literal explanation... About the result of the free-ing of knowledge, and not the means of doing so.
The idea of Opening-up educational content has been prodded in the right direction by the open software movement. There is actually a fare sized initiative founded by MIT, and accompanied by many other notable schools called OpenCourseWare.
Open Source is just the catch phrase that people already understand. I assume it's easier to explain and to sell the idea using terms people already understand, than bolstering new phraseology, or going into in-depth specification.
The "update that's been awaited for almost two years" will supposedly implement "the ability to save the state of the emulated game and to interact with the software through a GUI"
Jeopardy!'s obfuscation is fairly formulaic, plus each question tends to include extra information for specificity and clarification which only furthers the ease of the task.
A bigger challenge would be to parse normal language, which isn't hand designed to evoke a known answer...
There are already search engines that attempt to do this.
On first glance this man seems moronic. Although when you think about it, if he got funding for his 'research' he is the most ingenious lazy loaf alive.
People don't care that facebook has their information when they sign-up and are using it, but if they were to theoretically remove their account, and their personal info wasn't removed OMG HAXZ!
If Facebook hasn't mis-used your information while you are using it, why would they mis-use it when you aren't?!
If it were in some way suspicious that they didn't automatically delete information, maybe there would be reason for concern. I just don't see that there is. A large portion of the information a person shares with Facebook is linked with other peoples personal information, so removing all of it could be problematic.
There is also precedence for this. WoW no longer deletes personal content. Many many websites with registration features don't even HAVE an un-register feature.
People who are outside of the gaming social faction get hooked on this stigma. Violence in games isn't violence. The point of gore in a game rarely has anything to do with violence. Blood splatter in games has a purpose, and it's not to attract the vampire demographic.
Here's an overly simplified run-down for the unaware:
- Games are structured activities with achievable goals.
- Goals in games come with rewards (simple psychology).
- The better the reward system, the more rewarding/entertaining the game.
- Rewards come in many forms, audible and visual are among the most prevalent in audio-visual products such as video games.
- An example of a visual reward is a firework. It's a visually appealing que signifying success.
- Games also often have themes. This imbues the game with 'Mimesis', the fun of role playing and make believe.
- Themes often involve living things because we(humans) find relevant topics more interesting, and living things (including humans) more relevant. Also, living things imply intelligence. Implied intelligence in opponents increases the sense of competition, or 'Agon'.
- When the theme dictates that you should defeat a living thing, and the reward system dictates that you should que success with a visual explosion, common sense leads to blood splatter.
Note: how some themes will use a more science fiction based approach, applying artificial intelligence to robots, and using combustion explosions or sparks as rewards.
The prosperity of violence in games is not, for the most part, due to gratuity, but solid evolutionary success. The game industry is heavily driven by an evolutionary process. Game producers cling to what has worked in previous propogations, while intermittently making random variations to successful formulas.
--So, thank you again scientists for attempting to give empirical evidence for something that was clearly logical.
Did I miss something? Isn't PDF still proprietary?
How are Open Source applications interfacing with a proprietary file format and not infringing on the copyrights?
The answer I thought was that they are just readers, so Adobe has aloud decoding, but not encoding. Although, OpenOffice can encode PDFs, so now I'm back to confused.:/
Also, why use a proprietary format like PDF in the first place? Laziness?
It's in the best interest of IPSs to offer broadband to as many people as they can before they encounter diminishing returns. This means by definition costs for ISPs will go up.
Costs for ISPs will also go up, because of the data monitoring infrastructure ISPs will have to implement.
On top of that, Cost will continue to go up for ISPs because, they will have to pay to have the data monitoring infrastructure over-seen by the government.
All three cost hikes will inflate consumer costs. This reminds me of the "No Child Left Behind" initiative.
Also notice that the infringement initiative only concerns music and film, as if those are the only copyrights that matter. Sorry software and all forms of literature, you don't deserve protection, because you don't increase the utility of our society... Oh wait.
This article is a bit mis-leading. Frighteningly, a more accurate account actually makes it sound even worse.
The government is planning to force ISPs to extend 2Mbps service to all locations with-in their domain.
The government also plans to force ISPs to "provide data about serial copyright-breakers to music and film companies..."
The government would create an agency to over-see this transfer of data about music/film copyright infringers, and the ISPs would flip the bill for the costs of operating this new agency.
IDK Swedish law, but it seems to me objective scientific journals are unlikely to be convicted of defamation.
A real scientific article should be based on facts, and shouldn't pose conclusions as being factual.
Either the journal didn't think their integrity was worth the cost of a law suite, OR the journal was caught publishing a less-than scientific article. (both quite possible)
Why go through the trouble after your initial effort, if there is no advantage? A lot of free software comes about because of the need, or the personal interest. But once both of those are satisfied, there is no reason to enhance the program.
Comparing Socialism to Open Source software is an insult to both.
Open Source developers are philanthropists, which explains why they would go through the trouble just as they would go through the initial effort. Open Source development is not supposed to be about personal gain. I know few people have a strong grasp of such selfless concepts, and so many misconceptions can be rooted to that fact.
The real issue is that of priority and time management. No Open Source project is developed with the initial goal of developing a strong user interface. At best the interface is the secondary goal, because an interface without a function is not a program. The goals of the main developers may not match the goals of the market, and since the market has no DIRECT influence over the goals of the developers, these goals may never sync. The Open Source solution to this is, "I you want it, make it." and the flaws inherent to time management now take hold. Even if I want a feature added to an Open Source application, and have the ability to do so, stepping into an Open Source project is no small feet.
Since the developers do not put your concerns above their own concerns, and since you do not wish to invest the time to handle your own concerns, your concerns to not get met.
Basically it comes down to two things. One, often Open Source projects to not make it easy enough for prospective developers to gain and utilize an active interest. Two, beggars can not be choosers.
Why do people find this a tax on their freedom? OMG, the government knows what my finger and my face look like! This in no way infringes upon a persons utilitarian freedoms.
At best you could say that it gives the government the ability to know who has touched a specific object with their bare hand. Freedom is ones ability to choose. Others' knowledge of what a person has touched does not impede that person's ability to choose.
Also, it is not any more righteous to only keep biometric records of previous law offenders.
Speaking oh biometric records; Has anyone here owned a driver's license? Sex, Age, Hair Color, Eye Color, Height, Weight, Name, Location, Disabilities, and Photo ID. Any hypocrites in the room?
"College Opportunity and Affordability Act" = "Federally Inexpensive Youth Targeted Infringement Mechanism"
Oh yeah. Forcing Colleges to create resource pools, and be net-nannies; That'll definitely make college more affordable. \:|
I must agree. Whether they can manage to read all the legislation or not, THEY are responsible for THEIR vote. If a senator doesn't have operations set in place to prevent him/her from making bad votes on bills, then they aren't properly doing their job. Further more, if we, the people, can't hold our senators responsible for their votes in the senate, do we really have a democracy?..
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If NASA can get internet, and NASA communicates with the space station... What era is NASA living in, if the space station can't get an internet connection. The internet solves all problems, especially missing codec problems.
I'm scratching "Be an Astronaut" off my life goals list. Seriously, stuck in a room for months and months on end with OUT an internet connection?!
No pizza, and no internet make homer... something, something.
Yes, copyright is the issue. I think the term Open Source is more a metaphor than a literal explanation... About the result of the free-ing of knowledge, and not the means of doing so.
The idea of Opening-up educational content has been prodded in the right direction by the open software movement. There is actually a fare sized initiative founded by MIT, and accompanied by many other notable schools called OpenCourseWare.
Open Source is just the catch phrase that people already understand. I assume it's easier to explain and to sell the idea using terms people already understand, than bolstering new phraseology, or going into in-depth specification.
The "update that's been awaited for almost two years" will supposedly implement "the ability to save the state of the emulated game and to interact with the software through a GUI"
Dear Pirate Party,
Stop illegally downloading David Hasselhoff's music and you might be taken you seriously.
Sincerely,
Everyone
Ken Jennings, sponsored by Oracle.
Jeopardy!'s obfuscation is fairly formulaic, plus each question tends to include extra information for specificity and clarification which only furthers the ease of the task.
A bigger challenge would be to parse normal language, which isn't hand designed to evoke a known answer...
There are already search engines that attempt to do this.
This isn't really "news" considering it had been broadcast even before it happened. Never the less, you can watch the two episodes here ->
http://www.hulu.com/watch/60651/the-colbert-report-tue-mar-3-2009
http://www.hulu.com/watch/60861/the-colbert-report-wed-mar-4-2009
On first glance this man seems moronic. Although when you think about it, if he got funding for his 'research' he is the most ingenious lazy loaf alive.
People don't care that facebook has their information when they sign-up and are using it, but if they were to theoretically remove their account, and their personal info wasn't removed OMG HAXZ!
If Facebook hasn't mis-used your information while you are using it, why would they mis-use it when you aren't?!
If it were in some way suspicious that they didn't automatically delete information, maybe there would be reason for concern. I just don't see that there is. A large portion of the information a person shares with Facebook is linked with other peoples personal information, so removing all of it could be problematic.
There is also precedence for this. WoW no longer deletes personal content. Many many websites with registration features don't even HAVE an un-register feature.
IDK why everyone clings to the whole IE integration thing. That's probably one of the least monopolistic things M$ does.
It's like calling the cops on a burglar because they didn't wipe their feet in the entry way.
People who are outside of the gaming social faction get hooked on this stigma. Violence in games isn't violence. The point of gore in a game rarely has anything to do with violence. Blood splatter in games has a purpose, and it's not to attract the vampire demographic.
Here's an overly simplified run-down for the unaware:
- Games are structured activities with achievable goals.
- Goals in games come with rewards (simple psychology).
- The better the reward system, the more rewarding/entertaining the game.
- Rewards come in many forms, audible and visual are among the most prevalent in audio-visual products such as video games.
- An example of a visual reward is a firework. It's a visually appealing que signifying success.
- Games also often have themes. This imbues the game with 'Mimesis', the fun of role playing and make believe.
- Themes often involve living things because we(humans) find relevant topics more interesting, and living things (including humans) more relevant. Also, living things imply intelligence. Implied intelligence in opponents increases the sense of competition, or 'Agon'.
- When the theme dictates that you should defeat a living thing, and the reward system dictates that you should que success with a visual explosion, common sense leads to blood splatter.
Note: how some themes will use a more science fiction based approach, applying artificial intelligence to robots, and using combustion explosions or sparks as rewards.
The prosperity of violence in games is not, for the most part, due to gratuity, but solid evolutionary success. The game industry is heavily driven by an evolutionary process. Game producers cling to what has worked in previous propogations, while intermittently making random variations to successful formulas.
--So, thank you again scientists for attempting to give empirical evidence for something that was clearly logical.
Is it just me or does petaflop sound like an impotent pervert?
Well in any event, I'm sure with 1.6TB of memory it will be able to cache lots of petafiles.
Did I miss something? Isn't PDF still proprietary?
How are Open Source applications interfacing with a proprietary file format and not infringing on the copyrights?
The answer I thought was that they are just readers, so Adobe has aloud decoding, but not encoding. Although, OpenOffice can encode PDFs, so now I'm back to confused. :/
Also, why use a proprietary format like PDF in the first place? Laziness?
It's in the best interest of IPSs to offer broadband to as many people as they can before they encounter diminishing returns. This means by definition costs for ISPs will go up.
Costs for ISPs will also go up, because of the data monitoring infrastructure ISPs will have to implement.
On top of that, Cost will continue to go up for ISPs because, they will have to pay to have the data monitoring infrastructure over-seen by the government.
All three cost hikes will inflate consumer costs. This reminds me of the "No Child Left Behind" initiative.
Also notice that the infringement initiative only concerns music and film, as if those are the only copyrights that matter. Sorry software and all forms of literature, you don't deserve protection, because you don't increase the utility of our society... Oh wait.
This article is a bit mis-leading. Frighteningly, a more accurate account actually makes it sound even worse.
The government is planning to force ISPs to extend 2Mbps service to all locations with-in their domain.
The government also plans to force ISPs to "provide data about serial copyright-breakers to music and film companies..."
The government would create an agency to over-see this transfer of data about music/film copyright infringers, and the ISPs would flip the bill for the costs of operating this new agency.
This is not coincidence. This is an application of a classic 4 step business model.
Step 1: Produce a top selling game.
Step 2: Use game to force inaccurate clock settings.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit.
Once they figure out step 3 we are all doomed!
IDK Swedish law, but it seems to me objective scientific journals are unlikely to be convicted of defamation.
A real scientific article should be based on facts, and shouldn't pose conclusions as being factual.
Either the journal didn't think their integrity was worth the cost of a law suite, OR the journal was caught publishing a less-than scientific article. (both quite possible)
Why go through the trouble after your initial effort, if there is no advantage? A lot of free software comes about because of the need, or the personal interest. But once both of those are satisfied, there is no reason to enhance the program.
Comparing Socialism to Open Source software is an insult to both. Open Source developers are philanthropists, which explains why they would go through the trouble just as they would go through the initial effort. Open Source development is not supposed to be about personal gain. I know few people have a strong grasp of such selfless concepts, and so many misconceptions can be rooted to that fact. The real issue is that of priority and time management. No Open Source project is developed with the initial goal of developing a strong user interface. At best the interface is the secondary goal, because an interface without a function is not a program. The goals of the main developers may not match the goals of the market, and since the market has no DIRECT influence over the goals of the developers, these goals may never sync. The Open Source solution to this is, "I you want it, make it." and the flaws inherent to time management now take hold. Even if I want a feature added to an Open Source application, and have the ability to do so, stepping into an Open Source project is no small feet. Since the developers do not put your concerns above their own concerns, and since you do not wish to invest the time to handle your own concerns, your concerns to not get met. Basically it comes down to two things. One, often Open Source projects to not make it easy enough for prospective developers to gain and utilize an active interest. Two, beggars can not be choosers.
Why do people find this a tax on their freedom? OMG, the government knows what my finger and my face look like! This in no way infringes upon a persons utilitarian freedoms. At best you could say that it gives the government the ability to know who has touched a specific object with their bare hand. Freedom is ones ability to choose. Others' knowledge of what a person has touched does not impede that person's ability to choose. Also, it is not any more righteous to only keep biometric records of previous law offenders. Speaking oh biometric records; Has anyone here owned a driver's license? Sex, Age, Hair Color, Eye Color, Height, Weight, Name, Location, Disabilities, and Photo ID. Any hypocrites in the room?
Bill claims godliness.
"College Opportunity and Affordability Act" = "Federally Inexpensive Youth Targeted Infringement Mechanism" Oh yeah. Forcing Colleges to create resource pools, and be net-nannies; That'll definitely make college more affordable. \:|
I must agree. Whether they can manage to read all the legislation or not, THEY are responsible for THEIR vote. If a senator doesn't have operations set in place to prevent him/her from making bad votes on bills, then they aren't properly doing their job. Further more, if we, the people, can't hold our senators responsible for their votes in the senate, do we really have a democracy?..
Musicians advocating free p2p distribution as a form of advertisement? That's doesn't sound like a black mark to me.