My question is, does it do away with the unit cirle and being required to no how many radians is in say 30 degrees (I believe that was PI/6 Rads). That thing was a pain in the ass to memorize. However it was neccesary to use radians. I wonder how his book will confront the use of radians with just simple algebra.
All the previous posts seem to indicate that everyone has RTFA already, so I don't know why you need to tell them this.
That is of course, unless your talking to the writer of the article, then I would agree with you. This/. entry could have been written a little clearer
Very true. So in away you could say that this event is in a bit of a grey area between real and virtual. I still personally believe that this should be delt with virtually though. They could easilly block the offenders IP address
Now if the game company decides to take the items away from the players the were sold to and return them to the original players the players who spent money could perhaps then sue the guy they bought them from for fraud.
A classmate of mine once said "A crime committed in cyberspace should be delt with in cyberspace"
Now this is a flawed statement. You have to define wether the crime is real, or simulated. If it's a real crime (I.E. Credit Card harvesting, hacking into private servers, DDOS attacks, and other general naughty thing that cause monetary damage)then it should be delt with as such in our current legal system. However, simulated crimes (I.E. stealing or murder committed within the confines of a virtual game) aren't real, don't have any lasting effect on the world around us, and as such cant possibly be treated in the same method as a real crime. If someone does something that is against the rules of an online game he should be punished online with a variable level of severity that maxes out with total account restriction.
Perhaps the online game vendors can create an virtual legal system to deal with these. Complete with a virtual cour summons, virtual lawyers, and a virtual jury and judge. This virtual legal system can determing the virtual sentance that the crime committer deserves.
Not really. Its more of an expansion as the previous article was about the fact that microsoft had the patents. This article focuses on the "fact" that microsoft is trying to use the patents to squeeze money out of apple.
However, as I haven't seen this article anywhere else yet, and i've never heard of SKYNews I am skeptical as to weather this is fact yet or not. I wouldn't be suprised if it was though
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My question is, does it do away with the unit cirle and being required to no how many radians is in say 30 degrees (I believe that was PI/6 Rads). That thing was a pain in the ass to memorize. However it was neccesary to use radians. I wonder how his book will confront the use of radians with just simple algebra.
That is of course, unless your talking to the writer of the article, then I would agree with you. This /. entry could have been written a little clearer
I think it is quite interesting. I had never heard of this until this /. article and now I cant wait for the download
Now if the game company decides to take the items away from the players the were sold to and return them to the original players the players who spent money could perhaps then sue the guy they bought them from for fraud.
Were just dealing with a rainbow of grey here
Now this is a flawed statement. You have to define wether the crime is real, or simulated. If it's a real crime (I.E. Credit Card harvesting, hacking into private servers, DDOS attacks, and other general naughty thing that cause monetary damage)then it should be delt with as such in our current legal system. However, simulated crimes (I.E. stealing or murder committed within the confines of a virtual game) aren't real, don't have any lasting effect on the world around us, and as such cant possibly be treated in the same method as a real crime. If someone does something that is against the rules of an online game he should be punished online with a variable level of severity that maxes out with total account restriction.
Perhaps the online game vendors can create an virtual legal system to deal with these. Complete with a virtual cour summons, virtual lawyers, and a virtual jury and judge. This virtual legal system can determing the virtual sentance that the crime committer deserves.
Not really. Its more of an expansion as the previous article was about the fact that microsoft had the patents. This article focuses on the "fact" that microsoft is trying to use the patents to squeeze money out of apple. However, as I haven't seen this article anywhere else yet, and i've never heard of SKYNews I am skeptical as to weather this is fact yet or not. I wouldn't be suprised if it was though