Ah, but this is here, and that is there. Heck, even a radical like Richard Stallman doesn't believe that copyright should be completely abolished, but must be reformed. Copyright can do a lot of good, but with the way it exists right now, the potential for abuse is extremely high, and we're seeing it being abused more and more often.
After 35 years, I have finished a comprehensive study of European
comparative law. In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited,
except that which is permitted. In France, under the law, everything
is permitted, except that which is prohibited. In the Soviet Union,
under the law, everything is prohibited, including that which is
permitted. And in Italy, under the law, everything is permitted,
especially that which is prohibited.
-- Newton Minow,
Speech to the Association of American Law Schools, 1985
True, but there were cutscenes too (never mind the fact that they seemed really badly contrived most of the time). The other thing is Ultima IX's Britannia was a helluvalot smaller than in any previous Ultima. Britannia had been shrinking continuously since its largest size in Ultima V, and in Ultima IX it seems that it would be possible to walk from Minoc to Paws in less than an hour of game time, where the same trip would have taken several days of game time in Ultima V. That must have made things a bit easier. Pity that a game that had captured the imaginations of people like me were to end that way after a 20-year run.
More to the point, Ultima VII, widely considered the high point in the series, was just as seamless, and in some ways arguably more so.
Well, in a very real albeit indirect sense, the modern industrial human consumes petroleum-based hydrocarbons as food. A typical meal in the developed world had seven calories of fossil fuel-based energy (in the form of fertilizer, fuel for farm equipment, transportation, irrigation, pesticides, refrigeration, etc.) go into it for every calorie that the eater receives from it.
Nolan Bushnell was in the classic Interplay game Neuromancer, where he's the head monk in the House of Pong, searching for the "Holy Joystick". I used to think it was a funny joke, but apparently it's all too true.
Well, from what I remember, he paid the fine, although he did try to lower it a bit by trying to convince the courts to fine him based on his income for the year before that, which was a lot lower (can't remember whether he succeeded though). By the way, I believe that the way it's done is not based on salary per se, but more strictly in terms of net income. Steve Jobs may pay himself a US$1 salary, but he gets dividends and such from owning stock in Apple and other companies, and has other non-salary sources of income as well. The very rich like Steve Jobs and Anssa Vanjoki tend not to get their money from salaries the way ordinary people do... Their governments know this, because presumably people like them pay their taxes (if they didn't, they'd have a whole world of hurt more to pay besides speeding tickets!).
Well some speed limit fines are based on income, at least in some parts of Europe. I remember a few years back when a top Nokia executive was fined the equivalent of US$103,000 for speeding on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, because in Finland, traffic tickets are based on violator's income.
Actually the relevant verse is Deuteronomy 28:31: "...thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee..."
They're not quite corporations, but well, the US Government seems to, as does the Japanese government. I've filled out visa applications for both countries and they come with a PDF form that you can use to fill out all the relevant details and sundry. As for the US visa application, there are two documents, one of which is filled out on a web form on the US State Department's website that generates a PDF that you print (doing exactly what you describe, with all the validation), and another supplemental application that can be filled out as a PDF with forms, although in the past IIRC they used PDF's with forms for both. The Japanese visa application consists of a single PDF with forms that you can fill out and print. In both cases, you could just simply print them out and write your answers by hand if you were so inclined, although that's a lot less convenient. I imagine these and many other governments also make use of PDF's with forms for many other applications in addition to visa applications for foreigners.
Silicon carbide is really hard stuff. It's another name for the industrial abrasive carborundum and it's generally harder than sapphire (9 on the Mohs scale) but slightly softer than diamond (10 on the Mohs scale).
Then in that sense, it's no different from how they feel they have the right to appoint their own Catholic bishops in their country, even if the Vatican disapproves. I believe this created a big row at one time, where China appointed bishops not approved by the Pope, and they were excommunicated.
The main use of such a quantum computer, besides the use of Shor's algorithm or the other quantum algorithms known, would be to simulate quantum mechanical phenomena. As you might imagine, simulating complex quantum mechanical systems on a normal computer takes prodigious amounts of memory and processing power (e.g. the gauge quantum chromodynamics simulations used to calculate particle masses and properties in the standard model of particle physics). A workable quantum computer would make such computations a lot easier, and could lead to scientific breakthroughs such as a complete understanding of the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity, cold fusion, and perhaps the quantum theory of gravity.
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Ah, but this is here, and that is there. Heck, even a radical like Richard Stallman doesn't believe that copyright should be completely abolished, but must be reformed. Copyright can do a lot of good, but with the way it exists right now, the potential for abuse is extremely high, and we're seeing it being abused more and more often.
A more extended version:
Trusty /usr/games/fortune
True, but there were cutscenes too (never mind the fact that they seemed really badly contrived most of the time). The other thing is Ultima IX's Britannia was a helluvalot smaller than in any previous Ultima. Britannia had been shrinking continuously since its largest size in Ultima V, and in Ultima IX it seems that it would be possible to walk from Minoc to Paws in less than an hour of game time, where the same trip would have taken several days of game time in Ultima V. That must have made things a bit easier. Pity that a game that had captured the imaginations of people like me were to end that way after a 20-year run.
More to the point, Ultima VII, widely considered the high point in the series, was just as seamless, and in some ways arguably more so.
Gee, so Google isn't evil in May, June, July, or August?
The EFF may more properly be the Internet equivalent of the ACLU, with the FSF being the equivalent for the world of software in particular.
Apparently he's also a huge fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and managed to get an Evangelion toy to appear in his movie One Hour Photo .
Well, in a very real albeit indirect sense, the modern industrial human consumes petroleum-based hydrocarbons as food. A typical meal in the developed world had seven calories of fossil fuel-based energy (in the form of fertilizer, fuel for farm equipment, transportation, irrigation, pesticides, refrigeration, etc.) go into it for every calorie that the eater receives from it.
Nolan Bushnell was in the classic Interplay game Neuromancer, where he's the head monk in the House of Pong, searching for the "Holy Joystick". I used to think it was a funny joke, but apparently it's all too true.
Well, from what I remember, he paid the fine, although he did try to lower it a bit by trying to convince the courts to fine him based on his income for the year before that, which was a lot lower (can't remember whether he succeeded though). By the way, I believe that the way it's done is not based on salary per se, but more strictly in terms of net income. Steve Jobs may pay himself a US$1 salary, but he gets dividends and such from owning stock in Apple and other companies, and has other non-salary sources of income as well. The very rich like Steve Jobs and Anssa Vanjoki tend not to get their money from salaries the way ordinary people do... Their governments know this, because presumably people like them pay their taxes (if they didn't, they'd have a whole world of hurt more to pay besides speeding tickets!).
Repeat after me: copyright is an infringement of freedom of speech. I'll leave it up to your society to decide which one is more important.
Well some speed limit fines are based on income, at least in some parts of Europe. I remember a few years back when a top Nokia executive was fined the equivalent of US$103,000 for speeding on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, because in Finland, traffic tickets are based on violator's income.
Indeed. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Actually the relevant verse is Deuteronomy 28:31: "...thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee..."
Is that you, Jack Thompson?
Maybe it should be called SIAG Office?
They're not quite corporations, but well, the US Government seems to, as does the Japanese government. I've filled out visa applications for both countries and they come with a PDF form that you can use to fill out all the relevant details and sundry. As for the US visa application, there are two documents, one of which is filled out on a web form on the US State Department's website that generates a PDF that you print (doing exactly what you describe, with all the validation), and another supplemental application that can be filled out as a PDF with forms, although in the past IIRC they used PDF's with forms for both. The Japanese visa application consists of a single PDF with forms that you can fill out and print. In both cases, you could just simply print them out and write your answers by hand if you were so inclined, although that's a lot less convenient. I imagine these and many other governments also make use of PDF's with forms for many other applications in addition to visa applications for foreigners.
Just to be pedantic, $0.002 is actually 0.2 cents, if I'm not mistaken. I'm sure you meant to say something slightly different.
Maybe they should be pulling more strings rather than printing them?
Silicon carbide is really hard stuff. It's another name for the industrial abrasive carborundum and it's generally harder than sapphire (9 on the Mohs scale) but slightly softer than diamond (10 on the Mohs scale).
And then they would be no different from the FSF, and they will have rewritten their own, incompatible version of the GPL to accomplish that!
Then in that sense, it's no different from how they feel they have the right to appoint their own Catholic bishops in their country, even if the Vatican disapproves. I believe this created a big row at one time, where China appointed bishops not approved by the Pope, and they were excommunicated.
Your constitution does not restrict what you can do. It restricts what your government can do to you.
The main use of such a quantum computer, besides the use of Shor's algorithm or the other quantum algorithms known, would be to simulate quantum mechanical phenomena. As you might imagine, simulating complex quantum mechanical systems on a normal computer takes prodigious amounts of memory and processing power (e.g. the gauge quantum chromodynamics simulations used to calculate particle masses and properties in the standard model of particle physics). A workable quantum computer would make such computations a lot easier, and could lead to scientific breakthroughs such as a complete understanding of the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity, cold fusion, and perhaps the quantum theory of gravity.
Losing a terabyte of data in one shot would be extremely painful for whoever it happened to...
So you could do some real interesting things with a Blu-ray diode then...