Actually, I hardly buy any FPSes these days. I bought DNF and Portal 2 this year, but they were obviously pretty big exceptions to all the other stuff being pumped out. I'd like to see more GTA style sandbox games than FPSes.
I tried Battlefield Bad Company 1 & 2 and MW2 to see if modern FPSes were any good. BC1 had a fun single player, but BC2 and MW2 had pretty awful story modes. They're all good fun in multiplayer though, aside from the retarded RPG style levelling up. If anything, these games should ask you which skills you want to remove when you go up a level, and allow you to drop levels for playing badly. That would actually make the levels mean something, and you wouldn't have to play the game for a few days just to unlock the stuff that matches your playing style.
Against reasoning like that, I can see why your friend might want to side with the MAFIAA.
As someone else pointed out, libraries don't copy. They lend. If you copy part of a library book without paying the appropriate license fee, then it is copyright violation.
Comparing digital goods to physical goods doesn't work (ie comparing a chair to a song). That is definitely some "reptile brained mode" thinking. The chair would be both inside his house, and out on the curb - and when someone tried to steal it, they'd find a copy in their hands, and the original right there. It isn't stealing. However, society does recognise the value of ideas, and most people seem to agree with the concept of paying for books, magazines, music, games etc, etc.
There are many ways in this world to scam the system, but that doesn't make all of them moral. You could print a fake bus pass, and sure you'd get free rides - but why do you think you are justified in doing that? If everyone did that, the bus company would make no money, and either go out of business, or implement a more draconian pass system. I think of scam ideas like that every now and then, but I wouldn't actually do any of them.
I do think that copyright is far too long right now - but the basic concept is reasonable. People make money for the cool stuff they create. This gives them some incentive to create it. After a while, it becomes public domain.
Whatever, I played Syndicate demos as a kid, but I prefer FPSes, so this sounds interesting to me. Of course, if it's an awful game, I'm not going to buy it.
I loved the original Deus Ex, and the latest one is meant to be pretty good, but I'm still going to wait a while for the price to come down before getting it. I only pre-order games when I know they're going to be good. Duke Nukem Forever though.. oh gods.. the horror:(
If hardware back in those days had the same capabilities as today, the developers would have been a lot less likely to do isometric games. I'm not saying those games weren't fun at the time, but the viewing/control limitations were still annoying. I much preferred fully 3D helicopter games once they came out.
Cannon Fodder and Syndicate would work pretty nicely on a phone/tablet though, as would almost any old point and click type game. There should be a lot more point and click adventures being released for tablets.. that would be amazing. I'm going to have to try and get ScummVM going on my tablet now..
To me, it's a matter of personal preference, rather than fashion. I've always preferred FPSes. I'd much rather just be the main character, than order around a bunch of guys.
This law shouldn't take effect retroactively. It's making me want to say "fuck the system". I've already bought a couple of Beatles albums legally, but I should probably just download the rest out of spite (and justice).
If it's a rental service, why does it matter if it's Kindle only or not? How many eReaders do you have? Are you expecting to share the book with lots of people during the rental period?
At the very least Amazon would have to heavily restrict who they gave access to the rental API. It's not something they can completely open up, otherwise anybody could write a client that doesn't do the self-destruct thing, thereby allowing anyone to just download all the books they want for free, and keep them.
What's news to me here is that Prime members in the US get films and TV on demand with it. I really wish they'd hurry up and bring out a similar service over here. I already have LoveFilm, but if I could get a combination of the two (Amazon have bought LoveFilm after all), that would be great value.
When I was using HTCs, it was with Windows Mobile. They had their position before Android. HTC makes great hardware. I'd argue that using Android would benefit them, but what if they pulled a RIM and include a compatibility layer? Then you have the best of everything.
It does say "wherever possible". If some technology really needs new application protocols or storage specifications then so be it. As long as they are properly documented, I don't see the problem.
Plus I don't care what the advertisers know. At worst, I'll get adverts for something useful. At best, I'll be using an adblocker (which I do on desktop machines, but not my tablet yet).
IMO Facebook isn't much different from posting on Slashdot or any other message board, with the exception that you're a lot more likely to have met the people you chat to on Facebook, unless you actively participate in lots of random group pages. There's nothing forcing you to put private info up on Facebook, nor is there anything stopping you from saying private things on Slashdot.
"I like turtles" is a common internet meme though.. and Cleverbot just repeats what people have said to it - so it's more likely to say the turtles thing (it was meant to be a joke, but now I've had to explain it, so of course it's not going to be funny).
Eliza sometimes brings up what the user has said previously.. and it was written in 1964:p
I don't think it's that nobody has done this stuff, I think it's just that if you assume that Cleverbot is the pinnacle of chat AI then you'll assume all that came before what utter bollocks. But it's not. I haven't really looked into chatbots for a few years, and the little ones I made myself didn't have any kind of memory, but there must be some out there.. then again, programming a chatbot probably isn't of interest to the businesses funding AI research.
You really think rights to all 70s and 80s games from tiny software houses were sold on? If I want to play an old game and there's no legal way to buy a license, I'm going to pirate it. In many cases the games I want to play are ones I bought in the 80s/90s already though, so despite it being illegal to download ROMs, I have no reason to feel guilty about it.
I looked at Gmail for business last week - there's an SLA of 99.9%.
I actually agree with him about the damage of the MS monopoly. A lot of what came out of his fingers was BS, but that doesn't automatically make all of it false.
I also forgot to mention notepad++ OOPS! It is essential for anyone who wants to edit text files in a nice environment
FTFY.
Oh and by the way, drivers are automatically downloaded upon detection of hardware that the OS didnt originally have drivers packaged for.
Actually, Windows 7 gave me a link to the Dell website to download drivers for my card reader.. hardly "automatically downloaded", but better than XP I suppose.
Seems your talk of OSX and Linux is just trolling, but in case it isn't: considering Windows is still the de facto standard, OSX is wildly popular - people have to explicitly choose it over Windows, and there are probably more than 100 million users from the most recent figures I can find on Google. The vast majority of those using Windows are using it because they are not aware that they even have a choice, and even if they knew of the choice they wouldn't really care, because they don't know what they're missing, plus people are scared of the unknown.
Linux has also looked good for years, and has all the flashy snappy seamless crap you want. I configured compiz to do 3D layered desktops with transparency and all that a few years ago just to see what it was like. It was nice, but since then I have been happy just to use a netbook without any especially fancy interface effects for most of my day to day work (web development). I'm going to switch back to a full powered laptop soon to start messing around with C/C++ again though, so I may enable all the fancypants effects again.
Cleverbot's responses are all taken from humans. It just takes what people have said to it previously and tries to match it up to something the user inputs. It is very, very simple, and IMO it's an embarrassment to consider it "AI".
As others have said, if this passed a Turing test, it says more about the testers than Cleverbot.. *sigh*
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If they lost, it doesn't mean that they couldn't use the technology - it just means that they have to pay a license to use it.
I'd say their problems revolve more around not being able to keep it in their pants.
Nevermind that CO2 production is inversely correlated with poverty and starvation
It's also correlated with cancer, obesity, proliferation of computers, global population, and pop music. What is your point here exactly?
Actually, I hardly buy any FPSes these days. I bought DNF and Portal 2 this year, but they were obviously pretty big exceptions to all the other stuff being pumped out. I'd like to see more GTA style sandbox games than FPSes.
I tried Battlefield Bad Company 1 & 2 and MW2 to see if modern FPSes were any good. BC1 had a fun single player, but BC2 and MW2 had pretty awful story modes. They're all good fun in multiplayer though, aside from the retarded RPG style levelling up. If anything, these games should ask you which skills you want to remove when you go up a level, and allow you to drop levels for playing badly. That would actually make the levels mean something, and you wouldn't have to play the game for a few days just to unlock the stuff that matches your playing style.
Against reasoning like that, I can see why your friend might want to side with the MAFIAA.
As someone else pointed out, libraries don't copy. They lend. If you copy part of a library book without paying the appropriate license fee, then it is copyright violation.
Comparing digital goods to physical goods doesn't work (ie comparing a chair to a song). That is definitely some "reptile brained mode" thinking. The chair would be both inside his house, and out on the curb - and when someone tried to steal it, they'd find a copy in their hands, and the original right there. It isn't stealing. However, society does recognise the value of ideas, and most people seem to agree with the concept of paying for books, magazines, music, games etc, etc.
There are many ways in this world to scam the system, but that doesn't make all of them moral. You could print a fake bus pass, and sure you'd get free rides - but why do you think you are justified in doing that? If everyone did that, the bus company would make no money, and either go out of business, or implement a more draconian pass system. I think of scam ideas like that every now and then, but I wouldn't actually do any of them.
I do think that copyright is far too long right now - but the basic concept is reasonable. People make money for the cool stuff they create. This gives them some incentive to create it. After a while, it becomes public domain.
And their intensive farming reduces the nutritional quality of the food. Nice try at a really bad analogy though.
Whatever, I played Syndicate demos as a kid, but I prefer FPSes, so this sounds interesting to me. Of course, if it's an awful game, I'm not going to buy it.
I loved the original Deus Ex, and the latest one is meant to be pretty good, but I'm still going to wait a while for the price to come down before getting it. I only pre-order games when I know they're going to be good. Duke Nukem Forever though.. oh gods.. the horror :(
If hardware back in those days had the same capabilities as today, the developers would have been a lot less likely to do isometric games. I'm not saying those games weren't fun at the time, but the viewing/control limitations were still annoying. I much preferred fully 3D helicopter games once they came out.
Cannon Fodder and Syndicate would work pretty nicely on a phone/tablet though, as would almost any old point and click type game. There should be a lot more point and click adventures being released for tablets.. that would be amazing. I'm going to have to try and get ScummVM going on my tablet now..
To me, it's a matter of personal preference, rather than fashion. I've always preferred FPSes. I'd much rather just be the main character, than order around a bunch of guys.
I can't share with kids of today what music was like back in my youth because it's irrevocably locked up by copyrights until well after I'll be dead.
You don't have the albums? You could also try Spotify, though I don't think the Beatles are on there.
This law shouldn't take effect retroactively. It's making me want to say "fuck the system". I've already bought a couple of Beatles albums legally, but I should probably just download the rest out of spite (and justice).
Psst.. you can find all of that professionally made stuff with the google and the bittorrents. Don't tell the man.
If it's a rental service, why does it matter if it's Kindle only or not? How many eReaders do you have? Are you expecting to share the book with lots of people during the rental period?
At the very least Amazon would have to heavily restrict who they gave access to the rental API. It's not something they can completely open up, otherwise anybody could write a client that doesn't do the self-destruct thing, thereby allowing anyone to just download all the books they want for free, and keep them.
What's news to me here is that Prime members in the US get films and TV on demand with it. I really wish they'd hurry up and bring out a similar service over here. I already have LoveFilm, but if I could get a combination of the two (Amazon have bought LoveFilm after all), that would be great value.
When I was using HTCs, it was with Windows Mobile. They had their position before Android. HTC makes great hardware. I'd argue that using Android would benefit them, but what if they pulled a RIM and include a compatibility layer? Then you have the best of everything.
It does say "wherever possible". If some technology really needs new application protocols or storage specifications then so be it. As long as they are properly documented, I don't see the problem.
Don't give them ideas..
Plus I don't care what the advertisers know. At worst, I'll get adverts for something useful. At best, I'll be using an adblocker (which I do on desktop machines, but not my tablet yet).
IMO Facebook isn't much different from posting on Slashdot or any other message board, with the exception that you're a lot more likely to have met the people you chat to on Facebook, unless you actively participate in lots of random group pages. There's nothing forcing you to put private info up on Facebook, nor is there anything stopping you from saying private things on Slashdot.
"I like turtles" is a common internet meme though.. and Cleverbot just repeats what people have said to it - so it's more likely to say the turtles thing (it was meant to be a joke, but now I've had to explain it, so of course it's not going to be funny).
Eliza sometimes brings up what the user has said previously.. and it was written in 1964 :p
I don't think it's that nobody has done this stuff, I think it's just that if you assume that Cleverbot is the pinnacle of chat AI then you'll assume all that came before what utter bollocks. But it's not. I haven't really looked into chatbots for a few years, and the little ones I made myself didn't have any kind of memory, but there must be some out there.. then again, programming a chatbot probably isn't of interest to the businesses funding AI research.
I didn't say it was a legal classification.
You really think rights to all 70s and 80s games from tiny software houses were sold on? If I want to play an old game and there's no legal way to buy a license, I'm going to pirate it. In many cases the games I want to play are ones I bought in the 80s/90s already though, so despite it being illegal to download ROMs, I have no reason to feel guilty about it.
What's the Google service guarantee again?
I looked at Gmail for business last week - there's an SLA of 99.9%.
I actually agree with him about the damage of the MS monopoly. A lot of what came out of his fingers was BS, but that doesn't automatically make all of it false.
I don't know, it sounds about right. "iOS, but good".
I also forgot to mention notepad++ OOPS! It is essential for anyone who wants to edit text files in a nice environment
FTFY.
Oh and by the way, drivers are automatically downloaded upon detection of hardware that the OS didnt originally have drivers packaged for.
Actually, Windows 7 gave me a link to the Dell website to download drivers for my card reader.. hardly "automatically downloaded", but better than XP I suppose.
Seems your talk of OSX and Linux is just trolling, but in case it isn't: considering Windows is still the de facto standard, OSX is wildly popular - people have to explicitly choose it over Windows, and there are probably more than 100 million users from the most recent figures I can find on Google. The vast majority of those using Windows are using it because they are not aware that they even have a choice, and even if they knew of the choice they wouldn't really care, because they don't know what they're missing, plus people are scared of the unknown.
Linux has also looked good for years, and has all the flashy snappy seamless crap you want. I configured compiz to do 3D layered desktops with transparency and all that a few years ago just to see what it was like. It was nice, but since then I have been happy just to use a netbook without any especially fancy interface effects for most of my day to day work (web development). I'm going to switch back to a full powered laptop soon to start messing around with C/C++ again though, so I may enable all the fancypants effects again.
Cleverbot's responses are all taken from humans. It just takes what people have said to it previously and tries to match it up to something the user inputs. It is very, very simple, and IMO it's an embarrassment to consider it "AI".
As others have said, if this passed a Turing test, it says more about the testers than Cleverbot.. *sigh*
I suspect it would say "I like turtles!"