Proof that there are an infinite number of primes: If there were a largest prime number, p, then p! + 1 is not divisible by any number between 2 and p!. Thus p!'s prime factors are numbers greater than p!.
As for practical upper limit, that is hard to say. Technology improves all the time. If a usable quantum computer came out, it could find a lot of bit coins and greatly devalue the current value.
If only that were true. There is a huge fiasco here at Washington State University as the new finical aid system has broke leaving many students without the money they need for books/supplies/rent/tuition/food. Guess who set up this system... Oracle
Well, I don't think something like this would affect speed so much as latency. Besides I don't think you can just pair up any two routers, you would have to send someone the part in anticipation of sending them data on said part.
Now if someone could figure out a way of doing broadcast where you can record information in a device and have multiple devices that all "hear" what that device hears then you could push a lot of data to a lot of people easily.
An act is violent only if there is some perception that the act is harming something that has some level of intelligence. The more intelligent your target is perceived to be, the more heinous the act is. Is Bejeweled violent? Sure, if you consider all those poor gems you keep causing to self combust. Those goombas you stomp... those are actually robots with very simple programming. For some people, they realize that despite all the realism, they are just shooting AIs, and they have to move up to PvP to be more convinced that they are dominating, getting closer and closer to that alpha male spot. Sometimes that isn't enough, as it is still not real.
I'm not sure where you live, but over here in eastern Washington I go 65 in the 55 MPH zone and I pass cars left and right. It is extremely rare to have anyone pass me. The average is more like 60.
Part of the requirement of being on Greenlight is that your game must support Windows. If you want to make it a selling point that it also supports Max OS (and linux once steam adds that) you are free to do so.
Here in the US, we are told there is constant threat of terrorism, which is used to keep people in line. So other countries simply use Hell instead, which seems to be more effective.. provided you can get people to truly believe in hell.
My point is that this is on par with what breeding projects have already produced (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7569064.stm where dogs have been bred to look cute, and as they grow older, their skull can't contain their brain).
Your examples are not what people are afraid of. I haven't heard "because its patentable" as a GMO fear before. If this was the only fear, then a simple change to the law would fix it.
Its not a big step. Scientists don't really know how genes operate, they can only guess on what they do based on what they've seen happen in other organisms. Many times the change in an organism is a small genetic mutation, which turns off a functionality or enables one that previous did not happen. Even when entire genes are inserted into an organism with GMO, the same thing can happen in nature with gene transfer.
Evolution is messy, current genetic makeups of organisms are far from ideal. I fail to understand why everyone is so scared of genetic engineering. Do you fear we are interfering with "gods works"? Are you afraid of the implications of what GMO will do to the human race, that you consider so sacred? Much of what GMO can do, so can nature. Why then limit all of GMO instead of just those parts that cannot be as easily changed by nature?
Also there are inherent problems with it being so fast. When you can create a new different plant and then have it on consumers plates in a handful of years their is far more risk than a crop strain which was developed over decades/centuries.
No. Everyone eats the same, genetically identical plant, one one of the millions of farmers finds a mutation that seems interesting they might decide to put that on the market. Maybe they don't realize its a mutation (or does anyone else) since all it did was increase crop yield. Most times with GMO, a single nuclitide base pair is altered, exactly what you would expect with evolution. At least with GMO, the change is more officially reported and it doesn't simply "sneak" into the consumer food supply.
GMO just does what human controlled breeding would take longer to accomplish. Yes, there are dangers, but the vast majority of it is no more dangerous than you would expect from a new version of a cell phone. Crop growers that produce non-GMO foods will often use interesting pesticides, interesting soil, chill fruits to ensure they come to the consumer more fresh, and use grafting on trees so that the combination of 2 trees produces better yield. We are far past natural foods, pretty much every variety of an apple you buy in the store is genetically identical to all the others, they just use clonal propagation to ensure the optimal fruit tree keeps producing optimal fruit. They have stopped evolution, which is making these plants more vulnerable to diseases and pests.
Before you go off on why GMO is bad, make sure you understand what is already being done in today's world.
Is a time machine. If people could go back and look at the past (and not just the distant past, but anytime between 20 minutes ago to millions of years ago), then disbelieving in evolution would be as silly as believing that the earth is flat (and too a lesser extent the moon landing) today. You have to see it too believe it, and it has to
That being said, I still know people who think that sperm come from the back side between the hip and the ribs (as is written in the Koran).
Stuck with Time Warner here [rage] I don't have internet at home for 4 days now due to some service tech accidently disconnecting me along with the person who stopped their service. When I called them up, they scheduled me an appointment in 6 days to have this resolved (well the first 2 times they said they would get someone over there asap). After enough calls I did managed to get moved up a couple of days due to a cancellation. Their excuse: they were subcontracting their techs. [/rage]
If the patent is secret (and not juts by the USPTO), then anyone who ends up "infringing" on said patent during its approval process has just shown that the patent is obvious, or at least not too complex.
I would see it as being fine if the patent office ruled that, yes you can have secret patents, but you wouldn't be able to enforce it if someone else invented something similar before it became public. In this case an inventor could simply request that the patent that is current in review and secret be revealed (while still in review) when they plan on releasing the product, so that their competitors cannot reverse engineer it before the patent becomes valid.
Same here. Washington State University was able to negotiate getting an equal share of all tv revenue regardless if they make it to the finals or not (otherwise the best team gets money to keep getting better). That money is being to hire an expensive football coach and do major construction on the stadium to add premium box seats (which they also convinced the student government to raise fees to help pay for).
On article topic, our CS department is having minor cut backs, but is doing "fine" as a long while back when CS was getting going it was merged with Electrical Engineering to prevent it from closing. Although I have a CS degree, I'm working for the Horticulture department, which isn't in any danger of getting cut.
Your code may only depend on free libraries. From the rules: Platform: Your code must be able to be compiled and run on a 100% free-as-in-freedom platform. It may not make use of any proprietary libraries or VMs. Just to be clear, we cannot accept games that require any of the following: Flash, Silverlight, XNA, Unity, Windows, MacOS (or OSX), iOS, the official Oracle JVM, or similar. It is perfectly acceptable if your game runs on any of these platforms, but it must also work on an open platform (we strongly recommend making sure that your program run on modern flavors of GNU/Linux, as all of the judges will have access to it).
Fortunately for me, my code typically doesn't depend on the "official Oracle JVM" (Please no snarky comments about how Java is old/bad/ect... its what I use and I like it).
Three issues with this: 1. Java uses some of windows assets when doing the windows Look and feel. This can cause legal problems if they allowed the windows look on other platforms. 2. There is a Windows XP and a Windows 6/7 look and feel. 3. Showing someone a Windows look on a non-windows platform may cause more resentment than one that looks a bit of of place.
No. Matching the host OS look is less important than components being out of place since they weren't fully tested on that particular host OS. If you want to take the time to ensure that despite the sizing differences of components it still looks good on other OSs then you can include the 1 line of code to set the look to be native. If you want to slap something together quickly, then it is better that it look the same on all platforms which brings it closer to the goal of "write once run anywhere" (which still holds mostly true).
The codespace where an exploit can occur is limited to only a subsection of VM's code. It is not perfect, but it offers better protection than running C code, and more flexibility than non-scripting HTML does. The same concept is used when running code as non-root even if you do have sudo access.
Even if you create a perfect system, you risk the students being able to get their hands on a pirated version of this software and will have it keep grading their homework until they get the grade they want.
Screw businesses like Gamestop, all they are is just middlemen who sap profit from big companies, which ultimately result in higher initial prices. Look at steam's model, instead of buying used games, you can simply wait for something to go on sale if you don't want it badly enough. If you really enjoy the game, get feel free to put your bucks down on DLC.
All this talk about first sale is just wishful thinking. I await the day when books become non-tradable, get DLC, and scale down in price as they become older (instead of today's model of hardbound to paperback)..
1. By forcing people to play online, we can fight piracy (especially if some game mechanics are not present on the client). 2. Online only means more players online (those that prefer offline, but will play online if they don't have a choice), which forms a bigger community. 3. Players don't have the oppurtunity of making the mistake that their offline save data doesn't work in an online, no cheating, setting. 4. DLC can be a form of "pay what you want," but at the same time drives up piracy as players realize they would have to spend a lot of money to get a full and complete version. This ties in with #1. Offline games can't really go into the free-to-play model. 5. No need to update both the offline and online version of the game. Online patches can be done server side in some cases, and those bugs can "gone forever" 6. You can later dismantle the game, and not keep players hooked on the older version they bought and you aren't making money off of any more.
In effect... 1. Get a bunch of players to play a game where they notice each other 2. Allow someone to get ahead by paying you. 3. Profit!
Having the code for the AI (which in sim city would be how the city reacts to what you do) completely off the client's computer would require reimplementing it if you wanted an offline only mode. For example, WoW one of the most popular games of all time has semi-functional private servers for the previous expansion. It lacks various feature, and the timing of NPC abilities is often off.
If by "Always a way" you mean that you can play a game in its entirety, then decide to create your own clone of it, then sure there is "Always a way".
I'm sure that as soon as selective breeding took place the result, it is no longer a natural process, but one that was influenced by humans. Unless the company simply found a species and tried to patent it this rule wouldn't apply. Still even if they did find a species, they could patent the proper way to cultivate it.
Java, not Java-script. Also it looks like Java is just the front for the payload.... The article says it uses a DLL, so you non-windows people are probably safe.
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Proof that there are an infinite number of primes:
If there were a largest prime number, p, then p! + 1 is not divisible by any number between 2 and p!. Thus p!'s prime factors are numbers greater than p!.
As for practical upper limit, that is hard to say. Technology improves all the time. If a usable quantum computer came out, it could find a lot of bit coins and greatly devalue the current value.
If only that were true. There is a huge fiasco here at Washington State University as the new finical aid system has broke leaving many students without the money they need for books/supplies/rent/tuition/food. Guess who set up this system... Oracle
http://dailyevergreen.com/read/Admins-offer-differing-explanations-for-financial-aid-issues
Well, I don't think something like this would affect speed so much as latency. Besides I don't think you can just pair up any two routers, you would have to send someone the part in anticipation of sending them data on said part.
Now if someone could figure out a way of doing broadcast where you can record information in a device and have multiple devices that all "hear" what that device hears then you could push a lot of data to a lot of people easily.
An act is violent only if there is some perception that the act is harming something that has some level of intelligence. The more intelligent your target is perceived to be, the more heinous the act is. Is Bejeweled violent? Sure, if you consider all those poor gems you keep causing to self combust. Those goombas you stomp... those are actually robots with very simple programming. For some people, they realize that despite all the realism, they are just shooting AIs, and they have to move up to PvP to be more convinced that they are dominating, getting closer and closer to that alpha male spot. Sometimes that isn't enough, as it is still not real.
I'm not sure where you live, but over here in eastern Washington I go 65 in the 55 MPH zone and I pass cars left and right. It is extremely rare to have anyone pass me. The average is more like 60.
Part of the requirement of being on Greenlight is that your game must support Windows. If you want to make it a selling point that it also supports Max OS (and linux once steam adds that) you are free to do so.
Here in the US, we are told there is constant threat of terrorism, which is used to keep people in line. So other countries simply use Hell instead, which seems to be more effective.. provided you can get people to truly believe in hell.
My point is that this is on par with what breeding projects have already produced (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7569064.stm where dogs have been bred to look cute, and as they grow older, their skull can't contain their brain).
Your examples are not what people are afraid of. I haven't heard "because its patentable" as a GMO fear before. If this was the only fear, then a simple change to the law would fix it.
Its not a big step. Scientists don't really know how genes operate, they can only guess on what they do based on what they've seen happen in other organisms. Many times the change in an organism is a small genetic mutation, which turns off a functionality or enables one that previous did not happen. Even when entire genes are inserted into an organism with GMO, the same thing can happen in nature with gene transfer.
Evolution is messy, current genetic makeups of organisms are far from ideal. I fail to understand why everyone is so scared of genetic engineering. Do you fear we are interfering with "gods works"? Are you afraid of the implications of what GMO will do to the human race, that you consider so sacred? Much of what GMO can do, so can nature. Why then limit all of GMO instead of just those parts that cannot be as easily changed by nature?
Also there are inherent problems with it being so fast. When you can create a new different plant and then have it on consumers plates in a handful of years their is far more risk than a crop strain which was developed over decades/centuries.
No. Everyone eats the same, genetically identical plant, one one of the millions of farmers finds a mutation that seems interesting they might decide to put that on the market. Maybe they don't realize its a mutation (or does anyone else) since all it did was increase crop yield. Most times with GMO, a single nuclitide base pair is altered, exactly what you would expect with evolution. At least with GMO, the change is more officially reported and it doesn't simply "sneak" into the consumer food supply.
GMO just does what human controlled breeding would take longer to accomplish. Yes, there are dangers, but the vast majority of it is no more dangerous than you would expect from a new version of a cell phone. Crop growers that produce non-GMO foods will often use interesting pesticides, interesting soil, chill fruits to ensure they come to the consumer more fresh, and use grafting on trees so that the combination of 2 trees produces better yield. We are far past natural foods, pretty much every variety of an apple you buy in the store is genetically identical to all the others, they just use clonal propagation to ensure the optimal fruit tree keeps producing optimal fruit. They have stopped evolution, which is making these plants more vulnerable to diseases and pests.
Before you go off on why GMO is bad, make sure you understand what is already being done in today's world.
BTW, this has nothing to do with animal testing.
Is a time machine. If people could go back and look at the past (and not just the distant past, but anytime between 20 minutes ago to millions of years ago), then disbelieving in evolution would be as silly as believing that the earth is flat (and too a lesser extent the moon landing) today. You have to see it too believe it, and it has to
That being said, I still know people who think that sperm come from the back side between the hip and the ribs (as is written in the Koran).
Stuck with Time Warner here
[rage]
I don't have internet at home for 4 days now due to some service tech accidently disconnecting me along with the person who stopped their service. When I called them up, they scheduled me an appointment in 6 days to have this resolved (well the first 2 times they said they would get someone over there asap). After enough calls I did managed to get moved up a couple of days due to a cancellation. Their excuse: they were subcontracting their techs.
[/rage]
If the patent is secret (and not juts by the USPTO), then anyone who ends up "infringing" on said patent during its approval process has just shown that the patent is obvious, or at least not too complex.
I would see it as being fine if the patent office ruled that, yes you can have secret patents, but you wouldn't be able to enforce it if someone else invented something similar before it became public. In this case an inventor could simply request that the patent that is current in review and secret be revealed (while still in review) when they plan on releasing the product, so that their competitors cannot reverse engineer it before the patent becomes valid.
Same here. Washington State University was able to negotiate getting an equal share of all tv revenue regardless if they make it to the finals or not (otherwise the best team gets money to keep getting better). That money is being to hire an expensive football coach and do major construction on the stadium to add premium box seats (which they also convinced the student government to raise fees to help pay for).
On article topic, our CS department is having minor cut backs, but is doing "fine" as a long while back when CS was getting going it was merged with Electrical Engineering to prevent it from closing. Although I have a CS degree, I'm working for the Horticulture department, which isn't in any danger of getting cut.
Your code may only depend on free libraries.
From the rules:
Platform: Your code must be able to be compiled and run on a 100% free-as-in-freedom platform. It may not make use of any proprietary libraries or VMs. Just to be clear, we cannot accept games that require any of the following: Flash, Silverlight, XNA, Unity, Windows, MacOS (or OSX), iOS, the official Oracle JVM, or similar. It is perfectly acceptable if your game runs on any of these platforms, but it must also work on an open platform (we strongly recommend making sure that your program run on modern flavors of GNU/Linux, as all of the judges will have access to it).
Fortunately for me, my code typically doesn't depend on the "official Oracle JVM" (Please no snarky comments about how Java is old/bad/ect... its what I use and I like it).
Three issues with this:
1. Java uses some of windows assets when doing the windows Look and feel. This can cause legal problems if they allowed the windows look on other platforms.
2. There is a Windows XP and a Windows 6/7 look and feel.
3. Showing someone a Windows look on a non-windows platform may cause more resentment than one that looks a bit of of place.
No. Matching the host OS look is less important than components being out of place since they weren't fully tested on that particular host OS. If you want to take the time to ensure that despite the sizing differences of components it still looks good on other OSs then you can include the 1 line of code to set the look to be native. If you want to slap something together quickly, then it is better that it look the same on all platforms which brings it closer to the goal of "write once run anywhere" (which still holds mostly true).
The codespace where an exploit can occur is limited to only a subsection of VM's code. It is not perfect, but it offers better protection than running C code, and more flexibility than non-scripting HTML does. The same concept is used when running code as non-root even if you do have sudo access.
Even if you create a perfect system, you risk the students being able to get their hands on a pirated version of this software and will have it keep grading their homework until they get the grade they want.
You know what...
Screw businesses like Gamestop, all they are is just middlemen who sap profit from big companies, which ultimately result in higher initial prices. Look at steam's model, instead of buying used games, you can simply wait for something to go on sale if you don't want it badly enough. If you really enjoy the game, get feel free to put your bucks down on DLC.
All this talk about first sale is just wishful thinking. I await the day when books become non-tradable, get DLC, and scale down in price as they become older (instead of today's model of hardbound to paperback)..
1. By forcing people to play online, we can fight piracy (especially if some game mechanics are not present on the client).
2. Online only means more players online (those that prefer offline, but will play online if they don't have a choice), which forms a bigger community.
3. Players don't have the oppurtunity of making the mistake that their offline save data doesn't work in an online, no cheating, setting.
4. DLC can be a form of "pay what you want," but at the same time drives up piracy as players realize they would have to spend a lot of money to get a full and complete version. This ties in with #1. Offline games can't really go into the free-to-play model.
5. No need to update both the offline and online version of the game. Online patches can be done server side in some cases, and those bugs can "gone forever"
6. You can later dismantle the game, and not keep players hooked on the older version they bought and you aren't making money off of any more.
In effect...
1. Get a bunch of players to play a game where they notice each other
2. Allow someone to get ahead by paying you.
3. Profit!
Having the code for the AI (which in sim city would be how the city reacts to what you do) completely off the client's computer would require reimplementing it if you wanted an offline only mode. For example, WoW one of the most popular games of all time has semi-functional private servers for the previous expansion. It lacks various feature, and the timing of NPC abilities is often off.
If by "Always a way" you mean that you can play a game in its entirety, then decide to create your own clone of it, then sure there is "Always a way".
I'm sure that as soon as selective breeding took place the result, it is no longer a natural process, but one that was influenced by humans. Unless the company simply found a species and tried to patent it this rule wouldn't apply. Still even if they did find a species, they could patent the proper way to cultivate it.
Java, not Java-script. Also it looks like Java is just the front for the payload.... The article says it uses a DLL, so you non-windows people are probably safe.