What happens when an AI figures out the optimal strategy is to simply kill its opponent, thus guaranteeing a "win"? Let's be careful how you specify those goal conditions, guys!
It's not that the penalty for spamming is harsher than the penalty for other crimes, it is that the penalty is per offense try committing 160,000 acts of assualt or murder, and then see what the maximum penalty is... would you beleive 160,000 consecutive life sentences? How 'bout 480,000 years?
And if you happen to be male they also check your name against their database to see if you have been banned from the bar or caused problems on an earlier occasion.
That's discrimination! I used to date a women who had been banned from many bars!
Yes, but B.C. is different from the rest of Canada, sort of like California is different from the rest of the United States. Oh, and there's a Vancouver in the state of Washington in the US too, so to avoid confusion you should always refer to them as "Vancouver B.C." or "Vancouver, Wash"...
... street beggars have announced that the "innovation" of pointing loaded guns at the people they are asking for money greatly increases their profits. "Well, we the panhandling industry can't just remain static. They should be thanking us for innovating new sources of revenue" said one street bum as he was being arrested...
Great! I think I'll have a disclaimer printed in small print on the back of my undershorts... that should protect me from paternity lawsuits! Let's see now "... you grant permission by putting the [product] in..."
Many of the tenets of eXtreme Programming (e.g. refactoring, incremental development) are things that good programmers do anyway. The only thing I really disagree with is pair programming, because so much good software has been written without it (e.g. GNU/Linux). I beleive most of the suggestions of XP will be around long after the buzzword is long forgotten.
Really? How many of the portable MP3 players, car MP3 players, and DVD/CD/MP3 home audio players that I already own will it play back on? None? That's what I thought! When Sony includes FLAC support as standard on it's car MP3 players, then, and only then, will I even consider it. MP3: it's a crappy standard, but it's a standard!
I agree, I was trying to say that most of the stuff out there on P2P is of such low quality, nobody would be able to tell if it had been put through a d-a-d conversion. Which means it's fine for checking out a band or song you've never heard, but I wouldn't want to listen to it over and over again. My interest is that a Creative Labs Nomad Zen jukebox is a lot easier to carry around then 1000+ CDs, and an MP3 CD will play for about 8 hours insted of the 74/80 minute max on an audio CD. So MP3s are much more convenient to me, but for some reason the record companies don't want to sell me music in that form, forcing me to spend hundreds of hours doing the conversion myself.
I go to the IT person, I make requests, he ignores them... no problem! At the previous job, the strategy was IT people lock themselves in a room with a sign on the door that says "do not knock under any circumstances." If you wanted anything fixed, you had to have the balls to go knock on the door. There's plenty of web-based software for tracking requests, but I've never seen any that was any good, because there is no one-size-fits-all solution. You may be better off rolling your own to match your own work processes.
Unless they make it so that nobody can listen to it, copy protection is an exersise in futility. Well, that explains the latest Britney Spears CD -- it's the most effective copy protection scheme possible! Nice to look at, but I can't stand to listen to it...
So, if I manage to sneak a virus onto a commercial audio CD that erases the contents of the hard drive whenever autorun, then I'm not liable, instead it's YOUR fault for being stupid enough to insert the CD in your computer? Aren't we setting sort of a dangerous precedent here?
If the sucess of Lara Croft is any indication, most geeks don't want to see themselves in their video games. Isn't that what fantasy and role playing is all about? If I wanted something more realistic, I'd go take a walk out there in the big blue room.
If the record companies can force you to lost quality through a digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion process, then they feel like they won. Since I'm a snob currently in the process of converting all my CDs to MP3 using VBR at 100% quality, most of the stuff on P2P is useless to me. And by the way, I really DO need to back up my CDs, as my wife has a habit of just throwing them anywhere without bothering to put them back in the case, and my baby has a habit of playing with and CDs, DVDs, or tapes she can get her hands on (and she very creative in coming up with new "slots" to insert CDs into, including the fireplace and the gap under the tv).
Apparently, they are trying to force me to throw out all my MP3 players and buy new ones that support WMA?!? (Presumably because the DRM is better for WMA.) And this is how they're protecting my "fair use" rights to space-shift the music I've bought and paid for?
Show of hands: How many of you were so pissed off by this that your first thought was "I'm going to immediately RIP this CD and share it with the world!" Could it be possible that BMG's strategy may backfire, and make the tracks even more widely available?
Uh, 'cause the SCO corporate officers are too busy short selling SCO stock? Why should just the SCO officers reap a financial bonanza out of this moral fiasoc?
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Ok, you got me... yes, I've read "Octagon", and my comment was not an original idea!
What happens when an AI figures out the optimal strategy is to simply kill its opponent, thus guaranteeing a "win"? Let's be careful how you specify those goal conditions, guys!
Commit 6,100,000,000 murders, and you'll have a hard time finding someone to talk to on a Saturday night...
I should have said "480,000 years for 160,000 counts of assault." Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Thank you, Darl, for explaining that to us...
Well, at least they're not threatening to charge a $699 license fee to every user of IE...
It's not that the penalty for spamming is harsher than the penalty for other crimes, it is that the penalty is per offense try committing 160,000 acts of assualt or murder, and then see what the maximum penalty is... would you beleive 160,000 consecutive life sentences? How 'bout 480,000 years?
That's discrimination! I used to date a women who had been banned from many bars!
Yes, but B.C. is different from the rest of Canada, sort of like California is different from the rest of the United States. Oh, and there's a Vancouver in the state of Washington in the US too, so to avoid confusion you should always refer to them as "Vancouver B.C." or "Vancouver, Wash"...
... street beggars have announced that the "innovation" of pointing loaded guns at the people they are asking for money greatly increases their profits. "Well, we the panhandling industry can't just remain static. They should be thanking us for innovating new sources of revenue" said one street bum as he was being arrested...
Great! I think I'll have a disclaimer printed in small print on the back of my undershorts... that should protect me from paternity lawsuits! Let's see now "... you grant permission by putting the [product] in..."
Well, that sentance pretty much sums up what wrong with the computer industry, doesn't it?
Many of the tenets of eXtreme Programming (e.g. refactoring, incremental development) are things that good programmers do anyway. The only thing I really disagree with is pair programming, because so much good software has been written without it (e.g. GNU/Linux). I beleive most of the suggestions of XP will be around long after the buzzword is long forgotten.
Really? How many of the portable MP3 players, car MP3 players, and DVD/CD/MP3 home audio players that I already own will it play back on? None? That's what I thought! When Sony includes FLAC support as standard on it's car MP3 players, then, and only then, will I even consider it. MP3: it's a crappy standard, but it's a standard!
With the RIAA out there, I certainly hope you don't use the same user name (SoSueMe) on Kazaalite!
I agree, I was trying to say that most of the stuff out there on P2P is of such low quality, nobody would be able to tell if it had been put through a d-a-d conversion. Which means it's fine for checking out a band or song you've never heard, but I wouldn't want to listen to it over and over again. My interest is that a Creative Labs Nomad Zen jukebox is a lot easier to carry around then 1000+ CDs, and an MP3 CD will play for about 8 hours insted of the 74/80 minute max on an audio CD. So MP3s are much more convenient to me, but for some reason the record companies don't want to sell me music in that form, forcing me to spend hundreds of hours doing the conversion myself.
I go to the IT person, I make requests, he ignores them... no problem! At the previous job, the strategy was IT people lock themselves in a room with a sign on the door that says "do not knock under any circumstances." If you wanted anything fixed, you had to have the balls to go knock on the door.
There's plenty of web-based software for tracking requests, but I've never seen any that was any good, because there is no one-size-fits-all solution. You may be better off rolling your own to match your own work processes.
Unless they make it so that nobody can listen to it, copy protection is an exersise in futility.
Well, that explains the latest Britney Spears CD -- it's the most effective copy protection scheme possible! Nice to look at, but I can't stand to listen to it...
So, if I manage to sneak a virus onto a commercial audio CD that erases the contents of the hard drive whenever autorun, then I'm not liable, instead it's YOUR fault for being stupid enough to insert the CD in your computer? Aren't we setting sort of a dangerous precedent here?
If the sucess of Lara Croft is any indication, most geeks don't want to see themselves in their video games. Isn't that what fantasy and role playing is all about? If I wanted something more realistic, I'd go take a walk out there in the big blue room.
If the record companies can force you to lost quality through a digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion process, then they feel like they won. Since I'm a snob currently in the process of converting all my CDs to MP3 using VBR at 100% quality, most of the stuff on P2P is useless to me. And by the way, I really DO need to back up my CDs, as my wife has a habit of just throwing them anywhere without bothering to put them back in the case, and my baby has a habit of playing with and CDs, DVDs, or tapes she can get her hands on (and she very creative in coming up with new "slots" to insert CDs into, including the fireplace and the gap under the tv).
Show of hands: How many of you were so pissed off by this that your first thought was "I'm going to immediately RIP this CD and share it with the world!" Could it be possible that BMG's strategy may backfire, and make the tracks even more widely available?
Doesn't installing a driver on my system without my permission constitute "hacking", thus making BMC terrorists under the Patriot Act?
Uh, 'cause the SCO corporate officers are too busy short selling SCO stock? Why should just the SCO officers reap a financial bonanza out of this moral fiasoc?
"Sleazy Corporate Officers", although at one time it stood for "Santa Cruz Operation".