How would you feel about drug dealers when your child gets addicted to hard drugs because of them ? And eventually your child gets in more trouble and ends up dead ? Are you going to be so forgiving to the drugdealers then ?
I don't care if you grow your own pot , and smoke some every now and then , and i think the police doesn't care that much it either. But if you make money from selling drugs to minors , then you belong in jail , and if were Blizzard , i would do the same thing and help the police in any way i can.
Because people have different viewpoints , everyone is a majority and minority at the same time : for some things , you will have the same opinion as the majority , for others , you won't , and so you will be part of a minority in that case. A delay is indeed useful in letting people determine there viewpoints , and this thus shapes the majority and minorities .
In a sense you could say that this delay is needed , so a real majority can form , rather than a minority controlling the majority ( for instance , in the case of a tragic event , they can use the emotions of the people , to get them to decide on things they normally never would ( like some measures against terrorism ) .
They were trying to keep something a secret, and then someone sworn to keep that secret, leaked it. That is absolutely a cause for concern.
Personally , these things don't seem like big secrets , it's more like a general emergency plan : ' what to do in case of a possible terrorist attack' .
In my country , the newspapers themselves released this information , so why can't bloggers ?
The alternative is tyranny of a minority , which means some people decide the faith of all other people .
democracy is usually quite balanced , because people have different ideas and views on things , and so you will probably end up with solutions that are good for everyone .
The main problem is that many times, nothing can be decided because they can't come to an agreement.
So let me ask you this then: what makes you think that race is the same as genetics, or that you can even reliably a race? I mean, outside of some outdated and non-scientific notions of physiognomy and phrenology?
It's simple evolution based on enviromental conditions : Everyone simply evolved so they can best survive in there current environment.
Like the difference between a polar bear and a black bear . It's basically the same bear , that has evolved to suit it's environment better.
Well , i started with QBasic when i must have been about 10-11 years old. Which was a pain at the time , because you could program , but not build your programs ( the compiler i had didn't have the option to create exe's . later ones did ) .
Then i moved on to Visual Basic 4 , than Visual Basic 6 , and eventually Visual Basic.NET ( much later ) I think i most have been 14-15 years old when i started playing around with C++ . I also looked into Java but only really started programming in it when i was studying informatics .
In hindsight , it would have been better had i started with C++ and then moved on the Java. The Basic language seems so useless to me now . Then again it was easy to create some fun graphical effects with it ( putting dots and lines in various colors on the screen , etc... ) . But you can probably do that in C++ was well .
So i would go for C++ , though i remember the syntax ( the for in particular ) being frightfull at first . It's good for learning the basics though. Then move onto Java or C# later.
Every life is important. Just because it's not possible to prevent deaths everywhere , doesn't mean you should be ok with unnecessary slaughter of innocent people.
Their loved ones still lost them and that still causes them pain , not matter whether they got 'replaced' or not .
By your logic , you would be ok with having your entire family killed , as they will be replaced inside an hour ?
What's so wrong about improving your character , just because you want to be a better person ? The important thing is to want it yourself , and not be told by someone else ( people don't change because other people want them too , they change because they want too ) .
I have also learned this the hard way : if you buy something when it's just released,it will cost way too much , for a product full of bugs. If you wait a few months , most bugs will be fixed , and the price will be lower as well.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Seneca
For that reason , you will never be able to remove it's "protections" . The rulers won't allow it , as that would destroy there must powerful tool for supressing the people.
I don't consider myself an atheist though. I do believe in some things , but i don't need a church for that . I need merely to close my eyes on a sunny day and listen to the birds sing.
"Only requisite health levels are allowed to compete in a certain competition level"
Something tells me the average hard core gamer doesn't have the required health level.
So basically they are telling potential customers ( gamers ) , to do less of what they like ( to play games ) , to do more of what they dislike ( work out , etc ) .
If gamers would actually follow this , the end result is that they will play less games ( since they need time to stay in shape ) . So that means , less need to buy new games -> less sales -> less profit for the game companies .
Personally , i don't think it's google's job to remove the page. It's easy enough to find to owner of the site , and ask them to remove the content.
If the owner refuses , you can still decide to take legal action , and then it can be sorted out in court , like it should. The effect is that now , a third party can decide it anyway , and gets pressured to remove the content.
Which is pointless , because people find ways around it : they only have to apply changes in such way that google show them anyway ( change the domain , the keywords , etc...) .
For me , it doesn't really matter of there is music or not , but what i hate is music that you can just barely hear. Then i'm automatically focussing on the music , because i want to hear it.
Luckily , all i have to do is ask my collegue to put the music louder , or turn it off ( or do it myself is he's not around ). I don't really like earphones either , because then it's difficult to get someone's attention ( as they won't hear you ) .
If you use more water, or more electricity, you're consuming finite resources that wouldn't be used otherwise. The same isn't true of bandwidth--the ISP is paying for a certain amount on their outgoing connections, regardless of whether or not uses are actively using it.
That's not the issue : what AT&T wants would be like : paying more per liter because you are using water to fill your bathtub , rather than taking a shower. Which means you will pay twice , because you are already paying more , because you use more water , and you know you will pay even more , because it will cost more.
But it's ideal for the water company , because he gains a lot of money , while at the same time keeping usage down , so he doesn't have to upgrade anything.
With BOINC , you can easily set the amount of system resources that will be used , so you don't have to use 100% is the systems resources.
The point is , it's the schools money , and so it's their choice what they do with it .
Personally , i think this is a great opportunity for schools :
- the distributed computing project benefits from it , so they might make mention of the school on there sites . - it has some educational value : students will be interested in it , it can be discussed at classes , etc...
Well , the being free part i guess. Which is correct : it's not because it was free that it was a problem , but that it was completely integrated , giving it a near monopoly position in the browser market.
And in the case of IE , it's so much part of the OS , that you don't get it for free, you pay for it in the price ( the developers of IE don't work for free , they are payed with the money Microsoft gets from the sales ).
I know, the commas in my sentences make no sense at all. I just type them automatically, without thinking about it. It's a bad habit which is hard to lose.
I agree , it's an extremely powerful language , but you have to know how to use it.
For example , the fact that you can create objects and alter their structure at runtime , is very powerful , but it can also lead to a major disaster if you are not careful.
That brings up another point : if you make the muscle exactly similar to how a cow works ( with nervous system , etc... ) , then how is it different from a living creature ? Where is the line between 'a flexing chunck of meat' and a living creature ?
Boinc is build on voluntary use , meaning a group of people who voluntarily join , making their tiny cpu cycles contribute to a greater goal. This malware would force someone to join , which is a bit like forcing someone to do charity work : it's commendable , but only if you really want to do it , otherwise it's abuse .
If you had boinc mysteriously appear on your pc , i'm sure you will remove it , and many who would have met boinc in better circumstances , would now never install it anymore.
You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
That's the difference between the real facts , and what is generally perceived as a fact. Everyone is entitled to believe something as a fact , but that doesn't make it true.
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Try to see it from another point of view.
How would you feel about drug dealers when your child gets addicted to hard drugs because of them ? And eventually your child gets in more trouble and ends up dead ? Are you going to be so forgiving to the drugdealers then ?
I don't care if you grow your own pot , and smoke some every now and then , and i think the police doesn't care that much it either.
But if you make money from selling drugs to minors , then you belong in jail , and if were Blizzard , i would do the same thing and help the police in any way i can.
Because people have different viewpoints , everyone is a majority and minority at the same time : for some things , you will have the same opinion as the majority , for others , you won't , and so you will be part of a minority in that case.
A delay is indeed useful in letting people determine there viewpoints , and this thus shapes the majority and minorities .
In a sense you could say that this delay is needed , so a real majority can form , rather than a minority controlling the majority ( for instance , in the case of a tragic event , they can use the emotions of the people , to get them to decide on things they normally never would ( like some measures against terrorism ) .
You are missing the point.
They were trying to keep something a secret, and then someone sworn to keep that secret, leaked it. That is absolutely a cause for concern.
Personally , these things don't seem like big secrets , it's more like a general emergency plan : ' what to do in case of a possible terrorist attack' .
In my country , the newspapers themselves released this information , so why can't bloggers ?
it's called democracy.
The alternative is tyranny of a minority , which means some people decide the faith of all other people .
democracy is usually quite balanced , because people have different ideas and views on things , and so you will probably end up with solutions that are good for everyone .
The main problem is that many times, nothing can be decided because they can't come to an agreement.
So let me ask you this then: what makes you think that race is the same as genetics, or that you can even reliably a race? I mean, outside of some outdated and non-scientific notions of physiognomy and phrenology?
It's simple evolution based on enviromental conditions :
Everyone simply evolved so they can best survive in there current environment.
Like the difference between a polar bear and a black bear . It's basically the same bear , that has evolved to suit it's environment better.
Well , i started with QBasic when i must have been about 10-11 years old.
Which was a pain at the time , because you could program , but not build your programs ( the compiler i had didn't have the option to create exe's . later ones did ) .
Then i moved on to Visual Basic 4 , than Visual Basic 6 , and eventually Visual Basic.NET ( much later )
I think i most have been 14-15 years old when i started playing around with C++ . I also looked into Java but only really started programming in it when i was studying informatics .
In hindsight , it would have been better had i started with C++ and then moved on the Java. The Basic language seems so useless to me now . Then again it was easy to create some fun graphical effects with it ( putting dots and lines in various colors on the screen , etc ... ) . But you can probably do that in C++ was well .
So i would go for C++ , though i remember the syntax ( the for in particular ) being frightfull at first . It's good for learning the basics though.
Then move onto Java or C# later.
ah well , about time they started with skynet. The world is supposed to be in ashes by 2018 , so they better hurry.
Every life is important. Just because it's not possible to prevent deaths everywhere , doesn't mean you should be ok with unnecessary slaughter of innocent people.
Their loved ones still lost them and that still causes them pain , not matter whether they got 'replaced' or not .
By your logic , you would be ok with having your entire family killed , as they will be replaced inside an hour ?
People are more than statistics.
What's so wrong about improving your character , just because you want to be a better person ?
The important thing is to want it yourself , and not be told by someone else ( people don't change because other people want them too , they change because they want too ) .
I have also learned this the hard way : if you buy something when it's just released ,it will cost way too much , for a product full of bugs.
If you wait a few months , most bugs will be fixed , and the price will be lower as well.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Seneca
For that reason , you will never be able to remove it's "protections" . The rulers won't allow it , as that would destroy there must powerful tool for supressing the people.
I don't consider myself an atheist though. I do believe in some things , but i don't need a church for that . I need merely to close my eyes on a sunny day and listen to the birds sing.
I'm sorry , i couldn't parse your text :
Error : A CDATA section was not closed.
"Only requisite health levels are allowed to compete in a certain competition level"
Something tells me the average hard core gamer doesn't have the required health level.
So basically they are telling potential customers ( gamers ) , to do less of what they like ( to play games ) , to do more of what they dislike ( work out , etc ) .
If gamers would actually follow this , the end result is that they will play less games ( since they need time to stay in shape ) . So that means , less need to buy new games -> less sales -> less profit for the game companies .
Personally , i don't think it's google's job to remove the page.
It's easy enough to find to owner of the site , and ask them to remove the content.
If the owner refuses , you can still decide to take legal action , and then it can be sorted out in court , like it should.
The effect is that now , a third party can decide it anyway , and gets pressured to remove the content.
Which is pointless , because people find ways around it : they only have to apply changes in such way that google show them anyway ( change the domain , the keywords , etc ...) .
Hey , it seems we have a lot in common ( i share all your points ).
What's your opinion on death sentencing ? Personally , i'm against it .
For me , it doesn't really matter of there is music or not , but what i hate is music that you can just barely hear.
Then i'm automatically focussing on the music , because i want to hear it.
Luckily , all i have to do is ask my collegue to put the music louder , or turn it off ( or do it myself is he's not around ).
I don't really like earphones either , because then it's difficult to get someone's attention ( as they won't hear you ) .
If you use more water, or more electricity, you're consuming finite resources that wouldn't be used otherwise. The same isn't true of bandwidth--the ISP is paying for a certain amount on their outgoing connections, regardless of whether or not uses are actively using it.
That's not the issue : what AT&T wants would be like : paying more per liter because you are using water to fill your bathtub , rather than taking a shower.
Which means you will pay twice , because you are already paying more , because you use more water , and you know you will pay even more , because it will cost more.
But it's ideal for the water company , because he gains a lot of money , while at the same time keeping usage down , so he doesn't have to upgrade anything.
With BOINC , you can easily set the amount of system resources that will be used , so you don't have to use 100% is the systems resources.
The point is , it's the schools money , and so it's their choice what they do with it .
Personally , i think this is a great opportunity for schools :
- the distributed computing project benefits from it , so they might make mention of the school on there sites . ...
- it has some educational value : students will be interested in it , it can be discussed at classes , etc
But in the end , it's their call.
Well , the being free part i guess.
Which is correct : it's not because it was free that it was a problem , but that it was completely integrated , giving it a near monopoly position in the browser market.
And in the case of IE , it's so much part of the OS , that you don't get it for free, you pay for it in the price ( the developers of IE don't work for free , they are payed with the money Microsoft gets from the sales ).
Thanks !
I know, the commas in my sentences make no sense at all.
I just type them automatically, without thinking about it. It's a bad habit which is hard to lose.
Anyway, thanks for reminding me.
I agree , it's an extremely powerful language , but you have to know how to use it.
For example , the fact that you can create objects and alter their structure at runtime , is very powerful , but it can also lead to a major disaster if you are not careful.
That brings up another point : if you make the muscle exactly similar to how a cow works ( with nervous system , etc ... ) , then how is it different from a living creature ?
Where is the line between 'a flexing chunck of meat' and a living creature ?
It could do more damage :
Boinc is build on voluntary use , meaning a group of people who voluntarily join , making their tiny cpu cycles contribute to a greater goal.
This malware would force someone to join , which is a bit like forcing someone to do charity work : it's commendable , but only if you really want to do it , otherwise it's abuse .
If you had boinc mysteriously appear on your pc , i'm sure you will remove it , and many who would have met boinc in better circumstances , would now never install it anymore.
You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
That's the difference between the real facts , and what is generally perceived as a fact.
Everyone is entitled to believe something as a fact , but that doesn't make it true.