If its tied, it would be tied for 2nd place.... as the first three in the list are then tied for 1st place....
Um no.
1st: EVE Online Rating: 8.3 1st: Guild Wars Rating: 8.3 1st: EverQuest II Rating: 8.3
4th: Dark Age of Camelot Rating: 8.2 4th: Ryzom Rating: 8.2
When one or more places are tied, the following position starts counting from where it would have been (ie. you don't just ignore you've had 3 people in front of you).
Just because you are the first to invent something, doesn't mean society would have been deprived of your invention were it not for you. It just means you got there first (thanks to better resources available to you). It's like a winner of a race claiming that if it wasn't for him, nobody else would have crossed the finish line.
If the purpose really is to reward valuable invention (vs. obvious extension) then a simple answer is this:
In the event of someone re-inventing something which has been previously awarded a patent, with no evidence of copying, there should be two options available to the patent holder.
Add this new inventor to the patent & allow them equal share of licensing fees for it's remaining lifespan.
It used to be that children would naturally respect a police officer and the local constable would stop and say hello to them in the park while walking his beat, yet today the police feel the need to cover their backsides with all kinds of video footage. Why have the police lost the implicit moral authority they used to have? Why is antisocial behaviour one of the biggest dirty marks on today's society? What happened to policing by consent?
Anonymity. In the good old days (mostly imaginary) people knew who everyone else was. People had met the police officers before as they cycled past doing whatever it was they did back then. They knew you because they knew your mum and saw you growing up. They knew the local trouble makers, as did everyone else. Collectively troublemakers were kept in place because nobody tolerated it.
Now nobody trusts their police & knows little of them other than what they see in the media (which is largely non-flattering). Why should people trust someone they don't know to be "doing the right thing"(tm)? This doesn't just apply to police officers. Nobody knows whether that guy kicking off on the bus is just a local idiot, or likely to stab them in the face. Even though the "good" people outnumber the crazy 50:1, individually we don't know that. We don't want to be the one to move first & find ourselves without backup.
An example: I was walking through the city centre a while back & there was a large crowd of people. In the middle a police officer was attempted to arrest a woman & handcuff her. She was screaming and kicking at him to get away. Did anyone help? No. They stood and watched.
Another recent post has shown that when faced with the opposite situation, the exact same thing happened. Nobody moved. This is not about respect for police or lack of it, it is about people not being able to decide on the correct action. It's about lack of information to make an informed choice.
Yes, it would be great if the police were implicitly trusted, but nobody works like that. We trust what we know.
Incidentally, I helped the policeman with the arrest. He seemed calmer.
How can you "upconvert" 2D images to 3D when there is no 3D information to work with, hm?
A 2d scene in which the viewer is moving has 3D information available through parallax. By judging the difference in movement between objects it would be possible to get a rough idea what is in the foreground & what is in the background. Perhaps enough to do useful encoding?
Bicarbonate ions are crucial for regulating blood pH. As breathing rate influences the level of CO2 in blood, too slow or shallow breathing causes respiratory acidosis, while too rapid breathing, hyperventilation, leads to respiratory alkalosis.
It is interesting to note that although it is oxygen that the body requires for metabolism, it is not low oxygen levels that stimulate breathing, but is instead higher carbon dioxide levels. As a result, breathing low-pressure air or a gas mixture with no oxygen at all (e.g., pure nitrogen) leads to loss of consciousness without subjective breathing problems. This is especially perilous for high-altitude fighter pilots, and is also the reason why the instructions in commercial airplanes for case of loss of cabin pressure stress that one should apply the oxygen mask to oneself before helping others--otherwise one risks going unconscious without being aware of the imminent peril.
If you're going to kill through suffocation, there are few more cruel ways than using CO2.
While this may have been a fairly gentle attempt at testing the GPL under antitrust, I doubt the GPL would be in much danger regardless of who it faced. There are enough people with investment (monetary, ideological or otherwise) in the survival of the GPL to stump up the cash should it depend on it. If we all gave a fiver...
There was something called WorldsAway. A 2d multi-user graphical chat world, heavily promoted by CompuServe at the time. I don't remember it being very good, but still going and is now called VZones. Intro demo is worth a laugh.
Google Analytics allows you to look at browser versions in use on individual days. It wouldn't be too much work to run off a report & do some quick analysis on the peaks.
Which site this data is based on is a question though (i.e. does it reflect browsing habits of Firefox users rather than corporate use) as is the time of day the stats were taken. A 1pm vs. 7pm weekday peak would mean the difference between Firefox making it into homes of the office.
In other words, if you walk into a random Renault dealer in Paris.
If you were wandering around Paris why would you want a RHD car?
Importing computer games from abroad (getting back to the OP) is not as easy as walking into your local GAME store. Yes, you have to go "out of your way" to do this. The question in both cases is whether the extra cost in inconvenience is less than the saving in cash.
Alliance are One of the UKs longest established Car Importers Alliance have delivered over 12,000 vehicles SAVING our clients over £40 Million in the last 9 years by Supplying Right Hand Drive & Left Hand Drive vehicles from Europe & were one of the first to go online in 1997. We Have over 100 vehicles in stock, or have your vehicle built to factory order.
You did look at those links I included in my last post, right?
Um, check your facts. Europeans are quite capable of manufacturing cars to drive on either side of the road. A large proportion of cars sold in the UK are manufactured abroad, imported, then marked up. The advantage of buying direct from Europe is avoiding these extra (inflated) profit margins.
This is nothing new. It's what happens when you have two neighbouring areas with different market prices (due to cost of living, salaries, etc. etc.)
In 'The Good Old Days'(tm) this wasn't a problem. Goods, services and the workforce were not mobile - companies could charge according to the local market and achieve the maximum profit for that region. The workforce itself is kept in place because staying put is comparitively cost effective to moving (in both financial and personal sense).
Not anymore. Cars can be bought in Europe and imported over to the UK, Japanese games can be imported to the US. While labour is still relatively static (I aint moving anytime soon) goods are comparitively free to move around and they happily do. They will continue to do so - even with customs intervention (look at drugs).
Higher prices in affluent areas will come under pressure from cheap imports *until* wages in the other areas rise to create an equivalent cost. Companies should stop trying to fiddle with things and just let people buy where they can & want. Unless they're gloriously underselling in one region (more fool them) the effort required to prevent is probably not cost effective.
Who's betting Nintendo offer help with importing. They're doing everything else right...
One of the problems with big government (civil service) organisations is that they are not answerwable directly to the public. While you can argue that elections don't make governments any smarter, it can stop them being exceptionally stupid.
Even if the current government is voted out & legislation is amended, you will still be left with the same power-hungry individuals at the sharp end. While governments may control & curtail their agent's powers, the power required to make them effective can always be abused.
I dare say there is no legislation against having "vaguely offensive descriptions of a TSA leader" on your t-shirt (I may be wrong). An agent willing to bend existing rules to arrest this individual now can still do so after the next election.
Power is only used responsibly under threat of having it taken away.
There is a possible benefit in seperating main from mobile content, mostly for reasons of size/bandwidth which cannot be achieved with CSS.
Having said that, I would say a standard subdomain would be a more sensible way - and lower cost - way to achieve this. Multiple TLDs just confuse users: "Is it ubuntu.org or ubuntu.com..." hence the reason most companies just buy them all up.
The cost of switching would apply both in both directions of an OS migration. What Linux has in it's favour is that it's support for Microsoft closed formats (e.g. via Openoffice) is far better than the reverse. Once documents are in open formats it's hard to make a case to back out.
I do wonder whether we'll start to see Microsoft supporting these Open Standards as a way to ease the migration path back - supported of course by heavy subsidies on licensing.
Some people just don't want to change - and they are the vast majority of people... These are also the same people who complain the second something doesn't work on linux and yet put up with endless crashes with windows (because windows never causes problems).
In my experience people who aren't comfortable with computers learn, in effect, by rote. "When this box comes up, click here. If the screen goes blue, turn off computer". As technically-minded people it's important to realise that this knowledge doesn't travel well at all. We may feel comfortable hopping between IE & Firefox, but for some that's the difference between feeling like a novice, or an idiot.
As the OP said, a lot depends on having the patience to take the first few steps with the user.
I'm amazed that you have a 25% rate. Maybe you should be posting to use about how you have such a good level?
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Um no.
1st: EVE Online Rating: 8.3
1st: Guild Wars Rating: 8.3
1st: EverQuest II Rating: 8.3
4th: Dark Age of Camelot Rating: 8.2
4th: Ryzom Rating: 8.2
When one or more places are tied, the following position starts counting from where it would have been (ie. you don't just ignore you've had 3 people in front of you).
Anonymity. In the good old days (mostly imaginary) people knew who everyone else was. People had met the police officers before as they cycled past doing whatever it was they did back then. They knew you because they knew your mum and saw you growing up. They knew the local trouble makers, as did everyone else. Collectively troublemakers were kept in place because nobody tolerated it.
Now nobody trusts their police & knows little of them other than what they see in the media (which is largely non-flattering). Why should people trust someone they don't know to be "doing the right thing"(tm)? This doesn't just apply to police officers. Nobody knows whether that guy kicking off on the bus is just a local idiot, or likely to stab them in the face. Even though the "good" people outnumber the crazy 50:1, individually we don't know that. We don't want to be the one to move first & find ourselves without backup.
An example: I was walking through the city centre a while back & there was a large crowd of people. In the middle a police officer was attempted to arrest a woman & handcuff her. She was screaming and kicking at him to get away. Did anyone help? No. They stood and watched.
Another recent post has shown that when faced with the opposite situation, the exact same thing happened. Nobody moved. This is not about respect for police or lack of it, it is about people not being able to decide on the correct action. It's about lack of information to make an informed choice.
Yes, it would be great if the police were implicitly trusted, but nobody works like that. We trust what we know.
Incidentally, I helped the policeman with the arrest. He seemed calmer.
A 2d scene in which the viewer is moving has 3D information available through parallax. By judging the difference in movement between objects it would be possible to get a rough idea what is in the foreground & what is in the background. Perhaps enough to do useful encoding?
Until it stops.
If you're going to kill through suffocation, there are few more cruel ways than using CO2.
BMI.
Reply to this.
While this may have been a fairly gentle attempt at testing the GPL under antitrust, I doubt the GPL would be in much danger regardless of who it faced. There are enough people with investment (monetary, ideological or otherwise) in the survival of the GPL to stump up the cash should it depend on it. If we all gave a fiver...
Of course, I didn't think. Well... wake me up when they've done that.
Wake me up when they invent a USB dongle that records FM broadcasts and then uses a Shazam-like service to identify and tag songs automagically.
There was something called WorldsAway. A 2d multi-user graphical chat world, heavily promoted by CompuServe at the time. I don't remember it being very good, but still going and is now called VZones. Intro demo is worth a laugh.
Google Analytics allows you to look at browser versions in use on individual days. It wouldn't be too much work to run off a report & do some quick analysis on the peaks.
Which site this data is based on is a question though (i.e. does it reflect browsing habits of Firefox users rather than corporate use) as is the time of day the stats were taken. A 1pm vs. 7pm weekday peak would mean the difference between Firefox making it into homes of the office.
If you were wandering around Paris why would you want a RHD car?
Importing computer games from abroad (getting back to the OP) is not as easy as walking into your local GAME store. Yes, you have to go "out of your way" to do this. The question in both cases is whether the extra cost in inconvenience is less than the saving in cash.
In both cases the answer can be yes.
Which is not true
You did look at those links I included in my last post, right?
Dang, you got me, and rightly so.
Can I use the excuse that I was in fact referring to continental Europe but was let down by the vagueness of the English language? No? Bugger.
Um, check your facts. Europeans are quite capable of manufacturing cars to drive on either side of the road. A large proportion of cars sold in the UK are manufactured abroad, imported, then marked up. The advantage of buying direct from Europe is avoiding these extra (inflated) profit margins.
This is nothing new. It's what happens when you have two neighbouring areas with different market prices (due to cost of living, salaries, etc. etc.)
In 'The Good Old Days'(tm) this wasn't a problem. Goods, services and the workforce were not mobile - companies could charge according to the local market and achieve the maximum profit for that region. The workforce itself is kept in place because staying put is comparitively cost effective to moving (in both financial and personal sense).
Not anymore. Cars can be bought in Europe and imported over to the UK, Japanese games can be imported to the US. While labour is still relatively static (I aint moving anytime soon) goods are comparitively free to move around and they happily do. They will continue to do so - even with customs intervention (look at drugs).
Higher prices in affluent areas will come under pressure from cheap imports *until* wages in the other areas rise to create an equivalent cost. Companies should stop trying to fiddle with things and just let people buy where they can & want. Unless they're gloriously underselling in one region (more fool them) the effort required to prevent is probably not cost effective.
Who's betting Nintendo offer help with importing. They're doing everything else right...
The Queen owns the lot, regardless of which way she's pointing.
One of the problems with big government (civil service) organisations is that they are not answerwable directly to the public. While you can argue that elections don't make governments any smarter, it can stop them being exceptionally stupid.
Even if the current government is voted out & legislation is amended, you will still be left with the same power-hungry individuals at the sharp end. While governments may control & curtail their agent's powers, the power required to make them effective can always be abused.
I dare say there is no legislation against having "vaguely offensive descriptions of a TSA leader" on your t-shirt (I may be wrong). An agent willing to bend existing rules to arrest this individual now can still do so after the next election.
Power is only used responsibly under threat of having it taken away.
Wash your hands.
Thankyou for your attention.
Reduction in Pirates is responsible for global warming.
Correlation does not imply causation*
* although in this case it probably does.
I was under the impression Linux could never be GPLv3d.
I would say that explains Linus' lack of interest right there.
There is a possible benefit in seperating main from mobile content, mostly for reasons of size/bandwidth which cannot be achieved with CSS.
Having said that, I would say a standard subdomain would be a more sensible way - and lower cost - way to achieve this. Multiple TLDs just confuse users: "Is it ubuntu.org or ubuntu.com..." hence the reason most companies just buy them all up.
...not to go back.
The cost of switching would apply both in both directions of an OS migration. What Linux has in it's favour is that it's support for Microsoft closed formats (e.g. via Openoffice) is far better than the reverse. Once documents are in open formats it's hard to make a case to back out.
I do wonder whether we'll start to see Microsoft supporting these Open Standards as a way to ease the migration path back - supported of course by heavy subsidies on licensing.
In my experience people who aren't comfortable with computers learn, in effect, by rote. "When this box comes up, click here. If the screen goes blue, turn off computer". As technically-minded people it's important to realise that this knowledge doesn't travel well at all. We may feel comfortable hopping between IE & Firefox, but for some that's the difference between feeling like a novice, or an idiot.
As the OP said, a lot depends on having the patience to take the first few steps with the user.
Perhaps it's 25% of 4.