The shape of the drone alone might have required hours of computing time to optimize for a low radar profile, so I'm not so sure that it was designed in a way to reduce technology creep.
Ultima VII had cool features like pixel-exact manipulation of objects, which wasn't a standard far until the advent of games that were done exclusively in 3D.
The dialogs were pretty extensive, and also depended on a basic questing system that remembered stuff.
You could stack stuff (z-axis) and walk on it, I loved stacking my gold bars on my flying carpet, although it looked weird because it's z-offset was too high.
Features like that may have been present in some other games before, but not in this combination. It felt more like a sandbox than a linear RPG, and as far as I'm concerned in this it was unmatched until the Fallout series.
Regarding Tabula Rasa, I played it a bit after they opened it up for all because they knew they would discard it, and things like the alien symbols were obviously designed to support a huge game-world. So I think it may have been killed because the company expected short-term profits.
But I agree it would have been better for the game to spend less money on Richard Gariott and more on the game; on the other hand, I don't know exact numbers.
Well argued, but not everyone in the US thinks like you do AND lets acts follow.
The country thinks it is American to live under a bridge and object to a public health care system, and maybe it is.
It also is American to blame things on China, and at the same time to applaud companies like Apple who produce in China to increase their profits and number of units sold.
It is correct that China keeps the Yuan Renminbi low, in order to do so, it has to sell Yuan Renminbi and buy USD from people willing to sell USD. It also will invest these USD somewhere, or buy US debt. This works due to the USA and other states importing tons of goods from China and increasing US living standards with them. It is ironic that "communist" China is better at "free trade" than the USA, with the assistance of the US industry, which finds it more profitable to do so.
Your country would be broke without China, and it is quite disconcerting to have such a cause of conflict between two large nations.
And yes, you are right with one of your arguments, but this is because your arguments contradict each other: You blame China both for withdrawing USD and not withdrawing them.
You are wrong on two counts: Calcium is not created somehow by biological processes, at best it would be extracted from the atmosphere. Also carbon is more common, are you sure you don't confuse the two?
The chemical element with the least energy is iron. Therefore, if everything reached the least energy state due to nuclear fusion and fission, everything would be iron, not calcium, and it would be really really difficult to generate energy from it by fusion or fission.
I hate passphrases because I once used one for PGP and then forgot which verbs were in the past tense and which weren't. I guess I could have hacked my passphrase easily, but I didn't really need it, so I gave up.
You assume there is a trade secret which is worthy to be disclosed.
This is not the case when there are 100.000s of equally able engineers and software developers.
Also this is not the case when the patent is generalized so much in order to earn more money that it is hard to detect any implementation apart from the idea.
This is what they have proven: If a quantum wavefunction is purely a statistical tool, then quantum states that are unconnected across space and time are able to communicate with each other.
The rest is speculation.
IMO one observer's wavefunction is the other observer's statistical tool, where an observer is any ensemble of particles.
By the way, the wikipedia article on Bell's inquality stated something similar years ago.
Software patents and physical patents are both evil, but physical patents usually slightly less so, because a physical patent is often tied to one or more well paid engineers and a costly lab. So one can argue that a patent is necessary to recover these costs.
For a software patent, this is not so much the case; a good idea for a new algorithm might easily come from 5 minutes more spent on the toilet, or from 5 minutes in a hot tub, sometimes literally so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)#Archimedes
Also, due to good school education, there are 100.000s, if not millions, of people able to develop software algorithms or even mathematical ideas, while engineers are more rare, especially since these are spread out over different fields of expertise.
There really is no way to fix the patent system. In theory, obvious stuff should not be allowed to be patented, but leading countries like the USA allow everything to be patented, since they believe in the equation more patents=more power =more wealth
You'll probably simply moderate me down for this, but technically UMG is correct, because he is using their video. He would be fine if he created his own video. The parody defense would probably mean he could use their texts if altered to be a parody, but that's it.
He could try to strike a deal with UMG, for example "You allow me to use your video, then I allow you to use mine". And if UMG refuses, it would be ok to bad-mouth them.
This isn't even a case of copyright law doing something that it isn't intended to do. The only decent stand to take against what happened, if you want to go that far, would be to argue that all information once released should be free. That may be a reasonable stand, but it isn't how we handle things today at all.
If anyone was copying your website 1:1, that is assuming you are competent enough to have one, and just replaced your name with his, you would be up screaming "he stole my website".
Copying a little from many makes a doctoral thesis or a fiction book, copying from one without attribution, is plagiarism.
Also, the robots.txt is an established means to indicate that you do not want your content to be copied completely.
Weakening the status of the robots.txt is stupid, exactly because it allows publishers who are too stupid to set up a robots.txt, to claim that someone violated their "Terms of use". If you took the time to scan the court decision, you would find that the defendant willingly violated the standards surrounding the robots.txt file, in particular, it failed to provide a robot name.
Memory usage is relevant beause switching to sleep mode and out of it is faster when there is less memory to store on the hard disk.
Also, I have so many windows/tabs open in firefox, that after two weeks or so, the windows 7scheduler (or whatever makes these decisions) makes firefox run only when i move the mouse inside it.
That doesn't mean firefox is bad, most if the time it used(6.0) just twice the memory of IE while I have only like 2 windows/tabs open in IE, in contrast to 20-40 in firefox.
Einstein's laws might be imperfect, but they are no more bullshit than Newtons laws are bullshit - Newtons laws are fine for speeds near zero, but very much imperfect for speeds near c.
And we already knew that Einstein's laws as you call them were imperfect before this, because quantum physics don't agree with Einstein's laws, see ERP experiment, also with the idea that here might be a smallest unit of time or space.
Science is the search for perfection within humanity, while God is the search for perfection elsewhere.
I believe i used a program which could do this - it looked like it ignored bad files and extracted the rest. But i don't recall which program it was.. I found two or three free programs and lots of ones that cost money.
The system is designed such that it is not possible to change the core of the OS, except by patches from the OS vendor. This could be used to pull off other dirty tricks, for example to install DRM that makes it impossible to output music in decent quality, unless the music player identifies itself with a key. One could imagine that this could also interfere with your ability to record your own music, e.g. a birthday song.
Issue 2: Assume the OS core somehow IS subverted by a rootkit:
This could for example happen by someone getting at the master keys for signing OS updates. Or by a hardware vendor submitting a bad driver.
When it happens, you are completely fucked, a bit like you would be with already existing trojans that encrypt your data and ask you to send money for the decryption key. The reason that you are fucked is that most of your data will also be encrypted, so that it is impossible to recover by just placing the HD into a different PC. And in addition, it is harder to remove the rootkit, since it is now part of the protected OS core.
Finally, to sum it up, what is wrong with DRM is that it places control over the device you just bought with the OS vendor, not with you. So you just bought a device that doesn't really belong to you, but to the state and the music industry.
There was a US economy/world simulator. I forgot the name though.
The easiest way to make progress in the game was to forgo any military for 4 years or so, and invest the money in the economy. After that you could literally bribe Cuba and whatever small nation you wanted to make them like you.
Such an on and off control is unlikely to happen in real life.
Slashdot Mirror
America has not won a single war since WW2.
Grenada worked out fine.
The liberation of Kuwait worked out well, it only got a bit more trying after expanding the mission to enter Iraq.
But I guess all that was "too easy" to count as a war eh?
The shape of the drone alone might have required hours of computing time to optimize for a low radar profile, so I'm not so sure that it was designed in a way to reduce technology creep.
It works fine here.
Are you sure you didn't put a minus sign in front?
I guess europe is on the forbidden word list in your country then..
Ultima VII had cool features like pixel-exact manipulation of objects, which wasn't a standard far until the advent of games that were done exclusively in 3D.
The dialogs were pretty extensive, and also depended on a basic questing system that remembered stuff.
You could stack stuff (z-axis) and walk on it, I loved stacking my gold bars on my flying carpet, although it looked weird because it's z-offset was too high.
Features like that may have been present in some other games before, but not in this combination. It felt more like a sandbox than a linear RPG, and as far as I'm concerned in this it was unmatched until the Fallout series.
Regarding Tabula Rasa, I played it a bit after they opened it up for all because they knew they would discard it, and things like the alien symbols were obviously designed to support a huge game-world.
So I think it may have been killed because the company expected short-term profits.
But I agree it would have been better for the game to spend less money on Richard Gariott and more on the game; on the other hand, I don't know exact numbers.
use Monte Carlo method
Well, nothing. But the US might have a harder time buying oil and other goods from other nations.
Well argued, but not everyone in the US thinks like you do AND lets acts follow.
The country thinks it is American to live under a bridge and object to a public health care system, and maybe it is.
It also is American to blame things on China, and at the same time to applaud companies like Apple who produce in China to increase their profits and number of units sold.
Ah yes, China has "borrowed" USD.
And I thought they borrowed USD to the US government, and not a small amount either:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/ss/How-Much-US-Debt-Does-China-Own.htm
It is correct that China keeps the Yuan Renminbi low, in order to do so, it has to sell Yuan Renminbi and buy USD from people willing to sell USD. It also will invest these USD somewhere, or buy US debt. This works due to the USA and other states importing tons of goods from China and increasing US living standards with them. It is ironic that "communist" China is better at "free trade" than the USA, with the assistance of the US industry, which finds it more profitable to do so.
Your country would be broke without China, and it is quite disconcerting to have such a cause of conflict between two large nations.
And yes, you are right with one of your arguments, but this is because your arguments contradict each other: You blame China both for withdrawing USD and not withdrawing them.
You are wrong on two counts:
Calcium is not created somehow by biological processes, at best it would be extracted from the atmosphere. Also carbon is more common, are you sure you don't confuse the two?
The chemical element with the least energy is iron.
Therefore, if everything reached the least energy state due to nuclear fusion and fission, everything would be iron, not calcium, and it would be really really difficult to generate energy from it by fusion or fission.
I hate passphrases because I once used one for PGP and then forgot which verbs were in the past tense and which weren't. I guess I could have hacked my passphrase easily, but I didn't really need it, so I gave up.
You assume there is a trade secret which is worthy to be disclosed.
This is not the case when there are 100.000s of equally able engineers and software developers.
Also this is not the case when the patent is generalized so much in order to earn more money that it is hard to detect any implementation apart from the idea.
This is what they have proven:
If a quantum wavefunction is purely a statistical tool, then quantum states that are unconnected across space and time are able to communicate with each other.
The rest is speculation.
IMO one observer's wavefunction is the other observer's statistical tool, where an observer is any ensemble of particles.
By the way, the wikipedia article on Bell's inquality stated something similar years ago.
Software patents and physical patents are both evil, but physical patents usually slightly less so, because a physical patent is often tied to one or more well paid engineers and a costly lab. So one can argue that a patent is necessary to recover these costs.
For a software patent, this is not so much the case; a good idea for a new algorithm might easily come from 5 minutes more spent on the toilet, or from 5 minutes in a hot tub, sometimes literally so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)#Archimedes
Also, due to good school education, there are 100.000s, if not millions, of people able to develop software algorithms or even mathematical ideas, while engineers are more rare, especially since these are spread out over different fields of expertise.
There really is no way to fix the patent system.
In theory, obvious stuff should not be allowed to be patented, but leading countries like the USA allow everything to be patented, since they believe in the equation more patents=more power =more wealth
You'll probably simply moderate me down for this, but technically UMG is correct, because he is using their video.
He would be fine if he created his own video.
The parody defense would probably mean he could use their texts if altered to be a parody, but that's it.
He could try to strike a deal with UMG, for example "You allow me to use your video, then I allow you to use mine".
And if UMG refuses, it would be ok to bad-mouth them.
This isn't even a case of copyright law doing something that it isn't intended to do.
The only decent stand to take against what happened, if you want to go that far, would be to argue that all information once released should be free. That may be a reasonable stand, but it isn't how we handle things today at all.
I'm impressed that you worked it out half-way ..
If anyone was copying your website 1:1, that is assuming you are competent enough to have one, and just replaced your name with his, you would be up screaming "he stole my website".
Copying a little from many makes a doctoral thesis or a fiction book, copying from one without attribution, is plagiarism.
Also, the robots.txt is an established means to indicate that you do not want your content to be copied completely.
Weakening the status of the robots.txt is stupid, exactly because it allows publishers who are too stupid to set up a robots.txt, to claim that someone violated their "Terms of use". If you took the time to scan the court decision, you would find that the defendant willingly violated the standards surrounding the robots.txt file, in particular, it failed to provide a robot name.
Memory usage is relevant beause switching to sleep mode and out of it is faster when there is less memory to store on the hard disk.
Also, I have so many windows/tabs open in firefox, that after two weeks or so, the windows 7scheduler (or whatever makes these decisions) makes firefox run only when i move the mouse inside it.
That doesn't mean firefox is bad, most if the time it used(6.0) just twice the memory of IE while I have only like 2 windows/tabs open in IE, in contrast to 20-40 in firefox.
Call me when the monkeys create a work of Shakespeare that he could have written if he lived another year ..
Einstein's laws might be imperfect, but they are no more bullshit than Newtons laws are bullshit - Newtons laws are fine for speeds near zero, but very much imperfect for speeds near c.
And we already knew that Einstein's laws as you call them were imperfect before this, because quantum physics don't agree with Einstein's laws, see ERP experiment, also with the idea that here might be a smallest unit of time or space.
Science is the search for perfection within humanity, while God is the search for perfection elsewhere.
Well, failure to respond in 30 days does not equate to accepting the contract.
Even a court friendly to consumers would decide that way.
Otherwise, there would be step 5:
Receive contracts by random parties where you agree to send them money.
Thanks, i saved it in case i need it.
I believe i used a program which could do this - it looked like it ignored bad files and extracted the rest. But i don't recall which program it was .. I found two or three free programs and lots of ones that cost money.
Issue 1:
The OS can be subverted by a rootkit:
The system is designed such that it is not possible to change the core of the OS, except by patches from the OS vendor. This could be used to pull off other dirty tricks, for example to install DRM that makes it impossible to output music in decent quality, unless the music player identifies itself with a key. One could imagine that this could also interfere with your ability to record your own music, e.g. a birthday song.
Issue 2:
Assume the OS core somehow IS subverted by a rootkit:
This could for example happen by someone getting at the master keys for signing OS updates. Or by a hardware vendor submitting a bad driver.
When it happens, you are completely fucked, a bit like you would be with already existing trojans that encrypt your data and ask you to send money for the decryption key. The reason that you are fucked is that most of your data will also be encrypted, so that it is impossible to recover by just placing the HD into a different PC. And in addition, it is harder to remove the rootkit, since it is now part of the protected OS core.
Finally, to sum it up, what is wrong with DRM is that it places control over the device you just bought with the OS vendor, not with you. So you just bought a device that doesn't really belong to you, but to the state and the music industry.
What I found was:
Zip Repair
ZipSnap21(Don't remember whether I actually used this)
For creating recoverable archives, i found
MultiParchive
But using it didn't really stick with me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Project
The technology is also available to the public, I believe, but I would guess it isn't cheap.
Also the amounts of data aren't as large as traditional media.
There was a US economy/world simulator.
I forgot the name though.
The easiest way to make progress in the game was to forgo any military for 4 years or so, and invest the money in the economy. After that you could literally bribe Cuba and whatever small nation you wanted to make them like you.
Such an on and off control is unlikely to happen in real life.