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Re:The Sony connection
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Re:Huh?
A non-paywalled link (you'll need to scroll down to find the article).
You're welcome!
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Re:Ok: Explain this then...apk
Awwww you got Mr. Kowalruski good! You knocked that walrus out!
He's so ashamed he can't get his flippers on the keyboard!
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Lookup US Naval Map & Edgar Cayce Map... apk
They'll BOTH send 1 hell of a shock into your system! E.G. - U.S. Naval Map = http://www.phibetaiota.net/wp-... done by iirc, a military core of engineers & scientists' studies... & they said it was INEVITABLE.
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Edgar Cayce Map of US Future by Prophecy = http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dFRE...
* The late Mr. Cayce's QUITE a read in & of itself about himself - I truly HIGHLY recommend it...
APK
P.S.=> They did ME @ least - it is SPOOKY shit, & eerily more than "coincidentally so" in fact... apk
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Lookup Edgar Cayce & US Naval Map... apk
They'll BOTH send 1 hell of a shock into your system! E.G. - U.S. Naval Map = http://www.phibetaiota.net/wp-... done by iirc, a military core of engineers & scientists' studies... & they said it was INEVITABLE.
AND
Edgar Cayce Map of US Future by Prophecy = http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dFRE...
* The late Mr. Cayce's QUITE a read in & of itself about himself - I truly HIGHLY recommend it...
APK
P.S.=> They did ME @ least - it is SPOOKY shit, & eerily more than "coincidentally so" in fact... apk
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Re:Apple ][ was a great product
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Re:Pizza shop worker loves Seattle’s new $15
Hi David. In the American usage, "Conservative" means "Classic Liberal" or "Supporter of Individual Liberty over State Power". Yes, I understand that the Statist Collectivists (particularly in the mainstream media) try to re-define this usage to mean "Social Conservative", but they are not actually the same thing.
You do not have to agree with the definition, you merely have to accept that this is the definition that the American Classic Liberals use (despite the name being assigned by their enemies, the Statist Collectivists aka "Progressives").
The Nazis were tightly involved with private companies, which is the opposite of Socialism.
This is the very definition of Far Left Socialism (aka "Fascism") - the means of production remain in private hands while the State controls the fruits of production.
This is in contrast to the definition of Extreme Left Socialism (aka "Communism") - the means of production are controlled by the State and the fruit of production are also controlled by the State.Please watch the video that explains it all (yes, I understand this goes against the neo-Marxist indoctrination the Statist Collectivists have been feeding you your whole life, but these are the economic definitions that match reality):
"Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian" [32 mins] https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]I think David you are confusing Enlightenment-period use of the terms with the modern definitions. Here's a handy spectrum of the modern usage, which shows the State Power vs Individual Liberty spectrum:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TI8b...I also think you are confusing the political social spectrum with the State power one. In answer to your question, absolute monarchs have complete State Power (which *necessarily* means Individual Liberty is curtailed), they also own the most of means of production (land and monopoly grants) and control the fruits of production (exchequer). That means on the State Power vs Individual Liberty spectrum absolute monarchs are either Extreme Left or Far Left, depending on the specifics of their reign (French monarches would be further Left/Statist than English ones, for example). However, on the social spectrum both French and English monarchs are usually rightward (which is what you are thinking about - but we are talking about State power here, and not gay rights, k?). But on the social spectrum Prince Charles of England is clearly Left of Center.
So, I hope you can now see on the ***State Power vs Individual Liberty*** political spectrum (as well as the economic one) that the National Socialists are Far Left and the US Classic Liberals (aka "Conservatives"/fiscal conservatives) are Mid Right.
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Re:North Pole
The answer is indeed the North Pole, and that brain teaser has been around for what, eons now?
I think I'd quickly answer it, then ask him one that I made up and tested long before that final interview.
To be annoyingly precise though, If you are at the north pole, you are not standing on earth - you are on ice.
Or some times not: http://arctic-news.blogspot.co...
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Re:"Easy to read" is non-sense
Java code was fairly easy to read in the early versions of the language (this is true of a lot of programming languages, tools and APIs).
Then Tiger came along.
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Re:Powergirl Expansion a Myth
I found the article you were referring to.
http://ragnell.blogspot.com/20...
It was written after the principles were dead and after several of them had confirmed the story.
Sure- they may have been lying. But also, looking at the older issues, her breasts do not seem like the double G whoppers they became later.
They do complement Woody in the article on at least drawing her with realistic anatomy.
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Re:Pizza shop worker loves Seattle’s new $15
Dude, Conservatives and Libertarians are "Individualists" who want smaller State than socialists. The Statist Collectivists are the socialists, and National Socialists are socialists (go an look at their 25 point program, which is completely socialist).
"Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian" [32 mins]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...I understand that so many of my fellow freedom-loving Slashdotters do not yet understand this (no matter where they think they are on the State Power vs Individual Liberty political spectrum), because the modern control-freak inheritors of the National Socialist and Soviet Socialist agendas do not want you to understand what is really going on. But here is the most important thing about politics, "In order for the State to gain power, Individuals must lose power". The National Socialists were Big State, and Far Left. Please don't fall for this simplest of Jedi Mind Tricks folks.
Here's the most useful diagram that shows the political spectrum in terms of State Power vs Individual Liberty:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TI8b...To claim that conservatives are "Hitler Youth Lite" not only fulfills Godwin's Law, it also show you have fallen from the disinformation from the Extreme Left (Communists) who call the Far Left (National Socialists) "Far Right" simply because *everyone* is to the right of communists (and the mainstream media sympathize with this false narrative). The further right you go on the political spectrum the more you wish individuals had power and the state does not, until you go through the true Far Right (Libertarianism) and go to the Extreme Right (anarchy - where the State has no power at all).
Here's the simple Rule of Thumb for y'all:
More State power means further Leftward on the political spectrum until the State has all the power and the individual has none (Communism)
Less State power means further Rightward on the political spectrum until the Individual and full liberty and the State has no power (Anarchy)
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Re:Stupid
>same thing as a chalkboard.
Except that chalk physically make me ill when I hear the sound. (I'm serious, and I'm not talking about fingernails on a board.)
Apparently, I'm not alone as many sounds from the 2 to 5 KHz range are found to be unpleasant.
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Re:I wonder why...
LUS Fiber (Lafayette), S&P upgraded their bonds from A to A+ based on strong performance this year. They went cash positive in 2012.
Bond ratings don't necessarily tell you anything about the performance of an entity. They tell you about the ability of the parent entity (corporation, municipality, whatever) to make interest payments.
Here's a different take, opinion site (I tried to stink to links from news sites, rather than opinion sites in my original post.):
http://freestatefoundation.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-gift-that-keeps-on-taking-municipal.html
Your second link indicates that MI-Connection is likewise cash positive and beginning to pay down debt.
Not quiet. From the link I cited (which I viewed, overall, as positive): "The towns borrowed $92.5 million to create the company and, while MI-Connection is now in the black operationally, it doesn’t yet generate enough revenue to also cover the towns’ payment on the debt." The chairman of the company estimated that within 3–5 years, MI-Connection would be able to stop receiving further subsidies.
That's a lot of debt. We're not talking millions of potential customers in this area either, the cities are relatively small.
But here's the biggest problem for Davidson and Mooresville. AT&T fiber is coming to the Triad and Google is coming to Charlotte. AT&T and Google cost the cities nothing (or very little), and in fact they probably make money from permitting and taxes. What will happen to these municipal networks when there's competition? Will municipal fiber be competitive with Google or AT&T?
After having read about a lot of these municipal setups, 100 million debt is not uncommon. This is expected to be paid back over decades. I guess we'll see how often they become--or remain--truly profitable over that time period.
So what your links really say is that (SURPRISE), big projects sometimes take longer to pay off than expected and may not pay off if they are sabotaged by people who would rather see their city take a financial bath than have their sacred cow slaughtered.
That's exactly the point. Governments (and corporations, to be fair! any suitably behemoth organization) are terrible at planning for this kind of project and event. It's really hard to predict the future (no shit, huh). A small municipality like Davidson, NC (population 10,000) being saddled with even a portion of 100 million debt, is a big deal. It doesn't take more than a few bad assumptions to seriously and very negatively affect the entire population of the area. Maybe they will be lucky and succeed, maybe not. It's a risk, and in my view, frequently one that is not worth taking when corporate fiber is in the process of exploding across the country.
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Re:In other words...
I live in NC, citation please?
Oh, man.... whoosh!
Maybe I should start submitting articles to the Onion.
Nah - should've given him the citation
Here we go:
http://injesuschrististand.blo...
Please folks, this is my warped sense of humor, it isn't even sarcasm just silliness
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Thought-provoking blog post
An Asian-American argues in favor of admission policies that disadvantage Asian-Americans. Whether you agree, it's worth thinking about.
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Lego
I put a long Lego piece on each key. They stack and store easy and I never lose keys.
And I have a dragon watching over them:
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Re:Ahem...
All through highschool and college, I had girls date me because I was a "hot hunk of meat"
It's true. I found this picture in his yearbook:
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That's great
I was fantasic http://denkepbanpixar.blogspot...
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Re:Old guy here - pixel art reminds me of bad game
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Re:Bureaucrats
Actually, following the "etc." link above leads to this comment, which shows that in in 2012 Jane Q. Public left a public comment linking to things.titanez.net/dl/asshole-pseudo-scientist.png. Googling things.titanez.net showed that it's Lonny Eachus's website.
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Jane angrily protested and evaded this point for months, but Lonny Eachus finally admitted that he was Jane Q. Public here:
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Re:Controversial because?
From http://badassteachers.blogspot.com/2015/04/ny-testing-horror-stories-ela-tests-day.html:
NYS ELA Grade 6 Day 1 had a passage, written by a British author in the 1800s, with a readability/ text complexity range from Grade 9-College!
Note: That this blog can't provide the exact text because doing so could result in a lawsuit from Pearson. Teachers or students merely talking about the tests - even after the tests are given - isn't allowed either. Any teacher who says what was on the test - especially online somewhere - is risking their job.
There's also this post:
The third-grade ELA test contained a passage from "Drag Racer," which had a grade level difficulty of 5.9 and an interest level of grades 9–12, as well as an allusion to the Aurora Borealis. Teachers anonymously reported one question appeared on both the third-grade test and fifth-grade test.
Fourth-graders, generally 10 years old, were required to write about the architectural designs of roller coasters and why cables are used instead of chains. -
Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo
"A better question may be, why do "federally-guaranteed loans" need to exist in the first place..." Exactly. If the question is "Why is higher education so expensive," that is the answer.
Universities are at this point, are now citadels of management people:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c...
http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com/...
Lotsa highly paid MBA types, and their staff.
Research - once upon a time, a lot of research was done at the corporate level. Most has been shifted to Universities now. And even though it brings in research dollars, infrastructure for it has to be built, and government research money is focused on the work at hand, not building the infrastructure.
The education system has been groomed for years that the only acceptable path is the 4 year Bachelor's, perhaps followed by a Masters degree. Any other form of education is considered woefully deficient.
So today, parents look at a college education as grades 13 through 16.
Demand is extremely high.
So why the crisis now?
We're at a wobbly sort of point, where while the demand is still there, but the educational supply cost has outpaced the ability of many if not most people's resources to repay. You graduate with the equivalent of a small mortgage, going for an entry level job in your field (and woe onto you if you are in another field beside engineering) making little, and the University is already badgering you for donations. That is a hellava mess.
The cost of a college education is almost at the point of not being worth it.
The federal loan system is in the mix of problems, but is merely following the lead of University trends, established during WW2 and continued to the present day. The overly managed structure is a more recent phenomenon, as managers in my experience always find that more managers are needed.
I do doubt that the research aspect of present day higher education will ever go away. As for the fact that there are more managers and their support staff now than educators, might be something that can be worked on.
That's a little more than a Fox News soundbite, but despite it all, the federal loan program is more reacting to than creating the problem.
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Re:Agree
Here's a guy (who I believe is available for hire) that does a bunch of 2D tutorials.
http://2dgameartforprogrammers...
Website is crap design (seriously, you put the historical browsing tool 2-3 pages down on the page???) but the tutorials are good (I suck at graphics but am able to do some of the stuff he talks about).
Lately I've been loving the pixalized game Corporate Lifestyle Simulator (as well as FTL). But I like all types of games, Fallout 3 is probably my favorite of all time.
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What's worse is poorly displaying clean pictures.
Shovel Knight has pixel graphics, but they're either displayed stretched or there's a post processing pass that distorts the clean pixels. You can't turn this off, which is absolutely bamboozling to me.
You can see that clearly on this screenshot (from super adventures).
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Re:Seattle has "no zoning" to prohibit this?
Eh, what, developers are not offering parking?
"The recommendations (all meeting materials available here) were based on a survey of 219 newly reviewed or permitted residential developments in parts of Seattle where no parking is required, which found that three-quarters of developers are choosing to build parking anyway"
http://seattletransitblog.com/...So, 75% of developers without all the usual minimum parking mandates choose to plonk out parking slabs anyways. Could you perhaps expand on what you mean by "too many of them get build without parking" in light of this? Are the mere 25% who choose not to waste space and money on parking really that objectionable? (Disclaimer: car-free in Seattle since, oh, 1994 or so, so lack of parking is a huge bonus in my book. About time we go more of that.)
Meanwhile, on the ugly townhomes front, the following is fairly indicative of how things played out.
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Re:What tech challenges?
Lack of modern istrumentation, radar transponders, and other equipment which is normally used by modern air traffic control systems.
That's just BS. First of all, the instrumentation to fly an assigned heading and altitude must already be there, otherwise they just wouldn't be certified to fly. Secondly, there's no problem installing a modern radio stack in an old airplane - you can even have it tucked away in the cockpit so it doesn't interfere with the "old style" cockpit look too much. Tons of old airplanes are retrofitted with new avionics all the time. All you really need is the two boxes near the bottom of this instrument panel (retrofitted to a 1940s era Piper Cub with an admittedly quite pimped out instrument retrofit, the original had far fewer instruments, but still at least a compass and an airspeed and altitude indicator).
The primary issue won't be in the corridor itself, it'll be getting into and out of it from shared public airspace
You do know that ATC doesn't control all aircraft, right? Do you know what VFR means? How about class G airspace? Instruments aren't needed for all navigation and many pilots aren't even certified for instrument-only flight (look up "Instrument Rating") - in fact, these pilots are 100% self-reliant. ATC can provide traffic advisories and suggested headings if you ask them, but they don't have to and aren't even obligated to (if ATC is overloaded, VFR traffic gets dropped first).
and avoiding collisions between the aircraft themselves, many of which do not have anti-collision systems or even radars.
Tons of privately owned aircraft do not have TCAS and civilian aircraft radar isn't even intended to and cannot show other aircraft. Still, people manage to survive fly-ins and other large-scale GA gathering events even at uncontrolled airports. The key, that every pilot knows, is: look before you turn, say intentions before you act.
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Musk Fanboi's
Musk has already been exposed for his lies... just wait, this is just another one of his BS stories
http://doubtingisthinking.blog... does a great job cataloging all the bs.
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Re: Fraud
Your statement may be confusing to some people.
http://collectionagencydebt.bl...
The answer is most certainly not "zero."
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Daikatana for GBC
The Game Boy Color version of Daikatana actually didn't suck. So perhaps what they needed to do was repackage the GBC game and wrap it up in one of those newfangled hi-res emulators that replaces each of the game's 8x8 pixel tiles with a redrawn high-res 32x32 pixel tile. (See "HiSMS".) This would blow the game up to a 640x576 window.
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Stop enabling swap
it also seems to do well with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl), and starts up nicely quick.
I am in the midst of building a CarPC right now, as parts trickle in from far-flung regions of the globe, which is to say mostly HK. I'm saving my money for the display so it's a budget build based on a Boxer DA078L motherboard. I downgraded the processor to IIRC a X2 3800+ from a 3900+ because the specific processor model I ordered had almost 30W lower TDP, bringing the total system TDP down well under 100W which meant I could use a PicoPSU 120. I haven't tested my el cheapo 300W (headroom! which I will leave unused) boost-buck regulator yet, that's next. It has 2GB of RAM and I installed Kodibuntu, then installed navit. It comes with chromium and I am running the system on an 8GB CF card, currently in a USB adapter and soon in a SATA adapter. Maybe someday I'll buy it a real SSD but again, this is just a pocket change build based on something I had already. A $8 low-profile AM2/3 cooler is coming.
Why care? I can run Kodi and navit at the same time with no problems, using compiz as my window manager. and it can easily run chromium under LXDE. And I have no swap whatsoever. It would be dog-slow on my CF card (It's a "133X" Transcend, whatever that means) and I don't want to beat up my flash device anyway.
2GB is a lot of RAM. It seems like it isn't because of all the crap we run these days. But 2GB will actually go hilariously far if you use a limited desktop environment, or in fact none at all. If you just put the smallest Linux you can come up with (puppy?) into a partition with chromium, make init keep X running and make X keep chromium running, you'll have what you're looking for. I presume the only reason to want this is to have it as a multiboot option, since as others have said, if you wanted an actual chromebook you would have bought one. To come back around to my long introductory paragraph, I installed Kodibuntu when I wanted automotive navigation. That seems dumb, but it makes sense in the view of trying not to buy stuff. I also wanted more CPU power and didn't care about GPU power, so it made sense to me not to buy a Pi 2 and use a turnkey solution. (That's where I got the pointer to the skin I'm using.)
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Re:Just Like the "Liberal Media"
Growing up in the 80s, all I heard was how liberal the media was and how we had to fight against it. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, it's clear that the phrase "liberal media" was a conservative talking point that they repeated ad infinitum until people stopped questioning it and just assumed it was true.
The same thing is happening now with claiming scientists are politically or monetarily motivated (the conservative machine hasn't settled on which script to stick with).
Look, I'm a scientist. I know scientists. I know scientists at NOAA, NCAR, NIST, the Labs, in academia, in industry, at biotechs, at agri-science companies, at space exploration companies, and at oil and gas companies. I know conservative scientists, liberal scientists, agnostic scientists, religious scientists, and hedonistic scientists.
You know what motivates scientists? Science. And to a lesser extent, their ego. If someone doesn't love science, there's no way they can cut it as a scientist. There are no political or monetary rewards available to scientists in the same way they're available to lawyers and lobbyists.
Science if hard work for little pay and possibly some recognition. Unfortunately, the conservative noise machine is slowly building a narrative that scientists are all politically and monetarily motivated. The public doesn't really know any better and will believe this to be true if they hear it enough.
This attempt to paint scientists as political actors is pure bullshit and demeans the hard work and great sacrifices working scientists make every day.
-Chris
Victor Venema on his blog Variable Variability has a post on the House Science Committee's gutting of NASA's earth sciences programs. In it he wrote this (my emphasis):
Science is a free market of ideas. Like the free market uses distributed information on how to efficiently organize an economy, science is highly distributed and cannot be controlled from the top. Every researcher is a small entrepreneur, trying to search for problems that are interesting and solvable. Science is organized in small groups. If your group does not function, you'd better get out before your reputation and publication record suffer. Multiple such groups are at one university or research institute. In one country you will find many universities and institutes. All these groups in many countries are all competing and collaborating with each other. Competing for the best ideas, because it is fun and get more possibilities to do research. The currency is reputation.
Most scientists don't care that much about money. It is just a means to the end of doing more and better science. If they really cared about money that much they'd be working in finance or something like that. Assuming most scientists are in it for the money probably says more about your motivations being projected on them than anything else.
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Re:"The Ego"
Well, by that logic then this is relevant too:
http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com...
According to data published by the Social Security Administration, the name Hillary is the most severely poisoned baby name in history. Hillary had been steadily climbing the baby name charts since the 1960s, when it first graced the Top 1000, becoming the 136th most common name for baby girls in 1992. But the name sharply reversed course in 1993, smashing several longstanding records (Ebeneezer, Adolph) for name contamination in its plunge from the Top 1000 girl names last year.
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We already had this discussion _many_ times ....
... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:
* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all freeThere are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:
- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!
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- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.
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We already had this discussion _many_ times ....
... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:
* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all freeThere are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:
- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!
and
- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.
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Re:Wait a minute...
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Re:People, not tools
You've got it absolutely right. It's the people that make the space, not the tech.
I currently serve on the board of directors for Quelab in Albuquerque. (We're a 501c3 org, so we have to have some formal structure.) Like you, I've been involved for about 5 years. It is ALL ABOUT the people. Get the right people in the door: they'll figure out what to do with what you've got, and they'll bring their own toys when they really get inspired.
My research for my Masters in Educational Leadership is exactly on how to create a great makerspace. I focus on community relations and social justice topics. I also blog, reflect on processes, and post occasional papers about it.
Let's get in touch.
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Re:It's finally time
I don't see how you can site an article that says "only 2.67% of households make more than $200k" in an argument where you imply that 200k is the 90th percentile (true, that's technically "less than like $200k", but 200k is a misleading benchmark).
Your very citation shows the 10th percentile of household income being $118200.
I'm pretty sure the person you were responding to was wrong, and that the 90th percentile mark is considerably higher, but you're equally wrong in the other direction I think. This chart seems to support the idea that the individual income 90th percentil is in the mid-80s: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bmIb...
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Re:I will never understand
Or use the A New Kind of Justice litigation system where the defendant would welcome being the target of a nuisance lawsuit.
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Re:Excellent, this will force Google..
Except the Apps can't be installed if you refuse
Xposed Framework + XPrivacy. Boom.
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Re: $10/GB is a bit pricey
You only get billed for cellular data, not Wifi. From the official announcement:
"and then it's a flat $10 per GB for cellular data while in the U.S. and abroad"
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