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Make or buy them a mechanical marble computer. Wish I'd seen a digi comp when I was 10.

https://youtu.be/_tZdE-3nR3w

Agreed. I encourage folks to check out Rocket Jump's video Why CG Sucks (Except it Doesn't). If you don't, here's the short version: we don't notice the good digital effects because they're so good or so subtle. We usually only notice the bad stuff.

One of my favourite movies, Master and Commander, uses CG, but it is not obvious that it does. I think that is the best use of CG, when it is largely invisible and not flaunting itself in your face. Mad Max, Fury Road is another great example.

I think that's an oversimplification. Yes, trends, and the audience getting used to and tired of them, are a quite real phenomenon. But let's not simultaneously pretend that the concept of "realism" in movies is a purely objective phenomenon. Sometimes an effect can be purely and objectively bad. Should we go back to, for example, the special effects of 1960s Star Trek, would that be an improvement?

Let's pick an example of bad use of CG. The scene of Anakin feeding Padme a slice of pear wasn't per se bad because it's CGI, it's bad because they did a lousy job with it. And it's bad of the CG director to think that it was sufficient. And it's bad of the film director for getting so obsessed with using a single technology for special effects that they'd rather put in a badly done CG effect than go buy a freaking pear.

The original trilogy had tons of lousy special effects that would have looked much better if done using modern techniques. Not all scenes, there were plenty of good special effects in the trilogy - but there were some that were patently just bad. Abjectly, transparently fake - all issues of trends aside. The fact that CGI is often misused today doesn't change this. Good special effects mean using the correct tool for the process and not getting obsessed with using only whatever happens to be the current trend. A good director is one who can tell that a miniature is going to look fake in scene X, a puppet is going to look fake in scene Y, and a CG pear is going to look fake in scene Z, and adjust appropriately.

Agreed. I encourage folks to check out Rocket Jump's video Why CG Sucks (Except it Doesn't). If you don't, here's the short version: we don't notice the good digital effects because they're so good or so subtle. We usually only notice the bad stuff.

Every time people like you say some new entitlement program will be cost neutral... it isn't.

The track record of people like you to accurately predict the consequences of your programs is horrible. Where as the track record of people like me to cite what will happen with stuff like this is actually quite good.

But again... I DON"T CARE. I don't live in Europe so this really isn't my problem so long as it is understood that when you inevidably blow your brains all over the ceiling... I am under no obligation what so ever morally, socially, legally, militarily, economically, etc to get a sponge and clean up the mess.

If you are prepared to take full responsibility which means owning the consequences entirely with no calls for IMF bailouts or anything of that nature... then go for it. I'm f'ing gravy with your whole program. You want to inject bleach into your eyeballs? I'll SELL you the bleach and post pictures of you doing it on the internet.

I DO NOT CARE.

But... I am not going to lift so much as a finger when the thing I told you was going to happen... happens.
https://youtu.be/ARDhJ2dpuYU?t...

Thanks for your reply. I gave it more thought... if a large mass of iron or other inert material were in a star, it would be much heavier than the gases so would sink into the core, making it hard to have any effect on its light patterns. Also, if it was there for very long, the metals would probably vaporize eventually and disappear. Even if the ratio of metal to gas was very high, it might not work. I am eager to see if someone eventually finds a theory that fits this scenario. You may have heard about Comet Lovejoy that plunged into our Sun a few years ago. Everyone expected it to be eaten up, but instead a few hours later emerged from the other side at an odd tangent. https://youtu.be/yVvI-LWsmpE

If it wasn't for YouTube, I'd never have learned that Alex Jones was a secret agent for the Knights of Malta and the Jesuits.

https://youtu.be/0ZLIoEOjNhY

I'd never have learned that the Moon was a hologram.

https://youtu.be/_3axPn65MGM

I wouldn't have learned that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

https://youtu.be/DXRDq9nKJ0U

And most important, I'd never have learned that Jay-Z was an Illuminati time-traveler,

https://youtu.be/-lf4zco47Gc ...and possibly a clone.

https://youtu.be/AYDRHySPyDE

So don't you fucking tell me that YouTube doesn't need defending. There's no better place to learn the truth than a platform where anyone can have a voice. We don't need journalists when we can get the straight shit from other people like us.

If it wasn't for YouTube, I'd never have learned that Alex Jones was a secret agent for the Knights of Malta and the Jesuits.

https://youtu.be/0ZLIoEOjNhY

I'd never have learned that the Moon was a hologram.

https://youtu.be/_3axPn65MGM

I wouldn't have learned that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

https://youtu.be/DXRDq9nKJ0U

And most important, I'd never have learned that Jay-Z was an Illuminati time-traveler,

https://youtu.be/-lf4zco47Gc ...and possibly a clone.

https://youtu.be/AYDRHySPyDE

So don't you fucking tell me that YouTube doesn't need defending. There's no better place to learn the truth than a platform where anyone can have a voice. We don't need journalists when we can get the straight shit from other people like us.

If it wasn't for YouTube, I'd never have learned that Alex Jones was a secret agent for the Knights of Malta and the Jesuits.

https://youtu.be/0ZLIoEOjNhY

I'd never have learned that the Moon was a hologram.

https://youtu.be/_3axPn65MGM

I wouldn't have learned that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

https://youtu.be/DXRDq9nKJ0U

And most important, I'd never have learned that Jay-Z was an Illuminati time-traveler,

https://youtu.be/-lf4zco47Gc ...and possibly a clone.

https://youtu.be/AYDRHySPyDE

So don't you fucking tell me that YouTube doesn't need defending. There's no better place to learn the truth than a platform where anyone can have a voice. We don't need journalists when we can get the straight shit from other people like us.

If it wasn't for YouTube, I'd never have learned that Alex Jones was a secret agent for the Knights of Malta and the Jesuits.

https://youtu.be/0ZLIoEOjNhY

I'd never have learned that the Moon was a hologram.

https://youtu.be/_3axPn65MGM

I wouldn't have learned that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

https://youtu.be/DXRDq9nKJ0U

And most important, I'd never have learned that Jay-Z was an Illuminati time-traveler,

https://youtu.be/-lf4zco47Gc ...and possibly a clone.

https://youtu.be/AYDRHySPyDE

So don't you fucking tell me that YouTube doesn't need defending. There's no better place to learn the truth than a platform where anyone can have a voice. We don't need journalists when we can get the straight shit from other people like us.

If it wasn't for YouTube, I'd never have learned that Alex Jones was a secret agent for the Knights of Malta and the Jesuits.

https://youtu.be/0ZLIoEOjNhY

I'd never have learned that the Moon was a hologram.

https://youtu.be/_3axPn65MGM

I wouldn't have learned that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

https://youtu.be/DXRDq9nKJ0U

And most important, I'd never have learned that Jay-Z was an Illuminati time-traveler,

https://youtu.be/-lf4zco47Gc ...and possibly a clone.

https://youtu.be/AYDRHySPyDE

So don't you fucking tell me that YouTube doesn't need defending. There's no better place to learn the truth than a platform where anyone can have a voice. We don't need journalists when we can get the straight shit from other people like us.

https://youtu.be/OQc-_zUq1JI (no audio and obviously NSFW)

https://youtu.be/umDCQNTkSCk

Telegraph nonsense. "The FBI took over the world's biggest child pornographic website". So they know it is bigger than the second-biggest or the third biggest. So the FBI know all these websites and they give them a size as in this one is small this one is very small and this one is the second-biggest and this one is the biggest. Or one of the biggest! So the FBI is trying to outdo the British government in the size of child porn websites it runs.. Anglo-Saxon problem it's an Anglo-Saxon problem. Did you know in Japan, they prosecute the guardian because the guardian is legally responsible for defending and protecting the child. The Anglo-Saxons act hysterical like it is them personally who is guilty or who is under suspicion. Very unhealthy mentally very. https://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g The law will do what the law does. It is just as sick as dropping napalm on women and children or atomic weapons. It is just as bad as killing little Arabic children. With the Anglo-Saxons they have lost the sense of what is and what isn't immoral the penis is the most immoral thing on earth it would seem for Anglo-Saxons. But they are all as equally immoral. 259 + 1

Oh, rest assured, I can fathom it just fine. You see, I am a gun owner who owns over 30 guns, including several "assault weapons" and NFA items; and I also carry a handgun, and have more than one around at home myself (all of them either in one of the several safes, or with secure locking devices that block the action). Obviously, I know quite a few other people who are gun owners. So I see quite a bit of gun culture in US.

The children of responsible gun owners are taught at an early age that guns are not toys to be played with.

They're taught that, yes. And then those "responsible gun owners" are surprised to find out that, hey! a 7 year old kid doesn't fully grok the meaning of things like "responsibility", or when they do, they're still unable to resist their natural curiosity. Watch this video. All of those kids have parents who are gun owners, who believed themselves to be "responsible gun owners" because they taught their kids how to behave around guns - and were pretty sure that those lessons were learned.

If looking at this video and not shrugging it off means I'm a "pussy", then so be it. You, on the other hand, are an idiot. I sure hope that you don't actually have kids; but if you do, and they find your unsecured gun and shoot themselves or someone else with it, I want you to be legally responsible for your idiocy, especially now that you cannot even claim to not know how and why it's dangerous.

But you probably assume all gun owners leave their guns lying on the coffee table, fully loaded, with a houseful of ignorant children running around.

If you don't leave a gun either fully unloaded (and with no access to magazines and/or ammo), or secure it in a safe, or carried on your person, anywhere else you'd put it at home is basically equivalent to what you've described. Kids are reckless, but they're not stupid. They can, and will, find out where you store it, and if it is not locked, they will retrieve it, and play with it.

carrying a gun on your person is a good way to get shot or arrested in many areas and states in the US. You should try it sometime.

I'm not aware of any states in the Union that ban carry in the privacy of your own home (which is the only thing relevant to this particular discussion), whether open or concealed.

Even beyond your home, vast majority of states have legal provisions for shall-issue concealed carry today.

I've been carrying a gun in my pocket pretty much daily for the past 5 years. No-one has even realized that I have one, unless and until I chose to share it with them (and no-one has ever asked if I do).

But tell me more about your plight.

https://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0?t...

Oh, and something something SJWs.

The treatment of men and women in Islam is the conclusion of radical feminist ideals https://youtu.be/5eqYEVYZgdo

This concept was already presented in the movie Demolition Man.

I'm pretty sure that it was also presented by Ford in the earlier Tom Selleck movie, Runaway, but I'm unable to find that video readily.

VW has that covered

"they are not thermometers in space. The satellite [temperature] data ... were obtained from so-called Microwave Sounding Units (MSUs), which measure the microwave emissions of oxygen molecules from broad atmospheric layers. Converting this information to estimates of temperature trends has substantial uncertainties."

- http://www.theguardian.com/env...

He's also quoted in this video: https://youtu.be/UVMsYXzmUYk

Senator Cruz focuses on one data set (mine) from one type of instrument (satellite) and he ignores all of the other evidence. For example the surface temperature record, things like the arctic sea ice declining, things like the time of year that plants flower or leaf out. All of those sorts of things he's ignored in favour of this one piece of evidence that supports the story that he wants to tell.

Someone actually did an edit that cuts some of the superfluous gungan scenes, and replaces Jar-Jar's and the Nemoidians' dialogue with more classical Star Wars alien speech (i.e. non-english) that's subtitled, and changed many of the lines to make more sense. It's amazing how much less shitty the result is. For example:
https://youtu.be/KfQBdRcgizc?t...

It certainly doesn't fix all the problems of the film, but it's a noticeable improvement that just highlights how awful the original was, because it could have easily been better if he'd had an editor.

International trade dries up and the global economy collapses.

Very easy to make such a one line reply, but that is silly. Trade and the global economy weren't bad before all this free trade, life will go on just fine.

The army arrests and deports illegal immigrants?

I'm not sure how you got that out of what I posted. Rounding up existing illegals is the job of law enforcement, not the Army.

The US Army should be deployed to the Southern border to prevent people from crossing the border illegally. This applies to immigrants as well as drug cartels.

https://youtu.be/Nt2Wz81ygOc

If you're crossing the border between the US and Mexico, at night, you're an invader... People who invade other nations are enemies.

http://www.pressherald.com/201...

"Most of the immigrants hail from Central America, and many come with children. They often turn themselves over to authorities immediately after crossing the river, following the advice of smugglers, friends and relatives, who tell them they will eventually be released and allowed to continue to their destination.

For parents with young children, that has largely been true because the U.S. has only one long-term family detention facility, in Pennsylvania, and itâ(TM)s full. Most parents are handed notices to appear at the immigration office closest to their destination and dropped off at bus stations across the Southwest."

That is a bloody crime, why even have borders or rules? Why should I follow the rules when they don't have to? They are taking American jobs and holding down wages.

Instead of having government buses waiting for them, how about we have Predator Drones firing hellfire missiles at them? Sooner or later, they'll get the message to stop.

This nonsense is why Trump is at over 40%, hard working Americans are sick of this crap and want it to stop.

Maybe you're proposing they just summarily execute the immigrants or threaten to invade Mexico.

If an invading army is crossing your borders, you shoot at them.

As for invading Mexico, it may well come to that if they can't get the drug cartels under control. If they can't clean up their mess, we'll do it for them.

Well in that case the US becomes a pariah state.

Yea, like it did after Iraq? I hate to burst your bubble, but no one in the world cares any more about Mexico than they did about Iraq, and we have FAR more interest in Mexico than we ever did in Iraq.

The problem is your "stick" isn't nearly as big as you think it is

It is bigger than you think it is...

https://youtu.be/XiIFeru-ufQ?l...

Here's a nice video too https://youtu.be/CKRf3YkjwzQ

I don't know about skittles, but certainly a creamy desert in a cone.

http://youtu.be/YbYWhdLO43Q

ChaosEsque is a mod/standalone/for of Xonotic. It has 90 weapons,
spell casting, monsters, foliage generation. It has over 100 maps and
thus is called ChaosEsque Anthology (a collection of poems). Over 50 of the
maps were built by one ChaosEsque contributor. Contributors to ChaosEsque
were mapping, 3d modeling, and coding quakeC for Nexuiz years before the
fork to Xonotic: thus ChaosEsque has the right to fork from Xonotic
and bring all the nexuiz maps and players back plus much more.

ChaosEsque also has added various mods of it's own completely: City Generation,
buildable-buildings that can be captured or destroyed,
minecraft style block building, lockable
doors, inventory system, weapon replacement with: spikes, fire, nothing,
spell scrolls, medeval weapons, etc.

ChaosEsque has extended other aspects of the game and other mods:
Tanks, planes, and cars have been added to the vehicle system.
Many types of grenades and mines hav been added to the grenade system.
Many additional monsters have been added to the monster system.

Additionally, ChaosEsque Anthology is a traditional opensource project:
it does not coddle you and doesn't attempt to enforce Social Justice
values. Code in vanilla Xonotic filters out "banned" servers from the
server list you get to view: ChaosEsque disables this code.

ChaosEsque isn't annoying to you, doesn't beg of you to upgrade, doesn't
try to automatically update, and doesn't check a website for the latest
version: such things are security errors (any hacker or govt could replace
such a upgrade file with anything)

Furthurmore ChaosEsque sees value in others: Just as ChaosEsque does not
rip out code others have written because it is "old" (working code is kept,
not endlessly refactored), and maintains a second branch with Div0's bendy
model feature (a feature added the week ChaosEs
ChaosEsque will stay true to DarkPlaces. It is wrong to use someone and then kick
them to the curb as if they had no value. If one begins a relationship
one should continue in that. Regardless of weather "all" other developers
are snake-in-the-grass scum. ChaosEsque will remain true.

http://youtu.be/4KbTBLRDJ9s

What are your thoughts?

Screenshots: http://www.lgdb.org/node/26891...
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project...

Full disclosure: I am a developer on both PTVS and RTVS (different but intersecting subsets of the same team work on both).

So why has no one mentioned RStudio yet? We just seem to be talking R. This is pretty much a clone of RStudio so far, with *slightly* better code-completion.

And a license that is not Affero GPL v3.

I think you will find that there are other differences that you may find interesting and useful beyond that, though. The video is a very brief overview, and doesn't show everything in detail, but some things are already visible. For example, notice how at 1:15, the history brings up the entire multiline expression, that is editable as such (rather than scrolling through each individual line of it).

MS tools for open languages rarely give anything I can't get elsewhere, just the same stuff over their own tooling. I remember them pitching Python tools as if they invented the first IDE with code-completion for Python while I had been using tools with equivalent functionality for 10 years prior.

With respect to "first IDE with code completion" - I'm not aware of it having ever been pitched like that.

What it had been pitched like - and what was true - is that it's the IDE with the best code completion, especially on large volume of pure Python code (as opposed to C modules where all the completion data comes from doc comments anyway). Until it and PyCharm showed up, most Python IDEs were doing very basic completion based on function names and such.

The big difference we made was adding an analysis engine that actually keeps track of the flow of values throughout the source code, across module boundaries even; and tracking more than just classes, but also e.g. individual values of tuples and dicts. This enables good completion for many common dynamic patterns that conventional identifier-matching approach cannot handle. And because the flow goes both ways, you can, for example, call a function in one place of your program, and then when you're editing the function, you will see the types of arguments, and the corresponding members, based on all its call sites.

Have a look at this, and tell me which IDE that you've used 10 years ago could do it back then. Heck, most Python IDEs out there can't do it today! Code completion for a dynamic language is hard.

As far as "give anything I can't get elsewhere" - how about this?

Full disclosure: I am a developer on both PTVS and RTVS (different but intersecting subsets of the same team work on both).

So why has no one mentioned RStudio yet? We just seem to be talking R. This is pretty much a clone of RStudio so far, with *slightly* better code-completion.

And a license that is not Affero GPL v3.

I think you will find that there are other differences that you may find interesting and useful beyond that, though. The video is a very brief overview, and doesn't show everything in detail, but some things are already visible. For example, notice how at 1:15, the history brings up the entire multiline expression, that is editable as such (rather than scrolling through each individual line of it).

MS tools for open languages rarely give anything I can't get elsewhere, just the same stuff over their own tooling. I remember them pitching Python tools as if they invented the first IDE with code-completion for Python while I had been using tools with equivalent functionality for 10 years prior.

With respect to "first IDE with code completion" - I'm not aware of it having ever been pitched like that.

What it had been pitched like - and what was true - is that it's the IDE with the best code completion, especially on large volume of pure Python code (as opposed to C modules where all the completion data comes from doc comments anyway). Until it and PyCharm showed up, most Python IDEs were doing very basic completion based on function names and such.

The big difference we made was adding an analysis engine that actually keeps track of the flow of values throughout the source code, across module boundaries even; and tracking more than just classes, but also e.g. individual values of tuples and dicts. This enables good completion for many common dynamic patterns that conventional identifier-matching approach cannot handle. And because the flow goes both ways, you can, for example, call a function in one place of your program, and then when you're editing the function, you will see the types of arguments, and the corresponding members, based on all its call sites.

Have a look at this, and tell me which IDE that you've used 10 years ago could do it back then. Heck, most Python IDEs out there can't do it today! Code completion for a dynamic language is hard.

As far as "give anything I can't get elsewhere" - how about this?

Antarctica!
https://youtu.be/9ZlOhSt_qW0

There is that but this is old old old news.

https://youtu.be/B8DjTcANBx0

And back then it was even big, high quality (and price tag) cameras that were at fault.

Basically, these sorts of things must be on their own vlan and cut off from all access that isn't to the monitoring station/area.

So...Microsoft is the same as a sleazy used car dealer? :-)

after reviewing the evidence

https://youtu.be/sforhbLiwLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

yes they are

Most notably it killed the house robot 'Matilda.

'It also used a self-righting mechanism that served a secondary purpose of enabling it to take a bow at the end of the battle. Very cool.

Most notably it killed the house robot 'Matilda.

'It also used a self-righting mechanism that served a secondary purpose of enabling it to take a bow at the end of the battle. Very cool.

It is not only the cost of the metal, it is also the economic impact of handling pennies, as explained in a CGP Grey video.

That is Le Pew

Oui, my little cabbage. It is ze love at sight first.

https://youtu.be/JEdBndu0YUM

If you wanted to set up giant loudspeakers, what music would you play to promote world peace and harmony?

I'll start:

https://youtu.be/l32vqiRTGew

http://www.wallofsound.ws/

If you wanted to set up giant loudspeakers, what music would you play to promote world peace and harmony?

I'll start:

https://youtu.be/l32vqiRTGew

In my imagination, once side is playing Party Rock Anthem and the other side is blasting Meshuggah's Bleed.

https://youtu.be/qc98u-eGzlc

https://youtu.be/pIOOwhmkoLo

I haven't decided which side is playing which.

In my imagination, once side is playing Party Rock Anthem and the other side is blasting Meshuggah's Bleed.

https://youtu.be/qc98u-eGzlc

https://youtu.be/pIOOwhmkoLo

I haven't decided which side is playing which.

Jensen speakers are second only to the Vivid Thunders..

South Korea has much to fear.
https://youtu.be/gQvCvNG2VU4?t...

I always visualise a busy car park with two self-driving cars both stopped with noses together, trying to get into the same parking space and unable to safely proceed, and traffic backed up out onto the main road trying to get in.

This could happen.

Also, a longer term plan is to be able to touch down on land, the sea provides a good environment to practice soft landings because when you fail you are a really long way from any people/infrastructure and because with the motion of the landing ship, once you can reliably do sea landings, surface landings should be relatively easy

That was originally true, but the order kind of ended up getting swapped: SpaceX has already successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage on land, back at the launch site (different pad, but nearby): https://youtu.be/1B6oiLNyKKI

I know they are not a good government, but we are not going to fix them. We have not fixed them in the last 60 years of them being a bad government. Nobody else will fix them either. Every Government needs a bogeyman, and the DPRK still works as one.

You're right. If there wasn't a Kim Jong-un, we'd have to invent one.

Hopefully, one with a better haircut. The Kid & Play hairdo just isn't working. They just don't make super-villains like they used to.

https://youtu.be/UEaKX9YYHiQ

No all the cool kids use Erlang the real rockstar language

Both sides can be filming and it not stop a shooting, too. Here is a video where the officer had a body camera and the teen had a cell phone recording. It didn't stop the officer from shooting him: https://youtu.be/h-uXeAvpVHk

Neither version helped convict the officer, either. It was ruled justified. I lean heavily in favor of the teen, but I can see the officer spin it enough to make it sound like a legit shooting. The poor kid should have sucked it up more and did what the officer said. But still, in the same situation, I would not have shot the teen. The officer called for backup, but did not wait.

Swivel char? i'm pretty sure this has been tried before: https://youtu.be/4cNmMLq9ZrQ?t...

See Sexy Video https://youtu.be/rOvsUpiMSbQ

Probably for some really grubby reason such as making it easier for her to accept bribes, etc.

On a side note, its really interesting when the oligarchic-controlled news media and political "pundits" crap their pants over they way Donald Trump has verbally thrashed her recently.
What they fail to understand is that Big Media and "pundits" crapping their pants over his statements only increases his popularity with people, who see through the years and decades of lies and BS.

If the oligarchic-controlled Big Media and all the "pundits" were such great guardians and watchers of our democracy, how the hell did it become this effed up and broken?

And now we're supposed to be concerned when they crap their pants because someone insults one of the foremost, lying hypocrites?

It's most likely made in Simulink and compiled to C and then for the target platform. Simulink is used everywhere in automated controls from the automotive up through aircraft.

That's exactly what this code does, I work with A2L files all the time, it's how we calibrate our engines. It's how everyone calibrates their engines.