All the servers would get hammered in the evening anyway regardless of whether or not everyone is on vacation.
Now that I think about, having people on vacation might actually be a good thing. People will have a chance to try it throughout the day and night that entire week. The load will actually be more distributed throughout the day and not just during prime time.
It's real simple. You've bought the game client with the understanding that the game requires a service to play. It takes money to maintain the service...therefore a monthly fee. Why do people have such a hard time with this? Do you think Ultima Online would still be around it you just spent $20 on the game client 15 years ago and had been using the service daily ever since? No. The money to maintain the service based on the sales of the initial game client would have dried up a long long time ago. And most of that money went to paying back the initial development costs anyway.
It'd be a rather neat project to combine electricity and water to get the hydrogen for a project like this.
But then you're manufacturing an explosive device so you have to get licenses, and permits, and insurance...hire explosive experts, firemen, off duty police, ATF, FBI, Homeland Security, etc. What's that, kid? You can't afford all that? Sorry then. Safety first! Why don't you make a nice baking soda and vinegar volcano instead.
Nothing like wild baseless speculation that trashes Slashdot's hated mega-corporation du jour...
You don't think your insurance company would buy a record of your driving habits? Including what roads you traveled on and what speed you were going? Seriously? You really don't think they'd be interested in that information? I'm not being paranoid. You're being naive.
If you don't practice the skill, it gets rusty. The only time I ever write anything anymore is in Outlook, Word, or GMail. They all correct my spelling for me. I don't have to think about. Microsoft does more to destroy spelling skills than schools do.
. Practicing in earth orbit for how to keep humans alive and healthy in low || 0 G environments is useful science. About the only way i can see to test long term effects is to actually do the tests in a real low G environment with real people.
0G = bad stuff. If we were really interested in colonization and establishing a presence in space, we would have built a spinning space station with artificial gravity. That's the only way we'll be able to endure long stays in space.
The boot camp technique. Don't punish the perpetrator, punish his peers. Considering that most people fear embarrassment more than death, this sound a lot more effective than anything else I've heard of so far.
Isn't there a fault line between Alaska and Russia?
Yes there is... a very active one, causing lot of earthquakes and volcanic activity on the sea floor.
Citation? You're not thinking there's a continental plate change are you? Because that's south of the Bering Strait. Alaskan and that part of Russia are both on the same plate.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that we've never seen any of the light reflected by a planet outside of our solar system. I thought the only methods of planet detection we currently have were to see the light it blocks from its host star, or to see the pull it has on its host star.
We do know that it's melting, and the only explanation that has any evidence to support it is that it's due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I think it makes sense to reduce carbon dioxide emissions now.
Why? Because some cities may slowly flood? You're going to have to do a lot better than that if you want to convince the entire world that they can't burn coal and oil.
I don't think they mean an astronomical observatory. I believe it's just a deck where people can view the surrounding land. An astronomical observatory wouldn't be very useful on top of a building even a quarter of that height. Not only do you have to contend with light pollution, and regular pollution, but those buildings sway so much that you couldn't possibly get an exposure of any significant duration.
Hell, I don't even feel like it's a good idea for me to say I'm an atheist. I don't live under an oppressive regime. I am an American computer programmer living in a politically balanced area. But I don't want any Tom Dick or Harry to be able to Google me and learn everything there is to know about me and everything that I post on the internet. I don't want Google keeping track of the fact that I did a search on herpes (which may lead some people to think I actually have herpes), or what kind of porn I like to look at. Because that information leaks out sooner or later. My ex girlfriend who is a facebook friend has a facebook app that logs IP addresses of people who look at her profile. She thinks I look at her profile too much...which I don't. I can't even click on her profile without her monitoring my activity and misinterpreting my actions as "pining for her". So, the things I click on are logged. It's to the point where our activities online will become more visible to everyone than in the real world. In the real world I could go to the public library and read a sympathetic magazine article about Muslim terrorists without creating an electronic trail that puts me on a bloody watch list. In the real world I don't have to worry about people evaluating every action I make in order to determine if I'm behaving normally or not. I can sit around with a group of friends and I can say something embarrassing and everyone will forget about it after a while. If I say it online, it lasts forever, and everyone in the world with a browser can see it. I'll keep my anonymity thank you very much.
I'd really like for someone to tell me why US made cars are frankly crap.
Because we have a large population of idiots who will buy an American car simply because it's not foreign. American automakers know this, so they put out an inferior product knowing that it will still sell.
Budgets for deep space astronomy (and high energy particle physics) have suffered since the early 1990's when the ISS started sucking away all the funding from basic research....sending people up for no good reason, is not the way to get there. Better to do more physics and astronomy on the ground first, and then after someone invents the magic impulse engine or warp drive, send people and experiments into space later.
Sadly, after spending my 20's and 30's defending the manned space program and seeing nothing useful come of it but wasted tax dollars, I'm forced to agree. There doesn't seem to be any point because we don't do anything up there. Colonizing or visiting any other planet/moon/asteroid seems like it will cost too much to ever be funded. So I've given up. We'd be better off spending all that shuttle and ISS money on telescopes, probes, and rovers. Until we can overcome the cost to orbit problem, people will have no significant presence in space....period.
An atomic blast? Seriously, that's your analogy? A simulated atomic blast obviously cannot interact with the real world because in order to create an equivalent effect in the real world you'd need to fission real atoms. A simulated consciousness can interact with a mechanical body in the exact same way as a "real" consciousness. Your just exchanging stimuli between your real world components (camera, touch detector, etc) and your simulated neural network. If this artificial intelligence is indistinguishable from a biological intelligence then the artificial intelligence must be considered sentient. A difference that makes no difference is no difference.
A machine that has "subjective experience; awareness; the ability to experience feelings; wakefulness; having a sense of selfhood" can be faked. A simulation of an atom bomb produces no radiation, only the simulation of radiation. You can fly your flight simulator all day without moving an inch.
That's the difference between the simulation of consciousness and real consciousness? There isn't one.
but playing in a proper environment is how they learn skills
The definition of "proper environment" is what is at issue. The majority believe it was fine the way it was. If you are a morally bankrupt parent of a child injured on a playground, you soon break company with the majority when you realize you can make a buck.
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All the servers would get hammered in the evening anyway regardless of whether or not everyone is on vacation.
Now that I think about, having people on vacation might actually be a good thing. People will have a chance to try it throughout the day and night that entire week. The load will actually be more distributed throughout the day and not just during prime time.
More of what? SWG? WOW? What? ....adding more text because of: Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It's real simple. You've bought the game client with the understanding that the game requires a service to play. It takes money to maintain the service...therefore a monthly fee. Why do people have such a hard time with this? Do you think Ultima Online would still be around it you just spent $20 on the game client 15 years ago and had been using the service daily ever since? No. The money to maintain the service based on the sales of the initial game client would have dried up a long long time ago. And most of that money went to paying back the initial development costs anyway.
It'd be a rather neat project to combine electricity and water to get the hydrogen for a project like this.
But then you're manufacturing an explosive device so you have to get licenses, and permits, and insurance...hire explosive experts, firemen, off duty police, ATF, FBI, Homeland Security, etc. What's that, kid? You can't afford all that? Sorry then. Safety first! Why don't you make a nice baking soda and vinegar volcano instead.
Nothing like wild baseless speculation that trashes Slashdot's hated mega-corporation du jour...
You don't think your insurance company would buy a record of your driving habits? Including what roads you traveled on and what speed you were going? Seriously? You really don't think they'd be interested in that information? I'm not being paranoid. You're being naive.
Yet he still can't spell...
If you don't practice the skill, it gets rusty. The only time I ever write anything anymore is in Outlook, Word, or GMail. They all correct my spelling for me. I don't have to think about. Microsoft does more to destroy spelling skills than schools do.
Do you really think that this type of endeavor could ever take place without governmental involvement?
I think that was the point he was making.
if you ask it where women belong it will usually tell you the kitchen
Okay Mr Smarty Pants. What's the correct answer to the question? Where do women belong?
"Class M" is a fictional Star Trek term. I think what you meant to say is that there are no nearby planets in the habitable zone
Mars is in the habitable zone. So is Venus. And seriously, is there anyone on this forum who doesn't know what Class M means?
. Practicing in earth orbit for how to keep humans alive and healthy in low || 0 G environments is useful science. About the only way i can see to test long term effects is to actually do the tests in a real low G environment with real people.
0G = bad stuff. If we were really interested in colonization and establishing a presence in space, we would have built a spinning space station with artificial gravity. That's the only way we'll be able to endure long stays in space.
The boot camp technique. Don't punish the perpetrator, punish his peers. Considering that most people fear embarrassment more than death, this sound a lot more effective than anything else I've heard of so far.
Isn't there a fault line between Alaska and Russia? Yes there is... a very active one, causing lot of earthquakes and volcanic activity on the sea floor.
Citation? You're not thinking there's a continental plate change are you? Because that's south of the Bering Strait. Alaskan and that part of Russia are both on the same plate.
When I hear the name Kim, I think of a white girl named Kimberly....not an Asian.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that we've never seen any of the light reflected by a planet outside of our solar system. I thought the only methods of planet detection we currently have were to see the light it blocks from its host star, or to see the pull it has on its host star.
We do know that it's melting, and the only explanation that has any evidence to support it is that it's due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I think it makes sense to reduce carbon dioxide emissions now.
Why? Because some cities may slowly flood? You're going to have to do a lot better than that if you want to convince the entire world that they can't burn coal and oil.
I don't think they mean an astronomical observatory. I believe it's just a deck where people can view the surrounding land. An astronomical observatory wouldn't be very useful on top of a building even a quarter of that height. Not only do you have to contend with light pollution, and regular pollution, but those buildings sway so much that you couldn't possibly get an exposure of any significant duration.
Hell, I don't even feel like it's a good idea for me to say I'm an atheist. I don't live under an oppressive regime. I am an American computer programmer living in a politically balanced area. But I don't want any Tom Dick or Harry to be able to Google me and learn everything there is to know about me and everything that I post on the internet. I don't want Google keeping track of the fact that I did a search on herpes (which may lead some people to think I actually have herpes), or what kind of porn I like to look at. Because that information leaks out sooner or later. My ex girlfriend who is a facebook friend has a facebook app that logs IP addresses of people who look at her profile. She thinks I look at her profile too much...which I don't. I can't even click on her profile without her monitoring my activity and misinterpreting my actions as "pining for her". So, the things I click on are logged. It's to the point where our activities online will become more visible to everyone than in the real world. In the real world I could go to the public library and read a sympathetic magazine article about Muslim terrorists without creating an electronic trail that puts me on a bloody watch list. In the real world I don't have to worry about people evaluating every action I make in order to determine if I'm behaving normally or not. I can sit around with a group of friends and I can say something embarrassing and everyone will forget about it after a while. If I say it online, it lasts forever, and everyone in the world with a browser can see it. I'll keep my anonymity thank you very much.
WTF!?!?! Can someone explain to me why someone even bothered posting this?
I'd really like for someone to tell me why US made cars are frankly crap.
Because we have a large population of idiots who will buy an American car simply because it's not foreign. American automakers know this, so they put out an inferior product knowing that it will still sell.
Budgets for deep space astronomy (and high energy particle physics) have suffered since the early 1990's when the ISS started sucking away all the funding from basic research....sending people up for no good reason, is not the way to get there. Better to do more physics and astronomy on the ground first, and then after someone invents the magic impulse engine or warp drive, send people and experiments into space later.
Sadly, after spending my 20's and 30's defending the manned space program and seeing nothing useful come of it but wasted tax dollars, I'm forced to agree. There doesn't seem to be any point because we don't do anything up there. Colonizing or visiting any other planet/moon/asteroid seems like it will cost too much to ever be funded. So I've given up. We'd be better off spending all that shuttle and ISS money on telescopes, probes, and rovers. Until we can overcome the cost to orbit problem, people will have no significant presence in space....period.
An atomic blast? Seriously, that's your analogy? A simulated atomic blast obviously cannot interact with the real world because in order to create an equivalent effect in the real world you'd need to fission real atoms. A simulated consciousness can interact with a mechanical body in the exact same way as a "real" consciousness. Your just exchanging stimuli between your real world components (camera, touch detector, etc) and your simulated neural network. If this artificial intelligence is indistinguishable from a biological intelligence then the artificial intelligence must be considered sentient. A difference that makes no difference is no difference.
That's the difference between the simulation of consciousness and real consciousness? There isn't one.
Meant to say: What's the difference between the simulation of consciousness and real consciousness?
A machine that has "subjective experience; awareness; the ability to experience feelings; wakefulness; having a sense of selfhood" can be faked. A simulation of an atom bomb produces no radiation, only the simulation of radiation. You can fly your flight simulator all day without moving an inch.
That's the difference between the simulation of consciousness and real consciousness? There isn't one.
but playing in a proper environment is how they learn skills
The definition of "proper environment" is what is at issue. The majority believe it was fine the way it was. If you are a morally bankrupt parent of a child injured on a playground, you soon break company with the majority when you realize you can make a buck.
And a unibrow?