The players are against the NFL controlling the equipment they choose. Its purely an issue caused by the NFLPA, the player's union. The NFL has tried to get that inserted but the NFLPA wants concessions if they do.
With the exception of baseball, all my Xbox games are violent to some degree
On the flip side, having to play a baseball game as my only form of entertainment would be the most likely thing to incite violence:) To each their own, but that's one source of entertainment I simply can't ever understand.
The NFL is not a contact sport, it is a collision sport. The collisions are fundamental to the way the game is played. Your theory works well for things like Boxing -> MMA, but the game would change entirely if this path was followed. There's too much invested by athletes, fans, businesses, and future stars to make such a black-and-white change.
I don't really give a shit whether or not you're not Bill Clinton, tell me what the lamp does. I'm not going to click a video and turn my sound up at work.
I'm not sure you realize how small of a latency effects gaming. I bougth a PVA panel some years ago and proceeded to buy a cheap TN panel in a week, because the 20-30ms increase in total latency (the scaler in PVA panels add latency to the process). It made RTSes and FPSes horrendous. I still have both monitors side by side and use the PVA for web viewing and background stuff. Recently I did one of those little click games that tests your mousing dexterity on both screens, the PVA score averaged out at 35% lower. This is for a 20-30ms increase. We're already on the cusp of delay ruining our gaming experience, any increase by cloud gaming is sure to destroy it.
Providing an activation-free copy, but requiring validation with their key and ID, isn't really activation-free, its just moving the activation to a different medium. Redundancy department of redundancy. The only way to cut out the activation server without requiring another form of authentication was to do what they're doing.
You should raise your exemption count on your W4. All that money you get back at tax filing time in returns is what you're overpaying throughout the year on automatic tax deductions. Take your tax return refund, divide by the number of paychecks, and increase your deduction count until your paycheck increases by close to that result number. If you aren't doing this, you're giving the gov't an interest free loan so they can act as a hidden savings account.
Its pure hipocrisy for cries of standardization to come from a bloc of countries with 23 national languages. The amount of effort that goes into spoken/written language translation is far beyond that of the languages of math. If simple was a swaying factor, English, Finnish, and Hungarian wouldn't exist. Conversion, however, is simple for the people who need it, so why bother? The cost/benefit of switching the US to metric guarantees it will not happen until another country or countries take over the world superpower role and the US becomes a follower. Don't hold your breath.
I really can't see one. It seems like a massive waste of fuel to carry more stores on board then land vertically. Couldn't there be a better way of slowing descent in the atmosphere and recovering the module, like parachuting it into the ocean?
Its not about being PC, its about trying to put a name to a skill that cant not easily be quantified but definitely has real-world implications. I simply can't function at a high level in a social role the way others can, and I've tried and trained myself to do so, even when taking courses and focusing on it for two years. Give me complex data problems all day long, yet they do not tax my brain even remotely as much as coordinating and hosting a work event from start to finish. There is a visible, but unquantifiable difference in my ability to do their tasks. To sit by and say mine is more valuable solely because its quantifiable is assenine. I couldn't get by in my environment without these people, just as they couldn't get by without people like me.
I'd mod you up but I want to participate. I see where the study is coming from, and I think you've asked the right question. I think what's measured by IQ tests is the ability to find solutions to abstract problems. In this sene, IQ measures your problem solving productivity. Of course, this doesn't make you the most amazing person ever. As the saying goes, it takes all kinds.
Unfortunately, other types of intelligence are not easily quantified. A social butterfly serves a great role in a production environment that I could never manage to fill without eventually having a breakdown, and there's really no question that their brainpower devoted to this is significantly more refined than mine. So, they have a much higher Social Intelligence than I do, but I may have a higher IQ than they do. Does that make either of us more valuable? No. Just two different cogs for two different parts in the big machine.
In a perfect world, yes, but it doesn't account for wear over time on the PSU itself or real-world scenarios. If you pick a PSU to work at 90% load during peak usage, that PSUs aging will put it at 100% or more in 4 years, drastically aging the supply. Its like the power stations in Sim City, their output degrades over time. It also ensures the PSU fan is running near the top end of its spec and will burn out faster and removes the ability to upgrade to higher powered components in the future without a new purchase. The optimal purchase point is between 60-80% max load for these reasons.
I haven't seen anyone mention this, but an important factor with quality PSUs isn't so much your power bill but more the component wear in your systems. Efficient well-rated PSUs have much more stringent voltage variances as well as less problems with vdroop and such. Inconsistent or inadequate voltage is the #1 reason the parts in your systems wear over time. A well made power supply goes a long way into improving the life of your components.
I dunno, there's actually a benefit to this kind of approach. A public facing article, intended for the public, not just the 1% of us who love and understand science. I remember reading things like this as a kid and re-living the history of an event, feeling the experience of the scientist and their jubilation as they worked through a problem and found their answers. Science written in the form of a suspense novel brings people into the fray that would have otherwise ignored it. I'm all for it.
afidel is correct, rail is the preferred method of inland delivery for international cargo arrive at container terminals. This includes containerized, truckable cargo. Because we have modular container trains now that are easy to set up and roll, plus the increasing prevalence of on-dock rail lines at shipping terminals, the expense has come down due to less labor and the ability to load it directly to rail from ship without trucking it to a rail depot.
What about massive procedure backlogs for critical surgeries? My aunt in Finland died because there was too long of a wait between breast cancer detection and removal (1 year). To him, that's death panels...she wasn't important to operate on fast enough for a life threatening issue. Apparently they have some of the best socialized medicine in the world, but it was bad enough to turn my dad into a die hard conservative on the topic. He says its like a lottery, if you get assigned to a bad center then you're totally fucked.
Yeah, you can't make the other parts out of plastic because of the pressure from the round, but you could reduce the pressure and projectile speed making it a lot less lethal but still usable for targets and defense. There really isn't much between paintball/airsoft and lethal firearms. I wonder if there would be a market for people wanting something like that.
It is a competitive advantage issue, and is intentionally prevented by console makers. One of the console makers did a study on it a while back, and allowing mice would have such an impact that people would either have to be segregated by input device or FPS players would have to buy a mouse to compete on an equal level. There are hardhacked mice for consoles that appear to the console as a controller, and its actually considered cheating.
While you're right, I still think Nintendo is missing something here by falling for the same false dichotomy that you've mentioned. IF they did make it powerful enough to run those types of games, that doesn't mean they couldn't also have their good old nintendo frontliners as well. That would almost immediately sway anyone who grew up on the SNES/N64 but enjoys console FPSes into their audience, as well as deprive sales to their competitors. I think they are mistakenly fearing direct competition with Sony/MS by building similar hardware when in face their demographic is locked in purely on the software side.
The post I responded to was referring to the bleeding edge, not what was more convenient. I took that to mean people interested in competitive play and derive enjoyment from difficulty. At that level, play with mice is completely different and far more exhilarating than that of a controller, and that's what this refers to. I'm not saying console gaming is bad or anything, to each their own, but as someone whose played at that level with a mouse on PC and then with a controller, the competitive side of console gaming is significantly less difficult to peak at.
The input difference also shows itself at the low levels, best recent case being Battlefield 3 for me. I bought the game on PC for the full experience and big maps, then bought the console version to play with my two brothers sometimes. In the PC version everyone can aim, and it manifested itself in Rush results. In low level play on PC, the defenders almost always won because successful captures are based off coordination and tactics. In the console version the rush team almost always won because you could charge right up the gut and not get hit...you pop your head up on the PC and you're toast before you know it. Melee kills were also much more common on the consoles for the same reason.
Sorry but this isn't accurate. Twitch responses with a mouse require less mucle and less movement, making the task quicker, while maintaining the precision of the lower portion of our arm, the most well controlled part of our body. The guntrollers use a lot more muscles and are a lot more involved, so while they and controllers are easier to learn and master and in many cases more fun to many, their ceiling is lower than a mouse. Also, a lot of console gamers buy computer monitors and play at a desk because big TVs make it harder to regonize small details due to the low DPI. Personally I'd think it shouldnt matter because of sitting further away you'd ahve the same effective DPI to your eye, but I've seen it in person since my bro did it and it indeed does work.
I'm not realy talking about the fun aspect with this post, I was replying to a post about people who play at the bleeding edge. Reading again I see it could mean two demographics, the ignorant buffoon who spends $3k on a computer only to troll noobs or someone who spends sensibly but whose focus is the bleeding edge of competition, not hardware. The latter group is the ones I was referring to.
Hah, I think what he was referring to is how there's some hardhacked mice that appear as a controller to the console. They are not allowed by the consoles due to competitive advantage, so in this sense its definitely cheating. Google "xbox 360 mouse" for me info.
Sorry, but no one serious about playing any kind of FPS will move from a PC to a console. The mouse is an exponentially better precision device than a controller.
I wish I had mod points. This AC post clearly and accurately diagnoses the issue people have. Its an issue of human origin and how our brain and logic works, building on past decisions and rationalizations.
Maybe so, but you kinda just ranted randomly about it like a cynic, and it came across as if you were trying to downplay the man's acheivement and the role it has served us. Fairly misplaced and poorly timed.
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The players are against the NFL controlling the equipment they choose. Its purely an issue caused by the NFLPA, the player's union. The NFL has tried to get that inserted but the NFLPA wants concessions if they do.
With the exception of baseball, all my Xbox games are violent to some degree
On the flip side, having to play a baseball game as my only form of entertainment would be the most likely thing to incite violence :) To each their own, but that's one source of entertainment I simply can't ever understand.
The NFL is not a contact sport, it is a collision sport. The collisions are fundamental to the way the game is played. Your theory works well for things like Boxing -> MMA, but the game would change entirely if this path was followed. There's too much invested by athletes, fans, businesses, and future stars to make such a black-and-white change.
I don't really give a shit whether or not you're not Bill Clinton, tell me what the lamp does. I'm not going to click a video and turn my sound up at work.
The hell does this do?
I'm not sure you realize how small of a latency effects gaming. I bougth a PVA panel some years ago and proceeded to buy a cheap TN panel in a week, because the 20-30ms increase in total latency (the scaler in PVA panels add latency to the process). It made RTSes and FPSes horrendous. I still have both monitors side by side and use the PVA for web viewing and background stuff. Recently I did one of those little click games that tests your mousing dexterity on both screens, the PVA score averaged out at 35% lower. This is for a 20-30ms increase. We're already on the cusp of delay ruining our gaming experience, any increase by cloud gaming is sure to destroy it.
Providing an activation-free copy, but requiring validation with their key and ID, isn't really activation-free, its just moving the activation to a different medium. Redundancy department of redundancy. The only way to cut out the activation server without requiring another form of authentication was to do what they're doing.
You should raise your exemption count on your W4. All that money you get back at tax filing time in returns is what you're overpaying throughout the year on automatic tax deductions. Take your tax return refund, divide by the number of paychecks, and increase your deduction count until your paycheck increases by close to that result number. If you aren't doing this, you're giving the gov't an interest free loan so they can act as a hidden savings account.
Its pure hipocrisy for cries of standardization to come from a bloc of countries with 23 national languages. The amount of effort that goes into spoken/written language translation is far beyond that of the languages of math. If simple was a swaying factor, English, Finnish, and Hungarian wouldn't exist. Conversion, however, is simple for the people who need it, so why bother? The cost/benefit of switching the US to metric guarantees it will not happen until another country or countries take over the world superpower role and the US becomes a follower. Don't hold your breath.
I really can't see one. It seems like a massive waste of fuel to carry more stores on board then land vertically. Couldn't there be a better way of slowing descent in the atmosphere and recovering the module, like parachuting it into the ocean?
Its not about being PC, its about trying to put a name to a skill that cant not easily be quantified but definitely has real-world implications. I simply can't function at a high level in a social role the way others can, and I've tried and trained myself to do so, even when taking courses and focusing on it for two years. Give me complex data problems all day long, yet they do not tax my brain even remotely as much as coordinating and hosting a work event from start to finish. There is a visible, but unquantifiable difference in my ability to do their tasks. To sit by and say mine is more valuable solely because its quantifiable is assenine. I couldn't get by in my environment without these people, just as they couldn't get by without people like me.
I'd mod you up but I want to participate. I see where the study is coming from, and I think you've asked the right question. I think what's measured by IQ tests is the ability to find solutions to abstract problems. In this sene, IQ measures your problem solving productivity. Of course, this doesn't make you the most amazing person ever. As the saying goes, it takes all kinds.
Unfortunately, other types of intelligence are not easily quantified. A social butterfly serves a great role in a production environment that I could never manage to fill without eventually having a breakdown, and there's really no question that their brainpower devoted to this is significantly more refined than mine. So, they have a much higher Social Intelligence than I do, but I may have a higher IQ than they do. Does that make either of us more valuable? No. Just two different cogs for two different parts in the big machine.
In a perfect world, yes, but it doesn't account for wear over time on the PSU itself or real-world scenarios. If you pick a PSU to work at 90% load during peak usage, that PSUs aging will put it at 100% or more in 4 years, drastically aging the supply. Its like the power stations in Sim City, their output degrades over time. It also ensures the PSU fan is running near the top end of its spec and will burn out faster and removes the ability to upgrade to higher powered components in the future without a new purchase. The optimal purchase point is between 60-80% max load for these reasons.
I haven't seen anyone mention this, but an important factor with quality PSUs isn't so much your power bill but more the component wear in your systems. Efficient well-rated PSUs have much more stringent voltage variances as well as less problems with vdroop and such. Inconsistent or inadequate voltage is the #1 reason the parts in your systems wear over time. A well made power supply goes a long way into improving the life of your components.
I dunno, there's actually a benefit to this kind of approach. A public facing article, intended for the public, not just the 1% of us who love and understand science. I remember reading things like this as a kid and re-living the history of an event, feeling the experience of the scientist and their jubilation as they worked through a problem and found their answers. Science written in the form of a suspense novel brings people into the fray that would have otherwise ignored it. I'm all for it.
afidel is correct, rail is the preferred method of inland delivery for international cargo arrive at container terminals. This includes containerized, truckable cargo. Because we have modular container trains now that are easy to set up and roll, plus the increasing prevalence of on-dock rail lines at shipping terminals, the expense has come down due to less labor and the ability to load it directly to rail from ship without trucking it to a rail depot.
Yes, usually about 30% capacity. The guy is failing, hard.
What about massive procedure backlogs for critical surgeries? My aunt in Finland died because there was too long of a wait between breast cancer detection and removal (1 year). To him, that's death panels...she wasn't important to operate on fast enough for a life threatening issue. Apparently they have some of the best socialized medicine in the world, but it was bad enough to turn my dad into a die hard conservative on the topic. He says its like a lottery, if you get assigned to a bad center then you're totally fucked.
Yeah, you can't make the other parts out of plastic because of the pressure from the round, but you could reduce the pressure and projectile speed making it a lot less lethal but still usable for targets and defense. There really isn't much between paintball/airsoft and lethal firearms. I wonder if there would be a market for people wanting something like that.
It is a competitive advantage issue, and is intentionally prevented by console makers. One of the console makers did a study on it a while back, and allowing mice would have such an impact that people would either have to be segregated by input device or FPS players would have to buy a mouse to compete on an equal level. There are hardhacked mice for consoles that appear to the console as a controller, and its actually considered cheating.
While you're right, I still think Nintendo is missing something here by falling for the same false dichotomy that you've mentioned. IF they did make it powerful enough to run those types of games, that doesn't mean they couldn't also have their good old nintendo frontliners as well. That would almost immediately sway anyone who grew up on the SNES/N64 but enjoys console FPSes into their audience, as well as deprive sales to their competitors. I think they are mistakenly fearing direct competition with Sony/MS by building similar hardware when in face their demographic is locked in purely on the software side.
The post I responded to was referring to the bleeding edge, not what was more convenient. I took that to mean people interested in competitive play and derive enjoyment from difficulty. At that level, play with mice is completely different and far more exhilarating than that of a controller, and that's what this refers to. I'm not saying console gaming is bad or anything, to each their own, but as someone whose played at that level with a mouse on PC and then with a controller, the competitive side of console gaming is significantly less difficult to peak at.
The input difference also shows itself at the low levels, best recent case being Battlefield 3 for me. I bought the game on PC for the full experience and big maps, then bought the console version to play with my two brothers sometimes. In the PC version everyone can aim, and it manifested itself in Rush results. In low level play on PC, the defenders almost always won because successful captures are based off coordination and tactics. In the console version the rush team almost always won because you could charge right up the gut and not get hit...you pop your head up on the PC and you're toast before you know it. Melee kills were also much more common on the consoles for the same reason.
Sorry but this isn't accurate. Twitch responses with a mouse require less mucle and less movement, making the task quicker, while maintaining the precision of the lower portion of our arm, the most well controlled part of our body. The guntrollers use a lot more muscles and are a lot more involved, so while they and controllers are easier to learn and master and in many cases more fun to many, their ceiling is lower than a mouse. Also, a lot of console gamers buy computer monitors and play at a desk because big TVs make it harder to regonize small details due to the low DPI. Personally I'd think it shouldnt matter because of sitting further away you'd ahve the same effective DPI to your eye, but I've seen it in person since my bro did it and it indeed does work.
I'm not realy talking about the fun aspect with this post, I was replying to a post about people who play at the bleeding edge. Reading again I see it could mean two demographics, the ignorant buffoon who spends $3k on a computer only to troll noobs or someone who spends sensibly but whose focus is the bleeding edge of competition, not hardware. The latter group is the ones I was referring to.
Hah, I think what he was referring to is how there's some hardhacked mice that appear as a controller to the console. They are not allowed by the consoles due to competitive advantage, so in this sense its definitely cheating. Google "xbox 360 mouse" for me info.
Sorry, but no one serious about playing any kind of FPS will move from a PC to a console. The mouse is an exponentially better precision device than a controller.
I wish I had mod points. This AC post clearly and accurately diagnoses the issue people have. Its an issue of human origin and how our brain and logic works, building on past decisions and rationalizations.
Maybe so, but you kinda just ranted randomly about it like a cynic, and it came across as if you were trying to downplay the man's acheivement and the role it has served us. Fairly misplaced and poorly timed.