I just love the past performance guarantees future performance argument.
How many college grads were getting displaced 50 years ago? How many of them had spent $100k and 4 years of their lives to have their jobs moved offshore?
I'm not saying that hack programmers should be protected somehow. I'm just not optimistic because some factory worker 50 years ago could be retrained as a plumber. We can't all seek refuge in services to each other, it just doesn't work that way.
I think the real status of the economy in the US isn't so gloomy though. It seems to me like people don't want a good economy, they are yearning for 1999 all over again.
Players play the mobs. Have one specific zone where a player can enter and be a monster or fight the monsters. Give xp to whoever lives and xp just for participating. This should be done in a way to encourage a battle royale where the players fight the same mobs as normal but they will of course be much smarter. Another benefit is the large variety that a player could have access to.
If I had the choice of killing 1000 rats again or of getting a bunch of friends and playing rabid wolves and hunting down adventurers, I know what I'd pick.
I know EQ had something like this, but the player's only satisfaction there was ganking low levels, they didn't get xp for their character.
That isn't even remotely what people really want out of a Star Wars game. Top three:
3. A real thermal detonator. 2. Being able to carbonite freeze the people you gank in PvP. 1. A sofa suitable for tying up your dancing slaves.
SWG was a good game for about 2 months. A person could get to PvP level in just a couple days and actually participate. There were no major penalties for death in PvP so an assault on a city would band everone together and eventually they would repel it.
Since then they've changed everything they could to stop people from participating in PvP. They implemented special drops and high level gear. Now you have to grind for days to get PvP level stuff. They implemented decay so that your high level stuff wears out at least 1% every time you hit the clone center. Jedi is a senseless grind and removes tons of people who now actively avoid PvP so they can grind. Then net result is that nobody does PvP unless they are the highest level in the best gear.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most probes land on the surface?
It is a control structure not evaluated for the truth of expression but for the side effects.
Clearly Hamlet is attempting first 2b. If that returns false, then he'll attempt !2b. As these are attempted in succession and not at the same time, it is possible though unlikely that both return false. More likely is a fatal error which Hamlet appears not to worry about trapping.
What ethics rules would those be? It is now unethical to be awarded a prize for outstanding work? There is nothing unethical about accepting money for performance.
I'm sure there are contract rules which everyone agreed to that says the money goes to the school (and/or other sponsors).
Only the NCAA pretends its "students" are amateurs.
MS jumped out in front with an OS and funded their future successes.
Free and Open software (not just Linux) on the other hand is taking many small steps every day. And the most important part is that every step is permanently avaialble to everyone to build on.
Linux is improved in a much more incremental fashion than the cataclysmic everyone-must-upgrade-now cycles that MS products go through. Between kernels 2.2 and 2.4, you probably went through a couple separate versions of KDE or Gnome. There is no gradual improvement path from Win2k to XP.
Linux gets a little better every day. Windows has peaked and the only new thing seems to be that it doesn't crash so often.
At the youngest ages though a GUI interface is surprisingly intuitive. I found this out when my 18month old began clicking on things. He'd click on an animal, say it's name or make the sound.
At 19 months he's playing Concentration (memory) on a game called Childsplay (available through sourceforge).
Childsplay is a pretty cool progam made to add different modules. Some of the modules though have default words like: sister, baby, fish, linux. It receives my vote for having the best penguin in a diaper.
It is a very risky business with extremely high insurance costs. This drives out the small maternity wards in favor of big ones that can disperse the risk.
Having a child isn't a complex endeavor. It has been done before these giant maternity wards. There is no reason there can't be small places all over, except for liability reasons.
This same phenomenon keeps doctors from working anything less than full time as insurance really can't be pro rated.
Typically the good samaritan laws protect a normal person from doing something they are not trained to do, in an emergency situation. So if I move you out of the highway after an accident (for your safety), and end up making your injuries worse, I would be protected.
If it's a doctor however and they are trained for something, they are still liable for malpractice.
Then you just change your form of discrimination so you don't rent to anyone who has been involved in filing more than 3 lawsuits. This would include most lawyers but not be limited to any specific class of person.
"It's pretty much fact." isn't quite the math I'm looking for.
There is a lot of statement of this "fact" but I've never seen any real numbers backing it up. As you point out, those numbers would have to include the chunk of cards that are never played.
I could run the math myself but with the sheer number of people that know these "facts" you'd think they could be found somewhere on the internet.
Refining google search to "blackjack systems"...
It seems there are a lot of people willing to sell their systems to make tons of money.
Hmm, actually this guy has something to say about it: www.saliu.com/bbs/messages/274.html
My p3 600MHz runs better than that work machine by a large margin.
Read through the other crap about virus scanning. Over 12% of my cpu time used up by virus scans. Combine that with Lotus Notes and you've got yourself a crap computer.
I play "music" on my keyboard. I take some piece of piano music that I have in muscle memory and play it to bang out my password. The passwords are quite good and since it's a slight variation of something I already know, I can memorize it quite quickly. Another key benefit is that it is always easy to type.
I'm really curious about this. Lots of people say this it tips the odds in the counters favor, but I'v e yet to see the cold hard math.
Personally I believe it's all BS and the house continues to have an advantage. In fact I think they want people to believe they can count cards to the player's advantage. Why else would some casinos advertise a their number of decks?
I'm willing to be proven wrong. I've looked at odds on this sort of thing before but I'd like to see proof that doesn't involved hand waving at some point.
I work somewhere that I get the same computer as everyone else.
I have a 1.7GHz P4, with 256M of ram, and a 17" (non-flat screen) monitor.
Obviously the ram is a sore spot since I have to run win2k. But it gets worse. I have to run Lotus Notes. I'm developing for Weblogic. If I let everything else page out I can get an IDE working.
When I start up my computer and do nothing but open up Task Manager, there are 42 processes running. About 6 of them have something to do with virus scanning. The scanners have to run every day, during the day since the computers must be turned off when not in use. Today, McAfee's virus scanner logged 70 minutes of cpu time out of the mere 8 hours I was logged on. This was a good day though, and sometimes it uses up to 3 hours of cpu time.
I have to put up with all of these things because everyone must be treated the same according to the IT rules. The way I see it, I get work done in spite of their services, not through the aid of their services.
Just once I'd like to be at the company that expects and trusts its employees to do their jobs.
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I just love the past performance guarantees future performance argument.
How many college grads were getting displaced 50 years ago? How many of them had spent $100k and 4 years of their lives to have their jobs moved offshore?
I'm not saying that hack programmers should be protected somehow. I'm just not optimistic because some factory worker 50 years ago could be retrained as a plumber. We can't all seek refuge in services to each other, it just doesn't work that way.
I think the real status of the economy in the US isn't so gloomy though. It seems to me like people don't want a good economy, they are yearning for 1999 all over again.
Here is my idea:
Players play the mobs. Have one specific zone where a player can enter and be a monster or fight the monsters. Give xp to whoever lives and xp just for participating. This should be done in a way to encourage a battle royale where the players fight the same mobs as normal but they will of course be much smarter. Another benefit is the large variety that a player could have access to.
If I had the choice of killing 1000 rats again or of getting a bunch of friends and playing rabid wolves and hunting down adventurers, I know what I'd pick.
I know EQ had something like this, but the player's only satisfaction there was ganking low levels, they didn't get xp for their character.
That isn't even remotely what people really want out of a Star Wars game. Top three:
3. A real thermal detonator.
2. Being able to carbonite freeze the people you gank in PvP.
1. A sofa suitable for tying up your dancing slaves.
SWG was a good game for about 2 months. A person could get to PvP level in just a couple days and actually participate. There were no major penalties for death in PvP so an assault on a city would band everone together and eventually they would repel it.
Since then they've changed everything they could to stop people from participating in PvP. They implemented special drops and high level gear. Now you have to grind for days to get PvP level stuff. They implemented decay so that your high level stuff wears out at least 1% every time you hit the clone center. Jedi is a senseless grind and removes tons of people who now actively avoid PvP so they can grind. Then net result is that nobody does PvP unless they are the highest level in the best gear.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most probes land on the surface?
It is a control structure not evaluated for the truth of expression but for the side effects.
Clearly Hamlet is attempting first 2b. If that returns false, then he'll attempt !2b. As these are attempted in succession and not at the same time, it is possible though unlikely that both return false. More likely is a fatal error which Hamlet appears not to worry about trapping.
Thanks! I just moved to Mantua and had been looking for a good ISP.
Sure it does, you just can't carry it.
What ethics rules would those be? It is now unethical to be awarded a prize for outstanding work? There is nothing unethical about accepting money for performance.
I'm sure there are contract rules which everyone agreed to that says the money goes to the school (and/or other sponsors).
Only the NCAA pretends its "students" are amateurs.
No kidding, I'm installing 10.0 now just to get the stuff that barely missed out being in 9.2.
The tortoise comparison is appropriate.
MS jumped out in front with an OS and funded their future successes.
Free and Open software (not just Linux) on the other hand is taking many small steps every day. And the most important part is that every step is permanently avaialble to everyone to build on.
Linux is improved in a much more incremental fashion than the cataclysmic everyone-must-upgrade-now cycles that MS products go through. Between kernels 2.2 and 2.4, you probably went through a couple separate versions of KDE or Gnome. There is no gradual improvement path from Win2k to XP.
Linux gets a little better every day. Windows has peaked and the only new thing seems to be that it doesn't crash so often.
You are obviously referring to The Tick. I suppose his endorsement would drive some sales.
At the youngest ages though a GUI interface is surprisingly intuitive. I found this out when my 18month old began clicking on things. He'd click on an animal, say it's name or make the sound.
At 19 months he's playing Concentration (memory) on a game called Childsplay (available through sourceforge).
Childsplay is a pretty cool progam made to add different modules. Some of the modules though have default words like: sister, baby, fish, linux. It receives my vote for having the best penguin in a diaper.
Hehe, funny.
I'm just imagining the Doctor's lobby abusing the trial lawyers association. That's not a conspiracy I'll be buying into any time soon.
Good point.
It is a very risky business with extremely high insurance costs. This drives out the small maternity wards in favor of big ones that can disperse the risk.
Having a child isn't a complex endeavor. It has been done before these giant maternity wards. There is no reason there can't be small places all over, except for liability reasons.
This same phenomenon keeps doctors from working anything less than full time as insurance really can't be pro rated.
So the mortality rate has dropped under 100% now?
If we killed everyone before they could bear children, fewer people would die.
The only way to reduce the number of deaths is to reduce the number of people.
Now, if you say the life expectancy goes up without doctors, that might be meaningful.
Typically the good samaritan laws protect a normal person from doing something they are not trained to do, in an emergency situation. So if I move you out of the highway after an accident (for your safety), and end up making your injuries worse, I would be protected.
If it's a doctor however and they are trained for something, they are still liable for malpractice.
I hope you have a heart attack in a parking lot where the hospital used to be.
Then you just change your form of discrimination so you don't rent to anyone who has been involved in filing more than 3 lawsuits. This would include most lawyers but not be limited to any specific class of person.
It is in the US too, although some people refuse to admit it.
"It's pretty much fact." isn't quite the math I'm looking for.
There is a lot of statement of this "fact" but I've never seen any real numbers backing it up. As you point out, those numbers would have to include the chunk of cards that are never played.
I could run the math myself but with the sheer number of people that know these "facts" you'd think they could be found somewhere on the internet.
Refining google search to "blackjack systems"...
It seems there are a lot of people willing to sell their systems to make tons of money.
Hmm, actually this guy has something to say about it: www.saliu.com/bbs/messages/274.html
True, no a stock computer it might do well.
My p3 600MHz runs better than that work machine by a large margin.
Read through the other crap about virus scanning. Over 12% of my cpu time used up by virus scans. Combine that with Lotus Notes and you've got yourself a crap computer.
I play "music" on my keyboard. I take some piece of piano music that I have in muscle memory and play it to bang out my password. The passwords are quite good and since it's a slight variation of something I already know, I can memorize it quite quickly. Another key benefit is that it is always easy to type.
I'm really curious about this. Lots of people say this it tips the odds in the counters favor, but I'v e yet to see the cold hard math.
Personally I believe it's all BS and the house continues to have an advantage. In fact I think they want people to believe they can count cards to the player's advantage. Why else would some casinos advertise a their number of decks?
I'm willing to be proven wrong. I've looked at odds on this sort of thing before but I'd like to see proof that doesn't involved hand waving at some point.
One second while I google for "gambling"...brb...
I worked someplace where we scanned 250,000 passwords, and a full third of them were 'password' or the loginid.
I work somewhere that I get the same computer as everyone else.
I have a 1.7GHz P4, with 256M of ram, and a 17" (non-flat screen) monitor.
Obviously the ram is a sore spot since I have to run win2k. But it gets worse. I have to run Lotus Notes. I'm developing for Weblogic. If I let everything else page out I can get an IDE working.
When I start up my computer and do nothing but open up Task Manager, there are 42 processes running. About 6 of them have something to do with virus scanning. The scanners have to run every day, during the day since the computers must be turned off when not in use. Today, McAfee's virus scanner logged 70 minutes of cpu time out of the mere 8 hours I was logged on. This was a good day though, and sometimes it uses up to 3 hours of cpu time.
I have to put up with all of these things because everyone must be treated the same according to the IT rules. The way I see it, I get work done in spite of their services, not through the aid of their services.
Just once I'd like to be at the company that expects and trusts its employees to do their jobs.