There is ice, mainly because that's one item that most people will probably want and can't provide themselves very easily.
Coffee is also available for sale, i have to admit i don't understand that one, but plenty of people provide free coffee for themselves and anyone else. There was a community tea/coffee house around the corner from my tent that offered free coffee/tea every morning. My guess is they use it as a bit of a fundraiser for the organization....if that's a problem for you, don't buy it...I didn't.
I'm not sure what offends you so much about a week in which you can't spend money....i found it fascinating. Not going to claim society could work that way long term, but it's certainly a novel experience.
seconded... I went in 2008 (would love to go back but it's a bit of a hike+ a lot of gear from the east coast) and one of my favorite aspects of it was knowing that for the next week I would have no contact with the outside world. Even when i left to drive home, i left my cellphone turned off for a few hours just to savor my last moments of "freedom" before listening to the inevitable voicemails, letting my parents know i'd survived "that crazy thing in the desert", etc.
As you say...you can choose to leave it off, but it's awfully hard to resist that urge to just check in on one little thing, if you know you can..... it's also a lot easier to tell people you're not going to be reachable for a week when there's literally no cell service, than to say "i'm turning my phone off for a week and no, i'm not even going to turn it on once a day to check for voicemails/texts just in case"
Maybe it's just me (and my job at the time which involved a lot of late night wakeup calls for server issues) but a whole week of not being reachable was utterly amazing. (so was the rest of the burn, of course)
why would you assume the person is on facebook and even knows they've being tagged? last i checked FB let you tag people even if they didn't have an account. Or they could just caption the photo "joe smith doing a great keg stand!"
I think you're asking a bit much for people to continuously monitor what might be posted about them on any number of social media sites.
As for discussing w/ your friends what's appropriate...yeah, ideally... practically? not so much. besides, if you don't catch it for a month, it's too late anyway.
don't get me wrong, this is a very cool technology with plenty of legitimate uses. i just wanted to call out the difference between cropping and what this is doing, in terms of losing image information/context.
given the choice of an image which is cropped, or an image which had this done to it, if i'm trying to use the image to reconstruct the "truth" of a scene, i want the cropped image. it's at least slightly less artificial.
but for practical applications, such as browsing the web on a 320x320 screen, yeah, this is definitely good stuff.
while this is technically true, you're also rearranging the relative positioning of those pixels. cropping something out doesn't change the relationship of what is left in the photo (though it may remove critical details).
if you have 3 people in a picture and you crop it down to 2, you've erased a person, but you haven't changed who is seated next to whom. if you use this method and the middle person is erased, you make it appear as though the outer two people were in fact seated next to each other when they weren't.
we are used to the idea that a picture can be cropped (mentally considering what might be just outside the frame). We aren't yet used to the concept that the photo has effectively been cut and pasted together to create new relationships between the objects in the photo (though of course photoshop is getting us there).
to continue your analogy, if we take: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
and drop letters, we can create: the cow jumped over the dog
whereas "cropping" might let us say: the quick brown fox jumped
I think it's clear that one of these is more misleading than the other, though in both cases you're just removing information. (in one case, some of that information happens to be spaces between letters/words)
that's great, but when i want to go hack up my bookmarks, i don't want to download the latest sqllite bindings for perl...i just want to write some regexes to hack the file.
also, occasionally i find myself needing a bookmark from my home machine while i'm at work..currently i can ssh in and look at my bookmarks file to find the bookmark... with this, that's a nogo.
i agree with the OP, this is less accessible, regardless of available programming libs... you're not going to beat the accessibility of a text file, and there is not a speed/transaction/etc issue that needed to be solved.
even IBM's websphere moved from using a DB for config, to XML on the filesystem.
maybe not, but people DO run fax machines over vonage.. (apparently you need to have vonage configure your line for this, probably something to do with the compression rates needed to maintain the modulation signal) so i'd say that's pretty darn close, assuming that the vonage connection is on DSL.
i think the point is more that games designed to be played in HD look like crap in SD. (you can't see all the details, might be hard to see monsters, etc, because they assume you'll be playing at high-res and you're not)
games designed for SD play well in SD.
So all things being equal, people w/ SD are better off getting a system designed for SD.
1) when the parent said "take 10 times longer" he meant 10 times longer to play through. movie lasts 2 hours. game takes 20-30 hours of gameplay. That means 10x as much animation/graphics/etc. I realize that's not strictly true since alot of video game hours are spent in repetitive scenes, etc...but he has a point that there are more hours of visualization to design/create/render in a video game than in a movie
2) lord of the rings isn't a very good example to compare to a video game. yeah it had plenty of special effects, but only one character was rendered. Try making a movie where *every* object and *every* character is a computer effect...(eg toy story) and I guarantee you it takes longer to design/create/render than lord of the rings.
in sum, I agree with the parent poster. we're not going to see a 20 hour video game with graphics equivalent to Shrek or Toy Story 2. It's not just processing power, it's the effort to create/design all that content.
no, what i think the original poster meant was, it's not a good sign of the game industry health if it's unique to be able to describe a game as fun, rather than focusing on its great graphics.
the fact that this is the first game in a while that's being described as "fun" instead of "looks awesome", is a sign of decline in the game industry...or at least that's what the original poster was trying to say. and i'd tend to agree with him.
it had nothing to do with the ability/inability to classify the game, but rather that reviews are no longer focused on fun, but on flashiness.
stay with me here, because i know this gets complicated.....
1) disable your own limiter - now you can drive at any speed you want. you will not be crusing along at 25mph as the original responder implied. you'll be going whatever speed you want 2) spoof the GPS signal so everyon else is driving at 25mph. Note that this will not affect you since you disabled your own limiter.
it's not always up to management...sometimes the budget just isn't there...all depends on the group, the fiscal results, etc. don't assume just because you know someone who got an offer, and someone else who didn't, that the person who didn't is inferior... it's not a perfect world we live in.
suppose the spreadsheet error causes them to roast the coffee at a new temperature that yields a new, more popular brand that people are willing to pay more for? or that holds it's freshness longer?
i concede your zero sum point, but stand by my point that the errors in the spreadsheets can be just as good as bad.
then again, maybe you stay in business because you managed to underpay someone, or your supplier stays in business because you overpay them... again, it all has to balance out... you can't gloss over that with "market inefficiency"
yeah i meant bicycle, and I did remember greentyre, though i never tried them...seemed like they'd be pretty heavy. interesting to hear someone actually tried them though.
most recently, a few weeks ago when i was in cairo and the taxi driver hit a pothole, bending both rims on the passenger side, leaving the tires flat.
before that, about 2 years ago when i hit a roofing nail, causing a slow leak (woke up the next morning, tire was flat)
then we could also count biking...in which case i've had more than i want to count, and a bike tire that can't go flat would be awfully nice...nothing sucks more than having to stop and patch a tire in the middle of a bike ride...plus having to carry all the tools needed to do the job.
this idea has merits, contrary to what your post seems to imply.
as he said, it was their recommended option. not that he had to do it, but this is an unfortunate consequence of their "recommendation" that has made his experience suck.
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on the phone? sure. via tethering to a pc? no...nothing in the advertisement promises that.
oh come on. it's clearly just a fluke!
spoken like someone who's never been there.
first off there's no food for sale.
There is ice, mainly because that's one item that most people will probably want and can't provide themselves very easily.
Coffee is also available for sale, i have to admit i don't understand that one, but plenty of people provide free coffee for themselves and anyone else. There was a community tea/coffee house around the corner from my tent that offered free coffee/tea every morning. My guess is they use it as a bit of a fundraiser for the organization....if that's a problem for you, don't buy it...I didn't.
I'm not sure what offends you so much about a week in which you can't spend money....i found it fascinating. Not going to claim society could work that way long term, but it's certainly a novel experience.
seconded... I went in 2008 (would love to go back but it's a bit of a hike+ a lot of gear from the east coast) and one of my favorite aspects of it was knowing that for the next week I would have no contact with the outside world. Even when i left to drive home, i left my cellphone turned off for a few hours just to savor my last moments of "freedom" before listening to the inevitable voicemails, letting my parents know i'd survived "that crazy thing in the desert", etc.
As you say...you can choose to leave it off, but it's awfully hard to resist that urge to just check in on one little thing, if you know you can..... it's also a lot easier to tell people you're not going to be reachable for a week when there's literally no cell service, than to say "i'm turning my phone off for a week and no, i'm not even going to turn it on once a day to check for voicemails/texts just in case"
Maybe it's just me (and my job at the time which involved a lot of late night wakeup calls for server issues) but a whole week of not being reachable was utterly amazing. (so was the rest of the burn, of course)
why would you assume the person is on facebook and even knows they've being tagged? last i checked FB let you tag people even if they didn't have an account. Or they could just caption the photo "joe smith doing a great keg stand!"
I think you're asking a bit much for people to continuously monitor what might be posted about them on any number of social media sites.
As for discussing w/ your friends what's appropriate...yeah, ideally... practically? not so much. besides, if you don't catch it for a month, it's too late anyway.
don't get me wrong, this is a very cool technology with plenty of legitimate uses. i just wanted to call out the difference between cropping and what this is doing, in terms of losing image information/context.
given the choice of an image which is cropped, or an image which had this done to it, if i'm trying to use the image to reconstruct the "truth" of a scene, i want the cropped image. it's at least slightly less artificial.
but for practical applications, such as browsing the web on a 320x320 screen, yeah, this is definitely good stuff.
while this is technically true, you're also rearranging the relative positioning of those pixels. cropping something out doesn't change the relationship of what is left in the photo (though it may remove critical details).
if you have 3 people in a picture and you crop it down to 2, you've erased a person, but you haven't changed who is seated next to whom. if you use this method and the middle person is erased, you make it appear as though the outer two people were in fact seated next to each other when they weren't.
we are used to the idea that a picture can be cropped (mentally considering what might be just outside the frame). We aren't yet used to the concept that the photo has effectively been cut and pasted together to create new relationships between the objects in the photo (though of course photoshop is getting us there).
to continue your analogy, if we take:
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
and drop letters, we can create:
the cow jumped over the dog
whereas "cropping" might let us say:
the quick brown fox jumped
I think it's clear that one of these is more misleading than the other, though in both cases you're just removing information. (in one case, some of that information happens to be spaces between letters/words)
that's great, but when i want to go hack up my bookmarks, i don't want to download the latest sqllite bindings for perl...i just want to write some regexes to hack the file.
also, occasionally i find myself needing a bookmark from my home machine while i'm at work..currently i can ssh in and look at my bookmarks file to find the bookmark... with this, that's a nogo.
i agree with the OP, this is less accessible, regardless of available programming libs... you're not going to beat the accessibility of a text file, and there is not a speed/transaction/etc issue that needed to be solved.
even IBM's websphere moved from using a DB for config, to XML on the filesystem.
maybe not, but people DO run fax machines over vonage.. (apparently you need to have vonage configure your line for this, probably something to do with the compression rates needed to maintain the modulation signal) so i'd say that's pretty darn close, assuming that the vonage connection is on DSL.
i think the point is more that games designed to be played in HD look like crap in SD. (you can't see all the details, might be hard to see monsters, etc, because they assume you'll be playing at high-res and you're not)
games designed for SD play well in SD.
So all things being equal, people w/ SD are better off getting a system designed for SD.
1) when the parent said "take 10 times longer" he meant 10 times longer to play through. movie lasts 2 hours. game takes 20-30 hours of gameplay. That means 10x as much animation/graphics/etc. I realize that's not strictly true since alot of video game hours are spent in repetitive scenes, etc...but he has a point that there are more hours of visualization to design/create/render in a video game than in a movie
2) lord of the rings isn't a very good example to compare to a video game. yeah it had plenty of special effects, but only one character was rendered. Try making a movie where *every* object and *every* character is a computer effect...(eg toy story) and I guarantee you it takes longer to design/create/render than lord of the rings.
in sum, I agree with the parent poster. we're not going to see a 20 hour video game with graphics equivalent to Shrek or Toy Story 2. It's not just processing power, it's the effort to create/design all that content.
your impression is wrong, then.
there are 1-2 specific circumstances in which ABS increases braking distance...notably on gravel.
otherwise, even on dry asphalt, let alone on slick surfaces, ABS shortens stopping distance.
this largely has to do with the coefficient of static friction being higher than the coefficient of sliding friction.
no, what i think the original poster meant was, it's not a good sign of the game industry health if it's unique to be able to describe a game as fun, rather than focusing on its great graphics.
the fact that this is the first game in a while that's being described as "fun" instead of "looks awesome", is a sign of decline in the game industry...or at least that's what the original poster was trying to say. and i'd tend to agree with him.
it had nothing to do with the ability/inability to classify the game, but rather that reviews are no longer focused on fun, but on flashiness.
no one said you're doing this on a fully packed roadway.
stay with me here, because i know this gets complicated.....
1) disable your own limiter - now you can drive at any speed you want. you will not be crusing along at 25mph as the original responder implied. you'll be going whatever speed you want
2) spoof the GPS signal so everyon else is driving at 25mph. Note that this will not affect you since you disabled your own limiter.
in conclusion, you're an idiot.
perhaps you missed the part where he said "disable your own limiter"
it's not always up to management...sometimes the budget just isn't there...all depends on the group, the fiscal results, etc. don't assume just because you know someone who got an offer, and someone else who didn't, that the person who didn't is inferior... it's not a perfect world we live in.
(also an IBMer)
suppose the spreadsheet error causes them to roast the coffee at a new temperature that yields a new, more popular brand that people are willing to pay more for? or that holds it's freshness longer?
i concede your zero sum point, but stand by my point that the errors in the spreadsheets can be just as good as bad.
then again, maybe you stay in business because you managed to underpay someone, or your supplier stays in business because you overpay them... again, it all has to balance out... you can't gloss over that with "market inefficiency"
it's still a zero-sum game.
yeah, but the parent poster implied that the chips would be standardized, so how would you tell where they originated?
Because i could win $10,000 dollars at one casino, then take it to another casino to cash out. The second casino is out $10k.
yeah i meant bicycle, and I did remember greentyre, though i never tried them...seemed like they'd be pretty heavy. interesting to hear someone actually tried them though.
you got a link? my rollerblade wheel hubs always seemed pretty solid to me... just hard plastic, basically.
at best,the tire part itself is kinda "soft" but not significantly so...which is why rollerblading on rough surfaces sucks so very very much
most recently, a few weeks ago when i was in cairo and the taxi driver hit a pothole, bending both rims on the passenger side, leaving the tires flat.
before that, about 2 years ago when i hit a roofing nail, causing a slow leak (woke up the next morning, tire was flat)
then we could also count biking...in which case i've had more than i want to count, and a bike tire that can't go flat would be awfully nice...nothing sucks more than having to stop and patch a tire in the middle of a bike ride...plus having to carry all the tools needed to do the job.
this idea has merits, contrary to what your post seems to imply.
as he said, it was their recommended option. not that he had to do it, but this is an unfortunate consequence of their "recommendation" that has made his experience suck.