Also... the degree of emotional damage depends to some extent to the willingness of the target to be damaged. That seems a little more cold-hearted than I intended, but I'm not sure how to phrase it any differently. Physical damage cannot be avoided by having a more healthy or experienced mindset, but mental damage can be. The reverse is true, to; a character flaw or weakness can make the emotional damage much worse.
Should the punishment for inflicting emotional pain be worse when the recipient is emotionally immature? That doesn't seem right.
Protestations notwithstanding, I still think you were trolling. That's a kindness, by the way; I'm generously assuming you don't actually believe what you're claiming.
The Zune was a decent device, as good or better than its competition at the time. It was just a huge failure of marketing. Reminds me a bit of some of the Android tablets going against Apple right now, actually.
I would be surprised if they don't end up with a version of.net that runs on ARM Windows. That's pretty much what that tech is FOR. They have it running on the 360, and that is a non-x86 processor.
Silverlight just never took off, and so there's no point in porting it..Net is a different situation.
I think the most shocking and relevant reveal of today's release was the inclusion of ARM processing. This is big.
It's not really shocking, because they've already announced they're porting windows to that architecture, but it is a big deal. Far bigger than the new UI, which everybody with a desktop or laptop will just skip over and run Explorer.
I don't know if Windows 8 will do any better in the smartphone/pad field than any other versions of windows have done, but if they can get the same OS running on hardware ranging from phones to servers... that's at least a decent accomplishment, and might keep them in the game.
My first reaction is highly negative, but digging into it further, it doesn't look that bad. It'll bring up an icon display, you click 'explorer', and you're back at the standard mouse/keyboard windows UI. So my response is tempered to just slightly negative, in that there'll be one extra step during bootup.
I'm sure it will be able to be configured to go straight into Explorer, and that's what everybody who runs 8 on a desktop will do.
Some day we're going to get a story about a worker accidentally impaled by a forklift in a nuclear plant's parking lot, and the headline will be "Fatality at Nuke Plant: Risk of Leak?"
The only reference I could find was as some sort of ridiculous alternative medical treatment. In the context the poster was using it, I can't find anything. I'm guessing the poster was subtly trolling?
We tried promoting 'green jobs' here in oregon, with various tax and regulatory incentives. It was a failure... or, more properly, 'is' a failure, because it's still ongoing.
Nothing wrong with green jobs and alternative energy, as such; but they have to be generated organically from market forces and technological advances. If you attempt to force markets one direction or another with laws, you're going to end up with a less optimal economy. That happens with price fixing, tax subsidies, or any other type of coercion
If an alternative energy tech has matured to the point that it can compete with gas or coal in terms of demand and productivity, than it will naturally create jobs. If it hasn't, it's going to never going to be as good as what you're trying to replace.
You're certainly stupid. Not just in the sense of intelligence; it's actually part of your fundamental character. You'd be an idiot even if you were a genius. May God have mercy on your soul.
Imagine if the filmstock that movies used was deliberately designed to decompose within five years. How much would have been lost, forever? Games of today seem to be heading that direction. Decades from now, there will be a huge gap in our cultural history because of that.
I'm very libertarian, but I'm still fond of taxing trades a miniscule amount. Hell, I would be happier if it didn't go to the government; that way they wouldn't decide to raise it every four years. The purpose of it is not to raise money, but to disincentivize rapid trading. It's like the schemes to tax emails a fraction of a cent per email, just to penalize mass spam emailers.
If 'tax' has bad connotations, have every trade require a certain amount of prime factorizing, or anything to make it burdensome to do thousands of trades a second without hurting any normal investor. Small random delays would be better, though, I think.
I agree, nearly everything I read from him seems like its been forced through a political filter. However, I think he's right, here. HFT is like a tiny economic Maxwell's demon, extracting money from brownian motion. It may have some decent effects, but the problem is that the process is only available to certain investors.
If we could all hook our PCs up to the market and make similar high-speed, free, trades, I'd be ok with it. But we can't; this is just a rigged system to profit certain players. It's like most initial stock offerings, only available to major players; not really a free market. If it's not corrupt, it has a strong incentive to become corrupt.
Better than the opposite. I trust governments more than corporations. Governments are (still) elected and accountable before their citizens
And that sums up the difference between your political ideology and mine in a succinct little package. I trust corporations more than governments; corporations aren't allowed to jail and kill you.
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In any specific injury, how do they distinguish 'bisexual' from either 'heterosexual' or 'homosexual'?
Also... the degree of emotional damage depends to some extent to the willingness of the target to be damaged. That seems a little more cold-hearted than I intended, but I'm not sure how to phrase it any differently. Physical damage cannot be avoided by having a more healthy or experienced mindset, but mental damage can be. The reverse is true, to; a character flaw or weakness can make the emotional damage much worse.
Should the punishment for inflicting emotional pain be worse when the recipient is emotionally immature? That doesn't seem right.
Somebody wants Justaguy516 jailed, obviously.
Yeah, was a jarring use of the language. I assume it's jargon used in the the recycling industry, but it should have been reworded in the summary.
Protestations notwithstanding, I still think you were trolling. That's a kindness, by the way; I'm generously assuming you don't actually believe what you're claiming.
The Zune was a decent device, as good or better than its competition at the time. It was just a huge failure of marketing. Reminds me a bit of some of the Android tablets going against Apple right now, actually.
I would be surprised if they don't end up with a version of .net that runs on ARM Windows. That's pretty much what that tech is FOR. They have it running on the 360, and that is a non-x86 processor.
.Net is a different situation.
Silverlight just never took off, and so there's no point in porting it.
I think the most shocking and relevant reveal of today's release was the inclusion of ARM processing. This is big.
It's not really shocking, because they've already announced they're porting windows to that architecture, but it is a big deal. Far bigger than the new UI, which everybody with a desktop or laptop will just skip over and run Explorer.
I don't know if Windows 8 will do any better in the smartphone/pad field than any other versions of windows have done, but if they can get the same OS running on hardware ranging from phones to servers... that's at least a decent accomplishment, and might keep them in the game.
My first reaction is highly negative, but digging into it further, it doesn't look that bad. It'll bring up an icon display, you click 'explorer', and you're back at the standard mouse/keyboard windows UI. So my response is tempered to just slightly negative, in that there'll be one extra step during bootup.
I'm sure it will be able to be configured to go straight into Explorer, and that's what everybody who runs 8 on a desktop will do.
Wait, wait, wait...
Are you saying Female Hysteria doesn't exist? I get the impression it's more common than the common cold.
It's on all my machines, and all my sons, and he's passed it on to his friends.
All game franchises eventually turn into first-person shooters with light RPG elements. It seems to be a type of thermodynamics for games.
Some day we're going to get a story about a worker accidentally impaled by a forklift in a nuclear plant's parking lot, and the headline will be "Fatality at Nuke Plant: Risk of Leak?"
No, I think nobody cares because it was petroleum instead of nuclear.
The only reference I could find was as some sort of ridiculous alternative medical treatment. In the context the poster was using it, I can't find anything. I'm guessing the poster was subtly trolling?
That's the funniest comment in the thread. Just the other day, I was listening to the radio and heard a fellow that sounded exactly like Wesley Mouch.
'the notion of a shared responsibility in the collective metropolitan realm is predictably distant.'
Jesus. I can't describe in words how contemptuous I am of anybody who would utter those words with a straight face.
The crazy thing is, I would expect anybody who thinks that way to be an Apple zealot in the first place.
We tried promoting 'green jobs' here in oregon, with various tax and regulatory incentives. It was a failure... or, more properly, 'is' a failure, because it's still ongoing.
Nothing wrong with green jobs and alternative energy, as such; but they have to be generated organically from market forces and technological advances. If you attempt to force markets one direction or another with laws, you're going to end up with a less optimal economy. That happens with price fixing, tax subsidies, or any other type of coercion
If an alternative energy tech has matured to the point that it can compete with gas or coal in terms of demand and productivity, than it will naturally create jobs. If it hasn't, it's going to never going to be as good as what you're trying to replace.
You're certainly stupid. Not just in the sense of intelligence; it's actually part of your fundamental character. You'd be an idiot even if you were a genius. May God have mercy on your soul.
Isn't it the Sony 'Move' controller? (Is that still being sold?)
Imagine if the filmstock that movies used was deliberately designed to decompose within five years. How much would have been lost, forever? Games of today seem to be heading that direction. Decades from now, there will be a huge gap in our cultural history because of that.
I'm very libertarian, but I'm still fond of taxing trades a miniscule amount. Hell, I would be happier if it didn't go to the government; that way they wouldn't decide to raise it every four years. The purpose of it is not to raise money, but to disincentivize rapid trading. It's like the schemes to tax emails a fraction of a cent per email, just to penalize mass spam emailers.
If 'tax' has bad connotations, have every trade require a certain amount of prime factorizing, or anything to make it burdensome to do thousands of trades a second without hurting any normal investor. Small random delays would be better, though, I think.
I agree, nearly everything I read from him seems like its been forced through a political filter. However, I think he's right, here. HFT is like a tiny economic Maxwell's demon, extracting money from brownian motion. It may have some decent effects, but the problem is that the process is only available to certain investors.
If we could all hook our PCs up to the market and make similar high-speed, free, trades, I'd be ok with it. But we can't; this is just a rigged system to profit certain players. It's like most initial stock offerings, only available to major players; not really a free market. If it's not corrupt, it has a strong incentive to become corrupt.
I think the market would be vastly improved by adding a random delay of 1-10 seconds to every trade.
Better than the opposite. I trust governments more than corporations. Governments are (still) elected and accountable before their citizens
And that sums up the difference between your political ideology and mine in a succinct little package. I trust corporations more than governments; corporations aren't allowed to jail and kill you.