Maybe I'm wrong, my memory is fuzzy, but didn't Civ use an offset-square map? That's a square grid where alternate rows are shifted half a square, so they form a kind of tiled brick pattern. That's useful because it pretty much IS a hex map. Each square has six neighbors, and each is one unit distance apart from each other.
So, moving from an offset square to a hex, there's no real change except the shape of the individual squares.
It's impossible to cover a sphere with hexes. Try it; I spent hours back in 8th grade trying to prove the topologists wrong. Not as many hours as I spent trying to trisect an angle with a compass and straightedge, though.
The benefit of hexes on a map is that moving to any adjacent hex is the SAME distance. On a square grid, four adjacent squares are at a distance of 1 unit, and four at a distance of Sqrt(2) units. That's why on a square map, you could travel somewhere moving diagonally up half the way, diagonally down the second half, and it would take no longer than moving directly toward the target. Hexes don't have that problem, which is why they're considered more realistic.
Civ, though, was using an offset-square map, which is no different than a hex map, so I think it only amounts to a different look plus a marketing spiel.
"Just made some stupid decisions?" They nationalized farming, and outlawed private farms. The famine was an obvious and inevitable consequence. When a man starves because somebody steals his food, that's not a 'mistake'.
Product prices will be the highest the market can bear, regardless of expenses. Software already has massive profit margins, so taxes merely eat into those profits, thus depriving the company from money they can use to buy other companies, run ad campaigns, pay bribes and manipulate market in other ways.
That's ridiculous. The optimal pricing in the market most certainly is influenced by the price of operation... particularly in tax, which are across the board, and influence ALL competitors in a market.
Besides, your comment is irrelevant anyway, because you miss how GOOD it is for all of us to have profitable companies. Do you think corporate profits go into a large vault where the money is held for years? No, it is spent; spent on things and people, in the most rewarding and efficient way that the company and/or its shareholders can imagine. This is generally MUCH more efficient than money the government taxes, because the government needn't worry about competition.
For the cost of the stimulus package, personal and corporate income tax could have been HALVED for three years. That would have actually worked to help the economy; but it doesn't give the state power, so it wasn't an option.
May be worth noting that "collections of fact" have long been recognized as uncopyrightable in the US. However, if significant creative work went into filtering the facts in a certain way.. like I picked out all the funny-sounding names from the phone book... the resulting list may be copyrighted.
A few years ago I heard an ad on the radio. It was created by and paid for by the American Association of Podiatrists. It very earnestly stressed how important feet are, and recommended that we each go to the podiatrist yearly, for a check up.
I have no doubt that podiatrists know more about feet than I do. I also have no doubt that their recommendation was so biased and unrealistic it was laughable... despite their entirely sincere intentions.
I have no doubt that climatologists know more about the climate than I do...
I tend to agree. Javascript (and Actionscript) is a pretty pleasant language to work with. It's the terrible integration into browsers that is the problem.
If history had proceeded differently, and Netscape had incorporated Python instead of jscript, everybody would be whining about how terrible Python is.
I have OO and Office installed on the same machine, and I've moved to using OO for all word processing. It's a little slower, but I find it's much more reliable. Word seems to randomly glitch more on longer documents with complicated formatting. That and the built-in PDF export options make it more appealing for me.
Now, I find Calc to be clearly inferior to Excel; and their database program (forget the name) seemed even more primitive.
Maybe that's the requirements of the specific problem he's solving.
I had a problem with MS Access, once; the print options get funky when you print a document over a thousand pages long. You can't manually specify, say, "print pages 1,000-1,500", because Access only looked at three characters of the page count.
I asked if there was a workaround for that limitation/bug, and got a variety of responses that all boiled down to "you just shouldn't ever need to print that much." Of course, every comment was worthless, and so I worked around it. People who have no idea about your actual business requirements love to tell you that you simply shouldn't do what you actually need to do.
Is it? I alway turn off the Java runtime whenever I install OO on any machine, and I've never noticed any problems. I don't use scripting or macros, though.
Honestly, you give off a far stronger impression of immaturity than he does. I doubt you're 10... although it would be more charitable to you to assume you were.
Honestly, you give off a far stronger impression of immaturity than he does. I doubt you're 10, though... although it would be more charitable to you to assume you were.
I've written several 100+ page, extensively formatted documents, and only found one bug. It's minor, and I can work around it, but it's easily replicable.
If I create a paragraph style with a border, and change the line spacing from default, the bottom border is often rendered THROUGH the last line of text when the paragraph crosses between two pages (or two columns). If I make an edit in the paragraph, it will fix itself... but be incorrect again the next time it's loaded.
I suppose I should file a bug report, eh?
I moved to Open Office from Word because the document became an unmaintainable mess in word. Styles broke, page numbers broke... I simply couldn't have done it properly.
51% because of race, 12.7% because of ethnicity. (I understand the difference, but I think most people casually lump those together.) 17.9% because of religion (jewish, mainly), then 17.6% because of sexual orientation (male homosexual, mainly).
Interesting source, thanks. The 28 hate crimes that were motivated because the target was physically handicapped is confusing. I kind of understand racism, and such... I don't even begin to understand "that guy's crippled! Get him!"
Right. I don't think we COULD model a single synapse accurately right now. I doubt we have a good enough understanding. A little while ago I was reading a theory that there are quantum effects that play into some of the interactions. I don't know if that's true, but it certainly COULD be. If it exists, there's no reason evolution wouldn't make use of it.
Now, complete simulation of a neuron may not be essential for modeling a structure made of neurons; you don't need to completely model each star to model the evolution of a galaxy, for instance. Still, I would bet that a brain involves far more, and more subtle, interactions than any galaxy.
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Maybe I'm wrong, my memory is fuzzy, but didn't Civ use an offset-square map? That's a square grid where alternate rows are shifted half a square, so they form a kind of tiled brick pattern. That's useful because it pretty much IS a hex map. Each square has six neighbors, and each is one unit distance apart from each other.
So, moving from an offset square to a hex, there's no real change except the shape of the individual squares.
It's impossible to cover a sphere with hexes. Try it; I spent hours back in 8th grade trying to prove the topologists wrong. Not as many hours as I spent trying to trisect an angle with a compass and straightedge, though.
The benefit of hexes on a map is that moving to any adjacent hex is the SAME distance. On a square grid, four adjacent squares are at a distance of 1 unit, and four at a distance of Sqrt(2) units. That's why on a square map, you could travel somewhere moving diagonally up half the way, diagonally down the second half, and it would take no longer than moving directly toward the target. Hexes don't have that problem, which is why they're considered more realistic.
Civ, though, was using an offset-square map, which is no different than a hex map, so I think it only amounts to a different look plus a marketing spiel.
"Just made some stupid decisions?" They nationalized farming, and outlawed private farms. The famine was an obvious and inevitable consequence. When a man starves because somebody steals his food, that's not a 'mistake'.
Product prices will be the highest the market can bear, regardless of expenses. Software already has massive profit margins, so taxes merely eat into those profits, thus depriving the company from money they can use to buy other companies, run ad campaigns, pay bribes and manipulate market in other ways.
That's ridiculous. The optimal pricing in the market most certainly is influenced by the price of operation... particularly in tax, which are across the board, and influence ALL competitors in a market.
Besides, your comment is irrelevant anyway, because you miss how GOOD it is for all of us to have profitable companies. Do you think corporate profits go into a large vault where the money is held for years? No, it is spent; spent on things and people, in the most rewarding and efficient way that the company and/or its shareholders can imagine. This is generally MUCH more efficient than money the government taxes, because the government needn't worry about competition.
Troll? That's correct.
For the cost of the stimulus package, personal and corporate income tax could have been HALVED for three years. That would have actually worked to help the economy; but it doesn't give the state power, so it wasn't an option.
I'm skeptical. But also...
Once you can make annoying animated music playing hovering popup advertisements in HTML5, won't they be even harder to filter out than Flash?
May be worth noting that "collections of fact" have long been recognized as uncopyrightable in the US. However, if significant creative work went into filtering the facts in a certain way.. like I picked out all the funny-sounding names from the phone book... the resulting list may be copyrighted.
A few years ago I heard an ad on the radio. It was created by and paid for by the American Association of Podiatrists. It very earnestly stressed how important feet are, and recommended that we each go to the podiatrist yearly, for a check up.
I have no doubt that podiatrists know more about feet than I do. I also have no doubt that their recommendation was so biased and unrealistic it was laughable... despite their entirely sincere intentions.
I have no doubt that climatologists know more about the climate than I do...
I've been saying for 10 years or more: America is over.
And saying it over and over, loudly, no doubt.
And would have annoyed users that don't like to be treated like infants.
Those people should have the maturity to DEAL WITH IT.
Good call on Cameron's part.
I tend to agree. Javascript (and Actionscript) is a pretty pleasant language to work with. It's the terrible integration into browsers that is the problem.
If history had proceeded differently, and Netscape had incorporated Python instead of jscript, everybody would be whining about how terrible Python is.
Well, if Bush was as bad with a teleprompter than Obama is without one, then I'd say that it's still a definite improvement.
I'm not sure. In a way, I'd much rather he be less charismatic, less smooth.
I have OO and Office installed on the same machine, and I've moved to using OO for all word processing. It's a little slower, but I find it's much more reliable. Word seems to randomly glitch more on longer documents with complicated formatting. That and the built-in PDF export options make it more appealing for me.
Now, I find Calc to be clearly inferior to Excel; and their database program (forget the name) seemed even more primitive.
Maybe that's the requirements of the specific problem he's solving.
I had a problem with MS Access, once; the print options get funky when you print a document over a thousand pages long. You can't manually specify, say, "print pages 1,000-1,500", because Access only looked at three characters of the page count.
I asked if there was a workaround for that limitation/bug, and got a variety of responses that all boiled down to "you just shouldn't ever need to print that much." Of course, every comment was worthless, and so I worked around it. People who have no idea about your actual business requirements love to tell you that you simply shouldn't do what you actually need to do.
and of course OO is heavily dependent on Java.
Is it? I alway turn off the Java runtime whenever I install OO on any machine, and I've never noticed any problems. I don't use scripting or macros, though.
Honestly, you give off a far stronger impression of immaturity than he does. I doubt you're 10... although it would be more charitable to you to assume you were.
Honestly, you give off a far stronger impression of immaturity than he does. I doubt you're 10, though... although it would be more charitable to you to assume you were.
If the presentations suddenly began opening in OO right after he installed it, it's reasonable to think that OO DID decide that.
I've written several 100+ page, extensively formatted documents, and only found one bug. It's minor, and I can work around it, but it's easily replicable.
If I create a paragraph style with a border, and change the line spacing from default, the bottom border is often rendered THROUGH the last line of text when the paragraph crosses between two pages (or two columns). If I make an edit in the paragraph, it will fix itself... but be incorrect again the next time it's loaded.
I suppose I should file a bug report, eh?
I moved to Open Office from Word because the document became an unmaintainable mess in word. Styles broke, page numbers broke... I simply couldn't have done it properly.
Since when are PC games $60?
Modern Warfare 2. There's at least a reasonable chance it will be the new standard (since it sold very well).
The game + expansions won't cost that much. The person has no idea how much they will cost, but we know they won't be that much.
No, we don't. You're asserting an article of faith.
I have lost pretty much all respect for the majority of people who post here.
Hm... sounds emo.
51% because of race, 12.7% because of ethnicity. (I understand the difference, but I think most people casually lump those together.) 17.9% because of religion (jewish, mainly), then 17.6% because of sexual orientation (male homosexual, mainly).
Interesting source, thanks. The 28 hate crimes that were motivated because the target was physically handicapped is confusing. I kind of understand racism, and such... I don't even begin to understand "that guy's crippled! Get him!"
Right. I don't think we COULD model a single synapse accurately right now. I doubt we have a good enough understanding. A little while ago I was reading a theory that there are quantum effects that play into some of the interactions. I don't know if that's true, but it certainly COULD be. If it exists, there's no reason evolution wouldn't make use of it.
Now, complete simulation of a neuron may not be essential for modeling a structure made of neurons; you don't need to completely model each star to model the evolution of a galaxy, for instance. Still, I would bet that a brain involves far more, and more subtle, interactions than any galaxy.
*sigh* Ok, let's get in to it again. It's always an uphill battle since being pro-piracy/anti-DRM is just part of the Slashdot groupthink these days.
Don't conflate "pro-piracy" with "anti-DRM". Two different issues, and one doesn't imply the other.