I'm sure you'd be just as glib if it were your pet addiction (whatever that may be) under fire? Just to be clear, I don't smoke, never have, never will. But I feel so sorry for people who have to run off and stand around the corner to smoke at office BBQs and soforth.
Then again, I guess I can't indulge my vice at ALL while I'm at work. ("Just going out back for a shot of rum" is frowned on for some reason;) so here's to workplace equality!:P
That's a funny example, because 98SE was pretty much a new OS compared to 98, and then ME was 98 with a bunch of crud on top.
I know people who quite happily ran 98SE until well after XP was released, and only upgraded when forced to by the lack of DX9 for '98 (sound familiar much?)
This is what I was going to ask - unless there's something intrinsically badly wrong with Vista's process handling, how would video encoding or anything else be affected much either way? The 'speed issues' that Vista has weren't throughput, as I heard it, but responsiveness and UI design.
This is true, precisely because of what's being said above - that a great deal of the energy that goes into compressing air is then lost as heat when the compressed air cools down. It's why short term compressed air storage (such as for truck brakes) are heavily insulated, to try and contain that energy.
This is one of the problems with Hydrogen power that they've been veeeerry quiet about (although all that Hydrogen jibba jabba seems have quieted down precisely when us Battery EV enthusiasts said it would, it's never been anything but a smoke screen to divert funding from actual practical non-oil-based transport./rant) - a great deal of energy is lost in the process of compressing the hydrogen for high pressure storage.
You can't 'work against' natural selection. It's not a rule that you can fight, it's a description of what will happen regardless. All that we're doing is messing around with the fitness function. Sure, 'being very short sighted' or 'RH positive mother with RH negative baby' or 'broke ma leg, an it git infected' aren't deadly any more. But to counteract that, we have 'doesn't look both ways before crossing the road' and 'can't maintain hygiene standards and talk to the opposite sex'.;)
The problem as I see it is where the fitness function doesn't match what I think it 'ought' to be. For instance, professional couples have a lower birth rate because they're too busy to care for kids and they have access to reliable contraceptives, whereas welfare families get extra handouts per child and so they just keep pumpin' em out (and teaching them that "this is how you get money").
I should move to where you live. Here (Perth, Australia) the government's spent the last 20 years and millions of dollars trying to brainwash the locals into believing that travelling 5km/h faster than any arbitrary speed (I'm serious, one of the latest campaigns has the catchphrase "drop 5, save lives" meaning "travel 5km/h below the speed limit so you don't have to look where you're going or in fact be able to drive a motor vehicle at all".)
Public roads where I can shoot people for being terminally slow? Please yes!
The sum total of your body parts isn't a person either. In fact you're not a person at all. The only person that I can prove to exist is myself, and even that relies on the 'cognito ergo sum' axiom. The rest of you are just meat machines.
Given how us humans generally treat our immediate environment, I'd think that it would be a good thing for the condition of the world in general if that environment was simulated and had a reset button.
His estimate sounds about right to me from his described skills. I don't think you've met the other 95% - we're talking the ones that phone 911 when they lock their keys in their cars, sue McDonalds when they burn themselves with their coffee, and blame tech support when their monitor isn't plugged into their computer.
Exactly. I'm glad I have my 9" one, because while it's a little awkward to type on (though that's generally because it's on my lap and I'm slouching on the sofa, not because of the keyboard itself), it's perfect for looking up who that guy in that movie is that you know you've seen in another movie but can't remember what. It's great for checking your mail or mooching online while pretending to be sociable. A friend of mine has the Eee 1000 and while it's a much more capable machine overall, it's not as good as my 900 for what I want it for.
If you can't get Linux to do [insert task here] it's most certainly a lack of effort on your part. For many people, though, that required effort would start with "Learn the basics of how Linux works as an operating system, then learn to code in C", which is more of a major hobby or even vocation than something that you'd do on a Saturday afternoon so that some relative can check their email on recycled hardware.
What you say is true, but when it would take 8 hours work to set up a stripped down, lightweight custom OS, or it would take 6 hours work to just earn the money to buy a near-new machine with XP on it, the only reason to do the first is for fun (which I'm certainly not discounting as a reason!:)
Well, maybe you're different from me, but to me, the ultimate measure of worth of ANYTHING you do is mostly based on how it affects other people. Hell, I can cook the best pasta bake EVER, and maybe I'd feel good about eating it myself, but it's worth far more to me if my wife thinks it's delicious than if it's just me that does.
As for "thousands of solo quests", all quests I've seen in WoW fall into a very few basic categories. I reckon there are about 3 quests in all of vanilla WoW: "Kill X of Y", "Get me X of Y item [from mob Z]", "Go talk to X [and give them Y]". 99% of single-player WoW is monotonous as all hell - it's the people you play with that make it worthwhile.
It's interesting that you seem to equate valuing the community within you exist with being a hardcore MMO player. And it's the community that's real whether you're talking dragonslaying, Perl programming, rock-climbing, anything. What makes you think that anything at all has "worth, note or merit" beyond common consensus or individual valuation?
Sturgeon's Law applies to MMO players as strongly as it does anything else. 11 million players still means there are over 9 million crappy players.
And despite the moaning of everyone about WoW's playerbase, one of its biggest strengths is the fact that so many people play. MMOs benifit (or suffer) from extremely strong network effects. Try playing WoW on a very low-pop server, it's horrible unless all you want to do is solo quest. Switch to a high-pop server and the world comes so much more alive. Now if only they'd increase the server populations a little more... 2.5 - 3k concurrent at peak is only just starting to fill the world up.
No people to talk to. No people to party or raid with. No people to give a crap when you kill a boss or do something ingame. No people to PvP against. No reason to play.
The only thing setting ANY virtual world apart from single player RPGs is the people who inhabit it. Without them... it's all kinda pointless.
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I'm sure you'd be just as glib if it were your pet addiction (whatever that may be) under fire? Just to be clear, I don't smoke, never have, never will. But I feel so sorry for people who have to run off and stand around the corner to smoke at office BBQs and soforth.
;) so here's to workplace equality! :P
Then again, I guess I can't indulge my vice at ALL while I'm at work. ("Just going out back for a shot of rum" is frowned on for some reason
That's a funny example, because 98SE was pretty much a new OS compared to 98, and then ME was 98 with a bunch of crud on top.
I know people who quite happily ran 98SE until well after XP was released, and only upgraded when forced to by the lack of DX9 for '98 (sound familiar much?)
This is what I was going to ask - unless there's something intrinsically badly wrong with Vista's process handling, how would video encoding or anything else be affected much either way? The 'speed issues' that Vista has weren't throughput, as I heard it, but responsiveness and UI design.
Just like throwing tantrums and chucking furniture around was first invented by Apple management, then copied by Microsoft? /rimshot
What's that? Personal responsibility? Nah, who would vote for THAT crap?
This is true, precisely because of what's being said above - that a great deal of the energy that goes into compressing air is then lost as heat when the compressed air cools down. It's why short term compressed air storage (such as for truck brakes) are heavily insulated, to try and contain that energy.
/rant) - a great deal of energy is lost in the process of compressing the hydrogen for high pressure storage.
This is one of the problems with Hydrogen power that they've been veeeerry quiet about (although all that Hydrogen jibba jabba seems have quieted down precisely when us Battery EV enthusiasts said it would, it's never been anything but a smoke screen to divert funding from actual practical non-oil-based transport.
Clearly you haven't seen West Australians trying to merge.
You can't 'work against' natural selection. It's not a rule that you can fight, it's a description of what will happen regardless. All that we're doing is messing around with the fitness function. Sure, 'being very short sighted' or 'RH positive mother with RH negative baby' or 'broke ma leg, an it git infected' aren't deadly any more. But to counteract that, we have 'doesn't look both ways before crossing the road' and 'can't maintain hygiene standards and talk to the opposite sex'. ;)
The problem as I see it is where the fitness function doesn't match what I think it 'ought' to be. For instance, professional couples have a lower birth rate because they're too busy to care for kids and they have access to reliable contraceptives, whereas welfare families get extra handouts per child and so they just keep pumpin' em out (and teaching them that "this is how you get money").
I should move to where you live. Here (Perth, Australia) the government's spent the last 20 years and millions of dollars trying to brainwash the locals into believing that travelling 5km/h faster than any arbitrary speed (I'm serious, one of the latest campaigns has the catchphrase "drop 5, save lives" meaning "travel 5km/h below the speed limit so you don't have to look where you're going or in fact be able to drive a motor vehicle at all".)
Public roads where I can shoot people for being terminally slow? Please yes!
The sum total of your body parts isn't a person either. In fact you're not a person at all. The only person that I can prove to exist is myself, and even that relies on the 'cognito ergo sum' axiom. The rest of you are just meat machines.
Yes, I keep opening them in hopes they have matured.
The sheep?
Ob. xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/75/
Given how us humans generally treat our immediate environment, I'd think that it would be a good thing for the condition of the world in general if that environment was simulated and had a reset button.
His estimate sounds about right to me from his described skills. I don't think you've met the other 95% - we're talking the ones that phone 911 when they lock their keys in their cars, sue McDonalds when they burn themselves with their coffee, and blame tech support when their monitor isn't plugged into their computer.
So they're running their new phased zone technology on Cheetoh Power(TM)?
Exactly. I'm glad I have my 9" one, because while it's a little awkward to type on (though that's generally because it's on my lap and I'm slouching on the sofa, not because of the keyboard itself), it's perfect for looking up who that guy in that movie is that you know you've seen in another movie but can't remember what. It's great for checking your mail or mooching online while pretending to be sociable. A friend of mine has the Eee 1000 and while it's a much more capable machine overall, it's not as good as my 900 for what I want it for.
If you can't get Linux to do [insert task here] it's most certainly a lack of effort on your part. For many people, though, that required effort would start with "Learn the basics of how Linux works as an operating system, then learn to code in C", which is more of a major hobby or even vocation than something that you'd do on a Saturday afternoon so that some relative can check their email on recycled hardware.
:)
What you say is true, but when it would take 8 hours work to set up a stripped down, lightweight custom OS, or it would take 6 hours work to just earn the money to buy a near-new machine with XP on it, the only reason to do the first is for fun (which I'm certainly not discounting as a reason!
I think you just figured out what "3. ???" should be. I would vote for you for president!
Well, maybe you're different from me, but to me, the ultimate measure of worth of ANYTHING you do is mostly based on how it affects other people. Hell, I can cook the best pasta bake EVER, and maybe I'd feel good about eating it myself, but it's worth far more to me if my wife thinks it's delicious than if it's just me that does.
As for "thousands of solo quests", all quests I've seen in WoW fall into a very few basic categories. I reckon there are about 3 quests in all of vanilla WoW: "Kill X of Y", "Get me X of Y item [from mob Z]", "Go talk to X [and give them Y]". 99% of single-player WoW is monotonous as all hell - it's the people you play with that make it worthwhile.
It's interesting that you seem to equate valuing the community within you exist with being a hardcore MMO player. And it's the community that's real whether you're talking dragonslaying, Perl programming, rock-climbing, anything. What makes you think that anything at all has "worth, note or merit" beyond common consensus or individual valuation?
Sturgeon's Law applies to MMO players as strongly as it does anything else. 11 million players still means there are over 9 million crappy players.
And despite the moaning of everyone about WoW's playerbase, one of its biggest strengths is the fact that so many people play. MMOs benifit (or suffer) from extremely strong network effects. Try playing WoW on a very low-pop server, it's horrible unless all you want to do is solo quest. Switch to a high-pop server and the world comes so much more alive. Now if only they'd increase the server populations a little more... 2.5 - 3k concurrent at peak is only just starting to fill the world up.
No people to talk to. No people to party or raid with. No people to give a crap when you kill a boss or do something ingame. No people to PvP against. No reason to play.
The only thing setting ANY virtual world apart from single player RPGs is the people who inhabit it. Without them... it's all kinda pointless.
It's more a question of what use the car is once the only gas station in town closes up.
I'm confused as to why this is accepted behavior from Apple when Microsoft got raked over the coals for merely bundling a browser in the first place.
If the phone is for sale at a lower price when tied to a contract than it is when sold unlocked, where's the difference coming from? Santa Clause?
If the data costs the same whether you bring your own phone or take their 'free' one, how much more does it cost you to take the phone?
Hmmm, an Austrian who thinks he can order everybody around. That's a novelty.
Hmmm, ad hominem. That's a novelty.
You mean you don't consider Asia in the context of cutesy catgirls swinging giant magic broadswords? This is madness!