Yeah, but this issue is fixable is the difference. Would just require a little bit of computer fiddling. Fixing your marriage would have required, I dunno, maturity? A bit harder for some than putting in a self-mod function.
You can't convince me that the transistor didn't make them a lot more money than they put in when you look at the big picture. I'm willing to belive that on paper, Bell labs may have been a loss, but of course that's not the same as the division being dead weight. I'd be suprised if this decision wasn't based entirely off of myopic buisness decisions. Want to raise your stock? Maybe if you fire everyone and cut costs to zero, your investors will be pleased.
I of course don't know the inside story, but sounds stupid enough. If this is the case, here's hoping Alcatel-Lucent loses a lot of money quickly and opens it back up.
I think the lack of crashes is not a failure of simulation, it's an artifact of it being a simulation. Crashing is part of the real-life experience of racing, but then again so is driving to the track, doing days upon days of maintenence to the engine and car, time trials, getting endorsements, giving interviews, making professional connections... in other words, there's a lot that goes into real-world racing that's not racing.
You wouldn't want that in a racing simulator because that's boring.
Much the same, crashes are arguably not important for a racing simulation. Sure they're something you can DO while racing. And it's definitely arguable that while racing if you do go off the track and run into a wall at top speed, the race should be over to provide a more realistic experience. But that's a choice they made. If that really ruins your simulation, you have the option to quit the race.
In gran turismo 2 I do remember that in some cases, the lack of crashes does actually work to your benefit, which is a failure of simulation. Some corners it was much much faster to skid along the wall than to actually brake and corner realistically. That did cheapen the experience. But I seem to remember that they fixed that in later games, touching a wall was not to your advantage. I didn't play them as much, so I could be off.
Not putting realistic crashes into the game does not mean it's a failure of RACING simulation, just that it's not accurate in the non-racing parts. You want crashes, play burnout.
I feel like the "1 is not a prime number" has been sufficiently covered (and then pointed out an additional 5 times), and the biologist part was covered too.
Er, I'd really like to retract this post. It's not insightful, it's me not being awake and not RTFA. So this will probably be a/. first, but I would request someone to mod my own post (the one above) "overrated." She's not doing this to private citizens, the SSNs are already online, this doesn't seem like a bid for attention now that I have the facts straight.
I'm not sure why you can't delete your own post, but there should at least be a "mod my own comment down to '-1: redacted'" option.
This is a case where I'd like to be able to delete my own comment. Someone pointed out that she's only posting SSNs available online already for politicians. I don't think this is a bid for attention.
I'm not sure they're full of themselves so much as trying a marketing gimmick they know to be a gimmick. So maybe it's that they think the public is full of themselves, which some of the racing fans probably are.
Many games try to claim they're not part of a genre. The guys who made metroid prime 3 were trying to say it was an entirely new genre, a first-person adventure, not a first person shooter. I mean, sure, you shoot in it, but this is an adventure, not like doom or anything. Of course, this was more for elitist fans. If you liked FPS, it made no difference. If you are part of the growing "videogame hipster" culture (you play games but act like you have better tastes than average gamers, distaining popular games like Halo in favor of more obscure games) then that might make a difference to you. "I don't play FPS, those are lame and for frat boys. I do play FPAs though."
So I think you're closer with the second part, but I kind of doubt the company itself doesn't realize it's a videogame.
The ends don't justify the means. She's trying to advocate privacy by decreasing individual's privacy if I'm understanding this. She's saying "this is wrong that your social security number is printed on X public document, so I'm going to post it online to dramatically increase the amount of people who can see it and increase your chances of identity theft." Reminds me of those assholes who posted a flashing screen on an epilepsy support website to let them know that they were vulnerable to assholes putting a flashing screen on their website. It's hypocrisy. Strip away the obviously false "it's for your own good" logic and it's clearly a bid for attention.
I think he actually had a decent point here aside from the pointless statement of apathy. I don't know if the side effects would actually be a detriment more than a benefit, the interviewed guy says in most cases it did actually help them, though I suspect he wasn't being very scientific about.
I also suspect your comparison to motorsports is pretty worthless. The two are not the same, unless you're talking about a gran turismo tournament.
You say that, but at some point someone told me that 1 is a prime number and 2 is as well, so therefore, prime numbers can be one prime number plus 1. Plus, I'm a biologist.
Well now, as the summary points out, it could be less than 10 million digits. For instance, it could be the previous record holder plus one. My calculator only goes up to 8 digits, so I can't test it one way or another.
Well... if it's between not having wind power, and having electrical lines explodify every time the wind blows, I'll take the no wind power. Federal regulation isn't always bad. We have to thank bureacratic red tape for keeping thalidomide out of the country before we realized it doesn't just cure morning sickness, it also makes your children not have arms and legs. The company selling the stuff was going nuts without testing.
This is a much more cut and dry situation that might not need regulation, but let's keep perspective.
I find it very cynical to expect that Russians can't appreciate the miracle that is BBQ. After all, they're drunk, is there a better condition to be in to barbecue?
So as to use a stereotype as it's own proof, Democrats realize that you have to pay taxes even if you don't agree with whatever stupid nonsense they get spent on.
Republicans prefer the "Who says we can't cut taxes and spend them at the same time? Everyone who lives in reality you say? Fuzzy math! Wooo! I win! No taxes! Now lets invade a country using the federal budget!"
So really it's about living in reality vs pretending you can quit your job and buy like crazy with no consequences ever.
I did allude to the fact at the top of the post that this was a joke stereotyping. But please, feel free to get offended anyway.
Deserts are not the only things that are hot. Maybe you want to see some troop movement in the distance while you're in siberia, and between you and the troops there just happens to be a barbecue pit. This works there too!
Well, one non-military use this will have is allowing people to use binoculars better. Uh, in very limited situations, like seeing down the road on a hot day. For millionaires, since this is probably going to be expensive for a while. So there's that... Also say you are a millionaire in the desert and want to see more sand. What are you going to use? This thing!
Election nothing, that's EVERYONES favorite sleazy tactic of debate. Politicians may have turned it into a profession, but I was deliberately quoting one parent out of context to the other parent to get my way. WHEN I WAS TEN.
Dad: "Did your mother say you could have a cookie before dinner?" Me: "Yes, Mommy said 'sure you can have a cookie...'."
For the record, I'm a scientist, not a politician.
The linked article is not the actual journal article, so they don't explain what they did or detail their results.
If you look at a summary of a paper you're not an expert in and come up quickly with some potential problems, it's likely that someone who works on this for months if not years is going to have considered that at some point. The fact that it's not in the summary does not mean they didn't look at it and you shouldn't assume they're bad researchers for not making sure this summary (which someone else wrote) had all the technical details.
For example, the external factors like houses and barns, that seems pretty obvious. They would be unearthly stupid to not factor that in. There are ways in which you could factor that in too. If you find the article and they just look at cows removed from all else and find this bias, you're right, that could be from numerous other effects, not the least of which is HUMAN tendancy to north/south.
The conclusion you should get is "poor summary," not poor science. You're the one jumping to unsafe conclusions.
Another issue: how many good scientists promote their work by posting a link to an article? I don't know, are you sure they did or is this "samzenpus" writing this without any input from the researchers?
When did I say bio research was harder than CS research, and how would that even matter?
As far as the computer equation, numerous other people have pointed out the two are not the same. Again, I'm sorry I had that extremely common misconception.
I was actually referring more to non-technology issues. It's like how it took people years after the invention of the novel to realize it should really have rising action and a climax. Some of the earliest novels are, well, kind of boring. Jonathan Swift's "Gullivers Travels" I'm told doesn't really have much of a plot, it's just Gulliver meeting new and strange cultures. A disclaimer there, I've never read it.
The montage in movies, not really a technical issue, but it would have taken people a while to think of that as a way to represent a long process that the movie doesn't want to show.
Same thing with videogames. How do you make a statment in them which uses the interactive element and isn't just playing games between movie sequences? I don't know, and game-makers don't either yet, but they will.
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Yeah, but this issue is fixable is the difference. Would just require a little bit of computer fiddling. Fixing your marriage would have required, I dunno, maturity? A bit harder for some than putting in a self-mod function.
You can't convince me that the transistor didn't make them a lot more money than they put in when you look at the big picture. I'm willing to belive that on paper, Bell labs may have been a loss, but of course that's not the same as the division being dead weight. I'd be suprised if this decision wasn't based entirely off of myopic buisness decisions. Want to raise your stock? Maybe if you fire everyone and cut costs to zero, your investors will be pleased.
I of course don't know the inside story, but sounds stupid enough. If this is the case, here's hoping Alcatel-Lucent loses a lot of money quickly and opens it back up.
I think the lack of crashes is not a failure of simulation, it's an artifact of it being a simulation. Crashing is part of the real-life experience of racing, but then again so is driving to the track, doing days upon days of maintenence to the engine and car, time trials, getting endorsements, giving interviews, making professional connections... in other words, there's a lot that goes into real-world racing that's not racing.
You wouldn't want that in a racing simulator because that's boring.
Much the same, crashes are arguably not important for a racing simulation. Sure they're something you can DO while racing. And it's definitely arguable that while racing if you do go off the track and run into a wall at top speed, the race should be over to provide a more realistic experience. But that's a choice they made. If that really ruins your simulation, you have the option to quit the race.
In gran turismo 2 I do remember that in some cases, the lack of crashes does actually work to your benefit, which is a failure of simulation. Some corners it was much much faster to skid along the wall than to actually brake and corner realistically. That did cheapen the experience. But I seem to remember that they fixed that in later games, touching a wall was not to your advantage. I didn't play them as much, so I could be off.
Not putting realistic crashes into the game does not mean it's a failure of RACING simulation, just that it's not accurate in the non-racing parts. You want crashes, play burnout.
I feel like the "1 is not a prime number" has been sufficiently covered (and then pointed out an additional 5 times), and the biologist part was covered too.
Er, I'd really like to retract this post. It's not insightful, it's me not being awake and not RTFA. So this will probably be a /. first, but I would request someone to mod my own post (the one above) "overrated." She's not doing this to private citizens, the SSNs are already online, this doesn't seem like a bid for attention now that I have the facts straight.
I'm not sure why you can't delete your own post, but there should at least be a "mod my own comment down to '-1: redacted'" option.
This is a case where I'd like to be able to delete my own comment. Someone pointed out that she's only posting SSNs available online already for politicians. I don't think this is a bid for attention.
I'm not sure they're full of themselves so much as trying a marketing gimmick they know to be a gimmick. So maybe it's that they think the public is full of themselves, which some of the racing fans probably are.
Many games try to claim they're not part of a genre. The guys who made metroid prime 3 were trying to say it was an entirely new genre, a first-person adventure, not a first person shooter. I mean, sure, you shoot in it, but this is an adventure, not like doom or anything. Of course, this was more for elitist fans. If you liked FPS, it made no difference. If you are part of the growing "videogame hipster" culture (you play games but act like you have better tastes than average gamers, distaining popular games like Halo in favor of more obscure games) then that might make a difference to you. "I don't play FPS, those are lame and for frat boys. I do play FPAs though."
So I think you're closer with the second part, but I kind of doubt the company itself doesn't realize it's a videogame.
Not to mention you're only encouraging people to troll you like all three of these obviously were.
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No, I can't. Damnit! There goes your funny mod.
The ends don't justify the means. She's trying to advocate privacy by decreasing individual's privacy if I'm understanding this. She's saying "this is wrong that your social security number is printed on X public document, so I'm going to post it online to dramatically increase the amount of people who can see it and increase your chances of identity theft." Reminds me of those assholes who posted a flashing screen on an epilepsy support website to let them know that they were vulnerable to assholes putting a flashing screen on their website. It's hypocrisy. Strip away the obviously false "it's for your own good" logic and it's clearly a bid for attention.
I think he actually had a decent point here aside from the pointless statement of apathy. I don't know if the side effects would actually be a detriment more than a benefit, the interviewed guy says in most cases it did actually help them, though I suspect he wasn't being very scientific about.
I also suspect your comparison to motorsports is pretty worthless. The two are not the same, unless you're talking about a gran turismo tournament.
You say that, but at some point someone told me that 1 is a prime number and 2 is as well, so therefore, prime numbers can be one prime number plus 1. Plus, I'm a biologist.
...he asks on slashdot.
Well now, as the summary points out, it could be less than 10 million digits. For instance, it could be the previous record holder plus one. My calculator only goes up to 8 digits, so I can't test it one way or another.
Well... if it's between not having wind power, and having electrical lines explodify every time the wind blows, I'll take the no wind power. Federal regulation isn't always bad. We have to thank bureacratic red tape for keeping thalidomide out of the country before we realized it doesn't just cure morning sickness, it also makes your children not have arms and legs. The company selling the stuff was going nuts without testing.
This is a much more cut and dry situation that might not need regulation, but let's keep perspective.
This really blows.
(Apologies to all who are sick to their stomachs right now.)
I find it very cynical to expect that Russians can't appreciate the miracle that is BBQ. After all, they're drunk, is there a better condition to be in to barbecue?
That's it, I'm going to stop buying matches in NY altogether in protest. Gonna buy all my matches in my home state from now on. Thanks for the tip!
So as to use a stereotype as it's own proof, Democrats realize that you have to pay taxes even if you don't agree with whatever stupid nonsense they get spent on.
Republicans prefer the "Who says we can't cut taxes and spend them at the same time? Everyone who lives in reality you say? Fuzzy math! Wooo! I win! No taxes! Now lets invade a country using the federal budget!"
So really it's about living in reality vs pretending you can quit your job and buy like crazy with no consequences ever.
I did allude to the fact at the top of the post that this was a joke stereotyping. But please, feel free to get offended anyway.
Deserts are not the only things that are hot. Maybe you want to see some troop movement in the distance while you're in siberia, and between you and the troops there just happens to be a barbecue pit. This works there too!
Well, one non-military use this will have is allowing people to use binoculars better. Uh, in very limited situations, like seeing down the road on a hot day. For millionaires, since this is probably going to be expensive for a while. So there's that... Also say you are a millionaire in the desert and want to see more sand. What are you going to use? This thing!
Election nothing, that's EVERYONES favorite sleazy tactic of debate. Politicians may have turned it into a profession, but I was deliberately quoting one parent out of context to the other parent to get my way. WHEN I WAS TEN.
Dad: "Did your mother say you could have a cookie before dinner?"
Me: "Yes, Mommy said 'sure you can have a cookie...'."
For the record, I'm a scientist, not a politician.
The linked article is not the actual journal article, so they don't explain what they did or detail their results.
If you look at a summary of a paper you're not an expert in and come up quickly with some potential problems, it's likely that someone who works on this for months if not years is going to have considered that at some point. The fact that it's not in the summary does not mean they didn't look at it and you shouldn't assume they're bad researchers for not making sure this summary (which someone else wrote) had all the technical details.
For example, the external factors like houses and barns, that seems pretty obvious. They would be unearthly stupid to not factor that in. There are ways in which you could factor that in too. If you find the article and they just look at cows removed from all else and find this bias, you're right, that could be from numerous other effects, not the least of which is HUMAN tendancy to north/south.
The conclusion you should get is "poor summary," not poor science. You're the one jumping to unsafe conclusions.
Another issue: how many good scientists promote their work by posting a link to an article? I don't know, are you sure they did or is this "samzenpus" writing this without any input from the researchers?
When did I say bio research was harder than CS research, and how would that even matter?
As far as the computer equation, numerous other people have pointed out the two are not the same. Again, I'm sorry I had that extremely common misconception.
I was actually referring more to non-technology issues. It's like how it took people years after the invention of the novel to realize it should really have rising action and a climax. Some of the earliest novels are, well, kind of boring. Jonathan Swift's "Gullivers Travels" I'm told doesn't really have much of a plot, it's just Gulliver meeting new and strange cultures. A disclaimer there, I've never read it.
The montage in movies, not really a technical issue, but it would have taken people a while to think of that as a way to represent a long process that the movie doesn't want to show.
Same thing with videogames. How do you make a statment in them which uses the interactive element and isn't just playing games between movie sequences? I don't know, and game-makers don't either yet, but they will.