"There are aberrations, of course. Americans are relatively productive and work relatively long hours. And within the American labour force hours worked among the rich have risen while those of the poor have fallen. But a paper released yesterday by the New Zealand Productivity Commission showed that even if you work more hours, you do not necessarily work better. The paper made envious comparisons between Kiwis and Australians—the latter group has more efficient workers."
For a while it was a middle class game, for a middle class with lots of leisure time. The current remaining middle class works far more than the old middle class.
Golf is returning to being an upper class game... but that means much less players and thus less courses.
If those factories were still in the US they'd use far more automation and employ only a fraction of the labour they use overseas and used in the past in the US.
Maybe, but it would only be a stopgap solution even if it worked. In the end there are REAL resource (ie, not money, not even gold) limits to consumption, there are no limits to labor productivity.
Not looney tunes, she's just letting herself be taken in by the comfortable reality distortion bubble her backers create for her... it's much easier to tell yourself all those people supporting you can't be wrong than to admit the mistake to yourself and others.
Didn't Slashdot have another story recently about how pop-science was in love with trying to find power laws in everything? (And producing nothing of value along the way.)
The use of dual port memory shows just how deeply the NSA has penetrated into the industry... lets open a huge security hole and put a huge amount of unnecessary load on the widest/fastest bus in the phone and lets tell them we need to do this for performance... when fucking wlan can easily be put over one relatively slow LVDS pair let alone 4g.
I was downloading mods on the fly in Unreal a long long time ago, needing add-ons is not a problem (other than security wise, need to use something like NCl or I guess Asm.js... shudder). Properly abstracting the game code and running it all in script is not a problem either (again, Unreal).
It's just that modern developers seem utterly incapable of proper abstraction and lack the mindset to open source any part of their work... I seriously doubt anyone working on Shards is any different. They'll give people some castrated tools and that's it.
It's not a problem if each server is just it's own persistent world... let characters from the official servers import into persistent worlds, but not export.
Game code will be properly abstracted from engine code and it will be open source? Sure....
Unless they give true full source code access the best players will be able to do is turn some near irrelevant dials and connect some blocks together to form a "new" quest, just like all these other MMOs which promise players will be able to develop content.
AOL already has their own video streaming service set up, stream quality seems quite nice too... no user videos though so no direct competition to youtube.
None of those movies got preachy about misogyny (although Catching Fire preached to the teenage choir about a lot of other stuff of course, like every coming of age story). All pretty white too of course...
This isn't about games with female protagonists or without damsels in distress, we have those... and some of them sell fine, mostly to white'ish young men. No, that obviously isn't enough to Heir.
Waste my hard earned money is what they could do about it, I'm not paying them to get preached at.
You could throw in a few retard/faggot conversation items and have an NPC admonish the player for using that I guess... I wouldn't really care about that, any more than I care about the otherwordly percentages of LGBTs in their games. If they build elaborate set pieces to try to make me empathize with discriminated minorities all I will feel is contempt for the developers though.
The only thing high orbit gets you for a kinetic energy weapon is acceleration in a vacuum... you still need a huge rocket behind that metal bar with more energy in it's fuel than most nuclear warheads.
Tuneup 3 did what it had to do, it killed the company and made the annoying VCs pestering them for updates go away so they could spend more time on the hookers and blow. The game was up and the game was never delivering a good product, that was only ever a hook.
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There is more competition for backbone services, not to mention the threat of Google's massive amounts of dark fiber.
From your first link :
"There are aberrations, of course. Americans are relatively productive and work relatively long hours. And within the American labour force hours worked among the rich have risen while those of the poor have fallen. But a paper released yesterday by the New Zealand Productivity Commission showed that even if you work more hours, you do not necessarily work better. The paper made envious comparisons between Kiwis and Australians—the latter group has more efficient workers."
You need bioreactors for that (ocean water is not very nutritious). PV + power to gas seems to me the best approach.
Plenty of ocean though ...
For a while it was a middle class game, for a middle class with lots of leisure time. The current remaining middle class works far more than the old middle class.
Golf is returning to being an upper class game ... but that means much less players and thus less courses.
Be sure to hold your breath waiting for that too happen.
Please do tell the Australians how to easily desalinate their farmland, they're struggling with it a bit.
If those factories were still in the US they'd use far more automation and employ only a fraction of the labour they use overseas and used in the past in the US.
Maybe, but it would only be a stopgap solution even if it worked. In the end there are REAL resource (ie, not money, not even gold) limits to consumption, there are no limits to labor productivity.
Not looney tunes, she's just letting herself be taken in by the comfortable reality distortion bubble her backers create for her ... it's much easier to tell yourself all those people supporting you can't be wrong than to admit the mistake to yourself and others.
Not very nice, but also not crazy.
The ear is nonlinear, so it can downmix ... not that it's a relevant effect for perceiving music, but just saying.
Didn't Slashdot have another story recently about how pop-science was in love with trying to find power laws in everything? (And producing nothing of value along the way.)
It's a parable, also it's literal truth.
Is there no stegonagraphy chat app using instagram yet? Obsessive selfie taking seems like a good cover.
The use of dual port memory shows just how deeply the NSA has penetrated into the industry ... lets open a huge security hole and put a huge amount of unnecessary load on the widest/fastest bus in the phone and lets tell them we need to do this for performance ... when fucking wlan can easily be put over one relatively slow LVDS pair let alone 4g.
I was downloading mods on the fly in Unreal a long long time ago, needing add-ons is not a problem (other than security wise, need to use something like NCl or I guess Asm.js ... shudder). Properly abstracting the game code and running it all in script is not a problem either (again, Unreal).
It's just that modern developers seem utterly incapable of proper abstraction and lack the mindset to open source any part of their work ... I seriously doubt anyone working on Shards is any different. They'll give people some castrated tools and that's it.
It's not a problem if each server is just it's own persistent world ... let characters from the official servers import into persistent worlds, but not export.
Game code will be properly abstracted from engine code and it will be open source? Sure ....
Unless they give true full source code access the best players will be able to do is turn some near irrelevant dials and connect some blocks together to form a "new" quest, just like all these other MMOs which promise players will be able to develop content.
AOL already has their own video streaming service set up, stream quality seems quite nice too ... no user videos though so no direct competition to youtube.
Lets see what happens on appeal then ... of course if Apple loses it you'll just declare the next judge prejudiced as well.
None of those movies got preachy about misogyny (although Catching Fire preached to the teenage choir about a lot of other stuff of course, like every coming of age story). All pretty white too of course ...
This isn't about games with female protagonists or without damsels in distress, we have those ... and some of them sell fine, mostly to white'ish young men. No, that obviously isn't enough to Heir.
Waste my hard earned money is what they could do about it, I'm not paying them to get preached at.
You could throw in a few retard/faggot conversation items and have an NPC admonish the player for using that I guess ... I wouldn't really care about that, any more than I care about the otherwordly percentages of LGBTs in their games. If they build elaborate set pieces to try to make me empathize with discriminated minorities all I will feel is contempt for the developers though.
The only thing high orbit gets you for a kinetic energy weapon is acceleration in a vacuum ... you still need a huge rocket behind that metal bar with more energy in it's fuel than most nuclear warheads.
At least not the smaller ones, people have built ones which brute force engine reversal and use symmetric propellers.
http://hackaday.com/2013/11/26...
Tuneup 3 did what it had to do, it killed the company and made the annoying VCs pestering them for updates go away so they could spend more time on the hookers and blow. The game was up and the game was never delivering a good product, that was only ever a hook.