At present rate we have what... 100 years of potash in the ground? At some point we will have to sustain the production with only atmospheric nitrogen.
Just because the same kind of revolutions need to keep happening doesn't mean they will... all our revolutions up till now have dependent on non renewable resources, if we don't have a sustainable revolution in energy production in the near future (and I don't think liquid sodium reactors qualify) we will be fucked. Because all the other potential revolutions will almost certainly depend on that, it's not going to come from mining non renewable resources any more.
It indeed has nothing to do with the higher level protocols, that was my point... all the app can do is close a socket, what happens to the lower level connection the phone used for it's IP traffic is not up to the app.
If high frequency build up/tear down of channels is a problem then maybe the phone shouldn't bloody well do that... regardless of what the apps do.
If my OS dropped it's internet connection every time the last socket on it was closed I could see how that could cause a problem for ISPs... should I attribute that problem to the running applications?
Meh, in the end the book will get sold any way and the inefficient market keeps more people employed in the end... takes more to run a shop than an arbitrage play.
This reminds me a bit of the liquidity argument for HFT. It's true enough that arbitrage makes the markets more efficient... but does increased efficiency still increase average wealth in modern society? I think not, it's simply accelerating a decline in living standards for most people. When a society is at the point where arbitrage is the best way for our best and brightest to make money we are fucked.
The app can't close down the connection... it's the TCP/IP stack's decision whether or not to immediately tear down the data connection when the last socket is closed, it's a slightly retarded decision to make BTW.
Who decided to eat a lot of carbs? People who didn't sit on their ass all day and needed energy and couldn't afford lots of meat. Potatoes, bread, oatmeal... staple diet for my parents when they were kids long before the 70s. If your parents ate a lot better it's probably because they were rich, not because they lived in a better age.
They should have ported the game code from Warhammer to AoC (combat system and scenarios, but allow player made factions). Then they'd have had a half decent game with a half decent engine.
The big problem I have always had in RvR is that there is nothing to strive for... it's all a gear treadmill.
If my guild could plant a flag on a keep and get something really good out of it (not advantages in the gear treadmill) there would be far more involvement. Faction pride is a fucking fantasy... also there should be an economic aspect to War, it should consume resources.
Resource gathering for GOOD siege need to be in, not just ballistas... but things like the fuck huge summons from the original cinematic.
Guild officers should get get to ride warhorses in keep combat with some combat bonuses. They are supposed to be the leaders... let them tower over the battlefield and let them live a little longer. There needs to be a little prestige and power for good guilds (just disable the bonuses in scenarios and when combat is initiated in an area without a large scale battle going on).
Also there is a complete lack of tactical options for small groups in keep combat, there need to be far more battle objectives and they should be more important... just create a lot of objectives which can work as travel destinations and radar, and let them give warnings on chat when a large group of enemies come into the area.... presto, makes them instantly important in battle, intel and mobility.
These things are so fucking simple. Wake me up when they do anything like that, instead of more dumb gear treadmill shit.
The anecdote from another developer about item generation does ring true though from a player perspective, it was pretty clear that item generation was a giant cluster fuck (and excuses about how hard it was, so have patience, were frequent in the early game).
Once you have a ballpark differential delay you might be able to just use autocorrelation to find the needed delay for the dominant sound source in a relatively small timeframe/volume (the positional uncertainty at the microphone when translated to the source, assuming for a moment we know the exact differential delay, will actually become smaller AFAICS).
Depending on how low level the access to the GPS data is you will be able to get much better differential accuracy (especially with some temporal averaging).
I wonder if you could do this with mobile phones... do these provide low level access to GPS signals? (For timing and differential location correction.) You might be able to crowd source a distributed recording for reconstruction.
Of course deflation would crash the US and EU economies... but it wouldn't necessarily crash their currencies. Not as long as the reigns on government are kept tight and spending is cut faster than reductions in tax revenue. Of course the spending cuts have a negative feedback on tax revenue for a while, because of wage deflation and unemployment, but if you keep it up for long enough it will lead to a new equilibrium in the end... a third world equilibrium for most of the population, but an equilibrium nonetheless.
I don't think that's true... the austerity drums are being drummed louder and louder around the world. Look at how some of the Fed chairmen are starting to openly revolt against QE2 and the ECB is openly saying that deflation is acceptable for some EU states. At the moment I think destruction of the welfare state and deflation is actually the most likely future outcome.
Which would make government securities an extremely effective investment.
It will truly be a complete triumph for China if it happens, they will lose their export market but they will have gained vast amounts of industry in the mean time and gotten a good return on the money they used for currency manipulation.
I don't blame them though, the entire generation of traitors in government and the media sucking off the teat of the super rich which got us here... all those are more culpable than China.
They have already begun economic warfare, decade long currency manipulation can be called little else... and there are collaborators on our shores growing richer off it, which is why nothing is being done about it. It serves the people that actually matter.
The population has been sold on the propaganda that There Is No Alternative... the masses are happily marching down the road of austerity (aka race to the bottom).
It would be painful all around though... all their reserves would flow back to the US/EU, driving up inflation even faster than the loss of cheap goods would suggest. The banks in the mean time are sitting on trillions of excess reserves, which at the first sign of inflation they would put into commodities and equities as well. Massive inflation all around, which given the debt overhang in the first world is really not that bad an idea despite the chaos. Certainly a better idea than waiting a couple more decades to lose what is left of our manufacturing base.
Never going to happen though, the powers that be own most of the debt... inflation is not an option.
Why worry about why? When you say it's a non issue, you're factually entirely wrong. It's an issue to them and their request is a relatively simple one... allow a preference to disallow friends to make you join groups.
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At present rate we have what ... 100 years of potash in the ground? At some point we will have to sustain the production with only atmospheric nitrogen.
Just because the same kind of revolutions need to keep happening doesn't mean they will ... all our revolutions up till now have dependent on non renewable resources, if we don't have a sustainable revolution in energy production in the near future (and I don't think liquid sodium reactors qualify) we will be fucked. Because all the other potential revolutions will almost certainly depend on that, it's not going to come from mining non renewable resources any more.
It has a touch screen and you can flip the display and turn it into a tablet.
Well PCs can run android, so get an ASUS Eee PC T101MT or something ...
It indeed has nothing to do with the higher level protocols, that was my point ... all the app can do is close a socket, what happens to the lower level connection the phone used for it's IP traffic is not up to the app.
If high frequency build up/tear down of channels is a problem then maybe the phone shouldn't bloody well do that ... regardless of what the apps do.
If my OS dropped it's internet connection every time the last socket on it was closed I could see how that could cause a problem for ISPs ... should I attribute that problem to the running applications?
Meh, in the end the book will get sold any way and the inefficient market keeps more people employed in the end ... takes more to run a shop than an arbitrage play.
This reminds me a bit of the liquidity argument for HFT. It's true enough that arbitrage makes the markets more efficient ... but does increased efficiency still increase average wealth in modern society? I think not, it's simply accelerating a decline in living standards for most people. When a society is at the point where arbitrage is the best way for our best and brightest to make money we are fucked.
We are fucked.
The app can't close down the connection ... it's the TCP/IP stack's decision whether or not to immediately tear down the data connection when the last socket is closed, it's a slightly retarded decision to make BTW.
If it could handle all devices staying connected they could simply set the inactivity timer to a couple of minutes and suffer no ill effect.
Who decided to eat a lot of carbs? People who didn't sit on their ass all day and needed energy and couldn't afford lots of meat. Potatoes, bread, oatmeal ... staple diet for my parents when they were kids long before the 70s. If your parents ate a lot better it's probably because they were rich, not because they lived in a better age.
They should have ported the game code from Warhammer to AoC (combat system and scenarios, but allow player made factions). Then they'd have had a half decent game with a half decent engine.
The big problem I have always had in RvR is that there is nothing to strive for ... it's all a gear treadmill.
If my guild could plant a flag on a keep and get something really good out of it (not advantages in the gear treadmill) there would be far more involvement. Faction pride is a fucking fantasy ... also there should be an economic aspect to War, it should consume resources.
Resource gathering for GOOD siege need to be in, not just ballistas ... but things like the fuck huge summons from the original cinematic.
Guild officers should get get to ride warhorses in keep combat with some combat bonuses. They are supposed to be the leaders ... let them tower over the battlefield and let them live a little longer. There needs to be a little prestige and power for good guilds (just disable the bonuses in scenarios and when combat is initiated in an area without a large scale battle going on).
Also there is a complete lack of tactical options for small groups in keep combat, there need to be far more battle objectives and they should be more important ... just create a lot of objectives which can work as travel destinations and radar, and let them give warnings on chat when a large group of enemies come into the area .... presto, makes them instantly important in battle, intel and mobility.
These things are so fucking simple. Wake me up when they do anything like that, instead of more dumb gear treadmill shit.
The anecdote from another developer about item generation does ring true though from a player perspective, it was pretty clear that item generation was a giant cluster fuck (and excuses about how hard it was, so have patience, were frequent in the early game).
Once you have a ballpark differential delay you might be able to just use autocorrelation to find the needed delay for the dominant sound source in a relatively small timeframe/volume (the positional uncertainty at the microphone when translated to the source, assuming for a moment we know the exact differential delay, will actually become smaller AFAICS).
Heh, didn't even realise that ... of course the movie barely held my attention except for hilariously bad interrogation scene.
Depending on how low level the access to the GPS data is you will be able to get much better differential accuracy (especially with some temporal averaging).
I wouldn't suggest phoning it in ... it would be recorded together with the GPS data and send over IP with only lossless coding.
I suspect Brownian noise starts becoming a bit bothersome at those distances.
I wonder if you could do this with mobile phones ... do these provide low level access to GPS signals? (For timing and differential location correction.) You might be able to crowd source a distributed recording for reconstruction.
It's a state where all citizens can fare well.
Of course deflation would crash the US and EU economies ... but it wouldn't necessarily crash their currencies. Not as long as the reigns on government are kept tight and spending is cut faster than reductions in tax revenue. Of course the spending cuts have a negative feedback on tax revenue for a while, because of wage deflation and unemployment, but if you keep it up for long enough it will lead to a new equilibrium in the end ... a third world equilibrium for most of the population, but an equilibrium nonetheless.
Most people will suffer, but some will benefit.
I don't think that's true ... the austerity drums are being drummed louder and louder around the world. Look at how some of the Fed chairmen are starting to openly revolt against QE2 and the ECB is openly saying that deflation is acceptable for some EU states. At the moment I think destruction of the welfare state and deflation is actually the most likely future outcome.
Which would make government securities an extremely effective investment.
It will truly be a complete triumph for China if it happens, they will lose their export market but they will have gained vast amounts of industry in the mean time and gotten a good return on the money they used for currency manipulation.
I don't blame them though, the entire generation of traitors in government and the media sucking off the teat of the super rich which got us here ... all those are more culpable than China.
They have already begun economic warfare, decade long currency manipulation can be called little else ... and there are collaborators on our shores growing richer off it, which is why nothing is being done about it. It serves the people that actually matter.
The population has been sold on the propaganda that There Is No Alternative ... the masses are happily marching down the road of austerity (aka race to the bottom).
Import certificates would put a stop to it.
It would be painful all around though ... all their reserves would flow back to the US/EU, driving up inflation even faster than the loss of cheap goods would suggest. The banks in the mean time are sitting on trillions of excess reserves, which at the first sign of inflation they would put into commodities and equities as well. Massive inflation all around, which given the debt overhang in the first world is really not that bad an idea despite the chaos. Certainly a better idea than waiting a couple more decades to lose what is left of our manufacturing base.
Never going to happen though, the powers that be own most of the debt ... inflation is not an option.
Probably because a jury of lay people in Texas get to make the decision.
Because if RIM affected US/EU/Canadian devices in such a way they would get sued.
Why worry about why? When you say it's a non issue, you're factually entirely wrong. It's an issue to them and their request is a relatively simple one ... allow a preference to disallow friends to make you join groups.
"it's" -> "its" ... blah.