Except instant runoff doesn't really help third parties that much.
Take a look at Australia. They've used IRV for over 100 years, and their house of representatives has two parties (well; one party and one 60+ year long two-member coalition that never oppose incumbent members of the other coalition-member; close enough.)
But approval voting and score voting really CAN allow third-parties a foothold. http://rangevoting.org/
Except the most-commonly suggested ranking system (instant runoff voting, AKA ranked choice voting, AKA the alternative vote), doesn't do that. Instead, it would eliminate B in the first round, leaving a narrow decision between A and C; just like how we have now.
What would work better is a rating-based system, not a ranking-based one.
The two best-known rating-based systems are approval voting (give every candidate a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down) and score voting (AKA range voting; give each candidate any score from within a given range, like 0-5 or 0-10.) If 50% of voters gave A 10 points, B 6 or more points, and C 0 points, and 50% reversed A and C, then B wins; as you think they should.
"See! See! If you squint real hard and ignore all the details, it looks like I could maybe have been right."
Or:
"See! See! A flood happened once, and there's also a flood in the Bible, therefore it must all be true!"
Or: I have been epically trolled, in which case, well done. Either way, I have to admit that the use of He-La as an appeal to biblical-infallibility, that's the first time I've seen that; a most impressive stretch, and kudos on it as well.
Problem #1 with your analysis is that "the typical American house" and "the typical American house in the Washington D.C. metro area" cost VASTLY different amounts.
Nah, MPG is still pretty useless. If you want to know the maximum range of your vehicle, just have them print the maximum range of your vehicle. I guess MPG might be useful if the rare case that you're the type to stock up on extra gas cans in your truck bed for a long drive, but percentage wise, how many people do that, versus the 66% of people who are screwing up efficiency questions because of MPG being printed instead of GP(100)M?
For the record, I did have to drive 100 miles between gas stations on my Memorial day vacation, and got about 4.6 GP100M (22 MPG) on the trip (it was a relatively rough road, or I might have done better).
So, here's my crazy (OR IS IT?) idea to fix this problem. The reason things like aimbots work at all is because the server tells the client "this player's avatar is in such-and-such position"; for the good reason of, once your computer knows where someone is, it can draw them on the screen... but it's that same data that the aimbot uses to know precisely where to point.
So the crazy idea is this: don't tell the client systems where the avatars are located. Maybe your system says "I'm here, looking this way", and all you get back is a bunch of data for drawing textured triangles. Triangles might be part of another player's avatar, or a wall, or who knows what; but your system doesn't know of what it is either, so there's nothing for an aimbot to go on to do its thing. It's more data, and more work for the server, but maybe it's not TOO MUCH more data or work for the server, and it'd be cheat-free.
(Unless you write some spiffy image recognition software, but hey, at least we get some advances in AI out of the deal that way...)
Nah, dude; women play other MMOPGs, and have been for a long time. They just pretend to be men so that guys who post off-topic sexist remarks to/. (and the guys who mod those guys up) will stop harassing them.
No, the person whose code *I* inherit hates functions; a single 6 to 9 thousand line behemoth strewn out to a dozen levels deep with whiles, fors, and 20-wide else-if trees is something I've seen more than once. Parameterless sub functions would be a huge improvement.
AP1000 is a 1000 megawatt plant (hence the name; actually, it makes a bit more than 1000), that's 1,000,000 kilowatts; $0.10/KWH*1,000,000*24hrs/day=$2.4million/day worth of electricity sold. And the businesses taking out these loans can get a damn sight better than 8% annual interest. But yes, the plant is expensive. But the fuel is surprisingly cheap; not by the pound, for sure, but by the watt (since you need so little mass to generate each watt), it's a helluva lot cheaper than coal.
I also never understood why if nuclear waste is still putting off energy, why not just use the waste as an energy source?
Fear of weapons proliferation (for instance, you start making too much plutonium) and added complexity for having to deal with different kinds of radioactive materials in varying ratios (less than 2% not-uranium: okay; more than 2%: not designed for).
Closing? It was never open. Most spent fuel is (has been and will be) kept on-site, the rest is usually only ever moved a relatively short distance. Besides, fuel reprocessing would be better. And gen-4 plants (which would burn more than the 2% of the uranium we currently burn before calling the fuel "spent") would be even better.
Just because no one else seems to be willing to say it: I thought Mostly Harmless was great. The people who are upset by it seem to primarily be upset that it was the end. Everything good ends, and this ended while staying in-theme, in-character, and in-style with the rest of the series; that's more than can be said for most things.
Now, if you want to see a truly abrupt ending, read The Salmon of Doubt (and that, if you truly loved the mans work, should make you cry.)
How many of these 360 failures are from the original poorly-soldered issue, and how many are from later issues? I'm betting most of the magazine's readers were early adopters, and have units from that first issue. Not to excuse Microsoft for their mistakes, but I think they've since fixed the problem; I'd be willing to bet that their failure rate on later issues is comparable to their competitors.
The reason email was such a boon, and the only reason it's lasted so long, is because you didn't need a login on someone else's system in order to communicate with them. Of course, that's also why the folks who came up with it never (directly) made any money off of it. (Finding interviews with the inventor of '@' are left as a googlecise for the reader.)
It's a tough position: the only way to last longer than a flash-in-the-pan fad is to give up your only obvious way to turn a profit... but no flash-in-the-pan fads have ever turned a profit either. So we'll continue to get these cyclical fads, all of us moving from service provider to service provider, like a migrating swarm of locusts, leaving fields of venture capital devastated in our wake, hoping that someone will figure out the magic formula to make money from it.
Mussolini (is reported to have) said fascism should be called corporatism.
Normally, I wouldn't jump down someone's throat and psudo-swear at them, but with the idiocy and lies floating about in the US about what socialism and fascism are (OMG! The "national socialist"! Democrats are Nazis!), I'm on edge. Especially when the ignorance gets "+5 interesting"; a sad day indeed.
Absolutely right! There are more artists, making more music, doing more concerts, and pulling in more money, than ever before. Music is doing fine. Selling records is the only thing that's hurting. (Requisite car analogy: it wasn't the transportation industry that cars put out of business, it was the horse and buggy industry.)
Fuel rods are replaced about every 18 months, and there are already systems in place for dealing with them. I don't imagine they would be the hard part of decommissioning; all the neutron-bombarded steel, lead, and concrete are the problem.
Why are M&Ms getting attached to this story? This dye is used in all kinds of foods, not just M&Ms.
Maybe M&M/Mars, thanks to all the free and undeserved publicity, would be willing to help fund the necessary study, since no drug company seems interested in doing so (after all, there's no profit in selling a commodity food coloring.)
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Take a look at Australia. They've used IRV for over 100 years, and their house of representatives has two parties (well; one party and one 60+ year long two-member coalition that never oppose incumbent members of the other coalition-member; close enough.)
But approval voting and score voting really CAN allow third-parties a foothold. http://rangevoting.org/
What would work better is a rating-based system, not a ranking-based one.
The two best-known rating-based systems are approval voting (give every candidate a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down) and score voting (AKA range voting; give each candidate any score from within a given range, like 0-5 or 0-10.) If 50% of voters gave A 10 points, B 6 or more points, and C 0 points, and 50% reversed A and C, then B wins; as you think they should.
More information about score and approval voting is available at The Center for Range Voting
Or:
"See! See! A flood happened once, and there's also a flood in the Bible, therefore it must all be true!"
Or: I have been epically trolled, in which case, well done. Either way, I have to admit that the use of He-La as an appeal to biblical-infallibility, that's the first time I've seen that; a most impressive stretch, and kudos on it as well.
As they say: location, location, location.
For the record, I did have to drive 100 miles between gas stations on my Memorial day vacation, and got about 4.6 GP100M (22 MPG) on the trip (it was a relatively rough road, or I might have done better).
Between my high scores on Paranoia: Survivor and Territories on Zanzibar, I will be the greatest soldier America has ever seen!
So the crazy idea is this: don't tell the client systems where the avatars are located. Maybe your system says "I'm here, looking this way", and all you get back is a bunch of data for drawing textured triangles. Triangles might be part of another player's avatar, or a wall, or who knows what; but your system doesn't know of what it is either, so there's nothing for an aimbot to go on to do its thing. It's more data, and more work for the server, but maybe it's not TOO MUCH more data or work for the server, and it'd be cheat-free.
(Unless you write some spiffy image recognition software, but hey, at least we get some advances in AI out of the deal that way...)
Saturn just passed its equinox; it may be hard to make out the rings at all.
But Mars just passed its closet approach to Earth this year, so you should see quite a bit (example)
But since Mars orbits beyond Earth's orbit, you won't see phases; it will always be more than half-full. (wikipedia citation)
And M31 and M42 can still look great in a 4" scope too.
This notice has been a part of the WH photostream since at least November; Techdirt wrote about it, and I wrote about it.
Nah, dude; women play other MMOPGs, and have been for a long time. They just pretend to be men so that guys who post off-topic sexist remarks to /. (and the guys who mod those guys up) will stop harassing them.
Learn to use autocomplete.
No, the person whose code *I* inherit hates functions; a single 6 to 9 thousand line behemoth strewn out to a dozen levels deep with whiles, fors, and 20-wide else-if trees is something I've seen more than once. Parameterless sub functions would be a huge improvement.
AP1000 is a 1000 megawatt plant (hence the name; actually, it makes a bit more than 1000), that's 1,000,000 kilowatts; $0.10/KWH*1,000,000*24hrs/day=$2.4million/day worth of electricity sold. And the businesses taking out these loans can get a damn sight better than 8% annual interest. But yes, the plant is expensive. But the fuel is surprisingly cheap; not by the pound, for sure, but by the watt (since you need so little mass to generate each watt), it's a helluva lot cheaper than coal.
Monitoring them... or re-processing them for use in the next generation of nuclear plants. There's still a lot of uranium in a "spent" fuel rod.
Fear of weapons proliferation (for instance, you start making too much plutonium) and added complexity for having to deal with different kinds of radioactive materials in varying ratios (less than 2% not-uranium: okay; more than 2%: not designed for).
Closing? It was never open. Most spent fuel is (has been and will be) kept on-site, the rest is usually only ever moved a relatively short distance. Besides, fuel reprocessing would be better. And gen-4 plants (which would burn more than the 2% of the uranium we currently burn before calling the fuel "spent") would be even better.
But somehow, YOU'RE the one who's "anti-market" if you want to see this service work.
Now, if you want to see a truly abrupt ending, read The Salmon of Doubt (and that, if you truly loved the mans work, should make you cry.)
Yeah, but how many click-throughs will it get?
How many of these 360 failures are from the original poorly-soldered issue, and how many are from later issues? I'm betting most of the magazine's readers were early adopters, and have units from that first issue. Not to excuse Microsoft for their mistakes, but I think they've since fixed the problem; I'd be willing to bet that their failure rate on later issues is comparable to their competitors.
The reason email was such a boon, and the only reason it's lasted so long, is because you didn't need a login on someone else's system in order to communicate with them. Of course, that's also why the folks who came up with it never (directly) made any money off of it. (Finding interviews with the inventor of '@' are left as a googlecise for the reader.)
It's a tough position: the only way to last longer than a flash-in-the-pan fad is to give up your only obvious way to turn a profit... but no flash-in-the-pan fads have ever turned a profit either. So we'll continue to get these cyclical fads, all of us moving from service provider to service provider, like a migrating swarm of locusts, leaving fields of venture capital devastated in our wake, hoping that someone will figure out the magic formula to make money from it.
Mussolini (is reported to have) said fascism should be called corporatism.
Normally, I wouldn't jump down someone's throat and psudo-swear at them, but with the idiocy and lies floating about in the US about what socialism and fascism are (OMG! The "national socialist"! Democrats are Nazis!), I'm on edge. Especially when the ignorance gets "+5 interesting"; a sad day indeed.
Absolutely right! There are more artists, making more music, doing more concerts, and pulling in more money, than ever before. Music is doing fine. Selling records is the only thing that's hurting. (Requisite car analogy: it wasn't the transportation industry that cars put out of business, it was the horse and buggy industry.)
Fuel rods are replaced about every 18 months, and there are already systems in place for dealing with them. I don't imagine they would be the hard part of decommissioning; all the neutron-bombarded steel, lead, and concrete are the problem.
Maybe M&M/Mars, thanks to all the free and undeserved publicity, would be willing to help fund the necessary study, since no drug company seems interested in doing so (after all, there's no profit in selling a commodity food coloring.)