A better car analogy might be highway operators trying to charge manufacturers of SUVs as they take up more space when driven by motorists on the toll-road.
I understand the funny mod, but that's one of the few car analogies in/. that actually works.
If I ever have to explain this situation to a non geek that's exactly the analogy I'll use.
In the near future, the stabilization of display and physics engines will create a large spike in original game design, as the separation between megaproductions and indie experiments gets thinner.
What I wonder now is: will the gaming world reach this point sooner than the movies? Will indie game designers master the large engines before film making becomes affordable enough to eliminate the dependence on the grand public?
What do you do for a population who votes against democracy?
That's one limitation of democracy. It's self preserving.
Is it legal in the USA, standardbearers of democracy, to create an Antidemocratic Party that has, as objective to eliminate democracy as soon as it wins?
It'd feel odd to teach a group of old people how to access information about killing themselves. But that's the point of the freedom of information - anyone should have the right to seek it out and access it.
My feelings are opposite, in a certain way.
The freedom of information, as most freedoms, is one of those things you want to always have because there are some cases where it's important. A breach that reveals my (secret) vote is a severe problem, not because I care the least, I wouldn't mind my choice to wearing a tshirt with my choice, but because I might care, and that case is more important than all others.
This case is not an example of the "generic use of this freedom" as you seem to be implying. This is one of the other kind. This is one of the reasons we want freedom of information in the first place. The right to control our own lives comes above most others.
I can't express in words how important, how serious, this very example is for me.
Talk about shooting the rope that's tied to a balloon that hits the hamster cage, that turns the treadmill, that throws the basketball onto the lightswitch to turn on the light!!!
In Dwarf Fortress, you turn the switch, that opens the door, that lets the goblin in, who steps in the pressure plate, that connects the windmill, that pumps the magma, that runs under the water, that evaporates, passes through the grates, incinerates the goblin, who releases the pressure plate, closes the door and resets the trap.
Or that's what the engineer described before flooding half the fortress and turning the other half into a convoluted basalt sculpture.
Or you could see that the data clearly shows that none of the subjects' had immune systems capable of protecting them from bullets.
That's not completely true. The problem is with the visibility of the bullets. At the subjects weren't able to see the bullets in movement, their bullet resistance didn't raise.
To prove that theory we shot them with visible bullets and, as postulated, they were indeed immune.
You can check the results in our full analysis: [i]"Bullet resistance to bullets slowed down to improve their visibility"[/i].
If it's defensible in court by an entity with enough cash or lawyer might, why is there no such entity doing the same thing and then fighting facebook in court?
If it isn't defensible in court, why does it matter that he didn't fight because he didn't have the money?
These people who think that piracy is "killing" the platform need to tie a can on it. It is clearly not. To me it smacks of the same thing Hollywood loves to do when all movies "lose money" on paper and they cry and whine, yet keep releasing them apace. Tells me that there is no small amount of BS going on.
The counter argument is, usually: "Well, they don't lose money now, but they're making less every time and eventually the industry will crumble".
To which the easiest reply is: "So be it."
We could all create a business based on leaving stuff and a cardboard box in the street, and then whine that people aren't taking the stuff and putting the money on the box as we expected.
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A better car analogy might be highway operators trying to charge manufacturers of SUVs as they take up more space when driven by motorists on the toll-road.
I understand the funny mod, but that's one of the few car analogies in /. that actually works.
If I ever have to explain this situation to a non geek that's exactly the analogy I'll use.
In the near future, the stabilization of display and physics engines will create a large spike in original game design, as the separation between megaproductions and indie experiments gets thinner.
What I wonder now is: will the gaming world reach this point sooner than the movies? Will indie game designers master the large engines before film making becomes affordable enough to eliminate the dependence on the grand public?
IMHO, at this technological point all efforts should go towards establishing a fully inhabitable and equipped space station.
Not a web of tiny corridors, but a large building, sith actual rooms, artificial gravity, etc.
First step? Reduce a hundredfold the price of pushing stuff into orbit.
What do you do for a population who votes against democracy?
That's one limitation of democracy. It's self preserving.
Is it legal in the USA, standardbearers of democracy, to create an Antidemocratic Party that has, as objective to eliminate democracy as soon as it wins?
It'd feel odd to teach a group of old people how to access information about killing themselves.
But that's the point of the freedom of information - anyone should have the right to seek it out and access it.
My feelings are opposite, in a certain way.
The freedom of information, as most freedoms, is one of those things you want to always have because there are some cases where it's important. A breach that reveals my (secret) vote is a severe problem, not because I care the least, I wouldn't mind my choice to wearing a tshirt with my choice, but because I might care, and that case is more important than all others.
This case is not an example of the "generic use of this freedom" as you seem to be implying. This is one of the other kind. This is one of the reasons we want freedom of information in the first place. The right to control our own lives comes above most others.
I can't express in words how important, how serious, this very example is for me.
If you switch exclusively to HTPC gaming, what do you plan to do when friends come over, or when a relative drops kids off at your house?
A - Have a party.
B - Sell them on the black market.
There must be some hundreds of people who've felt the hit of those declarations.
I can only imagine how I'd roll with such a punch... "This will be the year of Linux on the desktop" - Bill Gates... Unngh.
Well, I do what I must.
Because I can.
Assuming Thanshin is not a complete idiot, I think you just got Whooooooooshed.
Maybe (+1 Not a complete idiot) would be a bit contemptous, but I think it's time we get a (-1 Whoosh).
Or maybe a (+0 Whoosh).
At that small of values the uncertianty principle probably plays a big role in error. I wonder if they considered that.
Probably not. After all, physicists aren't requiered to know about physics.
Wait a second...
Who hasn't hearsd of Scientific Notation?
I haven't hearsd of it.
Don't worry, you have a large selection of hearsding aids to choose from.
As long as you have good sighst...
I, hereby, propose the diminewtons.
They should've started from the tiniest entity, like we CSs did with the bits.
They won't hear us complain of not having a name for portions of a yotabit.
PS3 is a GAME CONSOLE, not a COMPUTER.
Mustang is a MUSCLE CAR, not a VEHICLE!
You mean that maybe it stutters?
First time I've ever missed not having mod points.
Czjzek's team compared the microbial genomes of 13 Japanese people with those of 18 North Americans.
If I used this many test subjects in my job I would get fired.
They don't even let me use test subjects in my job. Even after assuring them that most won't die.
TFA is simply another story in which a group of scientists have confirmed things we already know by experience.
Maybe I'm mistaken but, are you implying they shouldn't? That they should concentrate on studying the things we don't already know by experience?
Talk about shooting the rope that's tied to a balloon that hits the hamster cage, that turns the treadmill, that throws the basketball onto the lightswitch to turn on the light!!!
In Dwarf Fortress, you turn the switch, that opens the door, that lets the goblin in, who steps in the pressure plate, that connects the windmill, that pumps the magma, that runs under the water, that evaporates, passes through the grates, incinerates the goblin, who releases the pressure plate, closes the door and resets the trap.
Or that's what the engineer described before flooding half the fortress and turning the other half into a convoluted basalt sculpture.
Or you could see that the data clearly shows that none of the subjects' had immune systems capable of protecting them from bullets.
That's not completely true. The problem is with the visibility of the bullets. At the subjects weren't able to see the bullets in movement, their bullet resistance didn't raise.
To prove that theory we shot them with visible bullets and, as postulated, they were indeed immune.
You can check the results in our full analysis: [i]"Bullet resistance to bullets slowed down to improve their visibility"[/i].
Assuming what he did produces a valuable result.
If it's defensible in court by an entity with enough cash or lawyer might, why is there no such entity doing the same thing and then fighting facebook in court?
If it isn't defensible in court, why does it matter that he didn't fight because he didn't have the money?
He said that it would enable MPs to better communicate with their constituents and keep track of what they want.
So, how fat a pipe do you need for that? 100 Mb/s? 1 Gb/s?
The answer to your question is complex and arduous to obtain, as it depends on many factors.
The main variable, would clearly be whether, during the communication itself, the constituents would be female and naked.
It's not exactly "real time" if you can build an oil refinery in less than the time it takes for your units to cross the map.
That depends on the size of the map.
These people who think that piracy is "killing" the platform need to tie a can on it. It is clearly not. To me it smacks of the same thing Hollywood loves to do when all movies "lose money" on paper and they cry and whine, yet keep releasing them apace. Tells me that there is no small amount of BS going on.
The counter argument is, usually: "Well, they don't lose money now, but they're making less every time and eventually the industry will crumble".
To which the easiest reply is: "So be it."
We could all create a business based on leaving stuff and a cardboard box in the street, and then whine that people aren't taking the stuff and putting the money on the box as we expected.
It looks to only be a problem for highly expensive productions.
Smaller games that start giving benefits after some thousand sales will thrive on a market devoid of big fishes.
Which is fine by me.
They should've used an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Just put it horizontal, add some wheels and sit on it.
Screaming "YeeeeeHa!" as it starts is optional.
The hat isn't.
I don't deny that at all - but to be called a car, they should be
propelled by their wheels' friction on the ground, not by jet engines and rockets.
I agree but wouldn't be so precise, to allow for innovation.
I'd say that it has to be propelled exclusively by interaction with the ground, not necessarily friction.