Isnt this why they were bidding on the C band or whatever it was? I know they didnt end up winning it but I though the whole push was intended to start opening up the market for stuff like this. Definately good for the market, though ultimately probably not good for google. I think making moves like this is definately going to make google a clear target on the FTC's monopoly radar, more so than ever before.
The bias and fanboi fanatacism is oozing from these posts like sweat from a pig. Seriously people if your worried about your privacy online then DONT USE ONLINE SERVICES!!!! It couldnt possible be more obvious. An online mail service must retain your mail, for the service to work. A search provider must log searches to provide accurate searches in the first place. So what if they log your IP? Every time you connect to your ISP your IP gets logged, hell it probably gets logged in about 100 different locations before you even get to the website you want. Thats just the nature of the internet. The way I see it is, you cant rely on any company to maintain your privacy. If it really matters that much to you, set up your own email/dns/whatever and run everything yourself, leech of of somebody elses free wifi or something, and basically live off the grid. You can have absolutely no reasonable expectation of total privacy when you are using somebody elses services for free.
You all can mod me down all you want, but somebody has to state the obvious.
This is not tourism, yet. And its nothing that hasnt already been acomplished. The only thing revolutionary here is the fact that its a private company doing it and not the government which is a step in the right direction. Its a far cry from being realistic for public tourism or transportation. They only thing they have done is make space flight slightly more accessable to people with exremely deep pockets.
I'm certainly no expert on the subject but is this even really "space" flight or just "extremely high altitude" flight? At best I think all they have there is simply a novel launching system that allows "slightly cheaper than nasa" low earth orbit, nothing revolutionary in my opinion. But I suppose its a start in the right direction.
I do however applaud the trend towards privatizing space travel. I think a corportation with some financial incentive and without all the red tape can do this much more efficiently than the government possibly could.
In my opinion this matter comes down to a balance of essence and ceremony in code. Essence is that much actual provides a function (business logic), and ceremony is simply that which we constantly repeat (program logic; i.e. error catching blocks, etc). One elegant one liner may provide essence in the code but at the loss of the ceremonial code that makes that code usable and easy to follow/maintain Personally I find the a best practice to maintain separation of those two elements such that ceremony can be mapped in through a defined path, without being overly verbose. In other words, keep your business logic separate from program logic.
In good practice this will help coders avoid the need for clever one liners so long as the business logic doesn’t interfere with the program logic. In some cases when a clever one liner may be required they are only in the business logic and shouldn’t interfere with the program thus making it much easier to folllow without having to trace it all over the place.
An example of this may be using a lambda invocation pattern to wrap error catching around a database factory implementation such that all calls to the database happen through one interface/class implementation. This allows you to change the business logic without touching ANY of the program code. I hope that makes sense, and I hope Im not misunderstanding the question either! lol
Plastic Frog? Rubber Duck!? Cat?!?! What is this world coming to??? Humanity is doomed!
Im going to have to side with B3ttik on this one... most people dont give a shit. This the nature of social networking, and to be frank I think Facebook wants it that way. The more information that is exposed to the masses the more they can use for their massive data mining schemes. Its just one huge advertising machine.
1) As somebody else mentioned, power steering failure is a big one
Already addressed as a child to that post by AC -- check it out.
I noticed that, hence the reason I chose not to elaborate on the topic. I simply stated that because I thought it was an important point.
2) A car does not move conducive to the way a joystick moves, the
throttle/break and steering need to be seperate. or your just asking
for trouble in a hard turn or emergency situation.
Sorry, you can't make a generalization like that. Planes are even
more complex, and handle it perfectly well. Sticks are used because
they come naturally to pilots within a few of hours of training. You'd
have to run a whole bunch of experiments on people (including on young
people who haven't learned to drive with a steering) before you can make
a statement like that.
Thats not a generalization its fact. Thats not to say that it wouldn't be possible for a person to learn to drive a car with a joystick. Its a simply matter of muscle memory I suppose. In any case, a traditional joystick is designed for steering in a three dimensional space or at the very least a vehicle that has the capability of more than simply forward and backward movement. All of the extra "directions" provided by a joystick will only serve to cause confusion when a driver is forced to make emergency maneuvers. On that note; as other have also elaborated on in replys to my origional post, a joystick in an emergency situation is obviously a bad thing. I wont comment any more on that as others have provided plenty of examples of why thats a bad idea.
3) I guarantee you, steering fatigue will set in if a drivers only means
for controlling the vehicle are with one hand.
Your "guarantee" is worthless. Pilots fly for hours and don't undergo
steering fatigue. BTW, did you miss the part where it said "designed for short trips"? RTFA.
Overly pedantic are we? Anyhow, I will concede that this might be avoided somewhat by good ergonomics. In any case have you ever talked to pilot about this? At least a pilot of a plane that actually uses a joystick, not a commercial jet or most private aircraft which use a steering wheel on a pivoting arm. I have several pilots in my family which fly that have flown everything from gliders to antique P-51 Mustangs, during random conversations they have all spoken repeatedly about steering fatigue espeically in older aircraft and during long complex maneuvers. Using a joystick with repeated and prolonged movement will inevitably result in fatigue (ie cramping of your hand or wrist pain), its an unavoidable fact.
Im not sure why you keep using aircraft and pilots as examples in your comments as that is an entirely different experience than driving on a two dimensional surface. In fact the only thing your example has in common in terms of experience is the joystick itself.
There are so many problems with this idea I cant even imgaine...
1) As somebody else mentioned, power steering failure is a big one
2) A car does not move conducive to the way a joystick moves, the throttle/break and steering need to be seperate.
or your just asking for trouble in a hard turn or emergency situation.
3) I guarantee you, steering fatigue will set in if a drivers only means for controlling the vehicle are with one hand.
4) I could go on but I think most of these issues are quite obvious.
I was thinking more about the information gathering that followed not so much the cold war itself. In trying to weed out "communists" and spies during the cold war, the government got exceptionally paranoid about spying and collecting on its own citizens. This primarily where all the rumors come from about the government logging everything we do, because it was partially true. Although such a thing is nearly impossible these days, they seem to be desperately trying anyway.
There was a lawyer (Brandon Mayfield I believe) in Oregon a couple years ago that was prosicuted because his finger prints were a very close match to a known terroriest involved in the Spain bombings. Though the man was released when they found out he was OBVIOUSLY not the same guy, he lost his job and has an federal investigation on his record when he gets a background check. Which pretty much excludes him from any high profile jobs dispite the fact that he was innocent. It does happen!
All this information collection as of late is getting a bit disturbing. I work for a bank and I had managed to go 28 years without being fingerprinted, until this year. I have nothing to hide nor fear but I definately do not like having my biometric information floating around out there. I could care less about my social security number and all that, its just inforamtion that can not be directly tied to me. However as a law abiding citizen I take issue with ALL of my information being documented. Part of the patriot act required that every employee working for a bank get finger printed, background checked, photographed, etc. Thanks GWB Lets just make it easier for somebody to steal identities. Seems like the cold war all over again except this time its the government ploting a war against its own citizens.
Most people dont realize how important advertising actually is in our day to day lives. Without advertising most people would have no idea what is going on in the world around them. You usually dont conciously see and ad think ohh Im going to go buy that right now. But 3 months down the line when you need a new pair of shoed you subconsiously think back to that nike ad you saw on TV and go look at those first. Granted there are some advertisers that take it WAY overboard! Mass mailers in your snail mail box, spam in you email box, cold calls on your cell phone using up your minutes, giant moving billboard on the freeway! Most of that stuff is just annoying. but in a free market economy you must have advertising, without it nobody would be able to have a successful business in this US and we would be a third world country.
Anyhow my point is; I dont think its a bad thing to include advertising in games. In fact I think its a great idea for advertising to gamers without as long as its done with restraint so as to not distract from the game itself. If I ever saw some kind of popup ad in the game or some kind of in game survey or some crap I would turn the game off immeditely and uninstall it, but I certainly dont mind seeing realistic stuff in the game like a McDonalds, Coke Machines, a real Toyota Yaris that I can drive into a wall! Basically if you FORCE me to look at it, or force me to accept some agreement, or interrupt my game play in anyway otherwise you lose a customer. Its a fine line for sure, but if done right I have no problem with it.
The little wires between the copper leads are not the hair... the hair is woven (or whatever) into the back panel. All that black space behind the leads is the hair.
I think what they are saying is that they are focusing less on leveling past 80 and more on the character dynamics past 80. One thing I think would be very cool would be at level 85 or something, allow characters to train one extra profession, I think that would certainly renew some interst in some of the origional professions while allowing a new dynamic of character combinations. It would also probably help to bring auction house prices down as many people wouldnt have to buy everything they cant currently gather.
I dont play much anymore, these days only to join my son who plays. I played pretty hard core for the first 3 years however so I saw a lot of content and level caps come and go. The only thing I disliked was that it always seemed like a race to level and gear up. Im hoping that announcement means that they have given that some thought.
Sounds to me like a bunch of politicians with their hands out looking to take advantage. I understand that the fines should usually be calculated based on losses incurred by the "victim" but some of these figures I think they just pull out of their ass because somebody is whispering in the judges ear. In hard economic times the government and the legal system seem to be trying to harvest the money tree, but take advantage of those who are still making it.
Neurons and Synapses all all that do not make a "person." There is much more to human intelligence that I do not believe a machine could ever achieve. That is certainly not to say that we wouldnt be able to "grow" a machine with the personality of a human. In other words a human brain interfaced to a machine. The very fact that humans think as they do implies that it would be possible, but I do not believe man understands enough about their own nature, nor will we ever understand enough to actually re-create our minds in a machine from scratch.
I didn't RTFA but I personal opinion on the subject are as such: I do believe that violent video games should be kept out of the hands of children. In fact I myself have prohibited my son from playing games like GTA for similar reasons as many of these politicians are stating. I do NOT however believe that should prevent anybody, especially mature consenting adults, from playing those games.
I think games should have better parential controls and/or and retail outlets should have more stringent checking of video game ratings when kids are buying games. In no way shape or form however, would I ever agree with a ban on these games regardless of how over the top they might be. Even if I wouldnt play the game I still feel that we, as americans, have the right to play whatever the hell we want to play.
Still, kids are going to find ways to get their hands on the games, especially as they get older. Honestly though the only kids Im worried about are my own, and once they get past 12-14 or so I could care less what they play, as long as their homework is finished.:)
I really dont understand what the big deal about this is. A company offers a 1 year evaluation period on new software, with *gasp* an expiration period! Frankly Im surprised they dont just cut it off altogether, like MOST companies offering evaluation versions of their software go. Although given a year of use that might be a little draconian, as people will probably have information on there they would need to access.
Im all for FOSS and all but damn people, if you really like W7 just pay for the damn thing, or switch to Linux. If you read the official announcements for this release,and didnt just get the iso off a torrent or something, it is clearly stated that there is an evaluation expiration period, this is NOT news.
I tend to agree with most of the posters on here that this seems like a worthy usage of our GDP. However, like all government spending programs I have little confidence that it will be managed correctly. I think it would be worthwhile to set up some non-profit research and development firm and use the funding from the GDP for that rather than simply pump it in into government and for-profit corporate think tanks. I believe, to see the real benefit of something like this you need to take the greed out of the picture.
"They both involve gears. Beyond that, what?"
It somewhat accurately calculates not only time but lunar cycles, solar years, planitary positions, etc. Which, at the time where largly used for time keeping in general, like a giant astrological calendar. I was only implying similarity in function. Though Im sure both will elude scientists as to their actual purpose.
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Isnt this why they were bidding on the C band or whatever it was? I know they didnt end up winning it but I though the whole push was intended to start opening up the market for stuff like this. Definately good for the market, though ultimately probably not good for google. I think making moves like this is definately going to make google a clear target on the FTC's monopoly radar, more so than ever before.
The bias and fanboi fanatacism is oozing from these posts like sweat from a pig. Seriously people if your worried about your privacy online then DONT USE ONLINE SERVICES!!!! It couldnt possible be more obvious. An online mail service must retain your mail, for the service to work. A search provider must log searches to provide accurate searches in the first place. So what if they log your IP? Every time you connect to your ISP your IP gets logged, hell it probably gets logged in about 100 different locations before you even get to the website you want. Thats just the nature of the internet. The way I see it is, you cant rely on any company to maintain your privacy. If it really matters that much to you, set up your own email/dns/whatever and run everything yourself, leech of of somebody elses free wifi or something, and basically live off the grid. You can have absolutely no reasonable expectation of total privacy when you are using somebody elses services for free.
You all can mod me down all you want, but somebody has to state the obvious.
This is not tourism, yet. And its nothing that hasnt already been acomplished. The only thing revolutionary here is the fact that its a private company doing it and not the government which is a step in the right direction. Its a far cry from being realistic for public tourism or transportation. They only thing they have done is make space flight slightly more accessable to people with exremely deep pockets.
I'm certainly no expert on the subject but is this even really "space" flight or just "extremely high altitude" flight? At best I think all they have there is simply a novel launching system that allows "slightly cheaper than nasa" low earth orbit, nothing revolutionary in my opinion. But I suppose its a start in the right direction.
I do however applaud the trend towards privatizing space travel. I think a corportation with some financial incentive and without all the red tape can do this much more efficiently than the government possibly could.
In my opinion this matter comes down to a balance of essence and ceremony in code. Essence is that much actual provides a function (business logic), and ceremony is simply that which we constantly repeat (program logic; i.e. error catching blocks, etc). One elegant one liner may provide essence in the code but at the loss of the ceremonial code that makes that code usable and easy to follow/maintain Personally I find the a best practice to maintain separation of those two elements such that ceremony can be mapped in through a defined path, without being overly verbose. In other words, keep your business logic separate from program logic.
In good practice this will help coders avoid the need for clever one liners so long as the business logic doesn’t interfere with the program logic. In some cases when a clever one liner may be required they are only in the business logic and shouldn’t interfere with the program thus making it much easier to folllow without having to trace it all over the place.
An example of this may be using a lambda invocation pattern to wrap error catching around a database factory implementation such that all calls to the database happen through one interface/class implementation. This allows you to change the business logic without touching ANY of the program code. I hope that makes sense, and I hope Im not misunderstanding the question either! lol
Im going to have to side with B3ttik on this one... most people dont give a shit. This the nature of social networking, and to be frank I think Facebook wants it that way. The more information that is exposed to the masses the more they can use for their massive data mining schemes. Its just one huge advertising machine.
1) As somebody else mentioned, power steering failure is a big one
Already addressed as a child to that post by AC -- check it out.
I noticed that, hence the reason I chose not to elaborate on the topic. I simply stated that because I thought it was an important point.
2) A car does not move conducive to the way a joystick moves, the throttle/break and steering need to be seperate. or your just asking for trouble in a hard turn or emergency situation.
Sorry, you can't make a generalization like that. Planes are even more complex, and handle it perfectly well. Sticks are used because they come naturally to pilots within a few of hours of training. You'd have to run a whole bunch of experiments on people (including on young people who haven't learned to drive with a steering) before you can make a statement like that.
Thats not a generalization its fact. Thats not to say that it wouldn't be possible for a person to learn to drive a car with a joystick. Its a simply matter of muscle memory I suppose. In any case, a traditional joystick is designed for steering in a three dimensional space or at the very least a vehicle that has the capability of more than simply forward and backward movement. All of the extra "directions" provided by a joystick will only serve to cause confusion when a driver is forced to make emergency maneuvers. On that note; as other have also elaborated on in replys to my origional post, a joystick in an emergency situation is obviously a bad thing. I wont comment any more on that as others have provided plenty of examples of why thats a bad idea.
3) I guarantee you, steering fatigue will set in if a drivers only means for controlling the vehicle are with one hand.
Your "guarantee" is worthless. Pilots fly for hours and don't undergo steering fatigue. BTW, did you miss the part where it said "designed for short trips"? RTFA.
Overly pedantic are we? Anyhow, I will concede that this might be avoided somewhat by good ergonomics. In any case have you ever talked to pilot about this? At least a pilot of a plane that actually uses a joystick, not a commercial jet or most private aircraft which use a steering wheel on a pivoting arm. I have several pilots in my family which fly that have flown everything from gliders to antique P-51 Mustangs, during random conversations they have all spoken repeatedly about steering fatigue espeically in older aircraft and during long complex maneuvers. Using a joystick with repeated and prolonged movement will inevitably result in fatigue (ie cramping of your hand or wrist pain), its an unavoidable fact. Im not sure why you keep using aircraft and pilots as examples in your comments as that is an entirely different experience than driving on a two dimensional surface. In fact the only thing your example has in common in terms of experience is the joystick itself.
There are so many problems with this idea I cant even imgaine...
1) As somebody else mentioned, power steering failure is a big one
2) A car does not move conducive to the way a joystick moves, the throttle/break and steering need to be seperate.
or your just asking for trouble in a hard turn or emergency situation.
3) I guarantee you, steering fatigue will set in if a drivers only means for controlling the vehicle are with one hand.
4) I could go on but I think most of these issues are quite obvious.
I was thinking more about the information gathering that followed not so much the cold war itself. In trying to weed out "communists" and spies during the cold war, the government got exceptionally paranoid about spying and collecting on its own citizens. This primarily where all the rumors come from about the government logging everything we do, because it was partially true. Although such a thing is nearly impossible these days, they seem to be desperately trying anyway.
I invision an army of mice farming gold in World of Warcraft, we could do it even cheaper than the Chinese!
There was a lawyer (Brandon Mayfield I believe) in Oregon a couple years ago that was prosicuted because his finger prints were a very close match to a known terroriest involved in the Spain bombings. Though the man was released when they found out he was OBVIOUSLY not the same guy, he lost his job and has an federal investigation on his record when he gets a background check. Which pretty much excludes him from any high profile jobs dispite the fact that he was innocent. It does happen!
All this information collection as of late is getting a bit disturbing. I work for a bank and I had managed to go 28 years without being fingerprinted, until this year. I have nothing to hide nor fear but I definately do not like having my biometric information floating around out there. I could care less about my social security number and all that, its just inforamtion that can not be directly tied to me. However as a law abiding citizen I take issue with ALL of my information being documented. Part of the patriot act required that every employee working for a bank get finger printed, background checked, photographed, etc. Thanks GWB Lets just make it easier for somebody to steal identities. Seems like the cold war all over again except this time its the government ploting a war against its own citizens.
Most people dont realize how important advertising actually is in our day to day lives. Without advertising most people would have no idea what is going on in the world around them. You usually dont conciously see and ad think ohh Im going to go buy that right now. But 3 months down the line when you need a new pair of shoed you subconsiously think back to that nike ad you saw on TV and go look at those first. Granted there are some advertisers that take it WAY overboard! Mass mailers in your snail mail box, spam in you email box, cold calls on your cell phone using up your minutes, giant moving billboard on the freeway! Most of that stuff is just annoying. but in a free market economy you must have advertising, without it nobody would be able to have a successful business in this US and we would be a third world country.
Anyhow my point is; I dont think its a bad thing to include advertising in games. In fact I think its a great idea for advertising to gamers without as long as its done with restraint so as to not distract from the game itself. If I ever saw some kind of popup ad in the game or some kind of in game survey or some crap I would turn the game off immeditely and uninstall it, but I certainly dont mind seeing realistic stuff in the game like a McDonalds, Coke Machines, a real Toyota Yaris that I can drive into a wall! Basically if you FORCE me to look at it, or force me to accept some agreement, or interrupt my game play in anyway otherwise you lose a customer. Its a fine line for sure, but if done right I have no problem with it.
The little wires between the copper leads are not the hair... the hair is woven (or whatever) into the back panel. All that black space behind the leads is the hair.
I think what they are saying is that they are focusing less on leveling past 80 and more on the character dynamics past 80. One thing I think would be very cool would be at level 85 or something, allow characters to train one extra profession, I think that would certainly renew some interst in some of the origional professions while allowing a new dynamic of character combinations. It would also probably help to bring auction house prices down as many people wouldnt have to buy everything they cant currently gather. I dont play much anymore, these days only to join my son who plays. I played pretty hard core for the first 3 years however so I saw a lot of content and level caps come and go. The only thing I disliked was that it always seemed like a race to level and gear up. Im hoping that announcement means that they have given that some thought.
Sounds to me like a bunch of politicians with their hands out looking to take advantage. I understand that the fines should usually be calculated based on losses incurred by the "victim" but some of these figures I think they just pull out of their ass because somebody is whispering in the judges ear. In hard economic times the government and the legal system seem to be trying to harvest the money tree, but take advantage of those who are still making it.
Neurons and Synapses all all that do not make a "person." There is much more to human intelligence that I do not believe a machine could ever achieve. That is certainly not to say that we wouldnt be able to "grow" a machine with the personality of a human. In other words a human brain interfaced to a machine. The very fact that humans think as they do implies that it would be possible, but I do not believe man understands enough about their own nature, nor will we ever understand enough to actually re-create our minds in a machine from scratch.
I will only watch it if it features a cameo by LeeeeeRoooooooy!!! haha
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I didn't RTFA but I personal opinion on the subject are as such: I do believe that violent video games should be kept out of the hands of children. In fact I myself have prohibited my son from playing games like GTA for similar reasons as many of these politicians are stating. I do NOT however believe that should prevent anybody, especially mature consenting adults, from playing those games.
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I think games should have better parential controls and/or and retail outlets should have more stringent checking of video game ratings when kids are buying games. In no way shape or form however, would I ever agree with a ban on these games regardless of how over the top they might be. Even if I wouldnt play the game I still feel that we, as americans, have the right to play whatever the hell we want to play.
Still, kids are going to find ways to get their hands on the games, especially as they get older. Honestly though the only kids Im worried about are my own, and once they get past 12-14 or so I could care less what they play, as long as their homework is finished.
I really dont understand what the big deal about this is. A company offers a 1 year evaluation period on new software, with *gasp* an expiration period! Frankly Im surprised they dont just cut it off altogether, like MOST companies offering evaluation versions of their software go. Although given a year of use that might be a little draconian, as people will probably have information on there they would need to access.
Im all for FOSS and all but damn people, if you really like W7 just pay for the damn thing, or switch to Linux. If you read the official announcements for this release,and didnt just get the iso off a torrent or something, it is clearly stated that there is an evaluation expiration period, this is NOT news.
I tend to agree with most of the posters on here that this seems like a worthy usage of our GDP. However, like all government spending programs I have little confidence that it will be managed correctly. I think it would be worthwhile to set up some non-profit research and development firm and use the funding from the GDP for that rather than simply pump it in into government and for-profit corporate think tanks. I believe, to see the real benefit of something like this you need to take the greed out of the picture.
You must have a pretty miserable life.
I have already applied for my patent on the Centaur. My initial plans are to sue old spice!
"They both involve gears. Beyond that, what?" It somewhat accurately calculates not only time but lunar cycles, solar years, planitary positions, etc. Which, at the time where largly used for time keeping in general, like a giant astrological calendar. I was only implying similarity in function. Though Im sure both will elude scientists as to their actual purpose.