That doesn't necessarily increase the rate one finds or approaches a local or global maximum/minimum for the fitness function. If it were that simple, all genetic algorithms would simply increase the mutation rate.
I use Zotero (but version 1). I just put my zotero data directory inside my Dropbox folder. Then when I change computers I reload firefox and it is all synced. I do not have a Zotero account. This however wont work for multiple users at once. If version 2 has something where it will reload the data files for you before performing any change to the data, then this might work (although you would have to deal with the ensuing race conditions with multiple users, and may have to use locks and semaphores and whatnot). I dunno what they did in ver2, but it might be doable without using Zotero.org account.
I took a peak at it. Your referral ID didn't work though. Had to set the referral area blank in order to continue. Too slow for me to use as a replacement OS, might be okay as a backup though. I haven't looked at the ghost-drive part yet though.
So far Dropbox, Mozy, and SpiderOak look the best for me.
I thought you said "snorting a lot, and very heavily". I thought that was going to be the first meth reference in a sleep deprivation thread. But I guess not.
That's not entirely accurate. That's the documented world record for sleep _without any stimulants_. Plenty of people have gone much longer without sleep.
They can't pull you over for using your phone, they can just give you a ticket for using it if they have pulled you over for something else. (besides the fact that you aren't driving while parked which others have pointed out)
Do you pay more to access websites in Japan? Internet access is generally only billed with the cost to the station you're connecting to, and the amount of data you send/receive.
Will you not complain if you receive a bill for $20,000 for viewing some files which were hosted in Finland on your internet connection?
Do people really read the fine print of their Internet connections? I certainly havn't read mine, I just assumed they don't charge me more to access international sites as that is standard practice to not charge extra, and it turns out like almost everyone else, they don't.
Yeah, this sounded like a lie to me. If he knows about computers enough he's doing contract work, and is able to hack into government computers (even if just using script-kiddie tools), he really should know that this is complete BS.
The one thing he's been working for a huge part of his life to prove, that the US is hiding aliens, is sitting right there in front of him (in his deluded mind where a lack of the thing proves the thing somehow), and he doesn't even take a screen-shot?
"Obama issued a statement saying the bill was the best resolution that lawmakers were able to reach. But with the vote so lopsided, Obama could have easily voted against the bill, confident that it would pass anyway. It comes down to a matter of politics. The political tea-readers decided that there was no political upside to being against enhanced government spying, and so a vote was cast. Pity." - Telecom immunity passes Senate, Obama votes yes
Many of the complaints about an open drug policy section of competition is the effect of encouraging the use of "dangerous", "harmful" drugs.
To solve this, how about we make the competition be about what it is we actually want encouraged, long term extreme health and physical capability. To do this, make the goal to "win" be this. Give medals every 4 years at a drug-open competition, but have these be relatively minor accomplishments, sort of like "legs", or "heats".
You may get a gold at the Olympics, but will you actually win the competition?
To really win, you have to get the most gold medals in a single event, or the most points in a point based system. The champion swimmer is the guy who won 3 golds, 3 silvers, and 7 bronzes over (3+3+7)*4 = 52 years of competition (in a single competition, so you can't just burn yourself out but do 14 different events to 'beat' the guy who has won a single event for decades).
This should allow ALL drug use, and would encourage drugs to be made which will help people live long exceptionally healthy lives. It wont make them take drugs which will ruin their lives, as those drugs would make them _lose_ the competition, not win.
I mostly agree, except for the part about proportional bandwidth during congestion. This only need be provided if it is promised. It is perfectly acceptable to provide everyone the same level during congestion, and only offer increased bandwidth as it is available so long as this is made clear to the customer.
P.S. If you change the comment post mode you won't have to use HTML formatting. It is just the default option. Click 'Options' during a post, change it, click 'Save'.
1) Purchasing in game assets with RL money, which is forbidden but not enforced. So those who choose to cheat may do so at will.
2) The use of lag to gain advantages. Releasing drones, "bookmark bombs" which make you lag when you enter the same area as them as you have to load all the objects into your client, but theirs already has them, giving them tremendous advantage (I've been killed before finishing loading due to this before).
3) Logon traps. Enemy alliances will log off 80 battleships and log them all in when you enter the system on a freighter run. This circumvents the map utility showing who is in what systems, as they dont count when logged off, and cannot be scouted as they're not logged in.
4) The sharing of alts. Expressly forbidden, yet completely rampant. All 0.0 alliances have alts belonging to some people they share with others for cynos. Some even have capital ship characters they share to increase the time that character can be used in game. Expressly forbidden, common if not required to be a major player without spending tons of RL money (again, also cheating).
I havn't played in over a year, so that's all I can think of off the top of my head right now. There are many other methods involving loging on/off, abuse of game flaws, abuse of physics errors to circumvent rules, etc...
I don't mind losing, but to lose because the other person cheated more than you is lame. I quit when I eventually started to consider using these same methods myself to combat those using them against me. I do not want to cheat at a game, I want to PLAY a game, so I left.
The problem with Eve is the rampant cheating. I speak from experience as I was a director in one of the largest 0.0 PvP corps in the game. Worked up from the bottom. At each higher level of involvement with high-end PvP corps, I found more and more rampant blatant widespread cheating. Most PvP came down to who cheated more efficiently. This is not a fun way to have a game.
If you stay out of 0.0 (where the real gaming and PvP actually is), then it is great, but if you want to be a player in the gaming that has significant impacts on the game, all you'll find is cheating by your corp, cheating by the other corps, cheating by the solo players, and even cheating by the devs.
Another problem is the lack of repercussions of certain classes of actions. Specifically those where you betray your corp and steal their stuff or sabotage them. Because the next action is always to sell the character, and buy a new one, so no one can actually punish you for the betrayal. It makes it completely one-sided in favor of traitors and against those who work hard to build something. The allowance of character trade/sale in such an environment ruins the game... as does the allowance (don't let them fool you, it IS allowed) of trading ISK for RL money.
Eve _could_ be a great PvP game, if they fixed the fundamental flaws with it (ability to avoid repercussions of antisocial behavior, rampant cheating by all sides, RL money-ISK exchange).
Oh, and the lag... my god the lag. Alliance warfare is touted as one of the great features, but is unplayable because of the unbearable lag.
I personally see the passive of OOXML as sign of a failure in the standards process. This thing in no way should pass, and there ought to be some sort of punishment for the attempts to subvert the integrity of the process by MS.
The consequences in Eve are nice. The problem with Eve, is the _lack_ of consequences though.
If a person in real life scams me, I can spend the next 10 years of my life tracking them down, making their life hell. If someone scams a large enough community, they can hunt him down and throw him in jail.
In Eve, if someone scams me to the point I'd want retribution, they sell/trade the character. If someone scams a large enough community that they'd hunt him down and throw him in jail, they sell/trade the character.
Even if they DON'T sell/trade the character, there is little you can do, if you kill them they just pop back up. If you kill them 10 times, they keep popping back up and just use cheap ships, or don't even undock, but work from a station where they are immune to all repercussions.
Additionally if you hunt them for a month to make their life hell to create a repercussion for their actions, you are harassing which is a violation of the ToS. That's right, the rules explicitly prevent you from imposing consequences for scammers, cheats, and the generally anti-social.
This is the problem with Eve, the rules are set up to PROTECT the anti-social from having to endure repercussions for their anti-social behavior. From allowing selling of characters, to multiple accounts, to multiple characters on an account, to anti-harassment rules, it is all setup perfectly to protect the scammers from any repercussions for scamming.
Let me be able to hunt down the character who stole my money, and throw him in jail, or otherwise render him unable to play the game ever again, or at least so long as I still hold a grudge, the will to act on it, and the in game strength to defeat him. Let me do this and the game will be fixed, scammers will soon vanish, the anti-social will soon vanish, and the game will be similar to real life free for all. But when you ARTIFICIALLY PROTECT the criminals from what would normally be the consequences of their actions, but provide no such protection for the victims, then it simply isn't fun, nor interesting.
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That doesn't necessarily increase the rate one finds or approaches a local or global maximum/minimum for the fitness function. If it were that simple, all genetic algorithms would simply increase the mutation rate.
I use Zotero (but version 1). I just put my zotero data directory inside my Dropbox folder. Then when I change computers I reload firefox and it is all synced. I do not have a Zotero account. This however wont work for multiple users at once. If version 2 has something where it will reload the data files for you before performing any change to the data, then this might work (although you would have to deal with the ensuing race conditions with multiple users, and may have to use locks and semaphores and whatnot). I dunno what they did in ver2, but it might be doable without using Zotero.org account.
I believe the expression is "moot".
V50's law. So mote it be.
oops, that should have a "less than" in there. "Isn't 90days/(2.13years*days/year) < 1?"
I'm confused. Isn't 90days/(2.13years*days/year) 1?
I took a peak at it. Your referral ID didn't work though. Had to set the referral area blank in order to continue. Too slow for me to use as a replacement OS, might be okay as a backup though. I haven't looked at the ghost-drive part yet though. So far Dropbox, Mozy, and SpiderOak look the best for me.
Wouldn't that be Ignostics that leave it in an undefined state? While Agnostics would never examine/use/make-assertions-about the contents.
There are far more potent stimulants in the world.
I thought you said "snorting a lot, and very heavily". I thought that was going to be the first meth reference in a sleep deprivation thread. But I guess not.
That's not entirely accurate. That's the documented world record for sleep _without any stimulants_. Plenty of people have gone much longer without sleep.
It seems the controversial modification has been removed in the latest patch from NoScript.
Jack don't talk Thai?
They can't pull you over for using your phone, they can just give you a ticket for using it if they have pulled you over for something else. (besides the fact that you aren't driving while parked which others have pointed out)
I think I'd feel dead at 95 too, if I were not in really good health.
Do you pay more to access websites in Japan? Internet access is generally only billed with the cost to the station you're connecting to, and the amount of data you send/receive.
Will you not complain if you receive a bill for $20,000 for viewing some files which were hosted in Finland on your internet connection?
Do people really read the fine print of their Internet connections? I certainly havn't read mine, I just assumed they don't charge me more to access international sites as that is standard practice to not charge extra, and it turns out like almost everyone else, they don't.
Yeah, this sounded like a lie to me. If he knows about computers enough he's doing contract work, and is able to hack into government computers (even if just using script-kiddie tools), he really should know that this is complete BS.
The one thing he's been working for a huge part of his life to prove, that the US is hiding aliens, is sitting right there in front of him (in his deluded mind where a lack of the thing proves the thing somehow), and he doesn't even take a screen-shot?
I call BS.
Yeah, why can't I just eat babies like I want to? I'm GOOD at it, and boy are they YUMMY! Silly society rules. :\
"Obama issued a statement saying the bill was the best resolution that lawmakers were able to reach. But with the vote so lopsided, Obama could have easily voted against the bill, confident that it would pass anyway. It comes down to a matter of politics. The political tea-readers decided that there was no political upside to being against enhanced government spying, and so a vote was cast. Pity." - Telecom immunity passes Senate, Obama votes yes
Many of the complaints about an open drug policy section of competition is the effect of encouraging the use of "dangerous", "harmful" drugs.
To solve this, how about we make the competition be about what it is we actually want encouraged, long term extreme health and physical capability. To do this, make the goal to "win" be this. Give medals every 4 years at a drug-open competition, but have these be relatively minor accomplishments, sort of like "legs", or "heats".
You may get a gold at the Olympics, but will you actually win the competition?
To really win, you have to get the most gold medals in a single event, or the most points in a point based system. The champion swimmer is the guy who won 3 golds, 3 silvers, and 7 bronzes over (3+3+7)*4 = 52 years of competition (in a single competition, so you can't just burn yourself out but do 14 different events to 'beat' the guy who has won a single event for decades).
This should allow ALL drug use, and would encourage drugs to be made which will help people live long exceptionally healthy lives. It wont make them take drugs which will ruin their lives, as those drugs would make them _lose_ the competition, not win.
I mostly agree, except for the part about proportional bandwidth during congestion. This only need be provided if it is promised. It is perfectly acceptable to provide everyone the same level during congestion, and only offer increased bandwidth as it is available so long as this is made clear to the customer.
P.S. If you change the comment post mode you won't have to use HTML formatting. It is just the default option. Click 'Options' during a post, change it, click 'Save'.
There are many methods.
1) Purchasing in game assets with RL money, which is forbidden but not enforced. So those who choose to cheat may do so at will.
2) The use of lag to gain advantages. Releasing drones, "bookmark bombs" which make you lag when you enter the same area as them as you have to load all the objects into your client, but theirs already has them, giving them tremendous advantage (I've been killed before finishing loading due to this before).
3) Logon traps. Enemy alliances will log off 80 battleships and log them all in when you enter the system on a freighter run. This circumvents the map utility showing who is in what systems, as they dont count when logged off, and cannot be scouted as they're not logged in.
4) The sharing of alts. Expressly forbidden, yet completely rampant. All 0.0 alliances have alts belonging to some people they share with others for cynos. Some even have capital ship characters they share to increase the time that character can be used in game. Expressly forbidden, common if not required to be a major player without spending tons of RL money (again, also cheating).
I havn't played in over a year, so that's all I can think of off the top of my head right now. There are many other methods involving loging on/off, abuse of game flaws, abuse of physics errors to circumvent rules, etc...
I don't mind losing, but to lose because the other person cheated more than you is lame. I quit when I eventually started to consider using these same methods myself to combat those using them against me. I do not want to cheat at a game, I want to PLAY a game, so I left.
The problem with Eve is the rampant cheating. I speak from experience as I was a director in one of the largest 0.0 PvP corps in the game. Worked up from the bottom. At each higher level of involvement with high-end PvP corps, I found more and more rampant blatant widespread cheating. Most PvP came down to who cheated more efficiently. This is not a fun way to have a game.
If you stay out of 0.0 (where the real gaming and PvP actually is), then it is great, but if you want to be a player in the gaming that has significant impacts on the game, all you'll find is cheating by your corp, cheating by the other corps, cheating by the solo players, and even cheating by the devs.
Another problem is the lack of repercussions of certain classes of actions. Specifically those where you betray your corp and steal their stuff or sabotage them. Because the next action is always to sell the character, and buy a new one, so no one can actually punish you for the betrayal. It makes it completely one-sided in favor of traitors and against those who work hard to build something. The allowance of character trade/sale in such an environment ruins the game... as does the allowance (don't let them fool you, it IS allowed) of trading ISK for RL money.
Eve _could_ be a great PvP game, if they fixed the fundamental flaws with it (ability to avoid repercussions of antisocial behavior, rampant cheating by all sides, RL money-ISK exchange).
Oh, and the lag... my god the lag. Alliance warfare is touted as one of the great features, but is unplayable because of the unbearable lag.
I personally see the passive of OOXML as sign of a failure in the standards process. This thing in no way should pass, and there ought to be some sort of punishment for the attempts to subvert the integrity of the process by MS.
The consequences in Eve are nice. The problem with Eve, is the _lack_ of consequences though. If a person in real life scams me, I can spend the next 10 years of my life tracking them down, making their life hell. If someone scams a large enough community, they can hunt him down and throw him in jail. In Eve, if someone scams me to the point I'd want retribution, they sell/trade the character. If someone scams a large enough community that they'd hunt him down and throw him in jail, they sell/trade the character. Even if they DON'T sell/trade the character, there is little you can do, if you kill them they just pop back up. If you kill them 10 times, they keep popping back up and just use cheap ships, or don't even undock, but work from a station where they are immune to all repercussions. Additionally if you hunt them for a month to make their life hell to create a repercussion for their actions, you are harassing which is a violation of the ToS. That's right, the rules explicitly prevent you from imposing consequences for scammers, cheats, and the generally anti-social. This is the problem with Eve, the rules are set up to PROTECT the anti-social from having to endure repercussions for their anti-social behavior. From allowing selling of characters, to multiple accounts, to multiple characters on an account, to anti-harassment rules, it is all setup perfectly to protect the scammers from any repercussions for scamming. Let me be able to hunt down the character who stole my money, and throw him in jail, or otherwise render him unable to play the game ever again, or at least so long as I still hold a grudge, the will to act on it, and the in game strength to defeat him. Let me do this and the game will be fixed, scammers will soon vanish, the anti-social will soon vanish, and the game will be similar to real life free for all. But when you ARTIFICIALLY PROTECT the criminals from what would normally be the consequences of their actions, but provide no such protection for the victims, then it simply isn't fun, nor interesting.