In expansions (and even moreso in new games), Blizzard has identified the enthusiasts' interests and worked to further enable them. Their appreciation of enthusiasts and community has them labeled as a Smart Company in my book.
It's ironic that you use Blizzard as your example here, given that their response to bnetd established the precedent of using the DMCA to shut down reverse engineering.
So what exactly is an optical lattice, and why is it not considered part of the motor itself? Other than the fact that "motor made out of only two atoms!" is clearly a better-sounding story, that is.
They could easily add a thin layer of foil to the cardboard for RF shielding, without it being a metal case (where the metal is also structural and thus much thicker than you need for shielding).
I'm not so sure about that - according to the pictures in the engadget article someone linked to above, the case is made entirely of stacked cardboard with internal recesses cut out, kind of like a hollowed-out book. The designer of the case says this was to take advantage of the channels produced by corrugation for airflow, so covering up the exposed corrugated edges with foil would likely cause overheating problems.
I guess you could encase all of the internal components in wire mesh, but I don't know how practical that would be.
My impression of de Toro's movies is that he rides on the coattails of his director of photography, special effects, art, etc. Visually appealing, but how much of that is because of him?
There's a lot more there than just imagery, though. In both Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone, the visuals, while striking, are there to serve the story. If you contrast del Toro's work in the above two films with something like late-period George Lucas output, the difference is notable.
On the other hand, if these alternative methods pull the unmotivated and disinterested out of regular classrooms, maybe those classrooms would function better for those students who actually want to learn.
I'm personally in favor of this sort of educational diversity - not because I think many (or even most) of the alternatives are particularly effective, but because they serve to break up otherwise monolithic blocks of students into smaller groups. With our mandate to Leave No Child Behind, students are forced to learn at the pace of their slowest classmate, and breaking up the same number of students into smaller classes will allow at least some of them to learn at a faster pace better suited to their needs.
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I don't know about you, but we've tried our own implementation of this phenomenon in our office fridge, and haven't gotten any good computational output. Sure, the General Tso's Chicken came up with a fairly solid quicksort implementation, but that Greenish Liquid That May or May Not Have Been a Salad At One Time still hasn't figured out basic pointer arithmetic, much less decent memory management.
It sounds like you're manually doing things that svn would rather handle itself - specifically, copy and merge. If you're doing those outside of the tool then you're going to confuse the hell out of the repository, which will in turn do its best to confuse the hell out of you:-)
According to the article, it's a little from column A, and a little from column B - DNA has an intrinsic ability to self-assemble (A), and it's been studied to the point where the resultant forms of that self-assembly are pretty well known (B).
From reading TFA, it sounds like they're using a traditional lithographic technique to produce the substrate that is filled in by DNA. This DNA in turn self-assembles into structures that are more complex than can be reliably produced by lithography alone. Those structures are then coated in nanoparticles to form the actual IC interconnects.
Did you read the part of the article where the author advocates checking with neighbors before using the Powerline stuff to make sure there are no interference problems? That doesn't strike me as particularly one-sided.
That's a long time to not see a jump in speed, what happened to "doubling every 18 months"? We should be around 24ghz by now.
If you're referring to Moore's law, it's not a doubling of speed every 18 months, it's a doubling of transistor counts. Clock speed has never been part of that equation, no matter what intel's late-1990s marketing department would have you believe.
Don't forget that Blizzard is notorious for delaying games until they feel they're done. Who knows, maybe the extra time will give them a chance to rethink the idiotic exclusion of LAN play (though I'm not holding my breath on that one).
If those small remnants of legs impacted reproductive fitness, you can bet they'd be gone. It's not a question of easier or harder to keep vestigial elements, it's a question of whether or not those elements affect the organism's ability to reproduce in relation to its competition.
According to TFA, when his home was searched they came up with "more than a dozen Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony video game consoles." While that could be a student helping (a whole lot of) his friends, it sounds slightly more commercial to me.
Regardless, a potential 10 year sentence for this sort of thing is ridiculous.
The lawyers among you will know that that was a totally improper question, and that the Court should not have even allowed it, much less based her holding upon the answer to it
For those of us who aren't lawyers, why was it improper?
That's irrelevant to the issue, though - the point the GP is making is that Walmart is big enough to induce widespread cultural shift. That's scary, regardless of what particular element of culture is being shifted.
Sort of - it's Apple's App Store in addition to a jailbroken iPhone with no official warranty or support. You can use both at the same time. As far as the warranty part goes, given that jailbreaking is a software process and not a hardware mod, resetting your iPhone to an Apple-approved state is a trivial process. Unless the hardware is dead, in which case there's no way they would know you've jailbroken the thing anyway.
I would imagine a lot of those same Slashdotters are currently using browsers that spoof the user-agent string to pretend to be other browsers. This sort of thing is not new.
Not only that, but there's no way a standard defrag program would be able to tell where data is physically located with a SSD. Block addresses are mapped by the controller to actual locations because wear-leveling needs to be able to move data behind the scenes. This is transparent to the OS; the disk will still report back the same data for a given logical block address, but said data can be physically located anywhere.
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It's ironic that you use Blizzard as your example here, given that their response to bnetd established the precedent of using the DMCA to shut down reverse engineering.
So what exactly is an optical lattice, and why is it not considered part of the motor itself? Other than the fact that "motor made out of only two atoms!" is clearly a better-sounding story, that is.
I'm not so sure about that - according to the pictures in the engadget article someone linked to above, the case is made entirely of stacked cardboard with internal recesses cut out, kind of like a hollowed-out book. The designer of the case says this was to take advantage of the channels produced by corrugation for airflow, so covering up the exposed corrugated edges with foil would likely cause overheating problems.
I guess you could encase all of the internal components in wire mesh, but I don't know how practical that would be.
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Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the ve^H^Hlamb!
There's a lot more there than just imagery, though. In both Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone, the visuals, while striking, are there to serve the story. If you contrast del Toro's work in the above two films with something like late-period George Lucas output, the difference is notable.
On the other hand, if these alternative methods pull the unmotivated and disinterested out of regular classrooms, maybe those classrooms would function better for those students who actually want to learn.
I'm personally in favor of this sort of educational diversity - not because I think many (or even most) of the alternatives are particularly effective, but because they serve to break up otherwise monolithic blocks of students into smaller groups. With our mandate to Leave No Child Behind, students are forced to learn at the pace of their slowest classmate, and breaking up the same number of students into smaller classes will allow at least some of them to learn at a faster pace better suited to their needs.
I don't know about you, but we've tried our own implementation of this phenomenon in our office fridge, and haven't gotten any good computational output. Sure, the General Tso's Chicken came up with a fairly solid quicksort implementation, but that Greenish Liquid That May or May Not Have Been a Salad At One Time still hasn't figured out basic pointer arithmetic, much less decent memory management.
It sounds like you're manually doing things that svn would rather handle itself - specifically, copy and merge. If you're doing those outside of the tool then you're going to confuse the hell out of the repository, which will in turn do its best to confuse the hell out of you :-)
Are you out of Tortage yet? If not, you should be aware that the game you're playing now is not the same game you'll be playing after around level 20.
I've played a lot of video games, and I can't recall another title that did as effective a bait-and-switch as AoC.
According to the article, it's a little from column A, and a little from column B - DNA has an intrinsic ability to self-assemble (A), and it's been studied to the point where the resultant forms of that self-assembly are pretty well known (B).
From reading TFA, it sounds like they're using a traditional lithographic technique to produce the substrate that is filled in by DNA. This DNA in turn self-assembles into structures that are more complex than can be reliably produced by lithography alone. Those structures are then coated in nanoparticles to form the actual IC interconnects.
Did you read the part of the article where the author advocates checking with neighbors before using the Powerline stuff to make sure there are no interference problems? That doesn't strike me as particularly one-sided.
If you're referring to Moore's law, it's not a doubling of speed every 18 months, it's a doubling of transistor counts. Clock speed has never been part of that equation, no matter what intel's late-1990s marketing department would have you believe.
Also, when you're in the business of selling hammers it's in your best interest to present every problem as a nail.
Don't forget that Blizzard is notorious for delaying games until they feel they're done. Who knows, maybe the extra time will give them a chance to rethink the idiotic exclusion of LAN play (though I'm not holding my breath on that one).
If those small remnants of legs impacted reproductive fitness, you can bet they'd be gone. It's not a question of easier or harder to keep vestigial elements, it's a question of whether or not those elements affect the organism's ability to reproduce in relation to its competition.
According to TFA, when his home was searched they came up with "more than a dozen Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony video game consoles." While that could be a student helping (a whole lot of) his friends, it sounds slightly more commercial to me.
Regardless, a potential 10 year sentence for this sort of thing is ridiculous.
For those of us who aren't lawyers, why was it improper?
I don't see any rules requiring a safe landing either. I wonder how large a trebuchet I could make for less than $1.5m...
The fact that they're reading your email at this very moment?
Isn't the Apple store in the new Scottsdale Quarter? That's on the opposite end of town, unless there's another one I'm unaware of.
That's irrelevant to the issue, though - the point the GP is making is that Walmart is big enough to induce widespread cultural shift. That's scary, regardless of what particular element of culture is being shifted.
Sort of - it's Apple's App Store in addition to a jailbroken iPhone with no official warranty or support. You can use both at the same time. As far as the warranty part goes, given that jailbreaking is a software process and not a hardware mod, resetting your iPhone to an Apple-approved state is a trivial process. Unless the hardware is dead, in which case there's no way they would know you've jailbroken the thing anyway.
Well, obviously. 7th level Clerics have known about this sort of thing for years.
I would imagine a lot of those same Slashdotters are currently using browsers that spoof the user-agent string to pretend to be other browsers. This sort of thing is not new.
Not only that, but there's no way a standard defrag program would be able to tell where data is physically located with a SSD. Block addresses are mapped by the controller to actual locations because wear-leveling needs to be able to move data behind the scenes. This is transparent to the OS; the disk will still report back the same data for a given logical block address, but said data can be physically located anywhere.