haha, yea, at that point it's just semantics. In a sense, a windows based OS is just an advanced browser anyways. If you give a browser all the functionality of an OS and put it on top of BIOS, isn't it really just an OS?
Ummmmm... I am more referring to its consuming oxygen that might otherwise be used for breathing.
Honestly, the way you worded it, I thought you were referring to a potential fire hazard due to the Oxygen. Which would have made me believe you didn't understand the process and/or didn't RTA. The clarification was important, thanks!
What happens if you run out of battery power? What happens if the external provider of one of the necessary services stops providing that service?
Yes, I just said that in response to another guy who believes the belt to be of any more value than a proof of concept (belt is also limited by battery power and calibration).
The response I have is focusing on 3 words in your original post "in today's world". Like I said before, if you're in the woods or off the grid the belt is useful. Otherwise, the iPhone (as I felt was a humorous example) universally kicks its ass.
I think the concept proven by the belt is cool, and in a sense something we already knew from many other things (red flares in an FPS HUD telling you the direction of enemy fire that eventually become subconscious or even night vision goggles). I also think the concept has important applications (like the suit created to keep up/down orientation in flight).
However, the belt and a heightened sense of direction are, in today's world, useless 99.99% of the time. That's really all I was keying on, but apparently was taken very seriously and literally.
Errm.. I don't use the iPhone as a compass, I use it instantly determine my current location and/or how to get from my current location to any destination with no knowledge of my destination other than the name. And I don't have to fuck with my brain to accomplish it.
The belt has an advantage if I'm on foot in the woods or something, or if I'm off the grid. But that doesn't really apply to the thing in question, which is "today's world" which is where I'm at 99.99% of the time. In "today's world", an iPhone kicks the belt's ass.
I think the belt is more of a proof of concept than anything and the applications of the concept could be incredible. I mean, we've already been doing this sort of thing with night vision goggles and the like, but it just takes it to a new level. Using senses other than sight to perceive stuff.
It's kinda like our senses are a USB port that we can plug any number of devices into and our brain automatically creates the drivers for.
Yea, maybe 100 million dollars to make existing MMORPG's work on a single shard. Probably well below that number to use crafty design from the ground up to solve the problem.
True and interesting concept. Design the game such that congregations of players in excess of what your servers are capable of supporting in one location is unnecessary and possible counter-productive for the players.
Example... Shadowbane style game with fighting and resource bonuses for medium to small size groups and motivations to build your own cities in various locations. Penalties for having too many cities and the ability to pillage cities. Lots of areas with diverse and necessary resources, impossible to own and protect a city next to all of them to promote trade and pillaging.
You could add in arena style fights, but make the people in the "stands" be static and just viewing the fight.
I'm sure there are a million concepts, but yea I agree that this should be the way of MMO's. Single shard, more user generated content, more openness and dynamic content.
He wasn't on public property though. He was on private property that is opened to the public. The photography has to be with the store owner's consent, unless the photographer has some sort of other legal authority to take the picture.
Since when is the inside of a store considered public property?
Taking photos on private property without the owner's permission can be considered trespassing. Obviously, this store owner isn't pushing the case because I'm sure he doesn't give a shit... the blogger is just a retard.
Wait, did you just compare this idiot blogger who can barely spell to Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.?
I think there's an old saying, "If you go looking for blood, you usually find it."
The guy was a complete ass to the Officer in question. He was out to get attention and he got it. The ENTIRE story is simply from his perspective, he didn't record what they said or anything just paraphrased (poorly I imagine) what was said in their conversations. Even then, he came off as an idiot trying to get in trouble for something he could've just walked away from.
You can even see, the first officer is just trying to explain that she's been in a similar situation and cleared it up quickly, it's not a big deal to just straighten it up, and he responds by mocking her.
I mean all he had to even do was exercise his Miranda rights, shut the hell up and (as someone else said) just say "Am I being charged with something, or am I free to go?" And it seems they would have let him go. Instead he was an idiot and he got what it seemed he wanted all along, a good story to put on his blog that he can spin out to say how bad the cops are and how much of a victim he is.
As for those who said he can sue... what is there to sue over? He refused to identify himself and explain why he was taking pictures of the inside of an ATM, then went on to mock the police officer. He was arrested for 30 minutes and let go without a scratch.
It's not quite the picture you paint and it's a much deeper problem with a solution much more complex than simply "give them more money", "save more money" or "cut more from the curriculum".
Most of my family are teachers, I'm not so I don't have the answer and I'm not sure any one person does. I know the first step would be in refactoring the administration (sorry, codespeak), and running the thing as more of a business. As it is, it's impossible to get rid of crappy teachers and actually very difficult to GET a job as a teacher, the system is very poorly run.
A lot of the "crumbling buildings" you are talking about are in poorer communities, there are more affluent or even just good middle class communities that have solid public schools (and there's always private). Some of these places would probably have crumbling buildings and crappy students no matter how much money you threw at them (not that the community has the money anyways). This opens up a whole 'nother can of worms which is, how does funding get distributed? Should ever child have the same educational standard and funding for their school regardless of their family and community? How the hell do you even go about this? This is a deep philosophical question with a non simple solution again lol. I'd like to say yes, but a lion's share of education comes from parenting, you get out what you put in, etc....
That being said, money is an issue in a lot of places, class sizes are growing and curriculum's are generally being cut precisely as you have described. I've even heard of systems where students pay extra for certain benefits, music, sports, art, whatever.
To sum up, the solution isn't just more money, and it's not quite as grim as you paint it with the crumbling school thing, but there's definitely a problem that we're not going to solve here anecdotally talking about. Some third party with the student's best interest in mind needs to dig into the system and be given power to break some things down, which probably just won't happen.
As it is, when or if I have kids I'll be putting a lot of thought into the school system of the area I live in along with the consideration of private schools. Maybe the solution is simple, if every parent put their child's education as a high enough priority then there would be much less of an overall issue.
Ok, you say balance is important, all those are important. What would YOU cut. The question isn't what's important and what's not. The question is, what's expendable as mandatory for everyone because something has to go.
No part of education is expendable. Nothing has to go.
The absolute last thing you want to do in a down-turned economy is makes cuts on education.
I'd say arts and music is a total waste of time, especially for those who can't draw a straight line even with a ruler and couldn't differentiate tones if his life depended on it (violin for about 4 years, very...clinical, monkey-see, monkey-do). Course I work on a computer and did CAD on a computer in college, so drawing doesn't do me much good.
History? Who cares what happened centuries ago. Some state history is almost as boring as the local PBS shows. If there are relevant lessons, turn them into catchy proverbs and quotes like Sun Tsu and Confucius.
Gym Class? If you want kids to stay fit, run laps, do stretches and warmups, and hit the weight room. Sports is a thing you get in shape FOR, not a means to get in shape.
Religion? Almost as useless as history. At least what happened in history books actually happened according to the winning side.
But you think the US Society will ever drop those first 3 as mandatory or that parochial school will drop the last in the near future?
I'm assuming you are saying this stuff doesn't matter from your perspective.
Which may very well be true, if you don't prescribe to the philosophy that balance is an important part in enjoying your life.
Personally, I don't use those things in my job... but I use them all many times in a week. I play guitar and listen to music, I play sports FOR exercise, I enjoy learning about history and knowing history both for conversation, understanding where I'm from and philosophy.
Like most things, you get out of education what you put into it. I think balance is important, as did our founding fathers and those that put the education system in place. Today it's easier than ever to find this balance, why not take advantage of it?
One last important point. Humans aren't capable of sitting in one spot and just absorbing information, your mind will wander every 10 or 20 minutes. It needs to be broken up, what better way to break up a day than by infusing them with more "fun" things like music, gym, art, etc.? And give them a taste of the other professions that have been made possible by the industrial age and our consumer driven society?
So in honor of your annoying and inappropriate post, I'm simply going to counter-suggest that we name H1N1 after you instead: The "Perens Flu." Does that seem fair to you?
There's nothing like a good film to (temporarily) take your mind off reality.
Eh, but what is reality?
More appropriately I think would be to say, rather than to escape reality, would be that living vicariously through movies is entertaining. We generate work through our own desire for entertainment and luxury, otherwise must of us would be out of work cuz all we really need to survive is food and shelter and we're so efficient at those things that only a few can sustain very many. Entertainment and enjoyment of life brings meaning to it aside from mere subsistence.
What I mean to say is, everything is reality. And the OP is a jerk troll!/randombanter
When what doesn't? Can you give me a date when Steam implodes and goes out of business? This seems to be the main anti-Steam selling point. Under this theory, you also shouldn't buy a car (or anything, for that matter) because eventually it will break.
I tend to agree, I'll probably have lost the CD long before steam goes out of business.
That or the game would be so old that I wouldn't want to play it anymore anyways (ie. Quake 3).
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haha, yea, at that point it's just semantics. In a sense, a windows based OS is just an advanced browser anyways. If you give a browser all the functionality of an OS and put it on top of BIOS, isn't it really just an OS?
Ummmmm... I am more referring to its consuming oxygen that might otherwise be used for breathing.
Honestly, the way you worded it, I thought you were referring to a potential fire hazard due to the Oxygen. Which would have made me believe you didn't understand the process and/or didn't RTA. The clarification was important, thanks!
Every soccer player knows that the most important skill is knowing when and how to fall.
Yea, right after being able to dribble, pass, shoot, read the field...
Heh, I mean as in it will permanently dull your hearing, not just drown out the noise.
I used to have to leave electronic stores after about 5 minutes when I was kid because of all of the noise, gave me horrible headaches.
There is a solution though! Listen to lots of loud music.
What happens if you run out of battery power? What happens if the external provider of one of the necessary services stops providing that service?
Yes, I just said that in response to another guy who believes the belt to be of any more value than a proof of concept (belt is also limited by battery power and calibration).
The response I have is focusing on 3 words in your original post "in today's world". Like I said before, if you're in the woods or off the grid the belt is useful. Otherwise, the iPhone (as I felt was a humorous example) universally kicks its ass.
I think the concept proven by the belt is cool, and in a sense something we already knew from many other things (red flares in an FPS HUD telling you the direction of enemy fire that eventually become subconscious or even night vision goggles). I also think the concept has important applications (like the suit created to keep up/down orientation in flight).
However, the belt and a heightened sense of direction are, in today's world, useless 99.99% of the time. That's really all I was keying on, but apparently was taken very seriously and literally.
Errm.. I don't use the iPhone as a compass, I use it instantly determine my current location and/or how to get from my current location to any destination with no knowledge of my destination other than the name. And I don't have to fuck with my brain to accomplish it.
The belt has an advantage if I'm on foot in the woods or something, or if I'm off the grid. But that doesn't really apply to the thing in question, which is "today's world" which is where I'm at 99.99% of the time. In "today's world", an iPhone kicks the belt's ass.
I think the belt is more of a proof of concept than anything and the applications of the concept could be incredible. I mean, we've already been doing this sort of thing with night vision goggles and the like, but it just takes it to a new level. Using senses other than sight to perceive stuff.
It's kinda like our senses are a USB port that we can plug any number of devices into and our brain automatically creates the drivers for.
We just have little reason to exercise it in today's world.
Exactly, my iPhone kicks your belt's ass.
Solves this, but it needs to become a cheaper service (legally cheaper that is, cracking makes it free with a data plan).
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Yea, maybe 100 million dollars to make existing MMORPG's work on a single shard. Probably well below that number to use crafty design from the ground up to solve the problem.
True and interesting concept. Design the game such that congregations of players in excess of what your servers are capable of supporting in one location is unnecessary and possible counter-productive for the players.
Example... Shadowbane style game with fighting and resource bonuses for medium to small size groups and motivations to build your own cities in various locations. Penalties for having too many cities and the ability to pillage cities. Lots of areas with diverse and necessary resources, impossible to own and protect a city next to all of them to promote trade and pillaging.
You could add in arena style fights, but make the people in the "stands" be static and just viewing the fight.
I'm sure there are a million concepts, but yea I agree that this should be the way of MMO's. Single shard, more user generated content, more openness and dynamic content.
Haha, exactly. People oftentimes confuse "there's not jack shit he can do about it" with "he's technically not supposed to do jack shit about it".
He wasn't on public property though. He was on private property that is opened to the public. The photography has to be with the store owner's consent, unless the photographer has some sort of other legal authority to take the picture.
Since when is the inside of a store considered public property?
Taking photos on private property without the owner's permission can be considered trespassing. Obviously, this store owner isn't pushing the case because I'm sure he doesn't give a shit... the blogger is just a retard.
Wait, did you just compare this idiot blogger who can barely spell to Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.?
I think there's an old saying, "If you go looking for blood, you usually find it."
The guy was a complete ass to the Officer in question. He was out to get attention and he got it. The ENTIRE story is simply from his perspective, he didn't record what they said or anything just paraphrased (poorly I imagine) what was said in their conversations. Even then, he came off as an idiot trying to get in trouble for something he could've just walked away from.
You can even see, the first officer is just trying to explain that she's been in a similar situation and cleared it up quickly, it's not a big deal to just straighten it up, and he responds by mocking her.
I mean all he had to even do was exercise his Miranda rights, shut the hell up and (as someone else said) just say "Am I being charged with something, or am I free to go?" And it seems they would have let him go. Instead he was an idiot and he got what it seemed he wanted all along, a good story to put on his blog that he can spin out to say how bad the cops are and how much of a victim he is.
As for those who said he can sue... what is there to sue over? He refused to identify himself and explain why he was taking pictures of the inside of an ATM, then went on to mock the police officer. He was arrested for 30 minutes and let go without a scratch.
"Journalism is entertainment"
Ahh... the sweet sound of democracy dying...
It has little to do with democracy, it has more to do with free market failure.
It's not quite the picture you paint and it's a much deeper problem with a solution much more complex than simply "give them more money", "save more money" or "cut more from the curriculum".
Most of my family are teachers, I'm not so I don't have the answer and I'm not sure any one person does. I know the first step would be in refactoring the administration (sorry, codespeak), and running the thing as more of a business. As it is, it's impossible to get rid of crappy teachers and actually very difficult to GET a job as a teacher, the system is very poorly run.
A lot of the "crumbling buildings" you are talking about are in poorer communities, there are more affluent or even just good middle class communities that have solid public schools (and there's always private). Some of these places would probably have crumbling buildings and crappy students no matter how much money you threw at them (not that the community has the money anyways). This opens up a whole 'nother can of worms which is, how does funding get distributed? Should ever child have the same educational standard and funding for their school regardless of their family and community? How the hell do you even go about this? This is a deep philosophical question with a non simple solution again lol. I'd like to say yes, but a lion's share of education comes from parenting, you get out what you put in, etc....
That being said, money is an issue in a lot of places, class sizes are growing and curriculum's are generally being cut precisely as you have described. I've even heard of systems where students pay extra for certain benefits, music, sports, art, whatever.
To sum up, the solution isn't just more money, and it's not quite as grim as you paint it with the crumbling school thing, but there's definitely a problem that we're not going to solve here anecdotally talking about. Some third party with the student's best interest in mind needs to dig into the system and be given power to break some things down, which probably just won't happen.
As it is, when or if I have kids I'll be putting a lot of thought into the school system of the area I live in along with the consideration of private schools. Maybe the solution is simple, if every parent put their child's education as a high enough priority then there would be much less of an overall issue.
Ok, you say balance is important, all those are important. What would YOU cut. The question isn't what's important and what's not. The question is, what's expendable as mandatory for everyone because something has to go.
No part of education is expendable. Nothing has to go.
The absolute last thing you want to do in a down-turned economy is makes cuts on education.
Who decides what matters?
I'd say arts and music is a total waste of time, especially for those who can't draw a straight line even with a ruler and couldn't differentiate tones if his life depended on it (violin for about 4 years, very...clinical, monkey-see, monkey-do). Course I work on a computer and did CAD on a computer in college, so drawing doesn't do me much good.
History? Who cares what happened centuries ago. Some state history is almost as boring as the local PBS shows. If there are relevant lessons, turn them into catchy proverbs and quotes like Sun Tsu and Confucius.
Gym Class? If you want kids to stay fit, run laps, do stretches and warmups, and hit the weight room. Sports is a thing you get in shape FOR, not a means to get in shape.
Religion? Almost as useless as history. At least what happened in history books actually happened according to the winning side.
But you think the US Society will ever drop those first 3 as mandatory or that parochial school will drop the last in the near future?
I'm assuming you are saying this stuff doesn't matter from your perspective.
Which may very well be true, if you don't prescribe to the philosophy that balance is an important part in enjoying your life.
Personally, I don't use those things in my job... but I use them all many times in a week. I play guitar and listen to music, I play sports FOR exercise, I enjoy learning about history and knowing history both for conversation, understanding where I'm from and philosophy.
Like most things, you get out of education what you put into it. I think balance is important, as did our founding fathers and those that put the education system in place. Today it's easier than ever to find this balance, why not take advantage of it?
One last important point. Humans aren't capable of sitting in one spot and just absorbing information, your mind will wander every 10 or 20 minutes. It needs to be broken up, what better way to break up a day than by infusing them with more "fun" things like music, gym, art, etc.? And give them a taste of the other professions that have been made possible by the industrial age and our consumer driven society?
Winner.
So in honor of your annoying and inappropriate post, I'm simply going to counter-suggest that we name H1N1 after you instead: The "Perens Flu." Does that seem fair to you?
I think the "Hiney Flu" is more appropriate.
Hey, watching movies is *fun*.
There's nothing like a good film to (temporarily) take your mind off reality.
Eh, but what is reality?
/randombanter
More appropriately I think would be to say, rather than to escape reality, would be that living vicariously through movies is entertaining. We generate work through our own desire for entertainment and luxury, otherwise must of us would be out of work cuz all we really need to survive is food and shelter and we're so efficient at those things that only a few can sustain very many. Entertainment and enjoyment of life brings meaning to it aside from mere subsistence.
What I mean to say is, everything is reality. And the OP is a jerk troll!
I dunno's on third!
When what doesn't? Can you give me a date when Steam implodes and goes out of business? This seems to be the main anti-Steam selling point. Under this theory, you also shouldn't buy a car (or anything, for that matter) because eventually it will break.
I tend to agree, I'll probably have lost the CD long before steam goes out of business.
That or the game would be so old that I wouldn't want to play it anymore anyways (ie. Quake 3).