Given the statement "We stretched the Kickstarter money farther than we had expected to" the only conclusion is that when stated that for $10,000 they'd give you:
* Steel longsword based on a design by noted sword-smith and Foreworld contributor, Angus Trim * A Studio tour and lunch with the team! * Gotlandic war knife based on a design by bladesmith Jeff Pringle * Original concept art plus invitations to company parties in Seattle * Your face on your exclusive character! * Name a character in the large world Foreworld game project. * Name a character in a future Foreworld story, the alternate history in which The Mongoliad (and CLANG) is set * Complete Mongoliad trilogy signed by team plus invitations to company parties in Seattle. * Print version of the illustrated CLANG fighting manual signed by the team * Copy of the Deluxe Edition of The Mongoliad Book 1, signed by the writers * Motivational poster signed by the team. OMVI patch. * Print edition of illustrated CLANG fighting manual. * T-shirt with CLANG/Subutai Kickstarter campaign graphic. * PDF of illustrated Clang fighting manual. * Download of game concept art in pdf format. * Two copies of the game
They had no intention of actually doing so, since apparently they've already done more than they expected with the money in the first place.
One place produced about half of Europe's steel, but that's not what comes to mindl. Instead a rather large company (the joys of bailouts and too big to fail was all the rage back then too) that is really famous for making weapons for the Nazis using slave labor sourced from concentration camps is your go to name?
I think you might live in a world of very large adults or very small children in fact.
Given the extrapolation given was for height, height is what is being talked about. And the average two year old in the US is a little over half the height of the average 18 year old (here's one reference: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr010.pdf).
If you mean weight, then sure, but then the extrapolation makes no sense.
No, because the underlying issue is that getting new people up to speed kills the productivity of the current people, plus communication overhead goes up.
If you have a competition task, having 20 people available to work on it better than having 2. You can have 10 groups of two work independently and use the thing that ends up worming. You could pick the best 2 at the specific area the previously unknown task is in the domain of. Maybe there ends up being a sub task that is independent enough that a couple of other people can hack it up while the primary pair work on the rest. And so on. Maybe you just have a higher chance of hitting the "I've done exactly this before" person.
It can't be worse, you can have the 2 people who aren't extras just work as if they are the only two and have the other 18 people do any of the above and again use the thing that ends up working.
You aren't limited to the throw more bodies at the late project technique that makes things worse.
Since you just added the "late" part, that last argument is simply bullshit.
It should be pretty damn obvious that when you are to be given a task you don't know much about before hand that a bigger team is going to better. Instead of your team of 3 coders, you have a team of 15 and you just pick the 3 who are best at the domain the task ends up being about. The other 12 go and play video games - how exactly do you think that is going to make things worse?
F1 has a pit lane speed limit, so that's a pretty bad example. Especially since not only do they have a speed limit but they have speed limiters in the cars so to try and stop the drivers from breaking them.
Aside from the obvious point that when I pay for something with cash the entity I paid doesn't instantly return it to the bank. In fact when I bought an ice cream yesterday they gave the next guy in line the note I used to pay them amongst his change.
You can safely assume a "that we know of" clause on every scientific statement ever made. Scientists don't bother actually stating it because it would get rather repetitive and unreadable, plus it's not the only such assumed qualification and including them all would make science papers and books about 20x longer.
And of course the claim you state was never made anyway since we already know of bigger volcanoes. Which is an example of these implied qualifications: the Mars volcanoes are not active, to the best of our knowledge they are volcanoes - the geology matches what we expect volcanoes to be and so on. However, a volcano by definition requires a magma chamber and we since they aren't active we can't be 100% sure. There is no other mainstream explanation and they fit volcanoes like a glove so no qualifications would usually actually be stated, the electric universe folk think they are scars from electrical discharges as an example of a completely different interpretation.
The constitution empowers Congress "to establish Post Offices and post Roads" but it does not require them to do so.
If you think it does then you must also think these debates about Syria are silly, since the same section empowers Congress "to declare War" so they have to do so, right?
Yeah I mistyped that second sentence. I meant to type "... know that electric..." not "... know what electric...". The "what" claim is ludicrous, I'm surprised you would then reply with "they believe they do" since they clearly don't and don't claim to. That's an electric universe level of certainty that mainstream science doesn't have.
No. Since contrary to the claims about mainstream science by such people they already know what electric and magnetic forces are at play and do in fact cause some observed features.
I assure you though, this does not mean mainstream science is coming around to the sun being an electrified iron ball, or that the Earth used to orbit Saturn which was a brown dwarf at the time, or that the Earth's gravity was significantly lower and then the sudden increase in it (caused by changed in electric charge of course) is what killed the dinosaurs.
I'm not sure that thinking that the all powerful being who created the entire universe cares about you personally and more than that cares about your opinions on things and will make adjustments to the plans of his omniscient mind according to them has humility at heart.
You latched on to a minor opinion while totally ignoring the real substance of the GP post.
Because the poster had no argument with that part? Because the poster had no opinion at all on that part? Because the poster had no knowledge of the claims in the first place?
Or do you you require choruses of amens to almost everything before anyone can disagree with the one statement they have an issue with?
So why don't we just remove the top end from Cat 3, and get rid of 4 and 5 entirely. After all with no top end there would be need for higher ratings, right?
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Given the statement "We stretched the Kickstarter money farther than we had expected to" the only conclusion is that when stated that for $10,000 they'd give you:
* Steel longsword based on a design by noted sword-smith and Foreworld contributor, Angus Trim
* A Studio tour and lunch with the team!
* Gotlandic war knife based on a design by bladesmith Jeff Pringle
* Original concept art plus invitations to company parties in Seattle
* Your face on your exclusive character!
* Name a character in the large world Foreworld game project.
* Name a character in a future Foreworld story, the alternate history in which The Mongoliad (and CLANG) is set
* Complete Mongoliad trilogy signed by team plus invitations to company parties in Seattle.
* Print version of the illustrated CLANG fighting manual signed by the team
* Copy of the Deluxe Edition of The Mongoliad Book 1, signed by the writers
* Motivational poster signed by the team. OMVI patch.
* Print edition of illustrated CLANG fighting manual.
* T-shirt with CLANG/Subutai Kickstarter campaign graphic.
* PDF of illustrated Clang fighting manual.
* Download of game concept art in pdf format.
* Two copies of the game
They had no intention of actually doing so, since apparently they've already done more than they expected with the money in the first place.
Are you serious?
One place produced about half of Europe's steel, but that's not what comes to mindl. Instead a rather large company (the joys of bailouts and too big to fail was all the rage back then too) that is really famous for making weapons for the Nazis using slave labor sourced from concentration camps is your go to name?
Whereas I make that judgment based on what they say. But whatever floats your boat.
I think you might live in a world of very large adults or very small children in fact.
Given the extrapolation given was for height, height is what is being talked about. And the average two year old in the US is a little over half the height of the average 18 year old (here's one reference: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr010.pdf).
If you mean weight, then sure, but then the extrapolation makes no sense.
No, because the underlying issue is that getting new people up to speed kills the productivity of the current people, plus communication overhead goes up.
If you have a competition task, having 20 people available to work on it better than having 2. You can have 10 groups of two work independently and use the thing that ends up worming. You could pick the best 2 at the specific area the previously unknown task is in the domain of. Maybe there ends up being a sub task that is independent enough that a couple of other people can hack it up while the primary pair work on the rest. And so on. Maybe you just have a higher chance of hitting the "I've done exactly this before" person.
It can't be worse, you can have the 2 people who aren't extras just work as if they are the only two and have the other 18 people do any of the above and again use the thing that ends up working.
You aren't limited to the throw more bodies at the late project technique that makes things worse.
Fine, I'm to scared to check if they have rules about that...
Yes, but the key word there is "late", something that doesn't apply in this scenario.
Since you just added the "late" part, that last argument is simply bullshit.
It should be pretty damn obvious that when you are to be given a task you don't know much about before hand that a bigger team is going to better. Instead of your team of 3 coders, you have a team of 15 and you just pick the 3 who are best at the domain the task ends up being about. The other 12 go and play video games - how exactly do you think that is going to make things worse?
F1 has a pit lane speed limit, so that's a pretty bad example. Especially since not only do they have a speed limit but they have speed limiters in the cars so to try and stop the drivers from breaking them.
Aside from the obvious point that when I pay for something with cash the entity I paid doesn't instantly return it to the bank. In fact when I bought an ice cream yesterday they gave the next guy in line the note I used to pay them amongst his change.
Since cpus have been so much faster than disks.
Because Linus, who apparently uses SSDs, would never regularly compile a kernel or anything like that.
Being better is irrelevant to whether something is "of historical curiosity" or is actually in widespread current use.
Maybe you should learn to read?
You can safely assume a "that we know of" clause on every scientific statement ever made. Scientists don't bother actually stating it because it would get rather repetitive and unreadable, plus it's not the only such assumed qualification and including them all would make science papers and books about 20x longer.
And of course the claim you state was never made anyway since we already know of bigger volcanoes. Which is an example of these implied qualifications: the Mars volcanoes are not active, to the best of our knowledge they are volcanoes - the geology matches what we expect volcanoes to be and so on. However, a volcano by definition requires a magma chamber and we since they aren't active we can't be 100% sure. There is no other mainstream explanation and they fit volcanoes like a glove so no qualifications would usually actually be stated, the electric universe folk think they are scars from electrical discharges as an example of a completely different interpretation.
Not at all.
The constitution empowers Congress "to establish Post Offices and post Roads" but it does not require them to do so.
If you think it does then you must also think these debates about Syria are silly, since the same section empowers Congress "to declare War" so they have to do so, right?
Yeah I mistyped that second sentence. I meant to type "... know that electric ..." not "... know what electric ...". The "what" claim is ludicrous, I'm surprised you would then reply with "they believe they do" since they clearly don't and don't claim to. That's an electric universe level of certainty that mainstream science doesn't have.
No. Since contrary to the claims about mainstream science by such people they already know what electric and magnetic forces are at play and do in fact cause some observed features.
I assure you though, this does not mean mainstream science is coming around to the sun being an electrified iron ball, or that the Earth used to orbit Saturn which was a brown dwarf at the time, or that the Earth's gravity was significantly lower and then the sudden increase in it (caused by changed in electric charge of course) is what killed the dinosaurs.
You'll need just a tad more evidence...
As always it all depends how you look at things.
I'm not sure that thinking that the all powerful being who created the entire universe cares about you personally and more than that cares about your opinions on things and will make adjustments to the plans of his omniscient mind according to them has humility at heart.
Sure, and if he didn't then there would be cries of "put your money where your mouth is" to criticize him.
Because the poster had no argument with that part? Because the poster had no opinion at all on that part? Because the poster had no knowledge of the claims in the first place?
Or do you you require choruses of amens to almost everything before anyone can disagree with the one statement they have an issue with?
So why don't we just remove the top end from Cat 3, and get rid of 4 and 5 entirely. After all with no top end there would be need for higher ratings, right?
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html
I guess don't click if you really don't want to know.
Since you certainly have the Hubris part mastered.
They have so your question makes no sense.
So no complaints when they come and shoot you and your family in a case of mistaken identity then?
You are seriously stupid, and this is slashdot where being stupider than the norm is quite an achievement.