You jest, but Quake would be a good candidate on the basis of being open-source. I wouldn't want to see a commercial game be used in the Olympics, the balance would be different every year and features could appear and disappear without control. Plus, there's enough branding going on in today's world without having an event dedicated to a commercial product.
If bugs were such a major issue, there would be no esports tournaments. There is a significant difference between an unpredictable, exceptional event (technical issue, bug) and something fundamentally tied to a discipline's scoring system (voting for performances). Equating the two is disingenuous at best.
Current motion blur techniques are smarter than you seem to imply, but we're still really far from anything resembling movies. Most implementations use per-pixel blurring (not blocks of a certain size), sometimes across multiple velocities per pixel, but they're still gross approximations which lack information (such as what's behind the frontmost objects). Re-rendering the scene multiple times at different time points, on top of being extremely time-consuming, looks really bad. You need something like 50+ images per frame to create the illusion of smoothness, and at that point you're better off simply presenting 100 frames per second and letting the human eye apply blur.
Offline techniques use stochastic sampling instead, so you're still effectively re-rendering the image a certain number of times at different time positions, but the difference is that each pixel uses its own set of unique time positions, which trades banding (i.e. being able to clearly see the different time steps) for noise. This sort of technique can be applied in real-time using algorithms like stochastic rasterization, but we're quite far from seeing that used in actual games.
That's far from all there is to it. The much bigger element is that cars are designed lengthwise - there's a much larger crumple zone at the front and the back than on the sides. In a T-bone collision, all that separates you from the other car's motor block is a fairly thin door and possibly some airbags.
Not even that, Visual C++.NET is a broken aberration that I have not seen used anywhere ever (it's not the same as Visual C++, which is straight up C++)..NET is effectively C#.
Perfect knowledge also doesn't factor the human element. Is anyone seriously gullible enough to think nobody'll try to game the system, or to alter/delay the information entered into the system?
We've also seen a sharp decrease in infantile mortality rates, disease spread, disease mortality, and much more besides in the past few decades. So aside from your fairly obvious strawman (not wanting to drive through long tunnels, really?), I would say that instant access can be a determining factor at some point in your life. And before you try to dismantle what I'm saying, I'm not implying that cellphones are responsible for all of that, merely that they are one of many factors. You'll be glad the person who sees you get into a car crash has a cellphone on them.
Because then the kids who actually perform well feel like they're being punished by being straddled with someone who's not performing well (which may include people who'll never get it, people who don't give a shit to learn, and much more besides). Not all kids ardently desire to get matched with poor students to help them, and that's even more prevalent at a younger age where the students may not yet be articulate enough to teach properly. You frustrate the student who's good because they can't formulate good explanations and you frustrate the other student because they don't understand what the other is saying and they think it's because they're stupid.
This is the police we're talking about. They should be held at a higher standard, not at a lower one. This is like saying that a physician found guilty of malpractice should only get a slap on the wrist for the first offence, and don't do it again you naughty naughty!
Thing is, it's likely that this will have a negative impact (according to what happened in Germany, and that wasn't even a complete shutdown), but I very much doubt Google will be quick to come back when the Spanish go "Please forgive us!"
They've done plenty of scummy things along the way, but pretending they are the sole responsible party just makes you look stupid and unwilling to take responsibility for your own actions. Man up.
The problem with that assessment is that hindsight is 20/20. This is exactly like the radioactive cosmetics of the early 20th century. People gave radium and other such substances quasi-magical properties, but few, even scientists, suspected the damage. There was no way for you as a consumer to know that the product you were using could be dangerous. In the case of radium, there were enough quick deaths that the link was made publicly and usage fell, but for tobacco the side-effects took much longer and were actively masked by the companies. In both cases, someone saw a way to make a quick buck, and the consequences be damned. In the latter, though, they kept going after getting ample proof that they were killing people.
You're right it's about genetics, but you got it the wrong way around. What's much more likely is that your immune systems were already very different and the strain you were infected with was more able to defeat your husband's immune system than yours. The virus was therefore more specialized, as the article says.
Obviously the problem with Plague Inc. (and Pandemic before that) is that it's a videogame. Hint: a virus does not spontaneously and simultaneously evolve in all of its hosts, as it does in the game. It also does not specifically target host death, because that is detrimental to its spread and is thus selected against.
This. The taxi companies are all focused on the fact Uber and Lyft are working without regulations as if that was the reason for their success. Yes, having lower prices most certainly makes them more attractive, but that's not all of it. Getting a taxi is a terrible experience. If you're lucky, you can hail one, but if you need to call one up... Enjoy waiting for any amount of time between 30 seconds and an hour, the taxi never reaching you, you having no idea where they are, the taxi arriving as a tiny Yaris when you specifically asked for a large car because you have luggage, etc.
One of the big deals about Uber for me is that their app and infrastructure makes the taxi companies look like pathetic dinosaurs. Calling a lift is easy, you can track their position in real time, if something goes wrong or if they're not responsive you can deal with that, you can pay through the app... It's just a much better user experience. Taxi companies probably never even heard of the term, and they're looking extremely stupid for it.
We don't have to understand human physiology to be able to create an artificial intelligence. You're conflating two things. Our first AI is unlikely to resemble anything we know, much less a human-like intelligence.
Yes, and a lot of students don't, be it because of shame from having to ask a question, pride in solving it themselves, or whatever else. If this new method of teaching provides better results, why not use it? Because you didn't have it and made it just fine, ergo everyone should just get on with it?
While this is a nice idea, and it will of course reduce the response time of law enforcement, it misses the point.
People take guns to school because schools are "gun free zones". They even have big signs posted around them saying, "You are in a gun-free zone".
So... the bad guy is assured that he is the only person with a gun...
If this were the correct logic, then Europe would be a warzone with daily shootings, since guns are mostly non-existent in a lot of countries. How weird then that the place with the most shootings happens to be the country that fetishizes gun ownership.
we perform a service for society akin to that peformed by record or film studio executives - we watch shitty movies and listen to shitty music, so you don't have to.
Are you actually serious? How about starving the shitty movies and music out of the market by not giving them a fucking audience? You're part of the problem, not the solution.
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You jest, but Quake would be a good candidate on the basis of being open-source. I wouldn't want to see a commercial game be used in the Olympics, the balance would be different every year and features could appear and disappear without control. Plus, there's enough branding going on in today's world without having an event dedicated to a commercial product.
Bows and crossbows have very little in common, aside from using a string to throw a projectile.
If bugs were such a major issue, there would be no esports tournaments. There is a significant difference between an unpredictable, exceptional event (technical issue, bug) and something fundamentally tied to a discipline's scoring system (voting for performances). Equating the two is disingenuous at best.
Current motion blur techniques are smarter than you seem to imply, but we're still really far from anything resembling movies. Most implementations use per-pixel blurring (not blocks of a certain size), sometimes across multiple velocities per pixel, but they're still gross approximations which lack information (such as what's behind the frontmost objects). Re-rendering the scene multiple times at different time points, on top of being extremely time-consuming, looks really bad. You need something like 50+ images per frame to create the illusion of smoothness, and at that point you're better off simply presenting 100 frames per second and letting the human eye apply blur.
Offline techniques use stochastic sampling instead, so you're still effectively re-rendering the image a certain number of times at different time positions, but the difference is that each pixel uses its own set of unique time positions, which trades banding (i.e. being able to clearly see the different time steps) for noise. This sort of technique can be applied in real-time using algorithms like stochastic rasterization, but we're quite far from seeing that used in actual games.
That's far from all there is to it. The much bigger element is that cars are designed lengthwise - there's a much larger crumple zone at the front and the back than on the sides. In a T-bone collision, all that separates you from the other car's motor block is a fairly thin door and possibly some airbags.
Not even that, Visual C++ .NET is a broken aberration that I have not seen used anywhere ever (it's not the same as Visual C++, which is straight up C++). .NET is effectively C#.
Perfect knowledge also doesn't factor the human element. Is anyone seriously gullible enough to think nobody'll try to game the system, or to alter/delay the information entered into the system?
We've also seen a sharp decrease in infantile mortality rates, disease spread, disease mortality, and much more besides in the past few decades. So aside from your fairly obvious strawman (not wanting to drive through long tunnels, really?), I would say that instant access can be a determining factor at some point in your life. And before you try to dismantle what I'm saying, I'm not implying that cellphones are responsible for all of that, merely that they are one of many factors. You'll be glad the person who sees you get into a car crash has a cellphone on them.
This is Slashdot, submitters should know by now that nobody actually clicks the article links.
Yes, because users who tend to forget how to open an email attachment will of course remember to apply updates to Windows. Smart.
Because then the kids who actually perform well feel like they're being punished by being straddled with someone who's not performing well (which may include people who'll never get it, people who don't give a shit to learn, and much more besides). Not all kids ardently desire to get matched with poor students to help them, and that's even more prevalent at a younger age where the students may not yet be articulate enough to teach properly. You frustrate the student who's good because they can't formulate good explanations and you frustrate the other student because they don't understand what the other is saying and they think it's because they're stupid.
This is the police we're talking about. They should be held at a higher standard, not at a lower one. This is like saying that a physician found guilty of malpractice should only get a slap on the wrist for the first offence, and don't do it again you naughty naughty!
Birth-control pills and many vaccines probably sounded too good to be true back in the day.
Thing is, it's likely that this will have a negative impact (according to what happened in Germany, and that wasn't even a complete shutdown), but I very much doubt Google will be quick to come back when the Spanish go "Please forgive us!"
They've done plenty of scummy things along the way, but pretending they are the sole responsible party just makes you look stupid and unwilling to take responsibility for your own actions. Man up.
The problem with that assessment is that hindsight is 20/20. This is exactly like the radioactive cosmetics of the early 20th century. People gave radium and other such substances quasi-magical properties, but few, even scientists, suspected the damage. There was no way for you as a consumer to know that the product you were using could be dangerous. In the case of radium, there were enough quick deaths that the link was made publicly and usage fell, but for tobacco the side-effects took much longer and were actively masked by the companies. In both cases, someone saw a way to make a quick buck, and the consequences be damned. In the latter, though, they kept going after getting ample proof that they were killing people.
Don't blame the victim.
So if the data were stored in manually-loaded magnetic tapes, the legal standing would change? Because that's exactly what you're saying.
Enjoy building a graphical user interface using nothing but emacs.
You're right it's about genetics, but you got it the wrong way around. What's much more likely is that your immune systems were already very different and the strain you were infected with was more able to defeat your husband's immune system than yours. The virus was therefore more specialized, as the article says.
Obviously the problem with Plague Inc. (and Pandemic before that) is that it's a videogame. Hint: a virus does not spontaneously and simultaneously evolve in all of its hosts, as it does in the game. It also does not specifically target host death, because that is detrimental to its spread and is thus selected against.
This. The taxi companies are all focused on the fact Uber and Lyft are working without regulations as if that was the reason for their success. Yes, having lower prices most certainly makes them more attractive, but that's not all of it. Getting a taxi is a terrible experience. If you're lucky, you can hail one, but if you need to call one up... Enjoy waiting for any amount of time between 30 seconds and an hour, the taxi never reaching you, you having no idea where they are, the taxi arriving as a tiny Yaris when you specifically asked for a large car because you have luggage, etc.
One of the big deals about Uber for me is that their app and infrastructure makes the taxi companies look like pathetic dinosaurs. Calling a lift is easy, you can track their position in real time, if something goes wrong or if they're not responsive you can deal with that, you can pay through the app... It's just a much better user experience. Taxi companies probably never even heard of the term, and they're looking extremely stupid for it.
We don't have to understand human physiology to be able to create an artificial intelligence. You're conflating two things. Our first AI is unlikely to resemble anything we know, much less a human-like intelligence.
Yes, and a lot of students don't, be it because of shame from having to ask a question, pride in solving it themselves, or whatever else. If this new method of teaching provides better results, why not use it? Because you didn't have it and made it just fine, ergo everyone should just get on with it?
While this is a nice idea, and it will of course reduce the response time of law enforcement, it misses the point.
People take guns to school because schools are "gun free zones". They even have big signs posted around them saying, "You are in a gun-free zone".
So... the bad guy is assured that he is the only person with a gun...
If this were the correct logic, then Europe would be a warzone with daily shootings, since guns are mostly non-existent in a lot of countries. How weird then that the place with the most shootings happens to be the country that fetishizes gun ownership.
we perform a service for society akin to that peformed by record or film studio executives - we watch shitty movies and listen to shitty music, so you don't have to.
Are you actually serious? How about starving the shitty movies and music out of the market by not giving them a fucking audience? You're part of the problem, not the solution.
Yeah, it's always worth keeping in mind that the universe wasn't designed to be elegant... It wasn't designed at all. It just is.
I'm actually often surprised at how elegant physics can be in spite of this.