Good God, yes. Civ IV gets the fans on my gaming laptop spinning faster and more frequently than Left4Dead2. That's just not right. Oddly enough the CPU stays frosty, which I suppose does explain predictable AI but shiny graphics.
Yeah this was my first question too. Nothing in the article about it, but it hesitantly alludes to the fact that the only things confirmed to "carry over" will be cities and units. So this could very well be an approximation rather than a conversion. Cities roughly in the same place, land masses roughly the same size and shape, rivers running the same general course and touching the same cities etc.
Units will be interesting though. If you import a map with huge unit stacks they'll have to be spread out to conform to the new one-unit-per-hex requirement. Suddenly a stack of doom will become a huge traffic jam across your civilisation!
Well...the poll is clearly trusting its readers to be able to glean the rather obvious context of "trust" from the question.
We're asking how much we trust news outlets, google, apple, and Microsoft to tell us the truth.
If that's the case then people don't seem to be doing a very good job of gleaning the meaning* of the poll. They really, honestly expect huge transnational corporations to tell us the truth more than the media at large?
I agree with your point that it's semantics, expectations and bias vs. lies that put all this into context. However, I doubt most people actually thought that much about it. I suspect that most would be willing to take the stupid poll at face value.
* As you read this I'm already taking steps to copyright that wonderfully melodic turn of phrase
There are different studies: In Finland, young people trust newspapers far more than anything in the internet. 78 % say they trust newspapers, while 18 % say they trust internet.
This is a study ordered by Finnish Newspapers Association and made by major independent research company.
News media has always been heavily biased one way or another. There's nothing wrong with this.
Exactly. People who watch or read news from a source with a left, centre or right wing bias do so because it fits in with their world view. A truely neutral newspaper or programme would likely be seen as baised to the left by right-wing groups, and biased to the right by left-wing groups. In England if the Daily Mail isn't blaming Diana's death on the latest super-terrorist group then the middle-classes would have to find another target for their quiet anger.
I trust Google News more, because it doesn't present a single point of information on a subject.
That's because it's just a news aggregator. It's like saying you trust a newspaper stand more than Fox News because the newspaper stand offers you lots of different points of view. Apples and Oranges. The comparison just doesn't make any sense. Not that I'm blaming you, I just think the whole damn "survey" is a badly conceived pile of nonsense.
But the article compares trust in commercial companies with trust in "the media". Since they do totally different things the comparison is meaningless. I take your point that trust in a very generic way means our belief that they'll do their "given task", but the task of Apple, Microsoft etc. is to make money. And yes, I trust that they'll do that.
Also, from what I can see they never actually specify what we're supposed to be trusting them with? Our lives? Our children? Our cars? Are we trusting Microsoft, Apple and Google not to tell the world about that time that we accidentally wet the bed when we were really drunk and the three of them put our hand in warm water?
Call me crazy, but a poll with such generic ideas of trust seems almost as useless as a poll about which type of tree people trust the most. Damn, those Nordic Pines look a bit shifty...
Ah yes, banning one kind of horn and expecting people to buy a slightly less loud one. Very likely. Very likely indeed.
"Sorry Sir, we have to check your vuvuzela. Regulations dictate that it musn't produce a peak noise output of more than 100 dB. If you wouldn't mind stepping out of the line and accompanying me to the testing area we can get your horn checked and certified. If it doesn't conform to regulations then I'm afraid it'll have to be confiscated. Don't worry though, you can spend some of your hard earned currency on the new, government approved vuvuzela model that we sell right here in our testing area."
Bloody hell I didn't even think about that. It would finally make it possible to play a first person shooter against someone in the same room as you without them automatically knowing where you are. Marvellous.
Several people. They've discussed using it as a privacy screen or conversely to display different sets of information to different observers.
The idea of displaying multiple pictures to different people is actually of more interest to me than the 3D application. 3D pictures confined to the small surface area of your TV just doesn't inspire me that much, but the prospect of being able to watch decent television programs while my wife watches her crappy soap operas on a single TV is a truely fantastic prospect.
In addition to this, in the Philippines you'll be getting laid by a girl.
He'll look like a girl until you get back to your room, at which point you'll notice his Adam's Apple, the suspicious bulge and the slightest hint of a 5 o'clock shadow that wasn't noticeable in the harsh sunlight.
My 55MPG car is also comfortable, has great performance and also looks nice. But I save a metric fuckton of money each year compared to you because I have a hugely more efficient car. You assume buying a car with good fuel efficiency means you have to comprimise in other areas. That's simply not true.
Yes, it's all fine because you have to be related to the person you want kidnapped. Obviously if you could just get anyone bundled into a rickshaw off the street and subjected to prison-like conditions then that would be wrong...
Expect the chinese government to spin this into a positive light for their work camp by "teaching teamwork and on-the-fly improvisational skills".
Also, since they didn't beat up the cab driver, steal his cab, take it for a joy ride and kill a hooker with a baseball bat it's clearly proof that these camps are combatting video game addiction too...
"Hi Dick, it's your Grandma. Cann you look up a number for me? Yes I know you gave me that computer-ma-jig to do it for me, but that's the problem you see. It broke and I need the number for a repair man"
I taught myself programming (and how to wire together an 8080) a good two years before I was able to use a real computer.
to which you replied:
Have you tried programming without a computer?
My post wasn't that long, so there's no real excuse about "missing" that part. A complete lack of reading comprehension on your part pretty much invalidates the rest of your post, but I'll bite anyway.
I've not comprehended your reading? Are you kidding me? I was making the point that maths without a calculator is possible. You can do some maths without a calculator, get a result and use it to build a bridge, or calculate a speed, or predict a rebound trajectory. Whatever. Programmng without a computer is not possible. Yes, you can learn to program without one, but you're still left with just theory and no possibility to actually program something unless you have a computer. Hence I asked "have you tried programming without a computer?" and not "have you tried learning programming without a computer?", which is the question you seem to think I was asking. If you're going to criticise someone's reading and comprehension skills you really should check that you've understood yourself.
As for the rest of your post, yes I wholeheartedly agree that books will always be a better teacher of programming than me, because a book can be there whe the student needs it, at 3am when they're desperately trying to get a program working and have hit a roadblock. I'm pretty much standing at the front of the room to introduce the topics, direct them for their own learning and help them with comprehending the bigger picture. I can't force them to learn (trust me) but I can try and get them interested and even excited about programming, and if that means using cheap gimmicks with flashy GUIs and multimedia presentations, then I'll definitely be doing that.
A calculator is a tool to make doing maths easier - you don't need a calculator to do maths. Have you tried programming without a computer? It's your analogy that fails. Also, since I actually teach first year university students programming I can say with some authority that presenting them with theory alone is destined to fail. You can actually see their eyes glaze over as you dive into the second hour of a lecture about what classes are, what a method is etc.
However, you mix that up with demonstrations of a HelloWorld program, a simple GUI that does something pretty or whatever, and they stay interested.
The whole thing is completely counter-intuitive and I have to read up on it every year or so just to make sure I don't get too sane.
I do the same and to this day I can still safely say that I don't have a damn clue about most things prefixed by the word "Quantum". Like the man said:
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word - Niels Bohr
I remain simply confused. Looking forward to the day I graduate to "shocked".
Thankyou, I was hoping someone else spotted this. The fact that this 4-state business is chemical in nature means that a quantum computer, hell even a fast electronic model off the shelf today, could probably emulate a 4-state molecule faster than the actual molecule itself. The breaking and making of chemical bonds isn't an instantaneous thing. Controlling these state transitions probably isn't childs-play either (read as it will take additional time).
It is unlikely that Gordon Brown can remain as prime minister , he makes a better chancellor to be honest.
Yeah, he did a great job presiding over the economy last time, deregulating the banking sector because banks said they needed less regulation. That worked out brilliantly.
I'm a fairly vocal supporter of Steam but I have to wholeheartedly agree with this point. Offline mode works well if you're truely offline, but is an absolute piece of crap when Steam decides that it [i]should[/i] be able to go online. If I tell Steam to be Offline, I expect it to ignore anything that even vaguely looks like a network connection until further notice. I don't care if the Steam central servers are sending pleading messages to my machine begging to be allowed to update. I've said no, and I mean no.
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Good God, yes. Civ IV gets the fans on my gaming laptop spinning faster and more frequently than Left4Dead2. That's just not right. Oddly enough the CPU stays frosty, which I suppose does explain predictable AI but shiny graphics.
Yeah this was my first question too. Nothing in the article about it, but it hesitantly alludes to the fact that the only things confirmed to "carry over" will be cities and units. So this could very well be an approximation rather than a conversion. Cities roughly in the same place, land masses roughly the same size and shape, rivers running the same general course and touching the same cities etc.
Units will be interesting though. If you import a map with huge unit stacks they'll have to be spread out to conform to the new one-unit-per-hex requirement. Suddenly a stack of doom will become a huge traffic jam across your civilisation!
Well...the poll is clearly trusting its readers to be able to glean the rather obvious context of "trust" from the question.
We're asking how much we trust news outlets, google, apple, and Microsoft to tell us the truth.
If that's the case then people don't seem to be doing a very good job of gleaning the meaning* of the poll. They really, honestly expect huge transnational corporations to tell us the truth more than the media at large?
I agree with your point that it's semantics, expectations and bias vs. lies that put all this into context. However, I doubt most people actually thought that much about it. I suspect that most would be willing to take the stupid poll at face value.
* As you read this I'm already taking steps to copyright that wonderfully melodic turn of phrase
I'm reading it using Windows so I'm reducing my level of trust in Microsoft. I trusted them to filter this kind of crap in their operating system...
There are different studies: In Finland, young people trust newspapers far more than anything in the internet. 78 % say they trust newspapers, while 18 % say they trust internet.
This is a study ordered by Finnish Newspapers Association and made by major independent research company.
Bad google translation here.
Emphasis mine to highlight a potential problem with this study.
News media has always been heavily biased one way or another. There's nothing wrong with this.
Exactly. People who watch or read news from a source with a left, centre or right wing bias do so because it fits in with their world view. A truely neutral newspaper or programme would likely be seen as baised to the left by right-wing groups, and biased to the right by left-wing groups. In England if the Daily Mail isn't blaming Diana's death on the latest super-terrorist group then the middle-classes would have to find another target for their quiet anger.
I trust Google News more, because it doesn't present a single point of information on a subject.
That's because it's just a news aggregator. It's like saying you trust a newspaper stand more than Fox News because the newspaper stand offers you lots of different points of view. Apples and Oranges. The comparison just doesn't make any sense. Not that I'm blaming you, I just think the whole damn "survey" is a badly conceived pile of nonsense.
But the article compares trust in commercial companies with trust in "the media". Since they do totally different things the comparison is meaningless. I take your point that trust in a very generic way means our belief that they'll do their "given task", but the task of Apple, Microsoft etc. is to make money. And yes, I trust that they'll do that.
Also, from what I can see they never actually specify what we're supposed to be trusting them with? Our lives? Our children? Our cars? Are we trusting Microsoft, Apple and Google not to tell the world about that time that we accidentally wet the bed when we were really drunk and the three of them put our hand in warm water?
Call me crazy, but a poll with such generic ideas of trust seems almost as useless as a poll about which type of tree people trust the most. Damn, those Nordic Pines look a bit shifty...
Ah yes, banning one kind of horn and expecting people to buy a slightly less loud one. Very likely. Very likely indeed.
"Sorry Sir, we have to check your vuvuzela. Regulations dictate that it musn't produce a peak noise output of more than 100 dB. If you wouldn't mind stepping out of the line and accompanying me to the testing area we can get your horn checked and certified. If it doesn't conform to regulations then I'm afraid it'll have to be confiscated. Don't worry though, you can spend some of your hard earned currency on the new, government approved vuvuzela model that we sell right here in our testing area."
I'm sure the thousands of people with the old models will be rushing out to replace their outdated hardware.
"What's that? It's quieter? Well that's totally what I want from my football horn!"
Bloody hell I didn't even think about that. It would finally make it possible to play a first person shooter against someone in the same room as you without them automatically knowing where you are. Marvellous.
Several people. They've discussed using it as a privacy screen or conversely to display different sets of information to different observers.
The idea of displaying multiple pictures to different people is actually of more interest to me than the 3D application. 3D pictures confined to the small surface area of your TV just doesn't inspire me that much, but the prospect of being able to watch decent television programs while my wife watches her crappy soap operas on a single TV is a truely fantastic prospect.
In addition to this, in the Philippines you'll be getting laid by a girl.
He'll look like a girl until you get back to your room, at which point you'll notice his Adam's Apple, the suspicious bulge and the slightest hint of a 5 o'clock shadow that wasn't noticeable in the harsh sunlight.
My 55MPG car is also comfortable, has great performance and also looks nice. But I save a metric fuckton of money each year compared to you because I have a hugely more efficient car. You assume buying a car with good fuel efficiency means you have to comprimise in other areas. That's simply not true.
Yes, it's all fine because you have to be related to the person you want kidnapped. Obviously if you could just get anyone bundled into a rickshaw off the street and subjected to prison-like conditions then that would be wrong...
Expect the chinese government to spin this into a positive light for their work camp by "teaching teamwork and on-the-fly improvisational skills".
Also, since they didn't beat up the cab driver, steal his cab, take it for a joy ride and kill a hooker with a baseball bat it's clearly proof that these camps are combatting video game addiction too...
"Hi Dick, it's your Grandma. Cann you look up a number for me? Yes I know you gave me that computer-ma-jig to do it for me, but that's the problem you see. It broke and I need the number for a repair man"
Let's see. I said:
to which you replied:
My post wasn't that long, so there's no real excuse about "missing" that part. A complete lack of reading comprehension on your part pretty much invalidates the rest of your post, but I'll bite anyway.
I've not comprehended your reading? Are you kidding me? I was making the point that maths without a calculator is possible. You can do some maths without a calculator, get a result and use it to build a bridge, or calculate a speed, or predict a rebound trajectory. Whatever. Programmng without a computer is not possible. Yes, you can learn to program without one, but you're still left with just theory and no possibility to actually program something unless you have a computer. Hence I asked "have you tried programming without a computer?" and not "have you tried learning programming without a computer?", which is the question you seem to think I was asking. If you're going to criticise someone's reading and comprehension skills you really should check that you've understood yourself. As for the rest of your post, yes I wholeheartedly agree that books will always be a better teacher of programming than me, because a book can be there whe the student needs it, at 3am when they're desperately trying to get a program working and have hit a roadblock. I'm pretty much standing at the front of the room to introduce the topics, direct them for their own learning and help them with comprehending the bigger picture. I can't force them to learn (trust me) but I can try and get them interested and even excited about programming, and if that means using cheap gimmicks with flashy GUIs and multimedia presentations, then I'll definitely be doing that.
A calculator is a tool to make doing maths easier - you don't need a calculator to do maths. Have you tried programming without a computer? It's your analogy that fails. Also, since I actually teach first year university students programming I can say with some authority that presenting them with theory alone is destined to fail. You can actually see their eyes glaze over as you dive into the second hour of a lecture about what classes are, what a method is etc.
However, you mix that up with demonstrations of a HelloWorld program, a simple GUI that does something pretty or whatever, and they stay interested.
The whole thing is completely counter-intuitive and I have to read up on it every year or so just to make sure I don't get too sane.
I do the same and to this day I can still safely say that I don't have a damn clue about most things prefixed by the word "Quantum". Like the man said:
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word - Niels Bohr
I remain simply confused. Looking forward to the day I graduate to "shocked".
Thankyou, I was hoping someone else spotted this. The fact that this 4-state business is chemical in nature means that a quantum computer, hell even a fast electronic model off the shelf today, could probably emulate a 4-state molecule faster than the actual molecule itself. The breaking and making of chemical bonds isn't an instantaneous thing. Controlling these state transitions probably isn't childs-play either (read as it will take additional time).
It is unlikely that Gordon Brown can remain as prime minister , he makes a better chancellor to be honest.
Yeah, he did a great job presiding over the economy last time, deregulating the banking sector because banks said they needed less regulation. That worked out brilliantly.
I'm a fairly vocal supporter of Steam but I have to wholeheartedly agree with this point. Offline mode works well if you're truely offline, but is an absolute piece of crap when Steam decides that it [i]should[/i] be able to go online. If I tell Steam to be Offline, I expect it to ignore anything that even vaguely looks like a network connection until further notice. I don't care if the Steam central servers are sending pleading messages to my machine begging to be allowed to update. I've said no, and I mean no.
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