i played HC offline solo with the gear i found - i wouldn't do that on battle.net, lag spikes could kill my char and i didn't feel like it. I had quite a few 85+ lvl HC chars.
you are a criminal anyway so why pay for the privilege? Besides, lots of such sales will be read as 'people will accept any shit our geniuses at Activision come up with' thus justifying even more dick moves.
i am curious: do you consider lag to belong to that 'a lot more in exchange' thing? What if someone couldn't care less about achievements and prefers to play alone with no unnecessary lag? I know i do, i played SP 99% of the time, i had quite a few hardcore chars solo and i wouldn't do that if the network lag could kill my char while i am unable to prevent it in any way.
please, stop with the false dichotomy. Offline and secure online are not mutually exclusive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic Garlic is known for causing halitosis, as well as causing sweat to have a pungent 'garlicky' smell, which is caused by allyl methyl sulfide (AMS). AMS is a gas which is absorbed into the blood during the metabolism of garlic; from the blood it travels to the lungs (and from there to the mouth, causing bad breath) and skin, where it is exuded through skin pores.
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cool example but the government has no business in growing like companies do, thus having access to tons of cash for flexibility/optimization doesn't make much sense. While companies have the whole world to expand to and the profit motive to do that, the US government is supposed to provide some clearly defined services, is backed by 300M people with their paychecks and that's it. Also government expansion sounds a lot like the road to communism, where the government is the ultimate employer of everybody.
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when you think in terms of purchasing power, taxes and money printing are the same. They both transfer purchasing power from cash holders to the government et consortes so they can spend it. The only difference is that people see tax increases written in black on white each time they get their paychecks, while inflation is sneaky and can steal few percent without anybody noticing.
it defaulted at least twice - confiscation of gold and devaluation of dollar (40%) in 1 swift move - 1971 when dollars stopped being redeemable for gold (the us printed too many of them and foreign powers tried to excercise the right to get gold for inflated dollars)
changing the rules during the game to fuck the other team over qualifies as default.
there is no "open" command on the Ubuntu CLI (on Apple's this is like a double click, it open the file with the program it is associated with), this is both obvious and easy (you already have the associations if you have a GUI double click);
nice false dichotomy you got there. I don't think that people claiming that the government is the problem have the base functions like judicial system and law enforcement in mind. More like erosion of basic rights and violation of privacy by omnipotent 3-letter agencies, pork barrels, subsidies and whole industries built around them, excessive regulations to justify the existence of bureaucrats, hand picking the winners in markets, ever increasing tax burden, giant waste of taxpayer's aka nobody's money (wars, pet projects of the day,...). None of these things would exist with a barebone government that doesn't micromanage everything.
if you are arguing that privacy and social network are mutually exclusive you could be right but if you are accusing google of some nefarious goals using those quotes then you are very wrong. What they said is brutal but true. They may or may not care about your browsing habits or posts on social network, but there is a non-zero chance that the federales will show up at their doors one day with a judge/patriot act stamped warrant and they will be required by law to comply which equals to handing over some/all data on investigated individuals - there, the privacy of said persons goes out the window. How is that any different from any US based company/blog/forum? Do you think that privacy focused Diaspora would be somehow immune to federal investigators if it ever sees the light of day? In that sense the only way to be sure that nobody ever will know is to not leave any traces online in any log which is pretty much exactly what Schmidt said.
I, too, think that there are inherent rights-- born with you: Things like life, health, education, self determination... But *property* rights?
unless you can heal yourself on your own and teach yourself on your own, health and education are not inherent rights. They are services provided to you by someone else and you are not born with an inherent right to someone else's labor.
the government is best in some things. example: health care
debatable, my country proves the opposite: ungodly long lines, months if not years of waiting even for potentially life saving procedures, people picking up private insurance even with 8% of their wage already taken to fund public hc. If you said 'something that is bound to be a natural monopoly' then i would be willing to agree with you.
It's disgusting; CNN.com's current main page headline is "Japan's reactor problems mount; death toll rises." WTF?
which was a reply to another post saying that summary makes it look like the deaths are the direct result of fukushima (which it did).
iamrmani was one of several people reporting updates on the Fukushima Nuclear plant that has been struggling following last Friday's disaster. A third explosion (Japanese) has been reported, along with other earlier information. MSNBC has a story about similiar reactors in the US. We also ran into a story which predicts that there won't be significant radiation. But already Japan is facing rolling blackouts, electricity rationing, evacuating the area around the plant, and thousands dead already.
Deflation is perceived as a bad thing by lovers of perpetual 5% fake GDP growth bought with debt and inflation. They believe that erosion of purchasing power will be offset by the returns on GDP growth but i don't see any convincing proof anywhere, quite the contrary. More and more countries pile up huge debt, returns are not there and as a result they slide slowly into oblivion. Fake boom based on on nothing more but monetary policy invariably ends with a bust and deflation is there to liquidate excess inventories built upon rosy projections of a bubble.
Deflation as a result of increased productivity and tech advances is a good thing because it means that we are so awesome that our share of our economy represented by money we possess is worth more and can buy us more. If you cry a river because of all the poor becoming even poorer in heartless capitalist economies - guess what, they are slowly wiped by the very inflation you propose that eats their rarely updated wages and modest savings. Don't count on governments, they are the ones who underreport CPI bacause it reduces their liabilities in real terms and allows to spend some more money on pork. If real inflation is 5%, CPI thanks to huge amounts of creative accounting is 2% and the bank gives you generous 1% above inflation on your savings, that means you are 2% in the red in real terms.
You seriously think that politicians can control the economy? Everything would be better if they couldn't. Name one successful man-made intervention in natural ecosystem that didn't bite in the ass with tons of unpleasant unintended consequences. You can't? So how can you expect that economy, equally complicated system with millions of variables, can be played with safely by a bunch of clueless bureaucrats? Their track record is not exactly stellar.
if you design a system that can be described as 'you can gamble with someone else's money all you want - if you win, it's all yours, if you lose, we got you covered' you seriously blame people who exploited the system? It was an obvious and perfectly rational thing to do. When there is no fear of loss, riskier behavior is unavoidable as there are only 2 options left on the table: a win and a fucking big win. It's universal, that's how people behave - be it sandbox, casino, stock market. When the building that collapses, architects and engineers responsible for shoddy work have their asses dragged to court, while lawmakers producing crap legislation that brings whole nations to the knees walk free.
Letting banks fail was a right thing to do - it would be painful but it would instill fear in the hearts of banksters. Bailouts made them feel like gods who have the whole world by the balls and now they take the full advantage of the fact
i don't buy it incentive is always there - if you invest, you will be able to afford more in future than if you spend all on your current consumption. It's always true, be it stable deflation, 0, stable inflation. Inflation biased policy is not an incentive, it's a blackmail: 'Put your savings in the bank or you will get wiped out and will eat from garbage bins once you get older' And what about wages lagging behind prices? If you don't get a raise in few years, it's an equivalent of a substantial pay cut. Inflation causes that every Joe Average has to work his ass off and micromanage to break even and Joe Average has no fucking time and knowledge to do that. Only rich have the access to expertise necessary and can successfully hedge against the inflation. Why can't there be a system that preserves value of savings and wages without hassle? That would benefit everybody not top 10%.
One of the biggest byproducts of inflation biased policies is that in the last few decades the financial sector grew like a fucking cancer, became more important that the industries that produce actual wealth (how fucked up is that?) and now it's a huge point of failure that can bring down whole nations to their knees. Tell me again why it's a good thing, given the events of 2008.
Another thing - governments have every incentive to underreport the CPI. They can lower fixed payments in real terms, borrow more and spend more to bribe voters because liabilities are eaten by inflation. When you put the money in the bank and it gives you +1% over the reported inflation you lose anyway because reality is that true value of CPI is 2-5% higher, just go to grocery store and look. Inflation fucks over the prudent and responsible in every way possible, end of story. People hope that inflation induced spending will produce more gdp and return on that will offset the decay of purchasing power - the problem is that it can't work reliably when people and countries are in debt to their eyeballs and we are witnessing the failure of such policies.
Are the material required to make the electronic components heavily dependent on imports?
have you seen what QEx did to commodity prices? Everybody and their dog uses commodities as a hedge against the inflation thus making producers' life harder.
This is really just helping China more on the relative cheapness of their exports.
there is one major problem with the currency peg for the Chinese. US prints money and doesn't keep it in its borders. Printed money goes abroad to pay for imported stuff, thus exporting the inflation to producer nations. Chinese print yuan to match dollar pool to maintain the peg, so they end up with inflation and to make things worse they have to sit on a huge pile of useless dollars they can't dump without sending the US to the world of pain. They will never be able to redeem anything for these dollars, so in reality they subsidize the US.
Deflation serves only the hoarders and creates a braking effect on an economy, because why spend money today when it will be worth more tomorrow?
so what we have instead is economy greased with purchasing power stolen from savers and people on discretionary income, got it.
In theory it's a nice idea to have money pool and economy going hand in hand but in reality governments have every incentive to underestimate the inflation rate. That way they can tax people in almost unnoticed way for additional percent or two, borrow more to bribe voters with 'freebies' and repay less in terms of real purchasing power down the road. I don't trust politicians and central bankers so i'd take deflation any day. Deflation biased, 'natural' system with no central planners is simple, elegant, honest and it rewards responsible people, just like it should be. It may not produce nice GDP numbers which is the fixation of all inflation lovers, but i think we may all agree that last few years have proven that GDP is a horseshit, because it says nothing of value about fundamentals.
Besides, when you hold the dollar note (or whatever currency you have) you are like a shareholder of a company. Economy of your country gets bigger thanks to increased productivity and created wealth, your share is worth more. Pretty logical, i'd say.
same thing happened with broodwar - competitive scene will hop the the latest thing. But in sc1 it happened once and rather quickly, now it will happen twice and be stretched in time so i think many will drop out in the mean time.
story quality - agreed. it's the worst single player campaign blizzard ever produced (i am not talking about technical side of SP). They pissed all over the lore established in sc1, turned sc2 into a venezuelan soap opera about a tragic love, riding on prophecies and greater ancient evils carbon-copied straight from warcraft universe.
it's like when you burn coal/wood (mechanics aside) - when you put out the fire, the leftovers still generate decay heat. So now imagine that the coal you burn is several orders of magnitude more potent and generates so much decay heat that it can melt itself and everything it touches with no problem, destroy the containment and initiate tons of chemical reactions thanks to plentiful energy. You need to cool it for months if not years - that's how much decay heat it produces. Nuclear fuel has enormous energy density/output so you don't have to burn millions of tons of coal - that's the point of using it. If you want actively feed the reaction, just go back to coal.
As for cooling systems being not foolproof - that's one of main problems with 40 years old designs. Knowledge progressed but real world applications did not. Nuclear industry froze in time because of TMI and Chernobyl.
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single player was available right off the bat in warezed sc2, you are talking about bnet emulation that allows for lan play.
mac = my awesome computer?
i played HC offline solo with the gear i found - i wouldn't do that on battle.net, lag spikes could kill my char and i didn't feel like it. I had quite a few 85+ lvl HC chars.
you are a criminal anyway so why pay for the privilege?
Besides, lots of such sales will be read as 'people will accept any shit our geniuses at Activision come up with' thus justifying even more dick moves.
Could someone explain how a SINGLE player game would affect the economy of the ONLINE game?
no, because it's impossible. Bullshit excuse is just that, a bullshit excuse.
i am curious: do you consider lag to belong to that 'a lot more in exchange' thing?
What if someone couldn't care less about achievements and prefers to play alone with no unnecessary lag? I know i do, i played SP 99% of the time, i had quite a few hardcore chars solo and i wouldn't do that if the network lag could kill my char while i am unable to prevent it in any way.
please, stop with the false dichotomy. Offline and secure online are not mutually exclusive.
less fun? what separate offline single player has to do with fun people have on bnet? oh, that's right - nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic
Garlic is known for causing halitosis, as well as causing sweat to have a pungent 'garlicky' smell, which is caused by allyl methyl sulfide (AMS). AMS is a gas which is absorbed into the blood during the metabolism of garlic; from the blood it travels to the lungs (and from there to the mouth, causing bad breath) and skin, where it is exuded through skin pores.
cool example but the government has no business in growing like companies do, thus having access to tons of cash for flexibility/optimization doesn't make much sense. While companies have the whole world to expand to and the profit motive to do that, the US government is supposed to provide some clearly defined services, is backed by 300M people with their paychecks and that's it. Also government expansion sounds a lot like the road to communism, where the government is the ultimate employer of everybody.
when you think in terms of purchasing power, taxes and money printing are the same. They both transfer purchasing power from cash holders to the government et consortes so they can spend it. The only difference is that people see tax increases written in black on white each time they get their paychecks, while inflation is sneaky and can steal few percent without anybody noticing.
it defaulted at least twice
- confiscation of gold and devaluation of dollar (40%) in 1 swift move
- 1971 when dollars stopped being redeemable for gold (the us printed too many of them and foreign powers tried to excercise the right to get gold for inflated dollars)
changing the rules during the game to fuck the other team over qualifies as default.
there is no "open" command on the Ubuntu CLI (on Apple's this is like a double click, it open the file with the program it is associated with), this is both obvious and easy (you already have the associations if you have a GUI double click);
yes, there is. It's called gnome-open
nice false dichotomy you got there. I don't think that people claiming that the government is the problem have the base functions like judicial system and law enforcement in mind. More like erosion of basic rights and violation of privacy by omnipotent 3-letter agencies, pork barrels, subsidies and whole industries built around them, excessive regulations to justify the existence of bureaucrats, hand picking the winners in markets, ever increasing tax burden, giant waste of taxpayer's aka nobody's money (wars, pet projects of the day, ...). None of these things would exist with a barebone government that doesn't micromanage everything.
if you are arguing that privacy and social network are mutually exclusive you could be right but if you are accusing google of some nefarious goals using those quotes then you are very wrong.
What they said is brutal but true. They may or may not care about your browsing habits or posts on social network, but there is a non-zero chance that the federales will show up at their doors one day with a judge/patriot act stamped warrant and they will be required by law to comply which equals to handing over some/all data on investigated individuals - there, the privacy of said persons goes out the window. How is that any different from any US based company/blog/forum? Do you think that privacy focused Diaspora would be somehow immune to federal investigators if it ever sees the light of day?
In that sense the only way to be sure that nobody ever will know is to not leave any traces online in any log which is pretty much exactly what Schmidt said.
not entirely true about the earthquakes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_United_Kingdom
I, too, think that there are inherent rights-- born with you: Things like life, health, education, self determination... But *property* rights?
unless you can heal yourself on your own and teach yourself on your own, health and education are not inherent rights. They are services provided to you by someone else and you are not born with an inherent right to someone else's labor.
the government is best in some things. example: health care
debatable, my country proves the opposite: ungodly long lines, months if not years of waiting even for potentially life saving procedures, people picking up private insurance even with 8% of their wage already taken to fund public hc. If you said 'something that is bound to be a natural monopoly' then i would be willing to agree with you.
I've seen such sensationalist headlines with my own eyes
this is a slashdot comment about CNN headline from one of the earliest entries about fukushima
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2036214&cid=35478190
It's disgusting; CNN.com's current main page headline is "Japan's reactor problems mount; death toll rises."
WTF?
which was a reply to another post saying that summary makes it look like the deaths are the direct result of fukushima (which it did).
iamrmani was one of several people reporting updates on the Fukushima Nuclear plant that has been struggling following last Friday's disaster. A third explosion (Japanese) has been reported, along with other earlier information. MSNBC has a story about similiar reactors in the US. We also ran into a story which predicts that there won't be significant radiation. But already Japan is facing rolling blackouts, electricity rationing, evacuating the area around the plant, and thousands dead already.
example of article
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/blast-at-japan-nuclear-plant-death-toll-rises/145722-2.html
Deflation is perceived as a bad thing by lovers of perpetual 5% fake GDP growth bought with debt and inflation. They believe that erosion of purchasing power will be offset by the returns on GDP growth but i don't see any convincing proof anywhere, quite the contrary. More and more countries pile up huge debt, returns are not there and as a result they slide slowly into oblivion. Fake boom based on on nothing more but monetary policy invariably ends with a bust and deflation is there to liquidate excess inventories built upon rosy projections of a bubble.
Deflation as a result of increased productivity and tech advances is a good thing because it means that we are so awesome that our share of our economy represented by money we possess is worth more and can buy us more.
If you cry a river because of all the poor becoming even poorer in heartless capitalist economies - guess what, they are slowly wiped by the very inflation you propose that eats their rarely updated wages and modest savings. Don't count on governments, they are the ones who underreport CPI bacause it reduces their liabilities in real terms and allows to spend some more money on pork. If real inflation is 5%, CPI thanks to huge amounts of creative accounting is 2% and the bank gives you generous 1% above inflation on your savings, that means you are 2% in the red in real terms.
You seriously think that politicians can control the economy? Everything would be better if they couldn't. Name one successful man-made intervention in natural ecosystem that didn't bite in the ass with tons of unpleasant unintended consequences. You can't? So how can you expect that economy, equally complicated system with millions of variables, can be played with safely by a bunch of clueless bureaucrats? Their track record is not exactly stellar.
if you design a system that can be described as 'you can gamble with someone else's money all you want - if you win, it's all yours, if you lose, we got you covered' you seriously blame people who exploited the system? It was an obvious and perfectly rational thing to do. When there is no fear of loss, riskier behavior is unavoidable as there are only 2 options left on the table: a win and a fucking big win. It's universal, that's how people behave - be it sandbox, casino, stock market.
When the building that collapses, architects and engineers responsible for shoddy work have their asses dragged to court, while lawmakers producing crap legislation that brings whole nations to the knees walk free.
Letting banks fail was a right thing to do - it would be painful but it would instill fear in the hearts of banksters. Bailouts made them feel like gods who have the whole world by the balls and now they take the full advantage of the fact
i don't buy it
incentive is always there - if you invest, you will be able to afford more in future than if you spend all on your current consumption. It's always true, be it stable deflation, 0, stable inflation.
Inflation biased policy is not an incentive, it's a blackmail: 'Put your savings in the bank or you will get wiped out and will eat from garbage bins once you get older'
And what about wages lagging behind prices? If you don't get a raise in few years, it's an equivalent of a substantial pay cut. Inflation causes that every Joe Average has to work his ass off and micromanage to break even and Joe Average has no fucking time and knowledge to do that. Only rich have the access to expertise necessary and can successfully hedge against the inflation. Why can't there be a system that preserves value of savings and wages without hassle? That would benefit everybody not top 10%.
One of the biggest byproducts of inflation biased policies is that in the last few decades the financial sector grew like a fucking cancer, became more important that the industries that produce actual wealth (how fucked up is that?) and now it's a huge point of failure that can bring down whole nations to their knees. Tell me again why it's a good thing, given the events of 2008.
Another thing - governments have every incentive to underreport the CPI. They can lower fixed payments in real terms, borrow more and spend more to bribe voters because liabilities are eaten by inflation. When you put the money in the bank and it gives you +1% over the reported inflation you lose anyway because reality is that true value of CPI is 2-5% higher, just go to grocery store and look.
Inflation fucks over the prudent and responsible in every way possible, end of story. People hope that inflation induced spending will produce more gdp and return on that will offset the decay of purchasing power - the problem is that it can't work reliably when people and countries are in debt to their eyeballs and we are witnessing the failure of such policies.
Are the material required to make the electronic components heavily dependent on imports?
have you seen what QEx did to commodity prices? Everybody and their dog uses commodities as a hedge against the inflation thus making producers' life harder.
This is really just helping China more on the relative cheapness of their exports.
there is one major problem with the currency peg for the Chinese. US prints money and doesn't keep it in its borders. Printed money goes abroad to pay for imported stuff, thus exporting the inflation to producer nations. Chinese print yuan to match dollar pool to maintain the peg, so they end up with inflation and to make things worse they have to sit on a huge pile of useless dollars they can't dump without sending the US to the world of pain. They will never be able to redeem anything for these dollars, so in reality they subsidize the US.
Deflation serves only the hoarders and creates a braking effect on an economy, because why spend money today when it will be worth more tomorrow?
so what we have instead is economy greased with purchasing power stolen from savers and people on discretionary income, got it.
In theory it's a nice idea to have money pool and economy going hand in hand but in reality governments have every incentive to underestimate the inflation rate. That way they can tax people in almost unnoticed way for additional percent or two, borrow more to bribe voters with 'freebies' and repay less in terms of real purchasing power down the road. I don't trust politicians and central bankers so i'd take deflation any day. Deflation biased, 'natural' system with no central planners is simple, elegant, honest and it rewards responsible people, just like it should be. It may not produce nice GDP numbers which is the fixation of all inflation lovers, but i think we may all agree that last few years have proven that GDP is a horseshit, because it says nothing of value about fundamentals.
Besides, when you hold the dollar note (or whatever currency you have) you are like a shareholder of a company. Economy of your country gets bigger thanks to increased productivity and created wealth, your share is worth more. Pretty logical, i'd say.
same thing happened with broodwar - competitive scene will hop the the latest thing. But in sc1 it happened once and rather quickly, now it will happen twice and be stretched in time so i think many will drop out in the mean time.
story quality - agreed. it's the worst single player campaign blizzard ever produced (i am not talking about technical side of SP). They pissed all over the lore established in sc1, turned sc2 into a venezuelan soap opera about a tragic love, riding on prophecies and greater ancient evils carbon-copied straight from warcraft universe.
it's like when you burn coal/wood (mechanics aside) - when you put out the fire, the leftovers still generate decay heat. So now imagine that the coal you burn is several orders of magnitude more potent and generates so much decay heat that it can melt itself and everything it touches with no problem, destroy the containment and initiate tons of chemical reactions thanks to plentiful energy. You need to cool it for months if not years - that's how much decay heat it produces.
Nuclear fuel has enormous energy density/output so you don't have to burn millions of tons of coal - that's the point of using it.
If you want actively feed the reaction, just go back to coal.
As for cooling systems being not foolproof - that's one of main problems with 40 years old designs. Knowledge progressed but real world applications did not. Nuclear industry froze in time because of TMI and Chernobyl.