I will offer that I think that many P&P players like the pencil/paper aspect of the game and might resist said device. I say this because I tried to use a PDA as a dice rolling utility for a d20 campaign. It just isn't the same. I'm curious if the same thing will apply here.
Oooh, I am *ALWAYS* hesitant to put that much control into something that would have (effectively) very limited failover capability. Semi-autonomous vehicles in combination with said centralized oversight (eg: malfunction notification of a specific unit that the vehicle's software could try to navigate around) would be the far more sane way to do it, IMO.
Mercedes and BMW are both heavily investing in stuff that will make the autonomous vehicle a reality in a few years. Some things are already making it to the production line as we speak, like automatic brake control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensotronic_Brake_Control) and automated parking systems (http://gizmodo.com/196551/lexus-self-parking-car-video-and-review) just to name a couple.
World PVP was not killed by zerging ganking or imbalance. It was killed by server capacity.
I've personally organized a few 300+ person raids. The 1st time was terrible, the server went down and you couldn't log back in for 20minutes, when you did you were likely dead due to the 5x1 ratio at the time. It was meaningless to set proper teams/raids because it would never stay up that long.
2nd time I tried hitting every alliance city at once. This worked in the minor cities, mostly... since less defenders came. But by the time fighting was nicely under way the whole continent DCs.
World pvp was ruined because it is not actually possible. It has nothing to do with balance, you never get that far.
I can speak to some truth of this statement. Before Burning Crusade, I was involved in a 6 raid group (40x6) Horde raid on Ironforge. We brought down the server, before the main group could make it to Magni, but managed to get a handful of warlocks into one of the unoccupied buildings inside IF. They then summoned in a group that killed Magni, after the server recovered. The scale was epic. So was the lag, and the eventual server crash.
"The fact is that most people don't actually want to play a "massively" multiplayer online role-playing game. They (and I) want to play a multi-player online game."
Then why not play such a game in the first place instead of playing a different type of game and waiting until its publisher ends up into turning it into the kind of game you want?
"As far as world PVP goes, please, they tried that. It always just devolves into zerging, whoever has the most people always wins."
No, it doesn't always devolve into zerging. The moments I enjoyed best in the game were doing small scale world pvp.
Ah, the days of Hillsbrad Foothills world PVP: Tarren Mill vs Southshore: cap the flight master for a win. Fun times...
Here's the problem with "wanting to change the world with reporting".
Everyone has a perspective. ANYTIME you start dropping perspective into a news piece, you are slanting it.
Here's an example:
"The man slept soundly through the cacophony of the party around him."
When you take the slant out of that, you get this:
"A man slept while at a party."
It's subtle, but it matters.
News reporting, at it's heart NEEDS to be as transparent as possible, which generally translates to boring. If you're in it to change the world, you're generally not going to do that. You're going to throw out your wordsmithing cred, and put something that will get noticed, not unbiased.
I don't know about you, but I generally regard progress as a GOOD thing. Just because a portion of the workforce gets displaced by new advancements doesn't mean that we should stop progressing. It just means that the bar for being paid for what you do gets raised. You must adapt or get out.
When heavy machinery displaced workers in almost every manufacturing setup, there were a bunch of people were displaced too. They complained about it as well. Those people eventually cross-trained to something else, or lived on retirement/dole, depending on how old they were.
To say that Rand missed this would be at best putting words in her mouth. It's an assumption that I find must at least be treated as such. Sadly, we can't ask her about it.
If "a race-to-the-bottom, out-compete-each-other-for-the-good-of-mankind philosophy" is all you got from Rand, you missed the point.
"I swear, by my life and love of it, I will never live for the sake of another person, nor ask another person to live for the sake of me."
I'm not seeing what you say in that sentence, which was the money quote for the ENTIRE BOOK of Atlas Shrugged. If you feel that you're "living for the sake of another", you need to be job shopping *now*, because one of two things is happening:
1. You are undervalued where you are, and need to go to somewhere else that will value your skills properly.
2. You *think* you are undervalued, and need a dose of reality to let you know where you really are on the chain.
Either one of these will be fixed by doing some interviews and getting some feedback outside of your existing "pond".
Would it make more sense to subsidize options like small scale solar in order to encourage homes/businesses to "go greener" and to take some load off the central grid?
OR
Does it make more sense to spend that money fixing the current rickety grid and then put all that green capacity in places that actually get a lot of sunlight all year?
Transport losses suck. I only have a loose grasp of the physics, but basically power/voltage loss gets pretty insane when you start moving large amounts over large distances. Perhaps someone who has more knowledge in the area can speak to this.
Computers are lightning fast compare to a few years ago, there should be no need to 'poll hardware, wait 3 seconds, test next piece of hardware'.
If properly parallelized and you remove all the pointless Waits, a BIOS check should be damn-near close to immediate and still manage to check everything.
BIOS writers probably figured, eh, so what if it takes 10 seconds or so, thats still pretty quick, and never rewrote their crappy legacy code.
"Don't fix what's not borked". The incremental gain vs potential stupidity is marginal at best. The majority of boot time for the desktops is in the OS, the majority of it for servers have been discussed in other posts.
What's most offending is that GM *knows* how to make good turbodiesel cars
Just because GM bought Vauxhall/Opel et. al. doesn't mean that GM has the slightest clue on how to make a "good turbo-diesel car".
Umm... they bought the design groups of all of those manufacturers as well... so they have people who know how to do it, if they did it before. So yes, "GM knows how to make good turbodiesel cars" is fact.
>>>If they fired you would you get 3 weeks notice?
Hardly. The longest notice I've ever received is 4 days (Monday: "This is your last week."). The more typical term is half-a-day, as happened to my friend John when he and 75 other engineers were told (at noon) to pack up their office and be out by 5 p.m.
I think it's weird how companies can act Unprofessionally by not giving any notice, and yet employees are expected to follow the standard two week custom (or else be labeled unprofessional). Companies have the power to act unprofessionally and get away with it. We don't.
Money == power.
Generally employees leaving a company are doing it on their own terms, and are not overly hostile if not amicable.
Employees being let go are much more likely to be a powderkeg waiting to explode, wreaking havoc on the company letting them go from behind the firewall. There's a distinct difference, it's not just "money and power".
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One place at a time, man. This may just be a way for google to flex and see what happens when it does.
Experiment
I will offer that I think that many P&P players like the pencil/paper aspect of the game and might resist said device. I say this because I tried to use a PDA as a dice rolling utility for a d20 campaign. It just isn't the same. I'm curious if the same thing will apply here.
Mercedes and BMW are both heavily investing in stuff that will make the autonomous vehicle a reality in a few years. Some things are already making it to the production line as we speak, like automatic brake control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensotronic_Brake_Control) and automated parking systems (http://gizmodo.com/196551/lexus-self-parking-car-video-and-review) just to name a couple.
World PVP was not killed by zerging ganking or imbalance. It was killed by server capacity. I've personally organized a few 300+ person raids. The 1st time was terrible, the server went down and you couldn't log back in for 20minutes, when you did you were likely dead due to the 5x1 ratio at the time. It was meaningless to set proper teams/raids because it would never stay up that long. 2nd time I tried hitting every alliance city at once. This worked in the minor cities, mostly... since less defenders came. But by the time fighting was nicely under way the whole continent DCs. World pvp was ruined because it is not actually possible. It has nothing to do with balance, you never get that far.
I can speak to some truth of this statement. Before Burning Crusade, I was involved in a 6 raid group (40x6) Horde raid on Ironforge. We brought down the server, before the main group could make it to Magni, but managed to get a handful of warlocks into one of the unoccupied buildings inside IF. They then summoned in a group that killed Magni, after the server recovered. The scale was epic. So was the lag, and the eventual server crash.
"The fact is that most people don't actually want to play a "massively" multiplayer online role-playing game. They (and I) want to play a multi-player online game." Then why not play such a game in the first place instead of playing a different type of game and waiting until its publisher ends up into turning it into the kind of game you want?
"As far as world PVP goes, please, they tried that. It always just devolves into zerging, whoever has the most people always wins." No, it doesn't always devolve into zerging. The moments I enjoyed best in the game were doing small scale world pvp.
Ah, the days of Hillsbrad Foothills world PVP: Tarren Mill vs Southshore: cap the flight master for a win. Fun times...
Here's the problem with "wanting to change the world with reporting".
Everyone has a perspective. ANYTIME you start dropping perspective into a news piece, you are slanting it.
Here's an example:
"The man slept soundly through the cacophony of the party around him."
When you take the slant out of that, you get this:
"A man slept while at a party."
It's subtle, but it matters.
News reporting, at it's heart NEEDS to be as transparent as possible, which generally translates to boring. If you're in it to change the world, you're generally not going to do that. You're going to throw out your wordsmithing cred, and put something that will get noticed, not unbiased.
Provide analysis to "do good". Be a journalist by reporting the damn facts.
Information age, meet Industrial age.
I don't know about you, but I generally regard progress as a GOOD thing. Just because a portion of the workforce gets displaced by new advancements doesn't mean that we should stop progressing. It just means that the bar for being paid for what you do gets raised. You must adapt or get out.
When heavy machinery displaced workers in almost every manufacturing setup, there were a bunch of people were displaced too. They complained about it as well. Those people eventually cross-trained to something else, or lived on retirement/dole, depending on how old they were.
To say that Rand missed this would be at best putting words in her mouth. It's an assumption that I find must at least be treated as such. Sadly, we can't ask her about it.
If "a race-to-the-bottom, out-compete-each-other-for-the-good-of-mankind philosophy" is all you got from Rand, you missed the point.
"I swear, by my life and love of it, I will never live for the sake of another person, nor ask another person to live for the sake of me."
I'm not seeing what you say in that sentence, which was the money quote for the ENTIRE BOOK of Atlas Shrugged. If you feel that you're "living for the sake of another", you need to be job shopping *now*, because one of two things is happening:
1. You are undervalued where you are, and need to go to somewhere else that will value your skills properly.
2. You *think* you are undervalued, and need a dose of reality to let you know where you really are on the chain.
Either one of these will be fixed by doing some interviews and getting some feedback outside of your existing "pond".
The real question is:
Would it make more sense to subsidize options like small scale solar in order to encourage homes/businesses to "go greener" and to take some load off the central grid?
OR
Does it make more sense to spend that money fixing the current rickety grid and then put all that green capacity in places that actually get a lot of sunlight all year?
Transport losses suck. I only have a loose grasp of the physics, but basically power/voltage loss gets pretty insane when you start moving large amounts over large distances. Perhaps someone who has more knowledge in the area can speak to this.
Computers are lightning fast compare to a few years ago, there should be no need to 'poll hardware, wait 3 seconds, test next piece of hardware'. If properly parallelized and you remove all the pointless Waits, a BIOS check should be damn-near close to immediate and still manage to check everything. BIOS writers probably figured, eh, so what if it takes 10 seconds or so, thats still pretty quick, and never rewrote their crappy legacy code.
"Don't fix what's not borked". The incremental gain vs potential stupidity is marginal at best. The majority of boot time for the desktops is in the OS, the majority of it for servers have been discussed in other posts.
http://xkcd.com/397/
I disagree: I'd like to know if they can get F3 to modify the rules enough to get an Audi TDI style racing engine inside the thing and run it on biodiesel. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_R10#Diesels_racing_at_Le_Mans
They just made a 200+ MPH Trabant!
The sheer insanity to even *think* of this idea is boggling. I like it. Make it happen.
If you think .edu profs "don't have vested interests", I have a bridge that I'd like to sell you...
Sennheiser made a set of headphones called the Orpheus, that retailed for over $15000. http://www.sgheadphones.net/index.php?showtopic=6020
What's most offending is that GM *knows* how to make good turbodiesel cars
Just because GM bought Vauxhall/Opel et. al. doesn't mean that GM has the slightest clue on how to make a "good turbo-diesel car".
Umm... they bought the design groups of all of those manufacturers as well... so they have people who know how to do it, if they did it before. So yes, "GM knows how to make good turbodiesel cars" is fact.
>>>If they fired you would you get 3 weeks notice?
Hardly. The longest notice I've ever received is 4 days (Monday: "This is your last week."). The more typical term is half-a-day, as happened to my friend John when he and 75 other engineers were told (at noon) to pack up their office and be out by 5 p.m.
I think it's weird how companies can act Unprofessionally by not giving any notice, and yet employees are expected to follow the standard two week custom (or else be labeled unprofessional). Companies have the power to act unprofessionally and get away with it. We don't.
Money == power.
Generally employees leaving a company are doing it on their own terms, and are not overly hostile if not amicable. Employees being let go are much more likely to be a powderkeg waiting to explode, wreaking havoc on the company letting them go from behind the firewall. There's a distinct difference, it's not just "money and power".