notice one city not mentioned as ripe for bulldozing: pittsburgh. yet pittsburgh is pretty much a poster child of a rust belt city. why? good planning for investing in future job sectors:
Actually, RTFA again, Pittsburgh is mentioned, which is a shame. I used to live in Pittsburgh and have fond memories of it.
Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America's Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.
Here I thought we were supposed to encourage people to move back into cities so high population densities would make mass transit more viable. Silly me.
Actually, if you read the article, I think you'll find that's exactly the idea (and not just making mass transit viable, also garbage collection, policing, etc). The idea is to compact the city that has become only sparsely populated due to everybody leaving, into one or more denser pockets. The problem, of course, is that some old geezer isn't going to want to move out of the old neighborhood and will end up being the only one in the middle of nowhere but still expect his mail to be delivered to his door.
Clearly you don't remember well from high school chemistry. Le Chatelier's principle only reduces the effect of a perturbation to an equilibrium, it does not remove it. Buffering will only slow down acidification, not stop it.
Exactly, nothing short of the government releasing documents stating that there are UFO and they've been covering it up all along will satisfy these people. It doesn't even enter into their thinking that the reason why the government hasn't released such documents is because no such documents exist because there are no UFOs.
The run up to the Iraq war was like this. The weapons inspectors couldn't find WMD, so that must be prove that they exist and are being hidden!
Valve, who runs Steam, owns the rights to their content on Steam. So if they go under, they would have the ability to release such a patch without falling afoul of contracts. Whether this would be true for other company's content is unknown, and part of why I don't buy a lot of other company's content on Steam
You sure about that? Because it sure looks like they have a lot of content from other publishers that they almost assuredly don't own the rights to.
I'll cite the much debated Steam argument again. Once I buy a game, DRM (positive DRM) allows me to redownload whenever I want, and to play it on any computer whenever and wherever I want.
I'll see your Steam and raise you a GOG.com. No DRM at all, ever, and you can redownload your games whenever you want. Sure their catalog is still small and contains older games (although some are only 2-3 years old), but I'm hoping they'll go from strength to strength and I'm supporting them with my dollars
I'm still hoping to see LucasArts back catalog on there one day.
Sadly, the only thing that will ever kill the Sims is somebody making a better Sims-type game. That or putting them in a swimming pool and removing the ladders.
"I pirated it because I couldn't buy it anywhere."
Boohoo, god forbid that anybody have to wait a few days for something any more. Seriously, unless you are terminally ill and will likely to die before the official street date, why can't you wait. Don't you have anything better to do?
There's a difference in the severity. Even if we can't stop it, we can maybe make it less bad. But, if you want to throw the towel in, then go right ahead.
Ok, so maybe it won't work for interstellar pirates hiding their space booty, but if all you're trying to do is get from Earth to Alpha Ceti IV, you'll probably be close enough to see where you need to go.
Any proposed Galactic Positioning System would have to take the slowing into account, and since it is poorly understood and not completely predictable, this would limit accuracy.
Since we're dealing with interstellar distances, just how accurate do you need to be? Being off by a few million miles might be pretty good if you're talking about light-years of travel.
It's not a gimmick. It is very important research on AI and natural-language processing. Jeopardy! just happens to give them a very difficult problem to tackle. If they can develop a system that can handle Jeopardy!, it'll be a huge break through for other fields.
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FTFA:
notice one city not mentioned as ripe for bulldozing: pittsburgh. yet pittsburgh is pretty much a poster child of a rust belt city. why? good planning for investing in future job sectors:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_612352.html
Actually, RTFA again, Pittsburgh is mentioned, which is a shame. I used to live in Pittsburgh and have fond memories of it.
Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America's Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.
My hometown in Minnesota shrinks all the time.
It's probably the cold that does that. Try giving it a vigorous rub and maybe blowing on it.
Shocking. Damn kids these days.
Here I thought we were supposed to encourage people to move back into cities so high population densities would make mass transit more viable. Silly me.
Actually, if you read the article, I think you'll find that's exactly the idea (and not just making mass transit viable, also garbage collection, policing, etc). The idea is to compact the city that has become only sparsely populated due to everybody leaving, into one or more denser pockets. The problem, of course, is that some old geezer isn't going to want to move out of the old neighborhood and will end up being the only one in the middle of nowhere but still expect his mail to be delivered to his door.
Prior to the industrial revolution, volcanoes were the main source of acid rain.
Clearly you don't remember well from high school chemistry. Le Chatelier's principle only reduces the effect of a perturbation to an equilibrium, it does not remove it. Buffering will only slow down acidification, not stop it.
what's culturally british?
Binge drinking.
With vandalizing a bus shelter mini-game.
Exactly, nothing short of the government releasing documents stating that there are UFO and they've been covering it up all along will satisfy these people. It doesn't even enter into their thinking that the reason why the government hasn't released such documents is because no such documents exist because there are no UFOs.
The run up to the Iraq war was like this. The weapons inspectors couldn't find WMD, so that must be prove that they exist and are being hidden!
Valve, who runs Steam, owns the rights to their content on Steam. So if they go under, they would have the ability to release such a patch without falling afoul of contracts. Whether this would be true for other company's content is unknown, and part of why I don't buy a lot of other company's content on Steam
You sure about that? Because it sure looks like they have a lot of content from other publishers that they almost assuredly don't own the rights to.
It isn't, because they are not claiming to be selling you a product. You are renting it. Steam is renting you a game and claiming that you own it.
Exactly, and it's called Good Old Games (gog.com).
I read that too actually. It was in PC Gamers review. Damn EA for removing my choices for torturing my sims!
Since it hasn't been released yet, why would there be a demo?
I'll cite the much debated Steam argument again. Once I buy a game, DRM (positive DRM) allows me to redownload whenever I want, and to play it on any computer whenever and wherever I want.
I'll see your Steam and raise you a GOG.com. No DRM at all, ever, and you can redownload your games whenever you want. Sure their catalog is still small and contains older games (although some are only 2-3 years old), but I'm hoping they'll go from strength to strength and I'm supporting them with my dollars
I'm still hoping to see LucasArts back catalog on there one day.
Sadly, the only thing that will ever kill the Sims is somebody making a better Sims-type game. That or putting them in a swimming pool and removing the ladders.
"I pirated it because I couldn't buy it anywhere."
Boohoo, god forbid that anybody have to wait a few days for something any more. Seriously, unless you are terminally ill and will likely to die before the official street date, why can't you wait. Don't you have anything better to do?
And you have a reference for that I assume?
There's a difference in the severity. Even if we can't stop it, we can maybe make it less bad. But, if you want to throw the towel in, then go right ahead.
Seriously, he lets himself get taken for a ride by the IDer's. What a moron.
They can't also have some fun with the snobbiest host along the way.
I never thought Trebek was snobby at all. Did I miss something?
Maybe Jeff Foxworthy is more your speed?
Ok, so maybe it won't work for interstellar pirates hiding their space booty, but if all you're trying to do is get from Earth to Alpha Ceti IV, you'll probably be close enough to see where you need to go.
Any proposed Galactic Positioning System would have to take the slowing into account, and since it is poorly understood and not completely predictable, this would limit accuracy.
Since we're dealing with interstellar distances, just how accurate do you need to be? Being off by a few million miles might be pretty good if you're talking about light-years of travel.
That's because it's Galactic Galactic Positioning System, Obviously.
It's not a gimmick. It is very important research on AI and natural-language processing. Jeopardy! just happens to give them a very difficult problem to tackle. If they can develop a system that can handle Jeopardy!, it'll be a huge break through for other fields.