Yeah. I've always felt that internet connections should work that way. I mean, if I'm bit torrenting, I certainly don't expect to have very good latency inside of Quake or whatever, and it would even be fair for it to contribute to latency for perhaps an hour after my 50GB download finishes.
It's no surprise at all that latency matters more for games. I'd rather have a 10ms/1mbps connection to a server than a 100ms/10mbps connection, rather than a 600ms/60mbps connection.
>>I'm not complaining about unions in particular, I'm asking why any group-- whether it's union or a corporation or whatever you want to call it-- be able to make political contributions at all?
I completely agree. Corporations can't vote. They shouldn't be allowed to influence votes.
Does this mean I think felons shouldn't be able to contribute to campaigns, either?
>>There's plenty of nations being oppressed, but only some of them have oil. Why don't you wake up, and smell your own bullshit?
On the positive side, now that we control the massive oil output of Afghanistan, our country's energy is guaranteed for the next 20 years.
(What? Afghanistan doesn't have oil? But we're oppressing them anyway! Agh! My preconceived notions are exploding inside my brain!)
>>If believing that a war for the benefit of Halliburton &c is wrong makes you a hippie
No, it just makes you a retard. Your incoherent anti-"imperialist" ranting makes you a hippie, since it's a word that only Chomsky-reading man-children use to explain a world that is more complicated than their brains can tolerate.
>>But suggesting that the best way to get this kind of experience is to join the national guard is like suggesting jumping into a croc-infested river to learn to deal with dangerous creatures.
I suppose I shouldn't be picky about the analogy, since this is Slashdot, but a better way of phrasing that would be to say that if you want to learn to deal with dangerous animals, get a job at a zoo where they'll train you up formally on proper methods.
Belaboring the analogy: If you're someone who is allergy to cats (i.e. a hippie), then, sure, working at a zoo (the National Guard) probably isn't best for you. But for someone who loves cats, and loves his country, then it can be a good match, and you get real training out of it, much better than you'd get working at Petsmart or something.
Right... with less than a 1% chance. But don't let me challenge your precious preconceived notions.
The GP was asking how to get experience dealing with disasters, and the National Guard is one of the most experienced organizations out there. Honestly, if you want to help your fellow Americans, the National Guard is a great way of doing it. I'm not suggesting it is the Peace Corps, or anything, but for people who are not hippies, such as yourself, it's a valid option.
>>How exactly does one become a "professional" with helping out after a disaster?
Joining the National Guard is a really good way.
My grandfather was a Colonel in the Army National Guard, and beyond the occasional field trips to go blow stuff up, their main responsibility was helping out during floods, blizzards, etc. He had a lot of interesting stories about this stuff.
He also got a cool helicopter that he'd take my grandmother on dates with. I only heard about that from my grandma though.
>>but repeat after me, you cannot transmit *information* faster than light
Sure you can. If you have a block of plastic that "slows down" (it doesn't, really) light passing through it to 1MPH, you can certainly walk a message past the block of plastic faster than the light. If you mean you can't transmit information faster than C, there's actually a small chance that you can. It's just an insignificantly small chance. Light doesn't always move at C - sometimes it moves faster or slower, which is generally only noticeable across very small scales.
>>Avatar is a fairly simplistic (but very well animated) tale of the good guys and the bad guys.
In which the bad guys are the marines and where (in the script, but not in the movie) "The miners lock and load like the redblooded redneck NRA supporters they are."
You can have good guys and bad guys, but who these people are is just as important. I refused to watch the movie for this reason, as by and large people in the military are (Hollywood stereotyping aside) much more upright and ethical than people in the general population.
>>However, if the objects' velocities are so fast that they would sum to more than the speed of light, then you need to use relativity.
Mr. Pedantic: You always have to use relativity, not just when combined vectors exceed c. Realistically, of course, you only have to start worrying about it when velocity starts exceeding some sizeable fraction of c (but still well before > c in Newtonian physics).
>>I didn't buy MW2 - I'm completely and utterly uninterested in it if it doesn't have dedicated servers, and I put my money where my mouth is and didn't buy it even though I've heard its pretty awesome
Ditto. Modding is what makes online games fun.
I'm also utterly uninterested in online games without dedicated servers, especially when the new trend is to shut down the company servers as soon as a new version is out (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/01/ea-shuts-down-25-game-servers-including-madden-09.ars).
>>I mean, who doesn't want to communicate their every activity throughout the day in real time to a thousand of their closest friends, and via a website to a billion more complete strangers?
I'm just excited about how much more pleasant and civilized the WoW forums will be, now that they can accuse anyone of noobishness if they don't play 20 hours a day. Because you're not allowed an opinion unless you play 20 hours a day. That's the rule.
(Actually, I'm sort of puzzled why anyone still plays WoW at all.)
>>Isn't that only for sub atomic particles? This is moving the atoms themselves.
No, the uncertainty principle applies to particles as well. All matter exhibits wave-particle duality (the De Broglie wavelength). Even relatively large molecules like C60 fullerenes have been shown to diffract through a slit.
>>Be careful about comparing 3g and non-3g phones however.
The VX8300 is a 3G (EVDO) phone, that actually connects to both EVDO and 1x networks at the same time. It shows bars for both of them, when connected, and its EVDO bar reception is always much higher than the Droid's. Dunno why - it might have something to do with the large-ish external antenna it has.
>>Most people have no idea how cell service works. They complain that they have no service at home, not looking at the coverage map that shows a poor spot.
Right now, I'm looking at my Droid, and my previous phone (an LG VX8300). The LG has four bars, the Droid 1.
>>Of course, you're just bitter because somebody kicked your ass last time you played an FPS.
Considering I pretty much exclusively play coop with my friends, this would be an odd statement. But then again, I guess the monsters do autoaim cheat.
>>Take the BSD 3-clause license and change the name to something like " developer license", then agree to license your code under said license for $x, where x is a reasonable amount.
And that's an important point. The OP sounds like he wants to give his code away for free, but a one-time or annual license fee is actually more fair to him.
The bigger problem with owning a fighter is the amount of maintenance that go into them. You have to put a lot more hours of maintenance into a fighter than a normal private aviation craft. As in, hours of maintenance every damn time you fly it.
>>Except--and this is a really critical point, many (probably nearly half) of the people did nothing of the sort! Why should they live under an oppressive ruler who they did not vote for?
Democracy is a terrible system of government, except all the others
"Traditional" texting competitions made people text on the gimpy little cell phone pads, using either T9Word or having to whack one number key multiple times to cycle between letters. And they tend to make people text weird words so T9 mode doesn't work half the time, so you'd have to switch in and out of it. Using a qwerty keyboard means that the number of keypresses required would go down by about half or so. It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison that way.
Is it? I can type significantly faster than 250 characters in a minute or two.
If you allow qwerty keyboards, why not just plug a real keyboard into your phone and be done with it? I recall one of the "Top 10 most useless products from CES" to be such a thing for the iPhone.
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Their conclusion:
The internet is made of cats.
Yeah. I've always felt that internet connections should work that way. I mean, if I'm bit torrenting, I certainly don't expect to have very good latency inside of Quake or whatever, and it would even be fair for it to contribute to latency for perhaps an hour after my 50GB download finishes.
It's no surprise at all that latency matters more for games. I'd rather have a 10ms/1mbps connection to a server than a 100ms/10mbps connection, rather than a 600ms/60mbps connection.
>>I'm not complaining about unions in particular, I'm asking why any group-- whether it's union or a corporation or whatever you want to call it-- be able to make political contributions at all?
I completely agree. Corporations can't vote. They shouldn't be allowed to influence votes.
Does this mean I think felons shouldn't be able to contribute to campaigns, either?
Yes.
>>They don't even use encryption and they often can't be found...
Also, they used "123456" and "iloveyou" as the master password on 2 of the 7 nodes.
>>There's plenty of nations being oppressed, but only some of them have oil. Why don't you wake up, and smell your own bullshit?
On the positive side, now that we control the massive oil output of Afghanistan, our country's energy is guaranteed for the next 20 years.
(What? Afghanistan doesn't have oil? But we're oppressing them anyway! Agh! My preconceived notions are exploding inside my brain!)
>>If believing that a war for the benefit of Halliburton &c is wrong makes you a hippie
No, it just makes you a retard. Your incoherent anti-"imperialist" ranting makes you a hippie, since it's a word that only Chomsky-reading man-children use to explain a world that is more complicated than their brains can tolerate.
>>But suggesting that the best way to get this kind of experience is to join the national guard is like suggesting jumping into a croc-infested river to learn to deal with dangerous creatures.
I suppose I shouldn't be picky about the analogy, since this is Slashdot, but a better way of phrasing that would be to say that if you want to learn to deal with dangerous animals, get a job at a zoo where they'll train you up formally on proper methods.
Belaboring the analogy: If you're someone who is allergy to cats (i.e. a hippie), then, sure, working at a zoo (the National Guard) probably isn't best for you. But for someone who loves cats, and loves his country, then it can be a good match, and you get real training out of it, much better than you'd get working at Petsmart or something.
>>...to get blown up in the middle east...
Right... with less than a 1% chance. But don't let me challenge your precious preconceived notions.
The GP was asking how to get experience dealing with disasters, and the National Guard is one of the most experienced organizations out there. Honestly, if you want to help your fellow Americans, the National Guard is a great way of doing it. I'm not suggesting it is the Peace Corps, or anything, but for people who are not hippies, such as yourself, it's a valid option.
>>How exactly does one become a "professional" with helping out after a disaster?
Joining the National Guard is a really good way.
My grandfather was a Colonel in the Army National Guard, and beyond the occasional field trips to go blow stuff up, their main responsibility was helping out during floods, blizzards, etc. He had a lot of interesting stories about this stuff.
He also got a cool helicopter that he'd take my grandmother on dates with. I only heard about that from my grandma though.
>>but repeat after me, you cannot transmit *information* faster than light
Sure you can. If you have a block of plastic that "slows down" (it doesn't, really) light passing through it to 1MPH, you can certainly walk a message past the block of plastic faster than the light. If you mean you can't transmit information faster than C, there's actually a small chance that you can. It's just an insignificantly small chance. Light doesn't always move at C - sometimes it moves faster or slower, which is generally only noticeable across very small scales.
>>Avatar is a fairly simplistic (but very well animated) tale of the good guys and the bad guys.
In which the bad guys are the marines and where (in the script, but not in the movie) "The miners lock and load like the redblooded redneck NRA supporters they are."
You can have good guys and bad guys, but who these people are is just as important. I refused to watch the movie for this reason, as by and large people in the military are (Hollywood stereotyping aside) much more upright and ethical than people in the general population.
>>However, if the objects' velocities are so fast that they would sum to more than the speed of light, then you need to use relativity.
Mr. Pedantic: You always have to use relativity, not just when combined vectors exceed c. Realistically, of course, you only have to start worrying about it when velocity starts exceeding some sizeable fraction of c (but still well before > c in Newtonian physics).
>>Hadoop not only implements a version of MapReduce, it even uses its name
It's nice that Google can move backwards in time and Patent something that has been around in MPI for 10 or 20 years.
>>I didn't buy MW2 - I'm completely and utterly uninterested in it if it doesn't have dedicated servers, and I put my money where my mouth is and didn't buy it even though I've heard its pretty awesome
Ditto. Modding is what makes online games fun.
I'm also utterly uninterested in online games without dedicated servers, especially when the new trend is to shut down the company servers as soon as a new version is out (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/01/ea-shuts-down-25-game-servers-including-madden-09.ars).
>>I mean, who doesn't want to communicate their every activity throughout the day in real time to a thousand of their closest friends, and via a website to a billion more complete strangers?
I'm just excited about how much more pleasant and civilized the WoW forums will be, now that they can accuse anyone of noobishness if they don't play 20 hours a day. Because you're not allowed an opinion unless you play 20 hours a day. That's the rule.
(Actually, I'm sort of puzzled why anyone still plays WoW at all.)
>>Isn't that only for sub atomic particles? This is moving the atoms themselves.
No, the uncertainty principle applies to particles as well. All matter exhibits wave-particle duality (the De Broglie wavelength). Even relatively large molecules like C60 fullerenes have been shown to diffract through a slit.
>>Be careful about comparing 3g and non-3g phones however.
The VX8300 is a 3G (EVDO) phone, that actually connects to both EVDO and 1x networks at the same time. It shows bars for both of them, when connected, and its EVDO bar reception is always much higher than the Droid's. Dunno why - it might have something to do with the large-ish external antenna it has.
I've walked the pair of phones all over the area, and the old phone consistently gets better reception than the Droid.
>>Most people have no idea how cell service works. They complain that they have no service at home, not looking at the coverage map that shows a poor spot.
Right now, I'm looking at my Droid, and my previous phone (an LG VX8300). The LG has four bars, the Droid 1.
>>Of course, you're just bitter because somebody kicked your ass last time you played an FPS.
Considering I pretty much exclusively play coop with my friends, this would be an odd statement. But then again, I guess the monsters do autoaim cheat.
>>Take the BSD 3-clause license and change the name to something like " developer license", then agree to license your code under said license for $x, where x is a reasonable amount.
And that's an important point. The OP sounds like he wants to give his code away for free, but a one-time or annual license fee is actually more fair to him.
The bigger problem with owning a fighter is the amount of maintenance that go into them. You have to put a lot more hours of maintenance into a fighter than a normal private aviation craft. As in, hours of maintenance every damn time you fly it.
>>Except--and this is a really critical point, many (probably nearly half) of the people did nothing of the sort! Why should they live under an oppressive ruler who they did not vote for?
Democracy is a terrible system of government, except all the others
>>What's wrong with QWERTY?
"Traditional" texting competitions made people text on the gimpy little cell phone pads, using either T9Word or having to whack one number key multiple times to cycle between letters. And they tend to make people text weird words so T9 mode doesn't work half the time, so you'd have to switch in and out of it. Using a qwerty keyboard means that the number of keypresses required would go down by about half or so. It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison that way.
It was useless because it could only enter text into its custom app, not in just any text field, as you'd imagine. =)
>>Seriously, this is an impressive accomplishment
Is it? I can type significantly faster than 250 characters in a minute or two.
If you allow qwerty keyboards, why not just plug a real keyboard into your phone and be done with it? I recall one of the "Top 10 most useless products from CES" to be such a thing for the iPhone.