Nevermind, I looked at it again and you are right (I think I transposed two originally). If you add the three categories to get total violent crimes per 1000 people, you get 7.9 violent crimes in UK vs 7.6 in the US.
Do you have any statistics to back this up? I went to http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/cri-crime and added up the per capita statistics for murder, rapes, and assaults and it looks like the UK has more violent crime than the US. The US has more murders, but that is a relatively small percentage of violent crime.
This article also says Britain has more violent crime than the US, and has the most crime in Europe. I know it's easy mod points to say anything bad about the U.S., but reasonable people need to try to avoid the temptation unless it's factual.
The lifestyle crowd wears ridiculous clothing like a tropical bird? It sounds to me that you are the one that looks down on them for what they wear, not vice-versa.
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I really find myself changing up my weapons based on the type of enemy, the distance to the enemy, etc. in order to conserve ammunition. The fact that there is only one ammo type for all weapons (except heavy) simplifies this to make it work much better.
This seems logically contradictory to me. If there is only one ammo type, then you should be able to use all of it up by firing one gun. If there are multiple, incompatible types then you may need to switch guns to use up all your ammo. The ME2 system doesn't make any sense to me. (Disclaimer: I also thought the heat-management system in the original game was more fun.)
You're both right. When you pick up a heat sink it gets split between multiple weapons as you said. However the grandparent meant that once what you picked up gets allocated to one weapon, it is stuck in that weapon.
Because all the weapons use the same interchangeable heat sink, logically you should just be able to use your "ammo" in one weapon the whole time—all the heat sinks you have shouldn't be stuck inside your least favorite weapons.
When you play a game, you get enjoyment/fun/insight/whatever (call it goodness), but in order to get that you sacrifice money (the price) but you also sacrifice time. Maybe it's just me, because I have a job that pays well but takes lots of time, but time is usually more important than money. If a game provides the same total fun but lasts 20 hours instead of 40, I'd easily pay 2-3 times as much.
Hours needs to go in the denominator not the numerator. For instance: value = hours / dollars is wrong. Value = goodness / (hours * dollars) is much better.
That other guy was really rude to you so I can see why you're upset with Slashdot, but you're _still_ trolling slightly in your message. That you have to develop for money is just a fact, but why throw "grow up" in there? It just implies that 1) you feel only immature people disagree with "the Unix way" and 2) grown ups don't have Linux programming as a hobby.
Anyway, I can see why you get modded Troll, even if I think -1 is too harsh.
The value might be pedestrian (like the contemporary benefits of first exploring electricity included lightning rods) or abstract (the least squares method was first developed by Carl Gauss in order to more conveniently determine the orbit of an asteroid).
And what short term benefit did conveniently calculating the orbit of an asteroid have?
I get it, you hate Amazon, but your post doesn't make any sense. Maybe the mods meant to give you Funny instead of Insightful.
First, Amazon sells millions of books as well as mp3s, computers, household appliances, groceries, and sports equipment. How can you not think of anything you want even for free?
Second, how are the millions of regular books being "covered" by a few titles you don't like? It's not like Amazon has made their website hard to use.
Third, you can buy Dan Brown and plenty of bad authors on Kindle too.
Yes. It's difficult to get estimates, but at least several hundred thousand at least have been sold. This estimate puts 2009 sales figures at 3 million units in the U.S. alone. Anecdotally I would have to agree—I don't have one but a number of my friends do.
Several hundred thousand readers minimum isn't world shattering, but yes it is a market.
It's valid inference (for suitable values of "likely") if you add the probably safe assumptions that there are at least as many incompetent people in the sample space as competent onces, and that competent people are not more likely to use that defense than incompetent ones.
Do you think that having one avatar in WoW or Oblivion would make the story richer?
Assuming you don't play through it multiple times, why wouldn't it? To take an example, if you can only be a dwarf male fighter, the writers would only need to write dialog based on that instead of contemplating every possible combination of race, gender, and class. The developers could then shift those resources (which the male dwarf fighter player gets no benefit from) to writing deeper dialog.
I see what you're saying if you require multiple play-throughs. But if you do that, there's really not customization after all—everyone's total experience ends up the same after they finish their multiple playthroughs.
I'm a comp lit major so I'm wordy and like to argue about other people's words mean and even my own. I'm concerned about racial/gender stereotyping like all comp lit majors.
Despite this, I'm not sure allowing character customization is a good idea. First, there is the familiar tradeoff of depth vs breadth, so customization leads to shallower stories. Second, customization is a cop-out in the war against stereotyping. It feels like I can't call a game racist if I can choose my race, but this isn't very satisfying for me---I wish there were more games like Resident Evil 5.
Now think what'll happen in another 80 years when the tech discovered, manufactured and researched based on the findings of the LHC hits your country.
You delivered your argument well, but you could say something similar about any scientific goal, for absolutely any amount of money. Will the LHC lead to practical technology in 80 years? You think so, but how plausible is that really and why? What if I think we should spend $20B to study the mating habits of snails and promise some huge breakthrough in 80 years, will you also think that's a good investment?
I don't know whether the LHC is worth it, so I don't necessarily disagree with you, but simply citing successful past sponsored work (and ignoring failures) isn't very convincing. Furthermore, it's of absolutely no help if we are deciding between two mutually exclusive scientific research projects.
You may be right about SSL, but I think you're incorrect about encrypted Email. PGP was a very easy-to-use program for its time, complete with plenty of documentation that (as a previous poster mentioned) posed the problems and solutions in clear, Alice-and-Bob terms.
Furthermore, the PGP/MIME standard was very clear, and had a clear RFC. I implemented this RFC myself for two different email systems over 10 years ago. Nevertheless, PGP/MIME didn't catch on, and I myself rarely use it now.
Why? Part of it was FUD with S/MIME, but mostly it's just critical mass I think—anything that takes more than a few minutes total won't be done by most people unless it averts an immanent catastrophe (and sometimes not even then).
Also, the grandparent mentioned Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett is famous for his straightforward, to-the-point communication with shareholders. He can get away with that because his position is totally secure. Even without his great wealth, everyone "knows" that he is one of our generation's great financial minds. The average CEO worries a lot about boardroom politics and short-term profits, so they don't just tell their shareholders the truth.
WD-40 is not for rust or lubrication, it's for loosening stuck bolts or parts. It's not a general purpose oil and will evaporate in short order. RTFC
Uhh, lubrication is for loosening stuck things:-)
WD-40 is actually a combination of an oil/grease and something that evaporates really quickly like an alcohol. You spray it on when it's really light, and then it evaporates, leaving a heavier greasy substance behind which will stay there. So you can use it for many lubrication jobs.
You may want to check out rdiff-backup also. It produces a mirror like rsync, and uses a similar algorithm, but keeps reverse binary diffs in a separate directory so you can restore to previous states. However, because it keeps these diffs in addition to the mirror, it's better if you have more space on the backup side.
There are a few different frontends/guis to it but I don't have experience with them.
Above all, these instruments are famous for the quality of sound they produce. However, the many blind tests from 1817 to the present (as of 2000) have never found any difference in sound between Stradivarii and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis.[2] In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 program in 1977, the great violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish among the "Chaconne" Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del GesÃ, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional soloist. The two violinists were allowed to play all the instruments first. None of the listeners identified more than two of the four instruments; two of the listeners identified the 20th-century violin as the Stradivarius.[3]
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Nevermind, I looked at it again and you are right (I think I transposed two originally). If you add the three categories to get total violent crimes per 1000 people, you get 7.9 violent crimes in UK vs 7.6 in the US.
Do you have any statistics to back this up? I went to http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/cri-crime and added up the per capita statistics for murder, rapes, and assaults and it looks like the UK has more violent crime than the US. The US has more murders, but that is a relatively small percentage of violent crime.
This article also says Britain has more violent crime than the US, and has the most crime in Europe. I know it's easy mod points to say anything bad about the U.S., but reasonable people need to try to avoid the temptation unless it's factual.
The lifestyle crowd wears ridiculous clothing like a tropical bird? It sounds to me that you are the one that looks down on them for what they wear, not vice-versa.
This seems logically contradictory to me. If there is only one ammo type, then you should be able to use all of it up by firing one gun. If there are multiple, incompatible types then you may need to switch guns to use up all your ammo. The ME2 system doesn't make any sense to me. (Disclaimer: I also thought the heat-management system in the original game was more fun.)
You're both right. When you pick up a heat sink it gets split between multiple weapons as you said. However the grandparent meant that once what you picked up gets allocated to one weapon, it is stuck in that weapon.
Because all the weapons use the same interchangeable heat sink, logically you should just be able to use your "ammo" in one weapon the whole time—all the heat sinks you have shouldn't be stuck inside your least favorite weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution
I think it's pretty clear what "resolution" means when applied to pixelated displays.
I hate to break it to you, but the U.S. has already beaten China to the moon.
When you play a game, you get enjoyment/fun/insight/whatever (call it goodness), but in order to get that you sacrifice money (the price) but you also sacrifice time. Maybe it's just me, because I have a job that pays well but takes lots of time, but time is usually more important than money. If a game provides the same total fun but lasts 20 hours instead of 40, I'd easily pay 2-3 times as much.
Hours needs to go in the denominator not the numerator. For instance: value = hours / dollars is wrong. Value = goodness / (hours * dollars) is much better.
News: Google enters China, censors results
Slashdot: This proves Google is an evil multinational company just after money!
News: Google uncensors results, leaves China.
Slashdot: Yet more evidence Google will do anything for money!
That other guy was really rude to you so I can see why you're upset with Slashdot, but you're _still_ trolling slightly in your message. That you have to develop for money is just a fact, but why throw "grow up" in there? It just implies that 1) you feel only immature people disagree with "the Unix way" and 2) grown ups don't have Linux programming as a hobby. Anyway, I can see why you get modded Troll, even if I think -1 is too harsh.
You can also check out some charities on sites like the American Philanthropic Institute.
The value might be pedestrian (like the contemporary benefits of first exploring electricity included lightning rods) or abstract (the least squares method was first developed by Carl Gauss in order to more conveniently determine the orbit of an asteroid).
And what short term benefit did conveniently calculating the orbit of an asteroid have?
I get it, you hate Amazon, but your post doesn't make any sense. Maybe the mods meant to give you Funny instead of Insightful.
First, Amazon sells millions of books as well as mp3s, computers, household appliances, groceries, and sports equipment. How can you not think of anything you want even for free?
Second, how are the millions of regular books being "covered" by a few titles you don't like? It's not like Amazon has made their website hard to use.
Third, you can buy Dan Brown and plenty of bad authors on Kindle too.
There's an e-book market?
Yes. It's difficult to get estimates, but at least several hundred thousand at least have been sold. This estimate puts 2009 sales figures at 3 million units in the U.S. alone. Anecdotally I would have to agree—I don't have one but a number of my friends do. Several hundred thousand readers minimum isn't world shattering, but yes it is a market.
It's valid inference (for suitable values of "likely") if you add the probably safe assumptions that there are at least as many incompetent people in the sample space as competent onces, and that competent people are not more likely to use that defense than incompetent ones.
I hope you never accidentally open a book, you might go blind.
Assuming you don't play through it multiple times, why wouldn't it? To take an example, if you can only be a dwarf male fighter, the writers would only need to write dialog based on that instead of contemplating every possible combination of race, gender, and class. The developers could then shift those resources (which the male dwarf fighter player gets no benefit from) to writing deeper dialog.
I see what you're saying if you require multiple play-throughs. But if you do that, there's really not customization after all—everyone's total experience ends up the same after they finish their multiple playthroughs.
I'm a comp lit major so I'm wordy and like to argue about other people's words mean and even my own. I'm concerned about racial/gender stereotyping like all comp lit majors.
Despite this, I'm not sure allowing character customization is a good idea. First, there is the familiar tradeoff of depth vs breadth, so customization leads to shallower stories. Second, customization is a cop-out in the war against stereotyping. It feels like I can't call a game racist if I can choose my race, but this isn't very satisfying for me---I wish there were more games like Resident Evil 5.
You delivered your argument well, but you could say something similar about any scientific goal, for absolutely any amount of money. Will the LHC lead to practical technology in 80 years? You think so, but how plausible is that really and why? What if I think we should spend $20B to study the mating habits of snails and promise some huge breakthrough in 80 years, will you also think that's a good investment?
I don't know whether the LHC is worth it, so I don't necessarily disagree with you, but simply citing successful past sponsored work (and ignoring failures) isn't very convincing. Furthermore, it's of absolutely no help if we are deciding between two mutually exclusive scientific research projects.
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You may be right about SSL, but I think you're incorrect about encrypted Email. PGP was a very easy-to-use program for its time, complete with plenty of documentation that (as a previous poster mentioned) posed the problems and solutions in clear, Alice-and-Bob terms.
Furthermore, the PGP/MIME standard was very clear, and had a clear RFC. I implemented this RFC myself for two different email systems over 10 years ago. Nevertheless, PGP/MIME didn't catch on, and I myself rarely use it now.
Why? Part of it was FUD with S/MIME, but mostly it's just critical mass I think—anything that takes more than a few minutes total won't be done by most people unless it averts an immanent catastrophe (and sometimes not even then).
Also, the grandparent mentioned Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett is famous for his straightforward, to-the-point communication with shareholders. He can get away with that because his position is totally secure. Even without his great wealth, everyone "knows" that he is one of our generation's great financial minds. The average CEO worries a lot about boardroom politics and short-term profits, so they don't just tell their shareholders the truth.
WD-40 is not for rust or lubrication, it's for loosening stuck bolts or parts. It's not a general purpose oil and will evaporate in short order. RTFC
Uhh, lubrication is for loosening stuck things :-)
WD-40 is actually a combination of an oil/grease and something that evaporates really quickly like an alcohol. You spray it on when it's really light, and then it evaporates, leaving a heavier greasy substance behind which will stay there. So you can use it for many lubrication jobs.
You may want to check out rdiff-backup also. It produces a mirror like rsync, and uses a similar algorithm, but keeps reverse binary diffs in a separate directory so you can restore to previous states. However, because it keeps these diffs in addition to the mirror, it's better if you have more space on the backup side.
There are a few different frontends/guis to it but I don't have experience with them.
The "unparalleled" sound of Stradivarii is probably mostly the placebo effect---the Stradivarius myth.
Here's a quote from the wikipedia article:
Above all, these instruments are famous for the quality of sound they produce. However, the many blind tests from 1817 to the present (as of 2000) have never found any difference in sound between Stradivarii and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis.[2] In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 program in 1977, the great violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish among the "Chaconne" Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del GesÃ, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional soloist. The two violinists were allowed to play all the instruments first. None of the listeners identified more than two of the four instruments; two of the listeners identified the 20th-century violin as the Stradivarius.[3]