What would happen with the planet 100 years from now is irrelevant to them; they will be all dead at that time.
I'm worried that the critical point is much closer than 100 years from now. And while I'm willing to attribute many of Congress's bad decisions to greed and graft, I think a large part of their inaction on climate issues is that they simply can't grasp the concept that global warming can really be a significant problem.
I keep imagining something like a graph of a parabola, with "collective responsibility" as the horizontal axis and "individual agency" as the vertical axis. If you imagine freedom as the absence of collective responsibility, then you're favoring the side of the graph in which individuals have little agency. I think most of us imagine freedom as the maximum of individual agency, and that is not independent of collective responsibility.
But this starts to sound like the Laffer curve, and I suppose the concept could be abused the same way.
The contradiction is amazing. On the one hand, there's the attention to detail such that putting an object on an NPC's head means they can't see. On the other hand, there's no reaction by the NPC to the PC putting an object on their head, and no effort by the NPC to get the object off their head.
Classic Bethesda.
As an added bonus, there's the good old CRPG standby, in which taking a loaf of bread means the NPC is now committed to a fight to the death.
Bethesda, consistently, produces games that have become my favorites, and I love the Elder Scrolls saga. But there's no denying that their games tend to be incredibly buggy, which is why you have modders fixing those bugs as a labor of love.
Often in Bethesda games, I'll have to search online to find out whether the reason I'm stuck in a quest is because there's actually a real challenge to figuring out the next step, or because there's some bug in the script that you have to work around. It usually turns out to be the latter.
I've been at a complete loss why there's so much hate expressed online for newer UIs, and particularly for Unity. Of course it's not flawless. But everyone I've shown Unity to, at whatever level of experience, has loved it. I've seen inexperienced users quickly access and use system features that I've read reviews claiming were removed from Unity. My younger son prefers Unity; my teenaged son decided, after using Unity, that he wants to switch from OS X to Ubuntu.
Three years of uptime is good for a server, but bad for a desktop. Unless that desktop is also functioning as a server, it really ought to be shut down when not in use for more than a few hours, or at least be put in sleep or hibernation mode. It's irresponsible to burn energy to keep a computer running when it's not actually being used, and a fetish for long uptimes is not a good justification.
He's not talking about single player games. He's talking about multiplayer, competitive games. He's not comparing his skill against computer opponents, he's comparing his skill against human opponents. Whether the underlying game systems have gotten more difficult or not is irrelevant to the point.
Part of it is simply aging: tweens and teens have faster reflexes, and that is well established. Some of it is that kids can more easily concentrate on the games they play, because they do not have as great an accumulation of responsibilities. Greater skill can offset these things somewhat, but that works better with games that do not rely on fast reaction times.
From what I've read of Asperger's, there are several different coping strategies for dealing with the relative lack of intuition into the feelings of others and the difficulty in understanding nonverbal communication. For one, there's finding socially acceptable ways to limit social interaction. For another, there's developing an intellectual understanding of people's feelings and how they express them. The latter is more effort, and more tiring, than apprehending feelings intuitively, but it does mean that you can act effectively in social situations and relate to other people. I've seen it suggested that some people with AS gravitate towards acting because of the skill they develop at roleplaying and consciously expressing emotion, and that fits with the personalities of some actors I've met; I think the same is true of some novelists.
Perhaps mineworks are too extensive and mazelike, and breeding is fairly pointless.
I suppose breeding follows from animal persistence. One thing I'm a bit annoyed about in 1.8.1 is that it looks to me like animals despawn after a while. I've spent most of my time improving a village and adding a tower, and I'd wondered if there were no animals around because I'd hunted them. Then I was wandering around, and found a new area -- teeming with life. Later, headed to an island I'd visited weeks before, where there had been wolves, but now, nothing. All the areas I've explored are now empty.
I love Minecraft, but I'm beginning to feel Notch is jerking us around. He's introduced new features that are obviously incomplete, with serious bugs. It would make much more sense if he'd redesign Minecraft so that there was a tidy API and a simple way to add third party mods to the game. It's been obvious for some time now that the mod makers are producing more sophisticated and innovative content than Notch is.
Mojang has received tens of millions of dollars in revenue, and Notch is acting like Minecraft is a hobby project he tinkers with in his free time.
Don't forget the history of European and US support for dictatorships and direct military intervention in the Middle East in order to maintain control of the largest climate science research stations in the world. If climate scientists are willing to kill for their astronomical profits, don't you suppose they'd be willing to lie?
Partly it's the subject: it sounds just like a Command & Conquer scenario. I can just see the commando shooting the exploding barrels to take out a tank, so the engineer can reach the data center.
Speaking of which, do you ever find yourself getting out of bed in the morning and saying, "I've got the codes"?
The only thing it lacks is support, which the CIO doesn't want.
The only real question here is whether the CIO is in error about whether you need a support contract. If you don't need a support contract, it simply doesn't make sense to use Red Hat instead of CentOS.
Red Hat is a profitable company. They make money by selling support contracts and by providing training and certification. Training for Red Hat is training for CentOS, and software developed for CentOS is software developed for Red Hat, so Red Hat actually stands to benefit from the popularity of CentOS.
And of course OWS. Wishful people say "no program" in OWS and there is not yet agreement. But I like G-S. Hah, Volker likes G-S, thinks its better than what he proposed, he says today,and October 7, I counted seven newspapers who explicitly cited G-S as a major demand of OWS, but almost all were foreign newspapers.
OWS must be "Occupy Wall Street", but what is "G-S"?
I'm certainly no fan of police in general. While I would agree that in general, it's a minority of officers who act as thugs, it seems to me that most police officers feel very strong loyalty to their "team", and so don't do much to rein in the thugs, who they perceive as still on their team.
Politics makes a difference: cities with stronger public oversight over the police have less trouble with police. For whatever combination of historical reasons, the Oakland Police Department has a lot of political power in the city, and from what I've seen, you can't get elected to the city council without grovelling before the police.
I dug around and found a few articles (in New Left Review, etc.) predicting that the housing bubble would burst -- but they were basing their predictions on Greenspan, et. al., so I must admit they're not evidence for Marxists making similar predictions independently.
More to the point, anyone who's lived more than twenty years knows that economies turn sour every few years. Acknowledging that elementary point isn't an indication of deep insight into economics, but merely an indication that you're paying enough attention to the obvious to begin thinking about the problem.
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What would happen with the planet 100 years from now is irrelevant to them; they will be all dead at that time.
I'm worried that the critical point is much closer than 100 years from now. And while I'm willing to attribute many of Congress's bad decisions to greed and graft, I think a large part of their inaction on climate issues is that they simply can't grasp the concept that global warming can really be a significant problem.
It was lost when the database reached 200.1 GB.
I keep imagining something like a graph of a parabola, with "collective responsibility" as the horizontal axis and "individual agency" as the vertical axis. If you imagine freedom as the absence of collective responsibility, then you're favoring the side of the graph in which individuals have little agency. I think most of us imagine freedom as the maximum of individual agency, and that is not independent of collective responsibility.
But this starts to sound like the Laffer curve, and I suppose the concept could be abused the same way.
Right, because it's so much better to be stuck with an inflexible control scheme.
It's 2011. Everyone should know about editing ini files.
The contradiction is amazing. On the one hand, there's the attention to detail such that putting an object on an NPC's head means they can't see. On the other hand, there's no reaction by the NPC to the PC putting an object on their head, and no effort by the NPC to get the object off their head.
Classic Bethesda.
As an added bonus, there's the good old CRPG standby, in which taking a loaf of bread means the NPC is now committed to a fight to the death.
In Bethesda games in general, I sometimes feel that the main quest is there for players who demand a rigid structure.
Bethesda, consistently, produces games that have become my favorites, and I love the Elder Scrolls saga. But there's no denying that their games tend to be incredibly buggy, which is why you have modders fixing those bugs as a labor of love.
Often in Bethesda games, I'll have to search online to find out whether the reason I'm stuck in a quest is because there's actually a real challenge to figuring out the next step, or because there's some bug in the script that you have to work around. It usually turns out to be the latter.
I've been at a complete loss why there's so much hate expressed online for newer UIs, and particularly for Unity. Of course it's not flawless. But everyone I've shown Unity to, at whatever level of experience, has loved it. I've seen inexperienced users quickly access and use system features that I've read reviews claiming were removed from Unity. My younger son prefers Unity; my teenaged son decided, after using Unity, that he wants to switch from OS X to Ubuntu.
Three years of uptime is good for a server, but bad for a desktop. Unless that desktop is also functioning as a server, it really ought to be shut down when not in use for more than a few hours, or at least be put in sleep or hibernation mode. It's irresponsible to burn energy to keep a computer running when it's not actually being used, and a fetish for long uptimes is not a good justification.
Well, SquareVoid isn't an anonymous coward, and SquareVoid actually presented evidence. That's not FUD.
Oh look, a bunch of anonymous cowards spreading FUD simultaneously!
If she makes it to Marquess, she can do two research projects, or one research project and one cultural project.
He's not talking about single player games. He's talking about multiplayer, competitive games. He's not comparing his skill against computer opponents, he's comparing his skill against human opponents. Whether the underlying game systems have gotten more difficult or not is irrelevant to the point.
Part of it is simply aging: tweens and teens have faster reflexes, and that is well established. Some of it is that kids can more easily concentrate on the games they play, because they do not have as great an accumulation of responsibilities. Greater skill can offset these things somewhat, but that works better with games that do not rely on fast reaction times.
From what I've read of Asperger's, there are several different coping strategies for dealing with the relative lack of intuition into the feelings of others and the difficulty in understanding nonverbal communication. For one, there's finding socially acceptable ways to limit social interaction. For another, there's developing an intellectual understanding of people's feelings and how they express them. The latter is more effort, and more tiring, than apprehending feelings intuitively, but it does mean that you can act effectively in social situations and relate to other people. I've seen it suggested that some people with AS gravitate towards acting because of the skill they develop at roleplaying and consciously expressing emotion, and that fits with the personalities of some actors I've met; I think the same is true of some novelists.
Perhaps mineworks are too extensive and mazelike, and breeding is fairly pointless.
I suppose breeding follows from animal persistence. One thing I'm a bit annoyed about in 1.8.1 is that it looks to me like animals despawn after a while. I've spent most of my time improving a village and adding a tower, and I'd wondered if there were no animals around because I'd hunted them. Then I was wandering around, and found a new area -- teeming with life. Later, headed to an island I'd visited weeks before, where there had been wolves, but now, nothing. All the areas I've explored are now empty.
I love Minecraft, but I'm beginning to feel Notch is jerking us around. He's introduced new features that are obviously incomplete, with serious bugs. It would make much more sense if he'd redesign Minecraft so that there was a tidy API and a simple way to add third party mods to the game. It's been obvious for some time now that the mod makers are producing more sophisticated and innovative content than Notch is.
Mojang has received tens of millions of dollars in revenue, and Notch is acting like Minecraft is a hobby project he tinkers with in his free time.
Don't forget the history of European and US support for dictatorships and direct military intervention in the Middle East in order to maintain control of the largest climate science research stations in the world. If climate scientists are willing to kill for their astronomical profits, don't you suppose they'd be willing to lie?
Partly it's the subject: it sounds just like a Command & Conquer scenario. I can just see the commando shooting the exploding barrels to take out a tank, so the engineer can reach the data center.
Speaking of which, do you ever find yourself getting out of bed in the morning and saying, "I've got the codes"?
The only thing it lacks is support, which the CIO doesn't want.
The only real question here is whether the CIO is in error about whether you need a support contract. If you don't need a support contract, it simply doesn't make sense to use Red Hat instead of CentOS.
Red Hat is a profitable company. They make money by selling support contracts and by providing training and certification. Training for Red Hat is training for CentOS, and software developed for CentOS is software developed for Red Hat, so Red Hat actually stands to benefit from the popularity of CentOS.
And of course OWS. Wishful people say "no program" in OWS and there is not yet agreement. But I like G-S. Hah, Volker likes G-S, thinks its better than what he proposed, he says today,and October 7, I counted seven newspapers who explicitly cited G-S as a major demand of OWS, but almost all were foreign newspapers.
OWS must be "Occupy Wall Street", but what is "G-S"?
The Oakland Police are particularly bad.
I'm certainly no fan of police in general. While I would agree that in general, it's a minority of officers who act as thugs, it seems to me that most police officers feel very strong loyalty to their "team", and so don't do much to rein in the thugs, who they perceive as still on their team.
Politics makes a difference: cities with stronger public oversight over the police have less trouble with police. For whatever combination of historical reasons, the Oakland Police Department has a lot of political power in the city, and from what I've seen, you can't get elected to the city council without grovelling before the police.
It's final:
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/oct11/10-13SkypePR.mspx
Clever. It's like a checksum.
I dug around and found a few articles (in New Left Review, etc.) predicting that the housing bubble would burst -- but they were basing their predictions on Greenspan, et. al., so I must admit they're not evidence for Marxists making similar predictions independently.
Marxist economics also predicts every collapse.
More to the point, anyone who's lived more than twenty years knows that economies turn sour every few years. Acknowledging that elementary point isn't an indication of deep insight into economics, but merely an indication that you're paying enough attention to the obvious to begin thinking about the problem.