Maybe I'm just confused. I hit an attack button. What happens? We won't know whether I blocked until at least a couple hundred milliseconds later when signals from another player might show that he blocked; worse, we might both be hit by a stun attack that was initiated a few milliseconds ago.
So what happens? Did the third player's stun attack interrupt me before I attacked? How am I supposed to decide what to do when I may have been killed a hundred milliseconds ago?
Humans tend to have minimum simple reaction times of 200 msec for visual stimuli. However, if you have to identify the stimulus (say, a block), classify it, and then chose to make an appropriate response, it takes longer. 500 msec might not be unreasonable for a situation where you can make several different moves depending on what you see on the screen (it goes by log(n).)
The way government research grants usually work as follows: there is a pot of money and a solicitation for projects on a certain topic, theme or general research thrust. People then submit proposals and depending on the size of the pot and the number of proposals submitted, a certain percentage of them are funded. The fact that this project got funded is indicative that it was "better" than other, unfunded proposals that we don't get to read about on Slashdot. Perhaps, if you are such hot stuff, you should submit one of your own so that our tax dollars are not wasted loser proposals like this one in the future.
AMD putting together something that makes code SCREAM on their cpus? The only reason they haven't done it already is there's already a free, decent/good compiler out there (gcc) so why bother.
AMD very well may contribute to the gcc. It would certainly be a cheap way to make sure that code screams on their CPUs. Apple, for example, contributed quite a bit to gcc back when they were a PPC shop.
What really amazes me is that animals as simple and as unrelated to humans as fruit flies need sleep and will die if prevented from sleeping (as will higher animals.) And that some of the genes associed with sleep in fruit flies (Shaker and Clock) are well conserved into vertebrates and may play similar roles. Whatever role sleep plays, it must be vitally important.
I don't want to be nit-picky here, but I am not aware of ever voting for a "Supreme Court Judge". And in no state (or for that matter in the country as a whole) have I ever heard of voting in Supreme Court Judges.
I have voted for them. In North Carolina, all Supreme Court Judges serving since 1868 have been voted into office in general elections.
True, but that was Taco's first impression. I'd be willing to give h4rm0ny more credit.;)
Re:"Improve the source" not an option for most.
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First, most people aren't programmers, and even of people who know something about programming, fewer still have the skills required to make any meaningful modification to an open-source program.
Ok well then he should donate money to the gaim developers or sponsor them in some other way. There are other ways to help out.
Another thing - isn't it interesting how people complain about lossy music files from download services, but are just fine with the lossy, low-resolution video that comes on a DVD? I mean, how can you stand to watch that, rather than a 35mm print from the original?
35mm film prints of movies are analog. I would not have a problem with mp3s from a vinyl record.;)
One dimensional in a purely mathematical sense, yes. However, to the mind, moving left and moving right are two separate actions. In that sense, you might be able to get away with calling it 2D
You can think this if you want, but you would still be wrong. Moving left and right in space invaders is one degree-of-freedom, pure and simple. No matter how many "actions" the brain needs to construct to perform it, it's not 2-D. Also, it's not clear from TFA how firing the cannon was controlled-- it may have just been a simple "fire periodically" or "fire whenever the cannon is under a space invader" mechanism. Very, very cool; but not 2-D yet.
You can do it. The parent poster had an incomplete list:
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2 - no close widgets.
3 - global close widget (at far right)
That's sure consistent with the open source anti-capitalist argument: that you should only be able to accrue income for labor, not for owning the fruits of that labor. Yes, bands will make more money by people going to more shows. But that obligates bands to play and play and play, to tour nonstop rather than earning on record sales.
Yup. Not everyone believes that bits can/should be property.
"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill." -- Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003
hat would happen if THE CHILDREN began to eat power-ups and attack ghosts in real life?
Raver culture?
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Forgive me my ignorance, but aren't we, planets of Solar System, also "dark" matter to the "observers" in that cluster? Aren't we invisible to them? (well, our millions-years past)
I'm not even close to an expert in the field but from what I read on the blog and the paper it seems that the described experiment provides evidence for a type of matter which 1) does not interact with normal matter but 2) does interact with itself (and light) via gravity and possibly interacts weakly with itself. Weird stuff.
Animals are biological machines, not thinking entities.
While I do not even remotely disagree with you that animals are biological machines, arguing that they are not thinking entities would seem to imply the need to appeal to something non-biological to explain why humans can think. (Unless you want to also argue that we do not think either, which is fine.;) )
At least some ants have internal pedometers-- they find their way back home by "counting" their steps. The very cool testable hypothesis of this theory is that if you change the length of their legs they overshoot or undershoot. See: here.
There is certainly some type of procedural "memory" involved in this computation but it is probably quite different from the procedural or declarative memories that higher animals are capable of.
No, I think that's correct. A real "solution" to disease would be to eradicate all viruses and disease-causing bacteria.
That's like saying, "the problem is solved if we make it dissapear!" Well, sure, and I won't get spammed if all spammers were magically eradicated either. So yes, it's a "stop-gap" but only if you're on route to a fantasy land.
No, I think the lesson from the immune system is that (short of magic) this is a problem that you cannot win, but only contain (and contain very well, I might add.)
This is why spam filters aren't the ultimate solution to spam, though they are a useful stop-gap
I completely agree with your post, but I think your interpretation needs a bit more reflection. Isn't that like saying that the immune system is not a solution for diseases, only a useful stop-gap?;)
People like you shouldn't qualify for government subsidized loans.
Why not? And when you say 'you', you mean... what exactly? Students? Encouraging people to achieve higher education through reduced and no interest ('til you graduate) loans seems like a good idea to me?
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The way government research grants usually work as follows: there is a pot of money and a solicitation for projects on a certain topic, theme or general research thrust. People then submit proposals and depending on the size of the pot and the number of proposals submitted, a certain percentage of them are funded. The fact that this project got funded is indicative that it was "better" than other, unfunded proposals that we don't get to read about on Slashdot. Perhaps, if you are such hot stuff, you should submit one of your own so that our tax dollars are not wasted loser proposals like this one in the future.
What really amazes me is that animals as simple and as unrelated to humans as fruit flies need sleep and will die if prevented from sleeping (as will higher animals.) And that some of the genes associed with sleep in fruit flies (Shaker and Clock) are well conserved into vertebrates and may play similar roles. Whatever role sleep plays, it must be vitally important.
True, but that was Taco's first impression. I'd be willing to give h4rm0ny more credit. ;)
0 - only the active tab has the close widget
1 - the usual look (close widgets on each tab)
2 - no close widgets.
3 - global close widget (at far right)
Man, that's a good one.
It's a real quote.
"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill." -- Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003
Brains are very, very high in cholesterol. I'm not sure what that would make them taste like, but it can't be very good for you.
While I do not even remotely disagree with you that animals are biological machines, arguing that they are not thinking entities would seem to imply the need to appeal to something non-biological to explain why humans can think. (Unless you want to also argue that we do not think either, which is fine. ;) )
There is certainly some type of procedural "memory" involved in this computation but it is probably quite different from the procedural or declarative memories that higher animals are capable of.
That's like saying, "the problem is solved if we make it dissapear!" Well, sure, and I won't get spammed if all spammers were magically eradicated either. So yes, it's a "stop-gap" but only if you're on route to a fantasy land.
No, I think the lesson from the immune system is that (short of magic) this is a problem that you cannot win, but only contain (and contain very well, I might add.)
I completely agree with your post, but I think your interpretation needs a bit more reflection. Isn't that like saying that the immune system is not a solution for diseases, only a useful stop-gap? ;)
People like you shouldn't qualify for government subsidized loans. Why not? And when you say 'you', you mean ... what exactly? Students? Encouraging people to achieve higher education through reduced and no interest ('til you graduate) loans seems like a good idea to me?