I consider neither fishing nor golf to be a sport. You can make an argument that athletic skill (such as hand-eye coordination and sometimes raw strength) plays a sufficient role in fishing, and it's clear that precision and strength both play a significant role in golf. However, by my definition these are both athletic competitions, not sports. Darts is also an athletic competition, not a sport. Same for diving, ballroom dancing, and any stay-in-your-lane racing.
Billiards I would consider a sport. There's clearly an athletic component which plays a major factor in the outcome; strength, accuracy, and precision are all important.
And in Starcraft good hand-eye coordination, reflexes, and strategy are important, and it's pretty far from star-in-your-lane seeing as how you can only win by blowing up the other guy's base.
In addition, there's a concept which I believe is crucial to separating sports from other competitions: defense. In any sport, you must be able to do something within the rules to defend against your opponent's ability to win. In baseball, players field the balls that are hit. In football, defenders tackle offensive players. Even in some races, you can position your body such that other competitors have to expend additional energy to pass around you. By contrast, the other athletic competitions mentioned above have no notion of defense. A 100m sprint could have one participant in New York and the other in Tokyo, and assuming that all event conditions could be accurately replicated the race would be completely fair. Same goes for golf; you can't block an opponent's shot with your own ball or do anything else (within the rules) to disrupt your opponent's ability to complete a hole.
Car racing meets both of the above conditions: must have an athletic component, and must involve a notion of defense.
This exists in StarCraft. Unless you don't mind letting your opponent kill all your units/structures and winning.
I don't understand this at all. They were able to upload hundreds of terabytes of data without paying anything, and everybody who used Google's didn't have to pay to download the stuff? How is this possible? It seems like it would be charged not zero times, but twice; once for Google to upload it, and again for whoever downloads it. How do I watch a bunch of HD videos on YouTube without paying my ISP? How do I host tons of HD videos without paying my hosting provider? I'd really like to do this too! How come everyone else can except me?
Unless the VM was perfect, you never used the host OS for anything except running the VM, and you restored the VM from a backup on non-rewritable media whenever you used the bank, it wouldn't provide the kind of security a live CD would.
And if all of these conditions are met, usability is less than that of a live CD.
..someone is trying to hack you.
So you have to check whether or not it's set either way.
The way it is now, that's all you have to check.
With your proposal, after checking that, you'd after have to check what it's set to. Which would be more code to write, and run slower, without giving any more functionality.
Which has the little problem of bad (e.g. government spy) peers. Enough of those and your anonymity = bye bye.
In a darknet you only add people you trust.
Oh wait, they just spent millions of dollars for the sole purpose of fucking over their customers and encouraging piracy! Oops. Looks like they have some money to spare.
is it really fair to say that someone subscribes to a philosophy when they either fail to grasp one of it's basic tenants, willfully ignore it, or are lying specifically to give the false impression they subscribe to the philosophy?
You already trust them 100% if you let them have access to your box
FDE + temp sensor in RAM that trashes the key if it's cooled = you don't have to trust them at all. Just be sure to pick an OS that won't need rebooted ever. And disable 1394.
If it needs to be secure through reboots, you'll have to find/make a case that destroys the drives if someone opens/breaches it.
So ya, some measures need taken, but it's far from impossible.
Why would you WANT to stop generating power? Most countries use power 24/7.
You might want to decrease the power generated during times when less power is needed.. with nuclear reactors that can be done automatically by inserting more control rods. 100% reliability with no wasted power.
Theodore Roosevelt is surely turning in his grave over some of the events this last decade or so.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
As is Benjamin Franklin.
They who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety
And Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press.
THERE IS NO FUCKING EXCUSE for a browser not to follow web standards. If it fails to do so it should be promptly uninstalled. Anyone compelling to do otherwise should be shot. The end.
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They didn't have StarCraft back then, AC.
I consider neither fishing nor golf to be a sport. You can make an argument that athletic skill (such as hand-eye coordination and sometimes raw strength) plays a sufficient role in fishing, and it's clear that precision and strength both play a significant role in golf. However, by my definition these are both athletic competitions, not sports. Darts is also an athletic competition, not a sport. Same for diving, ballroom dancing, and any stay-in-your-lane racing.
Billiards I would consider a sport. There's clearly an athletic component which plays a major factor in the outcome; strength, accuracy, and precision are all important.
And in Starcraft good hand-eye coordination, reflexes, and strategy are important, and it's pretty far from star-in-your-lane seeing as how you can only win by blowing up the other guy's base.
In addition, there's a concept which I believe is crucial to separating sports from other competitions: defense. In any sport, you must be able to do something within the rules to defend against your opponent's ability to win. In baseball, players field the balls that are hit. In football, defenders tackle offensive players. Even in some races, you can position your body such that other competitors have to expend additional energy to pass around you. By contrast, the other athletic competitions mentioned above have no notion of defense. A 100m sprint could have one participant in New York and the other in Tokyo, and assuming that all event conditions could be accurately replicated the race would be completely fair. Same goes for golf; you can't block an opponent's shot with your own ball or do anything else (within the rules) to disrupt your opponent's ability to complete a hole.
Car racing meets both of the above conditions: must have an athletic component, and must involve a notion of defense.
This exists in StarCraft. Unless you don't mind letting your opponent kill all your units/structures and winning.
I don't understand this at all. They were able to upload hundreds of terabytes of data without paying anything, and everybody who used Google's didn't have to pay to download the stuff? How is this possible? It seems like it would be charged not zero times, but twice; once for Google to upload it, and again for whoever downloads it. How do I watch a bunch of HD videos on YouTube without paying my ISP? How do I host tons of HD videos without paying my hosting provider? I'd really like to do this too! How come everyone else can except me?
I'll take care of the incentives for my children myself.
Good for you. Not all parents have enough money or time to do so.
You can get those things with money. Also, starving kids when they get a bad grade isn't going to help them improve it.
Unless the VM was perfect, you never used the host OS for anything except running the VM, and you restored the VM from a backup on non-rewritable media whenever you used the bank, it wouldn't provide the kind of security a live CD would. And if all of these conditions are met, usability is less than that of a live CD.
Unless we'd be the equivalent of netbooks, attached to some giant external hivemind, we'd be stuck with tiny brains.
..someone is trying to hack you. So you have to check whether or not it's set either way. The way it is now, that's all you have to check. With your proposal, after checking that, you'd after have to check what it's set to. Which would be more code to write, and run slower, without giving any more functionality.
Which has the little problem of bad (e.g. government spy) peers. Enough of those and your anonymity = bye bye. In a darknet you only add people you trust.
As long as it's customizable (in how it communicates, not just what color the GUI is), why would you need more than one?
Mum.
I'm not saying it's the network admins' faults.
I'm saying it's Ubisoft's for pulling this shit and then not even doing it right.
If they had enough money, they should have done it right.
If they hadn't enough money, they shouldn't have done it.
But it is only viewable after purchase..
You mean the one that isn't presented until after you've already purchased the (non-refundable) product which has implied fitness for use?
Right, because Ubisoft is dirt poor.
Oh wait, they just spent millions of dollars for the sole purpose of fucking over their customers and encouraging piracy! Oops. Looks like they have some money to spare.
You aren't.
The hackers would just make a program that requests all of the data automatically. They wouldn't need to play through it themselves.
is it really fair to say that someone subscribes to a philosophy when they either fail to grasp one of it's basic tenants, willfully ignore it, or are lying specifically to give the false impression they subscribe to the philosophy?
Following that logic, Al-Qaeda aren't Islamic.
You already trust them 100% if you let them have access to your box
FDE + temp sensor in RAM that trashes the key if it's cooled = you don't have to trust them at all. Just be sure to pick an OS that won't need rebooted ever. And disable 1394.
If it needs to be secure through reboots, you'll have to find/make a case that destroys the drives if someone opens/breaches it.
So ya, some measures need taken, but it's far from impossible.
Why would you WANT to stop generating power? Most countries use power 24/7. You might want to decrease the power generated during times when less power is needed.. with nuclear reactors that can be done automatically by inserting more control rods. 100% reliability with no wasted power.
No it's 2.5 microcuries TOTAL.
Nor does tritium.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
As is Benjamin Franklin.
They who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety
And Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press.
THERE IS NO FUCKING EXCUSE for a browser not to follow web standards. If it fails to do so it should be promptly uninstalled. Anyone compelling to do otherwise should be shot. The end.