I couldn't have said it better. At the same time, what the original team of software developers releases to market can be a completely different product two years down the road. The life-cycle, as it is called of a MMORPG is determined by the people who modify and enhance content. Yes the product better be very shiny from the get-go, but the motivations and goals of the original developers may also be completely ignored many years down the road.
Long story short: The game-developers can and will have different motivation than the "game-maintainers"...
Writing on paper forces me to study. I do not have the chance to have the compiler catch some errors, run my code, etc. Being able to write the few lines necessary on paper shows that I know the syntax and can think like the compiler and computer in the sense I can anticipate potential problems. Now if your argument is towards "which method to chose" vs. "how to do this method", well multiple choice works great there too, or even fill in the blank! Sorry handwriting has forced me to learn a good bit...
We call this Business 101. Same reason Oracle kept java free...in the "goal" that its services would be desired later. (Keep Java popular and mainstream)
Why don't we just say we hate Apple, Microsoft, and all other corporations to be fair...or we can legitimately point out where corporations are unethical and not tolerate those acts and support good business practices (There are examples for Microsoft, Apple, etc. Every silver lining has a touch of gray). Plus why start complaining about free software, do you wish they charged for it?
Sorry for that rant...but this isn't front page new format, more flame-bait. As for creating software for robotics, I did find that interesting, thanks.
Taking myself as an example, I eat about 2000 to 3000 kcal worth of stuff every day. I really need about 1000 of it, the rest is just used by my body to predispose me for an especially early death. Let's be conservative and say that most of us could spare 1000 kcal/day that could be converted into electrical energy.
That is really interesting, being that I have little knowledge in electronics, this sparks another question for me. If we can create (ideally speaking) an "enzymatic reaction" as you call it to produce electricity using glucose, could we perhaps extend this to some other applications like sewage treatment or uneaten food at restaurants - surely there is a good bit of "fuel" here? (Or maybe I do not understand the scope of these enzymes)
On another note, I just looked up retinal projection as I am not too familiar with it. I mean this in humor, but it is pretty neat that theoretically speaking in the future a device may exist that is powered from my body to display an image in my retina that could be used to create an augmented reality...of course begging the question again on how we really define reality: maybe enhanced vision through sensors is not too far away...
If one rat generates 6.5 microwatts, this current computer requires 650 watt psu, that is ~100 million rats to power my computer without a display...give or take other factors not-considered. Additionally, a single rat consumes lets say hypothetically 200 calories a day (I couldn't find a real number). That means I would need 20 billion calories to power my computer for a day off rats. If the average nuclear power plant produces roughly 1000 MW, and if that energy could be converted to calories to feed rats, that means that a nuclear power plant could only feed enough rats to power 85,000 machines.
That retarded example above, even if the efficiencies were improved and the calories needed per rat were reduced, tells me that that this is not a very efficient way to generate power. I'll stick to other methods for now... Disclaimer: Yes this is bad science, yes this is bad math, yes sig figs were ignored, yes technology can improve into the future, yes my sources are Google search results, rabble rabble rabble...
I also believe there is a good bit of stigma towards the alternative energy from the early 90's and before...we have made leaps and bounds over the past 10 or so years: yes it is not just the 20mph solar panel car anymore (that can only operate in a desert)!
I personally believe, adding to your point people priding themselves in driving "gas guzzling hummers and SUV's", that individuals believe that an energy efficient vehicle is more of a sacrifice than an alternative. Just my take on how some of the population seem to regard new technologies...
Crush: Okay. Squirt here will now give you a rundown of proper exiting technique.
Squirt: Good afternoon. We're gonna have a great jump today. Okay, first crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall. There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out. Remember: rip it, roll it, and punch it.
Marlin: It's like he's trying to speak to me, I know it.
[to Squirt]
Marlin: Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying. Say the first thing again.
---
I love Finding Nemo, with the whole "catching of currents" this sadly was the first thing to cross my mind:)
Great, now we have to worry about intellectual rights regarding my history. I really do not think someone "stole" my history, they just made a copy of it. Since my history still functions just fine, I do not have a problem with this!
"I have pressed the first lever", said O'Brien. "You understand the construction of this cage. The mask will fit over your head, leaving no exit. When I press this other lever, the door of the cage will slide up. These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets. Have you ever seen a rat leap through the air? They will leap on to your face and bore straight into it. Sometimes they attack the eyes first. Sometimes they burrow through the cheeks and devour the tongue."
I have seen some references to 1984 recently on/. comments, and this idea of utilizing an augmented reality such that one could not escape the fear of a cockroaches reminded me of the rat scene from George Orwell's 1984.
Yes there is a difference in this, however, in the fact that people would do this by choice "to be cured". I am just commenting on how the article hit me, nothing more nothing less.
Shoot, if this helps people, awesome. But on another note, how the hell would one augment a "fear of falling" (see article)? To me that is either: "The ground is there, I can feel it!" --or-- "Shit, I am falling and this is going to hurt!"
First off, this article may have instead been titled: subsidizing education, should we pay for...
Here, however is my real issue: (outside of this being an article from Yahoo Finance)
Recall a period in American history, call it the 70's and 80's where a baby-boomer population was going off to school to "figure out what to do", how some did not have plans to what they wanted to do and others seemed content on the exact educational path they chose directly following a high-school education. This (or so I hear) is how we have the Gen-ed program at many colleges today. A professor once joked to one of my classes that goes roughly like this:
You can blame us hippies and free-thinker bullshitters in the 70's and early 80's, yes the damn baby boomers that paid for your education, for what we call a 4-year degree. Really we would have been find with just a couple of years, however at the time, we had no freaking idea what we wanted or what we're going to do.
This I feel is a valid point towards how the education system has evolved from a stepping stone to a "career advising agency". What we don as success in general can be written in a multitude of opinions: is it what makes one happy, is it monetary based, does it contribute to the welfare of society, etc. The point is we cannot say this is what makes something successful, but rather acknowledge multiple viewpoints on the notion of success.
America, or at least to how we like to believe our country functions today, is that of the land of opportunity, but opportunities provided do not guarantee success. Sure a typical Bob ends up logging as a history major later, or Susie does not end up the successful Art Major she had dreamed...so what! At the same time many other students, who took the opportunity given to them to better themselves, get good grades for a job market, and get hired and end up "successful". I will not pretend to know it all or even have an idea of what the market will demand 10 years down the road, but I do not agree that an excess of college graduates will spell doom. No system is without waste, and some "unfulfilled workers" are a marginal cost from that of empowering other individuals. Just my take, nothing more or less...
The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France). It was involved with at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, approximately 100 times the intended dose.[2] Three of the six patients died as a direct consequence. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems, and they have become a standard case study in health informatics and software engineering.
Also a sidenote, I see how some people program (which is scary), to have them develop a machine aiming stuff at my balls, I would need to be on ALOT of drugs to agree to that.
I believe more the issue is an oil pocket is contained between rock layers with the layers both extruding revealing some sort of "passage-way" for the oil, or a short drill in the case of a company like bp. By using a nuke we end up with something like --//--- ----//- ---//-- (Ideally speaking the actual leak point or bedrock is offset to prevent the further spilling of oil. A large explosive may just mangle the top, where oil may again start leaking through later on...)
like to general oil drilling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drilling
But don't believe me I hated my Gen-ed geology and I will never admit to being an expert here.
Describing a generation of non-linear thinkers who are becoming decision makers in the workforce, Kilsby expects a new wave of serious games for training and education.
And what James Madison thought as shown in Federalist10:
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
What James Madison recognized is that factions and differences of opinion exist and therefore must by remedied by a well structured Republic, I am glad we have elections and I am glad half the people I meet cannot vote on every issue.
The "founding fathers" as Americans call them knew that we were always going to have loud mouths, but that is a sacrifice that we deem necessary in the pursuit of liberty.
I found your coverage david.emery to be very informative (no sarcasm, thanks for link):
Finally, this Department’s approach to requirements must change. Before making claims of requirements not being met or alleged “gaps” – in ships, tactical fighters, personnel, or anything else – we need to evaluate the criteria upon which requirements are based and the wider real world context. For example, should we really be up in arms over a temporary projected shortfall of about 100 Navy and Marine strike fighters relative to the number of carrier wings, when America’s military possesses more than 3,200 tactical combat aircraft of all kinds? Does the number of warships we have and are building really put America at risk when the U.S. battle fleet is larger than the next 13 navies combined, 11 of which belong to allies and partners? Is it a dire threat that by 2020 the United States will have only 20 times more advanced stealth fighters than China?
Media hype: just like if you turn on C-SPAN do you realize that most of the points brought to the floor are legitimate and well, the system isn't broken just at the House or the Senate, it has its bottlenecks everywhere! I for one want to see some smoke tests done in t...
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I couldn't have said it better. At the same time, what the original team of software developers releases to market can be a completely different product two years down the road. The life-cycle, as it is called of a MMORPG is determined by the people who modify and enhance content. Yes the product better be very shiny from the get-go, but the motivations and goals of the original developers may also be completely ignored many years down the road.
Long story short: The game-developers can and will have different motivation than the "game-maintainers"...
Writing on paper forces me to study. I do not have the chance to have the compiler catch some errors, run my code, etc. Being able to write the few lines necessary on paper shows that I know the syntax and can think like the compiler and computer in the sense I can anticipate potential problems. Now if your argument is towards "which method to chose" vs. "how to do this method", well multiple choice works great there too, or even fill in the blank! Sorry handwriting has forced me to learn a good bit...
At least they won't threaten to cut the power in LA...
I will have to second the AC's opinion here...
We call this Business 101. Same reason Oracle kept java free...in the "goal" that its services would be desired later. (Keep Java popular and mainstream)
Why don't we just say we hate Apple, Microsoft, and all other corporations to be fair...or we can legitimately point out where corporations are unethical and not tolerate those acts and support good business practices (There are examples for Microsoft, Apple, etc. Every silver lining has a touch of gray). Plus why start complaining about free software, do you wish they charged for it?
Sorry for that rant...but this isn't front page new format, more flame-bait. As for creating software for robotics, I did find that interesting, thanks.
Taking myself as an example, I eat about 2000 to 3000 kcal worth of stuff every day. I really need about 1000 of it, the rest is just used by my body to predispose me for an especially early death. Let's be conservative and say that most of us could spare 1000 kcal/day that could be converted into electrical energy.
That is really interesting, being that I have little knowledge in electronics, this sparks another question for me. If we can create (ideally speaking) an "enzymatic reaction" as you call it to produce electricity using glucose, could we perhaps extend this to some other applications like sewage treatment or uneaten food at restaurants - surely there is a good bit of "fuel" here? (Or maybe I do not understand the scope of these enzymes)
On another note, I just looked up retinal projection as I am not too familiar with it. I mean this in humor, but it is pretty neat that theoretically speaking in the future a device may exist that is powered from my body to display an image in my retina that could be used to create an augmented reality...of course begging the question again on how we really define reality: maybe enhanced vision through sensors is not too far away...
Oh forgot, to add to the perspective (however skewed), 1000 MW powers ~1.5 million 650 watt PSU's... I think. This whole analogy is ridiculous.
If one rat generates 6.5 microwatts, this current computer requires 650 watt psu, that is ~100 million rats to power my computer without a display...give or take other factors not-considered. Additionally, a single rat consumes lets say hypothetically 200 calories a day (I couldn't find a real number). That means I would need 20 billion calories to power my computer for a day off rats. If the average nuclear power plant produces roughly 1000 MW, and if that energy could be converted to calories to feed rats, that means that a nuclear power plant could only feed enough rats to power 85,000 machines.
That retarded example above, even if the efficiencies were improved and the calories needed per rat were reduced, tells me that that this is not a very efficient way to generate power. I'll stick to other methods for now...
Disclaimer: Yes this is bad science, yes this is bad math, yes sig figs were ignored, yes technology can improve into the future, yes my sources are Google search results, rabble rabble rabble...
I also believe there is a good bit of stigma towards the alternative energy from the early 90's and before...we have made leaps and bounds over the past 10 or so years: yes it is not just the 20mph solar panel car anymore (that can only operate in a desert)!
I personally believe, adding to your point people priding themselves in driving "gas guzzling hummers and SUV's", that individuals believe that an energy efficient vehicle is more of a sacrifice than an alternative. Just my take on how some of the population seem to regard new technologies...
Person: Wait, is that a tag? Washing instructions?...it tastes kind of sour.
Other Person: No just the nutritional information...
Now for a good daily "nutritional" needs joke...
Crush: Okay. Squirt here will now give you a rundown of proper exiting technique.
Squirt: Good afternoon. We're gonna have a great jump today. Okay, first crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall. There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out. Remember: rip it, roll it, and punch it.
Marlin: It's like he's trying to speak to me, I know it.
[to Squirt]
Marlin: Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying. Say the first thing again.
---
I love Finding Nemo, with the whole "catching of currents" this sadly was the first thing to cross my mind :)
Great, now we have to worry about intellectual rights regarding my history. I really do not think someone "stole" my history, they just made a copy of it. Since my history still functions just fine, I do not have a problem with this!
"I have pressed the first lever", said O'Brien. "You understand the construction of this cage. The mask will fit over your head, leaving no exit. When I press this other lever, the door of the cage will slide up. These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets. Have you ever seen a rat leap through the air? They will leap on to your face and bore straight into it. Sometimes they attack the eyes first. Sometimes they burrow through the cheeks and devour the tongue."
I have seen some references to 1984 recently on
Yes there is a difference in this, however, in the fact that people would do this by choice "to be cured". I am just commenting on how the article hit me, nothing more nothing less.
Shoot, if this helps people, awesome. But on another note, how the hell would one augment a "fear of falling" (see article)? To me that is either:
"The ground is there, I can feel it!" --or-- "Shit, I am falling and this is going to hurt!"
First off, this article may have instead been titled: subsidizing education, should we pay for...
Here, however is my real issue: (outside of this being an article from Yahoo Finance)
Recall a period in American history, call it the 70's and 80's where a baby-boomer population was going off to school to "figure out what to do", how some did not have plans to what they wanted to do and others seemed content on the exact educational path they chose directly following a high-school education. This (or so I hear) is how we have the Gen-ed program at many colleges today. A professor once joked to one of my classes that goes roughly like this:
You can blame us hippies and free-thinker bullshitters in the 70's and early 80's, yes the damn baby boomers that paid for your education, for what we call a 4-year degree. Really we would have been find with just a couple of years, however at the time, we had no freaking idea what we wanted or what we're going to do.
This I feel is a valid point towards how the education system has evolved from a stepping stone to a "career advising agency". What we don as success in general can be written in a multitude of opinions: is it what makes one happy, is it monetary based, does it contribute to the welfare of society, etc. The point is we cannot say this is what makes something successful, but rather acknowledge multiple viewpoints on the notion of success.
America, or at least to how we like to believe our country functions today, is that of the land of opportunity, but opportunities provided do not guarantee success. Sure a typical Bob ends up logging as a history major later, or Susie does not end up the successful Art Major she had dreamed...so what! At the same time many other students, who took the opportunity given to them to better themselves, get good grades for a job market, and get hired and end up "successful". I will not pretend to know it all or even have an idea of what the market will demand 10 years down the road, but I do not agree that an excess of college graduates will spell doom. No system is without waste, and some "unfulfilled workers" are a marginal cost from that of empowering other individuals. Just my take, nothing more or less...
What I really expected was:
"Halo 2 preservation ends", six die in a fire believed to be caused by their game consoles.
Anyone remember Therac-25?
The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France). It was involved with at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, approximately 100 times the intended dose.[2] Three of the six patients died as a direct consequence. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems, and they have become a standard case study in health informatics and software engineering.
(more after the link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Also a sidenote, I see how some people program (which is scary), to have them develop a machine aiming stuff at my balls, I would need to be on ALOT of drugs to agree to that.
I believe more the issue is an oil pocket is contained between rock layers with the layers both extruding revealing some sort of "passage-way" for the oil, or a short drill in the case of a company like bp.
By using a nuke we end up with something like
--//---
----//-
---//--
(Ideally speaking the actual leak point or bedrock is offset to prevent the further spilling of oil. A large explosive may just mangle the top, where oil may again start leaking through later on...)
like to general oil drilling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drilling
But don't believe me I hated my Gen-ed geology and I will never admit to being an expert here.
... finding out that there's an actual word for an oil accident of this size?
How about this word:
Enviropetronuclearcalamity
It shifted from scary to awesome!
As a pyromaniac extraordinaire I fully endorse this under one condition:
That a TON of high speed camera footage is available at no charge to me later. Outside of that I'm sold.
This article should be titled:
EA games does yet another thing to piss me off...
Cash4Gold is going to make a killing!
I knew those wise investors had it right all along...
Describing a generation of non-linear thinkers who are becoming decision makers in the workforce, Kilsby expects a new wave of serious games for training and education.
Oh it's still very linear, see "shortest path algorithm". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra's_algorithm
We just think more "efficiently" in our tunnel vision these days...
On another note, this has been going on for quite a while. Some of these systems have 360 degree screens (circular room)... but I've only heard that stuff as a rumor. Interesting read:
http://publicintelligence.net/the-u-s-militarys-video-game-training/
And what James Madison thought as shown in Federalist10:
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
What James Madison recognized is that factions and differences of opinion exist and therefore must by remedied by a well structured Republic, I am glad we have elections and I am glad half the people I meet cannot vote on every issue.
Also see http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm (as just a good read not directly as reference)
The "founding fathers" as Americans call them knew that we were always going to have loud mouths, but that is a sacrifice that we deem necessary in the pursuit of liberty.
How about any progress on the idiocy of the drug war?
It is not a drug war, just an escalating regional conflict against drugs.
Distracted, a phone would never distract me!
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I found your coverage david.emery to be very informative (no sarcasm, thanks for link):
Finally, this Department’s approach to requirements must change. Before making claims of requirements not being met or alleged “gaps” – in ships, tactical fighters, personnel, or anything else – we need to evaluate the criteria upon which requirements are based and the wider real world context. For example, should we really be up in arms over a temporary projected shortfall of about 100 Navy and Marine strike fighters relative to the number of carrier wings, when America’s military possesses more than 3,200 tactical combat aircraft of all kinds? Does the number of warships we have and are building really put America at risk when the U.S. battle fleet is larger than the next 13 navies combined, 11 of which belong to allies and partners? Is it a dire threat that by 2020 the United States will have only 20 times more advanced stealth fighters than China?
Media hype: just like if you turn on C-SPAN do you realize that most of the points brought to the floor are legitimate and well, the system isn't broken just at the House or the Senate, it has its bottlenecks everywhere! I for one want to see some smoke tests done in t...