Actually, the money involved isn't that big in Korea.... Overall, the "foreign" scene in SC2 has more money involved, which is why so many SC2 pros have resisted KESPA style rules that would prevent them from going abroad.
Some NA and Euro tournaments have prize sums for qualifiers, or 3rd spot in a main tournament, that compare to 1st place in GSL, Korea's premier SC2 league. Hell, Dreamhack Valencia, which is just a small in-between tournament/qualifier for Dreamhack Winter, has a 1st place prize equal to GSL, and the 2nd place is better than GSL's
It won't. It just means people will push even harder. A serious problem is that the body is a system with many components, but a drug may only target one "component" or aspect of it, leading to systemic imbalance.
More intelligence does not directly tie to behavioural flexibility. Many highly intelligent people are very rigid in their doctrine, refusing to adapt. Many highly intelligent people also overspecialise(As the quote goes: Overspecialise and you breed in weakness).
Boston Tea Party was just a single, tactical incident, where they used obfuscation(which is not the same as anonymity), and not a strategic or operational level where using anonymity would have failed. Compare with special ops using camo or plainclothes..
Wrong. The cause gains momentum by becoming public. If you keep it under cover, it only stays in a select circle. It's why censorship and suppression of open communication is so desireable to despots etc. Anonymous, covert communications simply restricts the spread, and prevents the gaining of critical mass. What made all the situations I mentioned able to reach critical mass was the fact that people stood up, said "Fuck this shit!", which let people see that there are indeed people not satisfied.
First rule of all guerilla warfare, for example: A guerilla campaign can not succeed without the support of the local population. If the local population doesn't know who you are, what you stand for and that you'll treat them better than the ones they oppose do, they won't support you. The same principles apply in Hearts&mind operations.
Ergo, principles that have been tried and found to be really effective in real life, and not based on ideology or misguided philosophical assumptions.
Erronous assumption. A critical and rational analysis leads to the conclusion that the anonymity was a negative. What made it work was that the Federalist was exclusively pushing for the federal policy, and thus of course wouldn't engage in critical debate, and there weren't too many critics who could afford their own presses...
In this case, anonymity through a proxy actually served to enforce a specific political direction, while removing the ability to engage in a serious debate, by placing it in an arena which few could afford to participate in.
Media shenanigans in politics is nothing new to our era.
And by following those rules, you have given them exactly what they want. You have given in to fear and oppression.
As history teaches us, successful resistance comes not from anonymous cowards, it comes from people who stand up and say "I will not tolerate this anymore".
Arab spring, Gandhi, workers rights fights, USA independence... All of them would have failed if the people involved had been anonymous cowards.
And neither does my outlined suggestion imply that you would have your choice taken away. As I said, cable and DSL is still available. And when the initial contract from the current FTTP provider expires, which is due in a year, there will be several providers lined up to compete on the house owners own network. Which means that ethically, having everyone chip in for improved infrastructure actually IMPROVES competition and choice after a while.
Making your stance the unethical one: You're, by your very own admission, blocking another avenue of choice, on purpose, for purely selfish reasons.
The other uses for the network is pretty damn nice. It's used a lot here where I live, including meter readings, which are then accessible on the website of the company that owns the houses.
So you're saying that a decent capacity ethernet connected to the internet via redundant pairs of multimode fiber, which is what's installed in all the apartment houses in the area, is as slow as the loop that many cable ISP's use? Wrong...
Let's just put this out there: I opted for the 100Mb/s up and down service(and am currently trying to see if I can justify the cost of the gigabit service). In an area with a bit over 600 apartments, my ISP has 495 customers. Even during prime time, I can use my connection to its fullest, downloading ISO's, updating games, reaching 11.5MB/s practical speed. I can also upload at that speed.
The difference is, here in Sweden, ISP's don't oversubscribe like they do in the US. You could have that in the US too, if more people started working together and negotiating as a group, to counter the abuse from the big ISP's/telcos.
I oppose your rather limiting concepts, based on having used cable, DSL and now FTTP/ethernet.
The way it works with many of the high-speed FTT(P/H) providers here in Sweden is that when they are contracted, they build up a beefy ethernet network, which becomes the property of the house owner/association. That network is then connected via redundant pairs of fiber to the nearest CO/exchange. The contract covers maintenance and operation of that network, and then individual tenants can contact the ISP for service. When the initial time limit, if any, on the contract runs out, the house owner/association can then shop around for a new provider, or even let several ISP's connect, which has happened in some places.
Where I live now, we have such a network, and we now have up to gigabit service offered. But I could still get cable or DSL if I wanted(to downgrade, that is). And even during prime time, I get my full service(100Mb/s up and down), in a house with 80 apartments. The entire area has just over 600 apartments, the ISP I'm signed up with has 495 customers in the area. Each house has switches and a fiber uplink in a closet in the non-public maintenance areas.
Direct3D technically allows for both, the XNA game dev framework specifies number of pixels however, for performance reasons. The number of samples method tends to be more accurate but very slow. It's the same thing on the OpenGL side. CAD, 3D applications such as Maya etc, compositing programs etc tend to use samples over pixels, for more accuracy.
Funny, EVGA(3 graphics card in succession having huge flaws, such as fan not working properly, capacitors falling off, while the computer hadn't been moved in 6 months, and the third had bad RAM chips) is on my list of "hardware to avoid at all costs", just like Antec PSU's(none of them lasted more than 6 months, unlike the Q-tec, the cheap piece of shit they were meant to replace, is still alive to this day, 11 years after I bought it...), Gigabyte motherboards etc.
The area I live in currently, has 21 apartment buildings, with several hundred apartments(the house my apartment is in has 60 apartments). The structure here is a VLAN'd ethernet in every building, with the switches down in a strongroom in the maintenance section of the basement. From there, it's multimode fiber pairs to the nearest CO, that runs redundant links to the router(s), 10GigE if the router(s) is in the same hall, fiber if it's remote. The ISP recently upgraded switches etc in the buildings and are now offering 1Gb/s connections. So just because US ISP's deploy with some extreme bottlenecks doesn't mean that that is a universal problem.
The thing is, I've never run into any congestion on my end even during peak times. We can download stuff at more or less our full speed (we get around 11.5MB/s practical download speed, when overhead etc is factored in).
The ISP is Bredbandsbolaget, one of the first commercial Fiber-to-the-home/house/premises ISP's in the world. No caps at all(In may, I've downloaded a total of 7TB, and uploaded about 1.5TB. April was roughly similar). Now, if only the norwegian owners would become a bit more IPv6-friendly.......
That depends a bit on where you download from/what part of the world you're in. I'm in Sweden, with a 100Mbit/s downstream, and I often reach 11.5MiB/s from websites, doing game updates etc even during peak times(Most Swedish ISP's don't work like US ISP's, so forget most of the conceptions you have gotten from using US ISP's). Most torrents fail to reach that speed, due to seeders being, well... bittorrent users...
One big problem, in the nordic countries, is some CDN's being cheapskates. If a file happens to be hosted on both Akamai and LimeLight Networks, the Akamai download will be 3MiB/s at best(which is rarely), while the LLNW download will reach 11.5MiB/s even at peak. You can also tell when Windows Update points you to a LLNW CDN, rather than Akamai, because updates download much faster.
Thus the irony of Akamai's State of the Internet report, when they are one of the speed bumps....
The description is incorrect, possibly because it's written by worthless, status-obsessed docs in shiny western offices, where they rarely encounter it.
However, if you had been lessed obsessed about artificially propped-up status and wages, and instead worked on the ground for a year or two in, say, Sierra Leone, or Congo, empirical evidence down there would tell you it's NOT rare, it IS highly contagious. But *fatalities* ARE rare.
As a follow-up, I should point out that TFA saying it is rare is a bit of a misnomer: It's rare in Europe and North America. In Africa, it's not very rare.
So, your "privacy" is more important than the risk of carrying a highly contagius and painful disease that could very well require quarantine? Because that's what monkeypox is. I've helped treat people who have it, it spreads quickly as hell, and the enclosed nature of an airplane means that you need to check them out like this.
If you really think that your "privacy" or convenience is more important than the risk of spreading a disease like that to 10, 100 or potentially thousands of people, the world is better off by putting a bullet through your head.
The deterioration makes almost all munitions MORE dangerous, like for example going from stable and needing a detonator to go boom and instead going to one-false-look-and-it-goes-boom.
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Actually, the money involved isn't that big in Korea.... Overall, the "foreign" scene in SC2 has more money involved, which is why so many SC2 pros have resisted KESPA style rules that would prevent them from going abroad.
Some NA and Euro tournaments have prize sums for qualifiers, or 3rd spot in a main tournament, that compare to 1st place in GSL, Korea's premier SC2 league. Hell, Dreamhack Valencia, which is just a small in-between tournament/qualifier for Dreamhack Winter, has a 1st place prize equal to GSL, and the 2nd place is better than GSL's
It's been tried, and it's fucking horrible.... especially when they D20'ified more than just the dice mechanics...
It won't. It just means people will push even harder. A serious problem is that the body is a system with many components, but a drug may only target one "component" or aspect of it, leading to systemic imbalance.
More intelligence does not directly tie to behavioural flexibility. Many highly intelligent people are very rigid in their doctrine, refusing to adapt. Many highly intelligent people also overspecialise(As the quote goes: Overspecialise and you breed in weakness).
No, it wasn't. Given the data, and the amount of it, and the level it affects, is a strategic and political incident.
Boston Tea Party was just a single, tactical incident, where they used obfuscation(which is not the same as anonymity), and not a strategic or operational level where using anonymity would have failed. Compare with special ops using camo or plainclothes..
Wrong. The cause gains momentum by becoming public. If you keep it under cover, it only stays in a select circle. It's why censorship and suppression of open communication is so desireable to despots etc. Anonymous, covert communications simply restricts the spread, and prevents the gaining of critical mass. What made all the situations I mentioned able to reach critical mass was the fact that people stood up, said "Fuck this shit!", which let people see that there are indeed people not satisfied.
First rule of all guerilla warfare, for example:
A guerilla campaign can not succeed without the support of the local population. If the local population doesn't know who you are, what you stand for and that you'll treat them better than the ones they oppose do, they won't support you. The same principles apply in Hearts&mind operations.
Ergo, principles that have been tried and found to be really effective in real life, and not based on ideology or misguided philosophical assumptions.
Erronous assumption. A critical and rational analysis leads to the conclusion that the anonymity was a negative. What made it work was that the Federalist was exclusively pushing for the federal policy, and thus of course wouldn't engage in critical debate, and there weren't too many critics who could afford their own presses...
In this case, anonymity through a proxy actually served to enforce a specific political direction, while removing the ability to engage in a serious debate, by placing it in an arena which few could afford to participate in.
Media shenanigans in politics is nothing new to our era.
And by following those rules, you have given them exactly what they want. You have given in to fear and oppression.
As history teaches us, successful resistance comes not from anonymous cowards, it comes from people who stand up and say "I will not tolerate this anymore".
Arab spring, Gandhi, workers rights fights, USA independence... All of them would have failed if the people involved had been anonymous cowards.
And neither does my outlined suggestion imply that you would have your choice taken away. As I said, cable and DSL is still available. And when the initial contract from the current FTTP provider expires, which is due in a year, there will be several providers lined up to compete on the house owners own network. Which means that ethically, having everyone chip in for improved infrastructure actually IMPROVES competition and choice after a while.
Making your stance the unethical one: You're, by your very own admission, blocking another avenue of choice, on purpose, for purely selfish reasons.
That actually sounds like a RAM issue to me.
If you're using OcclusionQuery.PixelCount, you should automatically get pixel count.
Dig around in the docs on MSDN.
One caveat, PixelCount behaves slightly different on Xbox360 compared to on Windows.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.xna.framework.graphics.occlusionquery.aspx
The other uses for the network is pretty damn nice. It's used a lot here where I live, including meter readings, which are then accessible on the website of the company that owns the houses.
So you're saying that a decent capacity ethernet connected to the internet via redundant pairs of multimode fiber, which is what's installed in all the apartment houses in the area, is as slow as the loop that many cable ISP's use? Wrong...
Let's just put this out there: I opted for the 100Mb/s up and down service(and am currently trying to see if I can justify the cost of the gigabit service). In an area with a bit over 600 apartments, my ISP has 495 customers. Even during prime time, I can use my connection to its fullest, downloading ISO's, updating games, reaching 11.5MB/s practical speed. I can also upload at that speed.
The difference is, here in Sweden, ISP's don't oversubscribe like they do in the US. You could have that in the US too, if more people started working together and negotiating as a group, to counter the abuse from the big ISP's/telcos.
I oppose your rather limiting concepts, based on having used cable, DSL and now FTTP/ethernet.
The way it works with many of the high-speed FTT(P/H) providers here in Sweden is that when they are contracted, they build up a beefy ethernet network, which becomes the property of the house owner/association. That network is then connected via redundant pairs of fiber to the nearest CO/exchange. The contract covers maintenance and operation of that network, and then individual tenants can contact the ISP for service. When the initial time limit, if any, on the contract runs out, the house owner/association can then shop around for a new provider, or even let several ISP's connect, which has happened in some places.
Where I live now, we have such a network, and we now have up to gigabit service offered. But I could still get cable or DSL if I wanted(to downgrade, that is). And even during prime time, I get my full service(100Mb/s up and down), in a house with 80 apartments. The entire area has just over 600 apartments, the ISP I'm signed up with has 495 customers in the area. Each house has switches and a fiber uplink in a closet in the non-public maintenance areas.
So don't be so quick to discard the idea....
Direct3D technically allows for both, the XNA game dev framework specifies number of pixels however, for performance reasons. The number of samples method tends to be more accurate but very slow. It's the same thing on the OpenGL side. CAD, 3D applications such as Maya etc, compositing programs etc tend to use samples over pixels, for more accuracy.
Funny, EVGA(3 graphics card in succession having huge flaws, such as fan not working properly, capacitors falling off, while the computer hadn't been moved in 6 months, and the third had bad RAM chips) is on my list of "hardware to avoid at all costs", just like Antec PSU's(none of them lasted more than 6 months, unlike the Q-tec, the cheap piece of shit they were meant to replace, is still alive to this day, 11 years after I bought it...), Gigabyte motherboards etc.
The area I live in currently, has 21 apartment buildings, with several hundred apartments(the house my apartment is in has 60 apartments). The structure here is a VLAN'd ethernet in every building, with the switches down in a strongroom in the maintenance section of the basement. From there, it's multimode fiber pairs to the nearest CO, that runs redundant links to the router(s), 10GigE if the router(s) is in the same hall, fiber if it's remote. The ISP recently upgraded switches etc in the buildings and are now offering 1Gb/s connections. So just because US ISP's deploy with some extreme bottlenecks doesn't mean that that is a universal problem.
The thing is, I've never run into any congestion on my end even during peak times. We can download stuff at more or less our full speed (we get around 11.5MB/s practical download speed, when overhead etc is factored in).
The ISP is Bredbandsbolaget, one of the first commercial Fiber-to-the-home/house/premises ISP's in the world. No caps at all(In may, I've downloaded a total of 7TB, and uploaded about 1.5TB. April was roughly similar). Now, if only the norwegian owners would become a bit more IPv6-friendly.......
That depends a bit on where you download from/what part of the world you're in. I'm in Sweden, with a 100Mbit/s downstream, and I often reach 11.5MiB/s from websites, doing game updates etc even during peak times(Most Swedish ISP's don't work like US ISP's, so forget most of the conceptions you have gotten from using US ISP's). Most torrents fail to reach that speed, due to seeders being, well... bittorrent users...
One big problem, in the nordic countries, is some CDN's being cheapskates. If a file happens to be hosted on both Akamai and LimeLight Networks, the Akamai download will be 3MiB/s at best(which is rarely), while the LLNW download will reach 11.5MiB/s even at peak. You can also tell when Windows Update points you to a LLNW CDN, rather than Akamai, because updates download much faster.
Thus the irony of Akamai's State of the Internet report, when they are one of the speed bumps....
The description is incorrect, possibly because it's written by worthless, status-obsessed docs in shiny western offices, where they rarely encounter it.
However, if you had been lessed obsessed about artificially propped-up status and wages, and instead worked on the ground for a year or two in, say, Sierra Leone, or Congo, empirical evidence down there would tell you it's NOT rare, it IS highly contagious. But *fatalities* ARE rare.
As a follow-up, I should point out that TFA saying it is rare is a bit of a misnomer: It's rare in Europe and North America. In Africa, it's not very rare.
So, your "privacy" is more important than the risk of carrying a highly contagius and painful disease that could very well require quarantine? Because that's what monkeypox is. I've helped treat people who have it, it spreads quickly as hell, and the enclosed nature of an airplane means that you need to check them out like this.
If you really think that your "privacy" or convenience is more important than the risk of spreading a disease like that to 10, 100 or potentially thousands of people, the world is better off by putting a bullet through your head.
Oh, that was a sexual experience
Surprise Butt Sex kind.
The deterioration makes almost all munitions MORE dangerous, like for example going from stable and needing a detonator to go boom and instead going to one-false-look-and-it-goes-boom.
Yes, they are feeding the babies pure vegan food.