Except for, you know, all the evidence they produced. Like corroborating witnesses who said the accusers had told them years earlier about it. Witnesses who said he trolled the malls, and had been kicked out for harrassing teenagers. Colleagues who knew about his behaviors. Signatures and notes proving there was a past relationship. You have to believe some really out there conspiracy stuff to think this is just a wholly fabricated smear campaign.
....Maybe. I don't entirely disagree, despite the fact that I'm a Vive owner. One thing I'll say is that HTC have no reported plans or a "Vive2" any time soon, and seem to be building and releasing things in a fairly modular way. Wireless is on the way this year, as is a new, supposedly more comfortable headstrap with headphones built in. There's talk of upgraded versions (ie easier to manufacture, I believe - no real technical advantage) of the lighthouses, but nothing announced as far as I know. A higher resolution HMD would be nice, but it seems like that's waiting on technological advances, as well as better CPUs and video cards to handle something even more beefy than it already needs. There's talk of different controllers coming out, at some point.
So, I bit the bullet and bought it, knowing that it's early. I like the idea that there will be incremental optional hardware upgrades for the next few years, and not another $500-$800 purchase on the horizon. I don't think Vive hardware goes through any major revisions until 2019. Rift probably has some work to do with its tracking, from what I've read, and PSVR lifespan is already limited by the hardware it's tied to.
OK. I'll stand corrected, if that's the case. He's said some provocative things about BLM, but that's not race per se. And I became familiar with him through a video in which he was pretty vicious to a transgender woman, but that's not sexual preference. My bad. I won't back down from his demonization of Islam or women, though.
I agree with you. I work near the Berkeley campus, and it's awful what happened.
However, nearly all of us have been conditioned from a very young age that Nazis need to be destroyed at all costs, or the world only gets worse. I wonder how many video game Nazis I've killed in my lifetime? If you're going to demonize people on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual preference, as Milo does regularly, then it shouldn't be a surprise to be compared to a Nazi and have people trying to stop you at all costs. Either figure out why you're coming across that way to others and alter your message to convey what you really intend (whatever that is, I don't actually even know), or continue to be an asshole provocateur and be prepared to receive the conflict you've elicited.
That used to be the case. Sadly, it assumes that both sides are telling the truth, and an awful lot of conservative-leaning news presented complete falsehoods, especially in the run-up to the election. What's halfway between truth with liberal commentary and a lie with conservative commentary?
The thing is, people THINK they aren't being swayed. Everyone, of course, thinks they've reached their opinion through careful thought and introspection. In actuality, we have a tremendous tendency to believe the very first thing we hear.
So, what if I don't mind being tracked by Google, but I just don't want this webpage available for anyone out there to access (ie if my password gets compromised)? I can't see a way to opt out of the availability of the data without deleting the data.
I remember going to the computer lab at my friends' University and spending a Sunday morning trying to figure out how to get multiplayer working, because that was the only place we had access to networked computers. Turned the admins had put an irritating security setup in place so that if you made any changes to the hard drive, the OS re-imaged on reboot. We knew nothing about networking, but knew we needed some kind of drivers installed, and so there were many reboots trying to work this all out. In the end we got it, but couldn't get all four of us in a game for some reason, but played 2v2 for a solid two hours before we got caught and kicked out. Kids these days have it easy!
Uh.. Overwatch is only $40, at least on PC. There's a fancy version with extra skins and stuff for other Blizzard games, which is $60. No idea what console versions will cost, though.
Yeah, they do. I think it's kind of like keeping a rhythm. Like if you slow down, it's hard to speed back up when you need it? Unsure. My old man fingers can barely play HotS, and that's controlling one character.
Yeah, I don't think this is valid. As a former academic, I did a ton of public speaking. From the hardest of hardcore at very specialized conferences, to teaching graduate and undergraduate students, as well as some public outreach at a journalism conference, and in University promotional videos. There may be certain fields where the antisocial can get by, but the truly successful scientists have to be ruthlessly good communicators.
The barrier to more direct public outreach is that there's absolutely no clear reward for it. Your funding is decided by your scientific peers. MAYBE you can make the argument that a well-educated public would advocate for more research funding that could benefit you someday, but then you may as well be talking to the politicians who more-than-not ignore what the public wants anyway. To get tenure, you have to work 80+ hours a week as it is writing grants and papers, teaching, doing "service" to your University, all on top of doing quality research. And if you do get tenure, well, you've built up this big infrastructure that now requires more funding to sustain itself, so you keep on writing those grants and papers, and you do your teaching, and now you're probably heading that University committee you've been on, and you're mentoring a few post-docs and a few more grad students, and there a few more undergrads who want to do some research over the summer....
You live in a world where you know what a zombie is. In every fictional zombie universe, nobody knows about zombies. They don't know the rules. For the first few days, the infection is like a flu or rabies, and nobody is mercilessly going to put down their wife and kids after getting bit by a stranger. Try to imagine a zombie infection where nobody knew the rules. We'd catch on quick, but would we get there before mass communication could get every up to speed? That would be the trick to model.
I just don't understand that logical leap. How is the FCC controlling "every bit that flows across the country"? They're saying ISPs can't exert control over which bits. How does that mean the government de facto gets that control? Seriously. I don't get it at all.
Because gas and water are matter that gets consumed. Physical things that need to be transported. Electricity has to be generated and the charge differential is consumed. Transmitting a lot or a little data uses nothing, except maybe minuscule amounts of extra electricity once the infrastructure exists. Metering data usage is a transparent cash grab.
If you're at the stage where you have a life-threatening multi-drug resistant infection, you're probably in a hospital gurney and that miracle antibiotic will be delivered by IV in a tightly controlled dosing regimen.
Indeed. I don't love Comcast - they are robbers who have tried to screw me so many gd times during a recent move across country, and if any other broadband in our area was any better we'd have dumped them. But, that said, this is an awfully nice perk of being their customer. Currently I'm working on Boston while my family lives in CA. We have xfinity at the house in CA (I bought my own modem for $60 and had a really good router. Renting a modem is just dumb), and I get Wifi in Boston off of my neighbors. It's a bit wonky in that for some reason my desktop can't log in, but if I USB-tether my phone or tablet to the desktop it works. (Any ideas on why that would be?). I can walk through any residential neighborhood in the city and I've got wifi.
You can get all worked up about vague security issues or extremely minor power usage, but really, this is a pretty nice and useful feature if you're their customer.
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So, I assume there are strict regulations in place to enforce safe installation then, right?
Except for, you know, all the evidence they produced. Like corroborating witnesses who said the accusers had told them years earlier about it. Witnesses who said he trolled the malls, and had been kicked out for harrassing teenagers. Colleagues who knew about his behaviors. Signatures and notes proving there was a past relationship. You have to believe some really out there conspiracy stuff to think this is just a wholly fabricated smear campaign.
Like it or not, this is what anchors it to a real-world value.
....Maybe. I don't entirely disagree, despite the fact that I'm a Vive owner. One thing I'll say is that HTC have no reported plans or a "Vive2" any time soon, and seem to be building and releasing things in a fairly modular way. Wireless is on the way this year, as is a new, supposedly more comfortable headstrap with headphones built in. There's talk of upgraded versions (ie easier to manufacture, I believe - no real technical advantage) of the lighthouses, but nothing announced as far as I know. A higher resolution HMD would be nice, but it seems like that's waiting on technological advances, as well as better CPUs and video cards to handle something even more beefy than it already needs. There's talk of different controllers coming out, at some point.
So, I bit the bullet and bought it, knowing that it's early. I like the idea that there will be incremental optional hardware upgrades for the next few years, and not another $500-$800 purchase on the horizon. I don't think Vive hardware goes through any major revisions until 2019. Rift probably has some work to do with its tracking, from what I've read, and PSVR lifespan is already limited by the hardware it's tied to.
I haven't tried it, because I game in Windows, but Valve has released its SteamVR for Linux. https://github.com/ValveSoftwa...
OK. I'll stand corrected, if that's the case. He's said some provocative things about BLM, but that's not race per se. And I became familiar with him through a video in which he was pretty vicious to a transgender woman, but that's not sexual preference. My bad. I won't back down from his demonization of Islam or women, though.
I agree with you. I work near the Berkeley campus, and it's awful what happened.
However, nearly all of us have been conditioned from a very young age that Nazis need to be destroyed at all costs, or the world only gets worse. I wonder how many video game Nazis I've killed in my lifetime? If you're going to demonize people on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual preference, as Milo does regularly, then it shouldn't be a surprise to be compared to a Nazi and have people trying to stop you at all costs. Either figure out why you're coming across that way to others and alter your message to convey what you really intend (whatever that is, I don't actually even know), or continue to be an asshole provocateur and be prepared to receive the conflict you've elicited.
Except that this is being called for by the Green Party.
Unless he didn't. Let's find out and be sure.
That used to be the case. Sadly, it assumes that both sides are telling the truth, and an awful lot of conservative-leaning news presented complete falsehoods, especially in the run-up to the election. What's halfway between truth with liberal commentary and a lie with conservative commentary?
Only because you read his post first. :(
The thing is, people THINK they aren't being swayed. Everyone, of course, thinks they've reached their opinion through careful thought and introspection. In actuality, we have a tremendous tendency to believe the very first thing we hear.
Hah. Good point, yeah. Time for me to get off my butt and actually get 2-factor going.
So, what if I don't mind being tracked by Google, but I just don't want this webpage available for anyone out there to access (ie if my password gets compromised)? I can't see a way to opt out of the availability of the data without deleting the data.
I remember going to the computer lab at my friends' University and spending a Sunday morning trying to figure out how to get multiplayer working, because that was the only place we had access to networked computers. Turned the admins had put an irritating security setup in place so that if you made any changes to the hard drive, the OS re-imaged on reboot. We knew nothing about networking, but knew we needed some kind of drivers installed, and so there were many reboots trying to work this all out. In the end we got it, but couldn't get all four of us in a game for some reason, but played 2v2 for a solid two hours before we got caught and kicked out. Kids these days have it easy!
Uh.. Overwatch is only $40, at least on PC. There's a fancy version with extra skins and stuff for other Blizzard games, which is $60. No idea what console versions will cost, though.
Yeah, they do. I think it's kind of like keeping a rhythm. Like if you slow down, it's hard to speed back up when you need it? Unsure. My old man fingers can barely play HotS, and that's controlling one character.
Yeah, I don't think this is valid. As a former academic, I did a ton of public speaking. From the hardest of hardcore at very specialized conferences, to teaching graduate and undergraduate students, as well as some public outreach at a journalism conference, and in University promotional videos. There may be certain fields where the antisocial can get by, but the truly successful scientists have to be ruthlessly good communicators.
The barrier to more direct public outreach is that there's absolutely no clear reward for it. Your funding is decided by your scientific peers. MAYBE you can make the argument that a well-educated public would advocate for more research funding that could benefit you someday, but then you may as well be talking to the politicians who more-than-not ignore what the public wants anyway. To get tenure, you have to work 80+ hours a week as it is writing grants and papers, teaching, doing "service" to your University, all on top of doing quality research. And if you do get tenure, well, you've built up this big infrastructure that now requires more funding to sustain itself, so you keep on writing those grants and papers, and you do your teaching, and now you're probably heading that University committee you've been on, and you're mentoring a few post-docs and a few more grad students, and there a few more undergrads who want to do some research over the summer....
You live in a world where you know what a zombie is. In every fictional zombie universe, nobody knows about zombies. They don't know the rules. For the first few days, the infection is like a flu or rabies, and nobody is mercilessly going to put down their wife and kids after getting bit by a stranger. Try to imagine a zombie infection where nobody knew the rules. We'd catch on quick, but would we get there before mass communication could get every up to speed? That would be the trick to model.
I just don't understand that logical leap. How is the FCC controlling "every bit that flows across the country"? They're saying ISPs can't exert control over which bits. How does that mean the government de facto gets that control? Seriously. I don't get it at all.
Because gas and water are matter that gets consumed. Physical things that need to be transported. Electricity has to be generated and the charge differential is consumed. Transmitting a lot or a little data uses nothing, except maybe minuscule amounts of extra electricity once the infrastructure exists. Metering data usage is a transparent cash grab.
If you're at the stage where you have a life-threatening multi-drug resistant infection, you're probably in a hospital gurney and that miracle antibiotic will be delivered by IV in a tightly controlled dosing regimen.
Indeed. I don't love Comcast - they are robbers who have tried to screw me so many gd times during a recent move across country, and if any other broadband in our area was any better we'd have dumped them. But, that said, this is an awfully nice perk of being their customer. Currently I'm working on Boston while my family lives in CA. We have xfinity at the house in CA (I bought my own modem for $60 and had a really good router. Renting a modem is just dumb), and I get Wifi in Boston off of my neighbors. It's a bit wonky in that for some reason my desktop can't log in, but if I USB-tether my phone or tablet to the desktop it works. (Any ideas on why that would be?). I can walk through any residential neighborhood in the city and I've got wifi.
You can get all worked up about vague security issues or extremely minor power usage, but really, this is a pretty nice and useful feature if you're their customer.
Have a look at the Corsair mechanical keyboards. They have a bank of programmable keys down the left side. Great for game or programming macros.
Lots of cases. And after using SwiftKey for a while, I'll never go back to typing on a phone if I can help it.