Personally, I play better when I know my opponents are clutching at talismans and placeboes, since it means psyop attacks will work against them, crushing their fragile self-images. Watch out! (yeah, okay, I don't even play MMOs...)
I use Unity3D and program in Javascript and C#, with Mono and in the iPhone case somehow eventually Objective-C as the end target. I don't think of the few.NET frameworks that I use as any particularly revealing "choice" I'm making. It's just a tool in the chain. To prejudice against it would be like prejudicing against Windows vs Linux for Qt developers. Dandy? Like the 18th century term? Oh dear.
No, these days, the car physics built into the GPU ensures the car explodes in a completely realistic way, based on long running crash test models (even if the Mythbusters never manage it). No programming is required. Programmers had it tough back then, but now it's very easy, so all the big bucks is in coming up with ideas. The programming step can be done by monkeys, and often is with good enough designers like Will Wright.
Indeed, early in the game, I'd sometimes just keep cruising to hear the end of a segment rather than actually start a mission. Other driving games make getting to the mission a boring chore, or add an unrealistic quick jump mechanic. Rockstar got it right (not so much in later editions).
CJ Cherryh sells her books cheap and DRM free, see http://www.cherryh.com/, at least those for which she can wrest the rights back from publishers. Such direct book sales from authors, cuttong out publishers AND bookstores (brick like Borders or vaporous like Amazon) will get progressively easier. Just like the music industry will eventually learn, gouging your customers always loses in the long run.
Err, yes, "if". TFA is *about* outside parties. If a black person is raised with anti-black hatred and hates themselves, is the solution to change their skin, or to teach them that the hatred was wrong?
More fairly, to use your analogy, a transsexual man who is that way because his mother burned effigies of men his whole childhood might better receive councelling, while the transsexual that is simply born with that particular wiring should not. Get it? Too complicated?
Yes, just like if everyone was born female, civilization would end - damn them lasses! Look up "equilibrium" in any textbook on evolution (no, touching them doesn't send you to Hell, and it's a little more complicated than what you gleaned from Sunday School vitriol), and you'll learn all sorts of fascinating examples, from the familiar sterile worker ants to bonobos that spend a LOT of time masturbating in public... all to the benefit of their genes (see, you're not a useless impotent wanker after all). The *natural* world is truly remarkable and enlightening, exceptionally so when compared to dull and frivolous mythologies. Get beyond your/. Asperger's and you'll see there is plenty to learn that doesn't fit the jerks of your knees.
A well trained human can outrun just about any other animal, for a sufficiently large distance. If this robot only has the short stamina of a real cheetah, it'll not be much use. Here is a good TED talk along these lines: http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_mcdougall_are_we_born_to_run.html
Amazon and others bring this upon themselves. If they sold DRM-free ebooks, this rule would be unenforceable. I buy and read DRM free ebooks and their is no way Apple can even know where I got them.
It's provably wrong too, since religiosity has *decreased* steadily over the last 800 years. If a theory does not match past observations, there is certainly no point proposing it for predicting future results.
So you're well to be dubious. I guess you're carrying the "scientist gene".
Rationing IPv4 would be like rationing currency. Since you're schooled in economics, consider what would happen if a country's Mint decided that only 2 billion units of currency would ever be minted (say because they ran out of serial numbers). The country could function, but with a pointlessly crippled economy.
I'm surprised anyone who is clearly schooled in economics (but perhaps not of IT) would not see this obvious correlation and basically identical consequences of rationing what is ultimately just a technical detail of a critical transactions mechanism.
Fortunately, IPv4 addresses will actually DECREASE in "value" as IPv6 takes hold: they'll be like that pile of francs and d.marks and lira you've somehow still got in the bottom of your travel case (hey, maybe 7.7.7.7 will become a collector's item...)
So why doesn't Ekstra Bladet just publish a "Ekstra Bladet Web Browser" app instead of a "Ekstra Bladet Newspaper" app? Certainly Atomic Web Browser for iPad causes Apple to warn me that it might expose me to explicit content. I assume the "Ekstra Bladet Web Browser" would similarly warn me of that moral peril.
This is out of proportion. The critical pollution today is CO2 and other Greenhouse gases. Other pollutants are localized - they are "safely" stored in the ground/seabed and/or break down. Of all places to release such pollutants, the least environmental impact is releasing them at sea (the ocean has a gigantic 3 dimensional ability to absorb and "safely" store pollutants).
This is not to say pollution is not a problem, but let's keep this in perspective. It has been far more important to reduce particulate pollutions on land (vehicles and industry) than at sea; and now the next problem is CO2.
When I get into Heaven, I'm going to take all this crap straight to top management. Perhaps if He spent less mana on Marketing and more on Product Development, we wouldn't be the quarantined laughing stock of the galaxy. It's so god-damned lonely being a mutant freak.
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Personally, I play better when I know my opponents are clutching at talismans and placeboes, since it means psyop attacks will work against them, crushing their fragile self-images. Watch out! (yeah, okay, I don't even play MMOs...)
I use Unity3D and program in Javascript and C#, with Mono and in the iPhone case somehow eventually Objective-C as the end target. I don't think of the few .NET frameworks that I use as any particularly revealing "choice" I'm making. It's just a tool in the chain. To prejudice against it would be like prejudicing against Windows vs Linux for Qt developers. Dandy? Like the 18th century term? Oh dear.
functional programming has the same issues as soon as you try to interact with the external world.
Why would academics want to do that?
No, these days, the car physics built into the GPU ensures the car explodes in a completely realistic way, based on long running crash test models (even if the Mythbusters never manage it). No programming is required. Programmers had it tough back then, but now it's very easy, so all the big bucks is in coming up with ideas. The programming step can be done by monkeys, and often is with good enough designers like Will Wright.
Indeed, early in the game, I'd sometimes just keep cruising to hear the end of a segment rather than actually start a mission. Other driving games make getting to the mission a boring chore, or add an unrealistic quick jump mechanic. Rockstar got it right (not so much in later editions).
Yes, "unaware civilians" is the main US enemy, domestically and, according to body counts, abroad.
Shut up Qaddafi, you anonymous senile coward.
CJ Cherryh sells her books cheap and DRM free, see http://www.cherryh.com/, at least those for which she can wrest the rights back from publishers. Such direct book sales from authors, cuttong out publishers AND bookstores (brick like Borders or vaporous like Amazon) will get progressively easier. Just like the music industry will eventually learn, gouging your customers always loses in the long run.
Err, yes, "if". TFA is *about* outside parties. If a black person is raised with anti-black hatred and hates themselves, is the solution to change their skin, or to teach them that the hatred was wrong?
More fairly, to use your analogy, a transsexual man who is that way because his mother burned effigies of men his whole childhood might better receive councelling, while the transsexual that is simply born with that particular wiring should not. Get it? Too complicated?
And to you I recommend "I'm too much of a tosspot to be allowed Internet access". Perhaps take it to share with your Reading Group.
The rest of us just get to be as camp as society will allow. Now, when the gays try to own campdom, *that* annoys me!
Using :-) just makes us look old, not humourless. Young emoters have no nose.
I have an app that will help you with erectile dysfunction, but Apple banned it...
Yes, just like if everyone was born female, civilization would end - damn them lasses! Look up "equilibrium" in any textbook on evolution (no, touching them doesn't send you to Hell, and it's a little more complicated than what you gleaned from Sunday School vitriol), and you'll learn all sorts of fascinating examples, from the familiar sterile worker ants to bonobos that spend a LOT of time masturbating in public... all to the benefit of their genes (see, you're not a useless impotent wanker after all). The *natural* world is truly remarkable and enlightening, exceptionally so when compared to dull and frivolous mythologies. Get beyond your /. Asperger's and you'll see there is plenty to learn that doesn't fit the jerks of your knees.
Keep up postings like this, everywhere. Eventually, informed, the ignorants/ance will shrivel away.
A well trained human can outrun just about any other animal, for a sufficiently large distance. If this robot only has the short stamina of a real cheetah, it'll not be much use. Here is a good TED talk along these lines: http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_mcdougall_are_we_born_to_run.html
It was well-informed and humorless. Very Nokia.
Amazon and others bring this upon themselves. If they sold DRM-free ebooks, this rule would be unenforceable. I buy and read DRM free ebooks and their is no way Apple can even know where I got them.
It's provably wrong too, since religiosity has *decreased* steadily over the last 800 years. If a theory does not match past observations, there is certainly no point proposing it for predicting future results.
So you're well to be dubious. I guess you're carrying the "scientist gene".
Rationing IPv4 would be like rationing currency. Since you're schooled in economics, consider what would happen if a country's Mint decided that only 2 billion units of currency would ever be minted (say because they ran out of serial numbers). The country could function, but with a pointlessly crippled economy.
I'm surprised anyone who is clearly schooled in economics (but perhaps not of IT) would not see this obvious correlation and basically identical consequences of rationing what is ultimately just a technical detail of a critical transactions mechanism.
Fortunately, IPv4 addresses will actually DECREASE in "value" as IPv6 takes hold: they'll be like that pile of francs and d.marks and lira you've somehow still got in the bottom of your travel case (hey, maybe 7.7.7.7 will become a collector's item...)
So why doesn't Ekstra Bladet just publish a "Ekstra Bladet Web Browser" app instead of a "Ekstra Bladet Newspaper" app? Certainly Atomic Web Browser for iPad causes Apple to warn me that it might expose me to explicit content. I assume the "Ekstra Bladet Web Browser" would similarly warn me of that moral peril.
From TFA: for allowing other iPad apps (lists "German paper Bild and British The Sun") to do what they have been prevented from. Duh.
Oh yeah, it didn't, did it.
This is out of proportion. The critical pollution today is CO2 and other Greenhouse gases. Other pollutants are localized - they are "safely" stored in the ground/seabed and/or break down. Of all places to release such pollutants, the least environmental impact is releasing them at sea (the ocean has a gigantic 3 dimensional ability to absorb and "safely" store pollutants).
This is not to say pollution is not a problem, but let's keep this in perspective. It has been far more important to reduce particulate pollutions on land (vehicles and industry) than at sea; and now the next problem is CO2.
When I get into Heaven, I'm going to take all this crap straight to top management. Perhaps if He spent less mana on Marketing and more on Product Development, we wouldn't be the quarantined laughing stock of the galaxy. It's so god-damned lonely being a mutant freak.