I can't complain that you are on board with science.... But you did the world a horrible disservice by cancelling the Texas Super Collider... You spent like 6 billion, then spent 3 billion to scrap it, when the total cost for construction was 12 billion.
Because I was writing code from magazines and computer manuals, I didn't know what I was doing, but I got a familiarization with symbols. I realized at an early age algebra was really important to programming, and I gave extra effort into these courses. What is even more important than coding though is math. There should be(if there isn't already), a ton of early age math applications for kids to learn how to count and do addition/subtractions. The one that came for the TI-99 I played repetitively until I mastered it, and it gave me a jump start in math.
Whoa, chill out rage man. I read it and the "TED" feed. I'm suggesting upgrades. TED only says the locations of where the earthquakes are. I was thinking of more precise engine which gives exact long/lat of it, and even takes into consideration your smart phones long/lat. Sure TED looks nice in that it can tell you ahead of time, for most of the time, it's gonna be tweeting about EarthQuakes who aren't around you, which is like crying wolf and your alarm goes down. I was thinking of a smart phone ap that read from TED for your own specific encounter, as to not give out lots of false alarms etc etc etc. Does this make sense to anyone? It could be called "Earthquake Ap", and only alarms you if an EarthQuake is withing X hundred miles of you.
The easiest way is just use electricity off the grid. I've heard, but not confirmed it is around an order of magnitude cheaper than gasoline to electrolyze hydrogen. This sounds reasonable because the electric cars also have cheap fuel from electric.
Of course if you have a place for a lot of solar/wind farms, they can pay for themselves in 5-10 years with tax credits just on one's own home. So if you're making hydrogen for a refueling station, you could probably charge 1/3 what a gasoline station charges for the equivalent of a gallon, and everyone is happy, and you're making a good profit to recoup your solar investment and scale up your operations more.
What I am doing as a hobby is that once I find a cheap compressor: I'm simply going to start making and selling pressurized hydrogen and maybe distilled or mineral water privately until the electric car comes out. It is just a hobby I want to get into because the future might be promising.
You're better off buying an electolyzer for $150-$1000. Electrolyzer required distilled water. Distillers are pretty cheap too, lets say you can get one for 150$.
Now the cool thing coming out is Toyota's Hydrogen Car for 50k or so in 2015. In order to store hydrogen in a tank, you must first compress it. Hydrogen is a material that erodes a lot of materials it comes in contact with, so dealing with it is somewhat more challenging than other fuels. Compressors exist for hydrogen, but I couldn't find a price for under $12k. Before I become a hobbyist in this, I need to make sure I can afford it, and $12k for the compressor is what makes working on a personal hydrogen refueling station unfeasible for me.
I think if hydrogen car economy takes off, everyone will have their own refueling station because the only two inputs required are: Electricity and Water. Then you lose some power converting the electricity into hydrogen but being able to store it in fuel tanks as opposed to expensive batteries that wear out makes it nice. We're looking forward to time where people invest in their own solar panels on their property so they pay less in utilities too.
I think in the short run of a hydrogen economy, you'll have hydrogen refueling stations, but in the long run, people will be making personal stations too. Besides harmless emissions from hydrogen, the cost of fuel will be extremely low compared to gasoline. Of course if the price of the car is greater than the price of a gas powered car and its lifetime of gasoline, there is only going to be a niche market. But if Toyota can get these things for under $25k and they don't have any serious downsides like the electric car's problem of battery arrays dying.... It could be the future.
Because of this, I want to become a hobbyist, and maybe own my own refueling station some day, but I don't want to get too involved if I can't afford a hydrogen compressor. Anyone know of a place to get a hydrogen compressor for under $12k?
I know Jesus exists. So what if I die, I get to live forever. There's a cool thing that happens when you know this life isn't the end: You suddenly stop caring about yourself and just live your life to help everyone else. This life will be the only life where other people need our help. It only costs 100$/yr to keep children from starving to death. So the obvious idea is to work for enough money to live on frugally, then give excess to the poor. If enough people actually did do self sacrificial giving of their excess funds, there would be no such a thing as World Hunger. But as long as other people need help to survive, we should be helping them.
Mac do get quality notoriety for not having many viruses. The problem is that if you naively think you're immune, that's when you run into unexpected problems. I'm still stuck in defensive mode on my PCs ever since the buffer overflow viruses of the early 2000s. I think if just one vulnerability hits my work machine, I'm out dozens of hours for reinstall, and lose lots of work and files that weren't worthy of backup. So I only browse limited websites in case one has a vulnerability.
I'm still not sure why Windows doesn't release a secure version. It'd be as simple as not allowing.exe out of their install directory. Every.exe gets its own registry that can't mess with other values. Then there would be a shared memory sector to transfer data between applications. This wouldn't help with old aps, but future aps could conform. To run old aps, you'd have to manually click "it is trusted". People would have the incentive to make their.exe trusted because it'd get more downloads from the Internet:) Once Microsoft Windows would be able to be friendly with the Internet, they'd have a better ability to compete. It shouldn't be that incredibly hard for them at MS to write this secure version, all it needs is put up sandbox values that you can't write to the same global registry as drivers write to, and that you can't escape the install directory. It shouldn't even take a huge rewrite, just some modification with existing code.
I'm using a 20$ head set. I have a 10$ keyboard by them, and like a 15$ Optical Mouse. All my Logitech stuff works well and lasts for years. When I used Belkin, the stuff had weird errors and conflicts here and there. Logitech seems like it is the quality goto product when you're looking to be economical.
I was wondering if other people have had a good experience with this company?
I remember playing that competition. What stumped me is that I could not find Warmech
I beat the game like 3-4 times in search of him, but the Random Number Generator never let me encounter this dude:) Congratulations on your win. Back then I was so hungry for any video game competition. I did pretty well in the Super Mario Bros/Rad Racer/Tetris world championships once. I guess I should fire up Starcraft2 and play for serious because that's where some of the best Esports is right now.
Nintendo power was fun propoganda to get you hyped up to play video games in the 80s. As a kid, I loved that stuff. Games were already fun, but when you have a magazine talking about strategies, and easter eggs when there was no internet to get any discussion, that was indeed great times!
NES era was a huge time in my childhood because the jump from atari2600 to NES was so huge that you never knew what they could make next as a video game, and the games for NES were really fun compared to atari2600 games which rapidly got boring, but I played them anyway because there was no alternative. Around 1989 is when I realized I wanted to be come a computer game programmer, and it was when I was standing around a bunch of NES games we played out and I was getting kinda bored with.
Hello,
I see a *lot* of negative privacy concerns on this post, but I see it differently. I've felt for over a decade the police should have license plate scanners. Then when they tie it into a database of stolen cars, or cars used in recent untried crimes, it would come up as a positive, and the cop could pull the car over.
Isn't there any love for police here being able to do their job more effectively? Every civilized nation needs a police force. So even if you don't like the current government, a new government still would need police. We should therefore help our police to be empowered to solve the crimes they're commonly tackling.
I think we have a miscommunication. I made no mention of term limits. I was just stating that voting allows non violent regime change. If I meant to infer term limits, I would have said that the guy changes every 8 years.
Exactly like I said, there are many problems in it. My friend and I are going to be starting one in 2 years. We tried back in 2008, but I told him we should just give up because we'll never compete with Digg.com. ^^
There are many versions of direct democracy that don't all involve people voting directly on laws.
For instance there is a direct democracy that merely influences a representative democracy in place. This is where I'm going with my friend in the future. It will be a discussion group based on political ideas of what is important for the state. Then elected officials will be examined if they voted for similar ideas. The guys who go against what you want, you can vote out. In its purest form, it is just active education, which is desperately needed for voters. If every voter knew what they wanted and their elected official's track record, they could know if they want to reelect them.
Sadly today, most people get their education from TV campaign ads, which due to polling the local people, quite often tell them what they want to hear then the politician does what the campaign contributor who paid for the ads wants.
It could definitely be a problem if everyone voting or discussing laws had their real name to them as opposed to an anonymous ID#. Even more so, the problem gets deeper than that though: What if a minority find itself in a position where it is oppressed by the majority? Would that minority get violent? The original idea behind US democracy was that the guy in charge changes every 4 years as to not need violent regime change.
The key is, that making a direct democracy has many problems. You don't just institute it without exploring all the problems. But first creating a simulation of a direct democracy would be a great way to see what are all the problems with it. I don't think exploring it as an experiment is that bad of an idea. Just don't let any country officially download the ap for their government until it has been given like a 20-30 year analysis.
Actually the biggest reason we don't all vote on every last issue is that we can't all live in one city and meet in one place. The Internet fixes that problem. Yes there are other problems, but don't discount the ability to have your say in things that matter! Look at the US presidency, it is a sham bought by corporate money, rarely is either candidate any good, but you have no choice in the matter. Wouldn't it be nicer to have your say in things that matter to you, issue by issue.
Just to open your mind a bit: If a citizen likes the idea of representative democracy in this system, they can merely shift their voting rights to someone they trust. In this way, people who are trusted become your elected official.
By no means do I think this would be a perfect government. But it would be a different government and if it played out for a few decades in just a simulated form, lots of the problems could be ironed out, or the idea could be scrapped altogether. One thing I theorize it is even nice for is piggybacking an existing government. The people say what they want, and you can check against what elected officials are doing. If elected officials are going against the direct democracy people and there are enough direct democracy people, the elected official can be voted out.
There is so much to this and it is so interesting of a topic that it shouldn't just be written off.
I eventually want to write a piece of software which allows for direct democracy. Everyone who has a computer or goes to the library can vote on bills, and tell their figure head officials how to act. You still need people as acting officials because sticking a robot in the UN is kinda silly for example. This isn't to change the US government, but if you have a piece of software that acts as direct democracy with customizable features for a constitution, any time some people overthrow their oppressive government, they could just go,"Hey, lets install direct democracy."
Anyway the problems I've run across is:
You need to authenticate users manually, so maybe the authenticator cards are good for people so stolen passwords can't stop you.
But the bigger problem will be people doing MTM attacks and changing votes, or maybe hacking the system from out of the country, or buying citizen's voting rights.
The main solution for some problems is:
You need your own closed Internet in your country, a secure web, where people from outside the Internet can't log in.
Sure sometimes someone will tap into the line on the telephone pole for MTM, but if you stop it, they get prison time.
You gotta limit what a standard citizen's client can get to also, or people could just route from the internet to client to into the system.
There are a WHOLE HOST of problems though... more than I can even imagine. There is just about no greater honeypot to a hacker than to become a leader of a country. The way I'm going to go about it involves not working on the security issues at first, but just working on the direct democracy system, so when the security issues can be addressed, the system could be altered or rewritten when it happens. Just having something as proof of concept is better than nothing at all.
The street based community wiki seems pretty smart. It was better than my plan to start locally and get people to sign up in person, and for us to hand them a password.
Probs is I have a few projects on my plate before I go back to this system again. If someone wants to start an open source form of government, I'm sure some country down the line will have a revolution and might be interested. So any work done here will be of benefit in the future.
I agree that coding is done best with breaks to think about your code in between if it is hard code. They teach you in college that coding is best if you plan it out all before hand. But as I have veterancy now, I think the most important thing to do is architect your data structures right, then you can just sprint along and wing it with the rest of the code. By data structures, I mean your OO classes and memory allocation. If you can architect out your data structures to be sufficient for your project, but not so complex to make coding a dire experience, you can keep things sane for the rest of the coding. Data structures are necessary, but they also frame the picture and you just fill in the details after you have them solved.
I also agree that a coder needs to exercise. Anyone with a desk job needs to get with some sort of fitness program. I have a nice walking dirt road by my house that is.5 miles long. When I finish something in code, I like to take a break and walk up and down that road for 1 mile. It clears my mind and I can start working on data structures/algorithms for the next chunks of code I am going to work on. If I can't think up a rough solution on my feet, I go for another mile.
Sometimes I sit with one leg folded under my thigh. I got this really nasty kink in my left knee right now. I know it will work itself out in about a day, but I have a temporary limp for the day. Also it cuts off circulation when you fold your foot under your thigh. It is just a bad habit to do.
Well then my approximations are off. I think even with a high enough FPS you're still looking at a difficult problem of gauging the angle and speed of punches and kicks. And then you have the problem of determining what to do when a punch goes through a block. Finally you have another problem which might not be solvable outside of LAN play on PC and this is latency. It just might not be that fun if the reaction time is more than X milliseconds. Now a good ping is about 33ms, but you're not always guaranteed that. LAN play on PC is a very limited market and would only be a solution if this game turned out to be perfect because people could host live tourneys. These are just some thoughts I have of the difficult parts of this type of game. To me, this is enough difficulties that I'd just personally make another genre of game if I was doing this solo, but someone with deep pockets who is ambitious could take a stab at it.
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I want to see a Quake 1 lightning gun.
I can't complain that you are on board with science.... But you did the world a horrible disservice by cancelling the Texas Super Collider... You spent like 6 billion, then spent 3 billion to scrap it, when the total cost for construction was 12 billion.
Because I was writing code from magazines and computer manuals, I didn't know what I was doing, but I got a familiarization with symbols. I realized at an early age algebra was really important to programming, and I gave extra effort into these courses. What is even more important than coding though is math. There should be(if there isn't already), a ton of early age math applications for kids to learn how to count and do addition/subtractions. The one that came for the TI-99 I played repetitively until I mastered it, and it gave me a jump start in math.
Whoa, chill out rage man. I read it and the "TED" feed. I'm suggesting upgrades. TED only says the locations of where the earthquakes are. I was thinking of more precise engine which gives exact long/lat of it, and even takes into consideration your smart phones long/lat. Sure TED looks nice in that it can tell you ahead of time, for most of the time, it's gonna be tweeting about EarthQuakes who aren't around you, which is like crying wolf and your alarm goes down. I was thinking of a smart phone ap that read from TED for your own specific encounter, as to not give out lots of false alarms etc etc etc. Does this make sense to anyone? It could be called "Earthquake Ap", and only alarms you if an EarthQuake is withing X hundred miles of you.
Makes it seem like there should be a more advanced system than just twitter feeds.
Maybe an ap that skims twitter feeds properly formatted with GPS coords, so the ap can tell if one is coming at you.
Then people could prepare by going under a door frame or something?
Hello, I believe the universe can be billions of years old. I have no problems with evolution. Still, I still believe in a literal Creation.
If science and theology disagree, this normally means theology is incorrect.
This is a powerful article for this discussion
The easiest way is just use electricity off the grid. I've heard, but not confirmed it is around an order of magnitude cheaper than gasoline to electrolyze hydrogen. This sounds reasonable because the electric cars also have cheap fuel from electric.
Of course if you have a place for a lot of solar/wind farms, they can pay for themselves in 5-10 years with tax credits just on one's own home. So if you're making hydrogen for a refueling station, you could probably charge 1/3 what a gasoline station charges for the equivalent of a gallon, and everyone is happy, and you're making a good profit to recoup your solar investment and scale up your operations more.
What I am doing as a hobby is that once I find a cheap compressor: I'm simply going to start making and selling pressurized hydrogen and maybe distilled or mineral water privately until the electric car comes out. It is just a hobby I want to get into because the future might be promising.
You're better off buying an electolyzer for $150-$1000. Electrolyzer required distilled water. Distillers are pretty cheap too, lets say you can get one for 150$.
Now the cool thing coming out is Toyota's Hydrogen Car for 50k or so in 2015. In order to store hydrogen in a tank, you must first compress it. Hydrogen is a material that erodes a lot of materials it comes in contact with, so dealing with it is somewhat more challenging than other fuels. Compressors exist for hydrogen, but I couldn't find a price for under $12k. Before I become a hobbyist in this, I need to make sure I can afford it, and $12k for the compressor is what makes working on a personal hydrogen refueling station unfeasible for me.
I think if hydrogen car economy takes off, everyone will have their own refueling station because the only two inputs required are: Electricity and Water. Then you lose some power converting the electricity into hydrogen but being able to store it in fuel tanks as opposed to expensive batteries that wear out makes it nice. We're looking forward to time where people invest in their own solar panels on their property so they pay less in utilities too.
I think in the short run of a hydrogen economy, you'll have hydrogen refueling stations, but in the long run, people will be making personal stations too. Besides harmless emissions from hydrogen, the cost of fuel will be extremely low compared to gasoline. Of course if the price of the car is greater than the price of a gas powered car and its lifetime of gasoline, there is only going to be a niche market. But if Toyota can get these things for under $25k and they don't have any serious downsides like the electric car's problem of battery arrays dying.... It could be the future.
Because of this, I want to become a hobbyist, and maybe own my own refueling station some day, but I don't want to get too involved if I can't afford a hydrogen compressor. Anyone know of a place to get a hydrogen compressor for under $12k?
I know Jesus exists. So what if I die, I get to live forever. There's a cool thing that happens when you know this life isn't the end: You suddenly stop caring about yourself and just live your life to help everyone else. This life will be the only life where other people need our help. It only costs 100$/yr to keep children from starving to death. So the obvious idea is to work for enough money to live on frugally, then give excess to the poor. If enough people actually did do self sacrificial giving of their excess funds, there would be no such a thing as World Hunger. But as long as other people need help to survive, we should be helping them.
State sponsored municipal broadband has been sued away because apparently competition with corporate monopolies is illegal.
Maybe it will get depressed enough to create 90's alternative rock: My reflection, dirty mirror, is no connection to myself
Mac do get quality notoriety for not having many viruses. The problem is that if you naively think you're immune, that's when you run into unexpected problems. I'm still stuck in defensive mode on my PCs ever since the buffer overflow viruses of the early 2000s. I think if just one vulnerability hits my work machine, I'm out dozens of hours for reinstall, and lose lots of work and files that weren't worthy of backup. So I only browse limited websites in case one has a vulnerability.
.exe out of their install directory. Every .exe gets its own registry that can't mess with other values. Then there would be a shared memory sector to transfer data between applications. This wouldn't help with old aps, but future aps could conform. To run old aps, you'd have to manually click "it is trusted". People would have the incentive to make their .exe trusted because it'd get more downloads from the Internet :) Once Microsoft Windows would be able to be friendly with the Internet, they'd have a better ability to compete. It shouldn't be that incredibly hard for them at MS to write this secure version, all it needs is put up sandbox values that you can't write to the same global registry as drivers write to, and that you can't escape the install directory. It shouldn't even take a huge rewrite, just some modification with existing code.
I'm still not sure why Windows doesn't release a secure version. It'd be as simple as not allowing
I'm using a 20$ head set. I have a 10$ keyboard by them, and like a 15$ Optical Mouse. All my Logitech stuff works well and lasts for years. When I used Belkin, the stuff had weird errors and conflicts here and there. Logitech seems like it is the quality goto product when you're looking to be economical.
I was wondering if other people have had a good experience with this company?
I remember playing that competition. What stumped me is that I could not find Warmech
:) Congratulations on your win. Back then I was so hungry for any video game competition. I did pretty well in the Super Mario Bros/Rad Racer/Tetris world championships once. I guess I should fire up Starcraft2 and play for serious because that's where some of the best Esports is right now.
I beat the game like 3-4 times in search of him, but the Random Number Generator never let me encounter this dude
Nintendo power was fun propoganda to get you hyped up to play video games in the 80s. As a kid, I loved that stuff. Games were already fun, but when you have a magazine talking about strategies, and easter eggs when there was no internet to get any discussion, that was indeed great times!
NES era was a huge time in my childhood because the jump from atari2600 to NES was so huge that you never knew what they could make next as a video game, and the games for NES were really fun compared to atari2600 games which rapidly got boring, but I played them anyway because there was no alternative. Around 1989 is when I realized I wanted to be come a computer game programmer, and it was when I was standing around a bunch of NES games we played out and I was getting kinda bored with.
This would promote synergy in the global open source ecosystem causing upward mobility of natural language and ultimately a paradigm shift.
Hello, I see a *lot* of negative privacy concerns on this post, but I see it differently. I've felt for over a decade the police should have license plate scanners. Then when they tie it into a database of stolen cars, or cars used in recent untried crimes, it would come up as a positive, and the cop could pull the car over.
Isn't there any love for police here being able to do their job more effectively? Every civilized nation needs a police force. So even if you don't like the current government, a new government still would need police. We should therefore help our police to be empowered to solve the crimes they're commonly tackling.
I think we have a miscommunication. I made no mention of term limits. I was just stating that voting allows non violent regime change. If I meant to infer term limits, I would have said that the guy changes every 8 years.
Exactly like I said, there are many problems in it. My friend and I are going to be starting one in 2 years. We tried back in 2008, but I told him we should just give up because we'll never compete with Digg.com. ^^
There are many versions of direct democracy that don't all involve people voting directly on laws.
For instance there is a direct democracy that merely influences a representative democracy in place. This is where I'm going with my friend in the future. It will be a discussion group based on political ideas of what is important for the state. Then elected officials will be examined if they voted for similar ideas. The guys who go against what you want, you can vote out. In its purest form, it is just active education, which is desperately needed for voters. If every voter knew what they wanted and their elected official's track record, they could know if they want to reelect them.
Sadly today, most people get their education from TV campaign ads, which due to polling the local people, quite often tell them what they want to hear then the politician does what the campaign contributor who paid for the ads wants.
It could definitely be a problem if everyone voting or discussing laws had their real name to them as opposed to an anonymous ID#. Even more so, the problem gets deeper than that though: What if a minority find itself in a position where it is oppressed by the majority? Would that minority get violent? The original idea behind US democracy was that the guy in charge changes every 4 years as to not need violent regime change.
The key is, that making a direct democracy has many problems. You don't just institute it without exploring all the problems. But first creating a simulation of a direct democracy would be a great way to see what are all the problems with it. I don't think exploring it as an experiment is that bad of an idea. Just don't let any country officially download the ap for their government until it has been given like a 20-30 year analysis.
Actually the biggest reason we don't all vote on every last issue is that we can't all live in one city and meet in one place. The Internet fixes that problem. Yes there are other problems, but don't discount the ability to have your say in things that matter! Look at the US presidency, it is a sham bought by corporate money, rarely is either candidate any good, but you have no choice in the matter. Wouldn't it be nicer to have your say in things that matter to you, issue by issue.
Just to open your mind a bit: If a citizen likes the idea of representative democracy in this system, they can merely shift their voting rights to someone they trust. In this way, people who are trusted become your elected official.
By no means do I think this would be a perfect government. But it would be a different government and if it played out for a few decades in just a simulated form, lots of the problems could be ironed out, or the idea could be scrapped altogether. One thing I theorize it is even nice for is piggybacking an existing government. The people say what they want, and you can check against what elected officials are doing. If elected officials are going against the direct democracy people and there are enough direct democracy people, the elected official can be voted out.
There is so much to this and it is so interesting of a topic that it shouldn't just be written off.
I eventually want to write a piece of software which allows for direct democracy. Everyone who has a computer or goes to the library can vote on bills, and tell their figure head officials how to act. You still need people as acting officials because sticking a robot in the UN is kinda silly for example. This isn't to change the US government, but if you have a piece of software that acts as direct democracy with customizable features for a constitution, any time some people overthrow their oppressive government, they could just go,"Hey, lets install direct democracy."
Anyway the problems I've run across is:
You need to authenticate users manually, so maybe the authenticator cards are good for people so stolen passwords can't stop you.
But the bigger problem will be people doing MTM attacks and changing votes, or maybe hacking the system from out of the country, or buying citizen's voting rights.
The main solution for some problems is:
You need your own closed Internet in your country, a secure web, where people from outside the Internet can't log in.
Sure sometimes someone will tap into the line on the telephone pole for MTM, but if you stop it, they get prison time.
You gotta limit what a standard citizen's client can get to also, or people could just route from the internet to client to into the system.
There are a WHOLE HOST of problems though... more than I can even imagine. There is just about no greater honeypot to a hacker than to become a leader of a country. The way I'm going to go about it involves not working on the security issues at first, but just working on the direct democracy system, so when the security issues can be addressed, the system could be altered or rewritten when it happens. Just having something as proof of concept is better than nothing at all.
The street based community wiki seems pretty smart. It was better than my plan to start locally and get people to sign up in person, and for us to hand them a password.
Probs is I have a few projects on my plate before I go back to this system again. If someone wants to start an open source form of government, I'm sure some country down the line will have a revolution and might be interested. So any work done here will be of benefit in the future.
I agree that coding is done best with breaks to think about your code in between if it is hard code. They teach you in college that coding is best if you plan it out all before hand. But as I have veterancy now, I think the most important thing to do is architect your data structures right, then you can just sprint along and wing it with the rest of the code. By data structures, I mean your OO classes and memory allocation. If you can architect out your data structures to be sufficient for your project, but not so complex to make coding a dire experience, you can keep things sane for the rest of the coding. Data structures are necessary, but they also frame the picture and you just fill in the details after you have them solved.
.5 miles long. When I finish something in code, I like to take a break and walk up and down that road for 1 mile. It clears my mind and I can start working on data structures/algorithms for the next chunks of code I am going to work on. If I can't think up a rough solution on my feet, I go for another mile.
I also agree that a coder needs to exercise. Anyone with a desk job needs to get with some sort of fitness program. I have a nice walking dirt road by my house that is
Sometimes I sit with one leg folded under my thigh. I got this really nasty kink in my left knee right now. I know it will work itself out in about a day, but I have a temporary limp for the day. Also it cuts off circulation when you fold your foot under your thigh. It is just a bad habit to do.
Well then my approximations are off. I think even with a high enough FPS you're still looking at a difficult problem of gauging the angle and speed of punches and kicks. And then you have the problem of determining what to do when a punch goes through a block. Finally you have another problem which might not be solvable outside of LAN play on PC and this is latency. It just might not be that fun if the reaction time is more than X milliseconds. Now a good ping is about 33ms, but you're not always guaranteed that. LAN play on PC is a very limited market and would only be a solution if this game turned out to be perfect because people could host live tourneys. These are just some thoughts I have of the difficult parts of this type of game. To me, this is enough difficulties that I'd just personally make another genre of game if I was doing this solo, but someone with deep pockets who is ambitious could take a stab at it.