2 mb/s download 640k upload doesn't cut it for designing games. If we had 1 GB/S up 100m/s up, we could have P2P games where you have up to 100,000 players in the same zone playing something like quake. Imagine a Fighter game like Tekken with 1,000,000 fighters in the same zone. The limitations no longer become technical, but how many people desire to play the game. You could even make games like military reinactments with everyone playing a role of a soldier.
Science and the Bible do not conflict. However, science and some theological positions of the Bible do conflict. When posed with wonder who is wrong, one must look at both sides at possibly being wrong. Is it the theological position that is in err, or is it the science? I would say in most situations the theological position is wrong.
When I pray, I pray that science gathers more knowledge for mankind such that we can create solutions to solve world hunger and disease. I never understood why a Christian would want to be against science when science is seeking truth. God is truth, so Christians should welcome the enlightenment of science. I evangelize to both unbelievers and believers alike that there is no conflict between the Bible and science.
Related: An article on the Long Day Theory
I have Comcast for high speed internet, or nothing!
I don't care if you encrypt my information or send it to the cloud in China, having some competition is better than living in a monopolistic world where the monopolies even corrupt the government
Yes, one corporate MBA's policy is different from another corporate MBA's policy. It is just a lot of corporations want to screw the customer. Capitalism isn't all about just competing to give a quality product at a low price. Sometimes when you edge towards Oligopoly (Cell phones/oil), or you're the only player in town(Limited competition), you start to test the limits of just how much you can squeeze from your customers.
Even when Hybrids save you money, it is good to have a pickup truck or van for different uses than you'd use a compact hybrid for. Maybe people like to diversify the types of car they own.
Hey we've been waiting over 20 already. The only thing we have to worry about in one year is if the crazy politicians decide to start world war 3. And if that is the case, I just have to find some like minded individuals who know first aid and pugilism.
I hope a hybrid plugin car will be my next vehicle I buy. I'm low on fundages so I'm waiting a few generations for them to lower the price and get some of the engineering quirks hammered out. My dream is to have a plugin car with a home solar array, so I don't pay the power company for energy anymore, and I can take casual drives for free.
Ever see any youtube video comments? Some of the stupidest things you'll ever hear are on youtube comments. Chinese citizens will think the rest of the world is populated by idiots and they'll beg for isolationism.
26 million people die each year to malnutrition and lack of clean drinking water. The cost of saving a life of one person each day is.33. So the cost for a year is $100. The cost to solve world hunger for a year is 3 billion. The cost to put into motion long term projects to solve world hunger is 30 billion as posed by the UN. The thing we should examine in ourselves is,"Based on the way I live, could I spare some money to help the poor?" It is similar to when Oscar Schindler broke down because he didn't sell his watch and car to save more lives. World hunger could be solved if enough people worked towards a solution.
One solution that doesn't work great is dumping food into areas. By exporting food to impoverished areas, you solve the problem for the short term, but if you stop doing it, there will be no farmers. Why will there be no farmers? Supply and demand kills the demand for food and farmers can't stay in business when dumping occurs. Think to devious competition schemes people have in capitalism when you want to make your competitor go broke. You simply drop the price on your goods where everyone is losing money, but you'll make it back after your competitor goes broke.
This is not to say all dumping is bad. You can dump food into crisis areas, and also provide a version of food stamps too so local farmers get paid. Food stamps is a great way to drive up demand for local foods.
In all this, depending on how much governmental aid or resistance you get is a wild card.
I like the notion of growing fruit trees. In case a farmer dies, or wars and revolutions, fruit trees remain.
The whole matter should be treated seriously. When you look at the US budget 30 billion to solve world hunger doesn't seem like a whole lot, and maybe it is deceptively small. You'd think the UN would have a bunch of countries teaming up to solve hunger, but do you think the reason they don't is the guns/butter slider? If you donate food to someone like North Korea, they'll just build more weapons with their extra money. I'm not sure I buy this argument.
Anyone know the popular arguments why governments don't band together and try and solve world hunger?
We tried to boycott EA, but RIAA sued my grandma into Oblivion.
I agree with boycotting EA, they make the game production scene worse by eliminating competition, not better.
If we just did something outrageous and said,"All copyrights expire after 7 years", we'd have a great wealth of free media for the uneducated. We could put K-12-College books on 100$ laptops. Then schools, instead of paying 10,000$ for books for k-12, kids could get a laptop and schools could save 10 grand on each student. Schools keep complaining they're strapped for cash. Well, here is a solution. Not to mention how great it'd be for third world kids with OLPC.
A modern Xwing vs TieFighter would be great. They could do it one of two ways to make it great I think: 1) A PVP laddered tournament approach with 1v1 and team games 2) A PVE freelancer style where you can buy up an armada and train wingmen over time.
The best place they could have done this was in SWTOR for their space combat.
In my mind I have an idea for someone's dystopian novel where a weak president comes into office of the USA. Then Iran finds a US citizen defaming something. Then the USA president extradites the citizen over. I guess it is bad enough they put a fatwa on a comedian. And police are fighting against peaceful protestors in the USA. Maybe I keep thinking of dystopian futures because it seems like things keep heading that way.
Remember Commodore 64? Its boot record was kept separate from the OS. So no matter what you did when you mucked around, you could boot again. Microsoft should provide two modes: A) "Wreckless Compatibility Mode" -This is for legacy issues and B) "Secure OS mode", where no one can write to the boot sector or start up, and you enter a special boot mode for cases of drivers.
I think by making it impossible to write over the OS, or alter OS files, then when you boot you shouldn't worry of a virus hosing your boot. Sure, a virus could write over all your program files and screw with your data, but I think the OS itself should never be at risk. Someone else can figure out how to make program files secure. Maybe they could say things can't escape out of their parent install directory.
Am I naive to think this sort of thing should be possible?
Everyone defends a section of an N sided polygon. N-1 Balls in play:) You only see the defensive wall of your side. Your score is how many you get by others - the ones that get past you. Totally non serious, but could be hilarious with 100 players and laddered stats.
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Why not Zoidberg?
>How do you tell which ones are from outer space?
The ones that do the counting. (Emporer penguins counted from outerspace)
2 mb/s download 640k upload doesn't cut it for designing games. If we had 1 GB/S up 100m/s up, we could have P2P games where you have up to 100,000 players in the same zone playing something like quake. Imagine a Fighter game like Tekken with 1,000,000 fighters in the same zone. The limitations no longer become technical, but how many people desire to play the game. You could even make games like military reinactments with everyone playing a role of a soldier.
Science and the Bible do not conflict. However, science and some theological positions of the Bible do conflict. When posed with wonder who is wrong, one must look at both sides at possibly being wrong. Is it the theological position that is in err, or is it the science? I would say in most situations the theological position is wrong.
When I pray, I pray that science gathers more knowledge for mankind such that we can create solutions to solve world hunger and disease. I never understood why a Christian would want to be against science when science is seeking truth. God is truth, so Christians should welcome the enlightenment of science. I evangelize to both unbelievers and believers alike that there is no conflict between the Bible and science. Related: An article on the Long Day Theory
I have Comcast for high speed internet, or nothing! I don't care if you encrypt my information or send it to the cloud in China, having some competition is better than living in a monopolistic world where the monopolies even corrupt the government
OPEC makes oil an oligopoly.
Yes, one corporate MBA's policy is different from another corporate MBA's policy. It is just a lot of corporations want to screw the customer. Capitalism isn't all about just competing to give a quality product at a low price. Sometimes when you edge towards Oligopoly (Cell phones/oil), or you're the only player in town(Limited competition), you start to test the limits of just how much you can squeeze from your customers.
Even when Hybrids save you money, it is good to have a pickup truck or van for different uses than you'd use a compact hybrid for. Maybe people like to diversify the types of car they own.
Hey we've been waiting over 20 already. The only thing we have to worry about in one year is if the crazy politicians decide to start world war 3. And if that is the case, I just have to find some like minded individuals who know first aid and pugilism.
I hope a hybrid plugin car will be my next vehicle I buy. I'm low on fundages so I'm waiting a few generations for them to lower the price and get some of the engineering quirks hammered out. My dream is to have a plugin car with a home solar array, so I don't pay the power company for energy anymore, and I can take casual drives for free.
Can't be much older than what I have in my freezer.
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
This is an interesting step; in general countries are a lot more strict on entering their territory than leaving it.
Countries yes, but states no. For New Jersey, it is free to enter across the bridge. But you need to pay to leave.
Ever see any youtube video comments? Some of the stupidest things you'll ever hear are on youtube comments. Chinese citizens will think the rest of the world is populated by idiots and they'll beg for isolationism.
26 million people die each year to malnutrition and lack of clean drinking water. The cost of saving a life of one person each day is .33. So the cost for a year is $100. The cost to solve world hunger for a year is 3 billion. The cost to put into motion long term projects to solve world hunger is 30 billion as posed by the UN. The thing we should examine in ourselves is,"Based on the way I live, could I spare some money to help the poor?" It is similar to when Oscar Schindler broke down because he didn't sell his watch and car to save more lives. World hunger could be solved if enough people worked towards a solution.
One solution that doesn't work great is dumping food into areas. By exporting food to impoverished areas, you solve the problem for the short term, but if you stop doing it, there will be no farmers. Why will there be no farmers? Supply and demand kills the demand for food and farmers can't stay in business when dumping occurs. Think to devious competition schemes people have in capitalism when you want to make your competitor go broke. You simply drop the price on your goods where everyone is losing money, but you'll make it back after your competitor goes broke.
This is not to say all dumping is bad. You can dump food into crisis areas, and also provide a version of food stamps too so local farmers get paid. Food stamps is a great way to drive up demand for local foods.
In all this, depending on how much governmental aid or resistance you get is a wild card.
I like the notion of growing fruit trees. In case a farmer dies, or wars and revolutions, fruit trees remain.
The whole matter should be treated seriously. When you look at the US budget 30 billion to solve world hunger doesn't seem like a whole lot, and maybe it is deceptively small. You'd think the UN would have a bunch of countries teaming up to solve hunger, but do you think the reason they don't is the guns/butter slider? If you donate food to someone like North Korea, they'll just build more weapons with their extra money. I'm not sure I buy this argument.
Anyone know the popular arguments why governments don't band together and try and solve world hunger?
We tried to boycott EA, but RIAA sued my grandma into Oblivion. I agree with boycotting EA, they make the game production scene worse by eliminating competition, not better.
If we just did something outrageous and said,"All copyrights expire after 7 years", we'd have a great wealth of free media for the uneducated. We could put K-12-College books on 100$ laptops. Then schools, instead of paying 10,000$ for books for k-12, kids could get a laptop and schools could save 10 grand on each student. Schools keep complaining they're strapped for cash. Well, here is a solution. Not to mention how great it'd be for third world kids with OLPC.
A modern Xwing vs TieFighter would be great. They could do it one of two ways to make it great I think: 1) A PVP laddered tournament approach with 1v1 and team games 2) A PVE freelancer style where you can buy up an armada and train wingmen over time.
The best place they could have done this was in SWTOR for their space combat.
In my mind I have an idea for someone's dystopian novel where a weak president comes into office of the USA. Then Iran finds a US citizen defaming something. Then the USA president extradites the citizen over. I guess it is bad enough they put a fatwa on a comedian. And police are fighting against peaceful protestors in the USA. Maybe I keep thinking of dystopian futures because it seems like things keep heading that way.
I might be interested in Facebook the Flamethrower.
Today's minimum wage worker might be college educated and never will be able to pay off their student loans.
Remember Commodore 64? Its boot record was kept separate from the OS. So no matter what you did when you mucked around, you could boot again. Microsoft should provide two modes: A) "Wreckless Compatibility Mode" -This is for legacy issues and B) "Secure OS mode", where no one can write to the boot sector or start up, and you enter a special boot mode for cases of drivers.
I think by making it impossible to write over the OS, or alter OS files, then when you boot you shouldn't worry of a virus hosing your boot. Sure, a virus could write over all your program files and screw with your data, but I think the OS itself should never be at risk. Someone else can figure out how to make program files secure. Maybe they could say things can't escape out of their parent install directory.
Am I naive to think this sort of thing should be possible?
Nobody said electronic devices can "bring down" a plane.
So quickly we forget
Everyone defends a section of an N sided polygon. N-1 Balls in play :) You only see the defensive wall of your side. Your score is how many you get by others - the ones that get past you. Totally non serious, but could be hilarious with 100 players and laddered stats.