Not that hydrogen is a much smarter solution; its not like there's a lot of hydrogen mines out in the mountains of South Dakota. The only real benefit of hydrogen is that you have a semi-centralized energy production system which you can change with time. Supposedly a few places have made solar powered hydrogen generators, and market them to gas stations in lieu of the large nationwide transportation system we use for gasoline.
They've completely skipped the strategy genre? Hardly. Advance Wars 2 and Fire Emblem are both resurrections of some of the earliest strategy games available on a console. Fire Emblem inspired a whole slew of knockoffs, from Shining Force to Ogre Tactics. Perhaps you meant real-time strategy, the genre which you might place the game Pikmin into?
I think that Nintendo is focusing on two things: creating new franchises unlike anything you've seen before (we call that innovation) and milking their brands with sequals (often called the antithesis of innovation). Dance Dance Mario doesn't seem to fit into either of those two categories.
Nintendo not pushing a MMORPG is a smart move; they want people dropping money on new games, rather than being locked into playing the same game for years. Square, as you probably know, has made a cross platform MMORPG. I don't know if the PS2 and PC owners use segregated servers, though. Even more frightently, an MMORPG represents a huge risk; you have to put down the cash for infrastructure, advertising, customer support, billing, and networking. That kind of risk means you'll be looking to minimize it, by using franchises already well established. Their options: Pokemon, a hugely popular franchise with the credit cardless demographic, and Fire Emblem, which hasn't made a big splash outside the portable market in the US.
There's a philosophy among the movie pirates, that I don't quite understand, but is detailed herein. Essentially, look for the biggest tracker of a particular file you're looking for-- its most likely the correct one. Or you might try finding somewhere besides suprnova, geared more toward your particular vices. I don't go for movies that often(netflix is worth it), but I do follow anime some. I rarely have a problem with fake torrents in the dedicated sites and metatrackers.
On the other hand, a submerged stock option is mostly useless to its owner. The potential dilution is a cost to the shareholders, but not the company itself. I think the Black-Scholes pricing system should reflect well enough on the books; if the stock option is submerged, then rational holders aren't going to exercise. Exercising them would both further destroy the revenue and book price to share ratio, and submerge any remaining options further. The black-scholes formula, on the other hand, will value an option at zero if submerged.
Before you say black-scholes is flawed, remember that it worked well enough for one company to make a trillion dollars or so in the market.
For what it's worth, the ancient Windows Calculator gives me zero. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a different set of numbers would break it though.
Actually, I was equally curious about that. It turns out the press release wasn't available during initial trading hours. It turns out one of the major brokers just upgraded their outlook on EA. Cramer, that amusing media baron on MSNBC, wrote an article stating that something is up; usually brokerage firms are behind the curve, so to speak. Cramer speculated that it was an acquisition, being woefully behind the rumors. Ironically, if I'm reading his marketese correctly, he suggested buying shorts in the stock, which is exacly the wrong way to play the actual news.
See, the firm JP upgraded them, saying they expected significant gains in the next cycle (aka year). Cramer misinterpreted this as EA buying somebody, rather than EA fucking over their competitors quite well. In the short run, this deal brings a huge upside to EA; their competitors can't adapt this quickly to the changes. Five years is basically long enough to destroy a franchise that doesn't release. In fact, this entire thing reeks of insider information; clearly JP morgan knew something the market didn't.
The real test of the news will come on tuesday morning, when the entire market reacts to the event.
they fail to offset the "network effect", the positive utility gained from people standardizing on MSO. Don't get me wrong; I really wish I could use OO.org but the truth is that Word doesn't read my doucments and OO.org fails to export my Resume correctly. As much as I enjoy giving company reps a PDF, more and more places want a.doc format so they can quickly reject your resume for not having keyword X on it.
I need a job; promoting an open culture comes 2nd to this. And we both know Microsoft isn't about to play nice and accept OOo's formats. So even if you do accept that the changing formats and poor intercompatibility of MS software is worth changing for, how do you plan a transition that doesn't screw the company eight ways from Sunday?
There is certainly a reason to develop cells. One of the key areas of performance is efficiency. As I understand it, they measure it by the amount of light hitting the panel versus what we is captured. I could be entirely wrong on that. Either way, current space grade panels run at about 35 percent efficiency. Improving that number requires a lot of experimentation and molecular chemistry and electronics knowledge. There are relatively few experts who can accomplish the task worldwide. Designing in America is an attractive proposition to a good number of these fellows, who've likely become accustomed to American freedoms and luxuries during their academic stays (if students can be said to enjoy luxuries). As for specifically Silicon Valley, the likelyhood is doubtful. Companies and people are waking up to the fact that a one time 5k relocation fee is cheaper than 15k+ a year in living expenses. With the tech venture capitol dried up, it makes sense to consider other regions like Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis and Minneapolis / St. Paul.
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Yes, I suppose the Brits would have won the Revolutionary War, if the battles had been decided by grammtical use of the English language.
Actually, this insiduous move wrecks more havoc than you think. Remember that built in server finding client that Game Spy was selling people? The one nobody thought was a good idea? Well America's Army bit, and now that the Mac port is coming close to a finish, Gamespy is moving to ludicrously price the Mac version of their client browser. Coincidence? Probably.
It is indeed true that Go has a large space of possible board positions, and that it also has a huge number of possible moves for each player. But that alone doesn't make Go a difficult problem. The critical element is how one measures success.
Most people measure the success of an AI by its comparability to humans, especially in games. It's important to note that not every AI researcher agrees; some feel that the state of the art is what matters more than material success. That aside, there is a game that plays similar to Go, and features similar gamespace factors: Othello. Despite this, computer opponents usually trounce their human counterparts.
Go never recieved the attention that Chess programs do in the States, which partially explains why the state of the art lags behind other game agents. But behind that surface analysis, I've found that today's researchers in the field feel that human Go players utilize a strong sense of pattern recognition that common min-max and other brute forcing techniques fail to capitalize on. The human pattern finding ability quickly outpaces move searching, because the board doesn't change much. We can predict much of what the future will look like from the present. Reversi/Othello is a contrast to this property, where every move can drastically alter a number of pieces and potential moves therein.
I have to admit that I too haven't a PhD in the field, but to my credit I share an interest in the field, and I've studied under a fairly brilliant mind in the field. This is my meager understanding, and probably indicates why you can't play a Go game against a bot on Yahoo! games;)
No teacher has ever approved of how low my homework scores were in high school math classes. They've generally held me to the fire and punished me for not applying myself. That said, I've never flunked a class nor found myself confused or embarressed reguarding math. Maybe you should just move to a place where the public education system is a top priority: Kansas. =)
Fortunately, UT doesn't run very well on a k6-2 with a gf2. I tried out the 2k4 demo on a whimical lark and discovered that in the absolute worst, not possibly meant for human consumption mode, I got about 3 fps. Lets just say I played a lot of yahoo! games during those years.
Its hard to take seriously the enlighenment of a professed non geek who no longer cares about formatting, and quickly derides the cardboard displays they must have spent so much time on.
As a self professed computer geek in high school, I can avouch that my compatroits were indeed slackers. It was almost a contest; who could get the most for the least. Which was probably for the best, because if we had been competing to have the highest percentage, we would probably have destroyed ourselves. I was enrolled in like 32 credit hours in high school, but that's stretched out over two semester, so its really closer to 16 credit hours of learning a semester and a hell of a lot more work. College was so much more relaxed, and I truly appreciated that. I wound up getting more B's than A's though, which certainly hasnt helped me in the job finding process this year.
At some point, you need to realize that the path you're on is your own choice, and that you should take pride in your work, even the formatting and cardboard displays.
There's something to be said about building your own professional tools. However, I don't think many people have the cross section of talents and interests required to do so.
Certainly, professional class software has advanced the art far past what was understood before. I suspect the term gaussian blur wasn't something a photographer or artist was expected to know ten years ago.
And the Wikipedia has hardly any information reguarding digital processing effects and theories, which is somewhat telling of how likely OSS developers are to know about such things. You might not think that Wikipedia matters, but its generally reguarded as a great place for most every computing topic known to man.
The collection of software and technologies we refer to as Linux is not for everybody. Linux suits people who prefer to scratch their own backs. It can be awkward at first, but those experienced in the process find their itches scratched faster and better than hiring someone else to scratch your back.
That said, there certainly are photographers who are interested in scratching their own backs, and professional back scratchers who take an interest in photography. The gimp is still a long way from professional tools, but Adobe has the disadvantage of having to discover new technologies while gimp merely appropriates them. There is certainly an argument to be had that the Gimp merely reimplementing a piece of software is not as useful as discovering new, different and useful ways of accomplishing simliar tasks with less work.
The best news for Linux with reguards to the whole slide scanning thing is that you're basically boned no matter what. Scanning in a slide sucks reguardless of platform, so I'd take it to the people who ARE willing to put down the big bucks required to do the job right.
This is generally how your traffic lights work; underneath the tarmac is a series of coils designed to detect cars. If anything his technique is to expand the sensors past the few yards they currently detect, a fairly obvious idea but generally not worth the gain over the status quo and intelligent consideration. Generally speaking traffic at night is just daytime traffic but lighter. You pretty much don't see roving gangs of traffic encountering a series of red lights.
Yes, you'd have a broken optimizer. But once you leave the realm of gcc and intel compilers for god knows what other platform and compilers, chances are the compiler you'll be working with isn't very careful about the wholer standardized C thing.
Simple, but latency kills that idea quickly. Especially once you transition this technology to games like Counter-Strike, where 40 ms lag spikes can noticably degrade the system. Not to mention the amount of processing power required to render 16 people's screens for them.
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Not that hydrogen is a much smarter solution; its not like there's a lot of hydrogen mines out in the mountains of South Dakota. The only real benefit of hydrogen is that you have a semi-centralized energy production system which you can change with time. Supposedly a few places have made solar powered hydrogen generators, and market them to gas stations in lieu of the large nationwide transportation system we use for gasoline.
They've completely skipped the strategy genre? Hardly. Advance Wars 2 and Fire Emblem are both resurrections of some of the earliest strategy games available on a console. Fire Emblem inspired a whole slew of knockoffs, from Shining Force to Ogre Tactics. Perhaps you meant real-time strategy, the genre which you might place the game Pikmin into?
I think that Nintendo is focusing on two things: creating new franchises unlike anything you've seen before (we call that innovation) and milking their brands with sequals (often called the antithesis of innovation). Dance Dance Mario doesn't seem to fit into either of those two categories.
Nintendo not pushing a MMORPG is a smart move; they want people dropping money on new games, rather than being locked into playing the same game for years. Square, as you probably know, has made a cross platform MMORPG. I don't know if the PS2 and PC owners use segregated servers, though. Even more frightently, an MMORPG represents a huge risk; you have to put down the cash for infrastructure, advertising, customer support, billing, and networking. That kind of risk means you'll be looking to minimize it, by using franchises already well established. Their options: Pokemon, a hugely popular franchise with the credit cardless demographic, and Fire Emblem, which hasn't made a big splash outside the portable market in the US.
There's a philosophy among the movie pirates, that I don't quite understand, but is detailed herein. Essentially, look for the biggest tracker of a particular file you're looking for-- its most likely the correct one. Or you might try finding somewhere besides suprnova, geared more toward your particular vices. I don't go for movies that often(netflix is worth it), but I do follow anime some. I rarely have a problem with fake torrents in the dedicated sites and metatrackers.
On the other hand, a submerged stock option is mostly useless to its owner. The potential dilution is a cost to the shareholders, but not the company itself. I think the Black-Scholes pricing system should reflect well enough on the books; if the stock option is submerged, then rational holders aren't going to exercise. Exercising them would both further destroy the revenue and book price to share ratio, and submerge any remaining options further. The black-scholes formula, on the other hand, will value an option at zero if submerged.
Before you say black-scholes is flawed, remember that it worked well enough for one company to make a trillion dollars or so in the market.
For what it's worth, the ancient Windows Calculator gives me zero. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a different set of numbers would break it though.
Actually, I was equally curious about that. It turns out the press release wasn't available during initial trading hours. It turns out one of the major brokers just upgraded their outlook on EA. Cramer, that amusing media baron on MSNBC, wrote an article stating that something is up; usually brokerage firms are behind the curve, so to speak. Cramer speculated that it was an acquisition, being woefully behind the rumors. Ironically, if I'm reading his marketese correctly, he suggested buying shorts in the stock, which is exacly the wrong way to play the actual news.
See, the firm JP upgraded them, saying they expected significant gains in the next cycle (aka year). Cramer misinterpreted this as EA buying somebody, rather than EA fucking over their competitors quite well. In the short run, this deal brings a huge upside to EA; their competitors can't adapt this quickly to the changes. Five years is basically long enough to destroy a franchise that doesn't release. In fact, this entire thing reeks of insider information; clearly JP morgan knew something the market didn't.
The real test of the news will come on tuesday morning, when the entire market reacts to the event.
they fail to offset the "network effect", the positive utility gained from people standardizing on MSO. Don't get me wrong; I really wish I could use OO.org but the truth is that Word doesn't read my doucments and OO.org fails to export my Resume correctly. As much as I enjoy giving company reps a PDF, more and more places want a .doc format so they can quickly reject your resume for not having keyword X on it.
I need a job; promoting an open culture comes 2nd to this. And we both know Microsoft isn't about to play nice and accept OOo's formats. So even if you do accept that the changing formats and poor intercompatibility of MS software is worth changing for, how do you plan a transition that doesn't screw the company eight ways from Sunday?
There is certainly a reason to develop cells. One of the key areas of performance is efficiency. As I understand it, they measure it by the amount of light hitting the panel versus what we is captured. I could be entirely wrong on that. Either way, current space grade panels run at about 35 percent efficiency. Improving that number requires a lot of experimentation and molecular chemistry and electronics knowledge. There are relatively few experts who can accomplish the task worldwide. Designing in America is an attractive proposition to a good number of these fellows, who've likely become accustomed to American freedoms and luxuries during their academic stays (if students can be said to enjoy luxuries). As for specifically Silicon Valley, the likelyhood is doubtful. Companies and people are waking up to the fact that a one time 5k relocation fee is cheaper than 15k+ a year in living expenses. With the tech venture capitol dried up, it makes sense to consider other regions like Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis and Minneapolis / St. Paul.
Yes, I suppose the Brits would have won the Revolutionary War, if the battles had been decided by grammtical use of the English language.
Actually, this insiduous move wrecks more havoc than you think. Remember that built in server finding client that Game Spy was selling people? The one nobody thought was a good idea? Well America's Army bit, and now that the Mac port is coming close to a finish, Gamespy is moving to ludicrously price the Mac version of their client browser. Coincidence? Probably.
no wonder i cant fucking play today. thanks a million, pal =P
It is indeed true that Go has a large space of possible board positions, and that it also has a huge number of possible moves for each player. But that alone doesn't make Go a difficult problem. The critical element is how one measures success.
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Most people measure the success of an AI by its comparability to humans, especially in games. It's important to note that not every AI researcher agrees; some feel that the state of the art is what matters more than material success. That aside, there is a game that plays similar to Go, and features similar gamespace factors: Othello. Despite this, computer opponents usually trounce their human counterparts.
Go never recieved the attention that Chess programs do in the States, which partially explains why the state of the art lags behind other game agents. But behind that surface analysis, I've found that today's researchers in the field feel that human Go players utilize a strong sense of pattern recognition that common min-max and other brute forcing techniques fail to capitalize on. The human pattern finding ability quickly outpaces move searching, because the board doesn't change much. We can predict much of what the future will look like from the present. Reversi/Othello is a contrast to this property, where every move can drastically alter a number of pieces and potential moves therein.
I have to admit that I too haven't a PhD in the field, but to my credit I share an interest in the field, and I've studied under a fairly brilliant mind in the field. This is my meager understanding, and probably indicates why you can't play a Go game against a bot on Yahoo! games
Goddamn wallhackers. No wonder those cheats are always hosted on .kz and .cz websites!
No teacher has ever approved of how low my homework scores were in high school math classes. They've generally held me to the fire and punished me for not applying myself. That said, I've never flunked a class nor found myself confused or embarressed reguarding math. Maybe you should just move to a place where the public education system is a top priority: Kansas. =)
Oh, I've since fried that poor beast. I now enjoy far too many GBA games while working what could be the highest paying, simplest helpdesk job ever.
Fortunately, UT doesn't run very well on a k6-2 with a gf2. I tried out the 2k4 demo on a whimical lark and discovered that in the absolute worst, not possibly meant for human consumption mode, I got about 3 fps. Lets just say I played a lot of yahoo! games during those years.
That article keeps getting stupider and stupider. I quit reading at the comparison of Enron to Nigerian money scams.
My favorite part was when his boss died shortly before telling him that it went "all the way to the top."
Its hard to take seriously the enlighenment of a professed non geek who no longer cares about formatting, and quickly derides the cardboard displays they must have spent so much time on.
As a self professed computer geek in high school, I can avouch that my compatroits were indeed slackers. It was almost a contest; who could get the most for the least. Which was probably for the best, because if we had been competing to have the highest percentage, we would probably have destroyed ourselves. I was enrolled in like 32 credit hours in high school, but that's stretched out over two semester, so its really closer to 16 credit hours of learning a semester and a hell of a lot more work. College was so much more relaxed, and I truly appreciated that. I wound up getting more B's than A's though, which certainly hasnt helped me in the job finding process this year.
At some point, you need to realize that the path you're on is your own choice, and that you should take pride in your work, even the formatting and cardboard displays.
Thats why I installed Linux; to eliminate the game distraction and find something productive to do. Then I found /. .... =(
There's something to be said about building your own professional tools. However, I don't think many people have the cross section of talents and interests required to do so.
Certainly, professional class software has advanced the art far past what was understood before. I suspect the term gaussian blur wasn't something a photographer or artist was expected to know ten years ago.
And the Wikipedia has hardly any information reguarding digital processing effects and theories, which is somewhat telling of how likely OSS developers are to know about such things. You might not think that Wikipedia matters, but its generally reguarded as a great place for most every computing topic known to man.
The collection of software and technologies we refer to as Linux is not for everybody. Linux suits people who prefer to scratch their own backs. It can be awkward at first, but those experienced in the process find their itches scratched faster and better than hiring someone else to scratch your back.
That said, there certainly are photographers who are interested in scratching their own backs, and professional back scratchers who take an interest in photography. The gimp is still a long way from professional tools, but Adobe has the disadvantage of having to discover new technologies while gimp merely appropriates them. There is certainly an argument to be had that the Gimp merely reimplementing a piece of software is not as useful as discovering new, different and useful ways of accomplishing simliar tasks with less work.
The best news for Linux with reguards to the whole slide scanning thing is that you're basically boned no matter what. Scanning in a slide sucks reguardless of platform, so I'd take it to the people who ARE willing to put down the big bucks required to do the job right.
This is generally how your traffic lights work; underneath the tarmac is a series of coils designed to detect cars. If anything his technique is to expand the sensors past the few yards they currently detect, a fairly obvious idea but generally not worth the gain over the status quo and intelligent consideration. Generally speaking traffic at night is just daytime traffic but lighter. You pretty much don't see roving gangs of traffic encountering a series of red lights.
Yes, you'd have a broken optimizer. But once you leave the realm of gcc and intel compilers for god knows what other platform and compilers, chances are the compiler you'll be working with isn't very careful about the wholer standardized C thing.
Simple, but latency kills that idea quickly. Especially once you transition this technology to games like Counter-Strike, where 40 ms lag spikes can noticably degrade the system. Not to mention the amount of processing power required to render 16 people's screens for them.