A lot of games, including multiplayer games, can be run without simultaneously running steam. You have to launch the applications directly from the steam library directory, but steam doesn't need to be running.
I was under the impression that the moon and Antarctica were covered by the same international treaty, which we are party to. Can the US offer private mining contracts in Antarctica? What is the legal basis for doing so on the moon?
Bad analogy. The guard was out of order (Jamie wasn't pleased) and it cost them the opportunity to fairly kill Ned right then. Not that it made much difference.
Thanks, I didn't know that. Do you know of any reviews of their architecture rather than empirical studies of the machine's outputs? That is, do people think this is a quantum architecture?
The avalanche itself then could have been caused by the hikers themselves, by a missile test, by infrasound or just for no reason. The first two seem the most likely (I guess in that order). It depends how much of the investigation results are taken to be true.
I'd go with the hikers disturbing the snow pack if you disbelieve the government investigator's claims about the radiation and thermal injuries, and the nuclear hypothesis of the claims are accepted.
At some point, it has to be cheaper to just open up your processes to observers. You could jeopardize your trade secrets, but at least people could believe your product was for real.
"Some point" might be now, if no more machines are going to be purchased until the high profile labs (Google / NASA, USC / Lockheed) report positive results.
Bingo. It also explains why they ripped their tent open from the inside, and why some of the hikers had pressure injuries. There's a chance such an avalanche had a non-natural cause however (see speculation on wiki page) .
The infrasound speculation is interesting, but IMHO the known facts appear to support a low-yield nuclear bomb test.
In that hypothesis, which you can read about in the speculative wiki and talk pages, a test of a low-yield warhead launched from Baikonur triggered a small avalanche which induced the hikers to flee and gave some of them pressure injuries.
I recommend you read the Wikipedia pages and judge for yourself. If nothing else, the incident is truly bizarre and the facts and speculation surrounding it make for fascinating reading. The pressure injuries are just the beginning of the strange nature in which these nine people died.
Considering that I'm more likely to be struck by lightning than die in a terrorist attack
In fact, that is an understatement. I was just doing some research into the number of terrorism related deaths, and I found that fewer than 25,000 people have died in (non-state) recorded terror attacks. That's less than 25,000 people dying of terrorism in all modern history.
In contrast, about the same number of people die in lightning strikes in one year (worldwide). About 150% as many people die in car accidents each year, in the US alone.
You don't know how social security works. It is an intergenerational assurance program in which the currently working give some of their current income to the currently retired.
Social security is not funded by deficit spending. Indeed, social security has run a surplus over the lifetime of the program and is doing so now.
Once, the party was investigating an abandoned Dwarven mine, when we stumbled into a beholder's laboratory, littered with odd, incredibly life-like statues of heroes in various horrifying poses. The beholder came home while we were rifling through his treasures - leading to a desperate battle in which the creature used telekinesis to pin the cleric to a wall, and heat rays to begin dissecting him. We soon discovered the provenance of the statues, when our brutal lizard-man warrior was turned to stone.
The rest of the party managed to escape. We then quested for months in search of a Wand of Stone to Flesh, eventually obtained by burglarizing a powerful wizard. In the course of these adventures, the rogue was forced to become a were-rat (on pain of death) in order to join the upper ranks of the Thieves' Guild, the ranger was seduced and nearly devoured by a vampire, and the wizard was driven mad by a Gibbering Mouther who tempting him with a Book of Vile Darkness. He became meglomaniacal, and imprisoned the souls of an entire lizard-people village before we pinned him down and burned the evil tome in front of him.
Wand in hand, we returned to the beholder's lair, leading to a second desperate battle which was won only when the rogue was able to trigger the wand and restore the warrior, who surprised and killed the beholder while it was trying to dissect the cleric again.
The rest of the PCs elected not to tell him about the escapade involving the souls of his kinsmen.
In newer AD&D releases, a player can just rustle up junk, carve up one
And pay steep materials and XP costs. Don't expect the game to balance if the DM doesn't charge the players for spell materials and XP costs.
In 1E, it took a very high level wizard
In 3(.5)E, you have to be 5th level to enchant weapons, 9th for rods, 12th for rings and staffs. Those levels are minimums; the actual requirements depend on the features of the items. In practice in 1E, it was almost impossible to ever create any kind of magic item. The slightly lower requirements in later editions were designed so that it would be possible for characters in medium-length campaigns to create something.
That said, the zeroth rule of role-playing games is: it's your game. Don't complain about the rules when you can just change them. Personally, I mostly play in ultra-low magic games, in which the requirements to cast spells and create items are far in excess of those even in 1E.
No edition of D&D has ever favored human PCs unfairly, if all the rules surrounding age, multiclassing, etc. were followed. Most likely, the DM and/or players were ignoring some rules.
But this comment - like the parent - come from a basic problem some people have with role-playing games: the inability to see rules as guidelines.
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Why should we all accept lower growth so that this man, who is already extremely wealthy, can be made even wealthier? What sort of justice is that?
they can only be run through Steam
A lot of games, including multiplayer games, can be run without simultaneously running steam. You have to launch the applications directly from the steam library directory, but steam doesn't need to be running.
+1 Accurate.
I was under the impression that the moon and Antarctica were covered by the same international treaty, which we are party to. Can the US offer private mining contracts in Antarctica? What is the legal basis for doing so on the moon?
"Shouting fire in a crowded theater"
Also known as protesting the first world war.
Bad analogy. The guard was out of order (Jamie wasn't pleased) and it cost them the opportunity to fairly kill Ned right then. Not that it made much difference.
Cool, thanks for the links.
Thanks, I didn't know that. Do you know of any reviews of their architecture rather than empirical studies of the machine's outputs? That is, do people think this is a quantum architecture?
Sounds like they had just read about it somewhere. The main wiki article cites TFA.
The avalanche itself then could have been caused by the hikers themselves, by a missile test, by infrasound or just for no reason. The first two seem the most likely (I guess in that order). It depends how much of the investigation results are taken to be true.
I'd go with the hikers disturbing the snow pack if you disbelieve the government investigator's claims about the radiation and thermal injuries, and the nuclear hypothesis of the claims are accepted.
This AC is correct, but so is the parent.
Thus, the fascinating area of weak measurements.
How are they even programming this thing?
Simple, they use the Python library.
No joke, you use use statements like:
blackbox_answer = blackbox_solver.solve(obj, num_vars, cluster_num = 10, \
min_iter_inner = blackbox_parameter, max_iter_outer= blackbox_parameter, \
unchanged_threshold=blackbox_parameter, max_unchanged_objective_outer=blackbox_parameter, \
max_unchanged_objective_inner = blackbox_parameter, \
unchanged_best_threshold = blackbox_parameter, verbose=0)
As Megol said though it only works for certain problems. Their Python class is really called "BlackBoxSolver."
At some point, it has to be cheaper to just open up your processes to observers. You could jeopardize your trade secrets, but at least people could believe your product was for real.
"Some point" might be now, if no more machines are going to be purchased until the high profile labs (Google / NASA, USC / Lockheed) report positive results.
Bingo. It also explains why they ripped their tent open from the inside, and why some of the hikers had pressure injuries. There's a chance such an avalanche had a non-natural cause however (see speculation on wiki page) .
The infrasound speculation is interesting, but IMHO the known facts appear to support a low-yield nuclear bomb test.
In that hypothesis, which you can read about in the speculative wiki and talk pages, a test of a low-yield warhead launched from Baikonur triggered a small avalanche which induced the hikers to flee and gave some of them pressure injuries.
I recommend you read the Wikipedia pages and judge for yourself. If nothing else, the incident is truly bizarre and the facts and speculation surrounding it make for fascinating reading. The pressure injuries are just the beginning of the strange nature in which these nine people died.
I do think it would be far more cost effective to spend all those anti-terror dollars on weather control instead.
Considering that I'm more likely to be struck by lightning than die in a terrorist attack
In fact, that is an understatement. I was just doing some research into the number of terrorism related deaths, and I found that fewer than 25,000 people have died in (non-state) recorded terror attacks. That's less than 25,000 people dying of terrorism in all modern history.
In contrast, about the same number of people die in lightning strikes in one year (worldwide). About 150% as many people die in car accidents each year, in the US alone.
You don't know how social security works. It is an intergenerational assurance program in which the currently working give some of their current income to the currently retired.
Social security is not funded by deficit spending. Indeed, social security has run a surplus over the lifetime of the program and is doing so now.
Once, the party was investigating an abandoned Dwarven mine, when we stumbled into a beholder's laboratory, littered with odd, incredibly life-like statues of heroes in various horrifying poses. The beholder came home while we were rifling through his treasures - leading to a desperate battle in which the creature used telekinesis to pin the cleric to a wall, and heat rays to begin dissecting him. We soon discovered the provenance of the statues, when our brutal lizard-man warrior was turned to stone.
The rest of the party managed to escape. We then quested for months in search of a Wand of Stone to Flesh, eventually obtained by burglarizing a powerful wizard. In the course of these adventures, the rogue was forced to become a were-rat (on pain of death) in order to join the upper ranks of the Thieves' Guild, the ranger was seduced and nearly devoured by a vampire, and the wizard was driven mad by a Gibbering Mouther who tempting him with a Book of Vile Darkness. He became meglomaniacal, and imprisoned the souls of an entire lizard-people village before we pinned him down and burned the evil tome in front of him.
Wand in hand, we returned to the beholder's lair, leading to a second desperate battle which was won only when the rogue was able to trigger the wand and restore the warrior, who surprised and killed the beholder while it was trying to dissect the cleric again.
The rest of the PCs elected not to tell him about the escapade involving the souls of his kinsmen.
In newer AD&D releases, a player can just rustle up junk, carve up one
And pay steep materials and XP costs. Don't expect the game to balance if the DM doesn't charge the players for spell materials and XP costs.
In 1E, it took a very high level wizard
In 3(.5)E, you have to be 5th level to enchant weapons, 9th for rods, 12th for rings and staffs. Those levels are minimums; the actual requirements depend on the features of the items. In practice in 1E, it was almost impossible to ever create any kind of magic item. The slightly lower requirements in later editions were designed so that it would be possible for characters in medium-length campaigns to create something.
That said, the zeroth rule of role-playing games is: it's your game. Don't complain about the rules when you can just change them. Personally, I mostly play in ultra-low magic games, in which the requirements to cast spells and create items are far in excess of those even in 1E.
Good point. Also it teaches imagination, logic, basic arithmetic and the ability to write neatly in little boxes.
You ignored the most important rule: it's your game.
No edition of D&D has ever favored human PCs unfairly, if all the rules surrounding age, multiclassing, etc. were followed. Most likely, the DM and/or players were ignoring some rules.
But this comment - like the parent - come from a basic problem some people have with role-playing games: the inability to see rules as guidelines.
Sorry, just thought the vague terminology could have been responsible for the 1-pass / 2-pass confusion.