Actually with most automatics you still should not tow them even in neutral as part of the transmission is still engaged. Sometimes it is considered okay to tow at very low speeds over very short distances.
Interesting and quite clever, however both my sister-in-law and wife suffered from this in the past two weeks. I checked my wife's Yahoo login history and at the time of the spam there was a login from another country (Japan). Were this a hidden frame login I'd expect it to appear local.
Exactly. Lunduke's stats must be wrong. It's been proven time and time again on Slashdot that free distribution equals free advertising, and leads to even more sales than when it's tightly controlled.
But seriously, you would expect some shrinkage of donations. There is quite a lot of overlap between libre and gratis.
I'm sure plenty of people have low-end computers but, taking a stab, even integrated Intel graphics are capable of rendering OnLive's 720p resolution with ease. Of course integrated graphics will only improve, and while OnLive's rendering can take advantage of the same technology increases, I suspect that 'advantage' will become increasingly redundant, leaving only the convenience of not having to muck about with game installation.
Exactly. Local games 'cheat' by moving your character or performing your action immediately, without waiting for the server to say it's okay. You can't do that when rendering is done on the server.
Really? That seems extreme although internet laws don't always make sense. Applying that logic to guns you'd be responsible for murder when your emo teenage son goes on a rampage with your rifle. In most countries you might be charged with failing to properly secure your weapon, but you wouldn't be wholly responsible for its use.
its amazing how many folks run their stuff in full screen
What made me twig as to the success of table/phone UIs was doing support for my parents once. The 'internet' problem was that somehow they had resized the Firefox window down to a couple of centimetres high and couldn't figure out how to recover. Windows management is actually complicated. Full-screen systems solve that problem.
Even a lot of the developers I work with regularly run programs at full screen. Personally it makes me feel claustrophobic.
is that such a bad philosophy from an atheistic point of view?
Strictly there is no good or bad philosophy from an atheistic point of view as there is no meaning in the metaphysical sense. Of course most atheists tend to be humanists, so the elevation of human well-being provides a basis for evaluation. Sorry to be pedantic:)
Remember that's 50,000 self-selected people. All it says that at least 1 in 100 people favour a law change so if it fails to pass it's hardly proof positive of a failure of democracy. The benefit of this system is that it gives the people a better voice rather than being crowded out by organised lobby groups, financial or otherwise. It doesn't mean those lobby voices will, or should be, ignored.
Similarly, the guy down the corner shop strategically places lollies at child eye height and so on. The only reason is to screw as many people over for $$$s as possible. Or possibly that's just business and we all know it? Fairness doesn't enter into it, or it wouldn't be capitalism, although we may expect regulators/government to moderate somewhat.
Labels currently have a right over their IP and it's the long view of protecting this that drives their behaviour, not short-term litigation profits. The most interesting part of the survey results is that only 4-13% of people believe all copying to be ethical so the law does reflect the population's opinion (you can get the opposite impression reading Slashdot). If that ever flips we may see the right to control copies disappear.
Sort of, except knitting is far more obscure a hobby than gaming. Even more, imagine if they already knitted every night and his question was "We've run out of patterns to knit. I know movies can provide a lot of entertainment. What are some good ways I can get my wife into watching films?"
You probably wouldn't chide him for trying to force his wife into an unreasonable hobby.
As a few follow-up posts by the OP indicate, this is off the mark. These are the parameters;
* It's nighttime
* The kids are already in bed.
* He and his wife already spend half of their evenings watching movies together
* They are running out/getting sick of movies
He wonders if playing games together might complement the movies if he can find the right games for his wife to enjoy. Anyone have any suggestions?
To the OP my wife enjoys RTS games and is usually willing to play these (typically the older Command & Conquer/Red Alert or Age of Empires). They can generally be played competitively or cooperatively against the computer. Older games that don't require an internet connection may be more suitable for your area.
The White House itself demonstrated that the petitions were worthless long before any sarcastic petition got approved.
You are most likely correct. The value in this system is that it allows issues that don't bubble to the top of mass media to be addressed, and there are many. However the major parties already have a position on most everything, and you can get this by writing to the office of your representative, so nothing new is going to come from these responses.
There is equal culpability on the other side - the petitioners. They write a petition which is nothing more than a re-statement of their existing political position to score visibility.
The other purpose of petitions is to provide feedback to politicians. This is also redundant in an era where untold millions are spent on polling and demographic analysis. In your example, they know there are X hippies out there who want marijuana legalised. Further, because the internet is so sensitive to flash hype and memes, the numbers of online petitions make them worthless (hence the death star).
So ultimately there may be an expectation that it goes like this;
Petition: N of us think that given fact X and logic Y, marijuana should be legalised. Current party: You know that makes a lot of sense, and you have a lot of support, we'll reverse our longheld policy.
It won't happen because the 'efficiency' of the current political system means it's already taken into account.
Isn't castration ususally done chemically, and removes the sex drive? My understanding is that this actually does remove/lower the motivation to rape. This renders "rape is violence" a little too simplistic. It is likely to be a combination of unsatisifed desire in various forms; emotional, social, romantic and indeed sexual.
Often it is said to be about power but similarly that seems to me to be frustration at the powerlessness that comes from lacking sex and the human connections it requires.
5. supports VDPAU (required on any nvidia-based htpc)
I don't know. I have an i3 with HD2000 and a discrete GT520 for VDPAU. Watching 1080p television with the Nvidia card puts about 5% usage on the CPU. Taking it out the change is barely noticable. I can't rightly remember but it only jumped to 8-10%. Perhaps if I were re-encoding it would be worthwhile but it hardly seems worth the effort for my use case.
Tangentially, the problem with the Nvidia card is that it is the noisiest part of the system. Also the system will revert to the integrated GPU if I reboot without a source plugged into the GT520 (i.e. my projector is off). This makes remote management annoying. The HD2000 is meant to have a frame skip issue at 23.99 fps or whatever, but I've never been able to detect it.
One worse metric is that digitial requries active management - you don't have to backup your bookshelf every month, and the likelihood of loss by fire/theft is small enough that you can mostly discount it across a lifetime. You don't have to format-shift your books every decade either.
Perhaps cloud storage will eventually overcome this. Digitial should be the way to go.
You've missed the point. He spent paragraph after paragraph explaining why the game hasn't been dumbed-down. If you disagree explain why.
Are there less or more keypresses and reactions required than in the past? I honestly don't know.
How sensitive to individual player mistakes is raid success now than in the past? A lot more now in my opinion.
Removing the ability to make mistakes (i.e. choose pointless talents) could be construed as dumbing down but this is only in the setup, not the playing.
Much of the other simplification is actually the removal or grind and tedium, e.g. markers on the map to eliminate searching or travelling for ages. That made some sense when the massive world was new and everyone marvelled at it's size. Now it's commonplace it just gets in the way of gameplay.
Yes they do. According to Keynes a nice 2%-3% inflation will help the economy grow, because it will give people the feeling they are richer and encourage them to spend.
I think that's backwards. Inflation makes people poorer and hence they spend now while their money still has value. Consequently they feel the need to continue to work. Both of these grow the economy as you say. Under deflation everything becomes cheaper. Why buy that gold watch today when you know tomorrow it will be less?
Red Alert was fun but felt like treading water, while C&C2 and Red Alert 2 were both dreadful games. Their technology and game mechanics were both utterly obsolete by the time they launched
Good analysis but have to disagree on RA2. To my mind it is the best of the franchise. The game engine was dated* but it had the fun aspect in spades and a fine balance that was kept even with the introduction of the Yuri side in the expansion. RA3 kept a good part of the fun and campy cut scenes but suffered from balance problems (Shogun being the prime culprit)**
* Interestingly my very casual-gaming brother commented the other day that the 3D of RA3 was more confusing. I've similarly felt that it tends to add eye candy with a bit of a cost to the big-picture, and warzone control is what an RTS is all about.
** Part of this is that our LAN games tend to feature a gentleman's agreement that nobody attacks until the first superweapon is built, allowing ample time for everyone to create large armies of the top technology. We find this creates more epic and interesting battles. I know online battles would never even get to shoguns, but they tend to be 10-minute frantic clickfests and not as much fun.
Well you could implement vtables and therefore polymorphism using function pointers but you'd want to have a very well abstracted framework to make sure it didn't swamp coders with complexity overhead.
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Actually with most automatics you still should not tow them even in neutral as part of the transmission is still engaged. Sometimes it is considered okay to tow at very low speeds over very short distances.
The question is clearly referring to the context of Catholic belief, not wonkey_monkey's.
Interesting and quite clever, however both my sister-in-law and wife suffered from this in the past two weeks. I checked my wife's Yahoo login history and at the time of the spam there was a login from another country (Japan). Were this a hidden frame login I'd expect it to appear local.
Exactly. Lunduke's stats must be wrong. It's been proven time and time again on Slashdot that free distribution equals free advertising, and leads to even more sales than when it's tightly controlled.
But seriously, you would expect some shrinkage of donations. There is quite a lot of overlap between libre and gratis.
I'm sure plenty of people have low-end computers but, taking a stab, even integrated Intel graphics are capable of rendering OnLive's 720p resolution with ease. Of course integrated graphics will only improve, and while OnLive's rendering can take advantage of the same technology increases, I suspect that 'advantage' will become increasingly redundant, leaving only the convenience of not having to muck about with game installation.
Exactly. Local games 'cheat' by moving your character or performing your action immediately, without waiting for the server to say it's okay. You can't do that when rendering is done on the server.
Meanwhile the girls are screaming because some icky boy saw their girly parts.
They are screaming because they were forced to reveal themselves sexually. Technically they were performing a sexual act against their will.
It's just a google search away.
Exactly, so why did this guy go to all the trouble? It's similar in motivation to rape in that he sought sexual power and control.
Really? That seems extreme although internet laws don't always make sense. Applying that logic to guns you'd be responsible for murder when your emo teenage son goes on a rampage with your rifle. In most countries you might be charged with failing to properly secure your weapon, but you wouldn't be wholly responsible for its use.
its amazing how many folks run their stuff in full screen
What made me twig as to the success of table/phone UIs was doing support for my parents once. The 'internet' problem was that somehow they had resized the Firefox window down to a couple of centimetres high and couldn't figure out how to recover. Windows management is actually complicated. Full-screen systems solve that problem.
Even a lot of the developers I work with regularly run programs at full screen. Personally it makes me feel claustrophobic.
Sadly yes, they've started providing copies of Ubuntu absolutely free.
is that such a bad philosophy from an atheistic point of view?
Strictly there is no good or bad philosophy from an atheistic point of view as there is no meaning in the metaphysical sense. Of course most atheists tend to be humanists, so the elevation of human well-being provides a basis for evaluation. Sorry to be pedantic :)
Remember that's 50,000 self-selected people. All it says that at least 1 in 100 people favour a law change so if it fails to pass it's hardly proof positive of a failure of democracy. The benefit of this system is that it gives the people a better voice rather than being crowded out by organised lobby groups, financial or otherwise. It doesn't mean those lobby voices will, or should be, ignored.
8) If original media is destroyed, stolen or lost, all copies needs to be destroyed.
This strikes me as odd. If you make copies as a backup and then have to destroy the backup with the original... well it's not really a backup is it?
Similarly, the guy down the corner shop strategically places lollies at child eye height and so on. The only reason is to screw as many people over for $$$s as possible. Or possibly that's just business and we all know it? Fairness doesn't enter into it, or it wouldn't be capitalism, although we may expect regulators/government to moderate somewhat.
Labels currently have a right over their IP and it's the long view of protecting this that drives their behaviour, not short-term litigation profits. The most interesting part of the survey results is that only 4-13% of people believe all copying to be ethical so the law does reflect the population's opinion (you can get the opposite impression reading Slashdot). If that ever flips we may see the right to control copies disappear.
If the people I meet in WoW are anything to go by, most housewives have a good 4-8 hours per day to play games. :)
Sort of, except knitting is far more obscure a hobby than gaming. Even more, imagine if they already knitted every night and his question was "We've run out of patterns to knit. I know movies can provide a lot of entertainment. What are some good ways I can get my wife into watching films?"
You probably wouldn't chide him for trying to force his wife into an unreasonable hobby.
As a few follow-up posts by the OP indicate, this is off the mark. These are the parameters;
* It's nighttime
* The kids are already in bed.
* He and his wife already spend half of their evenings watching movies together
* They are running out/getting sick of movies
He wonders if playing games together might complement the movies if he can find the right games for his wife to enjoy. Anyone have any suggestions?
To the OP my wife enjoys RTS games and is usually willing to play these (typically the older Command & Conquer/Red Alert or Age of Empires). They can generally be played competitively or cooperatively against the computer. Older games that don't require an internet connection may be more suitable for your area.
The White House itself demonstrated that the petitions were worthless long before any sarcastic petition got approved.
You are most likely correct. The value in this system is that it allows issues that don't bubble to the top of mass media to be addressed, and there are many. However the major parties already have a position on most everything, and you can get this by writing to the office of your representative, so nothing new is going to come from these responses.
There is equal culpability on the other side - the petitioners. They write a petition which is nothing more than a re-statement of their existing political position to score visibility.
The other purpose of petitions is to provide feedback to politicians. This is also redundant in an era where untold millions are spent on polling and demographic analysis. In your example, they know there are X hippies out there who want marijuana legalised. Further, because the internet is so sensitive to flash hype and memes, the numbers of online petitions make them worthless (hence the death star).
So ultimately there may be an expectation that it goes like this;
Petition: N of us think that given fact X and logic Y, marijuana should be legalised.
Current party: You know that makes a lot of sense, and you have a lot of support, we'll reverse our longheld policy.
It won't happen because the 'efficiency' of the current political system means it's already taken into account.
Isn't castration ususally done chemically, and removes the sex drive? My understanding is that this actually does remove/lower the motivation to rape. This renders "rape is violence" a little too simplistic. It is likely to be a combination of unsatisifed desire in various forms; emotional, social, romantic and indeed sexual.
Often it is said to be about power but similarly that seems to me to be frustration at the powerlessness that comes from lacking sex and the human connections it requires.
5. supports VDPAU (required on any nvidia-based htpc)
I don't know. I have an i3 with HD2000 and a discrete GT520 for VDPAU. Watching 1080p television with the Nvidia card puts about 5% usage on the CPU. Taking it out the change is barely noticable. I can't rightly remember but it only jumped to 8-10%. Perhaps if I were re-encoding it would be worthwhile but it hardly seems worth the effort for my use case.
Tangentially, the problem with the Nvidia card is that it is the noisiest part of the system. Also the system will revert to the integrated GPU if I reboot without a source plugged into the GT520 (i.e. my projector is off). This makes remote management annoying. The HD2000 is meant to have a frame skip issue at 23.99 fps or whatever, but I've never been able to detect it.
One worse metric is that digitial requries active management - you don't have to backup your bookshelf every month, and the likelihood of loss by fire/theft is small enough that you can mostly discount it across a lifetime. You don't have to format-shift your books every decade either.
Perhaps cloud storage will eventually overcome this. Digitial should be the way to go.
You've missed the point. He spent paragraph after paragraph explaining why the game hasn't been dumbed-down. If you disagree explain why.
Are there less or more keypresses and reactions required than in the past? I honestly don't know.
How sensitive to individual player mistakes is raid success now than in the past? A lot more now in my opinion.
Removing the ability to make mistakes (i.e. choose pointless talents) could be construed as dumbing down but this is only in the setup, not the playing.
Much of the other simplification is actually the removal or grind and tedium, e.g. markers on the map to eliminate searching or travelling for ages. That made some sense when the massive world was new and everyone marvelled at it's size. Now it's commonplace it just gets in the way of gameplay.
Yes they do. According to Keynes a nice 2%-3% inflation will help the economy grow, because it will give people the feeling they are richer and encourage them to spend.
I think that's backwards. Inflation makes people poorer and hence they spend now while their money still has value. Consequently they feel the need to continue to work. Both of these grow the economy as you say. Under deflation everything becomes cheaper. Why buy that gold watch today when you know tomorrow it will be less?
Red Alert was fun but felt like treading water, while C&C2 and Red Alert 2 were both dreadful games. Their technology and game mechanics were both utterly obsolete by the time they launched
Good analysis but have to disagree on RA2. To my mind it is the best of the franchise. The game engine was dated* but it had the fun aspect in spades and a fine balance that was kept even with the introduction of the Yuri side in the expansion. RA3 kept a good part of the fun and campy cut scenes but suffered from balance problems (Shogun being the prime culprit)**
* Interestingly my very casual-gaming brother commented the other day that the 3D of RA3 was more confusing. I've similarly felt that it tends to add eye candy with a bit of a cost to the big-picture, and warzone control is what an RTS is all about.
** Part of this is that our LAN games tend to feature a gentleman's agreement that nobody attacks until the first superweapon is built, allowing ample time for everyone to create large armies of the top technology. We find this creates more epic and interesting battles. I know online battles would never even get to shoguns, but they tend to be 10-minute frantic clickfests and not as much fun.
Well you could implement vtables and therefore polymorphism using function pointers but you'd want to have a very well abstracted framework to make sure it didn't swamp coders with complexity overhead.