Is it so fucking difficult? If you want to seriously show tendencies in a group of say a million people, then you need at least 501k examples; probably more. Other than that then you need to do proper statistical sampling.
Ooooh, this is gonna be my first Darwin ever...I feel so proud of myself.
Do you honestly believe that more than 50% of all germans felt it was right and proper to cart off a couple of million Jews to to concentration camps? Or was all it took that they stood by and watched a small minority of them actually do it?
You may understand statistics, but I can't help but feel you don't get...you know...the human beings that make up those statistics. All it takes for evil...
But in the end, to be a hero in EvE you have to stand on someone else's shoulders. Nobody gets to fly a carrier by his own work alone. And if, he won't fly it for long...
Besides, if any game is not suited for "heroic" gameplay, it's EvE. EvE is a game of numbers. In a massive battle, you can be hero all you want. If you're the first cf target, you die.
Ah, the same tired old rant. You realize you don't *have* to engage in massive fleet battles right. And just because a carrier is *big* doesn't mean it's some sort of endgame monster that'll allow a player to rule the universe.
Heck, I've taken a single HAC out against 4 or 5 opponents at the same time on numerous occasions. There's plenty of opportunity to be a "hero", if you're willing to take risks most players won't.
So why don't the clients communicate peer to peer in that situation? They can all handle the physics. The server should just keep track of who is where.
Because if I can convince your client that your ship just went boom it won't allow you to shoot back at me. Same thing to a lesser extent when it comes to what effects your ship is currently suffering from etc.
I have the impression that in Eve you are a ship, while in Wow you are something more like a person, and the modeling in Eve is easier because of this.
A ship, as well as usually 5 drones. If you think the models in EVE are less complicated than those in WoW you might want to take a close look at some of the ships though;-)
In any case, generally the clients themselves can handle all the things that are going on, and if they can't the individual player can just zoom out to reduce the amount of rendering needed. It's mostly the fact that each of those 2000 players need to know where the rest is, which direction each ship is heading in and at what velocity, which ship just got blown up etc. Add in all the visual effects going back and forth like weapons fire, remote assistance modules etc. etc. and it's amazing the place doesn't blow up.
The comparision to Jita isn't quite that however, since in Jita people will be scattered around a number of spots in the solar system, with about half of the visitors sitting inside a station, whereas in a battle most of the players in the solar system will actually be on the same game grid where each action needs to be communicated to all the other clients.
Also, from TFA: "The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous"
So people are concerned about someone (with terrorist connections) MIGHT have worked at the facility?!?? OMG that's a reason to start rounding up everybody with brown skin! Geesh
Members of the public...that includes the people that get nervous when they see someone who didn't have time to shave this morning walking down their street.
And civil war over health care? Are you honestly that insane?
He's american. After 4 years of G.W. Bush they elected him *again*. Yeah, in my world view, and judging from your post yours as well, a significant portion of the US electorate is in fact totally batshit, "omg the commies are coming" insane.
The funny thing is that they feel the same way about us.
Not gonna happen. The system is too entrenched, the populace too uninformed.
They're on a direct course for either a total meltdown, violent revolution or who knows...a nice civil war to keep the two sides of the debate occupied.
Unfortunately for the rest of the world the ones watching Fox are the ones with the firearms...
As a guy, you find out that in some way, manner or fashion...you always pay for sex!!
You never get laid for free...with dates, you lay out $$ for dates, when you get married, you pay for it forever (unless you get divorced, they you pay half of what you own in order to get out of it).
The only ones that are up front about the price, are hookers....
Wow...that's some scary stuff right there. So which backwards part of the world are you from? Over here most of the girls will pretty much insist on paying their half of the date. They like it when you grab your wallet as though you intend to pay all of it, and you definitely want to make sure you have enough cash on hand to cover the entire bill, but actually paying all the time?
Somewhat related to this, the biggest german women's magazine
Just for the sake of accuracy, would this be: a) a magazine for women belonging to the biggest german? b) a magazine for the biggest german women? c) a magazine for german women that has the most readers?
Sorry, in the context of the this story I couldn't resist;-)
That same money? You mean the money that the socialist did not work for? The problem here illustrates the sense of entitlement socialism breeds - they want the world but someone else has to provide it to them.
Who says he didn't work for it? One argument you will often see come up is that our society currently rewards certain occupations in a disproportionate manner relative to the actual work done and the contribution made to society. To name some extreme examples (just to get the point across), the CEO of a corporation that spends its time doing all the kind of things we like to rant about on slashdot makes millions and gets to drive aforementioned Ferrari, whereas people that have pitiful careers like, say, nursing or teaching or enforcing the law have to walk...
Now I'll be the first to admit that there is an entire spectrum of gray between the corrupt CEO on one end and the idealist underpaid teacher on the other. Nevertheless I feel the Ferrari example I originally replied to was a poor strawman at best, and a typical example of US boogeyman thinking at best.
Note: please don't bring up the whole "if the teacher wanted to make more money he should have picked a different career" argument. We as a society get to decide how much we value those who educate our children, enforce our laws and put out our fires. If we all agree that these people really aren't worth all that much, fair enough, but let's not act surprised when the next generation turns out to be stupid, corrupt and on fire.
Big Brother. And not the British TV show that we Americans copied. Expect us to copy this Orwellian scheme, too.
Sorry, but the tv show Big Brother was brought to you by the Dutch. Yes, we started the whole business. Now please excuse me while I go off and shoot myself in shame.
So when they have sex they have to pay you royalties?
In other news, Slashdot reports an unprecedented influx of new subscribers. When asked about this, CmdrTaco commented: "Apparently teenagers have decided that reading slashdot with all its side-effects is still preferable than being bled dry by their parents".
It has nothing to do with motive, it has to do with effect. If it benefits mankind it qualifies. Who cares if the person profits from it at the same time? Would you begrudge someone recognition just because it profits them in some way?
That's a sure way to cut back on advancement several tens of years or more.
Many on here would. It reminds me of a saying: a capitalist and a socialist are walking down the street and a man drives past in his Ferrari. The capitalist says "I hope one day I have a Ferrari like him", the socialist says "I hope one day he has to walk like me".
Congratulations. You have officially been indoctrinated!
Now, the socialist *might* argue that that same money could have been used to get all 3 of them a car instead so none of them would have to walk in the first place. But I guess US cable news doesn't go too heavy on the nuance.
You bring up some important points about the relationship the US has with China, and I think your right, the US has to reevaluate its dealings with China to protect itself, should China (on a powerplay) decide they are cutting us off.
s/should/when/;
You're setting yourself up the bomb, and selling the detonator.
Now what *I* find weird is that apple can lock their phones to specific networks, restrict any and all apps they want to on phones and also limit the OS that should run on any x86 hardware to only hardware they make as well as fail to make their software run on other platforms in which many cases even Microsoft makes its software run on Apple (which Silverlight does thank you, as well as office thank you..)
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. Apple isn't. Any other questions?
To all of the DONT BUY SONY CUZ THEYRE TEH EVILZ can you recommend me which game console to buy? Oh and please don't say PC, I game hours a day on my PC but I also like having a console for the console only games. Please tell me which console is not made by an evil corporation and doesn't brick with firmware upgrades? The ROCK SOLID 360? The Wii and it's recent hardware killing firmware too? Guess what, I'm going to buy the console that has the games I want. For me that's the PS3 and soon the Wii.
How about...none? Everytime you give these guys money, you're pretty much sending a signal that no matter how far they ram it down your throat, you're still willing to put up with it.
Alternatively, elect some people willing to serve you instead of their corporate overlords that can change your fucked up legal system?
I just love it when the frothing-at-the-mouth liberals try to blame a single, US "official" for doing something EVEYRONE FUCKING KNOWS was the right thing to do, even if the reason was falsified.
Sorry, but now that there is a "liberal" in office, it's the other guys that get to do the frothing at the mouth. Well, except for the libertards, they get to froth at the *mouth* regardless of who is in office. Not that it really matters, US congress seems to be stacked with retards anyway, no matter which party they claim to represent. In the land of the blind...
As for everyone fucking knowing it was the right thing to do...why all the lies then? Surely if putting Saddam out of business was something we'd all be squarely behind about there was no need to fabricate a brick of lies to justify doing so?
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Is it so fucking difficult? If you want to seriously show tendencies in a group of say a million people, then you need at least 501k examples; probably more. Other than that then you need to do proper statistical sampling.
Ooooh, this is gonna be my first Darwin ever...I feel so proud of myself.
Do you honestly believe that more than 50% of all germans felt it was right and proper to cart off a couple of million Jews to to concentration camps? Or was all it took that they stood by and watched a small minority of them actually do it?
You may understand statistics, but I can't help but feel you don't get...you know...the human beings that make up those statistics. All it takes for evil...
Ehmm, dunno which planet *you* live on, but the one the rest of us call Earth does not have 6.95 billion men ;-)
Aside from that, the fact that those slightly over 300 men can carry fetuses doesn't mean they've turned it into a fulltime job :P
But in the end, to be a hero in EvE you have to stand on someone else's shoulders. Nobody gets to fly a carrier by his own work alone. And if, he won't fly it for long...
Besides, if any game is not suited for "heroic" gameplay, it's EvE. EvE is a game of numbers. In a massive battle, you can be hero all you want. If you're the first cf target, you die.
Ah, the same tired old rant. You realize you don't *have* to engage in massive fleet battles right. And just because a carrier is *big* doesn't mean it's some sort of endgame monster that'll allow a player to rule the universe.
Heck, I've taken a single HAC out against 4 or 5 opponents at the same time on numerous occasions. There's plenty of opportunity to be a "hero", if you're willing to take risks most players won't.
So why don't the clients communicate peer to peer in that situation? They can all handle the physics. The server should just keep track of who is where.
Because if I can convince your client that your ship just went boom it won't allow you to shoot back at me. Same thing to a lesser extent when it comes to what effects your ship is currently suffering from etc.
I have the impression that in Eve you are a ship, while in Wow you are something more like a person, and the modeling in Eve is easier because of this.
A ship, as well as usually 5 drones. If you think the models in EVE are less complicated than those in WoW you might want to take a close look at some of the ships though ;-)
In any case, generally the clients themselves can handle all the things that are going on, and if they can't the individual player can just zoom out to reduce the amount of rendering needed. It's mostly the fact that each of those 2000 players need to know where the rest is, which direction each ship is heading in and at what velocity, which ship just got blown up etc. Add in all the visual effects going back and forth like weapons fire, remote assistance modules etc. etc. and it's amazing the place doesn't blow up.
The comparision to Jita isn't quite that however, since in Jita people will be scattered around a number of spots in the solar system, with about half of the visitors sitting inside a station, whereas in a battle most of the players in the solar system will actually be on the same game grid where each action needs to be communicated to all the other clients.
Also, from TFA: "The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous"
So people are concerned about someone (with terrorist connections) MIGHT have worked at the facility?!?? OMG that's a reason to start rounding up everybody with brown skin!
Geesh
Members of the public...that includes the people that get nervous when they see someone who didn't have time to shave this morning walking down their street.
And civil war over health care? Are you honestly that insane?
He's american. After 4 years of G.W. Bush they elected him *again*. Yeah, in my world view, and judging from your post yours as well, a significant portion of the US electorate is in fact totally batshit, "omg the commies are coming" insane.
The funny thing is that they feel the same way about us.
Not gonna happen. The system is too entrenched, the populace too uninformed.
They're on a direct course for either a total meltdown, violent revolution or who knows...a nice civil war to keep the two sides of the debate occupied.
Unfortunately for the rest of the world the ones watching Fox are the ones with the firearms...
As a guy, you find out that in some way, manner or fashion...you always pay for sex!!
You never get laid for free...with dates, you lay out $$ for dates, when you get married, you pay for it forever (unless you get divorced, they you pay half of what you own in order to get out of it).
The only ones that are up front about the price, are hookers....
Wow...that's some scary stuff right there. So which backwards part of the world are you from? Over here most of the girls will pretty much insist on paying their half of the date. They like it when you grab your wallet as though you intend to pay all of it, and you definitely want to make sure you have enough cash on hand to cover the entire bill, but actually paying all the time?
So where does Microsoft think they will find a market for this stuff?
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The Scientist's name is Felber, therefore the small fraction of light speed drive would likely be known as the Felber Drive.
If that doesn't sound sexy enough for you try the Hilbert-Felber Drive.
Oh, come on, you missed the logical next step. Hilbert-Felber Drive -> HiFeDrive.
Will give us geeks yet another subject to be annoyingly superior about when people call it hyperdrive anyway. Win-win!
Somewhat related to this, the biggest german women's magazine
Just for the sake of accuracy, would this be:
a) a magazine for women belonging to the biggest german?
b) a magazine for the biggest german women?
c) a magazine for german women that has the most readers?
Sorry, in the context of the this story I couldn't resist ;-)
I Can Thro Up Cheezburger Now?
TFA (why do I even bother?) includes a link to RL taking responsibility for the botched job...so where did you get your conspiracy theory from?
That same money? You mean the money that the socialist did not work for? The problem here illustrates the sense of entitlement socialism breeds - they want the world but someone else has to provide it to them.
Who says he didn't work for it? One argument you will often see come up is that our society currently rewards certain occupations in a disproportionate manner relative to the actual work done and the contribution made to society. To name some extreme examples (just to get the point across), the CEO of a corporation that spends its time doing all the kind of things we like to rant about on slashdot makes millions and gets to drive aforementioned Ferrari, whereas people that have pitiful careers like, say, nursing or teaching or enforcing the law have to walk...
Now I'll be the first to admit that there is an entire spectrum of gray between the corrupt CEO on one end and the idealist underpaid teacher on the other. Nevertheless I feel the Ferrari example I originally replied to was a poor strawman at best, and a typical example of US boogeyman thinking at best.
Note: please don't bring up the whole "if the teacher wanted to make more money he should have picked a different career" argument. We as a society get to decide how much we value those who educate our children, enforce our laws and put out our fires. If we all agree that these people really aren't worth all that much, fair enough, but let's not act surprised when the next generation turns out to be stupid, corrupt and on fire.
Big Brother. And not the British TV show that we Americans copied. Expect us to copy this Orwellian scheme, too.
Sorry, but the tv show Big Brother was brought to you by the Dutch. Yes, we started the whole business. Now please excuse me while I go off and shoot myself in shame.
So when they have sex they have to pay you royalties?
In other news, Slashdot reports an unprecedented influx of new subscribers. When asked about this, CmdrTaco commented: "Apparently teenagers have decided that reading slashdot with all its side-effects is still preferable than being bled dry by their parents".
I thought all banks used security tokens for online banking.
Not in the US...why do you hate freedom(of the banks)?
It has nothing to do with motive, it has to do with effect. If it benefits mankind it qualifies. Who cares if the person profits from it at the same time? Would you begrudge someone recognition just because it profits them in some way?
That's a sure way to cut back on advancement several tens of years or more.
Many on here would. It reminds me of a saying: a capitalist and a socialist are walking down the street and a man drives past in his Ferrari. The capitalist says "I hope one day I have a Ferrari like him", the socialist says "I hope one day he has to walk like me".
Congratulations. You have officially been indoctrinated!
Now, the socialist *might* argue that that same money could have been used to get all 3 of them a car instead so none of them would have to walk in the first place. But I guess US cable news doesn't go too heavy on the nuance.
You bring up some important points about the relationship the US has with China, and I think your right, the US has to reevaluate its dealings with China to protect itself, should China (on a powerplay) decide they are cutting us off.
s/should/when/;
You're setting yourself up the bomb, and selling the detonator.
Now what *I* find weird is that apple can lock their phones to specific networks, restrict any and all apps they want to on phones and also limit the OS that should run on any x86 hardware to only hardware they make as well as fail to make their software run on other platforms in which many cases even Microsoft makes its software run on Apple (which Silverlight does thank you, as well as office thank you..)
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. Apple isn't. Any other questions?
Indeed we do! We walk along them looking for holes and then scre^W put our fingers in 'm.
Note: as soon some who spent the majority of his life living in cities/towns well below sea level, all hail the dykes!
Note 2: anyone who's played Civ4 knows we get levees instead.
To all of the DONT BUY SONY CUZ THEYRE TEH EVILZ can you recommend me which game console to buy? Oh and please don't say PC, I game hours a day on my PC but I also like having a console for the console only games. Please tell me which console is not made by an evil corporation and doesn't brick with firmware upgrades? The ROCK SOLID 360? The Wii and it's recent hardware killing firmware too? Guess what, I'm going to buy the console that has the games I want. For me that's the PS3 and soon the Wii.
How about...none? Everytime you give these guys money, you're pretty much sending a signal that no matter how far they ram it down your throat, you're still willing to put up with it.
Alternatively, elect some people willing to serve you instead of their corporate overlords that can change your fucked up legal system?
I just love it when the frothing-at-the-mouth liberals try to blame a single, US "official" for doing something EVEYRONE FUCKING KNOWS was the right thing to do, even if the reason was falsified.
Sorry, but now that there is a "liberal" in office, it's the other guys that get to do the frothing at the mouth. Well, except for the libertards, they get to froth at the *mouth* regardless of who is in office. Not that it really matters, US congress seems to be stacked with retards anyway, no matter which party they claim to represent. In the land of the blind...
As for everyone fucking knowing it was the right thing to do...why all the lies then? Surely if putting Saddam out of business was something we'd all be squarely behind about there was no need to fabricate a brick of lies to justify doing so?
I'd love to disagree with you...but I can't.
Geek girls seem to love Babylon 5 for some reason...