Discouraging people from wasting hundreds of hours on a silly game - or maybe hundreds of millions of hours in total across all users - is far kinder to the human race than promoting that game.
Who are you to decide? Come to think of it, what are you doing wasting time on Slashdot when you could be out feeding the homeless or becoming a doctor? Get cracking on that cure for cancer, slacker!
It's just incidentally kinder, from a utilitarian perspective.
The same has been said of eugenics, among other things.
What's so unreasonable about enforcing the law and encouraging people (in the only way some of them seem to understand) to stop engaging in a dangerous and potentially fatal activity?
The only "reason" he needs is that texting while in charge of a vehicle is illegal, for excellent reasons.
With one breath, many parents criticize video games for being so violent, and with the next, they're saying 'thanks' at the counter after picking up these very games for their kids.
Summary implies these are the same parents, which seems somewhat unlikely.
Techgage adds that this is one of the biggest problems facing gaming today.
It might be a parenting problem, but what does the gaming industry care? The game's flying off the shelves, and as far as I can tell it's not being improperly marketed to children.
...is the ability to right-click to select a menu option and keep the damn menu open.
I've given up on doing this in Windows, but is this doable in any of the Linux desktop environments? And by "doable," I mean an easy to enable option that doesn't involve recompiling the kernel or burying my grandmother in soft peat for three months.
What's your point? Do you know how fast a station of a particular size would have to spin to generate a reasonable amount of artificial gravity? Do you know how said motion would affect the vestibular system of the average human?
So why are you calling it "rubbish?" They've found a correlation. That's interesting. No-one's claiming to have discovered the mechanism. Correlation is not causation. You seem to have inferred that because someone's found a correlation, they must also be claiming causation.
I can only guess that in a single image, the asteroid is indistinguishable from noise, and even overlaying the images doesn't bring it out clearly enough to be spotted. Perhaps, once you do all the meta-math, it turns out to be easier just to do many overlays at multiple assumed velocities (which can be filtered down to what we expect of these asteroids) and then look for a bright spot.
Stacking images is simple. Spotting lines of dots in amongst the noise could be fairly tricky to do with any kind of confidence, whereas picking out bright spots (and presumbly then passing on the candidates for more thorough testing) may be less computationally expensive.
But what do I know? I ain't no computational astrophysicist.
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Discouraging people from wasting hundreds of hours on a silly game - or maybe hundreds of millions of hours in total across all users - is far kinder to the human race than promoting that game.
Who are you to decide? Come to think of it, what are you doing wasting time on Slashdot when you could be out feeding the homeless or becoming a doctor? Get cracking on that cure for cancer, slacker!
It's just incidentally kinder, from a utilitarian perspective.
The same has been said of eugenics, among other things.
What's so unreasonable about enforcing the law and encouraging people (in the only way some of them seem to understand) to stop engaging in a dangerous and potentially fatal activity?
The only "reason" he needs is that texting while in charge of a vehicle is illegal, for excellent reasons.
Because it's unkind. Why not try contributing positively to the general well-being of the human race?
With one breath, many parents criticize video games for being so violent, and with the next, they're saying 'thanks' at the counter after picking up these very games for their kids.
Summary implies these are the same parents, which seems somewhat unlikely.
Techgage adds that this is one of the biggest problems facing gaming today.
It might be a parenting problem, but what does the gaming industry care? The game's flying off the shelves, and as far as I can tell it's not being improperly marketed to children.
What is it with sanctimonious twonks who have nothing better to do than belittle the passions of others?
...is the ability to right-click to select a menu option and keep the damn menu open.
I've given up on doing this in Windows, but is this doable in any of the Linux desktop environments? And by "doable," I mean an easy to enable option that doesn't involve recompiling the kernel or burying my grandmother in soft peat for three months.
But could you play ping pong?
What's your point? Do you know how fast a station of a particular size would have to spin to generate a reasonable amount of artificial gravity? Do you know how said motion would affect the vestibular system of the average human?
(I was the short Chinese guy who spoke with an Aussie accent!)
What are you now?
but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options
Facepalm.
Do you really think they wouldn't still be trying to lock out third-party products if no-one had been electrocuted?
So you're saying mass extinctions cause spiral arms? Interesting.
Pretty much, yeah.
So why are you calling it "rubbish?" They've found a correlation. That's interesting. No-one's claiming to have discovered the mechanism. Correlation is not causation. You seem to have inferred that because someone's found a correlation, they must also be claiming causation.
Cant wait for the first movie made and acted entirely by one person (or an AI).
You mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2V_x1Qg20
Ah... nope.
Because there's no entrance exam. Pardon us for coming here in order to learn new things.
Apologies on the pedantism.
You mean pedantry.
Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian...
Here's a couple of showreels showing what goes on in TV land (the clips of Monk in "San Francisco" were particularly enlightening)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhN1STep_zk
or put it another way, a simple switch on a nuclear bomb failed as it fell to earth
No, the switch didn't fail - apparently three of its siblings did, but the fact that this one didn't prevented the unarmed bomb from detonating.
Head of the Senate Committee on Fabulousness, obviously.
Wasn't that a really bad vampire porn fetish movie from the 70s?
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Ha! I see what you did there.
Too generous. Assholes perform a vital, if unglamorous, function. This guy's more of a puss-spewing boil.
I can only guess that in a single image, the asteroid is indistinguishable from noise, and even overlaying the images doesn't bring it out clearly enough to be spotted. Perhaps, once you do all the meta-math, it turns out to be easier just to do many overlays at multiple assumed velocities (which can be filtered down to what we expect of these asteroids) and then look for a bright spot.
Stacking images is simple. Spotting lines of dots in amongst the noise could be fairly tricky to do with any kind of confidence, whereas picking out bright spots (and presumbly then passing on the candidates for more thorough testing) may be less computationally expensive.
But what do I know? I ain't no computational astrophysicist.