but MoP is completely of my radar. I used to be a WoW player, a raid who played over 30 hours/week. But the disappointment with the last expansion (Cataclysm) and later content patches pushed me off the game. Without mentioning I had Dragon Soul (the latest "raid") 10 hours after it was released, the overall quality of the game went downhill. Short content with little to no creativity, recycled mechanics and overall boring content.
You don't say?
I used to raid extensively, too, but quit the game entirely. Picked it back up again after the D3 debacle at the urging of a couple of our friends still playing, and realized I could play for under 10 hours a week and still see everything I wanted to see in the game - which means I get to do other things, like train for triathlons, read books, watch TV, etc., etc., etc.
Maybe if you dialed back your playtime and became more well-rounded you'd renew your interest in the game XD
You statement makes sense. I actually tried it, but it was just not for me. In any case, even playing under 10 hours a week would mean clearing new content way too fast, and then being stuck in the "alts" cycle. My main point was comparing the AMOUNT of content we've got back before Cataclysm with the current content.
Also not mentioning that you cleared (you didn't actually say cleared though) LFR, not normal or heroic? I'm sorry, you really don't seem like you're the type to've been part of Conspiracy's world-first normal.
Actually, the world-first normal happened in less than 6 hours. We were way after that. Our clear was Normal, not LFR. Specially since LFR for the second half of the raid was not released during the first week, which you seem to have forgotten.
If you don't have the patience to even "challenge" yourself with normal difficulty, let alone heroic, I'm sure you're one of the reasons Blizz is making everything "Barbie Play Time" easy in MoP. It's not because the heroic raiders are having trouble, it's because the average subscribing customer has the attention span of a horny gnat.
Blizz loves the casual mom and pop soccer-van gamer.
(For non-WoW people, LFR is the equivalent to kittens playing with yarn and somehow beating the game, difficulty. Normal is about what you'd expect from a game. Heroic is punishing. Not Super Meat Boy/I Wanna Be The Guy: Gaiden punishing, but pretty hard.
Less than 15% of guilds (not individual players) world-wide have completed the last two encounters on Heroic difficulty at the current date. Roughly 100% have completed LFR, and 83% have completed normal.
As I said, we completed Normal in less than 10 hours. Heroic took more time, but we eventually finished that too. I don't have the exact time it took us to clear DS Heroic, but it was several weeks faster than it took us to clear Ulduar normal.
I can understand your confusion, since I didn't specially say what difficulty we cleared in less than 10 hours. It is perfectly normal for you to make that kind of statement without even remembering LFR was only released for the first 4 fights during the first week.
I agree with you that Heroic is pushing, and that LFR was supposed to be easy. A raid group capable of clearing heroic... well, they clearing LFR in hours would not be too bad. They clearing NORMAL in hours, that's another issue.
but MoP is completely of my radar. I used to be a WoW player, a raid who played over 30 hours/week. But the disappointment with the last expansion (Cataclysm) and later content patches pushed me off the game. Without mentioning I had Dragon Soul (the latest "raid") 10 hours after it was released, the overall quality of the game went downhill. Short content with little to no creativity, recycled mechanics and overall boring content.
I have been using Linux since kernel 0.96. My android phone is rooted, and I know where to get pirated software for it (pretty much ANY pirated software). Weirdly enough, I actually buy software. I payed for Titanium Backup, Apparatus, NoDock, PowerAMP, Camera ZOOM FX and a few others. The problem is not finding people willing to pay. His problem is finding people willing to pay for crappy software, and/or software from developers they don't respect. Give me good software, software that works and doesn't try to fuck with me, and I will gladly pay. Stop giving excused because you have a piece of shit software that no one respects enough to pay for.
The issue here is whether or not Google should be going beyond what the law requires. Law typically requires child porn to be banned and for court orders to be upheld when issued and such, but beyond that it's up to Google to decide what to accept and what not to accept.
However, because Google has a dominant market position in advertising space if they make too much use of discretion, especially if it appears political, they could find themselves broken up.
Thank you, you make a very good point. If the law requires Google to ban it, then Google is not censoring it. Someone could make a case the government is censoring, but that is besides the point here.
However, in this particular case, there was no lawful requirement stopping those adds. It was Google's own decision. Then, we have a problem, and a big one at that.
And if they were the child porn party? Would it still be censorship to ban their adds? Google have to draw a line somewhere and this is where they chose to do it.
Banning adds for something that is illegal is not exactly censorship.
IIRC, crypto algorithms that use keys that large qualify as munitions and are subject to ITAR export regulations. Which means a lot of people with legal licenses will be (legally, anyway) prevented from making use of any Windows feature which requires a key length of 1024 bits or more.
Maybe... we your time machine works and they are all send back to 1997. Because, since then, it is no longer restricted by ITAR and can be freely exported...
The only reason they would consider legal options would be because it would bring awareness to their (admittedly excellent) campaign.
If they want to record the cops doing what they believe is wrong, I honestly don't see why the police cannot publicly post a warning to other officers in what seems to be a mostly harmless joking way.
Listen, public embarrassment and notice is a two way street. If you want to publicly post the actions of the police, I don't see why you should feel others couldn't do the same to you.
Pretty sure posting their home address on the flyer can have some legal implications.
Given our present knowledge of the universe, gravity is just an experimental fact, like special relativity.
Thank you. That is EXACTLY it.
What causes the speed of light to be finite?
Actually, I read a pretty neat theory about this once. This takes on the assumption that light either is a particle, or behaves like one in some situations (not a wave), which is acceptable anyway. Any particle approaching the speed of light will exponentially accumulate mass, so it would be impossible for it to exceed the speed of light (infinite mass). I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but it's been over 10 years since I was in the field. The only thing I really remember is that the math was very elegant. The Higgs Boson would be a great find to work on this theory.
you can in fact have "negative" gravity depending on your reference point its just like in electricity if you have electrons going away from a point you can have positive voltage (i may have this backwards).
You could reverse the time dimension.
Which still wouldn't give you negative gravity, unless you treat gravity from a pure Newtonian view. And these days no one will accept a pure Newtonian view of gravity as valid.
And we have a very good idea of what causes gravity, or rather, what gravity _is_. Gravity is the tendency of spacetime to curve in the presence of objects with mass (and/or energy). This curving of spacetime causes other objects to travel not in straight (relative to our local Minkowski space) line paths, but in curves, when they are close to the first object (and vice versa). Since you can't see the external dimension that spacetime is embedded in where it curves (google "de Sitter-space" if you are interested), you see gravity as a force between massive objects.
Actually, spacetime curving is one of the possible theories that explain gravity, not the only one or even the most accepted. It is only the most famous. There is even one theory that doesn't describe gravity as an attraction force. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but it had been about 12 years since I last studied this topic, when I was still working in the field.
Gravity is a very fascinating and "mysterious" (quotes intentional, meaning we understand so little about it compared to other basic forces).
Oh, I agree with you about that. We really have no clue what causes gravity. However, gravity is a concept, and unless the concept is changed, it can't be negative.
Oh, I agree with you 100%. And, I mean, "within our reach" is always good, regardless of the time frame. 100 years is much sooner than "never" or "no idea". But really, we are talking such large scales here that, even if we can, say, improve launching efficiency by 1%, it is still a great result. And, about FTL, we don't even have to go that far. The inertia effects on the organism of anyone breaking the sound barrier (jets etc) is nothing minor. There is a lot of room for improvement there also. Not to mention the potential for better understanding gravity itself. I mean, gravity is still one of the great mysteries of physics. Of all the natural forces, it is one of the least understood ones, if that. Heck, I will be happy if we end up with an unified model for gravity. That alone would advance so many fields it is scary.
Actually, no. Electricity is something from point A to point B. Gravity is an interaction between A and B. So you an't change the point of reference and get a negative result.
I'm not holding my breath for antigrav. The problem with gravity is that you can't have negatives. However, even if we don't see "inertia-free", I can easily imagine some kind of "inertia dampening thingy"(tm). That would be pretty cool.
It is the old paradigm of time vs money. With enough money, it can be done in a reasonable time frame. Otherwise, you will get a great work that take years/decades to develop, like http://ifhgame.ru/main/.
So far, all we have is a statement from Nokia. They are not taking legal action, trying for an injunction or anything. From what I can see and read on the article, it seems Nokia is only trying to force Asus/Google to come and talk to them, which is ok in my book. Trying to compare this to the stunt Apple is pulling is, at best, sensationalism... and at worst (and thus, correct), stupid.
C++ is not a bloated obscenity. It is an excellent language.
I am not claiming it is a language without warts, but I challenge any one who modded the parent post up to provide a coherent argument as to why C++ is bloated and what features you could therefore remove without detracting from the effectiveness of the language.
Actually, the language itself is not bloated. Most of the C++ compilers, are. Anyone who ever coded with a real pedantic C++ compiler (IBM's xlC is an example) knows what I mean.
It always infuriated me that most C++ compilers will happily accept printf() as valid.
Black Plague is rare, but still happens you just usually don't hear about it because it's treatable with antibiotics and preventable by controlling rodent populations - neither antibiotic treatment nor effective prevention were known in europe during the middle ages.
I'm not sure you are entirely correct. The Black Plague is a particular stain of bubonic disease, or at least a group of stains. Although the bubonic disease is still around (and easily treatable), it is not the same stain. One would expect this news is regarding a different stain than was we "usually" see these days. Otherwise, why would be it news worthy ?
I read it when I was very young also, and it f*cked me up in a different way: it created higher expectations for the books I read after. You see, I had no idea who Ray Bradbury was back then, and I figured he was not a big name.
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You don't say?
I used to raid extensively, too, but quit the game entirely. Picked it back up again after the D3 debacle at the urging of a couple of our friends still playing, and realized I could play for under 10 hours a week and still see everything I wanted to see in the game - which means I get to do other things, like train for triathlons, read books, watch TV, etc., etc., etc.
Maybe if you dialed back your playtime and became more well-rounded you'd renew your interest in the game XD
You statement makes sense. I actually tried it, but it was just not for me. In any case, even playing under 10 hours a week would mean clearing new content way too fast, and then being stuck in the "alts" cycle. My main point was comparing the AMOUNT of content we've got back before Cataclysm with the current content.
Also not mentioning that you cleared (you didn't actually say cleared though) LFR, not normal or heroic? I'm sorry, you really don't seem like you're the type to've been part of Conspiracy's world-first normal.
Actually, the world-first normal happened in less than 6 hours. We were way after that. Our clear was Normal, not LFR. Specially since LFR for the second half of the raid was not released during the first week, which you seem to have forgotten.
If you don't have the patience to even "challenge" yourself with normal difficulty, let alone heroic, I'm sure you're one of the reasons Blizz is making everything "Barbie Play Time" easy in MoP. It's not because the heroic raiders are having trouble, it's because the average subscribing customer has the attention span of a horny gnat.
Blizz loves the casual mom and pop soccer-van gamer.
(For non-WoW people, LFR is the equivalent to kittens playing with yarn and somehow beating the game, difficulty. Normal is about what you'd expect from a game. Heroic is punishing. Not Super Meat Boy/I Wanna Be The Guy: Gaiden punishing, but pretty hard.
Less than 15% of guilds (not individual players) world-wide have completed the last two encounters on Heroic difficulty at the current date. Roughly 100% have completed LFR, and 83% have completed normal.
As I said, we completed Normal in less than 10 hours. Heroic took more time, but we eventually finished that too. I don't have the exact time it took us to clear DS Heroic, but it was several weeks faster than it took us to clear Ulduar normal.
I can understand your confusion, since I didn't specially say what difficulty we cleared in less than 10 hours. It is perfectly normal for you to make that kind of statement without even remembering LFR was only released for the first 4 fights during the first week.
I agree with you that Heroic is pushing, and that LFR was supposed to be easy. A raid group capable of clearing heroic ... well, they clearing LFR in hours would not be too bad. They clearing NORMAL in hours, that's another issue.
but MoP is completely of my radar. I used to be a WoW player, a raid who played over 30 hours/week. But the disappointment with the last expansion (Cataclysm) and later content patches pushed me off the game. Without mentioning I had Dragon Soul (the latest "raid") 10 hours after it was released, the overall quality of the game went downhill. Short content with little to no creativity, recycled mechanics and overall boring content.
I have been using Linux since kernel 0.96. My android phone is rooted, and I know where to get pirated software for it (pretty much ANY pirated software).
Weirdly enough, I actually buy software. I payed for Titanium Backup, Apparatus, NoDock, PowerAMP, Camera ZOOM FX and a few others. The problem is not finding people willing to pay. His problem is finding people willing to pay for crappy software, and/or software from developers they don't respect.
Give me good software, software that works and doesn't try to fuck with me, and I will gladly pay. Stop giving excused because you have a piece of shit software that no one respects enough to pay for.
The issue here is whether or not Google should be going beyond what the law requires. Law typically requires child porn to be banned and for court orders to be upheld when issued and such, but beyond that it's up to Google to decide what to accept and what not to accept.
However, because Google has a dominant market position in advertising space if they make too much use of discretion, especially if it appears political, they could find themselves broken up.
Thank you, you make a very good point. If the law requires Google to ban it, then Google is not censoring it. Someone could make a case the government is censoring, but that is besides the point here.
However, in this particular case, there was no lawful requirement stopping those adds. It was Google's own decision. Then, we have a problem, and a big one at that.
And if they were the child porn party? Would it still be censorship to ban their adds? Google have to draw a line somewhere and this is where they chose to do it.
Banning adds for something that is illegal is not exactly censorship.
Yeah, and RMS was talking non-sense yesterday. What is the world coming to ...
Yesterday? I'm a big fan of RMS - since before the beard - but the day he doesn't talk non-sense will be news.
Exactly my point. Just like the day Linus doesn't get bitchy :)
Geez, I figured we were all past the <sarcasm> tag already.
Linus is getting bitchy lately.
Yeah, and RMS was talking non-sense yesterday. What is the world coming to ...
IIRC, crypto algorithms that use keys that large qualify as munitions and are subject to ITAR export regulations. Which means a lot of people with legal licenses will be (legally, anyway) prevented from making use of any Windows feature which requires a key length of 1024 bits or more.
Maybe ... we your time machine works and they are all send back to 1997. Because, since then, it is no longer restricted by ITAR and can be freely exported...
The only reason they would consider legal options would be because it would bring awareness to their (admittedly excellent) campaign.
If they want to record the cops doing what they believe is wrong, I honestly don't see why the police cannot publicly post a warning to other officers in what seems to be a mostly harmless joking way.
Listen, public embarrassment and notice is a two way street. If you want to publicly post the actions of the police, I don't see why you should feel others couldn't do the same to you.
Pretty sure posting their home address on the flyer can have some legal implications.
c is finite because the is the speed limit (LIM) when a particle assumes infinite mass. The speed limit is the consequence in this theory.
Given our present knowledge of the universe, gravity is just an experimental fact, like special relativity.
Thank you. That is EXACTLY it.
What causes the speed of light to be finite?
Actually, I read a pretty neat theory about this once. This takes on the assumption that light either is a particle, or behaves like one in some situations (not a wave), which is acceptable anyway. Any particle approaching the speed of light will exponentially accumulate mass, so it would be impossible for it to exceed the speed of light (infinite mass). I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but it's been over 10 years since I was in the field. The only thing I really remember is that the math was very elegant. The Higgs Boson would be a great find to work on this theory.
you can in fact have "negative" gravity depending on your reference point its just like in electricity if you have electrons going away from a point you can have positive voltage (i may have this backwards).
You could reverse the time dimension.
Which still wouldn't give you negative gravity, unless you treat gravity from a pure Newtonian view. And these days no one will accept a pure Newtonian view of gravity as valid.
And we have a very good idea of what causes gravity, or rather, what gravity _is_. Gravity is the tendency of spacetime to curve in the presence of objects with mass (and/or energy). This curving of spacetime causes other objects to travel not in straight (relative to our local Minkowski space) line paths, but in curves, when they are close to the first object (and vice versa). Since you can't see the external dimension that spacetime is embedded in where it curves (google "de Sitter-space" if you are interested), you see gravity as a force between massive objects.
Actually, spacetime curving is one of the possible theories that explain gravity, not the only one or even the most accepted. It is only the most famous. There is even one theory that doesn't describe gravity as an attraction force. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but it had been about 12 years since I last studied this topic, when I was still working in the field.
Gravity is a very fascinating and "mysterious" (quotes intentional, meaning we understand so little about it compared to other basic forces).
Oh, I agree with you about that. We really have no clue what causes gravity. However, gravity is a concept, and unless the concept is changed, it can't be negative.
Oh, I agree with you 100%. And, I mean, "within our reach" is always good, regardless of the time frame. 100 years is much sooner than "never" or "no idea".
But really, we are talking such large scales here that, even if we can, say, improve launching efficiency by 1%, it is still a great result. And, about FTL, we don't even have to go that far. The inertia effects on the organism of anyone breaking the sound barrier (jets etc) is nothing minor. There is a lot of room for improvement there also.
Not to mention the potential for better understanding gravity itself. I mean, gravity is still one of the great mysteries of physics. Of all the natural forces, it is one of the least understood ones, if that. Heck, I will be happy if we end up with an unified model for gravity. That alone would advance so many fields it is scary.
Actually, no. Electricity is something from point A to point B. Gravity is an interaction between A and B. So you an't change the point of reference and get a negative result.
Gravity is really weird.
I'm not holding my breath for antigrav. The problem with gravity is that you can't have negatives.
However, even if we don't see "inertia-free", I can easily imagine some kind of "inertia dampening thingy"(tm). That would be pretty cool.
It is the old paradigm of time vs money. With enough money, it can be done in a reasonable time frame. Otherwise, you will get a great work that take years/decades to develop, like http://ifhgame.ru/main/.
So far, all we have is a statement from Nokia. They are not taking legal action, trying for an injunction or anything. From what I can see and read on the article, it seems Nokia is only trying to force Asus/Google to come and talk to them, which is ok in my book. ... and at worst (and thus, correct), stupid.
Trying to compare this to the stunt Apple is pulling is, at best, sensationalism
It's not the bloated obscenity that is C++.
C++ is not a bloated obscenity. It is an excellent language.
I am not claiming it is a language without warts, but I challenge any one who modded the parent post up to provide a coherent argument as to why C++ is bloated and what features you could therefore remove without detracting from the effectiveness of the language.
Actually, the language itself is not bloated. Most of the C++ compilers, are. Anyone who ever coded with a real pedantic C++ compiler (IBM's xlC is an example) knows what I mean.
It always infuriated me that most C++ compilers will happily accept printf() as valid.
No, must be confirmation bias on your part.
Black Plague is rare, but still happens you just usually don't hear about it because it's treatable with antibiotics and preventable by controlling rodent populations - neither antibiotic treatment nor effective prevention were known in europe during the middle ages.
I'm not sure you are entirely correct. The Black Plague is a particular stain of bubonic disease, or at least a group of stains. Although the bubonic disease is still around (and easily treatable), it is not the same stain. One would expect this news is regarding a different stain than was we "usually" see these days. Otherwise, why would be it news worthy ?
Education needs to be in smaller chunks with more apprenticeship like teaching.
No. Education needs to no longer be treated like a single thing. Each topic is different, and should be treated so.
The way to teach/learn CS, for example, is (or should be) different than law, or physics.
One of the problems with education right now (among many others) is the search for "on size fits all" solutions.
As a general rule, the only way to build something large and complex that works is to grow it from something small and simple that works.
As a general rule, something simple that works will grow into something large and complex that doesn't work, and no one can figure why.
I read it when I was very young also, and it f*cked me up in a different way: it created higher expectations for the books I read after. You see, I had no idea who Ray Bradbury was back then, and I figured he was not a big name.
Good memories.