No, adoption of Python 3 is limited by library support, not install base. Libraries need to be rewritten for Python 3 and some major ones (e.g. Django) are not yet ready. In this case, jQuery 1.9 and 2.0 will have the same API, but 2.0 will not work on older versions of IE in order to optimize for speed. Your comment about Windows XP is apt; this is akin to software dropping support for older OS versions.
Contact other researchers who work in facilities similar to yours. I'm sure you collaborate with other labs that use HPC resources. Talk to them and get some information about how they do things there.
Personnel is really the key ingredient of HPC. Find someone, hire them quickly and give them the decision of what to buy.
The games the subjects were playing were either "Medal of Honor: Frontline," (violent) or "Need for Speed: Underground" (non-violent). Could it be that Medal of Honor (being a first person game) was more immersive than Need for Speed? Although Need for Speed can be an exciting game, it doesn't attempt to engage your emotions like a story driven FPS does.
I voted in Franklin County in Ohio, and I was pleasantly surprised at the voting machines at my polling place. I used a iVotronic system by Election Systems & Software that had a real time printout of my vote. The touchscreen was easy to use and it gave me the ability to review my votes at the end.
Although I think the source code to voting machines should be publicly available, I feel confident that the paper receipt is accurate. The important thing that needs to be done is random paper recounts to make sure what's on the paper matches what's in the database on that machine.
If this was really the case, why do I see so many racial slurs being thrown around in an average game of Counterstrike, not to mention the nearly ubiquitous use of "gay" as a pejorative.
So the "problem" of induction is limited to this: You shouldn't beleive any scientific finding any more firmly than you beleive in induction. But this too is no big deal, because you, me, and everyone else who won't touch a hot stove beleive quite firmly in induction.
I agree. Believing in induction makes a whole lot of sense from a practical perspective, and I believe in it myself. The problem is that it is still a belief. And you're right, this is mostly irrelevant except from a philosophical perspective.
I'm not a creationist by any means, and I'm not sure why you assume I am. Of course I use induction as a reason to believe things in my daily life, but I don't think I have any good reason to do so except practicality. I'm not presenting any evidence for creationism at all and don't wish to. I'm proposing that although science is a wonderful tool we all use to make the world we live in a orderly place, from a philosophical perspective, I think the problem of induction still looms.
That's an argument not to touch a hot stove, not an argument to believe induction.
Induction worked fine in the past, but there's no assurance it will do so in the future. That's the problem.
In addition to things we understand (think we understand, I suppose), and things we don't understand yet, there are things that are impossible to understand why they (seem to) work. Such is induction.
You can read the full interview with someone who asurvived that day at kotaku. His responses are quite interesting, and he says he has mixed feelings about the game.
I don't think the idea behind the game was to trivialize the shootings, but to comment on them. In other words, it's not trying to be entertainment, it's trying to be art.
That's the scariest part of the whole thing. There is no oversight whatsoever unless Congress manages to do something personally.
The justice department attempted to investigate the NSA spying program, but they were denied a security clearance. With this sort of political climate, the public has to rely on leaks from people inside to even know what's going on.
I was a big fan of the Genesis Shadowrun game and although I didn't enjoy the SNES one quite as much, it still gave a good feel for the game and the setting.
I would have loved a Oblivion-type game with lots of different NPCs and missions, with hireable shadowrunner buddies and stealing random paydata in the matrix. I would have loved a Deus Ex style FPS/Adventure game. I would have even liked a top-down RPG like Neverwinter Nights.
The new game looks like a version of counterstrike with magic. Even if it does have magic, we don't need another multiplayer FPS where two teams shoot at each other and buy better weapons afterwards. I'm not impressed.
This seems fair to me. You don't dismiss a published study by saing 'nuh uh'. You can either give specific examples on how it's intrinsicly flawed or do your own study. Anecdotal evidence doesn't cut it.
The original research said that a group of people were made to play either GTA or the Simpsons driving game (Hit and Run). The people who played GTA had more permissive views of drug uses than the people playing Hit and Run. Assuming that their methodology for those results are valid, the research still leaves a lot of questions unanswered:
What if they were made to play other sorts of games? What would be the differences between Katamari Damacy and Tetris, for example.
What if they were exposed to other sorts of things? What would be the difference between playing GTA and watching Casino? Or between watching football and watching fishing.
I think more data is needed to avoid making an oversimplified generalization from these results.
The Horse Armor Pack has been very popular, and exceeded what we thought it would sell. Despite that, we're still trying to find the right spot, so we're putting a much larger plugin out for less than the last one and we'll see what happens.
I wouldn't pay for the horse armor personally, but I might pay for quest content.
The problem with the electronic voting machines is that they can be tampered with ahead of time, without even accessing the machine during or after election day.
A hack to disreguard 3% of the votes for a particular canidate could be set up weeks before, and maybe from the voting machine company themselves (via a 'security hotfix' or something).
A method to have a simultaniously generated and voter verified paper trail does not ensure anything, but it's sure better than having just an excel spreadsheet be the final ground truth of voting records.
Not planning on getting this one
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I've played Grandia III and the battle system is superb. Classic turn-based, no "active battle system", but the battles are fluid and full of motion and strategy. The demo for FF XII seemed exactly as the quote described (although a link to the article would have been nice...): the game plays itself.
I like RPGs not just for the story, but for the challenge of beating some bad guys using some tactical thinking. The demo didn't offer any thinking. I'll watch a movie or read a book instead if there's no meaningful interaction with the game.
I look at a computer monitor all day. When I relax with a book, I want a non-screen-refreshing, non-light-emitting way to read. It really makes my eyes feel better that way.
I liked the interation in FFX. It was strictly turn based, but you could see your turn order coming up and develop some tactics based on when the monster would attack. It made boss battles fun at least. In this demo there were no tactics at all. I beat the boss with only about 5 button presses to give my healer a tonic. And a lot of waiting.
I played both scenarios in the demo, I don't remember a big difference between them in terms of controls.
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No, adoption of Python 3 is limited by library support, not install base. Libraries need to be rewritten for Python 3 and some major ones (e.g. Django) are not yet ready. In this case, jQuery 1.9 and 2.0 will have the same API, but 2.0 will not work on older versions of IE in order to optimize for speed. Your comment about Windows XP is apt; this is akin to software dropping support for older OS versions.
Based on the rest of the Strafor emails, there's quite a high possibility that this is just made up.
Contact other researchers who work in facilities similar to yours. I'm sure you collaborate with other labs that use HPC resources. Talk to them and get some information about how they do things there.
Personnel is really the key ingredient of HPC. Find someone, hire them quickly and give them the decision of what to buy.
The games the subjects were playing were either "Medal of Honor: Frontline," (violent) or "Need for Speed: Underground" (non-violent). Could it be that Medal of Honor (being a first person game) was more immersive than Need for Speed? Although Need for Speed can be an exciting game, it doesn't attempt to engage your emotions like a story driven FPS does.
These guys weren't so much independent game developers as guys who happened to get the leaked source code for the Lineage 2 servers.
I voted in Franklin County in Ohio, and I was pleasantly surprised at the voting machines at my polling place. I used a iVotronic system by Election Systems & Software that had a real time printout of my vote. The touchscreen was easy to use and it gave me the ability to review my votes at the end.
Although I think the source code to voting machines should be publicly available, I feel confident that the paper receipt is accurate. The important thing that needs to be done is random paper recounts to make sure what's on the paper matches what's in the database on that machine.
If this was really the case, why do I see so many racial slurs being thrown around in an average game of Counterstrike, not to mention the nearly ubiquitous use of "gay" as a pejorative.
Why are you accusing me of trolling?
I'm not a creationist by any means, and I'm not sure why you assume I am. Of course I use induction as a reason to believe things in my daily life, but I don't think I have any good reason to do so except practicality. I'm not presenting any evidence for creationism at all and don't wish to. I'm proposing that although science is a wonderful tool we all use to make the world we live in a orderly place, from a philosophical perspective, I think the problem of induction still looms.
That's an argument not to touch a hot stove, not an argument to believe induction.
Induction worked fine in the past, but there's no assurance it will do so in the future. That's the problem.
In addition to things we understand (think we understand, I suppose), and things we don't understand yet, there are things that are impossible to understand why they (seem to) work. Such is induction.
What does your god say about David Hume and the problem of induction?
How do you know that the scientific method works?
The only winning move is not to play...
I'm pretty sure they mean GPU.
Oops, I posted too quickly.
Here is the interview with the survivor.
Here is the interview with the creator of the game.
You can read the full interview with someone who asurvived that day at kotaku. His responses are quite interesting, and he says he has mixed feelings about the game.
I don't think the idea behind the game was to trivialize the shootings, but to comment on them. In other words, it's not trying to be entertainment, it's trying to be art.
That's the scariest part of the whole thing. There is no oversight whatsoever unless Congress manages to do something personally.
The justice department attempted to investigate the NSA spying program, but they were denied a security clearance. With this sort of political climate, the public has to rely on leaks from people inside to even know what's going on.
I was a big fan of the Genesis Shadowrun game and although I didn't enjoy the SNES one quite as much, it still gave a good feel for the game and the setting.
I would have loved a Oblivion-type game with lots of different NPCs and missions, with hireable shadowrunner buddies and stealing random paydata in the matrix. I would have loved a Deus Ex style FPS/Adventure game. I would have even liked a top-down RPG like Neverwinter Nights.
The new game looks like a version of counterstrike with magic. Even if it does have magic, we don't need another multiplayer FPS where two teams shoot at each other and buy better weapons afterwards. I'm not impressed.
This seems fair to me. You don't dismiss a published study by saing 'nuh uh'. You can either give specific examples on how it's intrinsicly flawed or do your own study. Anecdotal evidence doesn't cut it.
The original research said that a group of people were made to play either GTA or the Simpsons driving game (Hit and Run). The people who played GTA had more permissive views of drug uses than the people playing Hit and Run. Assuming that their methodology for those results are valid, the research still leaves a lot of questions unanswered:
What if they were made to play other sorts of games? What would be the differences between Katamari Damacy and Tetris, for example.
What if they were exposed to other sorts of things? What would be the difference between playing GTA and watching Casino? Or between watching football and watching fishing.
I think more data is needed to avoid making an oversimplified generalization from these results.
But people thought that you could only milk the s -> $ humor so much too, but you proved them all wrong.
The problem with the electronic voting machines is that they can be tampered with ahead of time, without even accessing the machine during or after election day.
A hack to disreguard 3% of the votes for a particular canidate could be set up weeks before, and maybe from the voting machine company themselves (via a 'security hotfix' or something).
A method to have a simultaniously generated and voter verified paper trail does not ensure anything, but it's sure better than having just an excel spreadsheet be the final ground truth of voting records.
I've played Grandia III and the battle system is superb. Classic turn-based, no "active battle system", but the battles are fluid and full of motion and strategy. The demo for FF XII seemed exactly as the quote described (although a link to the article would have been nice...): the game plays itself.
I like RPGs not just for the story, but for the challenge of beating some bad guys using some tactical thinking. The demo didn't offer any thinking. I'll watch a movie or read a book instead if there's no meaningful interaction with the game.
I look at a computer monitor all day. When I relax with a book, I want a non-screen-refreshing, non-light-emitting way to read. It really makes my eyes feel better that way.
I liked the interation in FFX. It was strictly turn based, but you could see your turn order coming up and develop some tactics based on when the monster would attack. It made boss battles fun at least. In this demo there were no tactics at all. I beat the boss with only about 5 button presses to give my healer a tonic. And a lot of waiting.
I played both scenarios in the demo, I don't remember a big difference between them in terms of controls.