Yep, people will travel - and a new area becomes laggy while the old becomes a ghost town.
It's also worth pointing out that some areas are crowded because they are central hubs or traditional meeting areas. Something the Devs can do very little about.
I swear, that Soyuz module will never die, considering how old it is.
Yeah, for a 2002 model it's doing pretty good isn't it? (If you disregard the multiple times it has suffered systems failure on re-entry.)
Seriously - though people refer to the craft as generically as 'Soyuz', that is like referring to all Ford Thunderbird's as a 'Thunderbird' without regards to model year. The current mark of Soyuz is the Soyuz-TMA, which had it's first flight in 2002 and has only flown 12 complete missions with the 13th currently on orbit. It's had significant failures on three of those missions - including two of the last three.
The Soyuz has evolved significantly along its journey from a free flying general purpose orbiter to a dedicated station taxi. The internals of a current mark Soyuz bear little resemblance to the original.
I don't mind saying that this act is simply called, Sticking It To The Man . I'm saddened that today's Man-Stickers are so inundated with political correctness that they can't call an action for what it is.
The McHippies of today don't want to call it what it is, because it sounds less noble and more venal - and style is more important than substance.
Stop segmenting your playing population into multiple independent copies of the universe.
Instead, segment your universe.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. I know of no games (whose internals I know/have heard anything about) that can handle their entire player facing universe on a single machine, even if they do hand off the background processing. Being able to do so means you either have a very small playerbase or a very small/simple game.
Even games that segment their universes (CoX, UO) still tend to have multiple universes. (Eve Online, like WoW, is the exception - not the rule.) Even if you segment the universe, you still run into the problems of some areas (Peregrine Island, Britain) being crowded and laggy while others (Galaxy City, Ilshenar) are virtually empty. Not all areas of a game are going to equally desirable.
It's a decent funk groove, nothing particularly good but it'll get your ass shaking. But I can't figure out how it's the future of entertainment - mashups and mixups go back decades, and funk itself is thirty-forty years old. The future of music is endless mostly OK amateur retro mixups and mashups? I don't view that as good thing at all.
There is a serious side to this. The US hasn't actually built any nukes, stuck 'en on a rocket, fired them and had a successful BOOM for well over 40 years. That must be coming up for 2 generations of rocket / nuclear scientists and the third generation is now in training. That means that the "new guys" will learn from people who didn't have any practical experience and in turn learned from the people who actually *did it* nearly 50 years ago.
Which sounds really impressive to the naive. But the reality is far different.
The reality is that we regularly launch missiles with warheads that contain everything but the explosives - they don't go boom, but they send a radio signal indicating that they would have. The reality is that we routinely test the warheads, less the nuclear material, under accelerations and vibrations far greater than they would encounter in flight. The reality is that we only stopped testing nukes underground in 1996.
The reality is that 'gap' you fear so much is non existent (currently) because all current nukes have been tested live - which is why they are re manufacturing the W76.
You intentionally took a pedandic interpretation of my comments and wrote them in an insulting manner, for what purpose?
Because you used your friends status as once having worked for NASA to imply that the documents had been destroyed and implied that he was in a position to know for certain. It's not being pedantic to interpret "the documents were destroyed" as meaning "the documents were destroyed".
As I said, the plans are archived. It's all the intermediate documents that are gone. There is a world of difference between getting the archived prints and all the memos and notes that would help you make decisions. You can't go out and buy COTS 1060s part (maybe the Aspestos flame retardation), and you need to substitute it, but you don't have the intermediate notes for the spec, so you have to recreate the work.
You didn't say they'd been archived - you said they'd been destroyed... your friend told you so. None the less, you are full of shit because we have the specs and we have volumes upon volumes of design studies detailing why many of the things were done the way they were. (There is some missing.)
My point is, what was focused on in the 60s isn't focused on now, and I wouldn't assume that a modern engineer would have an easy time recreating what was done 40 years ago. Plenty of "difficult" math might be recorded (easily whipped up in Excel today, let alone real software), while thoughts and processes that are obvious to an engineer of that era might not be documented.
Had somebody said it would be easy, you'd have a point. Instead, you're just full of shit.
You sir, are a rude person, for no reason.
I'm routinely rude to jackasses who haven't a clue what they are talking about yet prattle on as if they experts anyhow.
They're probably going to move heaven and earth to avoid a rollback - with STS-125 (the Hubble mission) in the batter's box they are in a tight corner... 125 needs both pads, because there isn't a safe haven (as there is for ISS missions). The longer it takes to get 125 off the ground, the longer it is before they can hand over a pad to start conversion for Ares.
To stop unwanted people registering a new account, you could to a blanket IP ban on the registration page ONLY, meaning that a local person can register at home, and then roam to wherever and still access the site.
Which screws over people like me - who have strong ties to or a strong interest in an area where they don't currently live.
I agree that this probably should not be solved purely on the technology end of things. One of the great things about the Internet is that one can access things from most anywhere. Your website may cater to locals, but you need to consider the possibility that someone who is generally local to the area but currently elsewhere might want to access the site.
Indeed. Though I live in Washington [state, not the 'other Washington'], I'm a member of several lists/boards/etc... related to the Triad area of North Carolina. I'm from there, and visit there regularly as well have friends and family there and hobbies that I participate in here as well as there when I'm there.
It's not just the 'net, but the fact that people travel more often these days.
I'm not well versed in Icelandic law, so I have none. However, requiring someone to pay for a service they are unable to use and also banning them from transferring it, reselling it, or otherwise making use of something you sold them is unconscionable. You can't sell someone something for resale, then prevent them from reselling it.
In other words, not having any actual knowledge... you'll make shit up and then present it as if it were reality rather than fantasy.
That the contract doesn't specify what happens when a consumer goes bankrupt indicates that neither side considered it as well
Few, if any, contracts between party A and party B specify what happens when B's customers go bankrupt - because the assumption under the law is that B is responsible for adhering to valid contracts freely entered into. There are many things not in contracts because of this, and other, underlying assumptions. (The same way that a loan contract between you and a bank does not give you a free pass because you lose your job.)
the others that were mentioning force majeure may have a point.
Nope. Like you, they have no idea what they are talking about and are making shit up. Force Majeure requires a significant and unpredictable external event - whatis called an Act Of God. An economic meltdown doesn't qualify because while unpredictable, courts recognize it as part of the natural business cycle.
The legal basis is Force Majeure (sp?). Basically, if the economy here collapsed, something like the MCP mess would be voidable.
Sorry, but no. A collapsed economy without a significant and unpredictable outside event (like war or a major natural disaster) doesn't qualify as an 'Act Of God' (and even they don't always count, it depends on the circumstances), which is what is required to invoke Force Majeure. If the Icelandic courts do rule so, it's a very bad legal precedent as courts worldwide normally recognize such things as part of the normal business cycle. (That's why bankruptcy laws exist and why the circumstances under which you can declare bankruptcy are carefully defined.)
On the flip side, I couldn't muster an ounce of anger towards Iceland if they were to cancel these contracts, given the state of their economy.
I wouldn't be angry either, but I would be very concerned... Voiding properly executed contracts without a legal basis for doing so is a very bad sign.
It really comes down to this: Honor contracts freely entered into and legally binding, or have a really hard time having companies being willing to sign contracts in your country. There's a lot more at stake here than just Microsoft - especially for a country like Iceland with virtually no manufacturing industry and heavily dependent on trade.
If governments want to do stuff in secret they know they have to do it undercover. There's a big covered dock right next to the two obvious submarines on the Faslane google maps imagery. That's where the secret stuff happens.
Yeah, really secret stuff - like handling missiles and whatnot out of the rain. (Which a) isn't classified and b) in the US practically bragged about.) Google "Explosive Handling Wharf" and you'll see extensive photographic coverage of the US equivalent.
Anyone know what the circular mounds are to the north of the base?
Probably fuel tanks from when the RN used Faslane for surface ships as well as conventional submarines. The Brits have a positive mania for burying them, and there are none of the normal hallmarks of bunkers or other 'normally buried' structures.
Which point out why various governments want this stuff blurred - they aren't bothered by Russia seeing it, because they have birds of their own. They're scared shitless of individuals like myself who actually know what they are looking at or can make reasonable guesses based on other information. If I can do it, so can terrorists.
I hope you're not referring to the "we lost the blueprints to the Saturn V" urban legend.
According to a friend that did a stint in high level strategy at NASA, that's not really an urban legend. When the project was shelved, the documents were more or less destroyed.
Well, frankly, your friend is full of shit. If the documents were destroyed, then how are current space historians retrieving them from the archives and studying them?
Also, changing environmental and work conditions would prevent just throwing together the Saturn V. Also, engineers of today don't have the same skill sets as back then. I never learned drafting, the core of engineering then.
Presumably you learned CAD then - which is the core of engineering today. (Not to mention the thousands of Boeing engineers are their CAD workstations just a few dozen miles from me would debate you as well.)
Pornography has always been at the forefront of technology. VHS, DVD, they were the first to really start using DRM on video content, too. A quick search on Google for 'porn technology' will give you lots of articles on the subject.
A quick Google search gives me lots of articles than announce a priori that porn has always been at the forefront and always will be - but few actual facts to support that position.
Not surprised by the latter one. Catholic teaching has leaned hard towards "Science is 'what' and 'how.' God is 'why.'" for a long time now.
A lot of people don't know that and lump '[Roman] Catholic' in with 'Christian Fundie'. Which is *very* amusing since the Fundies are generally Protestant in origin. (Few people seem to remember that within living memory being Catholic in America was as discriminated against as blacks or Jews - by precisely these Fundamentalists.)
I think he's more referring to the erotic services section, which are actually mostly legitimate legal services.
Not in any erotic services section of any US city that I've visited. Universally, the majority of the ads are for illegal services.
Just because there's no sex doesn't mean that a service isn't erotic. Massages, BDSM (doesn't require sex), and Kama Sutra classes are some of the more frequent offerings on there.
Oh, you have no evidence of this actually happening, no actually damaged or hurt children?
Actually there have been numerous cases of underage prostitutes, willing and otherwise, on Craigslist.
Then you're just another scare monger trying to stop the bleeding by covering it with a curtain.
And you're just another ignoramous trying to pretend a problem doesn't actually exist.
An intelligent person would want this stuff on craigslist, where it is all made into a nice easy searchable electronic database that can be easily monitored, logged, and used in court with a minimum of fuss.
In some fantasy universe where people also want crack houses left alone in order to provide a supply of dealers to bust, and bars to serve up alcohol in drive through windows in order to create more drunks on the road. In this fantasy universe 'intelligent' people don't care about the victims, they just want criminals to bust.
Here where I live we want to make things harder for criminals, not easier. We care about the victims.
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Yep, people will travel - and a new area becomes laggy while the old becomes a ghost town.
It's also worth pointing out that some areas are crowded because they are central hubs or traditional meeting areas. Something the Devs can do very little about.
Yeah, for a 2002 model it's doing pretty good isn't it? (If you disregard the multiple times it has suffered systems failure on re-entry.)
Seriously - though people refer to the craft as generically as 'Soyuz', that is like referring to all Ford Thunderbird's as a 'Thunderbird' without regards to model year. The current mark of Soyuz is the Soyuz-TMA, which had it's first flight in 2002 and has only flown 12 complete missions with the 13th currently on orbit. It's had significant failures on three of those missions - including two of the last three.
The Soyuz has evolved significantly along its journey from a free flying general purpose orbiter to a dedicated station taxi. The internals of a current mark Soyuz bear little resemblance to the original.
The McHippies of today don't want to call it what it is, because it sounds less noble and more venal - and style is more important than substance.
Not renewing a contract isn't stabbing someone in the back. Google isn't bound to Mozilla permanently legally, ethically, or morally.
Google does have a record however of doing things half ass and then leaving them adrift.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. I know of no games (whose internals I know/have heard anything about) that can handle their entire player facing universe on a single machine, even if they do hand off the background processing. Being able to do so means you either have a very small playerbase or a very small/simple game.
Even games that segment their universes (CoX, UO) still tend to have multiple universes. (Eve Online, like WoW, is the exception - not the rule.) Even if you segment the universe, you still run into the problems of some areas (Peregrine Island, Britain) being crowded and laggy while others (Galaxy City, Ilshenar) are virtually empty. Not all areas of a game are going to equally desirable.
It's a decent funk groove, nothing particularly good but it'll get your ass shaking. But I can't figure out how it's the future of entertainment - mashups and mixups go back decades, and funk itself is thirty-forty years old. The future of music is endless mostly OK amateur retro mixups and mashups? I don't view that as good thing at all.
Which sounds really impressive to the naive. But the reality is far different.
The reality is that we regularly launch missiles with warheads that contain everything but the explosives - they don't go boom, but they send a radio signal indicating that they would have. The reality is that we routinely test the warheads, less the nuclear material, under accelerations and vibrations far greater than they would encounter in flight. The reality is that we only stopped testing nukes underground in 1996.
The reality is that 'gap' you fear so much is non existent (currently) because all current nukes have been tested live - which is why they are re manufacturing the W76.
Because you used your friends status as once having worked for NASA to imply that the documents had been destroyed and implied that he was in a position to know for certain. It's not being pedantic to interpret "the documents were destroyed" as meaning "the documents were destroyed".
You didn't say they'd been archived - you said they'd been destroyed... your friend told you so. None the less, you are full of shit because we have the specs and we have volumes upon volumes of design studies detailing why many of the things were done the way they were. (There is some missing.)
Had somebody said it would be easy, you'd have a point. Instead, you're just full of shit.
I'm routinely rude to jackasses who haven't a clue what they are talking about yet prattle on as if they experts anyhow.
They're probably going to move heaven and earth to avoid a rollback - with STS-125 (the Hubble mission) in the batter's box they are in a tight corner... 125 needs both pads, because there isn't a safe haven (as there is for ISS missions). The longer it takes to get 125 off the ground, the longer it is before they can hand over a pad to start conversion for Ares.
Which screws over people like me - who have strong ties to or a strong interest in an area where they don't currently live.
Indeed. Though I live in Washington [state, not the 'other Washington'], I'm a member of several lists/boards/etc... related to the Triad area of North Carolina. I'm from there, and visit there regularly as well have friends and family there and hobbies that I participate in here as well as there when I'm there.
It's not just the 'net, but the fact that people travel more often these days.
No, we don't agree on even that. If you have a product people want - you can always find new resellers.
In other words, not having any actual knowledge... you'll make shit up and then present it as if it were reality rather than fantasy.
Few, if any, contracts between party A and party B specify what happens when B's customers go bankrupt - because the assumption under the law is that B is responsible for adhering to valid contracts freely entered into. There are many things not in contracts because of this, and other, underlying assumptions. (The same way that a loan contract between you and a bank does not give you a free pass because you lose your job.)
Nope. Like you, they have no idea what they are talking about and are making shit up. Force Majeure requires a significant and unpredictable external event - whatis called an Act Of God. An economic meltdown doesn't qualify because while unpredictable, courts recognize it as part of the natural business cycle.
Unlikely in the extreme, but I'd be glad to peruse any cites you have.
Sorry, but no. A collapsed economy without a significant and unpredictable outside event (like war or a major natural disaster) doesn't qualify as an 'Act Of God' (and even they don't always count, it depends on the circumstances), which is what is required to invoke Force Majeure. If the Icelandic courts do rule so, it's a very bad legal precedent as courts worldwide normally recognize such things as part of the normal business cycle. (That's why bankruptcy laws exist and why the circumstances under which you can declare bankruptcy are carefully defined.)
I wouldn't be angry either, but I would be very concerned... Voiding properly executed contracts without a legal basis for doing so is a very bad sign.
It really comes down to this: Honor contracts freely entered into and legally binding, or have a really hard time having companies being willing to sign contracts in your country. There's a lot more at stake here than just Microsoft - especially for a country like Iceland with virtually no manufacturing industry and heavily dependent on trade.
More correctly: Business People tend to remember the people they blame for pushing them into bankruptcy - their own failings they tend to forget.
In this case, the MCP seems to have forgotten they signed a contract saying they would pay.
Yeah, really secret stuff - like handling missiles and whatnot out of the rain. (Which a) isn't classified and b) in the US practically bragged about.) Google "Explosive Handling Wharf" and you'll see extensive photographic coverage of the US equivalent.
Probably fuel tanks from when the RN used Faslane for surface ships as well as conventional submarines. The Brits have a positive mania for burying them, and there are none of the normal hallmarks of bunkers or other 'normally buried' structures.
Which point out why various governments want this stuff blurred - they aren't bothered by Russia seeing it, because they have birds of their own. They're scared shitless of individuals like myself who actually know what they are looking at or can make reasonable guesses based on other information. If I can do it, so can terrorists.
Well, frankly, your friend is full of shit. If the documents were destroyed, then how are current space historians retrieving them from the archives and studying them?
Presumably you learned CAD then - which is the core of engineering today. (Not to mention the thousands of Boeing engineers are their CAD workstations just a few dozen miles from me would debate you as well.)
A quick Google search gives me lots of articles than announce a priori that porn has always been at the forefront and always will be - but few actual facts to support that position.
A lot of people don't know that and lump '[Roman] Catholic' in with 'Christian Fundie'. Which is *very* amusing since the Fundies are generally Protestant in origin. (Few people seem to remember that within living memory being Catholic in America was as discriminated against as blacks or Jews - by precisely these Fundamentalists.)
Didn't see it, hadn't been moderated high enough, my apologies.
Not in any erotic services section of any US city that I've visited. Universally, the majority of the ads are for illegal services.
Which city is this?
Actually there have been numerous cases of underage prostitutes, willing and otherwise, on Craigslist.
And you're just another ignoramous trying to pretend a problem doesn't actually exist.
In some fantasy universe where people also want crack houses left alone in order to provide a supply of dealers to bust, and bars to serve up alcohol in drive through windows in order to create more drunks on the road. In this fantasy universe 'intelligent' people don't care about the victims, they just want criminals to bust.
Here where I live we want to make things harder for criminals, not easier. We care about the victims.