"Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact."
A Nash equilibrium occurs when every player knows the equilibrium strategies of the other players and no player can benefit by changing their strategy whilst other players keep theirs unchanged.
In this circumstance, each player can look at the others and ask "are they being vaccinated?". If they are, it makes sense to not get the vaccine and avoid any side effects. If all players choose the alternative strategy of not being vaccinated, it would then be possible for some players to improve their outcome by changing strategy and going for vaccination, thereby swapping the large risk of infection for the small risk of side effects.
Thinking about this quickly, I think this shows that there isn't a stable equilibrium for this problem as whilst there is a majority of people being vaccinated the optimal strategy is to not get vaccinated but when herd immunity has disappeared the optimal strategy is to get the vaccine before being infected.
Actually, the PC games market is having a bit of a resurgence, witness the latest annual Steam sale and the high quality multiplatform releases that are coming out on PC as well as console.
Since the days of the PSX, PC gaming has waxed and waned with the console cycle. Most current PCs with separate graphics cards can easily match a PS3 or Xbox in terms of performance and so publishers are willing to take the time to port AAA titles; when the next generation comes out the PC will be ignored again for a couple of years.
In the Q&A at the end they mention they don't have the app signing keys, so you can't use this to boot hacked games. The keys they have allow them to sign the OS meaning we can install Linux again. If I understand it correctly, Linux booted using these keys will be able to use the RSX graphics chip too!
Apparently you could use this exploit to find the app signing keys but these guys have no interest in doing that. Somebody will though.
You're railing against the basic issue of provisioning. Even on fixed line ISPs you get a certain limit (or "unlimited") for a certain time.
Selling someone an allocation without a time limit is a nightmare. What if you end up with large amount of unused data allocation? Potentially it could all be used at once, leading to service disruption for regular users. Also, pure PAYG data usage is a bit of a problem. You don't want people turning up and using large amounts of data out of the blue which is reflected in the relatively high charges for PAYG data compared to on a contract.
The examples you gave are clear cases of entrapment. Vice officers will do controlled buys of drugs in order to obtain a surveillance warrant but in most jurisdictions the sale to an officer who asked for drugs wouldn't be considered evidence of intent to supply; the defendant could argue that they were simply in possession and wouldn't have sold had the officer not asked and it's up to the prosecution to show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the defendant would have sold.
That's why undercover officers who nab dealers for selling to them are careful to never actually ask for drugs, they allow dealers to offer them and then accept the offer. That distinction might seem meaningless to you but it's the difference between simple possession and intent to supply.
We do NOT allow this change as part of the standard defined by this document.
Seems fairly unambiguous to me.
People have been gaming slow-start for yonks; I remember when you could ACK flood a server to increase your download speed. Server admins hated it because it slowed the site down for everyone else.
Um, you only get that if you're changing files inside a privileged location. It's actually less intrusive than Unix style operating systems where in any sensibly configured default you're tightly confined to $home and everything else requires sudo; UAC protects the Program Files and Windows directories.
I'd actually prefer UAC to be more restrictive.
Also, where does it actually require you to confirm four times to change a filename? In 7 it takes 2 and that's because I keep UAC on high. In the default configuration it only asks once to confirm privilege escalation for a filename change in the Windows directory.
Meh, I have half decent onboard audio; I say half decent because if I amp it up too much I can hear the noise.
I don't really care, however, because I have an external 5.1 amplifier. If I keep my output low I don't hear any noise and can amp it up my surround system to the point where it's offensive to my neighbours and harmful to my ears and still have clean sound.
If I used headphones more often I might care more about the noise levels though.
The main thing that I found interesting about this article, however, is that the cheap sound card had a flatter frequency response. I think I'll consider purchasing a card simply for that!
The Android Train Times UK app is actually pretty cheap at a fiver. Being able to see the departure / arrival boards as widgets on my home screens has saved me from many hours of sitting around waiting in train stations.
You copy your app onto your phone via it's data cable, or maybe by using one of the many apps that let you mount SMB shares, or some other method. You then go into the options on your Android phone and check the "unknown sources" box, which allows you to install apps from non Marketplace sources. You then find said app using a file manager app or somesuch and install it.
No rooting required. You do need to root to get certain functionality apparently, but I have a debranded T-Mobile HTC Desire with loads of apps installed and I've not had to root it.
Lacking journal access, I wonder if this is the Nutt paper where he jokes about MDMA being less harmful than horse riding?
It shows the blatant hypocrisy of the whole War on Drugs when all the leading scientific experts who have been hired by the government for the purpose of assessing the risks of drug use end up quitting because the politicians dislike the results they produce.
There is no gap between stars. By the time you get close to exiting our solar system, you will already be closer to a neighboring star then you will be to Sol.
Er, what?
Proxima Centauri is about 4ly away which is still thousands of years travel time with our current tech, and our solar system doesn't have a radius of 2ly.
Civ IV had required a pretty decent system at the time it came out too. However, hardware has moved on a lot in the past five years so most systems should easily play it.
I've not played Civ 5 yet (gotta wait till Friday due to living in the UK, boo-hoo!) but I bet Civ 5 will run much better than Civ 4 did on bottom range systems, due to the "board game" view mode that turns off most of the fancy graphical effects.
Tony Blair actually won a bet with Prince Charles that hunting would continue after the "ban". As long as the hounds don't actually kill the fox it's all still legal and even if they do it is, as you point out impossible to police.
If only the state took the same attitude towards cannabis laws. Of course, smoking weed isn't a favourite past-time of our ruling class...
Using eclipse on windows to code, with a cross compiler to convert the resultant Java to native Ipad code, would fall fowl of this. And now, apparently it wont.
I bloody hope it wont; the previous situation had me clucking fuming!
They operate on the principle of "if we say something often and loud enough, then MPs will conclude we are important or in the majority".
Yea, we can't have the proles getting uppity eh? Heaven forbid that those "self-righteous" pressure groups might actually be representing a majority viewpoint!
Most people don't have time to sit down and engage with the political process. We've got jobs that take up most of our time and scant recreational time. When a small group of people take the time to setup a pressure group over something they care about, automatic MP contact forms are a good campaigning tool.
As most of the emails generated will be identical, you just have to send them all the same response. Filter the identical ones upon receipt and keep a count of how many you're getting. Pass on any personal additions to the campaign email to the MP to respond to.
I've heard MPs whine about this issue before and, the way they talk, you'd think nobody else works in a business where you spend loads of time answering the same boring questions over and over again. It's not that hard a situation to manage.
I'm not aware that it's common for UK ISPs to hide users login information from them. IPStream based IPSs I've used in the past have supplied me with login information but my current ISP, Be, is LLU based and so authentication is done by port at the DSLAM.
Nobody installs extra plugins. The only reason flash became popular, was that it was distributed with the browser itself.
I seem to recall that Netscape and Internet Explorer generally just offered to install flashplayer via their respective plugin-finders upon first visiting a page with flash content.
The only time I've personally seen flash present on a fresh install is when an OEM has put it there; such arrangements are independent of Microsoft, I'm sure you understand.
But it's the only view that counts. The firm I work for advertises new vacancies at the lowest rate they think they can get away with and, if nobody shows up at that rate who fits the bill, they then advertise at a higher rate. This leads to all sorts of peculiarities like less experienced, new starters being paid more than old hands.
The question, in the companies mind, is how can they get away with paying as low a rate as possible whilst keeping staff? Replacing old staff is expensive so it's best to avoid doing it, therefore the firm should pay people only so much as to stop them leaving.
If the OP can generate the impression that he could leave easily and still be OK then that puts him in a much stronger position whilst talking about a pay rise.
I've been waiting for someone to port the classic Powerstone to XBLA for ages. Ideally it would be Powerstone 2 and they'd put in online support for the 4 player mode.
Reading TFA just before hitting post, I notice it's already on that list.
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"Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEolSjlcqng
A Nash equilibrium occurs when every player knows the equilibrium strategies of the other players and no player can benefit by changing their strategy whilst other players keep theirs unchanged.
In this circumstance, each player can look at the others and ask "are they being vaccinated?". If they are, it makes sense to not get the vaccine and avoid any side effects. If all players choose the alternative strategy of not being vaccinated, it would then be possible for some players to improve their outcome by changing strategy and going for vaccination, thereby swapping the large risk of infection for the small risk of side effects.
Thinking about this quickly, I think this shows that there isn't a stable equilibrium for this problem as whilst there is a majority of people being vaccinated the optimal strategy is to not get vaccinated but when herd immunity has disappeared the optimal strategy is to get the vaccine before being infected.
Determining causation for health issues isn't one of those times though.
Actually, the PC games market is having a bit of a resurgence, witness the latest annual Steam sale and the high quality multiplatform releases that are coming out on PC as well as console.
Since the days of the PSX, PC gaming has waxed and waned with the console cycle. Most current PCs with separate graphics cards can easily match a PS3 or Xbox in terms of performance and so publishers are willing to take the time to port AAA titles; when the next generation comes out the PC will be ignored again for a couple of years.
In the Q&A at the end they mention they don't have the app signing keys, so you can't use this to boot hacked games. The keys they have allow them to sign the OS meaning we can install Linux again. If I understand it correctly, Linux booted using these keys will be able to use the RSX graphics chip too!
Apparently you could use this exploit to find the app signing keys but these guys have no interest in doing that. Somebody will though.
You're railing against the basic issue of provisioning. Even on fixed line ISPs you get a certain limit (or "unlimited") for a certain time.
Selling someone an allocation without a time limit is a nightmare. What if you end up with large amount of unused data allocation? Potentially it could all be used at once, leading to service disruption for regular users. Also, pure PAYG data usage is a bit of a problem. You don't want people turning up and using large amounts of data out of the blue which is reflected in the relatively high charges for PAYG data compared to on a contract.
The examples you gave are clear cases of entrapment. Vice officers will do controlled buys of drugs in order to obtain a surveillance warrant but in most jurisdictions the sale to an officer who asked for drugs wouldn't be considered evidence of intent to supply; the defendant could argue that they were simply in possession and wouldn't have sold had the officer not asked and it's up to the prosecution to show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the defendant would have sold.
That's why undercover officers who nab dealers for selling to them are careful to never actually ask for drugs, they allow dealers to offer them and then accept the offer. That distinction might seem meaningless to you but it's the difference between simple possession and intent to supply.
We do NOT allow this change as part of the standard defined by this document.
Seems fairly unambiguous to me.
People have been gaming slow-start for yonks; I remember when you could ACK flood a server to increase your download speed. Server admins hated it because it slowed the site down for everyone else.
Um, you only get that if you're changing files inside a privileged location. It's actually less intrusive than Unix style operating systems where in any sensibly configured default you're tightly confined to $home and everything else requires sudo; UAC protects the Program Files and Windows directories.
I'd actually prefer UAC to be more restrictive.
Also, where does it actually require you to confirm four times to change a filename? In 7 it takes 2 and that's because I keep UAC on high. In the default configuration it only asks once to confirm privilege escalation for a filename change in the Windows directory.
Meh, I have half decent onboard audio; I say half decent because if I amp it up too much I can hear the noise.
I don't really care, however, because I have an external 5.1 amplifier. If I keep my output low I don't hear any noise and can amp it up my surround system to the point where it's offensive to my neighbours and harmful to my ears and still have clean sound.
If I used headphones more often I might care more about the noise levels though.
The main thing that I found interesting about this article, however, is that the cheap sound card had a flatter frequency response. I think I'll consider purchasing a card simply for that!
The Android Train Times UK app is actually pretty cheap at a fiver. Being able to see the departure / arrival boards as widgets on my home screens has saved me from many hours of sitting around waiting in train stations.
You copy your app onto your phone via it's data cable, or maybe by using one of the many apps that let you mount SMB shares, or some other method. You then go into the options on your Android phone and check the "unknown sources" box, which allows you to install apps from non Marketplace sources. You then find said app using a file manager app or somesuch and install it.
No rooting required. You do need to root to get certain functionality apparently, but I have a debranded T-Mobile HTC Desire with loads of apps installed and I've not had to root it.
Prices in the Android Marketplace are in whatever currency the developer chooses.
Lacking journal access, I wonder if this is the Nutt paper where he jokes about MDMA being less harmful than horse riding?
It shows the blatant hypocrisy of the whole War on Drugs when all the leading scientific experts who have been hired by the government for the purpose of assessing the risks of drug use end up quitting because the politicians dislike the results they produce.
There is no gap between stars. By the time you get close to exiting our solar system, you will already be closer to a neighboring star then you will be to Sol.
Er, what?
Proxima Centauri is about 4ly away which is still thousands of years travel time with our current tech, and our solar system doesn't have a radius of 2ly.
Civ IV had required a pretty decent system at the time it came out too. However, hardware has moved on a lot in the past five years so most systems should easily play it.
I've not played Civ 5 yet (gotta wait till Friday due to living in the UK, boo-hoo!) but I bet Civ 5 will run much better than Civ 4 did on bottom range systems, due to the "board game" view mode that turns off most of the fancy graphical effects.
Tony Blair actually won a bet with Prince Charles that hunting would continue after the "ban". As long as the hounds don't actually kill the fox it's all still legal and even if they do it is, as you point out impossible to police.
If only the state took the same attitude towards cannabis laws. Of course, smoking weed isn't a favourite past-time of our ruling class...
Google is late to that party: Blackberry and iPhone had full Exchange support before Android.
Anyway, Exchange allows admins to do a remote wipe, does it not?
Using eclipse on windows to code, with a cross compiler to convert the resultant Java to native Ipad code, would fall fowl of this. And now, apparently it wont.
I bloody hope it wont; the previous situation had me clucking fuming!
They operate on the principle of "if we say something often and loud enough, then MPs will conclude we are important or in the majority".
Yea, we can't have the proles getting uppity eh? Heaven forbid that those "self-righteous" pressure groups might actually be representing a majority viewpoint!
Most people don't have time to sit down and engage with the political process. We've got jobs that take up most of our time and scant recreational time. When a small group of people take the time to setup a pressure group over something they care about, automatic MP contact forms are a good campaigning tool.
As most of the emails generated will be identical, you just have to send them all the same response. Filter the identical ones upon receipt and keep a count of how many you're getting. Pass on any personal additions to the campaign email to the MP to respond to.
I've heard MPs whine about this issue before and, the way they talk, you'd think nobody else works in a business where you spend loads of time answering the same boring questions over and over again. It's not that hard a situation to manage.
There's a name for this kind of arrangement but I'll let you figure that out on your own.
I believe it's called "sharing"; your objection to it is called "selfishness".
I'm not aware that it's common for UK ISPs to hide users login information from them. IPStream based IPSs I've used in the past have supplied me with login information but my current ISP, Be, is LLU based and so authentication is done by port at the DSLAM.
That's a bit different from this:
Nobody installs extra plugins. The only reason flash became popular, was that it was distributed with the browser itself.
I seem to recall that Netscape and Internet Explorer generally just offered to install flashplayer via their respective plugin-finders upon first visiting a page with flash content.
The only time I've personally seen flash present on a fresh install is when an OEM has put it there; such arrangements are independent of Microsoft, I'm sure you understand.
But it's the only view that counts. The firm I work for advertises new vacancies at the lowest rate they think they can get away with and, if nobody shows up at that rate who fits the bill, they then advertise at a higher rate. This leads to all sorts of peculiarities like less experienced, new starters being paid more than old hands.
The question, in the companies mind, is how can they get away with paying as low a rate as possible whilst keeping staff? Replacing old staff is expensive so it's best to avoid doing it, therefore the firm should pay people only so much as to stop them leaving.
If the OP can generate the impression that he could leave easily and still be OK then that puts him in a much stronger position whilst talking about a pay rise.
I've been waiting for someone to port the classic Powerstone to XBLA for ages. Ideally it would be Powerstone 2 and they'd put in online support for the 4 player mode.
Reading TFA just before hitting post, I notice it's already on that list.