So then you just keep the bad data to a minimum, say, one substantive packet retransmit in every hundred thousand. If the information is the important thing, and you have time, you'll get what you need without alerting anyone.
Just make sure you don't have a keylogger running on the transmitting computer.
Tight tolerances was meant to include timing of detonation. Because they know the when and the where, they can design parts that don't need to withstand knock quite as much as traditional American push-rod engines, hence, higher compression and closer tolerances. Didn't mean to be vague.
The only upside to that is that the money is being pumped into a free (despite what you may read to the contrary) country, whose educated people have more time for compassion and giving. If the money doesn't start flowing the other way this year, it'll happen next year, or the year after... Etc. The guilt will set in at some point, when the cause celebre has moved on from Global Warming, Inc., and help will come.
E85 is actually a great fuel... For cars designed to run on it. The Koenigsegg CCX, for example, will run at 806 bhp in standard gasoline tune, but when you fill the tank with E85, you get 1018 bhp, no foolin'!
Ethanol is a really high octane fuel, which makes engineers quiver with delight, because they can predict, with much higher certainty than low-octane fuel, when and how much of it will detonate. Perfect for those tight tolerances in highly-strung engines.
...taxes, medical care, and education were around long before Karl Marx.
So, Karl Marx invented socialism?
I'm using the term in the broadest sense (note the lower-case 's'), in that capitalism is to social Darwinism as socialism is to social justice. In keeping with that, if you take something from someone because someone else needs it more, that's socialism. If you're doing something for 'the general welfare', that's socialism, communism, whatever semantics you want to apply. It just so happens that it's also a good idea.
Remember, if the pure Libertarians and pure Capitalists had their way, there would be no taxes, and therefore no social services.
I should probably have been more specific - I live in the socialist paradise called Canada. When I say 'we', I mean 'North America'. The Dems would be right-wing in my country as well.
That's a complicated question, with a complicated answer, but I guess it can somewhat be boiled down to this: If you and your neighbours all have guns to keep the peace (inane, I know, but stay with me), things are cool. Up until one of those neighbours decides to start threatening everyone else, then starts firing the gun at 3 in the morning just to demonstrate that they have the cojones. Then the block association will probably have to bring it up at the next meeting, and probably decide that Crazy Larry doesn't get to keep his gun.
What you're asking is an ethical question, based in absolutes. When you pose those questions in a world based on compromised ideals and half-realised policies, it becomes a very different thing.
Seems to be working fairly well so far. Maybe not to your expectations, but I don't see people falling over dead from starvation outside my house.
Also, keep in mind that we don't use straight-up democracy... It's a mixture of many different disciplines. Taxes, health care, and education are socialist ideals.
OK, I'll spell it out then, to save you reading the links. Braid is about the development of the atomic bomb, and the princess (read: fission) he is saving is actually running, fleeing, from him - since the game is actually played out in reverse. Your protagonist is actually your antagonist.
Those things he talks about, the subtle central ideas, are about consumption by obsession, and about trying to put the genie back in the bottle. It's about grand and small things, and specifically, a man consumed by his desire to unravel the mysteries of the universe, an obsession echoed by the stalker aspect that serves as the framework for the story. It's almost literary in nature, something I just haven't seen in any other game.
Now I understand where you're coming from, because I am one of those guys who detests 'art' films that purport to delve the darker aspects of man's soul, etc. etc. etc., and really are just masturbatory acting exercises (Up here in Canada, we call it 'Canadian Cinema', and pat ourselves on the back for being so deliberately obtuse). However, the depths of this story didn't appear to me until a few days after I'd been frustrated by the last level of the game. I'd convinced myself that I'd missed something, and got a duff ending as a result. Suddenly, it hit me, and the whole thing became clear.
I can't make the game resonate with your experience, all I can tell you is how it resonated with mine, and many others, to create one of the most exceptional gaming experiences of my life. As I said before, if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you, and that's that.
One of the things that happens with art is that some people get it, and some people don't. It's clear that it didn't appeal to you, and that's too bad. I won't ruin the game here, but suffice to say - there is much, much more to it than you've covered here. Read upon it and find out what you've been missing.
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So then you just keep the bad data to a minimum, say, one substantive packet retransmit in every hundred thousand. If the information is the important thing, and you have time, you'll get what you need without alerting anyone.
Just make sure you don't have a keylogger running on the transmitting computer.
You know what, you're absolutely right. If I could mod you up, I would. I feel like kind of a fool now o_O
I really have to start taking more chances in my life...
Tight tolerances was meant to include timing of detonation. Because they know the when and the where, they can design parts that don't need to withstand knock quite as much as traditional American push-rod engines, hence, higher compression and closer tolerances. Didn't mean to be vague.
Read up before you post next time.
The only upside to that is that the money is being pumped into a free (despite what you may read to the contrary) country, whose educated people have more time for compassion and giving. If the money doesn't start flowing the other way this year, it'll happen next year, or the year after... Etc. The guilt will set in at some point, when the cause celebre has moved on from Global Warming, Inc., and help will come.
E85 is actually a great fuel... For cars designed to run on it. The Koenigsegg CCX, for example, will run at 806 bhp in standard gasoline tune, but when you fill the tank with E85, you get 1018 bhp, no foolin'!
Ethanol is a really high octane fuel, which makes engineers quiver with delight, because they can predict, with much higher certainty than low-octane fuel, when and how much of it will detonate. Perfect for those tight tolerances in highly-strung engines.
It doesn't have to be a linear curve, dude. It could be 30% at 15%, and 50% at 90%.
Not saying anything about the veracity of the article, just sayin'.
Sorry brother, not in my country. (read: Not the US)
...taxes, medical care, and education were around long before Karl Marx.
So, Karl Marx invented socialism?
I'm using the term in the broadest sense (note the lower-case 's'), in that capitalism is to social Darwinism as socialism is to social justice. In keeping with that, if you take something from someone because someone else needs it more, that's socialism. If you're doing something for 'the general welfare', that's socialism, communism, whatever semantics you want to apply. It just so happens that it's also a good idea.
Remember, if the pure Libertarians and pure Capitalists had their way, there would be no taxes, and therefore no social services.
Well I don't see rocket cars whizzing by my window either, so perhaps you're right. Governments suck.
And you know what, you're probably right. Probably. However, when 'probably' degrades to 'possibly', big, bad, dramatic things start into motion.
Just don't order the hot dogs in Pyongyang.
I should probably have been more specific - I live in the socialist paradise called Canada. When I say 'we', I mean 'North America'. The Dems would be right-wing in my country as well.
Parent was moderated insightful, why?
Just a guess, but I'd say because it was insightful.
That's a complicated question, with a complicated answer, but I guess it can somewhat be boiled down to this: If you and your neighbours all have guns to keep the peace (inane, I know, but stay with me), things are cool. Up until one of those neighbours decides to start threatening everyone else, then starts firing the gun at 3 in the morning just to demonstrate that they have the cojones. Then the block association will probably have to bring it up at the next meeting, and probably decide that Crazy Larry doesn't get to keep his gun.
What you're asking is an ethical question, based in absolutes. When you pose those questions in a world based on compromised ideals and half-realised policies, it becomes a very different thing.
Note that I said 'multinational', as in the UN. It should be decided by many bureaucrats, not by a few war mongers.
Seems to be working fairly well so far. Maybe not to your expectations, but I don't see people falling over dead from starvation outside my house.
Also, keep in mind that we don't use straight-up democracy... It's a mixture of many different disciplines. Taxes, health care, and education are socialist ideals.
Brother man, I did not support the invasion of Iraq one iota, but I'd support a multinational invasion force in North Korea, you better believe it.
Well, I....
NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo.........
Why, oh why, can I not mod parent higher than 5?
Man - I ALWAYS thought that, but was afraid to say it. Thank you for reaffirming my faith in... myself.
You truly are the king of kings.
Bah! How dare you point out my numbskullery!
OK, I'll spell it out then, to save you reading the links. Braid is about the development of the atomic bomb, and the princess (read: fission) he is saving is actually running, fleeing, from him - since the game is actually played out in reverse. Your protagonist is actually your antagonist.
Those things he talks about, the subtle central ideas, are about consumption by obsession, and about trying to put the genie back in the bottle. It's about grand and small things, and specifically, a man consumed by his desire to unravel the mysteries of the universe, an obsession echoed by the stalker aspect that serves as the framework for the story. It's almost literary in nature, something I just haven't seen in any other game.
Now I understand where you're coming from, because I am one of those guys who detests 'art' films that purport to delve the darker aspects of man's soul, etc. etc. etc., and really are just masturbatory acting exercises (Up here in Canada, we call it 'Canadian Cinema', and pat ourselves on the back for being so deliberately obtuse). However, the depths of this story didn't appear to me until a few days after I'd been frustrated by the last level of the game. I'd convinced myself that I'd missed something, and got a duff ending as a result. Suddenly, it hit me, and the whole thing became clear.
I can't make the game resonate with your experience, all I can tell you is how it resonated with mine, and many others, to create one of the most exceptional gaming experiences of my life. As I said before, if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you, and that's that.
Oh, and, SPOILER.
One of the things that happens with art is that some people get it, and some people don't. It's clear that it didn't appeal to you, and that's too bad. I won't ruin the game here, but suffice to say - there is much, much more to it than you've covered here. Read up on it and find out what you've been missing.