The people who understand the issues are voting, so getting more people to vote would be a bad thing. At best it would get more people voting on party lines, and at worst people voting on race and hairstyle. Probably more of the latter. What we need is more independent electors and a repeal of the 17th amendment.
The ironic thing is that Firefox started as a stripped down fork of the existing Mozilla browser, because the latter was too bloated and feature-creeped.
The problem with that scenario is the opportunity costs are ill-defined. Using metal for a plane certainly has an opportunity cost, but recycling the metal when the plane becomes obolete mitigates a portion of that. On the labor side, there is no opportunity cost if the society is not at full employment.
At the scale of a whole economy, there's no such thing as "wasting money" except as a proxy for wasting physical material. All the money paid for military scientists and engineers to think is effectively free, as each of those dollars just runs through the wringer again. It's just a meritocratic redistribution away from those that would have spent it on Chinese goods at Wal-mart, which would have been an actual loss of buying power from the nation.
To generalise wildly, countries with large military R&D spending and manufacturing tend not to be good at consumer products. Military "GNP" is akin to making lots of expensive goods and then putting them all on a bonfire.
Military R&D never results in anything useful, like computers, the Internet, or GPS...
engineers who might be making missiles could work on things like better cars.
Do you really think with the current state of things, the auto industry is poised to hire on thousands of engineers? Manufacturing is dead in the USA, and R&D with a time horizon longer than 5 years only happens with funding from DoD/DoE/NIH. If the government doesn't back it, those engineers will be flipping burgers, not designing cars. Government funded research, even of the military kind, is an economic stimulus, both through direct employment and creation of spinoff technology.
You can argue that the peaceful purposes should be the direct goal rather than spinoffs, but just cutting spending because its spending will not suddenly reinvigorate the economy with magical libertarian pixie dust.
I'll tell you the only thing that will kill WoW for me: a similarly high-quality MMO with pvp where you [b]pick sides as a result of story development, not at character creation[/b] Eve and Shadowbane have this, but the moment-to-moment gameplay is less fun than stabbing your eye. The game that adds politics and territory control like Shadowbane and Eve onto a basic solo/small group experience like WoW will be a winner.
I hope Bethesda will see using GFWL as the huge mistake it is re: their pocketbook. There are people desperate to give Bethesda money and being turned away. And that's what really matters in the end rather than any "INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!!!11!!2" BS
UO did in fact implement a "3D world". Characters and interactive objects were sprites, but had XYZ coordinates in 3D space. Terrain was software-rendered polygons.
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Torture produces what you want to hear. Nothing else. More precisely, what the subject tortured thinks that you want to hear so, as you pointed out, you stop torturing it. In short, it usually just "confirms" whatever assumption you had in the first place.
Let's assume professional interrogators know this and more about torture, and that they know to direct their questions towards verifiable/falsifiable information that was previously unknown to the interrogator.
Mormons have not had plural marriages in well over a century.
The organizing bodies of Mormonism haven't condoned polygamy for a long time, but there are polygamists in the US, and I'd hazard a guess that most of them self-identify as Mormon.
Dijkstra and similar contemporary theorists like to puff up their chests about how they are the "real" computer scientists because they can prove this and that. I'd like to see them "prove" that Google returns the most relevant search results, or that being on LinkedIn gets you a better job. What the theorists are doing is useful, but neither the heart nor the cutting edge of computer science. The real advances come from lateral thinking and imagination, with the formulas coming in behind and filling in the details.
Good. The series has become a tired ass glorified fan flick from insiders. Fresh blood and a new outlook sounds good to me.
I'd say this is pretty much the opposite of the situation. They've been replacing imaginitive sci-fi with technobabble, exploration and peacemaking with unreasoning villains, and character development with breast development for well over a decade now all in the name of "expanding the audience". The old outlook and a focus on old fans is just what they need.
Ah yes, the Libertarians. I was once a Libertarian, then I turned 13. It is the politcal expression of a purely adolescent intolerance of authority. The United States were formed "to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The rights and responsibilities of the government are not limited only to securing life and liberty, but also that third branch: happiness. The history of the 20th century should make it clear that the Invisible Hand can not be trusted to arrange everything to our maximal benefit. Coordination, cooperation, incentivization, and yes even coersion are required to secure the blessings of liberty to us and our posterity.
Which is more likely: China rolls out ip6 on a massive scale, or China declares Internet access to be a scarce resource that requires government licensing and approval to use? Probably the second.
I guess the last 10 years where I have put food on my table and deployed 10s of applications that are used by thousands of people are really a loss. Thanks for clearing that up.
If you hadn't used JavaScript, you might have done it in 5 years and put food on your neighbor's table too.
iD's next engine is going to use landscapes with no repeated/tiled textures. Textures involved will be up to 128000 pixels square for a minimum of 2.93 GB uncompressed for the largest textures. Potentially more if light-mapping, HDR, or alpha channels are used.
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Next was chosen because it was Steve's pet.
The people who understand the issues are voting, so getting more people to vote would be a bad thing. At best it would get more people voting on party lines, and at worst people voting on race and hairstyle. Probably more of the latter. What we need is more independent electors and a repeal of the 17th amendment.
So "Darwinian evolution" raises a question: What's the other evolution?
Lamarckian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism
The ironic thing is that Firefox started as a stripped down fork of the existing Mozilla browser, because the latter was too bloated and feature-creeped.
The problem with that scenario is the opportunity costs are ill-defined. Using metal for a plane certainly has an opportunity cost, but recycling the metal when the plane becomes obolete mitigates a portion of that. On the labor side, there is no opportunity cost if the society is not at full employment.
At the scale of a whole economy, there's no such thing as "wasting money" except as a proxy for wasting physical material. All the money paid for military scientists and engineers to think is effectively free, as each of those dollars just runs through the wringer again. It's just a meritocratic redistribution away from those that would have spent it on Chinese goods at Wal-mart, which would have been an actual loss of buying power from the nation.
(Yes, I am an engineer on a military project.)
To generalise wildly, countries with large military R&D spending and manufacturing tend not to be good at consumer products. Military "GNP" is akin to making lots of expensive goods and then putting them all on a bonfire.
Military R&D never results in anything useful, like computers, the Internet, or GPS...
engineers who might be making missiles could work on things like better cars.
Do you really think with the current state of things, the auto industry is poised to hire on thousands of engineers? Manufacturing is dead in the USA, and R&D with a time horizon longer than 5 years only happens with funding from DoD/DoE/NIH. If the government doesn't back it, those engineers will be flipping burgers, not designing cars. Government funded research, even of the military kind, is an economic stimulus, both through direct employment and creation of spinoff technology.
You can argue that the peaceful purposes should be the direct goal rather than spinoffs, but just cutting spending because its spending will not suddenly reinvigorate the economy with magical libertarian pixie dust.
I'll tell you the only thing that will kill WoW for me:
a similarly high-quality MMO with pvp where you [b]pick sides as a result of story development, not at character creation[/b]
Eve and Shadowbane have this, but the moment-to-moment gameplay is less fun than stabbing your eye. The game that adds politics and territory control like Shadowbane and Eve onto a basic solo/small group experience like WoW will be a winner.
Nice. I wish Blizzard did this.
They did. Dire Maul, Zul'Gurub, Ahn'Qiraj, Naxxramas, Sunwell.
Ulduar coming in the next patch.
I hope Bethesda will see using GFWL as the huge mistake it is re: their pocketbook. There are people desperate to give Bethesda money and being turned away. And that's what really matters in the end rather than any "INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!!!11!!2" BS
UO did in fact implement a "3D world". Characters and interactive objects were sprites, but had XYZ coordinates in 3D space. Terrain was software-rendered polygons.
Torture produces what you want to hear. Nothing else. More precisely, what the subject tortured thinks that you want to hear so, as you pointed out, you stop torturing it.
In short, it usually just "confirms" whatever assumption you had in the first place.
Let's assume professional interrogators know this and more about torture, and that they know to direct their questions towards verifiable/falsifiable information that was previously unknown to the interrogator.
Resume discussion in 3, 2, ....
This sticks a fork in the school of thought that there's no legitimate reason to make backups of console games.
Mormons have not had plural marriages in well over a century.
The organizing bodies of Mormonism haven't condoned polygamy for a long time, but there are polygamists in the US, and I'd hazard a guess that most of them self-identify as Mormon.
The Old Republic Online is your only hope.
Dijkstra and similar contemporary theorists like to puff up their chests about how they are the "real" computer scientists because they can prove this and that. I'd like to see them "prove" that Google returns the most relevant search results, or that being on LinkedIn gets you a better job. What the theorists are doing is useful, but neither the heart nor the cutting edge of computer science. The real advances come from lateral thinking and imagination, with the formulas coming in behind and filling in the details.
Good. The series has become a tired ass glorified fan flick from insiders.
Fresh blood and a new outlook sounds good to me.
I'd say this is pretty much the opposite of the situation. They've been replacing imaginitive sci-fi with technobabble, exploration and peacemaking with unreasoning villains, and character development with breast development for well over a decade now all in the name of "expanding the audience". The old outlook and a focus on old fans is just what they need.
What does it matter when all they're pushing is the Bionicle stuff these days?
Ah yes, the Libertarians. I was once a Libertarian, then I turned 13. It is the politcal expression of a purely adolescent intolerance of authority. The United States were formed "to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The rights and responsibilities of the government are not limited only to securing life and liberty, but also that third branch: happiness. The history of the 20th century should make it clear that the Invisible Hand can not be trusted to arrange everything to our maximal benefit. Coordination, cooperation, incentivization, and yes even coersion are required to secure the blessings of liberty to us and our posterity.
Won't the whales displace enough water to disrupt the optical properties?
You go from 1 x 10^-99999m/s to 0m/s in ~10^-999999s, not instantly, though at some scale things become quantized, apparently.
Which is more likely: China rolls out ip6 on a massive scale, or China declares Internet access to be a scarce resource that requires government licensing and approval to use? Probably the second.
You might be thinking about the situation in Europe, where database compilations are copyrightable; but this doesn't apply in the US.
Until the secret treaties go into effect.
I guess the last 10 years where I have put food on my table and deployed 10s of applications that are used by thousands of people are really a loss.
Thanks for clearing that up.
If you hadn't used JavaScript, you might have done it in 5 years and put food on your neighbor's table too.
Do you think the Cell would have been made without the guaranteed millions of sales?
iD's next engine is going to use landscapes with no repeated/tiled textures. Textures involved will be up to 128000 pixels square for a minimum of 2.93 GB uncompressed for the largest textures. Potentially more if light-mapping, HDR, or alpha channels are used.