This problem goes way, way back. I bought a Superman game for I forget what, it was by Sun Soft, I think. In any event, you would get your energy worn down by these beams everywhere.
Ya hoo. I felt like Superman. I mean, you have to have a way to hurt him, right? Well, when you spend a ton of money to get the rights, you have to produce a game, rather than let people who can think up good ideas do it. Hence it sucks. They search for a game to call Superman rather than let someone come up with something innovative.
"Ok, something has to hurt him, right? So have these beams everywhere." Idiots.
He could try to save things "in the nick of time" for many or most of the puzzles, rather than haul out stupidity like Kryptonite beams everywhere.
But no, that would require innovative thought, and you don't have time for that. You've spent a ton of money, and you have to get it back now.
Remote control landing, eh? How far we've come in 40 years of the Right Stuff.
Months earlier...
Astronaut: All these wonderful controls are nice; I can control the vehicle in any way possible. But what if I want you guys on the ground to control it? I'm tired of not being a monkey.
German scientist: Ya, ve cooooooooould fit the space cdaft with a remote control vire so you can be a chimp in a can.
Astronaut: Space "capsule"
German scientist, through gritted teeth: Space "capsoool"
Several months later...
German scientist, worried: "Vat do ve tell him?"
Astronaut, worried, then angry: "He's a pilot. You tell him the condition of his capsule"
(pause)
Astronaut, clicks voice: "John, we think the heat tiles have come loose."
Astronaut in space: "Ok, I'm linin' 'er up just as carefully as I can now. Firing the escape hatch to the ISS."
Previous releases added programmer control APIs for not just 3D, but sound control, joystick devices, and eventually network gameplay. DirectX 10 continues the growth by adding APIs for DirectWaldo, the network control and tactile feedback via specialized electronic gloves, DirectRhinovision, or "Smell-o-vision" scent output devices, and DirectDildonics, for networked remote control of sexual stimulation devices.
Robby liked the girls. All his male protagonists are suave with the ladies, like James Bond in outer space.
Heck, in some of his later works, he dances around, then finally gets it on with his momma after going back in time. Of course, if my momma was a hot redhead with waist-length hair and a hip to waist ratio a supermodel only dreams of, I might feel differently too.
It occurs to me, was his momma a long-haired redhead in real life?
> Less arm fatigue when hacking at the annoying peasantry from horseback.
Swords are more about poking than hacking. The baddest ass person on the battlefield just prior to guns and metal shafted arrows was a guy in armor with a 2-handed sword, which was used much more as a poking polearm. Nobody with a shorter weapon could get within range without...dying.
But having a guy wind way back and slam down looks so much cooler in an RPG, eh? Screen shakes, gib! Ahh, Baldur's Gate. I still remember the pat-pat-pat of body parts landing on the sunny grasslands south of the city.
Webcrawling robots and automated Usenet download-n-decoders could handle it in a very automated fashion. Stick up a flag to a human user who would then make a manual visual confirmation, and you're done.
Actually, you'd want something that analyzed the picture as a whole, rather than just a binary transformation of it.
The Gracenote product, which analyzes.mp3's so it can retrieve the song information from a database, works like this. It generates an exacting number, which matches all known digital copies of that song, and if that fails, runs a more intense algorithm that supposedly generates a number based on it as if it were analog, so as to get a fuzzier match, for custom-generated.mp3's.
Presumably this would work similarly for best results. Actually, having a pattern matcher search through the database would probably give the best results.
To prosecutors, though, someone who download a picture of an anonymouse 21 year old, who turns out to be 17 years and 9 months, should be treated as if they were someone who viciously raped a 4 year old.
These are the same people who will scrub your walls to find marijuana residue, then claim you are in posession of marijuana because there's residue on your walls.
Capitalism thrives only where there's a rule of law, allowing hard workers to exchange the product of their labor freely without worrying about theft or said hard work. This includes theft via "legitimate" taxation, as well as kickbacks to corrupt officials and common street thugs.
Hence countries that allow government officials to "get in the way" of business, i.e. heavy handed socialism, suffer for it since you can't make a move without bribing people, which then also puts you at legal risk. Hence the economy chugs along slowly, if not falling into reverse.
> I imagine that if China had vastly more nukes than anyone else then they would > probably be considered "the good guys" since they'd squash anyone who disagreed.
Crushing someone who calls you a "bad guy" is being the bad guy. If people call you "the good guy" of their own free will, in a society with a free press and dissent, you can be sure you are the good guy.
China would not be a "good guy", even if (or because they) point a gun at you and say, "Say I'm a good guy!"
And the US, in spite of recent developments, is still the good guy. People still look to it to do the right thing, and defend freedom, even if they disagree with the current policies. Indeed, knowing the US is as it is, they hope they can change things through free speech, since they know it is inherently good.
> Assuming you are talking about the US, I would argue that recent actions > have put the US firmly in the "bad guys" camp to my mind.
Hyperbole on your part. I don't see you fleeing to the "opponents of the US-as-bad-guys". Of course, you are free to say such idiotic things -- something only "good guys" let you do, by the way.
> Hint: both democracy and capitalism are flawed, yet you are forcing them upon the rest of the world.
Democracy and capitalism are functions of freedom. I wish we were more about forcing freedom on the rest of the world, than democracy per se. Current "forced democracies" are developing crap like religious-based laws, which exposes the flaw of democracy when democracy is placed first, above freedom (which has only one meaning: freedom from coercion, which is to say, government coercion.)
Since you like hints, here's one. Hint: Politicians talk about democracy rather than freedom most of the time because they derive their power from laws -- i.e. limits on freedom. Hence it is in their interest to tout democracy rather than freedom per se because it boosts their power on the back of freedom itself. You expand your power by leading voters on cruscades to limit freedom.
> Really smart buyers do not get emotionally attached to the auction, and let the proxy do all the work.
And they mostly lose the auctions, which is the point of the article.
And what you think is the max you'll pay may not be when you realize you're not gonna actually win it. There's a bid difference between bidding on RAM for a 10 year old computer and bidding on that 10 year old magazine with Christy Turlington on the cover looking just so.
With sniping you wouldn't just increase your chance of winning, you'd probably pay less than you would if you bid early with a huge hidden max. Because you wouldn't be adding to the runup.
When I read this article, I thought the core concept was stupid, until I realized they were talking about early bidding vs. sniping, not a combination of the two. But then I realized you'd probably pay less if you just sniped, while having just as good a chance of winning as the early + snipe combo.
As has been amply demonstrated, you need the rule of law and freedom. The rest follows naturally as people lift themselves up.
If businesses could open in these countries, and worry about nothing more than a few local kickbacks at most, the countries would rise up within a generation. Pouring money into them to drag an inefficient, bloated business into existence in a corrupt or heavily socialized environment (functionally identical to corruption, but while feeling good about ourselves) yields massive losses and collapse when the money goes away -- exactly as 100 year old economics predicts.
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This problem goes way, way back. I bought a Superman game for I forget what, it was by Sun Soft, I think. In any event, you would get your energy worn down by these beams everywhere.
Ya hoo. I felt like Superman. I mean, you have to have a way to hurt him, right? Well, when you spend a ton of money to get the rights, you have to produce a game, rather than let people who can think up good ideas do it. Hence it sucks. They search for a game to call Superman rather than let someone come up with something innovative.
"Ok, something has to hurt him, right? So have these beams everywhere." Idiots.
He could try to save things "in the nick of time" for many or most of the puzzles, rather than haul out stupidity like Kryptonite beams everywhere.
But no, that would require innovative thought, and you don't have time for that. You've spent a ton of money, and you have to get it back now.
Isn't smell the third sense (besides sight and sound) the "tricorder" recorded?
> general increase in school violence
Is there? Or is this a construction of the media?
Just don't try to open a medical clinic that caters to athletes and the rich...
Remote control landing, eh? How far we've come in 40 years of the Right Stuff.
Months earlier...
Astronaut: All these wonderful controls are nice; I can control the vehicle in any way possible. But what if I want you guys on the ground to control it? I'm tired of not being a monkey.
German scientist: Ya, ve cooooooooould fit the space cdaft with a remote control vire so you can be a chimp in a can.
Astronaut: Space "capsule"
German scientist, through gritted teeth: Space "capsoool"
Several months later...
German scientist, worried: "Vat do ve tell him?"
Astronaut, worried, then angry: "He's a pilot. You tell him the condition of his capsule"
(pause)
Astronaut, clicks voice: "John, we think the heat tiles have come loose."
Astronaut in space: "Ok, I'm linin' 'er up just as carefully as I can now. Firing the escape hatch to the ISS."
Solution: A sign for tree fitty.
Doh!
Hmm...I'll just publish shitloads of crappy music I wrote myself, then claim sales are hurt, and claim a percentage of this tax.
I'm sure nobody else will think of doing this.
Previous releases added programmer control APIs for not just 3D, but sound control, joystick devices, and eventually network gameplay. DirectX 10 continues the growth by adding APIs for DirectWaldo, the network control and tactile feedback via specialized electronic gloves, DirectRhinovision, or "Smell-o-vision" scent output devices, and DirectDildonics, for networked remote control of sexual stimulation devices.
It's true. Vader was rather pissed to find off to find it took thirty swats of his lightsaber to kill Jar Jar.
Robby liked the girls. All his male protagonists are suave with the ladies, like James Bond in outer space.
Heck, in some of his later works, he dances around, then finally gets it on with his momma after going back in time. Of course, if my momma was a hot redhead with waist-length hair and a hip to waist ratio a supermodel only dreams of, I might feel differently too.
It occurs to me, was his momma a long-haired redhead in real life?
> Less arm fatigue when hacking at the annoying peasantry from horseback.
Swords are more about poking than hacking. The baddest ass person on the battlefield just prior to guns and metal shafted arrows was a guy in armor with a 2-handed sword, which was used much more as a poking polearm. Nobody with a shorter weapon could get within range without...dying.
But having a guy wind way back and slam down looks so much cooler in an RPG, eh? Screen shakes, gib! Ahh, Baldur's Gate. I still remember the pat-pat-pat of body parts landing on the sunny grasslands south of the city.
Webcrawling robots and automated Usenet download-n-decoders could handle it in a very automated fashion. Stick up a flag to a human user who would then make a manual visual confirmation, and you're done.
Actually, you'd want something that analyzed the picture as a whole, rather than just a binary transformation of it.
.mp3's so it can retrieve the song information from a database, works like this. It generates an exacting number, which matches all known digital copies of that song, and if that fails, runs a more intense algorithm that supposedly generates a number based on it as if it were analog, so as to get a fuzzier match, for custom-generated .mp3's.
The Gracenote product, which analyzes
Presumably this would work similarly for best results. Actually, having a pattern matcher search through the database would probably give the best results.
To prosecutors, though, someone who download a picture of an anonymouse 21 year old, who turns out to be 17 years and 9 months, should be treated as if they were someone who viciously raped a 4 year old.
And you know I do not exaggerate by much.
These are the same people who will scrub your walls to find marijuana residue, then claim you are in posession of marijuana because there's residue on your walls.
Capitalism thrives only where there's a rule of law, allowing hard workers to exchange the product of their labor freely without worrying about theft or said hard work. This includes theft via "legitimate" taxation, as well as kickbacks to corrupt officials and common street thugs.
Hence countries that allow government officials to "get in the way" of business, i.e. heavy handed socialism, suffer for it since you can't make a move without bribing people, which then also puts you at legal risk. Hence the economy chugs along slowly, if not falling into reverse.
> I imagine that if China had vastly more nukes than anyone else then they would
> probably be considered "the good guys" since they'd squash anyone who disagreed.
Crushing someone who calls you a "bad guy" is being the bad guy. If people call you "the good guy" of their own free will, in a society with a free press and dissent, you can be sure you are the good guy.
China would not be a "good guy", even if (or because they) point a gun at you and say, "Say I'm a good guy!"
And the US, in spite of recent developments, is still the good guy. People still look to it to do the right thing, and defend freedom, even if they disagree with the current policies. Indeed, knowing the US is as it is, they hope they can change things through free speech, since they know it is inherently good.
> Assuming you are talking about the US, I would argue that recent actions
> have put the US firmly in the "bad guys" camp to my mind.
Hyperbole on your part. I don't see you fleeing to the "opponents of the US-as-bad-guys". Of course, you are free to say such idiotic things -- something only "good guys" let you do, by the way.
> Hint: both democracy and capitalism are flawed, yet you are forcing them upon the rest of the world.
Democracy and capitalism are functions of freedom. I wish we were more about forcing freedom on the rest of the world, than democracy per se. Current "forced democracies" are developing crap like religious-based laws, which exposes the flaw of democracy when democracy is placed first, above freedom (which has only one meaning: freedom from coercion, which is to say, government coercion.)
Since you like hints, here's one. Hint: Politicians talk about democracy rather than freedom most of the time because they derive their power from laws -- i.e. limits on freedom. Hence it is in their interest to tout democracy rather than freedom per se because it boosts their power on the back of freedom itself. You expand your power by leading voters on cruscades to limit freedom.
> ahh reflectoporn
But what about the Heinlein Award for Sexually Perverse Fantasies Involving Your Own Mother?
Ok, if my mom looked like that, I'd probably have cranked out more than a couple while she sunbathed, too.
> Really smart buyers do not get emotionally attached to the auction, and let the proxy do all the work.
And they mostly lose the auctions, which is the point of the article.
And what you think is the max you'll pay may not be when you realize you're not gonna actually win it. There's a bid difference between bidding on RAM for a 10 year old computer and bidding on that 10 year old magazine with Christy Turlington on the cover looking just so.
With sniping you wouldn't just increase your chance of winning, you'd probably pay less than you would if you bid early with a huge hidden max. Because you wouldn't be adding to the runup.
When I read this article, I thought the core concept was stupid, until I realized they were talking about early bidding vs. sniping, not a combination of the two. But then I realized you'd probably pay less if you just sniped, while having just as good a chance of winning as the early + snipe combo.
> And there is an easy fix: A bid will extend the auction by ~10 minutes
> if received in the last 10 minutes. Voila, no more sniping.
Is there nothing World of Warcraft can't solve?
Finally I can be a powerful Jedi, while the rest of you can't! >:(
I'll let you stand there while I, Boba Vader, slaughter you with my red triple-bladed lightsaber!
As has been amply demonstrated, you need the rule of law and freedom. The rest follows naturally as people lift themselves up.
If businesses could open in these countries, and worry about nothing more than a few local kickbacks at most, the countries would rise up within a generation. Pouring money into them to drag an inefficient, bloated business into existence in a corrupt or heavily socialized environment (functionally identical to corruption, but while feeling good about ourselves) yields massive losses and collapse when the money goes away -- exactly as 100 year old economics predicts.
Quite frankly, I'd hope for cures. Then the government can set up sex orgy clubs and live would be the way it oughta!
Cure fatbesity first, though.
Actually, they'd have to work, or live barely more than an upper middle class lifestyle.
Of course, selling "Daddy, Dearest" should bring in another eight figure check if necessary.