A while back, maybe on/. even, I read a story about a company using software to determine how irate a customer on hold sounded (while yelling at the hold music), and moving them up in the queue if they sounded really mad.
Once again Sony learns from the hackers, implementing features that we have used macros to perform (which I never considered to be cheating) for years. I cannot even remember how bad it was, playing EQ *WITHOUT* the ability to switch weapons with a hotkey.
uhm, the exact same thing applies to people. the person has to take input (observations and information) and decide what is actually happening, then make a decision based on that. theres no way to ensure that bad output wont come from bad input, but the first law provides that given correct input the robot will make the right choice (by someone's definition of right).
theres Shattered Galaxy, which has been out for years, but thats more of a normal rts wrapped up inside a rpg/tbs metagame. theres also a european game that i cannot for the life of me remember the name of that is VERY cool, truly MMO with hundreds of players in each game, and each game lasting for weeks-months.
you do realize that every other FPS on the market ALSO has a "cone of fire" right? counterstrike, ut2004, quake, etc. good games make it visible, through changing crosshair size. shitty games (*cough*cs*cough) make you guess. but its always there.
I live in the USA and live off nothing but my own income. 7k a year is minimum wage, 27 hours a week. It pays rent, water, electric, food, and gas to get to work/school. No government support aside from subsidization of my student loan interest ($150/yr?), no family (ha!) support at all. Like I said, youre spoiled. If you were a child I would say spoiled rotten, but that doesnt sound right applied to someone who presumably works for a living. If you are making more than me (or more than double what i make if you support a child, i concede that) and cant make ends meet then youre doing something wrong.
youre crazy, spoiled, or both. i make $7k/yr. If i had 1mil in the bank in a plain old savings account earning a measly 2% i could retire and make triple what im making now.
people who 'barely make ends meet' on 50k/yr piss me off to no end.
you do realize the cost of sending payload to the martian surface is measured in millions of dollars per ounce right? a 3 ounce arm would NOT have been worthwhile, considering all the extra (redundant) mechincal support it would have required, as well as software.
i doubt anything in this building, or any other building with one or more rotating segments, is "off the shelf". producing it would NOT require a "whole pile of money", I have built one out of 1/2" PVC myself for a school project (and it stood up to normal household water pressure just fine with no leaks, all on a budget of about $20), which is where I got the idea for my explanation here.
There would not be a custom valve. the only custom part would be the torus. every other piece would be attached to the NORMAL vertical water pipes connecting the tori(?) between the floors.
As to replacing them, again trivial. You simply lock the floor above the torus in question to the floor below, so that they rotate (or dont) together. then shut off the NORMAL water valve above and below the torus (and probably drain the water out of it). then take it out, fix it, replace it, whatever, all while its stationary and with no water flowing through it. once you are done you fill it back up with water by opening the bottom valve and a small release valve just below the top valve to allow the water to flow in. when it is full you close the release valve and open the top valve, then unlock the two floors. all done.
in mozilla the bottom entry on the URL history list is always "google for....", so hitting UP instead of DOWN takes you to the last entry instead of the first. its actually not a list entry, its a button thats populated with the last item you hovered over but in this case that last item is the location bar (you can hover over a history item, then move out of the list and onto the button and search for something in your history, pretty useless feature but its there).
why? you just make a torus-shaped water pipe near the axis, and cut it in half horizontally. the two halves can rotate independently without ever breaking a seal. then theres pipes going up/out from the top half and down/out from the bottom half. air is easier, less seals. electrical is trivial (*cough*brushes*cough*)
you can get helium a lot cheaper if you get the canisters from a gas supply house. or, if youre going to fill an entire blimp (or this many balloons) go straight for the liquid helium tanks (they look like big outdoor propane tanks), i figured it would only take three of those to fill a blimp needing a metric ton of lift.
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but, with the exception of heating the apparatus, it is a perfectly efficient process. all the pressure you put in comes back out.
what, you guys dont get paid to read /. ? :)
the exponent could be 1 :)
Good analogy, except that Maxwell's Demon really does exist.
Parent post is a DUPE from LESS than TWO minutes ago.
:-p
Honestly, do the "Posters" not even read concurrent posts?
I know, it's probably always been like this around here...but still.
On another note,
A while back, maybe on /. even, I read a story about a company using software to determine how irate a customer on hold sounded (while yelling at the hold music), and moving them up in the queue if they sounded really mad.
thats just it though, we dont HAVE to tell you we are recording it. once YOUR computer says "this call may be recorded" then we can record it.
Once again Sony learns from the hackers, implementing features that we have used macros to perform (which I never considered to be cheating) for years. I cannot even remember how bad it was, playing EQ *WITHOUT* the ability to switch weapons with a hotkey.
we all just got lighter. and the difference is effectively immeasurable. well below the range of 1E-10 m/s/s change in g im sure.
uhm, the exact same thing applies to people. the person has to take input (observations and information) and decide what is actually happening, then make a decision based on that. theres no way to ensure that bad output wont come from bad input, but the first law provides that given correct input the robot will make the right choice (by someone's definition of right).
Time of Defiance
generally that isnt true. a zero-width cone exists for sniper rifles in a few games, but not the ones I play most (day of defeat, enemy territory).
works on *ALL* contracts. including EULAs.
theres Shattered Galaxy, which has been out for years, but thats more of a normal rts wrapped up inside a rpg/tbs metagame. theres also a european game that i cannot for the life of me remember the name of that is VERY cool, truly MMO with hundreds of players in each game, and each game lasting for weeks-months.
you do realize that every other FPS on the market ALSO has a "cone of fire" right? counterstrike, ut2004, quake, etc. good games make it visible, through changing crosshair size. shitty games (*cough*cs*cough) make you guess. but its always there.
I live in the USA and live off nothing but my own income. 7k a year is minimum wage, 27 hours a week. It pays rent, water, electric, food, and gas to get to work/school. No government support aside from subsidization of my student loan interest ($150/yr?), no family (ha!) support at all. Like I said, youre spoiled. If you were a child I would say spoiled rotten, but that doesnt sound right applied to someone who presumably works for a living. If you are making more than me (or more than double what i make if you support a child, i concede that) and cant make ends meet then youre doing something wrong.
youre crazy, spoiled, or both. i make $7k/yr. If i had 1mil in the bank in a plain old savings account earning a measly 2% i could retire and make triple what im making now.
people who 'barely make ends meet' on 50k/yr piss me off to no end.
why oh why would anyone ever join a HOA? everything ive EVER heard about them has been negative.
you do realize the cost of sending payload to the martian surface is measured in millions of dollars per ounce right? a 3 ounce arm would NOT have been worthwhile, considering all the extra (redundant) mechincal support it would have required, as well as software.
this is exactly what I described. the "trough shape" is half a torus (think of a bagel after its cut) :)
i doubt anything in this building, or any other building with one or more rotating segments, is "off the shelf". producing it would NOT require a "whole pile of money", I have built one out of 1/2" PVC myself for a school project (and it stood up to normal household water pressure just fine with no leaks, all on a budget of about $20), which is where I got the idea for my explanation here.
There would not be a custom valve. the only custom part would be the torus. every other piece would be attached to the NORMAL vertical water pipes connecting the tori(?) between the floors.
As to replacing them, again trivial. You simply lock the floor above the torus in question to the floor below, so that they rotate (or dont) together. then shut off the NORMAL water valve above and below the torus (and probably drain the water out of it). then take it out, fix it, replace it, whatever, all while its stationary and with no water flowing through it. once you are done you fill it back up with water by opening the bottom valve and a small release valve just below the top valve to allow the water to flow in. when it is full you close the release valve and open the top valve, then unlock the two floors. all done.
in mozilla the bottom entry on the URL history list is always "google for ....", so hitting UP instead of DOWN takes you to the last entry instead of the first. its actually not a list entry, its a button thats populated with the last item you hovered over but in this case that last item is the location bar (you can hover over a history item, then move out of the list and onto the button and search for something in your history, pretty useless feature but its there).
i also consider this to be a great feature.
why? you just make a torus-shaped water pipe near the axis, and cut it in half horizontally. the two halves can rotate independently without ever breaking a seal. then theres pipes going up/out from the top half and down/out from the bottom half. air is easier, less seals. electrical is trivial (*cough*brushes*cough*)
one word: Audit
you can get helium a lot cheaper if you get the canisters from a gas supply house. or, if youre going to fill an entire blimp (or this many balloons) go straight for the liquid helium tanks (they look like big outdoor propane tanks), i figured it would only take three of those to fill a blimp needing a metric ton of lift.