I understand this completely. Counterstrike was a decent game while it was still in beta. You'd still occasionally get people who work in teams, people still occasionally played on non-de_ maps, and occasionally one of your teammates would ACTUALLY rescue a hostage!
I would contend that the weapons did not get "too balanced," at least by 1.1, as everyone still used exclusively mp5/m4a1/ak47/awp and usp/deagle. It was always inherently unbalanced due to the weapon buying system, but this didn't get real bad until the community degraded further, and there was such a gap between the 24/7ers and the casual players that once a team got going, there was no chance of winning. The anti-newbie mentality fueled this further, because people would at first opportunity switch to the team "w/o all teh n00bs."
This is why this game has succeeded. A strongly elitist community has formed, and people take entirely too much pride in being a part of this community. In some games, this sort of behavior is looked down upon, but in CS, it's encouraged.
Yeah, sure, much of what he says COULD happen by 2014, but the funding just isn't there for the most part. Who is going to want to pay for the millions of computer chips in the roadways? Who is going to sponsor research on a smart toilet or saliva-testing toothbrush?
Very much agreed on the "data analyses and understanding over memorization." What people don't realize is this works even in current educational systems (well, except in Biology and, to a lesser extent, History). If you can remember a thought process which shows WHY something happens, it becomes far easier to remember that it happens (it doesn't happen in Biology because we don't KNOW why things happen yet, or in History because the people who write the books either don't know or want to hide it).
I always hate to see people actually go for something like this. Advertising is the one industry which provides nothing of value to society. The only ones who gain from advertising are medium to large businesses, as they are the only ones with the investment capital to saturate the market.
That said, if these people can get anyone to fall for this, more power to them. That's capitalism. At least they are up front about it, and not sneaky and underhanded like Gator & the like.
In a road full of people going ~5mph above the speed limit (which is most of them), it is impossible to do the following going at "only" the speed limit: 1. Change lanes 2. Merge (this one's even harder) 3. Stop quickly (for a deer, an accident, a child...) without causing an accident with the (dumb) driver behind you. I know full well that the other driver would be at fault in this accident, but it's still an uphill battle to get any amount of money out of another driver's insurance, assuming that they have any to begin with. Furthermore, there are situations which require speeding up beyond your current speed, which can easily add up to more than.1% (1 second in just under half an hour), such as: 1. Merging in New Hampshire (people here just don't know how to do it) or Massachusetts (people here are deliberately malicious and seem to want to run you off the road), and most likely in many other states 2. Allowing others to change lanes (some of us DO actually do this) 3. Pass someone (I feel MUCH more secure with the weaving, possibly drunken driver FAR behind me than in front of me)
This is the main reason that Windows is more user friendly than Linux.
Windows is the same as Windows. Linux is not.
Seriously. I've had users call me and ask what's going on with this "Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log on" thing that Windows 2000 does. When I explained that you can get to the same screen you saw in windows 98 by holding down control and alt, and pressing delete, they insisted on writing it down. Most users will be confused if you so much as change the icon for My Documents.
Is this sort of thing more or less expensive than plain ol' RAM? If it costs more, then just caching 3gb of data from disk into memory at bootup is more cost-effective. If it's cheaper, then perhaps people will start using this technology for swap space, etc. In any case, I've been waiting to see an HDD using solid-state RAM for quite some time now. If we're lucky, it'll be cost-effective before too long.
The reason the man-in-the-middle attack fails is that in order to recreate the stream accurately, you need more information than you can accurately read from the stream at once. IANAPhysicist, so you'll have to google it if you want to know the specifics, but basically to read the datastream one must make a bunch of guesses. Now, Bob has the luxury of being able to guess wrong without problems, but a man in the middle must guess correctly every time or risk corrupting the datastream.
My windows box is behind a nice little NAT device, in addition to ZoneAlarm. No virii on the router because it's all firmware. No virii on the win box because no unrequested traffic ever gets to it. ZoneAlarm is just there so that if someone else is ever using it, and does the stupid, I can turn off the spyware/spam relay/ddos without having to hunt it down in 50 places.
Why does wood not cut it "in this day and age?" Has combustion changed in the past century or two? Does it not produce as much heat?
My wood stove heats my whole house quite nicely during an outage, and is cheaper than gas heating. The only reason I don't use it all the time is it's not as convenient.
You'd think they would have come up with a better way to break up asphalt than hitting it really hard by now. I mean, look at all the advances in advertising, military technology, and other things that are bad for the general public, and how little improvement there has been in fixing potential safety hazards.
He just thinks it sucks because it isn't in a gel-color. I've seen some of these things before, and they're pretty cool. You can easily take them right into a building and have no control problems after a bit of practice (though whether the building allows this is separate entirely). They can actually go pretty fast if you put it full tilt. Not worth the price tag by any means, but I certainly wouldn't say it "sucks."
What will be the biggest issue determining the success of the adoption of biology-integrated computing?
Well, lifeforms have certain weaknesses that rocks and electrons alone do not. Among them are:
-A lifespan
-Virus vulnerability (no pun intended)
-Nutrition requirements
(your typical cell needs things that are harder
to mass-transport than electrons. Water comes to mind)
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2 things:
1. Redundancy 2. Unless you or someone else is being stupid (not exactly a good assumption, but other benefits of electric power steering more than make up for the drawbacks), braking is 99% of the time just as good as steering.
This is a common misconception. While technically true, current (amps) is related to potential (volts). This can be approximated pretty well with the formula V=IR.
What happens if someone calls you while you're playing your game? Your phone sends a signal to the cell tower acknowledging the call. If your phone is on, there is no way to be sure it won't transmit anything. That's why you have to turn them off.
I'm not all that fluent in legalese, so I haven't read the bill, but does it clearly define "origin?" What prevents the "origin" of the communication I'm sending from being "my lan," and thus allowing NAT to avoid the scope of this law?
As a programmer, this is the most useful property a data stream can take on. Why? Debugging. The reasoning here is twofold:
1. Non-parallel development of opposite ends of the data stream: It's quite a challenge to develop the code which produces the data and the code which uses the data at the same time. If it doesn't work, you don't know where the problem is. With a human-readable format, you can simply pipe the data in or out of the app directly from a text file, and verify that it's correct yourself.
2. Debugging: Something of an extention of the previous, if you have two bits of code communicating through XML, you can log the bad transmission and read it yourself to find out if the bug is in transmission or reception.
Now, I won't pretend that XML is the only human-readable data-structuring format, but it has a lot of nice advantages over the others, each of which is covered in the article. XML makes apps a pain to develop, but a breeze to debug--and the debugging is far more important!
Simply put, this sort of thing is the future. Software licensing on a per-time basis is an extremely attractive business model. Furthermore, as much as I don't want to pay for a piece of software for as long as I'm using it, it will actually encourage quality software. This is simply because if your program sucks, people will stop paying for it. You won't be able to make much money by selling worthless software that looks pretty and well-advertised anymore.
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I understand this completely. Counterstrike was a decent game while it was still in beta. You'd still occasionally get people who work in teams, people still occasionally played on non-de_ maps, and occasionally one of your teammates would ACTUALLY rescue a hostage!
I would contend that the weapons did not get "too balanced," at least by 1.1, as everyone still used exclusively mp5/m4a1/ak47/awp and usp/deagle. It was always inherently unbalanced due to the weapon buying system, but this didn't get real bad until the community degraded further, and there was such a gap between the 24/7ers and the casual players that once a team got going, there was no chance of winning. The anti-newbie mentality fueled this further, because people would at first opportunity switch to the team "w/o all teh n00bs."
This is why this game has succeeded. A strongly elitist community has formed, and people take entirely too much pride in being a part of this community. In some games, this sort of behavior is looked down upon, but in CS, it's encouraged.
Yeah, sure, much of what he says COULD happen by 2014, but the funding just isn't there for the most part. Who is going to want to pay for the millions of computer chips in the roadways? Who is going to sponsor research on a smart toilet or saliva-testing toothbrush?
Very much agreed on the "data analyses and understanding over memorization." What people don't realize is this works even in current educational systems (well, except in Biology and, to a lesser extent, History). If you can remember a thought process which shows WHY something happens, it becomes far easier to remember that it happens (it doesn't happen in Biology because we don't KNOW why things happen yet, or in History because the people who write the books either don't know or want to hide it).
That's acceleration. He said force...
9.80n/kg.
Notebook paper doesn't have a lot of kg's...
I always hate to see people actually go for something like this. Advertising is the one industry which provides nothing of value to society. The only ones who gain from advertising are medium to large businesses, as they are the only ones with the investment capital to saturate the market.
That said, if these people can get anyone to fall for this, more power to them. That's capitalism. At least they are up front about it, and not sneaky and underhanded like Gator & the like.
If a user is too lazy to type the name of their software into google before they download it, that's their loss.
In a road full of people going ~5mph above the speed limit (which is most of them), it is impossible to do the following going at "only" the speed limit: .1% (1 second in just under half an hour), such as:
1. Change lanes
2. Merge (this one's even harder)
3. Stop quickly (for a deer, an accident, a child...) without causing an accident with the (dumb) driver behind you. I know full well that the other driver would be at fault in this accident, but it's still an uphill battle to get any amount of money out of another driver's insurance, assuming that they have any to begin with.
Furthermore, there are situations which require speeding up beyond your current speed, which can easily add up to more than
1. Merging in New Hampshire (people here just don't know how to do it) or Massachusetts (people here are deliberately malicious and seem to want to run you off the road), and most likely in many other states
2. Allowing others to change lanes (some of us DO actually do this)
3. Pass someone (I feel MUCH more secure with the weaving, possibly drunken driver FAR behind me than in front of me)
Exactly.
This is the main reason that Windows is more user friendly than Linux.
Windows is the same as Windows. Linux is not.
Seriously. I've had users call me and ask what's going on with this "Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log on" thing that Windows 2000 does. When I explained that you can get to the same screen you saw in windows 98 by holding down control and alt, and pressing delete, they insisted on writing it down. Most users will be confused if you so much as change the icon for My Documents.
Hopefully, Sun will not charge for the server software and only cash in on Sunray sales.
As making money off the hardware has always been SUN's business model, this is a very strong possibility.
Is this sort of thing more or less expensive than plain ol' RAM? If it costs more, then just caching 3gb of data from disk into memory at bootup is more cost-effective. If it's cheaper, then perhaps people will start using this technology for swap space, etc. In any case, I've been waiting to see an HDD using solid-state RAM for quite some time now. If we're lucky, it'll be cost-effective before too long.
Dead horse beats you!
The reason the man-in-the-middle attack fails is that in order to recreate the stream accurately, you need more information than you can accurately read from the stream at once. IANAPhysicist, so you'll have to google it if you want to know the specifics, but basically to read the datastream one must make a bunch of guesses. Now, Bob has the luxury of being able to guess wrong without problems, but a man in the middle must guess correctly every time or risk corrupting the datastream.
Visit a web page using IE? Why would anyone ever do that?
My system is secure as long as I'm not stupid...
My windows box is behind a nice little NAT device, in addition to ZoneAlarm. No virii on the router because it's all firmware. No virii on the win box because no unrequested traffic ever gets to it. ZoneAlarm is just there so that if someone else is ever using it, and does the stupid, I can turn off the spyware/spam relay/ddos without having to hunt it down in 50 places.
While technically feasible, doing this for DVDs would be illegal.
Why does wood not cut it "in this day and age?" Has combustion changed in the past century or two? Does it not produce as much heat?
My wood stove heats my whole house quite nicely during an outage, and is cheaper than gas heating. The only reason I don't use it all the time is it's not as convenient.
You'd think they would have come up with a better way to break up asphalt than hitting it really hard by now. I mean, look at all the advances in advertising, military technology, and other things that are bad for the general public, and how little improvement there has been in fixing potential safety hazards.
He just thinks it sucks because it isn't in a gel-color. I've seen some of these things before, and they're pretty cool. You can easily take them right into a building and have no control problems after a bit of practice (though whether the building allows this is separate entirely). They can actually go pretty fast if you put it full tilt. Not worth the price tag by any means, but I certainly wouldn't say it "sucks."
98% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
/. where you got these numbers.
Please tell
What will be the biggest issue determining the success of the adoption of biology-integrated computing?
Well, lifeforms have certain weaknesses that rocks and electrons alone do not. Among them are:
-A lifespan
-Virus vulnerability (no pun intended)
-Nutrition requirements
(your typical cell needs things that are harder
to mass-transport than electrons. Water comes to mind)
2 things:
1. Redundancy
2. Unless you or someone else is being stupid (not exactly a good assumption, but other benefits of electric power steering more than make up for the drawbacks), braking is 99% of the time just as good as steering.
This is a common misconception. While technically true, current (amps) is related to potential (volts). This can be approximated pretty well with the formula V=IR.
What happens if someone calls you while you're playing your game? Your phone sends a signal to the cell tower acknowledging the call. If your phone is on, there is no way to be sure it won't transmit anything. That's why you have to turn them off.
I'm not all that fluent in legalese, so I haven't read the bill, but does it clearly define "origin?" What prevents the "origin" of the communication I'm sending from being "my lan," and thus allowing NAT to avoid the scope of this law?
Two words:
Human-readable.
As a programmer, this is the most useful property a data stream can take on. Why? Debugging. The reasoning here is twofold:
1. Non-parallel development of opposite ends of the data stream:
It's quite a challenge to develop the code which produces the data and the code which uses the data at the same time. If it doesn't work, you don't know where the problem is. With a human-readable format, you can simply pipe the data in or out of the app directly from a text file, and verify that it's correct yourself.
2. Debugging:
Something of an extention of the previous, if you have two bits of code communicating through XML, you can log the bad transmission and read it yourself to find out if the bug is in transmission or reception.
Now, I won't pretend that XML is the only human-readable data-structuring format, but it has a lot of nice advantages over the others, each of which is covered in the article. XML makes apps a pain to develop, but a breeze to debug--and the debugging is far more important!
Simply put, this sort of thing is the future. Software licensing on a per-time basis is an extremely attractive business model. Furthermore, as much as I don't want to pay for a piece of software for as long as I'm using it, it will actually encourage quality software. This is simply because if your program sucks, people will stop paying for it. You won't be able to make much money by selling worthless software that looks pretty and well-advertised anymore.