Good thing Canadian troops have been dying in Afghanistan year after year to defend and support this regime. It would be a shame if we let radicals take it over, or if it became corrupt, or if Afghanis went back to growing poppies.
Nope. Everything is hunky dory. Stay the course!
lol @ "studying peas"
This is definitely a better rap than the CERN one. Buddy knows how to flow, and manages to actually discuss the subject without falling into cutesy rhyming.
Q: Does this qualify as nerdcore?
This is the kind of thing that makes me love cosmology. I am really looking forward to the stuff that is going to come out one we have more gravitational observatories online, so we can see both really deep into the universe and also see structures that might otherwise be invisible.
As opposed to things like the LHC (which is cool, granted), where the best you can hope for is that it finds something different than what they expect by Standard Theory, the field of astrophysics is almost scary in the weirdness that seems to be just around the corner.
I actually haven't played CS at all since the 1.6/1.7 switch. But I imagine it's not radically different now.
I think a few important elements of CS have been overlooked.
first, i found it to be a more-or-less perfect balance between simulation and game, with physics and damage that were satisfying because they allowed a certain amount of survivability and mobility while still feeling like death was always just around the corner. I used to sweat and scream during a good match. I never felt anything but dissociated from most FPSs (only exception being Red Orchestra).
second, your tactical choices really mattered, to the point that planning and reaction time played a major role. one mistake and you had to hope you got lucky. even making zero mistakes you could still buy the farm, which tended to drive the meeker players into defensive camping. which worked, was "smart" but OMG if you got capped by a lunatic on the offensive you looked like a timid schmuck. better to stay aggressive and have fun and not worry about your score, UNLESS...
third, teamwork made all the difference. none of the safe, repeatable strategies could save you if you were faced with a team that worked together and communicated. not that most people did a good job of that, but it was really impressive to see a bold and coordinated manoever. it even made being dead alright if you could watch a good end-game go down.
i know teamwork and player interaction isn't limited to Counterstrike, but the way the game worked it was the thing that would always tip the balance. especially with a damage system that rewarded accuracy (i only ever liked playing on FF=on servers)and the importance of weapon choice and stealth meant that covering each other and coordinating your tactics gave you a real sense of esprit de corps when you played with people you grooved with. buying team-mates weapons, sacrificing yourself in a rush knowing the guys behind you would follow through, and the joking and cheers/jeers from your team-mates made the game.
because, in the end, people would respect you not primarily because of your kill ratio or rank on the server, but because of your style and attitude. so if you were always doing the same thing over and over you might as well be a bot.
I found the challenge of working with team-mates (and sometimes even cooperating with the enemy... like a declared knife or pistols round, or even a little judicious TAing for the sake of ) to try to find some new and interesting way to solve a map was one of the real joys of CS. because it allowed you to be somewhat creative.
and being creative is something that makes you feel good. which is something a "perfect" algorithm or high score don't automatically do.
1) I imagine if I ever had a crap job involving grease traps and I didn't clean them, I would probably get a warning before I got fired. I will defer to your grease trap cleaning experiences, though.
2) I would hazard to guess that more than half of the people who get busted for DUI get off with a fine and/or suspended sentence. No jail time.
3) If you are late with your rent, there are normally laws that allow for some level of protection against being thrown out for being one day late with the rent once. Hell, I've been late with the rent on numerous occasions, but I have a good relationship with my landlord. Because I am a nice guy and deserve to have some slack cut for me. And I do. So there.
It would seem the world is slightly more complicated and fuzzy than your little Newtonian fantasy.
But that is beside the point. The guy threw out an Atari 2600 back in the day. I would have made my dad's life a living hell if he had tried that.;)
Then again, maybe this guy wasn't far from the mark. If kids don't riot when they lose their games then they are probably spoiled rich kids who don't really appreciate their toys. I'd say they didn't deserve to have one in the first place.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are roughly contemporary with the life of Jesus of Nazareth (sometime before 100 CE). Big J (who I have no trouble believing is an actual historical person, godhood notwithstanding) and his teachings don't appear in them, because they were separated and parallel offshoot of Judaic religious tradition.
So to summarize, Dead Sea Scrolls != New Testament. Thanks for coming out.
"Because he enforced consequences for actions, and stuck to his word?"
No, because he lacked a sense of proportionality. How about "leave it out again, and lose it for a week... and the next time it will be for a month"?
He's as bad as the Russians in Georgia. Or the US in Iraq. "Just give me an excuse to show you how tough I can be."
You are 100% right. The best way to "resist" is to comply without making it easy for them to do their job. Offer no resistance, go limp, and go to the station to get booked.
If you aren't prepared to get arrested, don't get involved in protesting, period. Find something safer to do, like writing angry letters or singing folk songs. If you go up against The Man, you better have your end-game figured out. A lawyer on speed-dial is also a good idea.
"Why would you do that? Why would you want to force your mission clock 'out of sync' with the local solar clock, except as a stunt?"
The simple fact is you didn't read the (very short) article past the first paragraph, or you would have seen this:
"Next to studying global warming, the coolest thing the crew did was take advantage of the 24 hours of summer sunlight in the Arctic to shift all their operations to Martian Time (a day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes). The crew would simply cover the hab windows from 8pm to 8am "local" Mars time every night."
The term "patent" usually refers to a right granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. - Wikipedia.org
According to Faber, the relation described in this study may reflect processes that began in the first fraction of a nanosecond after the Big Bang. "Galaxies began life as quantum fluctuations--tiny density fluctuations that created the seeds for the later coagulation of structure in the universe. When gravity took over, those seeds made galaxies, and we think that process is reflected in the Tully-Fisher relation," she said.
I found this part really interesting. I know it is something pointed to already by fluctuations in the Cosmic Background Radiation, but the though that local variations at the smallest scales determined the structure of galaxies is really something to think on.
Is this the same as a bus-oriented system? I remember spec'ing out systems for a defence contractor back in the 90s, and there were systems designed around "daughter-card" processors, something like a modular mainframe on the cheap. It always seemed to me that a bus-centric system had a lot going for it performance-wise, rather than forcing everything in the computer to synch to the CPU.
Darwinism to me. Why the hell would you outlaw this? If people want to walk around with sunglasses at night, you gonna ticket them, too?
I thought Americans were rabid about maintaining their freedoms. Recently, it looks like they have just rolled over and played dead when they are taken away. Maybe they should promote this law as a way to improve national security, then everyone would probably eat it up with a spoon.
HELL YES, IT'S FRIENDLY!... Before they just squeezed our nuts. Now they are rubbing our thigh and whispering dirty things in our ear.
Funny, but I don't remember that being in the "futuristic" commercials envisioning how we would be using mobile technology. I am fairly certain I don't remember any money shots, at least.
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Good thing Canadian troops have been dying in Afghanistan year after year to defend and support this regime. It would be a shame if we let radicals take it over, or if it became corrupt, or if Afghanis went back to growing poppies.
Nope. Everything is hunky dory. Stay the course!
lol @ "studying peas"
This is definitely a better rap than the CERN one. Buddy knows how to flow, and manages to actually discuss the subject without falling into cutesy rhyming.
Q: Does this qualify as nerdcore?
This is the kind of thing that makes me love cosmology. I am really looking forward to the stuff that is going to come out one we have more gravitational observatories online, so we can see both really deep into the universe and also see structures that might otherwise be invisible.
As opposed to things like the LHC (which is cool, granted), where the best you can hope for is that it finds something different than what they expect by Standard Theory, the field of astrophysics is almost scary in the weirdness that seems to be just around the corner.
I actually haven't played CS at all since the 1.6/1.7 switch. But I imagine it's not radically different now.
I think a few important elements of CS have been overlooked.
first, i found it to be a more-or-less perfect balance between simulation and game, with physics and damage that were satisfying because they allowed a certain amount of survivability and mobility while still feeling like death was always just around the corner. I used to sweat and scream during a good match. I never felt anything but dissociated from most FPSs (only exception being Red Orchestra).
second, your tactical choices really mattered, to the point that planning and reaction time played a major role. one mistake and you had to hope you got lucky. even making zero mistakes you could still buy the farm, which tended to drive the meeker players into defensive camping. which worked, was "smart" but OMG if you got capped by a lunatic on the offensive you looked like a timid schmuck. better to stay aggressive and have fun and not worry about your score, UNLESS...
third, teamwork made all the difference. none of the safe, repeatable strategies could save you if you were faced with a team that worked together and communicated. not that most people did a good job of that, but it was really impressive to see a bold and coordinated manoever. it even made being dead alright if you could watch a good end-game go down.
i know teamwork and player interaction isn't limited to Counterstrike, but the way the game worked it was the thing that would always tip the balance. especially with a damage system that rewarded accuracy (i only ever liked playing on FF=on servers)and the importance of weapon choice and stealth meant that covering each other and coordinating your tactics gave you a real sense of esprit de corps when you played with people you grooved with. buying team-mates weapons, sacrificing yourself in a rush knowing the guys behind you would follow through, and the joking and cheers/jeers from your team-mates made the game.
because, in the end, people would respect you not primarily because of your kill ratio or rank on the server, but because of your style and attitude. so if you were always doing the same thing over and over you might as well be a bot.
I found the challenge of working with team-mates (and sometimes even cooperating with the enemy... like a declared knife or pistols round, or even a little judicious TAing for the sake of ) to try to find some new and interesting way to solve a map was one of the real joys of CS. because it allowed you to be somewhat creative.
and being creative is something that makes you feel good. which is something a "perfect" algorithm or high score don't automatically do.
2) I would hazard to guess that more than half of the people who get busted for DUI get off with a fine and/or suspended sentence. No jail time.
3) If you are late with your rent, there are normally laws that allow for some level of protection against being thrown out for being one day late with the rent once. Hell, I've been late with the rent on numerous occasions, but I have a good relationship with my landlord. Because I am a nice guy and deserve to have some slack cut for me. And I do. So there.
It would seem the world is slightly more complicated and fuzzy than your little Newtonian fantasy.
But that is beside the point. The guy threw out an Atari 2600 back in the day. I would have made my dad's life a living hell if he had tried that. ;)
Then again, maybe this guy wasn't far from the mark. If kids don't riot when they lose their games then they are probably spoiled rich kids who don't really appreciate their toys. I'd say they didn't deserve to have one in the first place.
So to summarize, Dead Sea Scrolls != New Testament. Thanks for coming out.
"Because he enforced consequences for actions, and stuck to his word?" No, because he lacked a sense of proportionality. How about "leave it out again, and lose it for a week... and the next time it will be for a month"? He's as bad as the Russians in Georgia. Or the US in Iraq. "Just give me an excuse to show you how tough I can be."
You are 100% right. The best way to "resist" is to comply without making it easy for them to do their job. Offer no resistance, go limp, and go to the station to get booked.
If you aren't prepared to get arrested, don't get involved in protesting, period. Find something safer to do, like writing angry letters or singing folk songs. If you go up against The Man, you better have your end-game figured out. A lawyer on speed-dial is also a good idea.
"Why would you do that? Why would you want to force your mission clock 'out of sync' with the local solar clock, except as a stunt?"
The simple fact is you didn't read the (very short) article past the first paragraph, or you would have seen this:
"Next to studying global warming, the coolest thing the crew did was take advantage of the 24 hours of summer sunlight in the Arctic to shift all their operations to Martian Time (a day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes). The crew would simply cover the hab windows from 8pm to 8am "local" Mars time every night."
Any more questions?
Thankfully, you can't patent an idea.
The term "patent" usually refers to a right granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. - Wikipedia.org
I can see it now: the baby who's first words are "f_ckin 'ell!". Followed by a couple of muttered epithets.
Muttering babies. Mumbling and spoonerizing. That's not what they meant to say. You heard them wrong.
Babies with speech impediments? Do babies stutter?
"What part of 'goo' do you not understand?"
Wow! Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? :)
You ever wonder if servers have thoughts and feelings? Sometimes I think it is cruel the things Slashdot does to them.
Reset button indeed. More like LITTLE BLUE LINK OF DEATH.
Maybe some genius SF writer could come up with a technology that solves the social problems that promote terrorism.
Well, one not involving everyone dying, hopefully.
Touche! :P
At least SOMEONE is paying attention to the semantics of this thing.
Why does everybody on Slashdot feel the need to jump to conclusions before RTFA?
Just wow.
"astute"
I found this part really interesting. I know it is something pointed to already by fluctuations in the Cosmic Background Radiation, but the though that local variations at the smallest scales determined the structure of galaxies is really something to think on.
Is this the same as a bus-oriented system? I remember spec'ing out systems for a defence contractor back in the 90s, and there were systems designed around "daughter-card" processors, something like a modular mainframe on the cheap. It always seemed to me that a bus-centric system had a lot going for it performance-wise, rather than forcing everything in the computer to synch to the CPU.
Releasing buggy software, and letting your customers do your beta testing for you?
Looks like they are taking a page from Microsoft's development manual.
This one actually made me ell out ell.
:)
Nice one, brother!
Darwinism to me. Why the hell would you outlaw this? If people want to walk around with sunglasses at night, you gonna ticket them, too?
I thought Americans were rabid about maintaining their freedoms. Recently, it looks like they have just rolled over and played dead when they are taken away. Maybe they should promote this law as a way to improve national security, then everyone would probably eat it up with a spoon.
Anyone made a "hands free" joke yet?
"The future is friendly"
HELL YES, IT'S FRIENDLY!... Before they just squeezed our nuts. Now they are rubbing our thigh and whispering dirty things in our ear.
Funny, but I don't remember that being in the "futuristic" commercials envisioning how we would be using mobile technology. I am fairly certain I don't remember any money shots, at least.