So.. basically what EVE has been able to do since release day?
Sure, it's a game that has flaws, but getting everyone in a single universe since day one is probably one of the best thing they ever did.
There is no such thing as 'rights'. They cannot be presumed or demanded. Every time someone talks about 'rights' what they actually mean is obligations. I don't think people in a society owe any sort of respect for... well, anything at all, 'just because'. Rights included.
There is no debt there, apart from the one that someone wishes to freely acknowledge. I cannot demand respect, I cannot demand rights. I can only give them away, freely. If I'm lucky, that cuts both ways, but it's never something you can compel.
You're right, but you're observing a self selecting sample. Blokes in bars are likely out 'on the pull' and looking for a sexual encounter, rather than a relationship. And thus yes, hot and easy is exactly what they're looking for.
A really satisfying relationship though, is one that's based on mutual respect and understanding. It's much easier to do that if you're both able to 'keep up'. It just tends to start from a place that isn't the sort of bar/club meat market:).
And you're quite correct. 'Dumb' blokes feel threatened by intelligent girlfriends. It's a manly pride thing - ug, me man, me boss, me support family. Problem is, there's a lot more 'dumb' in the world, and so if you're prepared to accept second best, you have a lot more options to choose from.
Don't be an idiot. Just because their skin is a different colour, doesn't make them any less capable of making a positive contribution to society. A culture that accepts and integrates people with enough enthusiasm to set out to make their fortune, does well as a result.
Jobs and wealth isn't a finite quantity - more people means a faster moving economy, which means everyone ends up better off - at least, on average. I do see people upset about immigrants, but that's almost invariably because said immigrants are doing the same job, but better and more efficiently than they could.
Hardly seems fair that someone who's better at a job should get it in preference really...
Anyone else think that all this conservation, recycling, reduced pollution stuff is... well, basically just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic? I mean, it's trying to treat the symptoms of the disease, not the disease itself. The disease is overpopulation - there's just too many people on planet earth, and even if you do cut back energy usage, you can't economize fast enough to keep up with geometric population growth.
That's just supply and demand economics - they're expensive _because_ they're censured. It's like why an ounce of weed costs a lot more than an ounce of wheat, despite growing in a field.
Agreed. I've worked on 'secure' sites, and getting hold of a decent smartphone, which also did not have a camera was a complete nightmare. I do kind of like having a camera, but it's hardly a 'killer feature' in my book. But... I'd really rather be able to keep my phone when on such a site.
There's that, and then there's the fact that Sharepoint just isn't particularly usable. I mean seriously, online document management could be - and should be - much more than 'it's like a file server, you access through a web page'. Sharepoint in general is... just not up to scratch. I have high hopes for wave as a replacement, simply because it's so very usable and easy to 'adapt' - and also includes a lot of the functionality that sharepoint _should_ have had.
Hmm, had a similar story outline I think. Bit matrixy, but... that again, universe was a simulation used for advanced prediction of the future - big company made business of simulating 'outcomes' of decisions for companies, politicians, whoevers. Bunch of techs were tasked with maintaining a 'model', because it was never possible to entirely simulate everything - further away it went the higher the error rate, and they send in agents to keep it going a bit further. Agents in question have 'magic' that lets 'em do stuff in the system, because an 'unidentified explosion' is less disruptive to the model than just deleting something. But doing it too much leads to 'corruption correct' in the model, in the form of some kind of disaster that 'wipes clean' the evidence - proof that 'deletions' occur would irreversibly corrupt the simulation, and they're expensive to start and whatnot.
Figured it'd go from there into finding out that there's an underlying reason that it doesn't work, and there's certain people who just don't quite fit - implying that there's _something_ about them that isn't being modelled correctly - and that the agents are tasked to remove them to slow that down. After all, they're just simulations, and this is important business. Cue some kind of love/romance subplot as virtual agent rescues virtual chick, and go on the run and stuff.
From there, 'exiting' the simulation thingummy, to reality, and agent going to find said chick, to try and figure out if they get along for real, and find out if they get along, only to find that the reason they're 'causing errors in the simulation' is because those errors are in the universe itself, and that "magic" (in some form, probably low grade) does actually exist, but doesn't get ported into the simulation, because the people creating the sim assume it doesn't.
And a cruel echo of previous plotline, where has to go on the run again, because "real" magic is very interesting to the powers that be. Perhaps including some shenaigans of similarity, that because they've had to do it before, they've got a bit of a head start on dodging certain pitfalls.
Wasn't quite sure where to go next, but was thinking that having some kind of reveal that they were actually part of a larger scoped simulation...
Discovery of the Higgs Boson is the catalyst which precipitates the End Times. A small team of heroic timetravellers have been sent back to sabotage the experiment, but have to be very careful not to end up deleting themselves from the timeline, because if they do there will be no one to save the universe.
The problem with that approach is that it so rarely works in an episodic, or indeed 'film length' format. I mean, you take something that has a profound impact on human society, and try and tell people a story of how things are now.
There's a few Sci-fi books that do this, but remarkably few that have made the transition to film, simply because of the depth of the idea. It's far easier to have 'sci fi' as the glue in a space opera, than it is to actually do a sci fi concept, introduce the idea, and give it enough time to flesh out and show the audience what it means in a couple of hours. And even then, it wouldn't work for the _average_ audience - lots of people wouldn't get it, and would therefore hate on your film - another problem that doesn't tend to happen with books.
Lack of regrets, remorse, empathy? That sounds quite a lot like the kind of traits that would make their way through tiers of management. Some companies do 'deliver value' by being downright nice and wonderful. The majority however, get ahead by being more ruthless than the others.
No, it would. I was remarkably hostile to the shenanigans that Sega pulled with 'special forces' edition of Empire:Total War. Same problem, frankly. I will accept - and probably pay for - a 'collectors edition' that includes a box set of extra stuff related to the game. Y'know, T-Shirts, models, maps, guidebooks, and all kinds of stuff that don't remind me all along the line that I got to cater to their greed by paying extra for something that should have been in the 'standard' release.
The key value of the gadget to my mind, is not in the absolute measurement, but in the reproduction of the workload profile. In neither case does the 'gadget' track anything outside the immediate exercise, and in neither case is it particularly accurate as regards energy usage. What it does do though, is tell me that today's workout is 'as much' as yesterday's. If you're doing high intensity intervals, that works much the same way - you're looking on ramping up to 90%+ MHR for short stretches, but the _actual_ workload doesn't really matter.
I've tried a high intensity interval approach, and... didn't find it satisfactory. I'm considering revisiting it though, as my time in the gym is gradually mounting up. But I'm still somewhat wary, as there's such a lot of... well, nonsense circulating about exercising and workouts, catering to people who want a miracle cure, that I'm always very skeptical about New Snake Oil.
Started on this in response to some medical advice, but have since read the hackers diet, yet.
I like the approach it presents - it makes a lot of sense.
Because some of us don't have the kind of self regulatory mechanism that allows us to easily balance calorie intake with exercise workload.
It's therefore useful to have a repeatable 'amount of work' for daily exercise. It's also useful to have a reminder of how hard you're working - there's a substantial difference between what is 'hard work' when you're tired, and what's 'hard work' when you are not. If you're tired you do less, and you burn less calories as a result. I therefore use 'heart rate monitored' exercise as a feedback mechanism to my food input.
I'm using an exercise monitor to ensure I get enough of a workout each day. I want to know calories out so I can balance my calories in, because doing so 'automatically' I end up gaining weight.
I therefore use my heart rate monitor to try and sustaince a 130-150bpm workout for 40-60 minutes. I then know I've done 'about the same' amount of work, despite it being rowing one week, covering 8km, and jogging to work the next week. I try to maintain the workload threshold about there, because that's about the optimal intensity to maximise the amount of workout I'm getting - much harder and I get tired too fast.
I've observed this by using the statistics of my heart rate monitor, combined with exercise distances travelled. I can row hard at
So.. yeah. I found that a heart rate monitor has helped me greatly in being efficient about my daily workout.
So I kind of agree. I'm collecting statistics to allow me to 'take an engineering approach' to my daily calorie intake and general workload.
Oh I think it will. Right now, our household uses IRC as a sort of general message board/chat thing. It might not replace IM entirely, but... it's got some potential I think. You can do the same stuff with it, after all.
But if nothing else, it's just a 'bit better email'. The example I can see it 'working' for, is that I can send out a first gen email with 'who's interested in going and doing....'. And then I can update the original with suggestions of time/venue. And everyone involved can be a party to the dialogue.
The thing that will make it catch on I think, is that you _can_ just use Wave as a drop in replacement for an existing mail/IM system, and use it exactly the same way, until you're comfortable with some of the other features.
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So.. basically what EVE has been able to do since release day?
Sure, it's a game that has flaws, but getting everyone in a single universe since day one is probably one of the best thing they ever did.
There is no such thing as 'rights'. They cannot be presumed or demanded. Every time someone talks about 'rights' what they actually mean is obligations. I don't think people in a society owe any sort of respect for... well, anything at all, 'just because'. Rights included.
There is no debt there, apart from the one that someone wishes to freely acknowledge. I cannot demand respect, I cannot demand rights. I can only give them away, freely. If I'm lucky, that cuts both ways, but it's never something you can compel.
You're right, but you're observing a self selecting sample. Blokes in bars are likely out 'on the pull' and looking for a sexual encounter, rather than a relationship. And thus yes, hot and easy is exactly what they're looking for. :).
A really satisfying relationship though, is one that's based on mutual respect and understanding. It's much easier to do that if you're both able to 'keep up'. It just tends to start from a place that isn't the sort of bar/club meat market
And you're quite correct. 'Dumb' blokes feel threatened by intelligent girlfriends. It's a manly pride thing - ug, me man, me boss, me support family. Problem is, there's a lot more 'dumb' in the world, and so if you're prepared to accept second best, you have a lot more options to choose from.
If you want a pet, go get a dog.
Don't be an idiot. Just because their skin is a different colour, doesn't make them any less capable of making a positive contribution to society. A culture that accepts and integrates people with enough enthusiasm to set out to make their fortune, does well as a result.
Jobs and wealth isn't a finite quantity - more people means a faster moving economy, which means everyone ends up better off - at least, on average. I do see people upset about immigrants, but that's almost invariably because said immigrants are doing the same job, but better and more efficiently than they could.
Hardly seems fair that someone who's better at a job should get it in preference really...
I for one wish to welcome our ... oh forget it.
Anyone else think that all this conservation, recycling, reduced pollution stuff is ... well, basically just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic? I mean, it's trying to treat the symptoms of the disease, not the disease itself. The disease is overpopulation - there's just too many people on planet earth, and even if you do cut back energy usage, you can't economize fast enough to keep up with geometric population growth.
Live somewhere else. Preferably somewhere where local monopololies are treated with all the contempt they deserve.
Ho ho ho. Aren't you glad you bought an iPhail now?
In the UK 'is it a city' is defined by whether it has a cathedral or a royal charter. Population has very little to do with it.
That's just supply and demand economics - they're expensive _because_ they're censured. It's like why an ounce of weed costs a lot more than an ounce of wheat, despite growing in a field.
Agreed. I've worked on 'secure' sites, and getting hold of a decent smartphone, which also did not have a camera was a complete nightmare. I do kind of like having a camera, but it's hardly a 'killer feature' in my book. But ... I'd really rather be able to keep my phone when on such a site.
There's that, and then there's the fact that Sharepoint just isn't particularly usable. I mean seriously, online document management could be - and should be - much more than 'it's like a file server, you access through a web page'. Sharepoint in general is ... just not up to scratch. I have high hopes for wave as a replacement, simply because it's so very usable and easy to 'adapt' - and also includes a lot of the functionality that sharepoint _should_ have had.
Hmm, had a similar story outline I think. Bit matrixy, but... that again, universe was a simulation used for advanced prediction of the future - big company made business of simulating 'outcomes' of decisions for companies, politicians, whoevers. Bunch of techs were tasked with maintaining a 'model', because it was never possible to entirely simulate everything - further away it went the higher the error rate, and they send in agents to keep it going a bit further. Agents in question have 'magic' that lets 'em do stuff in the system, because an 'unidentified explosion' is less disruptive to the model than just deleting something. But doing it too much leads to 'corruption correct' in the model, in the form of some kind of disaster that 'wipes clean' the evidence - proof that 'deletions' occur would irreversibly corrupt the simulation, and they're expensive to start and whatnot.
Figured it'd go from there into finding out that there's an underlying reason that it doesn't work, and there's certain people who just don't quite fit - implying that there's _something_ about them that isn't being modelled correctly - and that the agents are tasked to remove them to slow that down. After all, they're just simulations, and this is important business. Cue some kind of love/romance subplot as virtual agent rescues virtual chick, and go on the run and stuff.
From there, 'exiting' the simulation thingummy, to reality, and agent going to find said chick, to try and figure out if they get along for real, and find out if they get along, only to find that the reason they're 'causing errors in the simulation' is because those errors are in the universe itself, and that "magic" (in some form, probably low grade) does actually exist, but doesn't get ported into the simulation, because the people creating the sim assume it doesn't.
And a cruel echo of previous plotline, where has to go on the run again, because "real" magic is very interesting to the powers that be. Perhaps including some shenaigans of similarity, that because they've had to do it before, they've got a bit of a head start on dodging certain pitfalls.
Wasn't quite sure where to go next, but was thinking that having some kind of reveal that they were actually part of a larger scoped simulation...
Discovery of the Higgs Boson is the catalyst which precipitates the End Times. A small team of heroic timetravellers have been sent back to sabotage the experiment, but have to be very careful not to end up deleting themselves from the timeline, because if they do there will be no one to save the universe.
The problem with that approach is that it so rarely works in an episodic, or indeed 'film length' format. I mean, you take something that has a profound impact on human society, and try and tell people a story of how things are now.
There's a few Sci-fi books that do this, but remarkably few that have made the transition to film, simply because of the depth of the idea. It's far easier to have 'sci fi' as the glue in a space opera, than it is to actually do a sci fi concept, introduce the idea, and give it enough time to flesh out and show the audience what it means in a couple of hours. And even then, it wouldn't work for the _average_ audience - lots of people wouldn't get it, and would therefore hate on your film - another problem that doesn't tend to happen with books.
Lack of regrets, remorse, empathy? That sounds quite a lot like the kind of traits that would make their way through tiers of management. Some companies do 'deliver value' by being downright nice and wonderful. The majority however, get ahead by being more ruthless than the others.
Dust off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
No, it would. I was remarkably hostile to the shenanigans that Sega pulled with 'special forces' edition of Empire:Total War. Same problem, frankly. I will accept - and probably pay for - a 'collectors edition' that includes a box set of extra stuff related to the game. Y'know, T-Shirts, models, maps, guidebooks, and all kinds of stuff that don't remind me all along the line that I got to cater to their greed by paying extra for something that should have been in the 'standard' release.
If there were a linear relationship between minutes spent working out and fitness/health level, you might have a point.
The key value of the gadget to my mind, is not in the absolute measurement, but in the reproduction of the workload profile. In neither case does the 'gadget' track anything outside the immediate exercise, and in neither case is it particularly accurate as regards energy usage. What it does do though, is tell me that today's workout is 'as much' as yesterday's. If you're doing high intensity intervals, that works much the same way - you're looking on ramping up to 90%+ MHR for short stretches, but the _actual_ workload doesn't really matter. ... didn't find it satisfactory. I'm considering revisiting it though, as my time in the gym is gradually mounting up. But I'm still somewhat wary, as there's such a lot of ... well, nonsense circulating about exercising and workouts, catering to people who want a miracle cure, that I'm always very skeptical about New Snake Oil.
I've tried a high intensity interval approach, and
Started on this in response to some medical advice, but have since read the hackers diet, yet.
I like the approach it presents - it makes a lot of sense.
Because some of us don't have the kind of self regulatory mechanism that allows us to easily balance calorie intake with exercise workload.
It's therefore useful to have a repeatable 'amount of work' for daily exercise. It's also useful to have a reminder of how hard you're working - there's a substantial difference between what is 'hard work' when you're tired, and what's 'hard work' when you are not. If you're tired you do less, and you burn less calories as a result. I therefore use 'heart rate monitored' exercise as a feedback mechanism to my food input.
I'm using an exercise monitor to ensure I get enough of a workout each day. I want to know calories out so I can balance my calories in, because doing so 'automatically' I end up gaining weight.
I therefore use my heart rate monitor to try and sustaince a 130-150bpm workout for 40-60 minutes. I then know I've done 'about the same' amount of work, despite it being rowing one week, covering 8km, and jogging to work the next week. I try to maintain the workload threshold about there, because that's about the optimal intensity to maximise the amount of workout I'm getting - much harder and I get tired too fast.
I've observed this by using the statistics of my heart rate monitor, combined with exercise distances travelled. I can row hard at So.. yeah. I found that a heart rate monitor has helped me greatly in being efficient about my daily workout.
So I kind of agree. I'm collecting statistics to allow me to 'take an engineering approach' to my daily calorie intake and general workload.
Oh I think it will. Right now, our household uses IRC as a sort of general message board/chat thing. It might not replace IM entirely, but ... it's got some potential I think. You can do the same stuff with it, after all.
....'. And then I can update the original with suggestions of time/venue. And everyone involved can be a party to the dialogue.
But if nothing else, it's just a 'bit better email'. The example I can see it 'working' for, is that I can send out a first gen email with 'who's interested in going and doing
The thing that will make it catch on I think, is that you _can_ just use Wave as a drop in replacement for an existing mail/IM system, and use it exactly the same way, until you're comfortable with some of the other features.