It's true. if you look at cars.com you'll occasionally find very recent cars that have multiple power ratings. Usually minor differences (like 5hp)
There's no particular trim of that car that has this power, it's just for california emmissions. I could of course just be making this up, and I'm not really interisted in verifying the information. I trust my memory.
At any rate there is a compelling reason to make them all conform to the same standard, as long as the fuel in the region, and characteristics (elevation) don't cause issues. It would be cheaper to manufacture. I suppose you can easily offset this by charging higher prices though.
Dsl has a limitation called relative capacity. It is a measurement of how much of your connection is used to maintain the connection, and is thus not usable to transmit payload data.
I believe wireless networks work in a similar fashon. so if you have a 50% relative capacity that could also explain the speed problems.
Though in personal experience, 50% relcap at 1.5mbps would be 30-40% at 768K..
Still, good to consider how the technology works as well as routing policies.
We're going well off topic but I feel this needs to be added to your statement. We may get someone just as bad/worse next time. The key however is to try someone else! Not that we get much choice, as Bush has already had his two terms.
Also, Isn't this the first time in a while that one party controlled the 3 parts of the government?
While I know this won't happen, it would be nice if web developers would move away from ActiveX because of this. That way the customer wouldn't have to just "Click OK" for stuff to work...
Or that program was written before Win2000 came out - and did NT4 support DirectX? No right? So, the program made a bad assumption - This is in no way microsofts fault though
My only complaints about half life 2 are the total time spent playing, and the forced puzzel solving. There was one point in the game where I was not allowed to progress due to an invisible wall until I solved the puzzel the "proper" way (as in blow up a storage bin and race up a ramp, vs jumping over the baricades and racing up a ramp.)
If you're going to have an environment where physics are supposed to play into the game, you shouldn't prevent the level completion with invisable walls. If they get there they got there!
I'm infinately more sore about the second detail;P I enjoyed the game otherwise, short or not.
Best analogy is a gym locker room You have say, 10 lockers up and 20 lockers accross You can only put one thing in a locker, so you cant put your gym shorts in the same one as your shoes. But if you have lots of socks, you can pile them in, and take up two or three if neccessary.
Space is wasted if you have a really big locker, but it's only holding a sock.
Now, you've got to record where all of this stuff is, or you will take forever to find that sock. So you set asside a locker to hold the clipboard with designations.
Now to bring this back into real life. There are a _lot_ of sectors on a disk. So keeping track of all of them starts requiring a substantial amount of resources. I imagine they are finding it easier to justify wasting space for small files in order to make it easier to keep track of them. Average file sizes are also going up, so it's not as big of a problem as it used to be either. It's all relative...
Well trained horses usually won't, probably due to trust. "I suspect, you never rode much..." And maybe I've watched one too many movies, but my guess is if a horse gets spooked they are a lot less inclined to follow your orders.
It is totally different to be terrified, wanting to turn and run away, but not being able to do anything about it, and just keep right on walking forward. "You are attaching a human emotion to an animal. A common mistake."
Except it wasn't a mistake. I truely and honestly feel animals have at least basic human emotions. My past experience tells me this is true for dogs if nothing else.
"Regardless, even if the horse were horrified, if its suffering can reduce or eliminate the suffering of a human, than it is ethical for us to use it.
And always was. Think, again, about the lab mice, cats that are bread for future doctors and nurses to study internal organs, and dogs and pigs used to clear out minefields..." Well if you ask me I have issues with these as well. You can take cats and dogs from the pound for veternary uses, and there are surely better ways of detecting minefields than pigs... Hopefully dogs aren't just blindly run over the field to blow up either with that acute sense of smell!
So no, they [remote and local controls of an animal -mi] are not the same thing. "They are... Pinching an elephant with a nail (common practice), or pulling a horse's reigns is no different from remotely controlling the creatures via things implanted or otherwise attached to them. Technically -- different. Ethically -- no."
Lets extend this situation to humans. Even though you are not of the opinion that animals have emotions and I am. And for the sake of extending the point a little more I will make this situation a bit more dramatic. On one hand you have this human with an electronic device in his head that controls his every motor function. He is made to kill his family.
On the other hand you have this person who is being tortured to commit the same act. I'd suspect you'd have to go to pretty far lengths to accomplish the same goal this way - He'd likely rather die.
Now I realise that this situation isn't really so dramatic. I also realise that a trained animal is not exactly likely to do anything different than the remote controlled animal. However, I think these are important distinctions to make in terms of ethics.
That said I'm not totaly against this research - especially in the current state. It seems all it allows is producing a reward for an action. I'm just not going to blindly lump them together without realising there is a difference.
A horse can ignore its master's orders if they get scared. It can make that choice. Well trained horses usually won't, probably due to trust. It is totally different to be terrified, wanting to turn and run away, but not being able to do anything about it, and just keep right on walking forward.
and for what exactly? the only game in my personal library that does is srs - and that game crashes on the ps2 for some reason.
this includes like 10 gundam games, ffx, ffx-2, srs, gt3, gt4, star ocean ex.
None of those games are really multiplayer in any sense of the word. Much less heavily multiplayer dependant as to encourage a multiplayer environment.
With as many games as the ps2 has I'm sure there are quite a few. I just don't think the game is really such that it would encourage or require multiplayer, and thus no one would do it.
What's the point of going online if your games don't support it?
I believe that was his point at least. I'm inclined to agree. If there is no compelling reason to get online, people will not do so. It is at least a detail to be considered in order to understand the statistic.
Logitech now makes ps2 controllers that are suspiciously like the real thing ^_^ and they are awesome. They actually carry the PlayStation logo, so I think they are getting paid by sony to continue making the controllers.
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Could be replaced with shooting oneself in the foot, however.
I generally agree with you. There are some good reasons to be more environmentally friendly besides just potentially saving our planet!
I think the important question is "Why upgrade?"
You know, they do make modifications that are California emissions compliant.
The parents are probably only talking about those that aren't.
I also don't know if you could take a whole bunch of california emissions compliant mods and put it on the car, and expect it to be compliant still..
People give them a reason.
Engine settings that swap with a push of a button, running cars lean for emissions, then tuning them to be more rich afterwards..
Engine transplants?
People do these things here in Arizona, at least.
This is not to say that I agree with failing due to visual upgrades...
It's true. if you look at cars.com you'll occasionally find very recent cars that have multiple power ratings. Usually minor differences (like 5hp)
There's no particular trim of that car that has this power, it's just for california emmissions.
I could of course just be making this up, and I'm not really interisted in verifying the information. I trust my memory.
At any rate there is a compelling reason to make them all conform to the same standard, as long as the fuel in the region, and characteristics (elevation) don't cause issues. It would be cheaper to manufacture. I suppose you can easily offset this by charging higher prices though.
That's an interesting point in and of itself - it would require energy to keep this thing so cold.
This is a dsl connection right?
Dsl has a limitation called relative capacity. It is a measurement of how much of your connection is used to maintain the connection, and is thus not usable to transmit payload data.
I believe wireless networks work in a similar fashon. so if you have a 50% relative capacity that could also explain the speed problems.
Though in personal experience, 50% relcap at 1.5mbps would be 30-40% at 768K..
Still, good to consider how the technology works as well as routing policies.
My ps2 has interlace sync issues in GranTurismo 4 ... if you put it in progressive mode, the studdering and synching isn't an issue.
It's extremely annoying and does it on every ps2. Unfortunately, not every tv I have supports progressive, and 1080 mode is only interlaced.
Then again, so will any game designed to play on a revolution controller exclusively. I fail to see your point.
What I'm curious to know is if this is actually energy efficient.
Is it worth going out of the water to get these bugs? Really it's a question of how many they get in one go I suppose.
We're going well off topic but I feel this needs to be added to your statement. We may get someone just as bad/worse next time. The key however is to try someone else! Not that we get much choice, as Bush has already had his two terms.
Also, Isn't this the first time in a while that one party controlled the 3 parts of the government?
I think it's fair to point out there's a difference between being fit and being socially ackward.
They both are spawned from the same reasons usually, but they are different.
While I know this won't happen, it would be nice if web developers would move away from ActiveX because of this. That way the customer wouldn't have to just "Click OK" for stuff to work ...
I can dream though.
Or that program was written before Win2000 came out - and did NT4 support DirectX? No right?
So, the program made a bad assumption - This is in no way microsofts fault though
Play a much more sedated game called oblivion. and then appreciate the hl2 episode one all the more when it comes out!
Possibly flouride suppliments they put into drinking water?
Your friend may be drinking less water, or bottled.
My only complaints about half life 2 are the total time spent playing, and the forced puzzel solving. There was one point in the game where I was not allowed to progress due to an invisible wall until I solved the puzzel the "proper" way (as in blow up a storage bin and race up a ramp, vs jumping over the baricades and racing up a ramp.)
;P I enjoyed the game otherwise, short or not.
If you're going to have an environment where physics are supposed to play into the game, you shouldn't prevent the level completion with invisable walls. If they get there they got there!
I'm infinately more sore about the second detail
haha. I'll take it!
;)
Yah, definately a bad analogy but I couldn't resist
Best analogy is a gym locker room
You have say, 10 lockers up and 20 lockers accross
You can only put one thing in a locker, so you cant put your gym shorts in the same one as your shoes. But if you have lots of socks, you can pile them in, and take up two or three if neccessary.
Space is wasted if you have a really big locker, but it's only holding a sock.
Now, you've got to record where all of this stuff is, or you will take forever to find that sock. So you set asside a locker to hold the clipboard with designations.
Now to bring this back into real life. There are a _lot_ of sectors on a disk. So keeping track of all of them starts requiring a substantial amount of resources. I imagine they are finding it easier to justify wasting space for small files in order to make it easier to keep track of them. Average file sizes are also going up, so it's not as big of a problem as it used to be either. It's all relative...
Also, I don't believe any console has ever been on the top for more than two generations
Well trained horses usually won't, probably due to trust.
... Hopefully dogs aren't just blindly run over the field to blow up either with that acute sense of smell!
"I suspect, you never rode much..."
And maybe I've watched one too many movies, but my guess is if a horse gets spooked they are a lot less inclined to follow your orders.
It is totally different to be terrified, wanting to turn and run away, but not being able to do anything about it, and just keep right on walking forward.
"You are attaching a human emotion to an animal. A common mistake."
Except it wasn't a mistake. I truely and honestly feel animals have at least basic human emotions. My past experience tells me this is true for dogs if nothing else.
"Regardless, even if the horse were horrified, if its suffering can reduce or eliminate the suffering of a human, than it is ethical for us to use it.
And always was. Think, again, about the lab mice, cats that are bread for future doctors and nurses to study internal organs, and dogs and pigs used to clear out minefields..."
Well if you ask me I have issues with these as well. You can take cats and dogs from the pound for veternary uses, and there are surely better ways of detecting minefields than pigs
So no, they [remote and local controls of an animal -mi] are not the same thing.
"They are... Pinching an elephant with a nail (common practice), or pulling a horse's reigns is no different from remotely controlling the creatures via things implanted or otherwise attached to them. Technically -- different. Ethically -- no."
Lets extend this situation to humans. Even though you are not of the opinion that animals have emotions and I am. And for the sake of extending the point a little more I will make this situation a bit more dramatic.
On one hand you have this human with an electronic device in his head that controls his every motor function. He is made to kill his family.
On the other hand you have this person who is being tortured to commit the same act. I'd suspect you'd have to go to pretty far lengths to accomplish the same goal this way - He'd likely rather die.
Now I realise that this situation isn't really so dramatic. I also realise that a trained animal is not exactly likely to do anything different than the remote controlled animal. However, I think these are important distinctions to make in terms of ethics.
That said I'm not totaly against this research - especially in the current state. It seems all it allows is producing a reward for an action. I'm just not going to blindly lump them together without realising there is a difference.
A horse can ignore its master's orders if they get scared. It can make that choice. Well trained horses usually won't, probably due to trust. It is totally different to be terrified, wanting to turn and run away, but not being able to do anything about it, and just keep right on walking forward.
So no, they are not the same thing.
and for what exactly?
the only game in my personal library that does is srs - and that game crashes on the ps2 for some reason.
this includes like 10 gundam games, ffx, ffx-2, srs, gt3, gt4, star ocean ex.
None of those games are really multiplayer in any sense of the word. Much less heavily multiplayer dependant as to encourage a multiplayer environment.
With as many games as the ps2 has I'm sure there are quite a few. I just don't think the game is really such that it would encourage or require multiplayer, and thus no one would do it.
What's the point of going online if your games don't support it?
I believe that was his point at least. I'm inclined to agree. If there is no compelling reason to get online, people will not do so.
It is at least a detail to be considered in order to understand the statistic.
Logitech now makes ps2 controllers that are suspiciously like the real thing ^_^ and they are awesome. They actually carry the PlayStation logo, so I think they are getting paid by sony to continue making the controllers.