The last winters (those that we personally remember) all were unnaturally warm. And this one was just a normal winter, by pre-1900 standards.;)
Makes sense to me, provided we find out why this one is different.
Anyway. It’s ridiculous to think that a single winter (one local data point) could prove a huge long-term data set wrong.
Even the whole discussion is irrelevant and hence stupid. Let’s use logic for a second: Assumption 1: Green house gasses keep the heat inside the atmosphere. = Is proven in my book, because I know my share of physics. Assumption 2: We blow billions of tons of that stuff into the atmosphere. = Also proven to me, if the power plants, cars, cows, etc. really exist.;) Conclusion 1: Our billions of tons of green house gasses must have a heating effect bigger than zero. = Assumption 1 + Assumption 2 Assumption 3: Those gasses are released globally, and spread globally anyway. = Laws of thermodynamics. Assumption 4: “Global warming” is defined as “Earth getting warmer globally“. = Is it not?;) Conclusion 2: Since we have a heating effect bigger than zero, and that effect is global, we have “global warming” of earth by humans. = Conclusion 1 + Assumption 3 + Assumption 4. Q.E.D.
I completely agree. But could you please stop using the word “IP” (other than for IP protocol related things)? Because by definition and by the laws of physics, there can not possibly be such a thing as “intellectual property”. It’s an oxymoron. coming from mixing up the very different rule sets of meatspace and bitspace. It makes you look like a fool, even with a comment as good as this one. Which is unfortunate.:/
I think one should also count Return to Butcher Bay too. It’s a game, but it’s clearly made to fit in there like a movie. (By the way: The game was better than all those movies together. Or than Doom 3 or Far Cry.)
Would you please keep your trolling to yourself. If you want to have a story, read a book. The plot is just one part of a movie. Just. one. part! Two others are the feelings/atmospheres (emotional brain) it creates, and the aesthetics/art (the non-logic creative half of the brain). Even technology can be a dominant part.
300 is the perfect example of a art-only movie. (Or Sin City.) And every movie where you walked out of the cinema, and just looked at the world from a different perspective, or that deeply moved you, was a atmospheric one.
The same is true for games. Except that, because games are a superset of movies, games also include gameplay/mechanics.
What counts is the experience as a whole. The word experience must be stressed here. Which can be a nice balance of all those above elements. But it doesn’t have to. Since the balance is not the point. The resulting experience is.
I must say, I really like the Riddick world and character.
But I recommend playing the Riddick game (the Dark Athena one). As it is a really great game. Back when Doom 3, Half-Life 2 and Far Cry came out, Riddick stole the show. (At least from our p.o.v. here.) It plainly was the most fun and surprising game with the greatest graphics. (The cryo prison exercise area in space anyone? Just wow.)
Don’t get me wrong: Nuclear power plants still are way better than coal/oil/gas plants. But Uranium also is something that will be used up soon. And even ignoring that, there is a much better argument:
They are extremely easy and cheap to build, even with only renewable materials, and give you completely free and clean energy. Attach some high-voltage direct current lines to them. And some form of energy storage if wanted. And you’re good.
But then again, that would not make the energy bribers/criminals (aka lobby“) happy, would it?
The only problem ist, that your quote is a large complex-looking bag of utter bullshit, designed to prevent people from trying to understand it, and to hiding the bullshit under trust.
Enforcing having a certain number of people of a certain group in a company, is just as much *ism, as enforcing not having them. Because it’s making the decision based on *ism, not on fitness for the job.
What counts is the rules on which people get hired. Not the number of people of a group in a company.
So I accuse “The Merc” of using *ism to make money.
I also use Gentoo, and I have a different experience: 1. Go to kongregate.com, and try a game. Usually the first time the game loads, I have a up-to-60-second complete lockup of the browser. 2. Then their chat / kongregate API can’t connect to the server. 3. There are tons of “Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead” errors in the.xsession-errors log, that are proven to be caused by Flash. 4. With that new version I often get Flash apps/videos having periodic phases of extreme slowing down of the video, and then later speeding up to catch up with the audio. 5. In fullscreen, YouTube is so slow, that it does not even react to Esc or a click to close fullscreen. I have to hold the button for a long time, and then hope it works. It also eats up all the CPU resources. (Takes over a minute to react to pressing Alt-Ctrl-F1 to switch to a console to kill the fucker.)
In short: It’s a huge PITA, and clearly alpha. Then again I don’t see them having a Bugzilla, or any other bug tracker where any real human ever reacts to your filed bug. So I have no idea how they are getting any bug reports.
Exactly. That was what my ex-coworker described. You give it a sideways scratch or something like that.
But of course, everything I say is only as reliable as my information source. I trusted him. Depends on if you trust *random dude on the Internet*-me.:)
A ex-coworker of mine was in the second french cycling league. He was very close to getting into the first league. So he informed himself. And the rules are: 1. Learn how to touch the wheel of the one in front of you in a way that makes him fall down, or at least slower. 2. Use doping. Period. Or else you won’t get in the first league.
There is a system against doping. This is how it is supposed to work: Doctors from the competing teams do the doping tests on you. Because they have the greatest interest in fucking up your team.
This is how it actually works: The doctors are the one administering the doping. And everyone does it. So if anyone would tell the truth, his own team would be dead in the blink of an eye. Which means nobody really tests anything. It’s the concept of mutually assured destruction.
Now you may realize, that every “doping scandal” only was someone falling from grace. (Which can end in a large flame-war, like when pretty much every team suddenly gets “caught”.)
Getting software right is very, very difficult.... Code review alone is not sufficient. Testing is not sufficient. Tools are not sufficient. Features are not sufficient. None of the things we do in isolation are sufficient. To get software truly correct, especially to get it secure, you have to address all phases of the software development lifecycle, and integrate security into the day-to-day activities."
Well, maybe if you started out with a language that was properly designed to guarantee certain qualities (like Haskell), instead of the tar pit that is C/C++, you wouldn’t have to do all that magic to guarantee proper code.
But oh, it’s so much work to use QuickCheck to guarantee that the software will do what it should. Yeah, so you rather take even more time to write the tests and do all that magic later, and still not have a 100% guarantee. Way to go...
that we'll narrow the mass down to a very tiny bound (if it exists) which would be strong evidence for its existence.
No it wouldn’t. Because that would be like saying: We searched the whole world for Bigfoot, except for this little hut here. So he must be in that hut.
No he doesn’t. Because you still haven’t proven that he exists at all.:)
I wonder what would happen, if I created a website, where people could propose things the government should to, and then everybody could throw his cash in for it, so that someone would buy the government with that money.
Oh wait, that’s called “campaign sponsoring“ in an “election”.
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The last winters (those that we personally remember) all were unnaturally warm. And this one was just a normal winter, by pre-1900 standards. ;)
Makes sense to me, provided we find out why this one is different.
Anyway. It’s ridiculous to think that a single winter (one local data point) could prove a huge long-term data set wrong.
Even the whole discussion is irrelevant and hence stupid. Let’s use logic for a second: ;) ;)
Assumption 1: Green house gasses keep the heat inside the atmosphere. = Is proven in my book, because I know my share of physics.
Assumption 2: We blow billions of tons of that stuff into the atmosphere. = Also proven to me, if the power plants, cars, cows, etc. really exist.
Conclusion 1: Our billions of tons of green house gasses must have a heating effect bigger than zero. = Assumption 1 + Assumption 2
Assumption 3: Those gasses are released globally, and spread globally anyway. = Laws of thermodynamics.
Assumption 4: “Global warming” is defined as “Earth getting warmer globally“. = Is it not?
Conclusion 2: Since we have a heating effect bigger than zero, and that effect is global, we have “global warming” of earth by humans. = Conclusion 1 + Assumption 3 + Assumption 4.
Q.E.D.
I completely agree. But could you please stop using the word “IP” (other than for IP protocol related things)? :/
Because by definition and by the laws of physics, there can not possibly be such a thing as “intellectual property”. It’s an oxymoron. coming from mixing up the very different rule sets of meatspace and bitspace. It makes you look like a fool, even with a comment as good as this one. Which is unfortunate.
I think one should also count Return to Butcher Bay too. It’s a game, but it’s clearly made to fit in there like a movie. (By the way: The game was better than all those movies together. Or than Doom 3 or Far Cry.)
Pff. Cube was just SAW with a set artwork consisting of a single cubic room. ^^
Would you please keep your trolling to yourself. If you want to have a story, read a book. The plot is just one part of a movie.
Just. one. part!
Two others are the feelings/atmospheres (emotional brain) it creates, and the aesthetics/art (the non-logic creative half of the brain). Even technology can be a dominant part.
300 is the perfect example of a art-only movie. (Or Sin City.)
And every movie where you walked out of the cinema, and just looked at the world from a different perspective, or that deeply moved you, was a atmospheric one.
The same is true for games. Except that, because games are a superset of movies, games also include gameplay/mechanics.
What counts is the experience as a whole. The word experience must be stressed here.
Which can be a nice balance of all those above elements. But it doesn’t have to. Since the balance is not the point. The resulting experience is.
I must say, I really like the Riddick world and character.
But I recommend playing the Riddick game (the Dark Athena one). As it is a really great game. Back when Doom 3, Half-Life 2 and Far Cry came out, Riddick stole the show. (At least from our p.o.v. here.) It plainly was the most fun and surprising game with the greatest graphics. (The cryo prison exercise area in space anyone? Just wow.)
Don’t get me wrong: Nuclear power plants still are way better than coal/oil/gas plants.
But Uranium also is something that will be used up soon. And even ignoring that, there is a much better argument:
You have tons of hot and sunny places in the US, don’t you?
Well, put a couple of these in your deserts: http://images.google.com/images?q=brightsource&oe=utf-8&rls=org.gentoo:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
They are extremely easy and cheap to build, even with only renewable materials, and give you completely free and clean energy. Attach some high-voltage direct current lines to them. And some form of energy storage if wanted. And you’re good.
But then again, that would not make the energy bribers/criminals (aka lobby“) happy, would it?
What about having everyone drinking from the sources that are fed by that mountain becoming uranium-enriched as a consequence?
Is anyone doing the math?
The only problem ist, that your quote is a large complex-looking bag of utter bullshit, designed to prevent people from trying to understand it, and to hiding the bullshit under trust.
Unfortunately you don’t have my trust.
Enforcing having a certain number of people of a certain group in a company, is just as much *ism, as enforcing not having them. Because it’s making the decision based on *ism, not on fitness for the job.
What counts is the rules on which people get hired. Not the number of people of a group in a company.
So I accuse “The Merc” of using *ism to make money.
...organic does not equal building block of life. Because it’s <John Cleese>just one way... just one way... </John Cleese> life can evolve.
I also use Gentoo, and I have a different experience: .xsession-errors log, that are proven to be caused by Flash.
1. Go to kongregate.com, and try a game. Usually the first time the game loads, I have a up-to-60-second complete lockup of the browser.
2. Then their chat / kongregate API can’t connect to the server.
3. There are tons of “Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead” errors in the
4. With that new version I often get Flash apps/videos having periodic phases of extreme slowing down of the video, and then later speeding up to catch up with the audio.
5. In fullscreen, YouTube is so slow, that it does not even react to Esc or a click to close fullscreen. I have to hold the button for a long time, and then hope it works. It also eats up all the CPU resources. (Takes over a minute to react to pressing Alt-Ctrl-F1 to switch to a console to kill the fucker.)
In short: It’s a huge PITA, and clearly alpha. Then again I don’t see them having a Bugzilla, or any other bug tracker where any real human ever reacts to your filed bug. So I have no idea how they are getting any bug reports.
Am I the only one who cares for the Olympic games so much, ;)
that he would have never known, were it not for this “article”?
Exactly. That was what my ex-coworker described. You give it a sideways scratch or something like that.
But of course, everything I say is only as reliable as my information source. I trusted him. Depends on if you trust *random dude on the Internet*-me. :)
...with the intelligence of a nasty mold.
Any further comments needed?
But it was. No other OS did more for the cause of not using Microsoft. (Except maybe DOS 4.0.) ^^
So that finally Kongregate will support it. :/
A ex-coworker of mine was in the second french cycling league.
He was very close to getting into the first league. So he informed himself. And the rules are:
1. Learn how to touch the wheel of the one in front of you in a way that makes him fall down, or at least slower.
2. Use doping. Period. Or else you won’t get in the first league.
There is a system against doping. This is how it is supposed to work:
Doctors from the competing teams do the doping tests on you. Because they have the greatest interest in fucking up your team.
This is how it actually works:
The doctors are the one administering the doping. And everyone does it. So if anyone would tell the truth, his own team would be dead in the blink of an eye. Which means nobody really tests anything. It’s the concept of mutually assured destruction.
Now you may realize, that every “doping scandal” only was someone falling from grace. (Which can end in a large flame-war, like when pretty much every team suddenly gets “caught”.)
Next:
Caveman crafts!
The new craze! ;)
With real-life Flintstones-style “machines”.
Yeah, because Star Wars perfectly resembles... no IS... reality, and everything in it is completely true!
How about climbing out of your Star Wars bed, in your Star Wars themed basement, and going outside? Without the Darth Vader mask! ;)
Getting software right is very, very difficult. ... Code review alone is not sufficient. Testing is not sufficient. Tools are not sufficient. Features are not sufficient. None of the things we do in isolation are sufficient. To get software truly correct, especially to get it secure, you have to address all phases of the software development lifecycle, and integrate security into the day-to-day activities."
Well, maybe if you started out with a language that was properly designed to guarantee certain qualities (like Haskell), instead of the tar pit that is C/C++, you wouldn’t have to do all that magic to guarantee proper code.
But oh, it’s so much work to use QuickCheck to guarantee that the software will do what it should.
Yeah, so you rather take even more time to write the tests and do all that magic later, and still not have a 100% guarantee.
Way to go...
How about just talking about its energy. That would be similar to e.g. talking about photon energy and atoms. So it would be a nice wording symmetry.
This would be a good start: :)
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/TTC-VIDEO-Quantum-Mechanics/3952ebd7c605f10e9562955b4905c88b576299e71a57
(Very simplified, but as I said: A good start.
that we'll narrow the mass down to a very tiny bound (if it exists) which would be strong evidence for its existence.
No it wouldn’t. Because that would be like saying: We searched the whole world for Bigfoot, except for this little hut here. So he must be in that hut.
No he doesn’t. Because you still haven’t proven that he exists at all. :)
I wonder what would happen, if I created a website, where people could propose things the government should to, and then everybody could throw his cash in for it, so that someone would buy the government with that money.
Oh wait, that’s called “campaign sponsoring“ in an “election”.
Votes? What’s that?
I’ll wait until it has three Xs in the name. Softcore ISPing is so last century.