I wondered about this number as well. When I did the calculations, I only got a 15% decrease in accuracy! I must have forgotten to carry the one out of my ass.
They estimated their numbers based on the UN's study Global Report on Human Settlements, 2003. This report estimated the figure 51.3% global urban population by 2010, which was used in calculating May 23 as the tipping point.
I've no personal experience using D, but indie-gaming darling Kenta Cho has been using it for years to make some of the most acclaimed free games on the net.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound Its got wires that vibrate and give music What can this thing be that I found?
rush -> english translatrix: stop working, start rocking!
RTFA. These DVDs were DRMed to only run in special screener players as well as region coded. If Boing Boing's coverage is any indication, plenty of people may not have watched any of the DRMed discs just to avoid the hassle of setting up a special player. They get so many movies, the encryption just makes it an easy choice which to watch: the ones they can.
Plus, let's see, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Civilization: Call to Power, Call to Power 2.. then there's all the full-price expansion packs and multiplayer expansions. You don't even have to count civ-fam games like Rise of Nations (by Brian Reynolds of Civ2 and Alpha Centauri) before realizing Civilization "4" is a little optimistic.
Anthropogenic or not, ecological science is the best work we have in understanding climate change, and perhaps learning how to affect it. Evidence from Mars that climates in general may be more unstable than previously thought makes it more important that we look at ways of keeping our own environment from threatening our existance on this planet. Whoever makes the icecaps melt, it's going to cause damage.
Finding evidence that an unstable climate may be more common than previously thought is not reason for abandoning ecological science, as it may only mean that our own climate is more delicate than we thought, more likely to dip into rapid change.
If this is the same guy who got noted on Boing Boing a while back, he wants to set these kiosks up in the Astrodome where the 30,000 displaced Superdome residents will be staying for a while.
Onoes RFID is coming! Here's a presumptuous pronounciation about the slashdot crowd: you've got your heads too far up the techhype bum. License plates are all the trcaking system we need.
That's why, as the man says, it doesn't matter if they don't have facial recognition, or the processing power to do real massive pattern searching and cross referencing with all the information they're collecting (they gov, they corp, it make no difference.) They can just keep it all until they do.
This phrase (and its companion, "free as in speech") is rapidly becoming too common for its current cumbersome form. Anyone up for working on replacements?
"In the interests of fighting counterfeiters, we are making new 20 dollar bills. Also, we will be releasing high resolution images of these bills onto the internet so that you can recognize them when they come. Please don't print these out."
Seriously, this isn't how security works. A) I'll just print old 20s. B) I'll just make up some new fancy 20 and claim it's this new one that just came out.
In 8th grade my science teacher got caught peeking into the girl's locker room within the first two months of the year. We had a string of substitutes then untill they settled on one to finish out the school year, and he didn't know much about science.
We ended up just watching taped Bill Nye episodes almost every day. That class was awesome.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two words - 'mank' and 'ind.' What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
This meme about online gamers being dicks is really getting to me. I've been playing online since quakeworld (not the first generation, I know, but older than the majority I suspect), and the opinion I've taken away is that people playing online are generally really nice.
Every now and then you run into someone having some fun disrupting a game; I can picture plenty of times someone grappled their spy in the exit of the 2fort spawn room on a MegaTF server. But I can also picture plenty of times when people were communicative and friendly and cool; willing to organize some teamwork for a little while; willing to point newbies in the right direction....
There's some fun to be had being disruptive, but far from negative consequences deterring most people, most people derive much more fun from playing the game.
Maybe (and I think the article addresses this somewhat) MMORPGs are poorly designed when the situation is that theres LOTS to be gained from looting corpses. This is different from people who are getting a kick from causing some chaos. Those people can easily be avoided, and with many games, voted off the server. Or just let them goof off for a bit, they'll get bored eventually and move on. Corpse looters WANT to play the game, and are just taking a shortcut; one frowned on by the community for being unfriendly.
Modern mods (game modifications -- made by players to change the gameplay of an existing game; someone was asking in a recent/. thread) generally offer a lot more incentive to play well, and to encourage others to play well. Also, often the communities are small. Speaking from my experience, Navy Seals:Q3 and GloomQ2 both have very tight knit communities, with celebreties and common faces to get to know, as well as a need for teamplay in order to succeed. You may be less likely to run into the same people over and over while playing Natural Selection just due to the number of players and servers, but people generally want to win, and winning takes cooperation.
Yelling at the newbies won't get them to play any better, and making friends who like doing things that you like doing is always a positive situation.
Will this offer any opportunity for new double slit experiments? Or were they already using single atoms? (wasn't that the whole point? ergo, didn't someone already make single atom lasers?) Anyone want to refresh me?
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Well crap, you've just described a scene from the spiders, an alternate-history-GWOT web comic. Life art life art life.
I wondered about this number as well. When I did the calculations, I only got a 15% decrease in accuracy! I must have forgotten to carry the one out of my ass.
This report inspired the book Planet of Slums by Mike Davis, who also wrote an great article in NLR that has disappeared behind a pay-curtain. But you can read a google cache of it here.
That's not fecal matter. It's unprecedented choice, and flexability.
I've no personal experience using D, but indie-gaming darling Kenta Cho has been using it for years to make some of the most acclaimed free games on the net.
What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
Its got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?
rush -> english translatrix:
stop working, start rocking!
editors addendum:
stone-age cultures enjoy roughly 94% leisure time.
RTFA. These DVDs were DRMed to only run in special screener players as well as region coded. If Boing Boing's coverage is any indication, plenty of people may not have watched any of the DRMed discs just to avoid the hassle of setting up a special player. They get so many movies, the encryption just makes it an easy choice which to watch: the ones they can.
If you want the patch itself, try here:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1010
Second time this story came up with no links to the patch.
Here's to another 200 years of "well enough."
Plus, let's see, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Civilization: Call to Power, Call to Power 2.. then there's all the full-price expansion packs and multiplayer expansions. You don't even have to count civ-fam games like Rise of Nations (by Brian Reynolds of Civ2 and Alpha Centauri) before realizing Civilization "4" is a little optimistic.
Anthropogenic or not, ecological science is the best work we have in understanding climate change, and perhaps learning how to affect it. Evidence from Mars that climates in general may be more unstable than previously thought makes it more important that we look at ways of keeping our own environment from threatening our existance on this planet. Whoever makes the icecaps melt, it's going to cause damage.
Finding evidence that an unstable climate may be more common than previously thought is not reason for abandoning ecological science, as it may only mean that our own climate is more delicate than we thought, more likely to dip into rapid change.
If this is the same guy who got noted on Boing Boing a while back, he wants to set these kiosks up in the Astrodome where the 30,000 displaced Superdome residents will be staying for a while.
I agree, it is a shame that a simulation like Deus Ex is crippled with designer bias.
The camera can scan 1000 license plates per minute
That's why, as the man says, it doesn't matter if they don't have facial recognition, or the processing power to do real massive pattern searching and cross referencing with all the information they're collecting (they gov, they corp, it make no difference.) They can just keep it all until they do.
every hole has a peice to fit it, some peices require different tasks to get them. Some require money, others require some code
holes... fit... money... mass of potential jokes causing brain implosion....
This phrase (and its companion, "free as in speech") is rapidly becoming too common for its current cumbersome form. Anyone up for working on replacements?
I'm thinking "freer" vs. "freech" from now on.
Don't waste your gmail address on that: Mailinator.
Except with rolex watches and fast cars and beautiful east european girlfriends.
Not to be anal, just for posterity and to give credit where it's due: the original site.
"In the interests of fighting counterfeiters, we are making new 20 dollar bills. Also, we will be releasing high resolution images of these bills onto the internet so that you can recognize them when they come. Please don't print these out."
Seriously, this isn't how security works. A) I'll just print old 20s. B) I'll just make up some new fancy 20 and claim it's this new one that just came out.
In 8th grade my science teacher got caught peeking into the girl's locker room within the first two months of the year. We had a string of substitutes then untill they settled on one to finish out the school year, and he didn't know much about science.
We ended up just watching taped Bill Nye episodes almost every day. That class was awesome.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two words - 'mank' and 'ind.' What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
(disclaimer: not mine. jack handey.)
This meme about online gamers being dicks is really getting to me. I've been playing online since quakeworld (not the first generation, I know, but older than the majority I suspect), and the opinion I've taken away is that people playing online are generally really nice.
/. thread) generally offer a lot more incentive to play well, and to encourage others to play well. Also, often the communities are small. Speaking from my experience, Navy Seals:Q3 and GloomQ2 both have very tight knit communities, with celebreties and common faces to get to know, as well as a need for teamplay in order to succeed. You may be less likely to run into the same people over and over while playing Natural Selection just due to the number of players and servers, but people generally want to win, and winning takes cooperation.
Every now and then you run into someone having some fun disrupting a game; I can picture plenty of times someone grappled their spy in the exit of the 2fort spawn room on a MegaTF server. But I can also picture plenty of times when people were communicative and friendly and cool; willing to organize some teamwork for a little while; willing to point newbies in the right direction....
There's some fun to be had being disruptive, but far from negative consequences deterring most people, most people derive much more fun from playing the game.
Maybe (and I think the article addresses this somewhat) MMORPGs are poorly designed when the situation is that theres LOTS to be gained from looting corpses. This is different from people who are getting a kick from causing some chaos. Those people can easily be avoided, and with many games, voted off the server. Or just let them goof off for a bit, they'll get bored eventually and move on. Corpse looters WANT to play the game, and are just taking a shortcut; one frowned on by the community for being unfriendly.
Modern mods (game modifications -- made by players to change the gameplay of an existing game; someone was asking in a recent
Yelling at the newbies won't get them to play any better, and making friends who like doing things that you like doing is always a positive situation.
Will this offer any opportunity for new double slit experiments? Or were they already using single atoms? (wasn't that the whole point? ergo, didn't someone already make single atom lasers?) Anyone want to refresh me?