So the question here is does Article 1 section 8 of the constitution trump the protections of the bill of rights?
by your reading, which I find way too broad, then the government could regulate the ownership of... wheat,... etc based on the concept that it may cross state lines and thus be "interstate commerce"
Well, see, that granny could bring a restricted item into the terminal, and then hand it off to someone going on an international flight beyond the security checkpoint. Segregating out the international flights to a separate section is too hard. So is checking your ID against ticket against their records at the gate.
He's saying the opposite: rather than ban specifically "under-the-influence-of-alcohol", we should ban "driving recklessly or while impaired" without regard to what is causing that behavior. It doesn't matter to the person you hit if it's because you're drunk, or because you just broke up and are crying so hard you can't see straight, or because you are just so angry thinking about that jerk at work that you're not paying attention... you still hit them. Why do we have separate penalties for those things?
P.S. Answer: Because we can test for alcohol levels easily, not so much for emotional (or other) distraction levels.
But if you're in Minecraft, you have to talk about the destructible environment. It is a separable part. It's a key aspect to the game, and even if you're not currently breaking blocks apart, the game engine can't know that, so it needs to be ready for it and maintaining those aspects in the background. Similarly, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of individual block elements - not full models, or connected swarms, but single pieces that act independently and interdependently. How many other games use even a couple hundred individual objects on the screen at a time without chugging? Or a couple thousand on-and-off-screen but active? You're talking about something more complex than the average MMO server running on common consumer-level hardware. That's pretty impressive, all things considered.
Dude, I have plenty of (valid) criticisms of the Android OS. Do you have a *single* thing that you can criticize about Apple?
iTunes. The entire thing. Particularly trying to use it to get anything not bought at the Apple store onto an iOS device.
Data files are not shared between apps. I need a separate copy of files if I want to use them in different apps for any reason (when I was choosing between eBook readers, this was particularly annoying -- especially since I was trying to use iTunes trying to figure out how to get them in there in the first place -- though I guess it had a side-benefit of making me find Calibre so I could bypass iTunes entirely).
Here's a simple one: It's winter. You have to drive somewhere. Is there likely to be ice on the roads you need to look out for? You check the thermometer.
It's near zero centigrade = there's likely to be ice. Simple & intuitive. Whereas with fahrenheit, you actually need to remember the number which represents water freezing. More work for no gain.
But.. you're wrong. If you have to drive somewhere, you check the thermometer. If it's 0 Centigrade, you're fine. The salt trucks will clear it right up, roads will be fine. If it's below 0 Fahrenheit, you need to deal with ice and the sand trucks come out instead. What, you though the Fahrenheit 0 point was arbitrary? It's not. It's the lowest freezing point depression for water.
Feeling hot? Probably because it's getting close to 100 degrees, which is human body temperature (ok, yes, more refined measurements changed that to 98.6, and they never re-calibrated the scale). As opposed to remembering that 37 is human body temperature in Centigrade.
Simple and Intuitive, whereas with Centigrade, you need to remember some arbitrary values. More work for no gain.
Let me explain this with a quick and very clear example: the vast majority of the population has an above average (mean) number of limbs. Not everything is a bell curve with standard deviations.
For example how many people would use or even know how to spell indefatigable.
For security purposes, that's potentially an advantage -- how many people will spell it consistently, but incorrectly? That expands the dictionary from actual words to very-close common incorrect spellings.
What made MM5 awesome was it was directly tied to MM4 (and could almost be considered an expansion in modern terms, though it was also a stand-alone game in its own right). They were opposite sides of the same world, and when you had both, some of the story required flipping between sides to complete the extra quest lines. You ended up with 3 endings for the same set of characters (Clouds, Darkside, and World) which felt pretty damn awesome. I didn't get particularly far in MM3 (I actually owned MM5 first, and picked up MM4 later when I found out how they were connected, and then MM3 much later... but I couldn't get past the more primitive interface at the time to enjoy the game behind it), but I believe it was also a continuation of a story that started there.
$1,000 is about the minimum price for a decent PC.
Maybe for you. If you don't need to run next year's games at max settings on a double-wide monitor, a $100 graphics card (HD Radeon 6670 at ~$95 up to 6850 at ~$150) will do more than most people need or will really use. CPU, again $100 will perform just fine for the average user (the Intel G860 can run Skyrim just fine, where "over 30 FPS" substitutes for "fine"), with a $100 mother board. Another $100 for a 1 TB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD. RAM is close enough. The remainder depends on what they already have, but call it another couple hundred for reasonable parts (though most of that would be in a new Windows license). $500-$700 can easily get you a decent gaming PC, and will be well over any office-type or HTPC needs. $1000 gets you into gaming-enthusiast territory.
You also will end up sliding sideways down the road instead of being able to use the rolling motion on your tires to influence your direction some and regain control. You'll stop a little sooner if you're on snow or gravel (on dry stable road surfaces, ABS also stops the vehicles faster), but you'll also be completely out of control of the vehicle until you are stopped, whereas with ABS you'll be able to guide your car some still. It's a trade-off, but I prefer picking my point of impact or avoiding it entirely to stopping faster, but being unable to avoid a collision.
Sure there is. It's only slightly less of an OMG feeling as not having that ABS system so you also have no direction control as you approach the red light.
That is definitely a part of it - and all of those people playing are free advertising as they tell all their friends to come join them for free. With the multiplayer games, that user base is also necessary for a sustainable game play (you need people filling matches out or there's no game to play anyway).
I think you're going for "Pay to Win". TF2 is definitely not that. It's not even "Pay or Time to Win", which is the model you describe. It's "Pay or Time for Options", which is my preferred F2P system, along with "Pay for Cosmetic Alterations". A new player is purely limited by the skill curve. The basic tools available are good enough that even veteran players continue to use them, even when they unlock additional weapons.
#idonthavefactstobackthisup, but when fremium games generate more profit, it's not because the same people end up paying more.
Short reply: this is incorrect. From what I recall of the stats, most F2P games make all of their money on ~2% of the user base. Think of that Apple guy that buys everything that has an Apple logo on it. They're the type those games target for profits. TF2 in particular can capitalize on "whales" since they can buy lots of items and then give them to friends (or trade them for rare items from other people), rather then being entirely restricted to personal purchases.
I had a friend that went way into these sorts of transactions (even on non-F2P games, like WoW server/faction/race tranfers) -- when I pointed out that she was paying a lot of money for what I saw as pretty little return value, she just said that she didn't care. She had disposable income, and this was what she did. It certainly wasn't any worse than paying $50 a night going out to clubs, and she was having fun.
I knew one of the maintainers of Phynd when I was at RPI. It was a simple indexing program that would crawl the public shares on the campus network and create a searchable dB with a simple web interface. Worked quite nicely, all thing considered, but since it also picked up any illegally shared items it was hit by RIAA during the initial anti-share crackdown. They were probably legally ok (index service, not a repository), but the suit was settled since that was the easier (and likely less expensive, given lawyer costs) option.
Easy - the same people that decide who can get on the ballot now: the voters in the state. Prospective candidates would need to get X% of the voting population to agree they were worth having in the election. That gets you started. Perhaps milestones of additional supporters would allow access to additional funds.
Your contract is to defend this guy. He's going to go walk into that enemy base over there. It'll look a lot like an assault, but it's "defending a high priority target". Actually, better... your job is to defend this drone...
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Openly carrying a working bomb onto a plane isn't that hard if you have a laptop.
So the question here is does Article 1 section 8 of the constitution trump the protections of the bill of rights?
by your reading, which I find way too broad, then the government could regulate the ownership of ... wheat, ... etc based on the concept that it may cross state lines and thus be "interstate commerce"
Not only can they, they already have and do.
Everything is interstate commerce since the Federal Government decided to dictate what you are allowed to grow on your own land for your own use.
Well, see, that granny could bring a restricted item into the terminal, and then hand it off to someone going on an international flight beyond the security checkpoint. Segregating out the international flights to a separate section is too hard. So is checking your ID against ticket against their records at the gate.
Google Docs has a Word format download option. So... shell out $0?
He's saying the opposite: rather than ban specifically "under-the-influence-of-alcohol", we should ban "driving recklessly or while impaired" without regard to what is causing that behavior. It doesn't matter to the person you hit if it's because you're drunk, or because you just broke up and are crying so hard you can't see straight, or because you are just so angry thinking about that jerk at work that you're not paying attention... you still hit them. Why do we have separate penalties for those things?
P.S. Answer: Because we can test for alcohol levels easily, not so much for emotional (or other) distraction levels.
But if you're in Minecraft, you have to talk about the destructible environment. It is a separable part. It's a key aspect to the game, and even if you're not currently breaking blocks apart, the game engine can't know that, so it needs to be ready for it and maintaining those aspects in the background. Similarly, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of individual block elements - not full models, or connected swarms, but single pieces that act independently and interdependently. How many other games use even a couple hundred individual objects on the screen at a time without chugging? Or a couple thousand on-and-off-screen but active? You're talking about something more complex than the average MMO server running on common consumer-level hardware. That's pretty impressive, all things considered.
Of course, some of those types of people also go on to create some pretty neat things in their spare time.
Dude, I have plenty of (valid) criticisms of the Android OS. Do you have a *single* thing that you can criticize about Apple?
iTunes. The entire thing. Particularly trying to use it to get anything not bought at the Apple store onto an iOS device.
Data files are not shared between apps. I need a separate copy of files if I want to use them in different apps for any reason (when I was choosing between eBook readers, this was particularly annoying -- especially since I was trying to use iTunes trying to figure out how to get them in there in the first place -- though I guess it had a side-benefit of making me find Calibre so I could bypass iTunes entirely).
There, two things! Are you happy now?
Seriously?
Here's a simple one: It's winter. You have to drive somewhere. Is there likely to be ice on the roads you need to look out for? You check the thermometer.
It's near zero centigrade = there's likely to be ice. Simple & intuitive. Whereas with fahrenheit, you actually need to remember the number which represents water freezing. More work for no gain.
But.. you're wrong. If you have to drive somewhere, you check the thermometer. If it's 0 Centigrade, you're fine. The salt trucks will clear it right up, roads will be fine. If it's below 0 Fahrenheit, you need to deal with ice and the sand trucks come out instead. What, you though the Fahrenheit 0 point was arbitrary? It's not. It's the lowest freezing point depression for water.
Feeling hot? Probably because it's getting close to 100 degrees, which is human body temperature (ok, yes, more refined measurements changed that to 98.6, and they never re-calibrated the scale). As opposed to remembering that 37 is human body temperature in Centigrade.
Simple and Intuitive, whereas with Centigrade, you need to remember some arbitrary values. More work for no gain.
Let me explain this with a quick and very clear example: the vast majority of the population has an above average (mean) number of limbs. Not everything is a bell curve with standard deviations.
For example how many people would use or even know how to spell indefatigable.
For security purposes, that's potentially an advantage -- how many people will spell it consistently, but incorrectly? That expands the dictionary from actual words to very-close common incorrect spellings.
That doesn't change the fact that there's something wrong with a person who enjoys killing other living things.
Yeah. Crazy Gardeners, all happy about pulling up weeds and chomping on plant babies...
How about "Line the room with LED Christmas Lights"?
What made MM5 awesome was it was directly tied to MM4 (and could almost be considered an expansion in modern terms, though it was also a stand-alone game in its own right). They were opposite sides of the same world, and when you had both, some of the story required flipping between sides to complete the extra quest lines. You ended up with 3 endings for the same set of characters (Clouds, Darkside, and World) which felt pretty damn awesome. I didn't get particularly far in MM3 (I actually owned MM5 first, and picked up MM4 later when I found out how they were connected, and then MM3 much later... but I couldn't get past the more primitive interface at the time to enjoy the game behind it), but I believe it was also a continuation of a story that started there.
$1,000 is about the minimum price for a decent PC.
Maybe for you. If you don't need to run next year's games at max settings on a double-wide monitor, a $100 graphics card (HD Radeon 6670 at ~$95 up to 6850 at ~$150) will do more than most people need or will really use. CPU, again $100 will perform just fine for the average user (the Intel G860 can run Skyrim just fine, where "over 30 FPS" substitutes for "fine"), with a $100 mother board. Another $100 for a 1 TB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD. RAM is close enough. The remainder depends on what they already have, but call it another couple hundred for reasonable parts (though most of that would be in a new Windows license). $500-$700 can easily get you a decent gaming PC, and will be well over any office-type or HTPC needs. $1000 gets you into gaming-enthusiast territory.
You also will end up sliding sideways down the road instead of being able to use the rolling motion on your tires to influence your direction some and regain control. You'll stop a little sooner if you're on snow or gravel (on dry stable road surfaces, ABS also stops the vehicles faster), but you'll also be completely out of control of the vehicle until you are stopped, whereas with ABS you'll be able to guide your car some still. It's a trade-off, but I prefer picking my point of impact or avoiding it entirely to stopping faster, but being unable to avoid a collision.
Sure there is. It's only slightly less of an OMG feeling as not having that ABS system so you also have no direction control as you approach the red light.
Couldn't they just turn off the super-conductor providing the magnetic lift and strap down to survive serious weather conditions?
That is definitely a part of it - and all of those people playing are free advertising as they tell all their friends to come join them for free. With the multiplayer games, that user base is also necessary for a sustainable game play (you need people filling matches out or there's no game to play anyway).
I think you're going for "Pay to Win". TF2 is definitely not that. It's not even "Pay or Time to Win", which is the model you describe. It's "Pay or Time for Options", which is my preferred F2P system, along with "Pay for Cosmetic Alterations". A new player is purely limited by the skill curve. The basic tools available are good enough that even veteran players continue to use them, even when they unlock additional weapons.
#idonthavefactstobackthisup, but when fremium games generate more profit, it's not because the same people end up paying more.
Short reply: this is incorrect. From what I recall of the stats, most F2P games make all of their money on ~2% of the user base. Think of that Apple guy that buys everything that has an Apple logo on it. They're the type those games target for profits. TF2 in particular can capitalize on "whales" since they can buy lots of items and then give them to friends (or trade them for rare items from other people), rather then being entirely restricted to personal purchases.
I had a friend that went way into these sorts of transactions (even on non-F2P games, like WoW server/faction/race tranfers) -- when I pointed out that she was paying a lot of money for what I saw as pretty little return value, she just said that she didn't care. She had disposable income, and this was what she did. It certainly wasn't any worse than paying $50 a night going out to clubs, and she was having fun.
I knew one of the maintainers of Phynd when I was at RPI. It was a simple indexing program that would crawl the public shares on the campus network and create a searchable dB with a simple web interface. Worked quite nicely, all thing considered, but since it also picked up any illegally shared items it was hit by RIAA during the initial anti-share crackdown. They were probably legally ok (index service, not a repository), but the suit was settled since that was the easier (and likely less expensive, given lawyer costs) option.
Easy - the same people that decide who can get on the ballot now: the voters in the state. Prospective candidates would need to get X% of the voting population to agree they were worth having in the election. That gets you started. Perhaps milestones of additional supporters would allow access to additional funds.
Your contract is to defend this guy. He's going to go walk into that enemy base over there. It'll look a lot like an assault, but it's "defending a high priority target". Actually, better... your job is to defend this drone...