Even scientists, most of them, don't really think according to the scientific method, most of the time. I mean, these social scientists, did they actually conduct any science; did they actually test an hypothesis?
Social science is not a science in the strict sense.
In some languages there is a distinction between "Natural Science" and other sciences. "Natural Science" is just called Science in English, but sometimes subjects that are not a 'Natural Science' also get the 'Science' post-fix. This is why some subjects with Science in the name are not sciences.
In general anything that has to do with people, is not possible to do in a strict scientific way, and are therefore not a natural science.
I read your comment wrong then, I assumed you meant Fallout 3 was bad, because the case of expanding the original game was exemplified in the article by Half-life + Counter-strike.. Still Fallout 3 is another good example, Civilization IV + Fall from Heaven is probably my own favourite of a good game expanded and made even better.
I didn't say Oblivion was a bad game, I said it was a bad RPG. And yes I have gotten the exploration gameplay in other games such as Morrowind which was a much better game, or Gothic 3 which was a miracle of game except for its extreme buggyness.
The reason oblivion was such a bad RPG, was because it was a reverse RPG, you got weaker and weaker every time you leveled up, and every time you leveled up all your equipment all loot you had ever acquired turned useless and less powerful than that of a common highway man. It punished you for playing it, not a bad gaming decision and common for platforming games, but the opposite of RPG gameplay which is about character development or for some; acquisition of loot.
I have never played a game with that much potential completely ruined by a company's decision to make it fit the gameplay of Mario Brothers.
Fallout 3 was a playable game even before the mods. Oblivion is a much stronger case, without the mods, it would be generally reviled as the worst RPG ever made, which is was unmodded.
There are things worse than death, and with half your brain rotten away, there isn't much YOU left anyway.
Still you hear about late Alzheimer's patients having a lucid day once in while, perhaps every few weeks where they know who they are, and can recognize their own children, but in the later stages it happens more and more rarely.
Fair enough. Sounds like Apple backed down from their lawsuit, but settlements does have the benefit of being possible to portray as a win for both sides, especially if the details are kept secret.
Who will be paying Nokia next? Samsung, HTC? Anyone?
No one, everybody but Apple was already paying the licensing fee, or was a co-developer of the technology. This is part of the reason why Apple's case has been so weak.
No, the case started because Apple believed they had already paid because the manufacturer of the GSM-chip had paid the license and Apple believed Nokia was double-dipping. The court rules Apple had to pay up.
I'm sure you can come up with some anecdote that says otherwise but that's simply the exception to the all-to prevelent rule that is the reason why unions are shrinking so precipitously today.
My anecdote involves a fictional place called "the rest of the world", where unions for some reason work just fine. I assume they work fine some places in the US as well, you can not all be assholes, but I am do believe political puppets would exaggerate any rotten apples to ban all apples completely.
Wealth grows exponential, not just for the the wealthy but also for the poor, but the difference between two exponential functions is also exponential: 1.05^x 10^x for any x.
Yes, it was officially fixed in 2.6.32 or something like that. They keep adding more features and improving it, but the format is supposed to be fixed by now.
Anyway. I don't know if default is a good idea, but even Debian offered btrfs as an option when I installed it on my new laptop last month. It is hardly cutting edge anymore;)
There is a difference between which standards has 'Recommendation' level, and which ones are recommended to use. CSS 2.1 has been recommended for a long time, it is just not a 'Recommendation'. Just like RFC standards doesn't actually want your comments.
For which CSS specifications that are recommended. Check out CSS Snapshot 2007 , and don't worry about the 2007 name, the latest version is from May 2011.
Even so, what has the W3C been doing the last 6 years!?
Waiting for the browsers to implement the full specification...
One of the new requirements made to ensure the specifications are actually sane and useful is that it has to have two full independent implementations. But for that you first need a test-suite and you need browser-developers to make complete and correct implementations, unlike the usual practice of just implement some parts and call it supported (*cough* html5 *cough*)
If anything the concepts necessary to reason about the problem are probably useful, even if the problem itself is not. Depending on the way the numbers spread in the algorithm, it may have applications for cryptography, or hashes and digests. Algorithms that either generate numbers with greater range from a simpler number, or calculate a simpler number from one of a greater range.
It is undoubtedly also possible to make datastructures and algorithms, that uses the sequence, though there is no guarantee it will be an improvement (compare to Fibonacci numbers for instance). Mmmmm... Hailstone heap. It may not be very good, but it would have one badass name. Hail Stoneheap.
it doesn't make Qt or GTK magically use GL[X] for drawing, it just makes redraws happen asynchronously.
No, it magically makes kwin use GL for drawing (or xrender, there are two backends). I am not sure about the rest, window caching and cached thumbnails are not the same as far as I know.
Disable thumbnails in desktop effects. This was what used to kill full-screen windows. While it usually do not impact performance of kwin, it seems for some reason to impact performance of apps with many updates per second.
Btw. Do not disable deskop effects on nvidia GPU with the proprietary driver. Disabling effects on nvidia will make graphics slower and use more power. The problem is the nvidia has terrible 2D performance, the composer uses XGL which is heavily optimized in the nvidia driver.
Of course I do, some of us was unfortunate enough to have that piece of shit hardwired into our laptops. Being a thinkpad user I wasn't even in the category of users who was offered the insulting replacement laptop.
I think NVidia needs to be reminded of this for a long long time.
It is an enabling fantasy. I am not sure I fully buy the male-dominance idea either, again I think a good part of its attraction is being an enabling fantasy.
What do I mean by 'Enabling Fantasy':
It is more realistic than two random people meeting just saying hi and then fucking. Added realism makes the fantasy more believable, and thus easier to accept.
Part right, part true. Never underestimate your neighbor, always be careful with what you don't know you don't know.
With that said, some disciplines are in the dark ages, this is proven when 20 years ago the first computer generated research articles got accepted in humanities and sociology journals. Computers still can not pass a comparison to a 8 year old kid (Turing test), but they have successfully demonstrated being indistinguishable from a serious researcher in one of the bullshit sciences.
It might be a crime in Sweden and in Australia, who got the stupid idea in the first place, but what does that have to do with countries that are not Australia or Sweden?
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Social science is not a science in the strict sense.
In some languages there is a distinction between "Natural Science" and other sciences. "Natural Science" is just called Science in English, but sometimes subjects that are not a 'Natural Science' also get the 'Science' post-fix. This is why some subjects with Science in the name are not sciences.
In general anything that has to do with people, is not possible to do in a strict scientific way, and are therefore not a natural science.
That is a good point.
I read your comment wrong then, I assumed you meant Fallout 3 was bad, because the case of expanding the original game was exemplified in the article by Half-life + Counter-strike.. Still Fallout 3 is another good example, Civilization IV + Fall from Heaven is probably my own favourite of a good game expanded and made even better.
In other news: Mods are awesome!
I didn't say Oblivion was a bad game, I said it was a bad RPG. And yes I have gotten the exploration gameplay in other games such as Morrowind which was a much better game, or Gothic 3 which was a miracle of game except for its extreme buggyness.
The reason oblivion was such a bad RPG, was because it was a reverse RPG, you got weaker and weaker every time you leveled up, and every time you leveled up all your equipment all loot you had ever acquired turned useless and less powerful than that of a common highway man. It punished you for playing it, not a bad gaming decision and common for platforming games, but the opposite of RPG gameplay which is about character development or for some; acquisition of loot.
I have never played a game with that much potential completely ruined by a company's decision to make it fit the gameplay of Mario Brothers.
Fallout 3 was a playable game even before the mods. Oblivion is a much stronger case, without the mods, it would be generally reviled as the worst RPG ever made, which is was unmodded.
There are things worse than death, and with half your brain rotten away, there isn't much YOU left anyway.
Still you hear about late Alzheimer's patients having a lucid day once in while, perhaps every few weeks where they know who they are, and can recognize their own children, but in the later stages it happens more and more rarely.
Fair enough. Sounds like Apple backed down from their lawsuit, but settlements does have the benefit of being possible to portray as a win for both sides, especially if the details are kept secret.
No one, everybody but Apple was already paying the licensing fee, or was a co-developer of the technology. This is part of the reason why Apple's case has been so weak.
No, the case started because Apple believed they had already paid because the manufacturer of the GSM-chip had paid the license and Apple believed Nokia was double-dipping. The court rules Apple had to pay up.
Why are you rewriting the case?
My anecdote involves a fictional place called "the rest of the world", where unions for some reason work just fine. I assume they work fine some places in the US as well, you can not all be assholes, but I am do believe political puppets would exaggerate any rotten apples to ban all apples completely.
Wealth grows exponential, not just for the the wealthy but also for the poor, but the difference between two exponential functions is also exponential: 1.05^x 10^x for any x.
The consequences should be obvious.
Yes, it was officially fixed in 2.6.32 or something like that. They keep adding more features and improving it, but the format is supposed to be fixed by now.
Anyway. I don't know if default is a good idea, but even Debian offered btrfs as an option when I installed it on my new laptop last month. It is hardly cutting edge anymore ;)
Forget the CSS Snapshot 2007 link, the article summary has a link to CSS Snapshot 2010. Same thing with the year though, also last updated May 2011.
Nothing is ever bug-free. I do not know the specifics, but I guess they don't have to be bug-free as long as everyone agrees those are bugs.
There is a difference between which standards has 'Recommendation' level, and which ones are recommended to use. CSS 2.1 has been recommended for a long time, it is just not a 'Recommendation'. Just like RFC standards doesn't actually want your comments.
For which CSS specifications that are recommended. Check out CSS Snapshot 2007 , and don't worry about the 2007 name, the latest version is from May 2011.
Waiting for the browsers to implement the full specification...
One of the new requirements made to ensure the specifications are actually sane and useful is that it has to have two full independent implementations. But for that you first need a test-suite and you need browser-developers to make complete and correct implementations, unlike the usual practice of just implement some parts and call it supported (*cough* html5 *cough*)
If anything the concepts necessary to reason about the problem are probably useful, even if the problem itself is not. Depending on the way the numbers spread in the algorithm, it may have applications for cryptography, or hashes and digests. Algorithms that either generate numbers with greater range from a simpler number, or calculate a simpler number from one of a greater range.
It is undoubtedly also possible to make datastructures and algorithms, that uses the sequence, though there is no guarantee it will be an improvement (compare to Fibonacci numbers for instance). Mmmmm... Hailstone heap. It may not be very good, but it would have one badass name. Hail Stoneheap.
No, it magically makes kwin use GL for drawing (or xrender, there are two backends). I am not sure about the rest, window caching and cached thumbnails are not the same as far as I know.
Disable thumbnails in desktop effects. This was what used to kill full-screen windows. While it usually do not impact performance of kwin, it seems for some reason to impact performance of apps with many updates per second.
Btw. Do not disable deskop effects on nvidia GPU with the proprietary driver. Disabling effects on nvidia will make graphics slower and use more power. The problem is the nvidia has terrible 2D performance, the composer uses XGL which is heavily optimized in the nvidia driver.
No, the program officially stopped a month before my laptop died, and even though it was extended the extension stopped the week before.
Of course I do, some of us was unfortunate enough to have that piece of shit hardwired into our laptops. Being a thinkpad user I wasn't even in the category of users who was offered the insulting replacement laptop.
I think NVidia needs to be reminded of this for a long long time.
Is it guaranteed to fry my laptop like the last mobile NVidia chipset I bought? (140NVS)
It is an enabling fantasy. I am not sure I fully buy the male-dominance idea either, again I think a good part of its attraction is being an enabling fantasy.
What do I mean by 'Enabling Fantasy':
It is more realistic than two random people meeting just saying hi and then fucking. Added realism makes the fantasy more believable, and thus easier to accept.
Part right, part true. Never underestimate your neighbor, always be careful with what you don't know you don't know.
With that said, some disciplines are in the dark ages, this is proven when 20 years ago the first computer generated research articles got accepted in humanities and sociology journals. Computers still can not pass a comparison to a 8 year old kid (Turing test), but they have successfully demonstrated being indistinguishable from a serious researcher in one of the bullshit sciences.
No, the legal age for watching porn is 16
It might be a crime in Sweden and in Australia, who got the stupid idea in the first place, but what does that have to do with countries that are not Australia or Sweden?