It's interface is a mess on the PC with KB/mouse. It is visually good, but nothing groundbreaking. The game really feels like a LOTRO rip-off though, except with a lot more interface and design bugs. Best RPG in decades? It may not even be the best RPG out right now. It's certainly not the best Dragon Age. I like the game so far, but I am not in love with it, the design flaws make it hard to love.
It is not just the controls. The PC port is broken. Here is the official thread on their forum: http://forum.bioware.com/topic... acknowledging the issues (4000 comments!), and here is the unofficial thread collecting the bugs: http://forum.bioware.com/topic... (long list)
Though it is not just the PC port that is broken. For shit and gigles check the last-gen thread of issues: http://forum.bioware.com/topic...
Individuals aren't taxes based on their profit but income
Yes they are. You can (as an individual in the UK) offset most business expenses against tax. It's a tax on net income, not gross.
No you can't. In the UK like any other country you pay tax on income you spend. Often you in fact have the reverse structure from what corporation have, where you pay a lower tax on money you invest or pay onto others.
Peace, quiet, natural... why not turn Prypiat into a retirement town with a minimum age of admission of 75?
Whether 60 Minutes is wrong or Ron Adams is wrong, it won't matter - the retirees will all be dead before any potential effects of mild radiation manifest themselves.
Yeah, but Chernobyl is also overrun by radioactive wolves, they might be a problem;)
first past the post isn't what's doing that, not having instant runoff style ballots is.
Yes it is. With proportional voting a minor party with 15% in every district would get one candidate in a state of 11 districts like this case. In a two party system, aka first past the post, they would get none.
Then you don't need to hand people hundreds of dollars to take it off your hands.
-jcr
Yeah, but considering the product has been constantlly sold out and impossible to even get hands on, this really doesn't make any sense. Maybe they have ramped up production and the initial buyers are all done?
Leaderships skills are, apparently, no longer a qualification for President... Charisma and good talking points suffice.
But Fiorina has the charisma and easy charm of Mitt Romney with the competency and self awareness of Sarah Palin. An obvious Republican candidate but not really an obvious nomination.
Then the answer is having a couple of military in full battle dress holding guns to the heads of the CEO.
Yes I said heads. One gun pressed into the forehead, the other a shotgun jammed into his junk. The marines must YELL at full volume all the time at him.
I hate to say ths, but that is no way to treat a private business. If you want to command them around, maybe you should buy/nationalize them instead of threating them.
I'm also talking from a position that can be backed up by a large amount of both theory and data. The data cannot show that the universe is infinitely extended, but it very definitely does not say that it *isn't* infinitely extended,
You are talking religion, I am talking science. The scientific universe, the universe we can observe and interact with is finite, anything beyond what can ever theorically be observed might be infinite, but it is also not scientific and pointless to discuss.
Unfortunately while it isn't bad, it doesn't have any real killer features that would make you bother with it compared to C++. I like to play with it, but I wouldn't risk using it for anything serious.
No, it's definitely false. Current data strong favours a universe that is flat (ie infinite), while it only narrowly supports a universe that is open (ie infinite and shaped like a foliation of saddles), and only slightly better favours a universe that is closed (ie finite and shaped like a foliation of spheres.)
You are talking about the potential size of the universe, a flat universe would continue to expand into infinitity, but like any number on the line of numbers going to infinite, and the current universe is finite.
i thought buzzfeed was a non-straight dating website
I always thought it was a scam website. The story headlines are always so baited they have to be 'click to be infected' scams. I never dared click one.
It's more subtle than that. Better paying jobs are more likely to go to men, so a women with similar qualifications and experience is likely, on average, to earn less than a man. It's easy to fix too, just make the jobs more accessible to female candidates. Obviously you still hire the best candidate, it's not about favouritism.
For example, a lot of well paying jobs are found through networking. If most of your current employees are male and network with other males, you are less likely to get female candidates applying or head hunted. All you need to do to correct that is to make an effort to network with women, and maybe ask some of the women in your company to put the word out. It benefits you because you have a wider pool of talent to pick from. It's actually dumb not to do it.
There is also bias at the hiring stage that can be eliminated. Some managers don't want to hire women because they worry that they will go on maternity leave or quit completely if they get pregnant. That one is harder to deal with, but does again exclude good candidates and diversity from the company.
How would that help tech companies to hire female tech talent that does not exist?
How do you suggest we get around the problem of companies trying to hire equally in a field that women dispite heavy positive discrimination on their behalf choose not to enter?
Coming soon from ISPs: Legalese buried deep in your contract with them that essentially states "We [the ISP] have the contractual obligation to muck with any website as we see fit whenever we want to do so."
They're contractually obligated to slow down your Netflix speeds because they really wanted to and the contract means they are now obligated to slow down Netflix.
Yeah. The idea is not bad, but that is how it would end unless they demand it to be very explicit. Basically this is how everybody already sells fixed phone lines. The phone lines have a reserved bandwidth that can't be used by the internet though it uses the same line of copper or fiber, but that bandwidth is not advertised as part of the internet connection. I think if it is fine that they can do all kinds of crazy things, they just can't call it internet or broadband and can't advertise bandwidth not treated neutrally as part of their broadband offering.
Pay $1.99 at the end of chapter 10 or the author kills off your favourite character.
Which is why the extra label below warning about in-app purchaces is a good idea. Still haven't seen that with books though, but if they keep getting away with it elsewhere it is just a matter of time.
Can you boot with init=/systemd/init/from/6/months/ago ?
Yeah, that's how modular it is. People don't care if things are in separate processes; we care whether it's highly coupled.... Please don't overwrite/sbin/init with an older version, you want to be able to get back to a working system:)
Yes. I am running Debian. At the moment I can even install sysv-init or openrc init and replace systemd with it. In the future that might make some other unrelated packages uninstall, but currently it still works just fine.
All so completely co-dependent that they are an all or nothing proposition. Thus, one massive program.
No it isn't. It is completely modular. In only have the init part installed, I can choose to opt in to other modules as I wish. It is all one project, but it is a MODULAR project.
Even basic stuff like copying memory from one location in the CPU to another location is drastically faster on an iOS processor.
That would not mean anything about the CPU. Copying memory is limited by memory speed. Nice that they have fast memory though. Maybe the other tablets need to use faster memory chips too.
What if it is spinning on more than one axis, ie tumbling? The direction where the sun rises for a given point on the comet will change all the time.
I have no idea if the comet is actually doing this, but I imagine that being a scenario where computing "east" being rather difficult.
A ball at least can only rotate around one axis (any superposition of two rotations can be described as a single combined rotation), but the poster above me had the better answer. East is the direction of the rotation, it just happens to also be where everything stationary or far away that is not constantly visible would rise.
This reminds me of the cases where they used Curare for anesthesia. Turns out all it was doing was paralyzing the motor systems so the still fully conscious patients couldn't scream or otherwise react as the surgeons operated.
Might be a good idea to ask the octopuses afterwards if they remember from during the anesthetized time period. This can be done and would find out if they're really out cold or if they're just locked in.
Actually that would require two of the three drugs to fail. They give or gave one to paralyze you, one to kill pain and one to shut off short term memory. The scary part was that sometimes the painkiller failed, so the patiant would be awake fealing pain, but they would not remember it afterwards unless the memory drug also failed.
none of that has anything to do with our spending on roads, we have a spending problem to begin with. we would have plenty of money to fix our roads if we stopped spending it on social programs and wars and went back to the basics.
Ha, no! If you cut down on social programs you would have less money as more people would fall into inescapable poverty and be unable to contribute to your society...
... a former police officer has been dragged into court by the U.S. Department of Justice for teaching people how to beat a pseudoscientific method of detecting whether somebody is lying, a method that itself isn't even admissible as evidence courts in most parts of the world? What's next? Will the surgeon general drag people into court for pointing out that when consuming a homeopathic remedy with 30C dilution, one would need to swallow a volume greater than all the water present in all the oceans of our entire planet in order to stand a good chance of swallowing just one molecule of the original substance?
He entered into a conspiracy to lie to government investigators.
Here I thought he was teaching people how to see through the lies of government investigators.
From the indictment: "trained an individual posing as a federal law enforcement officer to lie and conceal involvement in criminal activity from an internal agency investigation"
Since polygraphs are not working, the investigators claim they do, and the only effect they have is if people believe in them.
So they are useful, a prop of intimidation. Belief trumps reality. If a subject is tricked into honesty or tricked into avoiding circumstances where they will face a polygraph its a win from the government's perspective.
Another prop could be police brutalitu, are you pro that too, or are your fascist tendencies limited to quack science?
but many people in the world need basic services like toilets a lot more than they need electronics.
You would be surprised. After the earthquake in Haiti one of the main problems ended up being setting up electronic infrastructure for all the other workers coming in rebuilding and treating victims. Everybody send doctors and construction workers, but it became a real mess when noone send computer experts to set up internet and cellphone infrastructure for the doctors, engineers, construction workers and not least thousands of journalists to use.
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It's interface is a mess on the PC with KB/mouse. It is visually good, but nothing groundbreaking. The game really feels like a LOTRO rip-off though, except with a lot more interface and design bugs. Best RPG in decades? It may not even be the best RPG out right now. It's certainly not the best Dragon Age. I like the game so far, but I am not in love with it, the design flaws make it hard to love.
It is not just the controls. The PC port is broken. Here is the official thread on their forum: http://forum.bioware.com/topic... acknowledging the issues (4000 comments!), and here is the unofficial thread collecting the bugs: http://forum.bioware.com/topic... (long list)
Though it is not just the PC port that is broken. For shit and gigles check the last-gen thread of issues: http://forum.bioware.com/topic...
Individuals aren't taxes based on their profit but income
Yes they are. You can (as an individual in the UK) offset most business expenses against tax. It's a tax on net income, not gross.
No you can't. In the UK like any other country you pay tax on income you spend. Often you in fact have the reverse structure from what corporation have, where you pay a lower tax on money you invest or pay onto others.
Peace, quiet, natural... why not turn Prypiat into a retirement town with a minimum age of admission of 75?
Whether 60 Minutes is wrong or Ron Adams is wrong, it won't matter - the retirees will all be dead before any potential effects of mild radiation manifest themselves.
Yeah, but Chernobyl is also overrun by radioactive wolves, they might be a problem ;)
first past the post isn't what's doing that, not having instant runoff style ballots is.
Yes it is. With proportional voting a minor party with 15% in every district would get one candidate in a state of 11 districts like this case. In a two party system, aka first past the post, they would get none.
Then you don't need to hand people hundreds of dollars to take it off your hands.
-jcr
Yeah, but considering the product has been constantlly sold out and impossible to even get hands on, this really doesn't make any sense. Maybe they have ramped up production and the initial buyers are all done?
Leaderships skills are, apparently, no longer a qualification for President... Charisma and good talking points suffice.
But Fiorina has the charisma and easy charm of Mitt Romney with the competency and self awareness of Sarah Palin. An obvious Republican candidate but not really an obvious nomination.
Then the answer is having a couple of military in full battle dress holding guns to the heads of the CEO.
Yes I said heads. One gun pressed into the forehead, the other a shotgun jammed into his junk. The marines must YELL at full volume all the time at him.
I hate to say ths, but that is no way to treat a private business. If you want to command them around, maybe you should buy/nationalize them instead of threating them.
You are talking religion, I am talking science. The scientific universe, the universe we can observe and interact with is finite, anything beyond what can ever theorically be observed might be infinite, but it is also not scientific and pointless to discuss.
If only it were free.
Unfortunately while it isn't bad, it doesn't have any real killer features that would make you bother with it compared to C++. I like to play with it, but I wouldn't risk using it for anything serious.
No, it's definitely false. Current data strong favours a universe that is flat (ie infinite), while it only narrowly supports a universe that is open (ie infinite and shaped like a foliation of saddles), and only slightly better favours a universe that is closed (ie finite and shaped like a foliation of spheres.)
You are talking about the potential size of the universe, a flat universe would continue to expand into infinitity, but like any number on the line of numbers going to infinite, and the current universe is finite.
i thought buzzfeed was a non-straight dating website
I always thought it was a scam website. The story headlines are always so baited they have to be 'click to be infected' scams. I never dared click one.
At least regular airports serve an economic function. This is just a hobby for rich people.
True, but making space tech more widely used would push technology and make space research cheaper.
It's more subtle than that. Better paying jobs are more likely to go to men, so a women with similar qualifications and experience is likely, on average, to earn less than a man. It's easy to fix too, just make the jobs more accessible to female candidates. Obviously you still hire the best candidate, it's not about favouritism.
For example, a lot of well paying jobs are found through networking. If most of your current employees are male and network with other males, you are less likely to get female candidates applying or head hunted. All you need to do to correct that is to make an effort to network with women, and maybe ask some of the women in your company to put the word out. It benefits you because you have a wider pool of talent to pick from. It's actually dumb not to do it.
There is also bias at the hiring stage that can be eliminated. Some managers don't want to hire women because they worry that they will go on maternity leave or quit completely if they get pregnant. That one is harder to deal with, but does again exclude good candidates and diversity from the company.
How would that help tech companies to hire female tech talent that does not exist?
How do you suggest we get around the problem of companies trying to hire equally in a field that women dispite heavy positive discrimination on their behalf choose not to enter?
Coming soon from ISPs: Legalese buried deep in your contract with them that essentially states "We [the ISP] have the contractual obligation to muck with any website as we see fit whenever we want to do so."
They're contractually obligated to slow down your Netflix speeds because they really wanted to and the contract means they are now obligated to slow down Netflix.
Yeah. The idea is not bad, but that is how it would end unless they demand it to be very explicit. Basically this is how everybody already sells fixed phone lines. The phone lines have a reserved bandwidth that can't be used by the internet though it uses the same line of copper or fiber, but that bandwidth is not advertised as part of the internet connection. I think if it is fine that they can do all kinds of crazy things, they just can't call it internet or broadband and can't advertise bandwidth not treated neutrally as part of their broadband offering.
But there can still be in-book purchases.
Pay $1.99 at the end of chapter 10 or the author kills off your favourite character.
Which is why the extra label below warning about in-app purchaces is a good idea. Still haven't seen that with books though, but if they keep getting away with it elsewhere it is just a matter of time.
Can you boot with init=/systemd/init/from/6/months/ago ?
Yeah, that's how modular it is. People don't care if things are in separate processes; we care whether it's highly coupled. ... Please don't overwrite /sbin/init with an older version, you want to be able to get back to a working system :)
Yes. I am running Debian. At the moment I can even install sysv-init or openrc init and replace systemd with it. In the future that might make some other unrelated packages uninstall, but currently it still works just fine.
Okay...
All so completely co-dependent that they are an all or nothing proposition. Thus, one massive program.
No it isn't. It is completely modular. In only have the init part installed, I can choose to opt in to other modules as I wish. It is all one project, but it is a MODULAR project.
Even basic stuff like copying memory from one location in the CPU to another location is drastically faster on an iOS processor.
That would not mean anything about the CPU. Copying memory is limited by memory speed. Nice that they have fast memory though. Maybe the other tablets need to use faster memory chips too.
What if it is spinning on more than one axis, ie tumbling? The direction where the sun rises for a given point on the comet will change all the time.
I have no idea if the comet is actually doing this, but I imagine that being a scenario where computing "east" being rather difficult.
A ball at least can only rotate around one axis (any superposition of two rotations can be described as a single combined rotation), but the poster above me had the better answer. East is the direction of the rotation, it just happens to also be where everything stationary or far away that is not constantly visible would rise.
East. Now in space.
It has always been in space, it is the rotational direction where the sun rises.
This reminds me of the cases where they used Curare for anesthesia. Turns out all it was doing was paralyzing the motor systems so the still fully conscious patients couldn't scream or otherwise react as the surgeons operated.
Might be a good idea to ask the octopuses afterwards if they remember from during the anesthetized time period. This can be done and would find out if they're really out cold or if they're just locked in.
Actually that would require two of the three drugs to fail. They give or gave one to paralyze you, one to kill pain and one to shut off short term memory. The scary part was that sometimes the painkiller failed, so the patiant would be awake fealing pain, but they would not remember it afterwards unless the memory drug also failed.
none of that has anything to do with our spending on roads, we have a spending problem to begin with. we would have plenty of money to fix our roads if we stopped spending it on social programs and wars and went back to the basics.
Ha, no! If you cut down on social programs you would have less money as more people would fall into inescapable poverty and be unable to contribute to your society...
... a former police officer has been dragged into court by the U.S. Department of Justice for teaching people how to beat a pseudoscientific method of detecting whether somebody is lying, a method that itself isn't even admissible as evidence courts in most parts of the world? What's next? Will the surgeon general drag people into court for pointing out that when consuming a homeopathic remedy with 30C dilution, one would need to swallow a volume greater than all the water present in all the oceans of our entire planet in order to stand a good chance of swallowing just one molecule of the original substance?
He entered into a conspiracy to lie to government investigators.
Here I thought he was teaching people how to see through the lies of government investigators.
From the indictment: "trained an individual posing as a federal law enforcement officer to lie and conceal involvement in criminal activity from an internal agency investigation"
Since polygraphs are not working, the investigators claim they do, and the only effect they have is if people believe in them.
So they are useful, a prop of intimidation. Belief trumps reality. If a subject is tricked into honesty or tricked into avoiding circumstances where they will face a polygraph its a win from the government's perspective.
Another prop could be police brutalitu, are you pro that too, or are your fascist tendencies limited to quack science?
but many people in the world need basic services like toilets a lot more than they need electronics.
You would be surprised. After the earthquake in Haiti one of the main problems ended up being setting up electronic infrastructure for all the other workers coming in rebuilding and treating victims. Everybody send doctors and construction workers, but it became a real mess when noone send computer experts to set up internet and cellphone infrastructure for the doctors, engineers, construction workers and not least thousands of journalists to use.