Ah, but your case is covered! A three-way marriage is three marriage contracts, each between two of the parties involved.
Anyway, the point was that the post to which I responded equated allowing gay marriage with allowing one person to define "marriage" in their head as "sleeping with someone" and then expecting it to be legally enforcable. Which is quite ridiculous. It's the "explicit and voluntary" part that I was trying to emphasize.
Uh... no. Reznor is pretty talented at a number of instruments, as are the other musicians he occasionally brings in to add to his studio work. Don't confuse industrial with electronic, and especially not with songs assembled entirely from short clips.
That is, quite frankly, a horrible example. Nobody's trying to say that marriage should be anything other than an explicit and voluntary contract between two people. All they want is to allow the people involved to be of the same gender. That doesn't diminish existing heterosexual marriages one bit.
Since network connections can and do fail with some frequency, any decent networking app should be able to detect and recover from a dropped connection.
I don't see how this is such a huge deal in Vista, anyway. It seems to work fine under XP, and you're going to be running most of the same apps for now...
That sounds odd to me. I could see why drivers would need to support it, but shouldn't the OS be able to basically "freeze" applications, write them to disk, and then start them up again when it comes back? The app would experience a continuous runtime, but the clock would suddenly jump forward. That shouldn't mess with most programs that badly.
And then it's only a matter of time until Tivo or something comes up with an image recognition system that will fuzz those ads out so they just become blurry spots in the image. Bad? Yes. But not as irritating as an advertisement. Some bittorrent downloads already do this to wipe out the network watermark in the corner of the image, and it's just a matter of time until it moves from a post-processing step to a real-time filter.
And despite all their hard work, 15 miles later when you pull off the highway, they're sitting all of 5 cars ahead of you at the exact same exit light. I always have to wonder if they realize that they're being complete assholes and not even getting there measurably sooner for it.
Also if you forsee needing to re-encode to different formats in the future. I like to rip my CD collection to lossless (FLAC in this case) because I can encode it to any other format any number of times, and not lose quality. Artifacts on a first-run lossy aren't bad, but artifacts on a file that's been encoded from one lossy format to another are, especially after several itterations.
To continue the thought above: I hope that developers look at the PS3 and see it for the giant money sink that it is, then take their teams and put them back on developing great games for the PS2. Think about it: the machine's powerful enough to get some great graphics out of it; instead of an install base of 300k, you have 100 million (plus all of the 300k as well); known tech means lower cost means more money to spend on art, story, gameplay testing, etc. Look at Shadow of The Colossus, FF12, God of War, etc. The console doesn't have to be over yet.
Two weekends ago, I bought a PS2, GH 1 and 2, Katamari, and several other games. Yeah, Guitar Hero had something to do with wanting it. I'm also hoping to get a Wii once they're readily available. I'd owned an Xbox for a while but got rid of it a year ago because I never used the thing.
I have to say that this was at least in part spurred by my realization that I never, never wanted to get a PS3. Too damn expensive, too much focus on flashy graphics rather than gameplay. I'm a big believer in the idea that the best games will come out once using the technical aspects of the console has become second nature, and gameplay is the only area left to explore. Why buy an expensive new console that will be teaming with rehashes of old games with shinier guns, when the PS2 just hit its peak?
It's really not an unreasonable assumption, if you aren't aware that they're just trying to scam you. That's what makes the "piracy tax" so despicable.
That was a selling point for the Xbox because that made it a damn cheap media pc. The PS3, on the other hand, costs more than a nice desktop, and certainly more than a media box that can sit next to your other multimedia hardware. The only attractive aspect of wedging an OS onto a console was the price, and Sony fucked that one up pretty good.
I find it hard to believe that wifi is more dangerous than the natural radiation emitted by the sun, or the man-made radiation of radio and television broadcasts that blanket our cities, or cell phone transmissions. Wifi has significantly less range than all of those. Wifi is just the latest thing that hyperactive soccer moms haven't gotten used to yet.
But most games will fizzle out after the first month or two, leaving you back to playing with yourself or constantly searching the servers hoping to find ANYONE to play with as opposed to when the game was recently released and you had your choice of opponents and could find others who you enjoyed playing with.
Exactly. Those games suck, and the only thing interesting about them is the fact that they're new. Once the novelty wears off, nobody cares about them. Anything actually worth your time will last longer than that.
And no, people who buy hardcover books aren't stupid. Neither are ones who buy a PS3 at retail price, if that's what they enjoy. The people I was making fun of are the ones who absolutely HAVE to buy a PS3 on Ebay for $1600 so they can take it home and brag about having a PS3 before anybody else, because they're certainly not going to be playing good games on it. Gaming is supposed to be about fun, not gloating that you paid 220% of retail price for something that, at present, won't do much more than a PS2 will.
Just last weekend I bought a PS2 for $120. I loaded up on games that had won Game Of The Year for $20 each from the "classics" section of Best Buy. Not only do I get many, many hours of top quality entertainment, but I get to laugh at jackasses who blow huge amounts of money on a system with maybe 2 good games. Summary: people are stupid.
The best feature I'd seen like that was about 6 months ago when next to each result in a Google search there was an "exclude results from this site" link. It was great for blocking out for-pay sites like Experts Exchange. Unfortunately, it went away and I have no idea how to make it show up again.
Arrow's Imposibility Theorem is needlessly strict, to the point that it doesn't come close to invalidating these methods for real world use. Things like cyclic preferential paradoxes actually CAN happen in real human logic. So while they sound neat to talk about, it doesn't change the fact that alternate forms are much, much better than our current voting system.
Our school's CprE curriculum has senior design projects, but the CS department is very focused on the theory side of things, to the point that they "look down on" real-world skill classes. Pretty disturbing. But there are some decent labs where you can work to get similar experience.
I'm a big fan of this. We had essentially what you describe at my college, in the form of a Game Development Class run by a teacher in the design college. At the beginning of the semester people pitched projects that they thought would be interesting, the group voted on 2 or 3 to move forward with, and students joined the one they were interested in. Design, development, coding, art, all were created from scratch. We had to go through and decide what external libraries to use, how to manage our codebase, etc. The end goal was to submit the project to the GDC student competition, as well as demo to the class.
Not only was it the most fun I had in any class ever, but it was a great learning experience. Getting to work on the same codebase as 5 other programmers for a full semester is an experience that was very much missing in all the "core" classes. It really drives home the importance of APIs and modular design, as well as teaching you some interesting things about working with other people. I highly recommend the same type of approach to anyone in school who wants a taste of the real world.
It's really too bad our society is moving away from the free-enterprise capitalism market that made the US so great so quickly and moving towards a feel-good socialistic system.
Um... we've been getting steadily less socialist since the mid-70s. We're much more of a free market now than we were in 1960.
It's so true. Every day I am amazed by the spew of random words that passes for written communication in my office. These are people who are older than me, and in many respects smarter as well. I get the feeling that they think it's faster not to use proper grammar, which I just don't understand. If you learned anything in school, or spend any free time reading, you should pick up enough that proper grammar will come naturally a large part of the time. Maybe there's something wrong with their thought processes in that they don't bother to compose their thoughts before they start setting them down.
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Ah, but your case is covered! A three-way marriage is three marriage contracts, each between two of the parties involved.
Anyway, the point was that the post to which I responded equated allowing gay marriage with allowing one person to define "marriage" in their head as "sleeping with someone" and then expecting it to be legally enforcable. Which is quite ridiculous. It's the "explicit and voluntary" part that I was trying to emphasize.
Uh... no. Reznor is pretty talented at a number of instruments, as are the other musicians he occasionally brings in to add to his studio work. Don't confuse industrial with electronic, and especially not with songs assembled entirely from short clips.
That is, quite frankly, a horrible example. Nobody's trying to say that marriage should be anything other than an explicit and voluntary contract between two people. All they want is to allow the people involved to be of the same gender. That doesn't diminish existing heterosexual marriages one bit.
Since network connections can and do fail with some frequency, any decent networking app should be able to detect and recover from a dropped connection.
I don't see how this is such a huge deal in Vista, anyway. It seems to work fine under XP, and you're going to be running most of the same apps for now...
That sounds odd to me. I could see why drivers would need to support it, but shouldn't the OS be able to basically "freeze" applications, write them to disk, and then start them up again when it comes back? The app would experience a continuous runtime, but the clock would suddenly jump forward. That shouldn't mess with most programs that badly.
And then it's only a matter of time until Tivo or something comes up with an image recognition system that will fuzz those ads out so they just become blurry spots in the image. Bad? Yes. But not as irritating as an advertisement. Some bittorrent downloads already do this to wipe out the network watermark in the corner of the image, and it's just a matter of time until it moves from a post-processing step to a real-time filter.
And despite all their hard work, 15 miles later when you pull off the highway, they're sitting all of 5 cars ahead of you at the exact same exit light. I always have to wonder if they realize that they're being complete assholes and not even getting there measurably sooner for it.
Also if you forsee needing to re-encode to different formats in the future. I like to rip my CD collection to lossless (FLAC in this case) because I can encode it to any other format any number of times, and not lose quality. Artifacts on a first-run lossy aren't bad, but artifacts on a file that's been encoded from one lossy format to another are, especially after several itterations.
Gah... hit post too early.
To continue the thought above: I hope that developers look at the PS3 and see it for the giant money sink that it is, then take their teams and put them back on developing great games for the PS2. Think about it: the machine's powerful enough to get some great graphics out of it; instead of an install base of 300k, you have 100 million (plus all of the 300k as well); known tech means lower cost means more money to spend on art, story, gameplay testing, etc. Look at Shadow of The Colossus, FF12, God of War, etc. The console doesn't have to be over yet.
Two weekends ago, I bought a PS2, GH 1 and 2, Katamari, and several other games. Yeah, Guitar Hero had something to do with wanting it. I'm also hoping to get a Wii once they're readily available. I'd owned an Xbox for a while but got rid of it a year ago because I never used the thing.
I have to say that this was at least in part spurred by my realization that I never, never wanted to get a PS3. Too damn expensive, too much focus on flashy graphics rather than gameplay. I'm a big believer in the idea that the best games will come out once using the technical aspects of the console has become second nature, and gameplay is the only area left to explore. Why buy an expensive new console that will be teaming with rehashes of old games with shinier guns, when the PS2 just hit its peak?
It's really not an unreasonable assumption, if you aren't aware that they're just trying to scam you. That's what makes the "piracy tax" so despicable.
So does the US. You didn't think "Music CD-R Discs" were more expensive because they were physically different from data discs, did you?
That was a selling point for the Xbox because that made it a damn cheap media pc. The PS3, on the other hand, costs more than a nice desktop, and certainly more than a media box that can sit next to your other multimedia hardware. The only attractive aspect of wedging an OS onto a console was the price, and Sony fucked that one up pretty good.
I'd be more worried about the fascism that's springing up at home as a reaction to the "overseas threat"...
I find it hard to believe that wifi is more dangerous than the natural radiation emitted by the sun, or the man-made radiation of radio and television broadcasts that blanket our cities, or cell phone transmissions. Wifi has significantly less range than all of those. Wifi is just the latest thing that hyperactive soccer moms haven't gotten used to yet.
And no, people who buy hardcover books aren't stupid. Neither are ones who buy a PS3 at retail price, if that's what they enjoy. The people I was making fun of are the ones who absolutely HAVE to buy a PS3 on Ebay for $1600 so they can take it home and brag about having a PS3 before anybody else, because they're certainly not going to be playing good games on it. Gaming is supposed to be about fun, not gloating that you paid 220% of retail price for something that, at present, won't do much more than a PS2 will.
Just last weekend I bought a PS2 for $120. I loaded up on games that had won Game Of The Year for $20 each from the "classics" section of Best Buy. Not only do I get many, many hours of top quality entertainment, but I get to laugh at jackasses who blow huge amounts of money on a system with maybe 2 good games. Summary: people are stupid.
The article mentions that replacing stop lights with roundabouts allows the natural flow to take over, as opposed to external regulation.
The best feature I'd seen like that was about 6 months ago when next to each result in a Google search there was an "exclude results from this site" link. It was great for blocking out for-pay sites like Experts Exchange. Unfortunately, it went away and I have no idea how to make it show up again.
Arrow's Imposibility Theorem is needlessly strict, to the point that it doesn't come close to invalidating these methods for real world use. Things like cyclic preferential paradoxes actually CAN happen in real human logic. So while they sound neat to talk about, it doesn't change the fact that alternate forms are much, much better than our current voting system.
I've never really bought that distinction. If the free market leads to monopolies, isn't that just how capitalism works?
Our school's CprE curriculum has senior design projects, but the CS department is very focused on the theory side of things, to the point that they "look down on" real-world skill classes. Pretty disturbing. But there are some decent labs where you can work to get similar experience.
I'm a big fan of this. We had essentially what you describe at my college, in the form of a Game Development Class run by a teacher in the design college. At the beginning of the semester people pitched projects that they thought would be interesting, the group voted on 2 or 3 to move forward with, and students joined the one they were interested in. Design, development, coding, art, all were created from scratch. We had to go through and decide what external libraries to use, how to manage our codebase, etc. The end goal was to submit the project to the GDC student competition, as well as demo to the class.
Not only was it the most fun I had in any class ever, but it was a great learning experience. Getting to work on the same codebase as 5 other programmers for a full semester is an experience that was very much missing in all the "core" classes. It really drives home the importance of APIs and modular design, as well as teaching you some interesting things about working with other people. I highly recommend the same type of approach to anyone in school who wants a taste of the real world.
It's so true. Every day I am amazed by the spew of random words that passes for written communication in my office. These are people who are older than me, and in many respects smarter as well. I get the feeling that they think it's faster not to use proper grammar, which I just don't understand. If you learned anything in school, or spend any free time reading, you should pick up enough that proper grammar will come naturally a large part of the time. Maybe there's something wrong with their thought processes in that they don't bother to compose their thoughts before they start setting them down.