That's an interesting link, but awfully biased. I read a politician that doesn't want to play politics anymore, idolizes Bill Clinton, and wants to introduce taxes on energy. OF COURSE he lost. The rest may as well be flying pigs, but it surely makes a handy scapegoat.
Soldiers carry out the missions YOU as the public chose for them (by casting votes on election day). So don't ever be so short sighted as to blame the horrible shitty messes soldiers are put into by other, third parties, on the soldiers themselves.
Science Fiction is great entertainment but the televised version of it has certainly spoiled current generations. People on forums ask how much does it cost to build USS Enterprise and if stargates are real. It's no surprise then that an educational game from NASA that is close to reality seems boring. I guess we should praise the people that produced these shows and movies that made them believable, but in the long run they hurt real science.
First of all, stargates should be real, and the fact that we don't yet understand how to do something similar to them is a deficit. Imagining a world where we'll never ever attain such technology is shortsighted to the point of being just plain stupid. Do remember that there was a time that the scientists told us the world was flat, the earth follows a tetrahedral pattern, that you can map a person's brain by their skull shape, and that we descended from Neanderthals. Simply because it isn't yet supported by our limited and weak understanding of the universe, doesn't mean we need to start labeling everyone as idiots. Could you imagine where we'd be if da Vinci had shared your scorn?
Sorry, but elitist attitudes like this one do more to harm education than any science fiction author ever has.
At any rate, games are supposed to be fun, are they not? Usually, typically imagination and fun go hand in hand.
All rights are natural rights, given to us by virtue of being created. We agree to suspend certain exercises of rights for the benefit of society, but we could upend that agreement at any time. Government exists because we wish it to, not the other way around.
These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Pay only, no benefits?? Who does a valuation of a job like that?
Except if it's inspected and passed, the contractor and inspector can probably be held liable as well.
I highly doubt it. Especially since we don't know why it happened or even whether or not 'unlicensed' even had any bearing on it. E.g. if someone backed into it with a truck, the whole thing would be irrelevant.
You know, you could just not plug the game console into network. There is no reason why a break room and especially team-building games need an internet connection.
This. Or, just put it on the public wireless. You know, the one for visitors that is in no way connected to your corporate network? You DO have public wireless, right??
I'm betting it is the same thing here. It isn't that SC2 is "killing" their card, it is that their card has problem and SC2 is one of the things that can reveal that. There are probably others too.
So if your system is crashing in SC2 disable any overclocking, make sure you've got good ventilation (which may mean a new case) and make sure you have a PSU that supports your graphics card, including providing dedicate PCIe power connectors sufficient for it. Don't blame the software for revealing a flaw in your system.
I guess we can all be glad you don't work for Blizzard. Here's what the pro's said:
Screens that are light on detail may make your system overheat if cooling is overall insufficient. This is because the game has nothing to do so it is primarily just working on drawing the screen very quickly. A temporary workaround is to go to your Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt file and add these lines:
frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60
You may replace these numbers if you want to.
Note how this is kind of the same thing, but Blizzard's solution has some actual tact behind it...
Whatever a CPU or GPU is rated to for speed is not a temporary max, it is what it can run at full time. If there is a failure, it indicates a defect of some kind somewhere.
That's a wonderful world to live in, but it isn't exactly the real world. The chief advantage of the real world over the one you describe is that stuff here is a lot cheaper. This world has laptops that aren't necessarily 'toughbooks' and commodity hardware that is often imperfect, but 'good enough' for most uses until it becomes obsolete and you replace it anyway. None of the stuff bought in the here and now will handle running full-bore for very long unless you paid an exorbitant amount for it.
If the job is worth a fixed amount, it should be worth that amount everywhere.
You failed to say 'why' and this is absolutely a non-obvious statement. Imagine you're buying strawberries off of the side of the road, adjacent to the farm where they were grown. Now imagine those same strawberries being sold to you on the international space station. Still 'worth that same amount everywhere'? If not with commodities, like food, then why with labor?
The baseline pay rate should never be lowered. It should only be increased for areas of higher cost of living.
Okay... then all you need do is imagine that the lowest rate is the base, and all the others are the increased rate. Logical gap resolved. Free of charge, this time...
Only one more nit to pick:
They had given me the wrong address. Well, according to them it was right. The "correct" place to go was next door.
...
I had a strict schedule for 4 days on the road. Three hours of fucking around with a call center in India was not acceptable. Rather than being done at 11pm, I wasn't finished until 2am. I had a 3 hour drive ahead of me to get to the next site, which didn't happen on time.
There's very little about the call center being in India that lends to your situation. Don't be so bigoted. If they were Americans with the wrong address and in another location you still would have experienced what happens when you don't buffer your travel schedule.
If you have to infringe because the legitimate publisher doesn't want to take your money, then copyright is failing "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
True, but for better or worse, copyright is a property right, too. The publisher has the right to refuse sale to anyone, largely speaking. This wouldn't obviate their other rights, however.
in addition to Bush's idiotic 700 billion banker bailout
Strangely, I never heard a word out of any of these people when Bush was running up huge deficits... their voices only became so massively amplified when a Democrat walked in to the Oval Office.
I wonder why that is?
Multiple reasons, actually:
1) You're mis-attributing the amplification. Google 'Ron Paul' for more detail.
2) The 'Tea Party movement' was taken over/infiltrated/adopted by 'big tent' Republicans after McCain lost.
3) Obama will have presided over one of the worst presidential terms in recent history, and may not have been able to 'do things right' even if he weren't a big-spending, Chicago-style-deal-making Liberal. Which, unfortunately, he is.
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Uh, can we perhaps find a balance between butter knives and embezzlement?
Well, we could, except:
There isn't any leeway...
Seems you missed that part.
Humans and monkeys both display two traits: A) Relativity and B) Loss Aversion
Relativity was a known. Slippery slopes work in this way. Changes are usually only compared to the immediate past, rather than on the whole.
Loss Aversion seems natural, too. We take bigger risks when losses are involved than we do gains.
So in the end it isn't necessarily noteworthy that these phenomena exist, rather that both species display the traits of them.
That's an interesting link, but awfully biased. I read a politician that doesn't want to play politics anymore, idolizes Bill Clinton, and wants to introduce taxes on energy. OF COURSE he lost. The rest may as well be flying pigs, but it surely makes a handy scapegoat.
'Torchlight == Diablo' as 'WoW == Everquest' as 'Warcraft == Starcraft' as 'Doom == Quake'.
Genres happen.
Most laptops still have just Intel graphics, which are complete shit at 3D gaming.
This. Their GMA chipset is colloquially known as 'Graphics My Ass'...
However, buyer beware, both Nvidia and AMD release the same crappy type of chips. Your best friend is notebookcheck.com...
It's a great game, but I grow weary of the recent trend where every franchise must have an annual release.
I know! I got sick of buying a new version of DNF year in and year out, and that's why I bought a console...
Well, that would be my point, wouldn't it? Soldiers are citizens and share an equal responsibility, rather than a lesser one.
Soldiers carry out the missions YOU as the public chose for them (by casting votes on election day). So don't ever be so short sighted as to blame the horrible shitty messes soldiers are put into by other, third parties, on the soldiers themselves.
Soldiers aren't responsible, but voters are, yes?
Can soldiers not vote?
Science Fiction is great entertainment but the televised version of it has certainly spoiled current generations. People on forums ask how much does it cost to build USS Enterprise and if stargates are real. It's no surprise then that an educational game from NASA that is close to reality seems boring. I guess we should praise the people that produced these shows and movies that made them believable, but in the long run they hurt real science.
First of all, stargates should be real, and the fact that we don't yet understand how to do something similar to them is a deficit. Imagining a world where we'll never ever attain such technology is shortsighted to the point of being just plain stupid. Do remember that there was a time that the scientists told us the world was flat, the earth follows a tetrahedral pattern, that you can map a person's brain by their skull shape, and that we descended from Neanderthals. Simply because it isn't yet supported by our limited and weak understanding of the universe, doesn't mean we need to start labeling everyone as idiots. Could you imagine where we'd be if da Vinci had shared your scorn?
Sorry, but elitist attitudes like this one do more to harm education than any science fiction author ever has.
At any rate, games are supposed to be fun, are they not? Usually, typically imagination and fun go hand in hand.
I don't think I'd like your police/traffic court.
Traffic laws are bad enough with out the system making them up as they see fit.
Not only do I agree with you, but I doubt the story as being true for this simple fact:
If the speed was posted, and he broke it, he gets a ticket. The end..
Getting the limit changed may well involve mailboxes, but surely not the determination of guilt or innocence in traffic court...
Even an above-ground pool?
All rights are natural rights, given to us by virtue of being created. We agree to suspend certain exercises of rights for the benefit of society, but we could upend that agreement at any time. Government exists because we wish it to, not the other way around.
HOLY HELL!!
These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Pay only, no benefits?? Who does a valuation of a job like that?
As in "the person with the truck would have to pay for the damages", or were you going someplace else with that?
Cute. As in "the truck would have wrecked both a licensed and an unlicensed pool with equal abandon."
Except if it's inspected and passed, the contractor and inspector can probably be held liable as well.
I highly doubt it. Especially since we don't know why it happened or even whether or not 'unlicensed' even had any bearing on it. E.g. if someone backed into it with a truck, the whole thing would be irrelevant.
You know, you could just not plug the game console into network. There is no reason why a break room and especially team-building games need an internet connection.
This. Or, just put it on the public wireless. You know, the one for visitors that is in no way connected to your corporate network? You DO have public wireless, right??
I'm betting it is the same thing here. It isn't that SC2 is "killing" their card, it is that their card has problem and SC2 is one of the things that can reveal that. There are probably others too.
So if your system is crashing in SC2 disable any overclocking, make sure you've got good ventilation (which may mean a new case) and make sure you have a PSU that supports your graphics card, including providing dedicate PCIe power connectors sufficient for it. Don't blame the software for revealing a flaw in your system.
I guess we can all be glad you don't work for Blizzard. Here's what the pro's said:
Screens that are light on detail may make your system overheat if cooling is overall insufficient. This is because the game has nothing to do so it is primarily just working on drawing the screen very quickly. A temporary workaround is to go to your Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt file and add these lines:
frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60
You may replace these numbers if you want to.
Note how this is kind of the same thing, but Blizzard's solution has some actual tact behind it...
Whatever a CPU or GPU is rated to for speed is not a temporary max, it is what it can run at full time. If there is a failure, it indicates a defect of some kind somewhere.
That's a wonderful world to live in, but it isn't exactly the real world. The chief advantage of the real world over the one you describe is that stuff here is a lot cheaper. This world has laptops that aren't necessarily 'toughbooks' and commodity hardware that is often imperfect, but 'good enough' for most uses until it becomes obsolete and you replace it anyway. None of the stuff bought in the here and now will handle running full-bore for very long unless you paid an exorbitant amount for it.
If the job is worth a fixed amount, it should be worth that amount everywhere.
You failed to say 'why' and this is absolutely a non-obvious statement. Imagine you're buying strawberries off of the side of the road, adjacent to the farm where they were grown. Now imagine those same strawberries being sold to you on the international space station. Still 'worth that same amount everywhere'? If not with commodities, like food, then why with labor?
The baseline pay rate should never be lowered. It should only be increased for areas of higher cost of living.
Okay... then all you need do is imagine that the lowest rate is the base, and all the others are the increased rate. Logical gap resolved. Free of charge, this time...
Only one more nit to pick:
They had given me the wrong address. Well, according to them it was right. The "correct" place to go was next door.
...
I had a strict schedule for 4 days on the road. Three hours of fucking around with a call center in India was not acceptable. Rather than being done at 11pm, I wasn't finished until 2am. I had a 3 hour drive ahead of me to get to the next site, which didn't happen on time.
There's very little about the call center being in India that lends to your situation. Don't be so bigoted. If they were Americans with the wrong address and in another location you still would have experienced what happens when you don't buffer your travel schedule.
I do, however, agree on the language point.
I think the essential element you're missing is that Andriod's DRM is only an option. Otherwise you'd be right.
If you have to infringe because the legitimate publisher doesn't want to take your money, then copyright is failing "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
True, but for better or worse, copyright is a property right, too. The publisher has the right to refuse sale to anyone, largely speaking. This wouldn't obviate their other rights, however.
Epic comment. Well done sir, well done.
Wouldn't 'Free' include enough liberty to elect to use proprietary software?
So what are you doing to privatize your municipal streets, water, fire, and police?
This example is rather tired. Have you ever heard of a toll road, a drive way, a parking garage? Volunteer Fire Department? Security Guard?
Yes a municipality CAN provide these things, but they also frequently exist outside of government as well.
in addition to Bush's idiotic 700 billion banker bailout
Strangely, I never heard a word out of any of these people when Bush was running up huge deficits... their voices only became so massively amplified when a Democrat walked in to the Oval Office.
I wonder why that is?
Multiple reasons, actually:
1) You're mis-attributing the amplification. Google 'Ron Paul' for more detail.
2) The 'Tea Party movement' was taken over/infiltrated/adopted by 'big tent' Republicans after McCain lost.
3) Obama will have presided over one of the worst presidential terms in recent history, and may not have been able to 'do things right' even if he weren't a big-spending, Chicago-style-deal-making Liberal. Which, unfortunately, he is.