The separatists still had no motive to shoot down a civilian airliner.
But we know they had no idea it was civilian plane - they were cheering destruction of military airplane on Twitter for some time, before realizing it was civilian.
And if the Kiev authorities are directing civilian aircraft to fly over an active war zone they are still to blame, whoever actually pulled the trigger. (That is to say if they did. It might have been a pilot error.)
This is interesting thing to see. Have they been forced on this path by Ukraine air control? Or have they asked Ukraine for permission due to weather conditions (for example) and Ukraine just allowed? And according to latest developments it looks like BUK they got from Ukraine was indeed non functioning and one which was used was fresh import from Russia, so Ukraine (or at least civilian air control) could as well had no idea about capability to destroy high-flying targets.
Who knows, maybe it will even turn out that somebody in Ukraine has pushed this plane into dangerous territory hoping for trigger happy separatists. It would be quite bad and there will be political backlash - but still, people pulling the trigger are the ones which are truly responsible.
Separatist have motive - they are trying to shoot Ukrainian military planes. They have means - they were showing BUK launchers themselves, Ukraine later said that they won't be able to operate them, but might have been wrong, especially given technical support from next country. They had means and motive. And no clue this is rerouted civilian plane, because despite having enough capability to fire BUK (few people with neccessary skills), they weren't up to date on flightwatch... and decided to not ask on radio first.
So, in certain sense it is an accident. Same kind of accident as when sniper tries to kill person A, but person B moves in the way at last second. Sniper is still at fault, even if he had no motive to kill person B.
I started to enjoy it again since I started using xtend (http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/). I suppose that same holds true for people switching to Scala/Kotlin. Basically, you get expresiveness/tersity of python (often even better/more readable), while preserving performance (sub-second executions aside) and all the library support. Java-the-language might be going direction of COBOL, java-the-platform can be still enjoyable.
No, because animals do not control fire. But there are animals which warm/freeze/ferment/marinate/flavor/wash their food (not all done by same type animal of course). But cooking as in 'having control over 200+C heat source' - no.
No, because vaccines have no relation to autism. IF there would be a: - vaccines contain X amount of lead - X amount of lead causes autism AND there would be a correlation between vaccines and autism, I would happily say 'vaccines cause autism', instead of saying 'it is just lead which causes autism, fact that vaccines contain lead is irrelevant, because injecting pure lead would also cause autism'
People from certain racial minorities have lower IQ. It is caused by social inequality, not genetics ('lead', not 'weak patogens' in false vaccine example), but let's not get PR into our statements.
Of course, EVEN if there would be genetic relation by few percent, it would not give anybody right to dismiss specific person just based on that. We are talking about averages and very small differences. But if we are allowing people to discriminate by saying 'your are from poor family, so you are probably stupid', we should allow as well discriminating by 'your skin is blue, blues are generally poor, so you are probably stupid'. If we are not allowing to discriminate based on 'probably stupid' because every human is different etc, then it doesn't matter if it is race related or socioeconomic related guess.
Hmm. So; - people of race X are more likely to come from poor background on average - people coming from poor backgrounds have less IQ on average is ok, but saying: - people of race X have less IQ on average is already contrafactual. So, in same way: - 1/3 of cars of brand X have ignition locks of type Y, as opposed to 1/10 of other car manufacturers - ignition locks of type Y are more prone to getting car on fire will be ok, but saying: - cars of brand X are more prone to get on fire will be already wrong?
Car analogy ticked off. Let's try Nazis: - most SS officers in WW2 were German - most killings in death camps were done by SS officers does not imply - most killings in death camps during WW2 were done by Germans because no Germans who were not SS officers have done any killing, so correlation is purely between SS and killings?
Ok, two analogies ticked. To reassume - you let your political correctness cloud your logic. A->B->C implies A->C. Fact that A doesn't cause C _directly_ doesn't mean it does not imply it. You can split any problem into substeps. I throw rock at window, it flies in the air, it breaks the window, it is air/rock fault window got broken, not mine...
There is plenty of alternatives for Android development outside of java. Scala, Clojure, Xtend, Kotlin. They are all decent languages, probably even nicer than Go.
"It's estimated that freshwater fishes make up more than 6% of the world's annual animal protein supplies for humans - and the major and often only source of animal protein for low income families across Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.
This comes from the Fine Article - where does your data come from?
http://www.thefishsite.com/art... Total protein consumption per capita is 78g. Total fish consumption is around 5.5g which gives around 7%. This is for both marine and inland. Then, looking at http://www.greenfacts.org/en/f... we can get around 41:102 ration between inland:marine, which would mean around 2% of total protein comes from freshwater fish and 5% from marine.
Now it is your turn to provide some sources outside FA proving 6% for freshwater fish. Articles I have quoted above are from 5-10 years ago - maybe, in meantime, freshwater fish consumption increased by 200%...
Will they add small robots and funny looking animals in background later? I don't think that even cleaned version represents artistic vision of landing they had in mind.
Decapitatiting mosquitoes is hardly going to affect the parasite, which is the thing getting irradiated and possibly mutated. Closed labolatry doesn't really matter, because they are then going to inject irratiated parasites as vaccine. Key part here is probably amount of radiation - way beyond "let's damage few DNA strands" and more into "why your blood is glowing at night". It is probably strong enough that there is no way any mutation can survive it.
I'm quite scared by that. You first irradiate them, causing huge amount of genetic mutations. Then you change the environment, killing weakest mutants and let the best live on. Isn't it a recipe for eventually creating super-bug?
I liked Terry Pratchett version more. It was about reign - when king dies, his successor becomes a king immediately. Idea of modulating the waves by torturing kings at near-death state was also mentioned.
How difficult is it to drop a rock? Easy. Can you please drop a rock from 50km high? After all, dropping a rock is not different if it is 1m or 50km high.
They need to entangle both sides of the communication from single place and this is quite hard longer the distance. Moving it afterwards is also quite difficult, it is not a small, robust device you can carry in your pocket.
Trying to put it in concise list, TFA is bit too verbose. Short version - it is a real DK1 killer, too bad DK2 is already out there...
Comparing to DK2 (prototype versus prototype, so don't jump with 'it will get fixed in final version'):
- horizontal FOV 90 deg (instead of 100) ? no data about vertical FOV + better perceived pixel density (because of lower FOV) - blurry, high-persistence LED screen - 60Hz instead of 75 Hz (but high-persistence anyway is a killer here) - no mention of any advanced techniques like time warp + headband with tracking leds, which allows proper tracking even when you look behind + reported to be more friendly for people with prescription glasses + considerably better looking + headphones included - with jack input INSIDE the visor ! = PS4 versus PC ? no exact data regarding tracking quality, seems to be lacking magnetometer compared to DK2, not sure if it makes a difference + utilizing PS Move and PS controllers fully, has some concept for VR interaction besides 'up to game designers'
If Oculus will 'borrow' idea of tracking headband and Morpheus will get low-persistence OLED display, we will have very close match here for consumer version...
Yes, they are. You can complain only if protests are forbidden routinely regardless of request for authorization - but it is not happening, absolute majority of protests is allowed. Rules for registration make perfect sense - quite often, you have two antagonist groups protesting (pro-gay and ultra-right-wing for example) on same day in same city. Thanks to authorization, city can make sure they will remain separate and put extra police in places they might meet.
Now, in some imaginary Europe where you would need to ask for permission to protest and it would be routinely denied, it could be a problem. But it is not a case. And police is not pepper-spraying people just for fun, like in some countries where you don't need to ask for permission to protest...
Hmm, let's look at gas prices (which are one of the basic indicators of US lifestyle and affect cost of most things) http://www.randomuseless.info/... Year 2000 - 1.4-1.6 Year 2014 - 3.80 Factor of 2.4-2.7
There were just two first things I have checked out of 'americal lifestyle' pseudo-basket. Then we have cable tv prices, as described in original post with factor of around 1.6. CPI suggests difference of 1.34 between year 2000 and 2014. Shadow stats suggest around 2.26 as you say. Probably one of only importnat things which are following CPI data over this time period are apartment rental prices and this is just because of 2008 crash.
I will agree with you that shadowstats is reporting too high inflation index - they are not trying to provide real numbers, rather to show the difference in creative accounting after 1980. But do you really think that CPI is valid measurement of what is happening? Why almost every report is complaining that XYZ is raising faster than CPI?
It is funny that when people observe that almost everything raise faster that inflation, they blame all these providers/producers separately, instead of question reported inflation in first place. http://www.shadowstats.com/alt... If you look at shadowstats, last year inflation was around 5-%... as observed on cable service prices.
So real question should be not why cable service prices are rising so sharply, but rather, why CPI cheats? Answers are probably going to be more interesting that "rising cost of equipment"
Half million year picture is not a good graph to show - in it, CO2 follows temperature changes, not predates it. It will just give fuel to deniers. You need to pick data carefully if you want to make your point. Maybe just replace labels - nobody in schools will notice and you will get your point through?
Except is has nothing to do with java-the-language. It is about java-the-platform (runtime + libraries, mostly libraries in this particular case). You are calling to kill Clojure and Scala as well, just because you don't like java-the-language?
Most of them support OpenGL (or OpenES) for different platforms. Still, all of them went to considerable effort of using DirectX on windows, instead of simplifying their stack.
To be honest, I have lost the track of argument here. My main point was to refute the point that 'writing a game engine' is a serious activity, as opposed to very definition of hobby project, due to all 'serious' companies licensing base engines. Somehow I painted myself into corner of DirectX versus OpenGL on windows debate, while nobody was probably claiming that opengl is a valid alternative for real game development on windows - at least not on this subthread.
I had the same thing with cave diving. I tried it - by driving towards closest diving site, but after 2 hours I gave up on the idea - how people can claim that sitting in traffic jam on the exit road for few hour is 'thrilling'. So, based on my experience with cave diving I announce it boring and not really dangerous, unless you are afraid of normal road traffic. And BTW, why do you need a scuba suit for that in first place?
No, writing game engines is not serious. Writing games is. Serious developers just license one of the existing engines and extend from that. So real question is not what low-level API is easier to code against, but what technology main stacks are running on. Speaking for windows world (obviously some of them have opengl/openes ports for linux and android, question is what they chose if there is a choice)
UE4 - DirectX Cryengine - DirectX Gamebryo - DirectX Unity - both DirectX/OpenGL ? Frostbite - DirectX id Tech 5 - Opengl - and guess what, dead and sueing Oculus Rift to get some money
Any major players I have missed? With exception of Unity, every successful game engine out there have chosen DirectX for windows.
There is a huge difference. In case of broker you give him some information in trust and he has a legal obligation to not misuse this information against you. In case of HFT, people are observing you and using their observations against you. It is like a doctor or lawyer confidentiality. There is a huge difference between people doing some things based on fact that you have visited doctor (even if it is abortion clinic) and doctor himself publishing/using your private medical details for his own benefits. In former case, it is what they do which determines if it is legal. In latter case, breach of trust is already a killer, with possible illegal activity afterward just adding to that.
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The separatists still had no motive to shoot down a civilian airliner.
But we know they had no idea it was civilian plane - they were cheering destruction of military airplane on Twitter for some time, before realizing it was civilian.
And if the Kiev authorities are directing civilian aircraft to fly over an active war zone they are still to blame, whoever actually pulled the trigger.
(That is to say if they did. It might have been a pilot error.)
This is interesting thing to see. Have they been forced on this path by Ukraine air control? Or have they asked Ukraine for permission due to weather conditions (for example) and Ukraine just allowed? And according to latest developments it looks like BUK they got from Ukraine was indeed non functioning and one which was used was fresh import from Russia, so Ukraine (or at least civilian air control) could as well had no idea about capability to destroy high-flying targets.
Who knows, maybe it will even turn out that somebody in Ukraine has pushed this plane into dangerous territory hoping for trigger happy separatists. It would be quite bad and there will be political backlash - but still, people pulling the trigger are the ones which are truly responsible.
Separatist have motive - they are trying to shoot Ukrainian military planes. They have means - they were showing BUK launchers themselves, Ukraine later said that they won't be able to operate them, but might have been wrong, especially given technical support from next country.
They had means and motive. And no clue this is rerouted civilian plane, because despite having enough capability to fire BUK (few people with neccessary skills), they weren't up to date on flightwatch... and decided to not ask on radio first.
So, in certain sense it is an accident. Same kind of accident as when sniper tries to kill person A, but person B moves in the way at last second. Sniper is still at fault, even if he had no motive to kill person B.
I started to enjoy it again since I started using xtend (http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/). I suppose that same holds true for people switching to Scala/Kotlin.
Basically, you get expresiveness/tersity of python (often even better/more readable), while preserving performance (sub-second executions aside) and all the library support. Java-the-language might be going direction of COBOL, java-the-platform can be still enjoyable.
No, because animals do not control fire. But there are animals which warm/freeze/ferment/marinate/flavor/wash their food (not all done by same type animal of course). But cooking as in 'having control over 200+C heat source' - no.
No, because vaccines have no relation to autism.
IF there would be a:
- vaccines contain X amount of lead
- X amount of lead causes autism
AND there would be a correlation between vaccines and autism, I would happily say 'vaccines cause autism', instead of saying 'it is just lead which causes autism, fact that vaccines contain lead is irrelevant, because injecting pure lead would also cause autism'
People from certain racial minorities have lower IQ. It is caused by social inequality, not genetics ('lead', not 'weak patogens' in false vaccine example), but let's not get PR into our statements.
Of course, EVEN if there would be genetic relation by few percent, it would not give anybody right to dismiss specific person just based on that. We are talking about averages and very small differences. But if we are allowing people to discriminate by saying 'your are from poor family, so you are probably stupid', we should allow as well discriminating by 'your skin is blue, blues are generally poor, so you are probably stupid'. If we are not allowing to discriminate based on 'probably stupid' because every human is different etc, then it doesn't matter if it is race related or socioeconomic related guess.
Hmm. So;
- people of race X are more likely to come from poor background on average
- people coming from poor backgrounds have less IQ on average
is ok, but saying:
- people of race X have less IQ on average
is already contrafactual. So, in same way:
- 1/3 of cars of brand X have ignition locks of type Y, as opposed to 1/10 of other car manufacturers
- ignition locks of type Y are more prone to getting car on fire
will be ok, but saying:
- cars of brand X are more prone to get on fire
will be already wrong?
Car analogy ticked off. Let's try Nazis:
- most SS officers in WW2 were German
- most killings in death camps were done by SS officers
does not imply
- most killings in death camps during WW2 were done by Germans
because no Germans who were not SS officers have done any killing, so correlation is purely between SS and killings?
Ok, two analogies ticked. To reassume - you let your political correctness cloud your logic. A->B->C implies A->C. Fact that A doesn't cause C _directly_ doesn't mean it does not imply it. You can split any problem into substeps. I throw rock at window, it flies in the air, it breaks the window, it is air/rock fault window got broken, not mine...
There is plenty of alternatives for Android development outside of java. Scala, Clojure, Xtend, Kotlin. They are all decent languages, probably even nicer than Go.
"It's estimated that freshwater fishes make up more than 6% of the world's annual animal protein supplies for humans - and the major and often only source of animal protein for low income families across Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.
This comes from the Fine Article - where does your data come from?
http://www.thefishsite.com/art...
Total protein consumption per capita is 78g. Total fish consumption is around 5.5g which gives around 7%. This is for both marine and inland. Then, looking at
http://www.greenfacts.org/en/f...
we can get around 41:102 ration between inland:marine, which would mean around 2% of total protein comes from freshwater fish and 5% from marine.
Now it is your turn to provide some sources outside FA proving 6% for freshwater fish. Articles I have quoted above are from 5-10 years ago - maybe, in meantime, freshwater fish consumption increased by 200%...
Will they add small robots and funny looking animals in background later? I don't think that even cleaned version represents artistic vision of landing they had in mind.
Decapitatiting mosquitoes is hardly going to affect the parasite, which is the thing getting irradiated and possibly mutated. Closed labolatry doesn't really matter, because they are then going to inject irratiated parasites as vaccine.
Key part here is probably amount of radiation - way beyond "let's damage few DNA strands" and more into "why your blood is glowing at night". It is probably strong enough that there is no way any mutation can survive it.
I'm quite scared by that. You first irradiate them, causing huge amount of genetic mutations. Then you change the environment, killing weakest mutants and let the best live on.
Isn't it a recipe for eventually creating super-bug?
I liked Terry Pratchett version more. It was about reign - when king dies, his successor becomes a king immediately. Idea of modulating the waves by torturing kings at near-death state was also mentioned.
How difficult is it to drop a rock? Easy. Can you please drop a rock from 50km high? After all, dropping a rock is not different if it is 1m or 50km high.
They need to entangle both sides of the communication from single place and this is quite hard longer the distance. Moving it afterwards is also quite difficult, it is not a small, robust device you can carry in your pocket.
Trying to put it in concise list, TFA is bit too verbose. Short version - it is a real DK1 killer, too bad DK2 is already out there...
Comparing to DK2 (prototype versus prototype, so don't jump with 'it will get fixed in final version'):
- horizontal FOV 90 deg (instead of 100)
? no data about vertical FOV
+ better perceived pixel density (because of lower FOV)
- blurry, high-persistence LED screen
- 60Hz instead of 75 Hz (but high-persistence anyway is a killer here)
- no mention of any advanced techniques like time warp
+ headband with tracking leds, which allows proper tracking even when you look behind
+ reported to be more friendly for people with prescription glasses
+ considerably better looking
+ headphones included
- with jack input INSIDE the visor !
= PS4 versus PC
? no exact data regarding tracking quality, seems to be lacking magnetometer compared to DK2, not sure if it makes a difference
+ utilizing PS Move and PS controllers fully, has some concept for VR interaction besides 'up to game designers'
If Oculus will 'borrow' idea of tracking headband and Morpheus will get low-persistence OLED display, we will have very close match here for consumer version...
Yes, they are. You can complain only if protests are forbidden routinely regardless of request for authorization - but it is not happening, absolute majority of protests is allowed.
Rules for registration make perfect sense - quite often, you have two antagonist groups protesting (pro-gay and ultra-right-wing for example) on same day in same city. Thanks to authorization, city can make sure they will remain separate and put extra police in places they might meet.
Now, in some imaginary Europe where you would need to ask for permission to protest and it would be routinely denied, it could be a problem. But it is not a case. And police is not pepper-spraying people just for fun, like in some countries where you don't need to ask for permission to protest...
Hmm, let's look at gas prices (which are one of the basic indicators of US lifestyle and affect cost of most things)
http://www.randomuseless.info/...
Year 2000 - 1.4-1.6
Year 2014 - 3.80
Factor of 2.4-2.7
Beef prices
http://www.criticalissues.us/B...
Year 2000 - 285
Year 2014 - 480
Factor of 1.68
There were just two first things I have checked out of 'americal lifestyle' pseudo-basket. Then we have cable tv prices, as described in original post with factor of around 1.6.
CPI suggests difference of 1.34 between year 2000 and 2014. Shadow stats suggest around 2.26 as you say. Probably one of only importnat things which are following CPI data over this time period are apartment rental prices and this is just because of 2008 crash.
I will agree with you that shadowstats is reporting too high inflation index - they are not trying to provide real numbers, rather to show the difference in creative accounting after 1980. But do you really think that CPI is valid measurement of what is happening? Why almost every report is complaining that XYZ is raising faster than CPI?
It is funny that when people observe that almost everything raise faster that inflation, they blame all these providers/producers separately, instead of question reported inflation in first place.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alt...
If you look at shadowstats, last year inflation was around 5-%... as observed on cable service prices.
So real question should be not why cable service prices are rising so sharply, but rather, why CPI cheats? Answers are probably going to be more interesting that "rising cost of equipment"
Half million year picture is not a good graph to show - in it, CO2 follows temperature changes, not predates it. It will just give fuel to deniers. You need to pick data carefully if you want to make your point. Maybe just replace labels - nobody in schools will notice and you will get your point through?
Except is has nothing to do with java-the-language. It is about java-the-platform (runtime + libraries, mostly libraries in this particular case). You are calling to kill Clojure and Scala as well, just because you don't like java-the-language?
One could argue that blackmailing and scamming is a form of art, so...
Most of them support OpenGL (or OpenES) for different platforms. Still, all of them went to considerable effort of using DirectX on windows, instead of simplifying their stack.
To be honest, I have lost the track of argument here. My main point was to refute the point that 'writing a game engine' is a serious activity, as opposed to very definition of hobby project, due to all 'serious' companies licensing base engines. Somehow I painted myself into corner of DirectX versus OpenGL on windows debate, while nobody was probably claiming that opengl is a valid alternative for real game development on windows - at least not on this subthread.
I had the same thing with cave diving. I tried it - by driving towards closest diving site, but after 2 hours I gave up on the idea - how people can claim that sitting in traffic jam on the exit road for few hour is 'thrilling'.
So, based on my experience with cave diving I announce it boring and not really dangerous, unless you are afraid of normal road traffic.
And BTW, why do you need a scuba suit for that in first place?
No, writing game engines is not serious. Writing games is. Serious developers just license one of the existing engines and extend from that. So real question is not what low-level API is easier to code against, but what technology main stacks are running on. Speaking for windows world (obviously some of them have opengl/openes ports for linux and android, question is what they chose if there is a choice)
UE4 - DirectX
Cryengine - DirectX
Gamebryo - DirectX
Unity - both DirectX/OpenGL ?
Frostbite - DirectX
id Tech 5 - Opengl - and guess what, dead and sueing Oculus Rift to get some money
Any major players I have missed? With exception of Unity, every successful game engine out there have chosen DirectX for windows.
http://www.kongregate.com/game...
How many points are you getting on that for being in that top 4% percent?
There is a huge difference. In case of broker you give him some information in trust and he has a legal obligation to not misuse this information against you. In case of HFT, people are observing you and using their observations against you.
It is like a doctor or lawyer confidentiality. There is a huge difference between people doing some things based on fact that you have visited doctor (even if it is abortion clinic) and doctor himself publishing/using your private medical details for his own benefits. In former case, it is what they do which determines if it is legal. In latter case, breach of trust is already a killer, with possible illegal activity afterward just adding to that.