Imagine if the Crossroads was always under attack by centaurs, with NPCs spawning from a Barracks-like building to fight them off. Players could fight off the centaurs for exp and loot and rep or whatever, or they could try to go get whatever materials to build a Mage Tower so you could have mage npcs helping you, or go raid the Centaur camp and destroy one of their buildings so they lose their stronger units. The players would have to defend their upgraded buildings, or they would be destroyed.
I get the impression (ok maybe its just a vain hope) that this is where Age of Conan is headed...
They talk about players being able to found cities, destroyable buildings etc.
Zeno's paradoxes were actually a set of paradoxes designed to fit together in such a way as to prove that reality doesn't exist, at least not in the way that it is (was) commonly assumed to exist.
Sure, its obvious that the arrow reaches its target.
What Zeno did was to produce a set of arguments to demonstrate that time and space can be neither discrete nor continuous.
If time and space are not discrete and also are not continuous, what else can they be?
According to the reasoning of his day these were the only two *possible* choices.
If you could rule *both* of them out then reality has to be *completely* different from what it was assumed to be.
That was the purpose of Zeno's paradoxes; to turn things on their heads and to get people to think outside the box.
The real name we should remember with awe and praise is Nikolai Tesla. He deserves the spot in history that Edison unjustly occupies
Isn't there some story about searching for a needle in a haystack...
That if Edison had been given the task he would have exhaustively checked every single piece of straw in the stack. While if Tesla has been given the task he would have used a *magnet*.
The problem isn't between the *keyboard* and the computer, that would imply a fault in either the keyboard cable or (if its a wireless keyboard) some kind of RF interference. Keyboard cables are, unlike users, pretty reliable for the most part.
Rather, the problem is usually between the *chair* and the computer.
The user is the interface between the furniture and the computing device and it is at this interface that most problems occur.
Its occurred to me that, should extraterrestrials with faster-than-light capability exist, the last thing that they would want would be the human race to discover that FTL travel is *possible*.
Consider if we merely found out that it *was* possible without actually finding out any of the details of how it worked.
Currently our research in the direction of FTL is severely impeded by the overall consensus among physicists that it is impossible. Therefore our scientific community is rather close-minded on the subject.
If it were demonstrated that this were wrong and we had some proof that FTL were indeed possible, we would start to research it with an open mind.
Sooner or later we would figure it out.
And then the extraterrestrials nightmare scenario would begin; the human infestation of the galaxy.
So, no, I don't believe for a moment that extraterrestrials have or would make themselves known to us by doing stunts like flying around in UFOs or making secret deals with governments and the like.
"Professional" wresting is exactly jingoistic, themed-warrior reality TV, and the amount of steroids they use seems to be killing at least some of the contestants.
I read that 'pro' wrestling is actually a big fake.
They put something heavy on top to weigh it down, no?
It didn't look very heavy to me. Looked more as if it was to hold it in place so that the dummy wouldn't fall off of the grenade.
I know nothing about the explosive force produced by a grenade though so maybe they don't actually pack the sort of punch that would send someone flying through the air like I imagine.
I'd have thought that a grenade going off underneath something thats not apparently very heavy and which doesn't get shredded by the explosion would have been thrown up into the air a bit.
But it doesn't; the dummy in the vest just sort of wobbles about a bit when the grenade goes off. In fact it hardly moves.
So I ask you, was that a *real* live grenade or some kind of down-graded grenade?
How does one initialize this system? Spam is determined by user reputation, yet user reputation is determined by quantity of spam received.
The way I would do it is base it entirely on the quantity of mail received.
Ie: the user accounts that receive the most email are *assumed* to get the most spam... nice and tidy.
I mean no one can process 300 emails per day, maybe they can actually read and process 100 emails per day, anything over that is ridiculous and their head would explode.
Therefore someone who gets 300 emails per day is assumed to get large amounts of spam and anyone sending email to them is more likely to be a spammer than someone sending to a person who receives only 100 emails per day.
Way to go, Captain Obvious! snip 2) "Once we can stop prostitution from being profitable, we will finally see it go away. But no sooner." snip Somehow, despite having 4,000 years of civilization to work on these ills, the appropriate technology to eradicate these plagues has never been concocted. I'd wager that spam is not a technical problem, it's a human problem. And so long as we have A) money and B) an Internet, there will be spam.
So if we remove either A) money or B) sex, we won't have any more prostitution...
Now, this does not mean you have to build a new Berlin wall
I think that the world would be a better place if the USA built a wall around their entire country, as high as humanly possible with broken glass on top.
Ostensibly to keep people out, but from the perspective of the rest of us, to keep yanks *IN*.
The thing that really irks me is that Zimbra is, arguably, the closest thing to an open source groupware application that ticks all the right boxes and can easily get management approval.
The fact that it claims to be Open Source (the *leader* in open source groupware, no less) and that this is little more than a marketing ploy is really annoying.
I suppose that it is a sign that Open Source has truly come of age when the phrase is used as a buzzword by marketing weasels.
YPL is also an attribution license in which logos have to be maintained.
And remember; this is not like a BSD/GPL license where the comments in the code and license text have to be maintained. This is where there are portions of the code have to be maintained such that the logo is in the face of everyone who uses the software.
Thats not *open* source ie the source is available to scrutiny and does not create a legal burden on users of the source.
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Next they will be telling us that the system will work on Japanese too...
Good luck, guys.
Imagine if the Crossroads was always under attack by centaurs, with NPCs spawning from a Barracks-like building to fight them off. Players could fight off the centaurs for exp and loot and rep or whatever, or they could try to go get whatever materials to build a Mage Tower so you could have mage npcs helping you, or go raid the Centaur camp and destroy one of their buildings so they lose their stronger units. The players would have to defend their upgraded buildings, or they would be destroyed.
I get the impression (ok maybe its just a vain hope) that this is where Age of Conan is headed...
They talk about players being able to found cities, destroyable buildings etc.
Which begs the question, how many judges have you encountered... and why?
Probably works at a massage parlor...
When you find that one really *tasty* chicken... and you eat it... and its GONE?
And never *never* will you find a chicken quite so tasty...?
Zeno's paradoxes were actually a set of paradoxes designed to fit together in such a way as to prove that reality doesn't exist, at least not in the way that it is (was) commonly assumed to exist.
Sure, its obvious that the arrow reaches its target.
What Zeno did was to produce a set of arguments to demonstrate that time and space can be neither discrete nor continuous.
If time and space are not discrete and also are not continuous, what else can they be?
According to the reasoning of his day these were the only two *possible* choices.
If you could rule *both* of them out then reality has to be *completely* different from what it was assumed to be.
That was the purpose of Zeno's paradoxes; to turn things on their heads and to get people to think outside the box.
Under BSD, you typically have better educated users.
Right... and that would include OSX, eh?
The real name we should remember with awe and praise is Nikolai Tesla. He deserves the spot in history that Edison unjustly occupies
Isn't there some story about searching for a needle in a haystack...
That if Edison had been given the task he would have exhaustively checked every single piece of straw in the stack. While if Tesla has been given the task he would have used a *magnet*.
As long as there is a PEBKAC
Shouldn't that be 'PEBCAC'?
The problem isn't between the *keyboard* and the computer, that would imply a fault in either the keyboard cable or (if its a wireless keyboard) some kind of RF interference. Keyboard cables are, unlike users, pretty reliable for the most part.
Rather, the problem is usually between the *chair* and the computer.
The user is the interface between the furniture and the computing device and it is at this interface that most problems occur.
The American colonists were definitely much better off ruling themselves than under British rule.
Something that has continued to be true to this day.
Americans were so much better off with Reagan than they would have been under Thatcher.
And Bush vs Blair... phew... well...
Its occurred to me that, should extraterrestrials with faster-than-light capability exist, the last thing that they would want would be the human race to discover that FTL travel is *possible*.
Consider if we merely found out that it *was* possible without actually finding out any of the details of how it worked.
Currently our research in the direction of FTL is severely impeded by the overall consensus among physicists that it is impossible. Therefore our scientific community is rather close-minded on the subject.
If it were demonstrated that this were wrong and we had some proof that FTL were indeed possible, we would start to research it with an open mind.
Sooner or later we would figure it out.
And then the extraterrestrials nightmare scenario would begin; the human infestation of the galaxy.
So, no, I don't believe for a moment that extraterrestrials have or would make themselves known to us by doing stunts like flying around in UFOs or making secret deals with governments and the like.
Reminds me of this scene from Deep Space Nine. I admire the notion of multiple redundant backups... Evidently the Cardassians didn't...
From 3x15 "Destiny
O'BRIEN
The main switching relays are in
here...
He removes a panel. Gilora can't believe what she sees
inside.
O'BRIEN
(continuing)
I think we should hook your
transceiver to the ODN interface
through the --
GILORA
What happened to these couplings?
O'BRIEN
What?
(looks)
Oh. I made some modifications...
GILORA
But these relays don't have nearly
as much carrying capacity as before.
They won't be able to handle the
signal load from the transceiver.
O'BRIEN
In order to bring the system up to
Starfleet code, I had to pull out
the couplings to make room for a
secondary backup.
GILORA
Starfleet code requires a second
backup?
O'Brien reacts to her tone.
O'BRIEN
(patiently)
In case the first backup fails.
GILORA
What are the chances that a primary
system and its backup would both
fail at the same time?
O'BRIEN
It's not likely, but in a crunch, I
wouldn't want to be caught without a
second backup.
"Professional" wresting is exactly jingoistic, themed-warrior reality TV, and the amount of steroids they use seems to be killing at least some of the contestants.
I read that 'pro' wrestling is actually a big fake.
That the fans are really paid actors.
They put something heavy on top to weigh it down, no?
It didn't look very heavy to me. Looked more as if it was to hold it in place so that the dummy wouldn't fall off of the grenade.
I know nothing about the explosive force produced by a grenade though so maybe they don't actually pack the sort of punch that would send someone flying through the air like I imagine.
Thats incredible.
I'd have thought that a grenade going off underneath something thats not apparently very heavy and which doesn't get shredded by the explosion would have been thrown up into the air a bit.
But it doesn't; the dummy in the vest just sort of wobbles about a bit when the grenade goes off. In fact it hardly moves.
So I ask you, was that a *real* live grenade or some kind of down-graded grenade?
The thing is.. Disney/Pixar DOES make a lot of money off of content.
And Steve Jobs is on the Disney board of directors.
And this is not a conflict of interests... how?
How does one initialize this system? Spam is determined by user reputation, yet user reputation is determined by quantity of spam received.
:-P
The way I would do it is base it entirely on the quantity of mail received.
Ie: the user accounts that receive the most email are *assumed* to get the most spam... nice and tidy.
I mean no one can process 300 emails per day, maybe they can actually read and process 100 emails per day, anything over that is ridiculous and their head would explode.
Therefore someone who gets 300 emails per day is assumed to get large amounts of spam and anyone sending email to them is more likely to be a spammer than someone sending to a person who receives only 100 emails per day.
Way to go, Captain Obvious!
snip
2) "Once we can stop prostitution from being profitable, we will finally see it go away. But no sooner."
snip
Somehow, despite having 4,000 years of civilization to work on these ills, the appropriate technology to eradicate these plagues has never been concocted. I'd wager that spam is not a technical problem, it's a human problem. And so long as we have A) money and B) an Internet, there will be spam.
So if we remove either A) money or B) sex, we won't have any more prostitution...
You must be the *real* Captain Obvious!
Linux is not gay, homosexuals are gay.
Not all homosexuals are happy, cheerful people either.
*cough*thanksgiving weekend*cough*
Oh I remember it well...
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
Jonathan!
from back when Hollywood actually made some decent movies...
Now, this does not mean you have to build a new Berlin wall
I think that the world would be a better place if the USA built a wall around their entire country, as high as humanly possible with broken glass on top.
Ostensibly to keep people out, but from the perspective of the rest of us, to keep yanks *IN*.
The thing that really irks me is that Zimbra is, arguably, the closest thing to an open source groupware application that ticks all the right boxes and can easily get management approval.
The fact that it claims to be Open Source (the *leader* in open source groupware, no less) and that this is little more than a marketing ploy is really annoying.
I suppose that it is a sign that Open Source has truly come of age when the phrase is used as a buzzword by marketing weasels.
We've got hot springs in the NE portion of Montana in areas that haven't seen serious quake or volcanic activity in tens of thousands of years.
And let us not forget; Montana gave us the hottest porno star in history. Julia Hayes.
So it should come as no surprise that Montana would be a great place for geothermal energy. Makes perfect sense.
If Blizzard is doing something right its not uptime.
Most people who deliver online services like to measure their uptime in 'nines'.
Blizzard measure theirs in 'eights'.
YPL is also an attribution license in which logos have to be maintained.
And remember; this is not like a BSD/GPL license where the comments in the code and license text have to be maintained. This is where there are portions of the code have to be maintained such that the logo is in the face of everyone who uses the software.
Thats not *open* source ie the source is available to scrutiny and does not create a legal burden on users of the source.