but one thing they tend to guarantee is that only the fittest designs survive.
Then explain Microsoft and Windows! The fittest designs survive because the weakest die out. (Un)fortunately when Windows crashes you just reboot.
Besides, it's not like you're spending your time generating power
Walk over concrete. Now walk over sand. Which one takes more effort? The mechanical motion of the floor absorbs energy that would otherwise rebound from the shoe sole, or would never have been expended in the first place. Well, it solves the population's obesity problem.
On the company's website you can select from the languages: English, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, and... Brazilian? Oooookeeeeey. Btw, it's a scam. please ignore last sentence for modding, ie, no -1 redundant;)
Change the article to note that this is a scam.
Yes, this is redundant, but I don't care. Every minute that Slashdot keeps this "story" up on the web page is another minute that they are providing free advertising for scam artists.
I'm sure that Slashdot's sponsors would love to know that they are accomplices to fraud.
Change the article, or take it down. No! Keep it up to get it slashdotted. It shouldn't take long if they use cheap-ass servers. That way, slashdot will ensure it doesn't leak out to other sites. Everyone, do a favour to gullible people and loop a download of the website.
The economy was ruined... by players. Greed, immorality and the desire to simply ruin the experience for others drove exploiters to imbalance the money system. Greed ok, morality is subjective in a designed gaming universve, and as for the desire to simply ruin the experience.. I'd like to see what you are basing this on. How many exploiters did you interview/research to draw conclusions on their motives and be able to speak for them? My exploiting comes from the desire to explore areas of the game that were not intended in the design, whether it be geographical, financial or social. It comes from the desire to look beyond the information we have been fed. When the routine of the game is no longer challenging, and I when I am sick of bashing a red button like a trained monkey, I want to try to laterally influence my environment. I hate being restricted in an artificial way, and perhaps the scientest in me needs to search for brilliant and uncoventional solutions to problems I am presented with, rather than just selecting from a list of given solutions.
I once saw a movie (or tv show, I forget the name) where a small group of people created plans to steal high-profile items, and their desire was not to ruin the lives of the ones that own these items, but to see if they were able to overcome the challenge of the burglary. In the movie, they never actually went forward with their plans due to obvious consequences. However, if it occured in virtual game-like environment, where such consequences do not exist, then it would be fun to evaluate the effectiveness of their plans by actually implementing them.
I had installed Linux on my laptop a few weeks ago and I had problems with drivers especially for my graphics card and webcam. After spending many hours chasing this up i finally got it working. Next I took care of getting my laptop's multimedia buttons to work, which took another few hours to read through the forums and make the necessary adjustments to rc files etc, and even then it wouldn't work so well. The last thing I wanted to get working was my mouses thumb or "back" button but I didn't get a chance too since an update for KDE or xorg or whatever popped up so I installed it and it screwed my X installation. I could've spent more hours trying to fix it, but instead I chose to reinstall Windowx XP which came with the laptop, and everything works fine now. Sure Linux is cool and all, but I just don't have the time to waste on keeping linux running. XP just simply works for me and I don't have to worry about shit screwing up, so my question actually was "why am I putting up with linux?".
Sure I may have to do an OS reinstall every year or half a year or so, but even with that reinstall I spend much less time maintaining my system than with linux. I used to hate Windows and love linux, now I've changed my mind, windows rocks, linux doesn't work.
Sure if you like hacking away endless nights in/etc/X11 or wherever then go for it, but I prefer to spend my time on study/work/life.
You seem to know what you're talking about, so I'd like to ask you a question. I read (turbject thrust reversers) that one of the ways to achieve thrust reversal on turbojet engines is "target type of thrust reverser" which from what I gather reverses the fan blades so that they blow forward rather than backward. However, won't this reduce pressure in the engine making it go out, and therefore make the plane loose power (electricity)?
Nothing personal, but it sounds like you got one of those sloppy pop [Biology] courses. Either that or he's drawing from the AI learning tool: Evolutionary Strategy;)
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I never thought I'd end up working at Microsoft he meant to continue with "this kind of software belongs at Google", but he bit his tongue and then said "it's very gratifying, hehe"
I call bs on it actually working. Call me a cynic but I have a feeling that the photo, taken at about 2m:30s into the video, is not the exact same photo as the one on the coffee-table computer that was supposedly downloaded from the camera. I think the photo was prepared earlier, just something about the fidelity and care he gives into taking such an "improvised" photo, and the stillness and pose of the subject, leads me to conjecture that they prepared the photo earlier and it wasn't actually downloaded, only loaded from the computer's memory when the camera is placed onto the surface. I have no proof, it's just a gut feeling.
If I wanted to deal with that, I'd go outside. This is the classic argument against making games more realistic. However, once you're outside you cannot pilot one of many space ships across the galaxy, you cannot engage in epic fleet combats with other corporations, you cannot hunt pirates at the rims of civilization, and then one minute later just stand up from your computer to make a nice warm cup of cocoa.
Corruption in goverment, law enforcement, and the justice system...all these elements make for an even more realistic game.
It is already one of the most realistic and die hard games around, including an awesome economy (where, by the way, I hope corruption also occurs). Unlike WoW where the economy is balanced by a magical "binding" system which doesn't allow cool stuff to be handed off to other players, and dieing to another player doesn't mean squat.
I don't mean to imply that this is evidence contradicting the occurrence of evolution, just that if animals were to reproduce asexually, and thus essentially be clones of their parent, then evolution is not possible for that particular species ? Evolution is still possible via mutation. What's more, mutation is more important than reproduction in the long term, since without mutation you'd just be mixing the same code over and over again, which reduces variability.
It's too easy in all sciences - not just string theory - to make theories "supported" by the data. Given this problem, the name of the science game is to find the simplest explanation that fits the data. It's very hard to say exactly what counts as a simpler theory, but some theories are clearly less simple. Compare the hypothesis that "the butler did it" to the hypothesis that "unknown sneaky aliens planted all that evidence to make it look like the butler did it." Both hypotheses fit the evidence equally well, but the latter is clearly less simple, and we normally never even consider it for a moment.
It's not about leaving the planet compleatly in order to escape the problems that exist here. It's about having more than a single point of failure for the existance of the human race.
Why is it so important to many that the human species survives? Sure we don't want ourselves or our children or any other living family or friends to perish, but what's the big deal with the human species millenia from now? If a few people go off onto, say Mars, and teraform/colonize/whatever, and then we all get wiped out on earth who cares if the human species has survived? Sure those few colonists survived, but I don't see what the big deal is for the human species to survive. We all have our survival instinct and care about our own lives and that of the lives around us, but some instinct of survival that extends to our distant decendants and that of our species as a whole is an artificial or fabricated idea.
Ok, so you want your great-great-great-great-grandchildren to have a happy life (which i guess is real and comes from our parental instinct). For arguments sake, that child has a 50-50 chance of either being on Earth or Mars during a catastrophic event that occurs on Earth such as an asteroid impact. It seems you've given your child a 50% chance of survival, but the catastrophic event could just aswell have happend on Mars, so nothing gained. Unless of course there is someway to transport the human population from the disaster-pending plant to a safe planet before the disaster.
Therefore, it is not survival of the human species that we are after, it is survival of all humans.
One that has syntax highlighting and possibly symantic checking, but all compilations, runs and source organization are done from the command line. I don't know if any editors like that exist. Since your students already know how to program a little bit, I think going back to paper and pencil is a bit extreme. However, syntax highlighting is a must, it will allow your students to recognize and learn the various structures and keywords faster. Try it yourself, open up a source in notepad and try to quickly see what it does and do the same thing with another piece of source in a syntax highlighted IDE.
I'm not suggesting they do it in 2 weeks. I'm suggesting that assemble a seperate group to respec and rewrite for such a large number of users. And no, I'm not your scapegoat. It would take what, a year max? How long did it take them in the first place to start from absolute scratch (and this doesn't include all the graphics/models/sounds/quests)? In a world of warcraft 2 as a user I would not only a expect new game/server engine but completely new and different content.
I agree. If blizzard even spent 1% of a months revenue they could get a bunch of engineers to completely rewrite the entire world of warcraft code and buy some new hardware to accomodate the new size. Scaling issues are dealt with at once. Where is all of this money going? Is it going to some CEO sink? Are there any share holders that can shed some light on this?
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What about KASY0, which had $84 per GFLOP in 2003?
Then explain Microsoft and Windows! The fittest designs survive because the weakest die out. (Un)fortunately when Windows crashes you just reboot.
Walk over concrete. Now walk over sand. Which one takes more effort? The mechanical motion of the floor absorbs energy that would otherwise rebound from the shoe sole, or would never have been expended in the first place. Well, it solves the population's obesity problem.
On the company's website you can select from the languages: English, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, and ... Brazilian? Oooookeeeeey. Btw, it's a scam. ;)
please ignore last sentence for modding, ie, no -1 redundant
I once saw a movie (or tv show, I forget the name) where a small group of people created plans to steal high-profile items, and their desire was not to ruin the lives of the ones that own these items, but to see if they were able to overcome the challenge of the burglary. In the movie, they never actually went forward with their plans due to obvious consequences. However, if it occured in virtual game-like environment, where such consequences do not exist, then it would be fun to evaluate the effectiveness of their plans by actually implementing them.
I hope you didn't forget the cover sheet.
Why I put up with this? This is why...
/etc/X11 or wherever then go for it, but I prefer to spend my time on study/work/life.
I had installed Linux on my laptop a few weeks ago and I had problems with drivers especially for my graphics card and webcam. After spending many hours chasing this up i finally got it working. Next I took care of getting my laptop's multimedia buttons to work, which took another few hours to read through the forums and make the necessary adjustments to rc files etc, and even then it wouldn't work so well. The last thing I wanted to get working was my mouses thumb or "back" button but I didn't get a chance too since an update for KDE or xorg or whatever popped up so I installed it and it screwed my X installation. I could've spent more hours trying to fix it, but instead I chose to reinstall Windowx XP which came with the laptop, and everything works fine now. Sure Linux is cool and all, but I just don't have the time to waste on keeping linux running. XP just simply works for me and I don't have to worry about shit screwing up, so my question actually was "why am I putting up with linux?".
Sure I may have to do an OS reinstall every year or half a year or so, but even with that reinstall I spend much less time maintaining my system than with linux. I used to hate Windows and love linux, now I've changed my mind, windows rocks, linux doesn't work.
Sure if you like hacking away endless nights in
What happens when it hits 88mph?
to drain the lake with tourists than to hijak their bus.
You seem to know what you're talking about, so I'd like to ask you a question. I read (turbject thrust reversers) that one of the ways to achieve thrust reversal on turbojet engines is "target type of thrust reverser" which from what I gather reverses the fan blades so that they blow forward rather than backward. However, won't this reduce pressure in the engine making it go out, and therefore make the plane loose power (electricity)?
I call bs on it actually working. Call me a cynic but I have a feeling that the photo, taken at about 2m:30s into the video, is not the exact same photo as the one on the coffee-table computer that was supposedly downloaded from the camera. I think the photo was prepared earlier, just something about the fidelity and care he gives into taking such an "improvised" photo, and the stillness and pose of the subject, leads me to conjecture that they prepared the photo earlier and it wasn't actually downloaded, only loaded from the computer's memory when the camera is placed onto the surface. I have no proof, it's just a gut feeling.
Corruption in goverment, law enforcement, and the justice system...all these elements make for an even more realistic game.
It is already one of the most realistic and die hard games around, including an awesome economy (where, by the way, I hope corruption also occurs). Unlike WoW where the economy is balanced by a magical "binding" system which doesn't allow cool stuff to be handed off to other players, and dieing to another player doesn't mean squat.
Jobs: I'm a Mac
Gates:
Gates: Hello, I'm a Wii
Jobs:
It's not about leaving the planet compleatly in order to escape the problems that exist here. It's about having more than a single point of failure for the existance of the human race.
Why is it so important to many that the human species survives? Sure we don't want ourselves or our children or any other living family or friends to perish, but what's the big deal with the human species millenia from now? If a few people go off onto, say Mars, and teraform/colonize/whatever, and then we all get wiped out on earth who cares if the human species has survived? Sure those few colonists survived, but I don't see what the big deal is for the human species to survive. We all have our survival instinct and care about our own lives and that of the lives around us, but some instinct of survival that extends to our distant decendants and that of our species as a whole is an artificial or fabricated idea.
Ok, so you want your great-great-great-great-grandchildren to have a happy life (which i guess is real and comes from our parental instinct). For arguments sake, that child has a 50-50 chance of either being on Earth or Mars during a catastrophic event that occurs on Earth such as an asteroid impact. It seems you've given your child a 50% chance of survival, but the catastrophic event could just aswell have happend on Mars, so nothing gained. Unless of course there is someway to transport the human population from the disaster-pending plant to a safe planet before the disaster.
Therefore, it is not survival of the human species that we are after, it is survival of all humans.
One that has syntax highlighting and possibly symantic checking, but all compilations, runs and source organization are done from the command line. I don't know if any editors like that exist. Since your students already know how to program a little bit, I think going back to paper and pencil is a bit extreme. However, syntax highlighting is a must, it will allow your students to recognize and learn the various structures and keywords faster. Try it yourself, open up a source in notepad and try to quickly see what it does and do the same thing with another piece of source in a syntax highlighted IDE.
I'm not suggesting they do it in 2 weeks. I'm suggesting that assemble a seperate group to respec and rewrite for such a large number of users. And no, I'm not your scapegoat. It would take what, a year max? How long did it take them in the first place to start from absolute scratch (and this doesn't include all the graphics/models/sounds/quests)? In a world of warcraft 2 as a user I would not only a expect new game/server engine but completely new and different content.
I agree. If blizzard even spent 1% of a months revenue they could get a bunch of engineers to completely rewrite the entire world of warcraft code and buy some new hardware to accomodate the new size. Scaling issues are dealt with at once. Where is all of this money going? Is it going to some CEO sink? Are there any share holders that can shed some light on this?