What you're describing there is the use of learned reflexes. The "don't think, just do" is because your brain has literally created a subroutine for (i.e.) turning left, and you can shift your weight and turn the handlebars without consciously being aware of anything beyond your desire to turn left which is setting off the reflex. This is a bit different from the process described in the article, which is more like installing some sort of input filter or translator (where vibrations at the cane's handgrip are thought of as events at the cane's tip without having to consciously think about the physics of the situation).
The judge in this case may actually be correct. The keylogger was installed between the keyboard and the computer; it only intercepted signals traveling between the CPU and the keyboard. This signal is not transmitted directly onto the Internet on even the lowest level connections; it just causes the I/O controller to create a record in a buffer somewhere and schedule an interrupt for the CPU to handle it. It would no more be interstate communication than watching someone write down a phone number would be traditional wiretapping.
When comparing Steam install times to retail, you have to remember to include the time spent either getting to the store and back or waiting for the game to be mailed to you after placing the order. Steam takes effectively zero time for both these steps, so the total is much lower.
It DOES work on the Mac- only you have to hit Ctrl as the Mac has no key labeled Alt (although the Option key is generally considered equivalent to Alt, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably by multiplatform people). It's the responsibility of the article writer to find a better way to describe that feature.
How long is it? Lots of nanotube work has been done before, but at microscopic lengths. Nanotubes won't be practical for anything until they can be made at a useful size.
As above, the semi is not "very close" behind the mini, it's at a safe stopping distance based on the speed of both vehicles and the semi's braking ability. The mini, under computer control, avoids the child. The semi slams on the brakes and stops in time to remain uninvolved. This is exactly how the situation would play out if both drivers were human and the semi driver was smart enough not to tailgate.
The semi wouldn't be directly behind the mini, it would be a safe stopping distance for that speed behind it. The mini would hit the brakes and swerve away from the child, the semi would hit the brakes and come to a halt before hitting the mini.
I saw an intersting Open University TV program about this issue a while back. Over 60% of the code was to deal with exceptions that happen less than 1% of the time.
This is the famous 90/10 rule- 90% of the code is called 10% of the time, and 10% of the code is called 90% of the time.
Not to be confused with the other 90/10 rule: The first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the code takes the remaining 90% of the time.
This is the core problem, and the reason it will probably not happen for a very long time:
All drivers are human: Acceptably efficient and safe. "Good enough" for most purposes, accidents do occur but not that often.
Some drivers are human and some are computers: Confusion and unpredictable responses on both sides, terrible traffic conditions and accidents much more likely.
All drivers are computers: Very efficient and safe. accidents rare.
The second stage is an unavoidable part of the transition to the third, but no one wants to move from the first stage to the second. Until we have a good process for that, we won't get self-driving cars anytime soon.
It's not (entirely) a "bizarre belief", it's also a logistics problem. If you place Suzie and Johnny in separate classes, you need an extra teacher, room, and materials for her and the other accelerated students (and how many divisions do you want to set up? You'd also need special treatment for the kids who take 8 days to learn it...). Even if Suzie is not actually being taught anything (she's painting or playing, as you suggest), she needs to be supervised, for liability reasons if nothing else. Educational budgets are stretched too tightly in most places already.
I'm giving up the chance to raise this to +5, Funny to point out that the fact that when I saw this post it was at +4, Informative is way funnier than the post itself.
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An aimbot will make you a much better player than a mouse/keyboard ever will. Do you mind if I use one in our upcoming tournament?
I can't find any posts there that aren't about the color scheme the page uses. Doesn't seem too useful to me...
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Depending on how serious the event is, turbo and macro buttons might also be considered cheating in multiplayer.
The best answer to this whole thread is that everyone involved in a multiplayer game should agree beforehand on the conditions under which the game is played. Choosing to use a console carries the implicit assumption that everyone's hardware has similar performance and available controls, and that everyone is doing essentially the same thing (with varying degrees of skill) while playing the game.
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One of the advantages of a console (at least to console players) is that every player is using exactly the same hardware, right down to the controller (and third party controllers are all basically the same, aside from the small differences in size and "feel"). I would consider this device cheating unless everyone had one.
1) An ARG, as defined on Unfiction, is "A genre of interactive fiction using multiple delivery and communications media." Basically it's an adventure game that is not limited to being on a computer screen.
2) No. But that doesn't mean it can't be fun to experience (and it was).
What Rutan and the X Prize accomplished was to prove that the privatized/philanthropic approach to space development can work. The X Prize could have been an utter failure and we would all have forgotten about it by now, but instead it provided impetus for this much larger and more ambitious (and expensive and risky) contest.
When you have $50 million dollars, you can run your own space contest and demand that the winner perform their orbit attempts while wearing "I'M WITH STUPID" T-shirts. Bigelow has the $50 million right now so he gets to make his own rules.
What's even more annoying than the sheer amount of advertising are animated ads.
As a consequence of the less-well-threaded display methods Apple uses, if you hold down the mouse on the scroll bar in Safari it freezes up all animations on the page- gifs, Flash, Java, everything. It makes pages a lot nicer to read even if (like me) you don't ad-block, and it frees up the vast amount of CPU that Macromedia's horrible OS X version of Flash consumes.
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That's not a general XBL feature- Only Halo 2 can migrate hosting like that (AFAIK).
What you're describing there is the use of learned reflexes. The "don't think, just do" is because your brain has literally created a subroutine for (i.e.) turning left, and you can shift your weight and turn the handlebars without consciously being aware of anything beyond your desire to turn left which is setting off the reflex. This is a bit different from the process described in the article, which is more like installing some sort of input filter or translator (where vibrations at the cane's handgrip are thought of as events at the cane's tip without having to consciously think about the physics of the situation).
The judge in this case may actually be correct. The keylogger was installed between the keyboard and the computer; it only intercepted signals traveling between the CPU and the keyboard. This signal is not transmitted directly onto the Internet on even the lowest level connections; it just causes the I/O controller to create a record in a buffer somewhere and schedule an interrupt for the CPU to handle it. It would no more be interstate communication than watching someone write down a phone number would be traditional wiretapping.
When comparing Steam install times to retail, you have to remember to include the time spent either getting to the store and back or waiting for the game to be mailed to you after placing the order. Steam takes effectively zero time for both these steps, so the total is much lower.
As many, many people have said, Steam will run HL2 without an Internet connection. All you need to connect for is the initial authentication.
It DOES work on the Mac- only you have to hit Ctrl as the Mac has no key labeled Alt (although the Option key is generally considered equivalent to Alt, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably by multiplatform people). It's the responsibility of the article writer to find a better way to describe that feature.
How long is it? Lots of nanotube work has been done before, but at microscopic lengths. Nanotubes won't be practical for anything until they can be made at a useful size.
As above, the semi is not "very close" behind the mini, it's at a safe stopping distance based on the speed of both vehicles and the semi's braking ability. The mini, under computer control, avoids the child. The semi slams on the brakes and stops in time to remain uninvolved. This is exactly how the situation would play out if both drivers were human and the semi driver was smart enough not to tailgate.
The semi wouldn't be directly behind the mini, it would be a safe stopping distance for that speed behind it. The mini would hit the brakes and swerve away from the child, the semi would hit the brakes and come to a halt before hitting the mini.
I saw an intersting Open University TV program about this issue a while back. Over 60% of the code was to deal with exceptions that happen less than 1% of the time.
This is the famous 90/10 rule- 90% of the code is called 10% of the time, and 10% of the code is called 90% of the time.
Not to be confused with the other 90/10 rule: The first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the code takes the remaining 90% of the time.
- All drivers are human: Acceptably efficient and safe. "Good enough" for most purposes, accidents do occur but not that often.
- Some drivers are human and some are computers: Confusion and unpredictable responses on both sides, terrible traffic conditions and accidents much more likely.
- All drivers are computers: Very efficient and safe. accidents rare.
The second stage is an unavoidable part of the transition to the third, but no one wants to move from the first stage to the second. Until we have a good process for that, we won't get self-driving cars anytime soon.Did you guys have some kind of critical acronym deficit this month? I can barely see any lowercase letters in there...
"iTunes works, and can do everything we thought was important; play music, access the store, and sync with an iPod."
"sound is tricky, particularly with 2.6 kernels, and getting the iPod going is hard"
So... Which one is it? How was this ready for release again?
It's not (entirely) a "bizarre belief", it's also a logistics problem. If you place Suzie and Johnny in separate classes, you need an extra teacher, room, and materials for her and the other accelerated students (and how many divisions do you want to set up? You'd also need special treatment for the kids who take 8 days to learn it...). Even if Suzie is not actually being taught anything (she's painting or playing, as you suggest), she needs to be supervised, for liability reasons if nothing else. Educational budgets are stretched too tightly in most places already.
Then I think you get that crazy guy from Dead Leaves.
I'm giving up the chance to raise this to +5, Funny to point out that the fact that when I saw this post it was at +4, Informative is way funnier than the post itself.
An aimbot will make you a much better player than a mouse/keyboard ever will. Do you mind if I use one in our upcoming tournament?
I can't find any posts there that aren't about the color scheme the page uses. Doesn't seem too useful to me...
Depending on how serious the event is, turbo and macro buttons might also be considered cheating in multiplayer.
The best answer to this whole thread is that everyone involved in a multiplayer game should agree beforehand on the conditions under which the game is played. Choosing to use a console carries the implicit assumption that everyone's hardware has similar performance and available controls, and that everyone is doing essentially the same thing (with varying degrees of skill) while playing the game.
One of the advantages of a console (at least to console players) is that every player is using exactly the same hardware, right down to the controller (and third party controllers are all basically the same, aside from the small differences in size and "feel"). I would consider this device cheating unless everyone had one.
1) An ARG, as defined on Unfiction, is "A genre of interactive fiction using multiple delivery and communications media." Basically it's an adventure game that is not limited to being on a computer screen.
2) No. But that doesn't mean it can't be fun to experience (and it was).
What Rutan and the X Prize accomplished was to prove that the privatized/philanthropic approach to space development can work. The X Prize could have been an utter failure and we would all have forgotten about it by now, but instead it provided impetus for this much larger and more ambitious (and expensive and risky) contest.
When you have $50 million dollars, you can run your own space contest and demand that the winner perform their orbit attempts while wearing "I'M WITH STUPID" T-shirts. Bigelow has the $50 million right now so he gets to make his own rules.
What's even more annoying than the sheer amount of advertising are animated ads.
As a consequence of the less-well-threaded display methods Apple uses, if you hold down the mouse on the scroll bar in Safari it freezes up all animations on the page- gifs, Flash, Java, everything. It makes pages a lot nicer to read even if (like me) you don't ad-block, and it frees up the vast amount of CPU that Macromedia's horrible OS X version of Flash consumes.