They work by acquiring stereo 2D data from a fixed viewing angle. That's two acquisitions from almost the same vantage point, which provides a static illusion of depth via capture of parallax..
By this line of reasoning, humans don't perceive depth.
- The heat from the collision would have evaporated/released all elements lighter than X, which includes water. (ed: perhaps water on the moon is more closely related to early earth water coalesced and re-condensed?)
In this scenario, wouldn't much of the released elements have returned thanks to gravity?
Also if we're bringing Theia into it, maybe Theia is the source of the water?
it is something happening that the promoters of Bitcoin claim should not happen
"The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any
cooperating group of attacker nodes." - Bitcoin Whitepaper, Page 1
I'm not sure I understand the question. MOHAA=Medal of Honor: Allied Assault if that's what you mean.
Shutting down the Allied Assault servers would be like saying "right that's it, no more Quake 3 guys, sorry" - it's the loss of a pivotal page from videogame history.
I haven't seen one of those for a while, but the right-click menu comes up on release. On sites that pop up a "right click disabled" messagebox on *click* you can just hold the button down, OK the popup, and then release the right button to trigger the menu.
Of course that doesn't work on sites that disable it silently.
I agree, I used a stealth/mage/fighter/healer combo for any duels that happened to crop up pre-trammel (my house was in a hotspot of PvP activity and my guild had a way of making enemies) I didn't come anywhere near grandmastering a single skill on him, but that class was built for murder and served me very well against hardened PvPers over the years.
Skill locking didn't enter into things for a few years though, in the good old days you could spend forever GMing your main skills, then walk past somebody playing a harp and passively gain musicianship, losing hours upon hours of progress in a second.
Even an on/off switch for PvP would have been better than what they did. What they did was create a second copy of the map, they left the original unchanged and made the second strictly PvM.
The result was that rather than toggling PvP off and going about their business, when people wanted to go out and do stuff without the risk of getting jumped, they just hopped over to the PvM world to do it.
So instead of having one interesting, bustling world where everybody played alongside each other in a manner they chose. We ended up with a dull, sterile PvM world, and an interesting but empty PvP world.
MtGox, Vircurex or any other exchange getting hacked is a tragedy, but those are problems with their code rather than the underlying technology. Pointing at dead exchanges and proclaiming it to be the downfall of bitcoin, is like pointing at IIS when a new exploit comes out and yelling that HTTP is doomed.
Cryptocurrency is a genie that's out of its bottle, you would do well to try to understand it for what it is, rather than the get rich quick scheme you're interpreting it to be, because it really is a revolutionary technology, and it's not going away.
Sorry, but some of us have always looked at BitCoin and thought some combination of "why?" and "no frigging way".
I used to be one of those guys, then I really looked into what it is and how it works and was really, *really* impressed.
This whole thing sounds like it's several years away from being trustworthy, by which point it will either be regulated by governments, or controlled by corporations.
This says it all - it *sounds* like it's untrustworthy, but the reality is that it isn't, otherwise it would be worthless by now (it's open source after all - if it could be picked apart so easy it would have been)
What you're noticing is a slew of bad news tangentially related to the core technology. CPUs aren't at fault for Windows' security failings, HTML's not at fault for IIS, and BitCoin's not broken because MtGox wrote bad code.
I'm not sure I follow - that whitepaper is an explanation of what it is and how it works. It was specifically designed as a form of digital cash from day 1.
So very little music you hear out today can be considered "musical" at all.
That's always true, and there's always plenty of good music being made, we just tend to have an emotional attachment to music that we associate with the time in our lives when we were listening to a lot of music and going out into the world and doing new things, and obviously since they're lasting musical choices, our kids end up hearing them and liking them because they're stuck in the same house with us (and the bands we enjoyed in our formative years are genuinely good)
I'd recommend giving some good stuff made in the last decade a listen to see how you get on. Anything by The Black Keys or Cold War Kids is a safe bet. If you're a fan of albums as complete experiences, try Everything All The Time by Band of Horses, Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter, Teen Dream by Beach House, Glory Hope Mountain by The Acorn, Becoming a Jackal by the Villagers and plenty more.
There's never been a better time to love music than now - we have the internet, we have a world of music at our fingertips. There are plenty of bands in all different genres keeping it real all over the world. You're cheating yourself out of a world of fantastic music if you stick with decades old American rock.
How do you mean? I've used bitcoin to sign up for subscription sites before - all I had to do was choose a username and password and send the funds to a wallet address they sent which was unique to my session.
How do they go about figuring out anything else about me?
Indeed. The only use for Bitcoin (other than gambling) is immediate money transfers that do not need to be anonymous. But I can do those with my credit card already, and at far lower risk.
All a site needs to do to accept a bitcoin payment is generate a wallet address for that session and present it to the user - all they need to do to know they've been paid is see the funds hit that wallet on the address they generated for your session.
You don't need to give them your email address, a card number, an expiry date, a security code, your address... they don't even need to know your name.
Oh, I posted above, it probably would have been more suitable here - I'm one of those sorts who gets... something... (I don't know that I'd call it precognition) when relatives die. It's not as simple as a thought coinciding with reality for me, it's hard to describe what it is (I used "panic attack" above) but it's a feeling I get all through my body, like a negative rush in every cell.
It's overpowering, and completely debilitating, I literally can't stand up through it. The physical feeling lasts maybe a minute, then transitions to a feeling of dread (which is now "oh shit something terrible just happened" obviously, but I used to get the dread feeling before I knew what was going on too - it seems to be a natural part of whatever is going on)
I get panic attacks when people I care about get badly hurt or die. Doesn't matter if they're thousands of miles away at the time (I've been in the UK and reacted to a broken leg in Arizona, anyway)
Take that however you will, I'm just some guy online and all so I don't expect much, but it seemed worth mentioning in this context. I'm very laid back generally, and don't really experience what I would describe as panic at any other time, I'm also very firmly grounded in the natural world, science, all that good stuff, but when people I care about get hurt I feel it the moment it happens, and I don't have any idea what the mechanism behind it might be.
I've only used the Xbox One, but when you record something (generally by just saying "Xbox record that" after something cool happens) it's automatically shared with your friends in a constantly updating "Friends clips" playlist. Being able to turn on your console when you get home from work and watch a highlights-reel of all the funny/weird/awesome stuff your friends thought was worth recording is a feature which is difficult to overrate.
When you upload worthy clips, they're also shown in a playlist on the store page for that game, so rather than simply browsing to a game you're interested in buying and watching a selection of cutscenes and carefully manicured gameplay trailers from the publisher, you get to watch as many gameplay clips as you like that average gamers thought worth recording - arguably a lot more useful in forming a decision on whether or not it's a game you'd enjoy playing.
You cannot fit a complete description of reality in said reality.
But you don't need to describe reality to the extent that it can trick those outside the simulation, it only needs to be complex enough to fool the AI.
anyone spending that amount of money for a fucking headset should be shot, period.
Jesus dude, don't hold back.
I bet he can't even say why he bought it other than things that could easily be disproved through simple tests.
I can't speak for that guy, but I've got some PX5's too, and here's why I like them, feel free to disprove these points through "simple tests"
- Dual bluetooth - I can switch between voice chat and a phone call without touching my phone or interrupting my game, and I'll still be able to hear what's going on in the game while I do so, or I can fire up a custom mp3 soundtracks on the PS3 even though the console doesn't support it
- 7.1 surround sound without a mess of cables running around the room, and which I can pump up as loud as I want at any time without bothering the people around me
- works on my ps3 and my 360, no need to have two different headsets lying around
- audio profiles that actually work, you can store profiles that selectively equalise the audio, raising the volume of footsteps to the point that it feels like cheating in multiplayer
- good quality mic - better than my other 360 or PS3 headsets according to the guys I routinely play with
- voice chat volume dynamically adjusts, so the game audio never drowns it out.
- comfy as fuck
All the reasons you gave as to why aliens wouldn't bother with Earth also applies to why humans wouldn't waste their time with [continent/country/landmass].
The new coins have shorter blockchains and often faster confirms. If I want to do stuff with bitcoins a week after having last opened the client, I have to wait a few hours for it to sync the changes to the blockchain, then after sending or receiving the payment, the confirmations take a few more hours. Doing the same in the likes of digicoin or worldcoin is currently far faster.
That's one advantage the new coins offer. Sure, their value is in the pennies rather than the hundreds, but that doesn't stop us sending the equivalent real-world value we want to send, it just means more coins have to change hands during the transactions.
We clearly haven't seen a legitimate rival to bitcoin's dominance yet (the current rivals have almost all been forked from its codebase somewhere along the way) but it'll happen, in the meantime some of the clones are definitely worth using.
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By this line of reasoning, humans don't perceive depth.
- The heat from the collision would have evaporated/released all elements lighter than X, which includes water. (ed: perhaps water on the moon is more closely related to early earth water coalesced and re-condensed?)
In this scenario, wouldn't much of the released elements have returned thanks to gravity?
Also if we're bringing Theia into it, maybe Theia is the source of the water?
"The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes."
- Bitcoin Whitepaper, Page 1
I've yet to meet siblings who have similar temperaments/behaviors. I call shenannigans.
I'm not sure I understand the question. MOHAA=Medal of Honor: Allied Assault if that's what you mean.
Shutting down the Allied Assault servers would be like saying "right that's it, no more Quake 3 guys, sorry" - it's the loss of a pivotal page from videogame history.
Ouch, there are some seminal titles in there. MOHAA is one of the most influential games I could name.
I haven't seen one of those for a while, but the right-click menu comes up on release. On sites that pop up a "right click disabled" messagebox on *click* you can just hold the button down, OK the popup, and then release the right button to trigger the menu.
Of course that doesn't work on sites that disable it silently.
You're thinking of single instance storage. Block-level deduplication works fine on encrypted data.
I agree, I used a stealth/mage/fighter/healer combo for any duels that happened to crop up pre-trammel (my house was in a hotspot of PvP activity and my guild had a way of making enemies) I didn't come anywhere near grandmastering a single skill on him, but that class was built for murder and served me very well against hardened PvPers over the years.
Skill locking didn't enter into things for a few years though, in the good old days you could spend forever GMing your main skills, then walk past somebody playing a harp and passively gain musicianship, losing hours upon hours of progress in a second.
Even an on/off switch for PvP would have been better than what they did. What they did was create a second copy of the map, they left the original unchanged and made the second strictly PvM.
The result was that rather than toggling PvP off and going about their business, when people wanted to go out and do stuff without the risk of getting jumped, they just hopped over to the PvM world to do it.
So instead of having one interesting, bustling world where everybody played alongside each other in a manner they chose. We ended up with a dull, sterile PvM world, and an interesting but empty PvP world.
MtGox, Vircurex or any other exchange getting hacked is a tragedy, but those are problems with their code rather than the underlying technology. Pointing at dead exchanges and proclaiming it to be the downfall of bitcoin, is like pointing at IIS when a new exploit comes out and yelling that HTTP is doomed.
Cryptocurrency is a genie that's out of its bottle, you would do well to try to understand it for what it is, rather than the get rich quick scheme you're interpreting it to be, because it really is a revolutionary technology, and it's not going away.
I used to be one of those guys, then I really looked into what it is and how it works and was really, *really* impressed.
This says it all - it *sounds* like it's untrustworthy, but the reality is that it isn't, otherwise it would be worthless by now (it's open source after all - if it could be picked apart so easy it would have been)
What you're noticing is a slew of bad news tangentially related to the core technology. CPUs aren't at fault for Windows' security failings, HTML's not at fault for IIS, and BitCoin's not broken because MtGox wrote bad code.
I'm not sure I follow - that whitepaper is an explanation of what it is and how it works. It was specifically designed as a form of digital cash from day 1.
Uhhh, I hate to break it to you, but...
That's always true, and there's always plenty of good music being made, we just tend to have an emotional attachment to music that we associate with the time in our lives when we were listening to a lot of music and going out into the world and doing new things, and obviously since they're lasting musical choices, our kids end up hearing them and liking them because they're stuck in the same house with us (and the bands we enjoyed in our formative years are genuinely good)
I'd recommend giving some good stuff made in the last decade a listen to see how you get on. Anything by The Black Keys or Cold War Kids is a safe bet. If you're a fan of albums as complete experiences, try Everything All The Time by Band of Horses, Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter, Teen Dream by Beach House, Glory Hope Mountain by The Acorn, Becoming a Jackal by the Villagers and plenty more.
There's never been a better time to love music than now - we have the internet, we have a world of music at our fingertips. There are plenty of bands in all different genres keeping it real all over the world. You're cheating yourself out of a world of fantastic music if you stick with decades old American rock.
How do you mean? I've used bitcoin to sign up for subscription sites before - all I had to do was choose a username and password and send the funds to a wallet address they sent which was unique to my session.
How do they go about figuring out anything else about me?
All a site needs to do to accept a bitcoin payment is generate a wallet address for that session and present it to the user - all they need to do to know they've been paid is see the funds hit that wallet on the address they generated for your session.
You don't need to give them your email address, a card number, an expiry date, a security code, your address... they don't even need to know your name.
Oh, I posted above, it probably would have been more suitable here - I'm one of those sorts who gets ... something ... (I don't know that I'd call it precognition) when relatives die. It's not as simple as a thought coinciding with reality for me, it's hard to describe what it is (I used "panic attack" above) but it's a feeling I get all through my body, like a negative rush in every cell.
It's overpowering, and completely debilitating, I literally can't stand up through it. The physical feeling lasts maybe a minute, then transitions to a feeling of dread (which is now "oh shit something terrible just happened" obviously, but I used to get the dread feeling before I knew what was going on too - it seems to be a natural part of whatever is going on)
I get panic attacks when people I care about get badly hurt or die. Doesn't matter if they're thousands of miles away at the time (I've been in the UK and reacted to a broken leg in Arizona, anyway)
Take that however you will, I'm just some guy online and all so I don't expect much, but it seemed worth mentioning in this context. I'm very laid back generally, and don't really experience what I would describe as panic at any other time, I'm also very firmly grounded in the natural world, science, all that good stuff, but when people I care about get hurt I feel it the moment it happens, and I don't have any idea what the mechanism behind it might be.
I've only used the Xbox One, but when you record something (generally by just saying "Xbox record that" after something cool happens) it's automatically shared with your friends in a constantly updating "Friends clips" playlist. Being able to turn on your console when you get home from work and watch a highlights-reel of all the funny/weird/awesome stuff your friends thought was worth recording is a feature which is difficult to overrate.
When you upload worthy clips, they're also shown in a playlist on the store page for that game, so rather than simply browsing to a game you're interested in buying and watching a selection of cutscenes and carefully manicured gameplay trailers from the publisher, you get to watch as many gameplay clips as you like that average gamers thought worth recording - arguably a lot more useful in forming a decision on whether or not it's a game you'd enjoy playing.
But you don't need to describe reality to the extent that it can trick those outside the simulation, it only needs to be complex enough to fool the AI.
Jesus dude, don't hold back.
I can't speak for that guy, but I've got some PX5's too, and here's why I like them, feel free to disprove these points through "simple tests"
- Dual bluetooth - I can switch between voice chat and a phone call without touching my phone or interrupting my game, and I'll still be able to hear what's going on in the game while I do so, or I can fire up a custom mp3 soundtracks on the PS3 even though the console doesn't support it
- 7.1 surround sound without a mess of cables running around the room, and which I can pump up as loud as I want at any time without bothering the people around me
- works on my ps3 and my 360, no need to have two different headsets lying around
- audio profiles that actually work, you can store profiles that selectively equalise the audio, raising the volume of footsteps to the point that it feels like cheating in multiplayer
- good quality mic - better than my other 360 or PS3 headsets according to the guys I routinely play with
- voice chat volume dynamically adjusts, so the game audio never drowns it out.
- comfy as fuck
That'll probably do.
So if your mother was raped and the event was recorded, you wouldn't find people posting the video of it on "bestrapes.com" disrespectful?
You might want to give your position a little more thought.
You missed 3) Colonisation.
All the reasons you gave as to why aliens wouldn't bother with Earth also applies to why humans wouldn't waste their time with [continent/country/landmass].
The new coins have shorter blockchains and often faster confirms. If I want to do stuff with bitcoins a week after having last opened the client, I have to wait a few hours for it to sync the changes to the blockchain, then after sending or receiving the payment, the confirmations take a few more hours. Doing the same in the likes of digicoin or worldcoin is currently far faster.
That's one advantage the new coins offer. Sure, their value is in the pennies rather than the hundreds, but that doesn't stop us sending the equivalent real-world value we want to send, it just means more coins have to change hands during the transactions.
We clearly haven't seen a legitimate rival to bitcoin's dominance yet (the current rivals have almost all been forked from its codebase somewhere along the way) but it'll happen, in the meantime some of the clones are definitely worth using.