Crytek had me as a paying customer because of the free Farcry demo. I also bought Crysis after playing the free demo level for that, and purchased the expansion pack as a followup.
I did NOT purchase FarCry 2 as there was no demo to try it out and see if I liked the gameplay. Without a demo I will NOT purchase Crysis 2.
It's not a "self-incrimination" clause, it is a clause against being a witness against yourself in a criminal case.
excerpt from the Fifth Amendment:
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
The difference that I'm trying to make is that there doesn't have to be a presumption of self-incrimination to invoke it, just that you don't wish to testify about something involving yourself.
There is a lag in their video setup, delaying the reactions of the driver. He is seeing things maybe a half of a second (?) after the vehicle has done them.
This has nothing to do with the 3rd person view or applicability of video games to learning driving skills.
(off topic) Does anyone know of a video camera/display setup that would have less than a 60th of a second lag (LCD refresh rate) between what is really happening and what you see on the screen?
Surprisingly, (sarcasm) the summary is misleading. From reading the article, the research is about finding out about marine scavengers in low oxygen ocean environments, and how low of a concentration of oxygen they will tolerate in order to feed.
"So Professor Tunnicliffe and her team set out to find out "how low marine scavengers would go", in terms of oxygen, for a free lunch."
It has nothing to do with dead humans sinking or floating or decomposing. The pigs were a convenient bait that they tethered to the ocean floor in specific areas of specific oxygen concentrations.
They learned that the scavengers would spend days in a 7% oxygen environment, which was previously thought to be uninhabitable, but if the bait was placed in an even lower oxygen area, it was left alone by everything except bacteria.
One of the obvious differences that others have mentioned is cost, but the reason is more important. The others were developed under government contract and on huge government budgets. This results in rockets that cost over 100 million USD to launch. SpaceX is a private company developing their own technology primarily using their own money, allowing them to develop vehicles that cost significantly less to launch.
A need for destruction doesn't have to be internalized to the target. Imagine that the team's leadership declared that a mission's target was A, B, and C and tells them that those targets need to be destroyed in order to save the day. Now the team is out in the field and they spot target C; as far as the team is concerned, C "is something that needs to be destroyed".
If you pause and contemplate for a while instead, C may very well blow your ass, err, mule up.
The radios were made by an older, different company. The latter computer company purchased the rights to the Packard Bell name to try to cash in on the existing goodwill that the name had as an old American manufacturer of electronics.
"other countries who fingerprint visitors could be equally vulnerable — not least the United States", according to BBC Asia analyst Andre Vornic.
Vornic needs to do some research. Criminals in the US have been attempting to surgically alter or mask their fingerprints since at least the 1930s, and the FBI has been researching the techniques since then as well. I remember reading about this in a book from the 60's, where a counterfeiter surgically swapped his prints around, and the FBI recognized them, out of order, and matched them back up with the original fingers.
that is full of fascinating information about the process, and explains it much more coherently than 4th person version of the events that we get from Slashdot's summary.
I was poking fun at Flyingbishop for trying to create an evidence chain that starts with a belief in an omnipotent being.
Have you read Carl Sagan's Contact? The book was much better than the movie and it spent some time exploring the religion/science conflicts. I'm firmly in the pure science until proven otherwise category, but that book allowed me to see your viewpoint.
Without reading the article, (this is slashdot after all), the summary seems to indicate that they are modeling the eel's body motion. They do not appear to be modeling a brain that controls a body's motion, and along with it, everything else that a creature's brain is supposed to do.
Two different technologies to create two different materials that happen to share the same description. The 2004 story you linked to is about a product that is in production, with real world tangible benefits, and is actually transparent in the visual spectrum. The one in the current story can't claim any of that.
Why not put it somewhere isolated that is very cold or very hot, like Alaska or the desert, where the environment would help limit the spread of any escaped pathogens, not give them an ideal breeding ground like Kansas would.
You could use the argument that researchers wouldn't want to live there, but you could say the same thing about Kansas!
If only we lived in a world where government agencies got the funding that they needed regardless of current taxpayer whim. In one example, if NASA drops in popularity then they become an easy target for Senators looking to make a name for themselves as budget cutters.
Thus any scoops or special announcements that they can come up with help keep them popular in the taxpayer's eye and help keep the budget cutters away.
If you can find something that you like to do you will meet other people who like the same thing and friendships will develop. I met a future girlfriend while mountain biking...
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Crytek had me as a paying customer because of the free Farcry demo. I also bought Crysis after playing the free demo level for that, and purchased the expansion pack as a followup.
I did NOT purchase FarCry 2 as there was no demo to try it out and see if I liked the gameplay. Without a demo I will NOT purchase Crysis 2.
It's not a "self-incrimination" clause, it is a clause against being a witness against yourself in a criminal case.
excerpt from the Fifth Amendment:
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
The difference that I'm trying to make is that there doesn't have to be a presumption of self-incrimination to invoke it, just that you don't wish to testify about something involving yourself.
There is a lag in their video setup, delaying the reactions of the driver. He is seeing things maybe a half of a second (?) after the vehicle has done them.
This has nothing to do with the 3rd person view or applicability of video games to learning driving skills.
(off topic) Does anyone know of a video camera/display setup that would have less than a 60th of a second lag (LCD refresh rate) between what is really happening and what you see on the screen?
I wish I would have just stuck with my first read of the title. The real one is not nearly so much fun.
on my display, the parent has a negative mod total.
I am surprised this is possible.
I wonder if the mod history on the comment show multiple negative mods on a zero mod comment.
It appears there are people with mod points who read zero mod stuff and do negative mods on them.
A/C posts start at zero. If something is worse than just a random A/C comment, it gets lowered below zero. No mystery.
Surprisingly, (sarcasm) the summary is misleading. From reading the article, the research is about finding out about marine scavengers in low oxygen ocean environments, and how low of a concentration of oxygen they will tolerate in order to feed.
"So Professor Tunnicliffe and her team set out to find out "how low marine scavengers would go", in terms of oxygen, for a free lunch."
It has nothing to do with dead humans sinking or floating or decomposing. The pigs were a convenient bait that they tethered to the ocean floor in specific areas of specific oxygen concentrations.
They learned that the scavengers would spend days in a 7% oxygen environment, which was previously thought to be uninhabitable, but if the bait was placed in an even lower oxygen area, it was left alone by everything except bacteria.
If it's going into orbit, even the wrong one, they do NOT blow it up.
One of the obvious differences that others have mentioned is cost, but the reason is more important. The others were developed under government contract and on huge government budgets. This results in rockets that cost over 100 million USD to launch. SpaceX is a private company developing their own technology primarily using their own money, allowing them to develop vehicles that cost significantly less to launch.
You're splitting hairs.
A need for destruction doesn't have to be internalized to the target. Imagine that the team's leadership declared that a mission's target was A, B, and C and tells them that those targets need to be destroyed in order to save the day. Now the team is out in the field and they spot target C; as far as the team is concerned, C "is something that needs to be destroyed".
If you pause and contemplate for a while instead, C may very well blow your ass, err, mule up.
The radios were made by an older, different company. The latter computer company purchased the rights to the Packard Bell name to try to cash in on the existing goodwill that the name had as an old American manufacturer of electronics.
You must be in Europe? Packard Bell stopped selling computers in the US around 2000 due to their horrible quality reputation in North America.
"other countries who fingerprint visitors could be equally vulnerable — not least the United States", according to BBC Asia analyst Andre Vornic.
Vornic needs to do some research. Criminals in the US have been attempting to surgically alter or mask their fingerprints since at least the 1930s, and the FBI has been researching the techniques since then as well. I remember reading about this in a book from the 60's, where a counterfeiter surgically swapped his prints around, and the FBI recognized them, out of order, and matched them back up with the original fingers.
I believe that the previous poster may have made the same brilliant intellectual leap that I independently made, and went to the Company's web page.
There you will find a video:
http://www.bioagtive.com/index.php?p=0&videoID=852
that is full of fascinating information about the process, and explains it much more coherently than 4th person version of the events that we get from Slashdot's summary.
"and it my shit a cataleptic fit."
WTF?? I think you should be content with redundant and be glad there are no -1 Idiotic or -1 Disgusting mods.
I was poking fun at Flyingbishop for trying to create an evidence chain that starts with a belief in an omnipotent being.
Have you read Carl Sagan's Contact? The book was much better than the movie and it spent some time exploring the religion/science conflicts. I'm firmly in the pure science until proven otherwise category, but
that book allowed me to see your viewpoint.
One word:
malwarebytes
Detecting and removing botnet software is its purpose in life.
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol
God gave us the capacity to create life. That's pretty evident.
It is? Where is the evidence for any god?
Without reading the article, (this is slashdot after all), the summary seems to indicate that they are modeling the eel's body motion. They do not appear to be modeling a brain that controls a body's motion, and along with it, everything else that a creature's brain is supposed to do.
AMD x2 64 @ 3000 on win xp 64.
4 gb ram
firefox 3.5.2 1280x1024
By default it was utilizing both cores, but even when I forced it to one it rarely went over 10%, with the average under 6%.
Two different technologies to create two different materials that happen to share the same description. The 2004 story you linked to is about a product that is in production, with real world tangible benefits, and is actually transparent in the visual spectrum. The one in the current story can't claim any of that.
... in it's 50+ years I haven't heard of one incident.
Perhaps you should read the Wikipedia article that you linked to.
It references this NY Times article about outbreaks at the facility:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/nyregion/plum-island-reports-disease-outbreak.html
Why not put it somewhere isolated that is very cold or very hot, like Alaska or the desert, where the environment would help limit the spread of any escaped pathogens, not give them an ideal breeding ground like Kansas would.
You could use the argument that researchers wouldn't want to live there, but you could say the same thing about Kansas!
chickens in choppers?
If only we lived in a world where government agencies got the funding that they needed regardless of current taxpayer whim. In one example, if NASA drops in popularity then they become an easy target for Senators looking to make a name for themselves as budget cutters.
Thus any scoops or special announcements that they can come up with help keep them popular in the taxpayer's eye and help keep the budget cutters away.
Take up an outdoor sport.
If you can find something that you like to do you will meet other people who like the same thing and friendships will develop. I met a future girlfriend while mountain biking...