Of course, the same genes that offer resistance or immunity to one disease often come with a vulnerability to another. It's why I'm so wary of globally applied gene therapy or Hitler-esque sterilization of populations due to so-called genetic inferiority. They might be 'inferior' now, but when another disease comes along and they're healthy while you're not, the shoe'll be on the other foot.
This article is about magnetic portals. Portal is also the title of a first-person adventure game for PC developed and published by Valve. One of the catchphrases from Portal is "The cake is a lie!", hence sokoban's comment "The summary is a lie".
Yes. Which the above poster obviously knew, given his usage of the phrases "it was a triumph", "there's science to do" and "for the good of all of us", all phrases that appear in similar or identical form in the end credits song of the aforementioned game.
I'm not entirely sure why people are trying to explain the joke when he so obviously got it.
Actually, if they're intentionally brainstorming in public, it's probably a smart move.
Rather than getting a bunch of clueless newbies in some closed-door meeting to talk about potential 'solutions' for a month only to find out that the eventual solution decided on was a bad one and they have to go back to the drawing board, they can publicly mull over ideas, watch the reaction on the internet, and make judgements that way.
It's distributed decision making. They posit an idea, the internet declares whether or not the idea is a good one, and suggests where the flaws are if it has any. Then they know where to focus their attention. For example, someone in here has already mentioned that the only way to really ensure everyone has such filtering installed is if it's on the processor itself. Now the RIAA/MPAA know to go directly to Intel and AMD to work out their little problem, rather than trying to come up with solutions that they hand out via movie or music.
Governmentally enforced vaccinations against something the government taxes? While it might happen due to "Family values" campaigning, etc, the amount of tax money gleaned from cigarette sales isn't insignificant. So either someone, somewhere in the government will fight against this due to financial reasons, or we're looking at a source of income for the government drying up.
Assuming the government is even around in ten years.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
It's a plain-as-day numbers and percentages survey of who has what on their computer. The user base is obviously from gamers, but it's the closest we're going to get short of getting something like connection statistics on Google or something.
The short story? Less than 6% have Vista. Out of 350k responses.
In the long run, accepting China's censorship rules is a -good- decision and a decision for good.
In the dark ages, science was dead. It wasn't until trade with the east brought goods AND ideas west that society started shaking up a bit. People started figuring out that there were alternatives to feudalistic society.
In short, trade equals exchange of ideas. Exchange of ideas equals social change. Social change equals social revolution.
Google had two choices with China (and any other country that wants censorship): Be blocked entirely from the country in every way possible, thereby preventing exchange of ideas and hampering social change OR get a foot in the door to the country, providing access to new concepts to the Chinese and thereby slowly bringing about social change and potential revolution. YES, some things are censored, but as we all know, no censoring software is perfect, and humans won't think of everything. With Google there, EVEN censoring things, ideas of freedom will leak through and spark social change.
The decision to bow to the wishes of China's censorship in order to gain access to their populace was a good, moral decision.
Yeah, it's a random bug. There seem to be a lot of those right now... The patch made a lot of them (like siege cannons doing one tenth the damage they should).
Yes, however that's assuming the team actually wanted to remove the possibility of rushing, which it didn't. Flayra (the coder) wanted rushes to be something that was a viable tactic, but not always successful.
And it isn't always successful.
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Actually, the balance is near-perfect in NS now. The inital release was unbalanced due to a bug in the economy, but now that that's fixed, the balance is about 95% of what it was near the end of the six months of Playtesting.
The only problem is that the game -requires- teamplay, and finding teamplay on public servers is somewhat hard. So the better -team- wins.
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You mean hobbling out of Wilson's office.
Of course, the same genes that offer resistance or immunity to one disease often come with a vulnerability to another. It's why I'm so wary of globally applied gene therapy or Hitler-esque sterilization of populations due to so-called genetic inferiority. They might be 'inferior' now, but when another disease comes along and they're healthy while you're not, the shoe'll be on the other foot.
This article is about magnetic portals. Portal is also the title of a first-person adventure game for PC developed and published by Valve. One of the catchphrases from Portal is "The cake is a lie!", hence sokoban's comment "The summary is a lie".
Yes. Which the above poster obviously knew, given his usage of the phrases "it was a triumph", "there's science to do" and "for the good of all of us", all phrases that appear in similar or identical form in the end credits song of the aforementioned game. I'm not entirely sure why people are trying to explain the joke when he so obviously got it.
Actually, if they're intentionally brainstorming in public, it's probably a smart move. Rather than getting a bunch of clueless newbies in some closed-door meeting to talk about potential 'solutions' for a month only to find out that the eventual solution decided on was a bad one and they have to go back to the drawing board, they can publicly mull over ideas, watch the reaction on the internet, and make judgements that way. It's distributed decision making. They posit an idea, the internet declares whether or not the idea is a good one, and suggests where the flaws are if it has any. Then they know where to focus their attention. For example, someone in here has already mentioned that the only way to really ensure everyone has such filtering installed is if it's on the processor itself. Now the RIAA/MPAA know to go directly to Intel and AMD to work out their little problem, rather than trying to come up with solutions that they hand out via movie or music.
What, you mean an anisble, ala Orson Scott Card's Ender series?
Governmentally enforced vaccinations against something the government taxes? While it might happen due to "Family values" campaigning, etc, the amount of tax money gleaned from cigarette sales isn't insignificant. So either someone, somewhere in the government will fight against this due to financial reasons, or we're looking at a source of income for the government drying up.
Assuming the government is even around in ten years.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html It's a plain-as-day numbers and percentages survey of who has what on their computer. The user base is obviously from gamers, but it's the closest we're going to get short of getting something like connection statistics on Google or something. The short story? Less than 6% have Vista. Out of 350k responses.
In the long run, accepting China's censorship rules is a -good- decision and a decision for good.
In the dark ages, science was dead. It wasn't until trade with the east brought goods AND ideas west that society started shaking up a bit. People started figuring out that there were alternatives to feudalistic society.
In short, trade equals exchange of ideas. Exchange of ideas equals social change. Social change equals social revolution.
Google had two choices with China (and any other country that wants censorship): Be blocked entirely from the country in every way possible, thereby preventing exchange of ideas and hampering social change OR get a foot in the door to the country, providing access to new concepts to the Chinese and thereby slowly bringing about social change and potential revolution. YES, some things are censored, but as we all know, no censoring software is perfect, and humans won't think of everything. With Google there, EVEN censoring things, ideas of freedom will leak through and spark social change.
The decision to bow to the wishes of China's censorship in order to gain access to their populace was a good, moral decision.
Yeah, it's a random bug. There seem to be a lot of those right now... The patch made a lot of them (like siege cannons doing one tenth the damage they should).
Yes, however that's assuming the team actually wanted to remove the possibility of rushing, which it didn't. Flayra (the coder) wanted rushes to be something that was a viable tactic, but not always successful. And it isn't always successful.
Actually, the balance is near-perfect in NS now. The inital release was unbalanced due to a bug in the economy, but now that that's fixed, the balance is about 95% of what it was near the end of the six months of Playtesting.
The only problem is that the game -requires- teamplay, and finding teamplay on public servers is somewhat hard. So the better -team- wins.