I also don't play WoW, so I'm not sure how (or even if) they combat inflation, but I know other games get round it by removing wealth from the game in the form of wear and tear on equipment. Anything consumable would also allow wealth to be removed from the game, although if it's easily created (food growing on trees, say) it won't make much difference.
There are all kinds of other ways you could remove wealth - NPC's charging tolls to cross bridges, say. Anything where something of value disappears from the came will compensate for the increase in money supply caused and equipment caused by new players and monsters.
In other words, Google searches are more efficient that looking it up in a book. Better targeting is a good thing. If you want general information about a topic, you look it up on Wikipedia, if you want specific information about a very precise topic, you Google it (using Google Scholar if appropriate). Books have their purposes, but finding an answer to a question isn't one of them - the net is much better for that.
Actually, you can't see anything dead centre, because that's where the optic nerve joins the retina. That's why astronomers are often given the tip of looking slightly to the side of dim objects so that they're easier to see. The best detail is visible just off-centre.
Where it's best to put the data depends on what kind of data it is. If it's something you only need to be peripherally aware of (graphics, rather than text, presumably), it could be quite good off to the side. Having overlays in the middle of your field of view could be very distracting. Something which detects movement of the eye and scrolls the view could be quite good - then you could just look at the data you're interested in.
Gerrymandering is only a problem when local areas are making choices which affect a large area (for example, electing a representative to national government). Choosing just those counties that have a majority wanting to be part of the UK to be part of the UK isn't gerrymandering, it's giving the people what they want. Whether NI is part of the RoI or the UK doesn't really affect anyone other than those living in NI, so NI having the choice only makes sense.
The IRA's bombings weren't (in most cases) intended to kill people, they even gave warnings so the appropriate areas could be evacuated. I guess they just wanted publicity for their cause for the most part. Al Qaeda are very fond of indiscriminate killing, which is much more likely to cause hysteria.
Last I heard, White Knight 2 was the *first stage* of a *sub*-orbital launch. How is it meant to get anything into orbit? Starting a sub-orbital craft from high altitude (as WK2 allows SS2 to do) makes sense, but I can't see it being much help with an orbital launch.
Because few governments expect to still be in power in 30 year's time, so what's the point? Cynical? Me? Never...;)
It's worth pointing out that the primary missions of the Voyager probes were to explore the outer planets, which they did with great success many years ago (and we have sent more probes since). The fact that they are still active now and sending back useful information about the termination shock is just a bonus, so what you say about only sending two being a risk isn't really valid.
I prefer shorter keywords - google is "?" and Wikipedia is "w". Those are the only two I use. I also find it extremely annoying when I end up having to actually type urls when on someone else's computer... oh, I forgot one - slashdot is "/.".
Nevertheless, it's not a very good comparison. There is no way to tell if the improvements are from changes made between 1.5 and 2.0, or 2.0 and the beta of 3. If there were many improvements made between 1.5 and 2.0, and then some of them were undone between 2.0 and 3, you would still see a great improvement between 1.5 and 3, despite 3 actually being a bad upgrade.
It may well depend on the field - my experience is with Maths papers. Also, I'm thinking of pre-prints rather than papers from journals - journals are more commonly PDF, now I think about it. But my point stands - PDF is far from universal.
That's not a single-point-of-failure. One webhost goes down, that a handful of website inaccessible, not the whole web. The issue with url shrinkers is that one server going down can break thousands of links to completely unrelated sites. Redundancy is not the opposite of single-point-of-failure (although it does preclude it).
"By the way, all scientific papers are disseminated by PDF."
Actually, most scientific papers I see are disseminated as PostScript (often with a PDF option for people without ghostscript or similar installed - basically, non-academics).
It's nonsense to talk about how big it's going to get. It's expanding in space - it's going to keep expanding forever (the solar wind might stop it expanding symmetrically, though). It will just get thinner and thinner. The interesting thing is that it's still easily visible, but it will start to dim eventually as it gets too thin to reflect much light. The question is how big it will get while still reflecting enough light for it to be visible to the naked eye (in fact, I think only the middle can be seen without a telescope already), and that should be fairly easy to calculate.
Sorry, I should have said "successfully sue". Sure, anyone can file a lawsuit on anyone else, but you're not going to be awarded damages for copyright violation if you don't own the copyrights (well... if you get a good lawyer and a bad judge, anything is possible, but I'll ignore miscarriages of justice for the sake of argument).
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The stock market is far from a zero-sum game... otherwise the indexes wouldn't change.
I also don't play WoW, so I'm not sure how (or even if) they combat inflation, but I know other games get round it by removing wealth from the game in the form of wear and tear on equipment. Anything consumable would also allow wealth to be removed from the game, although if it's easily created (food growing on trees, say) it won't make much difference.
There are all kinds of other ways you could remove wealth - NPC's charging tolls to cross bridges, say. Anything where something of value disappears from the came will compensate for the increase in money supply caused and equipment caused by new players and monsters.
In other words, Google searches are more efficient that looking it up in a book. Better targeting is a good thing. If you want general information about a topic, you look it up on Wikipedia, if you want specific information about a very precise topic, you Google it (using Google Scholar if appropriate). Books have their purposes, but finding an answer to a question isn't one of them - the net is much better for that.
That's what I was thinking. I don't know if it's actually possible, but it's certainly plausible.
Hey, it keeps people on their toes!
I stand corrected. Thank you.
Are you familiar with the standard purpose of a contact lens?
They would presumably do it in such a way that it's clear when focusing at a normal distance, the same way VR headsets work.
Actually, you can't see anything dead centre, because that's where the optic nerve joins the retina. That's why astronomers are often given the tip of looking slightly to the side of dim objects so that they're easier to see. The best detail is visible just off-centre.
Where it's best to put the data depends on what kind of data it is. If it's something you only need to be peripherally aware of (graphics, rather than text, presumably), it could be quite good off to the side. Having overlays in the middle of your field of view could be very distracting. Something which detects movement of the eye and scrolls the view could be quite good - then you could just look at the data you're interested in.
Gerrymandering is only a problem when local areas are making choices which affect a large area (for example, electing a representative to national government). Choosing just those counties that have a majority wanting to be part of the UK to be part of the UK isn't gerrymandering, it's giving the people what they want. Whether NI is part of the RoI or the UK doesn't really affect anyone other than those living in NI, so NI having the choice only makes sense.
I wouldn't count an attack against armed forces as terrorism. It's just war. Most attacks against innocent civilians were not intended to kill.
Has your tin foil hat slipped?
The IRA's bombings weren't (in most cases) intended to kill people, they even gave warnings so the appropriate areas could be evacuated. I guess they just wanted publicity for their cause for the most part. Al Qaeda are very fond of indiscriminate killing, which is much more likely to cause hysteria.
The addresses work, the protocols are different, however, so there is more involved in switching to IPv6 than prefixing the address with ::ffff:.
Last I heard, White Knight 2 was the *first stage* of a *sub*-orbital launch. How is it meant to get anything into orbit? Starting a sub-orbital craft from high altitude (as WK2 allows SS2 to do) makes sense, but I can't see it being much help with an orbital launch.
Because few governments expect to still be in power in 30 year's time, so what's the point? Cynical? Me? Never... ;)
It's worth pointing out that the primary missions of the Voyager probes were to explore the outer planets, which they did with great success many years ago (and we have sent more probes since). The fact that they are still active now and sending back useful information about the termination shock is just a bonus, so what you say about only sending two being a risk isn't really valid.
I prefer shorter keywords - google is "?" and Wikipedia is "w". Those are the only two I use. I also find it extremely annoying when I end up having to actually type urls when on someone else's computer... oh, I forgot one - slashdot is "/.".
Nevertheless, it's not a very good comparison. There is no way to tell if the improvements are from changes made between 1.5 and 2.0, or 2.0 and the beta of 3. If there were many improvements made between 1.5 and 2.0, and then some of them were undone between 2.0 and 3, you would still see a great improvement between 1.5 and 3, despite 3 actually being a bad upgrade.
Why are you comparing to an old version?
It may well depend on the field - my experience is with Maths papers. Also, I'm thinking of pre-prints rather than papers from journals - journals are more commonly PDF, now I think about it. But my point stands - PDF is far from universal.
That's not a single-point-of-failure. One webhost goes down, that a handful of website inaccessible, not the whole web. The issue with url shrinkers is that one server going down can break thousands of links to completely unrelated sites. Redundancy is not the opposite of single-point-of-failure (although it does preclude it).
Signing with tildes on the Wikipedia mailing lists is bad enough, but on Slashdot? You really should be ashamed...
"By the way, all scientific papers are disseminated by PDF."
Actually, most scientific papers I see are disseminated as PostScript (often with a PDF option for people without ghostscript or similar installed - basically, non-academics).
It's nonsense to talk about how big it's going to get. It's expanding in space - it's going to keep expanding forever (the solar wind might stop it expanding symmetrically, though). It will just get thinner and thinner. The interesting thing is that it's still easily visible, but it will start to dim eventually as it gets too thin to reflect much light. The question is how big it will get while still reflecting enough light for it to be visible to the naked eye (in fact, I think only the middle can be seen without a telescope already), and that should be fairly easy to calculate.
Sorry, I should have said "successfully sue". Sure, anyone can file a lawsuit on anyone else, but you're not going to be awarded damages for copyright violation if you don't own the copyrights (well... if you get a good lawyer and a bad judge, anything is possible, but I'll ignore miscarriages of justice for the sake of argument).