I think you are missing the point. If they setup an new language *HappyJoy* and write a *HappyJoy* compiler to cross platform java script. You use can then code in *HappyJoy* (which will only have features that it can implement on all supported platforms) and not care what the user's are running on. Now IMO if they setup a simple form validation / basic DHTML language this could work well for most simple apps. The problem with JavaScript is there is no separation between the cross browser hacks and the basic functional code which means that even the simplest functionality can quickly get out of hand.
PS: We have Java if you want to make an App what we need is a way to get simple form validation / DHTML working.
FYI: If the Red Cross paid you at 100$/h for 10 hours work you would need to pay into SS and Medicare + taxes. If you then donated what was left say 60*10 = 600$ you could avoid paying taxes on that but you would still owe SS and Medicare.
So what your asking for is to give 100$ * 10 to the Red Cross (aka what they would need to pay you) AND get paid by the government for this. Thus you do 1,000$ in work but are paid 1250$ and give 1000$ to the Red Cross keeping 250$.
PS: I think you can see where this would cause problems aka Red Cross says you did 1 mill of work for them at no cost to them... the government gives you 250k... you then give 50k back to the Red Cross.
I don't think the right left debate describes the current political landscape vary well. I want to reduce government spending in most areas, but I have no problem with the basic idea of entitlements within reason. For example the US government spends more money per person on medicine than Canada even though they have "totally subsidized" health care.
IMO: You can get people off welfare though employment options or ending the program but one solves problems and the other creates problems. Like most people I don't fit into a single position in the political landscape. I would like to:
Free trade: I believe in the basic concept of free trade, but it only really works when you're dealing with a truly level playing field. There is no way to compete with countries that are willing to forgo worker safety and don't mind dumping toxins wherever they wish. I think protectionism is a bad idea but we need to understand it's not a fundamentally level playing field out there. EX: China is fucking with their currency and we may need to do the same types of things if we want to maintain dominance.
Military: Budget dropped by 50 - 75%. We need to get out of IRAQ in an orderly fashion not a mad dash, but we really don't need 3/4 of the bases in the US and a many of the weapon systems are a huge waste of cash ect. . NASA: Drop manned space flight. NASA should work on propulsion systems, robotics, data gathering, and biosphere type self-contained / stable environments. When we can setup a space station that can go without re-supply for 10 years then I think it's a good idea until then it's a stupid waste of resources.
Social Security: Up retirement age to 70 shifting to 75 over the next 40 years. We need to start investing the "surplus" in stocks and bonds vs. using it to prop up the national debt.
Prescription Drug benefit: Kill this off.
TAXES:
Integrate Social Security and Medicare into the normal tax system so we can have a progressive tax system. Aka stop taxing people making 90k more than people making 900k.
Remove any tax brakes other than # of dependents. If you want to donate to the Red Cross fine you still owe taxes on all of your income. If you want to build a wind farm great! just pay for it out of your own pocket. If the government would like to setup grants to do thing then fine, but people are all to willing to spend money though tax breaks where thy would never pay for these things out of the general budget.
Stop subsidizing farmers. If we want to secure the food supply then keep a few years of food on hand don't fuck up the world economy and subsidies the eating habits of the rest of the world. We make around 60% of the worlds food we need to start charging what this is really worth.
Basic Research: Dumping lots of money into non-military R&D seems to give great return on investment. I say dump billions info Fusion, partial physics, basic medicine, solar cells ect. Because these things tend to create long-term growth.
Political Messy Research: I think the Data on things like pollution, climate, and educational research need to be on the web free for all to see. People are always going to want to put their own spin on things but suppressing the basic data is a waste of public money. I think we should setup a.gov website for ALL non-classified research that includes the methods and data for every public study ever preformed. You are going to have people on both sides trying to screw with things but the basic data and methods needs to be open.
Anyway, do you think this make me right left center and how much of this do you agree with you?
Not really, there are two post's with the same problems, but they are a "self selecting population" aka if it had worked for you then you would have been less likely to post. The real "sample size" would be everyone that had read the article and used the eye patch. Not simply those who posted a negative response.
However, with a large enough self selecting population you can use the sample size of "everyone that had the procedure" and say something like "If 1,000 people are complaining then 1,000 in 1,000,000 people must have problems with this procedure so we should look into it...
"POT" contains many harmful substances, but it's effects can help some people cope with their day-to-day lives. I know several highly intelligent people who benefit from regular usage of "POT". While self-medication is a bad idea POT is about as dangerous as drinking alcohol or smoking.
It has a bad name but its effects vary greatly from person to person. Individual body chemistry plays a huge role in the body's response to drugs. I have seen POT severely damage a close friend of mine, but I also know 30+year users who make ~200k/year, are wonderful parents, and great friends. The idea that POT can't have any medical benefit is just as silly as the idea as the idea that it's safe for anyone to use.
The electrons inside a CRT are around 350,000,000 Kelvin just before they hit the screen. Which sounds all insane but it's only 30KeV. High energy partial physics is into the Gev range http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/ferminews03-11-0 1/p4.html is pushing 800 GeV which works out to ~8.8 * 10^15 or 8,800,000,000,000,000 Kelvin. But temperature is only part of the issue density is also important.
Most systems working in this energy range only have a tiny number of particles with this energy. Think of it like taking all the energy in a cup of hot coffee and dumping it into a tiny fraction of a drop. Yea that drop is really hot but when you put that back in a cup it's only going to heat things up to normal hot coffee temperatures.
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I was thinking orbit time/2 as you the objects could cross paths twice per orbit. But, I don't know why I was thinking orbital time was 22min LEO is closer to 90 which makes it 45 ish. Thanks for the correction.
Under the constitution you are well within your writes to kill someone who tries to forcibly separate you from your cash. (This includes cops acting without a warrant.)
PS: Plenty of people died so that you might be free are you willing to die so that your children might be free?
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Overall your more likely to hit a polar orbiting object becasue you would pass though the orbit of more than one object. Yes the chance of hiting a single object in a single pass is vary low but when you have 100's of them and your orbiting every 11 min...
"you would have to trash a LOT of lv 20 mobs to afford that lv 50 item"
True, but a level 20 will use green, blue, and purple items so you get a LOT more level 20 items in an hour of farming at level 60 than you would farming level 50 items at level 60. Level 20's don't go to the AH as it's a waste of their time aka the gear will not make you level fast enough for the cash and trip to be worth it but a level 60 will buy items and mail them to an alt so you can sell items at inflated prices so level 10-30 gear sells for about the same cash. Think of what it takes to farm a purple spawn (even a low level one) you sit in one area and outside of some trade skill loot most mob drops are close to worthless. Not so with farming low level items you get about the same value from trade skill loot over time but you can sell a tun of 1-10 gold items in the AH. If your making 50-100+ G/h it's not that long to pick up a nice 500gold item. I don't think it's a good idea to try to do this with all slots but if you realy want X item you can get most of them in about a day of farming this way which is about what it takes to get that item the normal way IMO.
PS: I made about 50G/h at level 40 so at 60 you should kill faster so...
FYI if you want to make money go farm low level items. People pay inflated prices from them either from High Level farming or E-Bay and use it to twink low-level alts. Level 20 items cost abut as much in the AH as level 30 items so you can make money faster farming level 20 item than you can level 30 items. Now your being paid in inflated cash so you can use that cash to buy high level items at inflated value.
PS: I quit the game at 40 out of boredom but I had made ~1000 gold at that point and could farm cash about as fast as most level 60's. Other than having a full set of blue gear and a few purples there is little point to farming IMO.
And there's still plenty of mind-numbing grinding to do in EVE if you want to progress, in the form of mining asteroids or whatever. Though EVE does support a thriving player driven economy from what I've seen, one that the enterprising, clever or devious player can take advantage of to get rich much more quickly than one could achieve merely from grinding asteroids or NPC pirates for ISK.
Umm, what? For those who know what' they are doing they can make cash without grinding so what's the problem?
Which to me doesn't appear to do much beyond give those who have been playing the game longer (real time instead of play time) an insurmountable lead and exclusive access to certain abilities (or at least, exclusive access to a variety of abilities). Someone who opens a subscription today can never hope to achieve an avatar as skillful as someone who's been playing from day one, no matter how clever and skilled they might be as a player (correct me if I'm wrong here though, my EVE playtime was also very limited).
I can kill people that have been playing much longer than I have. RL skills > In game cash > In game skills. What few players understand is that only a small subset of skills are useful at any one time. There are 3 types of guns but it's best to only use one type at a time. There are 4 sizes of guns skills in the wrong size are worthless. There are 4 racial ship types but you only fly one ship at a time. There are ~10 ship types but points in one ship type does not help when your not flying that ship ect.
If you pick what you want to do you can quickly have "maxed skills" in a single area. You might not have the same amount of cash but in 4 months of casual game play you can easily kill payers with years worth of skill points if you focus on the right things and avoid wasting time in the wrong areas.
The only way I can see to reward skill over time is to make it easy to lose progress you've made as a result of your failures.
You mean like eve where the loss of a ship means you lose all gear on it? Death penalties sting but a nitch game like ever ~2% WOW numbers / ~106,000 players add a level of intensity that's hard to pass up. WoW's grind was somewhat interesting for a while but it's like candy it stops being tasty when that's all your eating.
PS: There is a lot about eve that I don't like but I had more excitement from a 30 min PVP battle in eve than I got from 3 months of WoW because god dammit I did not want to lose that ship!:)
Your ability to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation is a reflection on your intelligence level.
No, your ability to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation is a reflection of your education not just your intelligence level. Try talking with a few people outside the US, which use English as a 3rd language, and you might learn how meaningless your supposed link is.
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I smell a basic assumption... Ever hear of a Polar orbit?
No when you move your head the screen moves relative to your head. What he is talking about is speakers stuck to the side of your head so for the analogy to be correct you would need to attach screens to your head and then not adjust when you move your head.
BTW if you want to understand just how bad this is strap a box over your head (with a flashlight inside so you can see the box) and then move your head back and forth. It's a vary disturbing experience for most people.
"So how do one present small sentences from the book to show as a result of a search if you don't keep a copy of the book?"
They might not copy the spacing, images, fount, cover, backing, copy write notice ect. To understand why this is a significant degradation try to read a long excerpt where they don't differentiate between paragraphs and tell me how easy it is to read.
Honestly 100,000 is a vary conservative estimate and ignores the ocean's. Every year significantly more uranium ends up in the worlds ocean's than is used by our power plants and operating a power plant using uranium from the ocean only raises cost's by about 5% so it's not unreasonable to think of uranium as a renewable power source that is viable for ~1,000,000,000 years. Uranium is vary common; hell extracting Uranium from coal provides more power than burning the stuff.
Feel free to checkout Eve-online.com a "skill based" RPG. There are few advantages to spending more time playing the game. There is an advantage to having an older account, but this is minor in comparison to knowing what you are doing. Someone that's played the game for 10 hours a week for 6 months can easily kill an unskilled player that's been playing for 40 hours a week for 3 years. You can be useful in huge fleet engagements within a week of game play.
I think the shuttle program would have been much cheaper if we had used them constantly. If they had each flown 100 flights over 15 years most of the components would have been new and we would have far fewer redesigns an wasted man hours built into the flights. When you look at the programs overall costs the cost per flight would have fallen significantly if we had used them more and sooner vs. keeping all that support staff waiting around as you use them a few times a year over 50 years. The manpower costs would have been 1/3 what they where if we had used them while they where new.
When you spread R&D costs over more missions you get cost savings per flight. And you don't include a lot of R&D improvement costs into what should have been a short-lived program.
PS: If you spend 1 million to cut 1$ off the cost of a 5$ mouse trap it can be a great thing or a waste of money depending on if you produce 100 or 100 million of them.
Google did that that for several years but it failed. Now they made China's censorship a top priority to everyone. Hell they have to do the same thing in France, but you don't hear anyone crying over that one. The thing of it is China does a lot of horrid things, but we decided to give them our manufacturing sector. As soon as it became clear what they where doing to their own people we could have setup tariffs and applied some pressure but that's not what the rest of the US is doing.
This is just another step in a step in a long line of the US bending over to China over cheep goods and a huge potential market at least they decided to make something of a stand by telling users when their results where censored. In a similar story a US photographer was at the scene of a large booming in Iraq but decided not to publish them because he thought it was "inappropriate". Those types of quite "clenching" happen all the time in the US but you don't hear a word about this stuff. We never see the body bags coming back from our own war and you think China has a censorship problem lets start in the US and then we can at least take a stance that has some integrity.
PS: I define stupidity as doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result because you hope something different is going to happen.
"Even though we weren't doing any self-censorship, our results were being filtered anyway, and our service was being actively degraded on top of that."
"Our search results were being filtered; our service was being crippled; our users were flocking to local Chinese alternatives; and, ultimately, Chinese Internet users had less access to information than they would have had."
"we decided to try a different path, a path rooted in the very pragmatic calculation that we could provide more access to more information to more Chinese citizens more reliably"
By adding google.cn they get to "give notification to Chinese users whenever search results have been removed. ", "Protection of user privacy" and for whatever good it does they will keep google.com running.
I don't see what else they could have done. They could simply write off china but that means a lot of users are going to be stuck with shitty products. Making that kind of political statement might have done some good but I don't see how providing google.cn is evil. If anything it brings to whole issue to light as apposed to the issue as some dark code on a few routers.
What's wrong with nuclear power? We have several hundred years worth of the stuff already mined. When you mix in a little reprocessing you get 1% of the waste per unit energy. Ok, so some places might build a bomb well sorry but they are not that risky. I mean with well over 10,000 nukes in the world we have used 2 on citys doing less dammage than a normal carpit bomb run would have...
PS: If you think Iran is insane well what did the average american think of the average RUSSIAN 50 years ago?
And that robot can do something in 45 seconds that a human could not do in a year. I mean it's not like humans have Spectrometer's growing out there ears. Sending 1000 robots to Mars is cheep than sending 1 human and it's much lower risk. When you send a human they have limited tools and they can't make new instruments while there. Sure they can lift an interesting rock you only get to send a human to one spot so you don't get to find many interesting rocks. Yea, they can find out lot's of interesting things about a small area but we are exploring a planet so knowing more about the whole planet is much more useful than a once off where you learn a lot about a tiny fraction of it. Now if we find an area that had life or something of interest it might be worth it to send some humans but until there something vary specific worth studding it's a huge waste. We can send robots that will last for 2-3 years so we can start sending groups of robots to do useful things like... lifting rocks and have others that can inspect those rocks, have some that can fly and others that drill deep into the ground.
Let's try to setup a self-contained habitat on earth before we think of trying to supply humans for months floating in a can in space. Once we can get a habitat to work we can send a hell of a lot less food and oxygen and keep people there for a long time. That's when it's useful a one off 3-month trip for 200+ billion is a stupid waste of cash. But if we can keep people their for a few years we can start to think about building up an industry and using the planet vs. tacking a few pictures of some pretty rocks.
"Even then, freedom of speech does not, in any way, imply freedom from consequence."
Your double plus good at double think.
Freedom is not about being able to do something it's about not being punished for something. People are able to exceed the speed limit but it's not "free" thus we don't have the "freedom" to exceed the speed limit. If someone is not doing their job that's one thing but if they are being punished for stating their opinion then it's a free speach issue.
Step 1 log everything (timestamps, function name, data, what you think should be happening, ect.)
First get interfaces setup properly so that you know the function is getting the right data.
Then work on full functionality (disabling locking if need be. It only needs to work the first time it's ok if you have to reboot everything every time before it will work again.)
Then work on timing / locking issues.(logging each lock is a good idea)
Then work on cleaning up aka releasing resources.
Then start disabling logging and work on speed / reliability issues. It's a good idea to leave a reasonable level of logging, but it's easy to log a lot of junk which make it harder to follow what's going on in the log. (It's not a bad idea to log every 600th time something happens if it tends to happen 10 times a second. You don't need to know everything just that tings are still working. And it's a good idea to limit the log files to a fixed size say 10MB.)
FYI: If it sometimes works then you probably have a timing issue. It's not a bad idea to setup a test so that you can always send the exact same data and see if it works once. Once the first test always works after a clean boot you can focus on specific failures vs "well it works 95% of the time I wonder what's wrong..."
PS: When it really does seem totally random try a new test machine it's easy to waste a lot of time trying to debug a system when the RAM in your test box is having problems.
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I think you are missing the point. If they setup an new language *HappyJoy* and write a *HappyJoy* compiler to cross platform java script. You use can then code in *HappyJoy* (which will only have features that it can implement on all supported platforms) and not care what the user's are running on. Now IMO if they setup a simple form validation / basic DHTML language this could work well for most simple apps. The problem with JavaScript is there is no separation between the cross browser hacks and the basic functional code which means that even the simplest functionality can quickly get out of hand.
PS: We have Java if you want to make an App what we need is a way to get simple form validation / DHTML working.
FYI: If the Red Cross paid you at 100$/h for 10 hours work you would need to pay into SS and Medicare + taxes. If you then donated what was left say 60*10 = 600$ you could avoid paying taxes on that but you would still owe SS and Medicare.
So what your asking for is to give 100$ * 10 to the Red Cross (aka what they would need to pay you) AND get paid by the government for this. Thus you do 1,000$ in work but are paid 1250$ and give 1000$ to the Red Cross keeping 250$.
PS: I think you can see where this would cause problems aka Red Cross says you did 1 mill of work for them at no cost to them... the government gives you 250k... you then give 50k back to the Red Cross.
I don't think the right left debate describes the current political landscape vary well. I want to reduce government spending in most areas, but I have no problem with the basic idea of entitlements within reason. For example the US government spends more money per person on medicine than Canada even though they have "totally subsidized" health care.
.gov website for ALL non-classified research that includes the methods and data for every public study ever preformed. You are going to have people on both sides trying to screw with things but the basic data and methods needs to be open.
IMO: You can get people off welfare though employment options or ending the program but one solves problems and the other creates problems. Like most people I don't fit into a single position in the political landscape. I would like to:
Free trade: I believe in the basic concept of free trade, but it only really works when you're dealing with a truly level playing field. There is no way to compete with countries that are willing to forgo worker safety and don't mind dumping toxins wherever they wish. I think protectionism is a bad idea but we need to understand it's not a fundamentally level playing field out there. EX: China is fucking with their currency and we may need to do the same types of things if we want to maintain dominance.
Military: Budget dropped by 50 - 75%. We need to get out of IRAQ in an orderly fashion not a mad dash, but we really don't need 3/4 of the bases in the US and a many of the weapon systems are a huge waste of cash ect.
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NASA: Drop manned space flight. NASA should work on propulsion systems, robotics, data gathering, and biosphere type self-contained / stable environments. When we can setup a space station that can go without re-supply for 10 years then I think it's a good idea until then it's a stupid waste of resources.
Social Security: Up retirement age to 70 shifting to 75 over the next 40 years. We need to start investing the "surplus" in stocks and bonds vs. using it to prop up the national debt.
Prescription Drug benefit: Kill this off.
TAXES:
Integrate Social Security and Medicare into the normal tax system so we can have a progressive tax system. Aka stop taxing people making 90k more than people making 900k.
Remove any tax brakes other than # of dependents. If you want to donate to the Red Cross fine you still owe taxes on all of your income. If you want to build a wind farm great! just pay for it out of your own pocket. If the government would like to setup grants to do thing then fine, but people are all to willing to spend money though tax breaks where thy would never pay for these things out of the general budget.
Stop subsidizing farmers. If we want to secure the food supply then keep a few years of food on hand don't fuck up the world economy and subsidies the eating habits of the rest of the world. We make around 60% of the worlds food we need to start charging what this is really worth.
Basic Research: Dumping lots of money into non-military R&D seems to give great return on investment. I say dump billions info Fusion, partial physics, basic medicine, solar cells ect. Because these things tend to create long-term growth.
Political Messy Research: I think the Data on things like pollution, climate, and educational research need to be on the web free for all to see. People are always going to want to put their own spin on things but suppressing the basic data is a waste of public money. I think we should setup a
Anyway, do you think this make me right left center and how much of this do you agree with you?
I've doubled the sample size
Not really, there are two post's with the same problems, but they are a "self selecting population" aka if it had worked for you then you would have been less likely to post. The real "sample size" would be everyone that had read the article and used the eye patch. Not simply those who posted a negative response.
However, with a large enough self selecting population you can use the sample size of "everyone that had the procedure" and say something like "If 1,000 people are complaining then 1,000 in 1,000,000 people must have problems with this procedure so we should look into it...
PS: 1,000 and 1,000,000 being made of numbers.
"POT" contains many harmful substances, but it's effects can help some people cope with their day-to-day lives. I know several highly intelligent people who benefit from regular usage of "POT". While self-medication is a bad idea POT is about as dangerous as drinking alcohol or smoking.
It has a bad name but its effects vary greatly from person to person. Individual body chemistry plays a huge role in the body's response to drugs. I have seen POT severely damage a close friend of mine, but I also know 30+year users who make ~200k/year, are wonderful parents, and great friends. The idea that POT can't have any medical benefit is just as silly as the idea as the idea that it's safe for anyone to use.
The electrons inside a CRT are around 350,000,000 Kelvin just before they hit the screen. Which sounds all insane but it's only 30KeV. High energy partial physics is into the Gev range http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/ferminews03-11-0 1/p4.html is pushing 800 GeV which works out to ~8.8 * 10^15 or 8,800,000,000,000,000 Kelvin. But temperature is only part of the issue density is also important.
Most systems working in this energy range only have a tiny number of particles with this energy. Think of it like taking all the energy in a cup of hot coffee and dumping it into a tiny fraction of a drop. Yea that drop is really hot but when you put that back in a cup it's only going to heat things up to normal hot coffee temperatures.
I was thinking orbit time /2 as you the objects could cross paths twice per orbit. But, I don't know why I was thinking orbital time was 22min LEO is closer to 90 which makes it 45 ish. Thanks for the correction.
Under the constitution you are well within your writes to kill someone who tries to forcibly separate you from your cash. (This includes cops acting without a warrant.)
PS: Plenty of people died so that you might be free are you willing to die so that your children might be free?
Overall your more likely to hit a polar orbiting object becasue you would pass though the orbit of more than one object. Yes the chance of hiting a single object in a single pass is vary low but when you have 100's of them and your orbiting every 11 min...
"you would have to trash a LOT of lv 20 mobs to afford that lv 50 item"
True, but a level 20 will use green, blue, and purple items so you get a LOT more level 20 items in an hour of farming at level 60 than you would farming level 50 items at level 60. Level 20's don't go to the AH as it's a waste of their time aka the gear will not make you level fast enough for the cash and trip to be worth it but a level 60 will buy items and mail them to an alt so you can sell items at inflated prices so level 10-30 gear sells for about the same cash. Think of what it takes to farm a purple spawn (even a low level one) you sit in one area and outside of some trade skill loot most mob drops are close to worthless. Not so with farming low level items you get about the same value from trade skill loot over time but you can sell a tun of 1-10 gold items in the AH. If your making 50-100+ G/h it's not that long to pick up a nice 500gold item. I don't think it's a good idea to try to do this with all slots but if you realy want X item you can get most of them in about a day of farming this way which is about what it takes to get that item the normal way IMO.
PS: I made about 50G/h at level 40 so at 60 you should kill faster so...
FYI if you want to make money go farm low level items. People pay inflated prices from them either from High Level farming or E-Bay and use it to twink low-level alts. Level 20 items cost abut as much in the AH as level 30 items so you can make money faster farming level 20 item than you can level 30 items. Now your being paid in inflated cash so you can use that cash to buy high level items at inflated value.
PS: I quit the game at 40 out of boredom but I had made ~1000 gold at that point and could farm cash about as fast as most level 60's. Other than having a full set of blue gear and a few purples there is little point to farming IMO.
And there's still plenty of mind-numbing grinding to do in EVE if you want to progress, in the form of mining asteroids or whatever. Though EVE does support a thriving player driven economy from what I've seen, one that the enterprising, clever or devious player can take advantage of to get rich much more quickly than one could achieve merely from grinding asteroids or NPC pirates for ISK.
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Umm, what? For those who know what' they are doing they can make cash without grinding so what's the problem?
Which to me doesn't appear to do much beyond give those who have been playing the game longer (real time instead of play time) an insurmountable lead and exclusive access to certain abilities (or at least, exclusive access to a variety of abilities). Someone who opens a subscription today can never hope to achieve an avatar as skillful as someone who's been playing from day one, no matter how clever and skilled they might be as a player (correct me if I'm wrong here though, my EVE playtime was also very limited).
I can kill people that have been playing much longer than I have. RL skills > In game cash > In game skills. What few players understand is that only a small subset of skills are useful at any one time. There are 3 types of guns but it's best to only use one type at a time. There are 4 sizes of guns skills in the wrong size are worthless. There are 4 racial ship types but you only fly one ship at a time. There are ~10 ship types but points in one ship type does not help when your not flying that ship ect.
If you pick what you want to do you can quickly have "maxed skills" in a single area. You might not have the same amount of cash but in 4 months of casual game play you can easily kill payers with years worth of skill points if you focus on the right things and avoid wasting time in the wrong areas.
The only way I can see to reward skill over time is to make it easy to lose progress you've made as a result of your failures.
You mean like eve where the loss of a ship means you lose all gear on it? Death penalties sting but a nitch game like ever ~2% WOW numbers / ~106,000 players add a level of intensity that's hard to pass up. WoW's grind was somewhat interesting for a while but it's like candy it stops being tasty when that's all your eating.
PS: There is a lot about eve that I don't like but I had more excitement from a 30 min PVP battle in eve than I got from 3 months of WoW because god dammit I did not want to lose that ship!
Your ability to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation is a reflection on your intelligence level.
No, your ability to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation is a reflection of your education not just your intelligence level. Try talking with a few people outside the US, which use English as a 3rd language, and you might learn how meaningless your supposed link is.
I smell a basic assumption... Ever hear of a Polar orbit?
No when you move your head the screen moves relative to your head. What he is talking about is speakers stuck to the side of your head so for the analogy to be correct you would need to attach screens to your head and then not adjust when you move your head.
BTW if you want to understand just how bad this is strap a box over your head (with a flashlight inside so you can see the box) and then move your head back and forth. It's a vary disturbing experience for most people.
"So how do one present small sentences from the book to show as a result of a search if you don't keep a copy of the book?"
They might not copy the spacing, images, fount, cover, backing, copy write notice ect. To understand why this is a significant degradation try to read a long excerpt where they don't differentiate between paragraphs and tell me how easy it is to read.
"hundred thousand years" = 100,000 not 100
Honestly 100,000 is a vary conservative estimate and ignores the ocean's. Every year significantly more uranium ends up in the worlds ocean's than is used by our power plants and operating a power plant using uranium from the ocean only raises cost's by about 5% so it's not unreasonable to think of uranium as a renewable power source that is viable for ~1,000,000,000 years. Uranium is vary common; hell extracting Uranium from coal provides more power than burning the stuff.
Feel free to checkout Eve-online.com a "skill based" RPG. There are few advantages to spending more time playing the game. There is an advantage to having an older account, but this is minor in comparison to knowing what you are doing. Someone that's played the game for 10 hours a week for 6 months can easily kill an unskilled player that's been playing for 40 hours a week for 3 years. You can be useful in huge fleet engagements within a week of game play.
I think the shuttle program would have been much cheaper if we had used them constantly. If they had each flown 100 flights over 15 years most of the components would have been new and we would have far fewer redesigns an wasted man hours built into the flights. When you look at the programs overall costs the cost per flight would have fallen significantly if we had used them more and sooner vs. keeping all that support staff waiting around as you use them a few times a year over 50 years. The manpower costs would have been 1/3 what they where if we had used them while they where new.
When you spread R&D costs over more missions you get cost savings per flight. And you don't include a lot of R&D improvement costs into what should have been a short-lived program.
PS: If you spend 1 million to cut 1$ off the cost of a 5$ mouse trap it can be a great thing or a waste of money depending on if you produce 100 or 100 million of them.
Google did that that for several years but it failed. Now they made China's censorship a top priority to everyone. Hell they have to do the same thing in France, but you don't hear anyone crying over that one. The thing of it is China does a lot of horrid things, but we decided to give them our manufacturing sector. As soon as it became clear what they where doing to their own people we could have setup tariffs and applied some pressure but that's not what the rest of the US is doing.
This is just another step in a step in a long line of the US bending over to China over cheep goods and a huge potential market at least they decided to make something of a stand by telling users when their results where censored. In a similar story a US photographer was at the scene of a large booming in Iraq but decided not to publish them because he thought it was "inappropriate". Those types of quite "clenching" happen all the time in the US but you don't hear a word about this stuff. We never see the body bags coming back from our own war and you think China has a censorship problem lets start in the US and then we can at least take a stance that has some integrity.
PS: I define stupidity as doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result because you hope something different is going to happen.
"Even though we weren't doing any self-censorship, our results were being filtered anyway, and our service was being actively degraded on top of that."
"Our search results were being filtered; our service was being crippled; our users were flocking to local Chinese alternatives; and, ultimately, Chinese Internet users had less access to information than they would have had."
"we decided to try a different path, a path rooted in the very pragmatic calculation that we could provide more access to more information to more Chinese citizens more reliably"
By adding google.cn they get to "give notification to Chinese users whenever search results have been removed. ", "Protection of user privacy" and for whatever good it does they will keep google.com running.
I don't see what else they could have done. They could simply write off china but that means a lot of users are going to be stuck with shitty products. Making that kind of political statement might have done some good but I don't see how providing google.cn is evil. If anything it brings to whole issue to light as apposed to the issue as some dark code on a few routers.
What's wrong with nuclear power? We have several hundred years worth of the stuff already mined. When you mix in a little reprocessing you get 1% of the waste per unit energy. Ok, so some places might build a bomb well sorry but they are not that risky. I mean with well over 10,000 nukes in the world we have used 2 on citys doing less dammage than a normal carpit bomb run would have...
PS: If you think Iran is insane well what did the average american think of the average RUSSIAN 50 years ago?
And that robot can do something in 45 seconds that a human could not do in a year. I mean it's not like humans have Spectrometer's growing out there ears. Sending 1000 robots to Mars is cheep than sending 1 human and it's much lower risk. When you send a human they have limited tools and they can't make new instruments while there. Sure they can lift an interesting rock you only get to send a human to one spot so you don't get to find many interesting rocks. Yea, they can find out lot's of interesting things about a small area but we are exploring a planet so knowing more about the whole planet is much more useful than a once off where you learn a lot about a tiny fraction of it. Now if we find an area that had life or something of interest it might be worth it to send some humans but until there something vary specific worth studding it's a huge waste. We can send robots that will last for 2-3 years so we can start sending groups of robots to do useful things like... lifting rocks and have others that can inspect those rocks, have some that can fly and others that drill deep into the ground.
Let's try to setup a self-contained habitat on earth before we think of trying to supply humans for months floating in a can in space. Once we can get a habitat to work we can send a hell of a lot less food and oxygen and keep people there for a long time. That's when it's useful a one off 3-month trip for 200+ billion is a stupid waste of cash. But if we can keep people their for a few years we can start to think about building up an industry and using the planet vs. tacking a few pictures of some pretty rocks.
"Even then, freedom of speech does not, in any way, imply freedom from consequence."
Your double plus good at double think.
Freedom is not about being able to do something it's about not being punished for something. People are able to exceed the speed limit but it's not "free" thus we don't have the "freedom" to exceed the speed limit. If someone is not doing their job that's one thing but if they are being punished for stating their opinion then it's a free speach issue.
Step 1 log everything (timestamps, function name, data, what you think should be happening, ect.)
First get interfaces setup properly so that you know the function is getting the right data.
Then work on full functionality (disabling locking if need be. It only needs to work the first time it's ok if you have to reboot everything every time before it will work again.)
Then work on timing / locking issues.(logging each lock is a good idea)
Then work on cleaning up aka releasing resources.
Then start disabling logging and work on speed / reliability issues. It's a good idea to leave a reasonable level of logging, but it's easy to log a lot of junk which make it harder to follow what's going on in the log. (It's not a bad idea to log every 600th time something happens if it tends to happen 10 times a second. You don't need to know everything just that tings are still working. And it's a good idea to limit the log files to a fixed size say 10MB.)
FYI: If it sometimes works then you probably have a timing issue. It's not a bad idea to setup a test so that you can always send the exact same data and see if it works once. Once the first test always works after a clean boot you can focus on specific failures vs "well it works 95% of the time I wonder what's wrong..."
PS: When it really does seem totally random try a new test machine it's easy to waste a lot of time trying to debug a system when the RAM in your test box is having problems.