So what I'm hearing here is "you can get a lot of money out of some games if you put in a lot of effort". This Microsoft option eliminates the potential for that level of effort, and also eliminates the benefits you can get from putting it in.
The fact that your son can find these great deals also tells me that the vast majority of people trying to dump their old games DON'T put in that effort.
Memorizing a key is a pretty bad solution. I'm way more afraid of brain damage than I am of fire/flood/tornado. A large part of my old documents are stuff I should remember and not need anyway--unless I need to get my life back in order after brain damage, dementia, Alzheimer's, etc.
Well, right now the point isn't to actually get someone appointed. It's to make congress look as bad as possible when they follow through on their vow not to appoint anyone.
Yes, that's exactly what they did three years ago. The American people elected Obama for four years, not three years + one year of Congress ignoring their constitutional duties.
I dunno, It really doesn't seem fair to let people edit the historical record, especially when people start replying to them. Waaaay too easy to put words in someone's mouth by making it look like they're objecting to something they didn't, etc. You need something similar to gmail's undo feature, which delays sending for a few seconds instead of actually calling the mail back once it's been committed.
Although that functionality does already exist in the "preview" button.
We ran somewhere to get help for a response time of ten minutes, instead of calling out for a response time of five minutes. If people know that all cell phones are down, then fine, they can take the "running" option. But if people expect their phones to work, you're out a few minutes as people try to find one that DOES work (since that would give a better outcome).
as ridiculous as this all is, do we really care about articles from reason dot com? What's the point spectating on this nonsense? It's not news, and it doesn't matter.
Actual latency is a thing too. Going all the way to the other side of the world is a ping time of ~133ms in vacuum, or almost 200ms in perfect fiberoptic cable on a straight-line path with instantaneous routers.
I dunno, fixing symptoms can be pretty darn helpful to a patient when fixing the problem is a challenge (or even when it wasn't). If you send someone out the door with antibiotics and a 106F fever, you might be fixing the original problem, but I think they'd like a little help with the symptoms too.
Many other types of solar cells suffer badly from any damage anywhere, however small. Putting this stuff on clothes or on a notebook, or on a vehicle that might get whacked by a rock, seems like a pretty damage heavy environment...rooftop solar doesn't usually have that problem because it's stationary.
It's pretty nice as an intermediary step before "cyborg" (which seems like it should need direct connection to the nervous system to apply as a term, despite the way usage has expanded recently to include heavy cell phone usage).
I do use it when I want to keep up with news stories before they get posted to news sites. Also good for things where it's hard to find media actually covering it. (Early days of the oregon refuge terrorists for example)
This has nothing to do with communications between robots, and everything to do with finite-state machines being used to keep things in established states. The grammars are entirely internal to each robot's programming. There's a quote in the article from the research lead about machines programming themselves but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the contents of the paper. The paper talks about followers/leaders but communication is extremely limited ("I'm not on a team yet" "okay I accept you to green team") and the "leaders" don't send any instructions in the grammar they designed.
Unless I'm missing a big chunk of the paper, the robots don't construct their own words at all, unless you mean "they have a short list of actions they can perform in different states and they pick from that list".
It's a neat study, and it's useful to explore the best design techniques for large scale swarms, but it sounds cooler and way different than it actually is
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whaaat, it totally is (if remotely factual, haven't read tfa yet). Anthropology nerds are still nerds.
So what I'm hearing here is "you can get a lot of money out of some games if you put in a lot of effort". This Microsoft option eliminates the potential for that level of effort, and also eliminates the benefits you can get from putting it in.
The fact that your son can find these great deals also tells me that the vast majority of people trying to dump their old games DON'T put in that effort.
Do you expect to sell a used copy of NCAA 2006 today for 50% of its original value?
Memorizing a key is a pretty bad solution. I'm way more afraid of brain damage than I am of fire/flood/tornado. A large part of my old documents are stuff I should remember and not need anyway--unless I need to get my life back in order after brain damage, dementia, Alzheimer's, etc.
Well, right now the point isn't to actually get someone appointed. It's to make congress look as bad as possible when they follow through on their vow not to appoint anyone.
Yes, that's exactly what they did three years ago. The American people elected Obama for four years, not three years + one year of Congress ignoring their constitutional duties.
I dunno, It really doesn't seem fair to let people edit the historical record, especially when people start replying to them. Waaaay too easy to put words in someone's mouth by making it look like they're objecting to something they didn't, etc. You need something similar to gmail's undo feature, which delays sending for a few seconds instead of actually calling the mail back once it's been committed.
Although that functionality does already exist in the "preview" button.
Okay you know what, the changes around here--including responsiveness to user opinions--are getting really, really nice. Thank you.
People defended themselves before guns, why should anyone care if you take their guns away?
We ran somewhere to get help for a response time of ten minutes, instead of calling out for a response time of five minutes. If people know that all cell phones are down, then fine, they can take the "running" option. But if people expect their phones to work, you're out a few minutes as people try to find one that DOES work (since that would give a better outcome).
Right to be forgotten...I can see the Slashdot rebellion against this article already.
as ridiculous as this all is, do we really care about articles from reason dot com? What's the point spectating on this nonsense? It's not news, and it doesn't matter.
I don't even know what else I would say here.
Mad Maze was the best.
Actual latency is a thing too. Going all the way to the other side of the world is a ping time of ~133ms in vacuum, or almost 200ms in perfect fiberoptic cable on a straight-line path with instantaneous routers.
I dunno, fixing symptoms can be pretty darn helpful to a patient when fixing the problem is a challenge (or even when it wasn't). If you send someone out the door with antibiotics and a 106F fever, you might be fixing the original problem, but I think they'd like a little help with the symptoms too.
because this isn't one.
Many other types of solar cells suffer badly from any damage anywhere, however small. Putting this stuff on clothes or on a notebook, or on a vehicle that might get whacked by a rock, seems like a pretty damage heavy environment...rooftop solar doesn't usually have that problem because it's stationary.
It's pretty nice as an intermediary step before "cyborg" (which seems like it should need direct connection to the nervous system to apply as a term, despite the way usage has expanded recently to include heavy cell phone usage).
No, no, that's not how Betteridge's Law of Headlines works. In fact you have it precisely backwards!
I do use it when I want to keep up with news stories before they get posted to news sites. Also good for things where it's hard to find media actually covering it. (Early days of the oregon refuge terrorists for example)
This has nothing to do with communications between robots, and everything to do with finite-state machines being used to keep things in established states. The grammars are entirely internal to each robot's programming. There's a quote in the article from the research lead about machines programming themselves but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the contents of the paper. The paper talks about followers/leaders but communication is extremely limited ("I'm not on a team yet" "okay I accept you to green team") and the "leaders" don't send any instructions in the grammar they designed.
Unless I'm missing a big chunk of the paper, the robots don't construct their own words at all, unless you mean "they have a short list of actions they can perform in different states and they pick from that list".
It's a neat study, and it's useful to explore the best design techniques for large scale swarms, but it sounds cooler and way different than it actually is
So we need pushing robots? And shoving robots?
I'm pretty sure that keynote speakers get paid--if not directly, then by proxy to someone who rents them a place for free. Arrangements get made.
That was a terrible article. The link to the study, at the top, would have been a much better destination.