This is not exactly a surprise. Oracle has a deep and abiding interest in Oracle's bottom line. How does Open Solaris contribute to that? It doesn't, hence Oracle losing interest fast.
Yes... And this rises some interesting questions about just how well capitalism works for an economy mostly based on intangibles. Based on this, and MPAA/RIAA's actions, I'd say: not very well.
Specifically, the questions are: what should replace capitalism, and how can it be replaced? When mercantilism came to its end, nation-states were still the greatest powers around; but now corporations are far stronger, to the point of pretty much dictating nation-state legislature for their benefit. How do you transition something like that to a new model?
Maybe we just have to go the route of the French Revolution again, with corporate CEOs acting the role of Louis. It's unfortunate, but then again: repetition is the mother of learning. And humans are still too stupid to learn that it's unwise to give any single person total dominion over them, be they a CEO or King, and be the dominion based on appeals to God of Abraham or the Almighty Dollar.
1. Sad things happen. The innocent will suffer. But do not let the world go to hell for eveeryone to save a few lives.
Are you implying that the world will go to Hell just because Toyota is required to create a good user interface?
2. I know when society killed off genetic evolution. It just because he have evolutionary moves based on societies now dose not mean it works well. A little bit more genetic evolution would be a good thing.
We are the most numerous megafauna on the planet by a ridiculous margin. Since we switched to cultural evolution our numbers have grown nearly a millionfold. We are at the very treshold of conquering the stars. And you think this is not good enough?
Pray tell: just what are your standards for "working well"?
In any case, it doesn't matter. Already modern technology is increasing our capabilities beyond their natural bounds; for example, the Internet lets me look up pretty much any information I want the moment I need it. All that remains is integrating computers with our brains, so I can offload some of my processing faster and easier than current programming languages allow, and in time upload my mind to a computer, allowing us to leave genetic evolution behind us forevermore and switch to planned one.
3. WTF? I did not realize that Kenedy based his decisions in the Cuban Missile Crisis on weather or not a few of the stupidest people in the world would die. Nice non-sequitur. Just threw that part in for shits and giggles?
I wasn't referring to Kennedy, who was an idiot who nearly got the whole humanity killed with his though guy posturing. I was referring to the people I linked to, Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov.
And no, I didn't throw that part in for "shits and giggles". I threw it in to demonstrate just where an attitude like yours leads to. We can't afford it anymore.
While this is true, partially it's not FFs fault. However/. managed to get from a convoulted mess of nested tables and font tags to a convoulted mess of some of the worst performing javacript I've ever seen is beyond me.
If a Net facing application, which is meant to process data acquired from untrusted sources freezes because it's fed bad data, it's entirely that application's fault. I don't care if Slashdot was coded by the Devil himself, if Firefox freezes on Slashdot then Firefox has a bug.
Not that I would know about Slashdot's Javascript, I'm using the "classic" interface since the "new" one is unsusable.
Nah. The best thing would be if they finally separated everything into their own threads so that the entire UI would not lock just because Javascript in some tab is busy, or some download stalled, or a big table is being rendered, or whatever.
Let the.001% of the stupidest fuckers on the face of the planet spend their last seconds on earth in terror wondering why pushing a random pedal to the floor and screaming "STOP!" isn't working this time.
The problem with this suggestion is that the fucker in question is riding 1000+ kg vehicle at 60+ mph at said moments. Cars are dangerous to other people, that's why we require a license to drive them.
Let these people go. Start the engine of human evolution again. I for one will not miss Pauly Shore.
Humanity switched to cultural evolution 10,000 years ago, and we are slowly but surely getting rid of the last remains of genetic one. Natural Selection has done it's job, now let it enjoy retirement and stiff drinks with small paper umbrellas in whatever metaphorical realm abstract concepts go after their job is complete.
We, as a species, have stared abyss in the eye twice, and the only reason it blinked was that a single person at charge was not willing to "let them go". We can't afford this tough guy bullshit anymore. Because, the next time, there might not be Vasili Archipov or Stanislav Petrov in charge, but some tough guy who's willing to "let them go". And then we all die.
... that the throttle and brake position logging was recording correct data. If there's a fault in the ECU or software, how can you guarantee the data logging is correct?
You can't, obviously. However, since the logs agree with ECU, it's likely that the problem is in the throttle sensor, the throttle itself (maybe it stucks to bottom), or the placement of throttle (so the driver accidentally pushes it down without meaning to).
In other words, the ECU works just fine, but the controls send it bogus data - namely, they send "pedal to the metal" when the driver didn't intend this.
I disagree. Force-requires-mana makes sense to me - think of it less as mana and more as Concentration. You have to concentrate hard on reducing incoming damage so of course you're going to have trouble shooting lightning.
And that's just fine. However, why can't I stop concentrating on reducing incoming damage when I want? Why do I have to wait 10+ seconds for my "concentration" to recover?
All too often in JA I had to simply stand still and wait for Force Sense/Protection/Absorbtion/Whatever to wear off, and then for the Force to recover. That is the real problem with "mana system": forced waiting.
Certainly we should stop what we see, but there's no substitute for self-reliance.
Self-reliance is all nice and good. Now tell me: what happens when you teach a victim to defend himself? Why, the bully simply seeks another one. And then you teach that next victim, and the next one, and so on...
...Until you realize that you've tought everyone how to fight, including the wolves. And so we're right where we started, only this time the kids are better equipped to harm each other.
Sheeesh, it's called the slippery slope fallacy, not the sheer cliff fallacy. Try being a little less alarmist.
Simply because you don't want to think about the logical consequences of your suggestions doesn't make pointing them out a slippery slope fallacy, nor does it make it "alarmism". You said, and I quote: "Why do we correct only the behavior of the bully when the behavior of the victim is just as much at fault?" Either this is true of all criminal activity, or none of it; either an adult victim of a crime is to blame for failing to defend himself, or a kid isn't either. Which one is it?
Much bullying doesn't happen where we can see, or reach a level where we can arrest or even chastise the bully. Only you are in a position to really protect you.
Most muggings, rapes and murders happen where we can't see them. That's pretty much a precondition for pulling a succesful crime. Why are you treating bullying specially?
And I'm not suggesting "chastising" a bully. Chastising is something you do to a cookie thief or other relatively harmless offence. A bully needs to be crushed; he needs to be punished so harshly that he understands, once and for all, that harming other human beings for his enjoyment is not tolerated.
What matters is where the number came from and what sort of analysis went into it (if any).
No. What matters is that "The Senators' rocket design dictates a payload of 75mT to orbit, uses the existing Ares contracts and Shuttle infrastructure as much as possible, and forces use of the solid rocket motors produced by Utah arms manufacturer ATK."
in other words, this is a thinly subsidy, and "lifting capacity" is just part of the mask.
Unfortunately, after working for the government, I simply have more faith in private organizations that don't accept/promote mediocrity. Call it "ruthless efficiency".
And also unfortunately, any organization that has the resources to do serious rocket science will both accept and promote mediocrity. It's simply the nature of any large organization to tend towards the mediocre.
Or, to parapharese MIB: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
I am digging a huge pit a mile or so from the ocean. It's deep enough so that it's bottom lies at least a few feet beneath the lowest tide, and the sides extend at least a few feet above the highest tide (which is almost guaranteed by the fact that it's inland). Then I'm digging an equally deep trench connecting it to the ocean. Finally, I'm putting a turbine or water wheel on the trench.
Do you understand? I'm not damming a river; I'm simply digging a trench and connecting it to a reservoir for the water to flow to and from. The only actual construction is the turbine itself; everything else is simply digging.
Very few have ever been built. I know of 3. One in France, One in Russia, and One in Canada. I used to live pretty close to the one in Canada in Nova Scotia.
Those use natural bays, which indeed need to be dammed to work effectively. I'm talking about a man-made pool, connected to the ocean through a trench.
That's nonsense. I was bullied heavily as a child, but I'm not insecure anymore.
And I heard that someone managed to survive rabies. I guess that means it's nonsensical to claim that rabies might be dangerous.
Every victim has the choice to overcome the lack of confidence that being victimized gave them.
This is, frankly, bullshit. Human brains don't work that way. You can't simply decide to become more confident and reprogram your subconscious responses to conform.
We should stop treating victims like victims. Send them to karate class! Make them talk to large audiences!
What we should do is give victims counseling and perpetrators jail time.
Why do we correct only the behavior of the bully when the behavior of the victim is just as much at fault?
Why arrest the thief when whoever didn't install bars in his windows is just as much at fault? Why arrest murderers when those who failed to defend themselves are just as much at fault? Why arrest any criminal when, clearly, someone allowing himself to become a victim is just as much to blame?
The problem is not that some people fail to defend themselves against sadistic psychopaths; the problem is that we let sadistic psychopaths behave in their sadistic, psychopathic ways without punishment just because they're underage.
Oh yes. And Jedi Academy had state select, and only fell to the "endless wave of enemies" problem near the end. And the first lightsaber hit was usually also the last.
However, these games really need to lose the "Force requires mana" system. Use cooldown on powers if you must, but it's annoying that if you activate Force Damage Reduction - er, Protection - your "Force energy" doesn't recharge, so you can't really use any other powers.
Also, don't have health bar. Have a "defence" bar; whenever something would had hit you, you deflect it with the lightsaber/Force Push, and when the bar's empty, only then does a hit get through, at which point you die instantly. A minor change, but it would fit the theme much better, and would also justify the modern "stop getting hit to heal" mechanic.
There are other possible improvements, but these would be something to start with.
It sounds like they are trying to fix my most hated part of the game, the combat system.
Um... There's no other parts. The only thing Force Unleashed has is an endless horde of enemies going Leeroy Jenkins on you.
Anyway, the old Jedi Academy was a far better game (partly because lightsaber instakilled anything, including the player, just like it should), only falling victim to this near the end; however, I'm still waiting an SW game where you control the character indirectly. That's the real problem with most SW games: they end up as save-load routine.
Maybe the player could rewind time a bit? That's justified in-universe: what you just saw was a Force-vision of future. That would solve the problem partially. Even better, do control like Batman: Arkham Asylum, where you simply decide to attack an enemy in some direction or counter an incoming attack, and let the Jedi training worry about the details - this should work even better with Endorphin.
Alternatively, make Knights of the Old Republic III.
Actually, it would be pretty cheap. Like I said, there's a huge pool of unemployed people who would likely be willing to work for cheap. We are talking about digging a huge pit; that's not exactly difficult, cutting-edge engineering.
The real problem is in overcoming the opposition from McDonalds, Wal-Mart and other minimum-wage employers who want a high unemployment rate to depress wages.
This video gives a nice overview of the tech.... (note: all animation data in the video is generated from euphoria only!)
Most impressive. Depending on how well that plays with physics - that is, if physics says that Euphoriadoll should fall down, it will - this could potentially have applications in real-life robots, which could use it to plan their responses to unexpected events and predict the outcomes of potential actions.
Yeah, it was pretty impressive the way glass shattered. Too bad the thing was originally developed for consoles, so broken shards had to fade away almost instantly.
Oh well. At least the consoles keeping gaming technology back means that PC's don't need to be updated as often anymore than they used to. Now if only we could get a modern version of SimLife, designed exclusively for high-end PC's...
So you have basically limitless (oscillating) tidal power available.
You have limitless tidal power available at any coast: simply dig a reservoir (a bay connected to the ocean through a small channel) and harvest the energy as water flows in and out. You also get a massive swimming pool/dozen kilometers of beachfront property out of the deal.
Digging those reservoirs would be a useful, unskilled, and labour-intensive project. We have a massive pool of people needing jobs. Hint, hint.
Given that the rant in the parent post had nothing whatsoever to do with the text he had quoted, it seems that we have a trollbot in our hands, since a human troll wouldn't bother quoting. Any guesses if this is a new algorithm or the return of some classic? Or just some kind of randomly posting spambot?
You could make a tidy business today melting down nickels and pennies to increase their value, so why do hypothetical business models about defacing currency into bogroll interest you more than real life opportunities defacing currencies into shiny metals?
Oh, I'm sure that such a situation could arise, and in fact has arisen in the past. It's the "illegal" part that doesn't make any sense to me: like I said, every destroyed bill helps fight inflation. Heck, it's possible to interpret taxation as an inflationary control measure - in this model, the Government prints money when it needs it, and uses taxes to remove some from circulation afterwards to keep inflation from getting out of hand. This would make wiping your ass with a banknote a kind of voluntary tax (luxury tax ?-).
As for melting down coins to gain value, why aren't you doing just that? If the answer is "it's illegal", then I truly pity you for living under such an oppressive regime, you poor bastard.
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Yes... And this rises some interesting questions about just how well capitalism works for an economy mostly based on intangibles. Based on this, and MPAA/RIAA's actions, I'd say: not very well.
Specifically, the questions are: what should replace capitalism, and how can it be replaced? When mercantilism came to its end, nation-states were still the greatest powers around; but now corporations are far stronger, to the point of pretty much dictating nation-state legislature for their benefit. How do you transition something like that to a new model?
Maybe we just have to go the route of the French Revolution again, with corporate CEOs acting the role of Louis. It's unfortunate, but then again: repetition is the mother of learning. And humans are still too stupid to learn that it's unwise to give any single person total dominion over them, be they a CEO or King, and be the dominion based on appeals to God of Abraham or the Almighty Dollar.
Yeah. It really makes me worry about Java's future. Is there any other comparable cross-platform language that runs in a managed environment?
Are you implying that the world will go to Hell just because Toyota is required to create a good user interface?
We are the most numerous megafauna on the planet by a ridiculous margin. Since we switched to cultural evolution our numbers have grown nearly a millionfold. We are at the very treshold of conquering the stars. And you think this is not good enough?
Pray tell: just what are your standards for "working well"?
In any case, it doesn't matter. Already modern technology is increasing our capabilities beyond their natural bounds; for example, the Internet lets me look up pretty much any information I want the moment I need it. All that remains is integrating computers with our brains, so I can offload some of my processing faster and easier than current programming languages allow, and in time upload my mind to a computer, allowing us to leave genetic evolution behind us forevermore and switch to planned one.
I wasn't referring to Kennedy, who was an idiot who nearly got the whole humanity killed with his though guy posturing. I was referring to the people I linked to, Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov.
And no, I didn't throw that part in for "shits and giggles". I threw it in to demonstrate just where an attitude like yours leads to. We can't afford it anymore.
If a Net facing application, which is meant to process data acquired from untrusted sources freezes because it's fed bad data, it's entirely that application's fault. I don't care if Slashdot was coded by the Devil himself, if Firefox freezes on Slashdot then Firefox has a bug.
Not that I would know about Slashdot's Javascript, I'm using the "classic" interface since the "new" one is unsusable.
Nah. The best thing would be if they finally separated everything into their own threads so that the entire UI would not lock just because Javascript in some tab is busy, or some download stalled, or a big table is being rendered, or whatever.
The problem with this suggestion is that the fucker in question is riding 1000+ kg vehicle at 60+ mph at said moments. Cars are dangerous to other people, that's why we require a license to drive them.
Humanity switched to cultural evolution 10,000 years ago, and we are slowly but surely getting rid of the last remains of genetic one. Natural Selection has done it's job, now let it enjoy retirement and stiff drinks with small paper umbrellas in whatever metaphorical realm abstract concepts go after their job is complete.
On a more serious note, a species that has split the atom simply can't afford to be amoral enough to "let these people go". We've been at the brink of nuclear war twice; once when a Russian submarine was bombarded with depth charges during Cuban crisis, and again when a Russian radar station got false signals that the USA was launching nukes at them.
We, as a species, have stared abyss in the eye twice, and the only reason it blinked was that a single person at charge was not willing to "let them go". We can't afford this tough guy bullshit anymore. Because, the next time, there might not be Vasili Archipov or Stanislav Petrov in charge, but some tough guy who's willing to "let them go". And then we all die.
You can't, obviously. However, since the logs agree with ECU, it's likely that the problem is in the throttle sensor, the throttle itself (maybe it stucks to bottom), or the placement of throttle (so the driver accidentally pushes it down without meaning to).
In other words, the ECU works just fine, but the controls send it bogus data - namely, they send "pedal to the metal" when the driver didn't intend this.
Britain, Arizona, Texas... they're all parts of America, you know.
And that's just fine. However, why can't I stop concentrating on reducing incoming damage when I want? Why do I have to wait 10+ seconds for my "concentration" to recover?
All too often in JA I had to simply stand still and wait for Force Sense/Protection/Absorbtion/Whatever to wear off, and then for the Force to recover. That is the real problem with "mana system": forced waiting.
Self-reliance is all nice and good. Now tell me: what happens when you teach a victim to defend himself? Why, the bully simply seeks another one. And then you teach that next victim, and the next one, and so on...
...Until you realize that you've tought everyone how to fight, including the wolves. And so we're right where we started, only this time the kids are better equipped to harm each other.
Simply because you don't want to think about the logical consequences of your suggestions doesn't make pointing them out a slippery slope fallacy, nor does it make it "alarmism". You said, and I quote: "Why do we correct only the behavior of the bully when the behavior of the victim is just as much at fault?" Either this is true of all criminal activity, or none of it; either an adult victim of a crime is to blame for failing to defend himself, or a kid isn't either. Which one is it?
Most muggings, rapes and murders happen where we can't see them. That's pretty much a precondition for pulling a succesful crime. Why are you treating bullying specially?
And I'm not suggesting "chastising" a bully. Chastising is something you do to a cookie thief or other relatively harmless offence. A bully needs to be crushed; he needs to be punished so harshly that he understands, once and for all, that harming other human beings for his enjoyment is not tolerated.
That would be the first hundred miles, actually.
No. What matters is that "The Senators' rocket design dictates a payload of 75mT to orbit, uses the existing Ares contracts and Shuttle infrastructure as much as possible, and forces use of the solid rocket motors produced by Utah arms manufacturer ATK."
in other words, this is a thinly subsidy, and "lifting capacity" is just part of the mask.
Maybe they want to do away with a cargo hold and instead attach the payload to the outer shell by magnets?
And also unfortunately, any organization that has the resources to do serious rocket science will both accept and promote mediocrity. It's simply the nature of any large organization to tend towards the mediocre.
Or, to parapharese MIB: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
Yes, it is.
No, I'm not.
I am digging a huge pit a mile or so from the ocean. It's deep enough so that it's bottom lies at least a few feet beneath the lowest tide, and the sides extend at least a few feet above the highest tide (which is almost guaranteed by the fact that it's inland). Then I'm digging an equally deep trench connecting it to the ocean. Finally, I'm putting a turbine or water wheel on the trench.
Do you understand? I'm not damming a river; I'm simply digging a trench and connecting it to a reservoir for the water to flow to and from. The only actual construction is the turbine itself; everything else is simply digging.
Those use natural bays, which indeed need to be dammed to work effectively. I'm talking about a man-made pool, connected to the ocean through a trench.
And I heard that someone managed to survive rabies. I guess that means it's nonsensical to claim that rabies might be dangerous.
This is, frankly, bullshit. Human brains don't work that way. You can't simply decide to become more confident and reprogram your subconscious responses to conform.
What we should do is give victims counseling and perpetrators jail time.
Why arrest the thief when whoever didn't install bars in his windows is just as much at fault? Why arrest murderers when those who failed to defend themselves are just as much at fault? Why arrest any criminal when, clearly, someone allowing himself to become a victim is just as much to blame?
The problem is not that some people fail to defend themselves against sadistic psychopaths; the problem is that we let sadistic psychopaths behave in their sadistic, psychopathic ways without punishment just because they're underage.
Oh yes. And Jedi Academy had state select, and only fell to the "endless wave of enemies" problem near the end. And the first lightsaber hit was usually also the last.
However, these games really need to lose the "Force requires mana" system. Use cooldown on powers if you must, but it's annoying that if you activate Force Damage Reduction - er, Protection - your "Force energy" doesn't recharge, so you can't really use any other powers.
Also, don't have health bar. Have a "defence" bar; whenever something would had hit you, you deflect it with the lightsaber/Force Push, and when the bar's empty, only then does a hit get through, at which point you die instantly. A minor change, but it would fit the theme much better, and would also justify the modern "stop getting hit to heal" mechanic.
There are other possible improvements, but these would be something to start with.
Um... There's no other parts. The only thing Force Unleashed has is an endless horde of enemies going Leeroy Jenkins on you.
Anyway, the old Jedi Academy was a far better game (partly because lightsaber instakilled anything, including the player, just like it should), only falling victim to this near the end; however, I'm still waiting an SW game where you control the character indirectly. That's the real problem with most SW games: they end up as save-load routine.
Maybe the player could rewind time a bit? That's justified in-universe: what you just saw was a Force-vision of future. That would solve the problem partially. Even better, do control like Batman: Arkham Asylum, where you simply decide to attack an enemy in some direction or counter an incoming attack, and let the Jedi training worry about the details - this should work even better with Endorphin.
Alternatively, make Knights of the Old Republic III.
Actually, it would be pretty cheap. Like I said, there's a huge pool of unemployed people who would likely be willing to work for cheap. We are talking about digging a huge pit; that's not exactly difficult, cutting-edge engineering.
The real problem is in overcoming the opposition from McDonalds, Wal-Mart and other minimum-wage employers who want a high unemployment rate to depress wages.
Most impressive. Depending on how well that plays with physics - that is, if physics says that Euphoriadoll should fall down, it will - this could potentially have applications in real-life robots, which could use it to plan their responses to unexpected events and predict the outcomes of potential actions.
Yeah, it was pretty impressive the way glass shattered. Too bad the thing was originally developed for consoles, so broken shards had to fade away almost instantly.
Oh well. At least the consoles keeping gaming technology back means that PC's don't need to be updated as often anymore than they used to. Now if only we could get a modern version of SimLife, designed exclusively for high-end PC's...
You have limitless tidal power available at any coast: simply dig a reservoir (a bay connected to the ocean through a small channel) and harvest the energy as water flows in and out. You also get a massive swimming pool/dozen kilometers of beachfront property out of the deal.
Digging those reservoirs would be a useful, unskilled, and labour-intensive project. We have a massive pool of people needing jobs. Hint, hint.
Given that the rant in the parent post had nothing whatsoever to do with the text he had quoted, it seems that we have a trollbot in our hands, since a human troll wouldn't bother quoting. Any guesses if this is a new algorithm or the return of some classic? Or just some kind of randomly posting spambot?
Oh, I'm sure that such a situation could arise, and in fact has arisen in the past. It's the "illegal" part that doesn't make any sense to me: like I said, every destroyed bill helps fight inflation. Heck, it's possible to interpret taxation as an inflationary control measure - in this model, the Government prints money when it needs it, and uses taxes to remove some from circulation afterwards to keep inflation from getting out of hand. This would make wiping your ass with a banknote a kind of voluntary tax (luxury tax ?-).
As for melting down coins to gain value, why aren't you doing just that? If the answer is "it's illegal", then I truly pity you for living under such an oppressive regime, you poor bastard.
I guess you're not in the 'in' crowd, then.