Life on Earth was almost in hiatus for few billion years. It's not impossible that many other places saw conditions favorable to multicellural and, finally, intelligent life billion years earlier or so.
Still doesn't stop them to be, say, billion years ahead of us. For example, impact between Theia and proto Earth might had destroyed different life that was already here. Or, thanks to creation of the moon, made the enviroment more favourable to life more complex than bacteria...which still didn't really show up for a few billion years, so who knows...we might well be quite late.
Put any sensitive info (also encrypted, of course) on those little things. Extremelly easy to hide, especially if you're not targeted on any way and don't carry an adapter.
Perhaps US and few other countries are indeed starting to be "oversupplied" with iPods (though I wonder how is that a sign of death...), I don't know.
But IMHO iPod sales still have bright future in many places where, until recently, iPods were waaaay too expensive for all but small minority (rest choose cheap chinese noname mp3 players). I see it happening around me right now (ex-soviet bloc, central european, new EU member country) - for most of their presence on the market, iPods were almost shunned as extravagant, unnecessary and few times overpriced.
But during the last year and a half, perhaps two, this started to change. Partially thanks to new, cheaper with each revision, models and growing life standard, they are now...fashionable. Now, also here, it's "I can choose iPod or one of that other mp3 players...I'll try to have an iPod"
Too bad we had almost a decade when basically nothing was improving (and there was even some setback for a few years, before X-Fi showed up)...right after Creative killed Aureal...:/
"Best of both worlds" worked great in Homeworld - custom music score, depending on the situation, surely made by people within the team...but at the same time they used Adagio for Strings...which was simply perfect.
Reminds me about one exam in Uni, which, interestingly, ended up sort of like that...some heavy math exam next day, heavy drinking party developed in front of my room (it was in a good place for such things, end of the corridor with sofa/etc.). Though they realised I'm learning when trying to get me out of the room, so kept quiet. Nonetheless, somebody managed to get me out "just one shot" (of vodka, might I add). And we all know how such things end...
Interestingly, even though I was basically late few minutes, no math exam before and after was passed by me so flawlessly...
True - while modern LiIon batteries don't have any memory effect, they do "age" (starting right after they get off assembly line). And the hotter they are, the faster they do it (though there's also "too low" temperature for them AFAIK)
If you remove the battery, it ages slightly slower/no heat from laptop. OTOH it works as UPC, and supposedly also "smoothes out" spikes/etc.
a) not everybody lives in the US b) though obviously this will be offered in cars here... c) there is a sizeable number of two lane undivided roads here with speed limit of ~70mph d) yeah, yeah, that's 10mph less...seriously, don't you people know how to properly overtake on such road? You accelerate WAY before actual overtaking to spend the least amount of time possible on "wrong" lane. Also when overtaking, something doing, say, 60mph
You're well aware that you're an exception when it comes to intensity of driver training and quality of instructor in the US...
Oh, and WHERE did I say I'm smarter then the system? That I don't have to pay attention to the rules, that they don't apply to me, and it's not my fault? (nevermind that I never was in an accident in my 9 years of driving; and possibly averted 3 thanks to, in 2 cases, driving that SEEMS (only seems) reckless to some (keeping the engine at high rpm) and in 1 by NOT using brakes (which always seems like a natural thing to do for most people...until they'll end up spinning towards a ditch)) (if you wonder - all of them because of damaged spot of the road interferring with situation, an unfortunate reality here...)
I'm just saying that sometimes (quite rarely...but still) it's actually safer to break them a bit. Of course to know WHEN, you have to be anything but "smarter than the system(but actually recognising why/when it works, and when not)/not paying attention/f**k rules/I don't care - it won't be my fault anyway".
Perhaps that's why I don't like one aspect of the idea (I'm generally sympathetic - perhaps allow 80+ mph for short bursts/dozen seconds or so?) - it shifts the responsibility/decision making from the driver to...the car. wtf?!
(and for the record: I actually consider myself an average driver; not bad, but not great either; I don't know how accurate that description is, I just prefer not to fall into "I'm in the top 10% of anything" logical trap)
Not that kind of training. I must see only at other posts under this story to see that.
Full time instructors, driving in many different conditions/situations (day, night, rain, rush hour in the center of the city, highway), and 20 hours is of course minimum, depends at which try you'll pass exam.
Yes, I broke the speed limit and still passed on first try. As one of only two people out of group of twelve (and who knows which exam was it for the other 11)
Sure, that's an option, and I _also_ do it. It's just that sometimes you're in a hurry (real one, not that "I have to be at the place 10 minutes earlier even though I have no reason to" that most people here are obsessed about...); or the road is generally clear for miles ahead on your lane...but there's this one group of truckers...
Oh, and I'm not sure if you noticed when you were driving here...going some distance behind trucks ends up with you hitting brakes repeatedly when somebody else doesn't make it. So generally...yeah, in most cases I would be fine with driving behind trucks at the speed limit...but due to manners of most people here that's not the most practical thing... (it's not the most irritating anyway - 99% drivers here don't know what to do in "zipper-like, two lanes become one" place...) And beeing able (doesn't mean you have to every time...but you CAN) to hit more than 80 mph when overpassing is a safer option.
It doesn't change anything and you know it; there are situations when breaking highway code ends up safer for everybody.
Sure, it would probably mean not passing the test...so?
And reminds me about one situation during my 20 hours with instructor (I wonder if any of you with US driving licence had anything close to those 20 hours...) - sure, he told me that I will fail the test if I would cross solid line like I did (just after multilane road crossing, safety precautions against cyclist)...but at the same time told me it was the right thing to do. Oh, and when it comes to speeding: in my country almost nobody passes driving test for the first time...and here I am, passed it on the first go...even though I did short burst of ~35mph in 25mph area.
You know, if you're saying first paragraph with a straight face it means you don't know how to overtake (at least in conditions described by me in different post in this thread). You start accelerating BEFORE the overtaking, just so you know...
And who says I justify "driving" at over 80mph? I rarely go above 110 km/h (70 mph, it seems). But there are short moments when doing, say, 90 is actually SAFER. Overtaking column of trucks is a prime example, I believe.
First, it is obviously going much slower than you can (yes, safely). The faster you overtake it, the safer that manouver was.
There's also a factor of "doing what everybody else does", which actually ends up a bit safer for everyone than if you wouldn't overpass - because then, you'd end up, obviously, following the truck, which effectivelly lenghtens it for everybody else/you'll end up hitting brakes quite often because you have to make place for somebody who passed you (only you) and needs space... The whole problem is multiplied by the thing that truck drivers for some idiotic reasons sometimes like to drive almost one after another...
Poland. Most roads have ~55mph/90km/h speed limit, though it is followed mostly by buses/huge trucks only (and even that barely - I often see them going ~100 km/h). There is also sizeable number of "traffic goes both ways" with official speed limit of 110 km/h (~70 mph, so fairly close to what you asked about). Of course there are also highways with 130 km/h, but they're irrelevant to this because a) pbviously traffic going in different directions is separated b) highways are practically almost nonexistent here.
And you're wrong, perhaps because you don;t have to face such scenario every day - passing a huge truck (or two...or three...yeah, many idiots drive them "in flocks") is MUCH, MUCH safer when you're doing 80+ mph than if you'd try to do this with only few mph speed advantage over the truck.
What about when you overtake some big f***ing truck on two lane road (each lane going in different direction; this kind of road is typical where I live) and situation arises when you're doing 80 already, but it would be much, much safer if you'd hurry.
They could somehow mitigate this if they would allow higher speed for short period of time...
For many, loot is one of the most enjoyable parts of Diablo series...but I wonder if you plan to keep this fun while at the same time limiting those a bit not so fun parts of looting?
(few ways in which this could work, I imagine: automatically filling available "backpack/chest space", without the need to manually rearrange items; grouping items in distinct categories; perhaps even "miniteleport" to send items and money to your chest one way (by drag&dropping them on miniteleport item/book for example) - with items "lost in the void" for example if the chest is full, so it won't be too easy; if you rely on Deckard Kain for identification, let him identify things that are in the chest (if he'll be present nearby; ofcourse you still have to manually initiate identification; etc.)
It got harder for us not that long ago...when we realised there's apparently nothing fundamental that would stop technological progress to the point allowing indefinite life extension.
But we're not sure at all if we'll see those days.
If pointung out some problems with parent post gets labelled as "troll"...I'm not sure if saying that people wear blinkers on their eyes regarding the issues is enough, seems like they want it to stay that way.
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Life on Earth was almost in hiatus for few billion years. It's not impossible that many other places saw conditions favorable to multicellural and, finally, intelligent life billion years earlier or so.
Ahhh, but that's just an example of a peculiar case of "panspermia" (by Ancients, apparently)
Still doesn't stop them to be, say, billion years ahead of us. For example, impact between Theia and proto Earth might had destroyed different life that was already here. Or, thanks to creation of the moon, made the enviroment more favourable to life more complex than bacteria...which still didn't really show up for a few billion years, so who knows...we might well be quite late.
Yeah...might be something to do that they look much more like any generic, shiny laptop on the market.
Put any sensitive info (also encrypted, of course) on those little things. Extremelly easy to hide, especially if you're not targeted on any way and don't carry an adapter.
Perhaps US and few other countries are indeed starting to be "oversupplied" with iPods (though I wonder how is that a sign of death...), I don't know.
But IMHO iPod sales still have bright future in many places where, until recently, iPods were waaaay too expensive for all but small minority (rest choose cheap chinese noname mp3 players). I see it happening around me right now (ex-soviet bloc, central european, new EU member country) - for most of their presence on the market, iPods were almost shunned as extravagant, unnecessary and few times overpriced.
But during the last year and a half, perhaps two, this started to change. Partially thanks to new, cheaper with each revision, models and growing life standard, they are now...fashionable. Now, also here, it's "I can choose iPod or one of that other mp3 players...I'll try to have an iPod"
Which, for those who don't know, means: scandinavian mentality = at least as good as typical well know open source project.
Too bad we had almost a decade when basically nothing was improving (and there was even some setback for a few years, before X-Fi showed up)...right after Creative killed Aureal... :/
"Best of both worlds" worked great in Homeworld - custom music score, depending on the situation, surely made by people within the team...but at the same time they used Adagio for Strings...which was simply perfect.
486?! Babbage analytical engine wouldn't be taxed by those questions...
Reminds me about one exam in Uni, which, interestingly, ended up sort of like that...some heavy math exam next day, heavy drinking party developed in front of my room (it was in a good place for such things, end of the corridor with sofa/etc.). Though they realised I'm learning when trying to get me out of the room, so kept quiet. Nonetheless, somebody managed to get me out "just one shot" (of vodka, might I add). And we all know how such things end...
Interestingly, even though I was basically late few minutes, no math exam before and after was passed by me so flawlessly...
True - while modern LiIon batteries don't have any memory effect, they do "age" (starting right after they get off assembly line). And the hotter they are, the faster they do it (though there's also "too low" temperature for them AFAIK)
If you remove the battery, it ages slightly slower/no heat from laptop. OTOH it works as UPC, and supposedly also "smoothes out" spikes/etc.
How many times do I have to repeat this...
a) not everybody lives in the US
b) though obviously this will be offered in cars here...
c) there is a sizeable number of two lane undivided roads here with speed limit of ~70mph
d) yeah, yeah, that's 10mph less...seriously, don't you people know how to properly overtake on such road? You accelerate WAY before actual overtaking to spend the least amount of time possible on "wrong" lane. Also when overtaking, something doing, say, 60mph
You're well aware that you're an exception when it comes to intensity of driver training and quality of instructor in the US...
Oh, and WHERE did I say I'm smarter then the system? That I don't have to pay attention to the rules, that they don't apply to me, and it's not my fault? (nevermind that I never was in an accident in my 9 years of driving; and possibly averted 3 thanks to, in 2 cases, driving that SEEMS (only seems) reckless to some (keeping the engine at high rpm) and in 1 by NOT using brakes (which always seems like a natural thing to do for most people...until they'll end up spinning towards a ditch)) (if you wonder - all of them because of damaged spot of the road interferring with situation, an unfortunate reality here...)
I'm just saying that sometimes (quite rarely...but still) it's actually safer to break them a bit. Of course to know WHEN, you have to be anything but "smarter than the system(but actually recognising why/when it works, and when not)/not paying attention/f**k rules/I don't care - it won't be my fault anyway".
Perhaps that's why I don't like one aspect of the idea (I'm generally sympathetic - perhaps allow 80+ mph for short bursts/dozen seconds or so?) - it shifts the responsibility/decision making from the driver to...the car. wtf?!
(and for the record: I actually consider myself an average driver; not bad, but not great either; I don't know how accurate that description is, I just prefer not to fall into "I'm in the top 10% of anything" logical trap)
Not that kind of training. I must see only at other posts under this story to see that.
Full time instructors, driving in many different conditions/situations (day, night, rain, rush hour in the center of the city, highway), and 20 hours is of course minimum, depends at which try you'll pass exam.
Yes, I broke the speed limit and still passed on first try. As one of only two people out of group of twelve (and who knows which exam was it for the other 11)
Sure, that's an option, and I _also_ do it. It's just that sometimes you're in a hurry (real one, not that "I have to be at the place 10 minutes earlier even though I have no reason to" that most people here are obsessed about...); or the road is generally clear for miles ahead on your lane...but there's this one group of truckers...
Oh, and I'm not sure if you noticed when you were driving here...going some distance behind trucks ends up with you hitting brakes repeatedly when somebody else doesn't make it.
So generally...yeah, in most cases I would be fine with driving behind trucks at the speed limit...but due to manners of most people here that's not the most practical thing... (it's not the most irritating anyway - 99% drivers here don't know what to do in "zipper-like, two lanes become one" place...) And beeing able (doesn't mean you have to every time...but you CAN) to hit more than 80 mph when overpassing is a safer option.
It doesn't change anything and you know it; there are situations when breaking highway code ends up safer for everybody.
Sure, it would probably mean not passing the test...so?
And reminds me about one situation during my 20 hours with instructor (I wonder if any of you with US driving licence had anything close to those 20 hours...) - sure, he told me that I will fail the test if I would cross solid line like I did (just after multilane road crossing, safety precautions against cyclist)...but at the same time told me it was the right thing to do. Oh, and when it comes to speeding: in my country almost nobody passes driving test for the first time...and here I am, passed it on the first go...even though I did short burst of ~35mph in 25mph area.
You know, if you're saying first paragraph with a straight face it means you don't know how to overtake (at least in conditions described by me in different post in this thread). You start accelerating BEFORE the overtaking, just so you know...
And who says I justify "driving" at over 80mph? I rarely go above 110 km/h (70 mph, it seems). But there are short moments when doing, say, 90 is actually SAFER. Overtaking column of trucks is a prime example, I believe.
First, it is obviously going much slower than you can (yes, safely). The faster you overtake it, the safer that manouver was.
There's also a factor of "doing what everybody else does", which actually ends up a bit safer for everyone than if you wouldn't overpass - because then, you'd end up, obviously, following the truck, which effectivelly lenghtens it for everybody else/you'll end up hitting brakes quite often because you have to make place for somebody who passed you (only you) and needs space... The whole problem is multiplied by the thing that truck drivers for some idiotic reasons sometimes like to drive almost one after another...
Poland. Most roads have ~55mph/90km/h speed limit, though it is followed mostly by buses/huge trucks only (and even that barely - I often see them going ~100 km/h). There is also sizeable number of "traffic goes both ways" with official speed limit of 110 km/h (~70 mph, so fairly close to what you asked about). Of course there are also highways with 130 km/h, but they're irrelevant to this because a) pbviously traffic going in different directions is separated b) highways are practically almost nonexistent here.
And you're wrong, perhaps because you don;t have to face such scenario every day - passing a huge truck (or two...or three...yeah, many idiots drive them "in flocks") is MUCH, MUCH safer when you're doing 80+ mph than if you'd try to do this with only few mph speed advantage over the truck.
What about when you overtake some big f***ing truck on two lane road (each lane going in different direction; this kind of road is typical where I live) and situation arises when you're doing 80 already, but it would be much, much safer if you'd hurry.
They could somehow mitigate this if they would allow higher speed for short period of time...
To Leonard Boyarsky, lead world designer on Diablo III
For many, loot is one of the most enjoyable parts of Diablo series...but I wonder if you plan to keep this fun while at the same time limiting those a bit not so fun parts of looting?
(few ways in which this could work, I imagine: automatically filling available "backpack/chest space", without the need to manually rearrange items; grouping items in distinct categories; perhaps even "miniteleport" to send items and money to your chest one way (by drag&dropping them on miniteleport item/book for example) - with items "lost in the void" for example if the chest is full, so it won't be too easy; if you rely on Deckard Kain for identification, let him identify things that are in the chest (if he'll be present nearby; ofcourse you still have to manually initiate identification; etc.)
It got harder for us not that long ago...when we realised there's apparently nothing fundamental that would stop technological progress to the point allowing indefinite life extension.
But we're not sure at all if we'll see those days.
...for a long time.
If pointung out some problems with parent post gets labelled as "troll"...I'm not sure if saying that people wear blinkers on their eyes regarding the issues is enough, seems like they want it to stay that way.