Diablo III was tailored/dumbed down too much for the console crowd. And for a game that is all about loot collection, stash expansion is a painful process (unless you happen to live in China, where it is available as a micro transaction).
Overwatch has the FOV capped too low, resulting in motion sickness for many players. They won't change it because of their focus on aesthetic and professional play.
Starcraft II didn't compel me to complete the campaign, and I was disappointed to find out that the custom vehicles in the campaign weren't available in other maps. Really cool idea to see technology evolve in game, but poor execution taking away my toys.
You're going to need air circulation, whether you rely on the fridge fan or your cpu fan. You might be able to rely on convection currents to pull air through your cpu heatsink. Maybe you could get away with a giant heat sink (1ft square?) to service a single cpu. A refrigerator typically cools things and keeps them cold, as opposed to cooling things that are constantly cooking (as in a PC). A typical freezer is likely the same. You're giving up cheap cooling (fan on heatsink, ambient air) for a more expensive method (pumping all of the heat out of the refrigerator).
Nicotine is fairly nasty (and highly addictive) on its own.
Citation needed for nicotine being nasty.
I'm not going to argue with nicotine being addictive. But for the life of me, I can't find conclusive studies that determine nicotine to be significantly more harmful than, say, caffeine.
The majority of the studies lump nicotine in with, or fail to separate it from, tobacco products. Before vaping, you still had gums and patches, but the studies still weren't done to determine carcinogenicity of nicotine sans tobacco.
Again, I'm not arguing that it isn't addictive. It may even be more of a gateway drug than marijuana. Those two things aside, what makes nicotine bad?
The other day, someone posted on/. that they noticed an increase in pro-Russia/Putin/Russian agenda type posts over the past couple of years. My first thought was, "That's a cute conspiracy theory." But now I'm seriously wondering if it's true.
I don't have a background in computer science, but I always wondered, why wouldn't it be possible to compress things using some sort of table of large prime numbers?
It would be interesting if it could be done without the table on the compression side, and just be computationally intensive. Then transmit the compressed file. Then have a computationally intensive decompression that references a gigantic table.
I once came across.kkrieger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger), a product of.theprodukkt, a group from the demoscene.
It is a first person shooter (game) in a ridiculously small (96KB) file that generated its content (textures, etc) when first executed.
I guess that is sort of backwards of how you would go about planning on compressing something. It always made me wonder if there was another way of doing things.
His boss argued that this mistake made him more valuable, since he would not be making that mistake ever ever again.
I believe there is wisdom in this, but there is a prerequisite.
The person must have the capacity to learn.
I currently have the pleasure of working with someone who must repeat the same mistakes before he learns from them. He breaks off, on average, one screw a month. It's always the same. *WHIRR* *SNAP* "Oh crap!"
Even supplements typically only contain something like 3% of your RDA
For some reason or another, Potassium supplements are restricted to a certain amount. It isn't that it is impractical to put it into a supplement. Somewhere there is a regulation on it (not that I can find it, but I don't accept as coincidence that none of the supplements exceed a certain amount.)
Go on Amazon and search for potassium chloride powder. You can get 227 grams for a little over 7 bucks.
They made a novelty collectors item with limited entertainment value.
I agree that they made a desirable item, and that, from a sales perspective, it is a successful product. However, they missed an opportunity to come out with a much better product, and the limited availability has driven up awareness of RetroPie.
Its as if Apple came out with an iPod that has the top 100 albums of 2016 programmed into it (and can't be changed without modifying it), and the fanboys bought out all of the product.
Nintendo built an entirely unnecessary product, and now they're doing it again.
I don't need a collectors item with 30 games from one system.
I don't need a second collectors item with 30 games from another system.
I need a device that plays games from multiple systems, and the games I want to play. They should have created a system that covers every Nintendo console that a RetroPie does (or at least up through N64, which is 20 years old at this point.) So what if it doesn't make sense that you can play Nintendo 64 games on a device that looks like a classic NES? That's the added functionality that would make the product a hit.
I also don't need this 30 games crap. I need a proper marketplace, similar to iTunes, that keeps track of my ROM purchases, so I don't have to jump through hoops to migrate my roms from one unit to another.
Personally I want to develop a monopoly in my market, to take 100% of everybody's business.
Let's say I run a 100% efficient business, where I am making only enough money to survive...
If you're running a monopoly, and you're running 100% efficient, in what world would you be "making only enough money to survive"?
A path to survive for people has to come through freedom from all forms of government regulations, so that new business ideas can be executed without red tape and without the added artificial inefficiency of regulations and taxes.
If you failed to achieve your monopoly, but have managed to collude with the other corporations to jack prices up anyway, tell me again why that is a good thing?
Overall, it sounds like you idealize a world where the corporations replace as many humans as possible, your facilities will be sabotaged by humans in order to create jobs for humans (repairing factories), and the next step on your side up is automated turrets to protect your automated facilities from sabotage.
Decisions based on where to offer services are based on demographics, target market, legal landscape, logistics, potential profits and so on. Chances are senior leadership is already going to be aware of their target market and probably doesn't need to do in-depth market analysis to realize certain countries don't make sense. In other words they can dismiss a country with half a second in thought - and be right.
How "senior" can a 25 year old CEO be?
And why poach a growth lead from Facebook if you're going to flat out ignore him when he tells you the company is missing an opportunity?
...was resolved after the new rules came out, but when the OP shows that it was before...
Well, no, it wasn't resolved before.
Netflix decided that they stood to gain more money than they lost by paying off Comcast, so Netflix paid Comcast, despite Comcast being in the wrong for throttling traffic. It is not an industry standard to throttle traffic on a per website basis, and this is traffic that has already been paid for by the consumer.
Amazon doesn't have to pay Comcast for me to use their site, Slashdot doesn't have to pay Comcast for me to use their site.
If Netflix and Comcast customers are both paying for access to the internet, why should Netflix be paying an additional Comcast tax on top of that? Especially when there was evidence of Comcast throttling connections (Netflix access through VPN was unaffected, while access through Comcast was throttled.)
But I can see some limited use cases - like when we visit my wife's folks, who have cable TV but no internet service. They're out in the sticks where the only wireless data coverage is Verizon... and those guys charge you through the nose for prepaid data, something like $30 for 5 gigs if I remember our last trip. Since we are mostly at their house during our visits, this might be a viable alternative.
I guess maybe if their cable provider is already Comcast. Still, seems like a hassle if you aren't going to consume tons of data. It seems like this gets you a standard RF modem that has wifi built in, so it probably won't work on a competitor's cable lines. You might be able to sign into one of the Xfinity wifi access points, though, if you can find one in that rural environment.
Something Awful requires a one time payment ($10) to post on the forums. Getting banned costs another $10 to reinstate your account. You can get put in forum-hell/time-out, where you can only communicate with other shit posters. You can get permabanned, where your account is not eligible for recovery, and your future accounts will be banned if the mods find out they belong to you.
I haven't been active in years, but when I was, this was very effective at weeding out/discouraging bad behavior.
One of the main causes of traffic jams, at least in heavy traffic on interstates and major four-lanes, is somebody simply touching his brakes. Then the car behind him, not knowing how hard the car ahead is braking, has to hit his brakes.
Well, he has to hit his brakes if he is tailgating. If you have sufficient distance to the car in front of you, you can eat up that distance while you make a determination on whether or not to brake.
The way Intel plans on using Optane memory, yes it will most certainly improve the speed of HDs by caching but to say it will always outperform an SSD is an outright lie.
Also worth noting that there are SSD's that can exceed the 1.2GBps read / 280MBps write of the Optane.
For instance, Samsung 960 Evo claims 3.2GBps/1.8GBps. (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147595&cm_re=pcie_ssd-_-20-147-595-_-Product)
Requires PCIe 3.0 x4. I work for neither Samsung nor Newegg.
There seems to be some confusion about whether or not your battery has the same material or differing material on the two electrodes. Can you elaborate on this and, if the electrodes are the same material, how the battery works?
Speculation: because the local governments have already signed their souls over. If they can't install municipal broadband due to their current agreements, there is little incentive for them to install conduit that they can't use. And why run the conduit for Comcast or Verizon, who has possibly already been paid to do the job and neglected to do so?
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Eh, I'm kindof done with Blizzard.
Diablo III was tailored/dumbed down too much for the console crowd. And for a game that is all about loot collection, stash expansion is a painful process (unless you happen to live in China, where it is available as a micro transaction).
Overwatch has the FOV capped too low, resulting in motion sickness for many players. They won't change it because of their focus on aesthetic and professional play.
Starcraft II didn't compel me to complete the campaign, and I was disappointed to find out that the custom vehicles in the campaign weren't available in other maps. Really cool idea to see technology evolve in game, but poor execution taking away my toys.
You're going to need air circulation, whether you rely on the fridge fan or your cpu fan. You might be able to rely on convection currents to pull air through your cpu heatsink. Maybe you could get away with a giant heat sink (1ft square?) to service a single cpu. A refrigerator typically cools things and keeps them cold, as opposed to cooling things that are constantly cooking (as in a PC). A typical freezer is likely the same. You're giving up cheap cooling (fan on heatsink, ambient air) for a more expensive method (pumping all of the heat out of the refrigerator).
Nicotine is fairly nasty (and highly addictive) on its own.
Citation needed for nicotine being nasty.
I'm not going to argue with nicotine being addictive. But for the life of me, I can't find conclusive studies that determine nicotine to be significantly more harmful than, say, caffeine.
The majority of the studies lump nicotine in with, or fail to separate it from, tobacco products. Before vaping, you still had gums and patches, but the studies still weren't done to determine carcinogenicity of nicotine sans tobacco.
Again, I'm not arguing that it isn't addictive. It may even be more of a gateway drug than marijuana. Those two things aside, what makes nicotine bad?
Jesus, who keeps modding this guy up?
/. that they noticed an increase in pro-Russia/Putin/Russian agenda type posts over the past couple of years. My first thought was, "That's a cute conspiracy theory." But now I'm seriously wondering if it's true.
The other day, someone posted on
Let me sci hub that for you
https://sci-hub.cc/10.1126/sci...
I don't have a background in computer science, but I always wondered, why wouldn't it be possible to compress things using some sort of table of large prime numbers?
.kkrieger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger), a product of .theprodukkt, a group from the demoscene.
It would be interesting if it could be done without the table on the compression side, and just be computationally intensive. Then transmit the compressed file. Then have a computationally intensive decompression that references a gigantic table.
I once came across
It is a first person shooter (game) in a ridiculously small (96KB) file that generated its content (textures, etc) when first executed.
I guess that is sort of backwards of how you would go about planning on compressing something. It always made me wonder if there was another way of doing things.
His boss argued that this mistake made him more valuable, since he would not be making that mistake ever ever again.
I believe there is wisdom in this, but there is a prerequisite.
The person must have the capacity to learn.
I currently have the pleasure of working with someone who must repeat the same mistakes before he learns from them.
He breaks off, on average, one screw a month.
It's always the same.
*WHIRR*
*SNAP*
"Oh crap!"
What if the troglodytes become economic refugees, migrate to the blue states, and shift the political balance to the right?
Was able to read the study here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/09/1700367114.full
PDF here: http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...
Right, they came over unencumbered, verses inheriting a family already mired in poverty.
Couple of months? How about a couple of years before you have to tap into real savings? Looking for a job can take time.
You 1) have two years of salary saved up and 2) you don't consider it real savings?
Even supplements typically only contain something like 3% of your RDA
For some reason or another, Potassium supplements are restricted to a certain amount. It isn't that it is impractical to put it into a supplement. Somewhere there is a regulation on it (not that I can find it, but I don't accept as coincidence that none of the supplements exceed a certain amount.)
Go on Amazon and search for potassium chloride powder. You can get 227 grams for a little over 7 bucks.
They made a novelty collectors item with limited entertainment value.
I agree that they made a desirable item, and that, from a sales perspective, it is a successful product. However, they missed an opportunity to come out with a much better product, and the limited availability has driven up awareness of RetroPie.
Its as if Apple came out with an iPod that has the top 100 albums of 2016 programmed into it (and can't be changed without modifying it), and the fanboys bought out all of the product.
T-mobile MVNO's seem to be cheap and offer decent service.
Mintsim is $300/year for unlimited talk/text and 5gb of data per month. This beats most comparable service for a single line.
Sure, it will help thwart common pickpockets.
On the other hand, violent muggings will be escalated.
Nintendo built an entirely unnecessary product, and now they're doing it again.
I don't need a collectors item with 30 games from one system.
I don't need a second collectors item with 30 games from another system.
I need a device that plays games from multiple systems, and the games I want to play. They should have created a system that covers every Nintendo console that a RetroPie does (or at least up through N64, which is 20 years old at this point.) So what if it doesn't make sense that you can play Nintendo 64 games on a device that looks like a classic NES? That's the added functionality that would make the product a hit.
I also don't need this 30 games crap. I need a proper marketplace, similar to iTunes, that keeps track of my ROM purchases, so I don't have to jump through hoops to migrate my roms from one unit to another.
Personally I want to develop a monopoly in my market, to take 100% of everybody's business.
Let's say I run a 100% efficient business, where I am making only enough money to survive ...
If you're running a monopoly, and you're running 100% efficient, in what world would you be "making only enough money to survive"?
A path to survive for people has to come through freedom from all forms of government regulations, so that new business ideas can be executed without red tape and without the added artificial inefficiency of regulations and taxes.
If you failed to achieve your monopoly, but have managed to collude with the other corporations to jack prices up anyway, tell me again why that is a good thing?
Overall, it sounds like you idealize a world where the corporations replace as many humans as possible, your facilities will be sabotaged by humans in order to create jobs for humans (repairing factories), and the next step on your side up is automated turrets to protect your automated facilities from sabotage.
Decisions based on where to offer services are based on demographics, target market, legal landscape, logistics, potential profits and so on. Chances are senior leadership is already going to be aware of their target market and probably doesn't need to do in-depth market analysis to realize certain countries don't make sense. In other words they can dismiss a country with half a second in thought - and be right.
How "senior" can a 25 year old CEO be?
And why poach a growth lead from Facebook if you're going to flat out ignore him when he tells you the company is missing an opportunity?
...was resolved after the new rules came out, but when the OP shows that it was before...
Well, no, it wasn't resolved before.
Netflix decided that they stood to gain more money than they lost by paying off Comcast, so Netflix paid Comcast, despite Comcast being in the wrong for throttling traffic.
It is not an industry standard to throttle traffic on a per website basis, and this is traffic that has already been paid for by the consumer.
Amazon doesn't have to pay Comcast for me to use their site, Slashdot doesn't have to pay Comcast for me to use their site.
If Netflix and Comcast customers are both paying for access to the internet, why should Netflix be paying an additional Comcast tax on top of that?
Especially when there was evidence of Comcast throttling connections (Netflix access through VPN was unaffected, while access through Comcast was throttled.)
But I can see some limited use cases - like when we visit my wife's folks, who have cable TV but no internet service. They're out in the sticks where the only wireless data coverage is Verizon... and those guys charge you through the nose for prepaid data, something like $30 for 5 gigs if I remember our last trip. Since we are mostly at their house during our visits, this might be a viable alternative.
I guess maybe if their cable provider is already Comcast. Still, seems like a hassle if you aren't going to consume tons of data. It seems like this gets you a standard RF modem that has wifi built in, so it probably won't work on a competitor's cable lines. You might be able to sign into one of the Xfinity wifi access points, though, if you can find one in that rural environment.
Something Awful requires a one time payment ($10) to post on the forums. Getting banned costs another $10 to reinstate your account. You can get put in forum-hell/time-out, where you can only communicate with other shit posters. You can get permabanned, where your account is not eligible for recovery, and your future accounts will be banned if the mods find out they belong to you.
I haven't been active in years, but when I was, this was very effective at weeding out/discouraging bad behavior.
One of the main causes of traffic jams, at least in heavy traffic on interstates and major four-lanes, is somebody simply touching his brakes. Then the car behind him, not knowing how hard the car ahead is braking, has to hit his brakes.
Well, he has to hit his brakes if he is tailgating. If you have sufficient distance to the car in front of you, you can eat up that distance while you make a determination on whether or not to brake.
The way Intel plans on using Optane memory, yes it will most certainly improve the speed of HDs by caching but to say it will always outperform an SSD is an outright lie.
Also worth noting that there are SSD's that can exceed the 1.2GBps read / 280MBps write of the Optane.
For instance, Samsung 960 Evo claims 3.2GBps/1.8GBps. (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147595&cm_re=pcie_ssd-_-20-147-595-_-Product)
Requires PCIe 3.0 x4. I work for neither Samsung nor Newegg.
There seems to be some confusion about whether or not your battery has the same material or differing material on the two electrodes. Can you elaborate on this and, if the electrodes are the same material, how the battery works?
Speculation: because the local governments have already signed their souls over. If they can't install municipal broadband due to their current agreements, there is little incentive for them to install conduit that they can't use. And why run the conduit for Comcast or Verizon, who has possibly already been paid to do the job and neglected to do so?