The HP-48g/x came with a decent library of functions and constants for you to play with, organized by subject, with pictorial explanations.
It also came with a IR port for transferring files to other HP calculators.
Every device since that one is kind of disappointing. In pretty much every way, due to the enthusiasts machine-coding everything in sight for speed and posting on hpcalc.org...
The underlying issue with fantasy games is that they continue the legacy of D20 based systems.
You get an *exponential* progression of "skills" with level so there is a narrow window of enemies with close enough levels to yourself to be challenging but possible. Everything past a couple levels lower will be so easy that you won't care to bother, and everything above a couple levels higher will be able to easily beat YOU, no matter how clever you are. (you probably even have a "cleverness" stat that goes into the dice roll, rather than demonstrate actual ingenuity, too....)
The rate constant can, of course, be adjusted to make the window wider or not, but it still makes most of your progress vain.
Perhaps, an interesting game would do away with levels and enact some kind of "conservation of skills" such that you never really improve overall, instead becoming more specialized. A sword that increases power maybe is heavy and cause you to need rest more often. A really sharp dagger maybe decays quickly so you have to do frequent, costly maintenance. That super stamina potion you took works great for a limited time period, is costly, interacts poorly with certain other potions, and if you take too many of them your character dies or becomes addicted. You get a bonus in casting time to your top moves based on relative frequency, but *every* move is on the list, so your run speed or punching ability suffers if you spend lots of time on healing spells.
As long as there is a cost to everything that balances out the benefits, you ought to be able to improve through adapting your skills and gear to your tactics and vice versa, while still having some openings for challenges from enemies of all levels.
I don't know. It just seems that certain genres are kind of stagnating at the moment and need to drop some basic assumptions to move forward. You're not going to beat WoW by making a WoW clone.
27% of all energy used is rejected as part of the electric generation process, which by the chart looks to be more than 68% of all energy actually used to produce electricity. Unless those numbers are quads, in which case the percentages are pretty close since the chart represents nearly 100 quads anyway.
That figure includes, presumably, waste heat, coupling losses, overproduction, transmission losses (not necessarily in that order, but waste heat is the lion's share).. It doesn't go into detail.
Yeah, they're definitely doing the guest user account wrong. They should be using tmpfs (or whatever OS X equivalent is) for the guest account. Then they don't have to delete anything, it disappears automatically.
I used to use tmpfs for guest accounts on my ubuntu box for just that reason. That along with encrypted swap files with random keys generated on loading makes "deleting guest data" irrelevant (and lets you resize the temporary device on the fly arbitrarily high by adding more swap if you realize you're going to exceed your available physical ram or allotted space)
You can populate the guest dir from a new-user template, or use unionfs type dealies.
What I did was probably all wrong, but my point remains that you shouldn't have to delete stuff when you're done with the guest account. At the most, you should only have to forget a temporary encryption key, which ought to happen automagically in the event of a hard reboot.
I really like Time Machine, but I do have two faults with it. The fact that it requires a separate drive is something of a joke. "Every mac comes with automatic backup software that takes care of everything for you, *tinyfont* once you buy an extra drive */tinyfont*'
Does it? I suspect that you could make a block file on the main drive and back up to that after formatting, but I haven't tried it. I guess that would still be considered a separate drive, though, so I see your point.
Second, Time Machine is always scanning my drive checking if it needs to back things up. I'd really like it to try to scan for silent corruption while doing that. If a file changed, but the fileystem data says it hasn't been modified... I'd like a way to see that or be warned.
That would require a very different difference checking strategy. One that is much more IO intensive. You're basically requiring a full read with every backup pass (and either a checksum or bitwise compare), which time machine executes hourly by default.
I do, however, wish that there were a check checksums of all system files option as part of the normal filesystem tools, and integrated with update facility for repairs. I haven't seen that on any OS that I've tried so far, though.
Well, of course. They're only counting dead drives. The ones that didn't fail don't get counted. Also, it's far less disturbing when you know that they were introduced roughly 20 months ago, and the vast majority weren't sold in the first three months of availability.
Further, I'm quite disappointed in your wording. I was expecting to see an article about buried bomb shelters having inadequate supplies or ventilation or something, and people trying to live in them long term after buying.
NASA Calls this RTG. We need just a cheap one (plutonium is expensive) and better cooled (space RTGs throws a considerable amount of heat. Not a problem on space, but maybe cause problems inside one car)
No, it's the other way around. Although T_c is theoretically colder in space than in a car (the celestial sphere has an "average" radiation temperature in the neighborhood of 3 Kelvin, while most people don't like to drive when the temperature gets below 200K), heat rejection by convection is significantly more effective than by radiation unless you allow the fins to reach high temperatures, which reduces temperature difference in your power plant.
Maximum theoretical efficiency is lower, but maximum *output* is much, much higher.
If they want to operate in the USA, they have to comply with US laws. Compliance with Chinese laws doesn't absolve them from US requirements, if they can't do business satisfying all applicable law, then they must refrain from doing that business.
That's how many words ice's comment was, for anyone who thingk that 500 words is long.
An O(500 word) essay is really not any more difficult than a post on slashdot. A well-reasoned essay should probably take roughly that long just to get enough supporting points in, depending on what you want to say. That's five freakin' paragraphs. Three, really, after you subtract the opening and closing paragraphs of a formal essay.
500 words is easy to write without even thinking about it.
Now what I don't understand is how Clare can be proud of that essay after five years. Or how her advisor let her put that in the application package. Or how she managed to get in to MIT with it. I'm not saying my applications were any better, but there's no way in hell I'm going to go trying to find them and read them again. Let alone post publicly.
The original films were, according to Lucas, destroyed in the process of making the remastered editions where Greedo apparently is so terrible a shot that Han was never in any real danger followed by Han cold-bloodedly murdering the handicapped lizard-man.
So... can you claim copyright on something you also claim doesn't even exist? It the point of copyright was to promote science and the useful arts by encouraging people to...distribute...copies...
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The HP-48g/x came with a decent library of functions and constants for you to play with, organized by subject, with pictorial explanations.
It also came with a IR port for transferring files to other HP calculators.
Every device since that one is kind of disappointing. In pretty much every way, due to the enthusiasts machine-coding everything in sight for speed and posting on hpcalc.org...
The show you're thinking of is stargate. Star Trek always took itself too seriously.
The underlying issue with fantasy games is that they continue the legacy of D20 based systems.
You get an *exponential* progression of "skills" with level so there is a narrow window of enemies with close enough levels to yourself to be challenging but possible. Everything past a couple levels lower will be so easy that you won't care to bother, and everything above a couple levels higher will be able to easily beat YOU, no matter how clever you are. (you probably even have a "cleverness" stat that goes into the dice roll, rather than demonstrate actual ingenuity, too....)
The rate constant can, of course, be adjusted to make the window wider or not, but it still makes most of your progress vain.
Perhaps, an interesting game would do away with levels and enact some kind of "conservation of skills" such that you never really improve overall, instead becoming more specialized. A sword that increases power maybe is heavy and cause you to need rest more often. A really sharp dagger maybe decays quickly so you have to do frequent, costly maintenance. That super stamina potion you took works great for a limited time period, is costly, interacts poorly with certain other potions, and if you take too many of them your character dies or becomes addicted. You get a bonus in casting time to your top moves based on relative frequency, but *every* move is on the list, so your run speed or punching ability suffers if you spend lots of time on healing spells.
As long as there is a cost to everything that balances out the benefits, you ought to be able to improve through adapting your skills and gear to your tactics and vice versa, while still having some openings for challenges from enemies of all levels.
I don't know. It just seems that certain genres are kind of stagnating at the moment and need to drop some basic assumptions to move forward. You're not going to beat WoW by making a WoW clone.
You're reading that chart wrong.
27% of all energy used is rejected as part of the electric generation process, which by the chart looks to be more than 68% of all energy actually used to produce electricity. Unless those numbers are quads, in which case the percentages are pretty close since the chart represents nearly 100 quads anyway.
That figure includes, presumably, waste heat, coupling losses, overproduction, transmission losses (not necessarily in that order, but waste heat is the lion's share).. It doesn't go into detail.
Yeah, they're definitely doing the guest user account wrong. They should be using tmpfs (or whatever OS X equivalent is) for the guest account. Then they don't have to delete anything, it disappears automatically.
I used to use tmpfs for guest accounts on my ubuntu box for just that reason. That along with encrypted swap files with random keys generated on loading makes "deleting guest data" irrelevant (and lets you resize the temporary device on the fly arbitrarily high by adding more swap if you realize you're going to exceed your available physical ram or allotted space)
You can populate the guest dir from a new-user template, or use unionfs type dealies.
What I did was probably all wrong, but my point remains that you shouldn't have to delete stuff when you're done with the guest account. At the most, you should only have to forget a temporary encryption key, which ought to happen automagically in the event of a hard reboot.
I really like Time Machine, but I do have two faults with it. The fact that it requires a separate drive is something of a joke. "Every mac comes with automatic backup software that takes care of everything for you, *tinyfont* once you buy an extra drive */tinyfont*'
Does it? I suspect that you could make a block file on the main drive and back up to that after formatting, but I haven't tried it. I guess that would still be considered a separate drive, though, so I see your point.
Second, Time Machine is always scanning my drive checking if it needs to back things up. I'd really like it to try to scan for silent corruption while doing that. If a file changed, but the fileystem data says it hasn't been modified... I'd like a way to see that or be warned.
That would require a very different difference checking strategy. One that is much more IO intensive. You're basically requiring a full read with every backup pass (and either a checksum or bitwise compare), which time machine executes hourly by default.
I do, however, wish that there were a check checksums of all system files option as part of the normal filesystem tools, and integrated with update facility for repairs. I haven't seen that on any OS that I've tried so far, though.
Well, of course. They're only counting dead drives. The ones that didn't fail don't get counted. Also, it's far less disturbing when you know that they were introduced roughly 20 months ago, and the vast majority weren't sold in the first three months of availability.
Further, I'm quite disappointed in your wording. I was expecting to see an article about buried bomb shelters having inadequate supplies or ventilation or something, and people trying to live in them long term after buying.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882339047
And it's only that high because I'm too lazy to look at other sources.
Homeworld is a pretty awesome game, but there's a serious exploitable game mechanic involving the salvage corvettes.
Hint: The most valuable resource on a map full of RUs protected by enemy ships isn't the RUs.
Do they expect you to play Solitaire manually now?
NASA Calls this RTG. We need just a cheap one (plutonium is expensive) and better cooled (space RTGs throws a considerable amount of heat. Not a problem on space, but maybe cause problems inside one car)
No, it's the other way around. Although T_c is theoretically colder in space than in a car (the celestial sphere has an "average" radiation temperature in the neighborhood of 3 Kelvin, while most people don't like to drive when the temperature gets below 200K), heat rejection by convection is significantly more effective than by radiation unless you allow the fins to reach high temperatures, which reduces temperature difference in your power plant.
Maximum theoretical efficiency is lower, but maximum *output* is much, much higher.
I wish people would stop pretending that wires are secure enough use unencrypted. It's like they never heard of beige boxing.
No, you drop the power and use more cells.
There are international treaties to observe. HAM spectrum won't disappear quickly.
Yeah, but now everyone knows your password is 'stewardesses'
Won't do well in the Northeast, though. No way those tiny wheels are comfortable on the cratered mountain trails we like to call "streets."
Also.. the car weighs more than a minivan. Where do you put your knees?
And we're just now realizing it!
That should be easily solvable by putting appropriate language in the charter before incorporating and issuing common shares.
Chinese != Japanese, you crazy racist.
To paraphrase the GPL of all things..
If they want to operate in the USA, they have to comply with US laws. Compliance with Chinese laws doesn't absolve them from US requirements, if they can't do business satisfying all applicable law, then they must refrain from doing that business.
I prefer beer that uses N2.
Something is fishy there. What source is putting 2005 at a higher temperature than 1998?
That's how many words ice's comment was, for anyone who thingk that 500 words is long.
An O(500 word) essay is really not any more difficult than a post on slashdot. A well-reasoned essay should probably take roughly that long just to get enough supporting points in, depending on what you want to say. That's five freakin' paragraphs. Three, really, after you subtract the opening and closing paragraphs of a formal essay.
500 words is easy to write without even thinking about it.
Now what I don't understand is how Clare can be proud of that essay after five years. Or how her advisor let her put that in the application package. Or how she managed to get in to MIT with it. I'm not saying my applications were any better, but there's no way in hell I'm going to go trying to find them and read them again. Let alone post publicly.
Brevity being the soul of wit, I'm glad they were brief.
The original films were, according to Lucas, destroyed in the process of making the remastered editions where Greedo apparently is so terrible a shot that Han was never in any real danger followed by Han cold-bloodedly murdering the handicapped lizard-man.
So... can you claim copyright on something you also claim doesn't even exist? It the point of copyright was to promote science and the useful arts by encouraging people to...distribute...copies...